One of the biggest changes in SRL-6 was the support of all screen sizes, and a (somewhat) lenient interface setup. Now as probably all of you that have used SRL-6 have realized, it's a pain to setup your RS properly, and there are a lot of bugs with the "dynamic" support we originally aimed for.
@Olly; has brought up the fact that most, if not all, SRL-6 users use the default 960 x 640 screen resolution anyway, so we're here to get your feedback on whether or not keeping this idea of a "dynamic" SRL is worth the trouble. We also have to think about how many interface possibilities there actually are, and to have a 100% dynamic SRL is likely far out of reach at this time.
One of the reasons (probably the biggest) we didn't use fixed screen to begin with is because originally you couldn't see all the inventory slots (you had to scroll). This has been updated as there were a lot of complaints about it.
Here are the advantages and disadvantages of fixed size(please post more if you think of them):
Advantages:
- Development will be easier. We won't have to worry about keeping things dynamic.
- We won't need any collaboration upon login (finding interfaces), we'll have static coordinates for each interface (like previous versions of SRL).
- Users will no longer be using the exact same resizable screen resolution.
- There will be much less bugs, a lot of current bugs have something to do with the "dynamic" support.
- Functions such as MMToMS will be possible again.
- The user setup will go from 15 steps down to 1 or 2.
Disadvantages:
- Scripts that have been written for a specific screen size (like the default 960 x 540) will need to be updated.
- Small, restricting mainscreen. Makes object finding more difficult.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
Cheers,
The SRL Development Team
E: We also want to make it clear that having a poll doesn't mean we are going to do whatever the result is. This is here to see what you, the users, think. The poll will certainly help in our decision, but there is no guarantee based on the poll results.