1. Posted by mandok on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:39:00

    I know I came across it earlier - but cannot find the reference....

     

    In the XML file we have a line like this:

    <Fontstring name="$parentName" inherits="GameFontHighlight" justifyH="LEFT">

    Which is referred to in the code:

    function TargetText:UpdateName ()

        local name = UnitName ("target") or ""

        TargetTextFrameName:SetText (name)

    end

    So just exactly how does "$parentName" of the Frame "TargetTextFrame" become "TargetTextFrameName"?

  2. Posted by mandok on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:39:00

    I know I came across it earlier - but cannot find the reference....

     

    In the XML file we have a line like this:

    <Fontstring name="$parentName" inherits="GameFontHighlight" justifyH="LEFT">

    Which is referred to in the code:

    function TargetText:UpdateName ()

        local name = UnitName ("target") or ""

        TargetTextFrameName:SetText (name)

    end

    So just exactly how does "$parentName" of the Frame "TargetTextFrame" become "TargetTextFrameName"?

  3. Posted by jnwhiteh on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:36:31

    Blizzard's XML system does this automatically.  Page 163 contains more information about why templates are useful and how the $parent attribute helps us there.  In those cases, we can create a simple template set up to use $parent, and then when we inherit from it, all of the sub-frames are automagically named correctly.