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[Grath]

Reading yesterday's devblog...
As long as you're redoing these notices, I'd suggest having the ability to set all notices to, say, 'display' (or whatever 'show/don't show' you're already going to be doing) but also have the options of 'pause', 'center on announcement', and whatever other things already happen on announcements for all of the announcements. So if you felt like it you could have it pause and recenter on dwarves cancelling jobs, or you could have it display the announcement and recenter on hitting warm/damp stone, but not pause. Or display and pause, or center and pause, so on.

[Footkerchief]

It does sound like you'll be able to turn all those things on or off for all of the announcements he's updating.

[Granite26]

I think the point was being able to select Announce-Center-Pause each individually, for each event.  Sometimes you'll want to pause but not center, sometimes center but not pause, sometimes both, sometimes neither.

[Footkerchief]

I think the point was being able to select Announce-Center-Pause each individually, for each event.  Sometimes you'll want to pause but not center, sometimes center but not pause, sometimes both, sometimes neither.

I guess I'm missing something.  How else would it be done?  A fixed list of options like:
a) Do nothing
b) Pause
c) Pause and zoom
d) Pause, zoom, pop up box

I can't imagine he'd do it that way.

[Granite26]

some of the talk looks like it might be a fixed 'do something' or 'don't do anything', with no option of how it gets handled.  That's how I read it, anyway

[Grath]

Yeah, that was the same impression that I got, Granite.
Better to suggest it and have Toady think 'Oh, yeah, that's what I'm doing.  ' than not have it.

[Footkerchief]

Better to suggest it and have Toady think 'Oh, yeah, that's what I'm doing.  ' than not have it.

This is definitely true.