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A ninja platformer written in LÖVE
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Add "return" and "esc" symbols to font #173

Closed Germanunkol closed 10 years ago

Germanunkol commented 10 years ago

When a message box is shown, "esc" and "ret" are printed onto the two buttons. There are a few problems with this: 1) They're huge. They cover part of the image, which is ugly. 2) They're shortened already, to fit onto the button, meaning users might be confused as to what "ret" means. 3) Once the user has figured out that "ret" means "return", they might think that they should press the return key in order to "return" to the current map. Often, though, pressing return means to "accept", which, in some cases, can be: overwriting the map, leaving the editor etc, which is the oposite of returning to the map.

Suggested solution: Could you add two symbols to the font, (like you did with the arrow keys), for the return and escape keys? I suggest: For esc, simply print "esc", but much smaller, so that the three letters only take up the space of one letter. For the return key, an arrow coming from the top and then moving to the left (the carrige return symbol which is printed on the physical keyboard): http://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/oxygen-icons.org/oxygen/256/Actions-go-jump-locationbar-icon.png

I already used the right and left arrows on the background object selection panel. I think it looks good (but I might need to move them slighlty to cover less of the image).

michalove commented 10 years ago

Okay. I am on it.

michalove commented 10 years ago

I added both a return-symbol and an esc-symbol. Are these as you wanted, or should I change something?

Germanunkol commented 10 years ago

ESC is a little small, but I guess we'll need to work with this. Unless we use two letters for the ESC symbol (§$, for example). But it also works the way it is now. The return arrow is great, thanks!

michalove commented 10 years ago

I increased the size of the esc-symbol a little bit. One letter is stil big enough for it. Now the individual letters are as big as the normal small letters, but the space between the e,s and c is removed, so the symbol is a bit more compact than writing "esc". Is that fine like this?

Germanunkol commented 10 years ago

Yes, thanks, that looks fine I think.