Re: [Rails-devel] Support Needed: New complex Tiles and Maps

[John A. T. <ja...@ja...>]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 5:41 AM, Stefan Frey <ste...@we...> wrote:

> I even consider making another step: Allow parametrized tiles, tiles
> that use the same track layout, but differ in the station values and
> labels: Currently a new tile is defined any time the station value
> changes and/or a label is added to the tile.
>
> One could even consider the tile color to be a parameter of the tile and
> thus there is no need to duplicate the track layout definition only
> because the color changes.
>
> For sure they are different tiles that are required for a physical game,
> but not if they get generated automatically.
>

I'm not sure it is worth the trouble, but if I were going to do that I
would do it by "subclassing" tiles and overriding parts I wanted to change.

-- 
John A. Tamplin