[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 Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 12:58:26PM -0800, Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa wrote:
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> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7127 >
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> 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.
> >
> > 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.
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> http://training.cit.nih.gov/notes/867/867MacOS_files/image053.jpg

What feature exactly? The color? The round edges? The pointer to the
soure object?

        Raimar

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