Re: [glob2-devel] Strings that don't fit on screen

[Fernando J. Rodríguez (Herr Groucho)]

El Dom 08 Ene 2006 15:13, Stéphane Magnenat escribió:
> > Come to think of it, their are plenty of wstrings that don't fit
> > in within the screen and roll offf the edge (in english). I'll
> > try to get a screenshot, the text needs to be shrunk or wrapped.
>
> Yes I know, we have to fix them for 1.0. Nevertheless that's the
> type of work that doesn't require C++ knowledge and thus can fit
> non-coder contributors.

I can do it for English too, as I mostly did for Spanish and 
Portuguese because I'm now quite familiar with the strings used in 
the game.

Nevertheless, there are some hopeless cases such as:
Free/hungry/starving/wounded (en)
Bien/hambriento/famélico/herido (es)
Bem/faminto/morrendo de fome/ferido (pt)

("Bien"/"Bem" meaning "Ok", as opposed to hungry/starving/wounded 
which are cases of not being ok). This - I think- describes better 
the state of the units, from the player point of view at least.

I put them like this:
Bien/hambr./famél./herido (es)
Bem/famint./morrendo/ferido (pt)

and still it doesn't fit completely, but at least the last word can be 
partially seen.

Maybe a different layout could be used. Perhaps a two-column list of 
colored square bullets would work?

[] Ok       [] Wounded
[] Hungry   [] Starving
(The graph here)

Just let me know if you would like me to try to improve the 
readability of the English texts.

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