Questions to Fatal67 regarding the Maps-Mod

As i said before im really impressed! That Maps-Mod is a great idea.



But i've got some questions:



Did you ever try full color maps? Are there stability problems with higher filesize images? Do fully colored backgrounds show their real colors when tinting to full white?



Can you add endless tabs? Can you do like 3 or 4 sub-tabs? So that it would be possible to make a tab for each separate map?



Why did you not use the help window instead of the actions window. Is the use of tabs limited to certain windows?



Most of the above i could find out myself as soon as im back at home but maybe you tried some of that and can answer it quick <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/smile.gif ALT=":)">



Thanks!




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Did you ever try full color maps? Are there stability problems with higher filesize images? Do fully colored backgrounds show their real colors when tinting to full white?

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You notice when you load a map and it pauses your pc for 15 seconds? each one of the individual zone maps is pretty small. The smallest we could make em currently. It uses up memory to load them. The way the maps are currently loaded, using more memory just isn't very thoughtful of us. Nothing is stopping folks from making new maps. Our maps come from the sourceforge community and are updated pretty regular.



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Can you add endless tabs? Can you do like 3 or 4 sub-tabs? So that it would be possible to make a tab for each separate map?



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You can make a lot of tabs. I didnt try to make 160 tabs. A better option would be a page with several pull town windows, like eqmaps web site. (similar to the bazaar interface). This is the beta version, more advanced functionality is being worked on. Or, submit a mod or work with us on developing one.

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Why did you not use the help window instead of the actions window. Is the use of tabs limited to certain windows?



Actually, I did have some issues with tabs, but I have seen another mod with tabs on the player info window, So i guess its possible. We just kind of liked Alt-M for maps :P










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Thanks a lot for the anserws.



I don't get a 15 seconds delay when loading the new maps but i can imagine that a large full color map will cause trouble even on the fastest systems.



Pull down windows are a good idea - the bazaar window proofed that the functionality is in. Would be really good if this could be used for browsing maps...



Distar




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Well, the bazaar window gave the functionality for the pull down tabs. It doesnt give you a seperate box to load a background image on for each pulldown selection. It's being looked at.




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