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Sick of acccidentally scrapping things in CA?
Posted: 07 Oct 2008, 21:27
by Jack
This is a Scrap warning widget. It tells you if any scrap operations are in progress (with a big message in the centre of the screen) and gives you an opportunity to cancel them instantly. This makes it very hard to accidentally scrap anything, such as your commander, your factory, or all of your units. The widget does not stop you scrapping things deliberately.
Download -
http://www.jwhitham.org.uk/ri/gui_scrap_warning.lua
Re: Sick of acccidentally scrapping things in CA?
Posted: 07 Oct 2008, 21:47
by Acidd_UK
Re: Sick of acccidentally scrapping things in CA?
Posted: 07 Oct 2008, 23:30
by Tobi
Lol is it such a bit problem, people accidentally turning entire armies into scrap?
Re: Sick of acccidentally scrapping things in CA?
Posted: 07 Oct 2008, 23:36
by jK
nah just the comm
Re: Sick of acccidentally scrapping things in CA?
Posted: 08 Oct 2008, 02:16
by Acidd_UK
Not just the com, pretty much any constructor.... Whoever thought putting scrap right next to (hold fire, hold pos, move, etc, etc) was a good idea ....
Re: Sick of acccidentally scrapping things in CA?
Posted: 08 Oct 2008, 11:41
by El Capitano
Not to mention that it's directly above the solar generator icon when the comm is selected on the default UI, and guess what one of the first things people build is...
Re: Sick of acccidentally scrapping things in CA?
Posted: 08 Oct 2008, 20:25
by Hoi
El Capitano wrote:Not to mention that it's directly above the solar generator icon when the comm is selected on the default UI, and guess what one of the first things people build is...
A windgen
Re: Sick of acccidentally scrapping things in CA?
Posted: 09 Oct 2008, 23:37
by Jack
The widget is now updated for 0.77b2.
Re: Sick of acccidentally scrapping things in CA?
Posted: 10 Oct 2008, 12:01
by Gota
Heh i rememeber commenting about this to the CA team a while back...I was told i was an idiot cause i couldnt pay enough attention and scrapped my comander....good to see somehting is done to at least semi fix this problem.
Re: Sick of acccidentally scrapping things in CA?
Posted: 10 Oct 2008, 12:12
by Otherside
never happened to me.... guess i look at what im doing :p
Re: Sick of acccidentally scrapping things in CA?
Posted: 10 Oct 2008, 12:26
by Licho
Jack, good work..
CA is fully open project, you can modify CA scrapping directly and then post a ticket with patch or just contact any dev for commit rights!
Re: Sick of acccidentally scrapping things in CA?
Posted: 10 Oct 2008, 12:31
by overkill
This was a pretty large problem, for me it was next to the mex, and if the game started to lag any amount, sometimes i would hit scrap instead.
Re: Sick of acccidentally scrapping things in CA?
Posted: 11 Oct 2008, 15:48
by Tribulexrenamed
Same here as overkill. Luckily i have yet to scrap my com, but i have been awefully close.
Re: Sick of acccidentally scrapping things in CA?
Posted: 14 Oct 2008, 22:17
by Jack
Licho wrote:Jack, good work..
CA is fully open project, you can modify CA scrapping directly and then post a ticket with patch or just contact any dev for commit rights!
Thanks Licho. I would do this, but I'm unsure whether the widget "fits" CA nicely. It works for me, but it's not pretty.
Re: Sick of acccidentally scrapping things in CA?
Posted: 14 Oct 2008, 22:43
by det
You don't need to make it a widget at all. You can directly modify the CA scrap interface directly, if it is an improvement, and it will benefit all players without an extra download
