Saarus, I really appreciate your constructive post.
- If there is any way you can make it easier to tell what the meanings of the colors are in the event list, that would be awesome. If I’m interpreting the source correctly, black is active and white is inactive. IMHO it would be better to have active as some shade of green rather than black, mainly because green very often means ‘go’. But, perhaps the OS selected text color or highlighted text color from the Developer palette would suffice?
You are interpreting it correctly. And I fully agree with you that black is confusing.
- As an alternative, instead of just two colors, would it be possible to have the event names colored in a manner similar to the below? I know this will be the more complex solution, but it would be awesome.
– black: inactive
– cyan: event up in next 15 minutes
– yellow: event up in next 2 minutes
– green: event currently active
Any timers mean some server side action to monitor the API 24/7. This is not my intention to do so. The app only displays the API.
- Following the above, if the active event is always on top that would be ideal. I have not confirmed for myself whether your app already does this, so my apologies if that is the case.
Active events are already on top
- Adding a column to the list to show the time remaining until the event’s next occurrence would be great (inactive only).
Again, it is not my intention to add timers.
- Being able to pin a favorite event or set of events to the top of the list would be a great feature.
- Having the ability to play a notification sound or something when an event starts, or is about to start (or both!) would be so useful I can’t express it.
Those two are definitely interesting and will be developped in a near future
- As another poster mentioned, the ability to copy the WP nearest the event to the clipboard would be awesome, however I’m not sure what the API gives you in terms of information so this could be a lot harder than it sounds.
The app already print the closest waypoint on /s or /g if needed. I could add a copy of the WP to the clipboard. (the API doesn’t provide this kind of information, this is hardcoded in my app.)
Window, Borders, and Menus
- I wish the height and width of the event list changed with the window size.
They do, but only if you change server.. I guess I am missing a constraint somewhere.. Need further investigation.
- IMO the window ‘+’ (zoom/maximize0 button is not needed and should be disabled.
Correct me if I am wrong but I think you can’t resize if “+” is disabled.
- When I click the Events menu and then click ‘NA Worlds’, the application does not remember which one I selected between launches.
Will be corrected in the near future.
- I don’t really understand the Events menu. I mean I sort of get it – it seems that you’ve pulled different families of events (I guess these are meta events). I think it would be great if this could be broken out into two different sub-menu items. One would be for metas like you’ve got already, and the other would be for events by zone, e.g., Gendarran Fields, Kessex, etc.
I am not sure what is your idea here. The Events menu displays events by worlds. Let’s say you have 10 minutes of play and absolutely want to do Jormag. In two clicks, you can see on which worlds Jormag is active and you can guest to this world.
- Another idea here is to build the event list but have it show the major map area, say in a tooltip or another column.
Why not in a tooltip. But definitely not in another column. I want to keep the UI as clear and small as possible.
I guess I have some work to do ^^
