Hi Charles, No, that simply would not be possible. What you are talking about would involve totally rewriting the game from scratch using a graphical user interface for Windows which is something I was hoping to avoid for simplicity's sake. Let me reiterate this game is primarily text based, a console program, similar to the Dos versions of Wrestling League Simulator and Piledriver in design except it has sounds and music as well as text. As such there are no arrow keys, no home or end keys, no tab key, no shift+tab, etc because in order to use those keys I'd have to create a window using a window manager, poll keyboard events from the operating system using DirectInput or SDL, blah, blah, blah. Simply put it can't be done without a total rewrite with a graphical user interface which is something I've considered, but am not in the favor of doing at this time seeing is this game is really far along in development.
As to your point about option 2 again what you suggest wouldn't work. When the list of performers comes up all you can do is press enter to advance to the next screen. There is no way to just type in or enter the selection on that specific screen. You have to scroll through all the options before making your selection which is precisely why it is a pain. Although, I suppose if necessary I could rewrite it to press p to go to prior screen or n for next screen and enter the choices, but it doesn't seem like there is any advantage in doing that when I can simply put everything on the screen in a single table. :D Cheers! On 8/29/13, Charles Rivard <wee1s...@fidnet.com> wrote: > I would rather have the selections fore accessible with less clutter and > work for the gamer. I would go for option 2, because, if there are 60 to > choose from, and you find it on the second screen of 20, there's no need to > > go further. Another possibility: If you know the one that you want, is it > > possible to use first letter navigation to locate it? Or control home or > end to quickly navigate from top to bottom and then work from there using > the up or down arrows ot tab and shift tab? > > -- > If guns kill people, writing implements cause grammatical and spelling > errors! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
