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Old 07-31-2008, 11:08 PM
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Thanks for your efforts - I'll start right away to implement these into the tools. The colors are great and fit the theme well. Good job.

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Old 08-13-2008, 05:56 AM
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I think the new tool look is great so far. But, here are a couple suggestions if they wouldn't take too much work to do:

1. Change the Delete Item button on the main screen of the Item Editor to RED and set a confirmation box on it to confirm the delete. I would also maybe recommend moving it to the bottom of the screen, or just somewhere other than right next to the new item edit button. As it is right now, it could very easily be clicked by mistake, which could cause some headaches. This is the most important change I think that is needed. The rest are mostly just cosmetic stuff.

2. The minimize button could be moved to be directly to the left of the X (close window) button and it wouldn't really need to say "minimize" next to it then, because it would basically be setup as a normal Windows window style, so it would be self explanatory.

3. Currently, if you click the "Stop Music" button, the whole button just disappears (it does stop the music though). I think that button would probably work just fine if it was to the left of the new Minimize button (where described above). And, if you change it to the green color for "music on", you could have it switch to red when it is set to "music off".

4. The On/Off button for Drop Details could be set to Red when it is Off and to Green when it is On. I mostly made the green and red sets so you could use them as options for mouseovers and/or showing if something is On or Off.

5. I made a greyed out version of the "Save" button for Load Raid Bots so that it could be greyed out when saving isn't an option. This isn't very important, but I thought it would be consistent with how you had it set before. It was greyed out until saving was an option. Then, once saving is an option, it could change to another color.

6. In the New Item Edit window, it would be nice if there was a way for the "Save" button to change colors if any changes are made and haven't yet been saved. That way, it would be easy to see if you have saved the item or not before moving onto the next one.

7. I did make some simple radio buttons of each color that could be used to mark which classes and races can use an item in the New Item Editor window. You would just need to pick a color for on and for off. I would say that on should be blue or green and off should be black or red. But, I was also considering making a set of buttons that matches all of the others that would list all classes and races on them. Then, you could just set the buttons to change colors depending on if the class or race was selected on not. If you would rather do that than to use the radio buttons, I can easily make those buttons for you. Or, I can even make another set of radio buttons in a completely different style that would still look really nice with the EQ feel of the tool. Whatever you prefer.

That is all I can think of for now. Most is just cosmetic stuff. The only important one is the delete item button issue.

I will start working on some more graphics for you soon. I will see if I can come up with some nice logos and maybe tweak the backgrounds a little. But, I don't want to make too much work for you hehe. Thanks for everything you have done so far. It really is amazing!
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Old 08-18-2008, 01:27 AM
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New updated version

Changed the delete button skin to red and shifted it's position slightly to prevent inadvertant deletes.

Also you can now create items with multiple slots.
also, for L/R slot pairs - I made it so L. ear and R. ear now refer to "ears" and save correctly in the DB

The other minor cosmetic issues will be addressed later.

That's all for tonight..
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