OW Editor Splash + Other stuff

[stucuk]

Thoughts?

Current Sample:


New Sample:

[Serpent]

Lol. You don't have better things to do?

[stucuk]

Lol. You don't have better things to do?

It didn't take long to do and it seems fitting to make the editor look a bit more profesional given what will be coming.

[stucuk]

To save making a new thread i will put these here. I have since my last post in this thread played with the main layout of the editor. As a result you get a bit more height in the main view bit (May lose a slight bit of width).

Thoughts?

Current:


New:



(Note: You can resize the right area so that you can see the areas/units list bits better)

[Creative]

Nice new editor

[Antitheus]

Well done. It will be useful and save hours of work for some people. Also, a great idea and graphical work. Looks stunning.

[Gravitr]

For me the editor's layout is the best as it is now (maybe because of my habit), but resizing layouts could be quite usefull.

[stucuk]

For me the editor's layout is the best as it is now (maybe because of my habit), but resizing layouts could be quite usefull.

At first people will get disorientated because everything has changed position. But it is the most efficient use of the space.

One of the benefits of this new design is you can hide the bottom and right panels (View->Visible Panels-><Right/Bottom>) but still have access to the tools (You have been able to hide the panels for a while but with this layout you get even more room).





Updated Sail Editor:


The SAIL Syntax now uses Bold for Reserved Words and Italic for comments. The Syntax Colours bit now has a "Load" and "Save As" buttons allowing you to save the Syntax Colour Scheme to a file and load one from a file.

I Also plan on making the Syntax Colour Scheme you see in that image the default Syntax Colours (Note that due to how the system works if HEditor.ini exists then the editor will use the colours in that).

Oh and most importantly i fixed the shortcut bugs. Since the beginning of time when you have used a shortcut in the SAIL Editor which is also used in the Main Form of the editor the Main Form always got priority. So if you did SHIFT+END while in the SAIL Editor it would add the selected hex's to the currently selected area instead of highlighting text in the SAIL Editor. Now it works right, when the SAIL Editor is active the Main Form takes a back seat.

The SAIL Editor will come with a few Pre-Made Syntax Colour Scheme files like the Black Lime one below:


P.S The original Syntax Colour Scheme will exist as a Scheme file that can be loaded.

[Szymiew]

Great work! New editor layout is disorienting at first, but I agree that it might be more functional.

Would there be an easy way to make your own Syntax Color Scheme?

[Xander]

Great work! New editor layout is disorienting at first, but I agree that it might be more functional.

+1 good job.

[stucuk]

Would there be an easy way to make your own Syntax Color Scheme?

Its already been there for a while in the WIP builds. Though i am not sure which WIP Builds distribute the editors and which ones only distributed the actual game.

Image from 2.0.2.23 thread (17th May 2015):


The difference is that there is now a "Load" and "Save As" button beside the "Default" one.

[stucuk]

Bottom right area of this image is important (You may need to click to enlarge):




Note: Will still cause an Assert in Multiplayer due to how it works.

[Enguzrad]

I must say that I really like these changes.
The small height of main view always bothered me a bit, switching right panel with the bottom one will help significantly.

I don't have any idea for editor splash, but if I had to choose from those two, I would pick the new sample.

Good work.

[Creative]

Nice changes. Good work.

[Gravitr]

Note: Will still cause an Assert in Multiplayer due to how it works.

At least singleplayer will work (in the end there's limit reached much faster), so it could help very much fx. in some special map modes. For multiplayer it's less necessary at the moment, as it's hard to reach 2k in classic games.

Good job.