simple frame not showing up

[samishii23]

Hello community, I welcome thy to mine first post... Lol

Anyways. Trying to just make a simple frame / window / panel thing in WoW...
My god theres no tutorials barely out there... I am just trying to make a simple frame popup for now... (I swear if I can ever learn this I'll me making a tutorial... ugh)

Anyways, heres what I got...

SK = {}
function SK.Events(frame, event, ...)
	if (event == "ADDON_LOADED") then
		SK.Frame:Show()
	end
end
SK.Frame = CreateFrame("Frame", "SK Test", UIParent)
SK.Frame:SetFrameStrata("TOOLTIP")
SK.Frame:SetWidth(300)
SK.Frame:SetHeight(300)
SK.Frame:SetPoint("CENTER",0,0)
SK.Frame:SetScript("OnEvent", SK.Events)
SK.Frame:RegisterEvent("ADDON_LOADED")

So what am I doing wrong? Cause I get nothing. No errors or anything.

EDIT: Couple stupid little errors... Sigh

[v6o]

Your frame is shown but it doesn't contain anything, try adding a background and have a look again

local backdrop = {
 bgFile = "Interface/Tooltips/UI-Tooltip-Background", 
 edgeFile = "Interface/Tooltips/UI-Tooltip-Border", 
 tile = true,
 tileSize = 16,
 edgeSize = 16,
 insets = { left = 4, right = 4, top = 4, bottom = 4 }
}
SK.Frame:SetBackdrop(backdrop)

Also when you register ADDON_LOADED it will also fire for every addon that loads after yours so you might want to unregister it after you're done.

SK.Frame:UnregisterEvent("ADDON_LOADED")

[samishii23]

Ah, neat on the Backdrop portion.
Will need to read up on that.
Thanks for the help!

[Seerah]

Originally Posted by v6o Also when you register ADDON_LOADED it will also fire for every addon that loads after yours so you might want to unregister it after you're done.

Also, you may wish to check that it fired for your addon. In addition, the first argument (which you named frame) passed to your SK.Events function is a reference to the frame which was registered for the event and triggered the script. Since that frame is the same as that which you wish to be shown, then you can just use that variable as reference instead.

function SK.Events(frame, event, arg1, ...)
	if (event == "ADDON_LOADED") and arg1 == "SKAddonName" then
		frame:Show()
		frame:UnregisterEvent("ADDON_LOADED")
	end
end

Lastly, there are plenty of tutorials about, though some of them may be a bit out of date with some recent API changes. Google should be able to find you some, as well as the sticky at the top of the Tutorials & Other Helpful Info section in this forum.