[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [PATCH] showing "worked"-tiles on map

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 02:16:17PM +0200, Markus Schmaus wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 07:18:47PM +0200, Markus Schmaus wrote:
> > > This is my first contribution for freeciv, so there might not all be the
> > > way as it should. But I would be glad for any comments, what to make
> > > better.
> > > 
> > > Recently I suggested to show a small village on tiles being in use of a
> > > city. This patch is my realisation of this (for the gtk-gui).
> > 
> > No problems from the technical point of view. I usally don't play with
> > the isometric view. But for me is looks like it clutters the
> > map. Maybe the grafik can be changed.
> 
> Sure the graphic was only thought as a placeholder.
> 
> > Lets see what other people
> > think. You turned the grid mode on on a recent CVS?
> 
> Yes I did. But I see a problem with only surrounding "worked"-tiles:
>           - - -
> X X X    | | | |
>           - - -
> X . X -> | | | |
>           - - -
> X X X    | | | |
>           - - -
> (X: "worked"-; .:"unworked"-tile)
> 
> Would look exactly the same as:
>           - - -
> X X X    | | | |
>           - - -
> X X X -> | | | |
>           - - -
> X X X    | | | |          - - -
> (X: "worked"-; .:"unworked"-tile)
> 
> This could be solved in marking what side of the line is "inside".

Like the attached patch? I think is clutters the map even more.

> Another option would be only marking the "outmost" border. Meaning
> drawing a line read if and only if one adjacent tile is "worked" and
> the other is "unworked". thus the two situation from above would
> look like:

Like the coastline? But IMHO the used tiles are tiles and not
something contiguous.

> 
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>    -
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> and
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> But there might still be ambiguous situations.

        Raimar

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