[Tech Help] Newibie Questions about Ultima Online Stygian Abyss Client UI Manual V.1

[athos_uo]

Could someone please answer my primitive questions?

There is Custom_UI_Documentation.zip file now in \UserInterface directory.

I have extractied this file and followed instructions of the documentation, but I have failed at the first step.

SampleWindow won't come up.

I have added "<Include file="Source/SampleWindow.xml" />" to \UserInterface\test\Interface.xml.
I have added "CreateWindow( "SampleWindow", false )" to \UserInterface\test\Interface.lua.

I have created "SampleWindow.xml" in \UserInterface\test\Source as instructed.
I have created "SampleWindow.lua" in \UserInterface\test\Source as instructed.

I have typed on console: "/script WindowSetShowing("SampleWindow", true).

But nothing happened.

I have called debugwindow, set Logs(On) and Reload UI.

I could find some errors about UI:
[09/12/01][09:55:32] [Error]: Script Call failed - Error while calling [SampleWindow.Shutdown]:
[string "UserInterface/test/Source/SampleWindow.lua"]:12: attempt to call field 'SaveSettings' (a nil value)
[09/12/01][09:55:33] [Error]: Error Loading XML Definition $parentBackground: Template HUDBackgroundBlack not found
[09/12/01][09:55:33] [Error]: Error Loading XML Definition $parentTitleBar: Template DefaultWindowTitleBar not found
[09/12/01][09:55:33] [Error]: Error Loading XML Definition $parentClose: Template DefaultWindowCloseButton not found
[09/12/01][09:55:33] [Error]: Error Loading XML Definition $parentBottomFrame: Template DefaultWindowResizeBottomFrame not found
[09/12/01][09:55:33] [Error]: Script Call failed - Error while calling [SampleWindow.Initialize]:
[string "UserInterface/test/Source/SampleWindow.lua"]:4: attempt to call field 'LoadSettings' (a nil value)

What is wrong?

 

[Gildar]

The lines in Initialize and Shutdown are not valid for the EC client.

Use...

WindowUtils.RestoreWindowPosition( "SampleWindow" )

and

WindowUtils.SaveWindowPosition( "SampleWindow" )

instead.

 

[athos_uo]

The lines in Initialize and Shutdown are not valid for the EC client.

Use...

WindowUtils.RestoreWindowPosition( "SampleWindow" )

and

WindowUtils.SaveWindowPosition( "SampleWindow" )

instead.

Oh, thanks! Hmm, I see, WindowUtil.lua includes various functions about handling windows. WindosUtil.lua of now doesn't have functions of WindowUtils.LoadSetting() or WindowUtils.SaveSettings() and they are substituted with their successors....

* I thought of one thing and went to sub-PC and read the old manual for KR *

Boo, it can't be, perhaps the new manual is the same as that of KR?

 

[Gildar]

The KR client actually never had the SaveSettings and LoadSettings calls either. The manual is a mix of KR/EC stuff and WAR client stuff. Most of it is valid for all three clients, but some of it isn't appropriate for the EC.

 

[athos_uo]

The KR client actually never had the SaveSettings and LoadSettings calls either. The manual is a mix of KR/EC stuff and WAR client stuff. Most of it is valid for all three clients, but some of it isn't appropriate for the EC.

Thanks again!

I feel this is the first time that I really know when I should say "Oh, my God".

I hope that this client will be not mere mixture of useful functions, but made synthetically under some good principles suitable for UO.