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Subject: An Engines Menu

Author: Roger D Davis

Date: 11:04:40 09/05/05

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On September 05, 2005 at 06:31:12, James Constance wrote:

>I've just been using the DOS Rebel XP interface.  I imagine you could get a few
>ideas from that!  How about shuffle book, and automatic annotation, or game
>overview in boards where the engine gives a score to each board, or similar
>little boards in the database window.  I love the Rebel interface :)
>
>A couple of ideas for the pgn database bit which should be easy to implement
>would be a player index (with stats) and tournament index.  That would make it
>good for things like TWIC weekly download.
>
>Best of luck :)


To me, one of the most important aspects of the GUI is to have an Engines menu.
I shouldn't have to dig deep into menus and dialogs to change engines. Once an
engine is installed, it should appear on the Engines menu.

Roger



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