Connect or not to Connect - that is the question

[Trenloe]

Sounds like I am doing something wrong. For the Local network, I have my computer (for the vertical monitor) and two players all using LOCALHOST.
Is that the wrong way for the players to connect - sounds like I got a lot to learn about connecting.

How are the players connecting - do they have their own computers or are they all using your one computer with multiple instances of FG running on the one computer?

[Trenloe]

You can create an extension that over-rides the fonts that you wish to change.

The problem here will be that the controls will need resizing to properly fit new (larger) fonts. The CT is a very compact window with lots of data and icons squeezed into a small area, just increasing the size of a font used will probably make it overlap other areas and/or get clipped.

[Falantrius]

You can create an extension that over-rides the fonts that you wish to change.

Great Idea - how do I do that?

[Thete]

Great Idea - how do I do that?

Learning to create extensions is very useful but in the short term a lateral solution might surfice:
Does the OS ur running the display on have suitable accessability tools like a magnifying glass? Otherwise you could install a third party magnifing app.

[Falantrius]

Ran into a serious problem with the SCALEUI

I had my vertical monitor ScaleUI set at 150

I exited FG to the menu/load screen - was good - however, I went to SETTINGS and exited it - returning back to the Menu/load screen for Loading the Campaign
when it returned - it had the Load Screen SCALED at 150% - for both the client on the Vertical monitor (which returned to the load after I exited the main one) AND the Primary one that just returned from Configuration

The only thing I could see on the vertical monitor was the Latest News (left side) and the Settings button. On the vertical I couldn't see anyway to exit as the [X] was far off to the right of the screen and I couldn't find a way to move it at all - eventually I had to go to the task bar and close it altogether.

On the primary screen I could just see the edge of the Load Campaign - so I loaded my campaign - which was scaled at 150% - and the chat window was way below the primary screen so I couldn't type or see what I was typing at all - however, I typed in SCALEUI 100 and returned everything back to normal.

Freaked me out - don't want to do that again. Don't hit settings after you scale. Bad ju ju...
Thought you would want to know though.

[damned]

localhost is a networking term/device/nomenclature for the machine that you are running the commands on.
it usually has an IP address of 127.0.0.1
on a properly configured machine 127.0.0.1 will always be referencing itself.
localhost should do the same

thus you should only be able to connect to your host/campaign using localhost from your computer
everyone else should use either the internal or external ip or the alias

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