My last post about Python described the features that I plan to automate, basically providing a stream of decisions that have been marked with comments.  There's a lot to be done to do that well, so the first module I'll create handles only saved positions.  After that I'll handle saved matches/sessions.

In anticipation of that second script, there's one thing that would make it better - the ability to display the dice after gnubg.navigate is used.  Currently you need to navigate to either the previous or following action and issue a "next (or previous) rolled" command.  But this causes the intermediate position to momentarily display and so is a bit distracting.  Ideally the navigate command should show the dice roll or there would be some secondary command that would display them.  The "next|previous roll" command is a logical choice since "roll" is not synonymous with "rolled" and typically splits a turn into two parts - with and without the dice displayed.  But it doesn't help in this case.  Once I navigate to a position, I can find no way to display the dice.  I even tried "gnubg.nextturn ()" but that seems to do nothing at all now.  I can use "next marked" initially but the idea is to only display actions that contain a comment, so that results in uncommented actions being briefly shown. 

I doubt if anyone is interested in maintaining Python calls but this might be a simple change and the benefit may be substantial since it will provide a more professional appearance to the display of saved matches.