How much more ZDL can we take? :O

BioHazard · Post by **BioHazard** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 11:40

I got hit with the greatest idea at breakfast yesterday, Why not make ZDL into a tabbed app? that would solve all my problems with it!

I immediately got to work on is and I think I have the design down.
What do you all think? I have room for 1 more tab. I was going to save it for the "Lobby" tab in ZDLNet, but If you guys can think of enough options to warrant a tab, I can do that. But then again, think of simplicity...

Get the alpha here

Psycho Siggi · Post by **Psycho Siggi** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 12:04

I like the layout, but once again I wonder about the redundant exit button

As for a the extra tab space. The only thing that came to mind was a profiles tab for the more frequently used setups, but I can see that is covered with the 'load' and 'save' buttons.

Maybe put some more misc setting (yes, possibly against the simplism thing), but I would really apreciate a music checkbox. I am often playing through an album and don't want to pause it just because of one map, so being able to turn it on and off from outside the game easily would be very handy.

I'm sure some one else will think of something more useful for the extra tab though

Post by **Enjay** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 18:59

Looks pretty good so far. But the extra commands box seems a little short. Even a fairly short command line would fall off that. Perhaps you could move it down to the bottom of the app and let it use the full width of the dialogue?

BioHazard · Post by **BioHazard** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 22:51

Alrighty, here is alpha 3.
Get it

Changes:
ADDED:

Lobby tab (for playing network games)
Option to save the last.zdl file on exit (so you can run from CD)
I forgot Always Append

CHANGED:

I changed the sizes for various controls

REMOVED:

Exit button (use the X or Alt+Tab)

NOTE: The lobby tab will not be present in ZDL3 (unless "the people" say otherwise) it will be in ZDLNet, a side project of ZDL.

Cutmanmike · Post by **Cutmanmike** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 23:42

The lobby idea is quite interesting. We'll see how well it works hopefully soon.

BioHazard · Post by **BioHazard** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 8:48

W00T, I got networking working so ZDLNet is definately a possibillity

I will need lots of people to help me out with it though. Network problems are hard to sort out without lots of different machines and setups. I'll ask around on #DMClub.