Horizontal Hotbar

[Xebarsis]

I haven't played EQ in a while, so I apologize if this issue has already been addressed. My hotbar was always horizontal so it fit nicely at the bottom of my screen as a toolbar, but now that I've updated my game my hotbar is vertical instead of horizontal. Is there a way for me to make the hotbar horizontal again?

[guineapig]

You can have up to 4 hotbars (possibly more). I think the first 2 are horizontal by default and the second 2 come out vertical. Try just opening up all 4 to see what happens. Then you can get ris of which ever ones you want.

Personally I tend to use 2 on the bottom and one on the side at all times, I use a 4th one for my healer characters so I have all my typical targets already hotkeyed.

[Xebarsis]

I can only open hotbar 1, if I try enabling the other ones nothing happens. I've looked at the commands to open the other hotbars, and no matter what I set them to I can't get them open.

[Xebarsis]

I still can't activate hotbars 2-4. :(

[DevGrousis]

you must have a dif UI. /loadskin default_old

[ziggyholiday]

I have the same issue. The first computer I loaded P99 on has the vertical hotbars while the other two have horizontal. They all have the same updates and none of them have a different UI. One thing to note is that they have different spell icons as well.

[Xebarsis]

you must have a dif UI. /loadskin default_old

After doing that the skin of my UI looks like stone and all four hotbars are vertical. Is there a way to make any of them horizontal?

[Mcbard]

This is probably a stupid question that has either been answered and I'm just not getting it, or is not possible, but how would one wanting to use the Velious UI but with 2 horizontal hotbars instead of 1 vertical one go about setting this up? Paying Savok a healthy living wage by chance? Let me know what's up with this pls! :)

[Xebarsis]

Bump.

[Savok]

If you have downloaded the UI updates listed in my sig then default and default_old will both have 2 horizontal and 2 vertical hotbars. These can be opened by setting UI macro keys from the Options>Keys panel.

If you have the Velious UI without the optional extras you will only have 1 hotbar. Download the extras zip file and copy the EQUI_HotButtons.xml file to your Velious folder and reload with /loadskin.

If you have my Vert UI then you will have 3 2x5 and 1 horizontal hotbar as standard, with the option of downloading different variations.

If you use a different UI from above then your on your own!

[Xebarsis]

Thank you very much Savok :) I now have horizontal hotbars. I couldn't get the classic icons to work though because when I installed them they looked incredibly disfigured with a dark red background. Not as important to me though as the horizontal hotbar, so I'm set.

[mdaro]

If you have downloaded the UI updates listed in my sig then default and default_old will both have 2 horizontal and 2 vertical hotbars. These can be opened by setting UI macro keys from the Options>Keys panel.

If you have the Velious UI without the optional extras you will only have 1 hotbar. Download the extras zip file and copy the EQUI_HotButtons.xml file to your Velious folder and reload with /loadskin.

If you have my Vert UI then you will have 3 2x5 and 1 horizontal hotbar as standard, with the option of downloading different variations.

If you use a different UI from above then your on your own!

I've followed this exactly but I still do not have a horizontal hotbar......

[mdaro]

I've followed this exactly but I still do not have a horizontal hotbar......

Same here and I can't open hot bars 2-4.

[Vega]

Same here and I can't open hot bars 2-4.

Which UI are you using?

[mdaro]

Which UI are you using?

Default old.

[MilanderTruewield]

I'd be happy with default old and 4 horizontal hotbars, and a tweaked player window that shows hp/mana in numbers (current/total) with %'s. That's pretty much what my UI is on live :)

[Vega]

Default old.

Ok, so here's what you want to look for. Open the following file:

EQ (or whatever your root is) -> uifiles -> default_old -> EQUI_HotButtonWnd.xml

If you have Notepad++, that's what I prefer, but you can open it with a browser window aswell (I think mine was IE by default).

So you want to search for hb_button1 (capitals may be different). There should be a whole definition for this button. Things like ScreenID, Font, and Location should all have defined values. Next, search for hb2_button1. If it doesn't have the same filled in information below it, and just perhaps has ScreenID, then your other hotbars are not defined, and can't show up.

I don't know the details of what you might have missed in Savok's files, it might be worth trying to re-download his stuff. But you can also try other UI skins. Each UI has it's own EQUI_HotButtonWnd file which might have those hotbars correctly defined in it. Lastly you could fix it yourself if you wanted. For each of the hb2 elements (HB2_Button1, HB2_Button10, HB2_InvSlot1, etc) you should be able to copy and paste the same contents as what are defined for the first hotbar (HB_Button1, HB_Button10, HB_InvSlot1, etc). Hopefully that makes sense, let me know if you have other questions.


Edit: This will only work to get your other hotbars working, but now they will all be the same (vertical or horizontal). You'll need slightly different definitions for the elements if you want the subsequent hotbars to be different.

[mdaro]

Thank you! I will give this a shot when I get home. I'll download everything again and do a fresh install on the UI.

I need my horizontal hot bars!