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OpenXcom => Suggestions => Topic started by: MKSheppard on April 22, 2014, 01:01:46 am

Title: Suggestion for the new MODS screen
Post by: MKSheppard on April 22, 2014, 01:01:46 am

May I suggest that if the MOD button is pushed down, but no mod is highlighted, it should say:

"changing mods will automatically restart OXCOM..."

but when you highlight a Mod in the list; it brings up a 2 sentence description of that mod?

Or maybe right clicking on a highlighted mod causes a pop up description window?

Title: Re: Suggestion for the new MODS screen
Post by: moriarty on April 22, 2014, 01:41:04 am

Quote from: MKSheppard on April 22, 2014, 01:01:46 am

but when you highlight a Mod in the list; it brings up a 2 sentence description of that mod?

Or maybe right clicking on a highlighted mod causes a pop up description window?

very good idea. every .rul file should contain a "short description" (display limited to 140 characters) and "description" passage for this. version information and general description. that would help a lot for those of us who have lots of mods in the folders and can't remember which is which :)

(of course, to stay backwards-compatible, the game should display "not available" in case those passages aren't there in the .rul file)

Title: Re: Suggestion for the new MODS screen
Post by: Solarius Scorch on April 22, 2014, 01:44:14 am

Great idea!

Short descriptions are needed anyway for the modsite; we can use the same text.

Title: Re: Suggestion for the new MODS screen
Post by: SupSuper on April 22, 2014, 05:09:14 am

Mod metadata will come later. Not now.