Floatingchatframe.lua

[dubsaru]

A few weeks ago I deleted cosmos and reinstalled now every time I get online I get an error message that I can only relate to cosmos in the slightest. The error occurs on the floatingchatframe.lua file and tells me that attempt to perform arithmetic on nil value. I think this is responsible for my crashes too.

I searched the forum and checked the bugzill thing but could not find an answer any help is appreciated.

[bwh]

this seems like there is a old file in interface\framexml folder which cosmos doesn't use now. I would sugest updating cosmos with "keep interface directory clean" option. (if you have non-cosmos addons make sure they have *.nopatch in their directories to stop cosmos deleting them or back them up till cosmos updates)

[Exerias]

I noticed this bug when I created a new character about 3 days ago (4/29). However, on my main character I did not experience this problem until I toggled the interface featured called "Simple Chat." Upon toggling this feature my combat log no longer displays and I now have two small, vertical yellow bars on the left side of my screen just above the chat log.

My interface directory is set to clean.

[Exerias]

So I messed around with this a bit more and the best I could do was to get the error to go away by unchecking "Simple Chat" in the interface menu and relogging. I'm sure they'll get around to fixing it, but not a big deal really.

[Splaktar]

I've been seeing this for a while now too, it's very annoying. It happens because I have my combat chat frame seperate from my general chat frame.

I've tried looking in interface/FrameXML, but the only thing in there is ActionButton.lua and deleting that causes a lot more problems.

I finally managed to fix it by deleteing all of my Cosmos AddOns and then repatching...

[dsdranor]

If you are using only Cosmos and have _any_ FrameXML files then your cosmos installation is out of date. Note that you can get errors in FrameXML files w/o having FrameXML files. That occurs when some other AddOn somehow affects the built in functions and causes them to error out (providing bad data or whatnot). However at this time i'm unaware of any cosmos addon causing FrameXML errors.

If you are only using cosmos I recommend you delete your Interface folder, then download the latest release/alpha version from http://cosmos.thzclan.com and unzip it into your World of Warcraft directory.


You should also run the patcher then click configure and put a check next to keep interface folder clean. If you are using any non-cosmos addons you'll need to put a file named nopatch in the folder of any AddOns you dont want the patcher to remove.

[Splaktar]

I did that but it deleted everything in my non-Cosmos AddOns directories other than the nopatch.nopatch file. Everything else is gone :( Only the directory is left.

Also the non-cosmos AddOn files aren't even in the Recycle Bin, they are just gone. The Cosmos files are in the Recycle Bin.

I found them by restoring the Cosmos_Cleaned directory in the Recycle Bin, which was placed in World of Warcraft/Cosmos_cleaned. Then inside there I found the files for my non-Cosmos AddOns.

What's the right format for this nopatch file? nopatch.txt? You can't put a * in a file name like above you have *.nopatch.

[dsdranor]

The file name is just nopatch, no extension. And it should be inside the folder of the AddOn you want to preserve. Also make sure that the version of cosmos***** that you have is 2.15 or later (Check the version number in the lower left hand corner of the patcher) if its not you can download cosmos***** from http://www.cosmosui.org/cosmos/ or http://cosmos.thzclan.com save it in your World of Warcraft Directory.

All things that were deleted by cosmos go into your recycle bin in a cosmos_cleaned folder. You can rescue them from there.

[Splaktar]

Ok thanks, that worked.