[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [Patch] MAPSTEP

["Ross W. Wetmore" <rwetmore@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That is one symptom of the sorts of problems you will run into.

But it would be a little naive to presume that one symptom covers
the whole gamut of things that might need to be considered here.

I would be happier if you looked at the GUI operations in more
detail and considered which ones were really dealing with gaming
coordinate concepts, and hence could be part of a general direction
system. And which ones were dealing with coordinates for other
objects like (sliding) windows, where the latter may NOT be 
appropriate candidates for a generalized coordinate or direction 
system.

The question for the core is settled, but the GUI needs a lot more
thought to get it right. And right may be a multiple solution.

Cheers,
RossW
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At 09:28 AM 01/09/24 +0200, Raimar Falke wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 12:18:37AM -0400, Ross W. Wetmore wrote:
>> My only concern is this munges the core and GUI directions systems
>> into a single whole, and the use in the GUI vs in the core is not
>> really the same. The GUI stuff is fitting things into a window, the
>> core playing on a game map, and the two are really not the same in
>> many cases (windows have fixed boundaries, game maps may not, 
>> windows are going to be rectangular, the game map might be a quite
>> different system :-).
>
>This problem depends on the outcome of the
>a-tile-can-be-showed-twice-or-not discussion.
>
>       Raimar
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