Big GUI bug?

[Zephyris]

I am in the process of making a double size gui to help usability on higher resolution and touchscreen devices but I am getting some wierd behaviour of the toolbar.

With the double size icons the toolbar always switches to the half length mode, even if there would be space for the full toolbar. Is this intended behaviour? Or is it a bug? The grf is not suitable for general consumption yet but I will pm it for testing purposes...

[Yexo]

Seems to be a bug. Could you pm me the grf so I can do some tests?

[Rubidium]

Not sure whether it's a bug or somewhat of a misfeature; the toolbar is 640 pixels wide for aesthetical reasons. It doesn't get any bigger than that when you use bigger sprites, although you seem to trigger the behaviour implemented for small screen devices.

[Zephyris]

It did just seem a bit wierd, I have pm'd the grf to Yexo for some testing...

[Zephyris]

Turns out the scenario editor toolbar behaves very strangely too...

[Yexo]

Fixed in r20807. I hope it works as you expect now.

[Zephyris]

Cool thanks! I noticed one more little bug with the big GUI; when opening a window (excluding the road/rail/etc. building toolbars) with a default position of the top of the viewport it gets positioned at the bottom instead.

You can replicate this by opening the train vehicle list with the big GUI enabled - the window gets placed at the bottom of the viewport instead of the top.

[Yexo]

Fixed that too in r20820.

[Zephyris]

Awesome, thank you

[Ihmemies]

Funny thing, double size was in the game a bit ago, but it was removed for some reason Personally I'd like it since everything is quite small and unusable at 2560*1600.

[NekoMaster]

You know, I dont ever remeber double size guis... this might be something nice to try some time :3

[WWTBAM]

Funny thing, double size was in the game a bit ago, but it was removed for some reason Personally I'd like it since everything is quite small and unusable at 2560*1600.

I think it was windows only and thats why it was removed.

[Eddi]

it also conflicted with the blitter rewrite.

[Zephyris]

*Nudge* Just a little nudge... Is there any chance of support for larger fonts any time soon? I have attached the test new font grfs if any devs feel like testing...

[planetmaker]

*Nudge* Just a little nudge... Is there any chance of support for larger fonts any time soon? I have attached the test new font grfs if any devs feel like testing...

Well, I did play around with them a bit, trying to find where things go wrong. I noticed that some letters were mis-represented within those fonts, though (see attached screenshot snippet): ä, ö, ü, ß are given incorrectly as the æ, ø,... so I guess they are just in the wrong location within that font: it should correctly read "Straßen", "Bahnhöfe", "Flughäfen"

So... the big GUI/big fonts bugs, is there interest in trying to solve them?

I consider it more of a feature request than a bug (as the current system was still not designed to handle differently sized sprite fonts), but sure, it makes sense, is very useful and is not forgotten. It "just" needs quite a bit more than a quick fix.

[Zephyris]

Looking very nice! Thanks so much! Though I should have known it would be more complex to code than I imagined

I'll have a look at fixing the incorrect characters, it should be simple, all the grfs are generated by scripts!

[Zephyris]

Found the bug, I had two missing sprites (the small up and down arrows, sprites 158 and 159). The scripts are now fixed and I will make corrected big font grfs asap!

[Zephyris]

New big font grfs... These should have sorted the shifted characters.

[planetmaker]

Uhm... something surely is shifted. But then, I'm sure differently than intended:

[Zephyris]

Arg, messed up the big font. This version should be fixed.