From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28705 invoked by alias); 20 Jul 2004 08:05:39 -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 28620 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2004 08:05:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO av15-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net) (81.228.10.102) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 20 Jul 2004 08:05:37 -0000 Received: by av15-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 9668F37E52; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:05:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp4-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (smtp4-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.181]) by av15-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 854A937E42; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:05:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [212.181.162.155] (h155n1fls24o1048.bredband.comhem.se [212.181.162.155]) by smtp4-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0709437E44; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:05:35 +0200 (CEST) X-Sender: u22611592@m1.226.comhem.se Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200407200525.i6K5PRM00717@panix5.panix.com> References: <40FAF653.9090602@phy.cmich.edu> (message from Eric McDonald on Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:14:43 -0600) <40FAF653.9090602@phy.cmich.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 13:38:00 -0000 To: Jim Kingdon From: Hans Ronne Subject: Re: Weird fuel behavior Cc: xconq7@sources.redhat.com X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg00780.txt.bz2 >It's not an easy problem. Having a huge number of messages somewhere >of the sort ("unit xxx starved" etc) won't work (unless perhaps for >rare events, which starving might be). Maybe being able to click on a >unit and issue a command saying "what's going on with this unit?" >(e.g. "tried to attack last turn, but didn't have ammo"). Or I guess >it would be a cell in the case of a now-vanished unit... Interestingly, that feature is already available in the Mac interface :-). If you ctrl-click on a unit, it brings up a small closeup (floating window) where you can examine its plans etc. Basically the same information as in the unit info pane. There are two advantages over the latter, however. First, these closeups take much less screen space, and only when you need them. Second you can open several of them and study how units interact with each other. Unlike the History window, this is an extremely useful feature. I use it all the time while debugging new kernel code. It's the only way to grasp what is really going on in a complex situation with several interacting units. I have therefore given serious thought to porting the closeups to the tcltk interface. The only thing that has held me off so far is the poor support for floating windows in tcltk. It took a lot of work to get the research popup window to behave the way it does, and it is still inferior to a real floating window. Hans