Hi,
I
had a couple of suggestions. The first would be to change the order information
is presented when clicking on the green arrows in the Game Record window. In
Snowie, I like using the MatchQiz buttons, which basically allow me to play
through a match, seeing the dice first and then the move I played. I am forced
to click tice to do this. It allows me to rememebr my decisions, good or bad,
and then see the results. In GNU, it does the opposite. It shows the move and
analysis first when clivcking on the buttons, and only when one clicks a second
time does it show the dice.
The
second suggestion is regarding the Annotation window. I use to resolutions for
GNU: 1024x768 on my desktop, and 800x600 on my laptop (maximum screen
resolution). These are the two most common resolutions used throughout the
world according to the last research I read. In any case, the three ‘buttons’
(not sure what to call them) used for the quality of the move (doubtful, good),
the luck, and the decision to double occupy to lines. It seems to me that they
should fit on a single line, even when the Annotation window is at its
smallest. That is my impression looking at it from my laptop right now. Doing
this would mean being able to see more analysis and less empty grey space. This
has to do with the necessary way I lay out the windows to view them in an
800x600 environment (BTW, just to be a pain in the neck, look up ANY manual on
GUI design, and you will see that multiple windows floating around is
considered a design error – Programmers may not see the issue, but users
do). In 800x600 the only layout I could figure out, is to have the Game Record
on the side of the board, covering it a little, and the Annotation below it,
also covering the all the game info (score, pipcount, etc).
Albert