amanetti

Is there any possibility of a fix? While message time stamps may be of low or no priority in the scheme of things, the lack of this feature is one of those irritants that become more vexing each time a broadcast is received announcing that some event is to start in some unknown time in the future.

I've had a lot of fun playing against the 'Bots. Admittedly, they have their maddening quirks. but, like any 'idiot savant', they do a lot of things amazingly well. When something goes awry, I remember what someone said about a singing dog: "It's not that it sings poorly but that it sings at all". In any event, I don't know if the product is still being maintained. If it is, I hope the feedback will result in improving the code. If nothing else, such information is helpful to those using the program. AM

I agree. While unconditionally imestamping all messages might look ugly, I think it would be useful to do so selectively. Several approaches come to mind. 1. Have some way to query the BBO cliient for a specific mesage using a point and click operation. 2. Embed a special string in the text that causes the BBO client to replace the string with the current time -- much like the strings used when you want BBO to display the suit symbols. 3. Have the BBO client periodically insert the local time into the chat window. That would at least allow the reader to bracket the arrival time.