On 10/7/06, Mark Wedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One area that could use cleanup IMO is the output buffer handling in the > server. > > ... > > One question is whether it makes sense to put that code into the client. > Given that both GTK clients have multiple panes for messages, and the only > thing > that really benefits from this combinining messages is the attack messages, > the > amount of benefit isn't as great. Plus, since the attack messages where > changed > to be more variable in terms of what they print, those often can not be > combined. IT seems the main area of benefit is spells.
The other useful one is searching for traps, especially at low levels, I find that a small number of searches isn't sufficiant, and will hold down the 's' key for a while, using the output count to bundle the messages into groups of 10. That way I can search 50-100 times (depending on how bored/paranoid I am feeling) without having the searching messages spam the message list hopelessly. Potentially client side support for this could be much better than existing server-side support (if it were to say redraw the last message on the same line it was on but with 'n times:' prepended to it), but no existing clients do that. _______________________________________________ crossfire mailing list crossfire@metalforge.org http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire
