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 2011-01-29 19:59:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9 None of the ShowMove() calls in Adjudicate() was working, because when
10 this code was taken out of HandleMachineMove() it was taken outside the
11 scope of the local fromX, fromY etc. there, so that it started using the
12 global variables from the mouse driver. As these usually contain -1,
13 this suppressed move animation and highlighting. All these calls have
14 now been removed, and ShowMove() is called after a positive return (from
15 HandleMachineMove(), so within the correct scope).
16 This improves the previous fix, which led to some flicker, because the
17 erroneous ShowMove() calls did draw the new board (instantly), wich in
18 the fishy patch was then immediately overwritten by the old position, to
19 start animation. This drawing of the old position is now no longer
22 2011-01-29 13:36:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
25 The RTF file is adapted to the new menu organization.
27 2011-01-29 13:31:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
30 The highlight-with-arrow and one-click-move menu items are described.
31 The highlightMoveWithArrow and variations option are described.
32 Load Next /Previous Position descriptions are moved to File menu.
33 The description for entering variations is updated (using Shift key).
34 The remark that editing holdings is impossible is removed.
35 Spartan Chess is added to the list of supported variants.
37 2011-01-28 18:35:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
38 Updated copyright notice to 2011
41 2011-01-24 15:01:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
42 Greyout unavailable variants in New Variant dialog
44 The WB radio-button code is refactored to be driven from a list (which
45 must be kept in phase with the variant definitions in common.h!). It now
46 also checks if the first engine supports the variant, and greys out the
47 item if it isn't. XB now also makes this check. Slight re-ordering of
48 10x8 variants there, to have the more common on top.
49 If no radio button is selected, keep old variant even on OK.
51 2011-01-19 11:10:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
52 Move clock-click code to back-end
54 Some duplicated (or should-be-duplicated) code for handling clicks on
55 the clocks from the XBoard and WinBoard front-ends was merged and
56 relocated to the back-end, so it can be shared. Noticeable was that
57 XBoard allowed turn change in ICS examine mode by clock clicking,
58 while WinBoard did not. WB, on the other hand, allowed clock adjustment.
60 2011-01-16 23:15:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
61 Fix legality testing of drop moves
63 Drops of noexistent pieces (i.e. with a piece indicator letter that is
64 not corresponding to any defined piece) are now parsed as
65 ImpossibleMove, rather than IllegalMove, so they are also rejected with
68 2011-01-17 00:28:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
69 Fix WB Sound Options greyout and remove some grossness
71 The sound and ICS Options menu items in WB were accessed 'by position',
72 with fixed defined positions (always messing up any reorganization of
73 the menus when you forgot to redefine the position constants in
74 winboard.h). And not only that, but for completely mysterious reasons,
75 the greying of the sound item greyed out the game-list options (above
76 it) in stead when it was defined as 9, and the ICS options (below it)
77 when it was 10 !!!. Now they are addressed 'by command' (and the
78 position definitions are removed), which fixes things.
80 2011-01-25 21:35:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
81 Re-instate load next/prev position menu items
83 As positions do not use something similar to the game list, these are
84 still useful. For some reason I could not get Alt+Shift+PgUp/Dn to work,
85 so I settled for Shift+PgUp/Dn.
87 2011-01-16 21:56:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
88 Remove superfluous copying of machine move
90 There was explicit code in HandleMachineMove() and FinishMove() to put
91 the move in the moveList, while MakeMove() already does this later in a
92 more reliable way by calling CoordsToComputerAlgebraic(). This
93 superfluous code is removed now.
95 2011-01-16 21:44:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
96 Fix spurious mate test in Edit Game mode
98 When entering a game, it was terminated by the mate test even when
99 legality checking was switched off (so that mates might not be reliably
100 recognized). The mate test is now made dependent on legality testing.
102 2011-01-16 21:37:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
103 Fix type-in of drop moves
105 Drop moves entered through the move type-in already come in the (piece,
106 DROP_RANK, x, y) format, rather than having a holdings from square. This
107 caused UserMoveEvent to consider them illegal when testing if the
108 piecewas of the side to move, and when this was fixed, to recognize
109 Knight drops as coming from between board and holdings (and thus
112 2011-01-16 21:31:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
113 Fix move type-in truncating game
115 Starting a new variation by keeping Shift pressed did not work when
116 OK'ing the move type-in, because there was some code ther that truncated
117 the game. While this could be safely left to UserMoveEvent, which it
118 calls, as the situation is not different from entering moves through the
121 2011-01-11 16:12:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
122 Fix legality testing for promotions
124 Turns out WB has never tested for the legality of the chosen promotion
125 piece, and would allow promotion to King innorml chess even with
126 legality testing on (when entered through the keyboard)! Now strict
127 testing is done, outlawing Pawns and Kings (or Unicorns in
128 Knightmate). Only in suicide / giveaway Kings are stillallowed, and in
129 spartan a black King if you do not have two yet.(And promotion
130 toLnce,representing Hoplite Pawn,is forbidden there.)
132 2011-01-11 11:34:07 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
133 Reset 50-move counter on all pawn-like Lance moves
135 Now the Lance represents a Pawn-like piece not only in variant fairy,
136 but anywhere outside Shogi / Superchess, its moves should also reset the
137 50-move counter in those cases. Especially important for Spartan Chess,
138 where the Lance actually participates.
140 2011-01-11 11:18:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
143 The logos were not repainted when the main window was moved out of the
144 display area, and then back into view. The reason for this is
145 unknown, as the PaintProc calls HDCDrawPosition, which was calling
146 DrawLogoOnDC. But the logos were not drawn, (or on an expose event
147 sometimes half drawn!) despite the fact that the rest of the board was.
148 The drawing of logos now has been decoupled from drawing the board,
149 and has been moved to a separate routine DisplayLogos() (in analogy to
150 DisplayBothClocks()). This is cleaner anyway, as the logos usually do
151 not change when the board does. So apart from in PaintProc, it has only
152 to be called when the mode changes (ModeHighlight()) or on swap clocks.
153 This seems to fix the problem.
155 2011-01-10 20:36:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
158 Saving of the thinking time in the PGN was broken by the patch that
159 removed the race condition in the clock switching, because that moved
160 the incrementing of forwardMostMove to behind the code that used fmm to
161 index pvInfoList. As a result the time was stored in the slot for the
162 opponent's previous move. The value is corrected now.
164 2011-01-09 00:24:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
167 The move that delivers checkmate in two-machines mode is not animated
168 when adjudication is on. There then also is no highlighting of this move
169 Redrawing the board and calling ShowMove fixes it. Which is rather
170 strange, because ShowMove was already called in Adjudicate (when it
171 adjudicates), before GameEnds. For reasons that are not understood this
172 call to ShowMove() (which calls AnimateMove()) is not effective.
174 2011-01-09 00:21:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
175 Reset machine colors after match
177 The colors each engine playse are set to the originals after the last
178 match game, so that a new match or two-machines game will not have
181 2011-01-09 00:15:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
182 Reset win/loss counters before match
184 The win/loss counters were not reset, because the code counted on them
185 being initialized to zero. But with matches startable from the menu,
186 this is no longer true after the first match.
188 2011-01-09 00:08:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
189 Show move that causes false illegal-move claim
191 Without claim testing XBoard takes back moves that an engine objects to.
192 But when the engine is forfeited for a false claim, the move should of
193 course stay. So the claim test is moved to before the take-back.
195 2011-01-09 00:05:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
196 Fix Spartan promotion to King
198 Promotions toKing were refused when in check, because XBoard thought
199 they would not resolve the check. Now the promotion is actually
200 performed before doing the check test.
202 2011-01-05 17:31:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
203 Fix WB font-based piece rendering on variant switch
205 The piece bitmaps were only created from the font characters when the
206 number of ranks or files changed, because it was done in
207 InitDrawingSizes(). This caused missing pieces when changing to a
208 variant on the same board that used other pieces. Now InitDrawingSizes()
209 is called for any variant switch.
211 2011-01-05 17:25:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
212 Fix right-alignment pproblem in WB ICS window
214 Use of Ctrl-R to summon the context menu still trickled through to the
215 default text-edit window routine, and caused right-alignment. This was
216 because the text-edit reacts on keyDown rather than the character event.
217 KeyDown of R with Ctrl pressed is now also intercepted and ignored.
219 2011-01-03 13:04:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
220 Fix chat window title
222 The title was using the engine name, rather than the ICS handle, which
223 did not work outside zippy mode. Now it only uses the engine name when
224 no ICS handle is known. The titleis now also subjected to translation.
226 2011-01-03 12:50:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
227 Fix spurious reading of old game title by JAWS
229 Because focus was switched to the board window before loading the
230 selected game from the game list, the titlebar still contained the
231 name of the previously loaded game, which would spontaneously be read by
232 JAWS. Now the focus switch is done after loading the new game (which
233 updates the window title.)
235 2011-01-03 12:37:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
236 Add variant Spartan Chess
238 In the WB menu it takes the place of the defunct Twilight Chess item.
239 The setup routine needed patching for setting up Lances in stead of
240 Pawns for black, the check test had to be adapted to handle duple check,
241 Alfil and Dragon moves were fine tuned in this variant to make the exact
242 moves, and the promotion popup was adapted to show King and interpret
243 Rook and Bishop as Dragon and Alfil for black. The Alfil now always
244 moves as Modern Elephant except in Shatranj and Courier.
246 2011-01-03 12:23:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
249 Due to a bug in logical operators drops were tried for mate evasions
250 even in non-drop games, which broke it in Superchess and Great Shatranj,
251 and wasted CPU time in other variants.
253 2011-01-05 17:19:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
254 Fix promotion suffixon disambiguated piece moves
256 The promotion suffixon piecemoves that needed disambiguation was not
257 passedon to the back-end in most variants. Now it is passed on in any
260 2011-01-03 12:08:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
261 Fix promotion of Pawn-like Lance
263 In variants where the Lance is used to represent an unorthodox Pawn, it
264 must promote when it reaches last rank. With legality testing on,
265 however, the promoChar was ignored in ApplyMove in this case. The
266 promotion suffix also was not appended in SAN moves.
268 2011-01-03 11:57:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
269 Fix WB promotion popup
271 The promotion popup did not work properly in variants where black did
272 not use the pieces that white wanted to promote to. Now the character
273 for the selected piece is taken from the piece encodings of the side to
274 move. In addition, selection of undefined pieces is ignored.
276 2011-01-02 14:17:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
277 Fix bug in parsing variations
279 The moves parsed from a variation were stored in the moveList without
280 appended linefeed. This caused errors if the variation extended to
281 beyond the end of the main line,into a hitherto unused part of the move
282 list, as the linefeed was then not there from the overwritten move. As a
283 result moves sent to the engine were concatenated, triggering
284 illegal-move messages and bringing the engine out of phase.
286 2011-01-02 14:11:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
287 Define Ctrl-R as right-click in WB Comment dialog
289 To allow JAWS users to load a variation through the keyboard, Ctrl-R is
290 equated to a right click at the position of the caret or selection.
292 2011-01-02 14:10:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
293 Allow starting a variation from keyboard entry in WB-JAWS
295 The status of the shift key is remembered when space is pressed to
296 select a board square.
298 2011-01-02 14:06:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
299 Disable some accelerators in JAWS version
301 Single-key accelerators that could result in irreversible data loss are
302 undesirable, because the risk of accidentally pushing them is too large.
303 So the non-Alt duplicates of next/previous game/position are disabled,
304 as are Home and End for Revert and Truncate Game. JAWS users will have
305 to rely on the menus for those functions.
307 2011-01-02 13:59:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
308 Group engine-output memos with engine names
310 The engine names are now defined just before the text edits, so that
311 JAWS 11 will read the engine name when the memo for the output of that
312 engine is selected. (JAWS 10 will still read the NPS, as it reads in
315 2011-01-02 13:55:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
316 Put nr CPU earlier in tab cycle of WB Common Engine dialog
318 By defining the max CPU control after hash size, the tabbing steps
319 through the controls in geometrical (and logical) order, rather than
320 having the max CPU in between the book controls.
322 2010-12-29 23:47:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
323 Update WB language template file
326 2010-12-29 23:41:27 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
327 Subject JAWS menu and spoken strings to translation
330 2010-12-29 23:37:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
331 Let JAWS SayString buffer full sentence
333 The meaning of the flag parameter of SayString was changed to indicate
334 buffering of flushing. On flushing a message of a single space is used
335 as a kludge to indicate interruptability. Calls to force flushing where
338 2010-12-29 23:32:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
339 Adapt JAWS menu to new menu organization
341 The menus did not correspondto the texts after translation of the main
344 2010-12-29 23:18:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
345 Translate menus after creation of JAWS menu
348 2010-12-29 23:07:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
349 Fix ICS context menu for JAWS
351 The Ctrl+R key did select text at the mouse pointer in stead of at the
352 curser, now that up and down-click were combined.
354 2010-12-29 23:04:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
355 Reorganize order of WB New Variant dialog controls
357 The definitions are re-ordered so that at least JAWS 11 will speak the
358 board-size elements properly.
360 2010-12-29 22:57:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
361 Fix order of elements in WB time-control dialog
363 Someleading texts were defined after the text edit they referred to,so
364 that JAWS 11 associated them to the wrong one. A tab stop was added to
365 the time-odds label, to make JAWS speak it.
367 2010-12-29 22:51:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
368 Change tabbing order in WB sounds dialog
370 The 'Play' button now gets focus immediately after the controls for
371 selecting the sound, rather than at the end of the dialog (after OK).
373 2010-12-29 22:47:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
374 Remove tab stops on first radio button of WB dialogs
376 The New Variant and Board dialogs had a tab stop on the first radio
377 button,so that tabbing toit would automatically select variant
378 normal or size tiny. Now it tabs straight to the current size, without
379 changing anything. (Important for JAWS users.)
381 2010-12-29 22:45:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
382 Put OK/Cancel last in tab cycle of some WB dialogs
385 2010-12-29 22:29:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
386 Fix duplicate menu character for Edit Comment
388 Edit Comment did have the same shortcut character as Copy Game. Changed
391 2010-12-11 11:18:56 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
392 fixed automake process: xboard.conf couldn't be generated if $srcdir was not the current directory
395 2010-12-11 09:50:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
396 new developer release
399 2010-12-05 18:01:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
400 Subject WB context menus to translation
402 The innerloopof the menu translation has been made into a separate
403 routine. This now uses GetMenuItemInfo() in stead of ModifyMenu() to
404 better preserve menu breaks. Menu #10 is used for context menus (from
405 the routine that pops them up), and for this number the orignal texts
406 are not saved in menuText. (This is not needed, because the menu is
407 created everytime anew from the resource data.)
409 2010-12-05 15:00:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
410 Update translation template
412 Add the new menu items; add some notes.
414 2010-12-05 14:04:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
415 Resize buttons in WB engine-settings dialog
417 The OK and cancel buttons were to narrow for most translations, and were
418 a non-standard order as well.
420 2010-12-05 13:56:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
421 Add one-click move control to WB general-options dialog
423 This is a duplicate of the one in the ICS options dialog, but the latter
424 is inaccessible in non-ICS modes, and one-click move is now
425 alsoavailable in engine mode.
427 2010-12-05 13:51:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
428 Create space in dialogs for translation
430 The translated texts often did not fit, because controls were defined
431 needlessly small (when there was empty space between them). In these
432 cases they have been enlarged to consume all available space. Some
433 dialogs are made wider.
435 2010-12-05 13:47:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
436 Add handle for translator acknowledgement
438 An empty string is printed in the about box, which can be 'translated'
439 to a message acknowledging the translator.
441 2010-12-05 13:43:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
442 Use default logo for user
444 When no logo with the name of the current user is found, use dummy.bmp.
446 2010-12-05 15:46:34 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
447 added rlwrap tip to FAQ
450 2010-12-03 23:24:06 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
451 replace hard coded paths with path from configure script
453 use $datadir and subdirectories to store some data files. Also make files in xboard.conf use correct path.
455 2010-12-03 23:02:09 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
456 fixed a typo in the configure script output
459 2010-12-03 21:46:00 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
462 taken from the openSUSE project
464 2010-12-03 22:44:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
465 Fix Edit Game/Position checkmarking in WinBoard
467 Because the entries in Edit and Mode menu were pure duplicats, the
468 entries in the wrong menu (Edit) were checkmarked while active. By
469 defining different IDs for those in the Edit menu, those in the Mode
470 menu are checkmarked again.
472 2010-12-03 10:07:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
473 Add XBoard menu items for arrow highlight and one-click move
475 These items are put in the options menu; the 'Old Save Style' item is
478 2010-12-03 09:27:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
479 Provide menus for editing WinBoard engine and server lists
481 The Edit Tags dialog in the WB front-end is adapted to act as a general
482 edit for string variables, by giving it an extra parameter to indicate
483 where to store the edited result. Menu items are added to invoke this
484 dialog for editing the /first, /secondChessProgramNames and /icsNames
485 options. This solves the problem that people would have to edit an ini
486 file that they can no longer locate (because the %APPDATA% folder has
487 different names and locations in the various Windows versions, and is
488 often a hidden folder on top of that).
489 There is a slight memory leak here, as the memory for the previous
490 value of the altered string option is not freed.
492 2010-12-02 16:18:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
493 Configure arrow highlighting as default in XBoard
495 Set -highlightMoveWithArrow true in the xboard.conf file, and specify a
496 lineGap of 0 to make that efficient (and the wood theme even nicer).
498 2010-12-02 15:56:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
499 Port highlighting with arrow to XBoard
501 Unfortuntely this duplicates a fair amount of code in the front end.
502 Removing the arrow is done by a total repaint if there is a non-zero
503 lineGap, because the clever algorithm for selective redrawing (based
504 on damage) that XBoard uses does not repair damage to the grid lines.
505 For lineGap=0, however, (for which the arrow is mainly intended) the
506 damage mechanism is used, and the damaged squares are determined by
507 tracing out the arrow in 64 steps, and marking all squares in the
508 neighborhood as damaged.
510 2010-12-02 15:55:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
511 Strip CR from xboard.c
514 2010-12-02 14:21:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
515 Let user decide if he wants highlights in blindfold mode
517 Remove the automaticsuppression ofhighlighting.
519 2010-12-02 00:24:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
520 Fix fag-fell marker with logos on
522 The flag-fell marker "(!)" that is displayed in the clock in WinBoard in
523 two-machines mode was printed twice when the clock was split over two
524 lines (as with logos on).
526 2010-12-01 18:57:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
527 Also exempt variant seirawan from eval-scale doubling
529 It is not really a drop game, so a scale from -7 to 7 in the eval graph
530 is good enough (like variants great and super).
532 2010-12-01 10:33:13 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
533 Configure EGTB cache size in adapterCommand
535 The hash size, nr of CPUs and EGTB path are transferred through the WB
536 protocol interface commands memory, cores and egtpath. But there is no
537 WB command for detailing the EGTB cache size. So the value of the
538 command-line option -defaultCacheSizeEGTB has to be sent to Polyglot
539 through its startup command to make it known to UCI engines.
541 2010-11-30 22:46:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
542 Move Hint and Book items to Engine menu in XBoard
545 2010-11-30 22:17:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
546 Correct the key bindings fo view menu in texi file
548 The mentioned bindings for Game List and Eval Graph were wrong.
550 2010-11-30 21:25:07 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
551 Fix sub-variation display with negative score
553 The test if the displayed score was the pvInfo score failed for negative
554 scores, because floats are truncated towards zero. So the previous fix
555 of spurious score/depth info was not working when the score was
558 2010-11-30 18:27:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
559 Peel PV out of comment
561 Arena stores engine PVs not in variation format, but within both braces
562 and parentheses, before the score/depth info. This caused XBoard to
563 overlook the score/depth info, (frustrating, e.g., the eval graph),
564 while the PV would not be accessible for walking it as a variation.
565 The routine that extracts the score/depth from a comment now has
566 been made more clever, to recognize a leadin PV in the comment, and then
567 place it in front of the comment as variation (by moving the opening
568 brace to behind it). For some reason it does not work if the PV and
569 score/depth were separated by a newline, but this happens quite rarely.
571 2010-11-30 18:23:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
572 Allow line-straddling result comments
574 Some GUIs (in particular Arena) do not have the decency to keep the
575 result comment on a single line. In this case the parser rules would not
576 recognize it, and treat it as a normal comment, plus an undetailed PGN
577 result. The rules are now fixed to allow linefeeds in the comment, and
578 between comment and PGN result. To correctly process the comment further
579 (e.g. in game-list lines) the linefeeds are replaced by spaces in the
580 back-end routines that do use the result comment.
582 2010-11-30 12:22:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
583 Write key bindings in XBoard menus
585 Unfortunately tabs are not understood in menu texts, so fine-tuning
586 through spaces is necessary to get some sort of ragged alignment.
588 2010-11-29 18:01:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
589 Configure XBoard to use wood board texture by default
591 The texture pixmaps are sought in /usr/share/games/xboard, with names
592 wood_l.pm and wood_d.xpm. I guess the " make install" should be adapted
593 to put them there. XBoard is resitent to non-existence of the files,
594 btw. It simply ignores the arguments in that case.
596 2010-11-29 17:48:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
597 Configure -inc as volatile option in XBoard
599 XBoard users are not used to options being persistent, and thus have
600 many scripts assuming the timeIncrement is -1 when they don't specify it
601 on the command line, and want to specify -mps. But a persistent -inc of
602 0 fom a preious session would then force their -mps to zero, causing
605 2010-11-29 17:36:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
606 Make WinBoard clocks translation-proof
608 With logos on, the splitting of the clock over two lines assumed the
609 lengths of the words "white" and "black" would always be 5. Used strlen.
611 2010-11-29 14:57:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
612 Improve drawing of highlight arrow
614 A diagonal arrow sometimes had a notch in the shaft because of
615 independent rounding of the starting and ending point coordinates.
616 Furthermore the width of the shaft was unnecessary variable(as a
617 function of direction) because half the width was rounded and then used
618 twice. Now rounding of end-points is always done towards a fixed grid
619 of square centers, which keeps diagonals purely diagonal, and one side
620 of the shaft is drawn relative to the other side, after the
621 position of the latter has been rounded, so any rounding error affects
622 the shaft width only once.
624 2010-11-29 10:25:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
625 Alter descriptionof Analyze File menu item
627 This menu item has been given a new function, so a new description was
630 2010-11-29 10:15:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
631 Add description of Game List Options in texi file
634 2010-11-29 09:58:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
635 Update texi file for new menu organization
637 The descriptions are shuffled around and organized into sections
638 corresponding to the new main menus. Where necessary the name of the
639 items was changed to their new names. The items removed from the File
640 menu (the next/previous/same stuff) are nowmoved to the section "other
641 shortcut keys", as the key bindings for some of them are still active.
643 2010-11-29 09:06:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
644 Update info on key bindings in texi file
646 The texi file was still listing the old XBoard key bindings. Where
647 necessary this is now changed to the new (WinBoard) bindings, and all
648 the new bindings were added.
650 2010-11-29 09:04:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
651 Add XBoard key bindings for Revert and Truncate
653 Use Home key as accelerator for Revert, End for Truncate, as in WinBoard.
655 2010-11-28 23:12:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
656 Divorce the Edit and Show Tags/Comment menu items
658 In WinBoard the items in the Edit and View menu for Tags and Comment now
659 have different IDs, so they can be independently controlled. Only the
660 items in the View menu are check-marked. The items still do the same.
662 2010-11-28 23:08:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
663 Alter WinBoard menu text
665 The texts are slightly adapted, mostly by choosing more convenient
666 tabbing characters for the new menu organization. The translation
667 template is updated accordingly.
669 2010-11-28 20:24:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
670 Let move-history window scroll to bottom after adding move
672 By activating the scrollbar of the viewport through XtCallActionProc
673 the move-history window is scrolled to the bottom.
675 2010-11-27 14:38:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
676 Fix Shogi promotion popup
678 The texts were adapted to shogi by printing new text items over the
679 Queen and Knight buttons, but these did not alwys cover it. Now the text
680 on the buttons is changed as it should be. Also the window title is
683 2010-11-26 11:22:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
684 Apply gettext macros to menu texts
686 Now texts and references are separated, the texts in the tables can be
687 decorated with the N_() macro, so that the _() macro no longer has to be
688 applied when they are used. (This makes the texts appear in the .po
691 2010-11-26 11:12:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
692 Adapt some XBoard menu texts
694 The "Show" prefix is removed from the "View" menu items, as this seems
695 implied. An ellipsis is added to the Engine #N Settings items, which
696 could not be there before, because periods in a menu name would break
697 any reference to it. For some other names the ellipsis was deleted.
698 (These were not refered to, but who knows what we will do in the future.)
700 2010-11-26 11:03:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
701 Separate menu text from menu name in XBoard
703 The text string in the menu-definition tables was used both for the menu
704 text, as well as for referencing the items from the code (for enabing or
705 checkmarking). Now these can be defined separately, so that altering the
706 menu texts is possible without breaing any references to the item.
707 (Moving them to another menu would still break XBoard, though!)
708 Currently the texts and names are still the same.
710 2010-11-26 10:48:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
711 Bugfix XBoard menu translation
713 The gettext macro N_() was applied to the menu definition tables, but
714 this would break any translation, as these items are both used as menu
715 texts as well as reference for enabling and checkmarking. The routines
716 that create the menus already apply _() dynamically to these items when
717 they are used as menu texts.
719 2010-11-26 10:10:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
720 Restrict drops in variant seirawan to back rank
722 Drops aren't really llowed at all in Seirawan Ches, but there exists an
723 engine that supports a variant where drops on the back-rank are allowed.
725 2010-11-25 19:44:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
726 Let Analyze File annotate the loaded game
728 By not suppressing the auto-play loop in AnalyzeFle mode, we step
729 through the game while the engine is analyzing, and store the PV info
730 that the engine produces, as well as the full PV (as variation comment)
733 2010-11-25 19:41:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
734 Revive Analyze File menu item in WB
736 We will keep this menu after all, becase it can be given a new meaning.
738 2010-11-25 19:31:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
739 Fix spurious scores in comments
741 The comment popup is also used to display engine PV info, but when the
742 contents of the window is written back when we select a variation,
743 it was treated as a real comment. This is fixed now by checing in
744 ReplaceComment() if the comment starts with the PV info, and if so,
745 ignore the latter. This solves the problem, but I guess the real bug is
746 that selecting a variation tries to write the comment even if it did not
749 2010-11-25 19:26:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
750 Display error for wrong use of Machine Match
753 2010-11-24 13:30:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
754 Reorganize XBoard menus
757 2010-11-24 11:02:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
758 Reorganize WinBoard menus
760 New main menus Edit, View and Engine are added; the step menu
761 disappears. The menu items are redistributed over the new menus.
762 Sometimes duplicates are created. No adaptation of short-cut characters
763 as made yet (as this affects translation).
765 2010-11-20 20:20:27 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
766 removed trailing whitespaces from NEWS
769 2010-11-20 20:19:30 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
770 merged readme_HGM.txt into the NEWS file
772 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.
774 2010-11-20 18:24:19 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
775 typo in date of developer release
777 but will leave the tagged version as it is, since it's still a unique version number
779 2010-11-20 18:11:01 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
780 new developer release
783 2010-11-20 18:12:41 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
784 added latest version of parser.c
787 2010-11-20 18:05:56 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
788 updated Changelog, etc for developer release
791 2010-11-20 16:22:00 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
792 Revert "adding gnu-readline support"
794 This reverts commit c95ef32a700132a134f335f857ca6f1b6f3c169f.
799 better to use the (relatively) new ICS input box then add readline support.
801 2010-11-20 16:19:32 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
802 Revert "bugfix: fixed readline support with icslogon option"
804 This reverts commit b9cdd7422ad1037d7376bce4f8f2db2669396e83.
809 better to use the (relatively) new ICS input box then add readline support.
811 2010-11-19 23:10:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
812 Make Hoplite moves irreversible in Spartan Chess
814 Consider Lance moves in variant Fairy (where the Lance represents the
815 Spartan Hoplite Pawn) as Pawn moves, so they reset the 50-move counter.
817 2010-11-19 21:09:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
818 Give Lance moves of Amazon in variant super
820 Now that Lance is no longer a wild-card piece the moves of Amazon must
821 be programmed explicitly, to keep the possibbilty to play Superchess
822 with legality testing on.
824 2010-11-19 18:32:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
825 Change representation of Bede in variant fairy initial position
827 This used to be Lance, but the promoted Bishop (Dragon Horse)
828 is more applicable. Especially now that Lance is supposed to move like a
831 2010-11-19 18:28:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
832 Make yyskipmoves also suppress examining of drop moves
834 Not sure if this does any good, but it seemed illogical that this would
835 happen in all other moves, but not drops.
837 2010-11-19 18:23:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
838 Define moves for Dragon Horse outside Shogi
840 Let it move like Bishop + Wazir + Dababba.
842 2010-11-17 13:40:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
843 Fix safety crash when appending comments
845 The length limit imposed on safeStrCpy was one too short when copying
846 an existing comment to the space allocated for the longer (concatenated)
847 one. It allowed no space for the terminating '\0'.
849 2010-11-17 13:38:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
852 The test for when to terminate a non-fiting string was one off, and the
853 debug message was written stdoutin stead of debugFP.
855 2010-11-16 12:40:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
856 Fix default holdings size for variant seirawan
858 The holdings for 7 pieces werealways considered an overrule, so that the
859 variant name was prefixed with "8x8+7_".
861 2010-11-15 11:36:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
864 When confronted with a path name starting with ~ and not containing a /
865 XBoard would segfault.
867 2010-11-14 21:45:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
868 Fix one-click moving on up-click
870 (First) up-clicks were not always ignored: in Edit-Game mode with
871 one-click moving enabled this could lead to a capture being made on
872 the down-click, and the recapture on the correspoding up-click.
873 This has now been corrected, and only the down-click of a first click
874 can lead to selecting a piece or a one-click move.
876 2010-11-15 18:15:40 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
877 fixed buffer size for snprintf
880 2010-11-13 23:04:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
881 Accept Seirawan-style gating suffixes
883 The parser rules were extended to accept / as an equivalent of = in
884 promotion-suffix notation (e.g. Nf3/H in stead of Nf3=H).
886 2010-11-13 22:55:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
887 Use Falcon and Alfil as built-ins for Seirawan chess
889 Where available (size 49 and 72) we use Falcon for Archbishop and Alfil
890 for Chancelor, to better conform to the Seirawan names Hawk and Elephant.
892 2010-11-13 20:02:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
893 Implement entering gating moves with mouse
895 A move with a back-rank piece that starts when a piece in the holdings
896 is selected will be interpreted as a gating move in variant seirawan.
897 The front-end uses a 'gatingPiece' selected this way todisplay it on the
898 from square during animate dragging.
900 2010-11-13 18:56:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
901 Implement variant seirawan
903 Set upthe position, including Hawk and Elephant in holdings, in
904 InitPostion(). Suppress putting captured pieces in holding. Let
905 promoChar indicate gating in ApplyMove(). Remove gated pieces from
906 the holdings there. Let GenLegal() generate RxK-type castlings to act as
907 base for gating on Rook square. Gatings are tested for legality
908 based on the holdings content and whether they occur on the back
909 rank. Disambiguate() also tests this. Make sure the gated pieces are
910 printed as move suffixes in CoordsToAlgebraic().
912 2010-11-13 18:42:27 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
913 Add -variant seirawan to menu
916 2010-11-13 22:52:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
917 Fix acceptance of null-move with legality testing off
919 A second click on the same piece was interpreted as a to-square rather
920 than deselection of the piece.
922 2010-11-13 22:49:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
925 Disambiguate was imagining captures, so an only capture by double
926 clicking your own piece did not always work.
928 2010-11-13 20:08:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
929 Fix mouse-driver buglet
931 The highlights were not cleared on moves that went vertically off board.
933 2010-11-12 17:17:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
934 List some undocumented commands as compliant
936 The engine->GUI commands setboard and setup are now always printed in
937 the debug file as well.
939 2010-11-12 17:05:22 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
940 List Hint with compliant commands
942 This command was omitted, so that in some -engineDebugOutput modes it
943 would not appear in the debug file.
945 2010-11-12 17:02:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
946 Restrict use of escape expansion
948 Only expand escape sequences like \n and \t in telluser(error) comamnds
949 that ask for it by preficing the messages by double backslash. Otherwise
950 backward copatiblity is too severely broken for messages that display
953 2010-11-12 13:56:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
956 SafeStrCpy was causing a lot of out-of-bound write accesses, as it was
957 always writing the character at the length limit of the destination.
958 Now no memory is accessed that is is not needed to hold the copy.
960 2010-11-07 21:37:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
961 Allow clicked name internal to the icsMenu command string
963 A command in the /icsMenu that was specified to contain the selected
964 text or clicked word always appended this word at the end. Now the user
965 can also configure it to appear in the middle, by putting a %s in the
966 command string where he wants it to appear.
968 2010-11-07 21:33:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
969 Let Engine #2 Settings start second engine
971 If the second engine is not yet running, it would be impossible to use
972 the settings dialog for it, as the features have not been received and
973 the dialog will be empty. So the user could not adjust the engine
974 parameters before starting a match. Using this menu now automatically
975 starts the engine, and delays the appearence of the popup untill the
976 features are received, using a similar mechanism as in
977 TwoMachinesEventIfReady().
979 2010-11-01 19:40:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
983 2010-11-06 19:55:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
984 Fix bug in parsing illegal Pawn captures
986 When a pawn move of type exf5 was illegal, the parser made an attempt to
987 interpret it as e.p. capture of f5. This, however, messed up the move,
988 so that it was now permanently mistaken for e5xf6. Even in cases with
989 legality testing off, where you would want the original move to be
990 accepted despite the fact that it was illegal.
992 2010-11-06 19:49:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
993 Keep last PV while clearing engine-output display
995 When ponder is on, the display is cleared immediately when the last line
996 of thinking output appears by the appearing ponder output. So you would
997 never get the chance to see it. This line is now re-written after
998 clearing, so it appears at the bottom of the output for the next search.
1000 2010-11-06 19:45:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1001 Give Lance moves of Berolina Pawn
1003 In stead of using it as a wildcard piece, the Lance gets the moves of
1004 the Berolina Pawn (straight capture, diagonal move). The initial double
1005 osh can be a ump, though. (So it is really a Hoplite Pawn from Spartan
1008 2010-11-06 19:42:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1009 Use SAN even on illegal moves
1011 If there is only one piece of type T, moves like Ta1 or Txa1 are never
1012 ambiguous, so adding the from square is just cumbersome.
1014 2010-11-06 19:34:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1015 Use normal SAN for wildcard pieces
1017 SAN often can also be used with pieces we don't know the moves of, e.g.
1018 if there is only one of that type. We just always get rank or file
1019 disambiguators if there are more (even when they might be unnecessary).
1021 2010-11-06 14:52:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1024 Unused variables were removed from parser.l
1026 2010-11-06 14:43:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1027 Allow arbitrary nesting of sub-variations in PGN input
1029 The parsing of subvariations is moved out of the state-machine parsing,
1030 to allow arbitrary nesting. In stead of the entire sub-variation being
1031 parsed by lex as Comment, it now returns Open and Close for the
1032 corresponding parentheses, which are then handled in a wrapper routine
1033 for yylex(): Myylex(). Problem was that yy_text is supposed to return
1034 the entire parsed text of the returned symbol, which thus has to be
1035 collected. To make this possible, yylex has to return everything that it
1036 parses, (even white space!), and a symbol "Nothing" was added to return
1037 in parsing rules that before just ate away irrelevant text without
1040 2010-11-06 21:48:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1041 Implement setup (engine-GUI) command
1043 This allows the frst engine (when legality testing is off) to overrule
1044 the default opening position, in reply to the variant command. Syntax is
1045 "setup (PIECE_TO_CHAR_TABLE) FEN_STRING"
1046 where the FEN string is interpreted in the context of the given
1047 pieceToCharTable (which is optional, and only delimeted by parethesis if
1049 Sendng the position to the second engine is delayed until the first
1050 engine has responded to the ping after the new-game sequence, to make
1051 sure it gets the chance to alter the position before it is sent to the
1052 second engine. This feature is useful for playing variants that WinBoard
1053 does not even know the opening positon for, and can be used even if they
1054 are shuffle variants.
1056 2010-11-06 14:19:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1057 Restrict use of a2a3 kludge
1059 The kudge to send "a2a3" in stead of "black" to get black to move is
1060 fatally flawed in varants that have no Pawn on a2. So in that case we
1061 revert to use of the deprecated "black" command.
1063 2010-11-02 13:06:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1064 Remember values set by -firstOptions, -secondOptions
1066 When an engine announces its option features, and the option name
1067 matches that of a setting given in -first/secondOptions, the engine is
1068 sent hte specified value, but this value was not remembered as current
1069 value (but the latter was left at the engine-announced default),
1070 leading to inconsistent behavior in the Engine #N Settings dialog.
1072 2010-11-01 19:26:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1073 Make test for valid promotion piece color-dependent
1075 This is needed to make it work in variants where white and black have
1076 different armies; quite likely white will promote to pieces that do not
1077 exist in the black army, so we really have to make sure we test if the
1078 white (upper-case) piece exists in this case.
1080 2010-11-01 19:23:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1081 Remove validity test on promochar from parser
1083 The backend routines Disambiguate() and LegalityTest() will catch
1084 invalid promotions, so no need to do it here.
1086 2010-10-31 23:37:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1087 Add the actual size-33 Shogi bitmaps
1089 These were forgotten in the original commit that fixed the .rc file.
1091 2010-10-31 13:20:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1092 Delete some stale promotion code
1094 The correction of the promotion piece to Ferz in Shatran-like variants
1095 in ApplyMove() was no longer needed, as the new promotion code already
1096 does this in the move parser.
1098 2010-10-31 13:08:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1099 Augment moves of some fairy pieces
1101 To get better disambiguation in variants that have to be played with
1102 legality testing off, the Elephant is given also one-step moves (making
1103 it a so-called Modern Elephant) in -variant fairy and great. The Dragon
1104 King (Crowned Rook), which had no moves defined for it outside Shogi at
1105 all, has been given Rook moves plus an orthogonal 2-jump, so that it
1106 can get SAN moves when used as Dababba or Short Rook. (Illegal moves
1107 currently aways force long algebraic notation...)
1109 2010-11-08 22:57:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1110 Bugfix safeStrCpy patch, WinBoard
1112 The use of sizeof on pointers was detected through the same method as
1113 the previous patches, this time while compiling WinBoard. A typo in
1114 jaws.c was fixed as well.
1116 2010-11-08 23:03:13 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1117 Bugfix for safeStrCpy patch for XBoard
1119 By a trick (temporarily redefining safeStrCpy in common.h as
1120 ((char*) (a=1/(4-3rdArgument))) ) a compile-time warning (division by 0)
1121 could be generated for every occurrence where the size argument was equal
1122 to 4, i.e. where the 1st argument was likely a pointer rather than an
1123 array. These cases are now fixed. The file xoptions.c, which is the
1124 only ne that does not #include common.h had to be fixed by making
1125 the #define in the file itself.
1127 2010-10-31 13:16:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1128 Fix spurious promotions with legality testing off
1130 The recent promotion patch had broken playing without legality testing
1131 completely: without legality testing one always gets the piece that was
1132 asked for, but a NULLCHAR should not be taken as a request for a piece!
1133 But it was, and this resulted in any moved piece turning into a white
1134 Pawn! For true promotions the piece was always black, which was also not
1137 Also revert to the use of '+' as internal Shogi promoChar, because
1138 pre-processing turns out not to be possible when reading a game file.
1139 In stead parse any trailing '+' on moves as promoChar. Downside: '++'
1140 can no longer be recognized as checkmate symbol.
1142 2010-10-29 22:54:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1143 Make deferral default in Shogi promotions
1145 Because '+' is intercepted by the parser as check indicator, Shogi moves
1146 are pre-processed to change a trailing '+' into an internally used
1147 alternative '^'. The testing if a promotion character is OK is now done
1148 in LegalityTest() and Disambiguate(), which return ImpossibleMove when
1149 the character does not correspond to any piece, and IllegalMove when in
1150 Shogi anything other than '^' or '=' is used. (Except for the ICS
1151 notations.) On output, in CoordsToComputerAlgebraic() and
1152 CoordsToAlgebraic(), the '^' is translated back to '+'.
1154 2010-10-28 17:51:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1155 Animate piece explosions in drag-drop moves and in XB
1157 This required some code restructuring: the decision if an explosion is
1158 needed is now taken in a new routine Explode() in the backend. This then
1159 calls the front-end driver, and it returns the info if there was an
1160 explosion or not, so the caller (AnimateMove() or the mouse driver) can
1161 take action to repair the damage to the board caused by the blast wave.
1162 A front-end driver for XBoard is provided as well, so that both
1163 click-click (and replay, which is the same) and drag-drop atomic
1164 captures are animated in XB as well as WB.
1165 Explosions on rejected moves are suppressed.
1167 2010-10-28 13:53:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1168 Suppress promotion popup if piece will explode
1170 In atomic, a Pawn capture to last rank is not really a promotion.
1171 Fix choice to Queen.
1173 2010-10-28 18:42:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1174 Make Knight hop first straight, then diagonal
1176 It used to be the other way around, which looked pretty illogical in
1177 Xiangqi: to see Horses, which are blockable pieces there, move over an
1180 2010-10-27 20:04:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1181 Let -oneClickMove also work in EditGame mode
1183 There is really no reason why people that lke one-clcik moves enough to
1184 switch them on would not want to use them too when editing a game.
1185 This solves a nast inconsistency, as before it used to work in -ncp mode
1186 on the _first_ move, as the mode is then BeginningOfGame, and not yet
1187 EditGame, and we do want it to work for BeginningOfGame, as this is
1188 also the game mode when you start playing as white.
1190 2010-10-27 19:40:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1191 Make -flipBlack and -allWhite option volatile
1193 As these options are very Shogi specific, and the variant is volatile,
1194 it seems logical to make them also volatile. Not completely sure about
1195 -allWhite, though. It cold be useful if you want, for example, to play
1196 wth dark-brown pieces for black, as any color but black looks much
1197 better with outline pieces than with solid pieces.
1199 2010-10-27 19:33:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1200 Provide some sample board-texture pixmaps
1202 Wood and marble themes are provided as textures for light and dark
1203 squares, plus two complete Xiangqi boards (wood and evenly colored).
1204 These should probably not goint the distro tar ball.
1206 2010-10-27 19:25:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1207 The -overrideLineGap option is made to work in XBoard
1209 Although XBoard already allowed this in the -boardSize specification,
1210 it is still seful to globally disable grid lines, e.g. for an
1211 oriental Xiangqi board. And it converges XB and WB.
1213 2010-10-27 19:18:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1214 Implement board textures in XBoard
1216 The -darkBackTextureFile and -liteBackTextureFile options now wrk in
1217 XBoard too, for loading a pixmap that will be used to cut out the dark
1218 and light square backgrounds. The cutting algorithm is such that the
1219 pixmap image is completely restored if the size was that of the total
1220 board (e.g. a drawing of a Xiangqi board).
1222 2010-10-27 12:11:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1223 Complete WB (western) bitmaps for Shogi at size 33
1225 The Lance was not replacing Queen in some sizes where the bitmaps were
1226 already available, and new bitmaps for the promotion Golds were added.
1228 2010-10-22 20:30:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1229 Make starting new variation dependent on shift key
1231 The shift key is read during mouse events, and posted in a global
1232 variable, which can then be used by the back-end. The decision to start
1233 a new variation (pushing the game tail rather than clipping it off) when
1234 entring a move in Edit Game or Analyze mode is made dependent on this.
1235 The move-typein also records the shift-key state.
1237 2010-10-22 20:25:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1240 A %g format was used to print an int in sending the level command,
1241 because decimal points were dropped when merging patches. Also an unused
1242 variable was removed to suppress a warning.
1244 2010-10-18 19:50:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1245 Add set of shogi pixmaps for XBoard
1247 The -size 64 pieces from gShogi (and originally XShogi) are made
1248 suitable for loading by XBoard, through redefining the transparent
1249 background color as either light or dark square color. These bitmaps are
1250 not included in the XBoard build, and perhaps should not even be
1251 included in the source distribution, but made available in a separate
1254 2010-10-18 19:46:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1255 Implement -flipBlack in XBoard
1257 When -flipBlack is true, the white and back piece pixmaps are swapped in
1258 flipView. The idea is that the black pieces are upside-down versions of
1259 the white (Shogi) pieces, so that swapping white and black in effect
1260 turns all pieces upside down, which is what should happen in flipView.
1262 2010-10-11 21:06:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1263 Disable some very verbose debug printing
1265 The internationalization seems debugged enough to do without them.
1267 2010-10-11 20:52:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1268 Add option -variations to control variation-tree walking
1270 Just so that users can switch it off if the find it annoying.
1272 2010-10-11 21:01:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1273 Allow full promotion suffixes on SAN piece moves
1275 This facilitates the parsing of (non-standard) Shogi moves in ICS
1276 protocol. It can also be useful for Seirawan Chess, where a future
1277 implementation of it can use promotion suffixes to indicate gating.
1279 2010-10-11 14:07:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1280 Allow lower-case piece indicator in drop-move notation
1282 As it seems that XBoard also sends such moves in zippy play, it seems
1283 more fair to recognize them from the engine as well.
1285 2010-10-10 21:26:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1286 Fix bug in ICS variant switch for Shogi
1288 Because a test for 8x8 variants was done by <= VariantShogi,
1289 rather than <, spurious move-list fetching occurred in Shogi.
1291 2010-10-10 21:23:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1292 Fix WinBoard Lance bug
1294 The choice between Lance and Queen was made on appData.variant, in stead
1295 of gameInfo.variant. Because of this it was not always up-to-date in ICS
1298 2010-10-10 21:15:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1299 Adapt WinBoard to Shogi implementation on Variant ICS
1301 The Variant ICS does not use the '+P' notation for promoted pieces,
1302 neither in the board, nor in SAN, but simply indicates any Gold by 'G',
1303 and uses 'H' and 'D' for +B and +R. The Shogi promotion code in
1304 LegalityTest() and Disambiguate(), which are used in move Parsing, are
1305 adapted to handle this. Deferred promotions sent to the ICS now use an
1308 2010-10-10 21:07:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1309 Inherit promoted-info that ICS does not give from previous board
1311 The ICS does not tell us in Crazyhouse (or Shogi) if a piece is
1312 primordial or a promoted pawn (or a promoted other piece). We now derive
1313 this info from the previous board. The option -disguisePromotedPieces
1314 controls this feature.
1316 2010-10-10 21:03:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1317 Limit multi-session clock handling to non-ICS games
1319 In ICS games a time forfeit crashed XBoard, apparently because the
1320 fullTimeControl string is not properly set when we try to use it to see
1321 if a sudden-death session is indeed the last session.
1323 2010-10-08 11:47:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1324 Change evalgraph scale in drop games
1326 Score swings tend to be much larger in Crazyhouse and Shogi, so the
1327 vertical rangee in those games is doubled to (-14, 14).
1329 2010-10-13 23:05:05 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1330 bugfix: fixed readline support with icslogon option
1332 The icslogon option sends the login and password, so we don't need to handle
1333 special cases for the readline buffer.
1335 2010-10-07 20:35:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1336 fixed some typos that were introduced during the sprintf->snprintf changes
1339 2010-10-07 11:59:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1340 Fix uninitialized variable in book code
1342 The variable ' power' was used uninitialized in case -bookVariation was
1343 set to 0, which can be an error even if it was only multiplied by zero.
1345 2010-10-06 14:20:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1346 Fix menu translation bug
1348 The menuText array was declared too small, so that the last entry of the
1349 File menu got out of bounds and was overwritten by the first of the Mode
1352 2010-10-05 21:14:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1353 Allow -timeIncrement to be a float
1355 The increment can now be fractional seconds. The printing in
1356 ParseTimeControl() and SendTimeControl() is done with %g format, so that
1357 for integer increment there is backward compatibility with the old level
1360 2010-03-30 20:24:49 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1361 adding gnu-readline support
1363 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.
1365 2010-09-24 21:17:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1366 added warning if icsLogon file couldn't be opened
1369 2010-09-24 21:10:28 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1370 security fix: replaced some strcat with strncat
1372 there is still more to do
1374 2010-09-19 20:55:01 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1375 add option for silent builds
1377 this can be enabled for automake versions >1.11 by calling ./configure --enable-silent-rules.
1378 It should still work for older automake versions too
1380 2010-09-19 13:16:40 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1381 bugfix: missing array index
1384 2010-09-19 12:19:44 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1385 added new case for (Chessmove) 0 in common.h
1387 this cleans up a few more -Wall messages
1389 2010-09-17 21:47:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1390 cleaned up -Wall warnings (apart from settings some parentheses)
1392 removed unsused variables, etc mostly everything from -Wall -Wno-parenthesis
1394 2010-09-17 20:36:54 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1395 sizedefaults has 9 members, the last line of the array (NULL) only set 7.
1398 2010-09-12 20:04:03 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1399 security fix: replaced sprintf with snprintf
1401 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.
1403 2010-09-10 23:36:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1404 security fix: replaced strcpy with safeStrCpy from backend.c
1406 see comment in backend.c on how to use safeStrCpy. This was already added by AS, but only used in 3 places.
1408 2010-10-04 11:50:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1409 Enhance multi-session TC clock handling
1411 Some new TC types are introduced: Bronstein and free sessions. The
1412 former is implemented by letting an exclamation point '!' in front of an
1413 increment (in the -tc string) indicate that the increment is limited to
1414 the time actually used on the previous move. The latter is an interval
1415 of given duraton in which you can do any number of moves (even zero),
1416 before the next session starts. This is needed for implementing Shogi
1417 byoyomi-type TC, as a first session, followed by a session of fixed-time
1418 per move. The latter can now be specified with the -tc argument as a
1419 degenerate case of Bronstein, where the time on the clock is <= the
1420 increment (so that it is never possible to think longer than the
1421 increment). A TC of 5 min + 10 sec byoyomi can then be indicated as
1424 The sessions are now separated by ':' in stead of '+', and all times in
1425 the TC string are converted to seconds first (in ParseTimeControl), so
1426 the fullTCstring can now be directly used in a PGN tag.
1428 Note that this patch only addresses clock handling; the engine will not
1429 be informed yet if the TC type or parameters change at the start of new
1432 2010-10-04 09:32:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1433 Remove promotion-piece encoding from ChessMove type
1435 The shizophrenic way to indcate promotion pieces in the XBoard code
1436 (sometimes using a promoChar, at other times relying on moveType) was
1437 cured by combining all promotion move types (such as WhitePromotionRook)
1438 into a single one (WhitePromotion), and relying on promoChar to specify
1439 the piece. This solves the problem of promoting to new piece types in
1440 variants, which formerly also required addition of new move types.
1442 In Shogi the '+' character is now consistently used to indicate
1443 promotions (and recognized in ApplyMove), rather than 'q' or
1444 PieeToChar(BlackQueen), as the latter did not work in minivariants where
1445 the Queen (representng the Lance) did not partcipate.
1447 2010-10-03 20:50:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1448 Pass promoChar to SendMoveToICS
1450 SendMoveToICS was the only place where the promotion piece was derived
1451 from moveType, rather than an explicity passed promoChar.
1453 2010-10-04 09:41:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1454 Suppress spurious use of SAN castling in mini variants
1456 King moves from a central file to the king-side-castled position (1
1457 square away from the right corner) were intercepted and printed as O-O
1458 in CoordsToAlgebraic. But on a 5x5 board (mini-Shogi!) this caught the
1459 normal King move Kc1-d1 as well. The castling notation is now reserved
1460 for King moves larger than one step.
1462 2010-10-04 08:21:19 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1463 Make Shogi promotion zone board-size dependent
1465 In stead of using a fixed size of 3 ranks, we use BOARD_HEIGHT/3, which
1466 would translate to 1 rank for mini-Shogi (5x5) and 2 ranks for Judgkin's
1467 Shogi (6x6), which are indeed what these variants need.
1469 2010-10-03 19:58:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1470 Make board-size overrule options volatile
1472 The options -boardWidth, -boardHeight and -holdingSize were legacies
1473 from the day choosing a variant would not automatically set a board
1474 size. As a result they are seldomly used anymore. The first real
1475 application is mini-Shogi (on 5x5 board), and it turned out very
1476 annoying if the 5x5 settings persisted to the next session, where you
1477 almost certainly want to play another variant.
1479 2010-10-04 09:16:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1480 Strip DOS line endings from parser.l
1483 2010-09-16 18:58:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1484 Extend mate test to drop games
1486 MateTest() in case of no legal moves now also looks if there are legal
1487 drops that can resolve the check. This provides reliable mate testing in
1488 Crazyhouse and Shogi, so these are now made subject to adjudications too.
1490 2010-09-16 18:48:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1491 Extend legality testing to drop moves
1493 LegalityTest() can nowbe called with (internal-format) drop moves, and
1494 delegates their testing to a new routine LegalDrop(). This routine
1495 performs the 'no-pawn-on-back-rank' test that used to be in
1496 UserMoveTest (which now calls LegalityTest also for drop moves).
1497 The more complex Shogi case is also handled (except for Pawn mate
1498 drops) in LegalDrop().
1500 2010-09-16 18:25:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1501 Revert splitting of UserMoveEvent
1503 This splitting into UserMoveTest and FinishMove was no longer needed,
1504 now that the new mouse driver no longer calls UserMoveTest to figure out
1505 if a move is a promotion, and XBoard and WinBoard are unified in this
1506 respect. It was counter-productive, because UserMoveTest was not able to
1507 change the fromX, fromY (call-by-value) parameters for passing them to
1508 FinishMove, so it had to defer the conversion of drop moves to internal
1509 format to the latter, while it did not belong there. (Because
1510 DropMenuEvent already delivers the moves in internal format.) This
1511 whole kludgy construction was therefore abandoned, by going back
1512 to the original 4.2.7 calling scheme, where UserMoveEvent completely
1513 pre-processes the move, and when it is valid, calls FinishMove directly.
1515 2010-09-16 18:02:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1516 Fix silent bug in drop moves
1518 In ApplyMove() the piece on the from square was accessed and used before
1519 we tested for drop moves. As drop moves have off-board from-squares this
1520 led to out-of-bound array access, which apparently was usually harmless.
1522 2010-09-16 17:43:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1523 Allow parsing of upper-case machine moves
1525 Dubious patch, as it caters to non-compliancy. Some variant engines are
1526 very non-compliant, though.
1528 2010-09-16 17:38:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1529 Prevent transmission of spurious promo char to other engine
1531 The parser now strps off spurious promotion characters.
1532 New move types "White/BlackNonPromotion" had to be introduced for this,
1533 to indicate NormalMoves that could have been a promotion, to make sure
1534 the '=' suffix of Shogi deferred promotions survives.
1536 2010-09-16 20:44:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1537 fixed internationalization for winboard
1539 in the original commit some files were forgotten. This should fix it.
1541 2010-08-29 21:07:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1542 Fix JAWS bug saying side to move in ICS play
1544 This was done the wrong way around.
1546 2010-08-27 14:08:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1547 Make WB run-time language switch possible from menu
1549 This is a rather involved patch that might not be worth it. It is
1550 difficult, because translation of things that live forever is not easy
1551 to invert (menus, the auxiliary windows). We hae to remember all
1552 original, English texts there to be able to put them back,or
1553 re-translate. Still does not fully work, although the menus and
1554 temporary dialogs now are all OK.
1556 2010-08-27 14:35:46 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1557 Update WB translation template
1559 The language.txt file now also contains all translatable strings from
1560 the C source files, rather than jsut the resource.
1562 2010-08-27 14:14:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1565 Add descriptions for machine-match menu support and enhanced book
1566 control, nick-name options and language.
1568 2010-08-27 13:59:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1569 Add some forgotten translation hooks
1571 The general-options, file-browse dialogs and the about box did not call
1572 Translate() yet. Also translate contents of combo boxes. Some small bug
1575 2010-08-27 13:28:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1576 Do not translate game-end messages in PGN
1578 The messages themselves are not subjected to _(), but in stead their
1579 displaying in DisplayMove is subjected to T_().
1581 2010-08-23 13:23:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1582 Internationalization for WinBoard
1584 A function Translate() was added, which uses a list of item dialogs,
1585 reads their value, and replaces it by a translation (if available). It
1586 also reads the window title and sets a translation. Calls to this
1587 routine are added in the initialization code of every dialog callback.
1588 In addition all translatable strings in the WnBoard front end are marked
1589 by the gettext macro _(). Because WB is not gettexted yet, a hard
1590 re-definition of this macro is added in each file using it, to the
1591 string-translation routine T_() supplied in winboard.c.
1592 Code to read the translation file, and translate the menu texts is added
1593 in winboard.c. In backend.c the meaning of the gettet macros is
1594 redefined for the WIN32 case.
1596 2010-08-23 13:07:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1597 Make the ID of all WB dialog items unique
1599 Mnany static dialog texts did share the ID -1 (IDC_STATIC). But to
1600 replace tet at run-time for translation purposes, they need to be
1601 addressed individually. So they were given new IDs, with symbols defined
1604 2010-08-23 12:48:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1605 Mark XBoard result messages for internationalization
1607 The GNU gettext macro _() is used with the game-end messages. This might
1608 be controversial, as they will appear in the PGN as well. But only as a
1609 comment. We can always decide not to supply a translation.
1611 2010-08-23 12:43:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1612 Do not exit after match when match started from menu
1614 The codelooks weird, but matchMode == 2 in this case. We then use
1615 DisplayNote() to report the match result.
1617 2010-08-23 12:39:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1618 Trivial-draws recognition improved in Xiangqi
1620 Now based on a routine "SufficientDefence". If both have it, it is draw.
1622 2010-08-20 17:46:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1625 The relocation of parser.c and the addition of history.c was not yet
1626 incorporated in the devcpp proect files.
1628 2010-08-19 13:45:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1629 Fix some MSVC compile errors
1631 Some statements has moved up stream of declaratons, which is an error
1632 that gcc is forgiving about, but where MSVC is strict.
1634 2010-08-14 14:01:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1635 Improved patch for expansion of WB settings-file name
1637 The expansion of environment variables now allows multiple environment
1638 variables in the path name. Tested on %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\winboard.ini
1639 and %APPDATA%\winboard.ini.
1641 2010-08-07 16:53:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1642 Add -colorNickNames option
1644 This option allows non-standard designation of side to move in FENs.
1645 (Useful for Xiangqi, where white is indicated often as r(ed), and Shogi,
1646 where white is s(ente) or b(lack), and black is g(ote) or w(hite).)
1647 Can also be used for FENs in a local language. A match of theinput
1648 character with the nick name translates it to the standard; this means
1649 the standard will continue to be recognized, unless it was defined as a
1652 2010-08-07 16:39:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1653 Tricked by the grossnes
1655 Some WB menu items were referenced by a hard number. As items had been
1656 added over the years, the wrong menu items were grayed. In particular
1657 the Options -> Adjudication menu was grayed out, in -ncp mode, where
1658 this was intended for the Sounds dialog. This accidentally proved
1659 useful, until we started to apply adjudictions also to the Human moves.
1660 Then it was suddenly undesirable, and a small mystery why it happened at
1661 all, when I tried to change it. The numbers are now corrected to the new
1662 locatons of the items in the menus.
1664 2010-08-07 16:35:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1665 Allow match to be started from WB menu
1667 A menu item Machine Match was added in the Mode menu to switch to
1668 matchMode. A persistent option /defaultMatchGames determines the number
1669 of games. A control was added to the Options -> Common Engine dialog to
1672 2010-08-07 16:26:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1673 Add some book-control options
1675 Options /bookDepth and /bookVariation have been added to control the use
1676 of the GUI book. In WinBoard the Optons -> Common Engine dialog now
1677 contains fields to set them.
1679 2010-08-07 00:15:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1680 new developer release
1683 2010-08-06 11:18:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1684 Repair exit-popup deadlock patch
1686 Relocating the exit popup call had made it lose access to the message it
1687 should print, because it was declared only in an inner code block, by
1688 the same name: buf[]. Deleting the inner declaration fixes it.
1690 2010-08-04 11:00:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1691 Fix erors when compiling with --disable-zippy
1693 The file args.h contained a codeblock in #ifdef ZIPPY, in stead of
1696 2010-08-01 13:27:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1697 Fix zippy handling of draw offers from ICS
1699 The patch by DM to fix the problem introduced by the coloration of
1700 zippy-matched commands (namely that the coloration code beat the zippy
1701 draw recognition to it, and ate the draw offer away) was only targeting
1702 ICC. The new fix should work on any ICS (by using the same pattern in
1703 zippy as in the colorization code).
1705 2010-08-01 13:15:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1706 Fix regression in colorization of zippy-matched commands
1708 The patch by Daniel Mehrman from 4.2.pre8 was not properly merged, so
1709 that in XBoard no coloration would take place of ICS commands that were
1710 matched by zippy. (It was using &i as input pointer, rather than &backup.
1711 The XBoard-specific code now has been deleted completely, to remove a
1712 seemingly needless dependence on _WIN32_ of the back-end. Both WB and XB
1713 now use the XBoard method, to only match zippy commands when logged in.
1715 2010-07-31 22:48:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1716 Suggest default file name in browser dialog
1718 The argument 'def' to FileNamePopUp() was not passed through to the new
1719 file-browser routine, which got NULL in stead, and thus started with an
1722 2010-07-30 23:28:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1723 Define /firstUCI and /secondUCI as synonyms for /fUCI, /sUCI
1725 Because the %s expansion of WB options in the /fcp and /scp lines only
1726 works for options that contain 'first' or 'second', and /fUCI thus did
1727 not work, PSWBTM had to rely on the cumbersome /firstIsUCI=true to
1728 install UCI engines. (The latter option should be deprecated really;
1729 the UCI-ness of the engines is a volatile option, so it makes no sense
1730 to supply a way to set them both to false or true. One only needs to be
1731 able to set it to the non-default state.)
1733 2010-07-30 23:21:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1734 Add string option /pieceNickNames
1736 This (volatile) option allows definition of alternate letters for the
1737 pieces, which will be recognized next to the standard symbols as given
1738 in the /pieceToCharTable on input. (Output always uses the standard.)
1739 This can be useful for reading PGN from another language, or
1740 non-compliant FENs (e.g. using B and N for E and H in Xiangqi).
1741 The format of the argument is the same as for /pieceToCharTable.
1742 Because the nickNames are consulted before the standard table, it is
1743 possible to redefine a standard name as a nick for another piece.
1745 2010-07-30 23:10:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1746 Fix deadlock in match-result display
1748 At the end of a match, GameEnds() was recursively calling itself,
1749 through DisplayFatalError() and ExitEvent(), and the latter was then
1750 delaying until the calling GameEnds() terminated. (Which it would of
1751 course never do before ExitEvent returned; fortunately there was a tim
1752 limit to this delay, but in XBoard it was 10 sec in stead of 10 msec.)
1753 Now the calling of DisplayFatalError() (to show the result popup) is
1754 delayed until after GameEnds completes (and resets the anti-recursion
1755 flag 'endingGame'), so that it is simply executed a second time, unaware
1756 of the earlier call. But this second time it does not do anything,
1757 because the gameMode ws set to EndOfGame the first time, and the writing
1758 of the PGN is blocked by the checksum being still the same.
1760 2010-07-12 11:10:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1761 Fix WinBoard game-list title
1763 Number of displayed games and WDL stats were always appended to the
1764 existing title, leading to an ever-growing title in the game-list
1765 window. Now the old actual title is ignored, and the starts is appended
1766 to the original title "Game List". (In the future we could use the
1769 In addition, the title was not updated when re-opening the game-list
1770 window, while the stats could change if filtering was active when the
1771 window was closed. (In that case the filter is cleared on re-opening, so
1772 the number of displayed games changes.) Now a title-update (after
1773 recalculating the stats) is done every time the game-list window is
1776 2010-07-11 11:06:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1777 Refactoring of material-draws adjudication code
1779 Insufficient mating material is now determined per side individually, by
1780 testing for MatingPotential of each side. If both lack mating potential
1781 the game is adjudicated as draw (if the -materialDraws option is set).
1783 This way MatingPotential() can later also be used to correct losses by
1784 forfeit to draws (which currently is only done when the opponent has a
1787 The accuracy of this type of adjudication in Xiangqi has been highly
1790 2010-07-11 10:54:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1791 Fix bug in sending cores command to engine
1793 The cores command was alwas sent to the engine(s) when the user changed
1794 it through the menu, even when the engine had sent feature smp=0 (which
1795 is default anyway). NewSettingEvent() was patched to send the new
1796 setting conditionally, based on the engine properties as recorded in
1797 ChessProgramStates first, second; In this particular case it now
1798 consults cps->maxCores. (Note the code for testing the second engine
1799 contains some dirty pointer arithmetic.)
1801 2010-07-11 10:42:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1802 Fix oneClickMove bug
1804 When checking for unique captures, no attention was payed to the option
1805 setting, so the capture was also made when the option was off.
1807 2010-07-11 10:39:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1808 Remove duplicate testing for cores feature
1810 The testing for this BooleanFeature occurred twice.
1812 2010-07-11 10:35:13 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1813 Remove misspelled prototype
1815 NewSettingEvent occurred, next to the correct one, in misspelled form.
1817 2010-07-05 10:00:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1818 Fix parsing of SAN shogi promotions
1820 A missing promotion character defaults to promotion in the move type,
1821 but the promotion character was not set when this happened in variant
1822 shogi. And it is especially important there, as the promotion character
1823 '+' will always be missing, as the parser will take it to be a 'check'
1824 symbol, and strip it from the move.
1826 2010-07-05 09:55:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1827 Fix variant switch on PGN loading
1829 When the PGN specified an essentially different variant, the
1830 piece bitmaps were not properly adapted, because the switch was done by
1831 calling InitPosition(), rather than Reset(). (The latter would destroy
1832 the PGN tags info.) We now added an explicit call to ResetFrontEnd(),
1833 (which is normally done from Reset()).
1835 2010-07-05 09:51:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1836 Adjudicate Xiangqi material draws with Advisor-less Cannons
1838 Used the Queen counter for counting Cannons. Note that material draws
1839 with stale Pawns (i.e. on the back rank) are not yet adjudicated.
1841 2010-07-05 09:34:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1842 Remove font settings from master settings file
1844 xboard.conf should not contain general font settings (not specific to
1845 one board size) with specified point size. In fact it should not even
1846 specify sizable fonts, as the new system would make specification of a
1847 general font overrule the size-specific settings in the .xboardrc file,
1848 so the persistence of fonts would be completely broken.
1850 2010-06-30 10:52:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1851 Cut board squares out of texture bitmap more cleverly
1853 When the bitmap is larger than the entire board, the squares are now cut
1854 out of the center of the virtual squares from subdividing the bitmap, so
1855 that they stay centered on the grid of a Xiangqi board bitmap. If the
1856 board size exceeds that of the bitmap, the old algorithm is still used,
1857 as the centering would make the edge squares exceed the bitmap, and
1858 cause a black rim around the board.
1860 2010-06-30 10:49:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1861 Allow -flipBlack to work with font-based piece rendering
1863 In addition the font-based pieces will also be flipped vertically in
1864 flipView for variant shogi when -flipBlack is off.
1866 2010-06-30 10:46:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1867 Allow font-based piece rendering in board sizes below petite
1869 At least for variants that use unorthodox pieces, so that switching back
1870 to using bitmaps is not really an option anyway.
1872 2010-06-30 10:41:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1873 Ignore checks in 50-move count for Xiangqi
1875 Both checks and evasions are discounted; this is only done after the
1876 naive counting exceeds the maximum, so during most of the game it causes
1879 2010-06-05 14:38:47 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1880 removed some garbage from configure.ac that got added a while ago
1883 2010-05-25 21:20:27 -0400 Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>:
1884 Remove unnecessary double equals from configure.ac.
1887 2010-05-28 11:07:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1888 Fix e.p. bug in xiangqi with -serverMoves option
1890 Sideway Pawn moves were written as e.p. captures in the file with moves,
1891 which led to disappearence of pieces in the viewer.
1893 2010-05-28 11:05:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1894 Repair score printing with -serverMoves option
1896 A previous patch had moved MakeMove to before the update of pvInfoList,
1897 so that the score/depth info would not appear in the file with moves.
1899 2010-05-28 11:02:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1900 Repair animate dragging
1902 The previous patch had left a stray semicolon in the mouse handler.
1904 2010-05-10 10:32:19 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1905 Fix game end during dragging
1907 The stale-first-click fix interfered with proper handling of a piece
1908 being dragged when a game suddenly ended (because of opponent resign,
1909 or caling the flag), because up-clicks when the from-square was reset
1910 were completely ignored. Now such an 'unmatched' upclick calls
1911 DragPieceEnd() and redraws the board.
1913 2010-05-10 10:09:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1914 Pop down old tags on loadng new game in WinBoard
1916 ResetFrontEnd(), called from Reset(), did not do this in WinBoard
1917 (unlike XBoard), so that the tags from the previous game were left on
1918 display when -autoDisplayTags was off.
1920 2010-05-09 22:15:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1921 Reverse mousewheel action
1923 Apparently WinBoard was stepping in the opposite direction through the
1924 game in reaction to the mousewheel as every other GUI in existence.
1926 2010-05-09 22:07:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1927 Fix bug in sending "usermove" when forcing book moves
1929 The keyword "usermove" was copied to the buffer, but not sent before it
1930 was overwritten by the actual book move.
1932 2010-05-06 17:23:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1933 Fix engine stall on perpetual-check evasion
1935 The adjudication code had already put the engine in force mode after
1936 postponing the actual adjudication to the next move. Now first determine
1937 if we want to adjudicate now, and with which result, before stopping the
1938 engine and ending the game.
1940 2010-05-06 16:37:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1941 Let move parser return ImpossibleMove for off-board moves
1943 It used to return 0, which interfered with buiding a game list. This
1944 broke reading of multi-game PGN files containing games in a variant with
1945 a board size larger than that of the currenty active variant.
1947 2010-04-06 15:05:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1948 Alter XBoard key bindings to mimic WinBoard
1950 A lot of new bindings were added, and four menuProcs had to be registered
1951 to be able to add bindings to them. The use of the control key as
1952 temporary take-back for the last move conflicted with the use of Ctrl
1953 keystrokes, and this function was migrated to '.'. The iconify function
1954 had no shortcut in WinBoard, but to get rid of letter bindings it was
1957 2010-04-05 20:45:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1961 2010-04-03 14:00:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1962 Fix typos in html help file
1965 2010-04-01 15:22:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1966 Fix JAWS piece drop cursor, and streamline some sentences
1968 The cursor square was reset to a1 after every use of the piece menu,
1969 which was very inconvenient. Some of the spoken sentences have been
1970 improved; the square is read before the piece now, when using the arrow
1973 2010-03-31 22:31:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1974 Allow escape sequences in telluser(error) messages
1976 The routine EscapeExpand was moved to backend.c, and applied to the
1977 message received from the engine.
1979 2010-03-31 21:29:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1980 Allow lower-case promochar in moves of type h8=Q
1982 Updated the parser rules. Other move formats already allowed this.
1984 2010-03-31 21:36:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1985 Fix Alt+M JAWS command in Two-Machines mode
1987 The command refused to read the ast move because it contained thinking
1988 output of the other engine. Let it pay attention to evenIfDuplicate.
1990 2010-03-29 09:57:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1991 Fix rep-draw recognition
1993 The refactoring had broken the rep-draw recognition, by adding and extra
1994 condition in a conditional with side effects. The testing of this extra
1995 condition is now moved to after the side effect.
1997 2010-03-28 12:32:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1998 Allow any %ENVIRONMENTVAR% in WB settings file name rather than ~
2000 Only a single variable at the beginning of the file name is recognized,
2001 and the matching is not fool proof (it matches across backslashes).
2003 2010-03-28 11:24:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2004 Fix info lines being used as normal thinking output
2006 The new standard of using thinking output with time = nodes = score = 0
2007 as info messages for printing in the Engine-Output window was not
2008 understood everywhere, and led to such info lines being used for
2009 autoKibitzing and PGN annotation. The programStats are now only updated
2010 from thinking output received from an engine when it is not an info line.
2012 2010-03-27 11:54:41 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2013 new developer release
2016 2010-03-26 21:16:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2017 Suppress background observe for boards with own game number
2019 This is really a work-around for an ICS bug. The Variant-ICS sent the
2020 initial board of a game in a move list with relation = 0, which means
2021 'observed'. So XBoard was thinking it was observing its own game, and
2022 switched to dual board. It seems harmless to suppress such a switch for
2023 all boards of your own game, however, which is now done.
2025 2010-03-26 21:12:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2026 Fix crash on switching to ICS xiangqi game
2028 The oldBoard was a local variable, and only squares of the old board
2029 were initialized. This led to a crash if the copied board was enlarged,
2030 and then displayed. The variable is now declared static, so the
2031 uninitialized squares contain harmless zeros.
2033 2010-03-26 18:32:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2034 Let Chat Boxes pop up above console, rather than on top of it
2036 Use EnsureOnScreen() to have them overlap if there was no room.
2038 2010-03-26 18:26:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2039 Fix disabling of Chat Box navigation buttons
2041 The buttons for non-open boxes were enabed, rather than disabled.
2043 2010-03-26 18:17:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2044 Prevent <Esc> closing chat box
2046 Let it in stead switch focus back to the console window.
2048 2010-03-26 15:28:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2049 Let WinBoard recognize ~ in settings file name as HOMEPATH
2051 Fetch the appropriate environment variable to build the mathname in
2052 MySearchPath() whenever the file name starts with "~\".
2054 2010-03-26 13:59:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2055 Change name of Global Settings menu item to Common Engine Settings
2057 The old name confused ICS users, as this is an engine-only dialog.
2059 2010-03-26 13:58:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2060 Update WinBoard RTF docs
2063 2010-03-26 13:57:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2064 Update WinBoard html help
2067 2010-03-24 18:00:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2068 Allow adjustment of clocks in any mode with shift+click
2070 In practice changing to edit-game mode during a game was very
2071 cumbersome. In WinBoard shift+click is now offered as an alternative.
2072 Make sure a right-click in the clock area is not also counted for other
2075 2010-03-24 17:21:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2076 Allow loading of PGN variations in XBoard
2078 Right-clicking variation comments in the comment-window was implemented
2079 through a translation. The right button is now bound to routines that
2080 set both the end and start of the selection, as setting a new start does
2081 not seem to work if the previous select-start was not completed by a
2082 select-end or extend-end. Finally the main handler uses the selection
2083 cursors to know what was clicked.
2085 2010-03-24 17:16:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2088 Added a descripton of the new ICS options (seek graph, back-ground
2089 observe) and menus (Upload) to the texi file. Also added a description
2090 of the variation (Annotate menu item and PGN variation comments) and PV
2091 walking (clicking engine-output). Describe the -shuffleOpenings option.
2093 2010-03-24 13:30:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2094 Paint highlights on dual board (WB)
2096 The highlight info is hidden in the partner board to pass it to the
2099 2010-03-24 13:14:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2100 Fix handling username change during game
2102 The title bar and gameInfo (going into the PGN) were not adapted when
2103 the username was changed through the menu, so that the change became
2104 only effective on the next game. Requires SetGameInfo to be called from
2105 the front-end, and thus a prototype for it in backend.c.
2107 2010-03-24 11:04:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2108 Fix window-position upset on failing engine start in WinBoard
2110 The main window was only positoned according to the settings-file data
2111 after the engine was started up from InitBackend2(), so that if the
2112 latter gave a fatal error, and Save Settings on Exit was on, a wrong
2113 position for the main window would be saved. The call to InitBackend2()
2114 is now moved until after setting the main-window position.
2116 2010-03-23 23:22:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2117 Display PV from Engine-Output window (XBoard)
2119 Translations are added to bind button 3 to the PV walk for the memo
2120 widgets, and the corresponding handlers are ported from wengineoutput.c.
2122 2010-03-10 18:54:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2123 Set keyboard focus at startup to board window
2125 This makes XBoard sensitive to the keybindings also when the cursor is
2126 outside the board window. This focus seems to persist indefinitely: each
2127 time the board window gets selected, the key bindings become activem
2128 wherever the mouse pointer is. Downside: the mouse pointer is no longer
2129 an arrow outside the board window, but becomes a text-insert tool there.
2131 2010-02-27 20:49:21 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2132 added logo files for xboard
2134 logos are installed in the hicolor theme [1] using $datadir as the basedir.
2135 Added both png and svg logo.
2137 [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html
2139 2010-02-27 17:36:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2140 Remake programVersion string after receiving engine features
2142 The engine could have sent a more accurate version of its own name
2143 than the one derived from the exe filename in a myname feature, and we
2144 better use that in the programVersion string, which will be sent as
2145 interface name to the ICS.
2147 2010-02-25 19:22:00 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2148 Revert "Repair settings-file name"
2150 This reverts commit a02042ef83ce1f3632f0cf3e0a2a4ce9a3ac5d85.
2152 2010-02-25 20:32:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2153 Add -autokibitz checkbox to UCI-options menu dialog
2156 2010-02-25 20:29:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2157 Also capture (numeric) whispers of players for -autoKibitz
2160 2010-02-25 20:25:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2161 Add kibitzes and c-shouts Chat Box
2163 A box dedicated to c-shouts will snatch any c-shout before it is
2164 diverted to a normal shouts box. The kibitzes box can capture the
2165 left-overs of -autoKibitz, if the latter is active.
2167 2010-02-25 15:45:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2168 Mark non-compliant lines of engine in debug file
2170 The option -engineDebugOutput is extended to accept value 3 for printing
2171 a cear indication of non-compliancy in the debug file.
2173 2010-02-25 12:02:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2174 Redraw second board on expose events
2176 The -dualBoard option now does refresh the second board after another
2177 window uncovers it. To acheive this, some data structures remembering
2178 what is displayed had to be duplicated. (lastBoard and damage for XB,
2179 lastReq, lastDrawn, lastReqValid and lastDrawnValid for WB.)
2180 WinBoard now uses clipping also for second board. This required the
2181 clips for the destination to be translated horizontally!
2183 2010-02-25 15:13:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2184 Print seconds with 2 digits in backgroundObserve status line
2187 2010-02-24 17:01:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2188 Do not recognize non-ICS variants from PGN event tag
2190 These variants were introduced after supporting the variant tag, so if
2191 the variant tag is missing, their recognition from the event tag will be
2192 a false match. (Mainly to prevent events with 'super' in the name being
2193 recognized as Superchess.)
2195 2010-02-23 13:52:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2196 Fix display of uninitialized boards in background observe
2198 A variable partnerBoardValid is cleared on starting our own game, and
2199 set when a board from the background game comes in during it. At the end
2200 of our own game, a valid partner board now is put in the display.
2202 2010-02-23 13:46:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2203 Add option Display Logo in WB general-options menu
2205 Changing the option requires InitDrawingSizes to be called for
2206 re-formatting the board window. Switching it off requires clearing of
2207 the cps->programLogo fields to take effect immediately. Switching it on
2208 only takes effect the next session, as we will need some refactoring to
2209 redo the figuring out what logos to display.
2211 2010-02-22 12:02:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2212 Group Chat Boxes with console in stead of board window
2214 They now open and close with the console, which seems more natural, and
2215 prevents the console from covering them.
2217 2010-02-22 11:50:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2218 Put new options in WB ICS-options dialog
2220 The Seek-Graph, background-observe and Chat-Box options are added to the
2221 ICS options dialog. They only control the appData settings, there are no
2222 special actions yet on switching the settings.
2224 2010-02-22 11:46:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2225 Create space in WinBoard ICS-options dialog
2228 2010-02-20 12:42:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2229 Use side-by-side boards to display background game
2231 A game observed in the background (i.e. if -backgroundObserve true) will
2232 be displayed right of the normal board in the same window if the new
2233 (persistent) Boolean option -dualBoard is also set.
2234 Very flakey hack, especially in XBoard, where clocks and messsage
2235 field all get the wrong width (and resist adjustment in the strangest
2236 ways). The clocks of the partner game are not yet displayed, and
2237 disaster happens when the background and foreground games do not have
2238 the same board format.
2240 2010-02-23 14:57:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2241 Repair background-observe patch
2243 Apparently a commit was lost that I collapsed with 3018a6 while the
2244 latter was already pushed to savannah. Here I recreated this commit from
2245 a diff between the respective commits in the savannah & nubati gits.
2247 2010-01-31 11:07:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2248 Repair settings-file name
2250 The default name is put back to /etc/xboard/xboard.conf, so that XBoard
2251 can again find its settings file. "make install" will still install it
2254 2010-02-21 18:43:59 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2255 new developer release
2258 2010-02-21 19:45:58 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2259 fixed compiler warning for file-browser code
2261 missing "void"s in the function declaration and missing returns showed up when trying to build on the opensuse build server. fixed now.
2263 2010-02-21 23:09:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2264 Put newly opened Chat Box on top
2266 Dialogs always pop up in front, so set the onTop variable that prevents
2267 highighting the button to navigate to it from other Chat Boxes
2268 to reflect that a newly opened Chat Box is in view.
2270 2010-02-21 18:55:03 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2271 Fix copying of kibitzed info in Engine-Output window
2273 Make sure all lines end with "\r\n" to not lose line breaks on
2274 copy-paste from the memo. (XBoard would strip those again.)
2276 2010-02-21 18:25:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2277 Allow walking a kibitzed PV
2279 If no tabs are found in te 'thinking output' we assume it is a captured
2280 kibitz message, and look for "PV=" to locate the start of a PV in it.
2281 Also try to include any continuation lines below the selected line.
2283 2010-02-21 17:45:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2284 Insert autoKibitz continuation lines at end of line
2286 In the engine-output window lines that start with the ICS continuation
2287 sequence "\ " are inserted behind the line they belong to, in stead of
2288 at the top. This required keeping thrack of the length of the currently
2289 active line in OutputKibitz().
2291 2010-02-20 15:39:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2292 Don't disturb background observe when receiving new piece
2294 When new holdings are sent when the background game is displayed, we now
2295 ignore this, as presumably we are peeking at our partners game, and thus
2296 should be well aware of what is captured there.
2298 2010-02-19 21:52:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2299 Newly lexed parser in XBoard directory
2302 2010-02-19 11:18:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2303 Let yy_text determine progress of PV parsing
2305 The parsed unit yy_text was not available after ParseOneMove(), because
2306 the buffer switch in yylexstr() apparently destroys it. To solve that,
2307 yylexstr() now is equiped with an extra buffer argument, where it copies
2308 yy_text before the switch, so the caller, ParsePV(), can see what was
2309 parsed in yy_textstr. This is used to update the PV pointer, but also to
2310 save any parsed comments (when ParsePV is used for parsing a PGN variation).
2312 2010-02-18 17:42:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2313 Support playing through PGN variation comments
2315 Right-clicking a variation line in the comment dialog will shelve the
2316 current variation, and parse the comment to replace it. This uses
2317 ParsePV() in an alternative way, for which the latter had to be
2318 enhanced: it was made resistent to move numbers and comments inside
2319 the PV. It now has an argument to indicate if such comments should be
2320 stored with the moves. The Comment Popup is closed on revert, to
2321 make sure no comments to moves that are destroyed, containing
2322 variations on a non-valid line, can keep hanging around.
2324 2010-02-18 16:05:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2325 Add Annotate item in Step menu
2327 This does the same as Revert, except that it adds the destroyed
2328 variation as comment to the original movem in PGN variation format.
2329 RevertEvent now has an argument to indicate if it should add the
2330 comment, or not. Comments in the abandoned variation are included in the
2331 varriation command to the main line. (The exact layout of the variation
2332 comment that results leaves still to be desired.)
2334 2010-02-15 19:07:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2335 Add option -shuffleOpenings
2337 This volatile option is added just to make the existing variable
2338 available from the command line, not only from the menus.
2340 2010-02-19 11:48:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2341 Let the sounds sound on receiving a message in a Chat Box
2343 Use Colorize() to the applicable color to trigger the sound, and then
2344 restore the original color as 'continuation', to do it silently.
2346 2010-02-10 10:55:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2347 Allow WB Chat Box to be dedicated to shouts and 'it'
2349 By putting 'shouts' in the handle field, a chat window will capture all
2350 shouts and c-shouts, and send messages typed into it as shouts.
2351 The bracketing of the shouter name now indicates the type of shout.
2352 The handle for WHISPER Chat Boxes has been changed to 'whispers', to
2353 make it easier to pop them up by clicking the console.
2355 2010-02-16 22:34:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2356 Add -chatBoxes option to open Chat Boxes at startup
2358 This string option contains a semicolon-separated list of handles for
2359 which Chat Boxes should be opened at startup. The value saved in the ini
2360 file is the value that was read, not the actual chat boxes that were
2361 open at the time of saving.
2363 2010-02-16 19:44:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2364 Make Chat Windows pseudo-tabbed
2366 By adding buttons in every Chat Box to navigate directly to every other
2367 Chat Box, a stacked set of Chat Windows behaves like a single tabbed
2368 window, but can still be unstacked. The buttons turn grey to warn that
2369 new text appeared in hidden boxes (i.e. not the one last brought to top).
2371 2010-02-19 21:46:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2372 Allow arrow keys in WB Chat Box to access command history
2374 The history is shared between al boxes and the ICS console.
2376 2010-02-12 22:35:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2377 Make WB Chat Boxes wrap and handle URLs
2379 Cloned the code for the console text field to hande URL. (Initialization
2380 to recogize the link, and notifiction to open it when clicked.)
2381 Removed the ES_AUTOHSCROLL style from the RichEdit in the resource.
2383 2010-02-10 10:58:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2384 Fix copying of WB Chat Window contents
2386 All line breks were lost on copy-pasting the contents of a chat window.
2387 Adding CR to each outputted line in the front-end (wchat.c) solves this.
2388 (Tell messages sent to a handle (which are not echoed by the ICS, and
2389 thus have to copied to the chat box directly) also need CR!)
2391 2010-02-19 22:34:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2392 Add upload of game to ICS for examining
2394 New item "Upload to Examin" in Action menu, calls UploadGameEvent().
2395 Use SAN moves to upload game to ICS, rather than long algebraic
2396 (The ICS did not understand long-algebraic promotion moves)
2397 Use bsetup within examine to set position onFICS, and also variant.
2398 Castling rights do not work yet for FRC. Totally different set of
2399 commands are needed on FICS and ICC.
2400 FICS does not understand w23 or wild/23, but needs 'crazyhouse' in the
2401 besetup command that specifies the variant. XBoard variant names are
2402 used, except for fischerandom, which is 'fr'. Things like nocastle will
2403 probably still not work.
2405 2010-02-18 17:41:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2406 Handle display of PV that starts with other move than played
2408 Insert the retraction of the played move, without premove highlighting.
2410 2010-02-16 19:36:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2411 Bugfix smart capture
2413 Disambiguate was changed to make sure that for ambiguous moves, a
2414 capture would always prevail in the closure, rather than the last move
2415 that happened to be generated. Before, double-clicking a piece would
2416 sometimes plsy a non-capture.
2418 2010-02-13 15:34:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2419 Fix XB crash on giving keyboard focus to non-text widget
2421 In the Engine-Settings dialog SetFocus() could be called for non-text
2422 widgets, and this made XawTextSetInsertionPoint() croak. Setting the
2423 insertion point to the end in SetFocus() was a bad ide anyway, as it
2424 interfered with copying from the engine-output window, which would
2425 uncontrollably scroll on getting focus. It is solved now by setting the
2426 insertion point already on creation of the text widgets.
2428 2010-02-19 22:32:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2429 Seek-Graph bugfix: disappearing output in ICS console
2431 Suppression of output to the cosole was handled fundamentally wrong: it
2432 was not enough to set next_out to after the unit that should be
2433 suppressed, as there can be a backlog in printing of previous units that
2434 came in the same packet. So this has to be flushed first, or it will be
2435 lost. -autoKibitz probably got away with that, because it comes in a
2436 separate packet. But seek ads are often suffixed to other output, and
2437 then that output disappeared! Now we flush everywhere before suppressing.
2438 We now totally rely on the prompt to restart the printing, so that
2439 acknowledgements following the echo of the sent message are also
2440 suppressed. Also suppress LF before diverted chat messages.
2441 Also fixed is the 'mamer bug' in Chat Boxes, due to false parsing of
2442 a "* (*): " pattern in tell messages, because of a missing continue.
2444 2010-02-12 18:08:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2445 Pop up ICS text menu with default item under mouse pointer
2447 The menu popup is migrated to the down-click (was up-click), so the
2448 up-click can select the item. Some trickery is needed to fool the menu
2449 into thinking that the mouse moved, so that a moveless up-down click in
2450 the ICS text field selects the default item (the upper-right one).
2451 Also allow dummy item in ICS text menu: The command "none" in the ICS
2452 text menu will now be treated as a grayed-out (disabled) entry, so it
2453 can be defined in the position underthe mouse pointer to prevent the
2454 up-click from doing anything, while keeping the menu open. Recommended
2455 for use with an entry of spaces.
2457 2010-02-10 14:42:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2458 Allow ICS context menu to pop up a Chat Box on clicking handle
2460 A command "chat" defined in the WinBoard icsMenu string will cause
2461 ChatPopUp() to be called when it is clicked, with the clicked handle
2462 (name) in the ChatPartner field, and focus on the input field.
2463 ChatPopUp() had to get a parameter (the handle) to make this possible.
2464 If that parameter is NULL (as when it is called from the Mode menu),
2465 focus will still start on the (empty) ChatPartner field of the box.
2467 2010-02-10 10:50:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2468 Fix right-edge spillover of Seek-Graph dots in WinBoard
2470 Rescale the X-axis to allow margin for dot size and color offset.
2472 2010-01-30 11:05:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2473 Interface XBoard to GhostView file-browser dialog
2475 Note: The Ghostview dialog was using some deprecated variables for error
2476 printing, and conditionally used getwd() on some systems that presumably
2477 do not have getcwd(), but it did not assess the latter properly.
2479 2010-02-09 14:38:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2480 Allow recalling history in ICS input box with arrow keys
2482 By adding translations for the Up and Down keys, and stealing some code
2483 from winboard.c. Still needs some refactoring to move the duplicate code
2486 2010-02-09 14:34:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2487 Start insertion point at end of text edits in XB dialogs
2489 The function SetFocus now uses XawTextSetInsertionPoint to position the
2490 end of the string it aready contains, rather than at the beginning.
2492 2010-02-08 17:55:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2493 Capture holdings of background observed game
2496 2010-02-08 11:57:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2497 Match handles with multiple titles for channel Chat Boxes
2499 Only handles with at most one suffixed 'title', such as (U), (C), (IM)
2500 or (TD), followed by the parenthesized channel number, were recognized,
2501 so tells by people with more titles always went to the ICS console window.
2502 Patterns are added to recognize handles with upto three such qualifiers.
2504 2010-02-08 11:54:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2505 Do not pop down Seek Graph on on-dot click
2507 Leave the graph up, and let the incoming board of a started game cause
2508 the pop-down. This in case the clicked ad is no longer vailable, or
2509 manuay refused, and fails to start a game.
2511 2010-02-07 21:26:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2512 Observe a game in the background while playing
2514 A new (persistent) option -backgroundObserve true|false is added. When
2515 set, observed boards received while playing a game will not trigger a
2516 game switch, but will be ignored except for storing in a dedicated board
2517 buffer. Pressing the right mouse button will cause the board to be
2518 displayed, until we release it. Time, strength and stm are always
2519 displayed in the message window.
2521 2010-02-07 16:43:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2522 Remove race condition in clock switching
2524 The move number is now incremented inside SwitchClock, when no timer
2525 interrupt is scheduled, so the interrupt cannot occur at the wrong side
2526 of the increment, and decrement the wrong clock.
2528 2010-02-07 11:53:03 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2529 Let second click on piece make only capture, with -oneClickMove
2531 Normally this would clear the highlighting of that piece.
2532 Required new field in DisambiguateClosure to count nr of captures.
2534 2010-02-07 11:18:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2535 Bugfix stale first-click
2537 When the opponent resigned after the user had cicked a from-square,
2538 clicking the from-square for the first move in the next game would
2539 produce an "illegal move" message, because it was considered a to-click!
2540 We now set fromX and fromY to invalid in GameEnds().
2541 Should we also reset them on mode changes?
2543 2010-02-07 11:08:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2544 Add promotions and e.p. to oneClickMove
2546 For e.p. the to-Square of the Pawn has to be clicked. Promotions are
2547 always to Queen when you click the to-square, but use the promotion
2548 pop-up when you click the from-square.
2550 2010-02-07 10:38:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2551 Fix error that compiler does not notice
2553 Boolean GLT_GetFromList did not return a value. But no error on Ubuntu!
2555 2010-02-06 18:55:38 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2556 new developer release
2559 2010-02-06 18:30:42 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2560 updated year in copyright info
2563 2010-02-05 22:27:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2566 Playing on ICS or against engine, clicking a square from or to which
2567 only a single move can be made causes the move to be done, when the new
2568 option -oneClickMove is set to true.
2570 2010-02-04 16:09:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2571 Use squares for computer seek ads
2573 Shape indication passed in sign bit of color (char) variable.
2575 2010-02-04 22:46:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2576 Use right mouse button to view seek ads
2578 Right down-click does the same as left down-click, right up-click
2579 simulates a left up-click off board (so it misses all dots).
2581 Use right-click miss to refresh Seek Graph
2583 The 'moving' parameter had to be made into an int for this, to indicate
2584 right clicks with code 2. Right press now already pushes the clicked ad
2585 to the back, so that the up-click will display an underlying one.
2587 Bugfix pushing back seek ads on right-click
2589 On a right button press the previous in stead of currently hit ad was
2590 receiving the penalty.
2592 Indicate seek-ad multiplicity
2594 If more than one seek ad is inside the capture range of the mouse
2595 pointer, an exclamation point is printed before the seek-ad text.
2597 Some fixes to make seek-ad suppression work in WinBoard
2599 In WinBoard the z-depth was immediately erased by redrawing the graph;
2600 the clearing of zlist had to be moved from PlotSeekAd() to AddAd()
2601 (where it really belongs). Also aging of z-depth is now suppressed on
2602 mere pointer motion.
2604 2010-02-04 22:45:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2607 The new option -autoRefresh sets FICS and ICC to report removal of seek
2608 ads, and then removes those from the Seek Graph. New seek ads are added
2609 to the graph, as soon as the ICS reports them.
2611 2010-02-04 22:42:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2612 Implement SeekGraph in XBoard
2614 For now only controlled by left mouse clicks on board. New options
2615 -seekGraph true|false and -sg to switch this feature on.
2617 Facilitate selection of coinciding seek ads
2619 Seek-ads that are viewed but not answered get a distance penalty on the
2620 up-click that makes their selection more difficult next time, so that
2621 the ad they covered gets a (better) change. The penalty ages away in the
2624 Slightly offset Seek-Graph dots of different color
2626 Dots of different color are now displaced horizontally be 3 pixels, to
2627 prevent them from completely covering each other. (Required the axis
2628 labels to be moved a little too, to not be covered by the 1-min ads.)
2630 Auto-show seek-ad texts in WinBoard
2632 Hovering the mouse above a Seek-Graph dot will make the text belonging
2633 to it appear in the message field without the need to press a button.
2634 Required SeekGraphClick() to be called from the WB mouse event handler,
2635 with an extra argument 'moving' to make the distinction with a real
2638 Show seek-ad text on mouse hovering (XBoard)
2640 The Eventproc is also set to trigger on PointerMotion, and this event
2641 then calls SeekGraphClick with motion=true to handle it.
2643 Put poetic name of wilds in seek-ad text
2645 Use XBoard variant names, except for 'loadable' and 'fischerandom'
2646 (becomes 'setup' and 'chess960'), but leave number (to distinguish wilds
2647 that transate to same XBoard variant).
2649 2010-02-05 20:36:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2650 Fix highlighting bug in XBoard
2652 The from-square was drawn before the to-square was erased, which led to
2653 a missing highlight line if they shared an edge or corner.
2655 2010-02-05 15:49:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2656 Shorten autoKibitz confirmation on FICS
2658 Strip off the "players)", but leave the separatng space.
2660 2010-02-05 14:39:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2661 Repair damage to -autoKibitz done by FICS atomic zippy claim
2663 The sending of -autoKibitz info was also moved back in that patch, but
2664 unfortunately to after clearing of the programStats info. Now the
2665 clearing has been moved also, to remain after it.
2667 2010-02-04 23:33:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2668 Send continuation lines to chat box they belong to
2670 The variable savingComment is used as a kludge to remember where the
2671 comment should go (i.e. which chatbox, or elsewhere), so that when a
2672 continuation line is matched, chatPartner (which was reset at EOL) can
2673 be restored to its original value. Also put space after handle of talker
2674 in channel Chat Windows
2676 2010-02-02 19:08:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2677 Fix u64 format for cygwin
2679 With a -mno-cygwin compile %llu and %lld are definitely not understood
2680 by scanf and printf, although they are by the compiler. In stead, %I64u
2681 seems to work. Put it in under control of a switch USE_I64, which is
2682 defined only in the gcc makefile when MINGW is used.
2684 2010-02-02 19:02:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2685 Remove stray dot from WinBoard makefiles
2687 There was a period suffixed to config.h in the wgamelist.o dependency.
2689 2010-02-01 14:50:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2690 Fix bug in display of logos
2692 The logo continued to be drawn after a boardSize change to a tinyLayout
2693 size, although there was no space reserved for it. Fixed by explicitly
2694 resetting logoHeight when no logo space is reserved in InitDrawingSizes().
2696 2010-01-19 20:15:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2697 Right-click refactoring: step III
2699 Let WinBoard call RightClick in back-end, and delete the duplicate code
2700 it had for this, after rescuing the front-end bits, and let the letter
2701 act depending on the result returned by RightClick.
2703 2010-01-19 19:07:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2704 Right-click refactoring: step II
2706 Migrate the Right-click routine to the back-end. Let it communicate back
2707 square coordinates through pointer arguments, to accomodate their
2708 different naming in XBoard and WinBoard. Template added in frontend.h.
2710 2010-01-19 17:55:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2711 Right-click refactoring, step I
2713 Divorce front-end part from back-end part of PieceMenuPopup in XBoard
2714 front-end, and forge the back-end part into a new routine RightClick.
2715 The right up-click in XBoard, which called unLoadPV() directly, now
2716 calls RightClick through PieceMenuPopUp().
2718 2010-02-04 23:09:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2719 Merge gamelistopt sources into gamelist source files
2721 The files xgamelistopt.c and gamelistopt.c are merged with xgamelist.c
2722 and gamelist.c, respectively. The WB front-end for the dialog already
2723 resided in winboard.c, so there was little need to move it to wgameist.c
2724 file. Makefiles adapted accordingly. Unsuitable key bindings were
2725 removed. The low-level front-end prototypes are now defined in in
2728 2010-01-29 21:47:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2729 Game-List options dialog for XBoard
2731 A dialog similar to that of WinBoard was cloned from the game-list
2732 window. The XBoard front-end is in a separate file xgamelistopt.c,
2733 which in fact implements most of the low-level front-end as back-end.
2735 2010-01-29 12:48:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2736 Refactoring of game-list-options dialog
2738 The back-end part is separated off, and moved to a file gamelistopt.c.
2739 Front-end for now stays in winboard.c. No prototypes in frontend.h yet.
2741 2010-01-26 19:28:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2742 Fix of ancient WB bug: test integer option values for validity
2744 Only a string of digits preceded by an optional sign is accepted now.
2745 Before, any string was accepted, and leaving out a value could lead to
2746 the next option being ignored (if it did not need a value) because it
2747 was considered the value for the previous one!
2749 2010-01-26 19:00:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2750 Fix bug in edit-position of holdings
2752 The holdings were effectivelly taken one too large, so that a promoted
2753 shogi Pawn moved to, or created in the holdings was not demoted to Pawn,
2754 but put in the dark (which you could see by the holding count if you did
2755 it twice). The overflow tests in these two cases now have been corrected.
2757 2010-01-25 13:54:40 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2758 Save fonts in XBoard settings file per boardSize
2760 Each -boardSize now can have its own font specified in the settings file
2761 (and thus by a command-line option, although it would in general not be
2762 very useful to specify a font for a size other than the selected). E.g.
2763 a prefix "size33:" to the font name will apply it only to -size 33.
2764 An unspecified-size font option (not normally in the settings file) will
2765 always prevail over a font option specific for the current size.
2766 A font of some size must have been used or specified in order to be
2769 2010-01-25 08:56:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2770 Fix width of filter field in XBoard GameList
2772 An empirical dependence of the width of this text edit on the square
2773 size now makes for an acceptable layout at any board size.
2775 2010-01-24 19:09:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2776 Use FICS atomic draw claim for sending move in zippy mode
2778 For this the relaying of the move had to be moved until after the
2779 adjudication, which again has to be done after MakeMove(), which is a
2780 bit dubious, as MakeMove might take significant time when animating.
2782 2010-01-24 18:51:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2783 Send FICS atomic claim to ICS if move creates draw after offer
2785 The FICS format "draw MOVE" is used to send the move to the ICS when
2786 the user enters a move that adjudicates as a claimable draw, and he
2787 offered a draw before the move. For the benefit of ICS that do not
2788 understand this format, the plain move is sent afterwards.
2790 2010-01-24 18:16:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2791 Also allow user to claim by offering draw before his move
2793 Use the existing userOfferedDraw variable to test for such offers in
2796 2010-01-24 17:29:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2797 Also adjudicate after user move
2799 Call Adjudicate() in FinishMove().
2801 2010-01-24 15:56:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2802 Refactoring of adjudication code
2804 Put all the rule-based (as opposed to score-based) adjudications in a
2805 separate routine, so they can also be called on user moves. This
2806 requires sending the drawing move to the opponent engine to be made
2807 conditional on existence of the latter. Execution of the code is no
2808 longer dependent on the condition TwoMachinesPlay, but actual game
2809 terminations are now all restricted by an alternative condition (no ICS
2812 2010-01-24 11:46:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2813 Use -keepAlive option to determine connection health
2815 When there has been no ICS response since the previous 'ping', assume we
2816 are disconnected and do a fatal-error exit. Also auto-start the ping
2817 process in InitBackend3().
2819 2010-01-23 23:00:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2820 Use arrow keys in XBoard GameList for entry selection
2822 Add translations for arrows and home/end, to call LoadSelectedProc with
2823 argument to indicate the step, and let the latter perform the action.
2825 2010-01-23 22:24:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2826 Allow <Enter> to apply filter in XB GameList filter edit
2828 Apply a translation to intercept the <Enter> key. Set focus back to the
2829 list display afterwards.
2831 2010-01-23 21:44:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2832 Accept <Enter> for changing chat partner
2834 A kludge stolen from Alessandro's GameList filter allowed to let the
2835 typing of <Enter> while updating the chat-partner field of the WinBoard
2836 chat windows to act as pressing the Change button. Gives focus to the
2837 input field of the window afterwards.
2839 2010-01-23 21:42:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2840 Move duplicat gamelist code to backend
2842 The filtering routines are moved from xgamelist.c and wgamelist.c to
2843 gamelist.c, and a prototype for them is placed in backend.h.
2845 2010-01-23 19:29:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2846 Port game-list filtering to XBoard
2848 Added a text edit and apply button to the XBoard game-list dialog, and
2849 only have it print those lines that match the filter. Translate index in
2850 list to index of game in file when a game is selected, and index in file
2851 to index in list when a line is highlighted. Duplicates some code
2852 between xgamelist.c and wgamelist.c, which should be moved to back-end.
2854 2010-01-21 19:24:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2855 Convert to DOS line endings
2857 For easier understanding of upcoming diffs of winboard.c
2859 2010-01-21 14:32:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2860 Refactoring of move-history code
2862 The WinBoard code in whistory.c was split in a front-end part (remaining
2863 in whistory.c) and a back-end part (now in history.c in the xboard
2864 directory). This to allow easy porting to other platforms.
2866 2010-01-20 12:48:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2867 Add fixed-time/move button in XBoard time-control dialog
2869 Put the TC-type buttons in a radio-group, and highlight the selected mode.
2871 2010-01-19 18:27:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2872 Fix bug in XBoard PV display
2874 The PV was unloaded on anything but a button release, in stead of the
2877 2010-01-23 11:04:11 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2878 fixed hardcoded location of config file for xboard
2880 the location should now follow sysconfdir during the configuration process.
2881 Also added some more output to the configure script.
2883 2010-01-18 12:18:32 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2884 new developer release
2887 2010-01-18 12:15:06 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2888 fixed Makefile.am to handle config file correctly
2891 2010-01-15 21:55:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2892 Change opening array -variant fairy
2894 We now use the position of "Chess with Different Armies", FIDE army vs.
2895 a fantasy army (inspired on the Color-bound Clobberers) as opening
2898 2010-01-13 19:08:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2901 Thai Chess, played by 2 million world-wide. Required pawn promotion to
2902 happen in a zone, and the Alfil to move as Shogi Silver, a new opening
2903 array, and unusual Pawn placement. Because of the latter, I consider it
2904 a setup position, so a FEN will always be sent to the engine.
2906 2010-01-17 14:17:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2907 Fix parsing of O-O and O-O-O after FEN pasting in FRC
2909 Because the initial rights were not set in the FEN reader, the
2910 initial rights of the previous game remained in force, so that the
2911 parser did not understand OO-castling (although it would allow KxR
2914 2010-01-15 14:40:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2915 Fix reading FEN castling rights for knightmate and twokings
2917 Scanning the back-rank for a King did not work in these variants,
2918 because either the Unicorn castles, or there might be two Kings.
2920 2010-01-13 11:42:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2921 Fix omission in castling refactoring for ICS received boards
2923 A default of -1 was still used, in stead of NoRights, when no Rook was
2924 found. In theory this could have had effect in a setup board 0 in FRC,
2925 when there were no Rooks on the back rank.
2927 2010-01-13 11:35:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2928 Fix TwoKings ICS castling-rights bug
2930 Scanning the rank (as is done because of FRC) assigned castling rights
2931 to the rightmost King. Even scanning the opposite direction would not
2932 work, as it is not always the eftmost King that can castle. So we now
2933 explicitly test for a King on e1/e8 in TwoKings and assign it rights,
2934 relying on the Rook rights received from the ICS to control castling.
2936 2009-11-18 19:12:25 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2937 fix double start of zippy engine after switch to gothic
2939 In ICS mode we now switch to the proper variant as soon as we receive
2940 the generic game-start message, to prevent a mismatch when the first
2941 board is received (which would trigger fetching of a move list).
2943 2010-01-11 16:44:40 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2944 Extensive bugfix of -autoKibitz
2946 Suppression of printing of diverted kibitz messages failed when they
2947 extended over more than one read. This could even lead to such
2948 messages being erroneously saved as comments, which then lead to
2949 crashes. The suppression mechanism now waits for a prompt, in stead of
2950 the end of buffer. This required the printing of any leftover in the
2951 buffer to be deferred until the next read completes it.
2952 The number of people kibitzed to is now printed.
2954 2010-01-11 16:30:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2955 Fix piece-to-char table -variant fairy
2957 The letters for Lance and Snake where swapped.
2959 2010-01-09 11:54:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2960 Make WinBoard makefiles use parser.c in XBoard directory
2963 2010-01-08 18:23:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2964 Docs update for new features
2967 2010-01-08 15:18:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2968 Fix new args parsing of -lowTimeWarningColor
2970 This did not occur in the XBoard color translation table yet.
2972 2010-01-08 14:16:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2973 Allow editing of holdings in EditPosition mode
2975 Dragging pieces to and from the holdings now consistently keep track of
2976 the home square of pieces and the piece counts, as does creation of
2977 pieces in the holdings through the piece menu.
2979 2010-01-08 13:59:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2980 Indicate squares a lifted piece can legally move to
2982 Under control of the new option -showTargetSquares when
2983 -highlightDragging and -testLegality are on, the squares a piece can
2984 move to are marked by fat dots in the highlightColor (non-captures) and
2985 premoveHighlightColor (captures), as soon as you grab it for dragging.
2986 In variants with mandatory capture, the capture target of other pieces
2987 is marked with the highlightColor (as non-captures are then not allowed).
2989 2010-01-08 12:35:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2990 Fix bug for incommensurate time odds
2992 After normalization (-timeOddsMode 1) the time odds factors can be
2993 non-integer, and thus must be stored as float.
2995 2010-01-08 11:41:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2996 Display PV right-clicked from EngineOutput window
2998 The clicked PV is selected and the memo gets focus, so that it is
2999 highlighted. This selection is restored in the proper place after
3000 insetrtion of a new line in the memo.
3002 2010-01-08 10:19:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3003 Display PV on right-clicking board
3006 2010-01-08 09:21:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3007 Bugfix legality null move in parsing with -testLegality off
3009 The pointers were compared, in stead of the values.
3010 Furthermore, instead of null moves, it rejected moves on the main diagonal when legality checking was off.
3012 Also exclude moves with empty squares and enemy pieces.
3014 2010-01-07 19:10:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3015 Newly lexed winboard/parser.c
3018 2010-01-07 19:05:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3019 Harmonize declarations of XBoard and WinBoard
3021 The engine-exit and settings patches make some stuff common to WinBoard
3022 and XBoard, which needed to be harmonized, and is moved to frontend.h.
3024 2010-01-07 13:07:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3025 Allow Ctrl-C copying from EngineOutput window text to clipboard
3028 2010-01-07 12:52:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3029 Allow popup-less (fatal) exit of engine after tellusererror
3032 2010-01-07 12:40:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3033 Improve layout of Engine #N Settings dialog
3035 An attempt is made to align the input fields of spins and text-edits
3037 2010-01-07 00:31:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3038 Let XBoard print version with argument --version or -v
3041 2010-01-07 00:25:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3042 Fix castling rule assignment in shuffle games
3044 The conversion to in-board storage for rights copied directly to boards[0] in steadof
3045 initialPosition, and was then overwritten when the latter was copied with uninitialized
3046 rights to boards[0]. This affected FRC and CRC, where rights are non-standard.
3048 2010-01-07 00:17:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3049 Implement castling in -variant caparandom
3051 CRC should be treated as FRC, but until now it never was. We now test for FRC_TYPE_CASTLING.
3053 2010-01-07 00:09:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3054 Fix default castling rights on reading incomplete FEN
3056 This was overlooked in the conversion to the in-board storage of rights.
3058 2010-01-07 00:03:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3059 Fix NoncompliantFEN defaults.
3061 This must be NULL to get compliant FENs, not "", which would suppress castling and e.p. fields.
3063 2010-01-06 23:54:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3064 Change format of -adapterCommand.
3066 first or f at the start of an option name are now automatically changed into second or s,
3067 rather than needing %% to be recognized. The values of -ec and -ed in the default
3068 -adapterCommand are now quoted (now XBoard understands quoting in the engine command line).
3070 2010-01-06 23:51:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3071 Make WinBoard defaults for -fd and -sd equal to "." rather than empty strings.
3074 2010-01-06 23:28:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3075 Delete old indirection settings-file code
3078 2010-01-06 21:45:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3079 Correct XBoard default debug file name
3082 2010-01-06 21:34:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3083 Suppress saving font settings.
3085 The fonts are size dependent, and might thus not be reusable in the next
3086 session. For now we therefore suppress the saving of them in the
3087 settings file, until we diversify the fonts per boardSize.
3089 2009-12-12 23:38:20 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3090 added missing sounds files to be able to compile on windows
3093 2009-12-09 17:29:37 -0700 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3094 Changes needed to compile master branch.
3097 2009-12-06 12:11:46 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3098 implements the eval-graph window for XBoard
3101 2009-12-06 11:58:34 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3102 improves the XBoard handling of the engine command line
3104 it now understands limited forms of quoting, so engine binaries with spaces in their file name can be handled.
3106 2009-12-06 11:56:40 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3107 A better and more flexible way of invoking Polyglot
3109 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.
3111 2009-12-06 11:34:50 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3112 remove trailing \r in xboard output
3114 there is an annoying carriage return (displayed as ^M) at the end of the PV in the engine-output window, not
3115 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.
3117 2009-11-29 11:56:32 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3118 double buffer size to prevent overflow
3120 This patch doubles the size of the ICS input buffer to 16KB, to prevent
3121 the suspected overflow with -keepLineBreaksICS false when using
3122 "inchannel 1" on FICS and over 500 people are tuned in.
3124 2009-11-28 13:33:52 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3125 fix problem with empty string in -firstNeedsNoncompliantFEN
3127 This fixes a bug in the use of the -firstNeedsNoncompliantFEN option with
3128 an empty string as argument. (Which led to truncation of the FEN.)
3130 2009-11-28 13:32:12 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3131 updates makefiles to include dependency on config.h
3133 adds the dependency of wbres.o on config.c introduced by having the VersionInfo in the resource
3135 2009-11-28 13:28:00 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3136 correctly apply some check boxes from the option menu
3138 Usng the check-boxes in the Option->Adjudications menu to indicate the
3139 engine reports absolute scores is now copied directly to the ChessProgramState,
3140 from where it is used, in stead of only to appData. This makes the change take
3141 effect immediately, in stead of after restarting.
3143 2009-11-28 13:27:43 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3144 score sign in analysis mode
3146 this does not alter any of the current behavior with compliant engines,
3147 but does extend the correction for non-compliant score reporting under
3148 control of the -first(second)ScoreIsAbs option to cases where the engine
3149 is analyzing or playing on an ICS.
3151 2009-11-24 21:09:30 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3152 fix for bug #28077: xboard needs to link against x11
3154 hopefully fixed automake to take care of this
3156 2009-11-23 20:37:20 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3157 Fix castling rights when copying FEN to clipboard (again)
3159 missed a spot last time
3161 2009-11-23 20:22:58 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3162 restoring windows (EngineOutput and MoveHistory) on startup
3164 restoring the open / closed status of the
3165 auxiliary windows (EngineOutput and MoveHistory) on startup
3166 in XBoard like they do in WinBoard, which makes sense now that
3167 we aso remember their coordinates between sessions.
3169 2009-11-23 20:21:14 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3170 fixed some outstanding pixmaps
3172 fixed transparency issues
3174 2009-11-23 20:17:25 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3175 use linux style options for config file and add a system config file for XBoard
3177 This patch makes XBoard write the options to its conf file in
3178 Linux style, "-option value" rather than Windows style "/option=value".
3180 The WinBoard option parsing code has always understood both formats
3181 (including any hybrids), but the format it preferred for writing might
3182 look quite strange to Linux users. I also attached a file to be installed
3183 as /etc/xboard/xboard.conf on "make install".
3185 2009-11-23 19:58:55 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3186 fix window positioning
3188 This patch adds stuff in the header files that allow the various front-end files
3189 to share information on which windows exist, are up, and how they are positioned.
3190 The EngineOutput, MoveHistory and GameList windows now all remember their
3191 position and size, even when they are closed when XBoard exits.
3193 2009-11-23 19:51:19 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3194 same argDescriptor parsing for Xboard and Winbaord
3196 This patch makes XBoard and WinBoard use the same argDescriptor
3197 list of options, and (largely) use the same code for parsing and saving them.
3198 This is acheived by moving this code to a new file args.h, and #including this
3199 in both winboard.c and xboard.c (so that tiny differences, e.g. in default
3200 values in the table, are decided by the context). XBoard has new menu items
3201 "Save Settings Now" and "Save Settings on Exit" in the "Option" menu.
3202 XBoard uses /etc/xboard/xboard.conf as default settings file.
3203 A new option, -saveSettingsFile, can specify where settings should be saved,
3204 without parsing the file. (So that it also works if the file does not yet exist.)
3206 2009-11-22 13:00:31 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3207 new developer release
3209 changed release name to <branch>-<date>
3211 2009-11-22 12:34:13 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3212 fix the irritating wandering off of the MoveHistory window in XBoard on opening/closing.
3215 2009-11-22 12:29:47 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3216 use xtell for talking to handles, but tell for talking into a channel.
3218 by changing the chatboxes to use xtell in stead of tell, we broke
3219 the possibility to use the chat-box for chatting into a channel (which is
3220 apparently not possible with xtell).
3222 2009-11-22 12:15:15 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3223 fix bug in bughouse drop menu
3225 This patch fixes the bughouse drop menu, which was broken by the
3226 new mouse driver, and could no longer drop white Pawns.
3228 2009-11-18 19:29:57 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3229 2nd step for moving option parsing from winboard to the backend
3231 This is the next step in option-setting refactoring: All options that are
3232 defined in XBoard are now included in the WinBoard ArgDescriptor list.
3233 The handling of sound option has been harmonized: the sound names
3234 now all initially go to the appData array, (as in XB) in stead of directly to the
3235 WB-specific variables, and LoadAllSounds now takes care of the copying.
3236 A new routine ExportSounds copies them back before saving settings
3237 (which, in XBoard, could be a no-op).
3239 The definition of defaults for the XB-only options has been moved to common.h.
3241 2009-11-18 19:24:35 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3242 1st step for moving option parsing from winboard to the backend
3244 This is a preparatory step in moving option parsing of WinBoard to the back-end.
3245 The table of command-line options now contains a fifth field, holding the compiled-in default.
3246 This obviates most of the front-end routine InitAppData, which now is replaced by a table-driven
3247 initialization routine SetDefaultsFromList(), which could be back-end.
3249 2009-11-18 12:33:39 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3250 refactoring evalgraph code
3252 This is the refactored EvalGraph code: the back-end part is separated off,
3253 and put in a file evalgraph.c, which in the future can also be used with XBoard.
3254 Only the WinBoard front-end code is left in the file wevalgraph.c. A new
3255 header file defines the variables and routines they share.
3257 2009-11-18 12:29:06 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3260 some file permissions where set up wrong
3261 (e.g. execute permissions for text files)
3263 2009-11-18 11:34:22 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3264 refactoring of engineoutput
3266 This refactoring patch separates the back-end part out of
3267 xengineoutput.c, and puts it in a separate file engineoutput.c.
3268 A new header engineoutput.h included by both defines the routines
3269 for cross calling. Similarly wengineo.c will be stripped from its
3270 back-end code, (and renamed to wengineoutput.c), so WinBoard and
3271 XBoard now both use engineoutput.c rather than maintaining duplicate
3272 code in their front-end part.
3274 I also let the back-end now call EngineOutputUpdate directly, rather then
3275 through a relay in the front-end, by renaming it to SetProgramStats
3276 (the former name of the relay in winboard.c / xboard.c).
3278 Moved some templates of functions in engineoutput.c from winboard.h
3281 2009-11-14 22:13:10 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3282 fixed build on openbsd
3284 added missing header file
3286 2009-11-14 22:06:58 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3287 improve thinking-output for mulit-variant
3289 Improve multi-variant support by sorting the Thinking-Output lines of the most recent depth by score in the Engine-Output window.
3291 2009-11-14 22:05:12 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3292 fix castling rights when copying FEN to clipboard
3294 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.
3296 2009-11-14 22:03:47 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3297 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.
3300 2009-11-06 18:53:19 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3301 fixed prototype for AppendComment
3304 2009-11-06 09:06:44 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3305 cleaned up some debug messages and typos
3308 2009-11-06 09:05:09 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3309 variation-support patch
3311 It allows you to Revert to the main line (or previous variation) when
3312 playing variations on an existing game in EditGame or Analyze mode.
3314 2009-11-06 08:48:09 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3315 fix for new way of saving castling and e.p. information
3317 I forgot to make some conversions to the new-style encoding of castling there
3318 (using the enum constant NoRights instead of -1 to indicate
3319 the absence of rights, which was the price of storing the
3320 rights in the board, which is an unsigned enum type.)
3322 I also was a bit worried about portability, because I casted the enum type ChessSquare
3323 to (int) before comparing it with (possibly negative) constants EP_NONE etc.
3324 Now on my system enum types are (unsigned int), and this works, but I could
3325 imagine there are systems where this would be an unsigned char. (Not sure
3326 if there are rules for this). So to be safe I cast ChessSquare to (signed char),
3327 which should always work to make small negative ints assigned to it read
3330 2009-11-06 08:44:59 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3331 removed files that should only be in the windboard directory
3334 2009-11-05 19:32:35 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3335 add Winboard source files into tar-ball
3337 forgot to add them when rewriting the Makefile.am
3339 2009-11-05 19:23:44 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3340 Integrate castling and e.p. rights into board array; bugfix for EditPosition
3342 A large-scale operation that I have been postponing since the very first 4.4.0:
3343 The castling and e.p. rights are now integrated into the board array, as
3344 boards[moveNr][CASTLING][i] replacing castlingRights[moveNr][i] and
3345 boards[moveNr][EP_STATUS] replacing epStatus[moveNr]
3346 These quantities are now automatically copied with the position by CopyBoards
3347 (allowing the removal of lots of dedicated copying code), and passed as
3348 function arguments with the position (so that the moves.c functions like
3349 TestLegality, MateTest, CoordsToAlgebraic, Disambiguate, GenLegal
3350 no longer need explicit e.p. and castling parameters.
3352 Also fixed a bug introduced by a recent previous fix: by adding fake castling
3353 rights to a position set up through the EditPosition menu, I destroyed the
3354 castling rights of a pasted FEN. Faking castling rights is now made conditional
3355 in EditPositionDone(), depending on the caller. (I had not realized it was also
3356 called after FEN pasting, to send the position to the engine.)
3358 2009-11-05 19:03:17 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3359 added missing library for build on OS X
3361 Xmu seems to be missing
3363 2009-11-04 22:57:30 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3364 Some code refactoring and cleanup; one small bug fix
3366 Some code refactoring, mainly to bring definitions of routines and variables
3367 shared between winboard.c and one of the auxiliary-windows files
3368 whistory.c, wevalgraph.c, wgamelist.c, wengineo.c somewere in a header file
3369 (winboard.h). Unfortunately this made winboard.h dependent on data types
3370 defined in frontend.h, so that the #include order had to be changed in many
3373 The operation revealed one potentially bad bug: engineOutputDialogUp was
3374 written as int in engineo.c, but declared as char in winboard.c.
3376 I also changed the storage mechanism of the the comment and tags window
3377 positions to use WindowPlacement structs rather than simple variables,
3378 so that in the future they can be docked, like the others.
3380 I also removed some remnants of the Analysis window.
3382 The wgamelist.h and wedittags.h header files contained only 3 lines, and
3383 I absorbed them in winboard.h, rather than creating other such nearly empty
3384 headers engineo.h, whistory.h and wevalgraph.h. This affects the make files.
3386 2009-11-03 18:26:06 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3387 let the clocks run in -searchTime mode
3390 2009-11-02 17:41:12 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3391 add fixed time per move to the WinBoard time-control menu dialog
3394 2009-10-31 10:42:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3395 updated version number to unstable
3398 2009-10-31 10:25:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3399 release of version 4.4.1
3402 2009-10-30 19:59:23 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3403 cleaned up ChangeLog and NEWS
3405 2009-10-30 20:02:40 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3406 use xtell instead of tell in wchat
3408 2009-10-28 20:35:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3409 prevent buffer overflow
3411 This is a buffer-size adjustments to prevent the JAWS version from
3412 crashing when it has to read out loud very long comments.
3414 2009-10-28 02:17:16 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
3415 Further copy/paste fixes
3417 We needed to implement the XA_TARGETS target in order for more
3418 sophisticated apps to really believe we put anything on the clipboard
3421 2009-10-27 23:57:25 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
3422 Make copy/paste position and game use clipboard, bug #27810
3424 Copy actually sets both the clipboard and the selection for
3425 convenience and compatibility with the old way of doing things.
3426 Paste pastes from the clipboard by default, but the new -pasteSelection
3427 option lets you get back the old behavior of pasting from the
3430 2009-10-27 15:44:28 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3431 switch focus to the board after loading a game
3433 2009-10-27 15:32:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3434 fix for bug #27826: fixed autoDisplayComment
3436 apparently the -autoDisplayComment option was not working,
3437 not even in WinBoard. This patch should fix it,both for WB and XB.
3438 (Unfortunately xboard.c and winboard.c were using a different name
3439 for the same front-end variable I needed, so I had to change one of them.)
3441 2009-10-27 12:24:56 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3442 fix for bug #27826: ported two options to xboard
3444 also updated the documentation
3446 2009-10-27 12:22:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3449 turns out the new mouse handler broke the JAWS patch, as I discarded
3450 the function IsPromotion. I adapted it to call HasPromotionChoice instead.
3451 Also fixed two arnings by removing a no-longer needed debug print.
3453 2009-10-27 12:03:02 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3454 reformated html to be correctly validated
3456 2009-10-27 10:33:42 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3457 quick fix for "White Mates" in parser.l
3459 2009-10-27 10:32:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3462 2009-10-26 20:45:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3463 changed stderr to debug output, since stderr is closed in winboard
3465 2009-10-26 20:42:24 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3466 removing empty lines from ICS play
3468 this patch causes removal of spurious prompts during ICS play
3469 also if the prompt is preceeded by a number of empty lines
3470 (as the board for the opponent move is on FICS).
3472 2009-10-26 20:40:00 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3473 another bug in VariantSwitch: an unitialized board was printed.
3475 Must have been there a long time, but this time it crashed WinBoard.
3477 2009-10-26 20:38:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3478 more work on variant switch
3480 the previous solution to the cosmetic problem of displaying a wrong shuffle
3481 in an ICS game that was observed from the very start unfortunately turned
3482 out to cause a real error in diplaying a stored game through the smoves
3483 command, for variants not using the FIDE setup as standard.
3485 This patch displays the position from before setting up the start position
3486 of the new variant, but does setup boards[0] to the initial position of that
3487 variant. (If this is a wrong shuffle, it is thus ot displayed, and a new board
3488 will immediately be sent from the ICS to correct the shuffle.)
3490 2009-10-26 20:34:04 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3491 force full redraw in winboard
3493 Full redraw is now always forced when highlightMovesWithArrow is on,
3494 rather than only when highlight info is available. (As in drop moves the
3495 latter is invalid, but we must still erase the arrow from the previous move.)
3497 2009-10-26 20:25:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3498 fix for bug #27790 and #277772. Suppressing the display of a wrong shuffle
3499 when observing shuffle games from the first move (#27790 bis),
3500 and the sounding of the FICS bell on crazyhouse captures (#27772 bis).
3502 2009-10-26 20:22:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3503 fixed bug related to unsigned char in convert.c
3505 I also fixed the unsigned-char bug in the convert.c for bitmaps that caused the
3506 129x129 XBoard bitmaps to be defective, and a bug that required fixup with sed
3507 afterwards (so I could use it to create a new m33s.bm)
3509 2009-10-25 23:37:48 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3510 unguarded debug printf. added the appropiate if statement
3512 2009-10-25 23:31:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3513 fix for two compiler warnings
3515 2009-10-25 23:29:43 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3516 fix for bug #27799: fix for nested-nested-nested variations
3518 2009-10-25 23:21:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3519 The book-probe code forgot to close the book file after opening it.
3521 fixed by adding an fclose at two points.
3523 2009-10-25 23:18:18 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3524 removed unused v54?.bm bitmaps from resource file
3526 it seems the v54?.bmp bitmaps were actually included in the WinBoard build
3527 (in the resource file), although they were never actually used. So I have
3528 removed their inclusion in the resource file now.
3530 2009-10-25 23:05:30 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3531 replaced defective bitmaps with copies from 4.2.7
3533 2009-10-25 23:02:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3534 removed bitmaps files that are not needed any more
3536 2009-10-25 22:58:34 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3539 2009-10-24 09:41:39 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
3540 Drop an obsolete script that was only used to update my personal web site
3542 2009-10-24 01:23:29 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
3543 Silence warnings when compiling 64-bit xboard
3545 Some harmless warnings were caused by 64-bit mode having 32-bit
3546 int but 64-bit long and pointer. Add casts (etc.) to silence them.
3547 This might require adding a definition of intptr_t (a signed int
3548 type that is the same width as a pointer) on old systems that don't
3551 2009-10-24 00:56:37 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
3552 Fix up man page some more
3554 Sigh, the project history was still partly in reverse chronological
3555 order and partly in forward order. Swapped the order of some
3556 sentences to help straighten it out. I don't really care about this,
3557 so other project members should feel free to do what they like here,
3558 but the messed-up order was bugging me.
3560 2009-10-24 00:46:20 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
3561 Fix some issues in the XBoard man page
3563 Correct places where the XBoard man page was calling XBoard
3564 "WinBoard". Change references to "WinBoard engines" and "WinBoard
3565 protocol" to "XBoard/WinBoard ...". Update bug reporting guidelines.
3566 Reorganize project history to something more like chronological order
3567 -- it had gotten pretty randomly ordered.
3569 2009-10-22 21:45:32 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3570 new pre-release version; updated version numbers
3572 2009-10-22 21:33:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3573 This patch adds <Enter> to the characters that cause an automatic
3574 switch to the ICS console when typed to the board window.
3576 2009-10-22 21:31:16 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3577 fix to the minor graphics issue contained some typos,
3578 as was remarked in the bugs reports
3580 2009-10-22 21:30:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3581 improved mouse handler
3583 The improved mouse handler still needed an extra call to DrawPosition to
3586 2009-10-22 21:28:38 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3587 NPS plays and pondering
3589 Clock updating did not work correctly in node-based time controls when the
3590 engine was pondering. (It was not really meant for use with pondering. Oh well...)
3591 This patch checks if the engine reporting the node count is indeed thinking
3592 (as opposed to pondering).
3594 2009-10-22 21:25:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3595 holdings update and regression fix
3597 The holdings-update patch was not yet satisfactory, because FICS seems to send
3598 holdings both before and after the board! And those received before did overwrite
3599 the holdings received after the previous board. I know tried to fix that in a kludgey
3600 way, by hiding a flag in the board that tells if the holdings have already been written
3601 by the ICS or not, and ignore new holdings when they are. (Except in bughouse,
3602 where holdings updates cannot be tied to a particular board and multiple updates
3603 between boards are normal. (I hope?).)
3605 I also undid a regression in my previous fix for the minor graphics problem,
3606 and solved it in a slightly different way to prevent flicker.
3608 2009-10-22 21:23:39 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3609 improved mouse handler
3611 I improved the mouse handler in a way which will preclude disappearence of pieces
3612 on off-board or ambiguous (in-between squares) drag & drop moves. (As was reported
3613 in the "premove bug?" thread. Also the command-line premove problem reported there
3614 is now fixed, by removing the prefixing.
3616 2009-10-22 21:18:05 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3617 fix for bug #8847: moving backward while examining on FICS not reported to engine
3619 I moved Daniel's code that backs up the engine when a bord with a
3620 lower number is received to a place where it is always done in zippy mode,
3621 rather than only when the engine is analyzing.
3623 Apart from taking back moves, there was also the case where the
3624 user moves forward by more than one move (usually immediately to
3625 end-of-game). In this case a new movelist is fetched from the ICS
3626 to recover the moves that were skipped. But this assumes that the
3627 engine is at the start of the game and feeds all these moves to the
3628 engine. So the engine had to be reset in this case to stay in sync.
3630 2009-10-22 21:16:56 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3631 better init for random number generator
3633 2009-10-21 23:01:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3634 fix for bug #27772: holdings not updated
3636 holdings lines from the ICS nor update the holdings
3637 of boards[forwardMostMove] in stead of boards[currentMove].
3639 2009-10-21 21:32:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3640 allowe parsing / disambiguation of SAN moves like Xe4 in certain situations
3642 This patch allows parsing / disambiguation of SAN moves like Xe4, if there
3643 is only one wild-card piece X on the board. Moves with wild-card pieces
3644 are now considered illegal if they leave the King in check by a piece of
3647 2009-10-20 19:09:46 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3648 fixed bug when switching to variantsuper
3650 2009-10-20 19:06:43 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3651 fix for bug #27715: 2 (minor) graphic issues
3653 I forced a total redraw when Reset is called from the ICS code in case a
3654 new game is encountered, in the hope it will make the reported
3655 (irreproducible) problem go away. As game switches are not frequent, I
3656 guess there is hardly any downside to this.
3658 2009-10-20 18:57:17 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3659 fix for bug #27667: PV line missing in analysis window, part 3
3661 "3. Wish for Engine state string (right to the icon):
3662 Can you add the actual search depth in analyzing mode? A change like "
3664 I also added the requested display of depth of the analysis move in the
3665 EngineOutput window. I guess a similar change could be made to wengineo.c
3666 (as this is in the code they share in common), but no one ever requested
3667 that in the 5 years since Alessandro wrote it. So for now I leave it alone.
3669 2009-10-20 18:52:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3670 fix for bug #27760: debug printf in backend.c and additional check for variant
3672 2009-10-19 23:17:46 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3673 fix for bug #10990: cmail does not seem to support .cmailgames or .cmailaliases
3675 this is correct, deleted the text out of the documentation that claims we support it
3677 2009-10-19 18:40:40 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3678 new alpha version; first one with new naming scheme
3680 2009-10-19 18:07:21 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3681 smarter analysis of the boards that XBoard receives from an ICS
3683 I added smarter analysis of the boards that XBoard receves from an ICS,
3684 based on board size and piece types in the position, to recognize cases
3685 where the board does not match the current variant, and switch to an
3686 appropriate variant.
3688 2009-10-19 18:04:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3689 fix for bug #27667: window should be reference to toplevel
3691 The remaining objections of #27667 should be fixed by bringing the
3692 EngineOutput window under control of the TOPLEVEL compile-time switch.
3694 2009-10-19 18:02:42 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3695 partly fix for bug #27715: scaling of menu bar
3697 the menu bar to the left edge of the window.
3699 2009-10-19 17:59:43 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3700 fixed bug reported in WB forum: second game of a match would
3701 not start when using the GUI book
3703 2009-10-19 17:57:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3704 fix for bug #27751: negative holding counts displayed
3706 I put code in the back-end to prevent holdings counts from
3707 becoming negative when a drop move is made from empty holdings.
3708 (This can happen when re-loading ICS bughouse games,
3709 as the smoves command fails to fill the holdings.)
3711 2009-10-18 20:54:53 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3712 Updated compiling instructions.
3714 2009-10-18 11:32:55 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3715 Changes to allow fonts with any charset (such as terminal)
3717 Affects winboard only.
3719 2009-10-16 23:02:41 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3720 Moved SIGWINCH signal so it can be used...
3722 I goofed putting this in StartChildProcess() originally.
3724 2009-10-16 22:54:12 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3725 Added internal wrapping ability.
3728 -wrapContinuationSequence "foo" (default: "\\ "
3729 -useInternalWrap (Winboard default: false, XBoard default: true)
3731 Note: -keepLineBreaksICS if set, prevents wrapping, usurping the
3732 useInternalWrap setting. The idea is if you want to keep ICS line
3733 breaks, then you don't want internal wrapping. Because of this,
3734 the new default for keepLineBreaksICS is now false for XBoard.
3736 2009-10-16 19:14:34 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3737 fixed segfaul in convert.c used to convert pixmaps
3739 2009-10-15 19:46:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3740 new mousehandler to correct for premove and promotion popup
3742 this is the new mouse handler for XBoard, which should fully implement
3743 premove, including promotion popup, and yet suppress the promotion popup
3744 on illegal moves that are not premoves. It is almost completely moved to
3745 the back-end now, so that WinBoard will be able to use it as well. I just
3746 must hook it up to winboard.c, in particular harmonize the call-backs of
3747 the mouse driver into the front-end for grabbing and releasing pieces for
3748 dragging, to make sure they have the same names and arguments.
3750 2009-10-15 19:32:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3751 updated black fairy pieces
3753 here is a set of black fairy pieces with opaque white details,
3754 so they have the same style as the orthodox XBoard pieces.
3756 2009-10-15 16:54:51 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3757 Adjustment to joining to work around server not always including space.
3759 This patch implements commit 98aa02bda540f17f1f50be00e494efafe439b004
3760 into the updated joining routine. This issue seems not to be server
3761 variance, but instead the server electing to omit the space between
3762 words when it occurs at exactly your width setting (-1 actually).
3764 This patch makes the joiner add back the space just like the referenced
3765 commit. Note: this is just a workaround to a server issue-- the joiner
3766 actually joins correctly before this patch.
3768 2009-10-15 07:18:42 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3769 Fixed joiner detection, allowing it to work with timeseal
3771 When timeseal's buffer fills in the middle of the continuation
3772 sequence, detection fails, and the lines aren't joined.
3774 As a result of this fix, measures intended to bypass joining are
3775 no longer needed, so I removed them. These utilize server vars
3776 when available to prevent splitting.
3778 2009-10-14 14:42:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3779 fixed engingeoutput routine
3781 removed outdated code regarding analysis window
3783 2009-10-14 14:39:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3784 moved bitmap to correct location
3786 was misplaced in a previous commit
3788 2009-10-14 14:26:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3789 fixed wrong number of arguments for EngineOutputPopUp
3791 2009-10-13 21:00:27 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3792 new bitmap converter (including fill option) and new pixmaps
3794 2009-10-13 20:52:40 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3795 forgot to add these two lines to the last commit
3797 2009-10-13 20:51:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3798 removed AnalysisPopUp. Use EngineOutputPopUp instead
3800 this was already in Winboard, copied it to xboard and removed unused code.
3802 2009-10-13 20:32:32 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3803 Proper board and holdings size when switching to variants
3804 gothic, capablanca, great and super within an ICS game.
3806 2009-10-13 20:25:13 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3807 cleaned up an old #ifdef in zippy
3809 2009-10-12 19:25:17 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3810 neglected this for the auto-width updating in xboard
3812 2009-10-12 19:19:59 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3813 Added server width adjustment based on client width changes
3815 2009-10-12 19:14:53 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3816 silence some compiler warnings
3818 2009-10-11 18:39:24 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3819 Maintainence to support all compilers.
3821 2009-10-11 17:07:27 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3822 Adjusted alternative joining method to obey keepLineBreaksICS
3824 2009-10-11 14:48:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3825 fix for bug #27668: e.p. field still not passed to engine
3827 PositionToFEN now takes the e.p. rights from epStatus[moveNr],
3828 rather than calculating it on the spot from moveList[moveNr-1]
3829 (which failed on the first move).
3831 2009-10-11 14:46:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3832 fix for bug #27666: naming of variants
3834 Variant names "misc/xxx" are recognized as "normal", rather than "xxx"
3835 to not get confused by the board "misc shogi" run by FICS.
3837 2009-10-11 10:14:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3838 changed enable menus
3840 Put the "Open Chat Window", "Machine Both", and "Engine #N Settings" menu items
3841 in the appropriate enable lists for graying them out wen not applicable.
3843 2009-10-11 10:13:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3844 Added a command-line option -keepLineBreaksICS true/false to control line joining.
3846 2009-10-10 19:30:23 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3847 Added code to prevent unnecessary width updates.
3849 2009-10-10 18:34:37 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3850 Turned off wrap when possible on ICS servers.
3852 Turning off line wrap prevents splitting lines up using the
3853 continuation sequence "\\ ". This is desirable when using
3854 timeseal because timeseal's buffer is sometimes too small,
3855 causing it to break lines itself. These lines can't be joined.
3857 2009-10-10 16:30:56 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3858 vsnprintf() must be _vsnprintf() for MSVC
3860 2009-10-10 16:16:45 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3861 added code to handle initial width update
3863 2009-10-10 14:21:12 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3864 Added width updates to ICS client on font and window size changes
3866 What still needs to be done is placing an update call after login
3867 to initialize with the correct width. I didn't see where to put
3870 2009-10-10 14:19:30 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3871 added ics_printf() and ics_update_width() and utility functions
3873 2009-10-10 11:15:50 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3874 Cleaned up ConsoleWndProc (not complete, see below)
3876 Using static variables this way is not appropriate. I only addressed
3877 hInput and hText in this commit though. But imagine the WndProc being
3878 used by multiple windows instead of just one, and you can see why
3879 using static variables in this way is wrong.
3881 2009-10-10 11:12:10 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3882 Restructured URL code so it fits better with how winboard is set up.
3884 2009-10-10 08:57:39 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3885 cleanup: removed "#if 1" statements
3887 2009-10-10 08:55:21 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3888 cleanup: removed "#if 0" from source
3890 a bit of cleanup of the source code
3892 2009-10-10 08:34:10 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3893 fix joining of lines split by ICS
3895 This patch fixes the joining of lines that were split by an ICS, so that adding
3896 a space at the break point is done only when there was not a space already.
3897 (Some ICS leave a space at the end of the broken line, others do not.)
3898 An extra space would interefere with board12 in Gothic Chess, which is so
3899 long that the ICS breaks it, and the WB parser could not handle a double
3900 space within the board.
3902 2009-10-10 08:27:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3903 fix for bug #27642: Clock jumps strangely in engine mode
3905 This moves SwitchClocks() back to after incrementing forwardMostMove,
3906 so that it knows again who has the move (which was broken by the "bare" patch),
3907 and will take the appropriate tick length.
3909 2009-10-10 08:26:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3910 removed test for premove
3912 this was added while looking for the premove bug, but is not needed
3914 2009-10-10 02:03:45 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3915 added URL detection and provided hotlinks in the ICS client
3917 2009-10-10 02:00:52 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3918 reverted winboard.c beofre URL commit to correct whitespace conversion
3920 2009-10-09 02:14:22 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3921 Added URL detection into the console text window for ICS.
3923 2009-10-08 23:51:06 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3924 added some comments and formated code
3926 2009-10-08 23:46:52 -0700 Chris Rorvick <>:
3927 fix printing out help message (list of command line options) (tiny change)
3929 The postfix increment always resulted in an attempt to print out an
3930 option on the right side regardless of one actually existing. Use
3931 prefix increment to prevent a crash when printing an odd number of
3934 2009-10-09 00:04:51 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3935 Updated navigation accelerators, fixing ICS problems.
3937 Recent changes to the navigation accelerators were in the wrong
3938 accelerator table. Since the goal was to correct non-JAWS versions
3939 back to 4.2.7 behavior, I updated it to how 4.2.7 did it, but still
3940 retained the #ifdef JAWS conditional compilation.
3942 On an ICS, the navigation keys took control away from the ics
3943 client to navigate the game. The update requires the ALT key to
3944 be pressed, but it works identical to 4.2.7, not causing an
3945 unexpected focus back to the board window when you're just editing
3948 2009-10-08 20:33:39 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3949 fixed premove recapture problem;promotion popup appearing on
3950 obviously illegal moves; promotions in Superchess and Great Shatranj
3952 1) the premove recapture problem
3953 2) the promotion popup appearing on obviously illegal moves (the 1. e2a8
3955 3) promotions in Superchess and Great Shatranj, where the piece can now be
3956 selected from the holdings
3958 2009-10-08 20:28:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3959 added forceIllegalMove to xboard
3961 2009-10-05 21:01:32 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3962 bugfix: segfault when invalid option argument was given (bug #27427)
3964 when given a wrong argument to an option (e.g. -tc 0) xboard aborts
3965 before setting up the window, but tried to write a message to the
3966 messageWidget which doesn't exist at that point.
3968 2009-10-05 20:05:00 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3969 small improvement for JAWS version
3971 This is a patch to make JAWS read out any comments when /autoDiplaycomment=true.
3972 As focus does not stay on the Comment window, the comment was not spoken otherwise.
3974 2009-10-05 20:02:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3975 updated to winboard internationalization scripts
3977 Also a slight improvement of the internationalization scripting,
3978 to prevent it from crashing on messages containing a slash.
3980 2009-10-05 20:01:53 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3981 new forceIllegalMoves option
3983 The -forceIllegalMoves option uses setboard or edit to force a position
3984 when an engine refuses the move leading to it by an "Illegal Move" message.
3985 Especially for engines using the edit command this was a bit tricky,
3986 because of the a2a3 kludge to avoid using the white and black commands.
3988 2009-10-05 01:01:54 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3989 removed _winmajor if not defined so that VC 2008 can compile the project
3991 The oldDialog variable should just be set to 0 in all cases now, and
3992 as such, legacy code supporting the old dialog ought to be removed.
3993 The test for _winmajor is against < 4, which is always false at present,
3994 causing oldDialog to be 0 in every conceviable circumstance.
3996 2009-10-04 09:58:29 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3997 getting ready for 4.4.1 release
3999 2009-10-02 20:47:01 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4000 Simplified future version changes.
4002 Added a numeric version to config.h that is now used in winboard.rc
4003 instead of being hard-coded there. Just be sure to preserve the
4004 proper format (4 comma-separated 16 bit integers) or else it won't
4007 2009-10-02 16:56:01 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4008 updated version number to 4.4.1.pre
4010 should have done this straight after the last release, but forgot...
4012 2009-10-02 16:48:03 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4013 worked on premove bug
4015 I made an attempt to make premove unsensitive to a race condition,
4016 just in case the premove problem was caused by that (which seems unlikely,
4017 but in any case I added some debug printout to test this).
4019 2009-10-02 16:41:12 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4020 fixed loading of saved games via command line
4022 the variables forwardMostMove and backwardMostMove where set to zero
4025 2009-10-02 16:39:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4026 small fixes for the JAWS version
4028 * I moved saying 'check' by the JAWS version to where castling also benefits from it.
4029 * I made sure the check symbols are also recognized on promotion moves
4030 * In the non-JAWS version, define the plain arrows as shortcut keys for the button bar
4032 2009-10-01 16:50:28 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4033 Fixed bug dereferencing garbage, causing crash.
4035 Commit fa8be4a3fc5d81e9ec1f6c218fcf55c95d34fd10 included code to free the
4036 resultDetails of the gameInfo structure. That exact code exists a few lines
4037 above where it was added. None of these free() calls finish by setting the
4038 member to NULL afterword, therefore repeated attempts to test/free() the
4039 members result in an attempt to free() memory winboard no longer owns, and
4042 link to problematic commit: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/xboard.git/commit/?id=fa8be4a3fc5d81e9ec1f6c218fcf55c95d34fd10
4044 2009-10-01 16:49:57 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4045 Added wchat.c to the project files we maintain.
4047 2009-10-01 15:52:50 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4048 Previous fix for VC++/strcasecmp() was wrong-- use StrCaseCmp().
4050 2009-10-01 14:49:58 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4051 Add resource ID for new Mute menu item.
4053 I know this was probably done by HG, and simply left out of
4054 his commit. Anyway, the project can be built now after this change.
4056 2009-10-01 14:49:09 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4057 Use of strcasecmp() broke Visual C++.
4059 2009-09-30 20:47:00 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4060 wrong default value for engineDebugOutput
4062 the new default is now 1
4064 2009-09-29 22:55:41 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4065 updated cmail.in to adapt the CVS->git change
4067 don't reference $Revision:$ anymore.
4068 Instead use reference xboard-version via autoconf.
4070 2009-09-29 22:04:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4071 bugfix for protocol extensions: egtbpath -> egtpath
4073 A new and very bad bug was discovered in the implementation of
4074 the protocol extensions: XBoard sends a command "egtbpath" to the
4075 engine in stead of "egtpath" from the protocol specs.
4076 After discussion on WB forum it was decided that egtpath was better
4077 than the egtbpath I originally had proposed, and I changed it accordingly,
4078 but I had not realized that this string occurred TWICE in backend.c,
4079 depending on if matched the -defaultPathEGTB of -egtFormats option.
4080 I only changed the first occurence.
4082 2009-09-27 12:27:44 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4083 fix for edit-position "moves" being sent by XBoard to the engine
4085 2009-09-27 12:25:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4086 Engine did not start playing when out of GUI book on second move with white
4088 2009-09-27 12:24:30 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4089 Opening Engine #1 Settings crashed XBoard when there were no
4090 text-edit options in the dialog (to which to set keyboard focus)
4093 2009-09-27 12:18:35 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4094 added a "Mute All Sounds" item in the WinBoard Options menu, on Eric's request
4096 2009-09-27 12:15:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4097 Updated the RTF docs for the chat windows, engine-settings dialog,
4098 /keepAlive option and new game-list tag
4100 2009-09-27 12:14:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4101 Made the beep sounds for JAWS board navigation configurable through
4102 command-line options
4104 2009-09-27 12:11:49 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4105 Prepared a system to internationalize the WinBoard menus
4107 2009-09-27 12:10:38 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4108 added the result comment to the game-list tags when the game list is
4109 exported to the clipboard
4111 2009-09-27 12:05:32 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4112 rewrote wevalgraph for better frontend/backend separation
4114 I have finished re-writing the eval-graph code to have some
4115 front-end / backe-end separation, something I had already started on my
4116 holiday in Norway (when I had no internet :-) ).
4117 The new code now appears to work exactly like the old code,
4118 and I guess it could be ported to gtk comparatively easily.
4120 2009-09-27 12:00:51 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4121 fix for keepalive and chat window
4123 I made a fix to the keepAlive option so it does not send the date command
4124 to the ICS after every move. This required changing ScheduleDelayedEvent()
4125 so that it does not execute the event if a new identical one gets scheduled.
4126 I also added the option to XBoard. Affects xboard.c (DOS!) and winboard.c
4128 (This also cures the regression of the winboard.c copyright patch)
4130 I extended the chatbox patch to also listen to channel tells, and divert
4131 them to a chatbox for that channel number. Affects
4132 backend.c and wchat.c
4134 That should make those patches fully operational. No docs for either of them
4137 2009-09-27 10:36:23 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4138 fixed parse bug for pgn files
4140 fixed the existing bug that the time-control tag was displayed as "?"
4141 in the game list; turns out it was never parsed on reading PGN files
4143 2009-09-27 10:35:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4144 allow the result comment as a display item in the game list
4146 2009-09-27 10:35:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4147 fixed the HAVE_LIBXPM-dependent compile errors
4149 2009-09-27 10:24:47 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4150 added a chat window to keep track of multiple conversations
4152 The chat-window patch affects:
4153 winboard.c, backend.c, winboard.rc, resource.h, backend.h, and adds
4154 the file winboard/wchat.c, which also affects makefile.gcc and makefile.ms.
4156 In addition I added a new option -keepAlive, which affects
4157 common.h (in addition to winboard.c and backend.c).
4159 As I had to modify backend.h, I also defined the -reset option type there,
4160 which we are going to add later. This required some changes
4161 to suppress warnings in wsettings.c.
4163 2009-09-27 10:22:16 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4164 more files for git to ignore
4166 most of these are generated by make distcheck
4168 2009-09-08 09:33:53 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4169 another bug fix found by Stanislav Brabec
4171 returned -1 in some case although the variable was a char...
4172 changed to signed char
4174 2009-09-20 23:13:13 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4175 Swapped 'tell' and 'message' parsing order for colorization.
4176 Sometimes messages are relayed as tells and should be colorized as tells.
4178 2009-09-08 09:10:34 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4179 added some more files to be distributed via make dist
4181 as suggested by Stanislav Brabec
4183 2009-09-08 09:01:07 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4184 fixed some implicit declarations reported by Stanislav Brabec
4186 2009-09-07 22:04:39 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4187 fixed a few more small bugs reported by Stanislav Brabec
4189 - A function uses a 'return;' statement, but has actually a value to
4190 return, like an integer ('return 42;') or similar: xboard voidreturn
4191 xengineoutput.c:766, 782
4193 - Program returns random data in a function at xengineoutput.c:602
4195 - With a new toolchain, AM_LDFLAGS cannot contain libraries. Linker
4196 ignores them. Fix is attached.
4198 - ToDo: Convenient name in most projects is TODO (autotools package it
4201 2009-09-06 19:11:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4202 reverted .texi file and fixed Makefile.am
4204 the problem was actually not in the texi-file, but the Makefile.am.
4205 Reverted changes in the .texi and fixed it (hopefully) correctly now.
4207 2009-09-06 18:23:01 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4208 get "make distcheck" to work
4210 needed to add all *.h files to Makefile.am and also the bitmaps that
4211 are needed and some other files. Also had modified copyright.texi.
4213 2009-09-05 09:54:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4214 changed to version 4.4.0
4216 2009-09-05 09:44:21 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4217 updated AUTHORS, README and ChangeLog files for release
4219 2009-09-05 08:52:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4222 2009-09-04 22:39:45 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4223 set castling rights after setting up a position
4225 I was going through old WB forum posts, and I encountered a
4226 bug report for a bug that I never fixed: The castling rights should
4227 be properly set (actually: cleared) after setting up a position
4228 in Edit Position mode (as opposed to pasting a FEN).
4230 2009-09-03 23:11:18 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4231 removed install files from master
4233 they now live in their own branch
4235 2009-09-03 22:30:18 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4236 updated polyglot protocol
4238 I added a new option type "-reset" to the protocol for the new option feature.
4239 4.4.0 does not implement it yet, but Michel wants it for future Polyglots,
4240 and I think it is best to update the protocol in one big swoop.
4241 So I want to already include it in the specs now. (engine-intf.html)
4242 I made xboard's response to an unknown option type compliant
4243 with the new protocol specs.
4245 2009-09-03 22:28:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4248 2009-09-03 20:47:13 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4249 Updated project files for DevCpp and Visual Studio to add wsettings.c
4251 2009-09-03 20:46:33 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4252 Added newline at end of file to silence warning.
4254 2009-08-31 20:29:49 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4255 workaround for error message for missing pieces used in variants
4256 and initstring bugfix: error messages showed for non-existing pieces
4257 showed up for old user supplied pixmaps.
4258 Loading a pixmap of the king for the missing pieces now.
4260 Another bad bug surfaced: the -initString argument does not work in any
4261 XBoard version! (Including 4.2.7b) The escape sequences for linefeed in
4262 the string are not understood: -initString "new\nrandom\n" actually sends
4263 the \ and n to the engine (which then does not recognize the line as a
4266 So I also added a patch to expand escape sequences in the InitString and
4267 ComputerString command-line options.
4269 2009-08-31 20:27:24 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4270 updated installe script
4272 I re-organized the doc files in the install, so they now all go in the
4273 WinBoard\doc folder (and none in the root). I so included the COPYING
4274 and COPYRIGHT files there. This required some updates of the links in
4275 some html files, and of the menu link to README.html in the install script.
4276 I also fixed an error with the current directory
4277 in the menu short-cuts of some engines (which started in the fonts folder,
4278 and could not find the opening book there...).
4280 2009-08-31 20:25:17 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4281 updated documentation
4283 2009-08-31 20:20:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4284 updated installer script
4286 2009-08-31 19:51:48 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4287 new help files for windows
4289 2009-08-25 20:41:29 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4292 2009-08-25 20:36:53 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4293 undid some previous changes
4295 some files got mixed up
4297 2009-08-25 20:32:22 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4298 fixed small bug in wsetting
4300 2009-08-25 20:29:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4301 trigger a focus switch to ICS input field when typing
4303 old behavior was that "." or "," triggered this,
4304 now every printable character except 1-9 will trigger the focus switch
4306 2009-08-25 20:26:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4307 bug in backend.c when receiving lines from ICS
4309 A space was appended to every character received from an ICS
4310 in stead of just at line breaks.
4312 2009-08-24 23:47:48 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4313 fixed warning messages from compiler
4315 2009-08-23 14:24:38 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4318 this seems to fix it. Bug reported by Louis Zulli who also did the testing.
4320 2009-08-23 11:54:28 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4321 OK, this is the beefed up version of the Polyglot info-string kludge,
4324 2009-08-23 10:22:48 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4325 added missing X_LIBS references to Makefile.am
4327 2009-08-22 23:33:44 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4328 made the install script and executable
4330 2009-08-22 23:19:07 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4331 changed beta1 to beta2
4333 2009-08-22 23:14:11 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4334 fixed enable zippy in configure script and added some checks for OS X
4336 make tried to compile zippy even when --disable-zippy was given.
4337 Also fixed a bug in xboard.c where #ifdef instead of #if was used
4338 to test for ZIPPY (it's either 0 or 1, so we need #if). Also added
4339 some special checks for OS X, not sure if these will do it, but it's a start;)
4341 2009-08-22 19:09:54 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4342 added configure summary to configure output, also cleaned up configure.ac a bit
4344 used AS_HELP_STRING where possible
4346 2009-08-22 18:10:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4347 added check for malloc.h
4349 this should fix a build error on OS X
4351 2009-08-22 17:47:44 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4352 A small cosmetic change in the size of buttons
4353 inside a groupbox of the Engine-Setup dialog.
4355 2009-08-22 17:32:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4356 make xboard usable with UCI engines
4358 I made a small patch in xoptions.c (where the corresponding Engine Settings
4359 dialog was for XBoard), to make it at least usable for UCI engines: I now
4360 divide the options over upto 4 columns, if there are too many to fit into
4361 a single column. This seems to work. Still looks very ugly, but it is
4364 2009-08-22 17:30:05 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4365 fix premove for winboard
4367 This might fix the illusive premove problem. In 4.2.7 the code was not properly
4368 indented, and this led to an unbalanced braces error that I then fixed the
4369 wrong way. Click-click premoves did only work after clicking the toSquare twice.
4370 It might be that they actually did work after clicking it once,
4371 but that the highlights were not displayed (although set)
4372 for lack of a display refresh.
4374 2009-08-22 17:28:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4375 fixed bug for double saved games
4377 This patch should solve the problem with doubly saved games when XBoard is
4378 closed. I calculate a cecksum of each saved game now (including move comments),
4379 and suppress saving if the checksum is not changed.
4381 2009-08-22 17:25:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4382 fixed xengineoutput.c, to keep the duplicated code identical to that of wengineo.c.
4384 2009-08-22 17:24:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4385 updated xboard.texi: added warning that pixmaps are not build for all variants
4387 2009-08-22 17:19:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4388 added a dialog for engine-specific option settings
4390 2009-08-22 17:09:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4391 updated some documentation
4393 2009-08-22 17:07:10 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4394 fixed several bugs in the backend and added some more polyglot support
4396 * I added recognition for the new UCI3 option types that are recognized in the WB
4397 option features, to make sure this version is compatible with future Polyglots.
4398 Also fixed a bug that failed to strip an asterisk prefix from the first
4401 * I fixed the ICS-time-in-PGN bug.
4403 * I fixed a bug which caused a space to be missing when long lines broken up by
4406 2009-08-22 17:02:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4407 better polyglot support for engine ouput
4409 I fixed the algorithm for clearing the Engine Output window to work better with
4410 the latest Polyglot, whight outputs UCI "info strings" amongst the thinking
4413 2009-08-22 16:23:32 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4414 Beginnings of installer for 4.4.0. HGM asked me to forward the nsi file,
4415 but it seemed best to just add the installer tree to git even though
4416 it's not finished. You must install NSIS then FontName-0.7.exe
4417 (included in installer folder) then run build.bat in the same directory.
4419 2009-08-05 22:18:29 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4420 patch backend.c to make the -noGUI option also work in ICS mode.
4422 2009-08-01 13:09:49 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4423 temporary fix for pre-select
4425 As a temporary kludge I replaced looking into the holdings for the piece type
4426 by figuring out which piece would belong on the clicked holdings square.
4427 This is a non-trivial process, as it depends on which pieces participate
4428 in a certain variant.
4430 2009-07-30 00:19:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4431 changed click-click moves
4433 I got complaints about the way XBoard 4.4.0 handles click-click moves,
4434 in particular changing the selected piece after selecting King
4435 (for which I suppressed interference with FRC castling in a rather brutal way).
4436 People tell me it is very annoying that clicks sometimes don't work to select a piece.
4437 WinBoard uses refined logic in the back-end to handle this, but the XBoard
4438 front-end is not interfaced with that yet.
4439 (This would require a major rewrite of the mouse handler.)
4440 This temporary patch suppresses this behavior in all variants that do not support
4441 Fischer castling, and even there only exhibit it for Rook-after-King selection
4442 (which will be interpreted as an attempt to enter a castling move as K x own R).
4444 2009-07-26 08:43:35 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4445 option -adjudicateDrawMoves is not included in the XBoard list.
4447 added it to the option list
4449 2009-07-21 20:23:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4450 converted files from dos to unix format
4452 run dos2unix over a bunch of files
4454 2009-07-16 07:43:38 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4455 Stripped out unused VersionInfo
4457 2009-07-15 23:16:19 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4458 changed version to 4.4.0.beta1
4460 2009-07-15 23:12:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4461 updated INSTALL file to add ./autogen.sh
4463 2009-07-15 22:44:05 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4464 higher number of engine options possible now
4466 I upped the number of options per engine from
4467 50 to 100, and the average number of characters per option from 10 to 20.
4469 2009-07-15 12:30:37 -0600 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4472 2009-07-14 23:41:36 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4473 Added version information to resources.
4475 2009-07-14 23:40:50 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4476 Added Jaws targets to IDE projects.
4478 2009-07-14 23:39:12 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4479 Final makefile adjustments and compiling instructions.
4481 2009-07-13 22:35:17 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4482 Cleaned up garbage left behind from my makefile update.
4484 2009-07-13 22:26:56 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4485 Updated cmdline makefiles to be able to produce JAWS binaries.
4487 This breaks support for MSVC 4.x. It may still be possible to
4488 use that compiler if you obtain the latest SDK from Microsoft.
4489 MSVC 6.0 still works, but I had to change the target windows
4490 version to 0x500 which causes warnings about building beta
4491 applications. This is all due to the use of MENUBARINFO data
4492 type in the jaws binary. You can reduce the WINVER to 0x0400
4493 safely if you are not building a JAWS binary, and MSVC 4.x
4496 2009-07-13 22:26:10 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4497 Removed dependency on jfwapi.h
4499 Allows anyone to compile a jaws compatible binary.
4501 2009-07-13 22:23:31 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4502 Fixed duplicate resource in winboard.rc
4504 PLEASE remember to pull before commiting. This is the 2nd
4505 time I've fixed this. It's a waste of time to keep fixing
4508 2009-07-13 19:36:58 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4509 resolved conflict between Xt and Xaw libraries
4511 seems like we don't need to link against Xt.
4513 2009-07-13 19:33:57 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4514 help-menu was not un-grayed in the JAWS version, when it played with engines
4516 2009-07-13 19:29:53 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4517 integrated jaws into winboard
4519 I integrated the JAWS patch now into WinBoard in such a way that the
4520 JAWS and standard version can use the same resource file. This new
4521 winboard.c contains the improved dialog layot of the JAWS version,
4522 but none of the menus and JAWS-specific acclerator keys. The latter
4523 are now generated at run time by code in jaw.s. As a result jaws.h
4524 could be cancelled, as there the JAWS-specific defines are no
4525 longer needed outside jaws.c (now the .rc does not use them), and
4526 is incorporated in it.
4528 2009-07-12 15:37:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4529 fixed problem in autoconf using Xaw3d
4531 rewrote the section for Xaw3d in the autoconf file
4533 2009-07-12 15:29:28 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4534 Added Jaws support to GCC makefile
4536 2009-07-12 15:28:20 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4537 added help support: MSVC IDE and DevCpp IDE project files
4539 2009-07-12 15:26:49 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4540 Removed obsolete makefiles and support files.
4542 2009-07-12 12:33:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4543 updated AUTHORS with the help of git. use
4545 git log --pretty=oneline --name-only --author=AUTHORNAME v4.2.7..HEAD |sort |uniq
4547 a bit of hand editing and a quick emacs macro later and you have a nice
4548 comma seperated list of all files changes by one author between two commits.
4550 2009-07-12 12:31:47 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4551 updated Changelog using git log --no-merges --pretty="* %ai: %s%n %b" HEAD v4.2.7
4553 2009-07-12 11:34:28 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4554 cleaned up some more copyright notices
4556 2009-07-12 11:22:30 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4557 updated copyright to reflect A. Scotte as copyright holder
4559 need to mention him, since the paperwork won't be finished before the next release
4561 2009-07-12 10:56:29 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4562 updated patchlevel to "k"
4564 2009-07-12 10:53:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4565 fixed autoconf problem with VERSION/PATCHLEVEL variables
4567 xboard used it's own version of PRODUCT, VERSION and PATCHLEVEL variables.
4568 Switched to PACKAGE_STRING provided by autoconf
4570 2009-07-12 10:29:46 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4571 cleaned up old CVS left overs
4573 removed $Id tags from all files
4575 2009-07-12 10:10:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4576 converted xhistory via dos2unix
4578 2009-07-12 10:09:24 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4579 fixed crash in history window
4581 someone discovered that opening the move-history window in XBoard leads to
4582 an immediate crash. Turns out that renaming the menu item broke it! (The
4583 name of the item was apprently used elsewhere in the code to access it,
4584 for putting a check mark there.)
4586 2009-07-12 10:04:30 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4587 fix for Animation of castling moves in Chess960
4589 Animation of castling moves in Chess960 turned out to sometimes make the
4590 king disappear from the display. For the time being I patched this in
4591 xboard.c to suppress animation of FRC castling moves altogether. As FRC
4592 castlings internally are represented as KxR, the to-square does not make
4593 sense anyway, which made the animation look very weird even when it led
4594 not to a king disappearance act. And the Rook move of a castling is never
4597 2009-07-11 22:44:53 -0600 Eric Mullins <eric@hiarcs.(none)>:
4598 Update GCC makefile to remove .obj targets.
4600 Dunno how they got in there, but they should be .o
4602 2009-07-11 22:42:41 -0600 Eric Mullins <eric@hiarcs.(none)>:
4603 Update makefile dependencies on help.c and help.h.
4605 2009-07-11 22:36:59 -0600 Eric Mullins <eric@hiarcs.(none)>:
4606 Allow compiling with MSVC6.0 and 4.1
4608 Move prototypes into help.h, after making sure that DWORD_PTR is
4609 defined. Include help.h from winboard.c and help.c so both files
4610 benefit from the definition.
4612 2009-07-11 18:26:16 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4613 lists these accelerator keys in the menus for JAWS
4615 2009-07-11 18:24:19 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4618 This patch allows the use of Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V for Copy Game
4619 and Paste even in I C S mode when the board has focus.
4621 2009-07-11 18:22:17 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4622 better handling of pasting a game without PGN tags
4624 patch in wclipbrd.h to make it smarter to decide between pasting
4625 a game or a position so it can handle games without PGN tags.
4626 If it doesn't parse as a FEN it is assumed to be a game.
4628 2009-07-11 18:20:56 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4629 fixed parser error for knight move
4631 The parser had a strange quirk: it recognized bd2 as a valid Knight move
4632 (Nb1-d2) while this SAN format should be reserved for Pawn moves only.
4634 2009-07-11 18:19:30 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4635 fixed a few warnings in connection with the help patch (now warning free)
4637 2009-07-11 18:13:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4638 some major re-assignment of accelerator keys in the JAWS
4640 2009-07-11 16:54:53 -0600 Eric Mullins <eric@hiarcs.(none)>:
4643 uptracked winboard.ini
4645 * Cleanup: moved "Some definitions required..." from winboard.c to config.h,
4646 and combined some definitions from borland w/ MS.
4648 * Changed internal HtmlHelp return type and 4th argument to facilitate various
4649 compilers. These changes, while not strictly adhering to HtmlHelp() conventions,
4650 won't impact anything since the function modified is internal only.
4652 * Modified HtmlHelp return values to integer to silence warnings.
4653 * Added help.c to the project in makefile.gcc & makefile.ms.
4654 * Fixed duplicate resource in winboard.rc.
4656 2009-07-09 22:08:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4657 added JAWS support; help files for Vista; bugfixes for winboard.c
4660 * help files should now work under Vista (the user has to have either
4661 a program to view old windows help files or to view html-files installed)
4662 * I fixed the tabbing between all windows that were added according to Tim's sugestions.
4663 * I added typing in of a move number in the move type-in dialog as a shortcut
4664 to going to that position by use of the < and > buttons. Mainly intended to
4665 ease life for the blind, but I think it can be generally useful.
4666 (Although the move-history dialog provides that functionality too,
4667 this is quicker if you don't happen to have it open.)
4668 * I added typing of a FEN in the move type-in dialog in Edit Position mode.
4669 (Which could not be used without mouse at all, and is defective
4670 in crazyhouse even with mouse, as there was no way to populate holdings.)
4672 2009-07-09 22:03:00 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4673 some bugfixes: ICS error handling
4675 * play a different sound for takebacks in ICS mode
4676 * pop up error messages for illegal moves for typed-in moves
4678 2009-07-09 21:50:41 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4679 removed no longer needed debug message
4681 2009-07-09 21:48:23 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4682 fixed compile error from a previous change
4684 2009-07-09 21:44:54 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4685 user selectable font in game list
4687 This makes the game list use the same (user selectable) font
4688 as the the move-history window.
4690 2009-06-30 21:27:34 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4691 fixed typos in xboard.texi documentation.
4693 2009-06-30 21:16:59 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4696 2009-06-27 17:06:26 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4697 changed font in engine output window
4699 The engine-output window now uses the same font as the move-history window
4700 (which was selectable in the "Options -> Fonts..." menu, while the other
4703 2009-06-27 17:03:19 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4704 fixed some characters in xboard.texi
4706 It seems that copying manual sections from the RTF to th texi file did
4707 somehow mess up the double-quote characters, and changed them into some
4708 strange (unicode?) symbols.
4710 2009-06-27 16:56:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4711 two shogi related bugfixes
4713 I discovered a bug in the move generator for the Shogi Dragon King. I
4714 guess it went unnoticed so far because this is a promoted version of the
4715 Rook, which hardly occurs in games. (moves.c)
4717 There was also a problem with the piecesfix I sent you before; Shogi
4718 chosen as initial variant did use wrong piece symbols. (I had tested this
4719 on gothic, but there it happened to work for a different reason, unique to
4720 gothic.) This affects xboard.c.
4722 2009-06-27 16:54:04 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4725 2009-06-27 16:51:02 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4726 adds bitmaps for shogi promotions, and selects the bitmaps or
4727 pixmaps for the more rarely used piece types on a per-variant basis.
4729 2009-06-27 16:44:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4730 adds new piece types in the promotion dialog and edit-position piece menu
4732 2009-06-27 16:13:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4733 updated bitmaps files: files for fairy pieces where missing,
4734 others had names that didn't work with autoloading.
4736 2009-06-27 16:06:35 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4737 fixed a bug concerning bitmaps
4739 2009-06-27 15:53:45 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4740 give a default directory for bitmaps files (tiny change)
4742 this is also one of the debian patches, should be rewritten to use
4743 the correct install directory. No Author was given.
4745 2009-06-27 15:47:52 -0700 Brian May <>:
4746 verbose_error_message_about_recognized_options (tiny change from Debian patches)
4748 2009-06-27 15:45:14 -0700 Matt Zimmerman <>:
4749 add a visual low time warning (tiny change from Debian patches)
4751 2009-06-24 23:31:52 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4752 dos 2 unix conversion of backend.c
4754 2009-06-24 23:30:07 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4755 exchanged some sprintf with snprintf found in a patch for the debian system,
4756 extended it a bit to other sprintf's original patch included only 11 lines
4757 by Florian Ernst <florian@debian.org>
4759 2009-06-24 23:07:23 -0700 Mark Ioli <chessknight>:
4760 enabled a patch for default settings in winboard
4762 2009-06-24 22:53:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4763 updated copyright notice
4766 2009-06-24 22:52:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4767 patches a bug in chosing the initial board size on a virgin startup
4768 I introduced recently
4770 2009-06-24 22:49:33 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4771 I put in testing for the winning condition in 3checks
4773 on a check it just goes through the entire game to subject
4774 every position on a check test, to see if there were two more.
4776 2009-06-24 22:47:01 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4777 updated copyright notice in docs
4779 2009-06-24 22:41:40 -0700 Florian Ernst <florian@debian.org>:
4780 added small patch from debian (tiny change)
4782 according to the debian patch tracker, this patch is by
4783 Florian Ernst <florian@debian.org>.
4784 It fixes whitespace issues in filename called from cmail.
4786 2009-06-24 22:33:13 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4787 converted dos2unix format for xboard.texi
4789 2009-06-24 22:31:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4790 deleted two more files that don't need to be in git
4792 these files can be generated by autogen.sh
4794 2009-06-21 12:10:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4795 major overhaul of the -stickyWindows feature
4797 I did a major overhaul of the -stickyWindows feature.
4798 The game-list and ICS-interaction windows are now also sticky.
4799 I also added a form of stickiness when the main window is resized;
4800 edges of auxiliary windows sticking to the right or bottom side of
4801 the main window stay attached when the window resizes
4802 (due to nr of board squares or their size). The way the window
4803 coordinates are saved in the .ini file is now relative to the
4804 main window, and some dummy options are added to be able to
4805 recognize right- and bottom-edge sticking, and reconstruct that
4806 when WB starts up with another board size. Also added are
4807 volatile options to ensure there will be space for auxiliary windows
4808 above and left of the main window.
4810 2009-06-21 12:07:01 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4811 fixed long-algebraic form of drops
4813 The WB parser turned out not to understand the long-algebraic form
4814 of drops send by an ICS. (like B/@@-e4), so even with
4815 legality testing off I now use the SAN move for drops.
4817 2009-06-18 18:35:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4818 Refined stalemate adjudication in Suicide, some cleanup
4820 Refined stalemate adjudication in Suicide, which seems to be not always won
4821 for the stalemated side, but for the side with the smallest number of pieces.
4822 Cleaned up the adjudication code in the process. (backend.c moves.c, moves.h)
4823 Also includes a tiny change in the -autoKibitz format, as requested on
4826 2009-06-18 18:32:57 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4827 Enhancement of the way -autoLogo decides which logos to display
4829 2009-06-16 00:06:59 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4830 bugfix and enhancement in autoKibitz mode
4832 changed the format of the autoKibitz: score/depth in stead of depth/score,
4833 as in PGN. I also supress the ICS time for the move now in the PGN
4834 if extended info is available. When enhancing the functionality of
4835 the autoKibitz command (using the opponent engine kibitz for the saved PGN)
4836 I discovered that the xengineoutput.c in our tree was obsolete,
4837 and contained a routine of which the arguments were no longer compatble
4838 with the call from backend.c, and caused segfaulting. I copied in
4839 the corresponding routine in wengineo.c, which was compatible. That the
4840 compiler did not flag this is a sign of badly organized code, I suppose...
4842 The enhancement itself affected backend.c.
4844 2009-06-16 00:04:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4845 modified clock layout
4847 I altered the display of the clocks in the presence of engine logos; I used to
4848 stack them, but some inquiry on Talkchess sowed that people disliked the
4849 stacking. So now I display them next to each other again, but as 2-line-high
4850 fields to make room for te logos.
4852 2009-06-15 23:59:32 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4853 new zippy option zippyShortGame
4855 On request of Mike Adams I added a new zippy option, -zippyShortGame,
4856 to make life more difficult for abusers of abort and disconnect for cheating.
4858 2009-06-15 23:56:40 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4859 fixed some bugs in the animation of atomic captures
4861 2009-06-13 15:27:26 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4864 I had overlooked one place from which the FEN writer
4865 (of whicf I changed the argument types), which made WB crash
4866 if you copied a FEN (or PGN that cotained FEN) to the clipboard.
4867 I must have overlooked a warning during compile, or some depedency
4868 is not correct in the makefile. Anyway, wclipboard.c had to be changed.
4869 I also moved adjudication of some losing conditions to before tetsing
4870 for stalemate, (e.g. in atomic, if your king get destroyd you lose,
4871 even if you have no moves after that because it was your only piece.).
4872 this affects backend.c.
4873 I had used the same bits in the rule-modifier flags for indicating
4874 mandatory capture as was already used for indicating FRC-style castling.
4875 This led to frequent illegal move calls in FRC... (moves.h)
4877 2009-06-13 10:45:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4878 cleaned up HTML in FAQ.html -- still need to work on content
4880 2009-06-13 09:36:26 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4881 added option for work-around for some FRC engines in regards to FRCFENs
4883 It suddenly occurred to me that I had promised on CCC to include an option
4884 to provide a work-around for the problem that some FRC engines do not
4885 understand FRC FENs (and thus do not play at all under WinBoard,
4886 as FRC always has to begin with sending the initial position).
4887 So I added the options -firstNeedsNoncompliantFEN, -secondNeedsNoncompliantFEN.
4888 This affects winboard.c and xboard.c, (for defining the option),
4889 common.h, backend.h, backend.c, (for implementing it),
4890 xboard.texi and winboard.rtf (decribing it).
4891 This option provides users with a means to always force the FEN castling field
4892 to KQkq (but can be used for many other work-arounds as well).
4894 2009-06-13 09:30:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4895 fixed bug with random calls
4897 There also seemed to be a bug with the shuffling of opening positions;
4898 I had changed the declaration of the position number from
4899 long long int to u64 to comply with MSVC, but this suppressed shuffling
4900 completely. I now changed it to int. I recently noted a problem with true
4901 randomizing anyway: this was based on srand(time()), but time() apparently
4902 did not change fast enough, so that starting several games in rapid succession
4903 (because the book line contained a 3-fold repetition) produced identical games.
4904 So I now seed the random once and for all during startup, based on the msec of
4905 the time mark, and removed the other calls to srand().
4907 2009-06-13 09:26:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4908 changed name for fairymax program in xboard.h
4910 2009-06-13 09:25:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4911 removed my name from copyright message in help->about menu
4913 2009-06-13 09:22:02 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4914 fixed -stickyWindows option
4916 I figured out why -stickyWindows was not working in XP and Vista
4917 (while it always worked under Win2K), and I think I found a fix for
4918 it that works under all Windows versions. (I tried XP and Win2K.)
4920 2009-06-13 09:20:38 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4921 Updated docs for Engine-Settings menu
4923 2009-06-13 09:19:05 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4924 Awareness of winning conditions for atomic and giveaway variants; two bugfixes
4926 fixed bug in claim verification
4927 Bugfix on initial position of Great Shatranj
4929 2009-06-13 09:16:47 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4930 Legality testing (mandatory capture) in giveaway variants
4932 2009-06-13 09:16:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4933 don't ignore winboard/parser.c
4935 2009-06-13 09:12:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4936 Added new variant Twilight Chess
4938 2009-06-13 09:08:57 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4939 some renaming and restructuring of WB menu items, to conform more to XBoard
4941 2009-06-13 09:07:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4942 Fixed bug in atomic patch that interfered with non-atomic variants
4944 2009-06-10 21:46:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4945 fixed different use of engine option compared to Polyglot
4947 it turns out the new Polyglot uses a sightly different version
4948 of the GUI->engine option command than the one I proposed
4949 (and implemented in XBoard; Michel sneaked in an '=' sign
4950 between the NAME and VALUE of the option, to allow for
4951 more unambiguous parsing. I guess in principle this is a good idea,
4952 so I adapted XBoard to Polyglot rather than the other way around.
4953 The result is that there are canges in xboard.c, and the documentation.
4954 I noticed that I unjustly had internationalized the option strings
4955 to be send to the engine in xoptions.c; this was of course nonsense,
4956 as this was WB protocol. So I undid that too.
4958 2009-06-10 21:37:47 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4959 add the already supported variants 3check and great (=Great Shatranj)
4960 to the New Variant... menu.
4962 2009-06-10 21:32:22 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4963 animate explosions in variant atomic (if animate moves is on).
4965 2009-06-10 21:30:19 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4966 fixed castling bug in variant twokings.
4968 2009-06-10 21:22:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4969 fixed forteitary wins for special game variations
4971 feature that corrects forfeitary wins (e.g. on time)
4972 of a bare King to draws of course breaks proper operation
4973 in losers, suicide and giveaway
4975 2009-06-09 21:02:51 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4976 automatically test ini file extension for files from commandline option @filename
4978 The winboard.c is a patch that automatically tries indirection files on the
4979 command line (@filename type arguments) also with an extension .ini if the name itself
4980 did not match any existing file and contained no period. This saves the user typing the
4981 .ini all the time (which I started to find pretty annoying while working on the installer
4984 2009-06-08 15:23:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4985 added gamelisttag option to xboard
4987 also updated documentation.
4989 2009-06-08 15:20:00 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4990 updated RTF file for winboard
4992 2009-06-06 09:12:48 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4993 fixed syntax error in texi file
4995 2009-06-06 08:57:52 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4996 updated to patchlevel "j"
4998 2009-06-06 09:00:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4999 fixed adjudicating probelm in Shantranj
5001 Refrain from adjudicating a draw based on insufficient mating material
5002 (except bare King vs bare King) in Shatranj (where in this case you can
5003 still win by baring the opponent's King).
5005 2009-06-06 08:55:17 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5006 updated documentation and FAQ
5008 2009-06-04 22:52:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5009 source clean up. Fix compiler warning, removed unused variables, etc.
5011 2009-06-04 20:43:29 -0700 Eric Mullins <emwine at earthlink.net>:
5012 adding support for different windows compiler
5014 Eric kindly provided us with some makefiles for different windows
5015 compiler and also fixed some issues that came up while using those compilers.
5017 2009-06-04 18:27:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5018 cleanup: got rid of a lot of files that are not needed for a new release
5020 lots of documentation was available in several places,
5021 old unused source files and not used graphics file were floating around
5022 in the tree. This should clean up most of it. No need to keep these files
5023 around, especially since we are using version control.
5025 2009-05-29 18:56:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5026 Added the Action-menu items that allow the user to adjudicate
5027 ongoing games in Two-Machines mode. This was an already existing
5028 backend function from Winboard_x; I only had to create a menu item for it
5029 to be called. Due to an oversight I had forgotten to do that so far.
5030 (Logically, I should have done it in the 4.3.5 release,
5031 where I updated the XBoard menus to conform to the WinBoard menus.)
5033 I tested them, and they seem to work. (As expected.)
5035 2009-05-28 22:23:00 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5036 updated patchlevel to "i"
5038 2009-05-28 22:19:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5039 small change to mousewheel support; two changes in window behaviour
5041 * Visible effects during resizing suppressed, bug in chosing new size fixed.
5042 * No longer reserves left and top margins next to main window on first popup.
5043 * built in some hysteresis into mousewheel support, ignorng the first event in any new
5044 direction to suppress effects from accidential mouse movement.
5046 2009-05-28 22:11:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5047 corrected 'animate dragging'
5049 I finally figured out how the 'animate dragging' works in XBoard,
5050 so that I could add code to do the unstacking of multiple pieces
5051 in the holdings, rather than always leaving an empty square while
5052 you drag them. (And then suddenly re-growing the remaining pieces
5053 as you make the drop.) It does not look as fancy as in WinBoard
5054 yet, because the counts still only decrease when you release the
5055 piece, rather than when you lift it. But this is not nearly as
5056 disturbing as leaving empty holdings (if only temporarily) when
5057 you still have pieces there.
5059 2009-05-28 22:06:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5060 Added comand-line options -debugFile (as synonym for -nameOfDebugFile,
5061 as WinBoard also has these synonyms), and -engineDebugOutput
5062 (wich already existed in the backend).
5064 2009-05-28 21:57:53 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5065 updated documentation for new release
5067 2009-05-28 21:55:51 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5068 added Xiangqi perpetual-chase detection
5070 2009-05-28 00:06:53 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5071 Updated all files to GPL version 3.
5073 2009-05-28 00:03:32 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5074 converted two files from dos to unix format
5076 2009-05-27 23:12:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5077 updated INSTALL, NEWS and other files for new release
5079 cleaned up a bit and updated some information in the text files.
5081 2009-05-07 21:48:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5082 winboard/config.h shouldn't be in .gitignore, only ./config.h
5084 2009-05-07 21:47:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5085 bumped patchlevel to 0g
5087 2009-05-07 21:46:02 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5088 corrected path in makefile
5090 2009-05-07 21:45:48 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5093 2009-05-07 21:45:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5094 added firstOptions, secondOptions, noGUI, firstXBook, secondXBook
5096 2009-05-07 21:44:03 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5097 handle promotion case for Shogi
5099 2009-05-07 21:43:34 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5100 add note about RESULT command for GUI programmers
5102 2009-05-07 21:42:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5103 small changes to book.c
5105 added code for different board sizes
5106 added some debuginfo
5107 handle promotion of pieces
5109 2009-05-05 23:07:18 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5110 added a .gitignore file
5112 2009-05-03 12:41:06 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5113 wrong line ending for Unix... ran dos2unix on both files
5115 2009-05-02 13:51:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5116 fixed texinfo files, added windows help file, removed config.h from git
5118 texinfo.in is not needed anymore, since it only provided a
5119 version string, but this can be created automatically using autotools
5121 deleted config.h from version control, since it is automatically created.
5122 added winboard.hlp file (not sure if needed)
5124 2009-04-26 23:34:34 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5125 updated autoconf init file
5127 * renamed autoconf init file from configure.in to configure.ac
5128 * added bug-report email address to ac_init
5129 * replaced ac_output(...) with ac_config_files, ac_config_commands and ac_output
5131 2009-04-26 14:49:03 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5132 parser.c is generated by lex, so it shouldn't be tracked
5133 and also parcer.c shouldn't be in Makefile.am
5135 2009-04-26 14:44:51 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5136 added book.c to Makefile.am
5138 2009-04-26 13:49:15 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5139 use autoheader to create config.h.in
5141 no need to track this in git anymore
5143 2009-04-26 11:13:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5144 fixed autoheader warings, remove depreciated acconfig.h
5146 2009-04-26 10:30:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5149 2009-05-02 10:55:39 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5150 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.16
5152 2009-05-02 10:50:10 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5153 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.15
5155 2009-05-02 10:38:39 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5156 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.14
5158 2009-05-02 10:13:41 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5159 HGM fixed cygwin compile for winboard
5161 2009-04-24 16:11:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5162 cross compilier working
5164 2009-04-19 10:00:52 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5165 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.13
5167 2009-04-19 09:52:47 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5168 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.12
5170 2009-04-19 09:48:59 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5171 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.8
5173 2009-04-19 09:44:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5174 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.7
5176 2009-04-19 09:39:19 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5177 changes by H.G. Muller; version 4.3.4
5179 2009-04-19 09:34:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5180 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.2
5182 2009-04-19 10:26:24 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5183 changes from H.G. Muller
5185 2009-04-16 23:06:13 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5186 cleaned up the directory a bit. Removed winboard-dm-beta,
5187 merged the two Changelogs together
5189 2009-04-16 14:12:48 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
5190 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20060129
5192 2009-04-16 14:09:33 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
5193 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20060112
5195 2009-04-16 14:04:02 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
5196 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20051231
5198 2009-04-16 13:59:12 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
5199 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20051129
5201 2009-04-16 13:53:41 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
5202 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20050322
5204 2009-04-10 04:18:59 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5205 translated a handfull of strings and set the codeset to UTF-8
5206 for the translations.
5208 2009-03-18 03:20:50 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5209 Translation: added German po file (roughly 50% translated)
5211 2009-03-01 04:23:54 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5212 fixed bug #22853: changed all .Xdefaults to .Xresources in xboard.texi
5214 2009-03-01 02:43:43 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5215 fixed bug #25672, patch #6182 by adding DESTDIR support to Makefile.in
5217 2009-03-01 02:33:26 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5218 fixed a warning message in the configure script
5220 2009-02-28 22:58:57 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5221 fixed parser.l. Should fix bug #22812
5223 2009-02-28 22:58:14 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5224 fixed parser.l. Should fix bug #22812
5226 2009-02-28 22:55:30 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5227 added myself to the AUTHOR file
5229 2007-06-15 04:26:57 +0000 Mark Loli <chessknight>:
5230 Initial check-in of NSIS Winboard installer files.
5232 * 06/12/2005: bugfix some more possible buffer overflows.
5234 * 06/27/2004: added simple icsEngineAnalyze for xboard
5236 * 06/26/2004: added icsEngineAnalyze for winboard: Analyze observe games
5237 with a chessprogram on a Internet Chess Server (ICS)
5239 * 02/12/2004: Bugfix ICS interaction console crashed while chess
5240 engine starting and user type in some stuff. We wait now to finish
5243 * 02/11/2004: Winboard: Added color lines for the ics interaction
5244 console if zippy used
5246 * 02/09/2004: Added mousewheel support for winboard. Play moves
5247 backward and forward with the mousewheel.
5249 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.7 -- Fri Nov 28 13:36:00 PST 2003 -- Tim Mann
5251 * 11/26/2003: In WinBoard, setting the -debug flag now logs ICS output
5252 to WinBoard.debug too. (This isn't needed in xboard because ICS
5253 output already goes to stdout, so it's easy to capture along with the
5254 debug output on stderr.) This was issue #280 in the ToDo file.
5256 * 11/23/2003: Cleaned up some minor problems in cygwin.mak. Thanks to
5257 Hans Werner Strube for the problem report.
5259 * 11/23/2003: Updated the default list of chess servers in
5260 winboard/defaults.h. Deleted two that appear to be dead and added a
5261 new one that is active.
5263 * 11/19/2003: Swapped icon_white.bm and icon_black.bm in XBoard.
5264 Hopefully this will get them the right way around by default on more X
5265 window managers. I wish I understood this better.
5267 * 11/18/2003: Implemented a simple 32-bit random number generator for
5268 WinBoard, replacing the Windows rand(), which ranges only up to
5269 0x7fff. Formerly on Windows, only zippy.lines sayings that started in
5270 the first 32767 bytes of the file could ever be used. This was issue
5271 #505 from the ToDo file.
5273 * 11/16/2003: The xboard man page and info files are now built from a
5274 common set of texinfo source files, and the xboard man page now covers
5275 cmail as well. Formerly, ever since the texinfo file was first
5276 contributed to the project, it was separate from the man page and the
5277 two files had to be updated in parallel, making for a maintenance
5278 nightmare. To make combining the files possible, I took the Perl
5279 script "texi2man" from the GNU Units project and added support for a
5280 larger subset of the texinfo markup language. I then carefully
5281 compared the old man page and old texinfo file to make sure the latest
5282 and clearest words survived into the new combined texinfo file. It
5283 would be great to merge in WinBoard's help file too, but that's a
5284 larger project. It would have to be heavily conditionalized to
5285 deal with differences in features between XBoard and WinBoard.
5287 * 11/15/2003: Cleaned up and applied a small patch from Daniel
5288 Mehrmann, to stop overly long PVs in thinking output from causing a
5289 buffer overflow crash in backend.c.
5291 * 11/5/2003: When a chess engine sends a "telluser" command (including
5292 the cases where "tellall" or "tellopponent" acts like telluser), the
5293 information now goes into a nonmodel popup that is automatically
5294 dismissed when the user clicks anywhere on the board. This fix is
5295 more significant on WinBoard, where formerly you got a fully modal
5296 dialog that had to be dismissed by clicking on OK before anything else
5297 could happen. The bug was issue #406 in the ToDo file.
5299 * 11/1/2003: Removed email addresses from this file to reduce spam
5300 load, as it gets linked to from the Web.
5302 * 11/1/2003: Updated READ_ME and winboard/READ_ME.txt.
5304 * Modified xboard and winboard makefiles to be able to build the
5305 project in the new combined directory structure.
5307 * Applied a small security fix to pxboard, from Martin Maeok.
5309 * Fixed a bug in the game list dialog. The change in 4.2.6 to opening
5310 games in text mode (meant to avoid getting extra \r's into comments)
5311 caused a new bug in determining seek offsets when parsing a game file
5312 to form the game list. Also, the change was incomplete; on some code
5313 paths games were still being opened in binary mode. Thanks to Lenik
5314 Terenin for reporting the offset bug. I've now gone back to always
5315 using binary mode when reading game files, and I've fixed the comment
5316 bug by adding code to remove \r's from parsed comments explicitly. I
5317 still use text mode for writing game files so that games written by
5318 WinBoard will have Windows-style line endings.
5320 * Fix for minor bug in WinBoard installer. If you chose a non-default
5321 destination directory, the default directory was still used for a
5322 couple of unimportant things, namely setting the App Paths registry
5323 keys (unused by WinBoard) and trying to copy the existing WinBoard.ini
5324 file to WinBoard.old. I inherited this bug from the InstallShield 5
5325 sample template. Thanks to "l.d." for noticing the incorrect keys.
5327 * Patch from Chris Priest: when two engines are being run through rsh,
5328 avoid reusing the same stderr port for both. I'm not sure why this
5329 should be needed, but it's harmless, at least.
5331 * Bugfix: The kludge to deal with old engines that give an error
5332 message because they don't know the "st" command was too sloppy; it
5333 could hit on an "st" substring anywhere in an error message. GNU
5334 Chess 4 is the only engine I know of where the kludge was needed, so I
5335 changed the kludge to match a longer, more GNU-specific string.
5337 * Changed the WinBoard self-extracting installer to choose a unique
5338 temporary subdirectory name within the Windows temp directory instead
5339 of always putting wb-setup directly in temp. Besides being better
5340 practice, this avoids the need to deltree wb-setup first, which
5341 occasionally alarms someone who thinks that deltree is only used by
5342 trojans to delete all your files. (Yes, I'm serious.)
5344 * Fixed a bug where FICS-style "wild/0" strings were not parsed as the
5345 proper wild type. The "/" was not being skipped.
5347 * Fixed a WinBoard bug where temporary files created by game
5348 copy/paste were being created in the root directory of the current
5349 drive instead of the TMP directory and were not always deleted on exit.
5351 * Fixed a small bug in winboard.c's ErrorDialog() function. Thanks to
5352 "Ron" (no last name given). The bug might have caused a problem when
5353 pressing OK or Cancel in an error dialog when more than one error
5354 dialog was being displayed, but I'm not really sure.
5356 * Removed a hack that worked around a bug in very old versions of
5357 Crafty, where it would sometimes reply "illegal move" to a "."
5358 command. The hack kept us from recognizing real illegal move messages
5359 in analyze mode from engines that don't respond to the "." command.
5360 Thanks to Fabien Letouzey for the report.
5362 * Fixed a bug in the xboard version of GetDelayedEvent. It would
5363 return the most recently scheduled event even if it had already fired.
5364 This caused at least one visible error: in -ics -xreuse mode, starting
5365 the engine again and seeing another "feature done=1" would re-run the
5366 initialization code in InitBackEnd3, including the code that opens the
5367 connection to ICS. The WinBoard version didn't have this bug. Thanks
5368 to Bob Hyatt for the bug report.
5370 * The promotion popup for ICC wild 26 (giveaway) now includes King.
5371 Thanks to Fredrik Josefsson for the bug report.
5373 * The first game in a file (or being pasted from the clipboard) can
5374 now start with a bare move -- no PGN tags, no move number "1", etc.
5375 Suggested by Shane Harrelson. One could imagine taking this farther
5376 and accepting something like "e4 e5 1/2-1/2 d4 d5" as two games, but
5377 I haven't done that.
5379 * Bug fix: xboard didn't really accept a paste of multiple games,
5380 contrary to what I wrote when adding the feature to WinBoard in
5381 4.2.4. Now it works in both.
5383 * Fixed generic start/end of game messages to work on chess.net, where
5384 they put ratings in parens after the player names.
5386 * Updated config.sub and config.guess to newer versions from
5387 automake-1.4p5-2. This makes configure work with MacOS X + X11.
5389 * Bugfix: when examining a game fragment on FICS where black plays
5390 first, don't show two "(0:00.000)" times on the initial "none" move.
5392 * If TestLegality is on and one of the engines makes an illegal move
5393 in TwoMachines mode, it forfeits immediately. Formerly the game would
5394 get stuck at that point and the engine that made the illegal move
5395 would eventually lose on time.
5397 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.6 -- Fri Feb 1 22:26:31 PST 2002
5400 Another small bugfix release.
5402 * Put in a small change from Alexander Mai to allow xboard to build in
5403 an OS/2 EMX environment.
5405 * Fix WinBoard-only bug where editing a PGN file with comments would
5406 insert more \r characters before the \n after every Load/Save cycle.
5407 For some unknown reason we were reading the files in "rb" mode but
5408 writing them in "a" mode, so we kept the \r characters on reading and
5409 added an extra one on writing. Fix: change the "rb" to "r". Thanks
5410 to Joel (last name not given) for the bug report.
5412 * Put the arguments to rsh/remsh in the right order for better
5413 portability. Thanks to Michael Kalisz.
5415 * FreezeUI is now implemented in WinBoard; it was previously only
5416 implemented in xboard. This function prevents the user from entering
5417 moves or other commands while we are waiting for an engine to
5418 initialize itself. Implementing it fixes a bug where the user could
5419 start a game (etc.) during feature negotiation. One of the symptoms
5420 of this bug was that we could send "new" one or move moves *after* the
5423 * Fixed some handle leaks (WinBoard only), including a nasty one that
5424 leaked one handle per command sent to ICS. Thanks to several folks
5425 who helped characterize the bug and tried to look for leaks.
5427 * We now install and look for the info file in ${prefix}/share/info
5428 instead of ${prefix}/info. The latter is still the default in
5429 autoconf, but the former is currently used in Red Hat Linux and
5432 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.5 -- Sat Dec 15 11:42:51 PST 2001
5435 * Changed the bundled GNU Chess 5.02 in the WinBoard package to
5436 include a much smaller book and to use much less hash table space by
5437 default (8 MB transposition table, 0.5 MB pawn evaluation table). The
5438 large book included with 4.2.4 made the WinBoard download too big for
5439 some people, and the default hash tables were larger than the
5440 available physical memory on some people's computers. I built the
5441 small book by running Crafty's "small.zip" book line collection
5442 through a Perl script that makes it look enough like real PGN games
5443 that the GNU Chess book builder will accept it. The script and some
5444 minor patches to GNU Chess 5 are available in the WinBoard source
5445 distribution and at http://www.tim-mann.org/gnuchess.html.
5447 * Fixed a bug in the code that deals with engines that complain that
5448 "time" and "otim" are illegal moves. This was a new bug in 4.2.4.
5450 * Revamped the implementation of ToStart in analysis mode. Formerly
5451 there was some ill-conceived code that would try to get back to the
5452 start of the game by doing a "new" command (and all the followup
5453 commands that requires) while remaining in analysis mode. This is
5454 problematic for engine authors to support, though it works with
5455 Crafty. This code was trying to solve the problem of ToStart being
5456 slow because the engine would try to start an analysis after every
5457 "undo" command all the way back to the start. But ToEnd already had a
5458 much better solution to this problem, and now ToStart does the same
5459 thing: we exit from analysis mode and enter force mode instead,
5460 make/unmake moves to get to the end/start of the game, and then
5461 reenter analysis mode.
5463 * Formerly, Zippy could try to start playing a game before the engine
5464 was initialized; that is, during the initial timeout for protover 1
5465 engines, or before "feature done=1" for protover 2 engines. We now
5466 wait until the engine is initialized before connecting to ICS, which
5467 fixes this in the common case. If you turn off engine reuse for
5468 multiple games (that is, if you give the -xreuse option), there could
5469 still be problems; see item 503 in the ToDo file. Thanks to Dieter
5470 Buerssner for the bug report.
5472 * Bugfix: All WinBoard versions since the merge with WinBoard Plus
5473 (but not xboard) have had a bug in changing the PeriodicUpdates,
5474 PonderNextMove, and ShowThinking options from the menu. The bug
5475 mostly just caused changing these options during a game to not take
5476 effect until after the next reset. For TwoMachines games, though,
5477 changing PonderNextMove just before the game would take effect
5478 immediately for the second engine but not until the next game for the
5479 first engine. Thanks to Koundinya Veluri for the bug report.
5481 * Bugfix: In 4.2.4, we sometimes got confused when trying to leave and
5482 reenter analyze mode. One symptom was that Analyze File did not work.
5483 Thanks to Igor Syry for the bug report.
5485 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.4 -- Sun Dec 9 14:56:30 PST 2001
5488 * WinBoard now includes GNU Chess 5.02 in place of GNU Chess 5.00.
5490 * WinBoard's PasteGameFromClipboard will now handle a paste with
5491 multiple games in it, popping up the game list dialog. xboard
5492 already did this. Suggested by Robert Gerstman.
5494 * We now use the "clearboard" command on ICC where appropriate.
5496 * Bugfix: don't generate a bogus "variant normal" command to an engine
5497 for the loadable ICC wild types that we internally flag as
5498 VariantLoadable. Also clarified the message that Zippy sends when
5499 declining such wild games -- it can't deal with the possibility of
5500 loading an arbitrary position into the game. Thanks to Dieter
5501 Buerssner for reporting the problem. It would be nice to be able to
5502 actually play these wild types some day; presumably there would have
5503 to be an option to either send "loadgame" with a specified position,
5504 or to deal with an opponent sending it.
5506 * If we get a holdings message from ICS when we thought we were
5507 playing normal chess, we now try asking for a move list so that we can
5508 find out from the header what's really happening. Formerly we guessed
5509 bughouse in this case. Response to a comment from Gian-Carlo
5512 * Fixed two longstanding bugs in the clock code. These affected only
5513 play between a user and a local engine, or between two local engines,
5514 not ICS play. (1) The last fractional second used by a player before
5515 moving and virtually pushing his clock was being charged to his
5516 opponent instead of to him. (2) The time and otim commands were being
5517 sent to an engine before the (buggy) fractional second update was
5518 done. The second bug was pretty harmless in itself, but the first one
5519 was serious. Many thanks to Peter Rosendahl for carefully diagnosing
5520 and reporting these bugs!
5522 * Changed WinBoard timestamp key. Nothing is changed other than the
5523 key and a recompilation. ICC may phase out the old key soon; if they
5524 do, you'll need to use the timestamp.exe from WinBoard 4.2.4 or later
5525 to connect to chessclub.com.
5527 * Fixed an xboard-only bug where most dialogs would not take keyboard
5528 input unless the mouse was actually over the dialog, even if the
5529 dialog window had focus. Thanks to Jason Varsoke for the bug report.
5531 * Bugfix; Remember to send time and otim commands to engine before
5532 sending playother. Thanks to Bob Hyatt for the bug report. Also
5533 fixed a bug where time and otim were sometimes sent even with feature
5536 * Added small patches from Wilkin Ng that are meant to fix a crash in
5537 CopyGameToClipboard and a "can't unlock clipboard memory" error in
5538 PasteTextFromClipboard, under Windows 2000.
5540 * Changed cygwin.mak to not use -mno-cygwin. In other words, it now
5541 uses cygwin1.dll instead of the mingw libraries. This works around
5542 bugs in fileno() and stat() that I encountered in mingw. (fileno
5543 seems to always return 0. stat fails because the library routine uses
5544 a different definition of struct stat than the header files provide.)
5545 Thanks to Robert Gerstman for reporting the symptoms these bugs caused
5546 when WinBoard was compiled with Cygwin.
5548 * Added -showButtonBar option. This lets you delete the << < P > >>
5549 buttons and thus widen the message widget a bit.
5551 * Added code to address a very obscure bug. If an engine dies and
5552 needs to be restarted while in one of the analyze modes, it was not
5553 getting put back into analyze mode. This bug should not really ever
5554 have gotten tickled unless reuse was turned off and the engine sends
5555 game end commands (such as 1-0) when a game ends by rule while in
5556 analyze mode. The next version of the protocol spec will say that
5557 engines should not do that, but version 2 and earlier didn't address
5560 * We now use the FICS "iset ms 1" feature to get times in ms instead
5561 of seconds. Thanks to DAV for email telling me about this feature.
5563 * Changed clock display to show tenths of seconds for 9.9 seconds and
5564 less, instead of 0.9 seconds and less as before.
5566 * It has been discovered that Zippy can play simuls on ICC (but not on
5567 FICS). If you arrange for Zippy to send the ICC command "simulize" in
5568 the -zippyGameStart string, it will accept additional games while
5569 playing. Zippy will use the same engine for every game, so whenever
5570 it switches opponents, the engine's state will be reset with the "new"
5571 command. This will of course weaken its play, so don't enable simuls
5572 if you want your engine to have the highest possible rating. Zippy
5573 was never designed to work with simuls; it just works by accident, and
5574 it hasn't been tested much. So please report any bugs you notice, but
5575 don't expect them to be fixed rapidly. Thanks to Paul McGuire for
5576 noticing that this works.
5578 * Bugfix: Suppress the direct command to engine popup if there is no
5579 engine. In WinBoard this case used to cause a crash. Thanks to
5580 "Dargon" for the bug report.
5582 * Bugfix: formerly we did part of the engine initialization for the
5583 very first game too soon, before feature negotiation. One result of
5584 this is that engines would never get the "ics" command for the first
5587 * Lengthened timeout to detect protocol version 1 chess engines to 10
5588 seconds. This should reduce problems with protocol version 2 engines
5589 that are slow to initialize missing the timeout and not getting a
5590 chance to send their feature commands before the first game starts.
5592 * Klaus Friedel says that adding a short sleep to WinBoard after
5593 starting a new chess engine solves a problem that occurs under Windows
5594 2000, in which engines sometimes don't see the initial command(s) from
5595 WinBoard and hang. I don't understand how that can happen, but the
5596 sleep is harmless, so I've put it in. Others have also reported what
5597 may be the same problem, so hopefully this will fix it for them too.
5599 * Bugfix: editing the Result field in EditTags will no longer cause a
5600 later crash. Thanks to DAV for a clear bug report that let me
5601 reproduce the problem.
5603 * ICC wild 28 is now recognized as shatranj, but it is not supported.
5604 You might be able to play it by turning off Test Legality.
5606 * Formerly we would always turn off "feature time" if the engine
5607 printed an error message with the string "time" or "otim" in it; now
5608 we do that only if the message comes before the engine makes its first
5609 move. This change is useful because some engines spew a lot of bogus
5610 error messages about commands they don't fully parse, so something
5611 like "result 0-1 {White lost on time}" could generate such a message.
5612 Engines shouldn't do that, but if they do, mysteriously turning off
5613 "feature time" is not a good way to react.
5615 * Fixed an infrequently occurring Zippy bug: formerly, resuming from
5616 adjournment by position (that is, with GetMoveList turned off) or
5617 starting/resuming a wild game (nonstandard starting position) would
5618 try to set up the position without putting the engine into force mode
5619 first. That was probably tolerated by most engines, but if the
5620 position was black-to-play and the engine hadn't set feature
5621 setboard=1, then the fake "a2a3" move (which we use as a kludge to get
5622 black to be on move before sending the edit command) would appear to
5623 be a real move, and the engine might reply to it! This bug could also
5624 be seen when trying to use Zippy to play a simul -- something that
5625 Zippy was never designed to support, but which seems to mostly work
5626 anyway. Thanks to Paul McGuire for sending a WinBoard.debug file that
5627 showed the bug occurring. Some other cases of resuming adjournments
5628 or starting games from nonstandard positions may have been broken too;
5629 I think I've straightened out the problems.
5631 * Agreeing to a draw in the human vs. local engine case formerly did
5632 not work if the human offered first; now it does. A human's
5633 unsolicited offer is considered valid until he makes another move.
5634 Thanks to Bruce Moreland for the bug report.
5636 * Bugfix: We used to look for just "fr" in Event tags or strings from
5637 ICSes to recognize Fischer Random games. This caused a lot of false
5638 matches. Now we look for "wild/fr" instead, which is what FICS uses.
5640 * Bugfix: Clicking on a move in the MoveList window only updated the
5641 displayed position; if a chess engine was active, its state was not
5642 updated. Thanks to Alejandro Dubrovsky for the bug report.
5644 * Bugfix: The "resign" command from engine to xboard formerly did not
5645 work in ICS (Zippy) mode.
5647 * Bugfix: Formerly we would register a garbage premove if the user
5648 clicked on a piece, then clicked on an edge or outside the board. Now
5649 such an errant click is ignored.
5651 * Bugfix: GameEnds would send "exit" to an engine in analyze mode even
5652 if we did not actually want to leave analyze mode.
5654 * Bugfix: "feature pause" was being rejected. We don't currently use
5655 it, but that is no reason to reject it. Thanks to Gian-Carlo Pascutto
5658 * Bugfix: when "partner" needed to be sent both to ICS and the engine,
5659 Zippy was erroneously sending the ICS prefix character to the engine
5660 too. Thanks to Gian-Carlo Pascutto for the bug report.
5662 * Zippy now declines challenges when the engine is not yet ready to
5663 play again, instead of ignoring them. This is needed so that the
5664 server will let the opponent repeat the challenge. It might be better
5665 to remember such challenges and accept them when the engine is ready,
5666 but that would be a bit more complicated to implement.
5668 * Bugfix: Zippy's emotes didn't work on FICS because there, "i" is a
5669 built-in alias for "it", not a real command. So sending "$i foo" gave
5670 an error message instead of doing "it foo". We now leave out the
5671 alias-suppressing prefix for emotes.
5673 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.3 -- Mon Feb 19 19:55:05 PST 2001
5676 * Bugfix: The error message "Variant X not supported by gnuchessx"
5677 formerly could pop up even in -ncp mode.
5679 * Fixed an xboard bug in premove highlighting. If you had
5680 HighlightLastMove turned on, premoves got highlighted in
5681 highlightSquareColor (yellow) instead of premoveHighlightColor (red).
5683 * Modified premove again. Now we are back to displaying the move
5684 locally immediately after sending it to the server, as in versions
5685 prior to 4.2.1. This is good because it lets you register your next
5686 premove sooner. As a better fix to the problem that the change in
5687 4.2.1 had been trying to address, we now suppress animating the
5688 opponent's move if you have a premove reply pending. However, it's
5689 probably still a good idea for you to turn off AnimateMoves entirely
5690 if you are trying to play extremely fast games.
5692 * Removed an erroneous patch that left zombie chess engines around
5693 when both sigterm and reuse were turned off. (Bug was in xboard only,
5696 * Bugfix: loading a game with autostepping did not work for games with
5697 PGN result "*" (unfinished). This bug was introduced in 4.1.0, caused
5698 by some outdated code that was supposed to leave you in EditGame mode
5699 after loading an unfinished game. I fixed this, and also changed it
5700 to leave you in EditGame mode after loading *any* game, but without
5701 changing the tags to say it's an edited game. It's not really clear
5702 whether that is the best thing is to do here -- ideally, perhaps, the
5703 tags should change to say "edited game" if you actually make any
5704 changes, but that is harder to make work.
5706 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.2 -- Tue Feb 6 20:00:00 PST 2001
5709 * Fixed a problem introduced in 4.2.1. In -zippyPlay mode, 4.2.1
5710 started sending the initString immediately after the old game ended,
5711 but then when the next game started, it would still send "force" and
5712 another initString. Another problem was that the first initString put
5713 the engine out of sync with the displayed board position, though that
5714 might not usually have been noticeable. This is now changed to do a
5715 full Reset at the end of the previous game, and avoid doing a Reset at
5716 the start of a new game if we are still in BeginningOfGame mode.
5718 * Fixed some limitations in -zippyPlay mode. The engine was not being
5719 fed the moves or history of games that were displayed but not being
5720 played, so it would get confused if you tried to do something like
5721 examine a game, then enter EditGame mode from somewhere in the middle
5724 * Made a small change so that cygwin can compile xboard for Windows
5725 (an X server is required to run it). Thanks to Volker Zell. Most
5726 people would probably prefer to run WinBoard on Windows, however; note
5727 that cygwin could already compile WinBoard.
5729 * Added some missing documentation to engine-intf.html: It is okay to
5730 send "feature done=0" even before you receive the xboard and protover
5731 commands, if this is needed to give your engine enough time to
5732 initialize. See engine-intf.html for more discussion.
5734 * Bugfix: "feature done=0" did not work for the second engine; now it does.
5736 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.1 -- Sat Feb 3 19:52:26 PST 2001
5739 * Bugfix: in Zippy mode with feature san=1, the elapsed time was being
5740 sent to the engine after the SAN move; for example, "e4 (0:01)" was
5741 sent instead of just "e4".
5743 * It seems that scroll wheel mice with incompletely installed software
5744 (under Windows 95, at least) can send repeated middle button up events
5745 when the wheel is turned. Moved QuickPaste from middle button up to
5746 middle button down to avoid problems with this.
5748 * A premove is now sent *before* the opponent's move that it replies
5749 to is animated. The premove itself is no longer displayed (or
5750 animated) when sent; instead, it is displayed when the chess server
5751 echoes it back as a board update.
5753 * Bug fix: in -xreuse mode, xboard was only sending command line
5754 arguments to the engine the first time it was started. (WinBoard
5755 didn't have this bug.)
5757 * In -zippyPlay mode, we now initialize the chess engine for a new
5758 game immediately after the old game ends. (In -xreuse mode, this
5759 means starting a new engine process; in the default -reuse mode, it
5760 just means sending "new".) If the engine supports ping, we don't
5761 accept challenges until the "new" has finished. This should help
5762 avoid losing time (re)initializing the engine after the game starts.
5764 * We now handle the new FICS field in style 12 that says whether the
5767 * whiteFlag and blackFlag are now reset whenever an ICS board image
5768 arrives, giving autoflag a fresh chance to work.
5770 * Suppressed "geometry error" debug messages unless -debug flag is given.
5772 * Bugfix: avoid core dump on Solaris with -debug flag, caused by
5773 passing NULL to a %s format in GameEnds.
5775 * Added -firstProtocolVersion and -secondProtocolVersion. This will
5776 allow use of extremely broken engines that hang or die when given the
5777 "protover 2" command. It should be rarely if ever needed.
5779 * Zippy now strips highlights from player names in the Creating
5780 message; previously the ratings would not be extracted from this
5781 message properly if you had set the highlight variable.
5783 * Bug fix: Zippy with -zp but not -zt used to be fooled by false
5784 partner tells inside channel tells; e.g.:
5785 Garf(24): Garf (your partner) tells you: sit
5787 * Bug fix: when an engine reported its name with the new "feature
5788 myname=" command, we had been putting just that name into the window
5789 title even when in TwoMachines mode.
5791 * By default, WinBoard no longer uses the new feature introduced in
5792 4.2.0beta of keeping the ICS menu, ICS server list, and lists of chess
5793 engine command lines in separate files; instead, the lists are back in
5794 the winboard.ini file. This gets rid of some problems where the
5795 separate files could not be opened because the working directory was
5796 not set to WinBoard's installation directory.
5798 * WinBoard command lines and ini files now have another optional
5799 syntax for quoting an option value. All characters within { } curly
5800 braces are interpreted literally except for '}' itself. SaveSettings
5801 now uses this syntax for string values that contain a backslash or
5802 newline and do not contain a '}'. This should address the problem
5803 that the separate .ini files had been meant to fix; engine command
5804 line lists can now be written without \-escapes.
5806 * Fixed three bugs in relaying moves between engines in TwoMachines
5807 mode: an engine would be sent SAN if the *other* engine had set
5808 feature san=1, a relayed SAN move did not end with a newline, and
5809 feature usermove was not implemented for relayed moves.
5811 * Fixed several bugs in exiting: File/Exit would sometimes hang;
5812 timestamp/timeseal would not get killed off; an engine crash would
5813 cause error messages to be printed recursively until stack overflow.
5815 * Fixed a bug in the code to detect which ICS is in use and adapt to
5816 it; the chess.net case was broken.
5818 * Removed the leading alias-suppression character when sending a move
5819 to ICS, because it seemed to break accuclock on chess.net.
5821 * Fixed a bug where a FICS prompt like "10:01_fics%" would be matched
5822 as finger note number 10, causing a problem detecting when the user is
5825 * Added tellicsnoalias command to protocol.
5827 * Changed st command in protocol back to old behavior.
5829 * Added done=0 feature to protocol, to lengthen initial timeout.
5831 * Added missing -colorSeek command line option to xboard. (Was
5832 present in WinBoard.)
5834 * Bug fix: setting feature reuse=0 was not working.
5836 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.0beta -- Sat Dec 16 16:34:56 PST 2000
5839 * Setting -searchTime no longer turns off -clockMode. Note that when
5840 -searchTime is set, some engines may search for the lesser of
5841 searchTime and the amount of time their normal clock management would
5842 dictate, while others will disable their normal clock management and
5843 always search for exactly searchTime.
5845 * Fixed WinBoard bug where on Windows 2000 (and maybe Windows 98) the
5846 ICS Interaction window would scroll back to the top whenever it filled
5847 to capacity and WinBoard trimmed some text off the top.
5849 * Changed xboard dragging so that the center of the dragged piece is
5850 forced to be over the mouse cursor. (WinBoard dragging already worked
5851 that way.) This should avoid confusing cases when you start a drag
5852 with the mouse near the edge of a square -- formerly most or all of
5853 the piece could be over one square but the mouse cursor over another.
5856 * Added move list window for xboard. Code contributed by Manuel
5857 Hoelss and re-hacked a bit by me. Performance of this window is poor,
5858 because the implementation regenerates the entire window contents
5859 whenever anything changes. It's hard to avoid this when using the
5860 Athena List widget, though we could be a little smarter and notice
5861 when the current move number has changed but the move list has not.
5862 There are also several drawing problems caused by bugs in the Athena
5863 Form and List widgets. The window should not really allow a
5864 horizontal scroll bar, but the bugs are much worse if I turn it off.
5865 In both Xaw and Xaw3d, the List widget tries to resize itself when
5866 XawListChange is called, even if you tell it not to; and what's worse,
5867 if the widget cannot resize itself to be large enough to avoid
5868 clipping any of the list item, it does not change the list! Arrgh.
5869 On top of that, the Xaw Form widget is very buggy in XFree86 4.0.1
5872 * The OK button in the WinBoard startup dialog is now simply disabled
5873 if none of the radio buttons is selected, instead of bringing up an
5874 error dialog. Suggested by Ted Milbaugh.
5876 * Used ping to address the worst of the race conditions in the
5877 protocol. Now if an engine supports ping, we ping it after sending
5878 the "new" command and after trying to place it in force mode at the
5879 end of a game. When a ping has been sent and the corresponding pong
5880 has not yet come back, we (1) ignore or undo any moves the engine
5881 sends, (2) ignore game end messages (such as "offer draw", etc.) from
5882 the engine, (3) ignore thinking output from the engine, (4) delay
5883 starting the next game if in -matchGames mode, (5) in -zippyPlay mode,
5884 respond to challenges with a polite message to try again soon instead
5885 of accepting them. There are a few more things that should be done
5886 (and item 5 might not be quite what we want), but it's hard to fit
5887 them all into the existing code.
5889 * Patched the version of GNU Chess 5.00 included with WinBoard to
5890 support protover, feature, setboard, and ping, and to fix some minor
5891 bugs. See gnu500+.patch.
5893 * Changed the GNU Chess 4 kludges for missing "st" and "sd" commands
5894 to be invoked only if the engine gives an error message for "st" or
5895 "sd", and to always use protocol commands instead of engine
5896 command-line options. See "Idioms" in engine-intf.html.
5898 * Added new protocol command "protover 2" to tell the engine what
5899 version of the protocol is in use. Version 2 is still compatible with
5900 old engines; see engine-intf.html.
5902 * Add new protocol command "feature ..." The engine can send this in
5903 response to the protover command command, to say what extended
5904 protocol features it would like to enable, etc. xboard responds
5905 "accepted F" or "rejected F" for each feature F that is set. See
5908 * Added new protocol command "setboard <fen>". This is an alternative
5909 to "edit", used only if the engine says "feature setboard=1".
5911 * Added new protocol command "ping <msg>". The engine is supposed to
5912 respond "pong <msg>". This gives us a tool to fix some race
5913 conditions in the protocol, but it is not used to the fullest yet.
5915 * Added new protocol command "tellopponent". This will do a "say" if
5916 you're on a chess server in Zippy mode, or pop up an information
5919 * Added new protocol command "tellall". This will do a "kibitz" if
5920 you're on a chess server in Zippy mode, or pop up an information
5923 * Added new protocol command "tellothers". This will do a "whisper" if
5924 you're on a chess server in Zippy mode, or do nothing otherwise.
5926 * Changed the WinBoard /icsNames, /icsMenu, /firstChessProgramNames,
5927 and /secondChessProgramNames options to accept a filename preceded by
5928 "@", meaning to find the value in the file. Changed the defaults to
5929 use this feature, with filenames icsnames.ini, icsmenu.ini, fcp.ini,
5930 and scp.ini. This should make it easier for users to edit the values,
5931 since one less level of quoting is needed, and each value is in its
5932 own file, not mixed into winboard.ini. Those who upgrade from an
5933 older winboard version and already have a winboard.ini file will not
5934 automatically have these values moved to a file; that has to be done
5937 * We now strip .exe from engine names for "name" command, tags, etc.
5939 * Allowed WinBoard input widget to hold more than one line. You can get
5940 a newline into the widget with copy/paste or with Ctrl+Enter.
5942 * Fixed an xboard bug where the [P] button would appear in the
5943 opposite highlight state from what it should be after being pressed.
5945 * We now use the "/" or "$" alias suppression feature on the chess
5946 servers, to avoid problems if the user inadvertently aliases a
5947 needed command to something else.
5949 * Changed the method used to deiconize xboard in AutoRaise and cmail.
5950 This may fix bugs under some window managers where after
5951 deiconization, the board window was mapped but nothing was drawn
5954 * Preliminary, partial support for playing several chess variants
5955 against a local engine or editing variant games. The -variant option
5956 must be given on the command line or WinBoard startup dialog; there is
5957 no menu. The current variant is not displayed (except in the
5958 Tags/EditTags window). Many variants will not work quite right even
5959 if the engine supports them; see item 326 in the ToDo file for
5962 * Added a workaround to detect the variant type when examining a
5963 scratch wild game on an ICS.
5965 * Fixed two cases where "variant" command should be sent to the engine
5966 when necessary but was not: loading a game from a file and restarting
5967 a dead engine. Thanks to Gian-Carlo Pascutto.
5969 * Added missing support for FICS games that start from a bsetup position
5970 with Black moving first.
5972 * Fixed a bug in loading a file from the game list window while in
5973 Analysis or AnalyzeFile mode. This now leaves us in AnalyzeFile
5974 mode, analyzing the new file.
5976 * Fixed a bug in loading games with a comment before the first move.
5978 * Fixed a bug in handling LoadGame (or -lgf) with -td 0.
5980 * Added a command line option to select an initial minor mode from the
5981 Mode menu. This should satisfy requests from a couple of users with
5982 special applications.
5984 * Fixed a problem where some things in WinBoard's General Options
5985 dialog box were grayed out at the wrong time.
5987 * We look for a few messages from the chess engine pipe that are
5988 intended to catch problems starting an engine via rsh, such as "No
5989 such file". Moved code so that these strings won't match until other
5990 protocol messages have been looked for, and documented the messages in
5993 * Fixed the WinBoard bug that sometimes made the console input box
5994 white-on-white even when not in password-entry mode.
5996 * Small changes to WinBoard to be compilable with the latest Cygwin
5997 net release (as of 10-16-2000). Thanks to Mark Schoenberg.
5999 * Recompiled GNU Chess 5.0 for WinBoard with the latest Cygwin net
6000 release (as of 10-16-2000). Also rebuilt the book just to be sure,
6001 since I had one bug report about it. It came out identical and seems
6004 * Added messages for some common InstallShield errors instead of just
6005 printing InstallShield's stupid error code numbers.
6007 * Added -firstComputerString and -secondComputerString, allowing you
6008 to suppress or change the command that is sent to a chess engine when
6009 its opponent is another computer.
6011 * Added "configure --with-Xaw3d" to allow use of Xaw3d widgets instead
6012 of Xaw widgets in xboard. Thanks to Johnny C. Lam of the NetBSD
6013 project. I've left Xaw as the default because Xaw3d is too ugly.
6015 * The version of the Xaw Form widget released in XFree86 4.0.1
6016 (X11R6.4.3) has a bug that causes xboard to display the button bar
6017 on top of the message widget. I've reported the bug and have
6018 installed a kludge workaround into xboard.
6020 xboard/WinBoard 4.1.0 -- Sun Sep 17 17:30:14 PDT 2000
6023 * Merged Winboard Plus 4.0.8 from Mark Williams into xboard
6024 source pool. Status of Winboard Plus features in xboard:
6026 - White pieces now have borders, but the implementation is
6027 completely different from WinBoard's; see below.
6029 - Options menu not changed, probably won't be.
6031 - Copy&paste support working, using Mark's changes to backend.c, Ben
6032 Nye's changes to xboard.c for FEN positions, and some code of my
6033 own in xboard.c for PGN games.
6035 - Premove hooked up and working. No pre-first-move, though.
6037 - ICS Alarm hooked up and working.
6039 - Auto-flip working.
6041 - PGN Training mode hooked up and working.
6043 - Improved menu item enable/disable working.
6045 - Improved >> button working.
6047 - Auto activate board working. I changed this to be optional; you
6048 might not always want it, especially in Zippy mode.
6050 - Blindfold working.
6052 - Documentation updated.
6054 * Fixed more colorization bugs. Commands like "message foo tells you:
6055 xxx" and "tell 33 tells you: xxx" will no longer generate bogus
6058 * Added low-tech sound support to xboard, by invoking an external
6059 program on a filename for each sound to be played.
6061 * ICC wild 27 is now recognized as VariantAtomic, and it sets the
6062 "ignore check" flag, but is not otherwise supported.
6064 * Converted the piece bitmaps from .bm to .xpm for use with xboard's
6065 xpm support. (An .xim version was not created.) Wrote a shell script
6066 using ImageMagick to do the conversion and to bucket fill from
6067 coordinate 0,0 with the background color. Used xpaint by hand to
6068 clean up a few pieces where background color "leaked" into the inside
6069 or didn't flow all the way around the outside, then a sed script to
6070 fix up color names and bitmap names in the xpaint output. If any more
6071 sizes are added later, they should be straightforward to convert with
6072 reference to the existing scripts. With this conversion, not only do
6073 the white pieces now have dark borders, but (unlike with WinBoard) the
6074 light details on the black pieces are opaque.
6076 * If the XPM library is found when building xboard, the new xpm pieces
6077 are compiled in as the default. External bitmap (or xpm) pieces can
6078 still be used by giving the -bitmapDirectory (or -xpmDirectory)
6079 option. If the XPM library is not found, the old bitmap pieces are
6080 the default. In this case external bitmap (or xim) pieces can be used
6081 by giving the -bitmapDirectory (or -xpmDirectory) option. There is no
6082 way to compile in xim pieces.
6084 Winboard Plus 4.0.8 -- Sat Aug 5 15:51 PDT 2000
6089 * Main menu now visible in Win NT. Thanks to Microsoft for creating a
6090 compiler which auto-mutilates the WinBoard.rc file so that the menu is
6091 displayed under Win 98 but not Win NT. I fixed the problem by hand editing the
6094 * "Reset game" now works properly when invoked from Analysis mode when two
6095 engines are present. Correction of bug introduced in Winboard Plus. Thanks to
6096 Mogens Larsen for reporting the bug.
6098 * Pasting a FEN position with Black to move now works in all modes.
6099 Thanks to Mogens Larsen for reporting the bug.
6101 * Added gnuchess.dat to the distribution and a couple of text files that were
6104 *** Merged in the following changes from Tim Mann:
6106 * Bugfix: Highlights would sometimes not be taken down, at least in
6107 xboard. The problem is that SetHighlight works in chess coordinates,
6108 not view coordinates, so if flipView has been toggled since the
6109 highlight was put up, it gets taken down from the wrong square. Fixed
6110 by being careful to call ClearHighlights before toggling flipView, not
6113 * Bugfix: HighlightLastMove would sometimes highlight square a1 after
6114 a FICS "tomove black" command.
6116 * Bugfix: a move list with initial position that has black to play was
6117 not being handled correctly.
6119 * Removed "decline abort" and "decline adjourn" commands from Zippy.
6120 The syntax is changing on FICS, and Zippy really doesn't have to
6121 explicitly decline the requests anyway; it's sufficient to not accept
6124 * ICC wild 26 is now recognized as VariantSuicide (the FICS name; ICC
6125 calls it "giveaway").
6127 * Bugfix: PGN games with black to move in the initial position weren't
6128 being legality checked correctly. I think this was introduced in
6129 4.0.6 when I fixed a different PGN bug. Thanks to Mark Williams for
6130 spotting the bug and suggesting a fix.
6132 * Bugfix: the initial "name(" of a kibitz wasn't being colorized.
6134 Winboard Plus 4.0.7 -- Thu May 12 17:57 PDT 2000
6137 * New white pieces with black borders.
6139 * Major overhaul to Options menu. New dialogs for setting General Options,
6140 Board Options, ICS Options, Sounds, Fonts, Colors.
6142 * Clipboard support for PGN game scores and FEN positions.
6144 * Optional ICS Premove with user-specified first moves for White and Black.
6146 * New sound events: ICS Win, ICS Loss, ICS Draw, ICS Unfinished, ICS Alarm.
6148 * New auto-flip option when playing against a chess program.
6150 * Added PGN Training mode.
6152 * Certain menu options now disabled while program is thinking.
6154 * ">>" button now always goes to the end of the game.
6156 * In ICS mode, the board is automatically activated at the start of a
6159 4.0.7 -- Sun Mar 5 17:17:49 PST 2000 Tim Mann
6161 * Fixed a nasty bug in parsing ICS game histories that was introduced
6164 4.0.6 -- Fri Mar 3 16:20:11 PST 2000 Tim Mann
6166 * Fixed bugs in Zippy's code for responding to messages sent with the
6167 ICS "message" command.
6169 * Fixed bugs where xboard could still create dialogs partially off the
6170 top of the screen. Fixed unwanted interactions between initial sizes
6171 and positions of various unrelated xboard dialogs. Deleted
6172 borderXoffset and borderYoffset resources.
6174 * Fixed restoring the xterm name on exit to work in more cases.
6176 * Small fix to the WinBoard self-extracting installer: when it starts
6177 up, it now always deletes any old wb-setup directory left over from a
6178 previous installation. Formerly this worked only on Windows 95/98, so
6179 on NT the self-extractor would sometimes stop and ask the user whether
6180 it was OK to overwrite the old wb-setup files.
6182 * Modified WinBoard to be compilable with the free Cygwin tools
6183 available from http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/. Based on work by
6184 Mark Schoenberg. (His mods were enough to get WinBoard through the
6185 compiler, but a few things were broken along the way, so I reworked them.)
6187 * Merged changes from Don Fong to make WinBoard compilable with
6188 Borland C++ 4.5. I do not have Borland C++ and am unable to test with
6189 it, but I did make sure the changes don't stop it working with MSVC++
6192 * Forbade entering TwoMachines mode from MachineWhite or MachineBlack
6193 mode when machine is on move. This used to confuse the engine and
6194 cause problems, because when we try to get the engine to stop, it
6195 might make a move first, and it might not do that immediately.
6197 * Variant classification now deals with new ICC wild 25, classifying
6198 it as "3check". Also, we are now conservative about new wild numbers
6199 we don't know about, classifying them as "unknown" instead of
6202 * Replaced bad GNU Chess 5.00 book in WinBoard distribution with a
6203 correct one. 1.e4 now no longer takes GNU Chess 5.00 out of book!
6204 Thanks to Pete Galati.
6206 * Made move parser accept and ignore nonstandard ep suffix on PGN moves,
6207 e.g., "exf6ep" or "exf6e.p."
6209 * Fixed bugs in parsing PGN files starting with no move number, or
6210 with a move number other than "1." (including "1..."). Thanks to
6211 Michael Soulier and Stefan Zipproth for example PGN files
6212 demonstrating the bugs.
6214 * Changed InitComboStringsFromString to not modify the input string;
6215 this caused an exception when WinBoard was compiled with MSVC++ 6.
6216 Thanks to Bert Tuyt for the report.
6218 * In WinBoard, dragging a piece off the edge of the board without
6219 releasing the mouse button no longer instantly aborts the move. You
6220 still must release the mouse button inside a square to complete a
6221 move, but you can now drag off the edge and come back inside.
6223 * WinBoard bugfix: If you went into EditGame or EditPosition mode
6224 while observing or playing an ICS game, and a new move came in
6225 (snapping you back to ICSClient mode) while you were dragging a piece
6226 around, the drag state would not be reset, causing the piece you were
6227 dragging to remain on the board wherever you dropped it. Thanks to
6228 David Brinegar for the bug report.
6230 * WinBoard bugfix: If you moved or resized the board while your
6231 opponent was moving, and you had AnimateMoving on, his move would not
6232 be displayed until after your next move. Thanks to DAV for reporting
6233 the bug repeatedly until I finally understood it.
6235 * Added a Zippy "farewell" feature; see zippy.README.
6237 * Fixed a bug (xboard only) in processing -zippyReplayTimeout on the
6238 command line. Thanks to Steve Beer for the report and patch.
6240 * Send "computer" command to both sides in TwoMachines matches.
6242 * Fixed a Y2K bug in Evan's cmail code! Thanks to Brian Mays for the
6245 * Bugfix: Initialize variant field of GameInfo struct in gameinfo.c.
6246 This could cause crashes in LoadGame. Thanks to Andrzej Nagorko.
6248 * Fixed several pattern matching problems: Finger notes and formula
6249 vars no longer get replied to by zippyTalk or colorized. Channel
6250 tells by players with many titles are now colorized fully, and
6251 zippyTalk handles channel tells by such players correctly. The shout
6252 "--> foo(99): bar" no longer gets colorized as a channel tell. Code
6253 is cleaned up a bit, and autocomment capture now uses the same
6254 criteria as colorization.
6256 * xboard fix: Enter key now closes error popups as in WinBoard.
6257 Especially nice for the "Exiting: Connection closed by ICS" popup.
6259 4.0.5 -- Tue Dec 7 10:30:40 PST 1999 Tim Mann
6261 * Added missing documentation of SIGTERM usage into engine-intf.html.
6263 * Bugfix: New -zippyReplayTimeout option was misspelled in WinBoard as
6264 -zippyReplyTimeout. Thanks to Francesco Di Tolla.
6266 * xboard -ics now restores the xterm's original title upon exit, at
6267 least if $WINDOWID is set.
6269 * Bugfix: -matchGames mode wasn't terminating properly. Final score
6270 popup would come up twice and engines would not be killed off. Thanks
6271 to Frank Quisinsky for the bug report. Bug was introduced in 4.0.4.
6273 * Bugfix: "tell 50 foo shouts: bar" no longer gets colored as a shout;
6274 similarly for "...s-shouts:" and "...c-shouts:". Thanks to David Lee
6277 4.0.4 -- Fri Dec 3 17:51:27 PST 1999 Tim Mann
6279 * Bug fix: formerly if you invoked SaveGame from EditPosition mode
6280 with black to play, the position was not saved properly. As a quick
6281 fix, SaveGame now takes you out of EditPosition mode before saving.
6283 * Changed -matchGames to keep track of the score (won-lost-drawn) and
6284 display it in the banner. The final score is displayed in a modal
6285 popup before the program exits.
6287 * Changed "Connection closed by ICS" to display in a model popup
6288 before the program exits.
6290 * Added -popupExitMessage option, default on. Setting this to false
6291 suppresses the modal popups that you sometimes get just before
6292 xboard/winboard exits -- both the two new ones listed above and the
6293 existing Fatal Error popup. This is useful when running Zippy
6294 unattended from a shell script (or .bat file) that loops and starts a
6295 new copy after a time delay when there is an error.
6297 * In xboard, added missing support for WM_DELETE_WINDOW to all
6298 windows. This makes xboard a better citizen, and is much needed with
6299 the newer X window managers that put an [X] button on every window and
6300 bind it to "kill application" if the applicationd does not support
6301 "delete window". We can't allow xboard to be thoughtlessly killed,
6302 since that leaves the chess engine running in the background.
6304 * We now avoid positioning tops of xboard dialog boxes offscreen.
6306 * zippy.lines can now use the caret ('^') character as an inter-saying
6307 separator. You no longer need to dig up a text editor that can put NUL
6308 ('\000') characters in text files.
6310 * Bugfix: In traditional chess clock mode, White now gets time added
6311 to its clock as soon as it makes time control. Previously both White
6312 and Black got their time added only when Black made time control,
6313 which would cause some engines to make their 41st move as White too
6314 quickly, thinking they were low on time.
6316 * The zippyAcceptOnly feature no longer sends a decline command or
6317 a tell. Thus you can use it to put Zippy into a manual accept mode.
6319 * Bugfix: "tell 50 foo tells you: bar" no longer gets colored as a
6320 personal tell; similarly for "...whispers:" and "...kibitzes:".
6322 * WinBoard no longer blanks the message line when you start a new
6323 move, unless there was an error message there from the previous move.
6325 * WinBoard now never puts the white piece drop menu on the middle
6326 mouse button. Both colors are always on the right button. Windows
6327 users often don't think to look for a middle button menu, or don't
6328 really have a working middle button despite what Windows says.
6330 * Guest login handles on ICC are now parsed again; an ICC wording
6331 change had broken this feature.
6333 * Autodetect when the engine does not support the "draw" command and
6334 don't relay the command to it in that case. Needed because sending an
6335 unsupported command to GNU Chess makes it move immediately, so people
6336 could make Zippy move without thinking by continually offering a draw.
6337 Thanks to Frank Walker for the problem report.
6339 * Small changes based on code from Robert Jurjevic: The WinBoard
6340 analysis window can be minimized (though not to the taskbar). The
6341 WinBoard ICS Interaction window will autoscroll if you drag the mouse
6342 above or below the window while selecting, and password entry mode
6343 leaves the entry line as the background color instead of using 75%
6344 gray. Seeks are now colorized with a new color of their own.
6346 * Added -zippyMaxGames feature.
6348 * -zippyNoplayCrafty command line option was missing in xboard; fixed.
6349 Thanks to John Perry.
6351 * Fixed bug in detecting when Zippy loses his bughouse partner.
6352 Thanks to Ben Dean-Kawamura.
6354 * allobs fix in 4.0.3 didn't work; corrected it.
6356 * WinBoard will now update the board immediately if a move is made
6357 while the window is being moved or resized.
6359 4.0.3 -- Sun Aug 15 18:44:39 PDT 1999 Tim Mann
6361 * Bugfix: moved winboard wizard functions that send a command directly
6362 to the chess engine from Ctrl+Alt+1 and Ctrl+Alt+2 to Alt+1 and Alt+2.
6363 Ctrl+Alt is equivalent to the European AltGr key, so the old assignments
6364 conflicted with typing an @-sign on some keyboards.
6366 * Bugfix: prevent "If this message stays up, your chess program does
6367 not support analysis" from appearing if AnalysisMode is selected when
6368 already in Analysis or AnalyzeFile mode. Also, deleting analysis window
6369 in WinBoard now switches you to EditGame mode, to avoid the anomaly of
6370 being in an analysis mode with no analysis window present.
6372 * Change all Zippy environment variables to work as command line
6373 options. For now they still work as environment variables too, but
6374 the environment variables are deprecated.
6376 * Use unsigned long to hold node counts from engines.
6378 * Print error instead of crashing on attempts to use xpm or xim pieces
6379 in monochrome mode. Thanks to Jim Torrance for the bug report.
6381 * Tightened pattern recognition for ICS messages sent to Zippy; should
6382 no longer match ICC allobs output. Fixed recognition of when Zippy is
6383 sent a message; small change to FICS output had broken it.
6385 * Zippy now exits if the engine dies unexpectedly.
6387 * Added Zippy "spoofedby" feature; see zippy.README.
6389 * Narrowed the margins on some older WinBoard dialogs to make their
6390 style uniform with the newer ones.
6392 * Bugfix: Changing Ponder Next Move from the Options menu did not take
6393 effect until the next game. This bug was in WinBoard only. Thanks to
6394 Stefan Zipproth for the bug report.
6396 * Got rid of "Internal error: bad move type" message when the engine
6397 makes a move that we can parse but think is illegal. Now the move is
6398 just passed on (which also may be the wrong thing to do).
6400 4.0.2 -- Thu Feb 25 19:55:32 PST 1999 Tim Mann
6402 * Added one more built-in sound choice to WinBoard: move.wav from Pete
6405 * Added new larger piece sizes: big, huge, giant, colossal, titanic.
6407 * Modified the xboard font searcher to be able to use scalable fonts.
6408 The new -fontSizeTolerance flag controls how closely a nonscalable
6409 font must match to be used in preference to a scalable font.
6411 * Zippy environment variables ZIPPYABORT and ZIPPYADJOURN now control
6412 whether Zippy will accept abort and adjourn requests.
6414 * We now determine the variant type being played on ICS, send it as a
6415 command "variant VARTYPE" to the chess engine (if in Zippy mode), and
6416 put it in the PGN tags. See engine-intf.txt for variant names. See
6417 ZIPPYVARIANTS in zippy.README to control what variants Zippy will
6418 accept. Note that this now applies to bughouse, too.
6420 * Zippy now won't do -zippyTalk in a channel unless his handle is
6423 * Zippy now ignores bughouse holdings if not actually playing, instead
6424 of stupidly trying to abort the game. Let me know if other strange
6425 things happen when Zippy is observing a game.
6427 * Set ICS Interaction title bar to "user@server". User name is
6428 determined by parsing message during the login sequence. Zippy now
6429 uses this method to get its name too, so ZIPPYNAME is eliminated.
6430 Problem: with xboard, the title bar gets set to "xterm" upon exit,
6431 since we didn't know what it was to start with.
6433 * Fixed xboard-only bug in -colorChannel1 command line option. Thanks
6434 to Fredrik Sandstrom for the bug report and fix.
6436 * Check for overflow of MAX_MOVES. Still not sure this is checked for
6437 everywhere it needs to be.
6439 * Added .epd to suffixes recognized by WinBoard as position files.
6440 This is a bit of a kludge, as the .fen reading code was not written
6441 with .epd files in mind, but reading them with it is said to work.
6443 * Added ZIPPYGAMESTART feature, suggested by Jason Hoblit. See
6446 * Restored the feature of soaking up the moves from a user-typed "moves",
6447 "oldmoves", or "smoves" ICS command when xboard/WinBoard is idle, but
6448 changed it so that the move list is also echoed to the screen. Some folks
6449 still liked the old feature since it is faster than examine mode, and
6450 printing the moves to the screen should eliminate the confusion it caused
6453 * Bugfix: in WinBoard, starting a click-click move and then clicking on
6454 a black line would cause the source square to be forgotten without taking
6455 the highlight down. Now the errant click is ignored.
6457 * Corrected shortcut key labels for LoadNext/PrevPosition in WinBoard's
6458 File menu. Thanks to Andreas Stabel for the bug report.
6460 * Bugfix: if you had a completely full ICS context menu in WinBoard
6461 (90 items), the last one would do nothing if selected.
6463 * The "computer" engine command added in 4.0.1 was not working; I had
6464 left out part of the code patch. Oops.
6466 4.0.1 -- Fri Feb 12 21:24:15 PST 1999 Tim Mann
6468 This is a minor bugfix release. The first item listed below is the
6469 only interesting new feature.
6471 * You can now type in moves from the keyboard in WinBoard. Either
6472 select TypeInMove from Step menu, or (if you are not in ICS mode),
6473 just start typing. In ICS mode you can type moves into the ICS
6474 interaction window anyway, so I've retained the feature that typing
6475 switches you there. Not implemented in xboard.
6477 * Removed the "noise 1000" command that used to be sent to the chess
6478 engine when entering analysis modes.
6480 * Deleted the feature where we soak up the output of a user-typed ICS
6481 "moves" or "oldmoves" command. This ancient feature is not really
6482 useful anymore, now that "examine" exists, and it caused a lot of
6485 * Increased maximum size of ICS text menu to 90 entries and added
6488 * The command sent to ICS by Zippy at the end of each game can now be
6489 customized with the ZIPPYGAMEEND environment variable.
6491 * We treat xboard.info as a pseudo-source since most people don't have
6492 the tools to rebuild it. But "make install" erroneously had a
6493 dependency on it, even though "make all" did not. Fixed.
6495 * Miscellaneous minor updates and clarifications to engine-intf.txt.
6496 In particular, documented the st and sd commands (support for command
6497 line options -searchTime and -searchDepth), warts and all.
6499 * Added a small code patch from Bob Hyatt to detect when Zippy's ICS
6500 opponent is a computer and send the command "computer" to the engine.
6501 Added this command to engine-intf.txt. Thanks, Bob.
6503 * Bugfix: configure was looking for usleep(), but config.h.in didn't
6504 have an entry for it, so HAVE_USLEEP was never defined. Also, in the
6505 non-HAVE_USLEEP case, there was a possible race condition between the
6506 signal handler and the pause() call. Thanks to Ben Dean-Kawamura for
6509 * Bugfix: a "1..." preceding Black's first move (usually present if
6510 there is a comment on White's first move) would cause the parser
6511 to think a new game started there and report "End of game" on the
6512 current game. Thanks to Dell Garner for the bug report.
6514 * Changed the abbreviation for -searchDepth from -sd to -depth to fix
6515 a clash with -secondDirectory.
6517 * Changed -searchDepth to be orthogonal to the various timing options.
6518 Previously it would search for an unlimited time to the given depth;
6519 now the engine is allowed to choose its search time in the normal way,
6520 but is told to cut off the search early if it reaches the given depth.
6522 * Bugfix: SaveSettings in WinBoard was saving both the long form
6523 option highlightSquareColor and its abbreviation (hsc).
6525 * Fixed a redisplay bug in DisplayBothClocks that could cause White's
6526 clock to be highlighted in EditPosition mode when Black's should have been.
6528 * Fixed Zippy's feature of passing on draw offers from the ICS opponent.
6529 The colorization code was eating the offer before Zippy saw it, so I disabled
6530 colorization of offers while in -zp or -zt mode. (Other types of
6531 colorization are already disabled in Zippy mode for similar reasons.)
6533 * Added some more commands to the default ICS context menu in WinBoard,
6534 and put "(name)" on the ones that insert a playername (or game number).
6536 * Added missing documentation to WinBoard help file: PonderNextMove, the
6537 -ponder/-xponder argument, and the up/down arrow history feature in the
6538 ICS Interaction window.
6540 * Fixed ZIPPYNOPLAYCRAFTY feature to fire only if the opponent is Crafty,
6541 not if some other Crafty is observing the game and kibitzes.
6543 * Fixed bugs in generating "partner" commands when Zippy is playing
6546 4.0.0 -- Sat Jun 20 16:59:47 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
6548 * Fixed WinBoard resizing so that the edges you do not drag remain in
6549 place, even when the final size is different from what you dragged to.
6550 (This doesn't work on NT 3.51 or earlier, if anyone cares.)
6552 * Fixed problems with resizing WinBoard on Windows NT: you no longer get
6553 whitespace around the board, a clipped board, or a lot of flashing during
6556 * Added customization for highlight-square color.
6558 * Bugfix: backend.c wrote to stderr in a few obscure places, which doesn't
6561 * Added Index Number field back to LoadGame/LoadPosition dialog boxes in
6562 WinBoard. This required some extra code to work with both the
6563 Explorer-style dialog boxes and the old-style NT 3.51 dialog boxes. Ugh.
6565 * WinBoard startup dialog now understands -zp mode. The first chess
6566 engine selector is enabled and the value is used.
6568 * Bugfix: ResetGame would send "exit" to engine twice if it was in an
6571 * Bugfix: The response "Illegal move: bk" to the "bk" command, indicating
6572 that it is not implemented, would confuse xboard.
6574 * Bugfix: Ignore empty hints ("Hint:\n") instead of printing a message
6575 saying that some bogus string (often "Hint:") is illegal.
6577 * Bugfix: LoadNextGame/LoadPreviousGame/ReloadSameGame were broken.
6579 3.6.12 -- Sat Jun 13 14:57:10 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
6581 Beta test release of xboard and WinBoard.
6583 * Spruced up xboard man page a bit.
6585 * Added Highlight Last Move to xboard too.
6587 * The revamped xboard mouse click code had several more bugs than the
6588 previous version, so I revamped it again. All fixed now, I hope.
6590 * xboard bugfix: crash in CreatePieceMenu.
6592 * Oops. winboard-3_6_11beta.exe installed 3.6.10beta, not the new version.
6594 3.6.11 -- Fri Jun 12 20:00:48 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
6596 Beta test release of xboard and WinBoard.
6598 * Major reorganization to engine-intf.txt. Some new features added,
6599 many existing features clarified and hints for engine programmers added.
6600 Support for new features added to program.
6602 * Changed defaults for -scp (etc.) back to being independent of -fcp, as
6603 in 3.6.2. That is, the default is no longer to copy the value from -fcp if
6604 -scp is not specified. This will sometimes make command lines longer but
6605 will remove some confusing situations.
6607 * Split -reuseChessPrograms into two options: -reuseFirst and
6608 -reuseSecond. Fixed obscure bugs when reuse is off.
6610 * Detect ICC and change some command usage slightly there: only ICC has
6611 set-quietly; only FICS has iset and bsetup clear. With this feature, we
6612 can now safely use bsetup clear when appropriate instead of deleting each
6615 * Added indent to lines that are wrapped by WinBoard ICS Interaction
6616 window. This seems to tickle a Microsoft bug in the RichEdit control:
6617 occasionally the start of the next line after the wrapped line is indented
6618 too. I think the wrapped indent feature is useful enough that it's worth
6619 having in spite of the bug.
6621 * WinBoard bugfix: bounding box for the board was computed incorrectly by
6622 mouse code. It would think you moved off the bottom of the board before
6623 you really did, so it was hard to drag pieces along the bottom rank on
6624 smaller board sizes.
6626 * Fixed obscure parser.l bug: ambiguity between capture using : instead of
6627 x and email header line. Also removed or simplified a lot of complex
6628 patterns for English (as opposed to PGN) end-of-game indications while I
6631 * Added PonderNextMove option.
6633 * xboard EditPosition piece menus now let you set the side to play by
6634 selecting the "White" or "Black" label at the top of the menu, like
6635 WinBoard. (Both xboard and WinBoard still let you set the side to play by
6636 clicking on the clock.)
6638 * Merged documentation of Crafty and GNU Chess thinking output in
6639 engine-intf.txt. Corrected code in backend.c to match documentation; it
6640 used to require the PV to start in column 27 (!).
6642 * Fixed bug that caused crashes in "-reuseChessProgram false" mode.
6644 * Draw by agreement in Two Machines mode now works as it is supposed to.
6645 Other minor bugs in handling game end messages from machines are also
6646 fixed, and engine-intf.txt is revised in this area.
6648 * Revamped xboard code for handling mouse clicks on the board. In
6649 particular, it had a bug if a click-click promotion move was made.
6651 * Fixed and reinstated optimization for << in analysis modes: send
6652 initString and re-send the board if needed. Sending repeated undos
6653 is bad because Crafty prints some analysis after every one.
6655 * Don't go into a spin loop while pausing between xboard animation frames.
6656 This caused problems, especially when compiling with -O2 on HP-UX.
6658 * WinBoard Options/Colors/RevertToDefaults now also turns off Monochrome
6659 if it was on, and similarly for Options/ICSInteractionColors/RevertToDefaults.
6660 This seemed to confuse people before.
6662 * Bugfix: ICS Interaction context menu items with neither of the two
6663 optional flags set did not work.
6665 * Bugfix: PGN move numbers are optional, but we were insisting on "1"
6666 right after the tags.
6668 * Bugfix: only the first game of an -mg match was loading -lpf or -lgf.
6670 * Other minor fixes and code cleanup.
6672 3.6.10 -- Mon Jun 1 01:32:31 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
6674 * Added ZIPPYNOPLAYCRAFTY feature; see zippy.README.
6676 * Added timestamps for chess engine interaction to -debug output.
6678 * Now allow 10 seconds (was 5) between games in match mode for engines to
6679 respond to "force" command that ended previous game.
6681 * When a game is picked from the game list and the names of White and
6682 Black are known, display them in the window banner instead of the filename
6685 * Changed default for -scp and -sd to be the values of -fcp and -fd.
6687 * Added boxes for both engines to WinBoard startup dialog. Changed to
6688 dropdown boxes whose content can be set from winboard.ini, similar to
6689 the box for ICS name.
6691 * Accept "offer draw" (or "*offer*draw*") from engine to offer a draw.
6693 * Accept "move mmmm" from engine as well as silly "1. ... mmmm" syntax.
6695 * Added support for bughouse engines (Zippy mode only).
6697 * Move bombproofing for engines sending illegal or out of turn moves.
6699 * Always send "xboard\n" to engine as first command. Eliminates need
6700 to run crafty as "crafty xboard".
6702 * Rewrote xboard code for input from engines to fix longstanding bugs.
6703 Previously an engine that sent one line in two separate writes with
6704 some time lapse in between (or perhaps that sent several lines in one
6705 write) could make xboard hang. WinBoard did not have this bug.
6707 * Fixed minor bugs in dealing with illegal moves.
6709 * Added "iset startpos 1" for FICS.
6711 * Removed special support to put "GNU Chess" or "Crafty" in the window
6712 banner instead of the engine's base filename. This gives a more level
6713 playing field for other engines. Also fixed bugs in the code that finds the
6714 engine's base filename.
6716 * Bugfix: Abort or Resign at the very start of a game in chess engine mode
6717 would fail to send "force" to the engine.
6719 * Fixed some minor bugs in new "result" messages, and changed format to
6720 include a trailing PGN comment giving the reason the game ended.
6722 * Changed syntax of /font options in WinBoard; old syntax was assuming
6723 that a font name can't contain a digit, which is wrong. Old font names in
6724 WinBoard.ini files are still accepted.
6726 * Serious further work on getting WinBoard to read/write files in the
6727 "right" directories and documenting exactly what it does.
6729 * Added LoadPreviousPosition, LoadNextPosition, ReloadSamePosition.
6731 * Misc. tiny fixes and cleanup.
6733 3.6.9 -- Sun May 24 20:53:08 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
6735 xboard and WinBoard beta release.
6737 * Tightened up illegal move handling. Illegal or meaningless moves from a
6738 file or chess engine should no longer get translated into a1a1 and blindly
6739 applied. Explicit moves to the same square (like a1a1) no longer make the
6740 piece on that square capture itself and vanish.
6742 * Added AlwaysOnTop feature to winboard.
6744 * Fixed bug in winboard "@" command line indirection operator.
6746 * Removed buggy "optimization" code for ToStart in analysis modes.
6748 * Fixed typo bug in zippy.c that would often cause winboard to crash
6749 right after starting a game in -zp mode.
6751 3.6.8 -- Sat May 23 22:23:19 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
6753 xboard and WinBoard beta release.
6755 * Added -firstDirectory and -secondDirectory so that chess engines can
6756 be started in a different directory from xboard/WinBoard itself.
6758 * Added -matchGames to allow more than one game in -matchMode. The games
6759 are played with colors alternating between the two chess engines. Had to
6760 add a time delay at the end of each game to catch up with game ending
6761 messages from both chess engines -- yuck.
6763 * Changed TwoMachines mode to have firstChessProgram play White by
6764 default. Added -firstPlaysBlack to restore old behavior.
6766 * Major rework of code in backend.c for dealing with first and second
6767 chess engines. Generalized the code and created a struct type with one
6768 instance for each engine. Several small bugs fixed along the way.
6770 * Fixed bugs in Abort in local chess engine mode.
6772 * Tightened pattern matching to recognize moves from machine. Should cure
6773 bogus "Illegal move" errors while Crafty is pondering with Show Thinking
6774 on, among other things.
6776 * WinBoard keeps focus in board window after popping up a comment due to
6777 Forward/Backward/ToStart/ToEnd commands.
6779 * Finally got rid of warnings on compiling moves.c under Windows.
6781 * Fixed so WinBoard will compile on machines where WM_MOUSELEAVE is not
6784 * Removed various bits of unused code.
6786 * Parse (and ignore) NAGs in PGN files.
6788 * Updated engine-intf.txt.
6790 * Send "result R" to the chess program at the end of each game, where
6791 R is the PGN result 1-0, 0-1, 1/2-1/2, or *.
6793 * Bugfix: suppress animation when loading a game with timeDelay=0.
6795 * Bug fix: pondering output from Crafty that contained "..." could be
6796 mistaken for a move, causing bogus error messages and general chaos.
6798 * xboard "make clean" bug fix: moved things created by configure to be
6799 removed only by "make distclean".
6801 * Fixed a remaining case where move was being animated before being
6802 relayed to opponent.
6804 * Backend was reversing time/otim commands to the chess program (new bug),
6805 and was often not sending them on the first move of a game or the first
6806 move after a mode change (old bug). Fixing the latter required a kludge
6807 to work with both GNU Chess and Crafty, because Crafty swaps white and
6808 black clock times when it swaps sides, while GNU Chess does not. The
6809 kludge is that we always make sure the chess engine thinks its opponent is
6810 on move before we set the clock. This will sometimes result in sequences
6811 like "white\ntime xxx\notim yyy\nblack\ngo", or the same with white and
6814 * Removed last trace of old -whiteString and -blackString arguments.
6816 * Fixed so that you can type "bd" into the Direct Command dialog when
6817 debugging gnuchess, without having xboard parse the clock display
6818 (starting with "White") as "White wins" and end the game.
6820 * Changed moves.c to make a distinction between IllegalMove (where we
6821 could tell what move was intended, but it violates the chess rules) and
6822 MeaninglessMove (where we could not tell). This is a step towards getting
6823 rid of cases where we translate meaningless moves into "a1a1", but some
6824 work is probably needed to track them all down.
6826 * Fixed bug in WinBoard monoMode dragging.
6828 * Changed WinBoard to new style file dialogs. In the process, disabled
6829 the feature that let you enter the index number of a game or position within
6830 the file in the dialog. This is no loss in LoadGame, as you can pick your
6831 game from the game list dialog that follows, but it does remove some
6832 functionality from LoadPosition.
6834 3.6.7 -- Mon May 18 21:25:00 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
6836 xboard and WinBoard beta test release. I've been unable to reproduce some
6837 reported drawing bugs, so they may still not be fixed.
6839 * Changed PopUpErrors option to PopupMoveErrors, which is more useful, and
6840 changed default to off. Errors other than move errors should always be in
6841 popups; they are often too big for the message area and too important to
6842 put where they can be easily missed. But it seems good to get rid of the
6843 popups for move errors by default.
6845 * xboard analysis window no longer forces itself to top whenever there is
6846 new output. Also, now uses built-in Xaw word wrapping instead of trying
6847 to do its own; works better.
6849 * Bugfix: Reset did not take Crafty out of analyze mode.
6851 * A chess engine no longer has to claim to be Crafty to be able to use
6852 AnalysisMode and AnalyzeFile; it just has to implement the analyze
6853 command as Crafty does. Put in heuristics to generate more informative
6854 error messages if the engine does not support analyze, and checked that
6855 they work at least with GNU Chess.
6857 * Added click-click moving, HighlightLastMove, and HighlightDragging to
6858 WinBoard. The highlight features are unlikely to go into xboard unless
6859 the xboard drawing code is cleaned up to do *all* drawing on the board
6860 from DrawPosition, as WinBoard does. This is low priority for me.
6862 * Eliminated bogus "Error gathering move list: no header" popup. You
6863 could get this by observing two fast games at once without turning off
6866 * Disable WinBoard Sounds menu entirely in -ncp mode, since not even
6867 MoveSound is used in that mode.
6869 * WinBoard bugfix: Several problems were caused if the user changed
6870 WinBoard's current directory in a Load, Save, or Browse dialog. In
6871 particular, WinBoard.ini would get saved in the wrong directory, and
6872 sound .wav file names would not get saved with a full pathname. I think
6873 all such problems are now fixed.
6875 * WinBoard bugfix: iconizing the board after an aborted mouse resize would
6876 (partially) resize it to Tiny.
6878 * WinBoard bugfix: board was not being drawn in color on 256-color
6879 displays. This bug was introduced in 3.6.6.
6881 3.6.6 -- Tue May 12 17:43:43 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
6883 xboard and WinBoard beta release. Note: not all reported bugs are fixed.
6885 * Move animation in WinBoard, programmed by Henrik Gram. Great stuff!
6887 * Animate backward moves too.
6889 * xboard bugfix: -font (and friends) can now specify a font alias (such
6890 as "fixed"), not just a full X Consortium name pattern. Previously this
6891 would give a resource conversion error message.
6893 * Some coding style cleanup in xboard.c.
6895 * Earlier error check for moving wrong color piece in EditGame mode.
6897 * Completed fix to pattern matching; see 3.6.5.
6899 * Fixed some software rot bugs in Zippy.
6901 * Split AnimateDragging as separate option from AnimateMoves.
6903 * Added FlashMoves to options menu and -flash/-xflash to command line
6904 options (xboard only).
6906 * Some preliminary work on visible bughouse holding support. Most of the
6907 code is not present in this release because I have not gotten it working
6908 properly yet; my first approach went down a blind alley and I had to
6909 remove most of the partially working code in preparation for a rewrite.
6911 3.6.5 -- Fri May 8 14:22:09 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
6913 Not generally released.
6915 * Pack bughouse holdings display in banner more tightly when board is one
6916 of the smaller sizes (when smallLayout or tinyLayout is true, that is).
6917 An interim measure, but should help.
6919 * Completed fix to make move list parsing recognize the end condition and
6922 * Fixed pattern matching for chatter (tells, etc.) to be more reliable.
6923 This should reduce the incidence of colors starting in the wrong place and
6924 of incorrectly matching things that look like other patterns inside
6925 chatter, such as "shout <12>". (These errors were already rare.)
6927 * WinBoard now lets you customize the list of ICS's in the startup dialog.
6928 For now, at least, requires editing WinBoard.ini with a text editor.
6930 * Bug fix: WinBoard window sizing and position setting save/restore did
6931 not work right when the taskbar was at the top (or left side) of the
6932 screen and not in autohide mode.
6934 * Merged xboard click/click mode and drag mode, and deleted
6935 ClickClickMoving option on menu. Now if you click on a piece, it
6936 highlights and a further click on another square will move it. (A second
6937 click on the same square takes down the highlight.) Or if you press down
6938 on a piece and start to drag, you can drag it to a new square.
6940 * When making click/click style moves, if your second click is on a piece
6941 of the same color, instead of saying "Illegal move", we now cancel the first
6942 starting square, replace it with the second, and wait for another click to
6945 * Separate -secondInitString. Default: same as -initString. Suggested by
6948 * Patch from Frank McIngvale to make animation work with XIMs. Yay!
6950 * Changed move animation to happen after move is passed on to ICS or the
6951 chess engine, where applicable. Fixed problems with updating moveList
6952 that this uncovered.
6954 * Changed game list to show PGN result token for each game.
6956 * The usual minor bug fixes.
6958 3.6.4 -- Thu Apr 30 23:14:43 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
6960 xboard and WinBoard beta test release.
6962 * xboard documentation updated, both man page and info file. An attempt
6963 to generate both from the same source with LinuxDocSGML was abandoned, at
6964 least for now. WinBoard doc updated too.
6966 * Merged updates to animation code from Hugh. Fixed a couple of remaining
6967 bugs, mostly to do with handling Pause mode correctly.
6969 * Added SaveSettingsOnExit to WinBoard.
6971 * WinBoard now saves the last screen position of the Comment, Edit Tags,
6972 Game List, and Analysis windows (in addition to the board and ICS
6973 Interaction windows) in WinBoard.ini.
6975 * WinBoard now provides a way to customize the right-button context menu
6976 in the output area of the ICS Interaction window. For now, requires
6977 editing WinBoard.ini with a text editor.
6979 * Various minor fixes to ICS message recognition, most affecting only Zippy.
6981 * Colorize the notification when someone sends you a message while you are
6982 logged in, not the output of the "messages" command.
6984 * Fixed colorization to turn off at the right place more reliably.
6986 * Added a new color and WinBoard sound for "requests": abort, adjourn,
6987 draw, pause, and takeback. The same color and sound are used for all of
6990 * Added GUI to change sounds in WinBoard.
6992 * Suppressed WinBoard error popup when a sound can't be played. They were
6993 popping up when two separate WinBoards tried to play a sound at the same
6994 time (such as during a bughouse match).
6996 * Fixed WinBoard crash when a sound file didn't exist.
6998 * WinBoard ports of timestamp and timeseal now produce decent error
6999 messages if they fail to connect, and WinBoard captures the messages and
7000 puts them into a popup. Previously WinBoard would exit with no message on
7003 * WinBoard resizing with mouse improved; now accurately picks the largest
7004 size that fits in the new area.
7006 * Added option to turn off error message popups.
7008 * Added sizes slim, dinky, and teeny.
7010 * Fixed some minor problems with error message wording.
7012 3.6.3 -- Mon Feb 23 19:08:57 PST 1998 Tim Mann
7014 xboard beta test release only. Man page is updated for the changes, but info
7017 * Bug fix: LoadGame could not load a PGN game whose first move was
7018 castling (which is possible from setup positions).
7020 * Bug fix: we were ignoring illegal move messages from chess engines in
7021 modes where the engine is refereeing but not participating (EditGame,
7022 LoadGame, AnalyzeFile). The problem was in a workaround for a Crafty bug,
7023 where Crafty generates a bogus illegal move message if a "." (used by
7024 the PeriodicUpdates feature) is sent in analysis mode when the current
7025 analysis reveals a forced mate. Installed a different workaround (that
7026 works in most but not all cases) and reported the Crafty bug. Bob Hyatt
7027 replied with a fix, so the Crafty bug should be gone in Crafty 14.12 or so.
7029 * WinBoard only: enabled resizing board with the mouse. It snaps to the
7030 nearest (but not too much larger) predefined size.
7032 * The xboard default font is now sized according to piece size, just as
7033 clockFont and coordFont have always been.
7035 * Added more sizes: bulky, moderate, average, middling, mediocre, petite.
7037 * xboard only: Added Animate Moves and Click-Click Moving to Options menu.
7039 * xboard only: Added code to animate piece movement, from Hugh Fisher.
7041 * New feature: autoflag is implemented in MachineWhite, MachineBlack, and
7042 TwoMachines modes. If it is on and either a chess program or the user
7043 oversteps his time, xboard will automatically call the flag and end the
7044 game. This feature was requested by someone who runs matches between
7045 programs and wants to penalize GNU Chess for its habit of running slightly
7046 over at the end of a time control. I personally think it's pointless.
7048 * Fixed a bug in Zippy's pattern matching; he can now reply to ICC
7051 * Generate prettier notation for illegal moves. If a move is illegal only
7052 because it leaves the player in check, generate notation as if that were
7053 not illegal. For instance, if two knights are a knight's move away from
7054 f3, one on g1 and one on e5 that is pinned, the notation would be Nf3 to
7055 move the g1 knight, Nef3 to move the e5 knight. (Suggested by Philippe
7056 Schnoebelen.) In addition, if a move is illegal because the type of piece
7057 moved cannot go that way, would be jumping over another piece, etc., we
7058 give fully disambiguated coordinate notation; for example, Ng1g3, Ke1xe8,
7059 d2xd8=Q, etc. An alternative would be to still write Ng3 if there is only
7060 one knight on the board, or Ngg3 if the other knight is not on the g file,
7061 but life is too short to code up all this stuff, and perhaps the way I did
7062 it is better as it emphasizes that this move was really made despite being
7063 illegal. I wonder if the new PGN standard revision will speak to notation
7066 * Fixed gross bug from 3.6.2: if a chess program said "checkmate" and
7067 White was left on move, the PGN outcome was "1-0 {Black mates}" instead
7068 of "0-1 {Black mates}"! The bug occurred only for that specific string.
7070 3.6.2 -- Wed Jul 23 16:47:29 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
7072 * There was a bug in backing up from the end of a game against a chess
7073 engine, introduced when -reuse mode was added. Fixed.
7075 * Recognize "{" as terminating an ICS move list. Previously we needed to
7076 see a prompt (containing %), but occasionally ICC can send more stuff
7077 right after a move list with no prompt in between.
7079 * In WinBoard, -mm now implies -cp, so you don't get the startup dialog.
7081 * WinBoard startup dialog no longer sets -scp. People used to get
7082 confused because they would give the -fcp and -scp arguments, but omit
7083 -cp. This would bring up the startup dialog, which would set both -fcp
7084 and -scp to the value in the engine name box. Now you can change -scp
7085 only with the command-line argument. That will confuse some people too,
7086 but hopefully fewer. I think overall it's better than putting spaces for
7087 both -fcp and -scp in the dialog, which would puzzle newbies.
7089 * Bug fix: Analyze File mode now works in WinBoard.
7091 * Bug fix: WinBoard window no longer cuts off part of the bottom row if
7092 the menu bar wraps to a second line.
7094 * Accept game end messages of the form "PGN-result {comment}" from the
7095 chess engine, where PGN-result is 0-1, 1-0, or 1/2-1/2. Accept "resign"
7096 or "computer resigns" from the chess engine as a synonym for "0-1 {White
7097 resigns}" or "1-0 {Black resigns}". Accept any message from the chess
7098 engine containing "game is a draw" as a synonym for "1/2-1/2 {Draw}".
7099 Accept "White resigns" or "Black resigns".
7101 * Enable "Action / Draw" menu item in chess engine mode. It sends the
7102 command "draw" to the engine. Accept any message from the chess engine
7103 containing "offers a draw" as a draw offer. WARNING: Draw offers from the
7104 user and the engine (or from two engines) are not yet matched up by xboard
7105 in chess engine mode. Two engines could get into a loop offering each
7108 * Bug fix: Game end messages from the chess engine are always ignored in
7109 Zippy mode. Previously they could sometimes be processed, which was
7110 sometimes making Zippy hang at the start of a new game that followed
7111 quickly after an old one.
7113 * Zippy can now respond to titled players in channels. Zippy will avoid
7114 talking to himself in a channel if he knows his own name.
7116 * Bug fix: in colorization arguments, the bold setting was being ignored
7117 if the background color was defaulted. (xboard only.)
7119 * Extended ParseFEN to accept Crafty 12.2's interpretation of FEN.
7120 If fewer than 8 squares are given in a row, or fewer than 8 rows are
7121 given, the uncovered squares are empty. Also, there can be a / after the
7124 3.6.1 -- Sat May 17 01:02:33 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
7126 * Bug fix: Hitting escape while entering a password on WinBoard no longer
7127 sets the font color back to black (which made further typing visible).
7129 * Bug fix: On Windows NT 4.0, WinBoard /ics /icshelper=timestamp would
7130 often hang if you tried to exit with the Exit menu item, the [X] button,
7131 etc. The same fix may also have corrected the problem where running a
7132 chess program with /xreuse would sometimes crash Windows 95 (but not NT)
7133 when the chess program was killed and quickly restarted.
7135 * Bug fix: Periodic Updates would not work if turned on after having been
7136 off. Also, the default was needlessly "off" in WinBoard.
7138 * Zippy bug fix: Continuing an adjourned game was totally broken. The
7139 wrong moves, or no moves at all, were being fed to the chess program.
7141 * WinBoard change: Giving -ics without -icshost now pops up the startup
7142 dialog with "Use an Internet Chess Server" pre-selected, so that you get a
7143 menu of chess servers instead of going directly to ICC.
7145 * Bug fix: WinBoard's SaveSettings was saving -icshost, -icsport, and
7146 -icshelper in winboard.ini. This causes a problem if you use a different
7147 icshost later that needs the default values for icsport (5000) and
7148 icshelper ("", meaning none).
7150 * Disabled complaints about unexpected "[Ii]llegal move" messages from
7151 the chess program; we still get them at times.
7153 * Greatly simplified the code for Move Now and SIGINT (ATTENTION). Fixes
7154 the bug where Move Now did not work with GNU Chess in WinBoard, and
7155 several more obscure bugs as well. Reintroduces a minor bug: GNU Chess might
7156 not think on your time after a Move Now command. Trying to fix this
7157 causes too many other problems. Documented change in engine-intf.txt.
7159 * Cleaned up code for obtaining ratings from ICS. It was kludgey and may
7160 have had bugs on systems with no "Creating:" message. It should fail
7161 gracefully there, just not finding the ratings.
7163 3.6.0 -- Thu May 8 19:55:58 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
7165 * WinBoard now has right-button context menus in the ICS Interaction
7166 window. Some of the items do immediate commands on the player name you
7167 have selected or pointed to. (Suggested by Paolo Casaschi.) Also, the
7168 middle button or shift+right does a immediate Copy and Paste.
7170 * Fixed a bug in Zippy's wild rejection. The bug was causing Zippy to
7171 reject all forms of wild. Now it rejects only 1, 9, 16, 17, and 24, as
7172 was intended. These variants have different rules, while the other
7173 variants defined so far only have different starting positions.
7174 (Actually, wild 2, 3, and 4 never allow castling, but may sometimes by
7175 chance have king and rook start on squares where castling appears legal.
7176 This could cause a problem later.)
7178 * Zippy now resumes adjourned games by feeding the chess program
7179 the move list instead of the position. Setting -getMoveList to False
7180 restores the old behavior. Feeding in the move list is better because
7181 it enables the chess program to correctly handle en passant legality,
7182 castling legality, draw by repetition, and draw by the 50 move rule.
7184 * Added a WinBoard startup dialog for people who run WinBoard.exe without
7185 using the Start menu or reading the help file. Instead of being dumped
7186 directly into GNU Chess mode, you now get a menu of choices. You now have
7187 to give the new WinBoard -cp option to go directly into chess engine mode.
7188 I did not add this feature to xboard.
7190 * Handling of "illegal move" from Crafty is now back on. (It was turned
7191 off in 3.4.6; see below.) Crafty 12.0 doesn't seem to send bogus ones
7192 anymore. I did have to suppress sending time and otim in analyze mode to
7193 make this work, but there is no harm in that.
7195 * Zippy now sends "gameend" to ICS at the end of each game. You can alias
7196 this to "seek" or whatever you like.
7198 * Added Crafty support for Move Now, using the "?" command. We test
7199 whether this command exists by trying it once at the start of the first
7200 game, before it really makes sense. If we don't get a message like
7201 "Illegal move ... ?", we assume it's OK. (We're careful about this
7202 because sending a "?" to GNU Chess on Move Now keeps it from pondering the
7203 next move as it should.)
7205 * Added support for a tellusererror command from the chess engine. See
7208 * Attempted to make engine-intf.txt complete.
7210 * Minor fixes/cleanup to GameEnds code, to be sure we always interrupt
7211 when needed, and always undo an extra move generated by stopping the chess
7212 program while it is thinking.
7214 3.5.7 -- Sat May 03 22:37:44 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
7216 Beta release of both xboard and WinBoard.
7218 * Updated xboard documentation. I really wish the man page was built from
7219 the info file instead of being separate! It's a pain to update them both.
7221 * Updated documentation of the interface between XBoard/WinBoard and chess
7222 programs, and renamed it to engine-intf.txt.
7224 * Added support for tellics, telluser, and askuser commands from the chess
7225 engine. See engine-intf.txt.
7227 * Various bug fixes. On WinBoard, 256 color displays are finally handled
7228 right; no more color flashing when you switch windows unless the colors
7229 really need to be updated. Also, I think the problem of the console font
7230 failing to change or changing back by itself is finally fixed.
7232 3.5.6 -- Tue Apr 29 03:08:00 PDT 1997
7234 Beta release, WinBoard only. ChangeLog was out of date in release,
7237 * Added ICC timestamp and FICS timeseal to WinBoard distribution. These
7238 are my own ports to Win32, based on and used by permission of the owners
7239 of the proprietary source code (Daniel Sleator for timestamp, Henrik Gram
7240 for timeseal). The owners permit these programs to be distributed only in
7241 binary form (to help prevent cheating), so to avoid running afoul of the
7242 GPL, I have kept them as separate programs, not linked into the WinBoard
7243 address space. Updated Start menu icons to use them.
7245 * Miscellaneous smaller changes.
7247 3.5.5 -- Fri Apr 25 03:06:00 PDT 1997
7249 Beta release, WinBoard only. ChangeLog was out of date in release;
7252 * Added simple sound support to WinBoard.
7254 * Updated WinBoard documentation.
7256 * Internal implementation of the telnet protocol is now more complete.
7257 You can now hop through a VMS host on the way to ICS. For example, do
7258 "xboard -ics -icshost vms.host.edu -icsport 23", then log in. Do not use
7259 the -telnet flag; that says to use an *external* telnet program. To avoid
7260 double echoes, you need to force character mode in VMS telnet after
7261 connecting from VMS to ICS. Do "^]^Mset mode char^M^M".
7263 * Display opponent names in the title bar for MachineWhite, MachineBlack,
7264 and TwoMachines modes.
7266 * WinBoard now has an installer, built with InstallShield. The installer
7267 works with a binary-only distribution. Sources are still freely
7268 available, but now separately.
7270 * Added SaveSettings to WinBoard, which saves current option settings to
7271 winboard.ini. Made sure all options can be saved and loaded, including
7272 fonts and com port settings.
7274 * If the game ends while you are dragging a piece, we now don't let you
7275 finish the move. Formerly the move was accepted and your opponent's clock
7276 would start running again.
7278 3.5.4 -- Fri Apr 18 01:15:24 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
7280 Beta test release of WinBoard and xboard. The documentation remains
7283 * Many fixes and improvements to new WinBoard user interface code.
7285 * In Zippy mode, avoid sending another copy of the same move to the chess
7286 program if ICS sends us another copy of the board image. Hard to believe
7287 it took me until now to diagnose and fix this problem!
7289 3.5.3 -- Sat Apr 12 19:49:33 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
7291 Beta test release of WinBoard and xboard.
7293 * Fixed fatal bug in WinBoard input handling.
7295 * Made code to stop chess program for reuse a bit smarter. Removed kludge
7296 of "white" in initString; it didn't work well, and is unneeded
7297 with Crafty 11.21 and later.
7299 3.5.2 -- Sat Apr 12 15:40:01 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
7301 Beta test release of WinBoard.
7303 * Ignore check and permit promotion to King during suicide games; no need
7304 to turn off TestLegality.
7306 * Renamed CheckLegality to TestLegality to avoid confusion with the chess
7309 * Added Rematch to Action menu.
7311 * WinBoard now has a custom ICS interaction window with scrollback, a
7312 separate line for input, and colorization. Accelerators that conflict
7313 with normal editing keys were changed (by requiring Alt+) so they can work
7314 in both the console and the main window.
7316 * WinBoard error popups are now non-modal and disappear when you make a
7317 new move, as in xboard.
7319 * Configure now defaults to --disable-ptys on all systems. If anyone has
7320 an ancient SysV system where pipes don't work with select, they can still
7321 do "configure --enable-ptys" explicitly. I would appreciate getting a bug
7322 report if this happens to anyone, with complete output from configure and
7325 * "make install" now makes the installation directories too.
7327 * Fixed a bug that would cause an "Illegal move" message for Black from
7328 GNU Chess to be incorrectly considered bogus.
7330 * Handle name changes during an ICS game (FICS bname and wname commands).
7332 * You can force both chess programs to be killed at the end of each game
7333 by turning off the reuseChessPrograms option. There are still some
7334 problems with reusing Crafty even in version 11.20.
7336 * Now the second chess program stays around by default too, if it ever
7339 3.5.1 -- Sat Apr 5 16:47:48 PST 1997 Tim Mann
7343 * Don't kill off and restart the chess program for each game; keep the
7344 same one running, using the "new" command to start a new game. This
7345 change works around the problem in Windows 95 that makes WinBoard crash it
7346 at times, and is generally desirable to make new games start faster. The
7347 second chess program (for TwoMachines) is still killed at the end of the
7348 game, and unfortunately this can still crash Windows 95. Temporarily
7349 added "white" to the initString to make this work with Crafty 11.20, which
7350 has a minor bug in "new". Older versions of Crafty have worse bugs in
7351 "new"; they should not be used with this version of xboard.
7353 * Support for FICS suicide chess: Parse illegal moves (that leave King in
7354 check) in game history. If CheckLegality is off, allow promotion to King
7355 and illegal moves in game files. We still generate e2e4 style notation
7358 * Handle FICS "has timeseal; checking" message.
7360 * Changed the coords from white back to black; this was a bug.
7362 * Fixed problems compiling with K&R compilers.
7364 * Fixed an old bug in RegisterMove that was crashing cmail on some systems
7367 3.5.0 -- Thu Jan 2 16:59:49 PST 1997 Tim Mann
7369 Thanks to Frank McIngvale for much of the work on versions 3.4.4 and above!
7371 * Fix Crafty resumed game time bug (frankm)
7373 * Word wrap text in Analysis window (frankm)
7375 * More debug info for XPM loading (frankm)
7377 * Replaced config.sub, config.guess, etc., with up-to-date versions from
7378 autoconf 2.12. Hopefully this will fix problems on Pentium Pro machines.
7380 * Removed some Makefile gunk that was causing looping for one person.
7382 3.4.7 -- Thu Dec 19 14:22:41 PST 1996 Tim Mann
7384 All changes from Frank:
7386 * Retrieve ratings from ICC (and FICS, etc., when they add the Creating:
7387 message), save them in the PGN tags, and pass them to Crafty in Zippy mode.
7389 * Add settable time delay between characters in ICS login script.
7391 * Colorize messages like personal tells. Fix false recognition of channel
7394 * Pass "tells" from Crafty through to ICS (in Zippy mode).
7396 * Implement ~/ filename convention from C shell for game and position file
7399 * ZIPPYACCEPTONLY feature for testing.
7401 3.4, patchlevel 6 -- Sat Nov 23 16:58:50 PST 1996 Tim Mann
7403 * Put recognition of "illegal move" messages from Crafty for
7404 illegal castling, etc., inside an #if that is currently turned off,
7405 because of a bug in Crafty that generates bogus "illegal move" messages
7406 after some moves that are actually legal and accepted by Crafty.
7408 * Added -checkLegality option; previously this could not be turned off.
7410 * Fixed an old bug in finding default board size parameters.
7412 * Differentiated among channel tell, kibitz/whisper, and personal tell/say.
7414 * Fixed a bug in detecting Xpm in the configure script.
7416 3.4, patchlevel 5 -- Mon Nov 18 16:22:53 PST 1996 Tim Mann
7418 * Added zic2xpm to the kit; it had been omitted by mistake.
7420 * Added some default colors for -colorize
7422 3.4, patchlevel 4 -- Sat Nov 16 18:10:17 PST 1996 Tim Mann
7424 This is meant to be a beta release in preparation for version 3.5.
7426 * Added InfoXBoard and ManXBoard to the Help menu.
7428 * Made Frank's ICS input box optional, defaulting to off.
7430 * Merged in Frank McIngvale's XbKit. Many new features, including
7431 -clickClick mode, the Analysis modes, piece flashing, ZIICS import,
7432 ICS text colorization, and the ICS input box. Many thanks to Frank for
7433 supplying and documenting this code.
7435 3.4, patchlevel 3 -- Mon Nov 11 18:23:14 PST 1996 Tim Mann
7437 Small set of changes made while Frank McIngvale was working on XbKit in
7438 parallel. Unreleased in this form.
7440 * Updated zippy.README.
7442 * Removed useless X event handler and removed strange code for copying
7443 form translation table to board that worked around the bug it caused.
7444 This makes changing bindings in .Xdefaults more straightforward.
7446 * Now pressing the Control key steps back one move, and releasing it steps
7449 * Moved quit from "q" to "Q" for greater safety.
7451 * Use "unobserve" instead of "observe" to stop observing; needed on FICS.
7453 * Support for interface variable.
7455 * Strip titles from people who are talking to us, so (for example) Zippy
7456 won't try things like "tell Darooha(*) hello". Needed on FICS.
7458 3.4, patchlevel 2 -- Tue Jul 9 19:06:42 PDT 1996 Tim Mann
7460 This patchlevel is not planned to be an announced release. It's in
7461 preparation for integrating Frank McIngvale's XbKit. It mostly contains
7462 minor fixes I've accumulated since 3.4.pl1.
7464 * WinBoard /telnet option now fires up an external program, as
7465 with xboard, instead of trying to use a feature of NT 3.1 that does not
7466 exist in later versions of NT or in Windows 95. ChangeLog for 3.4.pl1
7467 said this had been implemented there, but it really wasn't.
7469 * Indicating player to move by the icon color now works under Windows 95.
7471 * WinBoard now kills the chess program when you exit using the system menu
7472 or the [X] button. Thanks to Michael Lowe.
7474 * Minor changes to Zippy, including: Now understands wild challenges on
7475 FICS; these used to crash it. Removed limit on how fast a game will be
7476 accepted. Use "set formula ..." on the chess server to limit this if you
7477 are using GNU Chess. Now sends correct opponent name to Crafty.
7479 * Added some missing default values to documentation. Thanks to Stuart
7482 * Bugfix: Trying to print "No fonts match pattern" error message would
7483 crash. This can happen to Linux users who don't install Helvetica, for
7486 * Bugfix: Defaulting feature in -size n,n,n,n,n,n would put us in an
7489 * Added more directories to search for Athena widgets on HPUX.
7491 * New cmail (3.12) from Evan Welsh; includes small fix from Kayvan Sylvan.
7493 * Recognize "illegal move" messages from Crafty for illegal castling, etc.
7495 * Bugfix: "name" command added to zippy.c for Crafty was producing error
7496 message if GNU Chess was in use.
7498 * In bughouse mode, suppress holding messages from console window; show
7499 holdings only in banner.
7501 * Minor fixes/cleanup to Makefile.in and configure.in.
7503 3.4, patchlevel 1 -- Mon Dec 11 13:43:12 PST 1995 Tim Mann
7505 * This patchlevel updates WinBoard to match xboard, and includes a few
7506 fixes and minor improvements. "-size tiny" and "-size n,n,n,n,n,n"
7507 are still not implemented for WinBoard.
7509 * Installed support for Crafty based on code from Bob Hyatt.
7510 Currently the only documentation for this is in the FAQ, and a few
7511 things don't work with Crafty 8.23. Please do not report these
7512 problems as bugs in either xboard or Crafty. Bob and I know about
7513 them. The worst ones (if not all of them) should be fixed in Crafty
7516 * Changed the kludge command we send when gnuchess wants to print
7517 something that doesn't end with a newline, from "help" to "bogus".
7518 This works because the error message gnuchess prints ends with a
7519 newline. It also improves compatibility with Crafty, which doesn't
7520 need the kludge, but for which sending "help" causes a problem.
7522 * Don't draw grid at all if lineGap is 0; previously we drew the grid
7523 with X "0-width" lines (usually 1 pixel wide) and then overwrote it.
7525 * Makefile: Removed xboard.info from "all" target so we won't try to
7526 rebuild it, because this fails on hosts that don't have makeinfo
7527 installed. Other minor fixes to "clean" targets, etc.
7529 * Fixes and cleanup to Auto Comment code that handles continuation
7530 lines and highlighting.
7532 * Auto Observe now tries to observe the game from the point of view of
7533 the player who was on your gnotify list. Requested by rng.
7534 Limitations: We can't tell which player it was unless you have ICS
7535 highlighting turned on. Also, currently "observe foo" works as
7536 required (observing from foo's point of view) only on ICC, but FICS
7537 will probably implement this soon.
7539 * "-size tiny" now makes the default font smaller automatically. This
7540 was implemented by introducing an extra Form widget in the hierarchy
7541 for all xboard windows, named either normalLayout, smallLayout, or
7542 tinyLayout. So you can have resource specifications that apply only
7543 to certain layouts; in particular, XBoard*tinyLayout*font.
7545 * Bug fix: EditGame or EditPosition while playing or examining still was
7546 not really being permitted.
7548 * WinBoard bug fix: On the EditPosition menu, King did not work.
7550 * Added text catalog of WinSock error messages to WinBoard, because
7551 Microsoft still has not put them in the system message catalog.
7553 * Removed support for older ICS game-ending messages that do not have
7554 a PGN result token (*, 0-1, 1-0, or 1/2-1/2) after the closing '}'.
7555 The code for older messages was sometimes firing on the newer
7556 messages, due to parsing ambiguity. If the current code sees an old
7557 message, it will understand that the game is over, but will always
7558 display * as a result token instead of trying to guess the result by
7559 interpreting the text message.
7561 3.4, patchlevel 0 -- Tue Nov 21 01:02:50 PST 1995 Tim Mann
7563 * This patchlevel was released for xboard only.
7565 * Updated the info file. It should now be as up-to-date as the man page,
7566 with good English except in the parts that pertain only to AmyBoard.
7568 * Added "-size tiny", requested by Bob Hyatt. Also cleaned up bitmap
7569 support and added "-size n,n,n,n,n,n" to allow arbitrary-sized bitmaps,
7570 if the actual bitmaps are supplied by the user.
7572 * Updated bughouse support.
7574 3.3, patchlevel 4 -- Sat Nov 18 02:27:21 PST 1995 Tim Mann
7576 * Unreleased beta that works with preliminary FICS bughouse code. Will
7577 need changes before release to track FICS message changes.
7579 * Removed use of .EX macro from man page. It is not supported by some
7580 nroff -man macro packages, notably the one on Slackware Linux. Switched
7581 to boldface for references to xboard and other commands within the man
7582 page, as this seems to be the modern way.
7584 * Bug fix: If ICS rejected a move, it was correctly undone on the board,
7585 but the message widget still displayed the bad move. Reported by DAV.
7587 * Normally, xboard in ICS mode fetches the move list whenever the board
7588 display switches to a new game. Doing this is now an option
7589 (getMoveList) that can be turned off, which is useful if you are watching
7590 multiple blitz games. Requested by rng.
7592 * Move list fetching code is now smarter: it ignores a move list if it is
7593 not for the right game.
7595 * Added support for bughouse as implemented on FICS. Holdings are shown
7596 in the window title in place of the strength numbers. A menu on mouse
7597 buttons 2 and 3 (same on both) lets you drop pieces. There is no checking
7598 as to whether you actually hold the piece you are trying to drop; we rely
7599 on ICS to check that. Notation of the form P@f7 is generated and parsed.
7600 The mate detector does not understand that non-contact mate is not really
7601 mate in bughouse, but this does no real harm. It results in a "#"
7602 suffix being displayed on the move notation, but xboard does not assume the
7605 * Bug fix: Promotion to a knight was not working with ICC! Thanks to
7606 Wendigo for the report.
7608 * Bug fix: Special pty code for host types *-*-aix3* and *-*-irix3*
7609 (supplied from configure.in) had a bug that would cause childio.c to
7610 fail to compile, due to a "continue" that was not within a loop.
7612 * Bug fix: In pgntags.c, memory was being freed while still in use. One
7613 symptom this caused was that on some machines, cmail would fail with a
7614 message that it could not find the BlackNA tag. The error was in some
7615 submitted code that I included in version 3.2.pl3 without reading
7616 carefully enough. Anders Forberg noticed the symptoms, and Evan Welsh
7617 (who had nothing to do with causing the bug) found the bug and submitted a
7618 fix; thanks to them both.
7620 * Removed restriction against using EditGame while playing, observing,
7621 or examining on ICS. You still get a warning popup.
7623 3.3, patchlevel 3 -- Sat Sep 16 11:44:05 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
7625 * Bug fix: Going directly from MachineWhite to TwoMachines mode would kill
7626 off the second chess program after Black's first move.
7628 * Added -timeIncrement feature. Thanks to Joel Rivat.
7630 * Deleted code that tries to keep you from observing more than one game,
7631 or observing while playing or examining. There is actually no problem in
7632 doing this, except that every time an update comes in from a different
7633 game than is currently being displayed, xboard fetches the history of the
7634 new game, which may be time-consuming if you are on a slow link.
7636 * Fixed configure so as not to crash when neither lex nor flex is found.
7637 lex or flex is needed only if the user wants to rebuild parser.c. Thanks
7638 to Phil Humpherys for reporting the crash.
7640 * Bug fix: config.h.in used #define instead of #undef for some macros used
7641 in the pty code in childio.c. This causes the code to fail to compile on
7642 some architectures, because the symbols are supposed to be undefined, not
7643 defined to empty, when they are not set in configure. Bug originated in
7644 3.3.pl0 when config.h was introduced. Thanks to Phil Humpherys for report.
7646 * Bug fix: ShowThinking would not show anything when current position had
7647 no move to display in the move window. E.g., if position was created by
7648 LoadPosition or EditPosition.
7650 3.3, patchlevel 2 -- Mon Aug 28 11:11:11 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
7652 * Zippy code was omitted from xboard-3.3.pl1 by mistake; now included.
7654 * For WinBoard, added hint to help file that you may need to turn off
7655 LocalLineEditing while typing dialing commands to your modem.
7657 3.3, patchlevel 1 -- Sat Aug 19 15:13:30 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
7659 * Zippy distribution is no longer separate from regular xboard distribution.
7661 * Deal properly with Show Thinking output from GNU Chess when it is
7662 thinking on its opponent's time. In TwoMachines mode this output is
7663 suppressed to avoid interfering with the output from the machine that is
7664 on move; in other modes it is displayed (including the move that GNU Chess
7665 is predicting the user will make next). GNU Chess produces this output
7666 only if it is built without -DQUIETBACKGROUND defined; this symbol is
7667 defined by default in patchlevels before pl75, but undefined by default in
7670 * Bug fix: Handling of initial board position in move list for wild games
7671 was broken, so wild games could not be observed and adjourned wild games
7672 could not be continued. Thanks to "Maximum Entropy" for the bug report.
7674 * Added feature: algebraic notation now shows "+" indicator for check
7675 and "#" for checkmate, as called for in PGN standard. Thanks to Kevin
7676 Maher for the suggestion.
7678 3.3, patchlevel 0 -- Thu Jul 27 22:21:07 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
7680 * Changed configuration to use a config.h file instead of passing zillions
7681 of -D options on the cc command line.
7683 * Merged a small fix and some updates to the texinfo file from Jochen
7684 Wiedmann. The texinfo file still needs work.
7686 3.2, patchlevel 5 -- Tue Jul 18 20:29:39 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
7688 * Beta test release of xboard only.
7690 * Updated WinBoard code to include new xboard features.
7692 * Added texinfo file from Jochen Wiedmann to the release, but not as the
7693 primary documentation. It needs updating, and the English needs work.
7694 I did make a few improvements, mostly to change incorrect uses of @var to
7695 either @samp or @code as appropriate.
7697 * Merged in code changes to 3.2.pl4beta from Jochen Wiedmann.
7699 * Fixed EditComment; did not pop up window in previous beta.
7701 * Added AutoComment feature.
7703 * Added GameListDestroy to disable the outdated game list popup in cases
7704 where we load a new game file without building a new popup.
7706 * Added yyskipmoves feature to parser.l to speed up building of gamelist.
7708 * gamelist.c wouldn't compile with a non-ANSI compiler. Fixed.
7710 * Change to yy_text handling in patchlevel 3 still had problems. Can't
7711 use AC_DECL_YYTEXT in configure.in, because that defines YYTEXT_POINTER
7712 according to whether the lexer on the current host makes yytext a pointer.
7713 But most people will be using a parser.c that was generated on another
7714 host and shipped with the package.
7716 3.2, patchlevel 4 -- Sun Jun 25 19:13:43 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
7718 * Beta test release of xboard only.
7720 * Added FIREWALLS section to man page.
7722 * Changed -icsport to be a string. Now with the -telnet option,
7723 specifying -icsport "" suppresses the second argument to telnet.
7725 * Added EditTags feature. Removed AboutGame from menu, because EditTags
7726 subsumes it. EditTags suggested by Jochen Wiedmann and first implemented by
7727 him in AmyBoard. xboard implementation is my own.
7729 * Fixed some missing or incorrect prototypes.
7731 3.2, patchlevel 3 -- Sat Jun 3 18:57:38 1995 Tim Mann
7733 * Beta test release of xboard only.
7735 * New version of cmail from Evan Welsh, to fix compatibility problems with
7738 * Added game list feature on Load Game, based on code from Jochen
7739 Wiedmann. Integrated it with cmail.
7741 * Several bug fixes from Jochen Wiedmann, including one to my yy_text
7742 workaround for the difference in the type of yytext between lex and flex.
7744 * Handle clock pause on FICS.
7746 * Suppress clocks in untimed FICS games (time control 0 0).
7748 * Rebuilt configure script with autoconf 2.3. This fixes a bug in
7749 configuring for X11R6, where -lSM -lICE would not be added when needed.
7751 * Fixed inconsistent type declarations on IntSigHandler and
7752 CmailSigHandler. Bug report from Josh Daynard.
7754 * backend.c wouldn't compile with a non-ANSI compiler. Fixed.
7756 3.2, patchlevel 2 -- Tue Feb 7 14:50:30 1995 Tim Mann
7758 * Minor release of both xboard and WinBoard.
7760 * Added recognition of some FICS messages. On the other hand FICS is also
7761 changing some of its messages to match what xboard already recognizes.
7763 * Temporarily went back to using "promote" command on ICS instead of
7764 "a7a8=Q", because FICS doesn't implement the latter yet.
7766 * We now avoid using overlapped I/O on pipes in WinBoard, to make Windows
7767 95 beta 2 happy. This lets WinBoard work with GNU Chess on Windows 95!
7769 * Installed patches from Jochen Wiedmann to coordinate with Amiga XBoard.
7771 * Installed patch to cmail bug in LoadGame from Evan Welsh.
7773 * Bugfix: checkmate and stalemate moves entered with EditGame in ICS mode
7774 were not being handled correctly. Bug was in GameEnds().
7776 * Implemented EchoOn and EchoOff for xboard, using system("stty echo\n").
7777 Now passwords won't be echoed when you connect directly to ICS. Also,
7778 telnet negotiation characters aren't displayed (when possible).
7780 * Implemented more of the telnet protocol. Now connecting to a telnet
7781 server with "-icsport 23" should work even without giving the -telnet
7782 option. The telnet is in "old line-by-line mode".
7784 3.2, patchlevel 1 -- Sat Dec 10 13:50:46 1994 Tim Mann
7786 * This patchlevel released for WinBoard only.
7788 * winboard.c: Fixed ConsoleInputThread(). Needed to change CRLF to LF,
7789 not to CR. This was stopping normal /ics mode from working. Thanks to
7790 Asher Kobin for the bug report.
7792 * winboard.c: Fixed Raw(), EchoOn(), EchoOff(). Now they take effect
7793 immediately, not on the next console read after the one in progress.
7795 * winboard.c: Attempted to make WinBoard work with gnuchessx running
7796 directly on Windows (not remotely via rsh). It now works on NT, but only
7797 if gnuchess is told not to think on its opponent's time ("easy\n" removed
7798 from initString). The problem seems to be that GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent
7799 is not doing anything. On Windows 95 beta 2, we get error messages on
7800 both reading and writing to gnuchessx; I didn't investigate why.
7802 3.2, patchlevel 0 -- Wed Dec 7 13:23:36 1994 Tim Mann
7804 * Thanks to all the beta testers who gave me feedback: Josef Nelissen,
7805 Steve Booth, Evan Welsh, Dima Dakhnovsky, Chris Petroff, Peter Jansen,
7806 Derek Terveer, Michel van der List, Richard Lloyd, Shelly Mistry, and Mike
7807 Lee. Sorry if I forgot anyone. Thanks to Virendra Kumar Mehta for
7808 information about DYNIX/ptx.
7810 * Don't exit on keyboard EOF unless we get two in a row.
7812 * WinBoard only: added -localLineEdit switch to allow turning off local
7813 line editing if you really want to. It is still a bad idea to let the
7814 echoing be done remotely, however; see below.
7816 * Fixed some configure problems on HP-UX. [Steve Booth]
7818 * Fixed (I hope) configure problem on SunOS 5.3/Solaris 2.3. [Josef Nelissen]
7820 * cmail bugfix from Evan Welsh (cmail 3.4).
7822 3.1, patchlevel 9 -- Fri Dec 2 23:54:56 1994 Tim Mann
7824 * Beta distribution only
7826 * Always do local echo/edit of user typing in ICS mode. Doing the echo
7827 downstream may seem nicer in some modes, and it can be hard to turn that
7828 echo off, but the echoed characters can be interleaved with ICS output
7829 and make it impossible to parse correctly. For xboard this involved only
7830 a change to recommendations in the man page, as Raw() isn't implemented.
7831 For WinBoard, removing Raw() made a real difference. Added code in
7832 WinBoard to change /r/n back into /r on keyboard input, as we get the
7833 former when Raw() is not called.
7835 * Do not issue ICS "refresh" command after we start to observe a game
7836 unless we get to the next prompt without seeing a board image. Newest
7837 version of ICS doesn't require this refresh, but old versions around still
7840 * cmail bugfix and small code cleanup in LoadGame, from Evan Welsh.
7842 * Added keyboard accelerators N/P for LoadNextGame/LoadPreviousGame. Evan
7845 * Using "-" on the command line as a filename for loading (saving) games
7846 or positions specifies the standard input (standard output). Alain Picard
7849 * On WinBoard only, a command line option without a leading '-' or '/' is
7850 now taken as the value of -lgf.
7852 * Changed to not use stdin, stdout, stderr as initializers in backend.c;
7853 needed for GNU libc compatibility. You also must build parser.c with flex
7854 (not lex) if you are using GNU libc, to avoid having the same problem
7857 * Changed WinBoard to avoid using "overlapped" input on the console. It
7858 now seems to fully work on Windows 95 beta 2.
7860 * Improved comment popups on WinBoard. Now newlines are handled properly,
7861 and the plain Comment popup window doesn't disappear and reappear when we
7862 step to a new move with a new comment.
7864 * Fixed bugs in detecting the absence of the time and otim commands.
7866 * Added built-in implementation of rcmd protocol to WinBoard. Windows NT
7867 does not implement passing signals through rsh, and Windows 95 does not
7870 * Added -remoteUser option.
7872 3.1, patchlevel 8 -- Mon Nov 28 15:26:07 1994 Tim Mann
7874 * Beta distribution only
7876 * Rearranged ChangeLog file into reverse chronological order to be closer
7879 * Integrated new cmail code from Evan Welsh (including cmail RCS rev 3.2).
7880 Includes a bug fix to TruncateGame.
7882 * Updated ICS address to be chess.lm.com.
7884 * Bug fixes to handling the aftermath of FatalError. Thanks to Chris
7885 Petroff for the bug report.
7887 * Test for remsh before rsh, other fixes for HP-UX. Thanks to Richard
7888 Lloyd. I wasn't able to do all the things he suggested, so there may
7889 still be some rough edges in building on HP-UX. See the FAQ file for hints.
7891 * Bug fix; added missing check for HAVE_SYS_SYSTEMINFO. Thanks to Josef
7892 Nelissen for testing on Solaris 2.x.
7894 * Updated WinBoard to match xboard. (WinBoard still has a few option
7895 dialogs that don't exist in xboard.)
7897 * Changed Hint output to a popup.
7899 * ShowThinking output and move output no longer overwrite each other.
7900 ShowThinking output won't appear if the displayed position is not current.
7901 ShowThinking output in TwoMachines mode made clearer and documented.
7903 * Implemented --enable-ptys and --disable-ptys arguments to configure.
7905 * Fixed Book and Hint code to work over a pty with echo enabled and tabs
7906 expanded to spaces. Thanks to Dima Dahknovsky for the bug report.
7908 * Moved Attention calls from all over xboard to one place, inside
7911 * Added bulletproofing to ShowThinkingEvent.
7913 * Added code to handle "refresh N" boards that come in from ICS properly,
7914 assuming ICS is changed to mark them with a new relation code (-3).
7916 3.1, patchlevel 7 -- Sun Nov 13 22:16:01 PST 1994 -- Tim Mann
7918 * Beta distribution only
7920 * Changed ShowThinking to just show the current best line in the
7921 DisplayMessage area, instead of dumping everything to stdout.
7923 * Installed new cmail (RCS rev 3.1) and cmail.man (RCS rev 1.10), and
7924 changes to cmail code in backend.c, from Evan Welsh.
7926 * Miscellaneous minor fixes.
7928 3.1, patchlevel 6 -- Fri Nov 4 12:53:53 PST 1994 -- Tim Mann
7930 * This patchlevel was not actually released to anyone.
7932 * Updated the pty code to be based on GNU Emacs 19.24, and moved it to a
7933 separate file. It was hard to split out just the pty configuration from
7934 all the stuff emacs does with its custom configure script and .h files,
7937 * Converted from imake to GNU autoconf. This was a serious upheaval.
7939 * Put in code to help trap "error gathering move list" problem reported by
7940 Michel van der List if it recurs. I couldn't reproduce it.
7942 3.1, patchlevel 5 -- Mon Oct 31 21:12:00 PST 1994 -- Tim Mann
7944 * Beta distribution only.
7946 * We now test for checkmate or stalemate in EditGame mode after every user
7947 move, and in LoadGame mode whenever we hit the end of a game without
7948 seeing a PGN end marker. cmail needs an update to deal with this
7949 correctly; Evan promises one.
7951 * Bugfixes in new move generator. Thanks to Mike Lee for reporting one of
7954 * Imakefile was omitted from patchlevel 4.
7956 3.1, patchlevel 4 -- Mon Sep 19 18:19:46 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
7958 * Beta distribution only.
7960 * The move generator includes a mate tester. Initially this is used only
7961 by cmail, and even that usage needs further work.
7963 * Wrote a true move generator and used it to replace all the move
7964 disambiguation and legality checking code in parser.l. The move generator
7965 is capable of dealing correctly with en passant and castling availability,
7966 but the rest of the program still does not keep track of this information.
7968 * Bug fix: xboard did not handle "foo has made you an examiner of game 23"
7969 message. Thus you could not use examine features until the next board
7970 came in, showing your new relation to the game. Thanks to POOKIEWOOKIE on ICS
7973 * Added AutoObserve feature. Thanks to Chris Petroff for the idea.
7975 * Added Book feature to use new gnuchess "bk" command. Mike McGann request.
7977 * Redid code to handle missing "time" command in gnuchess, because latest
7978 gnuchess no longer sends a response to this command.
7980 * Eliminated need for -DFLEX. Thanks to Michael Shields (Vladimir?) for
7983 * Added missing code to implement MoveNow in TwoMachines mode.
7985 * Added ShowThinking feature. Thanks to Richard Lloyd for the idea.
7987 * Applied patches from Evan Welsh; some fixes and improvements to the
7990 * Fixed bug in moving from EndOfGame mode to MachineWhite or MachineBlack,
7991 introduced in previous patchlevel. Also fixed related bug in ending a
7992 game in ICS mode; was entering EndOfGame mode instead of IcsIdle.
7994 * Added patch to implement internetChessServerLogonScript flag, from Kevin
7997 3.1, patchlevel 3 -- Wed Sep 7 13:22:07 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
7999 * Beta distribution only.
8001 * Merged in new cmail code from Evan Welsh. He added the ability to have
8002 more than one game per message, needed for official IECG matches. I added
8003 the ability to resign or offer/accept/decline a draw in a cmail game.
8005 * Bugfix: invalid -tc option caused segmentation fault; DisplayFatalError
8006 was called too early in initialization. Georges Honore reported this bug.
8008 * Decided to keep EndOfGame mode as an element of the user interface---it
8009 means that a gnuchess game or loaded game has ended, and the user must
8010 explicitly select EditGame to edit it, rather than just being able to
8011 enter more moves freely. But internally there is no longer an invariant
8012 tying this mode to whether the chess program is running.
8014 * Zippy bugfix: Was saving only the final position in the -sgf file when
8015 the game ended by something other than resignation or flag. Also fixed
8016 the longstanding bug that Zippy would think the final board of such a game
8017 was a new game and restart the chess program.
8019 * Now does a better job of faking castling availability in FEN. We still
8020 don't really keep track of it, but now at least we don't say that castling
8021 is still available when the king or rook is not on its home square.
8023 * Bugfix: Initial board of game history for wild games was going through
8024 too much processing, causing us to forget the game length, which is now
8025 needed by ParseGameHistory. This was causing problems with resuming
8026 adjourned wild games.
8028 * Updated ICS host to ics.onenet.net.
8030 * Zippy now accepts challenges where the opponent specified his color.
8032 * Added ZIPPYPASSWORD2 to let operator give commands directly to gnuchess.
8034 * Bitmap directory can include alternative icons now, too.
8036 * Handle "Game * (*) has no examiners" message from ICS.
8038 * Revamped window title and icon name selection.
8040 3.1, patchlevel 2 -- Sun Jun 12 17:16:28 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
8042 * "Beta" distribution for Zippy users only.
8044 * Bugfix: common.h was assuming that X11 type Boolean is char, which is
8045 not always true. This might have caused all sorts of obscure bugs!
8047 * Installed new bitmaps from Elmar Bartel as the default. Many thanks!
8048 The old bitmaps can be used by changing the "bitmaps" symbolic link before
8049 compiling xboard, or by using the -bitmapDirectory option at runtime.
8051 * Loading a game that ends with the PGN unfinished symbol ("*") now always
8052 leaves you in EditGame mode.
8054 * Added documentation of -icscomm to man page. Thanks to Maarten Remkes
8055 for the linux script.
8057 * ^C now kills gnuchess as well as xboard. Thanks to Dima Dakhnovsky for
8058 reminding me how to do this.
8060 * Bitmap icon color now indicates player to move. Stuart Cracraft
8063 * Changed piece bitmap flags to have just one flag, which points to a
8064 directory full of bitmaps, instead of a flag for each bitmap. Also
8065 changed bitmap naming convention.
8067 * "Connection closed by ICS" is no longer a FatalError popup. This was
8068 too annoying in the normal case where the user typed "quit".
8070 * Changed default font to 14 pixels instead of 10 points. This seems to
8071 make it close to the size I want it to be on more displays.
8073 * Major mode (GNU Chess, etc.) appears in title bar. Stuart Cracraft
8076 * Bug fix: EditGameEvent, MachineBlackEvent, MachineWhiteEvent, and
8077 TwoMachinesEvent were calling PauseEvent to get out of pause mode, which
8078 now has undesired side effects, such as advancing the display to the
8079 forwardMostMove. It works fine to just set pausing = FALSE instead.
8081 * IcsExamining mode now lets you access ICS edit position commands using
8082 the same popup menus as xboard's EditPosition mode. Thanks to DAV on ICS
8083 for inspiring the idea.
8085 * Corrected test for gcc on HP in Imakefile; thanks to Richard Lloyd.
8087 3.1, patchlevel 1 -- Wed Jun 1 16:25:11 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
8089 * Added parser.c.lex and parser.c.flex to the distribution.
8091 * Added HP gcc options to Imakefile, from Mats Nylen.
8093 * EndOfGame mode no longer highlights EditGame mode indicator, because the
8094 modes really do differ. I would like to get rid of EndOfGame mode in the
8095 future, at least as far as users can see.
8097 * Larger %a in parser.l, needed for RS/6000 users.
8099 * Minor improvements to Mail Move error messages.
8101 * When -debug flag is given to xboard, -v is passed to cmail.
8103 * Old Save Style uses "1. ..." instead of "1..." when black moves after a
8104 comment; more like xboard 3.0's actual style.
8106 * New version of cmail from Evan Welsh. Looks for UCB Mail in a more
8107 portable way and has some minor bug fixes.
8109 * Bug fix: Saving a FEN position while in EditPosition mode with black to
8110 play was showing white to play in the saved position.
8112 3.1, patchlevel 0 -- Fri May 20 16:36:15 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
8114 * This is the first general release since 3.0, patchlevel 9. Releases
8115 since then have been limited-distribution or beta releases.
8117 * Thanks to my version 3.1 beta testers: Dmitry Dakhnovsky, Ed Hanway,
8118 Richard Lloyd, Mike McGann, Shelly Mistry, Josef Nelissen, Chris Petroff,
8119 Jack Robertson, Michel van der List, Ky Macpherson, Derek Terveer, and
8120 Evan Welsh. Sorry if I've forgotten anyone who gave me feedback.
8124 * Minor cleanup on menu sensitivity code.
8126 * Integrated another even better version of cmail from Evan Welsh,
8127 including some code he supplied in xboard itself.
8129 * A few more fixes to cmail support.
8131 * Automatically update clocks after an ICS "moretime" command.
8133 * Handle ICS automatic examine mode (set examine 1) after a game.
8135 3.0, patchlevel 14 -- Tue May 17 13:41:44 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
8137 * Beta test release only.
8139 * Don't suppress prompt on first board of game being examined; otherwise
8140 it looks like nothing happened at all (i.e., like you're lagged).
8142 * Added StopExamining and StopObserving (Chris Petroff suggestion).
8144 * Made Reset do a refresh on ICS. John Chanak's original ICS code for
8145 xboard tried to do this; I finally decided it was a good idea after all.
8147 * Fixed bugs in handling updates that come in while you are pausing in
8148 examine mode. This is pretty tricky to do right.
8150 * Made un-Pausing immediately pop you to the current position. This is
8151 always necessary in examine mode, since the game may have changed under
8152 you; your remembered moves might no longer be right. So I made it do the
8155 * Took Detach Examine mode back out...used Pause mode for this instead!
8157 * Put in a trap for the GNU Chess bug of printing an Illegal Move message
8158 when its own hint move is illegal.
8160 * Attempted to fix a Zippy bug; bogus "exited unexpectedly" messages after
8161 it checkmates its opponent. This involved adding an argument to GameEnds
8162 to say who says it ended (ICS, GNU, etc.) and taking different actions in
8163 different cases. Unfortunately, this just restored an older Zippy bug, where
8164 Zippy restarts gnuchess when it gets the board with the final position,
8165 because GameEnds still puts xboard in EndOfGame mode. Sigh.
8167 * We now capture elapsed time on last move when getting game history.
8168 (Josef Nelissen bug report)
8170 * Rewrote code to redisplay last file title so it really works.
8172 * Fixed bug in oldSaveStyle.
8174 * Larger %a and %o were needed for lex.
8176 3.0, patchlevel 13 -- Mon May 16 16:26:22 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
8178 * Beta test release only.
8180 * FatalError popups stay on the screen now. If the error is really fatal,
8181 all functions are disabled, and the program exits when you press OK.
8183 * Redisplay last file title when using Load (Next/Previous/Same) Game.
8185 * Zippy understands new match challenge message format on ICS.
8187 * Added Revert command.
8189 * When examining a game on ICS, < > buttons do ICS backward/forward
8190 commands, unless you set the Detach Examine option. Thanks to Dima
8191 Dakhnovsky for the idea.
8193 * Fixed various minor problems in cmail mode.
8195 * cmail generates the tags now. New version of cmail from Evan Welsh.
8197 * cmail mode won't let you do MailMove unless the currently displayed
8198 position is exactly one move past the end of the game you loaded.
8200 * Fixed building of man pages in Imakefile
8202 * Updates to INSTALL file
8204 3.0, patchlevel 12 -- Sat May 7 21:10:03 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
8206 * Beta test release only.
8208 * Brought man page up to date.
8210 * Added Shift+R to resign from keyboard.
8212 * Some items on Action menu available in GNU Chess mode now.
8214 * Revamped Action menu.
8216 * Reordered functions in backend.c as a small step toward reorganizing
8219 * Generate TimeControl PGN tag.
8221 * Get type of ICS game (e.g., rated blitz) and save in PGN tags.
8223 * Bug fix: Clocks were not redisplayed when entering EditGame mode.
8225 * Bug fix: Clocks were not being redisplayed after loading a game file
8226 with -td 0, so they could show the wrong color active.
8228 * Bug fix: Chess programs would be killed and match mode would exit
8229 prematurely when loading a PGN game fragment ending with "*".
8231 * ICS command "sposition" no longer confuses xboard.
8233 * Integrated new version of cmail (with support code in xboard) from Evan
8236 * Added TruncateGame, MoveNow, RetractMove, and QuietPlay.
8238 * Bug fix: switching between MachineWhite and MachineBlack was not calling
8239 Attention(). Reported by Dino Dini.
8241 * More improvements to INSTALL and Imakefile.
8243 * Pack moves into 79 character lines in PGN output. We don't generate
8244 check indications, and we always break the line before the result,
8245 so this is not quite PGN export format.
8247 * Use FEN tag in PGN.
8249 * Improved finding and counting of game starts in save files.
8251 * Negative position or game numbers in -lpi/-lgi mean to seek to that byte
8252 offset. Hook for possible future features, not in man page.
8254 * Detect and handle absence of either "time" or "otim" commands in
8257 * Don't use "promote" command to ICS anymore.
8259 * Handle switching sides and taking back moves on FICS.
8261 * Handle flip state flag in style 12 board.
8263 * Handle examine mode on ICS.
8265 * Improved error popups for various kinds of illegal moves.
8267 * Suppress unasked-for hints from gnuchess (which it generates in post
8270 * Load/save position functions use FEN. Old style also supported.
8272 * Added detailed error messages if loading a bitmap file fails.
8274 * Small board has 2-pixel lines between squares instead of 3-pixel.
8276 * Added OldSaveStyle and AboutGame.
8278 * Renamed ForceMoves to EditGame.
8280 3.0, patchlevel 11 -- Tue Sep 21 15:25:36 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
8282 * The following changes were present in xboard 3.0, patchlevel 11, but the
8283 first group did not make it into WinBoard 3.0 until later. xboard
8284 3.0.pl11 was a limited-distribution release only, mostly to Zippy users.
8286 * Man page minor fixes.
8288 * Added a missing file close.
8290 * Removed automatic error popdown on Reset, which was destroying some
8291 error messages before they could be read.
8293 * Fixed char vs. unsigned char warnings on bitmaps.
8295 * Use ICS board style 12. Some improvements to ICS parsing.
8297 * Comment window is now labelled with the move the comment is on, and
8298 comments don't pop down when you step to the next move.
8300 * Save files now in PGN format.
8302 * Support for loading PGN files. PGN tags pop up when a PGN game file
8305 * More info in INSTALL and Imakefile about building for Suns (and
8308 * WinBoard 3.0 patchlevel 11 split off from an early version of xboard
8309 3.0 patchlevel 11, so it does not have all the features of that
8310 patchlevel. The following changes made it into both xboard and
8313 * Made Comment dialog non-modal in WinBoard.
8315 * EndOfGame mode is now more transparent. It looks like ForceMoves
8316 mode except that there is no chess program running.
8318 * Small bug fixes in clock management. Most noticeably, pausing when
8319 it is gnuchess's move now works as documented (again).
8321 * Add minimal support for -icscomm option. Not documented yet because
8322 I haven't sorted out the issues with setting the tty modes on the comm
8323 port device, or with locking it properly. But it's usable by wizards.
8325 * Don't restart the chess program upon Backward event from EndOfGame mode.
8327 * Suppress extra prompt after ICS sends us a board.
8329 3.0, patchlevel 10 -- Sat Sep 11 18:44:03 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
8331 * Beta test release only.
8333 * Zippy now plays chess. zippy.c and zippy.h are still not included
8334 in the standard distribution, but are available on request.
8336 * Switched to using style 12 on ICS.
8338 * Updated man page, and documented use of XBoard*form.translations to
8339 add more shortcut keys.
8341 * Added shortcut keys "d" to claim/offer/accept a draw, and "t" to
8342 call flag. Suggested by venu on ICS.
8344 * More explicit instructions in INSTALL file.
8346 3.0, patchlevel 9 -- Tue Sep 7 14:02:00 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
8348 * General release, minor update to 3.0.pl8.
8350 * Loosened checking on whether it's okay to start a move, to satisfy
8351 ICS ultra-blitz players. Now we don't check whether it's your turn
8352 until you let go of the piece.
8354 * Parser now recognizes "+-+" as meaning the game ended in a draw.
8356 * Got rid of S_NONE symbol, which seems to conflict with some symbol
8359 * Tweaked the man page. Clarified that there is currently no way for
8360 two people running copies of xboard to play each other without going
8361 through the Internet Chess Server.
8363 * Fixed a bug in color name conversion. Asking for two different
8364 colors whose names were the same in the first four characters would
8365 get you two copies of the first one. Thanks to Volker Zink for the
8368 * Improved confusing Usage() message.
8370 * Added a bunch of Sun information to the Imakefile and INSTALL file.
8371 Thanks to Ed Hanway, Arik Klingensmith, and others who responded.
8373 * Test for defined(WIN32) instead of !defined(unix).
8375 * Avoid using (void *) type with non-ANSI C compilers. Thanks to
8376 James Altucher for the bug report.
8378 3.0, patchlevel 8 -- Thu Sep 2 12:23:01 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
8380 * Note: Patchlevel 8 was the first non-beta release of xboard 3.0
8382 * Added cmail to distribution. Contributed (and still maintained) by
8385 * Bug fix: -queen option wasn't initializing menu check. Reported by
8388 3.0, patchlevel 7 -- Thu Aug 26 13:23:24 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
8390 * Sent WinBoard 3.0.pl7 to Torre on ICS
8392 * Added parser.h to hold the interface to parser.l
8394 * Upgraded COPYING file and copyright notices to GNU GPL version 2.
8396 3.0, patchlevel 6 -- Tue Aug 24 15:16:13 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
8398 * We no longer display intermediate positions or intermediate comments
8399 while loading a game file with -timeDelay 0 or loading an opening to
8400 start up a -matchMode game.
8402 * Loading an empty game from an xboard save file now gives a status
8403 message "No moves in game" instead of an error popup saying "Game not
8406 * Added comment.awk to distribution.
8408 3.0, patchlevel 5 -- Tue Aug 17 16:45:54 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
8410 * Bug fix: xboard would crash if it couldn't get all its colors; now
8411 it switches to monoMode instead. Also, xboard was trying to convert
8412 color resources even when using a b/w display. Reported by Larry
8415 * Bug fix: Declared fields of TimeMark as signed so that we get signed
8416 instead of unsigned arithmetic. SubtractTimeMarks was breaking on
8417 Alpha AXP (which has 64-bit longs) with old declarations. Reported by
8418 Michel van der List.
8420 * Bug fixes: Keyboard accelerators now work after EditComment window is
8421 popped down. Iconize keyboard accelerator now works even if xboard
8422 was started with -iconic flag and later deiconized.
8424 * Bug fix: The routine that tests whether a move is illegal because it
8425 would leave you in check was not handling e.p. captures properly.
8426 Reported by Patrick Surry.
8428 * Bug (?) fix: Was adding time to clocks at time control even when
8429 loading a game file. Actually it's not entirely clear how time
8430 controls should be dealt with when some moves are loaded from a file
8431 or clicked in with ForceMoves. For now ForceMoves mode does add the
8432 time (because it can be used to change moves during a live game), but
8433 LoadGame mode does not.
8435 * Updated usage message.
8437 * Previous attempted fix to matchMode had broken TwoMachines mode and
8438 generally needed more work. Also simplified command line interface to
8441 3.0, patchlevel 4 -- Thu Aug 5 14:17:18 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
8443 * Thanks again to the beta testers listed for 3.0 patchlevel 3, and also
8444 Desnogues, Steve Cariglia, Niklas Engsner, Mark Silver, and Roger Rowe.
8446 * Reorganized man page, splitting OPTIONS into subsections.
8448 * matchMode was very broken; fixed.
8450 * Changed convention for turning off command line options from --opt
8451 to -xopt, to be less inconsistent with GNU standards. Also changed
8452 the long command line options to take True/False arguments like
8453 resources; seems to make more sense this way.
8455 * Added AlwaysQueen option -- suppresses promotion dialog and always
8456 promotes to a queen if you move a pawn to the last rank. Has no
8457 effect on gnuchess (or your ICS opponents!) -- they can still
8460 * Subtracted an extra fudge term when determining how wide message and
8461 title widgets should be. This fixes a problem some beta testers had.
8462 Wish I knew why it's needed.
8464 * Bugfix in parser; symptom was that you couldn't do LoadGame after
8465 observing a game on ICS.
8467 * Bugfix in Forward; didn't work after game ended while Pause was turned on.
8469 * Removed bogus execute bits on .h files.
8471 * Use REMOTE_SHELL and TELNET_PROGRAM definitions.
8473 * MachineWhite and MachineBlack now work from TwoMachines mode.
8475 * Popping down an error message with the [ok] button was not turning off
8476 the errorUp flag, so the next move would cause xboard to try to pop it
8477 down again, resulting in a wild memory reference and sometimes a crash.
8479 3.0, patchlevel 3 -- Tue Aug 3 17:40:27 1993 -- Tim Mann
8481 * Thanks to my beta testers: Patrick Surry, Takuya Kojima, Robert J. Luoma,
8482 Chris L. Petroff, Richard K. Lloyd, Michel van der List, Craig Metz,
8483 Antoon Frehe, Simon Clift, Shelly, Eric Peterson, Christopher Mitchell,
8484 Martin Koch, Ed Hanway, Steve Booth, Udo, Ken Hobday, and Joseph Duhamel.
8486 * Improved error messages for trying to move the wrong color pieces or
8487 to move when it's not your turn.
8489 * Special code for monoMode on 1-bit displays now understands displays
8490 where 1=white and 0=black.
8492 * Declare getenv() if <stdlib.h> not included; avoids a compiler warning.
8494 * Documented borderXoffset and borderYoffset.
8496 * Added -titleInWindow option for use with X window managers that
8497 don't let us set the title in the window banner.
8499 * Fixed error message printing in WinBoard; system error messages no
8500 longer appear as numeric codes.
8502 * The error message popup is now non-modal; you don't have to press the
8503 [ok] button before you can do something else. In addition, the popup is
8504 positioned so that it doesn't cover up the board (too much), and making a
8505 move or otherwise clicking on the board pops it down. (Not implemented in
8508 * You can now call your opponent's flag in ICS mode by clicking on his
8511 * Fixed minor bugs in -flipView option and documented exactly how xboard
8512 decides which way to flip the view.
8514 3.0, patchlevel 2 -- Fri Jul 30 22:20:23 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
8516 * Added Autosave to Options menu. Would be better to have Save
8517 Options dialog as in WinBoard, but this was quick to do and gives the
8518 most-needed functionality.
8520 * Changed "Reload Game" on menu to "Reload Same Game".
8522 3.0, patchlevel 1 -- Thu Jul 8 21:22:59 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
8524 * Sent a copy of patchlevel 1 to Patrick Surry to beta-test.
8526 * Added -cmail option that sets appData.cmailMode. Currently a no-op.
8527 In the future this may set special modes for use by the cmail script
8528 for playing chess by email.
8530 * Added LoadNextGame, LoadPreviousGame, and ReloadGame to File menu.
8531 ReloadGame suggested by Patrick Surry.
8533 * Added -flipView command-line option. Suggested by Patrick Surry.
8535 * Fixed bugs in parser.l: (1) Pattern for "# xboard game file ..."
8536 needed to match to end of line. (2) Start of a new file was not matching
8537 the ^ start-of-line character. The fix for this is a kludge.
8539 * Made game counting code in LoadGame more robust, and made LoadGame
8540 able to detect the end of a saved partial game (by noticing the start
8541 of the next game) in game files created by XBoard itself. We don't
8542 try to find the start of the next game that way in other kinds of game
8543 files, because the only way I can think of to do that is to look for
8544 another move #1, and that technique gets too many false hits.
8546 * Fixed recently introduced bug in LoadGame when game starts with a
8549 3.0, patchlevel 0 -- Fri Jun 25 14:17:17 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
8551 * Changes in this patchlevel were too numerous to list. Larger ones are
8554 * Added a popup dialog to enter and edit comments. Inspired by some
8555 code from Patrick Surry. Changed the normal read-only comment popup
8558 * Added ICS init script feature from Karl Schwamb.
8560 * Added some ESIX fixes and OMIT_SOCKETS ifdef option, from Kayvan Sylvan.
8562 * Revamped code to allow use of flex instead of lex on parser.l.
8563 Using flex requires adding -DFLEX to defines in Imakefile.
8565 * Source code is split into front end (xboard.c), which knows about X
8566 and Unix, and back end (backend.c), which knows about chess, gnuchess,
8567 and the ICS. There is also a front end for Windows NT.
8569 * Boolean command line options now use "-foo" to turn on and "--foo"
8570 to turn off instead of "-foo true" and "-foo false". [Later -xfoo;
8573 * Added menu commands to control autoflag, bell, and coords options.
8575 * User interface has a new look: (1) Menu bar instead of array of
8576 buttons. A few very commonly used features have small buttons in
8577 addition to being on the menus. (2) Large font for clock. (3) Pop-up
8580 2.1, patchlevel 11 -- Sat Jun 5 00:01:01 PDT 1993 -- mann@src.dec.com
8582 * Added code to deal with "wild" games on ICS. This includes allowing
8583 castling with the king on d1 or d8, which is allowed in wild(1) games
8584 if the king started there. Notation is o-o to castle "short"---to
8585 whichever side the king is closer to---and o-o-o to castle "long."
8586 Right now wild castling is always allowed by xboard; we rely on ICS or
8587 gnuchess to reject it when we aren't really in wild mode.
8589 * memcpy call had arguments in wrong order.
8591 * Removed April Fool code
8593 2.1, patchlevel 10 -- Mon Feb 15 10:19:31 PST 1993 -- mann@src.dec.com
8595 * Avoid trying to select on a pipe when using System V. Needed to
8596 copy some code from InitChessProgram() up into establish().
8598 * Bug fix in disambiguating pawn moves like "ed".
8600 * Fix to error handling in ReceiveFromProgram.
8602 * Bug fix: entering EditPosition mode with black to play highlighted
8603 White's clock instead of Black's.
8605 * Added telnetProgram resource in case "telnet" is not the name of the
8608 2.1, patchlevel 9 -- Fri Jan 22 19:08:27 PST 1993 -- mann@src.dec.com
8610 * Entering Force Moves mode clears "flag has fallen" messages from display.
8612 * ICS host name can now be in numeric format; for example 128.2.232.4.
8614 * Bug fix: LegalityTest was failing to test whether a pawn move was
8615 illegal because the move would discover a check.
8617 * Handle ICS message "mann asserts a win over manntest, who disconnected."
8619 * Bug fix: A recent change to PromotionCallBack had broken
8620 underpromotion to a knight.
8622 * Bug fix: In EditPosition mode, dragging a piece onto a square border
8623 would make it vanish. xboard wasn't distinguishing this case from
8624 dragging the piece off the board. Thanks to Matthew Kidd.
8626 * Removed "static" declaration from yywrap for compatibility with IRIX
8627 version of lex. Thanks to stiller@blaze.cs.jhu.edu.
8629 * Added substitutes for bzero, bcopy, and gethostname for Solaris
8630 SVR4. Thanks to Michael Grant.
8632 * Bug fixes to queen move disambiguation. Bugs showed up only when
8633 promotion resulted in more than one queen on the board.
8635 2.1, patchlevel 8 -- Fri Dec 11 17:54:18 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
8637 * parser bug fix: It now really works to leave off the piece a pawn is
8638 promoting to and let it default to queen.
8640 * When starting to observe or play an ICS game, don't draw board in
8641 initial position and then immediately redraw it in the current
8644 * Handle ICS messages when an "abuser" forfeits a game by
8645 disconnecting and when a game is aborted ("removed") by an
8648 * Bug fix: A user move when in LoadGame+Pause mode was resuming the
8649 game load instead of putting us in force mode.
8651 * It seems that crashes inside sscanf when xboard is compiled with gcc
8652 (as on IBM PS/2 AIX, mentioned below, and also on VAX Ultrix 3.1) are
8653 caused by an incompatibility between gcc and the sscanf implementation
8654 on these platforms. A workaround is to specify -fwritable-strings to
8655 gcc (see the gcc documentation). Added info on how to do this to the
8656 Imakefile. Thanks to Tom McConnell for this information.
8658 * Clocks are allowed to go negative. This is mostly for ICS
8659 compatibility, but it affects gnuchess mode too. Also, we give the
8660 time bonus when a player hits the time control boundary even if his
8661 flag is already down. This choice is a bit debatable, but it makes
8662 things look better when you are in TwoMachines mode and gnuchess's
8663 time management screws up causing it to exceed its time limit.
8665 * Implemented move legality checking code. Moves made with the mouse
8666 or parsed from a file are checked for legality before being made.
8667 This is mostly in preparation for future extensions, such as
8668 human-human play. For now it makes -noChessProgram mode more useful.
8670 * If the user takes back moves, we restore the clocks to the earlier
8673 * We now handle the output of the ICS oldmoves command, including
8674 parsing the game end condition.
8676 * Added autoCallFlag mode.
8678 * Fixed glitches in the medium size outline king and rook bitmaps, and
8679 touched up the medium size solid king and outline queen.
8681 * bug fix: DisplayMove would not display backwardMostMove - 1.
8683 * Added CallFlag button and removed AcceptMatch. CallFlag is more
8684 important with new ICS, and accepting the current match offer is easy
8685 with the new ICS command "accept" (can be abbreviated "ac").
8687 * LoadGame and LoadPosition display tail of file name (plus index
8688 number, if any) as title.
8690 * MachineWhite, MachineBlack, and TwoMachines now work properly from
8691 LoadGame and LoadGame+Pause mode.
8693 * Use o-o and o-o-o to castle on ICS, not 00 and 000.
8695 * Stripped out code for old ICS messages; new ICS is now installed.
8697 * Bug fix: don't offer autosave when paused during LoadGame.
8699 2.1, patchlevel 7 - Fri Dec 11 17:40:56 PST 1992 - mann@src.dec.com
8701 * Track change to "Illegal move" message in new ICS.
8703 2.1, patchlevel 6 -- Tue Dec 8 10:48:44 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
8705 * Kludged around bug in keeping comment popup where you put it by
8706 adding borderXoffset and borderYoffset resources that give the width
8707 of the borders added by the window manager. Yucch.
8709 * Changed searchDepth kludge back to using "help" instead of "bd"; the
8710 latter didn't work because the output contains a line starting with
8711 "White", so we think gnuchess is telling us that White won. Oops.
8713 * Removed some code that uses an X11R5 feature, XrmGetDatabase.
8714 Without this, the auto font sizing code is harder to make work, so to
8715 keep my sanity I had to change it to affect only the fonts that appear
8716 in the main window and the comment popup, not the other popups. Maybe
8717 this is better anyway.
8719 * AcceptMatch button now works after a counterchallenge, too.
8721 * Added code for more variants of messages about games being adjourned
8722 or aborted. These messages need to be unified in new version of ICS.
8724 * Added workaround for minor bug in ICS; game number on first board
8727 * Removed code to say "refresh n" instead of "refresh"; was broken and
8728 wasn't needed anyway.
8730 * Added missing casts for compilers that distinguish enums from ints
8731 and missing cast in connect call.
8733 * Added code to recognize "both sides are out of time" draw message
8734 proposed for next version of ICS.
8736 * Thanks to Danny Sleator and Joe Peterson for bug reports.
8738 2.1, patchlevel 5 -- Sun Dec 6 19:52:40 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
8740 * Removed gcc and CDEBUGFLAGS from Imakefile.
8742 * Corrected setting of mode to ForceMoves when game file ends or
8743 contains an AmbiguousMove or BadMove. Previous bug was harmless.
8745 * Added AcceptMatch button and mention of 50-move rule for Draw button
8748 2.1, patchlevel 4 -- Sun Dec 6 02:55:42 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
8750 * Now handles revised messages from new version of ICS. New ICS is
8751 not released yet, so this code might change further. Next patchlevel
8752 will remove support for old ICS; both are there now.
8754 * Initial processing for a new game being watched or played now
8755 happens when we see the first board image. Removes the need to parse
8756 some messages and unifies some code.
8758 2.1, patchlevel 3 -- Tue Dec 1 19:40:40 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
8760 * Handles ICS messages "Draw : neither player has mating
8761 material" and "Draw : White has no material, Black has no time."
8763 * Added AcceptMatch button for ICS mode.
8765 * Fixed bug in previous fix to yylexstr().
8767 * Fixed bugs in code for loading old position files that don't start
8768 with "#" and for handling case where user asked for nth position in
8769 file but there aren't that many.
8771 * Handles ICS message "* has restored your old game"
8773 * ResetProc always clears title line now.
8775 * Don't issue just "refresh" when watching a game; use game number.
8776 Upcoming new version of ICS may need this.
8778 * Added code to try to prevent user from watching and/or playing more
8779 than one game at a time. There is a race condition inherent here; if
8780 we get more than one board from the game before our command to stop
8781 watching it takes effect, we'll think the user started it again. Not
8782 clear how to fix this.
8784 * Redid ParseBoard8 to use sscanf. Code is a good deal cleaner now.
8785 Also, we now parse out the game number too, though we don't make much
8788 * (Tried to put in a feature that recognizes the current game in a
8789 game file must have ended when we see the start of a new one, but had
8790 to disable it because we have too many false hits with the current
8791 parser, especially in gnuchess listing files.)
8793 * Moves read from game files or received from ICS are now translated
8794 into canonical algebraic form just like all other moves. Minor nit:
8795 If you use Reset while playing or observing a game in ICS mode, the
8796 game history (including the current board position) is lost, so the
8797 next move of the current game can't be translated.
8799 * Default fonts now vary with board size, and are chosen by pixel size
8800 instead of point size (since piece bitmaps have a fixed pixel size).
8802 * Bug fix: An extra Forward was required to skip over time indications
8805 2.1 patchlevel 2 -- Fri Nov 27 23:30:00 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
8807 * If you move the comment popup, the next time it pops up it will come
8808 back where you put it.
8810 * Fixed yylexstr() so calls to it can be interspersed with calls to
8813 * Fixed bugs in Forward/Backward while in LoadGame mode.
8815 * Changed Save{Game,Position} functions to append instead of
8816 overwriting if file exists. Changed Load{Game,Position} functions to
8817 deal with multiple games/positions per file.
8819 * Changed load{Game,Position}File resources to trigger automatic load
8820 on program startup. Changed save{Game,Position}File resources to
8821 trigger automatic save after every completed game and on program exit.
8823 * Added autoSaveGames mode.
8825 * Fixed bug with PromoPiece in call to MakeAlg from MakeMove.
8827 * Many changes to get rid of picky compiler warnings and generally
8830 2.1 patchlevel 1 -- Fri Nov 27 02:45:00 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
8832 * A last minute change before patchlevel 0 went out broke
8833 ParseGameHistory(). Immediately fixed in patchlevel 1.
8835 Version 2.1, patchlevel 0 -- Fri Nov 27 02:00:00 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
8837 * Uses "time" command of gnuchess 4.0 and following to keep clocks in
8838 sync. Still works with older versions without this command; we test
8839 whether the command is present the first time each chess program is
8842 * File name dialog pops up under the mouse cursor, so that it's got the
8843 keyboard focus if the window manager is using pointer focus.
8845 * Attempts to move the wrong color piece or an empty square are filtered
8846 out in xboard instead of being passed on to GNU Chess or the ICS.
8848 * The reason a game ended is now remembered even if you move backward
8849 and forward after it ends. It is forgotten only if you make a move
8850 (which is as it should be---this is now a different game, which hasn't
8851 ended yet). The message saying why the game ended no longer wipes out
8854 * Pause, Backward, Forward, ForceMoves, and EditPosition now work from
8857 * Forward and Backward now change only the board display unless you
8858 are in ForceMoves mode. Pause mode keeps new moves that are received
8859 from being displayed on your screen until you unpause (or use
8862 * Added option to ring the bell after opponents' moves.
8864 * Saved games that start from other than the standard initial position
8865 now begin with a postion diagram as in saved position files. The
8866 loader is modified to understand such save files.
8868 * Improved error checking when trying to read from gnuchess.
8870 * Parser understands things that look like time indications, e.g., (0:12),
8871 instead of popping them up as comments.
8873 * Send "quit" to gnuchess before trying to kill it. I needed this
8874 locally because sending a SIGTERM to rsh was not killing the remote
8875 program on some internal field test systems we have.
8877 * Merged in code from John Chanak to make xboard a front end to the
8878 Internet Chess Server, and added several improvements of my own.
8879 (These include parsing end of game messages, loading the current state
8880 and previous history of a game that's joined in progress via "watch"
8881 or "load", automatic switch from board style 1 to 8 when needed,
8882 removing irrelevant buttons and adding some new ones, adding the
8883 useTelnet and gateway resources, and miscellaneous code cleanup, bug
8884 fixes, and documentation.) Many thanks to John for writing and
8885 contributing the initial version of this code.
8887 Fri Oct 30 20:16:40 PST 1992 (patchlevel 25) mann@src.dec.com
8889 * gnuchess now castles by sending us "o-o" or "o-o-o" (starting with a
8890 preliminary version of 4.0.pl60 that I have). Added code to handle
8891 this. The old format ("e1g1", etc.) still works too.
8893 * Added code to format moves in normal abbreviated algebraic notation
8894 (for example, e4, exd4, f8Q, Nf6, 0-0) instead of coordinate algebraic
8895 (for example, e2e4, e3d4, f7f8q, g1f6, e1g1). Moves entered with the
8896 mouse or received from gnuchess are translated into this canonical
8897 format for display on the message line or in saved game files. Moves
8898 read from game files are not translated, however; they are shown and
8899 saved just as they appear in the file.
8901 Mon Sep 14 13:19:01 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 24) mann@src.dec.com
8903 * It's not really correct to write an ep capture of a pawn on e5 as
8904 fxe5; this should be written as fxe6 because e6 is where the capturing
8905 pawn ends up. Nevertheless, the parser now interprets fxe5 as the ep
8906 capture f5xe6 unless there is a pawn on f4, in which case it
8907 interprets fxe5 as f4xe5. By design, the parser does not flag fxe5 as
8908 ambiguous if there are pawns on both f4 and f5; instead it prefers the
8909 more legitimate f4xe5 interpretation.
8911 * A move like fxe6 or fe6 is now interpreted as an e.p. capture of the
8912 pawn on e5 if there is one there and e6 is empty.
8914 * A move like fxe5 can no longer be interpreted as an e.p. capture if
8915 there isn't a pawn on e5 to be captured. Previously this could happen
8916 erroneously if there were pawns on both f4 and f5, and the f4 pawn was
8917 capturing a piece on e5.
8919 * The parser no longer munges the move it is parsing; in the past, for
8920 instance, it would remove the "x" from a move like dxc5 before echoing
8923 * The parser now detects when a move is ambiguous and returns an
8924 error, instead of arbitrarily choosing one possibility as it used to.
8926 Mon Aug 10 18:40:47 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 23) mann@src.dec.com
8928 * Added code so parser can handle fully qualified algebraic, e.g.,
8929 Ng1-f3, N/g1-f3, Ng1f3, or even Pe2-e4. The "P" and "/" work only for
8930 fully qualified moves, not generally.
8932 * Fixed parser bugs in handling moves with rank or file disambiguator,
8935 Mon Jul 6 17:55:32 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 22) mann@src.dec.com
8937 * AIXV3 patch from Tom McConnell; thanks!
8939 * After hitting the Backward button we see the last move made instead of
8940 the word "Pausing" displayed.
8942 * Fixed a couple of problems compiling on IRIX; thanks to Michel Arsenault
8943 and Alan Walsh for bug reports and help with fixes.
8945 * Added optional display of algebraic notation coordinates along left and
8946 bottom edges of board. This was inspired by some code from Jean-Christophe
8949 * Swapped EditPosition and Pause buttons to reduce danger of losing the
8950 game in progress by hitting EditPosition when you wanted Backward. Thanks
8951 to Ove Lundberg for complaining (though it bugged me too).
8953 * Despite one complaint, I kept the feature of changing both clocks when black
8954 makes time control, rather than changing each individually when the player
8955 involved makes it. This is to avoid having it look like White is way ahead on
8956 time while Black is thinking about the last move of the time control period
8957 (i.e., when White has made time control but Black hasn't yet).
8959 * Corrected clocks to work as in real tournaments. Time is *added* when you
8960 reach time control; previously the clocks were simply set to the length of the
8961 new time period. Also, when a player's flag falls, he still does not receive a
8962 new time allotment at the next time control, but his opponent does still
8963 receive more time if *his* flag has not fallen; previously, time controls were
8964 ignored for both players if either flag fell. I forget who reported this bug.
8966 * Added a small ESIX patch from Kayvan Sylvan.
8968 Mon Jun 22 13:24:38 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 21)
8970 * Added some SVR4 support code from Ronald Cole. It's Greek to me.
8972 * Note: Stephen Meatheringham reports a bug causing xboard to crash with an
8973 error from the X server when run on a Sun Sparcstation IPX with Solaris 1.0.1
8974 and OpenWindows 3.0. This bug has not been tracked down yet.
8976 * Fixed a problem with ATTENTION code. On some operating systems, you have to
8977 be even more cautious about when you send a SIGINT to gnuchess, because the
8978 signal handler gets deinstalled each time it is used, and gnuchess does not
8979 reinstall it immediately. In particular, if you send a SIGINT and make an
8980 illegal move or ask for a hint, gnuchess does not reinstall the handler until
8981 *after* you make your next move, so you had better not send a SIGINT before
8982 it. I put a workaround for this case into xboard; I hope there are no more.
8984 * The ATTENTION code is needed when compiling for the ESIX operating system,
8985 because ESIX has a bug in the FIONREAD ioctl, so the code in gnuchess that
8986 lets you interrupt its thinking on your time just by typing in your move does
8987 not work. Perhaps gnuchess will have a workaround for this eventually.
8989 * Fixed yet another bug in using XtGetValues; code to inhibit shell resizing
8990 was leaving a null pointer as the place to store the current sizes.
8992 * Man page fixes: corrected -sl to -sd, updated LIMITATIONS.
8994 * Added include of <sys/time.h> conditional on HAS_GETTIMEOFDAY. I hope this
8995 works for all systems; on mine, <time.h> and <sys/time.h> are the same file,
8996 but with an #ifndef that makes it harmless to include both.
8998 * Thanks for reports from Mike Pearlman, Stephen Meatheringham, Kayvan Sylvan,
8999 d87-mal@nada.kth.se, Urban Koistinen, and Ronald Cole.
9001 Mon Jun 8 11:39:18 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 20)
9003 * Documented default value of initString and explained what it means. This
9004 paragraph also serves to inform the user that xboard by default will tell
9005 gnuchess to think on his time, something one user apparently didn't understand.
9007 * Redid -searchDepth (formerly -searchLevel) and -searchTime code. They both
9008 work correctly with gnuchess 3.1 now. The -searchDepth option also works
9009 correctly with gnuchess 4.0. The -searchTime option does not work with
9010 gnuchess 4.0.pl50 or earlier because those gnuchess versions do not have a
9011 working searchTime feature. Instead of having xboard do a half-baked emulation
9012 of this feature by using a 1-move time control, I will be submitting a patch to
9013 the gnuchess folks to restore the feature as in 3.1.
9015 * Improved clock code. It now keeps accurate track of fractional seconds of
9016 clock running time, if your system has gettimeofday(); if not, it is generous
9017 about them---if a clock has been going for n.m seconds when it is stopped, only
9018 n seconds are charged. Previously, xboard would charge one second immediately
9019 when a clock was started, so if n.m had elapsed when it was stopped, n+1 would
9020 be charged. This should stop xboard from thinking gnuchess has let its flag
9021 fall on the last move of a time control, as it often did before. I also
9022 improved the comments and condensed the code a little. I hope there are no
9023 systems that have X11 and don't have gettimeofday(), but if there are, I'd like
9024 to know what to replace it with.
9026 * "Flag dropped" messages now show up on the top line, beside the clocks, so
9027 that they don't obscure more interesting messages on the second line.
9029 * Fixed confusion of NULL and '\000'.
9031 * Include time.h to get ctime() declaration.
9033 * Fix to "parser bug" messages in parser.l.
9035 * Changed code to work with old-fashioned tolower() macro that requires its
9036 argument to be an uppercase letter.
9038 * Minor fix to some usage error messages; was reversing program name and
9039 erroneous argument value.
9041 * Thanks to Mitch Wright, Ranier Orth, and Henrik Schmiediche for bug reports.
9043 Fri Jun 5 13:06:08 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 19)
9045 * Note: xboard does not seem to work when compiled with gcc 1.40 on a
9046 PS/2 running AIX. It crashes at the sscanf in line 768 of xboard.c.
9047 You can work around the problem by specifying the -timeControl option
9048 on the command line instead of defaulting it. This does not seem to
9049 be a bug in xboard itself; it runs okay on PS/2 AIX when compiled with
9050 MetaWare High C. [But see 2.1.pl8 above.]
9052 * Removed bogus files from distribution.
9054 * Changed variable name that conflicted with SVR4 ttyname function.
9056 * Thanks to Christoph Strozyk for another bug report, and to several
9057 of the folks mentioned under patchlevel 18 for testing it.
9059 Wed Jun 3 17:50:37 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 18) mann@src.dec.com
9061 * Added an include of sys/fcntl.h to pick up the definition of O_RDWR for
9064 * Fixed a bug in CatchPipeSignal; was testing the wrong variable to determine
9065 which chess program got the signal.
9067 * Removed the declaration of strrchr, which was causing problems for some
9068 people, and added an include of <string.h> or <strings.h> instead.
9070 * Fixed a bunch of type errors uncovered by compilers that check more carefully
9071 than the one I was using. I just patched many of them with casts---typically
9072 cases where a function didn't take the same number and type of arguments as the
9073 X header file prototype said it should---because I didn't see any other way to
9074 fix them. The versions of the X header files that I have don't actually have
9075 full prototypes for these function types; they declare only the return type and
9076 just give the argument types as comments.
9078 * InitChessProgram returns immediately if chess program died while we were
9079 waiting for it to say "Chess". I think this fixes a bug that could make xboard
9080 crash or go into an infinite loop printing "Warning: Select failed; error code
9081 9" if gnuchess crashed there.
9083 * Removed code that tries to put the file descriptor used to read messages from
9084 gnuchess into nonblocking mode. I don't see how this kludge could ever have
9085 fixed the problem it was intended to (see below), and it seemed to be causing
9086 a race condition when we were waiting for the initial message from gnuchess
9087 after it started up.
9089 * Thanks to Richard K. Lloyd, Konstantinos Konstantinides, Mark
9090 Seiden, Erik Schoenfelder, Andreas Stolcke, Rainer Orth, Henry Thomas,
9091 and Kris Van Hees for bug reports and help with fixes.
9093 Sun May 31 08:00:00 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 17) Bart Massey bart@cs.uoregon.edu
9095 * 'xboard' suffered from a couple of serious bugs. An initial
9096 size needed to be given to the message label to avoid a race
9097 condition (!) so I gave it some text (otherwise occasionally
9098 xboard would fail because the message widget was 0 width under
9099 MIT X11R4). The sizes needed to be Dimension, not int, because
9100 they were written in by Xt -- on my big-endian box Dimension
9101 is short, causing chaos. Also, I hacked a declaration in for
9102 strrchr() to shut the compiler up -- this is arguably a kludge,
9103 but I couldn't think of anything better; maybe you can.
9105 Fri May 22 13:40:50 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 16)
9107 * First real (non-beta) release of version 2.0.
9109 * Added GNU copyleft notices covering version 2.0 enhancements.
9111 Thu May 21 12:30:09 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 15)
9113 * Removed -g from Imakefile.
9115 * Added casts in parser.l to prevent warning messages from some C compilers.
9117 * Bugfix: code to exit if chess program couldn't be started had bug in error
9120 Tue May 19 11:58:06 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 14)
9122 * Fixes one small bug: If LoadGame does not find a game in the file, it resets
9123 xboard to BeginningOfGame mode (as if the Reset button was pressed), instead of
9124 leaving it in LoadGame mode.
9126 Mon Apr 13 18:32:27 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 13)
9128 * Improved error handling when gnuchessx crashes. Now displays a message and
9129 enters EndOfGame state without exiting. This should help with diagnosing
9130 gnuchessx problems, since the position and move history are not lost.
9132 * Debugged man page.
9134 Version 2.0 -- Thu Apr 2 16:04:54 PST 1992 (patchlevel 12)
9136 * Added small 40x40 pixel pieces; board size now specified as small, medium, or
9139 * Improved man page.
9141 * Saved position files now say "white to play" if it's white's move.
9143 * SavePosition while in EditPosition mode now gets side to play right.
9145 * Made "Pawn" the default on edit position menus.
9147 * Removed "To play" from edit position menus, since it's redundant. Left
9148 support code in so it can be restored if someone wants it.
9150 * Tightened parser's definition of a move number to help further with skipping
9151 over stuff before the first move.
9153 * Put back feature of skipping over stuff in game files before a start of game
9154 marker. This helps when loading electronic mail messages that have things
9155 like "00" in the header (looks like castling), or that talk about moves in
9156 running text before the actual game score. Tradeoff is that we can't load
9157 games that don't either have move numbers or say "gnuchess game" just before
9160 * Changed version number to 2.0 because others have used "1.3" for patched
9161 versions of 1.2. Display version number and patchlevel at startup.
9163 Thu Apr 2 15:30:22 PST 1992 (patchlevel 11)
9165 * Bugfix: Match started with TwoMachines button now handles the case where
9166 user loaded/edited a position *and* forced some moves.
9168 * added error message feedback to many cases where the user's button press is
9169 rejected because it isn't allowed in the current mode.
9171 * added -noChessProgram option to allow use as a passive chessboard without
9172 gnuchess, replacing old buggy scheme that tried to do this automatically when
9173 gnuchess was not found on the search path.
9175 * parser accepts "=" in front of promotion piece
9177 * parser accepts ":" notation for captures
9179 * Removed SwitchSides button to make room for EditPosition. Left code in
9180 place, ifdef'ed out.
9182 * Added EditPosition mode.
9184 * Reformatted xboard.c to eliminate long lines.
9186 * Promotion popup now appears near rank to which pawn is moving.
9188 * UI improvement: Button representing current program mode is kept highlighted.
9190 * Bug fix: Hint button is now disabled when machine is on move.
9192 Sat Mar 21 14:57:37 PST 1992 (patchlevel 10)
9194 * TwoMachines now works from MachineWhite or MachineBlack mode.
9196 * ForceMoves and Backward/Forward now work at the end of a game started by
9197 the TwoMachines button.
9199 * Sends o-o or o-o-o to gnuchess instead of O-O or O-O-O.
9201 * Bug fix: SwitchSides button is now disabled when machine is on move.
9203 * Added -searchLevel option and corrected handling of -searchTime to reflect
9204 the way gnuchess really handles command line options instead of what the
9205 documentation used to say. Allowed optional ":seconds" on times.
9207 Tue Mar 17 21:00:35 PST 1992 (patchlevel 9)
9209 * Removed non-working code that tried to recover when a remote chess program
9210 could not be started; now exits with a message instead.
9212 * Now waits for chess program to print its first message (normally "Chess")
9213 before sending it any commands.
9215 * Matches between two machines can now start from a black-to-play position or
9216 black-to-play opening.
9218 * Bug fix: The program would sometimes lose track of the board position after
9219 the end of the game, drawing a board full of white pawns next time it got an X
9220 redraw request. Now fixed.
9222 * Cleaned up handling of illegal moves in game files. Now we just stop reading
9223 and go into ForceMoves mode.
9225 * Saved games against gnuchess indicate who won (restored and debugged 1.2
9228 * Setting -searchTime turns off -clockMode.
9230 * My trick for setting up a black-to-play position broke in the transition from
9231 gnuchess 3.1+ to 4.0. Installed a different trick that works with both.
9233 * Bug fix: Was clobbering memory by mallocing one byte too few for the file
9234 name in SetupPositionFromFileProc. This usually resulted in a crash on the
9235 second attempt to load a position from a file.
9237 Mon Mar 16 16:49:00 PST 1992 (patchlevel 8)
9239 * Game and position files are saved in CHESSDIR as well as loaded from there.
9240 We actually chdir there, so gnuchess listing files also wind up there.
9242 * Underpromotion moves from gnuchess really work now.
9244 Sat Mar 14 14:55:24 PST 1992 (patchlevel 7)
9246 * Cleaned up lots of bugs and kruft in parser.l. It's a wonder the old version
9247 worked at all. Improved rejection of random text interspersed with the moves.
9249 * Relabeled buttons to reduce confusion (Play From File --> Load Game;
9250 Setup From File --> Load Position).
9252 * Bug fix: Doesn't exit at the end of a game that was started by pressing
9253 the Two Machines button.
9255 * Bug fix: Doesn't get confused if you hit Machine Black (White) while
9256 the machine is already playing black (white) and is on move.
9258 * Prints "White to play" or "Black to play" after loading a position file.
9260 * Bug fix: No longer hangs if no start-of-game is found in a game file.
9262 * More permissive about game file format. The first line is not assumed
9263 to be a header comment unless it starts with "#". We don't insist on
9264 seeing a "1." before the first move.
9266 * Added pop-up dialog to allow underpromotion. Moving a pawn to the last rank
9267 pops up a dialog to let you select what piece to promote to. Also added code
9268 to handle underpromotion moves from gnuchess or from a game file correctly.
9270 * Added code to send SIGINT to gnuchess before trying to move, if gnuchess
9271 might be busy thinking on our time. The code is ifdef'ed out because it's
9272 not necessary; only beta-test versions of gnuchess 4.0 at patchlevel 19 or
9275 Mon Feb 24 20:10:22 PST 1992
9277 * Merged fixes received from Stuart Cracraft and Mike McGann, to iconic mode
9278 and to ShutdownChessPrograms. (They both sent the same fixes.) I did not
9279 install the change that removed "easy" from the initialization string, so
9280 xboard will still try to run gnuchessx in "hard" mode (thinking on opponent's
9281 time) by sending this command.
9283 Version 1.3 -- Thu Dec 19 18:19:00 PST 1991 mann@src.dec.com (Tim Mann)
9285 * I've fixed a slew of bugs in this version of xboard:
9287 * You can now back up from the end of a game, even if gnuchess was playing
9288 against you. Since gnuchess exits upon mate or draw (when it's not in force
9289 mode), this feature works by starting up a new copy of gnuchess and feeding it
9290 the saved starting position and moves. Drawback: the new gnuchess starts with
9291 clocks at the beginning of a fresh time control.
9293 * Note: the "force" command to gnuchess is a toggle. I fixed a couple of
9294 places in xboard where "force" was being issued when gnuchess was already in
9295 force mode, which resulted in chaos. I don't know if they were in 1.2 or if I
9296 added them myself in the course of putting in new features.
9298 * ForceMoves button is now legal in PlayFromFile mode. It closes the game file
9299 and lets you force moves (or go Backward) from whatever position you've
9302 * The parser now recognizes "white resigns" and "black resigns" (in any
9303 combination of upper and lower case, with or without the closing "s"). These
9304 used to be misinterpreted as meaning "white wins" or "black wins" respectively!
9305 Added "1 - 0" and "0 - 1" as equivalents for "1-0" and "0-1".
9307 * I removed the parser feature of considering "!" as a comment delimiter.
9308 "!" is so common as an annotation in game scores that this feature seems like a
9311 * Added a wait() after each successful call to kill() to avoid leaving zombie
9314 * Removed the feature of putting an indication of how the game ended into the
9315 internal move list when playing from a file. The only benefit of this was that
9316 it would get written back out if you saved the game at that point. This
9317 feature doesn't seem too useful, since you are unlikely to save a game you've
9318 read in without making any changes, and it caused a lot of problems in the code
9319 and user interface. The end condition is still displayed as a message when
9320 it's first read in from the file. End conditions when playing against gnuchess
9321 are still saved, too.
9323 * programName is now the last file name component of argv[0], not all of it.
9325 * xboard.c got three compiler warnings due to arguments that didn't match the
9326 prototypes on X toolkit functions. I got rid of them by adding some casts, and
9327 adding extra unused arguments to the ReceiveFromProgram function.
9329 * As I received it, the distribution had an extra period glued on the front
9330 of every line that started with a period. This broke the manpage in an
9331 obvious way. It also broke parser.l in a nonobvious way that stopped
9332 PlayFromFile from working.
9334 * Fixed one or two bugs where the clock was started when it shouldn't have
9335 been. I think one example was if you tried an illegal move in ForceMoves mode.
9337 * Now starts the machine's clock if you hit MachineWhite when white is on move
9338 or MachineBlack when black is on move.
9340 * Now updates the to-move indicator (highlight on clock display) when you use
9341 Forward/Backward or ForceMoves.
9343 * gnuchess 3.1+ has a bug that makes it try to think on its opponent's time
9344 even when in force mode; this causes problems with xboard's SetupFromFile
9345 command because gnuchess's saved hint move is garbage after the new position is
9346 loaded, so gnuchess prints out an error message when it tries to think about
9347 what it would do if the user made this move. Here is a patch for gnuchess
9350 *** nondsp.c~ Mon Dec 2 12:37:18 1991
9351 *-- nondsp.c Thu Dec 19 15:36:06 1991
9354 ok = flag.quit = false;
9357 ! if (hint > 0 && !flag.easy && Book == NULL)
9360 time0 = time ((long *) 0);
9362 ok = flag.quit = false;
9365 ! if (hint > 0 && !flag.easy && Book == NULL && !flag.force)
9368 time0 = time ((long *) 0);
9370 * SavePosition/SetupFromFile now handle black-to-play positions. If it's
9371 black's move in a saved position, the line "black to play" is printed
9372 immediately after the board display. Upon loading a position, xboard
9373 looks for "black" at the beginning of this line to determine whether it's
9376 * SetupFromFile now leaves you (effectively) in ForceMoves mode. This
9377 eliminates some cases where the program would get into an inconsistent state,
9378 and hopefully is more intuitive for the user, too.
9380 * PlayFromFile now leaves xboard in ForceMoves mode after playing through all
9381 the moves in the file. You can use Backward/Forward, make moves, get gnuchess
9382 to join the game with MachineWhite or MachineBlack, etc. The game file can end
9383 with either white or black to play.
9385 * Backward/Forward now seem to work in all cases. Previously using these
9386 buttons during a game against the machine would get xboard out of sync with
9387 gnuchess's idea of what was going on, resulting in chaos. Now using these
9388 buttons puts xboard in ForceMoves mode; you can bring gnuchess back into the
9389 game using the MachineWhite or MachineBlack buttons.
9391 Thu Jun 27 15:06:25 PDT 1991
9393 * Remove comment popups during a reset.
9395 * Bug in my forward move fix. Didn't work for playgamefile mode.
9397 Thu Jun 20 15:04:06 PDT 1991
9399 * Can't do a backward move when it isn't your turn because gnuchess
9400 gets confused. Similar bug for forward move. Do a bunch of moves,
9401 back up move and go forward. These get filtered out now.
9403 * Put easy back into the initString. This DISABLES easy mode which by
9406 * New-line wasn't always being added to forward move strings sent to gnuchess.
9408 * Parsed comments as [ ..............text follows ] into d7d5
9410 * Long game file comments cause core dumps on HP systems.
9412 * Multiple uses of the get positition file button got confused
9413 on the second click.
9415 Minor fixes to the 1.2 release
9417 Version 1.2 -- Tue Jun 11 17:14:12 PDT 1991
9419 * For version 1.2, Jeff Kenton, Richard LLoyd, David Jensen, Martin D.,
9420 Bill Schmidt, Scott Hemphill, Paul Vaughan and Bill Shauck all found
9421 a lot of bugs that we put into xboard just to see if they were paying
9422 attention. They were.
9424 * Changed the protocol that xboard uses to work with the new version of
9427 * There was an off by one error with the clock resetting code. Also,
9428 the clock display highliting was wrong. Thanks to Bill Shauck for
9431 * enumerations are not really integers on some C compilers. I added casting.
9432 The new version of gnuchess expects the "go" command for two machine
9433 and machine plays white cases. The whiteString resource is for
9434 compatibility with previous gnuchess versions which get confused by go.
9435 Thanks to Martin D. for catching these.
9437 * Fixed a bug where the checkmate message wasn't being parsed and xboard
9438 kept playing. Also, the message was added to game file if saved.
9439 Thanks to Scott Hemhill for pointing this out.
9441 * Fixed a bug where saving a long game, resetting and saving a short game
9442 resulted in appending the end of the long game to the short one.
9443 If a game is just being played out and there is no reason for gnuchessr
9444 to be used, ignore pipe signals. This allows people to use xboard
9445 as a chess board without need for gnuchess. Also, trivially bad moves
9446 such as e2e2 are not passed on to gnuchessr but instead ignored out of
9447 hand. This allows people using xboard as a chessboard with gnuchessr
9448 to pick a piece up, think and put it back down without making a move.
9449 Thanks to Jeff Kenton for pointing these out.
9451 * Added the CHESSDIR environment variable. Game and position files are
9452 found in this directory. If this variable is not declared, then the
9453 current directory is used. File names starting with / are treated
9456 * The bitmap file names were changed so that none exceeded 14 characters.
9457 This is necessary for R5.
9459 fcntl(from_prog[0], F_SETFL, O_NDELAY);
9461 The xboard fix was to set non-blocking i/o on the read pipe for gnuchessr
9463 printz ("Illegal move (no matching move generated)");
9465 * fixed a problem with the new version of gnuchessr where xboard wasn't
9466 getting gnuchessr error messages for illegal moves. The problem seems
9467 to be fixed *without* any gnuchess changes but this is likely to be
9468 highly system dependant. There should be a new line on line 246 of nondsp.c
9470 * -iconic doesn't work at all now. The Iconify() does work. This was
9471 a tradeoff and it is really an Xt bug.
9473 * Fixed a compiler warning for gcc and an error for the IBM RT compilers.
9474 This is the VOID_PROC macro in xboard.h. Thanks to David Jensen for this.
9476 * If the DisplayWidth or DisplayHeight is less than 800, use small size mode.
9477 Also the size of the name widget was reduced from 500 pixels to 400 pixels
9478 because in small size mode there was a gap on the right.
9479 Changed the default font from fixed to helvetica_oblique14 to:
9480 **-helvetica-bold-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
9481 helvetica_oblique14 is a font alias not on all R4 systems.
9482 Curiously enough, the 17 point is not available on 75dpi systems
9483 and the 18 point font is not available on 100dpi systems.
9484 Thanks to Richard K. Lloyd for pointing these out.
9486 * Minor hacks to work with R5 alpha. Had to add an event handler to the
9487 boardWidget to get translations to work. This may go away with the real R5.
9488 Added <Message>WM_PROTOCOLS: QuitProc() for R5 ICCCM compatibility.
9490 * If the first character of the file is not `1' then the first line
9491 of a game or position file is displayed as the name in a label widget.
9493 * Added a PopUp dialog for getting file names.
9495 * Modified the code to use the R4 routines rather than R3 compatibility.
9497 * Changed the forwards/backwards/readgamefile code to allow a play to step
9498 back and forth in a game. If he steps all the way to the beginning
9499 he has to restart the game. If he gets into a mated position, same problem.
9501 * Moved the man page from xboard.1 to xboard.man. This makes imake man page
9502 installs work correctly. Thanks to Richard K. Lloyd for pointing this out.
9504 * Corrected the queening code. XBoard was sending the wrong syntax.
9505 It was sending for example h8(Q) when it should have been sending h8q.
9506 Thanks to Paul Vaughan and Mike McGann for pointing this out.
9508 * Added a lex parser for algebraic games. It should be easy to use the parser
9509 for other interfaces such as the Microsoft Windows version.
9510 It parses comments of the form [anything] and ! to the end of a line.
9512 Version 1.1 -- Mon Jan 7 14:46:03 PST 1991
9514 * Roger Dubar, Konstantinos Konstantinides, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht,
9515 Paul Scowen, Mvh Smidt and Kayvan Sylvan all helped immensely during
9518 * older non-ANSI versions of Sun compilers complain vociferously.
9520 * the remoteShell resource was added for HP-UX systems
9521 and other systems where the remoteShell isn't rsh.
9523 * -iconic doesn't work properly. If XBoard is opened iconic then
9524 iconifying it later with a keystroke doesn't work. I think
9527 * For systems with smaller screens, XBoard can use smaller pieces,
9528 and a smaller board. -bigSizeMode False uses a smaller set of pieces.
9529 These are scaled versions of the large pieces. They look ok but could
9532 * getlogin() does not work in all cases.
9533 It was replaced by getpwuid(getuid())->pw_name).
9535 * Warning messages get displayed in the message box.
9537 * Any button restarts a paused game.
9539 * Kayvan Sylvan contributed a patch for ESIX.
9540 It seems that select() on pipes is broken on his system. We declined
9541 to incorporate his patch though, because it was a work-around for
9542 something that was broken on one system, and selfishly, that system
9543 was not my own. Nevertheless, it is likely that other System V users
9544 on PC's may need to use this patch and it is is included as the file
9545 ESIX.patch. To use it, type
9547 patch xboard.c ESIX.patch
9549 * Fixed a bug where hint didn't work. The local version of gnuchessr
9550 had been hacked. The fix was to clone stderr and stdout for gnuchessr.
9552 * Fixed a bug where a player could play after a game had been finished.
9554 * The bitmaps have been pushed into the bitmaps directory.
9556 * Substantially rewrote and simplified the Two Machine code.
9558 * Added StrStr() because many systems don't have this ANSI function.
9560 * Added keyboard equivalents. Added an iconify keystroke, C or c.
9562 * Works with gcc now. gcc complained about casting float constants
9565 * Detect if the visual doesn't support color. If so, run in monoMode.
9566 An alternative would be to detect grayscale visual and use a collection
9567 of gray user interface colors.
9569 XBoard.clockMode: False
9571 * For people who don't like or use chess clocks a clockMode switch
9572 has been added. It is on by default. It can be turned off in the
9573 .Xdefaults file with
9575 * Added a declaration, xtVersion, which will quickly break on R3 Intrinsics.
9577 * Hal Peterson contributed a new Imakefile.
9579 * Rewrote DisplayClocks().
9581 * Rewrote TwoMachinesPlay mode.
9583 * Konstantinos Konstantinides added the -searchTime option.
9585 * Substantially rewrote and simplified the clock code. If a game was paused
9586 and then resumed, the clocks were out of sync.
9588 * Fixed a bug in HandleUserMove() where the user could make a move while the
9589 machine was thinking. The fix detects and ignores these moves. onMove
9590 was not being used and was removed.