Hi, > Gesendet: Dienstag, 10. März 2015 um 01:45 Uhr > Von: "Michael T. Pope" <mp...@computer.org> > An: freecol-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > Betreff: Re: [Freecol-developers] The size of dialogs > > BTW, I should have mentioned earlier that our oldest open bug (BR#479) is > about resizability, and there is some relevant discussion there. > I feel I need to admit it now, this is the only "BR" I feel strongly about and I know that it exists since years (and when getting reminded of it always hoping it gets forgotten, ignored or even finally closed).
Let me summerize the thread there as I would interpret it: - A person has a diffuse feeling a _feature_ of the game is unnecessary for _himself_ and goes to the effort of adding an issue on the _bug_tracker_. - The person categorizing the bugs sees it and does not close it as _not_a_bug_, I can only guess out of politeness seeing the person opening the issue made the effort to compile a list, and only sets it to lowest priority. - For a few years people ignore it, as its obvious there is no bug to fix. - Jamie concisely summarizes what I felt too the moment I first read it and asks why the issue is --even existing at all. - The issue opener admits its unnecessary and agrees to have it closed. - Jamie backtracks out of huge politeness. - It gets forgotten for another year. - It gets moved over to the new bugtracker with a pile of hundreds of real BR. - It gets forgotten again for nearly 2 years. - A bug category label gets updated and I guess its kept cause if it exists thaaat long it may be relevant. - It gets forgotten yet again. > In whatever discussion follows, please understand this: the > ColonyPanel is a *very* special case. Its code is bigger and more complex > than any other panel, it has many points where it makes calls to the > controller, and it is the most commonly used... and I doubt this is > going to change. > > Therefore in trying to work out principles for panel resizing, it is > probably a bad idea to use the ColonyPanel as an example. It is highly > atypical. > > > > You are even lucky you get a vertical scroll bar for the buildings, > > for me its mostly a horizontal scroll bar, which is twice as ugly. > > When upgrading the buidings they sometimes needed even more > > space. Could you see if, as a quick fix, you could make the standard size > > of the whole colony panel larger to avoid scroll bars there? > > I agree that scroll bars are not ideal, but growing the panel is just > dodging the issue. We should *always* be able to handle overflow in the > building area, because FreeCol allows more buildings to be added to the > spec. Indeed, all areas probably need to handle overflow. What concerns > me more here is why you are not getting the vertical bar. > Because the colony panel is more complicated, I think its a good thing to go for the simple option at first and temporarily enlarge it a bit, as there is not much empty space inside the panel anyway. For me even as few as an estimated 60 pixels added to the panel width would alleviate the problem, with always having to resize it to have all buildings shown without scrollbars, most of the time. Regards wintertime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Freecol-developers mailing list Freecol-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freecol-developers
