Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[aha]

Lots of room in the bottom of DF window. Could we please have 10 line scrolling buffer there instead of one-line right now that is shared with status bar?
I'll immediately donate $100 when it's released  :cool:

[Capntastic]

You should donate the cash for the sake of donating, since I don't think Toady cares if you hold donations hostage.

Personally, I'm not quite sure what you're asking for.   Please elaborate a bit?  Maybe draw an MSpaint?

[aha]

You get all these messages in the bottom of the window. If there would be a scrollable buffer then it would be very useful an you wouldn't have to press 'a' all the time to review the announcements.

[aha]

Sofware bounties are quite common in open-source world and I can't see why it shouldn't apply to closed-source stuff.
LQWiki - Software bounty

[umiman]

Wouldn't manually scrolling through lines of text be more time consuming than just pressing "a"?

There is something like that in adventurer mode though, but every time the messages exceed... five? It gets extremely annoying since it covers a good deal of screen real estate.

[Yourself]

quote:It gets extremely annoying since it covers a good deal of screen real estate.

That wouldn't be a problem if the window size was increased vertically.  There's already a lot of unused space in the vertical direction.

[aha]

quote:Originally posted by umiman:
<STRONG>Wouldn't manually scrolling through lines of text be more time consuming than just pressing "a"?

There is something like that in adventurer mode though, but every time the messages exceed... five? It gets extremely annoying since it covers a good deal of screen real estate.</STRONG>

you wouldn't need to scroll or press anythinh if you have more than one line. "a" key could alternatively launch the message window full-screen.

[Draco18s]

quote:Originally posted by umiman:
<STRONG>Wouldn't manually scrolling through lines of text be more time consuming than just pressing "a"?</STRONG>

Do you know what scrolling means?  A new message pops up at the bottom and PUSHES THE TOP ONE OFF!  You know, like IM windows.  Those scroll don't they?  You know, manually?

[umiman]

What's with all the hostility? =/

Granted, I might have misread the OP's intentions (even though you guys completely misread mine) but I still think it's rather redundant to have several lines of text jarring your view at the bottom (which currently does take up screen real estate) when a simple keypress solves all problems.

I don't know about you, but a huge number of announcements are entirely ignorable:

"Dwarf X cancels job: item misplaced or destroyed"

And even if you created specific window space just for announcements, what's going to happen when there aren't any? A big empty space? Space with words that you don't really want to be distracted by?

code:

-------------------------
x
x
x
Actual game space
x
x
-------------------------
text
text
text
text
text
text
text
text
-------------------------

Like that? Then what about the people who prefer to use smaller windows to multitask while playing? They don't want to have to have that extra 300 pixels taking up space.

If Toady wants to implement this to get $100, well, there's no problem. Just that there has to be a way to either disable it or go back the way it was for the minimalist and the ones who don't care about every minutae of their dwarves' lives.

EDIT: oh, and Draco. There's a difference between "scrolling" and "scrollable". The OP wanted a SCROLLABLE message bar at the bottom, to which I responded: "Why would you want to SCROLL THROUGH messages when you can just press "a"?" Read it up.

[ January 31, 2008: Message edited by: umiman ]

[aha]

Who cares about screen real-estate anyway? Hook up another monitor or three

[penguinofhonor]

.