Post by chriscrawford on Aug 11, 2015 10:08:44 GMT -8
I'm making good progress on the new front end, but I have run into a problem with the way the interface operates. The first image displays the way that a sentence from the player looks right now:
Notice the "thumbs up" sympol falling outside of the speech bubble. This happens because the original Siboot design called for sentences that could be three rows high. But I decided some months ago that I could fit everything into just two rows, so I dispensed with the third row, freeing up more screen real estate for the rest of the display. But the original code still assumes that the bubble is three rows high. So, how do I fit in the button?
By the way, the button is the "Player Done" button, meaning that the player has completed his sentence and is satisfied with it, and wishes to proceed with it. It corresponds to the "period" button in the text-only front end.
Here is one possible solution: make the "undo" button (the left arrow) and the "player done" button into smaller icons and scrunch them together, like so:
I have mixed feelings about this solution, because it doesn't suggest that the graphic elements are active in the same fashion that the other sympols do. On the other hand, it does suggest that these two buttons are distinct from the rest of the sentence.
Here's another solution: revert to the "period" button used in the text-only front end:
Obviously we'd need to expand the speech bubble to the right a dozen or two pixels. But here's a more radical solution:
So, let's hear some opinions about these various options.
Notice the "thumbs up" sympol falling outside of the speech bubble. This happens because the original Siboot design called for sentences that could be three rows high. But I decided some months ago that I could fit everything into just two rows, so I dispensed with the third row, freeing up more screen real estate for the rest of the display. But the original code still assumes that the bubble is three rows high. So, how do I fit in the button?
By the way, the button is the "Player Done" button, meaning that the player has completed his sentence and is satisfied with it, and wishes to proceed with it. It corresponds to the "period" button in the text-only front end.
Here is one possible solution: make the "undo" button (the left arrow) and the "player done" button into smaller icons and scrunch them together, like so:
I have mixed feelings about this solution, because it doesn't suggest that the graphic elements are active in the same fashion that the other sympols do. On the other hand, it does suggest that these two buttons are distinct from the rest of the sentence.
Here's another solution: revert to the "period" button used in the text-only front end:
Obviously we'd need to expand the speech bubble to the right a dozen or two pixels. But here's a more radical solution:
So, let's hear some opinions about these various options.
