Thanks Devs! We can now stock vendors in grid mode on the EC!

[BeaIank]

The default EC interface is now doing a MUCH better job at stacking and organizing the items in legacy containers.

Stocked the vendor on EC:



Here is how it shows on Legacy containers after the new publish:


Thank you so much for this. Having to enter legacy to check if everything was properly placed was fairly annoying.
This makes our lives so much easier.

 

[Gilmour]

it have done that for ages, problem comes when you stock items of different sizes

 

[Yadd of Legends]

I wasn't aware of that change. I'll have to check it out, thanks

 

[BeaIank]

it have done that for ages, problem comes when you stock items of different sizes

Even my backpack looked neat and organized when I toggled legacy mode this morning. It was a first for me.
I hated having to switch to legacy to try to get items organized properly, which it never did on my ATL vendor.
This time, some sort of sorcery happened on my Legends vendor.

I will try put some different sized items there later on to check, anyway.

Edit: Something definitely changed:


I have never seen it stack items on the legacy container like this before the publish.

 

[MalagAste]

Wow nice. I've never looked at things in Legacy mode anymore but that's pretty nice.

 

[Thrakkar]

The default EC interface is now doing a MUCH better job at stacking and organizing the items in legacy containers.

Here is how it shows on Legacy containers after the new publish:

That has been the case since the release of EC. That's nothing new.
It always worked well with grids with 5 or less columns. If you go to grid only mode (no legacy gump gfx) and you have a grid with 5+ columns, you'll notice, that the EC will try to emulate a "line break", which will start to look wierd. As far as I could figure out, it placed the item at coordinates x/y = ColumnIndex*HorizontalOffset/RowIndex*VerticalOffset. Should x exceed the maximum legacy container gump size, it will "break over to the next line". Also it would mean, that you could mess it up, if you stock up a container and in between you're increasing or decreasing the number of columns.

But yeah, with that grid in legacy containers you're stuck at 5 columns per container and you won't run into those problems. That's probably the reason, why you noticed it now (Still not the new publish, that's in since the new default UI was released )

 

[Uriah Heep]

Yeah! What he said!!! ^^^

 

[BeaIank]

That has been the case since the release of EC. That's nothing new.
It always worked well with grids with 5 or less columns. If you go to grid only mode (no legacy gump gfx) and you have a grid with 5+ columns, you'll notice, that the EC will try to emulate a "line break", which will start to look wierd. As far as I could figure out, it placed the item at coordinates x/y = ColumnIndex*HorizontalOffset/RowIndex*VerticalOffset. Should x exceed the maximum legacy container gump size, it will "break over to the next line". Also it would mean, that you could mess it up, if you stock up a container and in between you're increasing or decreasing the number of columns.

But yeah, with that grid in legacy containers you're stuck at 5 columns per container and you won't run into those problems. That's probably the reason, why you noticed it now (Still not the new publish, that's in since the new default UI was released )

I find this very weird. On all my accounts, legacy containers seemed to just put the items in a random position and order. And I have been using the default UI since it was revamped.
I have always used the 5 columns containers, and every time I switched to legacy, the items would either be scattered at random or grouped in a blob in the centre of the legacy container. It was a major pain and still happened right before the publish went live, when I tried to stock a vendor on ATL.
Suddenly, it started to look neat like that after the publish. So, I am pretty pleased that this finally happened on my end.

 

[Thrakkar]

I find this very weird. On all my accounts, legacy containers seemed to just put the items in a random position and order. And I have been using the default UI since it was revamped.
I have always used the 5 columns containers, and every time I switched to legacy, the items would either be scattered at random or grouped in a blob in the centre of the legacy container. It was a major pain and still happened right before the publish went live, when I tried to stock a vendor on ATL.
Suddenly, it started to look neat like that after the publish. So, I am pretty pleased that this finally happened on my end.

It still can go to a random location in legacy mode, if you just drop the item on the icon of the bag (in that case it will go to the next free cell in grid mode, starting from the top row, going left, then the next row, etc...)
But if you deliberately put it into the gump into a certain cell, it will calculate the legacy mode coordinates based on column- and row-index.
TBH, I have no idea, if the scroll bar can affect that calculation, never tried that or paid attention.

Anyways, glad you like it