Overlapping progress bars?

[Lange]

EDIT: removed attachment (see below)

I'm trying to modify the player window to use the concentration bar as the casting progress bar and to temporarily overwrite one's name with the name of the spell being cast. I had something similar to this in EQ1 and loved it because I could keep all my attention on one part of my screen.

I'm attaching my UI if anyone is able to offer a suggestion. I used several different player windows with casting bars in them as a base/examples but none of them place the bars over other dynamic data.

Thanks, in advance, for the help.
Lange

[Lange]

I managed to get the casting progress bar to show up inside the concentration bubbles and a background to overwrite my name in the player window but was unable to get the spell names or failure messages to show up there.

Also, the concentration bubbles were never visible once I put the progress bar over them. I'm playing with the AlwaysOnTop command to try and fix that.

Anyone able to give some advice on the text (spell name / failure) issues I'm having? I'm at a loss.

[Laffs]

AlwaysOnTop is not the way to go here..

What you need is to use OnShow / OnHide (possibly even on activate etc)

Interesting idea likes... I'll take a look

[Lange]

Cool. Thanks.

BTW: The player window elements should be solid. They are from Taco Man's Simple Player Window. I may modify them a bit later on (e.g. move the numbers to the side to give more horizontal room for the spell names) but thought I had better start with the basics first.

[Laffs]

Oks removed "/"s that were not needed
The font Zap12 didnt exist
Too many pages in the casting page for it to work in this manner
and a few other little things also I dont recall....


Oks this works now... BUT

I have added a page called "Bc" all it is surposed to do is blank out the player name when you are casting... I added dynamic data to it in an atempt to get it to show and hide along with the casting text .. but have not had time to test that bit yet.

Also you will have to mess with the fail text as this is also the text that says your inventory is overflowing etc the player name is stopping that from being shown all the time when you do have an overflow.... You will have to play with the OnShow etc to get this working properly along with the player name

Apart from those little bugs its working......

Sorry I dont have time atm to mess with it anymore but this is a good start for you to 'tweak it'

Please let me see how this turns out when your done, Its a neat idea

[Lange]

Wow. Much appreciated, Laffs.

I'll play with this this weekend. I want to see if I can get the breath bar in there (over the mana bar most likely) too, but my skills just weren't up to par so the help / tutelage is definately most helpful.

Will post what I find / come up with.