Feature request? - Input coloring

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Nov 10 2010, 12:09 am
To match skins of certain interfaces, it would be nice to be able to blend an input() prompt to match the skin of your interface. It would be interesting to see a few extra arguments to either incorporate a skin file or at least specific coloring aspects to match your GUI.

Is this possible for a future patch release?
Nov 10 2010, 12:56 am
You could always make your own, though because of the nature of winset() it can become downright unresponsive on a slow server. That's a whole 'nother issue.

For future reference you should use the feature tracker when submitting bug reports or requesting new features.
Nov 10 2010, 3:56 am
In response to SuperAntx
SuperAntx wrote:
(...)nature of winset() it can become downright unresponsive on a slow server(...)

Whenever possible (as it seems the case here, without knowing the real circumstances), I'd advise client-sided winset calls for that very reason. The Bespin/Skywriter team demonstrated that already 100 ms latency is noticeable and, even worse, inconvenient for GUI response.


SuperAntx wrote:
For future reference you should use the feature tracker when submitting bug reports or requesting new features.

I think the OP was rather trying to discuss if there should even be a feature request on that topic, opposed to outright submitting.

As for the topic at hand, I doubt that you could grant enough customisation to really embed the standard input/alert variants, while keeping the functionality as simple as it is now. Having the feature set and possibilities of winset lossless condensed wouldn't be an easy task in my honest opinion.
Nov 10 2010, 9:27 am
In response to SuperAntx
Schnitzel was right on the fact that I wasn't intending this to be an outright submission. Considering there are ways around it, but it would be interesting if this could be incorporated, though I'm not sure if it'd be feasible at all - most people tend to assume the best input features are custom made apparently. (Though I'm not sure if I agree with the idea that input() itself is a lazy command.)

Though I do like that design you came up with Antx.

Another note - sorry, I'm going to be honest with you and say I never did see the Bug Report or Feature Request in the Developers tab.

@Tom: Certain commands and sections do seem hidden to a newer user, or I suppose one that would have been gone for a while and sees this new update. Considering I'm newer to BYOND, I did notice a few things are a bit difficult to find - not that the feature tracker was difficult to find, but honestly I didn't even know it was even there.
Nov 10 2010, 10:28 am