NewspapersSSE

Cover a book with pages for you to write in stories, notes and any other text.

Require

These are visible on the Requirements tab of the main mod page and their respective mod pages, but they are still ignored. So the requirements are:

SSE hooks

SSE GUI

SSE ImGui（v1.1）

motivation

This is something I'd like to do...well...Anyway, I really like Take Notes - Dragonborn SSE Journal and use it regularly. Of course, I dreamed of images, hyperlinks, insertion locations, embedded videos and stuff. Well, most of it is still impossible, but due to the nature of the "wheel" this model rolls on, the movement is the direction I imagine it to be.

The recently uploaded ImGui framework is a great opportunity to make a project out of it. Researching some pros and cons, adding improvements, having a mod that's like a proof of concept and usable for non-mods would also be welcome. I spent enough time working on this model and considering the short life of humans, at some point a line had to be drawn and uploaded here.

summary

By pressing the "Insert" key, you will toggle the overlay and make it part of the journal book shown in the screenshot. The game will stop processing your keyboard and mouse, which will give you the opportunity to click, type, etc. Press the "Insert" key and the diary will be hidden again and the game will continue to use your input controller. The problem I haven't solved yet is deciding how to hide/show the journal in "Overlay" mode ^^'

The journal consists of two pages, each with a different title and text content. The content can be any practical number of rows and columns. Your English collection is limited due to the use of handwriting fonts from Skyrim (if you know of a rich Unicode handwriting font - please let me know). Some features:

Save as JSON (log format) and text files

Loading from JSON and Take Notes (xml) files

There is a chapter overview to insert/remove chapters (aka pages)

Basic text editing navigation: selection, text movement, etc.

You can copy/paste Windows clipboard

Adjustable font size and color

Book size adjustable

Remark

Journals have nothing to do with your load/save/run/stop game state!

This means that if you type something and another save or character loads, the content will remain unchanged. You must save and load manually. I generally don't think this is troublesome, as there's never been a situation where I've wanted my text to disappear since loading the game from earlier. Instead, after writing it so many times, the scene turned sour and my words disappeared. Next time I don't have the input or it's not as good.

Another thing this means is that if you start writing, one day may pass and the next one may come! Even worse, a stray dog ​​might escape because your shoes were abandoned! If you want the game to pause, invoke the console or game menu. It's a click, but until I figure out how to "enter" the game I can't stop you.

The page is not wrapping your text!

Now this is cumbersome, but I can't find any sane way to support this in ImGui's multi-line input fields. This means you have to manually press enter or new line. This is more or less OK, but if you adjust the font size, or decide to resize the journal itself, you may see gaps or cut text. So as a suggestion, resize your books and fonts and leave them as is (i.e. mimic the fixed size from Take Notes).

Regarding Take Notes, loading (importing) xml files:

In my books, I don't use any new lines, so when I load some of these books in Journal, I get a page full of lines. This led me to implement a greedy word wrapping algorithm, accessible from the Settings menu. Set the line width and press "Wrap" to split all page content into new lines. I believe existing information such as lines and formatting may be lost, but it's still much better than manual adjustments. Note that changes are irreversible, so loading and wrapping may need to be attempted.

variable

This may take time to figure out, but the idea is basically to bind data wi …