[DrumsUI] Updater
 

[DrumsUI] DrumsUI Updater - Support Thread




This topic is for all things related to the DrumsUI Updater.

Drumstix42 no longer is the active developer on this UI. Blackhood has mainly taken over the updates with contributions from others. The Updater has been updated with Blackhood's changes as of Apr 1, 2018.
Please see this topic for their notes and changes:
http://www.eq2interface.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=18226

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Download the updater here:
http://www.eq2interface.com/download...fo.php?id=4965

Please refer to this FAQ page for installation information and configuration:
http://drumstix42.eq2interface.com/p...a=faq&faqid=96

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If you would like a higher resolution icon for your shorcut, use this:
http://advancedmod.com/DrumsUI/Updater_Icon_48x48.ico

Preview:


For any further support, please post in this or Blackhood's sticky!

New release: Version 1.6 is live on the Updater

Update Log:
v1.6 - 2010.02.25
- Update: Active Quest helper font has been changed to pre-SF font. Window now shows a scrollbar when appropriate.
- Fix: Target/implied window effects shouldn't be overlapping by a few pixels anymore
- Fix: Group window quick buttons no longer display over non-existant group member slots
- Fix: Tradeskill window no longer shows writ timer filler text. It won't show writ timer text at all until SOE can put a fix in.
- Fix: Tracking window con colors are now properly aligned

hi, umm stupid windows vista doesnt let me run the update or anything without admin permission, running it from an acct with full control of the pc and it still doesnt work.

any clue on how to fix? it doesnt give option to run as admin when i right click either.

Try right clicking your desktop shortcut, and go into the Properties. See if you can give it Admin privileges there.

Hi there,
I'm loving the look of your UI here so have one tiny question.. (edit: ok two now lol)

Can I download the updater and let it grab your full UI pack, or do I have to install your UI pack, then run the game via the installer to keep it current? Also will this updater get EQ2Map as well? I remember EQ2Map was used to launch the game, so how does that affect this updater, or vice versa?

Thanks..

You can use this Updater both before or after you manually install my full ui! It'll grab any files your missing, or simply install it for you. And after that it'll keep it updated :)
As far as EQ2maps goes, it is fully compatible with my UI. I would recommend installing my UI first and then EQ2map, but after that it doesn't matter which one you patch first.

If you go to Settings -> File paths, you can set an application to launch after update, which you could set as eq2maps. Then from eq2maps you can launch EQ2 itself.

Cheers, hope that helps.

Yeah thanks Drum.. I grabbed it all and installed over the weekend and it all worked perfectly... Great stuff!!

New release: Version 1.7 is live on the Updater

Update Log:
v1.6 - 2010.03.01
- New: Group window now includes "yourself" as the first group member (F1). Quick Casts/Cures apply the same as they do to the rest of the party.
- New: Group/Raid Settings windows have a few more options to choose from including:

• Show tooltips on Quick Cast/Cure buttons
• Display cure button placeholders (transparent icons)
• Use smart curing (only casts when a debuff counter is found) [This used to be default to always on, now it's a choice]
• The new options will save between sessions, and per-character like the other options do.

- Update: The T9 potions "Focused 'x' Remedy" are now included in the default Potion options for the player window. (thanks to foozlesprite and TalTal)


This update is only available via the Updater atm. I'll either update the manual install shortly, or work on some more features and then update. It's easier to package things for the updater than have to re-package it for manual install.

Cheers!

Update Log:
v1.7 Update #1 - 2010.03.04
- Fix: The cure icons in group member slot 1 (yourself) are now showing properly.

Hi. Thanks for the work in bringing this UI to us.

I just wanted to give a warning for those using this updater with CCleaner in Windows XP that you should have it ignore files in "C:\Documents and Settings\"Accountname"\Application Data\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache\6.0\51" , or it will delete those files making the updater unusable (forcing the need to reinstall). I assume this may be the case for other similar cleaning programs that look into the sun java folder (in "Documents and Settings") as well.

Also, wanted to add that the registry cleaner in CCleaner may find extensions .idx and .lap (that the updater uses) as "Unused File Extensions". I'm not savvy enough to know if that would have an adverse effect on using the updater, but I assume you may want to keep your eye out for this and uncheck any entries in CCleaner (better yet have CCleaner ignore these entries). Again, I can't say anything about other registry managers, but you may want to keep it in mind if you use them with this updater.

In the case files get deleted, a simple reinstall of the updater should fixed the problem.

Thanks for the heads up. If you clean out any of these files, a simple re-launch from the web launcher would re-install the updater files. However, you may lose your user-defined settings.

You don't.

Updater Wont Install
 

I am running Windows Vista (all updates applied). I have the latest Java installation (confirmed via java.com).

When I press the 'Launch' button on the "Install DrumsUI Updater":
(1) An instance of javaws.exe is started (confirmed via Task Manager)
(2) Nothing happens. In particular, the various pop-ups which the web page says I should see never appear.

My Explorer Tab displaying the "Install DrumsUI Updater" web page can not be closed: I must manually kill the running javaws.exe process (via the Task Manager) before I can close the tab.

The system is acting as if the javaws.exe is blocked waiting for input (which keeps the explorer tab open). But I see no pop-ups, prompts, etc.

Any suggestions?

Faoj, are you running the updater with Administrator Rights?

Re: Updater Wont Install
 

Probably not, but how would I do that?

Ie., I have tried running the updater two ways:
(1) Pressing the 'launch' button on the web page (The one that says 'Install DrumsUI Updater', the URL for which is in the updater zip file).
(2) Entering a command via the windows Run window (this command being "javaws http://updater.pala.de/drumsui.jnlp").

There is no executable for me to run (that I know of) and neither of (1) or (2) have a way to control whether or not you are administrator.

UPDATE:
(a) I found, in a temporary IE directory, a local copy of drumsui.jnlp. Using that instead of the one from pala.de had don affect.
(b) I set the 'execute as administrator' flag on "javaws.exe". That, too, had no effect - even though I know it was running as administrator because I got a pop-up from windows asking me if I wanted to run the program.

In both cases, the results were the same as before - a copy of javaws.exe in my process list, but apparently blocked (or something), because nothing further happened.

Does installing/launching from the webpage create a shortcut on your desktop? Right click the shortcut and choose to Run With Administrative Rights.

Re: Updater Wont Install
 

Launching from the web page does not create a desktop shortcut.

I press the 'launch button', there is a brief change-of-cursor to indicate 'working', then nothing. There is a javaws process running, and the web page refuses to close.

What does the shortcut point to? I have, as mentioned, tried executing the drunsui.jnlp (via javaws) directly.

My shortcut points to

Obviously, your cache location will vary.

Yes - it does. So, unfortunately, I can not map that into anything on my machine.

I can find (several) Sun/Java/Deployment/cache/6.0 directories, and even a '51' subdir, but the files there are all named with numeric strings.

I will need a file size, maybe a MD5 checksum, to try to identify which one is useful.

Attachment 7196 This contains drumsui.jnlp, which would be the file you download from the updater page. If you have Java correctly installed, you should be able to just double click it. Oh yeah, and Vista sucks :cool:

Update Log:
v1.7 Update #2 - 2010.03.15
- New: Edit window for quick cast/cures now has "Default" button which can be used to revert to the default DrumsUI settings for that button (useful for upgrading your potion cure buttons :) )
- Update: Stat Bar formatting fixed in several areas (decimal numbers needed more space)
- Update: Up-to-date group window with pets is now available

Update Log:
v1.8 - 2010.03.30
- New: You can now hide the quick cast buttons for the Group/Raid window via the settings window
- New: Group member's F2-F6 text now serves as a /follow button for each member
- Update: Raid window overhauled to be smaller in overall size. This change was based off the decrease in size to the default UI raid window. Quick buttons decreased in size by only 2 pixels. HP bars should be slightly thicker now as well.
- Update: Raid window's overall "background" was transformed into 4 backgrounds for each raid group. The window settings opacity still controls this change. It mainly was aimed at removing the extra "black space" around the window.
- Update: Group member's quick cast buttons trimmed down a bit, making more space to click on group members with the mouse
- Fix: Broker window's "Take Coin" button and Sell tab's header sort buttons are now fully clickable
- Fix: The curse icon on "yourself" in the group window is now displaying the proper graphic
- Fix: Clicking the "Enter" key while hovering the group window should no longer trigger one of the quick cast buttons
- Fix: Maintained window icon's "spell amount" slightly increased in width to accomodate larger numbers (wards, etc)
- Fix: Stat bar had several elements widths fixed as noted by several users' feedback

Hi,

I'm trying out your UI and wanted to give some feedback to help the process work more smoothly in the future.

First the certificate at pala.de is expired so when you click on the jnlp you get a couple of warnings. With the recent serious exploit in jnlp it might make some users feel better if this was fixed. I realize it's not under your direct control, but wanted to let you know as it affects the user experience.

On Win7 x64 EQ2 installs, by default, to "C:\ProgramData\Sony Online Entertainment\Installed Games\EverQuest II" which is a hidden directory structure that Java file i/o can't navigate. The user must open Windows Explorer and search for EverQuest2.exe in order to find the path (or alternatively show hidden folders, do the search, and then manually navigate in the Java folder chooser window).

Anyway, thanks for the work.

Thanks for the feedback Fyrion. I have no control of the certificate being expired or not, as you stated.

Kaldran has said in another thread that it's valid, but just expired. He stated there were no free ways of gettin an up-to-date one, but I'll ask him about it.
I know it's a bit strange to get the warning: but rest assured it is legit.

As far as the detection of folders, it's going to be hard for any program to find the correct folders when the user has folders hidden, or just their EQ2 installation in a hidden folder.
But I'll ask about it :)

The updater tries to grab the eq2 path from the registry, if it's not there then you will need to manually navigate, but on any OS.

Thanks for the info both of you. The new installer for the game client is different than it was about a year ago. It seems like and odd place to install the game.

Update Log:
v1.9 - 2010.05.02
- New: Player window options window now has a toggle for Smart Curing
- New: Group window options now has a toggle for "self" (F1) for normal and with-Pet versions.
- New: Hotbars now have a grab handle when hovering over them to more easily move them around/access the right-click options.
- Update: Switched both Group and Raid windows to use r1-r24/g1-g6 commandline casting. This opens more support for international players and maintains Battlegrounds functionality. (Affects both normal and with-Pets version of group window)
- Update: The Stat Bar has new stats added: PVP Crit Mit (goes live GU#56), Accuracy, Flurry, BlockMod, Spell Reuse, ZoneArea name, and Location.
- Update: Browser window has been overhauled to include 4 tabs. It is now equiped with a "Favorites" dropdown menu which can be edited from DrumsUI_browser_favorites.xml!
- Update: Hotbars' overlays will now auto-config themselves when loading into game. (Previuosly they waited for a mouse-over, which will still work in the event auto-config fails)
- Update: The journal window has been made ready for GU#56 and the Storylines feature.
- Update: The persona window's weapon stats width areas were increased to accommodate larger numbers. New Stats added: PVP Crit Mit (goes live GU#56), Flurry, and Spell Reuse (this is different than Ability Reuse).
- Fix: The checkbox on the Completed quest tab of the Journal should no longer over the Share quest button.
- Fix: The Market windows Advanced Search options pops up more to the left. Mousing over the sell tab causes this window to hide itself. Hopefully this change will prevent that from happening as much.
- Fix: The Seller information in the Market window now has a tooltip. If the seller text is too long to fit, just mouse over it to see the full location.

Hi :)

Thx for the last update ... it's great to see that this UI improves !!! The casting reuse is UBER as it was really something missing and the moving of hotbar is much better now instead of having to "resize" to move !!

2 things now :

All my fast casting from 1 to 5 in the group window or raid window now display R21 instead of the name in channel ... how can i solve that ?

Would it be possible for you to put this fast casting 1 to 5 on :
target
target of target

when i raid it can be a bit tricky to find the MT in raid window and then cast on him ... way faster to just click on the target window or the target of target window :)

Keep up the great job ... this UI is clearly the best in game atm !!

Synoni

I'll have the r1-r24 and g1-g6 fixed shortly. It was a changed to help out non-english users, but it backfired on my thinking ;)

As for the target/implied target, I think this could be a viable option for sure. I'll check out this possibility when I update the target/implied target HP/power bars to match the player window's style.

Cheers,
-Drum

Update Log:
v1.10 - 2010.05.03
- Reverted the group and raid windows from the r1-r24,g1-g6 commandline casting. Your tells and chat text should be normal again.

That's really great !!! Thx a lot for the reactivity :)

Dude your interface is pretty neat, but I can't use it man. For me I am really anal on how I like everything to be. I can't just have floating windows in my UI. I'm more of a minimalistic person, but I like everything to fit together.

I think the real reason why I use to love ProfitUI over any of the others is that it has the best integration compared to other mods. Only problem is that Profit isn't very minimalistic. It has too much bulk & extra unneeded crap, and just needs to be slimlined.

If you can make a pretty, minimalistic (you already have that pretty well set), and slimlined UI that incorporates a little integration then you have me sold.

I currently use some ProfitUI + some DrumsUI + my mods (many unreleased).

Thanks for the feedback Drago.

I feel if I were to make a more stylized version of the UI I would want to release it separately. I like the fact that everything can pretty much be stripped from the full UI without having to edit any files (just have to grab all the necessary includes). I dislike micromanging the UI when things get too separated with thousands of alternative layouts/setups. That's why I've been trying to implement options as toggles, rather than seperate XML files!

Design is one of my weaker points. I can do simple ideas, but when it comes to actual graphics-base design I simply don't have the mindset for it.
Other than that, I think it's cool that people can use my mods to mix and match with other UI pieces.

For something I do in my free time, the UI has come a long way though :)

Who knows, anything can happen :rolleyes:

Group and raid members in Battle Ground no-show
 

Awsome ui thanks for sharing great work.

Have one small issue I cant figure out, all map poi and grouping works in normal maps.
But when join battle grounds group and raid members wont show on mini or main map.

I'll look into the raid dots. Someone else had mentioned this to me, but I let it slip by the wayside. I'm not sure what I missed for this change, but I'll throw it on the updater as soon as I find it.

Yea I seen to be having the same issue (again). This happen the first time I downloaded the updater a couple of months ago, sadly I don't remember what was done to fix it. I run windows vista and its telling me I need admin permission. My old updater is no longer working so I had to download a new one apparently, I downloaded the file and unzipped it then clicked the unzipped file and it opened the web page up, there is no icon on my desk top to change admin rights on... It doesn't seem to be fully installing. It is when I click on the "update" button on the web page that I receive the "you need admin rights" message. Any suggestions?

I'm having an issue where not all of my hotbars show the countdown within the button, i use 9 hotbars and only 3 (i presume what were the original 3 before i shuffled everything long ago) show the numbers within them.... this would be a simple fix except i do not get an option to set a different hotbar as my primary/secondary etc when right-clicking them, and using the same UI across several toons whose hotbar layout's vary makes reassigning the hotkeys to these bars a bit tedious

any help or inisight drums?

thx

The numbers only show when the Frames are turned on in each individual hotba's Window Settings. And the timer bar shows when Frames & Titlebar is enabled.

Hope that helps,
-Drum

Update Log:
v1.11 - 2010.06.17
- Update: Target/Implied windows have been updated with a style closer matching the player/group windows.
- Update: The battlegrounds icon gem in the topright corner of the player window has been made slightly smaller.
- Fix: The storyline tab in the Journal window should no longer be displaying placeholder/incorrect text.

hey drums, have just switched from profit to drums and am loving it .. thanks for the hard work. especially like the customisable stats bar and just the polished look and feel of it in general.

quick question - when i use the updater, one of the files just gets left not updated: its " UI/DrumsUI/DrumsUI_overview.txt "

it just says "some files could not be downloaded, please try later". is this file important? and is there something i need to do to get it to download?

thx :)