[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#2625) Display of units on the left side

["ue80@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx via RT" <rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 01:59:41PM -0800, Jason Short via RT wrote:
> 
> [rfalke - Tue Jan  7 20:51:09 2003]:
> 
> > On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 05:56:49AM -0800, Thomas Strub via RT wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > the display of units in the field left below the turn done button is a
> > > little bit buggy.
> > > The AI can move units without an update of the field. So you see 3-4
> > > units on the field on the left side but only 1 is there.
> > > 
> > > Easy way to check that:
> > > start a server, create an AI, join as the AI (with option manual turn
> > > done in AI mode on), set expl 2, start
> > > 
> > > You will see that the 2 explorers moved away but the field on the left
> > > side is:
> > > 
> > > 2 explorers + 2 settlers for beta 2
> > > 1 explorer  + 2 settlers for cvs
> > > 
> > > Think the same will happen if units move with goto or other
> > > automechanism.
> > > 
> > > I'm using the gtk-client.
> > 
> > And the fix.
> 
> Is it too expensive just to update the GUI every time?  That is
> guaranteed to catch all cases :-).

You put the smiley at the right place ... its much to expensive. As long
the server is much faster than the client, the client shouln't update
that much.

Thomas
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