Timed updates rather than event-driven? (scrolling a message)

[asdf]

Hi all,

So after this discussion I decided to write my own combat text addon to serve my needs.

I've made some significant progress already, and it's been a lot of fun actually. However, I've gotten a bit stumped when it comes to a certain aspect of scrolling combat text. How do you fire the update function which updates the string locations on the screen?

I'm following the basic structure of Blizzard_CombatText.lua and borrowing some of their methods, but I can't figure out how they would get a smooth scroll of text on screen when there aren't any events being triggered.

CombatText_OnUpdate(self, elapsed) is what seems to need to be called every time the game loops, but I don't know by what mechanism that's actually happening.

What am I missing here?

[Phanx]

https://www.townlong-yak.com/framexm...batText.xml#51

local f = CreateFrame("Frame")
f:SetScript("OnUpdate", function(self, elapsed)
    -- Everything in here gets run every time a new video frame is drawn.
    -- "elapsed" is the time in (fractional) seconds since the last OnUpdate ran.
end)

[asdf]

Originally Posted by Phanx https://www.townlong-yak.com/framexm...batText.xml#51 local f = CreateFrame("Frame") f:SetScript("OnUpdate", function(self, elapsed) -- Everything in here gets run every time a new video frame is drawn. -- "elapsed" is the time in (fractional) seconds since the last OnUpdate ran. end)

Awesome, thank you.