Sorry to chime in so late--I gotta sleep sometime!
I like the spacing a lot. It provides a little breathing room. If there is a huge strength difference, are there so many bars shown in the Everything mode that the hover goes off the top of the screen on 1024x768?
I can't decide either about The Monster's idea of reversing the bottom bars. I can see the reason for both methods. Keep in mind that the bars at the top--except when there is a chance for retreat--will form a normal distribution themselves, so reversing the bars won't actually make a single normal distribution. [I'm probably using the term normal distribution here improperly; I mean a bell-shaped curve. It's been way too long since I did any statistics.
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As for checking for the control key, I don't see how it could interfere with mods. I right-click-hold over a tile to see the odds, but you can also alt-hover as well. Is it possible some other mod uses ctrl-hover/click-hold to do something else? Maybe, but if they merge in this mod, they'll have to account for that (change one or the other). Doing it is trivial, though:
Code:
if (gDLL->ctrlKey())
{
...
}
I want to keep the different detail levels and allow control to switch between two presets. I hate taking away options without a good reason. I think this would be too much, but we can also use the shift key. That would allow us to switch between the four detail levels using just those two keys.
- None: User's choice, Low by default
- Control: Medium
- Shift: High
- Control + Shift: Everything
Or we could use the two keys as toggles. The user specifies their default view and then uses the keys to add in more info. Holding control will add all the non-histogram data (High - AttHP Hist). Holding shift adds the two HP histograms.
Personally, I think both of these schemes are too complicated for most users and will cause more questions. While I'd rather have one of these options since it allows me to see all view modes without going into the options screen, for the mod I recommend sticking with our current two selected modes and use control to toggle between them.
Finally, on the line showing the three R values, would it look better to color them like the other rows, or would that be overkill?
(1.00:4XP) (R=1.25:3XP) (>1.33:2XP)