1. Choosing a base font in Quest is a form of drudgery.

As currently implemented, Quest programmers must select a base font, write a little game that includes a "Print a message" script to display the selected base font, play the game to see the selected base font, then repeat the cycle multiple times until a final base font is chosen. Drudgery.

Why doesn't the "Base font" drop-down list on the game / Display tab include samples of each font? Microsoft Word does for font selection. Paint.NET does. Most contemporary software does...except Quest.

2. Choosing a background or foreground colour in Quest is a form of ludicrous drudgery.

As currently implemented, Quest programmers must select from a list of colour names. Colour names?#@! The names are either inaccurate (e.g. LightGray sure isn't "light" to me) or meaningless (e.g. how any people on the face of the Earth intuitively know the hue "HoneyDew"?). Then, write a little game, play the little game, repeat the cycle multiple times. Ugh.

Why don't "Background colour" and "Foreground" on the game / Display tab give us a palette for colour selection? (Again, see Microsoft Word, Paint.NET, and most contemporary software for examples.) Geez, the code doesn't even need to be written; just grab a library that includes a color palette class.

A list of colour names?#@! Ludicrous.

Did you see the "Browse available web fonts" link? And the color names are official names of 140 colors supported by all browsers http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colornames.asp

Pertex:

1. You're defending mediocrity;

2. "Browse available web fonts" is irrelevant to the issue of providing us IMMEDIATE examples of base fonts;

3. So...why don't Microsoft Word, Paint.NET, and most contemporary software give us a list of colour names rather than their cheeky approach of presenting us with a palette? Or, if you prefer, why doesn't Quest give us IMMEDIATE examples of the colours?

(Maybe the question I really want to ask is...why did you even bother to respond when Quest is clearly deficient in font and colour selection?)

Signed,

The Old Brick

P.S. Actually, I expected somebody to write "You can use hex colour codes in Quest".

To answer your first question (somewhat), Word shows the fonts available *on your system*. Such programs use a common control built into Windows to show such fonts, which is why the use of that mode of selection is so prevalent. Quest is a different matter. Besides the standard stock fonts (which I suppose could be displayed), the vast majority of fonts available to Quest are Google fonts, which are not available in programs like Word. So until there is such a common control for Google fonts, with widespread implementations in programs of such *off-system* fonts, you're comparing apples and oranges (they're both fonty fruit, but of a different kind. One shows what's in your fridge, and the other shows what's at the store).

And the Google fonts website provides a much more in-depth, accessible and worthwhile way to browse the fonts. You do have to make an additional click or two, but... as they say, why re-invent the wheel when this is all being done by volunteers on a part-time basis?

If you do find deficiencies in Quest that you would like addressed, feel free to put in a feature request - or better yet, roll up your sleeves and contribute the code yourself!

You could always demand your money back?

Or you could accept that using free things made by people who don't have the resources that Microsoft and Adobe do (that charge handsomely for such luxuries) may require a bit of effort on your part to get to do what you want.

And call me old fashioned but I tend to find that politeness goes a lot further when making a feature suggestion/request.

jaynabonne wrote:
If you do find deficiencies in Quest that you would like addressed, feel free to put in a feature request - or better yet, roll up your sleeves and contribute the code yourself!

There's even code out there he could use:
http://jscolor.com