Suggested variables

FreQuency · Post by **FreQuency** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 1:39 am

Not really sure where to have put this.
I know lax wants to keep the UI label aray limited but after rippign thought the readme and the ones we have now i don't see how it coulkd grow to far out of control as long as we all keep teh same labels. and in addition to the one plaz has sticked here i've thought of a few.
here are some additons i'd like t see

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   // 1000-1999: $char()
      {1016,   "$char(exp)"},
      {1017,   "$char(aa,exp)},

      // 4000-4999 buff info
      {4000,   "$char(buff,1,durationsecs)"}, 
      {4001,   "$char(buff,2,durationsecs)"}, 
      {4002,   "$char(buff,3,durationsecs)"}, 
      {4003,   "$char(buff,4,durationsecs)"}, 
      {4004,   "$char(buff,5,durationsecs)"}, 
      {4005,   "$char(buff,6,durationsecs)"}, 
      {4006,   "$char(buff,7,durationsecs)"}, 
      {4007,   "$char(buff,8,durationsecs)"}, 
      {4008,   "$char(buff,9,durationsecs)"}, 
      {4009,   "$char(buff,10,durationsecs)"}, 
      {4010,   "$char(buff,11,durationsecs)"}, 
      {4011,   "$char(buff,12,durationsecs)"}, 
      {4012,   "$char(buff,13,durationsecs)"}, 
      {4013,   "$char(buff,14,durationsecs)"}, 
      {4014,   "$char(buff,15,durationsecs)"}, 
      {4015,   "$char(buff,1,mod)"}, 
      {4016,   "$char(buff,2,mod)"}, 
      {4017,   "$char(buff,3,mod)"}, 
      {4018,   "$char(buff,4,mod)"}, 
      {4019,   "$char(buff,5,mod)"}, 
      {4020,   "$char(buff,6,mod)"}, 
      {4021,   "$char(buff,7,mod)"}, 
      {4022,   "$char(buff,8,mod)"}, 
      {4023,   "$char(buff,9,mod)"}, 
      {4024,   "$char(buff,10,mod)"}, 
      {4025,   "$char(buff,11,mod)"}, 
      {4026,   "$char(buff,12,mod)"}, 
      {4027,   "$char(buff,13,mod)"}, 
      {4028,   "$char(buff,14,mod)"}, 
      {4029,   "$char(buff,15,mod)"}, 
      {4030,   "$char(song,1,durationsecs)"}, 
      {4031,   "$char(song,2,durationsecs)"}, 
      {4032,   "$char(song,3,durationsecs)"}, 
      {4033,   "$char(song,4,durationsecs)"}, 
      {4034,   "$char(song,5,durationsecs)"}, 
      {4035,   "$char(song,6,durationsecs)"}, 
      {4036,   "$char(song,1,mod)"}, 
      {4037,   "$char(song,2,mod)"}, 
      {4038,   "$char(song,3,mod)"}, 
      {4039,   "$char(song,4,mod)"}, 
      {4040,   "$char(song,5,mod)"}, 
      {4041,   "$char(song,6,mod)"},

Lax · Post by **Lax** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 1:47 am

Your list alone is enough explanation. Notice that it takes 41 separate EQTypes just to do my buff window mod. Notice that in my mod, I don't use any EQTypes, because we built it into EQType 9999 to just parse the tooltip. Without requesting an EQType being added, you can right now use $char(exp) and $char(aa,exp) in your UI. That and for every single EQType added to our list, the time required to update our custom labels grows exponentially. If we added 100 EQTypes, that's bad enough... if we added 1000... consider 1000 squared. The cons far outweigh the pros as far as adding EQTypes go, if you don't understand then please take my word for it

FreQuency · Post by **FreQuency** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 1:54 am

The list could be shrunk very simple by removing all the "$char(buff,#,mod)" yes the tool tip is very nice.
I liek to be able to glance over and see the time left on my buffs and not have to fumble around with tooltips (i have a small buff window)
Also i don't believe that once the list is going it would be too mcuh of a hassle, but i mentioned this elsewhere.

Lax · Post by **Lax** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 1:59 am

I have a very small buff window also. The tooltips on our labels dont pop up in game. The only thing that shows is the text we want to see.

Plazmic · Post by **Plazmic** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 2:10 am

I agree that the list should be left very short. It's nice to have, but unless we made it "blazing fast", it would drop FPS quite a bit if you had a UI with a lot of MQ labels on screen.

Side notes:
Labels are not updated if the window isn't visible.
EQ's internal types (EQType's<115) don't go through our loop since we skip them

FreQuency · Post by **FreQuency** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 2:14 am

I have a very small buff window also. The tooltips on our labels dont pop up in game. The only thing that shows is the text we want to see.

lost me on this Lax does this mean the tool tip is always up and we don't need a mousehoover over it?, sorry jsut compiled now going in to play around

Lax · Post by **Lax** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 2:18 am

The tooltips dont display at all, on labels. Labels dont draw tooltips, only controls do. However, the structure of SIDL allows us to set the tooltip of labels, even though it will never be drawn. We exploit that fact by using what's stored as the tooltip, parsing it, and setting the label's text to the result.

Play with it, you will see and you will agree :)

FreQuency · Post by **FreQuency** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 2:33 am

ok now that thats is cleared up forget me hehe, thats much nicer :)
sorry for doubting Lax /bow.
I was under the impression we need to pop up the tooltip