Interface Suggestions

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Jun 10 2010, 7:40 am
Hello, this may be kind of simple...But what do people want to see in an Anime interface? I know statpanels are out; but I want to know how the players would like to see it, so I can make my interface more player-friendly.
Jun 11 2010, 5:46 am
Not my suggestion for an "anime" interface but for interfaces for all games. Tab your damned chat outputs. It would be nice to be able to switch between the infamous all-in-one output to server chat, local chat, game messages, etc. and not be forced to see everything cluttered into one output.
Jun 11 2010, 8:41 am
In response to Hiro the Dragon King
Thank you for the suggestion! Coincidentally, we already had that idea! But thank you anyways!
Jun 11 2010, 8:46 am
In response to Albro1
Albro1 wrote:
... we already had that idea ...

Thank God!
Jun 12 2010, 3:53 am
In response to Hiro the Dragon King
I personally dont like "tabbed" outputs, but seperated outputs are good.
Jun 12 2010, 5:16 am
In response to Gigimoi
Gigimoi wrote:
I personally dont like "tabbed" outputs, but seperated outputs are good.

I'm not sure of a better way to switch between outputs. Unless you want to have them all showing at once... but that would be worse, wouldn't it?
Jun 12 2010, 5:19 am
In response to Hiro the Dragon King
yea, it would be ugly as my mother
maybe checkboxes below the output that picks what
output you see by having three outputs on top of eachother
using winshow() to decide what output element appears?
Jun 12 2010, 5:50 am
In response to Gigimoi
How on earth is such an 'ugly' solution better than neatly embedding all your outputs into a tab interface element, which automatically does the scaling, the selection/display and everything else you need?
Jun 12 2010, 5:57 am
In response to Schnitzelnagler
It's probably not, tabs just seem "overused"
Jun 12 2010, 6:22 am
In response to Gigimoi
Overused != bad.
Jun 12 2010, 6:24 am
In response to Hiro the Dragon King
did I say it was bad?
Jun 12 2010, 9:49 am
In response to Schnitzelnagler
It wouldn't be strange at all for a player to want to be able to see both game status messages and chat messages at the same time, eliminating the need to constantly switch back and forth.
Jun 12 2010, 8:31 pm
In response to Kaioken
That isn't what he suggested at all though and could be very well achieved with the tab interface element.
Jun 14 2010, 12:07 pm
In response to Kaioken
Try one and see how it works. If your players seem to like tabs better, use that. If they like separate outputs, use that.
Jun 15 2010, 10:57 pm
In response to Kaioken
Perhaps having it tabbed, while having a tab that receives all of the communications?
So it's best far all players.
Another thing, is personal Mute button. Or you can call it an ignore verb. but thats not interface, so never mind that.

My suggestion is making tabs for different types of inventory. I do it on mine.
Jun 17 2010, 10:25 am
In response to Kaioken
Kaioken wrote:
It wouldn't be strange at all for a player to want to be able to see both game status messages and chat messages at the same time, eliminating the need to constantly switch back and forth.

A tab inside a tab!

inside the All tab, there are tabs, for combinations of tabs, local chat/world chat, all chats/system messages, et al.

Eh?