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Button Master

Release Button Master 05/09/2026

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Did you hit an error with a big red block of text? If so the UI was disabled to prevent a cascading error and you need to issue a command to restart it (its all in the error message)
 
Idk, every time I get it to show up, it's a tiny little window, I go to stretch it out a little and it crashes complaining about line 446 in buttonmaster.Lua

Code: 
> /mqoverlay resume
ImGui Failure:
C:\Games\mq2nextTest\lua\buttonmaster.lua:364: attempt to index field 'Label' (a number value)
stack traceback:
    C:\Games\mq2nextTest\lua\buttonmaster.lua: in function 'DrawButtons'
    C:\Games\mq2nextTest\lua\buttonmaster.lua:438: in function 'DrawTabs'
    C:\Games\mq2nextTest\lua\buttonmaster.lua:454: in function <C:\Games\mq2nextTest\lua\buttonmaster.lua:446>
ImGui Critical Failure: Mismatched Begin/BeginChild vs End/EndChild calls: did you forget to call End/EndChild?
Plugin ImGui has been temporarily paused. To resume imgui, run: /mqoverlay resume
Ending lua script 'buttonmaster' with PID 12 and status -1
> /lua run buttonmaster
Running lua script 'buttonmaster' with PID 13
[15:46:26] [Button Master] :: Button Master by (o_O) Special.Ed (o_O) - Loaded /config/ButtonMaster.ini
/mqoverlay resume


I took a look using VS code but did not see anything obvious.
Code: 
local ButtonGUI = function()
    if not openGUI then return end
    openGUI, shouldDrawGUI = ImGui.Begin('Button Master', openGUI, ImGuiWindowFlags.NoFocusOnAppearing)
    if openGUI and shouldDrawGUI then
        if initialRun then
            ImGui.SetWindowSize(280, 318)
            initialRun = false
        end
        DrawTabs()
    end
    ImGui.End()
end

Screen shot:

BMcrash.PNG

I'm probably just doing something wrong.
--Taz
 
Buttonmaster position of gui jumps to center of screen, once swapping focus to another char and come back.

/Lua stop buttonmaster + /Lua run Buttonmaster let the gui pop up at the position where I want it to be.
When dropping focus to another char and coming back to the char running Lua the buttonmaster-gui flipped to the center of screen.

Different from usual user: I am running is-boxer to set the screenposition of all toons on the screens. When changing focus to another char. the 2 chars swap their position.
When changing back the focus to the char running Buttonmaster, the 2 swap again their position, so the char is back to the position where it was.
After this "operation" the buttonmaster-gui is flipped to the center.

This happens also, when only 1 char is running any Lua.
Would be great if I could create a hotbutton with a command like: "/buttonmaster setpos x:840 y: 655"
 
Buttonmaster would bounce around on me as well. Never out any effort to figure out why, or any common reason behind it.
Once I moved it outside my eq window it stopped moving, it’s not my preferred solution.
Using IsBoxer as well, no FX display.

if you find a solution I’d be interested in it
 
No idea on the positioning issue. I don't use ISB - button master stays wherever I leave it when swapping between windows.
 
With ISB when changing focus, the 2 accounts are swapped in position and the resolution of the viewport is swapped as well. Where I like to have it positioned I see the small graphic on the right border which may indicates that the position will be referenced from the right border. So when size and position of the eq window is swapped, the relative position from the top left changes.
The possibility to have a command like "setpos" would be a nice Workaround.
A solution could be, to be able to define the reference-edges within the settings, indipendend which edge is the closest to the actual position.
The boxhud I Ave close to the upper-left corner, which might be the reason, it stays in position after the swaps.
 
SpecialEd said:
Should just be move it, size it, stop it, start it.
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I'm late to the party but starting to use it now. I cannot get the window to persist in it's location, expanded. When I camp out / log in and run the script, it starts in a collapsed view in the upper left quadrant of my screen which I had it bottom middle when I camped out. Am I not doing something to preserve it's location?
 
hytiek said:
I'm late to the party but starting to use it now. I cannot get the window to persist in it's location, expanded. When I camp out / log in and run the script, it starts in a collapsed view in the upper left quadrant of my screen which I had it bottom middle when I camped out. Am I not doing something to preserve it's location?
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As per a previous post use /Lua stop buttonmaster + /Lua run Buttonmaster after it was in the position you want and it stays.
 
It seems like a real fight with the UI to edit button/text colors, is that normal?

My OCD self would also love it if the button names were (or could optionally be) centered 🙃
 
Kambic said:
It seems like a real fight with the UI to edit button/text colors, is that normal?

My OCD self would also love it if the button names were (or could optionally be) centered 🙃
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Not sure what you are fighting for the color pickers - pick color, click out and hit save.

Centering would be nice, but doesn't seem to be readily available...
 
SpecialEd said:
Not sure what you are fighting for the color pickers - pick color, click out and hit save.

Centering would be nice, but doesn't seem to be readily available...
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If you hit reset at the wrong time if fucks up the ui, makes it poof and you cant get it back without relogging?

Give it a try and let me know how to fix that?
 
I just got done setting up a bunch of hotkeys and colors. The color picker is a little bit to get use too. The best method for me was to select the color and move the box out of the way and hit save. Sometimes I did have to hit reset to get the color to to change (seemed like it was stuck on a color and the slider wouldn't move). Other than that haven't had the ui go poof at all until I started messing with the script. If the ui goes poof I usually run /mqoverlay resume
 
For me when I would go into the picker, a lot of times it was remembering the colors I'd picked for the previous button, which seemed to make it hard to commit those colors to the new button I was editing. I can mess around with it more later and maybe even grab some examples.
 
Cannonballdex said:
(seemed like it was stuck on a color and the slider wouldn't move)
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When changing colors after you have all ready saved it once for a custom color. The slider will snap back to were it was but it will change the color to were you had clicked it before it snaps back .

Appears you have to reset to default color first then change the color, then that doesn't happen.

Or at least that is one way to avoid that behavior.
 
Sic said:
oh, i like this idea, i wonder if you could have mouse over and faded levels - that would be legit.

also, in case this helps you with real estate grimlock - you can actually drag it OUTSIDE of everquest, like onto another monitor
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I play in window mode (tried in non windowed mode also) and I can not drag it on another monitor. Is there a setting or something to make this happen?
 
Request to be able to split buttons into distinct windows. so that you can break them up and not have them all in one block.
 
Running into this suddenly after zoning. I havent made any changes/added any new buttons in the past couple of weeks, and this popped up today:

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SpecialEd said:
cfg files have always been around - there was just some goofy behavior previously that tripped some people up. Ingame.cfg is the ideal way to launch macros, load/unload plugins and start lua scripts when you load into the world.

Note: launching multiple lua scripts from cfg files one after another is currently causing crashes for some

Instead of something like this -

[CODE title="Bad Example"]
/lua run myfirstscript
/lua run mysecondscript
/plugin mq2something unload[/CODE]

Do something like this -

[CODE title="Good Example"]
/lua run myfirstscript
/timed 100 /lua run mysecondscript
/plugin mq2something unload[/CODE]
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Hello All, where do I need to put this ingame.cfg file? In the Release directory or in the config directory? And can I simply use any text editor to create it?
 
FB said:
Hello All, where do I need to put this ingame.cfg file? In the Release directory or in the config directory? And can I simply use any text editor to create it?
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Config directory - any text editor to create it, just make sure it has the right file extension.
 
deathlock said:
I ran into the same thing. I redid all my buttons, it was painful. Well worth it though.
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Had to do the same thing, completely restarted from scratch.

All of my config is now in git, needless to say, and i prettied it up while I was at it.
 
This may have been already discussed, but I didn't see it. Is there a way to alter the config to where the buttons 1. Stay where I put them in the screen instead of moving to their default location every time I tab out? 2. To keep it up all the time so where you don't have to manually start it each time you log in?
 
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im getting this error when ever i try to edit a button. ive reloged and restarted mq. i edited several buttons about 3 days ago and it was fine. using the buttons still works.

edit - i was able to edit the button through the config. and it also happens if i select anything after right clicking a button not just edit.
 
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Is the setting tab suppose to do anything right now? Not sure if I got it installed correctly but doesn't seem to do anything for me when I clicked on it.
 
SpecialEd said:
right click it
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Thank you. Is there a way to save the buttons live when multiple clients have it up? Right now when I make changes on one client, the other one won't see it and if i try to restart it, I lose my new buttons.
 
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