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Wiley-World.of.Warcraft.Programming.A.Guide.and.Reference.for.Creating.WoW.Addons

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Chapter 12 ■ Interacting with Widgets 231ScrollingMessageFrameBeing a Massively Multi-player Online Role-Playing Game, <strong>WoW</strong> has a fairamount <strong>of</strong> communication between its players, <strong>and</strong> these are typically displayedin scroll message frames, namely the ChatFrame, shown in Figure 12-15.Figure 12-15: ChatFrame showing chat messagesScrollFrameWhen something is too large to be displayed in its native window, a scroll framecan be included to allow the user to scroll either vertically or horizontally. TheScrollFrame widget type is frequently used throughout the user interface,particularly within the friends window, the skills window, the auction house,<strong>and</strong> the quest log (see Figure 12-16).Figure 12-16: Scroll frame used in the quest logSimpleHTMLFor presenting data, scrolling message frames aren’t always suitable, such aswhen reading a book or item in-game. In these situations, a special type <strong>of</strong>frame is used that allows <strong>for</strong> basic HTML-like markup. When combined with

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