[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#4683) allow pauses during client-side goto

["Christian Knoke" <chrisk@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 06:47:43AM -0700, Gregory Berkolaiko wrote:
> 
> How about not focusing on units which have ACTIVITY_GOTO?
> Yeah, ok this you did in the patch and it didn't work, but the client must 
> be told at some point that the unit has changed the activity from 
> ACTIVITY_GOTO to ACTIVITY_IDLE, and at this point you may want to return 
> the focus to the unit, rather then have it on all the time.

I don't understand why this is not possible.

> This should be done carefully as there is a possibility of jumping 
> focus.  Ugh, now I actually read your email and this is what you wrote...
> 
> Another way is to explicitly tell the client that the unit is waiting.  
> Either by adding an extra field to unit_info packet or by recycling the 
> activity_count field.

Christian

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