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Helaa
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I've used ct_viewport on a pc before and no problems but using it on a mac it shows up as white instead of black. I would assume its some kind of issue specific to mac but i've really not found anything to prove that. Please enlighten me
-using snow leopard on a macbook pro btw
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dargen
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Is the screen completely white, or just the area around the viewing area?
1) Try typing this in the chat window (or make a macro, drag it to an action bar, and then click it), and then let me know if it had any effect (did the white disappear and switch to black?):
/run CT_ViewportOverlay:Hide()
2) Another thing you can try is to disable all addons, make a macro for the following one line command, drag it to an action bar, and then click it. This will shrink the size of the viewing area. The four numbers near the start control how far the edges of the viewing area are from the edges of the screen. Let me know what happens (did you see white, or black?).
/run local top, left, right, bottom; top=100 left=100 right=100 bottom=100 WorldFrame:ClearAllPoints(); WorldFrame:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", left, -top); WorldFrame:SetPoint("BOTTOMRIGHT", -right, bottom);
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Helaa
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Any area that i attempt to use the viewport on turns completely white. I think thats what your asking anyways.
For the first option the area stayed white after using the macro.
For the second option, after disabling all my addons the viewport area was still white....interesting
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dargen
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Since it still happening after you've disabled all your addons, then it sounds like it could be an issue with the game, the video driver, the video card, or some combination of those. You may want to make a post about in WoW's mac technical support forum. Perhaps there is something that Blizzard can change or suggest.
Does it do the same thing in the game's full screen and windowed modes?Last updated by dargen
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Helaa
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It does do the same thing in windowed and full screen modes.
I will go to the mac forums on WoW to see what i can do.
Thanks for the help, ill try to post what i find from there.
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Arnotio
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Same thing here.
Ironforge – Viewport is white/light blue in color
Just outside Ironforge the viewport does turn black.
Once back inside, it reverts back to white.
I have tried the fixes suggested here but no joy.
Haven't been in an instance yet.
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Helaa
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Well i posted on the WoW forums:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=22418863093&sid=1
Someone suggested that i try Sunn Viewport Art, and it worked. Though that doesnt really solve the problem why ctmod_viewport does not work.
Also, someone else made this observation that seemed to be interesting:
"Well addons are cross platform.
So the same API that is available for the PC's are available for the Mac.
There are no PC only functions in the API.
Of course why you were getting the results you were getting makes me think that maybe a certain function behaves differently with computers with different gamma settings or something. Maybe the author of Sunn VP knows how to code around this difference but the devs at CT Mod don't.
There are many addon authors who code on the mac as well so maybe you can pose a question to them in the UI & Macros forums."
Someone with a little more knowledge about addons might be able to decipher that but i posted it anyhow to add to the discussion.Last updated by Helaa
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Helaa
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oops, double posted that Last updated by Helaa
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dargen
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All CT_Viewport does is change the size of the WorldFrame, which is the frame that the game uses to display the 3-d game world in. That's the same thing that that second macro I gave you does. When you resize the WorldFrame on a PC you always get a black background surrounding the it. I haven't seen any reports of PC users seeing a different color; just Mac users, and possibly only since the last couple of WoW patches.
I was looking at the wowinterface.com page for the "CBH Viewport" addon, and found some comments where people were describing color issues similar to the white background that you're seeing. Some people get colors other than white. For some people it changes color when indoors. One person said it only happens on their Mac (their PC is fine). Another guy said it also happens using a different addon called Viewport.
Since the problem can happen when you have no addons enabled, it is probably due to some bug in the game that they haven't addressed yet. One of those comments I read said it was happening since the 3.2 WoW patch, another person said its been happening since the 3.3 WoW patch, and someone else mentioned a similar WorldFrame issue that occured with the 3.1 patch.
At the moment, the only thing I can think of to hide the white color on a mac is for the adon to display extra frames over top of the white areas so that you can't see the white anymore.
Did you try the suggestion to turn off the display of artwork in Sunn Viewport? It sounds like that addon may be covering up the (possibly white) background via the use of extra frames displayed around the viewport. I'd be curious to hear if the white re-appears when you disable the artwork option.
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Helaa
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i did try to disable the artwork on the bottom but it just looks like its a frame overlaying the UI rather than a function that resizes the UI. the area under the viewport just reverts back to the regular UI, there is no white what so ever.
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