User:Alink

I'm just starting this page, so for the moment, there is only the essential current things

Current projects

Icons in the status bar

• Modify themes to add space for the new flag icon (from 16 pixels to 24). For better visibility of the playing side, because a rectangle is better for a flag and the images ave already this size (so they are shrinked). Done for the default theme.
• Use standard size (16x16, 24x16) for the icons instead of 15x15. Done, except for the flag-icons.
• Remove a "feature" of the theme engine which delete transparent part of icons and strech them regardless of their proportions.
• Add support and nice icons for other resolutions (tiny-gui). Need to do previous point before and take care of the automatic resizing during the tiny-gui install
• Try to graying icons during opponent's turn. https://gna.org/bugs/?9058

Text rendering

• Fix the imprecise wrapping when using special format characters and don't even watch size variation.
• Do something about wrapping of language not using spaces (add a new wrap parameter for language: CJK or wrap-letter): http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=228337#228337

hp/xp bars

Replace this old, complex, buggy(zoom), hard-coded code of bars ( https://gna.org/bugs/?4931 ). I plan to use an all images-based system for easy configuration and customization. Current prototype works fine except and seems powerfull. Except this stupid alpha variation of the filled part of the bar. So on standby, 3 currents options:

• Drop the alpha variation.
• Use a little expensive adjust_alpha for the special cases.
• Use new bars (and so a different set of images) when highlighting an unit. This will also allow some fancy things like bigger bars etc... but need more memory (a dozen of images)

Future projects

• Do some tweaking about the mousewheel scrolling
• Polish the drag&drop
• Try again the grab-map feature for scrolling
• Starting to replace coloUr by color in the code
• Continue to improve zoom
• Optimize the image cache system
• Optimize some sdl_utils functions
• Desynchronize flags of villages
• Change this bad system of special characters to a tag system. Or at least, use a better characters choice (using "{" for normal text is really a bad idea for macros)