[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#14365) battlegroups...

["Andreas Røsdal" <andrearo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14365 >

Jason Short wrote:

><URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14365 >
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>>>* There is no way to drag-and-select units (the selection rectangle
>>>selects only cities!).
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>- How does it work with city selection?  This is what drag-and-select 
>currently does - so should we have both units and cities be selected, or 
>do we need separate mouse buttons for selecting each?
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I think having separate buttons for units and cities and only allowing 
selection of one type a time is better, because units and cities have 
very different operations which can be applied to them. And with 
different colors of the selection-rectangle and mouse cursors indicating 
which selection-mode is used.

>- What about non-idle units?  Do fortified/sentried/autosettlered/orders 
>units get selected?  Doing so would automatically idle them, which is 
>very bad unless it's what you want!
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>- Do units with low HP get selected?
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>- What about units with low MP?
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I think the rules for selection should be as simple as possible; every 
unit in the selection-rectangle is selected. If there are units that you 
don't want to select, then don't select them. Instead, use the 
unit-selection several times, to add additional units to the current 
selection, and avoid units that you don't want.

>- How do we draw things when more than one unit on the same tile is 
>selected?  
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With nice graphics to indicate it...

>How do we let the player know that X units on this tile are 
>selected?
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Do you really need to know exactly how many units are selected on each 
tile?  If you do, then it can be shown with some nice graphics...

>- How does the unit pix on the panel get drawn when more than one unit 
>on that tile is in focus?
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All the units in focus can be drawn on the panel (and if too many are 
selected to fit in the panel, then indicate that with some graphics)

>- What should the unit info text say when multiple units are selected?
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It could say something about the selection. For example: "Current 
selection: 5 settlers, 3 explorers".

>Obviously not all of these relate exactly to drag-and-select, but I 
>kindof wanted to figure out how to make the interface intuitive and 
>elegant before adding more features.
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The only way to be sure, it to test it :)

Andreas R.