Hi,<br><br>Here my spontaneous ideas about this questions.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/6/12, Dmitry Suzdalev <<a href="mailto:dimsuz@gmail.com">dimsuz@gmail.com</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
It's all about popups. When I (as a game player) finish a level and I suddenly<br>see some dialog (KScoreDialog) appear, it confuses me. Moreover, I need to<br>enter my name, and press OK, or just hit Cancel. What if I just want to
<br>continue playing, without taking all these actions?</blockquote><div><br>Two solutions come into my mind.<br><br>A) The player could be asked for his name (and the permission to record his highscores) on game start. This only has to happen on the first start of the game, and could be stored within the rc-file. There could also be a "global" setting for this, so the player just sets this for one game, and all other games adapt this setting. Changing this setting could be made available in a config dialog, maybe in "View Highscores". Or the way websites like Amazon do it: "Hello again, George W. Bush. If you are not George W. Bush, or want to change your highscore settings, please click here." as a line on top of the main window.
<br> </div>B) The highscore popup could have the checkbox "Do not show this dialog again". After the first time you enter your name, and check the box, you will automatically be added to the highscores in the future. Of course it is important that the player may also want to choose NOT to be added to the highscore at all, also in the future. I'm not sure how to clarify that best. (Maybe buttons like "Never add me to high scores", and "Always add me to high scores automatically"?
<br><br>Just two ideas, maybe there are some better ideas out there?<br><br><br>Cheers,<br>Burkhard<br><br></div>