Re: [Bug-gnubg] Another gui issue

[Christian Anthon]

Having spent a bit of time testing stuff, I've reached the same
conclusion as max. It can be quite annoying if you are a bit too quick
to do something. Perhaps the best thing would be for a delayed
reaction. That is the interface could wait for a small time, see if
the action made sense and then pop the dialog if it didn't.

Christian.

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Massimiliano
Maini<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Jonathan Kinsey <address@hidden> wrote on 17/07/2009 18:09:55:
>
>>
>> I'm not sure if it was added deliberately, it may have come along as
>> part of the "click board to start playing at the start" type changes
>> (which are fine).
>
> Could be.
>
>> It probably needs a bit more thinking about, especially that if the
>> warning is turned off it stops without asking.
>
> Indeed, this is very bad imo.
>
>> Maybe it should be
>> the case that if an animation is going on a click on the board stops
>> the animation without a prompt and if the computer is thinking the
>> message box comes up?  This way a user can skip an animation if they
>> want and also get the message if they just aren't sure what is
>> happening (thinking in tutor mode for example).  The stop button is
>> fine, but users will just click things, hour glass or not and some
>> response is helpful I think.
>
> I'm not a fan at all of GUIs without response to user actions, but I
> don't see a single software that, while running computations, responds
> to a use click with a dialog prompting to stop or not the ongoing task.
> Also funny that, when the dialog is shown, gnubg goes on thinking (or
> display the animation) and hence, by the time you hit the yes (or no)
> button, the thing is already over.
>
> Users will click on things, but I'm not sure they expect the click to
> stop whatever is going on. What about a lighter response ? Something like
> the hourglass becoming a x-shaped cross if a mouse button (maybe even a
> key) is pressed ?
>
> MaX.