Positionproblems with Frames

[accidant]

Hey all,

I've some prolems with the designing of my UI.
At the moment i'm working at an addon, which does the whole configuration and designing of all Other addons i'm using.

Okee, there Is my Problem. I'm using Shadowed Unit Frames and i tried to create an own Frame which Is Anchored to the Player Unit Frame. I will use this for some nicer background. But i have a Problem with the position. I Know that the framename of my playerframe Is called "SUFUnitplayer" and i Set this As relativeframe, of my own created Frame. But this doesn't work. I cann see the Frame but only at this point , As if i Anchored it to the UIParent.

Does anyone Know A good way how i can get a Connection between These to Frames?? At the moment i use the SetPoint function.

Sorry for my Bad english

[Waky]

I'm not sure if you're setting the anchor beyond just a parent, are you using code that's along these lines?

local f = CreateFrame("Frame","playerBackground",SUFUnitplayer)
f:SetPoint("CENTER",SUFUnitplayer)

[Seerah]

Has the player frame been created yet when you try to attach your frame to it?

[accidant]

Hmm i'm using some more Parameters

local f = CreateFrame("FRAME", "myFrame", UIParent")
...
f:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", UIParent, "CENTER", SUFUnitplayer, 0, 0)

I already had the Same idea, that the addon isn' t loaded, if i create my Frame. So i uses another Frame which fires the ADDON_LOADED Event and i Check with an Argument the addonname.

But that doesn't work too. Its only shown in the Middle of my screen

[Ekaterina]

If I'm reading your code correctly you're positioning relative to the uiparent.

try:

local f = CreateFrame("FRAME", "myFrame", UIParent")
...
f:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", SUFUnitplayer, "CENTER", 0, 0)

[accidant]

Sorry, this was wrongposted by me.

My code is already like Ekaterina posted.
But no changes happens.

Is there anyway to check if the player unitframe is loaded instead of checking if the Addon is loaded. At the moment im try out this way, but it still in the center of my screen

local actionFrame = CreateFrame("FRAME", "actionFrame", UIParent)
actionFrame:RegisterEvent("ADDON_LOADED")
actionFrame:SetScript("OnEvent", function(self,event,addonName)
   if (adddonName = "ShadowedUnitFrame") then
      local f = CreateFrame("FRAME", "myFrame", UIParent)
      .....some design stuff color and border.....
      f:SetPoint("CENTER", SUFUnitplayer, 0, 0)
      f:Show()
   end
end)

I also tried kgPanels to check if my Anchor is correct. If i create a Panel ingame with this addon and set the anchor, everything works fine. But i don't want to use it. So i also think that the problem is, that the unitframe is not loaded, when i create my Frame. But the way i tried doesn't fix my problems

[Waky]

For an conditionals you need a double equal sign "==", also the addon is "ShadowedUnitFrames" from what I've known

Try this code:

local actionFrame = CreateFrame("FRAME", "actionFrame", UIParent)
actionFrame:RegisterEvent("ADDON_LOADED")
actionFrame:SetScript("OnEvent", function(self,event,addonName)
   if (adddonName == "ShadowedUnitFrames") then
      local f = CreateFrame("FRAME", "myFrame", UIParent)
      .....some design stuff color and border.....
      f:SetPoint("CENTER", SUFUnitplayer, 0, 0)
      f:Show()
   end
end)

[Seerah]

Also, just because an addon has loaded, does not mean that it has finished configuring itself. Perhaps Stuf waits until a later time to finish setting up its frames.

[accidant]

hmmm, i tried Waky's way, but nothing changes. The frame is shown, but not at the right point. I confirm to Seerah's way. But is there any possibility to get this information and to tell my frame, that it should setpoint after the Unitframes are created?

[Ekaterina]

Hmm...

Assuming that your code is in your own addon, have you tried setting SUF as a dependancy?

Have you tried parenting the frame to the unit frame?

local f = CreateFrame("FRAME", "myFrame", SUFUnitplayer)
...
f:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", SUFUnitplayer, "CENTER", 0, 0)

[accidant]

Yes parenting i've already tried. but didn't got any positive result.

But maybe setting the addon as dependancy will help. Will try this out as soon as i'm home.

[accidant]

RequiredDeps or OptionalDeps is also not the right way to find a solution.

I tried another Event to check if, the Frame will anchored correctly anytime and that works great. But i don't want that my Frames get set, if i have target.

[Aftermathhqt]

This what i use to skin my tinydps.

local OtherAddOns = CreateFrame("Frame", nil, UIParent)
OtherAddOns:RegisterEvent("ADDON_LOADED")
OtherAddOns:SetScript("OnEvent", function(self, event, AddOn)
    if AddOn == "TinyDPS" then
        InvisFrame = CreateFrame("Frame", nil, tdpsFrame) -- this is a hidden frame to so we can create our border with !Beautycase.
        InvisFrame:SetFrameStrata("MEDIUM") -- what state it should have "HIGH", "LOW", "MEDIUM"
        InvisFrame:SetFrameLevel(2) -- what level the frame should be
        InvisFrame:SetAllPoints()
        CreateBorderLight(InvisFrame, 12, AftermathhUI.bordercolor, AftermathhUI.bordercolor, AftermathhUI.bordercolor, 2) -- create our border to the hidden frame.
        hooksecurefunc("newBar", function(g)
            --statusbar
            dummybar:SetStatusBarTexture(AftermathhUI.media.texture)
            --number fontstring     
            dummybar.fontStringRight:SetFont(AftermathhUI.media.font, 11, AftermathhUI.media.fontflag)
            dummybar.fontStringRight:SetShadowColor(0, 0, 0)
            dummybar.fontStringRight:SetShadowOffset(1, -1)
            --name fontstring
            dummybar.fontStringLeft:SetFont(AftermathhUI.media.font, 11, AftermathhUI.media.fontflag)
            dummybar.fontStringLeft:SetShadowColor(0, 0, 0)
            dummybar.fontStringLeft:SetShadowOffset(1, -1)
        end)    
    end
end)

I hope this helps.

[Aprikot]

Add quotes to SUFUnitplayer?

f:SetPoint("CENTER", "SUFUnitplayer", "CENTER", 0, 0)