pgeorges wrote:
Hi!
>> I would appreciate though if we could generate a
>> "Play"-Menue (call it whatever). The Tools menue gets a bit
>> long and IMHO also some restructuring would do it some good.
>> "Start First/Second Engine" e.g. IMHO does not to have such
>> a prominent place as one uses the hotkey anyway. Probably on
>> CE. But I think all Training functions should go to some
>> "Play" menue, I could add Correspondence Chess there which
>> involves some items.
>
> To change menus should be easy as there should not be much
> side effect, except for the translation process which
> relies on menu names.
This effect can be limited if we just place menue items
there that where added to scid with your additions (as far
as this is possible).
> But this should be quite easy and a "play/training" menu
> makes sense.
I would consider something like this suitable below such a
Play/Training menue.
Play / Serious Game
/ Tactical Game
/ ----------
/ Training / Openings
/ Tactics
/ Calculation of Variations
/ ----------
/ Book tuning
/ ----------
/ Connect Hardware / Novag
/ Input Engine
/ ----------
/ Internet
/ Correspondence Chess
To give you some feeling my two cents add they following
menues (at the moment):
Tools / Export Current Game / Export to OpenChess...
Tools / Export All Filter Games / Export to OpenChess...
Tools / Import from OpenChess...
Input Engine / Configure
/ -------------
/ Togge Connect
/ Syncronise
/ <probably one or two others>
Correspondence Chess / Configure
/ -------------------
/ Open Default Database
/ -------------------
/ Retrieve Games ...
/ Process Inbox
/ -------------------
/ Previous Game
/ Next Game
/ -------------------
/ Send Move...
/ Resign...
/ Claim Draw...
/ Offer Draw...
/ Accept Draw...
/ -------------------
/ Mail Move...
Additionally I'd suggest the following changes to the
current menues:
Tools / Open base as tree
Tools / Open recent base as tree
IMHO should be in "File". I'm also thinking about an
File / Reference DB / Open
/ As Tree
where I could specify a large ref. DB via the Options menue.
IMHO this comes in handy for analysis. Though it is
redundant if one uses less than 5 DBs frequently.
For the "Hotkey-Menu-Items"
Tools / Start Engine 1
Tools / Start Engine 2
one could consider probably be something like
Tools / Analysis Engine #1 / Select Ctrl-Shift-A
/ Start Engine 1 F1
Tools / Analysis Engine #2 / Select Ctrl-Shift-2
/ Start Engine 2 F2
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