[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Alternative nation dialog

[Daniel Sjölie <deepone@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2002-02-27 16:41:31, Raahul Kumar wrote:
> 
> --- Daniel L Speyer <dspeyer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, [iso-8859-1] Daniel Sjölie wrote:
> > 
> > > On 2002-02-26 15:07:06, Daniel L Speyer wrote:
> > > > Here's the alternative nation dialog that I proposed a little while
> > > > back.  It pops up a table of flags, and only shows the name of the
> > > > selected nation.  Everything's visible at once, and there's decent room
> > > > for expansion.
> > > > 
> > > > There's a screenshot at 
> > > > http://speyer1-b.student.umd.edu/nationSelectShot.png
> > > > (The Israeli flag is highlighted because the mouse was over it)
> > > 
> > > Well... It looks good... But I think that even if most people either
> > > know what flag they want or select nation by looks of flag this dialog
> > > would be really painful in those instances where this is not true... :/
> > > 
> > 
> > Hmm, how about this then?  The nation name is a popdown menu that can set
> > the flag to match.  Patch is attatached, screenshot at
> > http://speyer1-b.student.umd.edu/nationSelectShot2.png
> > 
> 
> Much better. It's pretty and functional.

I agree... This is good...

> I still preferred the original idea of
> groups, dividing them along continental lines.
> North and South America, Africa,
> Asia, Europe, Australia. You click on North America for instance and get to
> select the Americans or the various Red Indian tribes.

Well, there's nothing saying you can't combine this solution with tabbed
groups... But I would prefer a few bigger groups and that fits in well
with this patch... So you could have e.g. one group for existing
nations, one for middle-age, one for historic and one for fantasy
nations... Or something like that...

/Daniel

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