while travelling back to home via airports I worked on the Attack Disc again. I redid how the attack disc is used. You now use the mousewheel for everything on the attack disc. You press either shift, ctrl, alt, shift + ctrl, or nothing to control which disc is rotated by the mousewheel. This is a MUCH better approach to moving the discs. I also added a tooltip to the attack disc that explains how to rotate the discs.
I also revised the tooltips on the RAOBF and the draggable compass on the nav map:
With these changes/improvements it should make using these items much easier and intuitive
Will be available in next version.
Change log so far:
v6.7.2 - changed how the attack disc is used. Now all discs are rotated using the mousewheel. If the front side is visible and mousewheel is rotated and:
- no key pressed: rotates Compass rose
- shift pressed: rotates Target disc
- ctrl pressed: rotates bearing and lead angle
- alt pressed: rotates attack course pointer
- shift + ctrl pressed: rotates relative bearing
if backside is visible and mousewheel is rotated and:
- shift pressed: rotates Speed and distance
- ctrl pressed: rotates time
- alt pressed: rotates degrees
- added tooltips to the attack disc that informs the user how to rotate the discs
- revised tooltip on the nav map draggable compass
I'll also be revising the ship's journal viewer app. One of the changes will be the ability to show/hide the 'secret' entries in the journal. When you hide these secret entries then the journal will be just like you see in-game.
I should have the app complete for the GUI for editing the options file also in next version. I see this app as a must have due to the amount of errors I've seen posted about incorrectly editing the options file.