[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Nation selection dialog patch

[Jason Short <vze2zq63@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Kaufman wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 01:59:41AM +0000, Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Mike Kaufman wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I'm not as concerned about scrolling, because the notebook presents it's
> > > own problems especially if you have lots o' nations. I would like to see
> > > three or four columns however (so you have less scrolling).
> > That would be easily doable if GtkCList wasn't so annoying. I will try to
> > make something like that, but it will be a bit of a hack.
> put them in a table and then put the table in a scrolled window.
> the only real problem with that is you've got to make an event box for
> each...
With a growing number of nations, I think a tabbed window is the way to 
go.  This requires dividing up the nations in some sensible way...but 
lacking that, alphabetical could work OK.
jason