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| ID | Project | Category | Date Submitted | Last Update | |
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| 0003079 | AI War 1 / Classic | Suggestion - Interface Ideas - Visual Indicators, Tooltips, and Summaries | Mar 21, 2011 10:46 pm | Mar 22, 2011 11:43 pm | |
| Reporter | gamewarlord777 | Assigned To | Chris_McElligottPark | ||
| Status | considering | Resolution | open | ||
| Product Version | 5.005 | ||||
| Summary | 0003079: Being able to minimize the selected menu and the planetary summary (see screenshot) | ||||
| Description | look at screenshot. p.s i'm not sure if i got the category right, if i didn't sorry. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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The warnings dialog at top-left would be a good candidate for this, too. If you're playing a game with many homeworlds (e.g. all 16), the wave notices make that grow big enough to be exceedingly in the way. |
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@FunnyMan Except there is some stuff that can appear in the warning box (like say, home command stations being under attack) you don't want to be hidden ever. Should only the "less important" stuff be minimized but the "more important" stuff never be hidden? |
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ok cool |
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Oh, the planetary summary can be minimized. I think it is F2 that toggles it, but I'm not sure. Check the key-bindings list if that doesn't work. The selection list, yea, it would be nice if there was some option to limit how big it could it. There is just no way any one size can satisfy all users. There isn't even one value that will work for all users with the same screen resolution. Of course, this new option would be on top of the ability to minimize it completely. |
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Maybe a good compromise on the warnings list would be to compress 4+ wave warnings with matching execution times into a summary entry. "12 waves totalling 1,042 ships and 12 starships (III) to 3 planets in 0:29" |
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@FunnyMan Would that consolidating only apply when the user has "shrunk" the warning box, or all the time? If it is all the time, there would need to be some way to get the information for each wave. Even for a whopping 12 waves, it may be important in some cases to see the exact details for each, especially in higher difficulty levels where you haven't had enough time to reduce your warp gate exposure yet. |
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If this gets a lot of interest in the vote tallies, we'll look into it, but otherwise it's low enough priority probably not to happen. However, I did put in this for the next version: * The planetary summary now makes substantially better use of its available vertical space, thus saving horizontal space in many cases. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| Mar 21, 2011 10:46 pm | gamewarlord777 | New Issue | |
| Mar 21, 2011 10:46 pm | gamewarlord777 | File Added: 2011-03-13_00003.jpg | |
| Mar 22, 2011 1:55 pm | gamewarlord777 | Summary | Being able to minimize the select - Unit menu and the planetary summary => Being able to minimize the Unit - select menu and the planetary summary (see screenshot) |
| Mar 22, 2011 2:58 pm | gamewarlord777 | Summary | Being able to minimize the Unit - select menu and the planetary summary (see screenshot) => Being able to minimize the selected menu and the planetary summary (see screenshot) |
| Mar 22, 2011 4:03 pm | FunnyMan | Note Added: 0011225 | |
| Mar 22, 2011 5:10 pm | TechSY730 | Note Added: 0011230 | |
| Mar 22, 2011 5:14 pm | TechSY730 | Note Edited: 0011230 | |
| Mar 22, 2011 6:25 pm | gamewarlord777 | Note Added: 0011248 | |
| Mar 22, 2011 6:29 pm | TechSY730 | Note Added: 0011251 | |
| Mar 22, 2011 8:39 pm | FunnyMan | Note Added: 0011265 | |
| Mar 22, 2011 8:44 pm | TechSY730 | Note Added: 0011267 | |
| Mar 22, 2011 11:43 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0011300 | |
| Mar 22, 2011 11:43 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Assigned To | => Chris_McElligottPark |
| Mar 22, 2011 11:43 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Status | new => considering |
