[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [Patch] Tile drawingorder

[Raahul Kumar <raahul_da_man@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 01:08:12AM +0200, Bert Buchholz wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I made a patch that solves (?) some problems with the gui, that I think
> > were problems, here a description of the patch:
> > 
> > Tile drawingorder change (v.1) (against cvs-Oct-07-01):
> > 
> > - Farmland/irrigation are now drawn before rivers and specials to keep
> >   rivers and specials visible which were covered partially by irrigation
> >   and completely by farmland, so that they were virtually invisible.
> > 
> > - Now it looks as if a river is flowing through farmland and the
> >   specials (if any) are on top of irrigation/farmland => visible.
> > 
> > - I think this increases the overview quite effectively, because you
> >   don't have to turn off certain drawing-stuff just to see what's under
> >   it or click with the middle-button on it.
> > 
> > 
> > I hope this is understandable. To make it absolutely clear, I uploaded
> > two screenshots (~24k each) into
> ftp://ftp.freeciv.org/pub/freeciv/incoming/
> > 
> > 1) drawingorder_nopatch.jpeg   No patch applied
> > 2) drawingorder_patch.jpeg     Patch applied, important parts marked with
> red
> >                                arrows :-)
> > 
> > I think, the diff is rather obvious. If you have comments, rejections
> > etc. pp. and stuff the like, please tell me. BTW: Daniel Speyer's
> > approach was okay (see "[gtk+iso] Farmland covering tile" from some days
> > ago), but I think my way is the better [tm] one, even though probably far
> > from perfect or anything. Dunno.
> 
> Have you tested it with the trident tileset? Comments anyone?
> 

It works well with the Hires tileset, overall an improvement. I suggest
implementing it.

> > PS: I hope this issue is of any interest at all, or am I the only one
> > who dislikes the current drawing order?
> 
> Well I dislike the isometric view.
>

So do I, but it's an improvement nonetheless on the original view. Just more
work needed to be done by someone better at GTK than I am. 
>       Raimar
> 
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> 


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