new UI problem on re-log

sorinth · #1 10-24-2007, 05:42 AM

okay, here is a new one for you!!!

I have 4.1 and it is/was running perfect. All the quick raid buttons worked (and in group window). It just hums along nicely. The problem is, when I go to relog in the next day. ProfitUI will not load. even though it is set in the eq2.ini, the game will only load default. If I type /loadui in game and select profitui, I still get default. The only way to get profit ui back, is to reinstall profit ui. Then it will work (until I log and have to do it all over again). Any thoughts, ideas, suggestions???

sorinth · #2 10-24-2007, 06:16 AM

well, here is some follow up

This morning, I am getting different behavior than last night...
this is what is happening,
when the UI wont load on starup, no UI will load. Only default. Last night, I was able to fix the issue by re-installing profit. This morning, however, that is not correcting the problem.
I know that the eq2.ini is able to be read, becuase eq2map shows the correct ui folder as profit. In addition, the opening screen where it says finding character, has the blue metalic background that was just released in profit. However, once it gets in game, its just default items, locations, and colors.
I have also did a file by file compare of the contents of the zip file to the contents of the ui folder. all dates, times, and file names match up. So, nothing is being changed (unless something is corrupted). I tried a scandisk and it found no problems. I will try a defrag and see what happens, but I dont expect much.
Nothing I can do gets them back. I havent tried this on the other machines that I have it installed on. Just my main. BTW, OS is win2k professional so there isnt any permission problems like the vista people are having.

**gm9** · #3 10-24-2007, 06:30 AM

Strange. What I would do: Delete your entire \UI folder, let the patcher do a full file scan and let it redownload everything. Then reinstall ProfitUI. If it still does not work there should be some error.log or alert.log or something like that, I forget what it's called. Maybe that one contains some useful information.

sorinth · #4 10-24-2007, 05:37 PM

well it seems the problem might lie in the quickraidbuttons.txt file. Here is the ui.log

:: Bad data at position 150
:: Entity ref error
:: Failed to load data from resource: _ProfitUI_QuickRaidButtons.txt
:: Failed to load data from included resource: _ProfitUI_QuickRaidButtons.txt
:: Could not access resource eq2ui_mainhud_poifinder.xml
:: Failed to load data from included resource: eq2ui_mainhud_poifinder.xml
Couldn't load .xml
:: End of file encountered, container 'MainHUD' was not closed
:: End of file encountered, container 'root' was not closed
Couldn't load .xml
Encountered data outside of container tags
Encountered data outside of container tags
Encountered data outside of container tags
Encountered data outside of container tags
Encountered data outside of container tags
Encountered data outside of container tags
:: Bad data at position 150
:: Entity ref error
:: Failed to load data from resource: _ProfitUI_QuickRaidButtons.txt
:: Failed to load data from included resource: _ProfitUI_QuickRaidButtons.txt
:: Could not access resource eq2ui_mainhud_poifinder.xml
:: Failed to load data from included resource: eq2ui_mainhud_poifinder.xml
Couldn't load .xml
:: End of file encountered, container 'MainHUD' was not closed
:: End of file encountered, container 'root' was not closed
Couldn't load .xml

I dont see anything wrong with the quickraid file. In fact, I was getting all my custom buttons working. so, i dunno /shrug.

I am in the process of following your instructions posted above. I will report back with my findings.

**gm9** · #5 10-24-2007, 05:41 PM

Definitively delete your ProfitUI folder and do a reinstall, something is wrong with your files.

sorinth · #6 10-25-2007, 06:55 AM

well, I have traced the problem down to this section of my quick raid buttons (it is the only section that I have edited on this box)
<Page Name="Warden">
<Data Name="Button1" Macro="useabilityonplayer Parent.Target "Nature's Healing;"" Tooltip="Natures Healing"/>
<Data Name="Button2" Macro="useabilityonplayer Parent.Target Greater Regrowth" Tooltip="Greater Regrowth"/>
<Data Name="Button3" Macro="useabilityonplayer Parent.Target Effloresce" Tooltip="Effloresce"/>
<Data Name="Button4" Macro="useabilityonplayer Parent.Target Sylvan Touch" Tooltip="Sylvan Tough"/>
<Data Name="Button5" Macro="useabilityonplayer Parent.Target "Nature's Touch"" Tooltip="Natures Touch"/>
</Page>

I think it is my use of the apostrophe command (I have edited this file for other toons and had no problems). What did I do wrong??? (oh by the way, it doesnt matter what class I play, if this file is there all classes ui's dont work). I just put the default file back in and all is good. So I know it is this file. My warden is only lvl 25 so having lvl 70 spells wont help him much (yet).

Thanx again for all your help and support and this wonderful UI!!!

**gm9** · #7 10-25-2007, 07:19 AM

see my edit in your post

sorinth · #8 10-26-2007, 05:14 AM

Silly little apostrophe... why did you go and hide like that

Well, that most definately corrected the problem. Interesting though, how it basically disabled not only this entire UI, but any custom UI that I would try to load from within the game via the /loadui command.

The one good thing about this ordeal though, is that it forced me to delete those other custom ones that I was working on/playing with... for one simple reason.... there is only one true UI and that is PROFITUI!!!! all others simply dont stand up compared to this one!!!

MOST EXCELLENT WORK!!! Thank you very much

<resume lurk mode>

Othesus · #9 10-26-2007, 06:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sorinth

Well, that most definately corrected the problem. Interesting though, how it basically disabled not only this entire UI, but any custom UI that I would try to load from within the game via the /loadui command.

The UI is actually like one big XML file with eq2ui.xml as the root and the rest as branches of a tree. If you break the structure of any part of it, it breaks the whole thing.

If you use Notepad++ with the XML plugin it can check the syntax of the files for you and find these kind of errors.

sorinth · #10 10-26-2007, 05:13 PM

ah, I have notepad++ but not the xml plugin. I will have to make sure I get that to avoid any other similar problems. However, how come it would not let me reload any other UI?? Wouldn't that re-initialize the eq2ui.xml file found within that UI directory?

**gm9** · #11 10-26-2007, 05:43 PM

That is correct. It is actually a fairly new feature that the game disables a custom UI when an XML error is found and then falls back to the default UI. Before we had that feature the game would just crash.

If you could not /loadui another custom UI that means that those UI's also had broken XMLs.

sorinth · #12 10-28-2007, 09:16 PM

Interesting. The other custom UI was a modded version of profit3.4 with a different group window. I just called it mod_profit. Everything else was the same and I used that mod for a long time (so I know it worked). I was not able to load that one. Also, I had thorui installed (although I dont use it and dont really care for it). that one would not load either. Either way, they are all gone now and 4.1 works (cept for the 4-5 buttons on the raid window, but you said there was a fix coming).

Thanx for the good work!