I also don't use the arrow highlighting for the same reason and think we should keep this functionality, perhaps we should add it to Winboard if it is missing there?
It was ported from WinBoard.
I guess the normal highlighting works, but having the piece move is nice IMO:)
The reason was that with the width of the grid lines set to zero, as people that like to use fancy board textures often do, (and is mandatory on an oriental-style Xiangqi board) the normal highlighting is completely inisible.
So hitting the ctrl key doesn't seem that problematic... We also have almost all functions/menu items on ctrl+... keys, so why make an exception for this one?
Well, if you don't use other formsofhighlighting,I suppose you need it very often. There are reasons for wanting keystrokes to be easy, as well as for wanting them to be difficult. E.g. I very often get complints about F9 (= resign). People get very pissed when they resign acidentally, and blind people frequently hit wrong keys. For the JAWS version of Winboard we decided we did not want to have single-key accelerators for any irreversible action. Fact is thatpeople complain when frequently used actions need two keys. I moved 'backward' and 'forward' to Alt+Arrow, but was pretty much forced to move it back to plain arrows to escape a lynching mob...
If we want to get rid of the key up/down behavior I would suggest to move the piece to the last location wait a few ms and then automatically move it back and don't wait for the key-up event.
The up/down behvior is OK, an not troublesome in any way. The choice of key is. _______________________________________________ Bug-XBoard mailing list Bug-XBoard@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-xboard
