nUI -- A full feature standalone UI replacement

[gothicknight]

Originally Posted by Ratu Well then im still confused. The old UI i was using was Dominos, and i did not have this problem with Dominos. Thats the only reason i assumed that it was an issue with nUI. But i will give the author of Carbonite a message and see if maybe they see something on there end that they could do. Well any further help is still appreciated

I do apologise, i just tried Carbonite without nUI loaded and Carbonite works fine. With nUI loaded, yes mousing over different zones in Carbonite causes really bad flickers.

But not sure what it is about nUI to cause it.

[AsheruWolf]

gothicknight I have seen the same thing on the mini map. It happens alot in instances so I normally turn off the Carbonite mini map till im questing again.

[gothicknight]

hrmm still can't work out why it is happening though. I don't have Carbonite minimap overwriting the nUI minimap (i have 2 minimaps, the nUI minimap and the Carb minimap).

[spiel2001]

Ibnuts --

The answer to your questions are no, no and yes.

Huh? I know... you only asked two questions, but you get three answers. This is a bit of a long winded answer, but I think important for people to know where this is going...

No, nUI does not automatically configure your bars for you. What it does is to copy whatever you have your default Bliz bars configured to do so that it never "steps" on anyone's WoW configuration and that will *always* be my policy on that.

No, because of the last statement I made above, I will never add automatic configuration into nUI itself. No two people play the same way and no two people configure their UIs the same way without collaboration. It is my belief/philosophy that nUI should respect that there are so many differences in player style and preference and do its level best not to interfere in that.

Yes, it will be possible to have nUI automatically lay out your action buttons in the not too distant future. I know that sounds like a contradiction of the first two nos, but it isn't. I have a personal pet pieve about the way Bliz does their action bars and "paging" and that is that I think paging should give you *completely* new bar sets... ALL of your bars.

With that in mind, I have been working on code that will allow the player to create bar sets in much the same way they can create wardrobes with a wardrobe manager. So, in effect, you can give your current bar set a name and save it, then create a whole new bar set and save that... so you can have one set of actions you use for solo play, another for PvP, a third for raiding, etc.

It is my intention to make it so these bar sets can be created by one person and shared with another as a download or plugin to nUI. Once that happens, then you would be able to download any number of bar sets that you liked and install them into nUI and voila, you have automatically configured bars.

It just will never be built directly into nUI to choose your actions for you.

Originally Posted by ibnuts Sorry if this is covered elsewhere; I couldn't find it on the main addon page. Does nUI automatically configure your bars with spells/shortcuts like MazzleUI used to do? If not, is that something that might appear in the future? Thanks.

[spiel2001]

Originally Posted by ibnuts ^ Thanks for your reply. I agree they're personal, but once I got used to the ones in Mazzle, they made a lot more sense than anything I've tried. Also, I'd rather use weird ones than have to look at my spellbook for 30 mins for every toon each time I install the UI to make sure that I'm not missing any spells.

Well... *if* you have the Bliz action bars configured when you load nUI then nUI will copy your action bars exactly as you have them configured and you don't have to remember anything. *if* you have been using another mod with its own custom action bars that does not respect the Bliz UI, then of course there's no way for me to know I need to copy their actions to mine.

[spiel2001]

Ratu --

I am aware there are some compatibility issues between Carbonite and nUI as you'll note in the patch notes I've been posting. However, this was not an issue I was aware of. I will look into it... feel free to tell Carbonite's author to contact me if (s)he wants to, as well.

I'm planning three straight days of coding on nUI this weekend, so I'll try and address this (no promises) while I'm at it.

EDIT: I'm pretty sure I know the source of the problem... I have a suspicion it's the nUI map coordinates feature that's causing this. You can try exiting WoW, renaming Interface\AddOns\nUI\AddOns\nUI_Location.lua to nUI_Location.lua.saved and logging back into WoW. If my suspiction is correct, the flicker will be gone... of course, so will your map location and coordinates, but it will solve the flicker problem until I can fix it.

Originally Posted by Ratu Well then im still confused. The old UI i was using was Dominos, and i did not have this problem with Dominos. Thats the only reason i assumed that it was an issue with nUI. But i will give the author of Carbonite a message and see if maybe they see something on there end that they could do. Well any further help is still appreciated

[spiel2001]

Cybergoose --

The total mana (power) amount is already displayed on the HUD along with percent mana (power). The percent was put in the unit frames only as an aid to those who do not use the HUD. It is possible to display the total amount instead of percent if you're one of those... keeping in mind that space is at a premium in most of the unit frames. You will need to edit the skin for the frames in question to do so, however, as there is no GUI config for all of these frames and features yet.

For example, if you want to see current mana remaining in your solo player unit frame instead of percent mana, then you would edit nUI\Units\Skins\Solo\nUI_UnitSkin_SoloPlayer.lua -- look for the ["Power"] section and change "pct_power =" to read "cur_power =" and voila, you'll be looking at the current power instead of percent.

There's two caveats to that... 1) if you do this, then the next time you update your version of nUI, you'll have to do it again. Until nUI's support for full skinning is enabled, you have to edit source to make changes instead of editing your saved variables, so that's a problem. 2) the size of the remaining mana text is larger (longer) than the size of the percent mana text which means it will overlap the power bar and the right edge of the unit frame sometimes.

Originally Posted by Cybergoose Is it possible to be able to see total mana amount together with the total health?

[KiwiiDawn]

Originally Posted by spiel2001 Ratu -- I am aware there are some compatibility issues between Carbonite and nUI as you'll note in the patch notes I've been posting. However, this was not an issue I was aware of. I will look into it... feel free to tell Carbonite's author to contact me if (s)he wants to, as well. I'm planning three straight days of coding on nUI this weekend, so I'll try and address this (no promises) while I'm at it. EDIT: I'm pretty sure I know the source of the problem... I have a suspicion it's the nUI map coordinates feature that's causing this. You can try exiting WoW, renaming Interface\AddOns\nUI\AddOns\nUI_Location.lua to nUI_Location.lua.saved and logging back into WoW. If my suspiction is correct, the flicker will be gone... of course, so will your map location and coordinates, but it will solve the flicker problem until I can fix it.

Oddly I was having same issus and posted it on carbonintes site. Wehn i can log on ill try the fix too .

[mscott998]

i personally think Carbonite is too intrusive and to memory intensive. Cartographer and quest helper are alot simpler and to the point and the problem there has been fixed since the minimap has been repositioned in the center again


thanks Scott

[Gremriel]

There seems to be an issue with nUI with temporary weapon enchants (like superior wizard oil) and the buff icon.

What happens is, that if you overwrite a current application of Superior Wizard Oil before it actually has run out, the buff icon will disappear. So, say you have 30 sec left on Oil 1 and replace it with a new one just before a pull or bossfight, the icon will vanish.

[StubbyG]

OK, I got the new update and thought it fixed the keybinding problem. But then I was at my brother-in-law's house last night and logged in with my druid. Then I came back to my setup and nui took the blizz keybindings again and I had the same issue with shifting back from cat form. I fixed the problem by just configuring the nui keybindings, but I just thought I'd let you know that there might still be some problems with getting the blizz keybindings transferred to nui. Also, the labels on the buttons weren't there until I set the nui keybindings.

As for the carbonite issue, I can confirm that removing the nui location fixes the flicker issue. As carbonite has the coordinates anyway, this shouldn't be an issue for other carbonite users. At least it isn't for me . On the subject of carbonite, I only started using it because so many other users on this forum had been talking about it, and I agree that integrating the carbonite map into the info panel would be very nice.


On the subject of the info panel, once you get the GUI in, you might include a checklist for people to turn off certain info panels that they don't use. Just a suggestion, take it or leave it. It may not be necessary if you get the auto-switching functionality working (with omen and recount).

[Sloth]

Originally Posted by spiel2001 For what it's worth... I just logged in on 4.04.00 and ran my lock through Borean Tundra until I got to the quest where you have to mount a woolly mammoth and kill Kaw the Mammoth Destroyer... that's a vehicle quest... and the nUI main action bar picked up the vehicle frame buttons and the key bindings did work. I'm not sure what the issue is, or might have been, at this point. Were you using 4.04.00?

Ok, tried it again and it seems to work. I have no idea why i had issues the last time.

[sreese4]

I cannot get the party frame to show up nor my own character screen. Let me clarify this statement. I'm getting now player/party frames. Do we have any ideas as to why? I'm going to try redownloading it and installing again.

I deleted all my mods and even the wtf folder before installing this addon.

As far as other addons I am currently running:
I am running Palypower and Omen3. I am also going to download quest helper and cartographer.

It would be awesome if there was some way to integrate palypower into this addon and maybe ora2 as well?

It's 4.04.00b.

I have been using perfect raid for my raid frames which seems to work really well for me, but I don't know how this raid ui will work when I cannot even get the party one to function.

I just thought of an additional note, when I invited someone to party it tried to show the default blizzard party frame, but nothing showed up on that either.

--edit --
Ok these seems to be fixed by removing and reinstalling the addon again, just for anyone who might also have this problem.

[mauro_666]

..Hi..
..great work, I love it..
..only one problem so far..
..nUI on my screen (1920*1200 res) is off-center (on the left) and then, left part of it is cutted away (chat and /command part included).. :s
..any suggestion on how to solve this issue?

thx in advance, Mauro.

edit noticed now that only the lower part of nUI is off center, the upper HUD is fine.. O_o

and moreover, is there any way to change the skin or the size of the lower part (at 1920*1280 is quite huge..)

M.

[spiel2001]

I'm going to guess that you have FuBar loaded. Make sure your FuBar bars are the full width of the display as nUI anchors itself to those bars when present.

Yes, there are alternate dashboard skins... check out http://www.wowinterface.com/download...=9108#optional

As for the vertical size, there's really nothing to do about that. I might suggest you look at the "Thin Gloss Black" skin at the above address... it helps a lot.

Originally Posted by mauro_666 ..Hi.. ..great work, I love it.. ..only one problem so far.. ..nUI on my screen (1920*1200 res) is off-center (on the left) and then, left part of it is cutted away (chat and /command part included).. :s ..any suggestion on how to solve this issue? thx in advance, Mauro. edit noticed now that only the lower part of nUI is off center, the upper HUD is fine.. O_o and moreover, is there any way to change the skin or the size of the lower part (at 1920*1280 is quite huge..) M.

[mauro_666]

Originally Posted by spiel2001 I'm going to guess that you have FuBar loaded. Make sure your FuBar bars are the full width of the display as nUI anchors itself to those bars when present.

..err, thx for the advice, but I never modified the std setup of fubar width, and I couldn't find a setting to do that in the fubar menu.. :s

..thx for both the quick answer and the skin suggestion..
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[spiel2001]

Yeesh -- maybe one of the FuBar experts will step in here as I haven't used FuBar in a very long time. I *think* you can unlock the bars and then size them, but I would be wrong. Have you tried draging the corner on the right side?

I can tell at a glance that the problem is FuBar, I just don't know how to tell you to fix it.

Originally Posted by mauro_666 ..err, thx for the advice, but I never modified the std setup of fubar width, and I couldn't find a setting to do that in the fubar menu.. :s ..thx for both the quick answer and the skin suggestion.. .

[mscott998]

Originally Posted by spiel2001 Yeesh -- maybe one of the FuBar experts will step in here as I haven't used FuBar in a very long time. I *think* you can unlock the bars and then size them, but I would be wrong. Have you tried draging the corner on the right side? I can tell at a glance that the problem is FuBar, I just don't know how to tell you to fix it.

you should be able to unlock fubar and drag the right edge to the edge of the screen, it will stretch and correct the problem, i had this happen once and it a pretty easy fix. unfortunately it is not a nui problem it is fubar. feel free to contact me if you have any issues.

[mscott998]

any update as to the hiding of the vehicle panel. its not a real big deal, but it hides the minimap partially and i depend on the map lol

thanks for the hard work

[spiel2001]

I need to get to a place where I can test the vehicle frame myself with the seats, etc., so it may be a while. In a pinch, I think '/script VehicleMenuBar:Hide()' should do the trick

Originally Posted by mscott998 any update as to the hiding of the vehicle panel. its not a real big deal, but it hides the minimap partially and i depend on the map lol thanks for the hard work