Re-format player names in scoreboard to fit its width.

Case number:845833-989899
Topic:Game: Display
Opened by:BootsMcGraw
Status:Resolved
Assigned:jflat06
Priority:5-Low
Type:Suggestion
Opened on:Sunday, June 26, 2011 - 00:14
Last modified:Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 02:16

Some players have names with so many characters that displaying their names covers their current scores, and sometimes even covers their best scores. (See attached photo for an example.)

When displaying players' names, it would be good to truncate any very long names at about eighteen characters, and adding an ellipsis after, to show that their names are too long to fit the display.

(Sun, 06/26/2011 - 00:14  |  7 comments)


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Photo didn't get uploaded... wrong format. Trying again.

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Assigned: Anonymous » jflat06

hopefully this will be easy to quickly implement

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This should be in the next update.

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Great job, thank you.

Not to be a nit-picker, but it wasn't necessary to truncate team names by as many characters as soloist names, since there is no "current" score shown on the group scoreboard for names to cover. My friends at Anthropic Dreams and other teams would probably appreciate it if they could have their whole name, again.

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I can just change the limit and it'll be in the next release.

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You guys are the best. ¡Mucho gracias!

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Status: Open » Resolved

marking as resolved

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