Adds ability to record creator name field and a description field in map editor

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FreeCol: FreeCol is a turn-based strategy game based on the old game Colonization, and similar to Civilization. The objective of the game is to create an independent nation.

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Adds ability to record creator name field and a description field in map editor #58

Open rafbel opened 4 years ago

rafbel commented 4 years ago

Currently, map creators can't save the author and a brief description of their maps as mentioned in the SourceForge forum thread https://sourceforge.net/p/freecol/improvement-requests/232/.

I created a little dialog that saves this information and then saves it in the XML document using a separate XML element. Here is a preview:

mpope042 commented 4 years ago

I think this is the wrong approach. The description is a translatable string and should be in the messages file. The author could just be an optional field in Map.