EC: Stop hiding Vender Search errors after 5 seconds

TimSt

The EC will hide Vendor Search error messages after 5 seconds.  If you blink or look away too long you will miss the error message. With the current problems happening with Vendor Search I thought it was time to stop the EC from hiding the VS errors.  The following code changes will do that as well as print the error to the chat window.

To the function VendorSearch.UpdateButtonsMap in the file source\VendorSearch.lua make the following code changes

	local error = VendorSearch.GetError()
	if error then
		LabelSetText(VendorSearch.WindowName .. "OtherError", GetStringFromTid(error))
		
		WindowSetAlpha(VendorSearch.WindowName .. "OtherError", 255)
--start of added and modified code
--stop hiding the error WindowStartAlphaAnimation(VendorSearch.WindowName .. "OtherError", Window.AnimationType.EASE_OUT, 1, 0, 1, false, 5, 0)
		WindowUtils.ChatPrint( GetStringFromTid(error), SystemData.ChatLogFilters.SYSTEM)
--end of added and modified code
	else

To the function VendorSearch.SearchThis in the file source\VendorSearch.lua add the following code

--start of added code	
	LabelSetText(VendorSearch.WindowName .. "OtherError", L"") --clear the error message
	WindowSetAlpha(VendorSearch.WindowName .. "OtherError", 0)
--end of added code

Grimbeard

Another great fix the developers are unwilling to add to the game

loop

You can also remove the custom EC UI for the Vendor Search entirely -- I think by changing this string to anything else:

GumpsParsing.GumpMaps[999112].name

This will give you the CC's gump within the EC. I find the CC version to be less ugly and easier to use. The text color in the input field will be white, but there's probably an easy way to fix it.