Need a help on an error

[Sythalin]

Info
frame - parent
PartyMemberFrame4 - UIParent
PartyMemberFrame3 - PartyMemberFrame4PetFrame
PartyMemberFrame2 - PartyMemberFrame3PetFrame
PartyMemberFrame1 - PartyMemberFrame2PetFrame

Works fine when first set up. But when a user /reloads, it pops the following error:

Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\CFM\CFM.lua line 313:
   PartyMemberFrame2:SetPoint(): PartyMemberFrame3PetFrame is dependent on this

frame = activeProfile[name].frame -- frame name from saved variables
_G[frame]:SetMovable(true)
_G[frame]:ClearAllPoints()
_G[frame]:SetPoint(activeProfile[name].point, activeProfile[name].parent, activeProfile[name].relativePoint, format("%d", activeProfile[name].offsetX), format("%d", activeProfile[name].offsetY))  -- line 313

I tried to change the anchors to be just the other unit frames themselves, but ends in the same error.

[Dridzt]

Is that lua code in a loop?

The answer is unfortunately the obvious one.

PartyMemberFrame3PetFrame has had it's anchor set previously to when that code is running and its dependent on PartyMemberFrame2
(probably through anchoring to PartyMemberFrame3 which is anchored to PartyMemberFrame2)

If it is in a loop try going the other way around doing ClearAllPoints() from the "bottom up"

PartyMemberFrame4PetFrame->PartyMemberFrame4->PartyMemberFrame3PetFrame->PartyMemberFrame3-> etc before you try to re-anchor.

[Vrul]

You are probably better off just running ClearAllPoints on all the frames before running SetPoint on any of them. What I don't understand is why you are parenting the frames like that, unless your use of parent in "frame - parent" is being used to refer to the relative frame in SetPoint calls.

[Sythalin]

This was a user's setup. In a nutshell, he was attempting to reverse the order of the party frames. Since the addon adjusts everything in alpha-numerical order, it makes sense with Dridzt explanation. I could reverse the order, but it's a bit much for this lone, uncommon issue. It's much easier for them to just reanchor to "UIParent", as the user has already done.