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Valdacil's Journal

First I want to thank you for redoing the journal it's great that it matches and seems to have lots of great info!

Now for the "complaint" (Well not REALLY!)
I extracted it into my mod folder but None of the text is showing up!
The Labels are there, the tabs are there, yet when I click them there is NO information just a (pretty) blue box.

Please Help!?

Thank you!!

It sounds like the file structure isn't correct. The mod looks for the text files in a specific location and therefore the directory structure contained in the zip file MUST be extracted exactly for the mod to work correctly with the text. Be sure you have a valdacil_info directory in your modded UI directory and that it contains the .txt files in the same location as in the .zip file you downloaded.

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Originally Posted by Valdacil

Ok I didn't notice the Valdaci Folder in there when I extracted... I did see the bmps of the mod though. Can I safely remove these or are they required as well?

Just want to be sure.

Thanks!

Nope the JPG's are just screenshots of the mod. The required files are the .xml and the directory containing the .txt files.

Ok good! thanks for the help! now I got it all in there right it's working fine! :nana:

I'm having a similar problem, but mine has to do with me modifying the xml. What I'm trying to do is add another tab to display another text file I added to the \valdacil_info\journal\quests directory. In the xml, I modified the following:

FROM:
<DataSource Name="OtherTabSource">
<Data Name="Access" target="AccessPage" Text="Access"/>
<Data Name="Lore" target="LorePage" Text="Lore & Legend"/>
<Data Name="Hunting" target="HuntingPage" Text="Hunting Guide"/>
</DataSource>

TO:
<DataSource Name="OtherTabSource">
<Data Name="Access" target="AccessPage" Text="Access"/>
<Data Name="Lore" target="LorePage" Text="Lore & Legend"/>
<Data Name="Hunting" target="HuntingPage" Text="Hunting Guide"/>
<Data Name="Misc" target="MiscPage" Text="Misc"/>
</DataSource>

I then copied and pasted everything between the start hunting and end hunting tags, changing all the references from "Hunting" to "Misc". What I end up with is every tabpage showing no information. Also, the Lore and Legend tab shows the "&" instead of just the "&". Was there something I missed that needs to be changed?

Thanks.

Ok, I figured it out. What editor do you use to save your xml? I opened the xml using Textpad, but for some reason when I save the file, I don't think it's encoding it correctly -- I opened the original eq2ui_journal_quests.xml, then immediately went to Save As... and made sure Encoding was set to UTF-8; when I run EQ2, I have the problems I listed above.

I used Notepad to make the changes I described above and everything works fine. But I hate Notepad, and it was a pain in the rear trying to find out everything I needed to change since there was no formatting whatsoever. If someone uses Textpad to save xml files, can you clue me in on how to it to encode properly? Thanks.