Requesting help with a kgPanel script :)

[lerb]

Hey there guys! I posted this over at MMOChampion aswell but I'm impatient and I prefer these forums, so here we go :P

The function I want is basically this;

I create a panel with kgPanels and use it as background to my chat, lets call it Background_frame. The chat-addon I'm using is Chatter. On top of the Background_frame, I create another panel, called Minimize_frame.
When you press the Minimize_frame, the Minimize_Frame itself and the Background_frame hides, and Chatter minimizes down to a single line of text.
Now, behind my minimized Chatter, I create a frame called Maximize_frame, and when you press that, Maximize_frame hides, Background_frame and Minimize_frame shows, and Chatter maximizes.

This creates a minimize/maximize function that triggers on mouseclicks. Of course, if anyone willing to help me with this figures out a better way of doing this, I'm happy aswell

Credits for help will be given on the page for my UI over here (Or, if you prefer not to, I'll just adore you in silence )

[jeffy162]

Maybe this will help: kgPanels Wiki-Resizing your panel on-the-fly

While it won't hide your panel, it will change size depending on the size of the parent object. The specific example script is for a chat frame.

It's worth a look, anyway.

[lerb]

Well, that worked almost! It resizes the frame, but to the centre.. My english is limited, I'll try to explain.

When i minimize the chat, i only want to pull the top border downwards, until there's only one line of text showing.

This script however, pulls both the top and the bottom border towards the middle. Would be awesome if it only pulled the top border and the bottom part was "static". I hope i explain good enough for someone to understand.

I guess that would be a whole other script.

EDIT; Nevermind, all i had to do was to anchor it to ChatFrame1 :P

[jeffy162]

That was going to be my question: "Did you anchor the panel to the chatframe?"

I'm glad you got it working. Your English is fine. Better than quite a few native English speakers I've seen posting on forums.

[lerb]

Thanks

Now, a new problem surfaced :P When i minimize the chat, i set it to Height(25) so that it only shows one line of text. However, if someone writes a long message that fills say 3 lines, it shows all that text. Doesn't look very good :P

Is there a way to prevent this? I looked through Chatters settings but i couldn't find anything.

[Seerah]

No. Messages are hidden/shown in total. Since the message is too long to display in your chat frame, the text runs out of the frame.

Now... There may be a way to suppress it from showing at all (but then you wouldn't know that there was a new message), or there may be a way to have the chat frame change sizes to fit it, but...

[lerb]

Thanks for the answer Seerah

Basically, I'm creating buttons and stuff to press to hide different elements of the UI, much like you can in LUI (if I remember correctly). I really liked that. If I'm doing dailys or just a weekly dungeon, I don't need my map shown, and if I'm fishing i probably only want to see my chat. Like that.

So, a way to hide the text is what I'm looking for. I'm pretty sure it's possible, i just lack the knowledge

[Nibelheim]

What if you set:

CHAT_FRAME_NORMAL_MIN_HEIGHT = 25
CHAT_FRAME_BIGGER_MIN_HEIGHT = 25

[lerb]

I'm not sure I understand Nibelheim, where should I put that and what would it do?

[Nibelheim]

Originally Posted by lerb I'm not sure I understand Nibelheim, where should I put that and what would it do?

Well, for now just whack those two lines into your minimize script, maybe where you set the chat height.

[lerb]

I've been puzzling and shmuzzling all night with the chat, and I've finally got something that works well.

I downloaded Chicchai, the addon that minimizes the chat down to one message and disabled all automatic maximizes/minimizes. Then I created a button to call for ChatFrame1:Minimize() and another button to call for ChatFrame2:Maximize(). In Chicchai I could set height values for both. The tricky part was to get a parented kgPanel scripted to resize height-wise according to ChatFrame1, to always fit to the chat, since the chats height is always different. But, after a few cups of coffee, I think I got it right.

Chicchai is old tho, and no longer updated. I hope someone does so soon though

Thanks for all your help guys, but I think i have what I was looking for now.