1. Posted by macarthor on Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:27:34

    Dears, The following codes are aimed to accomplish such task: mouseover the first button and show the whole action bar:

     local OnEnterScript = [[
    if trigger == "OnMouseOver" then
        control:ChildUpdate("show", nil)
        toggledOn = true
    end
 ]]

 local OnLeaveScript = [[
    if trigger == "OnMouseOver" then
        control:ChildUpdate("hide", nil)
        toggledOn = false
    end
 ]]

 local OnUpdateScript = [[
    counter = counter + elapsed
    if self:IsUnderMouse(true) then
        counter = 0
    elseif counter > 0.4 then
        counter = 0
        control:ChildUpdate("hide", nil)
        toggledOn = false
    end
 ]]

 local OnShowScript = "self:Show()"
 local OnHideScript = "self:Hide()"

 function ZActionBar_LinkButton(bar, button)
    bar.header:WrapScript(button, "OnClick", OnClickScript)
    bar.header:WrapScript(button, "OnEnter", OnEnterScript)
    bar.header:WrapScript(button, "OnLeave", OnLeaveScript)
    if button:GetID() > 1 then
        button:SetAttribute("_childupdate-hide", OnHideScript)
    end
 end

 function ZActionBar_EnableButton(button, isAlwaysOn)
    button:SetAttribute("_childupdate-show", OnShowScript)
    if isAlwaysOn or button:GetID() == 1 then
        button:Show()
    end
 end

    When I mouseover the first button, through the commented prints, I can see ChileUpdate() function is called. But the hiden buttons do not show.

  2. Posted by jnwhiteh on Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:34:08

    I'm not sure, to be honest. There's so much missing code and context, I don't see anything immediately wrong.

  3. Posted by macarthor on Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:01:05

    I'm not sure, to be honest. There's so much missing code and context, I don't see anything immediately wrong.

    Would you plz give some sample snippet? or any other project that implements such feature.

  4. Posted by macarthor on Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:10:44

    I'm not sure, to be honest. There's so much missing code and context, I don't see anything immediately wrong.

    The 2nd parameter of control:ChildUpdate is "message", what's that exactly?

  5. Posted by jnwhiteh on Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:19:30

    I'm not sure, to be honest. There's so much missing code and context, I don't see anything immediately wrong.

    Would you plz give some sample snippet? or any other project that implements such feature.

    I'm sorry, I don't have a special purpose snippet like this.

    I'm not sure, to be honest. There's so much missing code and context, I don't see anything immediately wrong.

    The 2nd parameter of control:ChildUpdate is "message", what's that exactly?

    From the field guide to secure handlers documentation for ChildUpdate():

    "Iterates over all of the protected children of the header and checks for the attribute _childupdate-<scriptid>, if that is nil or scriptid is nil then it falls back to _childupdate. If the attribute has a string value then it is processed as a secure snippet and invoked with the parameters self, scriptid and message, where self is the child, and scriptid and message are the values from the call."

    It's an argument that you can use to make the same snippet/function do different things depending on the message you send in.

  6. Posted by macarthor on Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:06:43

    Many thx. It seems that TotemTimers implements the feature. I'll look in to it.