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CF: Suggestion and comments




TEXT WINDOW SUGGESTION

I'm currently running the 0.92.3 server, and I'd like to make a
suggestion regarding the text window (the window where text is
displayed and commands may be typed).  I'm using Solaris 2.5's dtwm
windowing manager, if that makes any difference.

Currently when text hits the bottom of this window, the text is
wrapped to the top of the window and overwrites the previous text.
It's often times difficult to quickly locate where the current or most
recent text is at because it can be placed anywhere within the window
and it is overwritten in existing text.

I'd like to suggest that with future releases of Crossfire, a
scrollable window be used instead for the text window.  (i.e. text
continually scrolls towards the bottom, and a scrollbar can be used to
view the previous text buffers.)

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POPULARITY/ACCESSIBILITY OF CROSSFIRE

Also, it surprises me that Crossfire isn't even more popular.  People
have been begging for graphical multiplayer games and MU* for ages,
and of course the demand for WebMUD's and JavaMUD's have been hyped in
recent years.

If expanding the current developer/player base is one of Crossfire's
goals, then perhaps introducing the readers of rec.games.mud.* would
help increase Crossfire's popularity.  Talk about Crossfire on
rec.games.roguelike.misc is all but non-existent.

I think having precompiled versions of the crossclient that people
could use would also help increase Crossfire's accessibility for
people who don't have the knowledge (or maybe even diskspace) to
compile source code.  I would be willing to put together the
precompiled versions for Solaris 2.3 and/or Solaris 2.5.  (Strangely
enough, I don't think we have Solaris 2.4 anywhere.)

Ok, that's all now.  If you've managed to make it this far through,
thanks for putting up with the rambling.  ;)

Jonathan