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I know this has already been queried, but I just want to know if you will extend the scroll and level description lengths so we can give more description to the levels. I also think the several page scroll that someone suggested is also a good idea.

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07-28-2003 at 11:43 AM
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agaricus5 wrote:
I know this has already been queried, but I just want to know if you will extend the scroll and level description lengths so we can give more description to the levels. I also think the several page scroll that someone suggested is also a good idea.

Pressing space, or enter, or clicking on the message area would cycle through the pages... There could additionally be page forward/back arrows at the bottom of the message area.

Or, if there's a lot of text, instead of confining it to that small text area on the left, there could be a 'display message full screen' button between the arrows, so it would be easier for the player to read. If this were done, there might need to be two versions of a message, so it displays properly formatted in either configuration... (or maybe the small message could be a summary, with the full screen version being the main text) For those in the mood to write a novelette, page forward/back buttons for the full screen message too. Heh.
07-28-2003 at 12:35 PM
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agaricus5 wrote:
I know this has already been queried, but I just want to know if you will extend the scroll and level description lengths so we can give more description to the levels. I also think the several page scroll that someone suggested is also a good idea.
The current limits are imposed to keep your texts from expanding past the bounds of the areas in which they are displayed. Solutions like those Stuart suggests would need to be written before we could remove the limitation. But that is too much new code to introduce this late. Look for it in the next release.

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