From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17680 invoked by alias); 20 Aug 2004 16:22:43 -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 17668 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2004 16:22:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ob2.cmich.edu) (141.209.20.21) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 20 Aug 2004 16:22:40 -0000 Received: from egate1.central.cmich.local ([141.209.15.85]) by ob2.cmich.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i7KGHSP6016920; Fri, 20 Aug 2004 12:17:28 -0400 Received: from leon.phy.cmich.edu ([141.209.165.20]) by egate1.central.cmich.local with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 12:19:53 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by leon.phy.cmich.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id E98F370036; Fri, 20 Aug 2004 12:22:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 18:34:00 -0000 From: Eric McDonald To: mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca Cc: xconq7@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Three thoughts In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Aug 2004 16:19:53.0444 (UTC) FILETIME=[86679A40:01C486D1] X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-Spam-Score: -0.8 () CLICK_BELOW X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg00971.txt.bz2 Hi Matthew, long time, no see, On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: > * If firing at specific units were to be a big part of some game, then it > would be nice if it were easier to designate specific units when there are > many of them, or nested occupant/transports, in a cell. As it is, even at > the deepest level of zoom it's quite difficult to click precisely on one > unit if there are a lot of them in the cell. One way to deal with this > might be for an interface to be able to give me a dialog box with a list > of units in the cell. I think that Elijah may have also mentioned this last year, and I completely agree. Although I really don't want to do much Tcl/Tk hacking, this is something that I have been contemplating adding, depending on whether I let units carry armor (and weapons, once the necessary 'hit-chance' and 'damage' modifier tables are in place). Probably such a window could be brought up with the "i" key, since I think that is supposed to go to the next occ, IIRC. > myself. Why can't we have scroll bars like everybody else? Unless I am dreaming, I think the Tcl/Tk interface may have had scrollbars at some point, or, at least, I thought they were commented out in the Tcl code. I think Hans did improve the keyboard navigation in this regard a while back ago. Something about using the arrow keys or the numeric keypad, IIRC. You might want to see if you can dig up that mail; it might make your map navigation a little more pleasant. Eric