Editing User interface (section)

= Components of the game window =
The official EL website has a [http://www.eternal-lands.com/page/interface.php nice overview of the interface]. <br>
The different components and their uses are discussed below.

== Toolbar ==
At the bottom of the game window you have a tool-bar with buttons for shortcuts to frequently used tools. Most of these are also accessible through shortcut keys.
[[File:Toolbar.png|none]]
1. Walk icon, 
2. Sit/stand toggle (alt+s), 
3. eye (look at), 
4. use, 
5. use with, 
6. trade, 
7. fight, 
8. Inventory (ctrl+i), 
9. Spell window (ctrl+s), 
10. Manufacture window (ctrl+m), 
11. Emotes, 
12. Questlog, 
13. Map (TAB key), 
14. Notepad/URL (ctrl+n), 
15. Buddy list (ctrl+b), 
16. Stats (ctrl+z gives session window), 
17. Console (F1 or ~), 
18. Help window (ctrl+h), 
19. Options window (ctrl+o)

== Status bars ==
Above the Tool-bar you have a status bar, showing your <span style="color:blue;">ethereal points</span> (mana, blue), <span style="color:yellow;">food level</span> (yellow), <span style="color:red;">health points</span> (red) and <span style="color:brown;">carry capacity</span> (emu, brown). To the right of these items you can have the <span style="color:magenta;">action points</span> (magenta) and up to four <span style="color:green;">skill bars</span>. The first bar can be selected by clicking on the skill (left mouse button) in the skills list. Additional bars can be selected by using shift+left-mouse-button.
[[File:Statusbar.png|none]]

== Chat and channels ==
[[File:Channels.png|none]]

== Sidebar ==

[[File:Sidebar.png|right]]
=== Quick inventory ===
Allows you quick access to the first 6 (horizontal) inventory slots of the inventory window without needing to open it. It's possible to mix using this to feed yourself, but it spams your chatlogs.

=== Quick spellbar ===
You can add spells that you can cast from the magic window, and use Alt+[No. downwards] or click on it to cast the spell.

=== Stats ===
The Stats sidebar can be customised to show bars (how much [[experience]] to the next level) and Levels you possess in each skill

=== Compass and clock ===
The time can be toggled on/off, as well as toggling on/off the seconds unit.
[[File:Clocks.png|none]]

<br style="clear: both" />

== Windows ==

==== Buddy list ====
[[File:Buddy.png|none]] 

==== Emotes ====
[[File:Emotes.png|none]]

==== Help, Skills, Encyclopedia, Rules ====
[[File:Help.png|none]]

==== Inventory ====
[[File:Inventory.png|none]] 

==== Item lists ====
[[File:Item_lists.png|none]]

==== Manufacturing ====
[[File:Manufacture.png|none]]

==== Mini Map ====
[[File:Minimap.png|none]]

==== Notepad ====
[[File:Notepad.png|none]]

==== Options ====
[[File:Options.png|none]]

==== Quest Log ====
[[File:Quest log.png|none]]

==== Ranging ====
Your ranging statistics can be displayed with ctrl+t (in some old versions ctrl+r). To get the latest client, check out [http://www.gm.fh-koeln.de/~linke/EL-Services.html Sir Odie's website].
[[File:Ranging.png|none]]

==== Spells ====
[[File:Spells.png|none]]
[[File:Spells small.png|none]]

==== Statistics ====
[[File:Statistics.png|none]]

==== Storage ====
Opened at NPC or from Inventory context menu or with #sto command.
[[File:Storage.png|none]]
You can right-click on the top bar for a context menu. 
From this context menu you can 
* Print items to console (chat-log file)
* Sort categories alphabetically (need to close and reopen to take effect)
* Auto close storage dialogue (when opening storage it closes the dialogue window)
* Auto select storage option in dialogue  (will open storage when clicking on storage NPC)

==== URL list ====
[[File:URLlist.png|none]]

== User menus ==
[[File:User Menus.png|none]]
This [[User menus|User Menu]] is stored in a file ''text.menu'' in your Eternal Lands data directory (Eternal Lands/main/text.menu) and can be edited with a text editor (do not try this with notepad, it makes a mess, use a real plain text editor like [http://liquidninja.com/metapad/ metapad] and make sure you do not save with a different or extra extension like .txt). The source code of this file is given below. Items that need additional input, such as <br>
<nowiki>Accept...||#accept <Player Name> </nowiki> <br>
will produce a pop-up window in which the requested data can be entered.
 <nowiki>
Guild
Guild Info...||#guild_info <Guild Tag>
Join...||#join_guild <Full Guild Name>
Accept...||#accept <Player Name>
Remove...||#remove <Player Name>
View Rank...||#rank <Player Name>
Change Rank...||#change_rank <Player Name> <Rank>
Change Tag Colour...||#set_guild_color <Guild Tag> <Colour>
View Guild Colour...||#view_guild_colors
Members...||#list_guild
Set Ally...||#set_ally_guild <Guild Tag>
Unset Ally...||#unset_ally_guild <Guild Tag>
List Allies...||#allies_list
||
||
Ignore...||#ignore <Player Name>
Unignore...||#unignore <Player Name>
Ignores||#ignores
Ignore Bots||#ignore_bots
Set Alias...||#alias <Number> <Text>
View Aliases||#aliases
</nowiki>

== Map view ==

== Console view ==

== Context menus ==


Work in progress.
--[[User:Maxine|Maxine]] 03:42, 29 July 2011 (CDT)
[[Category:User interface]]