Re: How likely is it for PS to come out with mini view?
 

It's really quite simple for any programmer with more than 1 year experience.

Edit - giving a single programmer 1 week to accomplish it would be generous.

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It's really quite simple for any programmer with more than 1 year experience.

Edit - giving a single programmer 1 week to accomplish it would be generous.

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i've been told different.

if this is the case, then why has it taken so long?

Re: How likely is it for PS to come out with mini view?
 

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It's really quite simple for any programmer with more than 1 year experience.

Edit - giving a single programmer 1 week to accomplish it would be generous.

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Have you ever done any software development? If so, have you done any software development on a very large scale application that manipulates money 24/7?

On top of that, have you ever tried to add a new feature to a software package that has been written by dozens of different programmers over the course of several years?

Re: How likely is it for PS to come out with mini view?
 

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Edit - giving a single programmer 1 week to accomplish it would be generous.

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Honestly, this is just pure garbage.

Re: How likely is it for PS to come out with mini view?
 

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Edit - giving a single programmer 1 week to accomplish it would be generous.

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Honestly, this is just pure garbage.

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Maybe he's a PHB. They seem to expect things to happen in 1/10th the time of what is humanly possible. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Re: How likely is it for PS to come out with mini view?
 

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I dislike the mini-view from UB and prima. I don't care if I can rezise them, I'd rather be able to choose my default table size in the options and have a menu to select between a few sizes on the tables themselves.

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I think UB's mini view is great. Names, numbers and cards, no fluff.

Scotty O

Re: How likely is it for PS to come out with mini view?
 

Ever written an image handler? On window resize you call it and it returns the scaled down size for all static images. It IS easy and fast.

Re: How likely is it for PS to come out with mini view?
 

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Ever written an image handler? On window resize you call it and it returns the scaled down size for all static images. It IS easy and fast.

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Not only does the image need resized, but you have hotspots for the buttons and so forth. Then it needs tested to make sure everything works properly.

Take into account that the drawing code in the Party client is unlikely buffered, but directly blitted to the screen. That means the entire screen drawing code needs reworked. I seriously doubt that would be a simple task.

It would be nice if things were as easy as "all we have to do is shrink the image." Man, I wish all I had to say was "all I have to do is add Pacific and Paradise and whatever support." Unfortunately, there's a lot more work involved.

If you've never worked on an application that has been written by multiple developers over the course of several years, you really don't fully understand how touchy even the smallest changes can be.

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I have a feeling that getting draw software is a pretty big priority, as party doesn't have draw.

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If getting draw is a priority, then they don't know what they are doing. To me this is just another example of Stars spreading themselves too thin.

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I have a feeling that getting draw software is a pretty big priority, as party doesn't have draw.

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If getting draw is a priority, then they don't know what they are doing. To me this is just another example of Stars spreading themselves too thin.

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If getting draw capabilities were a priority, Lee Jones would have known about it before his techies told him.