Help With Frontstring code

[cazzbr]

so guys, Could you help me with a peace of code i can't figure out whats wrong!
I'm starting to learn lua/xml and can't solve this one by myself.

               <UI ................>
                          ...
		<Frame .....>
                          ...
                          <Layers>
				<Layer level="OVERLAY">
					<FontString inherits="GameFontNormal" name="HelpMainText">
						<Anchors>
							<Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="$parent">
								<Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-30"/></Offset>
                     				        </Anchor>
						 </Anchors>
						<Scripts>
						HelpMainText:SetText("teste");
						</Scripts>
					</FontString>
				</Layer>
		</Layers>
              </Frame>
          </UI>

The text setted under the script just doesn't show up, if I use the text attribute at the frontstring, like this:

<FontString inherits="GameFontNormal" text="teste">

It works, so I think the problem is within the script part of the code.

I can't use the text attribute cuz I need a variable to be displayed on this fontstring

Any ideas?

[cazzbr]

Got it working!

The problem was the <scripts> can't be placed inside of a <layers> tag so, this solved the issue!

 <UI ................>
                          ...
		<Frame .....>
                          ...
                          <Layers>
				<Layer level="OVERLAY">
					<FontString inherits="GameFontNormal" name="HelpMainText">
						<Anchors>
							<Anchor point="TOP" relativeTo="$parent">
								<Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-30"/></Offset>
                     				        </Anchor>
						 </Anchors>
					</FontString>
				</Layer>
		</Layers>
        	<Scripts>
                      <OnShow>
			HelpMainText:SetText("teste");
                      </OnShow>
		</Scripts>
              </Frame>
          </UI>

also needed to add the <OnShow> </OnShow> to trigger the event

[SDPhantom]

The Scripts tag is a list of handlers to run accordingly to which event it's associated with. For example, adding the OnShow tag registers the Lua code contained to run when the frame is shown.

To avoid problems with the default UI and other addons, it's customary to prefix the name of your globals with the name of your addon. This includes names of any and all UI objects you create.

[cazzbr]

Originally Posted by SDPhantom The Scripts tag is a list of handlers to run accordingly to which event it's associated with. For example, adding the OnShow tag registers the Lua code contained to run when the frame is shown. To avoid problems with the default UI and other addons, it's customary to prefix the name of your globals with the name of your addon. This includes names of any and all UI objects you create.

Thank you for the advise! I'll change the frontstring name to something more specific!