Authors CurseForge

Hi,

I can create a secure button for some raidmember.
Code looks something like this:

 
local f= CreateFrame("Button","MyTBut1",UIParent,"SecureActionButtonTemplate")
 f:RegisterForClicks("AnyUp")
f:SetAttribtue("unit","NameOfRaidMember")
f:SetAttribute("*type1", "target")
 

For a targetframe I tried

 
local f= CreateFrame("Button","MyTBut1",UIParent,"SecureActionButtonTemplate")
f:RegisterForClicks("AnyUp")
f:SetAttribtue("unit","NameOfRaidMember")
f:SetAttribute("*type1", "target")
f:SetAttribute("unitsuffix", "target")

there is also a
f:SetAttribute("useparent-unit", true)
I'm not sure what it does - and anyhow it changes nothing if I set it or not.

I googled around a lot - but the documentation you can find for secureframes is more than poor.

Anyone any idea?

No - how did you find this?
Even from the site main address there is no link to this document.

Anyhow - it is interesting and it shows a lot of deep details about SecureHandlers -- but nothing about the things I'm looking for -- SecureTemplates.

I found something on wowwiki - but most of it are assumptions or "red entries" (no info available).

Tested with both -- a target works also with both.
But when I set unitprefix no button (frame) appears.

Look at how oRA2 does it.

My hunch is that you must "register" the unit to be tracked by the Secure system. i.e.

RegisterUnitWatch(f)

oRA2 uses secure headers and "child buttons".
I also took a look at MainAssist -- wich contains the same code as in oRA2.

@Pacemaker
Yes the button has a size and so on.
Maybe my english is to bad (sorry I'm from Austria) but I thought I stated, that I can produce a button for a unit directly.
You quoted my "Tested with both -- a target works also with both."

So to be more detailed.
Setting up a button for (lets say) "raid1" works.
I see the button - if I click it it targets the unit -- everything like expected!!

And it does not matter if I use Unit or Action Button.
But as soon as I set f:SetAttribute("unitsuffix", "target") the button is no longer functional.

Sorry about the confusion with "no longer appears".
This was a mistake I made by setting different attributes.

Simple:
Lets assume the Raidmember is named Sepp.
I create the button - call f:SetAttribute("unit", "Sepp")
--also I set the other things needed
And this works - I get a button - when I click it Sepp is targeted.
Next step - I call f:SetAttribute("unitsuffix", "target")
I still get the button - but clicking on it does nothing.

What I expect it to do is to target the target of Sepp.

Sorry but I have currently no time to check this out (I guess tomorrow) so I can't tell if it works.

BUT - it sounds very logical!!!
So maybe you helped me a lot with pointing to that f... hyphen :)

Thanks Seerah,

a look to the thread points me to -- I do almost everything like it should be - except of the hyphen in front of target :)

Anyhow - your info (link) was helpfull too since it pointed me to some interesting things.

Hopefully my realmpool Todesbringer EU will come back on soon - so I can give the things a try.

Today I gave it massive tests.
I found out -- neither self.tf:SetAttribute("unitsuffix", "target") nor self.tf:SetAttribute("unitsuffix", "-target") do work if you act with unitnames.

If I use RaidX or PartyX it works - no matter if I use -target or target.

So to have such buttons I have to act with RaidX or PartyX and it works like it should - Names are only supported with the unit itself.

local [B]raid[/B]= CreateFrame("Button",nil,UIParent,"SecureActionButtonTemplate")
raid:RegisterForClicks("AnyUp")
raid:SetAttribtue("unit","raid1")
raid:SetAttribute("*type1", "target")

local target= CreateFrame("Button",nil,UIParent,"SecureActionButtonTemplate")
[B] target:SetParent(raid)[/B]
target:RegisterForClicks("AnyUp")
target:SetAttribute(""useparent-unit",true)
target:SetAttribute("*type1", "target")
target:SetAttribute("unitsuffix", "target")

If I remember correctly, this should work. Haven't tested the code, but you get the idea of setting the parent and not the actual unit?

Edit: Way not use group headers? I used them when adding MT / MA and "PlayerTargets" and their targets (like CTRaid) to oUF_HolySmurf.

I'd recommend you take a look at this page: http://wowprogramming.com/docs/secure_template/Group_Headers
and in particular Filtering -> nameList. Even tho it's just one player, it can still be a list :)

Yes header work - but I wanna use single buttons.
Anyhow -- after finding out that there is only a problem with unitnames I got my thing working.

Thanks @all for tips and help