[Freeciv-Dev] Re: happiness display (was: cleanup -- client/gui-gtk/citydlg.

[Jeff Mallatt <jjm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2001/01/06 12:28 , Mike Jing wrote:
>Jeff Mallatt <jjm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>Ah!  Okay, that shouldn't clutter up the City dialog.  And, as long
>>as the new dialogs are modeless, and also available from the City List 
>>dialog, it should provide everything I was thinking of.
>
>Glad we cleared that up.  :-)

;-)

>Could you explain to me what "modeless" means?

The dialog can be left open while the user twiddles with settings
elsewhere, watching what affect he is having on happiness.

>Also, it seems to me that 
>the City List dialog already has enough buttons in it (it's wider than the 
>City dialog).  I am simply copying how the City Options dialog is done, so 
>it's less than perfect.  If it needs to be accessed elsewhere, it's probably 
>best to put it in dialogs.c instead.

As you pointed out, it's in the City List that the user sees all of the
happy/unhappy cities all at once.  That's where he would want to scroll
down the list quickly, spot an unhappy city and want to open the happiness
dialog.

However, since you can already open the City dialog from the City List
dialog, and then from there you could open the happiness dialig, I guess
it's not so bad...

jjm