Re: [Rails-devel] Autosave/load fixes.

[Phil D. <de...@gm...>]

Erik,

Some brief feedback from testing over the last couple of days:

If you just choose 'File -> Autosave/load' nothing happens.  I had to
set both a save folder and a Local Player name in the Configuration
dialogue before this would present me with the autosave box.  I
imagine this is intentional since those settings would be required but
better error handling might help new users.

Autosave seems to work perfectly fine, since I'm still playing over
normal PBEM I'm slightly mourning the loss of the 'auto copy to
clipboard functionality that comes from a manual save, but I don't
personally think it's a good idea to just assume if you have autosave
on to grab a copy of the last moves every time, in practice I would
think this would be used for more realtime gaming.

Autoload doesn't appear to work at all, I can File -> Reload and it
works fine but rails isn't automatically spotting that a new file has
appeared in Dropbox, am I missing a setting?

Phil

On 4 May 2011 20:38, Erik Vos <eri...@xs...> wrote:
> I have committed code to tighten the new Autosave/load feature, primarily
> for Dropbox users. It now does the job in most, but not yet in all cases.
>
> Aspects that need more work:
>
> - It is sometimes hard to see who has the turn and what is the active window
> or dialog.   Not sure how to address that; I'm currently considering an
> extra line in the Status window (above the menu) that mentions: the local
> player name, the current player name, the active window, and the active
> dialog name (if any).
>
> - The (currently fixed) popup that informs a player that it is his turn
> again often does not show up;  I haven't yet investigated why.
>
> - When a player loses the turn, most menu items and buttons are now
> disabled, but not yet all of these.
>
> - For clarity, in particular during testing, I found it necessary to center
> popup dialogs on the currently active window.  This has not yet been
> accomplished for all dialogs yet.
>
> - I know of one case where a question is asked to a different player than
> the one who must answer it: in 18EU, when a minor merges with a company that
> has a different president, the question whether or not the minor home base
> token must be exchanged or not is put to the former minor company president
> rather than to the major company president who must in fact answer it.  This
> is not easy to change, as it is hardcoded in the UI rather than handled by
> the game engine.
> It is quite possible that more such cases exist; I'd be grateful for
> reports.
>
> I now above all need feedback from users to what extent this all works or
> does not work for them.
>
> Erik.
>
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