Rethinking the script dialog.
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 5:47 pm
First thing: what follows is a rather large request.
As it stands right now, you have multiple buttons at the top of the Mudlet window that take you directly to a certain aspect of your system. Triggers, Aliases, Scripts, Timers, Keys, etc. This is reflected in the dialog itself. However, as my system has grown I've noticed a frustrating trend in this: it's distracting to try and code one system while switching back and forth between windows. It also seems a bit frustrating to have one folder represented multiple times in the different dialogs.
What I would like to see happen is all the aspects merge into one main window, and the button functionality change to toggle the visibility of certain aspects on and off. If you wanted to see only triggers, disable the other buttons. If you wanted to see everything, activate all the buttons.
What this would do is allow people scripting public use systems to consolidate everything into literally one folder. It would make organizing easy, because you wouldn't have to switch back and forth to see where everything is. Your logical ordering would be all together in one nice little package clearly visible with a single glance. This would, of course, entail tagging each element with an icon representing what it is, but that wouldn't bother me in the least.
As it stands right now, you have multiple buttons at the top of the Mudlet window that take you directly to a certain aspect of your system. Triggers, Aliases, Scripts, Timers, Keys, etc. This is reflected in the dialog itself. However, as my system has grown I've noticed a frustrating trend in this: it's distracting to try and code one system while switching back and forth between windows. It also seems a bit frustrating to have one folder represented multiple times in the different dialogs.
What I would like to see happen is all the aspects merge into one main window, and the button functionality change to toggle the visibility of certain aspects on and off. If you wanted to see only triggers, disable the other buttons. If you wanted to see everything, activate all the buttons.
What this would do is allow people scripting public use systems to consolidate everything into literally one folder. It would make organizing easy, because you wouldn't have to switch back and forth to see where everything is. Your logical ordering would be all together in one nice little package clearly visible with a single glance. This would, of course, entail tagging each element with an icon representing what it is, but that wouldn't bother me in the least.