ctrl+shift+tab could scroll window tabs backwards(like firefox does)
and perhaps option in settings for jumping to next active tab instead scrolling them all through

url awareness (clickable channel urls)

would be nice to have browser launch cabability when cliking urls

An image or plain text to inform when connection host has been lost would be great. When testing this 1.0 version I found my self waiting and was not typing anything, then just noticed that the connection had died.

Ah, inspired by Pahvi's post.
Clicking on a player name should bring a new tab with finger info on it.

A notepad screen which can be bound to an area scenic location.

so player would stand on the scenic location and could create .txt file bound to that specific location on map.
Notes of this area could be inserted manually, and the file could be opened through browse dialog also.

Features what I'd like to see:

-ESC button to clear input area.
-Short Score to show at Battle Screen.
-Offensive skill/spell messages to show at Battle Screen.
-Possibility to increase the size of Battle Screen.
-Prompt to stay at bottom of Main Screen (like in TF).
-Map Screen to show exits indoors. Perhaps all 'look' information too.
-Map Screen should be few lines higher.
-Walking outdoors/city shouldn't show empty lines in Main Screen.
-Typing 'look' outdoors should show some information on Main Screen.
(-Perhaps an alert message what shows if you are in battle or not. I got confused when some agro monster wandered in the same room where I was and I just saw my short score showing that my hit points are dropping and it took a while that I managed to move my eyes from main screen to battle screen.)

All other things I miss I can handle with triggers like channel lites (I want to lite just text '[wanted]:' not the whole line).

I hope there will be possibility to send information from screen to another with triggers.

One other thing I'd really like would be that your triggers and settings could be saved to Bat server.

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Rjak informed me that Battle Window and Map Window both are resizeable, you just need to aim your cursor and see where the resize icon appears because it doesn't show on border of window.

A snapping of windows would be a nice feature.

Map information should go to Map Screen even "It is very dark you can only feel your surroundings."

When going ld it would be nice if client would give report like 'connection lost to server, all is lost?'. At the moment client does give anykinda of feedback when going ld and dropping out off game. To paranoid person like me its vital to know that client has also been informed about latest events between me and Batmud. Btw it gives message 'Connection lost to server...' when pressing disconnect button from network, so it would be nice if client would do that also via ld.

I just noticed that the client forces 'lines' to 1k. That sucks, I can't check 'mudquote latest' without scrolling.

add the keybinding for + down and - up on the keypad, most major clients have this built in

yes, Fixedsys font. Any reason why it shouldn't be there?

Kapu

I have to agree with Nuc about the 1000 lines thing, ranger info for example gives me *** Text lost in transmission ***.

Also, bell needs to be more audible, the "tick" sound it makes now is barely noticeable. Ability to play wav/mp3 files would be great.

* Window/tab with latest "information" ( shout, info:*, echo, news, library book being read atm etc.)
* Finger-tab also when the command is written.
* A notepad screen boundable for other locations than just scenic ones.
*zMUD-like #MESS-popups which would reach player even if using some fullscreen-application, a game for example or just browsing web.

add loging for map window or enable scroll back, i wana know where the hell i been. Also force look of none mxp rooms into the map window, so there will be no transision shock bettween the windows. This should cut the amount of cofusion. Also i must say the client looks great, even my gf said so. Its pretty easy to use.


GIMME TRIGERS!

A repository of trigger sets from players on bat server and ability to choose them directly from client menu without downloading them first from web? Perhaps with some kind of rating system to sort them.

-FF

Mini map of the current continent would be great. Just like on Warcraft 1 & 2, it just would show the whole continent (no roads etc woould be needed), so you would get a rough idea where you are.

One small thing I'd love to see tweaked about the client is this. Double space awhen a mob dies, or when you flee in the battle window. I'd like to be able to differentiate between stats for a battle with a 'nasty rat, ugly as hell' and a more signifigant mob without squinting for the first few rounds.

Arafat suggested an IRC-plugin for the client in one of his manic ramblings a few weeks back.

Personally I've never IRCed, so I can't comment this. But it does sound like a spiffy idea... or? :)

In a way it is spiffy.. Brings back memory when I tried to do all messaging with Gaim but after some time I gave up. Though it was cool having all operated from one single application, Gaim didn't handle IRC so well as Mirc does.

But plugin IRC could become part of Batclient. I just hope wizzies wouldn't waste their on that. I'm sure all sorts of IM services and anything related to internet can be stuffed in as plugin but the quality of these addon services might not be worth creating.

but having an irc client pluggin would be great for having everyone in your party run off of trigger commands sent over an irc channel that the wizzes couldn't monitor.

[Wup]
- ctrl+shift+tab: will add this on list
- url awareness: already coming


[Pahvi]
- browser launch capability: already coming


[Grediah]
- connection info: already coming
- player name click: already coming (in some form)
- notepad: hmm, haven't thought of this, is it really needed? perhaps..


[Nuc]
- ESC button to clear input: this is already present ctrl-e, you can also change ESC in keymappings
- short score to battle: good idea, will put on list (mudside change)
- offensive skill/spell: already coming (mudside changes, a lot of manual work)
- battle screen size: as you were informed, already implemented
- prompt to stay at bottom: already coming (we're battling whether there'll be 1 or 2 lines of prompt)
- map screen to show exits: we're inspecting this and the possibilities, not a bad idea
- map screen higher: why? do you have problems with it? where?
- walking outdoors/main screen output: yes, slightly a problem..
- battle alert: will explore this matter
- liting words: already coming (later)
- send info from screen to another: please elaborate the use of this
- triggers and settings saved on bat: hmm, triggers are coming but haven't thought about setting save, yet
(good stuff!)


[Alcal]
- snapping of windows: what do you mean by this? please elaborate


[Nuc]
- map information: will explore this, thanks


[Qui]
- connection lost: already coming


[Nuc]
- lines 1k: it doesn't actually, that's the limit it buffers, mudside "more" was just removed, will explore


[Gorge]
- +/- up and down: already coming


[Kapu]
- fixedsys font: no idea why it's not, I'll check this


[Rjak]
- text lost in transmission: that should not happen, will take a look at this and the possibilities
- bell: tick? some people seem to hear a real bell, personally I'm annoyed of the bell, putting on list though


[Dreadlord]
- information window: currently these go to main, might be a good option (putting on list as maybe)
- finger window: possibly, putting on list as maybe (would work with player name-click)
- boundable notepad: ok I've thought many uses for this, thanks Grediah & Dreadlord (on list)
- MESS-popups: hmm, not really convinced about this maybe this could be turned on/off (low priority)


[Gorge]
- map window scrollback: huh:), ok putting this on list (so you can add scrollbar)
- window transition: yes, we need to work on this (on list)
- girlfriend: appreciate the comments, tell her hello from the dev team!
- triggers: already coming


[Flab]
- trigger repository: very low priority, triggers.bat.org exists I guess (but not a bad idea!)


[Grediah]
- mini map: something like this is already on the list (not coming too soon)


[Rowen]
- double space at action end: what do you mean? something like empty lines? good idea (putting on list)


[Nosunrise/Arafat/Dreadlord/Hrolf]
- irc-plugin: extremely low priority, someone was already doing this mudside, or thinking about it

Also we will hopefully be able to code our own modules for the client someday? So that we can incorporate things that aren't sanctioned but aren't banned. Such as making the map window clickable to launch Ooga's maps and autofind your location or some such.

Just a little one.

While the bats and extra imagery in the combat/map windows look groovy they just get in the way.
They also contribute to the funny resizing feature of clicking .5 centimetres below the line to resize.
An option to have them like a standard box would be good (if I can't do that already).

Oh, and I think it was said before but I would kill for an updated party status window or something along those lines.

1. Option to direct where skills/spells info go, also separate option for offencive spells and skills. Thus i could direct all offencive stuff to go to combat screen and keep all non-offenvice ones at general side or toss all to combat screen.
2. Database(s) so us more complex trigger coders/statistic followers don't have to invent the wheel again.
3. That party window that would get updated from party report feeds and from ps/pss.
4. Option to toggle Map window to remember last feed.
5. Option that when a area is supporting (new) map, the general window would jump up a bit and the map would come under the general window and when exiting the area, it would shrink away.
   from to
6. Windowes/tabs to have small timestamp when it was last refreshed/latest info.
   OR
   Configurated timestamps for all or part of windowes/tabs. e.g.
   18:46:12 | Damogran [newbie]: Introducing a new player to BatMUD: Connolly.
7. Option that last X second messages from mud would be +1 font size &/ bolded or smiliar. This is a feature that none of the present clients are able to do but would help reading most recent info fast, highlight it and let me evalute how old the info is. Having multiple windoes active would give this feature even more importance and batclient does have multiple tabs active on the same time.
8. Able to substitute/imbend pictuers on/in text.
   e.g. i have imbued the pitures of races from batweb to be shown when i display a race in wax museon.
9. Stuff to start obeying cutter, or being removed altogether already.
10. Items that have glow, would have their whole name in that color glow instead of having the <color glow> end of it, or at least so sophisticated triggers that it can be done trigger sided. We got finally the 32bit colors in client so lets start using em. Having text telling what color the item has is kinda pointless when we can illustruate it (yes even in text "only" game) with colors. e.g.
    Magical items would get their "(glowing)" replaced with bolded item text.
11. Prompt being always shown and gagged (like in old "client") or a copy of prompt being show in batclients prompt. Also that i can cofigure the prompt to calculate differences and color it too. e.g.
12. Character windows where results of "score" would be displayed and stay there.
13. Latest Informs to be show at logging screen already. Like ingame RSS feed so you would always see the latest ones (the game prompts me "Read news inform!" but 99% of the time there is nothing new)
14. To be albe to change keyboard macros via other keyboard macro. e.g. now when i move with keypad it sends the s e w n... like it does now but when i hit numlock it starts to send S E W N... thus it changes my movement from single steps to walking.