UI Centering Tool

Hitoku · 06/22/07, 7:00 PM

I have been doing a good amount of UI work for a week or so. Mainly, attempting to clean up my UI and create some space on my screen. The most trouble I have run into thus far has been the positioning of Bartender3, X-Perl, and minimap (using Squeenix). I have tried manually moving these frames, but it always ends up appearing 'off'. My question to those more familiar to the art of UI design and addons: Is there currently an addon that can center frames? If not, does anyone have any suggestions as to centering my UI?

Osse · 06/22/07, 7:06 PM

Some kind of grid would be awesome, I'd imagine you could do one with skinner. :p

Apate · 06/22/07, 7:15 PM

There is an addon for this. I want to say that it is Ace2, but I can't seem to recall the name. It made grid lines on your screen.

Hitoku · 06/22/07, 7:17 PM

Originally Posted by Osse

Some kind of grid would be awesome, I'd imagine you could do one with skinner. :p

I was thinking of playing with Skinner, but I am still new to it. I have also thought about using my HUD as a guide and using Quartz's centering ability as another guide.

darchrys · 06/22/07, 7:19 PM

Originally Posted by Apate

There is an addon for this. I want to say that it is Ace2, but I can't seem to recall the name. It made grid lines on your screen.

It's called Align, http://www.wowinterface.com/download...231-Align.html

Hitoku · 06/22/07, 7:20 PM

Originally Posted by Apate

There is an addon for this. I want to say that it is Ace2, but I can't seem to recall the name. It made grid lines on your screen.

Hmm. I will definatly look into this, Apate.

Xerophyte · 06/22/07, 7:50 PM

Align does the gridlines-on-screen thing. It's not ace2 - fortunately, an addon that small wouldn't win anything from being ace'd - and it's great for visually positioning things with good accuracy, I'd hate trying to configure my current UI without using it. Very much recommended to anyone using custom bars & unit frames of any sort to get them decently, well, aligned...

You might also want to look at Visor2 and Visor2GUI from wowace: they basically let you manually edit things like the coordinate values, width, height and so on of every UI element you have which can be very helpful for fine-tuning. It's basically like Discord Frame Modifier of old, albeit considerably less GUI'd and more dependent on /commands or external .luas for anything complicated.