RC1: Crash in Moderator Mode

[Foocaux]

I just 'noticed' moderator mode last night, and I just found a reliable way of crashing it: go to ship designs, display the available designs list, right click design then 'delete design' from the pop-up menu.

At first I thought of just disabling that menu for moderators/observers, but I did come up with a different - and, for me, more useful - option: what about adding a 'show design' option at the top, equivalent to double clicking - with my steam powered laptop I end up having to double click twice, since FO is invariably busy updating the details window to actually notice the first double click - a minor irritant, but irritant nonetheless.

Moderators would then get 'show design' with a right click, while normal players would get 'show design' & 'delete design' for the predefined ones, and 'show design', 'rename design', 'delete design' for the ones they made themselves.


I'm already mostly done with a patch doing exactly that, but I do need to do some testing before releasing it.

Sounds good?

[Geoff the Medio]

I just 'noticed' moderator mode last night, and I just found a reliable way of crashing it: go to ship designs, display the available designs list, right click design then 'delete design' from the pop-up menu.

At first I thought of just disabling that menu for moderators/observers...

Done in SVN.

what about adding a 'show design' option at the top, equivalent to double clicking

Adding such a feature is a separate issue. You should be able to drag-drop the design onto the main panel to view it, though. It's a bit quirky, though, as you'll probably notice.

[Foocaux]

It's a bit quirky, though, as you'll probably notice.

Yep, I did notice, unfortunately.

Hence my thoughts about adding a feature as part of a bugfix. (/self makes innocent expression, )
But yes, at this stage it does make sense to postpone any new feature, however minimal, to after 0.4.4

[Geoff the Medio]

But yes, at this stage it does make sense to postpone any new feature, however minimal, to after 0.4.4

Not really... the v0.4.4 release branch is independent of the trunk. Only selected changes are ported over. New features won't be.