[PATCH] Display of general options

[mimo]

In the option menu, we can now display the FPS, the real time and the ingame time which are displayed in the upper-right corner. But

• displaying all of them looks quite weird because the appearance of the ingame time is completely different from the other two
• the real time is displayed just at the position of the research progress and hides it because it has z=199

It would be nice to uniformize the appearance of these displays, and find a way to avoid the hiding of research progress, either by putting the research progress to a bigger z, or moving these optional displays to the lower-right corner. In addition, their position could depend on the number of enabled option in order to avoid a big hole when enabling only the first and third ones.

[Timothy Hamlett]

I agree that they shouldn't block research progress (sorry, I wrote the Real-time overlay). Could research progress perhaps spawn from the bottom instead of the top?

[historic_bruno]

Wherever they go, they need to be consistently formatted.

Replying to mimo:

In addition, their position could depend on the number of enabled option in order to avoid a big hole when enabling only the first and third ones.

One possibility would be to construct a string with each of the data as needed, separated by newlines or something, and display them in a single text box.

[Vladislav Belov]

I have tried put counters in different corners, but best place is top right (f.e. right bottom place intersects with elements in the main menu and is more harder to look).

[Vladislav Belov]

Only FPS has text

[mimo]

Thanks for working on this patch. Here are some comments after testing it: On some backgrounds, the time counters can be difficult to read. May-be you could add a background color, or change the color of the text. When the number of digits of the FPS changes, the position of the "FPS" text changes. That gives a weird effect when your FPS oscilates for exemple between 9 and 10. I find strange to have the time counters at this place when no techs are researched (which is still the main part of a game). May-be it would be better to push the time counters on the right, and that the vertical position of the researching techs will adapt itself to be displayed a bit below these counters. But that's only my personnal taste, may-be ask some other opinions on IRC before changing that.

[Vladislav Belov]

Added mimo suggestions

[mimo]

In 16732:

improve display of timing options, patch by Vladislav, fixes #2894

[mimo]

Thanks for the patch.