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Posted 2020-March-22, 16:30

Hi. I have just tried the new EBU tournaments, and while the UI is of course not nearly as good as OKBridge was, it was OK. However, I would like to be able to confirm/have to double-click on my calls and plays. I play on an iPad and my fingers could easily hit the wrong thing. If that does happen, I suppose I can undo? How is that done?
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Posted 2020-March-22, 18:40

 Vampyr, on 2020-March-22, 16:30, said:

If that does happen, I suppose I can undo? How is that done?

There should be a menu in the top corner just next to the playing area - it looks like a blue box with three horizontal grey lines. Click on this and you should find the option to undo. Your opponents will be asked to agree to it.
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Posted 2020-March-23, 08:08

Go to Account -> Settings and you can enable "Confirm bid" and/or "Confirm play".

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Posted 2020-April-03, 10:42

I have always found that dragging cards instead of clicking them minimizes the "confirm" issues.

I don't think it works with hand diagrams, of course.
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Posted 2020-April-03, 12:25

 mycroft, on 2020-April-03, 10:42, said:

I have always found that dragging cards instead of clicking them minimizes the "confirm" issues.

I don't think it works with hand diagrams, of course.


Is it possible to drag cards? I didn’t know that.
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Posted 2020-June-18, 13:29

"Well of course you can..." Well, a couple of months more playing, and forcing myself to use the new version, and:
In (V1 and) V2, you can drag.
In V3, instead, you hover on the card and it pops up. *After* it pops up, you click on it.
In either case, if you're prone to accidentally click while using the mouse, using "confirm play" is probably critical.
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Posted 2020-June-18, 14:16

 mycroft, on 2020-June-18, 13:29, said:

In V3, instead, you hover on the card and it pops up. *After* it pops up, you click on it.


Having the preselected card pop up (in "pictures of cards" view) is a good idea.
But having to then click on it is simply daft - this adds another stressful and error-prone task which vanifies the whole point of a "confirm" option IMO.
Why not let me simply accept the popped up card by clicking on the table ("play it") instead?
I have suggested this many times already, but another try cannot hurt.
Similarily, if the wrong card pops up, clicking to the left of the hand should make the card on the left pop up, and so on.

I haven't tried playing with the (superior) "hand diagram" view when on a phone, so no thoughts about how confirm should work there. Magnifying the area around my finger would certainly help. On a big tablet I am semi-comfortable without confirm although the touch interface does add some stress compared to a mouse.
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Posted 2020-June-18, 16:49

 pescetom, on 2020-June-18, 14:16, said:

Having the preselected card pop up (in "pictures of cards" view) is a good idea.
But having to then click on it is simply daft - this adds another stressful and error-prone task which vanifies the whole point of a "confirm" option IMO.
Why not let me simply accept the popped up card by clicking on the table ("play it") instead?
I have suggested this many times already, but another try cannot hurt.
Similarily, if the wrong card pops up, clicking to the left of the hand should make the card on the left pop up, and so on.

I haven't tried playing with the (superior) "hand diagram" view when on a phone, so no thoughts about how confirm should work there. Magnifying the area around my finger would certainly help. On a big tablet I am semi-comfortable without confirm although the touch interface does add some stress compared to a mouse.


I am using some version on my iPad, and the card doesn’t pop up. Having it pop up and then tap it again would definitely be my preference if it were possible,
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