RE: [Cxtable-devel] RE: Can you help me guage how long this'd tak e?

[Borne Goodman-M. <bm...@eg...>]

I agree that images rather than letters would be a huge step in the
right direction, and even without drag and drop, you could just
implement a 2 click mechanism, where you click on the 1st tile (from)
and the 2nd tile (to), to move a piece.  A friend of mine did some
simple drag-n-drop for the jrci project (on sourceforge) for which I
re-wrote the server to use the new 1.4 NIO code to scale up to handle a
lot more load.

I have in the past played D&D (and countless other rpgs), and the jrci
project was developed in particular as a system to support remote role
playing, including a die rolling engine, etc, but is a pure client /
server implementation rather than p2p.  I was an observer of them
playing a game of Dune with it (not sure if it was based on a system, or
home spun), but it is excellent for the latter type of role playing you
described.

--bjgm

On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 11:05, Williams, David wrote:
> Yeah... I pretty much thought that I've simply been being lazy..
> 
> Although, I think my classpath might be set wrong...
> 
> I guess, if I am ever to attract a user base, it should at least support some basic Swing stuff... The Chess game, for example, could _really_ use DnD...currently,but at least something such as an JLabel with Image support...  Cause right now, the chesspieces are "Kg-w" (Label objects), and moving them is a matter of calling label.setText(newpiecename);  
> 
> You move the chess pieces with coordinates (not a bad thing necessarily), d2 d4, etc..
> 
> Given the time I've put into it, getting it done and working, and distributable to my close-knit buddy buddies..  I could then have the online, 4-city, D&D session I've dreamed of..
> 
> (Incidentally..if you ever played D&D..there are two types of people...the 'power-gamers' who played D&D and might as well have been playing a 4-player arcade game, and those that developed a story... I catered, of course, to the latter of these two styles...)
> 
> Its really funny, though...I keep saying "I imagine the possibilities for a real application of this, not just toys", and then follow it with plans for a Battleship game...  :-)
> 
> ~Dave
> 
> 
> David Scott Williams
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Borne Goodman-Mace [mailto:bm...@eg...]
> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 10:52 AM
> To: cxt...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Cxtable-devel] RE: Can you help me guage how long this'd
> take?
> 
> 
> This would all be very simple to migrate to Swing, and all of the names
> of the Swing components relate to the names of the AWT components which
> they mimic.  Rather than an awt.Panel you would use a swing.JPanel. 
> Rather than a TextArea, you would use a JTextArea, or JTextPane (they
> have different abilities, and I personally perfer the Pane, though it is
> a little more tricky to implement).
> 
> Since the xtable UI is very simple now, I think the transition to Swing
> would be a very fast process, and mostly just adding a J in front of the
> AWT object names :).
> 
> --bjgm
> 
> On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 10:43, Williams, David wrote:
> > Basically, I have a class, xPanel...its .create() method returns a awt.Panel with a TextArea on the South layout, and a "refresh"button and label on the north layout.
> > 
> > I have a message-panel that basically has 2-3 buttons on the south, and a TextArea on the North.... etc...
> > 
> > These are "simple" AWT things...  How hard would it be to do as javax.swing?
> > 
> > Advanced things like DnD could be added, etc...but if I am planning to stabilize it as is, I don't know if I require swing for it..unless, of course, a user base comes along...
> > 
> > 
> > David Scott Williams
> > Computer Associates
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