Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 12:43:37 08/19/04
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On August 19, 2004 at 14:26:07, Frank Quisinsky wrote: >On August 19, 2004 at 11:12:01, Anthony Cozzie wrote: > >Hi Anthony, > >>Arena still needs some bugfixing. Among other things, the program seems to have >>major trouble when two versions are running; either you guys should fix the >>problem or have it detect a previously running instance. >> >>Secondly, a lot of the dialog boxes need to be cleaned up . . arena tends to >>have a cluttered feel to it. >> >>Just a little feedback. Arena is miles better than winboard, but it does not >>yet have the polish I expect from excellent software. >> >>anthony > >01. Why two versions of Arena have to run? >But Martin have develops a "Restarter" !! >Perhaps this solved the problem and perhaps you test it and send a new comment >about the problem! What I mean is that I run Zappa in arena, I find a problem (because I was implementing UCI, there were a lot). Then I fix the problem, but I forget that I have arena open. When I try to open another instance of arena, the program becomes unstable. So it should either A) not become unstable or B) just switch to the previously running instance. >02. Give me examples for the dialog boxes you write! >I need examples, only your opinion without a clear defination is for us not very >interesting. Give me examples please and we try to make it better. This is the >most important point for us, we have interest to make it better but we need >clearly opinions by users. Actually I really like the screenshot you put up. It is a good step in the right direction. I just think you & Martin should go through each window in arena, and try to arrange things, choose colors & widgets etc, to make the program look better. >03. I expect from an excellent software a lot! >No program can give me that what I expect. Arena is in the near, we have a lot >to do, a lot ideas, the users have a lot of ideas and the complete team which >help us. If we expect an excellent software we can give up the development of >Arena. At least for me, perfection is always the goal. anthony >But for me Arena is clearly the number one from all available GUIs I know. The >reason is easy ... each persons which used chess software await different >things. I am very happy because I await a good compatibility. This is for me the >most important point for a good chess GUI. > >Bugfixes: >Yes, we collect the bugs in an open system. >A lot of persons are thinking ... "Arena must have a lot of bugs". >I don't think so ... I believe Arena is the most stabil software because all the >bugs which are open reported the programmer try to fixed. The most companys (not >chess only) have the problem that users don't reported problems or the >programmer of the programs can't solved the problems. I know different >programmers with work in bigger company's and different have the following >opinion: > >A bug! >OK, not an important bug and I don't have to solved the bug! > >But of course: >For the most is this a little problem because the users can read in our buglist >but can't read in an other buglist of development chess GUIs. And now a lot of >persons are thinking ... "Oh Arena is Freeware (Freeware in Germany seems to be >a bad word) and the most are thinking ... "So many mistakes" ... > >We like the constellation to work in open systems! >I know that Arena works for all the complicated options very stabil. > >Thanks for your opinion! >I hope of more impressions to the point you speak about it! > >Best >Frank
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