Build 10 -- Configs and more GUI

[Freddie]

Ooh a new one, I'll have a look in a bit. Didn't expect it to be so WoW focused!

It's because I want Mojo to attract as many users as possible as fast as possible. If I focus on just WoW for the time being instead of trying to make Mojo general-purpose, (1) Mojo will work better with WoW and (2) I can write it faster.

Is there is an opportunity to indicate this on the 'computers' tab/screen? You could put computer-specific settings next to each computer icon. This setting might show as "Mouseover from this PC: allowed/disallowed". So when the button was on (green) then those PCs with the allowed setting would be good to go. When off, all mouseover is stopped. If only one PC, leave the button grey but don't show the computer-specific mouseover settings.

That's a good idea. As far as the details of seeing the info next to each computer, and changing that info, you'll be able to right click a computer and get either a menu or window specific to that computer. You'll also be able to toggle the Computers window and see it in the form of a list (sort of like a spreadsheet) where details are spelled out.

If you liked that layout then you could extend the idea: show WoW-specific (later: program specific?) info on the WoW tab, toon-specific on the toon tab, and so on.

Yes, they will all work as I just described. You'll be able to right click items in the WoWs window and the Teams window and the Toons window to get either a menu or window specific to the item. And you will be able to toggle those windows as a whole between picture view and spreadsheet view. (Microsoft calls the two views "icon view" and "report view." Maybe it would be easier to use the technical names.)

By the way, in case you're interested, you might want to read Microsoft's guidelines for designing interfaces. It explains all the different visual elements that are used in Windows programs. Tells you the names of them, how Microsoft recommends using them, etc.

Windows User Experience Guidelines

If you don't want to read the whole thing, the section on Controls is probably the most useful.

Controls

The program can have other, non-standard interface elements as well, but it usually saves me time to use the operating system's built-in elements.