1. Posted by Shaminah on Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:35:49

    Hello,

    I've been working on an addon, using ace3 libraries, and now I'd like to let users be able to set up some "preferences". Since I've never used saved variables before,I've been looking them up on google and found out that AceDB could let me manage them.

    So far so good. But I just fail at saving preferences, so if I have my option frame that contains fields to change preferences values, I'd like them to be saved. Here's what I'm doing

     MyImbaAddon = LibStub("AceAddon-3.0"):NewAddon("MyImbaAddon", "AceConsole-3.0", "AceEvent-3.0", "AceTimer-3.0")

 local AceGUI = LibStub("AceGUI-3.0")

 local mainFramePosition = nil
 local mainFrameWidth = nil
 local mainFrameHeight = nil
 local updateFrequency = nil

 local Defaults = {

     global = {
        enabled = true,
         position = { MyImbaAddonAnchor =  {"CENTER",nil,"CENTER",0,190} },
         frequency = 0.5,
         size = { x = 450, y = 150 },

    },
 }

 function MyImbaAddon:OnInitialize()
   -- do init tasks here, like loading the Saved Variables, 
   -- or setting up slash commands.
     MyImbaAddon:RegisterChatCommand("aet", "AETSlashCommand")

     self.db = LibStub("AceDB-3.0"):New("MyImbaAddonDB",Defaults,"Default")

     self:InitOptions()
 end


 function MyImbaAddon:InitOptions()
     if (self.db.profile.frequency == nil) then
         updateFrequency = self.db.global.frequency
         self.db.profile.frequency = updateFrequency
     else
         updateFrequency =  self.db.profile.frequency
     end
     if  (self.db.profile.position == nil) then
         mainFramePosition = self.db.global.position
         self.db.profile.position = mainFramePosition
     else
         mainFramePosition = self.db.profile.position
     end

     if (self.db.profile.size == nil) then
         mainFrameWidth = self.db.global.size.x
         self.db.profile.size = {x = mainFrameWidth}
     else
         mainFrameWidth = self.db.profile.size.x
     end

     if (self.db.profile.size.y == nil) then
         mainFrameHeight = self.db.global.size.y
         self.db.profile.size.y = mainFrameHeight
     else
         mainFrameHeight  = self.db.profile.size.y
     end

     self:Print("frequency="..updateFrequency)
 end

    now imagine i have a field in my options GUI that has the following code :

         frequencyEdit:SetCallback("OnEnterPressed", function(arg1, arg2, arg3) 
         self.db.profile.frequency = arg3
     end)

    but the value never gets saved; so when i print frequency= i always get frequency=0.5 which is the default value. Also i'm not sure what i'm doing in InitOptions is the best =P but I tried.. :D

    any help would be really appreciated. Essentially I want to have default settings, and when the user changes some settings, have them updated and loaded properly next login.

  2. Posted by curti on Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:21:28

    Did you put the savedvariable name(s) in the TOC?

    ## SavedVariables: SavedVariableName or ## SavedVariablesPerCharacter: SavedVariableName

  3. Posted by Shaminah on Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:59:02

    yeah i did that

  4. Posted by jnwhiteh on Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:42:16

    Did you add a print statement to see if your callback ever actually gets called? If you set the value using a script you should see it saved. Try both of those!

  5. Posted by Shaminah on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:38:42

    i also did that :<

    coz at first i didnt know which event of arg1, arg2, arg3 was the event that contained the new value, so i was printing the arguments first.... so yeah i'm also sure the callback method is being called.. thanks for the thought though ^^

  6. Posted by jnwhiteh on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:33:54

    Then I'm not particularly sure what to tell you. Try experimenting on the commandline to see if any changes you make even manually are ever saved.