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Interface

The 'Chinese Queens' software interface is composed of menus, dialogs, and the playing board.

Menus

Apple Menu

About Chinese Queens item

Shows a dialog window giving information on 'Chinese Queens', such as the version number. When this dialog is shown, all other functionalities are disabled. Push the 'OK' button to get rid of this dialog.

File Menu

New Game item

Shows the new game dialog window with wich you can start a new game. This item is only enabled when no game is currently going on.

Open Game item

Shows the standard dialog for opening a saved game. This item is only enabled when no game is currently going on.

Save Game item

Saves the current game into a file, so it can be opened later on. If this game has never been saved before, a name for this game will be asked (see Save Game As item). This item is only enabled when a game is currently going on.

Save Game As item

Asks for a game name and saves the current game into a file, so it can be opened later on. This item is only enabled when a game is currently going on.

Close Game item

Closes the current game. If a player played since the last time the game was saved, then a dialog asks to (re)save the game. This item is only enabled when a game is currently going on.

Quit item

Will quit Chinese Queen. If a game is going on, a dialog asks to save the current game.

Edit Menu

Undo item

No undo functionality - sorry.

Cut, Copy and Paste items

These items can be used to handle text cut/copy/paste wherever there is some text editing. Well, actually, I believe it is only in the new game dialog window, to edit players name.

Preferences item

Shows the preferences dialog window, wich is used to configure Chinese Queens.

Help Menu

Help on Chinese Queens item

Will start the HTML browser configured in the preferences to shows the help on Chinese Queens.

Dialogs

New game dialog window

Preferences dialog window

Registration code dialog window

Playing board

The playing board shows a wooden board with marbles. On the left side, the board shows the name and the marble color of the current player. If the current player is human, he/she can move one of his/her marble just by click and draging it to its next position. If the move is valid, the marble jumps to its new position and the next player is shown on the left side. If the current player is a computer player, just let it play.