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Asie at 15:44, 24 December 2025

2025-12-24T15:44:02Z

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	The '''message timer''' is the colloquial name for the internal element that handles displaying text at the bottom of the screen.		The '''message timer''' is the colloquial name for the internal element that handles displaying text at the bottom of the screen.

	Messages can be emitted by objects or by various internal events. When a message is emitted, the game creates a '''message timer''' just outside the visible portion of the screen at coordinate (0,0). The number of ticks a message is displayed for is scaled according to the game speed at the time of the message's creation. Most in-game messages (including ones generated by objects) are displayed for <code>200/~~TickTimeDuration~~</code> ticks.		Messages can be emitted by objects or by various internal events. When a message is emitted, the game creates a '''message timer''' just outside the visible portion of the screen at coordinate (0,0). The number of ticks a message is displayed for is scaled according to the game speed at the time of the message's creation.

			Most in-game messages (including ones generated by objects) are displayed for <code>200 / (([[Game speed]] * 2) + 1)</code> ticks.

	The message timer displays the contents of the board's message parameter on the bottom row of the screen, cycling through ZZT's 7 built-in colors during the process. The message can be up 58 characters in length, and the message timer appends spaces to both sides of it -- however, sufficiently long messages can visually overwrite a portion of the status bar that the game does not clean up (when the message is finished only the border of the screen is visually refreshed).		The message timer displays the contents of the board's message parameter on the bottom row of the screen, cycling through ZZT's 7 built-in colors during the process. The message can be up 58 characters in length, and the message timer appends spaces to both sides of it -- however, sufficiently long messages can visually overwrite a portion of the status bar that the game does not clean up (when the message is finished only the border of the screen is visually refreshed).

RT-55J: see also

2021-02-14T00:04:54Z

see also

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	The message timer displays the contents of the board's message parameter on the bottom row of the screen, cycling through ZZT's 7 built-in colors during the process. The message can be up 58 characters in length, and the message timer appends spaces to both sides of it -- however, sufficiently long messages can visually overwrite a portion of the status bar that the game does not clean up (when the message is finished only the border of the screen is visually refreshed).		The message timer displays the contents of the board's message parameter on the bottom row of the screen, cycling through ZZT's 7 built-in colors during the process. The message can be up 58 characters in length, and the message timer appends spaces to both sides of it -- however, sufficiently long messages can visually overwrite a portion of the status bar that the game does not clean up (when the message is finished only the border of the screen is visually refreshed).

			== See Also ==

			* [[Internal Strings]] - Built-in ZZT messages.

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RT-55J: Probably missing some subtilties.

2021-02-13T20:06:29Z

Probably missing some subtilties.

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|zzt-oop name=N/A
|id={{Byte|2}}
|char={{CharSwatch|32}}
|stats=yes
|p2=ticks remaining
|cycle=1
|destructible=no
|effect on movement=solid
|uses zzt-oop color=N/A
}}

The '''message timer''' is the colloquial name for the internal element that handles displaying text at the bottom of the screen.

Messages can be emitted by objects or by various internal events. When a message is emitted, the game creates a '''message timer''' just outside the visible portion of the screen at coordinate (0,0). The number of ticks a message is displayed for is scaled according to the game speed at the time of the message's creation. Most in-game messages (including ones generated by objects) are displayed for <code>200/TickTimeDuration</code> ticks.

The message timer displays the contents of the board's message parameter on the bottom row of the screen, cycling through ZZT's 7 built-in colors during the process. The message can be up 58 characters in length, and the message timer appends spaces to both sides of it -- however, sufficiently long messages can visually overwrite a portion of the status bar that the game does not clean up (when the message is finished only the border of the screen is visually refreshed).

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