FW: [Mars-sim-developers] Additions of the last week or so.

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I was experimenting with creating a tiled background image on the desktop
last night and got it to work OK.  I'm going to experiment with it further
tonight.

I was thinking of some kind of sandy texture type background, which needs to
be seamlessly tilable.  I'm really open for ideas on this, but I was
thinking of dark red.  The current background is just straight black, so the
new tiled texture will have to look good with the colors of the internal
windows.

I was also thinking of putting some kind of logo in the center of the
background (on the next layer up) and recentering it each time the main
window is resized.  I don't know if I can use a partially transparent image
(such as a transparent GIF), but I will be experimenting with that tonight.

If a partially transparent logo can be used, we could perhaps blend it into
the tiled background.

As for the logo, I'm not sure what would be best.  Perhaps just the name in
a cool font.  Maybe a shape or a picture of some sort.  Let me know if you
have any ideas.  It shouldn't be too obtrusive as it's still a part of the
background.

Scott Davis

-----Original Message-----
From: james barnard [mailto:ja...@ba...]
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 3:23 AM
To: Sco...@bo...
Subject: Re: [Mars-sim-developers] Additions of the last week or so.


I'll come up with something, any ideas what you want?
----- Original Message -----
From: <Sco...@bo...>
To: <mar...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 8:59 PM
Subject: [Mars-sim-developers] Additions of the last week or so.


> I've added quite a few little things to the user interface of the project
> over the last couple of weeks.
>
> The project now has a menu bar with "File", "Tools" and "Help" menus.  I
> created an "About The Mars Simulation Project" dialog window that gives
> information about the project, contributor acknowledgement and a
description
> of the GPL license.
>
> I separated the toolbar into a tool toolbar and a unit toolbar.  The tool
> toolbar is placed vertically along the left side of window, and the unit
> toolbar is placed horizontally along the bottom of the window.
>
> I created a search tool that allows the user to search for people,
> settlements and vehicles, bringing up their detail windows and recentering
> the navigator tool on the unit.  I also removed the unit selector from the
> navigator tool.
>
> Currently the desktop background is plain black.  I was thinking of
> experimenting with tiling images on the desktop and perhaps putting some
> kind of logo centered in the background.  Let me know if you have any
ideas
> for that, James.
>
> Scott Davis
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