3.20RC2 - messed up UI again

[wysiwyg]

It seems that 3.20RC2 has changed the name of the .xml file that describes the files to be added to the menu bar and detailmonitor etc. As a result most mods featuring UI code will break. It's a simple fix - just make a copy of the .xml file in the ego_xxxx folder and rename it to ui.xml.
e.g.

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old file -  addons\ego_mainmenu\ego_mainmenu.xml

add file - addons\ego_mainmenu\ui.xml

Cheers
Wysi

[YorrickVander]

I'm starting to get the impression Ego are simply taking the **** now.

[Phipsz]

thanks wysiwyg!

@yorrick: I guess/hope they are now taking the neccessary steps to officially support ui-modding. yeah, it's quite stupid for us to change our mods by a tiny bit that they work again, but hey: maybe one day we get the decompiled versions of the menu by egosoft themselves instead of decompiling ourselves and hoping it doesn't crash everything

[YorrickVander]

It seems that s not the only change. Custom UIs working in 3.10 no longer work at all (ui crash after menu selection). Tested on mission computer + YAT.

[Phipsz]

hm, my space exploration mod is working again in 3.20 . Maybe that is because I have tested a new approach for adding custom ui. my ui is placed in

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ui/addons/ego_pses_detailmonitor

I have tried without ego_prefix first, but was not working. but this structure is definitely working for me on space exploration (and some other mods I'm currently working on)

[wysiwyg]

I perhaps should have made the first post a bit clearer. This seems to apply to all the .xml in the addons section not just the menu. Having extracted the entire game earlier there is a ui.xml file in every single ego_* folder now.

so for example, I had to change the

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addons/ego_detailmonitor/ego_detailmonitor.xml file to

addons/ego_detailmonitor/ui.xml

for my Money Transfer mod.

I notice they've also messed about with MD calls to the map as well so if your mods call up the vanilla map it's quite possibly broken as well!

[YorrickVander]

Ah fair enough, i hadn't looked too far into it for now. Wish they would stop doing this though unless there's a reason apart from irritating the modding community. Oddly there was no error spam at all in the debug log or in game log.

[Xenon_Slayer]

We know that more accessable UI modding is a wanted feature and AFAIK these changes are steps towards it. Hopefully the process should stabalise and we'll end up with less issues like these.