Drawing a square (basic noob question)

SegFault · 07-02-21, 03:50 AM

Originally Posted by Fizzlemizz

If you just want a coloured square, it might be easier to use a texture:

Lua Code:

local p = CreateFrame("Frame", nil, UIParent)
p:SetWidth(100)
p:SetHeight(100)
p:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", 100, -100)
p.Texture = p:CreateTexture()
p.Texture:SetAllPoints()
p.Texture:SetColorTexture(1, 0, 0)

UIParent is the frame that hides when you Alt-Z. Using that as the parent of your top level frame(s) will hide all your frames also.

Thank you very much, I ended up doing this.

Although I didn't call SetAllPoints. What does it do? It seems to work fine without that call.

Fizzlemizz · 07-02-21, 07:37 AM

Originally Posted by SegFault

What does it do?

It anchors the texture to the same points as the parent frame. The same as

Lua Code:

p.Texture:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", p)
p.Texture:SetPoint("BOTTOMRIGHT", p)