Hi everyone. Just finished my latest project.

Take Notes! adds a new player journal (SkyUI widget) to the game which lets you create, view and export your own journal entries.

I still don't have permission to post links, so here is the nexusmods ID: 48375

Let me know what you think.

Thanks and good night

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/48375/?

This looks very useful for roleplaying purposes. Thanks for this mod

Oh, I see, you already have a thread...

Well, I think your mod is finally a dream come true. It's the last instance of personal "most wanted" mods, as I was always using journal mods in Morrowind and Oblivion. I'm aware of how difficult it must have been to make this mod, so lifetime kudos to you Sir.

Edit: Pushed the mod throught TesVEdit, had no conflicts whatsoever with the following mods:

Hi Mofakin, thanks for your detailed feedback over at the nexus.

Cheers

This is great. Only thing I noticed that changing the hotkeys was a bit giltchy in the MCM menu. It worked though the changes weren't just updated immediately.

Forgot to thank you for posting the link. So... thank you

Thanks for the feedback.

Do you mean not immediately visible in the MCM or not immediately available in the game?

The options to change the hotkeys are visible from the start. When you try to change the second hotkey the first one gets changed instead. But after exiting a returning to the MCM menu the hotkeys have been changed correctly. I also had some problems the second time I was typing an entry into the journal. For some reason the input was laggy and wrong letters got written on the text field. For instance when I was trying to write the phrase "We left for Solitude this morning" it wrote something like "We eeft tor Rolitude ehis sorning".

I updated the mod to use flash text input instead of processing the keys in Papyrus (thanks schlangster). The problems with text input should be gone now. I also fixed the MCM issue (was only a display thing).

What I still don't like is the way I open/close the journal, which current works like this:

• open MessageBoxMenu
• hide MessageBox and show journal instead
• when finished, close messagebox

And here come the problems:

A lot of people use the mod BetterMessgageBoxControls, which e.g. closes a mesagebox by pressing the activation key. So when writing text and you press E, the menu closes.

Current Solution: stack 3 messageboxes and open a new one, whenever one is getting closed.

Closing the menu used to work like this: fire "Y" keys until the stack is empty -> menu closes (Y key closed my messages because the button name is "Yes")

Problem: now that I'm using scaleform for textinput, everytime you press "Y" the TextField would loose focus

Interestingly it does not loose fucus when sending "Activate" keys to BetterMessageBoxControls.

So I had to edit the MessageBox.swf file a bit to behave like BMBC, rename the Button and fire "Activate" keys to close the journal.

It works well enough but

• it's not very nice
• the mod is no longer compatible with everything

Any advice?

I think something like this was made for Oblivion, so it's nice to see something like that for Skyrim. Downloading right now, and will endorse when able. I definitely need a journal to remind myself where certain places are that I've put off visiting til later.

Would be great if your journal data would be saved to your personal book series: Mr.Moe's Journal III

With that feature I would get red of landmarks and quest log instantly

Making two versions, one for compatibility with BetterMessageBoxControl, and one for without compatibility. It does feel very inconvenient for me as user to use a mod, that has been chnaged for the bad, just to raise compatibility with third party mods. Isn't a comp patch practical as well? At least that's what I was always doing for my mods. Apart from that. Do you use the Mod BetterMEssageBoxControl? I'm just curious if there's a direct connection in changing the Mod because you use it. If not, why did you do this in the first place? I bet there's more users using your mod without BMBC, then there are users that do use BMBC with your mod.

Didn't downloaded your mod yet cause I didn't played lately but intend to. Please keep it compatible with BMBC, that mod is a life saver for laptop players at last.

On another hand as far as I remember (nexus is down atm) BMBC reacts on a couple of labels on the buttons. If you rename "Close" with "Bye Bye" (just kidding, I'll leave you the choice) I believe all the problems should be gone.

Don't worry. BMBC will always be compatible

What BMBC does btw is to activate "gamepad mode" for the messageboxes. For gamepads, when you press the activation key, the selected button of a messagebox is triggered.

Is it working with Czech character encoding and diacritics?

I encountered a problem with this. It wont exit out like it should. It'll just hang there and then CTD.

It would be easier to use MessageBox as your loader then hook the MessageBox functions to reroute input to your menu. Or have a replacer do that for you:

My replacer essentially does this: https://github.com/expired6978/skyui/blob/master/src/MessageBox/MessageBox.as

You basically just call a MessageBox with "$$loadMovie=myswf.swf$$" as the text and it'll try to load the movie, if load fails it'll display the error and show the default messagebox. Otherwise it loads the new movie, hides the messagebox, and shifts focus to the new menu.

OK, glad to hear that. I believe you should contact the creator of BMBC and probably the best solution is to do something on that side.

I don't know all inner works of this kind of stuff as I only mod with CK. But, if no better idea, what about a dummy (one pixel or something) button in your interface that will be always selected unless you click something else and trick BMBC to trigger that one and by that do nothing.

Thanks, I've already seen your replacer and it looks fantastic.

Would I have your permission to use and ship it with my mod?

I would only want to force the variable controllerOrConsole to true so that default MBs feel like with BMBC.

Edit: I just tried it and the menu is showing just fine and I can access it from papyrus. Only thing I still need to figure out is:

How do I close the menu again

Edit2: Ok, I see that I can do it by calling GameDelegate.call("buttonPress", [0]);

But is that the best way?

Yes, it's directly related to my poor attempts of opening/closing

Sorry, I seriously don't know. Take a look at the font (currently) used. If the needed characters are included, it should work

http://www.dafont.com/foglihten.font?fpp=50&l[]=10