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Saborknight / 9liners-and-notepad

An Arma 3 mod allowing players to have virtual notepad pages and other pre-formatted pages for Reports, such as 9Liner/5Liner mission reports. This repo has been created after release v0.3.1 of 9Liner & Notepad as a way for community members to add to its development, and to keep the project alive.
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Navigation bar between different formats #1

Open Saborknight opened 6 years ago

Saborknight commented 6 years ago

Implement a navigation bar for navigating between the different types of pages.

Source: BI Forums

What do you think about adding additional buttons to the notepad, which the player can use to navigate through the diffrent sheets (nineline...) ? The only reason I'm not using this mod, are the uncountable keybindings, which also interfere with mods like TFAR. I would like to see a version, which requires one keybind(to open the notepad), and everything else can be opened from the dialogue itself.

Submitted by R3vo

Forum Responses

That's a good suggestion! I think i'll add a little navigationbar at the bottom of each document.

Submitted by chief_wiggum

Elements to be included:

  1. Current page/Total pages indicator (or in the case of "Creating new page", then that)
  2. Tabbed sheets, or similar, as suggested by @TheMysteriousVincent in the comments below
pixlcrashr commented 6 years ago

ACE interaction menu solves this problem, I guess.

Saborknight commented 6 years ago

Not if we want to maintain the only dependency as being CBA.. Relying on the ACE interaction menu would mean people not using ACE (as weird as they may be) would not be able to navigate between sheets.

pixlcrashr commented 6 years ago

Well then we have to remove the ace_interaction_menu dependency in CfgPatches in nln_main. Do you mean something like that?: 20171219205446_1

Saborknight commented 6 years ago

Nope, but that is waaaaay better than what I was thinking about xD

Need to incorporate these to the other sheet formats in their own styles.

Saborknight commented 6 years ago

There's a slight problem with the suggested navigation bar in the image above Though. It's not easily scalable unless we add sideways "scroll" (using clicks on an arrow in the desired direction) buttons, or something similar.

Given that a navigation menu has been suggested, is this still necessary? It does offer a second method of navigation which is intuitive and requires less clicks when all the user wants to do is change sheet format. I think having this feature alongside the main menu would be a good idea. However, in the interest of getting a new version released sooner, I'll stick this in v1.1.

Saborknight commented 6 years ago

See #50 for details on the Main Menu dialogue feature

Saborknight commented 5 years ago

In addition to this, we should find a new place to indicate to the user what page they're on. Having a hint tell you is conflicting with other notices, such as the "Page %1 saved" notices. They're fighting to be noticed.