Thoughts on revised approach to UIWorldSpaceHealthBar

[ConquerProgramming1]

I love the health bar class, it looks great and functions great and saves lots of implementation effort for game creators, but I'm thinking a revised approach is worth considering. If this is something that is of interest, I'd be willing to challenge myself by taking a crack at it.

Health is just one kind of status

Looking at the games I play and the game I'm working on, here are common uses of status bars:

Health (duh!)
Armor
Mana/Energy/Fatigue
Build progress (for example, a building that generates units, or is researching a technology)
Recuperation progress (non-killable player character recovering from getting knocked out)

Given the non-health uses, at minimum it would be nice to have a more generalized class that tracked a specified criteria, rather than requiring specific health attributes.

If one is good, three must be better!

It's particularly common to display both a health bar and a mana/whatever bar, and in some cases I've seen three bars used.
A generalized class could be used to do separate bars, but it would also be helpful to provide a container-type class that could be easily configured for 2-3 bars and take care of the positioning hassle, such as distance between bars.

Thoughts on any of this?

[ConquerProgramming1]

Ah discussed in #103 -- will try out UIProgressBar and see if it fills the bill...

[ConquerProgramming1]

UIProgressBar doesn't cut it as is, but it's a starting point. I'm going to play with it...