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

[John D. G. <jd...@di...>]

> "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?

I would like to see the lists of companies removed from both the map window and
the Game Status window, to become a new window I would call Company Actions.
(The remainder of the Game Status window would be Player Actions.)

Like Erik, my main motivation is the annoying tendency of the map window to
resize itself before and during operating rounds.  So maybe it would be better,
as well as simpler, just to implement a decree that once the game begins, no
window shall ever move or resize itself except manually.  If a window suddenly
needs to display data that won't fit within its existing area (as when new
companies form), let it sprout scroll bars instead of changing size.