API:WindowSetParent

UI Lua API · Window functions
Version: WAR 1.4.8

Moves a window under a different parent window.

WindowSetParent(windowName, parentName)

Arguments

windowName: string – Name of the window to move.
parentName: string – Name of the new parent. Use "Root" to make it a top-level window.

Nothing.

The window is removed from its old parent's child list and added to the new parent's.
The window's depth becomes the new parent's depth plus one.
The window's anchors are not changed. Anchors that point at the old parent keep pointing at it, so re-anchor the window if it should follow the new parent.
There is no check for loops. Making a window the parent of one of its own ancestors is not refused.
The root window cannot be given a parent.
The function needs at least two arguments and only reads the last two.

Error in function call 'WindowSetParent': Window %s does not exist
Error in function call 'WindowSetParent': Parent Window %s does not exist
Error in function call 'WindowSetParent': The parent of the root window cannot be changed.
Error in function call 'WindowSetParent': Window %s is currently locked and may not be modified from lua. ...
This check never triggers in the current client. See WindowSetShowing.

Detaching context-menu items so they draw above other windows, from ea_contextmenu/source/contextmenu.lua:

WindowSetParent( menuItemName, "Root" )

Moving a chat tab into another tab group, from ea_chatwindow/source/chatwindow.lua:

WindowSetParent( tabWndName, tabParent )
WindowSetParent( tabLogDisplayName, EA_ChatWindowGroups[newWndGroupId].name )