New to making UI's 8- ), be gentle.

[Taemek]

Ok, so I am literally riping my hair out.

I recently requested if someone could make a click to Mana Flow button next to group members names in the group window and thought well what the hell, I may as well learn this myself seeing im interested in it.

I have got all the way to the point of needing to insert a picture of the icon I want to use for the New button I have inserted and also, seeing I shrunk the HP/Mana bars down by about 5% to fit the button into the default UI group window as to not want to make it any bigger, that now the bubbles related with the HP/mana bars are not lined up correctly.

Now I noticed I had to adjust all of the sizes of the HP/mana bar windows, backgroup and bubble overlays to the same size as the newly sized window so for example:

Height= 6
width = 96

Now I have done this and the bubbles still want to scale to the default HP/mana bar size, anything I am missing?

In reguards to the picture of Mana Flow icon, I can find the icon I need but its in a cluster of icons in the UI > Images > Icons > icon_as2.dds file, which when I open the file up with Nero Photosnap editor I can then cut/paste it out into a new file but this wont save the pic into the .xml file I believe, this means that if and when i get this UI fuctional (which it is apart from the bubble overlay and no pic on Mana Flow button) that people who download it would have to do the same thing to get a pic on thier new button, which obviously I do not want to make them do, so any hints here also please people.

One serious issue I am having though is making the click to cure buttons target the previous target i had, I am inserting:

useabilityonplayer parent.Name.LocalText Cure Curse||target_previous

Does it work like this or am I doing something wrong?

I really appreciate any info, I am a total .xml noob and only using EQ2ui Builder atm and I dont understand how to use Notebook ++, so I am keeping things simple and just sticking with UI builder until I understand it a little better.

Sorry for the long drawn out post but very much appreciate any help or info.

[gm9]

Welcome to EQ2 interface modding.

1. Bubbles: Set Stretch="true" for the BubbleOverlay to have it scale
2. Icons: Create an image object, set Source="/images/icons/icon_as2.dds". Double click on SourceRect and draw a rectangle around the icon you want.
3. Click to cure: The "GroupMemberX" sections are hardcoded by the client to target that group member if you click on them in game. Therefore my suggestion is to create a new page containing the click to cure buttons on the same level as the "GroupMemberX" pages. You will only need the useabilityonplayer code then (of course you need to change the path to the player name).
4. Note: To separate commands, you cannot use the || symbol. You need to either use a space (in which case code is executed right to left) or a newline character (in which case code is executed top to bottom). You can doubleclick the OnPress parameter in UIbuilder to get a popup window where you can enter multiple lines.

[dragowulf]

Once you start there's no going back...

[Taemek]

Originally Posted by gm9

Welcome to EQ2 interface modding.

Thank you and before I ask you one final question, thank you for all the info, works perfectly.

Originally Posted by gm9

[*]Click to cure: The "GroupMemberX" sections are hardcoded by the client to target that group member if you click on them in game. Therefore my suggestion is to create a new page containing the click to cure buttons on the same level as the "GroupMemberX" pages. You will only need the useabilityonplayer code then (of course you need to change the path to the player name). [*]Note: To separate commands, you cannot use the || symbol. You need to either use a space (in which case code is executed right to left) or a newline character (in which case code is executed top to bottom). You can doubleclick the OnPress parameter in UIbuilder to get a popup window where you can enter multiple lines.[/list]

Now I went ahead and removed all my click to cure buttons from under the Effects page and inserted them into the MemberInfoPage, except now when I click the icons in game all it does is auto target that person and no clicky noises or casting, I'm guessing this is what you were refering too about repathing it to the player name.

This is the final part im stuck on, I downloaded a few other click to cure UI's and attempted to play around with them, but the parent thing has me stumped.

Under the effects window I installed a button with the code:

Onpress = Temp1 = parent.Effect5.Visible
Temp2 = ( Temp1 ? true : parent.Effect4.Visible )
Temp1 = ( Temp2 ? true : parent.Effect3.Visible )
Temp2 = ( Temp1 ? true : parent.Effect2.Visible )
parent.parent.Info.Info.Visible = ( Temp2 ? false : ! parent.Effect1.Visible )


In the Effects 1 through to 5 I added the lines:

Onhide = parent.Button.press = true
Onshow = parent.Button.press = true


In the click to cure icons:

Onpress = useabilityonplayer parent.Name.LocalText Cure Trauma
target_previous


All this has done is not allow me to click the icons to cure. Obviously I dont fully understand what I'm doing, but I'm learning more about it, now I just need to learn how to create a path to GroupMember1 through to 5 and it should be good to go, also, the pathing I use for the click to cure buttons to not change targets ( or change it back so to speak ), will it work with the new Mana Flow button I have installed seeing its a stand alone button on its on not corresponding with any icons?

At first guess, I would guess that the Draw Parent Selection Highlight is not lined up correctly with my Cure Icons, but thats just a uneducated guess, buts its the only thing I haven't yet done as I haven't worked out how to do this part.

Also, once there is no going back, you got that right, I just noticed its 5:45am Times flies when your having fun.

[dragowulf]

lol. I use to spend so much time modding...then realizing through my mockup that I accomplished nothing.

If you want to get a good look at some solid code look at ProfitUI

[gm9]

Originally Posted by Taemek

At first guess, I would guess that the Draw Parent Selection Highlight is not lined up correctly with my Cure Icons, but thats just a uneducated guess, buts its the only thing I haven't yet done as I haven't worked out how to do this part.

If you mean that your new buttons are likely not on top of the effect icons then yes, that's likely the main reason about what's wrong. In UIBuilder select each of your buttons and see if they are on top of the icons.

Regarding the pathing - if I take the example of how I have it in ProfitUI, there I have a setup like this:

GroupMember1CureEffects.CureEffect1Button
GroupMember1.MemberInfoPage.Name

Now, to reference the Name from the button I would need to use

useabilityonplayer Parent.Parent.GroupMember1.MemberInfoPage.Name.Text

(if you check the actual ProfitUI code you'll see it's a bit more difficult than that but that's because it's doing many other things at the same time, so you will probably want to ignore that at first - other click to cure UIs may be easier to understand for a beginner)

[Taemek]

After ALOT of messing around with coding etc, a friend pointed out that all you have to do is make your cure buttons or any type of buttons in the GroupMember1 through to 5 and:

Onpress = useability Cure Trauma
target_previous

Now of course, I am new to this and I can't seem but help to have this funny feeling that it's not this simple for a reason, obviously I do not know the reason, but I'm sure you guys can fill me in on why it needs to have a parent file in a seperate page for the no chnage target to work instead of this code?

[gm9]

Because your code actually does change the target, and then changes it back. Doing what I suggested and using /useabilityonplayer instead does not change the target, so it is more efficient. And besides you asked how to code for useabilityonplayer in the OP.

If you want to go the /target_previous route however let me suggest you add this code to the buttons:

OnHoverIn="target_allow_pet_member_toggle 0" OnHoverOut="target_allow_pet_member_toggle 1"

This is what I had developed for ProfitUI 3.x before /useabilityonplayer was introduced. Without this code you may end up curing pets if you have classes with pets in your group, which was a problem for click to cure buttons at the time (good ol' times ). So this code is pretty much required, but you can see that it costs even more efficiency, so I do recommend you use the useabilityonplayer route if you can.

EDIT to add: If you play with people with non-ASCII characters in their names you are forced to take the /useability /target_previous route btw because the EQ2 scripting language does not handle non-ASCII characters.

EDIT2: I see you already released it anyway. Coercers have manaflow too btw.