Re: [Rails-devel] Game Options

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

On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 23:28 +0200, Erik Vos wrote:
> If a game has any <GameOption> tags, a dialog window will appear to
> let the user make the necessary selections (in fact I have reused the
> Options window). 
> The window contents are automatically generated from all found <GameOption>
> tags.

> Erik Vos


This is exactly the kind of "bad pop-up" that I was talking about a
couple of weeks ago.

This needs to somehow be a part of the Options UI. Deciding whether to
have an optional 6 train is not a question that's important enough to
merit interrupting the start of a game.

There are a couple of ways we can go about this:

1. A new section (JPanel) is added to the existing Options dialog, and
shows any available variants, and is not visible if no variants are
found.

2. A new button on the Options dialog that then pops up the variant
selector dialog.

3. Some other idea that's not immediately apparent to me.



 ---Brett.


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