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The main display & scrollback

nexGui4 renders the game itself, not just panels around it. The main display replaces the Nexus output area with a virtualized transcript, and the full history lives in a separate, searchable scrollback buffer.

Live display behavior​

The main display is a hard-pinned live sink: it always shows the newest output and stays scrolled to the bottom. There is no inline scroll-lock — you cannot scroll the live view up in place.

Instead, the live view receives only a capped live-tail window for performance, and the prompt renders as a footer beneath the transcript rows. MXP / clickable links in the output work as normal.

Opening scrollback​

Rolling the mouse wheel up over the main display opens the scrollback modal — a resizable, draggable window over the full history. From there you can scroll the entire buffer and search it without disturbing the live feed.

The scrollback buffer is backed by IndexedDB, so it can hold a long session's history without bloating memory. The buffer is cleared at the start of each new session.

Downloading logs​

Two Advanced options turn the scrollback into a saved log (see Options → Advanced):

  • Auto-Download Log on Logout writes the buffer to an HTML log when you disconnect.
  • Virtualized HTML Logs produces an interactive, virtualized HTML viewer suited to very long sessions.

Display styling​

The game-display font, font size, and wrapped-line indentation are configured on the Display options tab. These apply to both the live transcript and the scrollback modal.

Native display override​

By default the main display is its own surface. The Native Display Override (Advanced options) instead mounts it directly into the Nexus output area. See Layout & presets → Native display.