Plz help me get started with an own tradeskill-window
Hiho,
For crafting, i think that a lot of displayed info is unnessessary while other info is missing. To further add to inconvinience, i really dislike the way the info is displayed.
After using different mods for tradeskilling, i simply haven't seen something that really fits my needs.
I havent been big into ui-tweaking for eq2, so I need some info on how things are done (above the starters-stuff in the info given with the ui-editor).
Basically I just want five single-line bars displayed on the form in addition to the main buttons:
1.) Overall progress of the item.
2.) Overall "condition" of the item.
3.) "condition" in the top-quality of the item (so if pristine is possible, the green bar in the pristine section, else the bar in the highest possible quality).
4.) my own power.
5.) my own health.
These bars shouldn't be the bars used at the moment, but solid bars (not rounded and without these lines at 10/20% steps) that are color-coded, fading form green to red for the second till the last bar and fading from black to blue for the first overall progress-bar of the item.
In addition to these bars i would like another color-display what the highest quality achievable is and what quality-step im currently on.
This could possibly done with two more solid bars (not color-changing) that display 25% for the first step, 50% for the second, 75% for the third and 100% for pristine.
Later on i want to get rd of the fancy window and replace it with a solid-colored one, since that would be better suited for the rest of the templates, but for a start it isn't that imnportant.
I know how to rearrange things and how to get rid of the old bars, but i have no idea how to get the info i want to display and i don't know how to create the bars needed. I have seen a color-coded bar that resized in another ui, but without extra-hints i don't know how to do it on my own. Bars that have 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% filling based on the quality i'm currently in / the quality that is possible at the moment are another mystery to me.
If someone could point me into a direction on where to read on or could supply me with code-snippets with these features. As I said I have seen some of these things, but I lack the understanding of how they really work in order to put them into an own ui.
Thx for your time,
zack
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