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Well its good to know that someones working on it. Thanks for giving it a shot.Orfevs wrote:Don't know how it can be done really. Been looking into this one and tried tweaking it somewhat, testing and testing again. Problem with colors (at least in TC) is that the message system doesn't understand the colors used in menus and for ships, while the ships doesn't understand the colors for messages.
I'm still tweaking, but can't say for sure whether or not I'll produce anything worthwhile. However, I did find a few more colors if nothing else..
I think the solution here is to dynamically intercept messages going to the log/message window and remove any nasty colortags before sending it onwards. How to do this is another matter. I'm still a novice when it comes to scripting TC.
Hi...I would really love to try this script but the blank notify message is what really puts me off since I have also experienced them. They most probably have nothing to do with this script (the colors).strude wrote:I have done some tests on this script as I noticed something odd early in one of my games. When setting the "Notify when command complete" option to yes in any of my properties command consoles, I will get a message from unknown with no content and only a close button. Here's what I did so you might be able to track it down.
m4t3y wrote:Hi...I would really love to try this script but the blank notify message is what really puts me off since I have also experienced them. They most probably have nothing to do with this script (the colors).strude wrote:I have done some tests on this script as I noticed something odd early in one of my games. When setting the "Notify when command complete" option to yes in any of my properties command consoles, I will get a message from unknown with no content and only a close button. Here's what I did so you might be able to track it down.
I haven't used this script, I think most probably I don't even have it installed and I am also experiencing problems with the blank notify messages with no text. They show as message from unknown and than nothing else.
What I have discovered is that it is the length of the ship names that causes that (at least for me).
I have experienced this blank messages when I was renaming my ships to longer names so I could more easily see them in list of my ships in those huge amounts of Advanced Sattelites.
I was renaming them to sthg like
Advanced Eclipse ::::::::::::::::::::::
so they would be longer than those Your Advanced Satellite and would stick out more. After I have found that with such long names the notify messages are corrupted I just renamed all my Advanced Satellites to just AS and shortened the names of the ships (which caused the notify messages to start working again). I haven't tested it for the exact length that causes that but imho it is between 20-40 chars.
Falcon Sentinel ///////////
was corrupted and now I have it named as
Falcon Sentinel ///
and it is fine
EDIT: Actually I have just found that some long names don't cause that so there must be some special characters involved in ship name for the notify messages to get corrupted.
I have renamed my Nova to
Nova @ Homebase test long titles
and the notify message was ok
I have used many non-letters chracters after the name like:
::::::
//////
;;;;;;;
'''''''''''
^^^^^
basically any non-letter character I could find on my keayboard that I still haven't used so if someone wants to test it further more focus on these types of characters...the letters itself are probably ok and not causing this.
So to summarize it, it is a combination of some special characters and ship name length that is too long which causes the notify messages to become corrupted.
It has no direct connection to this script. I can post list of installed scripts if someone has the ability to find such a bug. It might be also worth testing it in the vanilla game if the bug is present there as well or if it is caused by some script that I have installed. I have like 20 of them so I cannot say which one it can be.
are you sure you are quoting the correct message? cause I don't see any relation in your response to my post...I didn't say anything about making it work...just sheding some more light about the circumstances that seems to cause the blank message bugjoelR wrote: Well its not working for me. I tested it by changing the color of a Mercury to red and got a blank incoming message. Not sure what you did to make it work.
Seems like I didnt understand your post then. I assumed that if you posted in the SNM thread then you used the SNM script. If you began a new thread about the incoming message bug I think that would be a more appropriate place to "test" your theories. Keep this to SNM so no one who stumbles on it gets confused ok? You worry about whether or not what you do "sheds light" or just keep it to yourself alright?m4t3y wrote:are you sure you are quoting the correct message? cause I don't see any relation in your response to my post...I didn't say anything about making it work...just sheding some more light about the circumstances that seems to cause the blank message bugjoelR wrote: Well its not working for me. I tested it by changing the color of a Mercury to red and got a blank incoming message. Not sure what you did to make it work.
so what exactly have you tested?....according to my experience with the blank messages if your name contains some special chars and the name is long than you will get blank messages....
I don't have it installed (the script is not the real cause of the blank messages bug anyway, it just makes your names so long that it causes the blank messages bug by fulfilling the circumstances that activates the bug) but according to the first post that expalins how the colors are changed if you have a ship named
"Your ShipName @ Homebase"
and it has red color than I guess the real ship name is
"/red Your ShipName @ Homebase"
so it contains / which is definately one of the characters causing the blank messages when coupled with long ship name cause I've experienced that with my "Falcon Sentinel //////////"
sorry but your post doesn't put much light into this problem...if you want to test it you need to look deeper and test it more....for a start I would suggest using the colors on some very short name under 20 chars including the /red in the beginning...I know that when I shortened my shipnames below certain amount of chars (the point where it starts/stops to work is somewhere between 20-40) the notify messages started working again so it might work for you as well.
if you test it more and find something let us know....we need to get more feedback from others as well if it works for someone without problems...I can test it in few weeks when I have more time for gaming
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