PC PIC-Guam Status 7/5/09

I've written the high level design for over 80 percent of the decisions to be made by the AI, so I've switched over to working on the UI prototype for a while.

Today I got the code working for the cursor position on the map, and I adapted the PC Eylau code for mapping the cursor position to the map hex. I also figured out how to fix some problems I'd had with that code in PC Eylau.

Other UI techniques I will prototype include

• use PIC-Guam map on screen
• show a unit graphic on a hex
• show a stack graphic on a hex
• click through a stack
• click to select a hex
• apply overlays to a hex: current hex highlight and colored overlay
• shade a hex
• make a hex transparent; restore the normal appearance of a hex
• context menu
• menu
• docking toolbars
• docking windows
• splash screen;video clips
• help | about dialog
• scrolling credits
• play a music file
• store all graphics in a separate resource assembly (not sure of term)
• MVVM
• stack view; allows cycling through units easily
• drag and drop
• display part of the map (a megahex) in another view
• display part of the map (a megahex) in a dialog
• animated buttons
• progress indicator
• animated/smooth movement of hexes from hex to hex during movement
• playback of movement (replay)