Sharing Layouts and Settings? - the return of the NightElf w3 UI

[Jethal]

OK.. thanks to Discord Unitframes and Discord Art (YAY, WOO!!)
I was able to re-create my EverQuest W3 NightElf UI
now, my question is.. how can I sucessfully share my layout and settings in WOW for these addons?

Addons shown include...

BIBMod (Core, Windowmods, Toolbars - not bags)
CT (QuestLevels, UnitFrames, BuffMod, MasterMod, MailMod)
Discord Unit Frames
Discard Art, with myown w3 custom graphics
... and a hell of a list of other great mods that dont enter into the layout issue.

[guice]

Wow, very nicely done.

[farang]

the only way the settings are stored are in the SavedVariables folder below your WTF/<Account> directory.

so by checking the corresponding lua files there, you should be able to find out what you need to copy to have the same effect.

[Beladona]

You could check a single common variable in the settings (maybe one for each separate addon) to see if they are different than the default, and the popup a small warning message stating that the user should accept your modification to the settings.

Once they his ok, it executes a script that resyncs all of the settings to what you need them to be to match your UI, and then executes a ReloadUI to make the changes show up.

That is how I would do it anyway. Here is an example:

function NEUI_Startup()
	if (DiscordSettings != "your settings") then 
		NEUI_WarningWindow:Show();
	end
end

function NEUI_WarningWindow_Execute()
	DiscordSettings = "whatever";
	MoreSettings = "whatever";
	ReloadUI();
end

When the mod start up, it checks to see if the settings it needs are present. If they are present but not set the way you need them, you can popup the warning window. When the user clicks the OK button on the warning window, it executes the next function which sets all of the settings the way they need to be, and then reloads the UI

I hope that explained it well enough. Best I could do in 5 minutes =P

[Genghiz Cohen]

That is seriously great work. I've fiddled with DiscordUnitframes/art and haven't managed to produce squat hehe. I just can't figure it out. But then, I'm a dork.

/applaud