creating buttons with kgpanels

onewordname · 05-24-11, 03:44 AM

After about 12hrs straight I managed to make a button that opens my character screen and changes alpha when opened........Is there anything out there that can help someone who has no idea about scripts to cheat ? like templates or something.

I dont want to modify what the buttons do I just want them to look different.

Im trying to get wow to mimic starcraft2. todo list is:

MicroMenu as buttons
FriendsMicroButton with text showing number of friends online
possibly target/player frame overlay thats clickable.

If anyone can give any sort of advice if im wasting my time or theres anything I can do to make this easier because Ive spent about 30hrs now surfing the net and the scripts I do find dont give me any insight on how to replicate it.

jeffy162 · 05-24-11, 09:33 AM

Here are two links that might be able to help you:
kgPanels Wiki and kgPanels-Sample Scripts (although you probably already know them).

A while ago I saw this posted somewhere and copied it:

Someone at WoWUIGallery had asked about the micro menu in the RealUI. Although the author uses his own addon to create the texted based micro menu, this can be done in kgpanels pretty easily.

(I'll use the character frame as an example)
Simply create a panel. Use whatever border and background you want. For the sake of this information, create a panel 32 X 32.

Goto the text options and put in "C" w/o the ". Depending on what font you are using adjust the size if need be. Adjust the color if need be.

Go back to the main panel settings. Click on Intercept Mouse clicks. If not checked the script will not work.

Goto the scripts options. Go down to OnClick. Type in

if pressed then
ToggleCharacter("PaperDollFrame")
end

Click Accept.

You should now have a small square with a C in the middle. If you click it, it should open the Character Frame. Click it again to close.

That's all there is too it. Below I've listed the toggles for various frames:

ToggleCharacter("PaperDollFrame")
ToggleSpellBook("spell")
ToggleTalentFrame()
ToggleAchievementFrame()
ToggleFrame(QuestLogFrame)
TogglePVPFrame()
ToggleLFDParentFrame()
ToggleHelpFrame()

I'm sorry, but I have absolutely no idea who posted it. All credit goes to who ever did, though.

You'll have to figure out some of the other buttons names, though, as this was done pre-Cataclysm and there are some new micro menu buttons. You might be able to get the names using the "/fstack" command and mousing over them.

You might also want to take a look at nibMicroMenu, which is a text-based micro menu addon.

onewordname · 05-24-11, 11:51 PM

yea ive seen most of that stuff the buttons ive found to be the easiest part but the tooltips and display of friends online i cant get my head around I cant find out what the name of the game menu tooltip is called to add it or how to add mouseover scripts to kgpanels.

Nibelheim · 05-25-11, 03:38 AM

Originally Posted by onewordname

yea ive seen most of that stuff the buttons ive found to be the easiest part but the tooltips and display of friends online i cant get my head around I cant find out what the name of the game menu tooltip is called to add it or how to add mouseover scripts to kgpanels.

Tooltips are easy enough. They are slightly different for MicroMenu buttons, though.

An example tooltip for the Talents button.

-- OnEnter

Code:

local TipText = MicroButtonTooltipText(TALENTS_BUTTON, "TOGGLETALENTS")
GameTooltip:SetOwner(self)
GameTooltip_AddNewbieTip(self, TipText, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, "")
GameTooltip:Show()

-- OnLeave

Code:

if GameTooltip:IsShown() then GameTooltip:Hide() end

Note: TipText will get set to something different for each button.

Button codes are:
MicroButtonTooltipText(CHARACTER_BUTTON, "TOGGLECHARACTER0")
MicroButtonTooltipText(SPELLBOOK_ABILITIES_BUTTON, "TOGGLESPELLBOOK")
MicroButtonTooltipText(TALENTS_BUTTON, "TOGGLETALENTS")
MicroButtonTooltipText(ACHIEVEMENT_BUTTON, "TOGGLEACHIEVEMENT")
MicroButtonTooltipText(QUESTLOG_BUTTON, "TOGGLEQUESTLOG")
MicroButtonTooltipText(SOCIAL_BUTTON, "TOGGLESOCIAL")
MicroButtonTooltipText(GUILD, "TOGGLEGUILDTAB")
MicroButtonTooltipText(PLAYER_V_PLAYER, "TOGGLECHARACTER4")
MicroButtonTooltipText(DUNGEONS_BUTTON, "TOGGLELFGPARENT")

For the GM Request / Help button, TipText gets set slightly differently.

Code:

TipText = HELP_BUTTON

For finding out the number of friends online, you'd want something like the following:

-- OnLoad

Code:

self:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD")
self:RegisterEvent("FRIENDLIST_UPDATE")
self:RegisterEvent("BN_FRIEND_ACCOUNT_ONLINE")
self:RegisterEvent("BN_FRIEND_ACCOUNT_OFFLINE")

-- OnEvent

Code:

local FriendsOnline = 0
for i = 1, GetNumFriends() do
	if select(5, GetFriendInfo(i)) then FriendsOnline = FriendsOnline + 1 end
end

local BNFriendsOnline = 0
for j = 1, BNGetNumFriends() do
	if select(7, BNGetFriendInfo(j)) then BNFriendsOnline = BNFriendsOnline + 1 end
end

local FriendString = string.format("%d/%d", FriendsOnline, BNFriendsOnline)
self.text:SetText(FriendString)

Disclaimer: Since I have no WoW account atm, this is all dry coded and may have errors / may not work.

onewordname · 05-26-11, 01:57 AM

Thank you both tremendously for all your help. Ive made some progress tho the scripting is still weighing me down aligning text and coloring it, I havnt colored the menu bar yet but just put the labels in to get a feel for it, mini map buttons(stancebar in their place for now) and player/target frames next.