How to get rid of those annoying buttons!

Hengis

Hengis

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2006

London

Better Than Life (BTL)

R/

If you, like me, have managed to drag small quick launch buttons off of the Guild Wars menu and onto the main play area, here is how to get rid of them.

Simply left click the button and drag and drop it back onto the menu button and it will disappear!

It took me months to work this out and was rather delighted when I found the solution. I had a collection of about nine of them on my desktop before I finally worked out how to remove them!

Silent Kitty

Silent Kitty

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2006

Netherlands

[TYW] "The Young World"

A/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Hengis Stone
If you, like me, have managed to drag small quick launch buttons off of the Guild Wars menu and onto the main play area, here is how to get rid of them.

Simply left click the button and drag and drop it back onto the menu button and it will disappear!

It took me months to work this out and was rather delighted when I found the solution. I had a collection of about nine of them on my desktop before I finally worked out how to remove them!
Haha, this is the funniest post I've ever read on this forum. So you managed to drag them out, but did find out how to drag them back?

I bow my head for your honesty. Finally someone who's not 1337 here.

blaise

blaise

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2006

Holland

FeS

E/Me

i'm glad ive found out myself in 10sec.

Hengis

Hengis

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2006

London

Better Than Life (BTL)

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Silent Kitty
Haha, this is the funniest post I've ever read on this forum. So you managed to drag them out, but did find out how to drag them back?

I bow my head for your honesty. Finally someone who's not 1337 here.
Would you believe I do IT Tech Support for a living?.. Windows NT4/2000/XP or Novell Servers I can handle.. but annoying buttons! LOL

I admit it.. it foxed me for ages LOL

Silent Kitty

Silent Kitty

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2006

Netherlands

[TYW] "The Young World"

A/Me

To be honest, it took me 5 months to find out that I could place them anywhere on my screen

disarm76

disarm76

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

Portugal

It took me 1 year to find I could see the inviting party's members by hovering the mouse over it...

Ray

Ray

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Denmark

Just found out about this, this morning I was stoked.

silv3rr

silv3rr

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2006

xD I didn't even know you can drag stuff onto your screen... dammit I just noticed I can select which district to "Map-Warp" to until Factions came out :P

Jetdoc

Jetdoc

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Jul 2005

The Eyes of Texas [BEVO]

D/A

I had no idea you could do this! I've been trying to get my map travel icon off of my screen for a while now...

BladeDVD

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2006

Hawaii

Clan Of Elders

N/

If you really want to mess yourself up, go into the Options menu and edit your screen layout. You can change where the compass is, your health and energy and skill bars, where the game dialogs pop up, just about everything.

Fun stuff.

Slainster

Slainster

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2006

the first time this happened to me, I was like wtf??!? luckily it didnt take to long to figure out how to fix

linh

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

Mo/

Took me 6 months to know about this feature ( drag icon out to the screen) and 20 secs to decide not to use any small icon on the screen. Hotkey ftw

Skids

Skids

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2006

UK FTW

R/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by BladeDVD
If you really want to mess yourself up, go into the Options menu and edit your screen layout. You can change where the compass is, your health and energy and skill bars, where the game dialogs pop up, just about everything.

Fun stuff.
Yeah I did that as well as put other boxes where I thought they'd be good.......and now I cant figure out how to reset them

Lyonette

Lyonette

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2006

Australia

[PiG]

E/

i just figured out yesterday that i could zoom in an out on my U map... lol

Dark Dragon

Dark Dragon

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2006

RTD

E/

some very useful stuff in this thread

didn't know half of that stuff

XvArchonvX

XvArchonvX

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Lyonette
i just figured out yesterday that i could zoom in an out on my U map... lol
That's still a relatively new option that came with an update a couple months back I believe.

Ozric

Ozric

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2005

Texas

Phoolz Like Us

E/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by disarm76
It took me 1 year to find I could see the inviting party's members by hovering the mouse over it...
Hadn't had my coffee yet,....what's this one about again?

Surkon

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2006

South Texas

Anubis Empire

R/W

Thanks Ladies and Gentlemen

I also am an IT Tech and I got the Logout button on my screen and could not get it off until I read this post.

What does a logout button got to do with a Network Hmmmmm.

Thanks again

Surkon

TalonTheCat

TalonTheCat

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

USA

Black Cat Guild

Mo/

My aha - was someone telling me how to drag something out of a trade window if you accidently put it there or the person only ones 1 of the items.

Double click the item in your trade window
-or-
click and drag to the main play window

Splatter Mcnasty

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

Utah

W/Mo

I'm not sure if everyone knows this, but certain Windows functions work in-game as well, such as copy and paste. When you see somebody advertising for a group, but you dont see their character to click on and invite, simply click their name in the chat log, then highlight their name in the whisper field, hold down CTRL + C, then click in the party invite field and hit CTRL + V to paste their name in.

This makes inviting people you cant actually see SO much easier than typing in the name manually.

BladeDVD

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2006

Hawaii

Clan Of Elders

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Skids
Yeah I did that as well as put other boxes where I thought they'd be good.......and now I cant figure out how to reset them
There's a restore to default settings button next to the customize layout button if I remember correctly.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Splatter Mcnasty
I'm not sure if everyone knows this, but certain Windows functions work in-game as well, such as copy and paste. When you see somebody advertising for a group, but you dont see their character to click on and invite, simply click their name in the chat log, then highlight their name in the whisper field, hold down CTRL + C, then click in the party invite field and hit CTRL + V to paste their name in.

This makes inviting people you cant actually see SO much easier than typing in the name manually.
Thanks for that. That will be a big help!

Skids

Skids

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2006

UK FTW

R/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by BladeDVD
There's a restore to default settings button next to the customize layout button if I remember correctly.
Nope. The button marked "Default" seems to make the current set up the default. It was the first thing I tried lol.

Li Tian

Li Tian

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2006

Hero

E/R

alot to be said for reading the manual first, i think alot of people dont realise what shortcuts there are, playing for over a year and only recently found out the f12 log off short cut...

always wondered how traders put icons in their text...is it a particular font or is there a method too it?

Seef II

Seef II

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

US

R/Mo

Copy paste, or at the merchant, highlight the item you want to sell and at the bottom of the merchant window, there you go.

saphir

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

doa

Mo/

you can drag shortcuts to the play window? i never knew that, lol, gotta try it when i got home! i've always used shortcuts and never looked back

Age

Age

Hall Hero

Join Date: Jul 2005

California Canada/BC

STG Administrator

Mo/

I use slide them to the bottom of my monitor and that did away with them when I shut it down for the night.

disarm76

disarm76

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

Portugal

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozric
Hadn't had my coffee yet,....what's this one about again?