Re: [Scidvspc-users] Engine arrows

[Steve A <ste...@gm...>]

Thanks Jerome,
Yeah .. I think it is a nice power feature to show the arrows on the main
board,
but it is seems to me Arena is kindof impossibly complicated to use and
unintuitive,
though of course it doesnt stop lots of people using it :)


The way our feature is now is quite clear... You want to add a line ? - It
is obvious (from the arrow) which line you are adding when you press + or
+V..
We already have clickable arrows on the main board showing
mainlines/variations.
(Should we have an arrow for "next" move??)

For the time being at least i might leave it as-is and i have made a svn
commit. I think i have fixed the bugs, the line colour is now selectable
(Options->Colours->EngineArrows), and (for the time being at least) xboard
engines don't/can't show the arrow.

Cheers


On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 8:45 PM Jerome Monscavoir <jmo...@gm...>
wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Both are great
> In my opinion arrow(s) on the main board *only for one selected engine*
> (to simplify the dev.) is/are great
> Multiple arrows (one by runnig engine) need to set or chose colors.
>
> For example in Arena i use only one arrow for one engine
>
> In the way shown in attached : one by tab is also good
>
> Great idea
>
> Thanks
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> Le sam. 22 juin 2019 à 10:22, Steve A <ste...@gm...> a écrit :
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>> Hi,
>> Attached is a patch (against svn) which draws little arrows in the
>> analysis window boards. There is a new close 'x' button, and clicking the
>> board toggles between the new behaviour and old behaviour. There are a few
>> new relevant options in tools->AnalysisEngines widget, where the board size
>> can be altered and default behaviours set. I think It's mostly working...
>> (just a little out-of-order initialisation bug occasionally when a few
>> engines are going flat out).
>>
>> But I'm not really sure about it. Is it usefull.. probably.
>> I think some other GUIs show the engine lines on the main board, with
>> names,
>> which is a different/better approach, but probably more complicated and
>> prone to bugs.
>>
>> Anyway, maybe someone/s would like to test it out and send ideas/bug
>> reports.
>> Cheers, Steven
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