I say we steal Paradise's PDA UI.

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I say we steal Paradise's PDA UI.

Post by scrubs2009 » #242302

I mean it looks so much better then the one we use. It looks more like the computer interfaces than the terrible bile-yellow 1990's looking thing we have on our PDAs now. Plus there are some real nice features it has. Like you know how the ai has a list of all the crewmembers on the station organized by their position? The Paradise PDA has that too. Currently if you want to know who the captain is you have to scroll through every name on the station looking for the word "Captain" next to it. The personal list we currently have is completely useless. It's just the messenger list but without the ability to send messages.
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Post by Remie Richards » #242303

scrubs2009 wrote:It looks more like the computer interfaces than the terrible bile-yellow 1990's looking thing we have on our PDAs now.
You mean the one we have LOOKS LIKE WE INTENDED IT TO FOR THE RETRO SPACE THEME!?
DEAR GOD CLEARLY REMOVE IT.
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Post by scrubs2009 » #242316

Remie Richards wrote:
scrubs2009 wrote:It looks more like the computer interfaces than the terrible bile-yellow 1990's looking thing we have on our PDAs now.
You mean the one we have LOOKS LIKE WE INTENDED IT TO FOR THE RETRO SPACE THEME!?
DEAR GOD CLEARLY REMOVE IT.

There's a difference between having a retro style and having something look ugly. The pda may be trying to emulate old computer stuff but instead of coming off as something you would see on a CRT monitor it looks like baby's first geocities page.

Furthermore I don't think there's much left of the retrofuture aesthetic. Most of tg station is just flat out futureistic. You can't have nice looking monitors for computers and then say the crappy PDAs are there to emulate a retro style.
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Post by D&B » #242328

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Post by Saegrimr » #242332

scrubs2009 wrote:Furthermore I don't think there's much left of the retrofuture aesthetic.
This is the sad truth of it all.
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Post by danno » #242333

fuck you the PDAs are dope as is
we should be making more of an effort to return to retrofuture
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Post by Screemonster » #242334

surely retro space theme would be like greenscreen block capital stuff

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Post by Atlanta-Ned » #242340

Screemonster wrote:surely retro space theme would be like greenscreen block capital stuff

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GOD there is SO MUCH MORE to it than big green block letters.
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Post by Gun Hog » #242341

Add a PDA program and cart support to modular computers, preloaded into the tablets, as well as letting tablets function as ID like PDAs. There, you may now choose which one you prefer!
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Post by PKPenguin321 » #242351

Saegrimr wrote:
scrubs2009 wrote:Furthermore I don't think there's much left of the retrofuture aesthetic.
This is the sad truth of it all.
blame people trying to make things tacticool
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Post by Mindustry » #242468

Gun Hog wrote:Add a PDA program and cart support to modular computers, preloaded into the tablets, as well as letting tablets function as ID like PDAs. There, you may now choose which one you prefer!
Most if not all roundstart tablets can take an ID and be placed and used in the ID slot already, it's actually a good place to hide IDs since most people don't check it and there's no dead giveaway it even has an ID unlike the PDA.
I plan to move most carts to be modular computer programs and then some. Just need to figure out how the programs actually work, and also feature freeze.
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Post by Gun Hog » #242548

Mindustry wrote:
Gun Hog wrote:Add a PDA program and cart support to modular computers, preloaded into the tablets, as well as letting tablets function as ID like PDAs. There, you may now choose which one you prefer!
Most if not all roundstart tablets can take an ID and be placed and used in the ID slot already, it's actually a good place to hide IDs since most people don't check it and there's no dead giveaway it even has an ID unlike the PDA.
I plan to move most carts to be modular computer programs and then some. Just need to figure out how the programs actually work, and also feature freeze.
They can take an ID (which is my favorite part of the tablet, due to the ID program allowing changes on the fly), and for some things, can be used as an ID, but they are not perfect. Many things that require a manual swipe do not accept tablets as they do PDAs, and wearing the tablet as an ID does not update a person's name.

As for the feature freeze, I imagine that given the complexity of such a program, the freeze would be ending by the time the code is ready for a PR.
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