Happy Birthday, maptext.

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Dec 2 2012, 6:45 am
One year ago today, maptext was released.

Dec 2, 2011 - BYOND 494.1120 Maptext
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A very necessary feature we all had been waiting for, for a long time! I think it would be wise to maybe bring up the current issues with maptext to see if we can't bring some attention to this great feature, and get it working 100%!

Happy Birthday, maptext!

Reply with any links to posts with confirmed maptext issues.
Dec 2 2012, 7:20 pm
Late? 2012 - Hubs are free to the public once more.
Eh? Ehhh??? :D
Dec 9 2012, 4:13 am
Cloud Magic wrote:
Confirmed issue: it was never implemented to the level we hoped it to be, even after much discussion and many complaints.

/endthread

I can see that you really appreciate, and are grateful for all the hard work that has gone into BYOND, a totally free software suite.

Dec 9 2012, 4:15 am
Most custom made fonts do not render properly at sizes below 12px, and we don't have drop shadow support (which you need when you're displaying text over a screen that could contain any color pixel to prevent color masking and to promote text readability).

Those are the current issues, for me.
Dec 9 2012, 4:24 am
I agree that those are issues, I was just being a smart-a** toward cloud magic because I found their comment to be more like "I'm a spoiled brat" than "It could be improved"
Dec 9 2012, 4:50 am
Cloud Magic wrote:
I'm appreciative, I just don't like being told that they'll implement a feature then never implement it, such as hyperlinks. Feels bad man

They implemented the feature, it just doesn't do all that you thought it would. More-so disappointment.
Dec 9 2012, 4:52 am
Cloud Magic wrote:
I'm appreciative, I just don't like being told that they'll implement a feature then never implement it, such as hyperlinks. Feels bad man

Well I guess I didn't know they promised anything that wasn't implemented... were they really planning on including hyperlinks?
Dec 9 2012, 5:03 am
We need readability before we get hyper links. Just my opinion.
Dec 9 2012, 5:04 am
In response to FIREking
FIREking wrote:
We need readability before we get hyper links. Just my opinion.

Dec 9 2012, 11:12 am
^ all of these will never happen.

Do you have proof that it'll never happen? I hope not.
And just because it doesn't work the way you want it to doesn't mean it won't be missed later on. Give them time.
Dec 9 2012, 11:13 am
Yut Put wrote:
The way the maptext starts at the bottom of its bounding box and works its way up is erratic and awkward. It would be nice if the feature was more user-friendly, but BYOND generally doesn't pride itself for being intuitive

maptext_x and maptext_y would allow for maptext to be better positioned on an object, so that we wouldn't have to create a new object for every single time we use maptext

having a border or background color would be appreciated

^ all of these will never happen.

Everything in byond uses the "bottom left to top right" coordinate system. So it makes sense that maptext is like this. Its weird, I agree, but it would be more weird to have a different coordinate system just for maptext.

I agree that we need maptext_x and maptext_y as well as border, background, and drop shadow support.
Dec 9 2012, 12:41 pm
In an OOP language, maptext should be a datum. It'd make sense like this in the stddef.dm:
maptext
    _dm_interface = //whatever magic this is internally
    var
        height
        width
        x
        y
        style //CSS format
        text
    New(t,h,w,x,y) //or something
        ..()


Jemai1 wrote:
Late? 2012 - Hubs are free to the public once more.
Eh? Ehhh??? :D

This is something LordAndrew and I threw in based on stuff Tom has said publically on the forum.