Thanks, Brent. Very much appreciated. Kevin ----- Original Message ----- From: Brent Easton To: [email protected] ; [email protected] Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 7:57 PM Subject: Re: [vassalengine] Enhancement Requests
Hi Kevin, More comments below Cheers, Brent. >>1) Presently, text can be added to the "Zoom In," "Zoom >>Out," "Show/Hide Pieces" and "Image Capture" buttons. Can text be >>added to the "Mark all pieces on this map as not moved" button >>currently? If not, could this be added as an enhancement? > >Is this so that you can add the 'Mark All Pieces' button to a >toolbar menu? > >No, this is for usability only. I like to put captions on all the buttons >so there is no mistaking what they are for. I even caption the Zoom In and >Zoom Out buttons so that the novice or newbie user knows what these >buttons are for. The Mark All Pieces Unmoved button is even more obscure >and, therefore, I feel even more in need of a caption. This is why the >request. Ok. A button has to have text to be able to be added to a Toolbar anyway, so that will solve your issue as well. RFE 1608190 added. >>3) Currently, is there any way to add a menu option to the window >>menu area (where the "File" and "Help" menu items reside), either >>within the "File" menu option itself, or as a new menu option >>alongside the "File" and "Help" menu options (with other sub-menu >>options within it)? If not, could this ability to add menu options >>to the window possibly be added as an enhancement? > >Basically the same as a Toolbar menu, but create a drop-down menu in >the main menu bar instead of a button in the toolbar? > >Umm, not really a drop-down menu. I'm just thinking another menu option in >the lines of the "File" and "Help" menu options that already exist. For >example, when my module opened, there would be the standard "File" and >"Help" menu options, but I could have another menu option there as well, >such as "Actions." When the "Actions" menu option was selected, a list of >other menu options would then be visible to choose from (similar to >selecting "File" menu option then "Save" menu option). Again, this is >strictly for usability. My real reason for requesting this is because I >have an item or two that will only be used once per game (if ever). >Creating buttons for these seldomly used items takes up too much real >estate. A better solution would be to create these items as menu options >so that they are out of the way and only visible when (and if) needed. We are talking about the same thing. I call the current File and Help menus 'drop-down' menus. In one of my modules, I took all of items that hardly ever get used and added them to a Toolbar menu with a button that says 'Other'. This worked well for me, except for the fact that Module component buttons can only be added to a Module toolbar menu and Map component buttons can only be added to a Map toolbar menu, so I had to have a second toolbar menu on the map called 'More' with the map items. I can see the advantage of being able to create main menu items that can hold both Module and Map items. Solving this would probably also allow Map items to be added to a Module level toolbar menu. RFE 1608192 added. __________________________________________________________ Brent Easton Analyst/Programmer University of Western Sydney Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
