Hiding things when in game menus

[Hozec]

Hey guys I am a noob eso addon developer and need a little help hiding my addon while in a game menu or inventory/map/character sheet etc.

I have plenty of addons installed that do this but i tried seeing how it is done and have gotten no where.

Thanks in advance for your help.

[Kraeius]

Originally Posted by Hozec Hey guys I am a noob eso addon developer and need a little help hiding my addon while in a game menu or inventory/map/character sheet etc. I have plenty of addons installed that do this but i tried seeing how it is done and have gotten no where. Thanks in advance for your help.

These are the controls I use in InfoHub to check;

local isSettingsMenuHidden = ZO_GameMenu_InGame:IsHidden()
local isInteractWindowHidden = ZO_InteractWindow:IsHidden()
local isWorldMapHidden = ZO_WorldMap:IsHidden()
local isCraftingHidden = ZO_CraftingResultsTopLevel:IsHidden()
local isJournalHidden = ZO_QuestJournal:IsHidden()
local areGamePanelsHidden = ZO_KeybindStripControl:IsHidden()

[merlight]

The proper way is to wrap your top-level control in a scene fragment, add that fragment to specific scenes and let the scene manager handle its visibility.

Look for SCENE_MANAGER in the addons that do this, or here on forums, e.g.:

http://www.esoui.com/forums/showthre...=scene_manager
http://www.esoui.com/forums/showthre...=scene_manager

[Garkin]

How to show/hide window using the SCENE_MANAGER:
http://www.esoui.com/portal.php?&id=27&pageid=12

[Kraeius]

Why not just SetHidden his addon's top level control? What's the catch with SCENE_MANAGER?

[Ayantir]

Is even more clean. You are checking few scenes, but there's a loot more.

each fragment is optional here

-- Main Scene
    MYADDON_MAIN_SCENE = ZO_Scene:New("MyAddonMain", SCENE_MANAGER) 
    
    -- Mouse standard position and background
    MYADDON_MAIN_SCENE:AddFragmentGroup(FRAGMENT_GROUP.MOUSE_DRIVEN_UI_WINDOW)
    -- MYADDON_MAIN_SCENE:AddFragmentGroup(FRAGMENT_GROUP.FRAME_TARGET_STANDARD_RIGHT_PANEL)
    
    -- Background Right, it will set ZO_RightPanelFootPrint and its stuff.
    -- MYADDON_MAIN_SCENE:AddFragment(RIGHT_BG_FRAGMENT)
    
    -- The title fragment
    -- MYADDON_MAIN_SCENE:AddFragment(TITLE_FRAGMENT)
    
    -- Set Title
    -- ZO_CreateStringId("SI_MYADDON_MAIN_MENU_TITLE", "My Addon Name")
    -- MYADDON_MAIN_TITLE_FRAGMENT = ZO_SetTitleFragment:New(SI_MYADDON_MAIN_MENU_TITLE)
    -- MYADDON_MAIN_SCENE:AddFragment(MYADDON_MAIN_TITLE_FRAGMENT)
    
    -- Add the XML to our scene
    MYADDON_MAIN_WINDOW = ZO_FadeSceneFragment:New(MyUINameInXML)
    MYADDON_MAIN_SCENE:AddFragment(MYADDON_MAIN_WINDOW)

[merlight]

Originally Posted by Kraeius Why not just SetHidden his addon's top level control? What's the catch with SCENE_MANAGER?

The SCENE_MANAGER solution is more robust. It's also likely that the SCENE_MANAGER can check the rules faster than a Lua handler.

I don't use your Infohub, but just looking at the code -- see how HideCheck starts with a not-so-small condition? It's still quite readable, but if you had more complex rules, it'd quickly get very hard to read and debug. Then, if I read it correctly, it's called upon every OnUpdate on your top-level RAETIA_InfoHub control, which is always visible? That's not good. Why do a visibility check on every single frame? (Edit: oh, it's throttled at 1 per second. My bad. But that means it won't show up immediately, right? I think you could only gain with fragments ) If you had everything in fragments, your HideCheck wouldn't need to exist

[Hozec]

Thanks everyone. I now understand how the scene manager works! Appreciate the help.

[Kraeius]

Originally Posted by merlight The SCENE_MANAGER solution is more robust. It's also likely that the SCENE_MANAGER can check the rules faster than a Lua handler. I don't use your Infohub, but just looking at the code -- see how HideCheck starts with a not-so-small condition? It's still quite readable, but if you had more complex rules, it'd quickly get very hard to read and debug. Then, if I read it correctly, it's called upon every OnUpdate on your top-level RAETIA_InfoHub control, which is always visible? That's not good. Why do a visibility check on every single frame? (Edit: oh, it's throttled at 1 per second. My bad. But that means it won't show up immediately, right? I think you could only gain with fragments ) If you had everything in fragments, your HideCheck wouldn't need to exist

Yeah my hide check is messy. I got your point now, I may also need to revise mine.