A few things I'm currious about.

[kiersten]

Are any of these possible with the way .xml works in eq2?

1. A Resize able window addon? Something that would allow us to scale UI elements in game that are not normally scalable? IE group windows, player window, pet window, cast bar etc.

I know you can move the windows around as is, and change the layout of them to be vertical, horrizontal, etc. But you can't really increase or decrease the scale.

2. Sticky Targets? As a healer it's kind of a pain when I am constantly loosing my player target because I click off the screen etc. Would it be possible for an addon to make your target stickied, so that you wouldn't unintentionally loose your target?

3. not really a Ui element question, but is it possible to make a macro that will pick and say a random phrase I have preset? I've seen other addons that can do this. But not sure if it's even possible with eq2.

Thanks!

Kier

[EQAditu]

1. Well, you can set pack properties to change how elements resize and move in relation to their parents. You'll find this stuff around page 59 of EQ2_UI_Customization.doc. It's a very old UI builders document, but it still has very important stuff.

You could also programatically change the size of children using OnSize events of object parents. (Easier to learn about PackLocation and PackSize)

2. Well, I suppose. You could make a UI script that calls /target_previous any time it sees the target change. Or implicitly call /target for the "stickied" player any time the target changes. Just need to handle a text change event for the target dynamic data.

3. I don't think the UI or UI mod scripting has access to a random number generator.

PS, this more belongs in one of the Developer Discussion forums, I think.

[gm9]

Originally Posted by kiersten

2. Sticky Targets? As a healer it's kind of a pain when I am constantly loosing my player target because I click off the screen etc. Would it be possible for an addon to make your target stickied, so that you wouldn't unintentionally loose your target?

I think you can disable mouse targeting somewhere in the game options.

Originally Posted by EQAditu

3. I don't think the UI or UI mod scripting has access to a random number generator.

No, although I suppose you could create a pseudo-random number by using variable game data as seed.

[EQAditu]

Originally Posted by gm9

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No, although I suppose you could create a pseudo-random number by using variable game data as seed.

Well, I could think of a fair one if we had access to a modulus operator. I don't recall us being able to do something like 3%2=1 though.

[gm9]

Originally Posted by EQAditu

Well, I could think of a fair one if we had access to a modulus operator. I don't recall us being able to do something like 3%2=1 though.

mod is but one way to go about it. You don't need much randomness either, the OP just wants a non-linear index creation for a datasource. So as long as your formula provides a value which lies is within the number of entries in the datasource that's all you need. The new math functions int(), floor()/ceil() should help.

[EQAditu]

Yeah, the first thing to come to mind was using int() on the player's location and then using the modulus of how many options there were. It was the first dynamic data I could think of that actually has a great amount of variety. Of course the player would have to move to get a new number.