The Shared UI Folder
I use my own home brewed UI but as several versions simultaneously.
Usually they only differ in the Container.XML where I arrange the slots for clickies around the container slots. The necessary slots differ for each toon so I always used separate UIs. This is a very bothersome process if I want to distribute a change to a file that each of these UIs share - like PlayerWindow.xml - over my network. What I do now is supply a Shared UI folder at Everquest\uifiles\Shared The actual UIs that I use contain links to the shared folder. I fully capitalize the file names of these "link files" so I can easily distinguish them from the ones with real content. This is the complete EQUI_PLAYERWINDOW.XML that fetches the real UI file from Shared. Code:
I am still experimenting to find a way to use shared .TGA as well. Ideally I leave Animations.XML alone because that is the most annoying file to keep updated. It would be cleaner and easier to maintain if I could have all TGAs shared as well but its not such a big deal. |
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