I'm planning to make it so the Enter key will never cancel a yes/no dialog. To do this, I'm adding an Escape button to dialogs. So cancel/accept keyboard shortcuts will be predictable and intuitive. Dialogs that require extra confirmation will have a 'really confirm' LED.
The text in the various help dialogs that was previously baked into an image is now drawn as text, meaning that it benefits from text unblurring when scaling is active.
This entails some small changes to layout, since it's a different font.
Dialog engine changes:
* A new picture type allowing to draw the inventory button icons directly into a dialog.
* A new widget type that simply draws a line between two points.
In effect, this is a combination of two of the previous pickers:
the location picker, and the editable string picker.
This required quite a significant rework of how the tilemap places its children.
Currently it's only used in special node editing.
I plan to add its use in many other places too though.
- New <page> element in <stack>
- Visibility of elements is now remembered when switching pages
- Unstoring a <pict> on a stack page no longer resets default values
- Documentation updated for new features
This allows widgets to be positioned relative to other widgets.
Two dialogs have been converted to use relative positioning.
Also fix some issues with calculating the dialog rect.
- Focus event split into focus and defocus
- Scroll event added but not yet properly implemented
Also:
- Remove the useless (and ignored) clickable attributes from the schema
- Pave the way for controls other than fields to be able to recieve keyboard focus
- It's now exposed in the schema with a new attribute, outline, on all elements that accept framed
- It now has four possible values: solid, outset, inset, double. Dashed or dotted may be added later; they're a lot harder.
- Second make scenario dialog uses a custom frame style
- Modifiers are now given in the def-key attribute, as originally intended
- Dialogs that have a help button now assign F1 to that button (replacing shift+/ in some cases)
- F1 also brings up help in the main game (in addition to shift+/)
Also:
- Use a scroll pane for the credits in the about dialog, so that new credits can be added without altering other elements
- Use a scroll pane for the list of sections to be deleted in the resize outdoors dialog
- New cContainer superclass for controls that contain other controls
- Scrollbars consider their maximum as part of their state
- You can copy/paste images into the sheet, or import/export to/from png files
Also:
- Picture controls in the dialog engine have a new "scaled" flag; if set, the picture will be scaled into the provided bounds rather than overflowing. Currently, only full sheets honour the setting.
- The job board is loosely based on Exile III's job board; the dialog is converted from the one contained as a relic of E3 in BoE
- Quest system is loosely based on a mix of Exile III jobs and Blades of Avernum quests
- Talking to a monster (even a hostile one) can now trigger an arbitrary special node
Dialog engine:
- LED's now support wrapped labels
