F5F5 cargo, contracts, and missions screen too full!

[DaddyHoggy]

so do take this 'promise' of mine with a pinch of salt - or two!

Is this enough salt?

[Cmdr. Maegil]

Then I'll eagerly await your vapourware

[Thargoid]

To be a little controversial, why not post-MNSR stick the contracts onto the covetted F4 screen? Or alternatively shift the short mission data there.

[Kaks]

F4 will switch to starboard view when in flight, and you'd probably need to see some mission text while in flight.

Personally I'd have no objections to having a new contracts screen on F4, available only when docked.



If we also have contracts info showing up on the various maps then we can have a bit more of a breathing space.

In other words, anything to avoid doing any more paging implementation with this GUI!

[Cmdr. Maegil]

While (or, if ever) you get on that, see if there's something you can do about a criminal rap sheet... I think some players would appreciate it (mostly by trying to collect them all, but there are other uses).

[Fatleaf]

I have played with the new ....... (the dots at the bottom of the screen) system with the screen getting too full. Although it looks cleaner I think it is a step backwards as the important information is hidden and the unimportant information for that screen (the cargo manifest) Is given priority.

But this of course is only my opinion

[Tricky]

*bump*

Any progress in this area?

[Kaks]

Well, since cim has bravely waded into the GUI code the F5F5 screen is probably as good as it's going to get, but I'll see if I can add some extra info to the map screen ( "35 t computers expected by xxx:xxxx" / "J'dft Arrtew to arrive by xxxxxx:xxx" ) when a contract destination is highlighted... not quite sure yet how to visually handle 2 or more contracts with the same destination, though...

[Switeck]

not quite sure yet how to visually handle 2 or more contracts with the same destination, though...

I've had 3-5 cargo contracts to the same destination system quite a few times. It's especially annoying that there is at least 1 Galaxy Chart that has duplicate system names far, FAR apart. Heck, even Xexedi and Xexeti in Galacy Chart 1 trips me up sometimes.

[Digital86]

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Too often I have too much cargo, contracts, and active missions at once...and all its text does not fit on a single window.
So I cannot read the last items.
Can this be made multiple screens similar to the equipment lists?

I have the same problem. There are new decisions? (v.1.77.1)

[Norby]

I have a "More" line in 1.77.1 where I can press Enter and step to the next screen.

You can't?

[Digital86]

At me is and isn't present

[Norby]

After a test I can confirm: the "More" line need at least 3 lines out of screen. If you do something in your last case to make an additional line then you will see it (for example buy 1g Gold).

This bug is exists in 1.77.1 and 1.79 also. I think the dev team will fix it in nightly builds soon but I do not know if 1.78 will be released once or skipped in favour of 1.80.

[Cody]

I do not know if 1.78 will be released once or skipped in favour of 1.80.

It'll be skipped - see here.

[cim]

After a test I can confirm: the "More" line need at least 3 lines out of screen.

It's not quite that simple - the real bug is that it's not counting the "None" lines for passengers, parcels and contracts when working out how many pages it needs.

Should be fixed in tonight's build (and of course in the 1.80 release) - thanks to Digital86 for reporting it.