#15 Improve web interface

[Lee Harr]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 29

``` I have been trying the world building interface. I've been having some troubles using it. I end up with a lot of broken exits in the process.

I know this could be due to the fact that I'm still not familiar with it, but my current feeling is that the way to create rooms is not ideal in that it forces the user to keep a mental record of what you want to do.

This happens because first you create a room and only in another screen you assign links from a room to another.

Although that makes sense a programmer's point of view, that doesn't correspond to the real life process of extending a world.

In practice, what the user want to do is to "extend" an already existing world by creating a door to an yet to be created room. So the mental process starts by selecting an Exit and the Room that you want to extent from.

So in other words, having to first create the room and only then having to go back to remember where it links to and from which exit you wanted to link, has proven quite troublesome.

Here's a suggestion of what the room creation interface could be:

Add Room:

From room: [ LISTBOX WITH CURRENT ROOMS ]

Exit Name: [ LISTBOX SOUTH/ NORTH/ EAST/ WEST / UP/DOWN/ CUSTOM]

Type: [ LISTBOX ROOM CLASSES]

Name: [ INPUT FIELD]

Short: [ INPUT FIELD ] ( I recommend include short field here if possible )

• [ x ] dig an exit back ( a check box selected by default )

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