Opened 5 years ago
Last modified 5 years ago
#5611 new enhancement
Proposal: Formations and Stances as dropdown.
| Reported by: | Freagarach | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | Nice to Have | Milestone: | Backlog |
| Component: | UI – In-game | Keywords: | GUI, design |
| Cc: | Patch: |
Description
Currently the stances and formations are shown icon next to icon. It would be nice to show them as dropdowns, since that would save space for other useful panels (e.g. garrison).
I do not know whether it is possible but I think the following would suffice:
- Icon of currently selected (first one in case of multiple formations/stances selected) formation/stance as button icon .
- When pressed, dropdown (dropup actually, when placed at the current "stances" location) with the icons of the formations/stances.
- Icons of selected formations/stances have the "selected" overlay as is the case now.
- Corresponding tooltip when hovering the icons.
- Clicking the icon changes formation/stance (obviously).
Drawbacks:
- Not immediately visible anymore when multiple formations/stances are selected simultaneously.
- Not immediately visible which formations/stances are possible.
- Two mouse clicks instead of one to change formations/stances.
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Also the mousemove in between.
One could also make it so that the icon menu is popping up when one icon is hovered, but that has its own drawbacks (it can open up unintentionally and it can close unintentionally when leaving the area wit hteh cursor).
There is also Phab:D1269 to add scrolling for the unitAI buttons.
Another option would be to add pages to the panel (one page with the formation, one page with the formations etc), tabbing I guess.