[Kde-games-devel] Review Request: kmahjongg: select the wrong Stone if i click on the shadow of another stone

[Christian Krippendorf]

> On Dec. 4, 2011, 3:28 a.m., Ian Wadham wrote:
> > The code looks good to me, but I have not tested it yet.
> > 
> > One picky little thing occurs to me.  Do the visible vertical faces of tiles count as "shadow" or "tile"?  Ideally they should count as "shadow" (i.e. you should select the *top* face of a tile).  But then what should happen if there is a tile underneath and partly in shadow?  Does clicking the vertical face select the lower tile (WRONG)?  Does clicking the vertical face select nothing at all (irritating)?  On balance and in the interests of practicality, I think clicking a vertical face should select the tile it is a part of.
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> Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote:
>     I agree with Ian but with two exceptions:
>     - If there is no other tile below the shadow it might be nice if clicking on the shadow also selects the tile
>     - if a tile fully covers a lower tile and the click would select the lower tile (on its vertical face or on its shadow), it should automatically select the upper tile
>     
>     that would reduce the change in behaviour to the really faulty situations
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> Christian Krippendorf wrote:
>     Sorry, but i don't know what u mean with "vertical faces". The side of the stone in 3D reflection? As this is part of the tile and not the shadow. If u click on such a side, that is not overlaid by another tile. The tile will get selected the side is related to. So it is like u said in the last sentence. (on my tests with the code here. :) )
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>     @Wolfgang
>     
>     Please NO!!!! A shadow is a shadow, that's all. Shadow should be like there is nothing. If clicking on a shadow selects the tile below (if there is one) and on the other side select the tile the shadow it is related to (if there is no tile below), people out there will think this could be a bug. The selection should work consistent, please.
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>     @All
>     
>     Feel free to test the code :)
>
> 
> Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote:
>     imagine a stack of 3 stone directly over each other. By your logic, clicking on the vertical face (yes, the side of the stone in 3D) of the middle stone would select the lowest stone because the click is actually within the face of the lowest stone and not within the face of any other stone. But selecting a lower stone is never possible so in this case no stone would be selected at all. I do not think it would be confusing to select the upper stone in this special case. Ians logic would try to select the middle stone which again is not possible.
>     
>     shadows: I accept your argument, fine with me. OTOH I would not think of this as a bug but a friendly help by the computer (you clicked on nothing - but wait - your click covers a shadow, so you probably meant that one)
>

I still don't like the idea. Selecting a stone that has a stone on the right and left wont select any stone. Even if the user just want to select the right stone of the three. Also a stone that is under another stone is not selectable and that's it. We can try to get what the user wants to do, but we don't know.

Although i really really don't like the idea, i will implement it, if the most of kdegames would like to see the feature. 

What about an option called "Selection Assistance" (or anything like this) where u can activate or deactivate this one? (if most of kdegames really want the feature..) :)


- Christian


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On Dec. 3, 2011, 1:34 p.m., Christian Krippendorf wrote:
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> (Updated Dec. 3, 2011, 1:34 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Games.
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> Description
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> Bug List Link: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286927
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> Diffs
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>   trunk/KDE/kdegames/kmahjongg/boardwidget.h 1267104 
>   trunk/KDE/kdegames/kmahjongg/boardwidget.cpp 1267104 
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> Diff: http://svn.reviewboard.kde.org/r/6839/diff/diff
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Christian Krippendorf
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