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[Tweak] BGEE 1.3-ish dialog box

lefreutlefreut Member Posts: 1,462
edited September 2016 in UI Modding
Good news everyone !

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
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Comments

  • RavenslightRavenslight Member Posts: 1,609
    Whoot! Thank you for your work on this. :)
  • RavenslightRavenslight Member Posts: 1,609
    edited August 2016
    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.
  • lefreutlefreut Member Posts: 1,462
    edited November 2019
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  • AncientCowboyAncientCowboy Member Posts: 199
    Looks like an addition to my 'to-do-list' :smile:. With your permission, of course...
  • lefreutlefreut Member Posts: 1,462
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  • AncientCowboyAncientCowboy Member Posts: 199
    @lefreut - Okay, I'll let it stabilize a bit. I'm awaiting a new EET release candidate to test against anyway.
  • RavenslightRavenslight Member Posts: 1,609
    This is working better. There is still some flash or “blink”, but not as much.
  • lefreutlefreut Member Posts: 1,462
    edited November 2019
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  • AdulAdul Member Posts: 2,002
    Thank you, it's working great. Already much better than the convoluted 2.x dialog box, IMHO.

    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?
  • lefreutlefreut Member Posts: 1,462
    edited November 2019
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  • AdulAdul Member Posts: 2,002
    @lefreut Thanks, that did the trick. I made it 50 pixels larger. Looks great!
  • AedanAedan Member, Translator (NDA) Posts: 8,551
    Hello!
    Nice mod. I definitely prefer the old dialog box.
    Does this mod work with IWDEE (beta v. 2.5)?
  • lefreutlefreut Member Posts: 1,462
    edited November 2019
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  • AedanAedan Member, Translator (NDA) Posts: 8,551
    Wonderful news! Looking forward to trying it. I am playing IWDEE in these days and I am having a lot of fun, but the dialog box is just a mess.
  • lefreutlefreut Member Posts: 1,462
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