0028468: Some information is only displayed in tooltip when button moused over - you will miss this if using keyboard shortcuts - Arcen Idea Tracker (Bugs and Features)

ID	Project	Category		Date Submitted	Last Update

0028468	Heart Of The Machine	GUI		May 27, 2024 11:48 pm	Sep 8, 2024 3:33 pm

Reporter	Alias50	Assigned To	Chris_McElligottPark
Status	closed	Resolution	no change required
Product Version	0.525 So Much Clarity

Summary	0028468: Some information is only displayed in tooltip when button moused over - you will miss this if using keyboard shortcuts
Description	Title is a bit wordy, but take the following as an example: Your current unit cap for all units is shown when you mouse over the Forces sidebar icon on the top right (see screenshot 01). This shows you your current total and maximum capacity for each type of unit. This is great! But you only see it if you mouse over the button before you press it. If you use keyboard shortcuts (like you're encouraged to) you miss out on this information. (See 02) For this case, it would be good to see totals and per unit caps somewhere near each category (See 03 for a mockup) But this isn't the only case this applies too. Somewhere its done well is actually in the unit queue menu. The tooltip tells you that you have x available and y ready, and then the actual unit queue menu confirms this with a (Ready now) under each unit that's ready, and you can visually pick out the ones that aren't so there's less need for a counter (04 and 05). But having a total cap for each category displayed in the actual menu wouldn't go amiss either for the unit queues. The networks sidebar could also use the total number of subnets available (06) - again this is present in the mouse over tooltip but not in the menu itself. Sorry for the glut of different examples, but its all related to the same thing. In general, I'd like the same information to be accessible when using the keyboard to get to the menu as when hovering with the mouse over the corresponding button, for cases where it makes sense.
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Alias50 May 27, 2024 11:48 pm developer	01 - ForcesTooltip.png (158,337 bytes) 01 - ForcesTooltip.png (158,337 bytes) 02 - ForcesShortcutMenu.png (93,986 bytes) 02 - ForcesShortcutMenu.png (93,986 bytes) 03 - ForcesShortcutMenuMockup.png (189,221 bytes) 03 - ForcesShortcutMenuMockup.png (189,221 bytes) 04 - UnitQueueTooltip.png (97,833 bytes) 04 - UnitQueueTooltip.png (97,833 bytes) 05-UnitQueueShortcutMenu.png (58,881 bytes) 05-UnitQueueShortcutMenu.png (58,881 bytes) 06-NetworkShortcutMenu.png (50,801 bytes) 06-NetworkShortcutMenu.png (50,801 bytes)

Chris_McElligottPark Sep 8, 2024 3:33 pm administrator ~0070085	All of the various cases have been updated to show the information as-needed in the header. Too much information can be an issue, but basically if your forces icon is the nice blue color, then you are at cap, and if it is not that color, you are not at cap (for vehicles and androids, anyway; it allows and kind of expects you to be under cap on mechs).

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
May 27, 2024 11:48 pm	Alias50	New Issue
May 27, 2024 11:48 pm	Alias50	File Added: 01 - ForcesTooltip.png
May 27, 2024 11:48 pm	Alias50	File Added: 02 - ForcesShortcutMenu.png
May 27, 2024 11:48 pm	Alias50	File Added: 03 - ForcesShortcutMenuMockup.png
May 27, 2024 11:48 pm	Alias50	File Added: 04 - UnitQueueTooltip.png
May 27, 2024 11:48 pm	Alias50	File Added: 05-UnitQueueShortcutMenu.png
May 27, 2024 11:48 pm	Alias50	File Added: 06-NetworkShortcutMenu.png
May 28, 2024 10:31 am	Chris_McElligottPark	Assigned To	=> Chris_McElligottPark
May 28, 2024 10:31 am	Chris_McElligottPark	Status	new => minor fix for later
Jun 8, 2024 9:27 pm	Alias50	Relationship added	related to 0028724
Sep 8, 2024 3:33 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Status	minor fix for later => closed
Sep 8, 2024 3:33 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Resolution	open => no change required
Sep 8, 2024 3:33 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Note Added: 0070085