Re: [Rails-devel] Bonus Tokens & UI structure

[Brett L. <wak...@gm...>]

On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 22:04 +0100, Erik Vos wrote:
> A summary of the changes:
> 
> 1. The main goal was implementing bonus tokens,

An important feature of several games. Good choice. :-)


> Bonus tokens are not bound to stations (white circles). 
> To avoid conflicts with the current (imperfect) base token positioning, 

That's putting it mildly. ;-)

> In the future we will need some algorithm to find empty spots
> to lay such tokens (or perhaps predefine such spots in Tiles.xml).

Yes.  The token laying code needs a lot of love.  Perhaps there is someone 
lurking on the list that would like to work on it?


> 4. To get this all working was pretty much a nightmare, 
> not the least because of the complex and non-transparent
> structure of the OR UI code. To make a start improving this,
> I have added a new class ORUIManager, and moved most of the
> logic and state awareness into this class. The Window and Panel
> classes are now mainly concerned with UI updates and action
> catching, as they should (ORWindow, however, remains the main entry 
> point, for consistency with other round type UIs).
> 
> This restructuring work is far from complete, 
> but I think everything now at least works.
> 


We've restructerd the OR UI a few different times. I'm not certain
there's going to be an easy way to structure so many inter-dependent
parts.

Perhaps we just need to better document how it works so that each time
we come back to it, we don't have to RTFS over and over again to relearn
it.


> 5. One small fix related to the missing token names on the map.
> These were actually displayed, but in the wrong position:
> in the upper left corner of the map! This is now OK.
> However, the tokens are small and so the text is hardly readable.

Yeah, one of the bigger todo's that I've had on my list is to figure out
why the OR UI doesn't automatically re-size itself when the window is
resized. I suspect there's some single thing that's missing or
mis-configured that is causing it to stay a static size.



 ---Brett.


Ignorance must certainly be bliss or there wouldn't be so many people
so resolutely pursuing it.