Problems displaying the character portrait frame

[:1]Hi, I'm new and trying to make a reputation mod. It's slow but am getting there. I've been traipsing through tons of lua code from blizz and stand alone mods that do it already but can't seem to get the character portrait or character name to display. below is the lua code from blizz's character file which is what i'm trying to manipulate but doesn't work. Below that is the frame created in the xml file. I'm just fuzzed at the moment, please help?

Lua code for name and portrait


Code:

function MyReputationFrame_OnLoad (self)
 self:RegisterEvent("UNIT_NAME_UPDATE");
 self:RegisterEvent("UNIT_PORTRAIT_UPDATE");
end

function MyReputationFrame_OnEvent (self, event, ...)
 if ( not self:IsShown() ) then
  return;
 end
 
 local arg1 = ...;
 if ( event == "UNIT_PORTRAIT_UPDATE" ) then
  if ( arg1 == "player" ) then
   SetPortraitTexture(MyReputationPortraitFrame, arg1);
  end
  return;
 elseif ( event == "UNIT_NAME_UPDATE" ) then
  if ( arg1 == "player" ) then
   CharacterNameText:SetText(UnitName(arg1));
  end
 end
end

function MyReputationFrame_OnShow (self)
 SetPortraitTexture(MyReputationPortraitFrame, "player");
 CharacterNameText:SetText(UnitName("player"));
end

This is the xml frame for the portrait.


Code:

      <Frame name="PortraitFrame">
        <!--<FrameSkin skinid="f15d4970-d66d-444e-bb2d-1ad102c87fed" frameid="f15d4979-d66d-444e-bb2d-1ad102c87fed" />-->
        <Size>
          <AbsDimension x="54" y="54" />
        </Size>
        <Anchors>
          <Anchor point="TOPLEFT">
            <Offset>
              <AbsDimension x="7" y="-7" />
            </Offset>
          </Anchor>
        </Anchors>
        <Layers>
          <Layer>
            <Texture name="$parentTexture" setAllPoints="true">
              <TexCoords left="0" right="1" top="0" bottom="1" />
            </Texture>
          </Layer>
        </Layers>
      </Frame>

This is the xml frame for the character name.


Code:

<Frame name="NameFrame">
        <!--<FrameSkin skinid="f15d4970-d66d-444e-bb2d-1ad102c87fed" frameid="f15d4978-d66d-444e-bb2d-1ad102c87fed" />-->
        <Size>
          <AbsDimension x="247" y="32" />
        </Size>
        <Anchors>
          <Anchor point="TOPLEFT">
            <Offset>
              <AbsDimension x="265" y="-7" />
            </Offset>
          </Anchor>
        </Anchors>
        <Layers>
          <Layer>
            <FontString name="$parentLabel" setAllPoints="true" font="Fonts\FRIZQT__.TTF" justifyH="LEFT">
              <FontHeight>
                <AbsValue val="12" />
              </FontHeight>
              <Color r="1" g="0.8196079" b="0" />
              <Shadow>
                <Color r="0" g="0" b="0" />
                <Offset>
                  <AbsDimension x="1" y="-1" />
                </Offset>
              </Shadow>
            </FontString>
          </Layer>
        </Layers>
      </Frame>

Any help would be greatly appreciated...thx in advance|||Problem solved. Managed to sort out the issue by accident. A little advice would have been appreciated....|||For those curious seenig as its a hot topic...below are the snippets I used.

replace YOURMOD with the name of you own mod and the AAAA with a unique identifier for your mod frame. Also place the xml code at the beginning of your frame on the next line after the </Anchors> tag and hopefully it should work for you too. (NO GUARANTEES)

the main Lua file:


Code:

function YOURMODFrame_OnLoad ()
    this:RegisterEvent("VARIABLES_LOADED");
    this:RegisterEvent("ADDON_LOADED"); 
    this:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_LOGOUT"); 
end

function YOURMODFrame_OnShow (self)
 SetPortraitTexture(AAAACharacterFramePortrait, "player");  
 AAAACharacterNameText:SetText(UnitPVPName("player"));
end

in the xml file at the beginning:


Code:

                <HitRectInsets>
   <AbsInset left="0" right="30" top="0" bottom="45"/>
  </HitRectInsets>
        <Layers>
            <Layer level="ARTWORK">
                <Texture name="AAAACharacterFramePortrait">
                    <Size>
                        <AbsDimension x="60" y="60"/>
                    </Size>
                    <Anchors>
                        <Anchor point="TOPLEFT">
                            <Offset>
                                <AbsDimension x="36" y="-22"/>
                            </Offset>
                        </Anchor>
                    </Anchors>
                </Texture>
            </Layer>
        </Layers>
        <Frames>
            <Frame name="AAAACharacterNameFrame">
                <Size>
                    <AbsDimension x="335" y="32"/>
                </Size>
                 <Anchors>
                    <Anchor point="TOPLEFT">
                        <Offset>
                            <AbsDimension x="126" y="-34"/>
                        </Offset>
                    </Anchor>
                </Anchors>
                <Layers>
                    <Layer>
                        <FontString name="AAAACharacterNameText" inherits="GameFontNormal" text="NAME">
                            <Size>
                                <AbsDimension x="96" y="-34"/>
                            </Size>
                            <Anchors>
                                <Anchor point="CENTER"/>
                            </Anchors>
                            <Color r="1.0" g="1.0" b="1.0"/>
                        </FontString>
                    </Layer>
                </Layers>
                <Scripts>
                     <OnLoad function="RaiseFrameLevel"/>
                </Scripts>
            </Frame>

|||Oh and I forgot to add the code for the base of the xml I used.

<Scripts>

<OnLoad function="YOURMODFrame_OnLoad"/>

<OnEvent function="YOURMODFrame_OnEvent"/>

<OnShow function="YOURMODFrame_OnShow"/>

<OnHide function="YOURMODFrame_OnHide"/>

</Scripts>

</Frame>

</Frames>

</Frame>

</Ui>