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Portable Enso Launcher community edition
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Simultaneous messages overlap illegibly #34

Closed gilch closed 1 month ago

gilch commented 1 month ago

If Enso needs to display another message before the last one has been dismissed, they overlap and can't be read. The next message should display in a different location, or the previous one should be shifted vertically (preferably) or even horizontally to make room for it. This seems unavoidable if an exception escapes after a message has been shown, but at least I have the traceback command in that case.

As a workaround, I'm currently concatenating my messages for a single command, but as I can't print newlines #33, it's hard to separate them.

GChristensen commented 1 month ago

Enso has a simple modal messaging system. This means that a user interaction is required to dismiss a message. It is not designed for complex workflows. Some other tools such as tcl/tk or pyQt should be used for complex UIs.

GChristensen commented 1 month ago

You need to wrap lines in <p> to display them separately. See the example at enso/strings.py