Thanks it seems to be working!
Now I'm trying to find out why the custom UI previewed in the preview window has all the indivudul frames not alligned as they should when I look at them in-game....mainhud display everything - I guess it could be because the size in the eq2ui.xml is different than the one am playing with...Am going to update the eq2ui.xml under the custom folder with a proper size and see if it fixes it...tool looks much better now - only thing is that my mouse cursor does not show up when I mouseover the preview window - yet I can move around what has been hilighted in the tree..