[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#8632) Easy way to set map size with auto ratios (seteables if desired)

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Marcelo Burda wrote:
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> Le mer 02/06/2004 à 22:49, Jason Short a écrit :
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>>>Marcelo Burda wrote:
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>>>>LAST CHANGE
>>>>drop changes in aigoto and citytools
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>>Oh, and...
>>
>>Rather than creating a new network type XYSIZE, we should just change 
>>COORD to be a SInt16.  It should be signed so that eventually we can 
>>pass negative values as the "special" coordinates rather than 255,255 
>>like we do now.
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>>Don't worry about changing any of the other values in the network code. 
>>  We can keep using 255,255 and keep MAX_LINEAR_SIZE as 254 for now.

> hmmm, i no like it. are your sure this is a best way. XYSIZES and COORD
> are differents think. 
> and if we not correct the net code this will broken capability concept.
> today sending 255 as spetial value later 65535. i we change to big coods
> this need to be well done. but probaly we never will need this. we can
> make 30000 tiles maps with UINT8 for the map coordinates.

XYSIZES is a native dimension whereas all COORD values are map coordinates.

However COORD should be able to cover native and natural coordinates as 
well.  There's no telling what we'll want to use in the future.

No, I'm not sure it's the best way.  But I don't really see any 
drawbacks to it.  If we define COORD as any tile coordinates then 
XYSIZES is a type of COORD.

jason