1 ChangeLog for XBoard/WinBoard
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4 (latest entries created by git log --no-merges --pretty="%ai %an <%ae>:%n%s%n%n%b" vlast.. )
6 2012-02-12 07:52:54 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7 translation: updated uk.po
10 2012-02-12 11:38:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11 Leave height of row that only contains buttons free
13 All elements of the GenericPopUp are still scaled to the text height,
14 including buttons appended behind them (browse or color buttons).
15 But we now make an exception for a row that only contains buttons,
16 as there is no harm in it being a little higher (and the buttons look
19 2012-02-12 00:01:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
20 Fix OK button of error popup
22 The error dialog popped up as a child of the board window, even when
23 DisplayError was called from a dialog. Now it checks if a transient
24 dialog is up, and if so, it pops up as a child of that, grabs focus,
25 and suppresses the system popdown of the transient dialog through a flag
26 dialogError until it is popped down itself.
28 2012-02-11 20:07:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
32 2012-02-11 10:18:02 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
33 added some comments for translators
36 2012-02-11 10:08:46 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
37 fixed comments for translators: comments starting with TRANSLATORS: are now copied to the po file
40 2012-02-11 19:01:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
41 Also configure sweep selection
43 To make sure this feature is tested, we set -pieceMenu false in the
46 2012-02-11 18:26:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
47 Fix date in copyright notice about-box
50 2012-02-11 17:15:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
51 Fix switching animation masks on variant switch
53 The masks for variant-dependent piees (E,H in Seirawan, promoted Golds
54 in Shogi, the Gothic Chancellor) were no longer updated in InitDrawingSizes
55 because of the patch to reduce X-server calls.
57 2012-02-11 16:46:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
58 Configure wider game list
60 The game list was by default too small, so that there was no room for the
61 filter field. Now a width of 500 is specified, whcih works at -size 49
64 2012-02-11 16:29:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
65 Fix button chaining and combo/textbox label height
67 Previous patches forgot to specify the height for the text labels on
68 -combo and -text options, so they were still too high. Buttons that go
69 on the same line as the previous element should be chained right, not rubber.
71 2012-02-11 15:52:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
72 Make -pgnNumberTag option setable from menu
74 The Save Options dialog now containes a checkbox for this.
76 2012-02-11 15:48:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
77 Configure some new features switched on
79 The master settings file switches -showTargetSquares, -sweepPromotions
80 and -seekGraph on, so that they will get more testing.
82 2012-02-11 14:43:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
83 Fix heigth of multi-line labels
85 The previous height patch overlooked that some labels are multi-line,
88 2012-02-11 14:10:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
89 Fix popdown seekgraph on forward-event XB
91 Only the grid was drawn when the > or >> button were operated, because
92 a full redraw was not forced by ForwardInner. The recent patch to take
93 the seek graph down on such events did not account for that. (BackwardInner
94 always seems to do full redraw, however?)
96 2012-02-11 12:59:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
97 Put front-end support for -recentEngines in XBoard
99 The engines are added to the menu. Problem is still that in XBoard
100 startup engines are given by command, rather than selected by combobox,
101 so the command rather than the nickname ends up in the menu. If this is
102 then selected, it cannot be found in the list. To limit the damage,
103 Fairy-Max is now pre-installed without nickname. -recentEngines is now
106 2012-02-11 11:53:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
107 Better solution to button-height problem
109 In stead of adapting the height of text widgets to that of buttons,
110 (as represented by the message widget), we now do the opposite, and
111 adapt the button & label heights. This is made safe by obtaining textHeight
112 from the fontSet's max_logical_extent, though an XExtendsFontSet() call.
113 Turns out the default height of text widgets is not exactly that, but
114 4 pixels larger for borders and margin.
115 The parameter XtNvertDistance is now used to align the checkboxes with
116 the following text widget, and their size is derived from textHeight as
118 The XtNvertDistance is set to -1 for the lower spin button, so that it
119 its border coincides with that of the upper spin button. Their height is
120 set to textHeight/2. This makes their combined height just 1 pixel more
121 than that of the preceeding text widget. (Uh? 2 x tw/2 -1 > tw?), so for
122 other buttons we use that too (i.e. textHeight = font_extent + 5).
124 2012-02-10 22:39:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
127 Deleting debug printing had made a variable unused.
129 2012-02-10 22:26:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
132 The text-edit-height patch introduced a bug that did not have any consquences
133 (yet), as the extra arg erroneously included leftover from a previous
134 SetValues call happened to be the same as one of the intended args.
136 2012-02-10 20:51:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
137 Fix unloading of first engine on tourney start
139 Because NextTourneyGame was loading a new engine before ReserveGame was
140 called to unload it with dummy game nr = -1), the first engine proc kept
143 2012-02-10 18:39:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
144 Remove some of the most verbose debug output
147 2012-02-10 17:46:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
148 Delete some unused WinBoard bitmaps
150 There waere up-side-down knight icons that apparently hid by mistake
151 in the bitmaps directory: they were not part of WinBoard
153 2012-02-10 17:39:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
154 Cosmetic: change 4.5 to 4.6 in xboard.conf comment
157 2012-02-10 17:35:22 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
158 Fix crash on empty combobox menu XB
160 XBoard crashed when a combobox without items was opened, as could easily
161 happen in the Load Engine dialogs when -firstChessProgramNames contained
162 no items, as it would without configuring. Now the creation of the popup
163 menu is suppressed in that case.
165 2012-02-10 17:13:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
166 Fix position of checkbox XB
168 With the large height the widget get in internationalization, the
169 checkboxes are position way too high above the text. To shift them down
170 a dummy borderless label widget is drawn above them (when needed).
172 2012-02-10 15:07:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
173 Fix heights in Engine Output window XB
175 The icons did not fit in the space above the memos anymore, so the height
176 of this area is now left free.
178 2012-02-10 14:55:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
179 Derive height of text-edits in dialogs from message widget
181 With internationalization the default height of buttons has inexpliquably
182 inreased compared to that of text-edits, messing up the layout of the
183 GenericPopUp. The message widget is now used as a emasure of how high
184 the widgets should be.
186 2012-02-10 14:21:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
187 Configure XBoard engines and textures
189 The new -useBoardTexture option is needed in xboard.conf, as we want to
190 distribute with the texture on, while the compiled-in default is off.
191 A list of 4 engines has been configured (fairymax, fruit, crafty, gnuchess),
192 as the Load Engine and Match Options checkboxes crash XBoard when the list
193 is empty. The -recentEngines option is set to 0 to make sure the code
194 associated with it is never executed: the code is still experimental,
195 and the required front-end support is only present in WinBoard anyway.
197 2012-02-10 13:30:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
198 Update Dutch WinBoard translation
201 2012-02-10 13:18:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
202 Create room in some WB dialogs for translations
205 2012-02-10 13:17:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
206 Add 5 missing strings to WinBoard translation template
209 2012-02-09 23:03:58 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
210 new developer release
213 2012-02-09 23:04:46 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
217 2012-02-09 22:59:05 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
218 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
220 2012-02-09 22:44:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
221 Fix non-bug in WinBoard
223 The IDM_RecentEngines was not used in symbolic form everywhere.
225 2012-02-09 18:46:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
226 Fix MAXENGINES in WinBoard
228 The front-end arrays for expanding the engine list measured 1000 entries,
229 in stead of MAXENGINES, leading them to overflow.
231 2012-02-09 13:05:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
232 Implement kludge to set options through Move Type-in
234 A leading "!!! " will cause the rest of the line to be parsed as
235 command line. Very dangerous, as an unknown option (e.g. because of a typo)
236 will cause a fatal error, which makes XBoard exit.
238 2012-02-09 13:04:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
239 Put move number in Eval Graph title
242 2012-02-09 13:00:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
243 Implement -pgnNumberTag option
245 A new (persistent) boolean option controls if the sequence number is to
246 be written in saved tourney games as a Number tag, to make it easier
247 to correlate games with debug files.
249 2012-02-09 12:55:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
250 Create separate debug fil for each tourney game
252 Users can now apecify a -debugfile with %d in its name, and this will
253 be replaced by the sequence number of the game. TwoMachinesEvent then
254 starts by opening a new file when the name has changed, so that each
255 game will go to a different file, with recognizable name.
257 2012-02-09 12:51:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
258 Fix bug in WB combobox readout
260 The previous patch exposed a latent bug in the readout of the generic popup.
262 2012-02-08 23:25:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
263 Allow grouping of engines in engine list
265 Lines "# GROUPNAME" and "# end" enclose a group in -firstChessProgramNames.
267 2012-02-08 17:47:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
270 A trailing .exe was not removed if the engine name was quoted.
272 2012-02-08 17:45:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
273 Put recently used engines in WB menu
275 A new option -recentEngines specifies how many engines should be listed.
276 The list of nicknames is stored in the ettings file as -recentEngineList.
277 The engines are appended to the Engine menu.
279 2012-02-04 19:37:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
280 Fix registering of EditTagsProg
282 This was registered with X as EditCommentProc!
284 2012-02-07 23:04:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
285 Increase max nr of engines to 2000
287 Move the #define for MAXENGINES also to common.h, so that both the
288 Load and Tourney dialog use the same maximum.
290 2012-01-19 23:01:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
291 Fix fix of switch to mono-mode
293 The previous fix had == in stead of != for testing if mono-mode had changed.
295 2012-01-19 22:21:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
296 Make New Variant dialog visible in mono-mode
298 All colored buttons did get a black background, and also black text...
299 Use timer background color in stead, which is white.
301 2012-01-19 20:48:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
302 Incease size of WB array of translated items
304 For the BoardOptions dialog 42 items are now needed
306 2012-01-19 17:18:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
307 Implement Clone Tourney button XBoard
309 This makes use of the new GenericUpdate().
311 2012-01-19 16:34:13 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
312 Implement GenericUpdate function
314 This does the opposite from GenericReadout: it copies the current
315 parameter values into the dialog.
317 2012-01-19 12:19:27 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
318 Fix arrow damage with highlightDragging XB
320 With highlight dragging the highlights of the previous moves are cleared
321 when lifting the piece. Logically, this should also clear the arrow, but
322 to do that requires a board redraw, which is not done at this stage. (And
323 even then this would only be effective after marking the arrow damage,
324 which is not done yet either). As a temporary fix, we repair the arrow
326 This patch has moved marking of the arrow damage from DrawArrowHighlight
327 to a separate routine, so a future better fix can also call that when the
328 arrow should be erased.
330 2012-01-18 16:01:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
331 Prevent unnecessary loading of engines
333 For engines that can be reused, the unloading at the end of a pairing
334 is in some cases wasteful, as the same engine will be used in the next
335 pairing as well. In simple gauntlets the gauntlet engine will always
336 stay first engine, while in multi-gauntlets the oppent engine will stay
337 the same for an entire round. In these cases unloading is now suppressed.
339 2012-01-17 22:22:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
340 Reset protocol version before loading new engine
342 The protocol version was not reset, so if the previous engine was v1,
343 the newly loaded engine would not be sent a protover command, so
344 that its features would remain unknown!
346 2012-01-17 19:33:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
347 Give focus to board window after ICS login
349 toprevent that the focus remains on any popped up chat boxes, it is
350 explicitlly set otherwise. The board window is preferred over the
351 ICS interaction window, because you can type from there to the ICS anyway,
352 and it makes all accelerator keys available.
354 2012-01-16 14:37:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
355 Fix seek-graph popup and popdown
357 Clicking outside the board area in WB (e.g.on the clocks) would also
358 trigger seek-graph 'popup'. This is now suppressed by testing for
359 y-coord > 0. In addition, the seek graph is automaticaly taken down
360 when we step to another position in the current game (using buttons,
361 arrow keys or whatever).
363 2012-01-15 21:29:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
364 Suppress empty lines when observing on VICS
366 Capture of the engine kibitzes when observing an engine game with
367 -autoKibitz on was still leaking a linefeed on the Variant ICS
368 (but not FICS or ICC!?).
370 2012-01-15 21:24:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
371 Fix printing non-numeric kibitz with -autoKibitz
373 Messages that were not considered kibitzed engine PV info for lack of
374 numeric content, were kibitzed as coming from "your opponent", which
375 is nonsense if you were iobserving, and masked the source. Fortunately
376 star_match[0] is still holding the original name, at that point.
378 2012-01-11 17:33:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
382 2012-01-11 17:00:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
383 Use same translation of "vs." everywhere
386 2012-01-11 17:08:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
387 Add new translations to WB language file
390 2012-01-11 16:20:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
391 Fix re-allocation of PGN-cache memory
393 It allocated 8 times too much!
395 2012-01-11 12:47:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
396 Fix height board dialog
399 2012-01-11 12:34:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
400 Enable WB time-control dialog even when no clock mode
402 The dialog could be called from the tournament dialog to set a TCfor
403 the tourney even when currently in game-viewer mode, so it'd better work.
405 2012-01-11 12:28:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
406 Exempt variant seirawan from -disguisePromoted inheritance
408 This is not a variant where promoted Pawns have to be distingushed
409 from primordial pieces, as captured pieces do not go into the holdings.
411 2012-01-09 21:23:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
412 Add control for overrideLineGap in WB Board dialog
414 Make it a checkbox to choose between 0 and -1.
416 2012-01-09 20:56:40 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
417 Add Ctrl-D as alternative to Ctrl+Alt+F12 in WinBoard
419 The acellerator key Ctrl+Alt+F12 seems reserved on Windows 7.
421 2012-01-09 20:52:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
422 Fix seek graph for VICS
424 The sought command on the open-source ICS code is ICC-like (no terminating
425 line), although the server is FICS like. So also accept prompt as seek-graph
428 2012-01-09 20:27:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
429 Open WB startup chat boxes only after logged on
431 The init code for opening the chat boxes ismoved to DisplayIcsTitle().
433 2012-01-07 20:31:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
434 Install mime types directly
437 2012-01-07 20:29:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
438 Install desktop files directly
441 2012-01-07 20:19:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
442 Install icons directly
444 Rather than letting make-install copy the pixmaps to the XBoard data
445 directory they are installed directly from the source files. The name
446 of the TRN icon was also corrected and changed.
448 2012-01-05 18:41:13 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
449 Update texi file and remove duplicate control
451 Some missing option descriptions were added. The highlight-dragging
452 control was removed from the General Options dialog, as it did the same
453 as Show Target Squares. -highlightDragging wa changed to a volatile option
454 with default value true, making it effectively disappear as an XBoard
455 option. (In WinBoard it is still persistent.)
457 2012-01-05 15:55:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
458 Remove the direct commands to the engines
461 2012-01-05 21:15:11 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
462 forgot to list new desktop files in EXTRA_DIST section in Makefile.am
465 2012-01-05 20:08:23 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
466 added some autogenerated po files to .gitignore
469 2012-01-05 20:05:44 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
470 added desktop and mime-type association to autoconf install process
472 This should install and uninstall the mime assocciation and also the icons.
473 Also renamed the desktop files to avoid possible name collisions.
475 2012-01-03 21:30:59 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
476 code cleanup: make function definition confirm to GNU coding style
478 change everything in the main directory to
481 funcname (int a, int b)
485 2012-01-03 18:43:18 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
486 Updated copyright notice to 2012
489 2012-01-03 21:32:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
490 Implement -viewerOptions
492 A mechanism is added to allow the user to configure persistently if the
493 game viewer that starts on clicking PGN files will use -ncp mode, or
494 load an egine for analysis (or, in fact, do anything). This by introducing
495 a persistent string option -viewerOptions, which will be parsed as a
496 command line after the real command line when the option -viewer was present.
498 2012-01-03 11:29:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
499 Fix crash in auto-comment
501 Trailing linefeeds in AppendComment were not properly stripped off,
502 leading to a mismatch between the allocted and used memory, and thus
503 possible buffer overruns.
505 2012-01-02 23:46:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
506 Fix crash at match end
508 The -afterTourney option had broken old-style matches, because the ranking
509 string that was tested for "busy" is not set there at all, and remains a
510 NULL pointer, which strcmp doesn't like.
512 2012-01-01 19:56:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
513 Add desktop files for PGN viewer and tournament player
515 The desktop files define startup commands for handling PGN, FEN and
516 tourney files, calling xboard with the proper command-line options.
518 2012-01-01 19:53:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
519 Add xml file for defining mime types
521 The file xboard.xml defines application/x-chess-pgn, aplication/x-chess-fen
522 and application/x-xboard-trn as mime types for *.pgn, *.fen and *.trn files,
523 so these files can be associated with XBoard in various modes.
525 2012-01-01 19:41:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
526 Add icons for PGN and tourney files
528 Icons are provided in two sizes: 32x32 and 48x48.
530 2011-12-29 19:55:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
531 Clear square markers on new game
533 Now that the markers can stay on after a first click, they need to be
534 explicitly cleared when moving to another board, including a new game.
536 2011-12-29 15:51:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
537 Abandon single-letter menus in tinyLayout
539 Now that the items on the main menu bar are clipped, it iso longer
540 necessary to abbreviate them.
542 2011-12-29 15:38:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
543 Implement peeking previous position in WinBoard
545 The backspace key is used to temporarily display the previous position.
547 2011-12-29 15:32:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
548 Fix parsing of faulty PGN tags
550 A closing bracket could be missed in a malformed tag
552 2011-12-29 15:29:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
553 Fix parser for variant seirawan
555 The new parser didnot understand gating suffixes with /, and did not
556 allow any suffix at all on SAN castling moves.
558 2011-12-28 22:32:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
559 Try to not confuse ICS rating adustments as shouts
561 An explicit pattern match for the rating adjustment is added before
564 2011-12-28 22:21:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
565 Describe -overrideLineGap option in texi file
568 2011-12-28 22:03:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
569 Use <Enter> in stead of Ctrl+. for peeking last move
571 I commented out the explicit detection of the Ctrl key, as this
572 is not needed when there are no 'unnatural' Ctrl keystrokes used
575 2011-12-28 19:37:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
576 Next try for menu-bar sizing
578 This time request the width needed to just fit everything, and then start
579 shaving off pixels from the currently largest until the entire thing fits.
581 2011-12-28 15:17:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
582 Clip texts on menu bar
584 The width of the items on the main menu bar is restricted so the bar
585 will never exceed board width.
587 2011-12-28 14:01:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
588 Fix format in temporary timing printf
591 2011-12-28 13:38:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
592 Don't test drops as mate evasions in variant seirawan
595 2011-12-28 13:36:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
596 Fix ICS castling rights
598 Copying the castling rights together with CopyBoard seems to have
599 broken handling of ICS rights, where ParseBoard12 prepares a board
600 in a local variable, an copies it before parsing the rights.
602 2011-12-28 13:35:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
603 Fix initial holdings ICS seirawan games
606 2011-12-27 18:31:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
607 Fix sending of S-Chess gating moves to ICS
609 Normal moves did not get the gating suffix sent.
611 2011-12-27 17:56:07 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
612 Fix menu grayout after illegal move
614 TheThinkingEnables were not reset to user state after the engine rejected
615 the entered move as illegal.
617 2011-12-27 13:26:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
618 Allow setting of holdings with edit command
620 For the benefit of Fairy-Max' Seirawan Chess implementation, the edit command
621 no also sends holdings contents (if the engine sent feature xedit=1), encoded
622 as pieceType + '@' + holdingsCount (if the count is non-zero).
624 2011-12-24 17:54:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
625 Fix out-of-bounds access in check test
627 Thepath to make the check test work with drops had broken the test
628 after null move (both have rf<0), which led to corruption of the high
629 word of the black clock.
631 2011-12-24 17:51:22 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
632 Fix legality of Spartan promotion to king
634 In the check test promotion to King is only allowed if there are not
637 2011-12-21 22:17:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
638 Fix switching back from mono-mode XB
640 Suppressing unnecesary X-server calls in InitDrawingSizes had broken
641 switching back from monoMode, because the animVars have to be recreated
642 for that, and this was only done when the variant changed.
644 2011-12-21 22:09:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
645 Fix showTargetSquares in mono-mode XB
647 Make the marker dots black (captures) and white, and draw a circle
648 in the opposite color around them in monoMode.
650 2011-12-21 22:00:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
651 Fix arrow highlighting in mono-mode XB
653 Draw a line around it in darkSquare color in monoMode.
655 2011-12-21 17:48:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
656 Fix alignment of generic browse button XBoard
658 The width ofthe browse button is now read back after creating it,
659 and subtracted from the preceding text edit.
661 2011-12-21 14:41:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
662 Add -afterTourney option
664 Only the instance pinting the tourney result will execute this.
666 2011-12-22 21:01:43 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
667 Fix buffer possible overflow when writings tags
669 PGNTagsStatic() could overflow its buffer and is removed. PGNTags() do the work instead of calling it.
670 It starts by calculation the required buffer size and then allocate the buffer.
671 PrintPGNTags() now prints directly to the file without having a buffer.
673 2011-12-22 15:01:31 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
674 One more string marked for translation
676 And it is moved inside the if statement that uses it.
678 2011-12-22 14:30:08 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
679 Fix checking of return value from snprintf()
681 snprintf() returns the needed space excluding the trailing 0 byte, so
682 it has truncated if the returned valued is greater than or EQUAL TO the buffersize
684 2011-12-19 16:49:31 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
685 Fix unportable memory initialisation
687 Memory sat to zero by calloc() cannot safely be assumed to have the pointer value NULL
689 2011-12-19 13:16:58 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
690 Add 2 strings for translation
693 2011-12-19 11:25:11 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
694 Remove the last 2 compile warnings in gamelist.h
697 2011-12-19 11:17:48 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
698 Add #include "moves.h" to gamelist.c for def. of CopyBoard()
701 2011-12-19 11:11:34 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
702 Definition of TimeMark moved from 3 c files to backend.h
705 2011-12-19 01:21:46 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
706 Transfer a pointer to the promoChar from PromotionPopUp() to PromotionCallback(). Fixes #34980
709 2011-12-18 17:24:07 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
710 Duh! Initialise the argument to sscanf() inside the loop, so it always gets a known value when sscanf() fails.
713 2011-12-18 17:18:12 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
714 Give numeric options the value 0 if a non-numeric text is entered (one more place). Before the value ended up undefined.
717 2011-12-18 17:08:46 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
718 Give numeric options the value 0 if a non-numeric text is entered. Before the value ended up undefined.
721 2011-12-18 15:41:46 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
722 Fix possible crash on 64-bit systems when copying game or position
724 The two convertproc's for X selections caused reads out of bounds on 64-bit systems.
725 I hope that this is the right solution. I am not experienced with X stuff, but it
726 follows that I have seen in other programs, testing shows that copying still works,
727 and the reading out of bounds have disappearinged with this patch.
729 2011-12-18 13:26:20 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
730 Fix a possible crash in the file browser
732 If the OK button was selected in the file browser when no file was selected
733 there was a read out of bounds which could crash xboard
735 2011-12-17 22:54:34 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
736 Fix a memory leak in Sound Options
739 2011-12-16 02:57:20 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
740 Fix crash when selecting user soundfile due to free() of not malloc()'ed memory
743 2011-12-16 02:32:37 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
744 Make GenericPopUp() more readable by using more named flags instead of numerals
746 Defines the flags SAME_ROW (value 1) and NO_OK (value 2) for use with buttons and endmarks.
747 There should no functional change.
748 Also add a code comment where a condition depends on an uninitialised value. There is no direct harm, as both
749 branches do the same (that is nothing) when the value is uninitialised.
751 2011-12-15 02:51:36 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
752 Add NO_GETTEXT flag for combobox. Fix bug #34991
754 Define NO_GETTEXT flag to avoid calling gettext() for comboboxes, and define COMBO_CALLBACK
755 flag to call comboCallback() when an item is selected in a combobox (no new code for this,
756 just a symbolic value instead of a number). The flags are used for the min field of struct Option.
757 NO_GETTEXT is used for the Select engine combobixes in the Match Options and Load engine windows.
759 2011-12-13 19:48:37 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
760 only translate entries in CreateComboPopup if strlen>0; fixes #34991
763 2011-12-12 19:06:26 -0800 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
764 fix for repeating key issue, with this allissues this bug should be closed; fixes #35000
767 2011-12-12 18:45:05 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
768 also don't translate selection in ComboSelect; fixes #34991
771 2011-12-12 18:40:23 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
772 make entries in CreateComboPopup not translateable; fixes #34991
775 2011-12-10 16:06:47 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
776 fix translation for engine list; fixes #34991
778 * click on browse button should be recognized in translated versions
779 * width of button should auto-scale
781 2011-12-10 11:04:17 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
782 change keybindings that don't use ctrl, make MoveTypeInProc ctrl aware; fixes #35000
784 two keybindings were using keys without modifiers, adjusted these to use the ctrl key.
785 Furthermore when typing in moves we need to check if ctrl was pressed and ignore those inputs.
787 Also added documentation for these keybindings.
789 2011-12-10 10:51:18 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
790 replaced unicode character for "'" in xboard.texi
793 2011-12-10 10:08:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
794 removed Iconify function. Should be handled by the window manager.
797 2011-12-08 20:53:13 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
798 marked an error messages for translation
801 2011-12-08 20:33:29 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
802 translation: updated uk.po
805 2011-12-03 17:52:23 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
806 fixed size of XBoard icon to 48x48
808 the icon gets installed in the 48x48 directory, but was >200 pixel wide. This gave a warning during rpm creation.
810 2011-12-03 08:07:32 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
813 marked a lot of new strings for translation
815 2011-12-03 08:06:42 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
816 added new files to po/POTFILES.in
819 2011-12-02 22:13:36 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
820 marked more strings for translation
823 2011-12-02 20:08:01 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
824 translation: added danish translation
827 2011-12-01 18:45:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
828 Change encoding of seirawan ICS gating-castlings
830 In stead of using upper/lower-case promoChar, the ICS now uses
831 RxK notation, like WinBoard writes in SAN, for better consistency.
833 2011-11-30 15:38:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
834 Put promo-suffix on ICS move in variant seirawan castlings
836 The distinction upper-case / lowercase determines gating at R / K
838 2011-11-28 11:56:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
839 Refrain from making unnecessary resize X request
841 The window resizing code in InitDrawingSizes is suppressed when no
842 change is needed. Similarly, changing piece bitmaps is suppressed when
843 we stay in the same variant (and InitDrawingSizes is called e.g. because
844 of chaging lineGap through the Board dialog).
846 2011-11-27 22:27:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
847 Fix parsing of O-O castling in variant janus
849 The new parser did not realize it meant e1i1 rather than wild e1h1.
851 2011-11-26 22:28:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
852 Show 50-move counter also when observing ICS games
854 To not cheat 50-move display was suppressed in ICS mode,
855 but for observing a game this made no sense.
857 2011-11-26 22:22:07 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
858 Ignore ICS game starts when already in game
860 The advance switching of the variant on game-start messages was
861 disruptive for users with gin=1, which also sends such messages
862 for other games than your own. For now fixed by only reacting on
863 them when idle (detected by invalid game number).
865 2011-11-11 18:16:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
866 Fix WinBoard clock-click bug
868 Clicking on the clock in WinBoard also called the LeftClick routine
869 for handling clicks on the board. This led to the from-square being set
870 to some inalid value, so that the next genuine board click was interpreted
871 as a to-click, with undesired effects, especially with legality testing off
872 or in EditPosition mode, where weird things are accepted.
874 2011-11-06 17:20:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
875 Add feature-override options
877 A few (dangerous) options are added to allow a user to override
878 engine features, or change their defaults, by supplying a string
879 with feature commands (e.g. "sigint=0") which tricks XBoard into
880 thinking the engine sent that. There is a -featureDefaults which is
881 processed before the engine features, and -first/secondFeatures
882 which is parsed just before engine initialization.
883 This goes horribly wrong when the user wouldtry silly things like
884 including 'option' or 'done' features!
886 2011-11-05 12:32:39 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
887 translation: updated uk.po
890 2011-11-04 21:58:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
891 Fix handling of -secondOptions option
893 The -firstOptions and -secondOptions settigs were not swapped when
894 -singleEngieList was true, so the second engine's options would never
895 be set in that case, but used for the first engine.
897 2011-11-04 21:55:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
898 Accept setup command in variant fairy even with legality testing on
900 Variant fairy does not really have a defined opening position, but lots
901 of pieces defined, so we might want to play with legality checking on,
902 but still rely on the engine for the opening position
904 2011-11-04 21:52:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
905 Set pieceToCharTable by setup command even when ignoring FEN
907 When the user starts from a set-up position, the egines default
908 openingposition has to be ignored, but the pieceToCharTable would
911 2011-11-04 21:48:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
912 Change default sweep-promotion choicein queenless variants
914 The initial scanning of the sweep piece until a defined piece is found
915 is now in the increasing direction (still starting at Queen), so that
916 the fairy pieces are suggested before R, B and N.
918 2011-11-03 16:38:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
919 Clear board markers when moving to other position
921 Now the markers from -showTargetSquares would stay on after a first click
922 for the benefit of a click-click move, they would also stay on when not
923 finishing the move, but operating the < > buttons in stead to call up
924 other positions. ForwardInner and BackwardInner now clear the markers,
925 like they also cleared highlights.
927 2011-11-01 18:30:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
928 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
930 2011-10-25 15:32:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
933 2011-10-24 20:00:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
934 Don't adjust clock on right-click in EditGame mode WB
936 This was a change that was already done for the left-clicks, but somehow
937 never made it togit for the right-clicks
939 2011-10-24 19:50:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
940 Change chase message in .lng files
942 2011-10-24 19:31:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
943 Let perpetual-chase message mention square
945 In stead of a boolean, PerpetualChase now returns the square the chased
946 piece ends on (encoded as an int), and on adjudication it will be printed.
948 2011-10-24 19:26:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
949 Add mechanism to translate variable messages in WinBoard
951 A message prefixed with % in the lng file will be considered a match
952 if it matches the start of the text to be printed, and the remaining
953 part of the latter will remain untranslated. This was needed to allow
954 translation of the perpetual change message, now it indicates the square
957 2011-10-24 19:20:13 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
958 Use other interpretation of Asia rules for chase detection
960 The detection of perpetual chases now ignores pre-existing checks.
962 2011-10-12 17:28:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
963 Fix crash on loading garbage game file
965 The code to cache games was not resistant to moves before a valid
966 game start, or a game filewithout any games at all.
968 2011-10-08 20:43:52 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
969 Incorporate variant type in book hash key
971 This prevents booksforone variant being used for another, and allows
974 2011-10-07 15:41:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
975 Update language.txt file
978 2011-10-07 15:34:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
979 Update Dutch lng file
982 2011-10-07 15:21:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
983 Fix Load Options dialog WB
985 Defined fastkeys; reordered elements so that fastkeys focus edit they
986 are intended for. Changed some of the more obscure texts. Corrected
987 list of transatble dialog items, adding a few missing ones.
989 2011-09-13 20:01:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
992 Prototypes were added, ormoved from backend.c to backend.h.
994 2011-08-26 12:44:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
995 Put 'Load Next' button back in WB Game List
997 The '>' button for loading the next (filtered) game is re-instated in the
998 WinBoard GameList. The main window has now accelerator keys Ctrl+Up and
999 Ctrl+Down for loading the previous and next filtered game.
1001 2011-08-26 12:31:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1002 Speed up position search and consider side to move
1004 The position search is made to pay attention to the side to move,
1005 which produces a speedup, because we only have to compare half the
1006 game positions when looking for an exact position match. An addition
1007 we now keep track of the total number of pieces, and abandon a game when
1008 it drops below the number of pieces in the position we seek.
1010 2011-08-21 23:16:15 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1011 Dynamically allocate move cache
1013 A small statically declared cache good for 250k moves (~3200 games)
1014 will be expanded in steps of a factor 8 when it overflows.
1016 2011-08-18 18:40:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1017 Translate search strings
1020 2011-08-17 22:55:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1021 Implement flipped search
1024 2011-08-16 15:29:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1025 Debug position search cache
1028 2011-08-15 18:44:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1032 2011-08-18 18:01:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1033 Translate search-mode strings
1036 2011-08-15 16:59:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1040 2011-10-23 16:04:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1041 Fix duplicate loading of second engine in tourneys
1043 To decide if new engines should be loaded, it was tested if first.pr
1044 equalled NoProc, assuming that ReserveGame would have left the engine
1045 loaded if the next game would need the same engines. But a reuse=0 engine
1046 could have caused termination of the first engine process anyway, while
1047 the second would still be alive. So unconditionally starting of the second
1048 engine would cause redundant engine processes to abound.
1049 Now we only start new engine processes if both engine processes are dead.
1051 2011-10-23 15:53:32 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1052 Fix PV walking with -fSAN
1054 The SAN options had broken the PV walking, because the shelving of the
1055 walked PV to create space for the conversion to SAN of an incoming PV
1056 would not be properly undone, but would add the walked PV to the game.
1058 2011-10-20 12:39:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1059 Refine clock adjusting
1061 Adjusting the clocks by shift-clicking them is now only allowed with
1062 autoCallFlag off, and an error-popup results when you do it otherwise.
1063 Also, swtching to Edit Game mode won't reset the clocks to the stored
1064 value anymore when you have just adjusted it.
1066 2011-10-12 17:43:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1067 Fix crash on adding items near book end
1069 When Edit Book would add so many entries near the end of an opening
1070 book that the end of the added info would surpass the old end of the
1071 file, the copying of the tail got stuck in an infinite loop, extending
1072 the file without limit with repeating info.
1074 2011-10-12 17:41:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1075 Print message on wrong use of Clone Tourney
1077 The user is urged to first provide the name of an existing tourney file
1078 when he presses the button without one. The button is also renamed.
1080 2011-10-12 17:38:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1081 Fix invalid combobox entry WB
1083 A combobox label that was not in the list (because the user typed
1084 it, rather than selecting one) would cause a crash.
1086 2011-10-12 17:23:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1087 Fix crash on loading garbage game file
1089 XBoard crashed when a game file contained a PGN game result before
1090 any valid game start, because data would be written in a game-list
1091 node that did not exist yet. This would occur frequently when garage
1092 was read; basically any asterisk in the data would do it.
1094 2011-10-11 23:31:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1095 Add control to set -discourageOwnBooks WB
1098 2011-10-11 20:53:52 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1099 only require 0.17 of gettext
1101 This seems to solve many build issues with older distrubtions and doesn't seem to be a problem with newer ones.
1103 2011-10-11 23:31:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1104 Add option -discourageOwnBooks
1106 This boolean option determines the default setting of the hasOwnBook
1107 option before a tourney game starts. By setting it, the hasOwnBook
1108 option is cleared, which would enable use of the GUI book, like the
1109 engine was installedwith the /firstXBook option. An explicit option
1110 on the engine install line can still overrule this, though.
1111 A control to set this option has been added in the XBoard Match dialog,
1112 and it is saved in the tourney file to force consistency.
1114 2011-10-11 22:58:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1115 Reset initString and computerString on engine load
1117 These options are typically engine specific, and must thus be
1118 reset to their default value before loading a new engine.
1120 2011-10-11 22:43:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1121 Add Romanian lng file
1124 2011-10-07 16:55:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1125 Reactivate Falcon Chess
1127 Now the patent for this has expired, Fairy-Max plays it again.
1128 So the XBoard support for it is now switched on, and an item for it is
1129 added to the XBoard New Variant menu dialog. (WinBoard still had that.)
1130 In the array the Lance was changed for the Falcon as a wild-card piece.
1132 2011-10-03 09:59:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1133 Update texi file for new features
1136 2011-10-03 10:30:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1137 Update texi file for position search
1139 The new items in the Load Game Options dialog are described, as well
1140 as the command-line options used to store them in the settings file.
1142 2011-10-03 09:28:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1143 Remove paragraph about .Xresources from texi file
1145 Command-line options can no longer be set through .Xresources already
1146 since version 4.5.0.
1148 2011-10-03 09:13:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1149 Add Dutch WinBoard translation
1152 2011-09-28 20:46:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1153 Prevent Edit Book window from stealing focus (WB)
1155 In WinBoard updating the book window would give it focus. Now the
1156 focus is given back to the main window, except when the Edit Book
1157 window is first created.
1159 2011-09-28 20:42:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1160 Make book-window update part of HistorySet
1163 2011-09-26 16:01:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1164 Fix position loading in tourneys
1166 In a tourney a position must be loaded when the engine is not yet
1167 started, and the old version of LoadPosition could not handle that:
1168 It would start up the engine, and send it commands unconditionally.
1170 2011-09-26 15:58:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1171 Fix resetting -fSAN on engine change
1173 There were two places for loading another engine, Load (from menu) and
1174 SetPlayer (in tourneys), and the previous patch for this missed the
1177 2011-09-26 15:51:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1178 Make too-long game non-fatal
1180 GameEnds is now called when the maximum number of moves is exceeded,
1181 rather than DisplayFatalError. Not sure if this properly terminates the
1182 game in all situations, but DisplayFatalError (after calling GameEnds)
1183 would also wait for the user to confirm the error popup before really
1184 exiting, so that in an unattended automatically running tourney there
1185 was not much fatal, and the entire tourney would in fact be finished.
1187 2011-09-26 15:46:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1190 Rather than opening and closing the book file on every probe, it is
1191 now only closed and opened when the name of it changed.
1193 2011-09-26 15:44:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1194 Suppress playing of book moves with weight 0
1196 Bookmoves with weight 0 could be played when the sum of the weights
1197 of all moves from the position was 0. So it was not possible to suppress
1198 the only move by giving it weight 0. This is now corrected.
1200 2011-10-01 15:00:47 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1201 added NEWS for release of 4.5.3
1204 2011-09-29 20:31:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1205 better contrast for XBoard icon on a dark background
1208 2011-10-01 13:09:59 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1209 translationproject.org: updated Ukrainian translation
1212 2011-09-29 20:49:42 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1213 updated pot file and send to translation project
1216 2011-09-22 12:09:39 +0100 Thomas Adam <thomas@fvwm.org>:
1217 (tiny change) Clarify "-name" option is Xt-only
1219 There's a set of standard options with will get used by Xt, before Xboard
1220 itself will use them. "-name" is an Xt-only option which will set the name
1221 and resource of the window to the value requested. It has nothing to do
1222 with setting opponent/player names.
1224 Signed-off-by: Thomas Adam <thomas@fvwm.org>
1226 modified slightly by Arun Persaud (renamed itemx to item and fixed option name for CMAIL)
1228 2011-09-22 17:17:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1229 Fix LoadGameOrPosition starting up engine
1231 When LoadGameOrPosition() is called from NextMatchGame(), the Reset() that
1232 is called in LoadPosition() when you are running from a position file
1233 would prematurely start up the engine (without waiting for features).
1234 The kludge to suppress this behavior for the explicit call to Reset()
1235 is now extended to encompass LoadGameOrPosition.
1237 2011-09-22 17:14:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1238 Clear fSAN option before new engine load
1240 This to prevent the new engine will inherit it from the previous one.
1241 As the command-line options an only set it, this has to be done by
1242 explicit assignment.
1244 2011-09-13 23:02:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1245 Fix some warnings (prototypes)
1248 2011-09-13 19:55:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1249 Fix write failures in concurrency
1251 In WinBoard a flood of writes by differentprocesses to the same PGN can
1252 cause a "permission denied" error in fopen. This patch causes retries after
1253 a random (5-15 msec) wait, in such cases.
1255 2011-09-13 19:52:19 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1256 Move HistorySet to back-end
1258 This existed in exact duplicates in both front-ends.
1260 2011-09-13 19:46:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1261 Make DoSleep front-end wrapper for msec sleep
1263 DoSleep was #defined as a macro for Sleep/ sleep, with an argument
1264 indicating msec in WinBoard, but seconds in XBoard. Nuw it universally
1265 uses msec, by defining it as a wrapperin the respective front-ends.
1266 (For XBoard itwraps FrameDelay.)
1268 2011-09-10 22:35:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1269 Fix playing sounds when -soundProgram is empty
1271 It made no sense to just send the names of the sound files to the shell.
1272 So the soundProgram isnow tested for being an empty string, and if so,
1273 PlaySound() is aborted.
1275 2011-09-10 14:01:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1276 Add -afterGame option
1278 This option specifies a command line to be executed after each game of
1279 a tournament. To execute the line, the function RunCommand() was added
1280 in the front-end. For XBoard this was a simple call to system(); for
1281 WinBoard part of the StartChildProcess code was cloned (without the pipe
1284 2011-09-10 13:52:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1285 Upgrade -serverMoves option
1287 The (undocumented) -serverMoves option was upgraded to conform to the
1288 ChessLive! protocol extension for sending SAN tags. A bug that allowed
1289 upper-case promoChar to leak through was also fixed, and code was added
1290 to write engine PVs to file. Flushing of the game result to the -serverMoves
1291 file was also fixed.
1293 2011-09-10 13:50:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1296 The joining of two comments was not performed correctly if the second
1297 one had the braces yet to be added: the closing brace was not added in
1300 2011-08-30 19:39:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1301 Auto-popup ICS Input Box
1303 Typing to the board made the move type-in pop up, but in ICS mode
1304 this is of course undesirable. Like in WinBoard, the ICS Input Box
1305 should pop up in stead, and accept the typed character. This is now
1306 realized. If the box already exists and has text in it, the typed
1307 character is appended to that text, and the box is given focus.
1308 Spaces now also are considered as printable.
1310 2011-08-30 18:27:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1311 Slightly decrease sensitivity of sweep actions
1313 The sweep-selection of promotion and drop pieces, or step through the PV
1314 was so sensitive that it was difficult to reliably make the intended choice.
1315 It has now been reduced by a factor 1.5-2, and the sweep selection and
1316 PV walk now also use a different value.
1318 2011-08-27 21:16:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1319 Extra buttons in WB Tournament dialog
1321 A button to copy contents of the tournament fileto the dialog is added.
1322 Buttons to invoke the Common Engine and Time Control dialogs are also added.
1324 2011-08-27 21:15:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1325 Fix crash on typing non-existent enginein Load Engine dialog
1328 2011-08-24 10:30:46 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1329 Fix display state after failed analysis attempt
1331 When an engine responded to the "analyze" command with an "unknown command"
1332 message, a Reset was done without altering the display, causing a
1333 discrepancy between display and internal state, which caused confusion
1334 when it finally corrected itself. I replaced the Reset call by an
1335 EditGameEvent call, to preserve the loaded game. The Reset was presumably
1336 used to allow for the case where the engine would be so upset by the
1337 analyze command that it needed to be reset by a "new" command, but this
1338 seems overly paranoic for an engine that just recognized the command
1341 2011-08-24 09:58:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1342 Fix treatment of PGN score/depth info with linefeeds in them
1344 This is needed to make the PGN more Arena-proof.
1346 2011-08-24 09:51:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1347 Fix quoting in Load Engine dialog
1349 A (space-contaning) engine name only needs quoting when there are parameters,
1350 because the over-all engine command will be quoted anyway. For UCI engines
1351 duplicate quoting is fatal, because when passed as the -ec argument of
1352 Polyglot, it will be quoted yet another time, also with double quotes.
1354 2011-08-23 21:24:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1355 Replace Analyze File by Analyz Game function
1358 2011-08-22 22:16:58 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1359 new developer release
1362 2011-08-22 22:26:56 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1366 2011-08-22 22:24:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1367 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
1370 2011-08-22 22:09:19 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1371 malloc.h is not needed
1374 2011-08-20 22:21:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1375 Fix ICS move-list header mistaken for null moves
1378 2011-08-18 18:53:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1379 Allow two-games-per-opening to work with book
1381 A new option -seedBase is added, and written to the tourney file.
1382 It allows all XBoard instances working on a tourney to generate the same
1383 'random' openings in a deterministic way, based on this one-time seed
1384 and the game number. When -loadGameIndex equals -2, it uses the same seed
1385 for an odd and the following even game.
1387 2011-08-18 18:51:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1390 In some places rand() was called explicitly, rather than through the
1391 (configured) place-holder random().
1393 2011-08-18 17:34:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1394 Translate search texts
1397 2011-08-18 10:29:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1398 Add -useBoardTexture and -usePieceFont options
1400 These options suppress the use of the given texture files or piece fonts
1401 without relying on the kludge to disable them by prefixing an asterisk
1402 to the file or font name. Checkboxes have been added to the Board dialog
1403 to control them. The user can now set piece font in WB font dialog.
1404 The sample text can be used to specify the -fontPieceToCharTable,
1405 the font name itself the -renderPiecesWithFont value.
1407 2011-08-16 23:10:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1408 Fix crash on start without settings file
1410 A primordial -1 in currCurrent caused a crash when WinBoard was started
1411 without ini filein game-viewer mode.
1413 2011-08-12 12:08:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1414 Fix generic-popup failure after empty engine-settings dialog
1416 The error exit ofthe Engine #N Settings dialog in case of an engine without
1417 options forgot to clear currentCps, with as a result that the generic popup
1418 thought every subsequent popup was an empty one, and kept repeating the
1419 'engine has no options' error message for every dialog.
1421 2011-08-10 11:27:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1422 Allow substitution of engines during tournament
1424 Two buttons are added in the tournament options dialog, for upgrading
1425 and for replacing a tourney participant. Lots of tests on the validity
1426 of the request are done, and if all are passed, the tourney file is
1427 written with the new participants (and in case of replace) with the
1428 results of the replaced engines erased from the -results string.
1430 2011-08-08 11:00:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1431 Fix up/down arrows in game list
1434 2011-08-08 10:31:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1435 Add key bindings for loading next/previous game of list
1437 These bindings are set both for the game list and the board window.
1438 To make them useful, focus has to be transferred to the board widget
1439 after loading (it tends to transfer to the tags window), which now
1440 seems to work, but not always. From the game list the shellWidget
1441 seems to get focus rather than the board, which is bad as it is not
1442 sensitive to the key bindings.
1444 2011-08-08 09:58:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1445 Allow deletion of last book move
1447 The book-edit function refused to delete the entiremove list,
1448 for no good reason. This limitation now has been lifted.
1449 Also the error message that the key for the current book entries
1450 is different from that of the currentposition has been suppressed
1451 if there were no entries found for the current position (so that the
1452 book is positioned at the next key), so that it is possible to add
1455 2011-08-08 00:19:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1458 Line numbers > 1, which are common, can exit already during move parsing,
1459 to save lots of matching on resultsand castlings.
1461 2011-08-07 15:13:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1462 Fix missing files in file browser
1464 The file browser was throwing away the first two files, assuming
1465 they were "." and "..". Alas, this is no longer true on every Linux.
1466 Now we actuallyc compare for these names, before skipping them.
1468 2011-08-06 11:57:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1469 Delay file loading to allow expose event first
1472 2011-08-06 09:29:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1476 2011-08-05 22:39:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1477 Better fix of crash on empty game list
1479 An empty list is now replaced by a list containig a simple message.
1481 2011-08-05 20:31:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1482 Add plain arrows as key binding for stepping forward/backward
1485 2011-08-05 20:30:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1486 Debug position selection
1489 2011-08-04 13:22:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1490 Print progress during load / selection of game
1492 The title bar of themain window is used to display a running count
1493 of the number of games loaded / searched.
1495 2011-08-04 12:44:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1496 Parse PGN tags without allocating memory
1498 In WinBoard malloc/free did not seem to work when preparing the game list,
1499 leading to a huge memory list when ParsePGNTag was used. The added code
1500 parses the required tags in an alternative way as a work-around.
1502 2011-08-02 22:58:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1503 Implement searching games in Game List for a position
1505 For this it was needed to reconstruct all positions of the games
1506 without loading them, so they could be compared to the currently
1507 displayed position. A new routine GameContainsPosition is made for that.
1508 In Disambiguate, when the global quickFlag is set, we now do the
1509 disambiguation ignoring check,and only if this leads to an ambiguous
1510 move, we repeat it taking check into account to see if that resolves
1511 the ambiguity. This causes us to miss if unambiguous moves are illegal
1512 because they put their King in check, but who cares?
1513 We now do not make game-list line when not needed. If we do not filter
1514 by text, but by position, there is no need for preparing the game-list
1515 line for games that are not selected. All for efficiency.
1517 2011-07-28 20:47:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1518 Allow entry of variations in PlayFromGameFile mode
1520 Adding variations is more like editing a comment,and not really editing
1521 the game. Therefore we allow it on loaded games. As soon as we are in a
1522 variation, we temporarily switch to a (hidden) EditGame mode, restoring
1523 the original mode when we revert to the main line.
1524 We now also stay in PlayFromGameFile mode after loading a game,
1525 And opening variation (fromtheComment window) in PlayFromGameFile mode
1528 2011-07-27 18:47:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1529 Force Move History refresh after loading/reverting variation
1531 The Move History window was not refreshed after switching to or from
1532 a variation if that variation happened to have the same length as
1533 the main line. Now a change in storedGames since the previous refresh will
1534 force a full refresh to avoid this. For this to work, storedGames
1535 did have to be decremented after ToNrEvent in PopInner, because ToNrEvent
1536 calls HistorySet before the history is restored, so we don't want
1537 it to snatch away the full refresh. A call to HistorySet had to be
1538 added after PopInner is done restoring the move history.
1540 2011-07-27 17:45:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1541 Popdown Comment window on new game
1543 What is in this window cannot possibly remain valid, and can even be harmful.
1545 2011-01-19 11:46:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1546 Allow null move in analysis and edit-game mode
1548 In some games it is allowed to pass your turn. The internal
1549 representation picked for such a null move is the drop of an empty
1550 square, (EmptySquare,DROP_RANK,0,0). Computer-algebraic form is "@@@@",
1551 SAN form is "--", (for compatibility with ChessBase / SCID), and the
1552 non-compliant forms "null", "pass"and "Z0" are recognized in
1553 the parser as well. ApplyMove() has to test for this special case
1554 (to not actually clear a1), and a way to enter the pass for the user had
1555 to be found (clicking the opponent clock, like in EditPosition mode).
1556 The null move is made move irreversible to prevent repetition draws
1557 spanning null moves being adjudicated.
1558 Such entry of null move is now allowed in AnalyzeMode and EditGame mode.
1559 Because Chess engines will not accept null moves, SendMoveToProgram had
1560 to be adapted to send not the move, but the position after it in
1561 case of a null move. This erases the move history in the engine,
1562 so it will not react to 'undo' for that null move, so BackwardInner
1563 had to be adapted to test for intervening null moves, and if one is
1564 found, approach the target from the other side after loading the
1565 earliest position before it not crossing another null move, and
1566 then loading the moves upto the target.
1567 XBoard clock clicks had to be fixed, to pay attention to the shift key.
1569 2011-07-25 21:58:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1570 Give WinBoard Game List its own font
1572 The font fort he Game List used to be shared with the Engine Output and
1573 Move History windows, but this made it impossible to use a figurine font
1574 in the latter two (which displays piece symbols for capitals) without
1575 messing up the Game List. An option -gameListFont has been added to specify
1576 the font for the Game List(and save it in the settings file), while a
1577 control for it is added in the fonts dialog.
1579 2011-07-21 19:02:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1580 Fix crash on OK after Save Changes in Tags and Comment popup.
1582 The global variables tagsText and commentText were used to pass
1583 a string obtained from a widget (and thus not malloc'ed), which
1584 caused a crash when the GenericReadout tried to use those variables
1585 for the new value. Fixed by using GenericReadout (which does malloc)
1586 to read out the text,in stead of GetWidgetText.
1588 2011-07-16 09:31:12 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1589 Revert "fixed segfault in xengineoutput", fixed in the backend now (from HGM)
1591 This reverts commit 33a0e73843115ff6d4eacaf963a38f2e8b20b295.
1593 2011-07-16 14:53:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1594 Suppress some XBoard warnings
1597 2011-07-15 11:21:29 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1598 fixed segfault in xengineoutput
1601 2011-07-11 20:04:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1602 Disable -showTargetSquares in ICS mode
1604 Help like this is considered cheating on FICS, so it is disabled for
1605 all 'classical' ICS variants. (For variants eyont Shogi we don't care.)
1607 2011-07-10 21:20:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1608 Put grab on sweep-selecting in Edit Position
1610 A right down-click starting a sweep-selection event did not grab the
1611 mouse events, so that an up-click outside the window would go
1612 unnoticed, and the pointer motion stayed coupled to selecting the
1613 piece until the next click. By returning 2 from the RightClick back-end
1614 routine we request the grab.
1616 2011-07-09 13:50:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1617 Write more labels on score axis of eval graph
1619 The labels for +/-1 and +/-3 are now also written, provided there is
1622 2011-07-09 13:28:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1623 Improve Eval Graph with -evalZoom and -evalThreshold
1625 The score range between -1 and +1 can now be blown up by a factor
1626 specified through -evalZoom. The threshold below which histogram bars
1627 are no longer printed (wich used to e hard-coded 25 centi-Pawn) can now
1628 be set through the -evalThreshold option.
1630 2011-07-09 13:18:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1631 Print reversible plies done in stead of plies to go
1633 Printing the number of plies left to the draw-adjudication point was
1634 confusing when the N-move rule was set to a non-standard value.
1635 In stead we now print the number of plies since the last irreversible
1636 move, so the user can compare it to both the engine claim point (100)
1637 and the adjudication point he set (which might be beyond 100).
1639 2011-07-09 13:13:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1640 Let WB eval graph react ot single left-click
1642 Unlike in XBoard, the WinBoard eval graph awatys had required double-
1643 clicking to go the the corresponding move, while there really is no
1644 reason for this, as it is no text edit, and single-clicks have no function
1647 2011-07-07 19:37:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1648 Add -scoreWhite option
1650 This is similar to -absoluteAnalysisScores, except that it works in
1651 all modes, and flips the score given by the engines in the engine-output
1652 window when black is to move.
1654 2011-07-07 19:28:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1655 Print 50-move counter in Engine-Output title
1658 2011-07-07 18:50:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1659 Display score/depth in Eval Graph title
1661 No longer print it in the comment window.
1663 2011-07-04 11:06:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1664 Let -sweepPromotions also work for click-click moves
1666 A click-click promotion no longer causes auto-queening, but the down-click
1667 on the to-square causes a Queen to stick to the mouse pointer, and then
1668 allows the user to change it through dragging backwards before releasing it
1670 In WinBoard this required a slight change in DragPieceBegin, because
1671 the dragged piece there only was made visible when the mouse pointer
1672 actually started moving (and dragInfo.pos was set), presumably under the
1673 assumption that before mouse move the piece was already on the clicked
1674 square. Which in the case of a to-square was of course not true. (Because
1675 a piece jumps to the mouse pointer when the click is not centered on a
1676 square, this gives less jittery static clicks.) So DragPieceBegin has
1677 been given an extra argument now, to indicate whether it should attach
1678 the piece to the mouse pointer immediately.
1679 To make the click-click sweepPromotions work in Shogi (for which the
1680 drag-drop sweepPromotions could never work, because it is not clear the
1681 piece has a posibility to promote when you pick it up), translation of
1682 the sweep-selected piece to a Shogi promoChar had to e added.
1684 2011-07-04 10:45:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1685 Improve -showTargetSquares on click-click moves
1687 The markers on move targets are now kept when a first click merely
1688 selects a piece, rather than dragging it elsewhere. The second click
1689 (by definition on the to-square) then clears the markers.
1691 2011-07-04 11:23:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1692 Let PGN parser accept lower-case piece in drop moves
1694 The @ sign prevents amiguity with other notations anyway.
1696 2011-07-04 12:42:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1697 Fix parser.c line endings
1700 2011-06-29 20:29:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1701 Fix writing searchTime in tourneyFile
1703 This had to be derived from the variable searchTime, which gives it
1704 in seconds, as appData.searchTime (a string in minutes) is not reliable,
1705 as it contains the command-line value, which might have been altered
1706 through the time-control dialog.
1708 2011-06-29 20:25:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1709 Fix resetting searchTime if other TC mode is chosen (XB)
1711 This fixes a bug in the new time-control dialog.
1713 2011-06-29 14:32:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1714 Fix coords display on large boards
1716 The file indicators can now run upto 'w'. Only the lowest digit
1717 of the rank number is printed, from a table that is valid to 22.
1719 2011-06-29 13:53:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1720 Fix crash on making too-long FEN
1722 The buffer for in PositionToFEN was only 128 bytes, which was not enough
1723 for large boards such as 19x19 Go. It is enlarged to MSG_SIZ(512) now.
1724 There also is some approximate overflow checking added (but it is not
1725 fool proof in case there are holdings...)
1727 2011-06-29 13:36:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1728 Fix drop moves on boards with more than 10 ranks
1730 The internal encoding for rank 16 is '@', and thus ambiguous with drop
1731 moves. They were always printed as 16, breaking drop games on large
1732 boards. The ambiguity is now solved (for boards with more than 16 ranks)
1733 by checking if the preceeding letter is upper case, in which case it
1734 cannot be a fileindicator, but must be a piece, and thus a drop.
1736 2011-06-29 13:29:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1737 Don't one-click move when legality testing is off
1740 2011-06-23 21:18:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1741 Reorder controls in Engine Setings dialog WB
1743 To get tabbing through the controls in left-to-right order, they are
1744 now added to the template structure in that order. Also add a tabstop
1745 to Label options, so that JAWS will read those.
1747 2011-06-23 14:02:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1748 Add tab stops in WB generic popup
1750 The WinBoard generic popup did not put tab stops on push buttons,
1751 including the OK and cancel button, with as a consequence that these were
1752 skipped when tabbing through the dialog controls. In addition the tabbing
1753 could not begin before the user selected one of the controls with the mouse.
1754 Now all buttons have tab stops, and the cancel button is given focus
1755 when the dialog pops up.
1757 2011-03-10 20:06:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1758 Implement Grand Chess
1760 Grand Chess requires a lot of exceptional handling similar to Superchess
1761 and Great Shatran, because it also allows only promotion to a captured
1762 piece. In addition it shares the enlarged promotion zone with Makruk and
1763 Shogi, as well as the fact that promotion can be deferred. The 10-rank
1764 board furthermore required a better generalization of double-pushes and
1765 e.p. captures. On such a board double puhes are now allowed from 2nd and
1766 3rd rank, e.p. capture from 5th and 4th.
1768 2011-01-28 19:20:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1769 Allow promotion to Pawn with legality testing off
1771 In stead of ImpossibleMove promotionto Pawn now merely is an
1772 IllegalMove, so it can be played with legality testing off.
1774 2011-01-24 15:06:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1775 Create some space in WB New Variant dialog
1778 2011-06-20 23:53:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1779 Allow double-digit rank numbers
1781 The parser already understood double-digit numbers on input, and
1782 CoordsToAlgebraic produced them on otput. This patch also fixes sending
1783 of the moves to the computer, for which the moveList was used. The latter
1784 stored 10 as ':', etc,to always get a 4-char move, the characters of which
1785 were frequently being converted to fromY or toY by adding/subtracting ONE.
1786 To not break that the one-character encoding of rank number is kept in
1787 moveList, but in SendMoveToProgram, characters > '9' are converted to
1790 2011-06-23 11:26:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1791 Add Absolute Analysis Scores in Genral Options dialog XB
1794 2011-06-23 11:16:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1795 Fix texi file, and update it further
1798 2011-06-20 12:15:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1802 2011-06-22 17:51:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1806 2011-06-22 11:02:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1807 Restore echo after ^C in ICS password
1810 2011-06-22 10:45:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1814 2011-06-19 20:30:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1815 Increase efficiency of SAN generation / disambiguation
1817 **************** Risky patch! **********************
1818 The algorithm used for disambiguating and generating SAN was extremely
1819 inefficient, because it generated all pseudo-legal moves from the relevant
1820 position, and then for each of those did a check test (involving generation
1821 of all moves of the opponent), before determining if the move matched the
1822 (proposed or given) SAN move. While it is pointless to generate moves
1823 with a piece that does not match (let alone checking them for legality).
1824 And for a piece that matches, it is pointless to test legality of moves
1825 that do not match the to-square.
1826 To speed up the process GenLegal and GenPseudoLegal have been equiped
1827 with an argument that can indicate the piece type of the required move,
1828 so they can skip generating moves with other pieces. TestLegality,
1829 Disambiguate and CoordsToAlgebraic make use of this facility, and set also
1830 (through global variables rFilter and fFilter) a to-square filter to be
1831 applied in the GenLegalCallback before it tests the move for legality.
1832 This patch is especially tricky for Crazyhouse, where the piece indicated
1833 in the move might not be the piece actually on the board, because the latter
1834 is a promoted Pawn, and has to be demoted toits base type before the
1837 2011-06-19 16:18:15 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1838 Fix compile errors WinBoard
1840 The patch to make non-existing options non-fatal broke WinBoard. All calls
1841 to ExitArgError from it now supply a third argument TRUE to fix it.
1843 2011-06-19 14:28:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1844 Add -fSAN / -sSAN options
1846 These options force the PV of the applicable engine to be converted to SAN.
1847 They make use of the existing ParsePV routine, after shelfing a possible
1848 PV (from user PV walking) to free the space after the last move.
1849 Could be costly in terms of CPU usage.
1851 2011-06-19 10:56:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1852 Cure flicker in Move History window, fix highlighting
1854 The highlighting of the current move in the Move List window by selecting
1855 it did not always work, because some other windows were clearing their text
1856 widgets by selecting the contents and killing it, thus snatching the
1857 selection away. This has been changed to setting XtNstring to an empty
1858 string as a method for clearing without side effects on the selection.
1859 As a bonus the Engine Output window now also no longer has the black flicker
1861 In addition, triggering a scroll by setting the insertion point to the
1862 end of the text caused excessive flicker in the Move List window, apparently
1863 clearing it and redrawing from scratch, (even if there was no scroll motion),
1864 to the point where on my slow laptop the move history stayed entirely blank
1865 during a rapid succession of moves. This has been combatted by using the
1866 end-of-line action procedure (which does not seem to suffer from this) to put
1867 the insertion point at the end, when we need to scroll to close to the end.
1869 2011-06-18 23:48:13 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1870 Fix crash on clearing new Move List window
1872 When a new game started and a previous game had filled the Move List
1873 window, a crash occurred because an attempt was made to undo the
1874 highlighting of a no-longer-existing move, and then scrolling to it.
1876 2011-06-18 20:46:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1877 Use sound for ICS tells also with engine telluser popups
1879 The telluser and tellusererror commands now can be assigned a sound.
1881 2011-06-18 20:45:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1882 Add Score in Move List option to general options dialog XB
1884 Now that we have a WinBoard-style Move History window, this option is
1885 no longer a no-op in XBoard.
1887 2011-06-18 12:42:41 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1888 new developer release
1891 2011-06-18 12:38:32 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1892 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
1895 2011-06-18 12:51:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1896 Update window itle after last game of match
1898 The result printed behind player names during a match would still be the one
1899 without the game, differing from what the popup would show, which looked
1900 sloppy enough for people to complain about it.
1903 2011-06-18 10:26:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1904 Make WB generic popup translatable
1906 When used for internal settings (as in the Load Engine and Tournament
1907 Options dialogs), the option names are now subectto translation.
1909 2011-06-17 21:05:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1910 Redo Move History with generic popup in WinBoard style
1912 The use of color and boldness to make the move list more readable
1913 unfortunately cannot work in Xaw; reverse video by selection is used as an alternative to highlight the current move.
1915 2011-06-17 21:19:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1918 Due to an erroneous else, the window parameters of Move History were
1919 not retreived (and thus incorrectly saved) when the Engine Output was up.
1921 2011-06-14 18:47:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1922 Make non-existing opton in settings file non-fatal
1924 It is rather difficult to recover from a situaton where the settings
1925 file contains an unknown option (e.g. because you downgraded to a
1926 previous version that had fewer options), especially in WinBoard, where
1927 the user settings file is in a hidden folder, and people might not be
1928 able to find it, let alone edit it. By just skipping the line with the
1929 offending option, rather than generating a fatal error, when reading
1930 from a settings file, such options will be automatically purged from the
1931 file as soon as you save settings.
1932 Small problem is that the user cannot be warned, as the initialization
1933 has not progressed far enough at this point to generate error popups. In
1934 XBoard we can at least print to the console, but in WinBoard there is no
1935 warning at all. But the worst thing that can happen is that new options
1936 in a settings file of a more advanced version will revert to their
1939 2011-06-14 18:20:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1940 Change long form of -tf option to -tourneyFile
1942 This is a more logical name, and in the WinBoard docs it was already
1943 described as such. Also remove the -processes option, which in the
1944 current design of the tourney manager is no longer used.
1946 2011-06-14 18:17:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1947 Fix default of -remoteUser
1949 This has to be an empty string, rather than NULL, to prevent XBoard from
1950 segfaulting when the -gateway option is used.
1952 2011-06-14 13:32:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1953 Add -at and -opt options as alternative for @
1955 Windows XP and Vista shortcuts do not display command lines with @ in
1956 them correctly, and these optionsprovide a work-around for that.
1958 2011-06-14 12:46:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1959 Fix empty-string option values in XBoard
1962 2011-06-14 12:40:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1963 Fix crash on switching sound in Vista
1965 When choosing a new sound the wave form of the old one was free'ed, but
1966 because built-in sounds are not really malloc'ed, this led to a crash.
1968 2011-06-14 12:36:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1969 Update WB docs for tourney manager
1972 2011-06-14 12:35:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1973 Add icon to WB for tournament files
1976 2011-06-10 16:52:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1977 Redo Time Control dialog with generic popup
1979 As poor-man's disabling of the unneeded input fields, we print the word
1982 2011-06-10 14:14:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1983 Some refactoring in xoptions.c to separate out front-end
1986 2011-06-10 12:38:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1987 Redo New Shuffle Game dialog with generic popup
1989 The buttons are slightly renamed, and in stead of having an 'off'
1990 button to clear it, shuffleOpenings now has its own checkbox, which is
1991 ticked when a fixed or dynamic random is chosen with the buttons.
1993 2011-06-10 11:58:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1994 Fix type of shuffleOpenings
1996 This was a Boolean option, and thus accessed by the args.h code as such,
1997 while it was declared as an int (and used in backend.c as such). This
1998 could have led to problems with different endianness.
2000 2011-06-09 23:57:43 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
2001 Internationalize the file browser.
2003 The file browser was missed in the previous round of
2004 internationalization and had gotten broken by setting international =
2005 True in its widgets. I got nothing but segfaults trying to set
2006 international to False in the file browser widget subtree when it was
2007 True in the main window, so I gave up and did the
2008 internationalization. It turned out to be pretty easy.
2010 As a tiny bonus fix, I removed some ../'s from includes, and you can
2011 now configure and build xboard in a subdirectory again. This was
2012 useful for building both --enable-nls and --disable-nls from the same
2013 sources to compare functionality and make sure both still work.
2015 2011-06-08 20:26:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2016 Fix crash at end of Swiss tourney
2019 2011-06-08 17:33:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2020 Fix display of logos
2022 The logo files are now sought relative to the WinBoard install
2023 directory. Non-existing logos cause clearing of the logo, rather than
2024 letting the logo of the prevous engine hang. Logo change is requested
2025 explicitly from the back-end (when an engine is initialized for a new
2026 game), rather than using the kludge in StartChileProcess. This required
2027 a dummy UpdateLogos routine in the XBoard front-end.
2029 2011-06-08 18:02:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2030 Fix parameter handling in adapter command
2032 A backslash was not considered the end of an option name, which was
2033 fatal for UCCI2WB, which needs %fd\\%fcp in its command line.
2035 2011-06-08 17:16:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2036 Clear Engine-Output pane when initializing engine
2038 This to prevent output from the previous game hanging there during the
2039 next game, when the engine that is really playing is in book and
2040 doesn't produce thinking output there.
2042 2011-06-08 17:20:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2043 Fix display of last move of last match game
2045 When a game was adjudicated (e.g. because XBoard detected mate) GameEnds
2046 would trigger an exit if it was the last game of the match, and thus
2047 never returned, while the ShowMove was called only after return from
2048 Adjudicate. An extra ToNrEvent is now used in GameEnd in this case to
2049 cause ShowMove to be called before exiting. (Ugly kludge...)
2051 2011-06-08 17:38:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2052 Fix concurrency in Swiss tourneys
2054 The pairing engine was consulted for the next round before all games of
2055 the previous round were finished, if other XBoard instances were still
2056 playing games. This caused the instances finishing early to stall
2057 indefinitely. This is fixed by moving the Swiss pairing code to after
2058 the syncInterval code. The normal pairing code (the call to Pairing)
2059 must stay before it, because it determines the syncInterval. So ther is
2060 a bit of tourneyType dependence cluttering up the code here. :-(
2062 2011-06-08 17:27:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2063 Give error popup when pairing engine fails
2065 An invalid pairing now produces an error popup to inform the user, so he
2066 knows why the tourney stagnates.
2068 2011-06-08 17:24:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2069 Fix clock mode in tourney starting from -ncp mode
2071 When a tourney started from -ncp mode, which was allowed in MatchEvent,
2072 because the tourney loads its own engines anyway, the menu enablings and
2073 clockmode where not restored to their 'GNUMode' state.
2075 2011-06-08 17:11:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2076 Fix round-robin schedule
2078 The first round was played twice, and the formulas used to derive the
2079 pairing were not even-odd resistant anyway. Both even and odd number of
2080 participants should work now.
2082 2011-06-08 17:08:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2083 Fix interrupting tournament
2085 Stopping a tourney by using the Machine Match menu item did not wor
2088 2011-06-08 16:57:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2089 Improve quoting of engine name on install
2091 Rather than always using double quotes for the engine command, the
2092 engine filename is now double-quoted if it contains spaces (and no
2093 double-quotes), and the comand is single-quoted if it contains
2094 double-quotes (and double-quoted otherwise).
2096 2011-06-08 16:49:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2097 Print sensible window title during tourneys
2099 Rather than the "(W-L-D)" in the title we now print game number and
2100 total games, plus indication of the tourney type (rr, gt or sw).
2102 2011-06-08 16:44:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2103 Let XBoard propose name of tourney file
2105 Add an option -defaultTourneyName to configure the name that will be
2106 proposed in the Tournament Options dialog's tournament-file field. The
2107 option can contain %y, %M, %d, %h, %m, %s for year, month, day, hour,
2108 mintes, seconds of the curret time in %02d format, or %Y for the year in
2109 %04d format. Any tournament -file name is ignored when no participants
2110 are given. Participants without a tourney file remains an error.
2112 2011-06-08 16:30:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2113 Improve Tournament dialog layout WB
2116 2011-06-08 17:05:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2117 Fix -matchGames option
2119 The new MatchEvent code had broken the -mg option, and used always
2120 -defaultMatchGames in stead.
2122 2011-05-30 19:55:13 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
2123 Fixed small bugs in several .po files, enabling these translations to be used. They all probably need more work from the translation team. I don't speak any of these languages, but I did some spot checks either from my own knowledge or using Google Translate, and they generally look sane.
2125 - Several files were in utf8 but needed to be marked as such (that is,
2126 "CHARSET" changed to "UTF-8"). Affected es.po, it.po, ru.po, vi.po,
2129 - it.po was missing a \n at the end of one translation.
2131 - ru.po had unescaped double-quote marks in one translation.
2133 - vi.po needed to be normalized to Unicode normalization form C. With
2134 this fix, more characters display correctly, though at least one is
2135 still missing in the X core fonts that xboard is able to use.
2136 See http://vietunicode.sourceforge.net/ for more about Vietnamese.
2138 - zh_HK.po was written in big5 and then utf8-encoded on top of that,
2139 making it unusable. I stripped off the spurious utf8 encoding and
2140 then used recode to convert the file to Unicode properly encoded as
2143 Unfortunately, I wasn't able to test any of the Chinese translations,
2144 as I haven't been able to get XCreateFontSet to work in Chinese
2145 locales with any of the fonts I have installed, even after adding the
2146 Ubuntu language support packages for both simplified and traditional
2147 Chinese. I did spot check a bunch of the translations using Google
2150 I've checked in a couple of tiny Perl scripts that I used to do part
2151 of the fixups on vi.po and zh_HK.po in case we need them again.
2153 2011-05-30 14:12:53 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
2154 The empty string can't be translated and it causes the gettext utilities to complain, so change _("") to "".
2157 2011-05-30 13:21:06 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
2158 Add a final wildcard default for fonts. This gives XCreateFontSet more freedom and lets it find fonts for some obscure charsets where fixed-bold or fixed-medium etc. may not have one.
2161 2011-05-29 20:14:37 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
2162 Added "misc-fixed" as a fallback font to handle locales where adobe-helvetica does not have all the required characters. The fixed font is ugly but does have a rather complete set of characters, while the helvetica font is missing Cyrillic characters (at least on my distro). I haven't found a way to get a nicer font that includes Cyrillic to work with XCreateFontSet, but I don't fully understand why. I'll try to improve things further in the future if I figure out what's all going wrong.
2164 In the process I had to rewrite the code to insert the pixel size into
2165 a font name (replacing a "*" in that field). The new code is much
2168 2011-05-28 23:55:42 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2169 translation: activated Ukrainian translation
2172 2011-05-28 23:41:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2173 translation: added new Ukrainian PO file from the TP
2176 2011-05-28 21:07:08 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
2177 Fix display of international characters outside the ASCII range.
2179 1) Set Xaw resources required for internationalization --
2180 *international and *fontSet.
2182 2) Untangle the new XFontSet-aware code from the old FindFont code.
2183 It doesn't make any sense to apply the old (and obsolete) size
2184 searching code from FindFont to a font set, which contains fonts
2185 that are all the requested size.
2187 3) With these changes, the -font option doesn't work at all when given
2188 on the command line. The -font option actually is parsed by the Xt
2189 library, used to set the *font resource, and removed from argv
2190 before xboard can see it, so the option didn't really work properly
2191 with the new WinBoard-style option framework anyway. Now that
2192 -font is even more broken, I changed the documented name of the
2193 option to -messageFont and changed args.h so the option is saved in
2194 ~/.xboard as -messageFont.
2196 2011-05-28 21:05:00 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
2197 Move "hide thinking" option into alphabetical order.
2200 2011-05-28 21:01:25 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
2201 Fix a size mismatch in scanf. Untested, but the code could not have worked properly without this fix -- scanf would have written 32-bit values to 16-bit fields, thus smashing adjacent memory.
2204 2011-05-23 19:05:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2205 Fix layout tournament Load Engine dialog WB
2208 2011-05-23 19:03:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2212 2011-05-23 19:00:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2213 Add Swiss tourneys through pairing engine
2215 An external program can be designated pairing engine through the new
2216 persistent option -pairingEngine. Defining the option will allow
2217 tourneytype -1 to be chosen for Swiss. In this case the pairing engine
2218 will be queried for a pairing before every new match game, by sending it
2219 the -results string, plus the command 'pairing' + game number.
2221 2011-05-23 17:37:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2222 Allow generic dialog to ignore OK
2224 The EndMark callback can now suppress popdown of the dialog on OK, when
2225 it somehow does not like the values entered by the user. In XBoard this
2226 required all the callbacks to return a value.
2227 Caveat: A refused OK would still have set all new values given in the
2230 2011-05-23 17:22:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2231 Fix CR in multi-line WinBoard text-edits
2233 The generic popup did not add CR when strings containing '\n' were
2234 printed in a multi-line text-edit, thus joining the lines. It was also
2235 not possible to type a CR in a multi-line text-edit.
2237 2011-05-23 14:16:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2238 Let mentioning completed tourney file add one cycle
2240 Secifying a tourney file of a fully completed tourney will now resume
2241 that tourney with another cycle added. When there are still uncomleted
2242 games in the tourney, the usual error message will appear. There are
2243 also error popups added for when the user fails to specify a tourney
2244 file, or gives too few participants.
2246 2011-05-16 11:02:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2247 Make engine startup failure non-fatal in WinBoard
2249 Unlike XBoard, which forks first, the parent process WinBoard has direct
2250 knowledge of a failure to execute the engine command, and used it to
2251 trigger a fatal error. The code doing this has now been disabled. Only
2252 in case of a first engine we switch back to -ncp mode in stead, but no
2253 action is taken to 'bury' the deceased engine process. Like in XBoard,
2254 errors in writing or reading the pipes will trigger this.
2256 2011-05-14 17:03:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2257 Add secondry adapter command for UCCI or USI
2259 The option -uxiAdapter can define a second adapterCommand, which will be
2260 invoked on encountering the options -fUCCI, -sUCCI and -fUSI, sUCI.
2262 2011-05-14 10:05:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2263 Obey san feature when sending book moves
2265 Book moves were always sent in long algebraic, even when the engine had
2266 said it wanted to receive SAN.
2268 2011-05-14 10:03:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2269 Fix initialization of engine state
2271 Some of the initialization relied on variables being zero at startup,
2272 which meant value from the previouly loaded engine hng on after loading
2275 2011-05-11 23:06:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2276 Take account of holdings in book key
2278 The board is numbered by rank, for comptibility with Polyglot format,
2279 starting at a1. We then continue counting in the holdings 'files', in
2280 up-rank direction, each holding spanning the full board height (even if
2281 it is not fully used). Firstthe left (black) holdings, then the right,
2282 Even in Shogi this limits the square number to < 99, which is below the
2283 absolute limit of 128 (where we would run out of hash keys).
2285 2011-05-11 22:48:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2286 Alow promotions and drops in book-editing
2289 2011-05-11 20:15:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2290 Include learn info in book edit
2293 2011-05-09 21:55:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2294 Adapt default directory of lng2po
2296 The path is prefixed with "../" to make it runable from the po directory.
2298 2011-05-09 21:20:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2299 Recode some po files
2301 po files were generated with the aid of lng2po for Russian,
2302 Vietnamese, Chinese(simp) and Chinese(trad), using encodings CP1251,
2303 CP1258, GB2312 and BIG5, respectively.
2305 2011-05-09 20:11:32 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2306 Implement Edit Book in XBoard
2309 2011-05-09 09:52:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2310 Improve WB Load Engine dialog texts
2313 2011-05-09 09:48:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2314 Make 'add to list' default in Load Engine dialog
2317 2011-05-09 09:33:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2318 Add -userFileDirectory option
2320 This volatile option is initialized from 'installDir'. It is
2321 primarily intended for configuration of WinBoard through its master
2322 settings file, and specifies an alternative place to create saveGameFile
2323 or look for other user files, in stead of looking in the installDir.
2325 2011-05-09 09:10:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2326 Add option -absoluteAnalysisScores
2328 This persistent option flips scores in the when black is thinking in
2329 analysis mode, just before they are printed in the engine-output window.
2331 2011-05-08 17:47:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2332 Automatically play moves of clicked PV in analyze mode
2334 The Shift key now no longer needs to be pressed to play moves from the
2335 PV in analyze mode (so it could be given back its original meaning of
2336 starting a variation with the entered moves). In analyze mode the PV
2337 walk begins after the first move, so a static right-click plays the
2338 first PV move. To just peek the PV you have to walk to the start of it
2339 before releasing the mouse button. In other modes the PV walk
2340 stillstarts at the very end.
2342 2011-05-08 17:07:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2343 Let ParsePV always generate SAN move
2346 2011-05-08 13:53:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2347 Fix vscrolling in XBoard Engine-Output window
2349 After clicking the memos they scrolled to the bottom, because SetFocus
2350 put the insertion point at the very end of the text. This behavior is
2351 now reserved for text-edits containing less than 100 characters.
2353 2011-05-08 13:22:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2354 Fix button sizing in generic popup
2357 2011-05-08 13:02:52 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2358 Allow changing MultiPV setting from Engine-Output window
2360 In analyze mode a header line is printed in the first engine-output
2361 pane, which can be right-clicked to increase or decrease the number of
2362 PVs. (Only with engines that support the MultiPV option.)
2364 2011-05-08 11:28:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2365 No clearing of Engine-Output memos on stat01
2368 2011-05-07 23:27:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2369 updated xboard.pot with released version
2372 2011-05-07 22:56:53 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2373 new developer release
2376 2011-05-07 22:54:29 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2377 updated ChangeLog, NEWS, etc.
2380 2011-05-07 23:07:46 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2381 deactivated new languages for the moment...
2383 po files need some cleanup, probably better to wait until the translation-project looked at them
2385 2011-05-07 18:44:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2386 added translations generated via lng2po from all winboard languages
2389 2011-05-07 18:40:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2390 lng2po.sh: added command line options, GPL header
2392 also use a temporary file generated with mktemp instead of a hard coded one
2394 2011-05-07 17:53:10 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2395 fixed access rights to winboard language files (644 instead of 655)
2398 2011-05-07 14:55:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2399 Import WinBoard language files into git
2402 2011-05-06 23:14:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2403 Let Shift+RightClick on PV actually play the PV moves
2406 2011-05-06 18:06:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2407 Make book-edit function WB
2409 The tags dialog is used to display the GUI book moves from the current
2410 position, and will be updated when you step or move to another one.
2411 The edited move list (with weights) can be written back to the book.
2413 2011-05-07 16:21:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2414 Fix resetting engine options
2416 Not all options were reset, and -needsNonCompliantFEN was 'reset'
2417 to a completely wrong value, so that bad FENs would be sent.
2419 2011-05-06 18:51:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2420 Add -first/secondPgnName option
2422 This option replaces the tidy name of the engine in the PGN player tags
2423 of engine-engine games. In WinBoard engines can be installed with this
2424 option through a checkbox in the Load Engine dialog.
2426 2011-05-06 23:31:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2427 Let XB generic popup define default file extensions
2430 2011-05-06 18:25:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2431 Save time-control settings in tourney file
2433 Because parsing the options and storing them in appData is not enough,
2434 the time-control code setting the internally used parameters from the
2435 appData info in InitBackend was made into a subroutine, and also caled
2436 after parsing the tourney file.
2438 2011-05-06 20:40:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2439 Put saveGameFile in tournament dialog
2442 2011-05-06 19:17:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2443 Plug memory leak, filenames relative to installDir
2445 String options are consistently freed now, before assigning a new value
2446 to them through strdup. The init code now even does use strdup when
2447 setting defaults. This is important for optionslike -lgf, which are not
2448 saved in the settings file, and thus are usually left with their
2449 default. When a dialog to set them then uses free, this causes a crash.
2450 When setting the defaults uses strdup, ParseArgs can already free them.
2451 This plugs an important memory leak, as ParseArgs in now called to parse
2452 the tourney file before every tourney game (twice!), and the lists of
2453 participants and results in it can be quite long. Macros are defined in
2454 common.h to make the code look simpler.
2455 Filenames entered through the generic popup are now interpreted
2456 relative to the WinBoard installation folder, just as the saveGameFile
2457 already was. The code handling the atter was made into a subroutine for
2460 2011-05-06 22:02:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2461 Add WB new popup prototypes
2464 2011-05-06 18:58:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2465 Add partcipants at bottom in tourney dialog (WB)
2468 2011-05-06 18:56:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2469 Fix range of tourneyType spin WB
2472 2011-05-06 18:15:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2473 Fix exit popup in tourney mode
2475 Only the instance finishing the last tourney game will cause a popup
2476 with final standings. As long as there are still busy games, it exits or
2477 switches back to idle mode silently.
2479 2011-05-06 18:11:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2480 Fix stopping of match in tourney mode
2483 2011-05-06 18:59:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2484 Add default extension in file browser
2487 2011-05-06 22:37:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2488 Improve sizing of comment and tags dialogs
2490 There seems to be a bug in Xaw for the sizing of buttons; they get
2491 unpredicatble and weird sizes when the size is not explicitly set,
2492 possibly stretching the initial width of a dialog to rediculous values.
2493 Sizing back to a remembered value from the settings file then makes
2494 buttons overlapand text edits shrink to almost nothing. To prevent that
2495 we now define exlicit sizes for the buttons in tags and comment popups.
2497 2011-05-06 21:00:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2498 Fix generic combobox bug
2500 The patch placing gettext markers was done wrong, setting the
2501 translated menu text outside the loop, so all entries became the same.
2503 2011-05-07 14:23:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2504 Fix PV walking in analysis mode
2506 ParsePV assumed that the PV would always have been produced by an engin
2507 thinking about the final position of the game (or the one before it). In
2508 analysismode, however, the engine can be analysing positions internal to
2509 the game, and the PV would be considered invalid. This is fixed by
2510 cutting of the tail off the game (shelving it in variation fashion)
2511 before starting the PV walk, and reverting afterwards.
2512 For this the PushTail and PopTail routines had to be split into an
2513 'inner' part, doing the pushing and popping, and an outer part, handling
2514 menu graying and popdowns (which is undesirable in in this application).
2516 2011-05-03 00:24:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2517 Lift length-limit on text-edits in WB generic popup
2520 2011-05-04 13:53:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2521 Lift limitation of text length in generic dialog XB
2523 All string options should now point to allocated memory, as strdup /
2524 free is consistently used on them. This is OK for values received from
2525 ParseArgs, but for non-arg intermediate variables that must receive strg
2526 values, such as in the comment and tags popups, strdup has to be used to
2529 2011-05-04 14:53:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2530 Implement Tournament Options dialog WinBoard
2532 The file browser now can select on extension WB generic dialogs,
2533 with a default based on the option.max value of the option for which it
2534 browses. A textBox can be forced to be multiline by putting the number
2535 of extra lines in option.min.
2537 2011-05-04 15:30:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2538 Make option to draw second engine from first list
2541 2011-05-03 00:17:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2542 Fix error message on engine load
2545 2011-05-04 15:09:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2546 Implement Load Engine dialog in WinBoard
2548 The Load Engine dialog is implemented for WinBoard, and is invoked by
2549 the menu item Engine->Load, which formerly was Install 2nd. Install 1st
2550 is renamed 'Edit Engine List'. Unlike in XBoard, the dialog has separate
2551 fields for the engine executale and its parameters.
2552 The dialog is implemented by converting the Engine Settings popup into
2553 a generic dialog generator.
2555 2011-05-04 13:43:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2556 Load new logo on engine change WinBoard
2558 Picking the logo for the first engine is made into a subroutine. The
2559 code for picking the logo of the first engine was made into a subrroutne
2560 for this. We use the kludge to recognize the engine by its command line
2561 when starting a new engine process.
2563 2011-05-04 13:36:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2564 Allow switching off match mode through menu
2566 The Machine Match menu item is now checkmarked, and no longer grayed
2567 during a match, and clicking it while a match is running will terminate
2568 the match after the current game. To not be left with hanging
2569 checkmarks, the checkmark is already removed duringthe last match game
2570 (which is logically equivalent to ordinary Two Machines mode anyway).
2572 2011-05-03 00:14:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2573 Calculate and display tourney result
2576 2011-05-04 18:42:13 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2577 Implement Tournament Manager
2579 New command-line options are added to specify the tourney: -tourneyType
2580 (-tt), -tourneyCycles (-cy), -participants, -syncAfterRound,
2581 -syncAfterCycle, -results, to be saved on a -tourneyFile (-tf), but
2582 otherwise volatile. When a tourneyFile is specified during a match,
2583 a new routine NextTourneyGame is called from NextMatchGame before every
2584 game, to decide the pairing, and unload and redefine the engines, when
2585 needed. The XBoard Match Options dialog can be used to set the options
2586 and create the tournament file.
2587 Actual loading of new engines is done by TwoMachinesEvent, which is
2588 now modified to also wait for the feature timeout of the first engine.
2589 Waiting for the matchPause is now also implemented there, after waiting
2590 for the engines (so they can be started during the pause).
2591 Pairings and color assignment is now all done in an absolute
2592 (non-incremental) way, based on a new global game-number variable
2593 nextGame, which takes over the function of matchGame in a tourney. The
2594 latter is now used to count games between the same players, so it can be
2595 still used to derive the load-file indexes (again in absolute fashion).
2596 The next game to play is already picked in GameEnd, so it can be
2597 decided if there is a game to be scheduled, or if we can terminate.
2599 2011-05-04 15:42:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2600 Display note in stead of empty engine-settings dialog XB
2603 2011-04-24 18:02:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2604 Fix crash on empty Engine Settings dialog
2606 The generic popup was not foolproof against this.
2608 2011-04-22 12:47:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2609 Refactor code for loading games and positions in match
2611 The code in NextMatchGame and MatchEvent was nearly the same,
2612 (MatchEvent did a little more error checking, but that is never
2613 harmful), and could be combined. In stead of determining the load index
2614 incrementally, it is now calculated in an absolute way from the game
2615 number, so it can be used more easily in tournament mode.
2617 2011-04-21 22:37:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2618 Add callback possibility to combobox selection
2621 2011-04-24 17:15:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2622 Lock game an position file during writing
2624 The use of flock() on the file desctiptor of the opened stream should
2625 guarantee multiple XBoard instances, saving on the same file, will not
2626 interleave their PGN games or FEN positions.
2628 2011-04-27 17:05:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2629 Remove building rule for parser.c from WB makefiles
2632 2011-04-29 16:58:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2633 Fix Engine Settings buttons in WinBoard
2635 This was broken by a leftover statement from debugging the -file/-path
2638 2011-05-02 13:38:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2639 Implement flock in WinBoard
2641 This system function seems unknown in a MinGW compile, so it is
2642 implemented with the aid of file byte-range locking, using a lock on the
2643 first 1024 bytes of the file as a semaphore.
2645 2011-04-29 23:06:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2646 Fix grayout XB Match Options in ICS mode
2649 2011-05-03 00:22:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2650 Delay loading of second engine until it is used
2653 2011-05-02 15:00:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2654 Fix zippy bughouse partner bug
2656 The patchs to subject Zippy messages to coloriation was faulty, because
2657 there were messages recognized by zippy that were not colorized, and
2658 such messages would then not be 'read away' after zippy recognition
2659 (except for the first character). As a result the messages were
2660 processed over and over again.
2662 2011-05-04 10:59:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2663 Silence more rpm warnings
2666 2011-05-01 20:33:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2667 Fix warnings XBoard file browser
2669 All the prototypes have been moved to selfile.h, to force uniformity.
2670 The order of the #include files xstat.h and selfile.h had to be
2671 swapped, to make sure 'struct stat' is a nown type atthe time of
2672 prototype declaration. The event handler SFmotionList is considered
2673 wrong type because of its third argument (XMotionEvent in stead of
2674 XEvent), and had to be casted to (XtEventHandler) when passed to
2677 2011-05-04 10:56:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2678 Fix some warnings and header-file improvement
2680 Ther were lot of 'extern' declarations in the x-files, so called
2681 'imports from xboard.c', (sometimes backend.c) which logically belonged
2682 in xboard.h (backend.h) to ensure their uniform definition. These have
2683 now been moved there. Some prototypes have been added in xboard.h as
2684 well, for functions that needed calling from xoptions.c.
2686 2011-05-04 10:50:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2687 Create conversion tools for language files
2689 A shell script "lng2po.sh" is provided, to apply the translation given
2690 in a WinBoard .lng file to "xboard.pot", in order to generate a
2691 "language.po" file containing translations for all strings for which
2692 the .lng file had a translation. It makes use of a file "metascript",
2693 which is the ed script used to turn the .lng file in an ed script to
2694 turn the .pot into .po. For example, the command "./lng2po.sh
2695 espa?ol.lng" will create a file "language.po", which can be renamed to
2697 ****************************** WARNING ********************************
2698 Note that the lng2po script does a "recode" that assumes the given
2699 .lng file is encoded in latin-1. This means it canot be used without
2700 modification for the Vietnamese and Chinese translation; you would have
2701 to replace latin-1 by the applicable encoding first (CP1258 / BG2312 /
2704 2011-04-27 22:04:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2705 Put gettext markers in generic dialog creator
2707 This is done by adding extra XtNstring argumentsto the widget gcreaton,
2708 so the displayed name can be different fromthe widget name.
2710 2011-05-01 19:56:38 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
2711 Use getaddrinfo instead of gethostbyname. Hopefully this makes us compatible with IPv6 and with hosts that have more than one IP address. However, I don't know of any chess servers that have either of those properties, so I couldn't test that. I did test that xboard still works with freechess.org and chessclub.com and that it gives an error message for invalid host names.
2714 2011-04-24 11:18:28 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2715 updated German translation
2718 2011-04-24 11:17:43 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2719 replaced hardcoded email address with generic PACKAGE_BUGREPORT
2722 2011-04-23 10:51:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2723 updated po-files; updated german translation
2726 2011-04-23 10:51:02 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2727 updated list of files that include translation strings; updated pot-file
2730 2011-04-22 21:50:58 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2731 marked more strings for gettext that were only marked with N_()
2733 they need to be marked again with _() when they are used to get the translated string
2735 2011-04-22 21:39:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2736 updated translation files
2739 2011-04-22 21:37:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2740 added/fixed i18n support via gettext to xboard
2742 this was already added a long time ago, but now it's added again to
2743 autoconf. Also fixed some compile errors that showed up.
2745 2011-04-20 10:27:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2746 Make engine startup error non-fatal
2748 When engine startup fails, do not generate a fatal error, but swicth
2749 back to -ncp mode. Write on broken pipe errors had to be suppressed for
2752 2011-04-20 14:35:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2753 Make engine loadable during session
2755 A "Load Engine ..." menu item is added to the Engine menu, which pops
2756 up a dialog where one can replace the first or second engine by a new
2757 one, without destroying the game state. Switching from -ncp to engine
2758 mode needed activation of some menu items in SetGNUMode, and
2759 re-enabling clockMode. It was also important that noChessProgram is
2760 cleared before re-initializing the ChessProgramState.
2761 The Load-Engine dialog can select from the list of installed
2762 engines, and also add a newly specified engine to this list. In this
2763 case it saves the directory, hasBook, and isUCI info with the engine,
2764 and optionally the current variant. When loading an engine with a
2765 specified variant, it resets the game and switches to the new variant.
2767 2011-04-18 15:56:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2768 Generalize WaitForSecond to WaitForEngine
2771 2011-04-18 15:46:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2772 Add UnloadEngine routine
2775 2011-04-20 13:45:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2776 Put engine initialization code in per-engine function
2778 Initializing of the ChessProgramStates first and second from the
2779 option settings in appData is now done by separate calls to the same
2780 routine. Clearing of options is added to the initialization. This is
2781 needed when reloading an engine. This is done in a separate routine,
2782 which could also be called on -reset options.
2784 2011-04-18 13:21:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2785 Bring structure in appData engine options
2787 All options in appData that came in pairs for both engines are replaced
2788 by arrays of ENGINES (=2, for now) elements. The use of the named
2789 appData field that are replaced in the source is replaced by use of the
2790 corresponding array element, by #define directives in common.h, awaiting
2793 2011-04-19 15:15:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2794 Fix gettext macros in option dialogs
2796 The strings in the tables were using _() in stead of N_().
2798 2011-04-18 20:58:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2799 Fix crash on using Engine #1 Settings in ICS non-zippy mode
2801 If XBoard is compiled with zippy the Engine #1 Settings menu was not
2802 grayed out even when you don't run in zippy mode, and using it would
2805 2011-04-19 15:07:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2808 Some pixmaps forptomoted pieces had wrong background color, others had a
2809 wrong name (so the one with the correct name was missing).
2811 2011-04-17 19:12:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2812 Change texture-install directory to pixmaps/textures
2815 2011-04-17 17:36:32 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2816 Limit install of sound files to those in menu
2818 The sounds directory is set to .../xboard/sounds, and only ten
2819 sounds are kept (all non-spoken).
2821 2011-04-17 17:27:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2822 Remove some bitmaps from install
2824 Some files in the bitmaps source directory need not be installed,
2825 because they are there only to be linked to the binary in a build
2826 without LIBXPM, are README files or conversion programs. I left only the
2827 stuff that is in a Debian binary package in .../xboard/bitmaps.xchess.
2829 2011-04-17 16:34:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2830 Configure some default sounds
2832 The move sound is set to Wood Thunk; the sounds for tell and challenge
2833 events to Phone and Gong, respectively.
2835 2011-04-17 16:17:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2836 Change default sounds in Xboard menu
2838 All spoken sounds are removed now. Thud, Click and Ching are replaced by
2839 Wood Thunk, Slap and Cymbal; Car Horn and Pop are added.
2841 2011-04-17 12:46:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2842 Make user wav file available for try-out in sound dialog
2844 The GenericReadout was adapted to be able to read a single selected
2845 value, so that the callback to the 'play' button in the sounds dialog
2846 could get the name of the 'user WAV file' without accepting all settings
2847 for the other sounds (which should only happen on 'OK', and might still
2848 be cancelled in stead).
2850 2011-04-16 10:36:31 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2851 configure: enable silent rules by default
2854 2011-04-16 10:28:16 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2855 configure: added install directory for bitmaps files: .../games/xboard/bitmaps/default/
2858 2011-04-16 10:25:33 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2859 configure: added install of sounds in .../games/xboard/sounds/default
2862 2011-04-16 09:54:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2863 configure: renamed bitmapdir to pixmapsdir, since it installed only pixmaps. also changed name of default dir
2865 pixmaps will now be installed under .../games/xboard/pixmaps/default/
2867 2011-04-16 13:40:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2868 Fix gamelist highlight
2870 Reopening the gamelist should highlight the current game.
2872 2011-04-16 10:25:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2873 Fix size limit on 'save as diagram'
2875 In stead of a fixed-size buffer the diagram-save code now uses an
2876 allocated buffer with size calculated from the bitmap parameters to
2877 retreive the bitmap data, so it should work for all sizes.
2879 2011-04-15 22:04:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2880 Fix chaining of bottom-row dialog buttons
2882 The OK & cancel buttons are chained to the bottom. This patch makes sure
2883 that other buttons appearing in the same row (as in the tags and
2884 comment dialogs) will be chained that way too, so that they will behave
2885 the same on vertical sizing. The bottom of a full-width text-edit above
2886 it will be chained to bottom too. To make this work in the tags dialog,
2887 the (optional) cmail-message field had to be put above the tags memo.
2889 2011-04-15 19:18:46 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2890 Fix switching between pixmap and bitmap pieces
2892 There were still several flags that had to be reset when redoing the
2893 graphics initialization. The Debian patch to use a default bitmap
2894 directory when none is given but monoMode is selected or forced, is
2895 moved to a more sensible place, so that it does not disturb matters when
2896 compiled without LIBXPM (when we do have built-in bitmaps).
2898 2011-04-15 15:47:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2899 Remove outline-pieces option from board-options dialog
2901 This option does not exist in XBoard (yet).
2903 2011-04-15 15:41:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2904 Fix running of clock during hash allocation engine
2906 In TwoMachinesEvent we now wait for the second engine to acknowledge the
2907 'ping' after 'new', to make sure it is done allocating hash in reaction
2908 to the preceding 'memory' command, before the clock for the game is
2911 2011-04-14 21:42:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2912 Describe move type-in in texi file
2915 2011-04-14 20:34:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2916 Describe Copy Game List menu item in texi file
2919 2011-04-14 20:30:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2920 Describe -sweepPromotions in texi file
2922 The new method for selection promotion piece, and the -sweepPromotions
2923 option are described in the texi file.
2925 2011-04-14 20:14:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2926 Describe -pieceMenu option in texi file
2928 The sweep method for selecting a piece in Edit-Position mode is
2929 explained, as well as the -pieceMenu option.
2931 2011-04-14 15:59:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2934 Descriptions of the new XBoard menu dialogs are included in the docs.
2936 2011-04-14 21:06:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2937 Reorganize texi description
2940 2011-04-14 12:31:15 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2941 Fix sweep-promotions patch
2943 Setting of the from square was moved to before OKtoStartUserMove in the
2944 LeftClick handler, to make sure we could test the promotion possiblity
2945 when OnlyMove() would have altered (x,y) to be no longer the from
2946 square. But this setting of fromX, fromY hung on also if the move was
2947 not OK, so you could effectively select opponent pieces and empty
2948 squares. The from-square is now set back to undefined when it is not OK
2949 to move the piece you clicked.
2951 2011-04-14 11:56:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2952 Alter treatment of moves with empty squares
2954 In Edit Position mode one can move empty squares, and use them to
2955 'capture' pieces as a means to clear their square. But this often leads
2956 to unintended disappearence of pieces one wants to grab for dragging, if
2957 a previous click had inadvertantly left an empty square selected: the
2958 click on the piece is then seen as the to-click of a click-click move.
2959 This patch treats to-clicks of moves with an empty-square differently
2960 from other to-clicks: Rather than performing the move (in this case
2961 clearing of the to-square) on the down-click, it defers that to the
2962 up-click, and only does it if that up-click is in the same square. This
2963 allows the user to grab the piece on the down-click, and drag it to
2964 another square, if that is what he wanted to do, without being disturbed
2965 by sudden implosion of the piece he tried to grab.
2966 If the to-square is in the holdings, grabbing the piece is the only
2967 action, as moves of empty squares into the holdings are forbidden anyway.
2969 2011-04-13 13:14:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2970 Block selection of a directory when file is needed
2972 When we are not browsing merely to obtain a name to put in a text edit,
2973 but really must return an open file pointer, selection of a directory
2974 (ending in '/') can no longer be OK'ed in the file browser. (XBoard
2975 tends to segfault when offered garbage for game or position file...)
2977 2011-04-13 12:23:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2978 Let double-click select file in file browser
2980 A second click on the already selected entry now has the same effect as
2981 pressing the OK button.
2983 2011-04-12 17:06:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2984 Couple mouse wheel to v-scrolls in file browser
2986 A newly added mouse-wheel event handler was made to call the v-scroll
2987 callback routines with parameters to step one entry. The button-press
2988 handler for the lists themselves was also made to intercept the wheel
2989 events (buttons 4 and 5), to prevent they would select an entry, and
2990 make them scroll in stead as well.
2992 2011-04-13 11:41:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2993 Fix crash copying game list when there is none
2996 2011-04-13 11:15:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2997 Fix changing of float setting by generic popup
2999 Changing a float setting (so far the only one is in the Load Options
3000 dalog) did not always work, because the old value was clipped to (int),
3001 so that changing it back to an integer value might erroneously conclude
3002 there was no change.
3004 2011-04-13 16:15:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3005 Fix crash on closing dialogs in wrong order
3007 When a menu dialog was closed when it still had an open file-browse
3008 daughter, which could be done through the system menu X on the title
3009 bar, later closing of the file browser caused a crash. This is solved by
3010 keeping track of the fact that there is such a daughter through a global
3011 flag, and ignoring the pop-down command if there is one.
3013 2011-04-13 16:33:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3014 Fix startup focus of board window
3016 When there were open auxiliary windows, these would have focus on
3017 starting up XBoard. The XtSetKeyboardFocus call added in XBoard main()
3018 was ineffective in curing that. It has now been replaced by a call to
3019 XSetInputFocus, which does do the job. By giving input focus to the form
3020 widget, rather than the board widget, XBoard will be immediately
3021 sensitive to all key bindings.
3023 2011-04-13 15:48:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3024 Fix game-list highight error when filtered (WB)
3026 When the gamelist was filtered, the game that was highlingted was the
3027 n-th game in the list rather than the n-th game in the file, when the
3028 latter was loaded (and n did not exceed the number of filtered games).
3029 This is fixed now by searching for the line in the listbox that starts
3030 with the game number n, rather than taking the n-th line.
3032 2011-04-12 19:20:46 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3033 Refactor move type-in code
3035 Common code between XBoard and WinBoard was moved to the back-end
3036 creating TypeInEvent() and TypeInDoneEvent() routines.
3038 2011-04-12 10:13:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3039 Fix saving of XBoard fonts with spaces in name
3041 SaveFontArg now prints quotes around the saved font string, so that the
3042 general option-argument parser doesnot stop at the first space it sees.
3044 2011-04-11 20:48:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3045 Implement move type-in for XBoard
3047 By adding an event handler to the main window for key presses, users can
3048 now type moves when the board has focus, like in WinBoard. The typed
3049 character appears as first character in the type-in box that willpop up.
3050 Enter and Escape close the box; finishing the typing of the move enters
3051 it. Like in WinBoard it is also possible to type a move number (to go
3052 there) or (in Edit Position mode) a FEN.
3054 2011-04-11 20:59:44 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
3055 new developer release
3057 tried to keep the v4.5.x branch developed already separated in the NEWS file, as well as DIFFSTAT and SHORTLOG.
3058 The Changelog is just the one from master.
3060 2011-04-10 22:47:59 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
3061 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
3064 2011-04-10 20:32:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3065 Fix use of game/position file in first match game
3067 When a match was started from the menu, it was not paying attention to
3068 game and position files. (Later games were.) The code that handled this
3069 in the initialization when a match is started through the command line
3070 was made into a routine MatchEvent, which can be called from the menu
3073 2011-04-09 20:55:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3074 Fix crash on opening ICS Text Menu
3076 The patch for the color defaults had broken the ICS Text Menu.
3078 2011-04-09 19:22:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3079 Implement Copy Game List menu item for XBoard
3081 Some WinBoard code was cloned for this.
3083 2011-04-09 11:42:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3084 Third method of sweep selection
3086 This method sweeps through the possible promotion choices for the piece
3087 that is being dragged, as long as you drag a 7th-rank Pawn backwards. On
3088 draggin such a Pawn forwards, it immediately shows it as the piece you
3089 are going to promote to.
3091 2011-04-08 23:39:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3092 Alternative sweep promotions
3094 The sweep takes place on the from-square here.
3096 2011-04-07 23:21:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3097 Make sweep-select promotions work in WinBoard
3099 The mouse-move handler had to be connected to the PromoScroll back-end
3102 2011-04-07 23:19:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3103 Fix path browsing in WinBoard
3105 The routine BrowseForFolder was still declared as static in woptions.c,
3106 while it was used from wsettings.c.
3108 2011-04-07 11:14:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3109 Fixes to sweep selection
3112 2011-04-06 23:47:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3113 Implement sweep selection of promotion piece
3115 When the option -sweepPromotions is true, a click-click promotion move
3116 will first display the default choice (usually Queen) on the promotion
3117 square. While you have the mouse button still down, you can change the
3118 piece by moving the mouse vertically.
3120 2011-04-06 21:20:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3121 Implement sweep selection as alternative for the piece menu
3123 When the option -pieceMenu is off, the piece menu will no longer appear
3124 on right-clicks in Edit Position mode. In stead a Pawn of the chosen
3125 color will appear immediately in the clicked square, and vertical
3126 movement of the mouse with the right button down will cycle through
3127 all other pieces defined in the pieceToCharTable of the current variant.
3128 Setting the side to move is acheived by clicking the correspondig
3129 clock. Clear board can be effected by clicking the clock of the side
3130 that already has the move.
3132 2011-03-30 18:17:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3133 Remember Tags and Comment dialog coordinates
3135 The save-settings code now uses the shell and shellUp arrays from the
3136 GenericPopUp to read out the window coordinates for Tags and Comment
3137 window. Pointers used by GenericPopUp are set topoint to the
3138 corresponding WindowPlacement structs.
3140 2011-03-10 19:21:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3143 The generic popup is used for generating the Tags / EditTags popups.
3144 The tags popup use a 'label' field to display the cmail message
3146 2011-04-01 13:43:52 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3147 Implement Edit-Comment window through generic popup
3149 The Edit Comment and Comment popups are combined into one, that can
3150 always be edited (similar to WinBoard). It uses shell number 1.
3151 (Number 0 is for all transient dialogs.) A save-changes button is added.
3152 The positioning is not implemented yet.
3154 2011-04-06 10:56:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3155 Refinements to generic popup and color picker
3157 *) The text part of a checkbox can now be clicked to toggle the option.
3158 *) Typing <Enter> in single-line text edits is ignored
3159 *) Using a spin button now sets focus to the affected text edit, with
3160 the insert position at the end.
3161 *) Using the sample field or an RGB button sets focus to the
3162 corresponding text edit, with the insert position at the end.
3163 *) The adjust buttons now work in reverse, with a D button for "darker".
3164 *) Editing a color field causes the sample field to update to the new
3165 color when you type <Enter>.
3166 *) The color pickers now define a default color, which can be instated
3167 by clicking on the sample field.
3168 *) Fix some 64-bit pointer warnings
3170 2011-04-05 17:05:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3171 Let file browser filter on extension
3173 A new text field is added in the file-browse dialog, to hold (space-
3174 separated) extensions, on which the filenames are then filtered. This
3175 field is initialized by the caller, depending on what we need the file
3176 for, but can be changed by the user. (Directories are always displayed!)
3177 Changes in the extension field become effective after typing a return
3178 in it. Escape typed in the extension field gives focus to the filename
3179 field, and restores the contents. Escape in the filename field cancels
3180 the dialog, return ther OKs it. The extension filter of the browser is
3181 initialized to the extension (if any) of the file currently in the text
3182 edit you are browsing for.
3183 When re-opening the file browser from the XBoard File menu, and there
3184 is no suggested filename, it will now start with the last succesfully
3185 opened name as suggestion. Calling the browser with a NULL argument
3186 for the suggested filename requests that (unlike calling with an empty
3187 string, which will start it in the current directory). To make this
3188 work smoothly, the filebrowser saves the last used name on entry, so it
3189 can be restored on cancel, so that a cancelled browse session really
3190 erases all memory of it.
3192 2011-04-04 19:26:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3193 Fix animation masks on changing piece pixmaps
3195 The animation masks were not remade when new pieces were loaded
3196 interactively through the board-options dialog.
3198 2011-04-04 19:09:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3199 Fix linegap option in board dialog
3201 The lineGC was not recalculated, so the grid lines stayed the same
3202 thickness. In addition, setting the line-gap override to -1 now
3203 retrieves the original line gap that belongs to the current board size.
3205 2011-03-05 23:27:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3206 Make a kind of ICS text menu in XBoard as a dialog
3208 The dialog with buttons can be opened from the View menu. It is
3209 configured by the option -icsMenu; a default setting for this is
3210 included in the master settings file.
3211 The commands specified by the -icsMenu can now contain $name and $input
3212 keywords, which will be replaced by the current primary selection, or
3213 text the user types, respectively. Commands that contain $name will not
3214 be sent when the current selection is empty. Commands that do not
3215 contain $input will be sent to the ICS immediately; otherwise they will
3216 be placed in the ICS Input Box, with the cursor at the point of the
3217 $input, and input focus given to the Input Box, so the user can start
3218 typing. When a command is prefixed by "$add " it will be appended to the
3219 existing ICS Input Box contents, rather than replace it.
3220 The items now have to be separated by ";\n", and button text from
3221 command by ';' (with optional linefeed). This allows configuring of
3222 multi-line commands, as a single linefeed no longer has special
3225 2011-03-31 13:36:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3226 Redo ICS input box with generic popup
3228 This box is just a single text edit, but the complexity is in the added
3229 callbacks. These callbacks remain in xboard.c, and were altered to
3230 access the edit through the option.handle field.
3232 2011-04-03 12:54:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3233 Activate -path and -file options
3235 In XBoard the generic popup was prepared for this. In WinBoard, for
3236 -path options the BrowseFolder routine is used, and had to be made
3237 global (prototype in winboard.h).
3239 2011-04-02 18:40:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3240 Let generic popup generate Engine Settings dialog
3243 2011-04-02 18:36:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3244 Merge SettingsPopUp into GenericPopUp
3246 Based on currentCps the values read from the dialog are sent to the
3247 engine, or stored into the option.target in the callback, and fetched
3248 from the option.target in the PopUp. The currentCps is cleared in the
3249 generic popdown of a transient dialog.
3251 2011-03-06 10:11:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3252 Make generic dialog popup reentrant
3254 To allow persistent dialogs to be implemented through the generic popup,
3255 it must be possible to have several dialogs open at the same time, and
3256 thus make sure the popdowns under the cacel or close-window button know
3257 which one to pop down. To this end an array shells[] is created that
3258 takes over the function of settingsShell, and GenericPopUp gets an extra
3259 parameter telling it which element to use for storing the dialog shell.
3260 This number is then also passed to the callbacks that trigger popdown.
3261 This was a bit nasty for the CatchDeleteWindow stuff, which passes user
3262 data to the callback as text strings.
3263 Keep a separate up/down indicator, so that shell widgets can be kept
3264 for persistent dialogs. Also keep a currentOption per dialog type.
3265 The coordinates and size of the window is read out and stored in a
3266 WindowPlacement structure, (if one is specified for that dialog), when
3267 the dialog is popped down. When initialized the structure is also used
3268 to set the window parameters when the dialog is created. (The idea being
3269 that the structure was saved in the settings file.)
3270 The routine MarkMenu checkmarks a given menu item, and logs it for the
3271 given dialog type, so that a later popdown automatically unchecks is.
3273 2011-02-25 12:14:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3274 Implement Machine Match menu item and options dialog
3276 An item to start a match from the menu is added, similar to what
3277 WinBoard has. (The code is duplicated, so I guess it should be moved to
3278 the back-end now, as MachineMatchEvent(), but it was tiny.) A dialog in
3279 the Options menu was added with the aid of the generic popup, and allows
3280 the user to set the load Game / Position File and Index.
3282 2011-04-01 14:54:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3283 Create General-Options dialog
3285 The generic popup is used to implement a General-Options dialog, which
3286 contains all Boolaen options that used to be set directly from the main
3287 Options menu, plus a spin option for the flash count and flash rate.
3288 The corresponing options are removed from the main Options menu, but the
3289 whole thing is made conditional on a compiler switch OPTIONSDIALOG.
3290 The dialog needs an OK callback for sending an altered ponder-state to
3291 the engine. (Why isn't this option disabled in -ncp mode, btw?)
3292 A spin control is added to adjust -animateSpeed between 5 and 100.
3293 Add dropMenu and showTargetSquares item as well.
3295 2011-04-01 18:16:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3296 Redo new-variant dialog with generic popup
3298 Some special code was added in GenericPopUp() to force buttons of the
3299 type needed in the New Variant dialog (wide, colored, greyed-out on
3300 variant type). The dialog was implemented with these, and callbacks for
3301 the buttons directly exit the dialog, without the need for OK. New spin
3302 controls are added to the dialog for adjusting the board format.
3304 2011-04-01 14:48:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3305 Redo common-engine dialog with generic popup
3307 The ponder option was removed, as it is already in the main Options
3308 menu, and would require nastiness in the OK callback. Added book options
3309 in common-engine dialog.
3311 2011-02-24 13:32:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3312 Redo adjudications dialog through generic popup
3314 We dropped the periodic-updates option, as it is already in the main
3317 2011-04-01 21:56:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3318 Make sounds dialog for XBoard
3320 This uses the combo boxes. A 'play' button isimplemented for a test
3321 sound. A sound directory is introduced, and can be set through the
3322 dialog. A default setting for -soundDirectory is added to xboard.conf.
3324 2011-04-01 23:11:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3325 Add ICS options dialog
3328 2011-04-01 21:52:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3329 Add board dialog XBoard
3331 The GenericPopUp() is used to implement a dialog for board options. The
3332 board dialog needs to trigger redraw and redefinition of the
3333 colors, through an OK callback. Color-pickers are used for the 6 basic
3335 To allow changing board settings during the session (i.e. from a menu
3336 dialog), the routines to allocate resources have to free the resources
3337 for the previous settings first. This patch take care of XtCreateGCs(),
3338 preventing re-creation of resources that are unchangeable (such as the
3339 grid color), and calling XtReleastGC() on GCs that can be changed.
3340 To prevent resource leaks the old pixmaps are deleted before making new
3341 ones on second or later calls of CreateXPMPieces().
3343 2011-04-03 11:39:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3344 Add browse button to generic popup
3346 Options of type FileName and PathName cause a browse button to be added
3347 behind the text field. The SpinCallback is used to handle the
3348 button presses, and invokes the file browser dialog to obtain a
3349 filename, which is then copied to the text field.
3351 2011-04-01 21:49:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3352 Make generic XBoard popup, and implement 2 dialogs
3354 The Engine-Settings dialog of XBoard was cloned to work on predefined
3355 lists of (XBoard) options, rather than engine options. An extra field
3356 was added to the Option struct, to hold a pointer to the XBoard variable
3357 that should hold the option setting, so on OK'ing the dialog the altered
3358 values can be copied there. Not usable for options which should trigger
3359 an action (like redraw, or sending something to the engine).
3360 A Load Game, Save Game and ICS Options dialog were then defined by
3361 tables fed to GenericPopUp(). Options set from these dialogs were removed
3362 from the main Option menu, which removes a lot of code from xboard.c
3363 (for checkmarking, disabling the menu items).
3364 A button defined in the GenericPopUp can attain the color indicated
3365 by a previous text field, and add a callback to change the color in a
3366 spin-like manner (but using R G B W in stead of + - butons).
3367 The EndMark option can specify a callback, to be used on OK.
3368 A non-zero max field in the Option descriptor will be used to set the
3369 width of ComboBox, TextBox and Button optons.
3370 The elements are chained such that extra space goes fully into the input
3371 fields. A label type is added for clarifying texts that would not fit in
3372 the option names. A break-type (pseudo-)option is added. Make OK and
3373 cancel button suppressable in generic popup (by 2 bit of the option.min
3376 2011-04-03 11:34:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3377 Add file-browser option to just return name
3379 By passing mode "f" the file browser dialog will not open the selected
3380 file at all, so it can be used to retreive the name for the benefit of a
3381 file-browser button to a -file option. A mode "p" will limit the
3382 selection to directories only, to browse for a path.
3384 2011-04-03 13:15:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3385 Put insertion point at end of text on SetFocus
3388 2011-04-05 23:47:34 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
3389 fixed 64 bit warnings by casting integers to intptr_t before casting to int
3392 2011-04-05 23:24:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
3393 removed check and #includes for malloc.h, since it's not needed
3395 hopefully this doesn't break things on non-linux systems. OS X seems to be ok, not sure about others ;)
3397 2011-04-03 20:23:49 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
3398 check if malloc.h is present before including it
3400 OS X 10.6 doesn't have malloc.h, so it complained.
3402 2011-04-03 20:01:36 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
3403 Fix bug introduced in commit 89b4744: removed a "/" and forgot to add it in the config file
3405 removed a "/" to make OS X happy, but forgot to add the "/" again in the xboard.conf.in file
3407 2011-03-12 14:08:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3408 Fix display of promotion piece in ICS superchess
3410 In Great Shatranj and Superchess promoted Pawns were displayed as shadow
3411 piece because these variants had holdings, while captured pieces should
3412 go back into the holdings unchanged, rather than reverted to Pawns.
3414 2011-03-13 14:09:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3415 Fix o-o castling in new parser
3417 The non-compliant notation of castling with lower-case 'o' should be
3418 preferred over the non-compliant interpretation of moving a Pawn along
3419 the o-file. Not doing so breaks ICS play, as ICS use o-o and o-o-o for
3420 castling! So an exception is now made for the o-file in the 'fxg'
3423 2011-03-10 19:27:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3424 Implement yynewstr entry point in new parser
3426 This entry point, used for parsing an ICS move list, was forgotten, and
3427 was still an empty routine. This made XBoard crash when observing an ICS
3430 2011-03-07 23:11:00 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
3431 fixed wrong default for polyglotDir mentioned in docs.
3433 Thanks to Hans Aberg for reporting it.
3435 2011-03-05 12:39:01 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
3436 Fix "make install" on Os X10.6.6 (removed a "/")
3438 seems like an extra "/" made "make install" unhappy
3440 2011-03-03 21:19:05 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
3441 removed parser.l from build process, also removed flex dependency from configure
3444 2011-03-02 22:14:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3445 New parser, written in C
3447 A new parser was written to replace the flex-generated one. Immediate
3448 improvements are that it understand double-digit rank numbers, and Shogi
3449 coordinates. No changes were made in the Makefile yet to reflect the
3450 new, flexless building procedure.
3452 2011-03-02 22:23:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3453 Fix bugs in FRC castling rights
3455 When parsing a castling move in FRC when no rights existed, the parser
3456 returned 0 (= EndOfFile) rather than ImpossibleMove. The recognition of
3457 the absence of rights was not adapted to the new encoding NoRights in
3460 2011-03-01 23:42:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3461 Fix parsing bug of FRC castling
3463 The code that was supposed to intercept castling when no rights existed
3464 in FRC was not adapted to the new encoding for this by NoRights, rather
3465 than -1, and furthermore returned 0 (= EndOfFile) rather than
3466 ImpossibleMove. Not sure if the former would manifest itself in any
3467 way, but the latter seems bad.
3469 2011-03-01 23:32:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3470 Fix two bugs in reading position diagram
3472 When reading a game without FEN tag, a position diagram is used to set
3473 the initial position. This calls CharToPiece() with a '.' as argument,
3474 because that is the position-diagram way to indicate empty squares.
3475 altered CharToPiece() over time this would be recognized as the first
3476 undefined piece or, more recently, the first piece without nickName,
3477 which is a white Pawn. Now it returns EmptySquare again in that case.
3478 A second problem was that for position diagrams in braces the brace was
3479 not in the list of ignored characters, and would cause the reading to
3480 get out of phase, so that the side to move was not recognized.
3482 2011-02-26 21:12:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3483 Fix flipBlack option XBoard with board texture
3485 In XBoard -flipBlack is implemented by swapping white and black pieces,
3486 because the Shogi bitmaps from XShogi are made that way. But the mask
3487 used to cut out the whole in the board texture to fit the piece was not
3488 swapped, both when drawing static pieces, as well as during animation.
3490 2011-02-25 14:38:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3491 Improve repairing damage of arrow highlight XBoard
3493 With line gap the highlight arrow necessitated redrawing of the entire
3494 board, to repair damage on the grid. This interfered with flashing of
3495 pieces, which was only done on selective redraws. In stead of forcing a
3496 total repaint we now just redraw the grid lines.
3498 2011-02-23 16:41:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3499 Fix unintended translation in debug file
3501 The words "first" and "second" (cps->which) were sometimes used in
3502 context that should definitely not be translated. (e.g. the indicator
3503 for which engine printed/got the line in the debug file.) So translation
3504 is now deferred to all uses in popups.
3506 2011-02-23 16:29:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3509 The nps settingwas tested for being > 0 in stead of >=0, so that the
3510 case of CPU time was not properly handled.
3512 2011-02-24 19:06:27 +0100 Kamil Blank <caceel@gmail.com>:
3513 Added missing fclose()
3516 Signed-off-by: Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>
3518 2011-02-20 16:12:19 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
3519 release of version 4.5.1
3521 2011-02-20 16:10:16 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
3522 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
3524 2011-02-20 20:36:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3525 Fix two typos in option names in texi file
3527 Polyglot was capitalyzed
3529 2011-02-20 00:03:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3530 Fix some resource leaks
3532 Some files were opened not closed in XBoard, when loading XIM images
3533 (which I doubt anyone ever does) but also when copying the clipboard
3534 (which has the potential of being done very often). There was also some
3535 code that would not work if conditional code which is permanently
3536 disabled would be enabled.
3538 2011-02-17 20:17:04 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
3539 new developer release
3541 2011-02-17 20:14:38 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
3542 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
3544 2011-02-17 15:40:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3545 Fix MSVC snprintf problem
3547 In MSVC snprintf has to be redefined as _snprintf, and this happens
3548 conditionally in config.c. But the latter was not #included in help.c.
3550 2011-02-16 19:41:27 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
3551 updated configure.ac to check for Xaw header files
3553 check for Xaw header files when --without-Xaw3d was given. Before the test was
3554 only done when Xaw3d was specified, but could not be found.
3556 If Xaw3d or Xaw can't be found, print a hopefully useful error message and exit the configure script.
3558 2011-02-16 12:03:22 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3561 Channel 0 messages were not displayed in the console, because the test
3562 for channel number considered every non-numeric or non-existent handle
3563 in a chatbox to be zero. So the messages were diverted to a non-exsting
3564 chatbox. Now it test first for the handle to start with a digit.
3566 2011-02-15 19:13:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3567 Make language choice from menu persistent
3569 Set appData.language to the chosen language file, or empty if English is
3570 chosen, so that the choice is saved with the settings. Increase the
3571 number of possible language choices from 5 to 20. (After all, we already
3574 2011-02-14 11:09:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3575 Fix showing of user move after adjudication
3577 The correction of the fishy patch (removing ShowMove() from Adjudicate())
3578 had broken the adjudication of user moves (that actually did work before
3579 the fishy patch, because there the gobal fromX/Y and toX/Y do contain
3580 the correct values for the move to be shown). An entered move that led
3581 to adjudication (like a checkmate) now was not displayed at all. Adding
3582 an extra ShowMove() after (successful) return of Adudicate() solves it.
3584 2011-02-13 23:49:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3585 Fix Xiangqi King facing
3587 The Spartan patch had broken the CheckTest for Xiangqi, because cl.check
3588 was cleared after the King-facing test, rather than before it.
3590 2011-02-13 22:30:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3591 Fix variant janus size prefix
3593 The default board size of Janus Chess was not consistently taken to be
3594 10x8, which resulted the name to be sent as 10x8+0_janus to the engine.
3596 2011-02-13 12:18:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3599 The test for Alfil (suppressing single steps on the Elephant) contained
3600 a wrong logical operator, so that it could never be active. It also
3601 failed to include Xiangqi as variant with traditional Alfil. This led to
3602 one-step moves of the Elephant in these variants, and false check or
3603 unreliable mate detections.
3605 Fix move of Xiangqi Elephant
3607 2011-02-09 23:19:09 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
3608 fixed configure script to correctly detect Xaw3d library
3611 2011-02-06 22:07:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3612 Fix unmarked translation
3614 The file-browser wndowtitle in WB was not marked for translation.
3616 2011-02-04 10:27:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3617 Put warning in HTML help
3619 A warning is added that the help file is not yet updated for the new
3622 2011-02-04 10:22:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3623 Fix 64-bit Windows compilability
3625 The API interface for Set/GetWindowLong has been changed for 64-bit
3626 Windows, both in the name of the call as in the arguments.
3628 2011-02-04 10:21:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3629 Fix MSVC compilability
3631 Both the makefile and the project file had to be adapted for the new
3632 source file history.c, and the new location of parser.c.
3634 2011-02-05 10:11:58 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
3635 added missing #includes and missing prototypes to filebrowser
3637 thanks to Max Funk for reporting. Now using HAVE_DIRENT_H.
3639 Also cleaned up missing prototypes and some casts.
3641 2011-02-05 09:21:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
3642 added missing header file for sprintf
3645 2011-02-03 08:50:50 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
3646 added history.c to the tar-ball. Needed for Winboard
3649 2011-01-31 23:03:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3650 Fix deselection of greyed-out variant button (WB)
3652 In Windows a disabled radiobutton refuses to deselect when you select
3653 another (enabled) button from the group. There are then 2 buttons
3654 checked, and the code to readout the buttons took the first one. Now it
3655 is changed to take the first enabled one.
3657 2011-02-03 08:28:15 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
3658 Revert "Implement -reset option feature in WinBoard"
3660 This reverts commit efecf86cd9b54072c6a2f38d62f1d775e69c545b.
3662 picked the wrong commit from HGM's git tree.
3664 2011-02-01 22:01:12 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
3665 add DIFFSTAT and SHORTLOG to tar-ball
3667 was only in the v4.4.x branch and not in master
3669 2011-01-30 09:52:15 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3670 release of version 4.5.0
3672 2011-02-01 07:41:04 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
3673 changed size of borders around squares from 0 to 1 as a default
3675 this way highlights show up again.
3677 2011-01-29 20:11:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3678 Implement -reset option feature in WinBoard
3680 2011-01-30 10:12:08 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3681 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
3683 2011-01-30 09:56:39 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3684 updated parser.c form parser.l
3686 2011-01-29 19:59:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3687 Clean up fishy patch
3689 None of the ShowMove() calls in Adjudicate() was working, because when
3690 this code was taken out of HandleMachineMove() it was taken outside the
3691 scope of the local fromX, fromY etc. there, so that it started using the
3692 global variables from the mouse driver. As these usually contain -1,
3693 this suppressed move animation and highlighting. All these calls have
3694 now been removed, and ShowMove() is called after a positive return (from
3695 HandleMachineMove(), so within the correct scope).
3696 This improves the previous fix, which led to some flicker, because the
3697 erroneous ShowMove() calls did draw the new board (instantly), wich in
3698 the fishy patch was then immediately overwritten by the old position, to
3699 start animation. This drawing of the old position is now no longer
3702 2011-01-29 13:36:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3705 The RTF file is adapted to the new menu organization.
3707 2011-01-29 13:31:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3710 The highlight-with-arrow and one-click-move menu items are described.
3711 The highlightMoveWithArrow and variations option are described.
3712 Load Next /Previous Position descriptions are moved to File menu.
3713 The description for entering variations is updated (using Shift key).
3714 The remark that editing holdings is impossible is removed.
3715 Spartan Chess is added to the list of supported variants.
3717 2011-01-28 18:35:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3718 Updated copyright notice to 2011
3721 2011-01-24 15:01:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3722 Greyout unavailable variants in New Variant dialog
3724 The WB radio-button code is refactored to be driven from a list (which
3725 must be kept in phase with the variant definitions in common.h!). It now
3726 also checks if the first engine supports the variant, and greys out the
3727 item if it isn't. XB now also makes this check. Slight re-ordering of
3728 10x8 variants there, to have the more common on top.
3729 If no radio button is selected, keep old variant even on OK.
3731 2011-01-19 11:10:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3732 Move clock-click code to back-end
3734 Some duplicated (or should-be-duplicated) code for handling clicks on
3735 the clocks from the XBoard and WinBoard front-ends was merged and
3736 relocated to the back-end, so it can be shared. Noticeable was that
3737 XBoard allowed turn change in ICS examine mode by clock clicking,
3738 while WinBoard did not. WB, on the other hand, allowed clock adjustment.
3740 2011-01-16 23:15:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3741 Fix legality testing of drop moves
3743 Drops of noexistent pieces (i.e. with a piece indicator letter that is
3744 not corresponding to any defined piece) are now parsed as
3745 ImpossibleMove, rather than IllegalMove, so they are also rejected with
3746 legality testing off.
3748 2011-01-17 00:28:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3749 Fix WB Sound Options greyout and remove some grossness
3751 The sound and ICS Options menu items in WB were accessed 'by position',
3752 with fixed defined positions (always messing up any reorganization of
3753 the menus when you forgot to redefine the position constants in
3754 winboard.h). And not only that, but for completely mysterious reasons,
3755 the greying of the sound item greyed out the game-list options (above
3756 it) in stead when it was defined as 9, and the ICS options (below it)
3757 when it was 10 !!!. Now they are addressed 'by command' (and the
3758 position definitions are removed), which fixes things.
3760 2011-01-25 21:35:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3761 Re-instate load next/prev position menu items
3763 As positions do not use something similar to the game list, these are
3764 still useful. For some reason I could not get Alt+Shift+PgUp/Dn to work,
3765 so I settled for Shift+PgUp/Dn.
3767 2011-01-16 21:56:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3768 Remove superfluous copying of machine move
3770 There was explicit code in HandleMachineMove() and FinishMove() to put
3771 the move in the moveList, while MakeMove() already does this later in a
3772 more reliable way by calling CoordsToComputerAlgebraic(). This
3773 superfluous code is removed now.
3775 2011-01-16 21:44:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3776 Fix spurious mate test in Edit Game mode
3778 When entering a game, it was terminated by the mate test even when
3779 legality checking was switched off (so that mates might not be reliably
3780 recognized). The mate test is now made dependent on legality testing.
3782 2011-01-16 21:37:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3783 Fix type-in of drop moves
3785 Drop moves entered through the move type-in already come in the (piece,
3786 DROP_RANK, x, y) format, rather than having a holdings from square. This
3787 caused UserMoveEvent to consider them illegal when testing if the
3788 piecewas of the side to move, and when this was fixed, to recognize
3789 Knight drops as coming from between board and holdings (and thus
3792 2011-01-16 21:31:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3793 Fix move type-in truncating game
3795 Starting a new variation by keeping Shift pressed did not work when
3796 OK'ing the move type-in, because there was some code ther that truncated
3797 the game. While this could be safely left to UserMoveEvent, which it
3798 calls, as the situation is not different from entering moves through the
3801 2011-01-11 16:12:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3802 Fix legality testing for promotions
3804 Turns out WB has never tested for the legality of the chosen promotion
3805 piece, and would allow promotion to King innorml chess even with
3806 legality testing on (when entered through the keyboard)! Now strict
3807 testing is done, outlawing Pawns and Kings (or Unicorns in
3808 Knightmate). Only in suicide / giveaway Kings are stillallowed, and in
3809 spartan a black King if you do not have two yet.(And promotion
3810 toLnce,representing Hoplite Pawn,is forbidden there.)
3812 2011-01-11 11:34:07 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3813 Reset 50-move counter on all pawn-like Lance moves
3815 Now the Lance represents a Pawn-like piece not only in variant fairy,
3816 but anywhere outside Shogi / Superchess, its moves should also reset the
3817 50-move counter in those cases. Especially important for Spartan Chess,
3818 where the Lance actually participates.
3820 2011-01-11 11:18:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3823 The logos were not repainted when the main window was moved out of the
3824 display area, and then back into view. The reason for this is
3825 unknown, as the PaintProc calls HDCDrawPosition, which was calling
3826 DrawLogoOnDC. But the logos were not drawn, (or on an expose event
3827 sometimes half drawn!) despite the fact that the rest of the board was.
3828 The drawing of logos now has been decoupled from drawing the board,
3829 and has been moved to a separate routine DisplayLogos() (in analogy to
3830 DisplayBothClocks()). This is cleaner anyway, as the logos usually do
3831 not change when the board does. So apart from in PaintProc, it has only
3832 to be called when the mode changes (ModeHighlight()) or on swap clocks.
3833 This seems to fix the problem.
3835 2011-01-10 20:36:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3836 Fix time in PGN info
3838 Saving of the thinking time in the PGN was broken by the patch that
3839 removed the race condition in the clock switching, because that moved
3840 the incrementing of forwardMostMove to behind the code that used fmm to
3841 index pvInfoList. As a result the time was stored in the slot for the
3842 opponent's previous move. The value is corrected now.
3844 2011-01-09 00:24:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3847 The move that delivers checkmate in two-machines mode is not animated
3848 when adjudication is on. There then also is no highlighting of this move
3849 Redrawing the board and calling ShowMove fixes it. Which is rather
3850 strange, because ShowMove was already called in Adjudicate (when it
3851 adjudicates), before GameEnds. For reasons that are not understood this
3852 call to ShowMove() (which calls AnimateMove()) is not effective.
3854 2011-01-09 00:21:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3855 Reset machine colors after match
3857 The colors each engine playse are set to the originals after the last
3858 match game, so that a new match or two-machines game will not have
3861 2011-01-09 00:15:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3862 Reset win/loss counters before match
3864 The win/loss counters were not reset, because the code counted on them
3865 being initialized to zero. But with matches startable from the menu,
3866 this is no longer true after the first match.
3868 2011-01-09 00:08:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3869 Show move that causes false illegal-move claim
3871 Without claim testing XBoard takes back moves that an engine objects to.
3872 But when the engine is forfeited for a false claim, the move should of
3873 course stay. So the claim test is moved to before the take-back.
3875 2011-01-09 00:05:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3876 Fix Spartan promotion to King
3878 Promotions toKing were refused when in check, because XBoard thought
3879 they would not resolve the check. Now the promotion is actually
3880 performed before doing the check test.
3882 2011-01-05 17:31:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3883 Fix WB font-based piece rendering on variant switch
3885 The piece bitmaps were only created from the font characters when the
3886 number of ranks or files changed, because it was done in
3887 InitDrawingSizes(). This caused missing pieces when changing to a
3888 variant on the same board that used other pieces. Now InitDrawingSizes()
3889 is called for any variant switch.
3891 2011-01-05 17:25:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3892 Fix right-alignment pproblem in WB ICS window
3894 Use of Ctrl-R to summon the context menu still trickled through to the
3895 default text-edit window routine, and caused right-alignment. This was
3896 because the text-edit reacts on keyDown rather than the character event.
3897 KeyDown of R with Ctrl pressed is now also intercepted and ignored.
3899 2011-01-03 13:04:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3900 Fix chat window title
3902 The title was using the engine name, rather than the ICS handle, which
3903 did not work outside zippy mode. Now it only uses the engine name when
3904 no ICS handle is known. The titleis now also subjected to translation.
3906 2011-01-03 12:50:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3907 Fix spurious reading of old game title by JAWS
3909 Because focus was switched to the board window before loading the
3910 selected game from the game list, the titlebar still contained the
3911 name of the previously loaded game, which would spontaneously be read by
3912 JAWS. Now the focus switch is done after loading the new game (which
3913 updates the window title.)
3915 2011-01-03 12:37:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3916 Add variant Spartan Chess
3918 In the WB menu it takes the place of the defunct Twilight Chess item.
3919 The setup routine needed patching for setting up Lances in stead of
3920 Pawns for black, the check test had to be adapted to handle duple check,
3921 Alfil and Dragon moves were fine tuned in this variant to make the exact
3922 moves, and the promotion popup was adapted to show King and interpret
3923 Rook and Bishop as Dragon and Alfil for black. The Alfil now always
3924 moves as Modern Elephant except in Shatranj and Courier.
3926 2011-01-03 12:23:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3929 Due to a bug in logical operators drops were tried for mate evasions
3930 even in non-drop games, which broke it in Superchess and Great Shatranj,
3931 and wasted CPU time in other variants.
3933 2011-01-05 17:19:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3934 Fix promotion suffixon disambiguated piece moves
3936 The promotion suffixon piecemoves that needed disambiguation was not
3937 passedon to the back-end in most variants. Now it is passed on in any
3940 2011-01-03 12:08:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3941 Fix promotion of Pawn-like Lance
3943 In variants where the Lance is used to represent an unorthodox Pawn, it
3944 must promote when it reaches last rank. With legality testing on,
3945 however, the promoChar was ignored in ApplyMove in this case. The
3946 promotion suffix also was not appended in SAN moves.
3948 2011-01-03 11:57:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3949 Fix WB promotion popup
3951 The promotion popup did not work properly in variants where black did
3952 not use the pieces that white wanted to promote to. Now the character
3953 for the selected piece is taken from the piece encodings of the side to
3954 move. In addition, selection of undefined pieces is ignored.
3956 2011-01-02 14:17:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3957 Fix bug in parsing variations
3959 The moves parsed from a variation were stored in the moveList without
3960 appended linefeed. This caused errors if the variation extended to
3961 beyond the end of the main line,into a hitherto unused part of the move
3962 list, as the linefeed was then not there from the overwritten move. As a
3963 result moves sent to the engine were concatenated, triggering
3964 illegal-move messages and bringing the engine out of phase.
3966 2011-01-02 14:11:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3967 Define Ctrl-R as right-click in WB Comment dialog
3969 To allow JAWS users to load a variation through the keyboard, Ctrl-R is
3970 equated to a right click at the position of the caret or selection.
3972 2011-01-02 14:10:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3973 Allow starting a variation from keyboard entry in WB-JAWS
3975 The status of the shift key is remembered when space is pressed to
3976 select a board square.
3978 2011-01-02 14:06:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3979 Disable some accelerators in JAWS version
3981 Single-key accelerators that could result in irreversible data loss are
3982 undesirable, because the risk of accidentally pushing them is too large.
3983 So the non-Alt duplicates of next/previous game/position are disabled,
3984 as are Home and End for Revert and Truncate Game. JAWS users will have
3985 to rely on the menus for those functions.
3987 2011-01-02 13:59:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3988 Group engine-output memos with engine names
3990 The engine names are now defined just before the text edits, so that
3991 JAWS 11 will read the engine name when the memo for the output of that
3992 engine is selected. (JAWS 10 will still read the NPS, as it reads in
3995 2011-01-02 13:55:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3996 Put nr CPU earlier in tab cycle of WB Common Engine dialog
3998 By defining the max CPU control after hash size, the tabbing steps
3999 through the controls in geometrical (and logical) order, rather than
4000 having the max CPU in between the book controls.
4002 2010-12-29 23:47:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4003 Update WB language template file
4006 2010-12-29 23:41:27 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4007 Subject JAWS menu and spoken strings to translation
4010 2010-12-29 23:37:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4011 Let JAWS SayString buffer full sentence
4013 The meaning of the flag parameter of SayString was changed to indicate
4014 buffering of flushing. On flushing a message of a single space is used
4015 as a kludge to indicate interruptability. Calls to force flushing where
4018 2010-12-29 23:32:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4019 Adapt JAWS menu to new menu organization
4021 The menus did not correspondto the texts after translation of the main
4024 2010-12-29 23:18:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4025 Translate menus after creation of JAWS menu
4028 2010-12-29 23:07:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4029 Fix ICS context menu for JAWS
4031 The Ctrl+R key did select text at the mouse pointer in stead of at the
4032 curser, now that up and down-click were combined.
4034 2010-12-29 23:04:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4035 Reorganize order of WB New Variant dialog controls
4037 The definitions are re-ordered so that at least JAWS 11 will speak the
4038 board-size elements properly.
4040 2010-12-29 22:57:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4041 Fix order of elements in WB time-control dialog
4043 Someleading texts were defined after the text edit they referred to,so
4044 that JAWS 11 associated them to the wrong one. A tab stop was added to
4045 the time-odds label, to make JAWS speak it.
4047 2010-12-29 22:51:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4048 Change tabbing order in WB sounds dialog
4050 The 'Play' button now gets focus immediately after the controls for
4051 selecting the sound, rather than at the end of the dialog (after OK).
4053 2010-12-29 22:47:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4054 Remove tab stops on first radio button of WB dialogs
4056 The New Variant and Board dialogs had a tab stop on the first radio
4057 button,so that tabbing toit would automatically select variant
4058 normal or size tiny. Now it tabs straight to the current size, without
4059 changing anything. (Important for JAWS users.)
4061 2010-12-29 22:45:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4062 Put OK/Cancel last in tab cycle of some WB dialogs
4065 2010-12-29 22:29:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4066 Fix duplicate menu character for Edit Comment
4068 Edit Comment did have the same shortcut character as Copy Game. Changed
4071 2010-12-11 11:18:56 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4072 fixed automake process: xboard.conf couldn't be generated if $srcdir was not the current directory
4075 2010-12-11 09:50:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4076 new developer release
4079 2010-12-05 18:01:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4080 Subject WB context menus to translation
4082 The innerloopof the menu translation has been made into a separate
4083 routine. This now uses GetMenuItemInfo() in stead of ModifyMenu() to
4084 better preserve menu breaks. Menu #10 is used for context menus (from
4085 the routine that pops them up), and for this number the orignal texts
4086 are not saved in menuText. (This is not needed, because the menu is
4087 created everytime anew from the resource data.)
4089 2010-12-05 15:00:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4090 Update translation template
4092 Add the new menu items; add some notes.
4094 2010-12-05 14:04:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4095 Resize buttons in WB engine-settings dialog
4097 The OK and cancel buttons were to narrow for most translations, and were
4098 a non-standard order as well.
4100 2010-12-05 13:56:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4101 Add one-click move control to WB general-options dialog
4103 This is a duplicate of the one in the ICS options dialog, but the latter
4104 is inaccessible in non-ICS modes, and one-click move is now
4105 alsoavailable in engine mode.
4107 2010-12-05 13:51:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4108 Create space in dialogs for translation
4110 The translated texts often did not fit, because controls were defined
4111 needlessly small (when there was empty space between them). In these
4112 cases they have been enlarged to consume all available space. Some
4113 dialogs are made wider.
4115 2010-12-05 13:47:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4116 Add handle for translator acknowledgement
4118 An empty string is printed in the about box, which can be 'translated'
4119 to a message acknowledging the translator.
4121 2010-12-05 13:43:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4122 Use default logo for user
4124 When no logo with the name of the current user is found, use dummy.bmp.
4126 2010-12-05 15:46:34 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4127 added rlwrap tip to FAQ
4130 2010-12-03 23:24:06 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4131 replace hard coded paths with path from configure script
4133 use $datadir and subdirectories to store some data files. Also make files in xboard.conf use correct path.
4135 2010-12-03 23:02:09 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4136 fixed a typo in the configure script output
4139 2010-12-03 21:46:00 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4140 added a desktop file
4142 taken from the openSUSE project
4144 2010-12-03 22:44:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4145 Fix Edit Game/Position checkmarking in WinBoard
4147 Because the entries in Edit and Mode menu were pure duplicats, the
4148 entries in the wrong menu (Edit) were checkmarked while active. By
4149 defining different IDs for those in the Edit menu, those in the Mode
4150 menu are checkmarked again.
4152 2010-12-03 10:07:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4153 Add XBoard menu items for arrow highlight and one-click move
4155 These items are put in the options menu; the 'Old Save Style' item is
4158 2010-12-03 09:27:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4159 Provide menus for editing WinBoard engine and server lists
4161 The Edit Tags dialog in the WB front-end is adapted to act as a general
4162 edit for string variables, by giving it an extra parameter to indicate
4163 where to store the edited result. Menu items are added to invoke this
4164 dialog for editing the /first, /secondChessProgramNames and /icsNames
4165 options. This solves the problem that people would have to edit an ini
4166 file that they can no longer locate (because the %APPDATA% folder has
4167 different names and locations in the various Windows versions, and is
4168 often a hidden folder on top of that).
4169 There is a slight memory leak here, as the memory for the previous
4170 value of the altered string option is not freed.
4172 2010-12-02 16:18:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4173 Configure arrow highlighting as default in XBoard
4175 Set -highlightMoveWithArrow true in the xboard.conf file, and specify a
4176 lineGap of 0 to make that efficient (and the wood theme even nicer).
4178 2010-12-02 15:56:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4179 Port highlighting with arrow to XBoard
4181 Unfortuntely this duplicates a fair amount of code in the front end.
4182 Removing the arrow is done by a total repaint if there is a non-zero
4183 lineGap, because the clever algorithm for selective redrawing (based
4184 on damage) that XBoard uses does not repair damage to the grid lines.
4185 For lineGap=0, however, (for which the arrow is mainly intended) the
4186 damage mechanism is used, and the damaged squares are determined by
4187 tracing out the arrow in 64 steps, and marking all squares in the
4188 neighborhood as damaged.
4190 2010-12-02 15:55:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4191 Strip CR from xboard.c
4194 2010-12-02 14:21:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4195 Let user decide if he wants highlights in blindfold mode
4197 Remove the automaticsuppression ofhighlighting.
4199 2010-12-02 00:24:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4200 Fix fag-fell marker with logos on
4202 The flag-fell marker "(!)" that is displayed in the clock in WinBoard in
4203 two-machines mode was printed twice when the clock was split over two
4204 lines (as with logos on).
4206 2010-12-01 18:57:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4207 Also exempt variant seirawan from eval-scale doubling
4209 It is not really a drop game, so a scale from -7 to 7 in the eval graph
4210 is good enough (like variants great and super).
4212 2010-12-01 10:33:13 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4213 Configure EGTB cache size in adapterCommand
4215 The hash size, nr of CPUs and EGTB path are transferred through the WB
4216 protocol interface commands memory, cores and egtpath. But there is no
4217 WB command for detailing the EGTB cache size. So the value of the
4218 command-line option -defaultCacheSizeEGTB has to be sent to Polyglot
4219 through its startup command to make it known to UCI engines.
4221 2010-11-30 22:46:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4222 Move Hint and Book items to Engine menu in XBoard
4225 2010-11-30 22:17:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4226 Correct the key bindings fo view menu in texi file
4228 The mentioned bindings for Game List and Eval Graph were wrong.
4230 2010-11-30 21:25:07 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4231 Fix sub-variation display with negative score
4233 The test if the displayed score was the pvInfo score failed for negative
4234 scores, because floats are truncated towards zero. So the previous fix
4235 of spurious score/depth info was not working when the score was
4238 2010-11-30 18:27:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4239 Peel PV out of comment
4241 Arena stores engine PVs not in variation format, but within both braces
4242 and parentheses, before the score/depth info. This caused XBoard to
4243 overlook the score/depth info, (frustrating, e.g., the eval graph),
4244 while the PV would not be accessible for walking it as a variation.
4245 The routine that extracts the score/depth from a comment now has
4246 been made more clever, to recognize a leadin PV in the comment, and then
4247 place it in front of the comment as variation (by moving the opening
4248 brace to behind it). For some reason it does not work if the PV and
4249 score/depth were separated by a newline, but this happens quite rarely.
4251 2010-11-30 18:23:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4252 Allow line-straddling result comments
4254 Some GUIs (in particular Arena) do not have the decency to keep the
4255 result comment on a single line. In this case the parser rules would not
4256 recognize it, and treat it as a normal comment, plus an undetailed PGN
4257 result. The rules are now fixed to allow linefeeds in the comment, and
4258 between comment and PGN result. To correctly process the comment further
4259 (e.g. in game-list lines) the linefeeds are replaced by spaces in the
4260 back-end routines that do use the result comment.
4262 2010-11-30 12:22:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4263 Write key bindings in XBoard menus
4265 Unfortunately tabs are not understood in menu texts, so fine-tuning
4266 through spaces is necessary to get some sort of ragged alignment.
4268 2010-11-29 18:01:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4269 Configure XBoard to use wood board texture by default
4271 The texture pixmaps are sought in /usr/share/games/xboard, with names
4272 wood_l.pm and wood_d.xpm. I guess the " make install" should be adapted
4273 to put them there. XBoard is resitent to non-existence of the files,
4274 btw. It simply ignores the arguments in that case.
4276 2010-11-29 17:48:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4277 Configure -inc as volatile option in XBoard
4279 XBoard users are not used to options being persistent, and thus have
4280 many scripts assuming the timeIncrement is -1 when they don't specify it
4281 on the command line, and want to specify -mps. But a persistent -inc of
4282 0 fom a preious session would then force their -mps to zero, causing
4285 2010-11-29 17:36:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4286 Make WinBoard clocks translation-proof
4288 With logos on, the splitting of the clock over two lines assumed the
4289 lengths of the words "white" and "black" would always be 5. Used strlen.
4291 2010-11-29 14:57:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4292 Improve drawing of highlight arrow
4294 A diagonal arrow sometimes had a notch in the shaft because of
4295 independent rounding of the starting and ending point coordinates.
4296 Furthermore the width of the shaft was unnecessary variable(as a
4297 function of direction) because half the width was rounded and then used
4298 twice. Now rounding of end-points is always done towards a fixed grid
4299 of square centers, which keeps diagonals purely diagonal, and one side
4300 of the shaft is drawn relative to the other side, after the
4301 position of the latter has been rounded, so any rounding error affects
4302 the shaft width only once.
4304 2010-11-29 10:25:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4305 Alter descriptionof Analyze File menu item
4307 This menu item has been given a new function, so a new description was
4310 2010-11-29 10:15:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4311 Add description of Game List Options in texi file
4314 2010-11-29 09:58:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4315 Update texi file for new menu organization
4317 The descriptions are shuffled around and organized into sections
4318 corresponding to the new main menus. Where necessary the name of the
4319 items was changed to their new names. The items removed from the File
4320 menu (the next/previous/same stuff) are nowmoved to the section "other
4321 shortcut keys", as the key bindings for some of them are still active.
4323 2010-11-29 09:06:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4324 Update info on key bindings in texi file
4326 The texi file was still listing the old XBoard key bindings. Where
4327 necessary this is now changed to the new (WinBoard) bindings, and all
4328 the new bindings were added.
4330 2010-11-29 09:04:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4331 Add XBoard key bindings for Revert and Truncate
4333 Use Home key as accelerator for Revert, End for Truncate, as in WinBoard.
4335 2010-11-28 23:12:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4336 Divorce the Edit and Show Tags/Comment menu items
4338 In WinBoard the items in the Edit and View menu for Tags and Comment now
4339 have different IDs, so they can be independently controlled. Only the
4340 items in the View menu are check-marked. The items still do the same.
4342 2010-11-28 23:08:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4343 Alter WinBoard menu text
4345 The texts are slightly adapted, mostly by choosing more convenient
4346 tabbing characters for the new menu organization. The translation
4347 template is updated accordingly.
4349 2010-11-28 20:24:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4350 Let move-history window scroll to bottom after adding move
4352 By activating the scrollbar of the viewport through XtCallActionProc
4353 the move-history window is scrolled to the bottom.
4355 2010-11-27 14:38:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4356 Fix Shogi promotion popup
4358 The texts were adapted to shogi by printing new text items over the
4359 Queen and Knight buttons, but these did not alwys cover it. Now the text
4360 on the buttons is changed as it should be. Also the window title is
4363 2010-11-26 11:22:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4364 Apply gettext macros to menu texts
4366 Now texts and references are separated, the texts in the tables can be
4367 decorated with the N_() macro, so that the _() macro no longer has to be
4368 applied when they are used. (This makes the texts appear in the .po
4371 2010-11-26 11:12:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4372 Adapt some XBoard menu texts
4374 The "Show" prefix is removed from the "View" menu items, as this seems
4375 implied. An ellipsis is added to the Engine #N Settings items, which
4376 could not be there before, because periods in a menu name would break
4377 any reference to it. For some other names the ellipsis was deleted.
4378 (These were not refered to, but who knows what we will do in the future.)
4380 2010-11-26 11:03:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4381 Separate menu text from menu name in XBoard
4383 The text string in the menu-definition tables was used both for the menu
4384 text, as well as for referencing the items from the code (for enabing or
4385 checkmarking). Now these can be defined separately, so that altering the
4386 menu texts is possible without breaing any references to the item.
4387 (Moving them to another menu would still break XBoard, though!)
4388 Currently the texts and names are still the same.
4390 2010-11-26 10:48:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4391 Bugfix XBoard menu translation
4393 The gettext macro N_() was applied to the menu definition tables, but
4394 this would break any translation, as these items are both used as menu
4395 texts as well as reference for enabling and checkmarking. The routines
4396 that create the menus already apply _() dynamically to these items when
4397 they are used as menu texts.
4399 2010-11-26 10:10:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4400 Restrict drops in variant seirawan to back rank
4402 Drops aren't really llowed at all in Seirawan Ches, but there exists an
4403 engine that supports a variant where drops on the back-rank are allowed.
4405 2010-11-25 19:44:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4406 Let Analyze File annotate the loaded game
4408 By not suppressing the auto-play loop in AnalyzeFle mode, we step
4409 through the game while the engine is analyzing, and store the PV info
4410 that the engine produces, as well as the full PV (as variation comment)
4413 2010-11-25 19:41:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4414 Revive Analyze File menu item in WB
4416 We will keep this menu after all, becase it can be given a new meaning.
4418 2010-11-25 19:31:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4419 Fix spurious scores in comments
4421 The comment popup is also used to display engine PV info, but when the
4422 contents of the window is written back when we select a variation,
4423 it was treated as a real comment. This is fixed now by checing in
4424 ReplaceComment() if the comment starts with the PV info, and if so,
4425 ignore the latter. This solves the problem, but I guess the real bug is
4426 that selecting a variation tries to write the comment even if it did not
4429 2010-11-25 19:26:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4430 Display error for wrong use of Machine Match
4433 2010-11-24 13:30:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4434 Reorganize XBoard menus
4437 2010-11-24 11:02:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4438 Reorganize WinBoard menus
4440 New main menus Edit, View and Engine are added; the step menu
4441 disappears. The menu items are redistributed over the new menus.
4442 Sometimes duplicates are created. No adaptation of short-cut characters
4443 as made yet (as this affects translation).
4445 2010-11-20 20:20:27 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4446 removed trailing whitespaces from NEWS
4449 2010-11-20 20:19:30 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4450 merged readme_HGM.txt into the NEWS file
4452 seems like a better place for the release notes, although those releases where not officially part of GNU, but the NEWS file already covers similar releases, so it might as well cover all of them.
4454 2010-11-20 18:24:19 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4455 typo in date of developer release
4457 but will leave the tagged version as it is, since it's still a unique version number
4459 2010-11-20 18:11:01 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4460 new developer release
4463 2010-11-20 18:12:41 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4464 added latest version of parser.c
4467 2010-11-20 18:05:56 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4468 updated Changelog, etc for developer release
4471 2010-11-20 16:22:00 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4472 Revert "adding gnu-readline support"
4474 This reverts commit c95ef32a700132a134f335f857ca6f1b6f3c169f.
4479 better to use the (relatively) new ICS input box then add readline support.
4481 2010-11-20 16:19:32 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4482 Revert "bugfix: fixed readline support with icslogon option"
4484 This reverts commit b9cdd7422ad1037d7376bce4f8f2db2669396e83.
4489 better to use the (relatively) new ICS input box then add readline support.
4491 2010-11-19 23:10:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4492 Make Hoplite moves irreversible in Spartan Chess
4494 Consider Lance moves in variant Fairy (where the Lance represents the
4495 Spartan Hoplite Pawn) as Pawn moves, so they reset the 50-move counter.
4497 2010-11-19 21:09:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4498 Give Lance moves of Amazon in variant super
4500 Now that Lance is no longer a wild-card piece the moves of Amazon must
4501 be programmed explicitly, to keep the possibbilty to play Superchess
4502 with legality testing on.
4504 2010-11-19 18:32:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4505 Change representation of Bede in variant fairy initial position
4507 This used to be Lance, but the promoted Bishop (Dragon Horse)
4508 is more applicable. Especially now that Lance is supposed to move like a
4511 2010-11-19 18:28:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4512 Make yyskipmoves also suppress examining of drop moves
4514 Not sure if this does any good, but it seemed illogical that this would
4515 happen in all other moves, but not drops.
4517 2010-11-19 18:23:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4518 Define moves for Dragon Horse outside Shogi
4520 Let it move like Bishop + Wazir + Dababba.
4522 2010-11-17 13:40:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4523 Fix safety crash when appending comments
4525 The length limit imposed on safeStrCpy was one too short when copying
4526 an existing comment to the space allocated for the longer (concatenated)
4527 one. It allowed no space for the terminating '\0'.
4529 2010-11-17 13:38:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4532 The test for when to terminate a non-fiting string was one off, and the
4533 debug message was written stdoutin stead of debugFP.
4535 2010-11-16 12:40:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4536 Fix default holdings size for variant seirawan
4538 The holdings for 7 pieces werealways considered an overrule, so that the
4539 variant name was prefixed with "8x8+7_".
4541 2010-11-15 11:36:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4544 When confronted with a path name starting with ~ and not containing a /
4545 XBoard would segfault.
4547 2010-11-14 21:45:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4548 Fix one-click moving on up-click
4550 (First) up-clicks were not always ignored: in Edit-Game mode with
4551 one-click moving enabled this could lead to a capture being made on
4552 the down-click, and the recapture on the correspoding up-click.
4553 This has now been corrected, and only the down-click of a first click
4554 can lead to selecting a piece or a one-click move.
4556 2010-11-15 18:15:40 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4557 fixed buffer size for snprintf
4560 2010-11-13 23:04:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4561 Accept Seirawan-style gating suffixes
4563 The parser rules were extended to accept / as an equivalent of = in
4564 promotion-suffix notation (e.g. Nf3/H in stead of Nf3=H).
4566 2010-11-13 22:55:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4567 Use Falcon and Alfil as built-ins for Seirawan chess
4569 Where available (size 49 and 72) we use Falcon for Archbishop and Alfil
4570 for Chancelor, to better conform to the Seirawan names Hawk and Elephant.
4572 2010-11-13 20:02:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4573 Implement entering gating moves with mouse
4575 A move with a back-rank piece that starts when a piece in the holdings
4576 is selected will be interpreted as a gating move in variant seirawan.
4577 The front-end uses a 'gatingPiece' selected this way todisplay it on the
4578 from square during animate dragging.
4580 2010-11-13 18:56:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4581 Implement variant seirawan
4583 Set upthe position, including Hawk and Elephant in holdings, in
4584 InitPostion(). Suppress putting captured pieces in holding. Let
4585 promoChar indicate gating in ApplyMove(). Remove gated pieces from
4586 the holdings there. Let GenLegal() generate RxK-type castlings to act as
4587 base for gating on Rook square. Gatings are tested for legality
4588 based on the holdings content and whether they occur on the back
4589 rank. Disambiguate() also tests this. Make sure the gated pieces are
4590 printed as move suffixes in CoordsToAlgebraic().
4592 2010-11-13 18:42:27 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4593 Add -variant seirawan to menu
4596 2010-11-13 22:52:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4597 Fix acceptance of null-move with legality testing off
4599 A second click on the same piece was interpreted as a to-square rather
4600 than deselection of the piece.
4602 2010-11-13 22:49:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4605 Disambiguate was imagining captures, so an only capture by double
4606 clicking your own piece did not always work.
4608 2010-11-13 20:08:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4609 Fix mouse-driver buglet
4611 The highlights were not cleared on moves that went vertically off board.
4613 2010-11-12 17:17:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4614 List some undocumented commands as compliant
4616 The engine->GUI commands setboard and setup are now always printed in
4617 the debug file as well.
4619 2010-11-12 17:05:22 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4620 List Hint with compliant commands
4622 This command was omitted, so that in some -engineDebugOutput modes it
4623 would not appear in the debug file.
4625 2010-11-12 17:02:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4626 Restrict use of escape expansion
4628 Only expand escape sequences like \n and \t in telluser(error) comamnds
4629 that ask for it by preficing the messages by double backslash. Otherwise
4630 backward copatiblity is too severely broken for messages that display
4631 DOS-style filenames.
4633 2010-11-12 13:56:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4634 Make safeStrCpy safe
4636 SafeStrCpy was causing a lot of out-of-bound write accesses, as it was
4637 always writing the character at the length limit of the destination.
4638 Now no memory is accessed that is is not needed to hold the copy.
4640 2010-11-07 21:37:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4641 Allow clicked name internal to the icsMenu command string
4643 A command in the /icsMenu that was specified to contain the selected
4644 text or clicked word always appended this word at the end. Now the user
4645 can also configure it to appear in the middle, by putting a %s in the
4646 command string where he wants it to appear.
4648 2010-11-07 21:33:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4649 Let Engine #2 Settings start second engine
4651 If the second engine is not yet running, it would be impossible to use
4652 the settings dialog for it, as the features have not been received and
4653 the dialog will be empty. So the user could not adjust the engine
4654 parameters before starting a match. Using this menu now automatically
4655 starts the engine, and delays the appearence of the popup untill the
4656 features are received, using a similar mechanism as in
4657 TwoMachinesEventIfReady().
4659 2010-11-01 19:40:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4660 Newly lexed parser.c
4663 2010-11-06 19:55:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4664 Fix bug in parsing illegal Pawn captures
4666 When a pawn move of type exf5 was illegal, the parser made an attempt to
4667 interpret it as e.p. capture of f5. This, however, messed up the move,
4668 so that it was now permanently mistaken for e5xf6. Even in cases with
4669 legality testing off, where you would want the original move to be
4670 accepted despite the fact that it was illegal.
4672 2010-11-06 19:49:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4673 Keep last PV while clearing engine-output display
4675 When ponder is on, the display is cleared immediately when the last line
4676 of thinking output appears by the appearing ponder output. So you would
4677 never get the chance to see it. This line is now re-written after
4678 clearing, so it appears at the bottom of the output for the next search.
4680 2010-11-06 19:45:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4681 Give Lance moves of Berolina Pawn
4683 In stead of using it as a wildcard piece, the Lance gets the moves of
4684 the Berolina Pawn (straight capture, diagonal move). The initial double
4685 osh can be a ump, though. (So it is really a Hoplite Pawn from Spartan
4688 2010-11-06 19:42:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4689 Use SAN even on illegal moves
4691 If there is only one piece of type T, moves like Ta1 or Txa1 are never
4692 ambiguous, so adding the from square is just cumbersome.
4694 2010-11-06 19:34:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4695 Use normal SAN for wildcard pieces
4697 SAN often can also be used with pieces we don't know the moves of, e.g.
4698 if there is only one of that type. We just always get rank or file
4699 disambiguators if there are more (even when they might be unnecessary).
4701 2010-11-06 14:52:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4704 Unused variables were removed from parser.l
4706 2010-11-06 14:43:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4707 Allow arbitrary nesting of sub-variations in PGN input
4709 The parsing of subvariations is moved out of the state-machine parsing,
4710 to allow arbitrary nesting. In stead of the entire sub-variation being
4711 parsed by lex as Comment, it now returns Open and Close for the
4712 corresponding parentheses, which are then handled in a wrapper routine
4713 for yylex(): Myylex(). Problem was that yy_text is supposed to return
4714 the entire parsed text of the returned symbol, which thus has to be
4715 collected. To make this possible, yylex has to return everything that it
4716 parses, (even white space!), and a symbol "Nothing" was added to return
4717 in parsing rules that before just ate away irrelevant text without
4720 2010-11-06 21:48:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4721 Implement setup (engine-GUI) command
4723 This allows the frst engine (when legality testing is off) to overrule
4724 the default opening position, in reply to the variant command. Syntax is
4725 "setup (PIECE_TO_CHAR_TABLE) FEN_STRING"
4726 where the FEN string is interpreted in the context of the given
4727 pieceToCharTable (which is optional, and only delimeted by parethesis if
4729 Sendng the position to the second engine is delayed until the first
4730 engine has responded to the ping after the new-game sequence, to make
4731 sure it gets the chance to alter the position before it is sent to the
4732 second engine. This feature is useful for playing variants that WinBoard
4733 does not even know the opening positon for, and can be used even if they
4734 are shuffle variants.
4736 2010-11-06 14:19:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4737 Restrict use of a2a3 kludge
4739 The kudge to send "a2a3" in stead of "black" to get black to move is
4740 fatally flawed in varants that have no Pawn on a2. So in that case we
4741 revert to use of the deprecated "black" command.
4743 2010-11-02 13:06:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4744 Remember values set by -firstOptions, -secondOptions
4746 When an engine announces its option features, and the option name
4747 matches that of a setting given in -first/secondOptions, the engine is
4748 sent hte specified value, but this value was not remembered as current
4749 value (but the latter was left at the engine-announced default),
4750 leading to inconsistent behavior in the Engine #N Settings dialog.
4752 2010-11-01 19:26:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4753 Make test for valid promotion piece color-dependent
4755 This is needed to make it work in variants where white and black have
4756 different armies; quite likely white will promote to pieces that do not
4757 exist in the black army, so we really have to make sure we test if the
4758 white (upper-case) piece exists in this case.
4760 2010-11-01 19:23:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4761 Remove validity test on promochar from parser
4763 The backend routines Disambiguate() and LegalityTest() will catch
4764 invalid promotions, so no need to do it here.
4766 2010-10-31 23:37:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4767 Add the actual size-33 Shogi bitmaps
4769 These were forgotten in the original commit that fixed the .rc file.
4771 2010-10-31 13:20:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4772 Delete some stale promotion code
4774 The correction of the promotion piece to Ferz in Shatran-like variants
4775 in ApplyMove() was no longer needed, as the new promotion code already
4776 does this in the move parser.
4778 2010-10-31 13:08:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4779 Augment moves of some fairy pieces
4781 To get better disambiguation in variants that have to be played with
4782 legality testing off, the Elephant is given also one-step moves (making
4783 it a so-called Modern Elephant) in -variant fairy and great. The Dragon
4784 King (Crowned Rook), which had no moves defined for it outside Shogi at
4785 all, has been given Rook moves plus an orthogonal 2-jump, so that it
4786 can get SAN moves when used as Dababba or Short Rook. (Illegal moves
4787 currently aways force long algebraic notation...)
4789 2010-11-08 22:57:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4790 Bugfix safeStrCpy patch, WinBoard
4792 The use of sizeof on pointers was detected through the same method as
4793 the previous patches, this time while compiling WinBoard. A typo in
4794 jaws.c was fixed as well.
4796 2010-11-08 23:03:13 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4797 Bugfix for safeStrCpy patch for XBoard
4799 By a trick (temporarily redefining safeStrCpy in common.h as
4800 ((char*) (a=1/(4-3rdArgument))) ) a compile-time warning (division by 0)
4801 could be generated for every occurrence where the size argument was equal
4802 to 4, i.e. where the 1st argument was likely a pointer rather than an
4803 array. These cases are now fixed. The file xoptions.c, which is the
4804 only ne that does not #include common.h had to be fixed by making
4805 the #define in the file itself.
4807 2010-10-31 13:16:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4808 Fix spurious promotions with legality testing off
4810 The recent promotion patch had broken playing without legality testing
4811 completely: without legality testing one always gets the piece that was
4812 asked for, but a NULLCHAR should not be taken as a request for a piece!
4813 But it was, and this resulted in any moved piece turning into a white
4814 Pawn! For true promotions the piece was always black, which was also not
4817 Also revert to the use of '+' as internal Shogi promoChar, because
4818 pre-processing turns out not to be possible when reading a game file.
4819 In stead parse any trailing '+' on moves as promoChar. Downside: '++'
4820 can no longer be recognized as checkmate symbol.
4822 2010-10-29 22:54:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4823 Make deferral default in Shogi promotions
4825 Because '+' is intercepted by the parser as check indicator, Shogi moves
4826 are pre-processed to change a trailing '+' into an internally used
4827 alternative '^'. The testing if a promotion character is OK is now done
4828 in LegalityTest() and Disambiguate(), which return ImpossibleMove when
4829 the character does not correspond to any piece, and IllegalMove when in
4830 Shogi anything other than '^' or '=' is used. (Except for the ICS
4831 notations.) On output, in CoordsToComputerAlgebraic() and
4832 CoordsToAlgebraic(), the '^' is translated back to '+'.
4834 2010-10-28 17:51:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4835 Animate piece explosions in drag-drop moves and in XB
4837 This required some code restructuring: the decision if an explosion is
4838 needed is now taken in a new routine Explode() in the backend. This then
4839 calls the front-end driver, and it returns the info if there was an
4840 explosion or not, so the caller (AnimateMove() or the mouse driver) can
4841 take action to repair the damage to the board caused by the blast wave.
4842 A front-end driver for XBoard is provided as well, so that both
4843 click-click (and replay, which is the same) and drag-drop atomic
4844 captures are animated in XB as well as WB.
4845 Explosions on rejected moves are suppressed.
4847 2010-10-28 13:53:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4848 Suppress promotion popup if piece will explode
4850 In atomic, a Pawn capture to last rank is not really a promotion.
4851 Fix choice to Queen.
4853 2010-10-28 18:42:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4854 Make Knight hop first straight, then diagonal
4856 It used to be the other way around, which looked pretty illogical in
4857 Xiangqi: to see Horses, which are blockable pieces there, move over an
4860 2010-10-27 20:04:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4861 Let -oneClickMove also work in EditGame mode
4863 There is really no reason why people that lke one-clcik moves enough to
4864 switch them on would not want to use them too when editing a game.
4865 This solves a nast inconsistency, as before it used to work in -ncp mode
4866 on the _first_ move, as the mode is then BeginningOfGame, and not yet
4867 EditGame, and we do want it to work for BeginningOfGame, as this is
4868 also the game mode when you start playing as white.
4870 2010-10-27 19:40:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4871 Make -flipBlack and -allWhite option volatile
4873 As these options are very Shogi specific, and the variant is volatile,
4874 it seems logical to make them also volatile. Not completely sure about
4875 -allWhite, though. It cold be useful if you want, for example, to play
4876 wth dark-brown pieces for black, as any color but black looks much
4877 better with outline pieces than with solid pieces.
4879 2010-10-27 19:33:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4880 Provide some sample board-texture pixmaps
4882 Wood and marble themes are provided as textures for light and dark
4883 squares, plus two complete Xiangqi boards (wood and evenly colored).
4884 These should probably not goint the distro tar ball.
4886 2010-10-27 19:25:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4887 The -overrideLineGap option is made to work in XBoard
4889 Although XBoard already allowed this in the -boardSize specification,
4890 it is still seful to globally disable grid lines, e.g. for an
4891 oriental Xiangqi board. And it converges XB and WB.
4893 2010-10-27 19:18:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4894 Implement board textures in XBoard
4896 The -darkBackTextureFile and -liteBackTextureFile options now wrk in
4897 XBoard too, for loading a pixmap that will be used to cut out the dark
4898 and light square backgrounds. The cutting algorithm is such that the
4899 pixmap image is completely restored if the size was that of the total
4900 board (e.g. a drawing of a Xiangqi board).
4902 2010-10-27 12:11:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4903 Complete WB (western) bitmaps for Shogi at size 33
4905 The Lance was not replacing Queen in some sizes where the bitmaps were
4906 already available, and new bitmaps for the promotion Golds were added.
4908 2010-10-22 20:30:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4909 Make starting new variation dependent on shift key
4911 The shift key is read during mouse events, and posted in a global
4912 variable, which can then be used by the back-end. The decision to start
4913 a new variation (pushing the game tail rather than clipping it off) when
4914 entring a move in Edit Game or Analyze mode is made dependent on this.
4915 The move-typein also records the shift-key state.
4917 2010-10-22 20:25:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4920 A %g format was used to print an int in sending the level command,
4921 because decimal points were dropped when merging patches. Also an unused
4922 variable was removed to suppress a warning.
4924 2010-10-18 19:50:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4925 Add set of shogi pixmaps for XBoard
4927 The -size 64 pieces from gShogi (and originally XShogi) are made
4928 suitable for loading by XBoard, through redefining the transparent
4929 background color as either light or dark square color. These bitmaps are
4930 not included in the XBoard build, and perhaps should not even be
4931 included in the source distribution, but made available in a separate
4934 2010-10-18 19:46:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4935 Implement -flipBlack in XBoard
4937 When -flipBlack is true, the white and back piece pixmaps are swapped in
4938 flipView. The idea is that the black pieces are upside-down versions of
4939 the white (Shogi) pieces, so that swapping white and black in effect
4940 turns all pieces upside down, which is what should happen in flipView.
4942 2010-10-11 21:06:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4943 Disable some very verbose debug printing
4945 The internationalization seems debugged enough to do without them.
4947 2010-10-11 20:52:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4948 Add option -variations to control variation-tree walking
4950 Just so that users can switch it off if the find it annoying.
4952 2010-10-11 21:01:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4953 Allow full promotion suffixes on SAN piece moves
4955 This facilitates the parsing of (non-standard) Shogi moves in ICS
4956 protocol. It can also be useful for Seirawan Chess, where a future
4957 implementation of it can use promotion suffixes to indicate gating.
4959 2010-10-11 14:07:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4960 Allow lower-case piece indicator in drop-move notation
4962 As it seems that XBoard also sends such moves in zippy play, it seems
4963 more fair to recognize them from the engine as well.
4965 2010-10-10 21:26:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4966 Fix bug in ICS variant switch for Shogi
4968 Because a test for 8x8 variants was done by <= VariantShogi,
4969 rather than <, spurious move-list fetching occurred in Shogi.
4971 2010-10-10 21:23:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4972 Fix WinBoard Lance bug
4974 The choice between Lance and Queen was made on appData.variant, in stead
4975 of gameInfo.variant. Because of this it was not always up-to-date in ICS
4978 2010-10-10 21:15:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4979 Adapt WinBoard to Shogi implementation on Variant ICS
4981 The Variant ICS does not use the '+P' notation for promoted pieces,
4982 neither in the board, nor in SAN, but simply indicates any Gold by 'G',
4983 and uses 'H' and 'D' for +B and +R. The Shogi promotion code in
4984 LegalityTest() and Disambiguate(), which are used in move Parsing, are
4985 adapted to handle this. Deferred promotions sent to the ICS now use an
4988 2010-10-10 21:07:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4989 Inherit promoted-info that ICS does not give from previous board
4991 The ICS does not tell us in Crazyhouse (or Shogi) if a piece is
4992 primordial or a promoted pawn (or a promoted other piece). We now derive
4993 this info from the previous board. The option -disguisePromotedPieces
4994 controls this feature.
4996 2010-10-10 21:03:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4997 Limit multi-session clock handling to non-ICS games
4999 In ICS games a time forfeit crashed XBoard, apparently because the
5000 fullTimeControl string is not properly set when we try to use it to see
5001 if a sudden-death session is indeed the last session.
5003 2010-10-08 11:47:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5004 Change evalgraph scale in drop games
5006 Score swings tend to be much larger in Crazyhouse and Shogi, so the
5007 vertical rangee in those games is doubled to (-14, 14).
5009 2010-10-13 23:05:05 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5010 bugfix: fixed readline support with icslogon option
5012 The icslogon option sends the login and password, so we don't need to handle
5013 special cases for the readline buffer.
5015 2010-10-07 20:35:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5016 fixed some typos that were introduced during the sprintf->snprintf changes
5019 2010-10-07 11:59:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5020 Fix uninitialized variable in book code
5022 The variable ' power' was used uninitialized in case -bookVariation was
5023 set to 0, which can be an error even if it was only multiplied by zero.
5025 2010-10-06 14:20:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5026 Fix menu translation bug
5028 The menuText array was declared too small, so that the last entry of the
5029 File menu got out of bounds and was overwritten by the first of the Mode
5032 2010-10-05 21:14:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5033 Allow -timeIncrement to be a float
5035 The increment can now be fractional seconds. The printing in
5036 ParseTimeControl() and SendTimeControl() is done with %g format, so that
5037 for integer increment there is backward compatibility with the old level
5040 2010-03-30 20:24:49 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5041 adding gnu-readline support
5043 should make the user interface for xboard a bit nicer. In the end we want to have a separate input window, but this probably will have to wait until the GTK version.
5045 2010-09-24 21:17:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5046 added warning if icsLogon file couldn't be opened
5049 2010-09-24 21:10:28 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5050 security fix: replaced some strcat with strncat
5052 there is still more to do
5054 2010-09-19 20:55:01 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5055 add option for silent builds
5057 this can be enabled for automake versions >1.11 by calling ./configure --enable-silent-rules.
5058 It should still work for older automake versions too
5060 2010-09-19 13:16:40 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5061 bugfix: missing array index
5064 2010-09-19 12:19:44 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5065 added new case for (Chessmove) 0 in common.h
5067 this cleans up a few more -Wall messages
5069 2010-09-17 21:47:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5070 cleaned up -Wall warnings (apart from settings some parentheses)
5072 removed unsused variables, etc mostly everything from -Wall -Wno-parenthesis
5074 2010-09-17 20:36:54 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5075 sizedefaults has 9 members, the last line of the array (NULL) only set 7.
5078 2010-09-12 20:04:03 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5079 security fix: replaced sprintf with snprintf
5081 replaced most sprintf with snprintf. There are still some left where for example a pointer is used and is allocated in the line before, which should be fine... and some others.
5083 2010-09-10 23:36:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5084 security fix: replaced strcpy with safeStrCpy from backend.c
5086 see comment in backend.c on how to use safeStrCpy. This was already added by AS, but only used in 3 places.
5088 2010-10-04 11:50:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5089 Enhance multi-session TC clock handling
5091 Some new TC types are introduced: Bronstein and free sessions. The
5092 former is implemented by letting an exclamation point '!' in front of an
5093 increment (in the -tc string) indicate that the increment is limited to
5094 the time actually used on the previous move. The latter is an interval
5095 of given duraton in which you can do any number of moves (even zero),
5096 before the next session starts. This is needed for implementing Shogi
5097 byoyomi-type TC, as a first session, followed by a session of fixed-time
5098 per move. The latter can now be specified with the -tc argument as a
5099 degenerate case of Bronstein, where the time on the clock is <= the
5100 increment (so that it is never possible to think longer than the
5101 increment). A TC of 5 min + 10 sec byoyomi can then be indicated as
5104 The sessions are now separated by ':' in stead of '+', and all times in
5105 the TC string are converted to seconds first (in ParseTimeControl), so
5106 the fullTCstring can now be directly used in a PGN tag.
5108 Note that this patch only addresses clock handling; the engine will not
5109 be informed yet if the TC type or parameters change at the start of new
5112 2010-10-04 09:32:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5113 Remove promotion-piece encoding from ChessMove type
5115 The shizophrenic way to indcate promotion pieces in the XBoard code
5116 (sometimes using a promoChar, at other times relying on moveType) was
5117 cured by combining all promotion move types (such as WhitePromotionRook)
5118 into a single one (WhitePromotion), and relying on promoChar to specify
5119 the piece. This solves the problem of promoting to new piece types in
5120 variants, which formerly also required addition of new move types.
5122 In Shogi the '+' character is now consistently used to indicate
5123 promotions (and recognized in ApplyMove), rather than 'q' or
5124 PieeToChar(BlackQueen), as the latter did not work in minivariants where
5125 the Queen (representng the Lance) did not partcipate.
5127 2010-10-03 20:50:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5128 Pass promoChar to SendMoveToICS
5130 SendMoveToICS was the only place where the promotion piece was derived
5131 from moveType, rather than an explicity passed promoChar.
5133 2010-10-04 09:41:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5134 Suppress spurious use of SAN castling in mini variants
5136 King moves from a central file to the king-side-castled position (1
5137 square away from the right corner) were intercepted and printed as O-O
5138 in CoordsToAlgebraic. But on a 5x5 board (mini-Shogi!) this caught the
5139 normal King move Kc1-d1 as well. The castling notation is now reserved
5140 for King moves larger than one step.
5142 2010-10-04 08:21:19 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5143 Make Shogi promotion zone board-size dependent
5145 In stead of using a fixed size of 3 ranks, we use BOARD_HEIGHT/3, which
5146 would translate to 1 rank for mini-Shogi (5x5) and 2 ranks for Judgkin's
5147 Shogi (6x6), which are indeed what these variants need.
5149 2010-10-03 19:58:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5150 Make board-size overrule options volatile
5152 The options -boardWidth, -boardHeight and -holdingSize were legacies
5153 from the day choosing a variant would not automatically set a board
5154 size. As a result they are seldomly used anymore. The first real
5155 application is mini-Shogi (on 5x5 board), and it turned out very
5156 annoying if the 5x5 settings persisted to the next session, where you
5157 almost certainly want to play another variant.
5159 2010-10-04 09:16:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5160 Strip DOS line endings from parser.l
5163 2010-09-16 18:58:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5164 Extend mate test to drop games
5166 MateTest() in case of no legal moves now also looks if there are legal
5167 drops that can resolve the check. This provides reliable mate testing in
5168 Crazyhouse and Shogi, so these are now made subject to adjudications too.
5170 2010-09-16 18:48:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5171 Extend legality testing to drop moves
5173 LegalityTest() can nowbe called with (internal-format) drop moves, and
5174 delegates their testing to a new routine LegalDrop(). This routine
5175 performs the 'no-pawn-on-back-rank' test that used to be in
5176 UserMoveTest (which now calls LegalityTest also for drop moves).
5177 The more complex Shogi case is also handled (except for Pawn mate
5178 drops) in LegalDrop().
5180 2010-09-16 18:25:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5181 Revert splitting of UserMoveEvent
5183 This splitting into UserMoveTest and FinishMove was no longer needed,
5184 now that the new mouse driver no longer calls UserMoveTest to figure out
5185 if a move is a promotion, and XBoard and WinBoard are unified in this
5186 respect. It was counter-productive, because UserMoveTest was not able to
5187 change the fromX, fromY (call-by-value) parameters for passing them to
5188 FinishMove, so it had to defer the conversion of drop moves to internal
5189 format to the latter, while it did not belong there. (Because
5190 DropMenuEvent already delivers the moves in internal format.) This
5191 whole kludgy construction was therefore abandoned, by going back
5192 to the original 4.2.7 calling scheme, where UserMoveEvent completely
5193 pre-processes the move, and when it is valid, calls FinishMove directly.
5195 2010-09-16 18:02:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5196 Fix silent bug in drop moves
5198 In ApplyMove() the piece on the from square was accessed and used before
5199 we tested for drop moves. As drop moves have off-board from-squares this
5200 led to out-of-bound array access, which apparently was usually harmless.
5202 2010-09-16 17:43:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5203 Allow parsing of upper-case machine moves
5205 Dubious patch, as it caters to non-compliancy. Some variant engines are
5206 very non-compliant, though.
5208 2010-09-16 17:38:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5209 Prevent transmission of spurious promo char to other engine
5211 The parser now strps off spurious promotion characters.
5212 New move types "White/BlackNonPromotion" had to be introduced for this,
5213 to indicate NormalMoves that could have been a promotion, to make sure
5214 the '=' suffix of Shogi deferred promotions survives.
5216 2010-09-16 20:44:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5217 fixed internationalization for winboard
5219 in the original commit some files were forgotten. This should fix it.
5221 2010-08-29 21:07:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5222 Fix JAWS bug saying side to move in ICS play
5224 This was done the wrong way around.
5226 2010-08-27 14:08:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5227 Make WB run-time language switch possible from menu
5229 This is a rather involved patch that might not be worth it. It is
5230 difficult, because translation of things that live forever is not easy
5231 to invert (menus, the auxiliary windows). We hae to remember all
5232 original, English texts there to be able to put them back,or
5233 re-translate. Still does not fully work, although the menus and
5234 temporary dialogs now are all OK.
5236 2010-08-27 14:35:46 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5237 Update WB translation template
5239 The language.txt file now also contains all translatable strings from
5240 the C source files, rather than jsut the resource.
5242 2010-08-27 14:14:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5245 Add descriptions for machine-match menu support and enhanced book
5246 control, nick-name options and language.
5248 2010-08-27 13:59:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5249 Add some forgotten translation hooks
5251 The general-options, file-browse dialogs and the about box did not call
5252 Translate() yet. Also translate contents of combo boxes. Some small bug
5255 2010-08-27 13:28:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5256 Do not translate game-end messages in PGN
5258 The messages themselves are not subjected to _(), but in stead their
5259 displaying in DisplayMove is subjected to T_().
5261 2010-08-23 13:23:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5262 Internationalization for WinBoard
5264 A function Translate() was added, which uses a list of item dialogs,
5265 reads their value, and replaces it by a translation (if available). It
5266 also reads the window title and sets a translation. Calls to this
5267 routine are added in the initialization code of every dialog callback.
5268 In addition all translatable strings in the WnBoard front end are marked
5269 by the gettext macro _(). Because WB is not gettexted yet, a hard
5270 re-definition of this macro is added in each file using it, to the
5271 string-translation routine T_() supplied in winboard.c.
5272 Code to read the translation file, and translate the menu texts is added
5273 in winboard.c. In backend.c the meaning of the gettet macros is
5274 redefined for the WIN32 case.
5276 2010-08-23 13:07:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5277 Make the ID of all WB dialog items unique
5279 Mnany static dialog texts did share the ID -1 (IDC_STATIC). But to
5280 replace tet at run-time for translation purposes, they need to be
5281 addressed individually. So they were given new IDs, with symbols defined
5284 2010-08-23 12:48:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5285 Mark XBoard result messages for internationalization
5287 The GNU gettext macro _() is used with the game-end messages. This might
5288 be controversial, as they will appear in the PGN as well. But only as a
5289 comment. We can always decide not to supply a translation.
5291 2010-08-23 12:43:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5292 Do not exit after match when match started from menu
5294 The codelooks weird, but matchMode == 2 in this case. We then use
5295 DisplayNote() to report the match result.
5297 2010-08-23 12:39:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5298 Trivial-draws recognition improved in Xiangqi
5300 Now based on a routine "SufficientDefence". If both have it, it is draw.
5302 2010-08-20 17:46:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5305 The relocation of parser.c and the addition of history.c was not yet
5306 incorporated in the devcpp proect files.
5308 2010-08-19 13:45:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5309 Fix some MSVC compile errors
5311 Some statements has moved up stream of declaratons, which is an error
5312 that gcc is forgiving about, but where MSVC is strict.
5314 2010-08-14 14:01:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5315 Improved patch for expansion of WB settings-file name
5317 The expansion of environment variables now allows multiple environment
5318 variables in the path name. Tested on %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\winboard.ini
5319 and %APPDATA%\winboard.ini.
5321 2010-08-07 16:53:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5322 Add -colorNickNames option
5324 This option allows non-standard designation of side to move in FENs.
5325 (Useful for Xiangqi, where white is indicated often as r(ed), and Shogi,
5326 where white is s(ente) or b(lack), and black is g(ote) or w(hite).)
5327 Can also be used for FENs in a local language. A match of theinput
5328 character with the nick name translates it to the standard; this means
5329 the standard will continue to be recognized, unless it was defined as a
5332 2010-08-07 16:39:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5333 Tricked by the grossnes
5335 Some WB menu items were referenced by a hard number. As items had been
5336 added over the years, the wrong menu items were grayed. In particular
5337 the Options -> Adjudication menu was grayed out, in -ncp mode, where
5338 this was intended for the Sounds dialog. This accidentally proved
5339 useful, until we started to apply adjudictions also to the Human moves.
5340 Then it was suddenly undesirable, and a small mystery why it happened at
5341 all, when I tried to change it. The numbers are now corrected to the new
5342 locatons of the items in the menus.
5344 2010-08-07 16:35:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5345 Allow match to be started from WB menu
5347 A menu item Machine Match was added in the Mode menu to switch to
5348 matchMode. A persistent option /defaultMatchGames determines the number
5349 of games. A control was added to the Options -> Common Engine dialog to
5352 2010-08-07 16:26:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5353 Add some book-control options
5355 Options /bookDepth and /bookVariation have been added to control the use
5356 of the GUI book. In WinBoard the Optons -> Common Engine dialog now
5357 contains fields to set them.
5359 2010-08-07 00:15:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5360 new developer release
5363 2010-08-06 11:18:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5364 Repair exit-popup deadlock patch
5366 Relocating the exit popup call had made it lose access to the message it
5367 should print, because it was declared only in an inner code block, by
5368 the same name: buf[]. Deleting the inner declaration fixes it.
5370 2010-08-04 11:00:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5371 Fix erors when compiling with --disable-zippy
5373 The file args.h contained a codeblock in #ifdef ZIPPY, in stead of
5376 2010-08-01 13:27:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5377 Fix zippy handling of draw offers from ICS
5379 The patch by DM to fix the problem introduced by the coloration of
5380 zippy-matched commands (namely that the coloration code beat the zippy
5381 draw recognition to it, and ate the draw offer away) was only targeting
5382 ICC. The new fix should work on any ICS (by using the same pattern in
5383 zippy as in the colorization code).
5385 2010-08-01 13:15:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5386 Fix regression in colorization of zippy-matched commands
5388 The patch by Daniel Mehrman from 4.2.pre8 was not properly merged, so
5389 that in XBoard no coloration would take place of ICS commands that were
5390 matched by zippy. (It was using &i as input pointer, rather than &backup.
5391 The XBoard-specific code now has been deleted completely, to remove a
5392 seemingly needless dependence on _WIN32_ of the back-end. Both WB and XB
5393 now use the XBoard method, to only match zippy commands when logged in.
5395 2010-07-31 22:48:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5396 Suggest default file name in browser dialog
5398 The argument 'def' to FileNamePopUp() was not passed through to the new
5399 file-browser routine, which got NULL in stead, and thus started with an
5402 2010-07-30 23:28:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5403 Define /firstUCI and /secondUCI as synonyms for /fUCI, /sUCI
5405 Because the %s expansion of WB options in the /fcp and /scp lines only
5406 works for options that contain 'first' or 'second', and /fUCI thus did
5407 not work, PSWBTM had to rely on the cumbersome /firstIsUCI=true to
5408 install UCI engines. (The latter option should be deprecated really;
5409 the UCI-ness of the engines is a volatile option, so it makes no sense
5410 to supply a way to set them both to false or true. One only needs to be
5411 able to set it to the non-default state.)
5413 2010-07-30 23:21:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5414 Add string option /pieceNickNames
5416 This (volatile) option allows definition of alternate letters for the
5417 pieces, which will be recognized next to the standard symbols as given
5418 in the /pieceToCharTable on input. (Output always uses the standard.)
5419 This can be useful for reading PGN from another language, or
5420 non-compliant FENs (e.g. using B and N for E and H in Xiangqi).
5421 The format of the argument is the same as for /pieceToCharTable.
5422 Because the nickNames are consulted before the standard table, it is
5423 possible to redefine a standard name as a nick for another piece.
5425 2010-07-30 23:10:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5426 Fix deadlock in match-result display
5428 At the end of a match, GameEnds() was recursively calling itself,
5429 through DisplayFatalError() and ExitEvent(), and the latter was then
5430 delaying until the calling GameEnds() terminated. (Which it would of
5431 course never do before ExitEvent returned; fortunately there was a tim
5432 limit to this delay, but in XBoard it was 10 sec in stead of 10 msec.)
5433 Now the calling of DisplayFatalError() (to show the result popup) is
5434 delayed until after GameEnds completes (and resets the anti-recursion
5435 flag 'endingGame'), so that it is simply executed a second time, unaware
5436 of the earlier call. But this second time it does not do anything,
5437 because the gameMode ws set to EndOfGame the first time, and the writing
5438 of the PGN is blocked by the checksum being still the same.
5440 2010-07-12 11:10:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5441 Fix WinBoard game-list title
5443 Number of displayed games and WDL stats were always appended to the
5444 existing title, leading to an ever-growing title in the game-list
5445 window. Now the old actual title is ignored, and the starts is appended
5446 to the original title "Game List". (In the future we could use the
5449 In addition, the title was not updated when re-opening the game-list
5450 window, while the stats could change if filtering was active when the
5451 window was closed. (In that case the filter is cleared on re-opening, so
5452 the number of displayed games changes.) Now a title-update (after
5453 recalculating the stats) is done every time the game-list window is
5456 2010-07-11 11:06:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5457 Refactoring of material-draws adjudication code
5459 Insufficient mating material is now determined per side individually, by
5460 testing for MatingPotential of each side. If both lack mating potential
5461 the game is adjudicated as draw (if the -materialDraws option is set).
5463 This way MatingPotential() can later also be used to correct losses by
5464 forfeit to draws (which currently is only done when the opponent has a
5467 The accuracy of this type of adjudication in Xiangqi has been highly
5470 2010-07-11 10:54:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5471 Fix bug in sending cores command to engine
5473 The cores command was alwas sent to the engine(s) when the user changed
5474 it through the menu, even when the engine had sent feature smp=0 (which
5475 is default anyway). NewSettingEvent() was patched to send the new
5476 setting conditionally, based on the engine properties as recorded in
5477 ChessProgramStates first, second; In this particular case it now
5478 consults cps->maxCores. (Note the code for testing the second engine
5479 contains some dirty pointer arithmetic.)
5481 2010-07-11 10:42:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5482 Fix oneClickMove bug
5484 When checking for unique captures, no attention was payed to the option
5485 setting, so the capture was also made when the option was off.
5487 2010-07-11 10:39:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5488 Remove duplicate testing for cores feature
5490 The testing for this BooleanFeature occurred twice.
5492 2010-07-11 10:35:13 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5493 Remove misspelled prototype
5495 NewSettingEvent occurred, next to the correct one, in misspelled form.
5497 2010-07-05 10:00:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5498 Fix parsing of SAN shogi promotions
5500 A missing promotion character defaults to promotion in the move type,
5501 but the promotion character was not set when this happened in variant
5502 shogi. And it is especially important there, as the promotion character
5503 '+' will always be missing, as the parser will take it to be a 'check'
5504 symbol, and strip it from the move.
5506 2010-07-05 09:55:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5507 Fix variant switch on PGN loading
5509 When the PGN specified an essentially different variant, the
5510 piece bitmaps were not properly adapted, because the switch was done by
5511 calling InitPosition(), rather than Reset(). (The latter would destroy
5512 the PGN tags info.) We now added an explicit call to ResetFrontEnd(),
5513 (which is normally done from Reset()).
5515 2010-07-05 09:51:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5516 Adjudicate Xiangqi material draws with Advisor-less Cannons
5518 Used the Queen counter for counting Cannons. Note that material draws
5519 with stale Pawns (i.e. on the back rank) are not yet adjudicated.
5521 2010-07-05 09:34:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5522 Remove font settings from master settings file
5524 xboard.conf should not contain general font settings (not specific to
5525 one board size) with specified point size. In fact it should not even
5526 specify sizable fonts, as the new system would make specification of a
5527 general font overrule the size-specific settings in the .xboardrc file,
5528 so the persistence of fonts would be completely broken.
5530 2010-06-30 10:52:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5531 Cut board squares out of texture bitmap more cleverly
5533 When the bitmap is larger than the entire board, the squares are now cut
5534 out of the center of the virtual squares from subdividing the bitmap, so
5535 that they stay centered on the grid of a Xiangqi board bitmap. If the
5536 board size exceeds that of the bitmap, the old algorithm is still used,
5537 as the centering would make the edge squares exceed the bitmap, and
5538 cause a black rim around the board.
5540 2010-06-30 10:49:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5541 Allow -flipBlack to work with font-based piece rendering
5543 In addition the font-based pieces will also be flipped vertically in
5544 flipView for variant shogi when -flipBlack is off.
5546 2010-06-30 10:46:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5547 Allow font-based piece rendering in board sizes below petite
5549 At least for variants that use unorthodox pieces, so that switching back
5550 to using bitmaps is not really an option anyway.
5552 2010-06-30 10:41:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5553 Ignore checks in 50-move count for Xiangqi
5555 Both checks and evasions are discounted; this is only done after the
5556 naive counting exceeds the maximum, so during most of the game it causes
5559 2010-06-05 14:38:47 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5560 removed some garbage from configure.ac that got added a while ago
5563 2010-05-25 21:20:27 -0400 Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>:
5564 Remove unnecessary double equals from configure.ac.
5567 2010-05-28 11:07:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5568 Fix e.p. bug in xiangqi with -serverMoves option
5570 Sideway Pawn moves were written as e.p. captures in the file with moves,
5571 which led to disappearence of pieces in the viewer.
5573 2010-05-28 11:05:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5574 Repair score printing with -serverMoves option
5576 A previous patch had moved MakeMove to before the update of pvInfoList,
5577 so that the score/depth info would not appear in the file with moves.
5579 2010-05-28 11:02:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5580 Repair animate dragging
5582 The previous patch had left a stray semicolon in the mouse handler.
5584 2010-05-10 10:32:19 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5585 Fix game end during dragging
5587 The stale-first-click fix interfered with proper handling of a piece
5588 being dragged when a game suddenly ended (because of opponent resign,
5589 or caling the flag), because up-clicks when the from-square was reset
5590 were completely ignored. Now such an 'unmatched' upclick calls
5591 DragPieceEnd() and redraws the board.
5593 2010-05-10 10:09:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5594 Pop down old tags on loadng new game in WinBoard
5596 ResetFrontEnd(), called from Reset(), did not do this in WinBoard
5597 (unlike XBoard), so that the tags from the previous game were left on
5598 display when -autoDisplayTags was off.
5600 2010-05-09 22:15:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5601 Reverse mousewheel action
5603 Apparently WinBoard was stepping in the opposite direction through the
5604 game in reaction to the mousewheel as every other GUI in existence.
5606 2010-05-09 22:07:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5607 Fix bug in sending "usermove" when forcing book moves
5609 The keyword "usermove" was copied to the buffer, but not sent before it
5610 was overwritten by the actual book move.
5612 2010-05-06 17:23:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5613 Fix engine stall on perpetual-check evasion
5615 The adjudication code had already put the engine in force mode after
5616 postponing the actual adjudication to the next move. Now first determine
5617 if we want to adjudicate now, and with which result, before stopping the
5618 engine and ending the game.
5620 2010-05-06 16:37:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5621 Let move parser return ImpossibleMove for off-board moves
5623 It used to return 0, which interfered with buiding a game list. This
5624 broke reading of multi-game PGN files containing games in a variant with
5625 a board size larger than that of the currenty active variant.
5627 2010-04-06 15:05:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5628 Alter XBoard key bindings to mimic WinBoard
5630 A lot of new bindings were added, and four menuProcs had to be registered
5631 to be able to add bindings to them. The use of the control key as
5632 temporary take-back for the last move conflicted with the use of Ctrl
5633 keystrokes, and this function was migrated to '.'. The iconify function
5634 had no shortcut in WinBoard, but to get rid of letter bindings it was
5637 2010-04-05 20:45:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5641 2010-04-03 14:00:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5642 Fix typos in html help file
5645 2010-04-01 15:22:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5646 Fix JAWS piece drop cursor, and streamline some sentences
5648 The cursor square was reset to a1 after every use of the piece menu,
5649 which was very inconvenient. Some of the spoken sentences have been
5650 improved; the square is read before the piece now, when using the arrow
5653 2010-03-31 22:31:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5654 Allow escape sequences in telluser(error) messages
5656 The routine EscapeExpand was moved to backend.c, and applied to the
5657 message received from the engine.
5659 2010-03-31 21:29:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5660 Allow lower-case promochar in moves of type h8=Q
5662 Updated the parser rules. Other move formats already allowed this.
5664 2010-03-31 21:36:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5665 Fix Alt+M JAWS command in Two-Machines mode
5667 The command refused to read the ast move because it contained thinking
5668 output of the other engine. Let it pay attention to evenIfDuplicate.
5670 2010-03-29 09:57:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5671 Fix rep-draw recognition
5673 The refactoring had broken the rep-draw recognition, by adding and extra
5674 condition in a conditional with side effects. The testing of this extra
5675 condition is now moved to after the side effect.
5677 2010-03-28 12:32:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5678 Allow any %ENVIRONMENTVAR% in WB settings file name rather than ~
5680 Only a single variable at the beginning of the file name is recognized,
5681 and the matching is not fool proof (it matches across backslashes).
5683 2010-03-28 11:24:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5684 Fix info lines being used as normal thinking output
5686 The new standard of using thinking output with time = nodes = score = 0
5687 as info messages for printing in the Engine-Output window was not
5688 understood everywhere, and led to such info lines being used for
5689 autoKibitzing and PGN annotation. The programStats are now only updated
5690 from thinking output received from an engine when it is not an info line.
5692 2010-03-27 11:54:41 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5693 new developer release
5696 2010-03-26 21:16:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5697 Suppress background observe for boards with own game number
5699 This is really a work-around for an ICS bug. The Variant-ICS sent the
5700 initial board of a game in a move list with relation = 0, which means
5701 'observed'. So XBoard was thinking it was observing its own game, and
5702 switched to dual board. It seems harmless to suppress such a switch for
5703 all boards of your own game, however, which is now done.
5705 2010-03-26 21:12:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5706 Fix crash on switching to ICS xiangqi game
5708 The oldBoard was a local variable, and only squares of the old board
5709 were initialized. This led to a crash if the copied board was enlarged,
5710 and then displayed. The variable is now declared static, so the
5711 uninitialized squares contain harmless zeros.
5713 2010-03-26 18:32:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5714 Let Chat Boxes pop up above console, rather than on top of it
5716 Use EnsureOnScreen() to have them overlap if there was no room.
5718 2010-03-26 18:26:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5719 Fix disabling of Chat Box navigation buttons
5721 The buttons for non-open boxes were enabed, rather than disabled.
5723 2010-03-26 18:17:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5724 Prevent <Esc> closing chat box
5726 Let it in stead switch focus back to the console window.
5728 2010-03-26 15:28:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5729 Let WinBoard recognize ~ in settings file name as HOMEPATH
5731 Fetch the appropriate environment variable to build the mathname in
5732 MySearchPath() whenever the file name starts with "~\".
5734 2010-03-26 13:59:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5735 Change name of Global Settings menu item to Common Engine Settings
5737 The old name confused ICS users, as this is an engine-only dialog.
5739 2010-03-26 13:58:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5740 Update WinBoard RTF docs
5743 2010-03-26 13:57:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5744 Update WinBoard html help
5747 2010-03-24 18:00:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5748 Allow adjustment of clocks in any mode with shift+click
5750 In practice changing to edit-game mode during a game was very
5751 cumbersome. In WinBoard shift+click is now offered as an alternative.
5752 Make sure a right-click in the clock area is not also counted for other
5755 2010-03-24 17:21:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5756 Allow loading of PGN variations in XBoard
5758 Right-clicking variation comments in the comment-window was implemented
5759 through a translation. The right button is now bound to routines that
5760 set both the end and start of the selection, as setting a new start does
5761 not seem to work if the previous select-start was not completed by a
5762 select-end or extend-end. Finally the main handler uses the selection
5763 cursors to know what was clicked.
5765 2010-03-24 17:16:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5768 Added a descripton of the new ICS options (seek graph, back-ground
5769 observe) and menus (Upload) to the texi file. Also added a description
5770 of the variation (Annotate menu item and PGN variation comments) and PV
5771 walking (clicking engine-output). Describe the -shuffleOpenings option.
5773 2010-03-24 13:30:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5774 Paint highlights on dual board (WB)
5776 The highlight info is hidden in the partner board to pass it to the
5779 2010-03-24 13:14:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5780 Fix handling username change during game
5782 The title bar and gameInfo (going into the PGN) were not adapted when
5783 the username was changed through the menu, so that the change became
5784 only effective on the next game. Requires SetGameInfo to be called from
5785 the front-end, and thus a prototype for it in backend.c.
5787 2010-03-24 11:04:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5788 Fix window-position upset on failing engine start in WinBoard
5790 The main window was only positoned according to the settings-file data
5791 after the engine was started up from InitBackend2(), so that if the
5792 latter gave a fatal error, and Save Settings on Exit was on, a wrong
5793 position for the main window would be saved. The call to InitBackend2()
5794 is now moved until after setting the main-window position.
5796 2010-03-23 23:22:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5797 Display PV from Engine-Output window (XBoard)
5799 Translations are added to bind button 3 to the PV walk for the memo
5800 widgets, and the corresponding handlers are ported from wengineoutput.c.
5802 2010-03-10 18:54:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5803 Set keyboard focus at startup to board window
5805 This makes XBoard sensitive to the keybindings also when the cursor is
5806 outside the board window. This focus seems to persist indefinitely: each
5807 time the board window gets selected, the key bindings become activem
5808 wherever the mouse pointer is. Downside: the mouse pointer is no longer
5809 an arrow outside the board window, but becomes a text-insert tool there.
5811 2010-02-27 20:49:21 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5812 added logo files for xboard
5814 logos are installed in the hicolor theme [1] using $datadir as the basedir.
5815 Added both png and svg logo.
5817 [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html
5819 2010-02-27 17:36:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5820 Remake programVersion string after receiving engine features
5822 The engine could have sent a more accurate version of its own name
5823 than the one derived from the exe filename in a myname feature, and we
5824 better use that in the programVersion string, which will be sent as
5825 interface name to the ICS.
5827 2010-02-25 19:22:00 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5828 Revert "Repair settings-file name"
5830 This reverts commit a02042ef83ce1f3632f0cf3e0a2a4ce9a3ac5d85.
5832 2010-02-25 20:32:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5833 Add -autokibitz checkbox to UCI-options menu dialog
5836 2010-02-25 20:29:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5837 Also capture (numeric) whispers of players for -autoKibitz
5840 2010-02-25 20:25:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5841 Add kibitzes and c-shouts Chat Box
5843 A box dedicated to c-shouts will snatch any c-shout before it is
5844 diverted to a normal shouts box. The kibitzes box can capture the
5845 left-overs of -autoKibitz, if the latter is active.
5847 2010-02-25 15:45:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5848 Mark non-compliant lines of engine in debug file
5850 The option -engineDebugOutput is extended to accept value 3 for printing
5851 a cear indication of non-compliancy in the debug file.
5853 2010-02-25 12:02:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5854 Redraw second board on expose events
5856 The -dualBoard option now does refresh the second board after another
5857 window uncovers it. To acheive this, some data structures remembering
5858 what is displayed had to be duplicated. (lastBoard and damage for XB,
5859 lastReq, lastDrawn, lastReqValid and lastDrawnValid for WB.)
5860 WinBoard now uses clipping also for second board. This required the
5861 clips for the destination to be translated horizontally!
5863 2010-02-25 15:13:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5864 Print seconds with 2 digits in backgroundObserve status line
5867 2010-02-24 17:01:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5868 Do not recognize non-ICS variants from PGN event tag
5870 These variants were introduced after supporting the variant tag, so if
5871 the variant tag is missing, their recognition from the event tag will be
5872 a false match. (Mainly to prevent events with 'super' in the name being
5873 recognized as Superchess.)
5875 2010-02-23 13:52:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5876 Fix display of uninitialized boards in background observe
5878 A variable partnerBoardValid is cleared on starting our own game, and
5879 set when a board from the background game comes in during it. At the end
5880 of our own game, a valid partner board now is put in the display.
5882 2010-02-23 13:46:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5883 Add option Display Logo in WB general-options menu
5885 Changing the option requires InitDrawingSizes to be called for
5886 re-formatting the board window. Switching it off requires clearing of
5887 the cps->programLogo fields to take effect immediately. Switching it on
5888 only takes effect the next session, as we will need some refactoring to
5889 redo the figuring out what logos to display.
5891 2010-02-22 12:02:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5892 Group Chat Boxes with console in stead of board window
5894 They now open and close with the console, which seems more natural, and
5895 prevents the console from covering them.
5897 2010-02-22 11:50:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5898 Put new options in WB ICS-options dialog
5900 The Seek-Graph, background-observe and Chat-Box options are added to the
5901 ICS options dialog. They only control the appData settings, there are no
5902 special actions yet on switching the settings.
5904 2010-02-22 11:46:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5905 Create space in WinBoard ICS-options dialog
5908 2010-02-20 12:42:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5909 Use side-by-side boards to display background game
5911 A game observed in the background (i.e. if -backgroundObserve true) will
5912 be displayed right of the normal board in the same window if the new
5913 (persistent) Boolean option -dualBoard is also set.
5914 Very flakey hack, especially in XBoard, where clocks and messsage
5915 field all get the wrong width (and resist adjustment in the strangest
5916 ways). The clocks of the partner game are not yet displayed, and
5917 disaster happens when the background and foreground games do not have
5918 the same board format.
5920 2010-02-23 14:57:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5921 Repair background-observe patch
5923 Apparently a commit was lost that I collapsed with 3018a6 while the
5924 latter was already pushed to savannah. Here I recreated this commit from
5925 a diff between the respective commits in the savannah & nubati gits.
5927 2010-01-31 11:07:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5928 Repair settings-file name
5930 The default name is put back to /etc/xboard/xboard.conf, so that XBoard
5931 can again find its settings file. "make install" will still install it
5934 2010-02-21 18:43:59 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5935 new developer release
5938 2010-02-21 19:45:58 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5939 fixed compiler warning for file-browser code
5941 missing "void"s in the function declaration and missing returns showed up when trying to build on the opensuse build server. fixed now.
5943 2010-02-21 23:09:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5944 Put newly opened Chat Box on top
5946 Dialogs always pop up in front, so set the onTop variable that prevents
5947 highighting the button to navigate to it from other Chat Boxes
5948 to reflect that a newly opened Chat Box is in view.
5950 2010-02-21 18:55:03 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5951 Fix copying of kibitzed info in Engine-Output window
5953 Make sure all lines end with "\r\n" to not lose line breaks on
5954 copy-paste from the memo. (XBoard would strip those again.)
5956 2010-02-21 18:25:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5957 Allow walking a kibitzed PV
5959 If no tabs are found in te 'thinking output' we assume it is a captured
5960 kibitz message, and look for "PV=" to locate the start of a PV in it.
5961 Also try to include any continuation lines below the selected line.
5963 2010-02-21 17:45:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5964 Insert autoKibitz continuation lines at end of line
5966 In the engine-output window lines that start with the ICS continuation
5967 sequence "\ " are inserted behind the line they belong to, in stead of
5968 at the top. This required keeping thrack of the length of the currently
5969 active line in OutputKibitz().
5971 2010-02-20 15:39:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5972 Don't disturb background observe when receiving new piece
5974 When new holdings are sent when the background game is displayed, we now
5975 ignore this, as presumably we are peeking at our partners game, and thus
5976 should be well aware of what is captured there.
5978 2010-02-19 21:52:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5979 Newly lexed parser in XBoard directory
5982 2010-02-19 11:18:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5983 Let yy_text determine progress of PV parsing
5985 The parsed unit yy_text was not available after ParseOneMove(), because
5986 the buffer switch in yylexstr() apparently destroys it. To solve that,
5987 yylexstr() now is equiped with an extra buffer argument, where it copies
5988 yy_text before the switch, so the caller, ParsePV(), can see what was
5989 parsed in yy_textstr. This is used to update the PV pointer, but also to
5990 save any parsed comments (when ParsePV is used for parsing a PGN variation).
5992 2010-02-18 17:42:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5993 Support playing through PGN variation comments
5995 Right-clicking a variation line in the comment dialog will shelve the
5996 current variation, and parse the comment to replace it. This uses
5997 ParsePV() in an alternative way, for which the latter had to be
5998 enhanced: it was made resistent to move numbers and comments inside
5999 the PV. It now has an argument to indicate if such comments should be
6000 stored with the moves. The Comment Popup is closed on revert, to
6001 make sure no comments to moves that are destroyed, containing
6002 variations on a non-valid line, can keep hanging around.
6004 2010-02-18 16:05:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6005 Add Annotate item in Step menu
6007 This does the same as Revert, except that it adds the destroyed
6008 variation as comment to the original movem in PGN variation format.
6009 RevertEvent now has an argument to indicate if it should add the
6010 comment, or not. Comments in the abandoned variation are included in the
6011 varriation command to the main line. (The exact layout of the variation
6012 comment that results leaves still to be desired.)
6014 2010-02-15 19:07:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6015 Add option -shuffleOpenings
6017 This volatile option is added just to make the existing variable
6018 available from the command line, not only from the menus.
6020 2010-02-19 11:48:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6021 Let the sounds sound on receiving a message in a Chat Box
6023 Use Colorize() to the applicable color to trigger the sound, and then
6024 restore the original color as 'continuation', to do it silently.
6026 2010-02-10 10:55:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6027 Allow WB Chat Box to be dedicated to shouts and 'it'
6029 By putting 'shouts' in the handle field, a chat window will capture all
6030 shouts and c-shouts, and send messages typed into it as shouts.
6031 The bracketing of the shouter name now indicates the type of shout.
6032 The handle for WHISPER Chat Boxes has been changed to 'whispers', to
6033 make it easier to pop them up by clicking the console.
6035 2010-02-16 22:34:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6036 Add -chatBoxes option to open Chat Boxes at startup
6038 This string option contains a semicolon-separated list of handles for
6039 which Chat Boxes should be opened at startup. The value saved in the ini
6040 file is the value that was read, not the actual chat boxes that were
6041 open at the time of saving.
6043 2010-02-16 19:44:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6044 Make Chat Windows pseudo-tabbed
6046 By adding buttons in every Chat Box to navigate directly to every other
6047 Chat Box, a stacked set of Chat Windows behaves like a single tabbed
6048 window, but can still be unstacked. The buttons turn grey to warn that
6049 new text appeared in hidden boxes (i.e. not the one last brought to top).
6051 2010-02-19 21:46:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6052 Allow arrow keys in WB Chat Box to access command history
6054 The history is shared between al boxes and the ICS console.
6056 2010-02-12 22:35:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6057 Make WB Chat Boxes wrap and handle URLs
6059 Cloned the code for the console text field to hande URL. (Initialization
6060 to recogize the link, and notifiction to open it when clicked.)
6061 Removed the ES_AUTOHSCROLL style from the RichEdit in the resource.
6063 2010-02-10 10:58:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6064 Fix copying of WB Chat Window contents
6066 All line breks were lost on copy-pasting the contents of a chat window.
6067 Adding CR to each outputted line in the front-end (wchat.c) solves this.
6068 (Tell messages sent to a handle (which are not echoed by the ICS, and
6069 thus have to copied to the chat box directly) also need CR!)
6071 2010-02-19 22:34:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6072 Add upload of game to ICS for examining
6074 New item "Upload to Examin" in Action menu, calls UploadGameEvent().
6075 Use SAN moves to upload game to ICS, rather than long algebraic
6076 (The ICS did not understand long-algebraic promotion moves)
6077 Use bsetup within examine to set position onFICS, and also variant.
6078 Castling rights do not work yet for FRC. Totally different set of
6079 commands are needed on FICS and ICC.
6080 FICS does not understand w23 or wild/23, but needs 'crazyhouse' in the
6081 besetup command that specifies the variant. XBoard variant names are
6082 used, except for fischerandom, which is 'fr'. Things like nocastle will
6083 probably still not work.
6085 2010-02-18 17:41:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6086 Handle display of PV that starts with other move than played
6088 Insert the retraction of the played move, without premove highlighting.
6090 2010-02-16 19:36:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6091 Bugfix smart capture
6093 Disambiguate was changed to make sure that for ambiguous moves, a
6094 capture would always prevail in the closure, rather than the last move
6095 that happened to be generated. Before, double-clicking a piece would
6096 sometimes plsy a non-capture.
6098 2010-02-13 15:34:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6099 Fix XB crash on giving keyboard focus to non-text widget
6101 In the Engine-Settings dialog SetFocus() could be called for non-text
6102 widgets, and this made XawTextSetInsertionPoint() croak. Setting the
6103 insertion point to the end in SetFocus() was a bad ide anyway, as it
6104 interfered with copying from the engine-output window, which would
6105 uncontrollably scroll on getting focus. It is solved now by setting the
6106 insertion point already on creation of the text widgets.
6108 2010-02-19 22:32:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6109 Seek-Graph bugfix: disappearing output in ICS console
6111 Suppression of output to the cosole was handled fundamentally wrong: it
6112 was not enough to set next_out to after the unit that should be
6113 suppressed, as there can be a backlog in printing of previous units that
6114 came in the same packet. So this has to be flushed first, or it will be
6115 lost. -autoKibitz probably got away with that, because it comes in a
6116 separate packet. But seek ads are often suffixed to other output, and
6117 then that output disappeared! Now we flush everywhere before suppressing.
6118 We now totally rely on the prompt to restart the printing, so that
6119 acknowledgements following the echo of the sent message are also
6120 suppressed. Also suppress LF before diverted chat messages.
6121 Also fixed is the 'mamer bug' in Chat Boxes, due to false parsing of
6122 a "* (*): " pattern in tell messages, because of a missing continue.
6124 2010-02-12 18:08:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6125 Pop up ICS text menu with default item under mouse pointer
6127 The menu popup is migrated to the down-click (was up-click), so the
6128 up-click can select the item. Some trickery is needed to fool the menu
6129 into thinking that the mouse moved, so that a moveless up-down click in
6130 the ICS text field selects the default item (the upper-right one).
6131 Also allow dummy item in ICS text menu: The command "none" in the ICS
6132 text menu will now be treated as a grayed-out (disabled) entry, so it
6133 can be defined in the position underthe mouse pointer to prevent the
6134 up-click from doing anything, while keeping the menu open. Recommended
6135 for use with an entry of spaces.
6137 2010-02-10 14:42:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6138 Allow ICS context menu to pop up a Chat Box on clicking handle
6140 A command "chat" defined in the WinBoard icsMenu string will cause
6141 ChatPopUp() to be called when it is clicked, with the clicked handle
6142 (name) in the ChatPartner field, and focus on the input field.
6143 ChatPopUp() had to get a parameter (the handle) to make this possible.
6144 If that parameter is NULL (as when it is called from the Mode menu),
6145 focus will still start on the (empty) ChatPartner field of the box.
6147 2010-02-10 10:50:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6148 Fix right-edge spillover of Seek-Graph dots in WinBoard
6150 Rescale the X-axis to allow margin for dot size and color offset.
6152 2010-01-30 11:05:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6153 Interface XBoard to GhostView file-browser dialog
6155 Note: The Ghostview dialog was using some deprecated variables for error
6156 printing, and conditionally used getwd() on some systems that presumably
6157 do not have getcwd(), but it did not assess the latter properly.
6159 2010-02-09 14:38:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6160 Allow recalling history in ICS input box with arrow keys
6162 By adding translations for the Up and Down keys, and stealing some code
6163 from winboard.c. Still needs some refactoring to move the duplicate code
6166 2010-02-09 14:34:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6167 Start insertion point at end of text edits in XB dialogs
6169 The function SetFocus now uses XawTextSetInsertionPoint to position the
6170 end of the string it aready contains, rather than at the beginning.
6172 2010-02-08 17:55:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6173 Capture holdings of background observed game
6176 2010-02-08 11:57:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6177 Match handles with multiple titles for channel Chat Boxes
6179 Only handles with at most one suffixed 'title', such as (U), (C), (IM)
6180 or (TD), followed by the parenthesized channel number, were recognized,
6181 so tells by people with more titles always went to the ICS console window.
6182 Patterns are added to recognize handles with upto three such qualifiers.
6184 2010-02-08 11:54:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6185 Do not pop down Seek Graph on on-dot click
6187 Leave the graph up, and let the incoming board of a started game cause
6188 the pop-down. This in case the clicked ad is no longer vailable, or
6189 manuay refused, and fails to start a game.
6191 2010-02-07 21:26:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6192 Observe a game in the background while playing
6194 A new (persistent) option -backgroundObserve true|false is added. When
6195 set, observed boards received while playing a game will not trigger a
6196 game switch, but will be ignored except for storing in a dedicated board
6197 buffer. Pressing the right mouse button will cause the board to be
6198 displayed, until we release it. Time, strength and stm are always
6199 displayed in the message window.
6201 2010-02-07 16:43:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6202 Remove race condition in clock switching
6204 The move number is now incremented inside SwitchClock, when no timer
6205 interrupt is scheduled, so the interrupt cannot occur at the wrong side
6206 of the increment, and decrement the wrong clock.
6208 2010-02-07 11:53:03 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6209 Let second click on piece make only capture, with -oneClickMove
6211 Normally this would clear the highlighting of that piece.
6212 Required new field in DisambiguateClosure to count nr of captures.
6214 2010-02-07 11:18:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6215 Bugfix stale first-click
6217 When the opponent resigned after the user had cicked a from-square,
6218 clicking the from-square for the first move in the next game would
6219 produce an "illegal move" message, because it was considered a to-click!
6220 We now set fromX and fromY to invalid in GameEnds().
6221 Should we also reset them on mode changes?
6223 2010-02-07 11:08:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6224 Add promotions and e.p. to oneClickMove
6226 For e.p. the to-Square of the Pawn has to be clicked. Promotions are
6227 always to Queen when you click the to-square, but use the promotion
6228 pop-up when you click the from-square.
6230 2010-02-07 10:38:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6231 Fix error that compiler does not notice
6233 Boolean GLT_GetFromList did not return a value. But no error on Ubuntu!
6235 2010-02-06 18:55:38 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6236 new developer release
6239 2010-02-06 18:30:42 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6240 updated year in copyright info
6243 2010-02-05 22:27:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6246 Playing on ICS or against engine, clicking a square from or to which
6247 only a single move can be made causes the move to be done, when the new
6248 option -oneClickMove is set to true.
6250 2010-02-04 16:09:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6251 Use squares for computer seek ads
6253 Shape indication passed in sign bit of color (char) variable.
6255 2010-02-04 22:46:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6256 Use right mouse button to view seek ads
6258 Right down-click does the same as left down-click, right up-click
6259 simulates a left up-click off board (so it misses all dots).
6261 Use right-click miss to refresh Seek Graph
6263 The 'moving' parameter had to be made into an int for this, to indicate
6264 right clicks with code 2. Right press now already pushes the clicked ad
6265 to the back, so that the up-click will display an underlying one.
6267 Bugfix pushing back seek ads on right-click
6269 On a right button press the previous in stead of currently hit ad was
6270 receiving the penalty.
6272 Indicate seek-ad multiplicity
6274 If more than one seek ad is inside the capture range of the mouse
6275 pointer, an exclamation point is printed before the seek-ad text.
6277 Some fixes to make seek-ad suppression work in WinBoard
6279 In WinBoard the z-depth was immediately erased by redrawing the graph;
6280 the clearing of zlist had to be moved from PlotSeekAd() to AddAd()
6281 (where it really belongs). Also aging of z-depth is now suppressed on
6282 mere pointer motion.
6284 2010-02-04 22:45:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6287 The new option -autoRefresh sets FICS and ICC to report removal of seek
6288 ads, and then removes those from the Seek Graph. New seek ads are added
6289 to the graph, as soon as the ICS reports them.
6291 2010-02-04 22:42:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6292 Implement SeekGraph in XBoard
6294 For now only controlled by left mouse clicks on board. New options
6295 -seekGraph true|false and -sg to switch this feature on.
6297 Facilitate selection of coinciding seek ads
6299 Seek-ads that are viewed but not answered get a distance penalty on the
6300 up-click that makes their selection more difficult next time, so that
6301 the ad they covered gets a (better) change. The penalty ages away in the
6304 Slightly offset Seek-Graph dots of different color
6306 Dots of different color are now displaced horizontally be 3 pixels, to
6307 prevent them from completely covering each other. (Required the axis
6308 labels to be moved a little too, to not be covered by the 1-min ads.)
6310 Auto-show seek-ad texts in WinBoard
6312 Hovering the mouse above a Seek-Graph dot will make the text belonging
6313 to it appear in the message field without the need to press a button.
6314 Required SeekGraphClick() to be called from the WB mouse event handler,
6315 with an extra argument 'moving' to make the distinction with a real
6318 Show seek-ad text on mouse hovering (XBoard)
6320 The Eventproc is also set to trigger on PointerMotion, and this event
6321 then calls SeekGraphClick with motion=true to handle it.
6323 Put poetic name of wilds in seek-ad text
6325 Use XBoard variant names, except for 'loadable' and 'fischerandom'
6326 (becomes 'setup' and 'chess960'), but leave number (to distinguish wilds
6327 that transate to same XBoard variant).
6329 2010-02-05 20:36:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6330 Fix highlighting bug in XBoard
6332 The from-square was drawn before the to-square was erased, which led to
6333 a missing highlight line if they shared an edge or corner.
6335 2010-02-05 15:49:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6336 Shorten autoKibitz confirmation on FICS
6338 Strip off the "players)", but leave the separatng space.
6340 2010-02-05 14:39:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6341 Repair damage to -autoKibitz done by FICS atomic zippy claim
6343 The sending of -autoKibitz info was also moved back in that patch, but
6344 unfortunately to after clearing of the programStats info. Now the
6345 clearing has been moved also, to remain after it.
6347 2010-02-04 23:33:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6348 Send continuation lines to chat box they belong to
6350 The variable savingComment is used as a kludge to remember where the
6351 comment should go (i.e. which chatbox, or elsewhere), so that when a
6352 continuation line is matched, chatPartner (which was reset at EOL) can
6353 be restored to its original value. Also put space after handle of talker
6354 in channel Chat Windows
6356 2010-02-02 19:08:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6357 Fix u64 format for cygwin
6359 With a -mno-cygwin compile %llu and %lld are definitely not understood
6360 by scanf and printf, although they are by the compiler. In stead, %I64u
6361 seems to work. Put it in under control of a switch USE_I64, which is
6362 defined only in the gcc makefile when MINGW is used.
6364 2010-02-02 19:02:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6365 Remove stray dot from WinBoard makefiles
6367 There was a period suffixed to config.h in the wgamelist.o dependency.
6369 2010-02-01 14:50:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6370 Fix bug in display of logos
6372 The logo continued to be drawn after a boardSize change to a tinyLayout
6373 size, although there was no space reserved for it. Fixed by explicitly
6374 resetting logoHeight when no logo space is reserved in InitDrawingSizes().
6376 2010-01-19 20:15:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6377 Right-click refactoring: step III
6379 Let WinBoard call RightClick in back-end, and delete the duplicate code
6380 it had for this, after rescuing the front-end bits, and let the letter
6381 act depending on the result returned by RightClick.
6383 2010-01-19 19:07:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6384 Right-click refactoring: step II
6386 Migrate the Right-click routine to the back-end. Let it communicate back
6387 square coordinates through pointer arguments, to accomodate their
6388 different naming in XBoard and WinBoard. Template added in frontend.h.
6390 2010-01-19 17:55:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6391 Right-click refactoring, step I
6393 Divorce front-end part from back-end part of PieceMenuPopup in XBoard
6394 front-end, and forge the back-end part into a new routine RightClick.
6395 The right up-click in XBoard, which called unLoadPV() directly, now
6396 calls RightClick through PieceMenuPopUp().
6398 2010-02-04 23:09:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6399 Merge gamelistopt sources into gamelist source files
6401 The files xgamelistopt.c and gamelistopt.c are merged with xgamelist.c
6402 and gamelist.c, respectively. The WB front-end for the dialog already
6403 resided in winboard.c, so there was little need to move it to wgameist.c
6404 file. Makefiles adapted accordingly. Unsuitable key bindings were
6405 removed. The low-level front-end prototypes are now defined in in
6408 2010-01-29 21:47:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6409 Game-List options dialog for XBoard
6411 A dialog similar to that of WinBoard was cloned from the game-list
6412 window. The XBoard front-end is in a separate file xgamelistopt.c,
6413 which in fact implements most of the low-level front-end as back-end.
6415 2010-01-29 12:48:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6416 Refactoring of game-list-options dialog
6418 The back-end part is separated off, and moved to a file gamelistopt.c.
6419 Front-end for now stays in winboard.c. No prototypes in frontend.h yet.
6421 2010-01-26 19:28:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6422 Fix of ancient WB bug: test integer option values for validity
6424 Only a string of digits preceded by an optional sign is accepted now.
6425 Before, any string was accepted, and leaving out a value could lead to
6426 the next option being ignored (if it did not need a value) because it
6427 was considered the value for the previous one!
6429 2010-01-26 19:00:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6430 Fix bug in edit-position of holdings
6432 The holdings were effectivelly taken one too large, so that a promoted
6433 shogi Pawn moved to, or created in the holdings was not demoted to Pawn,
6434 but put in the dark (which you could see by the holding count if you did
6435 it twice). The overflow tests in these two cases now have been corrected.
6437 2010-01-25 13:54:40 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6438 Save fonts in XBoard settings file per boardSize
6440 Each -boardSize now can have its own font specified in the settings file
6441 (and thus by a command-line option, although it would in general not be
6442 very useful to specify a font for a size other than the selected). E.g.
6443 a prefix "size33:" to the font name will apply it only to -size 33.
6444 An unspecified-size font option (not normally in the settings file) will
6445 always prevail over a font option specific for the current size.
6446 A font of some size must have been used or specified in order to be
6449 2010-01-25 08:56:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6450 Fix width of filter field in XBoard GameList
6452 An empirical dependence of the width of this text edit on the square
6453 size now makes for an acceptable layout at any board size.
6455 2010-01-24 19:09:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6456 Use FICS atomic draw claim for sending move in zippy mode
6458 For this the relaying of the move had to be moved until after the
6459 adjudication, which again has to be done after MakeMove(), which is a
6460 bit dubious, as MakeMove might take significant time when animating.
6462 2010-01-24 18:51:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6463 Send FICS atomic claim to ICS if move creates draw after offer
6465 The FICS format "draw MOVE" is used to send the move to the ICS when
6466 the user enters a move that adjudicates as a claimable draw, and he
6467 offered a draw before the move. For the benefit of ICS that do not
6468 understand this format, the plain move is sent afterwards.
6470 2010-01-24 18:16:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6471 Also allow user to claim by offering draw before his move
6473 Use the existing userOfferedDraw variable to test for such offers in
6476 2010-01-24 17:29:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6477 Also adjudicate after user move
6479 Call Adjudicate() in FinishMove().
6481 2010-01-24 15:56:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6482 Refactoring of adjudication code
6484 Put all the rule-based (as opposed to score-based) adjudications in a
6485 separate routine, so they can also be called on user moves. This
6486 requires sending the drawing move to the opponent engine to be made
6487 conditional on existence of the latter. Execution of the code is no
6488 longer dependent on the condition TwoMachinesPlay, but actual game
6489 terminations are now all restricted by an alternative condition (no ICS
6492 2010-01-24 11:46:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6493 Use -keepAlive option to determine connection health
6495 When there has been no ICS response since the previous 'ping', assume we
6496 are disconnected and do a fatal-error exit. Also auto-start the ping
6497 process in InitBackend3().
6499 2010-01-23 23:00:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6500 Use arrow keys in XBoard GameList for entry selection
6502 Add translations for arrows and home/end, to call LoadSelectedProc with
6503 argument to indicate the step, and let the latter perform the action.
6505 2010-01-23 22:24:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6506 Allow <Enter> to apply filter in XB GameList filter edit
6508 Apply a translation to intercept the <Enter> key. Set focus back to the
6509 list display afterwards.
6511 2010-01-23 21:44:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6512 Accept <Enter> for changing chat partner
6514 A kludge stolen from Alessandro's GameList filter allowed to let the
6515 typing of <Enter> while updating the chat-partner field of the WinBoard
6516 chat windows to act as pressing the Change button. Gives focus to the
6517 input field of the window afterwards.
6519 2010-01-23 21:42:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6520 Move duplicat gamelist code to backend
6522 The filtering routines are moved from xgamelist.c and wgamelist.c to
6523 gamelist.c, and a prototype for them is placed in backend.h.
6525 2010-01-23 19:29:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6526 Port game-list filtering to XBoard
6528 Added a text edit and apply button to the XBoard game-list dialog, and
6529 only have it print those lines that match the filter. Translate index in
6530 list to index of game in file when a game is selected, and index in file
6531 to index in list when a line is highlighted. Duplicates some code
6532 between xgamelist.c and wgamelist.c, which should be moved to back-end.
6534 2010-01-21 19:24:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6535 Convert to DOS line endings
6537 For easier understanding of upcoming diffs of winboard.c
6539 2010-01-21 14:32:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6540 Refactoring of move-history code
6542 The WinBoard code in whistory.c was split in a front-end part (remaining
6543 in whistory.c) and a back-end part (now in history.c in the xboard
6544 directory). This to allow easy porting to other platforms.
6546 2010-01-20 12:48:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6547 Add fixed-time/move button in XBoard time-control dialog
6549 Put the TC-type buttons in a radio-group, and highlight the selected mode.
6551 2010-01-19 18:27:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6552 Fix bug in XBoard PV display
6554 The PV was unloaded on anything but a button release, in stead of the
6557 2010-01-23 11:04:11 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6558 fixed hardcoded location of config file for xboard
6560 the location should now follow sysconfdir during the configuration process.
6561 Also added some more output to the configure script.
6563 2010-01-18 12:18:32 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6564 new developer release
6567 2010-01-18 12:15:06 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6568 fixed Makefile.am to handle config file correctly
6571 2010-01-15 21:55:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6572 Change opening array -variant fairy
6574 We now use the position of "Chess with Different Armies", FIDE army vs.
6575 a fantasy army (inspired on the Color-bound Clobberers) as opening
6578 2010-01-13 19:08:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6581 Thai Chess, played by 2 million world-wide. Required pawn promotion to
6582 happen in a zone, and the Alfil to move as Shogi Silver, a new opening
6583 array, and unusual Pawn placement. Because of the latter, I consider it
6584 a setup position, so a FEN will always be sent to the engine.
6586 2010-01-17 14:17:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6587 Fix parsing of O-O and O-O-O after FEN pasting in FRC
6589 Because the initial rights were not set in the FEN reader, the
6590 initial rights of the previous game remained in force, so that the
6591 parser did not understand OO-castling (although it would allow KxR
6594 2010-01-15 14:40:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6595 Fix reading FEN castling rights for knightmate and twokings
6597 Scanning the back-rank for a King did not work in these variants,
6598 because either the Unicorn castles, or there might be two Kings.
6600 2010-01-13 11:42:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6601 Fix omission in castling refactoring for ICS received boards
6603 A default of -1 was still used, in stead of NoRights, when no Rook was
6604 found. In theory this could have had effect in a setup board 0 in FRC,
6605 when there were no Rooks on the back rank.
6607 2010-01-13 11:35:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6608 Fix TwoKings ICS castling-rights bug
6610 Scanning the rank (as is done because of FRC) assigned castling rights
6611 to the rightmost King. Even scanning the opposite direction would not
6612 work, as it is not always the eftmost King that can castle. So we now
6613 explicitly test for a King on e1/e8 in TwoKings and assign it rights,
6614 relying on the Rook rights received from the ICS to control castling.
6616 2009-11-18 19:12:25 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6617 fix double start of zippy engine after switch to gothic
6619 In ICS mode we now switch to the proper variant as soon as we receive
6620 the generic game-start message, to prevent a mismatch when the first
6621 board is received (which would trigger fetching of a move list).
6623 2010-01-11 16:44:40 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6624 Extensive bugfix of -autoKibitz
6626 Suppression of printing of diverted kibitz messages failed when they
6627 extended over more than one read. This could even lead to such
6628 messages being erroneously saved as comments, which then lead to
6629 crashes. The suppression mechanism now waits for a prompt, in stead of
6630 the end of buffer. This required the printing of any leftover in the
6631 buffer to be deferred until the next read completes it.
6632 The number of people kibitzed to is now printed.
6634 2010-01-11 16:30:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6635 Fix piece-to-char table -variant fairy
6637 The letters for Lance and Snake where swapped.
6639 2010-01-09 11:54:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6640 Make WinBoard makefiles use parser.c in XBoard directory
6643 2010-01-08 18:23:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6644 Docs update for new features
6647 2010-01-08 15:18:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6648 Fix new args parsing of -lowTimeWarningColor
6650 This did not occur in the XBoard color translation table yet.
6652 2010-01-08 14:16:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6653 Allow editing of holdings in EditPosition mode
6655 Dragging pieces to and from the holdings now consistently keep track of
6656 the home square of pieces and the piece counts, as does creation of
6657 pieces in the holdings through the piece menu.
6659 2010-01-08 13:59:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6660 Indicate squares a lifted piece can legally move to
6662 Under control of the new option -showTargetSquares when
6663 -highlightDragging and -testLegality are on, the squares a piece can
6664 move to are marked by fat dots in the highlightColor (non-captures) and
6665 premoveHighlightColor (captures), as soon as you grab it for dragging.
6666 In variants with mandatory capture, the capture target of other pieces
6667 is marked with the highlightColor (as non-captures are then not allowed).
6669 2010-01-08 12:35:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6670 Fix bug for incommensurate time odds
6672 After normalization (-timeOddsMode 1) the time odds factors can be
6673 non-integer, and thus must be stored as float.
6675 2010-01-08 11:41:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6676 Display PV right-clicked from EngineOutput window
6678 The clicked PV is selected and the memo gets focus, so that it is
6679 highlighted. This selection is restored in the proper place after
6680 insetrtion of a new line in the memo.
6682 2010-01-08 10:19:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6683 Display PV on right-clicking board
6686 2010-01-08 09:21:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6687 Bugfix legality null move in parsing with -testLegality off
6689 The pointers were compared, in stead of the values.
6690 Furthermore, instead of null moves, it rejected moves on the main diagonal when legality checking was off.
6692 Also exclude moves with empty squares and enemy pieces.
6694 2010-01-07 19:10:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6695 Newly lexed winboard/parser.c
6698 2010-01-07 19:05:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6699 Harmonize declarations of XBoard and WinBoard
6701 The engine-exit and settings patches make some stuff common to WinBoard
6702 and XBoard, which needed to be harmonized, and is moved to frontend.h.
6704 2010-01-07 13:07:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6705 Allow Ctrl-C copying from EngineOutput window text to clipboard
6708 2010-01-07 12:52:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6709 Allow popup-less (fatal) exit of engine after tellusererror
6712 2010-01-07 12:40:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6713 Improve layout of Engine #N Settings dialog
6715 An attempt is made to align the input fields of spins and text-edits
6717 2010-01-07 00:31:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6718 Let XBoard print version with argument --version or -v
6721 2010-01-07 00:25:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6722 Fix castling rule assignment in shuffle games
6724 The conversion to in-board storage for rights copied directly to boards[0] in steadof
6725 initialPosition, and was then overwritten when the latter was copied with uninitialized
6726 rights to boards[0]. This affected FRC and CRC, where rights are non-standard.
6728 2010-01-07 00:17:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6729 Implement castling in -variant caparandom
6731 CRC should be treated as FRC, but until now it never was. We now test for FRC_TYPE_CASTLING.
6733 2010-01-07 00:09:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6734 Fix default castling rights on reading incomplete FEN
6736 This was overlooked in the conversion to the in-board storage of rights.
6738 2010-01-07 00:03:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6739 Fix NoncompliantFEN defaults.
6741 This must be NULL to get compliant FENs, not "", which would suppress castling and e.p. fields.
6743 2010-01-06 23:54:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6744 Change format of -adapterCommand.
6746 first or f at the start of an option name are now automatically changed into second or s,
6747 rather than needing %% to be recognized. The values of -ec and -ed in the default
6748 -adapterCommand are now quoted (now XBoard understands quoting in the engine command line).
6750 2010-01-06 23:51:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6751 Make WinBoard defaults for -fd and -sd equal to "." rather than empty strings.
6754 2010-01-06 23:28:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6755 Delete old indirection settings-file code
6758 2010-01-06 21:45:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6759 Correct XBoard default debug file name
6762 2010-01-06 21:34:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6763 Suppress saving font settings.
6765 The fonts are size dependent, and might thus not be reusable in the next
6766 session. For now we therefore suppress the saving of them in the
6767 settings file, until we diversify the fonts per boardSize.
6769 2009-12-12 23:38:20 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6770 added missing sounds files to be able to compile on windows
6773 2009-12-09 17:29:37 -0700 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6774 Changes needed to compile master branch.
6777 2009-12-06 12:11:46 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6778 implements the eval-graph window for XBoard
6781 2009-12-06 11:58:34 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6782 improves the XBoard handling of the engine command line
6784 it now understands limited forms of quoting, so engine binaries with spaces in their file name can be handled.
6786 2009-12-06 11:56:40 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6787 A better and more flexible way of invoking Polyglot
6789 rewrote uci.c. No more use of temporary files, all data passed through the engine command line. Adds a new command-line option -adapterCommand for this.
6791 2009-12-06 11:34:50 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6792 remove trailing \r in xboard output
6794 there is an annoying carriage return (displayed as ^M) at the end of the PV in the engine-output window, not
6795 only with Fairy-Max, but also with UCI engine running under Polyglot. This patch replaces the trailing CR that Linux programs send after the PV line y a space.
6797 2009-11-29 11:56:32 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6798 double buffer size to prevent overflow
6800 This patch doubles the size of the ICS input buffer to 16KB, to prevent
6801 the suspected overflow with -keepLineBreaksICS false when using
6802 "inchannel 1" on FICS and over 500 people are tuned in.
6804 2009-11-28 13:33:52 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6805 fix problem with empty string in -firstNeedsNoncompliantFEN
6807 This fixes a bug in the use of the -firstNeedsNoncompliantFEN option with
6808 an empty string as argument. (Which led to truncation of the FEN.)
6810 2009-11-28 13:32:12 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6811 updates makefiles to include dependency on config.h
6813 adds the dependency of wbres.o on config.c introduced by having the VersionInfo in the resource
6815 2009-11-28 13:28:00 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6816 correctly apply some check boxes from the option menu
6818 Usng the check-boxes in the Option->Adjudications menu to indicate the
6819 engine reports absolute scores is now copied directly to the ChessProgramState,
6820 from where it is used, in stead of only to appData. This makes the change take
6821 effect immediately, in stead of after restarting.
6823 2009-11-28 13:27:43 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6824 score sign in analysis mode
6826 this does not alter any of the current behavior with compliant engines,
6827 but does extend the correction for non-compliant score reporting under
6828 control of the -first(second)ScoreIsAbs option to cases where the engine
6829 is analyzing or playing on an ICS.
6831 2009-11-24 21:09:30 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6832 fix for bug #28077: xboard needs to link against x11
6834 hopefully fixed automake to take care of this
6836 2009-11-23 20:37:20 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6837 Fix castling rights when copying FEN to clipboard (again)
6839 missed a spot last time
6841 2009-11-23 20:22:58 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6842 restoring windows (EngineOutput and MoveHistory) on startup
6844 restoring the open / closed status of the
6845 auxiliary windows (EngineOutput and MoveHistory) on startup
6846 in XBoard like they do in WinBoard, which makes sense now that
6847 we aso remember their coordinates between sessions.
6849 2009-11-23 20:21:14 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6850 fixed some outstanding pixmaps
6852 fixed transparency issues
6854 2009-11-23 20:17:25 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6855 use linux style options for config file and add a system config file for XBoard
6857 This patch makes XBoard write the options to its conf file in
6858 Linux style, "-option value" rather than Windows style "/option=value".
6860 The WinBoard option parsing code has always understood both formats
6861 (including any hybrids), but the format it preferred for writing might
6862 look quite strange to Linux users. I also attached a file to be installed
6863 as /etc/xboard/xboard.conf on "make install".
6865 2009-11-23 19:58:55 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6866 fix window positioning
6868 This patch adds stuff in the header files that allow the various front-end files
6869 to share information on which windows exist, are up, and how they are positioned.
6870 The EngineOutput, MoveHistory and GameList windows now all remember their
6871 position and size, even when they are closed when XBoard exits.
6873 2009-11-23 19:51:19 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6874 same argDescriptor parsing for Xboard and Winbaord
6876 This patch makes XBoard and WinBoard use the same argDescriptor
6877 list of options, and (largely) use the same code for parsing and saving them.
6878 This is acheived by moving this code to a new file args.h, and #including this
6879 in both winboard.c and xboard.c (so that tiny differences, e.g. in default
6880 values in the table, are decided by the context). XBoard has new menu items
6881 "Save Settings Now" and "Save Settings on Exit" in the "Option" menu.
6882 XBoard uses /etc/xboard/xboard.conf as default settings file.
6883 A new option, -saveSettingsFile, can specify where settings should be saved,
6884 without parsing the file. (So that it also works if the file does not yet exist.)
6886 2009-11-22 13:00:31 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6887 new developer release
6889 changed release name to <branch>-<date>
6891 2009-11-22 12:34:13 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6892 fix the irritating wandering off of the MoveHistory window in XBoard on opening/closing.
6895 2009-11-22 12:29:47 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6896 use xtell for talking to handles, but tell for talking into a channel.
6898 by changing the chatboxes to use xtell in stead of tell, we broke
6899 the possibility to use the chat-box for chatting into a channel (which is
6900 apparently not possible with xtell).
6902 2009-11-22 12:15:15 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6903 fix bug in bughouse drop menu
6905 This patch fixes the bughouse drop menu, which was broken by the
6906 new mouse driver, and could no longer drop white Pawns.
6908 2009-11-18 19:29:57 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6909 2nd step for moving option parsing from winboard to the backend
6911 This is the next step in option-setting refactoring: All options that are
6912 defined in XBoard are now included in the WinBoard ArgDescriptor list.
6913 The handling of sound option has been harmonized: the sound names
6914 now all initially go to the appData array, (as in XB) in stead of directly to the
6915 WB-specific variables, and LoadAllSounds now takes care of the copying.
6916 A new routine ExportSounds copies them back before saving settings
6917 (which, in XBoard, could be a no-op).
6919 The definition of defaults for the XB-only options has been moved to common.h.
6921 2009-11-18 19:24:35 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6922 1st step for moving option parsing from winboard to the backend
6924 This is a preparatory step in moving option parsing of WinBoard to the back-end.
6925 The table of command-line options now contains a fifth field, holding the compiled-in default.
6926 This obviates most of the front-end routine InitAppData, which now is replaced by a table-driven
6927 initialization routine SetDefaultsFromList(), which could be back-end.
6929 2009-11-18 12:33:39 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6930 refactoring evalgraph code
6932 This is the refactored EvalGraph code: the back-end part is separated off,
6933 and put in a file evalgraph.c, which in the future can also be used with XBoard.
6934 Only the WinBoard front-end code is left in the file wevalgraph.c. A new
6935 header file defines the variables and routines they share.
6937 2009-11-18 12:29:06 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6940 some file permissions where set up wrong
6941 (e.g. execute permissions for text files)
6943 2009-11-18 11:34:22 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6944 refactoring of engineoutput
6946 This refactoring patch separates the back-end part out of
6947 xengineoutput.c, and puts it in a separate file engineoutput.c.
6948 A new header engineoutput.h included by both defines the routines
6949 for cross calling. Similarly wengineo.c will be stripped from its
6950 back-end code, (and renamed to wengineoutput.c), so WinBoard and
6951 XBoard now both use engineoutput.c rather than maintaining duplicate
6952 code in their front-end part.
6954 I also let the back-end now call EngineOutputUpdate directly, rather then
6955 through a relay in the front-end, by renaming it to SetProgramStats
6956 (the former name of the relay in winboard.c / xboard.c).
6958 Moved some templates of functions in engineoutput.c from winboard.h
6961 2009-11-14 22:13:10 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6962 fixed build on openbsd
6964 added missing header file
6966 2009-11-14 22:06:58 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6967 improve thinking-output for mulit-variant
6969 Improve multi-variant support by sorting the Thinking-Output lines of the most recent depth by score in the Engine-Output window.
6971 2009-11-14 22:05:12 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6972 fix castling rights when copying FEN to clipboard
6974 This patch forces leaving of Edit-Position mode before copying a FEN to the clipboard, to make sure castling rights are faked in a consistent way. Before you could get FENs that had castling rights for non-existent Rooks.
6976 2009-11-14 22:03:47 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6977 This patch gives a better handling of comments in PGN files, and adds the variation as comment to the main line on using Revert in local mode.
6980 2009-11-06 18:53:19 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6981 fixed prototype for AppendComment
6984 2009-11-06 09:06:44 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6985 cleaned up some debug messages and typos
6988 2009-11-06 09:05:09 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6989 variation-support patch
6991 It allows you to Revert to the main line (or previous variation) when
6992 playing variations on an existing game in EditGame or Analyze mode.
6994 2009-11-06 08:48:09 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6995 fix for new way of saving castling and e.p. information
6997 I forgot to make some conversions to the new-style encoding of castling there
6998 (using the enum constant NoRights instead of -1 to indicate
6999 the absence of rights, which was the price of storing the
7000 rights in the board, which is an unsigned enum type.)
7002 I also was a bit worried about portability, because I casted the enum type ChessSquare
7003 to (int) before comparing it with (possibly negative) constants EP_NONE etc.
7004 Now on my system enum types are (unsigned int), and this works, but I could
7005 imagine there are systems where this would be an unsigned char. (Not sure
7006 if there are rules for this). So to be safe I cast ChessSquare to (signed char),
7007 which should always work to make small negative ints assigned to it read
7010 2009-11-06 08:44:59 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7011 removed files that should only be in the windboard directory
7014 2009-11-05 19:32:35 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7015 add Winboard source files into tar-ball
7017 forgot to add them when rewriting the Makefile.am
7019 2009-11-05 19:23:44 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7020 Integrate castling and e.p. rights into board array; bugfix for EditPosition
7022 A large-scale operation that I have been postponing since the very first 4.4.0:
7023 The castling and e.p. rights are now integrated into the board array, as
7024 boards[moveNr][CASTLING][i] replacing castlingRights[moveNr][i] and
7025 boards[moveNr][EP_STATUS] replacing epStatus[moveNr]
7026 These quantities are now automatically copied with the position by CopyBoards
7027 (allowing the removal of lots of dedicated copying code), and passed as
7028 function arguments with the position (so that the moves.c functions like
7029 TestLegality, MateTest, CoordsToAlgebraic, Disambiguate, GenLegal
7030 no longer need explicit e.p. and castling parameters.
7032 Also fixed a bug introduced by a recent previous fix: by adding fake castling
7033 rights to a position set up through the EditPosition menu, I destroyed the
7034 castling rights of a pasted FEN. Faking castling rights is now made conditional
7035 in EditPositionDone(), depending on the caller. (I had not realized it was also
7036 called after FEN pasting, to send the position to the engine.)
7038 2009-11-05 19:03:17 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7039 added missing library for build on OS X
7041 Xmu seems to be missing
7043 2009-11-04 22:57:30 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7044 Some code refactoring and cleanup; one small bug fix
7046 Some code refactoring, mainly to bring definitions of routines and variables
7047 shared between winboard.c and one of the auxiliary-windows files
7048 whistory.c, wevalgraph.c, wgamelist.c, wengineo.c somewere in a header file
7049 (winboard.h). Unfortunately this made winboard.h dependent on data types
7050 defined in frontend.h, so that the #include order had to be changed in many
7053 The operation revealed one potentially bad bug: engineOutputDialogUp was
7054 written as int in engineo.c, but declared as char in winboard.c.
7056 I also changed the storage mechanism of the the comment and tags window
7057 positions to use WindowPlacement structs rather than simple variables,
7058 so that in the future they can be docked, like the others.
7060 I also removed some remnants of the Analysis window.
7062 The wgamelist.h and wedittags.h header files contained only 3 lines, and
7063 I absorbed them in winboard.h, rather than creating other such nearly empty
7064 headers engineo.h, whistory.h and wevalgraph.h. This affects the make files.
7066 2009-11-03 18:26:06 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7067 let the clocks run in -searchTime mode
7070 2009-11-02 17:41:12 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7071 add fixed time per move to the WinBoard time-control menu dialog
7074 2009-10-31 10:42:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7075 updated version number to unstable
7078 2009-10-31 10:25:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7079 release of version 4.4.1
7082 2009-10-30 19:59:23 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7083 cleaned up ChangeLog and NEWS
7085 2009-10-30 20:02:40 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7086 use xtell instead of tell in wchat
7088 2009-10-28 20:35:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7089 prevent buffer overflow
7091 This is a buffer-size adjustments to prevent the JAWS version from
7092 crashing when it has to read out loud very long comments.
7094 2009-10-28 02:17:16 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
7095 Further copy/paste fixes
7097 We needed to implement the XA_TARGETS target in order for more
7098 sophisticated apps to really believe we put anything on the clipboard
7101 2009-10-27 23:57:25 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
7102 Make copy/paste position and game use clipboard, bug #27810
7104 Copy actually sets both the clipboard and the selection for
7105 convenience and compatibility with the old way of doing things.
7106 Paste pastes from the clipboard by default, but the new -pasteSelection
7107 option lets you get back the old behavior of pasting from the
7110 2009-10-27 15:44:28 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7111 switch focus to the board after loading a game
7113 2009-10-27 15:32:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7114 fix for bug #27826: fixed autoDisplayComment
7116 apparently the -autoDisplayComment option was not working,
7117 not even in WinBoard. This patch should fix it,both for WB and XB.
7118 (Unfortunately xboard.c and winboard.c were using a different name
7119 for the same front-end variable I needed, so I had to change one of them.)
7121 2009-10-27 12:24:56 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7122 fix for bug #27826: ported two options to xboard
7124 also updated the documentation
7126 2009-10-27 12:22:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7129 turns out the new mouse handler broke the JAWS patch, as I discarded
7130 the function IsPromotion. I adapted it to call HasPromotionChoice instead.
7131 Also fixed two arnings by removing a no-longer needed debug print.
7133 2009-10-27 12:03:02 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7134 reformated html to be correctly validated
7136 2009-10-27 10:33:42 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7137 quick fix for "White Mates" in parser.l
7139 2009-10-27 10:32:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7142 2009-10-26 20:45:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7143 changed stderr to debug output, since stderr is closed in winboard
7145 2009-10-26 20:42:24 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7146 removing empty lines from ICS play
7148 this patch causes removal of spurious prompts during ICS play
7149 also if the prompt is preceeded by a number of empty lines
7150 (as the board for the opponent move is on FICS).
7152 2009-10-26 20:40:00 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7153 another bug in VariantSwitch: an unitialized board was printed.
7155 Must have been there a long time, but this time it crashed WinBoard.
7157 2009-10-26 20:38:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7158 more work on variant switch
7160 the previous solution to the cosmetic problem of displaying a wrong shuffle
7161 in an ICS game that was observed from the very start unfortunately turned
7162 out to cause a real error in diplaying a stored game through the smoves
7163 command, for variants not using the FIDE setup as standard.
7165 This patch displays the position from before setting up the start position
7166 of the new variant, but does setup boards[0] to the initial position of that
7167 variant. (If this is a wrong shuffle, it is thus ot displayed, and a new board
7168 will immediately be sent from the ICS to correct the shuffle.)
7170 2009-10-26 20:34:04 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7171 force full redraw in winboard
7173 Full redraw is now always forced when highlightMovesWithArrow is on,
7174 rather than only when highlight info is available. (As in drop moves the
7175 latter is invalid, but we must still erase the arrow from the previous move.)
7177 2009-10-26 20:25:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7178 fix for bug #27790 and #277772. Suppressing the display of a wrong shuffle
7179 when observing shuffle games from the first move (#27790 bis),
7180 and the sounding of the FICS bell on crazyhouse captures (#27772 bis).
7182 2009-10-26 20:22:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7183 fixed bug related to unsigned char in convert.c
7185 I also fixed the unsigned-char bug in the convert.c for bitmaps that caused the
7186 129x129 XBoard bitmaps to be defective, and a bug that required fixup with sed
7187 afterwards (so I could use it to create a new m33s.bm)
7189 2009-10-25 23:37:48 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7190 unguarded debug printf. added the appropiate if statement
7192 2009-10-25 23:31:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7193 fix for two compiler warnings
7195 2009-10-25 23:29:43 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7196 fix for bug #27799: fix for nested-nested-nested variations
7198 2009-10-25 23:21:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7199 The book-probe code forgot to close the book file after opening it.
7201 fixed by adding an fclose at two points.
7203 2009-10-25 23:18:18 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7204 removed unused v54?.bm bitmaps from resource file
7206 it seems the v54?.bmp bitmaps were actually included in the WinBoard build
7207 (in the resource file), although they were never actually used. So I have
7208 removed their inclusion in the resource file now.
7210 2009-10-25 23:05:30 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7211 replaced defective bitmaps with copies from 4.2.7
7213 2009-10-25 23:02:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7214 removed bitmaps files that are not needed any more
7216 2009-10-25 22:58:34 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7219 2009-10-24 09:41:39 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
7220 Drop an obsolete script that was only used to update my personal web site
7222 2009-10-24 01:23:29 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
7223 Silence warnings when compiling 64-bit xboard
7225 Some harmless warnings were caused by 64-bit mode having 32-bit
7226 int but 64-bit long and pointer. Add casts (etc.) to silence them.
7227 This might require adding a definition of intptr_t (a signed int
7228 type that is the same width as a pointer) on old systems that don't
7231 2009-10-24 00:56:37 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
7232 Fix up man page some more
7234 Sigh, the project history was still partly in reverse chronological
7235 order and partly in forward order. Swapped the order of some
7236 sentences to help straighten it out. I don't really care about this,
7237 so other project members should feel free to do what they like here,
7238 but the messed-up order was bugging me.
7240 2009-10-24 00:46:20 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
7241 Fix some issues in the XBoard man page
7243 Correct places where the XBoard man page was calling XBoard
7244 "WinBoard". Change references to "WinBoard engines" and "WinBoard
7245 protocol" to "XBoard/WinBoard ...". Update bug reporting guidelines.
7246 Reorganize project history to something more like chronological order
7247 -- it had gotten pretty randomly ordered.
7249 2009-10-22 21:45:32 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7250 new pre-release version; updated version numbers
7252 2009-10-22 21:33:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7253 This patch adds <Enter> to the characters that cause an automatic
7254 switch to the ICS console when typed to the board window.
7256 2009-10-22 21:31:16 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7257 fix to the minor graphics issue contained some typos,
7258 as was remarked in the bugs reports
7260 2009-10-22 21:30:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7261 improved mouse handler
7263 The improved mouse handler still needed an extra call to DrawPosition to
7266 2009-10-22 21:28:38 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7267 NPS plays and pondering
7269 Clock updating did not work correctly in node-based time controls when the
7270 engine was pondering. (It was not really meant for use with pondering. Oh well...)
7271 This patch checks if the engine reporting the node count is indeed thinking
7272 (as opposed to pondering).
7274 2009-10-22 21:25:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7275 holdings update and regression fix
7277 The holdings-update patch was not yet satisfactory, because FICS seems to send
7278 holdings both before and after the board! And those received before did overwrite
7279 the holdings received after the previous board. I know tried to fix that in a kludgey
7280 way, by hiding a flag in the board that tells if the holdings have already been written
7281 by the ICS or not, and ignore new holdings when they are. (Except in bughouse,
7282 where holdings updates cannot be tied to a particular board and multiple updates
7283 between boards are normal. (I hope?).)
7285 I also undid a regression in my previous fix for the minor graphics problem,
7286 and solved it in a slightly different way to prevent flicker.
7288 2009-10-22 21:23:39 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7289 improved mouse handler
7291 I improved the mouse handler in a way which will preclude disappearence of pieces
7292 on off-board or ambiguous (in-between squares) drag & drop moves. (As was reported
7293 in the "premove bug?" thread. Also the command-line premove problem reported there
7294 is now fixed, by removing the prefixing.
7296 2009-10-22 21:18:05 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7297 fix for bug #8847: moving backward while examining on FICS not reported to engine
7299 I moved Daniel's code that backs up the engine when a bord with a
7300 lower number is received to a place where it is always done in zippy mode,
7301 rather than only when the engine is analyzing.
7303 Apart from taking back moves, there was also the case where the
7304 user moves forward by more than one move (usually immediately to
7305 end-of-game). In this case a new movelist is fetched from the ICS
7306 to recover the moves that were skipped. But this assumes that the
7307 engine is at the start of the game and feeds all these moves to the
7308 engine. So the engine had to be reset in this case to stay in sync.
7310 2009-10-22 21:16:56 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7311 better init for random number generator
7313 2009-10-21 23:01:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7314 fix for bug #27772: holdings not updated
7316 holdings lines from the ICS nor update the holdings
7317 of boards[forwardMostMove] in stead of boards[currentMove].
7319 2009-10-21 21:32:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7320 allowe parsing / disambiguation of SAN moves like Xe4 in certain situations
7322 This patch allows parsing / disambiguation of SAN moves like Xe4, if there
7323 is only one wild-card piece X on the board. Moves with wild-card pieces
7324 are now considered illegal if they leave the King in check by a piece of
7327 2009-10-20 19:09:46 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7328 fixed bug when switching to variantsuper
7330 2009-10-20 19:06:43 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7331 fix for bug #27715: 2 (minor) graphic issues
7333 I forced a total redraw when Reset is called from the ICS code in case a
7334 new game is encountered, in the hope it will make the reported
7335 (irreproducible) problem go away. As game switches are not frequent, I
7336 guess there is hardly any downside to this.
7338 2009-10-20 18:57:17 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7339 fix for bug #27667: PV line missing in analysis window, part 3
7341 "3. Wish for Engine state string (right to the icon):
7342 Can you add the actual search depth in analyzing mode? A change like "
7344 I also added the requested display of depth of the analysis move in the
7345 EngineOutput window. I guess a similar change could be made to wengineo.c
7346 (as this is in the code they share in common), but no one ever requested
7347 that in the 5 years since Alessandro wrote it. So for now I leave it alone.
7349 2009-10-20 18:52:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7350 fix for bug #27760: debug printf in backend.c and additional check for variant
7352 2009-10-19 23:17:46 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7353 fix for bug #10990: cmail does not seem to support .cmailgames or .cmailaliases
7355 this is correct, deleted the text out of the documentation that claims we support it
7357 2009-10-19 18:40:40 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7358 new alpha version; first one with new naming scheme
7360 2009-10-19 18:07:21 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7361 smarter analysis of the boards that XBoard receives from an ICS
7363 I added smarter analysis of the boards that XBoard receves from an ICS,
7364 based on board size and piece types in the position, to recognize cases
7365 where the board does not match the current variant, and switch to an
7366 appropriate variant.
7368 2009-10-19 18:04:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7369 fix for bug #27667: window should be reference to toplevel
7371 The remaining objections of #27667 should be fixed by bringing the
7372 EngineOutput window under control of the TOPLEVEL compile-time switch.
7374 2009-10-19 18:02:42 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7375 partly fix for bug #27715: scaling of menu bar
7377 the menu bar to the left edge of the window.
7379 2009-10-19 17:59:43 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7380 fixed bug reported in WB forum: second game of a match would
7381 not start when using the GUI book
7383 2009-10-19 17:57:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7384 fix for bug #27751: negative holding counts displayed
7386 I put code in the back-end to prevent holdings counts from
7387 becoming negative when a drop move is made from empty holdings.
7388 (This can happen when re-loading ICS bughouse games,
7389 as the smoves command fails to fill the holdings.)
7391 2009-10-18 20:54:53 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7392 Updated compiling instructions.
7394 2009-10-18 11:32:55 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7395 Changes to allow fonts with any charset (such as terminal)
7397 Affects winboard only.
7399 2009-10-16 23:02:41 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7400 Moved SIGWINCH signal so it can be used...
7402 I goofed putting this in StartChildProcess() originally.
7404 2009-10-16 22:54:12 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7405 Added internal wrapping ability.
7408 -wrapContinuationSequence "foo" (default: "\\ "
7409 -useInternalWrap (Winboard default: false, XBoard default: true)
7411 Note: -keepLineBreaksICS if set, prevents wrapping, usurping the
7412 useInternalWrap setting. The idea is if you want to keep ICS line
7413 breaks, then you don't want internal wrapping. Because of this,
7414 the new default for keepLineBreaksICS is now false for XBoard.
7416 2009-10-16 19:14:34 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7417 fixed segfaul in convert.c used to convert pixmaps
7419 2009-10-15 19:46:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7420 new mousehandler to correct for premove and promotion popup
7422 this is the new mouse handler for XBoard, which should fully implement
7423 premove, including promotion popup, and yet suppress the promotion popup
7424 on illegal moves that are not premoves. It is almost completely moved to
7425 the back-end now, so that WinBoard will be able to use it as well. I just
7426 must hook it up to winboard.c, in particular harmonize the call-backs of
7427 the mouse driver into the front-end for grabbing and releasing pieces for
7428 dragging, to make sure they have the same names and arguments.
7430 2009-10-15 19:32:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7431 updated black fairy pieces
7433 here is a set of black fairy pieces with opaque white details,
7434 so they have the same style as the orthodox XBoard pieces.
7436 2009-10-15 16:54:51 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7437 Adjustment to joining to work around server not always including space.
7439 This patch implements commit 98aa02bda540f17f1f50be00e494efafe439b004
7440 into the updated joining routine. This issue seems not to be server
7441 variance, but instead the server electing to omit the space between
7442 words when it occurs at exactly your width setting (-1 actually).
7444 This patch makes the joiner add back the space just like the referenced
7445 commit. Note: this is just a workaround to a server issue-- the joiner
7446 actually joins correctly before this patch.
7448 2009-10-15 07:18:42 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7449 Fixed joiner detection, allowing it to work with timeseal
7451 When timeseal's buffer fills in the middle of the continuation
7452 sequence, detection fails, and the lines aren't joined.
7454 As a result of this fix, measures intended to bypass joining are
7455 no longer needed, so I removed them. These utilize server vars
7456 when available to prevent splitting.
7458 2009-10-14 14:42:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7459 fixed engingeoutput routine
7461 removed outdated code regarding analysis window
7463 2009-10-14 14:39:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7464 moved bitmap to correct location
7466 was misplaced in a previous commit
7468 2009-10-14 14:26:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7469 fixed wrong number of arguments for EngineOutputPopUp
7471 2009-10-13 21:00:27 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7472 new bitmap converter (including fill option) and new pixmaps
7474 2009-10-13 20:52:40 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7475 forgot to add these two lines to the last commit
7477 2009-10-13 20:51:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7478 removed AnalysisPopUp. Use EngineOutputPopUp instead
7480 this was already in Winboard, copied it to xboard and removed unused code.
7482 2009-10-13 20:32:32 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7483 Proper board and holdings size when switching to variants
7484 gothic, capablanca, great and super within an ICS game.
7486 2009-10-13 20:25:13 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7487 cleaned up an old #ifdef in zippy
7489 2009-10-12 19:25:17 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7490 neglected this for the auto-width updating in xboard
7492 2009-10-12 19:19:59 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7493 Added server width adjustment based on client width changes
7495 2009-10-12 19:14:53 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7496 silence some compiler warnings
7498 2009-10-11 18:39:24 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7499 Maintainence to support all compilers.
7501 2009-10-11 17:07:27 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7502 Adjusted alternative joining method to obey keepLineBreaksICS
7504 2009-10-11 14:48:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7505 fix for bug #27668: e.p. field still not passed to engine
7507 PositionToFEN now takes the e.p. rights from epStatus[moveNr],
7508 rather than calculating it on the spot from moveList[moveNr-1]
7509 (which failed on the first move).
7511 2009-10-11 14:46:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7512 fix for bug #27666: naming of variants
7514 Variant names "misc/xxx" are recognized as "normal", rather than "xxx"
7515 to not get confused by the board "misc shogi" run by FICS.
7517 2009-10-11 10:14:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7518 changed enable menus
7520 Put the "Open Chat Window", "Machine Both", and "Engine #N Settings" menu items
7521 in the appropriate enable lists for graying them out wen not applicable.
7523 2009-10-11 10:13:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7524 Added a command-line option -keepLineBreaksICS true/false to control line joining.
7526 2009-10-10 19:30:23 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7527 Added code to prevent unnecessary width updates.
7529 2009-10-10 18:34:37 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7530 Turned off wrap when possible on ICS servers.
7532 Turning off line wrap prevents splitting lines up using the
7533 continuation sequence "\\ ". This is desirable when using
7534 timeseal because timeseal's buffer is sometimes too small,
7535 causing it to break lines itself. These lines can't be joined.
7537 2009-10-10 16:30:56 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7538 vsnprintf() must be _vsnprintf() for MSVC
7540 2009-10-10 16:16:45 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7541 added code to handle initial width update
7543 2009-10-10 14:21:12 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7544 Added width updates to ICS client on font and window size changes
7546 What still needs to be done is placing an update call after login
7547 to initialize with the correct width. I didn't see where to put
7550 2009-10-10 14:19:30 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7551 added ics_printf() and ics_update_width() and utility functions
7553 2009-10-10 11:15:50 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7554 Cleaned up ConsoleWndProc (not complete, see below)
7556 Using static variables this way is not appropriate. I only addressed
7557 hInput and hText in this commit though. But imagine the WndProc being
7558 used by multiple windows instead of just one, and you can see why
7559 using static variables in this way is wrong.
7561 2009-10-10 11:12:10 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7562 Restructured URL code so it fits better with how winboard is set up.
7564 2009-10-10 08:57:39 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7565 cleanup: removed "#if 1" statements
7567 2009-10-10 08:55:21 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7568 cleanup: removed "#if 0" from source
7570 a bit of cleanup of the source code
7572 2009-10-10 08:34:10 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7573 fix joining of lines split by ICS
7575 This patch fixes the joining of lines that were split by an ICS, so that adding
7576 a space at the break point is done only when there was not a space already.
7577 (Some ICS leave a space at the end of the broken line, others do not.)
7578 An extra space would interefere with board12 in Gothic Chess, which is so
7579 long that the ICS breaks it, and the WB parser could not handle a double
7580 space within the board.
7582 2009-10-10 08:27:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7583 fix for bug #27642: Clock jumps strangely in engine mode
7585 This moves SwitchClocks() back to after incrementing forwardMostMove,
7586 so that it knows again who has the move (which was broken by the "bare" patch),
7587 and will take the appropriate tick length.
7589 2009-10-10 08:26:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7590 removed test for premove
7592 this was added while looking for the premove bug, but is not needed
7594 2009-10-10 02:03:45 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7595 added URL detection and provided hotlinks in the ICS client
7597 2009-10-10 02:00:52 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7598 reverted winboard.c beofre URL commit to correct whitespace conversion
7600 2009-10-09 02:14:22 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7601 Added URL detection into the console text window for ICS.
7603 2009-10-08 23:51:06 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7604 added some comments and formated code
7606 2009-10-08 23:46:52 -0700 Chris Rorvick <>:
7607 fix printing out help message (list of command line options) (tiny change)
7609 The postfix increment always resulted in an attempt to print out an
7610 option on the right side regardless of one actually existing. Use
7611 prefix increment to prevent a crash when printing an odd number of
7614 2009-10-09 00:04:51 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7615 Updated navigation accelerators, fixing ICS problems.
7617 Recent changes to the navigation accelerators were in the wrong
7618 accelerator table. Since the goal was to correct non-JAWS versions
7619 back to 4.2.7 behavior, I updated it to how 4.2.7 did it, but still
7620 retained the #ifdef JAWS conditional compilation.
7622 On an ICS, the navigation keys took control away from the ics
7623 client to navigate the game. The update requires the ALT key to
7624 be pressed, but it works identical to 4.2.7, not causing an
7625 unexpected focus back to the board window when you're just editing
7628 2009-10-08 20:33:39 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7629 fixed premove recapture problem;promotion popup appearing on
7630 obviously illegal moves; promotions in Superchess and Great Shatranj
7632 1) the premove recapture problem
7633 2) the promotion popup appearing on obviously illegal moves (the 1. e2a8
7635 3) promotions in Superchess and Great Shatranj, where the piece can now be
7636 selected from the holdings
7638 2009-10-08 20:28:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7639 added forceIllegalMove to xboard
7641 2009-10-05 21:01:32 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7642 bugfix: segfault when invalid option argument was given (bug #27427)
7644 when given a wrong argument to an option (e.g. -tc 0) xboard aborts
7645 before setting up the window, but tried to write a message to the
7646 messageWidget which doesn't exist at that point.
7648 2009-10-05 20:05:00 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7649 small improvement for JAWS version
7651 This is a patch to make JAWS read out any comments when /autoDiplaycomment=true.
7652 As focus does not stay on the Comment window, the comment was not spoken otherwise.
7654 2009-10-05 20:02:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7655 updated to winboard internationalization scripts
7657 Also a slight improvement of the internationalization scripting,
7658 to prevent it from crashing on messages containing a slash.
7660 2009-10-05 20:01:53 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7661 new forceIllegalMoves option
7663 The -forceIllegalMoves option uses setboard or edit to force a position
7664 when an engine refuses the move leading to it by an "Illegal Move" message.
7665 Especially for engines using the edit command this was a bit tricky,
7666 because of the a2a3 kludge to avoid using the white and black commands.
7668 2009-10-05 01:01:54 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7669 removed _winmajor if not defined so that VC 2008 can compile the project
7671 The oldDialog variable should just be set to 0 in all cases now, and
7672 as such, legacy code supporting the old dialog ought to be removed.
7673 The test for _winmajor is against < 4, which is always false at present,
7674 causing oldDialog to be 0 in every conceviable circumstance.
7676 2009-10-04 09:58:29 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7677 getting ready for 4.4.1 release
7679 2009-10-02 20:47:01 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7680 Simplified future version changes.
7682 Added a numeric version to config.h that is now used in winboard.rc
7683 instead of being hard-coded there. Just be sure to preserve the
7684 proper format (4 comma-separated 16 bit integers) or else it won't
7687 2009-10-02 16:56:01 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7688 updated version number to 4.4.1.pre
7690 should have done this straight after the last release, but forgot...
7692 2009-10-02 16:48:03 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7693 worked on premove bug
7695 I made an attempt to make premove unsensitive to a race condition,
7696 just in case the premove problem was caused by that (which seems unlikely,
7697 but in any case I added some debug printout to test this).
7699 2009-10-02 16:41:12 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7700 fixed loading of saved games via command line
7702 the variables forwardMostMove and backwardMostMove where set to zero
7705 2009-10-02 16:39:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7706 small fixes for the JAWS version
7708 * I moved saying 'check' by the JAWS version to where castling also benefits from it.
7709 * I made sure the check symbols are also recognized on promotion moves
7710 * In the non-JAWS version, define the plain arrows as shortcut keys for the button bar
7712 2009-10-01 16:50:28 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7713 Fixed bug dereferencing garbage, causing crash.
7715 Commit fa8be4a3fc5d81e9ec1f6c218fcf55c95d34fd10 included code to free the
7716 resultDetails of the gameInfo structure. That exact code exists a few lines
7717 above where it was added. None of these free() calls finish by setting the
7718 member to NULL afterword, therefore repeated attempts to test/free() the
7719 members result in an attempt to free() memory winboard no longer owns, and
7722 link to problematic commit: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/xboard.git/commit/?id=fa8be4a3fc5d81e9ec1f6c218fcf55c95d34fd10
7724 2009-10-01 16:49:57 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7725 Added wchat.c to the project files we maintain.
7727 2009-10-01 15:52:50 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7728 Previous fix for VC++/strcasecmp() was wrong-- use StrCaseCmp().
7730 2009-10-01 14:49:58 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7731 Add resource ID for new Mute menu item.
7733 I know this was probably done by HG, and simply left out of
7734 his commit. Anyway, the project can be built now after this change.
7736 2009-10-01 14:49:09 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7737 Use of strcasecmp() broke Visual C++.
7739 2009-09-30 20:47:00 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7740 wrong default value for engineDebugOutput
7742 the new default is now 1
7744 2009-09-29 22:55:41 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7745 updated cmail.in to adapt the CVS->git change
7747 don't reference $Revision:$ anymore.
7748 Instead use reference xboard-version via autoconf.
7750 2009-09-29 22:04:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7751 bugfix for protocol extensions: egtbpath -> egtpath
7753 A new and very bad bug was discovered in the implementation of
7754 the protocol extensions: XBoard sends a command "egtbpath" to the
7755 engine in stead of "egtpath" from the protocol specs.
7756 After discussion on WB forum it was decided that egtpath was better
7757 than the egtbpath I originally had proposed, and I changed it accordingly,
7758 but I had not realized that this string occurred TWICE in backend.c,
7759 depending on if matched the -defaultPathEGTB of -egtFormats option.
7760 I only changed the first occurence.
7762 2009-09-27 12:27:44 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7763 fix for edit-position "moves" being sent by XBoard to the engine
7765 2009-09-27 12:25:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7766 Engine did not start playing when out of GUI book on second move with white
7768 2009-09-27 12:24:30 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7769 Opening Engine #1 Settings crashed XBoard when there were no
7770 text-edit options in the dialog (to which to set keyboard focus)
7773 2009-09-27 12:18:35 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7774 added a "Mute All Sounds" item in the WinBoard Options menu, on Eric's request
7776 2009-09-27 12:15:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7777 Updated the RTF docs for the chat windows, engine-settings dialog,
7778 /keepAlive option and new game-list tag
7780 2009-09-27 12:14:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7781 Made the beep sounds for JAWS board navigation configurable through
7782 command-line options
7784 2009-09-27 12:11:49 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7785 Prepared a system to internationalize the WinBoard menus
7787 2009-09-27 12:10:38 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7788 added the result comment to the game-list tags when the game list is
7789 exported to the clipboard
7791 2009-09-27 12:05:32 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7792 rewrote wevalgraph for better frontend/backend separation
7794 I have finished re-writing the eval-graph code to have some
7795 front-end / backe-end separation, something I had already started on my
7796 holiday in Norway (when I had no internet :-) ).
7797 The new code now appears to work exactly like the old code,
7798 and I guess it could be ported to gtk comparatively easily.
7800 2009-09-27 12:00:51 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7801 fix for keepalive and chat window
7803 I made a fix to the keepAlive option so it does not send the date command
7804 to the ICS after every move. This required changing ScheduleDelayedEvent()
7805 so that it does not execute the event if a new identical one gets scheduled.
7806 I also added the option to XBoard. Affects xboard.c (DOS!) and winboard.c
7808 (This also cures the regression of the winboard.c copyright patch)
7810 I extended the chatbox patch to also listen to channel tells, and divert
7811 them to a chatbox for that channel number. Affects
7812 backend.c and wchat.c
7814 That should make those patches fully operational. No docs for either of them
7817 2009-09-27 10:36:23 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7818 fixed parse bug for pgn files
7820 fixed the existing bug that the time-control tag was displayed as "?"
7821 in the game list; turns out it was never parsed on reading PGN files
7823 2009-09-27 10:35:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7824 allow the result comment as a display item in the game list
7826 2009-09-27 10:35:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7827 fixed the HAVE_LIBXPM-dependent compile errors
7829 2009-09-27 10:24:47 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7830 added a chat window to keep track of multiple conversations
7832 The chat-window patch affects:
7833 winboard.c, backend.c, winboard.rc, resource.h, backend.h, and adds
7834 the file winboard/wchat.c, which also affects makefile.gcc and makefile.ms.
7836 In addition I added a new option -keepAlive, which affects
7837 common.h (in addition to winboard.c and backend.c).
7839 As I had to modify backend.h, I also defined the -reset option type there,
7840 which we are going to add later. This required some changes
7841 to suppress warnings in wsettings.c.
7843 2009-09-27 10:22:16 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7844 more files for git to ignore
7846 most of these are generated by make distcheck
7848 2009-09-08 09:33:53 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7849 another bug fix found by Stanislav Brabec
7851 returned -1 in some case although the variable was a char...
7852 changed to signed char
7854 2009-09-20 23:13:13 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7855 Swapped 'tell' and 'message' parsing order for colorization.
7856 Sometimes messages are relayed as tells and should be colorized as tells.
7858 2009-09-08 09:10:34 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7859 added some more files to be distributed via make dist
7861 as suggested by Stanislav Brabec
7863 2009-09-08 09:01:07 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7864 fixed some implicit declarations reported by Stanislav Brabec
7866 2009-09-07 22:04:39 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7867 fixed a few more small bugs reported by Stanislav Brabec
7869 - A function uses a 'return;' statement, but has actually a value to
7870 return, like an integer ('return 42;') or similar: xboard voidreturn
7871 xengineoutput.c:766, 782
7873 - Program returns random data in a function at xengineoutput.c:602
7875 - With a new toolchain, AM_LDFLAGS cannot contain libraries. Linker
7876 ignores them. Fix is attached.
7878 - ToDo: Convenient name in most projects is TODO (autotools package it
7881 2009-09-06 19:11:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7882 reverted .texi file and fixed Makefile.am
7884 the problem was actually not in the texi-file, but the Makefile.am.
7885 Reverted changes in the .texi and fixed it (hopefully) correctly now.
7887 2009-09-06 18:23:01 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7888 get "make distcheck" to work
7890 needed to add all *.h files to Makefile.am and also the bitmaps that
7891 are needed and some other files. Also had modified copyright.texi.
7893 2009-09-05 09:54:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7894 changed to version 4.4.0
7896 2009-09-05 09:44:21 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7897 updated AUTHORS, README and ChangeLog files for release
7899 2009-09-05 08:52:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7902 2009-09-04 22:39:45 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7903 set castling rights after setting up a position
7905 I was going through old WB forum posts, and I encountered a
7906 bug report for a bug that I never fixed: The castling rights should
7907 be properly set (actually: cleared) after setting up a position
7908 in Edit Position mode (as opposed to pasting a FEN).
7910 2009-09-03 23:11:18 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7911 removed install files from master
7913 they now live in their own branch
7915 2009-09-03 22:30:18 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7916 updated polyglot protocol
7918 I added a new option type "-reset" to the protocol for the new option feature.
7919 4.4.0 does not implement it yet, but Michel wants it for future Polyglots,
7920 and I think it is best to update the protocol in one big swoop.
7921 So I want to already include it in the specs now. (engine-intf.html)
7922 I made xboard's response to an unknown option type compliant
7923 with the new protocol specs.
7925 2009-09-03 22:28:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7928 2009-09-03 20:47:13 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7929 Updated project files for DevCpp and Visual Studio to add wsettings.c
7931 2009-09-03 20:46:33 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7932 Added newline at end of file to silence warning.
7934 2009-08-31 20:29:49 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7935 workaround for error message for missing pieces used in variants
7936 and initstring bugfix: error messages showed for non-existing pieces
7937 showed up for old user supplied pixmaps.
7938 Loading a pixmap of the king for the missing pieces now.
7940 Another bad bug surfaced: the -initString argument does not work in any
7941 XBoard version! (Including 4.2.7b) The escape sequences for linefeed in
7942 the string are not understood: -initString "new\nrandom\n" actually sends
7943 the \ and n to the engine (which then does not recognize the line as a
7946 So I also added a patch to expand escape sequences in the InitString and
7947 ComputerString command-line options.
7949 2009-08-31 20:27:24 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7950 updated installe script
7952 I re-organized the doc files in the install, so they now all go in the
7953 WinBoard\doc folder (and none in the root). I so included the COPYING
7954 and COPYRIGHT files there. This required some updates of the links in
7955 some html files, and of the menu link to README.html in the install script.
7956 I also fixed an error with the current directory
7957 in the menu short-cuts of some engines (which started in the fonts folder,
7958 and could not find the opening book there...).
7960 2009-08-31 20:25:17 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7961 updated documentation
7963 2009-08-31 20:20:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7964 updated installer script
7966 2009-08-31 19:51:48 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7967 new help files for windows
7969 2009-08-25 20:41:29 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7972 2009-08-25 20:36:53 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7973 undid some previous changes
7975 some files got mixed up
7977 2009-08-25 20:32:22 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7978 fixed small bug in wsetting
7980 2009-08-25 20:29:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7981 trigger a focus switch to ICS input field when typing
7983 old behavior was that "." or "," triggered this,
7984 now every printable character except 1-9 will trigger the focus switch
7986 2009-08-25 20:26:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7987 bug in backend.c when receiving lines from ICS
7989 A space was appended to every character received from an ICS
7990 in stead of just at line breaks.
7992 2009-08-24 23:47:48 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7993 fixed warning messages from compiler
7995 2009-08-23 14:24:38 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7998 this seems to fix it. Bug reported by Louis Zulli who also did the testing.
8000 2009-08-23 11:54:28 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8001 OK, this is the beefed up version of the Polyglot info-string kludge,
8004 2009-08-23 10:22:48 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8005 added missing X_LIBS references to Makefile.am
8007 2009-08-22 23:33:44 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8008 made the install script and executable
8010 2009-08-22 23:19:07 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8011 changed beta1 to beta2
8013 2009-08-22 23:14:11 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8014 fixed enable zippy in configure script and added some checks for OS X
8016 make tried to compile zippy even when --disable-zippy was given.
8017 Also fixed a bug in xboard.c where #ifdef instead of #if was used
8018 to test for ZIPPY (it's either 0 or 1, so we need #if). Also added
8019 some special checks for OS X, not sure if these will do it, but it's a start;)
8021 2009-08-22 19:09:54 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8022 added configure summary to configure output, also cleaned up configure.ac a bit
8024 used AS_HELP_STRING where possible
8026 2009-08-22 18:10:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8027 added check for malloc.h
8029 this should fix a build error on OS X
8031 2009-08-22 17:47:44 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8032 A small cosmetic change in the size of buttons
8033 inside a groupbox of the Engine-Setup dialog.
8035 2009-08-22 17:32:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8036 make xboard usable with UCI engines
8038 I made a small patch in xoptions.c (where the corresponding Engine Settings
8039 dialog was for XBoard), to make it at least usable for UCI engines: I now
8040 divide the options over upto 4 columns, if there are too many to fit into
8041 a single column. This seems to work. Still looks very ugly, but it is
8044 2009-08-22 17:30:05 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8045 fix premove for winboard
8047 This might fix the illusive premove problem. In 4.2.7 the code was not properly
8048 indented, and this led to an unbalanced braces error that I then fixed the
8049 wrong way. Click-click premoves did only work after clicking the toSquare twice.
8050 It might be that they actually did work after clicking it once,
8051 but that the highlights were not displayed (although set)
8052 for lack of a display refresh.
8054 2009-08-22 17:28:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8055 fixed bug for double saved games
8057 This patch should solve the problem with doubly saved games when XBoard is
8058 closed. I calculate a cecksum of each saved game now (including move comments),
8059 and suppress saving if the checksum is not changed.
8061 2009-08-22 17:25:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8062 fixed xengineoutput.c, to keep the duplicated code identical to that of wengineo.c.
8064 2009-08-22 17:24:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8065 updated xboard.texi: added warning that pixmaps are not build for all variants
8067 2009-08-22 17:19:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8068 added a dialog for engine-specific option settings
8070 2009-08-22 17:09:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8071 updated some documentation
8073 2009-08-22 17:07:10 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8074 fixed several bugs in the backend and added some more polyglot support
8076 * I added recognition for the new UCI3 option types that are recognized in the WB
8077 option features, to make sure this version is compatible with future Polyglots.
8078 Also fixed a bug that failed to strip an asterisk prefix from the first
8081 * I fixed the ICS-time-in-PGN bug.
8083 * I fixed a bug which caused a space to be missing when long lines broken up by
8086 2009-08-22 17:02:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8087 better polyglot support for engine ouput
8089 I fixed the algorithm for clearing the Engine Output window to work better with
8090 the latest Polyglot, whight outputs UCI "info strings" amongst the thinking
8093 2009-08-22 16:23:32 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
8094 Beginnings of installer for 4.4.0. HGM asked me to forward the nsi file,
8095 but it seemed best to just add the installer tree to git even though
8096 it's not finished. You must install NSIS then FontName-0.7.exe
8097 (included in installer folder) then run build.bat in the same directory.
8099 2009-08-05 22:18:29 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8100 patch backend.c to make the -noGUI option also work in ICS mode.
8102 2009-08-01 13:09:49 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8103 temporary fix for pre-select
8105 As a temporary kludge I replaced looking into the holdings for the piece type
8106 by figuring out which piece would belong on the clicked holdings square.
8107 This is a non-trivial process, as it depends on which pieces participate
8108 in a certain variant.
8110 2009-07-30 00:19:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8111 changed click-click moves
8113 I got complaints about the way XBoard 4.4.0 handles click-click moves,
8114 in particular changing the selected piece after selecting King
8115 (for which I suppressed interference with FRC castling in a rather brutal way).
8116 People tell me it is very annoying that clicks sometimes don't work to select a piece.
8117 WinBoard uses refined logic in the back-end to handle this, but the XBoard
8118 front-end is not interfaced with that yet.
8119 (This would require a major rewrite of the mouse handler.)
8120 This temporary patch suppresses this behavior in all variants that do not support
8121 Fischer castling, and even there only exhibit it for Rook-after-King selection
8122 (which will be interpreted as an attempt to enter a castling move as K x own R).
8124 2009-07-26 08:43:35 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8125 option -adjudicateDrawMoves is not included in the XBoard list.
8127 added it to the option list
8129 2009-07-21 20:23:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8130 converted files from dos to unix format
8132 run dos2unix over a bunch of files
8134 2009-07-16 07:43:38 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
8135 Stripped out unused VersionInfo
8137 2009-07-15 23:16:19 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8138 changed version to 4.4.0.beta1
8140 2009-07-15 23:12:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8141 updated INSTALL file to add ./autogen.sh
8143 2009-07-15 22:44:05 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8144 higher number of engine options possible now
8146 I upped the number of options per engine from
8147 50 to 100, and the average number of characters per option from 10 to 20.
8149 2009-07-15 12:30:37 -0600 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8152 2009-07-14 23:41:36 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
8153 Added version information to resources.
8155 2009-07-14 23:40:50 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
8156 Added Jaws targets to IDE projects.
8158 2009-07-14 23:39:12 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
8159 Final makefile adjustments and compiling instructions.
8161 2009-07-13 22:35:17 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
8162 Cleaned up garbage left behind from my makefile update.
8164 2009-07-13 22:26:56 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
8165 Updated cmdline makefiles to be able to produce JAWS binaries.
8167 This breaks support for MSVC 4.x. It may still be possible to
8168 use that compiler if you obtain the latest SDK from Microsoft.
8169 MSVC 6.0 still works, but I had to change the target windows
8170 version to 0x500 which causes warnings about building beta
8171 applications. This is all due to the use of MENUBARINFO data
8172 type in the jaws binary. You can reduce the WINVER to 0x0400
8173 safely if you are not building a JAWS binary, and MSVC 4.x
8176 2009-07-13 22:26:10 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
8177 Removed dependency on jfwapi.h
8179 Allows anyone to compile a jaws compatible binary.
8181 2009-07-13 22:23:31 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
8182 Fixed duplicate resource in winboard.rc
8184 PLEASE remember to pull before commiting. This is the 2nd
8185 time I've fixed this. It's a waste of time to keep fixing
8188 2009-07-13 19:36:58 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8189 resolved conflict between Xt and Xaw libraries
8191 seems like we don't need to link against Xt.
8193 2009-07-13 19:33:57 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8194 help-menu was not un-grayed in the JAWS version, when it played with engines
8196 2009-07-13 19:29:53 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8197 integrated jaws into winboard
8199 I integrated the JAWS patch now into WinBoard in such a way that the
8200 JAWS and standard version can use the same resource file. This new
8201 winboard.c contains the improved dialog layot of the JAWS version,
8202 but none of the menus and JAWS-specific acclerator keys. The latter
8203 are now generated at run time by code in jaw.s. As a result jaws.h
8204 could be cancelled, as there the JAWS-specific defines are no
8205 longer needed outside jaws.c (now the .rc does not use them), and
8206 is incorporated in it.
8208 2009-07-12 15:37:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8209 fixed problem in autoconf using Xaw3d
8211 rewrote the section for Xaw3d in the autoconf file
8213 2009-07-12 15:29:28 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
8214 Added Jaws support to GCC makefile
8216 2009-07-12 15:28:20 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
8217 added help support: MSVC IDE and DevCpp IDE project files
8219 2009-07-12 15:26:49 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
8220 Removed obsolete makefiles and support files.
8222 2009-07-12 12:33:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8223 updated AUTHORS with the help of git. use
8225 git log --pretty=oneline --name-only --author=AUTHORNAME v4.2.7..HEAD |sort |uniq
8227 a bit of hand editing and a quick emacs macro later and you have a nice
8228 comma seperated list of all files changes by one author between two commits.
8230 2009-07-12 12:31:47 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8231 updated Changelog using git log --no-merges --pretty="* %ai: %s%n %b" HEAD v4.2.7
8233 2009-07-12 11:34:28 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8234 cleaned up some more copyright notices
8236 2009-07-12 11:22:30 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8237 updated copyright to reflect A. Scotte as copyright holder
8239 need to mention him, since the paperwork won't be finished before the next release
8241 2009-07-12 10:56:29 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8242 updated patchlevel to "k"
8244 2009-07-12 10:53:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8245 fixed autoconf problem with VERSION/PATCHLEVEL variables
8247 xboard used it's own version of PRODUCT, VERSION and PATCHLEVEL variables.
8248 Switched to PACKAGE_STRING provided by autoconf
8250 2009-07-12 10:29:46 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8251 cleaned up old CVS left overs
8253 removed $Id tags from all files
8255 2009-07-12 10:10:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8256 converted xhistory via dos2unix
8258 2009-07-12 10:09:24 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8259 fixed crash in history window
8261 someone discovered that opening the move-history window in XBoard leads to
8262 an immediate crash. Turns out that renaming the menu item broke it! (The
8263 name of the item was apprently used elsewhere in the code to access it,
8264 for putting a check mark there.)
8266 2009-07-12 10:04:30 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8267 fix for Animation of castling moves in Chess960
8269 Animation of castling moves in Chess960 turned out to sometimes make the
8270 king disappear from the display. For the time being I patched this in
8271 xboard.c to suppress animation of FRC castling moves altogether. As FRC
8272 castlings internally are represented as KxR, the to-square does not make
8273 sense anyway, which made the animation look very weird even when it led
8274 not to a king disappearance act. And the Rook move of a castling is never
8277 2009-07-11 22:44:53 -0600 Eric Mullins <eric@hiarcs.(none)>:
8278 Update GCC makefile to remove .obj targets.
8280 Dunno how they got in there, but they should be .o
8282 2009-07-11 22:42:41 -0600 Eric Mullins <eric@hiarcs.(none)>:
8283 Update makefile dependencies on help.c and help.h.
8285 2009-07-11 22:36:59 -0600 Eric Mullins <eric@hiarcs.(none)>:
8286 Allow compiling with MSVC6.0 and 4.1
8288 Move prototypes into help.h, after making sure that DWORD_PTR is
8289 defined. Include help.h from winboard.c and help.c so both files
8290 benefit from the definition.
8292 2009-07-11 18:26:16 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8293 lists these accelerator keys in the menus for JAWS
8295 2009-07-11 18:24:19 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8298 This patch allows the use of Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V for Copy Game
8299 and Paste even in I C S mode when the board has focus.
8301 2009-07-11 18:22:17 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8302 better handling of pasting a game without PGN tags
8304 patch in wclipbrd.h to make it smarter to decide between pasting
8305 a game or a position so it can handle games without PGN tags.
8306 If it doesn't parse as a FEN it is assumed to be a game.
8308 2009-07-11 18:20:56 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8309 fixed parser error for knight move
8311 The parser had a strange quirk: it recognized bd2 as a valid Knight move
8312 (Nb1-d2) while this SAN format should be reserved for Pawn moves only.
8314 2009-07-11 18:19:30 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8315 fixed a few warnings in connection with the help patch (now warning free)
8317 2009-07-11 18:13:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8318 some major re-assignment of accelerator keys in the JAWS
8320 2009-07-11 16:54:53 -0600 Eric Mullins <eric@hiarcs.(none)>:
8323 uptracked winboard.ini
8325 * Cleanup: moved "Some definitions required..." from winboard.c to config.h,
8326 and combined some definitions from borland w/ MS.
8328 * Changed internal HtmlHelp return type and 4th argument to facilitate various
8329 compilers. These changes, while not strictly adhering to HtmlHelp() conventions,
8330 won't impact anything since the function modified is internal only.
8332 * Modified HtmlHelp return values to integer to silence warnings.
8333 * Added help.c to the project in makefile.gcc & makefile.ms.
8334 * Fixed duplicate resource in winboard.rc.
8336 2009-07-09 22:08:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8337 added JAWS support; help files for Vista; bugfixes for winboard.c
8340 * help files should now work under Vista (the user has to have either
8341 a program to view old windows help files or to view html-files installed)
8342 * I fixed the tabbing between all windows that were added according to Tim's sugestions.
8343 * I added typing in of a move number in the move type-in dialog as a shortcut
8344 to going to that position by use of the < and > buttons. Mainly intended to
8345 ease life for the blind, but I think it can be generally useful.
8346 (Although the move-history dialog provides that functionality too,
8347 this is quicker if you don't happen to have it open.)
8348 * I added typing of a FEN in the move type-in dialog in Edit Position mode.
8349 (Which could not be used without mouse at all, and is defective
8350 in crazyhouse even with mouse, as there was no way to populate holdings.)
8352 2009-07-09 22:03:00 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8353 some bugfixes: ICS error handling
8355 * play a different sound for takebacks in ICS mode
8356 * pop up error messages for illegal moves for typed-in moves
8358 2009-07-09 21:50:41 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8359 removed no longer needed debug message
8361 2009-07-09 21:48:23 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8362 fixed compile error from a previous change
8364 2009-07-09 21:44:54 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8365 user selectable font in game list
8367 This makes the game list use the same (user selectable) font
8368 as the the move-history window.
8370 2009-06-30 21:27:34 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8371 fixed typos in xboard.texi documentation.
8373 2009-06-30 21:16:59 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8376 2009-06-27 17:06:26 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8377 changed font in engine output window
8379 The engine-output window now uses the same font as the move-history window
8380 (which was selectable in the "Options -> Fonts..." menu, while the other
8383 2009-06-27 17:03:19 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8384 fixed some characters in xboard.texi
8386 It seems that copying manual sections from the RTF to th texi file did
8387 somehow mess up the double-quote characters, and changed them into some
8388 strange (unicode?) symbols.
8390 2009-06-27 16:56:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8391 two shogi related bugfixes
8393 I discovered a bug in the move generator for the Shogi Dragon King. I
8394 guess it went unnoticed so far because this is a promoted version of the
8395 Rook, which hardly occurs in games. (moves.c)
8397 There was also a problem with the piecesfix I sent you before; Shogi
8398 chosen as initial variant did use wrong piece symbols. (I had tested this
8399 on gothic, but there it happened to work for a different reason, unique to
8400 gothic.) This affects xboard.c.
8402 2009-06-27 16:54:04 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8405 2009-06-27 16:51:02 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8406 adds bitmaps for shogi promotions, and selects the bitmaps or
8407 pixmaps for the more rarely used piece types on a per-variant basis.
8409 2009-06-27 16:44:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8410 adds new piece types in the promotion dialog and edit-position piece menu
8412 2009-06-27 16:13:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8413 updated bitmaps files: files for fairy pieces where missing,
8414 others had names that didn't work with autoloading.
8416 2009-06-27 16:06:35 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8417 fixed a bug concerning bitmaps
8419 2009-06-27 15:53:45 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8420 give a default directory for bitmaps files (tiny change)
8422 this is also one of the debian patches, should be rewritten to use
8423 the correct install directory. No Author was given.
8425 2009-06-27 15:47:52 -0700 Brian May <>:
8426 verbose_error_message_about_recognized_options (tiny change from Debian patches)
8428 2009-06-27 15:45:14 -0700 Matt Zimmerman <>:
8429 add a visual low time warning (tiny change from Debian patches)
8431 2009-06-24 23:31:52 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8432 dos 2 unix conversion of backend.c
8434 2009-06-24 23:30:07 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8435 exchanged some sprintf with snprintf found in a patch for the debian system,
8436 extended it a bit to other sprintf's original patch included only 11 lines
8437 by Florian Ernst <florian@debian.org>
8439 2009-06-24 23:07:23 -0700 Mark Ioli <chessknight>:
8440 enabled a patch for default settings in winboard
8442 2009-06-24 22:53:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8443 updated copyright notice
8446 2009-06-24 22:52:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8447 patches a bug in chosing the initial board size on a virgin startup
8448 I introduced recently
8450 2009-06-24 22:49:33 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8451 I put in testing for the winning condition in 3checks
8453 on a check it just goes through the entire game to subject
8454 every position on a check test, to see if there were two more.
8456 2009-06-24 22:47:01 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8457 updated copyright notice in docs
8459 2009-06-24 22:41:40 -0700 Florian Ernst <florian@debian.org>:
8460 added small patch from debian (tiny change)
8462 according to the debian patch tracker, this patch is by
8463 Florian Ernst <florian@debian.org>.
8464 It fixes whitespace issues in filename called from cmail.
8466 2009-06-24 22:33:13 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8467 converted dos2unix format for xboard.texi
8469 2009-06-24 22:31:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8470 deleted two more files that don't need to be in git
8472 these files can be generated by autogen.sh
8474 2009-06-21 12:10:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8475 major overhaul of the -stickyWindows feature
8477 I did a major overhaul of the -stickyWindows feature.
8478 The game-list and ICS-interaction windows are now also sticky.
8479 I also added a form of stickiness when the main window is resized;
8480 edges of auxiliary windows sticking to the right or bottom side of
8481 the main window stay attached when the window resizes
8482 (due to nr of board squares or their size). The way the window
8483 coordinates are saved in the .ini file is now relative to the
8484 main window, and some dummy options are added to be able to
8485 recognize right- and bottom-edge sticking, and reconstruct that
8486 when WB starts up with another board size. Also added are
8487 volatile options to ensure there will be space for auxiliary windows
8488 above and left of the main window.
8490 2009-06-21 12:07:01 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8491 fixed long-algebraic form of drops
8493 The WB parser turned out not to understand the long-algebraic form
8494 of drops send by an ICS. (like B/@@-e4), so even with
8495 legality testing off I now use the SAN move for drops.
8497 2009-06-18 18:35:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8498 Refined stalemate adjudication in Suicide, some cleanup
8500 Refined stalemate adjudication in Suicide, which seems to be not always won
8501 for the stalemated side, but for the side with the smallest number of pieces.
8502 Cleaned up the adjudication code in the process. (backend.c moves.c, moves.h)
8503 Also includes a tiny change in the -autoKibitz format, as requested on
8506 2009-06-18 18:32:57 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8507 Enhancement of the way -autoLogo decides which logos to display
8509 2009-06-16 00:06:59 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8510 bugfix and enhancement in autoKibitz mode
8512 changed the format of the autoKibitz: score/depth in stead of depth/score,
8513 as in PGN. I also supress the ICS time for the move now in the PGN
8514 if extended info is available. When enhancing the functionality of
8515 the autoKibitz command (using the opponent engine kibitz for the saved PGN)
8516 I discovered that the xengineoutput.c in our tree was obsolete,
8517 and contained a routine of which the arguments were no longer compatble
8518 with the call from backend.c, and caused segfaulting. I copied in
8519 the corresponding routine in wengineo.c, which was compatible. That the
8520 compiler did not flag this is a sign of badly organized code, I suppose...
8522 The enhancement itself affected backend.c.
8524 2009-06-16 00:04:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8525 modified clock layout
8527 I altered the display of the clocks in the presence of engine logos; I used to
8528 stack them, but some inquiry on Talkchess sowed that people disliked the
8529 stacking. So now I display them next to each other again, but as 2-line-high
8530 fields to make room for te logos.
8532 2009-06-15 23:59:32 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8533 new zippy option zippyShortGame
8535 On request of Mike Adams I added a new zippy option, -zippyShortGame,
8536 to make life more difficult for abusers of abort and disconnect for cheating.
8538 2009-06-15 23:56:40 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8539 fixed some bugs in the animation of atomic captures
8541 2009-06-13 15:27:26 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8544 I had overlooked one place from which the FEN writer
8545 (of whicf I changed the argument types), which made WB crash
8546 if you copied a FEN (or PGN that cotained FEN) to the clipboard.
8547 I must have overlooked a warning during compile, or some depedency
8548 is not correct in the makefile. Anyway, wclipboard.c had to be changed.
8549 I also moved adjudication of some losing conditions to before tetsing
8550 for stalemate, (e.g. in atomic, if your king get destroyd you lose,
8551 even if you have no moves after that because it was your only piece.).
8552 this affects backend.c.
8553 I had used the same bits in the rule-modifier flags for indicating
8554 mandatory capture as was already used for indicating FRC-style castling.
8555 This led to frequent illegal move calls in FRC... (moves.h)
8557 2009-06-13 10:45:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8558 cleaned up HTML in FAQ.html -- still need to work on content
8560 2009-06-13 09:36:26 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8561 added option for work-around for some FRC engines in regards to FRCFENs
8563 It suddenly occurred to me that I had promised on CCC to include an option
8564 to provide a work-around for the problem that some FRC engines do not
8565 understand FRC FENs (and thus do not play at all under WinBoard,
8566 as FRC always has to begin with sending the initial position).
8567 So I added the options -firstNeedsNoncompliantFEN, -secondNeedsNoncompliantFEN.
8568 This affects winboard.c and xboard.c, (for defining the option),
8569 common.h, backend.h, backend.c, (for implementing it),
8570 xboard.texi and winboard.rtf (decribing it).
8571 This option provides users with a means to always force the FEN castling field
8572 to KQkq (but can be used for many other work-arounds as well).
8574 2009-06-13 09:30:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8575 fixed bug with random calls
8577 There also seemed to be a bug with the shuffling of opening positions;
8578 I had changed the declaration of the position number from
8579 long long int to u64 to comply with MSVC, but this suppressed shuffling
8580 completely. I now changed it to int. I recently noted a problem with true
8581 randomizing anyway: this was based on srand(time()), but time() apparently
8582 did not change fast enough, so that starting several games in rapid succession
8583 (because the book line contained a 3-fold repetition) produced identical games.
8584 So I now seed the random once and for all during startup, based on the msec of
8585 the time mark, and removed the other calls to srand().
8587 2009-06-13 09:26:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8588 changed name for fairymax program in xboard.h
8590 2009-06-13 09:25:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8591 removed my name from copyright message in help->about menu
8593 2009-06-13 09:22:02 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8594 fixed -stickyWindows option
8596 I figured out why -stickyWindows was not working in XP and Vista
8597 (while it always worked under Win2K), and I think I found a fix for
8598 it that works under all Windows versions. (I tried XP and Win2K.)
8600 2009-06-13 09:20:38 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8601 Updated docs for Engine-Settings menu
8603 2009-06-13 09:19:05 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8604 Awareness of winning conditions for atomic and giveaway variants; two bugfixes
8606 fixed bug in claim verification
8607 Bugfix on initial position of Great Shatranj
8609 2009-06-13 09:16:47 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8610 Legality testing (mandatory capture) in giveaway variants
8612 2009-06-13 09:16:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8613 don't ignore winboard/parser.c
8615 2009-06-13 09:12:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8616 Added new variant Twilight Chess
8618 2009-06-13 09:08:57 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8619 some renaming and restructuring of WB menu items, to conform more to XBoard
8621 2009-06-13 09:07:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8622 Fixed bug in atomic patch that interfered with non-atomic variants
8624 2009-06-10 21:46:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8625 fixed different use of engine option compared to Polyglot
8627 it turns out the new Polyglot uses a sightly different version
8628 of the GUI->engine option command than the one I proposed
8629 (and implemented in XBoard; Michel sneaked in an '=' sign
8630 between the NAME and VALUE of the option, to allow for
8631 more unambiguous parsing. I guess in principle this is a good idea,
8632 so I adapted XBoard to Polyglot rather than the other way around.
8633 The result is that there are canges in xboard.c, and the documentation.
8634 I noticed that I unjustly had internationalized the option strings
8635 to be send to the engine in xoptions.c; this was of course nonsense,
8636 as this was WB protocol. So I undid that too.
8638 2009-06-10 21:37:47 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8639 add the already supported variants 3check and great (=Great Shatranj)
8640 to the New Variant... menu.
8642 2009-06-10 21:32:22 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8643 animate explosions in variant atomic (if animate moves is on).
8645 2009-06-10 21:30:19 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8646 fixed castling bug in variant twokings.
8648 2009-06-10 21:22:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8649 fixed forteitary wins for special game variations
8651 feature that corrects forfeitary wins (e.g. on time)
8652 of a bare King to draws of course breaks proper operation
8653 in losers, suicide and giveaway
8655 2009-06-09 21:02:51 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8656 automatically test ini file extension for files from commandline option @filename
8658 The winboard.c is a patch that automatically tries indirection files on the
8659 command line (@filename type arguments) also with an extension .ini if the name itself
8660 did not match any existing file and contained no period. This saves the user typing the
8661 .ini all the time (which I started to find pretty annoying while working on the installer
8664 2009-06-08 15:23:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8665 added gamelisttag option to xboard
8667 also updated documentation.
8669 2009-06-08 15:20:00 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8670 updated RTF file for winboard
8672 2009-06-06 09:12:48 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8673 fixed syntax error in texi file
8675 2009-06-06 08:57:52 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8676 updated to patchlevel "j"
8678 2009-06-06 09:00:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8679 fixed adjudicating probelm in Shantranj
8681 Refrain from adjudicating a draw based on insufficient mating material
8682 (except bare King vs bare King) in Shatranj (where in this case you can
8683 still win by baring the opponent's King).
8685 2009-06-06 08:55:17 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8686 updated documentation and FAQ
8688 2009-06-04 22:52:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8689 source clean up. Fix compiler warning, removed unused variables, etc.
8691 2009-06-04 20:43:29 -0700 Eric Mullins <emwine at earthlink.net>:
8692 adding support for different windows compiler
8694 Eric kindly provided us with some makefiles for different windows
8695 compiler and also fixed some issues that came up while using those compilers.
8697 2009-06-04 18:27:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8698 cleanup: got rid of a lot of files that are not needed for a new release
8700 lots of documentation was available in several places,
8701 old unused source files and not used graphics file were floating around
8702 in the tree. This should clean up most of it. No need to keep these files
8703 around, especially since we are using version control.
8705 2009-05-29 18:56:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8706 Added the Action-menu items that allow the user to adjudicate
8707 ongoing games in Two-Machines mode. This was an already existing
8708 backend function from Winboard_x; I only had to create a menu item for it
8709 to be called. Due to an oversight I had forgotten to do that so far.
8710 (Logically, I should have done it in the 4.3.5 release,
8711 where I updated the XBoard menus to conform to the WinBoard menus.)
8713 I tested them, and they seem to work. (As expected.)
8715 2009-05-28 22:23:00 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8716 updated patchlevel to "i"
8718 2009-05-28 22:19:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8719 small change to mousewheel support; two changes in window behaviour
8721 * Visible effects during resizing suppressed, bug in chosing new size fixed.
8722 * No longer reserves left and top margins next to main window on first popup.
8723 * built in some hysteresis into mousewheel support, ignorng the first event in any new
8724 direction to suppress effects from accidential mouse movement.
8726 2009-05-28 22:11:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8727 corrected 'animate dragging'
8729 I finally figured out how the 'animate dragging' works in XBoard,
8730 so that I could add code to do the unstacking of multiple pieces
8731 in the holdings, rather than always leaving an empty square while
8732 you drag them. (And then suddenly re-growing the remaining pieces
8733 as you make the drop.) It does not look as fancy as in WinBoard
8734 yet, because the counts still only decrease when you release the
8735 piece, rather than when you lift it. But this is not nearly as
8736 disturbing as leaving empty holdings (if only temporarily) when
8737 you still have pieces there.
8739 2009-05-28 22:06:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8740 Added comand-line options -debugFile (as synonym for -nameOfDebugFile,
8741 as WinBoard also has these synonyms), and -engineDebugOutput
8742 (wich already existed in the backend).
8744 2009-05-28 21:57:53 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8745 updated documentation for new release
8747 2009-05-28 21:55:51 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8748 added Xiangqi perpetual-chase detection
8750 2009-05-28 00:06:53 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8751 Updated all files to GPL version 3.
8753 2009-05-28 00:03:32 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8754 converted two files from dos to unix format
8756 2009-05-27 23:12:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8757 updated INSTALL, NEWS and other files for new release
8759 cleaned up a bit and updated some information in the text files.
8761 2009-05-07 21:48:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8762 winboard/config.h shouldn't be in .gitignore, only ./config.h
8764 2009-05-07 21:47:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8765 bumped patchlevel to 0g
8767 2009-05-07 21:46:02 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8768 corrected path in makefile
8770 2009-05-07 21:45:48 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8773 2009-05-07 21:45:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8774 added firstOptions, secondOptions, noGUI, firstXBook, secondXBook
8776 2009-05-07 21:44:03 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8777 handle promotion case for Shogi
8779 2009-05-07 21:43:34 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8780 add note about RESULT command for GUI programmers
8782 2009-05-07 21:42:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8783 small changes to book.c
8785 added code for different board sizes
8786 added some debuginfo
8787 handle promotion of pieces
8789 2009-05-05 23:07:18 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8790 added a .gitignore file
8792 2009-05-03 12:41:06 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8793 wrong line ending for Unix... ran dos2unix on both files
8795 2009-05-02 13:51:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8796 fixed texinfo files, added windows help file, removed config.h from git
8798 texinfo.in is not needed anymore, since it only provided a
8799 version string, but this can be created automatically using autotools
8801 deleted config.h from version control, since it is automatically created.
8802 added winboard.hlp file (not sure if needed)
8804 2009-04-26 23:34:34 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8805 updated autoconf init file
8807 * renamed autoconf init file from configure.in to configure.ac
8808 * added bug-report email address to ac_init
8809 * replaced ac_output(...) with ac_config_files, ac_config_commands and ac_output
8811 2009-04-26 14:49:03 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8812 parser.c is generated by lex, so it shouldn't be tracked
8813 and also parcer.c shouldn't be in Makefile.am
8815 2009-04-26 14:44:51 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8816 added book.c to Makefile.am
8818 2009-04-26 13:49:15 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8819 use autoheader to create config.h.in
8821 no need to track this in git anymore
8823 2009-04-26 11:13:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8824 fixed autoheader warings, remove depreciated acconfig.h
8826 2009-04-26 10:30:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8829 2009-05-02 10:55:39 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8830 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.16
8832 2009-05-02 10:50:10 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8833 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.15
8835 2009-05-02 10:38:39 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8836 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.14
8838 2009-05-02 10:13:41 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8839 HGM fixed cygwin compile for winboard
8841 2009-04-24 16:11:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8842 cross compilier working
8844 2009-04-19 10:00:52 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8845 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.13
8847 2009-04-19 09:52:47 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8848 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.12
8850 2009-04-19 09:48:59 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8851 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.8
8853 2009-04-19 09:44:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8854 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.7
8856 2009-04-19 09:39:19 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8857 changes by H.G. Muller; version 4.3.4
8859 2009-04-19 09:34:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8860 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.2
8862 2009-04-19 10:26:24 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8863 changes from H.G. Muller
8865 2009-04-16 23:06:13 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8866 cleaned up the directory a bit. Removed winboard-dm-beta,
8867 merged the two Changelogs together
8869 2009-04-16 14:12:48 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
8870 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20060129
8872 2009-04-16 14:09:33 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
8873 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20060112
8875 2009-04-16 14:04:02 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
8876 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20051231
8878 2009-04-16 13:59:12 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
8879 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20051129
8881 2009-04-16 13:53:41 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
8882 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20050322
8884 2009-04-10 04:18:59 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8885 translated a handfull of strings and set the codeset to UTF-8
8886 for the translations.
8888 2009-03-18 03:20:50 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8889 Translation: added German po file (roughly 50% translated)
8891 2009-03-01 04:23:54 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8892 fixed bug #22853: changed all .Xdefaults to .Xresources in xboard.texi
8894 2009-03-01 02:43:43 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8895 fixed bug #25672, patch #6182 by adding DESTDIR support to Makefile.in
8897 2009-03-01 02:33:26 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8898 fixed a warning message in the configure script
8900 2009-02-28 22:58:57 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8901 fixed parser.l. Should fix bug #22812
8903 2009-02-28 22:58:14 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8904 fixed parser.l. Should fix bug #22812
8906 2009-02-28 22:55:30 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8907 added myself to the AUTHOR file
8909 2007-06-15 04:26:57 +0000 Mark Loli <chessknight>:
8910 Initial check-in of NSIS Winboard installer files.
8912 * 06/12/2005: bugfix some more possible buffer overflows.
8914 * 06/27/2004: added simple icsEngineAnalyze for xboard
8916 * 06/26/2004: added icsEngineAnalyze for winboard: Analyze observe games
8917 with a chessprogram on a Internet Chess Server (ICS)
8919 * 02/12/2004: Bugfix ICS interaction console crashed while chess
8920 engine starting and user type in some stuff. We wait now to finish
8923 * 02/11/2004: Winboard: Added color lines for the ics interaction
8924 console if zippy used
8926 * 02/09/2004: Added mousewheel support for winboard. Play moves
8927 backward and forward with the mousewheel.
8929 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.7 -- Fri Nov 28 13:36:00 PST 2003 -- Tim Mann
8931 * 11/26/2003: In WinBoard, setting the -debug flag now logs ICS output
8932 to WinBoard.debug too. (This isn't needed in xboard because ICS
8933 output already goes to stdout, so it's easy to capture along with the
8934 debug output on stderr.) This was issue #280 in the ToDo file.
8936 * 11/23/2003: Cleaned up some minor problems in cygwin.mak. Thanks to
8937 Hans Werner Strube for the problem report.
8939 * 11/23/2003: Updated the default list of chess servers in
8940 winboard/defaults.h. Deleted two that appear to be dead and added a
8941 new one that is active.
8943 * 11/19/2003: Swapped icon_white.bm and icon_black.bm in XBoard.
8944 Hopefully this will get them the right way around by default on more X
8945 window managers. I wish I understood this better.
8947 * 11/18/2003: Implemented a simple 32-bit random number generator for
8948 WinBoard, replacing the Windows rand(), which ranges only up to
8949 0x7fff. Formerly on Windows, only zippy.lines sayings that started in
8950 the first 32767 bytes of the file could ever be used. This was issue
8951 #505 from the ToDo file.
8953 * 11/16/2003: The xboard man page and info files are now built from a
8954 common set of texinfo source files, and the xboard man page now covers
8955 cmail as well. Formerly, ever since the texinfo file was first
8956 contributed to the project, it was separate from the man page and the
8957 two files had to be updated in parallel, making for a maintenance
8958 nightmare. To make combining the files possible, I took the Perl
8959 script "texi2man" from the GNU Units project and added support for a
8960 larger subset of the texinfo markup language. I then carefully
8961 compared the old man page and old texinfo file to make sure the latest
8962 and clearest words survived into the new combined texinfo file. It
8963 would be great to merge in WinBoard's help file too, but that's a
8964 larger project. It would have to be heavily conditionalized to
8965 deal with differences in features between XBoard and WinBoard.
8967 * 11/15/2003: Cleaned up and applied a small patch from Daniel
8968 Mehrmann, to stop overly long PVs in thinking output from causing a
8969 buffer overflow crash in backend.c.
8971 * 11/5/2003: When a chess engine sends a "telluser" command (including
8972 the cases where "tellall" or "tellopponent" acts like telluser), the
8973 information now goes into a nonmodel popup that is automatically
8974 dismissed when the user clicks anywhere on the board. This fix is
8975 more significant on WinBoard, where formerly you got a fully modal
8976 dialog that had to be dismissed by clicking on OK before anything else
8977 could happen. The bug was issue #406 in the ToDo file.
8979 * 11/1/2003: Removed email addresses from this file to reduce spam
8980 load, as it gets linked to from the Web.
8982 * 11/1/2003: Updated READ_ME and winboard/READ_ME.txt.
8984 * Modified xboard and winboard makefiles to be able to build the
8985 project in the new combined directory structure.
8987 * Applied a small security fix to pxboard, from Martin Maeok.
8989 * Fixed a bug in the game list dialog. The change in 4.2.6 to opening
8990 games in text mode (meant to avoid getting extra \r's into comments)
8991 caused a new bug in determining seek offsets when parsing a game file
8992 to form the game list. Also, the change was incomplete; on some code
8993 paths games were still being opened in binary mode. Thanks to Lenik
8994 Terenin for reporting the offset bug. I've now gone back to always
8995 using binary mode when reading game files, and I've fixed the comment
8996 bug by adding code to remove \r's from parsed comments explicitly. I
8997 still use text mode for writing game files so that games written by
8998 WinBoard will have Windows-style line endings.
9000 * Fix for minor bug in WinBoard installer. If you chose a non-default
9001 destination directory, the default directory was still used for a
9002 couple of unimportant things, namely setting the App Paths registry
9003 keys (unused by WinBoard) and trying to copy the existing WinBoard.ini
9004 file to WinBoard.old. I inherited this bug from the InstallShield 5
9005 sample template. Thanks to "l.d." for noticing the incorrect keys.
9007 * Patch from Chris Priest: when two engines are being run through rsh,
9008 avoid reusing the same stderr port for both. I'm not sure why this
9009 should be needed, but it's harmless, at least.
9011 * Bugfix: The kludge to deal with old engines that give an error
9012 message because they don't know the "st" command was too sloppy; it
9013 could hit on an "st" substring anywhere in an error message. GNU
9014 Chess 4 is the only engine I know of where the kludge was needed, so I
9015 changed the kludge to match a longer, more GNU-specific string.
9017 * Changed the WinBoard self-extracting installer to choose a unique
9018 temporary subdirectory name within the Windows temp directory instead
9019 of always putting wb-setup directly in temp. Besides being better
9020 practice, this avoids the need to deltree wb-setup first, which
9021 occasionally alarms someone who thinks that deltree is only used by
9022 trojans to delete all your files. (Yes, I'm serious.)
9024 * Fixed a bug where FICS-style "wild/0" strings were not parsed as the
9025 proper wild type. The "/" was not being skipped.
9027 * Fixed a WinBoard bug where temporary files created by game
9028 copy/paste were being created in the root directory of the current
9029 drive instead of the TMP directory and were not always deleted on exit.
9031 * Fixed a small bug in winboard.c's ErrorDialog() function. Thanks to
9032 "Ron" (no last name given). The bug might have caused a problem when
9033 pressing OK or Cancel in an error dialog when more than one error
9034 dialog was being displayed, but I'm not really sure.
9036 * Removed a hack that worked around a bug in very old versions of
9037 Crafty, where it would sometimes reply "illegal move" to a "."
9038 command. The hack kept us from recognizing real illegal move messages
9039 in analyze mode from engines that don't respond to the "." command.
9040 Thanks to Fabien Letouzey for the report.
9042 * Fixed a bug in the xboard version of GetDelayedEvent. It would
9043 return the most recently scheduled event even if it had already fired.
9044 This caused at least one visible error: in -ics -xreuse mode, starting
9045 the engine again and seeing another "feature done=1" would re-run the
9046 initialization code in InitBackEnd3, including the code that opens the
9047 connection to ICS. The WinBoard version didn't have this bug. Thanks
9048 to Bob Hyatt for the bug report.
9050 * The promotion popup for ICC wild 26 (giveaway) now includes King.
9051 Thanks to Fredrik Josefsson for the bug report.
9053 * The first game in a file (or being pasted from the clipboard) can
9054 now start with a bare move -- no PGN tags, no move number "1", etc.
9055 Suggested by Shane Harrelson. One could imagine taking this farther
9056 and accepting something like "e4 e5 1/2-1/2 d4 d5" as two games, but
9057 I haven't done that.
9059 * Bug fix: xboard didn't really accept a paste of multiple games,
9060 contrary to what I wrote when adding the feature to WinBoard in
9061 4.2.4. Now it works in both.
9063 * Fixed generic start/end of game messages to work on chess.net, where
9064 they put ratings in parens after the player names.
9066 * Updated config.sub and config.guess to newer versions from
9067 automake-1.4p5-2. This makes configure work with MacOS X + X11.
9069 * Bugfix: when examining a game fragment on FICS where black plays
9070 first, don't show two "(0:00.000)" times on the initial "none" move.
9072 * If TestLegality is on and one of the engines makes an illegal move
9073 in TwoMachines mode, it forfeits immediately. Formerly the game would
9074 get stuck at that point and the engine that made the illegal move
9075 would eventually lose on time.
9077 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.6 -- Fri Feb 1 22:26:31 PST 2002
9080 Another small bugfix release.
9082 * Put in a small change from Alexander Mai to allow xboard to build in
9083 an OS/2 EMX environment.
9085 * Fix WinBoard-only bug where editing a PGN file with comments would
9086 insert more \r characters before the \n after every Load/Save cycle.
9087 For some unknown reason we were reading the files in "rb" mode but
9088 writing them in "a" mode, so we kept the \r characters on reading and
9089 added an extra one on writing. Fix: change the "rb" to "r". Thanks
9090 to Joel (last name not given) for the bug report.
9092 * Put the arguments to rsh/remsh in the right order for better
9093 portability. Thanks to Michael Kalisz.
9095 * FreezeUI is now implemented in WinBoard; it was previously only
9096 implemented in xboard. This function prevents the user from entering
9097 moves or other commands while we are waiting for an engine to
9098 initialize itself. Implementing it fixes a bug where the user could
9099 start a game (etc.) during feature negotiation. One of the symptoms
9100 of this bug was that we could send "new" one or move moves *after* the
9103 * Fixed some handle leaks (WinBoard only), including a nasty one that
9104 leaked one handle per command sent to ICS. Thanks to several folks
9105 who helped characterize the bug and tried to look for leaks.
9107 * We now install and look for the info file in ${prefix}/share/info
9108 instead of ${prefix}/info. The latter is still the default in
9109 autoconf, but the former is currently used in Red Hat Linux and
9112 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.5 -- Sat Dec 15 11:42:51 PST 2001
9115 * Changed the bundled GNU Chess 5.02 in the WinBoard package to
9116 include a much smaller book and to use much less hash table space by
9117 default (8 MB transposition table, 0.5 MB pawn evaluation table). The
9118 large book included with 4.2.4 made the WinBoard download too big for
9119 some people, and the default hash tables were larger than the
9120 available physical memory on some people's computers. I built the
9121 small book by running Crafty's "small.zip" book line collection
9122 through a Perl script that makes it look enough like real PGN games
9123 that the GNU Chess book builder will accept it. The script and some
9124 minor patches to GNU Chess 5 are available in the WinBoard source
9125 distribution and at http://www.tim-mann.org/gnuchess.html.
9127 * Fixed a bug in the code that deals with engines that complain that
9128 "time" and "otim" are illegal moves. This was a new bug in 4.2.4.
9130 * Revamped the implementation of ToStart in analysis mode. Formerly
9131 there was some ill-conceived code that would try to get back to the
9132 start of the game by doing a "new" command (and all the followup
9133 commands that requires) while remaining in analysis mode. This is
9134 problematic for engine authors to support, though it works with
9135 Crafty. This code was trying to solve the problem of ToStart being
9136 slow because the engine would try to start an analysis after every
9137 "undo" command all the way back to the start. But ToEnd already had a
9138 much better solution to this problem, and now ToStart does the same
9139 thing: we exit from analysis mode and enter force mode instead,
9140 make/unmake moves to get to the end/start of the game, and then
9141 reenter analysis mode.
9143 * Formerly, Zippy could try to start playing a game before the engine
9144 was initialized; that is, during the initial timeout for protover 1
9145 engines, or before "feature done=1" for protover 2 engines. We now
9146 wait until the engine is initialized before connecting to ICS, which
9147 fixes this in the common case. If you turn off engine reuse for
9148 multiple games (that is, if you give the -xreuse option), there could
9149 still be problems; see item 503 in the ToDo file. Thanks to Dieter
9150 Buerssner for the bug report.
9152 * Bugfix: All WinBoard versions since the merge with WinBoard Plus
9153 (but not xboard) have had a bug in changing the PeriodicUpdates,
9154 PonderNextMove, and ShowThinking options from the menu. The bug
9155 mostly just caused changing these options during a game to not take
9156 effect until after the next reset. For TwoMachines games, though,
9157 changing PonderNextMove just before the game would take effect
9158 immediately for the second engine but not until the next game for the
9159 first engine. Thanks to Koundinya Veluri for the bug report.
9161 * Bugfix: In 4.2.4, we sometimes got confused when trying to leave and
9162 reenter analyze mode. One symptom was that Analyze File did not work.
9163 Thanks to Igor Syry for the bug report.
9165 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.4 -- Sun Dec 9 14:56:30 PST 2001
9168 * WinBoard now includes GNU Chess 5.02 in place of GNU Chess 5.00.
9170 * WinBoard's PasteGameFromClipboard will now handle a paste with
9171 multiple games in it, popping up the game list dialog. xboard
9172 already did this. Suggested by Robert Gerstman.
9174 * We now use the "clearboard" command on ICC where appropriate.
9176 * Bugfix: don't generate a bogus "variant normal" command to an engine
9177 for the loadable ICC wild types that we internally flag as
9178 VariantLoadable. Also clarified the message that Zippy sends when
9179 declining such wild games -- it can't deal with the possibility of
9180 loading an arbitrary position into the game. Thanks to Dieter
9181 Buerssner for reporting the problem. It would be nice to be able to
9182 actually play these wild types some day; presumably there would have
9183 to be an option to either send "loadgame" with a specified position,
9184 or to deal with an opponent sending it.
9186 * If we get a holdings message from ICS when we thought we were
9187 playing normal chess, we now try asking for a move list so that we can
9188 find out from the header what's really happening. Formerly we guessed
9189 bughouse in this case. Response to a comment from Gian-Carlo
9192 * Fixed two longstanding bugs in the clock code. These affected only
9193 play between a user and a local engine, or between two local engines,
9194 not ICS play. (1) The last fractional second used by a player before
9195 moving and virtually pushing his clock was being charged to his
9196 opponent instead of to him. (2) The time and otim commands were being
9197 sent to an engine before the (buggy) fractional second update was
9198 done. The second bug was pretty harmless in itself, but the first one
9199 was serious. Many thanks to Peter Rosendahl for carefully diagnosing
9200 and reporting these bugs!
9202 * Changed WinBoard timestamp key. Nothing is changed other than the
9203 key and a recompilation. ICC may phase out the old key soon; if they
9204 do, you'll need to use the timestamp.exe from WinBoard 4.2.4 or later
9205 to connect to chessclub.com.
9207 * Fixed an xboard-only bug where most dialogs would not take keyboard
9208 input unless the mouse was actually over the dialog, even if the
9209 dialog window had focus. Thanks to Jason Varsoke for the bug report.
9211 * Bugfix; Remember to send time and otim commands to engine before
9212 sending playother. Thanks to Bob Hyatt for the bug report. Also
9213 fixed a bug where time and otim were sometimes sent even with feature
9216 * Added small patches from Wilkin Ng that are meant to fix a crash in
9217 CopyGameToClipboard and a "can't unlock clipboard memory" error in
9218 PasteTextFromClipboard, under Windows 2000.
9220 * Changed cygwin.mak to not use -mno-cygwin. In other words, it now
9221 uses cygwin1.dll instead of the mingw libraries. This works around
9222 bugs in fileno() and stat() that I encountered in mingw. (fileno
9223 seems to always return 0. stat fails because the library routine uses
9224 a different definition of struct stat than the header files provide.)
9225 Thanks to Robert Gerstman for reporting the symptoms these bugs caused
9226 when WinBoard was compiled with Cygwin.
9228 * Added -showButtonBar option. This lets you delete the << < P > >>
9229 buttons and thus widen the message widget a bit.
9231 * Added code to address a very obscure bug. If an engine dies and
9232 needs to be restarted while in one of the analyze modes, it was not
9233 getting put back into analyze mode. This bug should not really ever
9234 have gotten tickled unless reuse was turned off and the engine sends
9235 game end commands (such as 1-0) when a game ends by rule while in
9236 analyze mode. The next version of the protocol spec will say that
9237 engines should not do that, but version 2 and earlier didn't address
9240 * We now use the FICS "iset ms 1" feature to get times in ms instead
9241 of seconds. Thanks to DAV for email telling me about this feature.
9243 * Changed clock display to show tenths of seconds for 9.9 seconds and
9244 less, instead of 0.9 seconds and less as before.
9246 * It has been discovered that Zippy can play simuls on ICC (but not on
9247 FICS). If you arrange for Zippy to send the ICC command "simulize" in
9248 the -zippyGameStart string, it will accept additional games while
9249 playing. Zippy will use the same engine for every game, so whenever
9250 it switches opponents, the engine's state will be reset with the "new"
9251 command. This will of course weaken its play, so don't enable simuls
9252 if you want your engine to have the highest possible rating. Zippy
9253 was never designed to work with simuls; it just works by accident, and
9254 it hasn't been tested much. So please report any bugs you notice, but
9255 don't expect them to be fixed rapidly. Thanks to Paul McGuire for
9256 noticing that this works.
9258 * Bugfix: Suppress the direct command to engine popup if there is no
9259 engine. In WinBoard this case used to cause a crash. Thanks to
9260 "Dargon" for the bug report.
9262 * Bugfix: formerly we did part of the engine initialization for the
9263 very first game too soon, before feature negotiation. One result of
9264 this is that engines would never get the "ics" command for the first
9267 * Lengthened timeout to detect protocol version 1 chess engines to 10
9268 seconds. This should reduce problems with protocol version 2 engines
9269 that are slow to initialize missing the timeout and not getting a
9270 chance to send their feature commands before the first game starts.
9272 * Klaus Friedel says that adding a short sleep to WinBoard after
9273 starting a new chess engine solves a problem that occurs under Windows
9274 2000, in which engines sometimes don't see the initial command(s) from
9275 WinBoard and hang. I don't understand how that can happen, but the
9276 sleep is harmless, so I've put it in. Others have also reported what
9277 may be the same problem, so hopefully this will fix it for them too.
9279 * Bugfix: editing the Result field in EditTags will no longer cause a
9280 later crash. Thanks to DAV for a clear bug report that let me
9281 reproduce the problem.
9283 * ICC wild 28 is now recognized as shatranj, but it is not supported.
9284 You might be able to play it by turning off Test Legality.
9286 * Formerly we would always turn off "feature time" if the engine
9287 printed an error message with the string "time" or "otim" in it; now
9288 we do that only if the message comes before the engine makes its first
9289 move. This change is useful because some engines spew a lot of bogus
9290 error messages about commands they don't fully parse, so something
9291 like "result 0-1 {White lost on time}" could generate such a message.
9292 Engines shouldn't do that, but if they do, mysteriously turning off
9293 "feature time" is not a good way to react.
9295 * Fixed an infrequently occurring Zippy bug: formerly, resuming from
9296 adjournment by position (that is, with GetMoveList turned off) or
9297 starting/resuming a wild game (nonstandard starting position) would
9298 try to set up the position without putting the engine into force mode
9299 first. That was probably tolerated by most engines, but if the
9300 position was black-to-play and the engine hadn't set feature
9301 setboard=1, then the fake "a2a3" move (which we use as a kludge to get
9302 black to be on move before sending the edit command) would appear to
9303 be a real move, and the engine might reply to it! This bug could also
9304 be seen when trying to use Zippy to play a simul -- something that
9305 Zippy was never designed to support, but which seems to mostly work
9306 anyway. Thanks to Paul McGuire for sending a WinBoard.debug file that
9307 showed the bug occurring. Some other cases of resuming adjournments
9308 or starting games from nonstandard positions may have been broken too;
9309 I think I've straightened out the problems.
9311 * Agreeing to a draw in the human vs. local engine case formerly did
9312 not work if the human offered first; now it does. A human's
9313 unsolicited offer is considered valid until he makes another move.
9314 Thanks to Bruce Moreland for the bug report.
9316 * Bugfix: We used to look for just "fr" in Event tags or strings from
9317 ICSes to recognize Fischer Random games. This caused a lot of false
9318 matches. Now we look for "wild/fr" instead, which is what FICS uses.
9320 * Bugfix: Clicking on a move in the MoveList window only updated the
9321 displayed position; if a chess engine was active, its state was not
9322 updated. Thanks to Alejandro Dubrovsky for the bug report.
9324 * Bugfix: The "resign" command from engine to xboard formerly did not
9325 work in ICS (Zippy) mode.
9327 * Bugfix: Formerly we would register a garbage premove if the user
9328 clicked on a piece, then clicked on an edge or outside the board. Now
9329 such an errant click is ignored.
9331 * Bugfix: GameEnds would send "exit" to an engine in analyze mode even
9332 if we did not actually want to leave analyze mode.
9334 * Bugfix: "feature pause" was being rejected. We don't currently use
9335 it, but that is no reason to reject it. Thanks to Gian-Carlo Pascutto
9338 * Bugfix: when "partner" needed to be sent both to ICS and the engine,
9339 Zippy was erroneously sending the ICS prefix character to the engine
9340 too. Thanks to Gian-Carlo Pascutto for the bug report.
9342 * Zippy now declines challenges when the engine is not yet ready to
9343 play again, instead of ignoring them. This is needed so that the
9344 server will let the opponent repeat the challenge. It might be better
9345 to remember such challenges and accept them when the engine is ready,
9346 but that would be a bit more complicated to implement.
9348 * Bugfix: Zippy's emotes didn't work on FICS because there, "i" is a
9349 built-in alias for "it", not a real command. So sending "$i foo" gave
9350 an error message instead of doing "it foo". We now leave out the
9351 alias-suppressing prefix for emotes.
9353 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.3 -- Mon Feb 19 19:55:05 PST 2001
9356 * Bugfix: The error message "Variant X not supported by gnuchessx"
9357 formerly could pop up even in -ncp mode.
9359 * Fixed an xboard bug in premove highlighting. If you had
9360 HighlightLastMove turned on, premoves got highlighted in
9361 highlightSquareColor (yellow) instead of premoveHighlightColor (red).
9363 * Modified premove again. Now we are back to displaying the move
9364 locally immediately after sending it to the server, as in versions
9365 prior to 4.2.1. This is good because it lets you register your next
9366 premove sooner. As a better fix to the problem that the change in
9367 4.2.1 had been trying to address, we now suppress animating the
9368 opponent's move if you have a premove reply pending. However, it's
9369 probably still a good idea for you to turn off AnimateMoves entirely
9370 if you are trying to play extremely fast games.
9372 * Removed an erroneous patch that left zombie chess engines around
9373 when both sigterm and reuse were turned off. (Bug was in xboard only,
9376 * Bugfix: loading a game with autostepping did not work for games with
9377 PGN result "*" (unfinished). This bug was introduced in 4.1.0, caused
9378 by some outdated code that was supposed to leave you in EditGame mode
9379 after loading an unfinished game. I fixed this, and also changed it
9380 to leave you in EditGame mode after loading *any* game, but without
9381 changing the tags to say it's an edited game. It's not really clear
9382 whether that is the best thing is to do here -- ideally, perhaps, the
9383 tags should change to say "edited game" if you actually make any
9384 changes, but that is harder to make work.
9386 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.2 -- Tue Feb 6 20:00:00 PST 2001
9389 * Fixed a problem introduced in 4.2.1. In -zippyPlay mode, 4.2.1
9390 started sending the initString immediately after the old game ended,
9391 but then when the next game started, it would still send "force" and
9392 another initString. Another problem was that the first initString put
9393 the engine out of sync with the displayed board position, though that
9394 might not usually have been noticeable. This is now changed to do a
9395 full Reset at the end of the previous game, and avoid doing a Reset at
9396 the start of a new game if we are still in BeginningOfGame mode.
9398 * Fixed some limitations in -zippyPlay mode. The engine was not being
9399 fed the moves or history of games that were displayed but not being
9400 played, so it would get confused if you tried to do something like
9401 examine a game, then enter EditGame mode from somewhere in the middle
9404 * Made a small change so that cygwin can compile xboard for Windows
9405 (an X server is required to run it). Thanks to Volker Zell. Most
9406 people would probably prefer to run WinBoard on Windows, however; note
9407 that cygwin could already compile WinBoard.
9409 * Added some missing documentation to engine-intf.html: It is okay to
9410 send "feature done=0" even before you receive the xboard and protover
9411 commands, if this is needed to give your engine enough time to
9412 initialize. See engine-intf.html for more discussion.
9414 * Bugfix: "feature done=0" did not work for the second engine; now it does.
9416 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.1 -- Sat Feb 3 19:52:26 PST 2001
9419 * Bugfix: in Zippy mode with feature san=1, the elapsed time was being
9420 sent to the engine after the SAN move; for example, "e4 (0:01)" was
9421 sent instead of just "e4".
9423 * It seems that scroll wheel mice with incompletely installed software
9424 (under Windows 95, at least) can send repeated middle button up events
9425 when the wheel is turned. Moved QuickPaste from middle button up to
9426 middle button down to avoid problems with this.
9428 * A premove is now sent *before* the opponent's move that it replies
9429 to is animated. The premove itself is no longer displayed (or
9430 animated) when sent; instead, it is displayed when the chess server
9431 echoes it back as a board update.
9433 * Bug fix: in -xreuse mode, xboard was only sending command line
9434 arguments to the engine the first time it was started. (WinBoard
9435 didn't have this bug.)
9437 * In -zippyPlay mode, we now initialize the chess engine for a new
9438 game immediately after the old game ends. (In -xreuse mode, this
9439 means starting a new engine process; in the default -reuse mode, it
9440 just means sending "new".) If the engine supports ping, we don't
9441 accept challenges until the "new" has finished. This should help
9442 avoid losing time (re)initializing the engine after the game starts.
9444 * We now handle the new FICS field in style 12 that says whether the
9447 * whiteFlag and blackFlag are now reset whenever an ICS board image
9448 arrives, giving autoflag a fresh chance to work.
9450 * Suppressed "geometry error" debug messages unless -debug flag is given.
9452 * Bugfix: avoid core dump on Solaris with -debug flag, caused by
9453 passing NULL to a %s format in GameEnds.
9455 * Added -firstProtocolVersion and -secondProtocolVersion. This will
9456 allow use of extremely broken engines that hang or die when given the
9457 "protover 2" command. It should be rarely if ever needed.
9459 * Zippy now strips highlights from player names in the Creating
9460 message; previously the ratings would not be extracted from this
9461 message properly if you had set the highlight variable.
9463 * Bug fix: Zippy with -zp but not -zt used to be fooled by false
9464 partner tells inside channel tells; e.g.:
9465 Garf(24): Garf (your partner) tells you: sit
9467 * Bug fix: when an engine reported its name with the new "feature
9468 myname=" command, we had been putting just that name into the window
9469 title even when in TwoMachines mode.
9471 * By default, WinBoard no longer uses the new feature introduced in
9472 4.2.0beta of keeping the ICS menu, ICS server list, and lists of chess
9473 engine command lines in separate files; instead, the lists are back in
9474 the winboard.ini file. This gets rid of some problems where the
9475 separate files could not be opened because the working directory was
9476 not set to WinBoard's installation directory.
9478 * WinBoard command lines and ini files now have another optional
9479 syntax for quoting an option value. All characters within { } curly
9480 braces are interpreted literally except for '}' itself. SaveSettings
9481 now uses this syntax for string values that contain a backslash or
9482 newline and do not contain a '}'. This should address the problem
9483 that the separate .ini files had been meant to fix; engine command
9484 line lists can now be written without \-escapes.
9486 * Fixed three bugs in relaying moves between engines in TwoMachines
9487 mode: an engine would be sent SAN if the *other* engine had set
9488 feature san=1, a relayed SAN move did not end with a newline, and
9489 feature usermove was not implemented for relayed moves.
9491 * Fixed several bugs in exiting: File/Exit would sometimes hang;
9492 timestamp/timeseal would not get killed off; an engine crash would
9493 cause error messages to be printed recursively until stack overflow.
9495 * Fixed a bug in the code to detect which ICS is in use and adapt to
9496 it; the chess.net case was broken.
9498 * Removed the leading alias-suppression character when sending a move
9499 to ICS, because it seemed to break accuclock on chess.net.
9501 * Fixed a bug where a FICS prompt like "10:01_fics%" would be matched
9502 as finger note number 10, causing a problem detecting when the user is
9505 * Added tellicsnoalias command to protocol.
9507 * Changed st command in protocol back to old behavior.
9509 * Added done=0 feature to protocol, to lengthen initial timeout.
9511 * Added missing -colorSeek command line option to xboard. (Was
9512 present in WinBoard.)
9514 * Bug fix: setting feature reuse=0 was not working.
9516 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.0beta -- Sat Dec 16 16:34:56 PST 2000
9519 * Setting -searchTime no longer turns off -clockMode. Note that when
9520 -searchTime is set, some engines may search for the lesser of
9521 searchTime and the amount of time their normal clock management would
9522 dictate, while others will disable their normal clock management and
9523 always search for exactly searchTime.
9525 * Fixed WinBoard bug where on Windows 2000 (and maybe Windows 98) the
9526 ICS Interaction window would scroll back to the top whenever it filled
9527 to capacity and WinBoard trimmed some text off the top.
9529 * Changed xboard dragging so that the center of the dragged piece is
9530 forced to be over the mouse cursor. (WinBoard dragging already worked
9531 that way.) This should avoid confusing cases when you start a drag
9532 with the mouse near the edge of a square -- formerly most or all of
9533 the piece could be over one square but the mouse cursor over another.
9536 * Added move list window for xboard. Code contributed by Manuel
9537 Hoelss and re-hacked a bit by me. Performance of this window is poor,
9538 because the implementation regenerates the entire window contents
9539 whenever anything changes. It's hard to avoid this when using the
9540 Athena List widget, though we could be a little smarter and notice
9541 when the current move number has changed but the move list has not.
9542 There are also several drawing problems caused by bugs in the Athena
9543 Form and List widgets. The window should not really allow a
9544 horizontal scroll bar, but the bugs are much worse if I turn it off.
9545 In both Xaw and Xaw3d, the List widget tries to resize itself when
9546 XawListChange is called, even if you tell it not to; and what's worse,
9547 if the widget cannot resize itself to be large enough to avoid
9548 clipping any of the list item, it does not change the list! Arrgh.
9549 On top of that, the Xaw Form widget is very buggy in XFree86 4.0.1
9552 * The OK button in the WinBoard startup dialog is now simply disabled
9553 if none of the radio buttons is selected, instead of bringing up an
9554 error dialog. Suggested by Ted Milbaugh.
9556 * Used ping to address the worst of the race conditions in the
9557 protocol. Now if an engine supports ping, we ping it after sending
9558 the "new" command and after trying to place it in force mode at the
9559 end of a game. When a ping has been sent and the corresponding pong
9560 has not yet come back, we (1) ignore or undo any moves the engine
9561 sends, (2) ignore game end messages (such as "offer draw", etc.) from
9562 the engine, (3) ignore thinking output from the engine, (4) delay
9563 starting the next game if in -matchGames mode, (5) in -zippyPlay mode,
9564 respond to challenges with a polite message to try again soon instead
9565 of accepting them. There are a few more things that should be done
9566 (and item 5 might not be quite what we want), but it's hard to fit
9567 them all into the existing code.
9569 * Patched the version of GNU Chess 5.00 included with WinBoard to
9570 support protover, feature, setboard, and ping, and to fix some minor
9571 bugs. See gnu500+.patch.
9573 * Changed the GNU Chess 4 kludges for missing "st" and "sd" commands
9574 to be invoked only if the engine gives an error message for "st" or
9575 "sd", and to always use protocol commands instead of engine
9576 command-line options. See "Idioms" in engine-intf.html.
9578 * Added new protocol command "protover 2" to tell the engine what
9579 version of the protocol is in use. Version 2 is still compatible with
9580 old engines; see engine-intf.html.
9582 * Add new protocol command "feature ..." The engine can send this in
9583 response to the protover command command, to say what extended
9584 protocol features it would like to enable, etc. xboard responds
9585 "accepted F" or "rejected F" for each feature F that is set. See
9588 * Added new protocol command "setboard <fen>". This is an alternative
9589 to "edit", used only if the engine says "feature setboard=1".
9591 * Added new protocol command "ping <msg>". The engine is supposed to
9592 respond "pong <msg>". This gives us a tool to fix some race
9593 conditions in the protocol, but it is not used to the fullest yet.
9595 * Added new protocol command "tellopponent". This will do a "say" if
9596 you're on a chess server in Zippy mode, or pop up an information
9599 * Added new protocol command "tellall". This will do a "kibitz" if
9600 you're on a chess server in Zippy mode, or pop up an information
9603 * Added new protocol command "tellothers". This will do a "whisper" if
9604 you're on a chess server in Zippy mode, or do nothing otherwise.
9606 * Changed the WinBoard /icsNames, /icsMenu, /firstChessProgramNames,
9607 and /secondChessProgramNames options to accept a filename preceded by
9608 "@", meaning to find the value in the file. Changed the defaults to
9609 use this feature, with filenames icsnames.ini, icsmenu.ini, fcp.ini,
9610 and scp.ini. This should make it easier for users to edit the values,
9611 since one less level of quoting is needed, and each value is in its
9612 own file, not mixed into winboard.ini. Those who upgrade from an
9613 older winboard version and already have a winboard.ini file will not
9614 automatically have these values moved to a file; that has to be done
9617 * We now strip .exe from engine names for "name" command, tags, etc.
9619 * Allowed WinBoard input widget to hold more than one line. You can get
9620 a newline into the widget with copy/paste or with Ctrl+Enter.
9622 * Fixed an xboard bug where the [P] button would appear in the
9623 opposite highlight state from what it should be after being pressed.
9625 * We now use the "/" or "$" alias suppression feature on the chess
9626 servers, to avoid problems if the user inadvertently aliases a
9627 needed command to something else.
9629 * Changed the method used to deiconize xboard in AutoRaise and cmail.
9630 This may fix bugs under some window managers where after
9631 deiconization, the board window was mapped but nothing was drawn
9634 * Preliminary, partial support for playing several chess variants
9635 against a local engine or editing variant games. The -variant option
9636 must be given on the command line or WinBoard startup dialog; there is
9637 no menu. The current variant is not displayed (except in the
9638 Tags/EditTags window). Many variants will not work quite right even
9639 if the engine supports them; see item 326 in the ToDo file for
9642 * Added a workaround to detect the variant type when examining a
9643 scratch wild game on an ICS.
9645 * Fixed two cases where "variant" command should be sent to the engine
9646 when necessary but was not: loading a game from a file and restarting
9647 a dead engine. Thanks to Gian-Carlo Pascutto.
9649 * Added missing support for FICS games that start from a bsetup position
9650 with Black moving first.
9652 * Fixed a bug in loading a file from the game list window while in
9653 Analysis or AnalyzeFile mode. This now leaves us in AnalyzeFile
9654 mode, analyzing the new file.
9656 * Fixed a bug in loading games with a comment before the first move.
9658 * Fixed a bug in handling LoadGame (or -lgf) with -td 0.
9660 * Added a command line option to select an initial minor mode from the
9661 Mode menu. This should satisfy requests from a couple of users with
9662 special applications.
9664 * Fixed a problem where some things in WinBoard's General Options
9665 dialog box were grayed out at the wrong time.
9667 * We look for a few messages from the chess engine pipe that are
9668 intended to catch problems starting an engine via rsh, such as "No
9669 such file". Moved code so that these strings won't match until other
9670 protocol messages have been looked for, and documented the messages in
9673 * Fixed the WinBoard bug that sometimes made the console input box
9674 white-on-white even when not in password-entry mode.
9676 * Small changes to WinBoard to be compilable with the latest Cygwin
9677 net release (as of 10-16-2000). Thanks to Mark Schoenberg.
9679 * Recompiled GNU Chess 5.0 for WinBoard with the latest Cygwin net
9680 release (as of 10-16-2000). Also rebuilt the book just to be sure,
9681 since I had one bug report about it. It came out identical and seems
9684 * Added messages for some common InstallShield errors instead of just
9685 printing InstallShield's stupid error code numbers.
9687 * Added -firstComputerString and -secondComputerString, allowing you
9688 to suppress or change the command that is sent to a chess engine when
9689 its opponent is another computer.
9691 * Added "configure --with-Xaw3d" to allow use of Xaw3d widgets instead
9692 of Xaw widgets in xboard. Thanks to Johnny C. Lam of the NetBSD
9693 project. I've left Xaw as the default because Xaw3d is too ugly.
9695 * The version of the Xaw Form widget released in XFree86 4.0.1
9696 (X11R6.4.3) has a bug that causes xboard to display the button bar
9697 on top of the message widget. I've reported the bug and have
9698 installed a kludge workaround into xboard.
9700 xboard/WinBoard 4.1.0 -- Sun Sep 17 17:30:14 PDT 2000
9703 * Merged Winboard Plus 4.0.8 from Mark Williams into xboard
9704 source pool. Status of Winboard Plus features in xboard:
9706 - White pieces now have borders, but the implementation is
9707 completely different from WinBoard's; see below.
9709 - Options menu not changed, probably won't be.
9711 - Copy&paste support working, using Mark's changes to backend.c, Ben
9712 Nye's changes to xboard.c for FEN positions, and some code of my
9713 own in xboard.c for PGN games.
9715 - Premove hooked up and working. No pre-first-move, though.
9717 - ICS Alarm hooked up and working.
9719 - Auto-flip working.
9721 - PGN Training mode hooked up and working.
9723 - Improved menu item enable/disable working.
9725 - Improved >> button working.
9727 - Auto activate board working. I changed this to be optional; you
9728 might not always want it, especially in Zippy mode.
9730 - Blindfold working.
9732 - Documentation updated.
9734 * Fixed more colorization bugs. Commands like "message foo tells you:
9735 xxx" and "tell 33 tells you: xxx" will no longer generate bogus
9738 * Added low-tech sound support to xboard, by invoking an external
9739 program on a filename for each sound to be played.
9741 * ICC wild 27 is now recognized as VariantAtomic, and it sets the
9742 "ignore check" flag, but is not otherwise supported.
9744 * Converted the piece bitmaps from .bm to .xpm for use with xboard's
9745 xpm support. (An .xim version was not created.) Wrote a shell script
9746 using ImageMagick to do the conversion and to bucket fill from
9747 coordinate 0,0 with the background color. Used xpaint by hand to
9748 clean up a few pieces where background color "leaked" into the inside
9749 or didn't flow all the way around the outside, then a sed script to
9750 fix up color names and bitmap names in the xpaint output. If any more
9751 sizes are added later, they should be straightforward to convert with
9752 reference to the existing scripts. With this conversion, not only do
9753 the white pieces now have dark borders, but (unlike with WinBoard) the
9754 light details on the black pieces are opaque.
9756 * If the XPM library is found when building xboard, the new xpm pieces
9757 are compiled in as the default. External bitmap (or xpm) pieces can
9758 still be used by giving the -bitmapDirectory (or -xpmDirectory)
9759 option. If the XPM library is not found, the old bitmap pieces are
9760 the default. In this case external bitmap (or xim) pieces can be used
9761 by giving the -bitmapDirectory (or -xpmDirectory) option. There is no
9762 way to compile in xim pieces.
9764 Winboard Plus 4.0.8 -- Sat Aug 5 15:51 PDT 2000
9769 * Main menu now visible in Win NT. Thanks to Microsoft for creating a
9770 compiler which auto-mutilates the WinBoard.rc file so that the menu is
9771 displayed under Win 98 but not Win NT. I fixed the problem by hand editing the
9774 * "Reset game" now works properly when invoked from Analysis mode when two
9775 engines are present. Correction of bug introduced in Winboard Plus. Thanks to
9776 Mogens Larsen for reporting the bug.
9778 * Pasting a FEN position with Black to move now works in all modes.
9779 Thanks to Mogens Larsen for reporting the bug.
9781 * Added gnuchess.dat to the distribution and a couple of text files that were
9784 *** Merged in the following changes from Tim Mann:
9786 * Bugfix: Highlights would sometimes not be taken down, at least in
9787 xboard. The problem is that SetHighlight works in chess coordinates,
9788 not view coordinates, so if flipView has been toggled since the
9789 highlight was put up, it gets taken down from the wrong square. Fixed
9790 by being careful to call ClearHighlights before toggling flipView, not
9793 * Bugfix: HighlightLastMove would sometimes highlight square a1 after
9794 a FICS "tomove black" command.
9796 * Bugfix: a move list with initial position that has black to play was
9797 not being handled correctly.
9799 * Removed "decline abort" and "decline adjourn" commands from Zippy.
9800 The syntax is changing on FICS, and Zippy really doesn't have to
9801 explicitly decline the requests anyway; it's sufficient to not accept
9804 * ICC wild 26 is now recognized as VariantSuicide (the FICS name; ICC
9805 calls it "giveaway").
9807 * Bugfix: PGN games with black to move in the initial position weren't
9808 being legality checked correctly. I think this was introduced in
9809 4.0.6 when I fixed a different PGN bug. Thanks to Mark Williams for
9810 spotting the bug and suggesting a fix.
9812 * Bugfix: the initial "name(" of a kibitz wasn't being colorized.
9814 Winboard Plus 4.0.7 -- Thu May 12 17:57 PDT 2000
9817 * New white pieces with black borders.
9819 * Major overhaul to Options menu. New dialogs for setting General Options,
9820 Board Options, ICS Options, Sounds, Fonts, Colors.
9822 * Clipboard support for PGN game scores and FEN positions.
9824 * Optional ICS Premove with user-specified first moves for White and Black.
9826 * New sound events: ICS Win, ICS Loss, ICS Draw, ICS Unfinished, ICS Alarm.
9828 * New auto-flip option when playing against a chess program.
9830 * Added PGN Training mode.
9832 * Certain menu options now disabled while program is thinking.
9834 * ">>" button now always goes to the end of the game.
9836 * In ICS mode, the board is automatically activated at the start of a
9839 4.0.7 -- Sun Mar 5 17:17:49 PST 2000 Tim Mann
9841 * Fixed a nasty bug in parsing ICS game histories that was introduced
9844 4.0.6 -- Fri Mar 3 16:20:11 PST 2000 Tim Mann
9846 * Fixed bugs in Zippy's code for responding to messages sent with the
9847 ICS "message" command.
9849 * Fixed bugs where xboard could still create dialogs partially off the
9850 top of the screen. Fixed unwanted interactions between initial sizes
9851 and positions of various unrelated xboard dialogs. Deleted
9852 borderXoffset and borderYoffset resources.
9854 * Fixed restoring the xterm name on exit to work in more cases.
9856 * Small fix to the WinBoard self-extracting installer: when it starts
9857 up, it now always deletes any old wb-setup directory left over from a
9858 previous installation. Formerly this worked only on Windows 95/98, so
9859 on NT the self-extractor would sometimes stop and ask the user whether
9860 it was OK to overwrite the old wb-setup files.
9862 * Modified WinBoard to be compilable with the free Cygwin tools
9863 available from http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/. Based on work by
9864 Mark Schoenberg. (His mods were enough to get WinBoard through the
9865 compiler, but a few things were broken along the way, so I reworked them.)
9867 * Merged changes from Don Fong to make WinBoard compilable with
9868 Borland C++ 4.5. I do not have Borland C++ and am unable to test with
9869 it, but I did make sure the changes don't stop it working with MSVC++
9872 * Forbade entering TwoMachines mode from MachineWhite or MachineBlack
9873 mode when machine is on move. This used to confuse the engine and
9874 cause problems, because when we try to get the engine to stop, it
9875 might make a move first, and it might not do that immediately.
9877 * Variant classification now deals with new ICC wild 25, classifying
9878 it as "3check". Also, we are now conservative about new wild numbers
9879 we don't know about, classifying them as "unknown" instead of
9882 * Replaced bad GNU Chess 5.00 book in WinBoard distribution with a
9883 correct one. 1.e4 now no longer takes GNU Chess 5.00 out of book!
9884 Thanks to Pete Galati.
9886 * Made move parser accept and ignore nonstandard ep suffix on PGN moves,
9887 e.g., "exf6ep" or "exf6e.p."
9889 * Fixed bugs in parsing PGN files starting with no move number, or
9890 with a move number other than "1." (including "1..."). Thanks to
9891 Michael Soulier and Stefan Zipproth for example PGN files
9892 demonstrating the bugs.
9894 * Changed InitComboStringsFromString to not modify the input string;
9895 this caused an exception when WinBoard was compiled with MSVC++ 6.
9896 Thanks to Bert Tuyt for the report.
9898 * In WinBoard, dragging a piece off the edge of the board without
9899 releasing the mouse button no longer instantly aborts the move. You
9900 still must release the mouse button inside a square to complete a
9901 move, but you can now drag off the edge and come back inside.
9903 * WinBoard bugfix: If you went into EditGame or EditPosition mode
9904 while observing or playing an ICS game, and a new move came in
9905 (snapping you back to ICSClient mode) while you were dragging a piece
9906 around, the drag state would not be reset, causing the piece you were
9907 dragging to remain on the board wherever you dropped it. Thanks to
9908 David Brinegar for the bug report.
9910 * WinBoard bugfix: If you moved or resized the board while your
9911 opponent was moving, and you had AnimateMoving on, his move would not
9912 be displayed until after your next move. Thanks to DAV for reporting
9913 the bug repeatedly until I finally understood it.
9915 * Added a Zippy "farewell" feature; see zippy.README.
9917 * Fixed a bug (xboard only) in processing -zippyReplayTimeout on the
9918 command line. Thanks to Steve Beer for the report and patch.
9920 * Send "computer" command to both sides in TwoMachines matches.
9922 * Fixed a Y2K bug in Evan's cmail code! Thanks to Brian Mays for the
9925 * Bugfix: Initialize variant field of GameInfo struct in gameinfo.c.
9926 This could cause crashes in LoadGame. Thanks to Andrzej Nagorko.
9928 * Fixed several pattern matching problems: Finger notes and formula
9929 vars no longer get replied to by zippyTalk or colorized. Channel
9930 tells by players with many titles are now colorized fully, and
9931 zippyTalk handles channel tells by such players correctly. The shout
9932 "--> foo(99): bar" no longer gets colorized as a channel tell. Code
9933 is cleaned up a bit, and autocomment capture now uses the same
9934 criteria as colorization.
9936 * xboard fix: Enter key now closes error popups as in WinBoard.
9937 Especially nice for the "Exiting: Connection closed by ICS" popup.
9939 4.0.5 -- Tue Dec 7 10:30:40 PST 1999 Tim Mann
9941 * Added missing documentation of SIGTERM usage into engine-intf.html.
9943 * Bugfix: New -zippyReplayTimeout option was misspelled in WinBoard as
9944 -zippyReplyTimeout. Thanks to Francesco Di Tolla.
9946 * xboard -ics now restores the xterm's original title upon exit, at
9947 least if $WINDOWID is set.
9949 * Bugfix: -matchGames mode wasn't terminating properly. Final score
9950 popup would come up twice and engines would not be killed off. Thanks
9951 to Frank Quisinsky for the bug report. Bug was introduced in 4.0.4.
9953 * Bugfix: "tell 50 foo shouts: bar" no longer gets colored as a shout;
9954 similarly for "...s-shouts:" and "...c-shouts:". Thanks to David Lee
9957 4.0.4 -- Fri Dec 3 17:51:27 PST 1999 Tim Mann
9959 * Bug fix: formerly if you invoked SaveGame from EditPosition mode
9960 with black to play, the position was not saved properly. As a quick
9961 fix, SaveGame now takes you out of EditPosition mode before saving.
9963 * Changed -matchGames to keep track of the score (won-lost-drawn) and
9964 display it in the banner. The final score is displayed in a modal
9965 popup before the program exits.
9967 * Changed "Connection closed by ICS" to display in a model popup
9968 before the program exits.
9970 * Added -popupExitMessage option, default on. Setting this to false
9971 suppresses the modal popups that you sometimes get just before
9972 xboard/winboard exits -- both the two new ones listed above and the
9973 existing Fatal Error popup. This is useful when running Zippy
9974 unattended from a shell script (or .bat file) that loops and starts a
9975 new copy after a time delay when there is an error.
9977 * In xboard, added missing support for WM_DELETE_WINDOW to all
9978 windows. This makes xboard a better citizen, and is much needed with
9979 the newer X window managers that put an [X] button on every window and
9980 bind it to "kill application" if the applicationd does not support
9981 "delete window". We can't allow xboard to be thoughtlessly killed,
9982 since that leaves the chess engine running in the background.
9984 * We now avoid positioning tops of xboard dialog boxes offscreen.
9986 * zippy.lines can now use the caret ('^') character as an inter-saying
9987 separator. You no longer need to dig up a text editor that can put NUL
9988 ('\000') characters in text files.
9990 * Bugfix: In traditional chess clock mode, White now gets time added
9991 to its clock as soon as it makes time control. Previously both White
9992 and Black got their time added only when Black made time control,
9993 which would cause some engines to make their 41st move as White too
9994 quickly, thinking they were low on time.
9996 * The zippyAcceptOnly feature no longer sends a decline command or
9997 a tell. Thus you can use it to put Zippy into a manual accept mode.
9999 * Bugfix: "tell 50 foo tells you: bar" no longer gets colored as a
10000 personal tell; similarly for "...whispers:" and "...kibitzes:".
10002 * WinBoard no longer blanks the message line when you start a new
10003 move, unless there was an error message there from the previous move.
10005 * WinBoard now never puts the white piece drop menu on the middle
10006 mouse button. Both colors are always on the right button. Windows
10007 users often don't think to look for a middle button menu, or don't
10008 really have a working middle button despite what Windows says.
10010 * Guest login handles on ICC are now parsed again; an ICC wording
10011 change had broken this feature.
10013 * Autodetect when the engine does not support the "draw" command and
10014 don't relay the command to it in that case. Needed because sending an
10015 unsupported command to GNU Chess makes it move immediately, so people
10016 could make Zippy move without thinking by continually offering a draw.
10017 Thanks to Frank Walker for the problem report.
10019 * Small changes based on code from Robert Jurjevic: The WinBoard
10020 analysis window can be minimized (though not to the taskbar). The
10021 WinBoard ICS Interaction window will autoscroll if you drag the mouse
10022 above or below the window while selecting, and password entry mode
10023 leaves the entry line as the background color instead of using 75%
10024 gray. Seeks are now colorized with a new color of their own.
10026 * Added -zippyMaxGames feature.
10028 * -zippyNoplayCrafty command line option was missing in xboard; fixed.
10029 Thanks to John Perry.
10031 * Fixed bug in detecting when Zippy loses his bughouse partner.
10032 Thanks to Ben Dean-Kawamura.
10034 * allobs fix in 4.0.3 didn't work; corrected it.
10036 * WinBoard will now update the board immediately if a move is made
10037 while the window is being moved or resized.
10039 4.0.3 -- Sun Aug 15 18:44:39 PDT 1999 Tim Mann
10041 * Bugfix: moved winboard wizard functions that send a command directly
10042 to the chess engine from Ctrl+Alt+1 and Ctrl+Alt+2 to Alt+1 and Alt+2.
10043 Ctrl+Alt is equivalent to the European AltGr key, so the old assignments
10044 conflicted with typing an @-sign on some keyboards.
10046 * Bugfix: prevent "If this message stays up, your chess program does
10047 not support analysis" from appearing if AnalysisMode is selected when
10048 already in Analysis or AnalyzeFile mode. Also, deleting analysis window
10049 in WinBoard now switches you to EditGame mode, to avoid the anomaly of
10050 being in an analysis mode with no analysis window present.
10052 * Change all Zippy environment variables to work as command line
10053 options. For now they still work as environment variables too, but
10054 the environment variables are deprecated.
10056 * Use unsigned long to hold node counts from engines.
10058 * Print error instead of crashing on attempts to use xpm or xim pieces
10059 in monochrome mode. Thanks to Jim Torrance for the bug report.
10061 * Tightened pattern recognition for ICS messages sent to Zippy; should
10062 no longer match ICC allobs output. Fixed recognition of when Zippy is
10063 sent a message; small change to FICS output had broken it.
10065 * Zippy now exits if the engine dies unexpectedly.
10067 * Added Zippy "spoofedby" feature; see zippy.README.
10069 * Narrowed the margins on some older WinBoard dialogs to make their
10070 style uniform with the newer ones.
10072 * Bugfix: Changing Ponder Next Move from the Options menu did not take
10073 effect until the next game. This bug was in WinBoard only. Thanks to
10074 Stefan Zipproth for the bug report.
10076 * Got rid of "Internal error: bad move type" message when the engine
10077 makes a move that we can parse but think is illegal. Now the move is
10078 just passed on (which also may be the wrong thing to do).
10080 4.0.2 -- Thu Feb 25 19:55:32 PST 1999 Tim Mann
10082 * Added one more built-in sound choice to WinBoard: move.wav from Pete
10085 * Added new larger piece sizes: big, huge, giant, colossal, titanic.
10087 * Modified the xboard font searcher to be able to use scalable fonts.
10088 The new -fontSizeTolerance flag controls how closely a nonscalable
10089 font must match to be used in preference to a scalable font.
10091 * Zippy environment variables ZIPPYABORT and ZIPPYADJOURN now control
10092 whether Zippy will accept abort and adjourn requests.
10094 * We now determine the variant type being played on ICS, send it as a
10095 command "variant VARTYPE" to the chess engine (if in Zippy mode), and
10096 put it in the PGN tags. See engine-intf.txt for variant names. See
10097 ZIPPYVARIANTS in zippy.README to control what variants Zippy will
10098 accept. Note that this now applies to bughouse, too.
10100 * Zippy now won't do -zippyTalk in a channel unless his handle is
10103 * Zippy now ignores bughouse holdings if not actually playing, instead
10104 of stupidly trying to abort the game. Let me know if other strange
10105 things happen when Zippy is observing a game.
10107 * Set ICS Interaction title bar to "user@server". User name is
10108 determined by parsing message during the login sequence. Zippy now
10109 uses this method to get its name too, so ZIPPYNAME is eliminated.
10110 Problem: with xboard, the title bar gets set to "xterm" upon exit,
10111 since we didn't know what it was to start with.
10113 * Fixed xboard-only bug in -colorChannel1 command line option. Thanks
10114 to Fredrik Sandstrom for the bug report and fix.
10116 * Check for overflow of MAX_MOVES. Still not sure this is checked for
10117 everywhere it needs to be.
10119 * Added .epd to suffixes recognized by WinBoard as position files.
10120 This is a bit of a kludge, as the .fen reading code was not written
10121 with .epd files in mind, but reading them with it is said to work.
10123 * Added ZIPPYGAMESTART feature, suggested by Jason Hoblit. See
10126 * Restored the feature of soaking up the moves from a user-typed "moves",
10127 "oldmoves", or "smoves" ICS command when xboard/WinBoard is idle, but
10128 changed it so that the move list is also echoed to the screen. Some folks
10129 still liked the old feature since it is faster than examine mode, and
10130 printing the moves to the screen should eliminate the confusion it caused
10133 * Bugfix: in WinBoard, starting a click-click move and then clicking on
10134 a black line would cause the source square to be forgotten without taking
10135 the highlight down. Now the errant click is ignored.
10137 * Corrected shortcut key labels for LoadNext/PrevPosition in WinBoard's
10138 File menu. Thanks to Andreas Stabel for the bug report.
10140 * Bugfix: if you had a completely full ICS context menu in WinBoard
10141 (90 items), the last one would do nothing if selected.
10143 * The "computer" engine command added in 4.0.1 was not working; I had
10144 left out part of the code patch. Oops.
10146 4.0.1 -- Fri Feb 12 21:24:15 PST 1999 Tim Mann
10148 This is a minor bugfix release. The first item listed below is the
10149 only interesting new feature.
10151 * You can now type in moves from the keyboard in WinBoard. Either
10152 select TypeInMove from Step menu, or (if you are not in ICS mode),
10153 just start typing. In ICS mode you can type moves into the ICS
10154 interaction window anyway, so I've retained the feature that typing
10155 switches you there. Not implemented in xboard.
10157 * Removed the "noise 1000" command that used to be sent to the chess
10158 engine when entering analysis modes.
10160 * Deleted the feature where we soak up the output of a user-typed ICS
10161 "moves" or "oldmoves" command. This ancient feature is not really
10162 useful anymore, now that "examine" exists, and it caused a lot of
10165 * Increased maximum size of ICS text menu to 90 entries and added
10168 * The command sent to ICS by Zippy at the end of each game can now be
10169 customized with the ZIPPYGAMEEND environment variable.
10171 * We treat xboard.info as a pseudo-source since most people don't have
10172 the tools to rebuild it. But "make install" erroneously had a
10173 dependency on it, even though "make all" did not. Fixed.
10175 * Miscellaneous minor updates and clarifications to engine-intf.txt.
10176 In particular, documented the st and sd commands (support for command
10177 line options -searchTime and -searchDepth), warts and all.
10179 * Added a small code patch from Bob Hyatt to detect when Zippy's ICS
10180 opponent is a computer and send the command "computer" to the engine.
10181 Added this command to engine-intf.txt. Thanks, Bob.
10183 * Bugfix: configure was looking for usleep(), but config.h.in didn't
10184 have an entry for it, so HAVE_USLEEP was never defined. Also, in the
10185 non-HAVE_USLEEP case, there was a possible race condition between the
10186 signal handler and the pause() call. Thanks to Ben Dean-Kawamura for
10189 * Bugfix: a "1..." preceding Black's first move (usually present if
10190 there is a comment on White's first move) would cause the parser
10191 to think a new game started there and report "End of game" on the
10192 current game. Thanks to Dell Garner for the bug report.
10194 * Changed the abbreviation for -searchDepth from -sd to -depth to fix
10195 a clash with -secondDirectory.
10197 * Changed -searchDepth to be orthogonal to the various timing options.
10198 Previously it would search for an unlimited time to the given depth;
10199 now the engine is allowed to choose its search time in the normal way,
10200 but is told to cut off the search early if it reaches the given depth.
10202 * Bugfix: SaveSettings in WinBoard was saving both the long form
10203 option highlightSquareColor and its abbreviation (hsc).
10205 * Fixed a redisplay bug in DisplayBothClocks that could cause White's
10206 clock to be highlighted in EditPosition mode when Black's should have been.
10208 * Fixed Zippy's feature of passing on draw offers from the ICS opponent.
10209 The colorization code was eating the offer before Zippy saw it, so I disabled
10210 colorization of offers while in -zp or -zt mode. (Other types of
10211 colorization are already disabled in Zippy mode for similar reasons.)
10213 * Added some more commands to the default ICS context menu in WinBoard,
10214 and put "(name)" on the ones that insert a playername (or game number).
10216 * Added missing documentation to WinBoard help file: PonderNextMove, the
10217 -ponder/-xponder argument, and the up/down arrow history feature in the
10218 ICS Interaction window.
10220 * Fixed ZIPPYNOPLAYCRAFTY feature to fire only if the opponent is Crafty,
10221 not if some other Crafty is observing the game and kibitzes.
10223 * Fixed bugs in generating "partner" commands when Zippy is playing
10226 4.0.0 -- Sat Jun 20 16:59:47 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
10228 * Fixed WinBoard resizing so that the edges you do not drag remain in
10229 place, even when the final size is different from what you dragged to.
10230 (This doesn't work on NT 3.51 or earlier, if anyone cares.)
10232 * Fixed problems with resizing WinBoard on Windows NT: you no longer get
10233 whitespace around the board, a clipped board, or a lot of flashing during
10236 * Added customization for highlight-square color.
10238 * Bugfix: backend.c wrote to stderr in a few obscure places, which doesn't
10241 * Added Index Number field back to LoadGame/LoadPosition dialog boxes in
10242 WinBoard. This required some extra code to work with both the
10243 Explorer-style dialog boxes and the old-style NT 3.51 dialog boxes. Ugh.
10245 * WinBoard startup dialog now understands -zp mode. The first chess
10246 engine selector is enabled and the value is used.
10248 * Bugfix: ResetGame would send "exit" to engine twice if it was in an
10251 * Bugfix: The response "Illegal move: bk" to the "bk" command, indicating
10252 that it is not implemented, would confuse xboard.
10254 * Bugfix: Ignore empty hints ("Hint:\n") instead of printing a message
10255 saying that some bogus string (often "Hint:") is illegal.
10257 * Bugfix: LoadNextGame/LoadPreviousGame/ReloadSameGame were broken.
10259 3.6.12 -- Sat Jun 13 14:57:10 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
10261 Beta test release of xboard and WinBoard.
10263 * Spruced up xboard man page a bit.
10265 * Added Highlight Last Move to xboard too.
10267 * The revamped xboard mouse click code had several more bugs than the
10268 previous version, so I revamped it again. All fixed now, I hope.
10270 * xboard bugfix: crash in CreatePieceMenu.
10272 * Oops. winboard-3_6_11beta.exe installed 3.6.10beta, not the new version.
10274 3.6.11 -- Fri Jun 12 20:00:48 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
10276 Beta test release of xboard and WinBoard.
10278 * Major reorganization to engine-intf.txt. Some new features added,
10279 many existing features clarified and hints for engine programmers added.
10280 Support for new features added to program.
10282 * Changed defaults for -scp (etc.) back to being independent of -fcp, as
10283 in 3.6.2. That is, the default is no longer to copy the value from -fcp if
10284 -scp is not specified. This will sometimes make command lines longer but
10285 will remove some confusing situations.
10287 * Split -reuseChessPrograms into two options: -reuseFirst and
10288 -reuseSecond. Fixed obscure bugs when reuse is off.
10290 * Detect ICC and change some command usage slightly there: only ICC has
10291 set-quietly; only FICS has iset and bsetup clear. With this feature, we
10292 can now safely use bsetup clear when appropriate instead of deleting each
10295 * Added indent to lines that are wrapped by WinBoard ICS Interaction
10296 window. This seems to tickle a Microsoft bug in the RichEdit control:
10297 occasionally the start of the next line after the wrapped line is indented
10298 too. I think the wrapped indent feature is useful enough that it's worth
10299 having in spite of the bug.
10301 * WinBoard bugfix: bounding box for the board was computed incorrectly by
10302 mouse code. It would think you moved off the bottom of the board before
10303 you really did, so it was hard to drag pieces along the bottom rank on
10304 smaller board sizes.
10306 * Fixed obscure parser.l bug: ambiguity between capture using : instead of
10307 x and email header line. Also removed or simplified a lot of complex
10308 patterns for English (as opposed to PGN) end-of-game indications while I
10311 * Added PonderNextMove option.
10313 * xboard EditPosition piece menus now let you set the side to play by
10314 selecting the "White" or "Black" label at the top of the menu, like
10315 WinBoard. (Both xboard and WinBoard still let you set the side to play by
10316 clicking on the clock.)
10318 * Merged documentation of Crafty and GNU Chess thinking output in
10319 engine-intf.txt. Corrected code in backend.c to match documentation; it
10320 used to require the PV to start in column 27 (!).
10322 * Fixed bug that caused crashes in "-reuseChessProgram false" mode.
10324 * Draw by agreement in Two Machines mode now works as it is supposed to.
10325 Other minor bugs in handling game end messages from machines are also
10326 fixed, and engine-intf.txt is revised in this area.
10328 * Revamped xboard code for handling mouse clicks on the board. In
10329 particular, it had a bug if a click-click promotion move was made.
10331 * Fixed and reinstated optimization for << in analysis modes: send
10332 initString and re-send the board if needed. Sending repeated undos
10333 is bad because Crafty prints some analysis after every one.
10335 * Don't go into a spin loop while pausing between xboard animation frames.
10336 This caused problems, especially when compiling with -O2 on HP-UX.
10338 * WinBoard Options/Colors/RevertToDefaults now also turns off Monochrome
10339 if it was on, and similarly for Options/ICSInteractionColors/RevertToDefaults.
10340 This seemed to confuse people before.
10342 * Bugfix: ICS Interaction context menu items with neither of the two
10343 optional flags set did not work.
10345 * Bugfix: PGN move numbers are optional, but we were insisting on "1"
10346 right after the tags.
10348 * Bugfix: only the first game of an -mg match was loading -lpf or -lgf.
10350 * Other minor fixes and code cleanup.
10352 3.6.10 -- Mon Jun 1 01:32:31 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
10354 * Added ZIPPYNOPLAYCRAFTY feature; see zippy.README.
10356 * Added timestamps for chess engine interaction to -debug output.
10358 * Now allow 10 seconds (was 5) between games in match mode for engines to
10359 respond to "force" command that ended previous game.
10361 * When a game is picked from the game list and the names of White and
10362 Black are known, display them in the window banner instead of the filename
10365 * Changed default for -scp and -sd to be the values of -fcp and -fd.
10367 * Added boxes for both engines to WinBoard startup dialog. Changed to
10368 dropdown boxes whose content can be set from winboard.ini, similar to
10369 the box for ICS name.
10371 * Accept "offer draw" (or "*offer*draw*") from engine to offer a draw.
10373 * Accept "move mmmm" from engine as well as silly "1. ... mmmm" syntax.
10375 * Added support for bughouse engines (Zippy mode only).
10377 * Move bombproofing for engines sending illegal or out of turn moves.
10379 * Always send "xboard\n" to engine as first command. Eliminates need
10380 to run crafty as "crafty xboard".
10382 * Rewrote xboard code for input from engines to fix longstanding bugs.
10383 Previously an engine that sent one line in two separate writes with
10384 some time lapse in between (or perhaps that sent several lines in one
10385 write) could make xboard hang. WinBoard did not have this bug.
10387 * Fixed minor bugs in dealing with illegal moves.
10389 * Added "iset startpos 1" for FICS.
10391 * Removed special support to put "GNU Chess" or "Crafty" in the window
10392 banner instead of the engine's base filename. This gives a more level
10393 playing field for other engines. Also fixed bugs in the code that finds the
10394 engine's base filename.
10396 * Bugfix: Abort or Resign at the very start of a game in chess engine mode
10397 would fail to send "force" to the engine.
10399 * Fixed some minor bugs in new "result" messages, and changed format to
10400 include a trailing PGN comment giving the reason the game ended.
10402 * Changed syntax of /font options in WinBoard; old syntax was assuming
10403 that a font name can't contain a digit, which is wrong. Old font names in
10404 WinBoard.ini files are still accepted.
10406 * Serious further work on getting WinBoard to read/write files in the
10407 "right" directories and documenting exactly what it does.
10409 * Added LoadPreviousPosition, LoadNextPosition, ReloadSamePosition.
10411 * Misc. tiny fixes and cleanup.
10413 3.6.9 -- Sun May 24 20:53:08 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
10415 xboard and WinBoard beta release.
10417 * Tightened up illegal move handling. Illegal or meaningless moves from a
10418 file or chess engine should no longer get translated into a1a1 and blindly
10419 applied. Explicit moves to the same square (like a1a1) no longer make the
10420 piece on that square capture itself and vanish.
10422 * Added AlwaysOnTop feature to winboard.
10424 * Fixed bug in winboard "@" command line indirection operator.
10426 * Removed buggy "optimization" code for ToStart in analysis modes.
10428 * Fixed typo bug in zippy.c that would often cause winboard to crash
10429 right after starting a game in -zp mode.
10431 3.6.8 -- Sat May 23 22:23:19 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
10433 xboard and WinBoard beta release.
10435 * Added -firstDirectory and -secondDirectory so that chess engines can
10436 be started in a different directory from xboard/WinBoard itself.
10438 * Added -matchGames to allow more than one game in -matchMode. The games
10439 are played with colors alternating between the two chess engines. Had to
10440 add a time delay at the end of each game to catch up with game ending
10441 messages from both chess engines -- yuck.
10443 * Changed TwoMachines mode to have firstChessProgram play White by
10444 default. Added -firstPlaysBlack to restore old behavior.
10446 * Major rework of code in backend.c for dealing with first and second
10447 chess engines. Generalized the code and created a struct type with one
10448 instance for each engine. Several small bugs fixed along the way.
10450 * Fixed bugs in Abort in local chess engine mode.
10452 * Tightened pattern matching to recognize moves from machine. Should cure
10453 bogus "Illegal move" errors while Crafty is pondering with Show Thinking
10454 on, among other things.
10456 * WinBoard keeps focus in board window after popping up a comment due to
10457 Forward/Backward/ToStart/ToEnd commands.
10459 * Finally got rid of warnings on compiling moves.c under Windows.
10461 * Fixed so WinBoard will compile on machines where WM_MOUSELEAVE is not
10464 * Removed various bits of unused code.
10466 * Parse (and ignore) NAGs in PGN files.
10468 * Updated engine-intf.txt.
10470 * Send "result R" to the chess program at the end of each game, where
10471 R is the PGN result 1-0, 0-1, 1/2-1/2, or *.
10473 * Bugfix: suppress animation when loading a game with timeDelay=0.
10475 * Bug fix: pondering output from Crafty that contained "..." could be
10476 mistaken for a move, causing bogus error messages and general chaos.
10478 * xboard "make clean" bug fix: moved things created by configure to be
10479 removed only by "make distclean".
10481 * Fixed a remaining case where move was being animated before being
10482 relayed to opponent.
10484 * Backend was reversing time/otim commands to the chess program (new bug),
10485 and was often not sending them on the first move of a game or the first
10486 move after a mode change (old bug). Fixing the latter required a kludge
10487 to work with both GNU Chess and Crafty, because Crafty swaps white and
10488 black clock times when it swaps sides, while GNU Chess does not. The
10489 kludge is that we always make sure the chess engine thinks its opponent is
10490 on move before we set the clock. This will sometimes result in sequences
10491 like "white\ntime xxx\notim yyy\nblack\ngo", or the same with white and
10492 black interchanged.
10494 * Removed last trace of old -whiteString and -blackString arguments.
10496 * Fixed so that you can type "bd" into the Direct Command dialog when
10497 debugging gnuchess, without having xboard parse the clock display
10498 (starting with "White") as "White wins" and end the game.
10500 * Changed moves.c to make a distinction between IllegalMove (where we
10501 could tell what move was intended, but it violates the chess rules) and
10502 MeaninglessMove (where we could not tell). This is a step towards getting
10503 rid of cases where we translate meaningless moves into "a1a1", but some
10504 work is probably needed to track them all down.
10506 * Fixed bug in WinBoard monoMode dragging.
10508 * Changed WinBoard to new style file dialogs. In the process, disabled
10509 the feature that let you enter the index number of a game or position within
10510 the file in the dialog. This is no loss in LoadGame, as you can pick your
10511 game from the game list dialog that follows, but it does remove some
10512 functionality from LoadPosition.
10514 3.6.7 -- Mon May 18 21:25:00 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
10516 xboard and WinBoard beta test release. I've been unable to reproduce some
10517 reported drawing bugs, so they may still not be fixed.
10519 * Changed PopUpErrors option to PopupMoveErrors, which is more useful, and
10520 changed default to off. Errors other than move errors should always be in
10521 popups; they are often too big for the message area and too important to
10522 put where they can be easily missed. But it seems good to get rid of the
10523 popups for move errors by default.
10525 * xboard analysis window no longer forces itself to top whenever there is
10526 new output. Also, now uses built-in Xaw word wrapping instead of trying
10527 to do its own; works better.
10529 * Bugfix: Reset did not take Crafty out of analyze mode.
10531 * A chess engine no longer has to claim to be Crafty to be able to use
10532 AnalysisMode and AnalyzeFile; it just has to implement the analyze
10533 command as Crafty does. Put in heuristics to generate more informative
10534 error messages if the engine does not support analyze, and checked that
10535 they work at least with GNU Chess.
10537 * Added click-click moving, HighlightLastMove, and HighlightDragging to
10538 WinBoard. The highlight features are unlikely to go into xboard unless
10539 the xboard drawing code is cleaned up to do *all* drawing on the board
10540 from DrawPosition, as WinBoard does. This is low priority for me.
10542 * Eliminated bogus "Error gathering move list: no header" popup. You
10543 could get this by observing two fast games at once without turning off
10546 * Disable WinBoard Sounds menu entirely in -ncp mode, since not even
10547 MoveSound is used in that mode.
10549 * WinBoard bugfix: Several problems were caused if the user changed
10550 WinBoard's current directory in a Load, Save, or Browse dialog. In
10551 particular, WinBoard.ini would get saved in the wrong directory, and
10552 sound .wav file names would not get saved with a full pathname. I think
10553 all such problems are now fixed.
10555 * WinBoard bugfix: iconizing the board after an aborted mouse resize would
10556 (partially) resize it to Tiny.
10558 * WinBoard bugfix: board was not being drawn in color on 256-color
10559 displays. This bug was introduced in 3.6.6.
10561 3.6.6 -- Tue May 12 17:43:43 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
10563 xboard and WinBoard beta release. Note: not all reported bugs are fixed.
10565 * Move animation in WinBoard, programmed by Henrik Gram. Great stuff!
10567 * Animate backward moves too.
10569 * xboard bugfix: -font (and friends) can now specify a font alias (such
10570 as "fixed"), not just a full X Consortium name pattern. Previously this
10571 would give a resource conversion error message.
10573 * Some coding style cleanup in xboard.c.
10575 * Earlier error check for moving wrong color piece in EditGame mode.
10577 * Completed fix to pattern matching; see 3.6.5.
10579 * Fixed some software rot bugs in Zippy.
10581 * Split AnimateDragging as separate option from AnimateMoves.
10583 * Added FlashMoves to options menu and -flash/-xflash to command line
10584 options (xboard only).
10586 * Some preliminary work on visible bughouse holding support. Most of the
10587 code is not present in this release because I have not gotten it working
10588 properly yet; my first approach went down a blind alley and I had to
10589 remove most of the partially working code in preparation for a rewrite.
10591 3.6.5 -- Fri May 8 14:22:09 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
10593 Not generally released.
10595 * Pack bughouse holdings display in banner more tightly when board is one
10596 of the smaller sizes (when smallLayout or tinyLayout is true, that is).
10597 An interim measure, but should help.
10599 * Completed fix to make move list parsing recognize the end condition and
10602 * Fixed pattern matching for chatter (tells, etc.) to be more reliable.
10603 This should reduce the incidence of colors starting in the wrong place and
10604 of incorrectly matching things that look like other patterns inside
10605 chatter, such as "shout <12>". (These errors were already rare.)
10607 * WinBoard now lets you customize the list of ICS's in the startup dialog.
10608 For now, at least, requires editing WinBoard.ini with a text editor.
10610 * Bug fix: WinBoard window sizing and position setting save/restore did
10611 not work right when the taskbar was at the top (or left side) of the
10612 screen and not in autohide mode.
10614 * Merged xboard click/click mode and drag mode, and deleted
10615 ClickClickMoving option on menu. Now if you click on a piece, it
10616 highlights and a further click on another square will move it. (A second
10617 click on the same square takes down the highlight.) Or if you press down
10618 on a piece and start to drag, you can drag it to a new square.
10620 * When making click/click style moves, if your second click is on a piece
10621 of the same color, instead of saying "Illegal move", we now cancel the first
10622 starting square, replace it with the second, and wait for another click to
10625 * Separate -secondInitString. Default: same as -initString. Suggested by
10628 * Patch from Frank McIngvale to make animation work with XIMs. Yay!
10630 * Changed move animation to happen after move is passed on to ICS or the
10631 chess engine, where applicable. Fixed problems with updating moveList
10632 that this uncovered.
10634 * Changed game list to show PGN result token for each game.
10636 * The usual minor bug fixes.
10638 3.6.4 -- Thu Apr 30 23:14:43 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
10640 xboard and WinBoard beta test release.
10642 * xboard documentation updated, both man page and info file. An attempt
10643 to generate both from the same source with LinuxDocSGML was abandoned, at
10644 least for now. WinBoard doc updated too.
10646 * Merged updates to animation code from Hugh. Fixed a couple of remaining
10647 bugs, mostly to do with handling Pause mode correctly.
10649 * Added SaveSettingsOnExit to WinBoard.
10651 * WinBoard now saves the last screen position of the Comment, Edit Tags,
10652 Game List, and Analysis windows (in addition to the board and ICS
10653 Interaction windows) in WinBoard.ini.
10655 * WinBoard now provides a way to customize the right-button context menu
10656 in the output area of the ICS Interaction window. For now, requires
10657 editing WinBoard.ini with a text editor.
10659 * Various minor fixes to ICS message recognition, most affecting only Zippy.
10661 * Colorize the notification when someone sends you a message while you are
10662 logged in, not the output of the "messages" command.
10664 * Fixed colorization to turn off at the right place more reliably.
10666 * Added a new color and WinBoard sound for "requests": abort, adjourn,
10667 draw, pause, and takeback. The same color and sound are used for all of
10670 * Added GUI to change sounds in WinBoard.
10672 * Suppressed WinBoard error popup when a sound can't be played. They were
10673 popping up when two separate WinBoards tried to play a sound at the same
10674 time (such as during a bughouse match).
10676 * Fixed WinBoard crash when a sound file didn't exist.
10678 * WinBoard ports of timestamp and timeseal now produce decent error
10679 messages if they fail to connect, and WinBoard captures the messages and
10680 puts them into a popup. Previously WinBoard would exit with no message on
10683 * WinBoard resizing with mouse improved; now accurately picks the largest
10684 size that fits in the new area.
10686 * Added option to turn off error message popups.
10688 * Added sizes slim, dinky, and teeny.
10690 * Fixed some minor problems with error message wording.
10692 3.6.3 -- Mon Feb 23 19:08:57 PST 1998 Tim Mann
10694 xboard beta test release only. Man page is updated for the changes, but info
10697 * Bug fix: LoadGame could not load a PGN game whose first move was
10698 castling (which is possible from setup positions).
10700 * Bug fix: we were ignoring illegal move messages from chess engines in
10701 modes where the engine is refereeing but not participating (EditGame,
10702 LoadGame, AnalyzeFile). The problem was in a workaround for a Crafty bug,
10703 where Crafty generates a bogus illegal move message if a "." (used by
10704 the PeriodicUpdates feature) is sent in analysis mode when the current
10705 analysis reveals a forced mate. Installed a different workaround (that
10706 works in most but not all cases) and reported the Crafty bug. Bob Hyatt
10707 replied with a fix, so the Crafty bug should be gone in Crafty 14.12 or so.
10709 * WinBoard only: enabled resizing board with the mouse. It snaps to the
10710 nearest (but not too much larger) predefined size.
10712 * The xboard default font is now sized according to piece size, just as
10713 clockFont and coordFont have always been.
10715 * Added more sizes: bulky, moderate, average, middling, mediocre, petite.
10717 * xboard only: Added Animate Moves and Click-Click Moving to Options menu.
10719 * xboard only: Added code to animate piece movement, from Hugh Fisher.
10721 * New feature: autoflag is implemented in MachineWhite, MachineBlack, and
10722 TwoMachines modes. If it is on and either a chess program or the user
10723 oversteps his time, xboard will automatically call the flag and end the
10724 game. This feature was requested by someone who runs matches between
10725 programs and wants to penalize GNU Chess for its habit of running slightly
10726 over at the end of a time control. I personally think it's pointless.
10728 * Fixed a bug in Zippy's pattern matching; he can now reply to ICC
10731 * Generate prettier notation for illegal moves. If a move is illegal only
10732 because it leaves the player in check, generate notation as if that were
10733 not illegal. For instance, if two knights are a knight's move away from
10734 f3, one on g1 and one on e5 that is pinned, the notation would be Nf3 to
10735 move the g1 knight, Nef3 to move the e5 knight. (Suggested by Philippe
10736 Schnoebelen.) In addition, if a move is illegal because the type of piece
10737 moved cannot go that way, would be jumping over another piece, etc., we
10738 give fully disambiguated coordinate notation; for example, Ng1g3, Ke1xe8,
10739 d2xd8=Q, etc. An alternative would be to still write Ng3 if there is only
10740 one knight on the board, or Ngg3 if the other knight is not on the g file,
10741 but life is too short to code up all this stuff, and perhaps the way I did
10742 it is better as it emphasizes that this move was really made despite being
10743 illegal. I wonder if the new PGN standard revision will speak to notation
10746 * Fixed gross bug from 3.6.2: if a chess program said "checkmate" and
10747 White was left on move, the PGN outcome was "1-0 {Black mates}" instead
10748 of "0-1 {Black mates}"! The bug occurred only for that specific string.
10750 3.6.2 -- Wed Jul 23 16:47:29 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
10752 * There was a bug in backing up from the end of a game against a chess
10753 engine, introduced when -reuse mode was added. Fixed.
10755 * Recognize "{" as terminating an ICS move list. Previously we needed to
10756 see a prompt (containing %), but occasionally ICC can send more stuff
10757 right after a move list with no prompt in between.
10759 * In WinBoard, -mm now implies -cp, so you don't get the startup dialog.
10761 * WinBoard startup dialog no longer sets -scp. People used to get
10762 confused because they would give the -fcp and -scp arguments, but omit
10763 -cp. This would bring up the startup dialog, which would set both -fcp
10764 and -scp to the value in the engine name box. Now you can change -scp
10765 only with the command-line argument. That will confuse some people too,
10766 but hopefully fewer. I think overall it's better than putting spaces for
10767 both -fcp and -scp in the dialog, which would puzzle newbies.
10769 * Bug fix: Analyze File mode now works in WinBoard.
10771 * Bug fix: WinBoard window no longer cuts off part of the bottom row if
10772 the menu bar wraps to a second line.
10774 * Accept game end messages of the form "PGN-result {comment}" from the
10775 chess engine, where PGN-result is 0-1, 1-0, or 1/2-1/2. Accept "resign"
10776 or "computer resigns" from the chess engine as a synonym for "0-1 {White
10777 resigns}" or "1-0 {Black resigns}". Accept any message from the chess
10778 engine containing "game is a draw" as a synonym for "1/2-1/2 {Draw}".
10779 Accept "White resigns" or "Black resigns".
10781 * Enable "Action / Draw" menu item in chess engine mode. It sends the
10782 command "draw" to the engine. Accept any message from the chess engine
10783 containing "offers a draw" as a draw offer. WARNING: Draw offers from the
10784 user and the engine (or from two engines) are not yet matched up by xboard
10785 in chess engine mode. Two engines could get into a loop offering each
10788 * Bug fix: Game end messages from the chess engine are always ignored in
10789 Zippy mode. Previously they could sometimes be processed, which was
10790 sometimes making Zippy hang at the start of a new game that followed
10791 quickly after an old one.
10793 * Zippy can now respond to titled players in channels. Zippy will avoid
10794 talking to himself in a channel if he knows his own name.
10796 * Bug fix: in colorization arguments, the bold setting was being ignored
10797 if the background color was defaulted. (xboard only.)
10799 * Extended ParseFEN to accept Crafty 12.2's interpretation of FEN.
10800 If fewer than 8 squares are given in a row, or fewer than 8 rows are
10801 given, the uncovered squares are empty. Also, there can be a / after the
10804 3.6.1 -- Sat May 17 01:02:33 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
10806 * Bug fix: Hitting escape while entering a password on WinBoard no longer
10807 sets the font color back to black (which made further typing visible).
10809 * Bug fix: On Windows NT 4.0, WinBoard /ics /icshelper=timestamp would
10810 often hang if you tried to exit with the Exit menu item, the [X] button,
10811 etc. The same fix may also have corrected the problem where running a
10812 chess program with /xreuse would sometimes crash Windows 95 (but not NT)
10813 when the chess program was killed and quickly restarted.
10815 * Bug fix: Periodic Updates would not work if turned on after having been
10816 off. Also, the default was needlessly "off" in WinBoard.
10818 * Zippy bug fix: Continuing an adjourned game was totally broken. The
10819 wrong moves, or no moves at all, were being fed to the chess program.
10821 * WinBoard change: Giving -ics without -icshost now pops up the startup
10822 dialog with "Use an Internet Chess Server" pre-selected, so that you get a
10823 menu of chess servers instead of going directly to ICC.
10825 * Bug fix: WinBoard's SaveSettings was saving -icshost, -icsport, and
10826 -icshelper in winboard.ini. This causes a problem if you use a different
10827 icshost later that needs the default values for icsport (5000) and
10828 icshelper ("", meaning none).
10830 * Disabled complaints about unexpected "[Ii]llegal move" messages from
10831 the chess program; we still get them at times.
10833 * Greatly simplified the code for Move Now and SIGINT (ATTENTION). Fixes
10834 the bug where Move Now did not work with GNU Chess in WinBoard, and
10835 several more obscure bugs as well. Reintroduces a minor bug: GNU Chess might
10836 not think on your time after a Move Now command. Trying to fix this
10837 causes too many other problems. Documented change in engine-intf.txt.
10839 * Cleaned up code for obtaining ratings from ICS. It was kludgey and may
10840 have had bugs on systems with no "Creating:" message. It should fail
10841 gracefully there, just not finding the ratings.
10843 3.6.0 -- Thu May 8 19:55:58 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
10845 * WinBoard now has right-button context menus in the ICS Interaction
10846 window. Some of the items do immediate commands on the player name you
10847 have selected or pointed to. (Suggested by Paolo Casaschi.) Also, the
10848 middle button or shift+right does a immediate Copy and Paste.
10850 * Fixed a bug in Zippy's wild rejection. The bug was causing Zippy to
10851 reject all forms of wild. Now it rejects only 1, 9, 16, 17, and 24, as
10852 was intended. These variants have different rules, while the other
10853 variants defined so far only have different starting positions.
10854 (Actually, wild 2, 3, and 4 never allow castling, but may sometimes by
10855 chance have king and rook start on squares where castling appears legal.
10856 This could cause a problem later.)
10858 * Zippy now resumes adjourned games by feeding the chess program
10859 the move list instead of the position. Setting -getMoveList to False
10860 restores the old behavior. Feeding in the move list is better because
10861 it enables the chess program to correctly handle en passant legality,
10862 castling legality, draw by repetition, and draw by the 50 move rule.
10864 * Added a WinBoard startup dialog for people who run WinBoard.exe without
10865 using the Start menu or reading the help file. Instead of being dumped
10866 directly into GNU Chess mode, you now get a menu of choices. You now have
10867 to give the new WinBoard -cp option to go directly into chess engine mode.
10868 I did not add this feature to xboard.
10870 * Handling of "illegal move" from Crafty is now back on. (It was turned
10871 off in 3.4.6; see below.) Crafty 12.0 doesn't seem to send bogus ones
10872 anymore. I did have to suppress sending time and otim in analyze mode to
10873 make this work, but there is no harm in that.
10875 * Zippy now sends "gameend" to ICS at the end of each game. You can alias
10876 this to "seek" or whatever you like.
10878 * Added Crafty support for Move Now, using the "?" command. We test
10879 whether this command exists by trying it once at the start of the first
10880 game, before it really makes sense. If we don't get a message like
10881 "Illegal move ... ?", we assume it's OK. (We're careful about this
10882 because sending a "?" to GNU Chess on Move Now keeps it from pondering the
10883 next move as it should.)
10885 * Added support for a tellusererror command from the chess engine. See
10888 * Attempted to make engine-intf.txt complete.
10890 * Minor fixes/cleanup to GameEnds code, to be sure we always interrupt
10891 when needed, and always undo an extra move generated by stopping the chess
10892 program while it is thinking.
10894 3.5.7 -- Sat May 03 22:37:44 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
10896 Beta release of both xboard and WinBoard.
10898 * Updated xboard documentation. I really wish the man page was built from
10899 the info file instead of being separate! It's a pain to update them both.
10901 * Updated documentation of the interface between XBoard/WinBoard and chess
10902 programs, and renamed it to engine-intf.txt.
10904 * Added support for tellics, telluser, and askuser commands from the chess
10905 engine. See engine-intf.txt.
10907 * Various bug fixes. On WinBoard, 256 color displays are finally handled
10908 right; no more color flashing when you switch windows unless the colors
10909 really need to be updated. Also, I think the problem of the console font
10910 failing to change or changing back by itself is finally fixed.
10912 3.5.6 -- Tue Apr 29 03:08:00 PDT 1997
10914 Beta release, WinBoard only. ChangeLog was out of date in release,
10917 * Added ICC timestamp and FICS timeseal to WinBoard distribution. These
10918 are my own ports to Win32, based on and used by permission of the owners
10919 of the proprietary source code (Daniel Sleator for timestamp, Henrik Gram
10920 for timeseal). The owners permit these programs to be distributed only in
10921 binary form (to help prevent cheating), so to avoid running afoul of the
10922 GPL, I have kept them as separate programs, not linked into the WinBoard
10923 address space. Updated Start menu icons to use them.
10925 * Miscellaneous smaller changes.
10927 3.5.5 -- Fri Apr 25 03:06:00 PDT 1997
10929 Beta release, WinBoard only. ChangeLog was out of date in release;
10932 * Added simple sound support to WinBoard.
10934 * Updated WinBoard documentation.
10936 * Internal implementation of the telnet protocol is now more complete.
10937 You can now hop through a VMS host on the way to ICS. For example, do
10938 "xboard -ics -icshost vms.host.edu -icsport 23", then log in. Do not use
10939 the -telnet flag; that says to use an *external* telnet program. To avoid
10940 double echoes, you need to force character mode in VMS telnet after
10941 connecting from VMS to ICS. Do "^]^Mset mode char^M^M".
10943 * Display opponent names in the title bar for MachineWhite, MachineBlack,
10944 and TwoMachines modes.
10946 * WinBoard now has an installer, built with InstallShield. The installer
10947 works with a binary-only distribution. Sources are still freely
10948 available, but now separately.
10950 * Added SaveSettings to WinBoard, which saves current option settings to
10951 winboard.ini. Made sure all options can be saved and loaded, including
10952 fonts and com port settings.
10954 * If the game ends while you are dragging a piece, we now don't let you
10955 finish the move. Formerly the move was accepted and your opponent's clock
10956 would start running again.
10958 3.5.4 -- Fri Apr 18 01:15:24 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
10960 Beta test release of WinBoard and xboard. The documentation remains
10963 * Many fixes and improvements to new WinBoard user interface code.
10965 * In Zippy mode, avoid sending another copy of the same move to the chess
10966 program if ICS sends us another copy of the board image. Hard to believe
10967 it took me until now to diagnose and fix this problem!
10969 3.5.3 -- Sat Apr 12 19:49:33 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
10971 Beta test release of WinBoard and xboard.
10973 * Fixed fatal bug in WinBoard input handling.
10975 * Made code to stop chess program for reuse a bit smarter. Removed kludge
10976 of "white" in initString; it didn't work well, and is unneeded
10977 with Crafty 11.21 and later.
10979 3.5.2 -- Sat Apr 12 15:40:01 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
10981 Beta test release of WinBoard.
10983 * Ignore check and permit promotion to King during suicide games; no need
10984 to turn off TestLegality.
10986 * Renamed CheckLegality to TestLegality to avoid confusion with the chess
10989 * Added Rematch to Action menu.
10991 * WinBoard now has a custom ICS interaction window with scrollback, a
10992 separate line for input, and colorization. Accelerators that conflict
10993 with normal editing keys were changed (by requiring Alt+) so they can work
10994 in both the console and the main window.
10996 * WinBoard error popups are now non-modal and disappear when you make a
10997 new move, as in xboard.
10999 * Configure now defaults to --disable-ptys on all systems. If anyone has
11000 an ancient SysV system where pipes don't work with select, they can still
11001 do "configure --enable-ptys" explicitly. I would appreciate getting a bug
11002 report if this happens to anyone, with complete output from configure and
11005 * "make install" now makes the installation directories too.
11007 * Fixed a bug that would cause an "Illegal move" message for Black from
11008 GNU Chess to be incorrectly considered bogus.
11010 * Handle name changes during an ICS game (FICS bname and wname commands).
11012 * You can force both chess programs to be killed at the end of each game
11013 by turning off the reuseChessPrograms option. There are still some
11014 problems with reusing Crafty even in version 11.20.
11016 * Now the second chess program stays around by default too, if it ever
11019 3.5.1 -- Sat Apr 5 16:47:48 PST 1997 Tim Mann
11023 * Don't kill off and restart the chess program for each game; keep the
11024 same one running, using the "new" command to start a new game. This
11025 change works around the problem in Windows 95 that makes WinBoard crash it
11026 at times, and is generally desirable to make new games start faster. The
11027 second chess program (for TwoMachines) is still killed at the end of the
11028 game, and unfortunately this can still crash Windows 95. Temporarily
11029 added "white" to the initString to make this work with Crafty 11.20, which
11030 has a minor bug in "new". Older versions of Crafty have worse bugs in
11031 "new"; they should not be used with this version of xboard.
11033 * Support for FICS suicide chess: Parse illegal moves (that leave King in
11034 check) in game history. If CheckLegality is off, allow promotion to King
11035 and illegal moves in game files. We still generate e2e4 style notation
11038 * Handle FICS "has timeseal; checking" message.
11040 * Changed the coords from white back to black; this was a bug.
11042 * Fixed problems compiling with K&R compilers.
11044 * Fixed an old bug in RegisterMove that was crashing cmail on some systems
11047 3.5.0 -- Thu Jan 2 16:59:49 PST 1997 Tim Mann
11049 Thanks to Frank McIngvale for much of the work on versions 3.4.4 and above!
11051 * Fix Crafty resumed game time bug (frankm)
11053 * Word wrap text in Analysis window (frankm)
11055 * More debug info for XPM loading (frankm)
11057 * Replaced config.sub, config.guess, etc., with up-to-date versions from
11058 autoconf 2.12. Hopefully this will fix problems on Pentium Pro machines.
11060 * Removed some Makefile gunk that was causing looping for one person.
11062 3.4.7 -- Thu Dec 19 14:22:41 PST 1996 Tim Mann
11064 All changes from Frank:
11066 * Retrieve ratings from ICC (and FICS, etc., when they add the Creating:
11067 message), save them in the PGN tags, and pass them to Crafty in Zippy mode.
11069 * Add settable time delay between characters in ICS login script.
11071 * Colorize messages like personal tells. Fix false recognition of channel
11074 * Pass "tells" from Crafty through to ICS (in Zippy mode).
11076 * Implement ~/ filename convention from C shell for game and position file
11079 * ZIPPYACCEPTONLY feature for testing.
11081 3.4, patchlevel 6 -- Sat Nov 23 16:58:50 PST 1996 Tim Mann
11083 * Put recognition of "illegal move" messages from Crafty for
11084 illegal castling, etc., inside an #if that is currently turned off,
11085 because of a bug in Crafty that generates bogus "illegal move" messages
11086 after some moves that are actually legal and accepted by Crafty.
11088 * Added -checkLegality option; previously this could not be turned off.
11090 * Fixed an old bug in finding default board size parameters.
11092 * Differentiated among channel tell, kibitz/whisper, and personal tell/say.
11094 * Fixed a bug in detecting Xpm in the configure script.
11096 3.4, patchlevel 5 -- Mon Nov 18 16:22:53 PST 1996 Tim Mann
11098 * Added zic2xpm to the kit; it had been omitted by mistake.
11100 * Added some default colors for -colorize
11102 3.4, patchlevel 4 -- Sat Nov 16 18:10:17 PST 1996 Tim Mann
11104 This is meant to be a beta release in preparation for version 3.5.
11106 * Added InfoXBoard and ManXBoard to the Help menu.
11108 * Made Frank's ICS input box optional, defaulting to off.
11110 * Merged in Frank McIngvale's XbKit. Many new features, including
11111 -clickClick mode, the Analysis modes, piece flashing, ZIICS import,
11112 ICS text colorization, and the ICS input box. Many thanks to Frank for
11113 supplying and documenting this code.
11115 3.4, patchlevel 3 -- Mon Nov 11 18:23:14 PST 1996 Tim Mann
11117 Small set of changes made while Frank McIngvale was working on XbKit in
11118 parallel. Unreleased in this form.
11120 * Updated zippy.README.
11122 * Removed useless X event handler and removed strange code for copying
11123 form translation table to board that worked around the bug it caused.
11124 This makes changing bindings in .Xdefaults more straightforward.
11126 * Now pressing the Control key steps back one move, and releasing it steps
11129 * Moved quit from "q" to "Q" for greater safety.
11131 * Use "unobserve" instead of "observe" to stop observing; needed on FICS.
11133 * Support for interface variable.
11135 * Strip titles from people who are talking to us, so (for example) Zippy
11136 won't try things like "tell Darooha(*) hello". Needed on FICS.
11138 3.4, patchlevel 2 -- Tue Jul 9 19:06:42 PDT 1996 Tim Mann
11140 This patchlevel is not planned to be an announced release. It's in
11141 preparation for integrating Frank McIngvale's XbKit. It mostly contains
11142 minor fixes I've accumulated since 3.4.pl1.
11144 * WinBoard /telnet option now fires up an external program, as
11145 with xboard, instead of trying to use a feature of NT 3.1 that does not
11146 exist in later versions of NT or in Windows 95. ChangeLog for 3.4.pl1
11147 said this had been implemented there, but it really wasn't.
11149 * Indicating player to move by the icon color now works under Windows 95.
11151 * WinBoard now kills the chess program when you exit using the system menu
11152 or the [X] button. Thanks to Michael Lowe.
11154 * Minor changes to Zippy, including: Now understands wild challenges on
11155 FICS; these used to crash it. Removed limit on how fast a game will be
11156 accepted. Use "set formula ..." on the chess server to limit this if you
11157 are using GNU Chess. Now sends correct opponent name to Crafty.
11159 * Added some missing default values to documentation. Thanks to Stuart
11162 * Bugfix: Trying to print "No fonts match pattern" error message would
11163 crash. This can happen to Linux users who don't install Helvetica, for
11166 * Bugfix: Defaulting feature in -size n,n,n,n,n,n would put us in an
11169 * Added more directories to search for Athena widgets on HPUX.
11171 * New cmail (3.12) from Evan Welsh; includes small fix from Kayvan Sylvan.
11173 * Recognize "illegal move" messages from Crafty for illegal castling, etc.
11175 * Bugfix: "name" command added to zippy.c for Crafty was producing error
11176 message if GNU Chess was in use.
11178 * In bughouse mode, suppress holding messages from console window; show
11179 holdings only in banner.
11181 * Minor fixes/cleanup to Makefile.in and configure.in.
11183 3.4, patchlevel 1 -- Mon Dec 11 13:43:12 PST 1995 Tim Mann
11185 * This patchlevel updates WinBoard to match xboard, and includes a few
11186 fixes and minor improvements. "-size tiny" and "-size n,n,n,n,n,n"
11187 are still not implemented for WinBoard.
11189 * Installed support for Crafty based on code from Bob Hyatt.
11190 Currently the only documentation for this is in the FAQ, and a few
11191 things don't work with Crafty 8.23. Please do not report these
11192 problems as bugs in either xboard or Crafty. Bob and I know about
11193 them. The worst ones (if not all of them) should be fixed in Crafty
11196 * Changed the kludge command we send when gnuchess wants to print
11197 something that doesn't end with a newline, from "help" to "bogus".
11198 This works because the error message gnuchess prints ends with a
11199 newline. It also improves compatibility with Crafty, which doesn't
11200 need the kludge, but for which sending "help" causes a problem.
11202 * Don't draw grid at all if lineGap is 0; previously we drew the grid
11203 with X "0-width" lines (usually 1 pixel wide) and then overwrote it.
11205 * Makefile: Removed xboard.info from "all" target so we won't try to
11206 rebuild it, because this fails on hosts that don't have makeinfo
11207 installed. Other minor fixes to "clean" targets, etc.
11209 * Fixes and cleanup to Auto Comment code that handles continuation
11210 lines and highlighting.
11212 * Auto Observe now tries to observe the game from the point of view of
11213 the player who was on your gnotify list. Requested by rng.
11214 Limitations: We can't tell which player it was unless you have ICS
11215 highlighting turned on. Also, currently "observe foo" works as
11216 required (observing from foo's point of view) only on ICC, but FICS
11217 will probably implement this soon.
11219 * "-size tiny" now makes the default font smaller automatically. This
11220 was implemented by introducing an extra Form widget in the hierarchy
11221 for all xboard windows, named either normalLayout, smallLayout, or
11222 tinyLayout. So you can have resource specifications that apply only
11223 to certain layouts; in particular, XBoard*tinyLayout*font.
11225 * Bug fix: EditGame or EditPosition while playing or examining still was
11226 not really being permitted.
11228 * WinBoard bug fix: On the EditPosition menu, King did not work.
11230 * Added text catalog of WinSock error messages to WinBoard, because
11231 Microsoft still has not put them in the system message catalog.
11233 * Removed support for older ICS game-ending messages that do not have
11234 a PGN result token (*, 0-1, 1-0, or 1/2-1/2) after the closing '}'.
11235 The code for older messages was sometimes firing on the newer
11236 messages, due to parsing ambiguity. If the current code sees an old
11237 message, it will understand that the game is over, but will always
11238 display * as a result token instead of trying to guess the result by
11239 interpreting the text message.
11241 3.4, patchlevel 0 -- Tue Nov 21 01:02:50 PST 1995 Tim Mann
11243 * This patchlevel was released for xboard only.
11245 * Updated the info file. It should now be as up-to-date as the man page,
11246 with good English except in the parts that pertain only to AmyBoard.
11248 * Added "-size tiny", requested by Bob Hyatt. Also cleaned up bitmap
11249 support and added "-size n,n,n,n,n,n" to allow arbitrary-sized bitmaps,
11250 if the actual bitmaps are supplied by the user.
11252 * Updated bughouse support.
11254 3.3, patchlevel 4 -- Sat Nov 18 02:27:21 PST 1995 Tim Mann
11256 * Unreleased beta that works with preliminary FICS bughouse code. Will
11257 need changes before release to track FICS message changes.
11259 * Removed use of .EX macro from man page. It is not supported by some
11260 nroff -man macro packages, notably the one on Slackware Linux. Switched
11261 to boldface for references to xboard and other commands within the man
11262 page, as this seems to be the modern way.
11264 * Bug fix: If ICS rejected a move, it was correctly undone on the board,
11265 but the message widget still displayed the bad move. Reported by DAV.
11267 * Normally, xboard in ICS mode fetches the move list whenever the board
11268 display switches to a new game. Doing this is now an option
11269 (getMoveList) that can be turned off, which is useful if you are watching
11270 multiple blitz games. Requested by rng.
11272 * Move list fetching code is now smarter: it ignores a move list if it is
11273 not for the right game.
11275 * Added support for bughouse as implemented on FICS. Holdings are shown
11276 in the window title in place of the strength numbers. A menu on mouse
11277 buttons 2 and 3 (same on both) lets you drop pieces. There is no checking
11278 as to whether you actually hold the piece you are trying to drop; we rely
11279 on ICS to check that. Notation of the form P@f7 is generated and parsed.
11280 The mate detector does not understand that non-contact mate is not really
11281 mate in bughouse, but this does no real harm. It results in a "#"
11282 suffix being displayed on the move notation, but xboard does not assume the
11285 * Bug fix: Promotion to a knight was not working with ICC! Thanks to
11286 Wendigo for the report.
11288 * Bug fix: Special pty code for host types *-*-aix3* and *-*-irix3*
11289 (supplied from configure.in) had a bug that would cause childio.c to
11290 fail to compile, due to a "continue" that was not within a loop.
11292 * Bug fix: In pgntags.c, memory was being freed while still in use. One
11293 symptom this caused was that on some machines, cmail would fail with a
11294 message that it could not find the BlackNA tag. The error was in some
11295 submitted code that I included in version 3.2.pl3 without reading
11296 carefully enough. Anders Forberg noticed the symptoms, and Evan Welsh
11297 (who had nothing to do with causing the bug) found the bug and submitted a
11298 fix; thanks to them both.
11300 * Removed restriction against using EditGame while playing, observing,
11301 or examining on ICS. You still get a warning popup.
11303 3.3, patchlevel 3 -- Sat Sep 16 11:44:05 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
11305 * Bug fix: Going directly from MachineWhite to TwoMachines mode would kill
11306 off the second chess program after Black's first move.
11308 * Added -timeIncrement feature. Thanks to Joel Rivat.
11310 * Deleted code that tries to keep you from observing more than one game,
11311 or observing while playing or examining. There is actually no problem in
11312 doing this, except that every time an update comes in from a different
11313 game than is currently being displayed, xboard fetches the history of the
11314 new game, which may be time-consuming if you are on a slow link.
11316 * Fixed configure so as not to crash when neither lex nor flex is found.
11317 lex or flex is needed only if the user wants to rebuild parser.c. Thanks
11318 to Phil Humpherys for reporting the crash.
11320 * Bug fix: config.h.in used #define instead of #undef for some macros used
11321 in the pty code in childio.c. This causes the code to fail to compile on
11322 some architectures, because the symbols are supposed to be undefined, not
11323 defined to empty, when they are not set in configure. Bug originated in
11324 3.3.pl0 when config.h was introduced. Thanks to Phil Humpherys for report.
11326 * Bug fix: ShowThinking would not show anything when current position had
11327 no move to display in the move window. E.g., if position was created by
11328 LoadPosition or EditPosition.
11330 3.3, patchlevel 2 -- Mon Aug 28 11:11:11 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
11332 * Zippy code was omitted from xboard-3.3.pl1 by mistake; now included.
11334 * For WinBoard, added hint to help file that you may need to turn off
11335 LocalLineEditing while typing dialing commands to your modem.
11337 3.3, patchlevel 1 -- Sat Aug 19 15:13:30 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
11339 * Zippy distribution is no longer separate from regular xboard distribution.
11341 * Deal properly with Show Thinking output from GNU Chess when it is
11342 thinking on its opponent's time. In TwoMachines mode this output is
11343 suppressed to avoid interfering with the output from the machine that is
11344 on move; in other modes it is displayed (including the move that GNU Chess
11345 is predicting the user will make next). GNU Chess produces this output
11346 only if it is built without -DQUIETBACKGROUND defined; this symbol is
11347 defined by default in patchlevels before pl75, but undefined by default in
11350 * Bug fix: Handling of initial board position in move list for wild games
11351 was broken, so wild games could not be observed and adjourned wild games
11352 could not be continued. Thanks to "Maximum Entropy" for the bug report.
11354 * Added feature: algebraic notation now shows "+" indicator for check
11355 and "#" for checkmate, as called for in PGN standard. Thanks to Kevin
11356 Maher for the suggestion.
11358 3.3, patchlevel 0 -- Thu Jul 27 22:21:07 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
11360 * Changed configuration to use a config.h file instead of passing zillions
11361 of -D options on the cc command line.
11363 * Merged a small fix and some updates to the texinfo file from Jochen
11364 Wiedmann. The texinfo file still needs work.
11366 3.2, patchlevel 5 -- Tue Jul 18 20:29:39 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
11368 * Beta test release of xboard only.
11370 * Updated WinBoard code to include new xboard features.
11372 * Added texinfo file from Jochen Wiedmann to the release, but not as the
11373 primary documentation. It needs updating, and the English needs work.
11374 I did make a few improvements, mostly to change incorrect uses of @var to
11375 either @samp or @code as appropriate.
11377 * Merged in code changes to 3.2.pl4beta from Jochen Wiedmann.
11379 * Fixed EditComment; did not pop up window in previous beta.
11381 * Added AutoComment feature.
11383 * Added GameListDestroy to disable the outdated game list popup in cases
11384 where we load a new game file without building a new popup.
11386 * Added yyskipmoves feature to parser.l to speed up building of gamelist.
11388 * gamelist.c wouldn't compile with a non-ANSI compiler. Fixed.
11390 * Change to yy_text handling in patchlevel 3 still had problems. Can't
11391 use AC_DECL_YYTEXT in configure.in, because that defines YYTEXT_POINTER
11392 according to whether the lexer on the current host makes yytext a pointer.
11393 But most people will be using a parser.c that was generated on another
11394 host and shipped with the package.
11396 3.2, patchlevel 4 -- Sun Jun 25 19:13:43 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
11398 * Beta test release of xboard only.
11400 * Added FIREWALLS section to man page.
11402 * Changed -icsport to be a string. Now with the -telnet option,
11403 specifying -icsport "" suppresses the second argument to telnet.
11405 * Added EditTags feature. Removed AboutGame from menu, because EditTags
11406 subsumes it. EditTags suggested by Jochen Wiedmann and first implemented by
11407 him in AmyBoard. xboard implementation is my own.
11409 * Fixed some missing or incorrect prototypes.
11411 3.2, patchlevel 3 -- Sat Jun 3 18:57:38 1995 Tim Mann
11413 * Beta test release of xboard only.
11415 * New version of cmail from Evan Welsh, to fix compatibility problems with
11418 * Added game list feature on Load Game, based on code from Jochen
11419 Wiedmann. Integrated it with cmail.
11421 * Several bug fixes from Jochen Wiedmann, including one to my yy_text
11422 workaround for the difference in the type of yytext between lex and flex.
11424 * Handle clock pause on FICS.
11426 * Suppress clocks in untimed FICS games (time control 0 0).
11428 * Rebuilt configure script with autoconf 2.3. This fixes a bug in
11429 configuring for X11R6, where -lSM -lICE would not be added when needed.
11431 * Fixed inconsistent type declarations on IntSigHandler and
11432 CmailSigHandler. Bug report from Josh Daynard.
11434 * backend.c wouldn't compile with a non-ANSI compiler. Fixed.
11436 3.2, patchlevel 2 -- Tue Feb 7 14:50:30 1995 Tim Mann
11438 * Minor release of both xboard and WinBoard.
11440 * Added recognition of some FICS messages. On the other hand FICS is also
11441 changing some of its messages to match what xboard already recognizes.
11443 * Temporarily went back to using "promote" command on ICS instead of
11444 "a7a8=Q", because FICS doesn't implement the latter yet.
11446 * We now avoid using overlapped I/O on pipes in WinBoard, to make Windows
11447 95 beta 2 happy. This lets WinBoard work with GNU Chess on Windows 95!
11449 * Installed patches from Jochen Wiedmann to coordinate with Amiga XBoard.
11451 * Installed patch to cmail bug in LoadGame from Evan Welsh.
11453 * Bugfix: checkmate and stalemate moves entered with EditGame in ICS mode
11454 were not being handled correctly. Bug was in GameEnds().
11456 * Implemented EchoOn and EchoOff for xboard, using system("stty echo\n").
11457 Now passwords won't be echoed when you connect directly to ICS. Also,
11458 telnet negotiation characters aren't displayed (when possible).
11460 * Implemented more of the telnet protocol. Now connecting to a telnet
11461 server with "-icsport 23" should work even without giving the -telnet
11462 option. The telnet is in "old line-by-line mode".
11464 3.2, patchlevel 1 -- Sat Dec 10 13:50:46 1994 Tim Mann
11466 * This patchlevel released for WinBoard only.
11468 * winboard.c: Fixed ConsoleInputThread(). Needed to change CRLF to LF,
11469 not to CR. This was stopping normal /ics mode from working. Thanks to
11470 Asher Kobin for the bug report.
11472 * winboard.c: Fixed Raw(), EchoOn(), EchoOff(). Now they take effect
11473 immediately, not on the next console read after the one in progress.
11475 * winboard.c: Attempted to make WinBoard work with gnuchessx running
11476 directly on Windows (not remotely via rsh). It now works on NT, but only
11477 if gnuchess is told not to think on its opponent's time ("easy\n" removed
11478 from initString). The problem seems to be that GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent
11479 is not doing anything. On Windows 95 beta 2, we get error messages on
11480 both reading and writing to gnuchessx; I didn't investigate why.
11482 3.2, patchlevel 0 -- Wed Dec 7 13:23:36 1994 Tim Mann
11484 * Thanks to all the beta testers who gave me feedback: Josef Nelissen,
11485 Steve Booth, Evan Welsh, Dima Dakhnovsky, Chris Petroff, Peter Jansen,
11486 Derek Terveer, Michel van der List, Richard Lloyd, Shelly Mistry, and Mike
11487 Lee. Sorry if I forgot anyone. Thanks to Virendra Kumar Mehta for
11488 information about DYNIX/ptx.
11490 * Don't exit on keyboard EOF unless we get two in a row.
11492 * WinBoard only: added -localLineEdit switch to allow turning off local
11493 line editing if you really want to. It is still a bad idea to let the
11494 echoing be done remotely, however; see below.
11496 * Fixed some configure problems on HP-UX. [Steve Booth]
11498 * Fixed (I hope) configure problem on SunOS 5.3/Solaris 2.3. [Josef Nelissen]
11500 * cmail bugfix from Evan Welsh (cmail 3.4).
11502 3.1, patchlevel 9 -- Fri Dec 2 23:54:56 1994 Tim Mann
11504 * Beta distribution only
11506 * Always do local echo/edit of user typing in ICS mode. Doing the echo
11507 downstream may seem nicer in some modes, and it can be hard to turn that
11508 echo off, but the echoed characters can be interleaved with ICS output
11509 and make it impossible to parse correctly. For xboard this involved only
11510 a change to recommendations in the man page, as Raw() isn't implemented.
11511 For WinBoard, removing Raw() made a real difference. Added code in
11512 WinBoard to change /r/n back into /r on keyboard input, as we get the
11513 former when Raw() is not called.
11515 * Do not issue ICS "refresh" command after we start to observe a game
11516 unless we get to the next prompt without seeing a board image. Newest
11517 version of ICS doesn't require this refresh, but old versions around still
11520 * cmail bugfix and small code cleanup in LoadGame, from Evan Welsh.
11522 * Added keyboard accelerators N/P for LoadNextGame/LoadPreviousGame. Evan
11525 * Using "-" on the command line as a filename for loading (saving) games
11526 or positions specifies the standard input (standard output). Alain Picard
11529 * On WinBoard only, a command line option without a leading '-' or '/' is
11530 now taken as the value of -lgf.
11532 * Changed to not use stdin, stdout, stderr as initializers in backend.c;
11533 needed for GNU libc compatibility. You also must build parser.c with flex
11534 (not lex) if you are using GNU libc, to avoid having the same problem
11537 * Changed WinBoard to avoid using "overlapped" input on the console. It
11538 now seems to fully work on Windows 95 beta 2.
11540 * Improved comment popups on WinBoard. Now newlines are handled properly,
11541 and the plain Comment popup window doesn't disappear and reappear when we
11542 step to a new move with a new comment.
11544 * Fixed bugs in detecting the absence of the time and otim commands.
11546 * Added built-in implementation of rcmd protocol to WinBoard. Windows NT
11547 does not implement passing signals through rsh, and Windows 95 does not
11550 * Added -remoteUser option.
11552 3.1, patchlevel 8 -- Mon Nov 28 15:26:07 1994 Tim Mann
11554 * Beta distribution only
11556 * Rearranged ChangeLog file into reverse chronological order to be closer
11559 * Integrated new cmail code from Evan Welsh (including cmail RCS rev 3.2).
11560 Includes a bug fix to TruncateGame.
11562 * Updated ICS address to be chess.lm.com.
11564 * Bug fixes to handling the aftermath of FatalError. Thanks to Chris
11565 Petroff for the bug report.
11567 * Test for remsh before rsh, other fixes for HP-UX. Thanks to Richard
11568 Lloyd. I wasn't able to do all the things he suggested, so there may
11569 still be some rough edges in building on HP-UX. See the FAQ file for hints.
11571 * Bug fix; added missing check for HAVE_SYS_SYSTEMINFO. Thanks to Josef
11572 Nelissen for testing on Solaris 2.x.
11574 * Updated WinBoard to match xboard. (WinBoard still has a few option
11575 dialogs that don't exist in xboard.)
11577 * Changed Hint output to a popup.
11579 * ShowThinking output and move output no longer overwrite each other.
11580 ShowThinking output won't appear if the displayed position is not current.
11581 ShowThinking output in TwoMachines mode made clearer and documented.
11583 * Implemented --enable-ptys and --disable-ptys arguments to configure.
11585 * Fixed Book and Hint code to work over a pty with echo enabled and tabs
11586 expanded to spaces. Thanks to Dima Dahknovsky for the bug report.
11588 * Moved Attention calls from all over xboard to one place, inside
11591 * Added bulletproofing to ShowThinkingEvent.
11593 * Added code to handle "refresh N" boards that come in from ICS properly,
11594 assuming ICS is changed to mark them with a new relation code (-3).
11596 3.1, patchlevel 7 -- Sun Nov 13 22:16:01 PST 1994 -- Tim Mann
11598 * Beta distribution only
11600 * Changed ShowThinking to just show the current best line in the
11601 DisplayMessage area, instead of dumping everything to stdout.
11603 * Installed new cmail (RCS rev 3.1) and cmail.man (RCS rev 1.10), and
11604 changes to cmail code in backend.c, from Evan Welsh.
11606 * Miscellaneous minor fixes.
11608 3.1, patchlevel 6 -- Fri Nov 4 12:53:53 PST 1994 -- Tim Mann
11610 * This patchlevel was not actually released to anyone.
11612 * Updated the pty code to be based on GNU Emacs 19.24, and moved it to a
11613 separate file. It was hard to split out just the pty configuration from
11614 all the stuff emacs does with its custom configure script and .h files,
11617 * Converted from imake to GNU autoconf. This was a serious upheaval.
11619 * Put in code to help trap "error gathering move list" problem reported by
11620 Michel van der List if it recurs. I couldn't reproduce it.
11622 3.1, patchlevel 5 -- Mon Oct 31 21:12:00 PST 1994 -- Tim Mann
11624 * Beta distribution only.
11626 * We now test for checkmate or stalemate in EditGame mode after every user
11627 move, and in LoadGame mode whenever we hit the end of a game without
11628 seeing a PGN end marker. cmail needs an update to deal with this
11629 correctly; Evan promises one.
11631 * Bugfixes in new move generator. Thanks to Mike Lee for reporting one of
11634 * Imakefile was omitted from patchlevel 4.
11636 3.1, patchlevel 4 -- Mon Sep 19 18:19:46 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
11638 * Beta distribution only.
11640 * The move generator includes a mate tester. Initially this is used only
11641 by cmail, and even that usage needs further work.
11643 * Wrote a true move generator and used it to replace all the move
11644 disambiguation and legality checking code in parser.l. The move generator
11645 is capable of dealing correctly with en passant and castling availability,
11646 but the rest of the program still does not keep track of this information.
11648 * Bug fix: xboard did not handle "foo has made you an examiner of game 23"
11649 message. Thus you could not use examine features until the next board
11650 came in, showing your new relation to the game. Thanks to POOKIEWOOKIE on ICS
11651 for the bug report.
11653 * Added AutoObserve feature. Thanks to Chris Petroff for the idea.
11655 * Added Book feature to use new gnuchess "bk" command. Mike McGann request.
11657 * Redid code to handle missing "time" command in gnuchess, because latest
11658 gnuchess no longer sends a response to this command.
11660 * Eliminated need for -DFLEX. Thanks to Michael Shields (Vladimir?) for
11663 * Added missing code to implement MoveNow in TwoMachines mode.
11665 * Added ShowThinking feature. Thanks to Richard Lloyd for the idea.
11667 * Applied patches from Evan Welsh; some fixes and improvements to the
11670 * Fixed bug in moving from EndOfGame mode to MachineWhite or MachineBlack,
11671 introduced in previous patchlevel. Also fixed related bug in ending a
11672 game in ICS mode; was entering EndOfGame mode instead of IcsIdle.
11674 * Added patch to implement internetChessServerLogonScript flag, from Kevin
11677 3.1, patchlevel 3 -- Wed Sep 7 13:22:07 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
11679 * Beta distribution only.
11681 * Merged in new cmail code from Evan Welsh. He added the ability to have
11682 more than one game per message, needed for official IECG matches. I added
11683 the ability to resign or offer/accept/decline a draw in a cmail game.
11685 * Bugfix: invalid -tc option caused segmentation fault; DisplayFatalError
11686 was called too early in initialization. Georges Honore reported this bug.
11688 * Decided to keep EndOfGame mode as an element of the user interface---it
11689 means that a gnuchess game or loaded game has ended, and the user must
11690 explicitly select EditGame to edit it, rather than just being able to
11691 enter more moves freely. But internally there is no longer an invariant
11692 tying this mode to whether the chess program is running.
11694 * Zippy bugfix: Was saving only the final position in the -sgf file when
11695 the game ended by something other than resignation or flag. Also fixed
11696 the longstanding bug that Zippy would think the final board of such a game
11697 was a new game and restart the chess program.
11699 * Now does a better job of faking castling availability in FEN. We still
11700 don't really keep track of it, but now at least we don't say that castling
11701 is still available when the king or rook is not on its home square.
11703 * Bugfix: Initial board of game history for wild games was going through
11704 too much processing, causing us to forget the game length, which is now
11705 needed by ParseGameHistory. This was causing problems with resuming
11706 adjourned wild games.
11708 * Updated ICS host to ics.onenet.net.
11710 * Zippy now accepts challenges where the opponent specified his color.
11712 * Added ZIPPYPASSWORD2 to let operator give commands directly to gnuchess.
11714 * Bitmap directory can include alternative icons now, too.
11716 * Handle "Game * (*) has no examiners" message from ICS.
11718 * Revamped window title and icon name selection.
11720 3.1, patchlevel 2 -- Sun Jun 12 17:16:28 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
11722 * "Beta" distribution for Zippy users only.
11724 * Bugfix: common.h was assuming that X11 type Boolean is char, which is
11725 not always true. This might have caused all sorts of obscure bugs!
11727 * Installed new bitmaps from Elmar Bartel as the default. Many thanks!
11728 The old bitmaps can be used by changing the "bitmaps" symbolic link before
11729 compiling xboard, or by using the -bitmapDirectory option at runtime.
11731 * Loading a game that ends with the PGN unfinished symbol ("*") now always
11732 leaves you in EditGame mode.
11734 * Added documentation of -icscomm to man page. Thanks to Maarten Remkes
11735 for the linux script.
11737 * ^C now kills gnuchess as well as xboard. Thanks to Dima Dakhnovsky for
11738 reminding me how to do this.
11740 * Bitmap icon color now indicates player to move. Stuart Cracraft
11743 * Changed piece bitmap flags to have just one flag, which points to a
11744 directory full of bitmaps, instead of a flag for each bitmap. Also
11745 changed bitmap naming convention.
11747 * "Connection closed by ICS" is no longer a FatalError popup. This was
11748 too annoying in the normal case where the user typed "quit".
11750 * Changed default font to 14 pixels instead of 10 points. This seems to
11751 make it close to the size I want it to be on more displays.
11753 * Major mode (GNU Chess, etc.) appears in title bar. Stuart Cracraft
11756 * Bug fix: EditGameEvent, MachineBlackEvent, MachineWhiteEvent, and
11757 TwoMachinesEvent were calling PauseEvent to get out of pause mode, which
11758 now has undesired side effects, such as advancing the display to the
11759 forwardMostMove. It works fine to just set pausing = FALSE instead.
11761 * IcsExamining mode now lets you access ICS edit position commands using
11762 the same popup menus as xboard's EditPosition mode. Thanks to DAV on ICS
11763 for inspiring the idea.
11765 * Corrected test for gcc on HP in Imakefile; thanks to Richard Lloyd.
11767 3.1, patchlevel 1 -- Wed Jun 1 16:25:11 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
11769 * Added parser.c.lex and parser.c.flex to the distribution.
11771 * Added HP gcc options to Imakefile, from Mats Nylen.
11773 * EndOfGame mode no longer highlights EditGame mode indicator, because the
11774 modes really do differ. I would like to get rid of EndOfGame mode in the
11775 future, at least as far as users can see.
11777 * Larger %a in parser.l, needed for RS/6000 users.
11779 * Minor improvements to Mail Move error messages.
11781 * When -debug flag is given to xboard, -v is passed to cmail.
11783 * Old Save Style uses "1. ..." instead of "1..." when black moves after a
11784 comment; more like xboard 3.0's actual style.
11786 * New version of cmail from Evan Welsh. Looks for UCB Mail in a more
11787 portable way and has some minor bug fixes.
11789 * Bug fix: Saving a FEN position while in EditPosition mode with black to
11790 play was showing white to play in the saved position.
11792 3.1, patchlevel 0 -- Fri May 20 16:36:15 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
11794 * This is the first general release since 3.0, patchlevel 9. Releases
11795 since then have been limited-distribution or beta releases.
11797 * Thanks to my version 3.1 beta testers: Dmitry Dakhnovsky, Ed Hanway,
11798 Richard Lloyd, Mike McGann, Shelly Mistry, Josef Nelissen, Chris Petroff,
11799 Jack Robertson, Michel van der List, Ky Macpherson, Derek Terveer, and
11800 Evan Welsh. Sorry if I've forgotten anyone who gave me feedback.
11802 * Updated man page.
11804 * Minor cleanup on menu sensitivity code.
11806 * Integrated another even better version of cmail from Evan Welsh,
11807 including some code he supplied in xboard itself.
11809 * A few more fixes to cmail support.
11811 * Automatically update clocks after an ICS "moretime" command.
11813 * Handle ICS automatic examine mode (set examine 1) after a game.
11815 3.0, patchlevel 14 -- Tue May 17 13:41:44 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
11817 * Beta test release only.
11819 * Don't suppress prompt on first board of game being examined; otherwise
11820 it looks like nothing happened at all (i.e., like you're lagged).
11822 * Added StopExamining and StopObserving (Chris Petroff suggestion).
11824 * Made Reset do a refresh on ICS. John Chanak's original ICS code for
11825 xboard tried to do this; I finally decided it was a good idea after all.
11827 * Fixed bugs in handling updates that come in while you are pausing in
11828 examine mode. This is pretty tricky to do right.
11830 * Made un-Pausing immediately pop you to the current position. This is
11831 always necessary in examine mode, since the game may have changed under
11832 you; your remembered moves might no longer be right. So I made it do the
11835 * Took Detach Examine mode back out...used Pause mode for this instead!
11837 * Put in a trap for the GNU Chess bug of printing an Illegal Move message
11838 when its own hint move is illegal.
11840 * Attempted to fix a Zippy bug; bogus "exited unexpectedly" messages after
11841 it checkmates its opponent. This involved adding an argument to GameEnds
11842 to say who says it ended (ICS, GNU, etc.) and taking different actions in
11843 different cases. Unfortunately, this just restored an older Zippy bug, where
11844 Zippy restarts gnuchess when it gets the board with the final position,
11845 because GameEnds still puts xboard in EndOfGame mode. Sigh.
11847 * We now capture elapsed time on last move when getting game history.
11848 (Josef Nelissen bug report)
11850 * Rewrote code to redisplay last file title so it really works.
11852 * Fixed bug in oldSaveStyle.
11854 * Larger %a and %o were needed for lex.
11856 3.0, patchlevel 13 -- Mon May 16 16:26:22 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
11858 * Beta test release only.
11860 * FatalError popups stay on the screen now. If the error is really fatal,
11861 all functions are disabled, and the program exits when you press OK.
11863 * Redisplay last file title when using Load (Next/Previous/Same) Game.
11865 * Zippy understands new match challenge message format on ICS.
11867 * Added Revert command.
11869 * When examining a game on ICS, < > buttons do ICS backward/forward
11870 commands, unless you set the Detach Examine option. Thanks to Dima
11871 Dakhnovsky for the idea.
11873 * Fixed various minor problems in cmail mode.
11875 * cmail generates the tags now. New version of cmail from Evan Welsh.
11877 * cmail mode won't let you do MailMove unless the currently displayed
11878 position is exactly one move past the end of the game you loaded.
11880 * Fixed building of man pages in Imakefile
11882 * Updates to INSTALL file
11884 3.0, patchlevel 12 -- Sat May 7 21:10:03 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
11886 * Beta test release only.
11888 * Brought man page up to date.
11890 * Added Shift+R to resign from keyboard.
11892 * Some items on Action menu available in GNU Chess mode now.
11894 * Revamped Action menu.
11896 * Reordered functions in backend.c as a small step toward reorganizing
11899 * Generate TimeControl PGN tag.
11901 * Get type of ICS game (e.g., rated blitz) and save in PGN tags.
11903 * Bug fix: Clocks were not redisplayed when entering EditGame mode.
11905 * Bug fix: Clocks were not being redisplayed after loading a game file
11906 with -td 0, so they could show the wrong color active.
11908 * Bug fix: Chess programs would be killed and match mode would exit
11909 prematurely when loading a PGN game fragment ending with "*".
11911 * ICS command "sposition" no longer confuses xboard.
11913 * Integrated new version of cmail (with support code in xboard) from Evan
11916 * Added TruncateGame, MoveNow, RetractMove, and QuietPlay.
11918 * Bug fix: switching between MachineWhite and MachineBlack was not calling
11919 Attention(). Reported by Dino Dini.
11921 * More improvements to INSTALL and Imakefile.
11923 * Pack moves into 79 character lines in PGN output. We don't generate
11924 check indications, and we always break the line before the result,
11925 so this is not quite PGN export format.
11927 * Use FEN tag in PGN.
11929 * Improved finding and counting of game starts in save files.
11931 * Negative position or game numbers in -lpi/-lgi mean to seek to that byte
11932 offset. Hook for possible future features, not in man page.
11934 * Detect and handle absence of either "time" or "otim" commands in
11937 * Don't use "promote" command to ICS anymore.
11939 * Handle switching sides and taking back moves on FICS.
11941 * Handle flip state flag in style 12 board.
11943 * Handle examine mode on ICS.
11945 * Improved error popups for various kinds of illegal moves.
11947 * Suppress unasked-for hints from gnuchess (which it generates in post
11950 * Load/save position functions use FEN. Old style also supported.
11952 * Added detailed error messages if loading a bitmap file fails.
11954 * Small board has 2-pixel lines between squares instead of 3-pixel.
11956 * Added OldSaveStyle and AboutGame.
11958 * Renamed ForceMoves to EditGame.
11960 3.0, patchlevel 11 -- Tue Sep 21 15:25:36 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
11962 * The following changes were present in xboard 3.0, patchlevel 11, but the
11963 first group did not make it into WinBoard 3.0 until later. xboard
11964 3.0.pl11 was a limited-distribution release only, mostly to Zippy users.
11966 * Man page minor fixes.
11968 * Added a missing file close.
11970 * Removed automatic error popdown on Reset, which was destroying some
11971 error messages before they could be read.
11973 * Fixed char vs. unsigned char warnings on bitmaps.
11975 * Use ICS board style 12. Some improvements to ICS parsing.
11977 * Comment window is now labelled with the move the comment is on, and
11978 comments don't pop down when you step to the next move.
11980 * Save files now in PGN format.
11982 * Support for loading PGN files. PGN tags pop up when a PGN game file
11985 * More info in INSTALL and Imakefile about building for Suns (and
11988 * WinBoard 3.0 patchlevel 11 split off from an early version of xboard
11989 3.0 patchlevel 11, so it does not have all the features of that
11990 patchlevel. The following changes made it into both xboard and
11993 * Made Comment dialog non-modal in WinBoard.
11995 * EndOfGame mode is now more transparent. It looks like ForceMoves
11996 mode except that there is no chess program running.
11998 * Small bug fixes in clock management. Most noticeably, pausing when
11999 it is gnuchess's move now works as documented (again).
12001 * Add minimal support for -icscomm option. Not documented yet because
12002 I haven't sorted out the issues with setting the tty modes on the comm
12003 port device, or with locking it properly. But it's usable by wizards.
12005 * Don't restart the chess program upon Backward event from EndOfGame mode.
12007 * Suppress extra prompt after ICS sends us a board.
12009 3.0, patchlevel 10 -- Sat Sep 11 18:44:03 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
12011 * Beta test release only.
12013 * Zippy now plays chess. zippy.c and zippy.h are still not included
12014 in the standard distribution, but are available on request.
12016 * Switched to using style 12 on ICS.
12018 * Updated man page, and documented use of XBoard*form.translations to
12019 add more shortcut keys.
12021 * Added shortcut keys "d" to claim/offer/accept a draw, and "t" to
12022 call flag. Suggested by venu on ICS.
12024 * More explicit instructions in INSTALL file.
12026 3.0, patchlevel 9 -- Tue Sep 7 14:02:00 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
12028 * General release, minor update to 3.0.pl8.
12030 * Loosened checking on whether it's okay to start a move, to satisfy
12031 ICS ultra-blitz players. Now we don't check whether it's your turn
12032 until you let go of the piece.
12034 * Parser now recognizes "+-+" as meaning the game ended in a draw.
12036 * Got rid of S_NONE symbol, which seems to conflict with some symbol
12039 * Tweaked the man page. Clarified that there is currently no way for
12040 two people running copies of xboard to play each other without going
12041 through the Internet Chess Server.
12043 * Fixed a bug in color name conversion. Asking for two different
12044 colors whose names were the same in the first four characters would
12045 get you two copies of the first one. Thanks to Volker Zink for the
12048 * Improved confusing Usage() message.
12050 * Added a bunch of Sun information to the Imakefile and INSTALL file.
12051 Thanks to Ed Hanway, Arik Klingensmith, and others who responded.
12053 * Test for defined(WIN32) instead of !defined(unix).
12055 * Avoid using (void *) type with non-ANSI C compilers. Thanks to
12056 James Altucher for the bug report.
12058 3.0, patchlevel 8 -- Thu Sep 2 12:23:01 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
12060 * Note: Patchlevel 8 was the first non-beta release of xboard 3.0
12062 * Added cmail to distribution. Contributed (and still maintained) by
12065 * Bug fix: -queen option wasn't initializing menu check. Reported by
12068 3.0, patchlevel 7 -- Thu Aug 26 13:23:24 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
12070 * Sent WinBoard 3.0.pl7 to Torre on ICS
12072 * Added parser.h to hold the interface to parser.l
12074 * Upgraded COPYING file and copyright notices to GNU GPL version 2.
12076 3.0, patchlevel 6 -- Tue Aug 24 15:16:13 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
12078 * We no longer display intermediate positions or intermediate comments
12079 while loading a game file with -timeDelay 0 or loading an opening to
12080 start up a -matchMode game.
12082 * Loading an empty game from an xboard save file now gives a status
12083 message "No moves in game" instead of an error popup saying "Game not
12086 * Added comment.awk to distribution.
12088 3.0, patchlevel 5 -- Tue Aug 17 16:45:54 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
12090 * Bug fix: xboard would crash if it couldn't get all its colors; now
12091 it switches to monoMode instead. Also, xboard was trying to convert
12092 color resources even when using a b/w display. Reported by Larry
12095 * Bug fix: Declared fields of TimeMark as signed so that we get signed
12096 instead of unsigned arithmetic. SubtractTimeMarks was breaking on
12097 Alpha AXP (which has 64-bit longs) with old declarations. Reported by
12098 Michel van der List.
12100 * Bug fixes: Keyboard accelerators now work after EditComment window is
12101 popped down. Iconize keyboard accelerator now works even if xboard
12102 was started with -iconic flag and later deiconized.
12104 * Bug fix: The routine that tests whether a move is illegal because it
12105 would leave you in check was not handling e.p. captures properly.
12106 Reported by Patrick Surry.
12108 * Bug (?) fix: Was adding time to clocks at time control even when
12109 loading a game file. Actually it's not entirely clear how time
12110 controls should be dealt with when some moves are loaded from a file
12111 or clicked in with ForceMoves. For now ForceMoves mode does add the
12112 time (because it can be used to change moves during a live game), but
12113 LoadGame mode does not.
12115 * Updated usage message.
12117 * Previous attempted fix to matchMode had broken TwoMachines mode and
12118 generally needed more work. Also simplified command line interface to
12121 3.0, patchlevel 4 -- Thu Aug 5 14:17:18 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
12123 * Thanks again to the beta testers listed for 3.0 patchlevel 3, and also
12124 Desnogues, Steve Cariglia, Niklas Engsner, Mark Silver, and Roger Rowe.
12126 * Reorganized man page, splitting OPTIONS into subsections.
12128 * matchMode was very broken; fixed.
12130 * Changed convention for turning off command line options from --opt
12131 to -xopt, to be less inconsistent with GNU standards. Also changed
12132 the long command line options to take True/False arguments like
12133 resources; seems to make more sense this way.
12135 * Added AlwaysQueen option -- suppresses promotion dialog and always
12136 promotes to a queen if you move a pawn to the last rank. Has no
12137 effect on gnuchess (or your ICS opponents!) -- they can still
12140 * Subtracted an extra fudge term when determining how wide message and
12141 title widgets should be. This fixes a problem some beta testers had.
12142 Wish I knew why it's needed.
12144 * Bugfix in parser; symptom was that you couldn't do LoadGame after
12145 observing a game on ICS.
12147 * Bugfix in Forward; didn't work after game ended while Pause was turned on.
12149 * Removed bogus execute bits on .h files.
12151 * Use REMOTE_SHELL and TELNET_PROGRAM definitions.
12153 * MachineWhite and MachineBlack now work from TwoMachines mode.
12155 * Popping down an error message with the [ok] button was not turning off
12156 the errorUp flag, so the next move would cause xboard to try to pop it
12157 down again, resulting in a wild memory reference and sometimes a crash.
12159 3.0, patchlevel 3 -- Tue Aug 3 17:40:27 1993 -- Tim Mann
12161 * Thanks to my beta testers: Patrick Surry, Takuya Kojima, Robert J. Luoma,
12162 Chris L. Petroff, Richard K. Lloyd, Michel van der List, Craig Metz,
12163 Antoon Frehe, Simon Clift, Shelly, Eric Peterson, Christopher Mitchell,
12164 Martin Koch, Ed Hanway, Steve Booth, Udo, Ken Hobday, and Joseph Duhamel.
12166 * Improved error messages for trying to move the wrong color pieces or
12167 to move when it's not your turn.
12169 * Special code for monoMode on 1-bit displays now understands displays
12170 where 1=white and 0=black.
12172 * Declare getenv() if <stdlib.h> not included; avoids a compiler warning.
12174 * Documented borderXoffset and borderYoffset.
12176 * Added -titleInWindow option for use with X window managers that
12177 don't let us set the title in the window banner.
12179 * Fixed error message printing in WinBoard; system error messages no
12180 longer appear as numeric codes.
12182 * The error message popup is now non-modal; you don't have to press the
12183 [ok] button before you can do something else. In addition, the popup is
12184 positioned so that it doesn't cover up the board (too much), and making a
12185 move or otherwise clicking on the board pops it down. (Not implemented in
12188 * You can now call your opponent's flag in ICS mode by clicking on his
12191 * Fixed minor bugs in -flipView option and documented exactly how xboard
12192 decides which way to flip the view.
12194 3.0, patchlevel 2 -- Fri Jul 30 22:20:23 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
12196 * Added Autosave to Options menu. Would be better to have Save
12197 Options dialog as in WinBoard, but this was quick to do and gives the
12198 most-needed functionality.
12200 * Changed "Reload Game" on menu to "Reload Same Game".
12202 3.0, patchlevel 1 -- Thu Jul 8 21:22:59 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
12204 * Sent a copy of patchlevel 1 to Patrick Surry to beta-test.
12206 * Added -cmail option that sets appData.cmailMode. Currently a no-op.
12207 In the future this may set special modes for use by the cmail script
12208 for playing chess by email.
12210 * Added LoadNextGame, LoadPreviousGame, and ReloadGame to File menu.
12211 ReloadGame suggested by Patrick Surry.
12213 * Added -flipView command-line option. Suggested by Patrick Surry.
12215 * Fixed bugs in parser.l: (1) Pattern for "# xboard game file ..."
12216 needed to match to end of line. (2) Start of a new file was not matching
12217 the ^ start-of-line character. The fix for this is a kludge.
12219 * Made game counting code in LoadGame more robust, and made LoadGame
12220 able to detect the end of a saved partial game (by noticing the start
12221 of the next game) in game files created by XBoard itself. We don't
12222 try to find the start of the next game that way in other kinds of game
12223 files, because the only way I can think of to do that is to look for
12224 another move #1, and that technique gets too many false hits.
12226 * Fixed recently introduced bug in LoadGame when game starts with a
12229 3.0, patchlevel 0 -- Fri Jun 25 14:17:17 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
12231 * Changes in this patchlevel were too numerous to list. Larger ones are
12234 * Added a popup dialog to enter and edit comments. Inspired by some
12235 code from Patrick Surry. Changed the normal read-only comment popup
12238 * Added ICS init script feature from Karl Schwamb.
12240 * Added some ESIX fixes and OMIT_SOCKETS ifdef option, from Kayvan Sylvan.
12242 * Revamped code to allow use of flex instead of lex on parser.l.
12243 Using flex requires adding -DFLEX to defines in Imakefile.
12245 * Source code is split into front end (xboard.c), which knows about X
12246 and Unix, and back end (backend.c), which knows about chess, gnuchess,
12247 and the ICS. There is also a front end for Windows NT.
12249 * Boolean command line options now use "-foo" to turn on and "--foo"
12250 to turn off instead of "-foo true" and "-foo false". [Later -xfoo;
12253 * Added menu commands to control autoflag, bell, and coords options.
12255 * User interface has a new look: (1) Menu bar instead of array of
12256 buttons. A few very commonly used features have small buttons in
12257 addition to being on the menus. (2) Large font for clock. (3) Pop-up
12258 dialogs for errors.
12260 2.1, patchlevel 11 -- Sat Jun 5 00:01:01 PDT 1993 -- mann@src.dec.com
12262 * Added code to deal with "wild" games on ICS. This includes allowing
12263 castling with the king on d1 or d8, which is allowed in wild(1) games
12264 if the king started there. Notation is o-o to castle "short"---to
12265 whichever side the king is closer to---and o-o-o to castle "long."
12266 Right now wild castling is always allowed by xboard; we rely on ICS or
12267 gnuchess to reject it when we aren't really in wild mode.
12269 * memcpy call had arguments in wrong order.
12271 * Removed April Fool code
12273 2.1, patchlevel 10 -- Mon Feb 15 10:19:31 PST 1993 -- mann@src.dec.com
12275 * Avoid trying to select on a pipe when using System V. Needed to
12276 copy some code from InitChessProgram() up into establish().
12278 * Bug fix in disambiguating pawn moves like "ed".
12280 * Fix to error handling in ReceiveFromProgram.
12282 * Bug fix: entering EditPosition mode with black to play highlighted
12283 White's clock instead of Black's.
12285 * Added telnetProgram resource in case "telnet" is not the name of the
12288 2.1, patchlevel 9 -- Fri Jan 22 19:08:27 PST 1993 -- mann@src.dec.com
12290 * Entering Force Moves mode clears "flag has fallen" messages from display.
12292 * ICS host name can now be in numeric format; for example 128.2.232.4.
12294 * Bug fix: LegalityTest was failing to test whether a pawn move was
12295 illegal because the move would discover a check.
12297 * Handle ICS message "mann asserts a win over manntest, who disconnected."
12299 * Bug fix: A recent change to PromotionCallBack had broken
12300 underpromotion to a knight.
12302 * Bug fix: In EditPosition mode, dragging a piece onto a square border
12303 would make it vanish. xboard wasn't distinguishing this case from
12304 dragging the piece off the board. Thanks to Matthew Kidd.
12306 * Removed "static" declaration from yywrap for compatibility with IRIX
12307 version of lex. Thanks to stiller@blaze.cs.jhu.edu.
12309 * Added substitutes for bzero, bcopy, and gethostname for Solaris
12310 SVR4. Thanks to Michael Grant.
12312 * Bug fixes to queen move disambiguation. Bugs showed up only when
12313 promotion resulted in more than one queen on the board.
12315 2.1, patchlevel 8 -- Fri Dec 11 17:54:18 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
12317 * parser bug fix: It now really works to leave off the piece a pawn is
12318 promoting to and let it default to queen.
12320 * When starting to observe or play an ICS game, don't draw board in
12321 initial position and then immediately redraw it in the current
12324 * Handle ICS messages when an "abuser" forfeits a game by
12325 disconnecting and when a game is aborted ("removed") by an
12328 * Bug fix: A user move when in LoadGame+Pause mode was resuming the
12329 game load instead of putting us in force mode.
12331 * It seems that crashes inside sscanf when xboard is compiled with gcc
12332 (as on IBM PS/2 AIX, mentioned below, and also on VAX Ultrix 3.1) are
12333 caused by an incompatibility between gcc and the sscanf implementation
12334 on these platforms. A workaround is to specify -fwritable-strings to
12335 gcc (see the gcc documentation). Added info on how to do this to the
12336 Imakefile. Thanks to Tom McConnell for this information.
12338 * Clocks are allowed to go negative. This is mostly for ICS
12339 compatibility, but it affects gnuchess mode too. Also, we give the
12340 time bonus when a player hits the time control boundary even if his
12341 flag is already down. This choice is a bit debatable, but it makes
12342 things look better when you are in TwoMachines mode and gnuchess's
12343 time management screws up causing it to exceed its time limit.
12345 * Implemented move legality checking code. Moves made with the mouse
12346 or parsed from a file are checked for legality before being made.
12347 This is mostly in preparation for future extensions, such as
12348 human-human play. For now it makes -noChessProgram mode more useful.
12350 * If the user takes back moves, we restore the clocks to the earlier
12353 * We now handle the output of the ICS oldmoves command, including
12354 parsing the game end condition.
12356 * Added autoCallFlag mode.
12358 * Fixed glitches in the medium size outline king and rook bitmaps, and
12359 touched up the medium size solid king and outline queen.
12361 * bug fix: DisplayMove would not display backwardMostMove - 1.
12363 * Added CallFlag button and removed AcceptMatch. CallFlag is more
12364 important with new ICS, and accepting the current match offer is easy
12365 with the new ICS command "accept" (can be abbreviated "ac").
12367 * LoadGame and LoadPosition display tail of file name (plus index
12368 number, if any) as title.
12370 * MachineWhite, MachineBlack, and TwoMachines now work properly from
12371 LoadGame and LoadGame+Pause mode.
12373 * Use o-o and o-o-o to castle on ICS, not 00 and 000.
12375 * Stripped out code for old ICS messages; new ICS is now installed.
12377 * Bug fix: don't offer autosave when paused during LoadGame.
12379 2.1, patchlevel 7 - Fri Dec 11 17:40:56 PST 1992 - mann@src.dec.com
12381 * Track change to "Illegal move" message in new ICS.
12383 2.1, patchlevel 6 -- Tue Dec 8 10:48:44 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
12385 * Kludged around bug in keeping comment popup where you put it by
12386 adding borderXoffset and borderYoffset resources that give the width
12387 of the borders added by the window manager. Yucch.
12389 * Changed searchDepth kludge back to using "help" instead of "bd"; the
12390 latter didn't work because the output contains a line starting with
12391 "White", so we think gnuchess is telling us that White won. Oops.
12393 * Removed some code that uses an X11R5 feature, XrmGetDatabase.
12394 Without this, the auto font sizing code is harder to make work, so to
12395 keep my sanity I had to change it to affect only the fonts that appear
12396 in the main window and the comment popup, not the other popups. Maybe
12397 this is better anyway.
12399 * AcceptMatch button now works after a counterchallenge, too.
12401 * Added code for more variants of messages about games being adjourned
12402 or aborted. These messages need to be unified in new version of ICS.
12404 * Added workaround for minor bug in ICS; game number on first board
12407 * Removed code to say "refresh n" instead of "refresh"; was broken and
12408 wasn't needed anyway.
12410 * Added missing casts for compilers that distinguish enums from ints
12411 and missing cast in connect call.
12413 * Added code to recognize "both sides are out of time" draw message
12414 proposed for next version of ICS.
12416 * Thanks to Danny Sleator and Joe Peterson for bug reports.
12418 2.1, patchlevel 5 -- Sun Dec 6 19:52:40 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
12420 * Removed gcc and CDEBUGFLAGS from Imakefile.
12422 * Corrected setting of mode to ForceMoves when game file ends or
12423 contains an AmbiguousMove or BadMove. Previous bug was harmless.
12425 * Added AcceptMatch button and mention of 50-move rule for Draw button
12428 2.1, patchlevel 4 -- Sun Dec 6 02:55:42 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
12430 * Now handles revised messages from new version of ICS. New ICS is
12431 not released yet, so this code might change further. Next patchlevel
12432 will remove support for old ICS; both are there now.
12434 * Initial processing for a new game being watched or played now
12435 happens when we see the first board image. Removes the need to parse
12436 some messages and unifies some code.
12438 2.1, patchlevel 3 -- Tue Dec 1 19:40:40 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
12440 * Handles ICS messages "Draw : neither player has mating
12441 material" and "Draw : White has no material, Black has no time."
12443 * Added AcceptMatch button for ICS mode.
12445 * Fixed bug in previous fix to yylexstr().
12447 * Fixed bugs in code for loading old position files that don't start
12448 with "#" and for handling case where user asked for nth position in
12449 file but there aren't that many.
12451 * Handles ICS message "* has restored your old game"
12453 * ResetProc always clears title line now.
12455 * Don't issue just "refresh" when watching a game; use game number.
12456 Upcoming new version of ICS may need this.
12458 * Added code to try to prevent user from watching and/or playing more
12459 than one game at a time. There is a race condition inherent here; if
12460 we get more than one board from the game before our command to stop
12461 watching it takes effect, we'll think the user started it again. Not
12462 clear how to fix this.
12464 * Redid ParseBoard8 to use sscanf. Code is a good deal cleaner now.
12465 Also, we now parse out the game number too, though we don't make much
12468 * (Tried to put in a feature that recognizes the current game in a
12469 game file must have ended when we see the start of a new one, but had
12470 to disable it because we have too many false hits with the current
12471 parser, especially in gnuchess listing files.)
12473 * Moves read from game files or received from ICS are now translated
12474 into canonical algebraic form just like all other moves. Minor nit:
12475 If you use Reset while playing or observing a game in ICS mode, the
12476 game history (including the current board position) is lost, so the
12477 next move of the current game can't be translated.
12479 * Default fonts now vary with board size, and are chosen by pixel size
12480 instead of point size (since piece bitmaps have a fixed pixel size).
12482 * Bug fix: An extra Forward was required to skip over time indications
12485 2.1 patchlevel 2 -- Fri Nov 27 23:30:00 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
12487 * If you move the comment popup, the next time it pops up it will come
12488 back where you put it.
12490 * Fixed yylexstr() so calls to it can be interspersed with calls to
12493 * Fixed bugs in Forward/Backward while in LoadGame mode.
12495 * Changed Save{Game,Position} functions to append instead of
12496 overwriting if file exists. Changed Load{Game,Position} functions to
12497 deal with multiple games/positions per file.
12499 * Changed load{Game,Position}File resources to trigger automatic load
12500 on program startup. Changed save{Game,Position}File resources to
12501 trigger automatic save after every completed game and on program exit.
12503 * Added autoSaveGames mode.
12505 * Fixed bug with PromoPiece in call to MakeAlg from MakeMove.
12507 * Many changes to get rid of picky compiler warnings and generally
12510 2.1 patchlevel 1 -- Fri Nov 27 02:45:00 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
12512 * A last minute change before patchlevel 0 went out broke
12513 ParseGameHistory(). Immediately fixed in patchlevel 1.
12515 Version 2.1, patchlevel 0 -- Fri Nov 27 02:00:00 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
12517 * Uses "time" command of gnuchess 4.0 and following to keep clocks in
12518 sync. Still works with older versions without this command; we test
12519 whether the command is present the first time each chess program is
12522 * File name dialog pops up under the mouse cursor, so that it's got the
12523 keyboard focus if the window manager is using pointer focus.
12525 * Attempts to move the wrong color piece or an empty square are filtered
12526 out in xboard instead of being passed on to GNU Chess or the ICS.
12528 * The reason a game ended is now remembered even if you move backward
12529 and forward after it ends. It is forgotten only if you make a move
12530 (which is as it should be---this is now a different game, which hasn't
12531 ended yet). The message saying why the game ended no longer wipes out
12534 * Pause, Backward, Forward, ForceMoves, and EditPosition now work from
12537 * Forward and Backward now change only the board display unless you
12538 are in ForceMoves mode. Pause mode keeps new moves that are received
12539 from being displayed on your screen until you unpause (or use
12542 * Added option to ring the bell after opponents' moves.
12544 * Saved games that start from other than the standard initial position
12545 now begin with a postion diagram as in saved position files. The
12546 loader is modified to understand such save files.
12548 * Improved error checking when trying to read from gnuchess.
12550 * Parser understands things that look like time indications, e.g., (0:12),
12551 instead of popping them up as comments.
12553 * Send "quit" to gnuchess before trying to kill it. I needed this
12554 locally because sending a SIGTERM to rsh was not killing the remote
12555 program on some internal field test systems we have.
12557 * Merged in code from John Chanak to make xboard a front end to the
12558 Internet Chess Server, and added several improvements of my own.
12559 (These include parsing end of game messages, loading the current state
12560 and previous history of a game that's joined in progress via "watch"
12561 or "load", automatic switch from board style 1 to 8 when needed,
12562 removing irrelevant buttons and adding some new ones, adding the
12563 useTelnet and gateway resources, and miscellaneous code cleanup, bug
12564 fixes, and documentation.) Many thanks to John for writing and
12565 contributing the initial version of this code.
12567 Fri Oct 30 20:16:40 PST 1992 (patchlevel 25) mann@src.dec.com
12569 * gnuchess now castles by sending us "o-o" or "o-o-o" (starting with a
12570 preliminary version of 4.0.pl60 that I have). Added code to handle
12571 this. The old format ("e1g1", etc.) still works too.
12573 * Added code to format moves in normal abbreviated algebraic notation
12574 (for example, e4, exd4, f8Q, Nf6, 0-0) instead of coordinate algebraic
12575 (for example, e2e4, e3d4, f7f8q, g1f6, e1g1). Moves entered with the
12576 mouse or received from gnuchess are translated into this canonical
12577 format for display on the message line or in saved game files. Moves
12578 read from game files are not translated, however; they are shown and
12579 saved just as they appear in the file.
12581 Mon Sep 14 13:19:01 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 24) mann@src.dec.com
12583 * It's not really correct to write an ep capture of a pawn on e5 as
12584 fxe5; this should be written as fxe6 because e6 is where the capturing
12585 pawn ends up. Nevertheless, the parser now interprets fxe5 as the ep
12586 capture f5xe6 unless there is a pawn on f4, in which case it
12587 interprets fxe5 as f4xe5. By design, the parser does not flag fxe5 as
12588 ambiguous if there are pawns on both f4 and f5; instead it prefers the
12589 more legitimate f4xe5 interpretation.
12591 * A move like fxe6 or fe6 is now interpreted as an e.p. capture of the
12592 pawn on e5 if there is one there and e6 is empty.
12594 * A move like fxe5 can no longer be interpreted as an e.p. capture if
12595 there isn't a pawn on e5 to be captured. Previously this could happen
12596 erroneously if there were pawns on both f4 and f5, and the f4 pawn was
12597 capturing a piece on e5.
12599 * The parser no longer munges the move it is parsing; in the past, for
12600 instance, it would remove the "x" from a move like dxc5 before echoing
12603 * The parser now detects when a move is ambiguous and returns an
12604 error, instead of arbitrarily choosing one possibility as it used to.
12606 Mon Aug 10 18:40:47 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 23) mann@src.dec.com
12608 * Added code so parser can handle fully qualified algebraic, e.g.,
12609 Ng1-f3, N/g1-f3, Ng1f3, or even Pe2-e4. The "P" and "/" work only for
12610 fully qualified moves, not generally.
12612 * Fixed parser bugs in handling moves with rank or file disambiguator,
12615 Mon Jul 6 17:55:32 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 22) mann@src.dec.com
12617 * AIXV3 patch from Tom McConnell; thanks!
12619 * After hitting the Backward button we see the last move made instead of
12620 the word "Pausing" displayed.
12622 * Fixed a couple of problems compiling on IRIX; thanks to Michel Arsenault
12623 and Alan Walsh for bug reports and help with fixes.
12625 * Added optional display of algebraic notation coordinates along left and
12626 bottom edges of board. This was inspired by some code from Jean-Christophe
12629 * Swapped EditPosition and Pause buttons to reduce danger of losing the
12630 game in progress by hitting EditPosition when you wanted Backward. Thanks
12631 to Ove Lundberg for complaining (though it bugged me too).
12633 * Despite one complaint, I kept the feature of changing both clocks when black
12634 makes time control, rather than changing each individually when the player
12635 involved makes it. This is to avoid having it look like White is way ahead on
12636 time while Black is thinking about the last move of the time control period
12637 (i.e., when White has made time control but Black hasn't yet).
12639 * Corrected clocks to work as in real tournaments. Time is *added* when you
12640 reach time control; previously the clocks were simply set to the length of the
12641 new time period. Also, when a player's flag falls, he still does not receive a
12642 new time allotment at the next time control, but his opponent does still
12643 receive more time if *his* flag has not fallen; previously, time controls were
12644 ignored for both players if either flag fell. I forget who reported this bug.
12646 * Added a small ESIX patch from Kayvan Sylvan.
12648 Mon Jun 22 13:24:38 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 21)
12650 * Added some SVR4 support code from Ronald Cole. It's Greek to me.
12652 * Note: Stephen Meatheringham reports a bug causing xboard to crash with an
12653 error from the X server when run on a Sun Sparcstation IPX with Solaris 1.0.1
12654 and OpenWindows 3.0. This bug has not been tracked down yet.
12656 * Fixed a problem with ATTENTION code. On some operating systems, you have to
12657 be even more cautious about when you send a SIGINT to gnuchess, because the
12658 signal handler gets deinstalled each time it is used, and gnuchess does not
12659 reinstall it immediately. In particular, if you send a SIGINT and make an
12660 illegal move or ask for a hint, gnuchess does not reinstall the handler until
12661 *after* you make your next move, so you had better not send a SIGINT before
12662 it. I put a workaround for this case into xboard; I hope there are no more.
12664 * The ATTENTION code is needed when compiling for the ESIX operating system,
12665 because ESIX has a bug in the FIONREAD ioctl, so the code in gnuchess that
12666 lets you interrupt its thinking on your time just by typing in your move does
12667 not work. Perhaps gnuchess will have a workaround for this eventually.
12669 * Fixed yet another bug in using XtGetValues; code to inhibit shell resizing
12670 was leaving a null pointer as the place to store the current sizes.
12672 * Man page fixes: corrected -sl to -sd, updated LIMITATIONS.
12674 * Added include of <sys/time.h> conditional on HAS_GETTIMEOFDAY. I hope this
12675 works for all systems; on mine, <time.h> and <sys/time.h> are the same file,
12676 but with an #ifndef that makes it harmless to include both.
12678 * Thanks for reports from Mike Pearlman, Stephen Meatheringham, Kayvan Sylvan,
12679 d87-mal@nada.kth.se, Urban Koistinen, and Ronald Cole.
12681 Mon Jun 8 11:39:18 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 20)
12683 * Documented default value of initString and explained what it means. This
12684 paragraph also serves to inform the user that xboard by default will tell
12685 gnuchess to think on his time, something one user apparently didn't understand.
12687 * Redid -searchDepth (formerly -searchLevel) and -searchTime code. They both
12688 work correctly with gnuchess 3.1 now. The -searchDepth option also works
12689 correctly with gnuchess 4.0. The -searchTime option does not work with
12690 gnuchess 4.0.pl50 or earlier because those gnuchess versions do not have a
12691 working searchTime feature. Instead of having xboard do a half-baked emulation
12692 of this feature by using a 1-move time control, I will be submitting a patch to
12693 the gnuchess folks to restore the feature as in 3.1.
12695 * Improved clock code. It now keeps accurate track of fractional seconds of
12696 clock running time, if your system has gettimeofday(); if not, it is generous
12697 about them---if a clock has been going for n.m seconds when it is stopped, only
12698 n seconds are charged. Previously, xboard would charge one second immediately
12699 when a clock was started, so if n.m had elapsed when it was stopped, n+1 would
12700 be charged. This should stop xboard from thinking gnuchess has let its flag
12701 fall on the last move of a time control, as it often did before. I also
12702 improved the comments and condensed the code a little. I hope there are no
12703 systems that have X11 and don't have gettimeofday(), but if there are, I'd like
12704 to know what to replace it with.
12706 * "Flag dropped" messages now show up on the top line, beside the clocks, so
12707 that they don't obscure more interesting messages on the second line.
12709 * Fixed confusion of NULL and '\000'.
12711 * Include time.h to get ctime() declaration.
12713 * Fix to "parser bug" messages in parser.l.
12715 * Changed code to work with old-fashioned tolower() macro that requires its
12716 argument to be an uppercase letter.
12718 * Minor fix to some usage error messages; was reversing program name and
12719 erroneous argument value.
12721 * Thanks to Mitch Wright, Ranier Orth, and Henrik Schmiediche for bug reports.
12723 Fri Jun 5 13:06:08 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 19)
12725 * Note: xboard does not seem to work when compiled with gcc 1.40 on a
12726 PS/2 running AIX. It crashes at the sscanf in line 768 of xboard.c.
12727 You can work around the problem by specifying the -timeControl option
12728 on the command line instead of defaulting it. This does not seem to
12729 be a bug in xboard itself; it runs okay on PS/2 AIX when compiled with
12730 MetaWare High C. [But see 2.1.pl8 above.]
12732 * Removed bogus files from distribution.
12734 * Changed variable name that conflicted with SVR4 ttyname function.
12736 * Thanks to Christoph Strozyk for another bug report, and to several
12737 of the folks mentioned under patchlevel 18 for testing it.
12739 Wed Jun 3 17:50:37 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 18) mann@src.dec.com
12741 * Added an include of sys/fcntl.h to pick up the definition of O_RDWR for
12744 * Fixed a bug in CatchPipeSignal; was testing the wrong variable to determine
12745 which chess program got the signal.
12747 * Removed the declaration of strrchr, which was causing problems for some
12748 people, and added an include of <string.h> or <strings.h> instead.
12750 * Fixed a bunch of type errors uncovered by compilers that check more carefully
12751 than the one I was using. I just patched many of them with casts---typically
12752 cases where a function didn't take the same number and type of arguments as the
12753 X header file prototype said it should---because I didn't see any other way to
12754 fix them. The versions of the X header files that I have don't actually have
12755 full prototypes for these function types; they declare only the return type and
12756 just give the argument types as comments.
12758 * InitChessProgram returns immediately if chess program died while we were
12759 waiting for it to say "Chess". I think this fixes a bug that could make xboard
12760 crash or go into an infinite loop printing "Warning: Select failed; error code
12761 9" if gnuchess crashed there.
12763 * Removed code that tries to put the file descriptor used to read messages from
12764 gnuchess into nonblocking mode. I don't see how this kludge could ever have
12765 fixed the problem it was intended to (see below), and it seemed to be causing
12766 a race condition when we were waiting for the initial message from gnuchess
12767 after it started up.
12769 * Thanks to Richard K. Lloyd, Konstantinos Konstantinides, Mark
12770 Seiden, Erik Schoenfelder, Andreas Stolcke, Rainer Orth, Henry Thomas,
12771 and Kris Van Hees for bug reports and help with fixes.
12773 Sun May 31 08:00:00 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 17) Bart Massey bart@cs.uoregon.edu
12775 * 'xboard' suffered from a couple of serious bugs. An initial
12776 size needed to be given to the message label to avoid a race
12777 condition (!) so I gave it some text (otherwise occasionally
12778 xboard would fail because the message widget was 0 width under
12779 MIT X11R4). The sizes needed to be Dimension, not int, because
12780 they were written in by Xt -- on my big-endian box Dimension
12781 is short, causing chaos. Also, I hacked a declaration in for
12782 strrchr() to shut the compiler up -- this is arguably a kludge,
12783 but I couldn't think of anything better; maybe you can.
12785 Fri May 22 13:40:50 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 16)
12787 * First real (non-beta) release of version 2.0.
12789 * Added GNU copyleft notices covering version 2.0 enhancements.
12791 Thu May 21 12:30:09 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 15)
12793 * Removed -g from Imakefile.
12795 * Added casts in parser.l to prevent warning messages from some C compilers.
12797 * Bugfix: code to exit if chess program couldn't be started had bug in error
12800 Tue May 19 11:58:06 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 14)
12802 * Fixes one small bug: If LoadGame does not find a game in the file, it resets
12803 xboard to BeginningOfGame mode (as if the Reset button was pressed), instead of
12804 leaving it in LoadGame mode.
12806 Mon Apr 13 18:32:27 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 13)
12808 * Improved error handling when gnuchessx crashes. Now displays a message and
12809 enters EndOfGame state without exiting. This should help with diagnosing
12810 gnuchessx problems, since the position and move history are not lost.
12812 * Debugged man page.
12814 Version 2.0 -- Thu Apr 2 16:04:54 PST 1992 (patchlevel 12)
12816 * Added small 40x40 pixel pieces; board size now specified as small, medium, or
12819 * Improved man page.
12821 * Saved position files now say "white to play" if it's white's move.
12823 * SavePosition while in EditPosition mode now gets side to play right.
12825 * Made "Pawn" the default on edit position menus.
12827 * Removed "To play" from edit position menus, since it's redundant. Left
12828 support code in so it can be restored if someone wants it.
12830 * Tightened parser's definition of a move number to help further with skipping
12831 over stuff before the first move.
12833 * Put back feature of skipping over stuff in game files before a start of game
12834 marker. This helps when loading electronic mail messages that have things
12835 like "00" in the header (looks like castling), or that talk about moves in
12836 running text before the actual game score. Tradeoff is that we can't load
12837 games that don't either have move numbers or say "gnuchess game" just before
12840 * Changed version number to 2.0 because others have used "1.3" for patched
12841 versions of 1.2. Display version number and patchlevel at startup.
12843 Thu Apr 2 15:30:22 PST 1992 (patchlevel 11)
12845 * Bugfix: Match started with TwoMachines button now handles the case where
12846 user loaded/edited a position *and* forced some moves.
12848 * added error message feedback to many cases where the user's button press is
12849 rejected because it isn't allowed in the current mode.
12851 * added -noChessProgram option to allow use as a passive chessboard without
12852 gnuchess, replacing old buggy scheme that tried to do this automatically when
12853 gnuchess was not found on the search path.
12855 * parser accepts "=" in front of promotion piece
12857 * parser accepts ":" notation for captures
12859 * Removed SwitchSides button to make room for EditPosition. Left code in
12860 place, ifdef'ed out.
12862 * Added EditPosition mode.
12864 * Reformatted xboard.c to eliminate long lines.
12866 * Promotion popup now appears near rank to which pawn is moving.
12868 * UI improvement: Button representing current program mode is kept highlighted.
12870 * Bug fix: Hint button is now disabled when machine is on move.
12872 Sat Mar 21 14:57:37 PST 1992 (patchlevel 10)
12874 * TwoMachines now works from MachineWhite or MachineBlack mode.
12876 * ForceMoves and Backward/Forward now work at the end of a game started by
12877 the TwoMachines button.
12879 * Sends o-o or o-o-o to gnuchess instead of O-O or O-O-O.
12881 * Bug fix: SwitchSides button is now disabled when machine is on move.
12883 * Added -searchLevel option and corrected handling of -searchTime to reflect
12884 the way gnuchess really handles command line options instead of what the
12885 documentation used to say. Allowed optional ":seconds" on times.
12887 Tue Mar 17 21:00:35 PST 1992 (patchlevel 9)
12889 * Removed non-working code that tried to recover when a remote chess program
12890 could not be started; now exits with a message instead.
12892 * Now waits for chess program to print its first message (normally "Chess")
12893 before sending it any commands.
12895 * Matches between two machines can now start from a black-to-play position or
12896 black-to-play opening.
12898 * Bug fix: The program would sometimes lose track of the board position after
12899 the end of the game, drawing a board full of white pawns next time it got an X
12900 redraw request. Now fixed.
12902 * Cleaned up handling of illegal moves in game files. Now we just stop reading
12903 and go into ForceMoves mode.
12905 * Saved games against gnuchess indicate who won (restored and debugged 1.2
12908 * Setting -searchTime turns off -clockMode.
12910 * My trick for setting up a black-to-play position broke in the transition from
12911 gnuchess 3.1+ to 4.0. Installed a different trick that works with both.
12913 * Bug fix: Was clobbering memory by mallocing one byte too few for the file
12914 name in SetupPositionFromFileProc. This usually resulted in a crash on the
12915 second attempt to load a position from a file.
12917 Mon Mar 16 16:49:00 PST 1992 (patchlevel 8)
12919 * Game and position files are saved in CHESSDIR as well as loaded from there.
12920 We actually chdir there, so gnuchess listing files also wind up there.
12922 * Underpromotion moves from gnuchess really work now.
12924 Sat Mar 14 14:55:24 PST 1992 (patchlevel 7)
12926 * Cleaned up lots of bugs and kruft in parser.l. It's a wonder the old version
12927 worked at all. Improved rejection of random text interspersed with the moves.
12929 * Relabeled buttons to reduce confusion (Play From File --> Load Game;
12930 Setup From File --> Load Position).
12932 * Bug fix: Doesn't exit at the end of a game that was started by pressing
12933 the Two Machines button.
12935 * Bug fix: Doesn't get confused if you hit Machine Black (White) while
12936 the machine is already playing black (white) and is on move.
12938 * Prints "White to play" or "Black to play" after loading a position file.
12940 * Bug fix: No longer hangs if no start-of-game is found in a game file.
12942 * More permissive about game file format. The first line is not assumed
12943 to be a header comment unless it starts with "#". We don't insist on
12944 seeing a "1." before the first move.
12946 * Added pop-up dialog to allow underpromotion. Moving a pawn to the last rank
12947 pops up a dialog to let you select what piece to promote to. Also added code
12948 to handle underpromotion moves from gnuchess or from a game file correctly.
12950 * Added code to send SIGINT to gnuchess before trying to move, if gnuchess
12951 might be busy thinking on our time. The code is ifdef'ed out because it's
12952 not necessary; only beta-test versions of gnuchess 4.0 at patchlevel 19 or
12955 Mon Feb 24 20:10:22 PST 1992
12957 * Merged fixes received from Stuart Cracraft and Mike McGann, to iconic mode
12958 and to ShutdownChessPrograms. (They both sent the same fixes.) I did not
12959 install the change that removed "easy" from the initialization string, so
12960 xboard will still try to run gnuchessx in "hard" mode (thinking on opponent's
12961 time) by sending this command.
12963 Version 1.3 -- Thu Dec 19 18:19:00 PST 1991 mann@src.dec.com (Tim Mann)
12965 * I've fixed a slew of bugs in this version of xboard:
12967 * You can now back up from the end of a game, even if gnuchess was playing
12968 against you. Since gnuchess exits upon mate or draw (when it's not in force
12969 mode), this feature works by starting up a new copy of gnuchess and feeding it
12970 the saved starting position and moves. Drawback: the new gnuchess starts with
12971 clocks at the beginning of a fresh time control.
12973 * Note: the "force" command to gnuchess is a toggle. I fixed a couple of
12974 places in xboard where "force" was being issued when gnuchess was already in
12975 force mode, which resulted in chaos. I don't know if they were in 1.2 or if I
12976 added them myself in the course of putting in new features.
12978 * ForceMoves button is now legal in PlayFromFile mode. It closes the game file
12979 and lets you force moves (or go Backward) from whatever position you've
12982 * The parser now recognizes "white resigns" and "black resigns" (in any
12983 combination of upper and lower case, with or without the closing "s"). These
12984 used to be misinterpreted as meaning "white wins" or "black wins" respectively!
12985 Added "1 - 0" and "0 - 1" as equivalents for "1-0" and "0-1".
12987 * I removed the parser feature of considering "!" as a comment delimiter.
12988 "!" is so common as an annotation in game scores that this feature seems like a
12991 * Added a wait() after each successful call to kill() to avoid leaving zombie
12994 * Removed the feature of putting an indication of how the game ended into the
12995 internal move list when playing from a file. The only benefit of this was that
12996 it would get written back out if you saved the game at that point. This
12997 feature doesn't seem too useful, since you are unlikely to save a game you've
12998 read in without making any changes, and it caused a lot of problems in the code
12999 and user interface. The end condition is still displayed as a message when
13000 it's first read in from the file. End conditions when playing against gnuchess
13001 are still saved, too.
13003 * programName is now the last file name component of argv[0], not all of it.
13005 * xboard.c got three compiler warnings due to arguments that didn't match the
13006 prototypes on X toolkit functions. I got rid of them by adding some casts, and
13007 adding extra unused arguments to the ReceiveFromProgram function.
13009 * As I received it, the distribution had an extra period glued on the front
13010 of every line that started with a period. This broke the manpage in an
13011 obvious way. It also broke parser.l in a nonobvious way that stopped
13012 PlayFromFile from working.
13014 * Fixed one or two bugs where the clock was started when it shouldn't have
13015 been. I think one example was if you tried an illegal move in ForceMoves mode.
13017 * Now starts the machine's clock if you hit MachineWhite when white is on move
13018 or MachineBlack when black is on move.
13020 * Now updates the to-move indicator (highlight on clock display) when you use
13021 Forward/Backward or ForceMoves.
13023 * gnuchess 3.1+ has a bug that makes it try to think on its opponent's time
13024 even when in force mode; this causes problems with xboard's SetupFromFile
13025 command because gnuchess's saved hint move is garbage after the new position is
13026 loaded, so gnuchess prints out an error message when it tries to think about
13027 what it would do if the user made this move. Here is a patch for gnuchess
13030 *** nondsp.c~ Mon Dec 2 12:37:18 1991
13031 *-- nondsp.c Thu Dec 19 15:36:06 1991
13034 ok = flag.quit = false;
13037 ! if (hint > 0 && !flag.easy && Book == NULL)
13040 time0 = time ((long *) 0);
13042 ok = flag.quit = false;
13045 ! if (hint > 0 && !flag.easy && Book == NULL && !flag.force)
13048 time0 = time ((long *) 0);
13050 * SavePosition/SetupFromFile now handle black-to-play positions. If it's
13051 black's move in a saved position, the line "black to play" is printed
13052 immediately after the board display. Upon loading a position, xboard
13053 looks for "black" at the beginning of this line to determine whether it's
13056 * SetupFromFile now leaves you (effectively) in ForceMoves mode. This
13057 eliminates some cases where the program would get into an inconsistent state,
13058 and hopefully is more intuitive for the user, too.
13060 * PlayFromFile now leaves xboard in ForceMoves mode after playing through all
13061 the moves in the file. You can use Backward/Forward, make moves, get gnuchess
13062 to join the game with MachineWhite or MachineBlack, etc. The game file can end
13063 with either white or black to play.
13065 * Backward/Forward now seem to work in all cases. Previously using these
13066 buttons during a game against the machine would get xboard out of sync with
13067 gnuchess's idea of what was going on, resulting in chaos. Now using these
13068 buttons puts xboard in ForceMoves mode; you can bring gnuchess back into the
13069 game using the MachineWhite or MachineBlack buttons.
13071 Thu Jun 27 15:06:25 PDT 1991
13073 * Remove comment popups during a reset.
13075 * Bug in my forward move fix. Didn't work for playgamefile mode.
13077 Thu Jun 20 15:04:06 PDT 1991
13079 * Can't do a backward move when it isn't your turn because gnuchess
13080 gets confused. Similar bug for forward move. Do a bunch of moves,
13081 back up move and go forward. These get filtered out now.
13083 * Put easy back into the initString. This DISABLES easy mode which by
13086 * New-line wasn't always being added to forward move strings sent to gnuchess.
13088 * Parsed comments as [ ..............text follows ] into d7d5
13090 * Long game file comments cause core dumps on HP systems.
13092 * Multiple uses of the get positition file button got confused
13093 on the second click.
13095 Minor fixes to the 1.2 release
13097 Version 1.2 -- Tue Jun 11 17:14:12 PDT 1991
13099 * For version 1.2, Jeff Kenton, Richard LLoyd, David Jensen, Martin D.,
13100 Bill Schmidt, Scott Hemphill, Paul Vaughan and Bill Shauck all found
13101 a lot of bugs that we put into xboard just to see if they were paying
13102 attention. They were.
13104 * Changed the protocol that xboard uses to work with the new version of
13107 * There was an off by one error with the clock resetting code. Also,
13108 the clock display highliting was wrong. Thanks to Bill Shauck for
13109 pointing these out.
13111 * enumerations are not really integers on some C compilers. I added casting.
13112 The new version of gnuchess expects the "go" command for two machine
13113 and machine plays white cases. The whiteString resource is for
13114 compatibility with previous gnuchess versions which get confused by go.
13115 Thanks to Martin D. for catching these.
13117 * Fixed a bug where the checkmate message wasn't being parsed and xboard
13118 kept playing. Also, the message was added to game file if saved.
13119 Thanks to Scott Hemhill for pointing this out.
13121 * Fixed a bug where saving a long game, resetting and saving a short game
13122 resulted in appending the end of the long game to the short one.
13123 If a game is just being played out and there is no reason for gnuchessr
13124 to be used, ignore pipe signals. This allows people to use xboard
13125 as a chess board without need for gnuchess. Also, trivially bad moves
13126 such as e2e2 are not passed on to gnuchessr but instead ignored out of
13127 hand. This allows people using xboard as a chessboard with gnuchessr
13128 to pick a piece up, think and put it back down without making a move.
13129 Thanks to Jeff Kenton for pointing these out.
13131 * Added the CHESSDIR environment variable. Game and position files are
13132 found in this directory. If this variable is not declared, then the
13133 current directory is used. File names starting with / are treated
13136 * The bitmap file names were changed so that none exceeded 14 characters.
13137 This is necessary for R5.
13139 fcntl(from_prog[0], F_SETFL, O_NDELAY);
13141 The xboard fix was to set non-blocking i/o on the read pipe for gnuchessr
13143 printz ("Illegal move (no matching move generated)");
13145 * fixed a problem with the new version of gnuchessr where xboard wasn't
13146 getting gnuchessr error messages for illegal moves. The problem seems
13147 to be fixed *without* any gnuchess changes but this is likely to be
13148 highly system dependant. There should be a new line on line 246 of nondsp.c
13150 * -iconic doesn't work at all now. The Iconify() does work. This was
13151 a tradeoff and it is really an Xt bug.
13153 * Fixed a compiler warning for gcc and an error for the IBM RT compilers.
13154 This is the VOID_PROC macro in xboard.h. Thanks to David Jensen for this.
13156 * If the DisplayWidth or DisplayHeight is less than 800, use small size mode.
13157 Also the size of the name widget was reduced from 500 pixels to 400 pixels
13158 because in small size mode there was a gap on the right.
13159 Changed the default font from fixed to helvetica_oblique14 to:
13160 **-helvetica-bold-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
13161 helvetica_oblique14 is a font alias not on all R4 systems.
13162 Curiously enough, the 17 point is not available on 75dpi systems
13163 and the 18 point font is not available on 100dpi systems.
13164 Thanks to Richard K. Lloyd for pointing these out.
13166 * Minor hacks to work with R5 alpha. Had to add an event handler to the
13167 boardWidget to get translations to work. This may go away with the real R5.
13168 Added <Message>WM_PROTOCOLS: QuitProc() for R5 ICCCM compatibility.
13170 * If the first character of the file is not `1' then the first line
13171 of a game or position file is displayed as the name in a label widget.
13173 * Added a PopUp dialog for getting file names.
13175 * Modified the code to use the R4 routines rather than R3 compatibility.
13177 * Changed the forwards/backwards/readgamefile code to allow a play to step
13178 back and forth in a game. If he steps all the way to the beginning
13179 he has to restart the game. If he gets into a mated position, same problem.
13181 * Moved the man page from xboard.1 to xboard.man. This makes imake man page
13182 installs work correctly. Thanks to Richard K. Lloyd for pointing this out.
13184 * Corrected the queening code. XBoard was sending the wrong syntax.
13185 It was sending for example h8(Q) when it should have been sending h8q.
13186 Thanks to Paul Vaughan and Mike McGann for pointing this out.
13188 * Added a lex parser for algebraic games. It should be easy to use the parser
13189 for other interfaces such as the Microsoft Windows version.
13190 It parses comments of the form [anything] and ! to the end of a line.
13192 Version 1.1 -- Mon Jan 7 14:46:03 PST 1991
13194 * Roger Dubar, Konstantinos Konstantinides, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht,
13195 Paul Scowen, Mvh Smidt and Kayvan Sylvan all helped immensely during
13198 * older non-ANSI versions of Sun compilers complain vociferously.
13200 * the remoteShell resource was added for HP-UX systems
13201 and other systems where the remoteShell isn't rsh.
13203 * -iconic doesn't work properly. If XBoard is opened iconic then
13204 iconifying it later with a keystroke doesn't work. I think
13207 * For systems with smaller screens, XBoard can use smaller pieces,
13208 and a smaller board. -bigSizeMode False uses a smaller set of pieces.
13209 These are scaled versions of the large pieces. They look ok but could
13212 * getlogin() does not work in all cases.
13213 It was replaced by getpwuid(getuid())->pw_name).
13215 * Warning messages get displayed in the message box.
13217 * Any button restarts a paused game.
13219 * Kayvan Sylvan contributed a patch for ESIX.
13220 It seems that select() on pipes is broken on his system. We declined
13221 to incorporate his patch though, because it was a work-around for
13222 something that was broken on one system, and selfishly, that system
13223 was not my own. Nevertheless, it is likely that other System V users
13224 on PC's may need to use this patch and it is is included as the file
13225 ESIX.patch. To use it, type
13227 patch xboard.c ESIX.patch
13229 * Fixed a bug where hint didn't work. The local version of gnuchessr
13230 had been hacked. The fix was to clone stderr and stdout for gnuchessr.
13232 * Fixed a bug where a player could play after a game had been finished.
13234 * The bitmaps have been pushed into the bitmaps directory.
13236 * Substantially rewrote and simplified the Two Machine code.
13238 * Added StrStr() because many systems don't have this ANSI function.
13240 * Added keyboard equivalents. Added an iconify keystroke, C or c.
13242 * Works with gcc now. gcc complained about casting float constants
13245 * Detect if the visual doesn't support color. If so, run in monoMode.
13246 An alternative would be to detect grayscale visual and use a collection
13247 of gray user interface colors.
13249 XBoard.clockMode: False
13251 * For people who don't like or use chess clocks a clockMode switch
13252 has been added. It is on by default. It can be turned off in the
13253 .Xdefaults file with
13255 * Added a declaration, xtVersion, which will quickly break on R3 Intrinsics.
13257 * Hal Peterson contributed a new Imakefile.
13259 * Rewrote DisplayClocks().
13261 * Rewrote TwoMachinesPlay mode.
13263 * Konstantinos Konstantinides added the -searchTime option.
13265 * Substantially rewrote and simplified the clock code. If a game was paused
13266 and then resumed, the clocks were out of sync.
13268 * Fixed a bug in HandleUserMove() where the user could make a move while the
13269 machine was thinking. The fix detects and ignores these moves. onMove
13270 was not being used and was removed.