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Postby Surly » Fri Jul 22, 2005 11:17 pm

After about 5 views, I believe.

Or just press 'hide all'...
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Postby Jos Elkink » Fri Jul 22, 2005 11:23 pm

Alexander wrote:One of my events pages is getting really long...


There's a 'hide all' button ;) ...
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Postby Alexander » Sat Jul 23, 2005 12:04 am

Oh, thank you for pointing out the "hide all" button, but I have been using that.

Perhaps if I word it differently.

Does the Events page purge itself after a certain amount of time passage? Or does the text just always stay there, and just continues to stack up, never purging itself?
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Postby Talapus » Sat Jul 23, 2005 12:13 am

It purges it after you load the events page about 5 times (as was already pointed out), and the information is stored for a total of 7 days (when you click show all, it shows 7 days worth).
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Postby Just A Bill » Sat Jul 23, 2005 2:03 am

The activities page is searchable, why not the events page? I don't know how hard searching by person would be, probably involve some kind of table join, but that would be very useful when trying to sort out one particular conversation...
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Postby west » Sat Jul 23, 2005 2:05 am

kinvoya wrote:Ahoyhoy, if you don't want to read it all you could use a search function to look for the word "you." That should get you through it pretty quickly.


...you're kidding, right?

Everything but people actually speaking out loud starts with "You see..."
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Postby Snake_byte » Sat Jul 23, 2005 2:33 am

Even if it was searchable, you still wouldn't be able to search for somthing said that was Directed at you but not whispered. It'll start with " **** Says:" and not "**** says to YOU:"
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Postby wichita » Sat Jul 23, 2005 2:35 am

Do what I do if you get tired of all the mindless chatter. Find a smaller town or find a job inside with a half dozen of your character's closest friends.
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Postby El_Skwidd » Sat Jul 23, 2005 3:19 am

...Provided your character HAS friends. :twisted:

IE has a search function built in. I don't know about other browsers, but if you really need to search for something in your events page, just do that.
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Postby Jos Elkink » Sat Jul 23, 2005 7:59 am

west wrote:...you're kidding, right?

Everything but people actually speaking out loud starts with "You see..."


If I really have little time, I search for 'to you' ....
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Postby west » Sat Jul 23, 2005 6:00 pm

same, but just searching for "you" is a bit pointless.
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Postby Ahoyhoy » Sun Jul 24, 2005 10:18 pm

The way the events menu is now doesn't have to be changed. It could stay the same, with sub-menu options to narrow it up. But sometimes there's like 100 lines of things I have to search through. And usually i'm trying to find only relevant stuff to my character.
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Postby formerly known as hf » Mon Jul 25, 2005 7:29 pm

kinvoya wrote:Ahoyhoy, if you don't want to read it all you could use a search function to look for the word "you." That should get you through it pretty quickly.
... every entry start with 'you' :P

I usually search for 'to you'

Anyways - just be patient - the Cantr events page requires a little practice. before long, you'll have a page left for two days in a city of 70+ charries and have no trouble at all skim-reading it for the important bits...
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Postby Ahoyhoy » Thu Aug 04, 2005 9:00 am

I could use the search function. Or a option to show only messages you are interested in could be shown. Such as having the option of looking at reading messages said by only certain people.
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Postby Nick » Thu Aug 04, 2005 9:08 am

I doubt you're going to get any sympathy from Jos if you find outside too loud.
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