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Interface layout Suggestion toward enhanced usability ... #67

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richiwalt opened this issue Aug 2, 2016 · 4 comments
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Interface layout Suggestion toward enhanced usability ... #67

richiwalt opened this issue Aug 2, 2016 · 4 comments

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@richiwalt
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richiwalt commented Aug 2, 2016 •
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I LOVE this plugin ... using it a LOT !!!

I do LOTS of Custom Setups ... (setting up for the black pieces are quick and easy, ...
but setting up for white takes much longer with a touch pad type mouse ... the piece-selection items for White pieces is currently at the top of the chessboard ... which typically opposite of the board where the pieces are most often placed ... this requires a lot of back-and-forth mouse travel - which is kind of painful for mousepad users, like myself.

Would it be better to have one row for the BLACK-piece selection items at the TOP (where it is now) ... and move the WHITE-piece sections row to the BOTTOM of the chess board, closer to where they are typically set up? ... This would shorten the back-and-forth mouse trips between different piece selection and make for quicker, easier setups. :-)

Not a big deal for regular mouse users, but a HUGE advantage for mousepad users!

(Of course enabling the "Flip Board" view setting would cause the piece-selection colors to flip as well ... )

Perhaps this is a lot of code ... but, it would certain enhance functionality ... pretty good GUI design already, but this would be a possible improvement.

(apologies, but I can not seem to figure out how to convert this post from an issue to a FEATURE REQUEST ).
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yo35 commented Aug 7, 2016

Hi,
The toolbar used to be split before version 3.4, but I didn't like the look of the resulting GUI. Also, splitting the toolbar would cause some layout issues with the other elements in the popup such as the undo/redo buttons.
Another solution to fasten the edition of custom position would be to introduce some keyboard shortcuts to enable such of piece selection button. What do you think of it?

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Interesting idea ... Keyboard shortcuts. I'm kind of looking foreword to,trying that ... Do you need any beta testers ?

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On Aug 7, 2016, at 2:25 AM, Yoann Le Montagner [email protected] wrote:

Hi,
The toolbar used to be split before version 3.4, but I didn't like the look of the resulting GUI. Also, splitting the toolbar would cause some layout issues with the other elements in the popup such as the undo/redo buttons.
Another solution to fasten the edition of custom position would be to introduce some keyboard shortcuts to enable such of piece selection button. What do you think of it?

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yo35 commented Aug 11, 2016

I will try to work on this in a few days. If your OK, I will send you a proof of concept to get your feedback on the keyboard shortcuts feature.

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yo35 commented Aug 31, 2016

Released in RPB Chessboard version 4.4.

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