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Re: Three thoughts
- From: Eric McDonald <mcdonald at phy dot cmich dot edu>
- To: Lincoln Peters <sampln at sbcglobal dot net>
- Cc: Xconq list <xconq7 at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:07:20 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Three thoughts
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> > Well, I never suggested that other get smaller....
> > Does the MacOS X icon bar have that property?
>
> No, but I imagine that if the size of the cell doesn't change, you'd
> have to shrink the other units to accommodate the enlarged unit image
> unless you were willing to obscure units by placing them underneath the
> enlarged unit image (which it looks like was what you have in mind).
Right.
> I noticed that the SDL interface blows up the selected unit to fill the
> entire cell even if other units occupy the cell. I find it to be rather
> awkward,
As do I. I think a more traditional selection rectangle might be
desirable. If one wants to see a full-sized "portrait" of the
selected unit, it can be provided in the unit information panel.
> I de-select the current unit first. And sometimes it looks weird when
> several tiny unit images appear underneath a big unit image.
Agreed. At first I thought I was witnessing a bug, until I
realized what was going on.
> I'm not sure which solution would work better. It might be necessary to
> implement both solutions and see which holds up better in practice.
That might be not be a bad idea. But, I am not going to volunteer
to write both solutions.
> http://homepage.mac.com/lmpeters/cell-closeup2.png
Interesting....
Eric