Using "pause to enter text" in KQ3 makes it hard to do spells

[tomexplodes]

King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human, AGI version
I was unable to fit the first line from the cat cookie spell in the box provided, and as far as I remember, and can tell, you have to write them exactly.
put the mandrake root powder in the bowl
I only got as far as "b"

If this is a known thing, I apologize. I rather enjoy the pause to type feature, in my old age I can't necessarily type lightning fast anymore so it makes things like killing Dracula in KQ2 much more smooth. As it stands, I will just have it turned off in 3 until I'm done making spells, then turn it back on. Thought I'd mention it though, in case it can be fixed. Thanks very much for your time! ScummVM is one of my favorite projects ever and you folks always do a wonderful job!
- Tom

[Praetorian]

I don't see a bug ticket about it on the ScummVM tracker.

Please create a bug report for this issue there.
https://docs.scummvm.org/en/latest/help ... _bugs.html

[Praetorian]

Looking into this a bit further, the spell instruction in the manual is a bit different with fewer characters.

Where did you get the instruction "put the mandrake root powder in the bowl" (40 characters) from?

My manual says: "put mandrake root powder in a bowl" (34 characters) which does fit in the popup text box.

However, there are a couple (that I've spotted -- might be more) other instructions from the manual that barely do not fit:
"Add a spoonful of powdered fish bone" (36 characters)
"Put the nightshade juice in the bowl" (36 characters)

It may be the case that the parser omits the articles ("the", "a") so the player can do that too, to shorten the typed instruction, but since the game is supposed to be able to parse the instruction as stated in the manual this may be something to fix for future ScummVM.

The culprit seems to be that currently the popup window text parser should accept a command up to 36 characters (ie., 40 - 4), but the final character can't be entered in the text field because of the rendered cursor "_".
https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/blob ... t.cpp#L743
edit: ah, no, actually the culprit is here (but not sure if it has other connections in the code):
https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/blob ... i.cpp#L278

[tomexplodes]

Ah crud, I just looked on the internet because I was being lazy and didn't want to dig up my manual, haha. Well, I can still make it a bug report, but I'll experiment with leaving off "a" and "the" just to see what happens.

EDIT: Yeah, you're absolutely right. "A" and "the" are not necessary, so everything can be typed. Sorry for my confusion, thanks for your help!