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

[Francois Taiani <francois.taiani@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Reiner,

thanks for your feedback.

> But I must confess I don't understand your screenshot.
> Where are the 'event' buttons?

They are those on the left side just under the "Turn Done" button. On
the snapshot there are 3 of them: Messages (Message Window), Science
(Science Dialog), and Reports (Broadcast reports, like for instance: The
richest civs in the world). They blink (but the snapshot can't show it
:), each time one of the corresponding window would have popped up
before. Ideally the treaty dialog should be handled in the same way, but
that is a little niftier, and I did not want to have too big a patch.

The last patch I sent should work on the cvs snapshot of Tuesday 11th,
I've just tested it, but I you decide to try it, remember to rerun
automake and ./configure because the patch adds new source files to the
project, and it won't compile otherwise.

Francois

Reinier Post wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 11:10:37PM +0200, Francois Taiani wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Ever since I played Freeciv this is something I wanted.
> 
> But I must confess I don't understand your screenshot.
> Where are the 'event' buttons?
> 
> --
> Reinier