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Subject: Re: ChessPartner for your mobile phone

Author: Lex Loep

Date: 02:04:55 01/13/04

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On January 13, 2004 at 03:08:40, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote:

>On January 13, 2004 at 02:34:19, Lex Loep wrote:
>
>>On January 13, 2004 at 01:57:50, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote:
>>
>>>On January 12, 2004 at 14:23:36, Lex Loep wrote:
>>>
>>>>Beta version available for download:
>>>>
>>>>http://www.lokasoft.nl/mobile_chesspartner
>>>>
>>>>Lex
>>>
>>>Very nice!
>>>
>>>I tried it on a Sony Ericsson P800.
>>>
>>>- I don't know if the level worked here. I set it to hard but it played
>>>instantly. The phone speed are 153MHz if I remember right, but I don't know how
>>>good it is to run java app. The play was at an advanced beginner level below
>>>1000 Elo (with hard).
>>
>>The beginner level should move at 3 seconds, moderate at 10 seconds and
>>the hard at 30 seconds per move.
>>
>
>Ok, there seems to be a problem here, it always move at 3 sec.
>
>When I get up the level menu I can select each level but the only way to get out
>of this is to click on the 'back' button, maybe this is like 'cancel' and not
>'ok' because when I go into this menu again it is set back to easy.

Thats right, you need to press the OK button which is on the Nokia
the left softkey.

>
>>>- Too small pieces. Maybe SEP800 have higher resolution than other phones, the
>>>result was that the pieces was hard to see. The board scaled to take the width
>>>of the screen.
>>
>>I designed the pieces for a nokia 6100 which has a 128x128 screen, I have
>>planned to include a small selection of piecesets in various sizes.
>>Do you know the resolution of the SEP800 ?
>>
>
>The screen resolution is: 208 (w) x 320 (h) pixler with 4096 colors.

That makes up a nice screen.

>
>>>- The moving of pieces wasn't like I was used too at this phone, eg. with
>>>cliking on from-to square with the stick. Instead there was some arrowkeys at the
>>>bottom to move a cursor.
>>>
>>
>>The program is designed to run on a wide selection of phones, the numbers
>>are the only keys you know for sure are there.
>>
>
>No problem.
>
>The OS is Symbian 7.0 I guess one version newer than the Nokia phones and at
>least the graphiclibrary is different so it's maybe not so easy to combine
>several keying mode. I haven't tried myself to program anything for this phone
>other than adapt some javascripts so I can view chessgames on the web.

There are so many phone out there, it hard to make specific versions for
each phone. Only adapting to the different screen sizes won't be such
problem.

Lex


>
>
>Odd Gunnar



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