Re: [Rails-devel] [Rails-users] Company panel during OR

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

Every time I see a table, I like to be able to click the column headers to
sort. Sometimes, it's useful to sort companies by treasury (to see who is
able to buy trains), sometimes alphabetically (if there are a lot of
companies), sometimes floated vs. unfloated, sometimes number of shares in
particular locations (e.g. sort by number of shares in the pool in 1844 or
1817). In 1880, you want to sort by par value (which is also operating
order, but could show you which par values are still available). Some of
the columns may not matter, but if the UI is changed to allow sorting by
column headers, why not enable all of them?

In regard to what information should be available, the answer is of course
"all." However, it would be nice to have a single place to go look at all
the company information. If I'm on a small screen, I can toggle between
viewing the map and viewing the table of companies. If I'm on a large
screen, I can display those windows side by side. Right now, we get some of
the information in a table attached to the map, and some information in
another table in the game status window - and some of it is duplicated in
both places. I'd like to have it all in one place that's easy to access.

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 1:34 AM Stefan Frey <ste...@we...> wrote:

> Chris and John:
> Thanks for your proposals.
>
> Some general comments first:
>
> * Greater improvements to the UI require substantial code-changes and
> will only happen over longer time frames. So there is enough time to
> discuss those. Current changes are small hacks in the current code, so
> some things are easy to introduce, others are close to impossible.
>
> * There is a docking framework that Frederick Weld implemented for the
> operating round. This allows to separate the Map from the OR Panel. You
> can activate it in the configuration window or by simply choosing the
> "ORDocking" configuration profile.
>
> * It seems that there is consensus that most information on companies
> should be moved to the Game Status window. However is there information
> that is can be removed?
>
> * What is the remaining information that should be visible during the
> Operating Round?
>
>
>  > John David Galt:
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> - You could potentially use the Docking configuration already to show
> the full map.
>
> - Do you really need the information on tile and token lays part of that
> table? This information is also available in the Game Report window.
>
>  > Chris Schaffer:
>  >
> > 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.
>
> - Do you agree that the company info should be in the game status table?
> Or another separate table, however not linked to the map. Again this is
> possible using the Docking configuration.
>
> - What other metric would you like to sort on?
>
>
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