XI View V2.2.1 (Sept, 1, 2017) - [USER INTERFACE]

Caradog you are faaaaantastic <3

Thank you so very much for the fast solving of the new issues

Updated 1st post.

Caradog, to confirm, that was a full update, right?

Yea its a complete update

There is a small issue with the new XI View.

Currency tab is missing

Its not missing on mine, could you please provide details as to what version you're using?

Please ensure its the latest version (2.11) and could you tell me what language/screen size you're using so I can try to find the problem? Thanks

2.10

You've downloaded an old version, check the links they should direct you to version 2.11

Installing it should fix the problem  

Oh I see ^^ Thank you!

This may be a question in the wrong thread but since it concerns XIView ill ask here anyway, i use 2 screens, one is a 16:9 widescreen and the other is a square screen. I two box, my main toon on the big wide screen and my alt on the second square screen. i use the dat mods for the widescreen and offcourse things dont fit exactly right on the square screen. Is there a way (or a way in the future) to selct what kind of style you want per, say windower loggin accounts. since i can preselect which addons and plugins to use per account i thaught maybe there is a way. Im probably totaly dreaming since thers only one set of dats. is it possible to install the game in two different places for the account and have each run a different set of DAT's, but then can one make windower chose which directory to load from depending on the account.

no idea if this has made sence to anyone but any reply would be great lol. ^^ thanks 

The only option I can think of is if you had two seperate HDDs it may let you install the game in two seperate places (though how windower would react to this I don't know).

The only real issue with Widescreen-Square is the Icon next to your characters name, afaik nothing else is different (the game doesn't even bother using seperate icons like xi view does when you alter the aspect ratio).

Sorry I can't be of more help on this but I just don't think there's a way of doing it sorry, short of the aforementioned double install.

Since FFXI has an option for 2 icon sets. you could possibly say something like character on the wide uses set 1 and the standard is on the set 2. Now which DATs are for set 1 or 2 that's beyond me.

Someone asked about the .dat sets for option 1 & 2 a while ago, so I've been looking slowly but with only a few thousand .dats and ~30-100 .dds per dat, its not a short search.

The idea however does have some promise, I can however see a problem that is:

The dds responsible for the icon next to character name (ie. linkpearl/bazaar/mentor etc) is the only one to change between aspect ratios (which is courtesy of xi view, the game doesn't bother changing any of the icon files when you switch aspect ratios).

Having a look atm and that particular feature doesn't change between icon sets 1 & 2.

Which would probably make it pointless to use for the purposes of dualboxing with two aspect ratios (since the only part of xi view to be effected by an aspect ratio swap can't be altered)

Anyway, sorry to once again be the party pooper lol But I don't see this solution working for this particular problem (though it is an interesting thought).

I'm curious what is actually being stretched? As Xi View only deals with with UI which isn't affected by the aspect ratio (natively at all and for us its only one very minor alteration).  Any more details possible would help with a possible solution.

to be honest i was really more curious as to what the difference was bettween the wide screen and standard was, i didnt realise that it was just an icon difference. if id have known that i wouldnt have made that post lol. there isnt actually any issue since ive never used the standard DATs to see the difference, i was more just curious as to weather it could be done. And also things not fitting quite right could just be because i have to reposition the alts screen to screen 2 via "that plugin" i forgot the name of, and i might just have the parameters a tad wrong. And now that i looked out of curiosity, i messed with the background aspect ratio in game to see if things would fit better and it seems to have tweeked some aspects a bit better. thanks for the replies too. they were very informative.

I wish I could be more help, if you have any further queries don't hesitate to post here or message me, always happy to help with anything regarding this project

Nevermind, I had some folders in the wrong spot, didn't notice til after I posted.

I want to thank you guys for the nice looking dats and keeping them up to date. I am rather curious, as I've had this type of UI before, but I just used the 2.11 view and still don't have this style of buttons. What would allow me to get buttons like in this photo?

http://i7.photobucke...howtomenu-1.png

Those buttons look to be part of an alternate dds I don't have access to.

It may be possible to design a dds using that picture as a template.

Is there a black window dat that has a slight transparency to it? I am using the black window with the white border but I do miss the transparent look of the blue one. The black is easier to read text but anything else is obstructed.
If a transparent version is out there could anyone point me to it please?

Wanted to edit and mention I know a Black Gradient-white border DAT exists but I was hoping for a non gradient version if it is out there. Maybe say just a little see through, like 25% see through, I dont know.
Thanks again.

All the dats I currently have access to are included in the pack.

I'll try to take a look at older versions and/or creating new dats but it probably won't be done till after New Year since I'm crazy busy over the holidays.

Other than that if anyone knows of any alternate sources of dds/dat files for FFXI please feel free to offer them here and I'll do my best to incorporate them into XI View.

Sorry I can't be of more help

I honestly didnt know if anything could be done at all, I am thankful you are willing to look at it when you get the time.

Thank you again.