I started this week by rewriting the function that checks if the media images exist on the server. Instead of having it open a connection to the server every time it needs to see if an image exists, the client now checks the text file stored on the server called media-new, which contains a list of all the images on there. So it was simple enough to have it create an array of the list and check against that array. It's now a lot faster than it was.
After that was done, I worked on reskinning the client based on the layout I had made. There's really not much to say in terms of bugs and whatnot, since the whole process is basically exporting bits and pieces of the layout composition and coding each piece with certain css properties. What consumes the most time is getting those css properties to work the way they're supposed to.
This is what it looks like:
I actually moved the menu and messages dialog to the left, to uniform the whole thing a bit. They're expandable when you click their names, which is a fun effect.
I ended up redoing the css properties for all the windows in the client, such as the info panel and system panel. In fact, I combined the orders panel with the info panel and made it pop up when an icon on the map or system panel is clicked.
While getting the css to conform the way it was supposed was time consuming, the most difficult part was probably implementing a custom scroll bar to the panels, since the regular one looks out of place. However, with the current JQuery lib being used, it turned out a bit difficult to implement a custom one, so I included a plugin scrollbar class to the javascript lib.
It appears that next week I'm supposed to do the rollover object information panel. I'm not sure I want to implement this now that there's the clickable information panel, so we'll see what happens. I have to think about it. I might work on the design window instead.
After that was done, I worked on reskinning the client based on the layout I had made. There's really not much to say in terms of bugs and whatnot, since the whole process is basically exporting bits and pieces of the layout composition and coding each piece with certain css properties. What consumes the most time is getting those css properties to work the way they're supposed to.
This is what it looks like:
I actually moved the menu and messages dialog to the left, to uniform the whole thing a bit. They're expandable when you click their names, which is a fun effect.
I ended up redoing the css properties for all the windows in the client, such as the info panel and system panel. In fact, I combined the orders panel with the info panel and made it pop up when an icon on the map or system panel is clicked.
While getting the css to conform the way it was supposed was time consuming, the most difficult part was probably implementing a custom scroll bar to the panels, since the regular one looks out of place. However, with the current JQuery lib being used, it turned out a bit difficult to implement a custom one, so I included a plugin scrollbar class to the javascript lib.
It appears that next week I'm supposed to do the rollover object information panel. I'm not sure I want to implement this now that there's the clickable information panel, so we'll see what happens. I have to think about it. I might work on the design window instead.
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