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Submitted by Mekesss on Fri, 07/02/2004 - 23:09

I got a few suggestions...

1) 3rd Party Support: I know it said in the FAQ there is no "need" for 3rd party programs, but maybe you can make it so it supports them and such. Like a small scripting language, or a developer version to make add-ons/modules/what have you with.

2) Auto-reconnect. If you're not connected to a server, every 3 minutes it tries to connect to either server. If both are down, it'll wait another 3 minutes and try again. This way, i can idle without having to check every couple hours to see if i got dissconnect.

3) URL support: I know as a DM you can send URL's to people and make them go there in their browser... but why not when you type one, make it a link.

4) Copy/paste. I highlight text to copy/paste... and as soon as someone else types, my highlight is gone. That sucks. This could also fix the highlighting of URLs to go visit.

5) Music: Its been suggested... but maybe just a small .midi player would be great. Or, better yet... streaming sound, so you can be like "The Orc makes a terrible roar!" "DM Stream Sound - Orc.wav" or something like that.

6) Really stupid, but kinda cool - Voice support. That'd be cool, and you could keep everything else for like... viewing. Or something.

7) A way to view text files from a drop down list. Kinda like how on MSWord, you got the "open recent" file list thingy under "File" (Or most other programs for that matter)... but this one, lists all the files in lets ssay... OPnPW/texts/ and such. So lets say you had one named "MekeShrikeCS.txt"... you move your mouse up, and click "Texts" and scroll down to "MekeShrikeCS.Txt" from the menu. In fact, here is a picture I drew to show it.

[img]http://www.whahay.net/pubaccess/opnpthing.JPG[/img]

That way, you click one, and it brings up the .txt file in notepad (could also work with other files!)

8) Drawing lessons for me.

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Submitted by Mikkl on Sat, 07/03/2004 - 02:54.

My MS Paint skills aren't quite as good, but I decided that a possible variation of Mekesss' suggestion number 2. It'll be better for people who don't know about the second server. A possible second section underneath for "connect to IP..." could be added if a 3rd party server capability is released. Anyway, suggestion:

[img]http://home.earthlink.net/~hryanlucas/images/disconnected.gif[/img]

It's a little pop-up window, in case that's not clear in the picture. Also, it might be cool to add to the sidebar of the main site a program information section that lists the servers by their address, the users connected, and the number of games currently being played.

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Submitted by Brad on Wed, 07/07/2004 - 05:00.

Mikkl:
Server status will be available via a webpage soon.

Mekesss:
1)
I'm not comfortable with the secuirty and coding of OPnPW to open it ot 3rd parties, maybe in the future I could consider this.

2)
Auto-Reconnect sounds good, but also possibly very annoying, will add or at least place in queue.
3)
Very hard to do, will add it when its feasible.
4)
Not my jurisdiction, windows will only let me do so much, and I can make it easier for you to copy and paste, but the selection part really isn't my domain, so I can't do much.
5)
Would require me to add in some 3rd party controls or such, to handle the music, and there is not the room for it now, but noted for the future.
6)
Regarding the MRU list, I don't see a need for it yet, as you don't open any files from within OPnPW, if I add back in a 'Media' browser, then yes I'll certainly add it.

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Submitted by Muddy on Wed, 07/07/2004 - 07:10.

I actually like Mikkls idea as an alternative to Meke's.. It may not be needed but it would still be convenient. And after all, to be successful you dont need to be completely practical, but also rather convenient as well :)

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