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.. )
7 2011-08-22 22:09:19 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10 2011-08-20 22:21:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11 Fix ICS move-list header mistaken for null moves
13 2011-08-18 18:53:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14 Allow two-games-per-opening to work with book
16 A new option -seedBase is added, and written to the tourney file.
17 It allows all XBoard instances working on a tourney to generate the same
18 'random' openings in a deterministic way, based on this one-time seed
19 and the game number. When -loadGameIndex equals -2, it uses the same seed
20 for an odd and the following even game.
22 2011-08-18 18:51:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
25 In some places rand() was called explicitly, rather than through the
26 (configured) place-holder random().
28 2011-08-18 17:34:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
29 Translate search texts
32 2011-08-18 10:29:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
33 Add -useBoardTexture and -usePieceFont options
35 These options suppress the use of the given texture files or piece fonts
36 without relying on the kludge to disable them by prefixing an asterisk
37 to the file or font name. Checkboxes have been added to the Board dialog
38 to control them. The user can now set piece font in WB font dialog.
39 The sample text can be used to specify the -fontPieceToCharTable,
40 the font name itself the -renderPiecesWithFont value.
42 2011-08-16 23:10:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
43 Fix crash on start without settings file
45 A primordial -1 in currCurrent caused a crash when WinBoard was started
46 without ini filein game-viewer mode.
48 2011-08-12 12:08:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
49 Fix generic-popup failure after empty engine-settings dialog
51 The error exit ofthe Engine #N Settings dialog in case of an engine without
52 options forgot to clear currentCps, with as a result that the generic popup
53 thought every subsequent popup was an empty one, and kept repeating the
54 'engine has no options' error message for every dialog.
56 2011-08-10 11:27:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
57 Allow substitution of engines during tournament
59 Two buttons are added in the tournament options dialog, for upgrading
60 and for replacing a tourney participant. Lots of tests on the validity
61 of the request are done, and if all are passed, the tourney file is
62 written with the new participants (and in case of replace) with the
63 results of the replaced engines erased from the -results string.
65 2011-08-08 11:00:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
66 Fix up/down arrows in game list
69 2011-08-08 10:31:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
70 Add key bindings for loading next/previous game of list
72 These bindings are set both for the game list and the board window.
73 To make them useful, focus has to be transferred to the board widget
74 after loading (it tends to transfer to the tags window), which now
75 seems to work, but not always. From the game list the shellWidget
76 seems to get focus rather than the board, which is bad as it is not
77 sensitive to the key bindings.
79 2011-08-08 09:58:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
80 Allow deletion of last book move
82 The book-edit function refused to delete the entiremove list,
83 for no good reason. This limitation now has been lifted.
84 Also the error message that the key for the current book entries
85 is different from that of the currentposition has been suppressed
86 if there were no entries found for the current position (so that the
87 book is positioned at the next key), so that it is possible to add
90 2011-08-08 00:19:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
93 Line numbers > 1, which are common, can exit already during move parsing,
94 to save lots of matching on resultsand castlings.
96 2011-08-07 15:13:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
97 Fix missing files in file browser
99 The file browser was throwing away the first two files, assuming
100 they were "." and "..". Alas, this is no longer true on every Linux.
101 Now we actuallyc compare for these names, before skipping them.
103 2011-08-06 11:57:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
104 Delay file loading to allow expose event first
107 2011-08-06 09:29:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
111 2011-08-05 22:39:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
112 Better fix of crash on empty game list
114 An empty list is now replaced by a list containig a simple message.
116 2011-08-05 20:31:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
117 Add plain arrows as key binding for stepping forward/backward
120 2011-08-05 20:30:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
121 Debug position selection
124 2011-08-04 13:22:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
125 Print progress during load / selection of game
127 The title bar of themain window is used to display a running count
128 of the number of games loaded / searched.
130 2011-08-04 12:44:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
131 Parse PGN tags without allocating memory
133 In WinBoard malloc/free did not seem to work when preparing the game list,
134 leading to a huge memory list when ParsePGNTag was used. The added code
135 parses the required tags in an alternative way as a work-around.
137 2011-08-02 22:58:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
138 Implement searching games in Game List for a position
140 For this it was needed to reconstruct all positions of the games
141 without loading them, so they could be compared to the currently
142 displayed position. A new routine GameContainsPosition is made for that.
143 In Disambiguate, when the global quickFlag is set, we now do the
144 disambiguation ignoring check,and only if this leads to an ambiguous
145 move, we repeat it taking check into account to see if that resolves
146 the ambiguity. This causes us to miss if unambiguous moves are illegal
147 because they put their King in check, but who cares?
148 We now do not make game-list line when not needed. If we do not filter
149 by text, but by position, there is no need for preparing the game-list
150 line for games that are not selected. All for efficiency.
152 2011-07-28 20:47:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
153 Allow entry of variations in PlayFromGameFile mode
155 Adding variations is more like editing a comment,and not really editing
156 the game. Therefore we allow it on loaded games. As soon as we are in a
157 variation, we temporarily switch to a (hidden) EditGame mode, restoring
158 the original mode when we revert to the main line.
159 We now also stay in PlayFromGameFile mode after loading a game,
160 And opening variation (fromtheComment window) in PlayFromGameFile mode
163 2011-07-27 18:47:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
164 Force Move History refresh after loading/reverting variation
166 The Move History window was not refreshed after switching to or from
167 a variation if that variation happened to have the same length as
168 the main line. Now a change in storedGames since the previous refresh will
169 force a full refresh to avoid this. For this to work, storedGames
170 did have to be decremented after ToNrEvent in PopInner, because ToNrEvent
171 calls HistorySet before the history is restored, so we don't want
172 it to snatch away the full refresh. A call to HistorySet had to be
173 added after PopInner is done restoring the move history.
175 2011-07-27 17:45:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
176 Popdown Comment window on new game
178 What is in this window cannot possibly remain valid, and can even be harmful.
180 2011-01-19 11:46:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
181 Allow null move in analysis and edit-game mode
183 In some games it is allowed to pass your turn. The internal
184 representation picked for such a null move is the drop of an empty
185 square, (EmptySquare,DROP_RANK,0,0). Computer-algebraic form is "@@@@",
186 SAN form is "--", (for compatibility with ChessBase / SCID), and the
187 non-compliant forms "null", "pass"and "Z0" are recognized in
188 the parser as well. ApplyMove() has to test for this special case
189 (to not actually clear a1), and a way to enter the pass for the user had
190 to be found (clicking the opponent clock, like in EditPosition mode).
191 The null move is made move irreversible to prevent repetition draws
192 spanning null moves being adjudicated.
193 Such entry of null move is now allowed in AnalyzeMode and EditGame mode.
194 Because Chess engines will not accept null moves, SendMoveToProgram had
195 to be adapted to send not the move, but the position after it in
196 case of a null move. This erases the move history in the engine,
197 so it will not react to 'undo' for that null move, so BackwardInner
198 had to be adapted to test for intervening null moves, and if one is
199 found, approach the target from the other side after loading the
200 earliest position before it not crossing another null move, and
201 then loading the moves upto the target.
202 XBoard clock clicks had to be fixed, to pay attention to the shift key.
204 2011-07-25 21:58:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
205 Give WinBoard Game List its own font
207 The font fort he Game List used to be shared with the Engine Output and
208 Move History windows, but this made it impossible to use a figurine font
209 in the latter two (which displays piece symbols for capitals) without
210 messing up the Game List. An option -gameListFont has been added to specify
211 the font for the Game List(and save it in the settings file), while a
212 control for it is added in the fonts dialog.
214 2011-07-21 19:02:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
215 Fix crash on OK after Save Changes in Tags and Comment popup.
217 The global variables tagsText and commentText were used to pass
218 a string obtained from a widget (and thus not malloc'ed), which
219 caused a crash when the GenericReadout tried to use those variables
220 for the new value. Fixed by using GenericReadout (which does malloc)
221 to read out the text,in stead of GetWidgetText.
223 2011-07-16 09:31:12 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
224 Revert "fixed segfault in xengineoutput", fixed in the backend now (from HGM)
226 This reverts commit 33a0e73843115ff6d4eacaf963a38f2e8b20b295.
228 2011-07-16 14:53:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
229 Suppress some XBoard warnings
232 2011-07-15 11:21:29 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
233 fixed segfault in xengineoutput
236 2011-07-11 20:04:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
237 Disable -showTargetSquares in ICS mode
239 Help like this is considered cheating on FICS, so it is disabled for
240 all 'classical' ICS variants. (For variants eyont Shogi we don't care.)
242 2011-07-10 21:20:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
243 Put grab on sweep-selecting in Edit Position
245 A right down-click starting a sweep-selection event did not grab the
246 mouse events, so that an up-click outside the window would go
247 unnoticed, and the pointer motion stayed coupled to selecting the
248 piece until the next click. By returning 2 from the RightClick back-end
249 routine we request the grab.
251 2011-07-09 13:50:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
252 Write more labels on score axis of eval graph
254 The labels for +/-1 and +/-3 are now also written, provided there is
257 2011-07-09 13:28:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
258 Improve Eval Graph with -evalZoom and -evalThreshold
260 The score range between -1 and +1 can now be blown up by a factor
261 specified through -evalZoom. The threshold below which histogram bars
262 are no longer printed (wich used to e hard-coded 25 centi-Pawn) can now
263 be set through the -evalThreshold option.
265 2011-07-09 13:18:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
266 Print reversible plies done in stead of plies to go
268 Printing the number of plies left to the draw-adjudication point was
269 confusing when the N-move rule was set to a non-standard value.
270 In stead we now print the number of plies since the last irreversible
271 move, so the user can compare it to both the engine claim point (100)
272 and the adjudication point he set (which might be beyond 100).
274 2011-07-09 13:13:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
275 Let WB eval graph react ot single left-click
277 Unlike in XBoard, the WinBoard eval graph awatys had required double-
278 clicking to go the the corresponding move, while there really is no
279 reason for this, as it is no text edit, and single-clicks have no function
282 2011-07-07 19:37:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
283 Add -scoreWhite option
285 This is similar to -absoluteAnalysisScores, except that it works in
286 all modes, and flips the score given by the engines in the engine-output
287 window when black is to move.
289 2011-07-07 19:28:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
290 Print 50-move counter in Engine-Output title
293 2011-07-07 18:50:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
294 Display score/depth in Eval Graph title
296 No longer print it in the comment window.
298 2011-07-04 11:06:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
299 Let -sweepPromotions also work for click-click moves
301 A click-click promotion no longer causes auto-queening, but the down-click
302 on the to-square causes a Queen to stick to the mouse pointer, and then
303 allows the user to change it through dragging backwards before releasing it
305 In WinBoard this required a slight change in DragPieceBegin, because
306 the dragged piece there only was made visible when the mouse pointer
307 actually started moving (and dragInfo.pos was set), presumably under the
308 assumption that before mouse move the piece was already on the clicked
309 square. Which in the case of a to-square was of course not true. (Because
310 a piece jumps to the mouse pointer when the click is not centered on a
311 square, this gives less jittery static clicks.) So DragPieceBegin has
312 been given an extra argument now, to indicate whether it should attach
313 the piece to the mouse pointer immediately.
314 To make the click-click sweepPromotions work in Shogi (for which the
315 drag-drop sweepPromotions could never work, because it is not clear the
316 piece has a posibility to promote when you pick it up), translation of
317 the sweep-selected piece to a Shogi promoChar had to e added.
319 2011-07-04 10:45:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
320 Improve -showTargetSquares on click-click moves
322 The markers on move targets are now kept when a first click merely
323 selects a piece, rather than dragging it elsewhere. The second click
324 (by definition on the to-square) then clears the markers.
326 2011-07-04 11:23:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
327 Let PGN parser accept lower-case piece in drop moves
329 The @ sign prevents amiguity with other notations anyway.
331 2011-07-04 12:42:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
332 Fix parser.c line endings
335 2011-06-29 20:29:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
336 Fix writing searchTime in tourneyFile
338 This had to be derived from the variable searchTime, which gives it
339 in seconds, as appData.searchTime (a string in minutes) is not reliable,
340 as it contains the command-line value, which might have been altered
341 through the time-control dialog.
343 2011-06-29 20:25:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
344 Fix resetting searchTime if other TC mode is chosen (XB)
346 This fixes a bug in the new time-control dialog.
348 2011-06-29 14:32:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
349 Fix coords display on large boards
351 The file indicators can now run upto 'w'. Only the lowest digit
352 of the rank number is printed, from a table that is valid to 22.
354 2011-06-29 13:53:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
355 Fix crash on making too-long FEN
357 The buffer for in PositionToFEN was only 128 bytes, which was not enough
358 for large boards such as 19x19 Go. It is enlarged to MSG_SIZ(512) now.
359 There also is some approximate overflow checking added (but it is not
360 fool proof in case there are holdings...)
362 2011-06-29 13:36:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
363 Fix drop moves on boards with more than 10 ranks
365 The internal encoding for rank 16 is '@', and thus ambiguous with drop
366 moves. They were always printed as 16, breaking drop games on large
367 boards. The ambiguity is now solved (for boards with more than 16 ranks)
368 by checking if the preceeding letter is upper case, in which case it
369 cannot be a fileindicator, but must be a piece, and thus a drop.
371 2011-06-29 13:29:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
372 Don't one-click move when legality testing is off
375 2011-06-23 21:18:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
376 Reorder controls in Engine Setings dialog WB
378 To get tabbing through the controls in left-to-right order, they are
379 now added to the template structure in that order. Also add a tabstop
380 to Label options, so that JAWS will read those.
382 2011-06-23 14:02:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
383 Add tab stops in WB generic popup
385 The WinBoard generic popup did not put tab stops on push buttons,
386 including the OK and cancel button, with as a consequence that these were
387 skipped when tabbing through the dialog controls. In addition the tabbing
388 could not begin before the user selected one of the controls with the mouse.
389 Now all buttons have tab stops, and the cancel button is given focus
390 when the dialog pops up.
392 2011-03-10 20:06:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
393 Implement Grand Chess
395 Grand Chess requires a lot of exceptional handling similar to Superchess
396 and Great Shatran, because it also allows only promotion to a captured
397 piece. In addition it shares the enlarged promotion zone with Makruk and
398 Shogi, as well as the fact that promotion can be deferred. The 10-rank
399 board furthermore required a better generalization of double-pushes and
400 e.p. captures. On such a board double puhes are now allowed from 2nd and
401 3rd rank, e.p. capture from 5th and 4th.
403 2011-01-28 19:20:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
404 Allow promotion to Pawn with legality testing off
406 In stead of ImpossibleMove promotionto Pawn now merely is an
407 IllegalMove, so it can be played with legality testing off.
409 2011-01-24 15:06:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
410 Create some space in WB New Variant dialog
413 2011-06-20 23:53:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
414 Allow double-digit rank numbers
416 The parser already understood double-digit numbers on input, and
417 CoordsToAlgebraic produced them on otput. This patch also fixes sending
418 of the moves to the computer, for which the moveList was used. The latter
419 stored 10 as ':', etc,to always get a 4-char move, the characters of which
420 were frequently being converted to fromY or toY by adding/subtracting ONE.
421 To not break that the one-character encoding of rank number is kept in
422 moveList, but in SendMoveToProgram, characters > '9' are converted to
425 2011-06-23 11:26:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
426 Add Absolute Analysis Scores in Genral Options dialog XB
429 2011-06-23 11:16:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
430 Fix texi file, and update it further
433 2011-06-20 12:15:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
437 2011-06-22 17:51:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
441 2011-06-22 11:02:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
442 Restore echo after ^C in ICS password
445 2011-06-22 10:45:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
449 2011-06-19 20:30:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
450 Increase efficiency of SAN generation / disambiguation
452 **************** Risky patch! **********************
453 The algorithm used for disambiguating and generating SAN was extremely
454 inefficient, because it generated all pseudo-legal moves from the relevant
455 position, and then for each of those did a check test (involving generation
456 of all moves of the opponent), before determining if the move matched the
457 (proposed or given) SAN move. While it is pointless to generate moves
458 with a piece that does not match (let alone checking them for legality).
459 And for a piece that matches, it is pointless to test legality of moves
460 that do not match the to-square.
461 To speed up the process GenLegal and GenPseudoLegal have been equiped
462 with an argument that can indicate the piece type of the required move,
463 so they can skip generating moves with other pieces. TestLegality,
464 Disambiguate and CoordsToAlgebraic make use of this facility, and set also
465 (through global variables rFilter and fFilter) a to-square filter to be
466 applied in the GenLegalCallback before it tests the move for legality.
467 This patch is especially tricky for Crazyhouse, where the piece indicated
468 in the move might not be the piece actually on the board, because the latter
469 is a promoted Pawn, and has to be demoted toits base type before the
472 2011-06-19 16:18:15 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
473 Fix compile errors WinBoard
475 The patch to make non-existing options non-fatal broke WinBoard. All calls
476 to ExitArgError from it now supply a third argument TRUE to fix it.
478 2011-06-19 14:28:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
479 Add -fSAN / -sSAN options
481 These options force the PV of the applicable engine to be converted to SAN.
482 They make use of the existing ParsePV routine, after shelfing a possible
483 PV (from user PV walking) to free the space after the last move.
484 Could be costly in terms of CPU usage.
486 2011-06-19 10:56:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
487 Cure flicker in Move History window, fix highlighting
489 The highlighting of the current move in the Move List window by selecting
490 it did not always work, because some other windows were clearing their text
491 widgets by selecting the contents and killing it, thus snatching the
492 selection away. This has been changed to setting XtNstring to an empty
493 string as a method for clearing without side effects on the selection.
494 As a bonus the Engine Output window now also no longer has the black flicker
496 In addition, triggering a scroll by setting the insertion point to the
497 end of the text caused excessive flicker in the Move List window, apparently
498 clearing it and redrawing from scratch, (even if there was no scroll motion),
499 to the point where on my slow laptop the move history stayed entirely blank
500 during a rapid succession of moves. This has been combatted by using the
501 end-of-line action procedure (which does not seem to suffer from this) to put
502 the insertion point at the end, when we need to scroll to close to the end.
504 2011-06-18 23:48:13 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
505 Fix crash on clearing new Move List window
507 When a new game started and a previous game had filled the Move List
508 window, a crash occurred because an attempt was made to undo the
509 highlighting of a no-longer-existing move, and then scrolling to it.
511 2011-06-18 20:46:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
512 Use sound for ICS tells also with engine telluser popups
514 The telluser and tellusererror commands now can be assigned a sound.
516 2011-06-18 20:45:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
517 Add Score in Move List option to general options dialog XB
519 Now that we have a WinBoard-style Move History window, this option is
520 no longer a no-op in XBoard.
522 2011-06-18 12:42:41 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
523 new developer release
525 2011-06-18 12:38:32 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
526 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
528 2011-06-18 12:51:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
529 Update window itle after last game of match
531 The result printed behind player names during a match would still be the one
532 without the game, differing from what the popup would show, which looked
533 sloppy enough for people to complain about it.
536 2011-06-18 10:26:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
537 Make WB generic popup translatable
539 When used for internal settings (as in the Load Engine and Tournament
540 Options dialogs), the option names are now subectto translation.
542 2011-06-17 21:05:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
543 Redo Move History with generic popup in WinBoard style
545 The use of color and boldness to make the move list more readable
546 unfortunately cannot work in Xaw; reverse video by selection is used as an alternative to highlight the current move.
548 2011-06-17 21:19:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
551 Due to an erroneous else, the window parameters of Move History were
552 not retreived (and thus incorrectly saved) when the Engine Output was up.
554 2011-06-14 18:47:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
555 Make non-existing opton in settings file non-fatal
557 It is rather difficult to recover from a situaton where the settings
558 file contains an unknown option (e.g. because you downgraded to a
559 previous version that had fewer options), especially in WinBoard, where
560 the user settings file is in a hidden folder, and people might not be
561 able to find it, let alone edit it. By just skipping the line with the
562 offending option, rather than generating a fatal error, when reading
563 from a settings file, such options will be automatically purged from the
564 file as soon as you save settings.
565 Small problem is that the user cannot be warned, as the initialization
566 has not progressed far enough at this point to generate error popups. In
567 XBoard we can at least print to the console, but in WinBoard there is no
568 warning at all. But the worst thing that can happen is that new options
569 in a settings file of a more advanced version will revert to their
572 2011-06-14 18:20:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
573 Change long form of -tf option to -tourneyFile
575 This is a more logical name, and in the WinBoard docs it was already
576 described as such. Also remove the -processes option, which in the
577 current design of the tourney manager is no longer used.
579 2011-06-14 18:17:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
580 Fix default of -remoteUser
582 This has to be an empty string, rather than NULL, to prevent XBoard from
583 segfaulting when the -gateway option is used.
585 2011-06-14 13:32:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
586 Add -at and -opt options as alternative for @
588 Windows XP and Vista shortcuts do not display command lines with @ in
589 them correctly, and these optionsprovide a work-around for that.
591 2011-06-14 12:46:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
592 Fix empty-string option values in XBoard
595 2011-06-14 12:40:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
596 Fix crash on switching sound in Vista
598 When choosing a new sound the wave form of the old one was free'ed, but
599 because built-in sounds are not really malloc'ed, this led to a crash.
601 2011-06-14 12:36:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
602 Update WB docs for tourney manager
605 2011-06-14 12:35:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
606 Add icon to WB for tournament files
609 2011-06-10 16:52:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
610 Redo Time Control dialog with generic popup
612 As poor-man's disabling of the unneeded input fields, we print the word
615 2011-06-10 14:14:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
616 Some refactoring in xoptions.c to separate out front-end
619 2011-06-10 12:38:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
620 Redo New Shuffle Game dialog with generic popup
622 The buttons are slightly renamed, and in stead of having an 'off'
623 button to clear it, shuffleOpenings now has its own checkbox, which is
624 ticked when a fixed or dynamic random is chosen with the buttons.
626 2011-06-10 11:58:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
627 Fix type of shuffleOpenings
629 This was a Boolean option, and thus accessed by the args.h code as such,
630 while it was declared as an int (and used in backend.c as such). This
631 could have led to problems with different endianness.
633 2011-06-09 23:57:43 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
634 Internationalize the file browser.
636 The file browser was missed in the previous round of
637 internationalization and had gotten broken by setting international =
638 True in its widgets. I got nothing but segfaults trying to set
639 international to False in the file browser widget subtree when it was
640 True in the main window, so I gave up and did the
641 internationalization. It turned out to be pretty easy.
643 As a tiny bonus fix, I removed some ../'s from includes, and you can
644 now configure and build xboard in a subdirectory again. This was
645 useful for building both --enable-nls and --disable-nls from the same
646 sources to compare functionality and make sure both still work.
648 2011-06-08 20:26:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
649 Fix crash at end of Swiss tourney
652 2011-06-08 17:33:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
655 The logo files are now sought relative to the WinBoard install
656 directory. Non-existing logos cause clearing of the logo, rather than
657 letting the logo of the prevous engine hang. Logo change is requested
658 explicitly from the back-end (when an engine is initialized for a new
659 game), rather than using the kludge in StartChileProcess. This required
660 a dummy UpdateLogos routine in the XBoard front-end.
662 2011-06-08 18:02:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
663 Fix parameter handling in adapter command
665 A backslash was not considered the end of an option name, which was
666 fatal for UCCI2WB, which needs %fd\\%fcp in its command line.
668 2011-06-08 17:16:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
669 Clear Engine-Output pane when initializing engine
671 This to prevent output from the previous game hanging there during the
672 next game, when the engine that is really playing is in book and
673 doesn't produce thinking output there.
675 2011-06-08 17:20:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
676 Fix display of last move of last match game
678 When a game was adjudicated (e.g. because XBoard detected mate) GameEnds
679 would trigger an exit if it was the last game of the match, and thus
680 never returned, while the ShowMove was called only after return from
681 Adjudicate. An extra ToNrEvent is now used in GameEnd in this case to
682 cause ShowMove to be called before exiting. (Ugly kludge...)
684 2011-06-08 17:38:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
685 Fix concurrency in Swiss tourneys
687 The pairing engine was consulted for the next round before all games of
688 the previous round were finished, if other XBoard instances were still
689 playing games. This caused the instances finishing early to stall
690 indefinitely. This is fixed by moving the Swiss pairing code to after
691 the syncInterval code. The normal pairing code (the call to Pairing)
692 must stay before it, because it determines the syncInterval. So ther is
693 a bit of tourneyType dependence cluttering up the code here. :-(
695 2011-06-08 17:27:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
696 Give error popup when pairing engine fails
698 An invalid pairing now produces an error popup to inform the user, so he
699 knows why the tourney stagnates.
701 2011-06-08 17:24:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
702 Fix clock mode in tourney starting from -ncp mode
704 When a tourney started from -ncp mode, which was allowed in MatchEvent,
705 because the tourney loads its own engines anyway, the menu enablings and
706 clockmode where not restored to their 'GNUMode' state.
708 2011-06-08 17:11:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
709 Fix round-robin schedule
711 The first round was played twice, and the formulas used to derive the
712 pairing were not even-odd resistant anyway. Both even and odd number of
713 participants should work now.
715 2011-06-08 17:08:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
716 Fix interrupting tournament
718 Stopping a tourney by using the Machine Match menu item did not wor
721 2011-06-08 16:57:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
722 Improve quoting of engine name on install
724 Rather than always using double quotes for the engine command, the
725 engine filename is now double-quoted if it contains spaces (and no
726 double-quotes), and the comand is single-quoted if it contains
727 double-quotes (and double-quoted otherwise).
729 2011-06-08 16:49:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
730 Print sensible window title during tourneys
732 Rather than the "(W-L-D)" in the title we now print game number and
733 total games, plus indication of the tourney type (rr, gt or sw).
735 2011-06-08 16:44:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
736 Let XBoard propose name of tourney file
738 Add an option -defaultTourneyName to configure the name that will be
739 proposed in the Tournament Options dialog's tournament-file field. The
740 option can contain %y, %M, %d, %h, %m, %s for year, month, day, hour,
741 mintes, seconds of the curret time in %02d format, or %Y for the year in
742 %04d format. Any tournament -file name is ignored when no participants
743 are given. Participants without a tourney file remains an error.
745 2011-06-08 16:30:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
746 Improve Tournament dialog layout WB
749 2011-06-08 17:05:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
750 Fix -matchGames option
752 The new MatchEvent code had broken the -mg option, and used always
753 -defaultMatchGames in stead.
755 2011-05-30 19:55:13 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
756 Fixed small bugs in several .po files, enabling these translations to be used. They all probably need more work from the translation team. I don't speak any of these languages, but I did some spot checks either from my own knowledge or using Google Translate, and they generally look sane.
758 - Several files were in utf8 but needed to be marked as such (that is,
759 "CHARSET" changed to "UTF-8"). Affected es.po, it.po, ru.po, vi.po,
762 - it.po was missing a \n at the end of one translation.
764 - ru.po had unescaped double-quote marks in one translation.
766 - vi.po needed to be normalized to Unicode normalization form C. With
767 this fix, more characters display correctly, though at least one is
768 still missing in the X core fonts that xboard is able to use.
769 See http://vietunicode.sourceforge.net/ for more about Vietnamese.
771 - zh_HK.po was written in big5 and then utf8-encoded on top of that,
772 making it unusable. I stripped off the spurious utf8 encoding and
773 then used recode to convert the file to Unicode properly encoded as
776 Unfortunately, I wasn't able to test any of the Chinese translations,
777 as I haven't been able to get XCreateFontSet to work in Chinese
778 locales with any of the fonts I have installed, even after adding the
779 Ubuntu language support packages for both simplified and traditional
780 Chinese. I did spot check a bunch of the translations using Google
783 I've checked in a couple of tiny Perl scripts that I used to do part
784 of the fixups on vi.po and zh_HK.po in case we need them again.
786 2011-05-30 14:12:53 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
787 The empty string can't be translated and it causes the gettext utilities to complain, so change _("") to "".
790 2011-05-30 13:21:06 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
791 Add a final wildcard default for fonts. This gives XCreateFontSet more freedom and lets it find fonts for some obscure charsets where fixed-bold or fixed-medium etc. may not have one.
794 2011-05-29 20:14:37 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
795 Added "misc-fixed" as a fallback font to handle locales where adobe-helvetica does not have all the required characters. The fixed font is ugly but does have a rather complete set of characters, while the helvetica font is missing Cyrillic characters (at least on my distro). I haven't found a way to get a nicer font that includes Cyrillic to work with XCreateFontSet, but I don't fully understand why. I'll try to improve things further in the future if I figure out what's all going wrong.
797 In the process I had to rewrite the code to insert the pixel size into
798 a font name (replacing a "*" in that field). The new code is much
801 2011-05-28 23:55:42 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
802 translation: activated Ukrainian translation
805 2011-05-28 23:41:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
806 translation: added new Ukrainian PO file from the TP
809 2011-05-28 21:07:08 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
810 Fix display of international characters outside the ASCII range.
812 1) Set Xaw resources required for internationalization --
813 *international and *fontSet.
815 2) Untangle the new XFontSet-aware code from the old FindFont code.
816 It doesn't make any sense to apply the old (and obsolete) size
817 searching code from FindFont to a font set, which contains fonts
818 that are all the requested size.
820 3) With these changes, the -font option doesn't work at all when given
821 on the command line. The -font option actually is parsed by the Xt
822 library, used to set the *font resource, and removed from argv
823 before xboard can see it, so the option didn't really work properly
824 with the new WinBoard-style option framework anyway. Now that
825 -font is even more broken, I changed the documented name of the
826 option to -messageFont and changed args.h so the option is saved in
827 ~/.xboard as -messageFont.
829 2011-05-28 21:05:00 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
830 Move "hide thinking" option into alphabetical order.
833 2011-05-28 21:01:25 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
834 Fix a size mismatch in scanf. Untested, but the code could not have worked properly without this fix -- scanf would have written 32-bit values to 16-bit fields, thus smashing adjacent memory.
837 2011-05-23 19:05:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
838 Fix layout tournament Load Engine dialog WB
841 2011-05-23 19:03:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
845 2011-05-23 19:00:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
846 Add Swiss tourneys through pairing engine
848 An external program can be designated pairing engine through the new
849 persistent option -pairingEngine. Defining the option will allow
850 tourneytype -1 to be chosen for Swiss. In this case the pairing engine
851 will be queried for a pairing before every new match game, by sending it
852 the -results string, plus the command 'pairing' + game number.
854 2011-05-23 17:37:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
855 Allow generic dialog to ignore OK
857 The EndMark callback can now suppress popdown of the dialog on OK, when
858 it somehow does not like the values entered by the user. In XBoard this
859 required all the callbacks to return a value.
860 Caveat: A refused OK would still have set all new values given in the
863 2011-05-23 17:22:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
864 Fix CR in multi-line WinBoard text-edits
866 The generic popup did not add CR when strings containing '\n' were
867 printed in a multi-line text-edit, thus joining the lines. It was also
868 not possible to type a CR in a multi-line text-edit.
870 2011-05-23 14:16:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
871 Let mentioning completed tourney file add one cycle
873 Secifying a tourney file of a fully completed tourney will now resume
874 that tourney with another cycle added. When there are still uncomleted
875 games in the tourney, the usual error message will appear. There are
876 also error popups added for when the user fails to specify a tourney
877 file, or gives too few participants.
879 2011-05-16 11:02:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
880 Make engine startup failure non-fatal in WinBoard
882 Unlike XBoard, which forks first, the parent process WinBoard has direct
883 knowledge of a failure to execute the engine command, and used it to
884 trigger a fatal error. The code doing this has now been disabled. Only
885 in case of a first engine we switch back to -ncp mode in stead, but no
886 action is taken to 'bury' the deceased engine process. Like in XBoard,
887 errors in writing or reading the pipes will trigger this.
889 2011-05-14 17:03:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
890 Add secondry adapter command for UCCI or USI
892 The option -uxiAdapter can define a second adapterCommand, which will be
893 invoked on encountering the options -fUCCI, -sUCCI and -fUSI, sUCI.
895 2011-05-14 10:05:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
896 Obey san feature when sending book moves
898 Book moves were always sent in long algebraic, even when the engine had
899 said it wanted to receive SAN.
901 2011-05-14 10:03:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
902 Fix initialization of engine state
904 Some of the initialization relied on variables being zero at startup,
905 which meant value from the previouly loaded engine hng on after loading
908 2011-05-11 23:06:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
909 Take account of holdings in book key
911 The board is numbered by rank, for comptibility with Polyglot format,
912 starting at a1. We then continue counting in the holdings 'files', in
913 up-rank direction, each holding spanning the full board height (even if
914 it is not fully used). Firstthe left (black) holdings, then the right,
915 Even in Shogi this limits the square number to < 99, which is below the
916 absolute limit of 128 (where we would run out of hash keys).
918 2011-05-11 22:48:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
919 Alow promotions and drops in book-editing
922 2011-05-11 20:15:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
923 Include learn info in book edit
926 2011-05-09 21:55:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
927 Adapt default directory of lng2po
929 The path is prefixed with "../" to make it runable from the po directory.
931 2011-05-09 21:20:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
934 po files were generated with the aid of lng2po for Russian,
935 Vietnamese, Chinese(simp) and Chinese(trad), using encodings CP1251,
936 CP1258, GB2312 and BIG5, respectively.
938 2011-05-09 20:11:32 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
939 Implement Edit Book in XBoard
942 2011-05-09 09:52:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
943 Improve WB Load Engine dialog texts
946 2011-05-09 09:48:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
947 Make 'add to list' default in Load Engine dialog
950 2011-05-09 09:33:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
951 Add -userFileDirectory option
953 This volatile option is initialized from 'installDir'. It is
954 primarily intended for configuration of WinBoard through its master
955 settings file, and specifies an alternative place to create saveGameFile
956 or look for other user files, in stead of looking in the installDir.
958 2011-05-09 09:10:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
959 Add option -absoluteAnalysisScores
961 This persistent option flips scores in the when black is thinking in
962 analysis mode, just before they are printed in the engine-output window.
964 2011-05-08 17:47:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
965 Automatically play moves of clicked PV in analyze mode
967 The Shift key now no longer needs to be pressed to play moves from the
968 PV in analyze mode (so it could be given back its original meaning of
969 starting a variation with the entered moves). In analyze mode the PV
970 walk begins after the first move, so a static right-click plays the
971 first PV move. To just peek the PV you have to walk to the start of it
972 before releasing the mouse button. In other modes the PV walk
973 stillstarts at the very end.
975 2011-05-08 17:07:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
976 Let ParsePV always generate SAN move
979 2011-05-08 13:53:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
980 Fix vscrolling in XBoard Engine-Output window
982 After clicking the memos they scrolled to the bottom, because SetFocus
983 put the insertion point at the very end of the text. This behavior is
984 now reserved for text-edits containing less than 100 characters.
986 2011-05-08 13:22:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
987 Fix button sizing in generic popup
990 2011-05-08 13:02:52 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
991 Allow changing MultiPV setting from Engine-Output window
993 In analyze mode a header line is printed in the first engine-output
994 pane, which can be right-clicked to increase or decrease the number of
995 PVs. (Only with engines that support the MultiPV option.)
997 2011-05-08 11:28:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
998 No clearing of Engine-Output memos on stat01
1001 2011-05-07 23:27:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1002 updated xboard.pot with released version
1005 2011-05-07 22:56:53 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1006 new developer release
1009 2011-05-07 22:54:29 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1010 updated ChangeLog, NEWS, etc.
1013 2011-05-07 23:07:46 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1014 deactivated new languages for the moment...
1016 po files need some cleanup, probably better to wait until the translation-project looked at them
1018 2011-05-07 18:44:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1019 added translations generated via lng2po from all winboard languages
1021 2011-05-07 18:40:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1022 lng2po.sh: added command line options, GPL header
1024 also use a temporary file generated with mktemp instead of a hard coded one
1026 2011-05-07 17:53:10 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1027 fixed access rights to winboard language files (644 instead of 655)
1029 2011-05-07 14:55:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1030 Import WinBoard language files into git
1032 2011-05-06 23:14:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1033 Let Shift+RightClick on PV actually play the PV moves
1035 2011-05-06 18:06:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1036 Make book-edit function WB
1038 The tags dialog is used to display the GUI book moves from the current
1039 position, and will be updated when you step or move to another one.
1040 The edited move list (with weights) can be written back to the book.
1042 2011-05-07 16:21:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1043 Fix resetting engine options
1045 Not all options were reset, and -needsNonCompliantFEN was 'reset'
1046 to a completely wrong value, so that bad FENs would be sent.
1048 2011-05-06 18:51:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1049 Add -first/secondPgnName option
1051 This option replaces the tidy name of the engine in the PGN player tags
1052 of engine-engine games. In WinBoard engines can be installed with this
1053 option through a checkbox in the Load Engine dialog.
1055 2011-05-06 23:31:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1056 Let XB generic popup define default file extensions
1059 2011-05-06 18:25:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1060 Save time-control settings in tourney file
1062 Because parsing the options and storing them in appData is not enough,
1063 the time-control code setting the internally used parameters from the
1064 appData info in InitBackend was made into a subroutine, and also caled
1065 after parsing the tourney file.
1067 2011-05-06 20:40:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1068 Put saveGameFile in tournament dialog
1071 2011-05-06 19:17:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1072 Plug memory leak, filenames relative to installDir
1074 String options are consistently freed now, before assigning a new value
1075 to them through strdup. The init code now even does use strdup when
1076 setting defaults. This is important for optionslike -lgf, which are not
1077 saved in the settings file, and thus are usually left with their
1078 default. When a dialog to set them then uses free, this causes a crash.
1079 When setting the defaults uses strdup, ParseArgs can already free them.
1080 This plugs an important memory leak, as ParseArgs in now called to parse
1081 the tourney file before every tourney game (twice!), and the lists of
1082 participants and results in it can be quite long. Macros are defined in
1083 common.h to make the code look simpler.
1084 Filenames entered through the generic popup are now interpreted
1085 relative to the WinBoard installation folder, just as the saveGameFile
1086 already was. The code handling the atter was made into a subroutine for
1089 2011-05-06 22:02:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1090 Add WB new popup prototypes
1093 2011-05-06 18:58:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1094 Add partcipants at bottom in tourney dialog (WB)
1097 2011-05-06 18:56:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1098 Fix range of tourneyType spin WB
1101 2011-05-06 18:15:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1102 Fix exit popup in tourney mode
1104 Only the instance finishing the last tourney game will cause a popup
1105 with final standings. As long as there are still busy games, it exits or
1106 switches back to idle mode silently.
1108 2011-05-06 18:11:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1109 Fix stopping of match in tourney mode
1112 2011-05-06 18:59:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1113 Add default extension in file browser
1116 2011-05-06 22:37:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1117 Improve sizing of comment and tags dialogs
1119 There seems to be a bug in Xaw for the sizing of buttons; they get
1120 unpredicatble and weird sizes when the size is not explicitly set,
1121 possibly stretching the initial width of a dialog to rediculous values.
1122 Sizing back to a remembered value from the settings file then makes
1123 buttons overlapand text edits shrink to almost nothing. To prevent that
1124 we now define exlicit sizes for the buttons in tags and comment popups.
1126 2011-05-06 21:00:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1127 Fix generic combobox bug
1129 The patch placing gettext markers was done wrong, setting the
1130 translated menu text outside the loop, so all entries became the same.
1132 2011-05-07 14:23:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1133 Fix PV walking in analysis mode
1135 ParsePV assumed that the PV would always have been produced by an engin
1136 thinking about the final position of the game (or the one before it). In
1137 analysismode, however, the engine can be analysing positions internal to
1138 the game, and the PV would be considered invalid. This is fixed by
1139 cutting of the tail off the game (shelving it in variation fashion)
1140 before starting the PV walk, and reverting afterwards.
1141 For this the PushTail and PopTail routines had to be split into an
1142 'inner' part, doing the pushing and popping, and an outer part, handling
1143 menu graying and popdowns (which is undesirable in in this application).
1145 2011-05-03 00:24:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1146 Lift length-limit on text-edits in WB generic popup
1149 2011-05-04 13:53:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1150 Lift limitation of text length in generic dialog XB
1152 All string options should now point to allocated memory, as strdup /
1153 free is consistently used on them. This is OK for values received from
1154 ParseArgs, but for non-arg intermediate variables that must receive strg
1155 values, such as in the comment and tags popups, strdup has to be used to
1158 2011-05-04 14:53:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1159 Implement Tournament Options dialog WinBoard
1161 The file browser now can select on extension WB generic dialogs,
1162 with a default based on the option.max value of the option for which it
1163 browses. A textBox can be forced to be multiline by putting the number
1164 of extra lines in option.min.
1166 2011-05-04 15:30:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1167 Make option to draw second engine from first list
1170 2011-05-03 00:17:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1171 Fix error message on engine load
1174 2011-05-04 15:09:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1175 Implement Load Engine dialog in WinBoard
1177 The Load Engine dialog is implemented for WinBoard, and is invoked by
1178 the menu item Engine->Load, which formerly was Install 2nd. Install 1st
1179 is renamed 'Edit Engine List'. Unlike in XBoard, the dialog has separate
1180 fields for the engine executale and its parameters.
1181 The dialog is implemented by converting the Engine Settings popup into
1182 a generic dialog generator.
1184 2011-05-04 13:43:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1185 Load new logo on engine change WinBoard
1187 Picking the logo for the first engine is made into a subroutine. The
1188 code for picking the logo of the first engine was made into a subrroutne
1189 for this. We use the kludge to recognize the engine by its command line
1190 when starting a new engine process.
1192 2011-05-04 13:36:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1193 Allow switching off match mode through menu
1195 The Machine Match menu item is now checkmarked, and no longer grayed
1196 during a match, and clicking it while a match is running will terminate
1197 the match after the current game. To not be left with hanging
1198 checkmarks, the checkmark is already removed duringthe last match game
1199 (which is logically equivalent to ordinary Two Machines mode anyway).
1201 2011-05-03 00:14:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1202 Calculate and display tourney result
1205 2011-05-04 18:42:13 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1206 Implement Tournament Manager
1208 New command-line options are added to specify the tourney: -tourneyType
1209 (-tt), -tourneyCycles (-cy), -participants, -syncAfterRound,
1210 -syncAfterCycle, -results, to be saved on a -tourneyFile (-tf), but
1211 otherwise volatile. When a tourneyFile is specified during a match,
1212 a new routine NextTourneyGame is called from NextMatchGame before every
1213 game, to decide the pairing, and unload and redefine the engines, when
1214 needed. The XBoard Match Options dialog can be used to set the options
1215 and create the tournament file.
1216 Actual loading of new engines is done by TwoMachinesEvent, which is
1217 now modified to also wait for the feature timeout of the first engine.
1218 Waiting for the matchPause is now also implemented there, after waiting
1219 for the engines (so they can be started during the pause).
1220 Pairings and color assignment is now all done in an absolute
1221 (non-incremental) way, based on a new global game-number variable
1222 nextGame, which takes over the function of matchGame in a tourney. The
1223 latter is now used to count games between the same players, so it can be
1224 still used to derive the load-file indexes (again in absolute fashion).
1225 The next game to play is already picked in GameEnd, so it can be
1226 decided if there is a game to be scheduled, or if we can terminate.
1228 2011-05-04 15:42:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1229 Display note in stead of empty engine-settings dialog XB
1232 2011-04-24 18:02:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1233 Fix crash on empty Engine Settings dialog
1235 The generic popup was not foolproof against this.
1237 2011-04-22 12:47:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1238 Refactor code for loading games and positions in match
1240 The code in NextMatchGame and MatchEvent was nearly the same,
1241 (MatchEvent did a little more error checking, but that is never
1242 harmful), and could be combined. In stead of determining the load index
1243 incrementally, it is now calculated in an absolute way from the game
1244 number, so it can be used more easily in tournament mode.
1246 2011-04-21 22:37:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1247 Add callback possibility to combobox selection
1250 2011-04-24 17:15:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1251 Lock game an position file during writing
1253 The use of flock() on the file desctiptor of the opened stream should
1254 guarantee multiple XBoard instances, saving on the same file, will not
1255 interleave their PGN games or FEN positions.
1257 2011-04-27 17:05:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1258 Remove building rule for parser.c from WB makefiles
1261 2011-04-29 16:58:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1262 Fix Engine Settings buttons in WinBoard
1264 This was broken by a leftover statement from debugging the -file/-path
1267 2011-05-02 13:38:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1268 Implement flock in WinBoard
1270 This system function seems unknown in a MinGW compile, so it is
1271 implemented with the aid of file byte-range locking, using a lock on the
1272 first 1024 bytes of the file as a semaphore.
1274 2011-04-29 23:06:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1275 Fix grayout XB Match Options in ICS mode
1278 2011-05-03 00:22:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1279 Delay loading of second engine until it is used
1282 2011-05-02 15:00:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1283 Fix zippy bughouse partner bug
1285 The patchs to subject Zippy messages to coloriation was faulty, because
1286 there were messages recognized by zippy that were not colorized, and
1287 such messages would then not be 'read away' after zippy recognition
1288 (except for the first character). As a result the messages were
1289 processed over and over again.
1291 2011-05-04 10:59:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1292 Silence more rpm warnings
1295 2011-05-01 20:33:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1296 Fix warnings XBoard file browser
1298 All the prototypes have been moved to selfile.h, to force uniformity.
1299 The order of the #include files xstat.h and selfile.h had to be
1300 swapped, to make sure 'struct stat' is a nown type atthe time of
1301 prototype declaration. The event handler SFmotionList is considered
1302 wrong type because of its third argument (XMotionEvent in stead of
1303 XEvent), and had to be casted to (XtEventHandler) when passed to
1306 2011-05-04 10:56:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1307 Fix some warnings and header-file improvement
1309 Ther were lot of 'extern' declarations in the x-files, so called
1310 'imports from xboard.c', (sometimes backend.c) which logically belonged
1311 in xboard.h (backend.h) to ensure their uniform definition. These have
1312 now been moved there. Some prototypes have been added in xboard.h as
1313 well, for functions that needed calling from xoptions.c.
1315 2011-05-04 10:50:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1316 Create conversion tools for language files
1318 A shell script "lng2po.sh" is provided, to apply the translation given
1319 in a WinBoard .lng file to "xboard.pot", in order to generate a
1320 "language.po" file containing translations for all strings for which
1321 the .lng file had a translation. It makes use of a file "metascript",
1322 which is the ed script used to turn the .lng file in an ed script to
1323 turn the .pot into .po. For example, the command "./lng2po.sh
1324 espa?ol.lng" will create a file "language.po", which can be renamed to
1326 ****************************** WARNING ********************************
1327 Note that the lng2po script does a "recode" that assumes the given
1328 .lng file is encoded in latin-1. This means it canot be used without
1329 modification for the Vietnamese and Chinese translation; you would have
1330 to replace latin-1 by the applicable encoding first (CP1258 / BG2312 /
1333 2011-04-27 22:04:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1334 Put gettext markers in generic dialog creator
1336 This is done by adding extra XtNstring argumentsto the widget gcreaton,
1337 so the displayed name can be different fromthe widget name.
1339 2011-05-01 19:56:38 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
1340 Use getaddrinfo instead of gethostbyname. Hopefully this makes us compatible with IPv6 and with hosts that have more than one IP address. However, I don't know of any chess servers that have either of those properties, so I couldn't test that. I did test that xboard still works with freechess.org and chessclub.com and that it gives an error message for invalid host names.
1343 2011-04-24 11:18:28 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1344 updated German translation
1347 2011-04-24 11:17:43 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1348 replaced hardcoded email address with generic PACKAGE_BUGREPORT
1351 2011-04-23 10:51:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1352 updated po-files; updated german translation
1355 2011-04-23 10:51:02 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1356 updated list of files that include translation strings; updated pot-file
1359 2011-04-22 21:50:58 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1360 marked more strings for gettext that were only marked with N_()
1362 they need to be marked again with _() when they are used to get the translated string
1364 2011-04-22 21:39:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1365 updated translation files
1368 2011-04-22 21:37:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1369 added/fixed i18n support via gettext to xboard
1371 this was already added a long time ago, but now it's added again to
1372 autoconf. Also fixed some compile errors that showed up.
1374 2011-04-20 10:27:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1375 Make engine startup error non-fatal
1377 When engine startup fails, do not generate a fatal error, but swicth
1378 back to -ncp mode. Write on broken pipe errors had to be suppressed for
1381 2011-04-20 14:35:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1382 Make engine loadable during session
1384 A "Load Engine ..." menu item is added to the Engine menu, which pops
1385 up a dialog where one can replace the first or second engine by a new
1386 one, without destroying the game state. Switching from -ncp to engine
1387 mode needed activation of some menu items in SetGNUMode, and
1388 re-enabling clockMode. It was also important that noChessProgram is
1389 cleared before re-initializing the ChessProgramState.
1390 The Load-Engine dialog can select from the list of installed
1391 engines, and also add a newly specified engine to this list. In this
1392 case it saves the directory, hasBook, and isUCI info with the engine,
1393 and optionally the current variant. When loading an engine with a
1394 specified variant, it resets the game and switches to the new variant.
1396 2011-04-18 15:56:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1397 Generalize WaitForSecond to WaitForEngine
1400 2011-04-18 15:46:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1401 Add UnloadEngine routine
1404 2011-04-20 13:45:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1405 Put engine initialization code in per-engine function
1407 Initializing of the ChessProgramStates first and second from the
1408 option settings in appData is now done by separate calls to the same
1409 routine. Clearing of options is added to the initialization. This is
1410 needed when reloading an engine. This is done in a separate routine,
1411 which could also be called on -reset options.
1413 2011-04-18 13:21:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1414 Bring structure in appData engine options
1416 All options in appData that came in pairs for both engines are replaced
1417 by arrays of ENGINES (=2, for now) elements. The use of the named
1418 appData field that are replaced in the source is replaced by use of the
1419 corresponding array element, by #define directives in common.h, awaiting
1422 2011-04-19 15:15:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1423 Fix gettext macros in option dialogs
1425 The strings in the tables were using _() in stead of N_().
1427 2011-04-18 20:58:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1428 Fix crash on using Engine #1 Settings in ICS non-zippy mode
1430 If XBoard is compiled with zippy the Engine #1 Settings menu was not
1431 grayed out even when you don't run in zippy mode, and using it would
1434 2011-04-19 15:07:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1437 Some pixmaps forptomoted pieces had wrong background color, others had a
1438 wrong name (so the one with the correct name was missing).
1440 2011-04-17 19:12:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1441 Change texture-install directory to pixmaps/textures
1444 2011-04-17 17:36:32 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1445 Limit install of sound files to those in menu
1447 The sounds directory is set to .../xboard/sounds, and only ten
1448 sounds are kept (all non-spoken).
1450 2011-04-17 17:27:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1451 Remove some bitmaps from install
1453 Some files in the bitmaps source directory need not be installed,
1454 because they are there only to be linked to the binary in a build
1455 without LIBXPM, are README files or conversion programs. I left only the
1456 stuff that is in a Debian binary package in .../xboard/bitmaps.xchess.
1458 2011-04-17 16:34:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1459 Configure some default sounds
1461 The move sound is set to Wood Thunk; the sounds for tell and challenge
1462 events to Phone and Gong, respectively.
1464 2011-04-17 16:17:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1465 Change default sounds in Xboard menu
1467 All spoken sounds are removed now. Thud, Click and Ching are replaced by
1468 Wood Thunk, Slap and Cymbal; Car Horn and Pop are added.
1470 2011-04-17 12:46:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1471 Make user wav file available for try-out in sound dialog
1473 The GenericReadout was adapted to be able to read a single selected
1474 value, so that the callback to the 'play' button in the sounds dialog
1475 could get the name of the 'user WAV file' without accepting all settings
1476 for the other sounds (which should only happen on 'OK', and might still
1477 be cancelled in stead).
1479 2011-04-16 10:36:31 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
1480 configure: enable silent rules by default
1483 2011-04-16 10:28:16 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
1484 configure: added install directory for bitmaps files: .../games/xboard/bitmaps/default/
1487 2011-04-16 10:25:33 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
1488 configure: added install of sounds in .../games/xboard/sounds/default
1491 2011-04-16 09:54:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
1492 configure: renamed bitmapdir to pixmapsdir, since it installed only pixmaps. also changed name of default dir
1494 pixmaps will now be installed under .../games/xboard/pixmaps/default/
1496 2011-04-16 13:40:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1497 Fix gamelist highlight
1499 Reopening the gamelist should highlight the current game.
1501 2011-04-16 10:25:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1502 Fix size limit on 'save as diagram'
1504 In stead of a fixed-size buffer the diagram-save code now uses an
1505 allocated buffer with size calculated from the bitmap parameters to
1506 retreive the bitmap data, so it should work for all sizes.
1508 2011-04-15 22:04:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1509 Fix chaining of bottom-row dialog buttons
1511 The OK & cancel buttons are chained to the bottom. This patch makes sure
1512 that other buttons appearing in the same row (as in the tags and
1513 comment dialogs) will be chained that way too, so that they will behave
1514 the same on vertical sizing. The bottom of a full-width text-edit above
1515 it will be chained to bottom too. To make this work in the tags dialog,
1516 the (optional) cmail-message field had to be put above the tags memo.
1518 2011-04-15 19:18:46 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1519 Fix switching between pixmap and bitmap pieces
1521 There were still several flags that had to be reset when redoing the
1522 graphics initialization. The Debian patch to use a default bitmap
1523 directory when none is given but monoMode is selected or forced, is
1524 moved to a more sensible place, so that it does not disturb matters when
1525 compiled without LIBXPM (when we do have built-in bitmaps).
1527 2011-04-15 15:47:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1528 Remove outline-pieces option from board-options dialog
1530 This option does not exist in XBoard (yet).
1532 2011-04-15 15:41:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1533 Fix running of clock during hash allocation engine
1535 In TwoMachinesEvent we now wait for the second engine to acknowledge the
1536 'ping' after 'new', to make sure it is done allocating hash in reaction
1537 to the preceding 'memory' command, before the clock for the game is
1540 2011-04-14 21:42:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1541 Describe move type-in in texi file
1544 2011-04-14 20:34:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1545 Describe Copy Game List menu item in texi file
1548 2011-04-14 20:30:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1549 Describe -sweepPromotions in texi file
1551 The new method for selection promotion piece, and the -sweepPromotions
1552 option are described in the texi file.
1554 2011-04-14 20:14:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1555 Describe -pieceMenu option in texi file
1557 The sweep method for selecting a piece in Edit-Position mode is
1558 explained, as well as the -pieceMenu option.
1560 2011-04-14 15:59:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1563 Descriptions of the new XBoard menu dialogs are included in the docs.
1565 2011-04-14 21:06:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1566 Reorganize texi description
1569 2011-04-14 12:31:15 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1570 Fix sweep-promotions patch
1572 Setting of the from square was moved to before OKtoStartUserMove in the
1573 LeftClick handler, to make sure we could test the promotion possiblity
1574 when OnlyMove() would have altered (x,y) to be no longer the from
1575 square. But this setting of fromX, fromY hung on also if the move was
1576 not OK, so you could effectively select opponent pieces and empty
1577 squares. The from-square is now set back to undefined when it is not OK
1578 to move the piece you clicked.
1580 2011-04-14 11:56:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1581 Alter treatment of moves with empty squares
1583 In Edit Position mode one can move empty squares, and use them to
1584 'capture' pieces as a means to clear their square. But this often leads
1585 to unintended disappearence of pieces one wants to grab for dragging, if
1586 a previous click had inadvertantly left an empty square selected: the
1587 click on the piece is then seen as the to-click of a click-click move.
1588 This patch treats to-clicks of moves with an empty-square differently
1589 from other to-clicks: Rather than performing the move (in this case
1590 clearing of the to-square) on the down-click, it defers that to the
1591 up-click, and only does it if that up-click is in the same square. This
1592 allows the user to grab the piece on the down-click, and drag it to
1593 another square, if that is what he wanted to do, without being disturbed
1594 by sudden implosion of the piece he tried to grab.
1595 If the to-square is in the holdings, grabbing the piece is the only
1596 action, as moves of empty squares into the holdings are forbidden anyway.
1598 2011-04-13 13:14:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1599 Block selection of a directory when file is needed
1601 When we are not browsing merely to obtain a name to put in a text edit,
1602 but really must return an open file pointer, selection of a directory
1603 (ending in '/') can no longer be OK'ed in the file browser. (XBoard
1604 tends to segfault when offered garbage for game or position file...)
1606 2011-04-13 12:23:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1607 Let double-click select file in file browser
1609 A second click on the already selected entry now has the same effect as
1610 pressing the OK button.
1612 2011-04-12 17:06:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1613 Couple mouse wheel to v-scrolls in file browser
1615 A newly added mouse-wheel event handler was made to call the v-scroll
1616 callback routines with parameters to step one entry. The button-press
1617 handler for the lists themselves was also made to intercept the wheel
1618 events (buttons 4 and 5), to prevent they would select an entry, and
1619 make them scroll in stead as well.
1621 2011-04-13 11:41:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1622 Fix crash copying game list when there is none
1625 2011-04-13 11:15:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1626 Fix changing of float setting by generic popup
1628 Changing a float setting (so far the only one is in the Load Options
1629 dalog) did not always work, because the old value was clipped to (int),
1630 so that changing it back to an integer value might erroneously conclude
1631 there was no change.
1633 2011-04-13 16:15:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1634 Fix crash on closing dialogs in wrong order
1636 When a menu dialog was closed when it still had an open file-browse
1637 daughter, which could be done through the system menu X on the title
1638 bar, later closing of the file browser caused a crash. This is solved by
1639 keeping track of the fact that there is such a daughter through a global
1640 flag, and ignoring the pop-down command if there is one.
1642 2011-04-13 16:33:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1643 Fix startup focus of board window
1645 When there were open auxiliary windows, these would have focus on
1646 starting up XBoard. The XtSetKeyboardFocus call added in XBoard main()
1647 was ineffective in curing that. It has now been replaced by a call to
1648 XSetInputFocus, which does do the job. By giving input focus to the form
1649 widget, rather than the board widget, XBoard will be immediately
1650 sensitive to all key bindings.
1652 2011-04-13 15:48:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1653 Fix game-list highight error when filtered (WB)
1655 When the gamelist was filtered, the game that was highlingted was the
1656 n-th game in the list rather than the n-th game in the file, when the
1657 latter was loaded (and n did not exceed the number of filtered games).
1658 This is fixed now by searching for the line in the listbox that starts
1659 with the game number n, rather than taking the n-th line.
1661 2011-04-12 19:20:46 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1662 Refactor move type-in code
1664 Common code between XBoard and WinBoard was moved to the back-end
1665 creating TypeInEvent() and TypeInDoneEvent() routines.
1667 2011-04-12 10:13:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1668 Fix saving of XBoard fonts with spaces in name
1670 SaveFontArg now prints quotes around the saved font string, so that the
1671 general option-argument parser doesnot stop at the first space it sees.
1673 2011-04-11 20:48:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1674 Implement move type-in for XBoard
1676 By adding an event handler to the main window for key presses, users can
1677 now type moves when the board has focus, like in WinBoard. The typed
1678 character appears as first character in the type-in box that willpop up.
1679 Enter and Escape close the box; finishing the typing of the move enters
1680 it. Like in WinBoard it is also possible to type a move number (to go
1681 there) or (in Edit Position mode) a FEN.
1683 2011-04-11 20:59:44 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
1684 new developer release
1686 tried to keep the v4.5.x branch developed already separated in the NEWS file, as well as DIFFSTAT and SHORTLOG.
1687 The Changelog is just the one from master.
1689 2011-04-10 22:47:59 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
1690 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
1692 2011-04-10 20:32:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1693 Fix use of game/position file in first match game
1695 When a match was started from the menu, it was not paying attention to
1696 game and position files. (Later games were.) The code that handled this
1697 in the initialization when a match is started through the command line
1698 was made into a routine MatchEvent, which can be called from the menu
1701 2011-04-09 20:55:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1702 Fix crash on opening ICS Text Menu
1704 The patch for the color defaults had broken the ICS Text Menu.
1706 2011-04-09 19:22:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1707 Implement Copy Game List menu item for XBoard
1709 Some WinBoard code was cloned for this.
1711 2011-04-09 11:42:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1712 Third method of sweep selection
1714 This method sweeps through the possible promotion choices for the piece
1715 that is being dragged, as long as you drag a 7th-rank Pawn backwards. On
1716 draggin such a Pawn forwards, it immediately shows it as the piece you
1717 are going to promote to.
1719 2011-04-08 23:39:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1720 Alternative sweep promotions
1722 The sweep takes place on the from-square here.
1724 2011-04-07 23:21:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1725 Make sweep-select promotions work in WinBoard
1727 The mouse-move handler had to be connected to the PromoScroll back-end
1730 2011-04-07 23:19:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1731 Fix path browsing in WinBoard
1733 The routine BrowseForFolder was still declared as static in woptions.c,
1734 while it was used from wsettings.c.
1736 2011-04-07 11:14:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1737 Fixes to sweep selection
1740 2011-04-06 23:47:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1741 Implement sweep selection of promotion piece
1743 When the option -sweepPromotions is true, a click-click promotion move
1744 will first display the default choice (usually Queen) on the promotion
1745 square. While you have the mouse button still down, you can change the
1746 piece by moving the mouse vertically.
1748 2011-04-06 21:20:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1749 Implement sweep selection as alternative for the piece menu
1751 When the option -pieceMenu is off, the piece menu will no longer appear
1752 on right-clicks in Edit Position mode. In stead a Pawn of the chosen
1753 color will appear immediately in the clicked square, and vertical
1754 movement of the mouse with the right button down will cycle through
1755 all other pieces defined in the pieceToCharTable of the current variant.
1756 Setting the side to move is acheived by clicking the correspondig
1757 clock. Clear board can be effected by clicking the clock of the side
1758 that already has the move.
1760 2011-03-30 18:17:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1761 Remember Tags and Comment dialog coordinates
1763 The save-settings code now uses the shell and shellUp arrays from the
1764 GenericPopUp to read out the window coordinates for Tags and Comment
1765 window. Pointers used by GenericPopUp are set topoint to the
1766 corresponding WindowPlacement structs.
1768 2011-03-10 19:21:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1771 The generic popup is used for generating the Tags / EditTags popups.
1772 The tags popup use a 'label' field to display the cmail message
1774 2011-04-01 13:43:52 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1775 Implement Edit-Comment window through generic popup
1777 The Edit Comment and Comment popups are combined into one, that can
1778 always be edited (similar to WinBoard). It uses shell number 1.
1779 (Number 0 is for all transient dialogs.) A save-changes button is added.
1780 The positioning is not implemented yet.
1782 2011-04-06 10:56:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1783 Refinements to generic popup and color picker
1785 *) The text part of a checkbox can now be clicked to toggle the option.
1786 *) Typing <Enter> in single-line text edits is ignored
1787 *) Using a spin button now sets focus to the affected text edit, with
1788 the insert position at the end.
1789 *) Using the sample field or an RGB button sets focus to the
1790 corresponding text edit, with the insert position at the end.
1791 *) The adjust buttons now work in reverse, with a D button for "darker".
1792 *) Editing a color field causes the sample field to update to the new
1793 color when you type <Enter>.
1794 *) The color pickers now define a default color, which can be instated
1795 by clicking on the sample field.
1796 *) Fix some 64-bit pointer warnings
1798 2011-04-05 17:05:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1799 Let file browser filter on extension
1801 A new text field is added in the file-browse dialog, to hold (space-
1802 separated) extensions, on which the filenames are then filtered. This
1803 field is initialized by the caller, depending on what we need the file
1804 for, but can be changed by the user. (Directories are always displayed!)
1805 Changes in the extension field become effective after typing a return
1806 in it. Escape typed in the extension field gives focus to the filename
1807 field, and restores the contents. Escape in the filename field cancels
1808 the dialog, return ther OKs it. The extension filter of the browser is
1809 initialized to the extension (if any) of the file currently in the text
1810 edit you are browsing for.
1811 When re-opening the file browser from the XBoard File menu, and there
1812 is no suggested filename, it will now start with the last succesfully
1813 opened name as suggestion. Calling the browser with a NULL argument
1814 for the suggested filename requests that (unlike calling with an empty
1815 string, which will start it in the current directory). To make this
1816 work smoothly, the filebrowser saves the last used name on entry, so it
1817 can be restored on cancel, so that a cancelled browse session really
1818 erases all memory of it.
1820 2011-04-04 19:26:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1821 Fix animation masks on changing piece pixmaps
1823 The animation masks were not remade when new pieces were loaded
1824 interactively through the board-options dialog.
1826 2011-04-04 19:09:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1827 Fix linegap option in board dialog
1829 The lineGC was not recalculated, so the grid lines stayed the same
1830 thickness. In addition, setting the line-gap override to -1 now
1831 retrieves the original line gap that belongs to the current board size.
1833 2011-03-05 23:27:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1834 Make a kind of ICS text menu in XBoard as a dialog
1836 The dialog with buttons can be opened from the View menu. It is
1837 configured by the option -icsMenu; a default setting for this is
1838 included in the master settings file.
1839 The commands specified by the -icsMenu can now contain $name and $input
1840 keywords, which will be replaced by the current primary selection, or
1841 text the user types, respectively. Commands that contain $name will not
1842 be sent when the current selection is empty. Commands that do not
1843 contain $input will be sent to the ICS immediately; otherwise they will
1844 be placed in the ICS Input Box, with the cursor at the point of the
1845 $input, and input focus given to the Input Box, so the user can start
1846 typing. When a command is prefixed by "$add " it will be appended to the
1847 existing ICS Input Box contents, rather than replace it.
1848 The items now have to be separated by ";\n", and button text from
1849 command by ';' (with optional linefeed). This allows configuring of
1850 multi-line commands, as a single linefeed no longer has special
1853 2011-03-31 13:36:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1854 Redo ICS input box with generic popup
1856 This box is just a single text edit, but the complexity is in the added
1857 callbacks. These callbacks remain in xboard.c, and were altered to
1858 access the edit through the option.handle field.
1860 2011-04-03 12:54:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1861 Activate -path and -file options
1863 In XBoard the generic popup was prepared for this. In WinBoard, for
1864 -path options the BrowseFolder routine is used, and had to be made
1865 global (prototype in winboard.h).
1867 2011-04-02 18:40:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1868 Let generic popup generate Engine Settings dialog
1871 2011-04-02 18:36:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1872 Merge SettingsPopUp into GenericPopUp
1874 Based on currentCps the values read from the dialog are sent to the
1875 engine, or stored into the option.target in the callback, and fetched
1876 from the option.target in the PopUp. The currentCps is cleared in the
1877 generic popdown of a transient dialog.
1879 2011-03-06 10:11:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1880 Make generic dialog popup reentrant
1882 To allow persistent dialogs to be implemented through the generic popup,
1883 it must be possible to have several dialogs open at the same time, and
1884 thus make sure the popdowns under the cacel or close-window button know
1885 which one to pop down. To this end an array shells[] is created that
1886 takes over the function of settingsShell, and GenericPopUp gets an extra
1887 parameter telling it which element to use for storing the dialog shell.
1888 This number is then also passed to the callbacks that trigger popdown.
1889 This was a bit nasty for the CatchDeleteWindow stuff, which passes user
1890 data to the callback as text strings.
1891 Keep a separate up/down indicator, so that shell widgets can be kept
1892 for persistent dialogs. Also keep a currentOption per dialog type.
1893 The coordinates and size of the window is read out and stored in a
1894 WindowPlacement structure, (if one is specified for that dialog), when
1895 the dialog is popped down. When initialized the structure is also used
1896 to set the window parameters when the dialog is created. (The idea being
1897 that the structure was saved in the settings file.)
1898 The routine MarkMenu checkmarks a given menu item, and logs it for the
1899 given dialog type, so that a later popdown automatically unchecks is.
1901 2011-02-25 12:14:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1902 Implement Machine Match menu item and options dialog
1904 An item to start a match from the menu is added, similar to what
1905 WinBoard has. (The code is duplicated, so I guess it should be moved to
1906 the back-end now, as MachineMatchEvent(), but it was tiny.) A dialog in
1907 the Options menu was added with the aid of the generic popup, and allows
1908 the user to set the load Game / Position File and Index.
1910 2011-04-01 14:54:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1911 Create General-Options dialog
1913 The generic popup is used to implement a General-Options dialog, which
1914 contains all Boolaen options that used to be set directly from the main
1915 Options menu, plus a spin option for the flash count and flash rate.
1916 The corresponing options are removed from the main Options menu, but the
1917 whole thing is made conditional on a compiler switch OPTIONSDIALOG.
1918 The dialog needs an OK callback for sending an altered ponder-state to
1919 the engine. (Why isn't this option disabled in -ncp mode, btw?)
1920 A spin control is added to adjust -animateSpeed between 5 and 100.
1921 Add dropMenu and showTargetSquares item as well.
1923 2011-04-01 18:16:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1924 Redo new-variant dialog with generic popup
1926 Some special code was added in GenericPopUp() to force buttons of the
1927 type needed in the New Variant dialog (wide, colored, greyed-out on
1928 variant type). The dialog was implemented with these, and callbacks for
1929 the buttons directly exit the dialog, without the need for OK. New spin
1930 controls are added to the dialog for adjusting the board format.
1932 2011-04-01 14:48:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1933 Redo common-engine dialog with generic popup
1935 The ponder option was removed, as it is already in the main Options
1936 menu, and would require nastiness in the OK callback. Added book options
1937 in common-engine dialog.
1939 2011-02-24 13:32:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1940 Redo adjudications dialog through generic popup
1942 We dropped the periodic-updates option, as it is already in the main
1945 2011-04-01 21:56:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1946 Make sounds dialog for XBoard
1948 This uses the combo boxes. A 'play' button isimplemented for a test
1949 sound. A sound directory is introduced, and can be set through the
1950 dialog. A default setting for -soundDirectory is added to xboard.conf.
1952 2011-04-01 23:11:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1953 Add ICS options dialog
1956 2011-04-01 21:52:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1957 Add board dialog XBoard
1959 The GenericPopUp() is used to implement a dialog for board options. The
1960 board dialog needs to trigger redraw and redefinition of the
1961 colors, through an OK callback. Color-pickers are used for the 6 basic
1963 To allow changing board settings during the session (i.e. from a menu
1964 dialog), the routines to allocate resources have to free the resources
1965 for the previous settings first. This patch take care of XtCreateGCs(),
1966 preventing re-creation of resources that are unchangeable (such as the
1967 grid color), and calling XtReleastGC() on GCs that can be changed.
1968 To prevent resource leaks the old pixmaps are deleted before making new
1969 ones on second or later calls of CreateXPMPieces().
1971 2011-04-03 11:39:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1972 Add browse button to generic popup
1974 Options of type FileName and PathName cause a browse button to be added
1975 behind the text field. The SpinCallback is used to handle the
1976 button presses, and invokes the file browser dialog to obtain a
1977 filename, which is then copied to the text field.
1979 2011-04-01 21:49:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1980 Make generic XBoard popup, and implement 2 dialogs
1982 The Engine-Settings dialog of XBoard was cloned to work on predefined
1983 lists of (XBoard) options, rather than engine options. An extra field
1984 was added to the Option struct, to hold a pointer to the XBoard variable
1985 that should hold the option setting, so on OK'ing the dialog the altered
1986 values can be copied there. Not usable for options which should trigger
1987 an action (like redraw, or sending something to the engine).
1988 A Load Game, Save Game and ICS Options dialog were then defined by
1989 tables fed to GenericPopUp(). Options set from these dialogs were removed
1990 from the main Option menu, which removes a lot of code from xboard.c
1991 (for checkmarking, disabling the menu items).
1992 A button defined in the GenericPopUp can attain the color indicated
1993 by a previous text field, and add a callback to change the color in a
1994 spin-like manner (but using R G B W in stead of + - butons).
1995 The EndMark option can specify a callback, to be used on OK.
1996 A non-zero max field in the Option descriptor will be used to set the
1997 width of ComboBox, TextBox and Button optons.
1998 The elements are chained such that extra space goes fully into the input
1999 fields. A label type is added for clarifying texts that would not fit in
2000 the option names. A break-type (pseudo-)option is added. Make OK and
2001 cancel button suppressable in generic popup (by 2 bit of the option.min
2004 2011-04-03 11:34:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2005 Add file-browser option to just return name
2007 By passing mode "f" the file browser dialog will not open the selected
2008 file at all, so it can be used to retreive the name for the benefit of a
2009 file-browser button to a -file option. A mode "p" will limit the
2010 selection to directories only, to browse for a path.
2012 2011-04-03 13:15:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2013 Put insertion point at end of text on SetFocus
2016 2011-04-05 23:47:34 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2017 fixed 64 bit warnings by casting integers to intptr_t before casting to int
2020 2011-04-05 23:24:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2021 removed check and #includes for malloc.h, since it's not needed
2023 hopefully this doesn't break things on non-linux systems. OS X seems to be ok, not sure about others ;)
2025 2011-04-03 20:23:49 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2026 check if malloc.h is present before including it
2028 OS X 10.6 doesn't have malloc.h, so it complained.
2030 2011-04-03 20:01:36 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2031 Fix bug introduced in commit 89b4744: removed a "/" and forgot to add it in the config file
2033 removed a "/" to make OS X happy, but forgot to add the "/" again in the xboard.conf.in file
2035 2011-03-12 14:08:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2036 Fix display of promotion piece in ICS superchess
2038 In Great Shatranj and Superchess promoted Pawns were displayed as shadow
2039 piece because these variants had holdings, while captured pieces should
2040 go back into the holdings unchanged, rather than reverted to Pawns.
2042 2011-03-13 14:09:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2043 Fix o-o castling in new parser
2045 The non-compliant notation of castling with lower-case 'o' should be
2046 preferred over the non-compliant interpretation of moving a Pawn along
2047 the o-file. Not doing so breaks ICS play, as ICS use o-o and o-o-o for
2048 castling! So an exception is now made for the o-file in the 'fxg'
2051 2011-03-10 19:27:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2052 Implement yynewstr entry point in new parser
2054 This entry point, used for parsing an ICS move list, was forgotten, and
2055 was still an empty routine. This made XBoard crash when observing an ICS
2058 2011-03-07 23:11:00 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2059 fixed wrong default for polyglotDir mentioned in docs.
2061 Thanks to Hans Aberg for reporting it.
2063 2011-03-05 12:39:01 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2064 Fix "make install" on Os X10.6.6 (removed a "/")
2066 seems like an extra "/" made "make install" unhappy
2068 2011-03-03 21:19:05 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2069 removed parser.l from build process, also removed flex dependency from configure
2072 2011-03-02 22:14:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2073 New parser, written in C
2075 A new parser was written to replace the flex-generated one. Immediate
2076 improvements are that it understand double-digit rank numbers, and Shogi
2077 coordinates. No changes were made in the Makefile yet to reflect the
2078 new, flexless building procedure.
2080 2011-03-02 22:23:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2081 Fix bugs in FRC castling rights
2083 When parsing a castling move in FRC when no rights existed, the parser
2084 returned 0 (= EndOfFile) rather than ImpossibleMove. The recognition of
2085 the absence of rights was not adapted to the new encoding NoRights in
2088 2011-03-01 23:42:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2089 Fix parsing bug of FRC castling
2091 The code that was supposed to intercept castling when no rights existed
2092 in FRC was not adapted to the new encoding for this by NoRights, rather
2093 than -1, and furthermore returned 0 (= EndOfFile) rather than
2094 ImpossibleMove. Not sure if the former would manifest itself in any
2095 way, but the latter seems bad.
2097 2011-03-01 23:32:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2098 Fix two bugs in reading position diagram
2100 When reading a game without FEN tag, a position diagram is used to set
2101 the initial position. This calls CharToPiece() with a '.' as argument,
2102 because that is the position-diagram way to indicate empty squares.
2103 altered CharToPiece() over time this would be recognized as the first
2104 undefined piece or, more recently, the first piece without nickName,
2105 which is a white Pawn. Now it returns EmptySquare again in that case.
2106 A second problem was that for position diagrams in braces the brace was
2107 not in the list of ignored characters, and would cause the reading to
2108 get out of phase, so that the side to move was not recognized.
2110 2011-02-26 21:12:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2111 Fix flipBlack option XBoard with board texture
2113 In XBoard -flipBlack is implemented by swapping white and black pieces,
2114 because the Shogi bitmaps from XShogi are made that way. But the mask
2115 used to cut out the whole in the board texture to fit the piece was not
2116 swapped, both when drawing static pieces, as well as during animation.
2118 2011-02-25 14:38:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2119 Improve repairing damage of arrow highlight XBoard
2121 With line gap the highlight arrow necessitated redrawing of the entire
2122 board, to repair damage on the grid. This interfered with flashing of
2123 pieces, which was only done on selective redraws. In stead of forcing a
2124 total repaint we now just redraw the grid lines.
2126 2011-02-23 16:41:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2127 Fix unintended translation in debug file
2129 The words "first" and "second" (cps->which) were sometimes used in
2130 context that should definitely not be translated. (e.g. the indicator
2131 for which engine printed/got the line in the debug file.) So translation
2132 is now deferred to all uses in popups.
2134 2011-02-23 16:29:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2137 The nps settingwas tested for being > 0 in stead of >=0, so that the
2138 case of CPU time was not properly handled.
2140 2011-02-24 19:06:27 +0100 Kamil Blank <caceel@gmail.com>:
2141 Added missing fclose()
2144 Signed-off-by: Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>
2146 2011-02-20 16:12:19 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2147 release of version 4.5.1
2149 2011-02-20 16:10:16 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2150 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
2152 2011-02-20 20:36:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2153 Fix two typos in option names in texi file
2155 Polyglot was capitalyzed
2157 2011-02-20 00:03:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2158 Fix some resource leaks
2160 Some files were opened not closed in XBoard, when loading XIM images
2161 (which I doubt anyone ever does) but also when copying the clipboard
2162 (which has the potential of being done very often). There was also some
2163 code that would not work if conditional code which is permanently
2164 disabled would be enabled.
2166 2011-02-17 20:17:04 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2167 new developer release
2169 2011-02-17 20:14:38 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2170 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
2172 2011-02-17 15:40:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2173 Fix MSVC snprintf problem
2175 In MSVC snprintf has to be redefined as _snprintf, and this happens
2176 conditionally in config.c. But the latter was not #included in help.c.
2178 2011-02-16 19:41:27 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2179 updated configure.ac to check for Xaw header files
2181 check for Xaw header files when --without-Xaw3d was given. Before the test was
2182 only done when Xaw3d was specified, but could not be found.
2184 If Xaw3d or Xaw can't be found, print a hopefully useful error message and exit the configure script.
2186 2011-02-16 12:03:22 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2189 Channel 0 messages were not displayed in the console, because the test
2190 for channel number considered every non-numeric or non-existent handle
2191 in a chatbox to be zero. So the messages were diverted to a non-exsting
2192 chatbox. Now it test first for the handle to start with a digit.
2194 2011-02-15 19:13:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2195 Make language choice from menu persistent
2197 Set appData.language to the chosen language file, or empty if English is
2198 chosen, so that the choice is saved with the settings. Increase the
2199 number of possible language choices from 5 to 20. (After all, we already
2202 2011-02-14 11:09:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2203 Fix showing of user move after adjudication
2205 The correction of the fishy patch (removing ShowMove() from Adjudicate())
2206 had broken the adjudication of user moves (that actually did work before
2207 the fishy patch, because there the gobal fromX/Y and toX/Y do contain
2208 the correct values for the move to be shown). An entered move that led
2209 to adjudication (like a checkmate) now was not displayed at all. Adding
2210 an extra ShowMove() after (successful) return of Adudicate() solves it.
2212 2011-02-13 23:49:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2213 Fix Xiangqi King facing
2215 The Spartan patch had broken the CheckTest for Xiangqi, because cl.check
2216 was cleared after the King-facing test, rather than before it.
2218 2011-02-13 22:30:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2219 Fix variant janus size prefix
2221 The default board size of Janus Chess was not consistently taken to be
2222 10x8, which resulted the name to be sent as 10x8+0_janus to the engine.
2224 2011-02-13 12:18:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2227 The test for Alfil (suppressing single steps on the Elephant) contained
2228 a wrong logical operator, so that it could never be active. It also
2229 failed to include Xiangqi as variant with traditional Alfil. This led to
2230 one-step moves of the Elephant in these variants, and false check or
2231 unreliable mate detections.
2233 Fix move of Xiangqi Elephant
2235 2011-02-09 23:19:09 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2236 fixed configure script to correctly detect Xaw3d library
2239 2011-02-06 22:07:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2240 Fix unmarked translation
2242 The file-browser wndowtitle in WB was not marked for translation.
2244 2011-02-04 10:27:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2245 Put warning in HTML help
2247 A warning is added that the help file is not yet updated for the new
2250 2011-02-04 10:22:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2251 Fix 64-bit Windows compilability
2253 The API interface for Set/GetWindowLong has been changed for 64-bit
2254 Windows, both in the name of the call as in the arguments.
2256 2011-02-04 10:21:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2257 Fix MSVC compilability
2259 Both the makefile and the project file had to be adapted for the new
2260 source file history.c, and the new location of parser.c.
2262 2011-02-05 10:11:58 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2263 added missing #includes and missing prototypes to filebrowser
2265 thanks to Max Funk for reporting. Now using HAVE_DIRENT_H.
2267 Also cleaned up missing prototypes and some casts.
2269 2011-02-05 09:21:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2270 added missing header file for sprintf
2273 2011-02-03 08:50:50 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2274 added history.c to the tar-ball. Needed for Winboard
2277 2011-01-31 23:03:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2278 Fix deselection of greyed-out variant button (WB)
2280 In Windows a disabled radiobutton refuses to deselect when you select
2281 another (enabled) button from the group. There are then 2 buttons
2282 checked, and the code to readout the buttons took the first one. Now it
2283 is changed to take the first enabled one.
2285 2011-02-03 08:28:15 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2286 Revert "Implement -reset option feature in WinBoard"
2288 This reverts commit efecf86cd9b54072c6a2f38d62f1d775e69c545b.
2290 picked the wrong commit from HGM's git tree.
2292 2011-02-01 22:01:12 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2293 add DIFFSTAT and SHORTLOG to tar-ball
2295 was only in the v4.4.x branch and not in master
2297 2011-01-30 09:52:15 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2298 release of version 4.5.0
2300 2011-02-01 07:41:04 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
2301 changed size of borders around squares from 0 to 1 as a default
2303 this way highlights show up again.
2305 2011-01-29 20:11:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2306 Implement -reset option feature in WinBoard
2308 2011-01-30 10:12:08 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2309 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
2311 2011-01-30 09:56:39 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2312 updated parser.c form parser.l
2314 2011-01-29 19:59:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2315 Clean up fishy patch
2317 None of the ShowMove() calls in Adjudicate() was working, because when
2318 this code was taken out of HandleMachineMove() it was taken outside the
2319 scope of the local fromX, fromY etc. there, so that it started using the
2320 global variables from the mouse driver. As these usually contain -1,
2321 this suppressed move animation and highlighting. All these calls have
2322 now been removed, and ShowMove() is called after a positive return (from
2323 HandleMachineMove(), so within the correct scope).
2324 This improves the previous fix, which led to some flicker, because the
2325 erroneous ShowMove() calls did draw the new board (instantly), wich in
2326 the fishy patch was then immediately overwritten by the old position, to
2327 start animation. This drawing of the old position is now no longer
2330 2011-01-29 13:36:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2333 The RTF file is adapted to the new menu organization.
2335 2011-01-29 13:31:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2338 The highlight-with-arrow and one-click-move menu items are described.
2339 The highlightMoveWithArrow and variations option are described.
2340 Load Next /Previous Position descriptions are moved to File menu.
2341 The description for entering variations is updated (using Shift key).
2342 The remark that editing holdings is impossible is removed.
2343 Spartan Chess is added to the list of supported variants.
2345 2011-01-28 18:35:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2346 Updated copyright notice to 2011
2349 2011-01-24 15:01:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2350 Greyout unavailable variants in New Variant dialog
2352 The WB radio-button code is refactored to be driven from a list (which
2353 must be kept in phase with the variant definitions in common.h!). It now
2354 also checks if the first engine supports the variant, and greys out the
2355 item if it isn't. XB now also makes this check. Slight re-ordering of
2356 10x8 variants there, to have the more common on top.
2357 If no radio button is selected, keep old variant even on OK.
2359 2011-01-19 11:10:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2360 Move clock-click code to back-end
2362 Some duplicated (or should-be-duplicated) code for handling clicks on
2363 the clocks from the XBoard and WinBoard front-ends was merged and
2364 relocated to the back-end, so it can be shared. Noticeable was that
2365 XBoard allowed turn change in ICS examine mode by clock clicking,
2366 while WinBoard did not. WB, on the other hand, allowed clock adjustment.
2368 2011-01-16 23:15:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2369 Fix legality testing of drop moves
2371 Drops of noexistent pieces (i.e. with a piece indicator letter that is
2372 not corresponding to any defined piece) are now parsed as
2373 ImpossibleMove, rather than IllegalMove, so they are also rejected with
2374 legality testing off.
2376 2011-01-17 00:28:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2377 Fix WB Sound Options greyout and remove some grossness
2379 The sound and ICS Options menu items in WB were accessed 'by position',
2380 with fixed defined positions (always messing up any reorganization of
2381 the menus when you forgot to redefine the position constants in
2382 winboard.h). And not only that, but for completely mysterious reasons,
2383 the greying of the sound item greyed out the game-list options (above
2384 it) in stead when it was defined as 9, and the ICS options (below it)
2385 when it was 10 !!!. Now they are addressed 'by command' (and the
2386 position definitions are removed), which fixes things.
2388 2011-01-25 21:35:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2389 Re-instate load next/prev position menu items
2391 As positions do not use something similar to the game list, these are
2392 still useful. For some reason I could not get Alt+Shift+PgUp/Dn to work,
2393 so I settled for Shift+PgUp/Dn.
2395 2011-01-16 21:56:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2396 Remove superfluous copying of machine move
2398 There was explicit code in HandleMachineMove() and FinishMove() to put
2399 the move in the moveList, while MakeMove() already does this later in a
2400 more reliable way by calling CoordsToComputerAlgebraic(). This
2401 superfluous code is removed now.
2403 2011-01-16 21:44:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2404 Fix spurious mate test in Edit Game mode
2406 When entering a game, it was terminated by the mate test even when
2407 legality checking was switched off (so that mates might not be reliably
2408 recognized). The mate test is now made dependent on legality testing.
2410 2011-01-16 21:37:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2411 Fix type-in of drop moves
2413 Drop moves entered through the move type-in already come in the (piece,
2414 DROP_RANK, x, y) format, rather than having a holdings from square. This
2415 caused UserMoveEvent to consider them illegal when testing if the
2416 piecewas of the side to move, and when this was fixed, to recognize
2417 Knight drops as coming from between board and holdings (and thus
2420 2011-01-16 21:31:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2421 Fix move type-in truncating game
2423 Starting a new variation by keeping Shift pressed did not work when
2424 OK'ing the move type-in, because there was some code ther that truncated
2425 the game. While this could be safely left to UserMoveEvent, which it
2426 calls, as the situation is not different from entering moves through the
2429 2011-01-11 16:12:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2430 Fix legality testing for promotions
2432 Turns out WB has never tested for the legality of the chosen promotion
2433 piece, and would allow promotion to King innorml chess even with
2434 legality testing on (when entered through the keyboard)! Now strict
2435 testing is done, outlawing Pawns and Kings (or Unicorns in
2436 Knightmate). Only in suicide / giveaway Kings are stillallowed, and in
2437 spartan a black King if you do not have two yet.(And promotion
2438 toLnce,representing Hoplite Pawn,is forbidden there.)
2440 2011-01-11 11:34:07 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2441 Reset 50-move counter on all pawn-like Lance moves
2443 Now the Lance represents a Pawn-like piece not only in variant fairy,
2444 but anywhere outside Shogi / Superchess, its moves should also reset the
2445 50-move counter in those cases. Especially important for Spartan Chess,
2446 where the Lance actually participates.
2448 2011-01-11 11:18:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2451 The logos were not repainted when the main window was moved out of the
2452 display area, and then back into view. The reason for this is
2453 unknown, as the PaintProc calls HDCDrawPosition, which was calling
2454 DrawLogoOnDC. But the logos were not drawn, (or on an expose event
2455 sometimes half drawn!) despite the fact that the rest of the board was.
2456 The drawing of logos now has been decoupled from drawing the board,
2457 and has been moved to a separate routine DisplayLogos() (in analogy to
2458 DisplayBothClocks()). This is cleaner anyway, as the logos usually do
2459 not change when the board does. So apart from in PaintProc, it has only
2460 to be called when the mode changes (ModeHighlight()) or on swap clocks.
2461 This seems to fix the problem.
2463 2011-01-10 20:36:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2464 Fix time in PGN info
2466 Saving of the thinking time in the PGN was broken by the patch that
2467 removed the race condition in the clock switching, because that moved
2468 the incrementing of forwardMostMove to behind the code that used fmm to
2469 index pvInfoList. As a result the time was stored in the slot for the
2470 opponent's previous move. The value is corrected now.
2472 2011-01-09 00:24:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2475 The move that delivers checkmate in two-machines mode is not animated
2476 when adjudication is on. There then also is no highlighting of this move
2477 Redrawing the board and calling ShowMove fixes it. Which is rather
2478 strange, because ShowMove was already called in Adjudicate (when it
2479 adjudicates), before GameEnds. For reasons that are not understood this
2480 call to ShowMove() (which calls AnimateMove()) is not effective.
2482 2011-01-09 00:21:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2483 Reset machine colors after match
2485 The colors each engine playse are set to the originals after the last
2486 match game, so that a new match or two-machines game will not have
2489 2011-01-09 00:15:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2490 Reset win/loss counters before match
2492 The win/loss counters were not reset, because the code counted on them
2493 being initialized to zero. But with matches startable from the menu,
2494 this is no longer true after the first match.
2496 2011-01-09 00:08:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2497 Show move that causes false illegal-move claim
2499 Without claim testing XBoard takes back moves that an engine objects to.
2500 But when the engine is forfeited for a false claim, the move should of
2501 course stay. So the claim test is moved to before the take-back.
2503 2011-01-09 00:05:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2504 Fix Spartan promotion to King
2506 Promotions toKing were refused when in check, because XBoard thought
2507 they would not resolve the check. Now the promotion is actually
2508 performed before doing the check test.
2510 2011-01-05 17:31:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2511 Fix WB font-based piece rendering on variant switch
2513 The piece bitmaps were only created from the font characters when the
2514 number of ranks or files changed, because it was done in
2515 InitDrawingSizes(). This caused missing pieces when changing to a
2516 variant on the same board that used other pieces. Now InitDrawingSizes()
2517 is called for any variant switch.
2519 2011-01-05 17:25:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2520 Fix right-alignment pproblem in WB ICS window
2522 Use of Ctrl-R to summon the context menu still trickled through to the
2523 default text-edit window routine, and caused right-alignment. This was
2524 because the text-edit reacts on keyDown rather than the character event.
2525 KeyDown of R with Ctrl pressed is now also intercepted and ignored.
2527 2011-01-03 13:04:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2528 Fix chat window title
2530 The title was using the engine name, rather than the ICS handle, which
2531 did not work outside zippy mode. Now it only uses the engine name when
2532 no ICS handle is known. The titleis now also subjected to translation.
2534 2011-01-03 12:50:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2535 Fix spurious reading of old game title by JAWS
2537 Because focus was switched to the board window before loading the
2538 selected game from the game list, the titlebar still contained the
2539 name of the previously loaded game, which would spontaneously be read by
2540 JAWS. Now the focus switch is done after loading the new game (which
2541 updates the window title.)
2543 2011-01-03 12:37:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2544 Add variant Spartan Chess
2546 In the WB menu it takes the place of the defunct Twilight Chess item.
2547 The setup routine needed patching for setting up Lances in stead of
2548 Pawns for black, the check test had to be adapted to handle duple check,
2549 Alfil and Dragon moves were fine tuned in this variant to make the exact
2550 moves, and the promotion popup was adapted to show King and interpret
2551 Rook and Bishop as Dragon and Alfil for black. The Alfil now always
2552 moves as Modern Elephant except in Shatranj and Courier.
2554 2011-01-03 12:23:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2557 Due to a bug in logical operators drops were tried for mate evasions
2558 even in non-drop games, which broke it in Superchess and Great Shatranj,
2559 and wasted CPU time in other variants.
2561 2011-01-05 17:19:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2562 Fix promotion suffixon disambiguated piece moves
2564 The promotion suffixon piecemoves that needed disambiguation was not
2565 passedon to the back-end in most variants. Now it is passed on in any
2568 2011-01-03 12:08:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2569 Fix promotion of Pawn-like Lance
2571 In variants where the Lance is used to represent an unorthodox Pawn, it
2572 must promote when it reaches last rank. With legality testing on,
2573 however, the promoChar was ignored in ApplyMove in this case. The
2574 promotion suffix also was not appended in SAN moves.
2576 2011-01-03 11:57:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2577 Fix WB promotion popup
2579 The promotion popup did not work properly in variants where black did
2580 not use the pieces that white wanted to promote to. Now the character
2581 for the selected piece is taken from the piece encodings of the side to
2582 move. In addition, selection of undefined pieces is ignored.
2584 2011-01-02 14:17:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2585 Fix bug in parsing variations
2587 The moves parsed from a variation were stored in the moveList without
2588 appended linefeed. This caused errors if the variation extended to
2589 beyond the end of the main line,into a hitherto unused part of the move
2590 list, as the linefeed was then not there from the overwritten move. As a
2591 result moves sent to the engine were concatenated, triggering
2592 illegal-move messages and bringing the engine out of phase.
2594 2011-01-02 14:11:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2595 Define Ctrl-R as right-click in WB Comment dialog
2597 To allow JAWS users to load a variation through the keyboard, Ctrl-R is
2598 equated to a right click at the position of the caret or selection.
2600 2011-01-02 14:10:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2601 Allow starting a variation from keyboard entry in WB-JAWS
2603 The status of the shift key is remembered when space is pressed to
2604 select a board square.
2606 2011-01-02 14:06:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2607 Disable some accelerators in JAWS version
2609 Single-key accelerators that could result in irreversible data loss are
2610 undesirable, because the risk of accidentally pushing them is too large.
2611 So the non-Alt duplicates of next/previous game/position are disabled,
2612 as are Home and End for Revert and Truncate Game. JAWS users will have
2613 to rely on the menus for those functions.
2615 2011-01-02 13:59:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2616 Group engine-output memos with engine names
2618 The engine names are now defined just before the text edits, so that
2619 JAWS 11 will read the engine name when the memo for the output of that
2620 engine is selected. (JAWS 10 will still read the NPS, as it reads in
2623 2011-01-02 13:55:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2624 Put nr CPU earlier in tab cycle of WB Common Engine dialog
2626 By defining the max CPU control after hash size, the tabbing steps
2627 through the controls in geometrical (and logical) order, rather than
2628 having the max CPU in between the book controls.
2630 2010-12-29 23:47:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2631 Update WB language template file
2634 2010-12-29 23:41:27 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2635 Subject JAWS menu and spoken strings to translation
2638 2010-12-29 23:37:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2639 Let JAWS SayString buffer full sentence
2641 The meaning of the flag parameter of SayString was changed to indicate
2642 buffering of flushing. On flushing a message of a single space is used
2643 as a kludge to indicate interruptability. Calls to force flushing where
2646 2010-12-29 23:32:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2647 Adapt JAWS menu to new menu organization
2649 The menus did not correspondto the texts after translation of the main
2652 2010-12-29 23:18:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2653 Translate menus after creation of JAWS menu
2656 2010-12-29 23:07:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2657 Fix ICS context menu for JAWS
2659 The Ctrl+R key did select text at the mouse pointer in stead of at the
2660 curser, now that up and down-click were combined.
2662 2010-12-29 23:04:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2663 Reorganize order of WB New Variant dialog controls
2665 The definitions are re-ordered so that at least JAWS 11 will speak the
2666 board-size elements properly.
2668 2010-12-29 22:57:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2669 Fix order of elements in WB time-control dialog
2671 Someleading texts were defined after the text edit they referred to,so
2672 that JAWS 11 associated them to the wrong one. A tab stop was added to
2673 the time-odds label, to make JAWS speak it.
2675 2010-12-29 22:51:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2676 Change tabbing order in WB sounds dialog
2678 The 'Play' button now gets focus immediately after the controls for
2679 selecting the sound, rather than at the end of the dialog (after OK).
2681 2010-12-29 22:47:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2682 Remove tab stops on first radio button of WB dialogs
2684 The New Variant and Board dialogs had a tab stop on the first radio
2685 button,so that tabbing toit would automatically select variant
2686 normal or size tiny. Now it tabs straight to the current size, without
2687 changing anything. (Important for JAWS users.)
2689 2010-12-29 22:45:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2690 Put OK/Cancel last in tab cycle of some WB dialogs
2693 2010-12-29 22:29:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2694 Fix duplicate menu character for Edit Comment
2696 Edit Comment did have the same shortcut character as Copy Game. Changed
2699 2010-12-11 11:18:56 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2700 fixed automake process: xboard.conf couldn't be generated if $srcdir was not the current directory
2703 2010-12-11 09:50:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2704 new developer release
2707 2010-12-05 18:01:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2708 Subject WB context menus to translation
2710 The innerloopof the menu translation has been made into a separate
2711 routine. This now uses GetMenuItemInfo() in stead of ModifyMenu() to
2712 better preserve menu breaks. Menu #10 is used for context menus (from
2713 the routine that pops them up), and for this number the orignal texts
2714 are not saved in menuText. (This is not needed, because the menu is
2715 created everytime anew from the resource data.)
2717 2010-12-05 15:00:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2718 Update translation template
2720 Add the new menu items; add some notes.
2722 2010-12-05 14:04:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2723 Resize buttons in WB engine-settings dialog
2725 The OK and cancel buttons were to narrow for most translations, and were
2726 a non-standard order as well.
2728 2010-12-05 13:56:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2729 Add one-click move control to WB general-options dialog
2731 This is a duplicate of the one in the ICS options dialog, but the latter
2732 is inaccessible in non-ICS modes, and one-click move is now
2733 alsoavailable in engine mode.
2735 2010-12-05 13:51:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2736 Create space in dialogs for translation
2738 The translated texts often did not fit, because controls were defined
2739 needlessly small (when there was empty space between them). In these
2740 cases they have been enlarged to consume all available space. Some
2741 dialogs are made wider.
2743 2010-12-05 13:47:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2744 Add handle for translator acknowledgement
2746 An empty string is printed in the about box, which can be 'translated'
2747 to a message acknowledging the translator.
2749 2010-12-05 13:43:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2750 Use default logo for user
2752 When no logo with the name of the current user is found, use dummy.bmp.
2754 2010-12-05 15:46:34 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2755 added rlwrap tip to FAQ
2758 2010-12-03 23:24:06 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2759 replace hard coded paths with path from configure script
2761 use $datadir and subdirectories to store some data files. Also make files in xboard.conf use correct path.
2763 2010-12-03 23:02:09 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2764 fixed a typo in the configure script output
2767 2010-12-03 21:46:00 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2768 added a desktop file
2770 taken from the openSUSE project
2772 2010-12-03 22:44:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2773 Fix Edit Game/Position checkmarking in WinBoard
2775 Because the entries in Edit and Mode menu were pure duplicats, the
2776 entries in the wrong menu (Edit) were checkmarked while active. By
2777 defining different IDs for those in the Edit menu, those in the Mode
2778 menu are checkmarked again.
2780 2010-12-03 10:07:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2781 Add XBoard menu items for arrow highlight and one-click move
2783 These items are put in the options menu; the 'Old Save Style' item is
2786 2010-12-03 09:27:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2787 Provide menus for editing WinBoard engine and server lists
2789 The Edit Tags dialog in the WB front-end is adapted to act as a general
2790 edit for string variables, by giving it an extra parameter to indicate
2791 where to store the edited result. Menu items are added to invoke this
2792 dialog for editing the /first, /secondChessProgramNames and /icsNames
2793 options. This solves the problem that people would have to edit an ini
2794 file that they can no longer locate (because the %APPDATA% folder has
2795 different names and locations in the various Windows versions, and is
2796 often a hidden folder on top of that).
2797 There is a slight memory leak here, as the memory for the previous
2798 value of the altered string option is not freed.
2800 2010-12-02 16:18:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2801 Configure arrow highlighting as default in XBoard
2803 Set -highlightMoveWithArrow true in the xboard.conf file, and specify a
2804 lineGap of 0 to make that efficient (and the wood theme even nicer).
2806 2010-12-02 15:56:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2807 Port highlighting with arrow to XBoard
2809 Unfortuntely this duplicates a fair amount of code in the front end.
2810 Removing the arrow is done by a total repaint if there is a non-zero
2811 lineGap, because the clever algorithm for selective redrawing (based
2812 on damage) that XBoard uses does not repair damage to the grid lines.
2813 For lineGap=0, however, (for which the arrow is mainly intended) the
2814 damage mechanism is used, and the damaged squares are determined by
2815 tracing out the arrow in 64 steps, and marking all squares in the
2816 neighborhood as damaged.
2818 2010-12-02 15:55:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2819 Strip CR from xboard.c
2822 2010-12-02 14:21:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2823 Let user decide if he wants highlights in blindfold mode
2825 Remove the automaticsuppression ofhighlighting.
2827 2010-12-02 00:24:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2828 Fix fag-fell marker with logos on
2830 The flag-fell marker "(!)" that is displayed in the clock in WinBoard in
2831 two-machines mode was printed twice when the clock was split over two
2832 lines (as with logos on).
2834 2010-12-01 18:57:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2835 Also exempt variant seirawan from eval-scale doubling
2837 It is not really a drop game, so a scale from -7 to 7 in the eval graph
2838 is good enough (like variants great and super).
2840 2010-12-01 10:33:13 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2841 Configure EGTB cache size in adapterCommand
2843 The hash size, nr of CPUs and EGTB path are transferred through the WB
2844 protocol interface commands memory, cores and egtpath. But there is no
2845 WB command for detailing the EGTB cache size. So the value of the
2846 command-line option -defaultCacheSizeEGTB has to be sent to Polyglot
2847 through its startup command to make it known to UCI engines.
2849 2010-11-30 22:46:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2850 Move Hint and Book items to Engine menu in XBoard
2853 2010-11-30 22:17:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2854 Correct the key bindings fo view menu in texi file
2856 The mentioned bindings for Game List and Eval Graph were wrong.
2858 2010-11-30 21:25:07 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2859 Fix sub-variation display with negative score
2861 The test if the displayed score was the pvInfo score failed for negative
2862 scores, because floats are truncated towards zero. So the previous fix
2863 of spurious score/depth info was not working when the score was
2866 2010-11-30 18:27:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2867 Peel PV out of comment
2869 Arena stores engine PVs not in variation format, but within both braces
2870 and parentheses, before the score/depth info. This caused XBoard to
2871 overlook the score/depth info, (frustrating, e.g., the eval graph),
2872 while the PV would not be accessible for walking it as a variation.
2873 The routine that extracts the score/depth from a comment now has
2874 been made more clever, to recognize a leadin PV in the comment, and then
2875 place it in front of the comment as variation (by moving the opening
2876 brace to behind it). For some reason it does not work if the PV and
2877 score/depth were separated by a newline, but this happens quite rarely.
2879 2010-11-30 18:23:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2880 Allow line-straddling result comments
2882 Some GUIs (in particular Arena) do not have the decency to keep the
2883 result comment on a single line. In this case the parser rules would not
2884 recognize it, and treat it as a normal comment, plus an undetailed PGN
2885 result. The rules are now fixed to allow linefeeds in the comment, and
2886 between comment and PGN result. To correctly process the comment further
2887 (e.g. in game-list lines) the linefeeds are replaced by spaces in the
2888 back-end routines that do use the result comment.
2890 2010-11-30 12:22:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2891 Write key bindings in XBoard menus
2893 Unfortunately tabs are not understood in menu texts, so fine-tuning
2894 through spaces is necessary to get some sort of ragged alignment.
2896 2010-11-29 18:01:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2897 Configure XBoard to use wood board texture by default
2899 The texture pixmaps are sought in /usr/share/games/xboard, with names
2900 wood_l.pm and wood_d.xpm. I guess the " make install" should be adapted
2901 to put them there. XBoard is resitent to non-existence of the files,
2902 btw. It simply ignores the arguments in that case.
2904 2010-11-29 17:48:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2905 Configure -inc as volatile option in XBoard
2907 XBoard users are not used to options being persistent, and thus have
2908 many scripts assuming the timeIncrement is -1 when they don't specify it
2909 on the command line, and want to specify -mps. But a persistent -inc of
2910 0 fom a preious session would then force their -mps to zero, causing
2913 2010-11-29 17:36:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2914 Make WinBoard clocks translation-proof
2916 With logos on, the splitting of the clock over two lines assumed the
2917 lengths of the words "white" and "black" would always be 5. Used strlen.
2919 2010-11-29 14:57:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2920 Improve drawing of highlight arrow
2922 A diagonal arrow sometimes had a notch in the shaft because of
2923 independent rounding of the starting and ending point coordinates.
2924 Furthermore the width of the shaft was unnecessary variable(as a
2925 function of direction) because half the width was rounded and then used
2926 twice. Now rounding of end-points is always done towards a fixed grid
2927 of square centers, which keeps diagonals purely diagonal, and one side
2928 of the shaft is drawn relative to the other side, after the
2929 position of the latter has been rounded, so any rounding error affects
2930 the shaft width only once.
2932 2010-11-29 10:25:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2933 Alter descriptionof Analyze File menu item
2935 This menu item has been given a new function, so a new description was
2938 2010-11-29 10:15:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2939 Add description of Game List Options in texi file
2942 2010-11-29 09:58:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2943 Update texi file for new menu organization
2945 The descriptions are shuffled around and organized into sections
2946 corresponding to the new main menus. Where necessary the name of the
2947 items was changed to their new names. The items removed from the File
2948 menu (the next/previous/same stuff) are nowmoved to the section "other
2949 shortcut keys", as the key bindings for some of them are still active.
2951 2010-11-29 09:06:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2952 Update info on key bindings in texi file
2954 The texi file was still listing the old XBoard key bindings. Where
2955 necessary this is now changed to the new (WinBoard) bindings, and all
2956 the new bindings were added.
2958 2010-11-29 09:04:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2959 Add XBoard key bindings for Revert and Truncate
2961 Use Home key as accelerator for Revert, End for Truncate, as in WinBoard.
2963 2010-11-28 23:12:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2964 Divorce the Edit and Show Tags/Comment menu items
2966 In WinBoard the items in the Edit and View menu for Tags and Comment now
2967 have different IDs, so they can be independently controlled. Only the
2968 items in the View menu are check-marked. The items still do the same.
2970 2010-11-28 23:08:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2971 Alter WinBoard menu text
2973 The texts are slightly adapted, mostly by choosing more convenient
2974 tabbing characters for the new menu organization. The translation
2975 template is updated accordingly.
2977 2010-11-28 20:24:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2978 Let move-history window scroll to bottom after adding move
2980 By activating the scrollbar of the viewport through XtCallActionProc
2981 the move-history window is scrolled to the bottom.
2983 2010-11-27 14:38:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2984 Fix Shogi promotion popup
2986 The texts were adapted to shogi by printing new text items over the
2987 Queen and Knight buttons, but these did not alwys cover it. Now the text
2988 on the buttons is changed as it should be. Also the window title is
2991 2010-11-26 11:22:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2992 Apply gettext macros to menu texts
2994 Now texts and references are separated, the texts in the tables can be
2995 decorated with the N_() macro, so that the _() macro no longer has to be
2996 applied when they are used. (This makes the texts appear in the .po
2999 2010-11-26 11:12:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3000 Adapt some XBoard menu texts
3002 The "Show" prefix is removed from the "View" menu items, as this seems
3003 implied. An ellipsis is added to the Engine #N Settings items, which
3004 could not be there before, because periods in a menu name would break
3005 any reference to it. For some other names the ellipsis was deleted.
3006 (These were not refered to, but who knows what we will do in the future.)
3008 2010-11-26 11:03:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3009 Separate menu text from menu name in XBoard
3011 The text string in the menu-definition tables was used both for the menu
3012 text, as well as for referencing the items from the code (for enabing or
3013 checkmarking). Now these can be defined separately, so that altering the
3014 menu texts is possible without breaing any references to the item.
3015 (Moving them to another menu would still break XBoard, though!)
3016 Currently the texts and names are still the same.
3018 2010-11-26 10:48:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3019 Bugfix XBoard menu translation
3021 The gettext macro N_() was applied to the menu definition tables, but
3022 this would break any translation, as these items are both used as menu
3023 texts as well as reference for enabling and checkmarking. The routines
3024 that create the menus already apply _() dynamically to these items when
3025 they are used as menu texts.
3027 2010-11-26 10:10:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3028 Restrict drops in variant seirawan to back rank
3030 Drops aren't really llowed at all in Seirawan Ches, but there exists an
3031 engine that supports a variant where drops on the back-rank are allowed.
3033 2010-11-25 19:44:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3034 Let Analyze File annotate the loaded game
3036 By not suppressing the auto-play loop in AnalyzeFle mode, we step
3037 through the game while the engine is analyzing, and store the PV info
3038 that the engine produces, as well as the full PV (as variation comment)
3041 2010-11-25 19:41:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3042 Revive Analyze File menu item in WB
3044 We will keep this menu after all, becase it can be given a new meaning.
3046 2010-11-25 19:31:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3047 Fix spurious scores in comments
3049 The comment popup is also used to display engine PV info, but when the
3050 contents of the window is written back when we select a variation,
3051 it was treated as a real comment. This is fixed now by checing in
3052 ReplaceComment() if the comment starts with the PV info, and if so,
3053 ignore the latter. This solves the problem, but I guess the real bug is
3054 that selecting a variation tries to write the comment even if it did not
3057 2010-11-25 19:26:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3058 Display error for wrong use of Machine Match
3061 2010-11-24 13:30:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3062 Reorganize XBoard menus
3065 2010-11-24 11:02:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3066 Reorganize WinBoard menus
3068 New main menus Edit, View and Engine are added; the step menu
3069 disappears. The menu items are redistributed over the new menus.
3070 Sometimes duplicates are created. No adaptation of short-cut characters
3071 as made yet (as this affects translation).
3073 2010-11-20 20:20:27 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3074 removed trailing whitespaces from NEWS
3077 2010-11-20 20:19:30 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3078 merged readme_HGM.txt into the NEWS file
3080 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.
3082 2010-11-20 18:24:19 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3083 typo in date of developer release
3085 but will leave the tagged version as it is, since it's still a unique version number
3087 2010-11-20 18:11:01 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3088 new developer release
3091 2010-11-20 18:12:41 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3092 added latest version of parser.c
3095 2010-11-20 18:05:56 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3096 updated Changelog, etc for developer release
3099 2010-11-20 16:22:00 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3100 Revert "adding gnu-readline support"
3102 This reverts commit c95ef32a700132a134f335f857ca6f1b6f3c169f.
3107 better to use the (relatively) new ICS input box then add readline support.
3109 2010-11-20 16:19:32 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3110 Revert "bugfix: fixed readline support with icslogon option"
3112 This reverts commit b9cdd7422ad1037d7376bce4f8f2db2669396e83.
3117 better to use the (relatively) new ICS input box then add readline support.
3119 2010-11-19 23:10:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3120 Make Hoplite moves irreversible in Spartan Chess
3122 Consider Lance moves in variant Fairy (where the Lance represents the
3123 Spartan Hoplite Pawn) as Pawn moves, so they reset the 50-move counter.
3125 2010-11-19 21:09:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3126 Give Lance moves of Amazon in variant super
3128 Now that Lance is no longer a wild-card piece the moves of Amazon must
3129 be programmed explicitly, to keep the possibbilty to play Superchess
3130 with legality testing on.
3132 2010-11-19 18:32:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3133 Change representation of Bede in variant fairy initial position
3135 This used to be Lance, but the promoted Bishop (Dragon Horse)
3136 is more applicable. Especially now that Lance is supposed to move like a
3139 2010-11-19 18:28:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3140 Make yyskipmoves also suppress examining of drop moves
3142 Not sure if this does any good, but it seemed illogical that this would
3143 happen in all other moves, but not drops.
3145 2010-11-19 18:23:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3146 Define moves for Dragon Horse outside Shogi
3148 Let it move like Bishop + Wazir + Dababba.
3150 2010-11-17 13:40:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3151 Fix safety crash when appending comments
3153 The length limit imposed on safeStrCpy was one too short when copying
3154 an existing comment to the space allocated for the longer (concatenated)
3155 one. It allowed no space for the terminating '\0'.
3157 2010-11-17 13:38:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3160 The test for when to terminate a non-fiting string was one off, and the
3161 debug message was written stdoutin stead of debugFP.
3163 2010-11-16 12:40:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3164 Fix default holdings size for variant seirawan
3166 The holdings for 7 pieces werealways considered an overrule, so that the
3167 variant name was prefixed with "8x8+7_".
3169 2010-11-15 11:36:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3172 When confronted with a path name starting with ~ and not containing a /
3173 XBoard would segfault.
3175 2010-11-14 21:45:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3176 Fix one-click moving on up-click
3178 (First) up-clicks were not always ignored: in Edit-Game mode with
3179 one-click moving enabled this could lead to a capture being made on
3180 the down-click, and the recapture on the correspoding up-click.
3181 This has now been corrected, and only the down-click of a first click
3182 can lead to selecting a piece or a one-click move.
3184 2010-11-15 18:15:40 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3185 fixed buffer size for snprintf
3188 2010-11-13 23:04:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3189 Accept Seirawan-style gating suffixes
3191 The parser rules were extended to accept / as an equivalent of = in
3192 promotion-suffix notation (e.g. Nf3/H in stead of Nf3=H).
3194 2010-11-13 22:55:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3195 Use Falcon and Alfil as built-ins for Seirawan chess
3197 Where available (size 49 and 72) we use Falcon for Archbishop and Alfil
3198 for Chancelor, to better conform to the Seirawan names Hawk and Elephant.
3200 2010-11-13 20:02:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3201 Implement entering gating moves with mouse
3203 A move with a back-rank piece that starts when a piece in the holdings
3204 is selected will be interpreted as a gating move in variant seirawan.
3205 The front-end uses a 'gatingPiece' selected this way todisplay it on the
3206 from square during animate dragging.
3208 2010-11-13 18:56:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3209 Implement variant seirawan
3211 Set upthe position, including Hawk and Elephant in holdings, in
3212 InitPostion(). Suppress putting captured pieces in holding. Let
3213 promoChar indicate gating in ApplyMove(). Remove gated pieces from
3214 the holdings there. Let GenLegal() generate RxK-type castlings to act as
3215 base for gating on Rook square. Gatings are tested for legality
3216 based on the holdings content and whether they occur on the back
3217 rank. Disambiguate() also tests this. Make sure the gated pieces are
3218 printed as move suffixes in CoordsToAlgebraic().
3220 2010-11-13 18:42:27 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3221 Add -variant seirawan to menu
3224 2010-11-13 22:52:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3225 Fix acceptance of null-move with legality testing off
3227 A second click on the same piece was interpreted as a to-square rather
3228 than deselection of the piece.
3230 2010-11-13 22:49:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3233 Disambiguate was imagining captures, so an only capture by double
3234 clicking your own piece did not always work.
3236 2010-11-13 20:08:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3237 Fix mouse-driver buglet
3239 The highlights were not cleared on moves that went vertically off board.
3241 2010-11-12 17:17:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3242 List some undocumented commands as compliant
3244 The engine->GUI commands setboard and setup are now always printed in
3245 the debug file as well.
3247 2010-11-12 17:05:22 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3248 List Hint with compliant commands
3250 This command was omitted, so that in some -engineDebugOutput modes it
3251 would not appear in the debug file.
3253 2010-11-12 17:02:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3254 Restrict use of escape expansion
3256 Only expand escape sequences like \n and \t in telluser(error) comamnds
3257 that ask for it by preficing the messages by double backslash. Otherwise
3258 backward copatiblity is too severely broken for messages that display
3259 DOS-style filenames.
3261 2010-11-12 13:56:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3262 Make safeStrCpy safe
3264 SafeStrCpy was causing a lot of out-of-bound write accesses, as it was
3265 always writing the character at the length limit of the destination.
3266 Now no memory is accessed that is is not needed to hold the copy.
3268 2010-11-07 21:37:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3269 Allow clicked name internal to the icsMenu command string
3271 A command in the /icsMenu that was specified to contain the selected
3272 text or clicked word always appended this word at the end. Now the user
3273 can also configure it to appear in the middle, by putting a %s in the
3274 command string where he wants it to appear.
3276 2010-11-07 21:33:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3277 Let Engine #2 Settings start second engine
3279 If the second engine is not yet running, it would be impossible to use
3280 the settings dialog for it, as the features have not been received and
3281 the dialog will be empty. So the user could not adjust the engine
3282 parameters before starting a match. Using this menu now automatically
3283 starts the engine, and delays the appearence of the popup untill the
3284 features are received, using a similar mechanism as in
3285 TwoMachinesEventIfReady().
3287 2010-11-01 19:40:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3288 Newly lexed parser.c
3291 2010-11-06 19:55:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3292 Fix bug in parsing illegal Pawn captures
3294 When a pawn move of type exf5 was illegal, the parser made an attempt to
3295 interpret it as e.p. capture of f5. This, however, messed up the move,
3296 so that it was now permanently mistaken for e5xf6. Even in cases with
3297 legality testing off, where you would want the original move to be
3298 accepted despite the fact that it was illegal.
3300 2010-11-06 19:49:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3301 Keep last PV while clearing engine-output display
3303 When ponder is on, the display is cleared immediately when the last line
3304 of thinking output appears by the appearing ponder output. So you would
3305 never get the chance to see it. This line is now re-written after
3306 clearing, so it appears at the bottom of the output for the next search.
3308 2010-11-06 19:45:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3309 Give Lance moves of Berolina Pawn
3311 In stead of using it as a wildcard piece, the Lance gets the moves of
3312 the Berolina Pawn (straight capture, diagonal move). The initial double
3313 osh can be a ump, though. (So it is really a Hoplite Pawn from Spartan
3316 2010-11-06 19:42:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3317 Use SAN even on illegal moves
3319 If there is only one piece of type T, moves like Ta1 or Txa1 are never
3320 ambiguous, so adding the from square is just cumbersome.
3322 2010-11-06 19:34:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3323 Use normal SAN for wildcard pieces
3325 SAN often can also be used with pieces we don't know the moves of, e.g.
3326 if there is only one of that type. We just always get rank or file
3327 disambiguators if there are more (even when they might be unnecessary).
3329 2010-11-06 14:52:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3332 Unused variables were removed from parser.l
3334 2010-11-06 14:43:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3335 Allow arbitrary nesting of sub-variations in PGN input
3337 The parsing of subvariations is moved out of the state-machine parsing,
3338 to allow arbitrary nesting. In stead of the entire sub-variation being
3339 parsed by lex as Comment, it now returns Open and Close for the
3340 corresponding parentheses, which are then handled in a wrapper routine
3341 for yylex(): Myylex(). Problem was that yy_text is supposed to return
3342 the entire parsed text of the returned symbol, which thus has to be
3343 collected. To make this possible, yylex has to return everything that it
3344 parses, (even white space!), and a symbol "Nothing" was added to return
3345 in parsing rules that before just ate away irrelevant text without
3348 2010-11-06 21:48:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3349 Implement setup (engine-GUI) command
3351 This allows the frst engine (when legality testing is off) to overrule
3352 the default opening position, in reply to the variant command. Syntax is
3353 "setup (PIECE_TO_CHAR_TABLE) FEN_STRING"
3354 where the FEN string is interpreted in the context of the given
3355 pieceToCharTable (which is optional, and only delimeted by parethesis if
3357 Sendng the position to the second engine is delayed until the first
3358 engine has responded to the ping after the new-game sequence, to make
3359 sure it gets the chance to alter the position before it is sent to the
3360 second engine. This feature is useful for playing variants that WinBoard
3361 does not even know the opening positon for, and can be used even if they
3362 are shuffle variants.
3364 2010-11-06 14:19:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3365 Restrict use of a2a3 kludge
3367 The kudge to send "a2a3" in stead of "black" to get black to move is
3368 fatally flawed in varants that have no Pawn on a2. So in that case we
3369 revert to use of the deprecated "black" command.
3371 2010-11-02 13:06:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3372 Remember values set by -firstOptions, -secondOptions
3374 When an engine announces its option features, and the option name
3375 matches that of a setting given in -first/secondOptions, the engine is
3376 sent hte specified value, but this value was not remembered as current
3377 value (but the latter was left at the engine-announced default),
3378 leading to inconsistent behavior in the Engine #N Settings dialog.
3380 2010-11-01 19:26:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3381 Make test for valid promotion piece color-dependent
3383 This is needed to make it work in variants where white and black have
3384 different armies; quite likely white will promote to pieces that do not
3385 exist in the black army, so we really have to make sure we test if the
3386 white (upper-case) piece exists in this case.
3388 2010-11-01 19:23:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3389 Remove validity test on promochar from parser
3391 The backend routines Disambiguate() and LegalityTest() will catch
3392 invalid promotions, so no need to do it here.
3394 2010-10-31 23:37:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3395 Add the actual size-33 Shogi bitmaps
3397 These were forgotten in the original commit that fixed the .rc file.
3399 2010-10-31 13:20:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3400 Delete some stale promotion code
3402 The correction of the promotion piece to Ferz in Shatran-like variants
3403 in ApplyMove() was no longer needed, as the new promotion code already
3404 does this in the move parser.
3406 2010-10-31 13:08:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3407 Augment moves of some fairy pieces
3409 To get better disambiguation in variants that have to be played with
3410 legality testing off, the Elephant is given also one-step moves (making
3411 it a so-called Modern Elephant) in -variant fairy and great. The Dragon
3412 King (Crowned Rook), which had no moves defined for it outside Shogi at
3413 all, has been given Rook moves plus an orthogonal 2-jump, so that it
3414 can get SAN moves when used as Dababba or Short Rook. (Illegal moves
3415 currently aways force long algebraic notation...)
3417 2010-11-08 22:57:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3418 Bugfix safeStrCpy patch, WinBoard
3420 The use of sizeof on pointers was detected through the same method as
3421 the previous patches, this time while compiling WinBoard. A typo in
3422 jaws.c was fixed as well.
3424 2010-11-08 23:03:13 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3425 Bugfix for safeStrCpy patch for XBoard
3427 By a trick (temporarily redefining safeStrCpy in common.h as
3428 ((char*) (a=1/(4-3rdArgument))) ) a compile-time warning (division by 0)
3429 could be generated for every occurrence where the size argument was equal
3430 to 4, i.e. where the 1st argument was likely a pointer rather than an
3431 array. These cases are now fixed. The file xoptions.c, which is the
3432 only ne that does not #include common.h had to be fixed by making
3433 the #define in the file itself.
3435 2010-10-31 13:16:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3436 Fix spurious promotions with legality testing off
3438 The recent promotion patch had broken playing without legality testing
3439 completely: without legality testing one always gets the piece that was
3440 asked for, but a NULLCHAR should not be taken as a request for a piece!
3441 But it was, and this resulted in any moved piece turning into a white
3442 Pawn! For true promotions the piece was always black, which was also not
3445 Also revert to the use of '+' as internal Shogi promoChar, because
3446 pre-processing turns out not to be possible when reading a game file.
3447 In stead parse any trailing '+' on moves as promoChar. Downside: '++'
3448 can no longer be recognized as checkmate symbol.
3450 2010-10-29 22:54:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3451 Make deferral default in Shogi promotions
3453 Because '+' is intercepted by the parser as check indicator, Shogi moves
3454 are pre-processed to change a trailing '+' into an internally used
3455 alternative '^'. The testing if a promotion character is OK is now done
3456 in LegalityTest() and Disambiguate(), which return ImpossibleMove when
3457 the character does not correspond to any piece, and IllegalMove when in
3458 Shogi anything other than '^' or '=' is used. (Except for the ICS
3459 notations.) On output, in CoordsToComputerAlgebraic() and
3460 CoordsToAlgebraic(), the '^' is translated back to '+'.
3462 2010-10-28 17:51:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3463 Animate piece explosions in drag-drop moves and in XB
3465 This required some code restructuring: the decision if an explosion is
3466 needed is now taken in a new routine Explode() in the backend. This then
3467 calls the front-end driver, and it returns the info if there was an
3468 explosion or not, so the caller (AnimateMove() or the mouse driver) can
3469 take action to repair the damage to the board caused by the blast wave.
3470 A front-end driver for XBoard is provided as well, so that both
3471 click-click (and replay, which is the same) and drag-drop atomic
3472 captures are animated in XB as well as WB.
3473 Explosions on rejected moves are suppressed.
3475 2010-10-28 13:53:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3476 Suppress promotion popup if piece will explode
3478 In atomic, a Pawn capture to last rank is not really a promotion.
3479 Fix choice to Queen.
3481 2010-10-28 18:42:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3482 Make Knight hop first straight, then diagonal
3484 It used to be the other way around, which looked pretty illogical in
3485 Xiangqi: to see Horses, which are blockable pieces there, move over an
3488 2010-10-27 20:04:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3489 Let -oneClickMove also work in EditGame mode
3491 There is really no reason why people that lke one-clcik moves enough to
3492 switch them on would not want to use them too when editing a game.
3493 This solves a nast inconsistency, as before it used to work in -ncp mode
3494 on the _first_ move, as the mode is then BeginningOfGame, and not yet
3495 EditGame, and we do want it to work for BeginningOfGame, as this is
3496 also the game mode when you start playing as white.
3498 2010-10-27 19:40:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3499 Make -flipBlack and -allWhite option volatile
3501 As these options are very Shogi specific, and the variant is volatile,
3502 it seems logical to make them also volatile. Not completely sure about
3503 -allWhite, though. It cold be useful if you want, for example, to play
3504 wth dark-brown pieces for black, as any color but black looks much
3505 better with outline pieces than with solid pieces.
3507 2010-10-27 19:33:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3508 Provide some sample board-texture pixmaps
3510 Wood and marble themes are provided as textures for light and dark
3511 squares, plus two complete Xiangqi boards (wood and evenly colored).
3512 These should probably not goint the distro tar ball.
3514 2010-10-27 19:25:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3515 The -overrideLineGap option is made to work in XBoard
3517 Although XBoard already allowed this in the -boardSize specification,
3518 it is still seful to globally disable grid lines, e.g. for an
3519 oriental Xiangqi board. And it converges XB and WB.
3521 2010-10-27 19:18:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3522 Implement board textures in XBoard
3524 The -darkBackTextureFile and -liteBackTextureFile options now wrk in
3525 XBoard too, for loading a pixmap that will be used to cut out the dark
3526 and light square backgrounds. The cutting algorithm is such that the
3527 pixmap image is completely restored if the size was that of the total
3528 board (e.g. a drawing of a Xiangqi board).
3530 2010-10-27 12:11:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3531 Complete WB (western) bitmaps for Shogi at size 33
3533 The Lance was not replacing Queen in some sizes where the bitmaps were
3534 already available, and new bitmaps for the promotion Golds were added.
3536 2010-10-22 20:30:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3537 Make starting new variation dependent on shift key
3539 The shift key is read during mouse events, and posted in a global
3540 variable, which can then be used by the back-end. The decision to start
3541 a new variation (pushing the game tail rather than clipping it off) when
3542 entring a move in Edit Game or Analyze mode is made dependent on this.
3543 The move-typein also records the shift-key state.
3545 2010-10-22 20:25:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3548 A %g format was used to print an int in sending the level command,
3549 because decimal points were dropped when merging patches. Also an unused
3550 variable was removed to suppress a warning.
3552 2010-10-18 19:50:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3553 Add set of shogi pixmaps for XBoard
3555 The -size 64 pieces from gShogi (and originally XShogi) are made
3556 suitable for loading by XBoard, through redefining the transparent
3557 background color as either light or dark square color. These bitmaps are
3558 not included in the XBoard build, and perhaps should not even be
3559 included in the source distribution, but made available in a separate
3562 2010-10-18 19:46:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3563 Implement -flipBlack in XBoard
3565 When -flipBlack is true, the white and back piece pixmaps are swapped in
3566 flipView. The idea is that the black pieces are upside-down versions of
3567 the white (Shogi) pieces, so that swapping white and black in effect
3568 turns all pieces upside down, which is what should happen in flipView.
3570 2010-10-11 21:06:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3571 Disable some very verbose debug printing
3573 The internationalization seems debugged enough to do without them.
3575 2010-10-11 20:52:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3576 Add option -variations to control variation-tree walking
3578 Just so that users can switch it off if the find it annoying.
3580 2010-10-11 21:01:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3581 Allow full promotion suffixes on SAN piece moves
3583 This facilitates the parsing of (non-standard) Shogi moves in ICS
3584 protocol. It can also be useful for Seirawan Chess, where a future
3585 implementation of it can use promotion suffixes to indicate gating.
3587 2010-10-11 14:07:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3588 Allow lower-case piece indicator in drop-move notation
3590 As it seems that XBoard also sends such moves in zippy play, it seems
3591 more fair to recognize them from the engine as well.
3593 2010-10-10 21:26:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3594 Fix bug in ICS variant switch for Shogi
3596 Because a test for 8x8 variants was done by <= VariantShogi,
3597 rather than <, spurious move-list fetching occurred in Shogi.
3599 2010-10-10 21:23:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3600 Fix WinBoard Lance bug
3602 The choice between Lance and Queen was made on appData.variant, in stead
3603 of gameInfo.variant. Because of this it was not always up-to-date in ICS
3606 2010-10-10 21:15:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3607 Adapt WinBoard to Shogi implementation on Variant ICS
3609 The Variant ICS does not use the '+P' notation for promoted pieces,
3610 neither in the board, nor in SAN, but simply indicates any Gold by 'G',
3611 and uses 'H' and 'D' for +B and +R. The Shogi promotion code in
3612 LegalityTest() and Disambiguate(), which are used in move Parsing, are
3613 adapted to handle this. Deferred promotions sent to the ICS now use an
3616 2010-10-10 21:07:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3617 Inherit promoted-info that ICS does not give from previous board
3619 The ICS does not tell us in Crazyhouse (or Shogi) if a piece is
3620 primordial or a promoted pawn (or a promoted other piece). We now derive
3621 this info from the previous board. The option -disguisePromotedPieces
3622 controls this feature.
3624 2010-10-10 21:03:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3625 Limit multi-session clock handling to non-ICS games
3627 In ICS games a time forfeit crashed XBoard, apparently because the
3628 fullTimeControl string is not properly set when we try to use it to see
3629 if a sudden-death session is indeed the last session.
3631 2010-10-08 11:47:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3632 Change evalgraph scale in drop games
3634 Score swings tend to be much larger in Crazyhouse and Shogi, so the
3635 vertical rangee in those games is doubled to (-14, 14).
3637 2010-10-13 23:05:05 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3638 bugfix: fixed readline support with icslogon option
3640 The icslogon option sends the login and password, so we don't need to handle
3641 special cases for the readline buffer.
3643 2010-10-07 20:35:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3644 fixed some typos that were introduced during the sprintf->snprintf changes
3647 2010-10-07 11:59:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3648 Fix uninitialized variable in book code
3650 The variable ' power' was used uninitialized in case -bookVariation was
3651 set to 0, which can be an error even if it was only multiplied by zero.
3653 2010-10-06 14:20:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3654 Fix menu translation bug
3656 The menuText array was declared too small, so that the last entry of the
3657 File menu got out of bounds and was overwritten by the first of the Mode
3660 2010-10-05 21:14:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3661 Allow -timeIncrement to be a float
3663 The increment can now be fractional seconds. The printing in
3664 ParseTimeControl() and SendTimeControl() is done with %g format, so that
3665 for integer increment there is backward compatibility with the old level
3668 2010-03-30 20:24:49 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3669 adding gnu-readline support
3671 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.
3673 2010-09-24 21:17:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3674 added warning if icsLogon file couldn't be opened
3677 2010-09-24 21:10:28 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3678 security fix: replaced some strcat with strncat
3680 there is still more to do
3682 2010-09-19 20:55:01 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3683 add option for silent builds
3685 this can be enabled for automake versions >1.11 by calling ./configure --enable-silent-rules.
3686 It should still work for older automake versions too
3688 2010-09-19 13:16:40 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3689 bugfix: missing array index
3692 2010-09-19 12:19:44 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3693 added new case for (Chessmove) 0 in common.h
3695 this cleans up a few more -Wall messages
3697 2010-09-17 21:47:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3698 cleaned up -Wall warnings (apart from settings some parentheses)
3700 removed unsused variables, etc mostly everything from -Wall -Wno-parenthesis
3702 2010-09-17 20:36:54 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3703 sizedefaults has 9 members, the last line of the array (NULL) only set 7.
3706 2010-09-12 20:04:03 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3707 security fix: replaced sprintf with snprintf
3709 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.
3711 2010-09-10 23:36:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3712 security fix: replaced strcpy with safeStrCpy from backend.c
3714 see comment in backend.c on how to use safeStrCpy. This was already added by AS, but only used in 3 places.
3716 2010-10-04 11:50:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3717 Enhance multi-session TC clock handling
3719 Some new TC types are introduced: Bronstein and free sessions. The
3720 former is implemented by letting an exclamation point '!' in front of an
3721 increment (in the -tc string) indicate that the increment is limited to
3722 the time actually used on the previous move. The latter is an interval
3723 of given duraton in which you can do any number of moves (even zero),
3724 before the next session starts. This is needed for implementing Shogi
3725 byoyomi-type TC, as a first session, followed by a session of fixed-time
3726 per move. The latter can now be specified with the -tc argument as a
3727 degenerate case of Bronstein, where the time on the clock is <= the
3728 increment (so that it is never possible to think longer than the
3729 increment). A TC of 5 min + 10 sec byoyomi can then be indicated as
3732 The sessions are now separated by ':' in stead of '+', and all times in
3733 the TC string are converted to seconds first (in ParseTimeControl), so
3734 the fullTCstring can now be directly used in a PGN tag.
3736 Note that this patch only addresses clock handling; the engine will not
3737 be informed yet if the TC type or parameters change at the start of new
3740 2010-10-04 09:32:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3741 Remove promotion-piece encoding from ChessMove type
3743 The shizophrenic way to indcate promotion pieces in the XBoard code
3744 (sometimes using a promoChar, at other times relying on moveType) was
3745 cured by combining all promotion move types (such as WhitePromotionRook)
3746 into a single one (WhitePromotion), and relying on promoChar to specify
3747 the piece. This solves the problem of promoting to new piece types in
3748 variants, which formerly also required addition of new move types.
3750 In Shogi the '+' character is now consistently used to indicate
3751 promotions (and recognized in ApplyMove), rather than 'q' or
3752 PieeToChar(BlackQueen), as the latter did not work in minivariants where
3753 the Queen (representng the Lance) did not partcipate.
3755 2010-10-03 20:50:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3756 Pass promoChar to SendMoveToICS
3758 SendMoveToICS was the only place where the promotion piece was derived
3759 from moveType, rather than an explicity passed promoChar.
3761 2010-10-04 09:41:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3762 Suppress spurious use of SAN castling in mini variants
3764 King moves from a central file to the king-side-castled position (1
3765 square away from the right corner) were intercepted and printed as O-O
3766 in CoordsToAlgebraic. But on a 5x5 board (mini-Shogi!) this caught the
3767 normal King move Kc1-d1 as well. The castling notation is now reserved
3768 for King moves larger than one step.
3770 2010-10-04 08:21:19 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3771 Make Shogi promotion zone board-size dependent
3773 In stead of using a fixed size of 3 ranks, we use BOARD_HEIGHT/3, which
3774 would translate to 1 rank for mini-Shogi (5x5) and 2 ranks for Judgkin's
3775 Shogi (6x6), which are indeed what these variants need.
3777 2010-10-03 19:58:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3778 Make board-size overrule options volatile
3780 The options -boardWidth, -boardHeight and -holdingSize were legacies
3781 from the day choosing a variant would not automatically set a board
3782 size. As a result they are seldomly used anymore. The first real
3783 application is mini-Shogi (on 5x5 board), and it turned out very
3784 annoying if the 5x5 settings persisted to the next session, where you
3785 almost certainly want to play another variant.
3787 2010-10-04 09:16:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3788 Strip DOS line endings from parser.l
3791 2010-09-16 18:58:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3792 Extend mate test to drop games
3794 MateTest() in case of no legal moves now also looks if there are legal
3795 drops that can resolve the check. This provides reliable mate testing in
3796 Crazyhouse and Shogi, so these are now made subject to adjudications too.
3798 2010-09-16 18:48:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3799 Extend legality testing to drop moves
3801 LegalityTest() can nowbe called with (internal-format) drop moves, and
3802 delegates their testing to a new routine LegalDrop(). This routine
3803 performs the 'no-pawn-on-back-rank' test that used to be in
3804 UserMoveTest (which now calls LegalityTest also for drop moves).
3805 The more complex Shogi case is also handled (except for Pawn mate
3806 drops) in LegalDrop().
3808 2010-09-16 18:25:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3809 Revert splitting of UserMoveEvent
3811 This splitting into UserMoveTest and FinishMove was no longer needed,
3812 now that the new mouse driver no longer calls UserMoveTest to figure out
3813 if a move is a promotion, and XBoard and WinBoard are unified in this
3814 respect. It was counter-productive, because UserMoveTest was not able to
3815 change the fromX, fromY (call-by-value) parameters for passing them to
3816 FinishMove, so it had to defer the conversion of drop moves to internal
3817 format to the latter, while it did not belong there. (Because
3818 DropMenuEvent already delivers the moves in internal format.) This
3819 whole kludgy construction was therefore abandoned, by going back
3820 to the original 4.2.7 calling scheme, where UserMoveEvent completely
3821 pre-processes the move, and when it is valid, calls FinishMove directly.
3823 2010-09-16 18:02:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3824 Fix silent bug in drop moves
3826 In ApplyMove() the piece on the from square was accessed and used before
3827 we tested for drop moves. As drop moves have off-board from-squares this
3828 led to out-of-bound array access, which apparently was usually harmless.
3830 2010-09-16 17:43:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3831 Allow parsing of upper-case machine moves
3833 Dubious patch, as it caters to non-compliancy. Some variant engines are
3834 very non-compliant, though.
3836 2010-09-16 17:38:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3837 Prevent transmission of spurious promo char to other engine
3839 The parser now strps off spurious promotion characters.
3840 New move types "White/BlackNonPromotion" had to be introduced for this,
3841 to indicate NormalMoves that could have been a promotion, to make sure
3842 the '=' suffix of Shogi deferred promotions survives.
3844 2010-09-16 20:44:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3845 fixed internationalization for winboard
3847 in the original commit some files were forgotten. This should fix it.
3849 2010-08-29 21:07:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3850 Fix JAWS bug saying side to move in ICS play
3852 This was done the wrong way around.
3854 2010-08-27 14:08:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3855 Make WB run-time language switch possible from menu
3857 This is a rather involved patch that might not be worth it. It is
3858 difficult, because translation of things that live forever is not easy
3859 to invert (menus, the auxiliary windows). We hae to remember all
3860 original, English texts there to be able to put them back,or
3861 re-translate. Still does not fully work, although the menus and
3862 temporary dialogs now are all OK.
3864 2010-08-27 14:35:46 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3865 Update WB translation template
3867 The language.txt file now also contains all translatable strings from
3868 the C source files, rather than jsut the resource.
3870 2010-08-27 14:14:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3873 Add descriptions for machine-match menu support and enhanced book
3874 control, nick-name options and language.
3876 2010-08-27 13:59:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3877 Add some forgotten translation hooks
3879 The general-options, file-browse dialogs and the about box did not call
3880 Translate() yet. Also translate contents of combo boxes. Some small bug
3883 2010-08-27 13:28:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3884 Do not translate game-end messages in PGN
3886 The messages themselves are not subjected to _(), but in stead their
3887 displaying in DisplayMove is subjected to T_().
3889 2010-08-23 13:23:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3890 Internationalization for WinBoard
3892 A function Translate() was added, which uses a list of item dialogs,
3893 reads their value, and replaces it by a translation (if available). It
3894 also reads the window title and sets a translation. Calls to this
3895 routine are added in the initialization code of every dialog callback.
3896 In addition all translatable strings in the WnBoard front end are marked
3897 by the gettext macro _(). Because WB is not gettexted yet, a hard
3898 re-definition of this macro is added in each file using it, to the
3899 string-translation routine T_() supplied in winboard.c.
3900 Code to read the translation file, and translate the menu texts is added
3901 in winboard.c. In backend.c the meaning of the gettet macros is
3902 redefined for the WIN32 case.
3904 2010-08-23 13:07:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3905 Make the ID of all WB dialog items unique
3907 Mnany static dialog texts did share the ID -1 (IDC_STATIC). But to
3908 replace tet at run-time for translation purposes, they need to be
3909 addressed individually. So they were given new IDs, with symbols defined
3912 2010-08-23 12:48:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3913 Mark XBoard result messages for internationalization
3915 The GNU gettext macro _() is used with the game-end messages. This might
3916 be controversial, as they will appear in the PGN as well. But only as a
3917 comment. We can always decide not to supply a translation.
3919 2010-08-23 12:43:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3920 Do not exit after match when match started from menu
3922 The codelooks weird, but matchMode == 2 in this case. We then use
3923 DisplayNote() to report the match result.
3925 2010-08-23 12:39:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3926 Trivial-draws recognition improved in Xiangqi
3928 Now based on a routine "SufficientDefence". If both have it, it is draw.
3930 2010-08-20 17:46:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3933 The relocation of parser.c and the addition of history.c was not yet
3934 incorporated in the devcpp proect files.
3936 2010-08-19 13:45:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3937 Fix some MSVC compile errors
3939 Some statements has moved up stream of declaratons, which is an error
3940 that gcc is forgiving about, but where MSVC is strict.
3942 2010-08-14 14:01:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3943 Improved patch for expansion of WB settings-file name
3945 The expansion of environment variables now allows multiple environment
3946 variables in the path name. Tested on %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\winboard.ini
3947 and %APPDATA%\winboard.ini.
3949 2010-08-07 16:53:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3950 Add -colorNickNames option
3952 This option allows non-standard designation of side to move in FENs.
3953 (Useful for Xiangqi, where white is indicated often as r(ed), and Shogi,
3954 where white is s(ente) or b(lack), and black is g(ote) or w(hite).)
3955 Can also be used for FENs in a local language. A match of theinput
3956 character with the nick name translates it to the standard; this means
3957 the standard will continue to be recognized, unless it was defined as a
3960 2010-08-07 16:39:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3961 Tricked by the grossnes
3963 Some WB menu items were referenced by a hard number. As items had been
3964 added over the years, the wrong menu items were grayed. In particular
3965 the Options -> Adjudication menu was grayed out, in -ncp mode, where
3966 this was intended for the Sounds dialog. This accidentally proved
3967 useful, until we started to apply adjudictions also to the Human moves.
3968 Then it was suddenly undesirable, and a small mystery why it happened at
3969 all, when I tried to change it. The numbers are now corrected to the new
3970 locatons of the items in the menus.
3972 2010-08-07 16:35:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3973 Allow match to be started from WB menu
3975 A menu item Machine Match was added in the Mode menu to switch to
3976 matchMode. A persistent option /defaultMatchGames determines the number
3977 of games. A control was added to the Options -> Common Engine dialog to
3980 2010-08-07 16:26:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3981 Add some book-control options
3983 Options /bookDepth and /bookVariation have been added to control the use
3984 of the GUI book. In WinBoard the Optons -> Common Engine dialog now
3985 contains fields to set them.
3987 2010-08-07 00:15:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3988 new developer release
3991 2010-08-06 11:18:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3992 Repair exit-popup deadlock patch
3994 Relocating the exit popup call had made it lose access to the message it
3995 should print, because it was declared only in an inner code block, by
3996 the same name: buf[]. Deleting the inner declaration fixes it.
3998 2010-08-04 11:00:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3999 Fix erors when compiling with --disable-zippy
4001 The file args.h contained a codeblock in #ifdef ZIPPY, in stead of
4004 2010-08-01 13:27:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4005 Fix zippy handling of draw offers from ICS
4007 The patch by DM to fix the problem introduced by the coloration of
4008 zippy-matched commands (namely that the coloration code beat the zippy
4009 draw recognition to it, and ate the draw offer away) was only targeting
4010 ICC. The new fix should work on any ICS (by using the same pattern in
4011 zippy as in the colorization code).
4013 2010-08-01 13:15:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4014 Fix regression in colorization of zippy-matched commands
4016 The patch by Daniel Mehrman from 4.2.pre8 was not properly merged, so
4017 that in XBoard no coloration would take place of ICS commands that were
4018 matched by zippy. (It was using &i as input pointer, rather than &backup.
4019 The XBoard-specific code now has been deleted completely, to remove a
4020 seemingly needless dependence on _WIN32_ of the back-end. Both WB and XB
4021 now use the XBoard method, to only match zippy commands when logged in.
4023 2010-07-31 22:48:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4024 Suggest default file name in browser dialog
4026 The argument 'def' to FileNamePopUp() was not passed through to the new
4027 file-browser routine, which got NULL in stead, and thus started with an
4030 2010-07-30 23:28:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4031 Define /firstUCI and /secondUCI as synonyms for /fUCI, /sUCI
4033 Because the %s expansion of WB options in the /fcp and /scp lines only
4034 works for options that contain 'first' or 'second', and /fUCI thus did
4035 not work, PSWBTM had to rely on the cumbersome /firstIsUCI=true to
4036 install UCI engines. (The latter option should be deprecated really;
4037 the UCI-ness of the engines is a volatile option, so it makes no sense
4038 to supply a way to set them both to false or true. One only needs to be
4039 able to set it to the non-default state.)
4041 2010-07-30 23:21:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4042 Add string option /pieceNickNames
4044 This (volatile) option allows definition of alternate letters for the
4045 pieces, which will be recognized next to the standard symbols as given
4046 in the /pieceToCharTable on input. (Output always uses the standard.)
4047 This can be useful for reading PGN from another language, or
4048 non-compliant FENs (e.g. using B and N for E and H in Xiangqi).
4049 The format of the argument is the same as for /pieceToCharTable.
4050 Because the nickNames are consulted before the standard table, it is
4051 possible to redefine a standard name as a nick for another piece.
4053 2010-07-30 23:10:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4054 Fix deadlock in match-result display
4056 At the end of a match, GameEnds() was recursively calling itself,
4057 through DisplayFatalError() and ExitEvent(), and the latter was then
4058 delaying until the calling GameEnds() terminated. (Which it would of
4059 course never do before ExitEvent returned; fortunately there was a tim
4060 limit to this delay, but in XBoard it was 10 sec in stead of 10 msec.)
4061 Now the calling of DisplayFatalError() (to show the result popup) is
4062 delayed until after GameEnds completes (and resets the anti-recursion
4063 flag 'endingGame'), so that it is simply executed a second time, unaware
4064 of the earlier call. But this second time it does not do anything,
4065 because the gameMode ws set to EndOfGame the first time, and the writing
4066 of the PGN is blocked by the checksum being still the same.
4068 2010-07-12 11:10:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4069 Fix WinBoard game-list title
4071 Number of displayed games and WDL stats were always appended to the
4072 existing title, leading to an ever-growing title in the game-list
4073 window. Now the old actual title is ignored, and the starts is appended
4074 to the original title "Game List". (In the future we could use the
4077 In addition, the title was not updated when re-opening the game-list
4078 window, while the stats could change if filtering was active when the
4079 window was closed. (In that case the filter is cleared on re-opening, so
4080 the number of displayed games changes.) Now a title-update (after
4081 recalculating the stats) is done every time the game-list window is
4084 2010-07-11 11:06:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4085 Refactoring of material-draws adjudication code
4087 Insufficient mating material is now determined per side individually, by
4088 testing for MatingPotential of each side. If both lack mating potential
4089 the game is adjudicated as draw (if the -materialDraws option is set).
4091 This way MatingPotential() can later also be used to correct losses by
4092 forfeit to draws (which currently is only done when the opponent has a
4095 The accuracy of this type of adjudication in Xiangqi has been highly
4098 2010-07-11 10:54:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4099 Fix bug in sending cores command to engine
4101 The cores command was alwas sent to the engine(s) when the user changed
4102 it through the menu, even when the engine had sent feature smp=0 (which
4103 is default anyway). NewSettingEvent() was patched to send the new
4104 setting conditionally, based on the engine properties as recorded in
4105 ChessProgramStates first, second; In this particular case it now
4106 consults cps->maxCores. (Note the code for testing the second engine
4107 contains some dirty pointer arithmetic.)
4109 2010-07-11 10:42:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4110 Fix oneClickMove bug
4112 When checking for unique captures, no attention was payed to the option
4113 setting, so the capture was also made when the option was off.
4115 2010-07-11 10:39:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4116 Remove duplicate testing for cores feature
4118 The testing for this BooleanFeature occurred twice.
4120 2010-07-11 10:35:13 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4121 Remove misspelled prototype
4123 NewSettingEvent occurred, next to the correct one, in misspelled form.
4125 2010-07-05 10:00:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4126 Fix parsing of SAN shogi promotions
4128 A missing promotion character defaults to promotion in the move type,
4129 but the promotion character was not set when this happened in variant
4130 shogi. And it is especially important there, as the promotion character
4131 '+' will always be missing, as the parser will take it to be a 'check'
4132 symbol, and strip it from the move.
4134 2010-07-05 09:55:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4135 Fix variant switch on PGN loading
4137 When the PGN specified an essentially different variant, the
4138 piece bitmaps were not properly adapted, because the switch was done by
4139 calling InitPosition(), rather than Reset(). (The latter would destroy
4140 the PGN tags info.) We now added an explicit call to ResetFrontEnd(),
4141 (which is normally done from Reset()).
4143 2010-07-05 09:51:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4144 Adjudicate Xiangqi material draws with Advisor-less Cannons
4146 Used the Queen counter for counting Cannons. Note that material draws
4147 with stale Pawns (i.e. on the back rank) are not yet adjudicated.
4149 2010-07-05 09:34:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4150 Remove font settings from master settings file
4152 xboard.conf should not contain general font settings (not specific to
4153 one board size) with specified point size. In fact it should not even
4154 specify sizable fonts, as the new system would make specification of a
4155 general font overrule the size-specific settings in the .xboardrc file,
4156 so the persistence of fonts would be completely broken.
4158 2010-06-30 10:52:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4159 Cut board squares out of texture bitmap more cleverly
4161 When the bitmap is larger than the entire board, the squares are now cut
4162 out of the center of the virtual squares from subdividing the bitmap, so
4163 that they stay centered on the grid of a Xiangqi board bitmap. If the
4164 board size exceeds that of the bitmap, the old algorithm is still used,
4165 as the centering would make the edge squares exceed the bitmap, and
4166 cause a black rim around the board.
4168 2010-06-30 10:49:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4169 Allow -flipBlack to work with font-based piece rendering
4171 In addition the font-based pieces will also be flipped vertically in
4172 flipView for variant shogi when -flipBlack is off.
4174 2010-06-30 10:46:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4175 Allow font-based piece rendering in board sizes below petite
4177 At least for variants that use unorthodox pieces, so that switching back
4178 to using bitmaps is not really an option anyway.
4180 2010-06-30 10:41:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4181 Ignore checks in 50-move count for Xiangqi
4183 Both checks and evasions are discounted; this is only done after the
4184 naive counting exceeds the maximum, so during most of the game it causes
4187 2010-06-05 14:38:47 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4188 removed some garbage from configure.ac that got added a while ago
4191 2010-05-25 21:20:27 -0400 Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>:
4192 Remove unnecessary double equals from configure.ac.
4195 2010-05-28 11:07:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4196 Fix e.p. bug in xiangqi with -serverMoves option
4198 Sideway Pawn moves were written as e.p. captures in the file with moves,
4199 which led to disappearence of pieces in the viewer.
4201 2010-05-28 11:05:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4202 Repair score printing with -serverMoves option
4204 A previous patch had moved MakeMove to before the update of pvInfoList,
4205 so that the score/depth info would not appear in the file with moves.
4207 2010-05-28 11:02:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4208 Repair animate dragging
4210 The previous patch had left a stray semicolon in the mouse handler.
4212 2010-05-10 10:32:19 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4213 Fix game end during dragging
4215 The stale-first-click fix interfered with proper handling of a piece
4216 being dragged when a game suddenly ended (because of opponent resign,
4217 or caling the flag), because up-clicks when the from-square was reset
4218 were completely ignored. Now such an 'unmatched' upclick calls
4219 DragPieceEnd() and redraws the board.
4221 2010-05-10 10:09:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4222 Pop down old tags on loadng new game in WinBoard
4224 ResetFrontEnd(), called from Reset(), did not do this in WinBoard
4225 (unlike XBoard), so that the tags from the previous game were left on
4226 display when -autoDisplayTags was off.
4228 2010-05-09 22:15:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4229 Reverse mousewheel action
4231 Apparently WinBoard was stepping in the opposite direction through the
4232 game in reaction to the mousewheel as every other GUI in existence.
4234 2010-05-09 22:07:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4235 Fix bug in sending "usermove" when forcing book moves
4237 The keyword "usermove" was copied to the buffer, but not sent before it
4238 was overwritten by the actual book move.
4240 2010-05-06 17:23:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4241 Fix engine stall on perpetual-check evasion
4243 The adjudication code had already put the engine in force mode after
4244 postponing the actual adjudication to the next move. Now first determine
4245 if we want to adjudicate now, and with which result, before stopping the
4246 engine and ending the game.
4248 2010-05-06 16:37:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4249 Let move parser return ImpossibleMove for off-board moves
4251 It used to return 0, which interfered with buiding a game list. This
4252 broke reading of multi-game PGN files containing games in a variant with
4253 a board size larger than that of the currenty active variant.
4255 2010-04-06 15:05:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4256 Alter XBoard key bindings to mimic WinBoard
4258 A lot of new bindings were added, and four menuProcs had to be registered
4259 to be able to add bindings to them. The use of the control key as
4260 temporary take-back for the last move conflicted with the use of Ctrl
4261 keystrokes, and this function was migrated to '.'. The iconify function
4262 had no shortcut in WinBoard, but to get rid of letter bindings it was
4265 2010-04-05 20:45:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4269 2010-04-03 14:00:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4270 Fix typos in html help file
4273 2010-04-01 15:22:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4274 Fix JAWS piece drop cursor, and streamline some sentences
4276 The cursor square was reset to a1 after every use of the piece menu,
4277 which was very inconvenient. Some of the spoken sentences have been
4278 improved; the square is read before the piece now, when using the arrow
4281 2010-03-31 22:31:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4282 Allow escape sequences in telluser(error) messages
4284 The routine EscapeExpand was moved to backend.c, and applied to the
4285 message received from the engine.
4287 2010-03-31 21:29:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4288 Allow lower-case promochar in moves of type h8=Q
4290 Updated the parser rules. Other move formats already allowed this.
4292 2010-03-31 21:36:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4293 Fix Alt+M JAWS command in Two-Machines mode
4295 The command refused to read the ast move because it contained thinking
4296 output of the other engine. Let it pay attention to evenIfDuplicate.
4298 2010-03-29 09:57:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4299 Fix rep-draw recognition
4301 The refactoring had broken the rep-draw recognition, by adding and extra
4302 condition in a conditional with side effects. The testing of this extra
4303 condition is now moved to after the side effect.
4305 2010-03-28 12:32:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4306 Allow any %ENVIRONMENTVAR% in WB settings file name rather than ~
4308 Only a single variable at the beginning of the file name is recognized,
4309 and the matching is not fool proof (it matches across backslashes).
4311 2010-03-28 11:24:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4312 Fix info lines being used as normal thinking output
4314 The new standard of using thinking output with time = nodes = score = 0
4315 as info messages for printing in the Engine-Output window was not
4316 understood everywhere, and led to such info lines being used for
4317 autoKibitzing and PGN annotation. The programStats are now only updated
4318 from thinking output received from an engine when it is not an info line.
4320 2010-03-27 11:54:41 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4321 new developer release
4324 2010-03-26 21:16:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4325 Suppress background observe for boards with own game number
4327 This is really a work-around for an ICS bug. The Variant-ICS sent the
4328 initial board of a game in a move list with relation = 0, which means
4329 'observed'. So XBoard was thinking it was observing its own game, and
4330 switched to dual board. It seems harmless to suppress such a switch for
4331 all boards of your own game, however, which is now done.
4333 2010-03-26 21:12:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4334 Fix crash on switching to ICS xiangqi game
4336 The oldBoard was a local variable, and only squares of the old board
4337 were initialized. This led to a crash if the copied board was enlarged,
4338 and then displayed. The variable is now declared static, so the
4339 uninitialized squares contain harmless zeros.
4341 2010-03-26 18:32:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4342 Let Chat Boxes pop up above console, rather than on top of it
4344 Use EnsureOnScreen() to have them overlap if there was no room.
4346 2010-03-26 18:26:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4347 Fix disabling of Chat Box navigation buttons
4349 The buttons for non-open boxes were enabed, rather than disabled.
4351 2010-03-26 18:17:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4352 Prevent <Esc> closing chat box
4354 Let it in stead switch focus back to the console window.
4356 2010-03-26 15:28:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4357 Let WinBoard recognize ~ in settings file name as HOMEPATH
4359 Fetch the appropriate environment variable to build the mathname in
4360 MySearchPath() whenever the file name starts with "~\".
4362 2010-03-26 13:59:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4363 Change name of Global Settings menu item to Common Engine Settings
4365 The old name confused ICS users, as this is an engine-only dialog.
4367 2010-03-26 13:58:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4368 Update WinBoard RTF docs
4371 2010-03-26 13:57:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4372 Update WinBoard html help
4375 2010-03-24 18:00:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4376 Allow adjustment of clocks in any mode with shift+click
4378 In practice changing to edit-game mode during a game was very
4379 cumbersome. In WinBoard shift+click is now offered as an alternative.
4380 Make sure a right-click in the clock area is not also counted for other
4383 2010-03-24 17:21:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4384 Allow loading of PGN variations in XBoard
4386 Right-clicking variation comments in the comment-window was implemented
4387 through a translation. The right button is now bound to routines that
4388 set both the end and start of the selection, as setting a new start does
4389 not seem to work if the previous select-start was not completed by a
4390 select-end or extend-end. Finally the main handler uses the selection
4391 cursors to know what was clicked.
4393 2010-03-24 17:16:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4396 Added a descripton of the new ICS options (seek graph, back-ground
4397 observe) and menus (Upload) to the texi file. Also added a description
4398 of the variation (Annotate menu item and PGN variation comments) and PV
4399 walking (clicking engine-output). Describe the -shuffleOpenings option.
4401 2010-03-24 13:30:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4402 Paint highlights on dual board (WB)
4404 The highlight info is hidden in the partner board to pass it to the
4407 2010-03-24 13:14:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4408 Fix handling username change during game
4410 The title bar and gameInfo (going into the PGN) were not adapted when
4411 the username was changed through the menu, so that the change became
4412 only effective on the next game. Requires SetGameInfo to be called from
4413 the front-end, and thus a prototype for it in backend.c.
4415 2010-03-24 11:04:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4416 Fix window-position upset on failing engine start in WinBoard
4418 The main window was only positoned according to the settings-file data
4419 after the engine was started up from InitBackend2(), so that if the
4420 latter gave a fatal error, and Save Settings on Exit was on, a wrong
4421 position for the main window would be saved. The call to InitBackend2()
4422 is now moved until after setting the main-window position.
4424 2010-03-23 23:22:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4425 Display PV from Engine-Output window (XBoard)
4427 Translations are added to bind button 3 to the PV walk for the memo
4428 widgets, and the corresponding handlers are ported from wengineoutput.c.
4430 2010-03-10 18:54:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4431 Set keyboard focus at startup to board window
4433 This makes XBoard sensitive to the keybindings also when the cursor is
4434 outside the board window. This focus seems to persist indefinitely: each
4435 time the board window gets selected, the key bindings become activem
4436 wherever the mouse pointer is. Downside: the mouse pointer is no longer
4437 an arrow outside the board window, but becomes a text-insert tool there.
4439 2010-02-27 20:49:21 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4440 added logo files for xboard
4442 logos are installed in the hicolor theme [1] using $datadir as the basedir.
4443 Added both png and svg logo.
4445 [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html
4447 2010-02-27 17:36:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4448 Remake programVersion string after receiving engine features
4450 The engine could have sent a more accurate version of its own name
4451 than the one derived from the exe filename in a myname feature, and we
4452 better use that in the programVersion string, which will be sent as
4453 interface name to the ICS.
4455 2010-02-25 19:22:00 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4456 Revert "Repair settings-file name"
4458 This reverts commit a02042ef83ce1f3632f0cf3e0a2a4ce9a3ac5d85.
4460 2010-02-25 20:32:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4461 Add -autokibitz checkbox to UCI-options menu dialog
4464 2010-02-25 20:29:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4465 Also capture (numeric) whispers of players for -autoKibitz
4468 2010-02-25 20:25:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4469 Add kibitzes and c-shouts Chat Box
4471 A box dedicated to c-shouts will snatch any c-shout before it is
4472 diverted to a normal shouts box. The kibitzes box can capture the
4473 left-overs of -autoKibitz, if the latter is active.
4475 2010-02-25 15:45:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4476 Mark non-compliant lines of engine in debug file
4478 The option -engineDebugOutput is extended to accept value 3 for printing
4479 a cear indication of non-compliancy in the debug file.
4481 2010-02-25 12:02:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4482 Redraw second board on expose events
4484 The -dualBoard option now does refresh the second board after another
4485 window uncovers it. To acheive this, some data structures remembering
4486 what is displayed had to be duplicated. (lastBoard and damage for XB,
4487 lastReq, lastDrawn, lastReqValid and lastDrawnValid for WB.)
4488 WinBoard now uses clipping also for second board. This required the
4489 clips for the destination to be translated horizontally!
4491 2010-02-25 15:13:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4492 Print seconds with 2 digits in backgroundObserve status line
4495 2010-02-24 17:01:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4496 Do not recognize non-ICS variants from PGN event tag
4498 These variants were introduced after supporting the variant tag, so if
4499 the variant tag is missing, their recognition from the event tag will be
4500 a false match. (Mainly to prevent events with 'super' in the name being
4501 recognized as Superchess.)
4503 2010-02-23 13:52:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4504 Fix display of uninitialized boards in background observe
4506 A variable partnerBoardValid is cleared on starting our own game, and
4507 set when a board from the background game comes in during it. At the end
4508 of our own game, a valid partner board now is put in the display.
4510 2010-02-23 13:46:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4511 Add option Display Logo in WB general-options menu
4513 Changing the option requires InitDrawingSizes to be called for
4514 re-formatting the board window. Switching it off requires clearing of
4515 the cps->programLogo fields to take effect immediately. Switching it on
4516 only takes effect the next session, as we will need some refactoring to
4517 redo the figuring out what logos to display.
4519 2010-02-22 12:02:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4520 Group Chat Boxes with console in stead of board window
4522 They now open and close with the console, which seems more natural, and
4523 prevents the console from covering them.
4525 2010-02-22 11:50:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4526 Put new options in WB ICS-options dialog
4528 The Seek-Graph, background-observe and Chat-Box options are added to the
4529 ICS options dialog. They only control the appData settings, there are no
4530 special actions yet on switching the settings.
4532 2010-02-22 11:46:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4533 Create space in WinBoard ICS-options dialog
4536 2010-02-20 12:42:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4537 Use side-by-side boards to display background game
4539 A game observed in the background (i.e. if -backgroundObserve true) will
4540 be displayed right of the normal board in the same window if the new
4541 (persistent) Boolean option -dualBoard is also set.
4542 Very flakey hack, especially in XBoard, where clocks and messsage
4543 field all get the wrong width (and resist adjustment in the strangest
4544 ways). The clocks of the partner game are not yet displayed, and
4545 disaster happens when the background and foreground games do not have
4546 the same board format.
4548 2010-02-23 14:57:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4549 Repair background-observe patch
4551 Apparently a commit was lost that I collapsed with 3018a6 while the
4552 latter was already pushed to savannah. Here I recreated this commit from
4553 a diff between the respective commits in the savannah & nubati gits.
4555 2010-01-31 11:07:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4556 Repair settings-file name
4558 The default name is put back to /etc/xboard/xboard.conf, so that XBoard
4559 can again find its settings file. "make install" will still install it
4562 2010-02-21 18:43:59 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4563 new developer release
4566 2010-02-21 19:45:58 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4567 fixed compiler warning for file-browser code
4569 missing "void"s in the function declaration and missing returns showed up when trying to build on the opensuse build server. fixed now.
4571 2010-02-21 23:09:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4572 Put newly opened Chat Box on top
4574 Dialogs always pop up in front, so set the onTop variable that prevents
4575 highighting the button to navigate to it from other Chat Boxes
4576 to reflect that a newly opened Chat Box is in view.
4578 2010-02-21 18:55:03 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4579 Fix copying of kibitzed info in Engine-Output window
4581 Make sure all lines end with "\r\n" to not lose line breaks on
4582 copy-paste from the memo. (XBoard would strip those again.)
4584 2010-02-21 18:25:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4585 Allow walking a kibitzed PV
4587 If no tabs are found in te 'thinking output' we assume it is a captured
4588 kibitz message, and look for "PV=" to locate the start of a PV in it.
4589 Also try to include any continuation lines below the selected line.
4591 2010-02-21 17:45:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4592 Insert autoKibitz continuation lines at end of line
4594 In the engine-output window lines that start with the ICS continuation
4595 sequence "\ " are inserted behind the line they belong to, in stead of
4596 at the top. This required keeping thrack of the length of the currently
4597 active line in OutputKibitz().
4599 2010-02-20 15:39:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4600 Don't disturb background observe when receiving new piece
4602 When new holdings are sent when the background game is displayed, we now
4603 ignore this, as presumably we are peeking at our partners game, and thus
4604 should be well aware of what is captured there.
4606 2010-02-19 21:52:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4607 Newly lexed parser in XBoard directory
4610 2010-02-19 11:18:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4611 Let yy_text determine progress of PV parsing
4613 The parsed unit yy_text was not available after ParseOneMove(), because
4614 the buffer switch in yylexstr() apparently destroys it. To solve that,
4615 yylexstr() now is equiped with an extra buffer argument, where it copies
4616 yy_text before the switch, so the caller, ParsePV(), can see what was
4617 parsed in yy_textstr. This is used to update the PV pointer, but also to
4618 save any parsed comments (when ParsePV is used for parsing a PGN variation).
4620 2010-02-18 17:42:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4621 Support playing through PGN variation comments
4623 Right-clicking a variation line in the comment dialog will shelve the
4624 current variation, and parse the comment to replace it. This uses
4625 ParsePV() in an alternative way, for which the latter had to be
4626 enhanced: it was made resistent to move numbers and comments inside
4627 the PV. It now has an argument to indicate if such comments should be
4628 stored with the moves. The Comment Popup is closed on revert, to
4629 make sure no comments to moves that are destroyed, containing
4630 variations on a non-valid line, can keep hanging around.
4632 2010-02-18 16:05:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4633 Add Annotate item in Step menu
4635 This does the same as Revert, except that it adds the destroyed
4636 variation as comment to the original movem in PGN variation format.
4637 RevertEvent now has an argument to indicate if it should add the
4638 comment, or not. Comments in the abandoned variation are included in the
4639 varriation command to the main line. (The exact layout of the variation
4640 comment that results leaves still to be desired.)
4642 2010-02-15 19:07:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4643 Add option -shuffleOpenings
4645 This volatile option is added just to make the existing variable
4646 available from the command line, not only from the menus.
4648 2010-02-19 11:48:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4649 Let the sounds sound on receiving a message in a Chat Box
4651 Use Colorize() to the applicable color to trigger the sound, and then
4652 restore the original color as 'continuation', to do it silently.
4654 2010-02-10 10:55:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4655 Allow WB Chat Box to be dedicated to shouts and 'it'
4657 By putting 'shouts' in the handle field, a chat window will capture all
4658 shouts and c-shouts, and send messages typed into it as shouts.
4659 The bracketing of the shouter name now indicates the type of shout.
4660 The handle for WHISPER Chat Boxes has been changed to 'whispers', to
4661 make it easier to pop them up by clicking the console.
4663 2010-02-16 22:34:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4664 Add -chatBoxes option to open Chat Boxes at startup
4666 This string option contains a semicolon-separated list of handles for
4667 which Chat Boxes should be opened at startup. The value saved in the ini
4668 file is the value that was read, not the actual chat boxes that were
4669 open at the time of saving.
4671 2010-02-16 19:44:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4672 Make Chat Windows pseudo-tabbed
4674 By adding buttons in every Chat Box to navigate directly to every other
4675 Chat Box, a stacked set of Chat Windows behaves like a single tabbed
4676 window, but can still be unstacked. The buttons turn grey to warn that
4677 new text appeared in hidden boxes (i.e. not the one last brought to top).
4679 2010-02-19 21:46:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4680 Allow arrow keys in WB Chat Box to access command history
4682 The history is shared between al boxes and the ICS console.
4684 2010-02-12 22:35:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4685 Make WB Chat Boxes wrap and handle URLs
4687 Cloned the code for the console text field to hande URL. (Initialization
4688 to recogize the link, and notifiction to open it when clicked.)
4689 Removed the ES_AUTOHSCROLL style from the RichEdit in the resource.
4691 2010-02-10 10:58:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4692 Fix copying of WB Chat Window contents
4694 All line breks were lost on copy-pasting the contents of a chat window.
4695 Adding CR to each outputted line in the front-end (wchat.c) solves this.
4696 (Tell messages sent to a handle (which are not echoed by the ICS, and
4697 thus have to copied to the chat box directly) also need CR!)
4699 2010-02-19 22:34:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4700 Add upload of game to ICS for examining
4702 New item "Upload to Examin" in Action menu, calls UploadGameEvent().
4703 Use SAN moves to upload game to ICS, rather than long algebraic
4704 (The ICS did not understand long-algebraic promotion moves)
4705 Use bsetup within examine to set position onFICS, and also variant.
4706 Castling rights do not work yet for FRC. Totally different set of
4707 commands are needed on FICS and ICC.
4708 FICS does not understand w23 or wild/23, but needs 'crazyhouse' in the
4709 besetup command that specifies the variant. XBoard variant names are
4710 used, except for fischerandom, which is 'fr'. Things like nocastle will
4711 probably still not work.
4713 2010-02-18 17:41:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4714 Handle display of PV that starts with other move than played
4716 Insert the retraction of the played move, without premove highlighting.
4718 2010-02-16 19:36:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4719 Bugfix smart capture
4721 Disambiguate was changed to make sure that for ambiguous moves, a
4722 capture would always prevail in the closure, rather than the last move
4723 that happened to be generated. Before, double-clicking a piece would
4724 sometimes plsy a non-capture.
4726 2010-02-13 15:34:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4727 Fix XB crash on giving keyboard focus to non-text widget
4729 In the Engine-Settings dialog SetFocus() could be called for non-text
4730 widgets, and this made XawTextSetInsertionPoint() croak. Setting the
4731 insertion point to the end in SetFocus() was a bad ide anyway, as it
4732 interfered with copying from the engine-output window, which would
4733 uncontrollably scroll on getting focus. It is solved now by setting the
4734 insertion point already on creation of the text widgets.
4736 2010-02-19 22:32:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4737 Seek-Graph bugfix: disappearing output in ICS console
4739 Suppression of output to the cosole was handled fundamentally wrong: it
4740 was not enough to set next_out to after the unit that should be
4741 suppressed, as there can be a backlog in printing of previous units that
4742 came in the same packet. So this has to be flushed first, or it will be
4743 lost. -autoKibitz probably got away with that, because it comes in a
4744 separate packet. But seek ads are often suffixed to other output, and
4745 then that output disappeared! Now we flush everywhere before suppressing.
4746 We now totally rely on the prompt to restart the printing, so that
4747 acknowledgements following the echo of the sent message are also
4748 suppressed. Also suppress LF before diverted chat messages.
4749 Also fixed is the 'mamer bug' in Chat Boxes, due to false parsing of
4750 a "* (*): " pattern in tell messages, because of a missing continue.
4752 2010-02-12 18:08:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4753 Pop up ICS text menu with default item under mouse pointer
4755 The menu popup is migrated to the down-click (was up-click), so the
4756 up-click can select the item. Some trickery is needed to fool the menu
4757 into thinking that the mouse moved, so that a moveless up-down click in
4758 the ICS text field selects the default item (the upper-right one).
4759 Also allow dummy item in ICS text menu: The command "none" in the ICS
4760 text menu will now be treated as a grayed-out (disabled) entry, so it
4761 can be defined in the position underthe mouse pointer to prevent the
4762 up-click from doing anything, while keeping the menu open. Recommended
4763 for use with an entry of spaces.
4765 2010-02-10 14:42:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4766 Allow ICS context menu to pop up a Chat Box on clicking handle
4768 A command "chat" defined in the WinBoard icsMenu string will cause
4769 ChatPopUp() to be called when it is clicked, with the clicked handle
4770 (name) in the ChatPartner field, and focus on the input field.
4771 ChatPopUp() had to get a parameter (the handle) to make this possible.
4772 If that parameter is NULL (as when it is called from the Mode menu),
4773 focus will still start on the (empty) ChatPartner field of the box.
4775 2010-02-10 10:50:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4776 Fix right-edge spillover of Seek-Graph dots in WinBoard
4778 Rescale the X-axis to allow margin for dot size and color offset.
4780 2010-01-30 11:05:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4781 Interface XBoard to GhostView file-browser dialog
4783 Note: The Ghostview dialog was using some deprecated variables for error
4784 printing, and conditionally used getwd() on some systems that presumably
4785 do not have getcwd(), but it did not assess the latter properly.
4787 2010-02-09 14:38:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4788 Allow recalling history in ICS input box with arrow keys
4790 By adding translations for the Up and Down keys, and stealing some code
4791 from winboard.c. Still needs some refactoring to move the duplicate code
4794 2010-02-09 14:34:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4795 Start insertion point at end of text edits in XB dialogs
4797 The function SetFocus now uses XawTextSetInsertionPoint to position the
4798 end of the string it aready contains, rather than at the beginning.
4800 2010-02-08 17:55:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4801 Capture holdings of background observed game
4804 2010-02-08 11:57:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4805 Match handles with multiple titles for channel Chat Boxes
4807 Only handles with at most one suffixed 'title', such as (U), (C), (IM)
4808 or (TD), followed by the parenthesized channel number, were recognized,
4809 so tells by people with more titles always went to the ICS console window.
4810 Patterns are added to recognize handles with upto three such qualifiers.
4812 2010-02-08 11:54:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4813 Do not pop down Seek Graph on on-dot click
4815 Leave the graph up, and let the incoming board of a started game cause
4816 the pop-down. This in case the clicked ad is no longer vailable, or
4817 manuay refused, and fails to start a game.
4819 2010-02-07 21:26:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4820 Observe a game in the background while playing
4822 A new (persistent) option -backgroundObserve true|false is added. When
4823 set, observed boards received while playing a game will not trigger a
4824 game switch, but will be ignored except for storing in a dedicated board
4825 buffer. Pressing the right mouse button will cause the board to be
4826 displayed, until we release it. Time, strength and stm are always
4827 displayed in the message window.
4829 2010-02-07 16:43:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4830 Remove race condition in clock switching
4832 The move number is now incremented inside SwitchClock, when no timer
4833 interrupt is scheduled, so the interrupt cannot occur at the wrong side
4834 of the increment, and decrement the wrong clock.
4836 2010-02-07 11:53:03 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4837 Let second click on piece make only capture, with -oneClickMove
4839 Normally this would clear the highlighting of that piece.
4840 Required new field in DisambiguateClosure to count nr of captures.
4842 2010-02-07 11:18:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4843 Bugfix stale first-click
4845 When the opponent resigned after the user had cicked a from-square,
4846 clicking the from-square for the first move in the next game would
4847 produce an "illegal move" message, because it was considered a to-click!
4848 We now set fromX and fromY to invalid in GameEnds().
4849 Should we also reset them on mode changes?
4851 2010-02-07 11:08:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4852 Add promotions and e.p. to oneClickMove
4854 For e.p. the to-Square of the Pawn has to be clicked. Promotions are
4855 always to Queen when you click the to-square, but use the promotion
4856 pop-up when you click the from-square.
4858 2010-02-07 10:38:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4859 Fix error that compiler does not notice
4861 Boolean GLT_GetFromList did not return a value. But no error on Ubuntu!
4863 2010-02-06 18:55:38 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4864 new developer release
4867 2010-02-06 18:30:42 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4868 updated year in copyright info
4871 2010-02-05 22:27:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4874 Playing on ICS or against engine, clicking a square from or to which
4875 only a single move can be made causes the move to be done, when the new
4876 option -oneClickMove is set to true.
4878 2010-02-04 16:09:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4879 Use squares for computer seek ads
4881 Shape indication passed in sign bit of color (char) variable.
4883 2010-02-04 22:46:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4884 Use right mouse button to view seek ads
4886 Right down-click does the same as left down-click, right up-click
4887 simulates a left up-click off board (so it misses all dots).
4889 Use right-click miss to refresh Seek Graph
4891 The 'moving' parameter had to be made into an int for this, to indicate
4892 right clicks with code 2. Right press now already pushes the clicked ad
4893 to the back, so that the up-click will display an underlying one.
4895 Bugfix pushing back seek ads on right-click
4897 On a right button press the previous in stead of currently hit ad was
4898 receiving the penalty.
4900 Indicate seek-ad multiplicity
4902 If more than one seek ad is inside the capture range of the mouse
4903 pointer, an exclamation point is printed before the seek-ad text.
4905 Some fixes to make seek-ad suppression work in WinBoard
4907 In WinBoard the z-depth was immediately erased by redrawing the graph;
4908 the clearing of zlist had to be moved from PlotSeekAd() to AddAd()
4909 (where it really belongs). Also aging of z-depth is now suppressed on
4910 mere pointer motion.
4912 2010-02-04 22:45:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4915 The new option -autoRefresh sets FICS and ICC to report removal of seek
4916 ads, and then removes those from the Seek Graph. New seek ads are added
4917 to the graph, as soon as the ICS reports them.
4919 2010-02-04 22:42:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4920 Implement SeekGraph in XBoard
4922 For now only controlled by left mouse clicks on board. New options
4923 -seekGraph true|false and -sg to switch this feature on.
4925 Facilitate selection of coinciding seek ads
4927 Seek-ads that are viewed but not answered get a distance penalty on the
4928 up-click that makes their selection more difficult next time, so that
4929 the ad they covered gets a (better) change. The penalty ages away in the
4932 Slightly offset Seek-Graph dots of different color
4934 Dots of different color are now displaced horizontally be 3 pixels, to
4935 prevent them from completely covering each other. (Required the axis
4936 labels to be moved a little too, to not be covered by the 1-min ads.)
4938 Auto-show seek-ad texts in WinBoard
4940 Hovering the mouse above a Seek-Graph dot will make the text belonging
4941 to it appear in the message field without the need to press a button.
4942 Required SeekGraphClick() to be called from the WB mouse event handler,
4943 with an extra argument 'moving' to make the distinction with a real
4946 Show seek-ad text on mouse hovering (XBoard)
4948 The Eventproc is also set to trigger on PointerMotion, and this event
4949 then calls SeekGraphClick with motion=true to handle it.
4951 Put poetic name of wilds in seek-ad text
4953 Use XBoard variant names, except for 'loadable' and 'fischerandom'
4954 (becomes 'setup' and 'chess960'), but leave number (to distinguish wilds
4955 that transate to same XBoard variant).
4957 2010-02-05 20:36:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4958 Fix highlighting bug in XBoard
4960 The from-square was drawn before the to-square was erased, which led to
4961 a missing highlight line if they shared an edge or corner.
4963 2010-02-05 15:49:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4964 Shorten autoKibitz confirmation on FICS
4966 Strip off the "players)", but leave the separatng space.
4968 2010-02-05 14:39:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4969 Repair damage to -autoKibitz done by FICS atomic zippy claim
4971 The sending of -autoKibitz info was also moved back in that patch, but
4972 unfortunately to after clearing of the programStats info. Now the
4973 clearing has been moved also, to remain after it.
4975 2010-02-04 23:33:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4976 Send continuation lines to chat box they belong to
4978 The variable savingComment is used as a kludge to remember where the
4979 comment should go (i.e. which chatbox, or elsewhere), so that when a
4980 continuation line is matched, chatPartner (which was reset at EOL) can
4981 be restored to its original value. Also put space after handle of talker
4982 in channel Chat Windows
4984 2010-02-02 19:08:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4985 Fix u64 format for cygwin
4987 With a -mno-cygwin compile %llu and %lld are definitely not understood
4988 by scanf and printf, although they are by the compiler. In stead, %I64u
4989 seems to work. Put it in under control of a switch USE_I64, which is
4990 defined only in the gcc makefile when MINGW is used.
4992 2010-02-02 19:02:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4993 Remove stray dot from WinBoard makefiles
4995 There was a period suffixed to config.h in the wgamelist.o dependency.
4997 2010-02-01 14:50:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4998 Fix bug in display of logos
5000 The logo continued to be drawn after a boardSize change to a tinyLayout
5001 size, although there was no space reserved for it. Fixed by explicitly
5002 resetting logoHeight when no logo space is reserved in InitDrawingSizes().
5004 2010-01-19 20:15:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5005 Right-click refactoring: step III
5007 Let WinBoard call RightClick in back-end, and delete the duplicate code
5008 it had for this, after rescuing the front-end bits, and let the letter
5009 act depending on the result returned by RightClick.
5011 2010-01-19 19:07:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5012 Right-click refactoring: step II
5014 Migrate the Right-click routine to the back-end. Let it communicate back
5015 square coordinates through pointer arguments, to accomodate their
5016 different naming in XBoard and WinBoard. Template added in frontend.h.
5018 2010-01-19 17:55:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5019 Right-click refactoring, step I
5021 Divorce front-end part from back-end part of PieceMenuPopup in XBoard
5022 front-end, and forge the back-end part into a new routine RightClick.
5023 The right up-click in XBoard, which called unLoadPV() directly, now
5024 calls RightClick through PieceMenuPopUp().
5026 2010-02-04 23:09:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5027 Merge gamelistopt sources into gamelist source files
5029 The files xgamelistopt.c and gamelistopt.c are merged with xgamelist.c
5030 and gamelist.c, respectively. The WB front-end for the dialog already
5031 resided in winboard.c, so there was little need to move it to wgameist.c
5032 file. Makefiles adapted accordingly. Unsuitable key bindings were
5033 removed. The low-level front-end prototypes are now defined in in
5036 2010-01-29 21:47:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5037 Game-List options dialog for XBoard
5039 A dialog similar to that of WinBoard was cloned from the game-list
5040 window. The XBoard front-end is in a separate file xgamelistopt.c,
5041 which in fact implements most of the low-level front-end as back-end.
5043 2010-01-29 12:48:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5044 Refactoring of game-list-options dialog
5046 The back-end part is separated off, and moved to a file gamelistopt.c.
5047 Front-end for now stays in winboard.c. No prototypes in frontend.h yet.
5049 2010-01-26 19:28:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5050 Fix of ancient WB bug: test integer option values for validity
5052 Only a string of digits preceded by an optional sign is accepted now.
5053 Before, any string was accepted, and leaving out a value could lead to
5054 the next option being ignored (if it did not need a value) because it
5055 was considered the value for the previous one!
5057 2010-01-26 19:00:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5058 Fix bug in edit-position of holdings
5060 The holdings were effectivelly taken one too large, so that a promoted
5061 shogi Pawn moved to, or created in the holdings was not demoted to Pawn,
5062 but put in the dark (which you could see by the holding count if you did
5063 it twice). The overflow tests in these two cases now have been corrected.
5065 2010-01-25 13:54:40 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5066 Save fonts in XBoard settings file per boardSize
5068 Each -boardSize now can have its own font specified in the settings file
5069 (and thus by a command-line option, although it would in general not be
5070 very useful to specify a font for a size other than the selected). E.g.
5071 a prefix "size33:" to the font name will apply it only to -size 33.
5072 An unspecified-size font option (not normally in the settings file) will
5073 always prevail over a font option specific for the current size.
5074 A font of some size must have been used or specified in order to be
5077 2010-01-25 08:56:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5078 Fix width of filter field in XBoard GameList
5080 An empirical dependence of the width of this text edit on the square
5081 size now makes for an acceptable layout at any board size.
5083 2010-01-24 19:09:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5084 Use FICS atomic draw claim for sending move in zippy mode
5086 For this the relaying of the move had to be moved until after the
5087 adjudication, which again has to be done after MakeMove(), which is a
5088 bit dubious, as MakeMove might take significant time when animating.
5090 2010-01-24 18:51:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5091 Send FICS atomic claim to ICS if move creates draw after offer
5093 The FICS format "draw MOVE" is used to send the move to the ICS when
5094 the user enters a move that adjudicates as a claimable draw, and he
5095 offered a draw before the move. For the benefit of ICS that do not
5096 understand this format, the plain move is sent afterwards.
5098 2010-01-24 18:16:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5099 Also allow user to claim by offering draw before his move
5101 Use the existing userOfferedDraw variable to test for such offers in
5104 2010-01-24 17:29:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5105 Also adjudicate after user move
5107 Call Adjudicate() in FinishMove().
5109 2010-01-24 15:56:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5110 Refactoring of adjudication code
5112 Put all the rule-based (as opposed to score-based) adjudications in a
5113 separate routine, so they can also be called on user moves. This
5114 requires sending the drawing move to the opponent engine to be made
5115 conditional on existence of the latter. Execution of the code is no
5116 longer dependent on the condition TwoMachinesPlay, but actual game
5117 terminations are now all restricted by an alternative condition (no ICS
5120 2010-01-24 11:46:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5121 Use -keepAlive option to determine connection health
5123 When there has been no ICS response since the previous 'ping', assume we
5124 are disconnected and do a fatal-error exit. Also auto-start the ping
5125 process in InitBackend3().
5127 2010-01-23 23:00:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5128 Use arrow keys in XBoard GameList for entry selection
5130 Add translations for arrows and home/end, to call LoadSelectedProc with
5131 argument to indicate the step, and let the latter perform the action.
5133 2010-01-23 22:24:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5134 Allow <Enter> to apply filter in XB GameList filter edit
5136 Apply a translation to intercept the <Enter> key. Set focus back to the
5137 list display afterwards.
5139 2010-01-23 21:44:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5140 Accept <Enter> for changing chat partner
5142 A kludge stolen from Alessandro's GameList filter allowed to let the
5143 typing of <Enter> while updating the chat-partner field of the WinBoard
5144 chat windows to act as pressing the Change button. Gives focus to the
5145 input field of the window afterwards.
5147 2010-01-23 21:42:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5148 Move duplicat gamelist code to backend
5150 The filtering routines are moved from xgamelist.c and wgamelist.c to
5151 gamelist.c, and a prototype for them is placed in backend.h.
5153 2010-01-23 19:29:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5154 Port game-list filtering to XBoard
5156 Added a text edit and apply button to the XBoard game-list dialog, and
5157 only have it print those lines that match the filter. Translate index in
5158 list to index of game in file when a game is selected, and index in file
5159 to index in list when a line is highlighted. Duplicates some code
5160 between xgamelist.c and wgamelist.c, which should be moved to back-end.
5162 2010-01-21 19:24:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5163 Convert to DOS line endings
5165 For easier understanding of upcoming diffs of winboard.c
5167 2010-01-21 14:32:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5168 Refactoring of move-history code
5170 The WinBoard code in whistory.c was split in a front-end part (remaining
5171 in whistory.c) and a back-end part (now in history.c in the xboard
5172 directory). This to allow easy porting to other platforms.
5174 2010-01-20 12:48:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5175 Add fixed-time/move button in XBoard time-control dialog
5177 Put the TC-type buttons in a radio-group, and highlight the selected mode.
5179 2010-01-19 18:27:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5180 Fix bug in XBoard PV display
5182 The PV was unloaded on anything but a button release, in stead of the
5185 2010-01-23 11:04:11 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5186 fixed hardcoded location of config file for xboard
5188 the location should now follow sysconfdir during the configuration process.
5189 Also added some more output to the configure script.
5191 2010-01-18 12:18:32 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5192 new developer release
5195 2010-01-18 12:15:06 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5196 fixed Makefile.am to handle config file correctly
5199 2010-01-15 21:55:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5200 Change opening array -variant fairy
5202 We now use the position of "Chess with Different Armies", FIDE army vs.
5203 a fantasy army (inspired on the Color-bound Clobberers) as opening
5206 2010-01-13 19:08:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5209 Thai Chess, played by 2 million world-wide. Required pawn promotion to
5210 happen in a zone, and the Alfil to move as Shogi Silver, a new opening
5211 array, and unusual Pawn placement. Because of the latter, I consider it
5212 a setup position, so a FEN will always be sent to the engine.
5214 2010-01-17 14:17:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5215 Fix parsing of O-O and O-O-O after FEN pasting in FRC
5217 Because the initial rights were not set in the FEN reader, the
5218 initial rights of the previous game remained in force, so that the
5219 parser did not understand OO-castling (although it would allow KxR
5222 2010-01-15 14:40:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5223 Fix reading FEN castling rights for knightmate and twokings
5225 Scanning the back-rank for a King did not work in these variants,
5226 because either the Unicorn castles, or there might be two Kings.
5228 2010-01-13 11:42:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5229 Fix omission in castling refactoring for ICS received boards
5231 A default of -1 was still used, in stead of NoRights, when no Rook was
5232 found. In theory this could have had effect in a setup board 0 in FRC,
5233 when there were no Rooks on the back rank.
5235 2010-01-13 11:35:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5236 Fix TwoKings ICS castling-rights bug
5238 Scanning the rank (as is done because of FRC) assigned castling rights
5239 to the rightmost King. Even scanning the opposite direction would not
5240 work, as it is not always the eftmost King that can castle. So we now
5241 explicitly test for a King on e1/e8 in TwoKings and assign it rights,
5242 relying on the Rook rights received from the ICS to control castling.
5244 2009-11-18 19:12:25 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5245 fix double start of zippy engine after switch to gothic
5247 In ICS mode we now switch to the proper variant as soon as we receive
5248 the generic game-start message, to prevent a mismatch when the first
5249 board is received (which would trigger fetching of a move list).
5251 2010-01-11 16:44:40 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5252 Extensive bugfix of -autoKibitz
5254 Suppression of printing of diverted kibitz messages failed when they
5255 extended over more than one read. This could even lead to such
5256 messages being erroneously saved as comments, which then lead to
5257 crashes. The suppression mechanism now waits for a prompt, in stead of
5258 the end of buffer. This required the printing of any leftover in the
5259 buffer to be deferred until the next read completes it.
5260 The number of people kibitzed to is now printed.
5262 2010-01-11 16:30:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5263 Fix piece-to-char table -variant fairy
5265 The letters for Lance and Snake where swapped.
5267 2010-01-09 11:54:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5268 Make WinBoard makefiles use parser.c in XBoard directory
5271 2010-01-08 18:23:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5272 Docs update for new features
5275 2010-01-08 15:18:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5276 Fix new args parsing of -lowTimeWarningColor
5278 This did not occur in the XBoard color translation table yet.
5280 2010-01-08 14:16:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5281 Allow editing of holdings in EditPosition mode
5283 Dragging pieces to and from the holdings now consistently keep track of
5284 the home square of pieces and the piece counts, as does creation of
5285 pieces in the holdings through the piece menu.
5287 2010-01-08 13:59:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5288 Indicate squares a lifted piece can legally move to
5290 Under control of the new option -showTargetSquares when
5291 -highlightDragging and -testLegality are on, the squares a piece can
5292 move to are marked by fat dots in the highlightColor (non-captures) and
5293 premoveHighlightColor (captures), as soon as you grab it for dragging.
5294 In variants with mandatory capture, the capture target of other pieces
5295 is marked with the highlightColor (as non-captures are then not allowed).
5297 2010-01-08 12:35:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5298 Fix bug for incommensurate time odds
5300 After normalization (-timeOddsMode 1) the time odds factors can be
5301 non-integer, and thus must be stored as float.
5303 2010-01-08 11:41:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5304 Display PV right-clicked from EngineOutput window
5306 The clicked PV is selected and the memo gets focus, so that it is
5307 highlighted. This selection is restored in the proper place after
5308 insetrtion of a new line in the memo.
5310 2010-01-08 10:19:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5311 Display PV on right-clicking board
5314 2010-01-08 09:21:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5315 Bugfix legality null move in parsing with -testLegality off
5317 The pointers were compared, in stead of the values.
5318 Furthermore, instead of null moves, it rejected moves on the main diagonal when legality checking was off.
5320 Also exclude moves with empty squares and enemy pieces.
5322 2010-01-07 19:10:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5323 Newly lexed winboard/parser.c
5326 2010-01-07 19:05:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5327 Harmonize declarations of XBoard and WinBoard
5329 The engine-exit and settings patches make some stuff common to WinBoard
5330 and XBoard, which needed to be harmonized, and is moved to frontend.h.
5332 2010-01-07 13:07:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5333 Allow Ctrl-C copying from EngineOutput window text to clipboard
5336 2010-01-07 12:52:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5337 Allow popup-less (fatal) exit of engine after tellusererror
5340 2010-01-07 12:40:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5341 Improve layout of Engine #N Settings dialog
5343 An attempt is made to align the input fields of spins and text-edits
5345 2010-01-07 00:31:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5346 Let XBoard print version with argument --version or -v
5349 2010-01-07 00:25:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5350 Fix castling rule assignment in shuffle games
5352 The conversion to in-board storage for rights copied directly to boards[0] in steadof
5353 initialPosition, and was then overwritten when the latter was copied with uninitialized
5354 rights to boards[0]. This affected FRC and CRC, where rights are non-standard.
5356 2010-01-07 00:17:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5357 Implement castling in -variant caparandom
5359 CRC should be treated as FRC, but until now it never was. We now test for FRC_TYPE_CASTLING.
5361 2010-01-07 00:09:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5362 Fix default castling rights on reading incomplete FEN
5364 This was overlooked in the conversion to the in-board storage of rights.
5366 2010-01-07 00:03:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5367 Fix NoncompliantFEN defaults.
5369 This must be NULL to get compliant FENs, not "", which would suppress castling and e.p. fields.
5371 2010-01-06 23:54:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5372 Change format of -adapterCommand.
5374 first or f at the start of an option name are now automatically changed into second or s,
5375 rather than needing %% to be recognized. The values of -ec and -ed in the default
5376 -adapterCommand are now quoted (now XBoard understands quoting in the engine command line).
5378 2010-01-06 23:51:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5379 Make WinBoard defaults for -fd and -sd equal to "." rather than empty strings.
5382 2010-01-06 23:28:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5383 Delete old indirection settings-file code
5386 2010-01-06 21:45:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5387 Correct XBoard default debug file name
5390 2010-01-06 21:34:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5391 Suppress saving font settings.
5393 The fonts are size dependent, and might thus not be reusable in the next
5394 session. For now we therefore suppress the saving of them in the
5395 settings file, until we diversify the fonts per boardSize.
5397 2009-12-12 23:38:20 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5398 added missing sounds files to be able to compile on windows
5401 2009-12-09 17:29:37 -0700 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
5402 Changes needed to compile master branch.
5405 2009-12-06 12:11:46 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5406 implements the eval-graph window for XBoard
5409 2009-12-06 11:58:34 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5410 improves the XBoard handling of the engine command line
5412 it now understands limited forms of quoting, so engine binaries with spaces in their file name can be handled.
5414 2009-12-06 11:56:40 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5415 A better and more flexible way of invoking Polyglot
5417 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.
5419 2009-12-06 11:34:50 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5420 remove trailing \r in xboard output
5422 there is an annoying carriage return (displayed as ^M) at the end of the PV in the engine-output window, not
5423 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.
5425 2009-11-29 11:56:32 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5426 double buffer size to prevent overflow
5428 This patch doubles the size of the ICS input buffer to 16KB, to prevent
5429 the suspected overflow with -keepLineBreaksICS false when using
5430 "inchannel 1" on FICS and over 500 people are tuned in.
5432 2009-11-28 13:33:52 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5433 fix problem with empty string in -firstNeedsNoncompliantFEN
5435 This fixes a bug in the use of the -firstNeedsNoncompliantFEN option with
5436 an empty string as argument. (Which led to truncation of the FEN.)
5438 2009-11-28 13:32:12 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5439 updates makefiles to include dependency on config.h
5441 adds the dependency of wbres.o on config.c introduced by having the VersionInfo in the resource
5443 2009-11-28 13:28:00 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5444 correctly apply some check boxes from the option menu
5446 Usng the check-boxes in the Option->Adjudications menu to indicate the
5447 engine reports absolute scores is now copied directly to the ChessProgramState,
5448 from where it is used, in stead of only to appData. This makes the change take
5449 effect immediately, in stead of after restarting.
5451 2009-11-28 13:27:43 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5452 score sign in analysis mode
5454 this does not alter any of the current behavior with compliant engines,
5455 but does extend the correction for non-compliant score reporting under
5456 control of the -first(second)ScoreIsAbs option to cases where the engine
5457 is analyzing or playing on an ICS.
5459 2009-11-24 21:09:30 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5460 fix for bug #28077: xboard needs to link against x11
5462 hopefully fixed automake to take care of this
5464 2009-11-23 20:37:20 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5465 Fix castling rights when copying FEN to clipboard (again)
5467 missed a spot last time
5469 2009-11-23 20:22:58 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5470 restoring windows (EngineOutput and MoveHistory) on startup
5472 restoring the open / closed status of the
5473 auxiliary windows (EngineOutput and MoveHistory) on startup
5474 in XBoard like they do in WinBoard, which makes sense now that
5475 we aso remember their coordinates between sessions.
5477 2009-11-23 20:21:14 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5478 fixed some outstanding pixmaps
5480 fixed transparency issues
5482 2009-11-23 20:17:25 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5483 use linux style options for config file and add a system config file for XBoard
5485 This patch makes XBoard write the options to its conf file in
5486 Linux style, "-option value" rather than Windows style "/option=value".
5488 The WinBoard option parsing code has always understood both formats
5489 (including any hybrids), but the format it preferred for writing might
5490 look quite strange to Linux users. I also attached a file to be installed
5491 as /etc/xboard/xboard.conf on "make install".
5493 2009-11-23 19:58:55 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5494 fix window positioning
5496 This patch adds stuff in the header files that allow the various front-end files
5497 to share information on which windows exist, are up, and how they are positioned.
5498 The EngineOutput, MoveHistory and GameList windows now all remember their
5499 position and size, even when they are closed when XBoard exits.
5501 2009-11-23 19:51:19 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5502 same argDescriptor parsing for Xboard and Winbaord
5504 This patch makes XBoard and WinBoard use the same argDescriptor
5505 list of options, and (largely) use the same code for parsing and saving them.
5506 This is acheived by moving this code to a new file args.h, and #including this
5507 in both winboard.c and xboard.c (so that tiny differences, e.g. in default
5508 values in the table, are decided by the context). XBoard has new menu items
5509 "Save Settings Now" and "Save Settings on Exit" in the "Option" menu.
5510 XBoard uses /etc/xboard/xboard.conf as default settings file.
5511 A new option, -saveSettingsFile, can specify where settings should be saved,
5512 without parsing the file. (So that it also works if the file does not yet exist.)
5514 2009-11-22 13:00:31 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5515 new developer release
5517 changed release name to <branch>-<date>
5519 2009-11-22 12:34:13 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5520 fix the irritating wandering off of the MoveHistory window in XBoard on opening/closing.
5523 2009-11-22 12:29:47 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5524 use xtell for talking to handles, but tell for talking into a channel.
5526 by changing the chatboxes to use xtell in stead of tell, we broke
5527 the possibility to use the chat-box for chatting into a channel (which is
5528 apparently not possible with xtell).
5530 2009-11-22 12:15:15 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5531 fix bug in bughouse drop menu
5533 This patch fixes the bughouse drop menu, which was broken by the
5534 new mouse driver, and could no longer drop white Pawns.
5536 2009-11-18 19:29:57 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5537 2nd step for moving option parsing from winboard to the backend
5539 This is the next step in option-setting refactoring: All options that are
5540 defined in XBoard are now included in the WinBoard ArgDescriptor list.
5541 The handling of sound option has been harmonized: the sound names
5542 now all initially go to the appData array, (as in XB) in stead of directly to the
5543 WB-specific variables, and LoadAllSounds now takes care of the copying.
5544 A new routine ExportSounds copies them back before saving settings
5545 (which, in XBoard, could be a no-op).
5547 The definition of defaults for the XB-only options has been moved to common.h.
5549 2009-11-18 19:24:35 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5550 1st step for moving option parsing from winboard to the backend
5552 This is a preparatory step in moving option parsing of WinBoard to the back-end.
5553 The table of command-line options now contains a fifth field, holding the compiled-in default.
5554 This obviates most of the front-end routine InitAppData, which now is replaced by a table-driven
5555 initialization routine SetDefaultsFromList(), which could be back-end.
5557 2009-11-18 12:33:39 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5558 refactoring evalgraph code
5560 This is the refactored EvalGraph code: the back-end part is separated off,
5561 and put in a file evalgraph.c, which in the future can also be used with XBoard.
5562 Only the WinBoard front-end code is left in the file wevalgraph.c. A new
5563 header file defines the variables and routines they share.
5565 2009-11-18 12:29:06 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5568 some file permissions where set up wrong
5569 (e.g. execute permissions for text files)
5571 2009-11-18 11:34:22 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5572 refactoring of engineoutput
5574 This refactoring patch separates the back-end part out of
5575 xengineoutput.c, and puts it in a separate file engineoutput.c.
5576 A new header engineoutput.h included by both defines the routines
5577 for cross calling. Similarly wengineo.c will be stripped from its
5578 back-end code, (and renamed to wengineoutput.c), so WinBoard and
5579 XBoard now both use engineoutput.c rather than maintaining duplicate
5580 code in their front-end part.
5582 I also let the back-end now call EngineOutputUpdate directly, rather then
5583 through a relay in the front-end, by renaming it to SetProgramStats
5584 (the former name of the relay in winboard.c / xboard.c).
5586 Moved some templates of functions in engineoutput.c from winboard.h
5589 2009-11-14 22:13:10 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5590 fixed build on openbsd
5592 added missing header file
5594 2009-11-14 22:06:58 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5595 improve thinking-output for mulit-variant
5597 Improve multi-variant support by sorting the Thinking-Output lines of the most recent depth by score in the Engine-Output window.
5599 2009-11-14 22:05:12 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5600 fix castling rights when copying FEN to clipboard
5602 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.
5604 2009-11-14 22:03:47 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5605 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.
5608 2009-11-06 18:53:19 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5609 fixed prototype for AppendComment
5612 2009-11-06 09:06:44 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5613 cleaned up some debug messages and typos
5616 2009-11-06 09:05:09 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5617 variation-support patch
5619 It allows you to Revert to the main line (or previous variation) when
5620 playing variations on an existing game in EditGame or Analyze mode.
5622 2009-11-06 08:48:09 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5623 fix for new way of saving castling and e.p. information
5625 I forgot to make some conversions to the new-style encoding of castling there
5626 (using the enum constant NoRights instead of -1 to indicate
5627 the absence of rights, which was the price of storing the
5628 rights in the board, which is an unsigned enum type.)
5630 I also was a bit worried about portability, because I casted the enum type ChessSquare
5631 to (int) before comparing it with (possibly negative) constants EP_NONE etc.
5632 Now on my system enum types are (unsigned int), and this works, but I could
5633 imagine there are systems where this would be an unsigned char. (Not sure
5634 if there are rules for this). So to be safe I cast ChessSquare to (signed char),
5635 which should always work to make small negative ints assigned to it read
5638 2009-11-06 08:44:59 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5639 removed files that should only be in the windboard directory
5642 2009-11-05 19:32:35 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5643 add Winboard source files into tar-ball
5645 forgot to add them when rewriting the Makefile.am
5647 2009-11-05 19:23:44 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5648 Integrate castling and e.p. rights into board array; bugfix for EditPosition
5650 A large-scale operation that I have been postponing since the very first 4.4.0:
5651 The castling and e.p. rights are now integrated into the board array, as
5652 boards[moveNr][CASTLING][i] replacing castlingRights[moveNr][i] and
5653 boards[moveNr][EP_STATUS] replacing epStatus[moveNr]
5654 These quantities are now automatically copied with the position by CopyBoards
5655 (allowing the removal of lots of dedicated copying code), and passed as
5656 function arguments with the position (so that the moves.c functions like
5657 TestLegality, MateTest, CoordsToAlgebraic, Disambiguate, GenLegal
5658 no longer need explicit e.p. and castling parameters.
5660 Also fixed a bug introduced by a recent previous fix: by adding fake castling
5661 rights to a position set up through the EditPosition menu, I destroyed the
5662 castling rights of a pasted FEN. Faking castling rights is now made conditional
5663 in EditPositionDone(), depending on the caller. (I had not realized it was also
5664 called after FEN pasting, to send the position to the engine.)
5666 2009-11-05 19:03:17 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5667 added missing library for build on OS X
5669 Xmu seems to be missing
5671 2009-11-04 22:57:30 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5672 Some code refactoring and cleanup; one small bug fix
5674 Some code refactoring, mainly to bring definitions of routines and variables
5675 shared between winboard.c and one of the auxiliary-windows files
5676 whistory.c, wevalgraph.c, wgamelist.c, wengineo.c somewere in a header file
5677 (winboard.h). Unfortunately this made winboard.h dependent on data types
5678 defined in frontend.h, so that the #include order had to be changed in many
5681 The operation revealed one potentially bad bug: engineOutputDialogUp was
5682 written as int in engineo.c, but declared as char in winboard.c.
5684 I also changed the storage mechanism of the the comment and tags window
5685 positions to use WindowPlacement structs rather than simple variables,
5686 so that in the future they can be docked, like the others.
5688 I also removed some remnants of the Analysis window.
5690 The wgamelist.h and wedittags.h header files contained only 3 lines, and
5691 I absorbed them in winboard.h, rather than creating other such nearly empty
5692 headers engineo.h, whistory.h and wevalgraph.h. This affects the make files.
5694 2009-11-03 18:26:06 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5695 let the clocks run in -searchTime mode
5698 2009-11-02 17:41:12 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5699 add fixed time per move to the WinBoard time-control menu dialog
5702 2009-10-31 10:42:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5703 updated version number to unstable
5706 2009-10-31 10:25:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5707 release of version 4.4.1
5710 2009-10-30 19:59:23 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5711 cleaned up ChangeLog and NEWS
5713 2009-10-30 20:02:40 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5714 use xtell instead of tell in wchat
5716 2009-10-28 20:35:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5717 prevent buffer overflow
5719 This is a buffer-size adjustments to prevent the JAWS version from
5720 crashing when it has to read out loud very long comments.
5722 2009-10-28 02:17:16 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
5723 Further copy/paste fixes
5725 We needed to implement the XA_TARGETS target in order for more
5726 sophisticated apps to really believe we put anything on the clipboard
5729 2009-10-27 23:57:25 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
5730 Make copy/paste position and game use clipboard, bug #27810
5732 Copy actually sets both the clipboard and the selection for
5733 convenience and compatibility with the old way of doing things.
5734 Paste pastes from the clipboard by default, but the new -pasteSelection
5735 option lets you get back the old behavior of pasting from the
5738 2009-10-27 15:44:28 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5739 switch focus to the board after loading a game
5741 2009-10-27 15:32:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5742 fix for bug #27826: fixed autoDisplayComment
5744 apparently the -autoDisplayComment option was not working,
5745 not even in WinBoard. This patch should fix it,both for WB and XB.
5746 (Unfortunately xboard.c and winboard.c were using a different name
5747 for the same front-end variable I needed, so I had to change one of them.)
5749 2009-10-27 12:24:56 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5750 fix for bug #27826: ported two options to xboard
5752 also updated the documentation
5754 2009-10-27 12:22:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5757 turns out the new mouse handler broke the JAWS patch, as I discarded
5758 the function IsPromotion. I adapted it to call HasPromotionChoice instead.
5759 Also fixed two arnings by removing a no-longer needed debug print.
5761 2009-10-27 12:03:02 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5762 reformated html to be correctly validated
5764 2009-10-27 10:33:42 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5765 quick fix for "White Mates" in parser.l
5767 2009-10-27 10:32:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5770 2009-10-26 20:45:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5771 changed stderr to debug output, since stderr is closed in winboard
5773 2009-10-26 20:42:24 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5774 removing empty lines from ICS play
5776 this patch causes removal of spurious prompts during ICS play
5777 also if the prompt is preceeded by a number of empty lines
5778 (as the board for the opponent move is on FICS).
5780 2009-10-26 20:40:00 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5781 another bug in VariantSwitch: an unitialized board was printed.
5783 Must have been there a long time, but this time it crashed WinBoard.
5785 2009-10-26 20:38:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5786 more work on variant switch
5788 the previous solution to the cosmetic problem of displaying a wrong shuffle
5789 in an ICS game that was observed from the very start unfortunately turned
5790 out to cause a real error in diplaying a stored game through the smoves
5791 command, for variants not using the FIDE setup as standard.
5793 This patch displays the position from before setting up the start position
5794 of the new variant, but does setup boards[0] to the initial position of that
5795 variant. (If this is a wrong shuffle, it is thus ot displayed, and a new board
5796 will immediately be sent from the ICS to correct the shuffle.)
5798 2009-10-26 20:34:04 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5799 force full redraw in winboard
5801 Full redraw is now always forced when highlightMovesWithArrow is on,
5802 rather than only when highlight info is available. (As in drop moves the
5803 latter is invalid, but we must still erase the arrow from the previous move.)
5805 2009-10-26 20:25:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5806 fix for bug #27790 and #277772. Suppressing the display of a wrong shuffle
5807 when observing shuffle games from the first move (#27790 bis),
5808 and the sounding of the FICS bell on crazyhouse captures (#27772 bis).
5810 2009-10-26 20:22:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5811 fixed bug related to unsigned char in convert.c
5813 I also fixed the unsigned-char bug in the convert.c for bitmaps that caused the
5814 129x129 XBoard bitmaps to be defective, and a bug that required fixup with sed
5815 afterwards (so I could use it to create a new m33s.bm)
5817 2009-10-25 23:37:48 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5818 unguarded debug printf. added the appropiate if statement
5820 2009-10-25 23:31:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5821 fix for two compiler warnings
5823 2009-10-25 23:29:43 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5824 fix for bug #27799: fix for nested-nested-nested variations
5826 2009-10-25 23:21:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5827 The book-probe code forgot to close the book file after opening it.
5829 fixed by adding an fclose at two points.
5831 2009-10-25 23:18:18 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5832 removed unused v54?.bm bitmaps from resource file
5834 it seems the v54?.bmp bitmaps were actually included in the WinBoard build
5835 (in the resource file), although they were never actually used. So I have
5836 removed their inclusion in the resource file now.
5838 2009-10-25 23:05:30 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5839 replaced defective bitmaps with copies from 4.2.7
5841 2009-10-25 23:02:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5842 removed bitmaps files that are not needed any more
5844 2009-10-25 22:58:34 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5847 2009-10-24 09:41:39 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
5848 Drop an obsolete script that was only used to update my personal web site
5850 2009-10-24 01:23:29 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
5851 Silence warnings when compiling 64-bit xboard
5853 Some harmless warnings were caused by 64-bit mode having 32-bit
5854 int but 64-bit long and pointer. Add casts (etc.) to silence them.
5855 This might require adding a definition of intptr_t (a signed int
5856 type that is the same width as a pointer) on old systems that don't
5859 2009-10-24 00:56:37 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
5860 Fix up man page some more
5862 Sigh, the project history was still partly in reverse chronological
5863 order and partly in forward order. Swapped the order of some
5864 sentences to help straighten it out. I don't really care about this,
5865 so other project members should feel free to do what they like here,
5866 but the messed-up order was bugging me.
5868 2009-10-24 00:46:20 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
5869 Fix some issues in the XBoard man page
5871 Correct places where the XBoard man page was calling XBoard
5872 "WinBoard". Change references to "WinBoard engines" and "WinBoard
5873 protocol" to "XBoard/WinBoard ...". Update bug reporting guidelines.
5874 Reorganize project history to something more like chronological order
5875 -- it had gotten pretty randomly ordered.
5877 2009-10-22 21:45:32 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5878 new pre-release version; updated version numbers
5880 2009-10-22 21:33:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5881 This patch adds <Enter> to the characters that cause an automatic
5882 switch to the ICS console when typed to the board window.
5884 2009-10-22 21:31:16 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5885 fix to the minor graphics issue contained some typos,
5886 as was remarked in the bugs reports
5888 2009-10-22 21:30:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5889 improved mouse handler
5891 The improved mouse handler still needed an extra call to DrawPosition to
5894 2009-10-22 21:28:38 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5895 NPS plays and pondering
5897 Clock updating did not work correctly in node-based time controls when the
5898 engine was pondering. (It was not really meant for use with pondering. Oh well...)
5899 This patch checks if the engine reporting the node count is indeed thinking
5900 (as opposed to pondering).
5902 2009-10-22 21:25:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5903 holdings update and regression fix
5905 The holdings-update patch was not yet satisfactory, because FICS seems to send
5906 holdings both before and after the board! And those received before did overwrite
5907 the holdings received after the previous board. I know tried to fix that in a kludgey
5908 way, by hiding a flag in the board that tells if the holdings have already been written
5909 by the ICS or not, and ignore new holdings when they are. (Except in bughouse,
5910 where holdings updates cannot be tied to a particular board and multiple updates
5911 between boards are normal. (I hope?).)
5913 I also undid a regression in my previous fix for the minor graphics problem,
5914 and solved it in a slightly different way to prevent flicker.
5916 2009-10-22 21:23:39 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5917 improved mouse handler
5919 I improved the mouse handler in a way which will preclude disappearence of pieces
5920 on off-board or ambiguous (in-between squares) drag & drop moves. (As was reported
5921 in the "premove bug?" thread. Also the command-line premove problem reported there
5922 is now fixed, by removing the prefixing.
5924 2009-10-22 21:18:05 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5925 fix for bug #8847: moving backward while examining on FICS not reported to engine
5927 I moved Daniel's code that backs up the engine when a bord with a
5928 lower number is received to a place where it is always done in zippy mode,
5929 rather than only when the engine is analyzing.
5931 Apart from taking back moves, there was also the case where the
5932 user moves forward by more than one move (usually immediately to
5933 end-of-game). In this case a new movelist is fetched from the ICS
5934 to recover the moves that were skipped. But this assumes that the
5935 engine is at the start of the game and feeds all these moves to the
5936 engine. So the engine had to be reset in this case to stay in sync.
5938 2009-10-22 21:16:56 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5939 better init for random number generator
5941 2009-10-21 23:01:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5942 fix for bug #27772: holdings not updated
5944 holdings lines from the ICS nor update the holdings
5945 of boards[forwardMostMove] in stead of boards[currentMove].
5947 2009-10-21 21:32:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5948 allowe parsing / disambiguation of SAN moves like Xe4 in certain situations
5950 This patch allows parsing / disambiguation of SAN moves like Xe4, if there
5951 is only one wild-card piece X on the board. Moves with wild-card pieces
5952 are now considered illegal if they leave the King in check by a piece of
5955 2009-10-20 19:09:46 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5956 fixed bug when switching to variantsuper
5958 2009-10-20 19:06:43 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5959 fix for bug #27715: 2 (minor) graphic issues
5961 I forced a total redraw when Reset is called from the ICS code in case a
5962 new game is encountered, in the hope it will make the reported
5963 (irreproducible) problem go away. As game switches are not frequent, I
5964 guess there is hardly any downside to this.
5966 2009-10-20 18:57:17 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5967 fix for bug #27667: PV line missing in analysis window, part 3
5969 "3. Wish for Engine state string (right to the icon):
5970 Can you add the actual search depth in analyzing mode? A change like "
5972 I also added the requested display of depth of the analysis move in the
5973 EngineOutput window. I guess a similar change could be made to wengineo.c
5974 (as this is in the code they share in common), but no one ever requested
5975 that in the 5 years since Alessandro wrote it. So for now I leave it alone.
5977 2009-10-20 18:52:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5978 fix for bug #27760: debug printf in backend.c and additional check for variant
5980 2009-10-19 23:17:46 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5981 fix for bug #10990: cmail does not seem to support .cmailgames or .cmailaliases
5983 this is correct, deleted the text out of the documentation that claims we support it
5985 2009-10-19 18:40:40 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5986 new alpha version; first one with new naming scheme
5988 2009-10-19 18:07:21 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5989 smarter analysis of the boards that XBoard receives from an ICS
5991 I added smarter analysis of the boards that XBoard receves from an ICS,
5992 based on board size and piece types in the position, to recognize cases
5993 where the board does not match the current variant, and switch to an
5994 appropriate variant.
5996 2009-10-19 18:04:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5997 fix for bug #27667: window should be reference to toplevel
5999 The remaining objections of #27667 should be fixed by bringing the
6000 EngineOutput window under control of the TOPLEVEL compile-time switch.
6002 2009-10-19 18:02:42 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6003 partly fix for bug #27715: scaling of menu bar
6005 the menu bar to the left edge of the window.
6007 2009-10-19 17:59:43 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6008 fixed bug reported in WB forum: second game of a match would
6009 not start when using the GUI book
6011 2009-10-19 17:57:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6012 fix for bug #27751: negative holding counts displayed
6014 I put code in the back-end to prevent holdings counts from
6015 becoming negative when a drop move is made from empty holdings.
6016 (This can happen when re-loading ICS bughouse games,
6017 as the smoves command fails to fill the holdings.)
6019 2009-10-18 20:54:53 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6020 Updated compiling instructions.
6022 2009-10-18 11:32:55 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6023 Changes to allow fonts with any charset (such as terminal)
6025 Affects winboard only.
6027 2009-10-16 23:02:41 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6028 Moved SIGWINCH signal so it can be used...
6030 I goofed putting this in StartChildProcess() originally.
6032 2009-10-16 22:54:12 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6033 Added internal wrapping ability.
6036 -wrapContinuationSequence "foo" (default: "\\ "
6037 -useInternalWrap (Winboard default: false, XBoard default: true)
6039 Note: -keepLineBreaksICS if set, prevents wrapping, usurping the
6040 useInternalWrap setting. The idea is if you want to keep ICS line
6041 breaks, then you don't want internal wrapping. Because of this,
6042 the new default for keepLineBreaksICS is now false for XBoard.
6044 2009-10-16 19:14:34 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6045 fixed segfaul in convert.c used to convert pixmaps
6047 2009-10-15 19:46:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6048 new mousehandler to correct for premove and promotion popup
6050 this is the new mouse handler for XBoard, which should fully implement
6051 premove, including promotion popup, and yet suppress the promotion popup
6052 on illegal moves that are not premoves. It is almost completely moved to
6053 the back-end now, so that WinBoard will be able to use it as well. I just
6054 must hook it up to winboard.c, in particular harmonize the call-backs of
6055 the mouse driver into the front-end for grabbing and releasing pieces for
6056 dragging, to make sure they have the same names and arguments.
6058 2009-10-15 19:32:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6059 updated black fairy pieces
6061 here is a set of black fairy pieces with opaque white details,
6062 so they have the same style as the orthodox XBoard pieces.
6064 2009-10-15 16:54:51 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6065 Adjustment to joining to work around server not always including space.
6067 This patch implements commit 98aa02bda540f17f1f50be00e494efafe439b004
6068 into the updated joining routine. This issue seems not to be server
6069 variance, but instead the server electing to omit the space between
6070 words when it occurs at exactly your width setting (-1 actually).
6072 This patch makes the joiner add back the space just like the referenced
6073 commit. Note: this is just a workaround to a server issue-- the joiner
6074 actually joins correctly before this patch.
6076 2009-10-15 07:18:42 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6077 Fixed joiner detection, allowing it to work with timeseal
6079 When timeseal's buffer fills in the middle of the continuation
6080 sequence, detection fails, and the lines aren't joined.
6082 As a result of this fix, measures intended to bypass joining are
6083 no longer needed, so I removed them. These utilize server vars
6084 when available to prevent splitting.
6086 2009-10-14 14:42:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6087 fixed engingeoutput routine
6089 removed outdated code regarding analysis window
6091 2009-10-14 14:39:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6092 moved bitmap to correct location
6094 was misplaced in a previous commit
6096 2009-10-14 14:26:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6097 fixed wrong number of arguments for EngineOutputPopUp
6099 2009-10-13 21:00:27 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6100 new bitmap converter (including fill option) and new pixmaps
6102 2009-10-13 20:52:40 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6103 forgot to add these two lines to the last commit
6105 2009-10-13 20:51:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6106 removed AnalysisPopUp. Use EngineOutputPopUp instead
6108 this was already in Winboard, copied it to xboard and removed unused code.
6110 2009-10-13 20:32:32 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6111 Proper board and holdings size when switching to variants
6112 gothic, capablanca, great and super within an ICS game.
6114 2009-10-13 20:25:13 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6115 cleaned up an old #ifdef in zippy
6117 2009-10-12 19:25:17 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6118 neglected this for the auto-width updating in xboard
6120 2009-10-12 19:19:59 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6121 Added server width adjustment based on client width changes
6123 2009-10-12 19:14:53 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6124 silence some compiler warnings
6126 2009-10-11 18:39:24 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6127 Maintainence to support all compilers.
6129 2009-10-11 17:07:27 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6130 Adjusted alternative joining method to obey keepLineBreaksICS
6132 2009-10-11 14:48:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6133 fix for bug #27668: e.p. field still not passed to engine
6135 PositionToFEN now takes the e.p. rights from epStatus[moveNr],
6136 rather than calculating it on the spot from moveList[moveNr-1]
6137 (which failed on the first move).
6139 2009-10-11 14:46:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6140 fix for bug #27666: naming of variants
6142 Variant names "misc/xxx" are recognized as "normal", rather than "xxx"
6143 to not get confused by the board "misc shogi" run by FICS.
6145 2009-10-11 10:14:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6146 changed enable menus
6148 Put the "Open Chat Window", "Machine Both", and "Engine #N Settings" menu items
6149 in the appropriate enable lists for graying them out wen not applicable.
6151 2009-10-11 10:13:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6152 Added a command-line option -keepLineBreaksICS true/false to control line joining.
6154 2009-10-10 19:30:23 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6155 Added code to prevent unnecessary width updates.
6157 2009-10-10 18:34:37 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6158 Turned off wrap when possible on ICS servers.
6160 Turning off line wrap prevents splitting lines up using the
6161 continuation sequence "\\ ". This is desirable when using
6162 timeseal because timeseal's buffer is sometimes too small,
6163 causing it to break lines itself. These lines can't be joined.
6165 2009-10-10 16:30:56 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6166 vsnprintf() must be _vsnprintf() for MSVC
6168 2009-10-10 16:16:45 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6169 added code to handle initial width update
6171 2009-10-10 14:21:12 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6172 Added width updates to ICS client on font and window size changes
6174 What still needs to be done is placing an update call after login
6175 to initialize with the correct width. I didn't see where to put
6178 2009-10-10 14:19:30 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6179 added ics_printf() and ics_update_width() and utility functions
6181 2009-10-10 11:15:50 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6182 Cleaned up ConsoleWndProc (not complete, see below)
6184 Using static variables this way is not appropriate. I only addressed
6185 hInput and hText in this commit though. But imagine the WndProc being
6186 used by multiple windows instead of just one, and you can see why
6187 using static variables in this way is wrong.
6189 2009-10-10 11:12:10 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6190 Restructured URL code so it fits better with how winboard is set up.
6192 2009-10-10 08:57:39 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6193 cleanup: removed "#if 1" statements
6195 2009-10-10 08:55:21 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6196 cleanup: removed "#if 0" from source
6198 a bit of cleanup of the source code
6200 2009-10-10 08:34:10 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6201 fix joining of lines split by ICS
6203 This patch fixes the joining of lines that were split by an ICS, so that adding
6204 a space at the break point is done only when there was not a space already.
6205 (Some ICS leave a space at the end of the broken line, others do not.)
6206 An extra space would interefere with board12 in Gothic Chess, which is so
6207 long that the ICS breaks it, and the WB parser could not handle a double
6208 space within the board.
6210 2009-10-10 08:27:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6211 fix for bug #27642: Clock jumps strangely in engine mode
6213 This moves SwitchClocks() back to after incrementing forwardMostMove,
6214 so that it knows again who has the move (which was broken by the "bare" patch),
6215 and will take the appropriate tick length.
6217 2009-10-10 08:26:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6218 removed test for premove
6220 this was added while looking for the premove bug, but is not needed
6222 2009-10-10 02:03:45 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6223 added URL detection and provided hotlinks in the ICS client
6225 2009-10-10 02:00:52 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6226 reverted winboard.c beofre URL commit to correct whitespace conversion
6228 2009-10-09 02:14:22 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6229 Added URL detection into the console text window for ICS.
6231 2009-10-08 23:51:06 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6232 added some comments and formated code
6234 2009-10-08 23:46:52 -0700 Chris Rorvick <>:
6235 fix printing out help message (list of command line options) (tiny change)
6237 The postfix increment always resulted in an attempt to print out an
6238 option on the right side regardless of one actually existing. Use
6239 prefix increment to prevent a crash when printing an odd number of
6242 2009-10-09 00:04:51 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6243 Updated navigation accelerators, fixing ICS problems.
6245 Recent changes to the navigation accelerators were in the wrong
6246 accelerator table. Since the goal was to correct non-JAWS versions
6247 back to 4.2.7 behavior, I updated it to how 4.2.7 did it, but still
6248 retained the #ifdef JAWS conditional compilation.
6250 On an ICS, the navigation keys took control away from the ics
6251 client to navigate the game. The update requires the ALT key to
6252 be pressed, but it works identical to 4.2.7, not causing an
6253 unexpected focus back to the board window when you're just editing
6256 2009-10-08 20:33:39 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6257 fixed premove recapture problem;promotion popup appearing on
6258 obviously illegal moves; promotions in Superchess and Great Shatranj
6260 1) the premove recapture problem
6261 2) the promotion popup appearing on obviously illegal moves (the 1. e2a8
6263 3) promotions in Superchess and Great Shatranj, where the piece can now be
6264 selected from the holdings
6266 2009-10-08 20:28:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6267 added forceIllegalMove to xboard
6269 2009-10-05 21:01:32 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6270 bugfix: segfault when invalid option argument was given (bug #27427)
6272 when given a wrong argument to an option (e.g. -tc 0) xboard aborts
6273 before setting up the window, but tried to write a message to the
6274 messageWidget which doesn't exist at that point.
6276 2009-10-05 20:05:00 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6277 small improvement for JAWS version
6279 This is a patch to make JAWS read out any comments when /autoDiplaycomment=true.
6280 As focus does not stay on the Comment window, the comment was not spoken otherwise.
6282 2009-10-05 20:02:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6283 updated to winboard internationalization scripts
6285 Also a slight improvement of the internationalization scripting,
6286 to prevent it from crashing on messages containing a slash.
6288 2009-10-05 20:01:53 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6289 new forceIllegalMoves option
6291 The -forceIllegalMoves option uses setboard or edit to force a position
6292 when an engine refuses the move leading to it by an "Illegal Move" message.
6293 Especially for engines using the edit command this was a bit tricky,
6294 because of the a2a3 kludge to avoid using the white and black commands.
6296 2009-10-05 01:01:54 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6297 removed _winmajor if not defined so that VC 2008 can compile the project
6299 The oldDialog variable should just be set to 0 in all cases now, and
6300 as such, legacy code supporting the old dialog ought to be removed.
6301 The test for _winmajor is against < 4, which is always false at present,
6302 causing oldDialog to be 0 in every conceviable circumstance.
6304 2009-10-04 09:58:29 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6305 getting ready for 4.4.1 release
6307 2009-10-02 20:47:01 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6308 Simplified future version changes.
6310 Added a numeric version to config.h that is now used in winboard.rc
6311 instead of being hard-coded there. Just be sure to preserve the
6312 proper format (4 comma-separated 16 bit integers) or else it won't
6315 2009-10-02 16:56:01 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6316 updated version number to 4.4.1.pre
6318 should have done this straight after the last release, but forgot...
6320 2009-10-02 16:48:03 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6321 worked on premove bug
6323 I made an attempt to make premove unsensitive to a race condition,
6324 just in case the premove problem was caused by that (which seems unlikely,
6325 but in any case I added some debug printout to test this).
6327 2009-10-02 16:41:12 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6328 fixed loading of saved games via command line
6330 the variables forwardMostMove and backwardMostMove where set to zero
6333 2009-10-02 16:39:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6334 small fixes for the JAWS version
6336 * I moved saying 'check' by the JAWS version to where castling also benefits from it.
6337 * I made sure the check symbols are also recognized on promotion moves
6338 * In the non-JAWS version, define the plain arrows as shortcut keys for the button bar
6340 2009-10-01 16:50:28 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6341 Fixed bug dereferencing garbage, causing crash.
6343 Commit fa8be4a3fc5d81e9ec1f6c218fcf55c95d34fd10 included code to free the
6344 resultDetails of the gameInfo structure. That exact code exists a few lines
6345 above where it was added. None of these free() calls finish by setting the
6346 member to NULL afterword, therefore repeated attempts to test/free() the
6347 members result in an attempt to free() memory winboard no longer owns, and
6350 link to problematic commit: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/xboard.git/commit/?id=fa8be4a3fc5d81e9ec1f6c218fcf55c95d34fd10
6352 2009-10-01 16:49:57 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6353 Added wchat.c to the project files we maintain.
6355 2009-10-01 15:52:50 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6356 Previous fix for VC++/strcasecmp() was wrong-- use StrCaseCmp().
6358 2009-10-01 14:49:58 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6359 Add resource ID for new Mute menu item.
6361 I know this was probably done by HG, and simply left out of
6362 his commit. Anyway, the project can be built now after this change.
6364 2009-10-01 14:49:09 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6365 Use of strcasecmp() broke Visual C++.
6367 2009-09-30 20:47:00 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6368 wrong default value for engineDebugOutput
6370 the new default is now 1
6372 2009-09-29 22:55:41 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6373 updated cmail.in to adapt the CVS->git change
6375 don't reference $Revision:$ anymore.
6376 Instead use reference xboard-version via autoconf.
6378 2009-09-29 22:04:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6379 bugfix for protocol extensions: egtbpath -> egtpath
6381 A new and very bad bug was discovered in the implementation of
6382 the protocol extensions: XBoard sends a command "egtbpath" to the
6383 engine in stead of "egtpath" from the protocol specs.
6384 After discussion on WB forum it was decided that egtpath was better
6385 than the egtbpath I originally had proposed, and I changed it accordingly,
6386 but I had not realized that this string occurred TWICE in backend.c,
6387 depending on if matched the -defaultPathEGTB of -egtFormats option.
6388 I only changed the first occurence.
6390 2009-09-27 12:27:44 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6391 fix for edit-position "moves" being sent by XBoard to the engine
6393 2009-09-27 12:25:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6394 Engine did not start playing when out of GUI book on second move with white
6396 2009-09-27 12:24:30 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6397 Opening Engine #1 Settings crashed XBoard when there were no
6398 text-edit options in the dialog (to which to set keyboard focus)
6401 2009-09-27 12:18:35 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6402 added a "Mute All Sounds" item in the WinBoard Options menu, on Eric's request
6404 2009-09-27 12:15:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6405 Updated the RTF docs for the chat windows, engine-settings dialog,
6406 /keepAlive option and new game-list tag
6408 2009-09-27 12:14:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6409 Made the beep sounds for JAWS board navigation configurable through
6410 command-line options
6412 2009-09-27 12:11:49 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6413 Prepared a system to internationalize the WinBoard menus
6415 2009-09-27 12:10:38 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6416 added the result comment to the game-list tags when the game list is
6417 exported to the clipboard
6419 2009-09-27 12:05:32 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6420 rewrote wevalgraph for better frontend/backend separation
6422 I have finished re-writing the eval-graph code to have some
6423 front-end / backe-end separation, something I had already started on my
6424 holiday in Norway (when I had no internet :-) ).
6425 The new code now appears to work exactly like the old code,
6426 and I guess it could be ported to gtk comparatively easily.
6428 2009-09-27 12:00:51 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6429 fix for keepalive and chat window
6431 I made a fix to the keepAlive option so it does not send the date command
6432 to the ICS after every move. This required changing ScheduleDelayedEvent()
6433 so that it does not execute the event if a new identical one gets scheduled.
6434 I also added the option to XBoard. Affects xboard.c (DOS!) and winboard.c
6436 (This also cures the regression of the winboard.c copyright patch)
6438 I extended the chatbox patch to also listen to channel tells, and divert
6439 them to a chatbox for that channel number. Affects
6440 backend.c and wchat.c
6442 That should make those patches fully operational. No docs for either of them
6445 2009-09-27 10:36:23 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6446 fixed parse bug for pgn files
6448 fixed the existing bug that the time-control tag was displayed as "?"
6449 in the game list; turns out it was never parsed on reading PGN files
6451 2009-09-27 10:35:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6452 allow the result comment as a display item in the game list
6454 2009-09-27 10:35:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6455 fixed the HAVE_LIBXPM-dependent compile errors
6457 2009-09-27 10:24:47 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6458 added a chat window to keep track of multiple conversations
6460 The chat-window patch affects:
6461 winboard.c, backend.c, winboard.rc, resource.h, backend.h, and adds
6462 the file winboard/wchat.c, which also affects makefile.gcc and makefile.ms.
6464 In addition I added a new option -keepAlive, which affects
6465 common.h (in addition to winboard.c and backend.c).
6467 As I had to modify backend.h, I also defined the -reset option type there,
6468 which we are going to add later. This required some changes
6469 to suppress warnings in wsettings.c.
6471 2009-09-27 10:22:16 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6472 more files for git to ignore
6474 most of these are generated by make distcheck
6476 2009-09-08 09:33:53 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6477 another bug fix found by Stanislav Brabec
6479 returned -1 in some case although the variable was a char...
6480 changed to signed char
6482 2009-09-20 23:13:13 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6483 Swapped 'tell' and 'message' parsing order for colorization.
6484 Sometimes messages are relayed as tells and should be colorized as tells.
6486 2009-09-08 09:10:34 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6487 added some more files to be distributed via make dist
6489 as suggested by Stanislav Brabec
6491 2009-09-08 09:01:07 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6492 fixed some implicit declarations reported by Stanislav Brabec
6494 2009-09-07 22:04:39 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6495 fixed a few more small bugs reported by Stanislav Brabec
6497 - A function uses a 'return;' statement, but has actually a value to
6498 return, like an integer ('return 42;') or similar: xboard voidreturn
6499 xengineoutput.c:766, 782
6501 - Program returns random data in a function at xengineoutput.c:602
6503 - With a new toolchain, AM_LDFLAGS cannot contain libraries. Linker
6504 ignores them. Fix is attached.
6506 - ToDo: Convenient name in most projects is TODO (autotools package it
6509 2009-09-06 19:11:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6510 reverted .texi file and fixed Makefile.am
6512 the problem was actually not in the texi-file, but the Makefile.am.
6513 Reverted changes in the .texi and fixed it (hopefully) correctly now.
6515 2009-09-06 18:23:01 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6516 get "make distcheck" to work
6518 needed to add all *.h files to Makefile.am and also the bitmaps that
6519 are needed and some other files. Also had modified copyright.texi.
6521 2009-09-05 09:54:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6522 changed to version 4.4.0
6524 2009-09-05 09:44:21 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6525 updated AUTHORS, README and ChangeLog files for release
6527 2009-09-05 08:52:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6530 2009-09-04 22:39:45 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6531 set castling rights after setting up a position
6533 I was going through old WB forum posts, and I encountered a
6534 bug report for a bug that I never fixed: The castling rights should
6535 be properly set (actually: cleared) after setting up a position
6536 in Edit Position mode (as opposed to pasting a FEN).
6538 2009-09-03 23:11:18 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6539 removed install files from master
6541 they now live in their own branch
6543 2009-09-03 22:30:18 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6544 updated polyglot protocol
6546 I added a new option type "-reset" to the protocol for the new option feature.
6547 4.4.0 does not implement it yet, but Michel wants it for future Polyglots,
6548 and I think it is best to update the protocol in one big swoop.
6549 So I want to already include it in the specs now. (engine-intf.html)
6550 I made xboard's response to an unknown option type compliant
6551 with the new protocol specs.
6553 2009-09-03 22:28:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6556 2009-09-03 20:47:13 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6557 Updated project files for DevCpp and Visual Studio to add wsettings.c
6559 2009-09-03 20:46:33 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6560 Added newline at end of file to silence warning.
6562 2009-08-31 20:29:49 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6563 workaround for error message for missing pieces used in variants
6564 and initstring bugfix: error messages showed for non-existing pieces
6565 showed up for old user supplied pixmaps.
6566 Loading a pixmap of the king for the missing pieces now.
6568 Another bad bug surfaced: the -initString argument does not work in any
6569 XBoard version! (Including 4.2.7b) The escape sequences for linefeed in
6570 the string are not understood: -initString "new\nrandom\n" actually sends
6571 the \ and n to the engine (which then does not recognize the line as a
6574 So I also added a patch to expand escape sequences in the InitString and
6575 ComputerString command-line options.
6577 2009-08-31 20:27:24 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6578 updated installe script
6580 I re-organized the doc files in the install, so they now all go in the
6581 WinBoard\doc folder (and none in the root). I so included the COPYING
6582 and COPYRIGHT files there. This required some updates of the links in
6583 some html files, and of the menu link to README.html in the install script.
6584 I also fixed an error with the current directory
6585 in the menu short-cuts of some engines (which started in the fonts folder,
6586 and could not find the opening book there...).
6588 2009-08-31 20:25:17 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6589 updated documentation
6591 2009-08-31 20:20:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6592 updated installer script
6594 2009-08-31 19:51:48 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6595 new help files for windows
6597 2009-08-25 20:41:29 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6600 2009-08-25 20:36:53 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6601 undid some previous changes
6603 some files got mixed up
6605 2009-08-25 20:32:22 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6606 fixed small bug in wsetting
6608 2009-08-25 20:29:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6609 trigger a focus switch to ICS input field when typing
6611 old behavior was that "." or "," triggered this,
6612 now every printable character except 1-9 will trigger the focus switch
6614 2009-08-25 20:26:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6615 bug in backend.c when receiving lines from ICS
6617 A space was appended to every character received from an ICS
6618 in stead of just at line breaks.
6620 2009-08-24 23:47:48 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6621 fixed warning messages from compiler
6623 2009-08-23 14:24:38 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6626 this seems to fix it. Bug reported by Louis Zulli who also did the testing.
6628 2009-08-23 11:54:28 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6629 OK, this is the beefed up version of the Polyglot info-string kludge,
6632 2009-08-23 10:22:48 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6633 added missing X_LIBS references to Makefile.am
6635 2009-08-22 23:33:44 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6636 made the install script and executable
6638 2009-08-22 23:19:07 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6639 changed beta1 to beta2
6641 2009-08-22 23:14:11 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6642 fixed enable zippy in configure script and added some checks for OS X
6644 make tried to compile zippy even when --disable-zippy was given.
6645 Also fixed a bug in xboard.c where #ifdef instead of #if was used
6646 to test for ZIPPY (it's either 0 or 1, so we need #if). Also added
6647 some special checks for OS X, not sure if these will do it, but it's a start;)
6649 2009-08-22 19:09:54 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6650 added configure summary to configure output, also cleaned up configure.ac a bit
6652 used AS_HELP_STRING where possible
6654 2009-08-22 18:10:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6655 added check for malloc.h
6657 this should fix a build error on OS X
6659 2009-08-22 17:47:44 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6660 A small cosmetic change in the size of buttons
6661 inside a groupbox of the Engine-Setup dialog.
6663 2009-08-22 17:32:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6664 make xboard usable with UCI engines
6666 I made a small patch in xoptions.c (where the corresponding Engine Settings
6667 dialog was for XBoard), to make it at least usable for UCI engines: I now
6668 divide the options over upto 4 columns, if there are too many to fit into
6669 a single column. This seems to work. Still looks very ugly, but it is
6672 2009-08-22 17:30:05 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6673 fix premove for winboard
6675 This might fix the illusive premove problem. In 4.2.7 the code was not properly
6676 indented, and this led to an unbalanced braces error that I then fixed the
6677 wrong way. Click-click premoves did only work after clicking the toSquare twice.
6678 It might be that they actually did work after clicking it once,
6679 but that the highlights were not displayed (although set)
6680 for lack of a display refresh.
6682 2009-08-22 17:28:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6683 fixed bug for double saved games
6685 This patch should solve the problem with doubly saved games when XBoard is
6686 closed. I calculate a cecksum of each saved game now (including move comments),
6687 and suppress saving if the checksum is not changed.
6689 2009-08-22 17:25:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6690 fixed xengineoutput.c, to keep the duplicated code identical to that of wengineo.c.
6692 2009-08-22 17:24:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6693 updated xboard.texi: added warning that pixmaps are not build for all variants
6695 2009-08-22 17:19:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6696 added a dialog for engine-specific option settings
6698 2009-08-22 17:09:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6699 updated some documentation
6701 2009-08-22 17:07:10 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6702 fixed several bugs in the backend and added some more polyglot support
6704 * I added recognition for the new UCI3 option types that are recognized in the WB
6705 option features, to make sure this version is compatible with future Polyglots.
6706 Also fixed a bug that failed to strip an asterisk prefix from the first
6709 * I fixed the ICS-time-in-PGN bug.
6711 * I fixed a bug which caused a space to be missing when long lines broken up by
6714 2009-08-22 17:02:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6715 better polyglot support for engine ouput
6717 I fixed the algorithm for clearing the Engine Output window to work better with
6718 the latest Polyglot, whight outputs UCI "info strings" amongst the thinking
6721 2009-08-22 16:23:32 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6722 Beginnings of installer for 4.4.0. HGM asked me to forward the nsi file,
6723 but it seemed best to just add the installer tree to git even though
6724 it's not finished. You must install NSIS then FontName-0.7.exe
6725 (included in installer folder) then run build.bat in the same directory.
6727 2009-08-05 22:18:29 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6728 patch backend.c to make the -noGUI option also work in ICS mode.
6730 2009-08-01 13:09:49 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6731 temporary fix for pre-select
6733 As a temporary kludge I replaced looking into the holdings for the piece type
6734 by figuring out which piece would belong on the clicked holdings square.
6735 This is a non-trivial process, as it depends on which pieces participate
6736 in a certain variant.
6738 2009-07-30 00:19:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6739 changed click-click moves
6741 I got complaints about the way XBoard 4.4.0 handles click-click moves,
6742 in particular changing the selected piece after selecting King
6743 (for which I suppressed interference with FRC castling in a rather brutal way).
6744 People tell me it is very annoying that clicks sometimes don't work to select a piece.
6745 WinBoard uses refined logic in the back-end to handle this, but the XBoard
6746 front-end is not interfaced with that yet.
6747 (This would require a major rewrite of the mouse handler.)
6748 This temporary patch suppresses this behavior in all variants that do not support
6749 Fischer castling, and even there only exhibit it for Rook-after-King selection
6750 (which will be interpreted as an attempt to enter a castling move as K x own R).
6752 2009-07-26 08:43:35 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6753 option -adjudicateDrawMoves is not included in the XBoard list.
6755 added it to the option list
6757 2009-07-21 20:23:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6758 converted files from dos to unix format
6760 run dos2unix over a bunch of files
6762 2009-07-16 07:43:38 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6763 Stripped out unused VersionInfo
6765 2009-07-15 23:16:19 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6766 changed version to 4.4.0.beta1
6768 2009-07-15 23:12:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6769 updated INSTALL file to add ./autogen.sh
6771 2009-07-15 22:44:05 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6772 higher number of engine options possible now
6774 I upped the number of options per engine from
6775 50 to 100, and the average number of characters per option from 10 to 20.
6777 2009-07-15 12:30:37 -0600 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6780 2009-07-14 23:41:36 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6781 Added version information to resources.
6783 2009-07-14 23:40:50 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6784 Added Jaws targets to IDE projects.
6786 2009-07-14 23:39:12 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6787 Final makefile adjustments and compiling instructions.
6789 2009-07-13 22:35:17 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6790 Cleaned up garbage left behind from my makefile update.
6792 2009-07-13 22:26:56 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6793 Updated cmdline makefiles to be able to produce JAWS binaries.
6795 This breaks support for MSVC 4.x. It may still be possible to
6796 use that compiler if you obtain the latest SDK from Microsoft.
6797 MSVC 6.0 still works, but I had to change the target windows
6798 version to 0x500 which causes warnings about building beta
6799 applications. This is all due to the use of MENUBARINFO data
6800 type in the jaws binary. You can reduce the WINVER to 0x0400
6801 safely if you are not building a JAWS binary, and MSVC 4.x
6804 2009-07-13 22:26:10 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6805 Removed dependency on jfwapi.h
6807 Allows anyone to compile a jaws compatible binary.
6809 2009-07-13 22:23:31 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6810 Fixed duplicate resource in winboard.rc
6812 PLEASE remember to pull before commiting. This is the 2nd
6813 time I've fixed this. It's a waste of time to keep fixing
6816 2009-07-13 19:36:58 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6817 resolved conflict between Xt and Xaw libraries
6819 seems like we don't need to link against Xt.
6821 2009-07-13 19:33:57 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6822 help-menu was not un-grayed in the JAWS version, when it played with engines
6824 2009-07-13 19:29:53 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6825 integrated jaws into winboard
6827 I integrated the JAWS patch now into WinBoard in such a way that the
6828 JAWS and standard version can use the same resource file. This new
6829 winboard.c contains the improved dialog layot of the JAWS version,
6830 but none of the menus and JAWS-specific acclerator keys. The latter
6831 are now generated at run time by code in jaw.s. As a result jaws.h
6832 could be cancelled, as there the JAWS-specific defines are no
6833 longer needed outside jaws.c (now the .rc does not use them), and
6834 is incorporated in it.
6836 2009-07-12 15:37:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6837 fixed problem in autoconf using Xaw3d
6839 rewrote the section for Xaw3d in the autoconf file
6841 2009-07-12 15:29:28 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6842 Added Jaws support to GCC makefile
6844 2009-07-12 15:28:20 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6845 added help support: MSVC IDE and DevCpp IDE project files
6847 2009-07-12 15:26:49 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
6848 Removed obsolete makefiles and support files.
6850 2009-07-12 12:33:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6851 updated AUTHORS with the help of git. use
6853 git log --pretty=oneline --name-only --author=AUTHORNAME v4.2.7..HEAD |sort |uniq
6855 a bit of hand editing and a quick emacs macro later and you have a nice
6856 comma seperated list of all files changes by one author between two commits.
6858 2009-07-12 12:31:47 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6859 updated Changelog using git log --no-merges --pretty="* %ai: %s%n %b" HEAD v4.2.7
6861 2009-07-12 11:34:28 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6862 cleaned up some more copyright notices
6864 2009-07-12 11:22:30 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6865 updated copyright to reflect A. Scotte as copyright holder
6867 need to mention him, since the paperwork won't be finished before the next release
6869 2009-07-12 10:56:29 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6870 updated patchlevel to "k"
6872 2009-07-12 10:53:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6873 fixed autoconf problem with VERSION/PATCHLEVEL variables
6875 xboard used it's own version of PRODUCT, VERSION and PATCHLEVEL variables.
6876 Switched to PACKAGE_STRING provided by autoconf
6878 2009-07-12 10:29:46 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6879 cleaned up old CVS left overs
6881 removed $Id tags from all files
6883 2009-07-12 10:10:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6884 converted xhistory via dos2unix
6886 2009-07-12 10:09:24 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6887 fixed crash in history window
6889 someone discovered that opening the move-history window in XBoard leads to
6890 an immediate crash. Turns out that renaming the menu item broke it! (The
6891 name of the item was apprently used elsewhere in the code to access it,
6892 for putting a check mark there.)
6894 2009-07-12 10:04:30 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6895 fix for Animation of castling moves in Chess960
6897 Animation of castling moves in Chess960 turned out to sometimes make the
6898 king disappear from the display. For the time being I patched this in
6899 xboard.c to suppress animation of FRC castling moves altogether. As FRC
6900 castlings internally are represented as KxR, the to-square does not make
6901 sense anyway, which made the animation look very weird even when it led
6902 not to a king disappearance act. And the Rook move of a castling is never
6905 2009-07-11 22:44:53 -0600 Eric Mullins <eric@hiarcs.(none)>:
6906 Update GCC makefile to remove .obj targets.
6908 Dunno how they got in there, but they should be .o
6910 2009-07-11 22:42:41 -0600 Eric Mullins <eric@hiarcs.(none)>:
6911 Update makefile dependencies on help.c and help.h.
6913 2009-07-11 22:36:59 -0600 Eric Mullins <eric@hiarcs.(none)>:
6914 Allow compiling with MSVC6.0 and 4.1
6916 Move prototypes into help.h, after making sure that DWORD_PTR is
6917 defined. Include help.h from winboard.c and help.c so both files
6918 benefit from the definition.
6920 2009-07-11 18:26:16 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6921 lists these accelerator keys in the menus for JAWS
6923 2009-07-11 18:24:19 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6926 This patch allows the use of Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V for Copy Game
6927 and Paste even in I C S mode when the board has focus.
6929 2009-07-11 18:22:17 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6930 better handling of pasting a game without PGN tags
6932 patch in wclipbrd.h to make it smarter to decide between pasting
6933 a game or a position so it can handle games without PGN tags.
6934 If it doesn't parse as a FEN it is assumed to be a game.
6936 2009-07-11 18:20:56 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6937 fixed parser error for knight move
6939 The parser had a strange quirk: it recognized bd2 as a valid Knight move
6940 (Nb1-d2) while this SAN format should be reserved for Pawn moves only.
6942 2009-07-11 18:19:30 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6943 fixed a few warnings in connection with the help patch (now warning free)
6945 2009-07-11 18:13:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6946 some major re-assignment of accelerator keys in the JAWS
6948 2009-07-11 16:54:53 -0600 Eric Mullins <eric@hiarcs.(none)>:
6951 uptracked winboard.ini
6953 * Cleanup: moved "Some definitions required..." from winboard.c to config.h,
6954 and combined some definitions from borland w/ MS.
6956 * Changed internal HtmlHelp return type and 4th argument to facilitate various
6957 compilers. These changes, while not strictly adhering to HtmlHelp() conventions,
6958 won't impact anything since the function modified is internal only.
6960 * Modified HtmlHelp return values to integer to silence warnings.
6961 * Added help.c to the project in makefile.gcc & makefile.ms.
6962 * Fixed duplicate resource in winboard.rc.
6964 2009-07-09 22:08:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6965 added JAWS support; help files for Vista; bugfixes for winboard.c
6968 * help files should now work under Vista (the user has to have either
6969 a program to view old windows help files or to view html-files installed)
6970 * I fixed the tabbing between all windows that were added according to Tim's sugestions.
6971 * I added typing in of a move number in the move type-in dialog as a shortcut
6972 to going to that position by use of the < and > buttons. Mainly intended to
6973 ease life for the blind, but I think it can be generally useful.
6974 (Although the move-history dialog provides that functionality too,
6975 this is quicker if you don't happen to have it open.)
6976 * I added typing of a FEN in the move type-in dialog in Edit Position mode.
6977 (Which could not be used without mouse at all, and is defective
6978 in crazyhouse even with mouse, as there was no way to populate holdings.)
6980 2009-07-09 22:03:00 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6981 some bugfixes: ICS error handling
6983 * play a different sound for takebacks in ICS mode
6984 * pop up error messages for illegal moves for typed-in moves
6986 2009-07-09 21:50:41 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6987 removed no longer needed debug message
6989 2009-07-09 21:48:23 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6990 fixed compile error from a previous change
6992 2009-07-09 21:44:54 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6993 user selectable font in game list
6995 This makes the game list use the same (user selectable) font
6996 as the the move-history window.
6998 2009-06-30 21:27:34 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6999 fixed typos in xboard.texi documentation.
7001 2009-06-30 21:16:59 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7004 2009-06-27 17:06:26 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7005 changed font in engine output window
7007 The engine-output window now uses the same font as the move-history window
7008 (which was selectable in the "Options -> Fonts..." menu, while the other
7011 2009-06-27 17:03:19 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7012 fixed some characters in xboard.texi
7014 It seems that copying manual sections from the RTF to th texi file did
7015 somehow mess up the double-quote characters, and changed them into some
7016 strange (unicode?) symbols.
7018 2009-06-27 16:56:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7019 two shogi related bugfixes
7021 I discovered a bug in the move generator for the Shogi Dragon King. I
7022 guess it went unnoticed so far because this is a promoted version of the
7023 Rook, which hardly occurs in games. (moves.c)
7025 There was also a problem with the piecesfix I sent you before; Shogi
7026 chosen as initial variant did use wrong piece symbols. (I had tested this
7027 on gothic, but there it happened to work for a different reason, unique to
7028 gothic.) This affects xboard.c.
7030 2009-06-27 16:54:04 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7033 2009-06-27 16:51:02 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7034 adds bitmaps for shogi promotions, and selects the bitmaps or
7035 pixmaps for the more rarely used piece types on a per-variant basis.
7037 2009-06-27 16:44:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7038 adds new piece types in the promotion dialog and edit-position piece menu
7040 2009-06-27 16:13:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7041 updated bitmaps files: files for fairy pieces where missing,
7042 others had names that didn't work with autoloading.
7044 2009-06-27 16:06:35 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7045 fixed a bug concerning bitmaps
7047 2009-06-27 15:53:45 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7048 give a default directory for bitmaps files (tiny change)
7050 this is also one of the debian patches, should be rewritten to use
7051 the correct install directory. No Author was given.
7053 2009-06-27 15:47:52 -0700 Brian May <>:
7054 verbose_error_message_about_recognized_options (tiny change from Debian patches)
7056 2009-06-27 15:45:14 -0700 Matt Zimmerman <>:
7057 add a visual low time warning (tiny change from Debian patches)
7059 2009-06-24 23:31:52 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7060 dos 2 unix conversion of backend.c
7062 2009-06-24 23:30:07 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7063 exchanged some sprintf with snprintf found in a patch for the debian system,
7064 extended it a bit to other sprintf's original patch included only 11 lines
7065 by Florian Ernst <florian@debian.org>
7067 2009-06-24 23:07:23 -0700 Mark Ioli <chessknight>:
7068 enabled a patch for default settings in winboard
7070 2009-06-24 22:53:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7071 updated copyright notice
7074 2009-06-24 22:52:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7075 patches a bug in chosing the initial board size on a virgin startup
7076 I introduced recently
7078 2009-06-24 22:49:33 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7079 I put in testing for the winning condition in 3checks
7081 on a check it just goes through the entire game to subject
7082 every position on a check test, to see if there were two more.
7084 2009-06-24 22:47:01 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7085 updated copyright notice in docs
7087 2009-06-24 22:41:40 -0700 Florian Ernst <florian@debian.org>:
7088 added small patch from debian (tiny change)
7090 according to the debian patch tracker, this patch is by
7091 Florian Ernst <florian@debian.org>.
7092 It fixes whitespace issues in filename called from cmail.
7094 2009-06-24 22:33:13 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7095 converted dos2unix format for xboard.texi
7097 2009-06-24 22:31:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7098 deleted two more files that don't need to be in git
7100 these files can be generated by autogen.sh
7102 2009-06-21 12:10:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7103 major overhaul of the -stickyWindows feature
7105 I did a major overhaul of the -stickyWindows feature.
7106 The game-list and ICS-interaction windows are now also sticky.
7107 I also added a form of stickiness when the main window is resized;
7108 edges of auxiliary windows sticking to the right or bottom side of
7109 the main window stay attached when the window resizes
7110 (due to nr of board squares or their size). The way the window
7111 coordinates are saved in the .ini file is now relative to the
7112 main window, and some dummy options are added to be able to
7113 recognize right- and bottom-edge sticking, and reconstruct that
7114 when WB starts up with another board size. Also added are
7115 volatile options to ensure there will be space for auxiliary windows
7116 above and left of the main window.
7118 2009-06-21 12:07:01 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7119 fixed long-algebraic form of drops
7121 The WB parser turned out not to understand the long-algebraic form
7122 of drops send by an ICS. (like B/@@-e4), so even with
7123 legality testing off I now use the SAN move for drops.
7125 2009-06-18 18:35:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7126 Refined stalemate adjudication in Suicide, some cleanup
7128 Refined stalemate adjudication in Suicide, which seems to be not always won
7129 for the stalemated side, but for the side with the smallest number of pieces.
7130 Cleaned up the adjudication code in the process. (backend.c moves.c, moves.h)
7131 Also includes a tiny change in the -autoKibitz format, as requested on
7134 2009-06-18 18:32:57 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7135 Enhancement of the way -autoLogo decides which logos to display
7137 2009-06-16 00:06:59 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7138 bugfix and enhancement in autoKibitz mode
7140 changed the format of the autoKibitz: score/depth in stead of depth/score,
7141 as in PGN. I also supress the ICS time for the move now in the PGN
7142 if extended info is available. When enhancing the functionality of
7143 the autoKibitz command (using the opponent engine kibitz for the saved PGN)
7144 I discovered that the xengineoutput.c in our tree was obsolete,
7145 and contained a routine of which the arguments were no longer compatble
7146 with the call from backend.c, and caused segfaulting. I copied in
7147 the corresponding routine in wengineo.c, which was compatible. That the
7148 compiler did not flag this is a sign of badly organized code, I suppose...
7150 The enhancement itself affected backend.c.
7152 2009-06-16 00:04:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7153 modified clock layout
7155 I altered the display of the clocks in the presence of engine logos; I used to
7156 stack them, but some inquiry on Talkchess sowed that people disliked the
7157 stacking. So now I display them next to each other again, but as 2-line-high
7158 fields to make room for te logos.
7160 2009-06-15 23:59:32 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7161 new zippy option zippyShortGame
7163 On request of Mike Adams I added a new zippy option, -zippyShortGame,
7164 to make life more difficult for abusers of abort and disconnect for cheating.
7166 2009-06-15 23:56:40 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7167 fixed some bugs in the animation of atomic captures
7169 2009-06-13 15:27:26 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7172 I had overlooked one place from which the FEN writer
7173 (of whicf I changed the argument types), which made WB crash
7174 if you copied a FEN (or PGN that cotained FEN) to the clipboard.
7175 I must have overlooked a warning during compile, or some depedency
7176 is not correct in the makefile. Anyway, wclipboard.c had to be changed.
7177 I also moved adjudication of some losing conditions to before tetsing
7178 for stalemate, (e.g. in atomic, if your king get destroyd you lose,
7179 even if you have no moves after that because it was your only piece.).
7180 this affects backend.c.
7181 I had used the same bits in the rule-modifier flags for indicating
7182 mandatory capture as was already used for indicating FRC-style castling.
7183 This led to frequent illegal move calls in FRC... (moves.h)
7185 2009-06-13 10:45:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7186 cleaned up HTML in FAQ.html -- still need to work on content
7188 2009-06-13 09:36:26 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7189 added option for work-around for some FRC engines in regards to FRCFENs
7191 It suddenly occurred to me that I had promised on CCC to include an option
7192 to provide a work-around for the problem that some FRC engines do not
7193 understand FRC FENs (and thus do not play at all under WinBoard,
7194 as FRC always has to begin with sending the initial position).
7195 So I added the options -firstNeedsNoncompliantFEN, -secondNeedsNoncompliantFEN.
7196 This affects winboard.c and xboard.c, (for defining the option),
7197 common.h, backend.h, backend.c, (for implementing it),
7198 xboard.texi and winboard.rtf (decribing it).
7199 This option provides users with a means to always force the FEN castling field
7200 to KQkq (but can be used for many other work-arounds as well).
7202 2009-06-13 09:30:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7203 fixed bug with random calls
7205 There also seemed to be a bug with the shuffling of opening positions;
7206 I had changed the declaration of the position number from
7207 long long int to u64 to comply with MSVC, but this suppressed shuffling
7208 completely. I now changed it to int. I recently noted a problem with true
7209 randomizing anyway: this was based on srand(time()), but time() apparently
7210 did not change fast enough, so that starting several games in rapid succession
7211 (because the book line contained a 3-fold repetition) produced identical games.
7212 So I now seed the random once and for all during startup, based on the msec of
7213 the time mark, and removed the other calls to srand().
7215 2009-06-13 09:26:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7216 changed name for fairymax program in xboard.h
7218 2009-06-13 09:25:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7219 removed my name from copyright message in help->about menu
7221 2009-06-13 09:22:02 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7222 fixed -stickyWindows option
7224 I figured out why -stickyWindows was not working in XP and Vista
7225 (while it always worked under Win2K), and I think I found a fix for
7226 it that works under all Windows versions. (I tried XP and Win2K.)
7228 2009-06-13 09:20:38 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7229 Updated docs for Engine-Settings menu
7231 2009-06-13 09:19:05 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7232 Awareness of winning conditions for atomic and giveaway variants; two bugfixes
7234 fixed bug in claim verification
7235 Bugfix on initial position of Great Shatranj
7237 2009-06-13 09:16:47 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7238 Legality testing (mandatory capture) in giveaway variants
7240 2009-06-13 09:16:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7241 don't ignore winboard/parser.c
7243 2009-06-13 09:12:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7244 Added new variant Twilight Chess
7246 2009-06-13 09:08:57 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7247 some renaming and restructuring of WB menu items, to conform more to XBoard
7249 2009-06-13 09:07:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7250 Fixed bug in atomic patch that interfered with non-atomic variants
7252 2009-06-10 21:46:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7253 fixed different use of engine option compared to Polyglot
7255 it turns out the new Polyglot uses a sightly different version
7256 of the GUI->engine option command than the one I proposed
7257 (and implemented in XBoard; Michel sneaked in an '=' sign
7258 between the NAME and VALUE of the option, to allow for
7259 more unambiguous parsing. I guess in principle this is a good idea,
7260 so I adapted XBoard to Polyglot rather than the other way around.
7261 The result is that there are canges in xboard.c, and the documentation.
7262 I noticed that I unjustly had internationalized the option strings
7263 to be send to the engine in xoptions.c; this was of course nonsense,
7264 as this was WB protocol. So I undid that too.
7266 2009-06-10 21:37:47 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7267 add the already supported variants 3check and great (=Great Shatranj)
7268 to the New Variant... menu.
7270 2009-06-10 21:32:22 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7271 animate explosions in variant atomic (if animate moves is on).
7273 2009-06-10 21:30:19 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7274 fixed castling bug in variant twokings.
7276 2009-06-10 21:22:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7277 fixed forteitary wins for special game variations
7279 feature that corrects forfeitary wins (e.g. on time)
7280 of a bare King to draws of course breaks proper operation
7281 in losers, suicide and giveaway
7283 2009-06-09 21:02:51 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7284 automatically test ini file extension for files from commandline option @filename
7286 The winboard.c is a patch that automatically tries indirection files on the
7287 command line (@filename type arguments) also with an extension .ini if the name itself
7288 did not match any existing file and contained no period. This saves the user typing the
7289 .ini all the time (which I started to find pretty annoying while working on the installer
7292 2009-06-08 15:23:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7293 added gamelisttag option to xboard
7295 also updated documentation.
7297 2009-06-08 15:20:00 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7298 updated RTF file for winboard
7300 2009-06-06 09:12:48 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7301 fixed syntax error in texi file
7303 2009-06-06 08:57:52 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7304 updated to patchlevel "j"
7306 2009-06-06 09:00:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7307 fixed adjudicating probelm in Shantranj
7309 Refrain from adjudicating a draw based on insufficient mating material
7310 (except bare King vs bare King) in Shatranj (where in this case you can
7311 still win by baring the opponent's King).
7313 2009-06-06 08:55:17 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7314 updated documentation and FAQ
7316 2009-06-04 22:52:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7317 source clean up. Fix compiler warning, removed unused variables, etc.
7319 2009-06-04 20:43:29 -0700 Eric Mullins <emwine at earthlink.net>:
7320 adding support for different windows compiler
7322 Eric kindly provided us with some makefiles for different windows
7323 compiler and also fixed some issues that came up while using those compilers.
7325 2009-06-04 18:27:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7326 cleanup: got rid of a lot of files that are not needed for a new release
7328 lots of documentation was available in several places,
7329 old unused source files and not used graphics file were floating around
7330 in the tree. This should clean up most of it. No need to keep these files
7331 around, especially since we are using version control.
7333 2009-05-29 18:56:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7334 Added the Action-menu items that allow the user to adjudicate
7335 ongoing games in Two-Machines mode. This was an already existing
7336 backend function from Winboard_x; I only had to create a menu item for it
7337 to be called. Due to an oversight I had forgotten to do that so far.
7338 (Logically, I should have done it in the 4.3.5 release,
7339 where I updated the XBoard menus to conform to the WinBoard menus.)
7341 I tested them, and they seem to work. (As expected.)
7343 2009-05-28 22:23:00 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7344 updated patchlevel to "i"
7346 2009-05-28 22:19:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7347 small change to mousewheel support; two changes in window behaviour
7349 * Visible effects during resizing suppressed, bug in chosing new size fixed.
7350 * No longer reserves left and top margins next to main window on first popup.
7351 * built in some hysteresis into mousewheel support, ignorng the first event in any new
7352 direction to suppress effects from accidential mouse movement.
7354 2009-05-28 22:11:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7355 corrected 'animate dragging'
7357 I finally figured out how the 'animate dragging' works in XBoard,
7358 so that I could add code to do the unstacking of multiple pieces
7359 in the holdings, rather than always leaving an empty square while
7360 you drag them. (And then suddenly re-growing the remaining pieces
7361 as you make the drop.) It does not look as fancy as in WinBoard
7362 yet, because the counts still only decrease when you release the
7363 piece, rather than when you lift it. But this is not nearly as
7364 disturbing as leaving empty holdings (if only temporarily) when
7365 you still have pieces there.
7367 2009-05-28 22:06:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7368 Added comand-line options -debugFile (as synonym for -nameOfDebugFile,
7369 as WinBoard also has these synonyms), and -engineDebugOutput
7370 (wich already existed in the backend).
7372 2009-05-28 21:57:53 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7373 updated documentation for new release
7375 2009-05-28 21:55:51 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7376 added Xiangqi perpetual-chase detection
7378 2009-05-28 00:06:53 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7379 Updated all files to GPL version 3.
7381 2009-05-28 00:03:32 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7382 converted two files from dos to unix format
7384 2009-05-27 23:12:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7385 updated INSTALL, NEWS and other files for new release
7387 cleaned up a bit and updated some information in the text files.
7389 2009-05-07 21:48:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7390 winboard/config.h shouldn't be in .gitignore, only ./config.h
7392 2009-05-07 21:47:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7393 bumped patchlevel to 0g
7395 2009-05-07 21:46:02 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7396 corrected path in makefile
7398 2009-05-07 21:45:48 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7401 2009-05-07 21:45:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7402 added firstOptions, secondOptions, noGUI, firstXBook, secondXBook
7404 2009-05-07 21:44:03 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7405 handle promotion case for Shogi
7407 2009-05-07 21:43:34 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7408 add note about RESULT command for GUI programmers
7410 2009-05-07 21:42:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7411 small changes to book.c
7413 added code for different board sizes
7414 added some debuginfo
7415 handle promotion of pieces
7417 2009-05-05 23:07:18 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7418 added a .gitignore file
7420 2009-05-03 12:41:06 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7421 wrong line ending for Unix... ran dos2unix on both files
7423 2009-05-02 13:51:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7424 fixed texinfo files, added windows help file, removed config.h from git
7426 texinfo.in is not needed anymore, since it only provided a
7427 version string, but this can be created automatically using autotools
7429 deleted config.h from version control, since it is automatically created.
7430 added winboard.hlp file (not sure if needed)
7432 2009-04-26 23:34:34 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7433 updated autoconf init file
7435 * renamed autoconf init file from configure.in to configure.ac
7436 * added bug-report email address to ac_init
7437 * replaced ac_output(...) with ac_config_files, ac_config_commands and ac_output
7439 2009-04-26 14:49:03 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7440 parser.c is generated by lex, so it shouldn't be tracked
7441 and also parcer.c shouldn't be in Makefile.am
7443 2009-04-26 14:44:51 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7444 added book.c to Makefile.am
7446 2009-04-26 13:49:15 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7447 use autoheader to create config.h.in
7449 no need to track this in git anymore
7451 2009-04-26 11:13:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7452 fixed autoheader warings, remove depreciated acconfig.h
7454 2009-04-26 10:30:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7457 2009-05-02 10:55:39 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7458 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.16
7460 2009-05-02 10:50:10 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7461 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.15
7463 2009-05-02 10:38:39 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7464 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.14
7466 2009-05-02 10:13:41 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7467 HGM fixed cygwin compile for winboard
7469 2009-04-24 16:11:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7470 cross compilier working
7472 2009-04-19 10:00:52 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7473 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.13
7475 2009-04-19 09:52:47 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7476 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.12
7478 2009-04-19 09:48:59 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7479 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.8
7481 2009-04-19 09:44:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7482 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.7
7484 2009-04-19 09:39:19 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7485 changes by H.G. Muller; version 4.3.4
7487 2009-04-19 09:34:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7488 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.2
7490 2009-04-19 10:26:24 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7491 changes from H.G. Muller
7493 2009-04-16 23:06:13 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7494 cleaned up the directory a bit. Removed winboard-dm-beta,
7495 merged the two Changelogs together
7497 2009-04-16 14:12:48 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
7498 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20060129
7500 2009-04-16 14:09:33 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
7501 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20060112
7503 2009-04-16 14:04:02 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
7504 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20051231
7506 2009-04-16 13:59:12 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
7507 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20051129
7509 2009-04-16 13:53:41 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
7510 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20050322
7512 2009-04-10 04:18:59 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7513 translated a handfull of strings and set the codeset to UTF-8
7514 for the translations.
7516 2009-03-18 03:20:50 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7517 Translation: added German po file (roughly 50% translated)
7519 2009-03-01 04:23:54 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7520 fixed bug #22853: changed all .Xdefaults to .Xresources in xboard.texi
7522 2009-03-01 02:43:43 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7523 fixed bug #25672, patch #6182 by adding DESTDIR support to Makefile.in
7525 2009-03-01 02:33:26 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7526 fixed a warning message in the configure script
7528 2009-02-28 22:58:57 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7529 fixed parser.l. Should fix bug #22812
7531 2009-02-28 22:58:14 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7532 fixed parser.l. Should fix bug #22812
7534 2009-02-28 22:55:30 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7535 added myself to the AUTHOR file
7537 2007-06-15 04:26:57 +0000 Mark Loli <chessknight>:
7538 Initial check-in of NSIS Winboard installer files.
7540 * 06/12/2005: bugfix some more possible buffer overflows.
7542 * 06/27/2004: added simple icsEngineAnalyze for xboard
7544 * 06/26/2004: added icsEngineAnalyze for winboard: Analyze observe games
7545 with a chessprogram on a Internet Chess Server (ICS)
7547 * 02/12/2004: Bugfix ICS interaction console crashed while chess
7548 engine starting and user type in some stuff. We wait now to finish
7551 * 02/11/2004: Winboard: Added color lines for the ics interaction
7552 console if zippy used
7554 * 02/09/2004: Added mousewheel support for winboard. Play moves
7555 backward and forward with the mousewheel.
7557 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.7 -- Fri Nov 28 13:36:00 PST 2003 -- Tim Mann
7559 * 11/26/2003: In WinBoard, setting the -debug flag now logs ICS output
7560 to WinBoard.debug too. (This isn't needed in xboard because ICS
7561 output already goes to stdout, so it's easy to capture along with the
7562 debug output on stderr.) This was issue #280 in the ToDo file.
7564 * 11/23/2003: Cleaned up some minor problems in cygwin.mak. Thanks to
7565 Hans Werner Strube for the problem report.
7567 * 11/23/2003: Updated the default list of chess servers in
7568 winboard/defaults.h. Deleted two that appear to be dead and added a
7569 new one that is active.
7571 * 11/19/2003: Swapped icon_white.bm and icon_black.bm in XBoard.
7572 Hopefully this will get them the right way around by default on more X
7573 window managers. I wish I understood this better.
7575 * 11/18/2003: Implemented a simple 32-bit random number generator for
7576 WinBoard, replacing the Windows rand(), which ranges only up to
7577 0x7fff. Formerly on Windows, only zippy.lines sayings that started in
7578 the first 32767 bytes of the file could ever be used. This was issue
7579 #505 from the ToDo file.
7581 * 11/16/2003: The xboard man page and info files are now built from a
7582 common set of texinfo source files, and the xboard man page now covers
7583 cmail as well. Formerly, ever since the texinfo file was first
7584 contributed to the project, it was separate from the man page and the
7585 two files had to be updated in parallel, making for a maintenance
7586 nightmare. To make combining the files possible, I took the Perl
7587 script "texi2man" from the GNU Units project and added support for a
7588 larger subset of the texinfo markup language. I then carefully
7589 compared the old man page and old texinfo file to make sure the latest
7590 and clearest words survived into the new combined texinfo file. It
7591 would be great to merge in WinBoard's help file too, but that's a
7592 larger project. It would have to be heavily conditionalized to
7593 deal with differences in features between XBoard and WinBoard.
7595 * 11/15/2003: Cleaned up and applied a small patch from Daniel
7596 Mehrmann, to stop overly long PVs in thinking output from causing a
7597 buffer overflow crash in backend.c.
7599 * 11/5/2003: When a chess engine sends a "telluser" command (including
7600 the cases where "tellall" or "tellopponent" acts like telluser), the
7601 information now goes into a nonmodel popup that is automatically
7602 dismissed when the user clicks anywhere on the board. This fix is
7603 more significant on WinBoard, where formerly you got a fully modal
7604 dialog that had to be dismissed by clicking on OK before anything else
7605 could happen. The bug was issue #406 in the ToDo file.
7607 * 11/1/2003: Removed email addresses from this file to reduce spam
7608 load, as it gets linked to from the Web.
7610 * 11/1/2003: Updated READ_ME and winboard/READ_ME.txt.
7612 * Modified xboard and winboard makefiles to be able to build the
7613 project in the new combined directory structure.
7615 * Applied a small security fix to pxboard, from Martin Maeok.
7617 * Fixed a bug in the game list dialog. The change in 4.2.6 to opening
7618 games in text mode (meant to avoid getting extra \r's into comments)
7619 caused a new bug in determining seek offsets when parsing a game file
7620 to form the game list. Also, the change was incomplete; on some code
7621 paths games were still being opened in binary mode. Thanks to Lenik
7622 Terenin for reporting the offset bug. I've now gone back to always
7623 using binary mode when reading game files, and I've fixed the comment
7624 bug by adding code to remove \r's from parsed comments explicitly. I
7625 still use text mode for writing game files so that games written by
7626 WinBoard will have Windows-style line endings.
7628 * Fix for minor bug in WinBoard installer. If you chose a non-default
7629 destination directory, the default directory was still used for a
7630 couple of unimportant things, namely setting the App Paths registry
7631 keys (unused by WinBoard) and trying to copy the existing WinBoard.ini
7632 file to WinBoard.old. I inherited this bug from the InstallShield 5
7633 sample template. Thanks to "l.d." for noticing the incorrect keys.
7635 * Patch from Chris Priest: when two engines are being run through rsh,
7636 avoid reusing the same stderr port for both. I'm not sure why this
7637 should be needed, but it's harmless, at least.
7639 * Bugfix: The kludge to deal with old engines that give an error
7640 message because they don't know the "st" command was too sloppy; it
7641 could hit on an "st" substring anywhere in an error message. GNU
7642 Chess 4 is the only engine I know of where the kludge was needed, so I
7643 changed the kludge to match a longer, more GNU-specific string.
7645 * Changed the WinBoard self-extracting installer to choose a unique
7646 temporary subdirectory name within the Windows temp directory instead
7647 of always putting wb-setup directly in temp. Besides being better
7648 practice, this avoids the need to deltree wb-setup first, which
7649 occasionally alarms someone who thinks that deltree is only used by
7650 trojans to delete all your files. (Yes, I'm serious.)
7652 * Fixed a bug where FICS-style "wild/0" strings were not parsed as the
7653 proper wild type. The "/" was not being skipped.
7655 * Fixed a WinBoard bug where temporary files created by game
7656 copy/paste were being created in the root directory of the current
7657 drive instead of the TMP directory and were not always deleted on exit.
7659 * Fixed a small bug in winboard.c's ErrorDialog() function. Thanks to
7660 "Ron" (no last name given). The bug might have caused a problem when
7661 pressing OK or Cancel in an error dialog when more than one error
7662 dialog was being displayed, but I'm not really sure.
7664 * Removed a hack that worked around a bug in very old versions of
7665 Crafty, where it would sometimes reply "illegal move" to a "."
7666 command. The hack kept us from recognizing real illegal move messages
7667 in analyze mode from engines that don't respond to the "." command.
7668 Thanks to Fabien Letouzey for the report.
7670 * Fixed a bug in the xboard version of GetDelayedEvent. It would
7671 return the most recently scheduled event even if it had already fired.
7672 This caused at least one visible error: in -ics -xreuse mode, starting
7673 the engine again and seeing another "feature done=1" would re-run the
7674 initialization code in InitBackEnd3, including the code that opens the
7675 connection to ICS. The WinBoard version didn't have this bug. Thanks
7676 to Bob Hyatt for the bug report.
7678 * The promotion popup for ICC wild 26 (giveaway) now includes King.
7679 Thanks to Fredrik Josefsson for the bug report.
7681 * The first game in a file (or being pasted from the clipboard) can
7682 now start with a bare move -- no PGN tags, no move number "1", etc.
7683 Suggested by Shane Harrelson. One could imagine taking this farther
7684 and accepting something like "e4 e5 1/2-1/2 d4 d5" as two games, but
7685 I haven't done that.
7687 * Bug fix: xboard didn't really accept a paste of multiple games,
7688 contrary to what I wrote when adding the feature to WinBoard in
7689 4.2.4. Now it works in both.
7691 * Fixed generic start/end of game messages to work on chess.net, where
7692 they put ratings in parens after the player names.
7694 * Updated config.sub and config.guess to newer versions from
7695 automake-1.4p5-2. This makes configure work with MacOS X + X11.
7697 * Bugfix: when examining a game fragment on FICS where black plays
7698 first, don't show two "(0:00.000)" times on the initial "none" move.
7700 * If TestLegality is on and one of the engines makes an illegal move
7701 in TwoMachines mode, it forfeits immediately. Formerly the game would
7702 get stuck at that point and the engine that made the illegal move
7703 would eventually lose on time.
7705 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.6 -- Fri Feb 1 22:26:31 PST 2002
7708 Another small bugfix release.
7710 * Put in a small change from Alexander Mai to allow xboard to build in
7711 an OS/2 EMX environment.
7713 * Fix WinBoard-only bug where editing a PGN file with comments would
7714 insert more \r characters before the \n after every Load/Save cycle.
7715 For some unknown reason we were reading the files in "rb" mode but
7716 writing them in "a" mode, so we kept the \r characters on reading and
7717 added an extra one on writing. Fix: change the "rb" to "r". Thanks
7718 to Joel (last name not given) for the bug report.
7720 * Put the arguments to rsh/remsh in the right order for better
7721 portability. Thanks to Michael Kalisz.
7723 * FreezeUI is now implemented in WinBoard; it was previously only
7724 implemented in xboard. This function prevents the user from entering
7725 moves or other commands while we are waiting for an engine to
7726 initialize itself. Implementing it fixes a bug where the user could
7727 start a game (etc.) during feature negotiation. One of the symptoms
7728 of this bug was that we could send "new" one or move moves *after* the
7731 * Fixed some handle leaks (WinBoard only), including a nasty one that
7732 leaked one handle per command sent to ICS. Thanks to several folks
7733 who helped characterize the bug and tried to look for leaks.
7735 * We now install and look for the info file in ${prefix}/share/info
7736 instead of ${prefix}/info. The latter is still the default in
7737 autoconf, but the former is currently used in Red Hat Linux and
7740 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.5 -- Sat Dec 15 11:42:51 PST 2001
7743 * Changed the bundled GNU Chess 5.02 in the WinBoard package to
7744 include a much smaller book and to use much less hash table space by
7745 default (8 MB transposition table, 0.5 MB pawn evaluation table). The
7746 large book included with 4.2.4 made the WinBoard download too big for
7747 some people, and the default hash tables were larger than the
7748 available physical memory on some people's computers. I built the
7749 small book by running Crafty's "small.zip" book line collection
7750 through a Perl script that makes it look enough like real PGN games
7751 that the GNU Chess book builder will accept it. The script and some
7752 minor patches to GNU Chess 5 are available in the WinBoard source
7753 distribution and at http://www.tim-mann.org/gnuchess.html.
7755 * Fixed a bug in the code that deals with engines that complain that
7756 "time" and "otim" are illegal moves. This was a new bug in 4.2.4.
7758 * Revamped the implementation of ToStart in analysis mode. Formerly
7759 there was some ill-conceived code that would try to get back to the
7760 start of the game by doing a "new" command (and all the followup
7761 commands that requires) while remaining in analysis mode. This is
7762 problematic for engine authors to support, though it works with
7763 Crafty. This code was trying to solve the problem of ToStart being
7764 slow because the engine would try to start an analysis after every
7765 "undo" command all the way back to the start. But ToEnd already had a
7766 much better solution to this problem, and now ToStart does the same
7767 thing: we exit from analysis mode and enter force mode instead,
7768 make/unmake moves to get to the end/start of the game, and then
7769 reenter analysis mode.
7771 * Formerly, Zippy could try to start playing a game before the engine
7772 was initialized; that is, during the initial timeout for protover 1
7773 engines, or before "feature done=1" for protover 2 engines. We now
7774 wait until the engine is initialized before connecting to ICS, which
7775 fixes this in the common case. If you turn off engine reuse for
7776 multiple games (that is, if you give the -xreuse option), there could
7777 still be problems; see item 503 in the ToDo file. Thanks to Dieter
7778 Buerssner for the bug report.
7780 * Bugfix: All WinBoard versions since the merge with WinBoard Plus
7781 (but not xboard) have had a bug in changing the PeriodicUpdates,
7782 PonderNextMove, and ShowThinking options from the menu. The bug
7783 mostly just caused changing these options during a game to not take
7784 effect until after the next reset. For TwoMachines games, though,
7785 changing PonderNextMove just before the game would take effect
7786 immediately for the second engine but not until the next game for the
7787 first engine. Thanks to Koundinya Veluri for the bug report.
7789 * Bugfix: In 4.2.4, we sometimes got confused when trying to leave and
7790 reenter analyze mode. One symptom was that Analyze File did not work.
7791 Thanks to Igor Syry for the bug report.
7793 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.4 -- Sun Dec 9 14:56:30 PST 2001
7796 * WinBoard now includes GNU Chess 5.02 in place of GNU Chess 5.00.
7798 * WinBoard's PasteGameFromClipboard will now handle a paste with
7799 multiple games in it, popping up the game list dialog. xboard
7800 already did this. Suggested by Robert Gerstman.
7802 * We now use the "clearboard" command on ICC where appropriate.
7804 * Bugfix: don't generate a bogus "variant normal" command to an engine
7805 for the loadable ICC wild types that we internally flag as
7806 VariantLoadable. Also clarified the message that Zippy sends when
7807 declining such wild games -- it can't deal with the possibility of
7808 loading an arbitrary position into the game. Thanks to Dieter
7809 Buerssner for reporting the problem. It would be nice to be able to
7810 actually play these wild types some day; presumably there would have
7811 to be an option to either send "loadgame" with a specified position,
7812 or to deal with an opponent sending it.
7814 * If we get a holdings message from ICS when we thought we were
7815 playing normal chess, we now try asking for a move list so that we can
7816 find out from the header what's really happening. Formerly we guessed
7817 bughouse in this case. Response to a comment from Gian-Carlo
7820 * Fixed two longstanding bugs in the clock code. These affected only
7821 play between a user and a local engine, or between two local engines,
7822 not ICS play. (1) The last fractional second used by a player before
7823 moving and virtually pushing his clock was being charged to his
7824 opponent instead of to him. (2) The time and otim commands were being
7825 sent to an engine before the (buggy) fractional second update was
7826 done. The second bug was pretty harmless in itself, but the first one
7827 was serious. Many thanks to Peter Rosendahl for carefully diagnosing
7828 and reporting these bugs!
7830 * Changed WinBoard timestamp key. Nothing is changed other than the
7831 key and a recompilation. ICC may phase out the old key soon; if they
7832 do, you'll need to use the timestamp.exe from WinBoard 4.2.4 or later
7833 to connect to chessclub.com.
7835 * Fixed an xboard-only bug where most dialogs would not take keyboard
7836 input unless the mouse was actually over the dialog, even if the
7837 dialog window had focus. Thanks to Jason Varsoke for the bug report.
7839 * Bugfix; Remember to send time and otim commands to engine before
7840 sending playother. Thanks to Bob Hyatt for the bug report. Also
7841 fixed a bug where time and otim were sometimes sent even with feature
7844 * Added small patches from Wilkin Ng that are meant to fix a crash in
7845 CopyGameToClipboard and a "can't unlock clipboard memory" error in
7846 PasteTextFromClipboard, under Windows 2000.
7848 * Changed cygwin.mak to not use -mno-cygwin. In other words, it now
7849 uses cygwin1.dll instead of the mingw libraries. This works around
7850 bugs in fileno() and stat() that I encountered in mingw. (fileno
7851 seems to always return 0. stat fails because the library routine uses
7852 a different definition of struct stat than the header files provide.)
7853 Thanks to Robert Gerstman for reporting the symptoms these bugs caused
7854 when WinBoard was compiled with Cygwin.
7856 * Added -showButtonBar option. This lets you delete the << < P > >>
7857 buttons and thus widen the message widget a bit.
7859 * Added code to address a very obscure bug. If an engine dies and
7860 needs to be restarted while in one of the analyze modes, it was not
7861 getting put back into analyze mode. This bug should not really ever
7862 have gotten tickled unless reuse was turned off and the engine sends
7863 game end commands (such as 1-0) when a game ends by rule while in
7864 analyze mode. The next version of the protocol spec will say that
7865 engines should not do that, but version 2 and earlier didn't address
7868 * We now use the FICS "iset ms 1" feature to get times in ms instead
7869 of seconds. Thanks to DAV for email telling me about this feature.
7871 * Changed clock display to show tenths of seconds for 9.9 seconds and
7872 less, instead of 0.9 seconds and less as before.
7874 * It has been discovered that Zippy can play simuls on ICC (but not on
7875 FICS). If you arrange for Zippy to send the ICC command "simulize" in
7876 the -zippyGameStart string, it will accept additional games while
7877 playing. Zippy will use the same engine for every game, so whenever
7878 it switches opponents, the engine's state will be reset with the "new"
7879 command. This will of course weaken its play, so don't enable simuls
7880 if you want your engine to have the highest possible rating. Zippy
7881 was never designed to work with simuls; it just works by accident, and
7882 it hasn't been tested much. So please report any bugs you notice, but
7883 don't expect them to be fixed rapidly. Thanks to Paul McGuire for
7884 noticing that this works.
7886 * Bugfix: Suppress the direct command to engine popup if there is no
7887 engine. In WinBoard this case used to cause a crash. Thanks to
7888 "Dargon" for the bug report.
7890 * Bugfix: formerly we did part of the engine initialization for the
7891 very first game too soon, before feature negotiation. One result of
7892 this is that engines would never get the "ics" command for the first
7895 * Lengthened timeout to detect protocol version 1 chess engines to 10
7896 seconds. This should reduce problems with protocol version 2 engines
7897 that are slow to initialize missing the timeout and not getting a
7898 chance to send their feature commands before the first game starts.
7900 * Klaus Friedel says that adding a short sleep to WinBoard after
7901 starting a new chess engine solves a problem that occurs under Windows
7902 2000, in which engines sometimes don't see the initial command(s) from
7903 WinBoard and hang. I don't understand how that can happen, but the
7904 sleep is harmless, so I've put it in. Others have also reported what
7905 may be the same problem, so hopefully this will fix it for them too.
7907 * Bugfix: editing the Result field in EditTags will no longer cause a
7908 later crash. Thanks to DAV for a clear bug report that let me
7909 reproduce the problem.
7911 * ICC wild 28 is now recognized as shatranj, but it is not supported.
7912 You might be able to play it by turning off Test Legality.
7914 * Formerly we would always turn off "feature time" if the engine
7915 printed an error message with the string "time" or "otim" in it; now
7916 we do that only if the message comes before the engine makes its first
7917 move. This change is useful because some engines spew a lot of bogus
7918 error messages about commands they don't fully parse, so something
7919 like "result 0-1 {White lost on time}" could generate such a message.
7920 Engines shouldn't do that, but if they do, mysteriously turning off
7921 "feature time" is not a good way to react.
7923 * Fixed an infrequently occurring Zippy bug: formerly, resuming from
7924 adjournment by position (that is, with GetMoveList turned off) or
7925 starting/resuming a wild game (nonstandard starting position) would
7926 try to set up the position without putting the engine into force mode
7927 first. That was probably tolerated by most engines, but if the
7928 position was black-to-play and the engine hadn't set feature
7929 setboard=1, then the fake "a2a3" move (which we use as a kludge to get
7930 black to be on move before sending the edit command) would appear to
7931 be a real move, and the engine might reply to it! This bug could also
7932 be seen when trying to use Zippy to play a simul -- something that
7933 Zippy was never designed to support, but which seems to mostly work
7934 anyway. Thanks to Paul McGuire for sending a WinBoard.debug file that
7935 showed the bug occurring. Some other cases of resuming adjournments
7936 or starting games from nonstandard positions may have been broken too;
7937 I think I've straightened out the problems.
7939 * Agreeing to a draw in the human vs. local engine case formerly did
7940 not work if the human offered first; now it does. A human's
7941 unsolicited offer is considered valid until he makes another move.
7942 Thanks to Bruce Moreland for the bug report.
7944 * Bugfix: We used to look for just "fr" in Event tags or strings from
7945 ICSes to recognize Fischer Random games. This caused a lot of false
7946 matches. Now we look for "wild/fr" instead, which is what FICS uses.
7948 * Bugfix: Clicking on a move in the MoveList window only updated the
7949 displayed position; if a chess engine was active, its state was not
7950 updated. Thanks to Alejandro Dubrovsky for the bug report.
7952 * Bugfix: The "resign" command from engine to xboard formerly did not
7953 work in ICS (Zippy) mode.
7955 * Bugfix: Formerly we would register a garbage premove if the user
7956 clicked on a piece, then clicked on an edge or outside the board. Now
7957 such an errant click is ignored.
7959 * Bugfix: GameEnds would send "exit" to an engine in analyze mode even
7960 if we did not actually want to leave analyze mode.
7962 * Bugfix: "feature pause" was being rejected. We don't currently use
7963 it, but that is no reason to reject it. Thanks to Gian-Carlo Pascutto
7966 * Bugfix: when "partner" needed to be sent both to ICS and the engine,
7967 Zippy was erroneously sending the ICS prefix character to the engine
7968 too. Thanks to Gian-Carlo Pascutto for the bug report.
7970 * Zippy now declines challenges when the engine is not yet ready to
7971 play again, instead of ignoring them. This is needed so that the
7972 server will let the opponent repeat the challenge. It might be better
7973 to remember such challenges and accept them when the engine is ready,
7974 but that would be a bit more complicated to implement.
7976 * Bugfix: Zippy's emotes didn't work on FICS because there, "i" is a
7977 built-in alias for "it", not a real command. So sending "$i foo" gave
7978 an error message instead of doing "it foo". We now leave out the
7979 alias-suppressing prefix for emotes.
7981 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.3 -- Mon Feb 19 19:55:05 PST 2001
7984 * Bugfix: The error message "Variant X not supported by gnuchessx"
7985 formerly could pop up even in -ncp mode.
7987 * Fixed an xboard bug in premove highlighting. If you had
7988 HighlightLastMove turned on, premoves got highlighted in
7989 highlightSquareColor (yellow) instead of premoveHighlightColor (red).
7991 * Modified premove again. Now we are back to displaying the move
7992 locally immediately after sending it to the server, as in versions
7993 prior to 4.2.1. This is good because it lets you register your next
7994 premove sooner. As a better fix to the problem that the change in
7995 4.2.1 had been trying to address, we now suppress animating the
7996 opponent's move if you have a premove reply pending. However, it's
7997 probably still a good idea for you to turn off AnimateMoves entirely
7998 if you are trying to play extremely fast games.
8000 * Removed an erroneous patch that left zombie chess engines around
8001 when both sigterm and reuse were turned off. (Bug was in xboard only,
8004 * Bugfix: loading a game with autostepping did not work for games with
8005 PGN result "*" (unfinished). This bug was introduced in 4.1.0, caused
8006 by some outdated code that was supposed to leave you in EditGame mode
8007 after loading an unfinished game. I fixed this, and also changed it
8008 to leave you in EditGame mode after loading *any* game, but without
8009 changing the tags to say it's an edited game. It's not really clear
8010 whether that is the best thing is to do here -- ideally, perhaps, the
8011 tags should change to say "edited game" if you actually make any
8012 changes, but that is harder to make work.
8014 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.2 -- Tue Feb 6 20:00:00 PST 2001
8017 * Fixed a problem introduced in 4.2.1. In -zippyPlay mode, 4.2.1
8018 started sending the initString immediately after the old game ended,
8019 but then when the next game started, it would still send "force" and
8020 another initString. Another problem was that the first initString put
8021 the engine out of sync with the displayed board position, though that
8022 might not usually have been noticeable. This is now changed to do a
8023 full Reset at the end of the previous game, and avoid doing a Reset at
8024 the start of a new game if we are still in BeginningOfGame mode.
8026 * Fixed some limitations in -zippyPlay mode. The engine was not being
8027 fed the moves or history of games that were displayed but not being
8028 played, so it would get confused if you tried to do something like
8029 examine a game, then enter EditGame mode from somewhere in the middle
8032 * Made a small change so that cygwin can compile xboard for Windows
8033 (an X server is required to run it). Thanks to Volker Zell. Most
8034 people would probably prefer to run WinBoard on Windows, however; note
8035 that cygwin could already compile WinBoard.
8037 * Added some missing documentation to engine-intf.html: It is okay to
8038 send "feature done=0" even before you receive the xboard and protover
8039 commands, if this is needed to give your engine enough time to
8040 initialize. See engine-intf.html for more discussion.
8042 * Bugfix: "feature done=0" did not work for the second engine; now it does.
8044 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.1 -- Sat Feb 3 19:52:26 PST 2001
8047 * Bugfix: in Zippy mode with feature san=1, the elapsed time was being
8048 sent to the engine after the SAN move; for example, "e4 (0:01)" was
8049 sent instead of just "e4".
8051 * It seems that scroll wheel mice with incompletely installed software
8052 (under Windows 95, at least) can send repeated middle button up events
8053 when the wheel is turned. Moved QuickPaste from middle button up to
8054 middle button down to avoid problems with this.
8056 * A premove is now sent *before* the opponent's move that it replies
8057 to is animated. The premove itself is no longer displayed (or
8058 animated) when sent; instead, it is displayed when the chess server
8059 echoes it back as a board update.
8061 * Bug fix: in -xreuse mode, xboard was only sending command line
8062 arguments to the engine the first time it was started. (WinBoard
8063 didn't have this bug.)
8065 * In -zippyPlay mode, we now initialize the chess engine for a new
8066 game immediately after the old game ends. (In -xreuse mode, this
8067 means starting a new engine process; in the default -reuse mode, it
8068 just means sending "new".) If the engine supports ping, we don't
8069 accept challenges until the "new" has finished. This should help
8070 avoid losing time (re)initializing the engine after the game starts.
8072 * We now handle the new FICS field in style 12 that says whether the
8075 * whiteFlag and blackFlag are now reset whenever an ICS board image
8076 arrives, giving autoflag a fresh chance to work.
8078 * Suppressed "geometry error" debug messages unless -debug flag is given.
8080 * Bugfix: avoid core dump on Solaris with -debug flag, caused by
8081 passing NULL to a %s format in GameEnds.
8083 * Added -firstProtocolVersion and -secondProtocolVersion. This will
8084 allow use of extremely broken engines that hang or die when given the
8085 "protover 2" command. It should be rarely if ever needed.
8087 * Zippy now strips highlights from player names in the Creating
8088 message; previously the ratings would not be extracted from this
8089 message properly if you had set the highlight variable.
8091 * Bug fix: Zippy with -zp but not -zt used to be fooled by false
8092 partner tells inside channel tells; e.g.:
8093 Garf(24): Garf (your partner) tells you: sit
8095 * Bug fix: when an engine reported its name with the new "feature
8096 myname=" command, we had been putting just that name into the window
8097 title even when in TwoMachines mode.
8099 * By default, WinBoard no longer uses the new feature introduced in
8100 4.2.0beta of keeping the ICS menu, ICS server list, and lists of chess
8101 engine command lines in separate files; instead, the lists are back in
8102 the winboard.ini file. This gets rid of some problems where the
8103 separate files could not be opened because the working directory was
8104 not set to WinBoard's installation directory.
8106 * WinBoard command lines and ini files now have another optional
8107 syntax for quoting an option value. All characters within { } curly
8108 braces are interpreted literally except for '}' itself. SaveSettings
8109 now uses this syntax for string values that contain a backslash or
8110 newline and do not contain a '}'. This should address the problem
8111 that the separate .ini files had been meant to fix; engine command
8112 line lists can now be written without \-escapes.
8114 * Fixed three bugs in relaying moves between engines in TwoMachines
8115 mode: an engine would be sent SAN if the *other* engine had set
8116 feature san=1, a relayed SAN move did not end with a newline, and
8117 feature usermove was not implemented for relayed moves.
8119 * Fixed several bugs in exiting: File/Exit would sometimes hang;
8120 timestamp/timeseal would not get killed off; an engine crash would
8121 cause error messages to be printed recursively until stack overflow.
8123 * Fixed a bug in the code to detect which ICS is in use and adapt to
8124 it; the chess.net case was broken.
8126 * Removed the leading alias-suppression character when sending a move
8127 to ICS, because it seemed to break accuclock on chess.net.
8129 * Fixed a bug where a FICS prompt like "10:01_fics%" would be matched
8130 as finger note number 10, causing a problem detecting when the user is
8133 * Added tellicsnoalias command to protocol.
8135 * Changed st command in protocol back to old behavior.
8137 * Added done=0 feature to protocol, to lengthen initial timeout.
8139 * Added missing -colorSeek command line option to xboard. (Was
8140 present in WinBoard.)
8142 * Bug fix: setting feature reuse=0 was not working.
8144 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.0beta -- Sat Dec 16 16:34:56 PST 2000
8147 * Setting -searchTime no longer turns off -clockMode. Note that when
8148 -searchTime is set, some engines may search for the lesser of
8149 searchTime and the amount of time their normal clock management would
8150 dictate, while others will disable their normal clock management and
8151 always search for exactly searchTime.
8153 * Fixed WinBoard bug where on Windows 2000 (and maybe Windows 98) the
8154 ICS Interaction window would scroll back to the top whenever it filled
8155 to capacity and WinBoard trimmed some text off the top.
8157 * Changed xboard dragging so that the center of the dragged piece is
8158 forced to be over the mouse cursor. (WinBoard dragging already worked
8159 that way.) This should avoid confusing cases when you start a drag
8160 with the mouse near the edge of a square -- formerly most or all of
8161 the piece could be over one square but the mouse cursor over another.
8164 * Added move list window for xboard. Code contributed by Manuel
8165 Hoelss and re-hacked a bit by me. Performance of this window is poor,
8166 because the implementation regenerates the entire window contents
8167 whenever anything changes. It's hard to avoid this when using the
8168 Athena List widget, though we could be a little smarter and notice
8169 when the current move number has changed but the move list has not.
8170 There are also several drawing problems caused by bugs in the Athena
8171 Form and List widgets. The window should not really allow a
8172 horizontal scroll bar, but the bugs are much worse if I turn it off.
8173 In both Xaw and Xaw3d, the List widget tries to resize itself when
8174 XawListChange is called, even if you tell it not to; and what's worse,
8175 if the widget cannot resize itself to be large enough to avoid
8176 clipping any of the list item, it does not change the list! Arrgh.
8177 On top of that, the Xaw Form widget is very buggy in XFree86 4.0.1
8180 * The OK button in the WinBoard startup dialog is now simply disabled
8181 if none of the radio buttons is selected, instead of bringing up an
8182 error dialog. Suggested by Ted Milbaugh.
8184 * Used ping to address the worst of the race conditions in the
8185 protocol. Now if an engine supports ping, we ping it after sending
8186 the "new" command and after trying to place it in force mode at the
8187 end of a game. When a ping has been sent and the corresponding pong
8188 has not yet come back, we (1) ignore or undo any moves the engine
8189 sends, (2) ignore game end messages (such as "offer draw", etc.) from
8190 the engine, (3) ignore thinking output from the engine, (4) delay
8191 starting the next game if in -matchGames mode, (5) in -zippyPlay mode,
8192 respond to challenges with a polite message to try again soon instead
8193 of accepting them. There are a few more things that should be done
8194 (and item 5 might not be quite what we want), but it's hard to fit
8195 them all into the existing code.
8197 * Patched the version of GNU Chess 5.00 included with WinBoard to
8198 support protover, feature, setboard, and ping, and to fix some minor
8199 bugs. See gnu500+.patch.
8201 * Changed the GNU Chess 4 kludges for missing "st" and "sd" commands
8202 to be invoked only if the engine gives an error message for "st" or
8203 "sd", and to always use protocol commands instead of engine
8204 command-line options. See "Idioms" in engine-intf.html.
8206 * Added new protocol command "protover 2" to tell the engine what
8207 version of the protocol is in use. Version 2 is still compatible with
8208 old engines; see engine-intf.html.
8210 * Add new protocol command "feature ..." The engine can send this in
8211 response to the protover command command, to say what extended
8212 protocol features it would like to enable, etc. xboard responds
8213 "accepted F" or "rejected F" for each feature F that is set. See
8216 * Added new protocol command "setboard <fen>". This is an alternative
8217 to "edit", used only if the engine says "feature setboard=1".
8219 * Added new protocol command "ping <msg>". The engine is supposed to
8220 respond "pong <msg>". This gives us a tool to fix some race
8221 conditions in the protocol, but it is not used to the fullest yet.
8223 * Added new protocol command "tellopponent". This will do a "say" if
8224 you're on a chess server in Zippy mode, or pop up an information
8227 * Added new protocol command "tellall". This will do a "kibitz" if
8228 you're on a chess server in Zippy mode, or pop up an information
8231 * Added new protocol command "tellothers". This will do a "whisper" if
8232 you're on a chess server in Zippy mode, or do nothing otherwise.
8234 * Changed the WinBoard /icsNames, /icsMenu, /firstChessProgramNames,
8235 and /secondChessProgramNames options to accept a filename preceded by
8236 "@", meaning to find the value in the file. Changed the defaults to
8237 use this feature, with filenames icsnames.ini, icsmenu.ini, fcp.ini,
8238 and scp.ini. This should make it easier for users to edit the values,
8239 since one less level of quoting is needed, and each value is in its
8240 own file, not mixed into winboard.ini. Those who upgrade from an
8241 older winboard version and already have a winboard.ini file will not
8242 automatically have these values moved to a file; that has to be done
8245 * We now strip .exe from engine names for "name" command, tags, etc.
8247 * Allowed WinBoard input widget to hold more than one line. You can get
8248 a newline into the widget with copy/paste or with Ctrl+Enter.
8250 * Fixed an xboard bug where the [P] button would appear in the
8251 opposite highlight state from what it should be after being pressed.
8253 * We now use the "/" or "$" alias suppression feature on the chess
8254 servers, to avoid problems if the user inadvertently aliases a
8255 needed command to something else.
8257 * Changed the method used to deiconize xboard in AutoRaise and cmail.
8258 This may fix bugs under some window managers where after
8259 deiconization, the board window was mapped but nothing was drawn
8262 * Preliminary, partial support for playing several chess variants
8263 against a local engine or editing variant games. The -variant option
8264 must be given on the command line or WinBoard startup dialog; there is
8265 no menu. The current variant is not displayed (except in the
8266 Tags/EditTags window). Many variants will not work quite right even
8267 if the engine supports them; see item 326 in the ToDo file for
8270 * Added a workaround to detect the variant type when examining a
8271 scratch wild game on an ICS.
8273 * Fixed two cases where "variant" command should be sent to the engine
8274 when necessary but was not: loading a game from a file and restarting
8275 a dead engine. Thanks to Gian-Carlo Pascutto.
8277 * Added missing support for FICS games that start from a bsetup position
8278 with Black moving first.
8280 * Fixed a bug in loading a file from the game list window while in
8281 Analysis or AnalyzeFile mode. This now leaves us in AnalyzeFile
8282 mode, analyzing the new file.
8284 * Fixed a bug in loading games with a comment before the first move.
8286 * Fixed a bug in handling LoadGame (or -lgf) with -td 0.
8288 * Added a command line option to select an initial minor mode from the
8289 Mode menu. This should satisfy requests from a couple of users with
8290 special applications.
8292 * Fixed a problem where some things in WinBoard's General Options
8293 dialog box were grayed out at the wrong time.
8295 * We look for a few messages from the chess engine pipe that are
8296 intended to catch problems starting an engine via rsh, such as "No
8297 such file". Moved code so that these strings won't match until other
8298 protocol messages have been looked for, and documented the messages in
8301 * Fixed the WinBoard bug that sometimes made the console input box
8302 white-on-white even when not in password-entry mode.
8304 * Small changes to WinBoard to be compilable with the latest Cygwin
8305 net release (as of 10-16-2000). Thanks to Mark Schoenberg.
8307 * Recompiled GNU Chess 5.0 for WinBoard with the latest Cygwin net
8308 release (as of 10-16-2000). Also rebuilt the book just to be sure,
8309 since I had one bug report about it. It came out identical and seems
8312 * Added messages for some common InstallShield errors instead of just
8313 printing InstallShield's stupid error code numbers.
8315 * Added -firstComputerString and -secondComputerString, allowing you
8316 to suppress or change the command that is sent to a chess engine when
8317 its opponent is another computer.
8319 * Added "configure --with-Xaw3d" to allow use of Xaw3d widgets instead
8320 of Xaw widgets in xboard. Thanks to Johnny C. Lam of the NetBSD
8321 project. I've left Xaw as the default because Xaw3d is too ugly.
8323 * The version of the Xaw Form widget released in XFree86 4.0.1
8324 (X11R6.4.3) has a bug that causes xboard to display the button bar
8325 on top of the message widget. I've reported the bug and have
8326 installed a kludge workaround into xboard.
8328 xboard/WinBoard 4.1.0 -- Sun Sep 17 17:30:14 PDT 2000
8331 * Merged Winboard Plus 4.0.8 from Mark Williams into xboard
8332 source pool. Status of Winboard Plus features in xboard:
8334 - White pieces now have borders, but the implementation is
8335 completely different from WinBoard's; see below.
8337 - Options menu not changed, probably won't be.
8339 - Copy&paste support working, using Mark's changes to backend.c, Ben
8340 Nye's changes to xboard.c for FEN positions, and some code of my
8341 own in xboard.c for PGN games.
8343 - Premove hooked up and working. No pre-first-move, though.
8345 - ICS Alarm hooked up and working.
8347 - Auto-flip working.
8349 - PGN Training mode hooked up and working.
8351 - Improved menu item enable/disable working.
8353 - Improved >> button working.
8355 - Auto activate board working. I changed this to be optional; you
8356 might not always want it, especially in Zippy mode.
8358 - Blindfold working.
8360 - Documentation updated.
8362 * Fixed more colorization bugs. Commands like "message foo tells you:
8363 xxx" and "tell 33 tells you: xxx" will no longer generate bogus
8366 * Added low-tech sound support to xboard, by invoking an external
8367 program on a filename for each sound to be played.
8369 * ICC wild 27 is now recognized as VariantAtomic, and it sets the
8370 "ignore check" flag, but is not otherwise supported.
8372 * Converted the piece bitmaps from .bm to .xpm for use with xboard's
8373 xpm support. (An .xim version was not created.) Wrote a shell script
8374 using ImageMagick to do the conversion and to bucket fill from
8375 coordinate 0,0 with the background color. Used xpaint by hand to
8376 clean up a few pieces where background color "leaked" into the inside
8377 or didn't flow all the way around the outside, then a sed script to
8378 fix up color names and bitmap names in the xpaint output. If any more
8379 sizes are added later, they should be straightforward to convert with
8380 reference to the existing scripts. With this conversion, not only do
8381 the white pieces now have dark borders, but (unlike with WinBoard) the
8382 light details on the black pieces are opaque.
8384 * If the XPM library is found when building xboard, the new xpm pieces
8385 are compiled in as the default. External bitmap (or xpm) pieces can
8386 still be used by giving the -bitmapDirectory (or -xpmDirectory)
8387 option. If the XPM library is not found, the old bitmap pieces are
8388 the default. In this case external bitmap (or xim) pieces can be used
8389 by giving the -bitmapDirectory (or -xpmDirectory) option. There is no
8390 way to compile in xim pieces.
8392 Winboard Plus 4.0.8 -- Sat Aug 5 15:51 PDT 2000
8397 * Main menu now visible in Win NT. Thanks to Microsoft for creating a
8398 compiler which auto-mutilates the WinBoard.rc file so that the menu is
8399 displayed under Win 98 but not Win NT. I fixed the problem by hand editing the
8402 * "Reset game" now works properly when invoked from Analysis mode when two
8403 engines are present. Correction of bug introduced in Winboard Plus. Thanks to
8404 Mogens Larsen for reporting the bug.
8406 * Pasting a FEN position with Black to move now works in all modes.
8407 Thanks to Mogens Larsen for reporting the bug.
8409 * Added gnuchess.dat to the distribution and a couple of text files that were
8412 *** Merged in the following changes from Tim Mann:
8414 * Bugfix: Highlights would sometimes not be taken down, at least in
8415 xboard. The problem is that SetHighlight works in chess coordinates,
8416 not view coordinates, so if flipView has been toggled since the
8417 highlight was put up, it gets taken down from the wrong square. Fixed
8418 by being careful to call ClearHighlights before toggling flipView, not
8421 * Bugfix: HighlightLastMove would sometimes highlight square a1 after
8422 a FICS "tomove black" command.
8424 * Bugfix: a move list with initial position that has black to play was
8425 not being handled correctly.
8427 * Removed "decline abort" and "decline adjourn" commands from Zippy.
8428 The syntax is changing on FICS, and Zippy really doesn't have to
8429 explicitly decline the requests anyway; it's sufficient to not accept
8432 * ICC wild 26 is now recognized as VariantSuicide (the FICS name; ICC
8433 calls it "giveaway").
8435 * Bugfix: PGN games with black to move in the initial position weren't
8436 being legality checked correctly. I think this was introduced in
8437 4.0.6 when I fixed a different PGN bug. Thanks to Mark Williams for
8438 spotting the bug and suggesting a fix.
8440 * Bugfix: the initial "name(" of a kibitz wasn't being colorized.
8442 Winboard Plus 4.0.7 -- Thu May 12 17:57 PDT 2000
8445 * New white pieces with black borders.
8447 * Major overhaul to Options menu. New dialogs for setting General Options,
8448 Board Options, ICS Options, Sounds, Fonts, Colors.
8450 * Clipboard support for PGN game scores and FEN positions.
8452 * Optional ICS Premove with user-specified first moves for White and Black.
8454 * New sound events: ICS Win, ICS Loss, ICS Draw, ICS Unfinished, ICS Alarm.
8456 * New auto-flip option when playing against a chess program.
8458 * Added PGN Training mode.
8460 * Certain menu options now disabled while program is thinking.
8462 * ">>" button now always goes to the end of the game.
8464 * In ICS mode, the board is automatically activated at the start of a
8467 4.0.7 -- Sun Mar 5 17:17:49 PST 2000 Tim Mann
8469 * Fixed a nasty bug in parsing ICS game histories that was introduced
8472 4.0.6 -- Fri Mar 3 16:20:11 PST 2000 Tim Mann
8474 * Fixed bugs in Zippy's code for responding to messages sent with the
8475 ICS "message" command.
8477 * Fixed bugs where xboard could still create dialogs partially off the
8478 top of the screen. Fixed unwanted interactions between initial sizes
8479 and positions of various unrelated xboard dialogs. Deleted
8480 borderXoffset and borderYoffset resources.
8482 * Fixed restoring the xterm name on exit to work in more cases.
8484 * Small fix to the WinBoard self-extracting installer: when it starts
8485 up, it now always deletes any old wb-setup directory left over from a
8486 previous installation. Formerly this worked only on Windows 95/98, so
8487 on NT the self-extractor would sometimes stop and ask the user whether
8488 it was OK to overwrite the old wb-setup files.
8490 * Modified WinBoard to be compilable with the free Cygwin tools
8491 available from http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/. Based on work by
8492 Mark Schoenberg. (His mods were enough to get WinBoard through the
8493 compiler, but a few things were broken along the way, so I reworked them.)
8495 * Merged changes from Don Fong to make WinBoard compilable with
8496 Borland C++ 4.5. I do not have Borland C++ and am unable to test with
8497 it, but I did make sure the changes don't stop it working with MSVC++
8500 * Forbade entering TwoMachines mode from MachineWhite or MachineBlack
8501 mode when machine is on move. This used to confuse the engine and
8502 cause problems, because when we try to get the engine to stop, it
8503 might make a move first, and it might not do that immediately.
8505 * Variant classification now deals with new ICC wild 25, classifying
8506 it as "3check". Also, we are now conservative about new wild numbers
8507 we don't know about, classifying them as "unknown" instead of
8510 * Replaced bad GNU Chess 5.00 book in WinBoard distribution with a
8511 correct one. 1.e4 now no longer takes GNU Chess 5.00 out of book!
8512 Thanks to Pete Galati.
8514 * Made move parser accept and ignore nonstandard ep suffix on PGN moves,
8515 e.g., "exf6ep" or "exf6e.p."
8517 * Fixed bugs in parsing PGN files starting with no move number, or
8518 with a move number other than "1." (including "1..."). Thanks to
8519 Michael Soulier and Stefan Zipproth for example PGN files
8520 demonstrating the bugs.
8522 * Changed InitComboStringsFromString to not modify the input string;
8523 this caused an exception when WinBoard was compiled with MSVC++ 6.
8524 Thanks to Bert Tuyt for the report.
8526 * In WinBoard, dragging a piece off the edge of the board without
8527 releasing the mouse button no longer instantly aborts the move. You
8528 still must release the mouse button inside a square to complete a
8529 move, but you can now drag off the edge and come back inside.
8531 * WinBoard bugfix: If you went into EditGame or EditPosition mode
8532 while observing or playing an ICS game, and a new move came in
8533 (snapping you back to ICSClient mode) while you were dragging a piece
8534 around, the drag state would not be reset, causing the piece you were
8535 dragging to remain on the board wherever you dropped it. Thanks to
8536 David Brinegar for the bug report.
8538 * WinBoard bugfix: If you moved or resized the board while your
8539 opponent was moving, and you had AnimateMoving on, his move would not
8540 be displayed until after your next move. Thanks to DAV for reporting
8541 the bug repeatedly until I finally understood it.
8543 * Added a Zippy "farewell" feature; see zippy.README.
8545 * Fixed a bug (xboard only) in processing -zippyReplayTimeout on the
8546 command line. Thanks to Steve Beer for the report and patch.
8548 * Send "computer" command to both sides in TwoMachines matches.
8550 * Fixed a Y2K bug in Evan's cmail code! Thanks to Brian Mays for the
8553 * Bugfix: Initialize variant field of GameInfo struct in gameinfo.c.
8554 This could cause crashes in LoadGame. Thanks to Andrzej Nagorko.
8556 * Fixed several pattern matching problems: Finger notes and formula
8557 vars no longer get replied to by zippyTalk or colorized. Channel
8558 tells by players with many titles are now colorized fully, and
8559 zippyTalk handles channel tells by such players correctly. The shout
8560 "--> foo(99): bar" no longer gets colorized as a channel tell. Code
8561 is cleaned up a bit, and autocomment capture now uses the same
8562 criteria as colorization.
8564 * xboard fix: Enter key now closes error popups as in WinBoard.
8565 Especially nice for the "Exiting: Connection closed by ICS" popup.
8567 4.0.5 -- Tue Dec 7 10:30:40 PST 1999 Tim Mann
8569 * Added missing documentation of SIGTERM usage into engine-intf.html.
8571 * Bugfix: New -zippyReplayTimeout option was misspelled in WinBoard as
8572 -zippyReplyTimeout. Thanks to Francesco Di Tolla.
8574 * xboard -ics now restores the xterm's original title upon exit, at
8575 least if $WINDOWID is set.
8577 * Bugfix: -matchGames mode wasn't terminating properly. Final score
8578 popup would come up twice and engines would not be killed off. Thanks
8579 to Frank Quisinsky for the bug report. Bug was introduced in 4.0.4.
8581 * Bugfix: "tell 50 foo shouts: bar" no longer gets colored as a shout;
8582 similarly for "...s-shouts:" and "...c-shouts:". Thanks to David Lee
8585 4.0.4 -- Fri Dec 3 17:51:27 PST 1999 Tim Mann
8587 * Bug fix: formerly if you invoked SaveGame from EditPosition mode
8588 with black to play, the position was not saved properly. As a quick
8589 fix, SaveGame now takes you out of EditPosition mode before saving.
8591 * Changed -matchGames to keep track of the score (won-lost-drawn) and
8592 display it in the banner. The final score is displayed in a modal
8593 popup before the program exits.
8595 * Changed "Connection closed by ICS" to display in a model popup
8596 before the program exits.
8598 * Added -popupExitMessage option, default on. Setting this to false
8599 suppresses the modal popups that you sometimes get just before
8600 xboard/winboard exits -- both the two new ones listed above and the
8601 existing Fatal Error popup. This is useful when running Zippy
8602 unattended from a shell script (or .bat file) that loops and starts a
8603 new copy after a time delay when there is an error.
8605 * In xboard, added missing support for WM_DELETE_WINDOW to all
8606 windows. This makes xboard a better citizen, and is much needed with
8607 the newer X window managers that put an [X] button on every window and
8608 bind it to "kill application" if the applicationd does not support
8609 "delete window". We can't allow xboard to be thoughtlessly killed,
8610 since that leaves the chess engine running in the background.
8612 * We now avoid positioning tops of xboard dialog boxes offscreen.
8614 * zippy.lines can now use the caret ('^') character as an inter-saying
8615 separator. You no longer need to dig up a text editor that can put NUL
8616 ('\000') characters in text files.
8618 * Bugfix: In traditional chess clock mode, White now gets time added
8619 to its clock as soon as it makes time control. Previously both White
8620 and Black got their time added only when Black made time control,
8621 which would cause some engines to make their 41st move as White too
8622 quickly, thinking they were low on time.
8624 * The zippyAcceptOnly feature no longer sends a decline command or
8625 a tell. Thus you can use it to put Zippy into a manual accept mode.
8627 * Bugfix: "tell 50 foo tells you: bar" no longer gets colored as a
8628 personal tell; similarly for "...whispers:" and "...kibitzes:".
8630 * WinBoard no longer blanks the message line when you start a new
8631 move, unless there was an error message there from the previous move.
8633 * WinBoard now never puts the white piece drop menu on the middle
8634 mouse button. Both colors are always on the right button. Windows
8635 users often don't think to look for a middle button menu, or don't
8636 really have a working middle button despite what Windows says.
8638 * Guest login handles on ICC are now parsed again; an ICC wording
8639 change had broken this feature.
8641 * Autodetect when the engine does not support the "draw" command and
8642 don't relay the command to it in that case. Needed because sending an
8643 unsupported command to GNU Chess makes it move immediately, so people
8644 could make Zippy move without thinking by continually offering a draw.
8645 Thanks to Frank Walker for the problem report.
8647 * Small changes based on code from Robert Jurjevic: The WinBoard
8648 analysis window can be minimized (though not to the taskbar). The
8649 WinBoard ICS Interaction window will autoscroll if you drag the mouse
8650 above or below the window while selecting, and password entry mode
8651 leaves the entry line as the background color instead of using 75%
8652 gray. Seeks are now colorized with a new color of their own.
8654 * Added -zippyMaxGames feature.
8656 * -zippyNoplayCrafty command line option was missing in xboard; fixed.
8657 Thanks to John Perry.
8659 * Fixed bug in detecting when Zippy loses his bughouse partner.
8660 Thanks to Ben Dean-Kawamura.
8662 * allobs fix in 4.0.3 didn't work; corrected it.
8664 * WinBoard will now update the board immediately if a move is made
8665 while the window is being moved or resized.
8667 4.0.3 -- Sun Aug 15 18:44:39 PDT 1999 Tim Mann
8669 * Bugfix: moved winboard wizard functions that send a command directly
8670 to the chess engine from Ctrl+Alt+1 and Ctrl+Alt+2 to Alt+1 and Alt+2.
8671 Ctrl+Alt is equivalent to the European AltGr key, so the old assignments
8672 conflicted with typing an @-sign on some keyboards.
8674 * Bugfix: prevent "If this message stays up, your chess program does
8675 not support analysis" from appearing if AnalysisMode is selected when
8676 already in Analysis or AnalyzeFile mode. Also, deleting analysis window
8677 in WinBoard now switches you to EditGame mode, to avoid the anomaly of
8678 being in an analysis mode with no analysis window present.
8680 * Change all Zippy environment variables to work as command line
8681 options. For now they still work as environment variables too, but
8682 the environment variables are deprecated.
8684 * Use unsigned long to hold node counts from engines.
8686 * Print error instead of crashing on attempts to use xpm or xim pieces
8687 in monochrome mode. Thanks to Jim Torrance for the bug report.
8689 * Tightened pattern recognition for ICS messages sent to Zippy; should
8690 no longer match ICC allobs output. Fixed recognition of when Zippy is
8691 sent a message; small change to FICS output had broken it.
8693 * Zippy now exits if the engine dies unexpectedly.
8695 * Added Zippy "spoofedby" feature; see zippy.README.
8697 * Narrowed the margins on some older WinBoard dialogs to make their
8698 style uniform with the newer ones.
8700 * Bugfix: Changing Ponder Next Move from the Options menu did not take
8701 effect until the next game. This bug was in WinBoard only. Thanks to
8702 Stefan Zipproth for the bug report.
8704 * Got rid of "Internal error: bad move type" message when the engine
8705 makes a move that we can parse but think is illegal. Now the move is
8706 just passed on (which also may be the wrong thing to do).
8708 4.0.2 -- Thu Feb 25 19:55:32 PST 1999 Tim Mann
8710 * Added one more built-in sound choice to WinBoard: move.wav from Pete
8713 * Added new larger piece sizes: big, huge, giant, colossal, titanic.
8715 * Modified the xboard font searcher to be able to use scalable fonts.
8716 The new -fontSizeTolerance flag controls how closely a nonscalable
8717 font must match to be used in preference to a scalable font.
8719 * Zippy environment variables ZIPPYABORT and ZIPPYADJOURN now control
8720 whether Zippy will accept abort and adjourn requests.
8722 * We now determine the variant type being played on ICS, send it as a
8723 command "variant VARTYPE" to the chess engine (if in Zippy mode), and
8724 put it in the PGN tags. See engine-intf.txt for variant names. See
8725 ZIPPYVARIANTS in zippy.README to control what variants Zippy will
8726 accept. Note that this now applies to bughouse, too.
8728 * Zippy now won't do -zippyTalk in a channel unless his handle is
8731 * Zippy now ignores bughouse holdings if not actually playing, instead
8732 of stupidly trying to abort the game. Let me know if other strange
8733 things happen when Zippy is observing a game.
8735 * Set ICS Interaction title bar to "user@server". User name is
8736 determined by parsing message during the login sequence. Zippy now
8737 uses this method to get its name too, so ZIPPYNAME is eliminated.
8738 Problem: with xboard, the title bar gets set to "xterm" upon exit,
8739 since we didn't know what it was to start with.
8741 * Fixed xboard-only bug in -colorChannel1 command line option. Thanks
8742 to Fredrik Sandstrom for the bug report and fix.
8744 * Check for overflow of MAX_MOVES. Still not sure this is checked for
8745 everywhere it needs to be.
8747 * Added .epd to suffixes recognized by WinBoard as position files.
8748 This is a bit of a kludge, as the .fen reading code was not written
8749 with .epd files in mind, but reading them with it is said to work.
8751 * Added ZIPPYGAMESTART feature, suggested by Jason Hoblit. See
8754 * Restored the feature of soaking up the moves from a user-typed "moves",
8755 "oldmoves", or "smoves" ICS command when xboard/WinBoard is idle, but
8756 changed it so that the move list is also echoed to the screen. Some folks
8757 still liked the old feature since it is faster than examine mode, and
8758 printing the moves to the screen should eliminate the confusion it caused
8761 * Bugfix: in WinBoard, starting a click-click move and then clicking on
8762 a black line would cause the source square to be forgotten without taking
8763 the highlight down. Now the errant click is ignored.
8765 * Corrected shortcut key labels for LoadNext/PrevPosition in WinBoard's
8766 File menu. Thanks to Andreas Stabel for the bug report.
8768 * Bugfix: if you had a completely full ICS context menu in WinBoard
8769 (90 items), the last one would do nothing if selected.
8771 * The "computer" engine command added in 4.0.1 was not working; I had
8772 left out part of the code patch. Oops.
8774 4.0.1 -- Fri Feb 12 21:24:15 PST 1999 Tim Mann
8776 This is a minor bugfix release. The first item listed below is the
8777 only interesting new feature.
8779 * You can now type in moves from the keyboard in WinBoard. Either
8780 select TypeInMove from Step menu, or (if you are not in ICS mode),
8781 just start typing. In ICS mode you can type moves into the ICS
8782 interaction window anyway, so I've retained the feature that typing
8783 switches you there. Not implemented in xboard.
8785 * Removed the "noise 1000" command that used to be sent to the chess
8786 engine when entering analysis modes.
8788 * Deleted the feature where we soak up the output of a user-typed ICS
8789 "moves" or "oldmoves" command. This ancient feature is not really
8790 useful anymore, now that "examine" exists, and it caused a lot of
8793 * Increased maximum size of ICS text menu to 90 entries and added
8796 * The command sent to ICS by Zippy at the end of each game can now be
8797 customized with the ZIPPYGAMEEND environment variable.
8799 * We treat xboard.info as a pseudo-source since most people don't have
8800 the tools to rebuild it. But "make install" erroneously had a
8801 dependency on it, even though "make all" did not. Fixed.
8803 * Miscellaneous minor updates and clarifications to engine-intf.txt.
8804 In particular, documented the st and sd commands (support for command
8805 line options -searchTime and -searchDepth), warts and all.
8807 * Added a small code patch from Bob Hyatt to detect when Zippy's ICS
8808 opponent is a computer and send the command "computer" to the engine.
8809 Added this command to engine-intf.txt. Thanks, Bob.
8811 * Bugfix: configure was looking for usleep(), but config.h.in didn't
8812 have an entry for it, so HAVE_USLEEP was never defined. Also, in the
8813 non-HAVE_USLEEP case, there was a possible race condition between the
8814 signal handler and the pause() call. Thanks to Ben Dean-Kawamura for
8817 * Bugfix: a "1..." preceding Black's first move (usually present if
8818 there is a comment on White's first move) would cause the parser
8819 to think a new game started there and report "End of game" on the
8820 current game. Thanks to Dell Garner for the bug report.
8822 * Changed the abbreviation for -searchDepth from -sd to -depth to fix
8823 a clash with -secondDirectory.
8825 * Changed -searchDepth to be orthogonal to the various timing options.
8826 Previously it would search for an unlimited time to the given depth;
8827 now the engine is allowed to choose its search time in the normal way,
8828 but is told to cut off the search early if it reaches the given depth.
8830 * Bugfix: SaveSettings in WinBoard was saving both the long form
8831 option highlightSquareColor and its abbreviation (hsc).
8833 * Fixed a redisplay bug in DisplayBothClocks that could cause White's
8834 clock to be highlighted in EditPosition mode when Black's should have been.
8836 * Fixed Zippy's feature of passing on draw offers from the ICS opponent.
8837 The colorization code was eating the offer before Zippy saw it, so I disabled
8838 colorization of offers while in -zp or -zt mode. (Other types of
8839 colorization are already disabled in Zippy mode for similar reasons.)
8841 * Added some more commands to the default ICS context menu in WinBoard,
8842 and put "(name)" on the ones that insert a playername (or game number).
8844 * Added missing documentation to WinBoard help file: PonderNextMove, the
8845 -ponder/-xponder argument, and the up/down arrow history feature in the
8846 ICS Interaction window.
8848 * Fixed ZIPPYNOPLAYCRAFTY feature to fire only if the opponent is Crafty,
8849 not if some other Crafty is observing the game and kibitzes.
8851 * Fixed bugs in generating "partner" commands when Zippy is playing
8854 4.0.0 -- Sat Jun 20 16:59:47 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
8856 * Fixed WinBoard resizing so that the edges you do not drag remain in
8857 place, even when the final size is different from what you dragged to.
8858 (This doesn't work on NT 3.51 or earlier, if anyone cares.)
8860 * Fixed problems with resizing WinBoard on Windows NT: you no longer get
8861 whitespace around the board, a clipped board, or a lot of flashing during
8864 * Added customization for highlight-square color.
8866 * Bugfix: backend.c wrote to stderr in a few obscure places, which doesn't
8869 * Added Index Number field back to LoadGame/LoadPosition dialog boxes in
8870 WinBoard. This required some extra code to work with both the
8871 Explorer-style dialog boxes and the old-style NT 3.51 dialog boxes. Ugh.
8873 * WinBoard startup dialog now understands -zp mode. The first chess
8874 engine selector is enabled and the value is used.
8876 * Bugfix: ResetGame would send "exit" to engine twice if it was in an
8879 * Bugfix: The response "Illegal move: bk" to the "bk" command, indicating
8880 that it is not implemented, would confuse xboard.
8882 * Bugfix: Ignore empty hints ("Hint:\n") instead of printing a message
8883 saying that some bogus string (often "Hint:") is illegal.
8885 * Bugfix: LoadNextGame/LoadPreviousGame/ReloadSameGame were broken.
8887 3.6.12 -- Sat Jun 13 14:57:10 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
8889 Beta test release of xboard and WinBoard.
8891 * Spruced up xboard man page a bit.
8893 * Added Highlight Last Move to xboard too.
8895 * The revamped xboard mouse click code had several more bugs than the
8896 previous version, so I revamped it again. All fixed now, I hope.
8898 * xboard bugfix: crash in CreatePieceMenu.
8900 * Oops. winboard-3_6_11beta.exe installed 3.6.10beta, not the new version.
8902 3.6.11 -- Fri Jun 12 20:00:48 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
8904 Beta test release of xboard and WinBoard.
8906 * Major reorganization to engine-intf.txt. Some new features added,
8907 many existing features clarified and hints for engine programmers added.
8908 Support for new features added to program.
8910 * Changed defaults for -scp (etc.) back to being independent of -fcp, as
8911 in 3.6.2. That is, the default is no longer to copy the value from -fcp if
8912 -scp is not specified. This will sometimes make command lines longer but
8913 will remove some confusing situations.
8915 * Split -reuseChessPrograms into two options: -reuseFirst and
8916 -reuseSecond. Fixed obscure bugs when reuse is off.
8918 * Detect ICC and change some command usage slightly there: only ICC has
8919 set-quietly; only FICS has iset and bsetup clear. With this feature, we
8920 can now safely use bsetup clear when appropriate instead of deleting each
8923 * Added indent to lines that are wrapped by WinBoard ICS Interaction
8924 window. This seems to tickle a Microsoft bug in the RichEdit control:
8925 occasionally the start of the next line after the wrapped line is indented
8926 too. I think the wrapped indent feature is useful enough that it's worth
8927 having in spite of the bug.
8929 * WinBoard bugfix: bounding box for the board was computed incorrectly by
8930 mouse code. It would think you moved off the bottom of the board before
8931 you really did, so it was hard to drag pieces along the bottom rank on
8932 smaller board sizes.
8934 * Fixed obscure parser.l bug: ambiguity between capture using : instead of
8935 x and email header line. Also removed or simplified a lot of complex
8936 patterns for English (as opposed to PGN) end-of-game indications while I
8939 * Added PonderNextMove option.
8941 * xboard EditPosition piece menus now let you set the side to play by
8942 selecting the "White" or "Black" label at the top of the menu, like
8943 WinBoard. (Both xboard and WinBoard still let you set the side to play by
8944 clicking on the clock.)
8946 * Merged documentation of Crafty and GNU Chess thinking output in
8947 engine-intf.txt. Corrected code in backend.c to match documentation; it
8948 used to require the PV to start in column 27 (!).
8950 * Fixed bug that caused crashes in "-reuseChessProgram false" mode.
8952 * Draw by agreement in Two Machines mode now works as it is supposed to.
8953 Other minor bugs in handling game end messages from machines are also
8954 fixed, and engine-intf.txt is revised in this area.
8956 * Revamped xboard code for handling mouse clicks on the board. In
8957 particular, it had a bug if a click-click promotion move was made.
8959 * Fixed and reinstated optimization for << in analysis modes: send
8960 initString and re-send the board if needed. Sending repeated undos
8961 is bad because Crafty prints some analysis after every one.
8963 * Don't go into a spin loop while pausing between xboard animation frames.
8964 This caused problems, especially when compiling with -O2 on HP-UX.
8966 * WinBoard Options/Colors/RevertToDefaults now also turns off Monochrome
8967 if it was on, and similarly for Options/ICSInteractionColors/RevertToDefaults.
8968 This seemed to confuse people before.
8970 * Bugfix: ICS Interaction context menu items with neither of the two
8971 optional flags set did not work.
8973 * Bugfix: PGN move numbers are optional, but we were insisting on "1"
8974 right after the tags.
8976 * Bugfix: only the first game of an -mg match was loading -lpf or -lgf.
8978 * Other minor fixes and code cleanup.
8980 3.6.10 -- Mon Jun 1 01:32:31 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
8982 * Added ZIPPYNOPLAYCRAFTY feature; see zippy.README.
8984 * Added timestamps for chess engine interaction to -debug output.
8986 * Now allow 10 seconds (was 5) between games in match mode for engines to
8987 respond to "force" command that ended previous game.
8989 * When a game is picked from the game list and the names of White and
8990 Black are known, display them in the window banner instead of the filename
8993 * Changed default for -scp and -sd to be the values of -fcp and -fd.
8995 * Added boxes for both engines to WinBoard startup dialog. Changed to
8996 dropdown boxes whose content can be set from winboard.ini, similar to
8997 the box for ICS name.
8999 * Accept "offer draw" (or "*offer*draw*") from engine to offer a draw.
9001 * Accept "move mmmm" from engine as well as silly "1. ... mmmm" syntax.
9003 * Added support for bughouse engines (Zippy mode only).
9005 * Move bombproofing for engines sending illegal or out of turn moves.
9007 * Always send "xboard\n" to engine as first command. Eliminates need
9008 to run crafty as "crafty xboard".
9010 * Rewrote xboard code for input from engines to fix longstanding bugs.
9011 Previously an engine that sent one line in two separate writes with
9012 some time lapse in between (or perhaps that sent several lines in one
9013 write) could make xboard hang. WinBoard did not have this bug.
9015 * Fixed minor bugs in dealing with illegal moves.
9017 * Added "iset startpos 1" for FICS.
9019 * Removed special support to put "GNU Chess" or "Crafty" in the window
9020 banner instead of the engine's base filename. This gives a more level
9021 playing field for other engines. Also fixed bugs in the code that finds the
9022 engine's base filename.
9024 * Bugfix: Abort or Resign at the very start of a game in chess engine mode
9025 would fail to send "force" to the engine.
9027 * Fixed some minor bugs in new "result" messages, and changed format to
9028 include a trailing PGN comment giving the reason the game ended.
9030 * Changed syntax of /font options in WinBoard; old syntax was assuming
9031 that a font name can't contain a digit, which is wrong. Old font names in
9032 WinBoard.ini files are still accepted.
9034 * Serious further work on getting WinBoard to read/write files in the
9035 "right" directories and documenting exactly what it does.
9037 * Added LoadPreviousPosition, LoadNextPosition, ReloadSamePosition.
9039 * Misc. tiny fixes and cleanup.
9041 3.6.9 -- Sun May 24 20:53:08 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
9043 xboard and WinBoard beta release.
9045 * Tightened up illegal move handling. Illegal or meaningless moves from a
9046 file or chess engine should no longer get translated into a1a1 and blindly
9047 applied. Explicit moves to the same square (like a1a1) no longer make the
9048 piece on that square capture itself and vanish.
9050 * Added AlwaysOnTop feature to winboard.
9052 * Fixed bug in winboard "@" command line indirection operator.
9054 * Removed buggy "optimization" code for ToStart in analysis modes.
9056 * Fixed typo bug in zippy.c that would often cause winboard to crash
9057 right after starting a game in -zp mode.
9059 3.6.8 -- Sat May 23 22:23:19 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
9061 xboard and WinBoard beta release.
9063 * Added -firstDirectory and -secondDirectory so that chess engines can
9064 be started in a different directory from xboard/WinBoard itself.
9066 * Added -matchGames to allow more than one game in -matchMode. The games
9067 are played with colors alternating between the two chess engines. Had to
9068 add a time delay at the end of each game to catch up with game ending
9069 messages from both chess engines -- yuck.
9071 * Changed TwoMachines mode to have firstChessProgram play White by
9072 default. Added -firstPlaysBlack to restore old behavior.
9074 * Major rework of code in backend.c for dealing with first and second
9075 chess engines. Generalized the code and created a struct type with one
9076 instance for each engine. Several small bugs fixed along the way.
9078 * Fixed bugs in Abort in local chess engine mode.
9080 * Tightened pattern matching to recognize moves from machine. Should cure
9081 bogus "Illegal move" errors while Crafty is pondering with Show Thinking
9082 on, among other things.
9084 * WinBoard keeps focus in board window after popping up a comment due to
9085 Forward/Backward/ToStart/ToEnd commands.
9087 * Finally got rid of warnings on compiling moves.c under Windows.
9089 * Fixed so WinBoard will compile on machines where WM_MOUSELEAVE is not
9092 * Removed various bits of unused code.
9094 * Parse (and ignore) NAGs in PGN files.
9096 * Updated engine-intf.txt.
9098 * Send "result R" to the chess program at the end of each game, where
9099 R is the PGN result 1-0, 0-1, 1/2-1/2, or *.
9101 * Bugfix: suppress animation when loading a game with timeDelay=0.
9103 * Bug fix: pondering output from Crafty that contained "..." could be
9104 mistaken for a move, causing bogus error messages and general chaos.
9106 * xboard "make clean" bug fix: moved things created by configure to be
9107 removed only by "make distclean".
9109 * Fixed a remaining case where move was being animated before being
9110 relayed to opponent.
9112 * Backend was reversing time/otim commands to the chess program (new bug),
9113 and was often not sending them on the first move of a game or the first
9114 move after a mode change (old bug). Fixing the latter required a kludge
9115 to work with both GNU Chess and Crafty, because Crafty swaps white and
9116 black clock times when it swaps sides, while GNU Chess does not. The
9117 kludge is that we always make sure the chess engine thinks its opponent is
9118 on move before we set the clock. This will sometimes result in sequences
9119 like "white\ntime xxx\notim yyy\nblack\ngo", or the same with white and
9122 * Removed last trace of old -whiteString and -blackString arguments.
9124 * Fixed so that you can type "bd" into the Direct Command dialog when
9125 debugging gnuchess, without having xboard parse the clock display
9126 (starting with "White") as "White wins" and end the game.
9128 * Changed moves.c to make a distinction between IllegalMove (where we
9129 could tell what move was intended, but it violates the chess rules) and
9130 MeaninglessMove (where we could not tell). This is a step towards getting
9131 rid of cases where we translate meaningless moves into "a1a1", but some
9132 work is probably needed to track them all down.
9134 * Fixed bug in WinBoard monoMode dragging.
9136 * Changed WinBoard to new style file dialogs. In the process, disabled
9137 the feature that let you enter the index number of a game or position within
9138 the file in the dialog. This is no loss in LoadGame, as you can pick your
9139 game from the game list dialog that follows, but it does remove some
9140 functionality from LoadPosition.
9142 3.6.7 -- Mon May 18 21:25:00 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
9144 xboard and WinBoard beta test release. I've been unable to reproduce some
9145 reported drawing bugs, so they may still not be fixed.
9147 * Changed PopUpErrors option to PopupMoveErrors, which is more useful, and
9148 changed default to off. Errors other than move errors should always be in
9149 popups; they are often too big for the message area and too important to
9150 put where they can be easily missed. But it seems good to get rid of the
9151 popups for move errors by default.
9153 * xboard analysis window no longer forces itself to top whenever there is
9154 new output. Also, now uses built-in Xaw word wrapping instead of trying
9155 to do its own; works better.
9157 * Bugfix: Reset did not take Crafty out of analyze mode.
9159 * A chess engine no longer has to claim to be Crafty to be able to use
9160 AnalysisMode and AnalyzeFile; it just has to implement the analyze
9161 command as Crafty does. Put in heuristics to generate more informative
9162 error messages if the engine does not support analyze, and checked that
9163 they work at least with GNU Chess.
9165 * Added click-click moving, HighlightLastMove, and HighlightDragging to
9166 WinBoard. The highlight features are unlikely to go into xboard unless
9167 the xboard drawing code is cleaned up to do *all* drawing on the board
9168 from DrawPosition, as WinBoard does. This is low priority for me.
9170 * Eliminated bogus "Error gathering move list: no header" popup. You
9171 could get this by observing two fast games at once without turning off
9174 * Disable WinBoard Sounds menu entirely in -ncp mode, since not even
9175 MoveSound is used in that mode.
9177 * WinBoard bugfix: Several problems were caused if the user changed
9178 WinBoard's current directory in a Load, Save, or Browse dialog. In
9179 particular, WinBoard.ini would get saved in the wrong directory, and
9180 sound .wav file names would not get saved with a full pathname. I think
9181 all such problems are now fixed.
9183 * WinBoard bugfix: iconizing the board after an aborted mouse resize would
9184 (partially) resize it to Tiny.
9186 * WinBoard bugfix: board was not being drawn in color on 256-color
9187 displays. This bug was introduced in 3.6.6.
9189 3.6.6 -- Tue May 12 17:43:43 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
9191 xboard and WinBoard beta release. Note: not all reported bugs are fixed.
9193 * Move animation in WinBoard, programmed by Henrik Gram. Great stuff!
9195 * Animate backward moves too.
9197 * xboard bugfix: -font (and friends) can now specify a font alias (such
9198 as "fixed"), not just a full X Consortium name pattern. Previously this
9199 would give a resource conversion error message.
9201 * Some coding style cleanup in xboard.c.
9203 * Earlier error check for moving wrong color piece in EditGame mode.
9205 * Completed fix to pattern matching; see 3.6.5.
9207 * Fixed some software rot bugs in Zippy.
9209 * Split AnimateDragging as separate option from AnimateMoves.
9211 * Added FlashMoves to options menu and -flash/-xflash to command line
9212 options (xboard only).
9214 * Some preliminary work on visible bughouse holding support. Most of the
9215 code is not present in this release because I have not gotten it working
9216 properly yet; my first approach went down a blind alley and I had to
9217 remove most of the partially working code in preparation for a rewrite.
9219 3.6.5 -- Fri May 8 14:22:09 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
9221 Not generally released.
9223 * Pack bughouse holdings display in banner more tightly when board is one
9224 of the smaller sizes (when smallLayout or tinyLayout is true, that is).
9225 An interim measure, but should help.
9227 * Completed fix to make move list parsing recognize the end condition and
9230 * Fixed pattern matching for chatter (tells, etc.) to be more reliable.
9231 This should reduce the incidence of colors starting in the wrong place and
9232 of incorrectly matching things that look like other patterns inside
9233 chatter, such as "shout <12>". (These errors were already rare.)
9235 * WinBoard now lets you customize the list of ICS's in the startup dialog.
9236 For now, at least, requires editing WinBoard.ini with a text editor.
9238 * Bug fix: WinBoard window sizing and position setting save/restore did
9239 not work right when the taskbar was at the top (or left side) of the
9240 screen and not in autohide mode.
9242 * Merged xboard click/click mode and drag mode, and deleted
9243 ClickClickMoving option on menu. Now if you click on a piece, it
9244 highlights and a further click on another square will move it. (A second
9245 click on the same square takes down the highlight.) Or if you press down
9246 on a piece and start to drag, you can drag it to a new square.
9248 * When making click/click style moves, if your second click is on a piece
9249 of the same color, instead of saying "Illegal move", we now cancel the first
9250 starting square, replace it with the second, and wait for another click to
9253 * Separate -secondInitString. Default: same as -initString. Suggested by
9256 * Patch from Frank McIngvale to make animation work with XIMs. Yay!
9258 * Changed move animation to happen after move is passed on to ICS or the
9259 chess engine, where applicable. Fixed problems with updating moveList
9260 that this uncovered.
9262 * Changed game list to show PGN result token for each game.
9264 * The usual minor bug fixes.
9266 3.6.4 -- Thu Apr 30 23:14:43 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
9268 xboard and WinBoard beta test release.
9270 * xboard documentation updated, both man page and info file. An attempt
9271 to generate both from the same source with LinuxDocSGML was abandoned, at
9272 least for now. WinBoard doc updated too.
9274 * Merged updates to animation code from Hugh. Fixed a couple of remaining
9275 bugs, mostly to do with handling Pause mode correctly.
9277 * Added SaveSettingsOnExit to WinBoard.
9279 * WinBoard now saves the last screen position of the Comment, Edit Tags,
9280 Game List, and Analysis windows (in addition to the board and ICS
9281 Interaction windows) in WinBoard.ini.
9283 * WinBoard now provides a way to customize the right-button context menu
9284 in the output area of the ICS Interaction window. For now, requires
9285 editing WinBoard.ini with a text editor.
9287 * Various minor fixes to ICS message recognition, most affecting only Zippy.
9289 * Colorize the notification when someone sends you a message while you are
9290 logged in, not the output of the "messages" command.
9292 * Fixed colorization to turn off at the right place more reliably.
9294 * Added a new color and WinBoard sound for "requests": abort, adjourn,
9295 draw, pause, and takeback. The same color and sound are used for all of
9298 * Added GUI to change sounds in WinBoard.
9300 * Suppressed WinBoard error popup when a sound can't be played. They were
9301 popping up when two separate WinBoards tried to play a sound at the same
9302 time (such as during a bughouse match).
9304 * Fixed WinBoard crash when a sound file didn't exist.
9306 * WinBoard ports of timestamp and timeseal now produce decent error
9307 messages if they fail to connect, and WinBoard captures the messages and
9308 puts them into a popup. Previously WinBoard would exit with no message on
9311 * WinBoard resizing with mouse improved; now accurately picks the largest
9312 size that fits in the new area.
9314 * Added option to turn off error message popups.
9316 * Added sizes slim, dinky, and teeny.
9318 * Fixed some minor problems with error message wording.
9320 3.6.3 -- Mon Feb 23 19:08:57 PST 1998 Tim Mann
9322 xboard beta test release only. Man page is updated for the changes, but info
9325 * Bug fix: LoadGame could not load a PGN game whose first move was
9326 castling (which is possible from setup positions).
9328 * Bug fix: we were ignoring illegal move messages from chess engines in
9329 modes where the engine is refereeing but not participating (EditGame,
9330 LoadGame, AnalyzeFile). The problem was in a workaround for a Crafty bug,
9331 where Crafty generates a bogus illegal move message if a "." (used by
9332 the PeriodicUpdates feature) is sent in analysis mode when the current
9333 analysis reveals a forced mate. Installed a different workaround (that
9334 works in most but not all cases) and reported the Crafty bug. Bob Hyatt
9335 replied with a fix, so the Crafty bug should be gone in Crafty 14.12 or so.
9337 * WinBoard only: enabled resizing board with the mouse. It snaps to the
9338 nearest (but not too much larger) predefined size.
9340 * The xboard default font is now sized according to piece size, just as
9341 clockFont and coordFont have always been.
9343 * Added more sizes: bulky, moderate, average, middling, mediocre, petite.
9345 * xboard only: Added Animate Moves and Click-Click Moving to Options menu.
9347 * xboard only: Added code to animate piece movement, from Hugh Fisher.
9349 * New feature: autoflag is implemented in MachineWhite, MachineBlack, and
9350 TwoMachines modes. If it is on and either a chess program or the user
9351 oversteps his time, xboard will automatically call the flag and end the
9352 game. This feature was requested by someone who runs matches between
9353 programs and wants to penalize GNU Chess for its habit of running slightly
9354 over at the end of a time control. I personally think it's pointless.
9356 * Fixed a bug in Zippy's pattern matching; he can now reply to ICC
9359 * Generate prettier notation for illegal moves. If a move is illegal only
9360 because it leaves the player in check, generate notation as if that were
9361 not illegal. For instance, if two knights are a knight's move away from
9362 f3, one on g1 and one on e5 that is pinned, the notation would be Nf3 to
9363 move the g1 knight, Nef3 to move the e5 knight. (Suggested by Philippe
9364 Schnoebelen.) In addition, if a move is illegal because the type of piece
9365 moved cannot go that way, would be jumping over another piece, etc., we
9366 give fully disambiguated coordinate notation; for example, Ng1g3, Ke1xe8,
9367 d2xd8=Q, etc. An alternative would be to still write Ng3 if there is only
9368 one knight on the board, or Ngg3 if the other knight is not on the g file,
9369 but life is too short to code up all this stuff, and perhaps the way I did
9370 it is better as it emphasizes that this move was really made despite being
9371 illegal. I wonder if the new PGN standard revision will speak to notation
9374 * Fixed gross bug from 3.6.2: if a chess program said "checkmate" and
9375 White was left on move, the PGN outcome was "1-0 {Black mates}" instead
9376 of "0-1 {Black mates}"! The bug occurred only for that specific string.
9378 3.6.2 -- Wed Jul 23 16:47:29 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
9380 * There was a bug in backing up from the end of a game against a chess
9381 engine, introduced when -reuse mode was added. Fixed.
9383 * Recognize "{" as terminating an ICS move list. Previously we needed to
9384 see a prompt (containing %), but occasionally ICC can send more stuff
9385 right after a move list with no prompt in between.
9387 * In WinBoard, -mm now implies -cp, so you don't get the startup dialog.
9389 * WinBoard startup dialog no longer sets -scp. People used to get
9390 confused because they would give the -fcp and -scp arguments, but omit
9391 -cp. This would bring up the startup dialog, which would set both -fcp
9392 and -scp to the value in the engine name box. Now you can change -scp
9393 only with the command-line argument. That will confuse some people too,
9394 but hopefully fewer. I think overall it's better than putting spaces for
9395 both -fcp and -scp in the dialog, which would puzzle newbies.
9397 * Bug fix: Analyze File mode now works in WinBoard.
9399 * Bug fix: WinBoard window no longer cuts off part of the bottom row if
9400 the menu bar wraps to a second line.
9402 * Accept game end messages of the form "PGN-result {comment}" from the
9403 chess engine, where PGN-result is 0-1, 1-0, or 1/2-1/2. Accept "resign"
9404 or "computer resigns" from the chess engine as a synonym for "0-1 {White
9405 resigns}" or "1-0 {Black resigns}". Accept any message from the chess
9406 engine containing "game is a draw" as a synonym for "1/2-1/2 {Draw}".
9407 Accept "White resigns" or "Black resigns".
9409 * Enable "Action / Draw" menu item in chess engine mode. It sends the
9410 command "draw" to the engine. Accept any message from the chess engine
9411 containing "offers a draw" as a draw offer. WARNING: Draw offers from the
9412 user and the engine (or from two engines) are not yet matched up by xboard
9413 in chess engine mode. Two engines could get into a loop offering each
9416 * Bug fix: Game end messages from the chess engine are always ignored in
9417 Zippy mode. Previously they could sometimes be processed, which was
9418 sometimes making Zippy hang at the start of a new game that followed
9419 quickly after an old one.
9421 * Zippy can now respond to titled players in channels. Zippy will avoid
9422 talking to himself in a channel if he knows his own name.
9424 * Bug fix: in colorization arguments, the bold setting was being ignored
9425 if the background color was defaulted. (xboard only.)
9427 * Extended ParseFEN to accept Crafty 12.2's interpretation of FEN.
9428 If fewer than 8 squares are given in a row, or fewer than 8 rows are
9429 given, the uncovered squares are empty. Also, there can be a / after the
9432 3.6.1 -- Sat May 17 01:02:33 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
9434 * Bug fix: Hitting escape while entering a password on WinBoard no longer
9435 sets the font color back to black (which made further typing visible).
9437 * Bug fix: On Windows NT 4.0, WinBoard /ics /icshelper=timestamp would
9438 often hang if you tried to exit with the Exit menu item, the [X] button,
9439 etc. The same fix may also have corrected the problem where running a
9440 chess program with /xreuse would sometimes crash Windows 95 (but not NT)
9441 when the chess program was killed and quickly restarted.
9443 * Bug fix: Periodic Updates would not work if turned on after having been
9444 off. Also, the default was needlessly "off" in WinBoard.
9446 * Zippy bug fix: Continuing an adjourned game was totally broken. The
9447 wrong moves, or no moves at all, were being fed to the chess program.
9449 * WinBoard change: Giving -ics without -icshost now pops up the startup
9450 dialog with "Use an Internet Chess Server" pre-selected, so that you get a
9451 menu of chess servers instead of going directly to ICC.
9453 * Bug fix: WinBoard's SaveSettings was saving -icshost, -icsport, and
9454 -icshelper in winboard.ini. This causes a problem if you use a different
9455 icshost later that needs the default values for icsport (5000) and
9456 icshelper ("", meaning none).
9458 * Disabled complaints about unexpected "[Ii]llegal move" messages from
9459 the chess program; we still get them at times.
9461 * Greatly simplified the code for Move Now and SIGINT (ATTENTION). Fixes
9462 the bug where Move Now did not work with GNU Chess in WinBoard, and
9463 several more obscure bugs as well. Reintroduces a minor bug: GNU Chess might
9464 not think on your time after a Move Now command. Trying to fix this
9465 causes too many other problems. Documented change in engine-intf.txt.
9467 * Cleaned up code for obtaining ratings from ICS. It was kludgey and may
9468 have had bugs on systems with no "Creating:" message. It should fail
9469 gracefully there, just not finding the ratings.
9471 3.6.0 -- Thu May 8 19:55:58 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
9473 * WinBoard now has right-button context menus in the ICS Interaction
9474 window. Some of the items do immediate commands on the player name you
9475 have selected or pointed to. (Suggested by Paolo Casaschi.) Also, the
9476 middle button or shift+right does a immediate Copy and Paste.
9478 * Fixed a bug in Zippy's wild rejection. The bug was causing Zippy to
9479 reject all forms of wild. Now it rejects only 1, 9, 16, 17, and 24, as
9480 was intended. These variants have different rules, while the other
9481 variants defined so far only have different starting positions.
9482 (Actually, wild 2, 3, and 4 never allow castling, but may sometimes by
9483 chance have king and rook start on squares where castling appears legal.
9484 This could cause a problem later.)
9486 * Zippy now resumes adjourned games by feeding the chess program
9487 the move list instead of the position. Setting -getMoveList to False
9488 restores the old behavior. Feeding in the move list is better because
9489 it enables the chess program to correctly handle en passant legality,
9490 castling legality, draw by repetition, and draw by the 50 move rule.
9492 * Added a WinBoard startup dialog for people who run WinBoard.exe without
9493 using the Start menu or reading the help file. Instead of being dumped
9494 directly into GNU Chess mode, you now get a menu of choices. You now have
9495 to give the new WinBoard -cp option to go directly into chess engine mode.
9496 I did not add this feature to xboard.
9498 * Handling of "illegal move" from Crafty is now back on. (It was turned
9499 off in 3.4.6; see below.) Crafty 12.0 doesn't seem to send bogus ones
9500 anymore. I did have to suppress sending time and otim in analyze mode to
9501 make this work, but there is no harm in that.
9503 * Zippy now sends "gameend" to ICS at the end of each game. You can alias
9504 this to "seek" or whatever you like.
9506 * Added Crafty support for Move Now, using the "?" command. We test
9507 whether this command exists by trying it once at the start of the first
9508 game, before it really makes sense. If we don't get a message like
9509 "Illegal move ... ?", we assume it's OK. (We're careful about this
9510 because sending a "?" to GNU Chess on Move Now keeps it from pondering the
9511 next move as it should.)
9513 * Added support for a tellusererror command from the chess engine. See
9516 * Attempted to make engine-intf.txt complete.
9518 * Minor fixes/cleanup to GameEnds code, to be sure we always interrupt
9519 when needed, and always undo an extra move generated by stopping the chess
9520 program while it is thinking.
9522 3.5.7 -- Sat May 03 22:37:44 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
9524 Beta release of both xboard and WinBoard.
9526 * Updated xboard documentation. I really wish the man page was built from
9527 the info file instead of being separate! It's a pain to update them both.
9529 * Updated documentation of the interface between XBoard/WinBoard and chess
9530 programs, and renamed it to engine-intf.txt.
9532 * Added support for tellics, telluser, and askuser commands from the chess
9533 engine. See engine-intf.txt.
9535 * Various bug fixes. On WinBoard, 256 color displays are finally handled
9536 right; no more color flashing when you switch windows unless the colors
9537 really need to be updated. Also, I think the problem of the console font
9538 failing to change or changing back by itself is finally fixed.
9540 3.5.6 -- Tue Apr 29 03:08:00 PDT 1997
9542 Beta release, WinBoard only. ChangeLog was out of date in release,
9545 * Added ICC timestamp and FICS timeseal to WinBoard distribution. These
9546 are my own ports to Win32, based on and used by permission of the owners
9547 of the proprietary source code (Daniel Sleator for timestamp, Henrik Gram
9548 for timeseal). The owners permit these programs to be distributed only in
9549 binary form (to help prevent cheating), so to avoid running afoul of the
9550 GPL, I have kept them as separate programs, not linked into the WinBoard
9551 address space. Updated Start menu icons to use them.
9553 * Miscellaneous smaller changes.
9555 3.5.5 -- Fri Apr 25 03:06:00 PDT 1997
9557 Beta release, WinBoard only. ChangeLog was out of date in release;
9560 * Added simple sound support to WinBoard.
9562 * Updated WinBoard documentation.
9564 * Internal implementation of the telnet protocol is now more complete.
9565 You can now hop through a VMS host on the way to ICS. For example, do
9566 "xboard -ics -icshost vms.host.edu -icsport 23", then log in. Do not use
9567 the -telnet flag; that says to use an *external* telnet program. To avoid
9568 double echoes, you need to force character mode in VMS telnet after
9569 connecting from VMS to ICS. Do "^]^Mset mode char^M^M".
9571 * Display opponent names in the title bar for MachineWhite, MachineBlack,
9572 and TwoMachines modes.
9574 * WinBoard now has an installer, built with InstallShield. The installer
9575 works with a binary-only distribution. Sources are still freely
9576 available, but now separately.
9578 * Added SaveSettings to WinBoard, which saves current option settings to
9579 winboard.ini. Made sure all options can be saved and loaded, including
9580 fonts and com port settings.
9582 * If the game ends while you are dragging a piece, we now don't let you
9583 finish the move. Formerly the move was accepted and your opponent's clock
9584 would start running again.
9586 3.5.4 -- Fri Apr 18 01:15:24 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
9588 Beta test release of WinBoard and xboard. The documentation remains
9591 * Many fixes and improvements to new WinBoard user interface code.
9593 * In Zippy mode, avoid sending another copy of the same move to the chess
9594 program if ICS sends us another copy of the board image. Hard to believe
9595 it took me until now to diagnose and fix this problem!
9597 3.5.3 -- Sat Apr 12 19:49:33 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
9599 Beta test release of WinBoard and xboard.
9601 * Fixed fatal bug in WinBoard input handling.
9603 * Made code to stop chess program for reuse a bit smarter. Removed kludge
9604 of "white" in initString; it didn't work well, and is unneeded
9605 with Crafty 11.21 and later.
9607 3.5.2 -- Sat Apr 12 15:40:01 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
9609 Beta test release of WinBoard.
9611 * Ignore check and permit promotion to King during suicide games; no need
9612 to turn off TestLegality.
9614 * Renamed CheckLegality to TestLegality to avoid confusion with the chess
9617 * Added Rematch to Action menu.
9619 * WinBoard now has a custom ICS interaction window with scrollback, a
9620 separate line for input, and colorization. Accelerators that conflict
9621 with normal editing keys were changed (by requiring Alt+) so they can work
9622 in both the console and the main window.
9624 * WinBoard error popups are now non-modal and disappear when you make a
9625 new move, as in xboard.
9627 * Configure now defaults to --disable-ptys on all systems. If anyone has
9628 an ancient SysV system where pipes don't work with select, they can still
9629 do "configure --enable-ptys" explicitly. I would appreciate getting a bug
9630 report if this happens to anyone, with complete output from configure and
9633 * "make install" now makes the installation directories too.
9635 * Fixed a bug that would cause an "Illegal move" message for Black from
9636 GNU Chess to be incorrectly considered bogus.
9638 * Handle name changes during an ICS game (FICS bname and wname commands).
9640 * You can force both chess programs to be killed at the end of each game
9641 by turning off the reuseChessPrograms option. There are still some
9642 problems with reusing Crafty even in version 11.20.
9644 * Now the second chess program stays around by default too, if it ever
9647 3.5.1 -- Sat Apr 5 16:47:48 PST 1997 Tim Mann
9651 * Don't kill off and restart the chess program for each game; keep the
9652 same one running, using the "new" command to start a new game. This
9653 change works around the problem in Windows 95 that makes WinBoard crash it
9654 at times, and is generally desirable to make new games start faster. The
9655 second chess program (for TwoMachines) is still killed at the end of the
9656 game, and unfortunately this can still crash Windows 95. Temporarily
9657 added "white" to the initString to make this work with Crafty 11.20, which
9658 has a minor bug in "new". Older versions of Crafty have worse bugs in
9659 "new"; they should not be used with this version of xboard.
9661 * Support for FICS suicide chess: Parse illegal moves (that leave King in
9662 check) in game history. If CheckLegality is off, allow promotion to King
9663 and illegal moves in game files. We still generate e2e4 style notation
9666 * Handle FICS "has timeseal; checking" message.
9668 * Changed the coords from white back to black; this was a bug.
9670 * Fixed problems compiling with K&R compilers.
9672 * Fixed an old bug in RegisterMove that was crashing cmail on some systems
9675 3.5.0 -- Thu Jan 2 16:59:49 PST 1997 Tim Mann
9677 Thanks to Frank McIngvale for much of the work on versions 3.4.4 and above!
9679 * Fix Crafty resumed game time bug (frankm)
9681 * Word wrap text in Analysis window (frankm)
9683 * More debug info for XPM loading (frankm)
9685 * Replaced config.sub, config.guess, etc., with up-to-date versions from
9686 autoconf 2.12. Hopefully this will fix problems on Pentium Pro machines.
9688 * Removed some Makefile gunk that was causing looping for one person.
9690 3.4.7 -- Thu Dec 19 14:22:41 PST 1996 Tim Mann
9692 All changes from Frank:
9694 * Retrieve ratings from ICC (and FICS, etc., when they add the Creating:
9695 message), save them in the PGN tags, and pass them to Crafty in Zippy mode.
9697 * Add settable time delay between characters in ICS login script.
9699 * Colorize messages like personal tells. Fix false recognition of channel
9702 * Pass "tells" from Crafty through to ICS (in Zippy mode).
9704 * Implement ~/ filename convention from C shell for game and position file
9707 * ZIPPYACCEPTONLY feature for testing.
9709 3.4, patchlevel 6 -- Sat Nov 23 16:58:50 PST 1996 Tim Mann
9711 * Put recognition of "illegal move" messages from Crafty for
9712 illegal castling, etc., inside an #if that is currently turned off,
9713 because of a bug in Crafty that generates bogus "illegal move" messages
9714 after some moves that are actually legal and accepted by Crafty.
9716 * Added -checkLegality option; previously this could not be turned off.
9718 * Fixed an old bug in finding default board size parameters.
9720 * Differentiated among channel tell, kibitz/whisper, and personal tell/say.
9722 * Fixed a bug in detecting Xpm in the configure script.
9724 3.4, patchlevel 5 -- Mon Nov 18 16:22:53 PST 1996 Tim Mann
9726 * Added zic2xpm to the kit; it had been omitted by mistake.
9728 * Added some default colors for -colorize
9730 3.4, patchlevel 4 -- Sat Nov 16 18:10:17 PST 1996 Tim Mann
9732 This is meant to be a beta release in preparation for version 3.5.
9734 * Added InfoXBoard and ManXBoard to the Help menu.
9736 * Made Frank's ICS input box optional, defaulting to off.
9738 * Merged in Frank McIngvale's XbKit. Many new features, including
9739 -clickClick mode, the Analysis modes, piece flashing, ZIICS import,
9740 ICS text colorization, and the ICS input box. Many thanks to Frank for
9741 supplying and documenting this code.
9743 3.4, patchlevel 3 -- Mon Nov 11 18:23:14 PST 1996 Tim Mann
9745 Small set of changes made while Frank McIngvale was working on XbKit in
9746 parallel. Unreleased in this form.
9748 * Updated zippy.README.
9750 * Removed useless X event handler and removed strange code for copying
9751 form translation table to board that worked around the bug it caused.
9752 This makes changing bindings in .Xdefaults more straightforward.
9754 * Now pressing the Control key steps back one move, and releasing it steps
9757 * Moved quit from "q" to "Q" for greater safety.
9759 * Use "unobserve" instead of "observe" to stop observing; needed on FICS.
9761 * Support for interface variable.
9763 * Strip titles from people who are talking to us, so (for example) Zippy
9764 won't try things like "tell Darooha(*) hello". Needed on FICS.
9766 3.4, patchlevel 2 -- Tue Jul 9 19:06:42 PDT 1996 Tim Mann
9768 This patchlevel is not planned to be an announced release. It's in
9769 preparation for integrating Frank McIngvale's XbKit. It mostly contains
9770 minor fixes I've accumulated since 3.4.pl1.
9772 * WinBoard /telnet option now fires up an external program, as
9773 with xboard, instead of trying to use a feature of NT 3.1 that does not
9774 exist in later versions of NT or in Windows 95. ChangeLog for 3.4.pl1
9775 said this had been implemented there, but it really wasn't.
9777 * Indicating player to move by the icon color now works under Windows 95.
9779 * WinBoard now kills the chess program when you exit using the system menu
9780 or the [X] button. Thanks to Michael Lowe.
9782 * Minor changes to Zippy, including: Now understands wild challenges on
9783 FICS; these used to crash it. Removed limit on how fast a game will be
9784 accepted. Use "set formula ..." on the chess server to limit this if you
9785 are using GNU Chess. Now sends correct opponent name to Crafty.
9787 * Added some missing default values to documentation. Thanks to Stuart
9790 * Bugfix: Trying to print "No fonts match pattern" error message would
9791 crash. This can happen to Linux users who don't install Helvetica, for
9794 * Bugfix: Defaulting feature in -size n,n,n,n,n,n would put us in an
9797 * Added more directories to search for Athena widgets on HPUX.
9799 * New cmail (3.12) from Evan Welsh; includes small fix from Kayvan Sylvan.
9801 * Recognize "illegal move" messages from Crafty for illegal castling, etc.
9803 * Bugfix: "name" command added to zippy.c for Crafty was producing error
9804 message if GNU Chess was in use.
9806 * In bughouse mode, suppress holding messages from console window; show
9807 holdings only in banner.
9809 * Minor fixes/cleanup to Makefile.in and configure.in.
9811 3.4, patchlevel 1 -- Mon Dec 11 13:43:12 PST 1995 Tim Mann
9813 * This patchlevel updates WinBoard to match xboard, and includes a few
9814 fixes and minor improvements. "-size tiny" and "-size n,n,n,n,n,n"
9815 are still not implemented for WinBoard.
9817 * Installed support for Crafty based on code from Bob Hyatt.
9818 Currently the only documentation for this is in the FAQ, and a few
9819 things don't work with Crafty 8.23. Please do not report these
9820 problems as bugs in either xboard or Crafty. Bob and I know about
9821 them. The worst ones (if not all of them) should be fixed in Crafty
9824 * Changed the kludge command we send when gnuchess wants to print
9825 something that doesn't end with a newline, from "help" to "bogus".
9826 This works because the error message gnuchess prints ends with a
9827 newline. It also improves compatibility with Crafty, which doesn't
9828 need the kludge, but for which sending "help" causes a problem.
9830 * Don't draw grid at all if lineGap is 0; previously we drew the grid
9831 with X "0-width" lines (usually 1 pixel wide) and then overwrote it.
9833 * Makefile: Removed xboard.info from "all" target so we won't try to
9834 rebuild it, because this fails on hosts that don't have makeinfo
9835 installed. Other minor fixes to "clean" targets, etc.
9837 * Fixes and cleanup to Auto Comment code that handles continuation
9838 lines and highlighting.
9840 * Auto Observe now tries to observe the game from the point of view of
9841 the player who was on your gnotify list. Requested by rng.
9842 Limitations: We can't tell which player it was unless you have ICS
9843 highlighting turned on. Also, currently "observe foo" works as
9844 required (observing from foo's point of view) only on ICC, but FICS
9845 will probably implement this soon.
9847 * "-size tiny" now makes the default font smaller automatically. This
9848 was implemented by introducing an extra Form widget in the hierarchy
9849 for all xboard windows, named either normalLayout, smallLayout, or
9850 tinyLayout. So you can have resource specifications that apply only
9851 to certain layouts; in particular, XBoard*tinyLayout*font.
9853 * Bug fix: EditGame or EditPosition while playing or examining still was
9854 not really being permitted.
9856 * WinBoard bug fix: On the EditPosition menu, King did not work.
9858 * Added text catalog of WinSock error messages to WinBoard, because
9859 Microsoft still has not put them in the system message catalog.
9861 * Removed support for older ICS game-ending messages that do not have
9862 a PGN result token (*, 0-1, 1-0, or 1/2-1/2) after the closing '}'.
9863 The code for older messages was sometimes firing on the newer
9864 messages, due to parsing ambiguity. If the current code sees an old
9865 message, it will understand that the game is over, but will always
9866 display * as a result token instead of trying to guess the result by
9867 interpreting the text message.
9869 3.4, patchlevel 0 -- Tue Nov 21 01:02:50 PST 1995 Tim Mann
9871 * This patchlevel was released for xboard only.
9873 * Updated the info file. It should now be as up-to-date as the man page,
9874 with good English except in the parts that pertain only to AmyBoard.
9876 * Added "-size tiny", requested by Bob Hyatt. Also cleaned up bitmap
9877 support and added "-size n,n,n,n,n,n" to allow arbitrary-sized bitmaps,
9878 if the actual bitmaps are supplied by the user.
9880 * Updated bughouse support.
9882 3.3, patchlevel 4 -- Sat Nov 18 02:27:21 PST 1995 Tim Mann
9884 * Unreleased beta that works with preliminary FICS bughouse code. Will
9885 need changes before release to track FICS message changes.
9887 * Removed use of .EX macro from man page. It is not supported by some
9888 nroff -man macro packages, notably the one on Slackware Linux. Switched
9889 to boldface for references to xboard and other commands within the man
9890 page, as this seems to be the modern way.
9892 * Bug fix: If ICS rejected a move, it was correctly undone on the board,
9893 but the message widget still displayed the bad move. Reported by DAV.
9895 * Normally, xboard in ICS mode fetches the move list whenever the board
9896 display switches to a new game. Doing this is now an option
9897 (getMoveList) that can be turned off, which is useful if you are watching
9898 multiple blitz games. Requested by rng.
9900 * Move list fetching code is now smarter: it ignores a move list if it is
9901 not for the right game.
9903 * Added support for bughouse as implemented on FICS. Holdings are shown
9904 in the window title in place of the strength numbers. A menu on mouse
9905 buttons 2 and 3 (same on both) lets you drop pieces. There is no checking
9906 as to whether you actually hold the piece you are trying to drop; we rely
9907 on ICS to check that. Notation of the form P@f7 is generated and parsed.
9908 The mate detector does not understand that non-contact mate is not really
9909 mate in bughouse, but this does no real harm. It results in a "#"
9910 suffix being displayed on the move notation, but xboard does not assume the
9913 * Bug fix: Promotion to a knight was not working with ICC! Thanks to
9914 Wendigo for the report.
9916 * Bug fix: Special pty code for host types *-*-aix3* and *-*-irix3*
9917 (supplied from configure.in) had a bug that would cause childio.c to
9918 fail to compile, due to a "continue" that was not within a loop.
9920 * Bug fix: In pgntags.c, memory was being freed while still in use. One
9921 symptom this caused was that on some machines, cmail would fail with a
9922 message that it could not find the BlackNA tag. The error was in some
9923 submitted code that I included in version 3.2.pl3 without reading
9924 carefully enough. Anders Forberg noticed the symptoms, and Evan Welsh
9925 (who had nothing to do with causing the bug) found the bug and submitted a
9926 fix; thanks to them both.
9928 * Removed restriction against using EditGame while playing, observing,
9929 or examining on ICS. You still get a warning popup.
9931 3.3, patchlevel 3 -- Sat Sep 16 11:44:05 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
9933 * Bug fix: Going directly from MachineWhite to TwoMachines mode would kill
9934 off the second chess program after Black's first move.
9936 * Added -timeIncrement feature. Thanks to Joel Rivat.
9938 * Deleted code that tries to keep you from observing more than one game,
9939 or observing while playing or examining. There is actually no problem in
9940 doing this, except that every time an update comes in from a different
9941 game than is currently being displayed, xboard fetches the history of the
9942 new game, which may be time-consuming if you are on a slow link.
9944 * Fixed configure so as not to crash when neither lex nor flex is found.
9945 lex or flex is needed only if the user wants to rebuild parser.c. Thanks
9946 to Phil Humpherys for reporting the crash.
9948 * Bug fix: config.h.in used #define instead of #undef for some macros used
9949 in the pty code in childio.c. This causes the code to fail to compile on
9950 some architectures, because the symbols are supposed to be undefined, not
9951 defined to empty, when they are not set in configure. Bug originated in
9952 3.3.pl0 when config.h was introduced. Thanks to Phil Humpherys for report.
9954 * Bug fix: ShowThinking would not show anything when current position had
9955 no move to display in the move window. E.g., if position was created by
9956 LoadPosition or EditPosition.
9958 3.3, patchlevel 2 -- Mon Aug 28 11:11:11 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
9960 * Zippy code was omitted from xboard-3.3.pl1 by mistake; now included.
9962 * For WinBoard, added hint to help file that you may need to turn off
9963 LocalLineEditing while typing dialing commands to your modem.
9965 3.3, patchlevel 1 -- Sat Aug 19 15:13:30 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
9967 * Zippy distribution is no longer separate from regular xboard distribution.
9969 * Deal properly with Show Thinking output from GNU Chess when it is
9970 thinking on its opponent's time. In TwoMachines mode this output is
9971 suppressed to avoid interfering with the output from the machine that is
9972 on move; in other modes it is displayed (including the move that GNU Chess
9973 is predicting the user will make next). GNU Chess produces this output
9974 only if it is built without -DQUIETBACKGROUND defined; this symbol is
9975 defined by default in patchlevels before pl75, but undefined by default in
9978 * Bug fix: Handling of initial board position in move list for wild games
9979 was broken, so wild games could not be observed and adjourned wild games
9980 could not be continued. Thanks to "Maximum Entropy" for the bug report.
9982 * Added feature: algebraic notation now shows "+" indicator for check
9983 and "#" for checkmate, as called for in PGN standard. Thanks to Kevin
9984 Maher for the suggestion.
9986 3.3, patchlevel 0 -- Thu Jul 27 22:21:07 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
9988 * Changed configuration to use a config.h file instead of passing zillions
9989 of -D options on the cc command line.
9991 * Merged a small fix and some updates to the texinfo file from Jochen
9992 Wiedmann. The texinfo file still needs work.
9994 3.2, patchlevel 5 -- Tue Jul 18 20:29:39 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
9996 * Beta test release of xboard only.
9998 * Updated WinBoard code to include new xboard features.
10000 * Added texinfo file from Jochen Wiedmann to the release, but not as the
10001 primary documentation. It needs updating, and the English needs work.
10002 I did make a few improvements, mostly to change incorrect uses of @var to
10003 either @samp or @code as appropriate.
10005 * Merged in code changes to 3.2.pl4beta from Jochen Wiedmann.
10007 * Fixed EditComment; did not pop up window in previous beta.
10009 * Added AutoComment feature.
10011 * Added GameListDestroy to disable the outdated game list popup in cases
10012 where we load a new game file without building a new popup.
10014 * Added yyskipmoves feature to parser.l to speed up building of gamelist.
10016 * gamelist.c wouldn't compile with a non-ANSI compiler. Fixed.
10018 * Change to yy_text handling in patchlevel 3 still had problems. Can't
10019 use AC_DECL_YYTEXT in configure.in, because that defines YYTEXT_POINTER
10020 according to whether the lexer on the current host makes yytext a pointer.
10021 But most people will be using a parser.c that was generated on another
10022 host and shipped with the package.
10024 3.2, patchlevel 4 -- Sun Jun 25 19:13:43 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
10026 * Beta test release of xboard only.
10028 * Added FIREWALLS section to man page.
10030 * Changed -icsport to be a string. Now with the -telnet option,
10031 specifying -icsport "" suppresses the second argument to telnet.
10033 * Added EditTags feature. Removed AboutGame from menu, because EditTags
10034 subsumes it. EditTags suggested by Jochen Wiedmann and first implemented by
10035 him in AmyBoard. xboard implementation is my own.
10037 * Fixed some missing or incorrect prototypes.
10039 3.2, patchlevel 3 -- Sat Jun 3 18:57:38 1995 Tim Mann
10041 * Beta test release of xboard only.
10043 * New version of cmail from Evan Welsh, to fix compatibility problems with
10046 * Added game list feature on Load Game, based on code from Jochen
10047 Wiedmann. Integrated it with cmail.
10049 * Several bug fixes from Jochen Wiedmann, including one to my yy_text
10050 workaround for the difference in the type of yytext between lex and flex.
10052 * Handle clock pause on FICS.
10054 * Suppress clocks in untimed FICS games (time control 0 0).
10056 * Rebuilt configure script with autoconf 2.3. This fixes a bug in
10057 configuring for X11R6, where -lSM -lICE would not be added when needed.
10059 * Fixed inconsistent type declarations on IntSigHandler and
10060 CmailSigHandler. Bug report from Josh Daynard.
10062 * backend.c wouldn't compile with a non-ANSI compiler. Fixed.
10064 3.2, patchlevel 2 -- Tue Feb 7 14:50:30 1995 Tim Mann
10066 * Minor release of both xboard and WinBoard.
10068 * Added recognition of some FICS messages. On the other hand FICS is also
10069 changing some of its messages to match what xboard already recognizes.
10071 * Temporarily went back to using "promote" command on ICS instead of
10072 "a7a8=Q", because FICS doesn't implement the latter yet.
10074 * We now avoid using overlapped I/O on pipes in WinBoard, to make Windows
10075 95 beta 2 happy. This lets WinBoard work with GNU Chess on Windows 95!
10077 * Installed patches from Jochen Wiedmann to coordinate with Amiga XBoard.
10079 * Installed patch to cmail bug in LoadGame from Evan Welsh.
10081 * Bugfix: checkmate and stalemate moves entered with EditGame in ICS mode
10082 were not being handled correctly. Bug was in GameEnds().
10084 * Implemented EchoOn and EchoOff for xboard, using system("stty echo\n").
10085 Now passwords won't be echoed when you connect directly to ICS. Also,
10086 telnet negotiation characters aren't displayed (when possible).
10088 * Implemented more of the telnet protocol. Now connecting to a telnet
10089 server with "-icsport 23" should work even without giving the -telnet
10090 option. The telnet is in "old line-by-line mode".
10092 3.2, patchlevel 1 -- Sat Dec 10 13:50:46 1994 Tim Mann
10094 * This patchlevel released for WinBoard only.
10096 * winboard.c: Fixed ConsoleInputThread(). Needed to change CRLF to LF,
10097 not to CR. This was stopping normal /ics mode from working. Thanks to
10098 Asher Kobin for the bug report.
10100 * winboard.c: Fixed Raw(), EchoOn(), EchoOff(). Now they take effect
10101 immediately, not on the next console read after the one in progress.
10103 * winboard.c: Attempted to make WinBoard work with gnuchessx running
10104 directly on Windows (not remotely via rsh). It now works on NT, but only
10105 if gnuchess is told not to think on its opponent's time ("easy\n" removed
10106 from initString). The problem seems to be that GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent
10107 is not doing anything. On Windows 95 beta 2, we get error messages on
10108 both reading and writing to gnuchessx; I didn't investigate why.
10110 3.2, patchlevel 0 -- Wed Dec 7 13:23:36 1994 Tim Mann
10112 * Thanks to all the beta testers who gave me feedback: Josef Nelissen,
10113 Steve Booth, Evan Welsh, Dima Dakhnovsky, Chris Petroff, Peter Jansen,
10114 Derek Terveer, Michel van der List, Richard Lloyd, Shelly Mistry, and Mike
10115 Lee. Sorry if I forgot anyone. Thanks to Virendra Kumar Mehta for
10116 information about DYNIX/ptx.
10118 * Don't exit on keyboard EOF unless we get two in a row.
10120 * WinBoard only: added -localLineEdit switch to allow turning off local
10121 line editing if you really want to. It is still a bad idea to let the
10122 echoing be done remotely, however; see below.
10124 * Fixed some configure problems on HP-UX. [Steve Booth]
10126 * Fixed (I hope) configure problem on SunOS 5.3/Solaris 2.3. [Josef Nelissen]
10128 * cmail bugfix from Evan Welsh (cmail 3.4).
10130 3.1, patchlevel 9 -- Fri Dec 2 23:54:56 1994 Tim Mann
10132 * Beta distribution only
10134 * Always do local echo/edit of user typing in ICS mode. Doing the echo
10135 downstream may seem nicer in some modes, and it can be hard to turn that
10136 echo off, but the echoed characters can be interleaved with ICS output
10137 and make it impossible to parse correctly. For xboard this involved only
10138 a change to recommendations in the man page, as Raw() isn't implemented.
10139 For WinBoard, removing Raw() made a real difference. Added code in
10140 WinBoard to change /r/n back into /r on keyboard input, as we get the
10141 former when Raw() is not called.
10143 * Do not issue ICS "refresh" command after we start to observe a game
10144 unless we get to the next prompt without seeing a board image. Newest
10145 version of ICS doesn't require this refresh, but old versions around still
10148 * cmail bugfix and small code cleanup in LoadGame, from Evan Welsh.
10150 * Added keyboard accelerators N/P for LoadNextGame/LoadPreviousGame. Evan
10153 * Using "-" on the command line as a filename for loading (saving) games
10154 or positions specifies the standard input (standard output). Alain Picard
10157 * On WinBoard only, a command line option without a leading '-' or '/' is
10158 now taken as the value of -lgf.
10160 * Changed to not use stdin, stdout, stderr as initializers in backend.c;
10161 needed for GNU libc compatibility. You also must build parser.c with flex
10162 (not lex) if you are using GNU libc, to avoid having the same problem
10165 * Changed WinBoard to avoid using "overlapped" input on the console. It
10166 now seems to fully work on Windows 95 beta 2.
10168 * Improved comment popups on WinBoard. Now newlines are handled properly,
10169 and the plain Comment popup window doesn't disappear and reappear when we
10170 step to a new move with a new comment.
10172 * Fixed bugs in detecting the absence of the time and otim commands.
10174 * Added built-in implementation of rcmd protocol to WinBoard. Windows NT
10175 does not implement passing signals through rsh, and Windows 95 does not
10178 * Added -remoteUser option.
10180 3.1, patchlevel 8 -- Mon Nov 28 15:26:07 1994 Tim Mann
10182 * Beta distribution only
10184 * Rearranged ChangeLog file into reverse chronological order to be closer
10187 * Integrated new cmail code from Evan Welsh (including cmail RCS rev 3.2).
10188 Includes a bug fix to TruncateGame.
10190 * Updated ICS address to be chess.lm.com.
10192 * Bug fixes to handling the aftermath of FatalError. Thanks to Chris
10193 Petroff for the bug report.
10195 * Test for remsh before rsh, other fixes for HP-UX. Thanks to Richard
10196 Lloyd. I wasn't able to do all the things he suggested, so there may
10197 still be some rough edges in building on HP-UX. See the FAQ file for hints.
10199 * Bug fix; added missing check for HAVE_SYS_SYSTEMINFO. Thanks to Josef
10200 Nelissen for testing on Solaris 2.x.
10202 * Updated WinBoard to match xboard. (WinBoard still has a few option
10203 dialogs that don't exist in xboard.)
10205 * Changed Hint output to a popup.
10207 * ShowThinking output and move output no longer overwrite each other.
10208 ShowThinking output won't appear if the displayed position is not current.
10209 ShowThinking output in TwoMachines mode made clearer and documented.
10211 * Implemented --enable-ptys and --disable-ptys arguments to configure.
10213 * Fixed Book and Hint code to work over a pty with echo enabled and tabs
10214 expanded to spaces. Thanks to Dima Dahknovsky for the bug report.
10216 * Moved Attention calls from all over xboard to one place, inside
10219 * Added bulletproofing to ShowThinkingEvent.
10221 * Added code to handle "refresh N" boards that come in from ICS properly,
10222 assuming ICS is changed to mark them with a new relation code (-3).
10224 3.1, patchlevel 7 -- Sun Nov 13 22:16:01 PST 1994 -- Tim Mann
10226 * Beta distribution only
10228 * Changed ShowThinking to just show the current best line in the
10229 DisplayMessage area, instead of dumping everything to stdout.
10231 * Installed new cmail (RCS rev 3.1) and cmail.man (RCS rev 1.10), and
10232 changes to cmail code in backend.c, from Evan Welsh.
10234 * Miscellaneous minor fixes.
10236 3.1, patchlevel 6 -- Fri Nov 4 12:53:53 PST 1994 -- Tim Mann
10238 * This patchlevel was not actually released to anyone.
10240 * Updated the pty code to be based on GNU Emacs 19.24, and moved it to a
10241 separate file. It was hard to split out just the pty configuration from
10242 all the stuff emacs does with its custom configure script and .h files,
10245 * Converted from imake to GNU autoconf. This was a serious upheaval.
10247 * Put in code to help trap "error gathering move list" problem reported by
10248 Michel van der List if it recurs. I couldn't reproduce it.
10250 3.1, patchlevel 5 -- Mon Oct 31 21:12:00 PST 1994 -- Tim Mann
10252 * Beta distribution only.
10254 * We now test for checkmate or stalemate in EditGame mode after every user
10255 move, and in LoadGame mode whenever we hit the end of a game without
10256 seeing a PGN end marker. cmail needs an update to deal with this
10257 correctly; Evan promises one.
10259 * Bugfixes in new move generator. Thanks to Mike Lee for reporting one of
10262 * Imakefile was omitted from patchlevel 4.
10264 3.1, patchlevel 4 -- Mon Sep 19 18:19:46 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
10266 * Beta distribution only.
10268 * The move generator includes a mate tester. Initially this is used only
10269 by cmail, and even that usage needs further work.
10271 * Wrote a true move generator and used it to replace all the move
10272 disambiguation and legality checking code in parser.l. The move generator
10273 is capable of dealing correctly with en passant and castling availability,
10274 but the rest of the program still does not keep track of this information.
10276 * Bug fix: xboard did not handle "foo has made you an examiner of game 23"
10277 message. Thus you could not use examine features until the next board
10278 came in, showing your new relation to the game. Thanks to POOKIEWOOKIE on ICS
10279 for the bug report.
10281 * Added AutoObserve feature. Thanks to Chris Petroff for the idea.
10283 * Added Book feature to use new gnuchess "bk" command. Mike McGann request.
10285 * Redid code to handle missing "time" command in gnuchess, because latest
10286 gnuchess no longer sends a response to this command.
10288 * Eliminated need for -DFLEX. Thanks to Michael Shields (Vladimir?) for
10291 * Added missing code to implement MoveNow in TwoMachines mode.
10293 * Added ShowThinking feature. Thanks to Richard Lloyd for the idea.
10295 * Applied patches from Evan Welsh; some fixes and improvements to the
10298 * Fixed bug in moving from EndOfGame mode to MachineWhite or MachineBlack,
10299 introduced in previous patchlevel. Also fixed related bug in ending a
10300 game in ICS mode; was entering EndOfGame mode instead of IcsIdle.
10302 * Added patch to implement internetChessServerLogonScript flag, from Kevin
10305 3.1, patchlevel 3 -- Wed Sep 7 13:22:07 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
10307 * Beta distribution only.
10309 * Merged in new cmail code from Evan Welsh. He added the ability to have
10310 more than one game per message, needed for official IECG matches. I added
10311 the ability to resign or offer/accept/decline a draw in a cmail game.
10313 * Bugfix: invalid -tc option caused segmentation fault; DisplayFatalError
10314 was called too early in initialization. Georges Honore reported this bug.
10316 * Decided to keep EndOfGame mode as an element of the user interface---it
10317 means that a gnuchess game or loaded game has ended, and the user must
10318 explicitly select EditGame to edit it, rather than just being able to
10319 enter more moves freely. But internally there is no longer an invariant
10320 tying this mode to whether the chess program is running.
10322 * Zippy bugfix: Was saving only the final position in the -sgf file when
10323 the game ended by something other than resignation or flag. Also fixed
10324 the longstanding bug that Zippy would think the final board of such a game
10325 was a new game and restart the chess program.
10327 * Now does a better job of faking castling availability in FEN. We still
10328 don't really keep track of it, but now at least we don't say that castling
10329 is still available when the king or rook is not on its home square.
10331 * Bugfix: Initial board of game history for wild games was going through
10332 too much processing, causing us to forget the game length, which is now
10333 needed by ParseGameHistory. This was causing problems with resuming
10334 adjourned wild games.
10336 * Updated ICS host to ics.onenet.net.
10338 * Zippy now accepts challenges where the opponent specified his color.
10340 * Added ZIPPYPASSWORD2 to let operator give commands directly to gnuchess.
10342 * Bitmap directory can include alternative icons now, too.
10344 * Handle "Game * (*) has no examiners" message from ICS.
10346 * Revamped window title and icon name selection.
10348 3.1, patchlevel 2 -- Sun Jun 12 17:16:28 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
10350 * "Beta" distribution for Zippy users only.
10352 * Bugfix: common.h was assuming that X11 type Boolean is char, which is
10353 not always true. This might have caused all sorts of obscure bugs!
10355 * Installed new bitmaps from Elmar Bartel as the default. Many thanks!
10356 The old bitmaps can be used by changing the "bitmaps" symbolic link before
10357 compiling xboard, or by using the -bitmapDirectory option at runtime.
10359 * Loading a game that ends with the PGN unfinished symbol ("*") now always
10360 leaves you in EditGame mode.
10362 * Added documentation of -icscomm to man page. Thanks to Maarten Remkes
10363 for the linux script.
10365 * ^C now kills gnuchess as well as xboard. Thanks to Dima Dakhnovsky for
10366 reminding me how to do this.
10368 * Bitmap icon color now indicates player to move. Stuart Cracraft
10371 * Changed piece bitmap flags to have just one flag, which points to a
10372 directory full of bitmaps, instead of a flag for each bitmap. Also
10373 changed bitmap naming convention.
10375 * "Connection closed by ICS" is no longer a FatalError popup. This was
10376 too annoying in the normal case where the user typed "quit".
10378 * Changed default font to 14 pixels instead of 10 points. This seems to
10379 make it close to the size I want it to be on more displays.
10381 * Major mode (GNU Chess, etc.) appears in title bar. Stuart Cracraft
10384 * Bug fix: EditGameEvent, MachineBlackEvent, MachineWhiteEvent, and
10385 TwoMachinesEvent were calling PauseEvent to get out of pause mode, which
10386 now has undesired side effects, such as advancing the display to the
10387 forwardMostMove. It works fine to just set pausing = FALSE instead.
10389 * IcsExamining mode now lets you access ICS edit position commands using
10390 the same popup menus as xboard's EditPosition mode. Thanks to DAV on ICS
10391 for inspiring the idea.
10393 * Corrected test for gcc on HP in Imakefile; thanks to Richard Lloyd.
10395 3.1, patchlevel 1 -- Wed Jun 1 16:25:11 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
10397 * Added parser.c.lex and parser.c.flex to the distribution.
10399 * Added HP gcc options to Imakefile, from Mats Nylen.
10401 * EndOfGame mode no longer highlights EditGame mode indicator, because the
10402 modes really do differ. I would like to get rid of EndOfGame mode in the
10403 future, at least as far as users can see.
10405 * Larger %a in parser.l, needed for RS/6000 users.
10407 * Minor improvements to Mail Move error messages.
10409 * When -debug flag is given to xboard, -v is passed to cmail.
10411 * Old Save Style uses "1. ..." instead of "1..." when black moves after a
10412 comment; more like xboard 3.0's actual style.
10414 * New version of cmail from Evan Welsh. Looks for UCB Mail in a more
10415 portable way and has some minor bug fixes.
10417 * Bug fix: Saving a FEN position while in EditPosition mode with black to
10418 play was showing white to play in the saved position.
10420 3.1, patchlevel 0 -- Fri May 20 16:36:15 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
10422 * This is the first general release since 3.0, patchlevel 9. Releases
10423 since then have been limited-distribution or beta releases.
10425 * Thanks to my version 3.1 beta testers: Dmitry Dakhnovsky, Ed Hanway,
10426 Richard Lloyd, Mike McGann, Shelly Mistry, Josef Nelissen, Chris Petroff,
10427 Jack Robertson, Michel van der List, Ky Macpherson, Derek Terveer, and
10428 Evan Welsh. Sorry if I've forgotten anyone who gave me feedback.
10430 * Updated man page.
10432 * Minor cleanup on menu sensitivity code.
10434 * Integrated another even better version of cmail from Evan Welsh,
10435 including some code he supplied in xboard itself.
10437 * A few more fixes to cmail support.
10439 * Automatically update clocks after an ICS "moretime" command.
10441 * Handle ICS automatic examine mode (set examine 1) after a game.
10443 3.0, patchlevel 14 -- Tue May 17 13:41:44 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
10445 * Beta test release only.
10447 * Don't suppress prompt on first board of game being examined; otherwise
10448 it looks like nothing happened at all (i.e., like you're lagged).
10450 * Added StopExamining and StopObserving (Chris Petroff suggestion).
10452 * Made Reset do a refresh on ICS. John Chanak's original ICS code for
10453 xboard tried to do this; I finally decided it was a good idea after all.
10455 * Fixed bugs in handling updates that come in while you are pausing in
10456 examine mode. This is pretty tricky to do right.
10458 * Made un-Pausing immediately pop you to the current position. This is
10459 always necessary in examine mode, since the game may have changed under
10460 you; your remembered moves might no longer be right. So I made it do the
10463 * Took Detach Examine mode back out...used Pause mode for this instead!
10465 * Put in a trap for the GNU Chess bug of printing an Illegal Move message
10466 when its own hint move is illegal.
10468 * Attempted to fix a Zippy bug; bogus "exited unexpectedly" messages after
10469 it checkmates its opponent. This involved adding an argument to GameEnds
10470 to say who says it ended (ICS, GNU, etc.) and taking different actions in
10471 different cases. Unfortunately, this just restored an older Zippy bug, where
10472 Zippy restarts gnuchess when it gets the board with the final position,
10473 because GameEnds still puts xboard in EndOfGame mode. Sigh.
10475 * We now capture elapsed time on last move when getting game history.
10476 (Josef Nelissen bug report)
10478 * Rewrote code to redisplay last file title so it really works.
10480 * Fixed bug in oldSaveStyle.
10482 * Larger %a and %o were needed for lex.
10484 3.0, patchlevel 13 -- Mon May 16 16:26:22 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
10486 * Beta test release only.
10488 * FatalError popups stay on the screen now. If the error is really fatal,
10489 all functions are disabled, and the program exits when you press OK.
10491 * Redisplay last file title when using Load (Next/Previous/Same) Game.
10493 * Zippy understands new match challenge message format on ICS.
10495 * Added Revert command.
10497 * When examining a game on ICS, < > buttons do ICS backward/forward
10498 commands, unless you set the Detach Examine option. Thanks to Dima
10499 Dakhnovsky for the idea.
10501 * Fixed various minor problems in cmail mode.
10503 * cmail generates the tags now. New version of cmail from Evan Welsh.
10505 * cmail mode won't let you do MailMove unless the currently displayed
10506 position is exactly one move past the end of the game you loaded.
10508 * Fixed building of man pages in Imakefile
10510 * Updates to INSTALL file
10512 3.0, patchlevel 12 -- Sat May 7 21:10:03 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
10514 * Beta test release only.
10516 * Brought man page up to date.
10518 * Added Shift+R to resign from keyboard.
10520 * Some items on Action menu available in GNU Chess mode now.
10522 * Revamped Action menu.
10524 * Reordered functions in backend.c as a small step toward reorganizing
10527 * Generate TimeControl PGN tag.
10529 * Get type of ICS game (e.g., rated blitz) and save in PGN tags.
10531 * Bug fix: Clocks were not redisplayed when entering EditGame mode.
10533 * Bug fix: Clocks were not being redisplayed after loading a game file
10534 with -td 0, so they could show the wrong color active.
10536 * Bug fix: Chess programs would be killed and match mode would exit
10537 prematurely when loading a PGN game fragment ending with "*".
10539 * ICS command "sposition" no longer confuses xboard.
10541 * Integrated new version of cmail (with support code in xboard) from Evan
10544 * Added TruncateGame, MoveNow, RetractMove, and QuietPlay.
10546 * Bug fix: switching between MachineWhite and MachineBlack was not calling
10547 Attention(). Reported by Dino Dini.
10549 * More improvements to INSTALL and Imakefile.
10551 * Pack moves into 79 character lines in PGN output. We don't generate
10552 check indications, and we always break the line before the result,
10553 so this is not quite PGN export format.
10555 * Use FEN tag in PGN.
10557 * Improved finding and counting of game starts in save files.
10559 * Negative position or game numbers in -lpi/-lgi mean to seek to that byte
10560 offset. Hook for possible future features, not in man page.
10562 * Detect and handle absence of either "time" or "otim" commands in
10565 * Don't use "promote" command to ICS anymore.
10567 * Handle switching sides and taking back moves on FICS.
10569 * Handle flip state flag in style 12 board.
10571 * Handle examine mode on ICS.
10573 * Improved error popups for various kinds of illegal moves.
10575 * Suppress unasked-for hints from gnuchess (which it generates in post
10578 * Load/save position functions use FEN. Old style also supported.
10580 * Added detailed error messages if loading a bitmap file fails.
10582 * Small board has 2-pixel lines between squares instead of 3-pixel.
10584 * Added OldSaveStyle and AboutGame.
10586 * Renamed ForceMoves to EditGame.
10588 3.0, patchlevel 11 -- Tue Sep 21 15:25:36 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
10590 * The following changes were present in xboard 3.0, patchlevel 11, but the
10591 first group did not make it into WinBoard 3.0 until later. xboard
10592 3.0.pl11 was a limited-distribution release only, mostly to Zippy users.
10594 * Man page minor fixes.
10596 * Added a missing file close.
10598 * Removed automatic error popdown on Reset, which was destroying some
10599 error messages before they could be read.
10601 * Fixed char vs. unsigned char warnings on bitmaps.
10603 * Use ICS board style 12. Some improvements to ICS parsing.
10605 * Comment window is now labelled with the move the comment is on, and
10606 comments don't pop down when you step to the next move.
10608 * Save files now in PGN format.
10610 * Support for loading PGN files. PGN tags pop up when a PGN game file
10613 * More info in INSTALL and Imakefile about building for Suns (and
10616 * WinBoard 3.0 patchlevel 11 split off from an early version of xboard
10617 3.0 patchlevel 11, so it does not have all the features of that
10618 patchlevel. The following changes made it into both xboard and
10621 * Made Comment dialog non-modal in WinBoard.
10623 * EndOfGame mode is now more transparent. It looks like ForceMoves
10624 mode except that there is no chess program running.
10626 * Small bug fixes in clock management. Most noticeably, pausing when
10627 it is gnuchess's move now works as documented (again).
10629 * Add minimal support for -icscomm option. Not documented yet because
10630 I haven't sorted out the issues with setting the tty modes on the comm
10631 port device, or with locking it properly. But it's usable by wizards.
10633 * Don't restart the chess program upon Backward event from EndOfGame mode.
10635 * Suppress extra prompt after ICS sends us a board.
10637 3.0, patchlevel 10 -- Sat Sep 11 18:44:03 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
10639 * Beta test release only.
10641 * Zippy now plays chess. zippy.c and zippy.h are still not included
10642 in the standard distribution, but are available on request.
10644 * Switched to using style 12 on ICS.
10646 * Updated man page, and documented use of XBoard*form.translations to
10647 add more shortcut keys.
10649 * Added shortcut keys "d" to claim/offer/accept a draw, and "t" to
10650 call flag. Suggested by venu on ICS.
10652 * More explicit instructions in INSTALL file.
10654 3.0, patchlevel 9 -- Tue Sep 7 14:02:00 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
10656 * General release, minor update to 3.0.pl8.
10658 * Loosened checking on whether it's okay to start a move, to satisfy
10659 ICS ultra-blitz players. Now we don't check whether it's your turn
10660 until you let go of the piece.
10662 * Parser now recognizes "+-+" as meaning the game ended in a draw.
10664 * Got rid of S_NONE symbol, which seems to conflict with some symbol
10667 * Tweaked the man page. Clarified that there is currently no way for
10668 two people running copies of xboard to play each other without going
10669 through the Internet Chess Server.
10671 * Fixed a bug in color name conversion. Asking for two different
10672 colors whose names were the same in the first four characters would
10673 get you two copies of the first one. Thanks to Volker Zink for the
10676 * Improved confusing Usage() message.
10678 * Added a bunch of Sun information to the Imakefile and INSTALL file.
10679 Thanks to Ed Hanway, Arik Klingensmith, and others who responded.
10681 * Test for defined(WIN32) instead of !defined(unix).
10683 * Avoid using (void *) type with non-ANSI C compilers. Thanks to
10684 James Altucher for the bug report.
10686 3.0, patchlevel 8 -- Thu Sep 2 12:23:01 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
10688 * Note: Patchlevel 8 was the first non-beta release of xboard 3.0
10690 * Added cmail to distribution. Contributed (and still maintained) by
10693 * Bug fix: -queen option wasn't initializing menu check. Reported by
10696 3.0, patchlevel 7 -- Thu Aug 26 13:23:24 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
10698 * Sent WinBoard 3.0.pl7 to Torre on ICS
10700 * Added parser.h to hold the interface to parser.l
10702 * Upgraded COPYING file and copyright notices to GNU GPL version 2.
10704 3.0, patchlevel 6 -- Tue Aug 24 15:16:13 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
10706 * We no longer display intermediate positions or intermediate comments
10707 while loading a game file with -timeDelay 0 or loading an opening to
10708 start up a -matchMode game.
10710 * Loading an empty game from an xboard save file now gives a status
10711 message "No moves in game" instead of an error popup saying "Game not
10714 * Added comment.awk to distribution.
10716 3.0, patchlevel 5 -- Tue Aug 17 16:45:54 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
10718 * Bug fix: xboard would crash if it couldn't get all its colors; now
10719 it switches to monoMode instead. Also, xboard was trying to convert
10720 color resources even when using a b/w display. Reported by Larry
10723 * Bug fix: Declared fields of TimeMark as signed so that we get signed
10724 instead of unsigned arithmetic. SubtractTimeMarks was breaking on
10725 Alpha AXP (which has 64-bit longs) with old declarations. Reported by
10726 Michel van der List.
10728 * Bug fixes: Keyboard accelerators now work after EditComment window is
10729 popped down. Iconize keyboard accelerator now works even if xboard
10730 was started with -iconic flag and later deiconized.
10732 * Bug fix: The routine that tests whether a move is illegal because it
10733 would leave you in check was not handling e.p. captures properly.
10734 Reported by Patrick Surry.
10736 * Bug (?) fix: Was adding time to clocks at time control even when
10737 loading a game file. Actually it's not entirely clear how time
10738 controls should be dealt with when some moves are loaded from a file
10739 or clicked in with ForceMoves. For now ForceMoves mode does add the
10740 time (because it can be used to change moves during a live game), but
10741 LoadGame mode does not.
10743 * Updated usage message.
10745 * Previous attempted fix to matchMode had broken TwoMachines mode and
10746 generally needed more work. Also simplified command line interface to
10749 3.0, patchlevel 4 -- Thu Aug 5 14:17:18 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
10751 * Thanks again to the beta testers listed for 3.0 patchlevel 3, and also
10752 Desnogues, Steve Cariglia, Niklas Engsner, Mark Silver, and Roger Rowe.
10754 * Reorganized man page, splitting OPTIONS into subsections.
10756 * matchMode was very broken; fixed.
10758 * Changed convention for turning off command line options from --opt
10759 to -xopt, to be less inconsistent with GNU standards. Also changed
10760 the long command line options to take True/False arguments like
10761 resources; seems to make more sense this way.
10763 * Added AlwaysQueen option -- suppresses promotion dialog and always
10764 promotes to a queen if you move a pawn to the last rank. Has no
10765 effect on gnuchess (or your ICS opponents!) -- they can still
10768 * Subtracted an extra fudge term when determining how wide message and
10769 title widgets should be. This fixes a problem some beta testers had.
10770 Wish I knew why it's needed.
10772 * Bugfix in parser; symptom was that you couldn't do LoadGame after
10773 observing a game on ICS.
10775 * Bugfix in Forward; didn't work after game ended while Pause was turned on.
10777 * Removed bogus execute bits on .h files.
10779 * Use REMOTE_SHELL and TELNET_PROGRAM definitions.
10781 * MachineWhite and MachineBlack now work from TwoMachines mode.
10783 * Popping down an error message with the [ok] button was not turning off
10784 the errorUp flag, so the next move would cause xboard to try to pop it
10785 down again, resulting in a wild memory reference and sometimes a crash.
10787 3.0, patchlevel 3 -- Tue Aug 3 17:40:27 1993 -- Tim Mann
10789 * Thanks to my beta testers: Patrick Surry, Takuya Kojima, Robert J. Luoma,
10790 Chris L. Petroff, Richard K. Lloyd, Michel van der List, Craig Metz,
10791 Antoon Frehe, Simon Clift, Shelly, Eric Peterson, Christopher Mitchell,
10792 Martin Koch, Ed Hanway, Steve Booth, Udo, Ken Hobday, and Joseph Duhamel.
10794 * Improved error messages for trying to move the wrong color pieces or
10795 to move when it's not your turn.
10797 * Special code for monoMode on 1-bit displays now understands displays
10798 where 1=white and 0=black.
10800 * Declare getenv() if <stdlib.h> not included; avoids a compiler warning.
10802 * Documented borderXoffset and borderYoffset.
10804 * Added -titleInWindow option for use with X window managers that
10805 don't let us set the title in the window banner.
10807 * Fixed error message printing in WinBoard; system error messages no
10808 longer appear as numeric codes.
10810 * The error message popup is now non-modal; you don't have to press the
10811 [ok] button before you can do something else. In addition, the popup is
10812 positioned so that it doesn't cover up the board (too much), and making a
10813 move or otherwise clicking on the board pops it down. (Not implemented in
10816 * You can now call your opponent's flag in ICS mode by clicking on his
10819 * Fixed minor bugs in -flipView option and documented exactly how xboard
10820 decides which way to flip the view.
10822 3.0, patchlevel 2 -- Fri Jul 30 22:20:23 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
10824 * Added Autosave to Options menu. Would be better to have Save
10825 Options dialog as in WinBoard, but this was quick to do and gives the
10826 most-needed functionality.
10828 * Changed "Reload Game" on menu to "Reload Same Game".
10830 3.0, patchlevel 1 -- Thu Jul 8 21:22:59 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
10832 * Sent a copy of patchlevel 1 to Patrick Surry to beta-test.
10834 * Added -cmail option that sets appData.cmailMode. Currently a no-op.
10835 In the future this may set special modes for use by the cmail script
10836 for playing chess by email.
10838 * Added LoadNextGame, LoadPreviousGame, and ReloadGame to File menu.
10839 ReloadGame suggested by Patrick Surry.
10841 * Added -flipView command-line option. Suggested by Patrick Surry.
10843 * Fixed bugs in parser.l: (1) Pattern for "# xboard game file ..."
10844 needed to match to end of line. (2) Start of a new file was not matching
10845 the ^ start-of-line character. The fix for this is a kludge.
10847 * Made game counting code in LoadGame more robust, and made LoadGame
10848 able to detect the end of a saved partial game (by noticing the start
10849 of the next game) in game files created by XBoard itself. We don't
10850 try to find the start of the next game that way in other kinds of game
10851 files, because the only way I can think of to do that is to look for
10852 another move #1, and that technique gets too many false hits.
10854 * Fixed recently introduced bug in LoadGame when game starts with a
10857 3.0, patchlevel 0 -- Fri Jun 25 14:17:17 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
10859 * Changes in this patchlevel were too numerous to list. Larger ones are
10862 * Added a popup dialog to enter and edit comments. Inspired by some
10863 code from Patrick Surry. Changed the normal read-only comment popup
10866 * Added ICS init script feature from Karl Schwamb.
10868 * Added some ESIX fixes and OMIT_SOCKETS ifdef option, from Kayvan Sylvan.
10870 * Revamped code to allow use of flex instead of lex on parser.l.
10871 Using flex requires adding -DFLEX to defines in Imakefile.
10873 * Source code is split into front end (xboard.c), which knows about X
10874 and Unix, and back end (backend.c), which knows about chess, gnuchess,
10875 and the ICS. There is also a front end for Windows NT.
10877 * Boolean command line options now use "-foo" to turn on and "--foo"
10878 to turn off instead of "-foo true" and "-foo false". [Later -xfoo;
10881 * Added menu commands to control autoflag, bell, and coords options.
10883 * User interface has a new look: (1) Menu bar instead of array of
10884 buttons. A few very commonly used features have small buttons in
10885 addition to being on the menus. (2) Large font for clock. (3) Pop-up
10886 dialogs for errors.
10888 2.1, patchlevel 11 -- Sat Jun 5 00:01:01 PDT 1993 -- mann@src.dec.com
10890 * Added code to deal with "wild" games on ICS. This includes allowing
10891 castling with the king on d1 or d8, which is allowed in wild(1) games
10892 if the king started there. Notation is o-o to castle "short"---to
10893 whichever side the king is closer to---and o-o-o to castle "long."
10894 Right now wild castling is always allowed by xboard; we rely on ICS or
10895 gnuchess to reject it when we aren't really in wild mode.
10897 * memcpy call had arguments in wrong order.
10899 * Removed April Fool code
10901 2.1, patchlevel 10 -- Mon Feb 15 10:19:31 PST 1993 -- mann@src.dec.com
10903 * Avoid trying to select on a pipe when using System V. Needed to
10904 copy some code from InitChessProgram() up into establish().
10906 * Bug fix in disambiguating pawn moves like "ed".
10908 * Fix to error handling in ReceiveFromProgram.
10910 * Bug fix: entering EditPosition mode with black to play highlighted
10911 White's clock instead of Black's.
10913 * Added telnetProgram resource in case "telnet" is not the name of the
10916 2.1, patchlevel 9 -- Fri Jan 22 19:08:27 PST 1993 -- mann@src.dec.com
10918 * Entering Force Moves mode clears "flag has fallen" messages from display.
10920 * ICS host name can now be in numeric format; for example 128.2.232.4.
10922 * Bug fix: LegalityTest was failing to test whether a pawn move was
10923 illegal because the move would discover a check.
10925 * Handle ICS message "mann asserts a win over manntest, who disconnected."
10927 * Bug fix: A recent change to PromotionCallBack had broken
10928 underpromotion to a knight.
10930 * Bug fix: In EditPosition mode, dragging a piece onto a square border
10931 would make it vanish. xboard wasn't distinguishing this case from
10932 dragging the piece off the board. Thanks to Matthew Kidd.
10934 * Removed "static" declaration from yywrap for compatibility with IRIX
10935 version of lex. Thanks to stiller@blaze.cs.jhu.edu.
10937 * Added substitutes for bzero, bcopy, and gethostname for Solaris
10938 SVR4. Thanks to Michael Grant.
10940 * Bug fixes to queen move disambiguation. Bugs showed up only when
10941 promotion resulted in more than one queen on the board.
10943 2.1, patchlevel 8 -- Fri Dec 11 17:54:18 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
10945 * parser bug fix: It now really works to leave off the piece a pawn is
10946 promoting to and let it default to queen.
10948 * When starting to observe or play an ICS game, don't draw board in
10949 initial position and then immediately redraw it in the current
10952 * Handle ICS messages when an "abuser" forfeits a game by
10953 disconnecting and when a game is aborted ("removed") by an
10956 * Bug fix: A user move when in LoadGame+Pause mode was resuming the
10957 game load instead of putting us in force mode.
10959 * It seems that crashes inside sscanf when xboard is compiled with gcc
10960 (as on IBM PS/2 AIX, mentioned below, and also on VAX Ultrix 3.1) are
10961 caused by an incompatibility between gcc and the sscanf implementation
10962 on these platforms. A workaround is to specify -fwritable-strings to
10963 gcc (see the gcc documentation). Added info on how to do this to the
10964 Imakefile. Thanks to Tom McConnell for this information.
10966 * Clocks are allowed to go negative. This is mostly for ICS
10967 compatibility, but it affects gnuchess mode too. Also, we give the
10968 time bonus when a player hits the time control boundary even if his
10969 flag is already down. This choice is a bit debatable, but it makes
10970 things look better when you are in TwoMachines mode and gnuchess's
10971 time management screws up causing it to exceed its time limit.
10973 * Implemented move legality checking code. Moves made with the mouse
10974 or parsed from a file are checked for legality before being made.
10975 This is mostly in preparation for future extensions, such as
10976 human-human play. For now it makes -noChessProgram mode more useful.
10978 * If the user takes back moves, we restore the clocks to the earlier
10981 * We now handle the output of the ICS oldmoves command, including
10982 parsing the game end condition.
10984 * Added autoCallFlag mode.
10986 * Fixed glitches in the medium size outline king and rook bitmaps, and
10987 touched up the medium size solid king and outline queen.
10989 * bug fix: DisplayMove would not display backwardMostMove - 1.
10991 * Added CallFlag button and removed AcceptMatch. CallFlag is more
10992 important with new ICS, and accepting the current match offer is easy
10993 with the new ICS command "accept" (can be abbreviated "ac").
10995 * LoadGame and LoadPosition display tail of file name (plus index
10996 number, if any) as title.
10998 * MachineWhite, MachineBlack, and TwoMachines now work properly from
10999 LoadGame and LoadGame+Pause mode.
11001 * Use o-o and o-o-o to castle on ICS, not 00 and 000.
11003 * Stripped out code for old ICS messages; new ICS is now installed.
11005 * Bug fix: don't offer autosave when paused during LoadGame.
11007 2.1, patchlevel 7 - Fri Dec 11 17:40:56 PST 1992 - mann@src.dec.com
11009 * Track change to "Illegal move" message in new ICS.
11011 2.1, patchlevel 6 -- Tue Dec 8 10:48:44 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
11013 * Kludged around bug in keeping comment popup where you put it by
11014 adding borderXoffset and borderYoffset resources that give the width
11015 of the borders added by the window manager. Yucch.
11017 * Changed searchDepth kludge back to using "help" instead of "bd"; the
11018 latter didn't work because the output contains a line starting with
11019 "White", so we think gnuchess is telling us that White won. Oops.
11021 * Removed some code that uses an X11R5 feature, XrmGetDatabase.
11022 Without this, the auto font sizing code is harder to make work, so to
11023 keep my sanity I had to change it to affect only the fonts that appear
11024 in the main window and the comment popup, not the other popups. Maybe
11025 this is better anyway.
11027 * AcceptMatch button now works after a counterchallenge, too.
11029 * Added code for more variants of messages about games being adjourned
11030 or aborted. These messages need to be unified in new version of ICS.
11032 * Added workaround for minor bug in ICS; game number on first board
11035 * Removed code to say "refresh n" instead of "refresh"; was broken and
11036 wasn't needed anyway.
11038 * Added missing casts for compilers that distinguish enums from ints
11039 and missing cast in connect call.
11041 * Added code to recognize "both sides are out of time" draw message
11042 proposed for next version of ICS.
11044 * Thanks to Danny Sleator and Joe Peterson for bug reports.
11046 2.1, patchlevel 5 -- Sun Dec 6 19:52:40 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
11048 * Removed gcc and CDEBUGFLAGS from Imakefile.
11050 * Corrected setting of mode to ForceMoves when game file ends or
11051 contains an AmbiguousMove or BadMove. Previous bug was harmless.
11053 * Added AcceptMatch button and mention of 50-move rule for Draw button
11056 2.1, patchlevel 4 -- Sun Dec 6 02:55:42 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
11058 * Now handles revised messages from new version of ICS. New ICS is
11059 not released yet, so this code might change further. Next patchlevel
11060 will remove support for old ICS; both are there now.
11062 * Initial processing for a new game being watched or played now
11063 happens when we see the first board image. Removes the need to parse
11064 some messages and unifies some code.
11066 2.1, patchlevel 3 -- Tue Dec 1 19:40:40 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
11068 * Handles ICS messages "Draw : neither player has mating
11069 material" and "Draw : White has no material, Black has no time."
11071 * Added AcceptMatch button for ICS mode.
11073 * Fixed bug in previous fix to yylexstr().
11075 * Fixed bugs in code for loading old position files that don't start
11076 with "#" and for handling case where user asked for nth position in
11077 file but there aren't that many.
11079 * Handles ICS message "* has restored your old game"
11081 * ResetProc always clears title line now.
11083 * Don't issue just "refresh" when watching a game; use game number.
11084 Upcoming new version of ICS may need this.
11086 * Added code to try to prevent user from watching and/or playing more
11087 than one game at a time. There is a race condition inherent here; if
11088 we get more than one board from the game before our command to stop
11089 watching it takes effect, we'll think the user started it again. Not
11090 clear how to fix this.
11092 * Redid ParseBoard8 to use sscanf. Code is a good deal cleaner now.
11093 Also, we now parse out the game number too, though we don't make much
11096 * (Tried to put in a feature that recognizes the current game in a
11097 game file must have ended when we see the start of a new one, but had
11098 to disable it because we have too many false hits with the current
11099 parser, especially in gnuchess listing files.)
11101 * Moves read from game files or received from ICS are now translated
11102 into canonical algebraic form just like all other moves. Minor nit:
11103 If you use Reset while playing or observing a game in ICS mode, the
11104 game history (including the current board position) is lost, so the
11105 next move of the current game can't be translated.
11107 * Default fonts now vary with board size, and are chosen by pixel size
11108 instead of point size (since piece bitmaps have a fixed pixel size).
11110 * Bug fix: An extra Forward was required to skip over time indications
11113 2.1 patchlevel 2 -- Fri Nov 27 23:30:00 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
11115 * If you move the comment popup, the next time it pops up it will come
11116 back where you put it.
11118 * Fixed yylexstr() so calls to it can be interspersed with calls to
11121 * Fixed bugs in Forward/Backward while in LoadGame mode.
11123 * Changed Save{Game,Position} functions to append instead of
11124 overwriting if file exists. Changed Load{Game,Position} functions to
11125 deal with multiple games/positions per file.
11127 * Changed load{Game,Position}File resources to trigger automatic load
11128 on program startup. Changed save{Game,Position}File resources to
11129 trigger automatic save after every completed game and on program exit.
11131 * Added autoSaveGames mode.
11133 * Fixed bug with PromoPiece in call to MakeAlg from MakeMove.
11135 * Many changes to get rid of picky compiler warnings and generally
11138 2.1 patchlevel 1 -- Fri Nov 27 02:45:00 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
11140 * A last minute change before patchlevel 0 went out broke
11141 ParseGameHistory(). Immediately fixed in patchlevel 1.
11143 Version 2.1, patchlevel 0 -- Fri Nov 27 02:00:00 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
11145 * Uses "time" command of gnuchess 4.0 and following to keep clocks in
11146 sync. Still works with older versions without this command; we test
11147 whether the command is present the first time each chess program is
11150 * File name dialog pops up under the mouse cursor, so that it's got the
11151 keyboard focus if the window manager is using pointer focus.
11153 * Attempts to move the wrong color piece or an empty square are filtered
11154 out in xboard instead of being passed on to GNU Chess or the ICS.
11156 * The reason a game ended is now remembered even if you move backward
11157 and forward after it ends. It is forgotten only if you make a move
11158 (which is as it should be---this is now a different game, which hasn't
11159 ended yet). The message saying why the game ended no longer wipes out
11162 * Pause, Backward, Forward, ForceMoves, and EditPosition now work from
11165 * Forward and Backward now change only the board display unless you
11166 are in ForceMoves mode. Pause mode keeps new moves that are received
11167 from being displayed on your screen until you unpause (or use
11170 * Added option to ring the bell after opponents' moves.
11172 * Saved games that start from other than the standard initial position
11173 now begin with a postion diagram as in saved position files. The
11174 loader is modified to understand such save files.
11176 * Improved error checking when trying to read from gnuchess.
11178 * Parser understands things that look like time indications, e.g., (0:12),
11179 instead of popping them up as comments.
11181 * Send "quit" to gnuchess before trying to kill it. I needed this
11182 locally because sending a SIGTERM to rsh was not killing the remote
11183 program on some internal field test systems we have.
11185 * Merged in code from John Chanak to make xboard a front end to the
11186 Internet Chess Server, and added several improvements of my own.
11187 (These include parsing end of game messages, loading the current state
11188 and previous history of a game that's joined in progress via "watch"
11189 or "load", automatic switch from board style 1 to 8 when needed,
11190 removing irrelevant buttons and adding some new ones, adding the
11191 useTelnet and gateway resources, and miscellaneous code cleanup, bug
11192 fixes, and documentation.) Many thanks to John for writing and
11193 contributing the initial version of this code.
11195 Fri Oct 30 20:16:40 PST 1992 (patchlevel 25) mann@src.dec.com
11197 * gnuchess now castles by sending us "o-o" or "o-o-o" (starting with a
11198 preliminary version of 4.0.pl60 that I have). Added code to handle
11199 this. The old format ("e1g1", etc.) still works too.
11201 * Added code to format moves in normal abbreviated algebraic notation
11202 (for example, e4, exd4, f8Q, Nf6, 0-0) instead of coordinate algebraic
11203 (for example, e2e4, e3d4, f7f8q, g1f6, e1g1). Moves entered with the
11204 mouse or received from gnuchess are translated into this canonical
11205 format for display on the message line or in saved game files. Moves
11206 read from game files are not translated, however; they are shown and
11207 saved just as they appear in the file.
11209 Mon Sep 14 13:19:01 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 24) mann@src.dec.com
11211 * It's not really correct to write an ep capture of a pawn on e5 as
11212 fxe5; this should be written as fxe6 because e6 is where the capturing
11213 pawn ends up. Nevertheless, the parser now interprets fxe5 as the ep
11214 capture f5xe6 unless there is a pawn on f4, in which case it
11215 interprets fxe5 as f4xe5. By design, the parser does not flag fxe5 as
11216 ambiguous if there are pawns on both f4 and f5; instead it prefers the
11217 more legitimate f4xe5 interpretation.
11219 * A move like fxe6 or fe6 is now interpreted as an e.p. capture of the
11220 pawn on e5 if there is one there and e6 is empty.
11222 * A move like fxe5 can no longer be interpreted as an e.p. capture if
11223 there isn't a pawn on e5 to be captured. Previously this could happen
11224 erroneously if there were pawns on both f4 and f5, and the f4 pawn was
11225 capturing a piece on e5.
11227 * The parser no longer munges the move it is parsing; in the past, for
11228 instance, it would remove the "x" from a move like dxc5 before echoing
11231 * The parser now detects when a move is ambiguous and returns an
11232 error, instead of arbitrarily choosing one possibility as it used to.
11234 Mon Aug 10 18:40:47 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 23) mann@src.dec.com
11236 * Added code so parser can handle fully qualified algebraic, e.g.,
11237 Ng1-f3, N/g1-f3, Ng1f3, or even Pe2-e4. The "P" and "/" work only for
11238 fully qualified moves, not generally.
11240 * Fixed parser bugs in handling moves with rank or file disambiguator,
11243 Mon Jul 6 17:55:32 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 22) mann@src.dec.com
11245 * AIXV3 patch from Tom McConnell; thanks!
11247 * After hitting the Backward button we see the last move made instead of
11248 the word "Pausing" displayed.
11250 * Fixed a couple of problems compiling on IRIX; thanks to Michel Arsenault
11251 and Alan Walsh for bug reports and help with fixes.
11253 * Added optional display of algebraic notation coordinates along left and
11254 bottom edges of board. This was inspired by some code from Jean-Christophe
11257 * Swapped EditPosition and Pause buttons to reduce danger of losing the
11258 game in progress by hitting EditPosition when you wanted Backward. Thanks
11259 to Ove Lundberg for complaining (though it bugged me too).
11261 * Despite one complaint, I kept the feature of changing both clocks when black
11262 makes time control, rather than changing each individually when the player
11263 involved makes it. This is to avoid having it look like White is way ahead on
11264 time while Black is thinking about the last move of the time control period
11265 (i.e., when White has made time control but Black hasn't yet).
11267 * Corrected clocks to work as in real tournaments. Time is *added* when you
11268 reach time control; previously the clocks were simply set to the length of the
11269 new time period. Also, when a player's flag falls, he still does not receive a
11270 new time allotment at the next time control, but his opponent does still
11271 receive more time if *his* flag has not fallen; previously, time controls were
11272 ignored for both players if either flag fell. I forget who reported this bug.
11274 * Added a small ESIX patch from Kayvan Sylvan.
11276 Mon Jun 22 13:24:38 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 21)
11278 * Added some SVR4 support code from Ronald Cole. It's Greek to me.
11280 * Note: Stephen Meatheringham reports a bug causing xboard to crash with an
11281 error from the X server when run on a Sun Sparcstation IPX with Solaris 1.0.1
11282 and OpenWindows 3.0. This bug has not been tracked down yet.
11284 * Fixed a problem with ATTENTION code. On some operating systems, you have to
11285 be even more cautious about when you send a SIGINT to gnuchess, because the
11286 signal handler gets deinstalled each time it is used, and gnuchess does not
11287 reinstall it immediately. In particular, if you send a SIGINT and make an
11288 illegal move or ask for a hint, gnuchess does not reinstall the handler until
11289 *after* you make your next move, so you had better not send a SIGINT before
11290 it. I put a workaround for this case into xboard; I hope there are no more.
11292 * The ATTENTION code is needed when compiling for the ESIX operating system,
11293 because ESIX has a bug in the FIONREAD ioctl, so the code in gnuchess that
11294 lets you interrupt its thinking on your time just by typing in your move does
11295 not work. Perhaps gnuchess will have a workaround for this eventually.
11297 * Fixed yet another bug in using XtGetValues; code to inhibit shell resizing
11298 was leaving a null pointer as the place to store the current sizes.
11300 * Man page fixes: corrected -sl to -sd, updated LIMITATIONS.
11302 * Added include of <sys/time.h> conditional on HAS_GETTIMEOFDAY. I hope this
11303 works for all systems; on mine, <time.h> and <sys/time.h> are the same file,
11304 but with an #ifndef that makes it harmless to include both.
11306 * Thanks for reports from Mike Pearlman, Stephen Meatheringham, Kayvan Sylvan,
11307 d87-mal@nada.kth.se, Urban Koistinen, and Ronald Cole.
11309 Mon Jun 8 11:39:18 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 20)
11311 * Documented default value of initString and explained what it means. This
11312 paragraph also serves to inform the user that xboard by default will tell
11313 gnuchess to think on his time, something one user apparently didn't understand.
11315 * Redid -searchDepth (formerly -searchLevel) and -searchTime code. They both
11316 work correctly with gnuchess 3.1 now. The -searchDepth option also works
11317 correctly with gnuchess 4.0. The -searchTime option does not work with
11318 gnuchess 4.0.pl50 or earlier because those gnuchess versions do not have a
11319 working searchTime feature. Instead of having xboard do a half-baked emulation
11320 of this feature by using a 1-move time control, I will be submitting a patch to
11321 the gnuchess folks to restore the feature as in 3.1.
11323 * Improved clock code. It now keeps accurate track of fractional seconds of
11324 clock running time, if your system has gettimeofday(); if not, it is generous
11325 about them---if a clock has been going for n.m seconds when it is stopped, only
11326 n seconds are charged. Previously, xboard would charge one second immediately
11327 when a clock was started, so if n.m had elapsed when it was stopped, n+1 would
11328 be charged. This should stop xboard from thinking gnuchess has let its flag
11329 fall on the last move of a time control, as it often did before. I also
11330 improved the comments and condensed the code a little. I hope there are no
11331 systems that have X11 and don't have gettimeofday(), but if there are, I'd like
11332 to know what to replace it with.
11334 * "Flag dropped" messages now show up on the top line, beside the clocks, so
11335 that they don't obscure more interesting messages on the second line.
11337 * Fixed confusion of NULL and '\000'.
11339 * Include time.h to get ctime() declaration.
11341 * Fix to "parser bug" messages in parser.l.
11343 * Changed code to work with old-fashioned tolower() macro that requires its
11344 argument to be an uppercase letter.
11346 * Minor fix to some usage error messages; was reversing program name and
11347 erroneous argument value.
11349 * Thanks to Mitch Wright, Ranier Orth, and Henrik Schmiediche for bug reports.
11351 Fri Jun 5 13:06:08 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 19)
11353 * Note: xboard does not seem to work when compiled with gcc 1.40 on a
11354 PS/2 running AIX. It crashes at the sscanf in line 768 of xboard.c.
11355 You can work around the problem by specifying the -timeControl option
11356 on the command line instead of defaulting it. This does not seem to
11357 be a bug in xboard itself; it runs okay on PS/2 AIX when compiled with
11358 MetaWare High C. [But see 2.1.pl8 above.]
11360 * Removed bogus files from distribution.
11362 * Changed variable name that conflicted with SVR4 ttyname function.
11364 * Thanks to Christoph Strozyk for another bug report, and to several
11365 of the folks mentioned under patchlevel 18 for testing it.
11367 Wed Jun 3 17:50:37 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 18) mann@src.dec.com
11369 * Added an include of sys/fcntl.h to pick up the definition of O_RDWR for
11372 * Fixed a bug in CatchPipeSignal; was testing the wrong variable to determine
11373 which chess program got the signal.
11375 * Removed the declaration of strrchr, which was causing problems for some
11376 people, and added an include of <string.h> or <strings.h> instead.
11378 * Fixed a bunch of type errors uncovered by compilers that check more carefully
11379 than the one I was using. I just patched many of them with casts---typically
11380 cases where a function didn't take the same number and type of arguments as the
11381 X header file prototype said it should---because I didn't see any other way to
11382 fix them. The versions of the X header files that I have don't actually have
11383 full prototypes for these function types; they declare only the return type and
11384 just give the argument types as comments.
11386 * InitChessProgram returns immediately if chess program died while we were
11387 waiting for it to say "Chess". I think this fixes a bug that could make xboard
11388 crash or go into an infinite loop printing "Warning: Select failed; error code
11389 9" if gnuchess crashed there.
11391 * Removed code that tries to put the file descriptor used to read messages from
11392 gnuchess into nonblocking mode. I don't see how this kludge could ever have
11393 fixed the problem it was intended to (see below), and it seemed to be causing
11394 a race condition when we were waiting for the initial message from gnuchess
11395 after it started up.
11397 * Thanks to Richard K. Lloyd, Konstantinos Konstantinides, Mark
11398 Seiden, Erik Schoenfelder, Andreas Stolcke, Rainer Orth, Henry Thomas,
11399 and Kris Van Hees for bug reports and help with fixes.
11401 Sun May 31 08:00:00 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 17) Bart Massey bart@cs.uoregon.edu
11403 * 'xboard' suffered from a couple of serious bugs. An initial
11404 size needed to be given to the message label to avoid a race
11405 condition (!) so I gave it some text (otherwise occasionally
11406 xboard would fail because the message widget was 0 width under
11407 MIT X11R4). The sizes needed to be Dimension, not int, because
11408 they were written in by Xt -- on my big-endian box Dimension
11409 is short, causing chaos. Also, I hacked a declaration in for
11410 strrchr() to shut the compiler up -- this is arguably a kludge,
11411 but I couldn't think of anything better; maybe you can.
11413 Fri May 22 13:40:50 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 16)
11415 * First real (non-beta) release of version 2.0.
11417 * Added GNU copyleft notices covering version 2.0 enhancements.
11419 Thu May 21 12:30:09 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 15)
11421 * Removed -g from Imakefile.
11423 * Added casts in parser.l to prevent warning messages from some C compilers.
11425 * Bugfix: code to exit if chess program couldn't be started had bug in error
11428 Tue May 19 11:58:06 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 14)
11430 * Fixes one small bug: If LoadGame does not find a game in the file, it resets
11431 xboard to BeginningOfGame mode (as if the Reset button was pressed), instead of
11432 leaving it in LoadGame mode.
11434 Mon Apr 13 18:32:27 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 13)
11436 * Improved error handling when gnuchessx crashes. Now displays a message and
11437 enters EndOfGame state without exiting. This should help with diagnosing
11438 gnuchessx problems, since the position and move history are not lost.
11440 * Debugged man page.
11442 Version 2.0 -- Thu Apr 2 16:04:54 PST 1992 (patchlevel 12)
11444 * Added small 40x40 pixel pieces; board size now specified as small, medium, or
11447 * Improved man page.
11449 * Saved position files now say "white to play" if it's white's move.
11451 * SavePosition while in EditPosition mode now gets side to play right.
11453 * Made "Pawn" the default on edit position menus.
11455 * Removed "To play" from edit position menus, since it's redundant. Left
11456 support code in so it can be restored if someone wants it.
11458 * Tightened parser's definition of a move number to help further with skipping
11459 over stuff before the first move.
11461 * Put back feature of skipping over stuff in game files before a start of game
11462 marker. This helps when loading electronic mail messages that have things
11463 like "00" in the header (looks like castling), or that talk about moves in
11464 running text before the actual game score. Tradeoff is that we can't load
11465 games that don't either have move numbers or say "gnuchess game" just before
11468 * Changed version number to 2.0 because others have used "1.3" for patched
11469 versions of 1.2. Display version number and patchlevel at startup.
11471 Thu Apr 2 15:30:22 PST 1992 (patchlevel 11)
11473 * Bugfix: Match started with TwoMachines button now handles the case where
11474 user loaded/edited a position *and* forced some moves.
11476 * added error message feedback to many cases where the user's button press is
11477 rejected because it isn't allowed in the current mode.
11479 * added -noChessProgram option to allow use as a passive chessboard without
11480 gnuchess, replacing old buggy scheme that tried to do this automatically when
11481 gnuchess was not found on the search path.
11483 * parser accepts "=" in front of promotion piece
11485 * parser accepts ":" notation for captures
11487 * Removed SwitchSides button to make room for EditPosition. Left code in
11488 place, ifdef'ed out.
11490 * Added EditPosition mode.
11492 * Reformatted xboard.c to eliminate long lines.
11494 * Promotion popup now appears near rank to which pawn is moving.
11496 * UI improvement: Button representing current program mode is kept highlighted.
11498 * Bug fix: Hint button is now disabled when machine is on move.
11500 Sat Mar 21 14:57:37 PST 1992 (patchlevel 10)
11502 * TwoMachines now works from MachineWhite or MachineBlack mode.
11504 * ForceMoves and Backward/Forward now work at the end of a game started by
11505 the TwoMachines button.
11507 * Sends o-o or o-o-o to gnuchess instead of O-O or O-O-O.
11509 * Bug fix: SwitchSides button is now disabled when machine is on move.
11511 * Added -searchLevel option and corrected handling of -searchTime to reflect
11512 the way gnuchess really handles command line options instead of what the
11513 documentation used to say. Allowed optional ":seconds" on times.
11515 Tue Mar 17 21:00:35 PST 1992 (patchlevel 9)
11517 * Removed non-working code that tried to recover when a remote chess program
11518 could not be started; now exits with a message instead.
11520 * Now waits for chess program to print its first message (normally "Chess")
11521 before sending it any commands.
11523 * Matches between two machines can now start from a black-to-play position or
11524 black-to-play opening.
11526 * Bug fix: The program would sometimes lose track of the board position after
11527 the end of the game, drawing a board full of white pawns next time it got an X
11528 redraw request. Now fixed.
11530 * Cleaned up handling of illegal moves in game files. Now we just stop reading
11531 and go into ForceMoves mode.
11533 * Saved games against gnuchess indicate who won (restored and debugged 1.2
11536 * Setting -searchTime turns off -clockMode.
11538 * My trick for setting up a black-to-play position broke in the transition from
11539 gnuchess 3.1+ to 4.0. Installed a different trick that works with both.
11541 * Bug fix: Was clobbering memory by mallocing one byte too few for the file
11542 name in SetupPositionFromFileProc. This usually resulted in a crash on the
11543 second attempt to load a position from a file.
11545 Mon Mar 16 16:49:00 PST 1992 (patchlevel 8)
11547 * Game and position files are saved in CHESSDIR as well as loaded from there.
11548 We actually chdir there, so gnuchess listing files also wind up there.
11550 * Underpromotion moves from gnuchess really work now.
11552 Sat Mar 14 14:55:24 PST 1992 (patchlevel 7)
11554 * Cleaned up lots of bugs and kruft in parser.l. It's a wonder the old version
11555 worked at all. Improved rejection of random text interspersed with the moves.
11557 * Relabeled buttons to reduce confusion (Play From File --> Load Game;
11558 Setup From File --> Load Position).
11560 * Bug fix: Doesn't exit at the end of a game that was started by pressing
11561 the Two Machines button.
11563 * Bug fix: Doesn't get confused if you hit Machine Black (White) while
11564 the machine is already playing black (white) and is on move.
11566 * Prints "White to play" or "Black to play" after loading a position file.
11568 * Bug fix: No longer hangs if no start-of-game is found in a game file.
11570 * More permissive about game file format. The first line is not assumed
11571 to be a header comment unless it starts with "#". We don't insist on
11572 seeing a "1." before the first move.
11574 * Added pop-up dialog to allow underpromotion. Moving a pawn to the last rank
11575 pops up a dialog to let you select what piece to promote to. Also added code
11576 to handle underpromotion moves from gnuchess or from a game file correctly.
11578 * Added code to send SIGINT to gnuchess before trying to move, if gnuchess
11579 might be busy thinking on our time. The code is ifdef'ed out because it's
11580 not necessary; only beta-test versions of gnuchess 4.0 at patchlevel 19 or
11583 Mon Feb 24 20:10:22 PST 1992
11585 * Merged fixes received from Stuart Cracraft and Mike McGann, to iconic mode
11586 and to ShutdownChessPrograms. (They both sent the same fixes.) I did not
11587 install the change that removed "easy" from the initialization string, so
11588 xboard will still try to run gnuchessx in "hard" mode (thinking on opponent's
11589 time) by sending this command.
11591 Version 1.3 -- Thu Dec 19 18:19:00 PST 1991 mann@src.dec.com (Tim Mann)
11593 * I've fixed a slew of bugs in this version of xboard:
11595 * You can now back up from the end of a game, even if gnuchess was playing
11596 against you. Since gnuchess exits upon mate or draw (when it's not in force
11597 mode), this feature works by starting up a new copy of gnuchess and feeding it
11598 the saved starting position and moves. Drawback: the new gnuchess starts with
11599 clocks at the beginning of a fresh time control.
11601 * Note: the "force" command to gnuchess is a toggle. I fixed a couple of
11602 places in xboard where "force" was being issued when gnuchess was already in
11603 force mode, which resulted in chaos. I don't know if they were in 1.2 or if I
11604 added them myself in the course of putting in new features.
11606 * ForceMoves button is now legal in PlayFromFile mode. It closes the game file
11607 and lets you force moves (or go Backward) from whatever position you've
11610 * The parser now recognizes "white resigns" and "black resigns" (in any
11611 combination of upper and lower case, with or without the closing "s"). These
11612 used to be misinterpreted as meaning "white wins" or "black wins" respectively!
11613 Added "1 - 0" and "0 - 1" as equivalents for "1-0" and "0-1".
11615 * I removed the parser feature of considering "!" as a comment delimiter.
11616 "!" is so common as an annotation in game scores that this feature seems like a
11619 * Added a wait() after each successful call to kill() to avoid leaving zombie
11622 * Removed the feature of putting an indication of how the game ended into the
11623 internal move list when playing from a file. The only benefit of this was that
11624 it would get written back out if you saved the game at that point. This
11625 feature doesn't seem too useful, since you are unlikely to save a game you've
11626 read in without making any changes, and it caused a lot of problems in the code
11627 and user interface. The end condition is still displayed as a message when
11628 it's first read in from the file. End conditions when playing against gnuchess
11629 are still saved, too.
11631 * programName is now the last file name component of argv[0], not all of it.
11633 * xboard.c got three compiler warnings due to arguments that didn't match the
11634 prototypes on X toolkit functions. I got rid of them by adding some casts, and
11635 adding extra unused arguments to the ReceiveFromProgram function.
11637 * As I received it, the distribution had an extra period glued on the front
11638 of every line that started with a period. This broke the manpage in an
11639 obvious way. It also broke parser.l in a nonobvious way that stopped
11640 PlayFromFile from working.
11642 * Fixed one or two bugs where the clock was started when it shouldn't have
11643 been. I think one example was if you tried an illegal move in ForceMoves mode.
11645 * Now starts the machine's clock if you hit MachineWhite when white is on move
11646 or MachineBlack when black is on move.
11648 * Now updates the to-move indicator (highlight on clock display) when you use
11649 Forward/Backward or ForceMoves.
11651 * gnuchess 3.1+ has a bug that makes it try to think on its opponent's time
11652 even when in force mode; this causes problems with xboard's SetupFromFile
11653 command because gnuchess's saved hint move is garbage after the new position is
11654 loaded, so gnuchess prints out an error message when it tries to think about
11655 what it would do if the user made this move. Here is a patch for gnuchess
11658 *** nondsp.c~ Mon Dec 2 12:37:18 1991
11659 *-- nondsp.c Thu Dec 19 15:36:06 1991
11662 ok = flag.quit = false;
11665 ! if (hint > 0 && !flag.easy && Book == NULL)
11668 time0 = time ((long *) 0);
11670 ok = flag.quit = false;
11673 ! if (hint > 0 && !flag.easy && Book == NULL && !flag.force)
11676 time0 = time ((long *) 0);
11678 * SavePosition/SetupFromFile now handle black-to-play positions. If it's
11679 black's move in a saved position, the line "black to play" is printed
11680 immediately after the board display. Upon loading a position, xboard
11681 looks for "black" at the beginning of this line to determine whether it's
11684 * SetupFromFile now leaves you (effectively) in ForceMoves mode. This
11685 eliminates some cases where the program would get into an inconsistent state,
11686 and hopefully is more intuitive for the user, too.
11688 * PlayFromFile now leaves xboard in ForceMoves mode after playing through all
11689 the moves in the file. You can use Backward/Forward, make moves, get gnuchess
11690 to join the game with MachineWhite or MachineBlack, etc. The game file can end
11691 with either white or black to play.
11693 * Backward/Forward now seem to work in all cases. Previously using these
11694 buttons during a game against the machine would get xboard out of sync with
11695 gnuchess's idea of what was going on, resulting in chaos. Now using these
11696 buttons puts xboard in ForceMoves mode; you can bring gnuchess back into the
11697 game using the MachineWhite or MachineBlack buttons.
11699 Thu Jun 27 15:06:25 PDT 1991
11701 * Remove comment popups during a reset.
11703 * Bug in my forward move fix. Didn't work for playgamefile mode.
11705 Thu Jun 20 15:04:06 PDT 1991
11707 * Can't do a backward move when it isn't your turn because gnuchess
11708 gets confused. Similar bug for forward move. Do a bunch of moves,
11709 back up move and go forward. These get filtered out now.
11711 * Put easy back into the initString. This DISABLES easy mode which by
11714 * New-line wasn't always being added to forward move strings sent to gnuchess.
11716 * Parsed comments as [ ..............text follows ] into d7d5
11718 * Long game file comments cause core dumps on HP systems.
11720 * Multiple uses of the get positition file button got confused
11721 on the second click.
11723 Minor fixes to the 1.2 release
11725 Version 1.2 -- Tue Jun 11 17:14:12 PDT 1991
11727 * For version 1.2, Jeff Kenton, Richard LLoyd, David Jensen, Martin D.,
11728 Bill Schmidt, Scott Hemphill, Paul Vaughan and Bill Shauck all found
11729 a lot of bugs that we put into xboard just to see if they were paying
11730 attention. They were.
11732 * Changed the protocol that xboard uses to work with the new version of
11735 * There was an off by one error with the clock resetting code. Also,
11736 the clock display highliting was wrong. Thanks to Bill Shauck for
11737 pointing these out.
11739 * enumerations are not really integers on some C compilers. I added casting.
11740 The new version of gnuchess expects the "go" command for two machine
11741 and machine plays white cases. The whiteString resource is for
11742 compatibility with previous gnuchess versions which get confused by go.
11743 Thanks to Martin D. for catching these.
11745 * Fixed a bug where the checkmate message wasn't being parsed and xboard
11746 kept playing. Also, the message was added to game file if saved.
11747 Thanks to Scott Hemhill for pointing this out.
11749 * Fixed a bug where saving a long game, resetting and saving a short game
11750 resulted in appending the end of the long game to the short one.
11751 If a game is just being played out and there is no reason for gnuchessr
11752 to be used, ignore pipe signals. This allows people to use xboard
11753 as a chess board without need for gnuchess. Also, trivially bad moves
11754 such as e2e2 are not passed on to gnuchessr but instead ignored out of
11755 hand. This allows people using xboard as a chessboard with gnuchessr
11756 to pick a piece up, think and put it back down without making a move.
11757 Thanks to Jeff Kenton for pointing these out.
11759 * Added the CHESSDIR environment variable. Game and position files are
11760 found in this directory. If this variable is not declared, then the
11761 current directory is used. File names starting with / are treated
11764 * The bitmap file names were changed so that none exceeded 14 characters.
11765 This is necessary for R5.
11767 fcntl(from_prog[0], F_SETFL, O_NDELAY);
11769 The xboard fix was to set non-blocking i/o on the read pipe for gnuchessr
11771 printz ("Illegal move (no matching move generated)");
11773 * fixed a problem with the new version of gnuchessr where xboard wasn't
11774 getting gnuchessr error messages for illegal moves. The problem seems
11775 to be fixed *without* any gnuchess changes but this is likely to be
11776 highly system dependant. There should be a new line on line 246 of nondsp.c
11778 * -iconic doesn't work at all now. The Iconify() does work. This was
11779 a tradeoff and it is really an Xt bug.
11781 * Fixed a compiler warning for gcc and an error for the IBM RT compilers.
11782 This is the VOID_PROC macro in xboard.h. Thanks to David Jensen for this.
11784 * If the DisplayWidth or DisplayHeight is less than 800, use small size mode.
11785 Also the size of the name widget was reduced from 500 pixels to 400 pixels
11786 because in small size mode there was a gap on the right.
11787 Changed the default font from fixed to helvetica_oblique14 to:
11788 **-helvetica-bold-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
11789 helvetica_oblique14 is a font alias not on all R4 systems.
11790 Curiously enough, the 17 point is not available on 75dpi systems
11791 and the 18 point font is not available on 100dpi systems.
11792 Thanks to Richard K. Lloyd for pointing these out.
11794 * Minor hacks to work with R5 alpha. Had to add an event handler to the
11795 boardWidget to get translations to work. This may go away with the real R5.
11796 Added <Message>WM_PROTOCOLS: QuitProc() for R5 ICCCM compatibility.
11798 * If the first character of the file is not `1' then the first line
11799 of a game or position file is displayed as the name in a label widget.
11801 * Added a PopUp dialog for getting file names.
11803 * Modified the code to use the R4 routines rather than R3 compatibility.
11805 * Changed the forwards/backwards/readgamefile code to allow a play to step
11806 back and forth in a game. If he steps all the way to the beginning
11807 he has to restart the game. If he gets into a mated position, same problem.
11809 * Moved the man page from xboard.1 to xboard.man. This makes imake man page
11810 installs work correctly. Thanks to Richard K. Lloyd for pointing this out.
11812 * Corrected the queening code. XBoard was sending the wrong syntax.
11813 It was sending for example h8(Q) when it should have been sending h8q.
11814 Thanks to Paul Vaughan and Mike McGann for pointing this out.
11816 * Added a lex parser for algebraic games. It should be easy to use the parser
11817 for other interfaces such as the Microsoft Windows version.
11818 It parses comments of the form [anything] and ! to the end of a line.
11820 Version 1.1 -- Mon Jan 7 14:46:03 PST 1991
11822 * Roger Dubar, Konstantinos Konstantinides, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht,
11823 Paul Scowen, Mvh Smidt and Kayvan Sylvan all helped immensely during
11826 * older non-ANSI versions of Sun compilers complain vociferously.
11828 * the remoteShell resource was added for HP-UX systems
11829 and other systems where the remoteShell isn't rsh.
11831 * -iconic doesn't work properly. If XBoard is opened iconic then
11832 iconifying it later with a keystroke doesn't work. I think
11835 * For systems with smaller screens, XBoard can use smaller pieces,
11836 and a smaller board. -bigSizeMode False uses a smaller set of pieces.
11837 These are scaled versions of the large pieces. They look ok but could
11840 * getlogin() does not work in all cases.
11841 It was replaced by getpwuid(getuid())->pw_name).
11843 * Warning messages get displayed in the message box.
11845 * Any button restarts a paused game.
11847 * Kayvan Sylvan contributed a patch for ESIX.
11848 It seems that select() on pipes is broken on his system. We declined
11849 to incorporate his patch though, because it was a work-around for
11850 something that was broken on one system, and selfishly, that system
11851 was not my own. Nevertheless, it is likely that other System V users
11852 on PC's may need to use this patch and it is is included as the file
11853 ESIX.patch. To use it, type
11855 patch xboard.c ESIX.patch
11857 * Fixed a bug where hint didn't work. The local version of gnuchessr
11858 had been hacked. The fix was to clone stderr and stdout for gnuchessr.
11860 * Fixed a bug where a player could play after a game had been finished.
11862 * The bitmaps have been pushed into the bitmaps directory.
11864 * Substantially rewrote and simplified the Two Machine code.
11866 * Added StrStr() because many systems don't have this ANSI function.
11868 * Added keyboard equivalents. Added an iconify keystroke, C or c.
11870 * Works with gcc now. gcc complained about casting float constants
11873 * Detect if the visual doesn't support color. If so, run in monoMode.
11874 An alternative would be to detect grayscale visual and use a collection
11875 of gray user interface colors.
11877 XBoard.clockMode: False
11879 * For people who don't like or use chess clocks a clockMode switch
11880 has been added. It is on by default. It can be turned off in the
11881 .Xdefaults file with
11883 * Added a declaration, xtVersion, which will quickly break on R3 Intrinsics.
11885 * Hal Peterson contributed a new Imakefile.
11887 * Rewrote DisplayClocks().
11889 * Rewrote TwoMachinesPlay mode.
11891 * Konstantinos Konstantinides added the -searchTime option.
11893 * Substantially rewrote and simplified the clock code. If a game was paused
11894 and then resumed, the clocks were out of sync.
11896 * Fixed a bug in HandleUserMove() where the user could make a move while the
11897 machine was thinking. The fix detects and ignores these moves. onMove
11898 was not being used and was removed.