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If the log keeps growing, it might be useful to offer the option of clearing the log manually. Ideally this would be available in-flight as well as docked. Any suggestions on the best way of achieving this?

If the log keeps growing, would it be useful to include some form of separator? For instance, each time the player docks and launches, include Docked with Lave station. Launch clearance received from Lave station. That way, when you're scroll back through pages of messages, it's clearer where you we...

OK, here's a Box.com download for the Comms Log MFD.oxz! https://app.box.com/s/rhhtuldcnuubz05ep40h I'd appreciate any feedback and comments, bug reports, anything really. And please let me know if I've done things the wrong way internally! Edit: I did alter the final version of the OXZ. I decided t...

Thanks. Worked perfectly!

So I now have a working OXZ ready for testing. What's the approved method for distributing these sort of things?

The MFD will work without the scroller. It would always display "Current" at the top, and new messages would keep getting appended to the bottom of the list. You'd only need the scroller to, you know, scroll.

And "COMMS LOG" now fixed.

A question about the "setMultiFunctionText" function. In the docs it states "The limit on space for a multi-function display is ten lines of text, each 15 blocks wide." What is a "block", and how is it measured?

Link to download: https://app.box.com/s/rhhtuldcnuubz05ep40h Link to wiki: http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/CommsLogMFD Also available via the Expansions pack list in the game itself. Version 1.4 now available. - Comms messages are now viewable in the dockside F4 Communications log, even if the scro...

If a moderator would be so kind as to move this thread to the "Expansion pack" section, I'd be most obliged!

Thanks! Brick now firmly planted in forehead on shift key.

Found something. It appears to be some sort of caching issue. I renamed the folder my OXP is in, and suddenly everything started working!

So, next question (and I know I've seen the answer to this somewhere), how do you force Oolite to clear this cache (or whatever it is)?

OK, now I'm confused. I didn't get any log record when I put an log call in the function. I thought, "Ah, so it's not getting called at all.". Then I thought, just as a test, I'll put a log message into the function I know *is* getting called. And still no message in the log! It was going ...

It's just a string, not an array. I'll try putting the log entry in.

I'm having trouble reseting some variables when the player launches from a station. This is what I have: this.shipWillLaunchFromStation = function() { this.$commsList = ""; this.$page = 1; this.$updateMFD(); } I'm trying to reset $commsList to be an empty string, reseting the $page to 1, a...

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