One of these

Make a button in text trigger editor to copy the whole text into clipboard

Also,
define a command line parameter which allows one to compile a given SCMD text triggers file into the given map. This will help developping extended "third party" tools for working with triggers, MacroTriggers for example.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Mar 11 2009, 10:35 am by Wormer.

Both AWESOME ideas!!
Maybe let us classify our trigger by making some external categories (maybe something like the Force display and we select which one we want to see. Of course, add a default "All"). With that, it would become very easy to trigger for specific systems without having to search through all the triggers every time you close the window.

Maybe also add a real-time "search" feature so we don't need to press Enter to see the result ;P
An other improvement could be to be able to select something from the map (where we can edit the terrain) and to give us a link to some kind of "pre-search" where we see all triggers related to that unit/location. Add a way to do so with switches too please?
Also maybe give us a way of keeping track of our death counts

An ability to lock/hide some locations. When hidden the location either not displayed at all or is transparent and unselectable (unhide via locations listbox to the left). When locked the location is selectable but unmoveable.

Colorfull rainbow locations (an ability to assign colors to locations).

For all metadata use an additional file stored in the same mpq archive as scenario.chk (scmd\metadata for example).

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Mar 11 2009, 8:19 pm by Wormer.

Don't kill me if I already mentioned these:

Unsort every dropdown list.
Remove the period in "Untitled Scenario".
Allow no condition for triggers.
Change "Neutral" to "Player 12".
Update colour on [unplaced] units when change player hotkey is pressed.
Pad the links to numbers in classic trigedit with spaces to make single digits easier to select.
Release the source code. ^_^

After reading through the entire thread, I realized I completely have to agree with him.

No offense, but some requests, including backwards ramps, are totally ridiculous. How on earth is SI supposed to find all the custom-made doodads people have come up with in more than 5 years? Also, extended terrain is absolutely unofficial and ought not to be put near the normal doodads.



And to post other than complaint, here are a few things that have not been mentioned yet. They are little things but I think (and hope) they are not difficult to implement:

- You should receive a warning when trying to delete locations being used in triggers, just like in the original campaign editor.

- There could be a button in the Sound Editor that stops playing all wavs currently being played.

- There could also be a way to keep track of how many locations you have used up already and how far you are from the limit.

That's all I could suddenly think of, most of the others have been mentioned by NudeRaider already. I will post again when I have more suggestions.



Also, I would too like to thank you for helping the community by making SCMDraft and for giving us the opportunity to make suggestions with which you can improve it even further.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Mar 12 2009, 10:34 pm by NudeRaider. Reason: strings: Check String Editor | doodads check status bar in dooda

I kinda like the sorting, what's wrong with it? Also, I think Neutral was a good idea, but I think the Neutral Players confuses people, so I would have it say Neutral(P12), and maybe change the name for Neutral Players.

What's wrong with it? It's not in order.

1
10
11
12
2
3
4

There should be a button that removes all of the leftover corpses and such when operating in "animate unit deaths" mode. It wouldn't make much practical difference, but it would save on annoyance.

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Mar 13 2009, 5:01 am by FoxWolf1.

Also, may I just remind the fact that adding some third party programs directly into SCMD2 would really rock (such as seeing the number of triggers done, etc... <-- that could possible help for the DLDB of SEN when requesting some informations via codes when uploading a map (if ever they want to make it like Maplantis' DLDB (which really rocked!)).

But for more serious stuff:
If you do not implement trigger comments that wouldn't increase string limit, well, could you then at least made it in sort that when we create a trigger, we have a little button that we can press so that is auto create a "Never" condition and a Comment"..." action? Moreover, it should redirect us directly to the comment's input text box.

Maybe made comments actions so that you just directly get to the input textbox.

In classic trigedit make it possible to use "Tab" to go fastly through the blue value links by making it text boxes.

Thanks for everything!

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Mar 13 2009, 9:39 am by NudeRaider. Reason: removed elaborate sentences - see PM

Oh, I thought you were referring to those with like unit names and such, you're right about the number organization though, it sucks.

In the latest version of scmdraft when you click on a location you cant just click and drag, you have to click and make sure its highlighted THEN click again then you can drag, it would be nice if you would only have to click and drag. If you smell what im stepping in.

Hotkeys for Classic TrigEdit (backspace/del to delete a condition/action, ctrl+c to copy a condition/action, arrow keys to move the condition/action).

There are hotkeys, they just aren't exactly intuitive.

How about ctrl+arrow key instead?

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Mar 13 2009, 11:53 pm by ForTheSwarm.

seconded, just arrows would be too annoying and it'd happen by accident too often.

Oh yeah, another one that I think has been mentioned before: A function to replace all instances of tile A with tile B.

Edit: Also selecting multiple locations (Shift-click) would be nice.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Mar 14 2009, 10:24 pm by Roy.

Make it possible to adjust placement to any custom grid (not only the first one), because the first grid overdraws the second.

Also, make custom grid settings remain till SCMD is closed.

That prevents some other location stuff from working, like creating a new location inside of a larger one. And that annoyed me way too much in staredit.

I agree with this; scmdraft is much better than staredit in this regard.

I'm curious as to which suggestions you're considering.