PROFESSIONAL MANAGER!

[m&m]

I've got an idea that in RND could be professional manager itn the editor (look on the screenshots):

1. Levels



1st row: move up, move down
2nd row: edit level properties, delete level

2. Elements



Group: here select elements category.
1: move Selected Element up, move SE left, move SE down, move SE right
2: create element (in selected group!), edit SE (even those existing e.g. spaceship, yam yam, steel!), delete SE (even those existing!)
3: edit SE options configuration in a level, copy SE to..., move SE to...

3. Group elements



1: move Selected Elements Category up, move SEC down
2: Create Elements Category (look on the screenshot):



Next: Edit SEC Info (even those existing!), Delete SEC (even those existing!)

I hope this manager will be released before RND v.4.0.0

[Zomis]

>I've got an idea that in RND could be professional manager itn the editor
> (look on the screenshots):

An idea that you yourself will implement, an idea that you want someone else to implement as a third party util, or an idea that you want to be integrated in RnD?

>1. Levels
>1st row: move up, move down
>2nd row: edit level properties, delete level

This is something I've planned for a long time, and I still plan on developing such a utility.

>2. Elements
>Group: here select elements category.
>1: move Selected Element up, move SE left, move SE down, move SE
>right
>2: create element (in selected group!), edit SE (even those existing e.g.
>spaceship, yam yam, steel!), delete SE (even those existing!)
>3: edit SE options configuration in a level, copy SE to..., move SE to...

Do you want to edit the elements themselves, like making a spaceship behave like a spaceship which will explode after 3 seconds? That's not possible unfortunately, the only way to do such things is by using Custom Elements.
Or do you just want to edit the graphics and sounds etc of the elements? In that case, you can use Alan's CE-dit for that.

>3. Group elements
>1: move Selected Elements Category up, move SEC down
>2: Create Elements Category (look on the screenshot):
>Next: Edit SEC Info (even those existing!), Delete SEC (even those
>existing!)

This is also something which can't be done, unfortunately.

[Tomi]

Keep in mind that RnD is designed to be multiplatform, and although there are some really good multiplatform widget toolkits (like Qt - but it uses C++), Win API or something like that is probably out of question, so if this will get implemented, it will use native RnD widgets (like these already seen in the editor).
That said, I also understand that the screenshots were made to only demonstrate the concept of the idea, and not it final look, and to make good GUI proposals a GUI designer is the best tool.

Btw, I'm currently learning Ruby and Qt (and Korundum*) so maybe I'll (once) make such utility too.

* - Korundum is a Ruby/Qt+KDE language binding.

[Holger]

> Keep in mind that RnD is designed to be multiplatform, and although
> there are some really good multiplatform widget toolkits (like Qt - but it
> uses C++), Win API or something like that is probably out of question, so
> if this will get implemented, it will use native RnD widgets (like these
> already seen in the editor).

Yep, absolutely right!

> Btw, I'm currently learning Ruby and Qt (and Korundum*) so maybe I'll
> (once) make such utility too.

Yeah, toolkits/languages like those you mentioned are probably well suited for such (then external) tools -- Alan wrote his ConfEdit in VisualBasic, for example, which apparently gave very quick results (although not being platform independent, though).

As Zomis already suggested, some of these ideas can perfectly be implemented by external tools, and if they are useful, it shouldn't be too big of a problem if they only run under Windows (which most people seem to use), although it would of course be great if they would be platform independent.