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 2011-02-17 15:40:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7 Fix MSVC snprintf problem
9 In MSVC snprintf has to be redefined as _snprintf, and this happens
10 conditionally in config.c. But the latter was not #included in help.c.
12 2011-02-16 19:41:27 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
13 updated configure.ac to check for Xaw header files
15 check for Xaw header files when --without-Xaw3d was given. Before the test was
16 only done when Xaw3d was specified, but could not be found.
18 If Xaw3d or Xaw can't be found, print a hopefully useful error message and exit the configure script.
20 2011-02-16 12:03:22 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
23 Channel 0 messages were not displayed in the console, because the test
24 for channel number considered every non-numeric or non-existent handle
25 in a chatbox to be zero. So the messages were diverted to a non-exsting
26 chatbox. Now it test first for the handle to start with a digit.
28 2011-02-15 19:13:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
29 Make language choice from menu persistent
31 Set appData.language to the chosen language file, or empty if English is
32 chosen, so that the choice is saved with the settings. Increase the
33 number of possible language choices from 5 to 20. (After all, we already
36 2011-02-14 11:09:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
37 Fix showing of user move after adjudication
39 The correction of the fishy patch (removing ShowMove() from Adjudicate())
40 had broken the adjudication of user moves (that actually did work before
41 the fishy patch, because there the gobal fromX/Y and toX/Y do contain
42 the correct values for the move to be shown). An entered move that led
43 to adjudication (like a checkmate) now was not displayed at all. Adding
44 an extra ShowMove() after (successful) return of Adudicate() solves it.
46 2011-02-13 23:49:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
47 Fix Xiangqi King facing
49 The Spartan patch had broken the CheckTest for Xiangqi, because cl.check
50 was cleared after the King-facing test, rather than before it.
52 2011-02-13 22:30:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
53 Fix variant janus size prefix
55 The default board size of Janus Chess was not consistently taken to be
56 10x8, which resulted the name to be sent as 10x8+0_janus to the engine.
58 2011-02-13 12:18:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
61 The test for Alfil (suppressing single steps on the Elephant) contained
62 a wrong logical operator, so that it could never be active. It also
63 failed to include Xiangqi as variant with traditional Alfil. This led to
64 one-step moves of the Elephant in these variants, and false check or
65 unreliable mate detections.
67 Fix move of Xiangqi Elephant
69 2011-02-09 23:19:09 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
70 fixed configure script to correctly detect Xaw3d library
73 2011-02-06 22:07:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
74 Fix unmarked translation
76 The file-browser wndowtitle in WB was not marked for translation.
78 2011-02-04 10:27:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
79 Put warning in HTML help
81 A warning is added that the help file is not yet updated for the new
84 2011-02-04 10:22:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
85 Fix 64-bit Windows compilability
87 The API interface for Set/GetWindowLong has been changed for 64-bit
88 Windows, both in the name of the call as in the arguments.
90 2011-02-04 10:21:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
91 Fix MSVC compilability
93 Both the makefile and the project file had to be adapted for the new
94 source file history.c, and the new location of parser.c.
96 2011-02-05 10:11:58 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
97 added missing #includes and missing prototypes to filebrowser
99 thanks to Max Funk for reporting. Now using HAVE_DIRENT_H.
101 Also cleaned up missing prototypes and some casts.
103 2011-02-05 09:21:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
104 added missing header file for sprintf
107 2011-02-03 08:50:50 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
108 added history.c to the tar-ball. Needed for Winboard
111 2011-01-31 23:03:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
112 Fix deselection of greyed-out variant button (WB)
114 In Windows a disabled radiobutton refuses to deselect when you select
115 another (enabled) button from the group. There are then 2 buttons
116 checked, and the code to readout the buttons took the first one. Now it
117 is changed to take the first enabled one.
119 2011-02-03 08:28:15 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
120 Revert "Implement -reset option feature in WinBoard"
122 This reverts commit efecf86cd9b54072c6a2f38d62f1d775e69c545b.
124 picked the wrong commit from HGM's git tree.
126 2011-02-01 22:01:12 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
127 add DIFFSTAT and SHORTLOG to tar-ball
129 was only in the v4.4.x branch and not in master
131 2011-01-30 09:52:15 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
132 release of version 4.5.0
134 2011-02-01 07:41:04 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
135 changed size of borders around squares from 0 to 1 as a default
137 this way highlights show up again.
139 2011-01-29 20:11:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
140 Implement -reset option feature in WinBoard
142 2011-01-30 10:12:08 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
143 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
145 2011-01-30 09:56:39 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
146 updated parser.c form parser.l
148 2011-01-29 19:59:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
151 None of the ShowMove() calls in Adjudicate() was working, because when
152 this code was taken out of HandleMachineMove() it was taken outside the
153 scope of the local fromX, fromY etc. there, so that it started using the
154 global variables from the mouse driver. As these usually contain -1,
155 this suppressed move animation and highlighting. All these calls have
156 now been removed, and ShowMove() is called after a positive return (from
157 HandleMachineMove(), so within the correct scope).
158 This improves the previous fix, which led to some flicker, because the
159 erroneous ShowMove() calls did draw the new board (instantly), wich in
160 the fishy patch was then immediately overwritten by the old position, to
161 start animation. This drawing of the old position is now no longer
164 2011-01-29 13:36:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
167 The RTF file is adapted to the new menu organization.
169 2011-01-29 13:31:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
172 The highlight-with-arrow and one-click-move menu items are described.
173 The highlightMoveWithArrow and variations option are described.
174 Load Next /Previous Position descriptions are moved to File menu.
175 The description for entering variations is updated (using Shift key).
176 The remark that editing holdings is impossible is removed.
177 Spartan Chess is added to the list of supported variants.
179 2011-01-28 18:35:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
180 Updated copyright notice to 2011
183 2011-01-24 15:01:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
184 Greyout unavailable variants in New Variant dialog
186 The WB radio-button code is refactored to be driven from a list (which
187 must be kept in phase with the variant definitions in common.h!). It now
188 also checks if the first engine supports the variant, and greys out the
189 item if it isn't. XB now also makes this check. Slight re-ordering of
190 10x8 variants there, to have the more common on top.
191 If no radio button is selected, keep old variant even on OK.
193 2011-01-19 11:10:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
194 Move clock-click code to back-end
196 Some duplicated (or should-be-duplicated) code for handling clicks on
197 the clocks from the XBoard and WinBoard front-ends was merged and
198 relocated to the back-end, so it can be shared. Noticeable was that
199 XBoard allowed turn change in ICS examine mode by clock clicking,
200 while WinBoard did not. WB, on the other hand, allowed clock adjustment.
202 2011-01-16 23:15:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
203 Fix legality testing of drop moves
205 Drops of noexistent pieces (i.e. with a piece indicator letter that is
206 not corresponding to any defined piece) are now parsed as
207 ImpossibleMove, rather than IllegalMove, so they are also rejected with
208 legality testing off.
210 2011-01-17 00:28:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
211 Fix WB Sound Options greyout and remove some grossness
213 The sound and ICS Options menu items in WB were accessed 'by position',
214 with fixed defined positions (always messing up any reorganization of
215 the menus when you forgot to redefine the position constants in
216 winboard.h). And not only that, but for completely mysterious reasons,
217 the greying of the sound item greyed out the game-list options (above
218 it) in stead when it was defined as 9, and the ICS options (below it)
219 when it was 10 !!!. Now they are addressed 'by command' (and the
220 position definitions are removed), which fixes things.
222 2011-01-25 21:35:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
223 Re-instate load next/prev position menu items
225 As positions do not use something similar to the game list, these are
226 still useful. For some reason I could not get Alt+Shift+PgUp/Dn to work,
227 so I settled for Shift+PgUp/Dn.
229 2011-01-16 21:56:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
230 Remove superfluous copying of machine move
232 There was explicit code in HandleMachineMove() and FinishMove() to put
233 the move in the moveList, while MakeMove() already does this later in a
234 more reliable way by calling CoordsToComputerAlgebraic(). This
235 superfluous code is removed now.
237 2011-01-16 21:44:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
238 Fix spurious mate test in Edit Game mode
240 When entering a game, it was terminated by the mate test even when
241 legality checking was switched off (so that mates might not be reliably
242 recognized). The mate test is now made dependent on legality testing.
244 2011-01-16 21:37:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
245 Fix type-in of drop moves
247 Drop moves entered through the move type-in already come in the (piece,
248 DROP_RANK, x, y) format, rather than having a holdings from square. This
249 caused UserMoveEvent to consider them illegal when testing if the
250 piecewas of the side to move, and when this was fixed, to recognize
251 Knight drops as coming from between board and holdings (and thus
254 2011-01-16 21:31:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
255 Fix move type-in truncating game
257 Starting a new variation by keeping Shift pressed did not work when
258 OK'ing the move type-in, because there was some code ther that truncated
259 the game. While this could be safely left to UserMoveEvent, which it
260 calls, as the situation is not different from entering moves through the
263 2011-01-11 16:12:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
264 Fix legality testing for promotions
266 Turns out WB has never tested for the legality of the chosen promotion
267 piece, and would allow promotion to King innorml chess even with
268 legality testing on (when entered through the keyboard)! Now strict
269 testing is done, outlawing Pawns and Kings (or Unicorns in
270 Knightmate). Only in suicide / giveaway Kings are stillallowed, and in
271 spartan a black King if you do not have two yet.(And promotion
272 toLnce,representing Hoplite Pawn,is forbidden there.)
274 2011-01-11 11:34:07 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
275 Reset 50-move counter on all pawn-like Lance moves
277 Now the Lance represents a Pawn-like piece not only in variant fairy,
278 but anywhere outside Shogi / Superchess, its moves should also reset the
279 50-move counter in those cases. Especially important for Spartan Chess,
280 where the Lance actually participates.
282 2011-01-11 11:18:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
285 The logos were not repainted when the main window was moved out of the
286 display area, and then back into view. The reason for this is
287 unknown, as the PaintProc calls HDCDrawPosition, which was calling
288 DrawLogoOnDC. But the logos were not drawn, (or on an expose event
289 sometimes half drawn!) despite the fact that the rest of the board was.
290 The drawing of logos now has been decoupled from drawing the board,
291 and has been moved to a separate routine DisplayLogos() (in analogy to
292 DisplayBothClocks()). This is cleaner anyway, as the logos usually do
293 not change when the board does. So apart from in PaintProc, it has only
294 to be called when the mode changes (ModeHighlight()) or on swap clocks.
295 This seems to fix the problem.
297 2011-01-10 20:36:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
300 Saving of the thinking time in the PGN was broken by the patch that
301 removed the race condition in the clock switching, because that moved
302 the incrementing of forwardMostMove to behind the code that used fmm to
303 index pvInfoList. As a result the time was stored in the slot for the
304 opponent's previous move. The value is corrected now.
306 2011-01-09 00:24:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
309 The move that delivers checkmate in two-machines mode is not animated
310 when adjudication is on. There then also is no highlighting of this move
311 Redrawing the board and calling ShowMove fixes it. Which is rather
312 strange, because ShowMove was already called in Adjudicate (when it
313 adjudicates), before GameEnds. For reasons that are not understood this
314 call to ShowMove() (which calls AnimateMove()) is not effective.
316 2011-01-09 00:21:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
317 Reset machine colors after match
319 The colors each engine playse are set to the originals after the last
320 match game, so that a new match or two-machines game will not have
323 2011-01-09 00:15:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
324 Reset win/loss counters before match
326 The win/loss counters were not reset, because the code counted on them
327 being initialized to zero. But with matches startable from the menu,
328 this is no longer true after the first match.
330 2011-01-09 00:08:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
331 Show move that causes false illegal-move claim
333 Without claim testing XBoard takes back moves that an engine objects to.
334 But when the engine is forfeited for a false claim, the move should of
335 course stay. So the claim test is moved to before the take-back.
337 2011-01-09 00:05:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
338 Fix Spartan promotion to King
340 Promotions toKing were refused when in check, because XBoard thought
341 they would not resolve the check. Now the promotion is actually
342 performed before doing the check test.
344 2011-01-05 17:31:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
345 Fix WB font-based piece rendering on variant switch
347 The piece bitmaps were only created from the font characters when the
348 number of ranks or files changed, because it was done in
349 InitDrawingSizes(). This caused missing pieces when changing to a
350 variant on the same board that used other pieces. Now InitDrawingSizes()
351 is called for any variant switch.
353 2011-01-05 17:25:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
354 Fix right-alignment pproblem in WB ICS window
356 Use of Ctrl-R to summon the context menu still trickled through to the
357 default text-edit window routine, and caused right-alignment. This was
358 because the text-edit reacts on keyDown rather than the character event.
359 KeyDown of R with Ctrl pressed is now also intercepted and ignored.
361 2011-01-03 13:04:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
362 Fix chat window title
364 The title was using the engine name, rather than the ICS handle, which
365 did not work outside zippy mode. Now it only uses the engine name when
366 no ICS handle is known. The titleis now also subjected to translation.
368 2011-01-03 12:50:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
369 Fix spurious reading of old game title by JAWS
371 Because focus was switched to the board window before loading the
372 selected game from the game list, the titlebar still contained the
373 name of the previously loaded game, which would spontaneously be read by
374 JAWS. Now the focus switch is done after loading the new game (which
375 updates the window title.)
377 2011-01-03 12:37:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
378 Add variant Spartan Chess
380 In the WB menu it takes the place of the defunct Twilight Chess item.
381 The setup routine needed patching for setting up Lances in stead of
382 Pawns for black, the check test had to be adapted to handle duple check,
383 Alfil and Dragon moves were fine tuned in this variant to make the exact
384 moves, and the promotion popup was adapted to show King and interpret
385 Rook and Bishop as Dragon and Alfil for black. The Alfil now always
386 moves as Modern Elephant except in Shatranj and Courier.
388 2011-01-03 12:23:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
391 Due to a bug in logical operators drops were tried for mate evasions
392 even in non-drop games, which broke it in Superchess and Great Shatranj,
393 and wasted CPU time in other variants.
395 2011-01-05 17:19:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
396 Fix promotion suffixon disambiguated piece moves
398 The promotion suffixon piecemoves that needed disambiguation was not
399 passedon to the back-end in most variants. Now it is passed on in any
402 2011-01-03 12:08:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
403 Fix promotion of Pawn-like Lance
405 In variants where the Lance is used to represent an unorthodox Pawn, it
406 must promote when it reaches last rank. With legality testing on,
407 however, the promoChar was ignored in ApplyMove in this case. The
408 promotion suffix also was not appended in SAN moves.
410 2011-01-03 11:57:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
411 Fix WB promotion popup
413 The promotion popup did not work properly in variants where black did
414 not use the pieces that white wanted to promote to. Now the character
415 for the selected piece is taken from the piece encodings of the side to
416 move. In addition, selection of undefined pieces is ignored.
418 2011-01-02 14:17:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
419 Fix bug in parsing variations
421 The moves parsed from a variation were stored in the moveList without
422 appended linefeed. This caused errors if the variation extended to
423 beyond the end of the main line,into a hitherto unused part of the move
424 list, as the linefeed was then not there from the overwritten move. As a
425 result moves sent to the engine were concatenated, triggering
426 illegal-move messages and bringing the engine out of phase.
428 2011-01-02 14:11:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
429 Define Ctrl-R as right-click in WB Comment dialog
431 To allow JAWS users to load a variation through the keyboard, Ctrl-R is
432 equated to a right click at the position of the caret or selection.
434 2011-01-02 14:10:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
435 Allow starting a variation from keyboard entry in WB-JAWS
437 The status of the shift key is remembered when space is pressed to
438 select a board square.
440 2011-01-02 14:06:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
441 Disable some accelerators in JAWS version
443 Single-key accelerators that could result in irreversible data loss are
444 undesirable, because the risk of accidentally pushing them is too large.
445 So the non-Alt duplicates of next/previous game/position are disabled,
446 as are Home and End for Revert and Truncate Game. JAWS users will have
447 to rely on the menus for those functions.
449 2011-01-02 13:59:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
450 Group engine-output memos with engine names
452 The engine names are now defined just before the text edits, so that
453 JAWS 11 will read the engine name when the memo for the output of that
454 engine is selected. (JAWS 10 will still read the NPS, as it reads in
457 2011-01-02 13:55:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
458 Put nr CPU earlier in tab cycle of WB Common Engine dialog
460 By defining the max CPU control after hash size, the tabbing steps
461 through the controls in geometrical (and logical) order, rather than
462 having the max CPU in between the book controls.
464 2010-12-29 23:47:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
465 Update WB language template file
468 2010-12-29 23:41:27 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
469 Subject JAWS menu and spoken strings to translation
472 2010-12-29 23:37:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
473 Let JAWS SayString buffer full sentence
475 The meaning of the flag parameter of SayString was changed to indicate
476 buffering of flushing. On flushing a message of a single space is used
477 as a kludge to indicate interruptability. Calls to force flushing where
480 2010-12-29 23:32:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
481 Adapt JAWS menu to new menu organization
483 The menus did not correspondto the texts after translation of the main
486 2010-12-29 23:18:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
487 Translate menus after creation of JAWS menu
490 2010-12-29 23:07:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
491 Fix ICS context menu for JAWS
493 The Ctrl+R key did select text at the mouse pointer in stead of at the
494 curser, now that up and down-click were combined.
496 2010-12-29 23:04:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
497 Reorganize order of WB New Variant dialog controls
499 The definitions are re-ordered so that at least JAWS 11 will speak the
500 board-size elements properly.
502 2010-12-29 22:57:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
503 Fix order of elements in WB time-control dialog
505 Someleading texts were defined after the text edit they referred to,so
506 that JAWS 11 associated them to the wrong one. A tab stop was added to
507 the time-odds label, to make JAWS speak it.
509 2010-12-29 22:51:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
510 Change tabbing order in WB sounds dialog
512 The 'Play' button now gets focus immediately after the controls for
513 selecting the sound, rather than at the end of the dialog (after OK).
515 2010-12-29 22:47:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
516 Remove tab stops on first radio button of WB dialogs
518 The New Variant and Board dialogs had a tab stop on the first radio
519 button,so that tabbing toit would automatically select variant
520 normal or size tiny. Now it tabs straight to the current size, without
521 changing anything. (Important for JAWS users.)
523 2010-12-29 22:45:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
524 Put OK/Cancel last in tab cycle of some WB dialogs
527 2010-12-29 22:29:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
528 Fix duplicate menu character for Edit Comment
530 Edit Comment did have the same shortcut character as Copy Game. Changed
533 2010-12-11 11:18:56 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
534 fixed automake process: xboard.conf couldn't be generated if $srcdir was not the current directory
537 2010-12-11 09:50:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
538 new developer release
541 2010-12-05 18:01:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
542 Subject WB context menus to translation
544 The innerloopof the menu translation has been made into a separate
545 routine. This now uses GetMenuItemInfo() in stead of ModifyMenu() to
546 better preserve menu breaks. Menu #10 is used for context menus (from
547 the routine that pops them up), and for this number the orignal texts
548 are not saved in menuText. (This is not needed, because the menu is
549 created everytime anew from the resource data.)
551 2010-12-05 15:00:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
552 Update translation template
554 Add the new menu items; add some notes.
556 2010-12-05 14:04:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
557 Resize buttons in WB engine-settings dialog
559 The OK and cancel buttons were to narrow for most translations, and were
560 a non-standard order as well.
562 2010-12-05 13:56:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
563 Add one-click move control to WB general-options dialog
565 This is a duplicate of the one in the ICS options dialog, but the latter
566 is inaccessible in non-ICS modes, and one-click move is now
567 alsoavailable in engine mode.
569 2010-12-05 13:51:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
570 Create space in dialogs for translation
572 The translated texts often did not fit, because controls were defined
573 needlessly small (when there was empty space between them). In these
574 cases they have been enlarged to consume all available space. Some
575 dialogs are made wider.
577 2010-12-05 13:47:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
578 Add handle for translator acknowledgement
580 An empty string is printed in the about box, which can be 'translated'
581 to a message acknowledging the translator.
583 2010-12-05 13:43:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
584 Use default logo for user
586 When no logo with the name of the current user is found, use dummy.bmp.
588 2010-12-05 15:46:34 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
589 added rlwrap tip to FAQ
592 2010-12-03 23:24:06 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
593 replace hard coded paths with path from configure script
595 use $datadir and subdirectories to store some data files. Also make files in xboard.conf use correct path.
597 2010-12-03 23:02:09 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
598 fixed a typo in the configure script output
601 2010-12-03 21:46:00 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
604 taken from the openSUSE project
606 2010-12-03 22:44:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
607 Fix Edit Game/Position checkmarking in WinBoard
609 Because the entries in Edit and Mode menu were pure duplicats, the
610 entries in the wrong menu (Edit) were checkmarked while active. By
611 defining different IDs for those in the Edit menu, those in the Mode
612 menu are checkmarked again.
614 2010-12-03 10:07:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
615 Add XBoard menu items for arrow highlight and one-click move
617 These items are put in the options menu; the 'Old Save Style' item is
620 2010-12-03 09:27:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
621 Provide menus for editing WinBoard engine and server lists
623 The Edit Tags dialog in the WB front-end is adapted to act as a general
624 edit for string variables, by giving it an extra parameter to indicate
625 where to store the edited result. Menu items are added to invoke this
626 dialog for editing the /first, /secondChessProgramNames and /icsNames
627 options. This solves the problem that people would have to edit an ini
628 file that they can no longer locate (because the %APPDATA% folder has
629 different names and locations in the various Windows versions, and is
630 often a hidden folder on top of that).
631 There is a slight memory leak here, as the memory for the previous
632 value of the altered string option is not freed.
634 2010-12-02 16:18:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
635 Configure arrow highlighting as default in XBoard
637 Set -highlightMoveWithArrow true in the xboard.conf file, and specify a
638 lineGap of 0 to make that efficient (and the wood theme even nicer).
640 2010-12-02 15:56:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
641 Port highlighting with arrow to XBoard
643 Unfortuntely this duplicates a fair amount of code in the front end.
644 Removing the arrow is done by a total repaint if there is a non-zero
645 lineGap, because the clever algorithm for selective redrawing (based
646 on damage) that XBoard uses does not repair damage to the grid lines.
647 For lineGap=0, however, (for which the arrow is mainly intended) the
648 damage mechanism is used, and the damaged squares are determined by
649 tracing out the arrow in 64 steps, and marking all squares in the
650 neighborhood as damaged.
652 2010-12-02 15:55:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
653 Strip CR from xboard.c
656 2010-12-02 14:21:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
657 Let user decide if he wants highlights in blindfold mode
659 Remove the automaticsuppression ofhighlighting.
661 2010-12-02 00:24:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
662 Fix fag-fell marker with logos on
664 The flag-fell marker "(!)" that is displayed in the clock in WinBoard in
665 two-machines mode was printed twice when the clock was split over two
666 lines (as with logos on).
668 2010-12-01 18:57:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
669 Also exempt variant seirawan from eval-scale doubling
671 It is not really a drop game, so a scale from -7 to 7 in the eval graph
672 is good enough (like variants great and super).
674 2010-12-01 10:33:13 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
675 Configure EGTB cache size in adapterCommand
677 The hash size, nr of CPUs and EGTB path are transferred through the WB
678 protocol interface commands memory, cores and egtpath. But there is no
679 WB command for detailing the EGTB cache size. So the value of the
680 command-line option -defaultCacheSizeEGTB has to be sent to Polyglot
681 through its startup command to make it known to UCI engines.
683 2010-11-30 22:46:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
684 Move Hint and Book items to Engine menu in XBoard
687 2010-11-30 22:17:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
688 Correct the key bindings fo view menu in texi file
690 The mentioned bindings for Game List and Eval Graph were wrong.
692 2010-11-30 21:25:07 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
693 Fix sub-variation display with negative score
695 The test if the displayed score was the pvInfo score failed for negative
696 scores, because floats are truncated towards zero. So the previous fix
697 of spurious score/depth info was not working when the score was
700 2010-11-30 18:27:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
701 Peel PV out of comment
703 Arena stores engine PVs not in variation format, but within both braces
704 and parentheses, before the score/depth info. This caused XBoard to
705 overlook the score/depth info, (frustrating, e.g., the eval graph),
706 while the PV would not be accessible for walking it as a variation.
707 The routine that extracts the score/depth from a comment now has
708 been made more clever, to recognize a leadin PV in the comment, and then
709 place it in front of the comment as variation (by moving the opening
710 brace to behind it). For some reason it does not work if the PV and
711 score/depth were separated by a newline, but this happens quite rarely.
713 2010-11-30 18:23:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
714 Allow line-straddling result comments
716 Some GUIs (in particular Arena) do not have the decency to keep the
717 result comment on a single line. In this case the parser rules would not
718 recognize it, and treat it as a normal comment, plus an undetailed PGN
719 result. The rules are now fixed to allow linefeeds in the comment, and
720 between comment and PGN result. To correctly process the comment further
721 (e.g. in game-list lines) the linefeeds are replaced by spaces in the
722 back-end routines that do use the result comment.
724 2010-11-30 12:22:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
725 Write key bindings in XBoard menus
727 Unfortunately tabs are not understood in menu texts, so fine-tuning
728 through spaces is necessary to get some sort of ragged alignment.
730 2010-11-29 18:01:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
731 Configure XBoard to use wood board texture by default
733 The texture pixmaps are sought in /usr/share/games/xboard, with names
734 wood_l.pm and wood_d.xpm. I guess the " make install" should be adapted
735 to put them there. XBoard is resitent to non-existence of the files,
736 btw. It simply ignores the arguments in that case.
738 2010-11-29 17:48:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
739 Configure -inc as volatile option in XBoard
741 XBoard users are not used to options being persistent, and thus have
742 many scripts assuming the timeIncrement is -1 when they don't specify it
743 on the command line, and want to specify -mps. But a persistent -inc of
744 0 fom a preious session would then force their -mps to zero, causing
747 2010-11-29 17:36:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
748 Make WinBoard clocks translation-proof
750 With logos on, the splitting of the clock over two lines assumed the
751 lengths of the words "white" and "black" would always be 5. Used strlen.
753 2010-11-29 14:57:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
754 Improve drawing of highlight arrow
756 A diagonal arrow sometimes had a notch in the shaft because of
757 independent rounding of the starting and ending point coordinates.
758 Furthermore the width of the shaft was unnecessary variable(as a
759 function of direction) because half the width was rounded and then used
760 twice. Now rounding of end-points is always done towards a fixed grid
761 of square centers, which keeps diagonals purely diagonal, and one side
762 of the shaft is drawn relative to the other side, after the
763 position of the latter has been rounded, so any rounding error affects
764 the shaft width only once.
766 2010-11-29 10:25:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
767 Alter descriptionof Analyze File menu item
769 This menu item has been given a new function, so a new description was
772 2010-11-29 10:15:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
773 Add description of Game List Options in texi file
776 2010-11-29 09:58:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
777 Update texi file for new menu organization
779 The descriptions are shuffled around and organized into sections
780 corresponding to the new main menus. Where necessary the name of the
781 items was changed to their new names. The items removed from the File
782 menu (the next/previous/same stuff) are nowmoved to the section "other
783 shortcut keys", as the key bindings for some of them are still active.
785 2010-11-29 09:06:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
786 Update info on key bindings in texi file
788 The texi file was still listing the old XBoard key bindings. Where
789 necessary this is now changed to the new (WinBoard) bindings, and all
790 the new bindings were added.
792 2010-11-29 09:04:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
793 Add XBoard key bindings for Revert and Truncate
795 Use Home key as accelerator for Revert, End for Truncate, as in WinBoard.
797 2010-11-28 23:12:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
798 Divorce the Edit and Show Tags/Comment menu items
800 In WinBoard the items in the Edit and View menu for Tags and Comment now
801 have different IDs, so they can be independently controlled. Only the
802 items in the View menu are check-marked. The items still do the same.
804 2010-11-28 23:08:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
805 Alter WinBoard menu text
807 The texts are slightly adapted, mostly by choosing more convenient
808 tabbing characters for the new menu organization. The translation
809 template is updated accordingly.
811 2010-11-28 20:24:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
812 Let move-history window scroll to bottom after adding move
814 By activating the scrollbar of the viewport through XtCallActionProc
815 the move-history window is scrolled to the bottom.
817 2010-11-27 14:38:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
818 Fix Shogi promotion popup
820 The texts were adapted to shogi by printing new text items over the
821 Queen and Knight buttons, but these did not alwys cover it. Now the text
822 on the buttons is changed as it should be. Also the window title is
825 2010-11-26 11:22:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
826 Apply gettext macros to menu texts
828 Now texts and references are separated, the texts in the tables can be
829 decorated with the N_() macro, so that the _() macro no longer has to be
830 applied when they are used. (This makes the texts appear in the .po
833 2010-11-26 11:12:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
834 Adapt some XBoard menu texts
836 The "Show" prefix is removed from the "View" menu items, as this seems
837 implied. An ellipsis is added to the Engine #N Settings items, which
838 could not be there before, because periods in a menu name would break
839 any reference to it. For some other names the ellipsis was deleted.
840 (These were not refered to, but who knows what we will do in the future.)
842 2010-11-26 11:03:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
843 Separate menu text from menu name in XBoard
845 The text string in the menu-definition tables was used both for the menu
846 text, as well as for referencing the items from the code (for enabing or
847 checkmarking). Now these can be defined separately, so that altering the
848 menu texts is possible without breaing any references to the item.
849 (Moving them to another menu would still break XBoard, though!)
850 Currently the texts and names are still the same.
852 2010-11-26 10:48:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
853 Bugfix XBoard menu translation
855 The gettext macro N_() was applied to the menu definition tables, but
856 this would break any translation, as these items are both used as menu
857 texts as well as reference for enabling and checkmarking. The routines
858 that create the menus already apply _() dynamically to these items when
859 they are used as menu texts.
861 2010-11-26 10:10:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
862 Restrict drops in variant seirawan to back rank
864 Drops aren't really llowed at all in Seirawan Ches, but there exists an
865 engine that supports a variant where drops on the back-rank are allowed.
867 2010-11-25 19:44:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
868 Let Analyze File annotate the loaded game
870 By not suppressing the auto-play loop in AnalyzeFle mode, we step
871 through the game while the engine is analyzing, and store the PV info
872 that the engine produces, as well as the full PV (as variation comment)
875 2010-11-25 19:41:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
876 Revive Analyze File menu item in WB
878 We will keep this menu after all, becase it can be given a new meaning.
880 2010-11-25 19:31:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
881 Fix spurious scores in comments
883 The comment popup is also used to display engine PV info, but when the
884 contents of the window is written back when we select a variation,
885 it was treated as a real comment. This is fixed now by checing in
886 ReplaceComment() if the comment starts with the PV info, and if so,
887 ignore the latter. This solves the problem, but I guess the real bug is
888 that selecting a variation tries to write the comment even if it did not
891 2010-11-25 19:26:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
892 Display error for wrong use of Machine Match
895 2010-11-24 13:30:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
896 Reorganize XBoard menus
899 2010-11-24 11:02:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
900 Reorganize WinBoard menus
902 New main menus Edit, View and Engine are added; the step menu
903 disappears. The menu items are redistributed over the new menus.
904 Sometimes duplicates are created. No adaptation of short-cut characters
905 as made yet (as this affects translation).
907 2010-11-20 20:20:27 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
908 removed trailing whitespaces from NEWS
911 2010-11-20 20:19:30 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
912 merged readme_HGM.txt into the NEWS file
914 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.
916 2010-11-20 18:24:19 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
917 typo in date of developer release
919 but will leave the tagged version as it is, since it's still a unique version number
921 2010-11-20 18:11:01 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
922 new developer release
925 2010-11-20 18:12:41 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
926 added latest version of parser.c
929 2010-11-20 18:05:56 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
930 updated Changelog, etc for developer release
933 2010-11-20 16:22:00 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
934 Revert "adding gnu-readline support"
936 This reverts commit c95ef32a700132a134f335f857ca6f1b6f3c169f.
941 better to use the (relatively) new ICS input box then add readline support.
943 2010-11-20 16:19:32 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
944 Revert "bugfix: fixed readline support with icslogon option"
946 This reverts commit b9cdd7422ad1037d7376bce4f8f2db2669396e83.
951 better to use the (relatively) new ICS input box then add readline support.
953 2010-11-19 23:10:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
954 Make Hoplite moves irreversible in Spartan Chess
956 Consider Lance moves in variant Fairy (where the Lance represents the
957 Spartan Hoplite Pawn) as Pawn moves, so they reset the 50-move counter.
959 2010-11-19 21:09:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
960 Give Lance moves of Amazon in variant super
962 Now that Lance is no longer a wild-card piece the moves of Amazon must
963 be programmed explicitly, to keep the possibbilty to play Superchess
964 with legality testing on.
966 2010-11-19 18:32:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
967 Change representation of Bede in variant fairy initial position
969 This used to be Lance, but the promoted Bishop (Dragon Horse)
970 is more applicable. Especially now that Lance is supposed to move like a
973 2010-11-19 18:28:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
974 Make yyskipmoves also suppress examining of drop moves
976 Not sure if this does any good, but it seemed illogical that this would
977 happen in all other moves, but not drops.
979 2010-11-19 18:23:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
980 Define moves for Dragon Horse outside Shogi
982 Let it move like Bishop + Wazir + Dababba.
984 2010-11-17 13:40:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
985 Fix safety crash when appending comments
987 The length limit imposed on safeStrCpy was one too short when copying
988 an existing comment to the space allocated for the longer (concatenated)
989 one. It allowed no space for the terminating '\0'.
991 2010-11-17 13:38:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
994 The test for when to terminate a non-fiting string was one off, and the
995 debug message was written stdoutin stead of debugFP.
997 2010-11-16 12:40:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
998 Fix default holdings size for variant seirawan
1000 The holdings for 7 pieces werealways considered an overrule, so that the
1001 variant name was prefixed with "8x8+7_".
1003 2010-11-15 11:36:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1006 When confronted with a path name starting with ~ and not containing a /
1007 XBoard would segfault.
1009 2010-11-14 21:45:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1010 Fix one-click moving on up-click
1012 (First) up-clicks were not always ignored: in Edit-Game mode with
1013 one-click moving enabled this could lead to a capture being made on
1014 the down-click, and the recapture on the correspoding up-click.
1015 This has now been corrected, and only the down-click of a first click
1016 can lead to selecting a piece or a one-click move.
1018 2010-11-15 18:15:40 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1019 fixed buffer size for snprintf
1022 2010-11-13 23:04:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1023 Accept Seirawan-style gating suffixes
1025 The parser rules were extended to accept / as an equivalent of = in
1026 promotion-suffix notation (e.g. Nf3/H in stead of Nf3=H).
1028 2010-11-13 22:55:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1029 Use Falcon and Alfil as built-ins for Seirawan chess
1031 Where available (size 49 and 72) we use Falcon for Archbishop and Alfil
1032 for Chancelor, to better conform to the Seirawan names Hawk and Elephant.
1034 2010-11-13 20:02:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1035 Implement entering gating moves with mouse
1037 A move with a back-rank piece that starts when a piece in the holdings
1038 is selected will be interpreted as a gating move in variant seirawan.
1039 The front-end uses a 'gatingPiece' selected this way todisplay it on the
1040 from square during animate dragging.
1042 2010-11-13 18:56:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1043 Implement variant seirawan
1045 Set upthe position, including Hawk and Elephant in holdings, in
1046 InitPostion(). Suppress putting captured pieces in holding. Let
1047 promoChar indicate gating in ApplyMove(). Remove gated pieces from
1048 the holdings there. Let GenLegal() generate RxK-type castlings to act as
1049 base for gating on Rook square. Gatings are tested for legality
1050 based on the holdings content and whether they occur on the back
1051 rank. Disambiguate() also tests this. Make sure the gated pieces are
1052 printed as move suffixes in CoordsToAlgebraic().
1054 2010-11-13 18:42:27 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1055 Add -variant seirawan to menu
1058 2010-11-13 22:52:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1059 Fix acceptance of null-move with legality testing off
1061 A second click on the same piece was interpreted as a to-square rather
1062 than deselection of the piece.
1064 2010-11-13 22:49:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1067 Disambiguate was imagining captures, so an only capture by double
1068 clicking your own piece did not always work.
1070 2010-11-13 20:08:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1071 Fix mouse-driver buglet
1073 The highlights were not cleared on moves that went vertically off board.
1075 2010-11-12 17:17:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1076 List some undocumented commands as compliant
1078 The engine->GUI commands setboard and setup are now always printed in
1079 the debug file as well.
1081 2010-11-12 17:05:22 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1082 List Hint with compliant commands
1084 This command was omitted, so that in some -engineDebugOutput modes it
1085 would not appear in the debug file.
1087 2010-11-12 17:02:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1088 Restrict use of escape expansion
1090 Only expand escape sequences like \n and \t in telluser(error) comamnds
1091 that ask for it by preficing the messages by double backslash. Otherwise
1092 backward copatiblity is too severely broken for messages that display
1093 DOS-style filenames.
1095 2010-11-12 13:56:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1096 Make safeStrCpy safe
1098 SafeStrCpy was causing a lot of out-of-bound write accesses, as it was
1099 always writing the character at the length limit of the destination.
1100 Now no memory is accessed that is is not needed to hold the copy.
1102 2010-11-07 21:37:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1103 Allow clicked name internal to the icsMenu command string
1105 A command in the /icsMenu that was specified to contain the selected
1106 text or clicked word always appended this word at the end. Now the user
1107 can also configure it to appear in the middle, by putting a %s in the
1108 command string where he wants it to appear.
1110 2010-11-07 21:33:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1111 Let Engine #2 Settings start second engine
1113 If the second engine is not yet running, it would be impossible to use
1114 the settings dialog for it, as the features have not been received and
1115 the dialog will be empty. So the user could not adjust the engine
1116 parameters before starting a match. Using this menu now automatically
1117 starts the engine, and delays the appearence of the popup untill the
1118 features are received, using a similar mechanism as in
1119 TwoMachinesEventIfReady().
1121 2010-11-01 19:40:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1122 Newly lexed parser.c
1125 2010-11-06 19:55:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1126 Fix bug in parsing illegal Pawn captures
1128 When a pawn move of type exf5 was illegal, the parser made an attempt to
1129 interpret it as e.p. capture of f5. This, however, messed up the move,
1130 so that it was now permanently mistaken for e5xf6. Even in cases with
1131 legality testing off, where you would want the original move to be
1132 accepted despite the fact that it was illegal.
1134 2010-11-06 19:49:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1135 Keep last PV while clearing engine-output display
1137 When ponder is on, the display is cleared immediately when the last line
1138 of thinking output appears by the appearing ponder output. So you would
1139 never get the chance to see it. This line is now re-written after
1140 clearing, so it appears at the bottom of the output for the next search.
1142 2010-11-06 19:45:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1143 Give Lance moves of Berolina Pawn
1145 In stead of using it as a wildcard piece, the Lance gets the moves of
1146 the Berolina Pawn (straight capture, diagonal move). The initial double
1147 osh can be a ump, though. (So it is really a Hoplite Pawn from Spartan
1150 2010-11-06 19:42:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1151 Use SAN even on illegal moves
1153 If there is only one piece of type T, moves like Ta1 or Txa1 are never
1154 ambiguous, so adding the from square is just cumbersome.
1156 2010-11-06 19:34:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1157 Use normal SAN for wildcard pieces
1159 SAN often can also be used with pieces we don't know the moves of, e.g.
1160 if there is only one of that type. We just always get rank or file
1161 disambiguators if there are more (even when they might be unnecessary).
1163 2010-11-06 14:52:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1166 Unused variables were removed from parser.l
1168 2010-11-06 14:43:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1169 Allow arbitrary nesting of sub-variations in PGN input
1171 The parsing of subvariations is moved out of the state-machine parsing,
1172 to allow arbitrary nesting. In stead of the entire sub-variation being
1173 parsed by lex as Comment, it now returns Open and Close for the
1174 corresponding parentheses, which are then handled in a wrapper routine
1175 for yylex(): Myylex(). Problem was that yy_text is supposed to return
1176 the entire parsed text of the returned symbol, which thus has to be
1177 collected. To make this possible, yylex has to return everything that it
1178 parses, (even white space!), and a symbol "Nothing" was added to return
1179 in parsing rules that before just ate away irrelevant text without
1182 2010-11-06 21:48:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1183 Implement setup (engine-GUI) command
1185 This allows the frst engine (when legality testing is off) to overrule
1186 the default opening position, in reply to the variant command. Syntax is
1187 "setup (PIECE_TO_CHAR_TABLE) FEN_STRING"
1188 where the FEN string is interpreted in the context of the given
1189 pieceToCharTable (which is optional, and only delimeted by parethesis if
1191 Sendng the position to the second engine is delayed until the first
1192 engine has responded to the ping after the new-game sequence, to make
1193 sure it gets the chance to alter the position before it is sent to the
1194 second engine. This feature is useful for playing variants that WinBoard
1195 does not even know the opening positon for, and can be used even if they
1196 are shuffle variants.
1198 2010-11-06 14:19:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1199 Restrict use of a2a3 kludge
1201 The kudge to send "a2a3" in stead of "black" to get black to move is
1202 fatally flawed in varants that have no Pawn on a2. So in that case we
1203 revert to use of the deprecated "black" command.
1205 2010-11-02 13:06:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1206 Remember values set by -firstOptions, -secondOptions
1208 When an engine announces its option features, and the option name
1209 matches that of a setting given in -first/secondOptions, the engine is
1210 sent hte specified value, but this value was not remembered as current
1211 value (but the latter was left at the engine-announced default),
1212 leading to inconsistent behavior in the Engine #N Settings dialog.
1214 2010-11-01 19:26:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1215 Make test for valid promotion piece color-dependent
1217 This is needed to make it work in variants where white and black have
1218 different armies; quite likely white will promote to pieces that do not
1219 exist in the black army, so we really have to make sure we test if the
1220 white (upper-case) piece exists in this case.
1222 2010-11-01 19:23:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1223 Remove validity test on promochar from parser
1225 The backend routines Disambiguate() and LegalityTest() will catch
1226 invalid promotions, so no need to do it here.
1228 2010-10-31 23:37:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1229 Add the actual size-33 Shogi bitmaps
1231 These were forgotten in the original commit that fixed the .rc file.
1233 2010-10-31 13:20:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1234 Delete some stale promotion code
1236 The correction of the promotion piece to Ferz in Shatran-like variants
1237 in ApplyMove() was no longer needed, as the new promotion code already
1238 does this in the move parser.
1240 2010-10-31 13:08:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1241 Augment moves of some fairy pieces
1243 To get better disambiguation in variants that have to be played with
1244 legality testing off, the Elephant is given also one-step moves (making
1245 it a so-called Modern Elephant) in -variant fairy and great. The Dragon
1246 King (Crowned Rook), which had no moves defined for it outside Shogi at
1247 all, has been given Rook moves plus an orthogonal 2-jump, so that it
1248 can get SAN moves when used as Dababba or Short Rook. (Illegal moves
1249 currently aways force long algebraic notation...)
1251 2010-11-08 22:57:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1252 Bugfix safeStrCpy patch, WinBoard
1254 The use of sizeof on pointers was detected through the same method as
1255 the previous patches, this time while compiling WinBoard. A typo in
1256 jaws.c was fixed as well.
1258 2010-11-08 23:03:13 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1259 Bugfix for safeStrCpy patch for XBoard
1261 By a trick (temporarily redefining safeStrCpy in common.h as
1262 ((char*) (a=1/(4-3rdArgument))) ) a compile-time warning (division by 0)
1263 could be generated for every occurrence where the size argument was equal
1264 to 4, i.e. where the 1st argument was likely a pointer rather than an
1265 array. These cases are now fixed. The file xoptions.c, which is the
1266 only ne that does not #include common.h had to be fixed by making
1267 the #define in the file itself.
1269 2010-10-31 13:16:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1270 Fix spurious promotions with legality testing off
1272 The recent promotion patch had broken playing without legality testing
1273 completely: without legality testing one always gets the piece that was
1274 asked for, but a NULLCHAR should not be taken as a request for a piece!
1275 But it was, and this resulted in any moved piece turning into a white
1276 Pawn! For true promotions the piece was always black, which was also not
1279 Also revert to the use of '+' as internal Shogi promoChar, because
1280 pre-processing turns out not to be possible when reading a game file.
1281 In stead parse any trailing '+' on moves as promoChar. Downside: '++'
1282 can no longer be recognized as checkmate symbol.
1284 2010-10-29 22:54:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1285 Make deferral default in Shogi promotions
1287 Because '+' is intercepted by the parser as check indicator, Shogi moves
1288 are pre-processed to change a trailing '+' into an internally used
1289 alternative '^'. The testing if a promotion character is OK is now done
1290 in LegalityTest() and Disambiguate(), which return ImpossibleMove when
1291 the character does not correspond to any piece, and IllegalMove when in
1292 Shogi anything other than '^' or '=' is used. (Except for the ICS
1293 notations.) On output, in CoordsToComputerAlgebraic() and
1294 CoordsToAlgebraic(), the '^' is translated back to '+'.
1296 2010-10-28 17:51:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1297 Animate piece explosions in drag-drop moves and in XB
1299 This required some code restructuring: the decision if an explosion is
1300 needed is now taken in a new routine Explode() in the backend. This then
1301 calls the front-end driver, and it returns the info if there was an
1302 explosion or not, so the caller (AnimateMove() or the mouse driver) can
1303 take action to repair the damage to the board caused by the blast wave.
1304 A front-end driver for XBoard is provided as well, so that both
1305 click-click (and replay, which is the same) and drag-drop atomic
1306 captures are animated in XB as well as WB.
1307 Explosions on rejected moves are suppressed.
1309 2010-10-28 13:53:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1310 Suppress promotion popup if piece will explode
1312 In atomic, a Pawn capture to last rank is not really a promotion.
1313 Fix choice to Queen.
1315 2010-10-28 18:42:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1316 Make Knight hop first straight, then diagonal
1318 It used to be the other way around, which looked pretty illogical in
1319 Xiangqi: to see Horses, which are blockable pieces there, move over an
1322 2010-10-27 20:04:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1323 Let -oneClickMove also work in EditGame mode
1325 There is really no reason why people that lke one-clcik moves enough to
1326 switch them on would not want to use them too when editing a game.
1327 This solves a nast inconsistency, as before it used to work in -ncp mode
1328 on the _first_ move, as the mode is then BeginningOfGame, and not yet
1329 EditGame, and we do want it to work for BeginningOfGame, as this is
1330 also the game mode when you start playing as white.
1332 2010-10-27 19:40:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1333 Make -flipBlack and -allWhite option volatile
1335 As these options are very Shogi specific, and the variant is volatile,
1336 it seems logical to make them also volatile. Not completely sure about
1337 -allWhite, though. It cold be useful if you want, for example, to play
1338 wth dark-brown pieces for black, as any color but black looks much
1339 better with outline pieces than with solid pieces.
1341 2010-10-27 19:33:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1342 Provide some sample board-texture pixmaps
1344 Wood and marble themes are provided as textures for light and dark
1345 squares, plus two complete Xiangqi boards (wood and evenly colored).
1346 These should probably not goint the distro tar ball.
1348 2010-10-27 19:25:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1349 The -overrideLineGap option is made to work in XBoard
1351 Although XBoard already allowed this in the -boardSize specification,
1352 it is still seful to globally disable grid lines, e.g. for an
1353 oriental Xiangqi board. And it converges XB and WB.
1355 2010-10-27 19:18:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1356 Implement board textures in XBoard
1358 The -darkBackTextureFile and -liteBackTextureFile options now wrk in
1359 XBoard too, for loading a pixmap that will be used to cut out the dark
1360 and light square backgrounds. The cutting algorithm is such that the
1361 pixmap image is completely restored if the size was that of the total
1362 board (e.g. a drawing of a Xiangqi board).
1364 2010-10-27 12:11:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1365 Complete WB (western) bitmaps for Shogi at size 33
1367 The Lance was not replacing Queen in some sizes where the bitmaps were
1368 already available, and new bitmaps for the promotion Golds were added.
1370 2010-10-22 20:30:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1371 Make starting new variation dependent on shift key
1373 The shift key is read during mouse events, and posted in a global
1374 variable, which can then be used by the back-end. The decision to start
1375 a new variation (pushing the game tail rather than clipping it off) when
1376 entring a move in Edit Game or Analyze mode is made dependent on this.
1377 The move-typein also records the shift-key state.
1379 2010-10-22 20:25:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1382 A %g format was used to print an int in sending the level command,
1383 because decimal points were dropped when merging patches. Also an unused
1384 variable was removed to suppress a warning.
1386 2010-10-18 19:50:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1387 Add set of shogi pixmaps for XBoard
1389 The -size 64 pieces from gShogi (and originally XShogi) are made
1390 suitable for loading by XBoard, through redefining the transparent
1391 background color as either light or dark square color. These bitmaps are
1392 not included in the XBoard build, and perhaps should not even be
1393 included in the source distribution, but made available in a separate
1396 2010-10-18 19:46:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1397 Implement -flipBlack in XBoard
1399 When -flipBlack is true, the white and back piece pixmaps are swapped in
1400 flipView. The idea is that the black pieces are upside-down versions of
1401 the white (Shogi) pieces, so that swapping white and black in effect
1402 turns all pieces upside down, which is what should happen in flipView.
1404 2010-10-11 21:06:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1405 Disable some very verbose debug printing
1407 The internationalization seems debugged enough to do without them.
1409 2010-10-11 20:52:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1410 Add option -variations to control variation-tree walking
1412 Just so that users can switch it off if the find it annoying.
1414 2010-10-11 21:01:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1415 Allow full promotion suffixes on SAN piece moves
1417 This facilitates the parsing of (non-standard) Shogi moves in ICS
1418 protocol. It can also be useful for Seirawan Chess, where a future
1419 implementation of it can use promotion suffixes to indicate gating.
1421 2010-10-11 14:07:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1422 Allow lower-case piece indicator in drop-move notation
1424 As it seems that XBoard also sends such moves in zippy play, it seems
1425 more fair to recognize them from the engine as well.
1427 2010-10-10 21:26:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1428 Fix bug in ICS variant switch for Shogi
1430 Because a test for 8x8 variants was done by <= VariantShogi,
1431 rather than <, spurious move-list fetching occurred in Shogi.
1433 2010-10-10 21:23:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1434 Fix WinBoard Lance bug
1436 The choice between Lance and Queen was made on appData.variant, in stead
1437 of gameInfo.variant. Because of this it was not always up-to-date in ICS
1440 2010-10-10 21:15:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1441 Adapt WinBoard to Shogi implementation on Variant ICS
1443 The Variant ICS does not use the '+P' notation for promoted pieces,
1444 neither in the board, nor in SAN, but simply indicates any Gold by 'G',
1445 and uses 'H' and 'D' for +B and +R. The Shogi promotion code in
1446 LegalityTest() and Disambiguate(), which are used in move Parsing, are
1447 adapted to handle this. Deferred promotions sent to the ICS now use an
1450 2010-10-10 21:07:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1451 Inherit promoted-info that ICS does not give from previous board
1453 The ICS does not tell us in Crazyhouse (or Shogi) if a piece is
1454 primordial or a promoted pawn (or a promoted other piece). We now derive
1455 this info from the previous board. The option -disguisePromotedPieces
1456 controls this feature.
1458 2010-10-10 21:03:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1459 Limit multi-session clock handling to non-ICS games
1461 In ICS games a time forfeit crashed XBoard, apparently because the
1462 fullTimeControl string is not properly set when we try to use it to see
1463 if a sudden-death session is indeed the last session.
1465 2010-10-08 11:47:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1466 Change evalgraph scale in drop games
1468 Score swings tend to be much larger in Crazyhouse and Shogi, so the
1469 vertical rangee in those games is doubled to (-14, 14).
1471 2010-10-13 23:05:05 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1472 bugfix: fixed readline support with icslogon option
1474 The icslogon option sends the login and password, so we don't need to handle
1475 special cases for the readline buffer.
1477 2010-10-07 20:35:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1478 fixed some typos that were introduced during the sprintf->snprintf changes
1481 2010-10-07 11:59:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1482 Fix uninitialized variable in book code
1484 The variable ' power' was used uninitialized in case -bookVariation was
1485 set to 0, which can be an error even if it was only multiplied by zero.
1487 2010-10-06 14:20:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1488 Fix menu translation bug
1490 The menuText array was declared too small, so that the last entry of the
1491 File menu got out of bounds and was overwritten by the first of the Mode
1494 2010-10-05 21:14:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1495 Allow -timeIncrement to be a float
1497 The increment can now be fractional seconds. The printing in
1498 ParseTimeControl() and SendTimeControl() is done with %g format, so that
1499 for integer increment there is backward compatibility with the old level
1502 2010-03-30 20:24:49 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1503 adding gnu-readline support
1505 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.
1507 2010-09-24 21:17:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1508 added warning if icsLogon file couldn't be opened
1511 2010-09-24 21:10:28 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1512 security fix: replaced some strcat with strncat
1514 there is still more to do
1516 2010-09-19 20:55:01 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1517 add option for silent builds
1519 this can be enabled for automake versions >1.11 by calling ./configure --enable-silent-rules.
1520 It should still work for older automake versions too
1522 2010-09-19 13:16:40 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1523 bugfix: missing array index
1526 2010-09-19 12:19:44 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1527 added new case for (Chessmove) 0 in common.h
1529 this cleans up a few more -Wall messages
1531 2010-09-17 21:47:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1532 cleaned up -Wall warnings (apart from settings some parentheses)
1534 removed unsused variables, etc mostly everything from -Wall -Wno-parenthesis
1536 2010-09-17 20:36:54 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1537 sizedefaults has 9 members, the last line of the array (NULL) only set 7.
1540 2010-09-12 20:04:03 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1541 security fix: replaced sprintf with snprintf
1543 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.
1545 2010-09-10 23:36:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1546 security fix: replaced strcpy with safeStrCpy from backend.c
1548 see comment in backend.c on how to use safeStrCpy. This was already added by AS, but only used in 3 places.
1550 2010-10-04 11:50:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1551 Enhance multi-session TC clock handling
1553 Some new TC types are introduced: Bronstein and free sessions. The
1554 former is implemented by letting an exclamation point '!' in front of an
1555 increment (in the -tc string) indicate that the increment is limited to
1556 the time actually used on the previous move. The latter is an interval
1557 of given duraton in which you can do any number of moves (even zero),
1558 before the next session starts. This is needed for implementing Shogi
1559 byoyomi-type TC, as a first session, followed by a session of fixed-time
1560 per move. The latter can now be specified with the -tc argument as a
1561 degenerate case of Bronstein, where the time on the clock is <= the
1562 increment (so that it is never possible to think longer than the
1563 increment). A TC of 5 min + 10 sec byoyomi can then be indicated as
1566 The sessions are now separated by ':' in stead of '+', and all times in
1567 the TC string are converted to seconds first (in ParseTimeControl), so
1568 the fullTCstring can now be directly used in a PGN tag.
1570 Note that this patch only addresses clock handling; the engine will not
1571 be informed yet if the TC type or parameters change at the start of new
1574 2010-10-04 09:32:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1575 Remove promotion-piece encoding from ChessMove type
1577 The shizophrenic way to indcate promotion pieces in the XBoard code
1578 (sometimes using a promoChar, at other times relying on moveType) was
1579 cured by combining all promotion move types (such as WhitePromotionRook)
1580 into a single one (WhitePromotion), and relying on promoChar to specify
1581 the piece. This solves the problem of promoting to new piece types in
1582 variants, which formerly also required addition of new move types.
1584 In Shogi the '+' character is now consistently used to indicate
1585 promotions (and recognized in ApplyMove), rather than 'q' or
1586 PieeToChar(BlackQueen), as the latter did not work in minivariants where
1587 the Queen (representng the Lance) did not partcipate.
1589 2010-10-03 20:50:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1590 Pass promoChar to SendMoveToICS
1592 SendMoveToICS was the only place where the promotion piece was derived
1593 from moveType, rather than an explicity passed promoChar.
1595 2010-10-04 09:41:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1596 Suppress spurious use of SAN castling in mini variants
1598 King moves from a central file to the king-side-castled position (1
1599 square away from the right corner) were intercepted and printed as O-O
1600 in CoordsToAlgebraic. But on a 5x5 board (mini-Shogi!) this caught the
1601 normal King move Kc1-d1 as well. The castling notation is now reserved
1602 for King moves larger than one step.
1604 2010-10-04 08:21:19 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1605 Make Shogi promotion zone board-size dependent
1607 In stead of using a fixed size of 3 ranks, we use BOARD_HEIGHT/3, which
1608 would translate to 1 rank for mini-Shogi (5x5) and 2 ranks for Judgkin's
1609 Shogi (6x6), which are indeed what these variants need.
1611 2010-10-03 19:58:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1612 Make board-size overrule options volatile
1614 The options -boardWidth, -boardHeight and -holdingSize were legacies
1615 from the day choosing a variant would not automatically set a board
1616 size. As a result they are seldomly used anymore. The first real
1617 application is mini-Shogi (on 5x5 board), and it turned out very
1618 annoying if the 5x5 settings persisted to the next session, where you
1619 almost certainly want to play another variant.
1621 2010-10-04 09:16:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1622 Strip DOS line endings from parser.l
1625 2010-09-16 18:58:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1626 Extend mate test to drop games
1628 MateTest() in case of no legal moves now also looks if there are legal
1629 drops that can resolve the check. This provides reliable mate testing in
1630 Crazyhouse and Shogi, so these are now made subject to adjudications too.
1632 2010-09-16 18:48:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1633 Extend legality testing to drop moves
1635 LegalityTest() can nowbe called with (internal-format) drop moves, and
1636 delegates their testing to a new routine LegalDrop(). This routine
1637 performs the 'no-pawn-on-back-rank' test that used to be in
1638 UserMoveTest (which now calls LegalityTest also for drop moves).
1639 The more complex Shogi case is also handled (except for Pawn mate
1640 drops) in LegalDrop().
1642 2010-09-16 18:25:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1643 Revert splitting of UserMoveEvent
1645 This splitting into UserMoveTest and FinishMove was no longer needed,
1646 now that the new mouse driver no longer calls UserMoveTest to figure out
1647 if a move is a promotion, and XBoard and WinBoard are unified in this
1648 respect. It was counter-productive, because UserMoveTest was not able to
1649 change the fromX, fromY (call-by-value) parameters for passing them to
1650 FinishMove, so it had to defer the conversion of drop moves to internal
1651 format to the latter, while it did not belong there. (Because
1652 DropMenuEvent already delivers the moves in internal format.) This
1653 whole kludgy construction was therefore abandoned, by going back
1654 to the original 4.2.7 calling scheme, where UserMoveEvent completely
1655 pre-processes the move, and when it is valid, calls FinishMove directly.
1657 2010-09-16 18:02:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1658 Fix silent bug in drop moves
1660 In ApplyMove() the piece on the from square was accessed and used before
1661 we tested for drop moves. As drop moves have off-board from-squares this
1662 led to out-of-bound array access, which apparently was usually harmless.
1664 2010-09-16 17:43:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1665 Allow parsing of upper-case machine moves
1667 Dubious patch, as it caters to non-compliancy. Some variant engines are
1668 very non-compliant, though.
1670 2010-09-16 17:38:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1671 Prevent transmission of spurious promo char to other engine
1673 The parser now strps off spurious promotion characters.
1674 New move types "White/BlackNonPromotion" had to be introduced for this,
1675 to indicate NormalMoves that could have been a promotion, to make sure
1676 the '=' suffix of Shogi deferred promotions survives.
1678 2010-09-16 20:44:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1679 fixed internationalization for winboard
1681 in the original commit some files were forgotten. This should fix it.
1683 2010-08-29 21:07:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1684 Fix JAWS bug saying side to move in ICS play
1686 This was done the wrong way around.
1688 2010-08-27 14:08:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1689 Make WB run-time language switch possible from menu
1691 This is a rather involved patch that might not be worth it. It is
1692 difficult, because translation of things that live forever is not easy
1693 to invert (menus, the auxiliary windows). We hae to remember all
1694 original, English texts there to be able to put them back,or
1695 re-translate. Still does not fully work, although the menus and
1696 temporary dialogs now are all OK.
1698 2010-08-27 14:35:46 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1699 Update WB translation template
1701 The language.txt file now also contains all translatable strings from
1702 the C source files, rather than jsut the resource.
1704 2010-08-27 14:14:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1707 Add descriptions for machine-match menu support and enhanced book
1708 control, nick-name options and language.
1710 2010-08-27 13:59:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1711 Add some forgotten translation hooks
1713 The general-options, file-browse dialogs and the about box did not call
1714 Translate() yet. Also translate contents of combo boxes. Some small bug
1717 2010-08-27 13:28:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1718 Do not translate game-end messages in PGN
1720 The messages themselves are not subjected to _(), but in stead their
1721 displaying in DisplayMove is subjected to T_().
1723 2010-08-23 13:23:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1724 Internationalization for WinBoard
1726 A function Translate() was added, which uses a list of item dialogs,
1727 reads their value, and replaces it by a translation (if available). It
1728 also reads the window title and sets a translation. Calls to this
1729 routine are added in the initialization code of every dialog callback.
1730 In addition all translatable strings in the WnBoard front end are marked
1731 by the gettext macro _(). Because WB is not gettexted yet, a hard
1732 re-definition of this macro is added in each file using it, to the
1733 string-translation routine T_() supplied in winboard.c.
1734 Code to read the translation file, and translate the menu texts is added
1735 in winboard.c. In backend.c the meaning of the gettet macros is
1736 redefined for the WIN32 case.
1738 2010-08-23 13:07:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1739 Make the ID of all WB dialog items unique
1741 Mnany static dialog texts did share the ID -1 (IDC_STATIC). But to
1742 replace tet at run-time for translation purposes, they need to be
1743 addressed individually. So they were given new IDs, with symbols defined
1746 2010-08-23 12:48:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1747 Mark XBoard result messages for internationalization
1749 The GNU gettext macro _() is used with the game-end messages. This might
1750 be controversial, as they will appear in the PGN as well. But only as a
1751 comment. We can always decide not to supply a translation.
1753 2010-08-23 12:43:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1754 Do not exit after match when match started from menu
1756 The codelooks weird, but matchMode == 2 in this case. We then use
1757 DisplayNote() to report the match result.
1759 2010-08-23 12:39:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1760 Trivial-draws recognition improved in Xiangqi
1762 Now based on a routine "SufficientDefence". If both have it, it is draw.
1764 2010-08-20 17:46:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1767 The relocation of parser.c and the addition of history.c was not yet
1768 incorporated in the devcpp proect files.
1770 2010-08-19 13:45:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1771 Fix some MSVC compile errors
1773 Some statements has moved up stream of declaratons, which is an error
1774 that gcc is forgiving about, but where MSVC is strict.
1776 2010-08-14 14:01:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1777 Improved patch for expansion of WB settings-file name
1779 The expansion of environment variables now allows multiple environment
1780 variables in the path name. Tested on %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\winboard.ini
1781 and %APPDATA%\winboard.ini.
1783 2010-08-07 16:53:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1784 Add -colorNickNames option
1786 This option allows non-standard designation of side to move in FENs.
1787 (Useful for Xiangqi, where white is indicated often as r(ed), and Shogi,
1788 where white is s(ente) or b(lack), and black is g(ote) or w(hite).)
1789 Can also be used for FENs in a local language. A match of theinput
1790 character with the nick name translates it to the standard; this means
1791 the standard will continue to be recognized, unless it was defined as a
1794 2010-08-07 16:39:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1795 Tricked by the grossnes
1797 Some WB menu items were referenced by a hard number. As items had been
1798 added over the years, the wrong menu items were grayed. In particular
1799 the Options -> Adjudication menu was grayed out, in -ncp mode, where
1800 this was intended for the Sounds dialog. This accidentally proved
1801 useful, until we started to apply adjudictions also to the Human moves.
1802 Then it was suddenly undesirable, and a small mystery why it happened at
1803 all, when I tried to change it. The numbers are now corrected to the new
1804 locatons of the items in the menus.
1806 2010-08-07 16:35:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1807 Allow match to be started from WB menu
1809 A menu item Machine Match was added in the Mode menu to switch to
1810 matchMode. A persistent option /defaultMatchGames determines the number
1811 of games. A control was added to the Options -> Common Engine dialog to
1814 2010-08-07 16:26:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1815 Add some book-control options
1817 Options /bookDepth and /bookVariation have been added to control the use
1818 of the GUI book. In WinBoard the Optons -> Common Engine dialog now
1819 contains fields to set them.
1821 2010-08-07 00:15:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1822 new developer release
1825 2010-08-06 11:18:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1826 Repair exit-popup deadlock patch
1828 Relocating the exit popup call had made it lose access to the message it
1829 should print, because it was declared only in an inner code block, by
1830 the same name: buf[]. Deleting the inner declaration fixes it.
1832 2010-08-04 11:00:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1833 Fix erors when compiling with --disable-zippy
1835 The file args.h contained a codeblock in #ifdef ZIPPY, in stead of
1838 2010-08-01 13:27:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1839 Fix zippy handling of draw offers from ICS
1841 The patch by DM to fix the problem introduced by the coloration of
1842 zippy-matched commands (namely that the coloration code beat the zippy
1843 draw recognition to it, and ate the draw offer away) was only targeting
1844 ICC. The new fix should work on any ICS (by using the same pattern in
1845 zippy as in the colorization code).
1847 2010-08-01 13:15:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1848 Fix regression in colorization of zippy-matched commands
1850 The patch by Daniel Mehrman from 4.2.pre8 was not properly merged, so
1851 that in XBoard no coloration would take place of ICS commands that were
1852 matched by zippy. (It was using &i as input pointer, rather than &backup.
1853 The XBoard-specific code now has been deleted completely, to remove a
1854 seemingly needless dependence on _WIN32_ of the back-end. Both WB and XB
1855 now use the XBoard method, to only match zippy commands when logged in.
1857 2010-07-31 22:48:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1858 Suggest default file name in browser dialog
1860 The argument 'def' to FileNamePopUp() was not passed through to the new
1861 file-browser routine, which got NULL in stead, and thus started with an
1864 2010-07-30 23:28:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1865 Define /firstUCI and /secondUCI as synonyms for /fUCI, /sUCI
1867 Because the %s expansion of WB options in the /fcp and /scp lines only
1868 works for options that contain 'first' or 'second', and /fUCI thus did
1869 not work, PSWBTM had to rely on the cumbersome /firstIsUCI=true to
1870 install UCI engines. (The latter option should be deprecated really;
1871 the UCI-ness of the engines is a volatile option, so it makes no sense
1872 to supply a way to set them both to false or true. One only needs to be
1873 able to set it to the non-default state.)
1875 2010-07-30 23:21:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1876 Add string option /pieceNickNames
1878 This (volatile) option allows definition of alternate letters for the
1879 pieces, which will be recognized next to the standard symbols as given
1880 in the /pieceToCharTable on input. (Output always uses the standard.)
1881 This can be useful for reading PGN from another language, or
1882 non-compliant FENs (e.g. using B and N for E and H in Xiangqi).
1883 The format of the argument is the same as for /pieceToCharTable.
1884 Because the nickNames are consulted before the standard table, it is
1885 possible to redefine a standard name as a nick for another piece.
1887 2010-07-30 23:10:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1888 Fix deadlock in match-result display
1890 At the end of a match, GameEnds() was recursively calling itself,
1891 through DisplayFatalError() and ExitEvent(), and the latter was then
1892 delaying until the calling GameEnds() terminated. (Which it would of
1893 course never do before ExitEvent returned; fortunately there was a tim
1894 limit to this delay, but in XBoard it was 10 sec in stead of 10 msec.)
1895 Now the calling of DisplayFatalError() (to show the result popup) is
1896 delayed until after GameEnds completes (and resets the anti-recursion
1897 flag 'endingGame'), so that it is simply executed a second time, unaware
1898 of the earlier call. But this second time it does not do anything,
1899 because the gameMode ws set to EndOfGame the first time, and the writing
1900 of the PGN is blocked by the checksum being still the same.
1902 2010-07-12 11:10:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1903 Fix WinBoard game-list title
1905 Number of displayed games and WDL stats were always appended to the
1906 existing title, leading to an ever-growing title in the game-list
1907 window. Now the old actual title is ignored, and the starts is appended
1908 to the original title "Game List". (In the future we could use the
1911 In addition, the title was not updated when re-opening the game-list
1912 window, while the stats could change if filtering was active when the
1913 window was closed. (In that case the filter is cleared on re-opening, so
1914 the number of displayed games changes.) Now a title-update (after
1915 recalculating the stats) is done every time the game-list window is
1918 2010-07-11 11:06:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1919 Refactoring of material-draws adjudication code
1921 Insufficient mating material is now determined per side individually, by
1922 testing for MatingPotential of each side. If both lack mating potential
1923 the game is adjudicated as draw (if the -materialDraws option is set).
1925 This way MatingPotential() can later also be used to correct losses by
1926 forfeit to draws (which currently is only done when the opponent has a
1929 The accuracy of this type of adjudication in Xiangqi has been highly
1932 2010-07-11 10:54:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1933 Fix bug in sending cores command to engine
1935 The cores command was alwas sent to the engine(s) when the user changed
1936 it through the menu, even when the engine had sent feature smp=0 (which
1937 is default anyway). NewSettingEvent() was patched to send the new
1938 setting conditionally, based on the engine properties as recorded in
1939 ChessProgramStates first, second; In this particular case it now
1940 consults cps->maxCores. (Note the code for testing the second engine
1941 contains some dirty pointer arithmetic.)
1943 2010-07-11 10:42:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1944 Fix oneClickMove bug
1946 When checking for unique captures, no attention was payed to the option
1947 setting, so the capture was also made when the option was off.
1949 2010-07-11 10:39:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1950 Remove duplicate testing for cores feature
1952 The testing for this BooleanFeature occurred twice.
1954 2010-07-11 10:35:13 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1955 Remove misspelled prototype
1957 NewSettingEvent occurred, next to the correct one, in misspelled form.
1959 2010-07-05 10:00:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1960 Fix parsing of SAN shogi promotions
1962 A missing promotion character defaults to promotion in the move type,
1963 but the promotion character was not set when this happened in variant
1964 shogi. And it is especially important there, as the promotion character
1965 '+' will always be missing, as the parser will take it to be a 'check'
1966 symbol, and strip it from the move.
1968 2010-07-05 09:55:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1969 Fix variant switch on PGN loading
1971 When the PGN specified an essentially different variant, the
1972 piece bitmaps were not properly adapted, because the switch was done by
1973 calling InitPosition(), rather than Reset(). (The latter would destroy
1974 the PGN tags info.) We now added an explicit call to ResetFrontEnd(),
1975 (which is normally done from Reset()).
1977 2010-07-05 09:51:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1978 Adjudicate Xiangqi material draws with Advisor-less Cannons
1980 Used the Queen counter for counting Cannons. Note that material draws
1981 with stale Pawns (i.e. on the back rank) are not yet adjudicated.
1983 2010-07-05 09:34:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1984 Remove font settings from master settings file
1986 xboard.conf should not contain general font settings (not specific to
1987 one board size) with specified point size. In fact it should not even
1988 specify sizable fonts, as the new system would make specification of a
1989 general font overrule the size-specific settings in the .xboardrc file,
1990 so the persistence of fonts would be completely broken.
1992 2010-06-30 10:52:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1993 Cut board squares out of texture bitmap more cleverly
1995 When the bitmap is larger than the entire board, the squares are now cut
1996 out of the center of the virtual squares from subdividing the bitmap, so
1997 that they stay centered on the grid of a Xiangqi board bitmap. If the
1998 board size exceeds that of the bitmap, the old algorithm is still used,
1999 as the centering would make the edge squares exceed the bitmap, and
2000 cause a black rim around the board.
2002 2010-06-30 10:49:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2003 Allow -flipBlack to work with font-based piece rendering
2005 In addition the font-based pieces will also be flipped vertically in
2006 flipView for variant shogi when -flipBlack is off.
2008 2010-06-30 10:46:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2009 Allow font-based piece rendering in board sizes below petite
2011 At least for variants that use unorthodox pieces, so that switching back
2012 to using bitmaps is not really an option anyway.
2014 2010-06-30 10:41:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2015 Ignore checks in 50-move count for Xiangqi
2017 Both checks and evasions are discounted; this is only done after the
2018 naive counting exceeds the maximum, so during most of the game it causes
2021 2010-06-05 14:38:47 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2022 removed some garbage from configure.ac that got added a while ago
2025 2010-05-25 21:20:27 -0400 Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>:
2026 Remove unnecessary double equals from configure.ac.
2029 2010-05-28 11:07:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2030 Fix e.p. bug in xiangqi with -serverMoves option
2032 Sideway Pawn moves were written as e.p. captures in the file with moves,
2033 which led to disappearence of pieces in the viewer.
2035 2010-05-28 11:05:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2036 Repair score printing with -serverMoves option
2038 A previous patch had moved MakeMove to before the update of pvInfoList,
2039 so that the score/depth info would not appear in the file with moves.
2041 2010-05-28 11:02:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2042 Repair animate dragging
2044 The previous patch had left a stray semicolon in the mouse handler.
2046 2010-05-10 10:32:19 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2047 Fix game end during dragging
2049 The stale-first-click fix interfered with proper handling of a piece
2050 being dragged when a game suddenly ended (because of opponent resign,
2051 or caling the flag), because up-clicks when the from-square was reset
2052 were completely ignored. Now such an 'unmatched' upclick calls
2053 DragPieceEnd() and redraws the board.
2055 2010-05-10 10:09:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2056 Pop down old tags on loadng new game in WinBoard
2058 ResetFrontEnd(), called from Reset(), did not do this in WinBoard
2059 (unlike XBoard), so that the tags from the previous game were left on
2060 display when -autoDisplayTags was off.
2062 2010-05-09 22:15:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2063 Reverse mousewheel action
2065 Apparently WinBoard was stepping in the opposite direction through the
2066 game in reaction to the mousewheel as every other GUI in existence.
2068 2010-05-09 22:07:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2069 Fix bug in sending "usermove" when forcing book moves
2071 The keyword "usermove" was copied to the buffer, but not sent before it
2072 was overwritten by the actual book move.
2074 2010-05-06 17:23:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2075 Fix engine stall on perpetual-check evasion
2077 The adjudication code had already put the engine in force mode after
2078 postponing the actual adjudication to the next move. Now first determine
2079 if we want to adjudicate now, and with which result, before stopping the
2080 engine and ending the game.
2082 2010-05-06 16:37:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2083 Let move parser return ImpossibleMove for off-board moves
2085 It used to return 0, which interfered with buiding a game list. This
2086 broke reading of multi-game PGN files containing games in a variant with
2087 a board size larger than that of the currenty active variant.
2089 2010-04-06 15:05:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2090 Alter XBoard key bindings to mimic WinBoard
2092 A lot of new bindings were added, and four menuProcs had to be registered
2093 to be able to add bindings to them. The use of the control key as
2094 temporary take-back for the last move conflicted with the use of Ctrl
2095 keystrokes, and this function was migrated to '.'. The iconify function
2096 had no shortcut in WinBoard, but to get rid of letter bindings it was
2099 2010-04-05 20:45:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2103 2010-04-03 14:00:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2104 Fix typos in html help file
2107 2010-04-01 15:22:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2108 Fix JAWS piece drop cursor, and streamline some sentences
2110 The cursor square was reset to a1 after every use of the piece menu,
2111 which was very inconvenient. Some of the spoken sentences have been
2112 improved; the square is read before the piece now, when using the arrow
2115 2010-03-31 22:31:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2116 Allow escape sequences in telluser(error) messages
2118 The routine EscapeExpand was moved to backend.c, and applied to the
2119 message received from the engine.
2121 2010-03-31 21:29:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2122 Allow lower-case promochar in moves of type h8=Q
2124 Updated the parser rules. Other move formats already allowed this.
2126 2010-03-31 21:36:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2127 Fix Alt+M JAWS command in Two-Machines mode
2129 The command refused to read the ast move because it contained thinking
2130 output of the other engine. Let it pay attention to evenIfDuplicate.
2132 2010-03-29 09:57:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2133 Fix rep-draw recognition
2135 The refactoring had broken the rep-draw recognition, by adding and extra
2136 condition in a conditional with side effects. The testing of this extra
2137 condition is now moved to after the side effect.
2139 2010-03-28 12:32:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2140 Allow any %ENVIRONMENTVAR% in WB settings file name rather than ~
2142 Only a single variable at the beginning of the file name is recognized,
2143 and the matching is not fool proof (it matches across backslashes).
2145 2010-03-28 11:24:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2146 Fix info lines being used as normal thinking output
2148 The new standard of using thinking output with time = nodes = score = 0
2149 as info messages for printing in the Engine-Output window was not
2150 understood everywhere, and led to such info lines being used for
2151 autoKibitzing and PGN annotation. The programStats are now only updated
2152 from thinking output received from an engine when it is not an info line.
2154 2010-03-27 11:54:41 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2155 new developer release
2158 2010-03-26 21:16:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2159 Suppress background observe for boards with own game number
2161 This is really a work-around for an ICS bug. The Variant-ICS sent the
2162 initial board of a game in a move list with relation = 0, which means
2163 'observed'. So XBoard was thinking it was observing its own game, and
2164 switched to dual board. It seems harmless to suppress such a switch for
2165 all boards of your own game, however, which is now done.
2167 2010-03-26 21:12:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2168 Fix crash on switching to ICS xiangqi game
2170 The oldBoard was a local variable, and only squares of the old board
2171 were initialized. This led to a crash if the copied board was enlarged,
2172 and then displayed. The variable is now declared static, so the
2173 uninitialized squares contain harmless zeros.
2175 2010-03-26 18:32:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2176 Let Chat Boxes pop up above console, rather than on top of it
2178 Use EnsureOnScreen() to have them overlap if there was no room.
2180 2010-03-26 18:26:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2181 Fix disabling of Chat Box navigation buttons
2183 The buttons for non-open boxes were enabed, rather than disabled.
2185 2010-03-26 18:17:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2186 Prevent <Esc> closing chat box
2188 Let it in stead switch focus back to the console window.
2190 2010-03-26 15:28:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2191 Let WinBoard recognize ~ in settings file name as HOMEPATH
2193 Fetch the appropriate environment variable to build the mathname in
2194 MySearchPath() whenever the file name starts with "~\".
2196 2010-03-26 13:59:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2197 Change name of Global Settings menu item to Common Engine Settings
2199 The old name confused ICS users, as this is an engine-only dialog.
2201 2010-03-26 13:58:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2202 Update WinBoard RTF docs
2205 2010-03-26 13:57:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2206 Update WinBoard html help
2209 2010-03-24 18:00:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2210 Allow adjustment of clocks in any mode with shift+click
2212 In practice changing to edit-game mode during a game was very
2213 cumbersome. In WinBoard shift+click is now offered as an alternative.
2214 Make sure a right-click in the clock area is not also counted for other
2217 2010-03-24 17:21:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2218 Allow loading of PGN variations in XBoard
2220 Right-clicking variation comments in the comment-window was implemented
2221 through a translation. The right button is now bound to routines that
2222 set both the end and start of the selection, as setting a new start does
2223 not seem to work if the previous select-start was not completed by a
2224 select-end or extend-end. Finally the main handler uses the selection
2225 cursors to know what was clicked.
2227 2010-03-24 17:16:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2230 Added a descripton of the new ICS options (seek graph, back-ground
2231 observe) and menus (Upload) to the texi file. Also added a description
2232 of the variation (Annotate menu item and PGN variation comments) and PV
2233 walking (clicking engine-output). Describe the -shuffleOpenings option.
2235 2010-03-24 13:30:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2236 Paint highlights on dual board (WB)
2238 The highlight info is hidden in the partner board to pass it to the
2241 2010-03-24 13:14:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2242 Fix handling username change during game
2244 The title bar and gameInfo (going into the PGN) were not adapted when
2245 the username was changed through the menu, so that the change became
2246 only effective on the next game. Requires SetGameInfo to be called from
2247 the front-end, and thus a prototype for it in backend.c.
2249 2010-03-24 11:04:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2250 Fix window-position upset on failing engine start in WinBoard
2252 The main window was only positoned according to the settings-file data
2253 after the engine was started up from InitBackend2(), so that if the
2254 latter gave a fatal error, and Save Settings on Exit was on, a wrong
2255 position for the main window would be saved. The call to InitBackend2()
2256 is now moved until after setting the main-window position.
2258 2010-03-23 23:22:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2259 Display PV from Engine-Output window (XBoard)
2261 Translations are added to bind button 3 to the PV walk for the memo
2262 widgets, and the corresponding handlers are ported from wengineoutput.c.
2264 2010-03-10 18:54:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2265 Set keyboard focus at startup to board window
2267 This makes XBoard sensitive to the keybindings also when the cursor is
2268 outside the board window. This focus seems to persist indefinitely: each
2269 time the board window gets selected, the key bindings become activem
2270 wherever the mouse pointer is. Downside: the mouse pointer is no longer
2271 an arrow outside the board window, but becomes a text-insert tool there.
2273 2010-02-27 20:49:21 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2274 added logo files for xboard
2276 logos are installed in the hicolor theme [1] using $datadir as the basedir.
2277 Added both png and svg logo.
2279 [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html
2281 2010-02-27 17:36:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2282 Remake programVersion string after receiving engine features
2284 The engine could have sent a more accurate version of its own name
2285 than the one derived from the exe filename in a myname feature, and we
2286 better use that in the programVersion string, which will be sent as
2287 interface name to the ICS.
2289 2010-02-25 19:22:00 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2290 Revert "Repair settings-file name"
2292 This reverts commit a02042ef83ce1f3632f0cf3e0a2a4ce9a3ac5d85.
2294 2010-02-25 20:32:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2295 Add -autokibitz checkbox to UCI-options menu dialog
2298 2010-02-25 20:29:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2299 Also capture (numeric) whispers of players for -autoKibitz
2302 2010-02-25 20:25:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2303 Add kibitzes and c-shouts Chat Box
2305 A box dedicated to c-shouts will snatch any c-shout before it is
2306 diverted to a normal shouts box. The kibitzes box can capture the
2307 left-overs of -autoKibitz, if the latter is active.
2309 2010-02-25 15:45:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2310 Mark non-compliant lines of engine in debug file
2312 The option -engineDebugOutput is extended to accept value 3 for printing
2313 a cear indication of non-compliancy in the debug file.
2315 2010-02-25 12:02:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2316 Redraw second board on expose events
2318 The -dualBoard option now does refresh the second board after another
2319 window uncovers it. To acheive this, some data structures remembering
2320 what is displayed had to be duplicated. (lastBoard and damage for XB,
2321 lastReq, lastDrawn, lastReqValid and lastDrawnValid for WB.)
2322 WinBoard now uses clipping also for second board. This required the
2323 clips for the destination to be translated horizontally!
2325 2010-02-25 15:13:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2326 Print seconds with 2 digits in backgroundObserve status line
2329 2010-02-24 17:01:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2330 Do not recognize non-ICS variants from PGN event tag
2332 These variants were introduced after supporting the variant tag, so if
2333 the variant tag is missing, their recognition from the event tag will be
2334 a false match. (Mainly to prevent events with 'super' in the name being
2335 recognized as Superchess.)
2337 2010-02-23 13:52:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2338 Fix display of uninitialized boards in background observe
2340 A variable partnerBoardValid is cleared on starting our own game, and
2341 set when a board from the background game comes in during it. At the end
2342 of our own game, a valid partner board now is put in the display.
2344 2010-02-23 13:46:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2345 Add option Display Logo in WB general-options menu
2347 Changing the option requires InitDrawingSizes to be called for
2348 re-formatting the board window. Switching it off requires clearing of
2349 the cps->programLogo fields to take effect immediately. Switching it on
2350 only takes effect the next session, as we will need some refactoring to
2351 redo the figuring out what logos to display.
2353 2010-02-22 12:02:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2354 Group Chat Boxes with console in stead of board window
2356 They now open and close with the console, which seems more natural, and
2357 prevents the console from covering them.
2359 2010-02-22 11:50:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2360 Put new options in WB ICS-options dialog
2362 The Seek-Graph, background-observe and Chat-Box options are added to the
2363 ICS options dialog. They only control the appData settings, there are no
2364 special actions yet on switching the settings.
2366 2010-02-22 11:46:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2367 Create space in WinBoard ICS-options dialog
2370 2010-02-20 12:42:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2371 Use side-by-side boards to display background game
2373 A game observed in the background (i.e. if -backgroundObserve true) will
2374 be displayed right of the normal board in the same window if the new
2375 (persistent) Boolean option -dualBoard is also set.
2376 Very flakey hack, especially in XBoard, where clocks and messsage
2377 field all get the wrong width (and resist adjustment in the strangest
2378 ways). The clocks of the partner game are not yet displayed, and
2379 disaster happens when the background and foreground games do not have
2380 the same board format.
2382 2010-02-23 14:57:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2383 Repair background-observe patch
2385 Apparently a commit was lost that I collapsed with 3018a6 while the
2386 latter was already pushed to savannah. Here I recreated this commit from
2387 a diff between the respective commits in the savannah & nubati gits.
2389 2010-01-31 11:07:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2390 Repair settings-file name
2392 The default name is put back to /etc/xboard/xboard.conf, so that XBoard
2393 can again find its settings file. "make install" will still install it
2396 2010-02-21 18:43:59 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2397 new developer release
2400 2010-02-21 19:45:58 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2401 fixed compiler warning for file-browser code
2403 missing "void"s in the function declaration and missing returns showed up when trying to build on the opensuse build server. fixed now.
2405 2010-02-21 23:09:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2406 Put newly opened Chat Box on top
2408 Dialogs always pop up in front, so set the onTop variable that prevents
2409 highighting the button to navigate to it from other Chat Boxes
2410 to reflect that a newly opened Chat Box is in view.
2412 2010-02-21 18:55:03 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2413 Fix copying of kibitzed info in Engine-Output window
2415 Make sure all lines end with "\r\n" to not lose line breaks on
2416 copy-paste from the memo. (XBoard would strip those again.)
2418 2010-02-21 18:25:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2419 Allow walking a kibitzed PV
2421 If no tabs are found in te 'thinking output' we assume it is a captured
2422 kibitz message, and look for "PV=" to locate the start of a PV in it.
2423 Also try to include any continuation lines below the selected line.
2425 2010-02-21 17:45:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2426 Insert autoKibitz continuation lines at end of line
2428 In the engine-output window lines that start with the ICS continuation
2429 sequence "\ " are inserted behind the line they belong to, in stead of
2430 at the top. This required keeping thrack of the length of the currently
2431 active line in OutputKibitz().
2433 2010-02-20 15:39:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2434 Don't disturb background observe when receiving new piece
2436 When new holdings are sent when the background game is displayed, we now
2437 ignore this, as presumably we are peeking at our partners game, and thus
2438 should be well aware of what is captured there.
2440 2010-02-19 21:52:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2441 Newly lexed parser in XBoard directory
2444 2010-02-19 11:18:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2445 Let yy_text determine progress of PV parsing
2447 The parsed unit yy_text was not available after ParseOneMove(), because
2448 the buffer switch in yylexstr() apparently destroys it. To solve that,
2449 yylexstr() now is equiped with an extra buffer argument, where it copies
2450 yy_text before the switch, so the caller, ParsePV(), can see what was
2451 parsed in yy_textstr. This is used to update the PV pointer, but also to
2452 save any parsed comments (when ParsePV is used for parsing a PGN variation).
2454 2010-02-18 17:42:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2455 Support playing through PGN variation comments
2457 Right-clicking a variation line in the comment dialog will shelve the
2458 current variation, and parse the comment to replace it. This uses
2459 ParsePV() in an alternative way, for which the latter had to be
2460 enhanced: it was made resistent to move numbers and comments inside
2461 the PV. It now has an argument to indicate if such comments should be
2462 stored with the moves. The Comment Popup is closed on revert, to
2463 make sure no comments to moves that are destroyed, containing
2464 variations on a non-valid line, can keep hanging around.
2466 2010-02-18 16:05:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2467 Add Annotate item in Step menu
2469 This does the same as Revert, except that it adds the destroyed
2470 variation as comment to the original movem in PGN variation format.
2471 RevertEvent now has an argument to indicate if it should add the
2472 comment, or not. Comments in the abandoned variation are included in the
2473 varriation command to the main line. (The exact layout of the variation
2474 comment that results leaves still to be desired.)
2476 2010-02-15 19:07:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2477 Add option -shuffleOpenings
2479 This volatile option is added just to make the existing variable
2480 available from the command line, not only from the menus.
2482 2010-02-19 11:48:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2483 Let the sounds sound on receiving a message in a Chat Box
2485 Use Colorize() to the applicable color to trigger the sound, and then
2486 restore the original color as 'continuation', to do it silently.
2488 2010-02-10 10:55:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2489 Allow WB Chat Box to be dedicated to shouts and 'it'
2491 By putting 'shouts' in the handle field, a chat window will capture all
2492 shouts and c-shouts, and send messages typed into it as shouts.
2493 The bracketing of the shouter name now indicates the type of shout.
2494 The handle for WHISPER Chat Boxes has been changed to 'whispers', to
2495 make it easier to pop them up by clicking the console.
2497 2010-02-16 22:34:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2498 Add -chatBoxes option to open Chat Boxes at startup
2500 This string option contains a semicolon-separated list of handles for
2501 which Chat Boxes should be opened at startup. The value saved in the ini
2502 file is the value that was read, not the actual chat boxes that were
2503 open at the time of saving.
2505 2010-02-16 19:44:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2506 Make Chat Windows pseudo-tabbed
2508 By adding buttons in every Chat Box to navigate directly to every other
2509 Chat Box, a stacked set of Chat Windows behaves like a single tabbed
2510 window, but can still be unstacked. The buttons turn grey to warn that
2511 new text appeared in hidden boxes (i.e. not the one last brought to top).
2513 2010-02-19 21:46:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2514 Allow arrow keys in WB Chat Box to access command history
2516 The history is shared between al boxes and the ICS console.
2518 2010-02-12 22:35:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2519 Make WB Chat Boxes wrap and handle URLs
2521 Cloned the code for the console text field to hande URL. (Initialization
2522 to recogize the link, and notifiction to open it when clicked.)
2523 Removed the ES_AUTOHSCROLL style from the RichEdit in the resource.
2525 2010-02-10 10:58:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2526 Fix copying of WB Chat Window contents
2528 All line breks were lost on copy-pasting the contents of a chat window.
2529 Adding CR to each outputted line in the front-end (wchat.c) solves this.
2530 (Tell messages sent to a handle (which are not echoed by the ICS, and
2531 thus have to copied to the chat box directly) also need CR!)
2533 2010-02-19 22:34:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2534 Add upload of game to ICS for examining
2536 New item "Upload to Examin" in Action menu, calls UploadGameEvent().
2537 Use SAN moves to upload game to ICS, rather than long algebraic
2538 (The ICS did not understand long-algebraic promotion moves)
2539 Use bsetup within examine to set position onFICS, and also variant.
2540 Castling rights do not work yet for FRC. Totally different set of
2541 commands are needed on FICS and ICC.
2542 FICS does not understand w23 or wild/23, but needs 'crazyhouse' in the
2543 besetup command that specifies the variant. XBoard variant names are
2544 used, except for fischerandom, which is 'fr'. Things like nocastle will
2545 probably still not work.
2547 2010-02-18 17:41:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2548 Handle display of PV that starts with other move than played
2550 Insert the retraction of the played move, without premove highlighting.
2552 2010-02-16 19:36:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2553 Bugfix smart capture
2555 Disambiguate was changed to make sure that for ambiguous moves, a
2556 capture would always prevail in the closure, rather than the last move
2557 that happened to be generated. Before, double-clicking a piece would
2558 sometimes plsy a non-capture.
2560 2010-02-13 15:34:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2561 Fix XB crash on giving keyboard focus to non-text widget
2563 In the Engine-Settings dialog SetFocus() could be called for non-text
2564 widgets, and this made XawTextSetInsertionPoint() croak. Setting the
2565 insertion point to the end in SetFocus() was a bad ide anyway, as it
2566 interfered with copying from the engine-output window, which would
2567 uncontrollably scroll on getting focus. It is solved now by setting the
2568 insertion point already on creation of the text widgets.
2570 2010-02-19 22:32:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2571 Seek-Graph bugfix: disappearing output in ICS console
2573 Suppression of output to the cosole was handled fundamentally wrong: it
2574 was not enough to set next_out to after the unit that should be
2575 suppressed, as there can be a backlog in printing of previous units that
2576 came in the same packet. So this has to be flushed first, or it will be
2577 lost. -autoKibitz probably got away with that, because it comes in a
2578 separate packet. But seek ads are often suffixed to other output, and
2579 then that output disappeared! Now we flush everywhere before suppressing.
2580 We now totally rely on the prompt to restart the printing, so that
2581 acknowledgements following the echo of the sent message are also
2582 suppressed. Also suppress LF before diverted chat messages.
2583 Also fixed is the 'mamer bug' in Chat Boxes, due to false parsing of
2584 a "* (*): " pattern in tell messages, because of a missing continue.
2586 2010-02-12 18:08:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2587 Pop up ICS text menu with default item under mouse pointer
2589 The menu popup is migrated to the down-click (was up-click), so the
2590 up-click can select the item. Some trickery is needed to fool the menu
2591 into thinking that the mouse moved, so that a moveless up-down click in
2592 the ICS text field selects the default item (the upper-right one).
2593 Also allow dummy item in ICS text menu: The command "none" in the ICS
2594 text menu will now be treated as a grayed-out (disabled) entry, so it
2595 can be defined in the position underthe mouse pointer to prevent the
2596 up-click from doing anything, while keeping the menu open. Recommended
2597 for use with an entry of spaces.
2599 2010-02-10 14:42:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2600 Allow ICS context menu to pop up a Chat Box on clicking handle
2602 A command "chat" defined in the WinBoard icsMenu string will cause
2603 ChatPopUp() to be called when it is clicked, with the clicked handle
2604 (name) in the ChatPartner field, and focus on the input field.
2605 ChatPopUp() had to get a parameter (the handle) to make this possible.
2606 If that parameter is NULL (as when it is called from the Mode menu),
2607 focus will still start on the (empty) ChatPartner field of the box.
2609 2010-02-10 10:50:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2610 Fix right-edge spillover of Seek-Graph dots in WinBoard
2612 Rescale the X-axis to allow margin for dot size and color offset.
2614 2010-01-30 11:05:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2615 Interface XBoard to GhostView file-browser dialog
2617 Note: The Ghostview dialog was using some deprecated variables for error
2618 printing, and conditionally used getwd() on some systems that presumably
2619 do not have getcwd(), but it did not assess the latter properly.
2621 2010-02-09 14:38:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2622 Allow recalling history in ICS input box with arrow keys
2624 By adding translations for the Up and Down keys, and stealing some code
2625 from winboard.c. Still needs some refactoring to move the duplicate code
2628 2010-02-09 14:34:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2629 Start insertion point at end of text edits in XB dialogs
2631 The function SetFocus now uses XawTextSetInsertionPoint to position the
2632 end of the string it aready contains, rather than at the beginning.
2634 2010-02-08 17:55:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2635 Capture holdings of background observed game
2638 2010-02-08 11:57:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2639 Match handles with multiple titles for channel Chat Boxes
2641 Only handles with at most one suffixed 'title', such as (U), (C), (IM)
2642 or (TD), followed by the parenthesized channel number, were recognized,
2643 so tells by people with more titles always went to the ICS console window.
2644 Patterns are added to recognize handles with upto three such qualifiers.
2646 2010-02-08 11:54:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2647 Do not pop down Seek Graph on on-dot click
2649 Leave the graph up, and let the incoming board of a started game cause
2650 the pop-down. This in case the clicked ad is no longer vailable, or
2651 manuay refused, and fails to start a game.
2653 2010-02-07 21:26:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2654 Observe a game in the background while playing
2656 A new (persistent) option -backgroundObserve true|false is added. When
2657 set, observed boards received while playing a game will not trigger a
2658 game switch, but will be ignored except for storing in a dedicated board
2659 buffer. Pressing the right mouse button will cause the board to be
2660 displayed, until we release it. Time, strength and stm are always
2661 displayed in the message window.
2663 2010-02-07 16:43:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2664 Remove race condition in clock switching
2666 The move number is now incremented inside SwitchClock, when no timer
2667 interrupt is scheduled, so the interrupt cannot occur at the wrong side
2668 of the increment, and decrement the wrong clock.
2670 2010-02-07 11:53:03 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2671 Let second click on piece make only capture, with -oneClickMove
2673 Normally this would clear the highlighting of that piece.
2674 Required new field in DisambiguateClosure to count nr of captures.
2676 2010-02-07 11:18:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2677 Bugfix stale first-click
2679 When the opponent resigned after the user had cicked a from-square,
2680 clicking the from-square for the first move in the next game would
2681 produce an "illegal move" message, because it was considered a to-click!
2682 We now set fromX and fromY to invalid in GameEnds().
2683 Should we also reset them on mode changes?
2685 2010-02-07 11:08:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2686 Add promotions and e.p. to oneClickMove
2688 For e.p. the to-Square of the Pawn has to be clicked. Promotions are
2689 always to Queen when you click the to-square, but use the promotion
2690 pop-up when you click the from-square.
2692 2010-02-07 10:38:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2693 Fix error that compiler does not notice
2695 Boolean GLT_GetFromList did not return a value. But no error on Ubuntu!
2697 2010-02-06 18:55:38 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2698 new developer release
2701 2010-02-06 18:30:42 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2702 updated year in copyright info
2705 2010-02-05 22:27:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2708 Playing on ICS or against engine, clicking a square from or to which
2709 only a single move can be made causes the move to be done, when the new
2710 option -oneClickMove is set to true.
2712 2010-02-04 16:09:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2713 Use squares for computer seek ads
2715 Shape indication passed in sign bit of color (char) variable.
2717 2010-02-04 22:46:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2718 Use right mouse button to view seek ads
2720 Right down-click does the same as left down-click, right up-click
2721 simulates a left up-click off board (so it misses all dots).
2723 Use right-click miss to refresh Seek Graph
2725 The 'moving' parameter had to be made into an int for this, to indicate
2726 right clicks with code 2. Right press now already pushes the clicked ad
2727 to the back, so that the up-click will display an underlying one.
2729 Bugfix pushing back seek ads on right-click
2731 On a right button press the previous in stead of currently hit ad was
2732 receiving the penalty.
2734 Indicate seek-ad multiplicity
2736 If more than one seek ad is inside the capture range of the mouse
2737 pointer, an exclamation point is printed before the seek-ad text.
2739 Some fixes to make seek-ad suppression work in WinBoard
2741 In WinBoard the z-depth was immediately erased by redrawing the graph;
2742 the clearing of zlist had to be moved from PlotSeekAd() to AddAd()
2743 (where it really belongs). Also aging of z-depth is now suppressed on
2744 mere pointer motion.
2746 2010-02-04 22:45:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2749 The new option -autoRefresh sets FICS and ICC to report removal of seek
2750 ads, and then removes those from the Seek Graph. New seek ads are added
2751 to the graph, as soon as the ICS reports them.
2753 2010-02-04 22:42:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2754 Implement SeekGraph in XBoard
2756 For now only controlled by left mouse clicks on board. New options
2757 -seekGraph true|false and -sg to switch this feature on.
2759 Facilitate selection of coinciding seek ads
2761 Seek-ads that are viewed but not answered get a distance penalty on the
2762 up-click that makes their selection more difficult next time, so that
2763 the ad they covered gets a (better) change. The penalty ages away in the
2766 Slightly offset Seek-Graph dots of different color
2768 Dots of different color are now displaced horizontally be 3 pixels, to
2769 prevent them from completely covering each other. (Required the axis
2770 labels to be moved a little too, to not be covered by the 1-min ads.)
2772 Auto-show seek-ad texts in WinBoard
2774 Hovering the mouse above a Seek-Graph dot will make the text belonging
2775 to it appear in the message field without the need to press a button.
2776 Required SeekGraphClick() to be called from the WB mouse event handler,
2777 with an extra argument 'moving' to make the distinction with a real
2780 Show seek-ad text on mouse hovering (XBoard)
2782 The Eventproc is also set to trigger on PointerMotion, and this event
2783 then calls SeekGraphClick with motion=true to handle it.
2785 Put poetic name of wilds in seek-ad text
2787 Use XBoard variant names, except for 'loadable' and 'fischerandom'
2788 (becomes 'setup' and 'chess960'), but leave number (to distinguish wilds
2789 that transate to same XBoard variant).
2791 2010-02-05 20:36:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2792 Fix highlighting bug in XBoard
2794 The from-square was drawn before the to-square was erased, which led to
2795 a missing highlight line if they shared an edge or corner.
2797 2010-02-05 15:49:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2798 Shorten autoKibitz confirmation on FICS
2800 Strip off the "players)", but leave the separatng space.
2802 2010-02-05 14:39:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2803 Repair damage to -autoKibitz done by FICS atomic zippy claim
2805 The sending of -autoKibitz info was also moved back in that patch, but
2806 unfortunately to after clearing of the programStats info. Now the
2807 clearing has been moved also, to remain after it.
2809 2010-02-04 23:33:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2810 Send continuation lines to chat box they belong to
2812 The variable savingComment is used as a kludge to remember where the
2813 comment should go (i.e. which chatbox, or elsewhere), so that when a
2814 continuation line is matched, chatPartner (which was reset at EOL) can
2815 be restored to its original value. Also put space after handle of talker
2816 in channel Chat Windows
2818 2010-02-02 19:08:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2819 Fix u64 format for cygwin
2821 With a -mno-cygwin compile %llu and %lld are definitely not understood
2822 by scanf and printf, although they are by the compiler. In stead, %I64u
2823 seems to work. Put it in under control of a switch USE_I64, which is
2824 defined only in the gcc makefile when MINGW is used.
2826 2010-02-02 19:02:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2827 Remove stray dot from WinBoard makefiles
2829 There was a period suffixed to config.h in the wgamelist.o dependency.
2831 2010-02-01 14:50:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2832 Fix bug in display of logos
2834 The logo continued to be drawn after a boardSize change to a tinyLayout
2835 size, although there was no space reserved for it. Fixed by explicitly
2836 resetting logoHeight when no logo space is reserved in InitDrawingSizes().
2838 2010-01-19 20:15:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2839 Right-click refactoring: step III
2841 Let WinBoard call RightClick in back-end, and delete the duplicate code
2842 it had for this, after rescuing the front-end bits, and let the letter
2843 act depending on the result returned by RightClick.
2845 2010-01-19 19:07:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2846 Right-click refactoring: step II
2848 Migrate the Right-click routine to the back-end. Let it communicate back
2849 square coordinates through pointer arguments, to accomodate their
2850 different naming in XBoard and WinBoard. Template added in frontend.h.
2852 2010-01-19 17:55:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2853 Right-click refactoring, step I
2855 Divorce front-end part from back-end part of PieceMenuPopup in XBoard
2856 front-end, and forge the back-end part into a new routine RightClick.
2857 The right up-click in XBoard, which called unLoadPV() directly, now
2858 calls RightClick through PieceMenuPopUp().
2860 2010-02-04 23:09:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2861 Merge gamelistopt sources into gamelist source files
2863 The files xgamelistopt.c and gamelistopt.c are merged with xgamelist.c
2864 and gamelist.c, respectively. The WB front-end for the dialog already
2865 resided in winboard.c, so there was little need to move it to wgameist.c
2866 file. Makefiles adapted accordingly. Unsuitable key bindings were
2867 removed. The low-level front-end prototypes are now defined in in
2870 2010-01-29 21:47:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2871 Game-List options dialog for XBoard
2873 A dialog similar to that of WinBoard was cloned from the game-list
2874 window. The XBoard front-end is in a separate file xgamelistopt.c,
2875 which in fact implements most of the low-level front-end as back-end.
2877 2010-01-29 12:48:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2878 Refactoring of game-list-options dialog
2880 The back-end part is separated off, and moved to a file gamelistopt.c.
2881 Front-end for now stays in winboard.c. No prototypes in frontend.h yet.
2883 2010-01-26 19:28:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2884 Fix of ancient WB bug: test integer option values for validity
2886 Only a string of digits preceded by an optional sign is accepted now.
2887 Before, any string was accepted, and leaving out a value could lead to
2888 the next option being ignored (if it did not need a value) because it
2889 was considered the value for the previous one!
2891 2010-01-26 19:00:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2892 Fix bug in edit-position of holdings
2894 The holdings were effectivelly taken one too large, so that a promoted
2895 shogi Pawn moved to, or created in the holdings was not demoted to Pawn,
2896 but put in the dark (which you could see by the holding count if you did
2897 it twice). The overflow tests in these two cases now have been corrected.
2899 2010-01-25 13:54:40 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2900 Save fonts in XBoard settings file per boardSize
2902 Each -boardSize now can have its own font specified in the settings file
2903 (and thus by a command-line option, although it would in general not be
2904 very useful to specify a font for a size other than the selected). E.g.
2905 a prefix "size33:" to the font name will apply it only to -size 33.
2906 An unspecified-size font option (not normally in the settings file) will
2907 always prevail over a font option specific for the current size.
2908 A font of some size must have been used or specified in order to be
2911 2010-01-25 08:56:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2912 Fix width of filter field in XBoard GameList
2914 An empirical dependence of the width of this text edit on the square
2915 size now makes for an acceptable layout at any board size.
2917 2010-01-24 19:09:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2918 Use FICS atomic draw claim for sending move in zippy mode
2920 For this the relaying of the move had to be moved until after the
2921 adjudication, which again has to be done after MakeMove(), which is a
2922 bit dubious, as MakeMove might take significant time when animating.
2924 2010-01-24 18:51:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2925 Send FICS atomic claim to ICS if move creates draw after offer
2927 The FICS format "draw MOVE" is used to send the move to the ICS when
2928 the user enters a move that adjudicates as a claimable draw, and he
2929 offered a draw before the move. For the benefit of ICS that do not
2930 understand this format, the plain move is sent afterwards.
2932 2010-01-24 18:16:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2933 Also allow user to claim by offering draw before his move
2935 Use the existing userOfferedDraw variable to test for such offers in
2938 2010-01-24 17:29:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2939 Also adjudicate after user move
2941 Call Adjudicate() in FinishMove().
2943 2010-01-24 15:56:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2944 Refactoring of adjudication code
2946 Put all the rule-based (as opposed to score-based) adjudications in a
2947 separate routine, so they can also be called on user moves. This
2948 requires sending the drawing move to the opponent engine to be made
2949 conditional on existence of the latter. Execution of the code is no
2950 longer dependent on the condition TwoMachinesPlay, but actual game
2951 terminations are now all restricted by an alternative condition (no ICS
2954 2010-01-24 11:46:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2955 Use -keepAlive option to determine connection health
2957 When there has been no ICS response since the previous 'ping', assume we
2958 are disconnected and do a fatal-error exit. Also auto-start the ping
2959 process in InitBackend3().
2961 2010-01-23 23:00:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2962 Use arrow keys in XBoard GameList for entry selection
2964 Add translations for arrows and home/end, to call LoadSelectedProc with
2965 argument to indicate the step, and let the latter perform the action.
2967 2010-01-23 22:24:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2968 Allow <Enter> to apply filter in XB GameList filter edit
2970 Apply a translation to intercept the <Enter> key. Set focus back to the
2971 list display afterwards.
2973 2010-01-23 21:44:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2974 Accept <Enter> for changing chat partner
2976 A kludge stolen from Alessandro's GameList filter allowed to let the
2977 typing of <Enter> while updating the chat-partner field of the WinBoard
2978 chat windows to act as pressing the Change button. Gives focus to the
2979 input field of the window afterwards.
2981 2010-01-23 21:42:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2982 Move duplicat gamelist code to backend
2984 The filtering routines are moved from xgamelist.c and wgamelist.c to
2985 gamelist.c, and a prototype for them is placed in backend.h.
2987 2010-01-23 19:29:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2988 Port game-list filtering to XBoard
2990 Added a text edit and apply button to the XBoard game-list dialog, and
2991 only have it print those lines that match the filter. Translate index in
2992 list to index of game in file when a game is selected, and index in file
2993 to index in list when a line is highlighted. Duplicates some code
2994 between xgamelist.c and wgamelist.c, which should be moved to back-end.
2996 2010-01-21 19:24:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2997 Convert to DOS line endings
2999 For easier understanding of upcoming diffs of winboard.c
3001 2010-01-21 14:32:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3002 Refactoring of move-history code
3004 The WinBoard code in whistory.c was split in a front-end part (remaining
3005 in whistory.c) and a back-end part (now in history.c in the xboard
3006 directory). This to allow easy porting to other platforms.
3008 2010-01-20 12:48:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3009 Add fixed-time/move button in XBoard time-control dialog
3011 Put the TC-type buttons in a radio-group, and highlight the selected mode.
3013 2010-01-19 18:27:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3014 Fix bug in XBoard PV display
3016 The PV was unloaded on anything but a button release, in stead of the
3019 2010-01-23 11:04:11 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3020 fixed hardcoded location of config file for xboard
3022 the location should now follow sysconfdir during the configuration process.
3023 Also added some more output to the configure script.
3025 2010-01-18 12:18:32 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3026 new developer release
3029 2010-01-18 12:15:06 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3030 fixed Makefile.am to handle config file correctly
3033 2010-01-15 21:55:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3034 Change opening array -variant fairy
3036 We now use the position of "Chess with Different Armies", FIDE army vs.
3037 a fantasy army (inspired on the Color-bound Clobberers) as opening
3040 2010-01-13 19:08:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3043 Thai Chess, played by 2 million world-wide. Required pawn promotion to
3044 happen in a zone, and the Alfil to move as Shogi Silver, a new opening
3045 array, and unusual Pawn placement. Because of the latter, I consider it
3046 a setup position, so a FEN will always be sent to the engine.
3048 2010-01-17 14:17:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3049 Fix parsing of O-O and O-O-O after FEN pasting in FRC
3051 Because the initial rights were not set in the FEN reader, the
3052 initial rights of the previous game remained in force, so that the
3053 parser did not understand OO-castling (although it would allow KxR
3056 2010-01-15 14:40:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3057 Fix reading FEN castling rights for knightmate and twokings
3059 Scanning the back-rank for a King did not work in these variants,
3060 because either the Unicorn castles, or there might be two Kings.
3062 2010-01-13 11:42:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3063 Fix omission in castling refactoring for ICS received boards
3065 A default of -1 was still used, in stead of NoRights, when no Rook was
3066 found. In theory this could have had effect in a setup board 0 in FRC,
3067 when there were no Rooks on the back rank.
3069 2010-01-13 11:35:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3070 Fix TwoKings ICS castling-rights bug
3072 Scanning the rank (as is done because of FRC) assigned castling rights
3073 to the rightmost King. Even scanning the opposite direction would not
3074 work, as it is not always the eftmost King that can castle. So we now
3075 explicitly test for a King on e1/e8 in TwoKings and assign it rights,
3076 relying on the Rook rights received from the ICS to control castling.
3078 2009-11-18 19:12:25 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3079 fix double start of zippy engine after switch to gothic
3081 In ICS mode we now switch to the proper variant as soon as we receive
3082 the generic game-start message, to prevent a mismatch when the first
3083 board is received (which would trigger fetching of a move list).
3085 2010-01-11 16:44:40 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3086 Extensive bugfix of -autoKibitz
3088 Suppression of printing of diverted kibitz messages failed when they
3089 extended over more than one read. This could even lead to such
3090 messages being erroneously saved as comments, which then lead to
3091 crashes. The suppression mechanism now waits for a prompt, in stead of
3092 the end of buffer. This required the printing of any leftover in the
3093 buffer to be deferred until the next read completes it.
3094 The number of people kibitzed to is now printed.
3096 2010-01-11 16:30:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3097 Fix piece-to-char table -variant fairy
3099 The letters for Lance and Snake where swapped.
3101 2010-01-09 11:54:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3102 Make WinBoard makefiles use parser.c in XBoard directory
3105 2010-01-08 18:23:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3106 Docs update for new features
3109 2010-01-08 15:18:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3110 Fix new args parsing of -lowTimeWarningColor
3112 This did not occur in the XBoard color translation table yet.
3114 2010-01-08 14:16:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3115 Allow editing of holdings in EditPosition mode
3117 Dragging pieces to and from the holdings now consistently keep track of
3118 the home square of pieces and the piece counts, as does creation of
3119 pieces in the holdings through the piece menu.
3121 2010-01-08 13:59:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3122 Indicate squares a lifted piece can legally move to
3124 Under control of the new option -showTargetSquares when
3125 -highlightDragging and -testLegality are on, the squares a piece can
3126 move to are marked by fat dots in the highlightColor (non-captures) and
3127 premoveHighlightColor (captures), as soon as you grab it for dragging.
3128 In variants with mandatory capture, the capture target of other pieces
3129 is marked with the highlightColor (as non-captures are then not allowed).
3131 2010-01-08 12:35:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3132 Fix bug for incommensurate time odds
3134 After normalization (-timeOddsMode 1) the time odds factors can be
3135 non-integer, and thus must be stored as float.
3137 2010-01-08 11:41:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3138 Display PV right-clicked from EngineOutput window
3140 The clicked PV is selected and the memo gets focus, so that it is
3141 highlighted. This selection is restored in the proper place after
3142 insetrtion of a new line in the memo.
3144 2010-01-08 10:19:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3145 Display PV on right-clicking board
3148 2010-01-08 09:21:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3149 Bugfix legality null move in parsing with -testLegality off
3151 The pointers were compared, in stead of the values.
3152 Furthermore, instead of null moves, it rejected moves on the main diagonal when legality checking was off.
3154 Also exclude moves with empty squares and enemy pieces.
3156 2010-01-07 19:10:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3157 Newly lexed winboard/parser.c
3160 2010-01-07 19:05:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3161 Harmonize declarations of XBoard and WinBoard
3163 The engine-exit and settings patches make some stuff common to WinBoard
3164 and XBoard, which needed to be harmonized, and is moved to frontend.h.
3166 2010-01-07 13:07:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3167 Allow Ctrl-C copying from EngineOutput window text to clipboard
3170 2010-01-07 12:52:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3171 Allow popup-less (fatal) exit of engine after tellusererror
3174 2010-01-07 12:40:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3175 Improve layout of Engine #N Settings dialog
3177 An attempt is made to align the input fields of spins and text-edits
3179 2010-01-07 00:31:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3180 Let XBoard print version with argument --version or -v
3183 2010-01-07 00:25:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3184 Fix castling rule assignment in shuffle games
3186 The conversion to in-board storage for rights copied directly to boards[0] in steadof
3187 initialPosition, and was then overwritten when the latter was copied with uninitialized
3188 rights to boards[0]. This affected FRC and CRC, where rights are non-standard.
3190 2010-01-07 00:17:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3191 Implement castling in -variant caparandom
3193 CRC should be treated as FRC, but until now it never was. We now test for FRC_TYPE_CASTLING.
3195 2010-01-07 00:09:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3196 Fix default castling rights on reading incomplete FEN
3198 This was overlooked in the conversion to the in-board storage of rights.
3200 2010-01-07 00:03:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3201 Fix NoncompliantFEN defaults.
3203 This must be NULL to get compliant FENs, not "", which would suppress castling and e.p. fields.
3205 2010-01-06 23:54:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3206 Change format of -adapterCommand.
3208 first or f at the start of an option name are now automatically changed into second or s,
3209 rather than needing %% to be recognized. The values of -ec and -ed in the default
3210 -adapterCommand are now quoted (now XBoard understands quoting in the engine command line).
3212 2010-01-06 23:51:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3213 Make WinBoard defaults for -fd and -sd equal to "." rather than empty strings.
3216 2010-01-06 23:28:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3217 Delete old indirection settings-file code
3220 2010-01-06 21:45:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3221 Correct XBoard default debug file name
3224 2010-01-06 21:34:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3225 Suppress saving font settings.
3227 The fonts are size dependent, and might thus not be reusable in the next
3228 session. For now we therefore suppress the saving of them in the
3229 settings file, until we diversify the fonts per boardSize.
3231 2009-12-12 23:38:20 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3232 added missing sounds files to be able to compile on windows
3235 2009-12-09 17:29:37 -0700 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3236 Changes needed to compile master branch.
3239 2009-12-06 12:11:46 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3240 implements the eval-graph window for XBoard
3243 2009-12-06 11:58:34 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3244 improves the XBoard handling of the engine command line
3246 it now understands limited forms of quoting, so engine binaries with spaces in their file name can be handled.
3248 2009-12-06 11:56:40 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3249 A better and more flexible way of invoking Polyglot
3251 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.
3253 2009-12-06 11:34:50 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3254 remove trailing \r in xboard output
3256 there is an annoying carriage return (displayed as ^M) at the end of the PV in the engine-output window, not
3257 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.
3259 2009-11-29 11:56:32 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3260 double buffer size to prevent overflow
3262 This patch doubles the size of the ICS input buffer to 16KB, to prevent
3263 the suspected overflow with -keepLineBreaksICS false when using
3264 "inchannel 1" on FICS and over 500 people are tuned in.
3266 2009-11-28 13:33:52 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3267 fix problem with empty string in -firstNeedsNoncompliantFEN
3269 This fixes a bug in the use of the -firstNeedsNoncompliantFEN option with
3270 an empty string as argument. (Which led to truncation of the FEN.)
3272 2009-11-28 13:32:12 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3273 updates makefiles to include dependency on config.h
3275 adds the dependency of wbres.o on config.c introduced by having the VersionInfo in the resource
3277 2009-11-28 13:28:00 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3278 correctly apply some check boxes from the option menu
3280 Usng the check-boxes in the Option->Adjudications menu to indicate the
3281 engine reports absolute scores is now copied directly to the ChessProgramState,
3282 from where it is used, in stead of only to appData. This makes the change take
3283 effect immediately, in stead of after restarting.
3285 2009-11-28 13:27:43 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3286 score sign in analysis mode
3288 this does not alter any of the current behavior with compliant engines,
3289 but does extend the correction for non-compliant score reporting under
3290 control of the -first(second)ScoreIsAbs option to cases where the engine
3291 is analyzing or playing on an ICS.
3293 2009-11-24 21:09:30 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3294 fix for bug #28077: xboard needs to link against x11
3296 hopefully fixed automake to take care of this
3298 2009-11-23 20:37:20 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3299 Fix castling rights when copying FEN to clipboard (again)
3301 missed a spot last time
3303 2009-11-23 20:22:58 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3304 restoring windows (EngineOutput and MoveHistory) on startup
3306 restoring the open / closed status of the
3307 auxiliary windows (EngineOutput and MoveHistory) on startup
3308 in XBoard like they do in WinBoard, which makes sense now that
3309 we aso remember their coordinates between sessions.
3311 2009-11-23 20:21:14 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3312 fixed some outstanding pixmaps
3314 fixed transparency issues
3316 2009-11-23 20:17:25 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3317 use linux style options for config file and add a system config file for XBoard
3319 This patch makes XBoard write the options to its conf file in
3320 Linux style, "-option value" rather than Windows style "/option=value".
3322 The WinBoard option parsing code has always understood both formats
3323 (including any hybrids), but the format it preferred for writing might
3324 look quite strange to Linux users. I also attached a file to be installed
3325 as /etc/xboard/xboard.conf on "make install".
3327 2009-11-23 19:58:55 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3328 fix window positioning
3330 This patch adds stuff in the header files that allow the various front-end files
3331 to share information on which windows exist, are up, and how they are positioned.
3332 The EngineOutput, MoveHistory and GameList windows now all remember their
3333 position and size, even when they are closed when XBoard exits.
3335 2009-11-23 19:51:19 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3336 same argDescriptor parsing for Xboard and Winbaord
3338 This patch makes XBoard and WinBoard use the same argDescriptor
3339 list of options, and (largely) use the same code for parsing and saving them.
3340 This is acheived by moving this code to a new file args.h, and #including this
3341 in both winboard.c and xboard.c (so that tiny differences, e.g. in default
3342 values in the table, are decided by the context). XBoard has new menu items
3343 "Save Settings Now" and "Save Settings on Exit" in the "Option" menu.
3344 XBoard uses /etc/xboard/xboard.conf as default settings file.
3345 A new option, -saveSettingsFile, can specify where settings should be saved,
3346 without parsing the file. (So that it also works if the file does not yet exist.)
3348 2009-11-22 13:00:31 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3349 new developer release
3351 changed release name to <branch>-<date>
3353 2009-11-22 12:34:13 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3354 fix the irritating wandering off of the MoveHistory window in XBoard on opening/closing.
3357 2009-11-22 12:29:47 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3358 use xtell for talking to handles, but tell for talking into a channel.
3360 by changing the chatboxes to use xtell in stead of tell, we broke
3361 the possibility to use the chat-box for chatting into a channel (which is
3362 apparently not possible with xtell).
3364 2009-11-22 12:15:15 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3365 fix bug in bughouse drop menu
3367 This patch fixes the bughouse drop menu, which was broken by the
3368 new mouse driver, and could no longer drop white Pawns.
3370 2009-11-18 19:29:57 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3371 2nd step for moving option parsing from winboard to the backend
3373 This is the next step in option-setting refactoring: All options that are
3374 defined in XBoard are now included in the WinBoard ArgDescriptor list.
3375 The handling of sound option has been harmonized: the sound names
3376 now all initially go to the appData array, (as in XB) in stead of directly to the
3377 WB-specific variables, and LoadAllSounds now takes care of the copying.
3378 A new routine ExportSounds copies them back before saving settings
3379 (which, in XBoard, could be a no-op).
3381 The definition of defaults for the XB-only options has been moved to common.h.
3383 2009-11-18 19:24:35 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3384 1st step for moving option parsing from winboard to the backend
3386 This is a preparatory step in moving option parsing of WinBoard to the back-end.
3387 The table of command-line options now contains a fifth field, holding the compiled-in default.
3388 This obviates most of the front-end routine InitAppData, which now is replaced by a table-driven
3389 initialization routine SetDefaultsFromList(), which could be back-end.
3391 2009-11-18 12:33:39 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3392 refactoring evalgraph code
3394 This is the refactored EvalGraph code: the back-end part is separated off,
3395 and put in a file evalgraph.c, which in the future can also be used with XBoard.
3396 Only the WinBoard front-end code is left in the file wevalgraph.c. A new
3397 header file defines the variables and routines they share.
3399 2009-11-18 12:29:06 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3402 some file permissions where set up wrong
3403 (e.g. execute permissions for text files)
3405 2009-11-18 11:34:22 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3406 refactoring of engineoutput
3408 This refactoring patch separates the back-end part out of
3409 xengineoutput.c, and puts it in a separate file engineoutput.c.
3410 A new header engineoutput.h included by both defines the routines
3411 for cross calling. Similarly wengineo.c will be stripped from its
3412 back-end code, (and renamed to wengineoutput.c), so WinBoard and
3413 XBoard now both use engineoutput.c rather than maintaining duplicate
3414 code in their front-end part.
3416 I also let the back-end now call EngineOutputUpdate directly, rather then
3417 through a relay in the front-end, by renaming it to SetProgramStats
3418 (the former name of the relay in winboard.c / xboard.c).
3420 Moved some templates of functions in engineoutput.c from winboard.h
3423 2009-11-14 22:13:10 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3424 fixed build on openbsd
3426 added missing header file
3428 2009-11-14 22:06:58 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3429 improve thinking-output for mulit-variant
3431 Improve multi-variant support by sorting the Thinking-Output lines of the most recent depth by score in the Engine-Output window.
3433 2009-11-14 22:05:12 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3434 fix castling rights when copying FEN to clipboard
3436 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.
3438 2009-11-14 22:03:47 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3439 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.
3442 2009-11-06 18:53:19 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3443 fixed prototype for AppendComment
3446 2009-11-06 09:06:44 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3447 cleaned up some debug messages and typos
3450 2009-11-06 09:05:09 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3451 variation-support patch
3453 It allows you to Revert to the main line (or previous variation) when
3454 playing variations on an existing game in EditGame or Analyze mode.
3456 2009-11-06 08:48:09 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3457 fix for new way of saving castling and e.p. information
3459 I forgot to make some conversions to the new-style encoding of castling there
3460 (using the enum constant NoRights instead of -1 to indicate
3461 the absence of rights, which was the price of storing the
3462 rights in the board, which is an unsigned enum type.)
3464 I also was a bit worried about portability, because I casted the enum type ChessSquare
3465 to (int) before comparing it with (possibly negative) constants EP_NONE etc.
3466 Now on my system enum types are (unsigned int), and this works, but I could
3467 imagine there are systems where this would be an unsigned char. (Not sure
3468 if there are rules for this). So to be safe I cast ChessSquare to (signed char),
3469 which should always work to make small negative ints assigned to it read
3472 2009-11-06 08:44:59 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3473 removed files that should only be in the windboard directory
3476 2009-11-05 19:32:35 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3477 add Winboard source files into tar-ball
3479 forgot to add them when rewriting the Makefile.am
3481 2009-11-05 19:23:44 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3482 Integrate castling and e.p. rights into board array; bugfix for EditPosition
3484 A large-scale operation that I have been postponing since the very first 4.4.0:
3485 The castling and e.p. rights are now integrated into the board array, as
3486 boards[moveNr][CASTLING][i] replacing castlingRights[moveNr][i] and
3487 boards[moveNr][EP_STATUS] replacing epStatus[moveNr]
3488 These quantities are now automatically copied with the position by CopyBoards
3489 (allowing the removal of lots of dedicated copying code), and passed as
3490 function arguments with the position (so that the moves.c functions like
3491 TestLegality, MateTest, CoordsToAlgebraic, Disambiguate, GenLegal
3492 no longer need explicit e.p. and castling parameters.
3494 Also fixed a bug introduced by a recent previous fix: by adding fake castling
3495 rights to a position set up through the EditPosition menu, I destroyed the
3496 castling rights of a pasted FEN. Faking castling rights is now made conditional
3497 in EditPositionDone(), depending on the caller. (I had not realized it was also
3498 called after FEN pasting, to send the position to the engine.)
3500 2009-11-05 19:03:17 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3501 added missing library for build on OS X
3503 Xmu seems to be missing
3505 2009-11-04 22:57:30 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3506 Some code refactoring and cleanup; one small bug fix
3508 Some code refactoring, mainly to bring definitions of routines and variables
3509 shared between winboard.c and one of the auxiliary-windows files
3510 whistory.c, wevalgraph.c, wgamelist.c, wengineo.c somewere in a header file
3511 (winboard.h). Unfortunately this made winboard.h dependent on data types
3512 defined in frontend.h, so that the #include order had to be changed in many
3515 The operation revealed one potentially bad bug: engineOutputDialogUp was
3516 written as int in engineo.c, but declared as char in winboard.c.
3518 I also changed the storage mechanism of the the comment and tags window
3519 positions to use WindowPlacement structs rather than simple variables,
3520 so that in the future they can be docked, like the others.
3522 I also removed some remnants of the Analysis window.
3524 The wgamelist.h and wedittags.h header files contained only 3 lines, and
3525 I absorbed them in winboard.h, rather than creating other such nearly empty
3526 headers engineo.h, whistory.h and wevalgraph.h. This affects the make files.
3528 2009-11-03 18:26:06 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3529 let the clocks run in -searchTime mode
3532 2009-11-02 17:41:12 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3533 add fixed time per move to the WinBoard time-control menu dialog
3536 2009-10-31 10:42:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3537 updated version number to unstable
3540 2009-10-31 10:25:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3541 release of version 4.4.1
3544 2009-10-30 19:59:23 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3545 cleaned up ChangeLog and NEWS
3547 2009-10-30 20:02:40 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3548 use xtell instead of tell in wchat
3550 2009-10-28 20:35:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3551 prevent buffer overflow
3553 This is a buffer-size adjustments to prevent the JAWS version from
3554 crashing when it has to read out loud very long comments.
3556 2009-10-28 02:17:16 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
3557 Further copy/paste fixes
3559 We needed to implement the XA_TARGETS target in order for more
3560 sophisticated apps to really believe we put anything on the clipboard
3563 2009-10-27 23:57:25 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
3564 Make copy/paste position and game use clipboard, bug #27810
3566 Copy actually sets both the clipboard and the selection for
3567 convenience and compatibility with the old way of doing things.
3568 Paste pastes from the clipboard by default, but the new -pasteSelection
3569 option lets you get back the old behavior of pasting from the
3572 2009-10-27 15:44:28 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3573 switch focus to the board after loading a game
3575 2009-10-27 15:32:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3576 fix for bug #27826: fixed autoDisplayComment
3578 apparently the -autoDisplayComment option was not working,
3579 not even in WinBoard. This patch should fix it,both for WB and XB.
3580 (Unfortunately xboard.c and winboard.c were using a different name
3581 for the same front-end variable I needed, so I had to change one of them.)
3583 2009-10-27 12:24:56 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3584 fix for bug #27826: ported two options to xboard
3586 also updated the documentation
3588 2009-10-27 12:22:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3591 turns out the new mouse handler broke the JAWS patch, as I discarded
3592 the function IsPromotion. I adapted it to call HasPromotionChoice instead.
3593 Also fixed two arnings by removing a no-longer needed debug print.
3595 2009-10-27 12:03:02 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3596 reformated html to be correctly validated
3598 2009-10-27 10:33:42 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3599 quick fix for "White Mates" in parser.l
3601 2009-10-27 10:32:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3604 2009-10-26 20:45:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3605 changed stderr to debug output, since stderr is closed in winboard
3607 2009-10-26 20:42:24 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3608 removing empty lines from ICS play
3610 this patch causes removal of spurious prompts during ICS play
3611 also if the prompt is preceeded by a number of empty lines
3612 (as the board for the opponent move is on FICS).
3614 2009-10-26 20:40:00 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3615 another bug in VariantSwitch: an unitialized board was printed.
3617 Must have been there a long time, but this time it crashed WinBoard.
3619 2009-10-26 20:38:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3620 more work on variant switch
3622 the previous solution to the cosmetic problem of displaying a wrong shuffle
3623 in an ICS game that was observed from the very start unfortunately turned
3624 out to cause a real error in diplaying a stored game through the smoves
3625 command, for variants not using the FIDE setup as standard.
3627 This patch displays the position from before setting up the start position
3628 of the new variant, but does setup boards[0] to the initial position of that
3629 variant. (If this is a wrong shuffle, it is thus ot displayed, and a new board
3630 will immediately be sent from the ICS to correct the shuffle.)
3632 2009-10-26 20:34:04 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3633 force full redraw in winboard
3635 Full redraw is now always forced when highlightMovesWithArrow is on,
3636 rather than only when highlight info is available. (As in drop moves the
3637 latter is invalid, but we must still erase the arrow from the previous move.)
3639 2009-10-26 20:25:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3640 fix for bug #27790 and #277772. Suppressing the display of a wrong shuffle
3641 when observing shuffle games from the first move (#27790 bis),
3642 and the sounding of the FICS bell on crazyhouse captures (#27772 bis).
3644 2009-10-26 20:22:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3645 fixed bug related to unsigned char in convert.c
3647 I also fixed the unsigned-char bug in the convert.c for bitmaps that caused the
3648 129x129 XBoard bitmaps to be defective, and a bug that required fixup with sed
3649 afterwards (so I could use it to create a new m33s.bm)
3651 2009-10-25 23:37:48 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3652 unguarded debug printf. added the appropiate if statement
3654 2009-10-25 23:31:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3655 fix for two compiler warnings
3657 2009-10-25 23:29:43 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3658 fix for bug #27799: fix for nested-nested-nested variations
3660 2009-10-25 23:21:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3661 The book-probe code forgot to close the book file after opening it.
3663 fixed by adding an fclose at two points.
3665 2009-10-25 23:18:18 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3666 removed unused v54?.bm bitmaps from resource file
3668 it seems the v54?.bmp bitmaps were actually included in the WinBoard build
3669 (in the resource file), although they were never actually used. So I have
3670 removed their inclusion in the resource file now.
3672 2009-10-25 23:05:30 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3673 replaced defective bitmaps with copies from 4.2.7
3675 2009-10-25 23:02:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3676 removed bitmaps files that are not needed any more
3678 2009-10-25 22:58:34 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3681 2009-10-24 09:41:39 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
3682 Drop an obsolete script that was only used to update my personal web site
3684 2009-10-24 01:23:29 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
3685 Silence warnings when compiling 64-bit xboard
3687 Some harmless warnings were caused by 64-bit mode having 32-bit
3688 int but 64-bit long and pointer. Add casts (etc.) to silence them.
3689 This might require adding a definition of intptr_t (a signed int
3690 type that is the same width as a pointer) on old systems that don't
3693 2009-10-24 00:56:37 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
3694 Fix up man page some more
3696 Sigh, the project history was still partly in reverse chronological
3697 order and partly in forward order. Swapped the order of some
3698 sentences to help straighten it out. I don't really care about this,
3699 so other project members should feel free to do what they like here,
3700 but the messed-up order was bugging me.
3702 2009-10-24 00:46:20 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
3703 Fix some issues in the XBoard man page
3705 Correct places where the XBoard man page was calling XBoard
3706 "WinBoard". Change references to "WinBoard engines" and "WinBoard
3707 protocol" to "XBoard/WinBoard ...". Update bug reporting guidelines.
3708 Reorganize project history to something more like chronological order
3709 -- it had gotten pretty randomly ordered.
3711 2009-10-22 21:45:32 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3712 new pre-release version; updated version numbers
3714 2009-10-22 21:33:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3715 This patch adds <Enter> to the characters that cause an automatic
3716 switch to the ICS console when typed to the board window.
3718 2009-10-22 21:31:16 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3719 fix to the minor graphics issue contained some typos,
3720 as was remarked in the bugs reports
3722 2009-10-22 21:30:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3723 improved mouse handler
3725 The improved mouse handler still needed an extra call to DrawPosition to
3728 2009-10-22 21:28:38 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3729 NPS plays and pondering
3731 Clock updating did not work correctly in node-based time controls when the
3732 engine was pondering. (It was not really meant for use with pondering. Oh well...)
3733 This patch checks if the engine reporting the node count is indeed thinking
3734 (as opposed to pondering).
3736 2009-10-22 21:25:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3737 holdings update and regression fix
3739 The holdings-update patch was not yet satisfactory, because FICS seems to send
3740 holdings both before and after the board! And those received before did overwrite
3741 the holdings received after the previous board. I know tried to fix that in a kludgey
3742 way, by hiding a flag in the board that tells if the holdings have already been written
3743 by the ICS or not, and ignore new holdings when they are. (Except in bughouse,
3744 where holdings updates cannot be tied to a particular board and multiple updates
3745 between boards are normal. (I hope?).)
3747 I also undid a regression in my previous fix for the minor graphics problem,
3748 and solved it in a slightly different way to prevent flicker.
3750 2009-10-22 21:23:39 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3751 improved mouse handler
3753 I improved the mouse handler in a way which will preclude disappearence of pieces
3754 on off-board or ambiguous (in-between squares) drag & drop moves. (As was reported
3755 in the "premove bug?" thread. Also the command-line premove problem reported there
3756 is now fixed, by removing the prefixing.
3758 2009-10-22 21:18:05 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3759 fix for bug #8847: moving backward while examining on FICS not reported to engine
3761 I moved Daniel's code that backs up the engine when a bord with a
3762 lower number is received to a place where it is always done in zippy mode,
3763 rather than only when the engine is analyzing.
3765 Apart from taking back moves, there was also the case where the
3766 user moves forward by more than one move (usually immediately to
3767 end-of-game). In this case a new movelist is fetched from the ICS
3768 to recover the moves that were skipped. But this assumes that the
3769 engine is at the start of the game and feeds all these moves to the
3770 engine. So the engine had to be reset in this case to stay in sync.
3772 2009-10-22 21:16:56 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3773 better init for random number generator
3775 2009-10-21 23:01:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3776 fix for bug #27772: holdings not updated
3778 holdings lines from the ICS nor update the holdings
3779 of boards[forwardMostMove] in stead of boards[currentMove].
3781 2009-10-21 21:32:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3782 allowe parsing / disambiguation of SAN moves like Xe4 in certain situations
3784 This patch allows parsing / disambiguation of SAN moves like Xe4, if there
3785 is only one wild-card piece X on the board. Moves with wild-card pieces
3786 are now considered illegal if they leave the King in check by a piece of
3789 2009-10-20 19:09:46 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3790 fixed bug when switching to variantsuper
3792 2009-10-20 19:06:43 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3793 fix for bug #27715: 2 (minor) graphic issues
3795 I forced a total redraw when Reset is called from the ICS code in case a
3796 new game is encountered, in the hope it will make the reported
3797 (irreproducible) problem go away. As game switches are not frequent, I
3798 guess there is hardly any downside to this.
3800 2009-10-20 18:57:17 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3801 fix for bug #27667: PV line missing in analysis window, part 3
3803 "3. Wish for Engine state string (right to the icon):
3804 Can you add the actual search depth in analyzing mode? A change like "
3806 I also added the requested display of depth of the analysis move in the
3807 EngineOutput window. I guess a similar change could be made to wengineo.c
3808 (as this is in the code they share in common), but no one ever requested
3809 that in the 5 years since Alessandro wrote it. So for now I leave it alone.
3811 2009-10-20 18:52:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3812 fix for bug #27760: debug printf in backend.c and additional check for variant
3814 2009-10-19 23:17:46 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3815 fix for bug #10990: cmail does not seem to support .cmailgames or .cmailaliases
3817 this is correct, deleted the text out of the documentation that claims we support it
3819 2009-10-19 18:40:40 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3820 new alpha version; first one with new naming scheme
3822 2009-10-19 18:07:21 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3823 smarter analysis of the boards that XBoard receives from an ICS
3825 I added smarter analysis of the boards that XBoard receves from an ICS,
3826 based on board size and piece types in the position, to recognize cases
3827 where the board does not match the current variant, and switch to an
3828 appropriate variant.
3830 2009-10-19 18:04:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3831 fix for bug #27667: window should be reference to toplevel
3833 The remaining objections of #27667 should be fixed by bringing the
3834 EngineOutput window under control of the TOPLEVEL compile-time switch.
3836 2009-10-19 18:02:42 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3837 partly fix for bug #27715: scaling of menu bar
3839 the menu bar to the left edge of the window.
3841 2009-10-19 17:59:43 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3842 fixed bug reported in WB forum: second game of a match would
3843 not start when using the GUI book
3845 2009-10-19 17:57:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3846 fix for bug #27751: negative holding counts displayed
3848 I put code in the back-end to prevent holdings counts from
3849 becoming negative when a drop move is made from empty holdings.
3850 (This can happen when re-loading ICS bughouse games,
3851 as the smoves command fails to fill the holdings.)
3853 2009-10-18 20:54:53 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3854 Updated compiling instructions.
3856 2009-10-18 11:32:55 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3857 Changes to allow fonts with any charset (such as terminal)
3859 Affects winboard only.
3861 2009-10-16 23:02:41 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3862 Moved SIGWINCH signal so it can be used...
3864 I goofed putting this in StartChildProcess() originally.
3866 2009-10-16 22:54:12 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3867 Added internal wrapping ability.
3870 -wrapContinuationSequence "foo" (default: "\\ "
3871 -useInternalWrap (Winboard default: false, XBoard default: true)
3873 Note: -keepLineBreaksICS if set, prevents wrapping, usurping the
3874 useInternalWrap setting. The idea is if you want to keep ICS line
3875 breaks, then you don't want internal wrapping. Because of this,
3876 the new default for keepLineBreaksICS is now false for XBoard.
3878 2009-10-16 19:14:34 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3879 fixed segfaul in convert.c used to convert pixmaps
3881 2009-10-15 19:46:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3882 new mousehandler to correct for premove and promotion popup
3884 this is the new mouse handler for XBoard, which should fully implement
3885 premove, including promotion popup, and yet suppress the promotion popup
3886 on illegal moves that are not premoves. It is almost completely moved to
3887 the back-end now, so that WinBoard will be able to use it as well. I just
3888 must hook it up to winboard.c, in particular harmonize the call-backs of
3889 the mouse driver into the front-end for grabbing and releasing pieces for
3890 dragging, to make sure they have the same names and arguments.
3892 2009-10-15 19:32:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3893 updated black fairy pieces
3895 here is a set of black fairy pieces with opaque white details,
3896 so they have the same style as the orthodox XBoard pieces.
3898 2009-10-15 16:54:51 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3899 Adjustment to joining to work around server not always including space.
3901 This patch implements commit 98aa02bda540f17f1f50be00e494efafe439b004
3902 into the updated joining routine. This issue seems not to be server
3903 variance, but instead the server electing to omit the space between
3904 words when it occurs at exactly your width setting (-1 actually).
3906 This patch makes the joiner add back the space just like the referenced
3907 commit. Note: this is just a workaround to a server issue-- the joiner
3908 actually joins correctly before this patch.
3910 2009-10-15 07:18:42 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3911 Fixed joiner detection, allowing it to work with timeseal
3913 When timeseal's buffer fills in the middle of the continuation
3914 sequence, detection fails, and the lines aren't joined.
3916 As a result of this fix, measures intended to bypass joining are
3917 no longer needed, so I removed them. These utilize server vars
3918 when available to prevent splitting.
3920 2009-10-14 14:42:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3921 fixed engingeoutput routine
3923 removed outdated code regarding analysis window
3925 2009-10-14 14:39:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3926 moved bitmap to correct location
3928 was misplaced in a previous commit
3930 2009-10-14 14:26:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3931 fixed wrong number of arguments for EngineOutputPopUp
3933 2009-10-13 21:00:27 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3934 new bitmap converter (including fill option) and new pixmaps
3936 2009-10-13 20:52:40 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3937 forgot to add these two lines to the last commit
3939 2009-10-13 20:51:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3940 removed AnalysisPopUp. Use EngineOutputPopUp instead
3942 this was already in Winboard, copied it to xboard and removed unused code.
3944 2009-10-13 20:32:32 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3945 Proper board and holdings size when switching to variants
3946 gothic, capablanca, great and super within an ICS game.
3948 2009-10-13 20:25:13 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3949 cleaned up an old #ifdef in zippy
3951 2009-10-12 19:25:17 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3952 neglected this for the auto-width updating in xboard
3954 2009-10-12 19:19:59 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3955 Added server width adjustment based on client width changes
3957 2009-10-12 19:14:53 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3958 silence some compiler warnings
3960 2009-10-11 18:39:24 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3961 Maintainence to support all compilers.
3963 2009-10-11 17:07:27 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3964 Adjusted alternative joining method to obey keepLineBreaksICS
3966 2009-10-11 14:48:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3967 fix for bug #27668: e.p. field still not passed to engine
3969 PositionToFEN now takes the e.p. rights from epStatus[moveNr],
3970 rather than calculating it on the spot from moveList[moveNr-1]
3971 (which failed on the first move).
3973 2009-10-11 14:46:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3974 fix for bug #27666: naming of variants
3976 Variant names "misc/xxx" are recognized as "normal", rather than "xxx"
3977 to not get confused by the board "misc shogi" run by FICS.
3979 2009-10-11 10:14:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3980 changed enable menus
3982 Put the "Open Chat Window", "Machine Both", and "Engine #N Settings" menu items
3983 in the appropriate enable lists for graying them out wen not applicable.
3985 2009-10-11 10:13:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3986 Added a command-line option -keepLineBreaksICS true/false to control line joining.
3988 2009-10-10 19:30:23 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3989 Added code to prevent unnecessary width updates.
3991 2009-10-10 18:34:37 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
3992 Turned off wrap when possible on ICS servers.
3994 Turning off line wrap prevents splitting lines up using the
3995 continuation sequence "\\ ". This is desirable when using
3996 timeseal because timeseal's buffer is sometimes too small,
3997 causing it to break lines itself. These lines can't be joined.
3999 2009-10-10 16:30:56 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4000 vsnprintf() must be _vsnprintf() for MSVC
4002 2009-10-10 16:16:45 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4003 added code to handle initial width update
4005 2009-10-10 14:21:12 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4006 Added width updates to ICS client on font and window size changes
4008 What still needs to be done is placing an update call after login
4009 to initialize with the correct width. I didn't see where to put
4012 2009-10-10 14:19:30 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4013 added ics_printf() and ics_update_width() and utility functions
4015 2009-10-10 11:15:50 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4016 Cleaned up ConsoleWndProc (not complete, see below)
4018 Using static variables this way is not appropriate. I only addressed
4019 hInput and hText in this commit though. But imagine the WndProc being
4020 used by multiple windows instead of just one, and you can see why
4021 using static variables in this way is wrong.
4023 2009-10-10 11:12:10 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4024 Restructured URL code so it fits better with how winboard is set up.
4026 2009-10-10 08:57:39 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4027 cleanup: removed "#if 1" statements
4029 2009-10-10 08:55:21 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4030 cleanup: removed "#if 0" from source
4032 a bit of cleanup of the source code
4034 2009-10-10 08:34:10 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4035 fix joining of lines split by ICS
4037 This patch fixes the joining of lines that were split by an ICS, so that adding
4038 a space at the break point is done only when there was not a space already.
4039 (Some ICS leave a space at the end of the broken line, others do not.)
4040 An extra space would interefere with board12 in Gothic Chess, which is so
4041 long that the ICS breaks it, and the WB parser could not handle a double
4042 space within the board.
4044 2009-10-10 08:27:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4045 fix for bug #27642: Clock jumps strangely in engine mode
4047 This moves SwitchClocks() back to after incrementing forwardMostMove,
4048 so that it knows again who has the move (which was broken by the "bare" patch),
4049 and will take the appropriate tick length.
4051 2009-10-10 08:26:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4052 removed test for premove
4054 this was added while looking for the premove bug, but is not needed
4056 2009-10-10 02:03:45 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4057 added URL detection and provided hotlinks in the ICS client
4059 2009-10-10 02:00:52 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4060 reverted winboard.c beofre URL commit to correct whitespace conversion
4062 2009-10-09 02:14:22 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4063 Added URL detection into the console text window for ICS.
4065 2009-10-08 23:51:06 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4066 added some comments and formated code
4068 2009-10-08 23:46:52 -0700 Chris Rorvick <>:
4069 fix printing out help message (list of command line options) (tiny change)
4071 The postfix increment always resulted in an attempt to print out an
4072 option on the right side regardless of one actually existing. Use
4073 prefix increment to prevent a crash when printing an odd number of
4076 2009-10-09 00:04:51 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4077 Updated navigation accelerators, fixing ICS problems.
4079 Recent changes to the navigation accelerators were in the wrong
4080 accelerator table. Since the goal was to correct non-JAWS versions
4081 back to 4.2.7 behavior, I updated it to how 4.2.7 did it, but still
4082 retained the #ifdef JAWS conditional compilation.
4084 On an ICS, the navigation keys took control away from the ics
4085 client to navigate the game. The update requires the ALT key to
4086 be pressed, but it works identical to 4.2.7, not causing an
4087 unexpected focus back to the board window when you're just editing
4090 2009-10-08 20:33:39 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4091 fixed premove recapture problem;promotion popup appearing on
4092 obviously illegal moves; promotions in Superchess and Great Shatranj
4094 1) the premove recapture problem
4095 2) the promotion popup appearing on obviously illegal moves (the 1. e2a8
4097 3) promotions in Superchess and Great Shatranj, where the piece can now be
4098 selected from the holdings
4100 2009-10-08 20:28:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4101 added forceIllegalMove to xboard
4103 2009-10-05 21:01:32 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4104 bugfix: segfault when invalid option argument was given (bug #27427)
4106 when given a wrong argument to an option (e.g. -tc 0) xboard aborts
4107 before setting up the window, but tried to write a message to the
4108 messageWidget which doesn't exist at that point.
4110 2009-10-05 20:05:00 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4111 small improvement for JAWS version
4113 This is a patch to make JAWS read out any comments when /autoDiplaycomment=true.
4114 As focus does not stay on the Comment window, the comment was not spoken otherwise.
4116 2009-10-05 20:02:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4117 updated to winboard internationalization scripts
4119 Also a slight improvement of the internationalization scripting,
4120 to prevent it from crashing on messages containing a slash.
4122 2009-10-05 20:01:53 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4123 new forceIllegalMoves option
4125 The -forceIllegalMoves option uses setboard or edit to force a position
4126 when an engine refuses the move leading to it by an "Illegal Move" message.
4127 Especially for engines using the edit command this was a bit tricky,
4128 because of the a2a3 kludge to avoid using the white and black commands.
4130 2009-10-05 01:01:54 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4131 removed _winmajor if not defined so that VC 2008 can compile the project
4133 The oldDialog variable should just be set to 0 in all cases now, and
4134 as such, legacy code supporting the old dialog ought to be removed.
4135 The test for _winmajor is against < 4, which is always false at present,
4136 causing oldDialog to be 0 in every conceviable circumstance.
4138 2009-10-04 09:58:29 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4139 getting ready for 4.4.1 release
4141 2009-10-02 20:47:01 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4142 Simplified future version changes.
4144 Added a numeric version to config.h that is now used in winboard.rc
4145 instead of being hard-coded there. Just be sure to preserve the
4146 proper format (4 comma-separated 16 bit integers) or else it won't
4149 2009-10-02 16:56:01 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4150 updated version number to 4.4.1.pre
4152 should have done this straight after the last release, but forgot...
4154 2009-10-02 16:48:03 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4155 worked on premove bug
4157 I made an attempt to make premove unsensitive to a race condition,
4158 just in case the premove problem was caused by that (which seems unlikely,
4159 but in any case I added some debug printout to test this).
4161 2009-10-02 16:41:12 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4162 fixed loading of saved games via command line
4164 the variables forwardMostMove and backwardMostMove where set to zero
4167 2009-10-02 16:39:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4168 small fixes for the JAWS version
4170 * I moved saying 'check' by the JAWS version to where castling also benefits from it.
4171 * I made sure the check symbols are also recognized on promotion moves
4172 * In the non-JAWS version, define the plain arrows as shortcut keys for the button bar
4174 2009-10-01 16:50:28 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4175 Fixed bug dereferencing garbage, causing crash.
4177 Commit fa8be4a3fc5d81e9ec1f6c218fcf55c95d34fd10 included code to free the
4178 resultDetails of the gameInfo structure. That exact code exists a few lines
4179 above where it was added. None of these free() calls finish by setting the
4180 member to NULL afterword, therefore repeated attempts to test/free() the
4181 members result in an attempt to free() memory winboard no longer owns, and
4184 link to problematic commit: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/xboard.git/commit/?id=fa8be4a3fc5d81e9ec1f6c218fcf55c95d34fd10
4186 2009-10-01 16:49:57 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4187 Added wchat.c to the project files we maintain.
4189 2009-10-01 15:52:50 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4190 Previous fix for VC++/strcasecmp() was wrong-- use StrCaseCmp().
4192 2009-10-01 14:49:58 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4193 Add resource ID for new Mute menu item.
4195 I know this was probably done by HG, and simply left out of
4196 his commit. Anyway, the project can be built now after this change.
4198 2009-10-01 14:49:09 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4199 Use of strcasecmp() broke Visual C++.
4201 2009-09-30 20:47:00 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4202 wrong default value for engineDebugOutput
4204 the new default is now 1
4206 2009-09-29 22:55:41 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4207 updated cmail.in to adapt the CVS->git change
4209 don't reference $Revision:$ anymore.
4210 Instead use reference xboard-version via autoconf.
4212 2009-09-29 22:04:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4213 bugfix for protocol extensions: egtbpath -> egtpath
4215 A new and very bad bug was discovered in the implementation of
4216 the protocol extensions: XBoard sends a command "egtbpath" to the
4217 engine in stead of "egtpath" from the protocol specs.
4218 After discussion on WB forum it was decided that egtpath was better
4219 than the egtbpath I originally had proposed, and I changed it accordingly,
4220 but I had not realized that this string occurred TWICE in backend.c,
4221 depending on if matched the -defaultPathEGTB of -egtFormats option.
4222 I only changed the first occurence.
4224 2009-09-27 12:27:44 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4225 fix for edit-position "moves" being sent by XBoard to the engine
4227 2009-09-27 12:25:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4228 Engine did not start playing when out of GUI book on second move with white
4230 2009-09-27 12:24:30 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4231 Opening Engine #1 Settings crashed XBoard when there were no
4232 text-edit options in the dialog (to which to set keyboard focus)
4235 2009-09-27 12:18:35 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4236 added a "Mute All Sounds" item in the WinBoard Options menu, on Eric's request
4238 2009-09-27 12:15:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4239 Updated the RTF docs for the chat windows, engine-settings dialog,
4240 /keepAlive option and new game-list tag
4242 2009-09-27 12:14:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4243 Made the beep sounds for JAWS board navigation configurable through
4244 command-line options
4246 2009-09-27 12:11:49 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4247 Prepared a system to internationalize the WinBoard menus
4249 2009-09-27 12:10:38 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4250 added the result comment to the game-list tags when the game list is
4251 exported to the clipboard
4253 2009-09-27 12:05:32 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4254 rewrote wevalgraph for better frontend/backend separation
4256 I have finished re-writing the eval-graph code to have some
4257 front-end / backe-end separation, something I had already started on my
4258 holiday in Norway (when I had no internet :-) ).
4259 The new code now appears to work exactly like the old code,
4260 and I guess it could be ported to gtk comparatively easily.
4262 2009-09-27 12:00:51 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4263 fix for keepalive and chat window
4265 I made a fix to the keepAlive option so it does not send the date command
4266 to the ICS after every move. This required changing ScheduleDelayedEvent()
4267 so that it does not execute the event if a new identical one gets scheduled.
4268 I also added the option to XBoard. Affects xboard.c (DOS!) and winboard.c
4270 (This also cures the regression of the winboard.c copyright patch)
4272 I extended the chatbox patch to also listen to channel tells, and divert
4273 them to a chatbox for that channel number. Affects
4274 backend.c and wchat.c
4276 That should make those patches fully operational. No docs for either of them
4279 2009-09-27 10:36:23 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4280 fixed parse bug for pgn files
4282 fixed the existing bug that the time-control tag was displayed as "?"
4283 in the game list; turns out it was never parsed on reading PGN files
4285 2009-09-27 10:35:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4286 allow the result comment as a display item in the game list
4288 2009-09-27 10:35:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4289 fixed the HAVE_LIBXPM-dependent compile errors
4291 2009-09-27 10:24:47 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4292 added a chat window to keep track of multiple conversations
4294 The chat-window patch affects:
4295 winboard.c, backend.c, winboard.rc, resource.h, backend.h, and adds
4296 the file winboard/wchat.c, which also affects makefile.gcc and makefile.ms.
4298 In addition I added a new option -keepAlive, which affects
4299 common.h (in addition to winboard.c and backend.c).
4301 As I had to modify backend.h, I also defined the -reset option type there,
4302 which we are going to add later. This required some changes
4303 to suppress warnings in wsettings.c.
4305 2009-09-27 10:22:16 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4306 more files for git to ignore
4308 most of these are generated by make distcheck
4310 2009-09-08 09:33:53 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4311 another bug fix found by Stanislav Brabec
4313 returned -1 in some case although the variable was a char...
4314 changed to signed char
4316 2009-09-20 23:13:13 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4317 Swapped 'tell' and 'message' parsing order for colorization.
4318 Sometimes messages are relayed as tells and should be colorized as tells.
4320 2009-09-08 09:10:34 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4321 added some more files to be distributed via make dist
4323 as suggested by Stanislav Brabec
4325 2009-09-08 09:01:07 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4326 fixed some implicit declarations reported by Stanislav Brabec
4328 2009-09-07 22:04:39 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4329 fixed a few more small bugs reported by Stanislav Brabec
4331 - A function uses a 'return;' statement, but has actually a value to
4332 return, like an integer ('return 42;') or similar: xboard voidreturn
4333 xengineoutput.c:766, 782
4335 - Program returns random data in a function at xengineoutput.c:602
4337 - With a new toolchain, AM_LDFLAGS cannot contain libraries. Linker
4338 ignores them. Fix is attached.
4340 - ToDo: Convenient name in most projects is TODO (autotools package it
4343 2009-09-06 19:11:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4344 reverted .texi file and fixed Makefile.am
4346 the problem was actually not in the texi-file, but the Makefile.am.
4347 Reverted changes in the .texi and fixed it (hopefully) correctly now.
4349 2009-09-06 18:23:01 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4350 get "make distcheck" to work
4352 needed to add all *.h files to Makefile.am and also the bitmaps that
4353 are needed and some other files. Also had modified copyright.texi.
4355 2009-09-05 09:54:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4356 changed to version 4.4.0
4358 2009-09-05 09:44:21 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4359 updated AUTHORS, README and ChangeLog files for release
4361 2009-09-05 08:52:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4364 2009-09-04 22:39:45 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4365 set castling rights after setting up a position
4367 I was going through old WB forum posts, and I encountered a
4368 bug report for a bug that I never fixed: The castling rights should
4369 be properly set (actually: cleared) after setting up a position
4370 in Edit Position mode (as opposed to pasting a FEN).
4372 2009-09-03 23:11:18 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4373 removed install files from master
4375 they now live in their own branch
4377 2009-09-03 22:30:18 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4378 updated polyglot protocol
4380 I added a new option type "-reset" to the protocol for the new option feature.
4381 4.4.0 does not implement it yet, but Michel wants it for future Polyglots,
4382 and I think it is best to update the protocol in one big swoop.
4383 So I want to already include it in the specs now. (engine-intf.html)
4384 I made xboard's response to an unknown option type compliant
4385 with the new protocol specs.
4387 2009-09-03 22:28:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4390 2009-09-03 20:47:13 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4391 Updated project files for DevCpp and Visual Studio to add wsettings.c
4393 2009-09-03 20:46:33 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4394 Added newline at end of file to silence warning.
4396 2009-08-31 20:29:49 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4397 workaround for error message for missing pieces used in variants
4398 and initstring bugfix: error messages showed for non-existing pieces
4399 showed up for old user supplied pixmaps.
4400 Loading a pixmap of the king for the missing pieces now.
4402 Another bad bug surfaced: the -initString argument does not work in any
4403 XBoard version! (Including 4.2.7b) The escape sequences for linefeed in
4404 the string are not understood: -initString "new\nrandom\n" actually sends
4405 the \ and n to the engine (which then does not recognize the line as a
4408 So I also added a patch to expand escape sequences in the InitString and
4409 ComputerString command-line options.
4411 2009-08-31 20:27:24 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4412 updated installe script
4414 I re-organized the doc files in the install, so they now all go in the
4415 WinBoard\doc folder (and none in the root). I so included the COPYING
4416 and COPYRIGHT files there. This required some updates of the links in
4417 some html files, and of the menu link to README.html in the install script.
4418 I also fixed an error with the current directory
4419 in the menu short-cuts of some engines (which started in the fonts folder,
4420 and could not find the opening book there...).
4422 2009-08-31 20:25:17 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4423 updated documentation
4425 2009-08-31 20:20:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4426 updated installer script
4428 2009-08-31 19:51:48 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4429 new help files for windows
4431 2009-08-25 20:41:29 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4434 2009-08-25 20:36:53 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4435 undid some previous changes
4437 some files got mixed up
4439 2009-08-25 20:32:22 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4440 fixed small bug in wsetting
4442 2009-08-25 20:29:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4443 trigger a focus switch to ICS input field when typing
4445 old behavior was that "." or "," triggered this,
4446 now every printable character except 1-9 will trigger the focus switch
4448 2009-08-25 20:26:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4449 bug in backend.c when receiving lines from ICS
4451 A space was appended to every character received from an ICS
4452 in stead of just at line breaks.
4454 2009-08-24 23:47:48 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4455 fixed warning messages from compiler
4457 2009-08-23 14:24:38 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4460 this seems to fix it. Bug reported by Louis Zulli who also did the testing.
4462 2009-08-23 11:54:28 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4463 OK, this is the beefed up version of the Polyglot info-string kludge,
4466 2009-08-23 10:22:48 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4467 added missing X_LIBS references to Makefile.am
4469 2009-08-22 23:33:44 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4470 made the install script and executable
4472 2009-08-22 23:19:07 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4473 changed beta1 to beta2
4475 2009-08-22 23:14:11 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4476 fixed enable zippy in configure script and added some checks for OS X
4478 make tried to compile zippy even when --disable-zippy was given.
4479 Also fixed a bug in xboard.c where #ifdef instead of #if was used
4480 to test for ZIPPY (it's either 0 or 1, so we need #if). Also added
4481 some special checks for OS X, not sure if these will do it, but it's a start;)
4483 2009-08-22 19:09:54 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4484 added configure summary to configure output, also cleaned up configure.ac a bit
4486 used AS_HELP_STRING where possible
4488 2009-08-22 18:10:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4489 added check for malloc.h
4491 this should fix a build error on OS X
4493 2009-08-22 17:47:44 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4494 A small cosmetic change in the size of buttons
4495 inside a groupbox of the Engine-Setup dialog.
4497 2009-08-22 17:32:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4498 make xboard usable with UCI engines
4500 I made a small patch in xoptions.c (where the corresponding Engine Settings
4501 dialog was for XBoard), to make it at least usable for UCI engines: I now
4502 divide the options over upto 4 columns, if there are too many to fit into
4503 a single column. This seems to work. Still looks very ugly, but it is
4506 2009-08-22 17:30:05 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4507 fix premove for winboard
4509 This might fix the illusive premove problem. In 4.2.7 the code was not properly
4510 indented, and this led to an unbalanced braces error that I then fixed the
4511 wrong way. Click-click premoves did only work after clicking the toSquare twice.
4512 It might be that they actually did work after clicking it once,
4513 but that the highlights were not displayed (although set)
4514 for lack of a display refresh.
4516 2009-08-22 17:28:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4517 fixed bug for double saved games
4519 This patch should solve the problem with doubly saved games when XBoard is
4520 closed. I calculate a cecksum of each saved game now (including move comments),
4521 and suppress saving if the checksum is not changed.
4523 2009-08-22 17:25:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4524 fixed xengineoutput.c, to keep the duplicated code identical to that of wengineo.c.
4526 2009-08-22 17:24:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4527 updated xboard.texi: added warning that pixmaps are not build for all variants
4529 2009-08-22 17:19:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4530 added a dialog for engine-specific option settings
4532 2009-08-22 17:09:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4533 updated some documentation
4535 2009-08-22 17:07:10 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4536 fixed several bugs in the backend and added some more polyglot support
4538 * I added recognition for the new UCI3 option types that are recognized in the WB
4539 option features, to make sure this version is compatible with future Polyglots.
4540 Also fixed a bug that failed to strip an asterisk prefix from the first
4543 * I fixed the ICS-time-in-PGN bug.
4545 * I fixed a bug which caused a space to be missing when long lines broken up by
4548 2009-08-22 17:02:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4549 better polyglot support for engine ouput
4551 I fixed the algorithm for clearing the Engine Output window to work better with
4552 the latest Polyglot, whight outputs UCI "info strings" amongst the thinking
4555 2009-08-22 16:23:32 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4556 Beginnings of installer for 4.4.0. HGM asked me to forward the nsi file,
4557 but it seemed best to just add the installer tree to git even though
4558 it's not finished. You must install NSIS then FontName-0.7.exe
4559 (included in installer folder) then run build.bat in the same directory.
4561 2009-08-05 22:18:29 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4562 patch backend.c to make the -noGUI option also work in ICS mode.
4564 2009-08-01 13:09:49 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4565 temporary fix for pre-select
4567 As a temporary kludge I replaced looking into the holdings for the piece type
4568 by figuring out which piece would belong on the clicked holdings square.
4569 This is a non-trivial process, as it depends on which pieces participate
4570 in a certain variant.
4572 2009-07-30 00:19:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4573 changed click-click moves
4575 I got complaints about the way XBoard 4.4.0 handles click-click moves,
4576 in particular changing the selected piece after selecting King
4577 (for which I suppressed interference with FRC castling in a rather brutal way).
4578 People tell me it is very annoying that clicks sometimes don't work to select a piece.
4579 WinBoard uses refined logic in the back-end to handle this, but the XBoard
4580 front-end is not interfaced with that yet.
4581 (This would require a major rewrite of the mouse handler.)
4582 This temporary patch suppresses this behavior in all variants that do not support
4583 Fischer castling, and even there only exhibit it for Rook-after-King selection
4584 (which will be interpreted as an attempt to enter a castling move as K x own R).
4586 2009-07-26 08:43:35 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4587 option -adjudicateDrawMoves is not included in the XBoard list.
4589 added it to the option list
4591 2009-07-21 20:23:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4592 converted files from dos to unix format
4594 run dos2unix over a bunch of files
4596 2009-07-16 07:43:38 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4597 Stripped out unused VersionInfo
4599 2009-07-15 23:16:19 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4600 changed version to 4.4.0.beta1
4602 2009-07-15 23:12:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4603 updated INSTALL file to add ./autogen.sh
4605 2009-07-15 22:44:05 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4606 higher number of engine options possible now
4608 I upped the number of options per engine from
4609 50 to 100, and the average number of characters per option from 10 to 20.
4611 2009-07-15 12:30:37 -0600 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4614 2009-07-14 23:41:36 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4615 Added version information to resources.
4617 2009-07-14 23:40:50 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4618 Added Jaws targets to IDE projects.
4620 2009-07-14 23:39:12 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4621 Final makefile adjustments and compiling instructions.
4623 2009-07-13 22:35:17 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4624 Cleaned up garbage left behind from my makefile update.
4626 2009-07-13 22:26:56 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4627 Updated cmdline makefiles to be able to produce JAWS binaries.
4629 This breaks support for MSVC 4.x. It may still be possible to
4630 use that compiler if you obtain the latest SDK from Microsoft.
4631 MSVC 6.0 still works, but I had to change the target windows
4632 version to 0x500 which causes warnings about building beta
4633 applications. This is all due to the use of MENUBARINFO data
4634 type in the jaws binary. You can reduce the WINVER to 0x0400
4635 safely if you are not building a JAWS binary, and MSVC 4.x
4638 2009-07-13 22:26:10 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4639 Removed dependency on jfwapi.h
4641 Allows anyone to compile a jaws compatible binary.
4643 2009-07-13 22:23:31 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4644 Fixed duplicate resource in winboard.rc
4646 PLEASE remember to pull before commiting. This is the 2nd
4647 time I've fixed this. It's a waste of time to keep fixing
4650 2009-07-13 19:36:58 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4651 resolved conflict between Xt and Xaw libraries
4653 seems like we don't need to link against Xt.
4655 2009-07-13 19:33:57 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4656 help-menu was not un-grayed in the JAWS version, when it played with engines
4658 2009-07-13 19:29:53 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4659 integrated jaws into winboard
4661 I integrated the JAWS patch now into WinBoard in such a way that the
4662 JAWS and standard version can use the same resource file. This new
4663 winboard.c contains the improved dialog layot of the JAWS version,
4664 but none of the menus and JAWS-specific acclerator keys. The latter
4665 are now generated at run time by code in jaw.s. As a result jaws.h
4666 could be cancelled, as there the JAWS-specific defines are no
4667 longer needed outside jaws.c (now the .rc does not use them), and
4668 is incorporated in it.
4670 2009-07-12 15:37:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4671 fixed problem in autoconf using Xaw3d
4673 rewrote the section for Xaw3d in the autoconf file
4675 2009-07-12 15:29:28 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4676 Added Jaws support to GCC makefile
4678 2009-07-12 15:28:20 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4679 added help support: MSVC IDE and DevCpp IDE project files
4681 2009-07-12 15:26:49 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
4682 Removed obsolete makefiles and support files.
4684 2009-07-12 12:33:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4685 updated AUTHORS with the help of git. use
4687 git log --pretty=oneline --name-only --author=AUTHORNAME v4.2.7..HEAD |sort |uniq
4689 a bit of hand editing and a quick emacs macro later and you have a nice
4690 comma seperated list of all files changes by one author between two commits.
4692 2009-07-12 12:31:47 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4693 updated Changelog using git log --no-merges --pretty="* %ai: %s%n %b" HEAD v4.2.7
4695 2009-07-12 11:34:28 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4696 cleaned up some more copyright notices
4698 2009-07-12 11:22:30 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4699 updated copyright to reflect A. Scotte as copyright holder
4701 need to mention him, since the paperwork won't be finished before the next release
4703 2009-07-12 10:56:29 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4704 updated patchlevel to "k"
4706 2009-07-12 10:53:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4707 fixed autoconf problem with VERSION/PATCHLEVEL variables
4709 xboard used it's own version of PRODUCT, VERSION and PATCHLEVEL variables.
4710 Switched to PACKAGE_STRING provided by autoconf
4712 2009-07-12 10:29:46 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4713 cleaned up old CVS left overs
4715 removed $Id tags from all files
4717 2009-07-12 10:10:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4718 converted xhistory via dos2unix
4720 2009-07-12 10:09:24 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4721 fixed crash in history window
4723 someone discovered that opening the move-history window in XBoard leads to
4724 an immediate crash. Turns out that renaming the menu item broke it! (The
4725 name of the item was apprently used elsewhere in the code to access it,
4726 for putting a check mark there.)
4728 2009-07-12 10:04:30 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4729 fix for Animation of castling moves in Chess960
4731 Animation of castling moves in Chess960 turned out to sometimes make the
4732 king disappear from the display. For the time being I patched this in
4733 xboard.c to suppress animation of FRC castling moves altogether. As FRC
4734 castlings internally are represented as KxR, the to-square does not make
4735 sense anyway, which made the animation look very weird even when it led
4736 not to a king disappearance act. And the Rook move of a castling is never
4739 2009-07-11 22:44:53 -0600 Eric Mullins <eric@hiarcs.(none)>:
4740 Update GCC makefile to remove .obj targets.
4742 Dunno how they got in there, but they should be .o
4744 2009-07-11 22:42:41 -0600 Eric Mullins <eric@hiarcs.(none)>:
4745 Update makefile dependencies on help.c and help.h.
4747 2009-07-11 22:36:59 -0600 Eric Mullins <eric@hiarcs.(none)>:
4748 Allow compiling with MSVC6.0 and 4.1
4750 Move prototypes into help.h, after making sure that DWORD_PTR is
4751 defined. Include help.h from winboard.c and help.c so both files
4752 benefit from the definition.
4754 2009-07-11 18:26:16 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4755 lists these accelerator keys in the menus for JAWS
4757 2009-07-11 18:24:19 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4760 This patch allows the use of Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V for Copy Game
4761 and Paste even in I C S mode when the board has focus.
4763 2009-07-11 18:22:17 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4764 better handling of pasting a game without PGN tags
4766 patch in wclipbrd.h to make it smarter to decide between pasting
4767 a game or a position so it can handle games without PGN tags.
4768 If it doesn't parse as a FEN it is assumed to be a game.
4770 2009-07-11 18:20:56 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4771 fixed parser error for knight move
4773 The parser had a strange quirk: it recognized bd2 as a valid Knight move
4774 (Nb1-d2) while this SAN format should be reserved for Pawn moves only.
4776 2009-07-11 18:19:30 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4777 fixed a few warnings in connection with the help patch (now warning free)
4779 2009-07-11 18:13:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4780 some major re-assignment of accelerator keys in the JAWS
4782 2009-07-11 16:54:53 -0600 Eric Mullins <eric@hiarcs.(none)>:
4785 uptracked winboard.ini
4787 * Cleanup: moved "Some definitions required..." from winboard.c to config.h,
4788 and combined some definitions from borland w/ MS.
4790 * Changed internal HtmlHelp return type and 4th argument to facilitate various
4791 compilers. These changes, while not strictly adhering to HtmlHelp() conventions,
4792 won't impact anything since the function modified is internal only.
4794 * Modified HtmlHelp return values to integer to silence warnings.
4795 * Added help.c to the project in makefile.gcc & makefile.ms.
4796 * Fixed duplicate resource in winboard.rc.
4798 2009-07-09 22:08:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4799 added JAWS support; help files for Vista; bugfixes for winboard.c
4802 * help files should now work under Vista (the user has to have either
4803 a program to view old windows help files or to view html-files installed)
4804 * I fixed the tabbing between all windows that were added according to Tim's sugestions.
4805 * I added typing in of a move number in the move type-in dialog as a shortcut
4806 to going to that position by use of the < and > buttons. Mainly intended to
4807 ease life for the blind, but I think it can be generally useful.
4808 (Although the move-history dialog provides that functionality too,
4809 this is quicker if you don't happen to have it open.)
4810 * I added typing of a FEN in the move type-in dialog in Edit Position mode.
4811 (Which could not be used without mouse at all, and is defective
4812 in crazyhouse even with mouse, as there was no way to populate holdings.)
4814 2009-07-09 22:03:00 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4815 some bugfixes: ICS error handling
4817 * play a different sound for takebacks in ICS mode
4818 * pop up error messages for illegal moves for typed-in moves
4820 2009-07-09 21:50:41 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4821 removed no longer needed debug message
4823 2009-07-09 21:48:23 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4824 fixed compile error from a previous change
4826 2009-07-09 21:44:54 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4827 user selectable font in game list
4829 This makes the game list use the same (user selectable) font
4830 as the the move-history window.
4832 2009-06-30 21:27:34 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4833 fixed typos in xboard.texi documentation.
4835 2009-06-30 21:16:59 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4838 2009-06-27 17:06:26 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4839 changed font in engine output window
4841 The engine-output window now uses the same font as the move-history window
4842 (which was selectable in the "Options -> Fonts..." menu, while the other
4845 2009-06-27 17:03:19 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4846 fixed some characters in xboard.texi
4848 It seems that copying manual sections from the RTF to th texi file did
4849 somehow mess up the double-quote characters, and changed them into some
4850 strange (unicode?) symbols.
4852 2009-06-27 16:56:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4853 two shogi related bugfixes
4855 I discovered a bug in the move generator for the Shogi Dragon King. I
4856 guess it went unnoticed so far because this is a promoted version of the
4857 Rook, which hardly occurs in games. (moves.c)
4859 There was also a problem with the piecesfix I sent you before; Shogi
4860 chosen as initial variant did use wrong piece symbols. (I had tested this
4861 on gothic, but there it happened to work for a different reason, unique to
4862 gothic.) This affects xboard.c.
4864 2009-06-27 16:54:04 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4867 2009-06-27 16:51:02 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4868 adds bitmaps for shogi promotions, and selects the bitmaps or
4869 pixmaps for the more rarely used piece types on a per-variant basis.
4871 2009-06-27 16:44:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4872 adds new piece types in the promotion dialog and edit-position piece menu
4874 2009-06-27 16:13:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4875 updated bitmaps files: files for fairy pieces where missing,
4876 others had names that didn't work with autoloading.
4878 2009-06-27 16:06:35 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4879 fixed a bug concerning bitmaps
4881 2009-06-27 15:53:45 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4882 give a default directory for bitmaps files (tiny change)
4884 this is also one of the debian patches, should be rewritten to use
4885 the correct install directory. No Author was given.
4887 2009-06-27 15:47:52 -0700 Brian May <>:
4888 verbose_error_message_about_recognized_options (tiny change from Debian patches)
4890 2009-06-27 15:45:14 -0700 Matt Zimmerman <>:
4891 add a visual low time warning (tiny change from Debian patches)
4893 2009-06-24 23:31:52 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4894 dos 2 unix conversion of backend.c
4896 2009-06-24 23:30:07 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4897 exchanged some sprintf with snprintf found in a patch for the debian system,
4898 extended it a bit to other sprintf's original patch included only 11 lines
4899 by Florian Ernst <florian@debian.org>
4901 2009-06-24 23:07:23 -0700 Mark Ioli <chessknight>:
4902 enabled a patch for default settings in winboard
4904 2009-06-24 22:53:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4905 updated copyright notice
4908 2009-06-24 22:52:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4909 patches a bug in chosing the initial board size on a virgin startup
4910 I introduced recently
4912 2009-06-24 22:49:33 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4913 I put in testing for the winning condition in 3checks
4915 on a check it just goes through the entire game to subject
4916 every position on a check test, to see if there were two more.
4918 2009-06-24 22:47:01 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4919 updated copyright notice in docs
4921 2009-06-24 22:41:40 -0700 Florian Ernst <florian@debian.org>:
4922 added small patch from debian (tiny change)
4924 according to the debian patch tracker, this patch is by
4925 Florian Ernst <florian@debian.org>.
4926 It fixes whitespace issues in filename called from cmail.
4928 2009-06-24 22:33:13 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4929 converted dos2unix format for xboard.texi
4931 2009-06-24 22:31:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4932 deleted two more files that don't need to be in git
4934 these files can be generated by autogen.sh
4936 2009-06-21 12:10:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4937 major overhaul of the -stickyWindows feature
4939 I did a major overhaul of the -stickyWindows feature.
4940 The game-list and ICS-interaction windows are now also sticky.
4941 I also added a form of stickiness when the main window is resized;
4942 edges of auxiliary windows sticking to the right or bottom side of
4943 the main window stay attached when the window resizes
4944 (due to nr of board squares or their size). The way the window
4945 coordinates are saved in the .ini file is now relative to the
4946 main window, and some dummy options are added to be able to
4947 recognize right- and bottom-edge sticking, and reconstruct that
4948 when WB starts up with another board size. Also added are
4949 volatile options to ensure there will be space for auxiliary windows
4950 above and left of the main window.
4952 2009-06-21 12:07:01 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4953 fixed long-algebraic form of drops
4955 The WB parser turned out not to understand the long-algebraic form
4956 of drops send by an ICS. (like B/@@-e4), so even with
4957 legality testing off I now use the SAN move for drops.
4959 2009-06-18 18:35:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4960 Refined stalemate adjudication in Suicide, some cleanup
4962 Refined stalemate adjudication in Suicide, which seems to be not always won
4963 for the stalemated side, but for the side with the smallest number of pieces.
4964 Cleaned up the adjudication code in the process. (backend.c moves.c, moves.h)
4965 Also includes a tiny change in the -autoKibitz format, as requested on
4968 2009-06-18 18:32:57 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4969 Enhancement of the way -autoLogo decides which logos to display
4971 2009-06-16 00:06:59 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4972 bugfix and enhancement in autoKibitz mode
4974 changed the format of the autoKibitz: score/depth in stead of depth/score,
4975 as in PGN. I also supress the ICS time for the move now in the PGN
4976 if extended info is available. When enhancing the functionality of
4977 the autoKibitz command (using the opponent engine kibitz for the saved PGN)
4978 I discovered that the xengineoutput.c in our tree was obsolete,
4979 and contained a routine of which the arguments were no longer compatble
4980 with the call from backend.c, and caused segfaulting. I copied in
4981 the corresponding routine in wengineo.c, which was compatible. That the
4982 compiler did not flag this is a sign of badly organized code, I suppose...
4984 The enhancement itself affected backend.c.
4986 2009-06-16 00:04:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4987 modified clock layout
4989 I altered the display of the clocks in the presence of engine logos; I used to
4990 stack them, but some inquiry on Talkchess sowed that people disliked the
4991 stacking. So now I display them next to each other again, but as 2-line-high
4992 fields to make room for te logos.
4994 2009-06-15 23:59:32 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4995 new zippy option zippyShortGame
4997 On request of Mike Adams I added a new zippy option, -zippyShortGame,
4998 to make life more difficult for abusers of abort and disconnect for cheating.
5000 2009-06-15 23:56:40 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5001 fixed some bugs in the animation of atomic captures
5003 2009-06-13 15:27:26 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5006 I had overlooked one place from which the FEN writer
5007 (of whicf I changed the argument types), which made WB crash
5008 if you copied a FEN (or PGN that cotained FEN) to the clipboard.
5009 I must have overlooked a warning during compile, or some depedency
5010 is not correct in the makefile. Anyway, wclipboard.c had to be changed.
5011 I also moved adjudication of some losing conditions to before tetsing
5012 for stalemate, (e.g. in atomic, if your king get destroyd you lose,
5013 even if you have no moves after that because it was your only piece.).
5014 this affects backend.c.
5015 I had used the same bits in the rule-modifier flags for indicating
5016 mandatory capture as was already used for indicating FRC-style castling.
5017 This led to frequent illegal move calls in FRC... (moves.h)
5019 2009-06-13 10:45:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5020 cleaned up HTML in FAQ.html -- still need to work on content
5022 2009-06-13 09:36:26 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5023 added option for work-around for some FRC engines in regards to FRCFENs
5025 It suddenly occurred to me that I had promised on CCC to include an option
5026 to provide a work-around for the problem that some FRC engines do not
5027 understand FRC FENs (and thus do not play at all under WinBoard,
5028 as FRC always has to begin with sending the initial position).
5029 So I added the options -firstNeedsNoncompliantFEN, -secondNeedsNoncompliantFEN.
5030 This affects winboard.c and xboard.c, (for defining the option),
5031 common.h, backend.h, backend.c, (for implementing it),
5032 xboard.texi and winboard.rtf (decribing it).
5033 This option provides users with a means to always force the FEN castling field
5034 to KQkq (but can be used for many other work-arounds as well).
5036 2009-06-13 09:30:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5037 fixed bug with random calls
5039 There also seemed to be a bug with the shuffling of opening positions;
5040 I had changed the declaration of the position number from
5041 long long int to u64 to comply with MSVC, but this suppressed shuffling
5042 completely. I now changed it to int. I recently noted a problem with true
5043 randomizing anyway: this was based on srand(time()), but time() apparently
5044 did not change fast enough, so that starting several games in rapid succession
5045 (because the book line contained a 3-fold repetition) produced identical games.
5046 So I now seed the random once and for all during startup, based on the msec of
5047 the time mark, and removed the other calls to srand().
5049 2009-06-13 09:26:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5050 changed name for fairymax program in xboard.h
5052 2009-06-13 09:25:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5053 removed my name from copyright message in help->about menu
5055 2009-06-13 09:22:02 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5056 fixed -stickyWindows option
5058 I figured out why -stickyWindows was not working in XP and Vista
5059 (while it always worked under Win2K), and I think I found a fix for
5060 it that works under all Windows versions. (I tried XP and Win2K.)
5062 2009-06-13 09:20:38 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5063 Updated docs for Engine-Settings menu
5065 2009-06-13 09:19:05 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5066 Awareness of winning conditions for atomic and giveaway variants; two bugfixes
5068 fixed bug in claim verification
5069 Bugfix on initial position of Great Shatranj
5071 2009-06-13 09:16:47 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5072 Legality testing (mandatory capture) in giveaway variants
5074 2009-06-13 09:16:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5075 don't ignore winboard/parser.c
5077 2009-06-13 09:12:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5078 Added new variant Twilight Chess
5080 2009-06-13 09:08:57 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5081 some renaming and restructuring of WB menu items, to conform more to XBoard
5083 2009-06-13 09:07:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5084 Fixed bug in atomic patch that interfered with non-atomic variants
5086 2009-06-10 21:46:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5087 fixed different use of engine option compared to Polyglot
5089 it turns out the new Polyglot uses a sightly different version
5090 of the GUI->engine option command than the one I proposed
5091 (and implemented in XBoard; Michel sneaked in an '=' sign
5092 between the NAME and VALUE of the option, to allow for
5093 more unambiguous parsing. I guess in principle this is a good idea,
5094 so I adapted XBoard to Polyglot rather than the other way around.
5095 The result is that there are canges in xboard.c, and the documentation.
5096 I noticed that I unjustly had internationalized the option strings
5097 to be send to the engine in xoptions.c; this was of course nonsense,
5098 as this was WB protocol. So I undid that too.
5100 2009-06-10 21:37:47 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5101 add the already supported variants 3check and great (=Great Shatranj)
5102 to the New Variant... menu.
5104 2009-06-10 21:32:22 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5105 animate explosions in variant atomic (if animate moves is on).
5107 2009-06-10 21:30:19 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5108 fixed castling bug in variant twokings.
5110 2009-06-10 21:22:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5111 fixed forteitary wins for special game variations
5113 feature that corrects forfeitary wins (e.g. on time)
5114 of a bare King to draws of course breaks proper operation
5115 in losers, suicide and giveaway
5117 2009-06-09 21:02:51 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5118 automatically test ini file extension for files from commandline option @filename
5120 The winboard.c is a patch that automatically tries indirection files on the
5121 command line (@filename type arguments) also with an extension .ini if the name itself
5122 did not match any existing file and contained no period. This saves the user typing the
5123 .ini all the time (which I started to find pretty annoying while working on the installer
5126 2009-06-08 15:23:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5127 added gamelisttag option to xboard
5129 also updated documentation.
5131 2009-06-08 15:20:00 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5132 updated RTF file for winboard
5134 2009-06-06 09:12:48 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5135 fixed syntax error in texi file
5137 2009-06-06 08:57:52 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5138 updated to patchlevel "j"
5140 2009-06-06 09:00:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5141 fixed adjudicating probelm in Shantranj
5143 Refrain from adjudicating a draw based on insufficient mating material
5144 (except bare King vs bare King) in Shatranj (where in this case you can
5145 still win by baring the opponent's King).
5147 2009-06-06 08:55:17 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5148 updated documentation and FAQ
5150 2009-06-04 22:52:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5151 source clean up. Fix compiler warning, removed unused variables, etc.
5153 2009-06-04 20:43:29 -0700 Eric Mullins <emwine at earthlink.net>:
5154 adding support for different windows compiler
5156 Eric kindly provided us with some makefiles for different windows
5157 compiler and also fixed some issues that came up while using those compilers.
5159 2009-06-04 18:27:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5160 cleanup: got rid of a lot of files that are not needed for a new release
5162 lots of documentation was available in several places,
5163 old unused source files and not used graphics file were floating around
5164 in the tree. This should clean up most of it. No need to keep these files
5165 around, especially since we are using version control.
5167 2009-05-29 18:56:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5168 Added the Action-menu items that allow the user to adjudicate
5169 ongoing games in Two-Machines mode. This was an already existing
5170 backend function from Winboard_x; I only had to create a menu item for it
5171 to be called. Due to an oversight I had forgotten to do that so far.
5172 (Logically, I should have done it in the 4.3.5 release,
5173 where I updated the XBoard menus to conform to the WinBoard menus.)
5175 I tested them, and they seem to work. (As expected.)
5177 2009-05-28 22:23:00 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5178 updated patchlevel to "i"
5180 2009-05-28 22:19:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5181 small change to mousewheel support; two changes in window behaviour
5183 * Visible effects during resizing suppressed, bug in chosing new size fixed.
5184 * No longer reserves left and top margins next to main window on first popup.
5185 * built in some hysteresis into mousewheel support, ignorng the first event in any new
5186 direction to suppress effects from accidential mouse movement.
5188 2009-05-28 22:11:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5189 corrected 'animate dragging'
5191 I finally figured out how the 'animate dragging' works in XBoard,
5192 so that I could add code to do the unstacking of multiple pieces
5193 in the holdings, rather than always leaving an empty square while
5194 you drag them. (And then suddenly re-growing the remaining pieces
5195 as you make the drop.) It does not look as fancy as in WinBoard
5196 yet, because the counts still only decrease when you release the
5197 piece, rather than when you lift it. But this is not nearly as
5198 disturbing as leaving empty holdings (if only temporarily) when
5199 you still have pieces there.
5201 2009-05-28 22:06:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5202 Added comand-line options -debugFile (as synonym for -nameOfDebugFile,
5203 as WinBoard also has these synonyms), and -engineDebugOutput
5204 (wich already existed in the backend).
5206 2009-05-28 21:57:53 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5207 updated documentation for new release
5209 2009-05-28 21:55:51 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5210 added Xiangqi perpetual-chase detection
5212 2009-05-28 00:06:53 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5213 Updated all files to GPL version 3.
5215 2009-05-28 00:03:32 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5216 converted two files from dos to unix format
5218 2009-05-27 23:12:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5219 updated INSTALL, NEWS and other files for new release
5221 cleaned up a bit and updated some information in the text files.
5223 2009-05-07 21:48:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5224 winboard/config.h shouldn't be in .gitignore, only ./config.h
5226 2009-05-07 21:47:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5227 bumped patchlevel to 0g
5229 2009-05-07 21:46:02 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5230 corrected path in makefile
5232 2009-05-07 21:45:48 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5235 2009-05-07 21:45:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5236 added firstOptions, secondOptions, noGUI, firstXBook, secondXBook
5238 2009-05-07 21:44:03 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5239 handle promotion case for Shogi
5241 2009-05-07 21:43:34 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5242 add note about RESULT command for GUI programmers
5244 2009-05-07 21:42:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5245 small changes to book.c
5247 added code for different board sizes
5248 added some debuginfo
5249 handle promotion of pieces
5251 2009-05-05 23:07:18 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5252 added a .gitignore file
5254 2009-05-03 12:41:06 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5255 wrong line ending for Unix... ran dos2unix on both files
5257 2009-05-02 13:51:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5258 fixed texinfo files, added windows help file, removed config.h from git
5260 texinfo.in is not needed anymore, since it only provided a
5261 version string, but this can be created automatically using autotools
5263 deleted config.h from version control, since it is automatically created.
5264 added winboard.hlp file (not sure if needed)
5266 2009-04-26 23:34:34 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5267 updated autoconf init file
5269 * renamed autoconf init file from configure.in to configure.ac
5270 * added bug-report email address to ac_init
5271 * replaced ac_output(...) with ac_config_files, ac_config_commands and ac_output
5273 2009-04-26 14:49:03 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5274 parser.c is generated by lex, so it shouldn't be tracked
5275 and also parcer.c shouldn't be in Makefile.am
5277 2009-04-26 14:44:51 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5278 added book.c to Makefile.am
5280 2009-04-26 13:49:15 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5281 use autoheader to create config.h.in
5283 no need to track this in git anymore
5285 2009-04-26 11:13:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5286 fixed autoheader warings, remove depreciated acconfig.h
5288 2009-04-26 10:30:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5291 2009-05-02 10:55:39 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5292 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.16
5294 2009-05-02 10:50:10 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5295 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.15
5297 2009-05-02 10:38:39 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5298 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.14
5300 2009-05-02 10:13:41 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5301 HGM fixed cygwin compile for winboard
5303 2009-04-24 16:11:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5304 cross compilier working
5306 2009-04-19 10:00:52 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5307 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.13
5309 2009-04-19 09:52:47 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5310 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.12
5312 2009-04-19 09:48:59 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5313 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.8
5315 2009-04-19 09:44:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5316 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.7
5318 2009-04-19 09:39:19 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5319 changes by H.G. Muller; version 4.3.4
5321 2009-04-19 09:34:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5322 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.2
5324 2009-04-19 10:26:24 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5325 changes from H.G. Muller
5327 2009-04-16 23:06:13 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5328 cleaned up the directory a bit. Removed winboard-dm-beta,
5329 merged the two Changelogs together
5331 2009-04-16 14:12:48 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
5332 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20060129
5334 2009-04-16 14:09:33 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
5335 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20060112
5337 2009-04-16 14:04:02 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
5338 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20051231
5340 2009-04-16 13:59:12 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
5341 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20051129
5343 2009-04-16 13:53:41 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
5344 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20050322
5346 2009-04-10 04:18:59 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5347 translated a handfull of strings and set the codeset to UTF-8
5348 for the translations.
5350 2009-03-18 03:20:50 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5351 Translation: added German po file (roughly 50% translated)
5353 2009-03-01 04:23:54 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5354 fixed bug #22853: changed all .Xdefaults to .Xresources in xboard.texi
5356 2009-03-01 02:43:43 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5357 fixed bug #25672, patch #6182 by adding DESTDIR support to Makefile.in
5359 2009-03-01 02:33:26 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5360 fixed a warning message in the configure script
5362 2009-02-28 22:58:57 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5363 fixed parser.l. Should fix bug #22812
5365 2009-02-28 22:58:14 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5366 fixed parser.l. Should fix bug #22812
5368 2009-02-28 22:55:30 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5369 added myself to the AUTHOR file
5371 2007-06-15 04:26:57 +0000 Mark Loli <chessknight>:
5372 Initial check-in of NSIS Winboard installer files.
5374 * 06/12/2005: bugfix some more possible buffer overflows.
5376 * 06/27/2004: added simple icsEngineAnalyze for xboard
5378 * 06/26/2004: added icsEngineAnalyze for winboard: Analyze observe games
5379 with a chessprogram on a Internet Chess Server (ICS)
5381 * 02/12/2004: Bugfix ICS interaction console crashed while chess
5382 engine starting and user type in some stuff. We wait now to finish
5385 * 02/11/2004: Winboard: Added color lines for the ics interaction
5386 console if zippy used
5388 * 02/09/2004: Added mousewheel support for winboard. Play moves
5389 backward and forward with the mousewheel.
5391 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.7 -- Fri Nov 28 13:36:00 PST 2003 -- Tim Mann
5393 * 11/26/2003: In WinBoard, setting the -debug flag now logs ICS output
5394 to WinBoard.debug too. (This isn't needed in xboard because ICS
5395 output already goes to stdout, so it's easy to capture along with the
5396 debug output on stderr.) This was issue #280 in the ToDo file.
5398 * 11/23/2003: Cleaned up some minor problems in cygwin.mak. Thanks to
5399 Hans Werner Strube for the problem report.
5401 * 11/23/2003: Updated the default list of chess servers in
5402 winboard/defaults.h. Deleted two that appear to be dead and added a
5403 new one that is active.
5405 * 11/19/2003: Swapped icon_white.bm and icon_black.bm in XBoard.
5406 Hopefully this will get them the right way around by default on more X
5407 window managers. I wish I understood this better.
5409 * 11/18/2003: Implemented a simple 32-bit random number generator for
5410 WinBoard, replacing the Windows rand(), which ranges only up to
5411 0x7fff. Formerly on Windows, only zippy.lines sayings that started in
5412 the first 32767 bytes of the file could ever be used. This was issue
5413 #505 from the ToDo file.
5415 * 11/16/2003: The xboard man page and info files are now built from a
5416 common set of texinfo source files, and the xboard man page now covers
5417 cmail as well. Formerly, ever since the texinfo file was first
5418 contributed to the project, it was separate from the man page and the
5419 two files had to be updated in parallel, making for a maintenance
5420 nightmare. To make combining the files possible, I took the Perl
5421 script "texi2man" from the GNU Units project and added support for a
5422 larger subset of the texinfo markup language. I then carefully
5423 compared the old man page and old texinfo file to make sure the latest
5424 and clearest words survived into the new combined texinfo file. It
5425 would be great to merge in WinBoard's help file too, but that's a
5426 larger project. It would have to be heavily conditionalized to
5427 deal with differences in features between XBoard and WinBoard.
5429 * 11/15/2003: Cleaned up and applied a small patch from Daniel
5430 Mehrmann, to stop overly long PVs in thinking output from causing a
5431 buffer overflow crash in backend.c.
5433 * 11/5/2003: When a chess engine sends a "telluser" command (including
5434 the cases where "tellall" or "tellopponent" acts like telluser), the
5435 information now goes into a nonmodel popup that is automatically
5436 dismissed when the user clicks anywhere on the board. This fix is
5437 more significant on WinBoard, where formerly you got a fully modal
5438 dialog that had to be dismissed by clicking on OK before anything else
5439 could happen. The bug was issue #406 in the ToDo file.
5441 * 11/1/2003: Removed email addresses from this file to reduce spam
5442 load, as it gets linked to from the Web.
5444 * 11/1/2003: Updated READ_ME and winboard/READ_ME.txt.
5446 * Modified xboard and winboard makefiles to be able to build the
5447 project in the new combined directory structure.
5449 * Applied a small security fix to pxboard, from Martin Maeok.
5451 * Fixed a bug in the game list dialog. The change in 4.2.6 to opening
5452 games in text mode (meant to avoid getting extra \r's into comments)
5453 caused a new bug in determining seek offsets when parsing a game file
5454 to form the game list. Also, the change was incomplete; on some code
5455 paths games were still being opened in binary mode. Thanks to Lenik
5456 Terenin for reporting the offset bug. I've now gone back to always
5457 using binary mode when reading game files, and I've fixed the comment
5458 bug by adding code to remove \r's from parsed comments explicitly. I
5459 still use text mode for writing game files so that games written by
5460 WinBoard will have Windows-style line endings.
5462 * Fix for minor bug in WinBoard installer. If you chose a non-default
5463 destination directory, the default directory was still used for a
5464 couple of unimportant things, namely setting the App Paths registry
5465 keys (unused by WinBoard) and trying to copy the existing WinBoard.ini
5466 file to WinBoard.old. I inherited this bug from the InstallShield 5
5467 sample template. Thanks to "l.d." for noticing the incorrect keys.
5469 * Patch from Chris Priest: when two engines are being run through rsh,
5470 avoid reusing the same stderr port for both. I'm not sure why this
5471 should be needed, but it's harmless, at least.
5473 * Bugfix: The kludge to deal with old engines that give an error
5474 message because they don't know the "st" command was too sloppy; it
5475 could hit on an "st" substring anywhere in an error message. GNU
5476 Chess 4 is the only engine I know of where the kludge was needed, so I
5477 changed the kludge to match a longer, more GNU-specific string.
5479 * Changed the WinBoard self-extracting installer to choose a unique
5480 temporary subdirectory name within the Windows temp directory instead
5481 of always putting wb-setup directly in temp. Besides being better
5482 practice, this avoids the need to deltree wb-setup first, which
5483 occasionally alarms someone who thinks that deltree is only used by
5484 trojans to delete all your files. (Yes, I'm serious.)
5486 * Fixed a bug where FICS-style "wild/0" strings were not parsed as the
5487 proper wild type. The "/" was not being skipped.
5489 * Fixed a WinBoard bug where temporary files created by game
5490 copy/paste were being created in the root directory of the current
5491 drive instead of the TMP directory and were not always deleted on exit.
5493 * Fixed a small bug in winboard.c's ErrorDialog() function. Thanks to
5494 "Ron" (no last name given). The bug might have caused a problem when
5495 pressing OK or Cancel in an error dialog when more than one error
5496 dialog was being displayed, but I'm not really sure.
5498 * Removed a hack that worked around a bug in very old versions of
5499 Crafty, where it would sometimes reply "illegal move" to a "."
5500 command. The hack kept us from recognizing real illegal move messages
5501 in analyze mode from engines that don't respond to the "." command.
5502 Thanks to Fabien Letouzey for the report.
5504 * Fixed a bug in the xboard version of GetDelayedEvent. It would
5505 return the most recently scheduled event even if it had already fired.
5506 This caused at least one visible error: in -ics -xreuse mode, starting
5507 the engine again and seeing another "feature done=1" would re-run the
5508 initialization code in InitBackEnd3, including the code that opens the
5509 connection to ICS. The WinBoard version didn't have this bug. Thanks
5510 to Bob Hyatt for the bug report.
5512 * The promotion popup for ICC wild 26 (giveaway) now includes King.
5513 Thanks to Fredrik Josefsson for the bug report.
5515 * The first game in a file (or being pasted from the clipboard) can
5516 now start with a bare move -- no PGN tags, no move number "1", etc.
5517 Suggested by Shane Harrelson. One could imagine taking this farther
5518 and accepting something like "e4 e5 1/2-1/2 d4 d5" as two games, but
5519 I haven't done that.
5521 * Bug fix: xboard didn't really accept a paste of multiple games,
5522 contrary to what I wrote when adding the feature to WinBoard in
5523 4.2.4. Now it works in both.
5525 * Fixed generic start/end of game messages to work on chess.net, where
5526 they put ratings in parens after the player names.
5528 * Updated config.sub and config.guess to newer versions from
5529 automake-1.4p5-2. This makes configure work with MacOS X + X11.
5531 * Bugfix: when examining a game fragment on FICS where black plays
5532 first, don't show two "(0:00.000)" times on the initial "none" move.
5534 * If TestLegality is on and one of the engines makes an illegal move
5535 in TwoMachines mode, it forfeits immediately. Formerly the game would
5536 get stuck at that point and the engine that made the illegal move
5537 would eventually lose on time.
5539 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.6 -- Fri Feb 1 22:26:31 PST 2002
5542 Another small bugfix release.
5544 * Put in a small change from Alexander Mai to allow xboard to build in
5545 an OS/2 EMX environment.
5547 * Fix WinBoard-only bug where editing a PGN file with comments would
5548 insert more \r characters before the \n after every Load/Save cycle.
5549 For some unknown reason we were reading the files in "rb" mode but
5550 writing them in "a" mode, so we kept the \r characters on reading and
5551 added an extra one on writing. Fix: change the "rb" to "r". Thanks
5552 to Joel (last name not given) for the bug report.
5554 * Put the arguments to rsh/remsh in the right order for better
5555 portability. Thanks to Michael Kalisz.
5557 * FreezeUI is now implemented in WinBoard; it was previously only
5558 implemented in xboard. This function prevents the user from entering
5559 moves or other commands while we are waiting for an engine to
5560 initialize itself. Implementing it fixes a bug where the user could
5561 start a game (etc.) during feature negotiation. One of the symptoms
5562 of this bug was that we could send "new" one or move moves *after* the
5565 * Fixed some handle leaks (WinBoard only), including a nasty one that
5566 leaked one handle per command sent to ICS. Thanks to several folks
5567 who helped characterize the bug and tried to look for leaks.
5569 * We now install and look for the info file in ${prefix}/share/info
5570 instead of ${prefix}/info. The latter is still the default in
5571 autoconf, but the former is currently used in Red Hat Linux and
5574 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.5 -- Sat Dec 15 11:42:51 PST 2001
5577 * Changed the bundled GNU Chess 5.02 in the WinBoard package to
5578 include a much smaller book and to use much less hash table space by
5579 default (8 MB transposition table, 0.5 MB pawn evaluation table). The
5580 large book included with 4.2.4 made the WinBoard download too big for
5581 some people, and the default hash tables were larger than the
5582 available physical memory on some people's computers. I built the
5583 small book by running Crafty's "small.zip" book line collection
5584 through a Perl script that makes it look enough like real PGN games
5585 that the GNU Chess book builder will accept it. The script and some
5586 minor patches to GNU Chess 5 are available in the WinBoard source
5587 distribution and at http://www.tim-mann.org/gnuchess.html.
5589 * Fixed a bug in the code that deals with engines that complain that
5590 "time" and "otim" are illegal moves. This was a new bug in 4.2.4.
5592 * Revamped the implementation of ToStart in analysis mode. Formerly
5593 there was some ill-conceived code that would try to get back to the
5594 start of the game by doing a "new" command (and all the followup
5595 commands that requires) while remaining in analysis mode. This is
5596 problematic for engine authors to support, though it works with
5597 Crafty. This code was trying to solve the problem of ToStart being
5598 slow because the engine would try to start an analysis after every
5599 "undo" command all the way back to the start. But ToEnd already had a
5600 much better solution to this problem, and now ToStart does the same
5601 thing: we exit from analysis mode and enter force mode instead,
5602 make/unmake moves to get to the end/start of the game, and then
5603 reenter analysis mode.
5605 * Formerly, Zippy could try to start playing a game before the engine
5606 was initialized; that is, during the initial timeout for protover 1
5607 engines, or before "feature done=1" for protover 2 engines. We now
5608 wait until the engine is initialized before connecting to ICS, which
5609 fixes this in the common case. If you turn off engine reuse for
5610 multiple games (that is, if you give the -xreuse option), there could
5611 still be problems; see item 503 in the ToDo file. Thanks to Dieter
5612 Buerssner for the bug report.
5614 * Bugfix: All WinBoard versions since the merge with WinBoard Plus
5615 (but not xboard) have had a bug in changing the PeriodicUpdates,
5616 PonderNextMove, and ShowThinking options from the menu. The bug
5617 mostly just caused changing these options during a game to not take
5618 effect until after the next reset. For TwoMachines games, though,
5619 changing PonderNextMove just before the game would take effect
5620 immediately for the second engine but not until the next game for the
5621 first engine. Thanks to Koundinya Veluri for the bug report.
5623 * Bugfix: In 4.2.4, we sometimes got confused when trying to leave and
5624 reenter analyze mode. One symptom was that Analyze File did not work.
5625 Thanks to Igor Syry for the bug report.
5627 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.4 -- Sun Dec 9 14:56:30 PST 2001
5630 * WinBoard now includes GNU Chess 5.02 in place of GNU Chess 5.00.
5632 * WinBoard's PasteGameFromClipboard will now handle a paste with
5633 multiple games in it, popping up the game list dialog. xboard
5634 already did this. Suggested by Robert Gerstman.
5636 * We now use the "clearboard" command on ICC where appropriate.
5638 * Bugfix: don't generate a bogus "variant normal" command to an engine
5639 for the loadable ICC wild types that we internally flag as
5640 VariantLoadable. Also clarified the message that Zippy sends when
5641 declining such wild games -- it can't deal with the possibility of
5642 loading an arbitrary position into the game. Thanks to Dieter
5643 Buerssner for reporting the problem. It would be nice to be able to
5644 actually play these wild types some day; presumably there would have
5645 to be an option to either send "loadgame" with a specified position,
5646 or to deal with an opponent sending it.
5648 * If we get a holdings message from ICS when we thought we were
5649 playing normal chess, we now try asking for a move list so that we can
5650 find out from the header what's really happening. Formerly we guessed
5651 bughouse in this case. Response to a comment from Gian-Carlo
5654 * Fixed two longstanding bugs in the clock code. These affected only
5655 play between a user and a local engine, or between two local engines,
5656 not ICS play. (1) The last fractional second used by a player before
5657 moving and virtually pushing his clock was being charged to his
5658 opponent instead of to him. (2) The time and otim commands were being
5659 sent to an engine before the (buggy) fractional second update was
5660 done. The second bug was pretty harmless in itself, but the first one
5661 was serious. Many thanks to Peter Rosendahl for carefully diagnosing
5662 and reporting these bugs!
5664 * Changed WinBoard timestamp key. Nothing is changed other than the
5665 key and a recompilation. ICC may phase out the old key soon; if they
5666 do, you'll need to use the timestamp.exe from WinBoard 4.2.4 or later
5667 to connect to chessclub.com.
5669 * Fixed an xboard-only bug where most dialogs would not take keyboard
5670 input unless the mouse was actually over the dialog, even if the
5671 dialog window had focus. Thanks to Jason Varsoke for the bug report.
5673 * Bugfix; Remember to send time and otim commands to engine before
5674 sending playother. Thanks to Bob Hyatt for the bug report. Also
5675 fixed a bug where time and otim were sometimes sent even with feature
5678 * Added small patches from Wilkin Ng that are meant to fix a crash in
5679 CopyGameToClipboard and a "can't unlock clipboard memory" error in
5680 PasteTextFromClipboard, under Windows 2000.
5682 * Changed cygwin.mak to not use -mno-cygwin. In other words, it now
5683 uses cygwin1.dll instead of the mingw libraries. This works around
5684 bugs in fileno() and stat() that I encountered in mingw. (fileno
5685 seems to always return 0. stat fails because the library routine uses
5686 a different definition of struct stat than the header files provide.)
5687 Thanks to Robert Gerstman for reporting the symptoms these bugs caused
5688 when WinBoard was compiled with Cygwin.
5690 * Added -showButtonBar option. This lets you delete the << < P > >>
5691 buttons and thus widen the message widget a bit.
5693 * Added code to address a very obscure bug. If an engine dies and
5694 needs to be restarted while in one of the analyze modes, it was not
5695 getting put back into analyze mode. This bug should not really ever
5696 have gotten tickled unless reuse was turned off and the engine sends
5697 game end commands (such as 1-0) when a game ends by rule while in
5698 analyze mode. The next version of the protocol spec will say that
5699 engines should not do that, but version 2 and earlier didn't address
5702 * We now use the FICS "iset ms 1" feature to get times in ms instead
5703 of seconds. Thanks to DAV for email telling me about this feature.
5705 * Changed clock display to show tenths of seconds for 9.9 seconds and
5706 less, instead of 0.9 seconds and less as before.
5708 * It has been discovered that Zippy can play simuls on ICC (but not on
5709 FICS). If you arrange for Zippy to send the ICC command "simulize" in
5710 the -zippyGameStart string, it will accept additional games while
5711 playing. Zippy will use the same engine for every game, so whenever
5712 it switches opponents, the engine's state will be reset with the "new"
5713 command. This will of course weaken its play, so don't enable simuls
5714 if you want your engine to have the highest possible rating. Zippy
5715 was never designed to work with simuls; it just works by accident, and
5716 it hasn't been tested much. So please report any bugs you notice, but
5717 don't expect them to be fixed rapidly. Thanks to Paul McGuire for
5718 noticing that this works.
5720 * Bugfix: Suppress the direct command to engine popup if there is no
5721 engine. In WinBoard this case used to cause a crash. Thanks to
5722 "Dargon" for the bug report.
5724 * Bugfix: formerly we did part of the engine initialization for the
5725 very first game too soon, before feature negotiation. One result of
5726 this is that engines would never get the "ics" command for the first
5729 * Lengthened timeout to detect protocol version 1 chess engines to 10
5730 seconds. This should reduce problems with protocol version 2 engines
5731 that are slow to initialize missing the timeout and not getting a
5732 chance to send their feature commands before the first game starts.
5734 * Klaus Friedel says that adding a short sleep to WinBoard after
5735 starting a new chess engine solves a problem that occurs under Windows
5736 2000, in which engines sometimes don't see the initial command(s) from
5737 WinBoard and hang. I don't understand how that can happen, but the
5738 sleep is harmless, so I've put it in. Others have also reported what
5739 may be the same problem, so hopefully this will fix it for them too.
5741 * Bugfix: editing the Result field in EditTags will no longer cause a
5742 later crash. Thanks to DAV for a clear bug report that let me
5743 reproduce the problem.
5745 * ICC wild 28 is now recognized as shatranj, but it is not supported.
5746 You might be able to play it by turning off Test Legality.
5748 * Formerly we would always turn off "feature time" if the engine
5749 printed an error message with the string "time" or "otim" in it; now
5750 we do that only if the message comes before the engine makes its first
5751 move. This change is useful because some engines spew a lot of bogus
5752 error messages about commands they don't fully parse, so something
5753 like "result 0-1 {White lost on time}" could generate such a message.
5754 Engines shouldn't do that, but if they do, mysteriously turning off
5755 "feature time" is not a good way to react.
5757 * Fixed an infrequently occurring Zippy bug: formerly, resuming from
5758 adjournment by position (that is, with GetMoveList turned off) or
5759 starting/resuming a wild game (nonstandard starting position) would
5760 try to set up the position without putting the engine into force mode
5761 first. That was probably tolerated by most engines, but if the
5762 position was black-to-play and the engine hadn't set feature
5763 setboard=1, then the fake "a2a3" move (which we use as a kludge to get
5764 black to be on move before sending the edit command) would appear to
5765 be a real move, and the engine might reply to it! This bug could also
5766 be seen when trying to use Zippy to play a simul -- something that
5767 Zippy was never designed to support, but which seems to mostly work
5768 anyway. Thanks to Paul McGuire for sending a WinBoard.debug file that
5769 showed the bug occurring. Some other cases of resuming adjournments
5770 or starting games from nonstandard positions may have been broken too;
5771 I think I've straightened out the problems.
5773 * Agreeing to a draw in the human vs. local engine case formerly did
5774 not work if the human offered first; now it does. A human's
5775 unsolicited offer is considered valid until he makes another move.
5776 Thanks to Bruce Moreland for the bug report.
5778 * Bugfix: We used to look for just "fr" in Event tags or strings from
5779 ICSes to recognize Fischer Random games. This caused a lot of false
5780 matches. Now we look for "wild/fr" instead, which is what FICS uses.
5782 * Bugfix: Clicking on a move in the MoveList window only updated the
5783 displayed position; if a chess engine was active, its state was not
5784 updated. Thanks to Alejandro Dubrovsky for the bug report.
5786 * Bugfix: The "resign" command from engine to xboard formerly did not
5787 work in ICS (Zippy) mode.
5789 * Bugfix: Formerly we would register a garbage premove if the user
5790 clicked on a piece, then clicked on an edge or outside the board. Now
5791 such an errant click is ignored.
5793 * Bugfix: GameEnds would send "exit" to an engine in analyze mode even
5794 if we did not actually want to leave analyze mode.
5796 * Bugfix: "feature pause" was being rejected. We don't currently use
5797 it, but that is no reason to reject it. Thanks to Gian-Carlo Pascutto
5800 * Bugfix: when "partner" needed to be sent both to ICS and the engine,
5801 Zippy was erroneously sending the ICS prefix character to the engine
5802 too. Thanks to Gian-Carlo Pascutto for the bug report.
5804 * Zippy now declines challenges when the engine is not yet ready to
5805 play again, instead of ignoring them. This is needed so that the
5806 server will let the opponent repeat the challenge. It might be better
5807 to remember such challenges and accept them when the engine is ready,
5808 but that would be a bit more complicated to implement.
5810 * Bugfix: Zippy's emotes didn't work on FICS because there, "i" is a
5811 built-in alias for "it", not a real command. So sending "$i foo" gave
5812 an error message instead of doing "it foo". We now leave out the
5813 alias-suppressing prefix for emotes.
5815 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.3 -- Mon Feb 19 19:55:05 PST 2001
5818 * Bugfix: The error message "Variant X not supported by gnuchessx"
5819 formerly could pop up even in -ncp mode.
5821 * Fixed an xboard bug in premove highlighting. If you had
5822 HighlightLastMove turned on, premoves got highlighted in
5823 highlightSquareColor (yellow) instead of premoveHighlightColor (red).
5825 * Modified premove again. Now we are back to displaying the move
5826 locally immediately after sending it to the server, as in versions
5827 prior to 4.2.1. This is good because it lets you register your next
5828 premove sooner. As a better fix to the problem that the change in
5829 4.2.1 had been trying to address, we now suppress animating the
5830 opponent's move if you have a premove reply pending. However, it's
5831 probably still a good idea for you to turn off AnimateMoves entirely
5832 if you are trying to play extremely fast games.
5834 * Removed an erroneous patch that left zombie chess engines around
5835 when both sigterm and reuse were turned off. (Bug was in xboard only,
5838 * Bugfix: loading a game with autostepping did not work for games with
5839 PGN result "*" (unfinished). This bug was introduced in 4.1.0, caused
5840 by some outdated code that was supposed to leave you in EditGame mode
5841 after loading an unfinished game. I fixed this, and also changed it
5842 to leave you in EditGame mode after loading *any* game, but without
5843 changing the tags to say it's an edited game. It's not really clear
5844 whether that is the best thing is to do here -- ideally, perhaps, the
5845 tags should change to say "edited game" if you actually make any
5846 changes, but that is harder to make work.
5848 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.2 -- Tue Feb 6 20:00:00 PST 2001
5851 * Fixed a problem introduced in 4.2.1. In -zippyPlay mode, 4.2.1
5852 started sending the initString immediately after the old game ended,
5853 but then when the next game started, it would still send "force" and
5854 another initString. Another problem was that the first initString put
5855 the engine out of sync with the displayed board position, though that
5856 might not usually have been noticeable. This is now changed to do a
5857 full Reset at the end of the previous game, and avoid doing a Reset at
5858 the start of a new game if we are still in BeginningOfGame mode.
5860 * Fixed some limitations in -zippyPlay mode. The engine was not being
5861 fed the moves or history of games that were displayed but not being
5862 played, so it would get confused if you tried to do something like
5863 examine a game, then enter EditGame mode from somewhere in the middle
5866 * Made a small change so that cygwin can compile xboard for Windows
5867 (an X server is required to run it). Thanks to Volker Zell. Most
5868 people would probably prefer to run WinBoard on Windows, however; note
5869 that cygwin could already compile WinBoard.
5871 * Added some missing documentation to engine-intf.html: It is okay to
5872 send "feature done=0" even before you receive the xboard and protover
5873 commands, if this is needed to give your engine enough time to
5874 initialize. See engine-intf.html for more discussion.
5876 * Bugfix: "feature done=0" did not work for the second engine; now it does.
5878 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.1 -- Sat Feb 3 19:52:26 PST 2001
5881 * Bugfix: in Zippy mode with feature san=1, the elapsed time was being
5882 sent to the engine after the SAN move; for example, "e4 (0:01)" was
5883 sent instead of just "e4".
5885 * It seems that scroll wheel mice with incompletely installed software
5886 (under Windows 95, at least) can send repeated middle button up events
5887 when the wheel is turned. Moved QuickPaste from middle button up to
5888 middle button down to avoid problems with this.
5890 * A premove is now sent *before* the opponent's move that it replies
5891 to is animated. The premove itself is no longer displayed (or
5892 animated) when sent; instead, it is displayed when the chess server
5893 echoes it back as a board update.
5895 * Bug fix: in -xreuse mode, xboard was only sending command line
5896 arguments to the engine the first time it was started. (WinBoard
5897 didn't have this bug.)
5899 * In -zippyPlay mode, we now initialize the chess engine for a new
5900 game immediately after the old game ends. (In -xreuse mode, this
5901 means starting a new engine process; in the default -reuse mode, it
5902 just means sending "new".) If the engine supports ping, we don't
5903 accept challenges until the "new" has finished. This should help
5904 avoid losing time (re)initializing the engine after the game starts.
5906 * We now handle the new FICS field in style 12 that says whether the
5909 * whiteFlag and blackFlag are now reset whenever an ICS board image
5910 arrives, giving autoflag a fresh chance to work.
5912 * Suppressed "geometry error" debug messages unless -debug flag is given.
5914 * Bugfix: avoid core dump on Solaris with -debug flag, caused by
5915 passing NULL to a %s format in GameEnds.
5917 * Added -firstProtocolVersion and -secondProtocolVersion. This will
5918 allow use of extremely broken engines that hang or die when given the
5919 "protover 2" command. It should be rarely if ever needed.
5921 * Zippy now strips highlights from player names in the Creating
5922 message; previously the ratings would not be extracted from this
5923 message properly if you had set the highlight variable.
5925 * Bug fix: Zippy with -zp but not -zt used to be fooled by false
5926 partner tells inside channel tells; e.g.:
5927 Garf(24): Garf (your partner) tells you: sit
5929 * Bug fix: when an engine reported its name with the new "feature
5930 myname=" command, we had been putting just that name into the window
5931 title even when in TwoMachines mode.
5933 * By default, WinBoard no longer uses the new feature introduced in
5934 4.2.0beta of keeping the ICS menu, ICS server list, and lists of chess
5935 engine command lines in separate files; instead, the lists are back in
5936 the winboard.ini file. This gets rid of some problems where the
5937 separate files could not be opened because the working directory was
5938 not set to WinBoard's installation directory.
5940 * WinBoard command lines and ini files now have another optional
5941 syntax for quoting an option value. All characters within { } curly
5942 braces are interpreted literally except for '}' itself. SaveSettings
5943 now uses this syntax for string values that contain a backslash or
5944 newline and do not contain a '}'. This should address the problem
5945 that the separate .ini files had been meant to fix; engine command
5946 line lists can now be written without \-escapes.
5948 * Fixed three bugs in relaying moves between engines in TwoMachines
5949 mode: an engine would be sent SAN if the *other* engine had set
5950 feature san=1, a relayed SAN move did not end with a newline, and
5951 feature usermove was not implemented for relayed moves.
5953 * Fixed several bugs in exiting: File/Exit would sometimes hang;
5954 timestamp/timeseal would not get killed off; an engine crash would
5955 cause error messages to be printed recursively until stack overflow.
5957 * Fixed a bug in the code to detect which ICS is in use and adapt to
5958 it; the chess.net case was broken.
5960 * Removed the leading alias-suppression character when sending a move
5961 to ICS, because it seemed to break accuclock on chess.net.
5963 * Fixed a bug where a FICS prompt like "10:01_fics%" would be matched
5964 as finger note number 10, causing a problem detecting when the user is
5967 * Added tellicsnoalias command to protocol.
5969 * Changed st command in protocol back to old behavior.
5971 * Added done=0 feature to protocol, to lengthen initial timeout.
5973 * Added missing -colorSeek command line option to xboard. (Was
5974 present in WinBoard.)
5976 * Bug fix: setting feature reuse=0 was not working.
5978 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.0beta -- Sat Dec 16 16:34:56 PST 2000
5981 * Setting -searchTime no longer turns off -clockMode. Note that when
5982 -searchTime is set, some engines may search for the lesser of
5983 searchTime and the amount of time their normal clock management would
5984 dictate, while others will disable their normal clock management and
5985 always search for exactly searchTime.
5987 * Fixed WinBoard bug where on Windows 2000 (and maybe Windows 98) the
5988 ICS Interaction window would scroll back to the top whenever it filled
5989 to capacity and WinBoard trimmed some text off the top.
5991 * Changed xboard dragging so that the center of the dragged piece is
5992 forced to be over the mouse cursor. (WinBoard dragging already worked
5993 that way.) This should avoid confusing cases when you start a drag
5994 with the mouse near the edge of a square -- formerly most or all of
5995 the piece could be over one square but the mouse cursor over another.
5998 * Added move list window for xboard. Code contributed by Manuel
5999 Hoelss and re-hacked a bit by me. Performance of this window is poor,
6000 because the implementation regenerates the entire window contents
6001 whenever anything changes. It's hard to avoid this when using the
6002 Athena List widget, though we could be a little smarter and notice
6003 when the current move number has changed but the move list has not.
6004 There are also several drawing problems caused by bugs in the Athena
6005 Form and List widgets. The window should not really allow a
6006 horizontal scroll bar, but the bugs are much worse if I turn it off.
6007 In both Xaw and Xaw3d, the List widget tries to resize itself when
6008 XawListChange is called, even if you tell it not to; and what's worse,
6009 if the widget cannot resize itself to be large enough to avoid
6010 clipping any of the list item, it does not change the list! Arrgh.
6011 On top of that, the Xaw Form widget is very buggy in XFree86 4.0.1
6014 * The OK button in the WinBoard startup dialog is now simply disabled
6015 if none of the radio buttons is selected, instead of bringing up an
6016 error dialog. Suggested by Ted Milbaugh.
6018 * Used ping to address the worst of the race conditions in the
6019 protocol. Now if an engine supports ping, we ping it after sending
6020 the "new" command and after trying to place it in force mode at the
6021 end of a game. When a ping has been sent and the corresponding pong
6022 has not yet come back, we (1) ignore or undo any moves the engine
6023 sends, (2) ignore game end messages (such as "offer draw", etc.) from
6024 the engine, (3) ignore thinking output from the engine, (4) delay
6025 starting the next game if in -matchGames mode, (5) in -zippyPlay mode,
6026 respond to challenges with a polite message to try again soon instead
6027 of accepting them. There are a few more things that should be done
6028 (and item 5 might not be quite what we want), but it's hard to fit
6029 them all into the existing code.
6031 * Patched the version of GNU Chess 5.00 included with WinBoard to
6032 support protover, feature, setboard, and ping, and to fix some minor
6033 bugs. See gnu500+.patch.
6035 * Changed the GNU Chess 4 kludges for missing "st" and "sd" commands
6036 to be invoked only if the engine gives an error message for "st" or
6037 "sd", and to always use protocol commands instead of engine
6038 command-line options. See "Idioms" in engine-intf.html.
6040 * Added new protocol command "protover 2" to tell the engine what
6041 version of the protocol is in use. Version 2 is still compatible with
6042 old engines; see engine-intf.html.
6044 * Add new protocol command "feature ..." The engine can send this in
6045 response to the protover command command, to say what extended
6046 protocol features it would like to enable, etc. xboard responds
6047 "accepted F" or "rejected F" for each feature F that is set. See
6050 * Added new protocol command "setboard <fen>". This is an alternative
6051 to "edit", used only if the engine says "feature setboard=1".
6053 * Added new protocol command "ping <msg>". The engine is supposed to
6054 respond "pong <msg>". This gives us a tool to fix some race
6055 conditions in the protocol, but it is not used to the fullest yet.
6057 * Added new protocol command "tellopponent". This will do a "say" if
6058 you're on a chess server in Zippy mode, or pop up an information
6061 * Added new protocol command "tellall". This will do a "kibitz" if
6062 you're on a chess server in Zippy mode, or pop up an information
6065 * Added new protocol command "tellothers". This will do a "whisper" if
6066 you're on a chess server in Zippy mode, or do nothing otherwise.
6068 * Changed the WinBoard /icsNames, /icsMenu, /firstChessProgramNames,
6069 and /secondChessProgramNames options to accept a filename preceded by
6070 "@", meaning to find the value in the file. Changed the defaults to
6071 use this feature, with filenames icsnames.ini, icsmenu.ini, fcp.ini,
6072 and scp.ini. This should make it easier for users to edit the values,
6073 since one less level of quoting is needed, and each value is in its
6074 own file, not mixed into winboard.ini. Those who upgrade from an
6075 older winboard version and already have a winboard.ini file will not
6076 automatically have these values moved to a file; that has to be done
6079 * We now strip .exe from engine names for "name" command, tags, etc.
6081 * Allowed WinBoard input widget to hold more than one line. You can get
6082 a newline into the widget with copy/paste or with Ctrl+Enter.
6084 * Fixed an xboard bug where the [P] button would appear in the
6085 opposite highlight state from what it should be after being pressed.
6087 * We now use the "/" or "$" alias suppression feature on the chess
6088 servers, to avoid problems if the user inadvertently aliases a
6089 needed command to something else.
6091 * Changed the method used to deiconize xboard in AutoRaise and cmail.
6092 This may fix bugs under some window managers where after
6093 deiconization, the board window was mapped but nothing was drawn
6096 * Preliminary, partial support for playing several chess variants
6097 against a local engine or editing variant games. The -variant option
6098 must be given on the command line or WinBoard startup dialog; there is
6099 no menu. The current variant is not displayed (except in the
6100 Tags/EditTags window). Many variants will not work quite right even
6101 if the engine supports them; see item 326 in the ToDo file for
6104 * Added a workaround to detect the variant type when examining a
6105 scratch wild game on an ICS.
6107 * Fixed two cases where "variant" command should be sent to the engine
6108 when necessary but was not: loading a game from a file and restarting
6109 a dead engine. Thanks to Gian-Carlo Pascutto.
6111 * Added missing support for FICS games that start from a bsetup position
6112 with Black moving first.
6114 * Fixed a bug in loading a file from the game list window while in
6115 Analysis or AnalyzeFile mode. This now leaves us in AnalyzeFile
6116 mode, analyzing the new file.
6118 * Fixed a bug in loading games with a comment before the first move.
6120 * Fixed a bug in handling LoadGame (or -lgf) with -td 0.
6122 * Added a command line option to select an initial minor mode from the
6123 Mode menu. This should satisfy requests from a couple of users with
6124 special applications.
6126 * Fixed a problem where some things in WinBoard's General Options
6127 dialog box were grayed out at the wrong time.
6129 * We look for a few messages from the chess engine pipe that are
6130 intended to catch problems starting an engine via rsh, such as "No
6131 such file". Moved code so that these strings won't match until other
6132 protocol messages have been looked for, and documented the messages in
6135 * Fixed the WinBoard bug that sometimes made the console input box
6136 white-on-white even when not in password-entry mode.
6138 * Small changes to WinBoard to be compilable with the latest Cygwin
6139 net release (as of 10-16-2000). Thanks to Mark Schoenberg.
6141 * Recompiled GNU Chess 5.0 for WinBoard with the latest Cygwin net
6142 release (as of 10-16-2000). Also rebuilt the book just to be sure,
6143 since I had one bug report about it. It came out identical and seems
6146 * Added messages for some common InstallShield errors instead of just
6147 printing InstallShield's stupid error code numbers.
6149 * Added -firstComputerString and -secondComputerString, allowing you
6150 to suppress or change the command that is sent to a chess engine when
6151 its opponent is another computer.
6153 * Added "configure --with-Xaw3d" to allow use of Xaw3d widgets instead
6154 of Xaw widgets in xboard. Thanks to Johnny C. Lam of the NetBSD
6155 project. I've left Xaw as the default because Xaw3d is too ugly.
6157 * The version of the Xaw Form widget released in XFree86 4.0.1
6158 (X11R6.4.3) has a bug that causes xboard to display the button bar
6159 on top of the message widget. I've reported the bug and have
6160 installed a kludge workaround into xboard.
6162 xboard/WinBoard 4.1.0 -- Sun Sep 17 17:30:14 PDT 2000
6165 * Merged Winboard Plus 4.0.8 from Mark Williams into xboard
6166 source pool. Status of Winboard Plus features in xboard:
6168 - White pieces now have borders, but the implementation is
6169 completely different from WinBoard's; see below.
6171 - Options menu not changed, probably won't be.
6173 - Copy&paste support working, using Mark's changes to backend.c, Ben
6174 Nye's changes to xboard.c for FEN positions, and some code of my
6175 own in xboard.c for PGN games.
6177 - Premove hooked up and working. No pre-first-move, though.
6179 - ICS Alarm hooked up and working.
6181 - Auto-flip working.
6183 - PGN Training mode hooked up and working.
6185 - Improved menu item enable/disable working.
6187 - Improved >> button working.
6189 - Auto activate board working. I changed this to be optional; you
6190 might not always want it, especially in Zippy mode.
6192 - Blindfold working.
6194 - Documentation updated.
6196 * Fixed more colorization bugs. Commands like "message foo tells you:
6197 xxx" and "tell 33 tells you: xxx" will no longer generate bogus
6200 * Added low-tech sound support to xboard, by invoking an external
6201 program on a filename for each sound to be played.
6203 * ICC wild 27 is now recognized as VariantAtomic, and it sets the
6204 "ignore check" flag, but is not otherwise supported.
6206 * Converted the piece bitmaps from .bm to .xpm for use with xboard's
6207 xpm support. (An .xim version was not created.) Wrote a shell script
6208 using ImageMagick to do the conversion and to bucket fill from
6209 coordinate 0,0 with the background color. Used xpaint by hand to
6210 clean up a few pieces where background color "leaked" into the inside
6211 or didn't flow all the way around the outside, then a sed script to
6212 fix up color names and bitmap names in the xpaint output. If any more
6213 sizes are added later, they should be straightforward to convert with
6214 reference to the existing scripts. With this conversion, not only do
6215 the white pieces now have dark borders, but (unlike with WinBoard) the
6216 light details on the black pieces are opaque.
6218 * If the XPM library is found when building xboard, the new xpm pieces
6219 are compiled in as the default. External bitmap (or xpm) pieces can
6220 still be used by giving the -bitmapDirectory (or -xpmDirectory)
6221 option. If the XPM library is not found, the old bitmap pieces are
6222 the default. In this case external bitmap (or xim) pieces can be used
6223 by giving the -bitmapDirectory (or -xpmDirectory) option. There is no
6224 way to compile in xim pieces.
6226 Winboard Plus 4.0.8 -- Sat Aug 5 15:51 PDT 2000
6231 * Main menu now visible in Win NT. Thanks to Microsoft for creating a
6232 compiler which auto-mutilates the WinBoard.rc file so that the menu is
6233 displayed under Win 98 but not Win NT. I fixed the problem by hand editing the
6236 * "Reset game" now works properly when invoked from Analysis mode when two
6237 engines are present. Correction of bug introduced in Winboard Plus. Thanks to
6238 Mogens Larsen for reporting the bug.
6240 * Pasting a FEN position with Black to move now works in all modes.
6241 Thanks to Mogens Larsen for reporting the bug.
6243 * Added gnuchess.dat to the distribution and a couple of text files that were
6246 *** Merged in the following changes from Tim Mann:
6248 * Bugfix: Highlights would sometimes not be taken down, at least in
6249 xboard. The problem is that SetHighlight works in chess coordinates,
6250 not view coordinates, so if flipView has been toggled since the
6251 highlight was put up, it gets taken down from the wrong square. Fixed
6252 by being careful to call ClearHighlights before toggling flipView, not
6255 * Bugfix: HighlightLastMove would sometimes highlight square a1 after
6256 a FICS "tomove black" command.
6258 * Bugfix: a move list with initial position that has black to play was
6259 not being handled correctly.
6261 * Removed "decline abort" and "decline adjourn" commands from Zippy.
6262 The syntax is changing on FICS, and Zippy really doesn't have to
6263 explicitly decline the requests anyway; it's sufficient to not accept
6266 * ICC wild 26 is now recognized as VariantSuicide (the FICS name; ICC
6267 calls it "giveaway").
6269 * Bugfix: PGN games with black to move in the initial position weren't
6270 being legality checked correctly. I think this was introduced in
6271 4.0.6 when I fixed a different PGN bug. Thanks to Mark Williams for
6272 spotting the bug and suggesting a fix.
6274 * Bugfix: the initial "name(" of a kibitz wasn't being colorized.
6276 Winboard Plus 4.0.7 -- Thu May 12 17:57 PDT 2000
6279 * New white pieces with black borders.
6281 * Major overhaul to Options menu. New dialogs for setting General Options,
6282 Board Options, ICS Options, Sounds, Fonts, Colors.
6284 * Clipboard support for PGN game scores and FEN positions.
6286 * Optional ICS Premove with user-specified first moves for White and Black.
6288 * New sound events: ICS Win, ICS Loss, ICS Draw, ICS Unfinished, ICS Alarm.
6290 * New auto-flip option when playing against a chess program.
6292 * Added PGN Training mode.
6294 * Certain menu options now disabled while program is thinking.
6296 * ">>" button now always goes to the end of the game.
6298 * In ICS mode, the board is automatically activated at the start of a
6301 4.0.7 -- Sun Mar 5 17:17:49 PST 2000 Tim Mann
6303 * Fixed a nasty bug in parsing ICS game histories that was introduced
6306 4.0.6 -- Fri Mar 3 16:20:11 PST 2000 Tim Mann
6308 * Fixed bugs in Zippy's code for responding to messages sent with the
6309 ICS "message" command.
6311 * Fixed bugs where xboard could still create dialogs partially off the
6312 top of the screen. Fixed unwanted interactions between initial sizes
6313 and positions of various unrelated xboard dialogs. Deleted
6314 borderXoffset and borderYoffset resources.
6316 * Fixed restoring the xterm name on exit to work in more cases.
6318 * Small fix to the WinBoard self-extracting installer: when it starts
6319 up, it now always deletes any old wb-setup directory left over from a
6320 previous installation. Formerly this worked only on Windows 95/98, so
6321 on NT the self-extractor would sometimes stop and ask the user whether
6322 it was OK to overwrite the old wb-setup files.
6324 * Modified WinBoard to be compilable with the free Cygwin tools
6325 available from http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/. Based on work by
6326 Mark Schoenberg. (His mods were enough to get WinBoard through the
6327 compiler, but a few things were broken along the way, so I reworked them.)
6329 * Merged changes from Don Fong to make WinBoard compilable with
6330 Borland C++ 4.5. I do not have Borland C++ and am unable to test with
6331 it, but I did make sure the changes don't stop it working with MSVC++
6334 * Forbade entering TwoMachines mode from MachineWhite or MachineBlack
6335 mode when machine is on move. This used to confuse the engine and
6336 cause problems, because when we try to get the engine to stop, it
6337 might make a move first, and it might not do that immediately.
6339 * Variant classification now deals with new ICC wild 25, classifying
6340 it as "3check". Also, we are now conservative about new wild numbers
6341 we don't know about, classifying them as "unknown" instead of
6344 * Replaced bad GNU Chess 5.00 book in WinBoard distribution with a
6345 correct one. 1.e4 now no longer takes GNU Chess 5.00 out of book!
6346 Thanks to Pete Galati.
6348 * Made move parser accept and ignore nonstandard ep suffix on PGN moves,
6349 e.g., "exf6ep" or "exf6e.p."
6351 * Fixed bugs in parsing PGN files starting with no move number, or
6352 with a move number other than "1." (including "1..."). Thanks to
6353 Michael Soulier and Stefan Zipproth for example PGN files
6354 demonstrating the bugs.
6356 * Changed InitComboStringsFromString to not modify the input string;
6357 this caused an exception when WinBoard was compiled with MSVC++ 6.
6358 Thanks to Bert Tuyt for the report.
6360 * In WinBoard, dragging a piece off the edge of the board without
6361 releasing the mouse button no longer instantly aborts the move. You
6362 still must release the mouse button inside a square to complete a
6363 move, but you can now drag off the edge and come back inside.
6365 * WinBoard bugfix: If you went into EditGame or EditPosition mode
6366 while observing or playing an ICS game, and a new move came in
6367 (snapping you back to ICSClient mode) while you were dragging a piece
6368 around, the drag state would not be reset, causing the piece you were
6369 dragging to remain on the board wherever you dropped it. Thanks to
6370 David Brinegar for the bug report.
6372 * WinBoard bugfix: If you moved or resized the board while your
6373 opponent was moving, and you had AnimateMoving on, his move would not
6374 be displayed until after your next move. Thanks to DAV for reporting
6375 the bug repeatedly until I finally understood it.
6377 * Added a Zippy "farewell" feature; see zippy.README.
6379 * Fixed a bug (xboard only) in processing -zippyReplayTimeout on the
6380 command line. Thanks to Steve Beer for the report and patch.
6382 * Send "computer" command to both sides in TwoMachines matches.
6384 * Fixed a Y2K bug in Evan's cmail code! Thanks to Brian Mays for the
6387 * Bugfix: Initialize variant field of GameInfo struct in gameinfo.c.
6388 This could cause crashes in LoadGame. Thanks to Andrzej Nagorko.
6390 * Fixed several pattern matching problems: Finger notes and formula
6391 vars no longer get replied to by zippyTalk or colorized. Channel
6392 tells by players with many titles are now colorized fully, and
6393 zippyTalk handles channel tells by such players correctly. The shout
6394 "--> foo(99): bar" no longer gets colorized as a channel tell. Code
6395 is cleaned up a bit, and autocomment capture now uses the same
6396 criteria as colorization.
6398 * xboard fix: Enter key now closes error popups as in WinBoard.
6399 Especially nice for the "Exiting: Connection closed by ICS" popup.
6401 4.0.5 -- Tue Dec 7 10:30:40 PST 1999 Tim Mann
6403 * Added missing documentation of SIGTERM usage into engine-intf.html.
6405 * Bugfix: New -zippyReplayTimeout option was misspelled in WinBoard as
6406 -zippyReplyTimeout. Thanks to Francesco Di Tolla.
6408 * xboard -ics now restores the xterm's original title upon exit, at
6409 least if $WINDOWID is set.
6411 * Bugfix: -matchGames mode wasn't terminating properly. Final score
6412 popup would come up twice and engines would not be killed off. Thanks
6413 to Frank Quisinsky for the bug report. Bug was introduced in 4.0.4.
6415 * Bugfix: "tell 50 foo shouts: bar" no longer gets colored as a shout;
6416 similarly for "...s-shouts:" and "...c-shouts:". Thanks to David Lee
6419 4.0.4 -- Fri Dec 3 17:51:27 PST 1999 Tim Mann
6421 * Bug fix: formerly if you invoked SaveGame from EditPosition mode
6422 with black to play, the position was not saved properly. As a quick
6423 fix, SaveGame now takes you out of EditPosition mode before saving.
6425 * Changed -matchGames to keep track of the score (won-lost-drawn) and
6426 display it in the banner. The final score is displayed in a modal
6427 popup before the program exits.
6429 * Changed "Connection closed by ICS" to display in a model popup
6430 before the program exits.
6432 * Added -popupExitMessage option, default on. Setting this to false
6433 suppresses the modal popups that you sometimes get just before
6434 xboard/winboard exits -- both the two new ones listed above and the
6435 existing Fatal Error popup. This is useful when running Zippy
6436 unattended from a shell script (or .bat file) that loops and starts a
6437 new copy after a time delay when there is an error.
6439 * In xboard, added missing support for WM_DELETE_WINDOW to all
6440 windows. This makes xboard a better citizen, and is much needed with
6441 the newer X window managers that put an [X] button on every window and
6442 bind it to "kill application" if the applicationd does not support
6443 "delete window". We can't allow xboard to be thoughtlessly killed,
6444 since that leaves the chess engine running in the background.
6446 * We now avoid positioning tops of xboard dialog boxes offscreen.
6448 * zippy.lines can now use the caret ('^') character as an inter-saying
6449 separator. You no longer need to dig up a text editor that can put NUL
6450 ('\000') characters in text files.
6452 * Bugfix: In traditional chess clock mode, White now gets time added
6453 to its clock as soon as it makes time control. Previously both White
6454 and Black got their time added only when Black made time control,
6455 which would cause some engines to make their 41st move as White too
6456 quickly, thinking they were low on time.
6458 * The zippyAcceptOnly feature no longer sends a decline command or
6459 a tell. Thus you can use it to put Zippy into a manual accept mode.
6461 * Bugfix: "tell 50 foo tells you: bar" no longer gets colored as a
6462 personal tell; similarly for "...whispers:" and "...kibitzes:".
6464 * WinBoard no longer blanks the message line when you start a new
6465 move, unless there was an error message there from the previous move.
6467 * WinBoard now never puts the white piece drop menu on the middle
6468 mouse button. Both colors are always on the right button. Windows
6469 users often don't think to look for a middle button menu, or don't
6470 really have a working middle button despite what Windows says.
6472 * Guest login handles on ICC are now parsed again; an ICC wording
6473 change had broken this feature.
6475 * Autodetect when the engine does not support the "draw" command and
6476 don't relay the command to it in that case. Needed because sending an
6477 unsupported command to GNU Chess makes it move immediately, so people
6478 could make Zippy move without thinking by continually offering a draw.
6479 Thanks to Frank Walker for the problem report.
6481 * Small changes based on code from Robert Jurjevic: The WinBoard
6482 analysis window can be minimized (though not to the taskbar). The
6483 WinBoard ICS Interaction window will autoscroll if you drag the mouse
6484 above or below the window while selecting, and password entry mode
6485 leaves the entry line as the background color instead of using 75%
6486 gray. Seeks are now colorized with a new color of their own.
6488 * Added -zippyMaxGames feature.
6490 * -zippyNoplayCrafty command line option was missing in xboard; fixed.
6491 Thanks to John Perry.
6493 * Fixed bug in detecting when Zippy loses his bughouse partner.
6494 Thanks to Ben Dean-Kawamura.
6496 * allobs fix in 4.0.3 didn't work; corrected it.
6498 * WinBoard will now update the board immediately if a move is made
6499 while the window is being moved or resized.
6501 4.0.3 -- Sun Aug 15 18:44:39 PDT 1999 Tim Mann
6503 * Bugfix: moved winboard wizard functions that send a command directly
6504 to the chess engine from Ctrl+Alt+1 and Ctrl+Alt+2 to Alt+1 and Alt+2.
6505 Ctrl+Alt is equivalent to the European AltGr key, so the old assignments
6506 conflicted with typing an @-sign on some keyboards.
6508 * Bugfix: prevent "If this message stays up, your chess program does
6509 not support analysis" from appearing if AnalysisMode is selected when
6510 already in Analysis or AnalyzeFile mode. Also, deleting analysis window
6511 in WinBoard now switches you to EditGame mode, to avoid the anomaly of
6512 being in an analysis mode with no analysis window present.
6514 * Change all Zippy environment variables to work as command line
6515 options. For now they still work as environment variables too, but
6516 the environment variables are deprecated.
6518 * Use unsigned long to hold node counts from engines.
6520 * Print error instead of crashing on attempts to use xpm or xim pieces
6521 in monochrome mode. Thanks to Jim Torrance for the bug report.
6523 * Tightened pattern recognition for ICS messages sent to Zippy; should
6524 no longer match ICC allobs output. Fixed recognition of when Zippy is
6525 sent a message; small change to FICS output had broken it.
6527 * Zippy now exits if the engine dies unexpectedly.
6529 * Added Zippy "spoofedby" feature; see zippy.README.
6531 * Narrowed the margins on some older WinBoard dialogs to make their
6532 style uniform with the newer ones.
6534 * Bugfix: Changing Ponder Next Move from the Options menu did not take
6535 effect until the next game. This bug was in WinBoard only. Thanks to
6536 Stefan Zipproth for the bug report.
6538 * Got rid of "Internal error: bad move type" message when the engine
6539 makes a move that we can parse but think is illegal. Now the move is
6540 just passed on (which also may be the wrong thing to do).
6542 4.0.2 -- Thu Feb 25 19:55:32 PST 1999 Tim Mann
6544 * Added one more built-in sound choice to WinBoard: move.wav from Pete
6547 * Added new larger piece sizes: big, huge, giant, colossal, titanic.
6549 * Modified the xboard font searcher to be able to use scalable fonts.
6550 The new -fontSizeTolerance flag controls how closely a nonscalable
6551 font must match to be used in preference to a scalable font.
6553 * Zippy environment variables ZIPPYABORT and ZIPPYADJOURN now control
6554 whether Zippy will accept abort and adjourn requests.
6556 * We now determine the variant type being played on ICS, send it as a
6557 command "variant VARTYPE" to the chess engine (if in Zippy mode), and
6558 put it in the PGN tags. See engine-intf.txt for variant names. See
6559 ZIPPYVARIANTS in zippy.README to control what variants Zippy will
6560 accept. Note that this now applies to bughouse, too.
6562 * Zippy now won't do -zippyTalk in a channel unless his handle is
6565 * Zippy now ignores bughouse holdings if not actually playing, instead
6566 of stupidly trying to abort the game. Let me know if other strange
6567 things happen when Zippy is observing a game.
6569 * Set ICS Interaction title bar to "user@server". User name is
6570 determined by parsing message during the login sequence. Zippy now
6571 uses this method to get its name too, so ZIPPYNAME is eliminated.
6572 Problem: with xboard, the title bar gets set to "xterm" upon exit,
6573 since we didn't know what it was to start with.
6575 * Fixed xboard-only bug in -colorChannel1 command line option. Thanks
6576 to Fredrik Sandstrom for the bug report and fix.
6578 * Check for overflow of MAX_MOVES. Still not sure this is checked for
6579 everywhere it needs to be.
6581 * Added .epd to suffixes recognized by WinBoard as position files.
6582 This is a bit of a kludge, as the .fen reading code was not written
6583 with .epd files in mind, but reading them with it is said to work.
6585 * Added ZIPPYGAMESTART feature, suggested by Jason Hoblit. See
6588 * Restored the feature of soaking up the moves from a user-typed "moves",
6589 "oldmoves", or "smoves" ICS command when xboard/WinBoard is idle, but
6590 changed it so that the move list is also echoed to the screen. Some folks
6591 still liked the old feature since it is faster than examine mode, and
6592 printing the moves to the screen should eliminate the confusion it caused
6595 * Bugfix: in WinBoard, starting a click-click move and then clicking on
6596 a black line would cause the source square to be forgotten without taking
6597 the highlight down. Now the errant click is ignored.
6599 * Corrected shortcut key labels for LoadNext/PrevPosition in WinBoard's
6600 File menu. Thanks to Andreas Stabel for the bug report.
6602 * Bugfix: if you had a completely full ICS context menu in WinBoard
6603 (90 items), the last one would do nothing if selected.
6605 * The "computer" engine command added in 4.0.1 was not working; I had
6606 left out part of the code patch. Oops.
6608 4.0.1 -- Fri Feb 12 21:24:15 PST 1999 Tim Mann
6610 This is a minor bugfix release. The first item listed below is the
6611 only interesting new feature.
6613 * You can now type in moves from the keyboard in WinBoard. Either
6614 select TypeInMove from Step menu, or (if you are not in ICS mode),
6615 just start typing. In ICS mode you can type moves into the ICS
6616 interaction window anyway, so I've retained the feature that typing
6617 switches you there. Not implemented in xboard.
6619 * Removed the "noise 1000" command that used to be sent to the chess
6620 engine when entering analysis modes.
6622 * Deleted the feature where we soak up the output of a user-typed ICS
6623 "moves" or "oldmoves" command. This ancient feature is not really
6624 useful anymore, now that "examine" exists, and it caused a lot of
6627 * Increased maximum size of ICS text menu to 90 entries and added
6630 * The command sent to ICS by Zippy at the end of each game can now be
6631 customized with the ZIPPYGAMEEND environment variable.
6633 * We treat xboard.info as a pseudo-source since most people don't have
6634 the tools to rebuild it. But "make install" erroneously had a
6635 dependency on it, even though "make all" did not. Fixed.
6637 * Miscellaneous minor updates and clarifications to engine-intf.txt.
6638 In particular, documented the st and sd commands (support for command
6639 line options -searchTime and -searchDepth), warts and all.
6641 * Added a small code patch from Bob Hyatt to detect when Zippy's ICS
6642 opponent is a computer and send the command "computer" to the engine.
6643 Added this command to engine-intf.txt. Thanks, Bob.
6645 * Bugfix: configure was looking for usleep(), but config.h.in didn't
6646 have an entry for it, so HAVE_USLEEP was never defined. Also, in the
6647 non-HAVE_USLEEP case, there was a possible race condition between the
6648 signal handler and the pause() call. Thanks to Ben Dean-Kawamura for
6651 * Bugfix: a "1..." preceding Black's first move (usually present if
6652 there is a comment on White's first move) would cause the parser
6653 to think a new game started there and report "End of game" on the
6654 current game. Thanks to Dell Garner for the bug report.
6656 * Changed the abbreviation for -searchDepth from -sd to -depth to fix
6657 a clash with -secondDirectory.
6659 * Changed -searchDepth to be orthogonal to the various timing options.
6660 Previously it would search for an unlimited time to the given depth;
6661 now the engine is allowed to choose its search time in the normal way,
6662 but is told to cut off the search early if it reaches the given depth.
6664 * Bugfix: SaveSettings in WinBoard was saving both the long form
6665 option highlightSquareColor and its abbreviation (hsc).
6667 * Fixed a redisplay bug in DisplayBothClocks that could cause White's
6668 clock to be highlighted in EditPosition mode when Black's should have been.
6670 * Fixed Zippy's feature of passing on draw offers from the ICS opponent.
6671 The colorization code was eating the offer before Zippy saw it, so I disabled
6672 colorization of offers while in -zp or -zt mode. (Other types of
6673 colorization are already disabled in Zippy mode for similar reasons.)
6675 * Added some more commands to the default ICS context menu in WinBoard,
6676 and put "(name)" on the ones that insert a playername (or game number).
6678 * Added missing documentation to WinBoard help file: PonderNextMove, the
6679 -ponder/-xponder argument, and the up/down arrow history feature in the
6680 ICS Interaction window.
6682 * Fixed ZIPPYNOPLAYCRAFTY feature to fire only if the opponent is Crafty,
6683 not if some other Crafty is observing the game and kibitzes.
6685 * Fixed bugs in generating "partner" commands when Zippy is playing
6688 4.0.0 -- Sat Jun 20 16:59:47 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
6690 * Fixed WinBoard resizing so that the edges you do not drag remain in
6691 place, even when the final size is different from what you dragged to.
6692 (This doesn't work on NT 3.51 or earlier, if anyone cares.)
6694 * Fixed problems with resizing WinBoard on Windows NT: you no longer get
6695 whitespace around the board, a clipped board, or a lot of flashing during
6698 * Added customization for highlight-square color.
6700 * Bugfix: backend.c wrote to stderr in a few obscure places, which doesn't
6703 * Added Index Number field back to LoadGame/LoadPosition dialog boxes in
6704 WinBoard. This required some extra code to work with both the
6705 Explorer-style dialog boxes and the old-style NT 3.51 dialog boxes. Ugh.
6707 * WinBoard startup dialog now understands -zp mode. The first chess
6708 engine selector is enabled and the value is used.
6710 * Bugfix: ResetGame would send "exit" to engine twice if it was in an
6713 * Bugfix: The response "Illegal move: bk" to the "bk" command, indicating
6714 that it is not implemented, would confuse xboard.
6716 * Bugfix: Ignore empty hints ("Hint:\n") instead of printing a message
6717 saying that some bogus string (often "Hint:") is illegal.
6719 * Bugfix: LoadNextGame/LoadPreviousGame/ReloadSameGame were broken.
6721 3.6.12 -- Sat Jun 13 14:57:10 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
6723 Beta test release of xboard and WinBoard.
6725 * Spruced up xboard man page a bit.
6727 * Added Highlight Last Move to xboard too.
6729 * The revamped xboard mouse click code had several more bugs than the
6730 previous version, so I revamped it again. All fixed now, I hope.
6732 * xboard bugfix: crash in CreatePieceMenu.
6734 * Oops. winboard-3_6_11beta.exe installed 3.6.10beta, not the new version.
6736 3.6.11 -- Fri Jun 12 20:00:48 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
6738 Beta test release of xboard and WinBoard.
6740 * Major reorganization to engine-intf.txt. Some new features added,
6741 many existing features clarified and hints for engine programmers added.
6742 Support for new features added to program.
6744 * Changed defaults for -scp (etc.) back to being independent of -fcp, as
6745 in 3.6.2. That is, the default is no longer to copy the value from -fcp if
6746 -scp is not specified. This will sometimes make command lines longer but
6747 will remove some confusing situations.
6749 * Split -reuseChessPrograms into two options: -reuseFirst and
6750 -reuseSecond. Fixed obscure bugs when reuse is off.
6752 * Detect ICC and change some command usage slightly there: only ICC has
6753 set-quietly; only FICS has iset and bsetup clear. With this feature, we
6754 can now safely use bsetup clear when appropriate instead of deleting each
6757 * Added indent to lines that are wrapped by WinBoard ICS Interaction
6758 window. This seems to tickle a Microsoft bug in the RichEdit control:
6759 occasionally the start of the next line after the wrapped line is indented
6760 too. I think the wrapped indent feature is useful enough that it's worth
6761 having in spite of the bug.
6763 * WinBoard bugfix: bounding box for the board was computed incorrectly by
6764 mouse code. It would think you moved off the bottom of the board before
6765 you really did, so it was hard to drag pieces along the bottom rank on
6766 smaller board sizes.
6768 * Fixed obscure parser.l bug: ambiguity between capture using : instead of
6769 x and email header line. Also removed or simplified a lot of complex
6770 patterns for English (as opposed to PGN) end-of-game indications while I
6773 * Added PonderNextMove option.
6775 * xboard EditPosition piece menus now let you set the side to play by
6776 selecting the "White" or "Black" label at the top of the menu, like
6777 WinBoard. (Both xboard and WinBoard still let you set the side to play by
6778 clicking on the clock.)
6780 * Merged documentation of Crafty and GNU Chess thinking output in
6781 engine-intf.txt. Corrected code in backend.c to match documentation; it
6782 used to require the PV to start in column 27 (!).
6784 * Fixed bug that caused crashes in "-reuseChessProgram false" mode.
6786 * Draw by agreement in Two Machines mode now works as it is supposed to.
6787 Other minor bugs in handling game end messages from machines are also
6788 fixed, and engine-intf.txt is revised in this area.
6790 * Revamped xboard code for handling mouse clicks on the board. In
6791 particular, it had a bug if a click-click promotion move was made.
6793 * Fixed and reinstated optimization for << in analysis modes: send
6794 initString and re-send the board if needed. Sending repeated undos
6795 is bad because Crafty prints some analysis after every one.
6797 * Don't go into a spin loop while pausing between xboard animation frames.
6798 This caused problems, especially when compiling with -O2 on HP-UX.
6800 * WinBoard Options/Colors/RevertToDefaults now also turns off Monochrome
6801 if it was on, and similarly for Options/ICSInteractionColors/RevertToDefaults.
6802 This seemed to confuse people before.
6804 * Bugfix: ICS Interaction context menu items with neither of the two
6805 optional flags set did not work.
6807 * Bugfix: PGN move numbers are optional, but we were insisting on "1"
6808 right after the tags.
6810 * Bugfix: only the first game of an -mg match was loading -lpf or -lgf.
6812 * Other minor fixes and code cleanup.
6814 3.6.10 -- Mon Jun 1 01:32:31 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
6816 * Added ZIPPYNOPLAYCRAFTY feature; see zippy.README.
6818 * Added timestamps for chess engine interaction to -debug output.
6820 * Now allow 10 seconds (was 5) between games in match mode for engines to
6821 respond to "force" command that ended previous game.
6823 * When a game is picked from the game list and the names of White and
6824 Black are known, display them in the window banner instead of the filename
6827 * Changed default for -scp and -sd to be the values of -fcp and -fd.
6829 * Added boxes for both engines to WinBoard startup dialog. Changed to
6830 dropdown boxes whose content can be set from winboard.ini, similar to
6831 the box for ICS name.
6833 * Accept "offer draw" (or "*offer*draw*") from engine to offer a draw.
6835 * Accept "move mmmm" from engine as well as silly "1. ... mmmm" syntax.
6837 * Added support for bughouse engines (Zippy mode only).
6839 * Move bombproofing for engines sending illegal or out of turn moves.
6841 * Always send "xboard\n" to engine as first command. Eliminates need
6842 to run crafty as "crafty xboard".
6844 * Rewrote xboard code for input from engines to fix longstanding bugs.
6845 Previously an engine that sent one line in two separate writes with
6846 some time lapse in between (or perhaps that sent several lines in one
6847 write) could make xboard hang. WinBoard did not have this bug.
6849 * Fixed minor bugs in dealing with illegal moves.
6851 * Added "iset startpos 1" for FICS.
6853 * Removed special support to put "GNU Chess" or "Crafty" in the window
6854 banner instead of the engine's base filename. This gives a more level
6855 playing field for other engines. Also fixed bugs in the code that finds the
6856 engine's base filename.
6858 * Bugfix: Abort or Resign at the very start of a game in chess engine mode
6859 would fail to send "force" to the engine.
6861 * Fixed some minor bugs in new "result" messages, and changed format to
6862 include a trailing PGN comment giving the reason the game ended.
6864 * Changed syntax of /font options in WinBoard; old syntax was assuming
6865 that a font name can't contain a digit, which is wrong. Old font names in
6866 WinBoard.ini files are still accepted.
6868 * Serious further work on getting WinBoard to read/write files in the
6869 "right" directories and documenting exactly what it does.
6871 * Added LoadPreviousPosition, LoadNextPosition, ReloadSamePosition.
6873 * Misc. tiny fixes and cleanup.
6875 3.6.9 -- Sun May 24 20:53:08 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
6877 xboard and WinBoard beta release.
6879 * Tightened up illegal move handling. Illegal or meaningless moves from a
6880 file or chess engine should no longer get translated into a1a1 and blindly
6881 applied. Explicit moves to the same square (like a1a1) no longer make the
6882 piece on that square capture itself and vanish.
6884 * Added AlwaysOnTop feature to winboard.
6886 * Fixed bug in winboard "@" command line indirection operator.
6888 * Removed buggy "optimization" code for ToStart in analysis modes.
6890 * Fixed typo bug in zippy.c that would often cause winboard to crash
6891 right after starting a game in -zp mode.
6893 3.6.8 -- Sat May 23 22:23:19 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
6895 xboard and WinBoard beta release.
6897 * Added -firstDirectory and -secondDirectory so that chess engines can
6898 be started in a different directory from xboard/WinBoard itself.
6900 * Added -matchGames to allow more than one game in -matchMode. The games
6901 are played with colors alternating between the two chess engines. Had to
6902 add a time delay at the end of each game to catch up with game ending
6903 messages from both chess engines -- yuck.
6905 * Changed TwoMachines mode to have firstChessProgram play White by
6906 default. Added -firstPlaysBlack to restore old behavior.
6908 * Major rework of code in backend.c for dealing with first and second
6909 chess engines. Generalized the code and created a struct type with one
6910 instance for each engine. Several small bugs fixed along the way.
6912 * Fixed bugs in Abort in local chess engine mode.
6914 * Tightened pattern matching to recognize moves from machine. Should cure
6915 bogus "Illegal move" errors while Crafty is pondering with Show Thinking
6916 on, among other things.
6918 * WinBoard keeps focus in board window after popping up a comment due to
6919 Forward/Backward/ToStart/ToEnd commands.
6921 * Finally got rid of warnings on compiling moves.c under Windows.
6923 * Fixed so WinBoard will compile on machines where WM_MOUSELEAVE is not
6926 * Removed various bits of unused code.
6928 * Parse (and ignore) NAGs in PGN files.
6930 * Updated engine-intf.txt.
6932 * Send "result R" to the chess program at the end of each game, where
6933 R is the PGN result 1-0, 0-1, 1/2-1/2, or *.
6935 * Bugfix: suppress animation when loading a game with timeDelay=0.
6937 * Bug fix: pondering output from Crafty that contained "..." could be
6938 mistaken for a move, causing bogus error messages and general chaos.
6940 * xboard "make clean" bug fix: moved things created by configure to be
6941 removed only by "make distclean".
6943 * Fixed a remaining case where move was being animated before being
6944 relayed to opponent.
6946 * Backend was reversing time/otim commands to the chess program (new bug),
6947 and was often not sending them on the first move of a game or the first
6948 move after a mode change (old bug). Fixing the latter required a kludge
6949 to work with both GNU Chess and Crafty, because Crafty swaps white and
6950 black clock times when it swaps sides, while GNU Chess does not. The
6951 kludge is that we always make sure the chess engine thinks its opponent is
6952 on move before we set the clock. This will sometimes result in sequences
6953 like "white\ntime xxx\notim yyy\nblack\ngo", or the same with white and
6956 * Removed last trace of old -whiteString and -blackString arguments.
6958 * Fixed so that you can type "bd" into the Direct Command dialog when
6959 debugging gnuchess, without having xboard parse the clock display
6960 (starting with "White") as "White wins" and end the game.
6962 * Changed moves.c to make a distinction between IllegalMove (where we
6963 could tell what move was intended, but it violates the chess rules) and
6964 MeaninglessMove (where we could not tell). This is a step towards getting
6965 rid of cases where we translate meaningless moves into "a1a1", but some
6966 work is probably needed to track them all down.
6968 * Fixed bug in WinBoard monoMode dragging.
6970 * Changed WinBoard to new style file dialogs. In the process, disabled
6971 the feature that let you enter the index number of a game or position within
6972 the file in the dialog. This is no loss in LoadGame, as you can pick your
6973 game from the game list dialog that follows, but it does remove some
6974 functionality from LoadPosition.
6976 3.6.7 -- Mon May 18 21:25:00 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
6978 xboard and WinBoard beta test release. I've been unable to reproduce some
6979 reported drawing bugs, so they may still not be fixed.
6981 * Changed PopUpErrors option to PopupMoveErrors, which is more useful, and
6982 changed default to off. Errors other than move errors should always be in
6983 popups; they are often too big for the message area and too important to
6984 put where they can be easily missed. But it seems good to get rid of the
6985 popups for move errors by default.
6987 * xboard analysis window no longer forces itself to top whenever there is
6988 new output. Also, now uses built-in Xaw word wrapping instead of trying
6989 to do its own; works better.
6991 * Bugfix: Reset did not take Crafty out of analyze mode.
6993 * A chess engine no longer has to claim to be Crafty to be able to use
6994 AnalysisMode and AnalyzeFile; it just has to implement the analyze
6995 command as Crafty does. Put in heuristics to generate more informative
6996 error messages if the engine does not support analyze, and checked that
6997 they work at least with GNU Chess.
6999 * Added click-click moving, HighlightLastMove, and HighlightDragging to
7000 WinBoard. The highlight features are unlikely to go into xboard unless
7001 the xboard drawing code is cleaned up to do *all* drawing on the board
7002 from DrawPosition, as WinBoard does. This is low priority for me.
7004 * Eliminated bogus "Error gathering move list: no header" popup. You
7005 could get this by observing two fast games at once without turning off
7008 * Disable WinBoard Sounds menu entirely in -ncp mode, since not even
7009 MoveSound is used in that mode.
7011 * WinBoard bugfix: Several problems were caused if the user changed
7012 WinBoard's current directory in a Load, Save, or Browse dialog. In
7013 particular, WinBoard.ini would get saved in the wrong directory, and
7014 sound .wav file names would not get saved with a full pathname. I think
7015 all such problems are now fixed.
7017 * WinBoard bugfix: iconizing the board after an aborted mouse resize would
7018 (partially) resize it to Tiny.
7020 * WinBoard bugfix: board was not being drawn in color on 256-color
7021 displays. This bug was introduced in 3.6.6.
7023 3.6.6 -- Tue May 12 17:43:43 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
7025 xboard and WinBoard beta release. Note: not all reported bugs are fixed.
7027 * Move animation in WinBoard, programmed by Henrik Gram. Great stuff!
7029 * Animate backward moves too.
7031 * xboard bugfix: -font (and friends) can now specify a font alias (such
7032 as "fixed"), not just a full X Consortium name pattern. Previously this
7033 would give a resource conversion error message.
7035 * Some coding style cleanup in xboard.c.
7037 * Earlier error check for moving wrong color piece in EditGame mode.
7039 * Completed fix to pattern matching; see 3.6.5.
7041 * Fixed some software rot bugs in Zippy.
7043 * Split AnimateDragging as separate option from AnimateMoves.
7045 * Added FlashMoves to options menu and -flash/-xflash to command line
7046 options (xboard only).
7048 * Some preliminary work on visible bughouse holding support. Most of the
7049 code is not present in this release because I have not gotten it working
7050 properly yet; my first approach went down a blind alley and I had to
7051 remove most of the partially working code in preparation for a rewrite.
7053 3.6.5 -- Fri May 8 14:22:09 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
7055 Not generally released.
7057 * Pack bughouse holdings display in banner more tightly when board is one
7058 of the smaller sizes (when smallLayout or tinyLayout is true, that is).
7059 An interim measure, but should help.
7061 * Completed fix to make move list parsing recognize the end condition and
7064 * Fixed pattern matching for chatter (tells, etc.) to be more reliable.
7065 This should reduce the incidence of colors starting in the wrong place and
7066 of incorrectly matching things that look like other patterns inside
7067 chatter, such as "shout <12>". (These errors were already rare.)
7069 * WinBoard now lets you customize the list of ICS's in the startup dialog.
7070 For now, at least, requires editing WinBoard.ini with a text editor.
7072 * Bug fix: WinBoard window sizing and position setting save/restore did
7073 not work right when the taskbar was at the top (or left side) of the
7074 screen and not in autohide mode.
7076 * Merged xboard click/click mode and drag mode, and deleted
7077 ClickClickMoving option on menu. Now if you click on a piece, it
7078 highlights and a further click on another square will move it. (A second
7079 click on the same square takes down the highlight.) Or if you press down
7080 on a piece and start to drag, you can drag it to a new square.
7082 * When making click/click style moves, if your second click is on a piece
7083 of the same color, instead of saying "Illegal move", we now cancel the first
7084 starting square, replace it with the second, and wait for another click to
7087 * Separate -secondInitString. Default: same as -initString. Suggested by
7090 * Patch from Frank McIngvale to make animation work with XIMs. Yay!
7092 * Changed move animation to happen after move is passed on to ICS or the
7093 chess engine, where applicable. Fixed problems with updating moveList
7094 that this uncovered.
7096 * Changed game list to show PGN result token for each game.
7098 * The usual minor bug fixes.
7100 3.6.4 -- Thu Apr 30 23:14:43 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
7102 xboard and WinBoard beta test release.
7104 * xboard documentation updated, both man page and info file. An attempt
7105 to generate both from the same source with LinuxDocSGML was abandoned, at
7106 least for now. WinBoard doc updated too.
7108 * Merged updates to animation code from Hugh. Fixed a couple of remaining
7109 bugs, mostly to do with handling Pause mode correctly.
7111 * Added SaveSettingsOnExit to WinBoard.
7113 * WinBoard now saves the last screen position of the Comment, Edit Tags,
7114 Game List, and Analysis windows (in addition to the board and ICS
7115 Interaction windows) in WinBoard.ini.
7117 * WinBoard now provides a way to customize the right-button context menu
7118 in the output area of the ICS Interaction window. For now, requires
7119 editing WinBoard.ini with a text editor.
7121 * Various minor fixes to ICS message recognition, most affecting only Zippy.
7123 * Colorize the notification when someone sends you a message while you are
7124 logged in, not the output of the "messages" command.
7126 * Fixed colorization to turn off at the right place more reliably.
7128 * Added a new color and WinBoard sound for "requests": abort, adjourn,
7129 draw, pause, and takeback. The same color and sound are used for all of
7132 * Added GUI to change sounds in WinBoard.
7134 * Suppressed WinBoard error popup when a sound can't be played. They were
7135 popping up when two separate WinBoards tried to play a sound at the same
7136 time (such as during a bughouse match).
7138 * Fixed WinBoard crash when a sound file didn't exist.
7140 * WinBoard ports of timestamp and timeseal now produce decent error
7141 messages if they fail to connect, and WinBoard captures the messages and
7142 puts them into a popup. Previously WinBoard would exit with no message on
7145 * WinBoard resizing with mouse improved; now accurately picks the largest
7146 size that fits in the new area.
7148 * Added option to turn off error message popups.
7150 * Added sizes slim, dinky, and teeny.
7152 * Fixed some minor problems with error message wording.
7154 3.6.3 -- Mon Feb 23 19:08:57 PST 1998 Tim Mann
7156 xboard beta test release only. Man page is updated for the changes, but info
7159 * Bug fix: LoadGame could not load a PGN game whose first move was
7160 castling (which is possible from setup positions).
7162 * Bug fix: we were ignoring illegal move messages from chess engines in
7163 modes where the engine is refereeing but not participating (EditGame,
7164 LoadGame, AnalyzeFile). The problem was in a workaround for a Crafty bug,
7165 where Crafty generates a bogus illegal move message if a "." (used by
7166 the PeriodicUpdates feature) is sent in analysis mode when the current
7167 analysis reveals a forced mate. Installed a different workaround (that
7168 works in most but not all cases) and reported the Crafty bug. Bob Hyatt
7169 replied with a fix, so the Crafty bug should be gone in Crafty 14.12 or so.
7171 * WinBoard only: enabled resizing board with the mouse. It snaps to the
7172 nearest (but not too much larger) predefined size.
7174 * The xboard default font is now sized according to piece size, just as
7175 clockFont and coordFont have always been.
7177 * Added more sizes: bulky, moderate, average, middling, mediocre, petite.
7179 * xboard only: Added Animate Moves and Click-Click Moving to Options menu.
7181 * xboard only: Added code to animate piece movement, from Hugh Fisher.
7183 * New feature: autoflag is implemented in MachineWhite, MachineBlack, and
7184 TwoMachines modes. If it is on and either a chess program or the user
7185 oversteps his time, xboard will automatically call the flag and end the
7186 game. This feature was requested by someone who runs matches between
7187 programs and wants to penalize GNU Chess for its habit of running slightly
7188 over at the end of a time control. I personally think it's pointless.
7190 * Fixed a bug in Zippy's pattern matching; he can now reply to ICC
7193 * Generate prettier notation for illegal moves. If a move is illegal only
7194 because it leaves the player in check, generate notation as if that were
7195 not illegal. For instance, if two knights are a knight's move away from
7196 f3, one on g1 and one on e5 that is pinned, the notation would be Nf3 to
7197 move the g1 knight, Nef3 to move the e5 knight. (Suggested by Philippe
7198 Schnoebelen.) In addition, if a move is illegal because the type of piece
7199 moved cannot go that way, would be jumping over another piece, etc., we
7200 give fully disambiguated coordinate notation; for example, Ng1g3, Ke1xe8,
7201 d2xd8=Q, etc. An alternative would be to still write Ng3 if there is only
7202 one knight on the board, or Ngg3 if the other knight is not on the g file,
7203 but life is too short to code up all this stuff, and perhaps the way I did
7204 it is better as it emphasizes that this move was really made despite being
7205 illegal. I wonder if the new PGN standard revision will speak to notation
7208 * Fixed gross bug from 3.6.2: if a chess program said "checkmate" and
7209 White was left on move, the PGN outcome was "1-0 {Black mates}" instead
7210 of "0-1 {Black mates}"! The bug occurred only for that specific string.
7212 3.6.2 -- Wed Jul 23 16:47:29 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
7214 * There was a bug in backing up from the end of a game against a chess
7215 engine, introduced when -reuse mode was added. Fixed.
7217 * Recognize "{" as terminating an ICS move list. Previously we needed to
7218 see a prompt (containing %), but occasionally ICC can send more stuff
7219 right after a move list with no prompt in between.
7221 * In WinBoard, -mm now implies -cp, so you don't get the startup dialog.
7223 * WinBoard startup dialog no longer sets -scp. People used to get
7224 confused because they would give the -fcp and -scp arguments, but omit
7225 -cp. This would bring up the startup dialog, which would set both -fcp
7226 and -scp to the value in the engine name box. Now you can change -scp
7227 only with the command-line argument. That will confuse some people too,
7228 but hopefully fewer. I think overall it's better than putting spaces for
7229 both -fcp and -scp in the dialog, which would puzzle newbies.
7231 * Bug fix: Analyze File mode now works in WinBoard.
7233 * Bug fix: WinBoard window no longer cuts off part of the bottom row if
7234 the menu bar wraps to a second line.
7236 * Accept game end messages of the form "PGN-result {comment}" from the
7237 chess engine, where PGN-result is 0-1, 1-0, or 1/2-1/2. Accept "resign"
7238 or "computer resigns" from the chess engine as a synonym for "0-1 {White
7239 resigns}" or "1-0 {Black resigns}". Accept any message from the chess
7240 engine containing "game is a draw" as a synonym for "1/2-1/2 {Draw}".
7241 Accept "White resigns" or "Black resigns".
7243 * Enable "Action / Draw" menu item in chess engine mode. It sends the
7244 command "draw" to the engine. Accept any message from the chess engine
7245 containing "offers a draw" as a draw offer. WARNING: Draw offers from the
7246 user and the engine (or from two engines) are not yet matched up by xboard
7247 in chess engine mode. Two engines could get into a loop offering each
7250 * Bug fix: Game end messages from the chess engine are always ignored in
7251 Zippy mode. Previously they could sometimes be processed, which was
7252 sometimes making Zippy hang at the start of a new game that followed
7253 quickly after an old one.
7255 * Zippy can now respond to titled players in channels. Zippy will avoid
7256 talking to himself in a channel if he knows his own name.
7258 * Bug fix: in colorization arguments, the bold setting was being ignored
7259 if the background color was defaulted. (xboard only.)
7261 * Extended ParseFEN to accept Crafty 12.2's interpretation of FEN.
7262 If fewer than 8 squares are given in a row, or fewer than 8 rows are
7263 given, the uncovered squares are empty. Also, there can be a / after the
7266 3.6.1 -- Sat May 17 01:02:33 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
7268 * Bug fix: Hitting escape while entering a password on WinBoard no longer
7269 sets the font color back to black (which made further typing visible).
7271 * Bug fix: On Windows NT 4.0, WinBoard /ics /icshelper=timestamp would
7272 often hang if you tried to exit with the Exit menu item, the [X] button,
7273 etc. The same fix may also have corrected the problem where running a
7274 chess program with /xreuse would sometimes crash Windows 95 (but not NT)
7275 when the chess program was killed and quickly restarted.
7277 * Bug fix: Periodic Updates would not work if turned on after having been
7278 off. Also, the default was needlessly "off" in WinBoard.
7280 * Zippy bug fix: Continuing an adjourned game was totally broken. The
7281 wrong moves, or no moves at all, were being fed to the chess program.
7283 * WinBoard change: Giving -ics without -icshost now pops up the startup
7284 dialog with "Use an Internet Chess Server" pre-selected, so that you get a
7285 menu of chess servers instead of going directly to ICC.
7287 * Bug fix: WinBoard's SaveSettings was saving -icshost, -icsport, and
7288 -icshelper in winboard.ini. This causes a problem if you use a different
7289 icshost later that needs the default values for icsport (5000) and
7290 icshelper ("", meaning none).
7292 * Disabled complaints about unexpected "[Ii]llegal move" messages from
7293 the chess program; we still get them at times.
7295 * Greatly simplified the code for Move Now and SIGINT (ATTENTION). Fixes
7296 the bug where Move Now did not work with GNU Chess in WinBoard, and
7297 several more obscure bugs as well. Reintroduces a minor bug: GNU Chess might
7298 not think on your time after a Move Now command. Trying to fix this
7299 causes too many other problems. Documented change in engine-intf.txt.
7301 * Cleaned up code for obtaining ratings from ICS. It was kludgey and may
7302 have had bugs on systems with no "Creating:" message. It should fail
7303 gracefully there, just not finding the ratings.
7305 3.6.0 -- Thu May 8 19:55:58 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
7307 * WinBoard now has right-button context menus in the ICS Interaction
7308 window. Some of the items do immediate commands on the player name you
7309 have selected or pointed to. (Suggested by Paolo Casaschi.) Also, the
7310 middle button or shift+right does a immediate Copy and Paste.
7312 * Fixed a bug in Zippy's wild rejection. The bug was causing Zippy to
7313 reject all forms of wild. Now it rejects only 1, 9, 16, 17, and 24, as
7314 was intended. These variants have different rules, while the other
7315 variants defined so far only have different starting positions.
7316 (Actually, wild 2, 3, and 4 never allow castling, but may sometimes by
7317 chance have king and rook start on squares where castling appears legal.
7318 This could cause a problem later.)
7320 * Zippy now resumes adjourned games by feeding the chess program
7321 the move list instead of the position. Setting -getMoveList to False
7322 restores the old behavior. Feeding in the move list is better because
7323 it enables the chess program to correctly handle en passant legality,
7324 castling legality, draw by repetition, and draw by the 50 move rule.
7326 * Added a WinBoard startup dialog for people who run WinBoard.exe without
7327 using the Start menu or reading the help file. Instead of being dumped
7328 directly into GNU Chess mode, you now get a menu of choices. You now have
7329 to give the new WinBoard -cp option to go directly into chess engine mode.
7330 I did not add this feature to xboard.
7332 * Handling of "illegal move" from Crafty is now back on. (It was turned
7333 off in 3.4.6; see below.) Crafty 12.0 doesn't seem to send bogus ones
7334 anymore. I did have to suppress sending time and otim in analyze mode to
7335 make this work, but there is no harm in that.
7337 * Zippy now sends "gameend" to ICS at the end of each game. You can alias
7338 this to "seek" or whatever you like.
7340 * Added Crafty support for Move Now, using the "?" command. We test
7341 whether this command exists by trying it once at the start of the first
7342 game, before it really makes sense. If we don't get a message like
7343 "Illegal move ... ?", we assume it's OK. (We're careful about this
7344 because sending a "?" to GNU Chess on Move Now keeps it from pondering the
7345 next move as it should.)
7347 * Added support for a tellusererror command from the chess engine. See
7350 * Attempted to make engine-intf.txt complete.
7352 * Minor fixes/cleanup to GameEnds code, to be sure we always interrupt
7353 when needed, and always undo an extra move generated by stopping the chess
7354 program while it is thinking.
7356 3.5.7 -- Sat May 03 22:37:44 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
7358 Beta release of both xboard and WinBoard.
7360 * Updated xboard documentation. I really wish the man page was built from
7361 the info file instead of being separate! It's a pain to update them both.
7363 * Updated documentation of the interface between XBoard/WinBoard and chess
7364 programs, and renamed it to engine-intf.txt.
7366 * Added support for tellics, telluser, and askuser commands from the chess
7367 engine. See engine-intf.txt.
7369 * Various bug fixes. On WinBoard, 256 color displays are finally handled
7370 right; no more color flashing when you switch windows unless the colors
7371 really need to be updated. Also, I think the problem of the console font
7372 failing to change or changing back by itself is finally fixed.
7374 3.5.6 -- Tue Apr 29 03:08:00 PDT 1997
7376 Beta release, WinBoard only. ChangeLog was out of date in release,
7379 * Added ICC timestamp and FICS timeseal to WinBoard distribution. These
7380 are my own ports to Win32, based on and used by permission of the owners
7381 of the proprietary source code (Daniel Sleator for timestamp, Henrik Gram
7382 for timeseal). The owners permit these programs to be distributed only in
7383 binary form (to help prevent cheating), so to avoid running afoul of the
7384 GPL, I have kept them as separate programs, not linked into the WinBoard
7385 address space. Updated Start menu icons to use them.
7387 * Miscellaneous smaller changes.
7389 3.5.5 -- Fri Apr 25 03:06:00 PDT 1997
7391 Beta release, WinBoard only. ChangeLog was out of date in release;
7394 * Added simple sound support to WinBoard.
7396 * Updated WinBoard documentation.
7398 * Internal implementation of the telnet protocol is now more complete.
7399 You can now hop through a VMS host on the way to ICS. For example, do
7400 "xboard -ics -icshost vms.host.edu -icsport 23", then log in. Do not use
7401 the -telnet flag; that says to use an *external* telnet program. To avoid
7402 double echoes, you need to force character mode in VMS telnet after
7403 connecting from VMS to ICS. Do "^]^Mset mode char^M^M".
7405 * Display opponent names in the title bar for MachineWhite, MachineBlack,
7406 and TwoMachines modes.
7408 * WinBoard now has an installer, built with InstallShield. The installer
7409 works with a binary-only distribution. Sources are still freely
7410 available, but now separately.
7412 * Added SaveSettings to WinBoard, which saves current option settings to
7413 winboard.ini. Made sure all options can be saved and loaded, including
7414 fonts and com port settings.
7416 * If the game ends while you are dragging a piece, we now don't let you
7417 finish the move. Formerly the move was accepted and your opponent's clock
7418 would start running again.
7420 3.5.4 -- Fri Apr 18 01:15:24 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
7422 Beta test release of WinBoard and xboard. The documentation remains
7425 * Many fixes and improvements to new WinBoard user interface code.
7427 * In Zippy mode, avoid sending another copy of the same move to the chess
7428 program if ICS sends us another copy of the board image. Hard to believe
7429 it took me until now to diagnose and fix this problem!
7431 3.5.3 -- Sat Apr 12 19:49:33 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
7433 Beta test release of WinBoard and xboard.
7435 * Fixed fatal bug in WinBoard input handling.
7437 * Made code to stop chess program for reuse a bit smarter. Removed kludge
7438 of "white" in initString; it didn't work well, and is unneeded
7439 with Crafty 11.21 and later.
7441 3.5.2 -- Sat Apr 12 15:40:01 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
7443 Beta test release of WinBoard.
7445 * Ignore check and permit promotion to King during suicide games; no need
7446 to turn off TestLegality.
7448 * Renamed CheckLegality to TestLegality to avoid confusion with the chess
7451 * Added Rematch to Action menu.
7453 * WinBoard now has a custom ICS interaction window with scrollback, a
7454 separate line for input, and colorization. Accelerators that conflict
7455 with normal editing keys were changed (by requiring Alt+) so they can work
7456 in both the console and the main window.
7458 * WinBoard error popups are now non-modal and disappear when you make a
7459 new move, as in xboard.
7461 * Configure now defaults to --disable-ptys on all systems. If anyone has
7462 an ancient SysV system where pipes don't work with select, they can still
7463 do "configure --enable-ptys" explicitly. I would appreciate getting a bug
7464 report if this happens to anyone, with complete output from configure and
7467 * "make install" now makes the installation directories too.
7469 * Fixed a bug that would cause an "Illegal move" message for Black from
7470 GNU Chess to be incorrectly considered bogus.
7472 * Handle name changes during an ICS game (FICS bname and wname commands).
7474 * You can force both chess programs to be killed at the end of each game
7475 by turning off the reuseChessPrograms option. There are still some
7476 problems with reusing Crafty even in version 11.20.
7478 * Now the second chess program stays around by default too, if it ever
7481 3.5.1 -- Sat Apr 5 16:47:48 PST 1997 Tim Mann
7485 * Don't kill off and restart the chess program for each game; keep the
7486 same one running, using the "new" command to start a new game. This
7487 change works around the problem in Windows 95 that makes WinBoard crash it
7488 at times, and is generally desirable to make new games start faster. The
7489 second chess program (for TwoMachines) is still killed at the end of the
7490 game, and unfortunately this can still crash Windows 95. Temporarily
7491 added "white" to the initString to make this work with Crafty 11.20, which
7492 has a minor bug in "new". Older versions of Crafty have worse bugs in
7493 "new"; they should not be used with this version of xboard.
7495 * Support for FICS suicide chess: Parse illegal moves (that leave King in
7496 check) in game history. If CheckLegality is off, allow promotion to King
7497 and illegal moves in game files. We still generate e2e4 style notation
7500 * Handle FICS "has timeseal; checking" message.
7502 * Changed the coords from white back to black; this was a bug.
7504 * Fixed problems compiling with K&R compilers.
7506 * Fixed an old bug in RegisterMove that was crashing cmail on some systems
7509 3.5.0 -- Thu Jan 2 16:59:49 PST 1997 Tim Mann
7511 Thanks to Frank McIngvale for much of the work on versions 3.4.4 and above!
7513 * Fix Crafty resumed game time bug (frankm)
7515 * Word wrap text in Analysis window (frankm)
7517 * More debug info for XPM loading (frankm)
7519 * Replaced config.sub, config.guess, etc., with up-to-date versions from
7520 autoconf 2.12. Hopefully this will fix problems on Pentium Pro machines.
7522 * Removed some Makefile gunk that was causing looping for one person.
7524 3.4.7 -- Thu Dec 19 14:22:41 PST 1996 Tim Mann
7526 All changes from Frank:
7528 * Retrieve ratings from ICC (and FICS, etc., when they add the Creating:
7529 message), save them in the PGN tags, and pass them to Crafty in Zippy mode.
7531 * Add settable time delay between characters in ICS login script.
7533 * Colorize messages like personal tells. Fix false recognition of channel
7536 * Pass "tells" from Crafty through to ICS (in Zippy mode).
7538 * Implement ~/ filename convention from C shell for game and position file
7541 * ZIPPYACCEPTONLY feature for testing.
7543 3.4, patchlevel 6 -- Sat Nov 23 16:58:50 PST 1996 Tim Mann
7545 * Put recognition of "illegal move" messages from Crafty for
7546 illegal castling, etc., inside an #if that is currently turned off,
7547 because of a bug in Crafty that generates bogus "illegal move" messages
7548 after some moves that are actually legal and accepted by Crafty.
7550 * Added -checkLegality option; previously this could not be turned off.
7552 * Fixed an old bug in finding default board size parameters.
7554 * Differentiated among channel tell, kibitz/whisper, and personal tell/say.
7556 * Fixed a bug in detecting Xpm in the configure script.
7558 3.4, patchlevel 5 -- Mon Nov 18 16:22:53 PST 1996 Tim Mann
7560 * Added zic2xpm to the kit; it had been omitted by mistake.
7562 * Added some default colors for -colorize
7564 3.4, patchlevel 4 -- Sat Nov 16 18:10:17 PST 1996 Tim Mann
7566 This is meant to be a beta release in preparation for version 3.5.
7568 * Added InfoXBoard and ManXBoard to the Help menu.
7570 * Made Frank's ICS input box optional, defaulting to off.
7572 * Merged in Frank McIngvale's XbKit. Many new features, including
7573 -clickClick mode, the Analysis modes, piece flashing, ZIICS import,
7574 ICS text colorization, and the ICS input box. Many thanks to Frank for
7575 supplying and documenting this code.
7577 3.4, patchlevel 3 -- Mon Nov 11 18:23:14 PST 1996 Tim Mann
7579 Small set of changes made while Frank McIngvale was working on XbKit in
7580 parallel. Unreleased in this form.
7582 * Updated zippy.README.
7584 * Removed useless X event handler and removed strange code for copying
7585 form translation table to board that worked around the bug it caused.
7586 This makes changing bindings in .Xdefaults more straightforward.
7588 * Now pressing the Control key steps back one move, and releasing it steps
7591 * Moved quit from "q" to "Q" for greater safety.
7593 * Use "unobserve" instead of "observe" to stop observing; needed on FICS.
7595 * Support for interface variable.
7597 * Strip titles from people who are talking to us, so (for example) Zippy
7598 won't try things like "tell Darooha(*) hello". Needed on FICS.
7600 3.4, patchlevel 2 -- Tue Jul 9 19:06:42 PDT 1996 Tim Mann
7602 This patchlevel is not planned to be an announced release. It's in
7603 preparation for integrating Frank McIngvale's XbKit. It mostly contains
7604 minor fixes I've accumulated since 3.4.pl1.
7606 * WinBoard /telnet option now fires up an external program, as
7607 with xboard, instead of trying to use a feature of NT 3.1 that does not
7608 exist in later versions of NT or in Windows 95. ChangeLog for 3.4.pl1
7609 said this had been implemented there, but it really wasn't.
7611 * Indicating player to move by the icon color now works under Windows 95.
7613 * WinBoard now kills the chess program when you exit using the system menu
7614 or the [X] button. Thanks to Michael Lowe.
7616 * Minor changes to Zippy, including: Now understands wild challenges on
7617 FICS; these used to crash it. Removed limit on how fast a game will be
7618 accepted. Use "set formula ..." on the chess server to limit this if you
7619 are using GNU Chess. Now sends correct opponent name to Crafty.
7621 * Added some missing default values to documentation. Thanks to Stuart
7624 * Bugfix: Trying to print "No fonts match pattern" error message would
7625 crash. This can happen to Linux users who don't install Helvetica, for
7628 * Bugfix: Defaulting feature in -size n,n,n,n,n,n would put us in an
7631 * Added more directories to search for Athena widgets on HPUX.
7633 * New cmail (3.12) from Evan Welsh; includes small fix from Kayvan Sylvan.
7635 * Recognize "illegal move" messages from Crafty for illegal castling, etc.
7637 * Bugfix: "name" command added to zippy.c for Crafty was producing error
7638 message if GNU Chess was in use.
7640 * In bughouse mode, suppress holding messages from console window; show
7641 holdings only in banner.
7643 * Minor fixes/cleanup to Makefile.in and configure.in.
7645 3.4, patchlevel 1 -- Mon Dec 11 13:43:12 PST 1995 Tim Mann
7647 * This patchlevel updates WinBoard to match xboard, and includes a few
7648 fixes and minor improvements. "-size tiny" and "-size n,n,n,n,n,n"
7649 are still not implemented for WinBoard.
7651 * Installed support for Crafty based on code from Bob Hyatt.
7652 Currently the only documentation for this is in the FAQ, and a few
7653 things don't work with Crafty 8.23. Please do not report these
7654 problems as bugs in either xboard or Crafty. Bob and I know about
7655 them. The worst ones (if not all of them) should be fixed in Crafty
7658 * Changed the kludge command we send when gnuchess wants to print
7659 something that doesn't end with a newline, from "help" to "bogus".
7660 This works because the error message gnuchess prints ends with a
7661 newline. It also improves compatibility with Crafty, which doesn't
7662 need the kludge, but for which sending "help" causes a problem.
7664 * Don't draw grid at all if lineGap is 0; previously we drew the grid
7665 with X "0-width" lines (usually 1 pixel wide) and then overwrote it.
7667 * Makefile: Removed xboard.info from "all" target so we won't try to
7668 rebuild it, because this fails on hosts that don't have makeinfo
7669 installed. Other minor fixes to "clean" targets, etc.
7671 * Fixes and cleanup to Auto Comment code that handles continuation
7672 lines and highlighting.
7674 * Auto Observe now tries to observe the game from the point of view of
7675 the player who was on your gnotify list. Requested by rng.
7676 Limitations: We can't tell which player it was unless you have ICS
7677 highlighting turned on. Also, currently "observe foo" works as
7678 required (observing from foo's point of view) only on ICC, but FICS
7679 will probably implement this soon.
7681 * "-size tiny" now makes the default font smaller automatically. This
7682 was implemented by introducing an extra Form widget in the hierarchy
7683 for all xboard windows, named either normalLayout, smallLayout, or
7684 tinyLayout. So you can have resource specifications that apply only
7685 to certain layouts; in particular, XBoard*tinyLayout*font.
7687 * Bug fix: EditGame or EditPosition while playing or examining still was
7688 not really being permitted.
7690 * WinBoard bug fix: On the EditPosition menu, King did not work.
7692 * Added text catalog of WinSock error messages to WinBoard, because
7693 Microsoft still has not put them in the system message catalog.
7695 * Removed support for older ICS game-ending messages that do not have
7696 a PGN result token (*, 0-1, 1-0, or 1/2-1/2) after the closing '}'.
7697 The code for older messages was sometimes firing on the newer
7698 messages, due to parsing ambiguity. If the current code sees an old
7699 message, it will understand that the game is over, but will always
7700 display * as a result token instead of trying to guess the result by
7701 interpreting the text message.
7703 3.4, patchlevel 0 -- Tue Nov 21 01:02:50 PST 1995 Tim Mann
7705 * This patchlevel was released for xboard only.
7707 * Updated the info file. It should now be as up-to-date as the man page,
7708 with good English except in the parts that pertain only to AmyBoard.
7710 * Added "-size tiny", requested by Bob Hyatt. Also cleaned up bitmap
7711 support and added "-size n,n,n,n,n,n" to allow arbitrary-sized bitmaps,
7712 if the actual bitmaps are supplied by the user.
7714 * Updated bughouse support.
7716 3.3, patchlevel 4 -- Sat Nov 18 02:27:21 PST 1995 Tim Mann
7718 * Unreleased beta that works with preliminary FICS bughouse code. Will
7719 need changes before release to track FICS message changes.
7721 * Removed use of .EX macro from man page. It is not supported by some
7722 nroff -man macro packages, notably the one on Slackware Linux. Switched
7723 to boldface for references to xboard and other commands within the man
7724 page, as this seems to be the modern way.
7726 * Bug fix: If ICS rejected a move, it was correctly undone on the board,
7727 but the message widget still displayed the bad move. Reported by DAV.
7729 * Normally, xboard in ICS mode fetches the move list whenever the board
7730 display switches to a new game. Doing this is now an option
7731 (getMoveList) that can be turned off, which is useful if you are watching
7732 multiple blitz games. Requested by rng.
7734 * Move list fetching code is now smarter: it ignores a move list if it is
7735 not for the right game.
7737 * Added support for bughouse as implemented on FICS. Holdings are shown
7738 in the window title in place of the strength numbers. A menu on mouse
7739 buttons 2 and 3 (same on both) lets you drop pieces. There is no checking
7740 as to whether you actually hold the piece you are trying to drop; we rely
7741 on ICS to check that. Notation of the form P@f7 is generated and parsed.
7742 The mate detector does not understand that non-contact mate is not really
7743 mate in bughouse, but this does no real harm. It results in a "#"
7744 suffix being displayed on the move notation, but xboard does not assume the
7747 * Bug fix: Promotion to a knight was not working with ICC! Thanks to
7748 Wendigo for the report.
7750 * Bug fix: Special pty code for host types *-*-aix3* and *-*-irix3*
7751 (supplied from configure.in) had a bug that would cause childio.c to
7752 fail to compile, due to a "continue" that was not within a loop.
7754 * Bug fix: In pgntags.c, memory was being freed while still in use. One
7755 symptom this caused was that on some machines, cmail would fail with a
7756 message that it could not find the BlackNA tag. The error was in some
7757 submitted code that I included in version 3.2.pl3 without reading
7758 carefully enough. Anders Forberg noticed the symptoms, and Evan Welsh
7759 (who had nothing to do with causing the bug) found the bug and submitted a
7760 fix; thanks to them both.
7762 * Removed restriction against using EditGame while playing, observing,
7763 or examining on ICS. You still get a warning popup.
7765 3.3, patchlevel 3 -- Sat Sep 16 11:44:05 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
7767 * Bug fix: Going directly from MachineWhite to TwoMachines mode would kill
7768 off the second chess program after Black's first move.
7770 * Added -timeIncrement feature. Thanks to Joel Rivat.
7772 * Deleted code that tries to keep you from observing more than one game,
7773 or observing while playing or examining. There is actually no problem in
7774 doing this, except that every time an update comes in from a different
7775 game than is currently being displayed, xboard fetches the history of the
7776 new game, which may be time-consuming if you are on a slow link.
7778 * Fixed configure so as not to crash when neither lex nor flex is found.
7779 lex or flex is needed only if the user wants to rebuild parser.c. Thanks
7780 to Phil Humpherys for reporting the crash.
7782 * Bug fix: config.h.in used #define instead of #undef for some macros used
7783 in the pty code in childio.c. This causes the code to fail to compile on
7784 some architectures, because the symbols are supposed to be undefined, not
7785 defined to empty, when they are not set in configure. Bug originated in
7786 3.3.pl0 when config.h was introduced. Thanks to Phil Humpherys for report.
7788 * Bug fix: ShowThinking would not show anything when current position had
7789 no move to display in the move window. E.g., if position was created by
7790 LoadPosition or EditPosition.
7792 3.3, patchlevel 2 -- Mon Aug 28 11:11:11 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
7794 * Zippy code was omitted from xboard-3.3.pl1 by mistake; now included.
7796 * For WinBoard, added hint to help file that you may need to turn off
7797 LocalLineEditing while typing dialing commands to your modem.
7799 3.3, patchlevel 1 -- Sat Aug 19 15:13:30 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
7801 * Zippy distribution is no longer separate from regular xboard distribution.
7803 * Deal properly with Show Thinking output from GNU Chess when it is
7804 thinking on its opponent's time. In TwoMachines mode this output is
7805 suppressed to avoid interfering with the output from the machine that is
7806 on move; in other modes it is displayed (including the move that GNU Chess
7807 is predicting the user will make next). GNU Chess produces this output
7808 only if it is built without -DQUIETBACKGROUND defined; this symbol is
7809 defined by default in patchlevels before pl75, but undefined by default in
7812 * Bug fix: Handling of initial board position in move list for wild games
7813 was broken, so wild games could not be observed and adjourned wild games
7814 could not be continued. Thanks to "Maximum Entropy" for the bug report.
7816 * Added feature: algebraic notation now shows "+" indicator for check
7817 and "#" for checkmate, as called for in PGN standard. Thanks to Kevin
7818 Maher for the suggestion.
7820 3.3, patchlevel 0 -- Thu Jul 27 22:21:07 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
7822 * Changed configuration to use a config.h file instead of passing zillions
7823 of -D options on the cc command line.
7825 * Merged a small fix and some updates to the texinfo file from Jochen
7826 Wiedmann. The texinfo file still needs work.
7828 3.2, patchlevel 5 -- Tue Jul 18 20:29:39 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
7830 * Beta test release of xboard only.
7832 * Updated WinBoard code to include new xboard features.
7834 * Added texinfo file from Jochen Wiedmann to the release, but not as the
7835 primary documentation. It needs updating, and the English needs work.
7836 I did make a few improvements, mostly to change incorrect uses of @var to
7837 either @samp or @code as appropriate.
7839 * Merged in code changes to 3.2.pl4beta from Jochen Wiedmann.
7841 * Fixed EditComment; did not pop up window in previous beta.
7843 * Added AutoComment feature.
7845 * Added GameListDestroy to disable the outdated game list popup in cases
7846 where we load a new game file without building a new popup.
7848 * Added yyskipmoves feature to parser.l to speed up building of gamelist.
7850 * gamelist.c wouldn't compile with a non-ANSI compiler. Fixed.
7852 * Change to yy_text handling in patchlevel 3 still had problems. Can't
7853 use AC_DECL_YYTEXT in configure.in, because that defines YYTEXT_POINTER
7854 according to whether the lexer on the current host makes yytext a pointer.
7855 But most people will be using a parser.c that was generated on another
7856 host and shipped with the package.
7858 3.2, patchlevel 4 -- Sun Jun 25 19:13:43 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
7860 * Beta test release of xboard only.
7862 * Added FIREWALLS section to man page.
7864 * Changed -icsport to be a string. Now with the -telnet option,
7865 specifying -icsport "" suppresses the second argument to telnet.
7867 * Added EditTags feature. Removed AboutGame from menu, because EditTags
7868 subsumes it. EditTags suggested by Jochen Wiedmann and first implemented by
7869 him in AmyBoard. xboard implementation is my own.
7871 * Fixed some missing or incorrect prototypes.
7873 3.2, patchlevel 3 -- Sat Jun 3 18:57:38 1995 Tim Mann
7875 * Beta test release of xboard only.
7877 * New version of cmail from Evan Welsh, to fix compatibility problems with
7880 * Added game list feature on Load Game, based on code from Jochen
7881 Wiedmann. Integrated it with cmail.
7883 * Several bug fixes from Jochen Wiedmann, including one to my yy_text
7884 workaround for the difference in the type of yytext between lex and flex.
7886 * Handle clock pause on FICS.
7888 * Suppress clocks in untimed FICS games (time control 0 0).
7890 * Rebuilt configure script with autoconf 2.3. This fixes a bug in
7891 configuring for X11R6, where -lSM -lICE would not be added when needed.
7893 * Fixed inconsistent type declarations on IntSigHandler and
7894 CmailSigHandler. Bug report from Josh Daynard.
7896 * backend.c wouldn't compile with a non-ANSI compiler. Fixed.
7898 3.2, patchlevel 2 -- Tue Feb 7 14:50:30 1995 Tim Mann
7900 * Minor release of both xboard and WinBoard.
7902 * Added recognition of some FICS messages. On the other hand FICS is also
7903 changing some of its messages to match what xboard already recognizes.
7905 * Temporarily went back to using "promote" command on ICS instead of
7906 "a7a8=Q", because FICS doesn't implement the latter yet.
7908 * We now avoid using overlapped I/O on pipes in WinBoard, to make Windows
7909 95 beta 2 happy. This lets WinBoard work with GNU Chess on Windows 95!
7911 * Installed patches from Jochen Wiedmann to coordinate with Amiga XBoard.
7913 * Installed patch to cmail bug in LoadGame from Evan Welsh.
7915 * Bugfix: checkmate and stalemate moves entered with EditGame in ICS mode
7916 were not being handled correctly. Bug was in GameEnds().
7918 * Implemented EchoOn and EchoOff for xboard, using system("stty echo\n").
7919 Now passwords won't be echoed when you connect directly to ICS. Also,
7920 telnet negotiation characters aren't displayed (when possible).
7922 * Implemented more of the telnet protocol. Now connecting to a telnet
7923 server with "-icsport 23" should work even without giving the -telnet
7924 option. The telnet is in "old line-by-line mode".
7926 3.2, patchlevel 1 -- Sat Dec 10 13:50:46 1994 Tim Mann
7928 * This patchlevel released for WinBoard only.
7930 * winboard.c: Fixed ConsoleInputThread(). Needed to change CRLF to LF,
7931 not to CR. This was stopping normal /ics mode from working. Thanks to
7932 Asher Kobin for the bug report.
7934 * winboard.c: Fixed Raw(), EchoOn(), EchoOff(). Now they take effect
7935 immediately, not on the next console read after the one in progress.
7937 * winboard.c: Attempted to make WinBoard work with gnuchessx running
7938 directly on Windows (not remotely via rsh). It now works on NT, but only
7939 if gnuchess is told not to think on its opponent's time ("easy\n" removed
7940 from initString). The problem seems to be that GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent
7941 is not doing anything. On Windows 95 beta 2, we get error messages on
7942 both reading and writing to gnuchessx; I didn't investigate why.
7944 3.2, patchlevel 0 -- Wed Dec 7 13:23:36 1994 Tim Mann
7946 * Thanks to all the beta testers who gave me feedback: Josef Nelissen,
7947 Steve Booth, Evan Welsh, Dima Dakhnovsky, Chris Petroff, Peter Jansen,
7948 Derek Terveer, Michel van der List, Richard Lloyd, Shelly Mistry, and Mike
7949 Lee. Sorry if I forgot anyone. Thanks to Virendra Kumar Mehta for
7950 information about DYNIX/ptx.
7952 * Don't exit on keyboard EOF unless we get two in a row.
7954 * WinBoard only: added -localLineEdit switch to allow turning off local
7955 line editing if you really want to. It is still a bad idea to let the
7956 echoing be done remotely, however; see below.
7958 * Fixed some configure problems on HP-UX. [Steve Booth]
7960 * Fixed (I hope) configure problem on SunOS 5.3/Solaris 2.3. [Josef Nelissen]
7962 * cmail bugfix from Evan Welsh (cmail 3.4).
7964 3.1, patchlevel 9 -- Fri Dec 2 23:54:56 1994 Tim Mann
7966 * Beta distribution only
7968 * Always do local echo/edit of user typing in ICS mode. Doing the echo
7969 downstream may seem nicer in some modes, and it can be hard to turn that
7970 echo off, but the echoed characters can be interleaved with ICS output
7971 and make it impossible to parse correctly. For xboard this involved only
7972 a change to recommendations in the man page, as Raw() isn't implemented.
7973 For WinBoard, removing Raw() made a real difference. Added code in
7974 WinBoard to change /r/n back into /r on keyboard input, as we get the
7975 former when Raw() is not called.
7977 * Do not issue ICS "refresh" command after we start to observe a game
7978 unless we get to the next prompt without seeing a board image. Newest
7979 version of ICS doesn't require this refresh, but old versions around still
7982 * cmail bugfix and small code cleanup in LoadGame, from Evan Welsh.
7984 * Added keyboard accelerators N/P for LoadNextGame/LoadPreviousGame. Evan
7987 * Using "-" on the command line as a filename for loading (saving) games
7988 or positions specifies the standard input (standard output). Alain Picard
7991 * On WinBoard only, a command line option without a leading '-' or '/' is
7992 now taken as the value of -lgf.
7994 * Changed to not use stdin, stdout, stderr as initializers in backend.c;
7995 needed for GNU libc compatibility. You also must build parser.c with flex
7996 (not lex) if you are using GNU libc, to avoid having the same problem
7999 * Changed WinBoard to avoid using "overlapped" input on the console. It
8000 now seems to fully work on Windows 95 beta 2.
8002 * Improved comment popups on WinBoard. Now newlines are handled properly,
8003 and the plain Comment popup window doesn't disappear and reappear when we
8004 step to a new move with a new comment.
8006 * Fixed bugs in detecting the absence of the time and otim commands.
8008 * Added built-in implementation of rcmd protocol to WinBoard. Windows NT
8009 does not implement passing signals through rsh, and Windows 95 does not
8012 * Added -remoteUser option.
8014 3.1, patchlevel 8 -- Mon Nov 28 15:26:07 1994 Tim Mann
8016 * Beta distribution only
8018 * Rearranged ChangeLog file into reverse chronological order to be closer
8021 * Integrated new cmail code from Evan Welsh (including cmail RCS rev 3.2).
8022 Includes a bug fix to TruncateGame.
8024 * Updated ICS address to be chess.lm.com.
8026 * Bug fixes to handling the aftermath of FatalError. Thanks to Chris
8027 Petroff for the bug report.
8029 * Test for remsh before rsh, other fixes for HP-UX. Thanks to Richard
8030 Lloyd. I wasn't able to do all the things he suggested, so there may
8031 still be some rough edges in building on HP-UX. See the FAQ file for hints.
8033 * Bug fix; added missing check for HAVE_SYS_SYSTEMINFO. Thanks to Josef
8034 Nelissen for testing on Solaris 2.x.
8036 * Updated WinBoard to match xboard. (WinBoard still has a few option
8037 dialogs that don't exist in xboard.)
8039 * Changed Hint output to a popup.
8041 * ShowThinking output and move output no longer overwrite each other.
8042 ShowThinking output won't appear if the displayed position is not current.
8043 ShowThinking output in TwoMachines mode made clearer and documented.
8045 * Implemented --enable-ptys and --disable-ptys arguments to configure.
8047 * Fixed Book and Hint code to work over a pty with echo enabled and tabs
8048 expanded to spaces. Thanks to Dima Dahknovsky for the bug report.
8050 * Moved Attention calls from all over xboard to one place, inside
8053 * Added bulletproofing to ShowThinkingEvent.
8055 * Added code to handle "refresh N" boards that come in from ICS properly,
8056 assuming ICS is changed to mark them with a new relation code (-3).
8058 3.1, patchlevel 7 -- Sun Nov 13 22:16:01 PST 1994 -- Tim Mann
8060 * Beta distribution only
8062 * Changed ShowThinking to just show the current best line in the
8063 DisplayMessage area, instead of dumping everything to stdout.
8065 * Installed new cmail (RCS rev 3.1) and cmail.man (RCS rev 1.10), and
8066 changes to cmail code in backend.c, from Evan Welsh.
8068 * Miscellaneous minor fixes.
8070 3.1, patchlevel 6 -- Fri Nov 4 12:53:53 PST 1994 -- Tim Mann
8072 * This patchlevel was not actually released to anyone.
8074 * Updated the pty code to be based on GNU Emacs 19.24, and moved it to a
8075 separate file. It was hard to split out just the pty configuration from
8076 all the stuff emacs does with its custom configure script and .h files,
8079 * Converted from imake to GNU autoconf. This was a serious upheaval.
8081 * Put in code to help trap "error gathering move list" problem reported by
8082 Michel van der List if it recurs. I couldn't reproduce it.
8084 3.1, patchlevel 5 -- Mon Oct 31 21:12:00 PST 1994 -- Tim Mann
8086 * Beta distribution only.
8088 * We now test for checkmate or stalemate in EditGame mode after every user
8089 move, and in LoadGame mode whenever we hit the end of a game without
8090 seeing a PGN end marker. cmail needs an update to deal with this
8091 correctly; Evan promises one.
8093 * Bugfixes in new move generator. Thanks to Mike Lee for reporting one of
8096 * Imakefile was omitted from patchlevel 4.
8098 3.1, patchlevel 4 -- Mon Sep 19 18:19:46 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
8100 * Beta distribution only.
8102 * The move generator includes a mate tester. Initially this is used only
8103 by cmail, and even that usage needs further work.
8105 * Wrote a true move generator and used it to replace all the move
8106 disambiguation and legality checking code in parser.l. The move generator
8107 is capable of dealing correctly with en passant and castling availability,
8108 but the rest of the program still does not keep track of this information.
8110 * Bug fix: xboard did not handle "foo has made you an examiner of game 23"
8111 message. Thus you could not use examine features until the next board
8112 came in, showing your new relation to the game. Thanks to POOKIEWOOKIE on ICS
8115 * Added AutoObserve feature. Thanks to Chris Petroff for the idea.
8117 * Added Book feature to use new gnuchess "bk" command. Mike McGann request.
8119 * Redid code to handle missing "time" command in gnuchess, because latest
8120 gnuchess no longer sends a response to this command.
8122 * Eliminated need for -DFLEX. Thanks to Michael Shields (Vladimir?) for
8125 * Added missing code to implement MoveNow in TwoMachines mode.
8127 * Added ShowThinking feature. Thanks to Richard Lloyd for the idea.
8129 * Applied patches from Evan Welsh; some fixes and improvements to the
8132 * Fixed bug in moving from EndOfGame mode to MachineWhite or MachineBlack,
8133 introduced in previous patchlevel. Also fixed related bug in ending a
8134 game in ICS mode; was entering EndOfGame mode instead of IcsIdle.
8136 * Added patch to implement internetChessServerLogonScript flag, from Kevin
8139 3.1, patchlevel 3 -- Wed Sep 7 13:22:07 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
8141 * Beta distribution only.
8143 * Merged in new cmail code from Evan Welsh. He added the ability to have
8144 more than one game per message, needed for official IECG matches. I added
8145 the ability to resign or offer/accept/decline a draw in a cmail game.
8147 * Bugfix: invalid -tc option caused segmentation fault; DisplayFatalError
8148 was called too early in initialization. Georges Honore reported this bug.
8150 * Decided to keep EndOfGame mode as an element of the user interface---it
8151 means that a gnuchess game or loaded game has ended, and the user must
8152 explicitly select EditGame to edit it, rather than just being able to
8153 enter more moves freely. But internally there is no longer an invariant
8154 tying this mode to whether the chess program is running.
8156 * Zippy bugfix: Was saving only the final position in the -sgf file when
8157 the game ended by something other than resignation or flag. Also fixed
8158 the longstanding bug that Zippy would think the final board of such a game
8159 was a new game and restart the chess program.
8161 * Now does a better job of faking castling availability in FEN. We still
8162 don't really keep track of it, but now at least we don't say that castling
8163 is still available when the king or rook is not on its home square.
8165 * Bugfix: Initial board of game history for wild games was going through
8166 too much processing, causing us to forget the game length, which is now
8167 needed by ParseGameHistory. This was causing problems with resuming
8168 adjourned wild games.
8170 * Updated ICS host to ics.onenet.net.
8172 * Zippy now accepts challenges where the opponent specified his color.
8174 * Added ZIPPYPASSWORD2 to let operator give commands directly to gnuchess.
8176 * Bitmap directory can include alternative icons now, too.
8178 * Handle "Game * (*) has no examiners" message from ICS.
8180 * Revamped window title and icon name selection.
8182 3.1, patchlevel 2 -- Sun Jun 12 17:16:28 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
8184 * "Beta" distribution for Zippy users only.
8186 * Bugfix: common.h was assuming that X11 type Boolean is char, which is
8187 not always true. This might have caused all sorts of obscure bugs!
8189 * Installed new bitmaps from Elmar Bartel as the default. Many thanks!
8190 The old bitmaps can be used by changing the "bitmaps" symbolic link before
8191 compiling xboard, or by using the -bitmapDirectory option at runtime.
8193 * Loading a game that ends with the PGN unfinished symbol ("*") now always
8194 leaves you in EditGame mode.
8196 * Added documentation of -icscomm to man page. Thanks to Maarten Remkes
8197 for the linux script.
8199 * ^C now kills gnuchess as well as xboard. Thanks to Dima Dakhnovsky for
8200 reminding me how to do this.
8202 * Bitmap icon color now indicates player to move. Stuart Cracraft
8205 * Changed piece bitmap flags to have just one flag, which points to a
8206 directory full of bitmaps, instead of a flag for each bitmap. Also
8207 changed bitmap naming convention.
8209 * "Connection closed by ICS" is no longer a FatalError popup. This was
8210 too annoying in the normal case where the user typed "quit".
8212 * Changed default font to 14 pixels instead of 10 points. This seems to
8213 make it close to the size I want it to be on more displays.
8215 * Major mode (GNU Chess, etc.) appears in title bar. Stuart Cracraft
8218 * Bug fix: EditGameEvent, MachineBlackEvent, MachineWhiteEvent, and
8219 TwoMachinesEvent were calling PauseEvent to get out of pause mode, which
8220 now has undesired side effects, such as advancing the display to the
8221 forwardMostMove. It works fine to just set pausing = FALSE instead.
8223 * IcsExamining mode now lets you access ICS edit position commands using
8224 the same popup menus as xboard's EditPosition mode. Thanks to DAV on ICS
8225 for inspiring the idea.
8227 * Corrected test for gcc on HP in Imakefile; thanks to Richard Lloyd.
8229 3.1, patchlevel 1 -- Wed Jun 1 16:25:11 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
8231 * Added parser.c.lex and parser.c.flex to the distribution.
8233 * Added HP gcc options to Imakefile, from Mats Nylen.
8235 * EndOfGame mode no longer highlights EditGame mode indicator, because the
8236 modes really do differ. I would like to get rid of EndOfGame mode in the
8237 future, at least as far as users can see.
8239 * Larger %a in parser.l, needed for RS/6000 users.
8241 * Minor improvements to Mail Move error messages.
8243 * When -debug flag is given to xboard, -v is passed to cmail.
8245 * Old Save Style uses "1. ..." instead of "1..." when black moves after a
8246 comment; more like xboard 3.0's actual style.
8248 * New version of cmail from Evan Welsh. Looks for UCB Mail in a more
8249 portable way and has some minor bug fixes.
8251 * Bug fix: Saving a FEN position while in EditPosition mode with black to
8252 play was showing white to play in the saved position.
8254 3.1, patchlevel 0 -- Fri May 20 16:36:15 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
8256 * This is the first general release since 3.0, patchlevel 9. Releases
8257 since then have been limited-distribution or beta releases.
8259 * Thanks to my version 3.1 beta testers: Dmitry Dakhnovsky, Ed Hanway,
8260 Richard Lloyd, Mike McGann, Shelly Mistry, Josef Nelissen, Chris Petroff,
8261 Jack Robertson, Michel van der List, Ky Macpherson, Derek Terveer, and
8262 Evan Welsh. Sorry if I've forgotten anyone who gave me feedback.
8266 * Minor cleanup on menu sensitivity code.
8268 * Integrated another even better version of cmail from Evan Welsh,
8269 including some code he supplied in xboard itself.
8271 * A few more fixes to cmail support.
8273 * Automatically update clocks after an ICS "moretime" command.
8275 * Handle ICS automatic examine mode (set examine 1) after a game.
8277 3.0, patchlevel 14 -- Tue May 17 13:41:44 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
8279 * Beta test release only.
8281 * Don't suppress prompt on first board of game being examined; otherwise
8282 it looks like nothing happened at all (i.e., like you're lagged).
8284 * Added StopExamining and StopObserving (Chris Petroff suggestion).
8286 * Made Reset do a refresh on ICS. John Chanak's original ICS code for
8287 xboard tried to do this; I finally decided it was a good idea after all.
8289 * Fixed bugs in handling updates that come in while you are pausing in
8290 examine mode. This is pretty tricky to do right.
8292 * Made un-Pausing immediately pop you to the current position. This is
8293 always necessary in examine mode, since the game may have changed under
8294 you; your remembered moves might no longer be right. So I made it do the
8297 * Took Detach Examine mode back out...used Pause mode for this instead!
8299 * Put in a trap for the GNU Chess bug of printing an Illegal Move message
8300 when its own hint move is illegal.
8302 * Attempted to fix a Zippy bug; bogus "exited unexpectedly" messages after
8303 it checkmates its opponent. This involved adding an argument to GameEnds
8304 to say who says it ended (ICS, GNU, etc.) and taking different actions in
8305 different cases. Unfortunately, this just restored an older Zippy bug, where
8306 Zippy restarts gnuchess when it gets the board with the final position,
8307 because GameEnds still puts xboard in EndOfGame mode. Sigh.
8309 * We now capture elapsed time on last move when getting game history.
8310 (Josef Nelissen bug report)
8312 * Rewrote code to redisplay last file title so it really works.
8314 * Fixed bug in oldSaveStyle.
8316 * Larger %a and %o were needed for lex.
8318 3.0, patchlevel 13 -- Mon May 16 16:26:22 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
8320 * Beta test release only.
8322 * FatalError popups stay on the screen now. If the error is really fatal,
8323 all functions are disabled, and the program exits when you press OK.
8325 * Redisplay last file title when using Load (Next/Previous/Same) Game.
8327 * Zippy understands new match challenge message format on ICS.
8329 * Added Revert command.
8331 * When examining a game on ICS, < > buttons do ICS backward/forward
8332 commands, unless you set the Detach Examine option. Thanks to Dima
8333 Dakhnovsky for the idea.
8335 * Fixed various minor problems in cmail mode.
8337 * cmail generates the tags now. New version of cmail from Evan Welsh.
8339 * cmail mode won't let you do MailMove unless the currently displayed
8340 position is exactly one move past the end of the game you loaded.
8342 * Fixed building of man pages in Imakefile
8344 * Updates to INSTALL file
8346 3.0, patchlevel 12 -- Sat May 7 21:10:03 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
8348 * Beta test release only.
8350 * Brought man page up to date.
8352 * Added Shift+R to resign from keyboard.
8354 * Some items on Action menu available in GNU Chess mode now.
8356 * Revamped Action menu.
8358 * Reordered functions in backend.c as a small step toward reorganizing
8361 * Generate TimeControl PGN tag.
8363 * Get type of ICS game (e.g., rated blitz) and save in PGN tags.
8365 * Bug fix: Clocks were not redisplayed when entering EditGame mode.
8367 * Bug fix: Clocks were not being redisplayed after loading a game file
8368 with -td 0, so they could show the wrong color active.
8370 * Bug fix: Chess programs would be killed and match mode would exit
8371 prematurely when loading a PGN game fragment ending with "*".
8373 * ICS command "sposition" no longer confuses xboard.
8375 * Integrated new version of cmail (with support code in xboard) from Evan
8378 * Added TruncateGame, MoveNow, RetractMove, and QuietPlay.
8380 * Bug fix: switching between MachineWhite and MachineBlack was not calling
8381 Attention(). Reported by Dino Dini.
8383 * More improvements to INSTALL and Imakefile.
8385 * Pack moves into 79 character lines in PGN output. We don't generate
8386 check indications, and we always break the line before the result,
8387 so this is not quite PGN export format.
8389 * Use FEN tag in PGN.
8391 * Improved finding and counting of game starts in save files.
8393 * Negative position or game numbers in -lpi/-lgi mean to seek to that byte
8394 offset. Hook for possible future features, not in man page.
8396 * Detect and handle absence of either "time" or "otim" commands in
8399 * Don't use "promote" command to ICS anymore.
8401 * Handle switching sides and taking back moves on FICS.
8403 * Handle flip state flag in style 12 board.
8405 * Handle examine mode on ICS.
8407 * Improved error popups for various kinds of illegal moves.
8409 * Suppress unasked-for hints from gnuchess (which it generates in post
8412 * Load/save position functions use FEN. Old style also supported.
8414 * Added detailed error messages if loading a bitmap file fails.
8416 * Small board has 2-pixel lines between squares instead of 3-pixel.
8418 * Added OldSaveStyle and AboutGame.
8420 * Renamed ForceMoves to EditGame.
8422 3.0, patchlevel 11 -- Tue Sep 21 15:25:36 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
8424 * The following changes were present in xboard 3.0, patchlevel 11, but the
8425 first group did not make it into WinBoard 3.0 until later. xboard
8426 3.0.pl11 was a limited-distribution release only, mostly to Zippy users.
8428 * Man page minor fixes.
8430 * Added a missing file close.
8432 * Removed automatic error popdown on Reset, which was destroying some
8433 error messages before they could be read.
8435 * Fixed char vs. unsigned char warnings on bitmaps.
8437 * Use ICS board style 12. Some improvements to ICS parsing.
8439 * Comment window is now labelled with the move the comment is on, and
8440 comments don't pop down when you step to the next move.
8442 * Save files now in PGN format.
8444 * Support for loading PGN files. PGN tags pop up when a PGN game file
8447 * More info in INSTALL and Imakefile about building for Suns (and
8450 * WinBoard 3.0 patchlevel 11 split off from an early version of xboard
8451 3.0 patchlevel 11, so it does not have all the features of that
8452 patchlevel. The following changes made it into both xboard and
8455 * Made Comment dialog non-modal in WinBoard.
8457 * EndOfGame mode is now more transparent. It looks like ForceMoves
8458 mode except that there is no chess program running.
8460 * Small bug fixes in clock management. Most noticeably, pausing when
8461 it is gnuchess's move now works as documented (again).
8463 * Add minimal support for -icscomm option. Not documented yet because
8464 I haven't sorted out the issues with setting the tty modes on the comm
8465 port device, or with locking it properly. But it's usable by wizards.
8467 * Don't restart the chess program upon Backward event from EndOfGame mode.
8469 * Suppress extra prompt after ICS sends us a board.
8471 3.0, patchlevel 10 -- Sat Sep 11 18:44:03 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
8473 * Beta test release only.
8475 * Zippy now plays chess. zippy.c and zippy.h are still not included
8476 in the standard distribution, but are available on request.
8478 * Switched to using style 12 on ICS.
8480 * Updated man page, and documented use of XBoard*form.translations to
8481 add more shortcut keys.
8483 * Added shortcut keys "d" to claim/offer/accept a draw, and "t" to
8484 call flag. Suggested by venu on ICS.
8486 * More explicit instructions in INSTALL file.
8488 3.0, patchlevel 9 -- Tue Sep 7 14:02:00 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
8490 * General release, minor update to 3.0.pl8.
8492 * Loosened checking on whether it's okay to start a move, to satisfy
8493 ICS ultra-blitz players. Now we don't check whether it's your turn
8494 until you let go of the piece.
8496 * Parser now recognizes "+-+" as meaning the game ended in a draw.
8498 * Got rid of S_NONE symbol, which seems to conflict with some symbol
8501 * Tweaked the man page. Clarified that there is currently no way for
8502 two people running copies of xboard to play each other without going
8503 through the Internet Chess Server.
8505 * Fixed a bug in color name conversion. Asking for two different
8506 colors whose names were the same in the first four characters would
8507 get you two copies of the first one. Thanks to Volker Zink for the
8510 * Improved confusing Usage() message.
8512 * Added a bunch of Sun information to the Imakefile and INSTALL file.
8513 Thanks to Ed Hanway, Arik Klingensmith, and others who responded.
8515 * Test for defined(WIN32) instead of !defined(unix).
8517 * Avoid using (void *) type with non-ANSI C compilers. Thanks to
8518 James Altucher for the bug report.
8520 3.0, patchlevel 8 -- Thu Sep 2 12:23:01 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
8522 * Note: Patchlevel 8 was the first non-beta release of xboard 3.0
8524 * Added cmail to distribution. Contributed (and still maintained) by
8527 * Bug fix: -queen option wasn't initializing menu check. Reported by
8530 3.0, patchlevel 7 -- Thu Aug 26 13:23:24 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
8532 * Sent WinBoard 3.0.pl7 to Torre on ICS
8534 * Added parser.h to hold the interface to parser.l
8536 * Upgraded COPYING file and copyright notices to GNU GPL version 2.
8538 3.0, patchlevel 6 -- Tue Aug 24 15:16:13 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
8540 * We no longer display intermediate positions or intermediate comments
8541 while loading a game file with -timeDelay 0 or loading an opening to
8542 start up a -matchMode game.
8544 * Loading an empty game from an xboard save file now gives a status
8545 message "No moves in game" instead of an error popup saying "Game not
8548 * Added comment.awk to distribution.
8550 3.0, patchlevel 5 -- Tue Aug 17 16:45:54 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
8552 * Bug fix: xboard would crash if it couldn't get all its colors; now
8553 it switches to monoMode instead. Also, xboard was trying to convert
8554 color resources even when using a b/w display. Reported by Larry
8557 * Bug fix: Declared fields of TimeMark as signed so that we get signed
8558 instead of unsigned arithmetic. SubtractTimeMarks was breaking on
8559 Alpha AXP (which has 64-bit longs) with old declarations. Reported by
8560 Michel van der List.
8562 * Bug fixes: Keyboard accelerators now work after EditComment window is
8563 popped down. Iconize keyboard accelerator now works even if xboard
8564 was started with -iconic flag and later deiconized.
8566 * Bug fix: The routine that tests whether a move is illegal because it
8567 would leave you in check was not handling e.p. captures properly.
8568 Reported by Patrick Surry.
8570 * Bug (?) fix: Was adding time to clocks at time control even when
8571 loading a game file. Actually it's not entirely clear how time
8572 controls should be dealt with when some moves are loaded from a file
8573 or clicked in with ForceMoves. For now ForceMoves mode does add the
8574 time (because it can be used to change moves during a live game), but
8575 LoadGame mode does not.
8577 * Updated usage message.
8579 * Previous attempted fix to matchMode had broken TwoMachines mode and
8580 generally needed more work. Also simplified command line interface to
8583 3.0, patchlevel 4 -- Thu Aug 5 14:17:18 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
8585 * Thanks again to the beta testers listed for 3.0 patchlevel 3, and also
8586 Desnogues, Steve Cariglia, Niklas Engsner, Mark Silver, and Roger Rowe.
8588 * Reorganized man page, splitting OPTIONS into subsections.
8590 * matchMode was very broken; fixed.
8592 * Changed convention for turning off command line options from --opt
8593 to -xopt, to be less inconsistent with GNU standards. Also changed
8594 the long command line options to take True/False arguments like
8595 resources; seems to make more sense this way.
8597 * Added AlwaysQueen option -- suppresses promotion dialog and always
8598 promotes to a queen if you move a pawn to the last rank. Has no
8599 effect on gnuchess (or your ICS opponents!) -- they can still
8602 * Subtracted an extra fudge term when determining how wide message and
8603 title widgets should be. This fixes a problem some beta testers had.
8604 Wish I knew why it's needed.
8606 * Bugfix in parser; symptom was that you couldn't do LoadGame after
8607 observing a game on ICS.
8609 * Bugfix in Forward; didn't work after game ended while Pause was turned on.
8611 * Removed bogus execute bits on .h files.
8613 * Use REMOTE_SHELL and TELNET_PROGRAM definitions.
8615 * MachineWhite and MachineBlack now work from TwoMachines mode.
8617 * Popping down an error message with the [ok] button was not turning off
8618 the errorUp flag, so the next move would cause xboard to try to pop it
8619 down again, resulting in a wild memory reference and sometimes a crash.
8621 3.0, patchlevel 3 -- Tue Aug 3 17:40:27 1993 -- Tim Mann
8623 * Thanks to my beta testers: Patrick Surry, Takuya Kojima, Robert J. Luoma,
8624 Chris L. Petroff, Richard K. Lloyd, Michel van der List, Craig Metz,
8625 Antoon Frehe, Simon Clift, Shelly, Eric Peterson, Christopher Mitchell,
8626 Martin Koch, Ed Hanway, Steve Booth, Udo, Ken Hobday, and Joseph Duhamel.
8628 * Improved error messages for trying to move the wrong color pieces or
8629 to move when it's not your turn.
8631 * Special code for monoMode on 1-bit displays now understands displays
8632 where 1=white and 0=black.
8634 * Declare getenv() if <stdlib.h> not included; avoids a compiler warning.
8636 * Documented borderXoffset and borderYoffset.
8638 * Added -titleInWindow option for use with X window managers that
8639 don't let us set the title in the window banner.
8641 * Fixed error message printing in WinBoard; system error messages no
8642 longer appear as numeric codes.
8644 * The error message popup is now non-modal; you don't have to press the
8645 [ok] button before you can do something else. In addition, the popup is
8646 positioned so that it doesn't cover up the board (too much), and making a
8647 move or otherwise clicking on the board pops it down. (Not implemented in
8650 * You can now call your opponent's flag in ICS mode by clicking on his
8653 * Fixed minor bugs in -flipView option and documented exactly how xboard
8654 decides which way to flip the view.
8656 3.0, patchlevel 2 -- Fri Jul 30 22:20:23 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
8658 * Added Autosave to Options menu. Would be better to have Save
8659 Options dialog as in WinBoard, but this was quick to do and gives the
8660 most-needed functionality.
8662 * Changed "Reload Game" on menu to "Reload Same Game".
8664 3.0, patchlevel 1 -- Thu Jul 8 21:22:59 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
8666 * Sent a copy of patchlevel 1 to Patrick Surry to beta-test.
8668 * Added -cmail option that sets appData.cmailMode. Currently a no-op.
8669 In the future this may set special modes for use by the cmail script
8670 for playing chess by email.
8672 * Added LoadNextGame, LoadPreviousGame, and ReloadGame to File menu.
8673 ReloadGame suggested by Patrick Surry.
8675 * Added -flipView command-line option. Suggested by Patrick Surry.
8677 * Fixed bugs in parser.l: (1) Pattern for "# xboard game file ..."
8678 needed to match to end of line. (2) Start of a new file was not matching
8679 the ^ start-of-line character. The fix for this is a kludge.
8681 * Made game counting code in LoadGame more robust, and made LoadGame
8682 able to detect the end of a saved partial game (by noticing the start
8683 of the next game) in game files created by XBoard itself. We don't
8684 try to find the start of the next game that way in other kinds of game
8685 files, because the only way I can think of to do that is to look for
8686 another move #1, and that technique gets too many false hits.
8688 * Fixed recently introduced bug in LoadGame when game starts with a
8691 3.0, patchlevel 0 -- Fri Jun 25 14:17:17 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
8693 * Changes in this patchlevel were too numerous to list. Larger ones are
8696 * Added a popup dialog to enter and edit comments. Inspired by some
8697 code from Patrick Surry. Changed the normal read-only comment popup
8700 * Added ICS init script feature from Karl Schwamb.
8702 * Added some ESIX fixes and OMIT_SOCKETS ifdef option, from Kayvan Sylvan.
8704 * Revamped code to allow use of flex instead of lex on parser.l.
8705 Using flex requires adding -DFLEX to defines in Imakefile.
8707 * Source code is split into front end (xboard.c), which knows about X
8708 and Unix, and back end (backend.c), which knows about chess, gnuchess,
8709 and the ICS. There is also a front end for Windows NT.
8711 * Boolean command line options now use "-foo" to turn on and "--foo"
8712 to turn off instead of "-foo true" and "-foo false". [Later -xfoo;
8715 * Added menu commands to control autoflag, bell, and coords options.
8717 * User interface has a new look: (1) Menu bar instead of array of
8718 buttons. A few very commonly used features have small buttons in
8719 addition to being on the menus. (2) Large font for clock. (3) Pop-up
8722 2.1, patchlevel 11 -- Sat Jun 5 00:01:01 PDT 1993 -- mann@src.dec.com
8724 * Added code to deal with "wild" games on ICS. This includes allowing
8725 castling with the king on d1 or d8, which is allowed in wild(1) games
8726 if the king started there. Notation is o-o to castle "short"---to
8727 whichever side the king is closer to---and o-o-o to castle "long."
8728 Right now wild castling is always allowed by xboard; we rely on ICS or
8729 gnuchess to reject it when we aren't really in wild mode.
8731 * memcpy call had arguments in wrong order.
8733 * Removed April Fool code
8735 2.1, patchlevel 10 -- Mon Feb 15 10:19:31 PST 1993 -- mann@src.dec.com
8737 * Avoid trying to select on a pipe when using System V. Needed to
8738 copy some code from InitChessProgram() up into establish().
8740 * Bug fix in disambiguating pawn moves like "ed".
8742 * Fix to error handling in ReceiveFromProgram.
8744 * Bug fix: entering EditPosition mode with black to play highlighted
8745 White's clock instead of Black's.
8747 * Added telnetProgram resource in case "telnet" is not the name of the
8750 2.1, patchlevel 9 -- Fri Jan 22 19:08:27 PST 1993 -- mann@src.dec.com
8752 * Entering Force Moves mode clears "flag has fallen" messages from display.
8754 * ICS host name can now be in numeric format; for example 128.2.232.4.
8756 * Bug fix: LegalityTest was failing to test whether a pawn move was
8757 illegal because the move would discover a check.
8759 * Handle ICS message "mann asserts a win over manntest, who disconnected."
8761 * Bug fix: A recent change to PromotionCallBack had broken
8762 underpromotion to a knight.
8764 * Bug fix: In EditPosition mode, dragging a piece onto a square border
8765 would make it vanish. xboard wasn't distinguishing this case from
8766 dragging the piece off the board. Thanks to Matthew Kidd.
8768 * Removed "static" declaration from yywrap for compatibility with IRIX
8769 version of lex. Thanks to stiller@blaze.cs.jhu.edu.
8771 * Added substitutes for bzero, bcopy, and gethostname for Solaris
8772 SVR4. Thanks to Michael Grant.
8774 * Bug fixes to queen move disambiguation. Bugs showed up only when
8775 promotion resulted in more than one queen on the board.
8777 2.1, patchlevel 8 -- Fri Dec 11 17:54:18 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
8779 * parser bug fix: It now really works to leave off the piece a pawn is
8780 promoting to and let it default to queen.
8782 * When starting to observe or play an ICS game, don't draw board in
8783 initial position and then immediately redraw it in the current
8786 * Handle ICS messages when an "abuser" forfeits a game by
8787 disconnecting and when a game is aborted ("removed") by an
8790 * Bug fix: A user move when in LoadGame+Pause mode was resuming the
8791 game load instead of putting us in force mode.
8793 * It seems that crashes inside sscanf when xboard is compiled with gcc
8794 (as on IBM PS/2 AIX, mentioned below, and also on VAX Ultrix 3.1) are
8795 caused by an incompatibility between gcc and the sscanf implementation
8796 on these platforms. A workaround is to specify -fwritable-strings to
8797 gcc (see the gcc documentation). Added info on how to do this to the
8798 Imakefile. Thanks to Tom McConnell for this information.
8800 * Clocks are allowed to go negative. This is mostly for ICS
8801 compatibility, but it affects gnuchess mode too. Also, we give the
8802 time bonus when a player hits the time control boundary even if his
8803 flag is already down. This choice is a bit debatable, but it makes
8804 things look better when you are in TwoMachines mode and gnuchess's
8805 time management screws up causing it to exceed its time limit.
8807 * Implemented move legality checking code. Moves made with the mouse
8808 or parsed from a file are checked for legality before being made.
8809 This is mostly in preparation for future extensions, such as
8810 human-human play. For now it makes -noChessProgram mode more useful.
8812 * If the user takes back moves, we restore the clocks to the earlier
8815 * We now handle the output of the ICS oldmoves command, including
8816 parsing the game end condition.
8818 * Added autoCallFlag mode.
8820 * Fixed glitches in the medium size outline king and rook bitmaps, and
8821 touched up the medium size solid king and outline queen.
8823 * bug fix: DisplayMove would not display backwardMostMove - 1.
8825 * Added CallFlag button and removed AcceptMatch. CallFlag is more
8826 important with new ICS, and accepting the current match offer is easy
8827 with the new ICS command "accept" (can be abbreviated "ac").
8829 * LoadGame and LoadPosition display tail of file name (plus index
8830 number, if any) as title.
8832 * MachineWhite, MachineBlack, and TwoMachines now work properly from
8833 LoadGame and LoadGame+Pause mode.
8835 * Use o-o and o-o-o to castle on ICS, not 00 and 000.
8837 * Stripped out code for old ICS messages; new ICS is now installed.
8839 * Bug fix: don't offer autosave when paused during LoadGame.
8841 2.1, patchlevel 7 - Fri Dec 11 17:40:56 PST 1992 - mann@src.dec.com
8843 * Track change to "Illegal move" message in new ICS.
8845 2.1, patchlevel 6 -- Tue Dec 8 10:48:44 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
8847 * Kludged around bug in keeping comment popup where you put it by
8848 adding borderXoffset and borderYoffset resources that give the width
8849 of the borders added by the window manager. Yucch.
8851 * Changed searchDepth kludge back to using "help" instead of "bd"; the
8852 latter didn't work because the output contains a line starting with
8853 "White", so we think gnuchess is telling us that White won. Oops.
8855 * Removed some code that uses an X11R5 feature, XrmGetDatabase.
8856 Without this, the auto font sizing code is harder to make work, so to
8857 keep my sanity I had to change it to affect only the fonts that appear
8858 in the main window and the comment popup, not the other popups. Maybe
8859 this is better anyway.
8861 * AcceptMatch button now works after a counterchallenge, too.
8863 * Added code for more variants of messages about games being adjourned
8864 or aborted. These messages need to be unified in new version of ICS.
8866 * Added workaround for minor bug in ICS; game number on first board
8869 * Removed code to say "refresh n" instead of "refresh"; was broken and
8870 wasn't needed anyway.
8872 * Added missing casts for compilers that distinguish enums from ints
8873 and missing cast in connect call.
8875 * Added code to recognize "both sides are out of time" draw message
8876 proposed for next version of ICS.
8878 * Thanks to Danny Sleator and Joe Peterson for bug reports.
8880 2.1, patchlevel 5 -- Sun Dec 6 19:52:40 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
8882 * Removed gcc and CDEBUGFLAGS from Imakefile.
8884 * Corrected setting of mode to ForceMoves when game file ends or
8885 contains an AmbiguousMove or BadMove. Previous bug was harmless.
8887 * Added AcceptMatch button and mention of 50-move rule for Draw button
8890 2.1, patchlevel 4 -- Sun Dec 6 02:55:42 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
8892 * Now handles revised messages from new version of ICS. New ICS is
8893 not released yet, so this code might change further. Next patchlevel
8894 will remove support for old ICS; both are there now.
8896 * Initial processing for a new game being watched or played now
8897 happens when we see the first board image. Removes the need to parse
8898 some messages and unifies some code.
8900 2.1, patchlevel 3 -- Tue Dec 1 19:40:40 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
8902 * Handles ICS messages "Draw : neither player has mating
8903 material" and "Draw : White has no material, Black has no time."
8905 * Added AcceptMatch button for ICS mode.
8907 * Fixed bug in previous fix to yylexstr().
8909 * Fixed bugs in code for loading old position files that don't start
8910 with "#" and for handling case where user asked for nth position in
8911 file but there aren't that many.
8913 * Handles ICS message "* has restored your old game"
8915 * ResetProc always clears title line now.
8917 * Don't issue just "refresh" when watching a game; use game number.
8918 Upcoming new version of ICS may need this.
8920 * Added code to try to prevent user from watching and/or playing more
8921 than one game at a time. There is a race condition inherent here; if
8922 we get more than one board from the game before our command to stop
8923 watching it takes effect, we'll think the user started it again. Not
8924 clear how to fix this.
8926 * Redid ParseBoard8 to use sscanf. Code is a good deal cleaner now.
8927 Also, we now parse out the game number too, though we don't make much
8930 * (Tried to put in a feature that recognizes the current game in a
8931 game file must have ended when we see the start of a new one, but had
8932 to disable it because we have too many false hits with the current
8933 parser, especially in gnuchess listing files.)
8935 * Moves read from game files or received from ICS are now translated
8936 into canonical algebraic form just like all other moves. Minor nit:
8937 If you use Reset while playing or observing a game in ICS mode, the
8938 game history (including the current board position) is lost, so the
8939 next move of the current game can't be translated.
8941 * Default fonts now vary with board size, and are chosen by pixel size
8942 instead of point size (since piece bitmaps have a fixed pixel size).
8944 * Bug fix: An extra Forward was required to skip over time indications
8947 2.1 patchlevel 2 -- Fri Nov 27 23:30:00 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
8949 * If you move the comment popup, the next time it pops up it will come
8950 back where you put it.
8952 * Fixed yylexstr() so calls to it can be interspersed with calls to
8955 * Fixed bugs in Forward/Backward while in LoadGame mode.
8957 * Changed Save{Game,Position} functions to append instead of
8958 overwriting if file exists. Changed Load{Game,Position} functions to
8959 deal with multiple games/positions per file.
8961 * Changed load{Game,Position}File resources to trigger automatic load
8962 on program startup. Changed save{Game,Position}File resources to
8963 trigger automatic save after every completed game and on program exit.
8965 * Added autoSaveGames mode.
8967 * Fixed bug with PromoPiece in call to MakeAlg from MakeMove.
8969 * Many changes to get rid of picky compiler warnings and generally
8972 2.1 patchlevel 1 -- Fri Nov 27 02:45:00 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
8974 * A last minute change before patchlevel 0 went out broke
8975 ParseGameHistory(). Immediately fixed in patchlevel 1.
8977 Version 2.1, patchlevel 0 -- Fri Nov 27 02:00:00 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
8979 * Uses "time" command of gnuchess 4.0 and following to keep clocks in
8980 sync. Still works with older versions without this command; we test
8981 whether the command is present the first time each chess program is
8984 * File name dialog pops up under the mouse cursor, so that it's got the
8985 keyboard focus if the window manager is using pointer focus.
8987 * Attempts to move the wrong color piece or an empty square are filtered
8988 out in xboard instead of being passed on to GNU Chess or the ICS.
8990 * The reason a game ended is now remembered even if you move backward
8991 and forward after it ends. It is forgotten only if you make a move
8992 (which is as it should be---this is now a different game, which hasn't
8993 ended yet). The message saying why the game ended no longer wipes out
8996 * Pause, Backward, Forward, ForceMoves, and EditPosition now work from
8999 * Forward and Backward now change only the board display unless you
9000 are in ForceMoves mode. Pause mode keeps new moves that are received
9001 from being displayed on your screen until you unpause (or use
9004 * Added option to ring the bell after opponents' moves.
9006 * Saved games that start from other than the standard initial position
9007 now begin with a postion diagram as in saved position files. The
9008 loader is modified to understand such save files.
9010 * Improved error checking when trying to read from gnuchess.
9012 * Parser understands things that look like time indications, e.g., (0:12),
9013 instead of popping them up as comments.
9015 * Send "quit" to gnuchess before trying to kill it. I needed this
9016 locally because sending a SIGTERM to rsh was not killing the remote
9017 program on some internal field test systems we have.
9019 * Merged in code from John Chanak to make xboard a front end to the
9020 Internet Chess Server, and added several improvements of my own.
9021 (These include parsing end of game messages, loading the current state
9022 and previous history of a game that's joined in progress via "watch"
9023 or "load", automatic switch from board style 1 to 8 when needed,
9024 removing irrelevant buttons and adding some new ones, adding the
9025 useTelnet and gateway resources, and miscellaneous code cleanup, bug
9026 fixes, and documentation.) Many thanks to John for writing and
9027 contributing the initial version of this code.
9029 Fri Oct 30 20:16:40 PST 1992 (patchlevel 25) mann@src.dec.com
9031 * gnuchess now castles by sending us "o-o" or "o-o-o" (starting with a
9032 preliminary version of 4.0.pl60 that I have). Added code to handle
9033 this. The old format ("e1g1", etc.) still works too.
9035 * Added code to format moves in normal abbreviated algebraic notation
9036 (for example, e4, exd4, f8Q, Nf6, 0-0) instead of coordinate algebraic
9037 (for example, e2e4, e3d4, f7f8q, g1f6, e1g1). Moves entered with the
9038 mouse or received from gnuchess are translated into this canonical
9039 format for display on the message line or in saved game files. Moves
9040 read from game files are not translated, however; they are shown and
9041 saved just as they appear in the file.
9043 Mon Sep 14 13:19:01 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 24) mann@src.dec.com
9045 * It's not really correct to write an ep capture of a pawn on e5 as
9046 fxe5; this should be written as fxe6 because e6 is where the capturing
9047 pawn ends up. Nevertheless, the parser now interprets fxe5 as the ep
9048 capture f5xe6 unless there is a pawn on f4, in which case it
9049 interprets fxe5 as f4xe5. By design, the parser does not flag fxe5 as
9050 ambiguous if there are pawns on both f4 and f5; instead it prefers the
9051 more legitimate f4xe5 interpretation.
9053 * A move like fxe6 or fe6 is now interpreted as an e.p. capture of the
9054 pawn on e5 if there is one there and e6 is empty.
9056 * A move like fxe5 can no longer be interpreted as an e.p. capture if
9057 there isn't a pawn on e5 to be captured. Previously this could happen
9058 erroneously if there were pawns on both f4 and f5, and the f4 pawn was
9059 capturing a piece on e5.
9061 * The parser no longer munges the move it is parsing; in the past, for
9062 instance, it would remove the "x" from a move like dxc5 before echoing
9065 * The parser now detects when a move is ambiguous and returns an
9066 error, instead of arbitrarily choosing one possibility as it used to.
9068 Mon Aug 10 18:40:47 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 23) mann@src.dec.com
9070 * Added code so parser can handle fully qualified algebraic, e.g.,
9071 Ng1-f3, N/g1-f3, Ng1f3, or even Pe2-e4. The "P" and "/" work only for
9072 fully qualified moves, not generally.
9074 * Fixed parser bugs in handling moves with rank or file disambiguator,
9077 Mon Jul 6 17:55:32 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 22) mann@src.dec.com
9079 * AIXV3 patch from Tom McConnell; thanks!
9081 * After hitting the Backward button we see the last move made instead of
9082 the word "Pausing" displayed.
9084 * Fixed a couple of problems compiling on IRIX; thanks to Michel Arsenault
9085 and Alan Walsh for bug reports and help with fixes.
9087 * Added optional display of algebraic notation coordinates along left and
9088 bottom edges of board. This was inspired by some code from Jean-Christophe
9091 * Swapped EditPosition and Pause buttons to reduce danger of losing the
9092 game in progress by hitting EditPosition when you wanted Backward. Thanks
9093 to Ove Lundberg for complaining (though it bugged me too).
9095 * Despite one complaint, I kept the feature of changing both clocks when black
9096 makes time control, rather than changing each individually when the player
9097 involved makes it. This is to avoid having it look like White is way ahead on
9098 time while Black is thinking about the last move of the time control period
9099 (i.e., when White has made time control but Black hasn't yet).
9101 * Corrected clocks to work as in real tournaments. Time is *added* when you
9102 reach time control; previously the clocks were simply set to the length of the
9103 new time period. Also, when a player's flag falls, he still does not receive a
9104 new time allotment at the next time control, but his opponent does still
9105 receive more time if *his* flag has not fallen; previously, time controls were
9106 ignored for both players if either flag fell. I forget who reported this bug.
9108 * Added a small ESIX patch from Kayvan Sylvan.
9110 Mon Jun 22 13:24:38 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 21)
9112 * Added some SVR4 support code from Ronald Cole. It's Greek to me.
9114 * Note: Stephen Meatheringham reports a bug causing xboard to crash with an
9115 error from the X server when run on a Sun Sparcstation IPX with Solaris 1.0.1
9116 and OpenWindows 3.0. This bug has not been tracked down yet.
9118 * Fixed a problem with ATTENTION code. On some operating systems, you have to
9119 be even more cautious about when you send a SIGINT to gnuchess, because the
9120 signal handler gets deinstalled each time it is used, and gnuchess does not
9121 reinstall it immediately. In particular, if you send a SIGINT and make an
9122 illegal move or ask for a hint, gnuchess does not reinstall the handler until
9123 *after* you make your next move, so you had better not send a SIGINT before
9124 it. I put a workaround for this case into xboard; I hope there are no more.
9126 * The ATTENTION code is needed when compiling for the ESIX operating system,
9127 because ESIX has a bug in the FIONREAD ioctl, so the code in gnuchess that
9128 lets you interrupt its thinking on your time just by typing in your move does
9129 not work. Perhaps gnuchess will have a workaround for this eventually.
9131 * Fixed yet another bug in using XtGetValues; code to inhibit shell resizing
9132 was leaving a null pointer as the place to store the current sizes.
9134 * Man page fixes: corrected -sl to -sd, updated LIMITATIONS.
9136 * Added include of <sys/time.h> conditional on HAS_GETTIMEOFDAY. I hope this
9137 works for all systems; on mine, <time.h> and <sys/time.h> are the same file,
9138 but with an #ifndef that makes it harmless to include both.
9140 * Thanks for reports from Mike Pearlman, Stephen Meatheringham, Kayvan Sylvan,
9141 d87-mal@nada.kth.se, Urban Koistinen, and Ronald Cole.
9143 Mon Jun 8 11:39:18 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 20)
9145 * Documented default value of initString and explained what it means. This
9146 paragraph also serves to inform the user that xboard by default will tell
9147 gnuchess to think on his time, something one user apparently didn't understand.
9149 * Redid -searchDepth (formerly -searchLevel) and -searchTime code. They both
9150 work correctly with gnuchess 3.1 now. The -searchDepth option also works
9151 correctly with gnuchess 4.0. The -searchTime option does not work with
9152 gnuchess 4.0.pl50 or earlier because those gnuchess versions do not have a
9153 working searchTime feature. Instead of having xboard do a half-baked emulation
9154 of this feature by using a 1-move time control, I will be submitting a patch to
9155 the gnuchess folks to restore the feature as in 3.1.
9157 * Improved clock code. It now keeps accurate track of fractional seconds of
9158 clock running time, if your system has gettimeofday(); if not, it is generous
9159 about them---if a clock has been going for n.m seconds when it is stopped, only
9160 n seconds are charged. Previously, xboard would charge one second immediately
9161 when a clock was started, so if n.m had elapsed when it was stopped, n+1 would
9162 be charged. This should stop xboard from thinking gnuchess has let its flag
9163 fall on the last move of a time control, as it often did before. I also
9164 improved the comments and condensed the code a little. I hope there are no
9165 systems that have X11 and don't have gettimeofday(), but if there are, I'd like
9166 to know what to replace it with.
9168 * "Flag dropped" messages now show up on the top line, beside the clocks, so
9169 that they don't obscure more interesting messages on the second line.
9171 * Fixed confusion of NULL and '\000'.
9173 * Include time.h to get ctime() declaration.
9175 * Fix to "parser bug" messages in parser.l.
9177 * Changed code to work with old-fashioned tolower() macro that requires its
9178 argument to be an uppercase letter.
9180 * Minor fix to some usage error messages; was reversing program name and
9181 erroneous argument value.
9183 * Thanks to Mitch Wright, Ranier Orth, and Henrik Schmiediche for bug reports.
9185 Fri Jun 5 13:06:08 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 19)
9187 * Note: xboard does not seem to work when compiled with gcc 1.40 on a
9188 PS/2 running AIX. It crashes at the sscanf in line 768 of xboard.c.
9189 You can work around the problem by specifying the -timeControl option
9190 on the command line instead of defaulting it. This does not seem to
9191 be a bug in xboard itself; it runs okay on PS/2 AIX when compiled with
9192 MetaWare High C. [But see 2.1.pl8 above.]
9194 * Removed bogus files from distribution.
9196 * Changed variable name that conflicted with SVR4 ttyname function.
9198 * Thanks to Christoph Strozyk for another bug report, and to several
9199 of the folks mentioned under patchlevel 18 for testing it.
9201 Wed Jun 3 17:50:37 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 18) mann@src.dec.com
9203 * Added an include of sys/fcntl.h to pick up the definition of O_RDWR for
9206 * Fixed a bug in CatchPipeSignal; was testing the wrong variable to determine
9207 which chess program got the signal.
9209 * Removed the declaration of strrchr, which was causing problems for some
9210 people, and added an include of <string.h> or <strings.h> instead.
9212 * Fixed a bunch of type errors uncovered by compilers that check more carefully
9213 than the one I was using. I just patched many of them with casts---typically
9214 cases where a function didn't take the same number and type of arguments as the
9215 X header file prototype said it should---because I didn't see any other way to
9216 fix them. The versions of the X header files that I have don't actually have
9217 full prototypes for these function types; they declare only the return type and
9218 just give the argument types as comments.
9220 * InitChessProgram returns immediately if chess program died while we were
9221 waiting for it to say "Chess". I think this fixes a bug that could make xboard
9222 crash or go into an infinite loop printing "Warning: Select failed; error code
9223 9" if gnuchess crashed there.
9225 * Removed code that tries to put the file descriptor used to read messages from
9226 gnuchess into nonblocking mode. I don't see how this kludge could ever have
9227 fixed the problem it was intended to (see below), and it seemed to be causing
9228 a race condition when we were waiting for the initial message from gnuchess
9229 after it started up.
9231 * Thanks to Richard K. Lloyd, Konstantinos Konstantinides, Mark
9232 Seiden, Erik Schoenfelder, Andreas Stolcke, Rainer Orth, Henry Thomas,
9233 and Kris Van Hees for bug reports and help with fixes.
9235 Sun May 31 08:00:00 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 17) Bart Massey bart@cs.uoregon.edu
9237 * 'xboard' suffered from a couple of serious bugs. An initial
9238 size needed to be given to the message label to avoid a race
9239 condition (!) so I gave it some text (otherwise occasionally
9240 xboard would fail because the message widget was 0 width under
9241 MIT X11R4). The sizes needed to be Dimension, not int, because
9242 they were written in by Xt -- on my big-endian box Dimension
9243 is short, causing chaos. Also, I hacked a declaration in for
9244 strrchr() to shut the compiler up -- this is arguably a kludge,
9245 but I couldn't think of anything better; maybe you can.
9247 Fri May 22 13:40:50 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 16)
9249 * First real (non-beta) release of version 2.0.
9251 * Added GNU copyleft notices covering version 2.0 enhancements.
9253 Thu May 21 12:30:09 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 15)
9255 * Removed -g from Imakefile.
9257 * Added casts in parser.l to prevent warning messages from some C compilers.
9259 * Bugfix: code to exit if chess program couldn't be started had bug in error
9262 Tue May 19 11:58:06 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 14)
9264 * Fixes one small bug: If LoadGame does not find a game in the file, it resets
9265 xboard to BeginningOfGame mode (as if the Reset button was pressed), instead of
9266 leaving it in LoadGame mode.
9268 Mon Apr 13 18:32:27 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 13)
9270 * Improved error handling when gnuchessx crashes. Now displays a message and
9271 enters EndOfGame state without exiting. This should help with diagnosing
9272 gnuchessx problems, since the position and move history are not lost.
9274 * Debugged man page.
9276 Version 2.0 -- Thu Apr 2 16:04:54 PST 1992 (patchlevel 12)
9278 * Added small 40x40 pixel pieces; board size now specified as small, medium, or
9281 * Improved man page.
9283 * Saved position files now say "white to play" if it's white's move.
9285 * SavePosition while in EditPosition mode now gets side to play right.
9287 * Made "Pawn" the default on edit position menus.
9289 * Removed "To play" from edit position menus, since it's redundant. Left
9290 support code in so it can be restored if someone wants it.
9292 * Tightened parser's definition of a move number to help further with skipping
9293 over stuff before the first move.
9295 * Put back feature of skipping over stuff in game files before a start of game
9296 marker. This helps when loading electronic mail messages that have things
9297 like "00" in the header (looks like castling), or that talk about moves in
9298 running text before the actual game score. Tradeoff is that we can't load
9299 games that don't either have move numbers or say "gnuchess game" just before
9302 * Changed version number to 2.0 because others have used "1.3" for patched
9303 versions of 1.2. Display version number and patchlevel at startup.
9305 Thu Apr 2 15:30:22 PST 1992 (patchlevel 11)
9307 * Bugfix: Match started with TwoMachines button now handles the case where
9308 user loaded/edited a position *and* forced some moves.
9310 * added error message feedback to many cases where the user's button press is
9311 rejected because it isn't allowed in the current mode.
9313 * added -noChessProgram option to allow use as a passive chessboard without
9314 gnuchess, replacing old buggy scheme that tried to do this automatically when
9315 gnuchess was not found on the search path.
9317 * parser accepts "=" in front of promotion piece
9319 * parser accepts ":" notation for captures
9321 * Removed SwitchSides button to make room for EditPosition. Left code in
9322 place, ifdef'ed out.
9324 * Added EditPosition mode.
9326 * Reformatted xboard.c to eliminate long lines.
9328 * Promotion popup now appears near rank to which pawn is moving.
9330 * UI improvement: Button representing current program mode is kept highlighted.
9332 * Bug fix: Hint button is now disabled when machine is on move.
9334 Sat Mar 21 14:57:37 PST 1992 (patchlevel 10)
9336 * TwoMachines now works from MachineWhite or MachineBlack mode.
9338 * ForceMoves and Backward/Forward now work at the end of a game started by
9339 the TwoMachines button.
9341 * Sends o-o or o-o-o to gnuchess instead of O-O or O-O-O.
9343 * Bug fix: SwitchSides button is now disabled when machine is on move.
9345 * Added -searchLevel option and corrected handling of -searchTime to reflect
9346 the way gnuchess really handles command line options instead of what the
9347 documentation used to say. Allowed optional ":seconds" on times.
9349 Tue Mar 17 21:00:35 PST 1992 (patchlevel 9)
9351 * Removed non-working code that tried to recover when a remote chess program
9352 could not be started; now exits with a message instead.
9354 * Now waits for chess program to print its first message (normally "Chess")
9355 before sending it any commands.
9357 * Matches between two machines can now start from a black-to-play position or
9358 black-to-play opening.
9360 * Bug fix: The program would sometimes lose track of the board position after
9361 the end of the game, drawing a board full of white pawns next time it got an X
9362 redraw request. Now fixed.
9364 * Cleaned up handling of illegal moves in game files. Now we just stop reading
9365 and go into ForceMoves mode.
9367 * Saved games against gnuchess indicate who won (restored and debugged 1.2
9370 * Setting -searchTime turns off -clockMode.
9372 * My trick for setting up a black-to-play position broke in the transition from
9373 gnuchess 3.1+ to 4.0. Installed a different trick that works with both.
9375 * Bug fix: Was clobbering memory by mallocing one byte too few for the file
9376 name in SetupPositionFromFileProc. This usually resulted in a crash on the
9377 second attempt to load a position from a file.
9379 Mon Mar 16 16:49:00 PST 1992 (patchlevel 8)
9381 * Game and position files are saved in CHESSDIR as well as loaded from there.
9382 We actually chdir there, so gnuchess listing files also wind up there.
9384 * Underpromotion moves from gnuchess really work now.
9386 Sat Mar 14 14:55:24 PST 1992 (patchlevel 7)
9388 * Cleaned up lots of bugs and kruft in parser.l. It's a wonder the old version
9389 worked at all. Improved rejection of random text interspersed with the moves.
9391 * Relabeled buttons to reduce confusion (Play From File --> Load Game;
9392 Setup From File --> Load Position).
9394 * Bug fix: Doesn't exit at the end of a game that was started by pressing
9395 the Two Machines button.
9397 * Bug fix: Doesn't get confused if you hit Machine Black (White) while
9398 the machine is already playing black (white) and is on move.
9400 * Prints "White to play" or "Black to play" after loading a position file.
9402 * Bug fix: No longer hangs if no start-of-game is found in a game file.
9404 * More permissive about game file format. The first line is not assumed
9405 to be a header comment unless it starts with "#". We don't insist on
9406 seeing a "1." before the first move.
9408 * Added pop-up dialog to allow underpromotion. Moving a pawn to the last rank
9409 pops up a dialog to let you select what piece to promote to. Also added code
9410 to handle underpromotion moves from gnuchess or from a game file correctly.
9412 * Added code to send SIGINT to gnuchess before trying to move, if gnuchess
9413 might be busy thinking on our time. The code is ifdef'ed out because it's
9414 not necessary; only beta-test versions of gnuchess 4.0 at patchlevel 19 or
9417 Mon Feb 24 20:10:22 PST 1992
9419 * Merged fixes received from Stuart Cracraft and Mike McGann, to iconic mode
9420 and to ShutdownChessPrograms. (They both sent the same fixes.) I did not
9421 install the change that removed "easy" from the initialization string, so
9422 xboard will still try to run gnuchessx in "hard" mode (thinking on opponent's
9423 time) by sending this command.
9425 Version 1.3 -- Thu Dec 19 18:19:00 PST 1991 mann@src.dec.com (Tim Mann)
9427 * I've fixed a slew of bugs in this version of xboard:
9429 * You can now back up from the end of a game, even if gnuchess was playing
9430 against you. Since gnuchess exits upon mate or draw (when it's not in force
9431 mode), this feature works by starting up a new copy of gnuchess and feeding it
9432 the saved starting position and moves. Drawback: the new gnuchess starts with
9433 clocks at the beginning of a fresh time control.
9435 * Note: the "force" command to gnuchess is a toggle. I fixed a couple of
9436 places in xboard where "force" was being issued when gnuchess was already in
9437 force mode, which resulted in chaos. I don't know if they were in 1.2 or if I
9438 added them myself in the course of putting in new features.
9440 * ForceMoves button is now legal in PlayFromFile mode. It closes the game file
9441 and lets you force moves (or go Backward) from whatever position you've
9444 * The parser now recognizes "white resigns" and "black resigns" (in any
9445 combination of upper and lower case, with or without the closing "s"). These
9446 used to be misinterpreted as meaning "white wins" or "black wins" respectively!
9447 Added "1 - 0" and "0 - 1" as equivalents for "1-0" and "0-1".
9449 * I removed the parser feature of considering "!" as a comment delimiter.
9450 "!" is so common as an annotation in game scores that this feature seems like a
9453 * Added a wait() after each successful call to kill() to avoid leaving zombie
9456 * Removed the feature of putting an indication of how the game ended into the
9457 internal move list when playing from a file. The only benefit of this was that
9458 it would get written back out if you saved the game at that point. This
9459 feature doesn't seem too useful, since you are unlikely to save a game you've
9460 read in without making any changes, and it caused a lot of problems in the code
9461 and user interface. The end condition is still displayed as a message when
9462 it's first read in from the file. End conditions when playing against gnuchess
9463 are still saved, too.
9465 * programName is now the last file name component of argv[0], not all of it.
9467 * xboard.c got three compiler warnings due to arguments that didn't match the
9468 prototypes on X toolkit functions. I got rid of them by adding some casts, and
9469 adding extra unused arguments to the ReceiveFromProgram function.
9471 * As I received it, the distribution had an extra period glued on the front
9472 of every line that started with a period. This broke the manpage in an
9473 obvious way. It also broke parser.l in a nonobvious way that stopped
9474 PlayFromFile from working.
9476 * Fixed one or two bugs where the clock was started when it shouldn't have
9477 been. I think one example was if you tried an illegal move in ForceMoves mode.
9479 * Now starts the machine's clock if you hit MachineWhite when white is on move
9480 or MachineBlack when black is on move.
9482 * Now updates the to-move indicator (highlight on clock display) when you use
9483 Forward/Backward or ForceMoves.
9485 * gnuchess 3.1+ has a bug that makes it try to think on its opponent's time
9486 even when in force mode; this causes problems with xboard's SetupFromFile
9487 command because gnuchess's saved hint move is garbage after the new position is
9488 loaded, so gnuchess prints out an error message when it tries to think about
9489 what it would do if the user made this move. Here is a patch for gnuchess
9492 *** nondsp.c~ Mon Dec 2 12:37:18 1991
9493 *-- nondsp.c Thu Dec 19 15:36:06 1991
9496 ok = flag.quit = false;
9499 ! if (hint > 0 && !flag.easy && Book == NULL)
9502 time0 = time ((long *) 0);
9504 ok = flag.quit = false;
9507 ! if (hint > 0 && !flag.easy && Book == NULL && !flag.force)
9510 time0 = time ((long *) 0);
9512 * SavePosition/SetupFromFile now handle black-to-play positions. If it's
9513 black's move in a saved position, the line "black to play" is printed
9514 immediately after the board display. Upon loading a position, xboard
9515 looks for "black" at the beginning of this line to determine whether it's
9518 * SetupFromFile now leaves you (effectively) in ForceMoves mode. This
9519 eliminates some cases where the program would get into an inconsistent state,
9520 and hopefully is more intuitive for the user, too.
9522 * PlayFromFile now leaves xboard in ForceMoves mode after playing through all
9523 the moves in the file. You can use Backward/Forward, make moves, get gnuchess
9524 to join the game with MachineWhite or MachineBlack, etc. The game file can end
9525 with either white or black to play.
9527 * Backward/Forward now seem to work in all cases. Previously using these
9528 buttons during a game against the machine would get xboard out of sync with
9529 gnuchess's idea of what was going on, resulting in chaos. Now using these
9530 buttons puts xboard in ForceMoves mode; you can bring gnuchess back into the
9531 game using the MachineWhite or MachineBlack buttons.
9533 Thu Jun 27 15:06:25 PDT 1991
9535 * Remove comment popups during a reset.
9537 * Bug in my forward move fix. Didn't work for playgamefile mode.
9539 Thu Jun 20 15:04:06 PDT 1991
9541 * Can't do a backward move when it isn't your turn because gnuchess
9542 gets confused. Similar bug for forward move. Do a bunch of moves,
9543 back up move and go forward. These get filtered out now.
9545 * Put easy back into the initString. This DISABLES easy mode which by
9548 * New-line wasn't always being added to forward move strings sent to gnuchess.
9550 * Parsed comments as [ ..............text follows ] into d7d5
9552 * Long game file comments cause core dumps on HP systems.
9554 * Multiple uses of the get positition file button got confused
9555 on the second click.
9557 Minor fixes to the 1.2 release
9559 Version 1.2 -- Tue Jun 11 17:14:12 PDT 1991
9561 * For version 1.2, Jeff Kenton, Richard LLoyd, David Jensen, Martin D.,
9562 Bill Schmidt, Scott Hemphill, Paul Vaughan and Bill Shauck all found
9563 a lot of bugs that we put into xboard just to see if they were paying
9564 attention. They were.
9566 * Changed the protocol that xboard uses to work with the new version of
9569 * There was an off by one error with the clock resetting code. Also,
9570 the clock display highliting was wrong. Thanks to Bill Shauck for
9573 * enumerations are not really integers on some C compilers. I added casting.
9574 The new version of gnuchess expects the "go" command for two machine
9575 and machine plays white cases. The whiteString resource is for
9576 compatibility with previous gnuchess versions which get confused by go.
9577 Thanks to Martin D. for catching these.
9579 * Fixed a bug where the checkmate message wasn't being parsed and xboard
9580 kept playing. Also, the message was added to game file if saved.
9581 Thanks to Scott Hemhill for pointing this out.
9583 * Fixed a bug where saving a long game, resetting and saving a short game
9584 resulted in appending the end of the long game to the short one.
9585 If a game is just being played out and there is no reason for gnuchessr
9586 to be used, ignore pipe signals. This allows people to use xboard
9587 as a chess board without need for gnuchess. Also, trivially bad moves
9588 such as e2e2 are not passed on to gnuchessr but instead ignored out of
9589 hand. This allows people using xboard as a chessboard with gnuchessr
9590 to pick a piece up, think and put it back down without making a move.
9591 Thanks to Jeff Kenton for pointing these out.
9593 * Added the CHESSDIR environment variable. Game and position files are
9594 found in this directory. If this variable is not declared, then the
9595 current directory is used. File names starting with / are treated
9598 * The bitmap file names were changed so that none exceeded 14 characters.
9599 This is necessary for R5.
9601 fcntl(from_prog[0], F_SETFL, O_NDELAY);
9603 The xboard fix was to set non-blocking i/o on the read pipe for gnuchessr
9605 printz ("Illegal move (no matching move generated)");
9607 * fixed a problem with the new version of gnuchessr where xboard wasn't
9608 getting gnuchessr error messages for illegal moves. The problem seems
9609 to be fixed *without* any gnuchess changes but this is likely to be
9610 highly system dependant. There should be a new line on line 246 of nondsp.c
9612 * -iconic doesn't work at all now. The Iconify() does work. This was
9613 a tradeoff and it is really an Xt bug.
9615 * Fixed a compiler warning for gcc and an error for the IBM RT compilers.
9616 This is the VOID_PROC macro in xboard.h. Thanks to David Jensen for this.
9618 * If the DisplayWidth or DisplayHeight is less than 800, use small size mode.
9619 Also the size of the name widget was reduced from 500 pixels to 400 pixels
9620 because in small size mode there was a gap on the right.
9621 Changed the default font from fixed to helvetica_oblique14 to:
9622 **-helvetica-bold-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
9623 helvetica_oblique14 is a font alias not on all R4 systems.
9624 Curiously enough, the 17 point is not available on 75dpi systems
9625 and the 18 point font is not available on 100dpi systems.
9626 Thanks to Richard K. Lloyd for pointing these out.
9628 * Minor hacks to work with R5 alpha. Had to add an event handler to the
9629 boardWidget to get translations to work. This may go away with the real R5.
9630 Added <Message>WM_PROTOCOLS: QuitProc() for R5 ICCCM compatibility.
9632 * If the first character of the file is not `1' then the first line
9633 of a game or position file is displayed as the name in a label widget.
9635 * Added a PopUp dialog for getting file names.
9637 * Modified the code to use the R4 routines rather than R3 compatibility.
9639 * Changed the forwards/backwards/readgamefile code to allow a play to step
9640 back and forth in a game. If he steps all the way to the beginning
9641 he has to restart the game. If he gets into a mated position, same problem.
9643 * Moved the man page from xboard.1 to xboard.man. This makes imake man page
9644 installs work correctly. Thanks to Richard K. Lloyd for pointing this out.
9646 * Corrected the queening code. XBoard was sending the wrong syntax.
9647 It was sending for example h8(Q) when it should have been sending h8q.
9648 Thanks to Paul Vaughan and Mike McGann for pointing this out.
9650 * Added a lex parser for algebraic games. It should be easy to use the parser
9651 for other interfaces such as the Microsoft Windows version.
9652 It parses comments of the form [anything] and ! to the end of a line.
9654 Version 1.1 -- Mon Jan 7 14:46:03 PST 1991
9656 * Roger Dubar, Konstantinos Konstantinides, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht,
9657 Paul Scowen, Mvh Smidt and Kayvan Sylvan all helped immensely during
9660 * older non-ANSI versions of Sun compilers complain vociferously.
9662 * the remoteShell resource was added for HP-UX systems
9663 and other systems where the remoteShell isn't rsh.
9665 * -iconic doesn't work properly. If XBoard is opened iconic then
9666 iconifying it later with a keystroke doesn't work. I think
9669 * For systems with smaller screens, XBoard can use smaller pieces,
9670 and a smaller board. -bigSizeMode False uses a smaller set of pieces.
9671 These are scaled versions of the large pieces. They look ok but could
9674 * getlogin() does not work in all cases.
9675 It was replaced by getpwuid(getuid())->pw_name).
9677 * Warning messages get displayed in the message box.
9679 * Any button restarts a paused game.
9681 * Kayvan Sylvan contributed a patch for ESIX.
9682 It seems that select() on pipes is broken on his system. We declined
9683 to incorporate his patch though, because it was a work-around for
9684 something that was broken on one system, and selfishly, that system
9685 was not my own. Nevertheless, it is likely that other System V users
9686 on PC's may need to use this patch and it is is included as the file
9687 ESIX.patch. To use it, type
9689 patch xboard.c ESIX.patch
9691 * Fixed a bug where hint didn't work. The local version of gnuchessr
9692 had been hacked. The fix was to clone stderr and stdout for gnuchessr.
9694 * Fixed a bug where a player could play after a game had been finished.
9696 * The bitmaps have been pushed into the bitmaps directory.
9698 * Substantially rewrote and simplified the Two Machine code.
9700 * Added StrStr() because many systems don't have this ANSI function.
9702 * Added keyboard equivalents. Added an iconify keystroke, C or c.
9704 * Works with gcc now. gcc complained about casting float constants
9707 * Detect if the visual doesn't support color. If so, run in monoMode.
9708 An alternative would be to detect grayscale visual and use a collection
9709 of gray user interface colors.
9711 XBoard.clockMode: False
9713 * For people who don't like or use chess clocks a clockMode switch
9714 has been added. It is on by default. It can be turned off in the
9715 .Xdefaults file with
9717 * Added a declaration, xtVersion, which will quickly break on R3 Intrinsics.
9719 * Hal Peterson contributed a new Imakefile.
9721 * Rewrote DisplayClocks().
9723 * Rewrote TwoMachinesPlay mode.
9725 * Konstantinos Konstantinides added the -searchTime option.
9727 * Substantially rewrote and simplified the clock code. If a game was paused
9728 and then resumed, the clocks were out of sync.
9730 * Fixed a bug in HandleUserMove() where the user could make a move while the
9731 machine was thinking. The fix detects and ignores these moves. onMove
9732 was not being used and was removed.