[Scummvm-devel] Text spacing in Scumm help dialog

Vicent Marti tanoku at gmail.com
Wed Mar 11 20:49:53 CET 2009


Looks like somebody reverted the commit already -- I'm gonna give a go
at writing that text widget, Max. Looks like the cleanest option to
me, even if it implies some extra work.

Cheers,
Vicent Martí



On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:40 AM, Max Horn <max at quendi.de> wrote:
> [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
>
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