"Float-Up" messages block reading of chat window

Started by dimension9

dimension9 Lv 1

beta-helix and kind folks in the Fold-it admin team:

Would it be possible to disable the "Float-Up" messages when the mouse pointer is over the chat window? You have to put your mouse there to scroll or to click in the text entry box, but then the floating messages obscure your view. In some scripts, where there are a lot of "Restore-recent-best," or other message-generating commands, this can really block your view; very frustrating and annoying.

Thanks for any attention you can afford on this small but terribly bothersome issue.

Best Regards,

dimension9

mote Lv 1

suggest instead of disabling "float up" messages, have them offset just to left of chat window when mouse is over chat window - so you still get the messages, but they do not obscure chat text.

Crashguard303 Lv 1

@MoonlessKnight:
Yes, this is also a solution.
Disabling the "float-up-text" by mousing over the chat window, so you don't need another view option.

Tlaloc Lv 1

Also, can the float-ups be disabled when a script is running. Scripts can generate hundreds of these float up messages.

Crashguard303 Lv 1

Right, it looks like stew sometimes when running a script.
There is already the recipe ouput window to give some information.

In regular game, the float-up text makes sense, but not when running recipes.

dimension9 Lv 1

Hi admins and tech team - just hoping to elevate the priority on this annoyance issue just a tad, (just in case it had kind of slipped beneath the radar.) I know there are hundreds of more pressing issues, but I think perhaps dealing with this one small one would make many folders and chatters very happy indeed, as it in our faces daily - and it seems like it might be a less technical issue that most likely would not take a lot of time and effort to fix.

Thanks for all you guys do; it is well-appreciated.

-dimension9

beta_helix Staff Lv 1

Thanks for reminding us about this (as it did slip under the radar).

We can understand how with all the new users, chat must be used even more than usual, so I've bumped this up to priority 2.

We'll try to get to this soon, thanks for your patience.

Crashguard303 Lv 1

Nice, I'm curious if it will do some CPU ressource benefit, too,
and as dimension9 said, it is not creating something completely new, but only deactivating something existing.

Thans in advance,
Alex