Chili Deluxe Player List

I'm releasing the first alpha test version of the new player list which I wrote about previously. I'm looking for volunteers to test it and give me feedback.

Features currently include:
* Shows econ stats for each player: metal in units, income, and resource bars
* Shows Elo rating for each player, color-coded on a gradient
* Shows team summary lines with team econ totals and average Elo of remaining players
* Sorts teams, and players within teams, by Elo
* Keeps track of players even after they've resigned or disconnected
* Moves players to the bottom of the list when they've dropped out of the game
* Calls attention to dropped players who still have units to be taken
* Shows which dropped players are still speccing and which ones have left completely
* Hides team summary lines when all teams are very small, e.g. FFAs
* Has many options for display:
Show or hide various columns
Show various columns as text or icons
Show stats in white or in teamcolors
Show or hide various sets of rows: team summaries, allies, enemies, specs
* Flexible placement: align to top or bottom, left or right
* Flexible sizing: variable name width, variable font size
* Can set a hotkey to show and hide the entire playerlist window

[u]Work planned for the near future:[/u]
* Fast-and-Easy switching between large and small views, or between a single view hidden or shown
* More granular control over which columns are displayed, and how (text vs. icons, etc)
* More and better tooltips, and options for controlling whether and how they are displayed
* Scaling x-axis dimensions proportionally with the fontsize
* Double-click on resource bars to share resources with allies
* Profiling and improving performance
* Tons of minor bugfixes, cosmetic enhancements, and code cleanup

Please note: This is an alpha release. That means that not all features are complete, and there are undoubtedly many bugs left to be found. In particular, performance could be a serious issue. I have not profiled this widget yet, and my computer isn't fast enough to do a meaningful test anyway. Your feedback is very important to me, especially regarding performance. I will keep improving this widget, but I need you to let me know what you do and don't like about it.

You can download the widget here: gui_chili_deluxeplayerlist-alpha1.lua.

[color=grey]To use this widget: place the .lua file in your Documents\My Games\Spring\LuaUI\widgets folder (or similar widgets folder if you're not using Zero-K Lobby). Then in the game click on the wrench menu: Settings -> Show Advanced Settings, then Settings / Misc / Local Widget Config -> Enable local widgets. Then use F11 to bring up the Widget List; disable Chili Crude Player List (or any other player list widget you may be using) and enable Chili Deluxe Player List - Alpha 1. Use Ctrl-F11 to enter "Tweak Mode" to resize and reposition the playerlist window. Use Space-Click on the playerlist window to bring up its option configuration panel.[/color]

Thank you for your help!
Please post any feedback or questions to this thread, or you can chat with me if you see me online.

nice, I will test it.

really nice work CrazyEddie, I really like that playerlist.

I miss some little things:
-that the Energy/Mass bars blink red, when you leaking Energy/Mass
-A share option for selected units to a player.

to you ressource share idea, i would suggest a slider, that plop up,
when you click on the players bar(s), it would allowed to
control better the amount of shared Energy/Mass.

Great job!

One bug i have though, is that the lowest line is only displayed have (no matter, where the windows is located or which size it has)

I have a screenshot, buf how do i include an image in the post?

Can we share "x" (number/amount/quantity) metal/energy with it?

Very impressive. It seems to have a lot of flexibility to it.

One thing I noticed is that unlike the other GUI elements, you can't scroll through the advanced player list. Not sure if that's a bug or not but it would be nice to be consistent with the rest of the interface.

With all of the current GUI elements if I hover my mouse over one of them and then use my scroll wheel it ignores the GUI element and zooms the map in and out. However with the Deluxe Player List scrolling over the interface seems to always try and scroll the player list and does not zoom in and out the map.

nicemonkey: Oh, I understand now. Right, thanks.

I think the standard Chili Crude Player List has the same behavior (no scrollwheel passthrough), since the Deluxe list is just Crude with some extra stuff. But I'll add an option to change the behavior to what you're describing. The Chili Chat widgets have that option so I can just copy something from them.

That very good, and what i wanted, thx.

Sorry i have no new ideas, but will help by testing performance, performance is the more important thing for me too (every fps matters), but i can understand if it a little slow if it was more feature than another lists.

Bad notebook:
CPU: 2.5 GHz AMD Turion II Dual Core P560
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6370 (512 MB)
RAM: 3GB
HDD: 500 GB SATA (7200 rpm)

Ok, here is the image with the half showing last line