WowAce

For Grid there is a plugin called Grid Resize Frames.
The plugin is basically a custom layout that depending on group size changes either
height or width of the HP-Bars.
The advantage of that behaviour is that it makes it possible to fit more groups into the
same space if needed.

My own Interface is built for raiding. That means the max number of groups is 6.
If I join one of the big battle grounds grp 7 and 8 would fall of the screen.
Grid Resize Frame now changes the heigth of the frames according to my specifications.
The effect is that all groups now fit into the same space as 6 groups before.

Grid2 already has a somewhat similar feature in the Layouteditor BUT it only features Scale. Not frame height or width.

Thank you for adding the feature.

If I understand the current implementation correctly, the height/width modification is based on zone information. While that somewhat works, Grid Resize Frames goes a step further, which makes it seem so polished. It is based on number of groups, ignoring the zone. The plugin simply checks the subgroup of each player via GetRosterInfo(i) and then uses the heigth/width set for the highest subgroup found. Everytime something is changed with the raid. (Members moved in the groups, new invites, somebody leaves) the function is called and the frames are resized. This is really useful for encounters like Killrogg where some Raidleaders tend to use additional groups for the Vision of Death.

@G3sch4n: Go

Unfortunatelly that kind of implementation has some important flaws:

- Only works for one layout, the layout defined by the addon (a "By Group" layout). Healers can use different layouts depending on the encounter , for example I use a "By Role" layout (tanks -> healers -> dps sorting) in a tipical boss, and in some special encounters a "By Group" layout.

- All groups in raid are displayed: this is a big problem, healers dont want to see non relevant raiders, this is the reason Grid2 only display some groups, for example in a mythic raid (20 people) only first 4 groups are displayed, highest groups are reserved for people waiting outside the instance.

-Frame size cannot be changed in combat, this generate issues when people leave of enter in the middle of a combat.

Resizing the frames for all posible layouts (layouts provided by Grid2 and any custom layout a user can define) is unnecessarily complex.