Oolite Bulletins

This sounds VERY good - look forward to seeing it in the next release!

This is very cool!

Any chance of making the ANA features work on both the long and short range charts?



Given that views like this are now possible I think it would make sense to make it possible to show routes on the short range chart.

- Neelix

Neelix wrote:

This is very cool!

Thanks!

Neelix wrote:

Any chance of making the ANA features work on both the long and short range charts?

I'll have to have a go at combining the long range and short range charts into one zoomable chart. That's probably the way to do things.

kanthoney wrote:

Neelix wrote:

Any chance of making the ANA features work on both the long and short range charts?

I'll have to have a go at combining the long range and short range charts into one zoomable chart. That's probably the way to do things.

*commences drooling*

Zireael wrote:

*commences drooling*

Ghah... what I wouldn't do to have a dozen more programmers here ready to work with all the ideas we're coming up with

I've added zooming onto the short range chart as a first step to combining the two charts - it's on the scrolling-chart branch on github if anyone wants a sneak preview. Page up/down to zoom in/out.

I need to add the system finder and ANA to it, then probably lots of bugfixing

kanthoney wrote:

I've added zooming onto the short range chart as a first step to combining the two charts - it's on the scrolling-chart branch on github if anyone wants a sneak preview. Page up/down to zoom in/out.

I need to add the system finder and ANA to it, then probably lots of bugfixing

Very cool! Although I think that the long range chart still may have to stay; it's used in cargo, parcel and passenger contracts. Replacing it everywhere may be a bit more complex than it seems, but then again I never imagined this kind of progress in just a couple of days.

another_commander wrote:

Although I think that the long range chart still may have to stay; it's used in cargo, parcel and passenger contracts.

I think I may miss the long-range chart if it disappeared - as a quick reference (including the waypoint marker), it is very handy.

Cody wrote:

another_commander wrote:

Although I think that the long range chart still may have to stay; it's used in cargo, parcel and passenger contracts.

I think I may miss the long-range chart if it disappeared - as a quick reference (including the waypoint marker), it is very handy.

Maybe it would help if there was a key press that would zoom out directly to galaxy level? And pressing that key again could get you back to where you were before on this map (location and zoom level).

That's a good idea, especially if the keypress is F6!

kanthoney wrote:

I've added zooming onto the short range chart as a first step to combining the two charts - it's on the scrolling-chart branch on github if anyone wants a sneak preview. Page up/down to zoom in/out.

I need to add the system finder and ANA to it, then probably lots of bugfixing

*more drooling*

As for a F6 shortcut to zoom out to full chart view, seconding!

I've just peeked at GitHub and kanthoney has already added the ANA and the other features to the scrolling-chart branch.

Have you tried it? It's coming along quite nicely.

A slight problem that's coming up is the "i" button, which currently shows the symbols. However, if the planet finder text entry field is in the chart it'll just type an "i" in that instead. Options I've thought of are:

1) Only having the planet finder active when fully zoomed out.
2) Only having the planet finder active after a keypress (such as Enter)
3) Using a non-alphanumeric key instead

It's not exactly a show-stopper, but somebody might have a better idea than those three.

Haven't tried it, don't have enough time to compile Oolite (leaving in 2 days).

1) Only having the planet finder active when fully zoomed out.
2) Only having the planet finder active after a keypress (such as Enter)

Both sound good, but I'd prefer #1.