Anchors

[s1ckn3ss]

Is there a list of anchors somewhere? I saw an anchor like ZO_Skills there must be more. Can I extract this anchor points somehow?

[Seerah]

frame:SetAnchor(pointOnFrame, relativeToThisOtherFrameOrObject, pointOnThatFrame, offsetXLeftToRight, offsetYTopToBottom)

That second arg can be whatever frame/object/control you need it to be for anchoring. If you want to anchor your addon's frame to the top left of the screen in general, use GuiRoot.

frame:SetAnchor(TOPLEFT, GuiRoot, TOPLEFT, 5, 5)

[Lodur]

Using the zgoo addon and looking at the 'zz UI' section... That is all the extant UI controls you can anchor off of... as far as I know.

[Errc]

Originally Posted by Lodur Using the zgoo addon and looking at the 'zz UI' section... That is all the extant UI controls you can anchor off of... as far as I know.

If there is something on your screen you want to anchor on, it is likely easier to '/zgoo mouse' and use :GetParent() and :GetChildren from whatever is picked up to find exactly what you need.

[Seerah]

Originally Posted by Lodur Using the zgoo addon and looking at the 'zz UI' section... That is all the extant UI controls you can anchor off of... as far as I know.

You can anchor your frame to whatever you want. (So long as it's not circular. - your control anchored to another control which is anchored to your control.....) It doesn't have to be in any sort of list.

[Halja]

If you are just shifting your main frame/window, I would recommend the overloaded API command. It is SetSimpleAnchor. Then you only have to worry about the parent window and the screen coordinates.

SetSimpleAnchor protected-attributes (object anchorTargetControl, number offsetX, number offsetY)

i.e. frame:SetSimpleAnchor(GuiRoot, 5, 5)

--halja

[Seerah]

Unless the devs have plans for that function in the future, I wouldn't bet 100% on it staying around for forever. The default UI does not use that function at all, and only uses SetSimpleAnchorParent once.

[inDef]

Has the default UI been posted anywhere yet?

I'd like to know what all the ZO_ functions as well as other default functions do.

[Seerah]

As has been said before, you guys will most certainly know if and when we get permission to post the UI source code.