Feature Request: Move Hot bar to top of screen

[NuclearMonkey]

Understanding that a limitation on application access with Unity is preventing FGU from running in full screen mode, please consider moving the hot bar to the top of screen. It's current position is causing multiple delays in my game as when I try to click on the hot bar it ends up conflicting with the task bar on my Windows 10 machine. It's become enough of an annoyance that I decided to write this post. Thanks.

[Zacchaeus]

That would create an awful lot of issues with player portraits and the sidebar menu. In what way is it conflicting with your taskbar? Unity sits above the taskbar for me and there's no conflict that I'm seeing.

[LordEntrails]

Wish List link is in Mr Z's signature. Also know that you can move or hide the Windows task bar.

[NuclearMonkey]

Respectfully, I don't think it would cause an issue with portraits. I use the the better menus extension and that sits above the portraits in the top left corner. Besides, the recent update allows the movement of portraits.

As far as the issue, ever since I moved from classic to unity choosing an item from the hot bar has become an intermittent competition with my taskbar (i.e., the taskbar comes up over the hot bar items). It's gotten to the point of being annoying like a mosquito bite. If there's a technical reason it can't change, I get it. But with the loss of full screen mode, it would definitely be a quality of life improvement.

[NuclearMonkey]

Forgot to mention (the other post reminded me), I was searching for the feature request portal and could only find a link to a closed project. Would you consider adding a sticky to the top of the tavern with the link? Thanks.

[Zacchaeus]

If you right click on your taskbar and select settings you can switch on Lock Taskbar which means that your taskbar will always display and you don't need to then mouse over the bottom of your window to get the taskbar up. You can then position your Unity screen so that it sits above the taskbar. If having the taskbar hidden is important to you then position the Unity window so that it doesn't go all the way to the bottom of the screen. But if none of that helps you for whatever reason then as LE suggests above add it to the wish list.

[NuclearMonkey]

Thanks for the suggestions (and the sticky!)

[deer_buster]

I think the feature request should be "Allow users to move the hotbar" (can we not?), not just blanket move it for everyone.

[DMDad]

I have grown comfortable with the hot bar at the bottom. If anything a feature to allow players to position their hotbar where they choose.

[superteddy57]

I think the feature request should be "Allow users to move the hotbar" (can we not?), not just blanket move it for everyone.

The hotbar is not on the ruleset layer of code and is not accessible with the front end codebase.

[stephan_]

If you can at least see the hotbar, also remember that you can use the function keys to activate the various slots.

[spoonhead]

I’m on a Mac, and I have noticed that accessing the hot bar sometimes doesn’t work straight away without moving the mouse slightly to change the pointer to a hand. It’s as if the area to click has reduced.

[damned]

You can also drag your Windows system bar to the right while playing FG and it will stop fighting for attention when your mouse is at the bottom of the screen. The issue will move to the RHS but most of those buttons are much wider so might impact it less.