Sweet. Maybe a "confined view" that opens in a seperate window? What I mean is, you go to "confined view", type in 4 sets of coordinates (no need to be system coords) that make the corners of a boxed view of systems..this way if you have a 'core' that ingame is spread over the corners of 4 sectors, you can used this "confined view" to look at it more easily.

Maybe galaxy wrapping would be easier?

@A10
Awesome.
What language are you using, and what toolkits, and are you going to release the source code?

@Pixies
Would an option to warp the map be better?

@DarkSide
maybe

sounds great, the one thing i would like to do with mapgen (apart from some of the features you already thought of) is when you have the travel times thing up, i wish i could copy the planet and travel times both, instead of just the coords.

@A10

Aah. I guess its a race then .

@thirdrock

Yeah, that wont be an issue.

@Pixies

"Maybe a way to add/remove systems in the mapgen to the current list by eg/ shift + mouse left/right."

Yep, i got that - just different wording (See the 4th item in the list).

"Maybe a "paint" toolbar..where you can make transparant annotations/plans :0..getting too complicated?"

I was actually thinking this might be a nice feature . Definitely complicated, tho.

Mine wont. I don't have a mac...

I havn't started yet .

I still havn't picked a language or toolkit. At this point im just gathering requirements and thinking of a design.

Ah I've never been a fan of c#. The capital 'M' in main always gets me.

I'm just a little ways along. My code is starting to get a bit cumbersome due to some very bad designing that I didn't correct early and am too lazy to correct now.

Having made your own 2D Engine is quite impressive.

I won't be using mapgen's file format. I'm trying to use libjpeg to decompress and analyze the overview images. Unfortunately that's a bigger task then I thought and I've been at it for almost a week now. I would just take the easy way out and use paintlib but I haven't been able to compile it successfully. After analyzing an image I'd be using the same map format as my family news analyzer in my sig.

>Have you documented that format?

Nope

- Yea, Portalled List was mine too (suppose any tool can do this, but the Mapgen doing this would be awesome). 

Also,

- "Create List" - So individual clicking of systems (and maybe even click drag a box) would add systems to the list in the format x,y:99.  That would be enormously useful for making groups of custom systems lists.

- "Tabs" - Or some other alternative that lets you, switch between 2 (or 3?) galaxies at the touch of a button.  Currently you have to load your other save file, and then switch the map too.  But it would be nice to just click a button and load up a setting you have for a diff galaxy you're in.

- "Hide Planet List".  In the current version, for each individual list, if you wanted to hide/unhide it, you first click the list, and then click the check box.  Maybe for shortcut, can have a 'hide' box or somethign similar (eg double clicking) right next to the name of the list itself.  Just for convenience.

- "Tabs for Planet lists".  Right now we have one box for all our list (the top right box).  Sometimes I want plists of diff fams I'm warring or whatever.  Maybe have Tabs for this too?  So for eg in the first tab - I can put plists of stuff like, my planet list, my unportaleld planets, my give aways, my own fam.  Then next tab I put system lists of all different fams.  Another tab I could put in individual plists of a certain fam, Fam 1.  In the next tab i could put plists of people in Fam 2, etc.  Then besides being able to hide each individual plist, you could also hide a whole Tab of them.

Name Ideas?
- IC Mapper?
- Mapper?
(I'm not very creative, sorry )

i was thinking, maybe an option, to drink beer be added to that list, like right at the top, 'Drink Beer!' and when u click it, stuff starts to go all shakey and then blurry, and then *lights out* and when the screen comes back, it looks all messy like somebody just threw up all over it

so i was thinking, maybe you could type in youd like to see every system thats 7 ticks from your HP, but 7 ticks away from surrounding familys. that way your "IC mapper" as torquez called it could basicly come up with your familys core without intruding upon another familys from the start. would save alot of time and arguements. It might also be able to show any systems that might be fought over. becuase they are close to familys. Just a thought