And 1.2 begins !

Post by **trevor** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:06 pm

Mmmmm the sweet, sweet feeling of freedom and freshness when starting out development on a new version.

Without a worry or care about breaking things horrifically.

Which I plan to do: time to whip out the hammer and start breaking things that have been bugging me for a while, Mwahahahaha !

Post by **dorpond** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:51 pm

I have my war hammer; may I break with you?

snikle · Post by **snikle** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 8:11 pm

I as well commrade, point, and I shall crush!

Post by **trevor** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:12 pm

Target #1: The toolbar
Target #2: Templates

Emryys · Post by **Emryys** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:06 pm

trevor wrote:Target #1: The toolbar
Target #2: Templates

Elaborate... please

Post by **trevor** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:34 am

Toolbar:
Simplify by consolidation.

Templates:
Restructure such that they are not drawables but objects that can be selected, modified, deleted, etc. This is a crucial first step towards dynamic fow

Post by **trevor** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 4:21 pm

UPDATE: Actually I decided to very first attack something that has been complained about since the inception: left panel sizing.

Yes, it sucks.

Thinking ahead, we want to allow multiple views, so it we'll need a more generic layout mechanism.

There are also people who want to have the chat in different places, or may not be interested in the connections list taking up screen space.

So I am currently investigating using this:

https://flexdock.dev.java.net/

docking framework as the main layout mechanism for MapTool. Note this would allow actually pulling panels off the main window and moving them around.

Start up the web demo on the above url, and select the ViewDemo to get an idea of what I'm thinking of.

dLANbandit · Post by **dLANbandit** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 4:29 pm

It couldn't be anymore perfect from a user perspective.

That took me a grand total of 2 seconds to figure out.

snikle · Post by **snikle** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:09 pm

Looks good, I vote "Aye!"

Phergus · Post by **Phergus** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:15 pm

Very cool!

thelevitator · Post by **thelevitator** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:25 pm

That is awesome!!

Post by **trevor** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:34 pm

Heh, I'm sensing approval

heruca · Post by **heruca** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 7:26 pm

Very neat.

One question: If you split off a pane into it's own window by dragging it out of the main window, is it possible to then put it back where it came from? Or close it?

Phergus · Post by **Phergus** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 7:39 pm

Worked that way in the demo program.

aku · Post by **aku** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:31 pm

re: tool consilidation

follow the path of photoshop, and group all like icons into one... basically, you'd cut down to... 1 FoW icon, 1 template icon.. and i cant think of what else might be groupable right now

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And 1.2 begins !

And 1.2 begins !

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