Resizing Minimap ON THE FLY

[Rammoth]

Is this possible to do? If so, can I please request it?

I find it useful, and I'm surprised that I cannot find something like it yet.

If you need an example - in Guild Wars 2 the Minimap has 3 ridges on the top left corner in the screenshot below, it allows you to resize it accordingly:

[Coote]

I've seen it done with the world map, but never the minimap before. It'd be interesting to see this done if it's possible, even though I may not use it.

[Barjack]

I know changing the scale on the fly works. This does scale up POI icons and other things which can look pretty bad at a very large scale though. I use the following extremely rudimentary code in my own UI which simply scales it straight up to 2x, 3x, etc. size for help when herbing or mining by using Alt+Mousewheel.

local function onMouseWheel(self, dir)
    if IsAltKeyDown() then
        if (dir < 0) then
            local newscale = Minimap:GetScale() - 1
            if (newscale < 1.5) then
                newscale = 1
            end
            Minimap:SetScale(newscale)
        else
            local newscale = Minimap:GetScale() + 1
            Minimap:SetScale(newscale)
        end
    else
        if (dir > 0) then
            MinimapZoomIn:Click()
        else
            MinimapZoomOut:Click()
        end
    end
end
 
--
 
Minimap:EnableMouseWheel()
Minimap:SetScript('OnMouseWheel', onMouseWheel)

Obviously if you wanted it to have smooth transitions or draggable handles or smaller step sizes you'd need to do some more work there.

[Barjack]

Also I'm not sure how changing the scale via SetWidth/SetHeight works compared to scaling. That may or may not scale up the POIs, though I'm guessing it will. I also suspect non-square dimensions will simply result in map distortion but I'm not sure about that either.

[Haleth]

You can resize it, but the visible area on the map will never expand. The map texture will simple scale up as well and become blurred. This is the case both when you change the scale using Minimap:SetScale() as well as the dimensions using Minimap:SetSize().

[Enegek]

Sorry for the Necro, but I've been looking for an addon that fits this exactly but haven't had any luck. I see that Barjack has written some code, but for the life of me I can not find any details on how to use that.

[jeffy162]

Carbonite. It is a modular questing addon. The link is to a search of WoWI for Carbonite. It has "adjustable" maps, and unless they are locked in place can be moved, or sized, at any time.