Bigger/longer WordWatch field

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Bigger/longer WordWatch field

Postby Apexi » Mon Dec 28, 2009 1:39 pm

Is it possible to make the field for ww bigger?
Don't know if it is like 400 letter as it is now?
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Re: Bigger/longer WordWatch field

Postby Riamus » Tue Dec 29, 2009 9:01 am

What would you need a larger field for? A server will only send lines that are a certain length, cutting off anything extra that is sent. This is usually somewhere around 450 characters and that includes the length of the channel name and your nick. Also, the idea behind word watch is to watch for specific words or phrases, not entire sentences. So I'm not sure what the purpose of having it larger would be.
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Re: Bigger/longer WordWatch field

Postby Apexi » Tue Dec 29, 2009 9:51 am

Well if you paste a couple $orange $bold $uline in the text the text field will not be enough for anything :)
I'm talking about the "answer field" What ww should answer.
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Re: Bigger/longer WordWatch field

Postby Riamus » Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:06 am

$orange? $bold? $uline? Why not use control characters? Or were you meaning that you were using the control characters, but just put those here since you can press Ctrl-B, Ctrl-U, Ctrl-K in the forum? Control characters count as the same number of spaces used both in the word watch and when sending the information to the network. So using them doesn't actually reduce how much text you can send to the channel. Every control character reduces the amount of visible characters that you can send already, even without using the word watch. It wouldn't make sense to allow 800 characters in the word watch when the server won't let you send more than ~450 including length of your nick + length of the channel name.

Also keep in mind that you can SEE more than what others can if you go over the character limit when sending a message. Even if you might be able to see a 500 character message that you send, everyone else will only see ~450 - your nick length - the length of the channel name.
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