SavedVariable not saving

[Oldeface]

So, I have looked all around the internet and read all about Saved Variables, but for some reason I can't get it to work no matter what-- I must be doing something very obviously wrong that is getting past me!

Essentially I have a working addon that I am trying to make the width settable.

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PHP Code:

## Interface: 20400
## Title: PoisonTicker
## Version: 0.8
## Notes: Displays when your Deadly Poison will Proc, and how many procs are on the target.
## Author: Oldeface
## SavedVariablesPerCharacter: PoisonTicker_WIDTH

PoisonTicker.lua
PoisonTicker.xml 


LUA basics:

PHP Code:

PoisonTicker_WIDTH= 0;

function PoisonTicker_OnLoad(self)
    self:RegisterEvent("COMBAT_LOG_EVENT_UNFILTERED");
    self:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_REGEN_DISABLED");
    self:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_REGEN_ENABLED");
    self:RegisterEvent("ADDON_LOADED");
    ChatFrame1:AddMessage("Loaded");
    
    SlashCmdList["POISONTICKER"] = SetWidth;
    SLASH_POISONTICKER1 = "/poisonticker";
    SLASH_POISONTICKER2 = "/pt";
end

function PoisonTicker_OnEvent(event)
    
    if(event == "ADDON_LOADED" and arg1=="PoisonTicker") then
        PoisonTicker_PoisonBar:SetWidth(PoisonTicker_WIDTH);
        PoisonTicker_BG:SetWidth(PoisonTicker_WIDTH);
    end
...
end

...

function SetWidth(width)
    PoisonTicker_WIDTH= width;
    PoisonTicker_PoisonBar:SetWidth(PoisonTicker_WIDTH);
    PoisonTicker_BG:SetWidth(PoisonTicker_WIDTH);
end 


This resizes the bar and BG to the proper proportions, but whenever I ReloadUI PoisonTicker_WIDTH is set back to 0!

Any help would be much appreciated.

[Oldeface]

Well... I didn't change anything, but when I logged back in today and tested it out... it works.

Not sure if it was a caching problem, or if I had to truly exit the game once before it worked or what, but hurray. XD

[Slakah]

I'm just guessing here but it might be

PoisonTicker_WIDTH= 0;

if you really want to use XML put

PoisonTicker_WIDTH = PoisonTicker_WIDTH or 0;

in your OnLoad.

I would also suggest changing SetWidth to a local.