EQInterface Forums

08-14-2002, 12:01 AM	#1
Veirna An Icepaw Kobold Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 86	z-index? is there a way to set the z-index of screen items, so that i can overlap items as i please? Focusing the windows is all nice and all, but i have an invisible background in my chatbox, and a visible one attached to my target window, so i can just move the chatbox over the target's background picture, but when i first load EQ, it hides my chatbox so i have to hit enter 2x to focus it above the background =X did that make any sense? __________________

08-14-2002, 02:42 AM	#2
guice Keeper of the Hampster Join Date: Jul 2002 Server: Mithaniel Marr Posts: 598	Ah, yes, unfortunatly there is no way to set that, staticly. It's set everytime you click on a window. It's like runing Windows with a bunch of little windows open. The one you click on will be top, no matter how much you try to change it. It's not a Unix system you know. __________________ Sithr, 65th Transcendent Officer/Leader of Chronology Mithaniel Marr http://www.chronology-guild.org/

08-14-2002, 03:06 AM	#3
Veirna An Icepaw Kobold Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 86	bah! how primitive... i am going to end up learning everything i can about XML so i can do some extensive coding on setting my indices... i am a layer freak and i get cranky when they dont work :P

08-14-2002, 03:12 AM	#4
guice Keeper of the Hampster Join Date: Jul 2002 Server: Mithaniel Marr Posts: 598	lol Go right ahead .. Though you should know XML is nothing more than a Data Modeling Language. What to do with that data is up to the Client. And what Tags it supports is all up to the client as well. /sigh

08-14-2002, 02:28 PM	#5
Veirna An Icepaw Kobold Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 86	i figured that. i knew it was pretty much a self-written language... and i was wondering if there was any way to add a "padding" attribute to items... but im guessing im not allowed to do that, but its up to verant to do so, right ?

08-15-2002, 04:59 AM	#6
dregor A Ghoul Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 10	hopefully they'll change/add alot of things. layering would be nice. being able to change all the windows would be another nice change.

08-15-2002, 10:10 AM	#7
ForinIronshield Premium Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Server: Tunare Posts: 25	What do you mean by, "Change all the windows"? __________________ Forin Ironshield Paladin of Underfoot Aegis Wolves Master Smith, Master Fletcher Animals die, friends die and I shall die, but one thing never dies.... and that is the reputation we leave behind at our deaths.

08-15-2002, 10:58 AM	#8
Pini Uldar A Shissar Disciple Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 135	I would assume that would mean decoupling of behavior to the window they default to being in using EQTypes so that we can move functional buttons around for example. I wouldn't expect a lot of changes from here on out. What they've given us is fairly featured. But I do expect that we'll get EQTypes for buttons at some point and I'd expect bugs like Tooltips falling under other windows will be fixed. Maybe an Always On Top feature will be added for windows or something, but I don't think they'll give us fine-grained control over window layering. That's a lot of work. - Pini

08-15-2002, 01:01 PM

xguix

A Snow Griffin

Join Date: Jul 2002

Posts: 53

Quote:

Originally posted by Pini Uldar
I'd expect bugs like Tooltips falling under other windows will be fixed.

Please, someone tell me there is a way to get rid of the stupid tooltips! I can't stand it when they cover important information, especially in /Bazaar or /Trader windows.

-xguix

08-15-2002, 01:07 PM	#10
Lady Silver A Wooly Rhino Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 76	The only way I know of to "get rid of them" is to go into the XML file and where it has the tooltip text (I dont' remember exactly how it's denoted, but you'll recognize it), just delete the text between the <>....</> (where the dots are) and add a space - or just leave it blank. I know it'll still load like this because I've done it to several of them. The only thing I don't know for sure is if you still get a little blue square where the tooltip would be (never thought to look after I made the edit... lol) - but even the little blue square is better than some silly meaningless text. ~Lady Silver

08-15-2002, 01:09 PM	#11
Pini Uldar A Shissar Disciple Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 135	Some of the tooltips are just hard-coded to be there I think. I've tried turning some off and haven't found out how. - Pini

08-15-2002, 01:17 PM	#12
Pini Uldar A Shissar Disciple Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 135	Oh and for the bazaar window, I just used comments to comment out the tooltip for the listbox. - Pini

08-15-2002, 01:39 PM	#13
ForinIronshield Premium Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Server: Tunare Posts: 25	Dynamic elements I've said this elsewhere - I'll add it in here too. Anything that can be changed dynamically by the UIengine during game execution (tooltip contents, borders on spell icons, color of character attribute and statistics text, tooltips on inventory, spell gems, buff icons, etc.) can't be controlled by the XML loadfiles at this time. You can hide some things (sometimes by setting its size to 0,0), but you can't necessarily control certain aspects forced by a change in character state.