Re: Shortcut focusing idle units

[Henk Jonas <MetaView@xxxxxx>]

Jens Granseuer wrote:

> On 25.08.2006 17:07, Henk Jonas wrote:
>
> > amount of free buttons. You need already buttons for scrolling (which 
> > isn't really perfect in the main code),
>
>
> What's the problem there?

The main code doesn't scroll but move the cursor and then scrolls when 
the cursor reaches the screen border. On a touch screen device, you're 
not going to use the buttons to move the cursor, I guess you rather 
prefer to scroll the whole map. That's why I've changed the code to move 
the map in a way that the cursor is in the middle of the map, when 
moving the cursor around with the cursor keys. Might be also a reason, 
because the cursor movement is quite slow on Palm OS (which on the other 
hand might be an issue with my port :-(

> Understood, but growing the menu beyond the display size won't be any good,
> either. That's why I'm asking whether this particular function is really
> that useful. I haven't used it in ages, and I was even close to removing
> it completely once and only left it in because every once in a while
> someone comes asking for it (which obviously shows that there is *some*
> demand for it, and I'm not saying it's unreasonable, mind you).

I was missing such a functionality quite some time. As I told you, I 
didn't noticed it and tend to forget some units from time to time.
The size of this menu depends on the font, on the PalmOS port I use a 
custom 8x8 bitmap font for it. There is still quite some space on the 
screen :-)

> it's not really great. And it should be improved. But I don't want to
> believe that the only valid answer to that is "put everything in the
> menu".

Well, I prefer to have everything in menus with additional keyboard 
shortcuts. Makes the learning much easier. One of the reasons why I 
rather use pico or nano instead of vi when need to edit some text in a 
console window :-)

> > But that's just my 2 cents and of course, knowing that such a 
> > functionality exist (which I didn't know btw :-) makes it easy to add it 
> > on my own in the Palm OS port.
>
>
> Of course you can, but it's probably also in the interest of the
> port maintainers to keep the ports as close to mainline as possible?

Your point, but do you have any better idea?


Best regards
Henk

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