Re: [Bug-gnubg] Loading command files

[Jim Segrave]

On Tue 10 Sep 2002 (14:29 +0100), Ian Shaw wrote:
> I created a file with all the settings I like when using tutor mode.
> 
> When loading this file with File ... Open ... Commands it works fine except
> that I get a load of dialogue boxes with things like cube analysis set to
> 1-ply etc.
> Each of these has to OKed in turn, which is quite annoying.
> 
> Can these messages be suppressed when using the GUI? I don't think it would
> be a problem on the CLI because you don't have to respond to it.

Good suggestion. I would think that it should be easy to have a global
flag to say that you're running a command file and suppress these
dialogs. The really crude thing would be to temporarily turn off the
flag that says it's not using a graphical display, but that might
cause some bad things to happen elsewhere. I've not looked, but I'm
pretty sure that it should be easy to find all the dialogue popups and
turn them off if running a command file.

But easier is to put 'set messages on' in your command file and all
this stuff goes to that window.
 
> Another nicety would be to have a numbered list of the last n files (sgf,
> mat, or whatever) opened as an extension to the file menu, MS Office style.
> I don't know if this is an OK thing to do in Unix land, though.

It's not a sin in the Unix world. Don't know how hard it is to do
though.

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Jim Segrave           address@hidden