After a lot of work, trial and error and experimentation, I finally managed to reproduce a dialog box that behaves almost like in 1.3.
It only have one scrollbar
If you scroll up, you get the dialog history in the same box
It should work even with bigger font
It should work for BG1EE, SoD and BG2EE
Here are some screenshots:
Installation: - Select all the text from these lines: `
worldNPCDialogText = "" to the line before this code: menu
{
name 'CHARACTER_SELECT'
And replace the selected text with the content of the attached text file.
Changelog: v0.3: Less text flashing. The scrollbar only appears when you start scrolling. v0.2: Fix history height computation. Fix out of bound access. v0.1: Initial release
Great progress! In our testing we get a flash of some kind of ghost text (I don’t know what it should be called) each time we pick a reply option or hit the continue button. It never stays, it’s just like this very quick flash.
Other then that, the single scroll bar is there and works well. Just thought I’d let you know as I’m not sure if that is what your experiencing as well.
Again, thank you for working on this.
Edit: I forgot to add that our test was on a BGEE only install, with the latest patch.
Great progress! In our testing we get a flash of some kind of ghost text (I don’t know what it should be called) each time we pick a reply option or hit the continue button. It never stays, it’s just like this very quick flash.
Thanks for the feedback
Yes there is a flash when you progress through the dialog. It's because each time you select a reply or hit the continue button, the dialog box is rescrolled to hide the history, but it not instantaneous. Unfortunately, I don't think I can fix this bug.
I upload a new version with two some bug fixes in the first post. If you don't want to copy/paste the full content again, here are the changes:
In the area under 'name "dummyMessageBox"', change the 746 into 740. In some cases, the height computation of the history was wrong, hopefully this should fix it.
In the action section, change the first line to this: if (worldPlayerDialogChoices[worldPlayerDialogSelection - 2] == nil) then return end This fixes an out of bound array access that displays a warning in the console.
@Mr2150, I added a version with the correct font and button for SoD.
@AncientCowboy Yes you can use the code. But I will continue to improve and add new features to this tweak depending on the feedback so I don't know if you want to add it to your mod right now or if you want to wait a little.
You need to change the height value (4th one) of this two elements: 'worldDialogBackground' and 'worldPlayerDialogChoicesList'. You must increment both by the same amount.
@Aedan I think it will need some tweaks to make it fully work with IWDEE. I'm working on an IWDEE UI mod right now and like my other UI mods it will contain the old dialog box.
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Other then that, the single scroll bar is there and works well. Just thought I’d let you know as I’m not sure if that is what your experiencing as well.
Again, thank you for working on this.
Edit: I forgot to add that our test was on a BGEE only install, with the latest patch.
Yes there is a flash when you progress through the dialog. It's because each time you select a reply or hit the continue button, the dialog box is rescrolled to hide the history, but it not instantaneous. Unfortunately, I don't think I can fix this bug.
I upload a new version with two some bug fixes in the first post. If you don't want to copy/paste the full content again, here are the changes:
In the area under 'name "dummyMessageBox"', change the 746 into 740. In some cases, the height computation of the history was wrong, hopefully this should fix it.
In the action section, change the first line to this:
if (worldPlayerDialogChoices[worldPlayerDialogSelection - 2] == nil) then return endThis fixes an out of bound array access that displays a warning in the console.
@AncientCowboy Yes you can use the code. But I will continue to improve and add new features to this tweak depending on the feedback so I don't know if you want to add it to your mod right now or if you want to wait a little.
Two changes: there should be less text flashing. It's not perfect, but it should be better now.
And now the scrollbar only appears when you start scrolling.
Is it possible to make the dialog box taller by default? If so, could you tell me which values would I need to edit to change it?
You need to change the height value (4th one) of this two elements: 'worldDialogBackground' and 'worldPlayerDialogChoicesList'. You must increment both by the same amount.
Nice mod. I definitely prefer the old dialog box.
Does this mod work with IWDEE (beta v. 2.5)?