PostUpdateAltPower?

[Pyrates]

I'd need some advice about the AltPowerBar I'm sorta thinking of for my bossframes. I want to make it the way RealUI does it for health: Just a line with an arrow below it, and the arrow moves along the line indicating the right number (I'll want to have the exakt number attached to the arrow, too).

So, I'm thinking to do it along those lines: Make a very small AltPowerBar, just single color background, and then single color "foreground" (is that a word?). Then I'd make a function PostUpdateAltPower so I can move the arrow. I'd try to use a tag for the text of the bar, but parent it to the arrow so it moves along with it.

Is that the right idea? I tried browsing github to find out about PostUpdateAltPower, but couldn't really find it, does it exist? I'd be grateful for any pointers to see if I'm on the right track

Side question: How could one test this bar? I realize I could use something like 'self.unit="player"' to test the frames themselves, but that wouldn't make the AltPowerBar of the unitframe show up, would it?

(e) Another side question: Is there a possibility to spawn the boss frames, but still have the blizzard ones? So I could test mine without loosing vital info during a raid.

[haste]

Sounds correct. The post-update is define like most of them in oUF[1]

An easy way to test is with the plants vs ghouls quest in hillsbrad and in the maw of madness.

To have the default frames stay: modify oUFisableBlizzard() in blizzard.lua to not remove the boss frames (by commenting it out or whatever).

[1] https://github.com/haste/oUF/blob/ma...werbar.lua#L24

[Pyrates]

Thanks a lot

Now, do you have any suggestion how to test boss frames? I tried using

/script x = MyBossFrame1 x.hide = function() Show() end; x:Show() x.unit = "player"

But that kinda didn't work out, the AltPower didn't show up and change and things, although I'm pretty sure I made things correct (due to the fact that I c&p'ed things out of a working layoug, and the frame looks good, no errors...). Of course I could still have made an error, but how does everybody else test those things?

[haste]

Just spawn a player frame with the boss frame style. Should be pretty easy to do, unless you are using the old if-mangled-single-style solution :P

There aren't really any easy to test boss units you can abuse. At least not that I know of.

[Pyrates]

Hmm, that sounds a lot like I'd need to know what I'm talking about I'm learning by doing, copying together various codes and getting rid of errors... that's why I need test cases so badly

I don't know what's the old vs new solution. I have a function shared, I register a style with it, and then I call

boss[i] = oUF:Spawn("boss"..i, "MyBoss"..i)

The shared function doesn't test for the unit (it's only there to make boss frames), so I tried

oUF:Spawn("player", "SanUItest")

but that did nothing. What would I need to do here? I do have an ouf player frame already, do I need to disable that?

Again, thanks for any help If there are any resources I should be aware of, other than the wiki on github, I'd be glad if someone could point them out

[haste]

You can spawn 30 player frames if you feel like it. oUF doesn't prevent it. It does sound like you have a single-style, and if it doesn't do any unit checking, then spawning a player frame should work just fine. As long as you anchor it with :SetPoint().

You'll have to paste your code if you want any further help. I can't really give you any more hints :P.