Add a Load Game button to the in-game options menu

[GunChleoc]

I am showing Widelands to a friend and she chouldn't find the load game option from the tutorial. It would be good to have an extra button in the in-game main ("Options") menu.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for reporting this issue, and thanks for spreading the word. :)

I don't know the full story because it took place before I joined, but from what I've gathered:
* there was a load game button in-game at some point
* however it was faulty and
* it was removed

I don't know the details but I think it ran into some issues with re-loading the various data when they were already loaded. Though, some years and code changes have passed since then so it might be interesting to test whether this would still cause problems.

I could swear there was another wishlist issue on this, but I was not able to find it. Closest I could find was comment #3 in bug 963994 where SirVer claims there is already a bug on it, though no bug number :(

[wl-zocker (wl-zocker)]

I would also like such an option.

@#1: That is what I heard, too. But I think that recently, someone (maybe SirVer himself?) mentioned that this would be feasible, by closing the game and restarting a new one (or something like that). From what I understand, this would bring no speed advantage, only two click less. Maybe we can try to make this option behave more cleverly later.

[Shevonar (shevonar)]

There was some discussion about a "next level" button at the end of a mission in bug #726589. I think some more code cleanups are required before there is a good way to implement such features. Currently the hack described in comment #2 of bug #726589 is the only way to realize this feature.

[wl-zocker (wl-zocker)]

Comment #2 in bug 726589 was the comment I had in mind when writing #2 here. Thanks for finding it :)

[GunChleoc (gunchleoc)]

Migrated to https://github.com/widelands/widelands/issues/2015