Re: [Rails-devel] Rails-devel Digest, Vol 19, Issue 4

[Brett L. <wak...@gm...>]

On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 21:06 +0200, Erik Vos wrote:
>         On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Erik Vos <eri...@hc...>
>         wrote:
>         
>                 Another suggestion would be to make the background
>                 color of the revenue circles on the tiles equal to the
>                 tile color. The current white bg, together with the
>                 relatively large size of these circles, make them look
>                 almost like cities. For instance, in 1835, yellow
>                 Berlin almost looks like having three cities, rather
>                 than two. 
>                   
>                 For contrast, it might then be worth considering to
>                 turn the back foreground color into white on darker
>                 backgrounds. 
>                   
>                 Work is needed on the correct relative placement of
>                 tile elements (name, cost, other features), as these
>                 currently often overlap. 
>                   
>                 Names often extend to outside the map hex. Perhaps
>                 wrapping over two lines should be considered in some
>                 cases, or perhaps the names should only appear on the
>                 tooltip, or should only be shown if the map scale is
>                 above a certain threshold. 
>                   
>                 Erik. 
>                 
>                 
>                 
>         
>         
>         As for the Revenue Circles background the same as the tile
>         background, I was attempting to mimic the way the tiles are
>         drawn on the actual board, which is white circles. 
> Some games do it this way, yes, but others don't (for instance 1830
> and 1835).
>         I will agree that they do appear too large on the default
>         scale of 8 (or smaller). But I don't think making them the
>         exact tile background color would work either. I feel the
>         revenue value would be lost.  Maybe some other neutral
>         color... say maybe a pale blue background might be better. 
> Ouch...
>         I am not sure what you mean by the "for contrast... "
>         statement. 
> The idea was to draw a white circle and number on dark tiles (keeping
> the background as is). Just an idea. Keeping the tile colours on the
> light side is probably better.
>         As for the over-laps, yes, the City Name overlaps have
>         bothered me. A the idea of simply having the names on the tool
>         tip would be fine. For the costs for Terrain features, one
>         update I had not gotten to yet was the currency symbol.  But
>         yes, the overlaps even without the City Names do happen at a
>         few points, and to fix those, requires tweaking the placements
>         a bit this way or that way, which ends up being more a tedious
>         data change, rather than the fun coding bit... :--)
>         
>         As for wrapping a name, Yes, it could be done, but may not be
>         worth the effort. The code is designed to draw the map hex, by
>         hex. And draw the names as the hex is drawn, rather than after
>         all the hexes are drawn to go back and plot the names down.
>         But maybe do a combination of the Tool Tip for Scale < X, and
>         drawn when Scale is >= X is feasible. I shall look at that
>         option. But do note, when the Scale is increased, the Font
>         Size is current not increased to match. I was figuring that
>         when I got to that bit, I would actually look at each scale
>         level, and determine by eye which font size was best.


These colors probably should just be user-configurable.

Mark's drawing code appears to make that possible. 

Implementing user configurable colors after his code is merged seems
like the easiest path to solving the problem. ;-)

---Brett.

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