Tasyen

Dark-Zalor · Friday at 11:04 AM

Hello I have an other question.
I had to create a few simplebuttons (theitr parents is "ConsoleUIBackdrop"), the problem is the chat message are in front of my simpleframes. I tried to put in backward the chat but it does not works.

Do you Have some ideas?

Dark-Zalor · Apr 19, 2025

Hello Taysen,
I hope you're good.

I just uploaded a new Version of my map Pokemon World, all the frame wok made inside, is due to your precious help.

The problem I got with that map is with saving. I save my map with the official game, but when I load it it instantly crashes.

In the War3Log file, I have theses kind of errors at the begining of the file:

Testing Display Mode: { display: 0, width: 1600, height: 900, bpp: 32, refreshrate: 60 }, err: 2097214

or

(UI\FrameDef\UI\ObserverSimpleInfoPanel.fdf//10) Warning, unknown keyword in context: Literal Float

or

(UI\FrameDef\UI\ObserverSimpleInfoPanel.fdf//66) Error, string /InfoPanelIconTemplate already exists!

Is it a false error, because the launching seems to go to the end of the loading, but is crashes just when it ends loading.

I saw a few triggers that allow saving / loading numbers, but I have some structs to save I think.
Do you have a few ideas?

OK so I have disabled some triggers that create simpleFrames, it seems that it could causes some crashes. If it does not the simple frames does not exists in game after the save. And it seems that default frames causes crashes after the load when it is shown.

Thanks for your future help

Barade · Mar 20, 2025

Hi,
is it possible to add menu items to a popup with JASS during the game instead of having them all defined statically in an FDF file like this:

Code:

Frame "POPUPMENU" "StartLocationsPopup" INHERITS WITHCHILDREN "MyPopupTemplate" {
    PopupMenuFrame "StartLocationsPopupMenu",
    Frame "MENU" "StartLocationsPopupMenu" INHERITS WITHCHILDREN "EscMenuPopupMenuMenuTemplate" {
        MenuItem "RANDOM",     -2,
        MenuItem "TERDRASSIL",     -2,
        MenuItem "WORLD_TREE",     -2,
    }
}

Adding them dynamically via JASS would be better since I have lists/arrays with them and the names are defined by object data and I do not need global string entries.

Spacebuns · Feb 16, 2025

Hey, do you have a test map with sample triggers using your WithinRange system?

Dark-Zalor · Nov 25, 2024

Hello Taysen,
I hope you're good

I created a panel on top of my screen for my aos. With heroes icons and stats (hp/mana)

When I click I want the in game camera focus the targeted hero.

The problem is, when I click. The game does not recognize my controls keyboard. Until I clicked on the screen.
F1, spells keys, unit keys..

Each hero slot is in origin frame there is a backdrop, inside there is my button, and my texture buton in my buttons.
The two bars on the bottom are not inside the parent back drop, bit the backdrop is their parent.

Have you got that problem?

I hope Igave you enough informations. My english is pretty bad.
Thanks for your help

Tasyen · Nov 14, 2024

getmainselectedunit is broken right now Reforged Patch V2.0. to fix it one would replace 1 line
https://www.hiveworkshop.com/threads/getmainselectedunit.325337/

local bottomUI = BlzFrameGetChild(console, 1)
->
local bottomUI = BlzFrameGetParent(BlzGetFrameByName("SimpleInfoPanelUnitDetail", 0))

local framehandle bottomUI = BlzFrameGetChild(console, 1)
->
local framehandle bottomUI = BlzFrameGetParent(BlzGetFrameByName("SimpleInfoPanelUnitDetail", 0))

Vermelhin · Jun 25, 2024

Hello mate,

I came across TasItemBag and I found it awesome, but I really miss a feature about moving items to the bag without dropping it and picking it up again. Can you clarify how to implement it? Reading the comment section I couldn't understand what you meant by "call TasItemBagAddItem(unit, item)".

thanks in advance

Dark-Zalor · May 27, 2024

Hello Taysen

How can I move the timer window and multiboard window a little bit to the bottom?
I want them to be still aligned but less high on the screen. I send you a pictures to show you what I'm talking about.

Because in my map I have some frames on tom of the screen

Link:

Capture

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Thanks for your help

Kakerate · May 10, 2024

Do you have that code snippet for seeing if a player is in the hero learn skill menu? Iirc theres some context function you can grab the value of.

Dark-Zalor · Jan 20, 2024

Hello Tasyen

I try for a map to move and change thesize of hp text and mana text.

I arrived to move it and the text keeps his default size, but the text is really small when I try to rezise it with a "BlzFrameSetScale".
I tried to change the frame Parent, change the frame size with BlzFrameSetSize

Once I us BlzFrameSetScale the text becomes really small.
Have you got an idea how to fix that?

deepstrasz · Dec 7, 2023

Hey, sorry for the bother. Do you have any idea if it's possible to edit icon colour hues via the editor similar to how you can do it with models in the object editor? I'm specifically interested in items but I guess the inventory is redundant when you can use custom UI and stuff.

Lt_Hawkeye · Dec 5, 2023

Hey Tasyen,
In your tutorial, it is mentioned that you can specify height for an MenuItem in the fdf, but is it possible to specify the alignment so that it is centered within the popupmenu box?

Dark-Zalor · Dec 1, 2023

Hello Taysen
Thanks for your precious tutorial.
I've realized a cooldown with a simplestatusbar using your code. And thats works really well.

I've another question.
How to make the SimpleButtons glow like other Butttons, I use on them that heritage "ScoreScreenTabButtonTemplate"

But when I declared it on my fdf it says that "Error, cannot find frame "ScoreScreenTabButtonTemplate" for "PokeBarButton-1-1" to inherit from!"

I start by including these 2 files:
IncludeFile "UI\FrameDef\Glue\StandardTemplates.fdf",
IncludeFile "UI\FrameDef\UI\EscMenuTemplates.fdf",

Do you know if I need to include an other file?

Dark-Zalor · Nov 12, 2023

Hi Taysen,
Do you know how to change the size of the cooldown loader. The blue square that shows the loading time of a spell casted.
Thanks and have a nice day.

raypack · Oct 17, 2023

Thank you so much sir! Because of you I learned how to make changes to the .slk files without my game crashing!

emperor_d3st · Sep 20, 2023

Thank you sir for your UI tutorials, especially this one of biblical proportions:

The Big UI-Frame Tutorial

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Barade · Sep 17, 2023

hi in your tutorial you mention how to play animations with an example:

JASS:

 -- play death animation
    -- birth = 0
    -- death = 1
    -- stand = 2
    -- morph = 3
    -- alternate = 4
    BlzFrameSetSpriteAnimate(model, 1, 0)

for the model "Abilities\Weapons\RockBoltMissile\RockBoltMissile.mdl"
How did you get these indices since the editor only shows a Stand and Death animation.
Are these special predefined indices?
I am trying to the the index for the talk animations for portraits.
In the model editor I find:
Footman/Captain:
Portrait = 0
Portrait 2 = 1
Portrait 3 = 2
Portrait Talk = 3
Portrait Talk 2 = 4

but none of these indices do anything for the portrait model.

It would be awesome if I could play the talk animation and even better if it would work with

JASS:

BlzGetOriginFrame(ORIGIN_FRAME_PORTRAIT, 0)

.
Do you have any idea how to achieve this?

emperor_d3st · Sep 17, 2023

Hey man!

I have a bug to report regarding you vJass HoverOriginButton system:

I'm using the latest version of Warcraft III.

Take a completely empty map.
Inject your system into the triggers of the map.
Start the map.
Do a quicksave.
Load the quicksave.
After it loads and you press the ANY key, Warcraft III will crash.

Dark-Zalor · Sep 13, 2023

Hello man.
I have a question about frames. Is it possible to create a simple frame that contains a sprite. Because I'm on the left of the screen and my
sprites are not visible.

Thanks for your advises.

Maxwell · Aug 28, 2023

Hello there. Any chance for a fancy looking custom race pick system?

That would be huge for a custom melee creators.

tlstkwjr · Jul 1, 2023

Hello. I want to put a sprite(Frame Border Effects) on the icons displayed next to the hero's names in the multiboard. In this case, where should I refer? Origin frame names related to multiboards all seem unrelated. Thank you for your efforts.

Dark-Zalor · Jun 25, 2023

Hello Taysen
Thanks for your previous answer.

I have an other problem.
I've crteated a sprite frame. with the auto-cast animation. And I show/hide it when an element is selected.

And the cycles show/hide produces a bug the animation runs faster and faster each time.
I've tried to not change the scale, set model to "" when it is hidden..

What do you think about that?

Dark-Zalor · Jun 12, 2023

First of all thanks for your great tutorial.
I uses it very often.
I have a small question. Is it possible to remove the hover of the in game clock.

thePeacey · May 21, 2023

hello, would you please help me?
im trying to turn off Attack Type tooltip so when i hover mouse over it i want it to not show the attack type description etc
or perhaps turning off the icon?
im a gui user and have no understanding of JASS or Lua.

this crashes:

on 0s
- Events
  - Time - Elapsed game time is 0.00 seconds
- Conditions
- Actions
  - Custom script: call BlzFrameSetFont(BlzGetFrameByName("SimpleInfoPanelIconArmor", 2),"", 0.0, 0)

dhguardianes · May 13, 2023

Hello Tasyen, How can I increase or decrease its height? I can't find any command(like
BlzGetOriginFrame(ORIGIN_FRAME_UBERTOOLTIP, 0))
related to this

https://imgur.com/yc83QlE

Devalut · Feb 6, 2023

I'm sure you've been hounded numerous times on what i'm going to ask but i've abused the search button enough that i'm obligated to marry it soon.
Have you been able to modify the status bars in game to achieve something like this?Attached below
Adding a "Resource" bar that follows the same rules as the vanilla mana & health bar? (ex. shrinking when zooming in, hidden when holding alt, etc)

Barade · Oct 26, 2022

Hi, very helpful list here TasAbilityField Test Do you know how to set the fields by changing the ability level for item abilities or is there no way to do this for the abilities which are marked with 0 for "Set works Directly"?

HolyWolf · Oct 20, 2022

Hello Tasyen.
I've read your The Big UI-Frame Tutorial , which is very helpful. :thumbs_up:

I encounter some problems, thinking you can help me out.

Is it possible to set simple Texture's border as BACKDROP ?

1. This is the war3 tooltip-like BACKDROP (which works fine):

JSON:

Frame "BACKDROP" "zTipBg" {
    Width 0.1,
    Height 0.1,
    BackdropTileBackground,
    BackdropBackground  "UI\Widgets\ToolTips\Human\human-tooltip-background.blp",
    BackdropCornerFlags "UL|UR|BL|BR|T|L|B|R",
    BackdropCornerSize  0.008,
    BackdropBackgroundInsets 0.002 0.002 0.002 0.002,
    BackdropEdgeFile  "UI\Widgets\ToolTips\Human\human-tooltip-border.blp",
    BackdropBlendAll,
}

2. This is the simple Texture version (which doesn't work):

JSON:

Frame "SIMPLEFRAME" "zsTipFrame" {
    Width 0.1,
    Height 0.1,
    Texture "zsTipTexture" {
        // ... same as BACKDROP(zTipBg) ...
    }
}

Wrda · Oct 4, 2022

Hi Tasyen. When I was going to hide the bottom UI on a map, I used your tutorial The Big UI-Frame Tutorial, and came across this line:

Lua:

BlzFrameSetAbsPoint(BlzGetFrameByName("ConsoleUI", 0), FRAMEPOINT_BOTTOM, 0.4, -0.18)

Which did "hide" the UI, but not completely, it still showed a bit of the "workers idle frame". And I also noticed some side effects such as
ORIGIN_FRAME_UNIT_MSG and
ORIGIN_FRAME_CHAT_MSG frames being moved out of place. I want these two frames to be on their usual place. So I tried

Lua:

BlzFrameSetAbsPoint(BlzGetFrameByName("ConsoleUI", 0), FRAMEPOINT_BOTTOM, 0.4, -0.22)
BlzFrameClearAllPoints(BlzGetOriginFrame(ORIGIN_FRAME_UNIT_MSG, 0))
BlzFrameSetAbsPoint(BlzGetOriginFrame(ORIGIN_FRAME_UNIT_MSG, 0), FRAMEPOINT_BOTTOMLEFT, 0.0515, 0.2305)
BlzFrameSetSize(BlzGetOriginFrame(ORIGIN_FRAME_UNIT_MSG, 0), 0.5, 0.25)
BlzFrameSetSize(BlzGetOriginFrame(ORIGIN_FRAME_CHAT_MSG, 0), 0.9, 0.3)

It does work, but when I alt tabbed out to do something, and afterwards alt tab in, the game crashed.
I figured it out that ORIGIN_FRAME_CHAT_MSG seemed to be the culprit.

So I'm still a bit confused and not sure how to solve this exactly.

ThompZon · Oct 3, 2022

Hey man! I've been reading the [JASS/AI] - The Big UI-Frame Tutorial and experimented with RUID, but ended up writing my own code based on a RUID design. This didn't really work in RUID either so it could be that I fail with layering or something. I thought you could give stuff any parent and it children would be shown on top of parents.

I'm having issues with simple status bars should be "on top of" the "base UI" and also I want text on top of that.
To make it even more interesting, I'm one of those 1.31 people, so I don't have access to the latest tech.

The problem is that only the "empty bar" is shown.

sotzaii_shuen · Aug 27, 2022

The Big UI-Frame Tutorial

In V1.31.1 the mouseclicking onto the Minimap then becomes broken as the game interprets the click relative to the default Minimap position.

somehow the following code work without mouse click issue
warcraft 3 V1.31.1.12164
move the minimap UI

JASS:

scope minimap initializer init
private function init takes nothing returns nothing
    local framehandle frame = BlzGetOriginFrame(ORIGIN_FRAME_MINIMAP, 0)
    call BlzFrameClearAllPoints(frame)
    call BlzFrameSetAbsPoint(frame, FRAMEPOINT_BOTTOMLEFT, 0.4, 0.3)
    call BlzFrameSetAbsPoint(frame, FRAMEPOINT_TOPRIGHT, 0.6, 0.5)
endfunction
endscope

(waiting approval so i can post another 1k+ words in comments)

dhguardianes · Aug 26, 2022

Hello Tasyen, sorry to bother you again, hmm. How to resize the cooldown border?. I had a problem when I tried to resize the button command.

xeno814 · Aug 23, 2022

Hi Taysen

I've been searching for guides in modding stat files in W3 Reforged and I saw your reply on one of the post about modding in this forum, here's the thread:

Noob questions about modding

The part on the Object editor works (units, abilities items etc) on the custom triggers however, I'm a bit confused..

For how I understand it, I copied this script and pasted it somewhere on Blizzard.j then placed it in the retail\scripts...

JASS:

//
//*  Blizzard.j Initialization

function EndlessGold takes nothing returns boolean
    local unit f
    local group g = CreateGroup()
    local integer id
    call GroupEnumUnitsInRange(g, 0,0, 300000, null)
    loop
        set f = FirstOfGroup(g)
        exitwhen f == null
        set id = GetUnitTypeId(f)
        if id == 'ugol' or id == 'egol' or id == 'ngol' then
            call SetResourceAmount( f, 1000000 )
        endif
        call GroupRemoveUnit(g,f)
    endloop
    call DestroyGroup(g)
    set g = null
    set f = null
    return false
endfunction

bit it didn't worked..

Am I doing it right?

Thank you in advance

dhguardianes · Aug 13, 2022

hello tasyen, i want to move Unit name to this location. I can't find the frame to move them. pls help

Blaston · Aug 11, 2022

Hi Tasyen,

Excuse me for bothering You!
I'm working on a project and I would like to hide the UI from the main menu and campaign screens so only the background animations stay, but unfortunately, I'm a newbie at modding, and don't know how to achieve this. This is what I'm looking for.

I've looked through Your tutorials and I see that Your knowledge is incredible.
And that is why I'm asking You: Is this possible to do? And if so, how can I hide the UI from the menus?

Thank You in advance!

trinhtieuvu91 · Jul 27, 2022

Hi Tasyen,
I really liked what you did with the Frame, I used your Resources Bar in my map, it worked well and made a novelty. You can follow and play it as "Heroic Origins: Galaxy - TD v11.1".

The bad thing is that I'm a GUI writer, I'm confused and don't know how to use your resources to my liking.

I have a request for you to help me create a map similar to your "HeroScoreFrame", which will show that player's towers instead (showing the equipment that tower is carrying).

It would be nice if the map I got this resource you can ignore this message.
Thank you, View!

Iovilius · Jul 21, 2022

Hello Tasyen,

I asked about creating a custom named expiration timer in the 'World Editor Help Zone' and was told that it is impossible through "standard" means.
How to name an expiration timer?

Is it possible to create a custom UI expiration timer which can be named freely overlaying the original one? If yes, can you direct me to a tutorial as I have no experience with custom UI creation. I was directed to you regarding this topic.

Many thanks, Iovilius

lanchengkai · Jul 16, 2022

Hello, Tasyen. How to click through STATUSBAR :psmile:

tlstkwjr · Jul 3, 2022

JASS:

        set udg_MaxGold[GetConvertedPlayerId(GetTriggerPlayer())] = ( "|cffff0000" + ( I2S(GetPlayerState(GetTriggerPlayer(), PLAYER_STATE_RESOURCE_GOLD)) + "|r" ) )
        if GetLocalPlayer() == GetTriggerPlayer() then
        call BlzFrameSetText(BlzGetFrameByName("ResourceBarGoldText" , 0), udg_MaxGold[GetConvertedPlayerId(GetTriggerPlayer())])
        endif

hello. I am studying and watching your ui frame tutorial. I'm trying to change the text color, but this code doesn't work. The color does not change, just the color code is written as it is. Can you tell me what's the problem?

Dark-Zalor · Jun 7, 2022

Hello

To find the desyncs I've displayed on every screen all the frames from every players. And the vews are the same. The only difference is for input, the typed content is not updated in real time... So I'm a bit lost I think it's a proof that no code is executed in GetLocalPlayer bloc

I've noticed that when it desync the portrait image keeps it's height but takes full with of the screen... Do you have an idea about the bug?

Dark-Zalor · Jun 2, 2022

Hello man,

I have a new problem.

I've stored some frames in a struct. And when I get them it returns null with a method or with the attributes. Is it normal?

Thanks you for your future help.

xaosan · May 21, 2022

Hello Tasyen, saw your tutorials about UI and I have a question.

Is it possible to hide backdrops when you move the mouse over them and bring them back when the mouse is somewhere else?. I want to create icons and place them above the hero's abilities, it's very important that the player can click on the original hero's abilities so I need to hide the created backdrops.

I'm trying to find a workaround and make it possible to replace ability icons in the game

Thanks in advance for any possible help!

Dark-Zalor · May 21, 2022

hello man

I've created some SIMPLEBUTTONS because I want to go outside the 4:3 ratio of the screen. But when I click on them in the trigger I can't have the
BlzFrameGetName on the clicked frame. I checked in my trigger the BlzGetTriggerFrame() is not null.

But the function BlzFrameGetName returns a null value....

Is it normal?
Thanks for your help.

PS: Each simpleButton is described in an fdf file. and the parent of my buttons is ORIGIN_FRAME_GAME_UI

BTW with your help you can see some of my work on my albums

(I would never be that far without your help, so thank you a lot man)

deepstrasz · May 18, 2022

Hey, sorry for the bother.
Is there a way to remove "Move, attack, patrol, hold, stop" from the UI without making them a small white dot like here?

dot

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udg_Potato · May 9, 2022

Tasyen is the man! Super helpful fellow

dhguardianes · May 2, 2022

hi there, i want to show status bar(image), because i hidden all UI and i don't know how to so that. cloud you help me? thank you.

Dark-Zalor · Apr 23, 2022

Hello man

I have a few more questions:

First of all about the local players.

I create a frame for the local player to set a unit name. To display the frame and get the triggers I only launch it for the local Player. So what happens to other players?
They will have different names in function of the players.
same problem I'm working on a system to allow the player to custom his spells. But the spellpack will be different in function of the player, so how Warcraft 3 will manage that in multi.

Second problem I have is to recolor icons It does not works for frames (I used BlzCreateSimpleFrame). And when I try to create a Simple Frame it does not display it...
I set the frame in the .fdf

like that
Frame "SIMPLEFRAME" "SimpleTexture" {
}

Have you got some ideas to help me?
Thanks a lot

Dark-Zalor · Mar 30, 2022

Hello thanks for your fast and complete answer.

I created and loaded a TOC file I have now the error: Error (UI\FrameDef\UI\CommandBar.fdf:66): Expected ",", but found "}"

Is there an other way with the natives to creates my frames than using FDF file because it seems laborious, difficult and not user friendly, compared to the native code. What do you think?

And what happend if the frames has various number of items, for exemple if the content is dynamic (nbr heroes changed..)

Btw your tutorial is great and Gave me instantly the desire to creates frames but all that files system end templates cooled me a bit.

Tasyen · Jan 30, 2022

My UI-Systems moved from the Spell section to Skins - UI. It was discussed on discord, that they fit more into that section.

Pwnica · Dec 29, 2021

hey, Tasyen can you quick watch this picture of my Ui Frame and maybe you can tell me what im missing
the button for the Hero is a Simpleglowbutton.. why is the button behind the BoxFrame? even when i set it to Parent before...
im thankful for evry anwser

a Picture for Tasyen

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