Achievements and Accomplishments Thread

[2cute]

You're right, and I should have noted that the shortcut works only for Windows PCs. Basically, you're going ahead a window and back one or back one and then ahead one. One command is illegal and the other gets you a new game. The advantages are: (1) you don't have to keep the pointer on a single line, especially one that moves, and (2) you don't get hand cramps by holding and clicking the mouse. Another advantage is that it's easier to avoid clicking "new game" with your mouse hand when you find a board you want to play. I mean, you still can, just not as often.

On a Mac you can move between the tabs in the window by pressing Option & Command, but it doesn't create a new game window, it just changes the window that you're using (like if you couldn't use the mouse). Like right now I have 3 windows open, so I can move between them. One of them is a game I could play. Yet it won't advance to another game only change to another tab.

And now I used the "Control-R" command, and that works even better than mine. Thank you, 2cute! You're a blessing!

You're welcome!

I'll repeat 2cute's recommendation: Command R. I don't have a Mac now. I had one of the original Macs and wrote one of the first applications that wasn't from Apple or Microsoft, and sold it at the first computer show after the Mac's introduction. The new Macs aren't like that first one. I think I'd like everything about the new Macs except for the price.

Yep, but you don't have to buy hardware very often like a PC. You upgrade the software only. Like my Mac hardware is 7 years old & still top of the line in comparison to PCs, every so often I just have to upgrade the software to stay with current technology.

What's the Mac equivalent?? Don't have ALT key.

Option.

[bwt1213]

I'll repeat 2cute's recommendation: Command R. I don't have a Mac now. I had one of the original Macs and wrote one of the first applications that wasn't from Apple or Microsoft, and sold it at the first computer show after the Mac's introduction. The new Macs aren't like that first one. I think I'd like everything about the new Macs except for the price.

[mdyak]

Keyboard shortcut I discovered. ONCE YOU'VE PLAYED A GAME OR ABANDONED IT, hold down the ALT key. Then alternately press the left and right arrow keys to see a new game. The cursor does not have to be in any particular place, it doesn't matter if you get a board never played before, and no other actions are needed until you get a board you like and then you can play it as usual.

What's the Mac equivalent?? Don't have ALT key.

[bwt1213]

And now I used the "Control-R" command, and that works even better than mine. Thank you, 2cute! You're a blessing!

[bwt1213]

You're right, and I should have noted that the shortcut works only for Windows PCs. Basically, you're going ahead a window and back one or back one and then ahead one. One command is illegal and the other gets you a new game. The advantages are: (1) you don't have to keep the pointer on a single line, especially one that moves, and (2) you don't get hand cramps by holding and clicking the mouse. Another advantage is that it's easier to avoid clicking "new game" with your mouse hand when you find a board you want to play. I mean, you still can, just not as often.