Toggle Buttons

[Solarsoul]

Hey TTF,

I was wondering why this awesome game still has not implemented toggle buttons.
So if you click a button to open a screen you can close it by another click on the same button.
This would make playing even more enjoyable.

Cheers!
solar

[Alberth]

The GUI uses a re-opening event for highlighting the selected window, which is useful for eg finding which depot window (of the 5 you have opened) belongs to which depot.

That sort of blocks your suggestion.
You can however shade/unshade a window as explained in http://wiki.openttd.org/Shade_windows Perhaps that is a useful alternative?

[Solarsoul]

Hey again,

Thanks for your reply.
I was aiming at the upper toolbar.
Toggle buttons there would save time, instead trying to aim for the very tiny X to close a window.


Cheers

[planetmaker]

Hey again,

Thanks for your reply.
I was aiming at the upper toolbar.
Toggle buttons there would save time, instead trying to aim for the very tiny X to close a window.


Cheers

The upper toolbar usually has drop-down menus (click and keep pressed) additionally to just click which opens default. Thus a toggle functionality would not work there too well either.

[kamnet]

Hey again,

Thanks for your reply.
I was aiming at the upper toolbar.
Toggle buttons there would save time, instead trying to aim for the very tiny X to close a window.


Cheers

The upper toolbar usually has drop-down menus (click and keep pressed) additionally to just click which opens default. Thus a toggle functionality would not work there too well either.

When you use the multi-menu buttons, though, whatever you select is going to close the previous item and then open the new item. So a toggle on that button wouldn't be in conflict.

[Solarsoul]

Hey again,

Thanks for your reply.
I was aiming at the upper toolbar.
Toggle buttons there would save time, instead trying to aim for the very tiny X to close a window.


Cheers

The upper toolbar usually has drop-down menus (click and keep pressed) additionally to just click which opens default. Thus a toggle functionality would not work there too well either.

When you use the multi-menu buttons, though, whatever you select is going to close the previous item and then open the new item. So a toggle on that button wouldn't be in conflict.

Sounds perfect! So whats the status on this one?

[planetmaker]

"suggestion", I guess. Or did someone magically work on it over night?

Nor is it well thought-through: consider the 'map' button:

currently a click will open the mini map.
click + hold will allow to select 'mini map', 'additional view' and 'sign list'.
Now I select the 'sign list'. Currently I can still use the main toolbar button to get the mini map. Your suggestion would modify it such that it would close the sign list. I would need to click+hold+select the mini map in order to gain access. It would cost me loads of time and require much more clicking accuracy.

Similar issues arise with every single button.

[Solarsoul]

Well, I am not a developer, and dont know how the code is writen. So Im just sugesting, atleast give it a serious thought.

Thanks for the reply!

ps. I mean status as in.. did you seriously consider the posibility. (thats all really)