ksirk modifications

[Glenn Pavlovic]

I have KDE4 so I don't think I can build  the current version.

1. I didn't know the END key would do that. Though it is a bit awkward
switching mouse<->keyboard. Seems to me a button is more intuitive. I
wouldn't set the slider to max by default as there are times (usually
early in the game) when you want to do just a few at a time.

2. Suppose you are mid game and get ~20 armies at a time. If you want to
reinforce various points of your lines with say 5 armies each you would
set the slider to 5 and then click on each country thereby adding 5
armies to each one. Or say you want to put them all in one place, you
would put the slider all the way over and then a single click puts them
all in.

3. One of the strategies I use later in the game when I am getting more
armies than I need for defense is to stockpile armies behind the lines.
When I have a sufficient number I pull them all out at once (say
100-200) place them and then blitz the board. This dialog lets me
extract them with 3 clicks instead of 100+ right clicks.

While I can't build it I will try to put together patches on the current
release so you can try them out.

Nemanja Hiršl wrote:
> +kde-games-devel
>
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 12:32 AM Glenn Pavlovic <gpavman at hughes.net
> <mailto:gpavman at hughes.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>     I made some (what I consider to be improvements) changes to ksirk
>     4.14.3. Patch file attached (generated with LC_ALL=C TZ=UTC0 diff
>     -Naur
>     ksirk-4.14.3 ksirk-4.14.3.revised > ksirk-4.14.3.patch)
>
>
> Hi Glenn,
>
> Thank you for your interest and contribution to ksirk.
> Unfortunately, I couldn't try your patch due to various reasons and
> troubles in compiling locally 4.14 branch. Master and recent branches
> are all based on KF5 and Qt5 for some time now.
>
> As you noticed, some improvements can be made to get UI out of the way
> for some game plays.
>
>  
>
>     1. Added a button to the invaisonSlider dialog to set the slider
>     to the
>     maximum.
>
> Is it possible to modify slider to match your needs instead of adding
> new button. QSlider is used here and current default page step is 10.
> You can move pages by leftclicking on slider or with PageUp/Down. End
> key will set the slider to the maximum, while Home would set it to the
> minimum.
> If all of these is not enough, or can't be used to satisfy what you
> are trying to accomplish, maybe an option could be added to always set
> maximum value for invasion slider instead of minimum?
>  
>
>     2. Added a slider to the right dialog to allow multiple armies to be
>     added toi a country at once.
>
> If I understand correctly, once the country has been selected, the
> slider would determine how many armies would be placed, instead of
> single click - one army?
> I agree this might be useful especially later in the game with large
> number of armies.
>  
>
>     3. Added a dialog (accesed via CTRL/SHIFT/META+right click) to allow
>     multiple armies to be extracted from a country at once, if there are 5
>     or more available to be extracted.
>
> Not sure I understand where and how this new dialog is used.
>
>
> If it is possible, please try to build latest code (master) and send
> patches via phabricator. That and keeping kde-games-devel in the loop
> might get you faster responses.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Nemanja
>