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Subject: Re: What do you think of the announced GUI for windows Rebel?

Author: Lex Loep

Date: 00:55:40 05/27/99

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On May 26, 1999 at 22:29:07, Micheal Cummings wrote:

>
>On May 26, 1999 at 10:21:55, Lex Loep wrote:
>
>>On May 26, 1999 at 09:18:15, Chris Carson wrote:
>>
>>>You have a nice product.  I think most of the comments center
>>>around the initial board loaded at startup.  In my opinion,
>>>if you load a 2D board (blue/grey or green/off white) with
>>>the standard pieces (see rebel or winboard) and have the
>>>other boards as options, then you will solve most of the
>>>issues people are voicing.
>>>
>>>I have looked at your product and I think it is a nice
>>>gui, just need to load a 2D board/pieces as the default.
>>>
>>>Best Regards,
>>>Chris Carson
>>
>>The initial default depends on the screen resolution, on 640x480 it defaults to
>>a 2D board. The 3D board is there because the company who sells it in holland
>>wanted 3D as it looks nice on the box.
>>I will consider chainging the default for the Rebel-CP product.
>>
>>Lex Loep
>>Lokasoft
>>feedback@lokasoft.nl
>>http://www.lokasoft.nl/uk/
>
>I am sure it was your program if not ignore this, but I think when I enlarged
>your 2d board that the pieces went from looking nice to shocking, it seems that
>larger versions of your 2d pieces do not like to be seen like that. That was
>very annoying.
>

The pieces are bitmaps which looks best at their orginal size, better looking
pieces of different sizes will become available, see also Ed's posting.

Regards

Lex Loep
Lokasoft
feedback@lokasoft.nl
http://www.lokasoft.nl/uk/


>Regards
>
>Micheal



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