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

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

p.s. I had no idea ORDocking was available. It's somewhat obscurely named
and I was surprised to realize I have to choose between PrettyUI and
ORDocking - why can't I have both?

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 7:13 AM Chris Shaffer <chr...@gm...>
wrote:

> 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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