Re: [Bug-gnubg] Suggestions for enhancement/improvement, Windows version

[Joern Thyssen]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:58:58AM -0800, Billie Patterson wrote
> gnubg developers:
> 
> My thanks for a great program.  I've always wanted to learn
> to play backgammon well, and now that I've retired, this is
> the program to help me do it.  My suggestions are:
> 
> 1)  The program appears to be written for a display setting
> of 1024x768.  But us older folks don't see the screen well
> at that setting -- I run at 800x600.  At 800x600, some of
> the screens that open off the menu are too long for the
> screen, and you can barely get to the OK or the cancel
> button on them.  Please either design for the 800x600
> setting, or rearrange the long screens so that we can see
> all the information.

Can you tell which dialog it is?

> 2)  The screen has a LOT of unused real estate, but if you
> resize it smaller, the bg board shrinks as well (vision
> problem for us elders again).  I haven't seen anything
> appear on those big gray wings yet, but I'm a raw beginner.
>  However, I assume that you're displaying all additional
> information in separate windows.  How about shrinking the
> window horizontally so that it's not much larger than the
> board?  Or take some of the info displayed at the bottom
> and move it to the side, and then shrink the screen
> vertically AND horizontally.  That way we can have
> additional windows open without having them overlap.

This has been discussed extensively on both the list and on
rec.games.backgammon.

gnubg's board scales in steps of 108x72 pixels, so with a screen
resolution of 800x600 the maximum board available is 756x504 which is
80% of your screen real estate. However, due to window decorations, the
menus, toolbar etc. you'll probably only get 648x432 or 63% -- and you
may even have to disable "show position ID and match ID" as well as
"show dice below board" (Settings->Apperance->General in 0.13 or
Settings->Options->Display in "trunk") to get this.

Jørn