Openrct2: Inconsistent drop-down lists

[danidoedel]

OS: Windows 10
Version: 0.0.5
Commit/Build: 13ecd35

I think the pictures are self-explaining. Vanilla behavior is the same as the first picture. Not sure which alternative is better though... Maybe the second would improve UX?

Screenshots:

[Nubbie]

It could be implemented with a '...' if the string gets too long, but I don't think we should limit the drop-down list when users themselves can choose the name for their 'title sequences' (in this case).

I don't think we should limit drop-down lists space when users are the one changing their length with the names they choose

[danidoedel]

Yeah that's what the first image shows ;)

Yep, there is no way to display the full name and that will be hard if there are two similar names like 'MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM' and 'MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM2'. No chance to see the 2 at the end...

[Ryder17z]

There is an even better way to do this.
'MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM'
'MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM2'.
Would become:
'MMMMMMMMMM... ...MMM'
'MMMMMMMMMM... ...MMM2'.

[danidoedel]

And if the unique part is in the middle?

[Wirlie]

Hum, I think that a tooltip can fix this:

The advantage of this is that if the text is very long this will split up into multiple lines:

[Ryder17z]

@danidoedel it would only care about invisible differences

[danidoedel]

But still not possible if there are too many differences. The drop-down list is short and the strings can be long. Every difference eats double '...'

[Ryder17z]

Normally this would not happen and once or twice would suffice

[Nubbie]

@Wirlie Misunderstood you at first, like your idea :sweat_smile:

[marijnvdwerf]

Or just line-wrap items. With some extra padding, that shouldn't make it too hard to distinguish different items,