BUG: ChatHUD - display of messages is somtimes incorrectly displayed or cut-off.
by Michael Hall · in Torque 3D Professional · 05/02/2009 (5:41 pm) · 2 replies
BUG: The ChatHUD display is often incorrect.
SEVERITY: minor/cosmetic
I've noticed this on and off, it's not very consistent, and I've even noticed it in other people's screenshots, but it hasn't been remarked upon yet.
When you spawn into the game sometimes the player's name is indented on a new line instead of appearing with the welcome message. Sometimes it appears correctly. If it's incorrect and you toggle the editor (either) on or off, the message and the name will appear on a single line but the color coding of the name will be incorrect -- or is the initial error the faulty color coding?
The second part of the issue comes when you cycle weapons, get killed, send a chat message, etc. When the messages scroll up they will become cut-off at the bottom and eventually disappear all-together as new messages are sent/recieved. Resizing the ChatHud allows you to see the messages, but those in turn will also become cut-off and disappear. PageUp or PageDwn sometimes will allow you to scroll back through, but not always. As you resize the ChatHUD to the smaller size you will once again "lose" the messages.
SEVERITY: minor/cosmetic
I've noticed this on and off, it's not very consistent, and I've even noticed it in other people's screenshots, but it hasn't been remarked upon yet.
When you spawn into the game sometimes the player's name is indented on a new line instead of appearing with the welcome message. Sometimes it appears correctly. If it's incorrect and you toggle the editor (either) on or off, the message and the name will appear on a single line but the color coding of the name will be incorrect -- or is the initial error the faulty color coding?
The second part of the issue comes when you cycle weapons, get killed, send a chat message, etc. When the messages scroll up they will become cut-off at the bottom and eventually disappear all-together as new messages are sent/recieved. Resizing the ChatHud allows you to see the messages, but those in turn will also become cut-off and disappear. PageUp or PageDwn sometimes will allow you to scroll back through, but not always. As you resize the ChatHUD to the smaller size you will once again "lose" the messages.
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