nUI -- A full feature standalone UI replacement

[spiel2001]

Originally Posted by mscott998 is there a way to move the boxes on the left and right down, place the rep and xp bar above them with the casting bars on the top. this will put the bars closer to the battle and will prevent the accidental fubar tool tips from popping up over the casting bars. it has happened a few times to m. thanks again awesome mod.

Would it maybe be better to put the XP and Rep bars on the very bottom the dashboard and move the two action bars and panel selector buttons up? That would move them further from the bottom and help avoid accidentally hitting the bottom Titan/Fubar trigger.

I'm curious though how a fubar tooltip from the bottom ends up covering casting bars?

[spiel2001]

~sigh~

I added the Moonkin/Tree-of-Life bar because Druids told me it was supposed to be there... then when I went from Beta 1 to Beta 2 I took it back out because I was told that Moonkin and Tree-of-Life are supposed to use the same action bar as not being shapeshifted at all and I got yelled at for not having a bar for Moonkin/Tree-of-Life form and I add it back, now I'm getting asked to take it out. You druids really need to get on the same page ~grin~

Which is it? Once and for all. You guys fight it out and tell me whether there's supposed to be a bar for Moonkin/Tree-of-Life or not and that will be the final decision.

That said Oksar -- it is, at present, it's own bar... so there's no reason you can't drag the talents you want to use in Moonkin/Tree-of-Life form onto that bar from your spellbook in the same way you did for your main action bar.

Originally Posted by Oksar I have been following your development of nui for quite some time. I have used beta one, and have been trying the public releases of beta 2. A couple of my characters are Druids, one of which is either moonkin or resto as the need arises. I have noted that when switching to either Moonkin or Tree of Life, my main action bar swaps. This is problematic as this is the first UI that does this. When in those forms, I can't get the normal action bar to show, no matter how I cycle through. Is there some way to disable the action bar swapping for moonkin/tree of life? Btw, nice job on the UI, and am looking forward to where you take it in the future.

[spiel2001]

Originally Posted by Tehryn Me again . Just remembered... when I did the timed druid quest (getting something out of the lake in Moonglade and taking it to the shrine) the usual Blizz quest timer did not show up. Not that it mattered a lot as you get plenty of time to do it, but still. Was wondering if nUI could have anything to do with that. By the way, how's the "gold-grows-on-certain-trees" mod coming along? Nearly finished yet?

Tehryn -- it appears the both the quest timer and durability frames are missing. I'm looking into it -- it *is* an nUI bug.

[saanlem]

The FuBar top and botton panels are fine now, at least with me. (for about a week now)

[saanlem]

I dont see the mail icon, when I have mail.

[saanlem]

I would like to switch back to using the UI scale feature.
The bags button can be moved with /nui movers, but reverts back to the default spot on relogging.

[Seer]

Originally Posted by spiel2001 Would it maybe be better to put the XP and Rep bars on the very bottom the dashboard and move the two action bars and panel selector buttons up? That would move them further from the bottom and help avoid accidentally hitting the bottom Titan/Fubar trigger.

Hm, what are your plans for the top console ? There seems plenty of space to put the xp and rep bar there ? (Well, plenty..)

[havoxx]

Great ui you have here, I was a fan of spartans for a long time, but I've been looking for a change, and your UI is so well made it's great, I was curious, is it possible to skin it?

[spiel2001]

Originally Posted by saanlem I dont see the mail icon, when I have mail.

Saanlem -- if you're running the most recent version of nUI (2.04.00) then the mail icon has been moved into the lower center of the dashboard where the player location and server time are displayed. The mail icon will appear on the left edge of the box when you have unread mail in your mailbox. The battlefield button will appear on the right edge of that box when active, as well. Of course, the box and both buttons are hidden if and when you have a mouseover target.

[spiel2001]

Originally Posted by saanlem I would like to switch back to using the UI scale feature. The bags button can be moved with /nui movers, but reverts back to the default spot on relogging.

I am working on fixing both problems. I expect to have those fixes in the 2.05 -- probably to be released tomorrow night.

[spiel2001]

Originally Posted by Seer Hm, what are your plans for the top console ? There seems plenty of space to put the xp and rep bar there ? (Well, plenty..)

Seer -- the empty space in that top console is going to hold four key new features... durability, gold tracker, ammo tracker and wardrobe manager.

[spiel2001]

Originally Posted by havoxx Great ui you have here, I was a fan of spartans for a long time, but I've been looking for a change, and your UI is so well made it's great, I was curious, is it possible to skin it?

Havoxx -- thank you for the kind word. In answer to your question, the Beta 2 has been designed from the ground up to be fully skinnable. However, that work is not fully complete yet and I am not yet either saving the current default skin or selecting alternate skins. That will be completed before the WotLK release though and carried forward into the WotLK port.

[MeqTrader]

durability, gold tracker, ammo tracker and wardrobe manager

Ok, just a few small question on these new features you tried to slip by us

Durability - Individual items status as well as repair costs
Gold Tracker - Accountant like features so it will track over time were I spend my hard earned gold
Ammo tracker - will it include Soul Shards and/or include auto-purchase features.
Wardrobe Manager - would it be possible to have the sets be identified by bag mods like say ArcInventory ?

Thx

[Oksar]

Thanks for the reply...I didn't want to bring up an old issue, but imagine my surprise as I switched to ToL to heal, and I couldn't fine my healing spells on my toolbar...

To be honest, I don't know what the standard is, however I have played since WoW beta, and a druid for much of that time. I have tried out many mods since then, and I have never had the toolbar swap for Moonkin/Tree of Life. For now, I guess, I will just populate the moonkin/ToL bar for use.

Thanks again for all your hard work on this UI.

Originally Posted by spiel2001 ~sigh~ I added the Moonkin/Tree-of-Life bar because Druids told me it was supposed to be there... then when I went from Beta 1 to Beta 2 I took it back out because I was told that Moonkin and Tree-of-Life are supposed to use the same action bar as not being shapeshifted at all and I got yelled at for not having a bar for Moonkin/Tree-of-Life form and I add it back, now I'm getting asked to take it out. You druids really need to get on the same page ~grin~ Which is it? Once and for all. You guys fight it out and tell me whether there's supposed to be a bar for Moonkin/Tree-of-Life or not and that will be the final decision. That said Oksar -- it is, at present, it's own bar... so there's no reason you can't drag the talents you want to use in Moonkin/Tree-of-Life form onto that bar from your spellbook in the same way you did for your main action bar.

[saanlem]

Awesome, I found the mail icon!

[mscott998]

Originally Posted by spiel2001 Would it maybe be better to put the XP and Rep bars on the very bottom the dashboard and move the two action bars and panel selector buttons up? That would move them further from the bottom and help avoid accidentally hitting the bottom Titan/Fubar trigger. I'm curious though how a fubar tooltip from the bottom ends up covering casting bars?

well i have a few thing on the bottom on each side and the popup for those fubar items cover the action bar. i can send a screen shot if needed. but moving the experience and rep bar down would help.

but i thought that the buttons closer to the main portion of the screen would allow for faster casting in some cases. thanks again

[spiel2001]

Originally Posted by MeqTrader Ok, just a few small question on these new features you tried to slip by us Durability - Individual items status as well as repair costs Gold Tracker - Accountant like features so it will track over time were I spend my hard earned gold Ammo tracker - will it include Soul Shards and/or include auto-purchase features. Wardrobe Manager - would it be possible to have the sets be identified by bag mods like say ArcInventory ? Thx

Durability... yes/yes

Gold Tracker... I'm not sure how much detail I'm going into there. For sure I will track how much gold each soon on the same server has, how much gold you've made and spent this session, beyond that... I dunno.

Ammo tracker... yes... My lock is a 70 now (as of two days ago) and soul shards will be tracked. I frankly hadn't considered an auto-buy, but I'll think about it. I will also have a lock feature for limiting the maximum number of shards in inventory so as not to fill your bags from imrpoved drain soul and intend to track durability on thrown weapons, as well, for rogues and like.

Wardrobe Manager... I don't use ArkInventory, so you'll need to explain to me what you mean there. My intention is to be able to create named gear sets, to be able to swap entire gear sets accordinlgy, to identfy when gear is missing from inventory for a gear set and to use the manager to fetch items from and store items to the bank. Beyond that, I have no other plans.

[spiel2001]

Originally Posted by Oksar Thanks for the reply...I didn't want to bring up an old issue, but imagine my surprise as I switched to ToL to heal, and I couldn't fine my healing spells on my toolbar... To be honest, I don't know what the standard is, however I have played since WoW beta, and a druid for much of that time. I have tried out many mods since then, and I have never had the toolbar swap for Moonkin/Tree of Life. For now, I guess, I will just populate the moonkin/ToL bar for use. Thanks again for all your hard work on this UI.

I don't know what the standard is either Oksar and I lack a high level druid to be able to find out for myself... which is why I've been caught in this tug-of-war between those who think there should and those who think there shouldn't be a special bar for Moonkin/Tree-of-Life form.

[spiel2001]

Originally Posted by mscott998 well i have a few thing on the bottom on each side and the popup for those fubar items cover the action bar. i can send a screen shot if needed. but moving the experience and rep bar down would help. but i thought that the buttons closer to the main portion of the screen would allow for faster casting in some cases. thanks again

One problem with locating things above the chat frame and the info panel is that the chat frame and combat log both have tabs that are above their frames, so if you put buttons or any other mouse activated feature above either of those frames, you run into a conflict with their configuration tabs.

I would also argue that those two action bars are really intended more as auxiliary bars and not main combat bars as are the three between the main screen and the two on either side of the unit frames.

In any event, moving the XP and rep bars to the bottom and moving the two action bars and panel selectors up above them should reduce accidental contact with the fubar (or Titan) mouseovers.

[mscott998]

will your durability addition have an auto repair setting and a popup telling how much repair is with an accept button ?

also what kind of interface will the wardrobe manager have, i use itemrack right now and i love the features it has.

for the ammo tracker, will this track regents that many classes use as well, like Ankh for shaman, seeds for druids and so on.....?

also have you looked at auditor for some ideas on the gold tracker. it has a lot of nice information, you might be able to intefrace that in some how

the new incoming additions will reduce the number of mods i use again!

WOOT! thanks


One last thing. I noticed that cartographer waypoints don't update without the map showing, would it be an acceptable compromise to have the graphic edited to include an area in the upper right hand corner for a round minimap? would fix some of the issues there and would not interfere with the main viewable area.

Will there be an option do hide the minimap zoom buttons and the map toggle button. many people don't use them, I think it is easier to just press the m button for the world map and use the mouse wheel for the minimap zoom.

Thanks again