10.0 UI Documentation / Addon Help

Guides UI and Macro
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Several years ago I bought a couple of “How To Make WoW Add-Ons” textbooks and I made a simple addon to edit the color behind the target and focus frame name to match their class. Yesterday when the prepatch came out my add-on stopped working I assume because some of the LUA code was renamed. My code can be found below. My question is where can I locate official documentation for the WoW UI so I can find the correct names of the fields I want to edit?

local frame = CreateFrame("FRAME")
frame:RegisterEvent("GROUP_ROSTER_UPDATE")
frame:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_TARGET_CHANGED")
frame:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_FOCUS_CHANGED")
frame:RegisterEvent("UNIT_FACTION")

local function eventHandler(self, event, ...)
        if UnitIsPlayer("target") then
                c = RAID_CLASS_COLORS[select(2, UnitClass("target"))]
                TargetFrameNameBackground:SetVertexColor(c.r, c.g, c.b)
        end
        if UnitIsPlayer("focus") then
                c = RAID_CLASS_COLORS[select(2, UnitClass("focus"))]
                FocusFrameNameBackground:SetVertexColor(c.r, c.g, c.b)
        end
end

frame:SetScript("OnEvent", eventHandler)

for _, BarTextures in pairs({TargetFrameNameBackground, FocusFrameNameBackground}) do
        BarTextures:SetTexture("Interface\\TargetingFrame\\UI-StatusBar")
end

I want to edit the health bar of my player, target, and focus frames to match the corresponding class color. and I want to edit the name bar on the target and focus frames to either color-match the class or set the opacity to match the player name bar.
I’m not 100% sure what the problem is. I believe TargetFrameNameBackground has been changed or renamed and I just can’t find out what it’s been changed to.

2

Gerzhul,

You’ll need to extract the new interface code. Instructions are wowpedia.fandom(.)com/wiki/Viewing_Blizzard%27s_interface_code (remove the two parentheses around the . to get the link, I can’t post them). They overhauled those frames.

You’ll want to read through TargetFrame.lua and TargetFrame.xml.

3

TargetFrameNameBackground was completely gutted.

4
5

I see the Github repo thank you.