Re: [Bug-gnubg] New feature: Target help when dragging a chequer

[Jim Segrave]

On Fri 21 Feb 2003 (14:12 +0100), Holger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here is a new feature that helps new users with aiming when dragging a 
> chequer. For advanced but lazy users it might be convenient at least on 
> farther moves.
> 
> It gets invoked when one drags a chequer out of the point it was picked up 
> from and then indicates the possible target points by coloured rectangles. 
> At the moment the colour isn't configurable, I've opted for green, but if 
> desired this shouldn't be hard to change.
> 
> For people who don't like the behaviour I've added an option under 
> Settings|Options|Display. The respective command is "set gui dragtargethelp 
> on|off".
> 
> Before committing my patch to CVS I'd like to ask that someone has a closer 
> look if I've missed something, especially with adding the option and the 
> new command. I did test my patch quite a bit, but you'll never know.

I built a copy and tried it out - it's a nice option for people
who are learning (it would have been very useful to me not so long
ago). I've just committed it to the current branch (only the current
branch, not the 0.13 stable branch).

I suspect that it's possiblle to use the gnubg.gtkrc file to select
the colour for the box, but I'd leave that to someone who knows - I
can't find documentation which tells me what I can use in a gtkrc file
(or how to relate a setting to a particular window or group of
windows. Joern or Oystein probably can tell you how to do this.

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Jim Segrave           address@hidden