in-game, which is super convenient.<\/p>\n
However, as I continued to use it more and more, there was a feature I desperately started wanting:<\/p>\n
I wanted to display things in a table format rather than just bullet points.<\/p>\n
Where Bullet Points Just Wasn’t Enough<\/h2>\n
Up until now, since Whiteboard is text-based,
\nif you wanted to display a “Mission List,” you had to write it something like this:<\/p>\n
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- #1 Build a house (Level 1)<\/li>\n
- #2 Build an animal statue (Level 1)<\/li>\n
- #3 Build a mini racetrack (Level 2)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
However, when actually playing with kids, I noticed a few things I wanted:<\/p>\n
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- I want to sort them by level<\/li>\n
- I want to show “whether it has been completed or not” at the same time<\/li>\n
- I want to visually compare them at a glance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
With bullet points, the moment you put a lot of information in, it tends to get vertically long,
\nand there’s a limit to how many items can be displayed at once.<\/p>\nSo I thought, “It would be much simpler if I just turned it into a table.”<\/p>\n
What I Did This Time: Recognizing the table Tag<\/h2>\n
Therefore, I added a feature to the Whiteboard plugin that:<\/p>\n
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- Reads HTML <table> tags and renders them as a simple table on the whiteboard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The mechanism is roughly like this:<\/p>\n
<table>\n<tr><th>#<\/th><th>Goal<\/th><th>Level<\/th><\/tr>\n<tr><td>1<\/td><td>Build a house<\/td><td>1<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>2<\/td><td>Build an animal statue<\/td><td>1<\/td><\/tr>\n<\/table><\/pre>\n
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When you write the book’s contents into the Whiteboard, the plugin combines all pages of the book to retrieve them as text.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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Edit that text using Codex, parse
<table>...<\/table><\/code>, and break it down into rows and columns.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n- \n
For rendering on the Whiteboard, display it as a |-delimited simple table<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
|#|Goal|Level|\n|1|Build a house|1|\n|2|Build an animal statue|1|<\/pre>\n
Currently, it doesn’t draw “boxed borders” as graphical shapes,
\ninstead treating it as a text-based table.<\/p>\nEven so, just being able to see “rows” and “columns” at a glance rather than a “long, trailing vertical list” has made it much easier to read.<\/p>\n
How It Is Actually Used (Making a Mission List into a Table)<\/h2>\n
Speaking of the current mission, you can use it like this:<\/p>\n
<table>\n<tr><th>#<\/th><th>Goal<\/th><th>Level<\/th><\/tr>\n<tr><td>1<\/td><td>Build a house (Free theme)<\/td><td>1<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>2<\/td><td>Build animal\/mob statues<\/td><td>1<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>3<\/td><td>Mini racetrack (Short course)<\/td><td>1-2<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>4<\/td><td>Creature habitat series<\/td><td>1-2<\/td><\/tr>\n<\/table><\/pre>\n
When you write this in a book and post it on the Whiteboard,<\/p>\n
the goals and levels line up horizontally.
\nThe Issue of Books Not Fitting on a Single Page<\/p>\nSince Minecraft books have a character limit per page,
\nit’s completely normal for a single table not to fit on just one page.<\/p>\nTo handle this, the Whiteboard side:<\/p>\n
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- Concatenates all pages of the book before parsing them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Because of this,<\/p>\n
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- Reads HTML <table> tags and renders them as a simple table on the whiteboard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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