SavedVariables Problem

[hairy_palms]

im trying to save a single variable for my addon, and theres something wrong with my code, the variable doesnt exist everytime, is there something im missing

this is in my ToC file

## SavedVariablesPerCharacter: mLayouts

this is in my lua file

local frame = CreateFrame("FRAME", nil);
frame:RegisterEvent("ADDON_LOADED");
frame:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_LOGOUT");
local function loadvar(self, event, addon)
	if addon == "testaddon" then
                if mLayouts == nil then print("fail") end -- test function
		tempmLayouts = mLayouts or {}
	end
	if event == "PLAYER_LOGOUT" then
	   mLayouts = tempmLayouts; -- We've met; commit it to memory.
	end
end
frame:SetScript("OnEvent", loadvar);

[Mischback]

Are you actually logging out?

I'm going with something like this (caution: Drycode)

local frame = CreateFrame('Frame', nil, UIParent)
frame:RegisterEvent('ADDON_LOADED')
frame:SetScript('OnEvent', function(self, event, addon)
     if addon ~= 'myAddon' then return end
 
     if not MySavedVar then
         MySavedVar = {}
     end
end)

[hairy_palms]

whether its a logout or just a /reload i get the same result, i tried your code just changing the names

local frame = CreateFrame('Frame', nil, UIParent)
frame:RegisterEvent('ADDON_LOADED')
frame:SetScript('OnEvent', function(self, event, addon)
     if addon ~= 'testaddon' then return end
 
     if not mLayouts then
         mLayouts = {}	
	print("still not saved")
     end
end)

"still not saved" is printed every login regardless

[Rilgamon]

Perhaps there is something else wrong in your toc-file ?
Look at wow\logs\FrameXML.log ... perhaps there is more info.

[Xinhuan]

1. Is your addon called "testaddon"? Capitalization matters, it should be exactly the same as your folder's name.

2. Did you ever declare mLayouts as a file-local variable? Savedvariables must be in global scope, if your addon defined a local one, your code would be referring to the local variable, and not the global one.

Without seeing the full contents of your files, it is difficult to guess where the problem might lie.

[Vlad]

What Xinhuan said. Using "## SavedVariables: Test" then in the addon doing: "local Test" would make "Test" refer to the local version in that lua file, hence nothing would be properly saved at all.

[hairy_palms]

thanks for the help guys, i didnt change anything, but when i logged in today and the code i got from Mischback worked.

local frame = CreateFrame('Frame', nil, UIParent)
frame:RegisterEvent('ADDON_LOADED')
frame:SetScript('OnEvent', function(self, event, addon)
     if addon ~= 'SemoUI' then return end
 
     if not mLayouts then
         mLayouts = {}
     end
end)

[Seerah]

When changing anything in the .toc file, a full game restart must take effect.

[Mischback]

Glad I could help!

[Vlad]

One thing I noticed, sometimes the saved variables don't load when the variables event fires, it's said you should assume variables are fully loaded at addon_loaded event but my experience with some of my addons is that they don't -it's weird. :/

Just putting it out there, maybe you gotta use the variables loaded event to find out when the variable is loaded or not -for example declare it as nil at the top of the file and when it's not nil it means it's loaded.