[BillHiggin]

bid_em_up, on Sep 5 2007, 02:16 PM, said:

If possible, it would be nice to change the font color for different forms of chat, i.e. blue for kib chat, red for table chat, green for private chat, orange for chat from friends, etc. (or whatever color the user selects).

As a person with less than perfect color vision, I would prefer that colors be used strictly for aesthetic purposes and not to contain coded information. Even with the ability to choose colors, it is difficult for me to go thru all the combinations in the current windows client for names and backgrounds and not end up with some condition that results in a near invisible name (font color and background combination that is hard on my miserable old eyeballs). Even the four color card symbols in this forum cause me trouble. (after all, it is all about me).

[bid_em_up]

BillHiggin, on Sep 5 2007, 02:55 PM, said:

bid_em_up, on Sep 5 2007, 02:16 PM, said:

If possible, it would be nice to change the font color for different forms of chat, i.e. blue for kib chat, red for table chat, green for private chat, orange for chat from friends, etc.  (or whatever color the user selects).

As a person with less than perfect color vision, I would prefer that colors be used strictly for aesthetic purposes and not to contain coded information. Even with the ability to choose colors, it is difficult for me to go thru all the combinations in the current windows client for names and backgrounds and not end up with some condition that results in a near invisible name (font color and background combination that is hard on my miserable old eyeballs). Even the four color card symbols in this forum cause me trouble. (after all, it is all about me).

In an ideal world...you would be able to set every color for every item to whatever you can see best. I think part of the problem in the current environment is that you cannot always tell where your color change is being applied (this bugs me also, but I dont expect it to be fixed). Ideally, you should be able to click on any "piece" of the table, and change the color of that piece of the pie only, where you would immediately see how it affected everything else. This may not be feasible, though.


The 4 color font suggestion would let you set all 4 colors to whatever color YOU could read best making it ideal for YOU. If you wanted to see everything in black, you could. If you wanted Red, red it is then. This way, you could view all chat in whatever color works best for you, if thats what you choose to do.


But for others who would like to be able to switch colors to identify different things, then that would work best for us also.

[BillHiggin]

bid_em_up, on Sep 5 2007, 03:27 PM, said:

If you wanted to see everything in black, you could. If you wanted Red, red it is then.

The 4 color font suggestion would let you set all 4 colors to whatever color YOU could read best making it ideal for YOU.

But for others who would like to be able to switch colors to identify different things, then that would work best for us also.

Of course that is an option. Fred, please determine which information you want everyone except Bill Higgins and a few other color blind individuals to see and use color to encode that information.

"The abuse I am used to - it is the waiting for it to begin that is intolerable"

[psyck]

BBOTV would be great if you can watch it on your mobile. When will it support Flash Lite Version: 2.0 for this?

Cheers,
CK

[Mike_P]

psyck, on Sep 7 2007, 03:05 PM, said:

BBOTV would be great if you can watch it on your mobile.  When will it support Flash Lite Version: 2.0 for this?

Ah-h-h-h ............ the last great frontier............

[Patapon]

Watching a vugraph from Brazil.


The vugraph operator has updated the profiles of the players and the four players have a flag from Brazil.(on BBO).
Ex: Mello’s profile says he is Roberto Mello with a flag from Brazil

On BBOTV when I click on Mello’s name the profile says he is "private" from France.
Adriano Rodrigues from Brazil ( on vugraph) is Adriano Voscilla from Croatia on BBOTV...
And Chagas is from Taiwan

BBOTV recognizes profiles of BBO members and not the profiles updated by the operator onsite I think.

[Patapon]

Still watching vugraph on BBOTV

It is not possible to get the profile of a member by just clicking on jis name in the chat area.I have to copy the name in the 'find' window to get it.

This is not very useful when you wish to know who are the commentators on vugraph.

[FrancesHinden]

Patapon, on Sep 8 2007, 01:52 AM, said:

Still watching vugraph on BBOTV

It is not possible to get the profile of a member by just clicking on jis name in the chat area.I have to copy the name in the 'find' window to get it.

This is not very useful when you wish to know who are the commentators on vugraph.

Clicking on the name in the chat area works for me.

(it changes the default for the next item of chat, which is a pain, but that's a different issue).

[Patapon]

FrancesHinden, on Sep 8 2007, 01:58 PM, said:

Patapon, on Sep 8 2007, 01:52 AM, said:

Still watching vugraph on BBOTV

It is not possible to get the profile of a member by just clicking on jis name in the chat area.I have to copy the name in the 'find' window to get it.

This is not very useful when you wish to know who are the commentators on vugraph.

Clicking on the name in the chat area works for me.

(it changes the default for the next item of chat, which is a pain, but that's a different issue).

You are right; it works now.

[Patapon]

Still watching a vugraph..

In the open room players started to play board 17 and 18 then skiped to board 1,2,3….
They are now playing board 16.

In the hand browser there is no blank space available for writing the result.
The score sheet is full and the board 17 is listed just after the board 15 with no space.

This makes things difficult to compare score sheet from both rooms when they are not playing boards simultaneously.

Another thing I dislike is that the last hand isn't automatically displayed in the hand browser.
And the font size is definitely still too small( and I have good eyes!)

[bid_em_up]

If there is an option to "Follow this player in tournament", I cannot seem to locate it.

[MrOutlaw]

I liked BBOTV, I think it would be great for viewgraph. I think I prefer playing in the windows version.

BTW, I had no trouble getting into it.

[bid_em_up]

Possibly already mentioned.

You cannot currently right click and join a player at a table from the chat window.

One nice additional feature that I am just now noticing. If I Left-click, then right-click on a persons name in the chat area, I am given the options to Increase or Decrease font size. By doing so, the chat is much easier for me to read.

[barmar]

bid_em_up, on Sep 14 2007, 10:26 AM, said:

You cannot currently right click and join a player at a table from the chat window.

Left-click them to view their profile. One of the buttons there is "Join".

[bid_em_up]

barmar, on Sep 16 2007, 11:34 PM, said:

bid_em_up, on Sep 14 2007, 10:26 AM, said:

You cannot currently right click and join a player at a table from the chat window.

Left-click them to view their profile. One of the buttons there is "Join".

You miss the point. Sorry.

I realize you can view their profile, then join. That is not the same as right-clicking in the chat window and selecting join that person as is currently available. It requires moving the mouse to a different area of the screen. This may seem trivial to you, (and indeed it probably is), but personally, I dislike having to move the mouse when I don't have to.

This becomes even more significant when you decrease the size of the Profile area, to increase the Friends/Kibbers area, which makes the find/join buttons completely disappear. Now you must left click, get their profile, change the size of the profile window (or scroll the window), click join, then resize the profile area. I'd rather just be able to right click and select join.

The option to right-click and join is available from your friends list, stars list, etc. so the option can function this way, I inferred that it is/was simply an oversight that it did not function this way in the chat area, or it simply has not been implemented yet.

[bid_em_up]

You can type (chat) to people playing in a tournament or a team match. However, the person you are sending the message to apparently doesn't actually see/receive it.

It should come back saying "Chat not allowed", instead it just appears as if you actually sent the chat message, but you never get a response from the person you are talking to.

[gemini42]

Connecting to Bridge Base Online. Please wait...

I'm still waiting. I installed Flash player 9,0,47,0 when it was released, with very restrictive settings.

What are the minimum Flash player settings for BBOTV?

[rona_]

I apologise if this has been mentioned already but have been away for more than two weeks and I don't feel like going through 16 pages of comments. When I am logged in with bbotv and search for a profile, I can see where that person is even if he is logged in invisibly. I found a friend who was watching vugraph invisibly, and others that were kibbitzing and playing.

Rona

[chicken]

1eyedjack, on Aug 30 2007, 07:54 AM, said:

I could be wrong about this - ignore if so.

If your security settings for some reason prohibit you from accessing BBO (despite that you have Flash 9 installed) then you get as far as the log on screen, then immediately on attempting to log in it comes up with a "connection lost" message, then it reverts to the log on screen, but if you then repeat the attempt you get a permanent message "attempting to connect". In either case it would be preferable to have a message "connection denied".

experienced the same thing today. is that problem already solved?

[uday]

We would have seen this for about an hour this evening while we moved bbotv from one machine to another.

it should all be fixed. if not, pls try restarting yr web browser if you see this cannot connect msg (and pls let us know here or via email if you can't)

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