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I get this error message whenever I try to activate this mod:

A Mod caused an error [ModException]

Details:
System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Array index is out of range.
at OptionsMainPanel.AddUserMods () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

Can that be fixed?

ah yes, "that other city building game"

Does this disable the ringing sound of each message ?

Great little mod for anyone that loves the chirper, but hates the Original.

I would love to see this updated a bit with maybe some king of pointing function to whatever the chirper is on about. Its a casual player angle :)

Scrolling had stop in current ver.
Can you please update it if possible?

I am very happy this exists, notices without the annoyance!

Hah good question. Description updated with an actual description.

What does this do? Your description doesn't say much.

Doesn't seem to chirp out the weather messages from Climate Control mod even with filter not set.

No problem thanks!

Ah thanks for clarifying! I've ran into that problem a few times personally while futzing around with the code, but thought I'd fixed it. I'll take a gander and see if I can figure it out. Thanks for the report!

i have no other chirper mods and i said it wrong i ment that the banner would just stop working it would freeze then another would appear and i would repeat this process. over and over and over

Thanks for the suggestions Weaver! All really good ideas, added them to my to-do list :)
Zionix, I'm not getting any crashing on my end with the latest update. Do you have any Chirp-related mods enabled perhaps? Does it give you a crash dump?

So your banner crashes make a new banner crashes and makes a new banner. Maybe fix the crashing.

Such a better way to get twitted.

Couple suggestions:

Margin slider for each end of the bar, so we can clear whatever icons show up in the future.

Option to keep scrolling while the game is paused (unless you point the mouse at the bar peharps)

Button in the options to make things take effect now instead of having to restart the entire program for it.

Right click on a chirp to immediatly kill it and let something more useful take it's place.

Hook into whatever the reddit chirpy interface is using to open web links on click so their chirps do that on your thing also.

Wow, great will sub and check out when i am back home. on holidays at moment :)

I just uploaded a new version to hopefully fix transparency issues. Let me know if anyone still has issues. Also yeah, if you search your PC for "ChirpBannerConfig.xml", open that up and set "BackgroundAlpha" to 1.0, that should do the trick. Not sure why it's not saving for some folks.

TelMan, thanks! Yeah I'm still updating it intermittently when I boot up Cities Skylines and notice something awry or missing; I just picked up the Mass Transit DLC, and everything seems to be in order, basic functionality still works, though I'm not sure if any TM-specific chirps show up; they should.

Hi, is this mod still being maintained? I love this because i hate that bird but messages area useful. So please say it is will be updated for TM DLC :)

I'm also having issues with transparency. Is it possible to completely disable the transparancy in the xml?

Thanks for reviving this mod. Sadly, there seems to be something wrong with the background color. No matter if I move the transparency control entirely to the right or entirely to the left, it's always almost 100% transparent and doesn't change at all. I can't read anything if it's like this.

Thanks! Yeah it should be fully compatible with Natural Disasters, I tried it myself right after the launch and didn't notice anything awry.
You may have to adjust the width to get it to fit perfectly, due to the new Radio and Disaster icons, which I'll try and make the default in the next update.
Please let me know if there are any issues.

Hi, is this mod compatiable with Natural Disasters. Love this mod and the only one to get rid of the blue bird lol :)

Perfect. Cheers

Alright, v2.3.4 is out. This should hopefully fix the transparency and other configuration-related bugs, ensuring your options apply.

Thank you for your feedback Broseidon! I totally welcome and appreciate the nitpicking haha.
I've got a pretty good idea where the first two issues stem from, and know for sure where the last issue came from. :)

Transparency is acting buggy; On map load it will be solid black reguardless of what you had set transparency to. You can just use Esc menu to change the transparency but it's a bit annoying. You also can't change the settings from the Main Menu but you can with a map loaded. Also would be nice if the bar was behind the top-side icons like it was originally. Nitpicking aside, love the mod. Thanks for keepin it alive.

Alright, new update out. This may possibly fix a majority of the overlapping issues, let me know if anyone continues to have this happen.
Other additions:
- Settings should change instantly when modified from the Esc menu
- Added an option to toggle the RED coloring of 'important' chirps, now turned off by default
- Added a 'drag handle' to the chirp banner, so it can be freely dragged around screen!

Still working on the overlapping chirps...finding it a lot more difficult than I thought.
Red chirps should be the "importance" filter doing it's job, which can be adjusted in the options menu.
I'll look into possibly reloading config on adjustment, but at the moment, yeah a quit/restart will be required when adjusting most options.

News: Options working but only on load in-game, when esc->modconfig it is ignored.

Looks nice, but the Messages overlap sometimes and config seems to be broken (sliders not do changes here) any ideas?

Hey there, the banner is currently over lapping chirps and they are coming in red for some proper colors for the other.

Thanks hari.gobi!
I'll try and look into those mods for possible conflicts, and see about centering the banner. The width adjustment was a very quick change.

Regarding the right-click configuration menu, this is intended. The options are now all adjustable within the game's Option menu->Mod Options->Chirp Banner+ section. I'll go through and clean up the screenshots to reflect that now.

Maybe using 1920x1200 resolution or one of the graphic mods I use like Dynamic resolution with 200% setting is interfering with your mod:

Dynamic Resolution: http://sp.zhabite.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=406629464
Softer Shadows: http://sp.zhabite.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=643364914
Sun Shafts: http://sp.zhabite.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=410805639
Daylight CLassic: http://sp.zhabite.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=530871278

Just tried again with new version, but sadly it is still not useable for me:

+ banner is semi-transparent and not fully black anymore
- right click configuration window does not show at all
- banner width shrinks on the right side of the banner and does not center itself so it still collides
with my traffic manager and directional traffic report buttons on the upper left of the screen.
I would vote for banner width option with auto-centered banner
- texture flickering occurs when this mod is active, could be an interference with any of the other
~60 mods i have installed

New update out. This should remove the blank in-game config window, make the transparency knob work, and I added a Banner Width option to shrink the banner.

Still to come are looking into the Climate Control specific chirps, and the overlapping issues.

thanks for supporting your mod, I am curious what future versions fix or add

Appreciate the comments and reports!

So I should be able to easily tackle the empty right-click config window, Mod Options not saving, and transparency issues in the next update, hopefully this weekend.

I'll look into making the size of the banner adjustable too, so you should be able to make it not overlap with other elements.

I'll also take a gander at the Climate Control mod and see how it's feeding it's messages in; right now there is no "support" for it unless that mod happens to create chirps in the normal fashion.

Still fiddling with the overlapping chirps issues, so that may take a while to iron out 100%.

nice mod with some flaws:

- right click configuration window is empty, no options visible
- mod options in game default menu seems to do nothing at all, neither when a city is loaded nor from main menu
- the message bar is not transparent but completely black
- the message bar is very wide, so it is overlapped by other mods buttons (like TM+AI)

Another issue, when I right click the banner I get an empty configuration window.

Also still overlapping.
And a question is still unanswered - is this mod working together with Rush Hour and with Climate Control?
Because I never have seen a weather forecast, or it always appears when messages are overlapping and I can't read a damn thing.

I'm not sure about others but I'm using 21:9 aspect ratio @ 3440x1440. It could be the game not being 100% happy with that. The overlapping seems to be pretty random though. It doesn't happen all the time. I'm wondering if it's more to do with game speed actually. I'm playing a lot at max time acceleration.

Hmm strange. Guess I haven't gotten enough chirps to trigger the overlapping, or maybe it's tied to screen resolution...I'll need to do some debugging on this.

I'm also still getting overlapping. I lowered the text size which helped for awhile but still getting it. I also get a blank page when I open the options while playing so change options before loading a map. Amazing mod regardless.

there is STILL a overlapping in place. Maybe adding a "x secounds per Chrip" option would deal with that (also with slider)

savegames are not affected

This should do nothing to a savegame, correct? It shouldn't ever break anything if I use it then remove it?

Alright, new update is out which should fix the overlapping, and (lack of) scrolling issues.
Additionally, this update gives the ability to adjust the scroll speed, size, and colors just as before.

The Transparency slider is there, but iirc I hardcoded the transparency value to give it that SimCity feel, so the slider doesn't actually do anything, or shouldn't.

one more report of overlapping chirps - in my case there is still some scrolling, sometimes, but the width of the message doesn't seem to be respected - the next one starts scrolling in before the previous has finished. I am using Rush Hour and the simcity 3000 news mod , which both add additional chirps. http://sp.zhabite.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=462969497

This mod is among my short list of must have mods, thank you for reviving it!

Are Rush Hour weather forecast chirps be filtered when filter is on?