MessageBox and Suggestion

[Equinox]

OpenMW implementation of messagebox has in fact improved a little over the OG MW one. The %s can now be used, although kinda useless because there is no string variable in Morrowind. But I noticed a slight peculiarity regarding its usage in OpenMW, see below:

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messagebox "String = %s" "\n"

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messagebox "String = %s%s" "\" "n"

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messagebox "String = %s%s%s" "\" "" "n"

The result of all of the above is

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String =
 

I expected

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String = \n

to show instead.

Is there a way to make messagebox properly show "\n" without interpreting it as a newline? If not, should this issue be fixed?

Finally for a suggestion, can we make it so %s at least accept GMST string values?

[Jodiwe]

Not that I've looked at the OpenMW code for a long time, but that looks like it's interpreting the backslash as an escape code/character. I'd guess after it goes through a printf/sprintf or whatever c++ uses in code, it gets printed to a separate buffer as a format string, which then escapes the backslash.

You may need to escape the backslash with another backslash.
i.e:

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"String = %s" "\\n"

That should include both backslashes in the subsequent string object:

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"String = \\n"

which is then printed as

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String = \n