Authors CurseForge

I am obviously making a really stupid mistake somewhere.

I al new to the whole WoW addons thing and I wanted to plug about with designing a UI before getting into anything heavy. But for the life of me I cant figure out what I am doing wrong.


I am calling HealAssist.xml from HealAssist.toc

The contents of HealAssist.xml are as follows:

<Ui xmlns="[url]http://www.blizzard.com/wow/ui/"[/url] xmlns:xsi="[url]http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"[/url] xsi:schemaLocation="[url]http://www.blizzard.com/wow/ui/[/url] ..\FrameXML\UI.xsd">
  <Script file="HealAssist.lua"/>
  <Frame name="HealAssistFrame" parent="UIParent" frameStrata="MEDIUM" toplevel="true" hidden="false">
    <Size>
      <AbsDimension x="100" y="100"/>
    </Size>
    <Anchors>
      <Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativePoint="CENTER" relativeTo="$parent"/>
    </Anchors>
    <Backdrop edgeFile="Interface\Tooltips\UI-Tooltips-Border">
      <EdgeSize><AbsValue val="12"/></EdgeSize>
    </Backdrop>
    <Frames>
            <Button name="HealManReset" text="Reset" hidden="false">
              <Size>
                <AbsDimension x="68" y="20"/>
              </Size>
              <Anchors>
                <Anchor point="BOTTOMRIGHT"/>
              </Anchors>
            </Button>
    </Frames>
    <Scripts>
      <OnLoad>
        HealAssist_OnLoad();
      </OnLoad>
    </Scripts>
  </Frame>
</Ui>

In my HealAssist.lua file I just have

function HealAssist_OnLoad()
  getglobal("HealAssistFrame"):Show();
  getglobal("HealManReset"):Show();
end

I dont see anything when the mod is loaded. I was expecting a frame with a button in it but I am missing something.

Any help would be appreciated as this is annoying the hell outta me

Have a look at

WoW\Logs\FrameXML.log

If there is something like "Could not parse HealAssist.xml", then you have a syntax error in the xml file. Can't see any though.

Next you should try printing something into the chat window in your HealAssist_OnLoad function so you can see if HealAssist_OnLoad is actually called.

Last... are you using Ace1 or Ace2? If Ace2, try HealAssist:OnLoad instead of the underscore.

  getglobal("HealAssistFrame"):Show();
  getglobal("HealManReset"):Show();

getglobal() is completely unnecessary in this instance. You can directly access your globals by just referencing their variables:

  HealAssistFrame:Show();
  HealManReset:Show();

Quote from Malreth »

  getglobal("HealAssistFrame"):Show();
  getglobal("HealManReset"):Show();

getglobal() is completely unnecessary in this instance. You can directly access your globals by just referencing their variables:

  HealAssistFrame:Show();
  HealManReset:Show();

Yep I knew that it just didnt work so I tried adding the getglobal bit.

I am not getting any errors related to the xml. I am also nearly 100% sure that that function is getting called but Ill check again.

Is there any other reason why I would not be able to see what I have defined in the xml file? I know there is a something like the parent needs to be visible in order to see the child but since UIParent is the main wow interface frame I would have assumed that that is visible.

Ill check on the function to ensure it is running though wouldnt defining hidden="false" in the frame and button attributes have made it visisble anyway? I though that Show() would be just flagging this

Edit: As to Ace / Ace2 Im using neither at the moment. I just want to get something to display. Once I know I can handle that I can move onto the actual coding part.

I have never used backdrops without a background file and a tilesize specified. Are you sure the edge will display if there is no background? Also, calling "Show" on this particular frame won't do anything. By specifying "hidden='false'", it should show up right on UI loading time.

Quote from Nimbal »

I have never used backdrops without a background file and a tilesize specified. Are you sure the edge will display if there is no background? Also, calling "Show" on this particular frame won't do anything. By specifying "hidden='false'", it should show up right on UI loading time.

Yeah thats what I thought. Ill add in the background information and see what happens though I would have thought that even though there isnt a visual clue that the Frame is there the button would still eb visible.