Re: Three thoughts

[Eric McDonald <mcdonald@phy.cmich.edu>]

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Lincoln Peters wrote:

> > Well, I never suggested that other get smaller....
> > Does the MacOS X icon bar have that property?
> 
> No, but I imagine that if the size of the cell doesn't change, you'd
> have to shrink the other units to accommodate the enlarged unit image
> unless you were willing to obscure units by placing them underneath the
> enlarged unit image (which it looks like was what you have in mind).

Right.

> I noticed that the SDL interface blows up the selected unit to fill the
> entire cell even if other units occupy the cell.  I find it to be rather
> awkward, 

As do I. I think a more traditional selection rectangle might be 
desirable. If one wants to see a full-sized "portrait" of the 
selected unit, it can be provided in the unit information panel.

> I de-select the current unit first.  And sometimes it looks weird when
> several tiny unit images appear underneath a big unit image.

Agreed. At first I thought I was witnessing a bug, until I 
realized what was going on.

> I'm not sure which solution would work better.  It might be necessary to
> implement both solutions and see which holds up better in practice.

That might be not be a bad idea. But, I am not going to volunteer 
to write both solutions.

> http://homepage.mac.com/lmpeters/cell-closeup2.png

Interesting....

Eric