Updating Initial Screens and game hosting screen
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I'm in progress to simplify a good chunk of the launch screen code, the code that powers the first several screens up until you join a game. As part of this, it makes sense to make a few improvements along the way. Below are some screenshots of what I have, feedback is really welcome! Thank you in advance for any comments/thoughts/suggestions.
Then if you click multiplayer, you'll see the multiplayer options on one screen:
Going back, if you click on single player this is what you see:
For network games, a chat dialog is included and the screen would look like:
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@lafayette Do we have competing projects here? Or are these 2 different branches of the same project?
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2 different but related branches. The update here is mostly code related. This is coordinated with @RoiEX https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/issues/2753, for https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/464/taking-your-suggestions-for-a-new-ui
So here I'm rewriting existing UI code with an updated and simplified UI library, but it is still fundamentally same technology. While doing this there is a lot more happening to the code and we are getting a better split of UI configuration from the game logic. This should help us then upgrade to the next gen of java UI technology (https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/464/taking-your-suggestions-for-a-new-ui)
But, while re-writing the UI code, there are a few problems that should really be taken care of
It was also an opportunity to resurrect the code behind the updated hosting screen. -
@hepps you should be able to even demo some of these features from the latest pre-release (maybe even in the latest release).
Turn on 'beta features' in the settings screen 'testing' tab:
Then on the next game launch the main window will have a 'launch new UI' button:
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@lafayette Yup. Just trying to keep track of the two different things and wondering if I should hold off on UI re-designs until we have a specific direction for the feature and choices on each screen.
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@hepps I would say no on holding off on future re-designs. What I'm proposing is a next step that is almost required before we can do a larger redesign. Most of the changes are in the code. Meanwhile, it's pretty trivial and very easy now to alter the screen and which buttons are where, so I can incorporate feedback on that quite readily : )
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