Version 3.6.1 Available for Testing

[fred]

There are 2 major changes in version 3.6.1:

 

1) Directors will have the ability to request the movie

of any deal from any table at any time. In theory this

will make it much easy for them to do thing like

adjusting scores.

 

You can access this facility through a new command

in the Tournament Management dialog box.

 

2) 1024x768 support.

 

If BBO fills up your computer's entire screen then

you have 800x600 screen resolution and this change

will not have any impact on you.

 

If BBO does not fill up your whole screen, you will

see it's window become wider than normal the next

time you log in. There are a lot of advantages to the

wider version of BBO. I especially like the way the

bridge table looks when you use "big deal mode" in

wide mode (use the 4th button from the right of the

toolbar to toggle between big and small deal modes).

 

You can use Control-W to toggle between wide and

narrow mode. This only works if you have at least

1024x768 screen resolution.

 

Please let me know if you find any bugs by e-mailing:

 

fred@bridgebase.com

 

You can update your BBO to the latest test version:

 

http://www.bridgebase.com/beta361/bbo_update.exe

 

Or replace your BBO installation with the latest:

 

http://www.bridgebase.com/beta361/bbo_setup.exe

 

If you are either a director or have a high screen

resolution, I think you will enjoy this version :D

 

Thanks in advance for help with testing and for

whatever feedback you can provide.

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

[uday]

Note: the 3.6.1 client will not have the "Board History" functionality until the the server is also upgraded. Will probably happen sometime late on Feb/10/04

 

You'll know the server has been updated when you see two new commands in the Tourney Directors "Edit Tourney" dialog (this is the screen you see when you click the green TABLE button inside a tourney)

[uday]

I am hearing rumours that the wider screen is only available if your screen resolution is higher than 1024x768 ( that is, 1024x768 will not result in a wider screen).

[fred]

I am hearing rumours that the wider screen is only available if your screen resolution is higher than 1024x768 ( that is, 1024x768 will not result in a wider screen).

The rumors are true - sorry - I screwed up.

 

New copies of the files referred to in the first post

in this thread have now been uploaded. 1024x768

resolution should enough to get the wide client

effect if you upgrade to the latest version.

 

If you already tried the flawed 3.6.1 and you have

1024x768 resolution, download and install again

and use Control-W after you log in to enter wide

client mode.

 

Sorry again about this inconvenience.

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

[ack_hh]

Win98 SE, 1024x768, High-color 16 bit, 3.6.1 updated update :D

 

Main Bridge Club: Ctrl-W results in the scrollbar being displayed within the kibitzers column.

 

Table: pressing Ctrl-W twice results in a smaller chat window, just like clicking on Maximize/Restore. The Maximize/Restore pushbutton becomes "disabled" (greyed), but it it still working.

[beky]

Hi all,

just install the new 3.6.1, ctrl+w work it and double clik in the bar on the top open the chat in the bottom, i dont see nothing different for see score 'cause dont find a new command in the Tournament Management dialog box (seems the old command, no new line or new box) what command line have to find?

Tks and have a nice day

Beky

[uday]

The new commands won't be available until the server is updated (see Post #2 in this thread). I couldnt update the server last night, but i'll try for tonight.

[julie5607]

Bug Report? Using 3.61 beta seems that the control key shortcuts at table don't work, i.e. ctrl-l doesn't send a message to the lobby, it stays to the room.

 

Julie

[ack_hh]

Bug Report? Using 3.61 beta seems that the control key shortcuts at table don't work, i.e. ctrl-l doesn't send a message to the lobby, it stays to the room.

 

Julie

cannot confirm that - ctrl-L, ctrl-K, ctrl-T and ctrl-B are working fine for me

[fred]

Win98 SE, 1024x768, High-color 16 bit, 3.6.1 updated update :D

 

Main Bridge Club: Ctrl-W results in the scrollbar being displayed within the kibitzers column.

 

Table: pressing Ctrl-W twice results in a smaller chat window, just like clicking on Maximize/Restore. The Maximize/Restore pushbutton becomes "disabled" (greyed), but it it still working.

Thanks for the bug reports, Andreas.

 

The scrollbar problem you report seems to happen if

you hit Control-W from any place in which there is a

(non-chat) scrollbar. This will be fixed in the next version.

 

The fact that the window always ends up in "restored"

size after Control-W is intentional. There were some bad

side effects that I could not easily get rid of when I tried

to preserve the maxmized state.

 

I don't anticipate that people will be using Control-W very

often so hopefully this is no big deal. I suspect that people

with at least 1024x768 will choose either wide or narrow

and stick with that.

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

[fred]

Bug Report? Using 3.61 beta seems that the control key shortcuts at table don't work, i.e. ctrl-l doesn't send a message to the lobby, it stays to the room.

 

Julie

Thanks for the report, Julie, but so far I have been

unable to replicate this.

 

Anyone else seeing this happen?

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

[julie5607]

Thinking there might be something wrong with my install of BBO, I completely uninstalled it, searched for all BBO related files and deleted them, restarted my system, and reinstalled the beta. Still no keyboard shortcuts. So I repeated the process of completely uninstalling and deleting and reinstalled the current version - keyboard shortcuts are back again. I don't know why I am the only one who has had this problem but clearly it is related to the beta in some way.

 

Hope this helps,

 

Julie

[inquiry]

Don't know if this is a bug...but when not online and loading a hand, the system opens in the larger mode and the CNTL-W toggle doesn't work. :-(

 

Ben

[spwdo]

hi,

 

 

after u use control-w , sometimes the up-down arrow in the tournemant area becomes inactive, so not possible to scroll down or up to go to table(in table overview)

[McBruce]

I am both a director and have a 1600x1200 screen, so I appreciate this update very very much. One suggestion. On my large screen it is a long mouse trek from the cards to the buttons below the enlarged chat area. I wonder if it would be possible to include an option to place the back, <--, -->, <-->, movie, etc., buttons at the top of the chat area instead of below.

[Frosty]

No more chat bubbles - THANK YOU UDAY!!!!!

:)

Frosty/Jan

[ack_hh]

pls have a look at http://home.arcor.de/akaestner/temp/bbo.jpg

 

note the "Private" instead of "Name" in the profile.

[fred]

pls have a look at http://home.arcor.de/akaestner/temp/bbo.jpg

 

note the "Private" instead of "Name" in the profile.

This picture is as it should be.

 

You saw the profile this way because you were

logged in with a yellow ID. "Blue" users would

see nothing in the profile except "no information

available". This member unchecked the "allow

other members to see the above info" in their

profile.

 

We decided to let yellows see such information

in order to help them resolve disciplinary problems

with such people (a questionable design decision).

 

The PRIVATE is meant to inform the yellows that

the information you see is not meant for public

consumption (ie you should be sensitive to the

privacy of this person).

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

[ack_hh]

The PRIVATE is meant to inform the yellows that

the information you see is not meant for public

consumption (ie you should be sensitive to the

privacy of this person).

*grmpf* I am really sorry for that - will remove the screenshot immediately.

[sceptic]

when I use control W and make the screen smaller, I get half the green movie button missing from view, I run XP home with athlon xp2000 and Nvida 420 graphics card. if that make a difference

[inquiry]

I think if you click movie, open the movie viewer, and tehn close movie this "problem" disappears... at least on my computer it does

[ecepal]

hi ,

I have been informed that in HUMANS tourney board 2 misbid is allowed,

player was harryr and the bidding went 3!d....1!s

thanks ece.

[inquiry]

New bug...

 

In chat room in 3.6.1 in wide screen mode, the three button bars that allow you to put in the hands you hold, the auction and the leave chat room appear in the middle of the screen with scrollable text above and below it. When I go to the narrow version, (cntrl-w) all is fine. When I go back, screwed up again.

 

Windows xp professional.

 

Ben

[fred]

New bug...

 

In chat room in 3.6.1 in wide screen mode, the three button bars that allow you to put in the hands you hold, the auction and the leave chat room appear in the middle of the screen with scrollable text above and below it. When I go to the narrow version, (cntrl-w) all is fine. When I go back, screwed up again.

 

Windows xp professional.

 

Ben

Thanks for noticing this Ben. The fix will appear in the

next beta version (along with all kind of exciting surprises).

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

[inquiry]

Another situation... which is particularily odd....but probably a server problem, not a client problem. I logged on today... was on for about 20 minutes, minding my own business (not playing, occassionally chatting with friends), in the main lobby. All of a sudden a public chat from a player to the kibitizers came on my screen....

 

This was odd because, like I said, I had not been on a table in 24 hours, and had not been at the same table with this player in at least a couple of months. So this chat was aimed at a table, imagine something like..

 

"playerx--> kibitizers: what a stupid play???"

 

I would think maybe the table this message was going too died in mid transit, but then how did I see it as I have lobby chat off. Would everyone by default be kibitzers in this case? Anyway, I have heard others mention this happening, but this is a first for me.

 

Ben