(03-03-2020, 05:33 PM)Bug#2 Wrote: I never knew that underneath the map was a complete list of
campaign status info: . . . (& a whole lot more!)
I never knew because as soon as the map came up
I would zoom in on my area, which causes all of this information to
disappear forever until you reload the map!
Thanks, this is a great summary of what the map info does.
At the very top is a link "Jump to Mission Info". If you tap on that, it takes you to the Mission Info but also you'll see a link there "Jump to Top".
If you click on "Jump to Top" you'll be back to the map viewing area but at the top there is a little header area with the "Jump to Mission Info" link and a few other things.
So if you just manipulate the map so as to always keep that header in view you can still move the map around, zoom around in it, etc but you can ALSO use that "Jump to Mission Info" link to jump down to the mission info, and then back to the map.
FYI the basic problem is that when you pinch and zoom etc the map package will then move and zoom the map. But ALSO your touch browser uses pinch and zoom and drag and all that to re-size the browser itself. So if you move things around so that only the map is showing in the window, then in a touch-type browser (like your mobile phone, IPad, tablet, etc) there is nothing left to "grab" to move the whole window up and down.
Since touch browsers have decided we don't need scroll bars any more there is no way to scroll up & down. In that situation I've had good luck re-loading the page, requesting the desktop version of the map, or searching within the page (ie, search for "jump"). Exact solution depend on your exact browser & device.
Another solution is to keep two tabs open--one focused on the map and the other on the mission info area.
Quote:The pop up (color swatches?) looks interesting to plot intercepts
but how would you really use it!
(& it makes hitting on a target for info on an Ipad nearly impossible...)
I use this all the time. If you click on an aircraft and then a color it marks the path of that aircraft with that color thereafter.
So basically, whenever I see an enemy aircraft that might be a threat I mark it with black or white or blue or whatever. It makes it easier to keep an eye on potential threats and not lose them in the clutter.
Also often I will mark my own position or people I'm flying with or my cover aircraft. That way I can see at a glance where we've been & where we're headed, how far apart we are, etc.
You can also mark ground areas, which is sometimes helpful.
But the most useful is calculating intercepts and trip times. As Birdtail says, in many cases you don't need to calculate an intercept because Tab-4-1 just provides it for you.
But for example as a bomber pilot you don't need intercepts on OTHER planes . .. you need to know if they have an intercept on you.
Do get an intercept calculation, you click on the first aircraft, click "Select Interceptor" then click on the second aircraft and "Calc Intcpt to This Target". You'll see a popup with the intercept time & heading.
Also you can click a ground location and it gives you the heading and time to that location.
FYI this was all designed to give Tophat the ability to tell pilots intercept vectors to both other aircraft and ground targets. But I use it all the time while flying.
OTOH, as you say you can pretty well just look at the screen and estimate intercept headings etc. So you don't always need it.
FYI on a 'real' computer you hover the mouse over a target to see speed, heading etc and click it only if you want to see the color swatches or calculate an intercept.
This makes is super-convenient to keep on a second screen while running CloD, because you can manipulate the map by using the scroll wheel to zoom and scroll around, and see most all the info you might need by just hovering the mouse. So you can do all that without breaking out of full-screen CloD.
Only if you need to click to set a color swatch or intercept does the CloD screen minimize--and those are fairly rare things to do.
Again, touch browsers decided we don't need the "hover" capability any longer. So that break a lot of things on the WWW and I don't know much to do about it except complain to the browser manufacturers.
Our map is based on another big mapping tool that does all the hard work, so I can't really go in an change its basic functionality very easily.
FWIW I probably had 20 page instruction manual on using the map tool on our old forums somewhere, but I guess all that has been converted to a cable TV page now.
