[crossfire] Improved/redone client.

[Mark Wedel]

Alex Schultz wrote:

> -If you try to make a keybinding over a key that is already bound
> something, it shouldn't just append to the list, it should warn you and
> if you choose to continue, remove the old binding first.

  Yes - that is a valid point - overbinding a key doesn't make sense.  But it 
gets a little odd with modifiers.

> -One idea that might be good, is while it is waiting for you to press a
> key to bind to, it should come up with a graphical display of the keys
> on the keyboard, and with color coding showing which keys are already
> bound. Tooltips when hovering over a key show what is bound there and
> clicking a key counts as if you pressed that key.

  I don't know if there is a widget for that or not.  That is not something I'd 
want to have to write ourselves.  We just can have a universal looking keyboard 
- after all, laptops, different keyboards, etc, can have different layouts.


>> Inventory control via keyboard:  I'd be interested in how people think that 
>> should work - I really can't envision much any reasonable way to control the 
>> inventory only by keyboard, whether we use gtk2 widget or write our own.  I'd 
>> personally consider this to be a pretty low thing to do.
> Personally I think this would make a big improvement if it could be
> pulled off in a reasonable manner. The best I've seen for keyboard
> inventory control in large inventories, would be how nethack does it
> even in it's gtk interface. That keyboard interface might work well if
> we used popups, however see the popup issues above. One could do
> something though with giving focus the inventory list and allowing
> keyboard scrolling of it and pressing keys to apply from it or drop etc.
> however one would need to make it VERY obvious to the player when they
> have focus on that, and also would have to make it very difficult to
> accidentally trigger while easy to trigger manually (and for fairly
> obvious reason I don't think focus on click would work well for it...)

  A valid question may be whether the inventory interface should be completely 
redone.

  The mouse buttons I believe kept what was used in the old X11 client.  I don't 
think the current button presses conform to what people would expect from a GTK 
application.  I'd say that a single button press being the expected behavior is 
not standard.

  What comes to mind could be something like this:
  Left click selects an item.  A double click applies the item (most common 
operation).
  Double middle click drops item (second most common operation?)
  Right clicking on a selected item brings up a little pop up menu on additional 
item actions (drop, lock, apply, examine, mark, etc).  I think that is better 
than having these odd shift and control combos.