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-- When creating the frame, create a font string with some placeholder text | |
local playerLocationText = frame:CreateFontString(nil, "BACKGROUND", "GameFontNormal") -- or some other font | |
playerLocationText:SetText("PLAYER_POSITION") -- we should never see this text anyway | |
-- Add that font string as a property on the frame so that we can reference it later | |
addon.LocationFinderFrame.playerLocationText = playerLocationText | |
-- Whenever the frame is shown (on the "OnShow" event), start polling for player location | |
-- You can also stop polling whenever the frame is hidden ("OnHide") | |
addon:StartPollingLocation("location-frame") | |
-- Subscribe to this event to know whenever the player's location changed during the polling | |
addon.AppEvents:Subscribe("PlayerLocationChanged", function(loc) | |
local text = "" -- build whatever text you want to display using the loc | |
addon.LocationFinderFrame.playerLocationText:SetText(text) | |
end) |
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