From: John A. T. <ja...@ja...> - 2005-11-18 23:28:43
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Brett Lentz wrote: >I think it is possible to allow the UI code to make an "educated guess" about where to lay tokens. > >For example, on 00 tiles, we know that the city circles are always diagonal from each other. So, we can logically infer from the tile's rotation, given that we have a known starting orientation, whether a token placed on the left half or right half of the hex needs to be also placed within the top half or bottom half of the hex. > > Unless you plan on having the UI code know about the internals of tile representations, how is it supposed to know where the city circles are for arbitrary tiles? Surely you don't want to special-case tiles in the UI code, so it seems best to have a way for the UI code to ask the tile where the token circles are. -- John A. Tamplin ja...@ja... 770/436-5387 HOME 4116 Manson Ave Smyrna, GA 30082-3723 |