Custom Window

[shotokan]

There's no way to make a custom window right? A window that sets out by itself and doesn't interfere with anything else.. I'd like to make something like that, since the coin display has been removed from Fetish.

[gm9]

If you include it in eq2ui_custom.xml it will only "interfere" with other custom UIs, if at all, but never with the default UI. See e.g. ProfitUI for examples.

[shotokan]

How do you actually make a 'window'?

[lordebon]

Originally Posted by shotokan

How do you actually make a 'window'?

Well, you start off by making a file for it, for example eq2ui_custom_mywindow.xml. You then edit eq2ui_custom.xml and add an include for that window (ie, add: <include>eq2ui_custom_mywindow.xml</include>).

After that, you edit the new window file you made to include whatever you want. I recommend starting with an existing window if you don't know a lot about the UI, but either way you have to start with the <?xml ?> tag that you see in all of the UI files, then a <Page> (and at the end, </Page>) container that everything goes inside of. (The <?xml tag is self closing, i.e. it doesn't have a corresponding end tag anywhere).

If you could tell us what you would want this window to do, we might be able to help a bit more.

[shotokan]

I'm just trying to make an independent window that displays coin and weight.. ideally the window would be movable; that's the ismodule parameter correct?

[Drumstix42]

Well, my window may or may not be outdated, but you can check it for reference. It's got coin and weight, and it's a custom window:

http://www.eq2interface.com/download...ghtWindow.html

There's also this one:
http://www.eq2interface.com/download...sCoinInfo.html

[shotokan]

I used the fetish interface as reference for a window and added the coin and weight to it. It's working nicely, thanks everyone!