City Of Heroes: Global Friends List and Friends Window

pohsyb stopped by the Official City of Heroes boards with an update about the new Comm windows. Here's is what he had to say...wait a minute...they let him out of the box???

fix for the window dimensions getting all screwy is on the way.

Regarding the Combobox Vs. Tab, everything in UI is a tradeoff (compactness Vs. clarity Vs. speed Vs. complexity, etc). In this particular case, I actually had a version that was tabs, but it didn't work out.

If you leave the window open most of the time, you want it to be tall and narrow (since you really want a list of names). Tall and narrow doesn't work well with tabs, only one can fit at a time, so switching tabs becomes blind and annoying. I'm not super thrilled with the combobox either, but its turned out to be the best solution at the moment.

Most UI elements are never really done . Its an iterative process, we try something, then refine it over and over. If the window is too frustrating, it will be revisited.

Here's the Thread