[crossfire] Who uses the scrollbars around the map?

Kevin R. Bulgrien kbulgrien at worldnet.att.net
Fri Feb 15 09:09:06 CST 2008


> While looking at the various layouts for the client, I remembered an old
> problem that we had discussed one or two years ago: the scrollbars around
> the map area take some space (almost one tile in each direction) and
> personally, I never use them.
>
> Is anybody using these scrollbars?
>
> If not, then we could save some space by getting rid of them.  Scrolling
> is done automatically by the client anyway.
>
> Although I never use them, I suppose that scrollbars may be useful for
> layouts in which the map view is very small (e.g., 11x11).  But if we
> arrange the widgets in such a way that it is possible to have 20x20 or at
> least more than 15x15 even with a screen resolution of 1024x768, then I
> think that we can remove them to gain one extra tile in each direction.
>
> -Raphaël

Nobody does.  They don't work.  There's an issue tracker at SF though.
Funny I have left them there this whole time.  :-D  Thanks for piping
up.

Kevin Bulgrien



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