shillingworth

Decided to update this post since it's the first one anyone sees and the old info was a tad out of date.

The project is in two parts now:
EQIA is a Class Library, more commonly known as a DLL, that assist programmers looking to write their own EQUI tools. It handles reading in EQUI XML files into a set of straight forward classes. The parser has three levels to it: EQUI_Interface for loading an entire interface; EQUI_File for loading a single file; and the individual EQ Interface Definition Language (EQIDL) elements themselves. Each EQIDL class is capable of storing the data for a given element and drawing it on to a sprite batch, which can be used for both drawing to an image and drawing to the monitor.

EQInterfaceArchitect is the actual editing studio. I'll be using this to demonstrate how to work the EQIA Class Library, and as the actual editing studio. My aim is to make this as easy to use as possible while providing minor restrictions to ensure the generated and/or typed XML code will work in EQ.

Progress:

• EQIA
  • EQIDL
    • All XML related interaction completed !
    • Drawing functions completed for the following: TextureInfo, Ui2DAnimation, Button, Label, Screen, TabBox, Page, WindowDrawTemplate, Gauge, InvSlot, StaticAnimation
    • Unfinished drawing functions: Combobox, Editbox, FinderBox, Listbox, Slider, SpellGem, STMLbox, LayoutBox, Static Elements
  • Manager
    • EQUI_File - Complete
    • EQUI_Interface - Complete
• EQIA_Core - Partially Complete
• EQIA_Debug - Complete
• EQIA_Defaults - Partially Complete
• EQIA_Xml - Complete

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