Update 1.2 UI tweaks

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Update 1.2 UI tweaks

Postby TheMaskedFarmer » Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:01 pm

Just a few UI suggestions for update 1.2:

Market table highlighting: Love it! However, the CSS may need a little tweak. The addition of the bold text makes the table jumpy. It gets worse for items with long names, such as "Sourdough Bread", which goes from a single-line row to a double line on-hover. Easy fix would be to drop the bold. More difficult would be to change the template to force fixed-width columns.

In-game info block: I like the transparent styling, but the text is a little difficult to read here. I think it may be the combination of the bold text with the small character-spaced font. However, I'm not sure how you could change much and still fit that much information is such a small block. Difficult problem. Would be nice to have slightly better readability, though.

Scroll windows: This isn't specific to 1.2 since it existed before, but I think it would be nice if the in-game pop-ups (like the Accomplishments box or Employees list) provided a more standard scroll bar. However, I suspect that the current button-click "scroll" is simply more of a pager than a scroller, which makes the back-end programming easier. Still, if you wanted to make things more complicated on yourself, an actual scroller would be welcome here. :)
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Re: Update 1.2 UI tweaks

Postby jncarriere » Wed Mar 10, 2010 12:53 pm

In-game info block: I like the transparent styling, but the text is a little difficult to read here. I think it may be the combination of the bold text with the small character-spaced font. However, I'm not sure how you could change much and still fit that much information is such a small block. Difficult problem. Would be nice to have slightly better readability, though.




Personally I would like the option to have the background solid again.Especially nice for those of us who cant read small text or who have eye problems.
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Re: Update 1.2 UI tweaks

Postby Santhor » Wed Mar 10, 2010 4:14 pm

Exact what i tought, the transparency is nice but very hard to read - i cant read it now as good as before and need my glasses, well please make an option to get an solid background again for the info-texts.
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Re: Update 1.2 UI tweaks

Postby BeanGreen2 » Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:45 am

I third (or fourth?) the idea of having an option for the background of the text...
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Re: Update 1.2 UI tweaks

Postby TheMaskedFarmer » Thu Mar 11, 2010 7:00 pm

I noticed a screenshot of the info block in Linux today. Kind of broken:
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The sans serif font is certainly more readable than the serif font used on Windows, but the size of that font is breaking the layout.
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