[interface] Recruit via doubleclick

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Lorbi
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[interface] Recruit via doubleclick

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The idea is very simple: Doubleclick on a castle square opens the recruit menu. (if you can recruit)
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Re: [interface] Recruit via doubleclick

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Sounds good to me. Can anybody see Problems by this special "Mouse-Syntax"? (covering other Actions)
"Sir! We are surrounded by our enemies!" - "Excellent ! We can attack in every direction!"
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Re: [interface] Recruit via doubleclick

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I can't think of any.
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Re: [interface] Recruit via doubleclick

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It seems like it would potentially conflict with nearly everything else (eg "move unit here"), since it's probably not trivial to distinguish double-click from single-click.
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Re: [interface] Recruit via doubleclick

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Celtic_Minstrel wrote:It seems like it would potentially conflict with nearly everything else (eg "move unit here"), since it's probably not trivial to distinguish double-click from single-click.
It isn't. Fortunately, OSes make a habit of doing this for you (or at least providing the ability to distinguish them fairly easily).
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tuggyne wrote:
Celtic_Minstrel wrote:It seems like it would potentially conflict with nearly everything else (eg "move unit here"), since it's probably not trivial to distinguish double-click from single-click.
It isn't. Fortunately, OSes make a habit of doing this for you (or at least providing the ability to distinguish them fairly easily).
No.
The OS doesn't help there.
It's a matter of libSDL coding in our case.
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tuggyne wrote:It isn't. Fortunately, OSes make a habit of doing this for you (or at least providing the ability to distinguish them fairly easily).
Which doesn't help much, since as a portable program Wesnoth can't really rely on OS-specific services. And, having used SDL myself, I happen to know that it has no double-click event.
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Re: [interface] Recruit via doubleclick

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Celtic_Minstrel wrote:
tuggyne wrote:It isn't. Fortunately, OSes make a habit of doing this for you (or at least providing the ability to distinguish them fairly easily).
Which doesn't help much, since as a portable program Wesnoth can't really rely on OS-specific services. And, having used SDL myself, I happen to know that it has no double-click event.
Hmm, my mistake. :augh:
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Re: [interface] Recruit via doubleclick

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double-click-event should be possible to implement..
"Sir! We are surrounded by our enemies!" - "Excellent ! We can attack in every direction!"
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Re: [interface] Recruit via doubleclick

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MetalKing wrote:double-click-event should be possible to implement..
Yes, sure.
Patches are welcome.
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