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

["Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Raimar Falke wrote:

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> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7127 >
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> On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 04:46:10AM -0800, Morgan Jones wrote:
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> > <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7127 >
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> > >> I was thinking of a drop shadow around the box.
> > >
> > > Can you please draw into the screenshot so that I can see what you
> > > mean?
> > >
> > >     Raimar
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> > ftp.freeciv.org/pub/freeciv/incoming/info_tooltip.png
> >
> > This could be optionally transparent but it might clash with fog of
> > war.
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> I haven't seen an application where the tooltip drops a shadow. But
> nevertheless I implemented it because it was eay:
> http://freeciv.org/~rfalke/fs3_pics/tooltip_shadow.png. But a
> transparent shadow is too much (code change).

I'm kind of partial to Mac balloon type tooltips, but that is probably
too much hassle to implement.

http://training.cit.nih.gov/notes/867/867MacOS_files/image053.jpg

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa