Re: [Bug-gnubg] Proposal for handling different rollout settings

[Hardy Hübener]

Hi,


I am still not satisfied with the way, different settings are handled by 
gnubg. Especially for rollouts I have to change a lot of settings 
frequently. Easily you can mis-tune gnubg if you are not very carefully.

I understand that via the command line you can save and load settings. 
Still, I am not really impressed by features that can only be controlled 
by a command line. Okay, perhaps I am too much a windows user ... ;-)

I therfore make the following proposal: Offer both in the analysis 
window and the hint window the possibility, to conduct rollouts at 
different settings. Those sets can be definded by the user and are 
available in the two windows as buttons, similar like the 1,2,3,4 
buttons for the evaluation.

That's how it could look:

http://www.hardyhuebener.de/tmp/bug-gnubg_improved_rollout_funtionality.png

The buttons "A" to "D" represent the different rollout settings. This is 
somehow similar to Snowie's feature, which offers two buttons for 
rollouts: "Mini-Rollout" and "Rollout". Just a bit better even.


Sorry if I am pressing too hard to turn gnubg from a Mercedes into a 
Porsche ;-)  


Hardy ....a spoiled user :)

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