[Rails-devel] New UI

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

It has been quiet for some time on this list, but that was
not because nothing was happening. In fact I was working
on a long haul: a Swing UI that would include the same functionality
that I had included in the test servlet before.

It's now all committed, as I consider it ripe for publication.

The class to run is test.GameTest (Brett's original test class),
which I have changed to open the new StatusWindow2 in stead
of the original StatusWindow. 

I believe this UI is pretty intuitive. The main thing less so might be
that if a number of light-orange buttons is displayed, one of these
must be pressed to select something. Such a selection will activate 
a conformation button at the bottom of the relevant window.

Of course the functionality is still very limited.
It includes the 1830-style start round and the usual Stock and
Operating rounds (currently only one OR per SR).
Other limitations are:
- no tiles, tokens, trains and phases yet. In an OR only the
financial aspects can be handled.
- no private special properties, except the "comes with" shares.
But privates can be manually closed.
- no special rules as in 1835/1856; the Pr and the CGR are normal companies.
Etc. etc.

The main goal of this early UI still is to find out how
the UI/Model interface should look like. There are still lots
of loose ends and suboptimal solutions; those can be dealt
with later.

One annoying bug is that, if a player sells the last private to a 
company, that private will remain showing up under the player's
possesions (without adverse effects on the game). I don't know why.

Another is, that the Start Round window shows ups initially with 
the buttons partly hidden. These become fully visible when a private is
selected. 

The ui package now has some redundant classes, which will be 
removed later. Some of these reflect previous work by Brett.

I hope you like this UI. Enjoy.

Erik.