[CF List] Suggestion: improved communication in the client

[Mark Wedel]

 Note there are some of these features in an unreleased client version.  To get
that client, use cvs and do 'cvs checkout -r post-1-0 client'



Jasper Jongmans wrote:
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      I have a few suggestions that I would like to make communication with other
     
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      players nicer (in my opinion).
     
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      * Local echo of things you 'tell
     
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      Pros: this makes a conversation easier (i.e., you wont forget to what
     
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      question a certain answer was)
     
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      Cons: more lines in the logwindow
     
     
 It does echo things you 'say. 

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      * Seperate log_window/communication_window
     
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      Pros: you can keep on talking even if someone/something causes alot of lines
     
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      in the log window
     
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      Cons: you will need to monitor two windows for possible interesting activity
     
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      Note: I would like it if the communication window also contains a list of
     
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      logged in users and existing parties that you can go into ``query'' with
     
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      (similar to IRC)
     
     
 Sort of done.  In the client described above, there is a -splitinfo window
which creates two windows.  Currently, the data is seperated by colored output
going in one window, with black/white going in the other.  This is pretty
close.  This functionality is only in the gcfclient.

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      * Client side choosing of colours for certain events (without having to
     
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      touch the source)
     
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      Pros: you can easily seperate things that are said/told/shouted/other_stuff
     
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      Cons: it will turn your log window into a christmas tree (some people will
     
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      find this a pro)
     
     
 This is more or less on the TODO list.  Currently, the server only sends color
suggestions to the client, and no context, so the client can't really do such
sorting.  Whats on the TODO list is for the server to send actual descriptive id
for what the text message is.