Editing built in widgets, like "Red Resource Bars"

[Thundathigh]

How would I go about changing colors and size in built in widgets like "Red Resource Bars"?
I see that when I change a position of a bar in game that it is saved to BA.lua in Documents\My Games\Spring\LuaUI\Config, but editing the file itself doesn't cause any updates in game, and the file is overwritten.

I also tried moving the (edited) BA.lua to Program Files (x86)\Spring\LuaUI\Config and Program Files (x86)\Spring\LuaUI\Widgets, but neither places changed anything in the game.

So how can I edit the built in widgets, or where should the updated BA.lua be placed?

[Jools]

Don't edit the ba.lua, it's just a config file.

I think red TM stuff are a bit more complicated than normal widgets, but usually you edit supplied widgets by grabbing a copy from the mod and putting it in spring/luaui/widgets, thereby overriding it with your local version.

I think ba has that widget here: http://imolarpg.dyndns.org/trac/balates ... cebars.lua

[Silentwings]

You can "edit" them locally by having a local copy of the widget file in your /luaui/widgets directory and then editing that. BA will load your local version in preference to the internal one, if it exists.

If you're going to do that - be aware that various widgets/gadgets communicate (especially for UI related stuff) and changing one can break other things.

[Thundathigh]

Thanks Jools, that exactly what I was looking for!

And I'm just changing the alpha level on a couple of things, so it shouldn't break anything haha

Edit: Success

[Jools]

By the way, while we're talking about Red (TM) things: would be nice if someone could optimise them a bit, atm they are very heavy.

I also tried to work a bit on red tooltip, but it's very complicated code for what it does.