Clickable text window

[Roberciiik]

Hello,

In the original Baldur's Gate games, the text window was clickable. It works the same way as "Continue" button on the bottom of the text window, and it was so convenient and fast way to skip dialogs. Is it possible to restore this behavior in EE engine? 

Thanks

[jmerry]

Doesn't look like fixpack material to me - that sounds like fodder for a UI mod. Which G3 seems to be pretty light on. There's a lot more of that over at Beamdog, with a full subforum devoted to them: https://forums.beamdog.com/categories/ui-modding

[Graion Dilach]

Isn't the spacebar enough convenient?

[Roberciiik]

Thanks for the suggestion about UI mod. I will ask there.

Nevertheless, I think it could be restored in the fix-pack, even as a subcomponent. Maybe it is not a content bug, but I feel it is more like a user experience bug.

@Graion Dilach what do you mean by a spacebar? Do you mean "Continue" button? Well, in the current game it forces you to move down a mouse over the button and then move up to choose dialog options. It is really annoying in comparison to oBG2.

[Graion Dilach]

No, I mean the actual spacebar on the keyboard. Unlike the classics, you can get through any dialogues with the keyboard in the EEs - both classics and EEs accept the numeric buttons for player responses, but only the EEs accept spacebar for Continue.

These days I don't even bother with the mouse at all in a dialog tree unless there are 9+ responses.

[jastey]

I see it as a feature that not clicking anywhere inside the whole text box will end / continue the dialogue. It would lead to me jumping over texts unintentionally, repeatedly. For me, reducing the clickable area to the actual Continue button is a good feature, not a bug that needs a fix.

I also see this rather in a tweak or GUI mod.

[Roberciiik]

I see your points, and I agree with you. Skipping dialogs by clicking the window is just my old habit, so I would need to change it. I forgot about space key, I will try it next time. However, implementing such tweak could be nice addition for old engine players.

[lefreut]

I can add a component for this in EEUITweaks.

[Roberciiik]

That would be awesome. Thanks!

[jastey]

10 hours ago, Roberciiik said:

Skipping dialogs by clicking the window is just my old habit

*Looks at all her mods which are dialogue-focussed *

*starts crying*

[Roberciiik]

Haha, good one!  I meant repeatable dialogs from the base game  of course.

Or during modding testing  

[jastey]

Ah, I can relate to that.