Resolve pending gameplay tickets

ui/NarrationBanner.gd

@@ -36,9 +36,9 @@ extends Control
 # lines never sees the second one at all, and the whole point of #127 was
 # that lines wait for the reader.
 #
-# #168 says the same rule out loud - still arriving, show it all; already
-# whole, move on - and extends it to the KEYBOARD, which had no way in at
-# all. See _is_advance_press.
+# A dialog is advanced deliberately with a tap or click. Keyboard presses are
+# ignored while it is open: movement keys are too easy to hold when a line
+# arrives, and must never turn into an accidental skip (#175).
 
 signal dismissed
 
@@ -139,7 +139,9 @@ func _ensure_label() -> void:
 	label.add_theme_color_override("font_color", TEXT_COLOR)
 	label.add_theme_color_override("font_outline_color", Color(0.01, 0.02, 0.06, 0.95))
 	label.add_theme_constant_override("outline_size", 4)
-	label.horizontal_alignment = HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT_CENTER
+	# #178: decoded text grows from a stable left edge. Centring a partially
+	# revealed line made it appear in the middle and expand in both directions.
+	label.horizontal_alignment = HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT_LEFT
 	label.vertical_alignment = VERTICAL_ALIGNMENT_CENTER
 	label.autowrap_mode = TextServer.AUTOWRAP_WORD_SMART
 	add_child(label)
@@ -268,28 +270,18 @@ func _process(delta: float) -> void:
 	queue_redraw()
 
 
-# #168: what counts as "go on". A tap, a left click, or a key.
+# What counts as "go on": a deliberate tap or left click.
 #
-# The rule the ticket asks for was already the rule for a click (#149) - a
-# press finishes a line still arriving, a press on a finished line moves to
-# the next - but the game is played on a desktop with WASD and a mouse, and
-# a keyboard press reached nothing at all. Sitting behind a dialog pressing
-# space is the most obvious thing a player can do, so the keyboard now goes
-# through the same one door every other press does (dismiss()).
-#
-# Modifiers alone are not a press: holding shift before typing must not eat
-# a line. Neither is an auto-repeat echo - a held key would otherwise run
-# the whole queue out in a second.
+# A press finishes a line still arriving; a press on a finished line moves to
+# the next (#149). #175 deliberately limits that gesture to pointer input: the
+# player may still be holding a
+# movement key when a transmission arrives, and that must leave the line
+# untouched rather than finishing or dismissing it.
 func _is_advance_press(event: InputEvent) -> bool:
 	if event is InputEventScreenTouch:
 		return event.pressed
 	if event is InputEventMouseButton:
 		return event.pressed and event.button_index == MOUSE_BUTTON_LEFT
-	if event is InputEventKey:
-		if not event.pressed or event.echo:
-			return false
-		return not (event.keycode in [KEY_SHIFT, KEY_CTRL, KEY_ALT, KEY_META,
-			KEY_CAPSLOCK, KEY_NUMLOCK, KEY_SCROLLLOCK])
 	return false