I fixed the wrong column twice. The overflow was never the vehicle list: it
was the settings column - scenario, map, time, weather, length - which sat
within 11px of the bottom at 800x600 before any of this, and went 115px past
it once seven maps were added. At 1080p it wanted 1174 of 1080.
Fixed columns cannot hold this menu any more, so the groups flow: they fill
a column, start the next, and the layout takes as many as the content needs,
sizing them to share the width. Two passes - one to count the columns, one
to place the items - so nothing has to know the count in advance. Adding a
map or a vehicle can no longer push anything off screen, which is the actual
property that was missing.
Every column starts two rows down so the pilot name box has the same home
whichever column ends up last, and the bottom is reserved for LAUNCH and the
lobby buttons. AddGroupItems is gone; the flow places items directly.
Verified by arithmetic at 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x720 and 1920x1080
in both scenarios - nothing exceeds its width or its bottom - and by running
the front end at four of those plus a mission at 800x600.
800x600 is honestly dense: the content genuinely needs five columns there,
and the longest few names ellipsize. Lowering the row-height floor does not
buy a column back, so the rows stay at 18px and legible. Dropdowns would end
this class of problem outright and are worth considering.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
CydandClaude Opus 5
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