Dialog options get cut off (FIXED)

[simulacra]

It seems that long dialog options are cut off after a certain length. It does not look to good, since the line goes black after 60% of the screen approximately. I guess there is a maximum length to these options.

Can this be fixed somehow or do I have to rewrite the options into shorter phrases? And does anyone know how long a dialog option can be before getting cut off?

[Gregjazz]

Yes, there is a limit to the length of dialog options. I don't know of any way around it apart from creating your own dialogue system.

[simulacra]

Do you know what the maximum length is? 

[Pumaman]

The maximum length of a dialog option is 150 characters. This should be well over 60% of the screen width, in fact text of this length would generally occupy two lines.

[monkey0506]

Why is that?  I mean, why isn't it 200 characters?  And I'm presuming that, based on what I've read here, you can't make a dialog option span multiple lines with the built in dialog system???  Wow...

[Pumaman]

A dialog option can span multiple lines, which is why I'm curious about what the problem is here.

[monkey0506]

Well that's what I thought.

But still, why 150 characters instead of 200?  I presume that there is a reason?

[simulacra]

Have a look at this. This is compiled in AGS v 2.70. I think it used to work properly in previous versions.

[Pumaman]

Are the options cut off like that in the editor, or is the full text shown in the editor?

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Hmm, it seems there's a bug in the Dump Text feature, where it will truncate dialog options to 70 characters when you import the dumped text back in. Have you used that feature recently?

[simulacra]

It's the same in the editor. Didn't see that before. And I recently used the dump text feature. That's probably the issue.

[Pumaman]

Yep, that makes sense. I'll fix the bug for the next version.

Edit by strazer: Fixed in AGS v2.71 Beta 5

[simulacra]

Great!