Problem adding InvSlotx to mainhud

[manoel]

Hey folks

I'm trying to add a row with the 6 inventory bags to my main hud, but not having any luck. I can get the row and 6 icons to show up, but the contents of the slots doesn't show up. I compared to several other custom UI's, but can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. The DynamicData and Name fields are correct.

Anyone have a suggestion of what to check? Is there some trick to making dynamic data appear in a window it wasn't in before?

Thanks

[Laffs]

Make a new page under mainhud and call the file somthing like "eq2ui_mainhud_mywindow.xml"

Then for the actual page name its got to be called "Inventory" for it to work.

Hope that makes sense

[Agathorn]

Also bear in mind that this is a semi hardcoded setup on EQ2's part, and while you can get them to display in MainHUD like Laffs has shown, they will not work for any drag and drop operations. If a user tries to drag and drop something in the mainhud inventory the game will CTD.

[manoel]

Do I need to make a separate XML file for the other window to refer to? What I did was add a page to the eq2ui_mainhud_startbutton window so that I'm not creating a new window (I think this is what Agathorn is talking about)

I extended the window size to accomodate the new page then added the content below within the main page. The layout comes out right in UIBuilder and in-game, but the icons just look like clouded squares and don't do anything when I click them.

<Page AbsorbsInput="false" BackgroundColor="#00FF00" eq2usescomwndcontrols="true" Location="0,48" Name="AutoInventory" PackLocation="fixed,fixed" ScrollExtent="230,37" Size="230,37">
<Icon BackgroundTint="#000000" DynamicData="/GameData.Items.Inventory" IconStyle="/IconStyles.inventory" Location="165,1" MouseOverColor="#FFFF00" Name="InvSlot5" ScrollExtent="30,30" Size="30,30" TreatAsButton="true"/>
<Icon BackgroundTint="#000000" DynamicData="/GameData.Items.Inventory" IconStyle="/IconStyles.inventory" Location="132,1" MouseOverColor="#FFFF00" Name="InvSlot4" ScrollExtent="30,30" Size="30,30" TreatAsButton="true"/>
<Icon BackgroundTint="#000000" DynamicData="/GameData.Items.Inventory" IconStyle="/IconStyles.inventory" Location="99,1" MouseOverColor="#FFFF00" Name="InvSlot3" ScrollExtent="30,30" Size="30,30" TreatAsButton="true"/>
<Icon BackgroundTint="#000000" DynamicData="/GameData.Items.Inventory" IconStyle="/IconStyles.inventory" Location="66,1" MouseOverColor="#FFFF00" Name="InvSlot2" ScrollExtent="30,30" Size="30,30" TreatAsButton="true"/>
<Icon BackgroundTint="#000000" DynamicData="/GameData.Items.Inventory" IconStyle="/IconStyles.inventory" Location="33,1" MouseOverColor="#FFFF00" Name="InvSlot1" ScrollExtent="30,30" Size="30,30" TreatAsButton="true"/>
<Icon BackgroundTint="#000000" DynamicData="/GameData.Items.Inventory" IconStyle="/IconStyles.inventory" Location="0,1" MouseOverColor="#FFFF00" Name="InvSlot0" ScrollExtent="30,30" Size="30,30" TreatAsButton="true"/>
</Page>

[Laffs]

They wont work like that sorry to say....

The only way to get it to work is the method I described above.

[manoel]

Ok, made a eq2ui_mainhud_test, used "Inventory" as the name, included it in the eq2ui_mainhud.xml, went in-game and "show_window mainhud.inventory", but the new window still just has the clouded icons.

Here's the contents of the eq2ui_mainhud_test.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Page eq2usescomwndcontrols="true" Location="542,0" MaximumSize="286,50" MinimumSize="286,50" Name="Inventory" OnHide="visible=true" OnHoverIn="OnHide=&apos; &apos;" PackLocation="left,top" ScrollExtent="286,50" Size="286,50" UserMovable="true" UserResizable="true">
<Page AbsorbsInput="false" BackgroundColor="#00FF00" eq2usescomwndcontrols="true" Location="0,0" Name="TestPage" PackLocation="fixed,fixed" ScrollExtent="230,46" Size="230,46">
<Icon BackgroundTint="#000000" DynamicData="/GameData.Items.Inventory" IconStyle="/IconStyles.inventory" Location="220,1" MouseOverColor="#FFFF00" Name="InvSlot5" ScrollExtent="42,42" Size="42,42" TreatAsButton="true"/>
<Icon BackgroundTint="#000000" DynamicData="/GameData.Items.Inventory" IconStyle="/IconStyles.inventory" Location="176,1" MouseOverColor="#FFFF00" Name="InvSlot4" ScrollExtent="42,42" Size="42,42" TreatAsButton="true"/>
<Icon BackgroundTint="#000000" DynamicData="/GameData.Items.Inventory" IconStyle="/IconStyles.inventory" Location="132,1" MouseOverColor="#FFFF00" Name="InvSlot3" ScrollExtent="42,42" Size="42,42" TreatAsButton="true"/>
<Icon BackgroundTint="#000000" DynamicData="/GameData.Items.Inventory" IconStyle="/IconStyles.inventory" Location="88,1" MouseOverColor="#FFFF00" Name="InvSlot2" ScrollExtent="42,42" Size="42,42" TreatAsButton="true"/>
<Icon BackgroundTint="#000000" DynamicData="/GameData.Items.Inventory" IconStyle="/IconStyles.inventory" Location="44,1" MouseOverColor="#FFFF00" Name="InvSlot1" ScrollExtent="42,42" Size="42,42" TreatAsButton="true"/>
<Icon BackgroundTint="#000000" DynamicData="/GameData.Items.Inventory" IconStyle="/IconStyles.inventory" Location="0,1" MouseOverColor="#FFFF00" Name="InvSlot0" ScrollExtent="42,42" Size="42,42" TreatAsButton="true"/>
</Page>
</Page>

[Landiin]

Originally Posted by Laffs

They wont work like that sorry to say....

The only way to get it to work is the method I described above.

Thats not entirly true. If you have two top level nodes It'll work fine. You just can't have your inventory node neested inside another one.

example; eq2ui_mainhud_startbutton.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Page Name="Inventory" .. >
<Child Nodes/>
</Page>
<Page Name="StartButton" ..>
</Page>

Will work the same as if the Inventory page node was in its own file and you added with include in the eq2ui_mainhud.xml. I do this with my notes in eXtreme so the equi_mainhud.xml file isn't altered thus reducing the chances of the ui breaking with a LU. All EQ2 does is look for 1st generation descendant of the mainhud node and it treats them as windows in the mainhud module.