Interface: Resizable Messages window
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 9:08 pm
At the moment when I come back to a lot of messages, the message window can be very small - which can make reading them a pain.
I can miss out on player interactions (or game interactions like my pets killing things) very easily, and while going to Display Message Log is possible, I'd rather just read it on log-in.

(see above: how much there is to scroll within only a few hours of play.)
I don't know how much of this is bad practice, but if we made the Messages pane resizeable, that'd let me resize the box vertically whenever there was a huge message log to get through, while not disrupting gameplay/sizing the rest of the time - see below for an example of what it'd look like where I popped a resize:vertically into the message pane with the web inspector, allowing me to view the entirety of the message log if I wanted to.


And in theory this would only require a tiny CSS change!
(I assumed there was some way to fix this normally from game settings, but I couldn't find such a feature)
I can miss out on player interactions (or game interactions like my pets killing things) very easily, and while going to Display Message Log is possible, I'd rather just read it on log-in.

(see above: how much there is to scroll within only a few hours of play.)
I don't know how much of this is bad practice, but if we made the Messages pane resizeable, that'd let me resize the box vertically whenever there was a huge message log to get through, while not disrupting gameplay/sizing the rest of the time - see below for an example of what it'd look like where I popped a resize:vertically into the message pane with the web inspector, allowing me to view the entirety of the message log if I wanted to.


And in theory this would only require a tiny CSS change!
(I assumed there was some way to fix this normally from game settings, but I couldn't find such a feature)