Re: [Rails-devel] Some progress

[Brett <wak...@ea...>]

> The StockSpaceType "name" is arbitrary and does not need to describe the
> colour or whatever.
> It is only used as a key by the stock spaces to find the common properties.
> The "colour" is optional, but is there for potential use by the UI
> (as are the fgColour and bgColour attributes of the public companies).
> It could also contain an RGB value in some format (for some companies 
> I use hex. #RRGGBB which shows neatly in the HTML output of my test servlet,
> 
> I'm not sure if that is useful for a Java UI).
> 

The java.awt.Color constructor that's most easily used accepts (float r,
float g, float b) or (int r, int g, int b) for each of the values.
Floats range is (0.0 - 1.0) and Int range is (0 - 255).

The less we need to do to parse the incoming values, the better.


> As a short-term goal I would propose to create a program that acts
> like Lemmi's moderator, i.e. it can manage all game actions except
> those that relate to the map (because that is the hard part!).
> This would mean that renevues and building costs would need to
> be entered manually. The first game to do this for would be 1830.
> 
> >From there we could decide how to get on: adding more games,
> or adding the map, revenue calculation etc.

That's a good and reasonable goal. I think that building a simple dump
of the game status as a save file will be workable for making this sort
of moderator easily usable.


---Brett. 

All art is but imitation of nature. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca