Merge pull request #8209 from Cerebulon/news_popup

Prevents Pop-up for Already Seen Lore News

code/modules/client/preference_setup/global/02_settings.dm

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 /datum/category_item/player_setup_item/player_global/settings/load_preferences(var/savefile/S)
 	S["lastchangelog"]        >> pref.lastchangelog
 	S["lastnews"]             >> pref.lastnews
+	S["lastlorenews"]         >> pref.lastlorenews
 	S["default_slot"]	      >> pref.default_slot
 	S["preferences"]          >> pref.preferences_enabled
 	S["preferences_disabled"] >> pref.preferences_disabled
@@ -16,6 +17,7 @@
 /datum/category_item/player_setup_item/player_global/settings/save_preferences(var/savefile/S)
 	S["lastchangelog"]        << pref.lastchangelog
 	S["lastnews"]             << pref.lastnews
+	S["lastlorenews"]         << pref.lastlorenews
 	S["default_slot"]         << pref.default_slot
 	S["preferences"]          << pref.preferences_enabled
 	S["preferences_disabled"] << pref.preferences_disabled

code/modules/client/preference_setup/global/setting_datums.dm

@@ -291,6 +291,13 @@ var/list/_client_preferences_by_type
 		var/datum/plane_holder/PH = preference_mob.plane_holder
 		PH.set_vis(VIS_STATUS, enabled)
 
+/datum/client_preference/show_lore_news
+	description = "Lore News Popup"
+	key = "NEWS_POPUP"
+	enabled_by_default = TRUE
+	enabled_description = "Popup New On Login"
+	disabled_description = "Do Nothing"
+
 /********************
 * Staff Preferences *
 ********************/

code/modules/client/preferences.dm

@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ var/list/preferences_datums = list()
 	var/datum/browser/panel
 
 	var/lastnews // Hash of last seen lobby news content.
+	var/lastlorenews //ID of last seen lore news article.
 
 	var/examine_text_mode = 0 // Just examine text, include usage (description_info), switch to examine panel.
 	var/multilingual_mode = 0 // Default behaviour, delimiter-key-space, delimiter-key-delimiter, off