Cleanish GUI

[Galen]

After shamelessly plagurising the style and shading layout of ProgZmax's version, I've gotten this:

[m0ds]

Definitely still some spacing issues :p The long words definitely don't do anything for me either But perhaps im not your audience!! I really liked your early first design.



I like it because you've kept the menu options away from the controls. I know if I went to hit "procure" I would probably hit menu in your new design. It's far less likely to happen in your earlier versions, where there is a clear left & right seperation between the load & save menu options & the gaming controls. And I think the big "use" button is cool! In a clunky space adventure I would definitely not be worried about its simplicity! Adding a background image onto the gray-box looks quite good; your new versions are much more eye pleasing. I think you should go with the little icon things again though, I reckon it'd look good & the spacing would be teh great. Anyway good luck! good GUI!

[Galen]

Good point. I've modified the layout to better match the original versions, hopefully you approve of the change.

[Radiant]

It looks good, but what does "tracker" do?

Also, I think it needs a more aristocratic synonym for menu. My thesaurus turns up "pabulum", how's that?

(oh yeah, and please add keyboard shortcuts!)

(you can have M,P,U,T,E,C activate the buttons, 1-5 activate the items, and - = besides the numbers activate the scroll buttons)

[Galen]

Just brings up a little map with a "tracking beacon" indicating your location within the ship/station. More of a space filling gadget than an actual feature.