Beta 1A Shipyard - releases designs before renaming

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In the Beta 1A shipyard, when a design is made ready to name, and subsequently given a name the same as an existing design, it correctly warns you about overwriting etc and gives yes/no for continue. However if you press "no", you loose all the completed design work.

Suggest three buttons,
Yes - means go ahead and over write (tooltip on mouse over to say "overwrite")
No - means no, dont overwrite, I will give another name (tooltip "rename")
Clear - means forget it, clear all changes I'll start again (tooltip "clear design" )

Regards
Zy
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I find your 'Clear'-button to be unneccesary as I wouldn't think that anyone ever want to clear their design just because a name is taken.
Besides, it is probably easier to change the 'No'-option so that it doesn't exit the screen instead.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Fair point - my only thought there was to cover the eventuality that a player would decide to dump the lot, and there is no way of doing so within that popup. Whilst the popup retains focus you cant get at the clear button on the main screen. It would be easy to impliment as that precise clear function etc is already there for the main shipyard screen - just need to copy it across to this part of the code.

Obvious workround to avoid being stuck in a loop when you might want to dump it all without the clear facility, would be to save it on another name and immediately delete the design. Not going to be exactly common, so I wouldnt die for it, and just yes/no with retaining design info would be fine as you suggest.

Regards
Zy
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