Icons to take 1 character of the limit, for text boxes and descriptions
This would allow us to cram more information into a single block of text, for more complex explanations.
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Another problem with icons in text is that if you change your mind slightly about which icon you want, you have to delete the whole icon and type the markup for the new icon from scratch. In combination with them consuming the full length of their markup from character limits, that's a cherry pick of the worst of two sets of rules.
To combine with the change that you suggest, and to make a cherry pick of the best of two sets of rules, it would be nice if a delete with the cursor to the right of an icon broke it down to its markup and deleted the closing ">".
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We need an "icon picker" instead. A new UI that lets us browse and filter icons by search term. It should also show your most recently used (globally within Dreams) icons for quick access! Perhaps also it could show all icons used in the current Dream. Picking an icon would insert the unicode character directly and thus any limit would count as a single "character"!
This would solve all issues with icons and make them alot easier to work with!
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The fact that you need to go outside of Dreams to find out which icons can even be used in Dreams is ridiculous.
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Skn3-- That's my point though, even if you use the unicode character, it seems to be converted back into <uiprop> or whatever and so uses those extra characters, ignoring the fact you used the glyph directly. That's what I'd like changed.
Using my icons guide is pretty quick for me. But a menu for icons would be cool also.
What the keyboard does have is remembering words. So if you type <uiprop and then a space, and then submit. Then it should learn that it is a word. Then in the future you can type < and see <uiprop as an option. Then just add the > to finish it off.
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Yeah thats really strange about the character count still being taken up. I do remember them sugggesting that an improved way for using icons was being considered. Sadly its one of those things that hides features away from newbies! I dont want to sound like I am bad mouthing Dreams, because I love it.. but its just one of those little annoyances that soon adds up!
I dunno I think the two issues are one in the same. They need to move away from the <foo> to single "characters", so they would need a proper way to add icons. It's more likely to get attention if there is a lot of activity in a single thread. I use your icon guide all the time btw, its great! Totally priceless tool when working with Dreams.
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