Widescreen letterbox, bottom of screen only.

Estoril · #1 02-22-2005, 08:23 PM

I would like if someone could make a plain black box that I could put at the bottom of my screen and arrange other windows within it. In other words, sort of a widescreen letterbox that is only on the bottom of the screen. I have tried the tweak that moves the top portion up, but that also messed up the position of name labels.

If I could have a black plain section at the bottom of my screen that I could move and resize, I could set up my interface just the way I like it.

Also would know if you can make it so it doesn't accidently get brought to the front of other windows when clicked. Right now I have a blank chat window behind everything, but now and then I accidently click on it and that brings it to the front, and I have to close the chat window until I log out and re-copy the settings file wich is saved in my documents folder.

So just a plain, black, moveable, resizeable box with a border, that cannot be brought to the front of other windows, covering them by accident.

taco-man · #2 02-22-2005, 09:59 PM

i can make it for you, i have to use some window that is normally part of the UI so that it will show up and save its position. Is it ok if i use the litte option button that says like EQII on it? and where do you you want the actual button on the black part? the bottom left?

Estoril · #3 02-22-2005, 10:21 PM

Bottom left is good.

Estoril · #4 02-22-2005, 10:22 PM

I would like something like the box that is on the bottom of this interface:

http://www.eq2interface.com/download...ew.php?id=2526

But that one is too big and I like the basic EQ2 window styles. I use 1024x768 because it works best with my moniter.

taco-man · #5 02-22-2005, 10:35 PM

alright i will make one, and it will be resizable to whatever height that you want.

taco-man · #6 02-22-2005, 11:00 PM

my server is down right now, but when it goes back up i will test it and then post it.

taco-man · #7 02-23-2005, 01:34 AM

My server is still down

and its getting late so i will have to post it tomorrow.

Estoril · #8 02-24-2005, 03:04 AM

Hmmm... There weren't any servers down last night including antonia bayle, and there aren't any servers down today.... Unless you are talking about your ISP being down?

Deathbane27 · #9 02-24-2005, 03:22 AM

Antonia Bayle actually was down last night.

taco-man · #10 02-25-2005, 01:44 AM

^^ that is my server, i have to figure out a different way to do this, if i do it the way i want to the button wont work which is bad, so i decided to have a go at the widescreen letter box and the widescreen letter box wont cooperate
when i try and remove the page or set it to visible=false or set the opacity to 0.000 or set it to visible=false and onShow=visible=false it still has the black box on the top. anyone have any ideas?

Deathbane27 · #11 02-25-2005, 02:03 AM

My suggestion: Add a second page named Fakeletterbox to the letterbox XML. AbsorbsInput="false", GetsInput="false", PackLocation="left,fff", and PackSize="absolute,proportional". Set the letterbox itself with visible="false" and OnHide="show_window(MainHUD.Fakeletterbox) show_window(MainHUD.Fakeletterbox)"