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Quote from dsjoerg: Go

Would it be possible for a custom observer UI to include trigger code that would save data to the XML banks?

No.
Interfaces can only change the default UI, a few images, a few texts, all fonts and add a frame hiding/showing & collapsing/expanding hotkey to new frames (which can alter existing default frames).

Quote from theonlyshaft: Go

Okay so I"m a little fuzzy. I just finished editing ahali's interface to suit my own needs for casting/observing. Now I'm trying to do a version of it that will be viable for actual gameplay. From my understanding, that's possible right? Something about EModType, from the original document, but for whatever reason I'm having a hard time finding data on it. Anyone know where I should start?

You can't alter the UI for ladder matches, etc... You can alter the default UI for all players in an arcade map, though.

Also, my nick is "Ahli". :D

Quote from Sorrex922: Go

i dont quite understand is how the " relative="$parent/...." " works exactly.

It's referencing another frame in the frame tree. "$parent/" means that it goes up 1 level, so the anchor will use the min/max/mid position of the parent frame (= the frame one level above, it's the one that directly contains the frame you set the anchors for).
Also, there is "$this", in case you want to reset an anchor. For example, this is required if you want to alter the used anchors of a frame from bottom left to top right.
Also, you can specify frame names to go into, too.

For example, here I used $parent multiple times to attach the anchors of the ResourcePanel Frame directly to the GameUI frame. It's telling each anchor from which frame it should pull the data.

    <!-- resource display -->
    <Frame type="ResourcePanel" name="GameUI/UIContainer/FullscreenUpperContainer/ResourcePanel" file="GameUI">
        <Anchor side="Top" relative="$parent/$parent/$parent" pos="Min" offset="0"/>
        <Anchor side="Right" relative="$parent/$parent/$parent" pos="Max" offset="0"/>
        <Anchor side="Left" relative="$parent/$parent/$parent" pos="Min" offset="0"/>
        <Anchor side="Bottom" relative="$parent/ToggleBottomScreenUI/A" pos="Min" offset="0"/>
        <Width val="0"/>
        <Height val="0"/>
   </Frame>

Width/Height val=0 resets the width/height value. Then the frame will use the anchors for width/height. So, in this code, the ResourcePanel frame would stretch to its full size which the anchors determine.

Quote from Sorrex922: Go

But in cant manage to make my own frames and texts appear on the screen.

You alter an existing frame and add a new frame into it.

    <!-- TOGGLE for bottom screen UI -->
    <Frame type="Frame" name="GameUI/UIContainer/FullscreenUpperContainer" file="GameUI">
        <Frame type="ToggleControl" name="ToggleBottomScreenUI">
            <Anchor side="Bottom" relative="$parent" pos="Max" offset="0"/>
            <Anchor side="Left" relative="$parent" pos="Min" offset="0"/>
            <Anchor side="Right" relative="$parent" pos="Max" offset="0"/>
            <Height val="5000"/>
            <CollapseLayout val="true"/>
            <Shortcut val="Control+W"/>
            <Visible val="false"/>
            <AcceptsMouse val="false"/>
            <RenderPriority val="0"/>
            <Frame type="Frame" name="A">
                <Anchor relative="$parent"/>
            </Frame>
        </Frame>
    </Frame>

Here I'm editing the FullScreenUpperContainer frame. I'm adding an element to it and configure it.

Text is shown via labels. You link a new text entry that you add into the text module of the editor. Usually these new IDs are named "DOCSTR_". You can find that value in the table and define the text you want to show.
Then you set your label to reference that ID by writing <Text val="@WRITE_ID_OF_THE_TEXT"/>. Also, you can define a style which the label will use by default. Styles can be added in the style tab of the editor's text module.


            <Frame type="Label" name="ArmySupply">
                <Anchor side="Top" relative="$parent\workers" pos="Min" offset="0"/>
                <Anchor side="Left" relative="$parent\workers" pos="Max" offset="35"/>
                <Width val="50"/>
                <Height val="36"/>
                <Text val="@DOCSTR_0005"/>
                <Style val="BebasData_30_Left_Army"/>
            </Frame>

I hope that helps.

I finally managed to create a player colored image. I figured that my code will be helpful to others.

			<!-- player colored image -->
			<Frame type="PlayerFrame" name="PlayerColoredImageExample">
				<Anchor side="Top" relative="$parent" pos="Min" offset="5"/>
				<Anchor side="Right" relative="$parent" pos="Max" offset="0"/>
				<Anchor side="Bottom" relative="$parent" pos="Max" offset="-5"/>
				<Anchor side="Left" relative="$this" pos="Min" offset="0"/>
				<Width val="350"/>
				<VersusModePlayerSide val="Left"/>
				<Frame type="Image" name="Image">
					<Anchor relative="$parent"/>
					<IgnoreParentColor val="false"/>
					<TextureType val="Normal"/>
					<Texture val="gradient.dds"/>
					<Alpha val="191"/>
					<Tiled val="false"/>
					<RenderPriority val="101"/>
				</Frame>
			</Frame>

But currently, it has a problem with updating its color when the observer changes the player vision with team colors enabled as seen here.

"Hell, was about time!" - some dead guy

At least they made a proper documentation. :D