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Focus View

Alexandru Macocian edited this page 2026-06-29 22:27:23 +02:00

Table of Contents

• Focus View
• Intro
• Enabling Focus View
• Switching characters
• Load the current build / party loadout into Daybreak
• Context hyperlinks
• Layout edit mode
• Enter edit mode
• Exit edit mode
• Manage layout
• Comparison to GWToolboxpp

Focus View

Intro

Focus View is a feature of Daybreak that replaces the Game Companion view when Guild Wars is running

Focus View collects information about the current running Guild Wars instance and displays it to the user

Please see Comparison to GwToolboxpp for a comparison between the two tools

Enabling Focus View

1. Open the Mods view
2. Enable the Daybreak API mod

Switching characters

1. Click on the down arrow to show a list of available characters for your current account
   
2. Click on the name of the character you want to switch to

Load the current build / party loadout into Daybreak

1. Click on the single / multiple icon to load your current build / party loadout into Daybreak
   
2. Edit the build following these steps

Context hyperlinks

• Click on the Title Track to redirect the embedded browser to the wiki page of the Title Track
• Click on the current map name to redirect the embedded browser to the wiki page of the current map
• Click on the current quest to redirect the embedded browser to the wiki page of the current quest
• Click on any quest in the Quest Log to redirect the embedded browser to the wiki page of the quest

Layout edit mode

Enter edit mode

1. Click on the edit layout button in the titlebar to enter edit mode.

Exit edit mode

1. Click on the save or undo layout buttons in the titlebar to exit edit mode.

Manage layout

• Drag around components to place them in the Focus View grid.
• Click on the x button on the top right of each component to dismiss them from the view.
• Click on the + button in the titlebar to re-add a dismissed component to the view.
• Click and drag the bottom right border to resize the components in the grid.

Comparison to GWToolboxpp

Focus View is not meant as a replacement to GWToolboxpp. Instead, it provides some functionality QOL functionality that is meant to compliment GWToolboxpp.

Daybreak injects a module into Guild Wars only when Focus View is enabled. This module exposes a REST+WebSocket API that Focus View uses to extract information from the running Guild Wars instance. Similarly, GWToolbox injects its own module into Guild Wars to provide its functionality.

Focus View currently runs exclusively in read mode. That means, it won't facilitate the automation of any action on the running guild wars process. Any information extracted from guild wars can only be displayed to the user, but it can't be changed.