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Old 06/22/07, 7:00 PM   #1
Hitoku
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UI Centering Tool

I have been doing a good amount of UI work for a week or so. Mainly, attempting to clean up my UI and create some space on my screen. The most trouble I have run into thus far has been the positioning of Bartender3, X-Perl, and minimap (using Squeenix). I have tried manually moving these frames, but it always ends up appearing 'off'. My question to those more familiar to the art of UI design and addons: Is there currently an addon that can center frames? If not, does anyone have any suggestions as to centering my UI?
 
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Old 06/22/07, 7:06 PM   #2
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Some kind of grid would be awesome, I'd imagine you could do one with skinner. :p
 
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Old 06/22/07, 7:15 PM   #3
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There is an addon for this. I want to say that it is Ace2, but I can't seem to recall the name. It made grid lines on your screen.

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Old 06/22/07, 7:17 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Osse View Post
Some kind of grid would be awesome, I'd imagine you could do one with skinner. :p
I was thinking of playing with Skinner, but I am still new to it. I have also thought about using my HUD as a guide and using Quartz's centering ability as another guide.
 
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Old 06/22/07, 7:19 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by Apate View Post
There is an addon for this. I want to say that it is Ace2, but I can't seem to recall the name. It made grid lines on your screen.
It's called Align, http://www.wowinterface.com/download...231-Align.html
 
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Old 06/22/07, 7:20 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Apate View Post
There is an addon for this. I want to say that it is Ace2, but I can't seem to recall the name. It made grid lines on your screen.
Hmm. I will definatly look into this, Apate.
 
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Old 06/22/07, 7:50 PM   #7
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Align does the gridlines-on-screen thing. It's not ace2 - fortunately, an addon that small wouldn't win anything from being ace'd - and it's great for visually positioning things with good accuracy, I'd hate trying to configure my current UI without using it. Very much recommended to anyone using custom bars & unit frames of any sort to get them decently, well, aligned...

You might also want to look at Visor2 and Visor2GUI from wowace: they basically let you manually edit things like the coordinate values, width, height and so on of every UI element you have which can be very helpful for fine-tuning. It's basically like Discord Frame Modifier of old, albeit considerably less GUI'd and more dependent on /commands or external .luas for anything complicated.
 
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Old 06/22/07, 7:52 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by darchrys View Post
Thanks a lot for the link, darchrys. Align is looking great.
 
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Old 06/22/07, 10:18 PM   #9
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Thanks for the suggestions and help. I've moved my UI quite a bit and it is looking very nice.
 
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Old 06/23/07, 3:07 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by darchrys View Post
I searched for Align, but on the wrong site

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Old 06/25/07, 1:00 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by darchrys View Post

Oh man I can't count the number of times I've wished for something like this. My OCD thanks you.
 
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