hello ArunPrime,
about more save-games per save-game-page:
1st MAJOR problem: if you increase "size", i.e. normally there are 6 save-games per page; if you now let's say save a 1-7-LT1.save with a MOD, and then the MOD is absent again(for whatever reason):
you will not be able to load that save-game!!!(until you e.g. reanme it to 1-1-LT1.save)
But I thought: "Oh, well, it looks easily doable, why not implement it(with a BIG warning!) for some people that like to play(save) differently than me?"
So I tried (with RenPy 7.3.5 / 8.0 / 8.1) to change
gui.file_slot_cols
and
gui.file_slot_rows
and that proved fatal(for me)
-unexpectedly after changing the gui-vars ingame, the grid of the screen did NOT change!
-by default there is NO scrollbar and you can't even scroll by mouse-wheel!
-if there are too much rows and cols to fit on the screen, they're "outside" and you cannot reach them!
This would mean, I would have to CHANGE the default:
grid gui.file_slot_cols gui.file_slot_rows:
style_prefix "slot"#style_prefix "mttkModStyFsGrid"
AND provide scrollability. (by default a grid is not scrollable, look at the history-screen how it is done there!..)
This is of course doable for every single game...BUT chances (imho) are HIGH, one will have to adjust "stuff"(e.g. font-sizes and styles) for EVERY game.
and, well, third: personally I prefer not to be required to scroll on save-game-pages...
That's why I make roughly 100 pages available (instead 10).
I know everybody plays differently, but I would deem if you give it a chance, you could change from, let's say 10 pages with with 50 save-games to 99 pages with 6 save-games...
bottomline:
without a MOD:
-more pages may be "hard" to access, but POSSIBLE!
-while more saves per page will be UNACCESSIBLE!
also it will require (me) to make changes to the file_slots-screen
-with a good chance of many different incompatibilities per single game
->I'm not going to do it, so if you insist on that feature, you have to look for another MOD, sorry.
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textbox-stuff:
In a "full-MOD" I do some "general optical changes", and in the past that had included(e.g.for some unpublished MODs) changes to the "textbox" (I would prefer to talk about the say-screen), but that is totally unrelated to save-games, save-game-pages aswell as quick -save and -load, what THIS MOD is all about.
(admittably screenshots are unrelated too...but the relation stems from "keys"/gestures that are needed for android)
Also, from what I see in RenPy 8.1, RenPy itself does preferences about opacity and even colors...not to talk about "bubbles", which will be a future challange.
bottomline:
-unrelated to this MOD; personally I consider it OFF-topic
-will never be part of "Save-Game-Description"-MOD
sorry again
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lastly to your cryptic talk about not being able to access "your settings in game menu"...after applying my MOD:
-besides adjustments(MOTE&SP to be specific) I DO NOT change the game_menu-screen !!!
generally:
-1st off: one must consider my MOD incompatible with other MODs
--tho the idea is: if the other MOD does nothing about save-games, it may nonetheless be compatible
-technical: I change the "screen file_slots( title )" (and add a function to the "JSON-callback")
--if you too change that screen, either MY changes OR YOUR changes ARE LOST
(---and why would anyone put settings for the say-screen into the file_slots-screen?)
If I misunderstood you, please tell me! But please with CLEAR description (and pot. MEANINGFUL: log/traceback/screenshot/code-block).
btw. "your really appreciation" of my work wasn't even worth a lousy like to the OP, but why do I always expect the impossible...
happy playing, greets Mattock
