Re: [Bug-gnubg] GnuBg playing with itself

[Joern Thyssen]

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 01:09:26PM +0100, Ian Shaw wrote
[snip]
> Hmmm, this violates the "it just works" principle. I guess if you're a
> Unix user that's an alien concept ;o)
> 
> The computer should do what the average user expects it to. In this
> case that's to continue playing.
> 
> I think that if neither player is Human the result window should be
> turned off, or automatically OKed.

It's not a result-window :-) Any message written in gnubg is shown in
the status line unless it's multi-line. For example, pip count is shown
in the status line as it's just one line. After each game two lines are
written:

jth wins a single game and 1 point. 
The score (after 1 game) is: gnubg 0, jth 1 (money session, with Jacoby rule)

hence it's shown in a pop-up. 

As Øysteins says activating the message window will result in these two
lines being written to that window instead.

For self-play I really recommend using the command-line version since
updating the board etc may take considerable time. Also, you should "set
display off" to turn of updates of the board when it's the computer's
turn.

Jørn

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