Hi, just been playing around with your app, and firstly, I have to say great work, really like the "flow" of how armies are put together with the expanding checkboxes.

One issue I ran into is that the interface simply isn't tall enough vertically to encompass long lists of units or multiple expanded checkboxes (e.g. fantasy magic items).

I realise the current size is probably designed so that it fits on small laptop screens etc, but it feels like a hindrance on larger desktop screens.

A simple button to double/halve the size of the editing area would be great, and cater for both types of user.

Also, I'm not sure if it's a result of how the list was made, but incorporating lords/ heroes/ special/ rare as visible statistics in the option panel isn't great.. leads to horizontal scrollbars, some sort of way to keep them in the code but not display them on the screen would be good.

One final thing, which again, might be an issue with the list itself is checking for multiples of the same magic item throughout the list.. this would need some very optimized code to only fire when necessary since checking each one on every refresh might take a while.

Anyway, good luck and I'll be linking to this site as much as I can.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/25/2010 05:29PM by scarletsquig.

Thanks for all your comments.

Fields can be hidden so hero/core/rare visible was a bug in vampires ruleset.
I just hidden it and horizontal scroll bar should be no more.

Validation, for example checking for multiples of the same magic item, has 10 seconds delay and it runs parallel on server side so it does not slow down the editor.
However I have some ideas about fastening the editor, especially its initialization, because it starts terribly slow for large rulesets.

Finally, your resizing suggestions made me think a while about it and I think I have
a good solution to this problem - a 'full-screen button'.
It will make the editor (only this black and white box) cover whole browser window.
I will add this option soon.

EDIT:

OK, I've added a fullscreen/revert button. Please give it a try.







Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/26/2010 09:37AM by francio.