Re: [glob2-devel] Message history

[Stéphane Magnenat]

On Tuesday 08 February 2005 02.12, Hein-Pieter van Braam wrote:
> I've implemented your suggestion about the normal texts, and I made it
> auto-update now.
>
> I didn't change the maximum length of the history as I feel it doesn't
> really matter, and, an attack can easily make 10+ messages, which might
> make you loose something you did want to see.
>
> another solution would be to split chat and game messages.
>
> I didn't make the history larger, because I wanted it to be possible to
> play they game with the history constantly open, that's why you can click
> through it now too, a solution might be to make the whole thing alpha blend
> into the game screen or something.
>
> I hope you'll like it, please let me know if you disagree, I'll follow your
> suggestions if you disagree with me.

I've tested it for a while. It is very good as it is now, we can always do 
change anything later if players want it. I'm just a bit worried about the 
maximum history length, because if there is thousands of entries it is just 
humanly impossible to scroll. So perhaps we should limit the history to 100 
or 200 entries. But we can do it later if we feel it is required.

Thanks a lot,

Steph