Scrollable Chatbox

[simbabque]

Hi,
I played tto a long time ago and just recently discovered there was such a thing as openTTD. So first of all my appreciation to all the guys doing this.
Especially the multiplayer mode is pretty cool.

There is a thing that bothers us, though. I am someone used to writing a lot of instant messanging. I normally just write a couple of small posts containing a few words. And smileys in a new line, of course. The lack of scrollbars in the chat-box, or rather the chat-display-area, makes it hard to read. The text vanishes to fast.

I guess it is possible to store maybe 20 lines or something in some kind of log-file or variable that forgets each 21st line if a new 1st line is added. A set of vertical scrollbars to browse up and down and the chatty players are all happy.

I hope this has not been suggested yet (or well, if it was maybe someone is working on it allready, so it would not be that bad actually ), at least I was not able to locate it anywhere.

[Brianetta]

A real movable, resizable, scrollable UI window containing the chat (and an input line) would be the best solution. If you just want to see what's been said recently, you can open the console (press the key left of 1) where the last 20 or so lines are usually visible.

[Moriarty]

You have a (complete ?) history of all messages for the period you've been connected via the console.
Open it, and press Shift-Up/Down to scroll up and down it.
Press Shift+PageUp/PageDown to do pageup and down in it.
Another little known feature.

[simbabque]

Alright. I guess the console should do the trick then. Thanks.