[Kde-games-devel] Icon for "show possible moves"

[Inge Wallin]

On Sunday 17 October 2004 20.51, Rob Kaper wrote:
> On Sunday 17 October 2004 12:34pm, Inge Wallin wrote:
> > On Saturday 16 October 2004 11.54, Rob Kaper wrote:
> > > On Saturday 16 October 2004 12:05am, Inge Wallin wrote:
> > > > This will be a KAction with an icon in the toolbar and an entry in
> > > > the View(?) menu.  I haven't decided yet if it will be a toggled
> > > > option or a one-shot thing, but that is not the problem.
> > >
> > > Make it a toggle action, please. Otherwise game logic will have to
> > > control the view property..
> >
> > I didn't quite understand that.  Could you elaborate?
>
> If it is singleshot, games will have to reset the "show possible moves"
> again after a turn, or token movement/placement, right? With a toggle
> option, such logic won't be necessary because it's the user who decides
> when to stop showing the possible moves.

Right.  I agree with you that a toggle action is best.

> Right, I was aiming at a generic icon that could be attached to a
> KStdGame(Toggle)Action, not something for a single game.

Good.  And while you're at it, are there any other new standard actions that 
should be created?

I can only think of a few:
 - Stop the clock (for later when I implement a chess clock)
 - Restart the clock

	-Inge

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