Bottom to top group window ?

[maximoz]

Anyone know what i should do to make the default group window starts from bottom and populate upwards, ie group member 1 will always be on the bottom follow by group member 2 and so on? Thanks!

[mother9987]

It could be a challenge as the way I remember the group window working, it resized itself and positioned the members inside even though it's not a volume fill.

Are you looking for a window that appears to grow upwards like:

________ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ 5555
________ ____ ____ ____ ____ 4444 4444
________ ____ ____ 3333 3333 3333 3333
________ ____ 2222 2222 2222 2222 2222
________ 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111

Or that appears to grow down with member 1 always on bottom?

1111 2222 3333 4444 5555
____ 1111 2222 3333 4444
____ ____ 1111 2222 3333
____ ____ ____ 1111 2222
____ ____ ____ ____ 1111

My guess is that you'll have to use a lot of onShow and OnHide scripts to attempt to override the default behavior of the group window, but I wish you luck. Could be a cool mod to see!

[gm9]

Actually it should be fairly simple, copy the default eq2ui_mainhud_groupmembers.xml into your custom UI folder, open it in a text editor (I tend to recommend notepad++) and exchange just the text "GroupMember1" with "GroupMember5" and "GroupMember2" with "GroupMember4" (exchange it both ways, ie 1 becomes 5 and 5 becomes 1, same for 2 and 4).

Edit: Forgot something, it's not quite as simple after GU44, you also need to exchange Group_1/Group_5 and Group_2/Group_4. Each of those should be appearing 5 times.

[Landiin]

You sure that works gm9? It has been a while but If i recall the group window is hard coded to autofill gm1 to gm5 Left to right or top to bottom no matter where their actual node is in the window.

[gm9]

Haven't tested this, but actually I'm fairly certain it will work. From what I remember about the hardcoding it affects the placement but not the contents. Just go ahead and try it maximoz, that edit will only take a couple of seconds.

[maximoz]

Am looking for the first layout you posted mother :

________ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ 5555
________ ____ ____ ____ ____ 4444 4444
________ ____ ____ 3333 3333 3333 3333
________ ____ 2222 2222 2222 2222 2222
________ 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111

And i did tried the changing group member 1 to 5 and 2 to 4 and so on but it still didn't do what i wanted as posted above on mothers layout. It reverted back to the default top bottom layout as ladiin mentioned.

Am going try what you suggested on the edit and see if it works, gm9!

Thanks all for the reply.

[Drumstix42]

If you just edit it and keep it at a size where it shows everything, and make it not resizable, it should be do-able.

[maximoz]

Originally Posted by Drumstix42

If you just edit it and keep it at a size where it shows everything, and make it not resizable, it should be do-able.

Hmmm that sounds like a good idea lol

Thanks ... will try this method too

[Landiin]

Originally Posted by Drumstix42

If you just edit it and keep it at a size where it shows everything, and make it not resizable, it should be do-able.

That might be what I was remembering, if you resized the window it would auto rearranged members. I am way to lazy to retest this so report back your findings :P

[maximoz]

Ok, i tried gm9's suggested method of copy/paste the whole chunk of code from grp5,4,3,2,1 for 5 times and well that didn't work unless i misread what gm9 was telling?

Edit: Ok tried the fix size method and still no luck ... oh well ... will stick to the default way then.

Thanks for all the help guys!

[gm9]

No, no copy & paste required for my method, just replacing some numbers. See attached, might yet work.

[maximoz]

Originally Posted by gm9

No, no copy & paste required for my method, just replacing some numbers. See attached, might yet work.

Tried it out and still no go

Thanks much for the help gm9!

[gm9]

Ok, was worth a try.

[maximoz]

Yeah, at least we know it's hardcorded in terms of layout for the group windows

[Landiin]

I thought it was, but it had been a long time since I tried that so thought maybe something had changed.