Questions That Don't Need Their Own Thread

[ekolis]

No, it's not an acronym... it's more like the head of a tadpole, or the heading of a fleet... just indicates the very tip of development progress, or the direction in which development is going!

[Atarlost]

IIRC it's linked list terminology. I think the end of a single linked list you keep a pointer to is called the head. That may be in turn from something like snake handling.

[Marble Dice]

Regarding the item lists being right-aligned, I think this was an unintended side effect of when I re-wrote the item list code to support item value and fail rate. How did it work previously? Right-aligned to no more than column 78? I must have misinterpreted the code.

In any case, we can:
1) Leave the current behavior (right aligned to the edge of the main term window)
2) Change it back to the previous behavior (right-aligned to column 78 or less if necessary)
3) Change it to left-aligned at column 13 (or whatever), similar to the monster list.

My preference would be 2 or 3, I think the lists should remain near the visual location of all the other information.

[Zababa]

Regarding the item lists ...

My preference would be 2 or 3, I think the lists should remain near the visual location of all the other information.

My preference would be 2, or at least 3 if you really don't want them so far to the left. Why have different lists to be on different places? Until now I thought Angband code has a kind of list class or whatever and that any list shares some thoughtfully determined coordinates where it gets displayed. It think it is not good code if each list has some hard coded coordinates for displaying itself.

You programmers out there, please take no offense, I know that this layout features are very near to the bottom in the bottom of the priority list of what should be programmed next.

I am perfectly fine with any coding solution as long as the item/equip list does not get displayed futher than 30° away from the usual field of focus on a big widescreen monitor.

[Nick]

2) Change it back to the previous behavior (right-aligned to column 78 or less if necessary)
3) Change it to left-aligned at column 13 (or whatever), similar to the monster list.

If there are plans to have Angband playable on smaller screens, this sort of design needs to be done with that in mind.

[Marble Dice]

If there are plans to have Angband playable on smaller screens, this sort of design needs to be done with that in mind.

I am assuming under any option that insufficient screen width will push the list further and further to the left, until the first column is reached, at which point the lines will be truncated on the right edge when necessary. That is how the item lists already work, and I'm only talking about fixing the right-alignment that was unintentionally introduced.

If someone wants to put some thought into brief item descriptions and narrow list formats for small screens, that would be great, but that's a separate issue in my mind.

[Nick]

I am assuming under any option that insufficient screen width will push the list further and further to the left, until the first column is reached, at which point the lines will be truncated on the right edge when necessary. That is how the item lists already work, and I'm only talking about fixing the right-alignment that was unintentionally introduced.

Cool, that's exactly the sort of thing I meant.