VCMI 0.72b - development version

Zamolxis · July 14, 2009, 4:49pm

Please see the map attached below, to reproduce the following issues.

#11 Event message windows still don’t support large texts correctly (but I can see it has been improved considerably).

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The solutions would be smaller fonts and/or scroll bar, as described in detail in the 0.71b thread:

Zamolxis:

0.71b#57 Not really a bug, but more an observation: I know the VCMI fonts are different – no issue here – but what I notice by comparing them with the H3 message boxes, is that they seem bolded (or a size bigger?). That’s ok for short Event messages, however for long messages (those not fitting in the standard maximum size box) I’d rather have them seem a smaller rather than bigger as compared to H3.

To reduce the chance that a large message doesn’t fit, as well as the need of scrolling too much, maybe we can have something like:

Reduce font with 1 size as of 640 message characters (approximate length which seems to still fit w/o scrollbar in H3)

And maybe even reduce font with 2 sizes as of 1280 message characters

0.71b#58 **Scrollbar **support for Event message boxes. Even if we implement bigger boxes and/or adjust the fonts, VCMI should of course still be ready to support “too-long-for-most-players-to-read” Event messages.

Scrollbar full functionality should be:

only when the message is too long to fit in the maximum size message box

support for Up/Down arrows (scroll per row)

support for Page Up/Down (scroll per page)

NEW: support for mouse scroll (this was missing in H3, while I guess most players would prefer it over any other hotkey)

NEW: maybe also support for Home/End buttons (scroll to start/end of message) – though this is not so important

#12 The Event messages in the attached map are set to appear daily, however we only get them in the 1st day.

#13 The layout of the message when picking up Santinel’s Shield seems a bit strange. Not really a bug - I’m not sure if it’s maybe not meant as a feature, to have at least 5 rows filled, otherwise I don’t see why either “hiss,” could not fit on the 3rd row, or else why 2nd row doesn’t end at “When”.

#14 This is however more of a bug than the previous: the text we get when picking up Titan’s Cuirass contains double quotations. It’s possible this may impact all similar message windows, when the text contains a quote.

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