HUD Layout Button and Scaling

trueelimite · 09-27-10, 01:22 PM

After a few months with TukUI i'm glad to be back to nUI. TukUI took up less RAM but was less sexy.

Now that I'm back I remember there being a way to get rid of the Hud Layout Button and move the micro menu up to get more screen. Which addon was that? Does it still exist?

Secondly. Now that I've gotten use to a minimalistic view (and the extra vision needed for hLK) I want to shrink the UI. I tried the steps listed in FAQ on the main page but every time I reloaded my UI any adjustments I made in nUI.lua got deleted. Anyone know why? Or better yet, can anyone just post the code/lua file needed to shrink the UI by 2/3 for a 1920x1200 res?

Thanks.

spiel2001 · 09-27-10, 01:38 PM

You cannot make changes to the saved variables file while WoW is loaded because they get overwritten when you log out. You need to exit WoW before changing the saved variables in the nUI.lua file, make your changes and save them, then log back into WoW. That should keep them from getting wiped out.

As for the upper console, I would suggest you try '/nui console mouseover' -- that should do the trick.

trueelimite · 09-27-10, 08:52 PM

Spiel if I wasn't married... nor straight.... <3 you

I'll give it a try tomorrow. But this is another reason I'm back to nUI, 18min response time to newb questions. With TukUI I was waiting 11+ days for a simple yes/no question.

trueelimite · 09-28-10, 10:31 AM

the /nui console mouseover worked great!!

Adding "["scale"] = 1, ["hScale"] = .75, ["vScale"] = .75," didn't work. I was exited out of the client, saved the changes, logged in (it didn't adjust the scale at all), logged out (it reverted the nUI.lua files to the orginals).

any ideas?

spiel2001 · 09-28-10, 11:07 AM

Can you post your modified nUI.lua file as an attachment here so I can see what you're doing? (use the paperclip icon in the message editor or scroll down the page to the "Manage Attachments" button)

You do realize the a vScale of 0.75 is *not* 3/4 of the default scale, yes?

trueelimite · 09-28-10, 11:27 AM

no i didn't realize that.

spiel2001 · 09-28-10, 11:49 AM

This FAQ goes into pretty specific detail on how to calculate your horizontal and vertical scale... http://www.wowinterface.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=20917

Since you're playing at 1920x1200, your default hScale value is 0.75 and your default vScale is 0.7125 -- so, your "test" values of 0.75 are almost identical to the default value. It may be why you're not seeing a difference.

Try an hScale of 0.5625 and a vScale of 0.534 and see if that makes a notable difference... that would be 3/4 of the default scale.

trueelimite · 09-28-10, 11:59 AM

ok tried your values, saved, went in game (no change in scale), exited game and nUI.lua went back to its original without the new code.

I have no idea why it doesn't like me.

spiel2001 · 09-28-10, 12:03 PM

o.O

So it is removing your values from the file? What happens if you change some of the other values like the roundmap option, etc? Do those also get changed back?

trueelimite · 09-28-10, 12:51 PM

no those change in game and do not get reverted to the orginal

trueelimite · 09-28-10, 12:56 PM

I figured it out. I was just adding those 3 lines to the file. When changing the already existing lines everything works. I guess you have a check sum in nUI to make sure there aren't extra lines in the Saved Variables files? Those extra lines were tripping the check sum and caused it to reset.

^ Just a guess.

spiel2001 · 09-28-10, 01:44 PM

Nah... it shouldn't care if you add new lines as long as you exit WoW before you do it. Something else is going on and I'm not sure what.