[Scummvm-devel] Contributing to ScummVM with an interpreter for Magnetic Scrolls?

[Paul Gilbert]

Man, you weren't kidding about the complexity of the UI. Implementing
something just like that would likely prove difficult in Glk without a lot
of extra extensions to handle overlaying the windows, making them draggable
and so on. Definitely something to leave as low priority for the
foreseeable future :)

Paul.

On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 1:13 AM Torbjörn Andersson <eriktorbjorn at telia.com>
wrote:

> The Legend games split the screen into fixed areas, though. The Magnetic
> Windows GUI was basically a window manager (in 640x480 pixels), with
> movable, resizable, potentially overlapping windows. Here is an
> admittedly horrifying screenshot of what it could look like if you
> opened all the possible windows:
>
> http://www.update.uu.se/~d91tan/magnetic-windows.png
>
> I defy anyone to find a sensible layout for all of that! You may think
> you can do it, if you close the "Compass", "Inventory", and "Items in
> room" windows, and for a while you can... and then you realize that not
> every image is the same size, and you have to move the "Graphpics"
> window out of the way...
>
> Torbjörn Andersson
>

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