interface question

[Kefrem]

is there a way to lock the bars of your interface? not the icons within them but the entire thing down?

[Sisma]

Let me see if I got this right...
You want to lock all bars of your UI to keep them all in place after you have customized them? Is that right?
In this case, the "lock icons" option locks your bars as well...

[Phaeton_Seraph]

is there a way to lock the bars of your interface? not the icons within them but the entire thing down?
So you don't drag them around by accident?

Ctrl+= will lock the buttons, and should lock the bars. It will toggle it one and off. It's good to lock it down when you suspect you might be having to mash buttons.

However, I have managed to drag bars around once and a while when it should have been locked. I just can't replicate it intentionally.


Get your screen set up perfect, and then type in:
/ui layout save [filename]

Where it says [filename] I usually type in whatever I call my character (not necessarily it's name, but what I call it for short.

Then, when things get shifted, and I find going from full screen to windowed to full screen again will cause shifting, you type:
/ui layout load [filename]

[Nickademus]

Ctrl+= will lock the buttons, and should lock the bars. It will toggle it one and off. It's good to lock it down when you suspect you might be having to mash buttons.

However, I have managed to drag bars around once and a while when it should have been locked. I just can't replicate it intentionally.

If you play in windowed mode, I also find that hotbars move each login. I figure it is a rounding issue when calculating their position, but each login my hotbars lowest on the screen creep up a pixel or two. After a couple logins, they are partially underneath the hotbars above them (very noticeable).

[PermaBanned]

So you don't drag them around by accident?

Ctrl+= will lock the buttons, and should lock the bars. It will toggle it one and off. It's good to lock it down when you suspect you might be having to mash buttons.

However, I have managed to drag bars around once and a while when it should have been locked. I just can't replicate it intentionally.


Get your screen set up perfect, and then type in:
/ui layout save [filename]

Where it says [filename] I usually type in whatever I call my character (not necessarily it's name, but what I call it for short.

Then, when things get shifted, and I find going from full screen to windowed to full screen again will cause shifting, you type:
/ui layout load [filename]

Does the UI Save also retain the position of Health Bars, style & position of the Focus Orb, Dice display, Map etc?

[Phaeton_Seraph]

If you play in windowed mode, I also find that hotbars move each login. I figure it is a rounding issue when calculating their position, but each login my hotbars lowest on the screen creep up a pixel or two. After a couple logins, they are partially underneath the hotbars above them (very noticeable).

Yes, this does seem to agree with what I've observed. This is why a saving/loading your UI layout can prevent OCD episodes ;)


Does the UI Save also retain the position of Health Bars, style & position of the Focus Orb, Dice display, Map etc?

For the most part, yes. It remembers where your dice are located, and the Latency debuff icon &c. But it doesn't separate hotbars or tabs, nor will it rotate bars.

What I find works (especially if you're rolling a new toon that will use another's layout), press the button that pops hotbars out as many times as you need, load your UI, now you'll find that any bars that you'd normally rotate aren't rotated, they just sit where they spawned. Rotate them, and and order it to load your UI again.

If you usually have your combat log tab separate from the chat panel, you'll need to manually separate it before the Load will adjust it. I think (not sure, but think) that it does keep track of all your tabs and their settings otherwise.

Can't recall if you will adjust the state of your Orb or player display (I guess that's what you mean by style), you may need to hit the eye button to get it to the right shape. But if it doesn't you just do it the same as the rotated hotbars.


You can even save your UI settings to be specific for a resolution:
/ui layout save %c_%r
This will autoname the UI setting with %c as your character's name and %r for the resolution. Unsure if the %r is appended to the file name or not, never done it.

The setings you save will be saved in:
C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\Dungeons and Dragons Online\ui\layouts
Or My Documents if you still use an earlier version of Windows.



This is all in the wiki and the forums, just search out "UI Settings." I'm happy to provide all the knowledge I have, but it becomes limited.