Re: [Bug-gnubg] New Options menu

[Joern Thyssen]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 09:59:11AM -0000, Ian Shaw wrote
> Nardy's build 16 Jan 03. 
> 
> I really like the new Options screen. I think it's much clearer than the old 
> one, and the tooltips are fab.
> 
> Generally, tooltips do not show if the option is greyed out. Ideally,
> tooltips should always be available. Is this something outside of
> GnuBg's control?

Most likely. I checked the GTK+ API manual, and it doesn't look like we
can control it. 

A possible (untested!) work-around is to put each button in a box and
assign the tooltips to the box instead of the button.

Do we want this behaviour or not?

> MET... displaying the MET currently selected would help. How about a
> selection box like the one for selecting boards? Or a button with a
> list like the RNG selection list?

The problem with a selection list is that any file is potentially a MET
file, whereas all board designs are stored in a single file (well, two
files). 

I can send you the new Thyssen match equity tables that is a series of
METs based on the number of beers consumed by the players. So you save
these into C:\CRAP. How should gnubg know which files to show in a
selection list?

Possible solutions :

(a) show only files from the default match equity directory
    (not good as the directory easily contains on-MET files)
(b) show only .xml files from the default match equity directory
    (we're back to the extension-discussion.... gnubg does not require
    the met to be named .xml, you can use .met if you like)
(c) put all METs inside one large file. 
    (requires a lot of programming)


> (Is it possible to make the show version info from the Help...

It should be available from Help->about (or the command "show version").

Jørn