[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [WISH] Markers

[Teemu Kurppa <tkurppa@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Yon Uriarte wrote: 
> Hello, 
>  port the teamciv markers to the gtk freeciv client.
 
I have just made markers patch, that introduces numbered tile markers and
possibility to "quick jump" to markers 1-10. I'll post it to the list,
once I've tested it properly (It works, but I want to play couple of
lengthy games on civserver to be sure) and done some cleanup.
 
>  Add the ability to have more colors (layers)

My patch doesn't provide different colors, but they are not that hard to
add, once good user interface solution for setting the color of markers is
found/agreed. I'll write more thoughts on this and possible uses of
markers, when I post my patch. 

>  Add the ability to define a mininum distance between markers 
>   or import such distance from citymindist for a given layer.
I have played with my earlier marker patches (see:
http://arch.freeciv.org/freeciv-dev-200112/msg00902.html
http://arch.freeciv.org/freeciv-dev-200112/msg00903.html
) 
and markers really help in games with citymindist >= 3. I think
restriction you are suggesting may not be the best solution for
the problem (planning of city placement). IMHO it would be better to have
some visualization of possible city locations in similar way that city
areas are visualized when you have map grid on. 

Teemu Kurppa