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Changes you would like to see
01-12-2010, 02:15 PM,
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RE: Changes you would like to see
On the subject of dialog boxes....

If making dialog boxes malleable to re-size is not in the cards, could a few of the dialogs be made bigger, though still static?

Examples:
Air Mission Dialog
[Image: AirMission.jpg]
When playing the Russians in many of the East Front games, the air forces involved are tied to certain army or front commands. They are not available for all ground units to call on, only the ground units tied to the same organization. (Note the highlighted and grayed out air units in the example above.) This is not a problem to have the air units tied to a subset of the entire ground forces. It is confusing, and quite time consuming to map these relationships out of game. The dialog box is too small to show the full information. One can see there is additional information, but no horizontal scroll bar or a large enough dialog box to see the information.
Kind of defeats the purpose of having the additional detail in the game.

Deception Unit Dialog
[Image: DeceptionUnit.jpg]
This is the only dialog box in the game IIRC, to include hex coordinates without the click and go feature. To elaborate, all other dialog boxes contain coordinates allowing the player to click on a line item and have the focus set on the hex in the map where the unit is, or will arrive.
This one does not. It is cumbersome to note the location of the units, then exit the dialog box to locate them, decide if you want them changed to deception status at this time based on your "on map" observation, then return to the dialog box to execute your decision.
Much easier if you could click on the unit line in the dialog box and jump to its location on the map.

Release Dialog
[Image: Release.jpg]
The dialog for releasing fixed units is too small... period. (Note the size of the elevator in the example above. Large numbers of lines in this dialog are very common. The increased use of the method placing reinforcement units on map in FIXED status instead of coming from off board using the Scheduled dialog causes this dialog box to be of greater importance than in the early titles. The increase in information makes this dialog much harder to read.

The Scheduled dialog...
[Image: Scheduled.jpg]
...is twice as big as the Release dialog. Could the release dialog be made at least as big as the Scheduled dialog to reduce the amount of scrolling? Maybe even just copy the format of the Scheduled dialog over to replace the format in the Release dialog thus adding the Current Date and Time information box to the release dialog. Would this be as easy as it sounds? A big gain for little relative effort?

Those are the dialogs with the largest impact on user satisfaction IMHO. These are the ones most used in my experiences and discussions with players.

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Changes you would like to see - by bwv - 01-09-2010, 01:38 AM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Ricky B - 01-09-2010, 02:20 AM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by James Ward - 01-09-2010, 02:38 AM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by James Ward - 01-11-2010, 01:54 PM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Liebchen - 01-11-2010, 02:15 PM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by James Ward - 01-11-2010, 11:51 PM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by P.Ako - 01-09-2010, 03:12 AM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Hank - 01-09-2010, 04:18 AM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Aaron - 01-09-2010, 07:07 AM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by P.Ako - 01-09-2010, 06:48 PM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Aaron - 01-10-2010, 07:37 AM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Rev Rico - 01-10-2010, 07:56 AM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Marquo - 01-09-2010, 08:49 AM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Mr Grumpy - 01-09-2010, 10:01 AM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by SnowBlue - 01-09-2010, 01:56 PM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Strela - 01-09-2010, 09:04 PM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by jmlima - 01-09-2010, 09:10 PM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Xaver - 01-09-2010, 09:24 PM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Ricky B - 01-09-2010, 10:40 PM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Marquo - 01-10-2010, 12:12 AM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Mike Bowen - 01-10-2010, 12:58 AM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by SuperIke - 01-10-2010, 01:44 AM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by SuperIke - 01-11-2010, 01:48 AM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by karza - 01-10-2010, 01:54 AM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Liebchen - 01-10-2010, 04:05 PM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Al - 01-10-2010, 03:34 AM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Gordons HQ - 01-10-2010, 09:34 AM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Mr Grumpy - 01-10-2010, 09:46 AM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Vaevictis - 01-10-2010, 10:01 AM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Strela - 01-10-2010, 10:25 AM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Elxaime - 01-10-2010, 03:29 PM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by P.Ako - 01-10-2010, 07:37 PM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Strela - 01-10-2010, 08:12 PM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by FLG - 01-10-2010, 08:15 PM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Xaver - 01-10-2010, 08:43 PM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Mike Bowen - 01-10-2010, 09:57 PM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Gordons HQ - 01-10-2010, 11:58 PM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by SnowBlue - 01-11-2010, 05:56 AM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Aaron - 01-11-2010, 03:21 PM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by P.Ako - 01-11-2010, 06:26 PM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Xaver - 01-11-2010, 08:07 PM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by vionville - 01-11-2010, 10:36 PM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Hank - 01-12-2010, 04:41 AM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by James Ward - 01-12-2010, 05:01 AM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Mr Grumpy - 01-12-2010, 05:46 AM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by alaric99x - 01-12-2010, 06:25 AM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by bwv - 01-12-2010, 08:02 AM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by bwv - 01-12-2010, 11:43 AM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Dog Soldier - 01-12-2010, 02:15 PM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Aaron - 01-12-2010, 06:40 PM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by alaric99x - 01-13-2010, 12:29 AM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by James Ward - 01-12-2010, 11:56 PM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Jison - 01-29-2010, 06:09 AM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Hank - 01-13-2010, 03:47 AM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by P.Ako - 01-13-2010, 07:49 AM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Aaron - 01-29-2010, 05:24 AM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Ricky B - 01-29-2010, 06:26 AM
RE: Changes you would like to see - by Midge - 01-29-2010, 07:10 AM

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