Re: [Super-tux-devel] Popup help button patch

[Tobias <tob...@gm...>]

Hi Ricardo,

thanks for your patches! I'll review and merge them with CVS.

Am Mi, den 03.03.2004 schrieb ri...@ae... um 14:11:
> Hey there, 
>  
>  Tobias, as you asked, this patch changes the behaviour of the popup 
> help info in the buttons. 
>  I have just made it to appear instantaneously (without a delay), 
> since I don't think it is that good to put a timer in each of the 
> buttons. The button bar should have more control over the buttons, 
> just as in usual gui toolkits. Futhermore, I think this is the way 
> to go for usability. 
>  
>  I would like to ask how will the tiles/bad_guys buttons look like. 
> Will they be 32x32 or just 32x16? If the last one, will they be 
> cutted or resized? 
The tiles will have the same size as in the game. -> 32x32

>  I also think that the buttons to change levels should be changed, 
> since the first time I saw them, I thought it was to scroll the 
> button bar.
It's good to receive feedback. I'm going to redesign that stuff.
 
> 
>  In another topic, the mouse cursor flicks in the game (exeption for 
> the great nvidia drivers). So, I think we should change it for our 
> own mouse cursor, since it is annoying to use a flicker cursor in 
> the level editor. 
>  Futhermore, our own mouse cursor would let us create stuff like 
> actions (when clicking, when over a button...) and animations. It 
> would also allow to create effects, just as water and trails (like 
> cursor trails or sparkles). 
>  Anyway, I've made a few hacks for that (maybe it shouldn't be 
> commited). It allows actions and animations. I've drawn a image for 
> the cursors, but it is just butt ugly, since i suck in drawings and 
> I have done that with my toshiba laptop  built-in mouse, so I guess 
> I'm excused :) 
Toshiba produces excellent laptops, so you aren't excused. ;)

> 
>  I also appended another patch that just changes a value in the 
> intro, in order to fix the fact that a few text is erased. 

Thanks again.

> Cheers, 
>  Ricardo Cruz 

Greetz...

Tobias Gläßer