[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#7127) [FS] Screen design

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

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7127 >

> http://freeciv.org/~rfalke/fs3_pics/info_tooltip.png shows two new
> features:
> - multiline text
> - tooltip infos
> 
> Previously you could define text infos. These are label widgets
> which change when the freeciv client code says so. The labels
> "Esten", "30.000", "282" and "2350 v. Chr." are such text infos.
> 
> With tooltip infos you can define an area and get a dynamic tooltip
> for this area for just writing something like:
> 
> [info_tooltip_general]
> x = 7
> y = 330
> width = 240
> height = 35
> tooltip-color="#000000"
> tooltip-background="#f4ed8b"
> tooltip-size=10
> tooltip-font="verdana.ttf"
> tooltip-antialias=0
> tooltip-outline-width=0
> tooltip-delay=1100
> 
> As you can see here I define the grey area where the other infos are
> as "active area" for this tooltip info.
> 
Nice work.  I like the level of configurability for these.

As a purely cosmetic suggestion it might be nice to have optional
shadows for these popups.

     -Morgan