Author Topic: I think I found an engine limitation  (Read 4798 times)

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Offline TopAce

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Re: I think I found an engine limitation
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2) Editing. My god does send-message-list render editing frustrating. You can only delete the very last string in the SEXP's data, so it's impossible to selectively prune a single message from the middle of the list.

Yes, editing is problematic. I can't disagree with that.
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Offline FUBAR-BDHR

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Re: I think I found an engine limitation
It's very easy to hit the size limit per event when using when-argument.  You can eat up that 2048 characters real quick. 

I believe I did file a Mantis report on this way back.  http://scp.indiegames.us/mantis/view.php?id=1852  Probably need the same type of check for other areas. 
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