1. Posted by johnnyboy on Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:23:34

   Hi,

   I'm quite new to programming World of Warcraft addons and I was wondering how to expand an existing frame - more precisely a frame used by the Blizzard UI called "AuctionFrame". Addons like Auctioneer are able to add another tab by apparently using something like CreateFrame("Button", TABNAME, AuctionFrame, "AuctionTabTemplate"). Unfortunately, I absolutely have no idea where to put this piece of code (and what else would be needed) and at which event I exactly have to invoke this. I'd really appreciate if somebody could help me out with a small example which adds a new tab and maybe even changes the content of the frame when the tab button is clicked.

   Thanks for any kind of help!

2. Posted by jnwhiteh on Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:26:34

   Unfortunately, that's a non-trivial example to give you. You can look in a few places to see how this is done:

   • An addon that already does this
   • The default user interface

   So look at Auctioneer, or the character panel/auction panel to see how the tabs are added. It stands to reason that any addon that edits the auction frame to add a tab is a really good place to look.

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