Orders patch - percentile and FIFO loading, cargo display...

mega rail · Post by **mega rail** » 12 Dec 2005 17:37

this still happening?
I do want it in the integated and eventally the trunk but i can`t code

SirkoZ · Post by **SirkoZ** » 12 Dec 2005 17:57

Well - Fox appears to busy again (integrated not yet updated to r32xx) and this patch also hasn't been updated for a while...

Wolf01 · Post by **Wolf01** » 12 Dec 2005 19:35

is possible to put the order's buttons in 2 lines? some translations string wouldn't fit in these small buttons, like "ordering" in the first line and "modifications" on the line above, for example:

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GO TO |  DELETE  | SKIP | NON-STOP
LOAD xx% v\^ |  UNLOAD  | PRIORITY

Sacro · Post by **Sacro** » 12 Dec 2005 20:01

I was working on it, but then i moved house, and went into hospital, but I;m just about fine now, all i need to do is get a phone cable for my router, and re-install linux, and ill be going again!

Seven Force · Post by **Seven Force** » 12 Dec 2005 21:02

W-ow! This patch sounds like a fantastic idea. Can't wait for a compiled binary.

Expresso · Post by **Expresso** » 12 Dec 2005 22:21

Ouch. An awful lot of buttons without a decent way to find the button you want to press fast enough.

How about color-coding the buttons or combining some of those buttons in a drop down list?

SirkoZ · Post by **SirkoZ** » 12 Dec 2005 22:41

Expresso wrote:...or combining some of those buttons in a drop down list?

Of course! Nice idea - full load "group", which includes percentile loads and then unload group (under now unload) with percentile options...

mega rail · Post by **mega rail** » 13 Dec 2005 16:23

So WHO is doing it? Is sacro picking it up again?

richk67 · Post by **richk67** » 13 Dec 2005 17:10

mega rail wrote:So WHO is doing it? Is sacro picking it up again?

Dunno who. Why not learn C/C++ and do it yourself?

gigajum · Post by **gigajum** » 27 Apr 2006 05:40

i picked it up

i still need more time to test it if all (Loading Percentiles + Exact loading + Prioritity loading) works correct together.

nzhook wrote: Load now shows on status bar (Patch)
The amount of cargo is now shown on the 'Loading/Unloading', ';Heading for xxx' status bar. So in the corner you can quickly see how loaded a train is.

i don't know if it's needed, i can implement it if wanted

nzhook wrote: Started, but not in GUIs:
* Min and Max waiting times (Just needs GUI and testing)

removed to keep updating to current svn version clean, will be remerged and completed i think

nzhook wrote: * Ablity to choose if the full load is based on cargo or train (per queue item, not globally) (Just needs GUI and testing)

nothing about that found in code maybe the commented out things, will be remerged / reimplemented later i think

nzhook wrote: * Expand size of orders window based on patch setting (this will be hard)
-- this is currently set at 10 instead of 6... needs a way to be more dynamic.

updated to the suggestion of Wolf01, maybe needs reorder of buttons:

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GO TO |  DELETE  | SKIP | NON-STOP
LOAD xx% v\^ |  UNLOAD  | PRIORITY

nzhook wrote: Still Todo/Thoughts:
* Move the FIFO ablity to the station gui
* Add default order options for station (eg. clicking goto on a station will use the default options for that station)

never thought about, maybe maybe not, we'll see

nzhook wrote: * Prioritity trains given more chances of being allowed to continue first at a signal

if the current things work as expected this will be done next.

nzhook wrote: * Remove any of the patch options this will add gui items for

nzhook wrote: * Possibly also a dont stop if no room option. (Im going to need a new window I think)

don't stop if no room, what do else? Drive into depot? continue driving around? can anyone explain that idea to me?

nzhook wrote: * Leave if another X trains are at the station.

Will also be added, but needs new options window for stations, global option setting in patch window is a bad idea

nzhook wrote: NOTE: Currently to avoid a save game bump becuase of the order options the above settings are not saved (sorry). Some of the options will automatically start working (eg. once a train arrives at a station it will start to FIFO. -- If a train was already at the station when loading it will be treated as a lod any situation until it arrives at another station)

Due to adding an patch option to the patch window it makes it impossible to load other gamesaves. The whole saving thing needs to be corrected in the next days.

nzhook wrote: Please feel free to apply this patch and let me know of any bugs you find (or even suggestions for the above list)

yeah me 2 when i release the updated patch

BoominGranny · Post by **BoominGranny** » 27 Apr 2006 20:19

nice work (again) gigajum i can't wait!!

ps. i've figured out how to compile now and made my first code change (changed a 4 to a 20 in the settings_gui.c file to make max interest setting up to 20 - not much but its a start!) so i am looking forward to finishing work tonight and testing out your advanced town handling patch!

gigajum · Post by **gigajum** » 29 Apr 2006 03:43

I made a screenshot of the current order window.

I wanted to know if some buttons need another position or something like that. The window itself has some button disable errors as i recognized now.

guest1029 · Post by **guest1029** » 29 Apr 2006 13:55

Wow, this is a great patch, I can't wait for it to be improved and incorporated into the code.

Darkvater · Post by **Darkvater** » 29 Apr 2006 14:11

gigajum wrote:I made a screenshot of the current order window.

I wanted to know if some buttons need another position or something like that. The window itself has some button disable errors as i recognized now.

Ugh, that window looks really bad. The buttons should be grouped together with a dropdown box me thinks because that design is just ghastly (no offence)

DaleStan · Post by **DaleStan** » 29 Apr 2006 14:46

Is something like "unload to 20% and then refill to 50%" supposed to be possible?

If not, that's fine, but if so, I don't see how to do it.

gigajum · Post by **gigajum** » 29 Apr 2006 15:38

DaleStan wrote:Is something like "unload to 20% and then refill to 50%" supposed to be possible?
If not, that's fine, but if so, I don't see how to do it.

No that is one of that errors i found while creating that screenshot, as i said

. that happend when i loaded a train with 20% and then clicked on the unload button. Unload is always as ever 100%. There is also no change at the unload code so it can't work to unload to 20% or unload 20%

Darkvater wrote: Ugh, that window looks really bad. The buttons should be grouped together with a dropdown box me thinks because that design is just ghastly (no offence)

When you tell me what you would group together in a drop down box then i can do so but i have currently no idea what you wanted to say with your post, execpt from that it looks bad. But that it is not perfect yet i said myself. So make a clear suggestion how to rearrange them

PouncingAnt · Post by **PouncingAnt** » 29 Apr 2006 21:08

I picked up the patch from your patch farm, but errored out on pressing the priority button! Otherwise, very, very nice patch!

gigajum · Post by **gigajum** » 29 Apr 2006 21:20

PouncingAnt wrote:I picked up the patch from your patch farm, but errored out on pressing the priority button! Otherwise, very, very nice patch!

i recognized that too, but as i said there are problems with the buttons.
it only appears if you press the priority button as first. of you press it second or later it won't apear. I'll take a look at that tomorrow.

I fixed the problem with the handling of all three combinations this morning and added the patch file to get a exe compiled. So you can test that current version. i hope there are no other major bugs.

Darkvater · Post by **Darkvater** » 30 Apr 2006 12:08

gigajum wrote:
Darkvater wrote: Ugh, that window looks really bad. The buttons should be grouped together with a dropdown box me thinks because that design is just ghastly (no offence)
When you tell me what you would group together in a drop down box then i can do so but i have currently no idea what you wanted to say with your post, execpt from that it looks bad. But that it is not perfect yet i said myself. So make a clear suggestion how to rearrange them

Don't worry if I had a clear idea how the GUI should look like I would've told you or even have made a mockup of it. Right now I am not out. I am a programmer not a designer, and desiging UI's in general is really
hard.

Perhaps something like:
[Skip][Delete][Goto][Misc][Load][<>]

Where Misc (or a better name) would include a dropdown box of Priority/Non-Stop/Service (depot).
Load would contain a dropdown box of Load/Unload/Transfer with a another dropbox next to it with 0-100% in 10% increments? Then you can tell your train to load 10%, unload 30% and transfer 40% if wanted? Of course this scroller can be disabled if unload/transfer is selected if there is no code for that yet. Donnu how usable it is, but most used functions are available with one click and it still would look not too bad.

PouncingAnt · Post by **PouncingAnt** » 30 Apr 2006 12:37

I agree that it should probably be kept to one line of buttons

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