Re: [Rails-devel] rails' user properties

[brett l. <bre...@gm...>]

I'm hoping to get it out in the next few days. Life has been eating up
my free time, so I didn't get an opportunity last weekend to do the
release.

---Brett.



On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Chris Shaffer <chr...@gm...> wrote:
> 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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