Re: [Bug-gnubg] GNUbg resign offer (was: Bugs in the Windows version of GNU)

[Joern Thyssen]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 07:09:43PM +0100, Holger wrote
> On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 17:04:16 -0800, "Ned Cross" <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> >I bet if you look at the bottom part of the board window (which in your
> >screen-shot is off the bottom of your desktop) you will see a message saying
> >that GNU offers to resign. All you need to do is click on the "thumbs-up"
> >Icon, accepting GNU's resignation and he game will end normally.
> 
> By now I've had enough resign offers from GNUbg :-) to know why the
> programme isn't responding then. But the first times it took a while
> to figure it out. The message in the status bar isn't really obtrusive
> enough. For simple information purposes the status bar is fine. But
> such an important user interaction should be more obvious. A
> presentation like when GNUbg doubles (and (double-)clicking on it to
> accept) would be intuitive.

I've been looking at it, and I have some very simple code that just
shows the cube upon resignations. When clicked you accept the resignation.

However, I would like to improve it.  Any ideas? I personally think
showing the cube can be confusing, so I would rather show something
different, e.g., a white flag (is that a universal symbol?) :-)

Preferably something where it's possible to show the number of points
resigned as well: my idea is a white flag with the number of points
written next to it, but other suggestions are welcome!

Jørn