Complete loss of Action Bars

[Vocov]

I hope I can find some help here...

About six months ago after an update I lost my action bars (2, 3 and 4 specifically) after the update that was released in August / September. I have since been unable to get them back. Honestly, after several hours of trying with help from guild members, I gave up.

I have tried simply toggling them from the options (EQ box)
I have tried reloading the default UI
I also recall a guild member giving me some specific / commands that failed to work as well, but I currently do not recall what those were.

All characters I play have been affected.

I have little experience with emulated servers and after such a long break now feel completely lost.

Does anyone have ideas of potential fixes I could try?

[Ashintar]

I assume you're talking about the Hotbars? I'm not sure if you've tried these before, but try toggling the action bars via their key bindings. Alt+O | Keys Tab | Select Category Hotbar x | "Toggle hotbar x window" set it to a key | then try toggling the hotbar?

or

Could it be that you've drug them off screen? Try changing the resolution to see if they're off screen somewhere.

or

Have you tried loading a different UI? /loadskin then select a different UI, I'm not sure if "keep your layout" works here but unselect it anyways.
or

If you open up your character UI file ..\<eqdirectory>UI_<charactername>_project1999.ini and search for [HotButtonWnd4] (or 2 or 3) there are a bunch of resolutions listed in that section, find your resolution and see where it has placed your hotbar. For example, on this laptop below are my settings for hot button 4. If I change the below Red numbers (that's my current EQ resolution) to say XPos1500x850=588 and YPos1500x850=160 it moves the bar's position on my screen when I log in.


[HotButtonWnd4]
INIVersion=2
XPos1680x1050=-1
YPos1680x1050=532
BGTint.red=255
BGTint.green=255
BGTint.blue=255
BGType=1
Fades=true
Delay=2000
Duration=500
Alpha=154
FadeToAlpha=255
Locked=false
Show=1
XPos1280x1024=2
YPos1280x1024=506
XPos1366x768=0
YPos1366x768=250
XPos1440x900=0
YPos1440x900=250
XPos1600x900=0
YPos1600x900=250
XPos1280x600=0
YPos1280x600=250
XPos1280x800=23
YPos1280x800=254
XPos1500x850=594
YPos1500x850=476
XPos1860x1040=3
YPos1860x1040=931

[Vocov]

*Update*

The .ini file could be the source of the issue... I had attempted the keybindings to no avail, and loading the default_old ui DID show the hotbuttonwnd, setting the resolution to the max setting did not reveal anything off screen.

For some reason, HotButtonWnd2 doesnt exist in my ini file for default.ini, and 3 and 4 were set to Show = 0. I have changed the 0's to 1 and need to re-enter HotButtonWnd2's information.

Changing the settings of the hotbuttons and/or modifying the position of the windows has yielded no results.

My last option is to try a completely different UI skin.

Thanks for the help, I'll give that a go when time permits.