[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 07:16:27PM -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 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.
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> > > > > > Can you please draw into the screenshot so that I can see what you
> > > > > > mean?
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> > > > > >     Raimar
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> > > > > ftp.freeciv.org/pub/freeciv/incoming/info_tooltip.png
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> > > > > 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).
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> > > 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
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> > What feature exactly? The color? The round edges? The pointer to the
> > soure object?
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> The pointer to source and the round edges, in order of importance.

The tooltip is always be shown 5 pixel above the source and vertically
centered. An exception is when the source is too near to a border. So
I think the "source pointer" will look the same almost always.

Round edges could be implemented but it is low prio.

        Raimar

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