where does journals.activequest get the checkbox art from?

[Zonx]

Modifying SOE styles has a whole slew of other issues. Here's a few...

1) They use image slices pulled from a slew of "less than optimal" images, which hurts performance (though they have consolidated a bunch).

2) SOE designers insist on gratuitious use of dropshadows and blank space. This forces their developers to allow space in frames to accomodate the shadows (results in dead space around the window frame). It also requires a fatter image format with multiple levels of transparency (hurts performance).

3) If you tweak SOE style sizes to accomodate your frame/image widths, chances are other mods that use those styles will have alignment problems and look like hell anyways.

4) If you rely on SOE styles and only change images to work within those styles, you're either stuck with the bulky layout and controls they use or you wind up with hit area issues (a 16x16 checkbox image is displayed in the SOE standard 30x30 object, so clicking near your checkbox image acidentally activates it).

5) When SOE tweaks a style or image (say they decide the entire UI should be blue instead of tan), anything of theirs you're using gets changed weather it works for your UI or not.

Ultimetly it depends on the level of control you want over the UI. If you don't want SOE changes to directly impact your work, NEVER use their styles or images.

Personally I've found the "Replace Everything" method has resulted in far less breakage per LU. It was more work on my part initially, but has saved me time in the long run. Its also allowed me to optimize things SOE didn't for one reason or another. Generally the only changes I need to make are adding totally new elements or hard-coded architecture changes. When SOE reskined the default UI, almost nothing in Fetish needed adjustment.