Release MQ2MyButtons

[joey27295]

Anybody have a working version of MQ2Mybuttons. I can compile it fine but when I try to load it I crash.

 

[Joman]

never even heard of it what does it do?

 

[Cade]

It's an extra hotbutton window, never used it myself, if I do decide to compile it I'll post it

 

[Riddlerr]

did you put the MQUI_ButtonsWnd.Xml in your defualt ui folder? 95% of the time. that is what is forgotten

 

[lonsosh]

Maybe I am just an idiot...........
I am trying to find out commands to change mybutons so far it just had dismount on there and the rest were blank. I have treid a few commands but can't figure out context to set one ....
I am sure its the most simplest thing it's just I must think a shade better than simple and ends up stupid

 

[Tone]

It's in the MQ2MYButtons.ini you have to manually change them before you load up EQ.

 

[lonsosh]

Sweet Thanks Tone
BTW
I like your new avatar

Can it be updated while in game?
and then just reload the plugin?

 

[Tone]

Ya that works too. Sometimes it will make you crash though MQ2MYButtons is as sensitive as a pack of 12yr old girls.

 

[Redbot]

MQ2MYButtons adds an extra row of buttons which you can assign any command you like. It's especially useful for long commands.




Commands:

/mybntshow
/mybntclk1
/mybntclk2
/mybntclk3
/mybntclk4
/mybntclk5
/mybntclk6
/mybntclk7
/mybntclk8
/mybntclk9
/mybntclk10

Instructions:

1. Place MQUI_ButtonsWnd.xml in your EverQuest uifiles/default folder.
2. Place MQ2MYButtons.ini in your MacroQuest Release folder. Edit it if you wish.
3. /plugin mq2mybuttons
4. /loadskin default

If you don't see the buttons window, it's likely behind another window.

To permanently move the buttons window, edit the location under MQUI_ButtonsWnd.xml as bolded here:

   <Screen item="MQButtonWnd"><ScreenID/> 
      <Font>2</Font> 
      <RelativePosition>false</RelativePosition> 
      <Location> 
         <X>350</X> 
         <Y>900</Y> 
      </Location>

Discussion:
https://www.redguides.com/community/threads/64877-MQ2MyButtons-what-is-the-point

 

[EQbackagain]

Sorry, I'm not getting how it is useful.

Can anyone demonstrate why it's better than a hotbar? I already have way too many hotbars that I can ever use.

 

[Redbot]

I'm making this the default discussion thread

 

[Gohast]

Redbot Seeing your screenshot with the "Dismount" button is the first time I ever thought to try /dismount. For two years I've been tabbing my characters and manually clicking off their mount buffs.

 

[toots]

I'd like to move some of my mq2commands into a window that I can shrink/enlarge. Also, it is ini driven so it will be really easy to setup similar commands on all my toons. It will also free up some space for item clickies...

 

[Redbot]

I really don't know, lordtweak why do you like it so much?

 

[EQbackagain]

BTW, where is the plugin? It's not on the update, and the plugin thread just has the .ini and xml file

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Ok, can this thing do multi line commands?

 

[gse7en]

BTW, where is the plugin? It's not on the update, and the plugin thread just has the .ini and xml file

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Ok, can this thing do multi line commands?

You mean

/multiline ; /echo This is the first command; /echo This is the second command.; /bcga //camp desktop

? Everything can do multiline commands.

 

[EQbackagain]

Ok, well I guess this thing got a lot better then

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Can you do delays in /multiline?

I can't seem to get one working

 

[gse7en]

Ok, well I guess this thing got a lot better then

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Can you do delays in /multiline?

I can't seem to get one working

Not as such. However, you can use timed like this:

/bcga //if (${Zone.ID}==$\{Zone.ID}) /multiline ; /doortarget; /timed 40 /click left door

Don't think of these as delays or pauses between commands as that's not how they function. If you did create your command that way (which is incorrect), you might find something like

/multiline ; /echo Do this; /timed 20 /target Maskoi; /timed 34 /bird; /timed 14 /point; /timed 13 /laugh

The firing order of this line would roughly be: /echo, then /laugh, then /point, then /target, and finally /bird. Obviously that's undesired. ALL /timed are immediately countdown from execution, regardless of where they appear in the command. Therefore....

/multiline ; /echo Do this; /timed 20 /target Maskoi; /timed 30 /bird; /timed 35 /point; /timed 40 /laugh

...would give you your expected result.

 

[EQbackagain]

Ok cool. I understand that now

 

[the_undeadd]

I used to use this as Toots described. Also you could click the buttons while casting or performing other actions.

Is this available somewhere? I would like to use it again :=)

 

[Redbot]

I used to use this as Toots described. Also you could click the buttons while casting or performing other actions.

Is this available somewhere? I would like to use it again :=)

It's included in Very Vanilla.

 

[Frimp]

Is there a way to expand the number of buttons on this? Or make it Vertical?

 

[rhb]

All these years and I could never get timers to work on multiline... @gse7ven you just fixed 15 of my hotkeys

 

[ChatWithThisName]

MQ2MyButtons
MQ2MYButtons adds an extra row of buttons which you can assign any command you like. It's especially useful for long commands.

Read more about this resource...

 

[Ottotto]

Would need another row of buttons. Searching for a solution to have own Text and Graphics inside. But MYButtons only shows "Numbers" and as Labels "unknown". My socials are completely filled. This would be a nice solution. And I am playing all characters - most AA/Disc names are simply useless named - to make clear and precise names and graphics for the button would be perfect. Has anybody a INI-File/XML-File which is working or another solution for this?

 

[deathlock]

I try to load it and it just crashed me to dektop

 

[Ottotto]

Can happen if the XML-file is not in the default UI or the UI-files are not somehow linked to the EQ-UIs. It works so far as additional 20-40 buttons. But Text and Label is not working as intended. It has the same problem on 3 different systems and installations.

 

[deathlock]

I crash every time i /plugin mq2mywindows. Then I log back in and it is there at least. Is there a command to reload if you change button commands in game? I mean besides /plugin mq2mybuttons unload then /plugin mq2mybuttons (which crashes me)....

 

[entreri]

I have double checked many times that I have MQUI_ButtonsWnd.xml in my EverQuest uifiles/default folder. But whenever I load this plugin, I crash immediately on whatever toon I was using this on. Any ideas?

 

[Knightly]

I have double checked many times that I have MQUI_ButtonsWnd.xml in my EverQuest uifiles/default folder. But whenever I load this plugin, I crash immediately on whatever toon I was using this on. Any ideas?

Does your ini have invalid characters? Also, are you using a custom UI?

 

[entreri]

I am using the default ui, and I dont believe it does. I have double checked it a few times and didnt see anything wrong

 

[Frimp]

This is something that started happening recently. I just tried to reload it myself since I noticed it was missing, and all my clients crashed immediately.

When I loaded them all back up, the hotbar is there. I changed nothing with any files.

 

[Ottotto]

Working for me except the usual strange "unknown buttons".

 

[Redbot]

This plugin is no longer maintained and has been removed from Very Vanilla. It should be deleted & disabled. If you have the mq2mybuttons.dll in your release folder, it's out of date and will likely crash your client.

If someone takes up maintenance, we'll add it back.

 

[Frimp]

Oh man, major bummer! That was so helpful for unified hotbuttons

 

[Knightly]

Rise from your grave.

Updated MQ2MyButtons
-Broke all existing INIs. Meanness.
-Broke all existing hotkeys. Laziness.
-Renamed MQ2MYButtons to MQ2MyButtons. Everyone Loves CamelCase
-Refactored a bunch of code. Just Because.
-Put my name in there a bunch of times. Vanity.
-At some point I got it working again. Coincidence.
~~~~~~~~~~
-Modernized the UI and made it resizable and matched to the existing hotbutton bars (I stole this from EQUI_Hotbuttons.xml, so no credit to me)
-Expanded from 10 Hotbuttons to 12 since I was in there anyway. You could actually make this any number, I just chose 12 to match the existing ones.
-Changed it so that it will no longer steal focus on windows so that you can't escape from other windows if you clicked a MyButton with a window open.
-Added MQUI_MyButtonsWnd.xml generation. If you don't have it, it will be created. If you do have it and your version is older than my version I'll overwrite yours. This should stop the issues where it crashes because the file is missing and also allow for easy updates if the UI changes. But if you want to customize the actual XML I'm going to end up overwriting it again, so maybe request we add a feature for that later (I don't think anyone customizes this).
-Added a check to make sure everything with the XML file is good before trying to load the window. Added this to all Plugin routines in MyButtons too so that the plugin just skips those steps if there's a problem at startup. Previously the XML would fail to load and then the UI update would cause a crash because there was no check to see if it was successful. This doesn't fix a broken UI crashing EQ. It just makes it so the missing UI for this plugin won't crash EQ. Will still probably crash next time the UI is updated.
-Split the INI file out into [ButtonX] sections so that settings can be per button rather than the whole UI. Existing inis will not work, so check out the example ini that gets created to see how to set yours up and move your hotkeys over. The only required thing for a [ButtonX] section to work is a number between 1 and 12 (instead of X) and a "Command=" line. Everything else is optional, including the Label.
-Consolidated all of the TLOs into one TLO that just takes an argument of which button you want info about.
-Got rid of all the Bnt items and changed it to Button, abbreviations of Button (even Btn vs Bnt) are hard to remember and I got tired of going back and forth trying to remember them.
-Got rid of all the existing commands and changed it to /mybuttons with arguments. /mybuttons by itself will toggle the visibility of the window. "/mybuttons help" will show you the help.
-Added a show command that makes looking at what MyButtons you have setup easier.
-If you want to bind your hotkeys to the keyboard, consider using MQ2CustomBinds and /mybutton X.
~~~~~~~~~~
Special thanks to dewey2461 for reviewing my code when I was going crazy.

 

[Redbot]

This is an amazing update Knightly, far better than I'd imagined. Thank you

 

[godsfshrmn]

Hmm i tried to load and crashed to desktop

edit: seemed to work fine once i logged back in

 

[Knightly]

Hmm i tried to load and crashed to desktop

edit: seemed to work fine once i logged back in

Someone else reported this as well. I think it has to do with -- if you've never loaded it before and it creates the XML. I wasn't able to reproduce it on a quick test, so I'll track it down next time I circle back on this. If anyone else has a problem in the meantime, setting mq2mybuttons=1 in your ini before loading the game should fix it.

 

[Dobber123]

Is this plugin working?