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Nyssah
RONA Corporation RONA Directorate
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Posted - 2011.12.09 00:09:00 -
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Hey,
MOTD = Message of the day (For people that don't know)
A MOTD should never clip off the end of a chat windows message queue, they should move up to the end of a chat queue and stay after the last message that gets clipped off the end of the queue each time. So that they can always be found easily, this can become a issue when you have many different channels that move really fast and sometimes missing MOTD's can cause a lot of confusion. Always having them easily accessible without leaving a channel/fleet and rejoining just to see the messages again.
A crude depiction of how it should look
*--------------------------------------------* |..................[-=MOTD=-]..................| |........[Last line of chat Queue].......| |.........................................................| |...........................^............................| |...........................|.............................| |...........................| Chat text queue.| |...........................|.............................| |...........................|.............................| |.........................................................| |.........[Start of chat Queue].............| *---------------------------------------------*
Would be very helpful!
Cheers!
- Nys |
DooDoo Gum
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2011.12.09 20:25:00 -
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i have often thought this would be useful, but was imagining something more like a right click menu that could reprint he MOTD by way of a popup text box or inside the chat window, just on your local machine |
Nyssah
RONA Corporation RONA Directorate
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Posted - 2011.12.09 20:27:00 -
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DooDoo Gum wrote:i have often thought this would be useful, but was imagining something more like a right click menu that could reprint he MOTD by way of a popup text box or inside the chat window, just on your local machine
Yea I was thinking the same thing, or even hovering mouse of the "Tab" for that chat and having the MOTD pop up. BUt this way is simple and easy, no matter how much lines of chat there are in a window, MOTD should always be at the top, seems simple and efficient enough. |
mxzf
Shovel Bros
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Posted - 2011.12.09 20:29:00 -
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Once I tried typing in '/motd' into a chat channel too, it didn't do what I was hoping it would, lol.
Supported, in some form, it would be nice to be able to recover the MoTD without leaving+rejoining the channel. |
Danika Princip
Freelance Economics Astrological resources Tactical Narcotics Team
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Posted - 2011.12.10 00:20:00 -
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Nyssah wrote:DooDoo Gum wrote:i have often thought this would be useful, but was imagining something more like a right click menu that could reprint he MOTD by way of a popup text box or inside the chat window, just on your local machine Yea I was thinking the same thing, or even hovering mouse of the "Tab" for that chat and having the MOTD pop up. BUt this way is simple and easy, no matter how much lines of chat there are in a window, MOTD should always be at the top, seems simple and efficient enough.
And...what happens when my chat windows are rezised to be small enough that the MOTD doesn't actually fit in them? Entirely possible if it's a long note. |
DooDoo Gum
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2011.12.10 00:44:00 -
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Danika Princip wrote:Nyssah wrote:DooDoo Gum wrote:i have often thought this would be useful, but was imagining something more like a right click menu that could reprint he MOTD by way of a popup text box or inside the chat window, just on your local machine Yea I was thinking the same thing, or even hovering mouse of the "Tab" for that chat and having the MOTD pop up. BUt this way is simple and easy, no matter how much lines of chat there are in a window, MOTD should always be at the top, seems simple and efficient enough. And...what happens when my chat windows are rezised to be small enough that the MOTD doesn't actually fit in them? Entirely possible if it's a long note.
Which is why my alternate suggestion was for a separate popup window... this feature has many ways it could be succesfully implemented |
Nyssah
RONA Corporation RONA Directorate
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Posted - 2011.12.10 04:05:00 -
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Danika Princip wrote:Nyssah wrote:DooDoo Gum wrote:i have often thought this would be useful, but was imagining something more like a right click menu that could reprint he MOTD by way of a popup text box or inside the chat window, just on your local machine Yea I was thinking the same thing, or even hovering mouse of the "Tab" for that chat and having the MOTD pop up. BUt this way is simple and easy, no matter how much lines of chat there are in a window, MOTD should always be at the top, seems simple and efficient enough. And...what happens when my chat windows are rezised to be small enough that the MOTD doesn't actually fit in them? Entirely possible if it's a long note.
I don't think you understand the concept. There is a chat queue, that is how the chat system works. The MOTD will go after the end of the chat queue. Meaning how ever long or short the chat queue is, even is chat messages are being clipped off the top, the MOTD will stay at the very top of the chat box. I don't think you even know what it is you are trying to say. |
Danika Princip
Freelance Economics Astrological resources Tactical Narcotics Team
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Posted - 2011.12.10 10:36:00 -
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Nyssah wrote:Danika Princip wrote:Nyssah wrote:DooDoo Gum wrote:i have often thought this would be useful, but was imagining something more like a right click menu that could reprint he MOTD by way of a popup text box or inside the chat window, just on your local machine Yea I was thinking the same thing, or even hovering mouse of the "Tab" for that chat and having the MOTD pop up. BUt this way is simple and easy, no matter how much lines of chat there are in a window, MOTD should always be at the top, seems simple and efficient enough. And...what happens when my chat windows are rezised to be small enough that the MOTD doesn't actually fit in them? Entirely possible if it's a long note. I don't think you understand the concept. There is a chat queue, that is how the chat system works. The MOTD will go after the end of the chat queue. Meaning how ever long or short the chat queue is, even is chat messages are being clipped off the top, the MOTD will stay at the very top of the chat box. I don't think you even know what it is you are trying to say.
How can the MOTD stay at the top of a window too small to display it? |
Nyssah
RONA Corporation RONA Directorate
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Posted - 2011.12.10 11:06:00 -
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Danika Princip wrote:Nyssah wrote:[quote=Danika Princip][quote=Nyssah][quote=DooDoo Gum]i have often thought this would be useful, but was imagining something more like a right click menu that could reprint he MOTD by way of a popup text box or inside the chat window, just on your local machine [CLIP] How can the MOTD stay at the top of a window too small to display it?
Umm the MOTD will do what it does now... clip down into more lines and make the chat window have a scroll bar? Are you ******** or something? |
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