[Freeciv-Dev] Re: New/Improved Info Screens

[Christian Knoke <ChrisK@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 11:48:04PM +0100, Jörg Zuther wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 17:27:12 +0100, Christian Knoke wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 04:17:17PM +0100, Gregor Zeitlinger wrote:
> > > On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Christian Knoke wrote:
> > > > >    - the same for buildings (well, of course showing only the
> > > > >      (non)existence)
> > > > These seem to be a bit overkill for me. Anybody with a 28 inch
> > > > monitor out there? ;-)
> > > that's not the point. You'll never show all abilites at once. Rather
> > > certain buildings and certain units. You may want to know which cities
> > > have attack units that you can send for a raid or which cities could build
> > > a research lab to speed research up. I've missed this very often, usually
> > > when I have more than 10 cities.
> > 
> > Well, you're right, but that's not the point either. ;) Actually,
> > I have thought about this for longer.
> > 
> > I'd like to know
> > 
> > 1. what buildings are in my cities
> > 1. what units are in my cities
> > 1. what units are supported by my cities
> > 
> > but there is no place in the city report for that. There is
> > already much (too much) in the city report. A table with a
> > column for each unit definitely won't fit.
> 
> You can (de)activate all columns during play, hence always modify the
> report according to your actual needs.

Yes. You have to deactivate some of the columns already, when you
play on 800 * 600. This means lesser information.

> 
> 
> > Maybe a new kind of report?
> > 
> > Following suggestions:
> > 
> > A (small) column: "numbers of mil. units supported by this city"
> > (important for war).
> > 
> > A button/function "Wake up all units in the city"
> > 
> > A function for the units report "Wake up all units of type ..."
> > (the latter has been nearly realized by a recent patch).
> 
> Hm... sounds nice. If you (and enough other people ;-) always need
> more information than can be shown in one report, then it should
> be possible to build and save/load several reports for your needs, where
> all these reports are build from the same huge pot of elementary
> columns you can switch on/off. Maybe the client or server (or where
> these reports are stored) can come with a widened set of standard
> reports?

I don't think it's a good idea to put everything in the city report.
And I don't want to change the settings continiously. 

There are several reports now; I think it's absolutely possible
to add a new one, with the features you proposed. Enhenceing the city
report should be done very carefully, whereas the units report e.g.
offers much place for enhencements.

> Jorg

My 2 euro cent.

Christian

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