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v2.78.0 - a running log in the window, not a box over the game

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@265ada 265ada released this 11 Sep 01:18
· 60 commits to main since this release

Changes since v2.77.0

Say it in the window, not in a box over the game

A MessageBox stops the game, must be dismissed before anything else can
happen, and erases itself the moment it is - so the one time it said
something that mattered, it said it mid-fight and then removed the evidence.
A box that appears often is also a box people learn to click through without
reading, which is the whole of what went wrong with the setup warning.

There is now a panel down the right of the window carrying a running account
of what the app is doing, newest first, following the log as it is written.
Severity is a colour rather than an icon: grey ordinary, amber worth a look,
red wrong or fired. Repeats fold into one line with the time updated. The
heartbeat poll line and the fire trail stay in the file.

Eleven dialogs became six, and the six that remain all ask a question rather
than make an announcement.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 noreply@anthropic.com

Full Changelog: v2.77.0...v2.78.0