Request: hotbar greyed out visibility

danmir · #1 04-25-2005, 12:32 PM

Hey all,

I am using a 3/4 version of the hotbars, and I think they are awesome.

I only have one small problem: after I use an ability, its difficult to tell at a glance if the ability is still greyed out. With them being so small and compacted, the difference in greyed and ungreyed is less obvious to my eyes.

Is there anyway one can darken the fill as a hotkey counts down to become usable? And/or put a big red x or something over the hotkey if its not available?

Thanks!
-Dan

dc_roenfanz · #2 04-25-2005, 01:00 PM

You know thats a durn good idea. I been havin problems with wanting the push da button when i cannot. I haven't exactly found out which part of the iconstyle is the used image, yet. If I ever figure this out, will be happy to upload it.

Kosmos · #3 04-25-2005, 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by dc_roenfanz

You know thats a durn good idea. I been havin problems with wanting the push da button when i cannot. I haven't exactly found out which part of the iconstyle is the used image, yet. If I ever figure this out, will be happy to upload it.

Many have tried and failed at this. To this date I don't think that anyone one has been able to mod the progress of the icon greyscale.

knord · #4 04-25-2005, 04:10 PM

hmm... I have an idea...

If the icon is changed before the event happens then the icon could be changed to something with high-contrast, like white or so.

Just a thought.

dc_roenfanz · #5 04-25-2005, 05:47 PM

Seems that Kos is correct. You can check a thread on this subject HERE

dc_roenfanz · #6 04-25-2005, 09:56 PM

NOTICE: DUAL POSTING IN THIS RELATED THREAD

While I was sitting in my Alg.2 class, I had an idea. Instead of modifying the hotkey progress directly, could we not set up some sort of IF statement that would toggle an image file? Not exactly schooled in boolean, but basically:

IF the hotkey prgress is active THEN show IMAGE_X (on top)

This would effectively make visible (or opaque) an image DDS file that lies directly above the normal icon. If it doesnt work for clickthru, then we could still prolly do that, but by shifting the location of said image (ie moving it from outside to inside of the parent window's borders)

Like I said, it was just a brainflash that I had in math, and might not function as flashy as i think it does. But what do you all think?