[RonHiler]

Originally Posted by Landiin

1. What do you mean by not resizable?
a. They reside, but shrink to the smallest possible size around the keys?
b. I can not change their size at all. IE can't make them 1x1 or 2x6 or ect.

After some further playing around with them, it seems the issue is they're already at max size (where the bar is 12 x 1). I can downsize them easily enough (so they becme 6 x 2 etc). I was trying to make them bigger to fill in the gaps on the right side of my screen with the intention of actually increasing the individual icon sizes. I don't suppose there's anything in the works to actually make the hotbar icons themselves resizable (with a diagonal drag) once the bar is at 12x1? I find the icons to be pretty small at a 1280x1024 resolution.

2. That is intended to do that, so when you do not have a target there is more viewable game window. If you have things set up correctly it all should flow together, except for the hotkeys. The ui was made for 1480 x XXXX + and the lower res option are still being tweaked as time permits

Sure, I get that My problem was that some of my hotbars are across the top of that part of the interface, so what ends up happening is I get a "hole" in the UI, which makes it ugly. I'll move some more things around and see if I can figure out something I like better. It's just an asthetics thing, no big deal.

3. The map is not mine, its fetish's map. For issues with it you need to head over to his map posts.

Ah, okay, I kind of gathered that from the previous posts and figured that might be the case.

a. Did you run EQ2Map Updater?
1. If so did you tell it not to over write eq2ui_mainhud_map.xml?
2. If you didn't, you need to, and make sure you do #1.

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Just ran it. I don't install or use .net, so I did the manual update. I removed the "eq2ui_mainhud_map.xml" from the zip and overwrote everything else, and the map is behaving much better now. However, I think I've lost the Fetish interface, it looks exactly like the eq2maps interface (I can no longer select different maps like I could previously, and there's no mini-map). This is fine with me, I'm happy with it the way it is, but that may not have been the intent, hehe. I'm positive I did delete the file you said not to overwrite, so I'm not exactly sure why that happened, but whatever

If you may allow me to make a suggestion. Please don't read the following in a harsh tone of voice, it's meant to be constructive critisism, and I hope you take it the right way

I know all this stuff is second nature to you guys, but to most people it isn't. I tend to expect when I install something all the relevant instructions will be included, especially regarding installation. As a relevant example, nowhere in your install does it say anything about updating eq2maps and which files NOT to overwrite (unless I'm totally blind and didn't see it, hehe). Running through all the posts for ExtremeUI and Fetish (all 23 versions) and EQ2Maps is a royal PITA, hehe. Trying to figure out how everything fits together is not exactly obvious.

When you write installation instructions, you should assume the user knows nothing and explain it to them in excruciating detail, including all the steps they need to take to go from download to working product, and include examples where possible. This will dramatically reduce the number of emails and posts you get saying "I can't get your interface to work" Your installation instructions are written at an audience who is already very familiar with installing custom interfaces, and that's the incorrect audience (they aren't going to be reading it anyway, so all you're doing is confusing the hell out of novice users).

[just as another example, your installation docs say "Rename the eq2ui_settings file for the character you plan to use eXtreme UI for". While I realize you know exactly what that means, and any experienced interface installer will know how to deal with that, a first time user will see that and go "Huh?", especially since there is in fact no such file at all, they are all named things like "(1024 x XX)server_character_eq2_uisettings.ini", which brings up a whole other level of confusion (do you just mean rename the part in parenthises, or the server_character part, or the whole thing, do I leave the .ini part in? etc). A couple of small screenshots (before and after) with an example would have shown exactly what you meant, or if you can't (or won't) use screenshots, give an example in the text (e.g. "If you character is named "Mark", and you want to use the 1024 x XXX interface, change the "(1024 x XX)server_character_eq2_uisettings.ini" file to read "Mark.ini"].

Not a critisism, I'm just suggesting. You've done a wonderful job on the interface, but the documentation is kind of lacking, hehe. If you like, I can take a crack at it for you (I'm a professional software programmer and I write a lot of end-user documentation, and I've learned over the course of the years to always write documentation like you were talking to a 3 year old), although obviously I'm not exactly an expert on installing your particular program

Anyway, feel free to ignore me if you like, perhaps I'm way off base and everyone except me knows what they're doing, hehe.

Ron