Strata

[Ansi]

I copy/pasted myself an addon to show damage/healing on target portrait.
However, the strata is lower on the target frame, than on my self frame. Can anyone help me take the text to the front? Probably DIALOG strata.

Thanks in advance.

-- This file is loaded from "AnsiPortraitDamage.toc"local text = TargetFrame:CreateFontString(nil, "OVERLAY", "NumberFontNormalHuge")

text:SetPoint("CENTER", TargetFrame, "TOPLEFT", 160, -40)

text:Hide()local f = CreateFrame("Frame", nil, TargetFrame)

f:RegisterUnitEvent("UNIT_COMBAT", "target")CombatFeedback_Initialize(f, text, 30)f:SetScript("OnEvent", function(self, event, unit, ...)

CombatFeedback_OnCombatEvent(self, ...)
end)

f:SetScript("OnUpdate", function(self, elapsed)

CombatFeedback_OnUpdate(self, elapsed)
end)

Your code looks fine, actually.

local text = TargetFrame:CreateFontString(nil, "OVERLAY", "NumberFontNormalHuge")

OVERLAY is the layer which should be the right one.

more Information here: http://wowprogramming.com/docs/api_types#layer

But you can try using

local text = TargetFrame:CreateFontString(nil, "HIGHLIGHT", "NumberFontNormalHuge")

Just to test if it does anything. But that's not the right thing to do. What Unit Frames are you using? Maybe you can lower the strata of those?

[Ansi]

HIGHLIGHT doesn't work at all. If I put DIALOG it's even further behind than OVERLAY.

If you know what I mean.

Using default frames.

Originally Posted by Ansi HIGHLIGHT doesn't work at all. If I put DIALOG it's even further behind than OVERLAY. If you know what I mean. Using default frames.

uh yeah, you have to mouseover the element. I just wanted to know if it is an Issue with the layer or something else.

Edit: make sure mouse is enabled on the frame
http://wowprogramming.com/docs/widge...me/EnableMouse

[SDPhantom]

DIALOG is a frame strata, not a drawlayer. A strata is which level a frame is rendered among other frames. A drawlayer is a level within the same frame to establish rendering order among other regions (textures and fontstrings). If you have a frame rendered above another, there is no drawlayer setting to make a region from the lower frame render above the upper frame.

[Ansi]

Oh you're right. But even with HIGHLIGHT I cannot get the targetframe to look exactly like the selfframe.

[SDPhantom]

I took what Blizzard did with PlayerFrame and applied it to TargetFrame. The code turned out similar, but I made a few optimizations. First of all, there's a child frame called TargetFrameTextureFrame that's rendering most of the textures above TargetFrame. I moved the fontstring to render there in the same layer as what happens with PlayerFrame. Since the TargetFrame is just a flipped PlayerFrame, I used the same anchor and flipped it accordingly. I bypassed the need for a dedicated event frame by registering TargetFrame to receive the event and used a secure hook into the OnEvent and OnUpdate handlers.

local txt=TargetFrameTextureFrame:CreateFontString("TargetHitIndicator","OVERLAY","NumberFontNormalHuge");
txt:SetPoint("CENTER",TargetFrameTextureFrame,"TOPRIGHT",-73,-42);
txt:Hide();
CombatFeedback_Initialize(TargetFrame,txt,30);
 
TargetFrame:RegisterUnitEvent("UNIT_COMBAT","target");
TargetFrame:HookScript("OnEvent",function(self,event,unit,...)
    if event=="UNIT_COMBAT" then CombatFeedback_OnCombatEvent(self,...); end
end);
 
TargetFrame:HookScript("OnUpdate",CombatFeedback_OnUpdate);

[Ansi]

Perfect! Thank you :-)