MooreaTvToday at 3:37 PM
nev, are you open to (or taking PRs) to change handynotes to not have all the pins directly as children of Minimap but inserting a parent frame for these?
  
NevcairielToday at 3:39 PM
There is dozens of addons  adding such pins to the minimap, trying to modify them all isntead of finding a better addon solution seems rather futile
 
MooreaTvToday at 3:42 PM
it works it's just unnecessarily cumbersome to go over a bunch of children, I think it's reasonable code health to attach your frames not directly as children of X when you make a lot of them, no? also I think a lot of those minimap stuff copy from one or the other so if I can convince the big ones, it'll get neater eventually for everyone
 
NevcairielToday at 3:44 PM
I really don't see how its "neater"
it makes no difference to the game
If anything it feels a bit dirty to me to create some pointless empty  unnamed parent frame thats not really good for anything
 
MooreaTvToday at 3:49 PM
it should be named "HandyNotesPins" or some such... for instance imagine there are 2 addons putting notes/pins, A and B and the user wants to be able to switch to see As vs Bs (maybe because some info is duplicate or it gets cluttered) - it'd be a lot easier and natural to do that with AsParentPinFrame:Hide/Show then having to use a pattern search, no?
 
NevcairielToday at 3:49 PM
I would not expect any user to mess with any frames directly, just hit the button for addon A or B to just h ide their pins
 
MooreaTvToday at 3:50 PM
obviously not the user... but even for a single addon... never get the request that some modifier should toggle the pins all at once?
 
NevcairielToday at 3:51 PM
Personally, I discourage and despise any ideas of another addon even thinking about messing with frames created by my addon,  its the prime source of unreproducible and annoying bug reports