[Ohrrpgce] trouble with browsing for a textbox

[Ralph Versteegen]

I'm not too keen on the extra friction of showing prompts as you jump
between menus.
One option would be if selecting the Previous Menu item or pressing ESC
returns textbox id -1 (none selected), while you have to select the
<-Textbox #-> line to return/change the textbox ID. This would be very
natural when you browse for a textbox: hit enter in the original menu,
pressing left/right to search, hit enter to select.
The problem is that it's not obvious that you can even click/press enter on
that menu item, but that could be fixed by showing a message at the bottom
of the screen (only when called from another menu).

Another solution to your complaint may be Ctrl+Z to undo, although it can't
help if you don't even notice. This can be implemented in intgrabber (and
strgrabber, etc). I actually started implementing it in strgrabber (there's
nothing I haven't started on...)

On 10 July 2017 at 10:52, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:

> I am not entirely happy with how this works.
>
> It is great when I want to assign a textbox in a place that doesn't have a
> textbox assigned yet. I can just press enter, and find the right one, and I
> am done!
>
> But what about when I already have a text box assigned to this NPC, and I
> remember, oops! I should add an instead-box for what the Mayor says after
> the "Beat Baddie" tag is turned on.
>
> I press enter on the mayor NPC's textbox, and then I add my instead box,
> and then I press ESC, and... uh oh, I overwrote the NPC's original textbox
> with the ID of the instead box, and I probably didn't even know it happened.
>
> What if we had a confirmation prompt when you exit back?
>
> "Use box 710 for this NPC?"
> "Keep box 702 for this NPC?"
>
> with a preview line for each?
>
> ---
> James
>
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