Bonus Objective Idea; 'Simple' addon maybe

[dtylertx]

It strikes me that it would be convenient to be able to force the % completion for bonus objectives to show all the time the frame is visible and not just on mouse over.

I don't have much experience with frames and also lake time due to RL stuff.. wondered if anyone had ideas or time

[Phanx]

Can you give an example of what you mean? I can only assume you mean the bonus objectives shown in the objectives tracker for the part of the zone you're in, in which case I haven't seen any that have a percent (though admittedly I haven't spent that much time playing in the expansion yet) just your standard "X/Y thing killed/done/whatever" criteria, and I haven't noticed any that change what they show on mouseover, so I'm wondering if you're talking about something else...

[sirann]

I think the easiest way to test what he's describing is to pick up the level 100 apexis crystal daily and begin working on it. A bar, not the secondary resource bar, shows up in the quest tracker and begins to fill as you progress. If you mouse over the bar it performs a show function of the actual integer rounded percent completed.

If I understand the op, he just wants this number that only shows on mouse over to show all the time.

[cb0111]

I think what the op means is instead of "Assault Forces at Shattrath 0 / 1" the quest line in the objective frame would be forced to always say Shattrath Forces Assaulted 63% in the blue bar that normally only pops up when you are in the area where mobs need to be killed.

I looked at the api and at a few quest log replacements, but cannot seem to find any code that controls this.

[Xrystal]

The progress bar isn't a fixed object, it is generated when the function ( BONUS_OBJECTIVE_TRACKER_MODULE:AddProgressBar(block, line, questID, finished) ) is called when the objective track is being created. It has no fixed name so cannot be adjusted directly.

Relevant lines in Blizzard_BonusObjectiveTracker.lua

function BONUS_OBJECTIVE_TRACKER_MODULE:AddProgressBar(block, line, questID, finished)
    local progressBar = self.usedProgressBars[block] and self.usedProgressBars[block][line];
    if ( not progressBar ) then
        local numFreeProgressBars = #self.freeProgressBars;
        local parent = block.ScrollContents or block;
        if ( numFreeProgressBars > 0 ) then
            progressBar = self.freeProgressBars[numFreeProgressBars];
            tremove(self.freeProgressBars, numFreeProgressBars);
            progressBar:SetParent(parent);
            progressBar:Show();
        else
            progressBar = CreateFrame("Frame", nil, parent, "BonusTrackerProgressBarTemplate");
            progressBar.height = progressBar:GetHeight();
        end
        if ( not self.usedProgressBars[block] ) then
            self.usedProgressBars[block] = { };
        end
        self.usedProgressBars[block][line] = progressBar;
        progressBar:RegisterEvent("QUEST_LOG_UPDATE");
        progressBar:Show();
        progressBar.Bar.Label:Hide();
        -- initialize to the right values
        progressBar.questID = questID;
        if( not finished ) then
            BonusObjectiveTrackerProgressBar_SetValue( progressBar, GetQuestProgressBarPercent(questID) );
        end
    end 
    -- anchor the status bar
    local anchor = block.currentLine or block.HeaderText;
    if ( anchor ) then
        progressBar:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", anchor, "BOTTOMLEFT", 0, -block.module.lineSpacing);
    else
        progressBar:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", 0, -block.module.lineSpacing);
    end
 
    if( finished ) then
        progressBar.finished = true;
        BonusObjectiveTrackerProgressBar_SetValue( progressBar, 100 );
    end
    
    progressBar.block = block;
    progressBar.questID = questID;  
 
    line.ProgressBar = progressBar;
    block.height = block.height + progressBar.height + block.module.lineSpacing;
    block.currentLine = progressBar;
    return progressBar;
end

The only thing I can think of is to see if you can create your own version of template control "BonusTrackerProgressBarTemplate" and adjust the Show/Hide functionality to always show and see if the customer template version is used instead without any problems.

[Torhal]

Looks to me like all you'd need to do is iterate through BONUS_OBJECTIVE_TRACKER_MODULE.usedProgressBars and find the one that has the relevant questID assigned to it. From there, you'd be able to manipulate the scripts for the FontString that shows the percentage to make it always show.

[dtylertx]

Originally Posted by Torhal Looks to me like all you'd need to do is iterate through BONUS_OBJECTIVE_TRACKER_MODULE.usedProgressBars and find the one that has the relevant questID assigned to it. From there, you'd be able to manipulate the scripts for the FontString that shows the percentage to make it always show.

I understand that 'objectively' lol if not specifically and eventually when I have the time to do this, thank you - and yes guys thats what I mean, for the Apexis dailies - i forgot that the bar doesn't appear for true bonus objectives when i wrote the original post.

[Xrystal]

Looking at the xml side of the template you need to look at the scripts for progressBar.Bar as that is the actual statusbar control. You can simply replace the OnEnter, OnLeave scripts as all they do is to show the text. So simply show the text ( progressBar.Label:Show() ) and then set the OnLeave and OnEnter scripts to do nothing and hope that no other addon you use overrides it.