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

[Joern Thyssen]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 12:54:21PM -0800, Billie Patterson wrote
> > > 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?
> 
> Settings->Players is one.
> 
> If I click on Windows->Message, the message window opens
> completely off my screen, so that I can't get to it at all.
>  Same thing with Windows->Game Record.
> 
> > 
> > > 2)  The screen has a LOT of unused real estate, but if
> > you
> 
> <snipped>
> 
> > 
> > This has been discussed extensively on both the list and
> > on
> > rec.games.backgammon.
> 
> Can you point me to a thread?  I've looked through the list
> and don't see an obvious thread discussing it.
> 
> Also, I can't find the rec.games.backgammon archives.  One

rec.games.backgammon:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=rec.games.backgammon&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en

gnubg mailing list:

http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnubg/

> > 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.
> 
> I'm not sure what scalability has to do with pulling in the
> wide wings or moving things from the bottom of the board to
> one side.  If that were done, those of us running at lower
> resolutions wouldn't have to resize anyway, and would still
> be able to see the whole screen, and others that we might
> want to run as well.  People running at higher resolutions
> don't scale to smaller anyhow.

Try making a screen shot of you entire windows desktop running gnubg
maximised, and

(1) count the pixels used by the task bar
(2) count the pixels used by window decorations (the frame around the
    window)
(3) count the pixels used by the status bar in gnubg
(4) count the pixels used by the gnubg toolbar 
(5) count the pixels used by the gnubg menu

sum these figures up, subtract it from 800 to give you the maximum
number of pixels (vertically) available to the board. Divide the number
by 72 and throw away the fractional part. This gives you the maximum
size of the board you can get  if we move the stuff from below the board
to next to the board.

If this number is, say, 5, the maxium size is 540x360.

Redo the same calculation but now add 

(6) the size of the stuff below the board

If the final number from this calculation is smaller than from the
first, we may consider moving some of the stuff!

I would very much like to see these numbers!

Jørn