[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Worklist, take III

[John-Marc Chandonia <jmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I playtested this yesterday and today (kind of ironic to
spend the MLK holiday nuking Gandhi back to the stone age),
and it is very nice!  Somebody please check it into CVS!!!

I have some suggestions, which I would be quite happy to
code when this gets checked in; I already coded some of this
in a (now obsolete) client side worklist patch from a few
months ago:

1)  Improvements already built (or that can never be built, such
as a Wonder that has been built elsewhere, or a Harbor inland) should
be immediately and silently purged from the worklist, rather than
cluttering up the list and bothering me later with messages.

2)  Improvements that can't be built due to inadequate tech when their
turn comes up on the list should not be purged, but just postponed.
I.e. I want to build Offshore Platform before Bank, if I have the
required tech.  If I don't, I want the city to skip OP and go straight
to Bank, but build the OP when I get the tech.  I.e. it should just
move it 1 down on the list instead of deleting it.

2b)  Even better would be a check when a new tech is discovered to see
if any postponed improvements could now be switched to without
losing shields.  I.e., if I discovered the tech for OP in the
middle of building a Bank, it would switch immediately without
even finishing the Bank.  However, it wouldn't automatically do this if I
was in the middle of building a military unit since I would lose shields.
(This is of course more difficult, and probably not worth implementing)

Also, some UI suggestions:

3)  Color the future improvements in the list red, when showing them.
4)  Make the OK button bigger.
5)  Don't bother showing improvements that can never be built
in a given city (see 1 above) in the right hand box of local worklists.

Thanks!
JMC
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