Interesting fact:
Making plugins compatible with VS isn't that hard when you have some experience in plugin development in general. Other plugin devs often use the code obfuscation as an excuse when they are not experienced enough or just too lazy.
That's interesting to note. I'll keep it in mind. I am highly grateful for your assistance. I did manage to get your updated code installed for everything yesterday and it all worked great! My fancy gauges from their plugin are now all working together great. I'll shoot you over a screen shot of my item menu being small text in battle later when I have a chance. Unfortunately only get so much time to work on the game.