Re: [Rails-devel] Nonmodal popups

[Erik V. <eri...@xs...>]

> To answer your questions:
> 1. would only de-activate those menu-items which are corresponds to Rails
> actions. All others should be still active.

Agreed.

> 2. message pop-ups should never be modal (or quasi-modal, as you are
> currently implementing), most likely they could be replaced by displaying
it in
> the info/status panel (adding an info panel in the stock window would
allow
> that).

That doesn't work in all cases: some messages are pretty long, such as those
that report the CGR formation details.
Another idea could be a permanent message window.

> Some other remarks:
> 
> * Most likely it makes sense to merge your commit with the code that
> deactivates the windows when the game history is used, which tries to
> achieve a similar effect.

I'll look at that.  I'll probably first refactor dialog handling itself,
which is now spread over various UI classes in a not very logical way.  In
any case we need a dialog type enum.