What do I need to pay you, Turbine, to lock toolbars?

[Draccus]

Name your price. Seriously.

What would I have to pay you to make a locked toolbar really, really, really stay locked. I'm talking "won't move even if I grab it and move it" locked. I'm talking "Hannibal Lecter not even gonna let you eat because you'll find a way to escape" locked. Locked!

v. locked, lock·ing, locks
v.tr.
1.
a. To fasten the lock of: close and lock a drawer.
b. To shut or make secure with or as if with locks: locked the house.
2. To confine or exclude by or as if by means of a lock: locked the dog in for the night; locked the criminal up in a cell.
3. To fix in place so that movement or escape is impossible; hold fast: The ship was locked in the ice through the winter. She felt that she had become locked into a binding agreement.

LOCKED!





oops...sorry about that last one. Not sure how it got in here.

Anyway...LOCKED!

What will it take? 2 hours of a developer's time? I'm good with that. Let's say your coding guys make $40/hr with 40% EBE. Assume they're too busy to do this task on straight time so I'll pay OT. That's $56/hr plus $20 per hour OT for a total of $152 (hey, I'm not paying benefits on OT hours...I'll only go so far). I'm good with that. To whom should I write the check? QC? Not needed because he couldn't make it worse than it is now considering my bars fly all over the screen even though they are "locked." Am I off in my estimate? Fine, tell me what it will cost and let me pay it.

Please, for the love of all that is sacred, let us lock our toolbars!

[Chai]

What will it take? 2 hours of a developer's time? I'm good with that. Let's say your coding guys make $40/hr with 40% EBE. Assume they're too busy to do this task on straight time so I'll pay OT. That's $56/hr plus $20 per hour OT for a total of $152 (hey, I'm not paying benefits on OT hours...I'll only go so far). I'm good with that. To whom should I write the check? QC? Not needed because he couldn't make it worse than it is now considering my bars fly all over the screen even though they are "locked." Am I off in my estimate? Fine, tell me what it will cost and let me pay it.

Please, for the love of all that is sacred, let us lock our toolbars!

Those checks are made payable in increments of time, and not dollars.

I will let you know as soon as I am unstuck from this ladder and actually begin climbing it.

[BucMan55]

Um, CTRL = locks the toolbars I thought. No?

[khaldan]

Um, CTRL = locks the toolbars I thought. No?

IIRC, that locks you from dragging stuff off the toolbar, not dragging the toolbar itself.

Half the reason I keybind everything was NEVER to deal with this again.

[LordPiglet]

IIRC, that locks you from dragging stuff off the toolbar, not dragging the toolbar itself.

Half the reason I keybind everything was NEVER to deal with this again.

oh, no, it doesn't actually even prevent you from dragging stuff off the toolbar.

Somehow I managed to remove my voice of the master, and then swapped the locations of my duskheart and pendant of time last night.

[BucMan55]

Lotta good that does then.


Seconded!!(thirded?)

[Draccus]

oh, no, it doesn't actually even prevent you from dragging stuff off the toolbar.

Somehow I managed to remove my voice of the master, and then swapped the locations of my duskheart and pendant of time last night.

I pulled my Heal scrolls off my toolbar in the middle of a big fight in a no-healer, duo run of Epic Partycrashers.

[Missing_Minds]

oh, no, it doesn't actually even prevent you from dragging stuff off the toolbar.

Somehow I managed to remove my voice of the master, and then swapped the locations of my duskheart and pendant of time last night.

http://my.ddo.com/codeshaper/2010/09...about-hotbars/

You may have a solution coming, LP.

OP... you are asking for something that has never been in the game. Would be nice though.

[khaldan]

I pulled my Heal scrolls off my toolbar in the middle of a big fight in a no-healer, duo run of Epic Partycrashers.

Ouch.

[Draccus]

Ouch.

(it actually wasn't a disaster because I got danced immediately thereafter and had 15 seconds with nothing else to do but find them and put them back )

[MrWizard]

1) locking the toolbars themselves would be the best ever...infact, being able to 'lock display' for all items that are movable on the screen would be perfect (orb, map, etc) or individually in the UI settings.


2) you can lock the items on your toolbars all you want, but when I first log in with a character and the toolbars are locked...I can still take any item and pull it off or move it once...then it is locked.
Upon log in, I always unlock and then relock the toolbars to avoid this issue.

It has been this way since day 1 for me on issue 2...

issue 1 is rough...big fight, flying toolbar...yuck

[Uska]

Um, CTRL = locks the toolbars I thought. No?

they seem to come unlocked or portions of them randomly sometimes

[Codeshaper]

http://my.ddo.com/codeshaper/2010/09...about-hotbars/

You may have a solution coming, LP.

OP... you are asking for something that has never been in the game. Would be nice though.

Correct. I am working on this and hope to have it in for Update 7. My assumption at this point is that shouldn't be too hard, but I've been surprised before.

And it is a legitimate bug, as it seems to happen only with items from the inventory, when logging in with toolbars already locked.

[khaldan]

Correct. I am working on this and hope to have it in for Update 7. My assumption at this point is that shouldn't be too hard, but I've been surprised before.

And it is a legitimate bug, as it seems to happen only with items from the inventory, when logging in with toolbars already locked.

Awesome. Best news today

[Spoonwelder]

Correct. I am working on this and hope to have it in for Update 7. My assumption at this point is that shouldn't be too hard, but I've been surprised before.

And it is a legitimate bug, as it seems to happen only with items from the inventory, when logging in with toolbars already locked.

Now you know where to send the check!!!

If he can't take it due to corporate policy, PM me and I will give you an address to send the money to - I will ensure it gets where it needs to go.

[Barumar]

Correct. I am working on this and hope to have it in for Update 7. My assumption at this point is that shouldn't be too hard, but I've been surprised before.

And it is a legitimate bug, as it seems to happen only with items from the inventory, when logging in with toolbars already locked.

Nice! Bug identified, duplicated, and being worked on!

Thanks for the reply Dev, and thanks to the OP for the humorous and enjoyable post about one of my longest running issues with DDO.

Barumar

[Draccus]

SWEET! Thanks!

Between this and Epic Claw of Vulkoor, I owe Codeshaper and FlimsyFirewood a lunch or a beer or both!

[Sani_Medicor]

Since you brought it up...for the millionth time...I'd like to see the hotbars stick together when you drag them near each other. I'm tired of trying to space them evenly and get them all lined up. This is a pretty common feature in software programs. It would be nice to have it in the game.

[Lithic]

Correct. I am working on this and hope to have it in for Update 7. My assumption at this point is that shouldn't be too hard, but I've been surprised before.

And it is a legitimate bug, as it seems to happen only with items from the inventory, when logging in with toolbars already locked.

Any chance you can fix how toolbars move around when going back and forth between full screen and windowed mode?

[NXPlasmid]

so, a temporary fix for this might be to unlock and relock your toolbars right after you log on to a new toon? I'm gonna try that. T