Message Separator widget

LordMatt · Post by **LordMatt** » 10 Feb 2007, 20:35

ONOES, now the player message box doesn't work right at all. Nothing affects it.

Edit: Weird, now it works okay.

LOrDo · Post by **LOrDo** » 10 Feb 2007, 23:18

For some reason I cant see the system message box. I think I resized it to somthing broken. Is there a way I can reset the data for this widget?

Post by **Kloot** » 11 Feb 2007, 00:02

The widget saves its data in LuaUI/Config/widget_data.lua, removing all lines that start with "systemMsgBox" from that file will force a reset.

Post by **Kloot** » 11 Feb 2007, 22:46

version 2.0 (link outdated, see first post)

Changelog:

* player message history is now scrollable (toggle with ctrl+m, then use ctrl+comma and ctrl+period to scroll up and down, respectively)

Beware that when exiting scrollable mode, ALL messages stored in the buffer up to that point will be erased, so I would recommend enabling it once at the start of a game and then leave the widget in that mode (this setting is meant to be more or less permanent anyway).

LordMatt · Post by **LordMatt** » 11 Feb 2007, 23:36

Works good!

LOrDo · Post by **LOrDo** » 12 Feb 2007, 03:15

-- control + s: switch message-box rendering mode
-- control + p: switch text overflow handling mode
-- control + g: enable/disable message-box dragging
-- control + e: enable/disable message-box resizing
-- control + f: enable/disable message filtering
-- control + o: enable/disable message outlining
-- control + y: enable/disable font outlining
-- control + m: enable/disable scrollable message history
-- control + ,: scroll up message history
-- control + .: scroll down message history
-- control + [: decrease message-box text font-size
-- control + ]: increase message-box text font-size

Current hotkey review for this, found this in the LUA file, so might as well share it so you dont have to go through the entire topic for commands.

ZellSF · Post by **ZellSF** » 12 Feb 2007, 03:55

Ah, latest version of this is just awesome, pity LuaUI and hosting games don't go well right now.

LOrDo · Post by **LOrDo** » 12 Feb 2007, 05:02

Another bug, the outline feature won't work for me. Is there any special thing I have to do besides press ctrl-o?

ZellSF · Post by **ZellSF** » 12 Feb 2007, 05:25

ctrl-y?

If not, remove the widget data and try again?

chlue · Post by **chlue** » 12 Feb 2007, 11:32

-- control + s: switch message-box rendering mode
-- control + p: switch text overflow handling mode
-- control + g: enable/disable message-box dragging
-- control + e: enable/disable message-box resizing
-- control + f: enable/disable message filtering
-- control + o: enable/disable message outlining
-- control + y: enable/disable font outlining
-- control + m: enable/disable scrollable message history
-- control + ,: scroll up message history
-- control + .: scroll down message history
-- control + [: decrease message-box text font-size
-- control + ]: increase message-box text font-size

You assimilated half of the keyboard

Would you consider adding a command to enable editmode, so that you cannot accidentally change the settings in the heat of a fight. It would be nice, if you use CTRL+F11, which is already used by the included widgets.

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 12 Feb 2007, 11:47

perhaps a bar with icons that can show/hide when you hover over them? so we can change the options without using the keys?

NOiZE · Post by **NOiZE** » 13 Feb 2007, 21:48

I wish we could disable the shortcut keys with one other key/ command

Post by **trepan** » 13 Feb 2007, 21:57

They should probably be changed to use key bindings.
The Spring.GetKeySymbol() and Spring.GetKeyBindings()
calls are available. I may pass the key binding string tables
into key press and key release widget events in a future
version to simply using key bindings.

P.S. Might also go with an ordered binding registry approach.

Post by **Kloot** » 13 Feb 2007, 22:40

Actually, my current plan is to eliminate the keyboard shortcuts altogether (save those for manipulating font size and scrolling) and replace them with a bar listening to ctrl+F11 of clickable icons, but an ETA for that I don't have. I'll add a 'master' shortcut to lock/unlock all the other keys until then.

edit: done (master shortcut is ctrl+backslash)

NOiZE · Post by **NOiZE** » 14 Feb 2007, 19:00

Also long messages are being cut-off.

ZellSF · Post by **ZellSF** » 15 Feb 2007, 06:50

Read the list over hotkeys again.

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 15 Feb 2007, 08:22

I am not sure if it is in the current version but when I give away my units this widget goes nuts.. you may want to look into it.

Post by **Kloot** » 15 Feb 2007, 19:02

I cannot reproduce any such behavior, could you describe the bug in more detail? (eg. if it happens with AI's as well or only with human opponents, what exactly 'go nuts' means in terms of concrete error messages

, etc)

chlue · Post by **chlue** » 16 Feb 2007, 15:26

I am not sure if it is the fault of your widget or a problem with the lua implementation, but everytime when the game crashes, before it really begann. (Different map than the server, crash when ai initialise), i lost my config of your widget (the data that is stored in 'widget_data.lua'). I 'solved' this by making a kopie of this file and restore it, everytime this happens.

Additionall is changed the following lines in your widged (in my version line 612-631):
DELAY_BEFORE_CLEAR = 1200
MAX_ALPHA = 0.5
PLAYER_BOX_FILL_COLOR = {0.44, 0.44, 0.44, PLAYER_BOX_ALPHA}
SYSTEM_BOX_FILL_COLOR = {0.44, 0.44, 0.44, SYSTEM_BOX_ALPHA}
PLAYER_TEXT_OUTLINE_COLOR = {0.44, 0.44, 0.44, 1.0}

Maybee you could rearange this information to the top of the file or store them in widget_data, too.

NOiZE · Post by **NOiZE** » 20 Feb 2007, 19:26

Sometimes all the lines suddenly disappear. Also long lines which are being wrapped get cutt off.

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Message Separator widget