Re: [Rails-devel] Game Options

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

On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 20:36 +0200, Erik Vos wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> This is about what happens, except that (1) the original contents of that
> window have been removed 
> (the alternative being to disable everything before adding the new stuff)
> and (2) it is moved 200x200 pixels to make it somewhat better accessible.
> And, yes, it is briefly out of sight.
> It should be easy to tweak it your way - go ahead, I would say.
> 

You're misunderstanding my meaning. This isn't at all what happens. 

By new JPanel, I'm meaning a new JPanel within Options(), this does not
mean a modal popup dialog.

> > 2. A new button on the Options dialog that then pops up the variant
> > selector dialog.
> 
> That button already exists: it is the New Game button.
> 

Wrong answer.  New Game needs to start a new game *immediately*.

If we're going the button route, then it needs to be a *different*
button that shows the variant options. This button needs to only toggle
the variant values, and not be in between the user and starting a new
game.

This requires two separate UI paths:

First: Options() presented -> User hits New Game button -> New game is
started, code just assumes no optional 6 train (i.e. the default value
is used).

Second: Options() presented -> User clicks Variants button -> Variants
dialog is presented -> User selects variant options and hits an OK
button -> User is returned to Options() -> User clicks New Game button
-> New Game starts.




 ---Brett.


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