tutorials: enable repeating tutorials #2548
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Some tutorial use-cases benefit from repeating and having a reset button available (in particular public kiosks). Repeating tutorials was disabled in daid#2310 - start specific tutorial before autoconnect. - add a new preference "repeat_tutorial" to enable repeating tutorials - should leave tutorial-before-autoconnect usecase intact - store the tutorial filename when launching so it can be re-used when the tutorial is finished - support exitting the tutorial (via ESC) - unfixed: the tutorial repeat appears to pause the game on loop.
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The handling of 2310 should start a non-repeating A tutorial kiosk mode would separately be useful, but I'm not sure that this PR gets us there. There are still many ways (especially with a keyboard attached) to escape the tutorials, and few ways (especially without a keyboard attached) to exit a tutorial in progress and return to the tutorials menu. |
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I suspected the same about #2310 but don't have a means to notify folks in the community that I might be breaking their behaviour. Are we good if I just submit a fix for #2310 and then update this PR based on that? Re: kiosk mode - isn't repeating mode intended for this? I'm curious what other use-cases tutorial repeating has That said, it doesn't mean repeating mode can't be improved to better support kiosks - I would de-scope keyboard attachments (that's in general ripe for exploitation) - but how can people exit a tutorial /wo a keyboard? Should we add some additional config to close those gaps? |
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Filed #2552 which reimplements 2310 toward its stated objective, reverts the default behavior of non-autoconnect launches, and fixes the Reset button behavior. Don't have time to revisit the rest right now.
A non-repeating tutorial exits to the main menu when completed. (On autoconnect, calls to exit to the main menu are automatically converted to connection attempts to the configured player screen.)
In repeating mode, your only options are to reset the running tutorial, restart the same tutorial, or if you have a keyboard escape to the main menu via the Lua console. A tutorial kiosk mode would lock down the Lua console, could limit ESC/Home key behavior to reaching the tutorial menu instead of the main menu, and would exit to the tutorial menu instead of repeating a tutorial or exiting to the main menu when a tutorial is completed. |
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Some tutorial use-cases benefit from repeating and having a reset button available (in particular public kiosks). Repeating tutorials was disabled in #2310 - start specific tutorial before autoconnect.