Nice, I'll probably stick it in the LNP now .
There are still some issues: the overlay is much improved, but persists in ways that the vanilla ticker doesn't - eg in the stocks screen, units, and so on, even the start menu where there should be nothing. The offset is still a little off when windowed, but this is a minor quibble at best. It hides Falconne's dwarf monitor happiness stats on the bottom right - an option to unhide this, or just deactivate the combat half would be nice.
- I can't do anything about the persisting
It's really just a dumb overlay, it doesn't know anything about the Dwarf fortress window underneath it other than it's size and position.
- Offset can be tweaked in the settings (and your tweaks will be saved). Hit the spanner and then change the value in
Tweak Rel PosY until you are happy with the result. (unfortunately currently you have to apply the settings changes so the monitor reloads to view this change) Perhaps I need to make the process of this simpler...
- There is no longer a combat half to the monitor, you can have as many or as few mini monitors as you want (more than three is just silly unless you have a big monitor though). This is done in the settings on the Filter Categories tab (
Untick Mini mon? for the categories you don't want to show).
- To see the happiness stats simply change the program width in the settings
(Tweak Rel Width). I suppose I could change the program to resize the mini monitor window to only use whatever width it needs at any one time... Personally I like it LONG so I can read longer messages. (Something the native one doesn't handle.
Any changes you make to the settings are persisted in current.xml. Feel free to setup the ones you'd like as standard and then save the settings over the default.xml file. These would then be one the ones seen by anyone using it for the first time through LNP.... This also allows you to bypass the initial directory prompt for them, as long as you run the program once after putting it in the bundle location.
Thanks for the feedback