Clicking on names in chat

[david_c]

Whenever a chat message is displayed, the name of the person who sent it is shown at the front. Usually it's possible to click on the name in order to reply, or right click to do other things. There are a few things which seem a bit odd about this process at the moment:

 

Sometimes (when a person is in a tournament) it isn't possible to click on their name in the chat. That makes sense because you're not allowed to reply to them, but sometimes we might want to use one of the right-click features. So it would be nice if these names were clickable too, except that the message displayed when you hovered over them would be "private chat disallowed" (like it is if you hover over their name in the lobby list).

 

Interestingly, it seems that even when a person's ordinary chat messages are not clickable, if they send a message to kibitzers (or similar) then this copy of their name is clickable. It would be nice if this inconsistency was cleared up.

 

Finally, it seems that when you're in a tournament, you can click on the chat messages of people at other tables in the tournament. The software allows you to type in a message to them, but then says that you can't send it. It would be better if we were prevented from typing in a message in the first place. (I think this happens in other situations as well, but I can't remember. Though obviously if someone changes their status while you're typing, there isn't anything that can be done about it.)

[dodzi]

On a similar note if you cannot see your own name on screen you have to return to the main lobby to change your profile or settings. For example you might be in the lobby of a tournament. It would be nice to be able to access your profile from anywhere - maybe a right-click on a blank area of the screen, or from within the Options dialog.

 

Also, when signing up for a tourney it would be useful to be able to right click the profile in Partnership Desk and Registration to send a chat message to your chosen or prospective partner.

[fred]

Control-P brings up your profile.

 

F10 displays your right-click menu.

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

[Dwingo]

On a similar note if you cannot see your own name on screen you have to return to the main lobby to change your profile or settings. For example you might be in the lobby of a tournament. It would be nice to be able to access your profile from anywhere - maybe a right-click on a blank area of the screen, or from within the Options dialog.

 

I thought Fred said that function key F10 was for that purpose. Try it out.

 

Godwin