Interface: Resizable Messages window

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Southall
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Interface: Resizable Messages window

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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.

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(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.

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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)
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Goliath
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Re: Interface: Resizable Messages window

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Southall wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 9:08 pm 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'll look into it and see if I can add it to the Nexus Tweaks script.
You'll find an explanation on the Scripting, I mean Panopticon subforum. Check the Nexus Tweaks thread, the last-ish message should explain how to install my NT preview fork.
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Re: Interface: Resizable Messages window

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Southall wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 9:08 pm
Goliath wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 10:14 pm I'll look into it and see if I can add it to the Nexus Tweaks script.
You'll find it on my preview branch of Nexus Tweaks, and it's been PR'd to the main repository (though I can't tell when Anne will get to it, I've given her way too many PRs to go through).
I approached this with js rather than css, by the way.
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Southall
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Re: Interface: Resizable Messages window

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Many thanks! I'll load the preview branch, this should help a lot!
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