Moving the Diplomacy window so you can look at the cities. Now you can do it!!!

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Sauce posted 03-03-99 08:33 AM ET
This is an identical post to the one I made a couple of days ago Titled: [i]YAHOO!! I just
found out something really interesting.[/i] I just thought that if you missed it then you could read it again here (I'm not trying to get my spot in the limelight, just trying to spread the knowledge, cause I've seen a lot of posts complaining about this very thing).
It's a kinda like a helpful bug (I didn't think that there was such a thing either, but wait till you get a load a'this): You can [b]move[/b] the diplomacy window around to look at the map. For example when you want to share battle plans, or when you want someone to hand over a city.
What you do is click and hold just outside the diplomacy window, and drag it away. It won't work if you click in the window bar itself like with all the other ones. It has to be slightly outside. Don't ask me why.
Try it!!!
JAFO posted 03-05-99 03:00 AM ET
Wow, thanks for the tip... I'd been clicking on the map box in the bottom right corner during diplomacy, then trying to zoom to juuuuust the right part of a map to figure out the names of cities I wanted to discuss during diplomacy. This helps a lot!

JAFO
"Get off my land, you Peacekeeping sonofa..."
First time I saw that movie, I WAS Morgan, and had Lal as my submissive pact wimp.
PERFECT!
Sauce posted 03-05-99 07:33 AM ET
What secret project is it that shows you that movie?
MrSmily posted 03-05-99 02:17 PM ET
the longitivity vaccine (spelling sucks after 2 hours of SMAC)
Rong posted 03-05-99 02:41 PM ET
Seen Network Backbone?
"Where do you want your node today?"
And that movie shares a striking similarity with certain TV commercial.
agoraphobe posted 03-05-99 03:36 PM ET
Sauce: you should report that to the Bugs forum - that's gotta be a bug! (but for us now, it's a feature!)
MoSe posted 03-08-99 04:32 AM ET
Yeah, it works!
Exactly, you have to click not just outside, but ABOVE the dialog, even not directly (i.e. above-right or above-left).
Once I also got the drag locked, tried clickkity-clik all around the screen, but couldn't reproduce it.
cousLee posted 03-08-99 04:42 AM ET
still trying to get the hang of that.
There is one more box that needs to be fixed. move the pop-up box you get when you right click on a unit in the city view window. It keeps trying to disdand my units. I have to right click and hold which is a pain in the butt.
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Author	Topic: Moving the Diplomacy window so you can look at the cities. Now you can do it!!!
Sauce	posted 03-03-99 08:33 AM ET This is an identical post to the one I made a couple of days ago Titled: [i]YAHOO!! I just found out something really interesting.[/i] I just thought that if you missed it then you could read it again here (I'm not trying to get my spot in the limelight, just trying to spread the knowledge, cause I've seen a lot of posts complaining about this very thing). It's a kinda like a helpful bug (I didn't think that there was such a thing either, but wait till you get a load a'this): You can [b]move[/b] the diplomacy window around to look at the map. For example when you want to share battle plans, or when you want someone to hand over a city. What you do is click and hold just outside the diplomacy window, and drag it away. It won't work if you click in the window bar itself like with all the other ones. It has to be slightly outside. Don't ask me why. Try it!!!
JAFO	posted 03-05-99 03:00 AM ET Wow, thanks for the tip... I'd been clicking on the map box in the bottom right corner during diplomacy, then trying to zoom to juuuuust the right part of a map to figure out the names of cities I wanted to discuss during diplomacy. This helps a lot! JAFO "Get off my land, you Peacekeeping sonofa..." First time I saw that movie, I WAS Morgan, and had Lal as my submissive pact wimp. PERFECT!
Sauce	posted 03-05-99 07:33 AM ET What secret project is it that shows you that movie?
MrSmily	posted 03-05-99 02:17 PM ET the longitivity vaccine (spelling sucks after 2 hours of SMAC)
Rong	posted 03-05-99 02:41 PM ET Seen Network Backbone? "Where do you want your node today?" And that movie shares a striking similarity with certain TV commercial.
agoraphobe	posted 03-05-99 03:36 PM ET Sauce: you should report that to the Bugs forum - that's gotta be a bug! (but for us now, it's a feature!)
MoSe	posted 03-08-99 04:32 AM ET Yeah, it works! Exactly, you have to click not just outside, but ABOVE the dialog, even not directly (i.e. above-right or above-left). Once I also got the drag locked, tried clickkity-clik all around the screen, but couldn't reproduce it.
cousLee	posted 03-08-99 04:42 AM ET still trying to get the hang of that. There is one more box that needs to be fixed. move the pop-up box you get when you right click on a unit in the city view window. It keeps trying to disdand my units. I have to right click and hold which is a pain in the butt.