nUI -- A full feature standalone UI replacement

[fred]

Originally Posted by fludder One small thing I've noticed over the past day or two (so it was probrbly a result of the latest patch)... When I log in the minimap is displaying round. I type /nui roundmap once and the map stays the same and I get the message minimap is now set to round. I type /nui roundmap a second time and it goes back to square with a message in kind. Is there a way other than /rl or typing /nui roudmap 2x to resolve this? Oh and BTW GJ on the skins they look quite nice ~Fludder

Same here. no biggies for me.I use cartographer 3, which if I want I resize and leave it in screen

[spiel2001]

On request, I've created a gloss black nUI dashboard skin which can be downloaded from http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info11590.html

A screencap of the new skin is attached below.

[Yhor]

Originally Posted by spiel2001 On request, I've created a gloss black nUI dashboard skin which can be downloaded from http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info11590.html A screencap of the new skin is attached below.

That looks awesome man, I haven't used this ui before, but I'd definitely give it a try if I were in the market for a new ui.

[gothicknight]

Spiel you are the man. Thank you so very very much. Just how wanted it

Awsome work mate.

[Kauka]

Ok... I read all 75 pages of posts on nUI before I decieded to try it. I installed nUI on Wednesday and now on page 76 of the thread you had to go and post 3 new skins for nUI. It took me long enough to deciede to use nUi and now you go and do that!!! Its going to take me three weeks to figure out which skin I like the most!

I recall a post where it was asked if you could put a button or somthing that would let you change skins .. I really hope you incorperate that..

So far this is an OUTSTANDING UI!!!. But being in the Quality Assurance field I'm sure I'll pick and give my 2cents, its a habit I picked up from 20 years of being an inspector in the Navy, old habits Keep up the good work.

[sentry]

First off, outstanding UI

The only problem I cant seem to find a fix for is on my druid, the action bars all page correctly, except for when I stealth from cat form, the bar stays the same. I tested all the bars to be sure I didnt just have a duplicate setup.

any help is appreciated.

[MeqTrader]

Sentry,

as I can recall the reason for the action bar not changing in kitty stealth is that this is default Bliz UI behaviour and nUI at this stage is leveraging/replicating the default Bliz UI.
In the future this might change but with all the different feature requests I do not know how far out this future might be.

[spiel2001]

Originally Posted by Kauka Ok... I read all 75 pages of posts on nUI before I decieded to try it. I installed nUI on Wednesday and now on page 76 of the thread you had to go and post 3 new skins for nUI. It took me long enough to deciede to use nUi and now you go and do that!!! Its going to take me three weeks to figure out which skin I like the most! I recall a post where it was asked if you could put a button or somthing that would let you change skins .. I really hope you incorperate that.. So far this is an OUTSTANDING UI!!!. But being in the Quality Assurance field I'm sure I'll pick and give my 2cents, its a habit I picked up from 20 years of being an inspector in the Navy, old habits Keep up the good work.

Ewwwwwwwwwww.... a QA person? ~hisssss~

Being a software engineer, I am obligated by unspoken law to talk badly about QA people when they leave the room. And then you have to go and confess to being a squid, too? OMG! And a lifer? /facepalm

~snicker~ (all in fun)

All kidding aside, I'll look forward to your input and I truly respect that you took the time to read it all before you told me all the things I already knew. That's a rare habit.

~smile~

[spiel2001]

Originally Posted by sentry First off, outstanding UI The only problem I cant seem to find a fix for is on my druid, the action bars all page correctly, except for when I stealth from cat form, the bar stays the same. I tested all the bars to be sure I didnt just have a duplicate setup. any help is appreciated.

Sentry -- MeqTrader is correct. In the world of Bliz, there is no such thing as a kitty stealth bar. Try turning off all mods and stealthing, you'll see that you do not get a new bar.

In the interest of keeping nUI as compatible with the other mods that exist out there as possible, again as pointed out by MeqTrader, nUI does heavily leverage the Bliz UI.

Once things have grown stable, WotLK is out and I'm at a place where I can invest the time into it, I will be looking to greatly expand on the capabilities of the action bars such as new bars like the kitty stealth, intelligent action buttons (change based on whether you have a hostile target, friendly target or no target) and so on. But that is down the road a good bit as there are many other basic functionality items I need to get in place first.

Thanks for the kind word.

[Kauka]

[quote=spiel2001;108349]Ewwwwwwwwwww.... a QA person? ~hisssss~

Being a software engineer, I am obligated by unspoken law to talk badly about QA people when they leave the room. And then you have to go and confess to being a squid, too? OMG! And a lifer? /facepalm

LOL... I thought I hear you snicker earlier.. I'm use to it, being QA I'm seen as the bad guy I'm really a nice guy once you get to know me

[sam010301]

Is there a 25 man raid setup for nUI? I know that I can use an additional mod for that, but just curious if that is a feature that I haven't seen yet.

[spiel2001]

Originally Posted by sam010301 Is there a 25 man raid setup for nUI? I know that I can use an additional mod for that, but just curious if that is a feature that I haven't seen yet.

Not yet Sam. Sometime not long after the WotLK I would expect.

[Marthisdil]

Spiel...ran into something interesting last night...hope you can help me out...

have a little L22 hunter....pet bar shows up at the top center of the bottom dashboard, no problem. I noticed that some of the hotkey assignments for the bar weren't correct (like attack - first button in the bar didn't show a hotkey assigned on mouseover).

I went to Blizz's keybindings, saw where the other petbar keys were pulling mappings from, and remapped the first key to ctrl-1 (which used to be mapped to some other ability).

When I would hit ctrl-1, it would trigger the old ability instead of the newly remapped (verified with the mouseover) key on the pet bar. Reloading the UI didn't help. Logging out and back in didn't help either.

M

[Moonpool]

can i add a tiny BUT to this though:

I'm at an utter loss on keybindings only my 1 through = survived the transition, and I use quite a few, I cannot find where the bars you have created stashed all my spells and which ones can be hotkeyed. I have tried to look through all 76 pages but am hoping there's an easy answer, i can't function without the keys that I have bound!

[spiel2001]

Originally Posted by Moonpool can i add a tiny BUT to this though: I'm at an utter loss on keybindings only my 1 through = survived the transition, and I use quite a few, I cannot find where the bars you have created stashed all my spells and which ones can be hotkeyed. I have tried to look through all 76 pages but am hoping there's an easy answer, i can't function without the keys that I have bound!

Moonpool -- nUI's action bars all correspond exactly to the action bars built into WoW. The main action bar uses the binding keys ACTION BUTTON 1-12, the action bar below that and to the left uses the bindings BOTTOM LEFT 1-12 while the bar below and to the right uses the BOTTOM RIGHT 1-12 key bindings. The two 2x6 action bars to the left and right of the unit frames use the RIGHT 1 and RIGHT 2 button 1-12 bindings. Likewise, the pet bar and stance bar both use the default Bliz key bindings.

As for which spells are on which bars... they, too, exactly correspond to what is on the same Bliz action bar.

[Bugbum]

Hey Spiel,

I would like to first say you are doing an awesome job on this UI and when the new patch came out I had stopped playing until a new update came out haha!

But I doubt you would remember me, I am Arthur and I had emailed you thinking their was an issue with the hunter pets when you first train them. I still plan on donating when pay pal link will work for me lol, I finally got a job!

But I have an issue with my shadow priest when I cast mind control on a mob. I can control them and use their spells/abilities just fine on the main bar of the UI but AFTER I release them I end up not being able to use that main bar with the spells I have setup their. I can cycle through the other bars and use the other spells I have but when I go back to that main bar I still cannot use them. Only fix I have found was reloading the UI. May not be a big issue or it has already been addressed.

But keep up the great work and thanks for making an awesome UI!

[Moonpool]

Ok, I have that much figured out, now I just have to find where I put them in bartender, its obviously not one two right one two...been so long using bar mods that i could shape differently than straight across so they would "look" like my n52 keypad that the buttons must be in random places.

Some functionality with "keybound" (though it may use Ace) or something like it would be phenomenal - the Blizzard keybinding menu is a disaster of trying to read through eightbillion little notations, just let me put a button out there where I want it, and then click to bind it - so much easier.

The information panel is a freaking work of genius man...I have SUFFERED for so long fitting all that crap on my board and only needing it when i need it you know (omen for the bosses, check recount during lulls, yada yada)? So beautiful the way you have done it.

So far, with one of my ten characters its phenomenal - will have to see how it functions in a ten man situation as a healer, in a party as dps and heals (can't tank for nothin...) and I can't wait to see how you integrate a 25 man raid - my thoughts...keep it low and central - as a healer I would love to see it fit into the current center panel, sacrificing some space in the size of the player and target frames somehow if need be.

As for pleasing everyone...don't even go there - you'll be like a short order cook running around trying to figure out who wanted what. General conceptual ideas belong to you and you alone - so long as you leave room for and don't conflict with other mods that answer people's little fussy questions, let other mods handle that - you make your project the way you believe it should be made and let people use it or not. Clean, light, efficient seems to be where you are going, don't let people turn NUI into a bloated battleship.

good luck to you

moon

[spiel2001]

BugBum... when you log into WoW, which version is nUI reporting you have installed?

Originally Posted by Bugbum Hey Spiel, I would like to first say you are doing an awesome job on this UI and when the new patch came out I had stopped playing until a new update came out haha! But I doubt you would remember me, I am Arthur and I had emailed you thinking their was an issue with the hunter pets when you first train them. I still plan on donating when pay pal link will work for me lol, I finally got a job! But I have an issue with my shadow priest when I cast mind control on a mob. I can control them and use their spells/abilities just fine on the main bar of the UI but AFTER I release them I end up not being able to use that main bar with the spells I have setup their. I can cycle through the other bars and use the other spells I have but when I go back to that main bar I still cannot use them. Only fix I have found was reloading the UI. May not be a big issue or it has already been addressed. But keep up the great work and thanks for making an awesome UI!

[spiel2001]

Thanks for the thoughtful feedback Moonpool.

You'll be happy to know that the key binding feature you're asking for is already on the to-do list... it's just not happening until things settle down in the design, etc. Once the WotLK and nUI Beta 4 are public I'll be working directly on getting nUI to a release candidate state including all the creature comfort features people have been looking for like key binding, skinning, GUI config, etc.

Originally Posted by Moonpool Ok, I have that much figured out, now I just have to find where I put them in bartender, its obviously not one two right one two...been so long using bar mods that i could shape differently than straight across so they would "look" like my n52 keypad that the buttons must be in random places. Some functionality with "keybound" (though it may use Ace) or something like it would be phenomenal - the Blizzard keybinding menu is a disaster of trying to read through eightbillion little notations, just let me put a button out there where I want it, and then click to bind it - so much easier. The information panel is a freaking work of genius man...I have SUFFERED for so long fitting all that crap on my board and only needing it when i need it you know (omen for the bosses, check recount during lulls, yada yada)? So beautiful the way you have done it. So far, with one of my ten characters its phenomenal - will have to see how it functions in a ten man situation as a healer, in a party as dps and heals (can't tank for nothin...) and I can't wait to see how you integrate a 25 man raid - my thoughts...keep it low and central - as a healer I would love to see it fit into the current center panel, sacrificing some space in the size of the player and target frames somehow if need be. As for pleasing everyone...don't even go there - you'll be like a short order cook running around trying to figure out who wanted what. General conceptual ideas belong to you and you alone - so long as you leave room for and don't conflict with other mods that answer people's little fussy questions, let other mods handle that - you make your project the way you believe it should be made and let people use it or not. Clean, light, efficient seems to be where you are going, don't let people turn NUI into a bloated battleship. good luck to you moon

[fred]

love the new skins!! I think I'll have ones for each of my toon