[Freeciv] Re: got now "diagonal-keys"

[Raimar Falke <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 08:05:46PM +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
> While I am brainstorming, I just thought of what might be an interesting
> enhancement to GOTO.  In Diagramming programs such as Dia
> (OpenOffice.org Draw and Visio) if you hold down a modifier key (not sure
> if it is Control or Shift) you can draw a straight line.  Not sure if it
> would actually be useful but since my brain is actually working for a
> change I thought I would through it out there ;)

At least gimp does this.

> Maybe if you were allowed to "draw" the goto line as if it were a line,
> hold down shift and click on a point you want to go to and while still
> holding down click on the next point you want to go to and the line would
> join the dots.

Two issues here:
 - freeciv already supports waypoints
 - I don't see the point if the GUI shows a line from point to point
 instead of the real path

> Hopefully with all the recent improvements in the GOTO code I wont find
> myself disagreeing with the suggested route so much.  (I will have to try
> and figure out what exactly it is that bothers me first, if i can
> distract myself from playing the game for long enough).

Please do. We have now a lot of possibilities to change the generated
paths.

        Raimar

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