Morpheaous

I have only three current wishes relating to the UI modding, that I would like to see.

First off, I would love it if they could change the code to check for eqtypes rather than the names of guages, or labels, before flashing the red warning up on the screen telling the end user to load default. I like to rename my guages and labels to something a bit more relavent to my UI.

For example, the UI I'm working on now, combines player info and group info into one mod, and puts them on a tabbed page. I like to name the player health bar, GW_Pg1_HPGuage1 instead of PlayerHPGuage. Then the second person who is the first of the group, would be named GW_Pg1_HPGuage2, instead of PlayerGuage1.

Currently, if I rename the guages, the UIErrors.txt fills up with could not find PlayerGuage1 and the game flashes Red Text saying that my mod is not compatible, and that the end user should load default. Despite the fact that I do indeed have what is supposed to be there.

If EQ looked for EQTypes instead of names, this would be solved.

Second, I'd like to see an xml tag for groups of controlls. This would allow us to group certain controls togeather and move them around by adjusting just one location set of tags.

I know that a screen tag can be used to do the same thing, but when I tried that, it would load only the first screen listed under the page tag, then complain that it couldn't find the other two. If I altered the order the screens were listed under the page tag, it would still load only the first one mentioned, then not find the other two.

I would love if they could make a group tag, that had only size, location, and a list of pieces under it, then the screen, or page tag would be made to support multiple groups of controls.

This would make editing, UI's a lot easier.

Third, would it be possible for the default UI's to be <!-- commented --> better, to allow people to search through them easier, when creating thier own UI's?

Just a comment above each control, saying things like 'Player1 guage', 'Looking for Group button', or 'Main screen' etc..

These are the current top three of my wish list.

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