When I try to play, I can only see the top half of the board because of the immense text box in the Java window. Apparently I should be able to see some rotate buttons but they don't appear either. I can't resize the text box and messing with the resolutions and screen size doesn't work either. I've tried it in Iexplore and Firefox but had the same problem both times. Help...
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There's no known "fix" to this: though I've found that the game window always comes up large enough to see the full borad: it's when I resize the window (or click maximise, therefore limiting it to the size of my screen) that problems develop...
However, on the plus side, Our Generous Hosts(TM) are aware of the problem, largely thanks to this topic (strictly speaking it's better if you don't start a new topic when one so closely related already exists), so I imagine it wont take very long for a fixed version of the client to come out.
Mr Scrub
"LOOKS PERFECTLY LOGICAL TO ME"
There kindof *IS* a known fix for this, but it will make you CRY.
You will wail, you will gnash your teeth. You will email to ask the committee which designed Java exactly what century they're living in.
Y'see, for font based components, we use the "DialogInput" font (a required-to-exist font in Java), size .
But, this isn't the same as any windows default font. Oooh, no, that would be far too simple, and not "portable".
So, they have their OWN config file. You can set your default java font properties by hunting out this file on your system, and editing it. In a text editor. No pretty gui or anything. And no, the fil isn't intuitive ir anything either. And there's no way for a java applet to change your defaults, or to say "well, use that truetype font if you've got it, otherwise fail back to something defaulty"...
What this all means is that different people see the text windows with different sizes of text, which is really annoying for them.
I'm strongly /dis/couraging you from editing this file. But if you're feeling adventurous, you can find out more by Googling for the "font.properties" file.
But ultimately, I intend to do snazzy autodetection magix to autoscale the texxt to be the right fontsize to be the right size to fit on the screen and be reasonably readable. Possibly allow user tweakingness of it in a menu, along with some other settings that aren't important enough .to have their own onscreen button.