[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [patch] Message windows (report, science ...)

[Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Erm, why aren't you adding these buttons to the local options dialog instead?

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa

On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Francois Taiani wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> 
> here is a new version of the patch I proposed 2 days ago. 
> 
> ---8<---
> based on a suggestion by  Trent Piepho, here is a proposal
> to prevent "info" windows (like message and science window) from
> obscuring the map when you most need to be able to look at it.
> 
> The patch sligthly rearranges the gui in order to be able to add "event"
> buttons in the righ vertical box. In the present state, there is a
> button for messages and for the science dialog. Each time one of these
> windows used to pop up before, the corresponding button starts blinking,
> and the window does not appear untill you explicitely click the button.
> Clicking the button again once the window is up has the window get
> hidden again.
> --->8---
> 
> The new patch adds a button for broadcast reports. I've taken into
> account the improvement suggestions of Karl-Ingo Friese and Christian
> Knoke. In particular the bugs reported by Christian should have been
> fixed. A new snapshot of the gui layout is available at
> ftp://ftp.freeciv.org/pub/freeciv/incoming/info_button_2.png.