KgPanels Mouseoveractionbars

[Deemaxm]

Hello i need a lil hlp with KgPanels scripts.

I use Dominos actionbars have and sideactionbar that apears just Mouseover. Now i want to bind my Kgpanels to that bar, so that on mouseover the bar apears with the Kgpanels border.
What i managed to do till yet:1) Anchor the panel to actionbarbutton ( via framestack i cant get the name of the bar i get just the DominosActionButton 1)- now i had the texture/panel apearing on mouseover but not bound to actionbar and not moveable over it like other cases) 2) found a script for show kgpanel on mouseover-> does apear but just when im clicking near actionbar; i dosent apear simultaniously with actionbar.

Ofc ideal setup for me would be a little button on side made via kgpanels on wich i click and actionbar apears similar to TukUi but thats to complicated i supose

So pls help Dee make his Ui more sexxy and complete

[Deleted]

Try getting the bar's parent name:

/run print(FrameName:GetParent():GetName())

(where FrameName is whatever name you get from the /framestack).

Then, create a separate kgPanels button to show/hide your bar.
OnLoad:

DominosParentName:Hide()
kgPanels:FetchFrame("yourbackgroundpanelname"):Hide()
self.isShown = false

OnClick:

if not released then return end
if self.isShown then
    kgPanels:FetchFrame("yourbackgroundpanelname"):Hide()
    DominosParentName:Hide()
    self.isShown = false
else
    kgPanels:FetchFrame("yourbackgroundpanelname"):Show()
    DominosParentName:Show()
    self.isShown = true
end

Replace DominosParentName and yourbackgroundpanelname.

[Taryble]

I've never had luck parenting to the "bars" for Dominos or Bartender - but parent to a BUTTON on the bar instead.

Also, the LUI and TukUI style sliding open/close panel has generic instructions here.

[Deemaxm]

/run print(MultiBarRightButton1:GetParent():GetName())

that's what i type into chat and rezult iz : "nil" so there is smthink wrg but no idea what

---------- Post added 2011-09-02 at 06:32 PM ----------

wow the guide is defo niiice il check it out

[Taryble]

Also, in kgPanels, in that panel's config, just set the parent of the panel to MultiBarRightButton1 - that should do what you want.

[Deemaxm]

yes the guide is imba and seems to work only problem is i still didnt get the name of dominos actionbars... ( Im mean it works for BT4Bar10 from bartender but i cnat get same code for dominos dono why ( just that silly DominosActionButton1 help dee pls

[Deleted]

Does anyone read my post?

/run print(DominosActionButton1:GetParent():GetName())

[Deemaxm]

yes ofc i read it but maby im to nab to understand or dono. Now i used the code:

/run print(DominosActionButton1:GetParent():GetName()) ; what you linked

i run, type it in chat but the answer is still "nil" and cant get it why it dosent work? sry if it sounds dumb but i do type it in chat ? not in other places

srry for beeing annoying but im not so familiar with scripting stuff

[Deleted]

Meh, that means that the parent actually doesn't have a name and most likely isn't globally accessible. Sigh.

You can always go for BT4 instead of Dominos, which has nicely accessible bar parents.

[Gillyann]

Hi!

I know this thread is kind of old and I'm not sure if there are any others out there for this, I found this one via googling. But, I've just attempted to create a open/close panel via the instructions that Taryble gave/linked. I'm actually using them for Recount rather than Bartender (I figured that the scripting would not change much unless I chose to use different names...). When I put everything in, including the scripting I got this error:

Message: Interface\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:2908: attempt to index local 'region' (a nil value)
Time: 06/07/12 00:14:21
Count: 2902
Stack: [C]: ?
Interface\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:2908: in function `MouseIsOver'
[string "openbutton_OnUpdate"]:2: in function <[string "openbutton_OnUpdate"]:1>

Locals:

Does anyone have an idea on how to fix that? (I am a absolute newb with scripting and .lua)

[Deleted]

Paste your script, please (use [code] tags).

[MayronWoW]

I tried using Dominoes with KgPanel's but a lot of the time Dominoes would not work like I wanted it to when it came to scripting so I switched to Bartender which works so I would recommend doing the same.

[Gillyann]

I tried using Dominoes with KgPanel's but a lot of the time Dominoes would not work like I wanted it to when it came to scripting so I switched to Bartender which works so I would recommend doing the same.

I'm not using Dominoes for this, it's Recount. I've already figured out how to parent a frame to Bartender 4.

Paste your script, please (use [code] tags).

My apologies, I used the Quick Reply option and couldn't find the code tags. Please, keep in mind that I'm using the link that Taryble posted back on 9/2/11 for how to set it all up. I've used

/fstack

to get the name of the window I want to Parent and so I can change the scripting's name as needed.

In the <Onload> scripting area of the panel for "openbutton", I put:

UI_OpenButtonTextAlpha = 1
Recount_MainWindow:Hide()

Then under that same panel's scripting area for <OnUpdate>, I put this:

local frame = kgPanels:FetchFrame("OpenButton")
	if MouseIsOver( frame ) then
	    self.text:SetTextColor(1,1,1)
	    UI_OpenButtonTextAlpha = 1
	    else
	    if UI_OpenButtonTextAlpha > 0 then
	   	 self.text:SetTextColor(1,1,1,UI_OpenButtonTextAlpha)
	    if UI_OpenButtonTextAlpha < 0 then
	   	 UI_OpenButtonTextAlpha = 0 else
	   	 UI_OpenButtonTextAlpha= UI_OpenButtonTextAlpha - 0.1
	    end
	end
end

That is where I get the error message I originally posted.

[Deleted]

Are you sure your panel is called "OpenButton"? The FetchFrame return seems to be nil.

local frame = kgPanels:FetchFrame("OpenButton")
if MouseIsOver( frame ) then
    self.text:SetTextColor(1,1,1)
    UI_OpenButtonTextAlpha = 1
else
    if UI_OpenButtonTextAlpha > 0 then
   	self.text:SetTextColor(1,1,1,UI_OpenButtonTextAlpha)
        if UI_OpenButtonTextAlpha < 0 then
            UI_OpenButtonTextAlpha = 0
        else
	    UI_OpenButtonTextAlpha= UI_OpenButtonTextAlpha - 0.1
	end
    end
end

The underlined part will never fire (UI_OpenButtonTextAlpha cannot be below and above zero at the same time).



Also, you use some unnecessary globals and doing a perpetous OnUpdate is not efficient. This is a more efficient version I made up for you:

OnLoad:

Recount_MainWindow:Hide()
self.updateFrame = CreateFrame("Frame",nil,self)
self.updateFrame:Hide()
self.updateFrame.parent = self
self.updateFrame:SetScript("OnUpdate",function(s)
    if s.textAlpha > 0 then
        s.parent.text:SetTextColor(1,1,1,s.textAlpha)
        s.textAlpha = s.textAlpha-0.1
    else
        s:Hide()
    end
end)

OnEnter:

self.updateFrame.textAlpha = 1
self.text:SetTextColor(1,1,1)

OnLeave:

self.updateFrame:Show()

Should do essentially the same with less resources used.

[Gillyann]

Thank you so much Treeston. That did indeed get rid of the error messages. Unfortunately now nothing happens.

i690.photobucket.com/albums/vv262/CeciliaMarie16/PrivateAlbumisPrivate/Bunny-HitHeadAgainstWall.gif

I'm at a loss as to how to make this all work and I played with your scripting to see if that would work on my other two panels. And, no. I'm debating if this will help:

i690.photobucket.com/albums/vv262/CeciliaMarie16/PrivateAlbumisPrivate/Bunny-beatupWall.gif

argh, darn the no link until more posting is done rule, lol.

[Deleted]

Add a debug line to the OnUpdate definition:

self.updateFrame:SetScript("OnUpdate",function(s)
    print(s.textAlpha)
    if s.textAlpha > 0 then

PS: If that doesn't do anything, add one to the OnEnter and OnLeave scripts, too.

[Gillyann]

Thank you so much Treeston! It works great! *does happy dance*
/hugs Treeston