Re: [Rails-devel] rails' user properties

[Chris S. <chr...@gm...>]

When will the new release be available?

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On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Stefan Frey <ste...@we...> wrote:

> Jim:
> thanks for your suggestion.
>
> It was a little late for the new release, but storing the UI layout it
> was/is
> already high on my list. There are some question to discuss due to Java
> flexible approach to layout its components. But I admit that I have already
> a
> code snippet on my desktop pc which moves the Map window to the second
> available screen.
>
> Let us discuss this in more depth as soon as the dust after the new release
> has settled, which might/will introduce other bugs/suggestions.
>
> Stefan
>
> On Thursday, August 19, 2010 08:12:25 pm Jim Black wrote:
> > I noticed that there's been substantial effort to add a
> > configuration/properties system to Rails, and also look forward to seeing
> > this in the next update.
> >
> > (I think the most critical update is the fix of the
> diesel-upgrade/tradein
> > bug, fwiw-  we always need to downgrade to 1.2.2 when the diesels come
> > out, which disables the most useful/difficult phase of 1.3's automated
> > route-calculation.)
> >
> > Along the lines of user preferences and properties, here's some more
> > comments re: differences from a pbem user to a hotseat/moderator user--
> >
> > - I load pbem Rails games, from my dropbox, all day.  The usage pattern
> is:
> >  launch rails, load game file (the last two can be munged), make move,
> > save game file, exit rails.
> >
> > ==>  Note that loading/exiting rails for each game is awkward (and
> > unusual)- I'd rather leave it running all day- loading games as they're
> > updated, saving & moving on to the next game, etc.
> >
> > - Also, once I load a game within Rails, I repeat my next sequence of
> > operations too:  I open most of the separate Rails game windows (map,
> > stock-chart, report window), and, resize and position these windows for
> my
> > current display.
> >
> > ==>  Note that having to reconfigure my desktop for each game is also
> > awkward- I wish Rails maintained a record of my last window layout for
> > each title/game- and. defaulted to that, when I [re-]load that
> title/game.
> >
> > For extra credit, it should keep separate copies for different display
> > sizes- during the day, we may switch computers, or, we may simply switch
> a
> > laptops from the builtin display, to a larger external display.  (These
> > things directly affect the way we config our windows, for each particular
> > title.)
> >
> > There's nothing magic about any of this- but the awkward thing is, we
> have
> > to repeat these exact little steps, /all day long/, in many standalone
> > Rails sessions.  It gets tedious to do these same tweaks every time we
> > reload a game- it would be great if Rails just remembered our last window
> > placements for each title (or, game), and little desktop stuff like that.
> >
> > best,
> >  - jim
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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