broker suggestion
 

Love the UI but would like to see one thing added. Is there anyway to get a button on the broker window where we can buy quantities?

I had this same problem. I used the 2.4.1 bags after reading your post and it fixed it. Thank!

You can. Hold shift while clicking the Buy Button and you get the selector window with the slider so you can select the amount you want to buy. Or just hold CTRL to buy the whole stack. :)

The only thing I really miss from the old broker window was the way it calculated the total price on a stack when you held your mouse over the Buy button.

@Urchin42 No problemo - these little snafu's are bound to happen on big updates like this so I always keep older versions around just in case hehe. gm9, poor thing, will probably fix the new bags when time allows. :)

Having trouble with large xp numbers in the experience window. The number are basically illegible. Is there something I need to set?


Thanks in advance.


Ceoin

fonts too small, complicated
 

Ok I love Profit but lately I've developed a list of things I don't like.
Without font smoothing off, the tooltip text is too fat to be really legible and the font in the raid window and other places is too skinny. With font smoothing on, it's perfect, except you lose the nice scripty font for a drab plain substitute. The botton bar text is also way too skinny and looks bad.

I try to customize my setup each time because frankly, i hate the new condenced inventory window and the new EQ button's sound window is nice, but pushes the menu too high on the screen.

At least one bug exists in the spell effects list on the player in the grp window. The saved searches don't work. When you save one and recall it, it changes only some things, not everything. The timer in 2.5.1 is also not functional.

I wish I knew enough to do my own coding but that ui builder software seems like junk to me. Way to difficult to work with.

2.4 bags fixed movement issue
 

After Pixi's suggestion, I went back to the 2.4 bags and it has fixed the issue.

Thanks for the tip!

//lollygagger

First, just wanted to say many thanks for continuing to update this great UI mod. /cheer

Second, I am having trouble locating my Conjuror pet's command center window. I've messed around with cycling through F10, unlocking windows and turning off click through options, etc. I've moved around everything on my screen in vain.

Now as I stare at my pet, I realize I can't give him any orders or change his combat stance! Please tell me how to get that window back. Thanks in advance!

alas, I find that using this UI isn't intuitive. Something triggered a huge block to appear in the midst of my screen which I could not remove.

3 bars appeared each of which listed info about me while ignoring my pet and which I could not remove no matter how I used my mouse.

No intuitive way to establish more chat boxes or edit them.

Many options for each thing on the screen were no longer available. And, no help on how to customize them, etc.

thanks
Alc

I find the UI quite nice, thou I must admit it needs some adjusting before it was usable to me.

For example, I had to drag guild chat and tell chat to different windows in top of that window which contains all those chat channels - I found it awkward to "poll" different channels, by pressing corresponding buttons in the chat window - to able to see what they say in guild channel, did I got a tell and what ppl in grp chat spoke.

Also it'd be nice, since the exp bar thing consist of three different experience shown, that there would be some indication what the current exp is. Is it tradeskill exp, regular exp or achievement exp.

Also include lfg button in future version of profitui reborn. I'd also like see an option to open all bags, without using a macro.

I upgraded to the Profit Reborn today because of the patch making my old Profit unable to access brokers.

Only thing I miss is the stats (str int etc) bar that used to be connected to the experience window in the old version.

Is this something that just wasn't included or am I missing something.

Hey.

I have some problems with the clock. As you can see the times get cut off since they are not centered. Had this problem with any Profit UI version I remember, but corrected it by myself with the ui editor. Maybe you want to include a fix in your releases (if a fix is needed *shrug*).

I am playing on a german localized server, so maybe that causes this problem..

Greetings
Kaldran

Found following bug: The create button is missing at the bottom from the tradeskill window. Also the scrollbar seems to be a bit of position (to far to the left). This problem occurs after an upgrade from the Profit UI 2.4.1 and also after a clean install of the 2.5.1 UI version.

I'm having a problem with 2 things in the upgraded Profit UI.

1. The spell effects window lists what spell you are casting, however it does not show who it is on, self, group member ect.

2. I also miss the browse option to browse "store owner" :/

If I delete the store xml's, will the UI automatically pull the default store/market window? Just really would like the option to browse for store owner. :(

thanks for your hard work
but just want to ask is trade skill window changed or it is bugged ?
also expand button not work
thanks ~

I'm having problems with the tradeskill window as well. There is a minor cosmetic issue with the scrollbar appearing in the middle of the window, but more seriously, I'm unable to actually start creating any recipes, selecting the recipe does nothing.

EDIT: Reverted to the 2.4.1 version and it's fine, so that works for now.

New broker window does not have the drop Items button under the slots either, had to revert to the default. Also my Target and Implied Target do not have a blue upper border, looks like the default Target and Implied. ANy help with these would be great. Had no problem tradeskilling with my 70 Carpenter and noticed nothing out of the ordinary with that.

Faedia.

Wow, did I break all this alone or did a horde of orks run through the UI?! :D

I'll fix the tradeskill, timer, and bag window, and I'll look at the group window to see what's wrong there, too (instead of posting that you always edit it, nomad980, it would have been helpful to tell me what you change - it's rather difficult to fix things that work for me and are broken only for others...). EDIT: I think I found it.

Saved searches in the market window are working fine for me.

Calculating the price of a stack in the old broker window was done by the server, which doesn't do this anymore. EDIT: Actually this works fine for me.

It's not possible to do what Ikeprof suggested, sorry.

EDIT: Browsing by owner doesn't work anymore. SOE removed this because you can't sell online anymore. Maybe they'll put it back in with LU25 when NPC vendors in your house are supposed to go in. I'd like this back as well and did already /feedback this a while ago on test.

The font debate - well, the reason why I went away from smoothed fonts was the everybody keeps reporting alignment issues. The EQ2 enginge doesn't do a good job of rendering them and they appear in different positions on different systems. What Kaldran reports above with the clock window is one example of this. If I use the non-smoothed fonts, then I know that they will look identical for everybody. I'll have a look at where font placement is not critical and swap back to smoothed fonts there in case the current release changed it. Placement is criticial for the stats bars and the XP numbers, for example. I guess the clock will be added to the list.

The broker window's buy and sell pages being on different pages annoys me as well. The only problem is that the window will become huge if I place them side by side. Might do it anyway sometime in the future...

For the broker window, here won't be a "drop items" button since you can just drop items in the bottom area where the items are listed. If you want to create a stack if identical items, make sure to drop on that item.

Pet window is Alt+P, open all bags is "b" or whatever button you assign to it. The (implied) target window top bars will be hidden if you hide the window frame.

Could someone who had problems with the bags before please test the attached bags and let me know if they work? Thanks!

--- download removed ---

Servers just went down, but ill test the bag file in an hour.

For people posting about the missing create button on the TS window a work around is to drag the wanted recipe icon to a hotbar, target the work station and hit the hotkey. Once you have done this once the create button seems to reappear for untill you close the window.

Hope this helps...

The other workaround is to right click on the recipe or double-click on the icon.

I have everything else fixed (*crosses fingers*) and ready for release now, btw, just waiting for confirmation on the bags.

Confirmed

I have not seen the bag problem repeat with the new .xml file that you attached :nana:

Edit: Checked on 4 seperate toons, (I have altitus) and have not seen the bug with the new bag file. Thats the first time my fury has been logged on on 3 months!!

-Minor issue, missing icon in group windows, the icons appears properly for ur grp members but is grey for u.


-I didnt read the entire changelog so i dont know if its intented but in the maintainded spell windows under the spell icon i cant see the name of the person on wich i cast the spell.

-Lastly in the maintained spells windows again the spell icon for which there is a timer (ie: mount, roots , etc) are blinking.

Anyway great UI as usual thx and keep up the good work :)

Edit: forgot to mention that in the raid windows the raid leader's name appears orange as usual but the group leader from the other group does not appear yellow as it used to (its just white so noway to tell who is grp leader when looking at raid windows)

Broker window
 

Got some cosmetic problems with the broker window from 2.5.1.

I get Today's broker commision is 90%
Unable to sort the selling tab by price or for sale or not.

The buy quantity option missing did sony remove that functionality.

Other than those minor niggles love it.

I have many of the same bugs as already reported and one more... the big XP% isn't accurate. At one point it said 10.8%, then after a kill, it changed to 10.2%. Then a little while later, with no xp gain, it went to 11.4%.

It's just jumping around a bit, sometimes goes down with XP gain, sometimes up, and is only accurate if you wait for awhile after gaining XP.

IMO, this is the best UI for the game. Great work!

Thanks Tokamak!

raph_taz, the maintained window target thing is broken by SOE. I can't reproduce the blinking. Anybody else got that? Can't really be related to ProfitUI, though, there is absolutely no code in there to make it blink...
The raid window was not touched, so that must be SOE's doing as well (unless people with the default UI did see it correctly, but I think the relevant code is identical between ProfitUI and the DefaultUI).

Nomand, SOE changed the behaviour so you have to hit shift for quantity and Ctrl for stack. Awkward at first but you're getting used to it real quick. The other issue is already fixed in the current download I think, you must have been one of the first downloaders of 2.5.1 from the thread where I had missed at first that this wasn't working on live (that window was perfect on test :p).

justletmein, all UI's have that problem, it's a rounding error on SOE's end. For example, I just had 100.8% :D - there's an intentional display issue for 100% btw, this will be cut to "00" to save space.

I got that too. The icon and the remaining time for spells with timers flickers, the spell name does not. I don't see a system in the flickering though, it is pretty much random.

I see it as well now. Also happens with the DefaultUI, so nothing I can do. :(

ProfitUI 2.5.2
 

Here we go, ProfitUI 2.5.2. I'd like to call it the "end of all bugs" release but I'm sure you'll tell me otherwise. :D

Changelog 2.5.1 -> 2.5.2 :
FIXED: Bag positions were not saving for everybody
FIXED: Broker window, sell tab list could not be sorted by "Listed" and "Price"
FIXED: Group window effects on self were not showing correctly
FIXED: Tradeskill window recipe list and expand buttons working correctly again
FIXED: Timer window is functional again

Changed a lot of fonts around again in response to feedback on this

Updated Milquetowst InfoCenter to latest version.

DefaultUI settings for 1280x1024 adjusted, default bags/boxes locations now correct for 32 slot boxes

Hi,

By pressing 'B' key I get bags opened - all but one bag. I wonder why?

This is for 2.5.1, haven't yet tried 2.5.2 :D

Lol, I'm a dork, I completely missed that they put the search for the store owner back into the DefaultUI (/feedback ftw). Give me a few minutes, new release is incoming. :D :D

No idea for the bags, ixoth, sorry. 2.5.2 won't help you there, the command has nothing to do with the UI.

Ok, finally got this working.


Some things I'd like some answers too if possible:

Why cannot I have more than 3 hotbars open?
What on earth is that block of stuff that shows when I click on the clock???
Moving the hotbars was an extreme aggravation! I'm not even sure how I finally was able to move them.
Why are there no less than 3 displays for anything I target? And these are all over the screen.
Decorative 'frames' around target displays cannot be removed with any command.
Hide Hotbar button only hides one and it's the primary only, I think.
How do I know for sure that I have the right resolution chosen? See no option to select this anywhere.

*If I install 2.5.2, will all the work I've done on getting this operating as I wish be saved or do I have to go through all this again? :D

What is the meaning for three rectangles in a line? One shows my status, the others show targets, but a mouse-over on any of them (even with something else targeted) reveals a pop-up with more info on my character. I think there is some redundancy going on.

The upper left corner display features are nowhere explained. Nothing shows on mouse over. Concentration bar uses colors for default exp progression. The XP bar (or data) makes no sense to me at all. Also, I dislike the pixelated numbers and text and the percentages of whatever mean nothing to me.

On one display (possibly pet status) red type is used on a neon green bar. This is a major no-no in graphic design as it will activate red/green color-blindness in many male players. Doesn't effect me, but I know many who would be. Also, red type on green (while complimentary colors) is discordant, but the font is so small, the green + red blend making brown and unreadable.

The italic, brush font I dislike very much--especially when I have to see it in all those redundant status displays.

HO flashing display is locked in place directly behind where main chat goes! I have to move chat somewhere else???

help, please

thanks
Alc

Don't be so harsh mate, its still good UI despite some minor things.

Thanks....
 

Just wanted to drop by and say thanks for all the hard work you've done on this UI.

Its my UI of choice now, partly because of the looks and appearance. But also because your in here posting and fixing and had an updated UI ready for LU24.

Again......thanks :)



T

First of all: Thanks for this really GREAT UI. I really like it a lot.

But: With the latest version (currently 2.5.2) and the new (non-antialiased) font, there are a few minor issues:

Some background: I am a german player and play on a german server. As you probably guess, some ingame texts have been localized (there has been the rumour of a fully translated game, when we bought it, but...).
For Example South-Qeynos is "Süd-Qeynos" in German. But the pixel-font (non-antialiased) font does not include glyphs for the german umlauts (ä,ö,ü etc.). So they are missing, for example on the Zone Display in the compass.
You should try to avoid this font alltogether if you wanted to support players of other language versions (french has the same problem with different characters).

Thanks a lot,
please keep up the work,
and best regards,
Laenny

Alcarion, no comment, and please use another UI.

Laenny, good point, I admit that I forgot about that (being German as well, btw, but that language chaos on the German servers was too much for me, so I'm on Runnyeye). However, in v2.5.2 I had already changed back to the standard font so it should be working now. :confused:

You can have more than three hotbars open. Right click one of the open ones and select the proper choice to get more. I have like six hotbars open at any given time.

Moving hotbars is, indeed, tricky. When I need to shuffle them around I just move one of the skill icons out of the way and use the empty square to drag the hotbars.

The "block of stuff" that appears when you click the clock is a set of timers. You can stretch the window out a bit and you'll see more options for setting various lengths etc. For more explanations look for Mother's Timer Window - there's a link on the Profit download page.

I'm not sure what you mean by only having 3 displays when you target something.

I haven't seen any decorative frames around target that didn't look like they belong there either but try to play with the Frame settings in the window option. There's a dropdown there that has up to three choices ranging from no frame at all to frame & titlebar.

I've never tried to hide hotbars so I'm not sure what the problem is with that either.

There is no "right" resolution for this UI. It's adaptable to most resolutions. I know some windows can be tricky to move around but all of them *are* movable so just spend a few minutes cursing at the screen and you'll get it right hehe. I play at 1600x1200 and have my own little setup, including the letterbox thingies so it's all down to how you want it to look. There's no *need* to use the ini files that comes with the download, though. You won't miss out on anything if you don't use them.

If you install the latest version you will not lose any setup you've done with the windows. Some windows might be locked or have Click Through enabled but the positioning will be the same unless you decide to use one of the default ini files.

The three rectangles is You -> Target -> Target of Target. And yes, a certain amount of redundancy it is so hide it if you don't want to use it. I personally love it since it can sit nice and snug near my chatwindows and hotbuttons so I can keep an eye on things without having to look to the top of the screen but hey, the UI is mucho adaptable so hide it if you don't use it hehe.

The upper left display holds your experience gain numbers. Depending on how your frame options are set (Frame, Frame & Titlebar etc) you will either see a long row of fancy colored numbers (your tradeskill, adventure, guild, advancement point - experience displayed in % ) that you can mouse over to see your current personal status, runspeed, power and health regen etc. If you have Frame Only (or possibly "None" - I forget, typing from memory) it will be locked on the runspeed/regen page and mousing over will not do anything (xp display will be hidden).

The pixelated font is a matter of taste really and I'm not extatic about it either but I can live with it. The rest of the UI is fantastic so I can deal with that hehe. You can change it but that requires a lot of fiddling with fonts and xml code so I can't help you there - not quite sure how to do it myself. Same goes for the italic brush font - it's changable but someone smarter than me will have to explain how it's done.

Pet window is nothing that I use but you can always revert back to the original petwindow by browsing into your ProfitUI folder and deleting the file named like so: eq2ui_mainhud_pet.xml. Deleting that file will load the default petwindow next time you log on.

If your HO window seems unmovable make sure that the boxes in the Window Options labled "Locked" and "Click Through Enabled" are *not* ticked. The click through thing has a tendency to make things a bit frustrating in any UI hehe. Either do it the next time someone fires a HO or press F10 once to make all on-screen windows visible. Press F10 again (I think twice) to bring the ui back to its normal state.

Phew, that's all I can help you with. I understand that it's aggravating and frustrating but once you get the hang of it it's not that hard. Also, gm9 is a player just like you and is doing all this work volountarily and on his free time so even if you feel annoyed try to be gentle. :)

what can say u?? good good work i like always more, im my guild i've suggested to install this Ui and many guildm8 thank me.
I want know one thig there's alittle isue with bar bottom when i put mouse over ( atk, mit,avoid etcc) doesn't compare tooltip.Can u fix?^^
enjoy^^

ProfitUI 2.5.3
 

Here's the broker window patch, Dolby went lightspeed and took 10 seconds to validate this (thanks!), so get it at the download location.

Changelog 2.5.2 -> 2.5.3 :
Added possibilty to search for seller name to broker window again (I swear this wasn't working before...grumble...).
FIXED: Font and Font color in pet window had accidentally been changed

I'm going to get some playtime now so unless I notice anything fundamental you'll be spared another update tonight. :D

Edit to add:
aigor,, thanks mate, and dunno how I managed to break the tooltips but I'll fix this (no extra release for this though, and you can just use the bar from 2.4.1 in the meantime).

Answers for Alcarion,

1) I have 6 hotbars open at once and you can add more as you please, not sure where you are going wrong on that one. Just right click on a current hotbar and hightlight add new hotbar.
2) If you had read the release note below the main download for Profit Reborn you would have seen it is Mother's timer. You can use it to remind yourself or group when a zone lockout is over or a particular mod has respawned.
3) When you right click the hotbars you have to uncheck the box click thru. I also clear one hotkey in the bar im trying to move to make some dead space since there is not any on the outsides of the bar. So remove an icon and click the space where it was to move the hotbar where you like.
4) As far as I know there are only two displays for the Target. The target window at the top shows a detailed con of your target and the implied. The target bar above the hotbar icons shows your target / self / and implied. This is so that you don't have to take your eyes away from the bottom of the screen when in combat ( which I find very useful ). If you don't like it you can always move it off to the side and turn the window opac off until its invisible.
5) There are two types of con modes "Detailed" and "Simple" , to remove the decorative frames go into your options menu and go to UI tab and then scroll down to name and chatbubble section. That is where you can change the frame from simple to detailed.
6) I have never used the hide hotbar before so no comment on that one.
7) Well if you did not have to select a resolution at the start then your install was most likely not correct. Re-install Profit Reborn II just extract everything in the zip to your C:\Program Files\Sony\EverQuest II folder. It will ask you if you want to overwrite the files, click yes to all. Now in that same folder C:\Program Files\Sony\EverQuest II find the file named "servername_Alcarion_eq2_uisettings" just add .bak or .old to the end of that name and you should be all set. When you enter the game again it should ask you what resolution you wish to use. Yes it will undo all of the work you did to adjust the UI before. If you wish to return to the UI setup you worked on delete the new "servername_alcarion_eq2_uisettings file and after its deleted take the .bak or .old off the one you had before and it will load the UI the way you set it up before.

Damn you Pixi beat me to it.. lol well I'll post this anyways maybe some of the info helps.

Oh forgot Alcarion for your HO box your most likely going to have to try and resize the chat window smaller just for a minute so that you can get to the HO box to move it then resize the chat back. As for the red lettering on green background, I don't have any red on green in my install as far as I'm aware of.

NOTE to gm9 I was unable to move the chat windows at all, created a new chat window and was unable to move that one as well, so for the meantime I am using Zchat window. Also I didn't notice until others brought it up but in the maintained spell window the target of the spell is not being displayed ( the middle text line ) not sure if this was a result of the LU24 update.

Thanks again for everything gm9, happy venturing my friend :D

:nana:


Well, time for Pixi to whine a little haha. I have 2.5.3 installed.

Broker Window:
The list at the bottom of the window (Your Available Coin) is lying to me. It's filled with 9's hehe. Not that I would mind to own 999999 plat but alas, I don't.

Chat Window:
The little X in the top right corner doesn't hide on mouse-out anymore. I have a fully transparent chatwindow that doesn't do anything but display damage done and damage taken. Previous chatwindows would hide fine and I'd be left with just a string of green and red numbers but now I have an X floating in the middle of the screen hehe. I've tried toying with the frame options but the only way I've found to hide it so far is to make the entire window transparent - including the text.

I've reverted back to 2.4.1 chatwindow for now so no big deal, I just wanted to let ya know. Other than that I couldn't be happier - love the UI and all you brainiac's never cease to amaze me with your skills. :)

Edit: 2.5.3 baggies are working a treat. No dead space either. Thanks.