Hello,

The goal of this topic is to regroup in one place all bugs or feature requests related to UI modding. It will not contain request to change the current UI (as we already have a subforum for that here). I build this list mostly with the things I encounter working on LeUI but I also included elements posted here and there on the forum by other members.

If I forget something, feel free to leave a comment and I will add it to the first post

1. Tooltips only work with 'button' element not with 'label'

This works:

button
{
	area 526 92 58 98
	tooltip lua "t('ARMOR_CLASS_LABEL')"
}

This does not:

label
{
	area 526 92 58 98
	tooltip lua "t('ARMOR_CLASS_LABEL')"
}

2.Tooltips do not work for elements inside a 'list'

For example:

list
{
	column
	{
		width 100
		button
		{
			area 0 0 -1 -1
			text lua "Infinity_FetchString(bookSpells[rowNumber].name)"
			tooltip lua "Infinity_FetchString(bookSpells[rowNumber].name)"
		}
	}
	area 112 186 302 384
	rowheight 40
	table "bookSpells"
	var currentBookSpell
}

3. You should be able to customize the background color of 'progressbar' element

Something like that:
progressbar bgcolor 128 128 128 255

4. Worldmap should be customizable

We should be able to:
- change the font, it's position, it's content (to remove the travel time for example)
- add hover effect on the map icon
- destination unreachable should pulse red when hovering over it
- show travel time on tooltip
- don't unselect map icons when dragging the worldmap around with the mouse
- use mouse scroll to move the map

There is also this bug here

5. Action bar should be customizable

Everything is harcoded at the moment

To be able to do tweak like this.

6. Better item comparison

Add these informations in tempStats:
- Attacks per round
- Offhand THAC0 and damage
- Individual AC subtype
- Individual saving throw type
- Individual resistance

Also, it should be possible to disable the yellow highlight on portrait and the lag when picking item should be fixed (see here).

7. Improve portraits handling

Add createCharScreen:GetPortraits to get all the portraits. This will simplify all the portrait picker mods.

Add a way to select a small portrait with a different name than the normal portrait

8. rowbackground only work with MOS file

It should also work with PNG file.

9. Add an option to 'text' to have the fancy initial

To be able to redo this:

10. 'action' does not work for element inside a 'list'

For example:

list
{
	column
	{
		width 100
		button
		{
			area 0 0 -1 -1
			text lua "Infinity_FetchString(bookSpells[rowNumber].name)"
			action
			"
				print_r('HERE')
			"
		}
	}
	area 0 164 1004 536
	table "bookSpells"
}

11. 'list' improvement

When you have a 'list' with a scrollbar, there is a reserved space for the scrollbar where you can't draw even when there is not enough content for the scrollbar to appear:

It should be possible to draw there. Also it may be useful to be able to know if a 'list' element is displaying a scrollbar or not.

12. Scrolling improvement

Add a way to change the scrolling to scroll for a fixed amount of pixel.

13. Do not hardcode behaviors

Some ingame screens (inventory, character information, spells, options, ...) have hardcoded behaviors. The shortcut to open the screen, pausing the game without displaying a message in the dialog box, stopping the map scrolling, ...

These behaviors should be made explicit so they can be reused in other screen (for example for the journal to make it work like in 1.3).

14. Add unselectable races / classes / alignments in chargen tables

To be able to show them in character creation (instead of having to use a hack to generate it like here).

15. Multiple stealing

storeScreen:IsStealItemButtonClickable should return true even when multiple items are selected and storeScreen:OnStealItemButtonClick should handle multiple items (at the moment it crash).

This way, we no longer need this.

16. Relative level up progress bar

characters[id].level should also contain the starting xp for the current level. This will greatly simplify this mod.

17. Merged inventory

The 'characters' table should contain all characters to be able to create one merged inventory (like in Pillars or Tyranny). Right now, the characters[id] for one character is filled only when you open its inventory (and the table is not cleared when you load a new save so it can contain no longer relevant data ). Also, there is no easy way to map the id to each character.

18. Ability to import external library

For example: os or pcre.

19. Customizable tooltips

Ability to customize the font size and color. Also add the ability to restore the unfolding animation.

20. Documentation

At least the syntactic rules for the UI.MENU grammar. Even just a BNF document would be very helpful - and wouldn't need to include Lua syntax.

21. Check key states

Add a function to check if a key is pressed or not. This could be used when changing thief proficiency to advance 5 by 5 if shift is pressed for example.