nUI -- A full feature standalone UI replacement

[Batroo]

Originally Posted by spiel2001 Okay -- it has to be something other than the files themselves as I was able to save them into my own nUI path and load them just fine. So, something else is preventing Bliz from being able to load your texture files and it's something outside of nUI and the texture files themselves. What kind of system are you running on? Vista? XP? Something else?

I'm running 32bit Vista Home Premium

AMD Athalon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ 2.61Ghz
4gigs Ram
With an ATI Radeon 4850 512mb video card.

I don't know if this could be the reason, but just before it started doing that, I started the game and it was in windowed mode since that what I usually play in so I can look through Wowhead.com Before I even got to the character select screen, I hit the maximize button up on the top of the screen, then that's when it started this green bit.

[gothicknight]

Windowed mode shouldn't a difference at all as i am running in windowed mode (i dont have the start maximised button ticked though) and nUI works perfectly fine.

[Sniperfox]

Originally Posted by Batroo I'm running 32bit Vista Home Premium AMD Athalon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ 2.61Ghz 4gigs Ram With an ATI Radeon 4850 512mb video card. I don't know if this could be the reason, but just before it started doing that, I started the game and it was in windowed mode since that what I usually play in so I can look through Wowhead.com Before I even got to the character select screen, I hit the maximize button up on the top of the screen, then that's when it started this green bit.

I had the same problem before(ati radeon 3850), reinstalling my video card drivers fixed it.

[Petrah]

Originally Posted by Batroo I'm running 32bit Vista Home Premium AMD Athalon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ 2.61Ghz 4gigs Ram With an ATI Radeon 4850 512mb video card. I don't know if this could be the reason, but just before it started doing that, I started the game and it was in windowed mode since that what I usually play in so I can look through Wowhead.com Before I even got to the character select screen, I hit the maximize button up on the top of the screen, then that's when it started this green bit.

Here ya go, if you haven't grabbed em already:
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_ca...common-vista32

[spiel2001]

I play in windowed mode myself most of the time, unless I'm in a 25 man in which case I'll switch to full screen to the higher FPS.

There is a known bug in WoW where switching between windowed and non-windowed modes on the fly will cause non-Bliz textures to vanish on some video cards... but I've never known them to cause green images which is the default for a broken/unloadable texture.

I think checking your video drivers and reinstalling may be the best first step worth taking... quick and painless.

I would also carefully check file permissions. There are issues with installing mods on Vista (imagine that... Vista having issues... go figure) and there's a link to an article on the subject somewhere here on this forum, or you can search at http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com for it. Maybe one of my good readers has the link and can share it with you... I would be inclined to start there if the driver re-install doesn't do the trick as I think the problem in that case is that either WoW can't find the files because they aren't where it expects them to be or it can't access the files because of permission issues. Just my theory.

Originally Posted by Batroo I'm running 32bit Vista Home Premium AMD Athalon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ 2.61Ghz 4gigs Ram With an ATI Radeon 4850 512mb video card. I don't know if this could be the reason, but just before it started doing that, I started the game and it was in windowed mode since that what I usually play in so I can look through Wowhead.com Before I even got to the character select screen, I hit the maximize button up on the top of the screen, then that's when it started this green bit.

[Batroo]

Originally Posted by gothicknight Windowed mode shouldn't a difference at all as i am running in windowed mode (i dont have the start maximised button ticked though) and nUI works perfectly fine.

Originally Posted by Sniperfox I had the same problem before(ati radeon 3850), reinstalling my video card drivers fixed it.

Originally Posted by Silenia Here ya go, if you haven't grabbed em already: http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_ca...common-vista32

Originally Posted by spiel2001 I play in windowed mode myself most of the time, unless I'm in a 25 man in which case I'll switch to full screen to the higher FPS. There is a known bug in WoW where switching between windowed and non-windowed modes on the fly will cause non-Bliz textures to vanish on some video cards... but I've never known them to cause green images which is the default for a broken/unloadable texture. I think checking your video drivers and reinstalling may be the best first step worth taking... quick and painless. I would also carefully check file permissions. There are issues with installing mods on Vista (imagine that... Vista having issues... go figure) and there's a link to an article on the subject somewhere here on this forum, or you can search at http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com for it. Maybe one of my good readers has the link and can share it with you... I would be inclined to start there if the driver re-install doesn't do the trick as I think the problem in that case is that either WoW can't find the files because they aren't where it expects them to be or it can't access the files because of permission issues. Just my theory.

Thank you all for the help, I found out my drivers were out of date and installing the new ones, fixed the problem. I should of done this in the first place, shows how much I wasn't thinking. :P

Oh I don't know if this has been reported or now, but when using Cartographer and nUI the map in the lower right hand corner goes blank like when you haven't uncovered anything in the map when you open the normal map with M.

[Petrah]

Originally Posted by Batroo Thank you all for the help, I found out my drivers were out of date and installing the new ones, fixed the problem. I should of done this in the first place, shows how much I wasn't thinking. :P

w00t! Glad the new drivers fixed your problem! You should also notice an overall increase in game performance as well (perhaps even better FPS).

[whereswaldo]

Originally Posted by Batroo Oh I don't know if this has been reported or now, but when using Cartographer and nUI the map in the lower right hand corner goes blank like when you haven't uncovered anything in the map when you open the normal map with M.

By any chance do you have the mod Capping installed? That was causing problems with the world map in the info panel for me.

[mscott998]

Originally Posted by whereswaldo By any chance do you have the mod Capping installed? That was causing problems with the world map in the info panel for me.

the same thing happens to me and i don't have capping installed, but as long as the cartographer map is closed all is fine, i don't use them both together any ways. don't understand why anyone would need 2 maps at one time. but who knows

[Batroo]

Originally Posted by whereswaldo By any chance do you have the mod Capping installed? That was causing problems with the world map in the info panel for me.

No I don't have Capping installed.

Originally Posted by mscott998 the same thing happens to me and i don't have capping installed, but as long as the cartographer map is closed all is fine, i don't use them both together any ways. don't understand why anyone would need 2 maps at one time. but who knows

Well the smaller info panel is used to give me more of a general direction, while the bigger map is used for Questhelper, and Cartographer to help me locate where certain this are, and what level range area's are.

[Petrah]

The map in the info panel is essentially the battleground map. iirc Capping has two layouts for this.... one for horizontal (the way nUI shows it) and one for vertical (or something like that). Check your capping settings. I haven't used Cartographer since I started using Carbonite, so I have no idea if there is a battelground map setting in there or not.

Edit: If the battleground map disappears, try Ctrl M and see if that brings it back.

[Batroo]

Originally Posted by Silenia The map in the info panel is essentially the battleground map. iirc Capping has two layouts for this.... one for horizontal (the way nUI shows it) and one for vertical (or something like that). Check your capping settings. I haven't used Cartographer since I started using Carbonite, so I have no idea if there is a battelground map setting in there or not. Edit: If the battleground map disappears, try Ctrl M and see if that brings it back.

Ok I got it to work, I went into Cartographer's options and toggled the foglight off and it worked.

[spiel2001]

This long awaited release fixes several issues in nUI not the least of which is the flickering health bars introduced in v4.06 and (I hope) the longstanding problem with the talent browser. This version also introduces some new and changed slash commands, so please read the patch notes (below).

Lastly, in the interest of tracking down the source of the frame rate leak in large raids, this release also introduces in depth profiling of the mod at runtime. By default, to save overhead, profiling is disabled. If you are participating in a raid and you're experiencing the frame rate leak, you can contribute to the effort to find and fix the problem by enabling profiling while the leak is occuring and disabling it when the leak stops.

You can toggle profiling on/off using the slash command '/nui profile' -- this command does *NOT* stick between console reloads ( /nui rl ) or after logging out. In addition, if you reload your console or log out and back in again, all of the previous profile data is deleted and reset.

The "correct" way to assist in tracking this bug down is to turn profiling on while the leak is occuring and turn it off the rest of the time. When your raid is complete, log out of WoW and then e-mail the file [ World of Warcraft > WTF > Account > {your account} > SavedVariables > nUI.lua ] to me at [email protected] -- I do *not* need the file or files that are saved for your individual characters under the various realm names... just one file for your account at large (which is where I keep all debug log data). Participation in this effort is strictly voluntary and I only need one or two files per person to work with unless you experience something diffierent and think I should see the new file.

As always, I thank everyone for their support!

How you can help support nUI's continued development: I am currently trying to recover from 14 months of unemployment and with over $20,000 in debt (unpaid mortgage payments, loans, etc.), every penny makes a serious difference. Your contribution of $5, $10, $20 or more to support the ongoing development of nUI would be greatly appreciated. Click here to make a donation now, please?!

Lastly, please vote for nUI and add it to your favorites list... it helps nUI get more exposure. Thanks for your support!

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Known Issues in nUI...
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-- WotLK issues still outstanding

* "Fire At Will!" quest does not work with nUI

* When using the mounts that can carry vendors, the dismount button is not being displayed
in nUI (note: until this gets fix, you can right-click the aura to dismount)

-- generic issues outstanding

* If you remove a fubar top panel, the nUI top panel redraws to the middle of the screen.
It is full width and takes up about 20% of the middle of the field of view vertically.

* Enabling the "Use UI Scale" option in the Bliz video configuration menu blows up
nUI's layout and scaling. For now... just uncheck this option until I can fix it.

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Known compatibility issues with third party mods...
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* Guild Event Manager is moving its minimap button back to the minimap out of the button
bag whenever the player clicks on it. A minute or so later, nUI's button bag logic
will see the button moved and return it to the button bag.

* Carbonite is having issues updating the directional arrow when the minimap and/or
battlefield minimap is hidden in the info panel

* Poison Pouch mod minimap button is missed by button bag

* Alpha Map minimap button is not scaling correctly in button bag

* nUI and Capping are not playing well... Capping's modification of the battlefield
minimap is interfering with nUI's info panel management of the map

* Titan Panel is causing an error when the bottom bar is enabled

* Titan panel mouseover tooltips are not compatible with nUI's fixed position
tooltip option

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Known Bliz / nUI compatibility issues...
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* Right clicking a unit frame and selecting "set focus" taints in combat == this is
a known bug since WoW 3.0.2 and is beyond nUI's control. Hopefully Bliz will address
it in the next patch (or two or three or twenty). You can target the desired focus
and then type '/focus' to aquire a focus frame until Bliz resolves this issue.

* Switching between windowed and non-windowed mode breaks nUI's textures and HUD -- this
is caused by a known Bliz bug in their video driver code and applies only to certain
graphics cards and video drivers. It is nearly random in terms of which mods it will
impact... anything from very complex to completely trivial mods are broken by this
bug but it is always mods that use custom textures. There is no fix. The only
workaround is to (a) avoid switching between windowed and non-windowed modes as much
as possible and use '/nui rl' to reload the user interface when it gets broken. It is
worth noting this bug affects Macs most often, but also impacts some PCs (such as
mine). This bug has been a round a very long time and no telling if or when it will
ever be fixed.

* If your mouse buttons 4 and 5 do not work for click-casting on unit frames, make
sure your mouse driver is sending mouse button clicks and not key presses. You can
do this by going to the key binding interface and trying to bind autorun to mouse
button 4. If the key binding does not say "Button 4" or "Mouse Button 4" then the
issue is your mouse driver or driver settings. Bliz does not support key-presses
as mouse clicks directly and mods like Clique cannot detect key presses in that way.

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To-Do List / Planned features
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* The 15, 20, 25 and 40 man raid panels are not in the pre-release... both because I am
not quite satisfied with them and, again, I'm trying to not have to fix everything at
once... make sure the core stuff is all working, then add the bells and whistles if
you understand.

* Add vehicle frame/mode integration to the dashboard

* Death Knights need a timer for their pet expiration... should also have a ghoul timer

* Add cooldown counters to the rune bar

* Add Threat Bar back

* Add sorting of raid unit frames by raid group and class

* Add font size options for Chat and Combat log frames

* Add totem timers

* Add audio cues for cooldowns, cc breaks, etc.

* Add DruidManaBar type functionality to unit frames

* Add 2v2, 3v3 and 5v5 unit frame panels for arena play

* Add Proximo functionality to unit frames for arena unit panels

* Add durability, wardrobe manager, ammo tracker and gold tracker to console buttons

* Add autobar style support for quest items, food/drink/pots, mounts, vanity pets

* Add option to set location precision to zero decimal places on coordinate display

* Add target marking tool a la LuckyCharms

* Add recommended zone functionality to the location box a la FuBar RecZone

* Add a swing timer

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Version 4.07.00 (Beta)
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* Changed the '/nui bagbar' slash command from an on/off toggle to a three state switch
for on, off or mouseover. The new '/nui bagbar mouseover' option will cause the bag
bar to fade out when not in use and fade in when you mouse over it.

* Increased the button bag frame strata to move it higher in the stack (prevents most
other frames from overlaying it)

* Disabled the mouseover functionality in the DK rune frame so it does not interfer with
targeting and other click-through functions

* I've taken another swipe at fixing the talent browser logic... here's hoping it's
fixed this time (though there could still be issues in it)

* nUI and DrDamage are now playing well together... or should be ~smile~

* Added a new slash command '/nui combattips' to toggle display of action button
tooltips on and off while in combat lockdown. By default, nUI does not display
the action bar tooltips while you are in combat to prevent screen hiding and
extra GPU load. Toggling the option on will allow tooltips to be displayed while
you are in combat.

* Changed the logic in the '/nui tooltips default' to entirely remove nUI from the
loop when the default mode is set. Setting the mode to '/nui tooltips default' will
now cause a console reload in order to remove nUI from the tooltip logic. This
should resolve the compatibility issues with CowTip

* Fixed a bug in the stance/shapeshift/aura/presence bar that prevented the button from
highlighting when the active button changed

* Added support for deep profiling of the entire mod... '/nui profile' toggles
profiling on and off. The setting is not persistent between sessions and detail is
recorded in WTF\Account\{player account}\SavedVariables\nUI.lua while profiling is
enabled. Toggling profiling on, off and back on again does not reset counters,
rather is adds to the current accumulated data for that session.

* Optimized nUI table insert/delete strategy to reduce CPU load on busy tables

* Updated Spanish localization file (thank you JSR1976)

* Fixed a bug in the unit health bars that caused the bars to flicker and/or vanish

* Fixed a bug in the keybinding code where attempting to bind mouse clicks threw an
error on a nil onKeyDown() method

[Petrah]

RAWR!!!!!!!!!!!! Have read all that, and will probably have questions later... going to install now!

Thank you SO much for all of the hard work you do... it is very, very much appreciated!

[Smirge]

Originally Posted by spiel2001 Smirge -- this may date back to an old bug that occurred when you accidentally drug a food out of one of those buttons. Try resetting the spell in the first slot on your main action bar's page 1 and see if the icons work after that. If that doesn't work, try renaming your WTF folder to WTF.saved and see if the icons come back. If neither works, let me know.

That was it - exactly - replaced the hunters mark icon and voila - pet food was back!! Thanx a bunch!!!

/Smirge

[Dramber]

Originally Posted by Silenia RAWR!!!!!!!!!!!! Have read all that, and will probably have questions later... going to install now! Thank you SO much for all of the hard work you do... it is very, very much appreciated!

Seconded!!!

[fred]

updated this morning. DK runes are gone now on HUD, but the rings around where the runes were are still there.

[Dethstalker]

Good morning Scott,

Just loaded up your latest version of nUI to the test realms and I am sad to report that nUI still does not function there.

[spiel2001]

Originally Posted by Dethstalker Good morning Scott, Just loaded up your latest version of nUI to the test realms and I am sad to report that nUI still does not function there.

This I know... this update was not intended to be compatible with the PTR, rather to address other outstanding issues. I am going to get started on the new patch today now that this update is out.

[spiel2001]

Originally Posted by fred updated this morning. DK runes are gone now on HUD, but the rings around where the runes were are still there.

Yeah... I saw that this morning too... sigh... there's always something isn't there? ~lol~

The DK runes should not be *gone* from either the HUD or the unit frame, they just should not interact with the mouse. I have no idea what it was about that change that caused the rune icons to vanish. If you pay attention, you'll see that they are present when you first log in but at some point in the images simply vanish and leave just the frames behind