Kosmo's Quick Emotes v1.1
 

Submitted for release!

It's not even been 24 hours and I've already had 3 variations created on this mod! How flattering! Have fun with this one.

If you have any questions or need help for this mod, discuss it here.

One thing I was wondering... with the new emotes that are included, will other players who don't have this mod be able to see them?

Oh yes, totally. These are not new emotes, same ones we have always had.
Some of them were just not listed in the regular emotes page.
They work just great! Some have animations and some just say something like.
Kosmos grubbles at 'target'

I didn't 'make' these, just created a different way to arrange them, and use them that was more efficient than having to look through 11 pages at 10 emotes at a time in alphabetical order.

Oooh, I see ;-) Yea, the design and ordering is great, makes them much more accessible. I just thought there were a few custom made in there as well. Either way, thanks a lot! :-)

luv your emotes
 

the night you posted it i DL'd and installed it, nice mod.......

BUT i got the idea that it could do more.....


So i streched the box a bit and added one more column.... and cut and pasted lines and lines of your code, then started doing minimal modification..... and Voila'

A language selector list on my Emote page........

one ittsy bitsy problem.........

WORKING CODE........
OnPress="set_language=Common hide_window=(MainHUD.Socials) hide_window=(MainHUD.Socials)"


NON-WORKING CODE........
OnPress="set_language=Ayr'Dal hide_window=(MainHUD.Socials) hide_window=(MainHUD.Socials)"

Since all three of the elvish languages do NOT work and all the rest do.... i assume the ' in the middle of the name is the problem. What i dont know is how to fix it.

This looks awesome. Help bring out the emo boy in us all, eh :p

Not sure on that one, try parenthasis, or single quotes maybe around Ayr'Dal
Maybe even regular quotes? "Ary'Dal" or (Ary'Dal) or 'Ary'Dal'
Look for the OnEvent post in the XML modification section, will probably have the answer you need, or the post for Spaces with names.

EDIT: Good idea by the way! I knew a language selector would be comming up soon!

V1.3 posted for approval. Fixes the issue with my mod and the blank mailboxes

May also need to try escaping out the single quote, aka:
Ary\'Dal

etc.
<- dealing with that issue now with Java and database statements at work.

Great mod
 

Thanks for this great mod...

Any idea why the regular social window also opens at the same time with your window?

Also first time I log on, the emote window is displayed...

giving it a try...
 

Thanks for idea giving it a try.

I'm glad you like it!

The regular emotes page is left functional in case you need to create macros.
If you check the directions. You will find I mention that you can make that window 100% transparent. What most people do is move it off screen except for one little bit, and make the thing 100% transparent. So that they do not see it when my emotes page comes up.


I may combine these two windows in the future, but right now it's low on my list of things to do.

As far as the window showing up when you first log on, not sure about that.
I wonder if something changed with the recent patch.? I think it saves it's state and posistion, so if you log off with the window up, it would probably still be up when log back in.

Thanks Kosmos...

I'm gonna check about the context saving upon logging out and will make more experiment...

Sorry I missed the tranparent window part ;)

I was wondering if you did experiment scaling down the window a bit more...? to take a little bit less space...

My last comment is that I did not find how to configure the 2 modes you're mentioning - I use the default one where the window vanishes after selecting the emote...I read the README again and am not seeing how you configure the other mode...

Regards.

For the mode that does not Auto-Hide, you would need to download the Add-On patch file, and replace the file you have with the non-auto hide version you download. Its a simple cut and past, to overwrite the one you have.

As far as making the window smaller.
There is a good chane that I'll do this in the future. Yes.
The window is quite large! I play in 1600x1200, but made the window what I felt would be a good size for 1280x1024 to pop into the middle of the screen.
The background can be made transparent. So I didn't think it would bother people much to have it that size. I wanted it to be able to be quickly read and hit the emote and then window be gone, make it as smooth as possible.

it seems there are quite a few people that prefer to have the window up, and not blown away, so I may create a 'mini' quick emotes that can be kept up all the time, but... the text would have to be really, really small! so therefore harder to read, and would make the whole process of selecting the emote longer.

Perhaps you should check out one of the alternatives.
Ger has a really nice one that has the emotes tabbed and combines the two windows so you don't have two that pop up all the time, he also has one that does not blow away when you do the emote!

That might be more for your style.

Hi,

Just to confirm that everytime I log on, the emotes window is visible - independently of the previous context of the previous log off...

Oh and I like your mod better ;)

The one am having is auto-hide

Interesting, I'll have to check into that. Thank you for the feedback.

Funny thing happened....... after unzipping UIbuilder and playing around in it on some other files. I later noticed when I once again tried to tackle the Elvish name problem with my mod, that the UIBuilder had automaticaly made changes to the emote file in the form of.......

set_language=Ayr&apos;Dal

Now if I can just find a similar one for a blank space.....

Guess I can try &spac; or may try the non-breaking HTML space

Cool, check the XML Mod thread for 'references names with spaces, lots of good info there!

UIBuilder will substitute HTML equivalences (usually &apos; and &amp; ) but EQ2 won't convert them back. At least, not in the cases where it's done it to me.

yea, didnt work, back to the drawingboard..... lol this might be easier to get SoE just to rename the damn languages to one name no spaces. no characters, so we can code buttons for them.


if i ever get this fully working i'll post it as an update, but untill then i keep my bugs to myself lol.

Put it on the WISh list...!


The only other thing I can think of is try just using the first 3 letters. like "Ayr"
Lots of commands just need the first three letters.

Might also try set_language='Ayr&apos;Dal'

Ok what am I doing wrong, I edit my MainHud file and add the line you say to add, it is in the Default folder though, and everytime the line gets deleted when I load up EQII (I suspect the game is patching in an update when the game sees it has ben altered). I tried putting your copy of the MainHud file into my mods folder, but I crash when I do that.....

/puzzled

click the link in my signature that says how to install an interface.

Thanks Taco now what??

I found the eq2ui_mainhud.xml file, it was in the Default Folder, I used textedit and included the statement.

I load my Modded UI with the methods explained on this forum, have been for awhile now, I don't have to create a new folder in my UI folder as I already have one that I use for my mods, it is called MODS. There is NOT a folder in a folder there, and I unzip all the mods as explained here, in my modded folder "MODS" and select all the correct options.

MY mods work, all the ones I have installed to date but I CANNOT get this one to work. The only difference that this one has to the others is the edited eq2ui_mainhud.xml file.

I got it to work, when unzipping I had Use Folder options or whatever it is, and the Zip was creating it's own folders within my mod's folder. I just manually moved them over to my mod's folder and it is working although I am getting both the modded EMOTE window and the classic EMOTE window at the same time now. Getting close!

Glad to know you got it working correctly.

As far as the classic emote window showing up. That is normal.
If you will read the readme file instructions, the classic emote window can be set to 100% transparent and just moved off screen if you wish.

That's what most people do.

Input NEEDED!
 

Ok everyone, I'm taking this mod back to the drawing board, it's going to get a full body cavity search, high colonic, major reconstructive surgery, and just about anything else I can throw at it.

If you want something changed, or have idea, NOW is the time to post them.

Thanks for your help.

Spaces and Apostrophes
 

I had modded your Emote ver1 and again moved my added code ro your ver 1.1, i have 90+% working but just cant seam to get things with spaces and/or apostrophes to work.

I had planned after getting the languages to all work, was to tighten up spacing a bit so i could make languages 2 columns, and then once the MP3 controlls had been worked out for controlling Combatstats i was going to add them to the far right in ther own column..... but alas the issue with the elvin languages, and the 2 languages with spaces, seam to have beaten me.

Thanks, I'll give it a try also! That would be neat feature.

how did you get the "include>eq2ui_mainhud.emotes.xml</include" to stick?
it keeps dissappearing out of my file as well.

the thing works for me sortof... black text on black window but a click will activate an emote. I feel like I'm piloting the "Star Dive" ship from HHGTTG. :p

I also have other working UI pieces.
every time I start the game it wipes the line & i figger it has to be why it's not working.

I manually moved the files so it's not a folder issue.

OK got it working now
had to coppy all the files over
I had left out some thinking they were not needed
I think it was copying the mainhud.xml that did it

First off, great addon, I love it for Roleplaying.

I do have one small problem. Ever since I installed this,
my Sort Window for my Spell/Skills/Abilities window shows
up solid black. Evrything else works fine, including Mail windows,
the Knowledge book itself, it's just the "sort" window that shows
up totally black.

Any ideas?

I'd hate to have to uninstall this, but I need my sort opotions.

I'm not sure why you're having that *particular* problem, but given that the mod hasn't been updated in over a year, I'm not surprised that you ran into trouble of some sort.

Also, you should be aware that the list of emotes in Kosmos' mod is incomplete, as it doesn't include the various "voiced" emotes added to the game back in the fall.

-- Darryl (Milq)

My guess is that this mod includes an outdated eq2ui_mainhud.xml file. You'll need to edit it to add any include statements missing from the default UI. The sort window is probabl one of them.

Thanks guys..

I think I used the one he included in the download, so that may be it. I'll try to just add the one line he says to include and see what that does..