Galaxy Map: Add "close" button to system info pop-up

[Cross]

You know, that helpful info window that pops up whenever you mouse over a star in the galaxy map, and then absolutely will not go away again until you, out of frustration, highlight a star-ANY STAR-outside the thing, and hope the new pop-up doesn't also block the system you were actually interested in?

Yeah, how about a button to explicitly close that?

 

[DaggerSnake]

Yes! A pop up toggle on the tab where all the other icons are. I was just thinking this aslo as I was looking for a specific system and the pop ups covered a wide field of stars. So annoying.

 

[Thurl Grommen]

I too think it would be nice to be able to close the damned window.

Maybe just a little nuisance, but frustrating in the long run.

 

[CMDR Yates]

Yeah, the current implementation is a pest, +1

 

[Jarmajo]

I agree that something needs to be done about this popup, it is sometimes more in the way than beneficial. Here are three suggestions:

• As already suggested in this thread, a close button.
• And/or an option to pined the popup window anywhere.
• Or remove the popup window completely and move the buttons to the left info tab instead, as it already contains the same information. See attached pictures for example.

 

[SportyScribe]

Agreed... I really struggled with the map today... plotted a massive multi jump route... which seemed to disappear when I launched from the station. I am sure it comes with practice but it is a pain to see anything when you have a lot of jumps

 

[Hopix]

Here's a better idea for this incredibly irritating problem. Just require us to actually click on the star system to see the pop up.

 

[MYTH4L]

PLEASE FIX THIS!!!!!!!!!
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[Para Handy]

Do people not know that if you click on an empty part of the map that popup box closes?

 

[Speedcuffs]

Do people not know that if you click on an empty part of the map that popup box closes?

Yeh, I was a bit confused about what the actual problem was.

 

[Vedmo]

Do people not know that if you click on an empty part of the map that popup box closes?

I've known that ever since I read your post!

Thanks.

 

[varonica]

You know, that helpful info window that pops up whenever you mouse over a star in the galaxy map, and then absolutely will not go away again until you, out of frustration, highlight a star-ANY STAR-outside the thing, and hope the new pop-up doesn't also block the system you were actually interested in?

Yeah, how about a button to explicitly close that?

No, I just tested it on my system, it pops up when I mouse over a star and as soon as I move the cursor away from that star it vanishes, I don't have to highlight or select anything, it just vanishes when I move the mouse away from the star.

 

[Vandaahl]

LOL???
The problem is that the box should not popup when you hover your mouse over a star.
The implementation is one of the worst UI aspects I have seen in a game for many years.
Any UI/UX developer knows this.
Absolutely horrible and annoying to use the galaxy map because of this single issue.
I have seen posts asking to remove this dating back to 2015 though so I expect that E are refusing to adhere to professional and correct UI/UX design not to mention ignoring their annoyed players. Sad day.

Consoles have no mouse, neither in VR... but yeah. Rage, doom and all that.

 

[varonica]

One of the other issues in adding a specific "close" button like a cross in the corner, it then predicates that the windows remain open until the button is clicked, you know UI design and all that, if you have a close button on a window then the window should remain open until it's clicked and not vanish at some random moment, thus then making it a problem for everyone who doesn't have that problem already.

 

[Ozric]

I would say that, just because I sometimes have issues when clicking off that it goes flying away to a star thousands of Ly away...

If you move the mouse of the controller so the cursor is over a blank piece of space and leave it for 2 seconds, then the popup also disappears

LOL???
The problem is that the box should not popup when you hover your mouse over a star.
The implementation is one of the worst UI aspects I have seen in a game for many years.
Any UI/UX developer knows this.
Absolutely horrible and annoying to use the galaxy map because of this single issue.
I have seen posts asking to remove this dating back to 2015 though so I expect that E are refusing to adhere to professional and correct UI/UX design not to mention ignoring their annoyed players. Sad day.

Any UI/UX developer know you shouldn't have a tooltip when you hover over something..?
Wat?