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11/07/14, 06:08 AM   #1
geron
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2 noob questions :)
Hey, I'm totally new to lua and xml, all I did so far was following the first addon tutorial on the wiki (http://wiki.esoui.com/Writing_your_first_addon)

It's working well so far, but I have two problems that I can't find a solution for...

1) I would like to increase the size of the "fighting" text appearing on my screen. It is a label in the xml file, is there a way to just incease the font size somehow? What I found already was that I can change the font to something different, but that ends up being smaller. And I found a scale command that I can add, but that looks horrible xD

2) When the "fighting" label is visible on the screen and I press ESC to enter the settings etc. the label stays on top of everything. Most other addons just disappear when I press ESC and come back when I continue the game. How are they doing this?

Thanks
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11/07/14, 07:27 AM   #2
merlight
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Originally Posted by geron View Post
1) I would like to increase the size of the "fighting" text appearing on my screen. It is a label in the xml file, is there a way to just incease the font size somehow? What I found already was that I can change the font to something different, but that ends up being smaller. And I found a scale command that I can add, but that looks horrible xD
Here's how you can set font properties: http://www.esoui.com/forums/showpost...77&postcount=4

Here are predefined fonts:
xml Code:
  1. <GuiXml>
  2.     <String name="MEDIUM_FONT" value="EsoUi/Common/Fonts/Univers57.otf" />
  3.     <String name="BOLD_FONT" value="EsoUi/Common/Fonts/Univers67.otf" />
  4.     <String name="CHAT_FONT" value="EsoUi/Common/Fonts/Univers57.otf" />
  5.     <String name="ANTIQUE_FONT" value="EsoUI/Common/Fonts/ProseAntiquePSMT.otf" />
  6.     <String name="HANDWRITTEN_FONT" value="EsoUI/Common/Fonts/Handwritten_Bold.otf" />
  7.     <String name="STONE_TABLET_FONT" value="EsoUI/Common/Fonts/TrajanPro-Regular.otf" />
  8.     <String name="GAMEPAD_LIGHT_FONT" value="EsoUI/Common/Fonts/FuturaStd-CondensedLight.otf" />
  9.     <String name="GAMEPAD_MEDIUM_FONT" value="EsoUI/Common/Fonts/FuturaStd-Condensed.otf" />
  10.     <String name="GAMEPAD_BOLD_FONT" value="EsoUi/Common/Fonts/FuturaStd-CondensedBold.otf" />
  11.  
  12.     <Font name="ZoFontWinH1" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|30|soft-shadow-thick" />
  13.     <Font name="ZoFontWinH2" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|24|soft-shadow-thick" />
  14.     <Font name="ZoFontWinH3" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|20|soft-shadow-thick" />
  15.     <Font name="ZoFontWinH4" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|18|soft-shadow-thick" />
  16.     <Font name="ZoFontWinH5" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|16|soft-shadow-thick" />
  17.  
  18.     <Font name="ZoFontWinT1" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|18|soft-shadow-thin" />
  19.     <Font name="ZoFontWinT2" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|16|soft-shadow-thin" />
  20.  
  21.     <Font name="ZoFontGame" font="$(MEDIUM_FONT)|18|soft-shadow-thin" />
  22.     <Font name="ZoFontGameMedium" font="$(MEDIUM_FONT)|18|soft-shadow-thin" />
  23.     <Font name="ZoFontGameBold" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|18|soft-shadow-thin" />
  24.     <Font name="ZoFontGameOutline" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|18|soft-shadow-thin" />
  25.     <Font name="ZoFontGameShadow" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|18|soft-shadow-thin" />
  26.  
  27.     <Font name="ZoFontGameSmall" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|13|soft-shadow-thin" />
  28.     <Font name="ZoFontGameLarge" font="$(MEDIUM_FONT)|18|soft-shadow-thin" />
  29.     <Font name="ZoFontGameLargeBold" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|18|soft-shadow-thick" />
  30.     <Font name="ZoFontGameLargeBoldShadow" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|18|soft-shadow-thick" />
  31.  
  32.     <Font name="ZoFontHeader" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|18|soft-shadow-thick" />
  33.     <Font name="ZoFontHeader2" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|20|soft-shadow-thick" />
  34.     <Font name="ZoFontHeader3" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|24|soft-shadow-thick" />
  35.     <Font name="ZoFontHeader4" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|26|soft-shadow-thick" />
  36.  
  37.     <Font name="ZoFontCallout" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|36|soft-shadow-thick" />
  38.     <Font name="ZoFontCallout2" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|48|soft-shadow-thick" />
  39.     <Font name="ZoFontCallout3" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|54|soft-shadow-thick" />
  40.  
  41.     <Font name="ZoFontEdit" font="$(MEDIUM_FONT)|18|shadow"/>
  42.     <Font name="ZoLargeFontEdit" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|25|shadow"/>
  43.     
  44.     <Font name="ZoFontChat" font="$(CHAT_FONT)|18|soft-shadow-thin" />
  45.     <Font name="ZoFontEditChat" font="$(CHAT_FONT)|18|shadow" />
  46.     
  47.     <Font name="ZoFontWindowTitle" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|30|soft-shadow-thick" />
  48.     <Font name="ZoFontWindowSubtitle" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|18|soft-shadow-thick" />
  49.     
  50.     <Font name="ZoFontTooltipTitle" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|22" />
  51.     <Font name="ZoFontTooltipSubtitle" font="$(MEDIUM_FONT)|18" />
  52.     
  53.     <Font name="ZoFontAnnounce" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|28|soft-shadow-thick" />
  54.     <Font name="ZoFontAnnounceMessage" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|24|soft-shadow-thick" /> <!-- and a better name for this one... -->
  55.     <Font name="ZoFontAnnounceSmall" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|16|soft-shadow-thick" />
  56.     <Font name="ZoFontAnnounceMedium" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|24|soft-shadow-thick" />
  57.     <Font name="ZoFontAnnounceLarge" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|36|soft-shadow-thick" />
  58.  
  59.     <Font name="ZoFontCenterScreenAnnounceLarge" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|40|soft-shadow-thick" />
  60.     <Font name="ZoFontCenterScreenAnnounceSmall" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|30|soft-shadow-thick" />
  61.     
  62.     <Font name="ZoFontAlert" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|24|soft-shadow-thick" />
  63.     
  64.     <Font name="ZoFontConversationName" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|28|soft-shadow-thick" />
  65.     <Font name="ZoFontConversationText" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|24|soft-shadow-thick" />
  66.     <Font name="ZoFontConversationOption" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|22|soft-shadow-thick" />
  67.     <Font name="ZoFontConversationQuestReward" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|20|soft-shadow-thick" />
  68.  
  69.     <Font name="ZoFontKeybindStripKey" font="$(MEDIUM_FONT)|20|soft-shadow-thin" />
  70.     <Font name="ZoFontKeybindStripDescription" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|25|soft-shadow-thick" />
  71.     <Font name="ZoFontDialogKeybindDescription" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|20|soft-shadow-thick" />
  72.  
  73.     <Font name="ZoInteractionPrompt" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|24|soft-shadow-thick" />
  74.     
  75.     <Font name="ZoFontBookPaper" font="$(ANTIQUE_FONT)|20" />
  76.     <Font name="ZoFontBookSkin" font="$(ANTIQUE_FONT)|20" />
  77.     <Font name="ZoFontBookRubbing" font="$(ANTIQUE_FONT)|20" />
  78.     <Font name="ZoFontBookLetter" font="$(HANDWRITTEN_FONT)|20" />
  79.     <Font name="ZoFontBookNote" font="$(HANDWRITTEN_FONT)|22" />
  80.     <Font name="ZoFontBookScroll" font="$(HANDWRITTEN_FONT)|26" />
  81.     <Font name="ZoFontBookTablet" font="$(STONE_TABLET_FONT)|30|soft-shadow-thick" />
  82.     <Font name="ZoFontBookPaperTitle" font="$(ANTIQUE_FONT)|30" />
  83.     <Font name="ZoFontBookSkinTitle" font="$(ANTIQUE_FONT)|30" />
  84.     <Font name="ZoFontBookRubbingTitle" font="$(ANTIQUE_FONT)|30" />
  85.     <Font name="ZoFontBookLetterTitle" font="$(HANDWRITTEN_FONT)|30" />
  86.     <Font name="ZoFontBookNoteTitle" font="$(HANDWRITTEN_FONT)|32" />
  87.     <Font name="ZoFontBookScrollTitle" font="$(HANDWRITTEN_FONT)|34" />
  88.     <Font name="ZoFontBookTabletTitle" font="$(STONE_TABLET_FONT)|48|soft-shadow-thick" />
  89.  
  90.     <Font name="ZoFontCreditsHeader" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|24" />
  91.     <Font name="ZoFontCreditsText" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|18" />
  92.  
  93.     <Font name="ZoFontGamepad54" font="$(GAMEPAD_MEDIUM_FONT)|54|soft-shadow-thick" />
  94.     <Font name="ZoFontGamepad48" font="$(GAMEPAD_MEDIUM_FONT)|48|soft-shadow-thick" />
  95.     <Font name="ZoFontGamepad40" font="$(GAMEPAD_MEDIUM_FONT)|40|soft-shadow-thick" />
  96.     <Font name="ZoFontGamepad37" font="$(GAMEPAD_MEDIUM_FONT)|37|soft-shadow-thick" />
  97.     <Font name="ZoFontGamepad32" font="$(GAMEPAD_MEDIUM_FONT)|32|soft-shadow-thick" />
  98.     <Font name="ZoFontGamepad30" font="$(GAMEPAD_MEDIUM_FONT)|30|soft-shadow-thick" />
  99.     <Font name="ZoFontGamepad24" font="$(GAMEPAD_MEDIUM_FONT)|24|soft-shadow-thick" />
  100.     <Font name="ZoFontGamepad22" font="$(GAMEPAD_MEDIUM_FONT)|22|soft-shadow-thick" />
  101.     <Font name="ZoFontGamepad20" font="$(GAMEPAD_MEDIUM_FONT)|20|soft-shadow-thick" />
  102.     <Font name="ZoFontGamepad18" font="$(GAMEPAD_MEDIUM_FONT)|18|soft-shadow-thick" />
  103.     <Font name="ZoFontGamepad16" font="$(GAMEPAD_MEDIUM_FONT)|16|soft-shadow-thick" />
  104.     
  105.     <Font name="ZoFontGamepadCondensed54" font="$(GAMEPAD_LIGHT_FONT)|54|soft-shadow-thick" />
  106.     <Font name="ZoFontGamepadCondensed48" font="$(GAMEPAD_LIGHT_FONT)|48|soft-shadow-thick" />
  107.     <Font name="ZoFontGamepadCondensed40" font="$(GAMEPAD_LIGHT_FONT)|40|soft-shadow-thick" />
  108.     <Font name="ZoFontGamepadCondensed37" font="$(GAMEPAD_LIGHT_FONT)|37|soft-shadow-thick" />
  109.     <Font name="ZoFontGamepadCondensed32" font="$(GAMEPAD_LIGHT_FONT)|32|soft-shadow-thick" />
  110.     <Font name="ZoFontGamepadCondensed30" font="$(GAMEPAD_LIGHT_FONT)|30|soft-shadow-thick" />
  111.     <Font name="ZoFontGamepadCondensed24" font="$(GAMEPAD_LIGHT_FONT)|24|soft-shadow-thick" />
  112.     <Font name="ZoFontGamepadCondensed22" font="$(GAMEPAD_LIGHT_FONT)|22|soft-shadow-thick" />
  113.     <Font name="ZoFontGamepadCondensed20" font="$(GAMEPAD_LIGHT_FONT)|20|soft-shadow-thick" />
  114.     <Font name="ZoFontGamepadCondensed18" font="$(GAMEPAD_LIGHT_FONT)|18|soft-shadow-thick" />
  115.     <Font name="ZoFontGamepadCondensed16" font="$(GAMEPAD_LIGHT_FONT)|16|soft-shadow-thick" />
  116.  
  117.     <Font name="ZoFontGamepadBold54" font="$(GAMEPAD_BOLD_FONT)|54|soft-shadow-thick" />
  118.     <Font name="ZoFontGamepadBold48" font="$(GAMEPAD_BOLD_FONT)|48|soft-shadow-thick" />
  119.     <Font name="ZoFontGamepadBold40" font="$(GAMEPAD_BOLD_FONT)|40|soft-shadow-thick" />
  120.     <Font name="ZoFontGamepadBold37" font="$(GAMEPAD_BOLD_FONT)|37|soft-shadow-thick" />
  121.     <Font name="ZoFontGamepadBold32" font="$(GAMEPAD_BOLD_FONT)|32|soft-shadow-thick" />
  122.     <Font name="ZoFontGamepadBold30" font="$(GAMEPAD_BOLD_FONT)|30|soft-shadow-thick" />
  123.     <Font name="ZoFontGamepadBold24" font="$(GAMEPAD_BOLD_FONT)|24|soft-shadow-thick" />
  124.     <Font name="ZoFontGamepadBold22" font="$(GAMEPAD_BOLD_FONT)|22|soft-shadow-thick" />
  125.     <Font name="ZoFontGamepadBold20" font="$(GAMEPAD_BOLD_FONT)|20|soft-shadow-thick" />
  126.     <Font name="ZoFontGamepadBold18" font="$(GAMEPAD_BOLD_FONT)|18|soft-shadow-thick" />
  127.     <Font name="ZoFontGamepadBold16" font="$(GAMEPAD_BOLD_FONT)|16|soft-shadow-thick" />
  128.         
  129. <!-- Suspect fonts that should be evaluated for being replaced with something more consistent -->
  130.     <Font name="ZoFontBossName" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|20|soft-shadow-thin" />
  131.     <Font name="ZoFontBoss" font="$(BOLD_FONT)|12|soft-shadow-thin" />
  132. </GuiXml>

You can use either SetFont("ZoFontGameLarge") or SetFont("$(MEDIUM_FONT)|18|soft-shadow-thin") or SetFont("EsoUi/Common/Fonts/Univers57.otf|18|soft-shadow-thin"), result should be the same.

Originally Posted by geron View Post
2) When the "fighting" label is visible on the screen and I press ESC to enter the settings etc. the label stays on top of everything. Most other addons just disappear when I press ESC and come back when I continue the game. How are they doing this?
Simplest way is to create a TopLevelControl, put in a scene fragment, and add that fragment to scenes it should display in. And create all your controls as descendants of the TopLevelControl.
xml Code:
  1. <TopLevelControl name="myAddonWidget" hidden="true">
  2.     <OnInitialized>
  3.         myAddon.initWidget(self)
  4.     </OnInitialized>
  5.     ...
  6. </TopLevelControl>
Lua Code:
  1. myAddon = {}
  2.  
  3. function myAddon.initWidget(control)
  4.     local fragment = ZO_SimpleSceneFragment:New(control)
  5.     HUD_SCENE:AddFragment(fragment)
  6.     HUD_UI_SCENE:AddFragment(fragment)
  7.     SIEGE_BAR_SCENE:AddFragment(fragment)
  8.     ...
  9. end
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11/07/14, 10:50 PM   #3
circonian
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Originally Posted by geron View Post
Hey, I'm totally new to lua and xml, all I did so far was following the first addon tutorial on the wiki (http://wiki.esoui.com/Writing_your_first_addon)

It's working well so far, but I have two problems that I can't find a solution for...

1) I would like to increase the size of the "fighting" text appearing on my screen. It is a label in the xml file, is there a way to just incease the font size somehow? What I found already was that I can change the font to something different, but that ends up being smaller. And I found a scale command that I can add, but that looks horrible xD
You can do what Merlight suggested, note though that you can also change the font size in the font definitions:
Lua Code:
  1. SetFont("$(MEDIUM_FONT)|18|soft-shadow-thin")
  2. SetFont("$(MEDIUM_FONT)|24|soft-shadow-thin")
  3. SetFont("$(MEDIUM_FONT)|36|soft-shadow-thin")

I don't know what the maximum font size is, but if you find one you like and there is not a larger version of it, just change those numbers.
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11/08/14, 03:08 PM   #4
geron
Join Date: Nov 2014
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Thank you both for your answers, everything is working now as i want it to

For the scenes i used HUD_SCENE and HUD_UI_SCENE, but im wondering what is the difference of those 2?
SIEGE_BAR_SCENE seems to be self explanatory^^
And also is there a list of all scenes available?
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11/08/14, 03:43 PM   #5
circonian
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Originally Posted by geron View Post
Thank you both for your answers, everything is working now as i want it to

For the scenes i used HUD_SCENE and HUD_UI_SCENE, but im wondering what is the difference of those 2?
SIEGE_BAR_SCENE seems to be self explanatory^^
And also is there a list of all scenes available?
SCENE_MANAGER.scenes.hud -- Is the normal game scene when you don't have any...other scenes open like the inventory, quest journal, ect... and your mouse movements control the camera

SCENE_MANAGER.scenes.hudui -- Is the normal game scene when you dont have any other open scenes like the inventory, quest journal, ect... BUT when your mouse is free & moving it moves a cursor around on the screen...(listed as "Toggle In-Game Cursor" in the keybindings).

I don't know of a list of scenes anywhere, but you can use zgoo to view them. If you have zgoo installed you can type:
/zgoo SCENE_MANAGER -- This is the scene manager that has all of the scene relevant stuff in it, controls all of the scenes

and then scroll down to scenes & click on it to open it up.

Or just go directly to the list of scenes by typing:
/zgoo SCENE_MANAGER.scenes
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