[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#4807) see diplomatic/zoc state of units on the map

["Morgan Jones" <morgan.jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/08/2003, you wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 19:19:19 -0700
> "Morgan Jones" <morgan.jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Your own units would have the standard white bar , and other units
>> could have red/yellow/green/blue bar as appropriate.
> 
> Yes I also think it's better to use the hit points bar but (extreme
> case) if an ennemy unit has 10% HP left making the distinction
> between red and red may be hard. Why not changing the 1 pixel border
> of the hit points bar instead and leaving the white background for
> everyone ? Well, by using the border, the green used for the allies
> bar should be a very light one in order it can be distinguished from
> on the green of terrain.
> 
> G. Gracian

I had a go at the one pixel border idea but I found that unless you're
running at a particularly low screen resolution it's really hard to
distinguish the colours.

I attached a png file for the trident tileset which has four different
HP bar colours: white, green, yellow, and red.

As to the problem of distinguishing red from red, I've changed the
'underlying' colour to blue.  The black border is still there so this
doesn't become a problem on ocean tiles IMO.  I tried black and brown
but these looked ugly.

If someone likes this idea/graphic and is prepared to write a patch
for it (my C is not very good), let me know and I'll convert it to
isotrident and provide spec files.  

     -Morgan


@ Gregory:

>As a simpler alternative, maybe we should have diplomatic status available 
>via middle-button click.

A good idea, but I don't have a middle mouse button :)  I'm sure I'm
not the only one.  Though I guess the HP bar solution is more of a
hassle coding-wise, it has the definite advantage of having the
information available at a glance.