Lix title character length limit

Started by Silken Healer, December 03, 2024, 12:47:27 AM

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Silken Healer

Lix Version: Lix 0.10.27
Operating System Version: Windows 10 LTSC 2021 64-bit English-United Kingdom, Version 21H2 OS Build 19044.5131
Description: When I attempt to title a Lix level (or the filename through Lix) there is a character length limit. This is too small to put everything I need in the title, and I could just manually edit in a file browser for the filename, or text editor for the title anyways.
Steps to reproduce:
  • Open Lix
  • Create a new level
  • Attempt to name it more than whatever the current limit is

Screenshots/Recordings: None
Expected behaviour: No limit and we can create titles (or filenames through Lix) as long as we'd like

Simon

If you put longer titles, Lix will abbreviate your titles throughout the UI. You'll see abbreviations in the browser's level list, in the preview, ...

You'd also make it hard to talk about your levels in discussions. You're enticing people to abbreviate instead of typing the entire title, even if it's the first appearance in a post.

It's easy in the code to change the editor's text field for the level title from limited to unlimited. But given the exiting design throughout Lix's UI elsewhere, I prefer to keep that text field limited. It's a clear way to make people choose titles that render properly.

What kinds of titles do you want? Why do you need those? What are alternative titles that would fit, and why are they worse? How do you expect Lix to render your long titles? Do you want two rows of text for the title?

-- Simon