Increase console message length (Wishlist)

Increase console message length // Wishlist

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strike rapier

Mar 27, 2006, 6:24pm
I would like to see console message length increased to around 280
characters so one complete line of text (+ name and \t:) can be included per
console message. Seems a rather obvious benefit.

Also, console messages taking an array of sessions would be good.

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joeman

Mar 27, 2006, 9:01pm
Not going to happen with the current protocol.

-Joe

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equin0x

Mar 28, 2006, 3:10am
Nothing much at all is going to happen with the current protocol. :)

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dm mercury

Mar 28, 2006, 6:24pm
I'd personally rather aw not automatically format my console messages when a
tab is inserted.

Solution to the character limit:
Just test if the message you are about to send is longer than 100 characters
and if it is break it up and send it in 100 character messages. I made a
DIKU style chat bot which is virtually lag-less coded in VB none the less,
and does that. The chat bot output looks like this when you chat: Soandso
says, "Hello", instead of AW default Soandso:\tHello. It also splits based
on words so that you dont get a word split between lines. And if you think
you are going to outsmart it and make a nice solid 100 letter message like
WWWWWW..., the bot will break it into roughly 100 character segments. Also
includes private/public channels.

Not that this is anything special just pointing out it is a solution I came
up with a while ago, and it could easily be implemented into aw any which
way you want to do chat. Just take a different approach to the problem,
maybe break the message up every 255 characters. Works great if you use the
same or similar function to send information like about an object through
the console when its clicked, because sometimes those messages are well over
280 characters.

DM

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