Adding elements to existing UI elements

[Wukar]

Hi there,

after walking through the very basic addon tutorial, i come up with more questions than answers. I am familiar with Lua in a way from my studies. But i definetly lack the knowledge to interact with the ESO UI.

I want to extend inventory and bank windows with a crafting-profession filter as well as a editbox for a full-text search. Well, the events aren't the problem. Adding the elements to the proper control is. On top of it: is there a predefined editBox (doesn't look like that) ?

I tried to skip that problem with the usage of the library LibAddonMenu-1.0:

LAM:AddEditBox(ZO_PlayerInventoryBackpack, "bbs_search", "filter inventory", "custom tooltip", false, getFunc(), setFunc())

But the LibAddon itself complains about the optionsWindow variable which is set at the beginning to:

local optionsWindow = ZO_OptionsWindowSettingsScrollChild

Thanks for your time ;-)

[Seerah]

From the description:

LibAddonMenu-1.0 is a library to aid addon authors in creating a configuration GUI for their addons which is located in the game's Settings menu.

LAM doesn't do what you think it does.

[Wukar]

*self-facepalm* configuration gui - got it

But the UI elment question remains.

[Seerah]

Look to see how LAM creates the editbox. (Hint: I used a template from the default UI )

[Cr4x]

Easiest way to achive your goal is to install zgoo and try to figure out which is the head control of the tabs.

type /zgoo mouse while you are on any filter button and have a look at his parent
Should be something like ZO_PlayerInventoryFilterTab or so

now have a look at the wiki example to dynamicly adding some controls to another.

That should be enough to make it. if you need a complete soloutin and dont want to learn from it (i totally advice! you to do it by yourself), reply on my post and wait until i got time for it *lol*

Cheers

[Wukar]

Thanks for the hints. I hate direct solutions and prefer learning by doing