hikaro

I'm looking for a graphical XML editor, I just recently got into creating my own UI and have found several aspects of diffrent ones I like and I want to combine them to get a UI that I can use but there is only one problem... I know squat about xml. As far as the text xml editors go well they are pointless cause they give me no added functionality that I can't get out of notepad. So I am trying to find an editor that can show me what the boxes and what not I am editing will look like without me having to log into the game. Thanks for your help

kernan

I've found sidlwidl to be a good program (get it from www.sidlwidl.com). There is also one called Fiddle (get that one from www.barbre44.com).

Sidlwidl is a .net application so you must download a fairly huge file (.net Framework) from Microsoft. Fiddle is a Java app.

Both show you what the graphics will look like in game.

I've found there to be a couple of problems with using sidlwidl: True/False tags are capitalized - EQ doesn't like this and ignores the flag altogether if it's capitalized. Wreaks havoc with text in windows. To fix, you must open the file in a text editor and find/replace such occurences.

I've not used Fiddle so I can't comment on how well it works. (Am downloading it as I type this actually).

The programmer of Fiddle has ceased development but has published the source. Sidlwidl seems to be in limbo.