RE: [Rails-devel] UI Updates

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

>>> Argh. I really gotta stop using Java 1.5 on my systems. I 
>>> apologize for that.
>>> 
>>> What do you mean by the tiles being clipped?

>>That the borders are not visible, only the center part.
>>Or is that specific to me?
>>I can't believe that *that* is caused by Java version
>>differences, but you never know....

>Ahh... I'm pretty sure I know what that is.

>In the paint() method for each GUIHex, you'll notice a call to g2.setClip(hexagon)

>This sets the clipping boundary for each hex to be the size and dimensions 
>of the hexagon. This is probably cutting out the borders on the hexes.

>However, the reason we need to setClip() is because otherwise the 
>clickable area for each hexagon would be a bunch of overlapping 
>rectangles that cause problems for detecting which hex a click triggers.


Actually, I've found a better way of doing things.

In GUIHex, there's still the PaintOverlay code from Colossus.

This seems to work a lot better than my rather hackish image loading code.  

It currently only works under the NS hex orientation.

If I can get the rotation math correct I'll have it working for all hexes shortly.

---Brett.