Go Eye released AR feature!

[macelee]

Have a look at the attached screenshot. The game dates are truncated. This probably has something to do with Apple's new font in iOS 9. Should be an easy fix.

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[GoEye2012]

Have a look at the attached screenshot. The game dates are truncated. This probably has something to do with Apple's new font in iOS 9. Should be an easy fix.

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Yes, iOS 9 font is a little bigger. Already fixed. To release in next version. Thanks.

[GoEye2012]

New version 2.3 released.

We hired UI designer to design our new App Icon. Please let us know if you like it.

Support score estimation. Support bluetooth keyboard for game navigation (Left+Right Up+Down, ALT+Left ALT+Right). And a lot of improvements to PDF book and other iOS9 related fixes.

Welcome rate our app in App Store for the new version! Thanks for your support for the development of go apps.

[ez4u]

New version 2.3 released.

We hired UI designer to design our new App Icon. Please let us know if you like it.

Support score estimation. Support bluetooth keyboard for game navigation (Left+Right Up+Down, ALT+Left ALT+Right). And a lot of improvements to PDF book and other iOS9 related fixes.

Welcome rate our app in App Store for the new version! Thanks for your support for the development of go apps.

I greatly dislike the iOS developers' penchant for changing the app icons. It adds nothing, certainly nothing new. All it means is that I am temporarily confused and inconvenienced when attempting to use my devices in the usual way.

Edit: More joy. The update failed and now Go Eye is missing from my iPad. (Actually this is the second app that has done this under iOS 9.x so I blame Apple not Go Eye)

[GoEye2012]

New version 2.3 released.

I greatly dislike the iOS developers' penchant for changing the app icons. It adds nothing, certainly nothing new. All it means is that I am temporarily confused and inconvenienced when attempting to use my devices in the usual way.

Edit: More joy. The update failed and now Go Eye is missing from my iPad. (Actually this is the second app that has done this under iOS 9.x so I blame Apple not Go Eye)

What is the problem of missing? Cannot download from icloud? Is is related to this: http://www.igeeksblog.com/how-to-get-al ... ating-ios/ ?

[ez4u]

New version 2.3 released.

I greatly dislike the iOS developers' penchant for changing the app icons. It adds nothing, certainly nothing new. All it means is that I am temporarily confused and inconvenienced when attempting to use my devices in the usual way.

Edit: More joy. The update failed and now Go Eye is missing from my iPad. (Actually this is the second app that has done this under iOS 9.x so I blame Apple not Go Eye)

What is the problem of missing? Cannot download from icloud? Is is related to this: http://www.igeeksblog.com/how-to-get-al ... ating-ios/ ?

It works like this. During an update in the app store, the update just stops. It looks like this with no choices on the right side of the screen.

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The icon also disappears from the desktop. Mine used to be in my 'Igo' group.

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But the app (now nameless) is still appearing if you check the 'storage' in 'settings'.

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Good news though. When I got home this evening, I found out that I can now 'download' (as opposed to 'update') the app. And magically the 'new' Go Eye finds my old data (which of course hasn't gone anywhere). This was not the case prior to the iOS 9.1 update. Anyway my partnership with Go Eye is back on track so keep the improvements coming!

[macelee]

I had a smooth update to the latest version while hiking with my son in the countryside. I had no problem updating it via very poor 3G signal thanks for Go Eye's very small size.

A few small issues:

The font size is About -> Legal and About -> Acknowledgement is too small (on IPhone).
In Help, when tapping one entry from the list, I would expect to jump to that Q/A.

[GoEye2012]

I had a smooth update to the latest version while hiking with my son in the countryside. I had no problem updating it via very poor 3G signal thanks for Go Eye's very small size.

A few small issues:

The font size is About -> Legal and About -> Acknowledgement is too small (on IPhone).
In Help, when tapping one entry from the list, I would expect to jump to that Q/A.

Thanks for reporting the problem.

Font size is fixed.

The help anchor problem is caused by iOS 9's webkit incompatibility with angluarjs used in help page. Will fix it.

[GoEye2012]

Go Eye 2015 X'mas promotion started! 60% off.

[GoEye2012]

2.3.5 is released (To come to your country's store in a few hours).

We continue to polish Go Eye to provide the best SGF game view/edit user experiences.

Revise move number display options. Allow resetting variation number in game view.
Shake the device to undo changes to a game during editing.
Allow manually toggling end game counting and score estimation.

[RobertJasiek]

Is there a complete (!) documentation of the program's features? In particular, does Go Eye

- support all SGF FF[4] features including a) any number of single or multiple successive passes at any time, b) arbitrary (!) labels (maximally how long?) consisting of upper / lower case letters, digits and punctuation marks, c) SGF diagrams using the SGF properties FG, PM, MN, PL, VW, d) markup of black stones, white stones, triangles, circles, squares, crosses on empty intersections or stones, e) arbitrary board sizes, f) arbitrary variations including such starting with a pass, starting with an SGF diagram, starting with the same move as a sibling, starting at the root,
- offer different views for viewing, editing and printing preview,
- have a convenient way for going to the next / previous move,
- have a convenient way for markup or arbitrary labels of several intersections carrying the same markup or arbitrary labels,
- support local, iTunes (or other programs' using iTunes) files transfer (via USB) of arbitrarily many files to / from a Windows PC in subdirectories?

[GoEye2012]

Is there a complete (!) documentation of the program's features? In particular, does Go Eye

- support all SGF FF[4] features including a) any number of single or multiple successive passes at any time, b) arbitrary (!) labels (maximally how long?) consisting of upper / lower case letters, digits and punctuation marks, c) SGF diagrams using the SGF properties FG, PM, MN, PL, VW, d) markup of black stones, white stones, triangles, circles, squares, crosses on empty intersections or stones, e) arbitrary board sizes, f) arbitrary variations including such starting with a pass, starting with an SGF diagram, starting with the same move as a sibling, starting at the root,
- offer different views for viewing, editing and printing preview,
- have a convenient way for going to the next / previous move,
- have a convenient way for markup or arbitrary labels of several intersections carrying the same markup or arbitrary labels,
- support local, iTunes (or other programs' using iTunes) files transfer (via USB) of arbitrarily many files to / from a Windows PC in subdirectories?

A list of the major features at http://e-intuit.hk/goeye.

In the future, we will publish a detailed user manual for it. It doesn't have now as Go Eye has so many features.


a) Major FF[4] properties are supported. Pass moves supported, for any sequences.
b) Labels supporting A-Z. No punctuation marks. Not supporting arbitrary length (A-Z for letter labels).
c) For SGF diagrams using the SGF properties FG, PM, MN, VW, only PL is supported. For diagrams, Go Eye will automatically generate the diagrams in the book pages (book mode) and has options to allow the resetting of MN.

Support PDF page (book mode) with nice page turing effects. Auto layout and paging of SGF games in book mode.

d) Markup supported.
e) Supported board size 19x19, 17x17, 15x15, 13x13, 9x9, 7x7, 4x4
f) Supported except carrying same markup to next move.

Import/export are well supported (for all those sync methods listed). And remarkably it has an in-app browser to download a SGF/RAR/Zip games seamlessly into it. For folders, pls zip it and it will be imported as a game group. (I always use dropbox to keep my game collections, and when I want it, I import from dropbox. And for backup, vice versa).

And there are many other features not in the question list. Browsing this long post may help to discover some with screen dumps, e.g., Go4go integration, image recognition, diagram code support, 3D display, online refresh of running games, Apple TV support(Go Eye was used by China national TV sports channel (CCTV5) to broadcast Go competition named "Who is the King"), social network sharing, ....

Please let me know if you want to know more. Thanks for asking.

[RobertJasiek]

Thank you for your answers.

If the list of major features had been enough information, I need not ask:) IMO, providing an always complete list of features can only help you.

Advanced features are nice for those using them, but I am mostly interested in basic features. If any essential basic feature is missing, I need to use my Windows PC instead. Complete SGF FF[4] support belongs to the basics. My idea is that I want to view and edit on iOS what I create with GoWrite on Windows and that I can view, edit and print with GoWrite on Windows what I view and edit on iOS. (Similarly, I would like to be able to recommend my pupils at least one iOS SGF editor capable of SGF FF[4]. Currently, I only hear many complaining that SGF on iOS is not supported suitably. 1 million iOS apps but none fully implements SGF. Go Eye is app with a significant price tag, so why not take pride to be the first supporting the basics?)

That only major SGF properties are supported forces me to ask: which are fully supported? Everybody considers different properties "major", so I cannot know which are supported.

I understand that A-Z labels are supported, but does this mean a) that a-z, b) digits, c) arbitrary alphanumeric labels (up to length 3 or 4), d) repeated marking of the same arbitrary alphanumeric label are NOT supported? (And yes, I do need punctuation marks.)

When you write "For SGF diagrams using the SGF properties FG, PM, MN, VW, only PL is supported.", does this mean that FG, PM, MN, VW are NOT supported at all (except for Go Eye's book mode in the GUI)?

But I think you say that MN is supported. "has options to allow the resetting of MN": Does this mean that an SGF tree can have several nodes with MN properties stored and applied when displaying a position? Or is MN not stored and used only on the GUI's view?

Arbitrary board sizes are an essential feature of SGF.

"except carrying same markup to next move": So suppose a position at move 1 has markup. Does this mean that move 2 shows the same markup, even if I do not want the position to show any markup?

iTunes file sharing: IIUYC, the following are NOT supported, right? 1) Import of a folder with subfolders with various single SGFs in the folders. 2) Export of a folder with subfolders with various single SGFs in the folders. (And no, of course, I do not want to use any cloud.)

Do I understand you correctly that the following are NOT supported? 1) different views for viewing, editing and printing preview (all views on a go board; I do not mean Go Eye book mode), 2) a convenient way for going to the next / previous move, 3) a convenient way for markup or arbitrary labels of several intersections carrying the same markup or arbitrary labels.

You ask what else I wish: uhm, a different icon on the iOS home screen! I get it that the program name is being illustrated, but I consider eye symbols ugly. That I nevertheless inquire about features is my pure desparation that no other iOS app provides all the basic features. Hint: an icon consisting of a small position showing stones building eyes would be perfectly acceptable.

[macelee]

Advanced features are nice for those using them, but I am mostly interested in basic features. If any essential basic feature is missing, I need to use my Windows PC instead. Complete SGF FF[4] support belongs to the basics.

Hi Robert, from software development point of view, those missing SGF features are 'advanced' features because they 'are nice for those using them' but most users do not use them. This is a typical 80-20 problem - the developer needs to put in a lot of time to implement some features that few people will use. So more often than not they are not implemented

Go Eye's author is a very good developer. I am sure he can help you solve some problems, if you can provide specific use cases (e.g. a particular SGF tag in an SGF file that is not currently handled properly). Creating something just to satisfy a standard (not to mention whether the standard is well defined) is only a matter of pride - this really doesn't not happen too often in real world.

[RobertJasiek]

For Windows and Linux, things are very different: SGF is essentially fully implemented in a number of softwares, even freewares. The least used SGF properties are much easier to implement than some of those needed for preparing printing / book writing. Sure, I can provide sample SGFs illustrating my typical needs, if requested.

SGF is one of the nice standards, of which 95% is actually relevant and important.