Re: [Rails-devel] Background maps

[Stefan F. <ste...@we...>]

On Wednesday, November 09, 2011 12:08:09 am Erik Vos wrote:
> That's a big achievement!   Thanks, Stefan.
> 
> Erik.
> 

Thanks to your preparations, but my contribution was merely to fix some bugs: 
Main issues were that the scale variable was defined as an integer, so that 
rounding errors occurred and the an assignment of a Dimension object variable 
where in reality a cloning was required.

To state my level of happiness for this code: 
The combination of a SVG canvas for the background map in a layer behind a 
Swing Canvas, which are aligned by manual calibration, acts only as a work-
around solution. 
Especially as tiles are SVG themselves but they get converted to 
BufferedImages and then painted on the Swing Canvas.

In the long run I suggest to follow the approach that Adam Badura suggested 
with his patch recently: A joint SVG document is manipulated to combine all 
graphic elements and is rendered by batik. A possible alternative is to paint 
everything on one or two instances of JSVGCanvas.

> Zooming now works fine (except the first time, strange enough, for both
> 18EU and 18GA).

I have not experienced the effect: What exactly is the bug (not zooming, 
background and tile have deviate in zoom) and is 
it reproducible at any start-up or was it really only the first time you have 
started a game of 18GA and 18EU?

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stefan Frey [mailto:ste...@we...]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 11:58 PM
> > To: Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
> > Subject: [Rails-devel] Background maps
> > 
> > I have fixed several issues in the code to display SVG background maps.
> > 
> > To test if SVG maps are a possible solution for Rails I have asked Peter
> > Mumford for his 18GA map, which is available on boardgamegeek.
> > Fortunately he provided a SVG conversion that I have added to the
> > repository.
> > 
> > The other map that was already available, but was not usable to the code
> > issues, is for 18EU.
> > 
> > Anyone who want to test background maps in development has to activate
> > the configuration setting in the configuration menu in the Map panel =>
> > Display Background map.
> > 
> > I would be glad to get some feedback for different hardware. On my large
> > external TFT monitor everything is perfect readable, however the fonts of
> > the 18GA map on my notebook display are somehow small.
> > 
> > Stefan
> 
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