Inventory

Introduction

This page is part of the UI_Overhaul project.

Screen Shots for Discussion

Discussion 6/26/2010

Please note these are rough notes taken during a Voice Conference. This is not verbatim.

• [1:54:32 PM] *** Conference call, duration 1:58:52 ***
• [2:10:49 PM] James Dempsey: http://www.pcgen-test.org/cdomui/download.html
• [2:23:58 PM] Andrew Maitland: Typing notes
• [2:24:00 PM] Andrew Maitland: :)
• [2:24:55 PM] Andrew Maitland: John - Inventory Screen.
• [2:25:05 PM] Andrew Maitland: New Version has better Performance
• [2:25:22 PM] Andrew Maitland: Drag and Drop - Be a nice fit/ more organic for people
• [2:25:47 PM] Andrew Maitland: Can use Left/Right Arrow to move items from Pane to Pane. Look to phase out the Buttons...
• [2:26:07 PM] Andrew Maitland: JAMES - Leave Buttons in for people; makes it easier to have more options
• [2:26:22 PM] Andrew Maitland: John - Make buttons smaller and keep
• [2:26:52 PM] Andrew Maitland: John - Ver. 5.16 has four panels - bottom right panel moved to current right panel.
• [2:26:59 PM] Andrew Maitland: See V2 of the Jpg
• [2:27:11 PM] Andrew Maitland: Colorwise will be Gray
• [2:27:38 PM] Andrew Maitland: Drag and dropping left to right to equip; vice versa to unequip; and move items around.
• [2:27:49 PM] Andrew Maitland: Wants arrows to expand/collapse contents of contained
• [2:27:51 PM] Andrew Maitland: container
• [2:28:07 PM] Andrew Maitland: Group Icons for TYPES - Belt; Helm, etc.
• [2:28:19 PM] Andrew Maitland: Group of Weapons - Swords will have Swords
• [2:28:31 PM] Andrew Maitland: Picta-graphic and more imagery is FUN
• [2:28:43 PM] Andrew Maitland: List info instead of A Block
• [2:29:19 PM] Andrew Maitland: Scrolling top / bottom better than left/right
• [2:29:36 PM] Andrew Maitland: One direction scrolling is better
• [2:29:45 PM] Andrew Maitland: Bolding for Information
• [2:30:22 PM] Andrew Maitland: JAMES - Panel layout is fine and unchanged.
• [2:31:08 PM] Andrew Maitland: JAMES - Summary Page - Icon area is it's own area - Build up HTML block based upon data; css support is limited though.
• [2:31:24 PM] Andrew Maitland: JOHN - Html Layout - I can Make things as list
• [2:31:32 PM] Andrew Maitland: Can do CSS and HTML
• [2:31:37 PM] Andrew Maitland: JAMES - CSS is basic
• [2:31:42 PM] Andrew Maitland: support
• [2:31:54 PM] Andrew Maitland: John - All you want is Bold, Type Size and a Graphic
• [2:32:13 PM] Andrew Maitland: JAMES - Sending the base for the html/css now
• [2:32:31 PM] Andrew Maitland: John - Using 5.17.0 install for the UI demo
• [2:33:01 PM] Andrew Maitland: Conor - we can make the instal stuff more artsy if you want
• [2:33:13 PM] Andrew Maitland: John - Books are appearing!
• [2:33:31 PM] Andrew Maitland: Pretty awesome!
• [2:33:34 PM] Andrew Maitland: Really Awesome
• [2:33:45 PM] Andrew Maitland: Orgasmic noises coming from John
• [2:33:50 PM] Andrew Maitland: :P
• [2:34:00 PM] Andrew Maitland: John is clapping
• [2:34:08 PM] Andrew Maitland: Notes no Round Buttons
• [2:34:23 PM] Andrew Maitland: Conor - Needs a new look/feel to support round buttons
• [2:34:32 PM] Andrew Maitland: John - Can make a new base skin
• [2:34:43 PM] Andrew Maitland: More noises of affirmation about the new UI
• [2:35:04 PM] Andrew Maitland: James - We're happy and pleased with the new Design
• [2:35:25 PM] Andrew Maitland: Conor - have new items we can't access yet unfortunately
• [2:35:32 PM] Andrew Maitland: still need to add languages
• [2:35:57 PM] Andrew Maitland: More discussion of how the UI looks
• [2:37:21 PM] Andrew Maitland: Wrapping discussion
• [2:38:51 PM] Andrew Maitland: Button Discussion
• [2:39:01 PM] Andrew Maitland: Left Side
• [2:39:06 PM] Andrew Maitland: List of whatever you bought
• [2:39:15 PM] Andrew Maitland: Sort Equipment can still be done
• [2:39:25 PM] Andrew Maitland: 5.16 has Not Equipped and Equipped
• [2:39:28 PM] Andrew Maitland: with nodes
• [2:39:40 PM] Andrew Maitland: Doesn't believe the Nodes are needed with the Highlighting
• [2:40:08 PM] Andrew Maitland: Design to have the Icons and make it have a Uniform and square to make click drag is better
• [2:40:29 PM] Andrew Maitland: Icon for clicking, but make the entire line click-able
• [2:40:46 PM] Andrew Maitland: two states to light up' type things in it... arrow button; click and drag
• [2:41:04 PM] Andrew Maitland: Conor - Check boxes? instead of highlighting
• [2:41:32 PM] Andrew Maitland: John - I'm happy with either; we can design it to work both ways.
• [2:41:46 PM] Andrew Maitland: Conor- highlighting is better in my mind
• [2:41:57 PM] Andrew Maitland: John - Color blind enhancement
• [2:42:10 PM] Andrew Maitland: JAmes - You need to work with saturation levels
• [2:42:20 PM] Andrew Maitland: John - Light Tone and Dark tone
• [2:43:16 PM] Andrew Maitland: Included a new listing - but may not be possible - Add a location where the items where the items can go
• [2:43:40 PM] Andrew Maitland: Backpack is a container - Body > BACK > ?
• [2:43:47 PM] Andrew Maitland: James - Code can support it
• [2:44:15 PM] Andrew Maitland: John - Basic Groups will support any creature
• [2:44:39 PM] Andrew Maitland: Wants items to go to the correct spot
• [2:45:08 PM] Andrew Maitland: James - Not Carried for other belongings. horses, things left home, etc
• [2:45:16 PM] Andrew Maitland: ADD NOT CARRIED
• [2:45:23 PM] Andrew Maitland: John - Add a Horse Icon
• [2:46:27 PM] Andrew Maitland: :P
• [2:46:34 PM] Andrew Maitland: Loud house :)
• [2:46:58 PM] Andrew Maitland: Move Weight Allowance from bottom to top.
• [2:47:25 PM] Andrew Maitland: Quantities; add or remove - it stays the same; context menu works
• [2:47:39 PM] Andrew Maitland: Adjust bottom button
• [2:47:47 PM] Andrew Maitland: Add wordy
• [2:47:53 PM] Andrew Maitland: Arrow top left pane
• [2:48:02 PM] Andrew Maitland: Going to throw in description
• [2:48:33 PM] Andrew Maitland: Conor suggests different location
• [2:48:50 PM] Andrew Maitland: JOHN - Move the description to the bottom right from bottom Left
• [2:50:20 PM] Andrew Maitland: Discussing the dynamics
• [2:51:41 PM] Andrew Maitland: Dragging right to left counter intuitive
• [2:51:58 PM] Andrew Maitland: INFO Pane top right... but it becomes too wide
• [2:52:39 PM] Andrew Maitland: Equipped set - wide and scrolling
• [2:52:55 PM] Andrew Maitland: info then isn't useful once that happens
• [2:53:18 PM] Andrew Maitland: James suggests Multicolumn
• [2:53:26 PM] Andrew Maitland: 2 Colums
• [2:53:38 PM] Andrew Maitland: John suggests Icon based - sorta
• [2:54:57 PM] Andrew Maitland: *testing*
• [2:55:13 PM] James Dempsey: Saw the test
• [2:55:51 PM] Andrew Maitland: John not sure how to make it work in html
• [2:55:58 PM] Andrew Maitland: technical question
• [2:56:09 PM] Andrew Maitland: html universal or different
• [2:56:17 PM] Andrew Maitland: Conor- uses a template
• [2:56:28 PM] Andrew Maitland: James - builds a html dynamic
• [2:56:47 PM] Andrew Maitland: uses IF-TESTs in there
• [2:57:32 PM] Andrew Maitland: John - might look not as good; but we can try. Designwise not feeling right
• [2:57:42 PM] Andrew Maitland: James - Hesitant about it as well
• [2:57:53 PM] Andrew Maitland: Left Side Inventory is a list
• [2:58:03 PM] Andrew Maitland: Right side is objects and drag/drop
• [2:58:08 PM] Andrew Maitland: JAMES - Likes the balance
• [2:58:18 PM] Andrew Maitland: John - That has priority.
• [2:58:35 PM] Andrew Maitland: ANDREW - AGREES
• [2:59:04 PM] Andrew Maitland: GEAR / EQUIP tabs - any chance we can combine
• [2:59:13 PM] Andrew Maitland: JOHN - Purchase / Own / Money
• [2:59:18 PM] Andrew Maitland: Thinks it's too much
• [2:59:31 PM] Andrew Maitland: Have to another pane and room to have gold
• [2:59:42 PM] Andrew Maitland: All the buy/sell stuff and percentages
• [3:00:04 PM] Andrew Maitland: Majority of ROOM issue
• [3:00:22 PM] Andrew Maitland: Streamline is a good thing... but doesn't think it'll work here
• [3:00:30 PM] Andrew Maitland: James - Make them work better
• [3:00:43 PM] Andrew Maitland: Be more intelligent in the Sell
• [3:00:52 PM] Andrew Maitland: John - Buy and Equip as well
• [3:01:02 PM] Andrew Maitland: Wants it to work both ways
• [3:01:06 PM] Andrew Maitland: Buy and Equipped
• [3:01:23 PM] Andrew Maitland: So much room with the Right/Left
• [3:01:31 PM] Andrew Maitland: Buy and Equipped button to be added
• [3:01:42 PM] Andrew Maitland: not perfect, but good middle step to start with
• [3:01:57 PM] Andrew Maitland: James - For the Gear TAB
• [3:02:24 PM] Andrew Maitland: Right Click in EQUIPPED Tab - UNEQUIP AND SELL
• [3:04:42 PM] Andrew Maitland: Back
• [3:04:49 PM] Andrew Maitland: PUSH vs. PULL
• [3:04:54 PM] Andrew Maitland: much faster :)
• [3:06:24 PM] Andrew Maitland: Detail not Bolded
• [3:06:30 PM] Andrew Maitland: Titles need to be bold
• [3:09:12 PM] Andrew Maitland: John - Asking about the patch
• [3:18:21 PM] Andrew Maitland: Back to business -
• [3:19:29 PM] Andrew Maitland: Conor - brings up JAVA limitation
• [3:19:37 PM] Andrew Maitland: For the inventory alignment and indents
• [3:19:44 PM] Andrew Maitland: Conor mentions TREEs
• [3:20:06 PM] Andrew Maitland: Columns need to be aligned
• [3:20:44 PM] Andrew Maitland: John - even if indents - we need the same number of columns
• [3:21:04 PM] Andrew Maitland: Obvious it's in backpack, but we can add in the column
• [3:21:47 PM] Andrew Maitland: Functions of Filters and Sort Equip will remain functional
• [3:27:38 PM] Andrew Maitland: Toggle buttons should have a check mark graphic
• [3:28:17 PM] Andrew Maitland: John will review panels when a new feature is implemented
• [3:28:35 PM] Andrew Maitland: does the team want List or bites... HIT LIST
• [3:28:47 PM] James Dempsey: http://wiki.pcgen.org/index.php?title=UI_TODO_LIST
• [3:31:36 PM] Andrew Maitland: New Right Click Feature
• [3:31:58 PM] Andrew Maitland: but not intuitive
• [3:32:06 PM] Andrew Maitland: Can you attach Art to Mouse?
• [3:32:08 PM] Andrew Maitland: YES
• [3:32:24 PM] Andrew Maitland: Rollover should have new Art to click on perhaps/maybe?
• [3:32:30 PM] Andrew Maitland: JAMES - That can be done
• [3:33:19 PM] Andrew Maitland: Is that a Look/Feel thing Conor? - Manual Rendering - Wouldn't be too much more work since I'm already tracking the mouse.
• [3:34:13 PM] Andrew Maitland: Inventory buttons moved to top - Removed pane and just merged
• [3:35:55 PM] Andrew Maitland: put the path should be part of export template
• [3:36:53 PM] Andrew Maitland: should change the name 'Export Template' to something a little more intuitive
• [3:37:08 PM] Andrew Maitland: Set Note adds details
• [3:37:35 PM] Andrew Maitland: We should remove "Set Quantity"
• [3:38:04 PM] Andrew Maitland: replace with another Arrow
• [3:38:22 PM] Andrew Maitland: Unequip / Equipped
• [3:38:26 PM] Andrew Maitland: instead of remove
• [3:38:46 PM] Andrew Maitland: Included the weight
• [3:39:14 PM] Andrew Maitland: All the buttons are up there/ Add equipped button
• [3:39:53 PM] Andrew Maitland: Verbs instead of Arrows
• [3:40:28 PM] Andrew Maitland: Items - General Icon, Name of Item, Location, Quatity/Lbs
• [3:41:01 PM] Andrew Maitland: only thing indents is first box
• [3:41:17 PM] Andrew Maitland: Align all the columns
• [3:41:39 PM] Andrew Maitland: Add TOTAL Weight listed at bottom
• [3:42:04 PM] Andrew Maitland: Add 'Not Carried'
• [3:42:08 PM] Andrew Maitland: in the categories
• [3:42:16 PM] Andrew Maitland: Expand and Contract for Containers
• [3:42:19 PM] Andrew Maitland: for tree
• [3:42:34 PM] Andrew Maitland: Arrows in front of Name?
• [3:42:54 PM] Andrew Maitland: push things to the right
• [3:43:07 PM] Andrew Maitland: Little arrow in front on items
• [3:43:37 PM] Andrew Maitland: Qty and lb. - Move quantity and weight up top
• [3:44:08 PM] Andrew Maitland: TYPE / LOCATION / QUANTITY / WT
• [3:44:14 PM] Andrew Maitland: Name gets truncated
• [3:44:22 PM] Andrew Maitland: for items in Container
• [3:44:33 PM] Andrew Maitland: Remove SET QUANTITY button
• [3:44:48 PM] Andrew Maitland: Editable Equipset Box
• [3:45:01 PM] Andrew Maitland: Field underneath changes based upon set selected
• [3:45:31 PM] Andrew Maitland: Conor- Case of Drag and Dropping / to Arms / Pop up for Prime / Off-Hand
• [3:45:44 PM] Andrew Maitland: Set a Default ?
• [3:45:55 PM] Andrew Maitland: Box appears?
• [3:46:57 PM] Andrew Maitland: Defaults for Onehanded
• [3:47:42 PM] Andrew Maitland: Collapsible Categories . Arrows Up/Down to open entire section
• [3:48:07 PM] Andrew Maitland: Java TREE
• [3:48:37 PM] Andrew Maitland: Titles remain nice and big and Bold
• [3:49:35 PM] Andrew Maitland: post items on the wiki
• [3:53:00 PM] Andrew Maitland: Icon rework