kgPanels - Custom Buttons (OnClick)

[PerfectH]

Good morning, WoWInterface community and Happy Tuesday to you all!

Okay, down to business: I am once again trying to make this script work for kgPanels to spice up my UI a little before I republish it with an update. My goal is to have a button (actually, there will be two identical buttons that will perform the same actions) that upon clicking it will show a different image - to be more precise: it will be a similar image of the button but with the "pressed" effect applied. After releasing the mouse button, I want the original image to return.

(Idle) TalentButton1.tga -> (Pressed) TalentButton2.tga -> (Released) TalentButton1.tga

So that is one half of what I am trying to accomplish. The other half - which actually maybe easier - is to have the Talent Pane toggle on/off upon releasing the mouse button when clicking these custom buttons.

(Idle) TalentButton1.tga -> (Pressed) TalentButton2.tga -> (Released) TalentButton1.tga (Talent Pane Appears)
(Idle) TalentButton1.tga -> (Pressed) TalentButton2.tga -> (Released) TalentButton1.tga (Talent Pane Hides)

I'm almost certain these are doable...however, I am still learning Lua and I am not well equipped enough with the knowledge of how to perform such actions. Any help would be greatly appreciated - I'll paypal you money for a Coke*!

Thanks in advance,
PerfectH
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[PerfectH]

Still need help :O

[Seerah]

Here it states how to do something on press and release: http://www.wowace.com/addons/kg-panels/

I haven't tried to change backgrounds of a panel before in a script. I think most people use two panels and hide/show the frames depending on what they want seen... One way you could do it is place your second texture in a kgPanel directly behind the first. When you press the first, set its alpha to 0 (so you can see the second) - when you release, set the alpha back to 1 and show/hide the talent frame.

[Torhal]

You'd use these button methods for the textures:

SetNormalTexture
SetPushedTexture

For the other, you'd use the OnMouseUp script by way of the button/frame's SetScript method.

[Seerah]

psst... Torhal... kgPanels are just frames, not buttons.

[Gylindor]

TalentButton1:SetScript("OnMouseDown", function(_,button)
if button=="LeftButton" then TalentButton2.tga(Show) end
end)

TalentButton2:SetScript("OnMouseUp", function(_,button)
if button=="LeftButton" then ToggleTalentFrame() and TalentButton2.tga(Hide) end
end)

As an idea, the second script runs on Button2 as I'm guessing this will be drawn over Button 1 in use

[Seerah]

no no, you don't need to do that stuff with kgPanels.


PerfectH... make your two kgPanels with your textures and overlay them on top of one another. Make sure that the first texture is set to have a higher draw layer than the second so that it's on top. Also, have the first panel set to "intercept mouse clicks".

Let's say you named your two panels TalentBtn and TalentBtnPushed. All you'll have to mess with, though, in the scripts section is the first - TalentBtn.

Open up the scripts section for TalentBtn and go to the OnClick section. Put this there:

if pressed then
     self:SetAlpha(0)
elseif released then
     self:SetAlpha(1)
     ToggleTalentFrame()
end

[Torhal]

Originally Posted by Seerah psst... Torhal... kgPanels are just frames, not buttons.

I know, but he clearly said he wanted buttons.

[Seerah]

Originally Posted by Torhal I know, but he clearly said he wanted buttons.

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