drawing grid and coordinate ?

[gmarco]

Hi all ...

Is there an addon or someone that know how to write :-) that giving a GUI element referring to, can draw a grid of lines with the distances written on the border ?

I tried to explain better:

example /addon_name UIParent

and it draws a lot of lines with on X axis -500 ... -60 -40 -20 0 +10 +20 .... +500 and so on ...
Same thing on the Y axis.

Probably we need also the point of application like TOPRIGHT, TOPLEFT, BOTTOM and so on ...

In this way we can better draw and positioning frames for custom interfaces.

Thanks all guys.

[Torhal]

There may be more, but the ones I'm familiar with are Align and eAlign Updated.

[gmarco]

Yes, but they actually only draw grid but don't prints the value of X-Y coords relative to the starting point they are relative too.

For example.

If I wants something like:

/addon_name UIParent 'CENTER'


it should prints something like the screenshot I attach (numbers are not probably correct but just to give the idea :-)



But probably the numbers on axis will looks differently if I use something like:

/addon_name UIParent 'TOPLEFT'

The positive Y number will disappears and will not be printed ...

But I really don't know also if the starting params are enough to start ... :-/

BTW, thanks again for attention and for your kind reply.

[Resike]

I'm not sure what would thoose numbers mean for you, i could suggest you to try out the MoveAnything 2 grid system. Where you can dinamically change the size of the grid with the mousewheel, and print out how many grids are on the verital alignment.

[gmarco]

Probably I am not able to explain well, sorry.

If I have to work with something that involve using an editor to change manually the coords of the frame of an UI usually I have a problem because I am not able to understand at first glance where, i.e:

cfg.unit_positions = {              
             Player = { a = UIParent,           x= -260, y=  250},

this frame will position itself and then I'll have to do a million of /reload to fix the right position after an edit and save.

This can become a nightmare if you have to do small corrections when you modify some width/height/positions or you have to change drammatically your layout (--> your try and buy process begin again :-)

So if I can read on screen the right number of X,Y probably is simpler.

So I don't need something that move existing things but I need a tool that tell me which coords are where I want to put my frames :-)

Thanks gain to all guys.
Much appreciated.

[Fizzlemizz]

I modified Align to add to add grid numbering it's rough and ready and not the actual pixel point of each coord but that could be fixed I'm sure (or just do the math) but I don't use Align much these days.

For creating the horizontal, after tx.SetPoint .. BOTTOMRIGHT .. BOTTOMLEFT I added

local text = string.gsub(i, "(.)", function(x) return x.."\n" end)
if boxSize < 129 or boxSize > 128 and i%2 ~= 0 then
	lx = grid:CreateFontString(nil, 'OVERLAY') 		
	lx:SetFont("Fonts\\FRIZQT__.TTF", 10)
	lx:SetPoint("BOTTOMLEFT", tx, "BOTTOMLEFT")
	lx:SetText(text)
end

For creating the vertical, After the and of the do statement

local crud = math.floor((height/2)/hStep)

and after tx:SetPoint .. BOTTOMRIGHT .. TOPRIGHT

if boxSize > 128 and i%2 == 0 then
	tx:SetTexture(0, 0, 1, 0.5)
end
local counter
if boxSize < 129 or boxSize > 128 and i%2 ~= 0 then
	tx = grid:CreateFontString(nil, 'OVERLAY') 		
	tx:SetFont("Fonts\\FRIZQT__.TTF", 10)
	tx:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", grid, "TOPLEFT", 0, -(height/2+i*hStep) + (size/2))
	counter = crud - i
	tx:SetText(counter)
end

For finer grids is numbrets every second one.

[gmarco]

Hi,

I have tried your modifications on align an they works nicely .... but obviusly they ONLY print X/Y relative to BOTTOMLEFT of UIPARENT I suppose.

So probably this approach is too difficult to explore. Let's try to change the scenario to simplify the possible addon:


/addon FRAME 'POINT'

so something like:

/addon UIParent 'TOPLEFT'


and automagically a little cross (or any frame we want) appears writing the coord x,y the mouse is far from UI we specified. So while we move the mouse the coords change.

Should be this simplier ? Any other different tips/idea ?

Thanks.