{"id":3600,"date":"2015-01-05T22:36:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T12:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=3600"},"modified":"2015-01-05T22:36:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T12:36:26","slug":"info-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2015\/01\/05\/info-window\/","title":{"rendered":"The Info Window"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"InfoWindow\"<\/a>I included this image in yesterday’s post, but didn’t really talk about it.\u00a0 So I’ll do that today.<\/p>\n

This is the current version of the “Info Window”.\u00a0 In the last few milestone builds, information about various things in the world could be retrieved by selecting the object and clicking the ‘Info’ button in the context matrix.\u00a0 A little panel in the HUD would slide out, and would display information about whatever was selected.<\/p>\n

This is a replacement for that;\u00a0 you click the ‘Info’ button, and you get a whole window.\u00a0 The window can be moved around, has a close button, and generally behaves as you’d expect a window to behave.\u00a0 The information from the Info panel is still present (somewhat more nicely formatted), and there’s a lot of extra room for more information than would have ever fit into the old Info panel.\u00a0 Eventually, I plan to put some tabs on the window, to show more information.\u00a0 I haven’t yet decided whether the tabs belong on the side or on the bottom;\u00a0 but at the moment, I’m leaning toward tabs on the bottom of the window.<\/p>\n

The plan is that this window will be the new way to configure things.\u00a0 By making it a window, I get a lot more space available for configuration controls, and I also gain back the left side of the screen, which I’m going to want to use during the tutorial, for helpful tutorial messages.\u00a0 Almost all of the “context matrix” can probably go away;\u00a0 I’ll move any necessary commands into here instead;\u00a0 all I need is a single, dedicated button to bring up the info window.\u00a0 And I can maybe do that with just a right-click on an object, without even needing a GUI button at all.\u00a0 Need to experiment with that.<\/p>\n

Getting pretty close to an MS8 build.\u00a0 The tutorial is the last big-ticket item remaining in my to-do list.\u00a0 I’m hoping to have the milestone build ready for the middle of January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I included this image in yesterday’s post, but didn’t really talk about it.\u00a0 So I’ll do that today. This is the current version of the “Info Window”.\u00a0 In the last few milestone builds, information about various things in the world could be retrieved by selecting the object and clicking the ‘Info’ button in the context…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/InfoWindow.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-W4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3601,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions\/3601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}