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Subject: Re: CM8000 layout problem (John Merlino)

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 12:20:23 12/11/00

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On December 11, 2000 at 11:51:31, John Merlino wrote:

>On December 11, 2000 at 08:21:47, David Dahlem wrote:
>
>>I have a complaint about the way CM8000 handles layouts in the different rooms.
>>For example, if i exit while in the gameroom, the next time i start Chessmaster
>>and select the gameroom, the layout is the same as it was the  last time i
>>exited. Which is as it should be. But if i change to, say the tournament room,
>>that layout is wrong. I get a mixed-up layout from my first attempts to setup
>>the layouts and that has not been saved in the layout directory but somehow
>>keeps recurring and i can't get rid of them. I have to load my preferred layout
>>every time. I know this is minor but in my opinion, it shouldn't be necessary to
>>load a layout when switching rooms. How do i get rid of these annoying layouts
>>that keep reappearing?
>>
>>Dave
>
>When you load a layout, what you are loading is actually a file that contains
>layout information for ALL rooms, not just the room you are currently in. So,
>what you need to do is set up ALL the rooms the way you want them, and then exit
>the program. That will save your own personal layout automatically, meaning that
>all rooms will be just like you last left them. If you do this, you should never
>need to explicitly load a layout again.
>
>Of course, just like you back up the data on your hard drive, it might be a good
>idea to save your layout once you are sure that you have all of the rooms "just
>right". Then if anything goes wrong, caused by either you or the program, you
>can just load that "backup" layout and everything should be restored.
>
>jm

Thanks John. I had no idea that loading a layout in one room would change the
layouts in the other rooms. I followed your suggestion and hopefully my problem
has been solved.

Dave



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