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Squeenix is a simple square minimap addon. It does the basic bits, applies a new texture/mask to the minimap, hides a few of the default frames. As a small bonus it also enables the mousewheel as a means of zooming in or out.

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• Changelog
• Forum Thread
• AceWiki page

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Does the Squeenix minimap include all the area displayed in the normal round minimap plus the area in the 4 edges? In other words does Squeenix actually show more terrain than the round minimap?

Thanks.

Did you try it? >_>

Edit: And tekkub, start adding screenshots.

Screenshots my ass, you do it :P

Yes, you see more terrain... take the usualy round minimap and draw a square around it, that's what you now see. The arrows (town/corpse/party) still stick to the circular mask tho, there's no way to change that. Also tracking abilities will stay in the circular mask, I'm sure blizzard would consider it unfair if square minimap users saw more on tracking than roundies.

nice toy.
make it moveable plx

Would it be possible to remove the "N", "W", "E" and "S" around it?

Edit: Commented out the for loop:

	--[[for dir,anc in pairs({W= "LEFT", S = "BOTTOM", E = "RIGHT", N = "TOP"}) do
		local w = f:CreateFontString()
		w:SetFontObject(dir == "N" and GameFontHighlightSmall or GameFontNormal)
		w:SetPoint("CENTER", f, anc)
		w:SetTextColor(1,1,dir == "N" and 0 or 1)
		w:SetText(dir)
		w:Show()
	end]]--

Installed this, now I have a square frame with a round map. Do I need to change some option?

And if you do want the zoom in/out buttons after all, comment out lines 51 and 52 in function Squeenix:Enable():

	MiniMapTrackingFrame:SetPoint("TOPLEFT","Minimap","TOPLEFT",0,-2)

	MinimapToggleButton:Hide()
--	MinimapZoomIn:Hide()
--	MinimapZoomOut:Hide()
	GameTimeFrame:Hide()
end

Of course the positioning will likely be all wrong. I use Discorf Frame Modifier to move them somewhere sensible.

-Ath

Is there a way to hide the tracking icon?

I tried adding MiniMapTrackingFrame:Hide() inside the Squeenix:OnEnable() function but it doesn't do anything - neither does it produce an error.

hoihoi,
sweet thing to remove the direction indicators (N,E,S,W).
but is there a way to remove the border of the minimap?
i've tried some things like to removing the first two lines of the 'set:mask' function, but then squeenix is using the original round border of wow. all other trys end up in hell, because i'm absolutly unskilled in programming (but i've tried :D).
so can someone here help me to hide that ugly border (i dont want a new or something else, only a squared minimap without anything around it)

Did you try visor ?
I just use it sometimes to delete things i no longer want to see on my screen ^^

Quote from roac »

hoihoi,
sweet thing to remove the direction indicators (N,E,S,W).
but is there a way to remove the border of the minimap?
i've tried some things like to removing the first two lines of the 'set:mask' function, but then squeenix is using the original round border of wow. all other trys end up in hell, because i'm absolutly unskilled in programming (but i've tried :D).
so can someone here help me to hide that ugly border (i dont want a new or something else, only a squared minimap without anything around it)

Try this:

	MinimapBorder:SetTexture()
	MinimapBorderTop:SetTexture()

big thanks, skyboat! it works just fine and learnd a little bit more.
six month with some ace mods, four with much ace stuff, one where i learnd some modding of the orginals and i can't stop saying: you guys are really awesome. the only art of ui modification which makes the ui alive :D

Quote from tekkub »

Screenshots my ass, you do it :P

Yes, you see more terrain... take the usualy round minimap and draw a square around it, that's what you now see. The arrows (town/corpse/party) still stick to the circular mask tho, there's no way to change that. Also tracking abilities will stay in the circular mask, I'm sure blizzard would consider it unfair if square minimap users saw more on tracking than roundies.

Tracking abilities probably stick to the circular mask when you're zoomed in. Howver, they only cover things that the game server has registered with the client. This has a 100 yard range (although lag has a major effect here), while the minimap has (IIRC) a 125 yard range.

Theoretically, you could have a tracking skill "all world objects" that would show anything that's not part of the area map itself. And that would be shiny.

How does this handle the various mods that make buttons on the edge of the minimap? I'm just curious, as I have no intention of getting this particular mod. I'm a round peg-round hole kind of guy.

Happy coding!

Quote from LaoTseu »

I would be nice to have a "square" mode in FuBar for the Minimap button. I know some mods do that already like TrinketMenu.

Seconded!

You can ctrl-drag (or is it Alt?) with fubar'd minimap buttons to pull them off the circular path you know :)

They are also pretty easy to move anywhere you want with Visor and VisorGUI.

Please, is there a way to easily change frame strata for squeenix ?
I want to have it HIGH, i modified lua code with it each time i saw a LOW, but doesn't seem it changed anything :p

Quote from tazmanyak »

Please, is there a way to easily change frame strata for squeenix ?
I want to have it HIGH, i modified lua code with it each time i saw a LOW, but doesn't seem it changed anything :p

**points again to Visor**