Authors CurseForge

Not sure what's in minimalist, but I get that with the default chat frame. I figured it was just the way it is.

Because perhaps of the design? The bottom frame is put at the most bottom of the screen, in that setup it's logical to put the inputbox on top of the chat since there's no more space at the bottom^^

this mod is a great idea! this could go a loooong way. will test it asap.

One way is to use Visor and its gui to simply drag it to where you want.

Quote from LaoTseu »

I like oSkin a lot! So mush nice and easier to read.

Still, I would like my input box to stay at the standard position. I don't mind hacking it if someone can just point me in the right direction :-).

If you check EditBox.xml these lines are for where the edit box is anchored:

		<Anchors>
			<Anchor point="BOTTOMLEFT" relativeTo="ChatFrame1" relativePoint="TOPLEFT">
				<Offset>
					<AbsDimension x="-5" y="0"/>
				</Offset>
			</Anchor>
			<Anchor point="BOTTOMRIGHT" relativeTo="ChatFrame1" relativePoint="TOPRIGHT">
				<Offset>
					<AbsDimension x="5" y="0"/>
				</Offset>
			</Anchor>
		</Anchors>

Switching around the TOP and BOTTOM should attach the edit box to the bottom of your chat window.

Quote from cerement »

StaticPopup and EditBox shown ...

[EDIT] The artifact in the middle of the EditBox is actually the detached tooltip for CorkFu -- which doesn't support Shaman weaponbuffs yet ... hint ... hint ;P

What are you using to do the black bars on the top and bottom? I assume it is using something that does an actual cropping of the redered area, the only one I know of is a CT mod(CT_Viewport), is there an Ace solution?

ct_viewport is pretty small - there are ways to just manually set the render window; the unrendered area will be white instead of black however.

Quote from tbartels »

What are you using to do the black bars on the top and bottom? I assume it is using something that does an actual cropping of the redered area, the only one I know of is a CT mod(CT_Viewport), is there an Ace solution?

I suspect it is CT_Viewport, but depending on your video driver it may not get a black bar. I used to get black on my system, but a friend with an Alienware laptop tried it after seeing me do it and in his unrendered area was something that looked like a good (bad?) acid trip. Some people see white. It seems to be undefined.

My friend and I ended up creating a black frame to sit on top of the distracting light show. There is an example of something similar over on this thread:

http://www.wowace.com/forums/index.php/topic,1764.msg36754.html#msg36754

So if you don't want CT_Viewport you can just create an black frame to block out the space.

Enjoy!

Quote from tbartels »

What are you using to do the black bars on the top and bottom?  I assume it is using something that does an actual cropping of the redered area, the only one I know of is a CT mod(CT_Viewport), is there an Ace solution?

I had originally been using CT_Viewport, but the screenshot shows my own cr_Viewport, it's a stripped down, hardcoded version that accomplishes the same thing in 6 lines. Remind me later and when I get off work I'll post it with instructions in the General forum. PProvost has it right, you have to create a black background otherwise you get acid glow effects.

'cr' stands for '/console reloadui' ;P

Quote from mattftw »

Quote from Anias »

I may play with this skin to match my glass textures for fubar. Interesting hack haste.

Willing to post that texture somehwere?

I suppose. It's TGA, zipped here.

If you want to see what it looks like in practice -

http://www.picvault.info/images/537003770_Tambolin.jpg From my warrior alt's point of view.

I could decrease the transparency in fubar some of course, but I like having it at that level.

Ah the joys of having photoshop to play with.

I'm curious Anias, do you happen to play on the Eredar server?

Yeah, I don't mind the chat input being moved; but it'd be nice if there was a way to get the chat to scroll the opposite direction then.

Anias, is that ItemRack in your SS?

Also, the hack that was posted doesnt work for me. I have Minimalist and Confab which worked perfectly together before but oSkin keeps moving my EditBox to the bottom when i log on.

To make sure i did it right. All i was supposed to do was change the BOTTOMLEFT and BOTTOMRIGHT to TOPLEFT and TOPRIGHT correct?

No the other set.. change the TOPS to BOTTOMS.

The anchor point is saying take the bottom left corner of the chat entry box and attach it to the top left of the chat window.

Quote from Cal »

change the TOPS to BOTTOMS.

It's hard enough to find a top nowadays, don't go converting the few that are left to bottoms...

Quote from tbartels »

What are you using to do the black bars on the top and bottom?  I assume it is using something that does an actual cropping of the redered area, the only one I know of is a CT mod(CT_Viewport), is there an Ace solution?

Not an Ace solution, and not a user-friendly solution, but here's the writeup I promised:
http://www.wowace.com/forums/index.php/topic,2056.0.html

getting this error on login/reload UI

bugsack error
[2006/09/01 01:49:52-259]: oSkin\core.lua:13: attempt to call method `ContainerFrames' (a nil value)
oSkin\core.lua:13: in function `OnInitialize'
AceAddon-2.0\AceAddon-2.0.lua:215: in function `InitializeAddon'
AceAddon-2.0\AceAddon-2.0.lua:110: in function `obj_method'
AceEvent-2.0\AceEvent-2.0.lua:231: in function `TriggerEvent'
AceEvent-2.0\AceEvent-2.0.lua:960: in function <...dOns\!!!Libraries\Libs\AceEvent-2.0\AceEvent-2.0.lua:952>

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Just some screenies I wanted to show a friend,