1. Posted by payne on Thu, 16 Oct 2014 05:41:13

    Hello! Please bare with me as I am not very familiar with creating addons, and I am having a very BASIC problem which Ive researched for days and haven't found an answer for. Honestly, its almost embarrassing for me to have to post here but I have run out of options.

    All I am trying to do (as I am getting familiar with the language) is have a frame with a red background pop up when I log into WoW. As of right now, I don't want any buttons or anything on it, I just want to know why nothing is coming up at all! I added a script to the .lua to have it print a message when I loot a body, which works. However, this frame is not coming up at all. Here is the xml code:

     <Ui xmlns="http://www.blizzard.com/wow/ui/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.blizzard.com/wow/ui/
 ..\FrameXML\UI.xsd">
    <Script file="ASK.lua"/>        
    <Frame name="ASKFrame" parent="UIParent" toplevel="true" enableMouse="true">
        <Size x="400" y="400"/>
        </Size>
        <Anchors>
            <Anchor point="CENTER" relativePoint="CENTER" relativeTo="UIParent"/>
        </Anchors>
        <Layers>
            <Layer level="BACKGROUND">
                <Size x="200" y="200"/>
                </Size>
                <Color r="1.0" g="0.0" b="0.0" a="0.5"/>
                <Anchors>
                    <Anchor point="CENTER">
                </Anchors>
            </Layer>
        </Layers>
    </Frames>

 </Ui>

    Please help! :)

  2. Posted by derrff on Thu, 13 Nov 2014 20:20:26

    I am newer to Add-on coding but I do have real-world programming experience. From what it looks like this is easy! You simply need to place a call to your frames OnLoad() function. The syntax is simple: "framename"_OnLoad().

  3. Posted by jnwhiteh on Fri, 26 Dec 2014 10:47:41

    You can load the addon and then play with it using /run and /dump. For example /dump MyFrameName:Show() to see if its shown, then you can change anchors, sizes, etc and figure out what is goin gon.