[WIP] New "collision detection" for systems (Magnetization ) about pathfinder HOT 3 CLOSED

Yeah i know. It is not really a bug. It works as expected :) Each new system has an offset of ( "currentSystemXCoordinate + 130px", that will add any new system to the right of your current system.

The only valid solution, is a kind of "collision detection", that will check for overlapping. This can be realy hard to implement especially if there are a lot systems on a map. There is a very nice extension for the jQuery plugin Im using:

http://morrisonpitt.com/farahey/#demo8 (last example)

But that can be confusing or lead to unexpected or not intended behaviour. So for now this is fine.

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I made a short video with the current WIP state.

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There will be a new BETA feature in the upcoming v.0.0.14. It is called Magnetization (bad wording I know ;) any other suggestions?).

• If active, systems effect each other while drag&drop or moving around on a map. (check the video above, to get an idea what i mean)
• If active, new systems added to the map, will automatically rearrange others that are in its way and prevent "overlapping" of systems.
• The collision detection even works while moving multiple systems at once around on a map.

Because of the complexity of this feature, it will be shipped out as BETA and will be continuously improved over the next releas iterations. (minor priority)

There are some known minor bugs:

• The combination of Grid napping and Magnetization does not work as intendet.
• Auto updated systems on a map, are not automatically rearranged as intendet.
• A context menu option is not implemented yet (e.g. right click system -> rearrange)

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