The game selects the left-hand die by default unless you can't use it, and then it automatically selects the other one. If you click on the die, though, it does highlight it -- you just can't use it anywhere in a situation like that. (There are only so many checks it does in the code.)
It sounds like you're saying the 3 came up selected in the first place, though. I know Backgammon did at one point select the other die automatically if you couldn't move the first one. Maybe one of the recent changes broke that bit of the code. I'll keep an eye out. -- T.J. Crowder First Primate Pocket-Monkey.com
Re: Programmng for selecting default die selection
The die you move first is up to you. By default the game selects the left-hand die (unless you can't move it), but you can change it by clicking the other die to move it first. But I don't think that was what you were asking. ;-) -- T.J. Crowder First Primate Pocket-Monkey.com
Re: Programmng for selecting default die selection
I was being facetious. Apparently without success. It appears that my preferred first move is often the right-hand die. ;-)
Re: Programmng for selecting default die selection
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posted by RedBaron (Will C. Crowder) on 07/21 at 19:02
I was laughing at Jim's posting, too...funny! :-) (Sometimes I find myself going out of my way to make my moves in a certain order when there's no good reason to do it, so I can sympathize...)
But Jim's posting did bring up one suggestion I had a while back and never posted: If you click on a checker which cannot move with the currently selected die but which CAN move with the other die, then the game should just automatically use that die for the move. That would save some die clicking...just a tiny optimization.
Will
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