From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5221 invoked by alias); 22 Aug 2004 02:46:23 -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 5205 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2004 02:46:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO av7-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net) (81.228.8.108) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 22 Aug 2004 02:46:22 -0000 Received: by av7-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id F22CB37E45; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 04:46:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp2-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (smtp2-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.177]) by av7-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E15E037E43; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 04:46:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [212.181.162.155] (h155n1fls24o1048.bredband.comhem.se [212.181.162.155]) by smtp2-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E20937E42; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 04:46:20 +0200 (CEST) X-Sender: u22611592@m1.226.comhem.se Message-Id: In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 03:09:00 -0000 To: mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca From: Hans Ronne Subject: Re: Three thoughts Cc: xconq7@sources.redhat.com X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg00985.txt.bz2 >* 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. Firing at selected units is impossible unless you are using the Mac interface. See my post "The selective fire-at command". Fixing the tcltk interface so that you can do selective fire-at is on my todo list. It has never been possible to target occupants directly in Xconq, though I believe I suggested earlier this year that we should consider making it possible. As for selecting units in general, I never had any problems at the highest zoom level. What game are you playing, and how many units are there in the cell? >* In the current TCL/TK interface (well, current as of my last CVS >update), connection terrain is sometimes not drawn when at the highest >zoom level unless "grid" is turned on. I'll look into this when I have time. Graphics at the highest zoom level is not fully developed in any of the interfaces, so there are various glitches. >getting a scroll that I didn't want. Making the auto-scroll user-settable >would be okay, I suppose, but I'd keep the setting turned off all the time >myself. Why can't we have scroll bars like everybody else? Maybe you should get a Mac :-). Not only does it have selective fire-at, but this other feature that you are asking for (scrollbars that you can turn on or off) is also available in the Mac interface. Not that I ever use them. A better alternative to scrollbars is scrolling of the map using the arrow keys. I ported that feature from the Mac interface to the tcltk interface some time ago. If you use Windows, you can also scroll diagonally by using numbers 1-9 on the numeric keypad. For some reason, I couldn't get the numeric keypad to work properly under Linux, though. Hans