in-scenario messages- I miss half of them

[Crow_T]

I always do this, I click through messages accidentally if a character says something during a scenario. Is there any way for important messages to have an OK button (something I normally despise) in the text field so that a click in the battlefield does not bypass it quickly? Or some other method of delaying accidental click-thoughs, or a method of flagging important text.

[Paulomat4]

well, you can always create the per wml by creating an option, which does nothing, but generally i agree with you. It would be nice to have such a thing

[Chief_Chasso]

Maybe this could be a preference option... but (imo) the default should be as is- just click or space to get past the dialog box.

[Crow_T]

I agree that this would best be a preference to allow flagged/important dialogue, as having to click at dialogue boxes is in actuality really crappy design- I bring this up because many times in the middle of a turn I blow through what could be important hints just on reflex. Maybe just a way for campaign creators to have certain important dialogues double click through instead of single click?

[iceiceice]

Maybe can make an option to log the dialogue to chat or something so you can look at history if you blow through it.

[Iris]

There used to be a small window of time during which clicks on the message box would be ignored back when it used the GUI1 framework. Since this was silently dropped by the GUI2 conversion in 1.5.x, it qualifies as a regression.

IIRC this fact isn’t even unknown to the development team. I also feel I have discussed this with people in the forums before, hm.

[wolkenwand]

how about a reverse dialogue button? there is a gba game (super robot taisen) that allow the player to reverse back the dialogue by pressing the L button, so the player can re-read some previous dialogue in that scene. i dont know though is this feature implementable in this game.

[gnombat]

IIRC this fact isn’t even unknown to the development team. I also feel I have discussed this with people in the forums before, hm.

http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=36015

[pauxlo]

I think a dialog log similar to the chat log would be the best solution to this problem.

Other than if you want to make the game about "memorize the important hints" (in some campaign you have to select a password which was previously given by dialogue).

[SFault]

The dialogue log would be great! Too often I'm eager to move the next unit and I accidentally dismiss message launched by MoveTo-event. And those messages usually contain very important information.

Other than if you want to make the game about "memorize the important hints" (in some campaign you have to select a password which was previously given by dialogue).

If someone wants to cheat on campaigns there are several ways to do it, so I don't see this as a big problem especially compared to the benefits the log would give.

[Crow_T]

I think just bringing back the original delay would suffice, it'd give you some time to catch the fact that a message has appeared. I don't think many scenarios are complex enough to require logging.

How about a back button for conversations as well? I seem to feel the first message gets skipped in the same manner

[doofus-01]

I don't think many scenarios are complex enough to require logging.

But "build it and they will come."