[WoW] Hiding and showing the UI

Hey Boxers. After a long hiatus I'm considering getting back into boxing World of Warcraft.

I have a setup using KeyClone with one main screen and the other four accounts quartered on the other screen, and I use maximizer in KeyClone to switch out which character is in the main window.

However, I'd love to be able to Macro hiding and showing the UI - not toggling it, but turning it on or off.

I've googled some, but whenever it's asked the answers are usually "Use Alt-z lolz noob" style nonsense.

Alt-z is not a macro, and it toggles - neither of which is what I'm after. Specifically I want my small windows to have to UI, but of course I need it on the main window. I probably can't get Maximizer to do this automatically, but as I have a macro I run after maximizing that sets up focus, follow and the like, I was thinking I would tag this hypothetical command on that - if it exists.

I think it will require an addon, as there is no single slash command.
http://www.wowpedia.org/World_of_War...ggle_Functions

I am not sure about KeyClone, but can it send different commands to different windows? For example in IsBoxer you can send an alt-z to just one window, or all windows, or some windows. You can have commands run when you switch to certain windows as well.

Well here is an article that does what you want, maybe:

http://www.wowwiki.com/Removing_Blizzard_default_frames

I'm going to assume that because there are secure actions involved, that you're going to need an add-on to accomplish what you want:

Code:

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<Binding name="TOGGLEUI">
        if ( UIParent:IsShown() ) then
            securecall("CloseMenus");
            securecall("CloseAllWindows");
            UIParent:Hide();
            SetUIVisibility(false);
            ActionStatus_DisplayMessage(format(UI_HIDDEN, GetBindingText(GetBindingKey("TOGGLEUI"), "KEY_")))
        else
            UIParent:Show();
            SetUIVisibility(true);
        end

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But even if you could create a macro solely for toggling the UI you would still need to bind it to a key for it to function...

So, why not just change the key binding from ALT+Z to something easier to press? Are you looking to save on computer resources by toggling off the UI?

I don't want to toggle it. I want to turn it off. Or on. But if I turn it off - it's off, even if it was already off. Hence, alt-z is not what I'm after.

Also, I want to put it in a Macro because I'm already running said Macro when switching windows, and if possible I'd like to be able to accomplish more with that same keypress.

It is possible to do from a Macro.

Quote:

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/script UIParent:Hide();
/script SetUIVisibility(false);

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will hide it

and conversely

Quote:

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/script UIParent:Show();
/script SetUIVisibility(true);

---

will show it.

Well, then... There you go. >_>

Yeah, well, I figured I might as well post the solution for the next person looking for it - it's a common enough question, but I found no answers before now.