How to maky your frame movable

[turner850]

How do I make my frame moveable with the mouse?

ive tried to look at the 'creating minimap buttons' tutorial to cut out how to move stuff with the mouse.


Ive created a simple addon, I just want people to be able to move it around the screen.

[Sythalin]

f:IsMovable() or f:IsMovable(true)

Either works.

[cloudwolf]

dont forget you ahve to allow the frame to regiser mouse clicks and also need to hook into events.

[Sythalin]

True, so here's the very basic you'd need to do to start with.

local f = CreateFrame("Frame", "name", parent)  -- parent is optional
f:IsMovable(true)
f:EnableMouse(true)
f:RegisterForDrag("LeftButton")  -- or "RightButton"
f:SetScript("OnDragStart", f.StartMoving)
f:SetScript("OnDragStop", f.StopMovingOrSizing)
tinsert(UISpecialFrames,f:GetName())  -- make frame close with "ESC"

Hope that helps.

[Foxlit]

WoWWiki has a HOWTO that is relevant: http://www.wowwiki.com/Making_Draggable_Frames

Originally Posted by ChaosInc f:IsMovable() or f:IsMovable(true) Either works.

f:IsMovable() is a getter, not a setter method; calling it as you describe has no effect.