Infopedia UI issues and missing/needed topics

[fernly]

MacOS, windowed mode, the infopedia scroll buttons/bar don’t act like scroll buttons/scroll bar should do. Clicking the down-arrow button selects the next topic down in the topic list, but does not scroll the topic list. The last 3 or 4 items in the topic list are never visible, they are off the page and never scroll onto it. Although those topics can be read because down-arrow selects them in turn so you can guess what they were.

Topics missing from the infopedia: anything about cargo holds, pods, and shielding. For my 2nd contract I signed up to deliver medical supplies, but when I tried to purchase them, I couldn’t for lack of radiation-shielded hold space. Infopedia no guidance.

[Leigh]

Hi fernly,

That first point is a good one, and one we’ll smooth out in future once we’ve dealt with more pressing crashes and the like, and thanks for suggesting additional topics! I’ll write those today and they’ll be in tonight’s update.

I’m a little confused about the 3 or 4 items on the bottom being invisible. The bottom one one the list is currently weapons, yes? I’m seeing the list go all the way down to weapons. Arrow keys don’t scroll between topics on this end either, which confuses me further. Can you possibly post a screenshot of what the bottom of your Infopedia list looks like for me?

Thank you so much for your time and patience!

Leigh

[Antz]

I’ve had some issues with infopedia too:

If you use it on one of the smaller terminals, e.g. the radio one in the bridge of Ceres, fewer topics fit on it.

Also I could not scroll up in the right pane, and when I switch topics the “scrollness” persists, so the new topic can be off screen and unreachable on that terminal. Meaning I need to read infopedia on another monitor to read a different topic.

[fernly]

I have some pngs for you, can I just drop them here? Let’s see. Infopedia in full after hitting the scroll down button until the Sensors topic is highlighted. This is the first issue: scroll down button should move the DOCUMENT UP not the highlight down.

Next is a snippet at the bottom after hitting scroll down button ONE time, observe Ship Controls is highlighted and the text on the right has changed to match, but it is partly obscured.

Now hit it once more:

Whatever topic follows Ship Controls is (presumably) highlighted as the text on the right has changed. Hit the button a couple more times,

The selected topic is now … Torpedos?

Also I observe the problem @Antz reports, when you scroll-down in the right (text) panel, you can’t go back up, and now EVERY topic you select has been scrolled-down.

[Leigh]

That’s a great amount of detail, fernly, thank you!

It’d been a while since we looked at the Infopedia before beta, so we’ve done one quick once over of the system since kicking off, but it’s clear we’ll need to sort it out properly between now and EA. This level of detail will help us track down the best way to make that happen!

Thank you both!

Leigh

[fernly]

I believe I know why the text-scrolling problem has gone unnoticed. When I view the infopedia on my NAV screen, the larger screen shows all of the topic text without needing scroll. I was using one of the narrower screens so the article had to scroll.

Edit, actually the “COMMS ROOM” topic is long enough to force scrolling even on the Nav screen.

[Leigh]

Yeah and I tend to use the Nav Scree because as a dev I know that’s the one which is the most user-friendly so I don’t see the less well implemented ones. Classic dev problem.

Leigh

[aurora_rising]

as for the infopedia UI, and also the key list in the PDA, i’ve figured out scrolling only one line at a time by clicking on +/-, which is tiresome ! is it possible to scroll faster ?

(what i’d personally have expected is that holding the mouse button would, after a delay, make it start scrolling until released)