Re: Taking some Initiative (Sense 2)

Having the user type in the name to delete or alter is a bit counter-intuitive, try placing the names in a listbox and load on mouse click. IIRC, Initiative is rolled for at every turn, with user have to re-arrange all the names, a way to select the names in the GUI is imperative.

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Re^2: Taking some Initiative (Sense 2) by pobocks (Chaplain) on Apr 03, 2008 at 17:41 UTC
D&D initiative is generally once per combat, but I agree, there needs to be more interaction on the list end of things. My ambitious plan was to have each character equate to a frame with the initiative, the character's name, and three buttons -> One to move the character up, one to move it down, and one to remove it. I rejected it as over-ambitious (for a first draft) and more importantly, baroque and questionably faithful to the initiative's in-game rules. Making the names load into the name-entry on click is pretty simple/elegant, however. Look for this in the FUUUUTURE!!!	[reply]

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Re^2: Taking some Initiative (Sense 2)
by pobocks (Chaplain) on Apr 03, 2008 at 17:41 UTC

D&D initiative is generally once per combat, but I agree, there needs to be more interaction on the list end of things.

My ambitious plan was to have each character equate to a frame with the initiative, the character's name, and three buttons -> One to move the character up, one to move it down, and one to remove it. I rejected it as over-ambitious (for a first draft) and more importantly, baroque and questionably faithful to the initiative's in-game rules.

Making the names load into the name-entry on click is pretty simple/elegant, however. Look for this in the FUUUUTURE!!!

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