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[Stephen Lyons <1164804@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Currently each two way exit line is drawn twice for rooms in the same
area, with the effect that unless you set a door symbol on both ends of
the exit the square that is drawn appears to be underneath the exit line
for some exits (where the symbol is on the first room that draws the
exit line) and on top for others (if it is on the second) - I've hacked
my code to turn the door symbol into a perpendicular rectangle only a
third of the way along the exit line so I can tell which room the door
symbol is on (and to remind me to check for a door on the exit from the
other room!)

The quickest way to prevent this variable drawing (see attachment for a
sample) I found was to only draw (just over) half of the exit line
nearest the current room under consideration - this "Z" suggestion could
work with that if each room exit draws its stub and the line to the end
of the other room exit's stub.  if it was a one way exit the "from" room
would have to draw all of the lines - um, from what direction should the
exit line approach in that case???

You would want to put a door symbol on the stub to keep it near the room
that defines it.

An alternative approach would be for a map auditing / checking procedure
to check the angles that each exit leaves the room symbol at and warn if
it is say more than 45 degrees from the expected angle...

My 0.02 GBP worth!

** Attachment added: "Exit lines being drawn both under and on-top of door symbols"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/mudlet/+bug/1164804/+attachment/3622338/+files/Exit%20lines%20being%20drawn%20twice

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Title:
  Exit lines don't 'anchor' to exit direction

Status in Mudlet the MUD client:
  New

Bug description:
  Mudlet 2.1, Win7 x64

  Visual issue in the mapper:

  Consider two rooms connected east-west. If I move the room to the east
  'below' the room to the west, I would expect the connection between
  them to visually be a 'Z' shape, where it is obvious that the exits
  still extend from the east and west respectively.

  Instead, the lines originate from the center of a room. So if I move
  the east-west pair as above, the exit line will visually appear as if
  it extends from the south/north.

  The exit lines should potentially be drawn between the ends of the
  'exit stubs', rather from the center of a room. In the example above,
  this would give the expected 'Z' shape.

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