Making a frame with History scrolling text

[Animoral]

Hello,

I'm quite new to addon design, and I'm making my addon an Ace3 addon.
One of the features I want to implement is "whisper history window", which will do the following:

1. The history window will be a dragable window with a "close" button.
2. The window will be openned by a slash command or a button in the addon config panel.
3. The window will contain rows of text taken from the savedVariable. each row will be history of a chat whisper, and will include 3 fields: date/time, sender, message.
4. The window will contain a scrolling bar, in case there are too many whispers to show.

Can it be done using Ace3 libs?
I will be thankfull for any help, guidance or links to a relevant doc.

Thanks

[ace329281301]

1. you need this
2.&4. read about this and AceConfig
3. AceDB , and you need do some research on "CHAT_MSG_BN_WHISPER" & "CHAT_MSG_WHISPER" 2 events, which will fired when you got wisper message

[Animoral]

Hi,

Thank you for your answer.
I'm already read these documents. I know how to collect the whispers data. What I'm missing is how to use the ACE GUI: how to actually draw the window, how to display the text lines in it (assuming I already have it in a table), how to make it scrollable.

Thanks

[Morgalm]

Whisp does alot of the same things you could check it's code out.

[Phanx]

Don't use AceGUI. There is pretty much no reason for anyone to ever use AceGUI directly. If what you want to do can't be done with an options table through AceConfig, just build your own GUI using the standard widget API.

- http://www.wowpedia.org/Widget_API
- http://www.wowpedia.org/Widget_Handlers

[Animoral]

Hi,

I tried working with the standard API, but making a scrollframe for text was a bit complex for me. Other addons I looked at did it with XML. So I ended up using Ace-GUI, and it worked.

Only problem is the window is not being closed when hitting "escape", and this is very annoying. Any idea how to make it close with "escape"?
This is my code:

local historyFrame = AceGUI:Create("Frame")
	historyFrame:SetTitle(L["History"])
	historyFrame:SetStatusText("")
	historyFrame:SetCallback("OnClose", function(widget) AceGUI:Release(widget) end)		
	historyFrame:SetLayout("Fill")
		
	local historyEditbox = AceGUI:Create("MultiLineEditBox")
	historyEditbox:SetText(historyText) 	
	historyEditbox:SetWidth(800)
	historyEditbox:DisableButton(true)
	historyEditbox:SetLabel("")
	historyEditbox:SetNumLines(20)
	historyEditbox:SetMaxLetters(999999)
	historyFrame:AddChild(historyEditbox)

Thanks!

[Dridzt]

http://www.wowpedia.org/Make_Frames_..._%22Esc%22_Key

[Animoral]

Originally Posted by Dridzt

http://www.wowpedia.org/Make_Frames_..._%22Esc%22_Key

I saw that before posting here, but it didn't work. I guess I didn't manage to add

tinsert(UISpecialFrames,"MainFrameName");

to my code correctly.

What is the exact line I should add?

[Farmbuyer]

Give a name in the CreateFrame call, and then pass that string name in the line above.

[Animoral]

I looked into Libs\AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIContainer-Frame.lua and I don't think they use a name:

local frame = CreateFrame("Frame", nil, UIParent)

Can I override it from my addon and give the frame a name?