Secure raid handler

[Grimsin]

Okay so at one point I had this chunk of code working but now it no longer works...maybe because i messed with it maybe because i changed the way party frames work. it should show/hide partyframes in raid entering/exiting according to the blizz option set. partyframes of course being attached to GrimPartyMain

any ideas? as you can see its commented out. last piece to fix for some perfect and very sweet party frames. two styles to chose from and movable!

-----------------------------------
-- GUI Party Frame main creation.
-----------------------------------
local GrimPartyMain = CreateFrame("Frame", "GrimPartyMain", UIParent, "SecureHandlerStateTemplate");
 
--SecureHandler_OnLoad(GrimPartyMain);
 
 
--GrimPartyMain:SetFrameRef("GrimPartyMain", GrimPartyMain);
 
--GrimPartyMain:Execute([[
--GrimPartyMain = self:GetFrameRef("GrimPartyMain");
--]]);
 
--GrimPartyMain:Execute("raidhideparty = " .. tostring(GetCVar("hidePartyInRaid"))); -- hook to Blizzard option for party raid hide frames 
 
 
--GrimPartyMain:SetAttribute("_onstate-unitexists", [[
--  --if raidhideparty == 1 and newstate then
--  --GrimPartyMain:Hide()
--  --end
--  --if raidhideparty ~= 1 and newstate then
--  --GrimPartyMain:Show()
--  --end
--]]);
 
--GrimPartyMain:SetAttribute("unit", "raid1");
--GrimPartyMain(GrimPartyMain, true);
 
--GrimPartyMain:SetAttribute("state-unitexists", UnitExists("raid1"));

edit --

i should point out i have this function in another file that loads after the function above...

its in the options file and once again partly commented out so i could test if the dummy on the hide/show was the problem but it did not appear to be. although i could see this being a problem one way or the other.

function GrimUI:PartyHideShowFunc()
    
    if GrimUIData.GUIPartyFrame == "show" then 
    --GrimPartyMain.Show = GrimPartyMain:Show()
    GrimPartyMain:Show()
    --GrimPartyMain.Hide = GrimUI.Dummy
    
    end
    if GrimUIData.GUIPartyFrame == "hide" then
    --GrimPartyMain.Hide = GrimPartyMain:Hide()
    GrimPartyMain:Hide()
    --GrimPartyMain.Show = GrimUI.Dummy
    end
end

[Vrul]

Seems like it would be easier if you used RegisterStateDriver:

local GrimPartyMain = CreateFrame('Frame', "GrimPartyMain", UIParent, 'SecureHandlerStateTemplate')
GrimPartyMain:SetAttribute("_onstate-group", "self[newstate](self)")

for index = 1, MAX_PARTY_MEMBERS do
	_G['PartyMemberFrame' .. index]:SetParent(GrimPartyMain)
end
PartyMemberBackground:SetParent(GrimPartyMain)

local state
if GetCVarBool('hidePartyInRaid') then
	state = "[group:raid] Hide; [group:party] Show; Hide"
else
	state = "[group] Show; Hide"
end
RegisterStateDriver(GrimPartyMain, "group", state)

[Grimsin]

hmm does that check the variable for show in raid from the bliz functions though? dos not look like it but then secure code doesn't always look like what it should lol.

Its become somewhat trivial now anyhow... im totally lost on what to do about the upvalue issue... I thought i had a grasp on the tables now but... and even if i do i just dont know how to do it any different and still have everything work the way it should. gonna post the whole thing iin the upvalue thread...