Othesus UI mods

[Othesus]

This is a thread for bugs and feedback for my UI mods.
Feel free to visit my new author portal here too.

Here are all my UI mods:
http://www.eq2interface.com/list.php?skinnerid=33551


Share and Enjoy!

[Othesus]

Originally Posted by FloridaFringe

Love this mod. Here'e a couple of observations while using it for a short time:

1. When Minimized it still retains control over the keyboard so that the keymaps no longer work.

I had it minimized last night and kept hitting the B key to open up my bags. I did this about 4 times before realizing that it might be the browser. When I maxed the browser window I found the 4 B's that I hit typed into the address location.

2. Any chance of getting an Add / Remove Bookmarks button?

3. Any chance of moving the Minimize and the Close button so that the Title bar could be removed?

Thanks again.

1. Ok, I fixed the minimize problem. Sometimes the textbox still has focus when you press the back, forward, stop or refresh buttons but that isn't as big a problem. I might figure out a fix for that.

2. I'm pretty sure it's not possible to make bookmarks in the game. It's the same reason you can't make an in-game notepad. You can't write to files from any UI script.

If you want something like that your best bet would be a bookmarks web site like http://del.icio.us/

3. I messed around with moving the minimize and close buttons but that created some other problems. When the window is minimized, you only see the title bar. So to fix that the minimize function would have to work around that by minimizing two different ways-- one mode if you were showing the title bar and another mode if you were hiding the title bar. That was when I called it a night around ~9am.

[MirageKnight]

[quote=Othesus]1. Ok, I fixed the minimize problem. Sometimes the textbox still has focus when you press the back, forward, stop or refresh buttons but that isn't as big a problem. I might figure out a fix for that.
QUOTE]

This seems working by new fix but "enter key" is still sticking with "refresh" even minimized. Anyway to resolve this as well?

[Othesus]

Originally Posted by MirageKnight

This seems working by new fix but "enter key" is still sticking with "refresh" even minimized. Anyway to resolve this as well?

I just fixed this. The textbox is now disabled (gray) by default. When you click on it turns gold and you can type a URL. The Enter key maps to the Go button only when the textbox is enabled (gold).

And after another few hours work-- we have a working Home and Set Homepage Button.

[Adam]

I have managed to add in tabbed browsing to your mod. I will post an update shortly I am currently posting this in game with 2 tabs open. I will try and addin dynamic tabs like the chat box.

**Edit** Attached my updated XML file to include tabs. There are currently 4 tabs. More tabs can be added through copy paste inside the UIBuilder and changing the TabSource item to reflect the changes. I have also slimlinned the controls with changed the text that appears.

[Othesus]

That's a pretty interesting idea but for me it's kind of overkill. I don't think I'd really want to read more than two web pages at a time within the game. I do like tabbed browsing in my normal Firefox but in the game it's just lacking too many features and probably hogs too much memory.

As a side note-- I looked at your window in the UIBuilder and you have to be careful with your PackSizes and PackLocations. The Go button and the browser state at the bottom look funny when you resize the window.

[SystemHalt]

I am having only one problem so far with it. Everytime i log in and it checks for updates it overwrites the eq2ui_mainhud_browser.xml with the default one and then i no longer get any of your fetures to show up just the plain version without the links ect. Is this normal or is there a way to not have it redownload the eq2ui_mainhud_browser.xml when checking for updates?

Thanks for any info

[Othesus]

Originally Posted by SystemHalt

I am having only one problem so far with it. Everytime i log in and it checks for updates it overwrites the eq2ui_mainhud_browser.xml with the default one and then i no longer get any of your fetures to show up just the plain version without the links ect. Is this normal or is there a way to not have it redownload the eq2ui_mainhud_browser.xml when checking for updates?

Thanks for any info

Do you use any other UI mods? If you want to use any custom UI pieces those pieces don't go into the Default folder. The Launchpad checks all those files and will download any that don't look right to it.

So, here's what you have to do. If you use any UI mod that has an installer (like the eq2map) it probably created a custom UI folder but if you don't have one yet create a new folder called MyUI (or anything really) at the same level as EverQuest II\UI\Default. Put the custom xml files in there.

Open up Notepad and paste these two lines in:
cl_ui_skinname MyUI
cl_ui_subdir UI/

If you called your custom UI folder something else replace MyUI with that. Click on the File menu and choose Save As... Navigate to your EQ2 folder which is normally C:\Program Files\Sony\EverQuest II, name the file eq2.ini and click Save.

That should be it. There are some similar instructions here if you want to see pictures.

[SystemHalt]

I got it fixed now thanks for the heads up yeah i was run eq2map so i just droped these files in that folder and works fine now thanks alot Othesus.

[Dismal]

Hi,

Apologies for posting on your mod page but I swear I looked for a forum thread link >.<

Originally Posted by Othesus

Originally posted by Dismal
Dunno why I can't get this to work, I have added the include to my eq2ui_mainhud.xml file but still get a big black box. The actual browser works if i use /browser <web address> but I have a big black box?



Post in the feedback thread but you'll have to give more details.

I'm not sure what "more detail" you want?

I d'loaded the files and added them to my custom folder and added the <include> statement to my mod eq2ui_mainhud.xml and I still get the big black box with nothing in it. As I said the browser can still open a web page using a direct command but all the bordering is missing and I have no buttons etc...



Any help greatly appreciated.

[Othesus]

ok, it looks like you're using some version of Fetish then and that is working otherwise.

What's the name of your custom UI folder?

What folder is your eq2.ini pointing to?

What folder is the custom eq2ui_mainhud.xml in?

What folder is the eq2ui_mainhud_browser.xml in?

That actually doesn't look like my browser window. I'm pretty sure you would still see the little triangle in the upper left and the border of my browser window is thinner on the bottom.

What happens if you take my browser mod out and just open the default browser?

Are you using a full Fetish UI? Zonx just posed an update to Nightfall with a new browser window too.

[BornAgainst]

hi, i have 1 link problem and no idea how to fix that
<Data GoFlag="1" Text="Sabaki DKP" href="http://sabakieq2.com/eqdkp/stats.php?s=&o=12.0&show=all"/>

for some reson opening only http://sabakieq2.com/eqdkp/stats.php and and i want to open http://sabakieq2.com/eqdkp/stats.php?s=&o=12.0&show=all

how can i fix that ?

thanx for great addon
kret

[Othesus]

Ah, you have encountered the dreaded & in an XML file! XML files do not allow the & symbol because it's illegal.

Try this:
http://sabakieq2.com/eqdkp/stats.php?s=&amp;o=12.0&amp;show=all

Here's more detail at the w3school:
http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_cdata.asp

[machbane]

I use the browser window and like the way it works. I s there any way to change it so that it doesn't close on ESC. I would like to leave it minimized and open back up when needed. I understand how to edit the XML file, just not sure what to add/change so that the ESC button doesnt close the window. Please feel free to pm me with the change. Thanks.

[Othesus]

Originally Posted by machbane

I use the browser window and like the way it works. I s there any way to change it so that it doesn't close on ESC. I would like to leave it minimized and open back up when needed. I understand how to edit the XML file, just not sure what to add/change so that the ESC button doesnt close the window. Please feel free to pm me with the change. Thanks.

How about this?


DON'T PRESS ESC!

Ok, but seriously, I'm not sure if it's possible to do what you want. You could try adding the property OnHide="Visible=true" to the first page. If you know of any other windows that do what you want I could look at them.

[Eshaac]

Hi.. love your browser, but I can not seem to get the "set homepage" to work. Also when I press "home" it dose nothing.

any idea?

[Othesus]

Originally Posted by Turzen

Hi.. love your browser, but I can not seem to get the "set homepage" to work. Also when I press "home" it dose nothing.

Are you using the /browser command to open the browser? The homepage only works for that window. If you use /show_window mainhud.browser you get a different window but /show_window mainhud.Browser is the same as /browser.

Have you tried setting the homepage in the Options window?

[Valdacil]

Forgive me if this has been addressed or if it is a simple solution, however, how can I get more than one instance of /browser open. I've seen people mention browsing 2 pages at the same time, but I can only get one to come up.

Othesus, any chance on getting some tabbed browsing in your mod. I tried out Mart's mod to your mod and the ability to have more than one page open at the same time is a necessity for me. I have grown fanatical about doing every quest and squeeze as much AA as I can, so I leave Fluffy's quest list open all the time, plus Allakazam and EQ2i. But even if you can tell me how I can run 2 windows at the same time, i'm still one window short. Your mod seems to have no bugs, and better support/more timely updates. Plus I LOVE your new quest helper and examine windows (neither work with Mart's).

I want to use your window, but I need more pages. Any chance of adding that feature in the future?

[Othesus]

I actually explained it on my browser mod page.

But here's how I think it works. The /browser command is the same window as /show_window MainHUD.Browser or Mainhud.Browser or mainhud.Browser or any variation with a capital B. This window will go to your homepage if you have one set.

If you use the command /show_window mainhud.browser without a capital B you will get a second browser window. This window doesn't have any homepage functions though.

About the tabs thing, hmm. You use fluffy.dk and eq2i.com and Allakhazam at the same time? I'll look into it, but I won't promise anything since I really haven't had time to play much. I've spent a lot more time working on UI mods recently. The reason I didn't make a tabs version is that it's a lot more work to maintain and fix two versions. I was thinking about looking at the recent problems people have been having with Profit, although I've never used it before, but I have to get my taxes done before tomorrow!

[Adam]

If you are looking for tabs check out mine. Its Othesus mod with tabs.

[FloridaFringe]

Active Quest: I use FC so this is much loved mod with some nice additions. Thank you for that. Would it be possible to get the added features at the top of the window instead of the bottom? Also, I don't keep this window very wide so when I use the drop down menu most of the quest titles are cut off. Is there any possibility of making the drop down menu it's own seperate row with the buttons added elsewhere so that the menu can be as wide as the window, or something similar?

Browser: I was using Mart's for the tabbed browsing but it doesn't currently work for setting the homepage and with the addition of your Active Quest and Examine Windows I came back to your's for the additional features. Having said that, have you put any more thought into a tabbed version or simply adding tabs to your current version? It helps a lot in many situations to have multiple pages for comparison information but having multiple windows open doesn't really work all that well. One window with multiple tabs would be the ultimate solution.

Any insight into these would be highly appreciated. Thank you kindly.

[Othesus]

Hmm, Zonx put those hidden features into Fetish and recently added search buttons to his quest helper, quest journal and examine player windows.

The reason I put the new stuff at the bottom is that at the top it covered up the quest title, but I suppose if you normally have this window at the bottom of your screen it wouldn't work as well.

I won't promise anything, but I'll think about it. Same with the browser window.

[Othesus]

I posted a new guide today.

Growing a Ratongan Goatee -- the Othesus way
http://www.eq2interface.com/portal.php?id=4

Share and Enjoy!

[gm9]

Originally Posted by Othesus

I posted a new guide today.

Growing a Ratongan Goatee -- the Othesus way
http://www.eq2interface.com/portal.php?id=4

Share and Enjoy!

Haha, now I know what you needed the HexEditor for. Nice one, don't need a goatee but was a fun read nevertheless!

[Othesus]

A Russian player, serch2000, requested a button for Поиск на eq2.playhard.ru

Can you try this file here? On my US server it just shows squares but that may be because the font doesn't include Russian characters.