Plan for Zachary Zadell

Hi everyone, this is my first .plan since becoming an intern here at GG. I have been working closely with Ben Garney to produce a replacement to the old and unintuitive treeview control that is in Torque currently.

New guiTreeViewCtrl (click for a larger pic):


The new control has been integrated into both the mission editor and the gui editor. Within the mission editor, the creator and editor trees now both use the same control, rather than a custom control for the creator.

Both editors now support shift selection for selecting multiple items and ctrl selection for deselecting or selecting single items either for movement or deletion.

Selections made within the editor are now reflected within the treeview control.

You can now drag selected items both within a group or to other groups with the mouse.

You can also use the arrow keys to re-order items and navigate the tree in an explorer like fashion.

Items are now represented by icons designed by Tim Aste. The icons can either be assigned in script or determined by the control based on the item's properties. The icons can be defined entirely from script.

This is just the inital pass at improvements to editors. I plan to make other improvements in the future based on the feedback of the artists here at GG.