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Last Update:	Oct. 8, 2007 (9 months ago)
Category:	Other
Tags:	cosmos, frames, move, moveanything, and window
Project Manager:	KarlKFI
Website:	visit
Current Version:	Fluid Frames 1.8 (for World of Warcraft 2.2.2)
Downloads Today:	23
Downloads Total:	10,239
Favorites:	91
Comments:	11

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Created On:	Aug. 15, 2007

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About Fluid Frames

1 FluidFrames
2 Usage Instructions:
3 Unsaved Movement
4 Saved Movement

FluidFrames

Move, hide, scale, and resize frames with independent x&y axes.

Usage Instructions:

Unsaved Movement

Drag almost any normal UI Panel (e.g. CharacterFrame, SpellbookFrame, TalentFrame, QuestLogFrame, FriendsFrame, etc.) from any open space on the frame. This movement is intended to be for temporary changes and does not store location in the FluidFrames database.
However, this movement registers the frame as user placed. The position will be remembered by the WoW client and restored on subsequent login/reloadui if not overridden by placement code (e.g. CharacterFrame, Minimap). Most of these draggable frames reset if you hide and re-show them.
Some frames will not reset automatically (e.g. GameMenuFrame, BattlefieldFrame). To reset these, highlight the frame, right click to reset and then reloadui/relog.
The MinimapCluster is an added exception case and can be dragged by the top bar.

Saved Movement

Assign a key-binding [Main Menu > Key Bindings > FluidFrames > Highlight Mouse Frame] to select, highlight and cycle through frames under the cursor. (The "Highlight All Mouse Frames" binding cycles through all frames under the cursor, including unnamed ones.)
Put your cursor over the frame you want to move and use the key-binding. It will select the frame the furthest underneath. Consecutively using the key-binding will highlight frames closer to the front. Hold shift while using the key-binding to cycle backwards through the frames.
Drag the highlighted frame to relocate it permanently. It will disable movement from other code sources and save across sessions.
Hold shift and drag from the sides or corners to resize.
Hold shift and drag the bottom right re-scale icon to re-scale.
Right-click to reset a moved/resized/rescaled frame once highlighted.

Notes:

To drag some bars you have to drag the 1st button.
To move the primary action button bar drag ActionButton1.
To find the ShapeshiftBarFrame put your mouse over the left edge of the 1st button when using the key-binding.
To drag all the player buffs & debuffs make sure you drag the TemporaryEnchantFrame.
To move Chat Frames just unlock and use the default tabs.
To drag the TargetFrame make sure you don't drag the TargetFrameTextureFrame on accident.
To move the whole minimap drag the MinimapCluster.
Experiment with which frame to change. if it doesn't work the way you wanted just right-click to reset.
Some frames have complex sub frames that update their locations independent of parent size. If resizing doesn't work well try scaling.
If secure frames are moved by default blizzard code while in combat they cannot be moved back until after combat. Also, you will not be able to drag secure frames in combat.

Config Options

Reset & showall frames "/resetframes"
Reset & showindividual frames (Khaos only)
Show all hidden frames (Khaos only)
Showindividual hidden frames (Khaos only)

Change Log:

http://www.cosmosui.org/addons.php?info=FluidFrames

Optionally Requires:

Khaos: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info6708-KhaosStandalone.html or http://www.cosmosui.org (for config GUI)

1 Installation Guide
2 Translations
3 TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
4 Mac Support
5 Directory Structure

Installation Guide

Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
  - Windows XP a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
  - WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
  - WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
  - StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
Start World of Warcraft
Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.

Translations

When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".

TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)

When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.

If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.

Mac Support

WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.

Directory Structure

World of Warcraft
    |_ Interface
        |_AddOns
            |_*AddonName*
                |_ *AddonName*.toc
                |_ *AddonName*.xml
                |_ *AddonName*.lua
                |_ (possibly others as well)...

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Throcktar said
Nov. 17, 2007, 06:02AM (8 months, 1 week ago)
2.3 is causing errrors "Interface action failed because of AddOn," I logged it and came up with this error:

An action was blocked in combat because of taint from FluidFrames - SpellBookFrame:EnableMouse()
Interface\AddOns\FluidFrames\FluidFrames.lua:156 InitTempDraggableFrames()
Interface\AddOns\FluidFrames\FluidFrames.lua:223

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redwolke7 said
Oct. 22, 2007, 08:05PM (9 months, 1 week ago)
das addon funktioniert überhaupt nicht! -.-

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MrYinx said
Sept. 23, 2007, 08:40PM (10 months, 1 week ago)
the guild frame is bugged. it keeps popping up and it has high memory use.
Yinx.

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KarlKFI said
Oct. 8, 2007, 06:40AM (9 months, 3 weeks ago)
Gonna need more detail than that.

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acapela said
Sept. 5, 2007, 02:54AM (10 months, 3 weeks ago)
on several occasions, after relocating the "TaxiFrame", i have had the flight map content of the frame end up munged (various icon/flightpath graphics just don't show any more, at random... looks like some sort of layering problem internal to this frame).
clearing layout-cache.txt and FluidFrames.lua, for the affected character, and reloading the UI invariably clears the problem.
this happens intermittently... i will be fine for several sessions after relocating the frame, and suddenly it will turn up munged.
FYI.
p.s. maybe some mechanism for resetting a frame, taking it out of FluidFrame's control, would help manage situations like this (if there is already a feature like this, i apologize... i will dig into the documentation and try to figure this out).

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KarlKFI said
Sept. 11, 2007, 12:26AM (10 months, 2 weeks ago)
Right-click a highlighted frame to reset it.
If you dragged a panel (e.g. GameMenuFrame, BattlefieldFrame) without highlighting you may have to reloadui after resetting it.

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Drunder40 said
Aug. 20, 2007, 07:28PM (11 months, 1 week ago)
When I make changes to my UI (Cosmos) with FF, when I log back in it does not save the new locations/sizes of my action bars. I followed the direction in the .rtf file under the "Save" part and no matter what I do FF does not save when I log back in. Isn't it suppose to save your settings? I was under the impression it should..
Any info would be greatly appreciated..
Thanks

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KarlKFI said
Aug. 31, 2007, 11:12AM (11 months ago)
Does it work without other addons loaded? Sounds like an addon conflict.

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qweqq said
Aug. 16, 2007, 06:53AM (11 months, 2 weeks ago)
Look at the first screenshot, there's the manual how to work with the addon :)

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MilitaryKid93 said
Aug. 16, 2007, 01:52AM (11 months, 2 weeks ago)
As far as I can tell (haven't downloaded yet, might though), it isn't in the interface options. It should be in Key Bindings. You're supposed to use the set key in order to move it.

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slayer9211 said
Aug. 16, 2007, 12:29AM (11 months, 2 weeks ago)
i cant find fluid frames in the interface options

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KarlKFI

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Table of Contents

FluidFrames

Usage Instructions:

Unsaved Movement

Saved Movement

Notes:

Config Options

Change Log:

Optionally Requires:

Table of Contents

Installation Guide

Translations

TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)

Mac Support

Directory Structure

Khaos GUI

Moving the TargetFrame

Resized Main Menu