Weird Issue with TourGuide and my addon (Inquest)

[arnath]

I have a mod called Inquest that among other things, does a lot of stuff with the quest tracker for which I hook WatchFrame_Update(). I know that my hook works just fine because I see tons of WatchFrame_Updates get processed correctly. However, for whatever reason, the call to WatchFrame_Update() on line 72 of Broker.lua in TourGuide seems to not call my hook and calls the original function somehow. Do you know why this is/how I might be able to fix it?

[tekkub]

Because I save a local reference before you're hooking.

Naturally I question why you hook, hooking should be a last resort.

[arnath]

Right now I do some processing both before and after calling Blizz's WatchFrame_Update() function. I'd avoid this problem by using a secure hook instead, right?

[tekkub]

Secure hooks fire only after the function in question.

[arnath]

Well to elaborate, my options are either to do what I do now (raw hook) or to basically run WatchFrame_Update() twice every time it is called because I resize the WatchFrame and Blizz's function won't update to the new size if I do so after the update happens.

[tekkub]

I've not delved deeply into it, but I did notice two things about the new watch frame... it uses a frame's width as the max width, and it seems to ignore width entirely if the frame is on the left half of the screen. Personally, I was thinking about tricking into always thinking it was on the left, and the tinkering with the position by hand probably. or maybe just forcing the frame to be wider...

[arnath]

Thanks, I figured out a way to avoid hooking the function that involved just telling it the frame was on the left side of the screen before I resized.