Author: Albert Silver
Date: 17:22:49 01/05/04
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On January 05, 2004 at 18:20:32, Robin Smith wrote:
>On January 05, 2004 at 15:31:34, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>>On January 05, 2004 at 14:51:47, Robin Smith wrote:
>>
>>>On January 05, 2004 at 13:16:05, Albert Silver wrote:
>>>
>>>>>although I also think:
>>>>>1) The CB GUI is, as you mention below, more attractive. This is not a small
>>>>>thing, the CA chess boards are not nearly as comfortable to look at for long
>>>>>periods of time. Of course if you set it up and walk away this doesn't matter so
>>>>>much.
>>>>>2) The CB GUI is easier to learn. One example out of hundreds of easier to
>>>>>learn...
>>>>
>>>>Please share another dozen from those hundreds.
>>>>
>>>>cutting a position to the clipboard in CB it is just the windows
>>>>>standard, <ctrl> C, rather than the harder to remember <ctrl> \ of CA.
>>>>
>>>>Actually the correct default shortcut is Ctrl-Ins (this is a standard Windows
>>>>shortcut BTW),
>>>
>>>In CA when you switch from list mode to view mode, and are looking at a game,
>>>crtl-ins does nothing with the clipboard. Only ctrl \ works. ctrl-ins only works
>>>when you go through additional steps. Plus why does CA even have different ways
>>>of cutting to the clipboard? More complexity and another example of harder to
>>>learn.
>>>
>>>>but you are welcome to change any shortcut you dislike, not to
>>>>mention add your own, by going to the Tools menu and selecting "Record View
>>>>Shortcuts...".
>>>
>>>Right, more complexity that would not even be needed if they CA used the windows standard.
>>
>>First of all, Ctrl-Ins and Shift-Ins *are* Windows standards. Go ahead and try
>>them. Highlight some of this text here and instead of Ctrl-C use Ctrl-Ins, then
>>paste it somewhere with Shift-Ins.
>>
>>Second of all, I was unable to reproduce your problem, so perhaps there is a
>>special series of conditions involved. I had a List of games open and I then
>>chose a game and double-clicked on it. I then pressed Ctrl-Ins and pasted it in
>>Word without a hitch. I also varied this by highlighting a game and then
>>pressing the Enter key, and again I immediately hit Ctrl-Ins, and pasted with no
>>problems using either Shift-Ins or Ctrl-V.
>>
>>This issue existed in fact in CA5 but should not exist with CA6 or CA7. The
>>issue stemmed from the fact that the notation pane wasn't always active, and
>>there would be no cursor blinking. In such a case, the clipboard functions would
>>yield nothing, but as mentioned, this should be gone. If you can give a clear
>>way to repeat this, including what version and patch (if any), I'm sure it will
>>be eliminated extremely soon.
>
>I am using CA 7.1 build 711, but I also misspoke above. The real problem I have
>is that in some cases in CA, ctrl-ins cuts the game moves and in other cases it
>cuts the game position. Hot keys should not be context sensitive for such an
>important function.
I´m not quite sure I follow. Ctrl-Ins when used in the View mode should always
copy the entire game into the Windows clipboard in PGN format. If it doesn´t
then something is wrong, and I´d like to know when it isn´t.
>
>Robin
>
>P.S. What is your association with CA/Convekta?
I was a designer for a while, and one of the main ones for CA6, not to mention
diverse other things, such as writing portions of the manual, designed the
multimedia tutorials included in the CA6 supplement, translated CCE into French,
etc.
Albert
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