<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Sans Serif'; font-size:10pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Wednesday 22 April 2009 19:15:57 Frederik Schwarzer wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> in KPatience there are status bar messages to tell the user that<br>
> - This game can still be won! Good luck to you.<br>
> - Nope, this game cannot be won anymore.<br>
> - Timeout while playing - unknown if it can be won<br>
> - This game is lost.<br>
><br>
> Isn't that a bit too much?<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>I agree :) Only game is lost makes sense.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>If this pops up at every card movement this should be removed indeed.<br>
This is like poking a person every second saying "hey, you're winning, keep it up!".<br>
Or the opposite. Not everyone will like it.<br>
I think it felt certainly cool when one who coded this (coolo?) was experimenting and excited about new feature. But having it in a shipped application is not very nice IMHO.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>OTOH this solver feature can be left with a purpose for user to trigger it explicitly. I.e. if i wish to know what's the current state of game, i can go to some menu and choose some "is game winnable?" option. And then receive answer.<br>
But not in every turn! :)<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>That's what i think about this. Being too intrusive with messages is not a very good thing for app to have.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Cheers,<br>
Dmitry.</p></body></html>