Re: [Bug-gnubg] Show move after selected in Hint window

[Jim Segrave]

On Thu 09 Jan 2003 (14:14 +0100), Nardy Pillards wrote:
> Possible to do a Show (selected move) before starting the Tutor?
> 
> Explaining:
> There is a 'difficult' move. I play that move and I ask for Hint.
> Hint tells me: your move isn't the best, there are 2 better ones.
> I look at those moves and pick one of them.
> I click 'move'.
> While Tutor is 'thinking', my old move is still on the board.
> It would be nice to see the move chosen from Hint on the board while Tutor
> is thinking.

How about another command & tool bar button for 'Show possible Moves',
not conected to the tutor window (so you don't get to see the hint
info or the ordering of the moves).

What should happen:
You roll the dice.
You click the 'Show' button.
A popup window appear with four buttones:

next previous play quit

The board goes to the first move in the move list (the routine which
generates moves does them in a fixed order, so there's no hint as to
which is best).

next & previous move the board to the next/previous possible move
(with wraparound).

Play makes the current position into your move
Quit puts the board back.

I haven't time to work on this right now, but it seems a better
learning tool than using the hint window and show. I think it wouldn't
be too hard to do.

You could get RSI with a 11 roll of course.

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Jim Segrave           address@hidden