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Display Panel pop-up should be a speech balloon
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2024 1:22 pm
by UnbalancedBelt
TL;DR
The display panel should have a little speech balloon tail, like the game intro dialogue:
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What?
If you squint at the textbox when hovering over a display panel, it doesn't have a tail--it is just a floating text box.
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There are systems for textboxes in Factorio to be a speech balloon pointing from an entity (albeit they are opaque and aligned to one side) as seen in the Freeplay intro and in the Tutorial. Drawing a transparent, centered version of the same triangle 'arrow' on the display panel's window would be a nice detail (the box would probably also have to be raised a few pixels to compensate).
Why?
At least in my opinion, the simple rectangle feels like an unfinished UI element.
It has been bothering me immensely, and I would greatly appreciate this additional detail.
Re: Display Panel pop-up should be a speech balloon
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2024 2:14 pm
by BlueTemplar
Re: Display Panel pop-up should be a speech balloon
Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2024 2:45 am
by UnbalancedBelt
That's actually a perfect observation! -- a compilatron style box would be exactly what I was thinking of.
