FrameScriptObject:IsObjectType

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Returns true if the widget object belongs to a given widget type or its subtypes.

isType = FrameScriptObject:IsObjectType(objectType)

Arguments

objectType

string

Returns

isType

boolean

Details

• This function may return unexpected values when tested with certain abstract types named in the automatically generated API documentation.
  • For derivatives of Texture this function will return false if tested against the TextureBase type.
  • For derivatives of Frame this function will return true if tested against the Region type, however not all methods present in the documentation for the Region type are available on Frames.
  • For all objects this function will return false if tested against the FrameScriptObject, ScriptRegion, ScriptRegionResizing, or AnimatableObject types.

Example

local f = CreateFrame("Button")

print(f:IsObjectType("Button")) -- true
print(f:IsObjectType("Frame"))  -- true, Button is also a Frame
print(f:IsObjectType("Region")) -- true, Button is also a Region
print(f:IsObjectType("Object")) -- true, Button is also an Object

print(f:IsObjectType("CheckButton")) -- false, Button is a superclass / parent type of CheckButton