Change request: ability to extend game details area

[Hekkta]

I like to use some long winded annotated comments in my games which I currently read in the "Notation" window. It'd be nice to see the comment for a particular move under the board but the window is too small.

In the image below you can see that there's a comment on the move but to see it under the board you need to scroll down (there's a small scroll bar in that area below the board).

I may be missing something, but there's no way to extend that area below? I'd like to enlarge it so I can read the comments for the move easily without having to find them in the window on the right. There's a lot of room below the board which could easily accomodate comments on the move which would make reading much easier and cleaner than using the "Notated" window.

I get that there's the "edit comment" window, but I think it'd be much tidier to use that space under the board.

[whelanh]

I understand what you would like. That little panel below the board has a fixed height and is quite limited. Under the Windows menu, if you select "Show game info", you get another panel that opens up below the board. It still truncates long comments, but it does show at least a moderately long comment without needing to scroll. See below.

[Hekkta]

Ah yep I see that thank you, would it be possible to make that new window adjustable to show longer comments?

[whelanh]

I won't be able to make that new window adjustable (the tcl language seems fairly inflexible that way), but I think I can give it more lines. Right now it's fixed at 6 lines of information. My idea is to put it at 7 lines and give "Comment:" 2 lines, so that it adds whatever it can after it currently truncates with "..." on a second line below "Comment: " (I think I will try to move the last "ECO: " line above "Comment"). This should accommodate most of a pretty long comment.

[whelanh]

Here's my implementation so far. Tell me if it works for you and I will go ahead and push it to my repo later this morning and update all the releases, COPR and AUR. I grew the Game Info widow from 6 lines to 8 lines and applied the existing Comment truncation logic. It can now show fairly long comments as shown in the image (I could probably add at least one more Comment line if you think necessary). I used your request as a "test" comment. Also if you click the comment in the Game Info window, it will automatically open the Comment window (if it's not already open) to show the whole comment. Let me know.

[Hekkta]

That's great thank you. That'll make reading through much clearer!