Re: [Rails-devel] Splitting up the OR window.

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

Erik & Brett:
I support allowing to split up Map and Company window. If there is a valid 
reason to keep them together, add a configuration for that. I am wondering if 
we could add another yes/no option to combine the Player and Company window, 
that would be optimal for a two-screen setup, that I am using myself here.

A more general approach is to add a docking framework, which would allow user 
to drag and drop panels as they like.
However from my (limited) knowledge there seems to be not a clear choice which 
swing docking library to select if any. 

And I am not even sure that I would still choose Swing for a rewrite of the 
user interface. I would prefer something from the ajax/gwt/jquery et.al. 
world. This would ease migration to allow play on mobile devices and have the 
server part of the cloud (e.g. using the google AppEngine). 

From my point of view google really replaced sun as the company which  
supports and encourages the java cross-platform idea most.
And just in time before it was too late...

But for now: I would like the idea of map and company panel separated.

Stefan


On Thursday, November 24, 2011 02:09:07 pm brett lentz wrote:
> I'd like more layout options, especially the ability to configure what
> is or isn't contained within a single window. However, I think that
> this feature request could be considered pretty low priority.
> 
> IMO, adding support for new games and networked play are probably far
> higher on the "most wanted" list.
> 
> ---Brett.
> 
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Erik Vos <eri...@xs...> wrote:
> > Today I found the following new feature request #3439190 in Sourceforge
> > (by Anonymous, dated 2011-11-16):
> > 
> > "Detach company list from map.
> > 
> > Currently, the map window also contains the list of companies.
> > While the motivation for having this is clear (user needs this
> > information simultaneously), there are constellations for which this is
> > not desired: I use two monitors (left-right) and have plenty of space
> > horizontally. Therefore, I'd prefer to have the list of companies left
> > or right of the map.
> > The proposed solution would be to detach the company list and put it into
> > a stand-alone window (or detach the map analogously)."
> > 
> > I replied as follows:
> > 
> > "Originally, Rails had separate windows for the map and the OR status
> > panel. Brett Lentz has combined the two already in a pretty early stage.
> > 
> > Personally, I would have left these apart. Sometimes (e.g. in 1835) it's
> > really annoying having these two screens joined, because the whole OR
> > Window now is too high, and always resizes that way at the start of a
> > new OR (I don't know how to fix that).
> > So I'm all for a split-up."
> > 
> > Opinions?
> > 
> > Erik.
> > 
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