Frames rendering below higher frame levels?

[Folji]

Hiyo folks!

So with the 7.0 pre-patch, I've run into this one issue that I can't really seem to figure out here.



All the minimap buttons are showing with a frame level of 5 or 6, the artwork at frame level 3, and the minimap itself at frame level 2. And yet still, for whatever reason, they're all rendering below the artwork. Has anyone experienced similar things before, or have any suggestions?

Lua code pastebin

And, generally, comments about ways the code could be improved are always nice. It's just a single file's worth of restyling, repositioning, and overwriting a few functions.

[Lombra]

I think you can't insert frames in between parent-children from an outside frame, but not sure. You should add your texture right onto the minimap instead. The default artwork seems to be on a frame called MinimapBackdrop.

[Folji]

Good point, just replacing the texture or adding a new texture layer onto MinimapBackdrop is probably just as well. I just find it rather curious, as this whole solution worked perfectly fine throughout the entirety of 6.0. So if this is a parent-children conflict, that must be something new as of Legion. Though I wouldn't really complain if such a thing is now the case. Because, honestly, that solves a lot of awkward moments where two UI elements wind up partially overlapping one another because they're using multiple frame levels, haha.

[Lombra]

That is possible. I've had a very weird and annoying issue with one of my addons where certain elements were clickable (not drawn, though) through other frames. Although I didn't touch their frame strata or level separately from the main frame. I've not noticed whther that has changed since the patch.

[Torhal]

With WoW 7.x layers are "flattened" between a parent and its children, so there will be no more "slicing" if you move another frame with its own children - which are at different layers - over it.