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Option: MultiMode Anchors

#57

So far I've found using anything other than Squared for a Unit Frame to be a waste of effort on my part, designing wise. Simply because of the inherent flexibility, simplicity and functionality of Squared.

However, it is rather limiting from a Layout standpoint because there is one Anchor for all the modes, Solo, Party, Scenario and Warband. (Honestly I'm not running WAR now and I can't recall if Party is a mode or not.) As it is now, we can turn on and off the ones we don't want, or disable everything entirely.

The more I play my healers the more I've found the desire to be able to have my Party here, the rest of the Scenario or Warband over there and oh yea, this is ME.

Being able to "seperate" them and chose to have them On or Off, and if they're On, be Always On or just OnIF.

For example, what I'd envision is potentially being able to replace my Player Indicator with Squared Solo. Near that would be the members of my Squard Party, perferably an option for just the other five but even if it were all six that'd be fine too. Then elsewhere I could place the other groups, be it Squared Scenario or Squared Warband.

Also potentially with exclusionary options if other modes are being used. Include Solo in Party Checkbox, Include Party in Scenario and Warband Checkbox, etc. That way me and my party could still ALSO there so if I'm in a situation where the whole group is relatively together I just play whack a mole over there. But, if my party is together and doing something apart from the larger group, I can shift my focus JUST to me and my party.

I've thought that maybe this sort of thing would be doable with all the SquaredAPI work you've put in, and not really where you want to take the project, but after looking into it, I realized it's not doable by me. So I thought I'd ticket it and even if you decline maybe someone (even you) might write a seperate SquaredFrames type addon.

Reported by Tafka · March 11th, 2009 @ 11:29 AM

State: hold
Milestone: none
Assigned to: Aiiane Aiiane

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  1. Tafka
    Tafka

    Just saw the other ticket for this. Not really worried as much about seperate TYPES of layouts (ie: Party uses Big Squares Profile here, Scenario uses Rectangles Profile there and Warband uses Thin Bars Profile.) just having the option of seperate/duplicate UI placements.

    March 11th, 2009 @ 11:55 AM

  2. Aiiane
    Aiiane
    • Tag set to plugin
    • State changed from new to hold

    This is probably something that would have to be done as an external addon to Squared, because within Squared's own paradigm, your own unitframe isn't separate - it's just another box that happens to have a flag set. In addition, the layout code is written around the concept of having everything located in the same area, just shifted around by the layout options.

    Probably the most straightforward way to go about creating "extra" displays would be to write a separate plugin that just creates its own instances of the SquaredUnitFrame object and updates them independently, placing them wherever on the screen you'd desire.

    March 11th, 2009 @ 04:48 PM

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