[Bug-gnubg] Setup button

[Albert Silver]

Hi,

As a number of you may have seen, another complaint was made, in the 
GammOnLine forum, on the difficulty of starting a position setup/analysis 
situation, and I wondered whether there might not be a simpler route than 
those that have been tossed around in the mailing list.

It goes without saying that ideally, a second internal instantiation of a 
board would be available to move the pieces around and analyse, but let's 
put that aside for a moment.

How about creating a Setup button that could be activated as soon as GNUBG 
was opened. What it would really do is simply start a new money game, with 
manual dice, human vs. human, and have the Edit button already pressed as 
well. I also had a few suggestions:

- Add the possibility to activate or deactivate the Crawford within Edit 
mode, as being forced to do this only outside of Edit mode is 
counter-intuitive.

- Have the Save Position choice save the move's analysis results. In fact, 
adding an Analyze Match/Game/Position button might be a nice choice as it 
would certainly be used all the time.

- Add a choice in the Dice pane, or anywhere else if preferred, to remove 
the dice from the board, making it a cube decision. Right now, if one puts 
dice on the board, the only way to get a cube decision is to either switch 
turns twice in a row through the menu, or use the green arrows after exiting 
Edit mode.

                                                Albert

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