Re: [Rails-devel] Company panel during OR

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

On 2015-10-05 11:06, Stefan Frey wrote:
> Luiz:
> first thanks for the save files.
> 
> The bug you reported is actually intended as a feature... ;-)
> 
> During Tile and Token Lays and Revenue Calculation only the current 
> operating company is shown to maximize the area to display the map.
> 
> Only during Train Buying all companies are shown.
> 
> To All:
> 
> What do you think? There has to be a solution for those games that 
> feature too many companies.
> 
> One idea is to allow the user change the mode (single versus all) by 
> double-clicking on the company panel?

If I had my way, companies would be displayed in only one place -- the
Game Status window -- and it would have columns added to be able to show
tile and token lays.  The map window should contain only the map and the
operating-round controls.

If the devs aren't willing to change that, second best would be to make
the dividing bar between the map section and the company section of the
map window moveable by dragging it with the mouse, the way you can do it
in Windows' File Explorer and in Mozilla Thunderbird's main display.
This would be especially helpful when trying to play a game with lots of
companies (like 18EU or 1837) on a small screen.  As it is now, if
playing on a computer with a 1024x768 monitor, you can wind up having to
go most of the way through 18EU (all the way up to the minor company
merger round) before you're allowed to see more than a tiny "letterbox"
slice of the map.  I'm sure it's even worse on mobile devices.