Possible to have more than 10 hotbars? Even if its hardcoded hotbar

dping28 · #1 03-09-2010, 04:20 PM

I am very interested in setting up an UI piece that may act like a hotbar. specificly one that I can link all my Mana/Health items (Relics/Shards/Hearts/Pots/Tinker Items/Manastone/etc) So I have easy access but with out them cluttering up my 10 hotbars, which they are already rather cluttered with various macros and such that I use alot. I know for many people using up all 10 hotbars just seems insane but I do. I hate digging thru bags for things and having to open the macro window. I also have a 25" monitor so they dont really take up that much space on my screen. Is there something out there that might do what i need? I tried looking in the Hotbar section but only found customized hotbars not extra ones. Thanks!

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**lordebon** · #2 03-09-2010, 06:19 PM

You cannot have more than 10 hotbars as the game defines them.

You can, however, make a custom window with buttons that you code to do certain things to imitate a hotbar. It's not the same, but you could make a resonable facimile.

dping28 · #3 03-09-2010, 07:14 PM

you know of a project that might be similar to that to get me started or is this something im gonna have to do from scratch?

chriswebstar · #4 03-10-2010, 09:15 AM

You could look at the click2cast stuff on group/raid windows out there, although most are much more complex than you need. Essentially, you'll be laying out a set of buttons, presumably with icons, and attaching spells to them. You could even display the digital reuse timer on top of it, like some hotbar mods do. ExtremeUI and DrumsUI both have "things" to configure and store configurations per-character on-the-fly. While this is probably more complex than you need, you could look into it to ease configuration of your pseudo bar.

Short answer: There is nothing similar in the sense of a configurable package out there, but there are bits here and there inside other mods that will teach you enough to get it done.

EQAditu · #5 03-10-2010, 11:04 AM

I see a few difficulties.

Configuring an icon for the button would be very difficult.

It's impossible to attach a recast timer to the button unless the spell already exists in another real hotbar. Not unless you want to pre-program the key with a recast value manually and deal with it being inaccurate due to varing ability speed, ability reuse and the random inability to cast at all.

The most straight-forward option would be to edit the spell list outside the game. Otherwise it's hard to impossible to save changes. (I've never messed with POI data saving)

**Drumstix42** · #6 03-10-2010, 12:35 PM

I've been thinking of a way to configure icons in-game, and I'm pretty sure it's possible. But, it would be SO overkill. I was thinking either a draggable page behind a border of a set size, or use a button to snap the image in certain intervals (42 by 42 icon sizes).

However, I haven't messed with it, and like I said it would probably be overkill.
You could in essence create identical hotbars to default, but without any sort of "automatic" timers.

Saving data through the POI thing is good and all, but you can't multi-task with it. One object at a time really...