nUI -- A full feature standalone UI replacement - Page 68

gothicknight · 10-26-08, 01:13 AM

Originally Posted by Lackin

Hello Love your UI gave up on mazzle and loving yours. One question How can i add some addons like lighthead and Wim stuff like that. Just need to know what floder to put it in and is it possible. Thanks in advance

Just like any addons u download, they go into your Interface/Addons folder.

You can add pretty much any addons you want with nUI. I use both lightheaded and WIM as well a various other mods wihtout fuss. you don't have to do anything special.

spiel2001 · 10-26-08, 06:27 AM

Originally Posted by brentstabler

hello, if im correct i think i found a bug for rogues out/in stealth. When i go from stealth to out of stealth its fine but while im out pressing my keybind lets say 1 for instance it says must be in stealth even though my hemorrhage is an out of stealth ability and thats on non stealth bar but at the same time its stealth bar i really dont know how to explain so let me get on screenshots to show you. Now heres the best i can explain, lets say i start a duel im in stealth i press one to use my macro *which is the 1 key* which goes off just fine it uses my ability's which knock me out of stealth of course then i press 1 key again and it says the top screenshots message "Must be in Stealth" so i dont know if its a bug or what or if im just doing something wronge. And sorry for the bad grammer/spelling

Brenstabler --

You are correct. This appears to be a bug I introduced in the last alpha release before the public release when I was trying to fix the problem of FuBar making the main Bliz bar reappear when the player zones. Unfortunately, it didn't get caught in the last day of testing, so that bug made it into the public release.

In any event, I'm working on it and will try and get a bug fix out sometime today/tonight.

spiel2001 · 10-26-08, 06:30 AM

Originally Posted by brentstabler

hello again lol think i found another bug for the combo points if you know the normal blizzard UI then you know that when you use an ability as a rogue around the persons picture that your attacking the combo points add up, well if you take a look at this screenshot you'll notice that there still there also below the HUD as well. dont know if thats a bug as well or if once again im just thinking to far lol. anyhow hopefully this helps.

It is actually intentional... Combo points appear both on the HUD and on the unit frame. There are those who do not like to use a HUD and, thus, turn the HUD off... so, I have to have combo points on the unit frame for those players. However, for those who do like a HUD, combo points is something you definitely want to be able to see front and center... thus they appear in both places.

spiel2001 · 10-26-08, 06:37 AM

Originally Posted by Belszy

Been playing around with this since you released it earlier today. Noticed a couple things I am not able to figure out.

Why move the mini map to right? dead center was awesome and now what is the space used for?

The minimap was dead center in Beta 1. However, we had major issues with the size and location of unit frames for parties and raids which used to be where the info panel is now and were way too small to be functionally useful.

So, I came up with the idea of the switchable unit frame panel in the center of the dashboard that you see now and moved the minimap to the info panel to make more room for the unit frames which for every 20 man and higher raid panel I've attempted so far is still pretty tight.

In answer to your question of what the empty space in the center is for... that's where your focus frame goes which is a critical unit frame for a great many, if not most, players.

That said... I am going to offer an optional mod to nUI which will move the minimap back out of the info panel and place it in the same location as the focus frame in which case, if you have a valid focus, you will not have a minimap but the rest of the time your minimap will appear in the location dead center in the dashboard. However, that won't happen until after the WotLK release.

Global Settings for chat? Is there a way i can keep same settings for all characters ( fonts mainly and hud changes ).

Not at this time I'm afraid. Sorry.

Noticed the bank is bigger then blizz normal bank ( guild bank ) is there a way to make it smaller at all?

This one puzzles me... nUI does not modify the size of anything except your bags if you use the '/nui bagscale {n}' slash command. I have no clue what might have changed the size unless perhaps you removed another mod that was previously changing the size of the bank frame.

I am thoroughly impressed so far. I am going to test out hunter now to see the changes.

Thanks much for the kind word Belszy

spiel2001 · 10-26-08, 06:39 AM

Originally Posted by Zinazeri

is there any difference between the one that is beta and the last alpha release?

Only some very trivial changes... not even worth documenting like moving a bar position a couple of ticks and things like that.

I don't like to make non-trivial changes between the last alpha and first beta or last beta and first release because you almost always end up introducing new bugs as a result and get a ton of egg on the face. If the last alpha is known to be reasonable stable, then it becomes your beta candidate, etc.

spiel2001 · 10-26-08, 06:44 AM

Originally Posted by Gaidinward

This may have been explained somewhere else, but I can't figure out how to make things larger. I use a standard 19" monitor with 1024x768 resolution, and the buttons on everybar, the text in the chat/combat is so small. I cant hardly read it, and some of the louder buttons(graphic wise) are hard to make out.

Any help here?

Other than this one problem, I love the way its laid out, and everything else.!

Gaidinward --

There is, unfortunately, no easy way to make things larger or smaller as everything is fit together kind of like a puzzle. If you make the buttons bigger, then they overlap and you have to rearrange the entire dashboard, etc.

It's kind of a no-win for me... for every "everything's too small" comment I get, I also get an "everything is too big" comment ~sigh~ So, I kind of have to try and find a happy middle somewhere.

One thing that I do know helps a lot is to use a wide screen display mode. This increases both the height and width of the dashboard relative to the world frame and thus makes everything bigger in the dashboard. (technically, in wide screen mode, Bliz does not add width so much as remove height which has the effect of zooming in on the world frame and its contents)

I play in 1920x1200 wide screen with the '/nui console mouseover' option set which to me produces a very usable dashboard together with a very clear play area. My opinion only of course.

spiel2001 · 10-26-08, 06:46 AM

Originally Posted by gothicknight

I have also noticed a bug similar to the rogue bug. When i get zombified, i get the zombie ability bar but when i get out of zombie mode, and press my keybinding (1-10) it is still tryin to cast the zombie abilities.

Gothicknight -- yup... same bug. Because I have changed how I deal with concealing the main Bliz bar, the action buttons are not getting processed correctly when the action page changes and thus the keybindings are not getting updated. I'm working on it and hope to have a fix today.

EDIT: I have been able to confirm that the fix for the FuBar bug is what has caused the keybinding problem on the rogue/druid stealth and zombie states. Now I have to come up with a solution that both fixes the keybinding bug and still addresses the problem with FuBar/lib-Jostle making the main Bliz bar reappear. /sigh

RE-EDIT: I have been able to work out a fix that appears to both solve the shapeshift/stance/stealth problem as well as resolve the bug in FuBar/lib-Jostle... I will be putting out an update sometime tonight as a result

mscott998 · 10-26-08, 09:13 AM

Originally Posted by spiel2001

The minimap was dead center in Beta 1. However, we had major issues with the size and location of unit frames for parties and raids which used to be where the info panel is now and were way too small to be functionally useful.

So, I came up with the idea of the switchable unit frame panel in the center of the dashboard that you see now and moved the minimap to the info panel to make more room for the unit frames which for every 20 man and higher raid panel I've attempted so far is still pretty tight.

In answer to your question of what the empty space in the center is for... that's where your focus frame goes which is a critical unit frame for a great many, if not most, players.

That said... I am going to offer an optional mod to nUI which will move the minimap back out of the info panel and place it in the same location as the focus frame in which case, if you have a valid focus, you will not have a minimap but the rest of the time your minimap will appear in the location dead center in the dashboard. However, that won't happen until after the WotLK release.

Is there anyway to set an option that will allow the minimap to be in its original location?

I have been successful with editing the code to remove the minimap from the info panel. Dont know how easy it will be after adding it to the center panel again.

im still new to programming and learning on Python, so Lua is a bit different.

if not that is cool, im sure i can figure it out with some help .

great work man, soon as i get back on top of my finances and this house ill send ya some for your time on this :-) may be around the 1st or so

spiel2001 · 10-26-08, 09:53 AM

For those of you who use the HitsMode addon, Kodewulf has created an info panel plugin that integrates HitsMode into nUI... this is the first third party addon to nUI that I'm aware of.

You can find it by going to the "Optional Files" tab on the nUI download page at http://www.wowinterface.com/download...=9108#optional, or you can go directly to http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info11402.html to download it.

Many thanks to Kodewulf for doing this!

spiel2001 · 10-26-08, 10:04 AM

Originally Posted by mscott998

Is there anyway to set an option that will allow the minimap to be in its original location?

I'm loath to do this for a few reasons I suspect I'm going to later regret, but I'll look into it.

I have been successful with editing the code to remove the minimap from the info panel. Dont know how easy it will be after adding it to the center panel again.

Well... to some extent, that "adding back to the center panel again" thing would be an optional download like the one Kodewulf just put out... so it wouldn't change things for you. But, all the same, I'll add the new option to toggle minimap management on/off.

Gaidinward · 10-26-08, 11:34 AM

I have run across one other issue. May or may not be an nUI issue. When I loaded up nUI with Titan Panel, all was well, until I selected the option to show both bars. When the UI reloaded everything was huge and I had to use escape and logout. Works fine with just the top bar, but will not work with top and bottom bars on for me.

Belszy · 10-26-08, 01:35 PM

Since loading NUI has anyone noticed a problem with cartographer not working? I mean when you open up map and right click to back out ot larger area it no longer works and when you try to click the x for map it no longer functions and pops up with a error? It didnt happen before NUI was installed so was curious if anyone else noticed this and if so were they able to fix it.

V/r
Bels

Shammah · 10-26-08, 02:42 PM

Originally Posted by Belszy

Since loading NUI has anyone noticed a problem with cartographer not working? I mean when you open up map and right click to back out ot larger area it no longer works and when you try to click the x for map it no longer functions and pops up with a error? It didnt happen before NUI was installed so was curious if anyone else noticed this and if so were they able to fix it.

V/r
Bels

Make sure you have the latest version of Cartographer. I had a similar problem for a while, but it went away. The only thing I did was update my addons using Curse Updater.

brentstabler · 10-26-08, 02:49 PM

Originally Posted by spiel2001

Brenstabler --

You are correct. This appears to be a bug I introduced in the last alpha release before the public release when I was trying to fix the problem of FuBar making the main Bliz bar reappear when the player zones. Unfortunately, it didn't get caught in the last day of testing, so that bug made it into the public release.

In any event, I'm working on it and will try and get a bug fix out sometime today/tonight.

awesome good to hear

also btw i mentioned it earlier that this UI was awesome but now that ive used it its even more so than before loving it so far even with the bug ;p once thats fixed i might just want to marry it now to come about finding a way to do that.. lol anyhow thx again.

Jeval · 10-26-08, 05:06 PM

A question.

Is there anyway to tell if I am the one who has tagged a mob or if someone else tagged it first? I couldn't find a way to tell by color but maybe I am just missing something.

Thanks in advanced.

Sodorfo · 10-26-08, 05:31 PM

Originally Posted by Jeval

A question.

Is there anyway to tell if I am the one who has tagged a mob or if someone else tagged it first? I couldn't find a way to tell by color but maybe I am just missing something.

Thanks in advanced.

the color bar with mobs name in the center area of dashboard will be red if your tag or gray if someone else's tag.

spiel2001 · 10-26-08, 06:05 PM

Originally Posted by Jeval

A question.

Is there anyway to tell if I am the one who has tagged a mob or if someone else tagged it first? I couldn't find a way to tell by color but maybe I am just missing something.

Thanks in advanced.

Jeval -- in addition to the prior reply, the party leader's unit frame will have a small crown on it to indicate their role.

spiel2001 · 10-26-08, 06:17 PM

This update changes, yet again, how nUI manages the default Bliz frames, action buttons and bars that it is replacing in order to (a) fix a bug that was introduced in 3.00.04 alpha in the shapeshift/stance/stealth bar and (b) still correct for the bug in FuBar/lib-Jostle which was causing the Bliz main bar to reappear when the player zoned.

There are no other changes in this update though I do anticipate another update in a day or two to try and address the issues with Titan Panel that have recently come up.

How you can help support nUI's continued development: I am currently trying to recover from 14 months of unemployment and with over $20,000 in debt (unpaid mortgage payments, loans, etc.), every penny makes a serious difference. Your contribution of $5, $10, $20 or more to support the ongoing development of nUI would be greatly appreciated. Click here to make a donation now, please?!

Lastly, please vote for nUI and add it to your favorites list... it helps nUI get more exposure. Thanks for your support!

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Known Issues:
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* Spec browsing is returning unreliable results

* (de)buff helpful/harmful logic appears to be broken

* Right clicking a unit frame and selecting "set focus" taints in combat

* Click-casting buttons 4 and 5 do not work on unit frames

* Ready check icons are not working in unit frames

* Enabling the "Use UI Scale" option in the Bliz video configuration menu blows up
nUI's layout and scaling. For now... just uncheck this option until I can fix it.

* Carbonite is having issues updating the directional arrow when the minimap and/or
battlefield minimap is hidden in the info panel

* Poison Pouch mod minimap button is missed by button bag

* Alpha Map minimap button is not scaling correctly in button bag

* Titan Panel is causing an error when the bottom bar is enabled

* Titan panel mouseover tooltips are not compatible with nUI's fixed position
tooltip option

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To-Do List / Planned features
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* Add a slash command toggle for enabling and disabling nUI management of the minimap

* Move the default location of the party loot popup... it inteferes with the dashboard

* Add WotLK features (vehicle panels, etc.) prior to 11/13/08 release of WotLK

* The 15, 20, 25 and 40 man raid panels are not in the pre-release... both because I am
not quite satisfied with them and, again, I'm trying to not have to fix everything at
once... make sure the core stuff is all working, then add the bells and whistles if
you understand.

* Add Threat Bar back

* Add sorting of raid unit frames by raid group and class

* Add font size options for Chat and Combat log frames

* Add totem timers

* Add keybindings for button bag, unit panel, info panel and hud layout buttons

* Add bongos style keybinding feature to action buttons

* Add automatic unit panel switching for raids/parties, etc. (and an override option)

* Add audio cues for cooldowns, cc breaks, etc.

* Add DruidManaBar type functionality to unit frames

* Add 2v2, 3v3 and 5v5 unit frame panels for arena play

* Add Proximo functionality to unit frames for arena unit panels

* Add durability, wardrobe manager, ammo tracker and gold tracker to console buttons

* Add autobar style support for quest items, food/drink/pots, mounts, vanity pets

* Add option to set location precision to zero decimal places on coordinate display

* Add target marking tool a la LuckyCharms

* Add a swing timer

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Version 3.02.00 (Beta)
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* Fixed a bug in shapeshift/stance/stealth mode changes that caused the main action
bar to not update its keybindings and effective actions caused by the FuBar and
lib-Jostle bug fix in 3.00.04

Zangband · 10-26-08, 06:18 PM

found that the mob health bar don't always go down when you hit the mob and got pictures that shows it

spiel2001 · 10-26-08, 06:23 PM

I have not seen that happen myself. Interesting. Do you have any other mods installed besides nUI? MobInfo by any chance? I need to try and figure out how to reproduce that error so I can track down the cause.

I'm assuming you got no error messages, correct?

Originally Posted by Zangband

found that the mob health bar don't always go down when you hit the mob and got pictures that shows it