Suggestion - Enhance the UI to allow starting midway through the path?

[ghost]

If a user decides to restart the path (started app after starting lab, manual modification during the run, accidentally closed app, app crashes, etc.) while running a lab, the tool is "off" until next run.

One simple approach to fixing this is a "continue from here" option after modification/load/whatever. You can do this by allowing the users to set their current active location to a point in the plan (bottom bar of numbers). This would initialize/load the planned path and move the tracking arrays to the appropriate indices (assuming the current room is the one they set active).

The UI is very clean and minimalist (kudos!), so I would not want to suggest cluttering it. Perhaps a slight color offset to signify where the current step is on the bottom row (coinciding with the red compass marker on the map) and some way for the user to edit it?

You'll probably come up with something that fits your theme nicer; I am just trying to frame the idea.

Thanks much!

[yznpku]

Thanks for the suggestion.

I'm currently developing a way to look into the chat history (i. e. chat before a lab map is loaded). In theory it can detect the user's location when they loads a map while in lab (without them clicking any button).

It's a little bit unstable though, so it might come in one of the future releases.

[ghost]

Sure, but a manual override for setting the current room would suffice until the more elegant solution becomes stable (and does not seem to kludge the code too much). I think this was asked for in another issue as well.

[xmesaj2]

@yznpku any news on this?