RE: [Rails-devel] Tile laying.

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

For the most part, I agree. 

---Brett.

-----Original Message-----
From: "John A. Tamplin" <ja...@ja...>
Sent: Nov 14, 2005 8:25 AM
To: rai...@li...
Subject: RE: [Rails-devel] Tile laying.

On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Brett Lentz wrote:

> Really, the ideal long-term solution is that, depending on scale and
> user preference, the code makes the determination if rendering
> information on the tile itself is easily readable, or if moving the
> information to the tooltip is a better choice.

Having done extensive work with tile layout for print-ready output, I can
say that you will never get automated layout working for all the tiles.  
The approach I have taken is to have the database contain all the layout
information (position and orientation) for the objects, and have them
defaulted if they are null based on automated layout algorithms.  That
works for the simple tiles (60-70%), but crowded or unusual tiles will
have to be manually laid out to get a good result.

Regarding tooltips, I think any essential information about the tile needs 
to be readily visible.  Perhaps the actual amount can be moved, but the 
notation saying there is a build cost needs to be accessible without 
moving the mouse over it.
 
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