Author: William Penn
Date: 22:08:46 11/30/00
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On December 01, 2000 at 00:50:47, John Merlino wrote: >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 JM, Thanks. I'll stop wearing out my finger clicking, and hold down the mouse button in future! WP
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