r/spacechem•
Ilktye

How do I hide the help panel?

Like the question says: How do I hide the help panel for the waldo's etc? Is there a key for it? The help panel is covering all of the output area and I can't get rid of it...

EDIT: Just making a reference here, in case someone else makes the same mistake than me... you have to follow the tutorial accurately in first few stages or the help panel won't disappear and bugs you.

Posted Oct 13, 2011, 2:08 PM UTC · edited

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piderman•

I don't think you can hide the help panel but it's only there for the first couple of levels.

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name_was_taken•

I noticed this today when I was playing. It didn't used to be that way. At least, it didn't cover parts of the board that you needed to use, anyhow.

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IlktyeOP•

The other output area is disabled and it's covering completely the one I have to use.

Oh wait, can you select which output area you want to use?

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name_was_taken•

No, I don't think you can. I think this is a bug. Which is a shame, because it's the first bug I've encountered in it personally.

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IlktyeOP•

Maybe there's something I haven't figured out about this... I will have to try again tomorrow. I am playing on a quite low end notebook so maybe that is effecting the graphics somehow.

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krispykrem•

Are you guys talking about the second tutorial level? The tutorial panel is present until you place the instruction that it specifies in the location that it specifies, as it's meant to walk you through part of a specific solution.

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name_was_taken•

I don't think so. Like I said, I saw it this morning on my machine, and it's a pretty beefy desktop. It didn't used to be like that.

I was able to draw things around, even though they were under that popup. You might be able to get past it like that. It doesn't happen later in the game.

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