Beta chat window

Laffs · #1 11-04-2006, 04:10 PM

It seems that the beta of EoF crashes with my own chat window file in there.. So of course I re-modded a new one starting with the new beta default main chat file... And guess what It dont seem to matter what changes I make to it however small or large the game still crashes with it in during loading the UI....

Has anyone else tried modding the chat window in beta?
Could this be a problem with the UI builder? (yes i do have the latest one)
Or is it just beta being a pain?

**gm9** · #2 11-04-2006, 07:45 PM

My chat window would crash as well with the latest update on beta, but a user fixed it for me. The only change he did was change some sounds from "ui_pressed" to "sounds/button" and add the page "ChatShadow":

<Page BackgroundOpacity="0.200" Location="20,99" Name="ChatShadow" PackLocation="nfn,fff" PackLocationProp="0020/0001,0006/0001" PackSize="absolute,fixed" PackSizeProp="0017/0001,0002/0003" ScrollExtent="297,17" Size="297,17"/>

I suppose it is that page that needs to be there.

Laffs · #3 11-04-2006, 08:12 PM

Thanks...

yes it is that page that needs to be in the code... All very strange as to why but none the less it works.. and all I did was paste the code in after the ChatFrame page in notepad on my chat window and hey presto .. looks no different to what it did to start with, But this time it works lol

/scratches head

**Landiin** · #4 11-04-2006, 09:53 PM

Another reason hard coding is bad for UI's.

**Faetyl** · #5 11-04-2006, 10:54 PM

Here are my mods if you need anything from them.
http://www.eq2interface.com/forums/s...ead.php?t=6901

Laffs · #6 11-05-2006, 12:21 PM

Thanks,

I got this lot working again now (apart from the bags decided to leave that untill it go's live)

Just one thing I did notice both with Faetyl's hotkeys and the one I did, The icon page always seems to place itself "top" hence not being centered up in the window and when you hide the spinner the left edge of the 1st icon is placed at -1 to the left thus not showing the icon edge due to it being out of the window area..

Now if you set the pack location of the Icon bank to say "left,center" and then resize the bar about a bit it seems to do a "left,center" from the 1st icon.... Hard for me to explain.. This is better seen if you size the bar on a vertical axis in game..

It all works just it looks a bit naff if you have the frame visible.. I messed with this for about an hour and couldnt seem to get it to stay central to the window...

Any thoughts?