- I
wouldn't mind being able to customize
a distinctive sound
for a few more "events." For
example, I wouldn't mind being able to hear my
choice of a sound when a friend who is on my notify
list logs on. Hopefully, of
course, I'll catch the text on the screen that
informs me of this, but I wouldn't mind hearing a
distinctive sound
for this. There are a few other
"events" that I wouldn't mind being
able to customize this way.
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- With
my the old DOS ZIICS program, (my favorite
interface before WinBoard) the game clock for you
was always underneath
the clock of your opponent. (I notice that the
popular BlitzIn interface has it this way as
well.) Although I'm used to it now, for awhile I'm
not sure I cared for the game clocks being side-to-side
as they are in WinBoard. With
ZIICS, you always knew that your
clock was at the bottom. With WinBoard, depending
on what color you are, sometimes your clock is
the left one... sometimes it's the right one...
(I DO enjoy being able to configure the fonts
size for these clocks!) If they clocks can't be
underneath one another, how about the option for
your opponent's clock size to be slightly smaller
than your clock? This would help to immediately
differentiate the two.
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- I'd
like to see an option to
"flash last move" or "blink last
move" along with
"highlight last move." I always have highlight
last move turned off,
because as I study the position, those two
highlighted boxes, on the "from" and
"to" squares, are distracting to me.
But I would like another way to see my opponent's
last move other than the "animate
moving" option. I think it would be ideal to
have an option to see the piece my opponent just
moved, just for a moment, blink once or twice on
the "from" square and then on the
"to" square.
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- Along
a similar note, how about having the "highlight
last move" option simply highlight my opponent's
move? Shoot, I know
where I moved last! (Once again, those two
highlighted boxes can be rather distracting.)
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- When
I type "exit" and exit a chess server,
the WinBoard program logs me out from the server
and then immediately shuts down! Sometimes
I exit one server simply because I feel like
logging onto another, or possibly to log back on
to the same server as a guest. I'm not sure why
the entire program has to quit completely, since
I then have to start it up again. (Also, the
program shuts down so fast that I miss each the
chess server's closing screens!) When I type
"exit" while on the server, I think I'd
like to just have the server log me out, and have
the WinBoard program stay open.
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- I'd
like the ability to load more than one
"mood." Although I can get around
this by simply having more than one
"winboard.ini" file, which saves all of
my current colors, board sizes, etc., I'd
like to be able to, from right inside the
program, click on LOAD MOOD 1 or LOAD MOOD 2,
which would then load an entirely different set
of color values, ICS menu box values, etc.
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- While
I'm playing a game on FICS, I'd
like to see an option for WinBoard to suppress
the "fics%" prompt,
so that doesn't fill the screen when I'm playing
a game. I see no reason for that prompt and it
should be a simple matter to simply not display
it on the screen if so desired.
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