Question on changing settings in mods with lua

[aiikachi]

I am wondering if it is at all possible to write my own lua file (with IsAddonLoaded perhaps?) that will change certain settings in certain other addons (remove fontshadow, change frame size, ect) so that I do not have to manually edit the lua of these addons everytime I update them. I thought I had seen that this was possible elsewhere before, but I would like confirmation/examples if it is thanks!

[Seerah]

Only if what you want to change is globally accessible.

[aiikachi]

So if I understand: if it's a font string created by the individual addon--that wouldn't be possible?

[Seerah]

Does it have a global name or variable, or is it only assigned a local variable? Does the fontstring's parent have a global name or variable so that you can use GetChildren (or maybe even GetRegions) to find it?

[aiikachi]

Look's like everything I was concerned about are locals, so back to editing the individual lines it is. Thanks for the replies Seerah! <3

[SDPhantom]

You might want to take a look at EnumerateFrames() if you really want to go that direction.

EnumerateFrames() gets the first frame from a list, notice no frame has been passed. If EnumerateFrames(frame) is called, it returns the frame following the one passed in the list. If there are no more frames, it returns nil.

The following code would iterate through every frame in existence.

local frame=EnumerateFrames();
while frame do
--	Do something that checks if this is the frame you want and store the pointer to it

	frame=EnumerateFrames(frame);
end