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OpenXcom => Suggestions => Topic started by: kikimoristan on March 06, 2015, 10:24:10 am

Title: In game mod description instead of "Changing mods will automatically restart....
Post by: kikimoristan on March 06, 2015, 10:24:10 am

I was thinking would be nice to have a really short text description in Mods instead of the text at the bottm

"Changing Mods will automatically restart OpenXCom...."


That notice should appear the moment Mods list is open and when mouse is over a mod the mod's text should appear instead.  If mouse goes over anything else that is not a mod list item then the text goes back to the notice.


the text can be from a hardcoded string STR_MOD_DESCRIPTION in extraStrings

Title: Re: In game mod description instead of "Changing mods will automatically restart....
Post by: hellrazor on March 06, 2015, 01:50:34 pm

Well that would be nice.

Title: Re: In game mod description instead of "Changing mods will automatically restart....
Post by: ivandogovich on March 06, 2015, 05:49:11 pm

I think this idea has a lot of merit.  There should be a character limit, that modders should adhere to keep it to one or two lines.  I don't think a scrolling text box would work, because you wouldn't be able to mouse over to it.

Title: Re: In game mod description instead of "Changing mods will automatically restart....
Post by: kikimoristan on March 06, 2015, 06:36:20 pm

Not a lof of text just a tiny desciption as big as the notice itself. If you place a lot of text maybe is just cut off with ... at the end.

Title: Re: In game mod description instead of "Changing mods will automatically restart....
Post by: kikimoristan on March 07, 2015, 12:52:32 am

actually make it so only the amount of text that fits in the box is  displayed rest is cutoff. 

Title: Re: In game mod description instead of "Changing mods will automatically restart....
Post by: kkmic on March 10, 2015, 10:24:25 am

It's planned. Will be in the game at some point.