[Rails-devel] Status of "bug" 1945690

[Erik V. <eri...@hc...>]

I have looked the reported tracked "bug" 1945690 and tried what could be
done about it.
Here are the contents after the update I have just made:

[Opened by anonymous:]
When 5 companies floated in 1851, action buttons are off the screen in
normal size

[Comment by krazick:]
This sort of problem will most likely affect more than just 1851, it all
depends on how many companies are in the game. The List of Companies on the
Map Window probably should be a scrollable list... and maybe the Action
Buttons should appear Above the list in a non-scrollable section.

[Just added by me:]
This problem is at least partly fixed by making the window remember its
position and height, after it has been repositioned/resized manually (see
bug fix 1945695).

I have tried to split the screen, so that the division between upper and
lower part can be manually moved. This allows the lower part to be made
scrollable. That all works, but I could not find a satisfactory way to set
the initial pane division so that the result looks good for all games and
game phases. The result is often ugly, so I have undone all of this. 

Not sure if it is worth while to keep this "bug" open; in any case, it is
unlikely that I will spend any more effort on it.
[End of bug report]

Since the original Map and OR windows have been merged a few years ago, I
have been afraid that we would run into such trouble, and indeed I have been
frequently annoyed by the consequences of this window often being much
higher than the available screen space. Last week I have made the window
remember its height, so that it would no longer scroll off the screen at the
start of each new OR after it has been manually set to a reasonable size. 

For me, this has removed most of the trouble I had with the OR window.  Any
other views?

Erik