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 2011-10-25 15:32:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9 2011-10-24 20:00:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10 Don't adjust clock on right-click in EditGame mode WB
12 This was a change that was already done for the left-clicks, but somehow
13 never made it togit for the right-clicks
15 2011-10-24 19:50:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
16 Change chase message in .lng files
18 2011-10-24 19:31:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
19 Let perpetual-chase message mention square
21 In stead of a boolean, PerpetualChase now returns the square the chased
22 piece ends on (encoded as an int), and on adjudication it will be printed.
24 2011-10-24 19:26:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
25 Add mechanism to translate variable messages in WinBoard
27 A message prefixed with % in the lng file will be considered a match
28 if it matches the start of the text to be printed, and the remaining
29 part of the latter will remain untranslated. This was needed to allow
30 translation of the perpetual change message, now it indicates the square
33 2011-10-24 19:20:13 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
34 Use other interpretation of Asia rules for chase detection
36 The detection of perpetual chases now ignores pre-existing checks.
38 2011-10-12 17:28:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
39 Fix crash on loading garbage game file
41 The code to cache games was not resistant to moves before a valid
42 game start, or a game filewithout any games at all.
44 2011-10-08 20:43:52 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
45 Incorporate variant type in book hash key
47 This prevents booksforone variant being used for another, and allows
50 2011-10-07 15:41:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
51 Update language.txt file
54 2011-10-07 15:34:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
58 2011-10-07 15:21:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
59 Fix Load Options dialog WB
61 Defined fastkeys; reordered elements so that fastkeys focus edit they
62 are intended for. Changed some of the more obscure texts. Corrected
63 list of transatble dialog items, adding a few missing ones.
65 2011-09-13 20:01:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
68 Prototypes were added, ormoved from backend.c to backend.h.
70 2011-08-26 12:44:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
71 Put 'Load Next' button back in WB Game List
73 The '>' button for loading the next (filtered) game is re-instated in the
74 WinBoard GameList. The main window has now accelerator keys Ctrl+Up and
75 Ctrl+Down for loading the previous and next filtered game.
77 2011-08-26 12:31:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
78 Speed up position search and consider side to move
80 The position search is made to pay attention to the side to move,
81 which produces a speedup, because we only have to compare half the
82 game positions when looking for an exact position match. An addition
83 we now keep track of the total number of pieces, and abandon a game when
84 it drops below the number of pieces in the position we seek.
86 2011-08-21 23:16:15 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
87 Dynamically allocate move cache
89 A small statically declared cache good for 250k moves (~3200 games)
90 will be expanded in steps of a factor 8 when it overflows.
92 2011-08-18 18:40:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
93 Translate search strings
96 2011-08-17 22:55:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
97 Implement flipped search
100 2011-08-16 15:29:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
101 Debug position search cache
104 2011-08-15 18:44:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
108 2011-08-18 18:01:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
109 Translate search-mode strings
112 2011-08-15 16:59:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
116 2011-10-23 16:04:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
117 Fix duplicate loading of second engine in tourneys
119 To decide if new engines should be loaded, it was tested if first.pr
120 equalled NoProc, assuming that ReserveGame would have left the engine
121 loaded if the next game would need the same engines. But a reuse=0 engine
122 could have caused termination of the first engine process anyway, while
123 the second would still be alive. So unconditionally starting of the second
124 engine would cause redundant engine processes to abound.
125 Now we only start new engine processes if both engine processes are dead.
127 2011-10-23 15:53:32 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
128 Fix PV walking with -fSAN
130 The SAN options had broken the PV walking, because the shelving of the
131 walked PV to create space for the conversion to SAN of an incoming PV
132 would not be properly undone, but would add the walked PV to the game.
134 2011-10-20 12:39:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
135 Refine clock adjusting
137 Adjusting the clocks by shift-clicking them is now only allowed with
138 autoCallFlag off, and an error-popup results when you do it otherwise.
139 Also, swtching to Edit Game mode won't reset the clocks to the stored
140 value anymore when you have just adjusted it.
142 2011-10-12 17:43:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
143 Fix crash on adding items near book end
145 When Edit Book would add so many entries near the end of an opening
146 book that the end of the added info would surpass the old end of the
147 file, the copying of the tail got stuck in an infinite loop, extending
148 the file without limit with repeating info.
150 2011-10-12 17:41:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
151 Print message on wrong use of Clone Tourney
153 The user is urged to first provide the name of an existing tourney file
154 when he presses the button without one. The button is also renamed.
156 2011-10-12 17:38:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
157 Fix invalid combobox entry WB
159 A combobox label that was not in the list (because the user typed
160 it, rather than selecting one) would cause a crash.
162 2011-10-12 17:23:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
163 Fix crash on loading garbage game file
165 XBoard crashed when a game file contained a PGN game result before
166 any valid game start, because data would be written in a game-list
167 node that did not exist yet. This would occur frequently when garage
168 was read; basically any asterisk in the data would do it.
170 2011-10-11 23:31:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
171 Add control to set -discourageOwnBooks WB
174 2011-10-11 20:53:52 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
175 only require 0.17 of gettext
177 This seems to solve many build issues with older distrubtions and doesn't seem to be a problem with newer ones.
179 2011-10-11 23:31:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
180 Add option -discourageOwnBooks
182 This boolean option determines the default setting of the hasOwnBook
183 option before a tourney game starts. By setting it, the hasOwnBook
184 option is cleared, which would enable use of the GUI book, like the
185 engine was installedwith the /firstXBook option. An explicit option
186 on the engine install line can still overrule this, though.
187 A control to set this option has been added in the XBoard Match dialog,
188 and it is saved in the tourney file to force consistency.
190 2011-10-11 22:58:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
191 Reset initString and computerString on engine load
193 These options are typically engine specific, and must thus be
194 reset to their default value before loading a new engine.
196 2011-10-11 22:43:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
197 Add Romanian lng file
200 2011-10-07 16:55:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
201 Reactivate Falcon Chess
203 Now the patent for this has expired, Fairy-Max plays it again.
204 So the XBoard support for it is now switched on, and an item for it is
205 added to the XBoard New Variant menu dialog. (WinBoard still had that.)
206 In the array the Lance was changed for the Falcon as a wild-card piece.
208 2011-10-03 09:59:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
209 Update texi file for new features
212 2011-10-03 10:30:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
213 Update texi file for position search
215 The new items in the Load Game Options dialog are described, as well
216 as the command-line options used to store them in the settings file.
218 2011-10-03 09:28:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
219 Remove paragraph about .Xresources from texi file
221 Command-line options can no longer be set through .Xresources already
224 2011-10-03 09:13:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
225 Add Dutch WinBoard translation
228 2011-09-28 20:46:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
229 Prevent Edit Book window from stealing focus (WB)
231 In WinBoard updating the book window would give it focus. Now the
232 focus is given back to the main window, except when the Edit Book
233 window is first created.
235 2011-09-28 20:42:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
236 Make book-window update part of HistorySet
239 2011-09-26 16:01:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
240 Fix position loading in tourneys
242 In a tourney a position must be loaded when the engine is not yet
243 started, and the old version of LoadPosition could not handle that:
244 It would start up the engine, and send it commands unconditionally.
246 2011-09-26 15:58:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
247 Fix resetting -fSAN on engine change
249 There were two places for loading another engine, Load (from menu) and
250 SetPlayer (in tourneys), and the previous patch for this missed the
253 2011-09-26 15:51:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
254 Make too-long game non-fatal
256 GameEnds is now called when the maximum number of moves is exceeded,
257 rather than DisplayFatalError. Not sure if this properly terminates the
258 game in all situations, but DisplayFatalError (after calling GameEnds)
259 would also wait for the user to confirm the error popup before really
260 exiting, so that in an unattended automatically running tourney there
261 was not much fatal, and the entire tourney would in fact be finished.
263 2011-09-26 15:46:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
266 Rather than opening and closing the book file on every probe, it is
267 now only closed and opened when the name of it changed.
269 2011-09-26 15:44:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
270 Suppress playing of book moves with weight 0
272 Bookmoves with weight 0 could be played when the sum of the weights
273 of all moves from the position was 0. So it was not possible to suppress
274 the only move by giving it weight 0. This is now corrected.
276 2011-10-01 15:00:47 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
277 added NEWS for release of 4.5.3
280 2011-09-29 20:31:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
281 better contrast for XBoard icon on a dark background
284 2011-10-01 13:09:59 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
285 translationproject.org: updated Ukrainian translation
288 2011-09-29 20:49:42 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
289 updated pot file and send to translation project
292 2011-09-22 12:09:39 +0100 Thomas Adam <thomas@fvwm.org>:
293 (tiny change) Clarify "-name" option is Xt-only
295 There's a set of standard options with will get used by Xt, before Xboard
296 itself will use them. "-name" is an Xt-only option which will set the name
297 and resource of the window to the value requested. It has nothing to do
298 with setting opponent/player names.
300 Signed-off-by: Thomas Adam <thomas@fvwm.org>
302 modified slightly by Arun Persaud (renamed itemx to item and fixed option name for CMAIL)
304 2011-09-22 17:17:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
305 Fix LoadGameOrPosition starting up engine
307 When LoadGameOrPosition() is called from NextMatchGame(), the Reset() that
308 is called in LoadPosition() when you are running from a position file
309 would prematurely start up the engine (without waiting for features).
310 The kludge to suppress this behavior for the explicit call to Reset()
311 is now extended to encompass LoadGameOrPosition.
313 2011-09-22 17:14:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
314 Clear fSAN option before new engine load
316 This to prevent the new engine will inherit it from the previous one.
317 As the command-line options an only set it, this has to be done by
320 2011-09-13 23:02:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
321 Fix some warnings (prototypes)
324 2011-09-13 19:55:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
325 Fix write failures in concurrency
327 In WinBoard a flood of writes by differentprocesses to the same PGN can
328 cause a "permission denied" error in fopen. This patch causes retries after
329 a random (5-15 msec) wait, in such cases.
331 2011-09-13 19:52:19 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
332 Move HistorySet to back-end
334 This existed in exact duplicates in both front-ends.
336 2011-09-13 19:46:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
337 Make DoSleep front-end wrapper for msec sleep
339 DoSleep was #defined as a macro for Sleep/ sleep, with an argument
340 indicating msec in WinBoard, but seconds in XBoard. Nuw it universally
341 uses msec, by defining it as a wrapperin the respective front-ends.
342 (For XBoard itwraps FrameDelay.)
344 2011-09-10 22:35:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
345 Fix playing sounds when -soundProgram is empty
347 It made no sense to just send the names of the sound files to the shell.
348 So the soundProgram isnow tested for being an empty string, and if so,
349 PlaySound() is aborted.
351 2011-09-10 14:01:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
352 Add -afterGame option
354 This option specifies a command line to be executed after each game of
355 a tournament. To execute the line, the function RunCommand() was added
356 in the front-end. For XBoard this was a simple call to system(); for
357 WinBoard part of the StartChildProcess code was cloned (without the pipe
360 2011-09-10 13:52:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
361 Upgrade -serverMoves option
363 The (undocumented) -serverMoves option was upgraded to conform to the
364 ChessLive! protocol extension for sending SAN tags. A bug that allowed
365 upper-case promoChar to leak through was also fixed, and code was added
366 to write engine PVs to file. Flushing of the game result to the -serverMoves
369 2011-09-10 13:50:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
372 The joining of two comments was not performed correctly if the second
373 one had the braces yet to be added: the closing brace was not added in
376 2011-08-30 19:39:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
377 Auto-popup ICS Input Box
379 Typing to the board made the move type-in pop up, but in ICS mode
380 this is of course undesirable. Like in WinBoard, the ICS Input Box
381 should pop up in stead, and accept the typed character. This is now
382 realized. If the box already exists and has text in it, the typed
383 character is appended to that text, and the box is given focus.
384 Spaces now also are considered as printable.
386 2011-08-30 18:27:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
387 Slightly decrease sensitivity of sweep actions
389 The sweep-selection of promotion and drop pieces, or step through the PV
390 was so sensitive that it was difficult to reliably make the intended choice.
391 It has now been reduced by a factor 1.5-2, and the sweep selection and
392 PV walk now also use a different value.
394 2011-08-27 21:16:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
395 Extra buttons in WB Tournament dialog
397 A button to copy contents of the tournament fileto the dialog is added.
398 Buttons to invoke the Common Engine and Time Control dialogs are also added.
400 2011-08-27 21:15:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
401 Fix crash on typing non-existent enginein Load Engine dialog
404 2011-08-24 10:30:46 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
405 Fix display state after failed analysis attempt
407 When an engine responded to the "analyze" command with an "unknown command"
408 message, a Reset was done without altering the display, causing a
409 discrepancy between display and internal state, which caused confusion
410 when it finally corrected itself. I replaced the Reset call by an
411 EditGameEvent call, to preserve the loaded game. The Reset was presumably
412 used to allow for the case where the engine would be so upset by the
413 analyze command that it needed to be reset by a "new" command, but this
414 seems overly paranoic for an engine that just recognized the command
417 2011-08-24 09:58:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
418 Fix treatment of PGN score/depth info with linefeeds in them
420 This is needed to make the PGN more Arena-proof.
422 2011-08-24 09:51:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
423 Fix quoting in Load Engine dialog
425 A (space-contaning) engine name only needs quoting when there are parameters,
426 because the over-all engine command will be quoted anyway. For UCI engines
427 duplicate quoting is fatal, because when passed as the -ec argument of
428 Polyglot, it will be quoted yet another time, also with double quotes.
430 2011-08-23 21:24:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
431 Replace Analyze File by Analyz Game function
434 2011-08-22 22:16:58 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
435 new developer release
438 2011-08-22 22:26:56 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
442 2011-08-22 22:24:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
443 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
446 2011-08-22 22:09:19 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
447 malloc.h is not needed
450 2011-08-20 22:21:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
451 Fix ICS move-list header mistaken for null moves
454 2011-08-18 18:53:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
455 Allow two-games-per-opening to work with book
457 A new option -seedBase is added, and written to the tourney file.
458 It allows all XBoard instances working on a tourney to generate the same
459 'random' openings in a deterministic way, based on this one-time seed
460 and the game number. When -loadGameIndex equals -2, it uses the same seed
461 for an odd and the following even game.
463 2011-08-18 18:51:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
466 In some places rand() was called explicitly, rather than through the
467 (configured) place-holder random().
469 2011-08-18 17:34:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
470 Translate search texts
473 2011-08-18 10:29:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
474 Add -useBoardTexture and -usePieceFont options
476 These options suppress the use of the given texture files or piece fonts
477 without relying on the kludge to disable them by prefixing an asterisk
478 to the file or font name. Checkboxes have been added to the Board dialog
479 to control them. The user can now set piece font in WB font dialog.
480 The sample text can be used to specify the -fontPieceToCharTable,
481 the font name itself the -renderPiecesWithFont value.
483 2011-08-16 23:10:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
484 Fix crash on start without settings file
486 A primordial -1 in currCurrent caused a crash when WinBoard was started
487 without ini filein game-viewer mode.
489 2011-08-12 12:08:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
490 Fix generic-popup failure after empty engine-settings dialog
492 The error exit ofthe Engine #N Settings dialog in case of an engine without
493 options forgot to clear currentCps, with as a result that the generic popup
494 thought every subsequent popup was an empty one, and kept repeating the
495 'engine has no options' error message for every dialog.
497 2011-08-10 11:27:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
498 Allow substitution of engines during tournament
500 Two buttons are added in the tournament options dialog, for upgrading
501 and for replacing a tourney participant. Lots of tests on the validity
502 of the request are done, and if all are passed, the tourney file is
503 written with the new participants (and in case of replace) with the
504 results of the replaced engines erased from the -results string.
506 2011-08-08 11:00:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
507 Fix up/down arrows in game list
510 2011-08-08 10:31:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
511 Add key bindings for loading next/previous game of list
513 These bindings are set both for the game list and the board window.
514 To make them useful, focus has to be transferred to the board widget
515 after loading (it tends to transfer to the tags window), which now
516 seems to work, but not always. From the game list the shellWidget
517 seems to get focus rather than the board, which is bad as it is not
518 sensitive to the key bindings.
520 2011-08-08 09:58:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
521 Allow deletion of last book move
523 The book-edit function refused to delete the entiremove list,
524 for no good reason. This limitation now has been lifted.
525 Also the error message that the key for the current book entries
526 is different from that of the currentposition has been suppressed
527 if there were no entries found for the current position (so that the
528 book is positioned at the next key), so that it is possible to add
531 2011-08-08 00:19:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
534 Line numbers > 1, which are common, can exit already during move parsing,
535 to save lots of matching on resultsand castlings.
537 2011-08-07 15:13:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
538 Fix missing files in file browser
540 The file browser was throwing away the first two files, assuming
541 they were "." and "..". Alas, this is no longer true on every Linux.
542 Now we actuallyc compare for these names, before skipping them.
544 2011-08-06 11:57:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
545 Delay file loading to allow expose event first
548 2011-08-06 09:29:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
552 2011-08-05 22:39:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
553 Better fix of crash on empty game list
555 An empty list is now replaced by a list containig a simple message.
557 2011-08-05 20:31:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
558 Add plain arrows as key binding for stepping forward/backward
561 2011-08-05 20:30:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
562 Debug position selection
565 2011-08-04 13:22:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
566 Print progress during load / selection of game
568 The title bar of themain window is used to display a running count
569 of the number of games loaded / searched.
571 2011-08-04 12:44:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
572 Parse PGN tags without allocating memory
574 In WinBoard malloc/free did not seem to work when preparing the game list,
575 leading to a huge memory list when ParsePGNTag was used. The added code
576 parses the required tags in an alternative way as a work-around.
578 2011-08-02 22:58:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
579 Implement searching games in Game List for a position
581 For this it was needed to reconstruct all positions of the games
582 without loading them, so they could be compared to the currently
583 displayed position. A new routine GameContainsPosition is made for that.
584 In Disambiguate, when the global quickFlag is set, we now do the
585 disambiguation ignoring check,and only if this leads to an ambiguous
586 move, we repeat it taking check into account to see if that resolves
587 the ambiguity. This causes us to miss if unambiguous moves are illegal
588 because they put their King in check, but who cares?
589 We now do not make game-list line when not needed. If we do not filter
590 by text, but by position, there is no need for preparing the game-list
591 line for games that are not selected. All for efficiency.
593 2011-07-28 20:47:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
594 Allow entry of variations in PlayFromGameFile mode
596 Adding variations is more like editing a comment,and not really editing
597 the game. Therefore we allow it on loaded games. As soon as we are in a
598 variation, we temporarily switch to a (hidden) EditGame mode, restoring
599 the original mode when we revert to the main line.
600 We now also stay in PlayFromGameFile mode after loading a game,
601 And opening variation (fromtheComment window) in PlayFromGameFile mode
604 2011-07-27 18:47:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
605 Force Move History refresh after loading/reverting variation
607 The Move History window was not refreshed after switching to or from
608 a variation if that variation happened to have the same length as
609 the main line. Now a change in storedGames since the previous refresh will
610 force a full refresh to avoid this. For this to work, storedGames
611 did have to be decremented after ToNrEvent in PopInner, because ToNrEvent
612 calls HistorySet before the history is restored, so we don't want
613 it to snatch away the full refresh. A call to HistorySet had to be
614 added after PopInner is done restoring the move history.
616 2011-07-27 17:45:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
617 Popdown Comment window on new game
619 What is in this window cannot possibly remain valid, and can even be harmful.
621 2011-01-19 11:46:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
622 Allow null move in analysis and edit-game mode
624 In some games it is allowed to pass your turn. The internal
625 representation picked for such a null move is the drop of an empty
626 square, (EmptySquare,DROP_RANK,0,0). Computer-algebraic form is "@@@@",
627 SAN form is "--", (for compatibility with ChessBase / SCID), and the
628 non-compliant forms "null", "pass"and "Z0" are recognized in
629 the parser as well. ApplyMove() has to test for this special case
630 (to not actually clear a1), and a way to enter the pass for the user had
631 to be found (clicking the opponent clock, like in EditPosition mode).
632 The null move is made move irreversible to prevent repetition draws
633 spanning null moves being adjudicated.
634 Such entry of null move is now allowed in AnalyzeMode and EditGame mode.
635 Because Chess engines will not accept null moves, SendMoveToProgram had
636 to be adapted to send not the move, but the position after it in
637 case of a null move. This erases the move history in the engine,
638 so it will not react to 'undo' for that null move, so BackwardInner
639 had to be adapted to test for intervening null moves, and if one is
640 found, approach the target from the other side after loading the
641 earliest position before it not crossing another null move, and
642 then loading the moves upto the target.
643 XBoard clock clicks had to be fixed, to pay attention to the shift key.
645 2011-07-25 21:58:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
646 Give WinBoard Game List its own font
648 The font fort he Game List used to be shared with the Engine Output and
649 Move History windows, but this made it impossible to use a figurine font
650 in the latter two (which displays piece symbols for capitals) without
651 messing up the Game List. An option -gameListFont has been added to specify
652 the font for the Game List(and save it in the settings file), while a
653 control for it is added in the fonts dialog.
655 2011-07-21 19:02:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
656 Fix crash on OK after Save Changes in Tags and Comment popup.
658 The global variables tagsText and commentText were used to pass
659 a string obtained from a widget (and thus not malloc'ed), which
660 caused a crash when the GenericReadout tried to use those variables
661 for the new value. Fixed by using GenericReadout (which does malloc)
662 to read out the text,in stead of GetWidgetText.
664 2011-07-16 09:31:12 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
665 Revert "fixed segfault in xengineoutput", fixed in the backend now (from HGM)
667 This reverts commit 33a0e73843115ff6d4eacaf963a38f2e8b20b295.
669 2011-07-16 14:53:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
670 Suppress some XBoard warnings
673 2011-07-15 11:21:29 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
674 fixed segfault in xengineoutput
677 2011-07-11 20:04:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
678 Disable -showTargetSquares in ICS mode
680 Help like this is considered cheating on FICS, so it is disabled for
681 all 'classical' ICS variants. (For variants eyont Shogi we don't care.)
683 2011-07-10 21:20:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
684 Put grab on sweep-selecting in Edit Position
686 A right down-click starting a sweep-selection event did not grab the
687 mouse events, so that an up-click outside the window would go
688 unnoticed, and the pointer motion stayed coupled to selecting the
689 piece until the next click. By returning 2 from the RightClick back-end
690 routine we request the grab.
692 2011-07-09 13:50:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
693 Write more labels on score axis of eval graph
695 The labels for +/-1 and +/-3 are now also written, provided there is
698 2011-07-09 13:28:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
699 Improve Eval Graph with -evalZoom and -evalThreshold
701 The score range between -1 and +1 can now be blown up by a factor
702 specified through -evalZoom. The threshold below which histogram bars
703 are no longer printed (wich used to e hard-coded 25 centi-Pawn) can now
704 be set through the -evalThreshold option.
706 2011-07-09 13:18:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
707 Print reversible plies done in stead of plies to go
709 Printing the number of plies left to the draw-adjudication point was
710 confusing when the N-move rule was set to a non-standard value.
711 In stead we now print the number of plies since the last irreversible
712 move, so the user can compare it to both the engine claim point (100)
713 and the adjudication point he set (which might be beyond 100).
715 2011-07-09 13:13:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
716 Let WB eval graph react ot single left-click
718 Unlike in XBoard, the WinBoard eval graph awatys had required double-
719 clicking to go the the corresponding move, while there really is no
720 reason for this, as it is no text edit, and single-clicks have no function
723 2011-07-07 19:37:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
724 Add -scoreWhite option
726 This is similar to -absoluteAnalysisScores, except that it works in
727 all modes, and flips the score given by the engines in the engine-output
728 window when black is to move.
730 2011-07-07 19:28:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
731 Print 50-move counter in Engine-Output title
734 2011-07-07 18:50:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
735 Display score/depth in Eval Graph title
737 No longer print it in the comment window.
739 2011-07-04 11:06:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
740 Let -sweepPromotions also work for click-click moves
742 A click-click promotion no longer causes auto-queening, but the down-click
743 on the to-square causes a Queen to stick to the mouse pointer, and then
744 allows the user to change it through dragging backwards before releasing it
746 In WinBoard this required a slight change in DragPieceBegin, because
747 the dragged piece there only was made visible when the mouse pointer
748 actually started moving (and dragInfo.pos was set), presumably under the
749 assumption that before mouse move the piece was already on the clicked
750 square. Which in the case of a to-square was of course not true. (Because
751 a piece jumps to the mouse pointer when the click is not centered on a
752 square, this gives less jittery static clicks.) So DragPieceBegin has
753 been given an extra argument now, to indicate whether it should attach
754 the piece to the mouse pointer immediately.
755 To make the click-click sweepPromotions work in Shogi (for which the
756 drag-drop sweepPromotions could never work, because it is not clear the
757 piece has a posibility to promote when you pick it up), translation of
758 the sweep-selected piece to a Shogi promoChar had to e added.
760 2011-07-04 10:45:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
761 Improve -showTargetSquares on click-click moves
763 The markers on move targets are now kept when a first click merely
764 selects a piece, rather than dragging it elsewhere. The second click
765 (by definition on the to-square) then clears the markers.
767 2011-07-04 11:23:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
768 Let PGN parser accept lower-case piece in drop moves
770 The @ sign prevents amiguity with other notations anyway.
772 2011-07-04 12:42:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
773 Fix parser.c line endings
776 2011-06-29 20:29:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
777 Fix writing searchTime in tourneyFile
779 This had to be derived from the variable searchTime, which gives it
780 in seconds, as appData.searchTime (a string in minutes) is not reliable,
781 as it contains the command-line value, which might have been altered
782 through the time-control dialog.
784 2011-06-29 20:25:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
785 Fix resetting searchTime if other TC mode is chosen (XB)
787 This fixes a bug in the new time-control dialog.
789 2011-06-29 14:32:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
790 Fix coords display on large boards
792 The file indicators can now run upto 'w'. Only the lowest digit
793 of the rank number is printed, from a table that is valid to 22.
795 2011-06-29 13:53:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
796 Fix crash on making too-long FEN
798 The buffer for in PositionToFEN was only 128 bytes, which was not enough
799 for large boards such as 19x19 Go. It is enlarged to MSG_SIZ(512) now.
800 There also is some approximate overflow checking added (but it is not
801 fool proof in case there are holdings...)
803 2011-06-29 13:36:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
804 Fix drop moves on boards with more than 10 ranks
806 The internal encoding for rank 16 is '@', and thus ambiguous with drop
807 moves. They were always printed as 16, breaking drop games on large
808 boards. The ambiguity is now solved (for boards with more than 16 ranks)
809 by checking if the preceeding letter is upper case, in which case it
810 cannot be a fileindicator, but must be a piece, and thus a drop.
812 2011-06-29 13:29:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
813 Don't one-click move when legality testing is off
816 2011-06-23 21:18:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
817 Reorder controls in Engine Setings dialog WB
819 To get tabbing through the controls in left-to-right order, they are
820 now added to the template structure in that order. Also add a tabstop
821 to Label options, so that JAWS will read those.
823 2011-06-23 14:02:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
824 Add tab stops in WB generic popup
826 The WinBoard generic popup did not put tab stops on push buttons,
827 including the OK and cancel button, with as a consequence that these were
828 skipped when tabbing through the dialog controls. In addition the tabbing
829 could not begin before the user selected one of the controls with the mouse.
830 Now all buttons have tab stops, and the cancel button is given focus
831 when the dialog pops up.
833 2011-03-10 20:06:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
834 Implement Grand Chess
836 Grand Chess requires a lot of exceptional handling similar to Superchess
837 and Great Shatran, because it also allows only promotion to a captured
838 piece. In addition it shares the enlarged promotion zone with Makruk and
839 Shogi, as well as the fact that promotion can be deferred. The 10-rank
840 board furthermore required a better generalization of double-pushes and
841 e.p. captures. On such a board double puhes are now allowed from 2nd and
842 3rd rank, e.p. capture from 5th and 4th.
844 2011-01-28 19:20:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
845 Allow promotion to Pawn with legality testing off
847 In stead of ImpossibleMove promotionto Pawn now merely is an
848 IllegalMove, so it can be played with legality testing off.
850 2011-01-24 15:06:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
851 Create some space in WB New Variant dialog
854 2011-06-20 23:53:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
855 Allow double-digit rank numbers
857 The parser already understood double-digit numbers on input, and
858 CoordsToAlgebraic produced them on otput. This patch also fixes sending
859 of the moves to the computer, for which the moveList was used. The latter
860 stored 10 as ':', etc,to always get a 4-char move, the characters of which
861 were frequently being converted to fromY or toY by adding/subtracting ONE.
862 To not break that the one-character encoding of rank number is kept in
863 moveList, but in SendMoveToProgram, characters > '9' are converted to
866 2011-06-23 11:26:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
867 Add Absolute Analysis Scores in Genral Options dialog XB
870 2011-06-23 11:16:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
871 Fix texi file, and update it further
874 2011-06-20 12:15:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
878 2011-06-22 17:51:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
882 2011-06-22 11:02:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
883 Restore echo after ^C in ICS password
886 2011-06-22 10:45:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
890 2011-06-19 20:30:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
891 Increase efficiency of SAN generation / disambiguation
893 **************** Risky patch! **********************
894 The algorithm used for disambiguating and generating SAN was extremely
895 inefficient, because it generated all pseudo-legal moves from the relevant
896 position, and then for each of those did a check test (involving generation
897 of all moves of the opponent), before determining if the move matched the
898 (proposed or given) SAN move. While it is pointless to generate moves
899 with a piece that does not match (let alone checking them for legality).
900 And for a piece that matches, it is pointless to test legality of moves
901 that do not match the to-square.
902 To speed up the process GenLegal and GenPseudoLegal have been equiped
903 with an argument that can indicate the piece type of the required move,
904 so they can skip generating moves with other pieces. TestLegality,
905 Disambiguate and CoordsToAlgebraic make use of this facility, and set also
906 (through global variables rFilter and fFilter) a to-square filter to be
907 applied in the GenLegalCallback before it tests the move for legality.
908 This patch is especially tricky for Crazyhouse, where the piece indicated
909 in the move might not be the piece actually on the board, because the latter
910 is a promoted Pawn, and has to be demoted toits base type before the
913 2011-06-19 16:18:15 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
914 Fix compile errors WinBoard
916 The patch to make non-existing options non-fatal broke WinBoard. All calls
917 to ExitArgError from it now supply a third argument TRUE to fix it.
919 2011-06-19 14:28:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
920 Add -fSAN / -sSAN options
922 These options force the PV of the applicable engine to be converted to SAN.
923 They make use of the existing ParsePV routine, after shelfing a possible
924 PV (from user PV walking) to free the space after the last move.
925 Could be costly in terms of CPU usage.
927 2011-06-19 10:56:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
928 Cure flicker in Move History window, fix highlighting
930 The highlighting of the current move in the Move List window by selecting
931 it did not always work, because some other windows were clearing their text
932 widgets by selecting the contents and killing it, thus snatching the
933 selection away. This has been changed to setting XtNstring to an empty
934 string as a method for clearing without side effects on the selection.
935 As a bonus the Engine Output window now also no longer has the black flicker
937 In addition, triggering a scroll by setting the insertion point to the
938 end of the text caused excessive flicker in the Move List window, apparently
939 clearing it and redrawing from scratch, (even if there was no scroll motion),
940 to the point where on my slow laptop the move history stayed entirely blank
941 during a rapid succession of moves. This has been combatted by using the
942 end-of-line action procedure (which does not seem to suffer from this) to put
943 the insertion point at the end, when we need to scroll to close to the end.
945 2011-06-18 23:48:13 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
946 Fix crash on clearing new Move List window
948 When a new game started and a previous game had filled the Move List
949 window, a crash occurred because an attempt was made to undo the
950 highlighting of a no-longer-existing move, and then scrolling to it.
952 2011-06-18 20:46:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
953 Use sound for ICS tells also with engine telluser popups
955 The telluser and tellusererror commands now can be assigned a sound.
957 2011-06-18 20:45:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
958 Add Score in Move List option to general options dialog XB
960 Now that we have a WinBoard-style Move History window, this option is
961 no longer a no-op in XBoard.
963 2011-06-18 12:42:41 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
964 new developer release
967 2011-06-18 12:38:32 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
968 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
971 2011-06-18 12:51:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
972 Update window itle after last game of match
974 The result printed behind player names during a match would still be the one
975 without the game, differing from what the popup would show, which looked
976 sloppy enough for people to complain about it.
979 2011-06-18 10:26:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
980 Make WB generic popup translatable
982 When used for internal settings (as in the Load Engine and Tournament
983 Options dialogs), the option names are now subectto translation.
985 2011-06-17 21:05:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
986 Redo Move History with generic popup in WinBoard style
988 The use of color and boldness to make the move list more readable
989 unfortunately cannot work in Xaw; reverse video by selection is used as an alternative to highlight the current move.
991 2011-06-17 21:19:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
994 Due to an erroneous else, the window parameters of Move History were
995 not retreived (and thus incorrectly saved) when the Engine Output was up.
997 2011-06-14 18:47:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
998 Make non-existing opton in settings file non-fatal
1000 It is rather difficult to recover from a situaton where the settings
1001 file contains an unknown option (e.g. because you downgraded to a
1002 previous version that had fewer options), especially in WinBoard, where
1003 the user settings file is in a hidden folder, and people might not be
1004 able to find it, let alone edit it. By just skipping the line with the
1005 offending option, rather than generating a fatal error, when reading
1006 from a settings file, such options will be automatically purged from the
1007 file as soon as you save settings.
1008 Small problem is that the user cannot be warned, as the initialization
1009 has not progressed far enough at this point to generate error popups. In
1010 XBoard we can at least print to the console, but in WinBoard there is no
1011 warning at all. But the worst thing that can happen is that new options
1012 in a settings file of a more advanced version will revert to their
1015 2011-06-14 18:20:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1016 Change long form of -tf option to -tourneyFile
1018 This is a more logical name, and in the WinBoard docs it was already
1019 described as such. Also remove the -processes option, which in the
1020 current design of the tourney manager is no longer used.
1022 2011-06-14 18:17:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1023 Fix default of -remoteUser
1025 This has to be an empty string, rather than NULL, to prevent XBoard from
1026 segfaulting when the -gateway option is used.
1028 2011-06-14 13:32:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1029 Add -at and -opt options as alternative for @
1031 Windows XP and Vista shortcuts do not display command lines with @ in
1032 them correctly, and these optionsprovide a work-around for that.
1034 2011-06-14 12:46:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1035 Fix empty-string option values in XBoard
1038 2011-06-14 12:40:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1039 Fix crash on switching sound in Vista
1041 When choosing a new sound the wave form of the old one was free'ed, but
1042 because built-in sounds are not really malloc'ed, this led to a crash.
1044 2011-06-14 12:36:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1045 Update WB docs for tourney manager
1048 2011-06-14 12:35:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1049 Add icon to WB for tournament files
1052 2011-06-10 16:52:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1053 Redo Time Control dialog with generic popup
1055 As poor-man's disabling of the unneeded input fields, we print the word
1058 2011-06-10 14:14:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1059 Some refactoring in xoptions.c to separate out front-end
1062 2011-06-10 12:38:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1063 Redo New Shuffle Game dialog with generic popup
1065 The buttons are slightly renamed, and in stead of having an 'off'
1066 button to clear it, shuffleOpenings now has its own checkbox, which is
1067 ticked when a fixed or dynamic random is chosen with the buttons.
1069 2011-06-10 11:58:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1070 Fix type of shuffleOpenings
1072 This was a Boolean option, and thus accessed by the args.h code as such,
1073 while it was declared as an int (and used in backend.c as such). This
1074 could have led to problems with different endianness.
1076 2011-06-09 23:57:43 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
1077 Internationalize the file browser.
1079 The file browser was missed in the previous round of
1080 internationalization and had gotten broken by setting international =
1081 True in its widgets. I got nothing but segfaults trying to set
1082 international to False in the file browser widget subtree when it was
1083 True in the main window, so I gave up and did the
1084 internationalization. It turned out to be pretty easy.
1086 As a tiny bonus fix, I removed some ../'s from includes, and you can
1087 now configure and build xboard in a subdirectory again. This was
1088 useful for building both --enable-nls and --disable-nls from the same
1089 sources to compare functionality and make sure both still work.
1091 2011-06-08 20:26:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1092 Fix crash at end of Swiss tourney
1095 2011-06-08 17:33:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1096 Fix display of logos
1098 The logo files are now sought relative to the WinBoard install
1099 directory. Non-existing logos cause clearing of the logo, rather than
1100 letting the logo of the prevous engine hang. Logo change is requested
1101 explicitly from the back-end (when an engine is initialized for a new
1102 game), rather than using the kludge in StartChileProcess. This required
1103 a dummy UpdateLogos routine in the XBoard front-end.
1105 2011-06-08 18:02:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1106 Fix parameter handling in adapter command
1108 A backslash was not considered the end of an option name, which was
1109 fatal for UCCI2WB, which needs %fd\\%fcp in its command line.
1111 2011-06-08 17:16:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1112 Clear Engine-Output pane when initializing engine
1114 This to prevent output from the previous game hanging there during the
1115 next game, when the engine that is really playing is in book and
1116 doesn't produce thinking output there.
1118 2011-06-08 17:20:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1119 Fix display of last move of last match game
1121 When a game was adjudicated (e.g. because XBoard detected mate) GameEnds
1122 would trigger an exit if it was the last game of the match, and thus
1123 never returned, while the ShowMove was called only after return from
1124 Adjudicate. An extra ToNrEvent is now used in GameEnd in this case to
1125 cause ShowMove to be called before exiting. (Ugly kludge...)
1127 2011-06-08 17:38:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1128 Fix concurrency in Swiss tourneys
1130 The pairing engine was consulted for the next round before all games of
1131 the previous round were finished, if other XBoard instances were still
1132 playing games. This caused the instances finishing early to stall
1133 indefinitely. This is fixed by moving the Swiss pairing code to after
1134 the syncInterval code. The normal pairing code (the call to Pairing)
1135 must stay before it, because it determines the syncInterval. So ther is
1136 a bit of tourneyType dependence cluttering up the code here. :-(
1138 2011-06-08 17:27:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1139 Give error popup when pairing engine fails
1141 An invalid pairing now produces an error popup to inform the user, so he
1142 knows why the tourney stagnates.
1144 2011-06-08 17:24:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1145 Fix clock mode in tourney starting from -ncp mode
1147 When a tourney started from -ncp mode, which was allowed in MatchEvent,
1148 because the tourney loads its own engines anyway, the menu enablings and
1149 clockmode where not restored to their 'GNUMode' state.
1151 2011-06-08 17:11:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1152 Fix round-robin schedule
1154 The first round was played twice, and the formulas used to derive the
1155 pairing were not even-odd resistant anyway. Both even and odd number of
1156 participants should work now.
1158 2011-06-08 17:08:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1159 Fix interrupting tournament
1161 Stopping a tourney by using the Machine Match menu item did not wor
1164 2011-06-08 16:57:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1165 Improve quoting of engine name on install
1167 Rather than always using double quotes for the engine command, the
1168 engine filename is now double-quoted if it contains spaces (and no
1169 double-quotes), and the comand is single-quoted if it contains
1170 double-quotes (and double-quoted otherwise).
1172 2011-06-08 16:49:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1173 Print sensible window title during tourneys
1175 Rather than the "(W-L-D)" in the title we now print game number and
1176 total games, plus indication of the tourney type (rr, gt or sw).
1178 2011-06-08 16:44:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1179 Let XBoard propose name of tourney file
1181 Add an option -defaultTourneyName to configure the name that will be
1182 proposed in the Tournament Options dialog's tournament-file field. The
1183 option can contain %y, %M, %d, %h, %m, %s for year, month, day, hour,
1184 mintes, seconds of the curret time in %02d format, or %Y for the year in
1185 %04d format. Any tournament -file name is ignored when no participants
1186 are given. Participants without a tourney file remains an error.
1188 2011-06-08 16:30:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1189 Improve Tournament dialog layout WB
1192 2011-06-08 17:05:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1193 Fix -matchGames option
1195 The new MatchEvent code had broken the -mg option, and used always
1196 -defaultMatchGames in stead.
1198 2011-05-30 19:55:13 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
1199 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.
1201 - Several files were in utf8 but needed to be marked as such (that is,
1202 "CHARSET" changed to "UTF-8"). Affected es.po, it.po, ru.po, vi.po,
1205 - it.po was missing a \n at the end of one translation.
1207 - ru.po had unescaped double-quote marks in one translation.
1209 - vi.po needed to be normalized to Unicode normalization form C. With
1210 this fix, more characters display correctly, though at least one is
1211 still missing in the X core fonts that xboard is able to use.
1212 See http://vietunicode.sourceforge.net/ for more about Vietnamese.
1214 - zh_HK.po was written in big5 and then utf8-encoded on top of that,
1215 making it unusable. I stripped off the spurious utf8 encoding and
1216 then used recode to convert the file to Unicode properly encoded as
1219 Unfortunately, I wasn't able to test any of the Chinese translations,
1220 as I haven't been able to get XCreateFontSet to work in Chinese
1221 locales with any of the fonts I have installed, even after adding the
1222 Ubuntu language support packages for both simplified and traditional
1223 Chinese. I did spot check a bunch of the translations using Google
1226 I've checked in a couple of tiny Perl scripts that I used to do part
1227 of the fixups on vi.po and zh_HK.po in case we need them again.
1229 2011-05-30 14:12:53 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
1230 The empty string can't be translated and it causes the gettext utilities to complain, so change _("") to "".
1233 2011-05-30 13:21:06 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
1234 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.
1237 2011-05-29 20:14:37 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
1238 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.
1240 In the process I had to rewrite the code to insert the pixel size into
1241 a font name (replacing a "*" in that field). The new code is much
1244 2011-05-28 23:55:42 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1245 translation: activated Ukrainian translation
1248 2011-05-28 23:41:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1249 translation: added new Ukrainian PO file from the TP
1252 2011-05-28 21:07:08 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
1253 Fix display of international characters outside the ASCII range.
1255 1) Set Xaw resources required for internationalization --
1256 *international and *fontSet.
1258 2) Untangle the new XFontSet-aware code from the old FindFont code.
1259 It doesn't make any sense to apply the old (and obsolete) size
1260 searching code from FindFont to a font set, which contains fonts
1261 that are all the requested size.
1263 3) With these changes, the -font option doesn't work at all when given
1264 on the command line. The -font option actually is parsed by the Xt
1265 library, used to set the *font resource, and removed from argv
1266 before xboard can see it, so the option didn't really work properly
1267 with the new WinBoard-style option framework anyway. Now that
1268 -font is even more broken, I changed the documented name of the
1269 option to -messageFont and changed args.h so the option is saved in
1270 ~/.xboard as -messageFont.
1272 2011-05-28 21:05:00 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
1273 Move "hide thinking" option into alphabetical order.
1276 2011-05-28 21:01:25 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
1277 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.
1280 2011-05-23 19:05:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1281 Fix layout tournament Load Engine dialog WB
1284 2011-05-23 19:03:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1288 2011-05-23 19:00:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1289 Add Swiss tourneys through pairing engine
1291 An external program can be designated pairing engine through the new
1292 persistent option -pairingEngine. Defining the option will allow
1293 tourneytype -1 to be chosen for Swiss. In this case the pairing engine
1294 will be queried for a pairing before every new match game, by sending it
1295 the -results string, plus the command 'pairing' + game number.
1297 2011-05-23 17:37:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1298 Allow generic dialog to ignore OK
1300 The EndMark callback can now suppress popdown of the dialog on OK, when
1301 it somehow does not like the values entered by the user. In XBoard this
1302 required all the callbacks to return a value.
1303 Caveat: A refused OK would still have set all new values given in the
1306 2011-05-23 17:22:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1307 Fix CR in multi-line WinBoard text-edits
1309 The generic popup did not add CR when strings containing '\n' were
1310 printed in a multi-line text-edit, thus joining the lines. It was also
1311 not possible to type a CR in a multi-line text-edit.
1313 2011-05-23 14:16:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1314 Let mentioning completed tourney file add one cycle
1316 Secifying a tourney file of a fully completed tourney will now resume
1317 that tourney with another cycle added. When there are still uncomleted
1318 games in the tourney, the usual error message will appear. There are
1319 also error popups added for when the user fails to specify a tourney
1320 file, or gives too few participants.
1322 2011-05-16 11:02:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1323 Make engine startup failure non-fatal in WinBoard
1325 Unlike XBoard, which forks first, the parent process WinBoard has direct
1326 knowledge of a failure to execute the engine command, and used it to
1327 trigger a fatal error. The code doing this has now been disabled. Only
1328 in case of a first engine we switch back to -ncp mode in stead, but no
1329 action is taken to 'bury' the deceased engine process. Like in XBoard,
1330 errors in writing or reading the pipes will trigger this.
1332 2011-05-14 17:03:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1333 Add secondry adapter command for UCCI or USI
1335 The option -uxiAdapter can define a second adapterCommand, which will be
1336 invoked on encountering the options -fUCCI, -sUCCI and -fUSI, sUCI.
1338 2011-05-14 10:05:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1339 Obey san feature when sending book moves
1341 Book moves were always sent in long algebraic, even when the engine had
1342 said it wanted to receive SAN.
1344 2011-05-14 10:03:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1345 Fix initialization of engine state
1347 Some of the initialization relied on variables being zero at startup,
1348 which meant value from the previouly loaded engine hng on after loading
1351 2011-05-11 23:06:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1352 Take account of holdings in book key
1354 The board is numbered by rank, for comptibility with Polyglot format,
1355 starting at a1. We then continue counting in the holdings 'files', in
1356 up-rank direction, each holding spanning the full board height (even if
1357 it is not fully used). Firstthe left (black) holdings, then the right,
1358 Even in Shogi this limits the square number to < 99, which is below the
1359 absolute limit of 128 (where we would run out of hash keys).
1361 2011-05-11 22:48:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1362 Alow promotions and drops in book-editing
1365 2011-05-11 20:15:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1366 Include learn info in book edit
1369 2011-05-09 21:55:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1370 Adapt default directory of lng2po
1372 The path is prefixed with "../" to make it runable from the po directory.
1374 2011-05-09 21:20:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1375 Recode some po files
1377 po files were generated with the aid of lng2po for Russian,
1378 Vietnamese, Chinese(simp) and Chinese(trad), using encodings CP1251,
1379 CP1258, GB2312 and BIG5, respectively.
1381 2011-05-09 20:11:32 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1382 Implement Edit Book in XBoard
1385 2011-05-09 09:52:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1386 Improve WB Load Engine dialog texts
1389 2011-05-09 09:48:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1390 Make 'add to list' default in Load Engine dialog
1393 2011-05-09 09:33:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1394 Add -userFileDirectory option
1396 This volatile option is initialized from 'installDir'. It is
1397 primarily intended for configuration of WinBoard through its master
1398 settings file, and specifies an alternative place to create saveGameFile
1399 or look for other user files, in stead of looking in the installDir.
1401 2011-05-09 09:10:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1402 Add option -absoluteAnalysisScores
1404 This persistent option flips scores in the when black is thinking in
1405 analysis mode, just before they are printed in the engine-output window.
1407 2011-05-08 17:47:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1408 Automatically play moves of clicked PV in analyze mode
1410 The Shift key now no longer needs to be pressed to play moves from the
1411 PV in analyze mode (so it could be given back its original meaning of
1412 starting a variation with the entered moves). In analyze mode the PV
1413 walk begins after the first move, so a static right-click plays the
1414 first PV move. To just peek the PV you have to walk to the start of it
1415 before releasing the mouse button. In other modes the PV walk
1416 stillstarts at the very end.
1418 2011-05-08 17:07:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1419 Let ParsePV always generate SAN move
1422 2011-05-08 13:53:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1423 Fix vscrolling in XBoard Engine-Output window
1425 After clicking the memos they scrolled to the bottom, because SetFocus
1426 put the insertion point at the very end of the text. This behavior is
1427 now reserved for text-edits containing less than 100 characters.
1429 2011-05-08 13:22:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1430 Fix button sizing in generic popup
1433 2011-05-08 13:02:52 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1434 Allow changing MultiPV setting from Engine-Output window
1436 In analyze mode a header line is printed in the first engine-output
1437 pane, which can be right-clicked to increase or decrease the number of
1438 PVs. (Only with engines that support the MultiPV option.)
1440 2011-05-08 11:28:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1441 No clearing of Engine-Output memos on stat01
1444 2011-05-07 23:27:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1445 updated xboard.pot with released version
1448 2011-05-07 22:56:53 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1449 new developer release
1452 2011-05-07 22:54:29 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1453 updated ChangeLog, NEWS, etc.
1456 2011-05-07 23:07:46 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1457 deactivated new languages for the moment...
1459 po files need some cleanup, probably better to wait until the translation-project looked at them
1461 2011-05-07 18:44:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1462 added translations generated via lng2po from all winboard languages
1465 2011-05-07 18:40:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1466 lng2po.sh: added command line options, GPL header
1468 also use a temporary file generated with mktemp instead of a hard coded one
1470 2011-05-07 17:53:10 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1471 fixed access rights to winboard language files (644 instead of 655)
1474 2011-05-07 14:55:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1475 Import WinBoard language files into git
1478 2011-05-06 23:14:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1479 Let Shift+RightClick on PV actually play the PV moves
1482 2011-05-06 18:06:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1483 Make book-edit function WB
1485 The tags dialog is used to display the GUI book moves from the current
1486 position, and will be updated when you step or move to another one.
1487 The edited move list (with weights) can be written back to the book.
1489 2011-05-07 16:21:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1490 Fix resetting engine options
1492 Not all options were reset, and -needsNonCompliantFEN was 'reset'
1493 to a completely wrong value, so that bad FENs would be sent.
1495 2011-05-06 18:51:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1496 Add -first/secondPgnName option
1498 This option replaces the tidy name of the engine in the PGN player tags
1499 of engine-engine games. In WinBoard engines can be installed with this
1500 option through a checkbox in the Load Engine dialog.
1502 2011-05-06 23:31:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1503 Let XB generic popup define default file extensions
1506 2011-05-06 18:25:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1507 Save time-control settings in tourney file
1509 Because parsing the options and storing them in appData is not enough,
1510 the time-control code setting the internally used parameters from the
1511 appData info in InitBackend was made into a subroutine, and also caled
1512 after parsing the tourney file.
1514 2011-05-06 20:40:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1515 Put saveGameFile in tournament dialog
1518 2011-05-06 19:17:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1519 Plug memory leak, filenames relative to installDir
1521 String options are consistently freed now, before assigning a new value
1522 to them through strdup. The init code now even does use strdup when
1523 setting defaults. This is important for optionslike -lgf, which are not
1524 saved in the settings file, and thus are usually left with their
1525 default. When a dialog to set them then uses free, this causes a crash.
1526 When setting the defaults uses strdup, ParseArgs can already free them.
1527 This plugs an important memory leak, as ParseArgs in now called to parse
1528 the tourney file before every tourney game (twice!), and the lists of
1529 participants and results in it can be quite long. Macros are defined in
1530 common.h to make the code look simpler.
1531 Filenames entered through the generic popup are now interpreted
1532 relative to the WinBoard installation folder, just as the saveGameFile
1533 already was. The code handling the atter was made into a subroutine for
1536 2011-05-06 22:02:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1537 Add WB new popup prototypes
1540 2011-05-06 18:58:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1541 Add partcipants at bottom in tourney dialog (WB)
1544 2011-05-06 18:56:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1545 Fix range of tourneyType spin WB
1548 2011-05-06 18:15:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1549 Fix exit popup in tourney mode
1551 Only the instance finishing the last tourney game will cause a popup
1552 with final standings. As long as there are still busy games, it exits or
1553 switches back to idle mode silently.
1555 2011-05-06 18:11:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1556 Fix stopping of match in tourney mode
1559 2011-05-06 18:59:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1560 Add default extension in file browser
1563 2011-05-06 22:37:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1564 Improve sizing of comment and tags dialogs
1566 There seems to be a bug in Xaw for the sizing of buttons; they get
1567 unpredicatble and weird sizes when the size is not explicitly set,
1568 possibly stretching the initial width of a dialog to rediculous values.
1569 Sizing back to a remembered value from the settings file then makes
1570 buttons overlapand text edits shrink to almost nothing. To prevent that
1571 we now define exlicit sizes for the buttons in tags and comment popups.
1573 2011-05-06 21:00:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1574 Fix generic combobox bug
1576 The patch placing gettext markers was done wrong, setting the
1577 translated menu text outside the loop, so all entries became the same.
1579 2011-05-07 14:23:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1580 Fix PV walking in analysis mode
1582 ParsePV assumed that the PV would always have been produced by an engin
1583 thinking about the final position of the game (or the one before it). In
1584 analysismode, however, the engine can be analysing positions internal to
1585 the game, and the PV would be considered invalid. This is fixed by
1586 cutting of the tail off the game (shelving it in variation fashion)
1587 before starting the PV walk, and reverting afterwards.
1588 For this the PushTail and PopTail routines had to be split into an
1589 'inner' part, doing the pushing and popping, and an outer part, handling
1590 menu graying and popdowns (which is undesirable in in this application).
1592 2011-05-03 00:24:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1593 Lift length-limit on text-edits in WB generic popup
1596 2011-05-04 13:53:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1597 Lift limitation of text length in generic dialog XB
1599 All string options should now point to allocated memory, as strdup /
1600 free is consistently used on them. This is OK for values received from
1601 ParseArgs, but for non-arg intermediate variables that must receive strg
1602 values, such as in the comment and tags popups, strdup has to be used to
1605 2011-05-04 14:53:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1606 Implement Tournament Options dialog WinBoard
1608 The file browser now can select on extension WB generic dialogs,
1609 with a default based on the option.max value of the option for which it
1610 browses. A textBox can be forced to be multiline by putting the number
1611 of extra lines in option.min.
1613 2011-05-04 15:30:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1614 Make option to draw second engine from first list
1617 2011-05-03 00:17:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1618 Fix error message on engine load
1621 2011-05-04 15:09:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1622 Implement Load Engine dialog in WinBoard
1624 The Load Engine dialog is implemented for WinBoard, and is invoked by
1625 the menu item Engine->Load, which formerly was Install 2nd. Install 1st
1626 is renamed 'Edit Engine List'. Unlike in XBoard, the dialog has separate
1627 fields for the engine executale and its parameters.
1628 The dialog is implemented by converting the Engine Settings popup into
1629 a generic dialog generator.
1631 2011-05-04 13:43:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1632 Load new logo on engine change WinBoard
1634 Picking the logo for the first engine is made into a subroutine. The
1635 code for picking the logo of the first engine was made into a subrroutne
1636 for this. We use the kludge to recognize the engine by its command line
1637 when starting a new engine process.
1639 2011-05-04 13:36:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1640 Allow switching off match mode through menu
1642 The Machine Match menu item is now checkmarked, and no longer grayed
1643 during a match, and clicking it while a match is running will terminate
1644 the match after the current game. To not be left with hanging
1645 checkmarks, the checkmark is already removed duringthe last match game
1646 (which is logically equivalent to ordinary Two Machines mode anyway).
1648 2011-05-03 00:14:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1649 Calculate and display tourney result
1652 2011-05-04 18:42:13 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1653 Implement Tournament Manager
1655 New command-line options are added to specify the tourney: -tourneyType
1656 (-tt), -tourneyCycles (-cy), -participants, -syncAfterRound,
1657 -syncAfterCycle, -results, to be saved on a -tourneyFile (-tf), but
1658 otherwise volatile. When a tourneyFile is specified during a match,
1659 a new routine NextTourneyGame is called from NextMatchGame before every
1660 game, to decide the pairing, and unload and redefine the engines, when
1661 needed. The XBoard Match Options dialog can be used to set the options
1662 and create the tournament file.
1663 Actual loading of new engines is done by TwoMachinesEvent, which is
1664 now modified to also wait for the feature timeout of the first engine.
1665 Waiting for the matchPause is now also implemented there, after waiting
1666 for the engines (so they can be started during the pause).
1667 Pairings and color assignment is now all done in an absolute
1668 (non-incremental) way, based on a new global game-number variable
1669 nextGame, which takes over the function of matchGame in a tourney. The
1670 latter is now used to count games between the same players, so it can be
1671 still used to derive the load-file indexes (again in absolute fashion).
1672 The next game to play is already picked in GameEnd, so it can be
1673 decided if there is a game to be scheduled, or if we can terminate.
1675 2011-05-04 15:42:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1676 Display note in stead of empty engine-settings dialog XB
1679 2011-04-24 18:02:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1680 Fix crash on empty Engine Settings dialog
1682 The generic popup was not foolproof against this.
1684 2011-04-22 12:47:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1685 Refactor code for loading games and positions in match
1687 The code in NextMatchGame and MatchEvent was nearly the same,
1688 (MatchEvent did a little more error checking, but that is never
1689 harmful), and could be combined. In stead of determining the load index
1690 incrementally, it is now calculated in an absolute way from the game
1691 number, so it can be used more easily in tournament mode.
1693 2011-04-21 22:37:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1694 Add callback possibility to combobox selection
1697 2011-04-24 17:15:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1698 Lock game an position file during writing
1700 The use of flock() on the file desctiptor of the opened stream should
1701 guarantee multiple XBoard instances, saving on the same file, will not
1702 interleave their PGN games or FEN positions.
1704 2011-04-27 17:05:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1705 Remove building rule for parser.c from WB makefiles
1708 2011-04-29 16:58:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1709 Fix Engine Settings buttons in WinBoard
1711 This was broken by a leftover statement from debugging the -file/-path
1714 2011-05-02 13:38:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1715 Implement flock in WinBoard
1717 This system function seems unknown in a MinGW compile, so it is
1718 implemented with the aid of file byte-range locking, using a lock on the
1719 first 1024 bytes of the file as a semaphore.
1721 2011-04-29 23:06:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1722 Fix grayout XB Match Options in ICS mode
1725 2011-05-03 00:22:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1726 Delay loading of second engine until it is used
1729 2011-05-02 15:00:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1730 Fix zippy bughouse partner bug
1732 The patchs to subject Zippy messages to coloriation was faulty, because
1733 there were messages recognized by zippy that were not colorized, and
1734 such messages would then not be 'read away' after zippy recognition
1735 (except for the first character). As a result the messages were
1736 processed over and over again.
1738 2011-05-04 10:59:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1739 Silence more rpm warnings
1742 2011-05-01 20:33:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1743 Fix warnings XBoard file browser
1745 All the prototypes have been moved to selfile.h, to force uniformity.
1746 The order of the #include files xstat.h and selfile.h had to be
1747 swapped, to make sure 'struct stat' is a nown type atthe time of
1748 prototype declaration. The event handler SFmotionList is considered
1749 wrong type because of its third argument (XMotionEvent in stead of
1750 XEvent), and had to be casted to (XtEventHandler) when passed to
1753 2011-05-04 10:56:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1754 Fix some warnings and header-file improvement
1756 Ther were lot of 'extern' declarations in the x-files, so called
1757 'imports from xboard.c', (sometimes backend.c) which logically belonged
1758 in xboard.h (backend.h) to ensure their uniform definition. These have
1759 now been moved there. Some prototypes have been added in xboard.h as
1760 well, for functions that needed calling from xoptions.c.
1762 2011-05-04 10:50:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1763 Create conversion tools for language files
1765 A shell script "lng2po.sh" is provided, to apply the translation given
1766 in a WinBoard .lng file to "xboard.pot", in order to generate a
1767 "language.po" file containing translations for all strings for which
1768 the .lng file had a translation. It makes use of a file "metascript",
1769 which is the ed script used to turn the .lng file in an ed script to
1770 turn the .pot into .po. For example, the command "./lng2po.sh
1771 espa?ol.lng" will create a file "language.po", which can be renamed to
1773 ****************************** WARNING ********************************
1774 Note that the lng2po script does a "recode" that assumes the given
1775 .lng file is encoded in latin-1. This means it canot be used without
1776 modification for the Vietnamese and Chinese translation; you would have
1777 to replace latin-1 by the applicable encoding first (CP1258 / BG2312 /
1780 2011-04-27 22:04:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1781 Put gettext markers in generic dialog creator
1783 This is done by adding extra XtNstring argumentsto the widget gcreaton,
1784 so the displayed name can be different fromthe widget name.
1786 2011-05-01 19:56:38 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
1787 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.
1790 2011-04-24 11:18:28 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1791 updated German translation
1794 2011-04-24 11:17:43 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1795 replaced hardcoded email address with generic PACKAGE_BUGREPORT
1798 2011-04-23 10:51:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1799 updated po-files; updated german translation
1802 2011-04-23 10:51:02 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1803 updated list of files that include translation strings; updated pot-file
1806 2011-04-22 21:50:58 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1807 marked more strings for gettext that were only marked with N_()
1809 they need to be marked again with _() when they are used to get the translated string
1811 2011-04-22 21:39:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1812 updated translation files
1815 2011-04-22 21:37:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1816 added/fixed i18n support via gettext to xboard
1818 this was already added a long time ago, but now it's added again to
1819 autoconf. Also fixed some compile errors that showed up.
1821 2011-04-20 10:27:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1822 Make engine startup error non-fatal
1824 When engine startup fails, do not generate a fatal error, but swicth
1825 back to -ncp mode. Write on broken pipe errors had to be suppressed for
1828 2011-04-20 14:35:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1829 Make engine loadable during session
1831 A "Load Engine ..." menu item is added to the Engine menu, which pops
1832 up a dialog where one can replace the first or second engine by a new
1833 one, without destroying the game state. Switching from -ncp to engine
1834 mode needed activation of some menu items in SetGNUMode, and
1835 re-enabling clockMode. It was also important that noChessProgram is
1836 cleared before re-initializing the ChessProgramState.
1837 The Load-Engine dialog can select from the list of installed
1838 engines, and also add a newly specified engine to this list. In this
1839 case it saves the directory, hasBook, and isUCI info with the engine,
1840 and optionally the current variant. When loading an engine with a
1841 specified variant, it resets the game and switches to the new variant.
1843 2011-04-18 15:56:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1844 Generalize WaitForSecond to WaitForEngine
1847 2011-04-18 15:46:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1848 Add UnloadEngine routine
1851 2011-04-20 13:45:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1852 Put engine initialization code in per-engine function
1854 Initializing of the ChessProgramStates first and second from the
1855 option settings in appData is now done by separate calls to the same
1856 routine. Clearing of options is added to the initialization. This is
1857 needed when reloading an engine. This is done in a separate routine,
1858 which could also be called on -reset options.
1860 2011-04-18 13:21:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1861 Bring structure in appData engine options
1863 All options in appData that came in pairs for both engines are replaced
1864 by arrays of ENGINES (=2, for now) elements. The use of the named
1865 appData field that are replaced in the source is replaced by use of the
1866 corresponding array element, by #define directives in common.h, awaiting
1869 2011-04-19 15:15:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1870 Fix gettext macros in option dialogs
1872 The strings in the tables were using _() in stead of N_().
1874 2011-04-18 20:58:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1875 Fix crash on using Engine #1 Settings in ICS non-zippy mode
1877 If XBoard is compiled with zippy the Engine #1 Settings menu was not
1878 grayed out even when you don't run in zippy mode, and using it would
1881 2011-04-19 15:07:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1884 Some pixmaps forptomoted pieces had wrong background color, others had a
1885 wrong name (so the one with the correct name was missing).
1887 2011-04-17 19:12:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1888 Change texture-install directory to pixmaps/textures
1891 2011-04-17 17:36:32 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1892 Limit install of sound files to those in menu
1894 The sounds directory is set to .../xboard/sounds, and only ten
1895 sounds are kept (all non-spoken).
1897 2011-04-17 17:27:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1898 Remove some bitmaps from install
1900 Some files in the bitmaps source directory need not be installed,
1901 because they are there only to be linked to the binary in a build
1902 without LIBXPM, are README files or conversion programs. I left only the
1903 stuff that is in a Debian binary package in .../xboard/bitmaps.xchess.
1905 2011-04-17 16:34:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1906 Configure some default sounds
1908 The move sound is set to Wood Thunk; the sounds for tell and challenge
1909 events to Phone and Gong, respectively.
1911 2011-04-17 16:17:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1912 Change default sounds in Xboard menu
1914 All spoken sounds are removed now. Thud, Click and Ching are replaced by
1915 Wood Thunk, Slap and Cymbal; Car Horn and Pop are added.
1917 2011-04-17 12:46:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1918 Make user wav file available for try-out in sound dialog
1920 The GenericReadout was adapted to be able to read a single selected
1921 value, so that the callback to the 'play' button in the sounds dialog
1922 could get the name of the 'user WAV file' without accepting all settings
1923 for the other sounds (which should only happen on 'OK', and might still
1924 be cancelled in stead).
1926 2011-04-16 10:36:31 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
1927 configure: enable silent rules by default
1930 2011-04-16 10:28:16 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
1931 configure: added install directory for bitmaps files: .../games/xboard/bitmaps/default/
1934 2011-04-16 10:25:33 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
1935 configure: added install of sounds in .../games/xboard/sounds/default
1938 2011-04-16 09:54:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
1939 configure: renamed bitmapdir to pixmapsdir, since it installed only pixmaps. also changed name of default dir
1941 pixmaps will now be installed under .../games/xboard/pixmaps/default/
1943 2011-04-16 13:40:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1944 Fix gamelist highlight
1946 Reopening the gamelist should highlight the current game.
1948 2011-04-16 10:25:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1949 Fix size limit on 'save as diagram'
1951 In stead of a fixed-size buffer the diagram-save code now uses an
1952 allocated buffer with size calculated from the bitmap parameters to
1953 retreive the bitmap data, so it should work for all sizes.
1955 2011-04-15 22:04:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1956 Fix chaining of bottom-row dialog buttons
1958 The OK & cancel buttons are chained to the bottom. This patch makes sure
1959 that other buttons appearing in the same row (as in the tags and
1960 comment dialogs) will be chained that way too, so that they will behave
1961 the same on vertical sizing. The bottom of a full-width text-edit above
1962 it will be chained to bottom too. To make this work in the tags dialog,
1963 the (optional) cmail-message field had to be put above the tags memo.
1965 2011-04-15 19:18:46 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1966 Fix switching between pixmap and bitmap pieces
1968 There were still several flags that had to be reset when redoing the
1969 graphics initialization. The Debian patch to use a default bitmap
1970 directory when none is given but monoMode is selected or forced, is
1971 moved to a more sensible place, so that it does not disturb matters when
1972 compiled without LIBXPM (when we do have built-in bitmaps).
1974 2011-04-15 15:47:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1975 Remove outline-pieces option from board-options dialog
1977 This option does not exist in XBoard (yet).
1979 2011-04-15 15:41:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1980 Fix running of clock during hash allocation engine
1982 In TwoMachinesEvent we now wait for the second engine to acknowledge the
1983 'ping' after 'new', to make sure it is done allocating hash in reaction
1984 to the preceding 'memory' command, before the clock for the game is
1987 2011-04-14 21:42:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1988 Describe move type-in in texi file
1991 2011-04-14 20:34:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1992 Describe Copy Game List menu item in texi file
1995 2011-04-14 20:30:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1996 Describe -sweepPromotions in texi file
1998 The new method for selection promotion piece, and the -sweepPromotions
1999 option are described in the texi file.
2001 2011-04-14 20:14:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2002 Describe -pieceMenu option in texi file
2004 The sweep method for selecting a piece in Edit-Position mode is
2005 explained, as well as the -pieceMenu option.
2007 2011-04-14 15:59:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2010 Descriptions of the new XBoard menu dialogs are included in the docs.
2012 2011-04-14 21:06:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2013 Reorganize texi description
2016 2011-04-14 12:31:15 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2017 Fix sweep-promotions patch
2019 Setting of the from square was moved to before OKtoStartUserMove in the
2020 LeftClick handler, to make sure we could test the promotion possiblity
2021 when OnlyMove() would have altered (x,y) to be no longer the from
2022 square. But this setting of fromX, fromY hung on also if the move was
2023 not OK, so you could effectively select opponent pieces and empty
2024 squares. The from-square is now set back to undefined when it is not OK
2025 to move the piece you clicked.
2027 2011-04-14 11:56:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2028 Alter treatment of moves with empty squares
2030 In Edit Position mode one can move empty squares, and use them to
2031 'capture' pieces as a means to clear their square. But this often leads
2032 to unintended disappearence of pieces one wants to grab for dragging, if
2033 a previous click had inadvertantly left an empty square selected: the
2034 click on the piece is then seen as the to-click of a click-click move.
2035 This patch treats to-clicks of moves with an empty-square differently
2036 from other to-clicks: Rather than performing the move (in this case
2037 clearing of the to-square) on the down-click, it defers that to the
2038 up-click, and only does it if that up-click is in the same square. This
2039 allows the user to grab the piece on the down-click, and drag it to
2040 another square, if that is what he wanted to do, without being disturbed
2041 by sudden implosion of the piece he tried to grab.
2042 If the to-square is in the holdings, grabbing the piece is the only
2043 action, as moves of empty squares into the holdings are forbidden anyway.
2045 2011-04-13 13:14:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2046 Block selection of a directory when file is needed
2048 When we are not browsing merely to obtain a name to put in a text edit,
2049 but really must return an open file pointer, selection of a directory
2050 (ending in '/') can no longer be OK'ed in the file browser. (XBoard
2051 tends to segfault when offered garbage for game or position file...)
2053 2011-04-13 12:23:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2054 Let double-click select file in file browser
2056 A second click on the already selected entry now has the same effect as
2057 pressing the OK button.
2059 2011-04-12 17:06:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2060 Couple mouse wheel to v-scrolls in file browser
2062 A newly added mouse-wheel event handler was made to call the v-scroll
2063 callback routines with parameters to step one entry. The button-press
2064 handler for the lists themselves was also made to intercept the wheel
2065 events (buttons 4 and 5), to prevent they would select an entry, and
2066 make them scroll in stead as well.
2068 2011-04-13 11:41:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2069 Fix crash copying game list when there is none
2072 2011-04-13 11:15:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2073 Fix changing of float setting by generic popup
2075 Changing a float setting (so far the only one is in the Load Options
2076 dalog) did not always work, because the old value was clipped to (int),
2077 so that changing it back to an integer value might erroneously conclude
2078 there was no change.
2080 2011-04-13 16:15:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2081 Fix crash on closing dialogs in wrong order
2083 When a menu dialog was closed when it still had an open file-browse
2084 daughter, which could be done through the system menu X on the title
2085 bar, later closing of the file browser caused a crash. This is solved by
2086 keeping track of the fact that there is such a daughter through a global
2087 flag, and ignoring the pop-down command if there is one.
2089 2011-04-13 16:33:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2090 Fix startup focus of board window
2092 When there were open auxiliary windows, these would have focus on
2093 starting up XBoard. The XtSetKeyboardFocus call added in XBoard main()
2094 was ineffective in curing that. It has now been replaced by a call to
2095 XSetInputFocus, which does do the job. By giving input focus to the form
2096 widget, rather than the board widget, XBoard will be immediately
2097 sensitive to all key bindings.
2099 2011-04-13 15:48:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2100 Fix game-list highight error when filtered (WB)
2102 When the gamelist was filtered, the game that was highlingted was the
2103 n-th game in the list rather than the n-th game in the file, when the
2104 latter was loaded (and n did not exceed the number of filtered games).
2105 This is fixed now by searching for the line in the listbox that starts
2106 with the game number n, rather than taking the n-th line.
2108 2011-04-12 19:20:46 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2109 Refactor move type-in code
2111 Common code between XBoard and WinBoard was moved to the back-end
2112 creating TypeInEvent() and TypeInDoneEvent() routines.
2114 2011-04-12 10:13:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2115 Fix saving of XBoard fonts with spaces in name
2117 SaveFontArg now prints quotes around the saved font string, so that the
2118 general option-argument parser doesnot stop at the first space it sees.
2120 2011-04-11 20:48:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2121 Implement move type-in for XBoard
2123 By adding an event handler to the main window for key presses, users can
2124 now type moves when the board has focus, like in WinBoard. The typed
2125 character appears as first character in the type-in box that willpop up.
2126 Enter and Escape close the box; finishing the typing of the move enters
2127 it. Like in WinBoard it is also possible to type a move number (to go
2128 there) or (in Edit Position mode) a FEN.
2130 2011-04-11 20:59:44 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2131 new developer release
2133 tried to keep the v4.5.x branch developed already separated in the NEWS file, as well as DIFFSTAT and SHORTLOG.
2134 The Changelog is just the one from master.
2136 2011-04-10 22:47:59 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2137 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
2140 2011-04-10 20:32:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2141 Fix use of game/position file in first match game
2143 When a match was started from the menu, it was not paying attention to
2144 game and position files. (Later games were.) The code that handled this
2145 in the initialization when a match is started through the command line
2146 was made into a routine MatchEvent, which can be called from the menu
2149 2011-04-09 20:55:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2150 Fix crash on opening ICS Text Menu
2152 The patch for the color defaults had broken the ICS Text Menu.
2154 2011-04-09 19:22:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2155 Implement Copy Game List menu item for XBoard
2157 Some WinBoard code was cloned for this.
2159 2011-04-09 11:42:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2160 Third method of sweep selection
2162 This method sweeps through the possible promotion choices for the piece
2163 that is being dragged, as long as you drag a 7th-rank Pawn backwards. On
2164 draggin such a Pawn forwards, it immediately shows it as the piece you
2165 are going to promote to.
2167 2011-04-08 23:39:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2168 Alternative sweep promotions
2170 The sweep takes place on the from-square here.
2172 2011-04-07 23:21:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2173 Make sweep-select promotions work in WinBoard
2175 The mouse-move handler had to be connected to the PromoScroll back-end
2178 2011-04-07 23:19:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2179 Fix path browsing in WinBoard
2181 The routine BrowseForFolder was still declared as static in woptions.c,
2182 while it was used from wsettings.c.
2184 2011-04-07 11:14:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2185 Fixes to sweep selection
2188 2011-04-06 23:47:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2189 Implement sweep selection of promotion piece
2191 When the option -sweepPromotions is true, a click-click promotion move
2192 will first display the default choice (usually Queen) on the promotion
2193 square. While you have the mouse button still down, you can change the
2194 piece by moving the mouse vertically.
2196 2011-04-06 21:20:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2197 Implement sweep selection as alternative for the piece menu
2199 When the option -pieceMenu is off, the piece menu will no longer appear
2200 on right-clicks in Edit Position mode. In stead a Pawn of the chosen
2201 color will appear immediately in the clicked square, and vertical
2202 movement of the mouse with the right button down will cycle through
2203 all other pieces defined in the pieceToCharTable of the current variant.
2204 Setting the side to move is acheived by clicking the correspondig
2205 clock. Clear board can be effected by clicking the clock of the side
2206 that already has the move.
2208 2011-03-30 18:17:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2209 Remember Tags and Comment dialog coordinates
2211 The save-settings code now uses the shell and shellUp arrays from the
2212 GenericPopUp to read out the window coordinates for Tags and Comment
2213 window. Pointers used by GenericPopUp are set topoint to the
2214 corresponding WindowPlacement structs.
2216 2011-03-10 19:21:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2219 The generic popup is used for generating the Tags / EditTags popups.
2220 The tags popup use a 'label' field to display the cmail message
2222 2011-04-01 13:43:52 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2223 Implement Edit-Comment window through generic popup
2225 The Edit Comment and Comment popups are combined into one, that can
2226 always be edited (similar to WinBoard). It uses shell number 1.
2227 (Number 0 is for all transient dialogs.) A save-changes button is added.
2228 The positioning is not implemented yet.
2230 2011-04-06 10:56:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2231 Refinements to generic popup and color picker
2233 *) The text part of a checkbox can now be clicked to toggle the option.
2234 *) Typing <Enter> in single-line text edits is ignored
2235 *) Using a spin button now sets focus to the affected text edit, with
2236 the insert position at the end.
2237 *) Using the sample field or an RGB button sets focus to the
2238 corresponding text edit, with the insert position at the end.
2239 *) The adjust buttons now work in reverse, with a D button for "darker".
2240 *) Editing a color field causes the sample field to update to the new
2241 color when you type <Enter>.
2242 *) The color pickers now define a default color, which can be instated
2243 by clicking on the sample field.
2244 *) Fix some 64-bit pointer warnings
2246 2011-04-05 17:05:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2247 Let file browser filter on extension
2249 A new text field is added in the file-browse dialog, to hold (space-
2250 separated) extensions, on which the filenames are then filtered. This
2251 field is initialized by the caller, depending on what we need the file
2252 for, but can be changed by the user. (Directories are always displayed!)
2253 Changes in the extension field become effective after typing a return
2254 in it. Escape typed in the extension field gives focus to the filename
2255 field, and restores the contents. Escape in the filename field cancels
2256 the dialog, return ther OKs it. The extension filter of the browser is
2257 initialized to the extension (if any) of the file currently in the text
2258 edit you are browsing for.
2259 When re-opening the file browser from the XBoard File menu, and there
2260 is no suggested filename, it will now start with the last succesfully
2261 opened name as suggestion. Calling the browser with a NULL argument
2262 for the suggested filename requests that (unlike calling with an empty
2263 string, which will start it in the current directory). To make this
2264 work smoothly, the filebrowser saves the last used name on entry, so it
2265 can be restored on cancel, so that a cancelled browse session really
2266 erases all memory of it.
2268 2011-04-04 19:26:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2269 Fix animation masks on changing piece pixmaps
2271 The animation masks were not remade when new pieces were loaded
2272 interactively through the board-options dialog.
2274 2011-04-04 19:09:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2275 Fix linegap option in board dialog
2277 The lineGC was not recalculated, so the grid lines stayed the same
2278 thickness. In addition, setting the line-gap override to -1 now
2279 retrieves the original line gap that belongs to the current board size.
2281 2011-03-05 23:27:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2282 Make a kind of ICS text menu in XBoard as a dialog
2284 The dialog with buttons can be opened from the View menu. It is
2285 configured by the option -icsMenu; a default setting for this is
2286 included in the master settings file.
2287 The commands specified by the -icsMenu can now contain $name and $input
2288 keywords, which will be replaced by the current primary selection, or
2289 text the user types, respectively. Commands that contain $name will not
2290 be sent when the current selection is empty. Commands that do not
2291 contain $input will be sent to the ICS immediately; otherwise they will
2292 be placed in the ICS Input Box, with the cursor at the point of the
2293 $input, and input focus given to the Input Box, so the user can start
2294 typing. When a command is prefixed by "$add " it will be appended to the
2295 existing ICS Input Box contents, rather than replace it.
2296 The items now have to be separated by ";\n", and button text from
2297 command by ';' (with optional linefeed). This allows configuring of
2298 multi-line commands, as a single linefeed no longer has special
2301 2011-03-31 13:36:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2302 Redo ICS input box with generic popup
2304 This box is just a single text edit, but the complexity is in the added
2305 callbacks. These callbacks remain in xboard.c, and were altered to
2306 access the edit through the option.handle field.
2308 2011-04-03 12:54:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2309 Activate -path and -file options
2311 In XBoard the generic popup was prepared for this. In WinBoard, for
2312 -path options the BrowseFolder routine is used, and had to be made
2313 global (prototype in winboard.h).
2315 2011-04-02 18:40:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2316 Let generic popup generate Engine Settings dialog
2319 2011-04-02 18:36:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2320 Merge SettingsPopUp into GenericPopUp
2322 Based on currentCps the values read from the dialog are sent to the
2323 engine, or stored into the option.target in the callback, and fetched
2324 from the option.target in the PopUp. The currentCps is cleared in the
2325 generic popdown of a transient dialog.
2327 2011-03-06 10:11:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2328 Make generic dialog popup reentrant
2330 To allow persistent dialogs to be implemented through the generic popup,
2331 it must be possible to have several dialogs open at the same time, and
2332 thus make sure the popdowns under the cacel or close-window button know
2333 which one to pop down. To this end an array shells[] is created that
2334 takes over the function of settingsShell, and GenericPopUp gets an extra
2335 parameter telling it which element to use for storing the dialog shell.
2336 This number is then also passed to the callbacks that trigger popdown.
2337 This was a bit nasty for the CatchDeleteWindow stuff, which passes user
2338 data to the callback as text strings.
2339 Keep a separate up/down indicator, so that shell widgets can be kept
2340 for persistent dialogs. Also keep a currentOption per dialog type.
2341 The coordinates and size of the window is read out and stored in a
2342 WindowPlacement structure, (if one is specified for that dialog), when
2343 the dialog is popped down. When initialized the structure is also used
2344 to set the window parameters when the dialog is created. (The idea being
2345 that the structure was saved in the settings file.)
2346 The routine MarkMenu checkmarks a given menu item, and logs it for the
2347 given dialog type, so that a later popdown automatically unchecks is.
2349 2011-02-25 12:14:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2350 Implement Machine Match menu item and options dialog
2352 An item to start a match from the menu is added, similar to what
2353 WinBoard has. (The code is duplicated, so I guess it should be moved to
2354 the back-end now, as MachineMatchEvent(), but it was tiny.) A dialog in
2355 the Options menu was added with the aid of the generic popup, and allows
2356 the user to set the load Game / Position File and Index.
2358 2011-04-01 14:54:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2359 Create General-Options dialog
2361 The generic popup is used to implement a General-Options dialog, which
2362 contains all Boolaen options that used to be set directly from the main
2363 Options menu, plus a spin option for the flash count and flash rate.
2364 The corresponing options are removed from the main Options menu, but the
2365 whole thing is made conditional on a compiler switch OPTIONSDIALOG.
2366 The dialog needs an OK callback for sending an altered ponder-state to
2367 the engine. (Why isn't this option disabled in -ncp mode, btw?)
2368 A spin control is added to adjust -animateSpeed between 5 and 100.
2369 Add dropMenu and showTargetSquares item as well.
2371 2011-04-01 18:16:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2372 Redo new-variant dialog with generic popup
2374 Some special code was added in GenericPopUp() to force buttons of the
2375 type needed in the New Variant dialog (wide, colored, greyed-out on
2376 variant type). The dialog was implemented with these, and callbacks for
2377 the buttons directly exit the dialog, without the need for OK. New spin
2378 controls are added to the dialog for adjusting the board format.
2380 2011-04-01 14:48:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2381 Redo common-engine dialog with generic popup
2383 The ponder option was removed, as it is already in the main Options
2384 menu, and would require nastiness in the OK callback. Added book options
2385 in common-engine dialog.
2387 2011-02-24 13:32:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2388 Redo adjudications dialog through generic popup
2390 We dropped the periodic-updates option, as it is already in the main
2393 2011-04-01 21:56:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2394 Make sounds dialog for XBoard
2396 This uses the combo boxes. A 'play' button isimplemented for a test
2397 sound. A sound directory is introduced, and can be set through the
2398 dialog. A default setting for -soundDirectory is added to xboard.conf.
2400 2011-04-01 23:11:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2401 Add ICS options dialog
2404 2011-04-01 21:52:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2405 Add board dialog XBoard
2407 The GenericPopUp() is used to implement a dialog for board options. The
2408 board dialog needs to trigger redraw and redefinition of the
2409 colors, through an OK callback. Color-pickers are used for the 6 basic
2411 To allow changing board settings during the session (i.e. from a menu
2412 dialog), the routines to allocate resources have to free the resources
2413 for the previous settings first. This patch take care of XtCreateGCs(),
2414 preventing re-creation of resources that are unchangeable (such as the
2415 grid color), and calling XtReleastGC() on GCs that can be changed.
2416 To prevent resource leaks the old pixmaps are deleted before making new
2417 ones on second or later calls of CreateXPMPieces().
2419 2011-04-03 11:39:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2420 Add browse button to generic popup
2422 Options of type FileName and PathName cause a browse button to be added
2423 behind the text field. The SpinCallback is used to handle the
2424 button presses, and invokes the file browser dialog to obtain a
2425 filename, which is then copied to the text field.
2427 2011-04-01 21:49:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2428 Make generic XBoard popup, and implement 2 dialogs
2430 The Engine-Settings dialog of XBoard was cloned to work on predefined
2431 lists of (XBoard) options, rather than engine options. An extra field
2432 was added to the Option struct, to hold a pointer to the XBoard variable
2433 that should hold the option setting, so on OK'ing the dialog the altered
2434 values can be copied there. Not usable for options which should trigger
2435 an action (like redraw, or sending something to the engine).
2436 A Load Game, Save Game and ICS Options dialog were then defined by
2437 tables fed to GenericPopUp(). Options set from these dialogs were removed
2438 from the main Option menu, which removes a lot of code from xboard.c
2439 (for checkmarking, disabling the menu items).
2440 A button defined in the GenericPopUp can attain the color indicated
2441 by a previous text field, and add a callback to change the color in a
2442 spin-like manner (but using R G B W in stead of + - butons).
2443 The EndMark option can specify a callback, to be used on OK.
2444 A non-zero max field in the Option descriptor will be used to set the
2445 width of ComboBox, TextBox and Button optons.
2446 The elements are chained such that extra space goes fully into the input
2447 fields. A label type is added for clarifying texts that would not fit in
2448 the option names. A break-type (pseudo-)option is added. Make OK and
2449 cancel button suppressable in generic popup (by 2 bit of the option.min
2452 2011-04-03 11:34:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2453 Add file-browser option to just return name
2455 By passing mode "f" the file browser dialog will not open the selected
2456 file at all, so it can be used to retreive the name for the benefit of a
2457 file-browser button to a -file option. A mode "p" will limit the
2458 selection to directories only, to browse for a path.
2460 2011-04-03 13:15:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2461 Put insertion point at end of text on SetFocus
2464 2011-04-05 23:47:34 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2465 fixed 64 bit warnings by casting integers to intptr_t before casting to int
2468 2011-04-05 23:24:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2469 removed check and #includes for malloc.h, since it's not needed
2471 hopefully this doesn't break things on non-linux systems. OS X seems to be ok, not sure about others ;)
2473 2011-04-03 20:23:49 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2474 check if malloc.h is present before including it
2476 OS X 10.6 doesn't have malloc.h, so it complained.
2478 2011-04-03 20:01:36 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2479 Fix bug introduced in commit 89b4744: removed a "/" and forgot to add it in the config file
2481 removed a "/" to make OS X happy, but forgot to add the "/" again in the xboard.conf.in file
2483 2011-03-12 14:08:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2484 Fix display of promotion piece in ICS superchess
2486 In Great Shatranj and Superchess promoted Pawns were displayed as shadow
2487 piece because these variants had holdings, while captured pieces should
2488 go back into the holdings unchanged, rather than reverted to Pawns.
2490 2011-03-13 14:09:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2491 Fix o-o castling in new parser
2493 The non-compliant notation of castling with lower-case 'o' should be
2494 preferred over the non-compliant interpretation of moving a Pawn along
2495 the o-file. Not doing so breaks ICS play, as ICS use o-o and o-o-o for
2496 castling! So an exception is now made for the o-file in the 'fxg'
2499 2011-03-10 19:27:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2500 Implement yynewstr entry point in new parser
2502 This entry point, used for parsing an ICS move list, was forgotten, and
2503 was still an empty routine. This made XBoard crash when observing an ICS
2506 2011-03-07 23:11:00 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2507 fixed wrong default for polyglotDir mentioned in docs.
2509 Thanks to Hans Aberg for reporting it.
2511 2011-03-05 12:39:01 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2512 Fix "make install" on Os X10.6.6 (removed a "/")
2514 seems like an extra "/" made "make install" unhappy
2516 2011-03-03 21:19:05 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2517 removed parser.l from build process, also removed flex dependency from configure
2520 2011-03-02 22:14:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2521 New parser, written in C
2523 A new parser was written to replace the flex-generated one. Immediate
2524 improvements are that it understand double-digit rank numbers, and Shogi
2525 coordinates. No changes were made in the Makefile yet to reflect the
2526 new, flexless building procedure.
2528 2011-03-02 22:23:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2529 Fix bugs in FRC castling rights
2531 When parsing a castling move in FRC when no rights existed, the parser
2532 returned 0 (= EndOfFile) rather than ImpossibleMove. The recognition of
2533 the absence of rights was not adapted to the new encoding NoRights in
2536 2011-03-01 23:42:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2537 Fix parsing bug of FRC castling
2539 The code that was supposed to intercept castling when no rights existed
2540 in FRC was not adapted to the new encoding for this by NoRights, rather
2541 than -1, and furthermore returned 0 (= EndOfFile) rather than
2542 ImpossibleMove. Not sure if the former would manifest itself in any
2543 way, but the latter seems bad.
2545 2011-03-01 23:32:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2546 Fix two bugs in reading position diagram
2548 When reading a game without FEN tag, a position diagram is used to set
2549 the initial position. This calls CharToPiece() with a '.' as argument,
2550 because that is the position-diagram way to indicate empty squares.
2551 altered CharToPiece() over time this would be recognized as the first
2552 undefined piece or, more recently, the first piece without nickName,
2553 which is a white Pawn. Now it returns EmptySquare again in that case.
2554 A second problem was that for position diagrams in braces the brace was
2555 not in the list of ignored characters, and would cause the reading to
2556 get out of phase, so that the side to move was not recognized.
2558 2011-02-26 21:12:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2559 Fix flipBlack option XBoard with board texture
2561 In XBoard -flipBlack is implemented by swapping white and black pieces,
2562 because the Shogi bitmaps from XShogi are made that way. But the mask
2563 used to cut out the whole in the board texture to fit the piece was not
2564 swapped, both when drawing static pieces, as well as during animation.
2566 2011-02-25 14:38:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2567 Improve repairing damage of arrow highlight XBoard
2569 With line gap the highlight arrow necessitated redrawing of the entire
2570 board, to repair damage on the grid. This interfered with flashing of
2571 pieces, which was only done on selective redraws. In stead of forcing a
2572 total repaint we now just redraw the grid lines.
2574 2011-02-23 16:41:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2575 Fix unintended translation in debug file
2577 The words "first" and "second" (cps->which) were sometimes used in
2578 context that should definitely not be translated. (e.g. the indicator
2579 for which engine printed/got the line in the debug file.) So translation
2580 is now deferred to all uses in popups.
2582 2011-02-23 16:29:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2585 The nps settingwas tested for being > 0 in stead of >=0, so that the
2586 case of CPU time was not properly handled.
2588 2011-02-24 19:06:27 +0100 Kamil Blank <caceel@gmail.com>:
2589 Added missing fclose()
2592 Signed-off-by: Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>
2594 2011-02-20 16:12:19 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2595 release of version 4.5.1
2597 2011-02-20 16:10:16 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2598 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
2600 2011-02-20 20:36:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2601 Fix two typos in option names in texi file
2603 Polyglot was capitalyzed
2605 2011-02-20 00:03:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2606 Fix some resource leaks
2608 Some files were opened not closed in XBoard, when loading XIM images
2609 (which I doubt anyone ever does) but also when copying the clipboard
2610 (which has the potential of being done very often). There was also some
2611 code that would not work if conditional code which is permanently
2612 disabled would be enabled.
2614 2011-02-17 20:17:04 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2615 new developer release
2617 2011-02-17 20:14:38 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2618 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
2620 2011-02-17 15:40:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2621 Fix MSVC snprintf problem
2623 In MSVC snprintf has to be redefined as _snprintf, and this happens
2624 conditionally in config.c. But the latter was not #included in help.c.
2626 2011-02-16 19:41:27 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2627 updated configure.ac to check for Xaw header files
2629 check for Xaw header files when --without-Xaw3d was given. Before the test was
2630 only done when Xaw3d was specified, but could not be found.
2632 If Xaw3d or Xaw can't be found, print a hopefully useful error message and exit the configure script.
2634 2011-02-16 12:03:22 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2637 Channel 0 messages were not displayed in the console, because the test
2638 for channel number considered every non-numeric or non-existent handle
2639 in a chatbox to be zero. So the messages were diverted to a non-exsting
2640 chatbox. Now it test first for the handle to start with a digit.
2642 2011-02-15 19:13:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2643 Make language choice from menu persistent
2645 Set appData.language to the chosen language file, or empty if English is
2646 chosen, so that the choice is saved with the settings. Increase the
2647 number of possible language choices from 5 to 20. (After all, we already
2650 2011-02-14 11:09:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2651 Fix showing of user move after adjudication
2653 The correction of the fishy patch (removing ShowMove() from Adjudicate())
2654 had broken the adjudication of user moves (that actually did work before
2655 the fishy patch, because there the gobal fromX/Y and toX/Y do contain
2656 the correct values for the move to be shown). An entered move that led
2657 to adjudication (like a checkmate) now was not displayed at all. Adding
2658 an extra ShowMove() after (successful) return of Adudicate() solves it.
2660 2011-02-13 23:49:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2661 Fix Xiangqi King facing
2663 The Spartan patch had broken the CheckTest for Xiangqi, because cl.check
2664 was cleared after the King-facing test, rather than before it.
2666 2011-02-13 22:30:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2667 Fix variant janus size prefix
2669 The default board size of Janus Chess was not consistently taken to be
2670 10x8, which resulted the name to be sent as 10x8+0_janus to the engine.
2672 2011-02-13 12:18:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2675 The test for Alfil (suppressing single steps on the Elephant) contained
2676 a wrong logical operator, so that it could never be active. It also
2677 failed to include Xiangqi as variant with traditional Alfil. This led to
2678 one-step moves of the Elephant in these variants, and false check or
2679 unreliable mate detections.
2681 Fix move of Xiangqi Elephant
2683 2011-02-09 23:19:09 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2684 fixed configure script to correctly detect Xaw3d library
2687 2011-02-06 22:07:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2688 Fix unmarked translation
2690 The file-browser wndowtitle in WB was not marked for translation.
2692 2011-02-04 10:27:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2693 Put warning in HTML help
2695 A warning is added that the help file is not yet updated for the new
2698 2011-02-04 10:22:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2699 Fix 64-bit Windows compilability
2701 The API interface for Set/GetWindowLong has been changed for 64-bit
2702 Windows, both in the name of the call as in the arguments.
2704 2011-02-04 10:21:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2705 Fix MSVC compilability
2707 Both the makefile and the project file had to be adapted for the new
2708 source file history.c, and the new location of parser.c.
2710 2011-02-05 10:11:58 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2711 added missing #includes and missing prototypes to filebrowser
2713 thanks to Max Funk for reporting. Now using HAVE_DIRENT_H.
2715 Also cleaned up missing prototypes and some casts.
2717 2011-02-05 09:21:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2718 added missing header file for sprintf
2721 2011-02-03 08:50:50 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2722 added history.c to the tar-ball. Needed for Winboard
2725 2011-01-31 23:03:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2726 Fix deselection of greyed-out variant button (WB)
2728 In Windows a disabled radiobutton refuses to deselect when you select
2729 another (enabled) button from the group. There are then 2 buttons
2730 checked, and the code to readout the buttons took the first one. Now it
2731 is changed to take the first enabled one.
2733 2011-02-03 08:28:15 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2734 Revert "Implement -reset option feature in WinBoard"
2736 This reverts commit efecf86cd9b54072c6a2f38d62f1d775e69c545b.
2738 picked the wrong commit from HGM's git tree.
2740 2011-02-01 22:01:12 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2741 add DIFFSTAT and SHORTLOG to tar-ball
2743 was only in the v4.4.x branch and not in master
2745 2011-01-30 09:52:15 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2746 release of version 4.5.0
2748 2011-02-01 07:41:04 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2749 changed size of borders around squares from 0 to 1 as a default
2751 this way highlights show up again.
2753 2011-01-29 20:11:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2754 Implement -reset option feature in WinBoard
2756 2011-01-30 10:12:08 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2757 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
2759 2011-01-30 09:56:39 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2760 updated parser.c form parser.l
2762 2011-01-29 19:59:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2763 Clean up fishy patch
2765 None of the ShowMove() calls in Adjudicate() was working, because when
2766 this code was taken out of HandleMachineMove() it was taken outside the
2767 scope of the local fromX, fromY etc. there, so that it started using the
2768 global variables from the mouse driver. As these usually contain -1,
2769 this suppressed move animation and highlighting. All these calls have
2770 now been removed, and ShowMove() is called after a positive return (from
2771 HandleMachineMove(), so within the correct scope).
2772 This improves the previous fix, which led to some flicker, because the
2773 erroneous ShowMove() calls did draw the new board (instantly), wich in
2774 the fishy patch was then immediately overwritten by the old position, to
2775 start animation. This drawing of the old position is now no longer
2778 2011-01-29 13:36:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2781 The RTF file is adapted to the new menu organization.
2783 2011-01-29 13:31:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2786 The highlight-with-arrow and one-click-move menu items are described.
2787 The highlightMoveWithArrow and variations option are described.
2788 Load Next /Previous Position descriptions are moved to File menu.
2789 The description for entering variations is updated (using Shift key).
2790 The remark that editing holdings is impossible is removed.
2791 Spartan Chess is added to the list of supported variants.
2793 2011-01-28 18:35:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2794 Updated copyright notice to 2011
2797 2011-01-24 15:01:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2798 Greyout unavailable variants in New Variant dialog
2800 The WB radio-button code is refactored to be driven from a list (which
2801 must be kept in phase with the variant definitions in common.h!). It now
2802 also checks if the first engine supports the variant, and greys out the
2803 item if it isn't. XB now also makes this check. Slight re-ordering of
2804 10x8 variants there, to have the more common on top.
2805 If no radio button is selected, keep old variant even on OK.
2807 2011-01-19 11:10:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2808 Move clock-click code to back-end
2810 Some duplicated (or should-be-duplicated) code for handling clicks on
2811 the clocks from the XBoard and WinBoard front-ends was merged and
2812 relocated to the back-end, so it can be shared. Noticeable was that
2813 XBoard allowed turn change in ICS examine mode by clock clicking,
2814 while WinBoard did not. WB, on the other hand, allowed clock adjustment.
2816 2011-01-16 23:15:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2817 Fix legality testing of drop moves
2819 Drops of noexistent pieces (i.e. with a piece indicator letter that is
2820 not corresponding to any defined piece) are now parsed as
2821 ImpossibleMove, rather than IllegalMove, so they are also rejected with
2822 legality testing off.
2824 2011-01-17 00:28:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2825 Fix WB Sound Options greyout and remove some grossness
2827 The sound and ICS Options menu items in WB were accessed 'by position',
2828 with fixed defined positions (always messing up any reorganization of
2829 the menus when you forgot to redefine the position constants in
2830 winboard.h). And not only that, but for completely mysterious reasons,
2831 the greying of the sound item greyed out the game-list options (above
2832 it) in stead when it was defined as 9, and the ICS options (below it)
2833 when it was 10 !!!. Now they are addressed 'by command' (and the
2834 position definitions are removed), which fixes things.
2836 2011-01-25 21:35:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2837 Re-instate load next/prev position menu items
2839 As positions do not use something similar to the game list, these are
2840 still useful. For some reason I could not get Alt+Shift+PgUp/Dn to work,
2841 so I settled for Shift+PgUp/Dn.
2843 2011-01-16 21:56:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2844 Remove superfluous copying of machine move
2846 There was explicit code in HandleMachineMove() and FinishMove() to put
2847 the move in the moveList, while MakeMove() already does this later in a
2848 more reliable way by calling CoordsToComputerAlgebraic(). This
2849 superfluous code is removed now.
2851 2011-01-16 21:44:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2852 Fix spurious mate test in Edit Game mode
2854 When entering a game, it was terminated by the mate test even when
2855 legality checking was switched off (so that mates might not be reliably
2856 recognized). The mate test is now made dependent on legality testing.
2858 2011-01-16 21:37:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2859 Fix type-in of drop moves
2861 Drop moves entered through the move type-in already come in the (piece,
2862 DROP_RANK, x, y) format, rather than having a holdings from square. This
2863 caused UserMoveEvent to consider them illegal when testing if the
2864 piecewas of the side to move, and when this was fixed, to recognize
2865 Knight drops as coming from between board and holdings (and thus
2868 2011-01-16 21:31:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2869 Fix move type-in truncating game
2871 Starting a new variation by keeping Shift pressed did not work when
2872 OK'ing the move type-in, because there was some code ther that truncated
2873 the game. While this could be safely left to UserMoveEvent, which it
2874 calls, as the situation is not different from entering moves through the
2877 2011-01-11 16:12:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2878 Fix legality testing for promotions
2880 Turns out WB has never tested for the legality of the chosen promotion
2881 piece, and would allow promotion to King innorml chess even with
2882 legality testing on (when entered through the keyboard)! Now strict
2883 testing is done, outlawing Pawns and Kings (or Unicorns in
2884 Knightmate). Only in suicide / giveaway Kings are stillallowed, and in
2885 spartan a black King if you do not have two yet.(And promotion
2886 toLnce,representing Hoplite Pawn,is forbidden there.)
2888 2011-01-11 11:34:07 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2889 Reset 50-move counter on all pawn-like Lance moves
2891 Now the Lance represents a Pawn-like piece not only in variant fairy,
2892 but anywhere outside Shogi / Superchess, its moves should also reset the
2893 50-move counter in those cases. Especially important for Spartan Chess,
2894 where the Lance actually participates.
2896 2011-01-11 11:18:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2899 The logos were not repainted when the main window was moved out of the
2900 display area, and then back into view. The reason for this is
2901 unknown, as the PaintProc calls HDCDrawPosition, which was calling
2902 DrawLogoOnDC. But the logos were not drawn, (or on an expose event
2903 sometimes half drawn!) despite the fact that the rest of the board was.
2904 The drawing of logos now has been decoupled from drawing the board,
2905 and has been moved to a separate routine DisplayLogos() (in analogy to
2906 DisplayBothClocks()). This is cleaner anyway, as the logos usually do
2907 not change when the board does. So apart from in PaintProc, it has only
2908 to be called when the mode changes (ModeHighlight()) or on swap clocks.
2909 This seems to fix the problem.
2911 2011-01-10 20:36:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2912 Fix time in PGN info
2914 Saving of the thinking time in the PGN was broken by the patch that
2915 removed the race condition in the clock switching, because that moved
2916 the incrementing of forwardMostMove to behind the code that used fmm to
2917 index pvInfoList. As a result the time was stored in the slot for the
2918 opponent's previous move. The value is corrected now.
2920 2011-01-09 00:24:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2923 The move that delivers checkmate in two-machines mode is not animated
2924 when adjudication is on. There then also is no highlighting of this move
2925 Redrawing the board and calling ShowMove fixes it. Which is rather
2926 strange, because ShowMove was already called in Adjudicate (when it
2927 adjudicates), before GameEnds. For reasons that are not understood this
2928 call to ShowMove() (which calls AnimateMove()) is not effective.
2930 2011-01-09 00:21:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2931 Reset machine colors after match
2933 The colors each engine playse are set to the originals after the last
2934 match game, so that a new match or two-machines game will not have
2937 2011-01-09 00:15:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2938 Reset win/loss counters before match
2940 The win/loss counters were not reset, because the code counted on them
2941 being initialized to zero. But with matches startable from the menu,
2942 this is no longer true after the first match.
2944 2011-01-09 00:08:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2945 Show move that causes false illegal-move claim
2947 Without claim testing XBoard takes back moves that an engine objects to.
2948 But when the engine is forfeited for a false claim, the move should of
2949 course stay. So the claim test is moved to before the take-back.
2951 2011-01-09 00:05:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2952 Fix Spartan promotion to King
2954 Promotions toKing were refused when in check, because XBoard thought
2955 they would not resolve the check. Now the promotion is actually
2956 performed before doing the check test.
2958 2011-01-05 17:31:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2959 Fix WB font-based piece rendering on variant switch
2961 The piece bitmaps were only created from the font characters when the
2962 number of ranks or files changed, because it was done in
2963 InitDrawingSizes(). This caused missing pieces when changing to a
2964 variant on the same board that used other pieces. Now InitDrawingSizes()
2965 is called for any variant switch.
2967 2011-01-05 17:25:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2968 Fix right-alignment pproblem in WB ICS window
2970 Use of Ctrl-R to summon the context menu still trickled through to the
2971 default text-edit window routine, and caused right-alignment. This was
2972 because the text-edit reacts on keyDown rather than the character event.
2973 KeyDown of R with Ctrl pressed is now also intercepted and ignored.
2975 2011-01-03 13:04:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2976 Fix chat window title
2978 The title was using the engine name, rather than the ICS handle, which
2979 did not work outside zippy mode. Now it only uses the engine name when
2980 no ICS handle is known. The titleis now also subjected to translation.
2982 2011-01-03 12:50:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2983 Fix spurious reading of old game title by JAWS
2985 Because focus was switched to the board window before loading the
2986 selected game from the game list, the titlebar still contained the
2987 name of the previously loaded game, which would spontaneously be read by
2988 JAWS. Now the focus switch is done after loading the new game (which
2989 updates the window title.)
2991 2011-01-03 12:37:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2992 Add variant Spartan Chess
2994 In the WB menu it takes the place of the defunct Twilight Chess item.
2995 The setup routine needed patching for setting up Lances in stead of
2996 Pawns for black, the check test had to be adapted to handle duple check,
2997 Alfil and Dragon moves were fine tuned in this variant to make the exact
2998 moves, and the promotion popup was adapted to show King and interpret
2999 Rook and Bishop as Dragon and Alfil for black. The Alfil now always
3000 moves as Modern Elephant except in Shatranj and Courier.
3002 2011-01-03 12:23:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3005 Due to a bug in logical operators drops were tried for mate evasions
3006 even in non-drop games, which broke it in Superchess and Great Shatranj,
3007 and wasted CPU time in other variants.
3009 2011-01-05 17:19:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3010 Fix promotion suffixon disambiguated piece moves
3012 The promotion suffixon piecemoves that needed disambiguation was not
3013 passedon to the back-end in most variants. Now it is passed on in any
3016 2011-01-03 12:08:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3017 Fix promotion of Pawn-like Lance
3019 In variants where the Lance is used to represent an unorthodox Pawn, it
3020 must promote when it reaches last rank. With legality testing on,
3021 however, the promoChar was ignored in ApplyMove in this case. The
3022 promotion suffix also was not appended in SAN moves.
3024 2011-01-03 11:57:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3025 Fix WB promotion popup
3027 The promotion popup did not work properly in variants where black did
3028 not use the pieces that white wanted to promote to. Now the character
3029 for the selected piece is taken from the piece encodings of the side to
3030 move. In addition, selection of undefined pieces is ignored.
3032 2011-01-02 14:17:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3033 Fix bug in parsing variations
3035 The moves parsed from a variation were stored in the moveList without
3036 appended linefeed. This caused errors if the variation extended to
3037 beyond the end of the main line,into a hitherto unused part of the move
3038 list, as the linefeed was then not there from the overwritten move. As a
3039 result moves sent to the engine were concatenated, triggering
3040 illegal-move messages and bringing the engine out of phase.
3042 2011-01-02 14:11:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3043 Define Ctrl-R as right-click in WB Comment dialog
3045 To allow JAWS users to load a variation through the keyboard, Ctrl-R is
3046 equated to a right click at the position of the caret or selection.
3048 2011-01-02 14:10:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3049 Allow starting a variation from keyboard entry in WB-JAWS
3051 The status of the shift key is remembered when space is pressed to
3052 select a board square.
3054 2011-01-02 14:06:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3055 Disable some accelerators in JAWS version
3057 Single-key accelerators that could result in irreversible data loss are
3058 undesirable, because the risk of accidentally pushing them is too large.
3059 So the non-Alt duplicates of next/previous game/position are disabled,
3060 as are Home and End for Revert and Truncate Game. JAWS users will have
3061 to rely on the menus for those functions.
3063 2011-01-02 13:59:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3064 Group engine-output memos with engine names
3066 The engine names are now defined just before the text edits, so that
3067 JAWS 11 will read the engine name when the memo for the output of that
3068 engine is selected. (JAWS 10 will still read the NPS, as it reads in
3071 2011-01-02 13:55:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3072 Put nr CPU earlier in tab cycle of WB Common Engine dialog
3074 By defining the max CPU control after hash size, the tabbing steps
3075 through the controls in geometrical (and logical) order, rather than
3076 having the max CPU in between the book controls.
3078 2010-12-29 23:47:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3079 Update WB language template file
3082 2010-12-29 23:41:27 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3083 Subject JAWS menu and spoken strings to translation
3086 2010-12-29 23:37:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3087 Let JAWS SayString buffer full sentence
3089 The meaning of the flag parameter of SayString was changed to indicate
3090 buffering of flushing. On flushing a message of a single space is used
3091 as a kludge to indicate interruptability. Calls to force flushing where
3094 2010-12-29 23:32:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3095 Adapt JAWS menu to new menu organization
3097 The menus did not correspondto the texts after translation of the main
3100 2010-12-29 23:18:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3101 Translate menus after creation of JAWS menu
3104 2010-12-29 23:07:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3105 Fix ICS context menu for JAWS
3107 The Ctrl+R key did select text at the mouse pointer in stead of at the
3108 curser, now that up and down-click were combined.
3110 2010-12-29 23:04:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3111 Reorganize order of WB New Variant dialog controls
3113 The definitions are re-ordered so that at least JAWS 11 will speak the
3114 board-size elements properly.
3116 2010-12-29 22:57:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3117 Fix order of elements in WB time-control dialog
3119 Someleading texts were defined after the text edit they referred to,so
3120 that JAWS 11 associated them to the wrong one. A tab stop was added to
3121 the time-odds label, to make JAWS speak it.
3123 2010-12-29 22:51:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3124 Change tabbing order in WB sounds dialog
3126 The 'Play' button now gets focus immediately after the controls for
3127 selecting the sound, rather than at the end of the dialog (after OK).
3129 2010-12-29 22:47:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3130 Remove tab stops on first radio button of WB dialogs
3132 The New Variant and Board dialogs had a tab stop on the first radio
3133 button,so that tabbing toit would automatically select variant
3134 normal or size tiny. Now it tabs straight to the current size, without
3135 changing anything. (Important for JAWS users.)
3137 2010-12-29 22:45:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3138 Put OK/Cancel last in tab cycle of some WB dialogs
3141 2010-12-29 22:29:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3142 Fix duplicate menu character for Edit Comment
3144 Edit Comment did have the same shortcut character as Copy Game. Changed
3147 2010-12-11 11:18:56 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3148 fixed automake process: xboard.conf couldn't be generated if $srcdir was not the current directory
3151 2010-12-11 09:50:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3152 new developer release
3155 2010-12-05 18:01:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3156 Subject WB context menus to translation
3158 The innerloopof the menu translation has been made into a separate
3159 routine. This now uses GetMenuItemInfo() in stead of ModifyMenu() to
3160 better preserve menu breaks. Menu #10 is used for context menus (from
3161 the routine that pops them up), and for this number the orignal texts
3162 are not saved in menuText. (This is not needed, because the menu is
3163 created everytime anew from the resource data.)
3165 2010-12-05 15:00:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3166 Update translation template
3168 Add the new menu items; add some notes.
3170 2010-12-05 14:04:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3171 Resize buttons in WB engine-settings dialog
3173 The OK and cancel buttons were to narrow for most translations, and were
3174 a non-standard order as well.
3176 2010-12-05 13:56:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3177 Add one-click move control to WB general-options dialog
3179 This is a duplicate of the one in the ICS options dialog, but the latter
3180 is inaccessible in non-ICS modes, and one-click move is now
3181 alsoavailable in engine mode.
3183 2010-12-05 13:51:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3184 Create space in dialogs for translation
3186 The translated texts often did not fit, because controls were defined
3187 needlessly small (when there was empty space between them). In these
3188 cases they have been enlarged to consume all available space. Some
3189 dialogs are made wider.
3191 2010-12-05 13:47:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3192 Add handle for translator acknowledgement
3194 An empty string is printed in the about box, which can be 'translated'
3195 to a message acknowledging the translator.
3197 2010-12-05 13:43:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3198 Use default logo for user
3200 When no logo with the name of the current user is found, use dummy.bmp.
3202 2010-12-05 15:46:34 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3203 added rlwrap tip to FAQ
3206 2010-12-03 23:24:06 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3207 replace hard coded paths with path from configure script
3209 use $datadir and subdirectories to store some data files. Also make files in xboard.conf use correct path.
3211 2010-12-03 23:02:09 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3212 fixed a typo in the configure script output
3215 2010-12-03 21:46:00 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3216 added a desktop file
3218 taken from the openSUSE project
3220 2010-12-03 22:44:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3221 Fix Edit Game/Position checkmarking in WinBoard
3223 Because the entries in Edit and Mode menu were pure duplicats, the
3224 entries in the wrong menu (Edit) were checkmarked while active. By
3225 defining different IDs for those in the Edit menu, those in the Mode
3226 menu are checkmarked again.
3228 2010-12-03 10:07:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3229 Add XBoard menu items for arrow highlight and one-click move
3231 These items are put in the options menu; the 'Old Save Style' item is
3234 2010-12-03 09:27:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3235 Provide menus for editing WinBoard engine and server lists
3237 The Edit Tags dialog in the WB front-end is adapted to act as a general
3238 edit for string variables, by giving it an extra parameter to indicate
3239 where to store the edited result. Menu items are added to invoke this
3240 dialog for editing the /first, /secondChessProgramNames and /icsNames
3241 options. This solves the problem that people would have to edit an ini
3242 file that they can no longer locate (because the %APPDATA% folder has
3243 different names and locations in the various Windows versions, and is
3244 often a hidden folder on top of that).
3245 There is a slight memory leak here, as the memory for the previous
3246 value of the altered string option is not freed.
3248 2010-12-02 16:18:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3249 Configure arrow highlighting as default in XBoard
3251 Set -highlightMoveWithArrow true in the xboard.conf file, and specify a
3252 lineGap of 0 to make that efficient (and the wood theme even nicer).
3254 2010-12-02 15:56:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3255 Port highlighting with arrow to XBoard
3257 Unfortuntely this duplicates a fair amount of code in the front end.
3258 Removing the arrow is done by a total repaint if there is a non-zero
3259 lineGap, because the clever algorithm for selective redrawing (based
3260 on damage) that XBoard uses does not repair damage to the grid lines.
3261 For lineGap=0, however, (for which the arrow is mainly intended) the
3262 damage mechanism is used, and the damaged squares are determined by
3263 tracing out the arrow in 64 steps, and marking all squares in the
3264 neighborhood as damaged.
3266 2010-12-02 15:55:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3267 Strip CR from xboard.c
3270 2010-12-02 14:21:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3271 Let user decide if he wants highlights in blindfold mode
3273 Remove the automaticsuppression ofhighlighting.
3275 2010-12-02 00:24:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3276 Fix fag-fell marker with logos on
3278 The flag-fell marker "(!)" that is displayed in the clock in WinBoard in
3279 two-machines mode was printed twice when the clock was split over two
3280 lines (as with logos on).
3282 2010-12-01 18:57:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3283 Also exempt variant seirawan from eval-scale doubling
3285 It is not really a drop game, so a scale from -7 to 7 in the eval graph
3286 is good enough (like variants great and super).
3288 2010-12-01 10:33:13 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3289 Configure EGTB cache size in adapterCommand
3291 The hash size, nr of CPUs and EGTB path are transferred through the WB
3292 protocol interface commands memory, cores and egtpath. But there is no
3293 WB command for detailing the EGTB cache size. So the value of the
3294 command-line option -defaultCacheSizeEGTB has to be sent to Polyglot
3295 through its startup command to make it known to UCI engines.
3297 2010-11-30 22:46:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3298 Move Hint and Book items to Engine menu in XBoard
3301 2010-11-30 22:17:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3302 Correct the key bindings fo view menu in texi file
3304 The mentioned bindings for Game List and Eval Graph were wrong.
3306 2010-11-30 21:25:07 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3307 Fix sub-variation display with negative score
3309 The test if the displayed score was the pvInfo score failed for negative
3310 scores, because floats are truncated towards zero. So the previous fix
3311 of spurious score/depth info was not working when the score was
3314 2010-11-30 18:27:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3315 Peel PV out of comment
3317 Arena stores engine PVs not in variation format, but within both braces
3318 and parentheses, before the score/depth info. This caused XBoard to
3319 overlook the score/depth info, (frustrating, e.g., the eval graph),
3320 while the PV would not be accessible for walking it as a variation.
3321 The routine that extracts the score/depth from a comment now has
3322 been made more clever, to recognize a leadin PV in the comment, and then
3323 place it in front of the comment as variation (by moving the opening
3324 brace to behind it). For some reason it does not work if the PV and
3325 score/depth were separated by a newline, but this happens quite rarely.
3327 2010-11-30 18:23:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3328 Allow line-straddling result comments
3330 Some GUIs (in particular Arena) do not have the decency to keep the
3331 result comment on a single line. In this case the parser rules would not
3332 recognize it, and treat it as a normal comment, plus an undetailed PGN
3333 result. The rules are now fixed to allow linefeeds in the comment, and
3334 between comment and PGN result. To correctly process the comment further
3335 (e.g. in game-list lines) the linefeeds are replaced by spaces in the
3336 back-end routines that do use the result comment.
3338 2010-11-30 12:22:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3339 Write key bindings in XBoard menus
3341 Unfortunately tabs are not understood in menu texts, so fine-tuning
3342 through spaces is necessary to get some sort of ragged alignment.
3344 2010-11-29 18:01:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3345 Configure XBoard to use wood board texture by default
3347 The texture pixmaps are sought in /usr/share/games/xboard, with names
3348 wood_l.pm and wood_d.xpm. I guess the " make install" should be adapted
3349 to put them there. XBoard is resitent to non-existence of the files,
3350 btw. It simply ignores the arguments in that case.
3352 2010-11-29 17:48:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3353 Configure -inc as volatile option in XBoard
3355 XBoard users are not used to options being persistent, and thus have
3356 many scripts assuming the timeIncrement is -1 when they don't specify it
3357 on the command line, and want to specify -mps. But a persistent -inc of
3358 0 fom a preious session would then force their -mps to zero, causing
3361 2010-11-29 17:36:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3362 Make WinBoard clocks translation-proof
3364 With logos on, the splitting of the clock over two lines assumed the
3365 lengths of the words "white" and "black" would always be 5. Used strlen.
3367 2010-11-29 14:57:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3368 Improve drawing of highlight arrow
3370 A diagonal arrow sometimes had a notch in the shaft because of
3371 independent rounding of the starting and ending point coordinates.
3372 Furthermore the width of the shaft was unnecessary variable(as a
3373 function of direction) because half the width was rounded and then used
3374 twice. Now rounding of end-points is always done towards a fixed grid
3375 of square centers, which keeps diagonals purely diagonal, and one side
3376 of the shaft is drawn relative to the other side, after the
3377 position of the latter has been rounded, so any rounding error affects
3378 the shaft width only once.
3380 2010-11-29 10:25:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3381 Alter descriptionof Analyze File menu item
3383 This menu item has been given a new function, so a new description was
3386 2010-11-29 10:15:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3387 Add description of Game List Options in texi file
3390 2010-11-29 09:58:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3391 Update texi file for new menu organization
3393 The descriptions are shuffled around and organized into sections
3394 corresponding to the new main menus. Where necessary the name of the
3395 items was changed to their new names. The items removed from the File
3396 menu (the next/previous/same stuff) are nowmoved to the section "other
3397 shortcut keys", as the key bindings for some of them are still active.
3399 2010-11-29 09:06:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3400 Update info on key bindings in texi file
3402 The texi file was still listing the old XBoard key bindings. Where
3403 necessary this is now changed to the new (WinBoard) bindings, and all
3404 the new bindings were added.
3406 2010-11-29 09:04:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3407 Add XBoard key bindings for Revert and Truncate
3409 Use Home key as accelerator for Revert, End for Truncate, as in WinBoard.
3411 2010-11-28 23:12:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3412 Divorce the Edit and Show Tags/Comment menu items
3414 In WinBoard the items in the Edit and View menu for Tags and Comment now
3415 have different IDs, so they can be independently controlled. Only the
3416 items in the View menu are check-marked. The items still do the same.
3418 2010-11-28 23:08:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3419 Alter WinBoard menu text
3421 The texts are slightly adapted, mostly by choosing more convenient
3422 tabbing characters for the new menu organization. The translation
3423 template is updated accordingly.
3425 2010-11-28 20:24:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3426 Let move-history window scroll to bottom after adding move
3428 By activating the scrollbar of the viewport through XtCallActionProc
3429 the move-history window is scrolled to the bottom.
3431 2010-11-27 14:38:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3432 Fix Shogi promotion popup
3434 The texts were adapted to shogi by printing new text items over the
3435 Queen and Knight buttons, but these did not alwys cover it. Now the text
3436 on the buttons is changed as it should be. Also the window title is
3439 2010-11-26 11:22:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3440 Apply gettext macros to menu texts
3442 Now texts and references are separated, the texts in the tables can be
3443 decorated with the N_() macro, so that the _() macro no longer has to be
3444 applied when they are used. (This makes the texts appear in the .po
3447 2010-11-26 11:12:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3448 Adapt some XBoard menu texts
3450 The "Show" prefix is removed from the "View" menu items, as this seems
3451 implied. An ellipsis is added to the Engine #N Settings items, which
3452 could not be there before, because periods in a menu name would break
3453 any reference to it. For some other names the ellipsis was deleted.
3454 (These were not refered to, but who knows what we will do in the future.)
3456 2010-11-26 11:03:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3457 Separate menu text from menu name in XBoard
3459 The text string in the menu-definition tables was used both for the menu
3460 text, as well as for referencing the items from the code (for enabing or
3461 checkmarking). Now these can be defined separately, so that altering the
3462 menu texts is possible without breaing any references to the item.
3463 (Moving them to another menu would still break XBoard, though!)
3464 Currently the texts and names are still the same.
3466 2010-11-26 10:48:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3467 Bugfix XBoard menu translation
3469 The gettext macro N_() was applied to the menu definition tables, but
3470 this would break any translation, as these items are both used as menu
3471 texts as well as reference for enabling and checkmarking. The routines
3472 that create the menus already apply _() dynamically to these items when
3473 they are used as menu texts.
3475 2010-11-26 10:10:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3476 Restrict drops in variant seirawan to back rank
3478 Drops aren't really llowed at all in Seirawan Ches, but there exists an
3479 engine that supports a variant where drops on the back-rank are allowed.
3481 2010-11-25 19:44:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3482 Let Analyze File annotate the loaded game
3484 By not suppressing the auto-play loop in AnalyzeFle mode, we step
3485 through the game while the engine is analyzing, and store the PV info
3486 that the engine produces, as well as the full PV (as variation comment)
3489 2010-11-25 19:41:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3490 Revive Analyze File menu item in WB
3492 We will keep this menu after all, becase it can be given a new meaning.
3494 2010-11-25 19:31:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3495 Fix spurious scores in comments
3497 The comment popup is also used to display engine PV info, but when the
3498 contents of the window is written back when we select a variation,
3499 it was treated as a real comment. This is fixed now by checing in
3500 ReplaceComment() if the comment starts with the PV info, and if so,
3501 ignore the latter. This solves the problem, but I guess the real bug is
3502 that selecting a variation tries to write the comment even if it did not
3505 2010-11-25 19:26:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3506 Display error for wrong use of Machine Match
3509 2010-11-24 13:30:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3510 Reorganize XBoard menus
3513 2010-11-24 11:02:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3514 Reorganize WinBoard menus
3516 New main menus Edit, View and Engine are added; the step menu
3517 disappears. The menu items are redistributed over the new menus.
3518 Sometimes duplicates are created. No adaptation of short-cut characters
3519 as made yet (as this affects translation).
3521 2010-11-20 20:20:27 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3522 removed trailing whitespaces from NEWS
3525 2010-11-20 20:19:30 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3526 merged readme_HGM.txt into the NEWS file
3528 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.
3530 2010-11-20 18:24:19 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3531 typo in date of developer release
3533 but will leave the tagged version as it is, since it's still a unique version number
3535 2010-11-20 18:11:01 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3536 new developer release
3539 2010-11-20 18:12:41 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3540 added latest version of parser.c
3543 2010-11-20 18:05:56 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3544 updated Changelog, etc for developer release
3547 2010-11-20 16:22:00 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3548 Revert "adding gnu-readline support"
3550 This reverts commit c95ef32a700132a134f335f857ca6f1b6f3c169f.
3555 better to use the (relatively) new ICS input box then add readline support.
3557 2010-11-20 16:19:32 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3558 Revert "bugfix: fixed readline support with icslogon option"
3560 This reverts commit b9cdd7422ad1037d7376bce4f8f2db2669396e83.
3565 better to use the (relatively) new ICS input box then add readline support.
3567 2010-11-19 23:10:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3568 Make Hoplite moves irreversible in Spartan Chess
3570 Consider Lance moves in variant Fairy (where the Lance represents the
3571 Spartan Hoplite Pawn) as Pawn moves, so they reset the 50-move counter.
3573 2010-11-19 21:09:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3574 Give Lance moves of Amazon in variant super
3576 Now that Lance is no longer a wild-card piece the moves of Amazon must
3577 be programmed explicitly, to keep the possibbilty to play Superchess
3578 with legality testing on.
3580 2010-11-19 18:32:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3581 Change representation of Bede in variant fairy initial position
3583 This used to be Lance, but the promoted Bishop (Dragon Horse)
3584 is more applicable. Especially now that Lance is supposed to move like a
3587 2010-11-19 18:28:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3588 Make yyskipmoves also suppress examining of drop moves
3590 Not sure if this does any good, but it seemed illogical that this would
3591 happen in all other moves, but not drops.
3593 2010-11-19 18:23:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3594 Define moves for Dragon Horse outside Shogi
3596 Let it move like Bishop + Wazir + Dababba.
3598 2010-11-17 13:40:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3599 Fix safety crash when appending comments
3601 The length limit imposed on safeStrCpy was one too short when copying
3602 an existing comment to the space allocated for the longer (concatenated)
3603 one. It allowed no space for the terminating '\0'.
3605 2010-11-17 13:38:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3608 The test for when to terminate a non-fiting string was one off, and the
3609 debug message was written stdoutin stead of debugFP.
3611 2010-11-16 12:40:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3612 Fix default holdings size for variant seirawan
3614 The holdings for 7 pieces werealways considered an overrule, so that the
3615 variant name was prefixed with "8x8+7_".
3617 2010-11-15 11:36:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3620 When confronted with a path name starting with ~ and not containing a /
3621 XBoard would segfault.
3623 2010-11-14 21:45:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3624 Fix one-click moving on up-click
3626 (First) up-clicks were not always ignored: in Edit-Game mode with
3627 one-click moving enabled this could lead to a capture being made on
3628 the down-click, and the recapture on the correspoding up-click.
3629 This has now been corrected, and only the down-click of a first click
3630 can lead to selecting a piece or a one-click move.
3632 2010-11-15 18:15:40 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3633 fixed buffer size for snprintf
3636 2010-11-13 23:04:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3637 Accept Seirawan-style gating suffixes
3639 The parser rules were extended to accept / as an equivalent of = in
3640 promotion-suffix notation (e.g. Nf3/H in stead of Nf3=H).
3642 2010-11-13 22:55:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3643 Use Falcon and Alfil as built-ins for Seirawan chess
3645 Where available (size 49 and 72) we use Falcon for Archbishop and Alfil
3646 for Chancelor, to better conform to the Seirawan names Hawk and Elephant.
3648 2010-11-13 20:02:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3649 Implement entering gating moves with mouse
3651 A move with a back-rank piece that starts when a piece in the holdings
3652 is selected will be interpreted as a gating move in variant seirawan.
3653 The front-end uses a 'gatingPiece' selected this way todisplay it on the
3654 from square during animate dragging.
3656 2010-11-13 18:56:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3657 Implement variant seirawan
3659 Set upthe position, including Hawk and Elephant in holdings, in
3660 InitPostion(). Suppress putting captured pieces in holding. Let
3661 promoChar indicate gating in ApplyMove(). Remove gated pieces from
3662 the holdings there. Let GenLegal() generate RxK-type castlings to act as
3663 base for gating on Rook square. Gatings are tested for legality
3664 based on the holdings content and whether they occur on the back
3665 rank. Disambiguate() also tests this. Make sure the gated pieces are
3666 printed as move suffixes in CoordsToAlgebraic().
3668 2010-11-13 18:42:27 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3669 Add -variant seirawan to menu
3672 2010-11-13 22:52:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3673 Fix acceptance of null-move with legality testing off
3675 A second click on the same piece was interpreted as a to-square rather
3676 than deselection of the piece.
3678 2010-11-13 22:49:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3681 Disambiguate was imagining captures, so an only capture by double
3682 clicking your own piece did not always work.
3684 2010-11-13 20:08:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3685 Fix mouse-driver buglet
3687 The highlights were not cleared on moves that went vertically off board.
3689 2010-11-12 17:17:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3690 List some undocumented commands as compliant
3692 The engine->GUI commands setboard and setup are now always printed in
3693 the debug file as well.
3695 2010-11-12 17:05:22 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3696 List Hint with compliant commands
3698 This command was omitted, so that in some -engineDebugOutput modes it
3699 would not appear in the debug file.
3701 2010-11-12 17:02:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3702 Restrict use of escape expansion
3704 Only expand escape sequences like \n and \t in telluser(error) comamnds
3705 that ask for it by preficing the messages by double backslash. Otherwise
3706 backward copatiblity is too severely broken for messages that display
3707 DOS-style filenames.
3709 2010-11-12 13:56:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3710 Make safeStrCpy safe
3712 SafeStrCpy was causing a lot of out-of-bound write accesses, as it was
3713 always writing the character at the length limit of the destination.
3714 Now no memory is accessed that is is not needed to hold the copy.
3716 2010-11-07 21:37:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3717 Allow clicked name internal to the icsMenu command string
3719 A command in the /icsMenu that was specified to contain the selected
3720 text or clicked word always appended this word at the end. Now the user
3721 can also configure it to appear in the middle, by putting a %s in the
3722 command string where he wants it to appear.
3724 2010-11-07 21:33:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3725 Let Engine #2 Settings start second engine
3727 If the second engine is not yet running, it would be impossible to use
3728 the settings dialog for it, as the features have not been received and
3729 the dialog will be empty. So the user could not adjust the engine
3730 parameters before starting a match. Using this menu now automatically
3731 starts the engine, and delays the appearence of the popup untill the
3732 features are received, using a similar mechanism as in
3733 TwoMachinesEventIfReady().
3735 2010-11-01 19:40:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3736 Newly lexed parser.c
3739 2010-11-06 19:55:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3740 Fix bug in parsing illegal Pawn captures
3742 When a pawn move of type exf5 was illegal, the parser made an attempt to
3743 interpret it as e.p. capture of f5. This, however, messed up the move,
3744 so that it was now permanently mistaken for e5xf6. Even in cases with
3745 legality testing off, where you would want the original move to be
3746 accepted despite the fact that it was illegal.
3748 2010-11-06 19:49:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3749 Keep last PV while clearing engine-output display
3751 When ponder is on, the display is cleared immediately when the last line
3752 of thinking output appears by the appearing ponder output. So you would
3753 never get the chance to see it. This line is now re-written after
3754 clearing, so it appears at the bottom of the output for the next search.
3756 2010-11-06 19:45:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3757 Give Lance moves of Berolina Pawn
3759 In stead of using it as a wildcard piece, the Lance gets the moves of
3760 the Berolina Pawn (straight capture, diagonal move). The initial double
3761 osh can be a ump, though. (So it is really a Hoplite Pawn from Spartan
3764 2010-11-06 19:42:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3765 Use SAN even on illegal moves
3767 If there is only one piece of type T, moves like Ta1 or Txa1 are never
3768 ambiguous, so adding the from square is just cumbersome.
3770 2010-11-06 19:34:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3771 Use normal SAN for wildcard pieces
3773 SAN often can also be used with pieces we don't know the moves of, e.g.
3774 if there is only one of that type. We just always get rank or file
3775 disambiguators if there are more (even when they might be unnecessary).
3777 2010-11-06 14:52:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3780 Unused variables were removed from parser.l
3782 2010-11-06 14:43:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3783 Allow arbitrary nesting of sub-variations in PGN input
3785 The parsing of subvariations is moved out of the state-machine parsing,
3786 to allow arbitrary nesting. In stead of the entire sub-variation being
3787 parsed by lex as Comment, it now returns Open and Close for the
3788 corresponding parentheses, which are then handled in a wrapper routine
3789 for yylex(): Myylex(). Problem was that yy_text is supposed to return
3790 the entire parsed text of the returned symbol, which thus has to be
3791 collected. To make this possible, yylex has to return everything that it
3792 parses, (even white space!), and a symbol "Nothing" was added to return
3793 in parsing rules that before just ate away irrelevant text without
3796 2010-11-06 21:48:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3797 Implement setup (engine-GUI) command
3799 This allows the frst engine (when legality testing is off) to overrule
3800 the default opening position, in reply to the variant command. Syntax is
3801 "setup (PIECE_TO_CHAR_TABLE) FEN_STRING"
3802 where the FEN string is interpreted in the context of the given
3803 pieceToCharTable (which is optional, and only delimeted by parethesis if
3805 Sendng the position to the second engine is delayed until the first
3806 engine has responded to the ping after the new-game sequence, to make
3807 sure it gets the chance to alter the position before it is sent to the
3808 second engine. This feature is useful for playing variants that WinBoard
3809 does not even know the opening positon for, and can be used even if they
3810 are shuffle variants.
3812 2010-11-06 14:19:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3813 Restrict use of a2a3 kludge
3815 The kudge to send "a2a3" in stead of "black" to get black to move is
3816 fatally flawed in varants that have no Pawn on a2. So in that case we
3817 revert to use of the deprecated "black" command.
3819 2010-11-02 13:06:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3820 Remember values set by -firstOptions, -secondOptions
3822 When an engine announces its option features, and the option name
3823 matches that of a setting given in -first/secondOptions, the engine is
3824 sent hte specified value, but this value was not remembered as current
3825 value (but the latter was left at the engine-announced default),
3826 leading to inconsistent behavior in the Engine #N Settings dialog.
3828 2010-11-01 19:26:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3829 Make test for valid promotion piece color-dependent
3831 This is needed to make it work in variants where white and black have
3832 different armies; quite likely white will promote to pieces that do not
3833 exist in the black army, so we really have to make sure we test if the
3834 white (upper-case) piece exists in this case.
3836 2010-11-01 19:23:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3837 Remove validity test on promochar from parser
3839 The backend routines Disambiguate() and LegalityTest() will catch
3840 invalid promotions, so no need to do it here.
3842 2010-10-31 23:37:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3843 Add the actual size-33 Shogi bitmaps
3845 These were forgotten in the original commit that fixed the .rc file.
3847 2010-10-31 13:20:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3848 Delete some stale promotion code
3850 The correction of the promotion piece to Ferz in Shatran-like variants
3851 in ApplyMove() was no longer needed, as the new promotion code already
3852 does this in the move parser.
3854 2010-10-31 13:08:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3855 Augment moves of some fairy pieces
3857 To get better disambiguation in variants that have to be played with
3858 legality testing off, the Elephant is given also one-step moves (making
3859 it a so-called Modern Elephant) in -variant fairy and great. The Dragon
3860 King (Crowned Rook), which had no moves defined for it outside Shogi at
3861 all, has been given Rook moves plus an orthogonal 2-jump, so that it
3862 can get SAN moves when used as Dababba or Short Rook. (Illegal moves
3863 currently aways force long algebraic notation...)
3865 2010-11-08 22:57:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3866 Bugfix safeStrCpy patch, WinBoard
3868 The use of sizeof on pointers was detected through the same method as
3869 the previous patches, this time while compiling WinBoard. A typo in
3870 jaws.c was fixed as well.
3872 2010-11-08 23:03:13 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3873 Bugfix for safeStrCpy patch for XBoard
3875 By a trick (temporarily redefining safeStrCpy in common.h as
3876 ((char*) (a=1/(4-3rdArgument))) ) a compile-time warning (division by 0)
3877 could be generated for every occurrence where the size argument was equal
3878 to 4, i.e. where the 1st argument was likely a pointer rather than an
3879 array. These cases are now fixed. The file xoptions.c, which is the
3880 only ne that does not #include common.h had to be fixed by making
3881 the #define in the file itself.
3883 2010-10-31 13:16:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3884 Fix spurious promotions with legality testing off
3886 The recent promotion patch had broken playing without legality testing
3887 completely: without legality testing one always gets the piece that was
3888 asked for, but a NULLCHAR should not be taken as a request for a piece!
3889 But it was, and this resulted in any moved piece turning into a white
3890 Pawn! For true promotions the piece was always black, which was also not
3893 Also revert to the use of '+' as internal Shogi promoChar, because
3894 pre-processing turns out not to be possible when reading a game file.
3895 In stead parse any trailing '+' on moves as promoChar. Downside: '++'
3896 can no longer be recognized as checkmate symbol.
3898 2010-10-29 22:54:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3899 Make deferral default in Shogi promotions
3901 Because '+' is intercepted by the parser as check indicator, Shogi moves
3902 are pre-processed to change a trailing '+' into an internally used
3903 alternative '^'. The testing if a promotion character is OK is now done
3904 in LegalityTest() and Disambiguate(), which return ImpossibleMove when
3905 the character does not correspond to any piece, and IllegalMove when in
3906 Shogi anything other than '^' or '=' is used. (Except for the ICS
3907 notations.) On output, in CoordsToComputerAlgebraic() and
3908 CoordsToAlgebraic(), the '^' is translated back to '+'.
3910 2010-10-28 17:51:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3911 Animate piece explosions in drag-drop moves and in XB
3913 This required some code restructuring: the decision if an explosion is
3914 needed is now taken in a new routine Explode() in the backend. This then
3915 calls the front-end driver, and it returns the info if there was an
3916 explosion or not, so the caller (AnimateMove() or the mouse driver) can
3917 take action to repair the damage to the board caused by the blast wave.
3918 A front-end driver for XBoard is provided as well, so that both
3919 click-click (and replay, which is the same) and drag-drop atomic
3920 captures are animated in XB as well as WB.
3921 Explosions on rejected moves are suppressed.
3923 2010-10-28 13:53:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3924 Suppress promotion popup if piece will explode
3926 In atomic, a Pawn capture to last rank is not really a promotion.
3927 Fix choice to Queen.
3929 2010-10-28 18:42:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3930 Make Knight hop first straight, then diagonal
3932 It used to be the other way around, which looked pretty illogical in
3933 Xiangqi: to see Horses, which are blockable pieces there, move over an
3936 2010-10-27 20:04:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3937 Let -oneClickMove also work in EditGame mode
3939 There is really no reason why people that lke one-clcik moves enough to
3940 switch them on would not want to use them too when editing a game.
3941 This solves a nast inconsistency, as before it used to work in -ncp mode
3942 on the _first_ move, as the mode is then BeginningOfGame, and not yet
3943 EditGame, and we do want it to work for BeginningOfGame, as this is
3944 also the game mode when you start playing as white.
3946 2010-10-27 19:40:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3947 Make -flipBlack and -allWhite option volatile
3949 As these options are very Shogi specific, and the variant is volatile,
3950 it seems logical to make them also volatile. Not completely sure about
3951 -allWhite, though. It cold be useful if you want, for example, to play
3952 wth dark-brown pieces for black, as any color but black looks much
3953 better with outline pieces than with solid pieces.
3955 2010-10-27 19:33:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3956 Provide some sample board-texture pixmaps
3958 Wood and marble themes are provided as textures for light and dark
3959 squares, plus two complete Xiangqi boards (wood and evenly colored).
3960 These should probably not goint the distro tar ball.
3962 2010-10-27 19:25:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3963 The -overrideLineGap option is made to work in XBoard
3965 Although XBoard already allowed this in the -boardSize specification,
3966 it is still seful to globally disable grid lines, e.g. for an
3967 oriental Xiangqi board. And it converges XB and WB.
3969 2010-10-27 19:18:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3970 Implement board textures in XBoard
3972 The -darkBackTextureFile and -liteBackTextureFile options now wrk in
3973 XBoard too, for loading a pixmap that will be used to cut out the dark
3974 and light square backgrounds. The cutting algorithm is such that the
3975 pixmap image is completely restored if the size was that of the total
3976 board (e.g. a drawing of a Xiangqi board).
3978 2010-10-27 12:11:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3979 Complete WB (western) bitmaps for Shogi at size 33
3981 The Lance was not replacing Queen in some sizes where the bitmaps were
3982 already available, and new bitmaps for the promotion Golds were added.
3984 2010-10-22 20:30:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3985 Make starting new variation dependent on shift key
3987 The shift key is read during mouse events, and posted in a global
3988 variable, which can then be used by the back-end. The decision to start
3989 a new variation (pushing the game tail rather than clipping it off) when
3990 entring a move in Edit Game or Analyze mode is made dependent on this.
3991 The move-typein also records the shift-key state.
3993 2010-10-22 20:25:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3996 A %g format was used to print an int in sending the level command,
3997 because decimal points were dropped when merging patches. Also an unused
3998 variable was removed to suppress a warning.
4000 2010-10-18 19:50:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4001 Add set of shogi pixmaps for XBoard
4003 The -size 64 pieces from gShogi (and originally XShogi) are made
4004 suitable for loading by XBoard, through redefining the transparent
4005 background color as either light or dark square color. These bitmaps are
4006 not included in the XBoard build, and perhaps should not even be
4007 included in the source distribution, but made available in a separate
4010 2010-10-18 19:46:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4011 Implement -flipBlack in XBoard
4013 When -flipBlack is true, the white and back piece pixmaps are swapped in
4014 flipView. The idea is that the black pieces are upside-down versions of
4015 the white (Shogi) pieces, so that swapping white and black in effect
4016 turns all pieces upside down, which is what should happen in flipView.
4018 2010-10-11 21:06:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4019 Disable some very verbose debug printing
4021 The internationalization seems debugged enough to do without them.
4023 2010-10-11 20:52:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4024 Add option -variations to control variation-tree walking
4026 Just so that users can switch it off if the find it annoying.
4028 2010-10-11 21:01:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4029 Allow full promotion suffixes on SAN piece moves
4031 This facilitates the parsing of (non-standard) Shogi moves in ICS
4032 protocol. It can also be useful for Seirawan Chess, where a future
4033 implementation of it can use promotion suffixes to indicate gating.
4035 2010-10-11 14:07:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4036 Allow lower-case piece indicator in drop-move notation
4038 As it seems that XBoard also sends such moves in zippy play, it seems
4039 more fair to recognize them from the engine as well.
4041 2010-10-10 21:26:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4042 Fix bug in ICS variant switch for Shogi
4044 Because a test for 8x8 variants was done by <= VariantShogi,
4045 rather than <, spurious move-list fetching occurred in Shogi.
4047 2010-10-10 21:23:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4048 Fix WinBoard Lance bug
4050 The choice between Lance and Queen was made on appData.variant, in stead
4051 of gameInfo.variant. Because of this it was not always up-to-date in ICS
4054 2010-10-10 21:15:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4055 Adapt WinBoard to Shogi implementation on Variant ICS
4057 The Variant ICS does not use the '+P' notation for promoted pieces,
4058 neither in the board, nor in SAN, but simply indicates any Gold by 'G',
4059 and uses 'H' and 'D' for +B and +R. The Shogi promotion code in
4060 LegalityTest() and Disambiguate(), which are used in move Parsing, are
4061 adapted to handle this. Deferred promotions sent to the ICS now use an
4064 2010-10-10 21:07:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4065 Inherit promoted-info that ICS does not give from previous board
4067 The ICS does not tell us in Crazyhouse (or Shogi) if a piece is
4068 primordial or a promoted pawn (or a promoted other piece). We now derive
4069 this info from the previous board. The option -disguisePromotedPieces
4070 controls this feature.
4072 2010-10-10 21:03:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4073 Limit multi-session clock handling to non-ICS games
4075 In ICS games a time forfeit crashed XBoard, apparently because the
4076 fullTimeControl string is not properly set when we try to use it to see
4077 if a sudden-death session is indeed the last session.
4079 2010-10-08 11:47:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4080 Change evalgraph scale in drop games
4082 Score swings tend to be much larger in Crazyhouse and Shogi, so the
4083 vertical rangee in those games is doubled to (-14, 14).
4085 2010-10-13 23:05:05 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4086 bugfix: fixed readline support with icslogon option
4088 The icslogon option sends the login and password, so we don't need to handle
4089 special cases for the readline buffer.
4091 2010-10-07 20:35:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4092 fixed some typos that were introduced during the sprintf->snprintf changes
4095 2010-10-07 11:59:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4096 Fix uninitialized variable in book code
4098 The variable ' power' was used uninitialized in case -bookVariation was
4099 set to 0, which can be an error even if it was only multiplied by zero.
4101 2010-10-06 14:20:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4102 Fix menu translation bug
4104 The menuText array was declared too small, so that the last entry of the
4105 File menu got out of bounds and was overwritten by the first of the Mode
4108 2010-10-05 21:14:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4109 Allow -timeIncrement to be a float
4111 The increment can now be fractional seconds. The printing in
4112 ParseTimeControl() and SendTimeControl() is done with %g format, so that
4113 for integer increment there is backward compatibility with the old level
4116 2010-03-30 20:24:49 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4117 adding gnu-readline support
4119 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.
4121 2010-09-24 21:17:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4122 added warning if icsLogon file couldn't be opened
4125 2010-09-24 21:10:28 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4126 security fix: replaced some strcat with strncat
4128 there is still more to do
4130 2010-09-19 20:55:01 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4131 add option for silent builds
4133 this can be enabled for automake versions >1.11 by calling ./configure --enable-silent-rules.
4134 It should still work for older automake versions too
4136 2010-09-19 13:16:40 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4137 bugfix: missing array index
4140 2010-09-19 12:19:44 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4141 added new case for (Chessmove) 0 in common.h
4143 this cleans up a few more -Wall messages
4145 2010-09-17 21:47:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4146 cleaned up -Wall warnings (apart from settings some parentheses)
4148 removed unsused variables, etc mostly everything from -Wall -Wno-parenthesis
4150 2010-09-17 20:36:54 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4151 sizedefaults has 9 members, the last line of the array (NULL) only set 7.
4154 2010-09-12 20:04:03 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4155 security fix: replaced sprintf with snprintf
4157 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.
4159 2010-09-10 23:36:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4160 security fix: replaced strcpy with safeStrCpy from backend.c
4162 see comment in backend.c on how to use safeStrCpy. This was already added by AS, but only used in 3 places.
4164 2010-10-04 11:50:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4165 Enhance multi-session TC clock handling
4167 Some new TC types are introduced: Bronstein and free sessions. The
4168 former is implemented by letting an exclamation point '!' in front of an
4169 increment (in the -tc string) indicate that the increment is limited to
4170 the time actually used on the previous move. The latter is an interval
4171 of given duraton in which you can do any number of moves (even zero),
4172 before the next session starts. This is needed for implementing Shogi
4173 byoyomi-type TC, as a first session, followed by a session of fixed-time
4174 per move. The latter can now be specified with the -tc argument as a
4175 degenerate case of Bronstein, where the time on the clock is <= the
4176 increment (so that it is never possible to think longer than the
4177 increment). A TC of 5 min + 10 sec byoyomi can then be indicated as
4180 The sessions are now separated by ':' in stead of '+', and all times in
4181 the TC string are converted to seconds first (in ParseTimeControl), so
4182 the fullTCstring can now be directly used in a PGN tag.
4184 Note that this patch only addresses clock handling; the engine will not
4185 be informed yet if the TC type or parameters change at the start of new
4188 2010-10-04 09:32:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4189 Remove promotion-piece encoding from ChessMove type
4191 The shizophrenic way to indcate promotion pieces in the XBoard code
4192 (sometimes using a promoChar, at other times relying on moveType) was
4193 cured by combining all promotion move types (such as WhitePromotionRook)
4194 into a single one (WhitePromotion), and relying on promoChar to specify
4195 the piece. This solves the problem of promoting to new piece types in
4196 variants, which formerly also required addition of new move types.
4198 In Shogi the '+' character is now consistently used to indicate
4199 promotions (and recognized in ApplyMove), rather than 'q' or
4200 PieeToChar(BlackQueen), as the latter did not work in minivariants where
4201 the Queen (representng the Lance) did not partcipate.
4203 2010-10-03 20:50:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4204 Pass promoChar to SendMoveToICS
4206 SendMoveToICS was the only place where the promotion piece was derived
4207 from moveType, rather than an explicity passed promoChar.
4209 2010-10-04 09:41:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4210 Suppress spurious use of SAN castling in mini variants
4212 King moves from a central file to the king-side-castled position (1
4213 square away from the right corner) were intercepted and printed as O-O
4214 in CoordsToAlgebraic. But on a 5x5 board (mini-Shogi!) this caught the
4215 normal King move Kc1-d1 as well. The castling notation is now reserved
4216 for King moves larger than one step.
4218 2010-10-04 08:21:19 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4219 Make Shogi promotion zone board-size dependent
4221 In stead of using a fixed size of 3 ranks, we use BOARD_HEIGHT/3, which
4222 would translate to 1 rank for mini-Shogi (5x5) and 2 ranks for Judgkin's
4223 Shogi (6x6), which are indeed what these variants need.
4225 2010-10-03 19:58:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4226 Make board-size overrule options volatile
4228 The options -boardWidth, -boardHeight and -holdingSize were legacies
4229 from the day choosing a variant would not automatically set a board
4230 size. As a result they are seldomly used anymore. The first real
4231 application is mini-Shogi (on 5x5 board), and it turned out very
4232 annoying if the 5x5 settings persisted to the next session, where you
4233 almost certainly want to play another variant.
4235 2010-10-04 09:16:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4236 Strip DOS line endings from parser.l
4239 2010-09-16 18:58:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4240 Extend mate test to drop games
4242 MateTest() in case of no legal moves now also looks if there are legal
4243 drops that can resolve the check. This provides reliable mate testing in
4244 Crazyhouse and Shogi, so these are now made subject to adjudications too.
4246 2010-09-16 18:48:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4247 Extend legality testing to drop moves
4249 LegalityTest() can nowbe called with (internal-format) drop moves, and
4250 delegates their testing to a new routine LegalDrop(). This routine
4251 performs the 'no-pawn-on-back-rank' test that used to be in
4252 UserMoveTest (which now calls LegalityTest also for drop moves).
4253 The more complex Shogi case is also handled (except for Pawn mate
4254 drops) in LegalDrop().
4256 2010-09-16 18:25:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4257 Revert splitting of UserMoveEvent
4259 This splitting into UserMoveTest and FinishMove was no longer needed,
4260 now that the new mouse driver no longer calls UserMoveTest to figure out
4261 if a move is a promotion, and XBoard and WinBoard are unified in this
4262 respect. It was counter-productive, because UserMoveTest was not able to
4263 change the fromX, fromY (call-by-value) parameters for passing them to
4264 FinishMove, so it had to defer the conversion of drop moves to internal
4265 format to the latter, while it did not belong there. (Because
4266 DropMenuEvent already delivers the moves in internal format.) This
4267 whole kludgy construction was therefore abandoned, by going back
4268 to the original 4.2.7 calling scheme, where UserMoveEvent completely
4269 pre-processes the move, and when it is valid, calls FinishMove directly.
4271 2010-09-16 18:02:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4272 Fix silent bug in drop moves
4274 In ApplyMove() the piece on the from square was accessed and used before
4275 we tested for drop moves. As drop moves have off-board from-squares this
4276 led to out-of-bound array access, which apparently was usually harmless.
4278 2010-09-16 17:43:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4279 Allow parsing of upper-case machine moves
4281 Dubious patch, as it caters to non-compliancy. Some variant engines are
4282 very non-compliant, though.
4284 2010-09-16 17:38:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4285 Prevent transmission of spurious promo char to other engine
4287 The parser now strps off spurious promotion characters.
4288 New move types "White/BlackNonPromotion" had to be introduced for this,
4289 to indicate NormalMoves that could have been a promotion, to make sure
4290 the '=' suffix of Shogi deferred promotions survives.
4292 2010-09-16 20:44:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4293 fixed internationalization for winboard
4295 in the original commit some files were forgotten. This should fix it.
4297 2010-08-29 21:07:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4298 Fix JAWS bug saying side to move in ICS play
4300 This was done the wrong way around.
4302 2010-08-27 14:08:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4303 Make WB run-time language switch possible from menu
4305 This is a rather involved patch that might not be worth it. It is
4306 difficult, because translation of things that live forever is not easy
4307 to invert (menus, the auxiliary windows). We hae to remember all
4308 original, English texts there to be able to put them back,or
4309 re-translate. Still does not fully work, although the menus and
4310 temporary dialogs now are all OK.
4312 2010-08-27 14:35:46 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4313 Update WB translation template
4315 The language.txt file now also contains all translatable strings from
4316 the C source files, rather than jsut the resource.
4318 2010-08-27 14:14:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4321 Add descriptions for machine-match menu support and enhanced book
4322 control, nick-name options and language.
4324 2010-08-27 13:59:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4325 Add some forgotten translation hooks
4327 The general-options, file-browse dialogs and the about box did not call
4328 Translate() yet. Also translate contents of combo boxes. Some small bug
4331 2010-08-27 13:28:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4332 Do not translate game-end messages in PGN
4334 The messages themselves are not subjected to _(), but in stead their
4335 displaying in DisplayMove is subjected to T_().
4337 2010-08-23 13:23:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4338 Internationalization for WinBoard
4340 A function Translate() was added, which uses a list of item dialogs,
4341 reads their value, and replaces it by a translation (if available). It
4342 also reads the window title and sets a translation. Calls to this
4343 routine are added in the initialization code of every dialog callback.
4344 In addition all translatable strings in the WnBoard front end are marked
4345 by the gettext macro _(). Because WB is not gettexted yet, a hard
4346 re-definition of this macro is added in each file using it, to the
4347 string-translation routine T_() supplied in winboard.c.
4348 Code to read the translation file, and translate the menu texts is added
4349 in winboard.c. In backend.c the meaning of the gettet macros is
4350 redefined for the WIN32 case.
4352 2010-08-23 13:07:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4353 Make the ID of all WB dialog items unique
4355 Mnany static dialog texts did share the ID -1 (IDC_STATIC). But to
4356 replace tet at run-time for translation purposes, they need to be
4357 addressed individually. So they were given new IDs, with symbols defined
4360 2010-08-23 12:48:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4361 Mark XBoard result messages for internationalization
4363 The GNU gettext macro _() is used with the game-end messages. This might
4364 be controversial, as they will appear in the PGN as well. But only as a
4365 comment. We can always decide not to supply a translation.
4367 2010-08-23 12:43:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4368 Do not exit after match when match started from menu
4370 The codelooks weird, but matchMode == 2 in this case. We then use
4371 DisplayNote() to report the match result.
4373 2010-08-23 12:39:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4374 Trivial-draws recognition improved in Xiangqi
4376 Now based on a routine "SufficientDefence". If both have it, it is draw.
4378 2010-08-20 17:46:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4381 The relocation of parser.c and the addition of history.c was not yet
4382 incorporated in the devcpp proect files.
4384 2010-08-19 13:45:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4385 Fix some MSVC compile errors
4387 Some statements has moved up stream of declaratons, which is an error
4388 that gcc is forgiving about, but where MSVC is strict.
4390 2010-08-14 14:01:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4391 Improved patch for expansion of WB settings-file name
4393 The expansion of environment variables now allows multiple environment
4394 variables in the path name. Tested on %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\winboard.ini
4395 and %APPDATA%\winboard.ini.
4397 2010-08-07 16:53:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4398 Add -colorNickNames option
4400 This option allows non-standard designation of side to move in FENs.
4401 (Useful for Xiangqi, where white is indicated often as r(ed), and Shogi,
4402 where white is s(ente) or b(lack), and black is g(ote) or w(hite).)
4403 Can also be used for FENs in a local language. A match of theinput
4404 character with the nick name translates it to the standard; this means
4405 the standard will continue to be recognized, unless it was defined as a
4408 2010-08-07 16:39:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4409 Tricked by the grossnes
4411 Some WB menu items were referenced by a hard number. As items had been
4412 added over the years, the wrong menu items were grayed. In particular
4413 the Options -> Adjudication menu was grayed out, in -ncp mode, where
4414 this was intended for the Sounds dialog. This accidentally proved
4415 useful, until we started to apply adjudictions also to the Human moves.
4416 Then it was suddenly undesirable, and a small mystery why it happened at
4417 all, when I tried to change it. The numbers are now corrected to the new
4418 locatons of the items in the menus.
4420 2010-08-07 16:35:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4421 Allow match to be started from WB menu
4423 A menu item Machine Match was added in the Mode menu to switch to
4424 matchMode. A persistent option /defaultMatchGames determines the number
4425 of games. A control was added to the Options -> Common Engine dialog to
4428 2010-08-07 16:26:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4429 Add some book-control options
4431 Options /bookDepth and /bookVariation have been added to control the use
4432 of the GUI book. In WinBoard the Optons -> Common Engine dialog now
4433 contains fields to set them.
4435 2010-08-07 00:15:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4436 new developer release
4439 2010-08-06 11:18:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4440 Repair exit-popup deadlock patch
4442 Relocating the exit popup call had made it lose access to the message it
4443 should print, because it was declared only in an inner code block, by
4444 the same name: buf[]. Deleting the inner declaration fixes it.
4446 2010-08-04 11:00:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4447 Fix erors when compiling with --disable-zippy
4449 The file args.h contained a codeblock in #ifdef ZIPPY, in stead of
4452 2010-08-01 13:27:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4453 Fix zippy handling of draw offers from ICS
4455 The patch by DM to fix the problem introduced by the coloration of
4456 zippy-matched commands (namely that the coloration code beat the zippy
4457 draw recognition to it, and ate the draw offer away) was only targeting
4458 ICC. The new fix should work on any ICS (by using the same pattern in
4459 zippy as in the colorization code).
4461 2010-08-01 13:15:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4462 Fix regression in colorization of zippy-matched commands
4464 The patch by Daniel Mehrman from 4.2.pre8 was not properly merged, so
4465 that in XBoard no coloration would take place of ICS commands that were
4466 matched by zippy. (It was using &i as input pointer, rather than &backup.
4467 The XBoard-specific code now has been deleted completely, to remove a
4468 seemingly needless dependence on _WIN32_ of the back-end. Both WB and XB
4469 now use the XBoard method, to only match zippy commands when logged in.
4471 2010-07-31 22:48:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4472 Suggest default file name in browser dialog
4474 The argument 'def' to FileNamePopUp() was not passed through to the new
4475 file-browser routine, which got NULL in stead, and thus started with an
4478 2010-07-30 23:28:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4479 Define /firstUCI and /secondUCI as synonyms for /fUCI, /sUCI
4481 Because the %s expansion of WB options in the /fcp and /scp lines only
4482 works for options that contain 'first' or 'second', and /fUCI thus did
4483 not work, PSWBTM had to rely on the cumbersome /firstIsUCI=true to
4484 install UCI engines. (The latter option should be deprecated really;
4485 the UCI-ness of the engines is a volatile option, so it makes no sense
4486 to supply a way to set them both to false or true. One only needs to be
4487 able to set it to the non-default state.)
4489 2010-07-30 23:21:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4490 Add string option /pieceNickNames
4492 This (volatile) option allows definition of alternate letters for the
4493 pieces, which will be recognized next to the standard symbols as given
4494 in the /pieceToCharTable on input. (Output always uses the standard.)
4495 This can be useful for reading PGN from another language, or
4496 non-compliant FENs (e.g. using B and N for E and H in Xiangqi).
4497 The format of the argument is the same as for /pieceToCharTable.
4498 Because the nickNames are consulted before the standard table, it is
4499 possible to redefine a standard name as a nick for another piece.
4501 2010-07-30 23:10:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4502 Fix deadlock in match-result display
4504 At the end of a match, GameEnds() was recursively calling itself,
4505 through DisplayFatalError() and ExitEvent(), and the latter was then
4506 delaying until the calling GameEnds() terminated. (Which it would of
4507 course never do before ExitEvent returned; fortunately there was a tim
4508 limit to this delay, but in XBoard it was 10 sec in stead of 10 msec.)
4509 Now the calling of DisplayFatalError() (to show the result popup) is
4510 delayed until after GameEnds completes (and resets the anti-recursion
4511 flag 'endingGame'), so that it is simply executed a second time, unaware
4512 of the earlier call. But this second time it does not do anything,
4513 because the gameMode ws set to EndOfGame the first time, and the writing
4514 of the PGN is blocked by the checksum being still the same.
4516 2010-07-12 11:10:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4517 Fix WinBoard game-list title
4519 Number of displayed games and WDL stats were always appended to the
4520 existing title, leading to an ever-growing title in the game-list
4521 window. Now the old actual title is ignored, and the starts is appended
4522 to the original title "Game List". (In the future we could use the
4525 In addition, the title was not updated when re-opening the game-list
4526 window, while the stats could change if filtering was active when the
4527 window was closed. (In that case the filter is cleared on re-opening, so
4528 the number of displayed games changes.) Now a title-update (after
4529 recalculating the stats) is done every time the game-list window is
4532 2010-07-11 11:06:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4533 Refactoring of material-draws adjudication code
4535 Insufficient mating material is now determined per side individually, by
4536 testing for MatingPotential of each side. If both lack mating potential
4537 the game is adjudicated as draw (if the -materialDraws option is set).
4539 This way MatingPotential() can later also be used to correct losses by
4540 forfeit to draws (which currently is only done when the opponent has a
4543 The accuracy of this type of adjudication in Xiangqi has been highly
4546 2010-07-11 10:54:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4547 Fix bug in sending cores command to engine
4549 The cores command was alwas sent to the engine(s) when the user changed
4550 it through the menu, even when the engine had sent feature smp=0 (which
4551 is default anyway). NewSettingEvent() was patched to send the new
4552 setting conditionally, based on the engine properties as recorded in
4553 ChessProgramStates first, second; In this particular case it now
4554 consults cps->maxCores. (Note the code for testing the second engine
4555 contains some dirty pointer arithmetic.)
4557 2010-07-11 10:42:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4558 Fix oneClickMove bug
4560 When checking for unique captures, no attention was payed to the option
4561 setting, so the capture was also made when the option was off.
4563 2010-07-11 10:39:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4564 Remove duplicate testing for cores feature
4566 The testing for this BooleanFeature occurred twice.
4568 2010-07-11 10:35:13 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4569 Remove misspelled prototype
4571 NewSettingEvent occurred, next to the correct one, in misspelled form.
4573 2010-07-05 10:00:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4574 Fix parsing of SAN shogi promotions
4576 A missing promotion character defaults to promotion in the move type,
4577 but the promotion character was not set when this happened in variant
4578 shogi. And it is especially important there, as the promotion character
4579 '+' will always be missing, as the parser will take it to be a 'check'
4580 symbol, and strip it from the move.
4582 2010-07-05 09:55:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4583 Fix variant switch on PGN loading
4585 When the PGN specified an essentially different variant, the
4586 piece bitmaps were not properly adapted, because the switch was done by
4587 calling InitPosition(), rather than Reset(). (The latter would destroy
4588 the PGN tags info.) We now added an explicit call to ResetFrontEnd(),
4589 (which is normally done from Reset()).
4591 2010-07-05 09:51:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4592 Adjudicate Xiangqi material draws with Advisor-less Cannons
4594 Used the Queen counter for counting Cannons. Note that material draws
4595 with stale Pawns (i.e. on the back rank) are not yet adjudicated.
4597 2010-07-05 09:34:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4598 Remove font settings from master settings file
4600 xboard.conf should not contain general font settings (not specific to
4601 one board size) with specified point size. In fact it should not even
4602 specify sizable fonts, as the new system would make specification of a
4603 general font overrule the size-specific settings in the .xboardrc file,
4604 so the persistence of fonts would be completely broken.
4606 2010-06-30 10:52:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4607 Cut board squares out of texture bitmap more cleverly
4609 When the bitmap is larger than the entire board, the squares are now cut
4610 out of the center of the virtual squares from subdividing the bitmap, so
4611 that they stay centered on the grid of a Xiangqi board bitmap. If the
4612 board size exceeds that of the bitmap, the old algorithm is still used,
4613 as the centering would make the edge squares exceed the bitmap, and
4614 cause a black rim around the board.
4616 2010-06-30 10:49:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4617 Allow -flipBlack to work with font-based piece rendering
4619 In addition the font-based pieces will also be flipped vertically in
4620 flipView for variant shogi when -flipBlack is off.
4622 2010-06-30 10:46:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4623 Allow font-based piece rendering in board sizes below petite
4625 At least for variants that use unorthodox pieces, so that switching back
4626 to using bitmaps is not really an option anyway.
4628 2010-06-30 10:41:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4629 Ignore checks in 50-move count for Xiangqi
4631 Both checks and evasions are discounted; this is only done after the
4632 naive counting exceeds the maximum, so during most of the game it causes
4635 2010-06-05 14:38:47 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4636 removed some garbage from configure.ac that got added a while ago
4639 2010-05-25 21:20:27 -0400 Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>:
4640 Remove unnecessary double equals from configure.ac.
4643 2010-05-28 11:07:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4644 Fix e.p. bug in xiangqi with -serverMoves option
4646 Sideway Pawn moves were written as e.p. captures in the file with moves,
4647 which led to disappearence of pieces in the viewer.
4649 2010-05-28 11:05:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4650 Repair score printing with -serverMoves option
4652 A previous patch had moved MakeMove to before the update of pvInfoList,
4653 so that the score/depth info would not appear in the file with moves.
4655 2010-05-28 11:02:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4656 Repair animate dragging
4658 The previous patch had left a stray semicolon in the mouse handler.
4660 2010-05-10 10:32:19 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4661 Fix game end during dragging
4663 The stale-first-click fix interfered with proper handling of a piece
4664 being dragged when a game suddenly ended (because of opponent resign,
4665 or caling the flag), because up-clicks when the from-square was reset
4666 were completely ignored. Now such an 'unmatched' upclick calls
4667 DragPieceEnd() and redraws the board.
4669 2010-05-10 10:09:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4670 Pop down old tags on loadng new game in WinBoard
4672 ResetFrontEnd(), called from Reset(), did not do this in WinBoard
4673 (unlike XBoard), so that the tags from the previous game were left on
4674 display when -autoDisplayTags was off.
4676 2010-05-09 22:15:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4677 Reverse mousewheel action
4679 Apparently WinBoard was stepping in the opposite direction through the
4680 game in reaction to the mousewheel as every other GUI in existence.
4682 2010-05-09 22:07:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4683 Fix bug in sending "usermove" when forcing book moves
4685 The keyword "usermove" was copied to the buffer, but not sent before it
4686 was overwritten by the actual book move.
4688 2010-05-06 17:23:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4689 Fix engine stall on perpetual-check evasion
4691 The adjudication code had already put the engine in force mode after
4692 postponing the actual adjudication to the next move. Now first determine
4693 if we want to adjudicate now, and with which result, before stopping the
4694 engine and ending the game.
4696 2010-05-06 16:37:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4697 Let move parser return ImpossibleMove for off-board moves
4699 It used to return 0, which interfered with buiding a game list. This
4700 broke reading of multi-game PGN files containing games in a variant with
4701 a board size larger than that of the currenty active variant.
4703 2010-04-06 15:05:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4704 Alter XBoard key bindings to mimic WinBoard
4706 A lot of new bindings were added, and four menuProcs had to be registered
4707 to be able to add bindings to them. The use of the control key as
4708 temporary take-back for the last move conflicted with the use of Ctrl
4709 keystrokes, and this function was migrated to '.'. The iconify function
4710 had no shortcut in WinBoard, but to get rid of letter bindings it was
4713 2010-04-05 20:45:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4717 2010-04-03 14:00:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4718 Fix typos in html help file
4721 2010-04-01 15:22:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4722 Fix JAWS piece drop cursor, and streamline some sentences
4724 The cursor square was reset to a1 after every use of the piece menu,
4725 which was very inconvenient. Some of the spoken sentences have been
4726 improved; the square is read before the piece now, when using the arrow
4729 2010-03-31 22:31:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4730 Allow escape sequences in telluser(error) messages
4732 The routine EscapeExpand was moved to backend.c, and applied to the
4733 message received from the engine.
4735 2010-03-31 21:29:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4736 Allow lower-case promochar in moves of type h8=Q
4738 Updated the parser rules. Other move formats already allowed this.
4740 2010-03-31 21:36:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4741 Fix Alt+M JAWS command in Two-Machines mode
4743 The command refused to read the ast move because it contained thinking
4744 output of the other engine. Let it pay attention to evenIfDuplicate.
4746 2010-03-29 09:57:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4747 Fix rep-draw recognition
4749 The refactoring had broken the rep-draw recognition, by adding and extra
4750 condition in a conditional with side effects. The testing of this extra
4751 condition is now moved to after the side effect.
4753 2010-03-28 12:32:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4754 Allow any %ENVIRONMENTVAR% in WB settings file name rather than ~
4756 Only a single variable at the beginning of the file name is recognized,
4757 and the matching is not fool proof (it matches across backslashes).
4759 2010-03-28 11:24:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4760 Fix info lines being used as normal thinking output
4762 The new standard of using thinking output with time = nodes = score = 0
4763 as info messages for printing in the Engine-Output window was not
4764 understood everywhere, and led to such info lines being used for
4765 autoKibitzing and PGN annotation. The programStats are now only updated
4766 from thinking output received from an engine when it is not an info line.
4768 2010-03-27 11:54:41 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4769 new developer release
4772 2010-03-26 21:16:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4773 Suppress background observe for boards with own game number
4775 This is really a work-around for an ICS bug. The Variant-ICS sent the
4776 initial board of a game in a move list with relation = 0, which means
4777 'observed'. So XBoard was thinking it was observing its own game, and
4778 switched to dual board. It seems harmless to suppress such a switch for
4779 all boards of your own game, however, which is now done.
4781 2010-03-26 21:12:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4782 Fix crash on switching to ICS xiangqi game
4784 The oldBoard was a local variable, and only squares of the old board
4785 were initialized. This led to a crash if the copied board was enlarged,
4786 and then displayed. The variable is now declared static, so the
4787 uninitialized squares contain harmless zeros.
4789 2010-03-26 18:32:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4790 Let Chat Boxes pop up above console, rather than on top of it
4792 Use EnsureOnScreen() to have them overlap if there was no room.
4794 2010-03-26 18:26:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4795 Fix disabling of Chat Box navigation buttons
4797 The buttons for non-open boxes were enabed, rather than disabled.
4799 2010-03-26 18:17:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4800 Prevent <Esc> closing chat box
4802 Let it in stead switch focus back to the console window.
4804 2010-03-26 15:28:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4805 Let WinBoard recognize ~ in settings file name as HOMEPATH
4807 Fetch the appropriate environment variable to build the mathname in
4808 MySearchPath() whenever the file name starts with "~\".
4810 2010-03-26 13:59:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4811 Change name of Global Settings menu item to Common Engine Settings
4813 The old name confused ICS users, as this is an engine-only dialog.
4815 2010-03-26 13:58:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4816 Update WinBoard RTF docs
4819 2010-03-26 13:57:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4820 Update WinBoard html help
4823 2010-03-24 18:00:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4824 Allow adjustment of clocks in any mode with shift+click
4826 In practice changing to edit-game mode during a game was very
4827 cumbersome. In WinBoard shift+click is now offered as an alternative.
4828 Make sure a right-click in the clock area is not also counted for other
4831 2010-03-24 17:21:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4832 Allow loading of PGN variations in XBoard
4834 Right-clicking variation comments in the comment-window was implemented
4835 through a translation. The right button is now bound to routines that
4836 set both the end and start of the selection, as setting a new start does
4837 not seem to work if the previous select-start was not completed by a
4838 select-end or extend-end. Finally the main handler uses the selection
4839 cursors to know what was clicked.
4841 2010-03-24 17:16:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4844 Added a descripton of the new ICS options (seek graph, back-ground
4845 observe) and menus (Upload) to the texi file. Also added a description
4846 of the variation (Annotate menu item and PGN variation comments) and PV
4847 walking (clicking engine-output). Describe the -shuffleOpenings option.
4849 2010-03-24 13:30:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4850 Paint highlights on dual board (WB)
4852 The highlight info is hidden in the partner board to pass it to the
4855 2010-03-24 13:14:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4856 Fix handling username change during game
4858 The title bar and gameInfo (going into the PGN) were not adapted when
4859 the username was changed through the menu, so that the change became
4860 only effective on the next game. Requires SetGameInfo to be called from
4861 the front-end, and thus a prototype for it in backend.c.
4863 2010-03-24 11:04:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4864 Fix window-position upset on failing engine start in WinBoard
4866 The main window was only positoned according to the settings-file data
4867 after the engine was started up from InitBackend2(), so that if the
4868 latter gave a fatal error, and Save Settings on Exit was on, a wrong
4869 position for the main window would be saved. The call to InitBackend2()
4870 is now moved until after setting the main-window position.
4872 2010-03-23 23:22:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4873 Display PV from Engine-Output window (XBoard)
4875 Translations are added to bind button 3 to the PV walk for the memo
4876 widgets, and the corresponding handlers are ported from wengineoutput.c.
4878 2010-03-10 18:54:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4879 Set keyboard focus at startup to board window
4881 This makes XBoard sensitive to the keybindings also when the cursor is
4882 outside the board window. This focus seems to persist indefinitely: each
4883 time the board window gets selected, the key bindings become activem
4884 wherever the mouse pointer is. Downside: the mouse pointer is no longer
4885 an arrow outside the board window, but becomes a text-insert tool there.
4887 2010-02-27 20:49:21 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4888 added logo files for xboard
4890 logos are installed in the hicolor theme [1] using $datadir as the basedir.
4891 Added both png and svg logo.
4893 [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html
4895 2010-02-27 17:36:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4896 Remake programVersion string after receiving engine features
4898 The engine could have sent a more accurate version of its own name
4899 than the one derived from the exe filename in a myname feature, and we
4900 better use that in the programVersion string, which will be sent as
4901 interface name to the ICS.
4903 2010-02-25 19:22:00 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4904 Revert "Repair settings-file name"
4906 This reverts commit a02042ef83ce1f3632f0cf3e0a2a4ce9a3ac5d85.
4908 2010-02-25 20:32:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4909 Add -autokibitz checkbox to UCI-options menu dialog
4912 2010-02-25 20:29:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4913 Also capture (numeric) whispers of players for -autoKibitz
4916 2010-02-25 20:25:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4917 Add kibitzes and c-shouts Chat Box
4919 A box dedicated to c-shouts will snatch any c-shout before it is
4920 diverted to a normal shouts box. The kibitzes box can capture the
4921 left-overs of -autoKibitz, if the latter is active.
4923 2010-02-25 15:45:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4924 Mark non-compliant lines of engine in debug file
4926 The option -engineDebugOutput is extended to accept value 3 for printing
4927 a cear indication of non-compliancy in the debug file.
4929 2010-02-25 12:02:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4930 Redraw second board on expose events
4932 The -dualBoard option now does refresh the second board after another
4933 window uncovers it. To acheive this, some data structures remembering
4934 what is displayed had to be duplicated. (lastBoard and damage for XB,
4935 lastReq, lastDrawn, lastReqValid and lastDrawnValid for WB.)
4936 WinBoard now uses clipping also for second board. This required the
4937 clips for the destination to be translated horizontally!
4939 2010-02-25 15:13:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4940 Print seconds with 2 digits in backgroundObserve status line
4943 2010-02-24 17:01:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4944 Do not recognize non-ICS variants from PGN event tag
4946 These variants were introduced after supporting the variant tag, so if
4947 the variant tag is missing, their recognition from the event tag will be
4948 a false match. (Mainly to prevent events with 'super' in the name being
4949 recognized as Superchess.)
4951 2010-02-23 13:52:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4952 Fix display of uninitialized boards in background observe
4954 A variable partnerBoardValid is cleared on starting our own game, and
4955 set when a board from the background game comes in during it. At the end
4956 of our own game, a valid partner board now is put in the display.
4958 2010-02-23 13:46:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4959 Add option Display Logo in WB general-options menu
4961 Changing the option requires InitDrawingSizes to be called for
4962 re-formatting the board window. Switching it off requires clearing of
4963 the cps->programLogo fields to take effect immediately. Switching it on
4964 only takes effect the next session, as we will need some refactoring to
4965 redo the figuring out what logos to display.
4967 2010-02-22 12:02:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4968 Group Chat Boxes with console in stead of board window
4970 They now open and close with the console, which seems more natural, and
4971 prevents the console from covering them.
4973 2010-02-22 11:50:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4974 Put new options in WB ICS-options dialog
4976 The Seek-Graph, background-observe and Chat-Box options are added to the
4977 ICS options dialog. They only control the appData settings, there are no
4978 special actions yet on switching the settings.
4980 2010-02-22 11:46:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4981 Create space in WinBoard ICS-options dialog
4984 2010-02-20 12:42:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4985 Use side-by-side boards to display background game
4987 A game observed in the background (i.e. if -backgroundObserve true) will
4988 be displayed right of the normal board in the same window if the new
4989 (persistent) Boolean option -dualBoard is also set.
4990 Very flakey hack, especially in XBoard, where clocks and messsage
4991 field all get the wrong width (and resist adjustment in the strangest
4992 ways). The clocks of the partner game are not yet displayed, and
4993 disaster happens when the background and foreground games do not have
4994 the same board format.
4996 2010-02-23 14:57:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4997 Repair background-observe patch
4999 Apparently a commit was lost that I collapsed with 3018a6 while the
5000 latter was already pushed to savannah. Here I recreated this commit from
5001 a diff between the respective commits in the savannah & nubati gits.
5003 2010-01-31 11:07:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5004 Repair settings-file name
5006 The default name is put back to /etc/xboard/xboard.conf, so that XBoard
5007 can again find its settings file. "make install" will still install it
5010 2010-02-21 18:43:59 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5011 new developer release
5014 2010-02-21 19:45:58 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5015 fixed compiler warning for file-browser code
5017 missing "void"s in the function declaration and missing returns showed up when trying to build on the opensuse build server. fixed now.
5019 2010-02-21 23:09:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5020 Put newly opened Chat Box on top
5022 Dialogs always pop up in front, so set the onTop variable that prevents
5023 highighting the button to navigate to it from other Chat Boxes
5024 to reflect that a newly opened Chat Box is in view.
5026 2010-02-21 18:55:03 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5027 Fix copying of kibitzed info in Engine-Output window
5029 Make sure all lines end with "\r\n" to not lose line breaks on
5030 copy-paste from the memo. (XBoard would strip those again.)
5032 2010-02-21 18:25:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5033 Allow walking a kibitzed PV
5035 If no tabs are found in te 'thinking output' we assume it is a captured
5036 kibitz message, and look for "PV=" to locate the start of a PV in it.
5037 Also try to include any continuation lines below the selected line.
5039 2010-02-21 17:45:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5040 Insert autoKibitz continuation lines at end of line
5042 In the engine-output window lines that start with the ICS continuation
5043 sequence "\ " are inserted behind the line they belong to, in stead of
5044 at the top. This required keeping thrack of the length of the currently
5045 active line in OutputKibitz().
5047 2010-02-20 15:39:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5048 Don't disturb background observe when receiving new piece
5050 When new holdings are sent when the background game is displayed, we now
5051 ignore this, as presumably we are peeking at our partners game, and thus
5052 should be well aware of what is captured there.
5054 2010-02-19 21:52:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5055 Newly lexed parser in XBoard directory
5058 2010-02-19 11:18:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5059 Let yy_text determine progress of PV parsing
5061 The parsed unit yy_text was not available after ParseOneMove(), because
5062 the buffer switch in yylexstr() apparently destroys it. To solve that,
5063 yylexstr() now is equiped with an extra buffer argument, where it copies
5064 yy_text before the switch, so the caller, ParsePV(), can see what was
5065 parsed in yy_textstr. This is used to update the PV pointer, but also to
5066 save any parsed comments (when ParsePV is used for parsing a PGN variation).
5068 2010-02-18 17:42:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5069 Support playing through PGN variation comments
5071 Right-clicking a variation line in the comment dialog will shelve the
5072 current variation, and parse the comment to replace it. This uses
5073 ParsePV() in an alternative way, for which the latter had to be
5074 enhanced: it was made resistent to move numbers and comments inside
5075 the PV. It now has an argument to indicate if such comments should be
5076 stored with the moves. The Comment Popup is closed on revert, to
5077 make sure no comments to moves that are destroyed, containing
5078 variations on a non-valid line, can keep hanging around.
5080 2010-02-18 16:05:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5081 Add Annotate item in Step menu
5083 This does the same as Revert, except that it adds the destroyed
5084 variation as comment to the original movem in PGN variation format.
5085 RevertEvent now has an argument to indicate if it should add the
5086 comment, or not. Comments in the abandoned variation are included in the
5087 varriation command to the main line. (The exact layout of the variation
5088 comment that results leaves still to be desired.)
5090 2010-02-15 19:07:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5091 Add option -shuffleOpenings
5093 This volatile option is added just to make the existing variable
5094 available from the command line, not only from the menus.
5096 2010-02-19 11:48:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5097 Let the sounds sound on receiving a message in a Chat Box
5099 Use Colorize() to the applicable color to trigger the sound, and then
5100 restore the original color as 'continuation', to do it silently.
5102 2010-02-10 10:55:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5103 Allow WB Chat Box to be dedicated to shouts and 'it'
5105 By putting 'shouts' in the handle field, a chat window will capture all
5106 shouts and c-shouts, and send messages typed into it as shouts.
5107 The bracketing of the shouter name now indicates the type of shout.
5108 The handle for WHISPER Chat Boxes has been changed to 'whispers', to
5109 make it easier to pop them up by clicking the console.
5111 2010-02-16 22:34:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5112 Add -chatBoxes option to open Chat Boxes at startup
5114 This string option contains a semicolon-separated list of handles for
5115 which Chat Boxes should be opened at startup. The value saved in the ini
5116 file is the value that was read, not the actual chat boxes that were
5117 open at the time of saving.
5119 2010-02-16 19:44:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5120 Make Chat Windows pseudo-tabbed
5122 By adding buttons in every Chat Box to navigate directly to every other
5123 Chat Box, a stacked set of Chat Windows behaves like a single tabbed
5124 window, but can still be unstacked. The buttons turn grey to warn that
5125 new text appeared in hidden boxes (i.e. not the one last brought to top).
5127 2010-02-19 21:46:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5128 Allow arrow keys in WB Chat Box to access command history
5130 The history is shared between al boxes and the ICS console.
5132 2010-02-12 22:35:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5133 Make WB Chat Boxes wrap and handle URLs
5135 Cloned the code for the console text field to hande URL. (Initialization
5136 to recogize the link, and notifiction to open it when clicked.)
5137 Removed the ES_AUTOHSCROLL style from the RichEdit in the resource.
5139 2010-02-10 10:58:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5140 Fix copying of WB Chat Window contents
5142 All line breks were lost on copy-pasting the contents of a chat window.
5143 Adding CR to each outputted line in the front-end (wchat.c) solves this.
5144 (Tell messages sent to a handle (which are not echoed by the ICS, and
5145 thus have to copied to the chat box directly) also need CR!)
5147 2010-02-19 22:34:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5148 Add upload of game to ICS for examining
5150 New item "Upload to Examin" in Action menu, calls UploadGameEvent().
5151 Use SAN moves to upload game to ICS, rather than long algebraic
5152 (The ICS did not understand long-algebraic promotion moves)
5153 Use bsetup within examine to set position onFICS, and also variant.
5154 Castling rights do not work yet for FRC. Totally different set of
5155 commands are needed on FICS and ICC.
5156 FICS does not understand w23 or wild/23, but needs 'crazyhouse' in the
5157 besetup command that specifies the variant. XBoard variant names are
5158 used, except for fischerandom, which is 'fr'. Things like nocastle will
5159 probably still not work.
5161 2010-02-18 17:41:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5162 Handle display of PV that starts with other move than played
5164 Insert the retraction of the played move, without premove highlighting.
5166 2010-02-16 19:36:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5167 Bugfix smart capture
5169 Disambiguate was changed to make sure that for ambiguous moves, a
5170 capture would always prevail in the closure, rather than the last move
5171 that happened to be generated. Before, double-clicking a piece would
5172 sometimes plsy a non-capture.
5174 2010-02-13 15:34:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5175 Fix XB crash on giving keyboard focus to non-text widget
5177 In the Engine-Settings dialog SetFocus() could be called for non-text
5178 widgets, and this made XawTextSetInsertionPoint() croak. Setting the
5179 insertion point to the end in SetFocus() was a bad ide anyway, as it
5180 interfered with copying from the engine-output window, which would
5181 uncontrollably scroll on getting focus. It is solved now by setting the
5182 insertion point already on creation of the text widgets.
5184 2010-02-19 22:32:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5185 Seek-Graph bugfix: disappearing output in ICS console
5187 Suppression of output to the cosole was handled fundamentally wrong: it
5188 was not enough to set next_out to after the unit that should be
5189 suppressed, as there can be a backlog in printing of previous units that
5190 came in the same packet. So this has to be flushed first, or it will be
5191 lost. -autoKibitz probably got away with that, because it comes in a
5192 separate packet. But seek ads are often suffixed to other output, and
5193 then that output disappeared! Now we flush everywhere before suppressing.
5194 We now totally rely on the prompt to restart the printing, so that
5195 acknowledgements following the echo of the sent message are also
5196 suppressed. Also suppress LF before diverted chat messages.
5197 Also fixed is the 'mamer bug' in Chat Boxes, due to false parsing of
5198 a "* (*): " pattern in tell messages, because of a missing continue.
5200 2010-02-12 18:08:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5201 Pop up ICS text menu with default item under mouse pointer
5203 The menu popup is migrated to the down-click (was up-click), so the
5204 up-click can select the item. Some trickery is needed to fool the menu
5205 into thinking that the mouse moved, so that a moveless up-down click in
5206 the ICS text field selects the default item (the upper-right one).
5207 Also allow dummy item in ICS text menu: The command "none" in the ICS
5208 text menu will now be treated as a grayed-out (disabled) entry, so it
5209 can be defined in the position underthe mouse pointer to prevent the
5210 up-click from doing anything, while keeping the menu open. Recommended
5211 for use with an entry of spaces.
5213 2010-02-10 14:42:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5214 Allow ICS context menu to pop up a Chat Box on clicking handle
5216 A command "chat" defined in the WinBoard icsMenu string will cause
5217 ChatPopUp() to be called when it is clicked, with the clicked handle
5218 (name) in the ChatPartner field, and focus on the input field.
5219 ChatPopUp() had to get a parameter (the handle) to make this possible.
5220 If that parameter is NULL (as when it is called from the Mode menu),
5221 focus will still start on the (empty) ChatPartner field of the box.
5223 2010-02-10 10:50:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5224 Fix right-edge spillover of Seek-Graph dots in WinBoard
5226 Rescale the X-axis to allow margin for dot size and color offset.
5228 2010-01-30 11:05:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5229 Interface XBoard to GhostView file-browser dialog
5231 Note: The Ghostview dialog was using some deprecated variables for error
5232 printing, and conditionally used getwd() on some systems that presumably
5233 do not have getcwd(), but it did not assess the latter properly.
5235 2010-02-09 14:38:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5236 Allow recalling history in ICS input box with arrow keys
5238 By adding translations for the Up and Down keys, and stealing some code
5239 from winboard.c. Still needs some refactoring to move the duplicate code
5242 2010-02-09 14:34:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5243 Start insertion point at end of text edits in XB dialogs
5245 The function SetFocus now uses XawTextSetInsertionPoint to position the
5246 end of the string it aready contains, rather than at the beginning.
5248 2010-02-08 17:55:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5249 Capture holdings of background observed game
5252 2010-02-08 11:57:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5253 Match handles with multiple titles for channel Chat Boxes
5255 Only handles with at most one suffixed 'title', such as (U), (C), (IM)
5256 or (TD), followed by the parenthesized channel number, were recognized,
5257 so tells by people with more titles always went to the ICS console window.
5258 Patterns are added to recognize handles with upto three such qualifiers.
5260 2010-02-08 11:54:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5261 Do not pop down Seek Graph on on-dot click
5263 Leave the graph up, and let the incoming board of a started game cause
5264 the pop-down. This in case the clicked ad is no longer vailable, or
5265 manuay refused, and fails to start a game.
5267 2010-02-07 21:26:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5268 Observe a game in the background while playing
5270 A new (persistent) option -backgroundObserve true|false is added. When
5271 set, observed boards received while playing a game will not trigger a
5272 game switch, but will be ignored except for storing in a dedicated board
5273 buffer. Pressing the right mouse button will cause the board to be
5274 displayed, until we release it. Time, strength and stm are always
5275 displayed in the message window.
5277 2010-02-07 16:43:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5278 Remove race condition in clock switching
5280 The move number is now incremented inside SwitchClock, when no timer
5281 interrupt is scheduled, so the interrupt cannot occur at the wrong side
5282 of the increment, and decrement the wrong clock.
5284 2010-02-07 11:53:03 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5285 Let second click on piece make only capture, with -oneClickMove
5287 Normally this would clear the highlighting of that piece.
5288 Required new field in DisambiguateClosure to count nr of captures.
5290 2010-02-07 11:18:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5291 Bugfix stale first-click
5293 When the opponent resigned after the user had cicked a from-square,
5294 clicking the from-square for the first move in the next game would
5295 produce an "illegal move" message, because it was considered a to-click!
5296 We now set fromX and fromY to invalid in GameEnds().
5297 Should we also reset them on mode changes?
5299 2010-02-07 11:08:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5300 Add promotions and e.p. to oneClickMove
5302 For e.p. the to-Square of the Pawn has to be clicked. Promotions are
5303 always to Queen when you click the to-square, but use the promotion
5304 pop-up when you click the from-square.
5306 2010-02-07 10:38:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5307 Fix error that compiler does not notice
5309 Boolean GLT_GetFromList did not return a value. But no error on Ubuntu!
5311 2010-02-06 18:55:38 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5312 new developer release
5315 2010-02-06 18:30:42 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5316 updated year in copyright info
5319 2010-02-05 22:27:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5322 Playing on ICS or against engine, clicking a square from or to which
5323 only a single move can be made causes the move to be done, when the new
5324 option -oneClickMove is set to true.
5326 2010-02-04 16:09:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5327 Use squares for computer seek ads
5329 Shape indication passed in sign bit of color (char) variable.
5331 2010-02-04 22:46:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5332 Use right mouse button to view seek ads
5334 Right down-click does the same as left down-click, right up-click
5335 simulates a left up-click off board (so it misses all dots).
5337 Use right-click miss to refresh Seek Graph
5339 The 'moving' parameter had to be made into an int for this, to indicate
5340 right clicks with code 2. Right press now already pushes the clicked ad
5341 to the back, so that the up-click will display an underlying one.
5343 Bugfix pushing back seek ads on right-click
5345 On a right button press the previous in stead of currently hit ad was
5346 receiving the penalty.
5348 Indicate seek-ad multiplicity
5350 If more than one seek ad is inside the capture range of the mouse
5351 pointer, an exclamation point is printed before the seek-ad text.
5353 Some fixes to make seek-ad suppression work in WinBoard
5355 In WinBoard the z-depth was immediately erased by redrawing the graph;
5356 the clearing of zlist had to be moved from PlotSeekAd() to AddAd()
5357 (where it really belongs). Also aging of z-depth is now suppressed on
5358 mere pointer motion.
5360 2010-02-04 22:45:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5363 The new option -autoRefresh sets FICS and ICC to report removal of seek
5364 ads, and then removes those from the Seek Graph. New seek ads are added
5365 to the graph, as soon as the ICS reports them.
5367 2010-02-04 22:42:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5368 Implement SeekGraph in XBoard
5370 For now only controlled by left mouse clicks on board. New options
5371 -seekGraph true|false and -sg to switch this feature on.
5373 Facilitate selection of coinciding seek ads
5375 Seek-ads that are viewed but not answered get a distance penalty on the
5376 up-click that makes their selection more difficult next time, so that
5377 the ad they covered gets a (better) change. The penalty ages away in the
5380 Slightly offset Seek-Graph dots of different color
5382 Dots of different color are now displaced horizontally be 3 pixels, to
5383 prevent them from completely covering each other. (Required the axis
5384 labels to be moved a little too, to not be covered by the 1-min ads.)
5386 Auto-show seek-ad texts in WinBoard
5388 Hovering the mouse above a Seek-Graph dot will make the text belonging
5389 to it appear in the message field without the need to press a button.
5390 Required SeekGraphClick() to be called from the WB mouse event handler,
5391 with an extra argument 'moving' to make the distinction with a real
5394 Show seek-ad text on mouse hovering (XBoard)
5396 The Eventproc is also set to trigger on PointerMotion, and this event
5397 then calls SeekGraphClick with motion=true to handle it.
5399 Put poetic name of wilds in seek-ad text
5401 Use XBoard variant names, except for 'loadable' and 'fischerandom'
5402 (becomes 'setup' and 'chess960'), but leave number (to distinguish wilds
5403 that transate to same XBoard variant).
5405 2010-02-05 20:36:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5406 Fix highlighting bug in XBoard
5408 The from-square was drawn before the to-square was erased, which led to
5409 a missing highlight line if they shared an edge or corner.
5411 2010-02-05 15:49:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5412 Shorten autoKibitz confirmation on FICS
5414 Strip off the "players)", but leave the separatng space.
5416 2010-02-05 14:39:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5417 Repair damage to -autoKibitz done by FICS atomic zippy claim
5419 The sending of -autoKibitz info was also moved back in that patch, but
5420 unfortunately to after clearing of the programStats info. Now the
5421 clearing has been moved also, to remain after it.
5423 2010-02-04 23:33:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5424 Send continuation lines to chat box they belong to
5426 The variable savingComment is used as a kludge to remember where the
5427 comment should go (i.e. which chatbox, or elsewhere), so that when a
5428 continuation line is matched, chatPartner (which was reset at EOL) can
5429 be restored to its original value. Also put space after handle of talker
5430 in channel Chat Windows
5432 2010-02-02 19:08:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5433 Fix u64 format for cygwin
5435 With a -mno-cygwin compile %llu and %lld are definitely not understood
5436 by scanf and printf, although they are by the compiler. In stead, %I64u
5437 seems to work. Put it in under control of a switch USE_I64, which is
5438 defined only in the gcc makefile when MINGW is used.
5440 2010-02-02 19:02:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5441 Remove stray dot from WinBoard makefiles
5443 There was a period suffixed to config.h in the wgamelist.o dependency.
5445 2010-02-01 14:50:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5446 Fix bug in display of logos
5448 The logo continued to be drawn after a boardSize change to a tinyLayout
5449 size, although there was no space reserved for it. Fixed by explicitly
5450 resetting logoHeight when no logo space is reserved in InitDrawingSizes().
5452 2010-01-19 20:15:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5453 Right-click refactoring: step III
5455 Let WinBoard call RightClick in back-end, and delete the duplicate code
5456 it had for this, after rescuing the front-end bits, and let the letter
5457 act depending on the result returned by RightClick.
5459 2010-01-19 19:07:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5460 Right-click refactoring: step II
5462 Migrate the Right-click routine to the back-end. Let it communicate back
5463 square coordinates through pointer arguments, to accomodate their
5464 different naming in XBoard and WinBoard. Template added in frontend.h.
5466 2010-01-19 17:55:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5467 Right-click refactoring, step I
5469 Divorce front-end part from back-end part of PieceMenuPopup in XBoard
5470 front-end, and forge the back-end part into a new routine RightClick.
5471 The right up-click in XBoard, which called unLoadPV() directly, now
5472 calls RightClick through PieceMenuPopUp().
5474 2010-02-04 23:09:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5475 Merge gamelistopt sources into gamelist source files
5477 The files xgamelistopt.c and gamelistopt.c are merged with xgamelist.c
5478 and gamelist.c, respectively. The WB front-end for the dialog already
5479 resided in winboard.c, so there was little need to move it to wgameist.c
5480 file. Makefiles adapted accordingly. Unsuitable key bindings were
5481 removed. The low-level front-end prototypes are now defined in in
5484 2010-01-29 21:47:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5485 Game-List options dialog for XBoard
5487 A dialog similar to that of WinBoard was cloned from the game-list
5488 window. The XBoard front-end is in a separate file xgamelistopt.c,
5489 which in fact implements most of the low-level front-end as back-end.
5491 2010-01-29 12:48:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5492 Refactoring of game-list-options dialog
5494 The back-end part is separated off, and moved to a file gamelistopt.c.
5495 Front-end for now stays in winboard.c. No prototypes in frontend.h yet.
5497 2010-01-26 19:28:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5498 Fix of ancient WB bug: test integer option values for validity
5500 Only a string of digits preceded by an optional sign is accepted now.
5501 Before, any string was accepted, and leaving out a value could lead to
5502 the next option being ignored (if it did not need a value) because it
5503 was considered the value for the previous one!
5505 2010-01-26 19:00:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5506 Fix bug in edit-position of holdings
5508 The holdings were effectivelly taken one too large, so that a promoted
5509 shogi Pawn moved to, or created in the holdings was not demoted to Pawn,
5510 but put in the dark (which you could see by the holding count if you did
5511 it twice). The overflow tests in these two cases now have been corrected.
5513 2010-01-25 13:54:40 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5514 Save fonts in XBoard settings file per boardSize
5516 Each -boardSize now can have its own font specified in the settings file
5517 (and thus by a command-line option, although it would in general not be
5518 very useful to specify a font for a size other than the selected). E.g.
5519 a prefix "size33:" to the font name will apply it only to -size 33.
5520 An unspecified-size font option (not normally in the settings file) will
5521 always prevail over a font option specific for the current size.
5522 A font of some size must have been used or specified in order to be
5525 2010-01-25 08:56:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5526 Fix width of filter field in XBoard GameList
5528 An empirical dependence of the width of this text edit on the square
5529 size now makes for an acceptable layout at any board size.
5531 2010-01-24 19:09:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5532 Use FICS atomic draw claim for sending move in zippy mode
5534 For this the relaying of the move had to be moved until after the
5535 adjudication, which again has to be done after MakeMove(), which is a
5536 bit dubious, as MakeMove might take significant time when animating.
5538 2010-01-24 18:51:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5539 Send FICS atomic claim to ICS if move creates draw after offer
5541 The FICS format "draw MOVE" is used to send the move to the ICS when
5542 the user enters a move that adjudicates as a claimable draw, and he
5543 offered a draw before the move. For the benefit of ICS that do not
5544 understand this format, the plain move is sent afterwards.
5546 2010-01-24 18:16:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5547 Also allow user to claim by offering draw before his move
5549 Use the existing userOfferedDraw variable to test for such offers in
5552 2010-01-24 17:29:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5553 Also adjudicate after user move
5555 Call Adjudicate() in FinishMove().
5557 2010-01-24 15:56:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5558 Refactoring of adjudication code
5560 Put all the rule-based (as opposed to score-based) adjudications in a
5561 separate routine, so they can also be called on user moves. This
5562 requires sending the drawing move to the opponent engine to be made
5563 conditional on existence of the latter. Execution of the code is no
5564 longer dependent on the condition TwoMachinesPlay, but actual game
5565 terminations are now all restricted by an alternative condition (no ICS
5568 2010-01-24 11:46:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5569 Use -keepAlive option to determine connection health
5571 When there has been no ICS response since the previous 'ping', assume we
5572 are disconnected and do a fatal-error exit. Also auto-start the ping
5573 process in InitBackend3().
5575 2010-01-23 23:00:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5576 Use arrow keys in XBoard GameList for entry selection
5578 Add translations for arrows and home/end, to call LoadSelectedProc with
5579 argument to indicate the step, and let the latter perform the action.
5581 2010-01-23 22:24:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5582 Allow <Enter> to apply filter in XB GameList filter edit
5584 Apply a translation to intercept the <Enter> key. Set focus back to the
5585 list display afterwards.
5587 2010-01-23 21:44:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5588 Accept <Enter> for changing chat partner
5590 A kludge stolen from Alessandro's GameList filter allowed to let the
5591 typing of <Enter> while updating the chat-partner field of the WinBoard
5592 chat windows to act as pressing the Change button. Gives focus to the
5593 input field of the window afterwards.
5595 2010-01-23 21:42:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5596 Move duplicat gamelist code to backend
5598 The filtering routines are moved from xgamelist.c and wgamelist.c to
5599 gamelist.c, and a prototype for them is placed in backend.h.
5601 2010-01-23 19:29:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5602 Port game-list filtering to XBoard
5604 Added a text edit and apply button to the XBoard game-list dialog, and
5605 only have it print those lines that match the filter. Translate index in
5606 list to index of game in file when a game is selected, and index in file
5607 to index in list when a line is highlighted. Duplicates some code
5608 between xgamelist.c and wgamelist.c, which should be moved to back-end.
5610 2010-01-21 19:24:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5611 Convert to DOS line endings
5613 For easier understanding of upcoming diffs of winboard.c
5615 2010-01-21 14:32:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5616 Refactoring of move-history code
5618 The WinBoard code in whistory.c was split in a front-end part (remaining
5619 in whistory.c) and a back-end part (now in history.c in the xboard
5620 directory). This to allow easy porting to other platforms.
5622 2010-01-20 12:48:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5623 Add fixed-time/move button in XBoard time-control dialog
5625 Put the TC-type buttons in a radio-group, and highlight the selected mode.
5627 2010-01-19 18:27:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5628 Fix bug in XBoard PV display
5630 The PV was unloaded on anything but a button release, in stead of the
5633 2010-01-23 11:04:11 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5634 fixed hardcoded location of config file for xboard
5636 the location should now follow sysconfdir during the configuration process.
5637 Also added some more output to the configure script.
5639 2010-01-18 12:18:32 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5640 new developer release
5643 2010-01-18 12:15:06 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5644 fixed Makefile.am to handle config file correctly
5647 2010-01-15 21:55:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5648 Change opening array -variant fairy
5650 We now use the position of "Chess with Different Armies", FIDE army vs.
5651 a fantasy army (inspired on the Color-bound Clobberers) as opening
5654 2010-01-13 19:08:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5657 Thai Chess, played by 2 million world-wide. Required pawn promotion to
5658 happen in a zone, and the Alfil to move as Shogi Silver, a new opening
5659 array, and unusual Pawn placement. Because of the latter, I consider it
5660 a setup position, so a FEN will always be sent to the engine.
5662 2010-01-17 14:17:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5663 Fix parsing of O-O and O-O-O after FEN pasting in FRC
5665 Because the initial rights were not set in the FEN reader, the
5666 initial rights of the previous game remained in force, so that the
5667 parser did not understand OO-castling (although it would allow KxR
5670 2010-01-15 14:40:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5671 Fix reading FEN castling rights for knightmate and twokings
5673 Scanning the back-rank for a King did not work in these variants,
5674 because either the Unicorn castles, or there might be two Kings.
5676 2010-01-13 11:42:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5677 Fix omission in castling refactoring for ICS received boards
5679 A default of -1 was still used, in stead of NoRights, when no Rook was
5680 found. In theory this could have had effect in a setup board 0 in FRC,
5681 when there were no Rooks on the back rank.
5683 2010-01-13 11:35:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5684 Fix TwoKings ICS castling-rights bug
5686 Scanning the rank (as is done because of FRC) assigned castling rights
5687 to the rightmost King. Even scanning the opposite direction would not
5688 work, as it is not always the eftmost King that can castle. So we now
5689 explicitly test for a King on e1/e8 in TwoKings and assign it rights,
5690 relying on the Rook rights received from the ICS to control castling.
5692 2009-11-18 19:12:25 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5693 fix double start of zippy engine after switch to gothic
5695 In ICS mode we now switch to the proper variant as soon as we receive
5696 the generic game-start message, to prevent a mismatch when the first
5697 board is received (which would trigger fetching of a move list).
5699 2010-01-11 16:44:40 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5700 Extensive bugfix of -autoKibitz
5702 Suppression of printing of diverted kibitz messages failed when they
5703 extended over more than one read. This could even lead to such
5704 messages being erroneously saved as comments, which then lead to
5705 crashes. The suppression mechanism now waits for a prompt, in stead of
5706 the end of buffer. This required the printing of any leftover in the
5707 buffer to be deferred until the next read completes it.
5708 The number of people kibitzed to is now printed.
5710 2010-01-11 16:30:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5711 Fix piece-to-char table -variant fairy
5713 The letters for Lance and Snake where swapped.
5715 2010-01-09 11:54:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5716 Make WinBoard makefiles use parser.c in XBoard directory
5719 2010-01-08 18:23:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5720 Docs update for new features
5723 2010-01-08 15:18:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5724 Fix new args parsing of -lowTimeWarningColor
5726 This did not occur in the XBoard color translation table yet.
5728 2010-01-08 14:16:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5729 Allow editing of holdings in EditPosition mode
5731 Dragging pieces to and from the holdings now consistently keep track of
5732 the home square of pieces and the piece counts, as does creation of
5733 pieces in the holdings through the piece menu.
5735 2010-01-08 13:59:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5736 Indicate squares a lifted piece can legally move to
5738 Under control of the new option -showTargetSquares when
5739 -highlightDragging and -testLegality are on, the squares a piece can
5740 move to are marked by fat dots in the highlightColor (non-captures) and
5741 premoveHighlightColor (captures), as soon as you grab it for dragging.
5742 In variants with mandatory capture, the capture target of other pieces
5743 is marked with the highlightColor (as non-captures are then not allowed).
5745 2010-01-08 12:35:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5746 Fix bug for incommensurate time odds
5748 After normalization (-timeOddsMode 1) the time odds factors can be
5749 non-integer, and thus must be stored as float.
5751 2010-01-08 11:41:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5752 Display PV right-clicked from EngineOutput window
5754 The clicked PV is selected and the memo gets focus, so that it is
5755 highlighted. This selection is restored in the proper place after
5756 insetrtion of a new line in the memo.
5758 2010-01-08 10:19:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5759 Display PV on right-clicking board
5762 2010-01-08 09:21:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5763 Bugfix legality null move in parsing with -testLegality off
5765 The pointers were compared, in stead of the values.
5766 Furthermore, instead of null moves, it rejected moves on the main diagonal when legality checking was off.
5768 Also exclude moves with empty squares and enemy pieces.
5770 2010-01-07 19:10:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5771 Newly lexed winboard/parser.c
5774 2010-01-07 19:05:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5775 Harmonize declarations of XBoard and WinBoard
5777 The engine-exit and settings patches make some stuff common to WinBoard
5778 and XBoard, which needed to be harmonized, and is moved to frontend.h.
5780 2010-01-07 13:07:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5781 Allow Ctrl-C copying from EngineOutput window text to clipboard
5784 2010-01-07 12:52:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5785 Allow popup-less (fatal) exit of engine after tellusererror
5788 2010-01-07 12:40:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5789 Improve layout of Engine #N Settings dialog
5791 An attempt is made to align the input fields of spins and text-edits
5793 2010-01-07 00:31:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5794 Let XBoard print version with argument --version or -v
5797 2010-01-07 00:25:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5798 Fix castling rule assignment in shuffle games
5800 The conversion to in-board storage for rights copied directly to boards[0] in steadof
5801 initialPosition, and was then overwritten when the latter was copied with uninitialized
5802 rights to boards[0]. This affected FRC and CRC, where rights are non-standard.
5804 2010-01-07 00:17:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5805 Implement castling in -variant caparandom
5807 CRC should be treated as FRC, but until now it never was. We now test for FRC_TYPE_CASTLING.
5809 2010-01-07 00:09:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5810 Fix default castling rights on reading incomplete FEN
5812 This was overlooked in the conversion to the in-board storage of rights.
5814 2010-01-07 00:03:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5815 Fix NoncompliantFEN defaults.
5817 This must be NULL to get compliant FENs, not "", which would suppress castling and e.p. fields.
5819 2010-01-06 23:54:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5820 Change format of -adapterCommand.
5822 first or f at the start of an option name are now automatically changed into second or s,
5823 rather than needing %% to be recognized. The values of -ec and -ed in the default
5824 -adapterCommand are now quoted (now XBoard understands quoting in the engine command line).
5826 2010-01-06 23:51:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5827 Make WinBoard defaults for -fd and -sd equal to "." rather than empty strings.
5830 2010-01-06 23:28:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5831 Delete old indirection settings-file code
5834 2010-01-06 21:45:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5835 Correct XBoard default debug file name
5838 2010-01-06 21:34:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5839 Suppress saving font settings.
5841 The fonts are size dependent, and might thus not be reusable in the next
5842 session. For now we therefore suppress the saving of them in the
5843 settings file, until we diversify the fonts per boardSize.
5845 2009-12-12 23:38:20 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5846 added missing sounds files to be able to compile on windows
5849 2009-12-09 17:29:37 -0700 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
5850 Changes needed to compile master branch.
5853 2009-12-06 12:11:46 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5854 implements the eval-graph window for XBoard
5857 2009-12-06 11:58:34 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5858 improves the XBoard handling of the engine command line
5860 it now understands limited forms of quoting, so engine binaries with spaces in their file name can be handled.
5862 2009-12-06 11:56:40 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5863 A better and more flexible way of invoking Polyglot
5865 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.
5867 2009-12-06 11:34:50 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5868 remove trailing \r in xboard output
5870 there is an annoying carriage return (displayed as ^M) at the end of the PV in the engine-output window, not
5871 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.
5873 2009-11-29 11:56:32 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5874 double buffer size to prevent overflow
5876 This patch doubles the size of the ICS input buffer to 16KB, to prevent
5877 the suspected overflow with -keepLineBreaksICS false when using
5878 "inchannel 1" on FICS and over 500 people are tuned in.
5880 2009-11-28 13:33:52 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5881 fix problem with empty string in -firstNeedsNoncompliantFEN
5883 This fixes a bug in the use of the -firstNeedsNoncompliantFEN option with
5884 an empty string as argument. (Which led to truncation of the FEN.)
5886 2009-11-28 13:32:12 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5887 updates makefiles to include dependency on config.h
5889 adds the dependency of wbres.o on config.c introduced by having the VersionInfo in the resource
5891 2009-11-28 13:28:00 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5892 correctly apply some check boxes from the option menu
5894 Usng the check-boxes in the Option->Adjudications menu to indicate the
5895 engine reports absolute scores is now copied directly to the ChessProgramState,
5896 from where it is used, in stead of only to appData. This makes the change take
5897 effect immediately, in stead of after restarting.
5899 2009-11-28 13:27:43 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5900 score sign in analysis mode
5902 this does not alter any of the current behavior with compliant engines,
5903 but does extend the correction for non-compliant score reporting under
5904 control of the -first(second)ScoreIsAbs option to cases where the engine
5905 is analyzing or playing on an ICS.
5907 2009-11-24 21:09:30 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5908 fix for bug #28077: xboard needs to link against x11
5910 hopefully fixed automake to take care of this
5912 2009-11-23 20:37:20 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5913 Fix castling rights when copying FEN to clipboard (again)
5915 missed a spot last time
5917 2009-11-23 20:22:58 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5918 restoring windows (EngineOutput and MoveHistory) on startup
5920 restoring the open / closed status of the
5921 auxiliary windows (EngineOutput and MoveHistory) on startup
5922 in XBoard like they do in WinBoard, which makes sense now that
5923 we aso remember their coordinates between sessions.
5925 2009-11-23 20:21:14 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5926 fixed some outstanding pixmaps
5928 fixed transparency issues
5930 2009-11-23 20:17:25 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5931 use linux style options for config file and add a system config file for XBoard
5933 This patch makes XBoard write the options to its conf file in
5934 Linux style, "-option value" rather than Windows style "/option=value".
5936 The WinBoard option parsing code has always understood both formats
5937 (including any hybrids), but the format it preferred for writing might
5938 look quite strange to Linux users. I also attached a file to be installed
5939 as /etc/xboard/xboard.conf on "make install".
5941 2009-11-23 19:58:55 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5942 fix window positioning
5944 This patch adds stuff in the header files that allow the various front-end files
5945 to share information on which windows exist, are up, and how they are positioned.
5946 The EngineOutput, MoveHistory and GameList windows now all remember their
5947 position and size, even when they are closed when XBoard exits.
5949 2009-11-23 19:51:19 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5950 same argDescriptor parsing for Xboard and Winbaord
5952 This patch makes XBoard and WinBoard use the same argDescriptor
5953 list of options, and (largely) use the same code for parsing and saving them.
5954 This is acheived by moving this code to a new file args.h, and #including this
5955 in both winboard.c and xboard.c (so that tiny differences, e.g. in default
5956 values in the table, are decided by the context). XBoard has new menu items
5957 "Save Settings Now" and "Save Settings on Exit" in the "Option" menu.
5958 XBoard uses /etc/xboard/xboard.conf as default settings file.
5959 A new option, -saveSettingsFile, can specify where settings should be saved,
5960 without parsing the file. (So that it also works if the file does not yet exist.)
5962 2009-11-22 13:00:31 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5963 new developer release
5965 changed release name to <branch>-<date>
5967 2009-11-22 12:34:13 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5968 fix the irritating wandering off of the MoveHistory window in XBoard on opening/closing.
5971 2009-11-22 12:29:47 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5972 use xtell for talking to handles, but tell for talking into a channel.
5974 by changing the chatboxes to use xtell in stead of tell, we broke
5975 the possibility to use the chat-box for chatting into a channel (which is
5976 apparently not possible with xtell).
5978 2009-11-22 12:15:15 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5979 fix bug in bughouse drop menu
5981 This patch fixes the bughouse drop menu, which was broken by the
5982 new mouse driver, and could no longer drop white Pawns.
5984 2009-11-18 19:29:57 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5985 2nd step for moving option parsing from winboard to the backend
5987 This is the next step in option-setting refactoring: All options that are
5988 defined in XBoard are now included in the WinBoard ArgDescriptor list.
5989 The handling of sound option has been harmonized: the sound names
5990 now all initially go to the appData array, (as in XB) in stead of directly to the
5991 WB-specific variables, and LoadAllSounds now takes care of the copying.
5992 A new routine ExportSounds copies them back before saving settings
5993 (which, in XBoard, could be a no-op).
5995 The definition of defaults for the XB-only options has been moved to common.h.
5997 2009-11-18 19:24:35 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5998 1st step for moving option parsing from winboard to the backend
6000 This is a preparatory step in moving option parsing of WinBoard to the back-end.
6001 The table of command-line options now contains a fifth field, holding the compiled-in default.
6002 This obviates most of the front-end routine InitAppData, which now is replaced by a table-driven
6003 initialization routine SetDefaultsFromList(), which could be back-end.
6005 2009-11-18 12:33:39 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6006 refactoring evalgraph code
6008 This is the refactored EvalGraph code: the back-end part is separated off,
6009 and put in a file evalgraph.c, which in the future can also be used with XBoard.
6010 Only the WinBoard front-end code is left in the file wevalgraph.c. A new
6011 header file defines the variables and routines they share.
6013 2009-11-18 12:29:06 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6016 some file permissions where set up wrong
6017 (e.g. execute permissions for text files)
6019 2009-11-18 11:34:22 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6020 refactoring of engineoutput
6022 This refactoring patch separates the back-end part out of
6023 xengineoutput.c, and puts it in a separate file engineoutput.c.
6024 A new header engineoutput.h included by both defines the routines
6025 for cross calling. Similarly wengineo.c will be stripped from its
6026 back-end code, (and renamed to wengineoutput.c), so WinBoard and
6027 XBoard now both use engineoutput.c rather than maintaining duplicate
6028 code in their front-end part.
6030 I also let the back-end now call EngineOutputUpdate directly, rather then
6031 through a relay in the front-end, by renaming it to SetProgramStats
6032 (the former name of the relay in winboard.c / xboard.c).
6034 Moved some templates of functions in engineoutput.c from winboard.h
6037 2009-11-14 22:13:10 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6038 fixed build on openbsd
6040 added missing header file
6042 2009-11-14 22:06:58 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6043 improve thinking-output for mulit-variant
6045 Improve multi-variant support by sorting the Thinking-Output lines of the most recent depth by score in the Engine-Output window.
6047 2009-11-14 22:05:12 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6048 fix castling rights when copying FEN to clipboard
6050 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.
6052 2009-11-14 22:03:47 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6053 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.
6056 2009-11-06 18:53:19 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6057 fixed prototype for AppendComment
6060 2009-11-06 09:06:44 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6061 cleaned up some debug messages and typos
6064 2009-11-06 09:05:09 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6065 variation-support patch
6067 It allows you to Revert to the main line (or previous variation) when
6068 playing variations on an existing game in EditGame or Analyze mode.
6070 2009-11-06 08:48:09 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6071 fix for new way of saving castling and e.p. information
6073 I forgot to make some conversions to the new-style encoding of castling there
6074 (using the enum constant NoRights instead of -1 to indicate
6075 the absence of rights, which was the price of storing the
6076 rights in the board, which is an unsigned enum type.)
6078 I also was a bit worried about portability, because I casted the enum type ChessSquare
6079 to (int) before comparing it with (possibly negative) constants EP_NONE etc.
6080 Now on my system enum types are (unsigned int), and this works, but I could
6081 imagine there are systems where this would be an unsigned char. (Not sure
6082 if there are rules for this). So to be safe I cast ChessSquare to (signed char),
6083 which should always work to make small negative ints assigned to it read
6086 2009-11-06 08:44:59 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6087 removed files that should only be in the windboard directory
6090 2009-11-05 19:32:35 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6091 add Winboard source files into tar-ball
6093 forgot to add them when rewriting the Makefile.am
6095 2009-11-05 19:23:44 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6096 Integrate castling and e.p. rights into board array; bugfix for EditPosition
6098 A large-scale operation that I have been postponing since the very first 4.4.0:
6099 The castling and e.p. rights are now integrated into the board array, as
6100 boards[moveNr][CASTLING][i] replacing castlingRights[moveNr][i] and
6101 boards[moveNr][EP_STATUS] replacing epStatus[moveNr]
6102 These quantities are now automatically copied with the position by CopyBoards
6103 (allowing the removal of lots of dedicated copying code), and passed as
6104 function arguments with the position (so that the moves.c functions like
6105 TestLegality, MateTest, CoordsToAlgebraic, Disambiguate, GenLegal
6106 no longer need explicit e.p. and castling parameters.
6108 Also fixed a bug introduced by a recent previous fix: by adding fake castling
6109 rights to a position set up through the EditPosition menu, I destroyed the
6110 castling rights of a pasted FEN. Faking castling rights is now made conditional
6111 in EditPositionDone(), depending on the caller. (I had not realized it was also
6112 called after FEN pasting, to send the position to the engine.)
6114 2009-11-05 19:03:17 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6115 added missing library for build on OS X
6117 Xmu seems to be missing
6119 2009-11-04 22:57:30 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6120 Some code refactoring and cleanup; one small bug fix
6122 Some code refactoring, mainly to bring definitions of routines and variables
6123 shared between winboard.c and one of the auxiliary-windows files
6124 whistory.c, wevalgraph.c, wgamelist.c, wengineo.c somewere in a header file
6125 (winboard.h). Unfortunately this made winboard.h dependent on data types
6126 defined in frontend.h, so that the #include order had to be changed in many
6129 The operation revealed one potentially bad bug: engineOutputDialogUp was
6130 written as int in engineo.c, but declared as char in winboard.c.
6132 I also changed the storage mechanism of the the comment and tags window
6133 positions to use WindowPlacement structs rather than simple variables,
6134 so that in the future they can be docked, like the others.
6136 I also removed some remnants of the Analysis window.
6138 The wgamelist.h and wedittags.h header files contained only 3 lines, and
6139 I absorbed them in winboard.h, rather than creating other such nearly empty
6140 headers engineo.h, whistory.h and wevalgraph.h. This affects the make files.
6142 2009-11-03 18:26:06 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6143 let the clocks run in -searchTime mode
6146 2009-11-02 17:41:12 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6147 add fixed time per move to the WinBoard time-control menu dialog
6150 2009-10-31 10:42:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6151 updated version number to unstable
6154 2009-10-31 10:25:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6155 release of version 4.4.1
6158 2009-10-30 19:59:23 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6159 cleaned up ChangeLog and NEWS
6161 2009-10-30 20:02:40 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6162 use xtell instead of tell in wchat
6164 2009-10-28 20:35:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6165 prevent buffer overflow
6167 This is a buffer-size adjustments to prevent the JAWS version from
6168 crashing when it has to read out loud very long comments.
6170 2009-10-28 02:17:16 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
6171 Further copy/paste fixes
6173 We needed to implement the XA_TARGETS target in order for more
6174 sophisticated apps to really believe we put anything on the clipboard
6177 2009-10-27 23:57:25 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
6178 Make copy/paste position and game use clipboard, bug #27810
6180 Copy actually sets both the clipboard and the selection for
6181 convenience and compatibility with the old way of doing things.
6182 Paste pastes from the clipboard by default, but the new -pasteSelection
6183 option lets you get back the old behavior of pasting from the
6186 2009-10-27 15:44:28 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6187 switch focus to the board after loading a game
6189 2009-10-27 15:32:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6190 fix for bug #27826: fixed autoDisplayComment
6192 apparently the -autoDisplayComment option was not working,
6193 not even in WinBoard. This patch should fix it,both for WB and XB.
6194 (Unfortunately xboard.c and winboard.c were using a different name
6195 for the same front-end variable I needed, so I had to change one of them.)
6197 2009-10-27 12:24:56 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6198 fix for bug #27826: ported two options to xboard
6200 also updated the documentation
6202 2009-10-27 12:22:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6205 turns out the new mouse handler broke the JAWS patch, as I discarded
6206 the function IsPromotion. I adapted it to call HasPromotionChoice instead.
6207 Also fixed two arnings by removing a no-longer needed debug print.
6209 2009-10-27 12:03:02 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6210 reformated html to be correctly validated
6212 2009-10-27 10:33:42 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6213 quick fix for "White Mates" in parser.l
6215 2009-10-27 10:32:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6218 2009-10-26 20:45:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6219 changed stderr to debug output, since stderr is closed in winboard
6221 2009-10-26 20:42:24 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6222 removing empty lines from ICS play
6224 this patch causes removal of spurious prompts during ICS play
6225 also if the prompt is preceeded by a number of empty lines
6226 (as the board for the opponent move is on FICS).
6228 2009-10-26 20:40:00 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6229 another bug in VariantSwitch: an unitialized board was printed.
6231 Must have been there a long time, but this time it crashed WinBoard.
6233 2009-10-26 20:38:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6234 more work on variant switch
6236 the previous solution to the cosmetic problem of displaying a wrong shuffle
6237 in an ICS game that was observed from the very start unfortunately turned
6238 out to cause a real error in diplaying a stored game through the smoves
6239 command, for variants not using the FIDE setup as standard.
6241 This patch displays the position from before setting up the start position
6242 of the new variant, but does setup boards[0] to the initial position of that
6243 variant. (If this is a wrong shuffle, it is thus ot displayed, and a new board
6244 will immediately be sent from the ICS to correct the shuffle.)
6246 2009-10-26 20:34:04 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6247 force full redraw in winboard
6249 Full redraw is now always forced when highlightMovesWithArrow is on,
6250 rather than only when highlight info is available. (As in drop moves the
6251 latter is invalid, but we must still erase the arrow from the previous move.)
6253 2009-10-26 20:25:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6254 fix for bug #27790 and #277772. Suppressing the display of a wrong shuffle
6255 when observing shuffle games from the first move (#27790 bis),
6256 and the sounding of the FICS bell on crazyhouse captures (#27772 bis).
6258 2009-10-26 20:22:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6259 fixed bug related to unsigned char in convert.c
6261 I also fixed the unsigned-char bug in the convert.c for bitmaps that caused the
6262 129x129 XBoard bitmaps to be defective, and a bug that required fixup with sed
6263 afterwards (so I could use it to create a new m33s.bm)
6265 2009-10-25 23:37:48 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6266 unguarded debug printf. added the appropiate if statement
6268 2009-10-25 23:31:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6269 fix for two compiler warnings
6271 2009-10-25 23:29:43 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6272 fix for bug #27799: fix for nested-nested-nested variations
6274 2009-10-25 23:21:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6275 The book-probe code forgot to close the book file after opening it.
6277 fixed by adding an fclose at two points.
6279 2009-10-25 23:18:18 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6280 removed unused v54?.bm bitmaps from resource file
6282 it seems the v54?.bmp bitmaps were actually included in the WinBoard build
6283 (in the resource file), although they were never actually used. So I have
6284 removed their inclusion in the resource file now.
6286 2009-10-25 23:05:30 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6287 replaced defective bitmaps with copies from 4.2.7
6289 2009-10-25 23:02:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6290 removed bitmaps files that are not needed any more
6292 2009-10-25 22:58:34 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6295 2009-10-24 09:41:39 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
6296 Drop an obsolete script that was only used to update my personal web site
6298 2009-10-24 01:23:29 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
6299 Silence warnings when compiling 64-bit xboard
6301 Some harmless warnings were caused by 64-bit mode having 32-bit
6302 int but 64-bit long and pointer. Add casts (etc.) to silence them.
6303 This might require adding a definition of intptr_t (a signed int
6304 type that is the same width as a pointer) on old systems that don't
6307 2009-10-24 00:56:37 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
6308 Fix up man page some more
6310 Sigh, the project history was still partly in reverse chronological
6311 order and partly in forward order. Swapped the order of some
6312 sentences to help straighten it out. I don't really care about this,
6313 so other project members should feel free to do what they like here,
6314 but the messed-up order was bugging me.
6316 2009-10-24 00:46:20 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
6317 Fix some issues in the XBoard man page
6319 Correct places where the XBoard man page was calling XBoard
6320 "WinBoard". Change references to "WinBoard engines" and "WinBoard
6321 protocol" to "XBoard/WinBoard ...". Update bug reporting guidelines.
6322 Reorganize project history to something more like chronological order
6323 -- it had gotten pretty randomly ordered.
6325 2009-10-22 21:45:32 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6326 new pre-release version; updated version numbers
6328 2009-10-22 21:33:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6329 This patch adds <Enter> to the characters that cause an automatic
6330 switch to the ICS console when typed to the board window.
6332 2009-10-22 21:31:16 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6333 fix to the minor graphics issue contained some typos,
6334 as was remarked in the bugs reports
6336 2009-10-22 21:30:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6337 improved mouse handler
6339 The improved mouse handler still needed an extra call to DrawPosition to
6342 2009-10-22 21:28:38 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6343 NPS plays and pondering
6345 Clock updating did not work correctly in node-based time controls when the
6346 engine was pondering. (It was not really meant for use with pondering. Oh well...)
6347 This patch checks if the engine reporting the node count is indeed thinking
6348 (as opposed to pondering).
6350 2009-10-22 21:25:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6351 holdings update and regression fix
6353 The holdings-update patch was not yet satisfactory, because FICS seems to send
6354 holdings both before and after the board! And those received before did overwrite
6355 the holdings received after the previous board. I know tried to fix that in a kludgey
6356 way, by hiding a flag in the board that tells if the holdings have already been written
6357 by the ICS or not, and ignore new holdings when they are. (Except in bughouse,
6358 where holdings updates cannot be tied to a particular board and multiple updates
6359 between boards are normal. (I hope?).)
6361 I also undid a regression in my previous fix for the minor graphics problem,
6362 and solved it in a slightly different way to prevent flicker.
6364 2009-10-22 21:23:39 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6365 improved mouse handler
6367 I improved the mouse handler in a way which will preclude disappearence of pieces
6368 on off-board or ambiguous (in-between squares) drag & drop moves. (As was reported
6369 in the "premove bug?" thread. Also the command-line premove problem reported there
6370 is now fixed, by removing the prefixing.
6372 2009-10-22 21:18:05 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6373 fix for bug #8847: moving backward while examining on FICS not reported to engine
6375 I moved Daniel's code that backs up the engine when a bord with a
6376 lower number is received to a place where it is always done in zippy mode,
6377 rather than only when the engine is analyzing.
6379 Apart from taking back moves, there was also the case where the
6380 user moves forward by more than one move (usually immediately to
6381 end-of-game). In this case a new movelist is fetched from the ICS
6382 to recover the moves that were skipped. But this assumes that the
6383 engine is at the start of the game and feeds all these moves to the
6384 engine. So the engine had to be reset in this case to stay in sync.
6386 2009-10-22 21:16:56 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6387 better init for random number generator
6389 2009-10-21 23:01:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6390 fix for bug #27772: holdings not updated
6392 holdings lines from the ICS nor update the holdings
6393 of boards[forwardMostMove] in stead of boards[currentMove].
6395 2009-10-21 21:32:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6396 allowe parsing / disambiguation of SAN moves like Xe4 in certain situations
6398 This patch allows parsing / disambiguation of SAN moves like Xe4, if there
6399 is only one wild-card piece X on the board. Moves with wild-card pieces
6400 are now considered illegal if they leave the King in check by a piece of
6403 2009-10-20 19:09:46 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6404 fixed bug when switching to variantsuper
6406 2009-10-20 19:06:43 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6407 fix for bug #27715: 2 (minor) graphic issues
6409 I forced a total redraw when Reset is called from the ICS code in case a
6410 new game is encountered, in the hope it will make the reported
6411 (irreproducible) problem go away. As game switches are not frequent, I
6412 guess there is hardly any downside to this.
6414 2009-10-20 18:57:17 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6415 fix for bug #27667: PV line missing in analysis window, part 3
6417 "3. Wish for Engine state string (right to the icon):
6418 Can you add the actual search depth in analyzing mode? A change like "
6420 I also added the requested display of depth of the analysis move in the
6421 EngineOutput window. I guess a similar change could be made to wengineo.c
6422 (as this is in the code they share in common), but no one ever requested
6423 that in the 5 years since Alessandro wrote it. So for now I leave it alone.
6425 2009-10-20 18:52:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6426 fix for bug #27760: debug printf in backend.c and additional check for variant
6428 2009-10-19 23:17:46 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6429 fix for bug #10990: cmail does not seem to support .cmailgames or .cmailaliases
6431 this is correct, deleted the text out of the documentation that claims we support it
6433 2009-10-19 18:40:40 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6434 new alpha version; first one with new naming scheme
6436 2009-10-19 18:07:21 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6437 smarter analysis of the boards that XBoard receives from an ICS
6439 I added smarter analysis of the boards that XBoard receves from an ICS,
6440 based on board size and piece types in the position, to recognize cases
6441 where the board does not match the current variant, and switch to an
6442 appropriate variant.
6444 2009-10-19 18:04:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6445 fix for bug #27667: window should be reference to toplevel
6447 The remaining objections of #27667 should be fixed by bringing the
6448 EngineOutput window under control of the TOPLEVEL compile-time switch.
6450 2009-10-19 18:02:42 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6451 partly fix for bug #27715: scaling of menu bar
6453 the menu bar to the left edge of the window.
6455 2009-10-19 17:59:43 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6456 fixed bug reported in WB forum: second game of a match would
6457 not start when using the GUI book
6459 2009-10-19 17:57:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6460 fix for bug #27751: negative holding counts displayed
6462 I put code in the back-end to prevent holdings counts from
6463 becoming negative when a drop move is made from empty holdings.
6464 (This can happen when re-loading ICS bughouse games,
6465 as the smoves command fails to fill the holdings.)
6467 2009-10-18 20:54:53 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6468 Updated compiling instructions.
6470 2009-10-18 11:32:55 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6471 Changes to allow fonts with any charset (such as terminal)
6473 Affects winboard only.
6475 2009-10-16 23:02:41 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6476 Moved SIGWINCH signal so it can be used...
6478 I goofed putting this in StartChildProcess() originally.
6480 2009-10-16 22:54:12 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6481 Added internal wrapping ability.
6484 -wrapContinuationSequence "foo" (default: "\\ "
6485 -useInternalWrap (Winboard default: false, XBoard default: true)
6487 Note: -keepLineBreaksICS if set, prevents wrapping, usurping the
6488 useInternalWrap setting. The idea is if you want to keep ICS line
6489 breaks, then you don't want internal wrapping. Because of this,
6490 the new default for keepLineBreaksICS is now false for XBoard.
6492 2009-10-16 19:14:34 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6493 fixed segfaul in convert.c used to convert pixmaps
6495 2009-10-15 19:46:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6496 new mousehandler to correct for premove and promotion popup
6498 this is the new mouse handler for XBoard, which should fully implement
6499 premove, including promotion popup, and yet suppress the promotion popup
6500 on illegal moves that are not premoves. It is almost completely moved to
6501 the back-end now, so that WinBoard will be able to use it as well. I just
6502 must hook it up to winboard.c, in particular harmonize the call-backs of
6503 the mouse driver into the front-end for grabbing and releasing pieces for
6504 dragging, to make sure they have the same names and arguments.
6506 2009-10-15 19:32:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6507 updated black fairy pieces
6509 here is a set of black fairy pieces with opaque white details,
6510 so they have the same style as the orthodox XBoard pieces.
6512 2009-10-15 16:54:51 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6513 Adjustment to joining to work around server not always including space.
6515 This patch implements commit 98aa02bda540f17f1f50be00e494efafe439b004
6516 into the updated joining routine. This issue seems not to be server
6517 variance, but instead the server electing to omit the space between
6518 words when it occurs at exactly your width setting (-1 actually).
6520 This patch makes the joiner add back the space just like the referenced
6521 commit. Note: this is just a workaround to a server issue-- the joiner
6522 actually joins correctly before this patch.
6524 2009-10-15 07:18:42 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6525 Fixed joiner detection, allowing it to work with timeseal
6527 When timeseal's buffer fills in the middle of the continuation
6528 sequence, detection fails, and the lines aren't joined.
6530 As a result of this fix, measures intended to bypass joining are
6531 no longer needed, so I removed them. These utilize server vars
6532 when available to prevent splitting.
6534 2009-10-14 14:42:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6535 fixed engingeoutput routine
6537 removed outdated code regarding analysis window
6539 2009-10-14 14:39:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6540 moved bitmap to correct location
6542 was misplaced in a previous commit
6544 2009-10-14 14:26:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6545 fixed wrong number of arguments for EngineOutputPopUp
6547 2009-10-13 21:00:27 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6548 new bitmap converter (including fill option) and new pixmaps
6550 2009-10-13 20:52:40 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6551 forgot to add these two lines to the last commit
6553 2009-10-13 20:51:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6554 removed AnalysisPopUp. Use EngineOutputPopUp instead
6556 this was already in Winboard, copied it to xboard and removed unused code.
6558 2009-10-13 20:32:32 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6559 Proper board and holdings size when switching to variants
6560 gothic, capablanca, great and super within an ICS game.
6562 2009-10-13 20:25:13 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6563 cleaned up an old #ifdef in zippy
6565 2009-10-12 19:25:17 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6566 neglected this for the auto-width updating in xboard
6568 2009-10-12 19:19:59 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6569 Added server width adjustment based on client width changes
6571 2009-10-12 19:14:53 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6572 silence some compiler warnings
6574 2009-10-11 18:39:24 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6575 Maintainence to support all compilers.
6577 2009-10-11 17:07:27 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6578 Adjusted alternative joining method to obey keepLineBreaksICS
6580 2009-10-11 14:48:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6581 fix for bug #27668: e.p. field still not passed to engine
6583 PositionToFEN now takes the e.p. rights from epStatus[moveNr],
6584 rather than calculating it on the spot from moveList[moveNr-1]
6585 (which failed on the first move).
6587 2009-10-11 14:46:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6588 fix for bug #27666: naming of variants
6590 Variant names "misc/xxx" are recognized as "normal", rather than "xxx"
6591 to not get confused by the board "misc shogi" run by FICS.
6593 2009-10-11 10:14:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6594 changed enable menus
6596 Put the "Open Chat Window", "Machine Both", and "Engine #N Settings" menu items
6597 in the appropriate enable lists for graying them out wen not applicable.
6599 2009-10-11 10:13:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6600 Added a command-line option -keepLineBreaksICS true/false to control line joining.
6602 2009-10-10 19:30:23 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6603 Added code to prevent unnecessary width updates.
6605 2009-10-10 18:34:37 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6606 Turned off wrap when possible on ICS servers.
6608 Turning off line wrap prevents splitting lines up using the
6609 continuation sequence "\\ ". This is desirable when using
6610 timeseal because timeseal's buffer is sometimes too small,
6611 causing it to break lines itself. These lines can't be joined.
6613 2009-10-10 16:30:56 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6614 vsnprintf() must be _vsnprintf() for MSVC
6616 2009-10-10 16:16:45 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6617 added code to handle initial width update
6619 2009-10-10 14:21:12 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6620 Added width updates to ICS client on font and window size changes
6622 What still needs to be done is placing an update call after login
6623 to initialize with the correct width. I didn't see where to put
6626 2009-10-10 14:19:30 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6627 added ics_printf() and ics_update_width() and utility functions
6629 2009-10-10 11:15:50 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6630 Cleaned up ConsoleWndProc (not complete, see below)
6632 Using static variables this way is not appropriate. I only addressed
6633 hInput and hText in this commit though. But imagine the WndProc being
6634 used by multiple windows instead of just one, and you can see why
6635 using static variables in this way is wrong.
6637 2009-10-10 11:12:10 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6638 Restructured URL code so it fits better with how winboard is set up.
6640 2009-10-10 08:57:39 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6641 cleanup: removed "#if 1" statements
6643 2009-10-10 08:55:21 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6644 cleanup: removed "#if 0" from source
6646 a bit of cleanup of the source code
6648 2009-10-10 08:34:10 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6649 fix joining of lines split by ICS
6651 This patch fixes the joining of lines that were split by an ICS, so that adding
6652 a space at the break point is done only when there was not a space already.
6653 (Some ICS leave a space at the end of the broken line, others do not.)
6654 An extra space would interefere with board12 in Gothic Chess, which is so
6655 long that the ICS breaks it, and the WB parser could not handle a double
6656 space within the board.
6658 2009-10-10 08:27:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6659 fix for bug #27642: Clock jumps strangely in engine mode
6661 This moves SwitchClocks() back to after incrementing forwardMostMove,
6662 so that it knows again who has the move (which was broken by the "bare" patch),
6663 and will take the appropriate tick length.
6665 2009-10-10 08:26:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6666 removed test for premove
6668 this was added while looking for the premove bug, but is not needed
6670 2009-10-10 02:03:45 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6671 added URL detection and provided hotlinks in the ICS client
6673 2009-10-10 02:00:52 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6674 reverted winboard.c beofre URL commit to correct whitespace conversion
6676 2009-10-09 02:14:22 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6677 Added URL detection into the console text window for ICS.
6679 2009-10-08 23:51:06 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6680 added some comments and formated code
6682 2009-10-08 23:46:52 -0700 Chris Rorvick <>:
6683 fix printing out help message (list of command line options) (tiny change)
6685 The postfix increment always resulted in an attempt to print out an
6686 option on the right side regardless of one actually existing. Use
6687 prefix increment to prevent a crash when printing an odd number of
6690 2009-10-09 00:04:51 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6691 Updated navigation accelerators, fixing ICS problems.
6693 Recent changes to the navigation accelerators were in the wrong
6694 accelerator table. Since the goal was to correct non-JAWS versions
6695 back to 4.2.7 behavior, I updated it to how 4.2.7 did it, but still
6696 retained the #ifdef JAWS conditional compilation.
6698 On an ICS, the navigation keys took control away from the ics
6699 client to navigate the game. The update requires the ALT key to
6700 be pressed, but it works identical to 4.2.7, not causing an
6701 unexpected focus back to the board window when you're just editing
6704 2009-10-08 20:33:39 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6705 fixed premove recapture problem;promotion popup appearing on
6706 obviously illegal moves; promotions in Superchess and Great Shatranj
6708 1) the premove recapture problem
6709 2) the promotion popup appearing on obviously illegal moves (the 1. e2a8
6711 3) promotions in Superchess and Great Shatranj, where the piece can now be
6712 selected from the holdings
6714 2009-10-08 20:28:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6715 added forceIllegalMove to xboard
6717 2009-10-05 21:01:32 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6718 bugfix: segfault when invalid option argument was given (bug #27427)
6720 when given a wrong argument to an option (e.g. -tc 0) xboard aborts
6721 before setting up the window, but tried to write a message to the
6722 messageWidget which doesn't exist at that point.
6724 2009-10-05 20:05:00 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6725 small improvement for JAWS version
6727 This is a patch to make JAWS read out any comments when /autoDiplaycomment=true.
6728 As focus does not stay on the Comment window, the comment was not spoken otherwise.
6730 2009-10-05 20:02:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6731 updated to winboard internationalization scripts
6733 Also a slight improvement of the internationalization scripting,
6734 to prevent it from crashing on messages containing a slash.
6736 2009-10-05 20:01:53 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6737 new forceIllegalMoves option
6739 The -forceIllegalMoves option uses setboard or edit to force a position
6740 when an engine refuses the move leading to it by an "Illegal Move" message.
6741 Especially for engines using the edit command this was a bit tricky,
6742 because of the a2a3 kludge to avoid using the white and black commands.
6744 2009-10-05 01:01:54 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6745 removed _winmajor if not defined so that VC 2008 can compile the project
6747 The oldDialog variable should just be set to 0 in all cases now, and
6748 as such, legacy code supporting the old dialog ought to be removed.
6749 The test for _winmajor is against < 4, which is always false at present,
6750 causing oldDialog to be 0 in every conceviable circumstance.
6752 2009-10-04 09:58:29 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6753 getting ready for 4.4.1 release
6755 2009-10-02 20:47:01 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6756 Simplified future version changes.
6758 Added a numeric version to config.h that is now used in winboard.rc
6759 instead of being hard-coded there. Just be sure to preserve the
6760 proper format (4 comma-separated 16 bit integers) or else it won't
6763 2009-10-02 16:56:01 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6764 updated version number to 4.4.1.pre
6766 should have done this straight after the last release, but forgot...
6768 2009-10-02 16:48:03 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6769 worked on premove bug
6771 I made an attempt to make premove unsensitive to a race condition,
6772 just in case the premove problem was caused by that (which seems unlikely,
6773 but in any case I added some debug printout to test this).
6775 2009-10-02 16:41:12 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6776 fixed loading of saved games via command line
6778 the variables forwardMostMove and backwardMostMove where set to zero
6781 2009-10-02 16:39:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6782 small fixes for the JAWS version
6784 * I moved saying 'check' by the JAWS version to where castling also benefits from it.
6785 * I made sure the check symbols are also recognized on promotion moves
6786 * In the non-JAWS version, define the plain arrows as shortcut keys for the button bar
6788 2009-10-01 16:50:28 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6789 Fixed bug dereferencing garbage, causing crash.
6791 Commit fa8be4a3fc5d81e9ec1f6c218fcf55c95d34fd10 included code to free the
6792 resultDetails of the gameInfo structure. That exact code exists a few lines
6793 above where it was added. None of these free() calls finish by setting the
6794 member to NULL afterword, therefore repeated attempts to test/free() the
6795 members result in an attempt to free() memory winboard no longer owns, and
6798 link to problematic commit: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/xboard.git/commit/?id=fa8be4a3fc5d81e9ec1f6c218fcf55c95d34fd10
6800 2009-10-01 16:49:57 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6801 Added wchat.c to the project files we maintain.
6803 2009-10-01 15:52:50 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6804 Previous fix for VC++/strcasecmp() was wrong-- use StrCaseCmp().
6806 2009-10-01 14:49:58 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6807 Add resource ID for new Mute menu item.
6809 I know this was probably done by HG, and simply left out of
6810 his commit. Anyway, the project can be built now after this change.
6812 2009-10-01 14:49:09 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6813 Use of strcasecmp() broke Visual C++.
6815 2009-09-30 20:47:00 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6816 wrong default value for engineDebugOutput
6818 the new default is now 1
6820 2009-09-29 22:55:41 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6821 updated cmail.in to adapt the CVS->git change
6823 don't reference $Revision:$ anymore.
6824 Instead use reference xboard-version via autoconf.
6826 2009-09-29 22:04:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6827 bugfix for protocol extensions: egtbpath -> egtpath
6829 A new and very bad bug was discovered in the implementation of
6830 the protocol extensions: XBoard sends a command "egtbpath" to the
6831 engine in stead of "egtpath" from the protocol specs.
6832 After discussion on WB forum it was decided that egtpath was better
6833 than the egtbpath I originally had proposed, and I changed it accordingly,
6834 but I had not realized that this string occurred TWICE in backend.c,
6835 depending on if matched the -defaultPathEGTB of -egtFormats option.
6836 I only changed the first occurence.
6838 2009-09-27 12:27:44 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6839 fix for edit-position "moves" being sent by XBoard to the engine
6841 2009-09-27 12:25:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6842 Engine did not start playing when out of GUI book on second move with white
6844 2009-09-27 12:24:30 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6845 Opening Engine #1 Settings crashed XBoard when there were no
6846 text-edit options in the dialog (to which to set keyboard focus)
6849 2009-09-27 12:18:35 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6850 added a "Mute All Sounds" item in the WinBoard Options menu, on Eric's request
6852 2009-09-27 12:15:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6853 Updated the RTF docs for the chat windows, engine-settings dialog,
6854 /keepAlive option and new game-list tag
6856 2009-09-27 12:14:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6857 Made the beep sounds for JAWS board navigation configurable through
6858 command-line options
6860 2009-09-27 12:11:49 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6861 Prepared a system to internationalize the WinBoard menus
6863 2009-09-27 12:10:38 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6864 added the result comment to the game-list tags when the game list is
6865 exported to the clipboard
6867 2009-09-27 12:05:32 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6868 rewrote wevalgraph for better frontend/backend separation
6870 I have finished re-writing the eval-graph code to have some
6871 front-end / backe-end separation, something I had already started on my
6872 holiday in Norway (when I had no internet :-) ).
6873 The new code now appears to work exactly like the old code,
6874 and I guess it could be ported to gtk comparatively easily.
6876 2009-09-27 12:00:51 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6877 fix for keepalive and chat window
6879 I made a fix to the keepAlive option so it does not send the date command
6880 to the ICS after every move. This required changing ScheduleDelayedEvent()
6881 so that it does not execute the event if a new identical one gets scheduled.
6882 I also added the option to XBoard. Affects xboard.c (DOS!) and winboard.c
6884 (This also cures the regression of the winboard.c copyright patch)
6886 I extended the chatbox patch to also listen to channel tells, and divert
6887 them to a chatbox for that channel number. Affects
6888 backend.c and wchat.c
6890 That should make those patches fully operational. No docs for either of them
6893 2009-09-27 10:36:23 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6894 fixed parse bug for pgn files
6896 fixed the existing bug that the time-control tag was displayed as "?"
6897 in the game list; turns out it was never parsed on reading PGN files
6899 2009-09-27 10:35:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6900 allow the result comment as a display item in the game list
6902 2009-09-27 10:35:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6903 fixed the HAVE_LIBXPM-dependent compile errors
6905 2009-09-27 10:24:47 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6906 added a chat window to keep track of multiple conversations
6908 The chat-window patch affects:
6909 winboard.c, backend.c, winboard.rc, resource.h, backend.h, and adds
6910 the file winboard/wchat.c, which also affects makefile.gcc and makefile.ms.
6912 In addition I added a new option -keepAlive, which affects
6913 common.h (in addition to winboard.c and backend.c).
6915 As I had to modify backend.h, I also defined the -reset option type there,
6916 which we are going to add later. This required some changes
6917 to suppress warnings in wsettings.c.
6919 2009-09-27 10:22:16 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6920 more files for git to ignore
6922 most of these are generated by make distcheck
6924 2009-09-08 09:33:53 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6925 another bug fix found by Stanislav Brabec
6927 returned -1 in some case although the variable was a char...
6928 changed to signed char
6930 2009-09-20 23:13:13 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6931 Swapped 'tell' and 'message' parsing order for colorization.
6932 Sometimes messages are relayed as tells and should be colorized as tells.
6934 2009-09-08 09:10:34 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6935 added some more files to be distributed via make dist
6937 as suggested by Stanislav Brabec
6939 2009-09-08 09:01:07 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6940 fixed some implicit declarations reported by Stanislav Brabec
6942 2009-09-07 22:04:39 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6943 fixed a few more small bugs reported by Stanislav Brabec
6945 - A function uses a 'return;' statement, but has actually a value to
6946 return, like an integer ('return 42;') or similar: xboard voidreturn
6947 xengineoutput.c:766, 782
6949 - Program returns random data in a function at xengineoutput.c:602
6951 - With a new toolchain, AM_LDFLAGS cannot contain libraries. Linker
6952 ignores them. Fix is attached.
6954 - ToDo: Convenient name in most projects is TODO (autotools package it
6957 2009-09-06 19:11:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6958 reverted .texi file and fixed Makefile.am
6960 the problem was actually not in the texi-file, but the Makefile.am.
6961 Reverted changes in the .texi and fixed it (hopefully) correctly now.
6963 2009-09-06 18:23:01 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6964 get "make distcheck" to work
6966 needed to add all *.h files to Makefile.am and also the bitmaps that
6967 are needed and some other files. Also had modified copyright.texi.
6969 2009-09-05 09:54:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6970 changed to version 4.4.0
6972 2009-09-05 09:44:21 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6973 updated AUTHORS, README and ChangeLog files for release
6975 2009-09-05 08:52:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6978 2009-09-04 22:39:45 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6979 set castling rights after setting up a position
6981 I was going through old WB forum posts, and I encountered a
6982 bug report for a bug that I never fixed: The castling rights should
6983 be properly set (actually: cleared) after setting up a position
6984 in Edit Position mode (as opposed to pasting a FEN).
6986 2009-09-03 23:11:18 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6987 removed install files from master
6989 they now live in their own branch
6991 2009-09-03 22:30:18 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6992 updated polyglot protocol
6994 I added a new option type "-reset" to the protocol for the new option feature.
6995 4.4.0 does not implement it yet, but Michel wants it for future Polyglots,
6996 and I think it is best to update the protocol in one big swoop.
6997 So I want to already include it in the specs now. (engine-intf.html)
6998 I made xboard's response to an unknown option type compliant
6999 with the new protocol specs.
7001 2009-09-03 22:28:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7004 2009-09-03 20:47:13 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7005 Updated project files for DevCpp and Visual Studio to add wsettings.c
7007 2009-09-03 20:46:33 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7008 Added newline at end of file to silence warning.
7010 2009-08-31 20:29:49 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7011 workaround for error message for missing pieces used in variants
7012 and initstring bugfix: error messages showed for non-existing pieces
7013 showed up for old user supplied pixmaps.
7014 Loading a pixmap of the king for the missing pieces now.
7016 Another bad bug surfaced: the -initString argument does not work in any
7017 XBoard version! (Including 4.2.7b) The escape sequences for linefeed in
7018 the string are not understood: -initString "new\nrandom\n" actually sends
7019 the \ and n to the engine (which then does not recognize the line as a
7022 So I also added a patch to expand escape sequences in the InitString and
7023 ComputerString command-line options.
7025 2009-08-31 20:27:24 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7026 updated installe script
7028 I re-organized the doc files in the install, so they now all go in the
7029 WinBoard\doc folder (and none in the root). I so included the COPYING
7030 and COPYRIGHT files there. This required some updates of the links in
7031 some html files, and of the menu link to README.html in the install script.
7032 I also fixed an error with the current directory
7033 in the menu short-cuts of some engines (which started in the fonts folder,
7034 and could not find the opening book there...).
7036 2009-08-31 20:25:17 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7037 updated documentation
7039 2009-08-31 20:20:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7040 updated installer script
7042 2009-08-31 19:51:48 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7043 new help files for windows
7045 2009-08-25 20:41:29 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7048 2009-08-25 20:36:53 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7049 undid some previous changes
7051 some files got mixed up
7053 2009-08-25 20:32:22 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7054 fixed small bug in wsetting
7056 2009-08-25 20:29:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7057 trigger a focus switch to ICS input field when typing
7059 old behavior was that "." or "," triggered this,
7060 now every printable character except 1-9 will trigger the focus switch
7062 2009-08-25 20:26:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7063 bug in backend.c when receiving lines from ICS
7065 A space was appended to every character received from an ICS
7066 in stead of just at line breaks.
7068 2009-08-24 23:47:48 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7069 fixed warning messages from compiler
7071 2009-08-23 14:24:38 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7074 this seems to fix it. Bug reported by Louis Zulli who also did the testing.
7076 2009-08-23 11:54:28 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7077 OK, this is the beefed up version of the Polyglot info-string kludge,
7080 2009-08-23 10:22:48 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7081 added missing X_LIBS references to Makefile.am
7083 2009-08-22 23:33:44 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7084 made the install script and executable
7086 2009-08-22 23:19:07 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7087 changed beta1 to beta2
7089 2009-08-22 23:14:11 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7090 fixed enable zippy in configure script and added some checks for OS X
7092 make tried to compile zippy even when --disable-zippy was given.
7093 Also fixed a bug in xboard.c where #ifdef instead of #if was used
7094 to test for ZIPPY (it's either 0 or 1, so we need #if). Also added
7095 some special checks for OS X, not sure if these will do it, but it's a start;)
7097 2009-08-22 19:09:54 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7098 added configure summary to configure output, also cleaned up configure.ac a bit
7100 used AS_HELP_STRING where possible
7102 2009-08-22 18:10:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7103 added check for malloc.h
7105 this should fix a build error on OS X
7107 2009-08-22 17:47:44 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7108 A small cosmetic change in the size of buttons
7109 inside a groupbox of the Engine-Setup dialog.
7111 2009-08-22 17:32:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7112 make xboard usable with UCI engines
7114 I made a small patch in xoptions.c (where the corresponding Engine Settings
7115 dialog was for XBoard), to make it at least usable for UCI engines: I now
7116 divide the options over upto 4 columns, if there are too many to fit into
7117 a single column. This seems to work. Still looks very ugly, but it is
7120 2009-08-22 17:30:05 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7121 fix premove for winboard
7123 This might fix the illusive premove problem. In 4.2.7 the code was not properly
7124 indented, and this led to an unbalanced braces error that I then fixed the
7125 wrong way. Click-click premoves did only work after clicking the toSquare twice.
7126 It might be that they actually did work after clicking it once,
7127 but that the highlights were not displayed (although set)
7128 for lack of a display refresh.
7130 2009-08-22 17:28:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7131 fixed bug for double saved games
7133 This patch should solve the problem with doubly saved games when XBoard is
7134 closed. I calculate a cecksum of each saved game now (including move comments),
7135 and suppress saving if the checksum is not changed.
7137 2009-08-22 17:25:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7138 fixed xengineoutput.c, to keep the duplicated code identical to that of wengineo.c.
7140 2009-08-22 17:24:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7141 updated xboard.texi: added warning that pixmaps are not build for all variants
7143 2009-08-22 17:19:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7144 added a dialog for engine-specific option settings
7146 2009-08-22 17:09:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7147 updated some documentation
7149 2009-08-22 17:07:10 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7150 fixed several bugs in the backend and added some more polyglot support
7152 * I added recognition for the new UCI3 option types that are recognized in the WB
7153 option features, to make sure this version is compatible with future Polyglots.
7154 Also fixed a bug that failed to strip an asterisk prefix from the first
7157 * I fixed the ICS-time-in-PGN bug.
7159 * I fixed a bug which caused a space to be missing when long lines broken up by
7162 2009-08-22 17:02:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7163 better polyglot support for engine ouput
7165 I fixed the algorithm for clearing the Engine Output window to work better with
7166 the latest Polyglot, whight outputs UCI "info strings" amongst the thinking
7169 2009-08-22 16:23:32 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7170 Beginnings of installer for 4.4.0. HGM asked me to forward the nsi file,
7171 but it seemed best to just add the installer tree to git even though
7172 it's not finished. You must install NSIS then FontName-0.7.exe
7173 (included in installer folder) then run build.bat in the same directory.
7175 2009-08-05 22:18:29 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7176 patch backend.c to make the -noGUI option also work in ICS mode.
7178 2009-08-01 13:09:49 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7179 temporary fix for pre-select
7181 As a temporary kludge I replaced looking into the holdings for the piece type
7182 by figuring out which piece would belong on the clicked holdings square.
7183 This is a non-trivial process, as it depends on which pieces participate
7184 in a certain variant.
7186 2009-07-30 00:19:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7187 changed click-click moves
7189 I got complaints about the way XBoard 4.4.0 handles click-click moves,
7190 in particular changing the selected piece after selecting King
7191 (for which I suppressed interference with FRC castling in a rather brutal way).
7192 People tell me it is very annoying that clicks sometimes don't work to select a piece.
7193 WinBoard uses refined logic in the back-end to handle this, but the XBoard
7194 front-end is not interfaced with that yet.
7195 (This would require a major rewrite of the mouse handler.)
7196 This temporary patch suppresses this behavior in all variants that do not support
7197 Fischer castling, and even there only exhibit it for Rook-after-King selection
7198 (which will be interpreted as an attempt to enter a castling move as K x own R).
7200 2009-07-26 08:43:35 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7201 option -adjudicateDrawMoves is not included in the XBoard list.
7203 added it to the option list
7205 2009-07-21 20:23:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7206 converted files from dos to unix format
7208 run dos2unix over a bunch of files
7210 2009-07-16 07:43:38 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7211 Stripped out unused VersionInfo
7213 2009-07-15 23:16:19 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7214 changed version to 4.4.0.beta1
7216 2009-07-15 23:12:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7217 updated INSTALL file to add ./autogen.sh
7219 2009-07-15 22:44:05 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7220 higher number of engine options possible now
7222 I upped the number of options per engine from
7223 50 to 100, and the average number of characters per option from 10 to 20.
7225 2009-07-15 12:30:37 -0600 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7228 2009-07-14 23:41:36 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7229 Added version information to resources.
7231 2009-07-14 23:40:50 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7232 Added Jaws targets to IDE projects.
7234 2009-07-14 23:39:12 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7235 Final makefile adjustments and compiling instructions.
7237 2009-07-13 22:35:17 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7238 Cleaned up garbage left behind from my makefile update.
7240 2009-07-13 22:26:56 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7241 Updated cmdline makefiles to be able to produce JAWS binaries.
7243 This breaks support for MSVC 4.x. It may still be possible to
7244 use that compiler if you obtain the latest SDK from Microsoft.
7245 MSVC 6.0 still works, but I had to change the target windows
7246 version to 0x500 which causes warnings about building beta
7247 applications. This is all due to the use of MENUBARINFO data
7248 type in the jaws binary. You can reduce the WINVER to 0x0400
7249 safely if you are not building a JAWS binary, and MSVC 4.x
7252 2009-07-13 22:26:10 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7253 Removed dependency on jfwapi.h
7255 Allows anyone to compile a jaws compatible binary.
7257 2009-07-13 22:23:31 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7258 Fixed duplicate resource in winboard.rc
7260 PLEASE remember to pull before commiting. This is the 2nd
7261 time I've fixed this. It's a waste of time to keep fixing
7264 2009-07-13 19:36:58 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7265 resolved conflict between Xt and Xaw libraries
7267 seems like we don't need to link against Xt.
7269 2009-07-13 19:33:57 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7270 help-menu was not un-grayed in the JAWS version, when it played with engines
7272 2009-07-13 19:29:53 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7273 integrated jaws into winboard
7275 I integrated the JAWS patch now into WinBoard in such a way that the
7276 JAWS and standard version can use the same resource file. This new
7277 winboard.c contains the improved dialog layot of the JAWS version,
7278 but none of the menus and JAWS-specific acclerator keys. The latter
7279 are now generated at run time by code in jaw.s. As a result jaws.h
7280 could be cancelled, as there the JAWS-specific defines are no
7281 longer needed outside jaws.c (now the .rc does not use them), and
7282 is incorporated in it.
7284 2009-07-12 15:37:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7285 fixed problem in autoconf using Xaw3d
7287 rewrote the section for Xaw3d in the autoconf file
7289 2009-07-12 15:29:28 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7290 Added Jaws support to GCC makefile
7292 2009-07-12 15:28:20 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7293 added help support: MSVC IDE and DevCpp IDE project files
7295 2009-07-12 15:26:49 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
7296 Removed obsolete makefiles and support files.
7298 2009-07-12 12:33:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7299 updated AUTHORS with the help of git. use
7301 git log --pretty=oneline --name-only --author=AUTHORNAME v4.2.7..HEAD |sort |uniq
7303 a bit of hand editing and a quick emacs macro later and you have a nice
7304 comma seperated list of all files changes by one author between two commits.
7306 2009-07-12 12:31:47 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7307 updated Changelog using git log --no-merges --pretty="* %ai: %s%n %b" HEAD v4.2.7
7309 2009-07-12 11:34:28 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7310 cleaned up some more copyright notices
7312 2009-07-12 11:22:30 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7313 updated copyright to reflect A. Scotte as copyright holder
7315 need to mention him, since the paperwork won't be finished before the next release
7317 2009-07-12 10:56:29 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7318 updated patchlevel to "k"
7320 2009-07-12 10:53:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7321 fixed autoconf problem with VERSION/PATCHLEVEL variables
7323 xboard used it's own version of PRODUCT, VERSION and PATCHLEVEL variables.
7324 Switched to PACKAGE_STRING provided by autoconf
7326 2009-07-12 10:29:46 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7327 cleaned up old CVS left overs
7329 removed $Id tags from all files
7331 2009-07-12 10:10:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7332 converted xhistory via dos2unix
7334 2009-07-12 10:09:24 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7335 fixed crash in history window
7337 someone discovered that opening the move-history window in XBoard leads to
7338 an immediate crash. Turns out that renaming the menu item broke it! (The
7339 name of the item was apprently used elsewhere in the code to access it,
7340 for putting a check mark there.)
7342 2009-07-12 10:04:30 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7343 fix for Animation of castling moves in Chess960
7345 Animation of castling moves in Chess960 turned out to sometimes make the
7346 king disappear from the display. For the time being I patched this in
7347 xboard.c to suppress animation of FRC castling moves altogether. As FRC
7348 castlings internally are represented as KxR, the to-square does not make
7349 sense anyway, which made the animation look very weird even when it led
7350 not to a king disappearance act. And the Rook move of a castling is never
7353 2009-07-11 22:44:53 -0600 Eric Mullins <eric@hiarcs.(none)>:
7354 Update GCC makefile to remove .obj targets.
7356 Dunno how they got in there, but they should be .o
7358 2009-07-11 22:42:41 -0600 Eric Mullins <eric@hiarcs.(none)>:
7359 Update makefile dependencies on help.c and help.h.
7361 2009-07-11 22:36:59 -0600 Eric Mullins <eric@hiarcs.(none)>:
7362 Allow compiling with MSVC6.0 and 4.1
7364 Move prototypes into help.h, after making sure that DWORD_PTR is
7365 defined. Include help.h from winboard.c and help.c so both files
7366 benefit from the definition.
7368 2009-07-11 18:26:16 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7369 lists these accelerator keys in the menus for JAWS
7371 2009-07-11 18:24:19 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7374 This patch allows the use of Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V for Copy Game
7375 and Paste even in I C S mode when the board has focus.
7377 2009-07-11 18:22:17 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7378 better handling of pasting a game without PGN tags
7380 patch in wclipbrd.h to make it smarter to decide between pasting
7381 a game or a position so it can handle games without PGN tags.
7382 If it doesn't parse as a FEN it is assumed to be a game.
7384 2009-07-11 18:20:56 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7385 fixed parser error for knight move
7387 The parser had a strange quirk: it recognized bd2 as a valid Knight move
7388 (Nb1-d2) while this SAN format should be reserved for Pawn moves only.
7390 2009-07-11 18:19:30 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7391 fixed a few warnings in connection with the help patch (now warning free)
7393 2009-07-11 18:13:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7394 some major re-assignment of accelerator keys in the JAWS
7396 2009-07-11 16:54:53 -0600 Eric Mullins <eric@hiarcs.(none)>:
7399 uptracked winboard.ini
7401 * Cleanup: moved "Some definitions required..." from winboard.c to config.h,
7402 and combined some definitions from borland w/ MS.
7404 * Changed internal HtmlHelp return type and 4th argument to facilitate various
7405 compilers. These changes, while not strictly adhering to HtmlHelp() conventions,
7406 won't impact anything since the function modified is internal only.
7408 * Modified HtmlHelp return values to integer to silence warnings.
7409 * Added help.c to the project in makefile.gcc & makefile.ms.
7410 * Fixed duplicate resource in winboard.rc.
7412 2009-07-09 22:08:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7413 added JAWS support; help files for Vista; bugfixes for winboard.c
7416 * help files should now work under Vista (the user has to have either
7417 a program to view old windows help files or to view html-files installed)
7418 * I fixed the tabbing between all windows that were added according to Tim's sugestions.
7419 * I added typing in of a move number in the move type-in dialog as a shortcut
7420 to going to that position by use of the < and > buttons. Mainly intended to
7421 ease life for the blind, but I think it can be generally useful.
7422 (Although the move-history dialog provides that functionality too,
7423 this is quicker if you don't happen to have it open.)
7424 * I added typing of a FEN in the move type-in dialog in Edit Position mode.
7425 (Which could not be used without mouse at all, and is defective
7426 in crazyhouse even with mouse, as there was no way to populate holdings.)
7428 2009-07-09 22:03:00 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7429 some bugfixes: ICS error handling
7431 * play a different sound for takebacks in ICS mode
7432 * pop up error messages for illegal moves for typed-in moves
7434 2009-07-09 21:50:41 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7435 removed no longer needed debug message
7437 2009-07-09 21:48:23 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7438 fixed compile error from a previous change
7440 2009-07-09 21:44:54 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7441 user selectable font in game list
7443 This makes the game list use the same (user selectable) font
7444 as the the move-history window.
7446 2009-06-30 21:27:34 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7447 fixed typos in xboard.texi documentation.
7449 2009-06-30 21:16:59 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7452 2009-06-27 17:06:26 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7453 changed font in engine output window
7455 The engine-output window now uses the same font as the move-history window
7456 (which was selectable in the "Options -> Fonts..." menu, while the other
7459 2009-06-27 17:03:19 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7460 fixed some characters in xboard.texi
7462 It seems that copying manual sections from the RTF to th texi file did
7463 somehow mess up the double-quote characters, and changed them into some
7464 strange (unicode?) symbols.
7466 2009-06-27 16:56:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7467 two shogi related bugfixes
7469 I discovered a bug in the move generator for the Shogi Dragon King. I
7470 guess it went unnoticed so far because this is a promoted version of the
7471 Rook, which hardly occurs in games. (moves.c)
7473 There was also a problem with the piecesfix I sent you before; Shogi
7474 chosen as initial variant did use wrong piece symbols. (I had tested this
7475 on gothic, but there it happened to work for a different reason, unique to
7476 gothic.) This affects xboard.c.
7478 2009-06-27 16:54:04 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7481 2009-06-27 16:51:02 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7482 adds bitmaps for shogi promotions, and selects the bitmaps or
7483 pixmaps for the more rarely used piece types on a per-variant basis.
7485 2009-06-27 16:44:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7486 adds new piece types in the promotion dialog and edit-position piece menu
7488 2009-06-27 16:13:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7489 updated bitmaps files: files for fairy pieces where missing,
7490 others had names that didn't work with autoloading.
7492 2009-06-27 16:06:35 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7493 fixed a bug concerning bitmaps
7495 2009-06-27 15:53:45 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7496 give a default directory for bitmaps files (tiny change)
7498 this is also one of the debian patches, should be rewritten to use
7499 the correct install directory. No Author was given.
7501 2009-06-27 15:47:52 -0700 Brian May <>:
7502 verbose_error_message_about_recognized_options (tiny change from Debian patches)
7504 2009-06-27 15:45:14 -0700 Matt Zimmerman <>:
7505 add a visual low time warning (tiny change from Debian patches)
7507 2009-06-24 23:31:52 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7508 dos 2 unix conversion of backend.c
7510 2009-06-24 23:30:07 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7511 exchanged some sprintf with snprintf found in a patch for the debian system,
7512 extended it a bit to other sprintf's original patch included only 11 lines
7513 by Florian Ernst <florian@debian.org>
7515 2009-06-24 23:07:23 -0700 Mark Ioli <chessknight>:
7516 enabled a patch for default settings in winboard
7518 2009-06-24 22:53:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7519 updated copyright notice
7522 2009-06-24 22:52:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7523 patches a bug in chosing the initial board size on a virgin startup
7524 I introduced recently
7526 2009-06-24 22:49:33 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7527 I put in testing for the winning condition in 3checks
7529 on a check it just goes through the entire game to subject
7530 every position on a check test, to see if there were two more.
7532 2009-06-24 22:47:01 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7533 updated copyright notice in docs
7535 2009-06-24 22:41:40 -0700 Florian Ernst <florian@debian.org>:
7536 added small patch from debian (tiny change)
7538 according to the debian patch tracker, this patch is by
7539 Florian Ernst <florian@debian.org>.
7540 It fixes whitespace issues in filename called from cmail.
7542 2009-06-24 22:33:13 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7543 converted dos2unix format for xboard.texi
7545 2009-06-24 22:31:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7546 deleted two more files that don't need to be in git
7548 these files can be generated by autogen.sh
7550 2009-06-21 12:10:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7551 major overhaul of the -stickyWindows feature
7553 I did a major overhaul of the -stickyWindows feature.
7554 The game-list and ICS-interaction windows are now also sticky.
7555 I also added a form of stickiness when the main window is resized;
7556 edges of auxiliary windows sticking to the right or bottom side of
7557 the main window stay attached when the window resizes
7558 (due to nr of board squares or their size). The way the window
7559 coordinates are saved in the .ini file is now relative to the
7560 main window, and some dummy options are added to be able to
7561 recognize right- and bottom-edge sticking, and reconstruct that
7562 when WB starts up with another board size. Also added are
7563 volatile options to ensure there will be space for auxiliary windows
7564 above and left of the main window.
7566 2009-06-21 12:07:01 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7567 fixed long-algebraic form of drops
7569 The WB parser turned out not to understand the long-algebraic form
7570 of drops send by an ICS. (like B/@@-e4), so even with
7571 legality testing off I now use the SAN move for drops.
7573 2009-06-18 18:35:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7574 Refined stalemate adjudication in Suicide, some cleanup
7576 Refined stalemate adjudication in Suicide, which seems to be not always won
7577 for the stalemated side, but for the side with the smallest number of pieces.
7578 Cleaned up the adjudication code in the process. (backend.c moves.c, moves.h)
7579 Also includes a tiny change in the -autoKibitz format, as requested on
7582 2009-06-18 18:32:57 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7583 Enhancement of the way -autoLogo decides which logos to display
7585 2009-06-16 00:06:59 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7586 bugfix and enhancement in autoKibitz mode
7588 changed the format of the autoKibitz: score/depth in stead of depth/score,
7589 as in PGN. I also supress the ICS time for the move now in the PGN
7590 if extended info is available. When enhancing the functionality of
7591 the autoKibitz command (using the opponent engine kibitz for the saved PGN)
7592 I discovered that the xengineoutput.c in our tree was obsolete,
7593 and contained a routine of which the arguments were no longer compatble
7594 with the call from backend.c, and caused segfaulting. I copied in
7595 the corresponding routine in wengineo.c, which was compatible. That the
7596 compiler did not flag this is a sign of badly organized code, I suppose...
7598 The enhancement itself affected backend.c.
7600 2009-06-16 00:04:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7601 modified clock layout
7603 I altered the display of the clocks in the presence of engine logos; I used to
7604 stack them, but some inquiry on Talkchess sowed that people disliked the
7605 stacking. So now I display them next to each other again, but as 2-line-high
7606 fields to make room for te logos.
7608 2009-06-15 23:59:32 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7609 new zippy option zippyShortGame
7611 On request of Mike Adams I added a new zippy option, -zippyShortGame,
7612 to make life more difficult for abusers of abort and disconnect for cheating.
7614 2009-06-15 23:56:40 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7615 fixed some bugs in the animation of atomic captures
7617 2009-06-13 15:27:26 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7620 I had overlooked one place from which the FEN writer
7621 (of whicf I changed the argument types), which made WB crash
7622 if you copied a FEN (or PGN that cotained FEN) to the clipboard.
7623 I must have overlooked a warning during compile, or some depedency
7624 is not correct in the makefile. Anyway, wclipboard.c had to be changed.
7625 I also moved adjudication of some losing conditions to before tetsing
7626 for stalemate, (e.g. in atomic, if your king get destroyd you lose,
7627 even if you have no moves after that because it was your only piece.).
7628 this affects backend.c.
7629 I had used the same bits in the rule-modifier flags for indicating
7630 mandatory capture as was already used for indicating FRC-style castling.
7631 This led to frequent illegal move calls in FRC... (moves.h)
7633 2009-06-13 10:45:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7634 cleaned up HTML in FAQ.html -- still need to work on content
7636 2009-06-13 09:36:26 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7637 added option for work-around for some FRC engines in regards to FRCFENs
7639 It suddenly occurred to me that I had promised on CCC to include an option
7640 to provide a work-around for the problem that some FRC engines do not
7641 understand FRC FENs (and thus do not play at all under WinBoard,
7642 as FRC always has to begin with sending the initial position).
7643 So I added the options -firstNeedsNoncompliantFEN, -secondNeedsNoncompliantFEN.
7644 This affects winboard.c and xboard.c, (for defining the option),
7645 common.h, backend.h, backend.c, (for implementing it),
7646 xboard.texi and winboard.rtf (decribing it).
7647 This option provides users with a means to always force the FEN castling field
7648 to KQkq (but can be used for many other work-arounds as well).
7650 2009-06-13 09:30:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7651 fixed bug with random calls
7653 There also seemed to be a bug with the shuffling of opening positions;
7654 I had changed the declaration of the position number from
7655 long long int to u64 to comply with MSVC, but this suppressed shuffling
7656 completely. I now changed it to int. I recently noted a problem with true
7657 randomizing anyway: this was based on srand(time()), but time() apparently
7658 did not change fast enough, so that starting several games in rapid succession
7659 (because the book line contained a 3-fold repetition) produced identical games.
7660 So I now seed the random once and for all during startup, based on the msec of
7661 the time mark, and removed the other calls to srand().
7663 2009-06-13 09:26:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7664 changed name for fairymax program in xboard.h
7666 2009-06-13 09:25:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7667 removed my name from copyright message in help->about menu
7669 2009-06-13 09:22:02 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7670 fixed -stickyWindows option
7672 I figured out why -stickyWindows was not working in XP and Vista
7673 (while it always worked under Win2K), and I think I found a fix for
7674 it that works under all Windows versions. (I tried XP and Win2K.)
7676 2009-06-13 09:20:38 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7677 Updated docs for Engine-Settings menu
7679 2009-06-13 09:19:05 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7680 Awareness of winning conditions for atomic and giveaway variants; two bugfixes
7682 fixed bug in claim verification
7683 Bugfix on initial position of Great Shatranj
7685 2009-06-13 09:16:47 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7686 Legality testing (mandatory capture) in giveaway variants
7688 2009-06-13 09:16:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7689 don't ignore winboard/parser.c
7691 2009-06-13 09:12:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7692 Added new variant Twilight Chess
7694 2009-06-13 09:08:57 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7695 some renaming and restructuring of WB menu items, to conform more to XBoard
7697 2009-06-13 09:07:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7698 Fixed bug in atomic patch that interfered with non-atomic variants
7700 2009-06-10 21:46:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7701 fixed different use of engine option compared to Polyglot
7703 it turns out the new Polyglot uses a sightly different version
7704 of the GUI->engine option command than the one I proposed
7705 (and implemented in XBoard; Michel sneaked in an '=' sign
7706 between the NAME and VALUE of the option, to allow for
7707 more unambiguous parsing. I guess in principle this is a good idea,
7708 so I adapted XBoard to Polyglot rather than the other way around.
7709 The result is that there are canges in xboard.c, and the documentation.
7710 I noticed that I unjustly had internationalized the option strings
7711 to be send to the engine in xoptions.c; this was of course nonsense,
7712 as this was WB protocol. So I undid that too.
7714 2009-06-10 21:37:47 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7715 add the already supported variants 3check and great (=Great Shatranj)
7716 to the New Variant... menu.
7718 2009-06-10 21:32:22 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7719 animate explosions in variant atomic (if animate moves is on).
7721 2009-06-10 21:30:19 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7722 fixed castling bug in variant twokings.
7724 2009-06-10 21:22:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7725 fixed forteitary wins for special game variations
7727 feature that corrects forfeitary wins (e.g. on time)
7728 of a bare King to draws of course breaks proper operation
7729 in losers, suicide and giveaway
7731 2009-06-09 21:02:51 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7732 automatically test ini file extension for files from commandline option @filename
7734 The winboard.c is a patch that automatically tries indirection files on the
7735 command line (@filename type arguments) also with an extension .ini if the name itself
7736 did not match any existing file and contained no period. This saves the user typing the
7737 .ini all the time (which I started to find pretty annoying while working on the installer
7740 2009-06-08 15:23:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7741 added gamelisttag option to xboard
7743 also updated documentation.
7745 2009-06-08 15:20:00 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7746 updated RTF file for winboard
7748 2009-06-06 09:12:48 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7749 fixed syntax error in texi file
7751 2009-06-06 08:57:52 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7752 updated to patchlevel "j"
7754 2009-06-06 09:00:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7755 fixed adjudicating probelm in Shantranj
7757 Refrain from adjudicating a draw based on insufficient mating material
7758 (except bare King vs bare King) in Shatranj (where in this case you can
7759 still win by baring the opponent's King).
7761 2009-06-06 08:55:17 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7762 updated documentation and FAQ
7764 2009-06-04 22:52:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7765 source clean up. Fix compiler warning, removed unused variables, etc.
7767 2009-06-04 20:43:29 -0700 Eric Mullins <emwine at earthlink.net>:
7768 adding support for different windows compiler
7770 Eric kindly provided us with some makefiles for different windows
7771 compiler and also fixed some issues that came up while using those compilers.
7773 2009-06-04 18:27:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7774 cleanup: got rid of a lot of files that are not needed for a new release
7776 lots of documentation was available in several places,
7777 old unused source files and not used graphics file were floating around
7778 in the tree. This should clean up most of it. No need to keep these files
7779 around, especially since we are using version control.
7781 2009-05-29 18:56:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7782 Added the Action-menu items that allow the user to adjudicate
7783 ongoing games in Two-Machines mode. This was an already existing
7784 backend function from Winboard_x; I only had to create a menu item for it
7785 to be called. Due to an oversight I had forgotten to do that so far.
7786 (Logically, I should have done it in the 4.3.5 release,
7787 where I updated the XBoard menus to conform to the WinBoard menus.)
7789 I tested them, and they seem to work. (As expected.)
7791 2009-05-28 22:23:00 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7792 updated patchlevel to "i"
7794 2009-05-28 22:19:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7795 small change to mousewheel support; two changes in window behaviour
7797 * Visible effects during resizing suppressed, bug in chosing new size fixed.
7798 * No longer reserves left and top margins next to main window on first popup.
7799 * built in some hysteresis into mousewheel support, ignorng the first event in any new
7800 direction to suppress effects from accidential mouse movement.
7802 2009-05-28 22:11:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7803 corrected 'animate dragging'
7805 I finally figured out how the 'animate dragging' works in XBoard,
7806 so that I could add code to do the unstacking of multiple pieces
7807 in the holdings, rather than always leaving an empty square while
7808 you drag them. (And then suddenly re-growing the remaining pieces
7809 as you make the drop.) It does not look as fancy as in WinBoard
7810 yet, because the counts still only decrease when you release the
7811 piece, rather than when you lift it. But this is not nearly as
7812 disturbing as leaving empty holdings (if only temporarily) when
7813 you still have pieces there.
7815 2009-05-28 22:06:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7816 Added comand-line options -debugFile (as synonym for -nameOfDebugFile,
7817 as WinBoard also has these synonyms), and -engineDebugOutput
7818 (wich already existed in the backend).
7820 2009-05-28 21:57:53 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7821 updated documentation for new release
7823 2009-05-28 21:55:51 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7824 added Xiangqi perpetual-chase detection
7826 2009-05-28 00:06:53 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7827 Updated all files to GPL version 3.
7829 2009-05-28 00:03:32 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7830 converted two files from dos to unix format
7832 2009-05-27 23:12:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7833 updated INSTALL, NEWS and other files for new release
7835 cleaned up a bit and updated some information in the text files.
7837 2009-05-07 21:48:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7838 winboard/config.h shouldn't be in .gitignore, only ./config.h
7840 2009-05-07 21:47:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7841 bumped patchlevel to 0g
7843 2009-05-07 21:46:02 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7844 corrected path in makefile
7846 2009-05-07 21:45:48 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7849 2009-05-07 21:45:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7850 added firstOptions, secondOptions, noGUI, firstXBook, secondXBook
7852 2009-05-07 21:44:03 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7853 handle promotion case for Shogi
7855 2009-05-07 21:43:34 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7856 add note about RESULT command for GUI programmers
7858 2009-05-07 21:42:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7859 small changes to book.c
7861 added code for different board sizes
7862 added some debuginfo
7863 handle promotion of pieces
7865 2009-05-05 23:07:18 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7866 added a .gitignore file
7868 2009-05-03 12:41:06 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7869 wrong line ending for Unix... ran dos2unix on both files
7871 2009-05-02 13:51:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7872 fixed texinfo files, added windows help file, removed config.h from git
7874 texinfo.in is not needed anymore, since it only provided a
7875 version string, but this can be created automatically using autotools
7877 deleted config.h from version control, since it is automatically created.
7878 added winboard.hlp file (not sure if needed)
7880 2009-04-26 23:34:34 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7881 updated autoconf init file
7883 * renamed autoconf init file from configure.in to configure.ac
7884 * added bug-report email address to ac_init
7885 * replaced ac_output(...) with ac_config_files, ac_config_commands and ac_output
7887 2009-04-26 14:49:03 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7888 parser.c is generated by lex, so it shouldn't be tracked
7889 and also parcer.c shouldn't be in Makefile.am
7891 2009-04-26 14:44:51 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7892 added book.c to Makefile.am
7894 2009-04-26 13:49:15 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7895 use autoheader to create config.h.in
7897 no need to track this in git anymore
7899 2009-04-26 11:13:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7900 fixed autoheader warings, remove depreciated acconfig.h
7902 2009-04-26 10:30:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7905 2009-05-02 10:55:39 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7906 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.16
7908 2009-05-02 10:50:10 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7909 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.15
7911 2009-05-02 10:38:39 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7912 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.14
7914 2009-05-02 10:13:41 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7915 HGM fixed cygwin compile for winboard
7917 2009-04-24 16:11:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7918 cross compilier working
7920 2009-04-19 10:00:52 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7921 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.13
7923 2009-04-19 09:52:47 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7924 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.12
7926 2009-04-19 09:48:59 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7927 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.8
7929 2009-04-19 09:44:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7930 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.7
7932 2009-04-19 09:39:19 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7933 changes by H.G. Muller; version 4.3.4
7935 2009-04-19 09:34:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7936 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.2
7938 2009-04-19 10:26:24 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7939 changes from H.G. Muller
7941 2009-04-16 23:06:13 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7942 cleaned up the directory a bit. Removed winboard-dm-beta,
7943 merged the two Changelogs together
7945 2009-04-16 14:12:48 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
7946 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20060129
7948 2009-04-16 14:09:33 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
7949 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20060112
7951 2009-04-16 14:04:02 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
7952 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20051231
7954 2009-04-16 13:59:12 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
7955 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20051129
7957 2009-04-16 13:53:41 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
7958 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20050322
7960 2009-04-10 04:18:59 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7961 translated a handfull of strings and set the codeset to UTF-8
7962 for the translations.
7964 2009-03-18 03:20:50 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7965 Translation: added German po file (roughly 50% translated)
7967 2009-03-01 04:23:54 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7968 fixed bug #22853: changed all .Xdefaults to .Xresources in xboard.texi
7970 2009-03-01 02:43:43 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7971 fixed bug #25672, patch #6182 by adding DESTDIR support to Makefile.in
7973 2009-03-01 02:33:26 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7974 fixed a warning message in the configure script
7976 2009-02-28 22:58:57 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7977 fixed parser.l. Should fix bug #22812
7979 2009-02-28 22:58:14 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7980 fixed parser.l. Should fix bug #22812
7982 2009-02-28 22:55:30 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7983 added myself to the AUTHOR file
7985 2007-06-15 04:26:57 +0000 Mark Loli <chessknight>:
7986 Initial check-in of NSIS Winboard installer files.
7988 * 06/12/2005: bugfix some more possible buffer overflows.
7990 * 06/27/2004: added simple icsEngineAnalyze for xboard
7992 * 06/26/2004: added icsEngineAnalyze for winboard: Analyze observe games
7993 with a chessprogram on a Internet Chess Server (ICS)
7995 * 02/12/2004: Bugfix ICS interaction console crashed while chess
7996 engine starting and user type in some stuff. We wait now to finish
7999 * 02/11/2004: Winboard: Added color lines for the ics interaction
8000 console if zippy used
8002 * 02/09/2004: Added mousewheel support for winboard. Play moves
8003 backward and forward with the mousewheel.
8005 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.7 -- Fri Nov 28 13:36:00 PST 2003 -- Tim Mann
8007 * 11/26/2003: In WinBoard, setting the -debug flag now logs ICS output
8008 to WinBoard.debug too. (This isn't needed in xboard because ICS
8009 output already goes to stdout, so it's easy to capture along with the
8010 debug output on stderr.) This was issue #280 in the ToDo file.
8012 * 11/23/2003: Cleaned up some minor problems in cygwin.mak. Thanks to
8013 Hans Werner Strube for the problem report.
8015 * 11/23/2003: Updated the default list of chess servers in
8016 winboard/defaults.h. Deleted two that appear to be dead and added a
8017 new one that is active.
8019 * 11/19/2003: Swapped icon_white.bm and icon_black.bm in XBoard.
8020 Hopefully this will get them the right way around by default on more X
8021 window managers. I wish I understood this better.
8023 * 11/18/2003: Implemented a simple 32-bit random number generator for
8024 WinBoard, replacing the Windows rand(), which ranges only up to
8025 0x7fff. Formerly on Windows, only zippy.lines sayings that started in
8026 the first 32767 bytes of the file could ever be used. This was issue
8027 #505 from the ToDo file.
8029 * 11/16/2003: The xboard man page and info files are now built from a
8030 common set of texinfo source files, and the xboard man page now covers
8031 cmail as well. Formerly, ever since the texinfo file was first
8032 contributed to the project, it was separate from the man page and the
8033 two files had to be updated in parallel, making for a maintenance
8034 nightmare. To make combining the files possible, I took the Perl
8035 script "texi2man" from the GNU Units project and added support for a
8036 larger subset of the texinfo markup language. I then carefully
8037 compared the old man page and old texinfo file to make sure the latest
8038 and clearest words survived into the new combined texinfo file. It
8039 would be great to merge in WinBoard's help file too, but that's a
8040 larger project. It would have to be heavily conditionalized to
8041 deal with differences in features between XBoard and WinBoard.
8043 * 11/15/2003: Cleaned up and applied a small patch from Daniel
8044 Mehrmann, to stop overly long PVs in thinking output from causing a
8045 buffer overflow crash in backend.c.
8047 * 11/5/2003: When a chess engine sends a "telluser" command (including
8048 the cases where "tellall" or "tellopponent" acts like telluser), the
8049 information now goes into a nonmodel popup that is automatically
8050 dismissed when the user clicks anywhere on the board. This fix is
8051 more significant on WinBoard, where formerly you got a fully modal
8052 dialog that had to be dismissed by clicking on OK before anything else
8053 could happen. The bug was issue #406 in the ToDo file.
8055 * 11/1/2003: Removed email addresses from this file to reduce spam
8056 load, as it gets linked to from the Web.
8058 * 11/1/2003: Updated READ_ME and winboard/READ_ME.txt.
8060 * Modified xboard and winboard makefiles to be able to build the
8061 project in the new combined directory structure.
8063 * Applied a small security fix to pxboard, from Martin Maeok.
8065 * Fixed a bug in the game list dialog. The change in 4.2.6 to opening
8066 games in text mode (meant to avoid getting extra \r's into comments)
8067 caused a new bug in determining seek offsets when parsing a game file
8068 to form the game list. Also, the change was incomplete; on some code
8069 paths games were still being opened in binary mode. Thanks to Lenik
8070 Terenin for reporting the offset bug. I've now gone back to always
8071 using binary mode when reading game files, and I've fixed the comment
8072 bug by adding code to remove \r's from parsed comments explicitly. I
8073 still use text mode for writing game files so that games written by
8074 WinBoard will have Windows-style line endings.
8076 * Fix for minor bug in WinBoard installer. If you chose a non-default
8077 destination directory, the default directory was still used for a
8078 couple of unimportant things, namely setting the App Paths registry
8079 keys (unused by WinBoard) and trying to copy the existing WinBoard.ini
8080 file to WinBoard.old. I inherited this bug from the InstallShield 5
8081 sample template. Thanks to "l.d." for noticing the incorrect keys.
8083 * Patch from Chris Priest: when two engines are being run through rsh,
8084 avoid reusing the same stderr port for both. I'm not sure why this
8085 should be needed, but it's harmless, at least.
8087 * Bugfix: The kludge to deal with old engines that give an error
8088 message because they don't know the "st" command was too sloppy; it
8089 could hit on an "st" substring anywhere in an error message. GNU
8090 Chess 4 is the only engine I know of where the kludge was needed, so I
8091 changed the kludge to match a longer, more GNU-specific string.
8093 * Changed the WinBoard self-extracting installer to choose a unique
8094 temporary subdirectory name within the Windows temp directory instead
8095 of always putting wb-setup directly in temp. Besides being better
8096 practice, this avoids the need to deltree wb-setup first, which
8097 occasionally alarms someone who thinks that deltree is only used by
8098 trojans to delete all your files. (Yes, I'm serious.)
8100 * Fixed a bug where FICS-style "wild/0" strings were not parsed as the
8101 proper wild type. The "/" was not being skipped.
8103 * Fixed a WinBoard bug where temporary files created by game
8104 copy/paste were being created in the root directory of the current
8105 drive instead of the TMP directory and were not always deleted on exit.
8107 * Fixed a small bug in winboard.c's ErrorDialog() function. Thanks to
8108 "Ron" (no last name given). The bug might have caused a problem when
8109 pressing OK or Cancel in an error dialog when more than one error
8110 dialog was being displayed, but I'm not really sure.
8112 * Removed a hack that worked around a bug in very old versions of
8113 Crafty, where it would sometimes reply "illegal move" to a "."
8114 command. The hack kept us from recognizing real illegal move messages
8115 in analyze mode from engines that don't respond to the "." command.
8116 Thanks to Fabien Letouzey for the report.
8118 * Fixed a bug in the xboard version of GetDelayedEvent. It would
8119 return the most recently scheduled event even if it had already fired.
8120 This caused at least one visible error: in -ics -xreuse mode, starting
8121 the engine again and seeing another "feature done=1" would re-run the
8122 initialization code in InitBackEnd3, including the code that opens the
8123 connection to ICS. The WinBoard version didn't have this bug. Thanks
8124 to Bob Hyatt for the bug report.
8126 * The promotion popup for ICC wild 26 (giveaway) now includes King.
8127 Thanks to Fredrik Josefsson for the bug report.
8129 * The first game in a file (or being pasted from the clipboard) can
8130 now start with a bare move -- no PGN tags, no move number "1", etc.
8131 Suggested by Shane Harrelson. One could imagine taking this farther
8132 and accepting something like "e4 e5 1/2-1/2 d4 d5" as two games, but
8133 I haven't done that.
8135 * Bug fix: xboard didn't really accept a paste of multiple games,
8136 contrary to what I wrote when adding the feature to WinBoard in
8137 4.2.4. Now it works in both.
8139 * Fixed generic start/end of game messages to work on chess.net, where
8140 they put ratings in parens after the player names.
8142 * Updated config.sub and config.guess to newer versions from
8143 automake-1.4p5-2. This makes configure work with MacOS X + X11.
8145 * Bugfix: when examining a game fragment on FICS where black plays
8146 first, don't show two "(0:00.000)" times on the initial "none" move.
8148 * If TestLegality is on and one of the engines makes an illegal move
8149 in TwoMachines mode, it forfeits immediately. Formerly the game would
8150 get stuck at that point and the engine that made the illegal move
8151 would eventually lose on time.
8153 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.6 -- Fri Feb 1 22:26:31 PST 2002
8156 Another small bugfix release.
8158 * Put in a small change from Alexander Mai to allow xboard to build in
8159 an OS/2 EMX environment.
8161 * Fix WinBoard-only bug where editing a PGN file with comments would
8162 insert more \r characters before the \n after every Load/Save cycle.
8163 For some unknown reason we were reading the files in "rb" mode but
8164 writing them in "a" mode, so we kept the \r characters on reading and
8165 added an extra one on writing. Fix: change the "rb" to "r". Thanks
8166 to Joel (last name not given) for the bug report.
8168 * Put the arguments to rsh/remsh in the right order for better
8169 portability. Thanks to Michael Kalisz.
8171 * FreezeUI is now implemented in WinBoard; it was previously only
8172 implemented in xboard. This function prevents the user from entering
8173 moves or other commands while we are waiting for an engine to
8174 initialize itself. Implementing it fixes a bug where the user could
8175 start a game (etc.) during feature negotiation. One of the symptoms
8176 of this bug was that we could send "new" one or move moves *after* the
8179 * Fixed some handle leaks (WinBoard only), including a nasty one that
8180 leaked one handle per command sent to ICS. Thanks to several folks
8181 who helped characterize the bug and tried to look for leaks.
8183 * We now install and look for the info file in ${prefix}/share/info
8184 instead of ${prefix}/info. The latter is still the default in
8185 autoconf, but the former is currently used in Red Hat Linux and
8188 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.5 -- Sat Dec 15 11:42:51 PST 2001
8191 * Changed the bundled GNU Chess 5.02 in the WinBoard package to
8192 include a much smaller book and to use much less hash table space by
8193 default (8 MB transposition table, 0.5 MB pawn evaluation table). The
8194 large book included with 4.2.4 made the WinBoard download too big for
8195 some people, and the default hash tables were larger than the
8196 available physical memory on some people's computers. I built the
8197 small book by running Crafty's "small.zip" book line collection
8198 through a Perl script that makes it look enough like real PGN games
8199 that the GNU Chess book builder will accept it. The script and some
8200 minor patches to GNU Chess 5 are available in the WinBoard source
8201 distribution and at http://www.tim-mann.org/gnuchess.html.
8203 * Fixed a bug in the code that deals with engines that complain that
8204 "time" and "otim" are illegal moves. This was a new bug in 4.2.4.
8206 * Revamped the implementation of ToStart in analysis mode. Formerly
8207 there was some ill-conceived code that would try to get back to the
8208 start of the game by doing a "new" command (and all the followup
8209 commands that requires) while remaining in analysis mode. This is
8210 problematic for engine authors to support, though it works with
8211 Crafty. This code was trying to solve the problem of ToStart being
8212 slow because the engine would try to start an analysis after every
8213 "undo" command all the way back to the start. But ToEnd already had a
8214 much better solution to this problem, and now ToStart does the same
8215 thing: we exit from analysis mode and enter force mode instead,
8216 make/unmake moves to get to the end/start of the game, and then
8217 reenter analysis mode.
8219 * Formerly, Zippy could try to start playing a game before the engine
8220 was initialized; that is, during the initial timeout for protover 1
8221 engines, or before "feature done=1" for protover 2 engines. We now
8222 wait until the engine is initialized before connecting to ICS, which
8223 fixes this in the common case. If you turn off engine reuse for
8224 multiple games (that is, if you give the -xreuse option), there could
8225 still be problems; see item 503 in the ToDo file. Thanks to Dieter
8226 Buerssner for the bug report.
8228 * Bugfix: All WinBoard versions since the merge with WinBoard Plus
8229 (but not xboard) have had a bug in changing the PeriodicUpdates,
8230 PonderNextMove, and ShowThinking options from the menu. The bug
8231 mostly just caused changing these options during a game to not take
8232 effect until after the next reset. For TwoMachines games, though,
8233 changing PonderNextMove just before the game would take effect
8234 immediately for the second engine but not until the next game for the
8235 first engine. Thanks to Koundinya Veluri for the bug report.
8237 * Bugfix: In 4.2.4, we sometimes got confused when trying to leave and
8238 reenter analyze mode. One symptom was that Analyze File did not work.
8239 Thanks to Igor Syry for the bug report.
8241 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.4 -- Sun Dec 9 14:56:30 PST 2001
8244 * WinBoard now includes GNU Chess 5.02 in place of GNU Chess 5.00.
8246 * WinBoard's PasteGameFromClipboard will now handle a paste with
8247 multiple games in it, popping up the game list dialog. xboard
8248 already did this. Suggested by Robert Gerstman.
8250 * We now use the "clearboard" command on ICC where appropriate.
8252 * Bugfix: don't generate a bogus "variant normal" command to an engine
8253 for the loadable ICC wild types that we internally flag as
8254 VariantLoadable. Also clarified the message that Zippy sends when
8255 declining such wild games -- it can't deal with the possibility of
8256 loading an arbitrary position into the game. Thanks to Dieter
8257 Buerssner for reporting the problem. It would be nice to be able to
8258 actually play these wild types some day; presumably there would have
8259 to be an option to either send "loadgame" with a specified position,
8260 or to deal with an opponent sending it.
8262 * If we get a holdings message from ICS when we thought we were
8263 playing normal chess, we now try asking for a move list so that we can
8264 find out from the header what's really happening. Formerly we guessed
8265 bughouse in this case. Response to a comment from Gian-Carlo
8268 * Fixed two longstanding bugs in the clock code. These affected only
8269 play between a user and a local engine, or between two local engines,
8270 not ICS play. (1) The last fractional second used by a player before
8271 moving and virtually pushing his clock was being charged to his
8272 opponent instead of to him. (2) The time and otim commands were being
8273 sent to an engine before the (buggy) fractional second update was
8274 done. The second bug was pretty harmless in itself, but the first one
8275 was serious. Many thanks to Peter Rosendahl for carefully diagnosing
8276 and reporting these bugs!
8278 * Changed WinBoard timestamp key. Nothing is changed other than the
8279 key and a recompilation. ICC may phase out the old key soon; if they
8280 do, you'll need to use the timestamp.exe from WinBoard 4.2.4 or later
8281 to connect to chessclub.com.
8283 * Fixed an xboard-only bug where most dialogs would not take keyboard
8284 input unless the mouse was actually over the dialog, even if the
8285 dialog window had focus. Thanks to Jason Varsoke for the bug report.
8287 * Bugfix; Remember to send time and otim commands to engine before
8288 sending playother. Thanks to Bob Hyatt for the bug report. Also
8289 fixed a bug where time and otim were sometimes sent even with feature
8292 * Added small patches from Wilkin Ng that are meant to fix a crash in
8293 CopyGameToClipboard and a "can't unlock clipboard memory" error in
8294 PasteTextFromClipboard, under Windows 2000.
8296 * Changed cygwin.mak to not use -mno-cygwin. In other words, it now
8297 uses cygwin1.dll instead of the mingw libraries. This works around
8298 bugs in fileno() and stat() that I encountered in mingw. (fileno
8299 seems to always return 0. stat fails because the library routine uses
8300 a different definition of struct stat than the header files provide.)
8301 Thanks to Robert Gerstman for reporting the symptoms these bugs caused
8302 when WinBoard was compiled with Cygwin.
8304 * Added -showButtonBar option. This lets you delete the << < P > >>
8305 buttons and thus widen the message widget a bit.
8307 * Added code to address a very obscure bug. If an engine dies and
8308 needs to be restarted while in one of the analyze modes, it was not
8309 getting put back into analyze mode. This bug should not really ever
8310 have gotten tickled unless reuse was turned off and the engine sends
8311 game end commands (such as 1-0) when a game ends by rule while in
8312 analyze mode. The next version of the protocol spec will say that
8313 engines should not do that, but version 2 and earlier didn't address
8316 * We now use the FICS "iset ms 1" feature to get times in ms instead
8317 of seconds. Thanks to DAV for email telling me about this feature.
8319 * Changed clock display to show tenths of seconds for 9.9 seconds and
8320 less, instead of 0.9 seconds and less as before.
8322 * It has been discovered that Zippy can play simuls on ICC (but not on
8323 FICS). If you arrange for Zippy to send the ICC command "simulize" in
8324 the -zippyGameStart string, it will accept additional games while
8325 playing. Zippy will use the same engine for every game, so whenever
8326 it switches opponents, the engine's state will be reset with the "new"
8327 command. This will of course weaken its play, so don't enable simuls
8328 if you want your engine to have the highest possible rating. Zippy
8329 was never designed to work with simuls; it just works by accident, and
8330 it hasn't been tested much. So please report any bugs you notice, but
8331 don't expect them to be fixed rapidly. Thanks to Paul McGuire for
8332 noticing that this works.
8334 * Bugfix: Suppress the direct command to engine popup if there is no
8335 engine. In WinBoard this case used to cause a crash. Thanks to
8336 "Dargon" for the bug report.
8338 * Bugfix: formerly we did part of the engine initialization for the
8339 very first game too soon, before feature negotiation. One result of
8340 this is that engines would never get the "ics" command for the first
8343 * Lengthened timeout to detect protocol version 1 chess engines to 10
8344 seconds. This should reduce problems with protocol version 2 engines
8345 that are slow to initialize missing the timeout and not getting a
8346 chance to send their feature commands before the first game starts.
8348 * Klaus Friedel says that adding a short sleep to WinBoard after
8349 starting a new chess engine solves a problem that occurs under Windows
8350 2000, in which engines sometimes don't see the initial command(s) from
8351 WinBoard and hang. I don't understand how that can happen, but the
8352 sleep is harmless, so I've put it in. Others have also reported what
8353 may be the same problem, so hopefully this will fix it for them too.
8355 * Bugfix: editing the Result field in EditTags will no longer cause a
8356 later crash. Thanks to DAV for a clear bug report that let me
8357 reproduce the problem.
8359 * ICC wild 28 is now recognized as shatranj, but it is not supported.
8360 You might be able to play it by turning off Test Legality.
8362 * Formerly we would always turn off "feature time" if the engine
8363 printed an error message with the string "time" or "otim" in it; now
8364 we do that only if the message comes before the engine makes its first
8365 move. This change is useful because some engines spew a lot of bogus
8366 error messages about commands they don't fully parse, so something
8367 like "result 0-1 {White lost on time}" could generate such a message.
8368 Engines shouldn't do that, but if they do, mysteriously turning off
8369 "feature time" is not a good way to react.
8371 * Fixed an infrequently occurring Zippy bug: formerly, resuming from
8372 adjournment by position (that is, with GetMoveList turned off) or
8373 starting/resuming a wild game (nonstandard starting position) would
8374 try to set up the position without putting the engine into force mode
8375 first. That was probably tolerated by most engines, but if the
8376 position was black-to-play and the engine hadn't set feature
8377 setboard=1, then the fake "a2a3" move (which we use as a kludge to get
8378 black to be on move before sending the edit command) would appear to
8379 be a real move, and the engine might reply to it! This bug could also
8380 be seen when trying to use Zippy to play a simul -- something that
8381 Zippy was never designed to support, but which seems to mostly work
8382 anyway. Thanks to Paul McGuire for sending a WinBoard.debug file that
8383 showed the bug occurring. Some other cases of resuming adjournments
8384 or starting games from nonstandard positions may have been broken too;
8385 I think I've straightened out the problems.
8387 * Agreeing to a draw in the human vs. local engine case formerly did
8388 not work if the human offered first; now it does. A human's
8389 unsolicited offer is considered valid until he makes another move.
8390 Thanks to Bruce Moreland for the bug report.
8392 * Bugfix: We used to look for just "fr" in Event tags or strings from
8393 ICSes to recognize Fischer Random games. This caused a lot of false
8394 matches. Now we look for "wild/fr" instead, which is what FICS uses.
8396 * Bugfix: Clicking on a move in the MoveList window only updated the
8397 displayed position; if a chess engine was active, its state was not
8398 updated. Thanks to Alejandro Dubrovsky for the bug report.
8400 * Bugfix: The "resign" command from engine to xboard formerly did not
8401 work in ICS (Zippy) mode.
8403 * Bugfix: Formerly we would register a garbage premove if the user
8404 clicked on a piece, then clicked on an edge or outside the board. Now
8405 such an errant click is ignored.
8407 * Bugfix: GameEnds would send "exit" to an engine in analyze mode even
8408 if we did not actually want to leave analyze mode.
8410 * Bugfix: "feature pause" was being rejected. We don't currently use
8411 it, but that is no reason to reject it. Thanks to Gian-Carlo Pascutto
8414 * Bugfix: when "partner" needed to be sent both to ICS and the engine,
8415 Zippy was erroneously sending the ICS prefix character to the engine
8416 too. Thanks to Gian-Carlo Pascutto for the bug report.
8418 * Zippy now declines challenges when the engine is not yet ready to
8419 play again, instead of ignoring them. This is needed so that the
8420 server will let the opponent repeat the challenge. It might be better
8421 to remember such challenges and accept them when the engine is ready,
8422 but that would be a bit more complicated to implement.
8424 * Bugfix: Zippy's emotes didn't work on FICS because there, "i" is a
8425 built-in alias for "it", not a real command. So sending "$i foo" gave
8426 an error message instead of doing "it foo". We now leave out the
8427 alias-suppressing prefix for emotes.
8429 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.3 -- Mon Feb 19 19:55:05 PST 2001
8432 * Bugfix: The error message "Variant X not supported by gnuchessx"
8433 formerly could pop up even in -ncp mode.
8435 * Fixed an xboard bug in premove highlighting. If you had
8436 HighlightLastMove turned on, premoves got highlighted in
8437 highlightSquareColor (yellow) instead of premoveHighlightColor (red).
8439 * Modified premove again. Now we are back to displaying the move
8440 locally immediately after sending it to the server, as in versions
8441 prior to 4.2.1. This is good because it lets you register your next
8442 premove sooner. As a better fix to the problem that the change in
8443 4.2.1 had been trying to address, we now suppress animating the
8444 opponent's move if you have a premove reply pending. However, it's
8445 probably still a good idea for you to turn off AnimateMoves entirely
8446 if you are trying to play extremely fast games.
8448 * Removed an erroneous patch that left zombie chess engines around
8449 when both sigterm and reuse were turned off. (Bug was in xboard only,
8452 * Bugfix: loading a game with autostepping did not work for games with
8453 PGN result "*" (unfinished). This bug was introduced in 4.1.0, caused
8454 by some outdated code that was supposed to leave you in EditGame mode
8455 after loading an unfinished game. I fixed this, and also changed it
8456 to leave you in EditGame mode after loading *any* game, but without
8457 changing the tags to say it's an edited game. It's not really clear
8458 whether that is the best thing is to do here -- ideally, perhaps, the
8459 tags should change to say "edited game" if you actually make any
8460 changes, but that is harder to make work.
8462 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.2 -- Tue Feb 6 20:00:00 PST 2001
8465 * Fixed a problem introduced in 4.2.1. In -zippyPlay mode, 4.2.1
8466 started sending the initString immediately after the old game ended,
8467 but then when the next game started, it would still send "force" and
8468 another initString. Another problem was that the first initString put
8469 the engine out of sync with the displayed board position, though that
8470 might not usually have been noticeable. This is now changed to do a
8471 full Reset at the end of the previous game, and avoid doing a Reset at
8472 the start of a new game if we are still in BeginningOfGame mode.
8474 * Fixed some limitations in -zippyPlay mode. The engine was not being
8475 fed the moves or history of games that were displayed but not being
8476 played, so it would get confused if you tried to do something like
8477 examine a game, then enter EditGame mode from somewhere in the middle
8480 * Made a small change so that cygwin can compile xboard for Windows
8481 (an X server is required to run it). Thanks to Volker Zell. Most
8482 people would probably prefer to run WinBoard on Windows, however; note
8483 that cygwin could already compile WinBoard.
8485 * Added some missing documentation to engine-intf.html: It is okay to
8486 send "feature done=0" even before you receive the xboard and protover
8487 commands, if this is needed to give your engine enough time to
8488 initialize. See engine-intf.html for more discussion.
8490 * Bugfix: "feature done=0" did not work for the second engine; now it does.
8492 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.1 -- Sat Feb 3 19:52:26 PST 2001
8495 * Bugfix: in Zippy mode with feature san=1, the elapsed time was being
8496 sent to the engine after the SAN move; for example, "e4 (0:01)" was
8497 sent instead of just "e4".
8499 * It seems that scroll wheel mice with incompletely installed software
8500 (under Windows 95, at least) can send repeated middle button up events
8501 when the wheel is turned. Moved QuickPaste from middle button up to
8502 middle button down to avoid problems with this.
8504 * A premove is now sent *before* the opponent's move that it replies
8505 to is animated. The premove itself is no longer displayed (or
8506 animated) when sent; instead, it is displayed when the chess server
8507 echoes it back as a board update.
8509 * Bug fix: in -xreuse mode, xboard was only sending command line
8510 arguments to the engine the first time it was started. (WinBoard
8511 didn't have this bug.)
8513 * In -zippyPlay mode, we now initialize the chess engine for a new
8514 game immediately after the old game ends. (In -xreuse mode, this
8515 means starting a new engine process; in the default -reuse mode, it
8516 just means sending "new".) If the engine supports ping, we don't
8517 accept challenges until the "new" has finished. This should help
8518 avoid losing time (re)initializing the engine after the game starts.
8520 * We now handle the new FICS field in style 12 that says whether the
8523 * whiteFlag and blackFlag are now reset whenever an ICS board image
8524 arrives, giving autoflag a fresh chance to work.
8526 * Suppressed "geometry error" debug messages unless -debug flag is given.
8528 * Bugfix: avoid core dump on Solaris with -debug flag, caused by
8529 passing NULL to a %s format in GameEnds.
8531 * Added -firstProtocolVersion and -secondProtocolVersion. This will
8532 allow use of extremely broken engines that hang or die when given the
8533 "protover 2" command. It should be rarely if ever needed.
8535 * Zippy now strips highlights from player names in the Creating
8536 message; previously the ratings would not be extracted from this
8537 message properly if you had set the highlight variable.
8539 * Bug fix: Zippy with -zp but not -zt used to be fooled by false
8540 partner tells inside channel tells; e.g.:
8541 Garf(24): Garf (your partner) tells you: sit
8543 * Bug fix: when an engine reported its name with the new "feature
8544 myname=" command, we had been putting just that name into the window
8545 title even when in TwoMachines mode.
8547 * By default, WinBoard no longer uses the new feature introduced in
8548 4.2.0beta of keeping the ICS menu, ICS server list, and lists of chess
8549 engine command lines in separate files; instead, the lists are back in
8550 the winboard.ini file. This gets rid of some problems where the
8551 separate files could not be opened because the working directory was
8552 not set to WinBoard's installation directory.
8554 * WinBoard command lines and ini files now have another optional
8555 syntax for quoting an option value. All characters within { } curly
8556 braces are interpreted literally except for '}' itself. SaveSettings
8557 now uses this syntax for string values that contain a backslash or
8558 newline and do not contain a '}'. This should address the problem
8559 that the separate .ini files had been meant to fix; engine command
8560 line lists can now be written without \-escapes.
8562 * Fixed three bugs in relaying moves between engines in TwoMachines
8563 mode: an engine would be sent SAN if the *other* engine had set
8564 feature san=1, a relayed SAN move did not end with a newline, and
8565 feature usermove was not implemented for relayed moves.
8567 * Fixed several bugs in exiting: File/Exit would sometimes hang;
8568 timestamp/timeseal would not get killed off; an engine crash would
8569 cause error messages to be printed recursively until stack overflow.
8571 * Fixed a bug in the code to detect which ICS is in use and adapt to
8572 it; the chess.net case was broken.
8574 * Removed the leading alias-suppression character when sending a move
8575 to ICS, because it seemed to break accuclock on chess.net.
8577 * Fixed a bug where a FICS prompt like "10:01_fics%" would be matched
8578 as finger note number 10, causing a problem detecting when the user is
8581 * Added tellicsnoalias command to protocol.
8583 * Changed st command in protocol back to old behavior.
8585 * Added done=0 feature to protocol, to lengthen initial timeout.
8587 * Added missing -colorSeek command line option to xboard. (Was
8588 present in WinBoard.)
8590 * Bug fix: setting feature reuse=0 was not working.
8592 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.0beta -- Sat Dec 16 16:34:56 PST 2000
8595 * Setting -searchTime no longer turns off -clockMode. Note that when
8596 -searchTime is set, some engines may search for the lesser of
8597 searchTime and the amount of time their normal clock management would
8598 dictate, while others will disable their normal clock management and
8599 always search for exactly searchTime.
8601 * Fixed WinBoard bug where on Windows 2000 (and maybe Windows 98) the
8602 ICS Interaction window would scroll back to the top whenever it filled
8603 to capacity and WinBoard trimmed some text off the top.
8605 * Changed xboard dragging so that the center of the dragged piece is
8606 forced to be over the mouse cursor. (WinBoard dragging already worked
8607 that way.) This should avoid confusing cases when you start a drag
8608 with the mouse near the edge of a square -- formerly most or all of
8609 the piece could be over one square but the mouse cursor over another.
8612 * Added move list window for xboard. Code contributed by Manuel
8613 Hoelss and re-hacked a bit by me. Performance of this window is poor,
8614 because the implementation regenerates the entire window contents
8615 whenever anything changes. It's hard to avoid this when using the
8616 Athena List widget, though we could be a little smarter and notice
8617 when the current move number has changed but the move list has not.
8618 There are also several drawing problems caused by bugs in the Athena
8619 Form and List widgets. The window should not really allow a
8620 horizontal scroll bar, but the bugs are much worse if I turn it off.
8621 In both Xaw and Xaw3d, the List widget tries to resize itself when
8622 XawListChange is called, even if you tell it not to; and what's worse,
8623 if the widget cannot resize itself to be large enough to avoid
8624 clipping any of the list item, it does not change the list! Arrgh.
8625 On top of that, the Xaw Form widget is very buggy in XFree86 4.0.1
8628 * The OK button in the WinBoard startup dialog is now simply disabled
8629 if none of the radio buttons is selected, instead of bringing up an
8630 error dialog. Suggested by Ted Milbaugh.
8632 * Used ping to address the worst of the race conditions in the
8633 protocol. Now if an engine supports ping, we ping it after sending
8634 the "new" command and after trying to place it in force mode at the
8635 end of a game. When a ping has been sent and the corresponding pong
8636 has not yet come back, we (1) ignore or undo any moves the engine
8637 sends, (2) ignore game end messages (such as "offer draw", etc.) from
8638 the engine, (3) ignore thinking output from the engine, (4) delay
8639 starting the next game if in -matchGames mode, (5) in -zippyPlay mode,
8640 respond to challenges with a polite message to try again soon instead
8641 of accepting them. There are a few more things that should be done
8642 (and item 5 might not be quite what we want), but it's hard to fit
8643 them all into the existing code.
8645 * Patched the version of GNU Chess 5.00 included with WinBoard to
8646 support protover, feature, setboard, and ping, and to fix some minor
8647 bugs. See gnu500+.patch.
8649 * Changed the GNU Chess 4 kludges for missing "st" and "sd" commands
8650 to be invoked only if the engine gives an error message for "st" or
8651 "sd", and to always use protocol commands instead of engine
8652 command-line options. See "Idioms" in engine-intf.html.
8654 * Added new protocol command "protover 2" to tell the engine what
8655 version of the protocol is in use. Version 2 is still compatible with
8656 old engines; see engine-intf.html.
8658 * Add new protocol command "feature ..." The engine can send this in
8659 response to the protover command command, to say what extended
8660 protocol features it would like to enable, etc. xboard responds
8661 "accepted F" or "rejected F" for each feature F that is set. See
8664 * Added new protocol command "setboard <fen>". This is an alternative
8665 to "edit", used only if the engine says "feature setboard=1".
8667 * Added new protocol command "ping <msg>". The engine is supposed to
8668 respond "pong <msg>". This gives us a tool to fix some race
8669 conditions in the protocol, but it is not used to the fullest yet.
8671 * Added new protocol command "tellopponent". This will do a "say" if
8672 you're on a chess server in Zippy mode, or pop up an information
8675 * Added new protocol command "tellall". This will do a "kibitz" if
8676 you're on a chess server in Zippy mode, or pop up an information
8679 * Added new protocol command "tellothers". This will do a "whisper" if
8680 you're on a chess server in Zippy mode, or do nothing otherwise.
8682 * Changed the WinBoard /icsNames, /icsMenu, /firstChessProgramNames,
8683 and /secondChessProgramNames options to accept a filename preceded by
8684 "@", meaning to find the value in the file. Changed the defaults to
8685 use this feature, with filenames icsnames.ini, icsmenu.ini, fcp.ini,
8686 and scp.ini. This should make it easier for users to edit the values,
8687 since one less level of quoting is needed, and each value is in its
8688 own file, not mixed into winboard.ini. Those who upgrade from an
8689 older winboard version and already have a winboard.ini file will not
8690 automatically have these values moved to a file; that has to be done
8693 * We now strip .exe from engine names for "name" command, tags, etc.
8695 * Allowed WinBoard input widget to hold more than one line. You can get
8696 a newline into the widget with copy/paste or with Ctrl+Enter.
8698 * Fixed an xboard bug where the [P] button would appear in the
8699 opposite highlight state from what it should be after being pressed.
8701 * We now use the "/" or "$" alias suppression feature on the chess
8702 servers, to avoid problems if the user inadvertently aliases a
8703 needed command to something else.
8705 * Changed the method used to deiconize xboard in AutoRaise and cmail.
8706 This may fix bugs under some window managers where after
8707 deiconization, the board window was mapped but nothing was drawn
8710 * Preliminary, partial support for playing several chess variants
8711 against a local engine or editing variant games. The -variant option
8712 must be given on the command line or WinBoard startup dialog; there is
8713 no menu. The current variant is not displayed (except in the
8714 Tags/EditTags window). Many variants will not work quite right even
8715 if the engine supports them; see item 326 in the ToDo file for
8718 * Added a workaround to detect the variant type when examining a
8719 scratch wild game on an ICS.
8721 * Fixed two cases where "variant" command should be sent to the engine
8722 when necessary but was not: loading a game from a file and restarting
8723 a dead engine. Thanks to Gian-Carlo Pascutto.
8725 * Added missing support for FICS games that start from a bsetup position
8726 with Black moving first.
8728 * Fixed a bug in loading a file from the game list window while in
8729 Analysis or AnalyzeFile mode. This now leaves us in AnalyzeFile
8730 mode, analyzing the new file.
8732 * Fixed a bug in loading games with a comment before the first move.
8734 * Fixed a bug in handling LoadGame (or -lgf) with -td 0.
8736 * Added a command line option to select an initial minor mode from the
8737 Mode menu. This should satisfy requests from a couple of users with
8738 special applications.
8740 * Fixed a problem where some things in WinBoard's General Options
8741 dialog box were grayed out at the wrong time.
8743 * We look for a few messages from the chess engine pipe that are
8744 intended to catch problems starting an engine via rsh, such as "No
8745 such file". Moved code so that these strings won't match until other
8746 protocol messages have been looked for, and documented the messages in
8749 * Fixed the WinBoard bug that sometimes made the console input box
8750 white-on-white even when not in password-entry mode.
8752 * Small changes to WinBoard to be compilable with the latest Cygwin
8753 net release (as of 10-16-2000). Thanks to Mark Schoenberg.
8755 * Recompiled GNU Chess 5.0 for WinBoard with the latest Cygwin net
8756 release (as of 10-16-2000). Also rebuilt the book just to be sure,
8757 since I had one bug report about it. It came out identical and seems
8760 * Added messages for some common InstallShield errors instead of just
8761 printing InstallShield's stupid error code numbers.
8763 * Added -firstComputerString and -secondComputerString, allowing you
8764 to suppress or change the command that is sent to a chess engine when
8765 its opponent is another computer.
8767 * Added "configure --with-Xaw3d" to allow use of Xaw3d widgets instead
8768 of Xaw widgets in xboard. Thanks to Johnny C. Lam of the NetBSD
8769 project. I've left Xaw as the default because Xaw3d is too ugly.
8771 * The version of the Xaw Form widget released in XFree86 4.0.1
8772 (X11R6.4.3) has a bug that causes xboard to display the button bar
8773 on top of the message widget. I've reported the bug and have
8774 installed a kludge workaround into xboard.
8776 xboard/WinBoard 4.1.0 -- Sun Sep 17 17:30:14 PDT 2000
8779 * Merged Winboard Plus 4.0.8 from Mark Williams into xboard
8780 source pool. Status of Winboard Plus features in xboard:
8782 - White pieces now have borders, but the implementation is
8783 completely different from WinBoard's; see below.
8785 - Options menu not changed, probably won't be.
8787 - Copy&paste support working, using Mark's changes to backend.c, Ben
8788 Nye's changes to xboard.c for FEN positions, and some code of my
8789 own in xboard.c for PGN games.
8791 - Premove hooked up and working. No pre-first-move, though.
8793 - ICS Alarm hooked up and working.
8795 - Auto-flip working.
8797 - PGN Training mode hooked up and working.
8799 - Improved menu item enable/disable working.
8801 - Improved >> button working.
8803 - Auto activate board working. I changed this to be optional; you
8804 might not always want it, especially in Zippy mode.
8806 - Blindfold working.
8808 - Documentation updated.
8810 * Fixed more colorization bugs. Commands like "message foo tells you:
8811 xxx" and "tell 33 tells you: xxx" will no longer generate bogus
8814 * Added low-tech sound support to xboard, by invoking an external
8815 program on a filename for each sound to be played.
8817 * ICC wild 27 is now recognized as VariantAtomic, and it sets the
8818 "ignore check" flag, but is not otherwise supported.
8820 * Converted the piece bitmaps from .bm to .xpm for use with xboard's
8821 xpm support. (An .xim version was not created.) Wrote a shell script
8822 using ImageMagick to do the conversion and to bucket fill from
8823 coordinate 0,0 with the background color. Used xpaint by hand to
8824 clean up a few pieces where background color "leaked" into the inside
8825 or didn't flow all the way around the outside, then a sed script to
8826 fix up color names and bitmap names in the xpaint output. If any more
8827 sizes are added later, they should be straightforward to convert with
8828 reference to the existing scripts. With this conversion, not only do
8829 the white pieces now have dark borders, but (unlike with WinBoard) the
8830 light details on the black pieces are opaque.
8832 * If the XPM library is found when building xboard, the new xpm pieces
8833 are compiled in as the default. External bitmap (or xpm) pieces can
8834 still be used by giving the -bitmapDirectory (or -xpmDirectory)
8835 option. If the XPM library is not found, the old bitmap pieces are
8836 the default. In this case external bitmap (or xim) pieces can be used
8837 by giving the -bitmapDirectory (or -xpmDirectory) option. There is no
8838 way to compile in xim pieces.
8840 Winboard Plus 4.0.8 -- Sat Aug 5 15:51 PDT 2000
8845 * Main menu now visible in Win NT. Thanks to Microsoft for creating a
8846 compiler which auto-mutilates the WinBoard.rc file so that the menu is
8847 displayed under Win 98 but not Win NT. I fixed the problem by hand editing the
8850 * "Reset game" now works properly when invoked from Analysis mode when two
8851 engines are present. Correction of bug introduced in Winboard Plus. Thanks to
8852 Mogens Larsen for reporting the bug.
8854 * Pasting a FEN position with Black to move now works in all modes.
8855 Thanks to Mogens Larsen for reporting the bug.
8857 * Added gnuchess.dat to the distribution and a couple of text files that were
8860 *** Merged in the following changes from Tim Mann:
8862 * Bugfix: Highlights would sometimes not be taken down, at least in
8863 xboard. The problem is that SetHighlight works in chess coordinates,
8864 not view coordinates, so if flipView has been toggled since the
8865 highlight was put up, it gets taken down from the wrong square. Fixed
8866 by being careful to call ClearHighlights before toggling flipView, not
8869 * Bugfix: HighlightLastMove would sometimes highlight square a1 after
8870 a FICS "tomove black" command.
8872 * Bugfix: a move list with initial position that has black to play was
8873 not being handled correctly.
8875 * Removed "decline abort" and "decline adjourn" commands from Zippy.
8876 The syntax is changing on FICS, and Zippy really doesn't have to
8877 explicitly decline the requests anyway; it's sufficient to not accept
8880 * ICC wild 26 is now recognized as VariantSuicide (the FICS name; ICC
8881 calls it "giveaway").
8883 * Bugfix: PGN games with black to move in the initial position weren't
8884 being legality checked correctly. I think this was introduced in
8885 4.0.6 when I fixed a different PGN bug. Thanks to Mark Williams for
8886 spotting the bug and suggesting a fix.
8888 * Bugfix: the initial "name(" of a kibitz wasn't being colorized.
8890 Winboard Plus 4.0.7 -- Thu May 12 17:57 PDT 2000
8893 * New white pieces with black borders.
8895 * Major overhaul to Options menu. New dialogs for setting General Options,
8896 Board Options, ICS Options, Sounds, Fonts, Colors.
8898 * Clipboard support for PGN game scores and FEN positions.
8900 * Optional ICS Premove with user-specified first moves for White and Black.
8902 * New sound events: ICS Win, ICS Loss, ICS Draw, ICS Unfinished, ICS Alarm.
8904 * New auto-flip option when playing against a chess program.
8906 * Added PGN Training mode.
8908 * Certain menu options now disabled while program is thinking.
8910 * ">>" button now always goes to the end of the game.
8912 * In ICS mode, the board is automatically activated at the start of a
8915 4.0.7 -- Sun Mar 5 17:17:49 PST 2000 Tim Mann
8917 * Fixed a nasty bug in parsing ICS game histories that was introduced
8920 4.0.6 -- Fri Mar 3 16:20:11 PST 2000 Tim Mann
8922 * Fixed bugs in Zippy's code for responding to messages sent with the
8923 ICS "message" command.
8925 * Fixed bugs where xboard could still create dialogs partially off the
8926 top of the screen. Fixed unwanted interactions between initial sizes
8927 and positions of various unrelated xboard dialogs. Deleted
8928 borderXoffset and borderYoffset resources.
8930 * Fixed restoring the xterm name on exit to work in more cases.
8932 * Small fix to the WinBoard self-extracting installer: when it starts
8933 up, it now always deletes any old wb-setup directory left over from a
8934 previous installation. Formerly this worked only on Windows 95/98, so
8935 on NT the self-extractor would sometimes stop and ask the user whether
8936 it was OK to overwrite the old wb-setup files.
8938 * Modified WinBoard to be compilable with the free Cygwin tools
8939 available from http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/. Based on work by
8940 Mark Schoenberg. (His mods were enough to get WinBoard through the
8941 compiler, but a few things were broken along the way, so I reworked them.)
8943 * Merged changes from Don Fong to make WinBoard compilable with
8944 Borland C++ 4.5. I do not have Borland C++ and am unable to test with
8945 it, but I did make sure the changes don't stop it working with MSVC++
8948 * Forbade entering TwoMachines mode from MachineWhite or MachineBlack
8949 mode when machine is on move. This used to confuse the engine and
8950 cause problems, because when we try to get the engine to stop, it
8951 might make a move first, and it might not do that immediately.
8953 * Variant classification now deals with new ICC wild 25, classifying
8954 it as "3check". Also, we are now conservative about new wild numbers
8955 we don't know about, classifying them as "unknown" instead of
8958 * Replaced bad GNU Chess 5.00 book in WinBoard distribution with a
8959 correct one. 1.e4 now no longer takes GNU Chess 5.00 out of book!
8960 Thanks to Pete Galati.
8962 * Made move parser accept and ignore nonstandard ep suffix on PGN moves,
8963 e.g., "exf6ep" or "exf6e.p."
8965 * Fixed bugs in parsing PGN files starting with no move number, or
8966 with a move number other than "1." (including "1..."). Thanks to
8967 Michael Soulier and Stefan Zipproth for example PGN files
8968 demonstrating the bugs.
8970 * Changed InitComboStringsFromString to not modify the input string;
8971 this caused an exception when WinBoard was compiled with MSVC++ 6.
8972 Thanks to Bert Tuyt for the report.
8974 * In WinBoard, dragging a piece off the edge of the board without
8975 releasing the mouse button no longer instantly aborts the move. You
8976 still must release the mouse button inside a square to complete a
8977 move, but you can now drag off the edge and come back inside.
8979 * WinBoard bugfix: If you went into EditGame or EditPosition mode
8980 while observing or playing an ICS game, and a new move came in
8981 (snapping you back to ICSClient mode) while you were dragging a piece
8982 around, the drag state would not be reset, causing the piece you were
8983 dragging to remain on the board wherever you dropped it. Thanks to
8984 David Brinegar for the bug report.
8986 * WinBoard bugfix: If you moved or resized the board while your
8987 opponent was moving, and you had AnimateMoving on, his move would not
8988 be displayed until after your next move. Thanks to DAV for reporting
8989 the bug repeatedly until I finally understood it.
8991 * Added a Zippy "farewell" feature; see zippy.README.
8993 * Fixed a bug (xboard only) in processing -zippyReplayTimeout on the
8994 command line. Thanks to Steve Beer for the report and patch.
8996 * Send "computer" command to both sides in TwoMachines matches.
8998 * Fixed a Y2K bug in Evan's cmail code! Thanks to Brian Mays for the
9001 * Bugfix: Initialize variant field of GameInfo struct in gameinfo.c.
9002 This could cause crashes in LoadGame. Thanks to Andrzej Nagorko.
9004 * Fixed several pattern matching problems: Finger notes and formula
9005 vars no longer get replied to by zippyTalk or colorized. Channel
9006 tells by players with many titles are now colorized fully, and
9007 zippyTalk handles channel tells by such players correctly. The shout
9008 "--> foo(99): bar" no longer gets colorized as a channel tell. Code
9009 is cleaned up a bit, and autocomment capture now uses the same
9010 criteria as colorization.
9012 * xboard fix: Enter key now closes error popups as in WinBoard.
9013 Especially nice for the "Exiting: Connection closed by ICS" popup.
9015 4.0.5 -- Tue Dec 7 10:30:40 PST 1999 Tim Mann
9017 * Added missing documentation of SIGTERM usage into engine-intf.html.
9019 * Bugfix: New -zippyReplayTimeout option was misspelled in WinBoard as
9020 -zippyReplyTimeout. Thanks to Francesco Di Tolla.
9022 * xboard -ics now restores the xterm's original title upon exit, at
9023 least if $WINDOWID is set.
9025 * Bugfix: -matchGames mode wasn't terminating properly. Final score
9026 popup would come up twice and engines would not be killed off. Thanks
9027 to Frank Quisinsky for the bug report. Bug was introduced in 4.0.4.
9029 * Bugfix: "tell 50 foo shouts: bar" no longer gets colored as a shout;
9030 similarly for "...s-shouts:" and "...c-shouts:". Thanks to David Lee
9033 4.0.4 -- Fri Dec 3 17:51:27 PST 1999 Tim Mann
9035 * Bug fix: formerly if you invoked SaveGame from EditPosition mode
9036 with black to play, the position was not saved properly. As a quick
9037 fix, SaveGame now takes you out of EditPosition mode before saving.
9039 * Changed -matchGames to keep track of the score (won-lost-drawn) and
9040 display it in the banner. The final score is displayed in a modal
9041 popup before the program exits.
9043 * Changed "Connection closed by ICS" to display in a model popup
9044 before the program exits.
9046 * Added -popupExitMessage option, default on. Setting this to false
9047 suppresses the modal popups that you sometimes get just before
9048 xboard/winboard exits -- both the two new ones listed above and the
9049 existing Fatal Error popup. This is useful when running Zippy
9050 unattended from a shell script (or .bat file) that loops and starts a
9051 new copy after a time delay when there is an error.
9053 * In xboard, added missing support for WM_DELETE_WINDOW to all
9054 windows. This makes xboard a better citizen, and is much needed with
9055 the newer X window managers that put an [X] button on every window and
9056 bind it to "kill application" if the applicationd does not support
9057 "delete window". We can't allow xboard to be thoughtlessly killed,
9058 since that leaves the chess engine running in the background.
9060 * We now avoid positioning tops of xboard dialog boxes offscreen.
9062 * zippy.lines can now use the caret ('^') character as an inter-saying
9063 separator. You no longer need to dig up a text editor that can put NUL
9064 ('\000') characters in text files.
9066 * Bugfix: In traditional chess clock mode, White now gets time added
9067 to its clock as soon as it makes time control. Previously both White
9068 and Black got their time added only when Black made time control,
9069 which would cause some engines to make their 41st move as White too
9070 quickly, thinking they were low on time.
9072 * The zippyAcceptOnly feature no longer sends a decline command or
9073 a tell. Thus you can use it to put Zippy into a manual accept mode.
9075 * Bugfix: "tell 50 foo tells you: bar" no longer gets colored as a
9076 personal tell; similarly for "...whispers:" and "...kibitzes:".
9078 * WinBoard no longer blanks the message line when you start a new
9079 move, unless there was an error message there from the previous move.
9081 * WinBoard now never puts the white piece drop menu on the middle
9082 mouse button. Both colors are always on the right button. Windows
9083 users often don't think to look for a middle button menu, or don't
9084 really have a working middle button despite what Windows says.
9086 * Guest login handles on ICC are now parsed again; an ICC wording
9087 change had broken this feature.
9089 * Autodetect when the engine does not support the "draw" command and
9090 don't relay the command to it in that case. Needed because sending an
9091 unsupported command to GNU Chess makes it move immediately, so people
9092 could make Zippy move without thinking by continually offering a draw.
9093 Thanks to Frank Walker for the problem report.
9095 * Small changes based on code from Robert Jurjevic: The WinBoard
9096 analysis window can be minimized (though not to the taskbar). The
9097 WinBoard ICS Interaction window will autoscroll if you drag the mouse
9098 above or below the window while selecting, and password entry mode
9099 leaves the entry line as the background color instead of using 75%
9100 gray. Seeks are now colorized with a new color of their own.
9102 * Added -zippyMaxGames feature.
9104 * -zippyNoplayCrafty command line option was missing in xboard; fixed.
9105 Thanks to John Perry.
9107 * Fixed bug in detecting when Zippy loses his bughouse partner.
9108 Thanks to Ben Dean-Kawamura.
9110 * allobs fix in 4.0.3 didn't work; corrected it.
9112 * WinBoard will now update the board immediately if a move is made
9113 while the window is being moved or resized.
9115 4.0.3 -- Sun Aug 15 18:44:39 PDT 1999 Tim Mann
9117 * Bugfix: moved winboard wizard functions that send a command directly
9118 to the chess engine from Ctrl+Alt+1 and Ctrl+Alt+2 to Alt+1 and Alt+2.
9119 Ctrl+Alt is equivalent to the European AltGr key, so the old assignments
9120 conflicted with typing an @-sign on some keyboards.
9122 * Bugfix: prevent "If this message stays up, your chess program does
9123 not support analysis" from appearing if AnalysisMode is selected when
9124 already in Analysis or AnalyzeFile mode. Also, deleting analysis window
9125 in WinBoard now switches you to EditGame mode, to avoid the anomaly of
9126 being in an analysis mode with no analysis window present.
9128 * Change all Zippy environment variables to work as command line
9129 options. For now they still work as environment variables too, but
9130 the environment variables are deprecated.
9132 * Use unsigned long to hold node counts from engines.
9134 * Print error instead of crashing on attempts to use xpm or xim pieces
9135 in monochrome mode. Thanks to Jim Torrance for the bug report.
9137 * Tightened pattern recognition for ICS messages sent to Zippy; should
9138 no longer match ICC allobs output. Fixed recognition of when Zippy is
9139 sent a message; small change to FICS output had broken it.
9141 * Zippy now exits if the engine dies unexpectedly.
9143 * Added Zippy "spoofedby" feature; see zippy.README.
9145 * Narrowed the margins on some older WinBoard dialogs to make their
9146 style uniform with the newer ones.
9148 * Bugfix: Changing Ponder Next Move from the Options menu did not take
9149 effect until the next game. This bug was in WinBoard only. Thanks to
9150 Stefan Zipproth for the bug report.
9152 * Got rid of "Internal error: bad move type" message when the engine
9153 makes a move that we can parse but think is illegal. Now the move is
9154 just passed on (which also may be the wrong thing to do).
9156 4.0.2 -- Thu Feb 25 19:55:32 PST 1999 Tim Mann
9158 * Added one more built-in sound choice to WinBoard: move.wav from Pete
9161 * Added new larger piece sizes: big, huge, giant, colossal, titanic.
9163 * Modified the xboard font searcher to be able to use scalable fonts.
9164 The new -fontSizeTolerance flag controls how closely a nonscalable
9165 font must match to be used in preference to a scalable font.
9167 * Zippy environment variables ZIPPYABORT and ZIPPYADJOURN now control
9168 whether Zippy will accept abort and adjourn requests.
9170 * We now determine the variant type being played on ICS, send it as a
9171 command "variant VARTYPE" to the chess engine (if in Zippy mode), and
9172 put it in the PGN tags. See engine-intf.txt for variant names. See
9173 ZIPPYVARIANTS in zippy.README to control what variants Zippy will
9174 accept. Note that this now applies to bughouse, too.
9176 * Zippy now won't do -zippyTalk in a channel unless his handle is
9179 * Zippy now ignores bughouse holdings if not actually playing, instead
9180 of stupidly trying to abort the game. Let me know if other strange
9181 things happen when Zippy is observing a game.
9183 * Set ICS Interaction title bar to "user@server". User name is
9184 determined by parsing message during the login sequence. Zippy now
9185 uses this method to get its name too, so ZIPPYNAME is eliminated.
9186 Problem: with xboard, the title bar gets set to "xterm" upon exit,
9187 since we didn't know what it was to start with.
9189 * Fixed xboard-only bug in -colorChannel1 command line option. Thanks
9190 to Fredrik Sandstrom for the bug report and fix.
9192 * Check for overflow of MAX_MOVES. Still not sure this is checked for
9193 everywhere it needs to be.
9195 * Added .epd to suffixes recognized by WinBoard as position files.
9196 This is a bit of a kludge, as the .fen reading code was not written
9197 with .epd files in mind, but reading them with it is said to work.
9199 * Added ZIPPYGAMESTART feature, suggested by Jason Hoblit. See
9202 * Restored the feature of soaking up the moves from a user-typed "moves",
9203 "oldmoves", or "smoves" ICS command when xboard/WinBoard is idle, but
9204 changed it so that the move list is also echoed to the screen. Some folks
9205 still liked the old feature since it is faster than examine mode, and
9206 printing the moves to the screen should eliminate the confusion it caused
9209 * Bugfix: in WinBoard, starting a click-click move and then clicking on
9210 a black line would cause the source square to be forgotten without taking
9211 the highlight down. Now the errant click is ignored.
9213 * Corrected shortcut key labels for LoadNext/PrevPosition in WinBoard's
9214 File menu. Thanks to Andreas Stabel for the bug report.
9216 * Bugfix: if you had a completely full ICS context menu in WinBoard
9217 (90 items), the last one would do nothing if selected.
9219 * The "computer" engine command added in 4.0.1 was not working; I had
9220 left out part of the code patch. Oops.
9222 4.0.1 -- Fri Feb 12 21:24:15 PST 1999 Tim Mann
9224 This is a minor bugfix release. The first item listed below is the
9225 only interesting new feature.
9227 * You can now type in moves from the keyboard in WinBoard. Either
9228 select TypeInMove from Step menu, or (if you are not in ICS mode),
9229 just start typing. In ICS mode you can type moves into the ICS
9230 interaction window anyway, so I've retained the feature that typing
9231 switches you there. Not implemented in xboard.
9233 * Removed the "noise 1000" command that used to be sent to the chess
9234 engine when entering analysis modes.
9236 * Deleted the feature where we soak up the output of a user-typed ICS
9237 "moves" or "oldmoves" command. This ancient feature is not really
9238 useful anymore, now that "examine" exists, and it caused a lot of
9241 * Increased maximum size of ICS text menu to 90 entries and added
9244 * The command sent to ICS by Zippy at the end of each game can now be
9245 customized with the ZIPPYGAMEEND environment variable.
9247 * We treat xboard.info as a pseudo-source since most people don't have
9248 the tools to rebuild it. But "make install" erroneously had a
9249 dependency on it, even though "make all" did not. Fixed.
9251 * Miscellaneous minor updates and clarifications to engine-intf.txt.
9252 In particular, documented the st and sd commands (support for command
9253 line options -searchTime and -searchDepth), warts and all.
9255 * Added a small code patch from Bob Hyatt to detect when Zippy's ICS
9256 opponent is a computer and send the command "computer" to the engine.
9257 Added this command to engine-intf.txt. Thanks, Bob.
9259 * Bugfix: configure was looking for usleep(), but config.h.in didn't
9260 have an entry for it, so HAVE_USLEEP was never defined. Also, in the
9261 non-HAVE_USLEEP case, there was a possible race condition between the
9262 signal handler and the pause() call. Thanks to Ben Dean-Kawamura for
9265 * Bugfix: a "1..." preceding Black's first move (usually present if
9266 there is a comment on White's first move) would cause the parser
9267 to think a new game started there and report "End of game" on the
9268 current game. Thanks to Dell Garner for the bug report.
9270 * Changed the abbreviation for -searchDepth from -sd to -depth to fix
9271 a clash with -secondDirectory.
9273 * Changed -searchDepth to be orthogonal to the various timing options.
9274 Previously it would search for an unlimited time to the given depth;
9275 now the engine is allowed to choose its search time in the normal way,
9276 but is told to cut off the search early if it reaches the given depth.
9278 * Bugfix: SaveSettings in WinBoard was saving both the long form
9279 option highlightSquareColor and its abbreviation (hsc).
9281 * Fixed a redisplay bug in DisplayBothClocks that could cause White's
9282 clock to be highlighted in EditPosition mode when Black's should have been.
9284 * Fixed Zippy's feature of passing on draw offers from the ICS opponent.
9285 The colorization code was eating the offer before Zippy saw it, so I disabled
9286 colorization of offers while in -zp or -zt mode. (Other types of
9287 colorization are already disabled in Zippy mode for similar reasons.)
9289 * Added some more commands to the default ICS context menu in WinBoard,
9290 and put "(name)" on the ones that insert a playername (or game number).
9292 * Added missing documentation to WinBoard help file: PonderNextMove, the
9293 -ponder/-xponder argument, and the up/down arrow history feature in the
9294 ICS Interaction window.
9296 * Fixed ZIPPYNOPLAYCRAFTY feature to fire only if the opponent is Crafty,
9297 not if some other Crafty is observing the game and kibitzes.
9299 * Fixed bugs in generating "partner" commands when Zippy is playing
9302 4.0.0 -- Sat Jun 20 16:59:47 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
9304 * Fixed WinBoard resizing so that the edges you do not drag remain in
9305 place, even when the final size is different from what you dragged to.
9306 (This doesn't work on NT 3.51 or earlier, if anyone cares.)
9308 * Fixed problems with resizing WinBoard on Windows NT: you no longer get
9309 whitespace around the board, a clipped board, or a lot of flashing during
9312 * Added customization for highlight-square color.
9314 * Bugfix: backend.c wrote to stderr in a few obscure places, which doesn't
9317 * Added Index Number field back to LoadGame/LoadPosition dialog boxes in
9318 WinBoard. This required some extra code to work with both the
9319 Explorer-style dialog boxes and the old-style NT 3.51 dialog boxes. Ugh.
9321 * WinBoard startup dialog now understands -zp mode. The first chess
9322 engine selector is enabled and the value is used.
9324 * Bugfix: ResetGame would send "exit" to engine twice if it was in an
9327 * Bugfix: The response "Illegal move: bk" to the "bk" command, indicating
9328 that it is not implemented, would confuse xboard.
9330 * Bugfix: Ignore empty hints ("Hint:\n") instead of printing a message
9331 saying that some bogus string (often "Hint:") is illegal.
9333 * Bugfix: LoadNextGame/LoadPreviousGame/ReloadSameGame were broken.
9335 3.6.12 -- Sat Jun 13 14:57:10 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
9337 Beta test release of xboard and WinBoard.
9339 * Spruced up xboard man page a bit.
9341 * Added Highlight Last Move to xboard too.
9343 * The revamped xboard mouse click code had several more bugs than the
9344 previous version, so I revamped it again. All fixed now, I hope.
9346 * xboard bugfix: crash in CreatePieceMenu.
9348 * Oops. winboard-3_6_11beta.exe installed 3.6.10beta, not the new version.
9350 3.6.11 -- Fri Jun 12 20:00:48 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
9352 Beta test release of xboard and WinBoard.
9354 * Major reorganization to engine-intf.txt. Some new features added,
9355 many existing features clarified and hints for engine programmers added.
9356 Support for new features added to program.
9358 * Changed defaults for -scp (etc.) back to being independent of -fcp, as
9359 in 3.6.2. That is, the default is no longer to copy the value from -fcp if
9360 -scp is not specified. This will sometimes make command lines longer but
9361 will remove some confusing situations.
9363 * Split -reuseChessPrograms into two options: -reuseFirst and
9364 -reuseSecond. Fixed obscure bugs when reuse is off.
9366 * Detect ICC and change some command usage slightly there: only ICC has
9367 set-quietly; only FICS has iset and bsetup clear. With this feature, we
9368 can now safely use bsetup clear when appropriate instead of deleting each
9371 * Added indent to lines that are wrapped by WinBoard ICS Interaction
9372 window. This seems to tickle a Microsoft bug in the RichEdit control:
9373 occasionally the start of the next line after the wrapped line is indented
9374 too. I think the wrapped indent feature is useful enough that it's worth
9375 having in spite of the bug.
9377 * WinBoard bugfix: bounding box for the board was computed incorrectly by
9378 mouse code. It would think you moved off the bottom of the board before
9379 you really did, so it was hard to drag pieces along the bottom rank on
9380 smaller board sizes.
9382 * Fixed obscure parser.l bug: ambiguity between capture using : instead of
9383 x and email header line. Also removed or simplified a lot of complex
9384 patterns for English (as opposed to PGN) end-of-game indications while I
9387 * Added PonderNextMove option.
9389 * xboard EditPosition piece menus now let you set the side to play by
9390 selecting the "White" or "Black" label at the top of the menu, like
9391 WinBoard. (Both xboard and WinBoard still let you set the side to play by
9392 clicking on the clock.)
9394 * Merged documentation of Crafty and GNU Chess thinking output in
9395 engine-intf.txt. Corrected code in backend.c to match documentation; it
9396 used to require the PV to start in column 27 (!).
9398 * Fixed bug that caused crashes in "-reuseChessProgram false" mode.
9400 * Draw by agreement in Two Machines mode now works as it is supposed to.
9401 Other minor bugs in handling game end messages from machines are also
9402 fixed, and engine-intf.txt is revised in this area.
9404 * Revamped xboard code for handling mouse clicks on the board. In
9405 particular, it had a bug if a click-click promotion move was made.
9407 * Fixed and reinstated optimization for << in analysis modes: send
9408 initString and re-send the board if needed. Sending repeated undos
9409 is bad because Crafty prints some analysis after every one.
9411 * Don't go into a spin loop while pausing between xboard animation frames.
9412 This caused problems, especially when compiling with -O2 on HP-UX.
9414 * WinBoard Options/Colors/RevertToDefaults now also turns off Monochrome
9415 if it was on, and similarly for Options/ICSInteractionColors/RevertToDefaults.
9416 This seemed to confuse people before.
9418 * Bugfix: ICS Interaction context menu items with neither of the two
9419 optional flags set did not work.
9421 * Bugfix: PGN move numbers are optional, but we were insisting on "1"
9422 right after the tags.
9424 * Bugfix: only the first game of an -mg match was loading -lpf or -lgf.
9426 * Other minor fixes and code cleanup.
9428 3.6.10 -- Mon Jun 1 01:32:31 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
9430 * Added ZIPPYNOPLAYCRAFTY feature; see zippy.README.
9432 * Added timestamps for chess engine interaction to -debug output.
9434 * Now allow 10 seconds (was 5) between games in match mode for engines to
9435 respond to "force" command that ended previous game.
9437 * When a game is picked from the game list and the names of White and
9438 Black are known, display them in the window banner instead of the filename
9441 * Changed default for -scp and -sd to be the values of -fcp and -fd.
9443 * Added boxes for both engines to WinBoard startup dialog. Changed to
9444 dropdown boxes whose content can be set from winboard.ini, similar to
9445 the box for ICS name.
9447 * Accept "offer draw" (or "*offer*draw*") from engine to offer a draw.
9449 * Accept "move mmmm" from engine as well as silly "1. ... mmmm" syntax.
9451 * Added support for bughouse engines (Zippy mode only).
9453 * Move bombproofing for engines sending illegal or out of turn moves.
9455 * Always send "xboard\n" to engine as first command. Eliminates need
9456 to run crafty as "crafty xboard".
9458 * Rewrote xboard code for input from engines to fix longstanding bugs.
9459 Previously an engine that sent one line in two separate writes with
9460 some time lapse in between (or perhaps that sent several lines in one
9461 write) could make xboard hang. WinBoard did not have this bug.
9463 * Fixed minor bugs in dealing with illegal moves.
9465 * Added "iset startpos 1" for FICS.
9467 * Removed special support to put "GNU Chess" or "Crafty" in the window
9468 banner instead of the engine's base filename. This gives a more level
9469 playing field for other engines. Also fixed bugs in the code that finds the
9470 engine's base filename.
9472 * Bugfix: Abort or Resign at the very start of a game in chess engine mode
9473 would fail to send "force" to the engine.
9475 * Fixed some minor bugs in new "result" messages, and changed format to
9476 include a trailing PGN comment giving the reason the game ended.
9478 * Changed syntax of /font options in WinBoard; old syntax was assuming
9479 that a font name can't contain a digit, which is wrong. Old font names in
9480 WinBoard.ini files are still accepted.
9482 * Serious further work on getting WinBoard to read/write files in the
9483 "right" directories and documenting exactly what it does.
9485 * Added LoadPreviousPosition, LoadNextPosition, ReloadSamePosition.
9487 * Misc. tiny fixes and cleanup.
9489 3.6.9 -- Sun May 24 20:53:08 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
9491 xboard and WinBoard beta release.
9493 * Tightened up illegal move handling. Illegal or meaningless moves from a
9494 file or chess engine should no longer get translated into a1a1 and blindly
9495 applied. Explicit moves to the same square (like a1a1) no longer make the
9496 piece on that square capture itself and vanish.
9498 * Added AlwaysOnTop feature to winboard.
9500 * Fixed bug in winboard "@" command line indirection operator.
9502 * Removed buggy "optimization" code for ToStart in analysis modes.
9504 * Fixed typo bug in zippy.c that would often cause winboard to crash
9505 right after starting a game in -zp mode.
9507 3.6.8 -- Sat May 23 22:23:19 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
9509 xboard and WinBoard beta release.
9511 * Added -firstDirectory and -secondDirectory so that chess engines can
9512 be started in a different directory from xboard/WinBoard itself.
9514 * Added -matchGames to allow more than one game in -matchMode. The games
9515 are played with colors alternating between the two chess engines. Had to
9516 add a time delay at the end of each game to catch up with game ending
9517 messages from both chess engines -- yuck.
9519 * Changed TwoMachines mode to have firstChessProgram play White by
9520 default. Added -firstPlaysBlack to restore old behavior.
9522 * Major rework of code in backend.c for dealing with first and second
9523 chess engines. Generalized the code and created a struct type with one
9524 instance for each engine. Several small bugs fixed along the way.
9526 * Fixed bugs in Abort in local chess engine mode.
9528 * Tightened pattern matching to recognize moves from machine. Should cure
9529 bogus "Illegal move" errors while Crafty is pondering with Show Thinking
9530 on, among other things.
9532 * WinBoard keeps focus in board window after popping up a comment due to
9533 Forward/Backward/ToStart/ToEnd commands.
9535 * Finally got rid of warnings on compiling moves.c under Windows.
9537 * Fixed so WinBoard will compile on machines where WM_MOUSELEAVE is not
9540 * Removed various bits of unused code.
9542 * Parse (and ignore) NAGs in PGN files.
9544 * Updated engine-intf.txt.
9546 * Send "result R" to the chess program at the end of each game, where
9547 R is the PGN result 1-0, 0-1, 1/2-1/2, or *.
9549 * Bugfix: suppress animation when loading a game with timeDelay=0.
9551 * Bug fix: pondering output from Crafty that contained "..." could be
9552 mistaken for a move, causing bogus error messages and general chaos.
9554 * xboard "make clean" bug fix: moved things created by configure to be
9555 removed only by "make distclean".
9557 * Fixed a remaining case where move was being animated before being
9558 relayed to opponent.
9560 * Backend was reversing time/otim commands to the chess program (new bug),
9561 and was often not sending them on the first move of a game or the first
9562 move after a mode change (old bug). Fixing the latter required a kludge
9563 to work with both GNU Chess and Crafty, because Crafty swaps white and
9564 black clock times when it swaps sides, while GNU Chess does not. The
9565 kludge is that we always make sure the chess engine thinks its opponent is
9566 on move before we set the clock. This will sometimes result in sequences
9567 like "white\ntime xxx\notim yyy\nblack\ngo", or the same with white and
9570 * Removed last trace of old -whiteString and -blackString arguments.
9572 * Fixed so that you can type "bd" into the Direct Command dialog when
9573 debugging gnuchess, without having xboard parse the clock display
9574 (starting with "White") as "White wins" and end the game.
9576 * Changed moves.c to make a distinction between IllegalMove (where we
9577 could tell what move was intended, but it violates the chess rules) and
9578 MeaninglessMove (where we could not tell). This is a step towards getting
9579 rid of cases where we translate meaningless moves into "a1a1", but some
9580 work is probably needed to track them all down.
9582 * Fixed bug in WinBoard monoMode dragging.
9584 * Changed WinBoard to new style file dialogs. In the process, disabled
9585 the feature that let you enter the index number of a game or position within
9586 the file in the dialog. This is no loss in LoadGame, as you can pick your
9587 game from the game list dialog that follows, but it does remove some
9588 functionality from LoadPosition.
9590 3.6.7 -- Mon May 18 21:25:00 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
9592 xboard and WinBoard beta test release. I've been unable to reproduce some
9593 reported drawing bugs, so they may still not be fixed.
9595 * Changed PopUpErrors option to PopupMoveErrors, which is more useful, and
9596 changed default to off. Errors other than move errors should always be in
9597 popups; they are often too big for the message area and too important to
9598 put where they can be easily missed. But it seems good to get rid of the
9599 popups for move errors by default.
9601 * xboard analysis window no longer forces itself to top whenever there is
9602 new output. Also, now uses built-in Xaw word wrapping instead of trying
9603 to do its own; works better.
9605 * Bugfix: Reset did not take Crafty out of analyze mode.
9607 * A chess engine no longer has to claim to be Crafty to be able to use
9608 AnalysisMode and AnalyzeFile; it just has to implement the analyze
9609 command as Crafty does. Put in heuristics to generate more informative
9610 error messages if the engine does not support analyze, and checked that
9611 they work at least with GNU Chess.
9613 * Added click-click moving, HighlightLastMove, and HighlightDragging to
9614 WinBoard. The highlight features are unlikely to go into xboard unless
9615 the xboard drawing code is cleaned up to do *all* drawing on the board
9616 from DrawPosition, as WinBoard does. This is low priority for me.
9618 * Eliminated bogus "Error gathering move list: no header" popup. You
9619 could get this by observing two fast games at once without turning off
9622 * Disable WinBoard Sounds menu entirely in -ncp mode, since not even
9623 MoveSound is used in that mode.
9625 * WinBoard bugfix: Several problems were caused if the user changed
9626 WinBoard's current directory in a Load, Save, or Browse dialog. In
9627 particular, WinBoard.ini would get saved in the wrong directory, and
9628 sound .wav file names would not get saved with a full pathname. I think
9629 all such problems are now fixed.
9631 * WinBoard bugfix: iconizing the board after an aborted mouse resize would
9632 (partially) resize it to Tiny.
9634 * WinBoard bugfix: board was not being drawn in color on 256-color
9635 displays. This bug was introduced in 3.6.6.
9637 3.6.6 -- Tue May 12 17:43:43 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
9639 xboard and WinBoard beta release. Note: not all reported bugs are fixed.
9641 * Move animation in WinBoard, programmed by Henrik Gram. Great stuff!
9643 * Animate backward moves too.
9645 * xboard bugfix: -font (and friends) can now specify a font alias (such
9646 as "fixed"), not just a full X Consortium name pattern. Previously this
9647 would give a resource conversion error message.
9649 * Some coding style cleanup in xboard.c.
9651 * Earlier error check for moving wrong color piece in EditGame mode.
9653 * Completed fix to pattern matching; see 3.6.5.
9655 * Fixed some software rot bugs in Zippy.
9657 * Split AnimateDragging as separate option from AnimateMoves.
9659 * Added FlashMoves to options menu and -flash/-xflash to command line
9660 options (xboard only).
9662 * Some preliminary work on visible bughouse holding support. Most of the
9663 code is not present in this release because I have not gotten it working
9664 properly yet; my first approach went down a blind alley and I had to
9665 remove most of the partially working code in preparation for a rewrite.
9667 3.6.5 -- Fri May 8 14:22:09 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
9669 Not generally released.
9671 * Pack bughouse holdings display in banner more tightly when board is one
9672 of the smaller sizes (when smallLayout or tinyLayout is true, that is).
9673 An interim measure, but should help.
9675 * Completed fix to make move list parsing recognize the end condition and
9678 * Fixed pattern matching for chatter (tells, etc.) to be more reliable.
9679 This should reduce the incidence of colors starting in the wrong place and
9680 of incorrectly matching things that look like other patterns inside
9681 chatter, such as "shout <12>". (These errors were already rare.)
9683 * WinBoard now lets you customize the list of ICS's in the startup dialog.
9684 For now, at least, requires editing WinBoard.ini with a text editor.
9686 * Bug fix: WinBoard window sizing and position setting save/restore did
9687 not work right when the taskbar was at the top (or left side) of the
9688 screen and not in autohide mode.
9690 * Merged xboard click/click mode and drag mode, and deleted
9691 ClickClickMoving option on menu. Now if you click on a piece, it
9692 highlights and a further click on another square will move it. (A second
9693 click on the same square takes down the highlight.) Or if you press down
9694 on a piece and start to drag, you can drag it to a new square.
9696 * When making click/click style moves, if your second click is on a piece
9697 of the same color, instead of saying "Illegal move", we now cancel the first
9698 starting square, replace it with the second, and wait for another click to
9701 * Separate -secondInitString. Default: same as -initString. Suggested by
9704 * Patch from Frank McIngvale to make animation work with XIMs. Yay!
9706 * Changed move animation to happen after move is passed on to ICS or the
9707 chess engine, where applicable. Fixed problems with updating moveList
9708 that this uncovered.
9710 * Changed game list to show PGN result token for each game.
9712 * The usual minor bug fixes.
9714 3.6.4 -- Thu Apr 30 23:14:43 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
9716 xboard and WinBoard beta test release.
9718 * xboard documentation updated, both man page and info file. An attempt
9719 to generate both from the same source with LinuxDocSGML was abandoned, at
9720 least for now. WinBoard doc updated too.
9722 * Merged updates to animation code from Hugh. Fixed a couple of remaining
9723 bugs, mostly to do with handling Pause mode correctly.
9725 * Added SaveSettingsOnExit to WinBoard.
9727 * WinBoard now saves the last screen position of the Comment, Edit Tags,
9728 Game List, and Analysis windows (in addition to the board and ICS
9729 Interaction windows) in WinBoard.ini.
9731 * WinBoard now provides a way to customize the right-button context menu
9732 in the output area of the ICS Interaction window. For now, requires
9733 editing WinBoard.ini with a text editor.
9735 * Various minor fixes to ICS message recognition, most affecting only Zippy.
9737 * Colorize the notification when someone sends you a message while you are
9738 logged in, not the output of the "messages" command.
9740 * Fixed colorization to turn off at the right place more reliably.
9742 * Added a new color and WinBoard sound for "requests": abort, adjourn,
9743 draw, pause, and takeback. The same color and sound are used for all of
9746 * Added GUI to change sounds in WinBoard.
9748 * Suppressed WinBoard error popup when a sound can't be played. They were
9749 popping up when two separate WinBoards tried to play a sound at the same
9750 time (such as during a bughouse match).
9752 * Fixed WinBoard crash when a sound file didn't exist.
9754 * WinBoard ports of timestamp and timeseal now produce decent error
9755 messages if they fail to connect, and WinBoard captures the messages and
9756 puts them into a popup. Previously WinBoard would exit with no message on
9759 * WinBoard resizing with mouse improved; now accurately picks the largest
9760 size that fits in the new area.
9762 * Added option to turn off error message popups.
9764 * Added sizes slim, dinky, and teeny.
9766 * Fixed some minor problems with error message wording.
9768 3.6.3 -- Mon Feb 23 19:08:57 PST 1998 Tim Mann
9770 xboard beta test release only. Man page is updated for the changes, but info
9773 * Bug fix: LoadGame could not load a PGN game whose first move was
9774 castling (which is possible from setup positions).
9776 * Bug fix: we were ignoring illegal move messages from chess engines in
9777 modes where the engine is refereeing but not participating (EditGame,
9778 LoadGame, AnalyzeFile). The problem was in a workaround for a Crafty bug,
9779 where Crafty generates a bogus illegal move message if a "." (used by
9780 the PeriodicUpdates feature) is sent in analysis mode when the current
9781 analysis reveals a forced mate. Installed a different workaround (that
9782 works in most but not all cases) and reported the Crafty bug. Bob Hyatt
9783 replied with a fix, so the Crafty bug should be gone in Crafty 14.12 or so.
9785 * WinBoard only: enabled resizing board with the mouse. It snaps to the
9786 nearest (but not too much larger) predefined size.
9788 * The xboard default font is now sized according to piece size, just as
9789 clockFont and coordFont have always been.
9791 * Added more sizes: bulky, moderate, average, middling, mediocre, petite.
9793 * xboard only: Added Animate Moves and Click-Click Moving to Options menu.
9795 * xboard only: Added code to animate piece movement, from Hugh Fisher.
9797 * New feature: autoflag is implemented in MachineWhite, MachineBlack, and
9798 TwoMachines modes. If it is on and either a chess program or the user
9799 oversteps his time, xboard will automatically call the flag and end the
9800 game. This feature was requested by someone who runs matches between
9801 programs and wants to penalize GNU Chess for its habit of running slightly
9802 over at the end of a time control. I personally think it's pointless.
9804 * Fixed a bug in Zippy's pattern matching; he can now reply to ICC
9807 * Generate prettier notation for illegal moves. If a move is illegal only
9808 because it leaves the player in check, generate notation as if that were
9809 not illegal. For instance, if two knights are a knight's move away from
9810 f3, one on g1 and one on e5 that is pinned, the notation would be Nf3 to
9811 move the g1 knight, Nef3 to move the e5 knight. (Suggested by Philippe
9812 Schnoebelen.) In addition, if a move is illegal because the type of piece
9813 moved cannot go that way, would be jumping over another piece, etc., we
9814 give fully disambiguated coordinate notation; for example, Ng1g3, Ke1xe8,
9815 d2xd8=Q, etc. An alternative would be to still write Ng3 if there is only
9816 one knight on the board, or Ngg3 if the other knight is not on the g file,
9817 but life is too short to code up all this stuff, and perhaps the way I did
9818 it is better as it emphasizes that this move was really made despite being
9819 illegal. I wonder if the new PGN standard revision will speak to notation
9822 * Fixed gross bug from 3.6.2: if a chess program said "checkmate" and
9823 White was left on move, the PGN outcome was "1-0 {Black mates}" instead
9824 of "0-1 {Black mates}"! The bug occurred only for that specific string.
9826 3.6.2 -- Wed Jul 23 16:47:29 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
9828 * There was a bug in backing up from the end of a game against a chess
9829 engine, introduced when -reuse mode was added. Fixed.
9831 * Recognize "{" as terminating an ICS move list. Previously we needed to
9832 see a prompt (containing %), but occasionally ICC can send more stuff
9833 right after a move list with no prompt in between.
9835 * In WinBoard, -mm now implies -cp, so you don't get the startup dialog.
9837 * WinBoard startup dialog no longer sets -scp. People used to get
9838 confused because they would give the -fcp and -scp arguments, but omit
9839 -cp. This would bring up the startup dialog, which would set both -fcp
9840 and -scp to the value in the engine name box. Now you can change -scp
9841 only with the command-line argument. That will confuse some people too,
9842 but hopefully fewer. I think overall it's better than putting spaces for
9843 both -fcp and -scp in the dialog, which would puzzle newbies.
9845 * Bug fix: Analyze File mode now works in WinBoard.
9847 * Bug fix: WinBoard window no longer cuts off part of the bottom row if
9848 the menu bar wraps to a second line.
9850 * Accept game end messages of the form "PGN-result {comment}" from the
9851 chess engine, where PGN-result is 0-1, 1-0, or 1/2-1/2. Accept "resign"
9852 or "computer resigns" from the chess engine as a synonym for "0-1 {White
9853 resigns}" or "1-0 {Black resigns}". Accept any message from the chess
9854 engine containing "game is a draw" as a synonym for "1/2-1/2 {Draw}".
9855 Accept "White resigns" or "Black resigns".
9857 * Enable "Action / Draw" menu item in chess engine mode. It sends the
9858 command "draw" to the engine. Accept any message from the chess engine
9859 containing "offers a draw" as a draw offer. WARNING: Draw offers from the
9860 user and the engine (or from two engines) are not yet matched up by xboard
9861 in chess engine mode. Two engines could get into a loop offering each
9864 * Bug fix: Game end messages from the chess engine are always ignored in
9865 Zippy mode. Previously they could sometimes be processed, which was
9866 sometimes making Zippy hang at the start of a new game that followed
9867 quickly after an old one.
9869 * Zippy can now respond to titled players in channels. Zippy will avoid
9870 talking to himself in a channel if he knows his own name.
9872 * Bug fix: in colorization arguments, the bold setting was being ignored
9873 if the background color was defaulted. (xboard only.)
9875 * Extended ParseFEN to accept Crafty 12.2's interpretation of FEN.
9876 If fewer than 8 squares are given in a row, or fewer than 8 rows are
9877 given, the uncovered squares are empty. Also, there can be a / after the
9880 3.6.1 -- Sat May 17 01:02:33 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
9882 * Bug fix: Hitting escape while entering a password on WinBoard no longer
9883 sets the font color back to black (which made further typing visible).
9885 * Bug fix: On Windows NT 4.0, WinBoard /ics /icshelper=timestamp would
9886 often hang if you tried to exit with the Exit menu item, the [X] button,
9887 etc. The same fix may also have corrected the problem where running a
9888 chess program with /xreuse would sometimes crash Windows 95 (but not NT)
9889 when the chess program was killed and quickly restarted.
9891 * Bug fix: Periodic Updates would not work if turned on after having been
9892 off. Also, the default was needlessly "off" in WinBoard.
9894 * Zippy bug fix: Continuing an adjourned game was totally broken. The
9895 wrong moves, or no moves at all, were being fed to the chess program.
9897 * WinBoard change: Giving -ics without -icshost now pops up the startup
9898 dialog with "Use an Internet Chess Server" pre-selected, so that you get a
9899 menu of chess servers instead of going directly to ICC.
9901 * Bug fix: WinBoard's SaveSettings was saving -icshost, -icsport, and
9902 -icshelper in winboard.ini. This causes a problem if you use a different
9903 icshost later that needs the default values for icsport (5000) and
9904 icshelper ("", meaning none).
9906 * Disabled complaints about unexpected "[Ii]llegal move" messages from
9907 the chess program; we still get them at times.
9909 * Greatly simplified the code for Move Now and SIGINT (ATTENTION). Fixes
9910 the bug where Move Now did not work with GNU Chess in WinBoard, and
9911 several more obscure bugs as well. Reintroduces a minor bug: GNU Chess might
9912 not think on your time after a Move Now command. Trying to fix this
9913 causes too many other problems. Documented change in engine-intf.txt.
9915 * Cleaned up code for obtaining ratings from ICS. It was kludgey and may
9916 have had bugs on systems with no "Creating:" message. It should fail
9917 gracefully there, just not finding the ratings.
9919 3.6.0 -- Thu May 8 19:55:58 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
9921 * WinBoard now has right-button context menus in the ICS Interaction
9922 window. Some of the items do immediate commands on the player name you
9923 have selected or pointed to. (Suggested by Paolo Casaschi.) Also, the
9924 middle button or shift+right does a immediate Copy and Paste.
9926 * Fixed a bug in Zippy's wild rejection. The bug was causing Zippy to
9927 reject all forms of wild. Now it rejects only 1, 9, 16, 17, and 24, as
9928 was intended. These variants have different rules, while the other
9929 variants defined so far only have different starting positions.
9930 (Actually, wild 2, 3, and 4 never allow castling, but may sometimes by
9931 chance have king and rook start on squares where castling appears legal.
9932 This could cause a problem later.)
9934 * Zippy now resumes adjourned games by feeding the chess program
9935 the move list instead of the position. Setting -getMoveList to False
9936 restores the old behavior. Feeding in the move list is better because
9937 it enables the chess program to correctly handle en passant legality,
9938 castling legality, draw by repetition, and draw by the 50 move rule.
9940 * Added a WinBoard startup dialog for people who run WinBoard.exe without
9941 using the Start menu or reading the help file. Instead of being dumped
9942 directly into GNU Chess mode, you now get a menu of choices. You now have
9943 to give the new WinBoard -cp option to go directly into chess engine mode.
9944 I did not add this feature to xboard.
9946 * Handling of "illegal move" from Crafty is now back on. (It was turned
9947 off in 3.4.6; see below.) Crafty 12.0 doesn't seem to send bogus ones
9948 anymore. I did have to suppress sending time and otim in analyze mode to
9949 make this work, but there is no harm in that.
9951 * Zippy now sends "gameend" to ICS at the end of each game. You can alias
9952 this to "seek" or whatever you like.
9954 * Added Crafty support for Move Now, using the "?" command. We test
9955 whether this command exists by trying it once at the start of the first
9956 game, before it really makes sense. If we don't get a message like
9957 "Illegal move ... ?", we assume it's OK. (We're careful about this
9958 because sending a "?" to GNU Chess on Move Now keeps it from pondering the
9959 next move as it should.)
9961 * Added support for a tellusererror command from the chess engine. See
9964 * Attempted to make engine-intf.txt complete.
9966 * Minor fixes/cleanup to GameEnds code, to be sure we always interrupt
9967 when needed, and always undo an extra move generated by stopping the chess
9968 program while it is thinking.
9970 3.5.7 -- Sat May 03 22:37:44 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
9972 Beta release of both xboard and WinBoard.
9974 * Updated xboard documentation. I really wish the man page was built from
9975 the info file instead of being separate! It's a pain to update them both.
9977 * Updated documentation of the interface between XBoard/WinBoard and chess
9978 programs, and renamed it to engine-intf.txt.
9980 * Added support for tellics, telluser, and askuser commands from the chess
9981 engine. See engine-intf.txt.
9983 * Various bug fixes. On WinBoard, 256 color displays are finally handled
9984 right; no more color flashing when you switch windows unless the colors
9985 really need to be updated. Also, I think the problem of the console font
9986 failing to change or changing back by itself is finally fixed.
9988 3.5.6 -- Tue Apr 29 03:08:00 PDT 1997
9990 Beta release, WinBoard only. ChangeLog was out of date in release,
9993 * Added ICC timestamp and FICS timeseal to WinBoard distribution. These
9994 are my own ports to Win32, based on and used by permission of the owners
9995 of the proprietary source code (Daniel Sleator for timestamp, Henrik Gram
9996 for timeseal). The owners permit these programs to be distributed only in
9997 binary form (to help prevent cheating), so to avoid running afoul of the
9998 GPL, I have kept them as separate programs, not linked into the WinBoard
9999 address space. Updated Start menu icons to use them.
10001 * Miscellaneous smaller changes.
10003 3.5.5 -- Fri Apr 25 03:06:00 PDT 1997
10005 Beta release, WinBoard only. ChangeLog was out of date in release;
10008 * Added simple sound support to WinBoard.
10010 * Updated WinBoard documentation.
10012 * Internal implementation of the telnet protocol is now more complete.
10013 You can now hop through a VMS host on the way to ICS. For example, do
10014 "xboard -ics -icshost vms.host.edu -icsport 23", then log in. Do not use
10015 the -telnet flag; that says to use an *external* telnet program. To avoid
10016 double echoes, you need to force character mode in VMS telnet after
10017 connecting from VMS to ICS. Do "^]^Mset mode char^M^M".
10019 * Display opponent names in the title bar for MachineWhite, MachineBlack,
10020 and TwoMachines modes.
10022 * WinBoard now has an installer, built with InstallShield. The installer
10023 works with a binary-only distribution. Sources are still freely
10024 available, but now separately.
10026 * Added SaveSettings to WinBoard, which saves current option settings to
10027 winboard.ini. Made sure all options can be saved and loaded, including
10028 fonts and com port settings.
10030 * If the game ends while you are dragging a piece, we now don't let you
10031 finish the move. Formerly the move was accepted and your opponent's clock
10032 would start running again.
10034 3.5.4 -- Fri Apr 18 01:15:24 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
10036 Beta test release of WinBoard and xboard. The documentation remains
10039 * Many fixes and improvements to new WinBoard user interface code.
10041 * In Zippy mode, avoid sending another copy of the same move to the chess
10042 program if ICS sends us another copy of the board image. Hard to believe
10043 it took me until now to diagnose and fix this problem!
10045 3.5.3 -- Sat Apr 12 19:49:33 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
10047 Beta test release of WinBoard and xboard.
10049 * Fixed fatal bug in WinBoard input handling.
10051 * Made code to stop chess program for reuse a bit smarter. Removed kludge
10052 of "white" in initString; it didn't work well, and is unneeded
10053 with Crafty 11.21 and later.
10055 3.5.2 -- Sat Apr 12 15:40:01 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
10057 Beta test release of WinBoard.
10059 * Ignore check and permit promotion to King during suicide games; no need
10060 to turn off TestLegality.
10062 * Renamed CheckLegality to TestLegality to avoid confusion with the chess
10065 * Added Rematch to Action menu.
10067 * WinBoard now has a custom ICS interaction window with scrollback, a
10068 separate line for input, and colorization. Accelerators that conflict
10069 with normal editing keys were changed (by requiring Alt+) so they can work
10070 in both the console and the main window.
10072 * WinBoard error popups are now non-modal and disappear when you make a
10073 new move, as in xboard.
10075 * Configure now defaults to --disable-ptys on all systems. If anyone has
10076 an ancient SysV system where pipes don't work with select, they can still
10077 do "configure --enable-ptys" explicitly. I would appreciate getting a bug
10078 report if this happens to anyone, with complete output from configure and
10081 * "make install" now makes the installation directories too.
10083 * Fixed a bug that would cause an "Illegal move" message for Black from
10084 GNU Chess to be incorrectly considered bogus.
10086 * Handle name changes during an ICS game (FICS bname and wname commands).
10088 * You can force both chess programs to be killed at the end of each game
10089 by turning off the reuseChessPrograms option. There are still some
10090 problems with reusing Crafty even in version 11.20.
10092 * Now the second chess program stays around by default too, if it ever
10095 3.5.1 -- Sat Apr 5 16:47:48 PST 1997 Tim Mann
10099 * Don't kill off and restart the chess program for each game; keep the
10100 same one running, using the "new" command to start a new game. This
10101 change works around the problem in Windows 95 that makes WinBoard crash it
10102 at times, and is generally desirable to make new games start faster. The
10103 second chess program (for TwoMachines) is still killed at the end of the
10104 game, and unfortunately this can still crash Windows 95. Temporarily
10105 added "white" to the initString to make this work with Crafty 11.20, which
10106 has a minor bug in "new". Older versions of Crafty have worse bugs in
10107 "new"; they should not be used with this version of xboard.
10109 * Support for FICS suicide chess: Parse illegal moves (that leave King in
10110 check) in game history. If CheckLegality is off, allow promotion to King
10111 and illegal moves in game files. We still generate e2e4 style notation
10114 * Handle FICS "has timeseal; checking" message.
10116 * Changed the coords from white back to black; this was a bug.
10118 * Fixed problems compiling with K&R compilers.
10120 * Fixed an old bug in RegisterMove that was crashing cmail on some systems
10123 3.5.0 -- Thu Jan 2 16:59:49 PST 1997 Tim Mann
10125 Thanks to Frank McIngvale for much of the work on versions 3.4.4 and above!
10127 * Fix Crafty resumed game time bug (frankm)
10129 * Word wrap text in Analysis window (frankm)
10131 * More debug info for XPM loading (frankm)
10133 * Replaced config.sub, config.guess, etc., with up-to-date versions from
10134 autoconf 2.12. Hopefully this will fix problems on Pentium Pro machines.
10136 * Removed some Makefile gunk that was causing looping for one person.
10138 3.4.7 -- Thu Dec 19 14:22:41 PST 1996 Tim Mann
10140 All changes from Frank:
10142 * Retrieve ratings from ICC (and FICS, etc., when they add the Creating:
10143 message), save them in the PGN tags, and pass them to Crafty in Zippy mode.
10145 * Add settable time delay between characters in ICS login script.
10147 * Colorize messages like personal tells. Fix false recognition of channel
10150 * Pass "tells" from Crafty through to ICS (in Zippy mode).
10152 * Implement ~/ filename convention from C shell for game and position file
10155 * ZIPPYACCEPTONLY feature for testing.
10157 3.4, patchlevel 6 -- Sat Nov 23 16:58:50 PST 1996 Tim Mann
10159 * Put recognition of "illegal move" messages from Crafty for
10160 illegal castling, etc., inside an #if that is currently turned off,
10161 because of a bug in Crafty that generates bogus "illegal move" messages
10162 after some moves that are actually legal and accepted by Crafty.
10164 * Added -checkLegality option; previously this could not be turned off.
10166 * Fixed an old bug in finding default board size parameters.
10168 * Differentiated among channel tell, kibitz/whisper, and personal tell/say.
10170 * Fixed a bug in detecting Xpm in the configure script.
10172 3.4, patchlevel 5 -- Mon Nov 18 16:22:53 PST 1996 Tim Mann
10174 * Added zic2xpm to the kit; it had been omitted by mistake.
10176 * Added some default colors for -colorize
10178 3.4, patchlevel 4 -- Sat Nov 16 18:10:17 PST 1996 Tim Mann
10180 This is meant to be a beta release in preparation for version 3.5.
10182 * Added InfoXBoard and ManXBoard to the Help menu.
10184 * Made Frank's ICS input box optional, defaulting to off.
10186 * Merged in Frank McIngvale's XbKit. Many new features, including
10187 -clickClick mode, the Analysis modes, piece flashing, ZIICS import,
10188 ICS text colorization, and the ICS input box. Many thanks to Frank for
10189 supplying and documenting this code.
10191 3.4, patchlevel 3 -- Mon Nov 11 18:23:14 PST 1996 Tim Mann
10193 Small set of changes made while Frank McIngvale was working on XbKit in
10194 parallel. Unreleased in this form.
10196 * Updated zippy.README.
10198 * Removed useless X event handler and removed strange code for copying
10199 form translation table to board that worked around the bug it caused.
10200 This makes changing bindings in .Xdefaults more straightforward.
10202 * Now pressing the Control key steps back one move, and releasing it steps
10205 * Moved quit from "q" to "Q" for greater safety.
10207 * Use "unobserve" instead of "observe" to stop observing; needed on FICS.
10209 * Support for interface variable.
10211 * Strip titles from people who are talking to us, so (for example) Zippy
10212 won't try things like "tell Darooha(*) hello". Needed on FICS.
10214 3.4, patchlevel 2 -- Tue Jul 9 19:06:42 PDT 1996 Tim Mann
10216 This patchlevel is not planned to be an announced release. It's in
10217 preparation for integrating Frank McIngvale's XbKit. It mostly contains
10218 minor fixes I've accumulated since 3.4.pl1.
10220 * WinBoard /telnet option now fires up an external program, as
10221 with xboard, instead of trying to use a feature of NT 3.1 that does not
10222 exist in later versions of NT or in Windows 95. ChangeLog for 3.4.pl1
10223 said this had been implemented there, but it really wasn't.
10225 * Indicating player to move by the icon color now works under Windows 95.
10227 * WinBoard now kills the chess program when you exit using the system menu
10228 or the [X] button. Thanks to Michael Lowe.
10230 * Minor changes to Zippy, including: Now understands wild challenges on
10231 FICS; these used to crash it. Removed limit on how fast a game will be
10232 accepted. Use "set formula ..." on the chess server to limit this if you
10233 are using GNU Chess. Now sends correct opponent name to Crafty.
10235 * Added some missing default values to documentation. Thanks to Stuart
10238 * Bugfix: Trying to print "No fonts match pattern" error message would
10239 crash. This can happen to Linux users who don't install Helvetica, for
10242 * Bugfix: Defaulting feature in -size n,n,n,n,n,n would put us in an
10245 * Added more directories to search for Athena widgets on HPUX.
10247 * New cmail (3.12) from Evan Welsh; includes small fix from Kayvan Sylvan.
10249 * Recognize "illegal move" messages from Crafty for illegal castling, etc.
10251 * Bugfix: "name" command added to zippy.c for Crafty was producing error
10252 message if GNU Chess was in use.
10254 * In bughouse mode, suppress holding messages from console window; show
10255 holdings only in banner.
10257 * Minor fixes/cleanup to Makefile.in and configure.in.
10259 3.4, patchlevel 1 -- Mon Dec 11 13:43:12 PST 1995 Tim Mann
10261 * This patchlevel updates WinBoard to match xboard, and includes a few
10262 fixes and minor improvements. "-size tiny" and "-size n,n,n,n,n,n"
10263 are still not implemented for WinBoard.
10265 * Installed support for Crafty based on code from Bob Hyatt.
10266 Currently the only documentation for this is in the FAQ, and a few
10267 things don't work with Crafty 8.23. Please do not report these
10268 problems as bugs in either xboard or Crafty. Bob and I know about
10269 them. The worst ones (if not all of them) should be fixed in Crafty
10272 * Changed the kludge command we send when gnuchess wants to print
10273 something that doesn't end with a newline, from "help" to "bogus".
10274 This works because the error message gnuchess prints ends with a
10275 newline. It also improves compatibility with Crafty, which doesn't
10276 need the kludge, but for which sending "help" causes a problem.
10278 * Don't draw grid at all if lineGap is 0; previously we drew the grid
10279 with X "0-width" lines (usually 1 pixel wide) and then overwrote it.
10281 * Makefile: Removed xboard.info from "all" target so we won't try to
10282 rebuild it, because this fails on hosts that don't have makeinfo
10283 installed. Other minor fixes to "clean" targets, etc.
10285 * Fixes and cleanup to Auto Comment code that handles continuation
10286 lines and highlighting.
10288 * Auto Observe now tries to observe the game from the point of view of
10289 the player who was on your gnotify list. Requested by rng.
10290 Limitations: We can't tell which player it was unless you have ICS
10291 highlighting turned on. Also, currently "observe foo" works as
10292 required (observing from foo's point of view) only on ICC, but FICS
10293 will probably implement this soon.
10295 * "-size tiny" now makes the default font smaller automatically. This
10296 was implemented by introducing an extra Form widget in the hierarchy
10297 for all xboard windows, named either normalLayout, smallLayout, or
10298 tinyLayout. So you can have resource specifications that apply only
10299 to certain layouts; in particular, XBoard*tinyLayout*font.
10301 * Bug fix: EditGame or EditPosition while playing or examining still was
10302 not really being permitted.
10304 * WinBoard bug fix: On the EditPosition menu, King did not work.
10306 * Added text catalog of WinSock error messages to WinBoard, because
10307 Microsoft still has not put them in the system message catalog.
10309 * Removed support for older ICS game-ending messages that do not have
10310 a PGN result token (*, 0-1, 1-0, or 1/2-1/2) after the closing '}'.
10311 The code for older messages was sometimes firing on the newer
10312 messages, due to parsing ambiguity. If the current code sees an old
10313 message, it will understand that the game is over, but will always
10314 display * as a result token instead of trying to guess the result by
10315 interpreting the text message.
10317 3.4, patchlevel 0 -- Tue Nov 21 01:02:50 PST 1995 Tim Mann
10319 * This patchlevel was released for xboard only.
10321 * Updated the info file. It should now be as up-to-date as the man page,
10322 with good English except in the parts that pertain only to AmyBoard.
10324 * Added "-size tiny", requested by Bob Hyatt. Also cleaned up bitmap
10325 support and added "-size n,n,n,n,n,n" to allow arbitrary-sized bitmaps,
10326 if the actual bitmaps are supplied by the user.
10328 * Updated bughouse support.
10330 3.3, patchlevel 4 -- Sat Nov 18 02:27:21 PST 1995 Tim Mann
10332 * Unreleased beta that works with preliminary FICS bughouse code. Will
10333 need changes before release to track FICS message changes.
10335 * Removed use of .EX macro from man page. It is not supported by some
10336 nroff -man macro packages, notably the one on Slackware Linux. Switched
10337 to boldface for references to xboard and other commands within the man
10338 page, as this seems to be the modern way.
10340 * Bug fix: If ICS rejected a move, it was correctly undone on the board,
10341 but the message widget still displayed the bad move. Reported by DAV.
10343 * Normally, xboard in ICS mode fetches the move list whenever the board
10344 display switches to a new game. Doing this is now an option
10345 (getMoveList) that can be turned off, which is useful if you are watching
10346 multiple blitz games. Requested by rng.
10348 * Move list fetching code is now smarter: it ignores a move list if it is
10349 not for the right game.
10351 * Added support for bughouse as implemented on FICS. Holdings are shown
10352 in the window title in place of the strength numbers. A menu on mouse
10353 buttons 2 and 3 (same on both) lets you drop pieces. There is no checking
10354 as to whether you actually hold the piece you are trying to drop; we rely
10355 on ICS to check that. Notation of the form P@f7 is generated and parsed.
10356 The mate detector does not understand that non-contact mate is not really
10357 mate in bughouse, but this does no real harm. It results in a "#"
10358 suffix being displayed on the move notation, but xboard does not assume the
10361 * Bug fix: Promotion to a knight was not working with ICC! Thanks to
10362 Wendigo for the report.
10364 * Bug fix: Special pty code for host types *-*-aix3* and *-*-irix3*
10365 (supplied from configure.in) had a bug that would cause childio.c to
10366 fail to compile, due to a "continue" that was not within a loop.
10368 * Bug fix: In pgntags.c, memory was being freed while still in use. One
10369 symptom this caused was that on some machines, cmail would fail with a
10370 message that it could not find the BlackNA tag. The error was in some
10371 submitted code that I included in version 3.2.pl3 without reading
10372 carefully enough. Anders Forberg noticed the symptoms, and Evan Welsh
10373 (who had nothing to do with causing the bug) found the bug and submitted a
10374 fix; thanks to them both.
10376 * Removed restriction against using EditGame while playing, observing,
10377 or examining on ICS. You still get a warning popup.
10379 3.3, patchlevel 3 -- Sat Sep 16 11:44:05 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
10381 * Bug fix: Going directly from MachineWhite to TwoMachines mode would kill
10382 off the second chess program after Black's first move.
10384 * Added -timeIncrement feature. Thanks to Joel Rivat.
10386 * Deleted code that tries to keep you from observing more than one game,
10387 or observing while playing or examining. There is actually no problem in
10388 doing this, except that every time an update comes in from a different
10389 game than is currently being displayed, xboard fetches the history of the
10390 new game, which may be time-consuming if you are on a slow link.
10392 * Fixed configure so as not to crash when neither lex nor flex is found.
10393 lex or flex is needed only if the user wants to rebuild parser.c. Thanks
10394 to Phil Humpherys for reporting the crash.
10396 * Bug fix: config.h.in used #define instead of #undef for some macros used
10397 in the pty code in childio.c. This causes the code to fail to compile on
10398 some architectures, because the symbols are supposed to be undefined, not
10399 defined to empty, when they are not set in configure. Bug originated in
10400 3.3.pl0 when config.h was introduced. Thanks to Phil Humpherys for report.
10402 * Bug fix: ShowThinking would not show anything when current position had
10403 no move to display in the move window. E.g., if position was created by
10404 LoadPosition or EditPosition.
10406 3.3, patchlevel 2 -- Mon Aug 28 11:11:11 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
10408 * Zippy code was omitted from xboard-3.3.pl1 by mistake; now included.
10410 * For WinBoard, added hint to help file that you may need to turn off
10411 LocalLineEditing while typing dialing commands to your modem.
10413 3.3, patchlevel 1 -- Sat Aug 19 15:13:30 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
10415 * Zippy distribution is no longer separate from regular xboard distribution.
10417 * Deal properly with Show Thinking output from GNU Chess when it is
10418 thinking on its opponent's time. In TwoMachines mode this output is
10419 suppressed to avoid interfering with the output from the machine that is
10420 on move; in other modes it is displayed (including the move that GNU Chess
10421 is predicting the user will make next). GNU Chess produces this output
10422 only if it is built without -DQUIETBACKGROUND defined; this symbol is
10423 defined by default in patchlevels before pl75, but undefined by default in
10426 * Bug fix: Handling of initial board position in move list for wild games
10427 was broken, so wild games could not be observed and adjourned wild games
10428 could not be continued. Thanks to "Maximum Entropy" for the bug report.
10430 * Added feature: algebraic notation now shows "+" indicator for check
10431 and "#" for checkmate, as called for in PGN standard. Thanks to Kevin
10432 Maher for the suggestion.
10434 3.3, patchlevel 0 -- Thu Jul 27 22:21:07 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
10436 * Changed configuration to use a config.h file instead of passing zillions
10437 of -D options on the cc command line.
10439 * Merged a small fix and some updates to the texinfo file from Jochen
10440 Wiedmann. The texinfo file still needs work.
10442 3.2, patchlevel 5 -- Tue Jul 18 20:29:39 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
10444 * Beta test release of xboard only.
10446 * Updated WinBoard code to include new xboard features.
10448 * Added texinfo file from Jochen Wiedmann to the release, but not as the
10449 primary documentation. It needs updating, and the English needs work.
10450 I did make a few improvements, mostly to change incorrect uses of @var to
10451 either @samp or @code as appropriate.
10453 * Merged in code changes to 3.2.pl4beta from Jochen Wiedmann.
10455 * Fixed EditComment; did not pop up window in previous beta.
10457 * Added AutoComment feature.
10459 * Added GameListDestroy to disable the outdated game list popup in cases
10460 where we load a new game file without building a new popup.
10462 * Added yyskipmoves feature to parser.l to speed up building of gamelist.
10464 * gamelist.c wouldn't compile with a non-ANSI compiler. Fixed.
10466 * Change to yy_text handling in patchlevel 3 still had problems. Can't
10467 use AC_DECL_YYTEXT in configure.in, because that defines YYTEXT_POINTER
10468 according to whether the lexer on the current host makes yytext a pointer.
10469 But most people will be using a parser.c that was generated on another
10470 host and shipped with the package.
10472 3.2, patchlevel 4 -- Sun Jun 25 19:13:43 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
10474 * Beta test release of xboard only.
10476 * Added FIREWALLS section to man page.
10478 * Changed -icsport to be a string. Now with the -telnet option,
10479 specifying -icsport "" suppresses the second argument to telnet.
10481 * Added EditTags feature. Removed AboutGame from menu, because EditTags
10482 subsumes it. EditTags suggested by Jochen Wiedmann and first implemented by
10483 him in AmyBoard. xboard implementation is my own.
10485 * Fixed some missing or incorrect prototypes.
10487 3.2, patchlevel 3 -- Sat Jun 3 18:57:38 1995 Tim Mann
10489 * Beta test release of xboard only.
10491 * New version of cmail from Evan Welsh, to fix compatibility problems with
10494 * Added game list feature on Load Game, based on code from Jochen
10495 Wiedmann. Integrated it with cmail.
10497 * Several bug fixes from Jochen Wiedmann, including one to my yy_text
10498 workaround for the difference in the type of yytext between lex and flex.
10500 * Handle clock pause on FICS.
10502 * Suppress clocks in untimed FICS games (time control 0 0).
10504 * Rebuilt configure script with autoconf 2.3. This fixes a bug in
10505 configuring for X11R6, where -lSM -lICE would not be added when needed.
10507 * Fixed inconsistent type declarations on IntSigHandler and
10508 CmailSigHandler. Bug report from Josh Daynard.
10510 * backend.c wouldn't compile with a non-ANSI compiler. Fixed.
10512 3.2, patchlevel 2 -- Tue Feb 7 14:50:30 1995 Tim Mann
10514 * Minor release of both xboard and WinBoard.
10516 * Added recognition of some FICS messages. On the other hand FICS is also
10517 changing some of its messages to match what xboard already recognizes.
10519 * Temporarily went back to using "promote" command on ICS instead of
10520 "a7a8=Q", because FICS doesn't implement the latter yet.
10522 * We now avoid using overlapped I/O on pipes in WinBoard, to make Windows
10523 95 beta 2 happy. This lets WinBoard work with GNU Chess on Windows 95!
10525 * Installed patches from Jochen Wiedmann to coordinate with Amiga XBoard.
10527 * Installed patch to cmail bug in LoadGame from Evan Welsh.
10529 * Bugfix: checkmate and stalemate moves entered with EditGame in ICS mode
10530 were not being handled correctly. Bug was in GameEnds().
10532 * Implemented EchoOn and EchoOff for xboard, using system("stty echo\n").
10533 Now passwords won't be echoed when you connect directly to ICS. Also,
10534 telnet negotiation characters aren't displayed (when possible).
10536 * Implemented more of the telnet protocol. Now connecting to a telnet
10537 server with "-icsport 23" should work even without giving the -telnet
10538 option. The telnet is in "old line-by-line mode".
10540 3.2, patchlevel 1 -- Sat Dec 10 13:50:46 1994 Tim Mann
10542 * This patchlevel released for WinBoard only.
10544 * winboard.c: Fixed ConsoleInputThread(). Needed to change CRLF to LF,
10545 not to CR. This was stopping normal /ics mode from working. Thanks to
10546 Asher Kobin for the bug report.
10548 * winboard.c: Fixed Raw(), EchoOn(), EchoOff(). Now they take effect
10549 immediately, not on the next console read after the one in progress.
10551 * winboard.c: Attempted to make WinBoard work with gnuchessx running
10552 directly on Windows (not remotely via rsh). It now works on NT, but only
10553 if gnuchess is told not to think on its opponent's time ("easy\n" removed
10554 from initString). The problem seems to be that GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent
10555 is not doing anything. On Windows 95 beta 2, we get error messages on
10556 both reading and writing to gnuchessx; I didn't investigate why.
10558 3.2, patchlevel 0 -- Wed Dec 7 13:23:36 1994 Tim Mann
10560 * Thanks to all the beta testers who gave me feedback: Josef Nelissen,
10561 Steve Booth, Evan Welsh, Dima Dakhnovsky, Chris Petroff, Peter Jansen,
10562 Derek Terveer, Michel van der List, Richard Lloyd, Shelly Mistry, and Mike
10563 Lee. Sorry if I forgot anyone. Thanks to Virendra Kumar Mehta for
10564 information about DYNIX/ptx.
10566 * Don't exit on keyboard EOF unless we get two in a row.
10568 * WinBoard only: added -localLineEdit switch to allow turning off local
10569 line editing if you really want to. It is still a bad idea to let the
10570 echoing be done remotely, however; see below.
10572 * Fixed some configure problems on HP-UX. [Steve Booth]
10574 * Fixed (I hope) configure problem on SunOS 5.3/Solaris 2.3. [Josef Nelissen]
10576 * cmail bugfix from Evan Welsh (cmail 3.4).
10578 3.1, patchlevel 9 -- Fri Dec 2 23:54:56 1994 Tim Mann
10580 * Beta distribution only
10582 * Always do local echo/edit of user typing in ICS mode. Doing the echo
10583 downstream may seem nicer in some modes, and it can be hard to turn that
10584 echo off, but the echoed characters can be interleaved with ICS output
10585 and make it impossible to parse correctly. For xboard this involved only
10586 a change to recommendations in the man page, as Raw() isn't implemented.
10587 For WinBoard, removing Raw() made a real difference. Added code in
10588 WinBoard to change /r/n back into /r on keyboard input, as we get the
10589 former when Raw() is not called.
10591 * Do not issue ICS "refresh" command after we start to observe a game
10592 unless we get to the next prompt without seeing a board image. Newest
10593 version of ICS doesn't require this refresh, but old versions around still
10596 * cmail bugfix and small code cleanup in LoadGame, from Evan Welsh.
10598 * Added keyboard accelerators N/P for LoadNextGame/LoadPreviousGame. Evan
10601 * Using "-" on the command line as a filename for loading (saving) games
10602 or positions specifies the standard input (standard output). Alain Picard
10605 * On WinBoard only, a command line option without a leading '-' or '/' is
10606 now taken as the value of -lgf.
10608 * Changed to not use stdin, stdout, stderr as initializers in backend.c;
10609 needed for GNU libc compatibility. You also must build parser.c with flex
10610 (not lex) if you are using GNU libc, to avoid having the same problem
10613 * Changed WinBoard to avoid using "overlapped" input on the console. It
10614 now seems to fully work on Windows 95 beta 2.
10616 * Improved comment popups on WinBoard. Now newlines are handled properly,
10617 and the plain Comment popup window doesn't disappear and reappear when we
10618 step to a new move with a new comment.
10620 * Fixed bugs in detecting the absence of the time and otim commands.
10622 * Added built-in implementation of rcmd protocol to WinBoard. Windows NT
10623 does not implement passing signals through rsh, and Windows 95 does not
10626 * Added -remoteUser option.
10628 3.1, patchlevel 8 -- Mon Nov 28 15:26:07 1994 Tim Mann
10630 * Beta distribution only
10632 * Rearranged ChangeLog file into reverse chronological order to be closer
10635 * Integrated new cmail code from Evan Welsh (including cmail RCS rev 3.2).
10636 Includes a bug fix to TruncateGame.
10638 * Updated ICS address to be chess.lm.com.
10640 * Bug fixes to handling the aftermath of FatalError. Thanks to Chris
10641 Petroff for the bug report.
10643 * Test for remsh before rsh, other fixes for HP-UX. Thanks to Richard
10644 Lloyd. I wasn't able to do all the things he suggested, so there may
10645 still be some rough edges in building on HP-UX. See the FAQ file for hints.
10647 * Bug fix; added missing check for HAVE_SYS_SYSTEMINFO. Thanks to Josef
10648 Nelissen for testing on Solaris 2.x.
10650 * Updated WinBoard to match xboard. (WinBoard still has a few option
10651 dialogs that don't exist in xboard.)
10653 * Changed Hint output to a popup.
10655 * ShowThinking output and move output no longer overwrite each other.
10656 ShowThinking output won't appear if the displayed position is not current.
10657 ShowThinking output in TwoMachines mode made clearer and documented.
10659 * Implemented --enable-ptys and --disable-ptys arguments to configure.
10661 * Fixed Book and Hint code to work over a pty with echo enabled and tabs
10662 expanded to spaces. Thanks to Dima Dahknovsky for the bug report.
10664 * Moved Attention calls from all over xboard to one place, inside
10667 * Added bulletproofing to ShowThinkingEvent.
10669 * Added code to handle "refresh N" boards that come in from ICS properly,
10670 assuming ICS is changed to mark them with a new relation code (-3).
10672 3.1, patchlevel 7 -- Sun Nov 13 22:16:01 PST 1994 -- Tim Mann
10674 * Beta distribution only
10676 * Changed ShowThinking to just show the current best line in the
10677 DisplayMessage area, instead of dumping everything to stdout.
10679 * Installed new cmail (RCS rev 3.1) and cmail.man (RCS rev 1.10), and
10680 changes to cmail code in backend.c, from Evan Welsh.
10682 * Miscellaneous minor fixes.
10684 3.1, patchlevel 6 -- Fri Nov 4 12:53:53 PST 1994 -- Tim Mann
10686 * This patchlevel was not actually released to anyone.
10688 * Updated the pty code to be based on GNU Emacs 19.24, and moved it to a
10689 separate file. It was hard to split out just the pty configuration from
10690 all the stuff emacs does with its custom configure script and .h files,
10693 * Converted from imake to GNU autoconf. This was a serious upheaval.
10695 * Put in code to help trap "error gathering move list" problem reported by
10696 Michel van der List if it recurs. I couldn't reproduce it.
10698 3.1, patchlevel 5 -- Mon Oct 31 21:12:00 PST 1994 -- Tim Mann
10700 * Beta distribution only.
10702 * We now test for checkmate or stalemate in EditGame mode after every user
10703 move, and in LoadGame mode whenever we hit the end of a game without
10704 seeing a PGN end marker. cmail needs an update to deal with this
10705 correctly; Evan promises one.
10707 * Bugfixes in new move generator. Thanks to Mike Lee for reporting one of
10710 * Imakefile was omitted from patchlevel 4.
10712 3.1, patchlevel 4 -- Mon Sep 19 18:19:46 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
10714 * Beta distribution only.
10716 * The move generator includes a mate tester. Initially this is used only
10717 by cmail, and even that usage needs further work.
10719 * Wrote a true move generator and used it to replace all the move
10720 disambiguation and legality checking code in parser.l. The move generator
10721 is capable of dealing correctly with en passant and castling availability,
10722 but the rest of the program still does not keep track of this information.
10724 * Bug fix: xboard did not handle "foo has made you an examiner of game 23"
10725 message. Thus you could not use examine features until the next board
10726 came in, showing your new relation to the game. Thanks to POOKIEWOOKIE on ICS
10727 for the bug report.
10729 * Added AutoObserve feature. Thanks to Chris Petroff for the idea.
10731 * Added Book feature to use new gnuchess "bk" command. Mike McGann request.
10733 * Redid code to handle missing "time" command in gnuchess, because latest
10734 gnuchess no longer sends a response to this command.
10736 * Eliminated need for -DFLEX. Thanks to Michael Shields (Vladimir?) for
10739 * Added missing code to implement MoveNow in TwoMachines mode.
10741 * Added ShowThinking feature. Thanks to Richard Lloyd for the idea.
10743 * Applied patches from Evan Welsh; some fixes and improvements to the
10746 * Fixed bug in moving from EndOfGame mode to MachineWhite or MachineBlack,
10747 introduced in previous patchlevel. Also fixed related bug in ending a
10748 game in ICS mode; was entering EndOfGame mode instead of IcsIdle.
10750 * Added patch to implement internetChessServerLogonScript flag, from Kevin
10753 3.1, patchlevel 3 -- Wed Sep 7 13:22:07 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
10755 * Beta distribution only.
10757 * Merged in new cmail code from Evan Welsh. He added the ability to have
10758 more than one game per message, needed for official IECG matches. I added
10759 the ability to resign or offer/accept/decline a draw in a cmail game.
10761 * Bugfix: invalid -tc option caused segmentation fault; DisplayFatalError
10762 was called too early in initialization. Georges Honore reported this bug.
10764 * Decided to keep EndOfGame mode as an element of the user interface---it
10765 means that a gnuchess game or loaded game has ended, and the user must
10766 explicitly select EditGame to edit it, rather than just being able to
10767 enter more moves freely. But internally there is no longer an invariant
10768 tying this mode to whether the chess program is running.
10770 * Zippy bugfix: Was saving only the final position in the -sgf file when
10771 the game ended by something other than resignation or flag. Also fixed
10772 the longstanding bug that Zippy would think the final board of such a game
10773 was a new game and restart the chess program.
10775 * Now does a better job of faking castling availability in FEN. We still
10776 don't really keep track of it, but now at least we don't say that castling
10777 is still available when the king or rook is not on its home square.
10779 * Bugfix: Initial board of game history for wild games was going through
10780 too much processing, causing us to forget the game length, which is now
10781 needed by ParseGameHistory. This was causing problems with resuming
10782 adjourned wild games.
10784 * Updated ICS host to ics.onenet.net.
10786 * Zippy now accepts challenges where the opponent specified his color.
10788 * Added ZIPPYPASSWORD2 to let operator give commands directly to gnuchess.
10790 * Bitmap directory can include alternative icons now, too.
10792 * Handle "Game * (*) has no examiners" message from ICS.
10794 * Revamped window title and icon name selection.
10796 3.1, patchlevel 2 -- Sun Jun 12 17:16:28 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
10798 * "Beta" distribution for Zippy users only.
10800 * Bugfix: common.h was assuming that X11 type Boolean is char, which is
10801 not always true. This might have caused all sorts of obscure bugs!
10803 * Installed new bitmaps from Elmar Bartel as the default. Many thanks!
10804 The old bitmaps can be used by changing the "bitmaps" symbolic link before
10805 compiling xboard, or by using the -bitmapDirectory option at runtime.
10807 * Loading a game that ends with the PGN unfinished symbol ("*") now always
10808 leaves you in EditGame mode.
10810 * Added documentation of -icscomm to man page. Thanks to Maarten Remkes
10811 for the linux script.
10813 * ^C now kills gnuchess as well as xboard. Thanks to Dima Dakhnovsky for
10814 reminding me how to do this.
10816 * Bitmap icon color now indicates player to move. Stuart Cracraft
10819 * Changed piece bitmap flags to have just one flag, which points to a
10820 directory full of bitmaps, instead of a flag for each bitmap. Also
10821 changed bitmap naming convention.
10823 * "Connection closed by ICS" is no longer a FatalError popup. This was
10824 too annoying in the normal case where the user typed "quit".
10826 * Changed default font to 14 pixels instead of 10 points. This seems to
10827 make it close to the size I want it to be on more displays.
10829 * Major mode (GNU Chess, etc.) appears in title bar. Stuart Cracraft
10832 * Bug fix: EditGameEvent, MachineBlackEvent, MachineWhiteEvent, and
10833 TwoMachinesEvent were calling PauseEvent to get out of pause mode, which
10834 now has undesired side effects, such as advancing the display to the
10835 forwardMostMove. It works fine to just set pausing = FALSE instead.
10837 * IcsExamining mode now lets you access ICS edit position commands using
10838 the same popup menus as xboard's EditPosition mode. Thanks to DAV on ICS
10839 for inspiring the idea.
10841 * Corrected test for gcc on HP in Imakefile; thanks to Richard Lloyd.
10843 3.1, patchlevel 1 -- Wed Jun 1 16:25:11 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
10845 * Added parser.c.lex and parser.c.flex to the distribution.
10847 * Added HP gcc options to Imakefile, from Mats Nylen.
10849 * EndOfGame mode no longer highlights EditGame mode indicator, because the
10850 modes really do differ. I would like to get rid of EndOfGame mode in the
10851 future, at least as far as users can see.
10853 * Larger %a in parser.l, needed for RS/6000 users.
10855 * Minor improvements to Mail Move error messages.
10857 * When -debug flag is given to xboard, -v is passed to cmail.
10859 * Old Save Style uses "1. ..." instead of "1..." when black moves after a
10860 comment; more like xboard 3.0's actual style.
10862 * New version of cmail from Evan Welsh. Looks for UCB Mail in a more
10863 portable way and has some minor bug fixes.
10865 * Bug fix: Saving a FEN position while in EditPosition mode with black to
10866 play was showing white to play in the saved position.
10868 3.1, patchlevel 0 -- Fri May 20 16:36:15 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
10870 * This is the first general release since 3.0, patchlevel 9. Releases
10871 since then have been limited-distribution or beta releases.
10873 * Thanks to my version 3.1 beta testers: Dmitry Dakhnovsky, Ed Hanway,
10874 Richard Lloyd, Mike McGann, Shelly Mistry, Josef Nelissen, Chris Petroff,
10875 Jack Robertson, Michel van der List, Ky Macpherson, Derek Terveer, and
10876 Evan Welsh. Sorry if I've forgotten anyone who gave me feedback.
10878 * Updated man page.
10880 * Minor cleanup on menu sensitivity code.
10882 * Integrated another even better version of cmail from Evan Welsh,
10883 including some code he supplied in xboard itself.
10885 * A few more fixes to cmail support.
10887 * Automatically update clocks after an ICS "moretime" command.
10889 * Handle ICS automatic examine mode (set examine 1) after a game.
10891 3.0, patchlevel 14 -- Tue May 17 13:41:44 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
10893 * Beta test release only.
10895 * Don't suppress prompt on first board of game being examined; otherwise
10896 it looks like nothing happened at all (i.e., like you're lagged).
10898 * Added StopExamining and StopObserving (Chris Petroff suggestion).
10900 * Made Reset do a refresh on ICS. John Chanak's original ICS code for
10901 xboard tried to do this; I finally decided it was a good idea after all.
10903 * Fixed bugs in handling updates that come in while you are pausing in
10904 examine mode. This is pretty tricky to do right.
10906 * Made un-Pausing immediately pop you to the current position. This is
10907 always necessary in examine mode, since the game may have changed under
10908 you; your remembered moves might no longer be right. So I made it do the
10911 * Took Detach Examine mode back out...used Pause mode for this instead!
10913 * Put in a trap for the GNU Chess bug of printing an Illegal Move message
10914 when its own hint move is illegal.
10916 * Attempted to fix a Zippy bug; bogus "exited unexpectedly" messages after
10917 it checkmates its opponent. This involved adding an argument to GameEnds
10918 to say who says it ended (ICS, GNU, etc.) and taking different actions in
10919 different cases. Unfortunately, this just restored an older Zippy bug, where
10920 Zippy restarts gnuchess when it gets the board with the final position,
10921 because GameEnds still puts xboard in EndOfGame mode. Sigh.
10923 * We now capture elapsed time on last move when getting game history.
10924 (Josef Nelissen bug report)
10926 * Rewrote code to redisplay last file title so it really works.
10928 * Fixed bug in oldSaveStyle.
10930 * Larger %a and %o were needed for lex.
10932 3.0, patchlevel 13 -- Mon May 16 16:26:22 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
10934 * Beta test release only.
10936 * FatalError popups stay on the screen now. If the error is really fatal,
10937 all functions are disabled, and the program exits when you press OK.
10939 * Redisplay last file title when using Load (Next/Previous/Same) Game.
10941 * Zippy understands new match challenge message format on ICS.
10943 * Added Revert command.
10945 * When examining a game on ICS, < > buttons do ICS backward/forward
10946 commands, unless you set the Detach Examine option. Thanks to Dima
10947 Dakhnovsky for the idea.
10949 * Fixed various minor problems in cmail mode.
10951 * cmail generates the tags now. New version of cmail from Evan Welsh.
10953 * cmail mode won't let you do MailMove unless the currently displayed
10954 position is exactly one move past the end of the game you loaded.
10956 * Fixed building of man pages in Imakefile
10958 * Updates to INSTALL file
10960 3.0, patchlevel 12 -- Sat May 7 21:10:03 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
10962 * Beta test release only.
10964 * Brought man page up to date.
10966 * Added Shift+R to resign from keyboard.
10968 * Some items on Action menu available in GNU Chess mode now.
10970 * Revamped Action menu.
10972 * Reordered functions in backend.c as a small step toward reorganizing
10975 * Generate TimeControl PGN tag.
10977 * Get type of ICS game (e.g., rated blitz) and save in PGN tags.
10979 * Bug fix: Clocks were not redisplayed when entering EditGame mode.
10981 * Bug fix: Clocks were not being redisplayed after loading a game file
10982 with -td 0, so they could show the wrong color active.
10984 * Bug fix: Chess programs would be killed and match mode would exit
10985 prematurely when loading a PGN game fragment ending with "*".
10987 * ICS command "sposition" no longer confuses xboard.
10989 * Integrated new version of cmail (with support code in xboard) from Evan
10992 * Added TruncateGame, MoveNow, RetractMove, and QuietPlay.
10994 * Bug fix: switching between MachineWhite and MachineBlack was not calling
10995 Attention(). Reported by Dino Dini.
10997 * More improvements to INSTALL and Imakefile.
10999 * Pack moves into 79 character lines in PGN output. We don't generate
11000 check indications, and we always break the line before the result,
11001 so this is not quite PGN export format.
11003 * Use FEN tag in PGN.
11005 * Improved finding and counting of game starts in save files.
11007 * Negative position or game numbers in -lpi/-lgi mean to seek to that byte
11008 offset. Hook for possible future features, not in man page.
11010 * Detect and handle absence of either "time" or "otim" commands in
11013 * Don't use "promote" command to ICS anymore.
11015 * Handle switching sides and taking back moves on FICS.
11017 * Handle flip state flag in style 12 board.
11019 * Handle examine mode on ICS.
11021 * Improved error popups for various kinds of illegal moves.
11023 * Suppress unasked-for hints from gnuchess (which it generates in post
11026 * Load/save position functions use FEN. Old style also supported.
11028 * Added detailed error messages if loading a bitmap file fails.
11030 * Small board has 2-pixel lines between squares instead of 3-pixel.
11032 * Added OldSaveStyle and AboutGame.
11034 * Renamed ForceMoves to EditGame.
11036 3.0, patchlevel 11 -- Tue Sep 21 15:25:36 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
11038 * The following changes were present in xboard 3.0, patchlevel 11, but the
11039 first group did not make it into WinBoard 3.0 until later. xboard
11040 3.0.pl11 was a limited-distribution release only, mostly to Zippy users.
11042 * Man page minor fixes.
11044 * Added a missing file close.
11046 * Removed automatic error popdown on Reset, which was destroying some
11047 error messages before they could be read.
11049 * Fixed char vs. unsigned char warnings on bitmaps.
11051 * Use ICS board style 12. Some improvements to ICS parsing.
11053 * Comment window is now labelled with the move the comment is on, and
11054 comments don't pop down when you step to the next move.
11056 * Save files now in PGN format.
11058 * Support for loading PGN files. PGN tags pop up when a PGN game file
11061 * More info in INSTALL and Imakefile about building for Suns (and
11064 * WinBoard 3.0 patchlevel 11 split off from an early version of xboard
11065 3.0 patchlevel 11, so it does not have all the features of that
11066 patchlevel. The following changes made it into both xboard and
11069 * Made Comment dialog non-modal in WinBoard.
11071 * EndOfGame mode is now more transparent. It looks like ForceMoves
11072 mode except that there is no chess program running.
11074 * Small bug fixes in clock management. Most noticeably, pausing when
11075 it is gnuchess's move now works as documented (again).
11077 * Add minimal support for -icscomm option. Not documented yet because
11078 I haven't sorted out the issues with setting the tty modes on the comm
11079 port device, or with locking it properly. But it's usable by wizards.
11081 * Don't restart the chess program upon Backward event from EndOfGame mode.
11083 * Suppress extra prompt after ICS sends us a board.
11085 3.0, patchlevel 10 -- Sat Sep 11 18:44:03 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
11087 * Beta test release only.
11089 * Zippy now plays chess. zippy.c and zippy.h are still not included
11090 in the standard distribution, but are available on request.
11092 * Switched to using style 12 on ICS.
11094 * Updated man page, and documented use of XBoard*form.translations to
11095 add more shortcut keys.
11097 * Added shortcut keys "d" to claim/offer/accept a draw, and "t" to
11098 call flag. Suggested by venu on ICS.
11100 * More explicit instructions in INSTALL file.
11102 3.0, patchlevel 9 -- Tue Sep 7 14:02:00 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
11104 * General release, minor update to 3.0.pl8.
11106 * Loosened checking on whether it's okay to start a move, to satisfy
11107 ICS ultra-blitz players. Now we don't check whether it's your turn
11108 until you let go of the piece.
11110 * Parser now recognizes "+-+" as meaning the game ended in a draw.
11112 * Got rid of S_NONE symbol, which seems to conflict with some symbol
11115 * Tweaked the man page. Clarified that there is currently no way for
11116 two people running copies of xboard to play each other without going
11117 through the Internet Chess Server.
11119 * Fixed a bug in color name conversion. Asking for two different
11120 colors whose names were the same in the first four characters would
11121 get you two copies of the first one. Thanks to Volker Zink for the
11124 * Improved confusing Usage() message.
11126 * Added a bunch of Sun information to the Imakefile and INSTALL file.
11127 Thanks to Ed Hanway, Arik Klingensmith, and others who responded.
11129 * Test for defined(WIN32) instead of !defined(unix).
11131 * Avoid using (void *) type with non-ANSI C compilers. Thanks to
11132 James Altucher for the bug report.
11134 3.0, patchlevel 8 -- Thu Sep 2 12:23:01 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
11136 * Note: Patchlevel 8 was the first non-beta release of xboard 3.0
11138 * Added cmail to distribution. Contributed (and still maintained) by
11141 * Bug fix: -queen option wasn't initializing menu check. Reported by
11144 3.0, patchlevel 7 -- Thu Aug 26 13:23:24 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
11146 * Sent WinBoard 3.0.pl7 to Torre on ICS
11148 * Added parser.h to hold the interface to parser.l
11150 * Upgraded COPYING file and copyright notices to GNU GPL version 2.
11152 3.0, patchlevel 6 -- Tue Aug 24 15:16:13 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
11154 * We no longer display intermediate positions or intermediate comments
11155 while loading a game file with -timeDelay 0 or loading an opening to
11156 start up a -matchMode game.
11158 * Loading an empty game from an xboard save file now gives a status
11159 message "No moves in game" instead of an error popup saying "Game not
11162 * Added comment.awk to distribution.
11164 3.0, patchlevel 5 -- Tue Aug 17 16:45:54 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
11166 * Bug fix: xboard would crash if it couldn't get all its colors; now
11167 it switches to monoMode instead. Also, xboard was trying to convert
11168 color resources even when using a b/w display. Reported by Larry
11171 * Bug fix: Declared fields of TimeMark as signed so that we get signed
11172 instead of unsigned arithmetic. SubtractTimeMarks was breaking on
11173 Alpha AXP (which has 64-bit longs) with old declarations. Reported by
11174 Michel van der List.
11176 * Bug fixes: Keyboard accelerators now work after EditComment window is
11177 popped down. Iconize keyboard accelerator now works even if xboard
11178 was started with -iconic flag and later deiconized.
11180 * Bug fix: The routine that tests whether a move is illegal because it
11181 would leave you in check was not handling e.p. captures properly.
11182 Reported by Patrick Surry.
11184 * Bug (?) fix: Was adding time to clocks at time control even when
11185 loading a game file. Actually it's not entirely clear how time
11186 controls should be dealt with when some moves are loaded from a file
11187 or clicked in with ForceMoves. For now ForceMoves mode does add the
11188 time (because it can be used to change moves during a live game), but
11189 LoadGame mode does not.
11191 * Updated usage message.
11193 * Previous attempted fix to matchMode had broken TwoMachines mode and
11194 generally needed more work. Also simplified command line interface to
11197 3.0, patchlevel 4 -- Thu Aug 5 14:17:18 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
11199 * Thanks again to the beta testers listed for 3.0 patchlevel 3, and also
11200 Desnogues, Steve Cariglia, Niklas Engsner, Mark Silver, and Roger Rowe.
11202 * Reorganized man page, splitting OPTIONS into subsections.
11204 * matchMode was very broken; fixed.
11206 * Changed convention for turning off command line options from --opt
11207 to -xopt, to be less inconsistent with GNU standards. Also changed
11208 the long command line options to take True/False arguments like
11209 resources; seems to make more sense this way.
11211 * Added AlwaysQueen option -- suppresses promotion dialog and always
11212 promotes to a queen if you move a pawn to the last rank. Has no
11213 effect on gnuchess (or your ICS opponents!) -- they can still
11216 * Subtracted an extra fudge term when determining how wide message and
11217 title widgets should be. This fixes a problem some beta testers had.
11218 Wish I knew why it's needed.
11220 * Bugfix in parser; symptom was that you couldn't do LoadGame after
11221 observing a game on ICS.
11223 * Bugfix in Forward; didn't work after game ended while Pause was turned on.
11225 * Removed bogus execute bits on .h files.
11227 * Use REMOTE_SHELL and TELNET_PROGRAM definitions.
11229 * MachineWhite and MachineBlack now work from TwoMachines mode.
11231 * Popping down an error message with the [ok] button was not turning off
11232 the errorUp flag, so the next move would cause xboard to try to pop it
11233 down again, resulting in a wild memory reference and sometimes a crash.
11235 3.0, patchlevel 3 -- Tue Aug 3 17:40:27 1993 -- Tim Mann
11237 * Thanks to my beta testers: Patrick Surry, Takuya Kojima, Robert J. Luoma,
11238 Chris L. Petroff, Richard K. Lloyd, Michel van der List, Craig Metz,
11239 Antoon Frehe, Simon Clift, Shelly, Eric Peterson, Christopher Mitchell,
11240 Martin Koch, Ed Hanway, Steve Booth, Udo, Ken Hobday, and Joseph Duhamel.
11242 * Improved error messages for trying to move the wrong color pieces or
11243 to move when it's not your turn.
11245 * Special code for monoMode on 1-bit displays now understands displays
11246 where 1=white and 0=black.
11248 * Declare getenv() if <stdlib.h> not included; avoids a compiler warning.
11250 * Documented borderXoffset and borderYoffset.
11252 * Added -titleInWindow option for use with X window managers that
11253 don't let us set the title in the window banner.
11255 * Fixed error message printing in WinBoard; system error messages no
11256 longer appear as numeric codes.
11258 * The error message popup is now non-modal; you don't have to press the
11259 [ok] button before you can do something else. In addition, the popup is
11260 positioned so that it doesn't cover up the board (too much), and making a
11261 move or otherwise clicking on the board pops it down. (Not implemented in
11264 * You can now call your opponent's flag in ICS mode by clicking on his
11267 * Fixed minor bugs in -flipView option and documented exactly how xboard
11268 decides which way to flip the view.
11270 3.0, patchlevel 2 -- Fri Jul 30 22:20:23 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
11272 * Added Autosave to Options menu. Would be better to have Save
11273 Options dialog as in WinBoard, but this was quick to do and gives the
11274 most-needed functionality.
11276 * Changed "Reload Game" on menu to "Reload Same Game".
11278 3.0, patchlevel 1 -- Thu Jul 8 21:22:59 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
11280 * Sent a copy of patchlevel 1 to Patrick Surry to beta-test.
11282 * Added -cmail option that sets appData.cmailMode. Currently a no-op.
11283 In the future this may set special modes for use by the cmail script
11284 for playing chess by email.
11286 * Added LoadNextGame, LoadPreviousGame, and ReloadGame to File menu.
11287 ReloadGame suggested by Patrick Surry.
11289 * Added -flipView command-line option. Suggested by Patrick Surry.
11291 * Fixed bugs in parser.l: (1) Pattern for "# xboard game file ..."
11292 needed to match to end of line. (2) Start of a new file was not matching
11293 the ^ start-of-line character. The fix for this is a kludge.
11295 * Made game counting code in LoadGame more robust, and made LoadGame
11296 able to detect the end of a saved partial game (by noticing the start
11297 of the next game) in game files created by XBoard itself. We don't
11298 try to find the start of the next game that way in other kinds of game
11299 files, because the only way I can think of to do that is to look for
11300 another move #1, and that technique gets too many false hits.
11302 * Fixed recently introduced bug in LoadGame when game starts with a
11305 3.0, patchlevel 0 -- Fri Jun 25 14:17:17 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
11307 * Changes in this patchlevel were too numerous to list. Larger ones are
11310 * Added a popup dialog to enter and edit comments. Inspired by some
11311 code from Patrick Surry. Changed the normal read-only comment popup
11314 * Added ICS init script feature from Karl Schwamb.
11316 * Added some ESIX fixes and OMIT_SOCKETS ifdef option, from Kayvan Sylvan.
11318 * Revamped code to allow use of flex instead of lex on parser.l.
11319 Using flex requires adding -DFLEX to defines in Imakefile.
11321 * Source code is split into front end (xboard.c), which knows about X
11322 and Unix, and back end (backend.c), which knows about chess, gnuchess,
11323 and the ICS. There is also a front end for Windows NT.
11325 * Boolean command line options now use "-foo" to turn on and "--foo"
11326 to turn off instead of "-foo true" and "-foo false". [Later -xfoo;
11329 * Added menu commands to control autoflag, bell, and coords options.
11331 * User interface has a new look: (1) Menu bar instead of array of
11332 buttons. A few very commonly used features have small buttons in
11333 addition to being on the menus. (2) Large font for clock. (3) Pop-up
11334 dialogs for errors.
11336 2.1, patchlevel 11 -- Sat Jun 5 00:01:01 PDT 1993 -- mann@src.dec.com
11338 * Added code to deal with "wild" games on ICS. This includes allowing
11339 castling with the king on d1 or d8, which is allowed in wild(1) games
11340 if the king started there. Notation is o-o to castle "short"---to
11341 whichever side the king is closer to---and o-o-o to castle "long."
11342 Right now wild castling is always allowed by xboard; we rely on ICS or
11343 gnuchess to reject it when we aren't really in wild mode.
11345 * memcpy call had arguments in wrong order.
11347 * Removed April Fool code
11349 2.1, patchlevel 10 -- Mon Feb 15 10:19:31 PST 1993 -- mann@src.dec.com
11351 * Avoid trying to select on a pipe when using System V. Needed to
11352 copy some code from InitChessProgram() up into establish().
11354 * Bug fix in disambiguating pawn moves like "ed".
11356 * Fix to error handling in ReceiveFromProgram.
11358 * Bug fix: entering EditPosition mode with black to play highlighted
11359 White's clock instead of Black's.
11361 * Added telnetProgram resource in case "telnet" is not the name of the
11364 2.1, patchlevel 9 -- Fri Jan 22 19:08:27 PST 1993 -- mann@src.dec.com
11366 * Entering Force Moves mode clears "flag has fallen" messages from display.
11368 * ICS host name can now be in numeric format; for example 128.2.232.4.
11370 * Bug fix: LegalityTest was failing to test whether a pawn move was
11371 illegal because the move would discover a check.
11373 * Handle ICS message "mann asserts a win over manntest, who disconnected."
11375 * Bug fix: A recent change to PromotionCallBack had broken
11376 underpromotion to a knight.
11378 * Bug fix: In EditPosition mode, dragging a piece onto a square border
11379 would make it vanish. xboard wasn't distinguishing this case from
11380 dragging the piece off the board. Thanks to Matthew Kidd.
11382 * Removed "static" declaration from yywrap for compatibility with IRIX
11383 version of lex. Thanks to stiller@blaze.cs.jhu.edu.
11385 * Added substitutes for bzero, bcopy, and gethostname for Solaris
11386 SVR4. Thanks to Michael Grant.
11388 * Bug fixes to queen move disambiguation. Bugs showed up only when
11389 promotion resulted in more than one queen on the board.
11391 2.1, patchlevel 8 -- Fri Dec 11 17:54:18 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
11393 * parser bug fix: It now really works to leave off the piece a pawn is
11394 promoting to and let it default to queen.
11396 * When starting to observe or play an ICS game, don't draw board in
11397 initial position and then immediately redraw it in the current
11400 * Handle ICS messages when an "abuser" forfeits a game by
11401 disconnecting and when a game is aborted ("removed") by an
11404 * Bug fix: A user move when in LoadGame+Pause mode was resuming the
11405 game load instead of putting us in force mode.
11407 * It seems that crashes inside sscanf when xboard is compiled with gcc
11408 (as on IBM PS/2 AIX, mentioned below, and also on VAX Ultrix 3.1) are
11409 caused by an incompatibility between gcc and the sscanf implementation
11410 on these platforms. A workaround is to specify -fwritable-strings to
11411 gcc (see the gcc documentation). Added info on how to do this to the
11412 Imakefile. Thanks to Tom McConnell for this information.
11414 * Clocks are allowed to go negative. This is mostly for ICS
11415 compatibility, but it affects gnuchess mode too. Also, we give the
11416 time bonus when a player hits the time control boundary even if his
11417 flag is already down. This choice is a bit debatable, but it makes
11418 things look better when you are in TwoMachines mode and gnuchess's
11419 time management screws up causing it to exceed its time limit.
11421 * Implemented move legality checking code. Moves made with the mouse
11422 or parsed from a file are checked for legality before being made.
11423 This is mostly in preparation for future extensions, such as
11424 human-human play. For now it makes -noChessProgram mode more useful.
11426 * If the user takes back moves, we restore the clocks to the earlier
11429 * We now handle the output of the ICS oldmoves command, including
11430 parsing the game end condition.
11432 * Added autoCallFlag mode.
11434 * Fixed glitches in the medium size outline king and rook bitmaps, and
11435 touched up the medium size solid king and outline queen.
11437 * bug fix: DisplayMove would not display backwardMostMove - 1.
11439 * Added CallFlag button and removed AcceptMatch. CallFlag is more
11440 important with new ICS, and accepting the current match offer is easy
11441 with the new ICS command "accept" (can be abbreviated "ac").
11443 * LoadGame and LoadPosition display tail of file name (plus index
11444 number, if any) as title.
11446 * MachineWhite, MachineBlack, and TwoMachines now work properly from
11447 LoadGame and LoadGame+Pause mode.
11449 * Use o-o and o-o-o to castle on ICS, not 00 and 000.
11451 * Stripped out code for old ICS messages; new ICS is now installed.
11453 * Bug fix: don't offer autosave when paused during LoadGame.
11455 2.1, patchlevel 7 - Fri Dec 11 17:40:56 PST 1992 - mann@src.dec.com
11457 * Track change to "Illegal move" message in new ICS.
11459 2.1, patchlevel 6 -- Tue Dec 8 10:48:44 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
11461 * Kludged around bug in keeping comment popup where you put it by
11462 adding borderXoffset and borderYoffset resources that give the width
11463 of the borders added by the window manager. Yucch.
11465 * Changed searchDepth kludge back to using "help" instead of "bd"; the
11466 latter didn't work because the output contains a line starting with
11467 "White", so we think gnuchess is telling us that White won. Oops.
11469 * Removed some code that uses an X11R5 feature, XrmGetDatabase.
11470 Without this, the auto font sizing code is harder to make work, so to
11471 keep my sanity I had to change it to affect only the fonts that appear
11472 in the main window and the comment popup, not the other popups. Maybe
11473 this is better anyway.
11475 * AcceptMatch button now works after a counterchallenge, too.
11477 * Added code for more variants of messages about games being adjourned
11478 or aborted. These messages need to be unified in new version of ICS.
11480 * Added workaround for minor bug in ICS; game number on first board
11483 * Removed code to say "refresh n" instead of "refresh"; was broken and
11484 wasn't needed anyway.
11486 * Added missing casts for compilers that distinguish enums from ints
11487 and missing cast in connect call.
11489 * Added code to recognize "both sides are out of time" draw message
11490 proposed for next version of ICS.
11492 * Thanks to Danny Sleator and Joe Peterson for bug reports.
11494 2.1, patchlevel 5 -- Sun Dec 6 19:52:40 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
11496 * Removed gcc and CDEBUGFLAGS from Imakefile.
11498 * Corrected setting of mode to ForceMoves when game file ends or
11499 contains an AmbiguousMove or BadMove. Previous bug was harmless.
11501 * Added AcceptMatch button and mention of 50-move rule for Draw button
11504 2.1, patchlevel 4 -- Sun Dec 6 02:55:42 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
11506 * Now handles revised messages from new version of ICS. New ICS is
11507 not released yet, so this code might change further. Next patchlevel
11508 will remove support for old ICS; both are there now.
11510 * Initial processing for a new game being watched or played now
11511 happens when we see the first board image. Removes the need to parse
11512 some messages and unifies some code.
11514 2.1, patchlevel 3 -- Tue Dec 1 19:40:40 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
11516 * Handles ICS messages "Draw : neither player has mating
11517 material" and "Draw : White has no material, Black has no time."
11519 * Added AcceptMatch button for ICS mode.
11521 * Fixed bug in previous fix to yylexstr().
11523 * Fixed bugs in code for loading old position files that don't start
11524 with "#" and for handling case where user asked for nth position in
11525 file but there aren't that many.
11527 * Handles ICS message "* has restored your old game"
11529 * ResetProc always clears title line now.
11531 * Don't issue just "refresh" when watching a game; use game number.
11532 Upcoming new version of ICS may need this.
11534 * Added code to try to prevent user from watching and/or playing more
11535 than one game at a time. There is a race condition inherent here; if
11536 we get more than one board from the game before our command to stop
11537 watching it takes effect, we'll think the user started it again. Not
11538 clear how to fix this.
11540 * Redid ParseBoard8 to use sscanf. Code is a good deal cleaner now.
11541 Also, we now parse out the game number too, though we don't make much
11544 * (Tried to put in a feature that recognizes the current game in a
11545 game file must have ended when we see the start of a new one, but had
11546 to disable it because we have too many false hits with the current
11547 parser, especially in gnuchess listing files.)
11549 * Moves read from game files or received from ICS are now translated
11550 into canonical algebraic form just like all other moves. Minor nit:
11551 If you use Reset while playing or observing a game in ICS mode, the
11552 game history (including the current board position) is lost, so the
11553 next move of the current game can't be translated.
11555 * Default fonts now vary with board size, and are chosen by pixel size
11556 instead of point size (since piece bitmaps have a fixed pixel size).
11558 * Bug fix: An extra Forward was required to skip over time indications
11561 2.1 patchlevel 2 -- Fri Nov 27 23:30:00 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
11563 * If you move the comment popup, the next time it pops up it will come
11564 back where you put it.
11566 * Fixed yylexstr() so calls to it can be interspersed with calls to
11569 * Fixed bugs in Forward/Backward while in LoadGame mode.
11571 * Changed Save{Game,Position} functions to append instead of
11572 overwriting if file exists. Changed Load{Game,Position} functions to
11573 deal with multiple games/positions per file.
11575 * Changed load{Game,Position}File resources to trigger automatic load
11576 on program startup. Changed save{Game,Position}File resources to
11577 trigger automatic save after every completed game and on program exit.
11579 * Added autoSaveGames mode.
11581 * Fixed bug with PromoPiece in call to MakeAlg from MakeMove.
11583 * Many changes to get rid of picky compiler warnings and generally
11586 2.1 patchlevel 1 -- Fri Nov 27 02:45:00 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
11588 * A last minute change before patchlevel 0 went out broke
11589 ParseGameHistory(). Immediately fixed in patchlevel 1.
11591 Version 2.1, patchlevel 0 -- Fri Nov 27 02:00:00 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
11593 * Uses "time" command of gnuchess 4.0 and following to keep clocks in
11594 sync. Still works with older versions without this command; we test
11595 whether the command is present the first time each chess program is
11598 * File name dialog pops up under the mouse cursor, so that it's got the
11599 keyboard focus if the window manager is using pointer focus.
11601 * Attempts to move the wrong color piece or an empty square are filtered
11602 out in xboard instead of being passed on to GNU Chess or the ICS.
11604 * The reason a game ended is now remembered even if you move backward
11605 and forward after it ends. It is forgotten only if you make a move
11606 (which is as it should be---this is now a different game, which hasn't
11607 ended yet). The message saying why the game ended no longer wipes out
11610 * Pause, Backward, Forward, ForceMoves, and EditPosition now work from
11613 * Forward and Backward now change only the board display unless you
11614 are in ForceMoves mode. Pause mode keeps new moves that are received
11615 from being displayed on your screen until you unpause (or use
11618 * Added option to ring the bell after opponents' moves.
11620 * Saved games that start from other than the standard initial position
11621 now begin with a postion diagram as in saved position files. The
11622 loader is modified to understand such save files.
11624 * Improved error checking when trying to read from gnuchess.
11626 * Parser understands things that look like time indications, e.g., (0:12),
11627 instead of popping them up as comments.
11629 * Send "quit" to gnuchess before trying to kill it. I needed this
11630 locally because sending a SIGTERM to rsh was not killing the remote
11631 program on some internal field test systems we have.
11633 * Merged in code from John Chanak to make xboard a front end to the
11634 Internet Chess Server, and added several improvements of my own.
11635 (These include parsing end of game messages, loading the current state
11636 and previous history of a game that's joined in progress via "watch"
11637 or "load", automatic switch from board style 1 to 8 when needed,
11638 removing irrelevant buttons and adding some new ones, adding the
11639 useTelnet and gateway resources, and miscellaneous code cleanup, bug
11640 fixes, and documentation.) Many thanks to John for writing and
11641 contributing the initial version of this code.
11643 Fri Oct 30 20:16:40 PST 1992 (patchlevel 25) mann@src.dec.com
11645 * gnuchess now castles by sending us "o-o" or "o-o-o" (starting with a
11646 preliminary version of 4.0.pl60 that I have). Added code to handle
11647 this. The old format ("e1g1", etc.) still works too.
11649 * Added code to format moves in normal abbreviated algebraic notation
11650 (for example, e4, exd4, f8Q, Nf6, 0-0) instead of coordinate algebraic
11651 (for example, e2e4, e3d4, f7f8q, g1f6, e1g1). Moves entered with the
11652 mouse or received from gnuchess are translated into this canonical
11653 format for display on the message line or in saved game files. Moves
11654 read from game files are not translated, however; they are shown and
11655 saved just as they appear in the file.
11657 Mon Sep 14 13:19:01 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 24) mann@src.dec.com
11659 * It's not really correct to write an ep capture of a pawn on e5 as
11660 fxe5; this should be written as fxe6 because e6 is where the capturing
11661 pawn ends up. Nevertheless, the parser now interprets fxe5 as the ep
11662 capture f5xe6 unless there is a pawn on f4, in which case it
11663 interprets fxe5 as f4xe5. By design, the parser does not flag fxe5 as
11664 ambiguous if there are pawns on both f4 and f5; instead it prefers the
11665 more legitimate f4xe5 interpretation.
11667 * A move like fxe6 or fe6 is now interpreted as an e.p. capture of the
11668 pawn on e5 if there is one there and e6 is empty.
11670 * A move like fxe5 can no longer be interpreted as an e.p. capture if
11671 there isn't a pawn on e5 to be captured. Previously this could happen
11672 erroneously if there were pawns on both f4 and f5, and the f4 pawn was
11673 capturing a piece on e5.
11675 * The parser no longer munges the move it is parsing; in the past, for
11676 instance, it would remove the "x" from a move like dxc5 before echoing
11679 * The parser now detects when a move is ambiguous and returns an
11680 error, instead of arbitrarily choosing one possibility as it used to.
11682 Mon Aug 10 18:40:47 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 23) mann@src.dec.com
11684 * Added code so parser can handle fully qualified algebraic, e.g.,
11685 Ng1-f3, N/g1-f3, Ng1f3, or even Pe2-e4. The "P" and "/" work only for
11686 fully qualified moves, not generally.
11688 * Fixed parser bugs in handling moves with rank or file disambiguator,
11691 Mon Jul 6 17:55:32 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 22) mann@src.dec.com
11693 * AIXV3 patch from Tom McConnell; thanks!
11695 * After hitting the Backward button we see the last move made instead of
11696 the word "Pausing" displayed.
11698 * Fixed a couple of problems compiling on IRIX; thanks to Michel Arsenault
11699 and Alan Walsh for bug reports and help with fixes.
11701 * Added optional display of algebraic notation coordinates along left and
11702 bottom edges of board. This was inspired by some code from Jean-Christophe
11705 * Swapped EditPosition and Pause buttons to reduce danger of losing the
11706 game in progress by hitting EditPosition when you wanted Backward. Thanks
11707 to Ove Lundberg for complaining (though it bugged me too).
11709 * Despite one complaint, I kept the feature of changing both clocks when black
11710 makes time control, rather than changing each individually when the player
11711 involved makes it. This is to avoid having it look like White is way ahead on
11712 time while Black is thinking about the last move of the time control period
11713 (i.e., when White has made time control but Black hasn't yet).
11715 * Corrected clocks to work as in real tournaments. Time is *added* when you
11716 reach time control; previously the clocks were simply set to the length of the
11717 new time period. Also, when a player's flag falls, he still does not receive a
11718 new time allotment at the next time control, but his opponent does still
11719 receive more time if *his* flag has not fallen; previously, time controls were
11720 ignored for both players if either flag fell. I forget who reported this bug.
11722 * Added a small ESIX patch from Kayvan Sylvan.
11724 Mon Jun 22 13:24:38 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 21)
11726 * Added some SVR4 support code from Ronald Cole. It's Greek to me.
11728 * Note: Stephen Meatheringham reports a bug causing xboard to crash with an
11729 error from the X server when run on a Sun Sparcstation IPX with Solaris 1.0.1
11730 and OpenWindows 3.0. This bug has not been tracked down yet.
11732 * Fixed a problem with ATTENTION code. On some operating systems, you have to
11733 be even more cautious about when you send a SIGINT to gnuchess, because the
11734 signal handler gets deinstalled each time it is used, and gnuchess does not
11735 reinstall it immediately. In particular, if you send a SIGINT and make an
11736 illegal move or ask for a hint, gnuchess does not reinstall the handler until
11737 *after* you make your next move, so you had better not send a SIGINT before
11738 it. I put a workaround for this case into xboard; I hope there are no more.
11740 * The ATTENTION code is needed when compiling for the ESIX operating system,
11741 because ESIX has a bug in the FIONREAD ioctl, so the code in gnuchess that
11742 lets you interrupt its thinking on your time just by typing in your move does
11743 not work. Perhaps gnuchess will have a workaround for this eventually.
11745 * Fixed yet another bug in using XtGetValues; code to inhibit shell resizing
11746 was leaving a null pointer as the place to store the current sizes.
11748 * Man page fixes: corrected -sl to -sd, updated LIMITATIONS.
11750 * Added include of <sys/time.h> conditional on HAS_GETTIMEOFDAY. I hope this
11751 works for all systems; on mine, <time.h> and <sys/time.h> are the same file,
11752 but with an #ifndef that makes it harmless to include both.
11754 * Thanks for reports from Mike Pearlman, Stephen Meatheringham, Kayvan Sylvan,
11755 d87-mal@nada.kth.se, Urban Koistinen, and Ronald Cole.
11757 Mon Jun 8 11:39:18 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 20)
11759 * Documented default value of initString and explained what it means. This
11760 paragraph also serves to inform the user that xboard by default will tell
11761 gnuchess to think on his time, something one user apparently didn't understand.
11763 * Redid -searchDepth (formerly -searchLevel) and -searchTime code. They both
11764 work correctly with gnuchess 3.1 now. The -searchDepth option also works
11765 correctly with gnuchess 4.0. The -searchTime option does not work with
11766 gnuchess 4.0.pl50 or earlier because those gnuchess versions do not have a
11767 working searchTime feature. Instead of having xboard do a half-baked emulation
11768 of this feature by using a 1-move time control, I will be submitting a patch to
11769 the gnuchess folks to restore the feature as in 3.1.
11771 * Improved clock code. It now keeps accurate track of fractional seconds of
11772 clock running time, if your system has gettimeofday(); if not, it is generous
11773 about them---if a clock has been going for n.m seconds when it is stopped, only
11774 n seconds are charged. Previously, xboard would charge one second immediately
11775 when a clock was started, so if n.m had elapsed when it was stopped, n+1 would
11776 be charged. This should stop xboard from thinking gnuchess has let its flag
11777 fall on the last move of a time control, as it often did before. I also
11778 improved the comments and condensed the code a little. I hope there are no
11779 systems that have X11 and don't have gettimeofday(), but if there are, I'd like
11780 to know what to replace it with.
11782 * "Flag dropped" messages now show up on the top line, beside the clocks, so
11783 that they don't obscure more interesting messages on the second line.
11785 * Fixed confusion of NULL and '\000'.
11787 * Include time.h to get ctime() declaration.
11789 * Fix to "parser bug" messages in parser.l.
11791 * Changed code to work with old-fashioned tolower() macro that requires its
11792 argument to be an uppercase letter.
11794 * Minor fix to some usage error messages; was reversing program name and
11795 erroneous argument value.
11797 * Thanks to Mitch Wright, Ranier Orth, and Henrik Schmiediche for bug reports.
11799 Fri Jun 5 13:06:08 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 19)
11801 * Note: xboard does not seem to work when compiled with gcc 1.40 on a
11802 PS/2 running AIX. It crashes at the sscanf in line 768 of xboard.c.
11803 You can work around the problem by specifying the -timeControl option
11804 on the command line instead of defaulting it. This does not seem to
11805 be a bug in xboard itself; it runs okay on PS/2 AIX when compiled with
11806 MetaWare High C. [But see 2.1.pl8 above.]
11808 * Removed bogus files from distribution.
11810 * Changed variable name that conflicted with SVR4 ttyname function.
11812 * Thanks to Christoph Strozyk for another bug report, and to several
11813 of the folks mentioned under patchlevel 18 for testing it.
11815 Wed Jun 3 17:50:37 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 18) mann@src.dec.com
11817 * Added an include of sys/fcntl.h to pick up the definition of O_RDWR for
11820 * Fixed a bug in CatchPipeSignal; was testing the wrong variable to determine
11821 which chess program got the signal.
11823 * Removed the declaration of strrchr, which was causing problems for some
11824 people, and added an include of <string.h> or <strings.h> instead.
11826 * Fixed a bunch of type errors uncovered by compilers that check more carefully
11827 than the one I was using. I just patched many of them with casts---typically
11828 cases where a function didn't take the same number and type of arguments as the
11829 X header file prototype said it should---because I didn't see any other way to
11830 fix them. The versions of the X header files that I have don't actually have
11831 full prototypes for these function types; they declare only the return type and
11832 just give the argument types as comments.
11834 * InitChessProgram returns immediately if chess program died while we were
11835 waiting for it to say "Chess". I think this fixes a bug that could make xboard
11836 crash or go into an infinite loop printing "Warning: Select failed; error code
11837 9" if gnuchess crashed there.
11839 * Removed code that tries to put the file descriptor used to read messages from
11840 gnuchess into nonblocking mode. I don't see how this kludge could ever have
11841 fixed the problem it was intended to (see below), and it seemed to be causing
11842 a race condition when we were waiting for the initial message from gnuchess
11843 after it started up.
11845 * Thanks to Richard K. Lloyd, Konstantinos Konstantinides, Mark
11846 Seiden, Erik Schoenfelder, Andreas Stolcke, Rainer Orth, Henry Thomas,
11847 and Kris Van Hees for bug reports and help with fixes.
11849 Sun May 31 08:00:00 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 17) Bart Massey bart@cs.uoregon.edu
11851 * 'xboard' suffered from a couple of serious bugs. An initial
11852 size needed to be given to the message label to avoid a race
11853 condition (!) so I gave it some text (otherwise occasionally
11854 xboard would fail because the message widget was 0 width under
11855 MIT X11R4). The sizes needed to be Dimension, not int, because
11856 they were written in by Xt -- on my big-endian box Dimension
11857 is short, causing chaos. Also, I hacked a declaration in for
11858 strrchr() to shut the compiler up -- this is arguably a kludge,
11859 but I couldn't think of anything better; maybe you can.
11861 Fri May 22 13:40:50 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 16)
11863 * First real (non-beta) release of version 2.0.
11865 * Added GNU copyleft notices covering version 2.0 enhancements.
11867 Thu May 21 12:30:09 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 15)
11869 * Removed -g from Imakefile.
11871 * Added casts in parser.l to prevent warning messages from some C compilers.
11873 * Bugfix: code to exit if chess program couldn't be started had bug in error
11876 Tue May 19 11:58:06 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 14)
11878 * Fixes one small bug: If LoadGame does not find a game in the file, it resets
11879 xboard to BeginningOfGame mode (as if the Reset button was pressed), instead of
11880 leaving it in LoadGame mode.
11882 Mon Apr 13 18:32:27 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 13)
11884 * Improved error handling when gnuchessx crashes. Now displays a message and
11885 enters EndOfGame state without exiting. This should help with diagnosing
11886 gnuchessx problems, since the position and move history are not lost.
11888 * Debugged man page.
11890 Version 2.0 -- Thu Apr 2 16:04:54 PST 1992 (patchlevel 12)
11892 * Added small 40x40 pixel pieces; board size now specified as small, medium, or
11895 * Improved man page.
11897 * Saved position files now say "white to play" if it's white's move.
11899 * SavePosition while in EditPosition mode now gets side to play right.
11901 * Made "Pawn" the default on edit position menus.
11903 * Removed "To play" from edit position menus, since it's redundant. Left
11904 support code in so it can be restored if someone wants it.
11906 * Tightened parser's definition of a move number to help further with skipping
11907 over stuff before the first move.
11909 * Put back feature of skipping over stuff in game files before a start of game
11910 marker. This helps when loading electronic mail messages that have things
11911 like "00" in the header (looks like castling), or that talk about moves in
11912 running text before the actual game score. Tradeoff is that we can't load
11913 games that don't either have move numbers or say "gnuchess game" just before
11916 * Changed version number to 2.0 because others have used "1.3" for patched
11917 versions of 1.2. Display version number and patchlevel at startup.
11919 Thu Apr 2 15:30:22 PST 1992 (patchlevel 11)
11921 * Bugfix: Match started with TwoMachines button now handles the case where
11922 user loaded/edited a position *and* forced some moves.
11924 * added error message feedback to many cases where the user's button press is
11925 rejected because it isn't allowed in the current mode.
11927 * added -noChessProgram option to allow use as a passive chessboard without
11928 gnuchess, replacing old buggy scheme that tried to do this automatically when
11929 gnuchess was not found on the search path.
11931 * parser accepts "=" in front of promotion piece
11933 * parser accepts ":" notation for captures
11935 * Removed SwitchSides button to make room for EditPosition. Left code in
11936 place, ifdef'ed out.
11938 * Added EditPosition mode.
11940 * Reformatted xboard.c to eliminate long lines.
11942 * Promotion popup now appears near rank to which pawn is moving.
11944 * UI improvement: Button representing current program mode is kept highlighted.
11946 * Bug fix: Hint button is now disabled when machine is on move.
11948 Sat Mar 21 14:57:37 PST 1992 (patchlevel 10)
11950 * TwoMachines now works from MachineWhite or MachineBlack mode.
11952 * ForceMoves and Backward/Forward now work at the end of a game started by
11953 the TwoMachines button.
11955 * Sends o-o or o-o-o to gnuchess instead of O-O or O-O-O.
11957 * Bug fix: SwitchSides button is now disabled when machine is on move.
11959 * Added -searchLevel option and corrected handling of -searchTime to reflect
11960 the way gnuchess really handles command line options instead of what the
11961 documentation used to say. Allowed optional ":seconds" on times.
11963 Tue Mar 17 21:00:35 PST 1992 (patchlevel 9)
11965 * Removed non-working code that tried to recover when a remote chess program
11966 could not be started; now exits with a message instead.
11968 * Now waits for chess program to print its first message (normally "Chess")
11969 before sending it any commands.
11971 * Matches between two machines can now start from a black-to-play position or
11972 black-to-play opening.
11974 * Bug fix: The program would sometimes lose track of the board position after
11975 the end of the game, drawing a board full of white pawns next time it got an X
11976 redraw request. Now fixed.
11978 * Cleaned up handling of illegal moves in game files. Now we just stop reading
11979 and go into ForceMoves mode.
11981 * Saved games against gnuchess indicate who won (restored and debugged 1.2
11984 * Setting -searchTime turns off -clockMode.
11986 * My trick for setting up a black-to-play position broke in the transition from
11987 gnuchess 3.1+ to 4.0. Installed a different trick that works with both.
11989 * Bug fix: Was clobbering memory by mallocing one byte too few for the file
11990 name in SetupPositionFromFileProc. This usually resulted in a crash on the
11991 second attempt to load a position from a file.
11993 Mon Mar 16 16:49:00 PST 1992 (patchlevel 8)
11995 * Game and position files are saved in CHESSDIR as well as loaded from there.
11996 We actually chdir there, so gnuchess listing files also wind up there.
11998 * Underpromotion moves from gnuchess really work now.
12000 Sat Mar 14 14:55:24 PST 1992 (patchlevel 7)
12002 * Cleaned up lots of bugs and kruft in parser.l. It's a wonder the old version
12003 worked at all. Improved rejection of random text interspersed with the moves.
12005 * Relabeled buttons to reduce confusion (Play From File --> Load Game;
12006 Setup From File --> Load Position).
12008 * Bug fix: Doesn't exit at the end of a game that was started by pressing
12009 the Two Machines button.
12011 * Bug fix: Doesn't get confused if you hit Machine Black (White) while
12012 the machine is already playing black (white) and is on move.
12014 * Prints "White to play" or "Black to play" after loading a position file.
12016 * Bug fix: No longer hangs if no start-of-game is found in a game file.
12018 * More permissive about game file format. The first line is not assumed
12019 to be a header comment unless it starts with "#". We don't insist on
12020 seeing a "1." before the first move.
12022 * Added pop-up dialog to allow underpromotion. Moving a pawn to the last rank
12023 pops up a dialog to let you select what piece to promote to. Also added code
12024 to handle underpromotion moves from gnuchess or from a game file correctly.
12026 * Added code to send SIGINT to gnuchess before trying to move, if gnuchess
12027 might be busy thinking on our time. The code is ifdef'ed out because it's
12028 not necessary; only beta-test versions of gnuchess 4.0 at patchlevel 19 or
12031 Mon Feb 24 20:10:22 PST 1992
12033 * Merged fixes received from Stuart Cracraft and Mike McGann, to iconic mode
12034 and to ShutdownChessPrograms. (They both sent the same fixes.) I did not
12035 install the change that removed "easy" from the initialization string, so
12036 xboard will still try to run gnuchessx in "hard" mode (thinking on opponent's
12037 time) by sending this command.
12039 Version 1.3 -- Thu Dec 19 18:19:00 PST 1991 mann@src.dec.com (Tim Mann)
12041 * I've fixed a slew of bugs in this version of xboard:
12043 * You can now back up from the end of a game, even if gnuchess was playing
12044 against you. Since gnuchess exits upon mate or draw (when it's not in force
12045 mode), this feature works by starting up a new copy of gnuchess and feeding it
12046 the saved starting position and moves. Drawback: the new gnuchess starts with
12047 clocks at the beginning of a fresh time control.
12049 * Note: the "force" command to gnuchess is a toggle. I fixed a couple of
12050 places in xboard where "force" was being issued when gnuchess was already in
12051 force mode, which resulted in chaos. I don't know if they were in 1.2 or if I
12052 added them myself in the course of putting in new features.
12054 * ForceMoves button is now legal in PlayFromFile mode. It closes the game file
12055 and lets you force moves (or go Backward) from whatever position you've
12058 * The parser now recognizes "white resigns" and "black resigns" (in any
12059 combination of upper and lower case, with or without the closing "s"). These
12060 used to be misinterpreted as meaning "white wins" or "black wins" respectively!
12061 Added "1 - 0" and "0 - 1" as equivalents for "1-0" and "0-1".
12063 * I removed the parser feature of considering "!" as a comment delimiter.
12064 "!" is so common as an annotation in game scores that this feature seems like a
12067 * Added a wait() after each successful call to kill() to avoid leaving zombie
12070 * Removed the feature of putting an indication of how the game ended into the
12071 internal move list when playing from a file. The only benefit of this was that
12072 it would get written back out if you saved the game at that point. This
12073 feature doesn't seem too useful, since you are unlikely to save a game you've
12074 read in without making any changes, and it caused a lot of problems in the code
12075 and user interface. The end condition is still displayed as a message when
12076 it's first read in from the file. End conditions when playing against gnuchess
12077 are still saved, too.
12079 * programName is now the last file name component of argv[0], not all of it.
12081 * xboard.c got three compiler warnings due to arguments that didn't match the
12082 prototypes on X toolkit functions. I got rid of them by adding some casts, and
12083 adding extra unused arguments to the ReceiveFromProgram function.
12085 * As I received it, the distribution had an extra period glued on the front
12086 of every line that started with a period. This broke the manpage in an
12087 obvious way. It also broke parser.l in a nonobvious way that stopped
12088 PlayFromFile from working.
12090 * Fixed one or two bugs where the clock was started when it shouldn't have
12091 been. I think one example was if you tried an illegal move in ForceMoves mode.
12093 * Now starts the machine's clock if you hit MachineWhite when white is on move
12094 or MachineBlack when black is on move.
12096 * Now updates the to-move indicator (highlight on clock display) when you use
12097 Forward/Backward or ForceMoves.
12099 * gnuchess 3.1+ has a bug that makes it try to think on its opponent's time
12100 even when in force mode; this causes problems with xboard's SetupFromFile
12101 command because gnuchess's saved hint move is garbage after the new position is
12102 loaded, so gnuchess prints out an error message when it tries to think about
12103 what it would do if the user made this move. Here is a patch for gnuchess
12106 *** nondsp.c~ Mon Dec 2 12:37:18 1991
12107 *-- nondsp.c Thu Dec 19 15:36:06 1991
12110 ok = flag.quit = false;
12113 ! if (hint > 0 && !flag.easy && Book == NULL)
12116 time0 = time ((long *) 0);
12118 ok = flag.quit = false;
12121 ! if (hint > 0 && !flag.easy && Book == NULL && !flag.force)
12124 time0 = time ((long *) 0);
12126 * SavePosition/SetupFromFile now handle black-to-play positions. If it's
12127 black's move in a saved position, the line "black to play" is printed
12128 immediately after the board display. Upon loading a position, xboard
12129 looks for "black" at the beginning of this line to determine whether it's
12132 * SetupFromFile now leaves you (effectively) in ForceMoves mode. This
12133 eliminates some cases where the program would get into an inconsistent state,
12134 and hopefully is more intuitive for the user, too.
12136 * PlayFromFile now leaves xboard in ForceMoves mode after playing through all
12137 the moves in the file. You can use Backward/Forward, make moves, get gnuchess
12138 to join the game with MachineWhite or MachineBlack, etc. The game file can end
12139 with either white or black to play.
12141 * Backward/Forward now seem to work in all cases. Previously using these
12142 buttons during a game against the machine would get xboard out of sync with
12143 gnuchess's idea of what was going on, resulting in chaos. Now using these
12144 buttons puts xboard in ForceMoves mode; you can bring gnuchess back into the
12145 game using the MachineWhite or MachineBlack buttons.
12147 Thu Jun 27 15:06:25 PDT 1991
12149 * Remove comment popups during a reset.
12151 * Bug in my forward move fix. Didn't work for playgamefile mode.
12153 Thu Jun 20 15:04:06 PDT 1991
12155 * Can't do a backward move when it isn't your turn because gnuchess
12156 gets confused. Similar bug for forward move. Do a bunch of moves,
12157 back up move and go forward. These get filtered out now.
12159 * Put easy back into the initString. This DISABLES easy mode which by
12162 * New-line wasn't always being added to forward move strings sent to gnuchess.
12164 * Parsed comments as [ ..............text follows ] into d7d5
12166 * Long game file comments cause core dumps on HP systems.
12168 * Multiple uses of the get positition file button got confused
12169 on the second click.
12171 Minor fixes to the 1.2 release
12173 Version 1.2 -- Tue Jun 11 17:14:12 PDT 1991
12175 * For version 1.2, Jeff Kenton, Richard LLoyd, David Jensen, Martin D.,
12176 Bill Schmidt, Scott Hemphill, Paul Vaughan and Bill Shauck all found
12177 a lot of bugs that we put into xboard just to see if they were paying
12178 attention. They were.
12180 * Changed the protocol that xboard uses to work with the new version of
12183 * There was an off by one error with the clock resetting code. Also,
12184 the clock display highliting was wrong. Thanks to Bill Shauck for
12185 pointing these out.
12187 * enumerations are not really integers on some C compilers. I added casting.
12188 The new version of gnuchess expects the "go" command for two machine
12189 and machine plays white cases. The whiteString resource is for
12190 compatibility with previous gnuchess versions which get confused by go.
12191 Thanks to Martin D. for catching these.
12193 * Fixed a bug where the checkmate message wasn't being parsed and xboard
12194 kept playing. Also, the message was added to game file if saved.
12195 Thanks to Scott Hemhill for pointing this out.
12197 * Fixed a bug where saving a long game, resetting and saving a short game
12198 resulted in appending the end of the long game to the short one.
12199 If a game is just being played out and there is no reason for gnuchessr
12200 to be used, ignore pipe signals. This allows people to use xboard
12201 as a chess board without need for gnuchess. Also, trivially bad moves
12202 such as e2e2 are not passed on to gnuchessr but instead ignored out of
12203 hand. This allows people using xboard as a chessboard with gnuchessr
12204 to pick a piece up, think and put it back down without making a move.
12205 Thanks to Jeff Kenton for pointing these out.
12207 * Added the CHESSDIR environment variable. Game and position files are
12208 found in this directory. If this variable is not declared, then the
12209 current directory is used. File names starting with / are treated
12212 * The bitmap file names were changed so that none exceeded 14 characters.
12213 This is necessary for R5.
12215 fcntl(from_prog[0], F_SETFL, O_NDELAY);
12217 The xboard fix was to set non-blocking i/o on the read pipe for gnuchessr
12219 printz ("Illegal move (no matching move generated)");
12221 * fixed a problem with the new version of gnuchessr where xboard wasn't
12222 getting gnuchessr error messages for illegal moves. The problem seems
12223 to be fixed *without* any gnuchess changes but this is likely to be
12224 highly system dependant. There should be a new line on line 246 of nondsp.c
12226 * -iconic doesn't work at all now. The Iconify() does work. This was
12227 a tradeoff and it is really an Xt bug.
12229 * Fixed a compiler warning for gcc and an error for the IBM RT compilers.
12230 This is the VOID_PROC macro in xboard.h. Thanks to David Jensen for this.
12232 * If the DisplayWidth or DisplayHeight is less than 800, use small size mode.
12233 Also the size of the name widget was reduced from 500 pixels to 400 pixels
12234 because in small size mode there was a gap on the right.
12235 Changed the default font from fixed to helvetica_oblique14 to:
12236 **-helvetica-bold-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
12237 helvetica_oblique14 is a font alias not on all R4 systems.
12238 Curiously enough, the 17 point is not available on 75dpi systems
12239 and the 18 point font is not available on 100dpi systems.
12240 Thanks to Richard K. Lloyd for pointing these out.
12242 * Minor hacks to work with R5 alpha. Had to add an event handler to the
12243 boardWidget to get translations to work. This may go away with the real R5.
12244 Added <Message>WM_PROTOCOLS: QuitProc() for R5 ICCCM compatibility.
12246 * If the first character of the file is not `1' then the first line
12247 of a game or position file is displayed as the name in a label widget.
12249 * Added a PopUp dialog for getting file names.
12251 * Modified the code to use the R4 routines rather than R3 compatibility.
12253 * Changed the forwards/backwards/readgamefile code to allow a play to step
12254 back and forth in a game. If he steps all the way to the beginning
12255 he has to restart the game. If he gets into a mated position, same problem.
12257 * Moved the man page from xboard.1 to xboard.man. This makes imake man page
12258 installs work correctly. Thanks to Richard K. Lloyd for pointing this out.
12260 * Corrected the queening code. XBoard was sending the wrong syntax.
12261 It was sending for example h8(Q) when it should have been sending h8q.
12262 Thanks to Paul Vaughan and Mike McGann for pointing this out.
12264 * Added a lex parser for algebraic games. It should be easy to use the parser
12265 for other interfaces such as the Microsoft Windows version.
12266 It parses comments of the form [anything] and ! to the end of a line.
12268 Version 1.1 -- Mon Jan 7 14:46:03 PST 1991
12270 * Roger Dubar, Konstantinos Konstantinides, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht,
12271 Paul Scowen, Mvh Smidt and Kayvan Sylvan all helped immensely during
12274 * older non-ANSI versions of Sun compilers complain vociferously.
12276 * the remoteShell resource was added for HP-UX systems
12277 and other systems where the remoteShell isn't rsh.
12279 * -iconic doesn't work properly. If XBoard is opened iconic then
12280 iconifying it later with a keystroke doesn't work. I think
12283 * For systems with smaller screens, XBoard can use smaller pieces,
12284 and a smaller board. -bigSizeMode False uses a smaller set of pieces.
12285 These are scaled versions of the large pieces. They look ok but could
12288 * getlogin() does not work in all cases.
12289 It was replaced by getpwuid(getuid())->pw_name).
12291 * Warning messages get displayed in the message box.
12293 * Any button restarts a paused game.
12295 * Kayvan Sylvan contributed a patch for ESIX.
12296 It seems that select() on pipes is broken on his system. We declined
12297 to incorporate his patch though, because it was a work-around for
12298 something that was broken on one system, and selfishly, that system
12299 was not my own. Nevertheless, it is likely that other System V users
12300 on PC's may need to use this patch and it is is included as the file
12301 ESIX.patch. To use it, type
12303 patch xboard.c ESIX.patch
12305 * Fixed a bug where hint didn't work. The local version of gnuchessr
12306 had been hacked. The fix was to clone stderr and stdout for gnuchessr.
12308 * Fixed a bug where a player could play after a game had been finished.
12310 * The bitmaps have been pushed into the bitmaps directory.
12312 * Substantially rewrote and simplified the Two Machine code.
12314 * Added StrStr() because many systems don't have this ANSI function.
12316 * Added keyboard equivalents. Added an iconify keystroke, C or c.
12318 * Works with gcc now. gcc complained about casting float constants
12321 * Detect if the visual doesn't support color. If so, run in monoMode.
12322 An alternative would be to detect grayscale visual and use a collection
12323 of gray user interface colors.
12325 XBoard.clockMode: False
12327 * For people who don't like or use chess clocks a clockMode switch
12328 has been added. It is on by default. It can be turned off in the
12329 .Xdefaults file with
12331 * Added a declaration, xtVersion, which will quickly break on R3 Intrinsics.
12333 * Hal Peterson contributed a new Imakefile.
12335 * Rewrote DisplayClocks().
12337 * Rewrote TwoMachinesPlay mode.
12339 * Konstantinos Konstantinides added the -searchTime option.
12341 * Substantially rewrote and simplified the clock code. If a game was paused
12342 and then resumed, the clocks were out of sync.
12344 * Fixed a bug in HandleUserMove() where the user could make a move while the
12345 machine was thinking. The fix detects and ignores these moves. onMove
12346 was not being used and was removed.