Pinco's UI

[ziggy29]

The Enable Extra Properties settings and Item Intensity settings are not being saved, but are always disabled once you log out. Can we get it to default to being Enabled?

I also noticed that we lose the custom settings for different color text based on you/pet/enemy taking damage upon logout and the next login reverts to the default.

 

[Pinco]

I'll take a look on these problems...

 

[Harlequin]

2.9e

- Fixed a critical bug with the pet window, now the lag problem is solved.
- Fixed a problem with the healthbars wod button, now it cast the right spell.

Thanks! Damn you are fast, and it's even version 3 now!

Question, has anyone figured out a way to bind different "show object" keys to different keys?

eg,
ctrl+shift shows handles for corpses only
ctrl+alt shows handles for mobs only

etc

 

[Pinco]

you can't change the object handle keys

 

[Llewen]

I posted this in another thread, but I thought I'd post it here as well. I was involved in a pretty large scale pvp battle at a spawn last night and experienced no lag. I think that's the first time I've ever had a large scale pvp battle run so smoothly, especially at a spawn. It could be the patch is primarily responsible, but clearly if there were any issues with your UI which caused lag, you have sorted them.

 

[VorteXPete]

Has anyone tried corgul lately?Last time i was there it was unplayable after 3rd fire ring..

 

[Harlequin]

you can't change the object handle keys

Oh well, was just hoping someone found a way



by teh way, would either of these be something that can be done via a mod?

1) make all container gumps appear at a specific spot on the screen (like disable offest gump) without needing to edit the lua?

2) a toggle for a larger HP numeric display, like what you did with ver 2.8. but with the top half showing HP, and the bottom half split between mana and stamina

+---------+
|   HP    |
+---------+
| MP | SP |
+---------+

3) Loot bag. A bag where all quick-looted stuff will go to

4) Un-equip bag. A bag where all items I unequip goes to



Just some suggestions. I'm not sure if some of these is even doable

 

[Pinco]

1) containers use the "cascade mode" for appears so it's not possible to change the default position without lua editing

2) I've changed the bars so you can keep the nubmers active and well visible, why you need another box for that? You can also have a hotbar with that values...

3) can't be done
4) can't be done

However, for the last 2 if I find a way, I'll try to add these features

About the toggle saving bug:
I've made some tries but I can't reproduce it:

Try to reload interface after you toggle something, and check if still enable/disable
If it's not staying is a problem of read/write on your player profile file so check the ea games documents folder and set it read write then change the permission to everyone.

 

[Harlequin]

1) containers use the "cascade mode" for appears so it's not possible to change the default position without lua editing

2) I've changed the bars so you can keep the nubmers active and well visible, why you need another box for that? You can also have a hotbar with that values...

3) can't be done
4) can't be done

However, for the last 2 if I find a way, I'll try to add these features

Thank you

The reason for point 2 is that I use 0.75 scale, so it's a bit too small (yeah I know, I just need to buy a bigger monitor). But alot of the times, just glancing at it, it's sometimes difficult to read it quickly, esp when you reach numbers that are close to each other 111, 88, 68. I'd like to take my eyes off the play area as little as possible.

At the moment, I add a hotbar just for HP, but even the numbers in the HP icon are a bit small. Current HP takes up only 25% of the total icon size. Another 25% is taken up by max hp. Final 50% is wasted space.

You diablo style HP/Mana with the number was great (I actually just want the numbers), but I use that same space for my hotbars. I tried to move the orbs, but it's not movable.

Btw, what does the scale mod option do? Does it allow me to scale just the HP bar? I don't want to change the scale of the rest of my UI.

I know, I'm a bit troublesome. Esp as soon as I find something that can be customized to my liking



For point 3, it might be possible. Looked like a japanese modder managed to do it, though I haven't seen it myself. Here's the post -

http://vboards.stratics.com/1769538-post20.html

 

[Pinco]

As I said I have to focus on it, maybe I get the way to do something

However, the scale mode allow you to scale almost everything with the mouse wheel: status, hotbars, backpack, paperdoll, healthbars, menu bar and hourglass

 

[Harlequin]

As I said I have to focus on it, maybe I get the way to do something

However, the scale mode allow you to scale almost everything with the mouse wheel: status, hotbars, backpack, paperdoll, healthbars, menu bar and hourglass

Ahhhhh!!! The scale mode will do very nicely for the HP bar! Thank you!

 

[Pinco]

update: I did the loot bag thing, will be available in the next version

 

[Pinco]

3.1

- Changed the color table for custom text selection.
- Added the cooldown timer for ethereal voyage spell on hotbars.
- Added a toggle for the book recorder and increased the efficency
- Fixed a problem with books, now you title and author will be correctly removed after the first page.
- Added the lootbag:
	* If you set a lootbag, every items right clicked on a corpse will goes inside.
	* The lootbag is europa gold colored.
	* The lootbag must be inside your backpack.
- Changed the default countdown timer color to red.

 

[Harlequin]

3.1

- Changed the color table for custom text selection.
- Added the cooldown timer for ethereal voyage spell on hotbars.
- Added a toggle for the book recorder and increased the efficency
- Fixed a problem with books, now you title and author will be correctly removed after the first page.
- Added the lootbag:
	* If you set a lootbag, every items right clicked on a corpse will goes inside.
	* The lootbag is europa gold colored.
	* The lootbag must be inside your backpack.
- Changed the default countdown timer color to red.

WOW!! You are the man!! :bowdown:

 

[Harlequin]

Quick check -

The loot bag is working great for single items. But I ran into a minor issue - quicklooting (ie right clicking) gold brings up a gump to select the amount of gold instead of bringing it directly into the loot bag. Edit - same thing happens to other stackables too.

Also, the gold doesn't stack.

Is there any setting that I am missing?

It's a bit slower than normal quicklooting directly into the mainpack as well. But this I can live with if it's normal

 

[Pinco]

I know, but the quick looting is managed by client and not by script...
I could try to avoid the amount selection, but the speed is that

 

[Harlequin]

I know, but the quick looting is managed by client and not by script...
I could try to avoid the amount selection, but the speed is that

If you can fix the amount selection, that'll be fabulous!

Ohhh, will this solve the stacking as well?



The speed I can live with

 

[Pinco]

I can't do nothing about stack, for the amount thare are 2 choices:

1) enable "hold shilft to unstack items" from options

2) I can switch the hold shift option for every item by generatig a bit of lag during the process.

Let me know what do you like more

 

[Harlequin]

Ahhh! I will learn to use option 1 then, heh

 

[Old Man of UO]

DID SOMEONE SAY WE CAN HAVE A LOOT BAG?!!

 

[Pinco]

yes, just with the new version

3.1a
- Fixed the scale of objects healthbars
- Fixed the text location of objects healthbars
- Now you can switch between single click and double click for use the hotbar items. If the double click is enable, you cannot drag the icons outside the hotbar anymore. To free a slot, just use "clear item" from context menu on each slot. With single click nothing changes.
- The perfection bar now will appear when your bushido is greater than 49 without logout.

 

[Llewen]

Unbelievable! A loot bag!

 

[Metalstorm]

*speechless*

 

[Kordullin]

I'm having problems with UI snap lately Pinco, with a 0.9 UI scale. Things don't snap to correct places, they tend to snap to the left or topside, but not right or downside.

Also, the pet window when you have pets out can't be minimised.

All with 2.9e though, will try 3.1a tomorrow.

 

[Llewen]

I'm having problems with UI snap lately Pinco, with a 0.9 UI scale. Things don't snap to correct places, they tend to snap to the left or topside, but not right or downside.

Also, the pet window when you have pets out can't be minimised.

All with 2.9e though, will try 3.1a tomorrow.

Ya, I was actually having a hard time with party bars today. I was trying to get them to all snap in a column in the bottom right of my desktop, and they weren't cooperating. They kept snapping to the top left of the desktop and wouldn't snap to each other.

 

[miniciti]

OMFG!!!! A LOOT BAG??!!!!
That is so freaking awesome!!!!!
I was thinking that that was pretty much the only thing that was missing from this, but didn't think it was possible to ask for. That is so cool! Thanks, Pinco!!

 

[Scoobs]

Pinco

I was wondering if it is possible to save the opacity settings for chat?

Also, can anyone tell me of an easy way to type speech without having to click on the speech bubble and then click on the /say?

Thanks

 

[Martyna Zmuir]

Thank you for the book recorder toggle!

Found one issue with how it saves books though.. If it uses the title as the saved text file name, you can accidentally over write books. The EM on my shard loves to name books 'Orders' and we've had several books named that in many events.

I would suggest appending the date and time to the name to ensure a unique name. Or you could go back to the combined file that the recorder output originally.


Also, I too have the issue with the "Extra Properties" & "Item Intensity" entries turning themselves off. I also lose my text choices as well. Other things seem to get saved just fine, just those ones don't

 

[Metalstorm]

Scoobs, pressing Enter brings up the speech type bar.

So press Enter, type what you want to say then press Enter again.

That was the one thing that I had trouble with when I switched to the EC.
I took to everything else very quickly but for months I would forget to hit Enter first and I would accidentally fire off an ungodly amount of macros every time I tried to speak.

I still do occasionally.

 

[Martyna Zmuir]

On Great Lakes, we call that Magical Tourette's

 

[Metalstorm]

Magical Tourette's! ROFL!!

I am so glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read that

 

[Pinco]

Also, I too have the issue with the "Extra Properties" & "Item Intensity" entries turning themselves off. I also lose my text choices as well. Other things seem to get saved just fine, just those ones don't

I'm unable to replicate this problem.
For fix it try the following steps:

- Try to enter with a character without profile (like in TC1 or in an unused shard), then try to enable extra properties.

- Relog and see if the property is enabled.


* If is not enabled (win 7 instructions):

- locate this folder: Documents\EA Games

- right click on it the "properties"

- If "read only" is checked, remove the check then "Apply"

- Go to "Security" tab

- Verify the presence of "Everyone" on "users and groups"

- If "Everyone" is missing press "Edit" button

- then "Add" button

- type "Everyone" then "OK"

- Select "Everyone" from the table and check "Full Control" then OK and OK

This should solve your problem, if you have another OS the procedure should be almost the same...

 

[Cloak&Dagger]

Pinco

I was wondering if it is possible to save the opacity settings for chat?

Also, can anyone tell me of an easy way to type speech without having to click on the speech bubble and then click on the /say?

Thanks

Could also turn legacy chat on. Or if you are needing a way to switch between the chats each chat has a "/" command "/s" for say "/c" for chat so on and so forth.

Edit: On a side note Pinco, Didn't your UI use decor's icon pack? I don't remember downloading it myself and just noticed it was not using them.

 

[Martyna Zmuir]

Pinco,

I followed all your steps, including resetting permissions on the EA Games folder... But the results are the same, when I log in the Properties/Intensity and the font choices have been reset

Strangely, when I made a new character the setting saved just fine.

Really odd. I'll poke at the character files and see if I can edit them...

Edit: I justed looked in both files, there were window position entries, but no settings were apparent from your UI...

 

[Pinco]

at this point the only thing I can do is replicate exactly your settings...

So I need to know what you have enabled or not... eventually a copy of your character file would be perfect

 

[Martyna Zmuir]

Here is what is enabled (these stay enabled through UI resets and client relaunches):

Healthbar Old Close
Pet Healthbar Old Close
WoD on Heathbars
Windows Snap
Clock
Object Handle Window


Which profile file should the settings for your UI be for my character? When I look in the Documents\EA Games\Ultima Online Stygian Abyss\User Data\AccountName\ShardName\CharName file, I don't see ANY settings for the Pinco UI. Where are these hidden?

I can send you the file, PM me your email addy.

 

[Old Man of UO]

Pinco, got some strange results from versions 3.1 and 3.1a.

After a few minutes, the overhead text with damage and spell names gets stuck and never leaves the screen.

The Enable Extra Properties doesn't work at all, and the toolbar lost the extra icon functions that you added. I've even downloaded the files from your site a second time and re-installed just to be sure there wasn't a corrupted file, even removed the icons and textures from Decor to be sure that wasn't it.

From Version 3.1a - Missing new icons

From Version 2.9e

 

[woody]

same thing on bar ,also could not get item properties to work

 

[Pinco]

if the bar is not full means that the UI is not started correctly.
With the Martyna's files I found something very usefull to fix the loading problem, but I need to know if you login with the map open or not and what other window do you have at startup.

Thanks

 

[Old Man of UO]

Here are my settings:

 

[woody]

map not open lol i logged in went and open it logged out with open and when i logged back in with map open got full menu

 

[Old Man of UO]

Pinco, I have a request for a new feature for the runebook and spellbook.

Runebook - is it possible to have sort arrows (up/down) to move runes up or down in the runebook?

Spellbook - is it possible to have Custom spell pages where I can add my own default spells, much like the Skills gump that has a custom page?

Thanks

 

[Pinco]

ok, the problem is tied to the opened map at startup, I've fixed it, but until the next version try to login with the map open to avoid the problem

About the request: I'm looking what can I do, I'll tell you something later

 

[Pinco]

3.1b
- The book recorder now save the book in the following format: [<book ID>] <book title>.txt
- The hotbars key text now is limited to 4 characters.
- Fixed a problem with the healthbar old close. Now if you close an healthbar, the object handle will not being ignored.
- Fixed a bug which prevents the loading of UI settings on profiles with the map closed at startup.

 

[Martyna Zmuir]

:bowdown: Damn you're fast Pinco!

Keep up the EXCELLENT WORK!

 

[Old Man of UO]

:bowdown: Damn you're fast Pinco!

Keep up the EXCELLENT WORK!

WHAT she said!

Everything seems to be working correctly now! Thanks, Pinco.

 

[Pinco]

3.1c

- Now on test center you will not see imbuing informations about your character.
- Changed the Mobiles on Screen textures, now is compatible with texture packs.
- Changed "Use Default Enhanced Client Settings" to "Use Pinco's UI suggested settings":
	* Always run: disabled
	* Ignore Mouse action on self: enabled
	* Hold shift to unstack items: enabled
	* Default corpse view mode: list
	* Mouse scroll action (up and down): none
	* UI scale: 0.85

The snap problems actually cannot be solved. So if you want to put something in a good position, just disable the snap from settings and move the windows manually

 

[Harlequin]

3.1c

- Now on test center you will not see imbuing informations about your character.
- Changed the Mobiles on Screen textures, now is compatible with texture packs.
- Changed "Use Default Enhanced Client Settings" to "Use Pinco's UI suggested settings":
	* Always run: disabled
	* Ignore Mouse action on self: enabled
	* Hold shift to unstack items: enabled
	* Default corpse view mode: list
	* Mouse scroll action (up and down): none
	* UI scale: 0.85

The snap problems actually cannot be solved. So if you want to put something in a good position, just disable the snap from settings and move the windows manually

Not sure if they are referring to the same problem I was having with the windows snap, but what I did is to toggle back to the default UI to snap the hotbars, then toggle back to your UI.

 

[Pinco]

then I have to check it, but you can disable snap for a quick positioning

 

[Meat Elemental]

Pinco love the ui!! Is there a way to change the gumps for items when you press shift+control to something more transparent or smaller? I remember in 3D it was much easier to pick something out, especially in your house like this pic of my house.