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So naturally I think to post this right after Mike's released a patch...

It'd be nice if the speech history box would generate a horizontal scroll bar when a line of dialogue is longer than the width of the box. (See problem in gratuitous attached screenshot.)

Also, a minor bug report while I'm here: the button at the bottom of the dialogue box is empty.
04-26-2007 at 02:27 AM
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While mrimer's on a coding spree, I just wanted to bump this to try to get his attention. :-)
07-28-2007 at 07:33 PM
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Could this also be in the scripting window, or is that already asked for?
07-29-2007 at 08:06 PM
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We don't have a horizontal scroll bar implemented on the ListBoxWidget. If this were implemented, this functionality could be added to any existing list box. But coding UI widgets is much tricker than the layman would think. This could take 5-10 hours of dev time to get right. However, the good news is that adding to the library of general-purpose widget functionality is useful, because they are reuseable across multiple projects.

I have some experience with this stuff, and Gerry coded up the HTML browser and news marquee, so I see he's really good at widget manipulation. Maybe one of us will take a crack at this once 3.1 is released and there's a lull in development. (Ha!)
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Would word wrap in the window be any easier?

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07-30-2007 at 08:09 PM
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Stephen4Louise wrote:
Would word wrap in the window be any easier?

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Yes. That's implemented on the Chat Screen. However, it's not as generally-applicable, so the bang/buck ratio is about the same.
07-30-2007 at 08:30 PM
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I am in fact the layman. Indeed, I wouldn't have expected a scrollbar to be hard: after all, I know exactly what it does! It, you know, scrolls, and it just looks like a horizontal, um, bar. But now I know!
07-31-2007 at 08:56 AM
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Tahnan wrote:
I am in fact the layman. Indeed, I wouldn't have expected a scrollbar to be hard: after all, I know exactly what it does! It, you know, scrolls, and it just looks like a horizontal, um, bar. But now I know!
Unfortunately, unless you're in html (aka the "no games for you" language), you have to reinvent the wheel whenever you want stuff Windows users are used to seeing.
Surprisingly, I think it's easier to make a horizontal scrollbar on a calculator than on the computer. Probably because there's no mouse, and so you can make up an excuse that the arrow keys control the scrollbar.

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I've fixed this issue so long lines of text will wrap in the speech history.
11-01-2007 at 07:21 PM
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