Party Pets Spawning

[neverg]

Me again with more tasty questions!

Ok, I spawn party pets not using a .xml template but by using the SecureGroupPetHeaderTemplate in the SpawnHeader option provided by oUF. All works fine, or did till...

I started sorting my Party Elements by Class. What happens now it's the Pet's are not parented to the owners but they simply are spawning where the header anchor is anchored to.

So... Code.

Party:

-- Party Frames
        if cfg.show_PartyFrame and not cfg.party_inRaid_instead then
            self:SetActiveStyle('lumen - Party')
            local party = oUF:SpawnHeader('oUF_Party', nil, "custom  [group:party,nogroup:raid][@raid6,noexists,group:raid] show;hide",
            --local party = oUF:SpawnHeader('oUF_Party', nil, "party",
            --local party = oUF:SpawnHeader('oUF_Party', nil, "solo", "showSolo", true,  -- debug
            "showParty", cfg.show_PartyFrame, 
            "showPlayer", cfg.show_Player_inParty,
            "xoffset", 7,
            "columnSpacing", 7,
            "groupBy", "CLASS",
            "groupingOrder", "WARRIOR,DRUID,PALADIN,DEATHKNIGHT,SHAMAN,PRIEST,MAGE,WARLOCK,ROGUE,HUNTER", -- Trying to put classes that can tank first
            "point", "LEFT",
            "columnAnchorPoint", "TOP",
            "oUF-initialConfigFunction", ([[
            self:SetWidth(%d)
            self:SetHeight(%d)
            self:SetScale(%d)
            ]]):format(cfg.party_width, cfg.party_height, cfg.scale))
            party:SetPoint("CENTER", cfg.party_pos_x, cfg.party_pos_y)
        end

Pets:

if cfg.show_PartyPetsFrame and cfg.show_PartyFrame and not cfg.party_inRaid_instead then
            self:SetActiveStyle('lumen - Partypet')
            local pets = oUF:SpawnHeader('oUF_PartyPets', 'SecureGroupPetHeaderTemplate', "custom  [group:party,nogroup:raid][@raid6,noexists,group:raid] show;hide",
            --local pets = oUF:SpawnHeader('oUF_PartyPets', 'SecureGroupPetHeaderTemplate', "solo", "showSolo", true,  -- debug
            "showParty", cfg.show_PartyFrame,
            "showPlayer", cfg.show_Player_inParty,
            "xoffset", 7,
            "columnSpacing", 7,
            "point", "LEFT",
            "columnAnchorPoint", "TOP",
            "oUF-initialConfigFunction", ([[
            self:SetWidth(%d)
            self:SetHeight(%d)
            self:SetScale(%d)
            ]]):format(cfg.party_pets_width, cfg.party_pets_height, cfg.scale))
            pets:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", "oUF_Party", "BOTTOMLEFT", 0, -6)
        end

Anyone with a smart solution for this? Sorting the pets by class won't work for obvious reasons.

[haste]

The solution is to use a XML template to spawn the partypet frames with the party frames. You can do this either through the old way of having the pet as a child of the party frame, or the new way of separate frames for them both. Take a look at oUF.xml for examples of both solutions.

You can also spawn them manually without using the pet header, and anchor them yourself.

You might also want to know that the party pet header currently is bugged, and will in many cases give you units that are named partypetpetN instead of partypetN. Making it pretty useless as that unitid will never exist.

The solution to this is to set the attribute 'useOwnerUnit' to true and set 'unitsuffix' to 'pet' on the frames spawned (through oUF-initialConfigurationFunction).

[neverg]

Got it. Will try one of those then. Thanks.

You know, I don't have anything against .xml templates, although I prefer coding over layouts, the only problem I have with it is that if I want to turn off the display of pets for example, errors will spawn I suppose?

[haste]

Originally Posted by neverg Got it. Will try one of those then. :) Thanks. You know, I don't have anything against .xml templates, although I prefer coding over layouts, the only problem I have with it is that if I want to turn off the display of pets for example, errors will spawn I suppose?

You can:
a) Toggle the use of the template (init only).
b) Call UnregisterUnitWatch(frame) and frame:Hide() in oUF-initialConfigFunction (init only).
c) Call :Disable() on the pet frames out of combat.

[neverg]

Thanks again haste. I'm going to try those tomorrow when I'm at home.