UI Builder problems

[Blagden]

When I open a file in the UIBuilder the display screen on the right is always black except for an occasional red box when I'm selecting different objects. Am I missing something obvious or is my program messed up?

Blagden

[Weegie]

First, make sure that the tab you have selected in the viewer box, coresponds to the window you are trying to view.

For example:
1. Drill down to journal in the builder window.
2. In the Viewer window, select the journal tab.
If you don't see anything now, expand the journal entry and you'll see "activequest" and "journalsquest". You can view these one at a time or both at the same time, but they are independent of each other.

To turn them on and off (as far as visibility in the viewer window) click the button that looks like an eyeball. Its 2nd from the left, and next to the lock button about 3/4 down in the builder window.

[Blagden]

Ah, that was it. Actually it was a combination of both of your suggestions. I wasn't selecting the tab in the viewer window and the visibility wasn't turned on for what I was wanting to work with. Thanks for the help.

[NetSapiens]

PLEASE be careful with turning view on in the designer.

This has the sometimes nasty effect of turning view on by default in game as well..

I for one had an interesting time troubleshooting after I moved my mainhud a bit and turned it on.. it was always on, and nothing worked.
So now, I've learned to always use the tabs to select something, as this will display what you want.

Another useful tip: When working with a window inside mainhud, copy the window you want to change and paste it in your root. this will give you a new tab to click, a safe copy to muck about with and a view of ONLY that one page/window you want to change.. then all you have to do is copy it back to its original location when you're done. Note that copy copies all subpages as well.

[pheebau]

I'm a software developer in RL myself and I can't say that this tool is very intuitive - it is actually faster for me to edit the .xml files under VI directly...

I'm selecting the right group in the left tree nodes panel - I'm selecting the corresponding TAB in the right panel - I've the 'eye' icon activated, show on...

Nothing appears on the tabs window (I tried different nodes) - all black in the view panel - why is that? am I missing something here? running on WinXP...

Pretty frustrating and the doc is not really talkative...I thought I could see some previous of a UI frame...such as casting for instance...

Sorry for the rant.

[Deathbane27]

Pheebau: Did you open eq2ui.xml or a the file you wanted to change? Sounds like what happens when you do the latter. That's a mistake we've all made at least once.