[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#3928) Convert client to use PF

["Raimar Falke" <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 04:36:15AM -0700, Gregory Berkolaiko wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Raimar Falke wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 11:50:02AM -0700, Gregory Berkolaiko wrote:
> > > However the big problem still remains: paths to dangerous tiles are not 
> > > defined.  The algorithm considers and processes many different paths to 
> > > dangerous tiles: those that are longer but safer (you get to dangerous 
> > > tile with more movepoints) and those that are shorter but less safe.  
> > > Which is the best?  And storing them all so you can return any one at any 
> > > time is probably next to impossible.
> > 
> > From a user's perspective I would want that the last part of the goto
> > line (from the last safe position to the mouse) would be drawn in
> > another color.
> > 
> > The core PF should report all or provide a mechanism to let the user
> > of the pf choose which want is best. No sure how this is done.
> 
> It is reasonably easy to return the safest path.

Yes it is? Can you outline how?

> It is hard but possible to return the shortest (and unsafest path).
> It is next to impossible to retain all intermediate paths.

So far we managed to not add any inherent logic/limitation/behavior to
PF. I don't want to start now with this. It should be possible to
choose for the user.

        Raimar

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