[TEST] 11.17.05 (LU17a) - Interface Changes

[Dolby]

*** Commands, Controls, and User Interface ***

• You can now resize the icons in your hotkey bars.

  • The hotkey bar context menu allows you to increase or decrease the size easily.
  • You may also set the icons to the desired size using /hotbar_iconsize <id 0..9> <size>
  • The minimum icon size is 11 pixels, and maximum size is 1337 pixels.

• You can now close windows via the right-click context menu.

  • This is especially useful if you wish to disable frames for a window.

• /who will now search using a tradeskill level if you specify the artisan class name.
• Double-clicking a house item in your inventory will now attempt to place it.
• Clicking the item link in your chat window after harvesting a collection item will attempt to add the item to your collections.
• The number of house items you have placed in your house now appears on the main house window.
• The location of a placed item (floor, ceiling, or wall) is now displayed in the Collect an Item window.
• The Collect an Item window now shows icons, tooltips and rent-reduction status.
• Item links that contain colons will now work correctly.
• The compass and clock windows now work with clickthrough enabled.
• The onscreen message window now defaults to use clickthrough.
• The login window will now allow use of the keypad for numeric entry.

*** UI Modders ***

• There is now better tracking for window versions in the user interface.
• /window_version <Module> <Name> will return the current version of the specified UI window.
• There is also now a new interface property that give detailed version information: version="<major>.<minor>.<revision>"

  • If the major number does not match, the window will not be displayed (e.g. if the window version in-game is 2.0.0, but your mod's version is 1.0.0, it will not display).
  • If the minor version number does not match, some functionality may not work correctly, but the window will still be displayed.
  • If the revision version number does not match, there was a cosmetic change to the window.

• There is a new interface properly for modder attribution and commentary that is displayed in in /window_version: version_note="<text>"

[Patch Notes]

Here are the following XML Changes found on the test server 11.17.05. The left side is what is on live server 11.17.05 and the right side is what is on the test server now 11.17.05. Changes are shown in red and some xml above and below the changes are left in for context.

Please keep in mind these changes have not gone live yet and more changes may be in the works and only introduced on patch day.

Changed:
eq2ui_inventory_bag.xml
eq2ui_inventory_loot.xml
eq2ui_inventory_market.xml
eq2ui_inventory_store.xml
eq2ui_journals_active.xml
eq2ui_ListboxStyles.xml
eq2ui_mainhud_clock.xml
eq2ui_mainhud_compass.xml
eq2ui_mainhud_hotkey.xml
eq2ui_mainhud_mainchat.xml
eq2ui_mainhud_map.xml
eq2ui_mainhud_society.xml
eq2ui_mainhud_target.xml
eq2ui_newcharscene.xml
eq2ui_playerhousing.xml
eq2ui_popup.xml
FontZapf15.xml
FontZapf16.xml
FontZapf18.xml
FontZapf20.xml
FontZapf24.xml
images\icons\icon_transp1.dds
images\mugshots_female.dds
images\specialelements.dds
images\window_elements_specific.dds

New:
eq2ui_popup_houseitems.xml
images\frontend\window_elements_specific.dds

[Agathorn]

At a quick glance these new hotkeys seem to be causing serious problems with UIBuilder.

I can no longer load the default UI into UIBuilder. It errors out.

I can also no longer seem to edit the default Hoetkey window in UIBuilder. While working on my new Serenity suite I was still using the default hotkeys, and today decided to work on modding them for mine. I noticed for some reason it wasn't showing up under MainHUD so I went and copied the default file over to my custom directory. Still not showing up. Loaded up equi_mainhud.xml into notepad and looked and it wasn't even included! So I included it. Still not showing up!

I sure hope this is a bug and not intentional -- some hardcoding. It may even be me having just woken up, but it doesn't seem to be working. I'm going to have to pull the hotkeys from live and work with them.

[Agathorn]

Ok after taking a closer look at the hotkey file, I managed to fix it. Or at least get it loaded properly into Serenity. Haven't checked with Default UI yet.

That little 'box' that we all love and hate is missing from the hotkey.xml file. Manually edit it in notepad to add it in and it will load properly.

And no I didin't mess it up. This is missing in the default UI version as well.

[Sir Taleisin The Seer]

Originally Posted by Dolby

You can now resize the icons in your hotkey bars.
The hotkey bar context menu allows you to increase or decrease the size easily.
You may also set the icons to the desired size using /hotbar_iconsize <id 0..9> <size>
The minimum icon size is 11 pixels, and maximum size is 1337 pixels.

............... SOEs goal in life must be to piss me off...............

[Agathorn]

Worst part about the hotkey stuff is not only does it not work properly (it resizes the icons but not the bank selector, nor the vertical window size), but it appears to be a hardcoded feature. So 1) Theres no learning from it to do your own, and 2) I'm guessing even if you have your own super custom window it will allow users to at least try and resize the icons there as well, and I know many windows won't be designed to properly resize.

It IS a cool feature, but I think it will cause problems.

[Agathorn]

Just an FYI - warning - too all my fellow modders out there. ATM /loadui is once again broken and causes client crash after performing near any action.

[Dolby]

Keep in mind this is Lu17a and its still on the test server. I'll make sure Bobble is aware of the problems and he notifys the correct people.

[Agathorn]

Test is my home server and I posted on the testers private forum SOE gives us for better communicating issues, but if you send it up to him thats more chances for him to see it