Hi Peter: At 06:23 02.05.2003 -0700, I wrote: > >1. When I push a sorting label for the second time I have come > > to expect that the sorting order reverses. --- Peter Strempel <zotan@xxxxxx> replied: > Swing tables don't support a two-state column ... > Currently you can left/right click to get > ascending/descending view. I of course could implement a flag and > toggle that to get the same effect with left/left click, but I > thought left/right click should be sufficient. Nay. Don't bother. If it is standard enough it will be the standard behavior in a later Swing (or yet another Sun-JavaGUI library replacing Swing). ... > >3. Refresh causes you to lose 'where you were' completely. > >Maybe it could preserve the percentage part of the list? > >Most of the time it will show just about the same players > > - which is what the user was > >looking for when he pressed 'Refresh'. > Unsure if that is possible. These Java Swing tables are not so > great. One would need to remember the position of the scrollbar > and force to scroll it back to that relative position again. > I've no idea if that works. > I personally keep my table at +/- 2 stones range if I want to > play, There are three level groups one might be interested in: People I learn from, teachers People I want to play, peers People I may teach, lowest pupils Not that you should build an interface on that. It is just something that came up thinking about the possible user expectations. ... > And when I am not so interested in the player list anyways, > I let the > automatic updates do the refreshes. Which _does_ preserve the place in the list. ?! This means that you already know how to do that, but you just don't know that you know ? > Once a minute is frequent > enough, I guess. Yep. It is definitely not a big thing. > >4. It would be __very__ nice if I could add a little (client > > side persistent) comment to players, not only 'friends' > > state. > > Jarkko had suggested a very powerful player database, similar to > the one in his own client (Ambassador). If I do this, I do it > right, and not only a simple comment line. The friend / ignore thingy makes the experience personal, gives the whole a real networking (of people, not computers) taste. As far as I can tell Jago started it, CGoban followed suit. A simple comment (ok maybe just a little more) would build on that. I like inchpebbles, not milestones. A powerful database would be overkill, changing the character. Just a comment line would be a small extension along the right line. > However, this is not on the top priority > TODO list. Ok. Pity though. As you can probably tell this is one item I really think has a huge impact/lines of code ratio (unlike the powerful database idea). Another 2 Eurocents, regards, mAsterdam __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com