ClassicUI reupload

[nbgt]

originally made by DualEntity, who mysteriously vanished off planet earth, all her accounts across various sites, deleted, all her posts, modified to be emptied! spooky 0_o
Original Post - http://tiny.cc/originalpost

This UI had a less buggy version, but this is all we found. I want to thank Halius for reuploading these versions he owned!

For this to work properly, go in-game, and set your resolution to 640x480 (you can try playing in full-screen if your window is too small)

Next, set your viewport by typing the following command in your chat:
/viewport 119 0 400 320

You may also rename either one to "default" in your ui folder, if you want to see the character select screen.

melee version - http://tiny.cc/meleeversion
caster version - http://tiny.cc/casterversion

I would be absolutely relieved, if any programmer wants to retry after her work! I would love to see this in a more fixed, complete form!

[nbgt]

edit: anyone know how to edit posts? i want to add screenshots to the main post ect.

Make sure if you're changing UI: to NOT have "keep your layout" selected!
here's some screenshots and stuff

http://i.imgur.com/HywmPpk.png

http://i.imgur.com/McU3UjV.png

[Sorn]

What bugs are still present? I can try fixing some stuff but I'm not that great at UIs.

(You can't edit a post after 30 minutes. No one knows precisely why this is. Feel free to PM a guide or forum mod to get the first post changed.)

[Oleris]

I miss dual entity and her streams.

[Swish]

I miss dual entity and her streams.

Magpies is waiting for her return :p

[nbgt]

some of the buttons aren't operational, like the spells book button, the character creation buttons are missing, ect. Also, for some reason the merchant window buttons are invisible lol. She did fix the merchant window is one patch, but that's gone now =(

[nbgt]

also the "join server" button is invisible on the server selection lol. if anyone is wondering where that is, just click somewhere around the bottom right of the screen until you hit it =)

[Sorn]

The loot window is bugged, too. No way to stop looting something without switching to another UI.

I'll look through the caster version to see how it's put together.

[Sorn]

Crowdsourcing for images of the classic merchant window configuration, specifically the purchase/sell/done section. I had to create a purchase button by hand and the merchant window still looks terrible because the background is missing. Still trying to figure out how to fix the cropping on the unpressed purchase button. Edit: Fixed it, background image for the merchant window is missing.

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If anyone has a still working version of the tutorial, that would be the place to look.

[Sorn]

I just like posting progress pictures. Note: the up and down arrow keys do not work.

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I have no idea how to fix the background of the merchant window. I'll probably try fixing the loot window's lack of done button first and then copying some of the code over.

[Sorn]

I'm done messing with it for now.

Current issue puzzling me: The done button does not work when relocated outside of the merchant window strip. Here I have it partially inside to test clickability. The part that falls outside the zone does not respond to mouse clicks. Classic UI put this button on top of the inventory done button in the lower right corner of the screen. I don't know how to declare a 'hotspot' (or perhaps a static animation?).

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Other issue is of course the display of items in the merchant window. The items are currently scrollable via mouse, not the up and down arrow buttons.

[nbgt]

thanks for helping sorn <3 dunno if this is ever fix-able, but I appreciate the help <3

[Sorn]

Worked on various things and made little headway. Also crashed a lot because refresh times on p99 are horrible. Here's what I've got the item display window to look like:
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It's a little wonky because I sized the graphic proportionally but the window itself is the wrong size.

Notes -
* I got the spellbook to work...sort of. Unfortunately it hides beneath the Selector window (the portion of the UI that holds the Help, Options, and View buttons on the left side), so to get it to show up you have to click on a spell gem to cast, or hit alt+s twice. Once it's on top, you can't touch any of the Selector window buttons. This has to do with window layering, which I do not now how to fix just yet. I know you can layer stuff within a window, but decreeing what order the windows sit on loading is beyond me.

The issue with it is that some buttons only work in certain windows. The reason the spellbook button didn't work before is because someone put it in the Selector window instead of the CastSpellsWnd file (your spell gems, essentially). Good idea, but the client hates anything remotely reasonable so it won't work. Since it can't be in the Selector window, the spellbook goes in a separate window that will sit on top of the Selector window and render the other buttons unusable unless it's hidden or tucked under.

* I can't figure out how to resize the item display window or have it show up in a single location. I also can't lock it in place or prevent 4 of the windows from opening. I can keep it from being resized. Using alt+right click brings up a window that sticks around until I click the invisible close button. I may be able to get it to close if I click outside the window, but haven't figured out how that works yet. It may be hard-coded into the client. I also don't know how to get the item name to display with the details because it doesn't have an EQType I can use. The only reason it shows up right now is because I let the window have a title bar.

* The toon I'm doing this on is running out of money for food D: Klok Wyga needs to lower her prices on earthworm munch! /riots

[nbgt]

yeah i've noticed the layering problems when opening the inventory with the persona button and whatnot. maybe titanium just sucks when it comes to layering? lol

as for the item display window, I have to relocate mine one-time, then it'll stay there.
for example, if I open another item window, it'll be like "window 2" then another window would be "window 3" I move those into the same spot, and it'll be in the same spot until window 3 appears.

Then I camp and exit the game, then it saved the locations of windows 1-3

it's weird, but that's how I have to do it lol. Not sure if it'll save in the uifiles though, this seems more like a client-side thing

[nbgt]

k cool I tested some more, and this works with resize too. I just have to drag the corners/sides, even though the cursor doesn't show you anything lol

[nbgt]

I'm not really experienced with UI's or xml, but i'll still throw ideas around to help :)

Perhaps there's a way to have the merchant window code, act like the hotbar window code? Not sure if that's possible though.

Maybe there's also a way to change the layout of the options window too? i've never seen it done before on other interfaces though. balls :3

As for the inventory camera, my idea is to just have a picture of some guy on there Lol.

http://i.imgur.com/9Duciku.png

[Sorn]

Hah!

Okay, I'll go through your suggestions one at a time.

- Moving the item display windows manually: It's a workaround but not ideal (ideal being a UI that does not need any adjusting at all by the user). I figured out the same thing but kept trying anyway because I'm pretty sure there's a way to permaresize the windows. I want a single item window fixed on top of the chat window that cannot be moved. My memories tell me you could alt click on an item to get the window to pop up, then alt click again to get rid of it. Right click and hold would bring it up until you released the button.

- Merchant window code work like the hotbar? I believe it should work more like the loot window. Unfortunately I suspect the client limits this, as the list format with the prices, names, and icons appears to be hard-coded into the client since there's nowhere I can find in the UI files to modify this. I will keep looking. I did find one of the EQ types for a merchant item (6004), but I don't know if that's compatible with the client.

- Like the merchant item list, I think the options window content is hard-coded into the client. I visited P2002 recently, which uses the PoP era client, and discovered it's MUCH more classic than Titanium will ever be. Their options window is very different from P99. So is their merchant window. I could probably make a true classic UI for that server very easily.

- Inventory camera: Might work but not sure. There is an element in the Inventory window called ClassAnim, which is the animated class icon you see. It only works in the Inventory window, evidently, and it appears in two different places depending. That's why it's hidden beneath the Selector window when you first start up, but pops up on top when you open and close your inventory. When the inventory is closed, it's moved over to the spot on the Selector window. When opened, it moves back to over the persona window. I haven't figured out how to create a custom window with just a graphic in there yet, but when I do, I'll probably use it for this purpose.

Right now I'm trying to make the UI 800x600 because I hate 640x480. This causes about the same sort of headache as I've come to expect from working with EQ UIs.

I've also started writing some documentation for the XML syntax because I need a reference and it's sadly undocumented despite all the custom UIs out there. I have a feeling most custom UIs are at least 50% guesswork, maybe more.

[iMoto]

So, I started on this server about in the beginning of February and decided to try out this UI. When I, like most of you, realized this was no longer available at the original location I was quite happy to find the borked version that was re-uploaded in this thread.

I wasn't pleased with the state of the UI and decided that while I played I would take some time and work on this. Today I'm here to release that work to all of you to do whatever you wish with it.

When I downloaded the UI scripts left over from the previous developer, they were in extremely rough shape. Basically the entire thing was just complete garbage. So I took the time to rewrite the entire project which you can find here: https://github.com/iMotoGames/P99-ClassicUI.

Most of the files are abstracted from each other and easy to work on. On the github page you can see all of the changes I made as well as the current existing issues (most of which are due to client issues and specific windows needing complete rework via dll modifications, which of course is against the ToS of P99 and a bannable offense).

I'll be continuing to work on this, but significantly less as I'm not actively playing here anymore and have other projects I'd like to focus on.

Any questions in regards to this project can be brought up via creating an issue on the Github page.

Hope you all enjoy.

[iMoto]

I forgot to mention in my previous post that I also abstracted the EQ Login Server UI from the standard EQUI files with this project, and that the EQLSUI can be thrown into any default UI folder to have the classic login server look. This of course could use some minor touchup's but looks quite a lot better than the standard titanium EQLSUI.

[Sorn]

Nice job! Although this just confirms my impression that the whole thing is impossible using the Titanium client =\

[iMoto]

Not impossible, just improbable. A lot of work and a lot of it would be required to be looked over by the developers of this server.