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Fan Area => Fan Art => Topic started by: Induane on July 27, 2005, 04:37:44 am

Title: XML/New Window help needed - at least getting started...
Post by: Induane on July 27, 2005, 04:37:44 am

Hey all, as part of my client customizaion kit I\'d like to add a custom menu/windows thingy.  My idea is this:

I would like a windows that acts in the same way the toolbar does - hidden, or not hidden anyways - with a small button attached to hide it and unhide it.  THis would contain basically just a windows showing all online guild members.

some relevant code seems to be here.

         


               


     


               


                   


                         


                   


I can easily do the artwork, but I have no idea how to make a menu thingy like I want.

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Post by: ArcaneFalcon on July 27, 2005, 06:00:16 am

I don\'t think you can do that in the xml.  If you can, I\'d like to know how.

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Post by: Induane on July 27, 2005, 06:55:00 am

I\'ll keep at it and see if I can figure it out.  :)

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Post by: DaveG on July 27, 2005, 08:11:30 pm

I\'m not trying to be overly sarcastic here...  (ok, only a little bit... :p )  but, all windows already do this... that\'s kinda what the toolbar buttons do...

That was though about a while ago (here\'s the thread link (http://planeshift.oodlz.com/wbboard/thread.php?threadid=17024&boardid=11)) but actually doing the code for it would be... interesting...  Making a whole new window to do an online list for guildmembers might be harder than just adding a new pane to the buddy list.  I don\'t quite know how to do that, though.

Where a hide/show button would be nice, is hiding/showing the buddy and guild panes of the buddy list.

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Post by: Induane on July 28, 2005, 07:09:58 am

Well, the idea was I guess less of a hide/show thing as an expand/deexpandermabobby.

Like a small icon that when clicked or mouse hovered shows one up - so I\'d basiacally just need a new toolbar button like you said.  The real trick is a new pane to show data that is already available in a new window.  I\'ve read through about a million zillion pages of xml code without understanding a good way to do it, except to replace a panel that isn\'t commonly used - not sure what taht one would be.  I think that if there is an xml file which gets the ascribed widgets, then I can add one.