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Quest Description Shortened?

04-20-2008, 02:42 AM#1
GosuSheep
For some reason, whenever I make a Quest, its description it shortened substantially. Can anyone tell me why this is happening and give me a way to prevent it?

replies are greatly appreciated
04-20-2008, 10:34 AM#2
Captain Griffen
Possibly GUI string limit. If two strings are added together, they can be twice as long, if three, three times, etc.
04-20-2008, 12:04 PM#3
Anitarf
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Originally Posted by Captain Griffen
Possibly GUI string limit. If two strings are added together, they can be twice as long, if three, three times, etc.
Actualy, it's shortened ingame, not in the editor. As far as I know it's a quest display window limitation; it was never intended for large amounts of text.
04-20-2008, 12:58 PM#4
Captain Griffen
Hmm...which part of the quest menu are we talking about? Any significant amount of text should be put into the main description bit, and I've never run into any limit there. However, if you're talking about the title, the description on the quests menu list, or the bullet pointed descriptions, then they are limited, and you can't get around them.
04-20-2008, 08:55 PM#5
Anitarf
I'm talking about the main description bit. It has a scrollbar, but gets cut off at a certain length anyway.
04-20-2008, 10:54 PM#6
GosuSheep
yeah, see that usually happens when a have a ridiculously long quest description. Here's the issue, it is null terminating, cutting the string off... whatever.... after like 7 lines. Strangely enough, it's the exact carriage return length as another quest description i have. I am going to attempt to add bunches of <cr> to the other description and see if that has an impact. (no idea why it would, but i've noticed bullshit like this tends to work with blizzards marvelous jass language-.-)