Open beta test for a new resizing EQ2MAP for GU#40

[Othesus]

The EQ2MAP is pretty complicated with a lot of interacting files so it's taken a little while to get it all to work with the new zooming and resizing features. If you're an adventurous semi-technical type and know where your custom UI files are you are welcome to beta test the new resizing EQ2MAP.

Installing
1. Download the zip file.
2. Place the XML files into your custom UI folder and your eq2map folder within that. These should overwrite the old files.
3. Do not run the auto-updater after this since these files aren't on the eq2map server yet.

Note: If you use Fetish, do not install these files. Zonx adds a lot of scripting and plugins to reshape the eq2map and they will most likely not work.

Testing
1. Use and abuse the map as much as you can. Try to break it.
2. Use any eq2map plugins that you normally use (except Fetish.)
3. Post here if anything seems broken or doesn't seem to work right.

Known minor bug: The minimize/restore button will sometimes not restore your window to the previous size.

Uninstalling
1. Remove the 7 XML files you installed.
2. Replace them from your backup or let the auto-updater download them again.

Some screenshots
Here's the default size, 465x612


Here's the minimum size, 295x400


If you set your opacity sliders right you can strip the map all the way down, like in the default UI.


If no major bugs are found the resizing eq2map should be available to everyone and on the server soon. Thanks!

[depechenode]

SO far it works very NICE!! Great job!

Only thing I can see is the left, and bottom frame is not sizing with respect to the shrink/grow of the map size. Also related to that is the title bar.

The other "appearance" issue is the + box that opens the show all,show only etc for locs on the map. It is slightly off the map lying On the frame [!] the brackets are the frame, and ! represents the + lying ON the frame. Could be moved a bit inside to keep with the border is all.

Other than that, it works very well!! Just appearance issues atm that I can see.

[depechenode]

Ok, I see what I did wrong, I stil had th eplugin for EQ2Map Shrink installed.
I removed and the map is lined up correctly EXCEPT for the + on the far left, it still is sitting on the border line. Chanews are, that is my fault as well, but I am not sure what is causing that appearance bug for me.

Great work, and thank you for the fast patch!!

[dragowulf]

Looks good so far Othesus.

[gm9]

Had the same issues as depechenode. See attached for a fix. Also fixes the minimize/restore buttons. Query whether this works for everybody since judging from Othesus screenshots he did not have that issue.

Othesus, this is exactly what I did (please review since I haven't looked at EQ2MAP before today and may well have overlooked some dependencies although I don't think so):

• relocated "toggles_the_toggles"
• changed sizes and location of "QM_Menu" and dependant objects to remove clipping
• removed "Map Fog" localization tag and added it to a new tooltip - the space you left was too small to work on any localized version
• fixed minimizing/restoring code - this may affect plugins that try to call the minimize/restore functions because I changed the OnActivate/OnDeactive events to OnPress events in the process
• cleaned up some code along the way

[Othesus]

Ok, the positioning of the QM_Menu is strange. For me 14,59 lines up exactly with the corner of the MapPage. I didn't change anything else in the core_menu.xml file.

For figuring out all the positions of every element I found that it helped to have two copies of the UIBuilder running. One was showing my custom UI and the other was showing the default UI. Then I would make all my edits in Notepad++ for my UI.

Let me look at the files some more.

[gm9]

I tested this with nothing but EQ2MAP installed Othesus. On my system it lines up perfectly like that (actually the menu could probably be moved 1 pixel to the left to be aligned with the icon).

Alignment differences between systems/servers?

[dragowulf]

Originally Posted by gm9

I tested this with nothing but EQ2MAP installed Othesus. On my system it lines up perfectly like that (actually the menu could probably be moved 1 pixel to the left to be aligned with the icon).

Alignment differences between systems/servers?

the + isn't even in the right place for me (not at the corner all the way) same with the menu. I run 1280x1024

[Othesus]

This isn't what you see in the UIBuilder?




Aaaaaah, shoot. I didn't include the core_menu.xml file!

There should be 8 modified xml files.

[Landiin]

If I am using the default skin set, the Menu widget is correct. If I use it with eXtreme's skin then the Menu widget is a tad off to the left.

This is cause by the deferences in the west rect of the frame page's style in default and eXtrems and others skin.

I would suggest authors that employee their own skin to use the reset button in skinnable_windowelements.xml to set the Menu's widget to the proper location for their UI. The reason Zonx and I put that in was so UI authors could change the look of the map with out altering the eq2ui_mainhud_map.xml file along with being able to reset it back to default.

[gm9]

Othesus, the file you attached works fine for me, although I think that moving the popup about 3 pixels to the right will look nicer.

[Othesus]

Originally Posted by gm9

• fixed minimizing/restoring code - this may affect plugins that try to call the minimize/restore functions because I changed the OnActivate/OnDeactive events to OnPress events in the process

Grrrrr! You just changed OnActivate to OnPress? I wish these scripts would work consistently. It would save us hours and hours of debugging time. I don't know if any plugins use the minimize/restore button but probably not.

OnActivate sometimes executes scripts out of order but activates when you click the mouse button.
Edit: Hmm, now that I look at it some more OnActivate may just be activating more than once if you hold the mouse button down, or it's getting a second mouse-down event.

OnPress executes scripts in order, it seems, but presses when you let go of the mouse button.

For a Checkbox some of the scripts may not be executed at all if you don't hold the mouse button down long enough!

Scripters beware!

[gm9]

It's not the mouse button, rather the order or something else. I've already had trouble with OnActivate in my UI so that's why it was easy for me to fix.

You will likely find that if you activate the OnActivate via the OnPress event it will still not work, so it's not the mouse button that's causing a problem.

[Othesus]

Ok, since everyone is here, we should get this right.

How is this for the default UI? 3 pixels to the right and 3 pixels down.


gm9, I'm just wondering is there a reason you changed the scripts from

Parent.Parent.Parent.PreMinimizeSize=Parent.Parent.Parent.Size
for minimizing, and
Parent.Parent.Parent.Size=Parent.Parent.Parent.PreMinimizeSize
for restoring

to

Parent.PreMinimizeSize=Parent.Parent.Parent.Size
for minimizing, and
Parent.Parent.Parent.Size=Parent.PreMinimizeSize
for restoring?

[gm9]

That was the first change I made before doing the OnPress. It will probably work without.

And I say move the popup one pixel more so it's aligned with the button.

[Landiin]

Works for me Othesus. As much as I hate to agree with Borg9 :P J/k aligning the popup with the button would look better. (being you asked)

[dragowulf]

I used all your files gm9 including core_menu and edited a few things that annoyed me, and added a maximize button. I also fixed the popup problem, put the qm_menu + in the corner more, made the +- together more, and put them in the corner.

This allows us to see more of the map, even if it is a pixel or two more.

EDIT: I fixed the stupid ass problem with the tabs that occur in profitui

[Landiin]

Originally Posted by dragowulf

I used all your files gm9 including core_menu and edited a few things that annoyed me, and added a maximize button. I also fixed the popup problem, put the qm_menu + in the corner more, made the +- together more, and put them in the corner.

This allows us to see more of the map, even if it is a pixel or two more.

Post a SS you MO-MO, So we can see if we like it or not. You know how lazy we are!

[gm9]

Originally Posted by dragowulf

EDIT: I fixed the stupid ass problem with the tabs that occur in profitui

Watcha talking about dude? (<-- I think he didn't read the red line *get's ban stick ready*)

[dragowulf]

Originally Posted by gm9

Watcha talking about dude? (<-- I think he didn't read the red line *get's ban stick ready*)

And yet the ui is up-to-date, working flawlessly, and looking sexy (like myself)

[dragowulf]

Ok I moved the popup up 1 more pixel. So this is the newer version, and the screenshot. I've also testing this ingame and it looks/works fine.

[Landiin]

Originally Posted by gm9

Watcha talking about Willis? (<-- I think he didn't read the red line *get's ban stick ready*)

OK fixed it..

[gm9]

He made me click it, but there was no screenshot, so I deleted it. Can I ban that MO-MO Willis now pretty please?

[Landiin]

I was gonna say what screen shot but I just left it alone.. :P

[dragowulf]

Oops heres the SS of the newer version I edited. And by the way gm9, I deleted the whole ProfitUI folder and downloaded YOUR version, so you're the one that messed up. I didn't need to read the red line dummy.

(it doesn't really look like this all choppy and stuff, the file was too large)