GUI

[Acenth]

I started working on a GUI for MyEmotes.



The problem I ran into was the sheer number of emotes available and the limit of screen space. The only thing I can think of is adding categories ("Happy", "Sad", "Interact", "My Emotes", "Favorites"). I'd rather not change the file structure myself since it's not my addon, so I'm working around that problem.

Thoughts?

I also added a window to add an emote from ingame (And some functions to save the input into the Saved Variables):

[Elandru Moonshyne]

Ooh, wow, thankyou very much. That’s a start, I didn’t expect anyone else to help with it!

As you see, just doing the Add function should plonk it into the SavedVariables, that persists.

What I was going to do and will eventually end up doing was to place it in the interface options addons panel (alongside the others) and give it a GUI there.

I’m a bit pants at frame design though.

GUI I was planning was more like this:—

[ Default] [Addons]________________________________________________
[ (Other addons…)][   MyEmotes 3.3.5a                      [Reset] [Help] ]
[ MyEmotes           ][--------------------------------------------------------------------------]
[                            ][ /cheer            | cheers!  · cheers at %t!                        ][__]
[ this is the            ][ /embarrassed| looks embarrassed. · looks embarras…]|    |
[ normal addons     ][ etc etc                                                                         ]|    |
[        panel in        ][                                                                                      ]|    |
[ Interface Options ][                                                                                      ]|    |
[                            ][                                                                                      ]|    |
[                            ][                                                                                      ]|    |
[                            ][                                                                                      ]|    |
[                            ][                                                                                      ]|    |
[                            ][___________________________________________]|__|
[                            ][                                                                                            ]
[                            ][  Commands:  [ cheer cheers                       ] [      New     ]  ]
[                            ][  No target:  [ cheers!                                   ] [     Save     ]  ]
[                            ][  Targeted:   [ cheers at %t!                         ] [    Delete   ]  ]
[______________][______________________________________________]


/cheers is highlighted in that one because you’ve left-clicked it. Save saves it to the top panel (and adds it to the live list, and will be saved in SavedVariables).

New clears it and lets you input a new one.

Delete, well, obvious.

All edits are reflected in the list above when saved. All of those boxes are one-line EditBoxes with a max length of ~300).

Make sure Reset has a (Are you really sure you wish to reset all of your custom emotes to the default?) setting.

Left-clicking highlights and selects which one appears in the panel below (discard existing unsaved content down there). When you’re editing a New one that hasn’t been saved yet, nothing’s highlighted.

Help shows some assistance on the commands, for the ones that aren’t intuitive.

…what do you think?

[Elandru Moonshyne]

Note mine is more targeted at typing slash commands, ‘cause it’s what I do (do really that many people click-emotes?).

[Acenth]

Oh that makes sense.

Being able to manage emotes without editing the LUA file should be great.

I'm still trying to work out how to display emotes for use, so you don't need to remember them all. I had changed the LUA file to support a 4th property, but because not all emotes have a 3rd property, the information may get mixed up.

What about updating the LUA file containing emotes to have the same emote for targetted and non-targetted if there isn't a Targetted version? That way you can add additional properties to emotes like Category.

If you could change that, I could write up the code to show the emotes menu by category.

[Acenth]

The other thing I like about using categories (Espically user-defined ones), is that RPers could come up with categories and emotes for different events and jobs, like a "Bartender" category with related emotes.

[Acenth]

Just a note about clicking vs typing, I do think people type more, but trying to remember over 160 emotes isn't easy and having to open the interface options to see them may be a little overkill.

[Acenth]

Since my first update, I've added an Edit window and started work on the Interface options frame and a way to list the emotes. I'm thinking for now the actual editing will be done from this seperate window, but I may move it onto the Interface Options frame.

I also added a function to "fix up" the emote file (Not the default one) so every emote has a 3rd property (Right now it just copies the 2nd property to the 3rd property).