Author Topic: Expand WRU the name box  (Read 548 times)

Offline Jarod "Brickwit" McBrickerton

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Expand WRU the name box
« on: December 26, 2012, 12:18:09 am »
When adding a person to our WRU (a.k.a. friends list) the character's name is automatically filled in, but we can manually change it. We can use up to 32 characters and that's usually enough but sometimes I find it too few. Some players have very long names and I like to add notes about their society so that I can recall who is in what society and 32 characters can be used by the name alone.


My request is to allow more characters in the WRU name box so that I can add better notes without having to delete part of the name. If 32 characters is the limit of a single line of text in the WRU then it would be good to allow more than one line of text. And since there have been opportunities for people to change their in-game names it would be nice to add a note about their new name in the WRU since it does not automatically updates (see the thread Name Change in AWS).
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Re: Expand WRU the name box
« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2012, 09:40:13 am »
When adding a person to our WRU (a.k.a. friends list) the character's name is automatically filled in, but we can manually change it. We can use up to 32 characters and that's usually enough but sometimes I find it too few. Some players have very long names and I like to add notes about their society so that I can recall who is in what society and 32 characters can be used by the name alone.


My request is to allow more characters in the WRU name box so that I can add better notes without having to delete part of the name. If 32 characters is the limit of a single line of text in the WRU then it would be good to allow more than one line of text. And since there have been opportunities for people to change their in-game names it would be nice to add a note about their new name in the WRU since it does not automatically updates (see the thread Name Change in AWS).

When you move mouse over the someones name box, it displays "Description" + "Tel.No".
Hold "Shift" when clicking on "rename" button to edit the "Description" instead of name.
The description is limited to 128 characters, not 32.
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Re: Expand WRU the name box
« Reply #2 on: December 26, 2012, 08:30:41 pm »
Ahh, I had no idea we could change the description. Thanks Dr. B!
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