Authors CurseForge

With some help on reddit i got it to work. Code can be found here

Original Post

First I'm apologise if "Addon Help" would be the better subforum, but because Stuf Unit Frames didn't provide the features I want and I have some general questions too, I choose "Lua Code Discussion".

My Problem:

I want to archive that the PlayerFrame provided by Stuf Unit Frames hides when I'm

• at 100% Health
• have no target
• out of combat
• not mouseover it

and that the TargetTargets(?) Frame hides when

• I'm the target

My Try:

Because I have no experience in LUA or creating an WoW Addon I googled and found this thread LUA: Hide unit frames out of combat.

With the Information and LUA Snippet in that thread and the rest i found via google i created this code:

local hideAnything = CreateFrame("FRAME", nil, nil, "SecureHandlerStateTemplate")
hideAnything:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD");

local function HideFrame(self) -- Insecurely hide out of combat if shown
    if not InCombatLockdown() then self:Hide() end
end

local function eventHandler(self, event, ...)
	if (IsAddOnLoaded("Stuf")) then	
		hideAnything:SetFrameRef("PlayerFrame", Stuf.units.player)
		Stuf.units.player:HookScript("OnShow", HideFrame)
	end
	
	hideAnything:SetAttribute("_onstate-combat", [=[ -- Securely toggle visibility in combat
		if newstate == "show" then
			self:GetFrameRef("PlayerFrame"):Show()
		else
			self:GetFrameRef("PlayerFrame"):Hide()
		end
	]=])
	
	RegisterStateDriver(hideAnything, "combat", "[combat] show; hide")
end

hideAnything:SetScript("OnEvent", eventHandler)

The code works but only in combat and I didn't found a solution for my "out of combat" problems.

Also in the linked thread i found that i could only use this:

RegisterStateDriver(PlayerFrame, "visibility", "[combat] show; hide")
RegisterStateDriver(TargetFrame, "visibility", "[combat,exists] show; hide")
RegisterStateDriver(ComboFrame, "visibility", "[combat,exists] show; hide")
RegisterStateDriver(FocusFrame, "visibility", "[@focus,combat,exists] show; hide")

 I modifed that to my parameters I use in bartender

RegisterStateDriver(hideAnything, 'visibility', '[combat] show; hide')
RegisterStateDriver(hideAnything, 'visibility', '[target=vehicle,exists]hide')
RegisterStateDriver(hideAnything, 'visibility', '[vehicleui]hide;show')
RegisterStateDriver(hideAnything, 'visibility', '[target=target, exists]show;fade:0')

 ... it didn't worked at all :(

General Questions:

• I work in the "PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD" Event because I couldn't find a solution how I execute my Code AFTER Stuf Unit Frames loaded and the frames I access aren't nil anymore. Is there a better way?
• In the SetAttribute Method is the state(?) "_onstate-combat" used, but I didn't find ANY HELPFUL documentation about this state. wowprogramming.com refers to SecureTemplateReference, but "_onstate-combat" isn't listet there.

Questions to my Problem:

• How do I accomplish the tasks I want?

I appreciate any tips and hints and would prefer them, because i would like to accomplish this mostly by myself, but I woudln't mind a complete solution.

Hope someone can help me.

Sincerely TrueAtraz

English isn't my native language, so I hope it isn't to awfull to read / understand