Author: John Merlino
Date: 13:01:09 10/30/01
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On October 28, 2001 at 06:41:53, William Penn wrote: >P.S. More suggested new Gameroom operations for CM9k... >(sorry, not highly edited...) > >--Add an option to change the color of the chessboard background, because for >optimum legibility it should not be the same color as the dark squares [as in >CM6k] This can be done by changing the room's "wallpaper". Just go to "Preferences -> Wallpaper" and choose the "Gradient" option. You can also make the gradient any solid color, by making Color 1 and Color 2 be the same color. >--Add a brightness adjustment option for the color of the chessboard squares [as in CM6k] This can be done with the Custom Board. >--Add a simple one-key keyboard toggle operation, to toggle the chessboard to >full screen size [as in early versions of CM and Sargon] This option will be available via the new true-3D sets that are going to be in the next version. >--Add a simple one-key keyboard toggle operation, to toggle the Visual Thinking >chessboard to a larger size (about 2X-3X larger) Not likely to happen, sorry.... >--The Thinking Lines window shows Current Move(s) only 1 ply deep. Increase to >at least 3-5 ply deep [as in CM6k & prior versions] This might be possible, although it would slow things down fairly noticeably (about 2% of the CPU time would be lost to do this, as the process of converting the output from the engine into the formatted output with move numbers takes about 20ms, and it occurs once per second). >--Provide selectable font size and face (regular or bold) for everything. Using >the default windows fonts does not give good user control. The program uses its own font so that it (the program) can have maximum control. Since everything visual is very customized and precise, there is no way we can allow the user to change the font. >--Nobody wants to have the slowdowns associated with running multiple engines >simultaneously, so do away with the multiple engines. There should only be one >engine running at a time, in any instance. So there should not be White, Black, >Chessmaster boxes to check on the Thinking Lines or Visual Thinking windows. >Whatever engine is running would show its results there. Instead of those check >boxes, simply state which engine is running. The engine running will be the >engine selected for the player on the move. So it can either be Chessmaster or >a defined personality. If a different viewpoint is wanted, then the engine >selected for the player on the move can be changed via the Ctrl-G (Set Up Game >Details) window, temporarily or permanently. The latter window may need a bit >of modification to allow this positive control over the engine assigned to each >player. No offense, but we've been over this MANY MANY times. It's ABSOLUTELY REQUIRED and is handled exactly the same way in Winboard (one engine for White and one engine for Black). The only addition for CM was the "Mentor" engine, and there will be better user notification in the next version to tell user when that engine is active. jm
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