Authors CurseForge

here is the link to the clone repo
http://www.wowace.com/addons/project-5416/repositories/silver/
just take it from here for now.

Quote from Xinhuan

No reason to start a new project at all. Just use the existing one.

I had the same idea, but he asked me to start a fork...

Some news: Kameril answered, giving his approval for my "takeover". I'll start a new project called dock continued, look forward to it :)

Not registered memebers cannot see profile, so i cant see is email :(

Now if you can only make the docked frames mouseover popup detect that the Dock is on the left side of the screen and make it adjust itself to popup on the right side of the dock instead of the left side of the Dock making it go off screen. (That was probably way confusing.)

Change the anchoring, docked frame automatically expand the opposite way :D maybe ill try to see if it can be done automatically.

I'll try to look into it.

New version, tab with custom font and color working ;)

Link Removed: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=3992c9eed12c4b58dd8b33b5aa27078d

Began some localization, tho far from finished.

Thanks, unpacking it worked fine (didn't think about that). The reassignment is actually needed, and i dont know why exactly.

I'm having a similar problem, and on wowwiki i found this snippet of code:
Note that button:SetTextColor was deleted in 3.0. To set the button text color, you need to set the button font object, then get a copy of it, then modify the color of the new object and then assign the copy back to the button. For example: button:SetNormalFontObject("GameFontHighlight"); local font = button:GetNormalFontObject(); font:SetTextColor(1, 0.5, 0.25, 1.0); button:SetNormalFontObject(font);
I tried to do something similar, but i created the font instead of inheriting one.

tab.TabFont = _G.CreateFont("DockTabFont")
tab.TabFont:SetFont(MediaHandler:Fetch("font", db.TabFont), db.TabFontSize)
tab.TabFont:SetTextColor(db.TabFontColor)
tab:SetHighlightFontObject(tab.TabFont)
 tab:SetDisabledFontObject(tab.TabFont)
tab:SetNormalFontObject(tab.TabFont)

And it work, excep for the color part: the text is always black. I already checked and TabFontColor is the right value. Anyone got any idea why it doesn't work? :(

ps. i'm an absolute beginner in both lua and addon coding... so pleas be a little kind :D

Quote from Gabriel

I comment out setfont and settextcolor and all works properly, just no tab labels, so something is screwed there, I dont know enough either to fix this.

mmh... a graphic button wouldn't be right...
Maybe ill try asking in in the code forum.
Has anyone any means to contact Kameril?

Link Removed: http://www.mediafire.com/file/yj52mj2tmd1/Dock.zip

it works now, but it wont change the font:

--Old code
tab:SetFont(MediaHandler:Fetch("font", db.TabFont), db.TabFontSize, nil)

--New Code
tab:SetDisabledFontObject(_G.GameFontDisable)
 tab:SetHighlightFontObject(_G.GameFontHighlight)
 tab:SetNormalFontObject(_G.GameFontNormal)

When i have time i'll try to ask why is this happening

I've added a few option i needed for chatframe zoom, and started to look at the localization.

I've also found something regarding the tab problem, but i could use some help (never done addon coding before, and dock doesn't strike me as simple...)

function DockClass:UpdateTab()
        local tab = self.Tab
        if not tab then
            return
        end
        local db = self.db.profile
        if not db.AllowTabMode then
            return self:RestoreFromTab()
        end
        tab:SetFont(MediaHandler:Fetch("font", db.TabFont), db.TabFontSize)
        if db.TabOrientation == "Vertical" then
            local label = "" --not called often enough to worry about garbage
            for letter in self.Name:gmatch(".") do
                label = label .. letter .. "\n"
            end
            tab:SetText(label)
            local fs = tab:GetFontString()
            tab:SetHeight(fs:GetHeight() + db.TabSize)
            tab:SetWidth(fs:GetWidth() + db.TabSize)
        else
            tab:SetText(self.Name)
            tab:SetHeight(30)
            local fs = tab:GetFontString()
            tab:SetWidth(fs:GetWidth() + db.TabSize)
            tab:SetHeight(fs:GetHeight() + db.TabSize)
        end
        
        tab:SetTextColor(unpack(db.TabFontColor))
        tab:ClearAllPoints()
        tab:SetPoint("CENTER", UIParent, "BOTTOMLEFT", db.TabX, db.TabY)

        do
            local backdrop = db.TabBackdrop
            local bg, edge = backdrop.bgFile, backdrop.edgeFile

            backdrop.bgFile, backdrop.edgeFile = MediaHandler:Fetch("background", bg), MediaHandler:Fetch("border", edge)
            tab:SetBackdrop(backdrop)

            backdrop.bgFile, backdrop.edgeFile = bg, edge
        end

        tab:SetBackdropColor(unpack(db.TabColor))
        tab:SetBackdropBorderColor(unpack(db.TabBorderColor))

        tab:SetMovable(not db.Locked)
    end

The SetFont call always give error. Since tab is a button it should work...

This version SHOULD work with current version.

Link Removed: http://www.mediafire.com/file/tmrkztwzjjr/Dock.zip

i'll try to ask the author if i can put it up again somewhere in wowace or similar.

Quote from Kameril »

Unfortunately I've had no offers so far.

I dont have enough lua and addon coding experience (im a programmer tho) so i cant help....

Hrm? 60+ hours on a side project I provide to the community for free isn't something I can feel shame about. Thanks for the support though.

I wish you for the best. :)
Trying to balance for his rudeness, even if i know it won't be enough.

It's a wonderful addon even now, it's a shame the original author won't go on with its development. Hope someone pick it up.