BBO Web-client Thread 7

[0 carbon]

...Unless you have a big monitor, the vertical space taken up by these controls rates to have an adverse impact on user experience. You can get around this problem by hitting the F11 key after the software loads.

Alas, the flash i/f, at least in FF3, does not allow F11 to maximise the screen. You have to do this BEFORE you run the client flash.

 

tOM

[sfbp]

And.... GIB button is gone when reviewing offline hands. Sigh.

 

Minor detail in CC editor, you cannot lead J from KQJx :)

[mtvesuvius]

Minor detail in CC editor, you cannot lead J from KQJx :)

Wow, wd Fred... Your convention card editor is good at bridge!

[barmar]

The new version still has the bug I reported a few weeks ago when kibitzing a team match. The report of the result at the other table is often for a different board.

[Oof Arted]

We sign up for subbing in any game and suddenly

 

Subbing works much the same in both versions, except that in the web version you have the ability to sign up for 'any Tournament' while in the windows version you can only sign up for specific tourneys.

 

A TD who cares is expected to look at the list and pick the one he wants . Some of them doubtless pick 'any sub' then replace that sub if they dont like what they get. that isn't too nice.

 

U

:huh:

 

 

Uday does this feature of TD being able to pick from a displayed list only exsist in Client

 

I would love to be able to pick subs but dont get chance under normalWindows

 

:rolleyes:

[fred]

The new version still has the bug I reported a few weeks ago when kibitzing a team match. The report of the result at the other table is often for a different board.

Thanks for reporting this (again).

 

This is a server bug that I thought Uday had fixed. I will let him know that the bug is still present.

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

[sfbp]

Minor detail in CC editor, you cannot lead J from KQJx :)

Wow, wd Fred... Your convention card editor is good at bridge!

Huh?

 

There is all the reason in the world for wanting to be able to lead the J from this combination, or the Q from AKQ, according to how sophisticated your carding agreements are. Presumably yours are not......

[Phil]

My cc's are working nicely. This is a long awaited add-on - thanks!

 

Now....

 

- any suit symbols going to be added?

- choice of font sizes would be nice

 

probably the best thing a cc could have would be a hyperlink to an external page for system notes....;)

[fred]

My cc's are working nicely. This is a long awaited add-on - thanks!

 

Now....

 

- any suit symbols going to be added?

- choice of font sizes would be nice

 

probably the best thing a cc could have would be a hyperlink to an external page for system notes....:)

You can include suit symbols in the standard BBO way - !S will produce a spade symbol, for example.

 

The suit symbols will appear as suit symbols only when you are "viewing" an ACBL convention card (ie not when you are "editing"). Also, you can change the font size in view mode through buttons at the top of the convention card. Changing the font size in view mode will result in the font size being changed in edit mode as well.

 

In theory your choice of font size will be remembered, but the software relies on a "cookie" in order for this to work. So, if you have disabled cookies in your browser, you will have to set the font size every time.

 

I like your external system notes idea. Maybe I will do something along those lines in some future version.

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

[barmar]

Does that cookie thing mean that when someone else views your CC, they're going to see it in THEIR font size, not the size you used?

[fred]

Does that cookie thing mean that when someone else views your CC, they're going to see it in THEIR font size, not the size you used?

Yes. In general browsers are restricted from accessing the user's hard drive, but they are allowed to create and open small files (cookies) if the user lets them. As far as I can tell, the default setting in most browsers is to allow cookies.

 

Setting the font size on a given computer will result in all CCs edited or viewed on that computer appearing with that font size - it will not have any impact on the font size that appears under any circumstances on a different computer.

 

If you log in with a different BBO user ID on the same computer, you will see the same font size.

 

If you log in with the same BBO user ID on a different computer, you will see the other computer's font size.

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

[mink]

If I have finished playing in a tourney and kib at the last table until the tourney really ends, I can see my scores for the boards and the travellers of each board, but the display of the current hand below the list never changes - the last board of the tourney is displayed all time.

 

I was able to reproduce this in several tourneys.

 

Karl

[fred]

If I have finished playing in a tourney and kib at the last table until the tourney really ends, I can see my scores for the boards and the travellers of each board, but the display of the current hand below the list never changes - the last board of the tourney is displayed all time.

 

I was able to reproduce this in several tourneys.

 

Karl

Do you mean that you click on a line in the list of results and the display of the actual deal does not change?

 

If/when convenient, can you tell me if the same thing happens if you do not join another table as a kibitzer when you finish playing?

 

Thanks,

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

[mink]

Do you mean that you click on a line in the list of results and the display of the actual deal does not change?

Exactly.

 

If/when convenient, can you tell me if the same thing happens if you do not join another table as a kibitzer when you finish playing?

When I was kibbing at another table of the same tourney, the problem always occurred, and when I was at no table when the tourney finished, there has never been such a problem.

 

Karl

[fred]

Do you mean that you click on a line in the list of results and the display of the actual deal does not change?

Exactly.

 

If/when convenient, can you tell me if the same thing happens if you do not join another table as a kibitzer when you finish playing?

When I was kibbing at another table of the same tourney, the problem always occurred, and when I was at no table when the tourney finished, there has never been such a problem.

 

Karl

Thanks Karl. Just 1 more question (hopefully):

 

Does this behavior happen while you are kibitzing at another table or only after the tournament is completely finished?

 

Thanks,

 

Fred

[mink]

Sorry, I did not try it. I always either did not kibitz at all, or, if I kibitzed, I did it until the end of the tourney and did not touch the results of other boards before that.

 

Before I start kibitzing everything is ok, of course.

 

Karl

[fred]

Sorry, I did not try it. I always either did not kibitz at all, or, if I kibitzed, I did it until the end of the tourney and did not touch the results of other boards before that.

 

Before I start kibitzing everything is ok, of course.

 

Karl

I was able to replicate the bug. It will be fixed in the next version.

 

Thanks a lot for your help.

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

[A2003]

http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?sho...30entry380678

 

I tried to do this in handviewer and save it MY hand Folder.

It shows as 2009-6-15.

Then I tried to load this in teaching table and checked thru GIB to see the results.

Then I saved it as new hand with variations of plays.

Link to the hand only. 5C Hand

It shows as 2009-6-15 with different time.

 

Is it not supposed to show 2009-7-15 today's date?

[fred]

http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?sho...30entry380678

 

I tried to do this in handviewer and save it MY hand Folder.

It shows as 2009-6-15.

Then I tried to load this in teaching table and checked thru GIB to see the results.

Then I saved it as new hand with variations of plays.

Link to the hand only. 5C Hand

It shows as 2009-6-15 with different time.

 

Is it not supposed to show 2009-7-15 today's date?

Every hand you save has a title associated with it. The purpose of the title is to help make it easier for you to find a given hand from a long list of hands.

 

If you do not provide a title, the software will create one for you based on the date when you saved the file.

 

If you later save a new copy of the hand the default is to use the same title as the original copy. If you want the software to create a title based on a the date in which the hand was re-saved, get rid of the old title when you "save-as".

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

[A2003]

I just created a hand and saved it and it creates a one month older name.

[fred]

I just created a hand and saved it and it creates a one month older name.

I see what you mean now.

 

Turns out Flash considers months to be zero-based (January=0, February=1...). I will fix it in the next version.

 

Thanks for noticing and reporting this.

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

[bb79]

There is a little bug in the bidding table. Here is the situation I encountered. Other players are robots. Normally you can press undo and take back your previous bids. Say, you bid 5 rounds and want to change your very first bid. If you click undo multiple times repeatedly to get back to your first bid (impatiently, e.g. 4 clicks in a second), the bidding choices in the bottom right corner disappears and you can't bid anymore with the current deal, you need to redeal... If you wait for the confirmation "undo accepted" after each undo click, there isn't a problem.

 

Burak

I was not able to replicate this problem, but I think I understand why it might happen in some circumstances.

 

There will be another version coming out before too long (likely within a few weeks). When that happens we will announce it in Forums. If you notice that announcement and don't mind trying to force the bug to happen again and letting me know if the problem still exists, I would appreciate it.

 

Thanks,

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

 

Hello,

The bug I reported in the comments thread 6 still seems to exist. It usually happens when I use my touchpad in my laptop, the "impatient" tapping may simulate a higher clicking rate. I uploaded the screenshots before and after undo.

 

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/6797/bborepbefore.jpg

http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/7485/bborepafter.jpg

[fred]

There is a little bug in the bidding table. Here is the situation I encountered. Other players are robots. Normally you can press undo and take back your previous bids. Say, you bid 5 rounds and want to change your very first bid. If you click undo multiple times repeatedly to get back to your first bid (impatiently, e.g. 4 clicks in a second), the bidding choices in the bottom right corner disappears and you can't bid anymore with the current deal, you need to redeal... If you wait for the confirmation "undo accepted" after each undo click, there isn't a problem.

 

Burak

I was not able to replicate this problem, but I think I understand why it might happen in some circumstances.

 

There will be another version coming out before too long (likely within a few weeks). When that happens we will announce it in Forums. If you notice that announcement and don't mind trying to force the bug to happen again and letting me know if the problem still exists, I would appreciate it.

 

Thanks,

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

 

Hello,

The bug I reported in the comments thread 6 still seems to exist. It usually happens when I use my touchpad in my laptop, the "impatient" tapping may simulate a higher clicking rate. I uploaded the screenshots before and after undo.

 

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/6797/bborepbefore.jpg

http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/7485/bborepafter.jpg

Thanks for sticking with this - as usual, a picture is worth 1000 words.

 

The problem will be fixed in the next version.

 

In the mean time, you can get around the problem by removing and then adding one of the robots when the table is in this state.

 

Fred Gtielman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

[mink]

I tried to use chat to give an url to my partner, but did not succeed because the url contained a ~ character. The ~ was replaced by a blank, thereby splitting the url.

 

Karl

[fred]

I tried to use chat to give an url to my partner, but did not succeed because the url contained a ~ character. The ~ was replaced by a blank, thereby splitting the url.

 

Karl

Sorry - there is not much I can do about this.

 

~ is one of several characters that are "control characters" in the Windows client. Such characters need to be eliminated from all chat messages. In principle we could do this eliminating, as needed, on the receiving end. However, that sort of change is not going to happen (sorry).

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com