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Subject: Re: ChessPartner for your mobile phone

Author: Lex Loep

Date: 05:07:17 01/13/04

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On January 13, 2004 at 05:42:55, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote:

>On January 13, 2004 at 05:04:55, Lex Loep wrote:
>
>>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.
>>
>
>There is a button that usually works as an 'ok' button on this device, clicking
>on the jog-wheel, but it doesn't work on this menu.
>
>I put up some pictures at:
>http://home.online.no/~malin/test/cp-phone.html
>
>On the second picture you can see the levelmenu.

OK, I see. I guess it does not really make to much sense
to have a OK/Cancel on the level menu.

>
>
>>>
>>>>>- 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 newer P900 phone have the same dimention but have 64K colors!
>
>>
>>>
>>>>>- 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.
>>
>
>Yes, this isn't important. If you manage to get the levelmenu to work and double
>size of the pieces it is enough.

I am sure I can do that although my first priority is get all the
technical things working and then concentrate on the graphics.

>The two programs I know of for this phone (see the above html-page) are too
>weak. The first is about 10-1100 at the hardest level and the second crashes too
>often when adjusting it to be stronger.
>
>But! what I would have wanted most was a gameviewer in addition. Imagine to
>download latest games from Wijk aan Zee and play through them all when you sit
>in the car to wait for the wife be finish in the shop.

That would be nice.

Lex


>
>Odd Gunnar



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