Zugg Software :: View topic - Scripting the Fly-out windows?

Enchanter Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 698

How

would it be if Zugg coded a hook in the fly-outs so that when a chat line or even a few certain individuals' tells became active, an appropriate fly-out with the message would behave as if the mouse were hovering over it for 2-3 (or variable) seconds? I can picture the CMUD window becoming like a flight sim HUD but with text. Heh, just a thought. Laughing

Edit: I can't type.

Magician Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 482

i thought this was possible already (I havent tried so if it isnt im sorry) for it to switch to an active window with text. So if you recieved a tell it would show. Personally im happy with just the identifier telling me to look there but i can see how it would be appealing.

or maybe window state. really not sure havent messed with those a lot yet cause they involve triggers which i dont want to code around i want to code them properly after zugg fixes the problems with them

Enchanter Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 698

Hmm, maybe it is possible. I hope so. I just thought that to script a fly-out to show, it would need to have focus and I'd rather have the cursor remain in the command line window.

Magician Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 482

ahh i see what you mean. good suggestion.

Wizard Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 1551 Location: Australia

Yeah good idea, like the chat window in many MMO's fades in for a couple of seconds then fades back out - this one would just fly in and out instead.

Magician Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 482

Only potential problem i see here is for people on really busy muds. I have 15 channels going and messages coming in non stop so i would definatly ask that it be a feature with an off on switch in preferences or something.

Wizard Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 1551 Location: Australia

I was thinking an option per window 'flyout when receiving new data' and appropriate flyout delays.

Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 7:25 pm

Nice ideas here. There are certainly some good possibilities for scripting the flyout windows, and for generally scripting the docking system as a whole. I'll consider some features like this later in the beta process.