Every list group is a combo box now: track, time, weather, length, vehicle,
and colour/badge or team/position. Scenario stays as visible buttons because
it decides what the other lists contain, so it should not be hidden behind
one of them.
This ends a problem I had been solving the wrong way. The menu was flat
lists of everything, which was fine when the content was short enough to see
at once - the quality that made it feel like the pod panel. The promoted
resource file roughly doubled it, and I answered with two columns, then
better margins, then a general column flow, each time keeping an idiom whose
justification had already gone. Eight controls replace ninety-odd rows.
At 800x600 the columns go from 131px to 323px, so nothing ellipsizes any
more - the longest name wants 158. The whole menu now needs 310px of the 492
above the buttons there, and 529 of 900 at 1080p, so adding vehicles or maps
cannot crowd it again.
The boxes are owner-drawn - green on black, highlight inverted rather than
tinted - so they read as part of the panel instead of arriving in system
colours. They are rebuilt rather than moved when the scenario changes, since
it swaps two of them outright and reshuffles the track list.
Built and run at 640x480, 800x600, 1280x720 and 1920x1080.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
CydandClaude Opus 5
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