From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15165 invoked by alias); 11 Aug 2004 15:55:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 15140 invoked from network); 11 Aug 2004 15:55:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail1.panix.com) (166.84.1.72) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 11 Aug 2004 15:55:15 -0000 Received: from panix5.panix.com (panix5.panix.com [166.84.1.5]) by mail1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AA2F4872E; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 11:55:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from kingdon@localhost) by panix5.panix.com (8.11.6p2-a/8.8.8/PanixN1.1) id i7BFt9e09071; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 11:55:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:34:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200408111555.i7BFt9e09071@panix5.panix.com> From: Jim Kingdon To: xconq7@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: (message from Hans Ronne on Tue, 10 Aug 2004 22:44:58 +0200) Subject: Re: time.g weirdness References: X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg00869.txt.bz2 > Now, the real problem is that Xconq fails to set a move task that > requires a border slide when you try to do this manually. This is > because the move command pre-flight code doesn't know about border > slides. Ah, OK, that explains why I never could make sense of that border slide stuff. It also might be nice if the online help said something a bit more than just: Needs MP to enter terrain: 99 by default, 1 into sea, shallows, 0 into river. Needs MP to traverse terrain: -1 by default, 2 across river. although I'm not really sure how to express this best. I guess the "99 by default" could be turned into "cannot enter other terrain" (if the help code can figure out that 99 is never possible). Something similar for the "-1 by default". Although I suppose the real problem here is that the online help doesn't know about the user interface, so it can't just say "to travel along a river, click ....". Maybe the user interface could have some kind of mouseover (I could threaten to make it a tooltip for Xconq Office) when you are on a unit which has a border slide possible. Or something along these lines... Of course, all this is predicated on making border slides work from the user interface in the first place.