<div dir="ltr"><div>Yes, it's a possibility. But wouldn't it be much less work and more useful to instead improve the textbox editor so that it's better at browsing for textboxes? The Text Search option could be moved to the top of the menu for easy access (and also linked to a hotkey), and I'd like to have it do incremental search (meaning that after every keypress it jumps to the first matching textbox). Then having a dedicated search menu would only save you about one keypress<br><br></div>This is closely related to what Virtuous Sword suggested about showing some of the main bits of attack/enemy data right on the toplevel menu of the attack/enemy editor, to make browsing/searching much easier. The same preview information would be useful both in a dedicated search/browse tool and in the actual editor. It's just that the textbox editor already has a pretty good preview.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 July 2017 at 14:10, James Paige <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Bob@hamsterrepublic.com" target="_blank">Bob@hamsterrepublic.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Actually, this reminds me of what I was thinking about a while back.<br><br></div>What about an intermediate step<br><br></div>When you press enter on something that lets you edit textboxes, you are taken to a simple browser. It would show a big list of textboxes, maybe id number on the left, text preview on the right, with a quick full-text search. You could find the one you want even more quickly than you could in the full textbox editor. If you press enter, you confirm that box and return to the previous menu. If you press something else, maybe E you go into the editor. You could also jump directly into the editor adding a new one by pressing + or insert<br><br></div>I think a menu like that could actually be made to be pretty generic. It could even be a base class, and we can have oo overrides for the part that provides the preview-text, the searchable text, and the edit-action.<br><br>---<br></div>James<div><div class="h5"><br><div><div><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 6:47 PM, Ralph Versteegen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:teeemcee@gmail.com" target="_blank">teeemcee@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>I'm not too keen on the extra friction of showing prompts as you jump between menus.<br></div>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.<br></div>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).<br><br></div>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...)<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="m_-4088425756335731031h5">On 10 July 2017 at 10:52, James Paige <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Bob@hamsterrepublic.com" target="_blank">Bob@hamsterrepublic.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="m_-4088425756335731031h5"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>I am not entirely happy with how this works.<br><br></div>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!<br><br></div>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.<br><br></div>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.<br><br></div>What if we had a confirmation prompt when you exit back?<br><br></div>"Use box 710 for this NPC?"<br></div>"Keep box 702 for this NPC?"<br><br></div>with a preview line for each?<br><br>---<br></div>James<br><br></div>
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