Author: John Merlino
Date: 21:50:47 11/30/00
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On December 01, 2000 at 00:46:09, William Penn wrote: >On November 30, 2000 at 20:43:03, David Dahlem wrote: > >>I am unable to create a custom board in CM 8000 since the customize window is >>too small. All the icons do not show and there is no way to enlarge it. Also >>there is no way to close this window. ??? Anyone else have these problems? >> >>Dave > >Dave, >I'm not sure if this helps with your problem, but here are my observations with >the custom board in CM8000... When you select the custom board, it is very tiny >at the beginning and only offers the newspaper style chess pieces as an option. >There is also a separate small window called "Customize Board" that comes up >along with the custom board. It has a + and - sign, various arrows, and buttons >to change the board colors. There are no instructions for it, and there is >apparently no way to close it. I guess its operations are supposed to be >intuitive, but it wasn't easy for me to figure out!? To make a long & very >frustrating story short, I eventually discovered that after clicking the + sign >many many many times, the custom board began enlarging in size and I could make >it as big as I wanted. After awhile additional chess pieces began to be offered >as options. So it worked OK after all, but it was a frustrating experience >because of the lack of instructions!? >WP Sorry about the lack of documentation, but at least I can say that's not my department! ;-) Actually, you don't have to click "many many etc. times". You can click and HOLD DOWN the button to automatically repeatedly zoom in/out, rotate, etc. Also, for some reason, the really COOL part of that feature was completely ignored, as I have discovered. You can also modify the custom board WITHOUT using that little dialog at all (although you still can't close it as long as you are using a custom board). Here's how: You know how you can MOVE the board by left-clicking on the border of the board and moving the mouse around? You can do all of the things that the little dialog does by COMBINING the above with certain keystrokes. I can't remember right now which ones do which, but the SHIFT, ALT and CTRL keys, when used WHILE you are clicking and dragging the mouse, can all modify the custom board in some way. Hope that reduces the frustration level to some degree.... jm
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