From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24520 invoked by alias); 6 Sep 2004 19:42:53 -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 24510 invoked from network); 6 Sep 2004 19:42:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail3.panix.com) (166.84.1.74) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 6 Sep 2004 19:42:52 -0000 Received: from panix5.panix.com (panix5.panix.com [166.84.1.5]) by mail3.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23368981E9; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 15:42:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from kingdon@localhost) by panix5.panix.com (8.11.6p2-a/8.8.8/PanixN1.1) id i86Jgq712540; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 15:42:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 20:49:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200409061942.i86Jgq712540@panix5.panix.com> From: Jim Kingdon To: mcdonald@phy.cmich.edu Cc: xconq7@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <413CB191.4060205@phy.cmich.edu> (message from Eric McDonald on Mon, 06 Sep 2004 12:50:57 -0600) Subject: Re: Another Possible Solution to the Occupants Display Problem References: <413CB191.4060205@phy.cmich.edu> X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg01128.txt.bz2 > "Occs" is a button that brings up a popup containing images of the > occupants. Instead of "Occs" or "OV", I think I'd go with an icon (if someone can design one which makes sense and fits in 16x8 or so). Or maybe just "...". That fits in almost any size box and seems to be kind of logical for what the button does (and indicates). Or maybe just draw the transport full-size in the "unit in a white box meaning occupants" which the tcltk interface now uses at 16x16 (hmm, I guess that only works if the popup is a mouseover, because click means to act on that unit). > For 11x11 (8x8), clicking anywhere in the transport should probably > bring up the occupant view popup. Yes. Likewise at any magnification for clicking on occupants which are displayed in the transport (in the 1-2 occupant case). But it seems odd for click to sometimes mean act on the unit and sometimes mean bring up the popup. I'm thinking more that the popup should be a mouseover (although I don't know about things like nested popups in that context). > the transport's name, location, and similarly-sized image should be > near the top of the popup Also ACPs, materials and plans (hit points optionally, although there is already a damage bar for that). As long as we are bringing up a popup, might as well make it possible to avoid having to glance over to a separate unit details pane. I'm not as sure about location - it seems like the fact that you get to the popup from the map maybe means location is reduant. It seems kind of inelegant to be using a bunch of text if there is some way to provide the information visually in a contextual way. Anyway, if the popup has this kind of information, it would be useful to be able to bring up this popup by clicking on the transport itself (or a unit with no occupants). > Thoughts? I don't remember what the other choices du jour were, but this one seems promising. Or some variant thereof... I think the main alternative which is springing to mind is being able to magnify the map more than you can now (with probably a key or something which takes you immediately to the maximum zoom which is needed to see the selected unit and its occupants, or something).