Minimap arrow frame

[MtNa]

Hi. Is it possible to control player arrow on minimap like frame/region object? Where is placed that object (like _G["Minimap"])? Thx.

[Xrystal]

What were you hoping to do with it ?

Looking at the blizzard files for the minimap, there isn't any customization functionality that I could see.

There might be a way to override the texture but I have never done that before myself so not sure if it is or not.

Of course there might be something I haven't found that someone else knows about.

[MtNa]

Texture can be changed by specific function, but not like simple frame. I want to move it and to do some changes with specific reactions on player actions, like highlight, change textures, size and etc. One of important part its a GetRotation() like trigger, but its a frame function and minimap doesnt have it like specific function for object and i hope to take functions from parent class "frame". I think arrow its an another frame.

[Xrystal]

Because Minimap is it's own frame base, it might not be possible for addons to do everything you want. But you could see if one of the minimap addons have managed to do something similar which might offer a clue as to how you might be able to do it if it is possible.

<Minimap name="Minimap" enableMouse="true">
...
</>

XML File: https://www.townlong-yak.com/framexml/live/Minimap.xml
Source File : https://www.townlong-yak.com/framexml/live/Minimap.lua


However, looking at wowpedia ..
``Minimap (inherits from Frame) ``

Could mean that it has access to some of the frame functionality.
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/UIOBJECT_Minimap

As to triggers, seeing as your character arrow should react to player actions, maybe monitoring those triggers would help.

[SDPhantom]

The Minimap has been known to act as an intrinsic frame, meaning it's a custom frame type that works very similar to how templates and inheritance works. An example of an intrinsic frame is the ScrollingMessageFrame.



For example, people used to probe Minimap:GetRegions() to find the player arrow texture and calculate the rotation from TexCoords to get player facing. This was before GetPlayerFacing() existed.

This is similar to how people used to probe WorldFrame:GetChildren() to find nameplates before the entire NamePlate system was rewritten as a LoD AddOn.