Re: Radar and Armageddon buttons get in the way

[Gervase Lam]

On Tuesday 17 September 2002 01:51 am, you wrote:
> > The obvious solution is to move the Radar and those non-Action buttons
> > a little bit towards the middle of the screen.


> But the problem with moving stuff into the middle, like this:
>
> +-------------------------+
>
> |      |___________|      |
> |_                        |
> |
> | |                       |
> | |                       |
> | |                       |
> |
> |-'                       |
> |                         |
> |         +-----+         |
> |         |     |         |
>
> +---------+-----+---------+
>
> is that the middle of the screen (thats where all the action takes
> place) would get quite a bit smaller, that could lead to more problems
> than just placing the radar in the corner and fixing the level.

The keyword here is a _little_ bit.  Just one Pingu or button width away 
from the corner should do.  Currently it is like this:

+-------------------------+
|      |___________|      |
|_                        |
| |                       |
| |                       |
| |                       |
|-'                       |
|                         |
+------+             +----+
|      |             |    |
+------+-------------+----+

I was thinking more like this:

+-------------------------+
|      |___________|      |
|_                        |
| |                       |
| |                       |
| |                       |
|-'                       |
|                         |
| +------+         +----+ |
| |      |         |    | |
+-+------+---------+----+-+

Or may be align all of the non-Action buttons to the right-hand side of 
the screen like the Action buttons are on the left-hand side of the screen:

+-------------------------+
|      |___________|      |
|_                       _|
| |                     | |
| |                     |_|
| |                       |
|-'                       |
|                         |
| +------+                |
| |      |                |
+-+------+----------------+

Looking at that, the left hand side looks a bit cluttered.  So I suppose 
you could make the radar near the right-hand corner instead:

+-------------------------+
|      |___________|      |
|_                       _|
| |                     | |
| |                     |_|
| |                       |
|-'                       |
|                         |
|                +------+ |
|                |      | |
+----------------+------+-+

Any of those alternatives should suffice.

Thanks,
Gervase