Re: [Rails-devel] Company panel during OR

[Chris S. <chr...@gm...>]

I like John's suggestion of having company info in one table - and I would
add to that the ability to sort the table by various metrics, including
operating order.

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 3:11 PM John David Galt <
jd...@di...> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
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