Hi there, Lef.
Aye, I believe you got buried in the concept pictures, pictures, code, aspirations, frustrations, headaches, and all that from near the beginning of my project.
But you asked for it... *giggle* Sounds like you had more faith in me than I did, after I kept slamming into so many hard-coded brick walls. It still shocks me that I actually managed to make something out of this, from the first 3 simple little windows I think you saw... though maybe there were one or two more added before you saw it.
I'm assuming you got your custom patch e-mail from Sunday, or you wouldn't have known to come here.
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My monitor is what I believe most people would consider small, 15". To me who's first computer had about a 8-9" visible monitor it's huge. lol A few months ago when my 7 year old monitor started acting up, I chose to replace it with another 15" one though, because I have a 17" one at work and had to push it way, way back on my desk to be able to bear it. And my desk at home doesn't have that kind of space. My eyes just don't like having a huge screen right in front of them. So all things considered, it's more of a vision problem.
As for the games coming out with 1024x768 or more minimum resolution nowadays, it does bother me somewhat, but it depends on the game. I can stand short periods at 800x600 or 1024x768, much tinier I can barely stand at all. Sim City 4 is one of them, but I'm fine with it, and Sims was 800x600 or 1024x768 years ago, also ok. I think it depends how tiny they make text, and how much reading is involved. EQ requires a lot of reading, pretty much. With all the font sizes set really, really big I can probably stand a higher resolution, but I'm most comfortable at 640x480.
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Thanks, Vixyn.
I would probably have been ok if I'd made this for 800x600 or 1024x768 from the beginning, if it let me make the font sizes large enough, but since the amount of work involved was positively daunting I decided to be safe and go for the resolution I knew my eyes could stand. Plus, I just loved the old UI and wanted to make mine as similar as I could manage to.
