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Increase console message length (Wishlist)
Increase console message length // Wishliststrike rapierMar 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. -- - Mark Randall http://www.temporal-solutions.co.uk "We're Systems and Networks..." "It's our job to know..." equin0xMar 28, 2006, 3:10am
dm mercuryMar 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 [View Quote] |