player permissions to delete/disable effect

[tirzah2]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. No

Describe the solution you'd like Add the feature of making it impossible for players to delete or disable effects from the dfred effect panel

Additional context In the settings is possible to choose who can see the panels but not a setting of who can actually interact with it. I would like the players to be able to see the effects and read the descriptions, but not be able to deactive them or delete them.

[DFreds]

This goes beyond the scope of this module. If a player has ownership access to their character, then they can easily delete or disable effects even without this module. There might be an existing module that allows this, but I won't be supporting it in this one.

[Ancyker]

This goes beyond the scope of this module. If a player has ownership access to their character, then they can easily delete or disable effects even without this module.

@DFreds My games contain new players and players that are not tech-savvy, so I don't like that they can easily disable or delete an effect via something that is always on their screen, possibly without even realizing it. I came here to make this same request. This is in line with the same reason that having a lock on the character sheet is such a nice option.

If you absolutely refuse to add an option to just make clicking do nothing, then could you at least add an option so that clicking only opens the character sheet with the effects tab active (or switches to the tab if already open) or something? Session time is precious and I'd rather not be spending it constantly fixing people's character sheets because of a stray mouse click and/or an impulsive selection on a dialog.

This along with the ability to set the offset and size of the icons is why I've been sticking to Visual Active Effects, even though I like the hover tooltips of this module a little better.

[DFreds]

Hm, so I think I initially misunderstood this as not allowing manipulating effects at all, which was out of the scope. I think what you're asking is reasonable. And the icon size. What's the offset you're talking about?

[Ancyker]

What's the offset you're talking about?

It's how far away the icons start from the top of the screen/canvas, it could be done with CSS probably but it's nice to have an actual setting for it. I have the "Heartbeat" module and some other modules that also put things on the top right, so having a "Top Offset" that lets me specify the number of pixels to move the icons down is nice. Icon size is also nice as a per-user setting, I made the default for them 25px because, while I play on a 4K monitor, most of my players have a 1080p monitor. So, for them, the default size can be a bit large/eat up a lot of screen real estate.

If you really want to deep dive into it you could also add options for which side the icons appear on and stuff, but then it becomes harder to make sure they don't overlap things. Like, for that to work for someone with a lot of modules reliably would almost certainly require the use of custom CSS to account for all the modules. Although, I am a bit of an extreme case with 158 active modules 😅. Other options could include an offset from the side, font size, colors/theme, etc, though that gets into overkill territory.

The only other thing that might be nice is a way to collapse the icons. If you have a lot of effects it can get distracting. Everyone likes throwing buffs at the barbarian and he can end up with 5-10+ temporary effects, lol. I think there are some other QoL things that'd be nice to have but they get a bit niche and definitely would need their own issue/post.