Stupid Question

[Newcromancer]

I have been reluctant to move to the new UI. I finally did. When you go into a tradeskill container and move your cursor over the combine button you get a dummy indicator saying "click here to combine". Is there any way to shut that off? It hides the gray in/out of the button.

[mewkus]

I'm not quite sure I understand why you'd want to disable the combine button with the new UI since that's kind of the purpose of the new UI (to combine things). But if you really want to disable it, you can prolly just edit the xml file for it and just remove the combine button all together.

[Ikken]

He means the mouse-over text. When your cursor is over the combine button, mouse-over text pops up saying "click here to combine".

I have as yet to find a way to turn it off myself.

-Ikken

[Newcromancer]

Yes Ikken, that is what I am talking about. I have been asking around and not found anyone who knows how to get rid of it yet. It is very annoying.

[Zacatac]

I have to agree, it's pretty annoying. I've clicked that button 100,000 times now, I'm pretty sure I know what it is used for.

[KyrosKrane]

It's not hard to get rid of the tooltips, but you have to be moderately adept with editing XML files.

First, get yourself a proper text editor. Notepad won't cut it for this. MS Word will do, but it's overkill. Pretty much any decent text editor that has search and replace abilities will do fine.

Next, open your EQ folder and find the UIFiles subfolder, then the Default subfolder under that. In the Default folder, find the file named EQUI_TradeskillWnd.xml. COPY that file to your custom UI folder, then open the copy you just made in your text editor.

The specific commands to search and replace will vary from editor to editor, but usually you can look under the Edit or Search menu for that option. Search for:

<TooltipReference>

Replace that with:

<!-- <TooltipReference>

Now search for:

</TooltipReference>

Replace that with:

</TooltipReference> -->

It is VERY important that you not mix up the two replaces. Don't replace more than once, either, or you'll get errors when you try to load the custom UI. Just copy and paste the above text into your editor, then use the "replace all" function.

Once the replacements are made, save the file, then reload your custom UI.

What this does is comment out the tooltips. Everything else in the window will be unchanged; only the tooltips will be gone.

In fact, since I was doing these steps as I was typing, here's the edited file, without tooltips. Save this to your desktop, then unzip it to your custom UI folder. I've scanned the file for viruses and such, but I highly suggest you re-scan it before you open it.

[Bobaten]

You can actually do all of that in Notepad.

[KyrosKrane]

Oh, wow. I didn't know Notepad's been beefed up with search/replace capabilities. I haven't used Notepad for much since Windows 98. =)

[Newcromancer]

Thanks, I'll give your suggestion a try.

[DJPhil]

Finally!

Thanks Newcromancer for asking about that, and double thanks Kyros, for having found a way!

I was so sick of that tooltip hanging over my combine bags, blocking my item quantities. I might just go looking for more throughout the default UI to rip out.

Thanks again guys