[v1.3.0+] Longer Character Names

[Zizzo]

I think the reason I ultimately gave up on Yeek Brawler Reginald Q. Milquetoast III, Esq. (on top of, y'know, the whole drowning thing, this being pre-Nur-Kit) was the demoralizing effect of discovering that the game was truncating his name. Specifically, Game:setPlayerName() enforces a maximum character name length of 25 characters. [Oddly, the name field on the character creation dialog is set up with a max_len of 50 characters, which is why I wasn't expecting the truncation.] Well, AFAICT there's no particular structural reason that necessitates the 25-character limit, so a quick bit of overloading later, I give you my new Longer Character Names addon.

Now, as a first pass, we increase the character name length limit to 50 in Game:setPlayerName() to match the character creation dialog, on the theory that (a) if I wanted to increase it further, I'd have to superload both places, and (b) I can't think of any obvious names I'm tempted to use that are longer than this one. If anyone does want a really, really long name, let me know and maybe we can work something out.

[Technical notes:]

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Superload:
  mod.class.Game:
    setPlayerName() [overloaded, to increase max character name len to 50]

[stinkstink]

yes yes thank you

[Hellcommander]

Are you going to add your new addons to your addon pack (please do so I can use your new tweaks)?

[Zizzo]

Are you going to add your new addons to your addon pack (please do so I can use your new tweaks)?

(shrug) Dunno, I'll ask.

[astralInferno]

Hogulus wants you to know you are a gentleman and a scholar.

[Zizzo]

Just a reminder that this addon is now included in ZOmnibus and ZOmnibus Lite as of v16. (This is such a simple addon that I don't even have to push out a compatibility release for it…)