The Change Layout dialog box allows you to customize the organization and appearance of Players Windows, Master Player Windows, and Team Windows according to your preferences or the task at hand. You can select from several pre-defined styles, or create and save your own new styles. To change the layout of a window, just make that window active and select the Edit-Change Layout... operation.
If you create new styles or change the existing styles, and want to preserve these settings for use in subsequent WinTD sessions, be sure to save the changes as part of a preference set, using the Manage Preference Sets... operation. See Preference Sets for details.
Dialog Box
Here is the Change Layout dialog box, as it appears when a Players Window is active (the Change Layout box for Games Window is shown later in this page):
Styles List
To select a pre-defined style, just double-click on the style name in the Styles field. The "Check-in" style shows the players' names, and their check-in and payment status. "Hit list" shows only the players who either have expired (or no) USCF ID's or who haven't paid their entry fee. "Standings" orders the players by score. "Wall chart" and "X-table" include information about the rounds (win, loss, draw and opponent). Wall chart is ordered by pairing number and X-table is ordered by standing. Grade Standings displays the standings sorted by Group/Grade.
The pre-defined styles included with WinTD are designed primarily for use with players windows. You can define additional styles for team and master files if desired, as described below.
Define Style
You can use this to define a new style or redefine one of the existing ones to suit your needs. Just set the Sorting, Show, and Current fields as desired, then click on the "Define Style" button to assign a name to the style you've created. WinTD will pop up a dialog box prompting you to enter a new style name or select one of the existing styles. If you want to save your new styles for later use, make sure you use the Manage Prefence Sets... operation to save your changes. For, example, if you want to change the default settings, just set the various fields as desired, click on "Define Style", click on the "Default" style name, and click on OK. Then save the settings as the default Preference Set.
First Sort, Second Sort
These allow you to specify primary and secondary sort fields. For players windows, you can sort the list by name, team, group or grade (the prize group field), pairing number, points, standings, section name, USCF rating, local rating, special code (which can be specified in the Add/Edit a Player dialog), USCF ID, State, or Type (Sex) or Title. For master windows, the same choices are available, except those associated with a specific tournament (pairing number, points, standing, and section). For Team windows, the choices are code (team abbreviation), tags 1, 2, and 3, and class. All of these are items that can be specified in the Add/Edit a Team dialog box.
Show
This field allows you to filter the players or teams that will be displayed in the window by various characteristics. Note that it is not available for master player windows. For player windows, your choices here are to show All players, Active players only, Inactive (withdrawn or checked-out) players only, Non-Members only (no USCF ID or expired ID), Not Paid only (entry fee not paid), Problems (combines the last two categories), or players who have a "Special" code set (via the Add/Edit a Player dialog). For team windows, the choices are to show All teams, or teams that have a value set in their Tag 1, Tag 2, or Tag 3 fields (see Add/Edit a Team).
Available Fields
This lists all of the fields which can be shown in the window. The following are available for both player and master windows: Name, ID, Expiration (for USCF membership), State, Prize Group, Team, Rating (main), Local Rating, Local Sigma, Club code, Type (sex), Special (one character code), Title.
In addition, a Players Window can include Number (this depends upon current choice for the sort), Standing, Points, Rounds (a separate field for each round showing the result and the opponent), Status (checked In or Out), Payment (Yes or No), Section, (abbreviation), Board (current color and board assignment), Opponent (name and rating of current opponent), Color Needs (shows the color player needed the last time the round was paired--"Expects White" for alternation, "Needs White" for equalization, "Expects Black", "Needs Black" or "Either"), Pre Rate, Post Rate and Perf Rate (pre-tournament, approximate post-event rating and performance rating, computed using Section-Compute Approx Rating), four Tie Break fields (tie break ordering is controlled by the Tournament Information dialog box) and Board Points for weighted team tournaments.
Please note that the Post Rate, Perf Rate, and Tie Break values are not saved as part of the tournament file, so these will have to be recomputed if you want to display them after closing and re-opening the tournament.
Master files can display also display the player's address, phone and birth date.
Current Fields
This shows which of the "available" fields will actually be displayed in the window, and the order in which they will appear. Use "Add" and "Remove" to add or remove fields and "Move Up" and "Move Down" to change the ordering.
Add and Remove Buttons
The ">>Add>>" button takes the selected fields from the Available list and adds them to the format (at the end of the list). The "<<Remove<<" button takes the selected fields from the Current list and removes them from the format.
Move Up and Move Down Buttons
You can use these to reorder the fields in the format. The selected fields in the Current list are either moved up or down relative to the unselected ones. You can order the fields as you please, but a Results field (if included) will always be moved to the end, since it takes up twelve separate columns in the Players window.
Apply to all windows
By default, changes specified in the dialog box will only apply to the current (active) window. If you check this box, the settings will apply to all open windows of the same type, and to any windows of that type that you open later in the session.
Games Windows
This the Change Layout dialog as it appears when a Games Window is active:
The Styles and Define Styles fields and "Apply to all windows" switch work as described above, as do the Available and Current fields and related buttons.
Show and Boards to
The Show field allows you to control which games are displayed: All games, only Open games (no result entered), and High Boards.
You can enter a board number in the "Boards to" field to have WinTD display all boards up to and including the specified board number.
Expand Multi-Game Pairings
For sections where opponents play more than one game against each other (controlled via the Games Per Round field in the Add/Edit a Section dialog), turn this switch on to see all of the games for each pairing.