Drago Wish List
This is Drago wish list:
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Gilles: Wow, so many requests! I could never have thought it could be so many. First of all, be sure I consider all of them even if it can take some time to see them in Drago. The best way to have a feature implemented is to add your name!
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Open requests
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Some way to identify main line versus variants in complicated sgf
- Who
- Oren
- Description
- I've been using drago to take commented sgf from gogameguru and creating pdf. So far I really like it, but one major issue is that I have no idea if I'm on the main line or a variation when looking at a very complicated sgf. Is there any way to make the organization easier for something like this? I tried GoWrite2? which does this part better but doesn't handle the variations as well as Drago does.
- Status
- Requested
- Date
- 23 May 2014
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Copy and copypaste Board postion
- Who
- Farkas
- Description
- I don't find a way to do it, but it would be very useful to copy the board position of a node, and paste it to another one (even in a different file). Much like the 'save to clipboard' command, but not the whole tree. (At the moment it is possible to export a position to a separate sgf file, but I can not insert that position to a node of an existing tree.)
- Status
- Requested
- Date
- 27 Apr 2014
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Image to Board Position
- Who
- Farkas
- Description
- It would be nice, if Drago could create a board position in an empty node from an image file (jpg f.e.).
- Status
- Requested
- Date
- 27 Apr 2014
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Make coordinates consistent with view orientation
- Who
- RobertP
- Description
Opponent view A..T and 1..19 fail to turn too. To make sense of the comments, you're forced to switch back to Ref. view..
- Status
- Requested
- Date
- 17 Dec 2013
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Better touchscreen support - 2 clicks to place stones
- Who
- SamTheGliderPilot
- Description
- Using a Windows 8 touchscreen device, it is very easy when doing problems or playing an engine to tap the wrong intersection with my finger or a stylus. It would be useful for there to be an option where clicking/tapping an intersection selects that intersection, and a second click/tap actually places the stone and ends the turn.
- Status
- Requested
- Date
- 6 Aug 2013
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Mark-up wrong branch at game tree
- Who
- awit
- Description
- When you are playing a game, you can mark-up wrong branch on game tree by right-click (with pop-up menu). Wrong branch is marked by red "x".
Feature useful for analysis and solving tsumego problems.
- Status
- Requested
- Date
- 5 Jan 2012
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More toolbars
- Who
- willemien
- Description
- More toolbars
(or maybe make it possible to let users add new toolbars. At the moment (2011) Drago has only 5 toolbars and i would like to have more choice. (i know i can add/ remove commands to the toolbars but i would like to make my own toolbars/ have more options to remove parts of them. at least i would like extra:
- an database toolbar (so that the file toolbar can be shorter)
- an engine toolbar
- 3 users toolbars (for my own toolbars) this only if it is difficult
to let users make their own toolbars)
- Status
- Requested
- Date
- 30 May 2011
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Game scoring
- Who
- willemien
- Description
- scoring routine
I would like that drago has an final scoring routine (to decide the final tally at the end of the game)
I guess it will be complicated, it depends on the rules area or territory scoring) and on the life /death status of groups. (it also needs to be able to be changed by user ed)
Maybe a start is to look how Dragon Go Server does territory scoring
- Status
- Requested
- Date
- 30 May 2011
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Display all results of a pattern search with same board orientation
- Who
- daal
- Description
- When comparing the results of a joseki search, it is easier to understand the context of the joseki if the games or at least the thumbnails are rotated to keep the joseki in the same position.
- Status
- Requested
- Date
- 14 March 2011
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Rotate coordinates with view orientation transforms
- Who
- Fabian
- Description
- Possibly with an option to enable or not.
- Status
- Requested
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Selection of correct variation symbol in problem sgf
- Who
- Fabian
- Description
- A way to configure the symbol specifying the correct variations in problem sgf files.
- Status
- Requested
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Ignore SGF style property
- Who
- Fabian
- Description
- SGF style property specifies how variations are displayed. However, it would be interesting to enable the user to preserve its settings.
- Status
- Requested
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Different time settings for user and engine
- Who
- Fabian
- Description
- To adjust strength of engines, it would be interesting to have different time settings for user and engine.
- Status
- Requested (related to 4.00 beta)
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Some way to switch automatically to next problem in problem mode.
- Who
- Fabian
- Description
- For instance, some time delay or clicking anywhere in goban.
- Status
- Requested
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OnOff mode for influence display
- Who
- Fabian
- Description
- OnOff mode for influence display rather than on request by pushing button. Could be extended to score estimate.
- Status
- Requested (related to 4.00 beta)
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Delete games from a database
- Who
- TT
- Description
- Delete one or more games from a database.
- Status
- Requested
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Merge databases
- Who
- TT
- Description
- Merge one database into another one.
- Status
- Requested
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Printing non-consecutive games
- Who
- leslielau
- Description
- An option to print non-consecutive games, such as game 1,3,5
- Status
- Requested
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Printing all open games
- Who
- tk
- Description
- An option to print all open games
- Status
- Requested
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Customize number of moves per printed diagram
- Who
- DaveSigaty
- Description
- An option to choose the number of moves shown in each diagram to be printed. Consider a game of exactly 200 moves with the default setting to print one diagram for every 50 moves. I imagine Drago creating a list of 4 diagrams: diagram 1 - 1-50, diagram 2 - 51-100, etc. I imagine clicking on diagram 1 in the list and changing the 50 to 16. Now Drago updates the list to 5 diagrams: diagram 1 - 1-16, diagram 2 - 17-66, ... diagram 5 - 166-200. I click on diagram 2 and change the 66 to 43. Drago again updates the list to 6 diagrams: diagram 1 - 1-16, diagram 2 - 17-43, diagram 3 - 44-93,..., diagram 5 - 144-193, diagram 6 - 193-200. I now click on diagram 5 and change the 194 to 200, eliminating the small diagram 6.
- Status
- Requested
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Not show move numbers
- Who
- leslielau, JR
- Description
- An option to not show move numbers when printing a game file
- Status
- Requested
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End of game score display
- Who
- Pimenta, okvonnegut, CB
- Description
- Result should be displayed when you reach the last move of the game file (display result .sgf property?)
- Status
- Requested
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Update database after editing a game from the database
- Who
- FG
- Description
- -
- Status
- Requested
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Export current SGF to clipboard
- Who
- CP
- Description
- -
- Status
- Requested
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Markup shape, size and color settings.
- Who
- tweed, Jarod TW
- Description
- Initial request here. Extended to all markups.
- Status
- Requested
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Arrow markups
- Who
- Jarod TW
- Description
- as in SL...
- Status
- Requested
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Game traversing command with variation first.
- Who
- -
- Description
- here
- Status
- Requested
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Partial position diagrams
- Who
- Thomas Derz (tderz)
- Description
- (a) I would like to select a partial position, pref.
(b) not necessarily rectangular,
(c) then be able to export it to the different formats.
(d) Ghost stone switch-off necessary for making problem diagrams,
(e) adjustable numbering already in pre-export phase possible?
(Thank you for this great tool!) - Status
- 2.20 beta
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"Flatten" command
- Who
- okvonnegut, aoiro, Farkas
- Description
- I know I can export a .sgf of the current position but I'd like a way to make the current position the start position. That is, flatten a number of moves into a single node. To do it now I have to export position to sgf and then load that sgf anew... But then I would still lose subsequent moves.
This could also help when editing tsumego where the first move of White is in fact part of the starting position. As such, it is not easy to use them e.g. in GoGrinder, because it thinks you have to guess the White move. "Flattening" (and then marking) this move into the initial position would help editing some chinese tesuji problem sets I'm currently working with now.
- Status
- Requested
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An command to clear all markup
- Who
- okvonnegut
- Description
- A way to clear all markup from the board in one go. Useful when editing problems or with files that have the move numbers hardcoded into them as labels. Possibly also a "clear all markup from the entire file" to save me from having to do it on every move.
- Status
- Requested
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More key bindings
- Who
- okvonnegut, Myshkin, aoiro
- Description
- For example the ability to set key bindings for the various annotations under "insert ..." with a single key combo. Or a key binding to insert a specific comment. This would also make it easier and faster to input problems from other sources such as pamphlets or books.
- Status
- Requested
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Square size selecteable
- Who
- Pimenta
- Description
- Larger squares marking territory and prisioners in the end of the game make it easier to perceive the amount of territory each player had. Could this square size be user-defineable?
- Status
- Requested
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GNU Go commands available in a specific toolbar
- Who
- Pimenta
- Description
- GNU Go commands (pass, resign, etc.) should be available in a toolbar, either that you could turn on/off, or that would automatically be turned on when a game against GNU Go would start.
- Status
- Requested
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"Undo" command should create variation instead of erasing last move
- Who
- ChiyoDad, olesch, wildclaw, rhogo, rombu
- Description
- olesch : 'I train with GnuGo and want to observe my mistakes in stored replays.'
- Status
- requested
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Mouse pointer with stone drawing
- Who
- DR, olesch
- Description
- -
- Status
- Requested
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Network point to point games
- Who
- FrançoisP, Pimenta
- Description
- -
- Status
- requested
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Onecolor go
- Who
- ogronom, AF
- Description
- option of choosing samecolor stones, for training with Gnugo. Or may be posibility of changing stones like board textures
- Status
- requested
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Insertion of moves in the middle of a sequence
- Who
- Slowman, okvonnegut, aoiro, Farkas
- Description
- Interesting. There is no way to do that for the moment without editing the sgf file.
Copying the remaining moves in a branch and append them at a different position, in a different branch, or in a different file - is this already possible somehow? If not, I would really much like to see that! I would also volunteer to help specify how to select and copy move sequences on the board and in the game tree (e.g. mark a stone in a Joseki on the board, hold shift and use the mouse-wheel to include following/previous moves, then release shift, choose "copy move sequence" and then go somewhere else and choose "insert move sequence"). I also would volunteer in solving issues that would come up with that in the implementation (i.e. manipulation of the game tree and the sgf). -aoiro
- Status
- Requested
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Save/SaveAs button
- Who
- Tom
- Description
- Use the Save button as a SaveAs button when current file is not modified.
- Status
- Requested
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Complete Undo
- Who
- Tom
- Description
- Complete Undo of any editing command would be nice. Priority given to undoing delete branch operation.
- Status
- Requested
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UGF and NGF handling
- Who
- AI
- Description
- Does somebody know where to find the specs?
- Status
- Requested
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Syntax highlighting SGF editor
- Who
- gal
- Description
- - (there is a syntax highlighter for the jEdit text editor, see SGF utilities, various - would that help?)
- Status
- Requested
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"Minimize" board for printing diagrams.
- Who
- Malweth, okvonnegut
- Description
- When printing diagrams (especially tsumego) the whole board is printed. Most of the board is empty. It would be nice if you could specify how small to shrink the printed section of the board, based on where the stones are placed. You could specify having 1-19 blank lines around the stones (19 default, prints whole board). This would improve printing tsumego and allow more problems per page.
- Status
- Requested
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Stone bitmaps in text when exporting
- Who
- DG
- Description
- Export games with adding bitmaps in the comments for move references and marks (like SL
instead of B1)
- Status
- Requested
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Font configuration for text markups when printing diagrams
- Who
- Michal
- Description
- Actually, the request can be extended to the font settings for all printed fields (text, caption, and so on)
- Status
- Requested
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Remember new game creation in new file or current file
- Who
- Michal
- Description
- When a new game is created, there is the option to create it in a new file, or in the current file. Drago could remember the option which was chosen last. (so when creating a file of tsumego problems, one has to click one time less for each tsumego :]) (version 2.12).
- Status
- Delayed
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Export the current game in ASCII in the clipboard
- Who
- Evgeny
- Description
- -
- Status
- Requested
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Navigate only the moves in a selected area of the board
- Who
- a fan
- Description
- select a rectangular area of the board. Then the navigation works only for the moves in that area, and jumps over the moves outside the area (the stones outside the selected area are displayed). It's useful for replaying pro games, as they like to play tenuki.
- Status
- Requested
- Date
- 2008-01-26
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Enhanced Score Estimator display
- Who
- SpongeBob?, Inego
- Description
- The current Score Estimator from the game engine only gives a result like W+30. However, often the status of groups is miscalculated. As there is no way to tell if that happend, a result like W+30 is almost useless. It would be nice to get a graphical display on how the result was calculated, i.e. which stones were calculated as being dead or alive. Hope the game engine provides a way to get this information.
- Status
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Allow empty MDI frame (with no open tabs)
- Who
- BruceTheHoon
- Description
- This is more of a nuisance: when Drago starts up, it should not auto-open a tab, because it cannot possibly have the faintest idea what do I intend to do - what board size, what kind of opponent etc.. The default creation of a new tab when I close the last one is likewise nothing but a nuisance, because e.g. it keeps opening tabs with without a GnuGo opponent tied to it even if I keep playing GnuGo and closing the tab at the end.
- Status
- Requested
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Closed requests
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Display timing during engine games
- Who
- AP
- Description
- -
- Status
- Available in 4.0
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Display game information with board
- Who
- PAC
- Description
- Could be an additional and configurable panel in the board view.
- Status
- Available in 4.0
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Hideable and moveable right column
- Who
- Pimenta,tweed
- Description
- The pane in the right hand side (tree, variations, clock, etc.) could hide when a small triangle in the separator between this column and the board would be clicked. Moving the panel to the left is requested here
- Status
- Available in 4.0
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Branch ordering
- Who
- Tom, tderz, jvt, okvonnegut
- Description
- Branch ordering commands, re-ordering the branches by dragging
- Status
- Partially available in 4.0. A command enables to make the current branch the main one.
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Replayer
- Who
- zof
- Description
- the replayer may give several tries and a location hint, as Gobase's replayer does.
- Status
- Available in 4.0
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Choosing of encoding, while viewing sgf
- Who
- ogronom, okvonnegut
- Description
- non-english comments in some sgf files are in some unusual encoding. So they don't display properly
- Status
- Available since 3.10.
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Board display with rotation and symmetry
- Who
- Stephan, smandoli
- Description
- here
- Status
- Available since 3.10.
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Associate Drago with sgf files
- Who
- TimK
- Description
- -
- Status
- Available since 3.10.
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Extended stone setup mode
- Who
- Evgeny
- Description
- MFGo like (clicks give the following sequence: setup stone -> swap color -> remove stone) or MultiGo like (left and right clicks).
- Status
- Available in 2.20
TimK: If it's not too late for input, I prefer MultiGo style - you don't have to go back to the toolbar to switch colors.
Gilles: Both are implemented, first one being optional.
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Tooltips for buttons in second toolbar
- Who
- Michal
- Description
- When the cursor is held over a button, after a short time a box appears with the button's function. However, this does not happen with the second toolbar, the one with move navigation, undo, cut, game, color, markup, insert, and new game (version 2.12).
- Status
- Fixed in 2.20
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Navigate to specific move
- Who
- TimK
- Description
- I guess this requires the previous request to be added, but it would be nice to be able to go back to the point where an earlier stone was played by clicking on it.
- Comment
- will be done by ctrl-click, I hope is ok.
- Status
- Available in 2.20
TimK: Sounds great.
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Handle folder as collections
- Who
- BjornF
- Description
- -
- Status
- Available in 2.20
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Light source
- Who
- reported by Evgeny
- Description
- The light on the go board seems to come from the right side. According to MS user interface design guidelines, the light should come from the left.
- Status
- Available in 2.20
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Variation navigation
- Who
- Evgeny
- Description
- Toolbar button for Next Variation operation
- Status
- Available in 2.20
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Get rid of popup dialog
- Who
- TimK, olesch, Pimenta
- Description
- When I accidentally try to play a stone on top of another stone, Drago gives a popup error message. It's annoying to have to click okay on it, and then go back to what I was doing. A beep would probably be enough to tell the user he made a mistake.
- Status
- Available in 2.20
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Read only mode
- Who
- wildclaw
- Description
- It would be nice to have a toggle that disables editing of a game. That way it would be possible to move through variation, without accidently adding your own path. It should preferably be specific for each tab.
- Status
- Available in 2.20
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Shortcut for toggling display of coordinates
- Who
- EM
- Description
- -
- Status
- Available in 2.20
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Close button for tabs
- Who
- EN, AI, olesch, Pimenta
- Description
- Opera-like close buttons for tabs. If this is implemented, it should be optional since not everyone likes it.
- Status
- Available in 2.20
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Automate replay
- Who
- jared, ChiyoDad, slowman, zof
- Description
- In real time if possible (for reckless moves, moves played in byo yomi or in blitz games), with optional stops at comments
- Status
- Available in 2.20
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Shortcuts
- Who
- JLS, chejnik, TimK, ChiyoDad
- Description
- Shortcuts for often used functions
- Status
- done in 1.45 by editing the ini file, available in 2.20 with a more friendly dialog
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Tabs
- Who
- StephaneF
- Description
- Tabs (Firefox like)
- Status
- Available in 2.00
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Tool bar button for Cut branch command
- Who
- slowman
- Description
- -
- Status
- Available in 2.00
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Navigation by arrows may be more natural
- Who
- Evgeny, 64.83.37.175
- Description
- -
- Status
- it's possible to configure commands since 1.45.
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Export or print each position with markups or comments
- Who
- Olaf
- Description
- forum:Drago
- Status
- 2.10
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Export flatten position
- Who
- Olaf
- Description
- forum:Drago
- Status
- 2.10
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Wish list
- Who
- 64.83.37.175
- Description
- Wish list
- Status
- available here.
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Sound options
- Who
- 64.83.37.175
- Description
- Some sound options at least for stone placements.
- Comment
- Does anybody know some free resources for stone sounds? (Gilles)
- Status
- 2.10
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Selection of size of the stones in the export position dialog
- Who
- 62.129.60.133
- Description
- Selecting the size of the diagrams is possible, but maintening a constant size of stones on various diagrams implies calculation.
- Status
- 2.10
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- Who
- -
- Description
- -
- Status
- 2.10
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Alternative Ghost Stones displaying: as simple circles (with board texture filling)
- Who
- olesch
- Description
- currently ghost stones look bad combined with letter markup because letters have clear background, unlike
ghost stones.
- Status
- 2.11, hope answer is satisfactory
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To be clarified
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Delete games from a database
- Who
- TT, Farkas
- Description
- Delete one or more games from a database. (Also from collection.)
- Status
- Available in 4.22
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Merge databases
- Who
- TT
- Description
- Merge one database into another one.
- Status
- Requested
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Do database search based on position selected on board
- Who
- Myshkin
- Description
- Instead of using the Pattern Search/Capture in the DB Search window, allow for the selection of areas on the current board and search for the pattern contained in those selected areas.
--Gilles: Actually, when the search window is opened, it is possible to select a pattern either in the main board or in the thumbnail board. Am I missing something in your request?
- Status
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