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

["Raimar Falke" <i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 02:58:29PM -0800, Gregory Berkolaiko wrote:
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> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7127 >
> 
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Raimar Falke wrote:
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> > <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7127 >
> > 
> > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 08:21:39AM -0800, Raimar Falke wrote:
> > > http://freeciv.org/~rfalke/fs3_pics/info_tooltip.png shows two new
> > > features:
> > >  - multiline text
> > >  - tooltip infos
> > 
> > I have implemented an out-of-game message display. A limited number
> > (currently 10) of oog messages (currently all messages are display)
> > are display in a fixed location (currently top left corner). After a
> > certain time (currently 5s) the message is removed making it a FIFO.
> > 
> > I have tried various versions:
> >  white on transparent black: 
> > http://freeciv.org/~rfalke/fs3_pics/oog-white-on-black/
> >  black on transparent white: 
> > http://freeciv.org/~rfalke/fs3_pics/oog-black-on-white/
> >  white with black outline:   
> > http://freeciv.org/~rfalke/fs3_pics/oog-outline_white.png
> >  black with white outline:   
> > http://freeciv.org/~rfalke/fs3_pics/oog-outline_black.png
> > 
> > The last one is hardly readable. My current favorite is the second
> > because it makes the screen a bit brighter.
> 
> About everything: Wow! It looks neat!

Thanks.

> Unrelated (or not?): the scrollbars in the bottom right corner are
> ugly.  Can you not remove the bars and add the arrows just like
> bottom left and bottom middle?  Or is this window gonna go
> altogether?

I know these are ugly. Need to be reworked. The text will wrap for
example. This will eliminate the vertical scrollbar. The bottom left
and bottom middle are just drawn. They are fake and need to be "made".

        Raimar

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