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[Heiko <1163444@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This looks *very* good and it's clearly an important improvement.

Am 03.04.2013 05:06, schrieb Stephen Lyons:
> If this is the same Room Exits GUI that has Text Line edit boxes for
> normal directional exits and buttons for each that "Lock" to prevent
> *editing* those same Text Line edit boxes at the same time as they set
> the feature to prevent the route finding code from using that exit - as
> the API lockExit() function does then I may be able to assist.
>
> Sorry if this is a bit dense:
>
> I have made some progress working over the GUI dialogue box and associated code to draw all the exit control functions together:
> * exit stubs and validated exit entry (also color coded to indicate validity as the digits are entered) - mutual exclusivity is enforced;
> * exit locking and spin-boxes (0-9999) for exit weighting {though given that a locked exit is effectively an infinite room weighting we could code the former as a -1 value to the latter}
> * radio buttons to set/clear door markers
> * a centrally place indicator to show the number of the room that is being EDITed!
> * tool-tips to guide the user + an a disabled, dummy copy of the controls for one exit enlarged to accommodate the labels that would otherwise be redundantly duplicated and make larger the controls for each exit.
>
> I had enforced mutual exclusivity for the other controls with stub exits
> but I realise that in practice one is perfectly likely to find a locked
> door without knowing what is on the other side so the door marker
> control at least should be enabled for either a stub exit OR a valid
> exit.
>
> In testing I have found that the 2DMap drawing code attempts to draw
> stub/normal exits for the up/down/in/out directions but fails for the
> latter pair to single centrally placed thin horizontal line - I've hand
> bodged the code to draw a small (about 2/3rd the size) pair of inward
> pointing triangle for "in" that sits in the space left and right of the
> points of the "up" and "down" exit indicators and a slightly larger
> outward pointing pair on the outside of these for "out".  They, like the
> "up"/"down" pair are hollow for stubs and filled in for real exits.  May
> I suggest that someone a bit better at the coordinate number juggling
> looks that bit of code over - what I propose is only a suggestion but it
> visually "fits".
>
> I also had left out controls for door symbols for the
> "up"/"down"/"in"/"out" but I had subsequently thought that we could
> change the brush colour used to "fill-in" the symbols to match the
> colours used for the xy-plane ones - retaining the black outline though
> so that they still show up on any room that has its environment set to a
> colour that matches one of the door colours.  Humm, that would not work
> for a stub exit with a marker door though ...
>
> I've held off on further tweaking here as Heiko suggests there is some
> revision to the mapper coming through shortly but I think there are some
> more things that need work: the Special exit part - needs another column
> for exit weighting the special exits, unless we combine it with the exit
> locking.  Do we need the ability to set door symbols on exits drawn with
> custom exit lines, could put the marker on the first line from the room,
> in which case we can add them also to Special Exits.
>
> OK that's enough from me for the moment.
>
> ** Attachment added: "Replacement Exit Dialogue box - work so far"
>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/mudlet/+bug/1163444/+attachment/3616553/+files/Screenshot-Exit%20details%20for%20room.png
>

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1163444

Title:
  Mapper GUI doesn't match API functionality

Status in Mudlet the MUD client:
  New

Bug description:
  The API method setExit() will automatically remove exit stubs from a
  room for the directions being set. However, if a user uses the Mapper
  window GUI (via right-click->exits), the exit stubs are not correctly
  removed.

  Ideally, the Mapper GUI would honor the setExit() behavior as there is
  no GUI-accessible way to remove exit stubs otherwise short of deleting
  the room.

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