Recent changes to feature-requests

Remove old separator

Mark — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:35:52 -0000

The player controls were removed from the resource info tabs, now the separator that used to exist in the resource tabs is useless, because it is no longer separating anything (now that the player controls are removed).

Put player control menu in a separate component

Mark — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:40:38 -0000

Right now the buttons that the player uses to control whether he builds, or buys or sells, is done so from a panel inside the ResBuildPanel component. I am removing the controls from the ResBuildPanel in order to make it smaller and to remove the tab structure. To this end, and for further development on the player's controls, I think it would be best if the player controls where in its own component. That way it could be moved and altered more easily in the future.

Rename Catan Help to Help

Mark — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:46:05 -0000

Help is the common name for such a menu item, also the 'H' should be underlined.

Move about box to help menu

Mark — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:44:52 -0000

Right now the about menu option is under the Game Menu, when it should be under the help menu, as is common for most programs. Also it might be renamed to "About Settlers"

Move the build menu out of the player tabs

Mark — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:27:14 -0000

Take the build menu out of the tab controls, and place on below the tabs, so that it is always visible.

By removing it, we can reduce the size of the tabs, which will bring me one step closer to removing the tabs all together.

Don't list all the resource Cards you can't see

Mark — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:41:20 -0000

Instead of showing the backsides of your opponents card just show "card x 2" if for instance the other player has 2 resources card.

This way we can reduce the size of the status window, so that it might fit into a box.

Replace tab view of other players

Mark — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:33:03 -0000

Right now other players cards are viewed through a series of confusing tabs. These tabs should be removed and replaced with series of boxes or panels, allowing you to see card and score totals at all times.

Make the Total Victory Count configurable

Mark — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:17:58 -0000

Right now one only has the option to play to 10, but many of the variants play to different usually higher numbers of victory points. Making this number configurable would make a lot of the effort easier.

Build on player turn only should be checkbox

Mark — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:14:54 -0000

I may want to reconsider this one, but I believe that a checkbox could be more appropriate for selecting whether or not the user can build on another player's turn in the 6 player variant. If the user as the 4 player variant selected then just gray out the checkbox.

The current dropdown is a little initially confusing, but they may merely be because of the text.

Volcano should be checkbox

Mark — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:08:57 -0000

The volcano option is a combobox, but because it is a switch, it makes more sense for the volcano to be a checkbox, since it is either "on" or "off".