Editor: Make dropdown show/hide a window with checkboxes

[bunnybot]

Mirrored from Codeberg
Created on Wed Mar 13 11:51:27 CET 2024 by frankystone

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Sometimes when editing a map one hides the display of some things, say resources. During further editing one wonders why there are areas with no resources... because one had forgotten that displaying resources are disabled.
Another, sometimes irritating, example: One had hidden immovables and after some further editing he/she wonders why the building spaces are limited and searches for wrong placed terrains…

Describe the solution you'd like
Instead of the main menus dropdown "Show/Hide" the button should open a window with checkboxes. This has also the advantage that less translation is needed:

[ ] Hide Building spaces
[ x ] Hide Maximum Buildings spaces
[ ] Hide Grid
[ ] Hide Immovables
[ ] Hide Animals
[ ] Hide Resources

Describe alternatives you've considered
At least there should be an indicator in some way, e.g. in the main menu bar, which shows which things are hidden or not. Maybe also for other things?

Another solution might be to add the indicator of hidden things in the history window. But i think this too specific and not globally enough.

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[bunnybot]

Mirrored from Codeberg
On Wed Mar 13 13:31:55 CET 2024, Benedikt Straub (Nordfriese) wrote:

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IMO a window would make both the status and the options themselves less visible, and perhaps require an extra click to toggle them.

You can however make a plugin that…

• Creates such a window
• Removes the showhide dropdown from the toolbar (using die() or visible=false)
• Adds a new toolbar button that toggles your window
• Optionally adds status indicator panels to the toolbar and a timer to keep them updated.