[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#8944) settler citymap overlays

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8944 >

Gregory Berkolaiko wrote:
> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8944 >
> 
>>>This patch implements that.  The settler overlay works just like the
>>>city overlay.  (It also fixes a bad drawing bug in packhand.c, which
>>>should be fixed separately.)
>>>
>>>This is just a demo at this point.  Only gui-gtk-2.0 is supported.
>>
>>And a screenshot.
> 
> I cannot see the part of the overlay which intersects that present city
> overlay.  I think it is very important information, maybe should be drawn
> in red.

You want to see the squares which are missing from the newly-founded 
city (because they belong to existing cities already) to be drawn in a 
different color?

This is possible but a bit tricky.  Note that in the screenshot, they 
are _already_ red.  So at least some color rearrangement would have to 
be done (this should probably be done anyway; 3 colors is unnecessarily 
few).

I think you get most of the benefit because a city will always get 
priority over a settler.  So although the "missing" tiles aren't shown 
highlighted they will always be, well, missing from the settler overlay.

jason