Re: Improved mac xconq closeups

[Stan Shebs <shebs at shebs dot cnchost dot com>]

Hans Ronne wrote:
> 
> I have just checked in an overhauled version of the unit closeup code for
> the mac.

This is cool!

> 2. Each unit that has occupants now display them inside its closeup. This
> is true for both advanced and simple closeups. The size of the closeup is
> updated as occupants arrive or leave.
> 
> 3. Most importantly, you can open a closeup for any occupant by clicking on
> it. This occupant then becomes the selected unit (and also the current
> unit) instead of the transport. It remains the current unit after you have
> closed the closeups (if you choose to do so). This is how you can select
> and activate an occupant using the new closeup code.

It would be especially interesting to tweak this so that occupant info could
be gotten by "twisting out" the transport's closeup.  That way you don't
proliferate lots of little windows.

I've had this general idea that closeups and lists ought to be special
cases of a single type of window, and that you ought to be able to have
Finder-like operations, with transports as the "folders".  A little tricky
to layout usefully though, I've made some sketches but they seem
unsatisfactory still.

> Please try out the code if you have a mac and report any problems to me.

Works for me!

> Sorry, unix guys, but this is not available for you yet. Hopefully, we will
> have closeups also in the tcltk version one of these days ...

It's hanging on the aforementioned display unification idea.

Stan