In regards to mini-map buttons

[Corwyn]

How would one go about rotating them around the minimap? All my addons seem to want to put their button in the same general place, meaning several get lost beneath the jumble. Help?

[Cairenn]

Most have an option to move the button. Try right-clicking on the ones you can see, check for an "options", click on that, and see if there is a slider to move the icon.

[Gello]

er edit: oops, misread from what angle. 99.9% use a slider in options. I personally prefer dragging the button itself.

This is a way to make the icon draggable:

1. Add a small frame that exists to start/stop OnUpdates when dragging:

<Frame name="MyModIconDraggingFrame" hidden="true">
<Scripts>
<OnUpdate>
MyMod_DragMinimapIcon()
</OnUpdate>
</Scripts>
</Frame>

2. Add these to the <Scripts> of the minimap icon's frame (this=MyModIconFrame for example):

<OnLoad>
this:RegisterForDrag("LeftButton")
</OnLoad>

<OnDragStart>
this:LockHighlight()
this:StartMoving() -- only to register in layout-cache.txt
this:StopMovingOrSizing()
MyModIconDraggingFrame:Show()
</OnDragStart>
<OnDragStop>
MyModIconDraggingFrame:Hide()
this:UnlockHighlight()
</OnDragStop>

3. Add the OnUpdate function in the lua:

function MyMod_DragMinimapIcon()
local xpos,ypos = GetCursorPosition()
local xmin,ymin = Minimap:GetLeft(), Minimap:GetBottom()
xpos = xmin-xpos/UIParent:GetScale()+70
ypos = ypos/UIParent:GetScale()-ymin-70
local angle = math.deg(math.atan2(ypos,xpos))
MyModIconFrame:SetPoint("TOPLEFT","Minimap","TOPLEFT",52-(80*cos(angle)),(80*sin(angle))-52)
end

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For the mod makers: No slider to initialize, and nothing to SavedVariable since we let layout-cache.txt keep its place for us.
For the user: no poking around in options. They just grab the button and drag.

[Corwyn]

Thanks alot