anjilek

Is the number for x and y pixilated or some other measurment?

I am confused on placement inside the window and window size. Is there a program that can show you how x,y,cx,and cy all relate? Like some paintshop program or something? Or should I just assume and make recorrections based on the window size?
Oh yea, is x vertical and y horizontal? I play with UI's at work and can't constantly reload them to check


Any help is appreciated or a redirect to somewhere I could get the info.

heres what I am working with if ya need an example

Weskat

Yes it is a pixel count.
X is horizontal, Y is vertical. The numbering starts at the top left of the screen.
CX is the width , and CY is the Height.

Repentinus

Okay I understand that x and y are horizontal and vertical, respectively. But what is that in reference to? The top left corner of the screen EQ screen? Or something to do with the .tga files. I was messing around with the x and y and cx and cy values of the target box to see what they did but really didn't see anything happen. Atleast I think it was the target box. Kinda new to this stuff.

A_Nolan

x horizontal and y vertical from the top left of the screen you are working on.

for the screen items x/y indicates where it is located from the upper left of the screen and size (cx and cy) is the size of the window/screen it self.

for indivdual items inside of a screen x/y is to the upper left of the screen its in.

for ui animations and x/y is in the image file from the upper left and textureInfo is the actual size (cx/cy) of the image in pixils(sp )

some files like the containers have a max/min sizes which its hard to set the size of the window and internal size has to include the width of the border ( 1cx 1cy size border with 100 cx 100cy of internal items(labels, gauges, screens) will be size cx 101 cy 101 not cx 100 cy 100).

Hope this helps a little. And good luck it took me a while to get it all straightened out.

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Weskat

Well, it kind of depends. When you make a object for your UIwindow, you must specify where that object goes in your UIwindow and the size of the object.
Ex:
<Label item ="GW_ManaNumbers">
<ScreenID>ManaNumberLabel</ScreenID>
<EQType>128</EQType>
<Font>2</Font>
<RelativePosition>true</RelativePosition>
<Location>
<X>50</X>
<Y>55</Y>
</Location>
<Size>
<CX>100</CX>
<CY>12</CY>
</Size>
<Text> </Text>
<TextColor>
<R>255</R>
<G>255</G>
<B>255</B>
</TextColor>
<NoWrap>true</NoWrap>
<AlignCenter>true</AlignCenter>
<AlignRight>false</AlignRight>
<AlignLeft>false</AlignLeft>
</Label>
In the above, I put the mana numbers at location 50, 55 and the size is 100x12
When calling a graphic from a .tga file the x, y coordinate and cx, cy size specify where the graphic is and how big it is.
Ex:
<Ui2DAnimation item="Drak_MEndCapLeft">
<Frames>
<Texture>drakah_loe_groupbars.tga</Texture>
<Location>
<X>220</X>
<Y>90</Y>
</Location>
<Size>
<CX>20</CX>
<CY>15</CY>
</Size>
<Hotspot>
<X>0</X>
<Y>0</Y>
</Hotspot>
<Duration>1000</Duration>
</Frames>
</Ui2DAnimation>

Thats how I understand it in anycase. Hope it helped and didn't provide more confusion.

Repentinus

Those replies helped out a lot. But I'm still at a lost on one thing. Each time ya'll say that the x and y are from the top left of the screen I'm working on. The screen thing is what throws me. What screen? The screen in Everquest? I understand the TGA but those that don't refer to a TGA is losing me. What screen is the XML using for reference?

Novawulf

its the window piece that you are working on... so if you were working on a file like window_pieces01 0,0 is the the upper left of that window only. The whole of EQ is ignored just the file you are working on and declaring.

Hope this helps

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anjilek

Now that I understand x/y a little better thanks to those great explanations ( as well as a way better understanding of calling the .tga ) , Hers another.

In the UI I am reverse enginereing, the Hp_Gauge is called to location


Obviously to high for a normal player window because of the name/surname/title. Then there is the offset-


I understand the gaugeoffset of 16 puts me into <y>36</y> which looks right for the window I am using. Why offset and not just make it <x>10 and <y>36 ?

Also, ,what is the TextOffset and what does it do?

Weskat

Not sure why they coded it to offset like that. The <textoffset> does the exact same thing to the text that the <guageoffset> does to the gauge in that it moves it. By off setting the text -300 it will not be visible in the player (or group) window.

Ahh, I knew i forgot something about the x and y values. When coding where the piece is going to be placed in the EQUI_UIpiece.xml, the x and y of 0,0 is the top left of that UI Piece (so if working on EQUI_Groupwindow.xml, 0,0 would be the top left corner of EQUI_Groupwindow.xml.) There is also a x,y value for the window itself, this describes where it will be placed in the UI. This is the default location for the window piece, so if you where to /loadskin, deselect the use .ini settings, then load your UI this is where the window would be.
So using the group window from above, there will be a x,y coordinate and cx,cy size for that individual window.

<Screen item="GroupWindow">
<ScreenID />
<RelativePosition>false</RelativePosition>
<Location>
<X>516</X>
<Y>100</Y>
</Location>
<Size>
<CX>168</CX>
<CY>256</CY>
</Size>

This tells EQ to place the top left corner of the Group window about halfway across my screen (<X>516</X>) and about 1/8 of the way down (<Y>100</Y>) and make it 168 pixels wide (<CX>168</CX>) by 256 pixels high (<CY>256</CY>)
(AFAIK in any case.)