URL:
<http://gna.org/bugs/?10071>
Summary: Improving appearance of the "campaigns" dialog
Project: Battle for Wesnoth
Submitted by: ivanovic
Submitted on: Freitag 28.09.2007 um 15:41
Category: Feature Request
Severity: 2 - Minor
Priority: 3 - Low
Item Group: User Interface
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: sapient
Originator Email:
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release: 1.3.8+svn r20757
Operating System: any
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Details:
This request is meant as a little list of how to get a better campaigns
dialog done. It should allow to have more content shown in the description
while always looking rather okay, even on 800x600 or really big resolutions.
The smallest resolution I will tackle in that report is 800x600, for TINY_GUI
there will have to be other steps to be taken to have it work, though the
"general procedure" I do describe in here should apply there, too.
1) The campaign_preview_pane (the thingie on the right side) should always
have the same vertical size as the selection dialog on the left. This
especially applys when many campaigns are installed on big resolutions. (cf
screenshot_mockup.jpg) Atm it is Using a fixed heigth on all resolutions, no
matter how big the campaign windows itself is.
2) Since this thing will result in a rather big window, the campaign image
should always appear shortly below the description text (meaning maybe one or
two empty lines before the image is shown). Otherwise it might start to look
really strange at bug resolutions.
3) It should be possible to apply a "maximum size" for that very (complete)
window so that the size used for subsections are auto calculated taking into
account the width used for the campaign selection and using the rest for the
preview_pane. This is especially meant to be able to use most of the screen
at 800x600. At this (our smallest official resolution) the campaign window
should IMO have 780x560 pixel and be centered. The horizontal resolution
should be identical on all resolutions where the vertical resolution depends
on the space available. That is when many campaigns are in the list, it
should get bigger as needed. Though once having a resolution of 1024x768 the
"border" around that window could probably about as big as it is now.
4) The dialog should be centered properly. ATM it is not 100% centered, the
top border seems to be a little wider or to have a minimum size.
5) At the moment there is a problem with the text displayed right above the
campaign list (Choose the campaign to play:). The width for that subpart (and
this the available width for the preview pane) does depend on this text, too,
even though there should always be enough space at the top since that text is
above the whole window, not only above the selection. A problematic case is
shown in screenshot_800x600_el.jpg.
6) Currently the campaign_preview_pane does not scale well with the lenght of
campaign names. Have a look at screenshot_800x600_prob.jpg to get an idea of
the problems. It looks like text is lost and at least the border not created
correctly. This might somehow be improved already due to subtopic 3).
Most of those changes are also meant to allow a better implementation of the
changes proposed in the mockups from freim over here:
http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/GUI#Campaign_Dialog
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File Attachments:
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Date: Freitag 28.09.2007 um 15:41 Name: screenshot_mockup.jpg Size: 232kB
By: ivanovic
Screenshots mentioned in the request
<http://gna.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=3001>
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Date: Freitag 28.09.2007 um 15:41 Name: screenshot_800x600_el.jpg Size:
75kB By: ivanovic
Screenshots mentioned in the request
<http://gna.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=3002>
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Date: Freitag 28.09.2007 um 15:41 Name: screenshot_800x600_prob.jpg Size:
77kB By: ivanovic
Screenshots mentioned in the request
<http://gna.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=3003>
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