How Can I Unregister Clicks From MainMenuBar/Actionbars?

Guides UI and Macro
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I’m trying to figure out how to make it so that buttons4 and 5 on the mouse pass through the main action bars.

local ACTION_BARS = {
	"ActionButton",
	"MultiBarBottomLeftButton",
	"MultiBarBottomRightButton",
	}
for barNum = 1, #ACTION_BARS do
	local ButtonName = ACTION_BARS[barNum]
	for i = 1,12,1 do
		local ButtonsOntoBar = ButtonName .. i
		local PreviousButton = ButtonName .. i-1
		_G[ButtonsOntoBar]:RegisterForClicks("LeftButtonUp","RightButtonUp", "MiddleButtonUp")
	end
end

The issue with the above is that the bars still block the clicks from passing through to the world frame behind the actionbars.

The tldr is that I have a disabled friend who can only play with one-hand, and they would like to be able to use clicktomove using button4 or 5. But as you can imagine, they are a clicker-- Cant use the mousewheel ether due to injury-- And the issue with being a clicker is that their mouse is always going to be over the actionbar.

2

Pretty sure Bartender has this functionality built in.

3

Note the restrictions since 10.1.5.

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Said friend isn’t very computer-savvy, so I wanted to do this with as little need to manage as possible going forward.

Thanks for pointing that out. That was exactly what I needed.

In case anyone else is looking for an answer in the future-- This is what I ended up doing:

local ActionBars = { "Action", "MultiBarBottomLeft", "MultiBarBottomRight" }

local function clickThrough()
	MainMenuBar:SetPassThroughButtons("Button4", "Button5")
	for barNum = 1, #ActionBars do
		local ButtonName = ActionBars[barNum] .. "Button"
		for i = 1,12,1 do
			local ButtonsOntoBar = ButtonName .. i
			_G[ButtonsOntoBar]:SetPassThroughButtons("Button4", "Button5")
		end
	end
end

The MainMenuBar, for w/e reason, seems to also absorb clicks-- where as MultiBarBottomLeft and Right do not-- so I used SetPassThroughButtons on that, and on the buttons for the first 3 action bars.

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enableMouse=“true”

<Frame name="MainMenuBar" inherits="EditModeActionBarTemplate" enableMouse="true" parent="UIParent" frameLevel="50" mixin="MainMenuBarMixin">

no enableMouse

<Frame name="MultiBarBottomLeft" inherits="EditModeActionBarTemplate" parent="UIParent" frameStrata="MEDIUM" hidden="true">