Release 19 - Information and feedback

[Trenloe]

If I could have my dream overhaul of the activities tab - because even after using it for a while it does feel cluttered and it's definitely slow to load - I think what it would look like is a display of just favorited activities (ideally with the ability to have multiple named categories of favorites), and then a button that opens all activities in a separate window.

This is just the presentation of the Favorites class in a separate tab. I threw this together while I was doing some other "activities" work. I doubt I'll have the bandwidth to do anything significant beyond this in the short-medium term.

[MaxAstro]

That's actually huge - waiting for activities to load is a notable time sink and my players kinda hate using activities because of it.

If the favorites tab is snappy to load that will be an amazing improvement.

EDIT: Weird UX thing, but the "Favorites" tab should maybe be below the "Activities" tab? That makes it more clear they are related in my opinion, and also keeps the Favorites tab next to the all-important Actions tab.

[Trenloe]

That's actually huge - waiting for activities to load is a notable time sink and my players kinda hate using activities because of it.

If the favorites tab is snappy to load that will be an amazing improvement.

Opening Favorites for the first time will be a little bit quicker than the Activities tab, but it still needs to parse through all activities to identify which are favorites. Any speed improvements will be based on building less GUI objects in the FG tab.

The large delay opening the Activities tab is a one-off. Once it's been opened for the first time during a session, it should be a lot quicker for subsequent openings, even if the PC sheet has been closed. I recommend players open the activities tab after they join a session and open their PC sheet for the first time, before they actually need to access activities.

You can see the speed differences in this video, even after closing and re-opening the PC sheet it's much quicker after the Activities tab has been opened once during the FG session: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/opi3x...m1sd98zkp&dl=0

[Tempered7]

This is just the presentation of the Favorites class in a separate tab. I threw this together while I was doing some other "activities" work. I doubt I'll have the bandwidth to do anything significant beyond this in the short-medium term.

Theme: Core is preventing Favorites tab from being opened as a floating tab. (alt + left click)

Tested with and without too many extensions, in an old (pre-update) and new campaign. Same result.
It just selects the tab.
In fact, the theme is preventing all the other floating tabs to float.

Didn't test it with other themes.

[Trenloe]

Theme: Core is preventing Favorites tab from being opened as a floating tab. (alt + left click)

Thanks for letting us know. We'll investigate further...

[ScribblingRambler]

Having the separate favourites tab will be very useful. Thanks!

The biggest problem my players have had with Activities is that the Display selection (Min. Action/All Actions) doesn't retain its setting. I know there was earlier talk about setting a default in Options, but just having the selection stay between sessions would be even better, I believe.

Thanks for all of the hard work.

[Trenloe]

...but just having the selection stay between sessions would be even better, I believe.

That's how this was originally designed, but it caused serious issues when both a player and GM were looking at the same Activities tab, so storing the selection in the FG database was removed and the functionality changed to what it is now. Changing to use different database fields for the player and GM is not a simple task, hence why it hasn't been implemented already. I've added a note to the PF2 dev tasklist to look into this at some point, but I don't have an estimate of when that will be.

[ScribblingRambler]

Thanks for the reply and explanation.
I'm sure my players will all like the new tab in the meantime.

[Trenloe]

Theme: Core is preventing Favorites tab from being opened as a floating tab. (alt + left click)

This has been fixed with a ruleset hotfix: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forum...l=1#post746497 Thanks again for letting us know about the issue.

[Tempered7]

This has been fixed with a ruleset hotfix: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forum...l=1#post746497 Thanks again for letting us know about the issue.

Np, also just confirmed it.