Re: [Bug-gnubg] GTK Rolls

[Gary Wong]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 10:08:53AM +0100, ?ystein Johansen wrote:
> Though I haven't tried the GTK rolls widget yet, I think I can imagine what
> it does. I must admit that I dont think this is very useful. Is that only
> me?

I think it's somewhat useful.  For instance, when suspicious of a rollout
result, it is common to ask questions like "is gnubg hitting or escaping
the blockade on its 5s?", which is the sort of thing that "show rolls" is
well suited to.

Besides, we aleady allow the user to choose from 9 different dice
generators, modify the refractive index of the chequers, and compute
dead cube raccoon points -- surely "show rolls" is not as useless as
those things ;-)

> But, what I think would be very useful and interesting is to show a
> histogram of the (cubeful) equity over next rolls. Is it possible to make
> the output of GTK roll a histogra instead of roll three?

I don't see why not, if somebody wants to write it!  (Something similar
has been on the TODO list for ages.)

Cheers,
Gary.
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