Schroedingers-Hat/jsphys — Issue #124: UI changes
Author: Schroedingers-Hat
Created: 2011-12-16 19:14:01+00:00
State: open
Labels: feature

Central place to discuss improving the interface.

One thought I had was to replace the click handling with the facility to select objects (think RTS style).

A menu could then be available which would include teleporting, measuring the distance/time/etc to another object (in rest frame or in object's frame), change the object's options, and possibly some other things I haven't thought of.

This would solve some of the issues with rulers not being very intuitive (and thus me not having a good idea of how to implement them well).

In addition to this it would make teleporting discoverable/make sense.

Another thought would be a separate ruler overlay. Basically functioning the same as a ruler measuring on the physical display (or as you'd use one on a map), but with a self-calibrating scale.
This could probably be done outside the canvas, and may be less resource intensive that way.