Re: [Rails-devel] Swing Docking Framework for Rails

[Frederick W. <fre...@go...>]

Stefan:
> After closing the Map/ORWindow via the GameWindow menu
> and recreating it, only parts of the ORWindow get restored: However
> which parts can be recovered changes each time I tried that.

Thanks for this observation. This should now be fixed (retest
successful at least for my reproduction path).

Regarding the other points:
I understand that much more would be needed if we wanted to really
productize these new features (ie., defining them as standard).
However, I have made the decision not to pursue this aim for the time
being. Everyone who wants to make experiences with this (rather
hidden) functionality is welcome to do so - he can return to the
standard rails UI at any time.

Some of the points in more detail:

- Messed up layouts: It would be rather easy to add a "reset layout"
button to the OR Panel's menu. But this would only help regarding the
symptom. The root issue here is that you are able to create broken
layouts. I have never been able to "achieve" that. I'm really
wondering how you did this.

- Predefined game-dependent layouts and config file merge: Very
sensible but, in my opinion, much too early to think about that. One
target design could be do put all panels (incl. status window etc.) in
one frame. So this should wait until the target design is fixed.

-- Frederick