What a pain!
-- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Thu, 26 Oct 2023, Heather Seaman wrote: > That depends on whether the client could put the input bar in its own window, > which I don't think Nexus, at least, can do. The documentation says it can > put chat and maps in separate windows, but that may only work on Iron Realms > games, not third-party muds like Alter. I checked the box for "clear command > line after sending" and I still have to clear the line myself. And I've never > heard anything about splitting the input and output window. Think of the > client as a word processor containing a document with ten paragraphs of text > in it, of which you're working on the tenth one. Now assume you want to put a > company name from paragraph seven in paragraph ten. You scroll up to seven, > highlight your text, and copy it. Then you scroll back to ten, put your > cursor where it needs to be, then paste. That back-and-forth between > paragraphs seven and ten is equivalent to moving between the input and output > portions of the screen, the only difference being that you can't txpe tex in > the output portion. Flipping between windows would be like having two > documents open and having things set up so typing anything in document 1, > input, would automatically have it display in document 2, output. And I don't > THINK clients do that. All Nexus has in its settings is an option something > like "keep duplicate chat in separate window". But nothing about having the > input bar in its own window, though that would be cool. On Oct 26, 2023 7:40 > PM, Jude DaShiell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > If your character was going up the ranks in the thief class, I'd recommend > > hide before goblin arrives then ambush. > > If the braille display can switch windows easily can you make a separate > > window for the input bar then flip between the two windows quickly? > > > > > > -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in > > defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that > > order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. > > > > On Thu, 26 Oct 2023, Heather wrote: > > > > > Good luck. Just use whatever skills your character actually knows, > > > whether it's a spellcaster, fighter, whatever. > > > But a question about client-side aliases: Let's say I'm in the output > > > window and "a goblin warrior has arrived". How can I type my input bar > > > alias, since I'm not in the input bar already I can't type text and have > > > it register, can I? On Oct 26, 2023 7:06 PM, Jude DaShiell > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > I'll try that and see what happens. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in > > > > defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that > > > > order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. > > > > > > > > On Thu, 26 Oct 2023, Heather Seaman wrote: > > > > > > > > > I've never heard of Kalistii either. But did you actually find the > > > > > character's location and talk to her before going back to the quest > > > > > master? That's what I would try in Alter as a next step. On Oct 25, > > > > > 2023 6:32 PM, Jude DaShiell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > The only quest master I found was Torgos and he asked me to scout > > > > > > out > > > > > > Madame Zikva's so I checked all rooms in the building out then > > > > > > returned to > > > > > > Torgos and typed quest complete and was told I hadn't completed the > > > > > > quest. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be > > > > > > used in > > > > > > defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that > > > > > > order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#126672): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/126672 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/102189153/21656 Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/21656/1071380848/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
