Thread: Miniature development: Play chess games online
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mikhas is offline mikhas
2009-11-29 , 14:14
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#73
Originally Posted by qgil View Post
It also looks like having the board more on the top, right below the status area, would be better handling the device and playing with one hand. This way the squares on the bottom (the ones you hit most of the times) are reached more comfortably. My reason to separate the board from the top was to avoid false clicks to the menu and status area but probably this is a minor problem.
Wow, nice observation. And I can confirm this! If I use the device in portrait mode with my left hand I can reach row 3-8 easily, but not 1-2. It probably depends a lot on the size of your hands! So we need two (three?) layouts, I guess:

A)
Code:
.-----------------------.
|      Player info      |
|-----------------------|
|                       |
|                       |
|                       |
|        board          |
|                       |
|                       |
|                       |
|-----------------------|
|            move info  |
'-----------------------'
B)
Code:
.-----------------------.
|                       |
|                       |
|                       |
|        board          |
|                       |
|                       |
|                       |
|-----------------------|
|      Player info      |
|-----------------------|
|            move info  |
'-----------------------'
C)
Code:
.-----------------------.
|      Player info      |
|-----------------------|
|            move info  |
|-----------------------|
|                       |
|                       |
|                       |
|        board          |
|                       |
|                       |
|                       |
'-----------------------'
 

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