[Scummvm-devel] Text spacing in Scumm help dialog

[Max Horn]

[resending this, seems my first attempt was lost?]
Hi folks,

my two cents: Maybe we shouldn't spend time on making Neil's pragmatic  
hack less of a hack. I think trying to fix the dialog as it is leads  
to a dead end.


It would be so much better if we had a TextWidget, which just displays  
a blob of text, read-only, and has a scroll bar. Then the help dialog  
would just be as big as the screen is, with an "OK" button, a  
TextWidget with the help text, and that's it.

The TextWidget should do automatic line wrapping, too. And it could be  
used to present a partial extract of the README, reachable from the  
GMM, in all engines.


Working on that is IMO a much better way to spend your time then  
trying to find a "cleaner" solution for a workaround for the broken  
dead-end design of the SCUMM help dialog :)


Bye,
Max