Chat text visibility.

[Woodwizzle]

I think the chat text should have the same alpha transparent background that tool tip text gets. The reason being it is very hard to read the white text sometimes against light backgrounds, especially in the day.

[soroh]

I agree with this 100%.

Also, a message history would be nice as well.

[Dave]

I think the chat text should have the same alpha transparent background that tool tip text gets.

This has been implemented.

David

[soroh]

(not to sound rude) And what about a message history?

[Dave]

(not to sound rude) And what about a message history?

Sorry, didn't mean to miss answering you in my first post.

This might happen, but is kinda annoying to implement.

David

[soroh]

Just to satisfy my own curiousity, what would be wrong with merely keeping a message log in ~/.wesnoth, just pipe all messages received into it.. and you can erase it on a new game. (er, ~/.wesnoth for me anyways :p)

[turin]

its ~/.wesnoth for most unix users, AfAIK. anyway, there is a wesnoth saves folder/directory for every system, i think, so it should work.

however, im not sure its a great idea, since it could take up too much space (though i doubt it, its just text). it could, of course, be kept in the autosave file itself.

[Dave]

Just to satisfy my own curiousity, what would be wrong with merely keeping a message log in ~/.wesnoth, just pipe all messages received into it.. and you can erase it on a new game. (er, ~/.wesnoth for me anyways :p)

There'd be nothing wrong with this, and can be done if I can't come up with a better solution...

David

[Darth Fool]

Just to satisfy my own curiousity, what would be wrong with merely keeping a message log in ~/.wesnoth, just pipe all messages received into it.. and you can erase it on a new game. (er, ~/.wesnoth for me anyways :p)

There'd be nothing wrong with this, and can be done if I can't come up with a better solution...

David

speaking as one who hasn't yet played the multiplayer version, it might be amusing to save the chat messages as part of the save game so a replay would reveal in the game the chat messages....

[Dave]

speaking as one who hasn't yet played the multiplayer version, it might be amusing to save the chat messages as part of the save game so a replay would reveal in the game the chat messages....

It already works like this.

[Sangel]

Is there any way to change your name in multiplayer? Sure, "jamesbarton" is my system name, but it's not exactly an exciting net moniker. (I'm aware that you can change your leader's name in-game, but this isn't what I mean)

[Dave]

Is there any way to change your name in multiplayer? Sure, "jamesbarton" is my system name, but it's not exactly an exciting net moniker.

When you log into a server it will ask you what name to use.

If you're doing a direct serverless connection, you won't get asked this, although if you've ever connected to a server, it will use the name you used then.

David

[Sangel]

Ah, excellent. Thanks.