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Offline Steve Walmsley

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Re: Preventing the game from opening duplicate windows
« Reply #16 on: April 25, 2020, 10:20:54 AM »
http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=11010.msg127895#msg127895

Would it be possible to allow for multiple windows of 'Create Research Project'? Personally, I find that extremely useful.
 

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Re: Preventing the game from opening duplicate windows
« Reply #17 on: April 25, 2020, 11:43:27 AM »
http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=11010.msg127895#msg127895

Would it be possible to allow for multiple windows of 'Create Research Project'? Personally, I find that extremely useful.


Given the many, many posts in the early C# bug threads as a resutl of this, and the fact that Steve chose to restrict design to single windows as the method of squishing them, I would say it's not possible.
 

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Re: Preventing the game from opening duplicate windows
« Reply #18 on: April 25, 2020, 11:51:25 AM »
Given the many, many posts in the early C# bug threads as a resutl of this, and the fact that Steve chose to restrict design to single windows as the method of squishing them, I would say it's not possible.

Many of those bug reports will dissappear with the change, that single click opens the same window, if it is already open, and shift+click opens a new instance of the same window.

Considering that it is possible to choose between using a single window and opening multiple windows for many other windows by using click or shift+click, and that it has so far been possible to open multiple windows of 'Create Research Project', I thought was at least worth asking.

If it is not possible, then so be it, but if it is a design decision to choose which windows can have multiple instances and which can't, then I would really wish that 'Create Research Project' was one of them.