Re: [Bug-gnubg] Suggestions for enhancement/improvement, Windows version

[Billie Patterson]

See several responses interspersed with yours.

--- Joern Thyssen <address@hidden> wrote:

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> > button on them.  Please either design for the 800x600
> > setting, or rearrange the long screens so that we can
> see
> > all the information.
> 
> Can you tell which dialog it is?

Settings->Players is one.

If I click on Windows->Message, the message window opens
completely off my screen, so that I can't get to it at all.
 Same thing with Windows->Game Record.

> 
> > 2)  The screen has a LOT of unused real estate, but if
> you

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> 
> This has been discussed extensively on both the list and
> on
> rec.games.backgammon.

Can you point me to a thread?  I've looked through the list
and don't see an obvious thread discussing it.

Also, I can't find the rec.games.backgammon archives.  One
site points me to
http://205.178.173.33/cgi-bin/links/jump-cgi?ID=107 as
being the site for the r.g.b FAQ, but that URL always times
out.  I've tried it several times, but don't even know
whether it's operating or not.

> 
> gnubg's board scales in steps of 108x72 pixels, so with a
> screen
> resolution of 800x600 the maximum board available is
> 756x504 which is
> 80% of your screen real estate. However, due to window
> decorations, the
> menus, toolbar etc. you'll probably only get 648x432 or
> 63% -- and you
> may even have to disable "show position ID and match ID"
> as well as
> "show dice below board" (Settings->Apperance->General in
> 0.13 or
> Settings->Options->Display in "trunk") to get this.

I'm not sure what scalability has to do with pulling in the
wide wings or moving things from the bottom of the board to
one side.  If that were done, those of us running at lower
resolutions wouldn't have to resize anyway, and would still
be able to see the whole screen, and others that we might
want to run as well.  People running at higher resolutions
don't scale to smaller anyhow.

Billie


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