1 ChangeLog for XBoard/WinBoard
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4 (latest entries created by git log --no-merges --pretty="%ai %an <%ae>:%n%s%n%n%b" vlast.. )
6 2013-08-27 22:55:52 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7 Fix -zippyVariants option
9 Due to the change of cps->variants from (char []) to (char *), copying
10 zippyVariants to it on behalf of v1 engines would no longer work. This
11 is fixed by using ASSIGN() in stead of safeStrCpy().
13 2013-08-26 18:25:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14 Fix initial board sizing WB
16 The initial board size was based on the assumption the board would be 8x8.
17 This could push auxiliary windows off screen if the board was smaller,
18 after which EnsureOnScreen would undock them and park them in the upper-
19 right corner before the board assumed its true size. InitPos() is now called
20 before the initial sizing to et the board format correctly, InitDrawingSizes()
21 had to be made resitant to calling before a board size was picked for this
22 (because InitPos() might call that too).
23 ActivateTheme() now uses the new board size, not the previous one (as was
24 indicated by size -2), so that -boardSize specifications inside a theme
26 Board size petite should not be forbidden for Shogi; all pieces exist there.
28 2013-08-26 14:40:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
29 Fix grabbing of selected piece
31 A second static click on a selected piece should deselect it, but an attempt
32 to drag an already selected piece should not 'bounce off'. It was already
33 possible to move a selected piece to another square, but the dragging was
34 not animated. This is now fixed, by only skipping the code to start dragging
35 when the second click is part of the only-move double-click for only capture.
36 (Before it was skipped on any second click.)
38 2013-08-26 13:35:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
39 Allow entry of negative numbers in spin control (WB)
41 Windows numeric controls do not accept negative numbers, so in case the
42 range of a spin option can go negative, the style ES_NUMBER should not be
45 2013-08-26 11:37:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
46 Allow drops / promotions/ deferrals to be edited into book
48 For no real reason only NormalMove would be accepted when parsing the list
51 2013-08-26 11:28:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
52 Fix GUI book after setup position
54 The routine to send move to the engine would automatically append a 'go'
55 is a preious setboard had put the engine in force mode, but this should
56 not happen on a book hit, where the engine should even be put in force mode
57 if it was not yet there.
59 2013-07-05 18:32:46 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
62 Due to duplicate use of the same file pointer variable the game file would be
63 closed before any games were read from it.
65 2013-05-20 11:14:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
66 Make PGN parser immune to unprotected time stamps
68 The parser choked on time stamps of the form dd:dd or dd:dd:dd if one
69 of the fields happened to be 00, because it wouldmistake that for a
70 non-compliant king-side castling. By excluding this interpretation when
71 the 00 is immediately preceded or followed by ':' this is now prevented.
73 2013-05-05 08:03:00 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
74 updated po files for new release (make distcheck)
77 2013-05-05 07:57:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
78 new version number for release 4.7.1
81 2013-05-05 07:53:54 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
82 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
85 2013-05-02 22:47:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
88 It is explained how to generate multi-line commands for -zipyGameEnd.
90 2013-04-01 20:43:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
93 The 'next page' entry of the Xaw file browser contained a \177 character
94 to keep at sorted at the bottom. This caused trouble for gettext.
95 Now the sorting range is adapted so the 'next page' is never part of it.
96 More seriously, the listbox fill code had a wrong cast when testing for
97 an empty listbox on the first element, so that it only tested the low byte
98 of the pointer, in stead of the entire pointer for NULLness. As a result
99 the contents of the listboxes could suddenly disappear when even when it
100 was non-empty, because the first filename was allocated at an unlucky address.
102 2013-03-22 19:23:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
103 Make Chat Box window obey -topLevel option
105 It was always popping up as a dialog of the main board, covering it.
106 One could argue it should always be to-level.
108 2013-03-19 13:20:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
109 Fix scrolling of Chat Box
111 Seems the problem is that scroll_to_iter does not work until after some time,
112 needed to calculate line heights. Use scroll_to_mark instead, after clumsily
115 2013-03-17 10:33:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
118 SetInsertPos() was not yet ported to GTK, with as a result that the cursor
119 was positioned at the start of a line recalled in the ICS Input Box,
120 rather than at the end. The code also called SetInsertPos to force scrolling
121 to that point in the text (which in Xaw is an automatic side effect). So for
122 multi-line text edits this function calls ScrollToCursor(). For some reason
123 this does not work when replacing texts in the Chat Box memo, when switching
124 chat, although it does work in the same memo when a line is added to the
127 2013-03-07 21:38:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
128 Print score of final position in Analyze Game
130 The score/depth of the final position of the analyed game is added
131 (as an explicit comment) behind the PV of the forelast position.
132 To make this work, a new 'addBraces' mode (3) had to be added to
133 AppendComment, which suppresses stripping of the score/depth from
136 2013-03-12 18:50:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
137 Fix horrible bug in reading scores from PGN
139 Reading scores like -0.94 flipped the sign, because the integer part
140 -0 would read as 0, and thus was no reason for sign flipping.
142 2013-03-10 12:43:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
143 Fix disappearence of pieces that were moved illegally
145 Dragging damages the from-square, but it is not marked as such, because
146 selective board redraws to update highlights and such would draw the piece
147 that is really still there, making it flash on the from-square before
148 the position after the move is drawn. This, however, backfires when the
149 move was illegal, as then there is no draw of a new position, and the
150 from-square stays empty. For now this is solved by making DisplayMoveError()
151 order a total redraw. (As this is rare, only done in case of an error,
152 and might even throw up a pop-up, the performance cost of this is acceptable.)
154 2013-03-20 17:50:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
155 Fix quoting of book name in tourney file
157 The argument of -polyglotBook was written to the tourney file unquoted,
158 which effectively made it disappear if it was an empty or blank string.
160 2013-03-07 18:11:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
161 Provide compatibility with Alien Edition setup command
163 The setup command of the Alien Edition has a board-size specifier
164 (possibly as prefix on a parent-variant name) between pieceToCharTable
165 and FEN. The regular version would choke on that, precluding engines
166 designed for the Alien protocol extension to have their setup processed
167 when running under regular XBoard. This patch makes it skip the extra info.
169 2013-03-07 17:52:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
170 Fix saving of analyzed game
172 Anotated games after batch-mode Analyze Game were not auto-saved,
173 because the GameEnds() call supposed to do that was called with a NULL
174 argument for resultDetails. Now it is called with the resultDetails as
175 pre-existing in the gameInfo, or an empty string if none exist. This bug
176 was masked by the fact that in standard game ends (mate, etc.) the
177 analyzing engine would declare game end and supply a message.
178 Also makes a distinction between Analyze Game and regular Analyze mode
179 when resuming analysis after loading a game; only the former now would
180 trigger a batch analysis.
182 2013-03-07 17:48:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
183 Fix spurious popup after batch-mode Analyze Game
185 A batch analysis of games was not properly terminated, because the game
186 mode was tested after it had already been changed. No oldGameMode is
189 2013-03-02 22:21:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
190 Let XBoard -autoBox option also affect move type-in
193 2013-03-02 22:17:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
196 Key values > 255 are used for PgUp, PgDown etc., so to pop up only on
197 printables needs a two-sided test.
199 2013-03-01 12:50:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
200 Fix fatal error on unsupported board size
202 When a board size unsupported by the engine was requested through the
203 New Variant dialog, this was discovered while the dialog was still up,
204 causing the error message to pop up as a child of the New Variant dialog,
205 so that it would immediately be taken down as the latter closed.
206 As a result it could not be confirmed, so that XBoard would not exit, and
207 was left in a pathologic state (ignoring window-close). This is fixed
208 by performing Reset (which detects the error) after PopDown of New Variant.
210 2013-03-01 12:39:40 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
211 Accept setup command for non-standard board size
213 The code to test if board-size is standard for the current variant
214 has been moved to a subroutine, to allow its calling when receiving
215 a "setup" command from the engine.
217 2013-03-01 11:57:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
218 Fix buffer overflow in feature parsing
220 String features (variants, egt, myname and option) relied on a buf[MSG_SIZ]
221 for processing their value. The Nebiyu engine had combobox options that
222 required more than that. All string features are now stored in allocated
223 memory rather than in static arrays, and StringFeature allocates a buffer
224 of sufficient size for them. Only limitation now is the low-level input
225 buffer in the InputSource threads, whih is a static buffer of 4096
226 (=INPUT_SOURCE_BUF_SIZE) characters.
228 2013-02-27 23:44:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
229 Fix vertical sizing of GTK board
231 The clipping of the boad at the bottom was due to resizing of the clock
232 height when we first write it with a big font. This patch delays calculation
233 of the final size until after the clock height changes.
235 2013-02-26 21:13:32 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
236 Updated German translation
239 2013-02-26 20:27:24 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
240 Updated Ukrainian translations
243 2013-02-26 17:59:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
244 Fix of argument error
246 Oops. Pevious patch for skipping unknown multi-line arguments
249 2013-02-26 17:44:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
250 Let popping up of WinBoard chatbox for channel open it
252 WinBoard now issues a +ch command for a channel when you pop up a chatbox
253 for that channel. A work-around is added for the fact that the public
254 FICS seems to ignore the first such command.
256 2013-02-26 17:27:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
257 Make skipping of unknown option smarter
259 To make XBoard better resistant to the presence of disbanded or future
260 options in its settings file, encountering those is no longer a fatal error.
261 But the error recovery only consisted of skipping the rest of the line.
262 This fails badly on string options with a multi-line value, which is
263 enclosed by {braces}. We now detect that case, to skip to } instead.
265 2013-02-26 17:15:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
266 Add -backupSettingsFile option
268 For better configurability of WinBoard, an option is added to optionally
269 read a settings file, namely if no other settings file (other than the
270 master file) was read so far. This can be used to import settings from
271 a previous version, without destroying its settings file.
273 2013-02-26 16:55:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
274 Repair WinBoard compile error
276 __GITVERSION was not defined in WinBoard, as it was only defined with a
277 compiler flag by ./configure, which WinBoard does not use.
279 2013-02-26 16:47:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
280 Work-around for Xt selection bug
282 In some Xt implementations calling extend-end with 0 params causes a crash,
283 although the mmanual specifies this should default to a call with 'PRIMARY'.
284 The default selection is now explicitly mentioned in all extend-end calls.
286 2013-02-24 09:31:57 -0800 Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@burggraben.net>:
287 fix bug #38401: xboard.texi doesn't build with texinfo-5.0 (tiny change)
289 xboard-4.7.0's documentation is not buildable with texinfo-5.0, it fails with a lot of error messages from makeinfo like
290 ./xboard.texi:1026: @itemx must follow @item
291 makeinfo seems right, @itemx is not used as described in the texinfo manual.
292 Attached patch puts each item of the "Options" menu in it's own @subsection and formats the description of each item as a @table as neccessary. This way, xboard builds again and the manual doesn't look too bad.
294 2013-02-24 09:09:54 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
298 2013-02-24 09:04:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
299 new version number for developer release
302 2013-02-20 21:28:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
303 Try to make life more bearable in Xaw menus
305 The alignment still sucks, but not as much as before.
307 2013-02-20 19:26:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
310 This option was copletely ignored, after the refactorig.
312 2013-02-20 18:16:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
313 Fix testing for valid window placement Xaw
316 2013-02-20 12:15:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
317 Suppress printing of status line in dual-board mode
320 2013-02-20 11:56:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
321 Fix sizing of slave board GTK
323 For lack of a known method to specify a default size for Graph widgets,
324 we have to use the same system as for the main board: create with 0x0 size,
325 and measure the size of the outer window to determine margins.
326 After every popup we then resize to the required board size plus these
329 2013-02-20 10:08:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
330 Better handling of undefined window parameters
332 Repositioning and resizing a newly created dialog was based on the width
333 parameter of the stored sizing info being valid. Now it is separately
334 tested if the position is valid, so that sizing and moving can be done
335 independently. This allows us to store position info, but not size info
336 for the slave board, so that it automatically will use the size of the
337 main board when first opened.
339 2013-02-19 19:14:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
340 Limit debug print to debug mode
343 2013-02-19 19:14:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
344 Fix repositioning of GTK windows
346 After 'hide' and 'show' GTK would not position the window in the same place,
347 but center it on the parent. Now we reposition the window after 'show' based
348 on the WindowPlacement data (if available).
350 2013-02-19 18:52:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
351 Remember window params of slave board
353 The slave board now has been assigned a WindowPlacement, which is also
354 saved in the settings file, through new options -slaveX/Y/W/H.
356 2013-02-19 17:48:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
357 Fix repairing of arrow damage
359 The '2' bit in damage[][] to indicate the arrow was erroneously cleared,
362 2013-02-18 19:55:20 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
363 fix OK-response in gtk dialogs, see c7f8df124
365 the fix in c7f8df124 needs to be applied to both of those if cases
367 2013-02-18 17:11:32 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
368 removed two more translations from debug output
371 2013-02-18 17:09:30 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
372 fixed segfault of g_markup_printf_escaped which needs utf-8 strings
374 defined text-domain as utf-8 solved this
376 2013-02-18 13:38:51 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
380 2013-02-18 10:06:36 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
381 removed some translation calls for messages in the debug log
384 2013-02-18 09:46:53 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
385 add keyboard shortcuts back into Xaw version
388 2013-02-17 14:13:30 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
389 in debug mode also print the git-version if available during build
392 2013-02-18 21:19:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
393 Print game-list timing messages only in debug mode
396 2013-02-18 21:01:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
397 Fix title of top-level windows
400 2013-02-18 18:51:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
401 Cure GTK warning in top-level windows
403 There is no OK button in top-level windows, so the 'response' signal is
404 not defined, and should not be connected.
406 2013-02-18 18:33:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
407 Fix graying of Revert menu item
409 The new code was checkmarking it in stead of enabling it!
411 2013-02-18 11:38:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
412 Add -onlyOwnGames option
414 This suppresses auto-saving of ICS observed games.
416 2013-02-18 11:17:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
417 Allow display of 50-move counter in zippy mode
419 No chance it could be considered cheating there.
421 2013-02-18 10:48:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
422 Add new vertical pixel fudge
424 With the new GTK window type the board is 13 pixels too small.
426 2013-02-18 10:29:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
427 Don't add PV moves on board clicking in AnalyzeMode
429 Playing PV moves by right-clicking the PV was only intended for clicks
430 in the engine Output window, selecting from multi-PV analysis output,
431 where by default it plays only the first move. PV walkig by right-clicking
432 the board, however, would start the walk at the end even in AnalyzeMode,
433 and thus add the entire PV. Which is probably not useful. So adding moves
434 in that case has now completely been suppressed, so it can be used for
435 harmless viewing of the latest PV.
436 The behavior has also been made subject to a persistent Boolean option
437 -appendPV, configured to true, with a checkbox in General Options.
438 A checkbox has also been added there for controlling the -variations option,
439 which is now also configured to true.
441 2013-02-18 10:25:40 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
442 Remove checkbox for 'Move Sound'
444 This function is better controlled from the Sounds dialog.
446 2013-02-18 09:59:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
447 Make switching between board windows absolute
449 Selecting the window in which to draw the board when the slave board for
450 -dualBoard was up was done by a toggle. For unknown reason this could cause
451 a situation where the drawing took place in the other window than the
452 intended one. The code is made more robust by explicitly specifying which
453 window to draw in, based on the partnerUp flag.
455 2013-02-18 09:50:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
456 Warn about experimental nature of dual board
458 The message field, which for now is unused, now contains a warning message.
460 2013-02-17 10:49:21 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
461 add close buttons to gtk windows
463 use windows instead of dialogs for toplevel elements
465 2013-02-16 19:02:52 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
466 keyboard accelerators for both front ends.
468 moved them out of the string definition, so that gtk can add them automatically.
469 Also wrote a function that loads them for X11.
471 TODO: add them again when creating X11 menu names
473 2013-02-15 11:03:02 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
474 added rotated shogi pieces for -flipback option and moved them to the themes directory
477 2013-02-14 17:27:27 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
478 add test for pkg-config
480 exit configure in case we can't find it.
482 2013-02-14 13:02:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
483 Only perform e.p. capture if there are rights
485 The heuristic for e.p. capture was such that any non-forward move with
486 a Pawn to an empty square would delete the piece behind its new location
487 (Xiangqi exempted). This is now limited to cases where EP_STATUS indicates
488 that the deleted piece was a Pawn that performed a double-push on the
489 previous move. (Or if there is unknown EP_STATUS.)
490 This makes XBoard more generally suitable for use with variants that have
491 non-conventional Pawn moves (with legality testing off). To guarantee this
492 will not have any unexpected effects in normal Chess, this patch will only
493 be active if legality testing is off.
495 2013-02-11 16:25:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
496 Unreserve tourney game on exit during engine load
498 While waiting for the feature timeout we are not yet in TwoMachines mode,
499 so quitting XBoard at that stage would not unreserve the upcoming game.
500 A global flag 'startingEngine' similar to 'waitingForGame' now signals
503 2013-02-10 13:40:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
504 Better fix of feature timeout
506 The previous fix of the 2nd engine's done=1 aborting the 1st engine's
507 feature timeout by starting the game caused problems with v1 engines,
508 or other engines that would never send done=1. It is now fixed by
509 explicitly testing for a pending feature timeout after resurrecting
510 the 1st engine, rather than having TwoMachinesEventIfReady wait for
511 initDone to be set by reception of done=1.
512 Also refrain from freezing the UI between match games, as in TwoMachines
513 mode the UI is mostly disabled anyway.
515 2013-02-08 16:24:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
516 Connect Ctrl key in WinBoard
518 The Control key is now checked during move entry, for excluding moves
519 during analysis, or for copying pieces when editing a positions. But the
520 WB front-end did not read it out yet!
522 2013-02-08 16:23:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
523 Fix Makefile for install of Xiangqi pieces
526 2013-02-08 15:35:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
527 Add Xiangqi piece images to project
529 Let the images install in themes/xiangqi.
531 2013-02-08 15:14:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
532 Revive -flipBlack option
534 The -flipBlack option in the cairo version is now implemented the same
535 way as it was in XBoard, swapping white and black pieces in filpView mode.
536 This requires a set black piece images that are the upside-down versions
539 2013-02-07 13:55:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
540 Remove empty-square SVG images from project
543 2013-02-06 19:00:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
544 Add desktop stuff for .xop MIME type.
546 Icons and desktop file were missing, as was the automake code to package them.
548 2013-02-06 16:48:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
552 2013-02-06 14:48:27 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
553 Add boolean -autoBox option
555 This option controls the automatic popup of the ICS Input Box on typing
556 a printable character, which was annoing to some. The option can be
557 set from the ICS Options dialog.
559 2013-02-06 10:56:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
560 Draw both coords in a1
562 The lower-left board square needed two inscriptions, but DrawOneSquare()
563 only allowed one, so that the file ID would not be written. Now two strings
564 can be passed, and when align > 1 to indicate the alignment of the top
565 string, it is still checked if a bottom string is present as well, which
566 then is drawn with alignment 1 (= bottom right).
567 The rank coord or piece count can now also be double digit.
569 2013-02-05 23:03:42 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
570 updated po files for new release (make distcheck)
572 2013-02-05 23:02:07 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
573 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
575 2013-02-05 22:52:42 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
576 new version number for release of 4.7.0
578 2013-02-05 11:56:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
579 Let initial setting of Twice checkbox reflect current state
581 The Twice checkbox in the Tournament dialog of WinBoard was by default
582 starting unticked. It is more convenient to have it preserve the current
583 state, however, based on the -lpi or -lgi value. Like the auto-incremet
584 checkbox already did.
586 2013-02-04 22:07:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
587 Put GTK warning in about-box
590 2013-02-04 21:59:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
591 Fix warnings of build server
594 2013-02-02 15:58:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
595 Fix GTK error auto-raising board
597 The variable mainwindow is not set in the gtk2 version. Unfortunately
598 it is still used to determine default board size...
600 2013-02-01 19:42:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
601 Update Dutch WB translation
604 2013-02-01 19:37:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
605 Add some new strings to WB translation template
608 2013-02-01 19:34:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
609 Assign shortcut char to WB menu item
611 The new Save games as Book item did not have a shortcut yet.
613 2013-02-01 19:31:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
614 Let WinBoard start in its installation folder
616 The current directory in WinBoard was not automatically the same as the
617 installDir returned by SearchPath. Especially not if used without shortcut
620 2013-02-01 19:29:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
621 Fix warning in WinBoard
624 2013-01-30 14:25:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
625 Fix expose of to-square with grid off
627 The code relied on drawHighlight to request an expose evet for the entire
628 square, but when lineGap = 0, drawHighlight is a no-op.
630 2013-01-29 08:39:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
633 On OS X dialog windows could not get focus if -lXaw appeared after
634 -lX11 -lXt in the linker command. This was cured by moving
635 @FRONTEND_FLAGS@ (which expands to -lXaw) first in the LDADD parameter
636 of the automake file.
638 2013-01-28 17:38:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
639 Preserve PGN tags when loading engine
641 Switching to EditGame mode would normally erase the tags, but when analyzing
642 a loaded game this would be undesirable. When the engine is playing, keeping
643 the tags is dubious, but it is not obvious what to put in a new name tag,
644 so we leave that for now.
646 2013-01-28 17:23:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
647 Preserve mode on engine loading (sometimes)
649 That the mode always switched to EditGame after engine loading was
650 particularly annoying at the start of a game (where leaving BeginningOfGame
651 mode would disablethe Time Control dialog, and the engine would not
652 automatically reply if you start playing) and AnalyzeMode. These two
653 modes are now preserved, BeginningOfGame by refraining from calling
654 EditGameEvent() and sending 'force' to the new engine, and AnalyzeMode
655 be calling AnalyzeModeEvent() after the engine is loaded and repositioned.
657 2013-01-28 14:14:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
658 Catch unknown engine in tourney games
660 When an XBoard instance is playing on a tourney it can happen that it is
661 using a settings file with an engine list not yet containing a certain
662 participant, because that participant was just installed in the instance
663 that created the tourney file, but it did not save those modifications yet.
664 This error is now caught, and leads to an error popup and stopping of the
665 tourney play. This error was made non-fatal to allow the user to decide
666 if he wants to quit with or without saving the settings (which, after all,
667 does not seem up-to-date).
669 2013-01-26 18:08:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
670 Adjudicate pawn-drop mate as loss in Shogi
672 Mating with a Pawn drop is illegal in Shogi, but rather than burdoning
673 the legality-testing by this complex rule, we simply invert the result
674 for such a mate. After all, Shogi customs are such that everything illegal
675 leads to an immediate loss.
677 2013-01-25 10:05:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
678 Adjudicate perpetual checks as loss also in Shogi
680 The Xiangqi code for recognizing perpetual checks is now also activated for
681 Shogi, but in this case we bail out before checking for perpetual chases.
682 The mini-Shogi case is then recognized as a win for gote.
684 2013-01-25 09:55:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
685 Stalemate is a win in Shogi
687 In regular Shogi this never occurs, but in the mini variants it happens
690 2013-01-22 20:49:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
691 Fix engine timeout problem in match mode
693 Reload of a reuse=0 engine would cause a done=1 event which would be
694 abort the feature timeout of the other engine in the first game.
696 2013-01-22 20:32:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
697 Enforce -popupMoveErrors
699 One move error was using DisplayError(), in stead of DisplayMoveError(),
700 and thus did not obey the -popupMoveErrors option.
702 2013-01-21 15:30:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
706 2013-01-21 10:26:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
710 2013-01-20 19:09:05 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
711 Updated German translation
714 2013-01-19 17:54:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
715 Do delayed board draw also with -stickyWindows false
717 Only CoDrag needs to be suppressed on a configure event with
718 -stickyWindows false, not the board redraw.
720 2013-01-18 11:11:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
721 Let tellothers command add comment to PGN in local mode
724 2012-12-30 15:19:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
725 Allow use of ~ in pieceToChar for shadow pieces in any variant
727 The use of shadow-pieces for promoted Pawns was limited to Crazyhouse and
728 Bughouse. But this is not necessary, and in fact undesirable, as it made
729 it impossible to implement Crazyhouse960, which combines shadow promotions
730 with Fischer castling (only available in variant fischerandom)s, and thus
731 has to be played as 8x8+5_fischerandom, using the Crazyhouse -pieceToChaTable.
733 2012-12-30 15:06:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
734 Resend engine-defined options after reuse=0 reload
736 When the engine process is re-spawned for a new game under -xreuse setting,
737 any alteration of engine settings brought about through the Engine Settings
738 dialogs would be lost, and revert to the engine's default. This is now fixed
739 by re-sending all options (known from the previous load of the same engine)
740 with the current settings immediately after "protover 2", and ignoring the
741 engine's option features. Rather than clearing the option list, and
742 redefining it from the option features.
744 2012-12-30 14:58:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
745 Implement aborting of games on engine request.
747 A new game-end command is added. For bakward compatibility it is disguised
748 as an old one, namely "1/2-1/2 {Engine Abort Request}". These resultDetails
749 are recognized as special, and rather than ending the game in a draw (which
750 GUIs not implementing this), the game will be completely 'expunged' from
751 the match or tourney it is part of, leaving no trace in the saveGameFile.
753 2012-12-30 14:54:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
754 Store some more tourney params in tourney file
756 The hash and threads settings, as well as ponder and book options are now
757 also saved in the tourney file, so that tournaments can be played in
758 parallel where these parameters differ, and no mess up can occur on
759 restarting a touney after doing something else.
761 2012-12-23 11:26:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
762 Do not automatically save aborted games in tourney PGN
764 When the game result is 'unfinished', we prompt for a filename rather
765 then using the specified saveGameFile if a tourney is in progress.
767 2013-01-19 08:35:52 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
768 fix configure bug that showed up on OS X (couldn't find X11/Dialog.h)
770 X_CFLAGS (set by AC_PATH_XTRA) was not used in Makefile.am. It was used in tests for X11/Dialog.h, etc. so configure worked, but make didn't.
772 2013-01-18 22:26:13 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
773 Updated Ukrainian translations
776 2013-01-09 07:57:43 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
777 removed trailing whitespace
780 2013-01-09 07:49:20 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
781 Updated copyright notice to 2013
784 2012-12-22 22:46:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
785 Do not move to forwadMostMove when unpausing AnalyzeMode
788 2012-12-22 22:44:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
789 Use Ctrl key in AnalyzeMode to exclude entered move
792 2012-12-22 20:40:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
793 Implement insufficient mating material for Knightmate
795 KBK is draw with Royal Knight. With exo-pieces also KNK and KFK.
797 2012-12-22 20:25:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
798 Fix rep-draw detection in drop games
800 In games like Crazyhouse every move is reversible, as captured pieces
801 can eventually change sides again, and be dropped back on the board.
802 So we have to search back a full 100 ply for repetitions, passing captures
805 2012-12-11 22:33:07 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
809 2012-12-11 22:18:05 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
810 new version number for developer release
813 2012-12-10 14:48:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
814 Prefer pause mode on pondering engine over 'easy'
816 If the thinking engine is stopped after its move because it does not
817 support pause, is is still better to use pause on the pondering engine
818 than to switch of its pondering with 'easy', as the latter might not
819 be instantaneous. Also switch off pondering in the thinking engine before
820 it gives the move, just in case it does not respond immediately to
823 2012-12-10 13:40:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
824 Update WinBoard translation template
827 2012-12-10 13:35:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
828 Fix min-Shogi promotion zone
830 In integer arithmetic N*2/3 is not the same as N - N/3, with as a result
831 that the white promotion zone was 2 ranks deep on 5x5 boards. This only
832 happened in LegalityTest, but because this would classify all moves to
833 4th rank an non-promotions, they would be printed with a faulty
834 deferral (=) sign as promochar in SAN.
836 2012-12-10 13:32:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
837 Do not clear PGN tags on Analyze File
840 2012-12-10 13:28:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
841 Fix -fSAN in AnalyzeFile mode
843 The exception that a PV relates to currentMove rather than forwardMostMove
844 applies not oly in AnalyzeMode, but also in AnalyzeFile. Furthermore,
845 PvToSan did not properly restore the pushed game tail in this case.
847 2012-12-08 16:02:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
848 Improve scaling of border bitmap (WB)
850 The StretchBlt mode is set from dither to delete.
852 2012-12-05 16:34:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
853 Implement use of pause / resume protocol commands
855 Engines that implement feature pause=1 will be paused during their move
856 on a pause event; pondering engines will be controlled either through
857 'pause' or (if they don't support that) 'easy', which both should work
858 instantaneously. If the thinking engine does not support 'pause', the pausing
859 will be deferred to when it produces its move, and is implemented by not
860 relaying the move, and switch off pondering for both.
862 2012-12-03 12:58:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
863 Fix Loop-Chess promotions
865 Loop Chess is not a supported variant, but hould be playable as Crazyhouse
866 with an altered pieceToCharTable, not defining the shadow promotion pieces.
867 But with legality testing on promotion to shadow piece would take place
868 even if the shadow piece was not defined.
870 2012-12-02 22:44:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
871 Fix move highlighting with animation off
873 In WB the moving of SetHighlights to after the animation had broken the
874 highlighting of engine moves, because it was also moved after DrawPosition.
875 While it is DrawPosition that actually draws the highlights. Now it has been
876 moved to just before DrawPosition.
878 2012-12-02 11:09:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
879 Start browsing in currently-selected folder (WB)
881 The folder-browse dialog always started at My Computer, while file browsing
882 started in the globally last-used folder (which might not be related at all
883 to the file entry we are now browsing for).
885 2012-11-29 23:38:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
886 Implement book-creation functions
888 A new menu item triggers conversion of the currently loaded PGN file
889 to a Polyglot book, saved with the GUI-book filename. A (volatile) option
890 -mcBookMode alters the probing algorithm to build a book from scratch by
891 playing games (and using a form of learning).
893 2012-11-29 22:23:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
894 Use colors in Board-Options dialog also for font pieces (WB)
896 The piece color settings now control the pieceColor or fontPieceColor
897 settings, depending on the setting of -usePieceFont.
899 2012-11-29 22:14:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
900 Implement auto-creation of ICS logon file
902 Under control of the new option -autoCreateLogon (which can be set from
903 the ICS Options dialog) the first two lines in response to the ICS "login:"
904 pompt will be saved on a newly created logon file (if logon from such
905 an existing file failed).
907 2012-11-29 21:56:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
908 Add Themes dialog (WB)
910 This dialog, done by the generic popup, contains controls for many settings
911 that so far could only be controlled by options. It also introduces the
912 concept of 'themes', sets of options stored in the multi-line option
914 Add some dummy routines to suppress compile errors in functions that
915 cannot be called yet in XBoard.
917 2012-11-29 21:32:03 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
918 Allow external piece bitmaps and board border (WB)
920 The -pieceImageDirectory is now also used for WinBoard, to indicate
921 a directory of .bmp files, used to replace the built-ins. The outline
922 and solid bitmaps can be full-color. This allows winBoard to use the
923 WinBoard-zeta graphics. A new option -border can indicate a bitmap file
924 used to draw a half-square-wide border around the board.
925 A white background has to be drawn underneath the black pieces, to avoid
926 color-interference with the board, just like happens for the white pieces.
927 These backgrounds now always use bright white, rather than -withePieceColor.
929 We still have to work on the scaling of the zeta (600x600) bitmaps to
930 the actual board size, as for some bitmaps the stratchblt is ugly.
932 2012-11-29 21:05:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
933 Add 'Continue Later' button in Tournament dialog (WB)
935 This button makes it possible to accept the values specified in the
936 dialog without immediately starting the tournament (as OK does),
937 so you can re-open the dialog later, and OK it then.
939 2012-11-29 20:25:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
940 Load opponent logo based on handle in ICS play (WB)
942 The logos for handles on FICS are sought in folder logos\freeches.org\*.bmp,
943 etc. If no logo for the handle is found there, the logo of the ICS is
946 2012-11-19 20:35:05 -0800 Daniel Dugovic <dandydand@gmail.com>:
947 Fix configure script for --enable-zippy (tiny change)
949 reported and patch by Daniel.
951 edited by Arun Persaud:
952 - also fixed #ifndef ZIPPY -> #if !ZIPPY
953 - didn't change #if -> #ifdef
955 2012-11-10 00:12:34 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
956 don't define X_LIBS when using gtk-frontend
959 2012-11-07 22:16:09 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
960 updated po/pot files; added new frontend files
963 2012-11-07 22:14:20 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
964 fix configure script for --with-Xaw and --with-gtk
966 made Xaw the default and included xaw or gtk sources as extras
967 in case the other frontend is selected for make distcheck
969 2012-11-07 21:13:38 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
970 new version number for developer release
973 2012-10-31 09:55:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
974 Draw frames around memos and listboxes
977 2012-10-30 17:39:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
978 Adapt lineGap during sizing
981 2012-10-30 15:04:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
982 Fix clock highlighting
985 2012-10-30 10:59:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
988 The genric TypeInProc is re-instated, and replaces ICSKeyEvent as primary
989 handler for special keys in one-liner text edits.
991 2012-10-29 19:46:27 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
992 Pay attention to NO_CANCEL dialog flag
995 2012-10-29 14:18:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
996 Fix clock clicking with GtkEventBox
998 Like in WinBoard the button-3 case is now handled in the primary
999 event handler (and communicated to it in a kludgy way). It would be
1000 better if this was absorbed in ClockClick().
1002 2012-10-28 22:25:22 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1005 Graphs were not recognized as possible SAME_ROW elements. A Graph requesting
1006 FIXED_H (which only the logos did) is now packed into a (borderless) aspect
1009 2012-10-25 23:04:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1010 Add window positioning
1012 Sticky windows now sort of works, but needs unexplained fudge factors.
1013 Reopening a persistent dialog centers it on the board, and disobeys
1014 the positioning command. The WindowPlacement of the BoardWindow was
1015 again added (it was commented out during development).
1017 2012-10-22 22:41:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1018 Make board sizing work through subtracting fixed height
1020 There is now no attempt to give a size to the board drawing area, so it
1021 can later be sized as small as we want. The frame width is determined
1022 by subtracting the nominal board size from the actual window size,
1023 (because the clocks will have that width, and the board will startas 1x1),
1024 while the vertical margin is determined as the difference between the
1025 bactual window height, the drawing-area height minus a fudge of 25 pixels
1026 to compesate for the erroneously allocated blank space below the board.
1028 2012-10-22 21:09:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1031 The highTextStart/End are now declared in engineoutput.h, shared between
1032 nengineoutput.c and xengineoutput.c. Unused variables were removed.
1033 Also fix warnings in xboard.c and xoptions.c.
1035 2012-10-22 17:40:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1036 Delete emptied front-end files, and move rest to gtk directory
1038 Remove #ifdeffed-out Xt code that has GTK implementation. The xgamelist
1039 and xhistory have been completely cleared off content, and were removed.
1041 2012-10-27 00:12:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1044 The code from gtk-xt could be used with almost no modification.
1046 2012-10-21 09:09:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1047 Some experimenting with sizing
1049 Does not work as intended yet.
1051 2012-10-21 23:04:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1054 Funny enough it was necessary to swap the two svg icons to make this work!
1056 2012-10-20 10:29:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1057 Make some tall dialogs multi-column
1059 A dummy button was added to the last row of New Variant to make the
1060 number even. A legality-test warning as put in the New Variant dialog
1061 Fix width of tourney-file in Match dialog
1063 2012-10-20 21:14:33 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1064 updated some icons to SVG
1067 2012-10-20 19:57:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1068 Add displaying of icons
1070 A new Option type, 'Icon', was added for this as in GTK Icons and Labels
1071 need different types of widget. The icons are now svg, so we could
1072 remove the icon pixmaps.
1074 2012-10-20 14:25:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1078 2012-10-20 14:03:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1079 Add BarBegin, BarEnd options
1081 This makes the button bar display correctly. Also fix v-sizing of menu bar.
1083 2012-10-20 10:01:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1084 Add listbox double-click callback
1086 This function was formerly performed by WheelProc.
1088 2012-10-19 17:29:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1089 Add hiding / showing second Engine Output pane
1091 The handle of the GTK table for the second engine is stored in the
1092 EndMark handle by GenericPopUp, so it can be used later to hise/show
1095 2012-10-19 17:15:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1096 Use different tables for different dialog columns
1098 Making the same table wider (in steps of 3) to get multiple columns
1099 does not work, because it forces options to align vertically. This
1100 wrecks dialogs like Load Engine, where one column contains a very
1101 high option (listbox). Now differnt tables are created for each column,
1102 packed in a new itermediate hbox. In case of the Engine Output window,
1103 a vbox is used instead to cause vertical stacking.
1104 Only multi-line text-edits and listboxes are now allowed to take up
1105 vertical space changes, while only the middle colum of the table
1106 can take up horizontal size changes. Within packing boxes space is
1107 equally distributed.
1108 The labels above the particiant-selection widgets had not the same width
1109 as the textview / listbox, leading to misplacement of the second label.
1110 For Engine Settings the spontaneous breaking into columns did not
1111 involve a SAME_ROW flag, so the 'columns' were stacked vertically.
1112 In addition the columns were too tall for GTK. They are now 20 options max.
1114 2012-10-19 13:46:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1115 Deselect first char in Move Type-in and ICS Input Box
1117 After popup the Move Type-In had the typed character in it, but it was
1118 selected, so that typing a second character would erase it again.
1119 Same for the ICS Input Box. A prototype for CursorAtEnd is now also added.
1121 2012-10-19 13:33:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1122 Close Move Type-in on Enter
1124 The code is squeezed into the ICSKeyEvent callback.
1126 2012-10-18 21:57:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1127 Add access routines to checkboxes and FocusOnWidget
1129 The <Enter> handler of the filter field needs it to return focus to
1132 2012-10-18 21:42:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1133 Add game-list callbacks
1135 The callbacks for listbox and filter text are treated by the same callback,
1136 which does both key presses and button double-clicks.
1137 Giving focus back to the listbox after filtering does not yet work!
1139 2012-10-18 16:27:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1140 Add optional callback to Label Options
1142 For some reason this does not work. The callback isn't called!
1144 2012-10-18 13:40:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1145 Add type-in event to board for popping up box
1148 2012-10-18 13:12:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1151 The state of Shift and Ctrl was only probed on button clicks, so it
1152 is now read out of the button-event struct in the relevant button handlers.
1153 For backwad compatibility, they store it in a global, so the routine
1154 ShiftKeys can take them from there.
1156 2012-10-18 12:35:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1157 Remove some unneeded low-level X11 code
1159 Things like tabbing between controls, mouse-wheel scolling etc. are all
1160 automatic in GTK, and thuse don't need to be ported.
1162 2012-10-18 10:12:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1165 The gtk-xt code for browsing in response to menu items rather than dialog
1166 browse buttons) was grafted. It seems desirable to merge the two browsing
1167 functions, though. Pass extra params used by Xaw to FileNamePopUpGTK.
1168 The code was altered to use DelayedLoad.
1170 2012-10-18 09:54:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1171 Fix ListBox, and add some support routines
1173 The srolled-window for the listbox used a uninitialized variable for its
1174 width, causing a crash. Now it pays attention to the Option.max and .value
1175 size hints. The access routines were copied from gtk-xt. HighlightWithScroll
1176 could just a wrapper for HighlightListBoxItem, as GTK auto-scrolls.
1178 2012-10-17 20:01:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1179 Connect CommentClick handler
1181 This can make use of generic memo callback, so it could be entirely
1182 backend. Therefore it was moved to dialogs.h. As it shared a global with
1183 some other back-end popup routines to remember the current move, these
1184 could now be moved out of xboard.c too. (Well, not so for the X11 front-end,
1185 so it has now been put in a header. :-( )
1187 2012-10-17 19:41:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1190 Because FrameDelay does block the event loop, even though it releaes the
1191 CPU, expose events start to lag behind the actual drawing. By combining
1192 expose events for overlapping squares, rather than decompose them into
1193 3 rectangles, this problem seems to go away. But only if there is an
1194 extra exposure on the squares to be drawn also non-overlapping frames
1195 will be properly drawn (?!).
1197 2012-10-17 14:40:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1198 Implement highlighting in engine output by through generic method
1200 HighlightMove was made generally available for all text. It is now just a
1201 wrapper for the generic HighlightText, and could be moved to the back-end.
1202 (This requires the initialization to be widget specific, and the flag
1203 indicating it has been done is now stored in the Option.min field.)
1205 2012-10-17 14:33:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1206 Let engine-output memos use new generic callback
1209 2012-10-17 13:53:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1210 Add scrolling of Move History
1212 To have access to the textview, its handle is now stored in the
1213 Option.textValue field.
1215 2012-10-17 13:11:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1216 Add highlighting in move list
1218 For now it is assumed the normal background will be white (for clearing
1221 2012-10-16 19:44:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1222 Make generic memo-event handler, and connect history callback
1224 Large text widgets can now define a user handler in their Option.choice
1225 field. If they do, agneric callback is added tothem, which catches mouse
1226 events. Button release and pointer motion pass their coordinate and type
1227 to the specified user routine. Button presses in addition retrieve
1228 the text from the widget, set the cursor in it to the clicked point,
1229 and convert it to a character position, also passed to the user.
1230 The user is responsible for ignoring events he is not interested in.
1232 2012-10-16 15:58:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1233 Add key-handler for ICS Input Box
1235 In contrast to the X11 code, all intercepted keys are now treated by
1236 the same callback. The ICS Input Box callback triggers on Up, Down and
1237 Return key, and refers to these symbolically.
1239 2012-10-16 15:05:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1240 Highlight Pause button
1243 2012-10-16 13:52:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1244 Better cleansing of xboard.c from X11 types
1246 The #includes for X11 files were still in there.
1248 2012-10-16 13:28:32 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1249 Add text insertion in engine-output memos
1252 2012-10-16 09:34:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1253 Append recent engines to engine menu
1255 This is now entirely moved to the back-end, by doing it in the table
1256 from which the menus are later generated. The special callback for engine
1257 items is abandoned, and the euProc for such items is left NULL to flag
1258 that RecentEngineEvent should be invoked with the applicable engine number.
1259 To calculate the latter a global variable firstEngineItem is dynamically
1260 set to the length of the regular engine menu.
1262 2012-10-15 22:17:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1263 Transfer more gtk-xt code, and add some new
1265 Add input-source handling
1266 Graft color picker (<Enter> callbeack in the text field is still missing!)
1267 Handle contents of label widgets (store handles in Option for access)
1268 Add printing of clocks
1269 Add printing of window title
1270 Pay attention to BORDER attribute of Label Options (pack in frame)
1271 Delete ReadBitmap code (also remove #including of bitmap files for icons)
1272 Fix layout of textviews (adapt to newer Option format, incl. wrap, scroll)
1273 Support vertical stacking in Break Option (no table widening when !SAME_ROW)
1274 Make default horizontal scroll policy automatic (for engine-output window)
1275 Fix disabling of unused spinners in TC dialog
1277 2012-10-15 20:47:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1278 Connect dialog Browse buttons to GTK browser
1281 2012-10-15 19:52:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1282 Implement menu checkmarking and enabling
1284 odes in the (later over-written) handle field specify which items
1285 are to be checkmarked, and by what style button.
1287 2012-10-15 16:18:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1288 Attach expose handler and connect to mouse events
1290 The GraphExposeProc is conected to the Graph widgets. A gdk draw routine
1291 is used to copy the buffer bitmap to the display. It is also connected
1292 to button and motion-notify events.
1293 In this version the board can be fully operated with the mouse.
1295 2012-10-14 22:00:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1296 Transfer most available gtk-xt code to xoptions.c
1298 GenericPopUp and PopDown are grafted from gtk-xt into gtk2.
1299 The version compiles, but segfaults before doing anything, with error
1300 messages about unexpected cases in GenericPopup for Graph and PopUp Options
1301 of the main board. The spin options need special treatment in GetWidgtText.
1303 2012-10-15 11:41:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1304 Give LoadListBox two extra parameters
1306 It often occurs that we just want to swap two elements, and reloading
1307 the entire listbox would be a very inefficient way to do this in widget
1308 sets that allow access to a single element.
1310 2012-10-14 20:36:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1311 Remove all X11 code by #ifdeffing it out
1313 With #ifdef TODO_GTK we disable all X11 code, in order to get a compiling
1314 X11-free version. The disabled sections can then be replaced by code
1315 for another widget set, the X11 version still showing what it was supposed
1318 2012-10-14 17:37:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1319 Move timer functions to new file xtimer.c
1321 The timers for the clocks, periodic analysis events and ScheduleDelayedEvent
1322 go into a separate file.
1324 2012-10-14 15:31:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1325 Make xevalgraph.c backend
1327 The only front-end stuff left in xevalgraph.c was an unnecessary reading
1328 of the window size (which could be obtained from the WindowPlaceent struct),
1329 and drawing (all cairo now). The drawing was moved to draw.c, and the
1330 remaining part renamed nevalgraph.c.
1332 An attempt to list them in a less chaotic way.
1334 2012-10-14 14:34:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1335 Cleanse back-end code of all references to X11 types
1337 When compiling for X11, common.h #included X11/Intrinsics.h so that
1338 X11-specific data types could still be used throughout the back-end part
1339 not shared with WinBoard. By temporarily disabling this, error messages
1340 could be generated on all such occurrences, and were then solved. This
1341 included the following:
1342 The InputSource struct is not uses in usystem.c at all, and its definition
1343 could be moved to xboard.c. InputSourceRef, which logically should heve been
1344 defined as (InputSource *), is in reality (void *), so the back-end can
1346 Some non-platform-dependent stuff of general interest had prototypes
1347 (or external vars) in xboard.h. This is now moved to a new header xboard2.h,
1348 to allow it to be shared without bringing in X11 dependence.
1349 The EngineOutputProc was defined inconsistently, but the header was not
1350 sufficiently shared to flag this error. This has been repaired now, by moving
1351 the template to menus.h.
1353 2012-10-14 13:39:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1354 Remove xedittags.c, .h from project
1356 The tiny bit of code that was left was absorbed in dialogs.c, the one
1357 prototype to menus.h.
1359 2012-10-14 12:53:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1360 Remove inclusion of frontend.h from backendz.h
1362 This did not seem to serve any purpose at all.
1364 2012-10-14 12:49:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1365 Split xhistory.c in front-end and middle-end part
1368 2012-10-14 12:21:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1369 Move MarkMenuItem to xoptions.c
1371 This to make xoptions.c completely independent from the inclusion of
1372 frontend.h. The prototype is moved to menus.h.
1373 Loose end: DrawPosition in board.c does not see the prototype.
1374 Very suspect that it wants to see it. Why would it have to correct the
1375 flipView setting??? Better se to it that it is correct to start with!
1377 2012-10-14 12:14:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1378 move testing for no options to back-end
1380 The test if an engine has options and display a note instead of
1381 the Engine Settings dialog when this is not the case is moved
1382 to outside of GenericPopUp, to make the later independent of calling
1385 2012-10-14 11:20:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1386 Remove some unnecessary header includes
1389 2012-10-14 10:47:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1390 Move ICS-engine analyze and AnalyzeGame code to shared back-end
1392 This code was still duplicated between WB and XB in the front-ends.
1393 Because of its incorporation in AnalyzeModeEvent the 'middle-end'
1394 function AnalyzeModeProc could be eliminated. AnalyzeModeEvent was made
1395 to return an int to flag its success, and keep the JAWS code based
1396 on it out of XBoard.
1397 The AnalyzeGame code is now incorporated in AnalyzeFileEvent().
1399 2012-10-26 10:28:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1400 Add configure switches for Xaw vs GTK.
1402 This patch is an adapted version of the one Arun made at the end of the
1403 gtk2 branch. It uses the exact same version of his configure.ac, but the
1404 Makefile.am is adapted to the situation in master at the beginning of it,
1405 after duplication of the X11 front-end files in the xaw directory for
1406 preserving them, while the versions that will be modified to GTK front-end
1407 are still in the xboard directory.
1409 2012-10-25 11:12:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1410 Prepare xoptions.c for middle-end changes
1412 Some changes that can be pre-empted, such as the splitting of Label
1413 into Label and Icon Option type, and some dummy wrappers are already
1414 implemented, so they can be used when needed by GTK.
1416 2012-10-25 09:20:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1417 Preserve copies of the X11 front-end in xboard directory
1419 The X11 front-end has been moved to the xaw directory, but copies
1420 are retained for modifying them to gtk versions.
1422 2012-10-24 08:55:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1423 Move X11 front-end to directory xaw
1426 2012-10-31 18:18:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1427 Fix initial enables in TC dialog
1430 2012-10-30 14:47:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1431 Fix image extension used for browsing to .pgn
1434 2012-10-28 21:39:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1435 Fix WinBoard compile error on enum PEN
1438 2012-10-30 11:20:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1439 Fix crash in promotion popup
1441 There were not enough entries for Capablanca Chess with legality-testing off,
1442 where King is also presented as a choice.
1444 2012-10-28 18:19:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1445 Fix message in New Variant dialog
1447 Even in -ncp mode the message was referring to the 'current engine'.
1449 2012-10-28 18:16:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1450 Fix crash on animation after resizing
1452 The animate buffers were still holding pointers to a discarded cairo surface.
1454 2012-10-21 14:49:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1455 Fix variant-dependent pieces
1457 The code to select the actually used piece images from the available ones
1458 (from InitDrawingSizes) is now made into a subroutine, and also called
1459 after resizing the pieces.
1461 2012-10-26 10:18:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1462 Replace marble texture pixmaps by png
1465 2012-10-26 10:13:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1466 Replace xiangqi board pixmaps by png images
1469 2012-10-26 10:08:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1470 Remove the texture pixmaps from project
1472 These were already replaced by png textures.
1474 2012-10-23 15:02:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1475 Fix re-rendering of svg on resize
1477 The previously prepared bitmaps were retained if we resized, rather then
1478 rendering the svg atthe new size.
1480 2012-10-21 15:48:30 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1484 2012-10-21 15:47:12 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1485 new version number for developer release
1488 2012-10-21 11:10:36 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1489 we still need a few bitmaps, so the directory needs to be included in Makefile.am
1491 make distcheck complained about this
1493 2012-10-21 15:56:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1494 Rename svg shogi pieces, so they become usable
1496 Only white pieces are present. For black they would have to be flipped.
1498 2012-10-21 15:54:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1499 Fix bug in resizing on variant switch
1501 The fix of the garbage pixels had unfortunately broken this.
1503 2012-10-21 15:15:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1504 Fix bug in fallback mechanism
1506 After failure to load a piece from a specified -pieceImageDirectory
1507 the default theme was not tried, because the cairo function to load
1508 from a pgn file returns a valid handle even if the file does not exist.
1510 2012-10-21 14:58:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1511 Get svg error message
1514 2012-10-21 14:49:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1515 Fix variant-dependent pieces
1517 The code to select the actually used piece images from the available ones
1518 (from InitDrawingSizes) is now made into a subroutine, and also called
1519 after resizing the pieces.
1521 2012-10-16 12:08:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1522 Remove caveat on available pieces fromNew Variant dialog
1524 In the cairo version all pieces are available at all board sizes.
1526 2012-10-21 11:41:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1527 Remove some unused images from png directory
1529 Currently only the three board texture files are used. But the piece
1530 images are still left, because they might be useful if we ever want
1531 to mae XBoard configurable for not using librsvg.
1533 2012-10-21 10:40:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1536 The nominal size of the window was not set in the correct Option struct.
1538 2012-10-21 09:58:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1539 Prevent odd-width line shift in length direction
1542 2012-10-21 09:48:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1543 Print missing-pieces error message to console
1545 The GUI might not yet be up at this point.In addition, suppress
1546 the rest of the code, because it could give segfaults.
1548 2012-10-21 09:30:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1549 Fix garbage pixels on the right of the board
1551 The extra pixel that is requested in sizing the board window back to
1552 an available size because we ofte get one less pixel than we ask for
1553 can lead to a line of garbage pixels next to the board. This is combatted
1554 by limiting expose events to the true board area, remembering that in the
1555 Graph Option rather than the actual window size, and suppressing resizing
1556 when the latter only exceeds the stored width by more than 1 pixel.
1558 2012-10-15 10:27:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1559 Trim board-window size
1561 The board window will sometimes be a pixel larger than requested.
1562 The ReSize routine will now reset the size values in the Graph Option
1563 to what they were supposed to be, to prevent expose events will
1564 draw nonsense in the extra space.
1566 2012-10-13 23:26:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1567 Adapt docs for svg/png in stead of bitmap/pixmap
1570 2012-10-13 09:35:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1571 Spontaeous changes in gettext stuff
1574 2012-10-13 08:03:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1575 Move Shogi svg pieces to own directory
1578 2012-10-13 07:57:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1579 Remove unnecessary Xt colors and call to MakeColors
1582 2012-10-13 07:50:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1583 Code cleanup: move expose redraw to draw.c
1586 2012-10-13 07:37:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1587 Suppress warning for InitDrawingHandle
1590 2012-10-13 07:33:15 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1591 Make fallbackPieceImageDirectory hardcoded
1594 2012-10-13 07:18:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1595 Increase drag delay too 200 msec
1597 On my slow laptop it can take more than 100 msec to reallocate bitmaps
1598 in the generic expose, with as a consequence that the DelayedDrag event
1599 is not processed before the timeout expires. The timeout event then triggers
1600 a redraw, which again takes so long that the timeout expires before the
1601 event to reset the timer could be processed, and this just perpetuates
1602 itself, leading to a large series of queued redraws, and a long waiting time
1603 for an image to appear after the sizing stops.
1605 2012-10-13 07:01:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1606 Fix segfault on faulty command-line option
1609 2012-10-12 14:42:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1610 Suppress anti-aliasing in -monoMode
1612 In the color-substitution code, always use bi-level alpha and color.
1614 2012-10-12 13:34:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1615 Remove piece pixmaps from project
1618 2012-10-12 11:47:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1619 Implement proper fallback cascade
1621 Try in order cached svg, cached bitmap, user png, user svg, default svg.
1623 2012-10-12 11:06:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1627 2012-10-12 10:45:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1628 Install svg pieces in themes/default
1630 The svg pieces are installed with the XBoard data in the directory
1631 .../xboard/themes/default . A new option -fallbackPieceImageDirectory
1632 is added, and is configured in the master settings file to point to
1633 these pieces. This options, which replaces -svgDirectory, is volatile,
1634 and the menu control to set it is removed. The -pngDirectory option
1635 is renamed to -pieceImageDirectory (-pid).
1637 2012-10-12 10:02:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1638 Remove bitmaps from project
1641 2012-10-12 09:55:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1642 Install the wood textures as png
1644 The xboard.conf has to be edited to set these as default textures,
1645 in stead of the .xpm files.
1647 2012-10-12 09:50:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1648 Add hatched board texture
1650 A png file with hatching is added, so it can be used for dark squares
1651 in a monochrome theme. It is installed in a new data directory
1652 .../xboard/themes/textures.
1654 2012-10-11 22:21:06 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1655 added a black and white theme to replace the mono option
1658 2012-10-11 20:56:42 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1659 added SVGs to dist files in automake
1662 2012-10-11 19:44:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1663 Fix exposure of atomic captures
1665 The grid lines had to be repaired too, so damage marker 2 had to be used.
1667 2012-10-11 19:13:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1668 Fix animation with textures off
1670 The blank square was not shifted to (0,0) when drawing the animation buffer.
1672 2012-10-11 19:08:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1673 Fix 1-pixel offset of grid lines on some cairo implementations
1676 2012-10-11 09:51:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1677 Solve odd lineGap problem
1679 Not all cairo versions seem to round the same when an odd-width line
1680 is to be drawn at integer coordinates. So now we explicitly ask it
1681 to be drawn centered on half-odd-integer coordinates.
1683 2012-10-09 18:52:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1684 Add -trueColors option
1687 2012-10-09 14:56:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1688 Always render svg pieces anew on size change
1690 The svg pieces are now unconditionally rendered to supply the pngPieceImage
1691 master source otherwise read from png file. This is then fed into the
1692 original png code (so that if for some reason it fails, we fall back on png
1693 pieces, and finally on built-in pixmaps).
1695 2012-10-09 14:06:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1696 Fix rsvg version in configure.ac
1699 2012-10-08 19:54:19 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1700 initial svg rendering
1703 2012-10-08 18:34:05 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1704 added cairo and librsvg to configure process
1707 2012-10-08 18:32:55 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1710 converted from inkscape SVG to plain SVG before adding
1712 2012-10-10 21:19:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1713 Adapt Eval Graph code to new drawing system
1715 The eval graph now triggers an expose after drawing, and gets its size
1716 from the Option fields.
1718 2012-10-10 20:37:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1719 Fix expose requests seek graph
1722 2012-10-10 20:07:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1723 Make draw handle for board globally available
1726 2012-10-10 19:45:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1727 Let expose requests pay proper attenton to widget
1729 So far, expose requests were always assumed to be for the board widget,
1730 preventing display of the labels.
1732 2012-10-10 18:45:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1733 Fix initial display of logos
1735 The logos were selected and printed during the initialization,
1736 before the main event loop was started. So the expose events during
1737 widget creation, which created the drawing surfaces, were only processed
1738 after the initial drawing of logos, so that there was nothing to draw on!
1740 2012-10-10 17:25:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1741 Fix alignment of highlight expose
1744 2012-10-10 17:19:52 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1748 2012-10-09 13:57:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1749 Make expose handler generic
1751 The Graph Option now returns two handles in hitherto unused fields of its
1752 Option struct: Option.choice is a cairo handle of a memory buffer the user
1753 must draw to, while Option.textValue is the handle to the widget.
1754 Expose events copy the memory buffer to the display for the exposed area.
1755 A routine DrawExpose() is supplied to let the user generate expose events.
1757 2012-10-06 21:30:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1758 Reload piece images when pngDirectory is changed
1760 The OK function of the board options dialog now tests for a change
1761 in pngDirectory and passes a parameter to InitDrawingParams to tell
1762 it to destroy the old images. This cause a reload on scaling the pieces.
1764 2012-10-06 20:16:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1765 Suppress redraw during sizing
1768 2012-10-06 20:10:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1769 Fix bug in resize trigger
1771 Even if the square size does not change, the window has to be shrunk
1772 back to fit the board.
1774 2012-10-06 19:54:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1775 Make Piececolor options work on png pieces
1777 The scaled, antialiased bitmaps are now colored according to the option
1778 settings. This is done by decomposing every pixel in a white, black and
1779 transparency component, which is possible because the opacity is
1780 directly give in the alpha channel, and black originally was a hard zero.
1781 So what you se in the red channel must be white (as the original white
1782 was #FFFFCC), and the rest of the opacity must be due to black.
1783 The color to be replaced (white for the white pieces, black for the black
1784 pieces) is then replaced by the original weight of this color times the
1785 color from the option.
1787 2012-10-06 17:53:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1788 Plug resource leak on rezising with pixmaps
1791 2012-10-06 16:19:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1792 Fall back on built-in pixmaps if png pieces unreadable
1795 2012-10-06 14:21:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1796 Do coordinate text alignment with cairo
1799 2012-10-06 13:40:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1803 2012-10-06 12:14:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1804 Clean up drawing code
1806 Now all routines only draw through cairo, the destination surface can
1807 be passed to them, making it possible to do the duplicate drawing
1808 to the memory board image in a cleaner way.
1810 2012-10-06 11:37:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1811 Check in draw.c, draw.h
1814 2012-10-06 11:26:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1815 Remove all bitmap & pixmap drawing
1817 All Xt code for drawing the board is now removed, as are the
1818 -pixmapDirectory and -bitmapdirectory option. This version is now
1819 completely dependent on cairo for handling of all graphics anywhere.
1820 (The build-in pixmaps are still left, though, for later use as an
1821 alterative cairo source when no png files are found.)
1823 2012-10-06 10:29:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1824 Separate off drawing routines from xboard.c
1826 A new source file draw.c is created to hold all code associated with
1827 board drawing. The routines for loading bitmaps and creating colors
1828 were left in xboard.c, though, as they are also used for handling
1829 icons and colors of widgets.
1831 2012-10-05 19:53:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1832 Fix erasing dots in seek graph
1834 The cairo dots were just a little bit bigger than the old ones, so they
1835 were not properly erased, but left a remnant.
1837 2012-10-05 19:25:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1838 Cleanup CairoOverlayPiece
1841 2012-10-05 19:22:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1842 Draw arrow also on backup image
1845 2012-10-05 19:16:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1846 Fix highlight clearing
1849 2012-10-05 18:59:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1850 Remove acceleration trick
1853 2012-10-05 18:54:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1854 Implement variant-dependent png piece symbols
1857 2012-10-05 18:42:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1858 Fix clearing of markers dots with promo popup
1861 2012-10-05 18:32:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1862 Also render coordinates to backup board
1865 2012-10-05 18:30:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1869 2012-10-05 18:29:13 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1870 Let cairo also do evenly colored squares.
1873 2012-10-05 17:56:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1874 Make dragged piece for excluding moves transparent
1877 2012-10-05 17:42:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1881 2012-10-05 17:40:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1882 Redo coordinate / piece-count printing ith cairo
1885 2012-10-05 15:40:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1886 Also use cairo on slave board
1888 With dual-board observing the drawing should be redirected to the
1889 slave board, so SwitchWindow should also switch the xlib-surface to
1890 one for the slave window.
1892 2012-10-05 15:12:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1893 Cure flashing of piece on from-square
1895 In a drag-drop move the piece was flashed on the from square after the
1896 user dropped it on the to-square, because highlights were set before the
1897 move had updated the board. And highlighting with arrow can cause a redraw
1898 of the last board. Same with setting or clearing marker dots.
1900 2012-10-05 14:20:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1901 Specify proper condition for using cairo animation
1904 2012-10-05 14:07:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1905 Allow resizing of board window
1907 In full png mode the size of the board window is no longer locked.
1908 After resizing, the square size is calculated as the largest one that
1909 would fit the window, and the window is then shrunk around it. To prevent
1910 excessive redrawing during sizing, the redraw is delayed by putting it
1913 2012-10-05 10:41:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1914 Switch to using 64x64 png images
1916 The bitmap scaling works better when the needed factors are not too large,
1917 as the svg rendering's anti-aliasing did not blur more than 1 pixel.
1918 So after shrinking too much the images are not effectively anti-aliased
1921 2012-10-05 10:16:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1922 Maintain in-memory copy of the board image
1924 As reading back from the xlib-surface proves incredibly slow (cairo probably
1925 converts the entire image from Xt format to cairo format when we set it
1926 as a source, even though we only want to read a few dozen pixels), we now
1927 keep an exact copy of the board image as a cairo bitmap in memory. This
1928 restores the speed of the animation, but unfortunately leads to awful code.
1930 2012-10-04 22:15:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1931 Do animation with cairo
1933 Unfortunately this is incredibly slow.
1935 2012-10-04 18:36:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1936 Allow back-texture files to be PNG, (drawn with cairo)
1939 2012-10-04 15:10:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1942 A new directory with 256x256 png piece images is added to the source tree.
1944 2012-10-04 15:01:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1945 Add mode to draw PNG piece images through cairo
1947 The PNG images have to be supplied as files in a -pngDirectory (a new
1948 option) with a 256x256 bitmap. They are then scaled by cairo to the
1949 desired square size. This does not work very well for the smaller sizes.
1951 2012-10-03 14:45:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1952 Redo marker dots with cairo
1955 2012-10-03 14:27:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1956 Redo highlights with cairo
1959 2012-10-03 14:07:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1960 Make convenience routine SetPen globally available
1962 The routine to set a pen as specified by a color string that was used
1963 in xevalgraph is moved to xboard.c, where there also is lots of demand
1964 for it. The arrow drawing now uses it for setting the highlightSquareColor.
1966 2012-10-03 12:28:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1967 Redo grid with cairo
1970 2012-10-03 12:00:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1971 Redo arrow highlighting with cairo
1974 2012-10-03 11:20:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1975 Redo seek graph with cairo
1977 New front-end services DrawSeekOpen() and DrawSeekClose() have been
1978 added, and are called from the back-end to enclose any drawing activity.
1979 In WinBoard these had to be defined as dummies.
1981 2012-10-02 15:31:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1982 Redo logos with cairo
1984 The logos must now be .png files, and are internally handled as their
1985 filenames. (So no preparation of a drawable from it at startup.)
1986 Cairo allows them to be scaled to the requested logoSize.
1988 2012-10-02 14:02:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1989 Fix Eval Graph resolution problems
1991 Anti-aliasing had to be switched off to get a crisp graph. A second problem
1992 was that the dashed lines were drawn in both directions, with interfering
1995 2012-10-02 10:54:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1996 Redo Eval Graph drawing with cairo
1999 2012-10-21 10:21:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2000 Fix button-border-width bug in monoMode
2002 The kludge of signalling we are dealing wih a button rather than a label
2003 was wrongly implemented in case of momoMode.
2005 2012-10-21 10:14:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2006 Reserve more space for button bar
2008 In some board sizes the button bar was wider than the code guessed,
2009 so the window width would be determined by the message + buttons row rather
2012 2012-10-21 11:24:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2013 Fix WinBoard compile errors
2016 2012-10-13 09:33:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2017 Fix non-NLS compile error for XFontStruct
2020 2012-10-12 12:04:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2021 Fix browsing for path
2023 A pathname was still prefixed with the cuurent directory.
2025 2012-10-07 21:00:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2026 Use Pause state in AnalyzeMode to imply move exclusion
2028 The pause state was not used in AnalyzeMode so far. Now it is used to
2029 imply all entered moves are for exclusion/inclusion.
2031 2012-09-30 18:55:13 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2032 new version number for developer release
2035 2012-09-30 22:16:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2036 Fix broken -ics and -cp options
2038 The patch to specify engines and ICS by nickame broke the use of the
2039 regular options to do this, because they could also reset them. Now
2040 this is fixed by only setting them (through |= in stead of =).
2042 2012-09-30 22:01:52 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2045 The description of exclude-moves, multi-game ananalysis and duo-analysis
2048 2012-09-30 10:07:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2049 Resolve conflict between -mps and -inc options
2051 The age-old problem that a persistent valid -inc value will cause -mps
2052 to be ignored is solved by the kludge of storing these two as a single
2053 option (-mps) in the settings file, and declaring the other (-inc) volatile.
2054 The range of negative numbers (invalid as -mps value) was available for
2055 that, and now is used to store the negated value of -inc in msec.
2056 For backward compatibility, specification of -inc causes interpretation
2057 of -mps in the old way. The forcing of -inc to -1 in the master settings file
2058 could be safely removed because of this change, so that the time increment
2059 now is a persistent option.
2061 2012-09-29 23:13:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2062 Allow entry of fractional increment in WB time-control dialog
2064 The numeric edit is changed to a general text edit, and code is added
2065 to convert the text it contains to and from float, with proper error check.
2067 2012-09-29 23:05:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2068 Preconfigure -icsNames in xboard.conf
2070 Although XBoard has no startup dialog with an ICS combobox, the -icsNames
2071 option is now used to select lines from with the -is option, and in
2072 interpretation of positional arguments. The most common ICS are configured
2073 together with a short nickname, so that commands like "xboard fics" will work.
2075 2012-09-29 22:58:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2076 Allow ICS nickname as positional argument
2078 If an argument is encountered that is not preceded by an option name,
2079 it is now first checked if it corresponds to the nickname of an ICS
2080 in -icsNames. If so, it is assumed to be the value of an -is option,
2081 selecting -ics mode with that ICS and all the options installed with it.
2083 2012-09-28 20:28:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2084 Cure some sick behavior in XBoard Engine Output right-clicks
2086 When a PV-walk is in progress, the PV is highlighted by selecting it,
2087 and this focuses the attention of the scroll bar on it, so it remains in
2088 view. But after release, that line was kept in view, rather than scrolling
2089 back to the top of the window (where the header line bust be available
2092 2012-09-28 13:28:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2093 Allow Analyze Game to auto-step through entire game file
2095 If the game index is set to auto-increment (-lgi -1), the Analyze Game
2096 function will automatically load the next game of the current game file
2097 (starting to auto-play/annotate that) when the end of the current game is
2098 reached. This flushes the annotated game if auto-saving was set,
2099 so that eventually all games in the file will be annotatd and saved.
2100 The game index is automatically set to auto-increment when we load
2101 a file while in Analyze Game mode, but switching this mode on while a game
2102 is already loaded will stop at the end of that game, as usual (if -lgi was
2103 not explicitly set).
2105 2012-09-28 13:24:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2106 Let second engine move in lockstep during dual analysis
2108 When the second engine is also analysing (as indicated by its stat variable
2109 second.analyzing), we send all moves / undos / positions / in&excludes that
2110 go to the first engine also to second.
2112 2012-09-27 19:07:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2113 Allow second engine to analyze too
2115 Clicking the Analysis menu when analysis is already in progress will
2116 now toggle the secon engine to analyze the same position. For now,
2117 this lasts only until the position changes (or you leave analyze mode),
2118 after which the second engine is always switched off, and the Engine
2119 Output window returns to single pane. Each pane now has its own header
2120 line; the exclude header is suppressed in the second pane.
2122 2012-09-27 18:11:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2123 Add options -fe, -se, -is to load installed engines/ics from list
2125 The volatile string options -fe, -se ('first/second engine') load the first
2126 and second engine of the given nickname in the -firstChessProgramNames list,
2127 including all options that were installed with it (similar to when in
2128 WinBoard the that engine line had been selected through the Startup Dialog's
2129 combobox). The option -is is similarly used to retrieve the line for an
2130 ICS in the -icsNames list.
2132 2012-09-27 18:02:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2133 Add check on validity of tourney participants
2135 Before allowing OK of the Tournament Options dialog, it is now checked
2136 whether all participants (which are given as nicknames) can be found
2137 in the list of installed engines, so that no problems will occurr with
2138 non-existing engines during the tourney (if typos crept in after hand-
2141 2012-09-25 16:21:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2142 Implement --help option
2144 The list of options is printed before exiting. Some attempt is made
2145 to do it in a nice way.
2147 2012-09-23 20:10:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2148 Implement variant seirawan in -serverMoves option
2150 Write the gating moves such that the ChessLive! viewer will understand them.
2152 2012-09-23 20:05:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2153 Workaround for FICS bug
2155 FICS does not properly understand SAN, and thinks bxc3 can be a Bishop move.
2156 This broke 'Upload to examine', because that uploaded in SAN. In case the
2157 SAN starts with Bx or bx, it now uses long algebraic (with = before the
2160 2012-09-20 18:17:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2161 Define XOP mime type for XBoard
2163 Supply a white-knight icon for this mime type, called application/x-xboard-opt,
2164 and a sesktop file to associate it with running XBoard with this settings file.
2166 2012-09-20 17:24:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2167 Pay attention to extension of 'positional' arguments
2169 An argument without preceding option name was assumed to be an -lgf argument.
2170 This patch still does that by default, but if the argument ends in .fen, .epd,
2171 .trn, .ini or .xop it is considered an -lpf, -tf or -opt argument.
2172 In addition, an implied -lpf or -lgf argument also imply the option -viewer,
2173 which inserts the -viewerOptions string into the command line, and proesses it
2174 as options. A new option -tourneyOptions is similarly inserted for an implied
2175 -tf argument. These strings should contain all options needed to start XBoard
2176 fully configured as game viewer or tourney playing agent on the mentioned file.
2178 2012-09-20 15:29:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2179 Let windows stick to right display edge (WB)
2181 Auxiliary windows docked to the board window from below or to the right, which are
2182 pushed out of view when the board window resizes, will be trimmed to just touch the
2183 diplay edge (if sufficient width or height remains). When the board window shrinks,
2184 auxiliary windows touching the edge will be resized so they remain touching it.
2186 2012-09-20 15:20:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2187 Round board size to one where piece images available (WB)
2189 When using built-in bitmaps, in sizes where unorthodox pieces are needed, but not
2190 available, the size is temporarily rounded to one of the sizes where they are.
2192 2012-07-03 17:21:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2193 Fix bug in Edit Position
2195 Due to = in stead of == the variant was always set to S-Chess in
2198 2012-08-28 21:24:51 -0700 Daniel Macks <dmacks@netspace.org>:
2199 bug #37210: Mishandling of X11 -I flags (tiny change)
2201 AP: applied patch from bugtracker and added one missing 'save_cppflags="$CPPFLAGS"'
2203 2012-06-02 14:31:18 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2204 bug #36229: changed ICS_* from define to enum
2207 2012-05-28 13:58:00 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2208 bug #36229: changed STATE_* from define to enum
2210 enabling better compiler checks
2212 2012-05-28 13:50:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2213 bug #36229: changed PEN_* from define to enum
2215 This should allow better checks by the compiler
2217 2012-05-28 13:01:15 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2218 fix bug #36228: reserved identifier violation
2220 variables and macro names beginning with _ are renamed to XB_. More consistent naming of include guards.
2221 See link in bug report.
2223 2012-05-28 12:36:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2224 Updated German translation
2227 2012-04-30 20:06:00 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2228 new version number for developer release
2231 2012-04-24 11:23:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2232 Decapitalize promoChar in move parser
2235 2012-04-23 14:12:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2236 Keep track of virginity of back-rank pieces in variant seirawan
2238 The forelast rank of the Board array is now used in VariantSChess to
2239 contain flags that indicate virginity of the back-rank pieces, one bit
2240 for white, the other for black. Legality checking of gatings now makes
2241 use of this info. FENs mention all virgin pieces not implied by castling
2242 rights in the castling field, by printing the corresponding file IDs,
2243 as long as holdings are non-empty. The FEN reader now also understands
2244 this format. EditPositionDone fakes virginity for all pieces that are
2245 on their starting square.
2247 2012-04-17 19:49:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2248 Suppress clear-board message after pasting FEN
2250 The message field is now always cleared when you leave EditPosition mode.
2252 2012-04-17 19:45:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2253 Fix faking of castling rights after editing position with holdings
2255 The queen-side rook was always imagined at X=0, which is in the holdings
2256 when these exist, so that Q-side castling in such games was never allowed
2259 2012-04-20 10:29:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2260 Fix WB Engine Settings window
2262 The listbox patch has broken this window, by making it only list the
2263 first option of the engine, by switching to the next column based on a >=
2264 test rather than == test. Fixed by using 1000 as invalid value for the
2265 break point, rather than -1.
2267 2012-04-20 00:01:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2268 Fix key binding of DebugProc
2270 The name used for binding was DebugProc, while the ite was named Debug.
2272 2012-04-16 20:51:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2273 Fix ICS Text Menu popup
2275 The space for the option names needed to be allocated.
2277 2012-04-16 20:37:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2278 Fix disabling of Load Engine menu
2281 2012-04-15 22:53:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2282 Port chat boxes to XBoard
2284 A new menu item Open Chat Window is added to the View menu. It opens a
2285 window that can handle 5 chats. A row of buttons on top selects which is
2286 the foreground chat partner, to which we type, and whose incoming messages
2287 will be displayed in the memo. The leftmost 'button' is not really a button,
2288 but a text edit, and the active partner is displayed there (so it can be
2289 altered). Selecting another chat partner through a button, moves that partner
2290 to the text-edit, and reshuffles the buttons. Incoming messages in a chat
2291 that is not foreground make the corresponding button color orange.
2293 2012-04-16 20:27:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2294 Allow chaining of single-line text-edits to top
2296 For the benefit of the chat window, a text-edit plus leading description
2297 can now also be chained to the top edge of a dialog. The chaining of the
2298 (degenerate) multi-line ICS Input Box and Move Type-In was entirely to the
2299 bottom, which has now been corrected.
2301 2012-04-12 09:30:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2302 Add logo widgets in main board window
2304 New options -logoSize and -logoDir are added. The former enables logo display,
2305 when non-zero and not too big. The latter is used by -autoLogo. The options
2306 -firstLogo and -secondLogo also work. Problem is that the clock height
2307 is larger than the logo height, and for now a nasty trick in GenericPopUp
2308 is used to position the next element (message field) w.r.t. the clocks,
2309 rather than the last element of the row above (the logo): in case of a
2310 SAME_ROW Graph element, 'last' is kept at the previous element.
2312 2012-04-19 10:48:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2313 Fix crash on time forfeit with -st option
2315 When fixed time per move was set from the command line, the time-control
2316 strings were not set. This let to a crash when an engine forfeited.
2317 The GetTimeQuota function is now made resistant to a NULL pointer here.
2319 2012-04-19 10:39:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2320 Solve WinBoard name clashes, fix zippy-analyze menu graying
2322 Some of the function names used in the refactored X11 front-end collided
2323 with Windows system names from winboard.h, or with names of internal routines
2324 in WinBoard front-end files (so they could not be declared in frontend.h).
2325 These were renamed. Some prototypes in engineoutput.h contained X11 types,
2326 and they were moved to xboard.h.
2327 In addition, two menu-item names were corrected to two-part names.
2329 2012-04-18 12:00:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2330 Offer primitive paging in file browser
2332 If there are more than 1000 files that would have to be displayed,
2333 the number will be limited to 999, and a 'next page' entry will appear
2334 at the bottom. Clicking that will give you the next group.
2335 This is an emergency measure only, as it interferes with sorting
2336 (grouping is based on order inside the directory, i.e. kind of arbitrary,
2337 and sorting is only done within a group.) There is no such thing for the
2338 folder list yet. There is no way to go back to a previous page, other
2339 than closing and re-opening the browser, or selecting another file type.
2341 2012-04-18 11:16:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2342 Add pixmap as file type known to browser
2344 Users can browse for a pixmap to set the board texture.
2346 2012-04-17 15:45:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2347 Fix warning about signedness
2349 Note: the promoChar in ExcludeMoves was explicitly defined to make
2350 sure the kludge promoChar = -1 for indicating best move works. But it
2351 should be equivalent to casting the promoChar to (signed char) just
2352 before the comparison.
2354 2012-04-17 15:44:15 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2355 Fix warnings about character index
2358 2012-04-17 15:37:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2359 Move ManProc to xboard.c
2361 It calls ManInner, which requires X11 data types, even if the values are NULL.
2363 2012-04-17 15:27:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2364 Move FileNamePopUp to dialogs.c
2367 2012-04-17 15:15:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2368 Fix readout of numeric combobox
2370 As currently no numeric comboboxes are used, this bug was silent.
2372 2012-04-17 15:10:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2373 Shuffle prototypes to correct header, or add them there
2376 2012-04-17 14:15:15 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2379 This function could crash when called with ann argument that did not
2380 contain a period, while the idea was that it should handle this as if the
2381 item is in noMenu (for user-specified key binding to non-menu funtions).
2383 2012-04-16 19:43:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2384 Fix click-click under-promotion animation save
2387 2012-04-17 11:02:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2388 Define TOPLEVEL in winboard.c
2391 2012-04-17 10:59:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2392 Add two new strings to WinBoard language file
2395 2012-04-17 10:51:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2396 Fix second-engine variant test
2398 The test whether the second engine supports the selected variant took place
2399 before the second engine was loaded, thus always coming to the conclusion
2400 that the variant was not supported, and aborting the TwoMachines command.
2401 The test is now moved to after second-engine loading (but before its
2402 initialization, where non-supporting would become a fatal error).
2404 2012-04-16 12:11:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2405 Fix clearing of ICS input box after send
2408 2012-04-16 19:08:10 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2409 enable -Wall -Wno-parentheses for all compilers that understand them
2412 2012-04-16 13:18:37 +0200 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
2413 Remove 5 unused variables from zippy code
2416 2012-04-16 13:14:06 +0200 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
2417 Remove unused static function ShowTC
2420 2012-04-16 13:10:58 +0200 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
2421 Remove unused static function MenuBarSelect
2424 2012-04-16 13:07:01 +0200 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
2425 Remove unused variable first_entry from function find_key
2428 2012-04-16 13:01:09 +0200 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
2429 Remove unused variable tm from function SaveGamePGN
2432 2012-04-16 12:56:46 +0200 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
2433 Remove unused variable delayedKing from function QuickScan
2436 2012-04-16 12:52:57 +0200 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
2437 Remove unused variable pdown from function UserMoveEvent
2440 2012-04-15 04:25:59 +0200 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
2441 Change some double literals to floats.
2443 To avoid unnecessary implicit promotions of float variables to double.
2445 2012-04-15 11:12:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2449 2012-04-14 22:43:03 +0200 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
2450 Translate "NPS" also in engine output window
2453 2012-04-14 16:19:34 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2454 removed unused variables (-Wunused-variable)
2457 2012-04-14 15:37:05 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2458 added m4 directory to search path for aclocal. As suggested by Michel Van den Bergh
2461 2012-04-14 23:21:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2462 Fix Eval Graph scale in drop games
2465 2012-04-14 23:16:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2466 Fix ArrowDamage out-of-bounds access on drop moves
2469 2012-04-14 21:33:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2470 Implement automatic partner observe
2472 Starting a game, or starting to observe one, now automatically issues a
2473 'pobserve' command if dual-board is switched on, so that the partner game
2474 will pop up in the secondary board (assuming it is bughouse).
2475 The secondary board now displays the players in the title. (This (lightly)
2476 breaks WinBoard again.) When the primary game ends, the secondary board
2477 closes automatically. Initial sizing of the board is repaired, and now uses
2478 the actual current board size, rather than the initial size of the main board.
2480 2012-04-14 15:43:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2481 Fix crash due to empty PV
2483 Reception of a stat01 command before the first PV could cause a crash,
2484 as apparently the parser cannot handle this.
2486 2012-04-14 13:27:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2487 Suppress testing for availability in bughouse drops
2489 Give up on testing legality of bughouse drop moves; this only causes problems,
2490 because the move list sent by the ICS is not accompanied by holdings updates.
2491 So XBoard parses it thinking the holdings are empty, making every drop move
2492 an ImpossibleMove. Bughouse can only be played on ICS, and we might as well
2493 trust the ICS that it will only pass us legal moves. A user should not be
2494 able to enter illegal drops; unavailable pieces cannot be grabbed from the
2495 holdings, and typing is diverted to the ICS directly (which would reject the
2496 illegal drop without XBoard even knowing about it).
2497 Also improve switching to bh/zh, based on drop move in initial board.
2499 2012-04-14 09:11:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2500 Fix some compile errors / warnings
2503 2012-04-13 19:06:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2504 Fix promotionPopDown on new move entry
2506 The promotion popup is non-modal, and old XBoard versions popped it down
2507 as soon as the user clicked the board, so he could just enter a new move
2508 to abort the promotion. This was broken in the new version, because the code
2509 to do the PopDown and abort in HandleUserMove had not been ported.
2511 2012-04-13 18:38:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2512 Use in-place sweep-selection for click-click under-promotion
2514 With detour under-promotion a piece cycles through all possible choices
2515 during backwards dragging. But in a click-click move there is no dragging.
2516 This used to be solved by letting the second click start a drag event of
2517 the default promotion choice, which you could accept by immediately
2518 releasing the mouse button, or drag around to change it first.
2519 The dragging in this case seemed a little unnatural, because the to-square
2520 was already indicated by the down-click. So it has been changed now to the
2521 promo choice appearing on the down-clicked to-square, followed by
2522 EditPosition-like sweep-selection on that square when one wants to under-
2523 promote. The move is always accepted no matter where the up-click takes
2524 place, except when it takes place on the from-square (which offers a last-
2525 resort abort possibiliy).
2526 Note that click-click promotion is essential in variants where it is not
2527 obvious from the from-square alone that a promotion is imminent, but where
2528 it depends on the to-square. (Such as Shogi.) There drag-drop detour under-
2529 promotion is not possible.
2531 2012-04-13 16:05:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2532 Improve arrow drawing
2534 The arrow is now erased together with the border highlights, by marking
2535 the damage it did, and then doing a selected redraw of the board to let
2536 the damaged square be re-drawn. Highlights of a previous move are now
2537 cleared on the down-click that selects a new piece, so there never is an
2538 arrow to infavorably interact with animation of dragging.
2540 2012-04-13 14:57:15 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2541 Also do selective redraw with showTargetSquares on
2543 The XBoard DrawPosition now also keeps track of the previous marker state,
2544 and redraws squares for which thi shas changed. As a result, the routine
2545 MarkTargetSquares does no longer have to force to complete redraw.
2548 2012-04-13 00:33:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2549 Fix click-click sweep promotions to empty square
2551 These did not work, because DragPieceBegin would fail on an EmptySquare.
2553 2012-04-12 23:58:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2554 Move clearing of target squares to after drag end
2556 A dragged piece that would partly overshoot its destination into a square
2557 with a marker would effectively protect that marker from erasing, when the
2558 erasing was done before the piece was released, because redrawal after the
2559 move only would draw the target square. (Unlike erasing, which forces a full
2562 2012-04-12 23:49:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2563 Fix double promotion popup
2565 Only the up-click of a click-click move gives a promotion popup now.
2567 2012-04-12 23:32:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2570 The new GenericPopUp did not like it if the first button had 'SAME_ROW' set.
2572 2012-04-12 17:28:32 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2573 Allow clearing of marker dots in any mode
2575 There might already be dots when you change to a mode where there should
2576 be none, and you don't want them to stay on forever in that case...
2578 2012-04-12 17:00:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2579 Fix redraw of secondary board on flipping view
2582 2012-04-12 10:30:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2583 Let clocks of secondary board count down
2585 The back-end now remembers what is the active clock, and the time left on it.
2586 This is then decremented and updated together with the clocks of your own
2587 game, using the partnerUp flag to divert the clock display to the secondary.
2589 2012-04-12 09:47:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2590 Fix 3 forgotten symbolic widget references
2593 2012-04-11 19:24:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2594 Add sound files to browser menu
2597 2012-04-11 13:04:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2598 Add New Directory button to file browser
2601 2012-04-11 09:54:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2602 Detect engine exit during startup
2604 The case where engine startup failure does not result in a fatal protocol
2605 message, like "No such file", but where it simply exits, is now also covered.
2607 2012-04-10 22:55:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2608 Suppress popup for fatal error after tellusererror
2610 For cooperating better with Polyglot, and allowing more to-the-point
2611 error messaging, the (awful) default message will be suppressed if the
2612 dying engine already provided an explanation for its demise to the user.
2614 2012-04-10 20:28:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2615 Fix Engine Output icon heights in international versions
2617 The text in a label option could not be an empty string, or it would be
2618 'translated' to something of enormous size. So it is set to a space now.
2620 2012-04-10 20:21:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2621 Fix internationalization
2623 The internationalization was broken by moving the XtSetLanguageProc
2624 to behind 'bindtextdomain'.
2626 2012-04-10 20:03:46 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2627 Make reference to board widgets symbolic
2630 2012-04-10 18:39:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2631 Don't strip path from engine name if directory given
2634 2012-04-10 17:54:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2635 Fix vertical chaining of Buttons and browser ListBoxes
2638 2012-04-10 15:53:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2641 The 'narrow search' modification had broken auto-play, because all selected
2642 games were marked as matching position 0, so that they would all start in
2643 thr opening position.
2645 2012-04-10 13:30:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2646 updated po/pot files
2649 2012-04-10 11:54:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2650 new version number for developer release
2653 2012-04-10 13:22:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2657 2012-04-10 13:21:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2658 Fix Makefile EXTRA_DIST
2661 2012-04-02 17:53:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2662 Use Ctrl key in EditPosition mode to copy pieces
2665 2012-03-28 23:51:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2666 Fix bug in FRC castling for position search
2668 In FRC it is essential that both pieces are taken off the board before
2669 any of them is put back, lest they obliterate each other.
2671 2012-03-28 12:25:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2672 Fix bug on loading engine
2674 A newly loaded engine was put at the end of the game, rather than at the
2675 current position, (which is required in EditGame mode).
2677 2012-04-06 17:02:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2678 Add 'Narrow' function to position search
2681 2012-04-06 10:52:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2682 Reorganize main() a bit
2684 The font stuff goes into a separate routine, and the X11 stuff is
2685 moved backwards as far as possible.
2687 2012-04-04 21:55:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2688 Give the dual-board option a separate board window
2690 The second board window pops up whenever an alien board is received
2691 during your game. Moves in it are highlighted by an arrow, irrespective
2692 of the 'Highlight with Arrow' setting. The clocks are displayed, but do
2695 2012-04-05 11:23:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2696 Port engine grouping to Match Options dialog
2699 2012-04-05 15:18:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2700 Change default directory in Load Engine to "."
2703 2012-04-05 10:49:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2704 Port grouping to XBoard Load Engine Add highlight to Load Engine grouping
2707 2012-04-06 17:19:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2708 Fix default file types for browse buttons
2711 2012-04-03 09:14:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2714 Redo file browser with GenericPopUp
2716 This had to solve quite some problems, because it wanted to use a ComboBox
2717 option while a transient dialog could be up, was a non-engine dialog
2718 while an engine dialog is up, and XRaiseWindow does not work properly.
2719 Sorting is done alphabetically, or for digit groups by numeric value.
2721 2012-04-02 14:43:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2722 Use ListBox in stead of ComboBox in Match-Options dialog
2725 2012-04-02 14:09:15 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2726 Use ListBox in stead of ComboBox in Load Engine dialog
2728 Make Load Engine listbox sensitive to double-clicking
2730 2012-03-26 17:06:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2731 Add message about enabling in New Variant dialog
2734 2012-03-31 20:27:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2735 Move LoadGamePopUp to menus.c
2738 2012-03-31 20:25:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2739 Move DisplayMessage to dialogs.c
2741 Use the wrapper SetWidgetLabel to make it back-end.
2743 2012-03-31 15:23:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2744 Fix switching debug option during session.
2746 Switching on debug mode during the session did not create the requested
2749 2012-03-31 15:22:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2750 Correct texi file for use of .Xresources
2753 2012-04-02 19:19:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2754 Fix recent-engines menu
2756 A new primitive to create an item in a given menu was added to do this.
2758 2012-03-31 10:54:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2759 Switch back two two-part menu names
2761 The menu code is again completely changed; a handle field is added
2762 to the MenuItem tables to store the widget for the item, and this info
2763 is used to alter sensitivity or marking. MenuToNr is replaced by
2764 MenuNameToItem, which looks up the two-level name directly in the
2765 menu tables. Put all currently unused MenuProcs in noMenu table,
2766 so they are available for key binding through the new method.
2768 2012-03-24 18:36:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2769 Redo main board window with generic popup
2771 Some of the improvements in GenericPopUp (committed earlier) were added
2772 especiall for this (menu and box Option types), and the commits that used
2773 them to make a fully functional board, listed below, were collapsed into
2776 This uses the new box and menu features of the Generic popup.
2777 Make option table shadow board consistent with refactor
2778 Do main menus in shadow board
2779 The board made by GenericPopUp now also has (functional) menus. The Expose
2780 callback now also uses the new format (passing coordinates).
2781 Use BoxEnd callback to decide about smallLayout
2782 The shadow board now dynamically decides whether it should use smallLayout
2783 positioning of the title-in-window widget, using a callback in the BoxEnd
2784 option for the menu bar: If no reasonable amount of space is left behind
2785 the menu bar, the title is forced under the clocks (smallLayout).
2786 Do some mouse handling on shadow board
2787 Only button 1 events for now. We have to keep track if the button is down!
2788 Connect button 3 to shadow board
2789 For now only for piece and PV manipulation: no context menus yet
2790 Symbolic reference in option formatting
2791 choice <-> textValue xboard.c
2792 Improve expose callback shadow board
2793 Implement context menus of shadow board
2794 This uses the new generic PopUp option
2796 Make mock-up board available through menu item
2797 Make clocks of shadow board sensitive to clicking
2798 Make button bar of shadow board operational
2799 The back-end Event functions are specified as user callbacks directly;
2800 this is not very clean, as they are parameterless, but called with an int
2801 argument. This should have no bad consequences, though.
2802 Switch to using shadow board as main board
2803 The menu marking and enabling had to b switched off for this, as it
2804 only worked on the old menus. Remove HandleUserMove.
2805 Deleting of unused shell variables, clocks to dialogs.c
2806 Move BoardPopUp to dialogs.c
2807 This required passing on fome front-end vars as parameters, and returning
2808 apointer to the option list, to make the handles available in xboard.c.
2809 Simplify InitDrawingSizes
2810 Now that all widgets of the main window are properly chained, there is
2811 no need to resize them when the board format changes: setting a new width
2812 for the shell suffices.
2813 Cleanup some unused Xt Args
2815 2012-03-31 10:53:46 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2816 Remove unnecessary menu unmarking for Edit Tags
2819 2012-03-29 19:09:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2820 Split sync-after options in Match dialog into checkbox + label
2822 Now the checkbox texts are highlighted on hovering, we don't want the
2823 explanatory text behind it to be highlighted with it.
2825 2012-03-26 17:12:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2826 Make variant-unsupported-by-second error non-fatal
2829 2012-03-23 20:06:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2830 Redo Eval Graph with generic popup
2832 The Graph option of the GenericPopUp is used to implement the Eval Graph.
2833 Compared to the previous implementation, which was drawing directly in the
2834 form widget, the new one has one extra widget layer, but that did not
2835 affect the code anywhere. Adapt eval title to width of eval graph.
2837 2012-03-23 15:17:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2838 Redo Engine Output window with generic popup
2840 A new file nengineoutput.c holds the X-independent code. This makes use
2841 of new capablities of GenerciPopup, for having Label widgets on same row,
2842 stacking panes after a Break, and chaining Label and Text widgets.
2844 2012-03-21 23:00:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2845 Redo Game List with generic popup
2847 Check in ngamelist.c
2848 Redo Game List with generic popup
2849 The X-independent code (i.e. almost all) is moved to a new file
2851 Make button in Game List to pop up Game List Options
2852 Fix scrolling game list
2853 Fix popup of existing Game List after loading file
2854 Wheel-scroll game list
2855 Symbolic reference game list
2857 Put format flags with listbox options
2859 2012-03-21 17:58:27 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2860 Redo Game List Options with generic popup
2863 2012-04-05 21:56:52 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2864 Add -dialogColor and -buttonColor options
2866 These only override system defaults if they are non-empty strings.
2868 2012-03-28 15:52:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2869 Add -topLevel option
2871 This persistent Boolean option determines if the auxiliary windows
2872 (Game List, Move List, Engine Output, Eval Graph, Tags and Comment)
2873 use top-level shells (with their own icon on the task bar, and
2874 independently closable). Other dialogs will always use transient shells.
2875 (Also he modal Error and Promotion dialogs, for which the modality
2876 presumably only serves to pop them down without special attention.)
2877 A control for this was added in the General Options dialog.
2879 2012-03-20 15:30:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2880 Redo ErrorPopUp with generic dialog
2882 <Enter> keeps popping down error popup.Multiple Error popups remeain tricky;
2883 add comment to describe problem with multiple ErrorPopUps.
2885 2012-03-20 10:22:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2886 Redo PromotionPopUp with generic dialog
2888 The dialog is no longer modal.
2890 2012-03-19 21:56:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2891 Redo AskQuestion dialog with generic popup
2894 2012-03-19 21:55:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2895 Major refactoring of GenericPopUp
2897 Allow more transient dialogs in GenericPopUp
2898 Remove grab from promotion popup
2899 Fix other generic popup over transient popup
2900 To use the generic dialog generator for 'asynchronous' popups (Ask Qustion
2901 or Error popup caused by engine), the currentOptions setting has to be
2902 restored for the combo and checkbox callbacks of the transient to still
2903 work after the asynchronous dialog returns. Note that only transient dialogs
2904 can have check and combo controls.
2905 Make generic calcel button suppressible
2906 Also #define some more symbols for Option.min flags,
2907 and move them to dialogs.h.
2908 Change TypeInProc to general OK handler
2909 The move type-in now has its own option list, to distinguish it from
2910 the ICS input box, and give it its own OK handler. Rather than having
2911 the translation for <Enter> on the text widget call TypeInEvent directly,
2912 we let it call GenericCallback, which calls GenericReadout, which calls
2913 the OK proc, which does the job.
2914 To be able to call GenericCallback from the TypeInProc, the recognition
2915 of OK and cancel buttons had to be changed. This because it was too difficult
2916 to arrange the calling widget had label OK or cancell. So these buttons are
2917 no longer recognized by name, but by the option number passed as client data.
2918 (This solves the problem that a user could not make buttons named 'cancel'
2920 Make Cancel button optional
2921 Fix closing multiple popups of same kind
2922 The GenericCallback figures out its own shell, so all buttons of
2923 multiple dialogs keep working. External calls to PopDown only work
2924 on the lastcreated instance of that kind, though (including those from
2925 the Delete Window button, which can do 'cross-closing'). shellUp is now
2926 a counter, and PopDowns are only prevented when it reaches 0 or the
2927 current shell does not exist. (To know this, PopDown now resets shells[n]
2928 to NULL when is shell is destroyed.
2929 Beware of double PopDowns (through OK procs); they wreck the system.
2930 Fix Delete Window button of multipe ErrorPopUps
2931 The action routine for handling the Delete Window now pays attention
2932 to the shell widget that the system passes to it, and temporarily
2933 replaces shells[n] by it to let PopDown act on the proper instance.
2934 Add ListBox dialog type to GenericPopUp
2935 Fix vert sizing of ListBox
2936 Put listbox widgets in viewport
2937 Put listbox in viewport
2938 Improved xoptions.c support for focussing and listboxes
2939 Fix OK-row button positioning
2940 Let GenericPopUp take parent and modality as arguments
2941 This makes the code a bit more explicit and less kludgy. It also becomes
2942 possible to call the same dialog (e.g. Load Options) from the main menu
2943 and from another dialog (e.g. the Game List).
2944 Support scroll function for generic popup listboxes
2946 Move HighlightWithScroll to xoptions.c
2947 Change scroll algorithm
2948 Add mouse-wheel scroll to generic list boxes
2949 Implement tabbing between text edits
2950 Implement same-row text labels in generic dialog
2951 Allow labels to specify their chaining in generic popup
2952 The opt.min variable is used to specify the chaining: 0xF0 are the bits
2953 for (left, right) chaining of the left side (0xC0) and right side (0x30).
2954 The 0xC bits determine top or bottom chaining of the entire label.
2955 Without anything spcified (0), the chaining is XtRubber.
2956 TextBox options can also specify top-chaining of their top. All this was
2957 needed to allow decent implementation of the Engine Output window with
2958 the generic popup. (Although tags and comment popup ca benefit from the
2960 Let GenericPopUp support a Graph option
2961 The Graph option results in an area where one can draw something. It is
2962 positioned / chained similar to Label options. A handler for expose events
2963 can be specified in the textValue field of the option.
2964 Implement box widgets and menu buttons in GenericPopup
2965 To enhance the capabilities of GenericPopUp such that it could create the
2966 main window, it needs to be able tha packaging of controls into a box widget
2967 (for mennu and button bar). Menu buttons are also required elements
2968 (although they do look a lot like comboboxes?) Option types BoxBegin and
2969 BoxEnd can now be used to bracket a group of controls that will be put
2970 in a box widget. (Cannot be used recursively!) The positioning of the box
2971 is similar to that of a Label, and is specified in the BogBegin option.
2972 The code to shrink the menu buttons to fit is also incorporated, to act
2973 on any box widget: if the BoxBegin option specifies a width, the elements
2974 in it are shrunk to meet the requirement. Otherwise the box just gets the
2975 size of the sum of its children (plus spacings).
2976 Label options can now specify a font, casted into their textValue field.
2977 (This is needed to get the proper size for the clock widgets.)
2978 Implement callback in BoxEnd options
2979 BoxEnd is a pseudo-option, to trigger packing the preceeding ones in
2980 an earlier-opened box widget. In the process it calculates the size of
2981 the box widget (and trims it if a size was specified for it in the
2982 corresponding BoxBegin). The Option.target field of BoxEnd is now
2983 interpreted as a callback, which can be use to take decisions based
2984 on the determined size for the remaining options in the list, before
2985 these are processed b GenericPopUp.
2987 Make a subroutine to set args shared by almost all widgets. Swap meaning
2988 of '1'-bit in option.min flag of Break option, to be consistent with
2989 SAME_ROW interpretation in other option types.
2990 Make option tables consistent with refactored GenericPopUp
2991 The flag for stacking in the Break option needed to be inverted, and
2992 the BoardPopUp needed to pass the font in another field. Better use was
2993 made of the improved chaining options too.
2994 Improve Graph-option event handling
2995 The user-supplied callback now gets 3 arguments passed: the event type
2996 (0 = pointer motion, 1...5 button press, -1...-5 release, 10 = expose),
2997 and two coordinates. For ouse events these are the pointer (x,y), while
2998 for expose events they are the window size (w,h). The callback is now
2999 specified in the option.target field of the Graph option.
3000 Store engine options in malloc'ed memory
3001 The Option.name field has been re-declared as (char*), from (char[MSG_SIZ]).
3002 There are still MSG_SIZ chars allocated irrespective of actual size, because
3003 the field is also supposed to store the textValue, which can be changed by
3004 the user. But at least it means that unused options of the generous list
3005 now don't waste much space. (And the prparated Option tables in dialogs.c
3006 will shrink by a large factor as well.)
3007 Improve GenericPopUp ComboBox handling.
3008 The dialog type is now passed to the combobox callback as well, and this is
3009 used to really figure out what option it is called for.
3010 Allow numeric comboboxes
3011 When no list of strings is given in Option.choice, the target is assumed
3012 to be (int), and the number of the slected entry is stored there. Also
3013 adapts the Label options that act as fillers to the new method for making
3014 dummies (namely NULL in the Option.name field).
3015 Put comboCallback in Option struct
3016 Rather than having a general comboCallback variable for the entire current
3017 dialog, each ComboBox option can now specify its own callback in the
3018 target field of the option: the COMBO_CALLBACK bit of Option.min indicates
3019 whether the target is a variable to be set or a callback. The callback can
3020 still fetch the choice from the values array.
3021 Allow generic CreateComboPopup also to do main menus
3022 An extra parameter to CreateComboPopup determines if the menu texts
3023 should be taken from a list of strings (the old method with engine-
3024 supplied choices), or from a menu table of MenuItems. It can now also
3025 recognize "----" as a menu break, and keeps margins (for the marking).
3026 Make subroutine for determining curren combo selection
3027 Various fixes to GenericPopUp
3028 Delete one border-width setting
3029 Fix max nr of args in GenerocPopUp
3030 Fix button release events of Graph options
3031 Fix generic Graph callback pointer motion coordinates
3032 Make all format referencing in Option tables symbolic
3033 Let Option.choice define menu texts, rather than Option.textValue
3034 This is more logical than ussing textValue for it, because choice already
3035 has the correct (char**) type, while textValue was (char*), and needed
3036 casting everywhere. Note that for engine options, the fields were the
3037 same anyway, so no back-end change was required. The textValue now
3038 contains the (casted) list of actual string values, where these are
3039 needed. (But for numeric and function menus they aren't.)
3040 Add PopUp Option type
3041 An new pseudo-Option is defined, to add a popup menu to a previous Graph
3042 option. The actual popping up is done by the expose handler.
3043 The function XUngrabPointer is the key to success here. A PopUp option
3044 specifies a callback for handling the selection from the menu, which will
3045 be called with the option number, exacty as with ComboBox options.
3046 Update option explanation in dialogs.h
3047 Make Spin and CheckBox callbacks pass dialog number
3048 No longer rely on 'currentOptions' for getting the option belonging to
3049 the callback, but get it out of the dialogOptions array indexed by dialog
3050 type. This way things cannot be messed up by an asynchrounous error popup.
3051 It also means that it is now save for non-modal dialogs to use these options.
3052 Use button widget for text behind checkbox
3053 Let listboxes use general formatting hints
3054 Let GenericPopUp option always finish last pane after Break
3055 Allow LisBox to specify select callback in Option.textValue
3056 Use double-click to trigger ListBox callback
3057 Make ListBox callback re-entrant
3058 Fix multi-line Label options
3059 Separate CreateMenuItem out from CreateComboPopup
3060 Chain checkbox texts entirely left
3061 Allow a user-specified callback to Label options
3062 This is needed to implement the clocks. Let the CheckBox callback handle
3063 it. For now ther is no distinction between different mouse buttons.
3065 2012-03-21 11:15:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3066 Prevent double PopDowns
3068 Some DialogOK functions ordered an early PopDown themselves. This,
3069 however, resulted in PopDown being called twice when they returned TRUE.
3070 This interfered with the new system for allowing multiple instances of
3071 the same dialog. So these functions are now fixed to suppress the
3072 standard PopDown by always returning FALSE.
3074 2012-03-20 19:10:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3075 Split usounds.c and usystem.c from xboard.c
3077 X-independent code was moved to separate files. The nef file usound.c
3078 contains the sound handling, which in XBoard is trivial, because it uses
3079 an external player, but could be replaced by a complex one on platforms
3080 that have to handle the sound themselves.
3081 The usystem.c file contains all non-X Unix-like stuff, such as fork,
3082 pipe, system, getenv. I also contains some color parsing for the xterm
3083 colors. This stuff could be useful on platforms that support Unix-like
3086 2012-03-26 19:03:19 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3087 Make routine to probe shift keys
3089 The code to probe Alt keys was taken out of MoveTypeInProc, and extended
3090 to probing Ctrl and Shift keys too. These are now returned in the 6 LSB
3091 of an int by ShiftKeys().
3093 2012-03-19 13:15:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3094 Remove one level of indirection on ICSInputBoxPopUp
3097 2012-04-10 10:26:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3100 Remove AskQuestionProc
3101 A bit of cleanup on xboard.c prototypes
3102 Remove dead file-browser code
3103 Delete vestigial jail code
3104 All the stuff about jailColor was deleted. Only one fishy thing remains:
3105 xpmJailSquare seems under some conditions used in BlankSquare to draw a
3106 'neutral' square. it is set to a copy of a light square image. But in the
3107 current design 'neutral' means blacked out between board and holdings,
3108 and even with image use, it should not resemble a light square...
3109 Remove registering of CommentPopDown and TagsPopDown
3110 Merge CopyGameSelection into CopyPositionSelection
3112 2012-03-19 11:38:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3113 Move some back-endish routines from xboard.c to dialogs.c
3115 Move ICS input-history handling to dialogs.c
3116 Move ICS Input Box text handling to dialogs.c
3117 Move DisplayXxxx routines to dialogs.c
3118 Move DisplayTitle to dialogs.c
3119 A wrapper SetWindowTitle remains in xboard.c.
3121 2012-03-18 20:10:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3122 Split back-endish part off xoptions.c, and move to dialogs.c
3124 Some MenuProcs for dialogs were also moved to dialogs.c from menus.c.
3125 MoveTypeInProc which is an event handler for the board widget,
3126 was moved to xboard.c, where it can be static.
3128 Identify dialogs by enum type
3129 A new header dialogs.h is created, which defines an enum type DialogClass
3130 that is now used to identify the various dialogs done by GenericPopUp.
3131 The prototypes for GenericPopUp/PopDown, and other globals shared by the
3132 dialogs code and other modules can go in here as well.
3133 Remove ClearTextWidget
3134 This did the same as SetWidgetText with an empty string.
3135 Split X-code from PutText
3136 Split back-end part from MoveTypeInProc
3137 Take set-title out of comment popup
3138 Sort MenuProcs in dialogs.c with their support functions
3139 Declare globals in dialogs.c with functions where they belong
3140 Add prototypes to dialogs.h
3141 Move prototypes and globals from xoptions.c to dialogs.h
3142 Make accessor DialogExists for dialog shells
3143 Add dialogs.c to makefile: compiles and runs!
3144 Combine 3 calls into front-end to InitDrawingParams
3145 Move EditCommentProc and ICSInputBoxProc to dialogs.c
3146 Pass option list as argument to GenericUpdate and GenericReadOut
3147 Shorten argument name from currentOption to opts
3148 This to prevent confusing it with the global variable of that name.
3150 2012-03-18 15:33:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3151 Declare some shared global variables in backend.h
3153 The vlobals twoBoards and partnerUp were only shared through an extern
3154 declaration in xboard.c
3156 2012-03-18 12:34:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3157 Split back-endish part off drawing code and move to board.c
3159 Split DrawSquare in front-end and back-end part
3160 Back-endize DrawHighlights and DrawPosition
3161 The already existing wrapper FlashDelay is used as a kludge to do an XSync.
3162 We now pass a code for the line color GC to the highight routine. New
3163 wrappers are DrawGrid() and DrawBorder().
3164 Back-endize atomic explosions
3165 Back-endize DrawArrow and DrawDragPiece
3166 DrawDragPiece now calls DrawOneSquare with argument EmptySquare in stead
3167 of the X-type referring BlankSquare. A new wrapper DrawPolygon fixes
3168 DrawArrowBetweenPoints.
3169 Move board-drawing logic to new file board.c
3170 All X-independent drawing logic (board, squares, arrows, highlights,
3171 some animation stuff) has been extracted from xboard.c, and moved to
3172 a new file board.c, which is back-end (but unshared with WinBoard).
3173 A new header board.h defines the cross-references (which of course
3174 required some functions to be no longer declared as static).
3175 A bit of code was moved from DragPieceBegin to BeginAnimation, which
3176 now has an extra argument to indicate which piece should appear from
3177 under a dragged piece. This makes DragPieceBegin free of XCopyArea calls,
3178 so it could be moved too.
3179 Make board.c truly back-end
3180 Get rid of all X data types. For this the AnimState struct had to be
3181 redefined: the GC and Pixmap was taken out and put in front-end arrays
3182 indexed by anim agent (game and player). For this indexing a new enum
3183 was defined. The XPoint type was also replaced by our own type of an
3184 int pair (which is nasty, because the int size could be different).
3185 Move more animation code to board.c
3187 2012-03-18 10:08:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3188 Contract some awful code replication
3190 The code for making an X-color was replicated 6 times, and is now made
3191 into a subroutine. The code for creating GCs was quite repetitive as well.
3193 2012-03-18 08:34:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3194 Move more back-endish menu-related stuff from xboard.c to menus.c
3196 Move menu enabling to menus.c
3197 Only the wrapper EnableMenuItem stays in xboard.c. A new wrapper
3198 EnableButtonBar was necessary, because Training mode wants to enable/disable
3200 Move all back-endish MenuProcs to menus.c
3201 Many if the MenuProcs that could not be eliminated by listing the
3202 corresponding back-end MenuEvent function as handler directly, are
3203 still completely plactform indpendent. (E.g. when the MenuEvent needs
3204 a parameter.) These are all moved to menus.c now.
3205 Convert all dead MenuProcs to using MarkMenuItem
3206 The MenuProcs for the option items that no longer exist were also
3207 converted for check-marking their item in the new way, because we
3208 might revive them for key binding.
3209 Move the dead MenuProcs also to menus.c
3210 Revive dead menu procs
3211 Move GreyRevert to menus.c
3212 Move ModeToWidgetName to menus.c
3213 Move initial menu marking to menus.c
3215 A new function InitMenuMarkers was split off from main() to do this.
3217 2012-03-18 08:17:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3218 Switch to use of short menu references
3220 The prefixes menuXxxx. for the item names are abolished. This made it
3221 necessary to also add a MarkMenuItem function that can handle short names
3222 for putting the xMarkPixmap on the items, as the names returned by
3223 ModeToWidgetName are used for both enabling and check-marking.
3224 Let MarkMenu use MarkMenuItem wrapper
3226 2012-03-17 10:47:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3227 Refactor menu code, and move it to menu.c
3229 Supply new method for key binding
3230 It is annoying that every menu item needs its X-specific handler routine,
3231 because this handler has to be registered to X for becoming eligible as
3232 a key binding. Another disadvantage of this method is that the user wanting
3233 to make the binding has to know the name under which the menu function
3234 is registered (e.g. FlipViewProc).
3235 A new method is now made available, which uses only a single (X-specific)
3236 routine, registered with X as "MenuItem", as generic key-binding handler.
3237 The bindings can then be made by the user specifying "MenuItem(FlipView)".
3238 This requires a new list of potential bindings, which should be filled
3239 by the menu-creation routines. (Currently only contains only a predeficed
3241 No longer register all MenuProcs with X
3242 The list with available menu procs is moved to the user-maintained
3243 menuItemList. Only QuitProc had to stay registered with X, because it is
3244 used in CatchDeleteWindow. (So it is in both lists now.) In the future,
3245 most of the list can be built automatically from the menu tables.
3246 Alter type of MenuProcs to void(void)
3247 By getting rid of the argument list with X-types, most menu procs can
3248 become back-end. In the cases of ManProc and QuitProc the original
3249 version had to be kept as well, because in ManProc the argument was
3250 actually used (with key binding), while QuitProc is used for delete window.
3251 Remove now unnecessary menu wrappers
3252 Now the MenuProc have an empty argument list, those that also call a
3253 single 'MenuEvent' without arguments have become completely redundant,
3254 and have been taken out of the loop by calling the corresponding MenuEvent
3256 Build menuItemList from menu tables
3257 Rather than having an initialized table of name-proc associations (which
3258 used to be the X registrations) for the menu items, we now build the list
3259 during menu cration from the menu tables. The menu "ref" is now used as
3260 proc name. This means the old MenuProc names used in the predefined
3261 key bindings had to be changed to conform to this. Note that the bindings
3262 would slice up names containing spaces in several parameters, so in the
3263 translations the spaces were squeezed out of the item names. This requires
3264 a hand-written comparison routine Equal() to identify the binding.
3265 Remove prototypes of deleted MenuProcs
3266 Move prototypes of platform-independent MenuProcs to menus.h
3267 Create a new header file for the menu stuff, so that we can move
3268 the corresponding handler routines out of xboard.c to a back-end file.
3269 Extract back-end code from menu creation
3270 The menu tables and code to interpret them is moved to a new file menu.c.
3271 Only basic fuctions for creating a pop-down list and for adding an item
3272 to it remain in xboard.c.
3274 2012-04-07 15:59:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3275 Remove some unused (exclude-moves) variables
3278 2012-04-07 15:57:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3279 Install engine within current group
3282 2012-04-07 15:53:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3283 Switch to using listboxes for engine-selection in WinBoard
3286 2012-04-07 15:36:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3287 Implement Narrow button in WB Game List
3290 2012-04-05 15:15:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3291 Silence unjust warning
3294 2012-04-04 12:18:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3295 Fix memory corruption through InitString and second-engine loading
3297 The InitString and ComputerString options were not swapped when replacing
3298 the second engine, so that the ChessProgramStates of the first engine
3299 could point to an invalid (already freed) init string. Also make sure
3300 that appData.directory contains its value in allocated memory, even
3301 when hand-loading engines.
3302 Some of the rare options were not swapped either, and would thus
3303 always be loaded for the first engine when -singleEngineList was true.
3304 They are now also all reset to their default, before engine load,
3305 to prevent options of one engine to linger on for a next that does
3306 not specify them. The intentional exception is -firstHost.
3308 2012-04-01 20:51:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3309 Fix PV sorting during fail low
3311 When an engine reports a fail low as thinking output, and then re-searches
3312 the same move with larger window, it now gets a lower score. This line
3313 would then be sorted below the earlier fail low, because it was mistaken
3314 for a multi-PV line for an inferior move. This patch suppresses PVs
3315 overtaking each other if they start with the same move.
3317 2012-03-30 20:09:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3318 Extend smallLayout regime up to size Medium
3320 Because of the increase number of menus, there is not enough space for a
3321 title next to the menu bar at smaller sizes. In fact it is questionable if
3322 the title should ever go on the same line as the menu bar.
3324 2012-03-30 10:38:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3325 Fix parsing crazyhouse promotions with legality testing off
3327 With legality testing off, any promotion suffixes in a move are taken
3328 'on faith'. But in crazyhouse the piece ID for normal pieces is used as
3329 promotion suffix for promoted pieces, so this would Loop Chess rather than
3330 Crazyhouse. Now attention is payed to presence of ID-less promotion pieces
3331 (indicated by ~ in the pieceToCharTable), and if there are, these prevail
3332 ovr the specified type.
3334 2012-03-30 10:07:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3335 Fix browsing for save file in WB
3337 The generic popup browse buttons used the wrong flavor of browser,
3338 which would only accept existing files. This was inconvenient when browsing
3339 for a save file. The other flavor of browser is now used by default (so that
3340 engine options also use it), and a new flag is added in the option.max field
3341 (which was already indicating file type) to request readonly browsing for a
3344 2012-04-02 10:18:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3345 Let clicking on header line exclude moves
3347 The exclude header in the Engine-Output window can now be clicked, to
3348 toggle the exlusion of the listed move. Clicking on 'none' resets all
3349 exclusions, clicking on 'best' excludes the first move of the latest PV.
3350 The pseudo-move 'tail' represents all non-listed moves.
3352 2012-04-01 22:39:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3353 Keep list of excluded moves in Engine Output header
3355 As long as there is still space, excluded or included moves are added
3356 to a new header line in the Engine Output window (prefixed with + or -
3357 depending on whether they are currently excluded or included). Future
3358 in/exclusions of that same move then alter the prefix.
3360 2012-03-21 23:12:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3361 Fix focus of Game List
3363 After focus was transferred to the filter text-edit, it was impossible
3364 to get it back on the game list (to make the arrow keys working again).
3365 A translation to left down-click is now used to assign focus, just as
3366 it would for text edits. For unknown reason this only worked if the
3367 translations were instated by Overriding, rather than Augmenting,
3368 which again required the normal translation of downclick, Set(), which
3369 selects the clicked item, to be explicitly mentioned as well.
3371 2012-03-16 22:41:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3372 Fix taking effect of some option changes
3374 This fixes a bug reported at Ubuntu: when switching off move highlighting
3375 in Two Machines mode, the last move before the switch stayed highlighted.
3376 The GeneralOptionsOK() now clears any remaining highlights when highlighing
3377 is off. Similar problems with blind-fold mode and coordinates, which require
3378 a total board redraw to take effect, are now solved by also forcing such a
3379 redraw in GeneralOptionsOK() when they change.
3381 2012-03-16 21:58:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3382 Add exclude and setscore to protocol specs
3385 2012-03-16 14:47:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3386 Fix clock stop after dragging
3388 DelayedDrag always cancelled the previous drag timeout event, even when
3389 this was no longer pending because it had already taken place, and the
3390 event ID was resused by some other timeout (usually a clock tick).
3392 2012-03-14 21:06:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3393 Implement exclude moves
3395 Dragging a piece by double-clicking it on the from-square in analysis mode
3396 will not perform the entered move, but send an exclude or include command
3397 to the engine for that move (provided the engine enabled this with
3398 feature exclude=1), depending on if the move was already excluded or not.
3399 To this end a map of excluded moves is kept, and cleared when we move to
3400 another position through moving, undo, setboard or new. The user can see
3401 whether he included or excluded the move, as exclude uses premove highlights.
3402 Commands "exclude|include all" are sent when we throw a double-clicked
3403 piece off board (vertically or horizontally, respectively), but after
3404 exclude all the most recent PV move is included again.
3405 Remaining problem is that promotions can only be excluded.
3407 2012-03-14 15:13:18 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
3408 Mark new text "Click clock to clear board" for translation
3411 2012-03-13 21:46:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3412 More thorough switch to -ncp on engine failure
3414 The ProcRef and InputSource are now also cleared, and just to be sure there
3415 are no surviving adapters, the child is killed when engine startup fails.
3417 2012-03-13 21:25:22 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3418 Install engines as ./exefile in XBoard
3420 When a path name is split into directory and filename, the latter in Linux
3421 must be preceded by ./ in order to make it executable in the directory
3422 XBoard starts it in.
3424 2012-03-13 14:11:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3425 Inform user in EditPosition mode how to clear board
3427 With -pieceMenu false the board is cleared by clicking the clock, but
3428 since this is impossible to guess, it is now printed in the message field.
3430 2012-03-13 14:06:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3431 Fix fall-back on -ncp mode
3433 When the requested engine could not be started, the user still had to
3434 wait for the feature timeout to expire before the UI was re-enabled,
3435 and the now-useless loading action would continue. In stead we now
3436 cancel any scheduled continuation, thaw the UI immediately, and switch
3437 the menus and gameMode to ncp straight away.
3439 2012-03-10 18:55:24 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3440 updated po/pot files
3443 2012-03-10 18:54:32 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3444 new version number for developer release
3447 2012-03-06 16:37:02 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
3448 Fix typo (seach) in string. It is already fixed in branch v4.6.x
3451 2012-03-04 14:52:34 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3452 added some documentation about what's need to be done for a release and a bash-release script
3455 2012-02-28 21:09:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3456 Fix suspected bug in Makefile
3461 2012-02-26 18:55:10 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3462 add information about our webpage and were to report bugs into the help menu
3465 2012-02-26 18:40:27 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3466 fixed "make install-pdf": missing target for recursive make in po directory
3469 2012-02-26 23:06:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3470 Suppress recent-engines menu items in ICS mode
3473 2012-02-26 22:45:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3474 Fix 50-move counter in ICS mode
3476 Marking irreversible moves in the EP_STATUS did not work in ICS mode,
3477 as ApplyMove,which did that is never executed there. Only the boards
3478 sent by ICS are displayed,especially in observing mode. Now the status is
3479 derived from the ICS mov strings (x in the SAN move, or P in the long move.
3481 2012-02-26 17:18:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3482 Fix two 64-bit warnings
3484 Passing the engine number in a pointer variable to the callback needed
3487 2012-02-26 16:53:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3488 Fix piece symbols on switch back to variant normal
3490 Variant switches were not properly detected, meaning the variable pieces
3491 could keep a form belonging to a previous variant. (E.g. Queen remained
3492 a Lance image after switching from shogi to normal.)
3494 2012-02-26 14:07:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3495 Keep XBoard windows attached on resize
3497 Windows attached to bottom or right are displaced with the size increase.
3498 Their perpendicular dimension is also scaled, to keep their edges at the same
3499 fraction of the main window, unless they stick out. In the latter case the
3500 fraction is clipped to 1, so that edge moves with the full size increase.
3502 2012-02-25 22:40:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3503 Implement -stickyWindows in XBoard
3505 This makes the auxiliary windows move with the main window when they were
3506 touching, as in WinBoard. A control is added in the General Options dialog.
3508 2012-02-25 21:14:03 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3509 Use more reliable X-call for getting window position
3511 XtGetValues on XtNx, XtNy is unreliable. XGetWindowAttributes seems
3512 to give more reliable results, and automatically accounts for the width
3513 of window dressing. The -frameX/Y options are no longer needed bcause
3514 of this, and were removed.
3516 2012-02-25 11:55:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3517 Make frame width configurable in XB
3519 New persistent options -frameX, -frameY now can be used to specify
3520 the amount by which Xt lies about the window coordinates.
3522 2012-02-23 20:01:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3523 Use combobox line for recent engines when available
3525 The entry made in the -recentEngineList for the startup engine was
3526 derived from the -fcp value, but this would ignore a possible nickname.
3527 In WinBoard we now use the full combobox line to derive the entry.
3529 2012-02-23 09:29:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3530 Fix translation of EngineOutputTitle WB
3533 2012-02-23 01:34:12 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
3534 Updated Danish translation
3537 2012-02-23 00:59:36 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
3538 One missed translation of cps->which
3541 2012-02-22 19:58:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3542 Undo translation of cps->which = first/second
3544 The string in cps->which should not be translated, because it goes into
3545 the debug file to label engine I/O, and many tools for processing
3546 debug files (broadcasters, PGN extractors) rely on this being "first" or
3547 "second". In all contexts where "first" and "second" need to be translated,
3548 cps->which itself is already enclosed in _().
3550 2012-02-22 18:27:40 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3551 Implement -serverFile option
3553 This writs an extra debug file with only engine communiation on it,
3554 for the benifit of programs like TLCS.
3556 2012-02-22 17:46:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3557 Implement -autoCopyPV
3559 This option causes automatic copying of the last position of a PV walk
3562 2012-02-16 14:58:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3563 Delete some load-game debug printing
3565 The debug printing in Disambiguate was no longer needed. The printing
3566 of the started process in XBoard that went to stderr is now diverted
3567 to debugFP, so it ends up in the debug file.
3569 2012-02-16 14:41:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3570 Move change of debug file to before game load
3572 Loading a game from -lgf is done before TwoMachinesEvent is called,
3573 but logically belongs to the game. So the code to switch to the new
3574 debug file for the game is moved to NextMatchGame now.
3576 2012-02-16 14:09:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3577 Fix button grab for sweep selection
3579 The piece-menu initialization limited the grab of button events to those
3580 occurring inside the board window (presumably intended to limit them to
3581 the piece menu, but that does not pop up in sweep-selection mode).
3582 This is now suppressed when -pieceMenu is off, so that selection continues
3583 outside the the board. (Which is very convenient for pieces pu close to the
3586 2012-02-16 13:16:13 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3587 Don't leave piece selected after piece menu
3589 PieceMenuEvent left the just introduced piece selected, which is almost
3590 never what one wants, as it makes it jump to the next square when selects.
3591 Which is especially annoying if it captures the piece you wanted to grab...
3593 2012-02-16 12:57:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3594 Fix use of middle button for position setup
3596 With sweep selection the actual drop is made on releasing the button,
3597 and this event was not caught for button 2. Button-2 motion events were
3598 also not caught by the sweep-selection handler.
3600 2012-02-16 23:53:08 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
3601 Fix one more typo in the translator comments explaning "first" and "second"
3604 2012-02-16 23:39:32 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
3605 Fix typo in translator comments explaning "first" and "second"
3608 2012-02-16 23:23:20 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
3609 Add args.h to POTFILES.in and change the interface to ExitArgError() so msg is c format string
3611 Having msg as a format string will ease translations because then
3612 badArg doesn't have to come last.
3614 2012-02-16 22:51:44 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
3615 Mark the strings "first" and "sencond" for translation.
3617 ... and assign the translated strings to cps->which in function InitEngine()
3619 2012-02-16 18:42:10 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
3620 Use ngettext() instead of gettext() for a string to allow better translation.
3623 2012-02-16 00:19:59 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3624 translation: updated uk.po
3627 2012-02-15 20:59:09 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3628 modified configure and makefile for handling mimedb update
3630 the default configure will install them using the xdg commands (if they exist on the system)
3632 2012-02-13 22:29:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3633 add configure test for xdg-programs to install mime types; can be disabled for building of e.g. rpms
3635 in case the target system doesn't have the xdg-programs available, we test for them.
3636 Distributions often have their own macros to install these, so we add an enable option to configure
3638 2012-02-13 22:05:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3639 Remove a debug printf
3641 The parsePV debug printf becomes extremely verbose with -fSAN, -sSAN,
3644 2012-02-12 22:18:24 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3645 new developer release
3648 2012-02-12 22:19:37 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3649 updated po/pot files
3652 2012-02-12 22:17:03 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3653 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
3656 2012-02-12 07:52:54 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3657 translation: updated uk.po
3660 2012-02-12 11:38:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3661 Leave height of row that only contains buttons free
3663 All elements of the GenericPopUp are still scaled to the text height,
3664 including buttons appended behind them (browse or color buttons).
3665 But we now make an exception for a row that only contains buttons,
3666 as there is no harm in it being a little higher (and the buttons look
3669 2012-02-12 00:01:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3670 Fix OK button of error popup
3672 The error dialog popped up as a child of the board window, even when
3673 DisplayError was called from a dialog. Now it checks if a transient
3674 dialog is up, and if so, it pops up as a child of that, grabs focus,
3675 and suppresses the system popdown of the transient dialog through a flag
3676 dialogError until it is popped down itself.
3678 2012-02-11 20:07:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3682 2012-02-11 10:18:02 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3683 added some comments for translators
3686 2012-02-11 10:08:46 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3687 fixed comments for translators: comments starting with TRANSLATORS: are now copied to the po file
3690 2012-02-11 19:01:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3691 Also configure sweep selection
3693 To make sure this feature is tested, we set -pieceMenu false in the
3694 master settings file.
3696 2012-02-11 18:26:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3697 Fix date in copyright notice about-box
3700 2012-02-11 17:15:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3701 Fix switching animation masks on variant switch
3703 The masks for variant-dependent piees (E,H in Seirawan, promoted Golds
3704 in Shogi, the Gothic Chancellor) were no longer updated in InitDrawingSizes
3705 because of the patch to reduce X-server calls.
3707 2012-02-11 16:46:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3708 Configure wider game list
3710 The game list was by default too small, so that there was no room for the
3711 filter field. Now a width of 500 is specified, whcih works at -size 49
3714 2012-02-11 16:29:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3715 Fix button chaining and combo/textbox label height
3717 Previous patches forgot to specify the height for the text labels on
3718 -combo and -text options, so they were still too high. Buttons that go
3719 on the same line as the previous element should be chained right, not rubber.
3721 2012-02-11 15:52:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3722 Make -pgnNumberTag option setable from menu
3724 The Save Options dialog now containes a checkbox for this.
3726 2012-02-11 15:48:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3727 Configure some new features switched on
3729 The master settings file switches -showTargetSquares, -sweepPromotions
3730 and -seekGraph on, so that they will get more testing.
3732 2012-02-11 14:43:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3733 Fix heigth of multi-line labels
3735 The previous height patch overlooked that some labels are multi-line,
3736 and need more height.
3738 2012-02-11 14:10:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3739 Fix popdown seekgraph on forward-event XB
3741 Only the grid was drawn when the > or >> button were operated, because
3742 a full redraw was not forced by ForwardInner. The recent patch to take
3743 the seek graph down on such events did not account for that. (BackwardInner
3744 always seems to do full redraw, however?)
3746 2012-02-11 12:59:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3747 Put front-end support for -recentEngines in XBoard
3749 The engines are added to the menu. Problem is still that in XBoard
3750 startup engines are given by command, rather than selected by combobox,
3751 so the command rather than the nickname ends up in the menu. If this is
3752 then selected, it cannot be found in the list. To limit the damage,
3753 Fairy-Max is now pre-installed without nickname. -recentEngines is now
3756 2012-02-11 11:53:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3757 Better solution to button-height problem
3759 In stead of adapting the height of text widgets to that of buttons,
3760 (as represented by the message widget), we now do the opposite, and
3761 adapt the button & label heights. This is made safe by obtaining textHeight
3762 from the fontSet's max_logical_extent, though an XExtendsFontSet() call.
3763 Turns out the default height of text widgets is not exactly that, but
3764 4 pixels larger for borders and margin.
3765 The parameter XtNvertDistance is now used to align the checkboxes with
3766 the following text widget, and their size is derived from textHeight as
3768 The XtNvertDistance is set to -1 for the lower spin button, so that it
3769 its border coincides with that of the upper spin button. Their height is
3770 set to textHeight/2. This makes their combined height just 1 pixel more
3771 than that of the preceeding text widget. (Uh? 2 x tw/2 -1 > tw?), so for
3772 other buttons we use that too (i.e. textHeight = font_extent + 5).
3774 2012-02-10 22:39:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3777 Deleting debug printing had made a variable unused.
3779 2012-02-10 22:26:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3782 The text-edit-height patch introduced a bug that did not have any consquences
3783 (yet), as the extra arg erroneously included leftover from a previous
3784 SetValues call happened to be the same as one of the intended args.
3786 2012-02-10 20:51:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3787 Fix unloading of first engine on tourney start
3789 Because NextTourneyGame was loading a new engine before ReserveGame was
3790 called to unload it with dummy game nr = -1), the first engine proc kept
3793 2012-02-10 18:39:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3794 Remove some of the most verbose debug output
3797 2012-02-10 17:46:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3798 Delete some unused WinBoard bitmaps
3800 There waere up-side-down knight icons that apparently hid by mistake
3801 in the bitmaps directory: they were not part of WinBoard
3803 2012-02-10 17:39:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3804 Cosmetic: change 4.5 to 4.6 in xboard.conf comment
3807 2012-02-10 17:35:22 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3808 Fix crash on empty combobox menu XB
3810 XBoard crashed when a combobox without items was opened, as could easily
3811 happen in the Load Engine dialogs when -firstChessProgramNames contained
3812 no items, as it would without configuring. Now the creation of the popup
3813 menu is suppressed in that case.
3815 2012-02-10 17:13:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3816 Fix position of checkbox XB
3818 With the large height the widget get in internationalization, the
3819 checkboxes are position way too high above the text. To shift them down
3820 a dummy borderless label widget is drawn above them (when needed).
3822 2012-02-10 15:07:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3823 Fix heights in Engine Output window XB
3825 The icons did not fit in the space above the memos anymore, so the height
3826 of this area is now left free.
3828 2012-02-10 14:55:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3829 Derive height of text-edits in dialogs from message widget
3831 With internationalization the default height of buttons has inexpliquably
3832 inreased compared to that of text-edits, messing up the layout of the
3833 GenericPopUp. The message widget is now used as a emasure of how high
3834 the widgets should be.
3836 2012-02-10 14:21:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3837 Configure XBoard engines and textures
3839 The new -useBoardTexture option is needed in xboard.conf, as we want to
3840 distribute with the texture on, while the compiled-in default is off.
3841 A list of 4 engines has been configured (fairymax, fruit, crafty, gnuchess),
3842 as the Load Engine and Match Options checkboxes crash XBoard when the list
3843 is empty. The -recentEngines option is set to 0 to make sure the code
3844 associated with it is never executed: the code is still experimental,
3845 and the required front-end support is only present in WinBoard anyway.
3847 2012-02-10 13:30:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3848 Update Dutch WinBoard translation
3851 2012-02-10 13:18:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3852 Create room in some WB dialogs for translations
3855 2012-02-10 13:17:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3856 Add 5 missing strings to WinBoard translation template
3859 2012-02-09 23:03:58 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3860 new developer release
3863 2012-02-09 23:04:46 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3867 2012-02-09 22:59:05 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3868 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
3870 2012-02-09 22:44:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3871 Fix non-bug in WinBoard
3873 The IDM_RecentEngines was not used in symbolic form everywhere.
3875 2012-02-09 18:46:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3876 Fix MAXENGINES in WinBoard
3878 The front-end arrays for expanding the engine list measured 1000 entries,
3879 in stead of MAXENGINES, leading them to overflow.
3881 2012-02-09 13:05:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3882 Implement kludge to set options through Move Type-in
3884 A leading "!!! " will cause the rest of the line to be parsed as
3885 command line. Very dangerous, as an unknown option (e.g. because of a typo)
3886 will cause a fatal error, which makes XBoard exit.
3888 2012-02-09 13:04:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3889 Put move number in Eval Graph title
3892 2012-02-09 13:00:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3893 Implement -pgnNumberTag option
3895 A new (persistent) boolean option controls if the sequence number is to
3896 be written in saved tourney games as a Number tag, to make it easier
3897 to correlate games with debug files.
3899 2012-02-09 12:55:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3900 Create separate debug fil for each tourney game
3902 Users can now apecify a -debugfile with %d in its name, and this will
3903 be replaced by the sequence number of the game. TwoMachinesEvent then
3904 starts by opening a new file when the name has changed, so that each
3905 game will go to a different file, with recognizable name.
3907 2012-02-09 12:51:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3908 Fix bug in WB combobox readout
3910 The previous patch exposed a latent bug in the readout of the generic popup.
3912 2012-02-08 23:25:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3913 Allow grouping of engines in engine list
3915 Lines "# GROUPNAME" and "# end" enclose a group in -firstChessProgramNames.
3917 2012-02-08 17:47:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3920 A trailing .exe was not removed if the engine name was quoted.
3922 2012-02-08 17:45:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3923 Put recently used engines in WB menu
3925 A new option -recentEngines specifies how many engines should be listed.
3926 The list of nicknames is stored in the ettings file as -recentEngineList.
3927 The engines are appended to the Engine menu.
3929 2012-02-04 19:37:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3930 Fix registering of EditTagsProg
3932 This was registered with X as EditCommentProc!
3934 2012-02-07 23:04:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3935 Increase max nr of engines to 2000
3937 Move the #define for MAXENGINES also to common.h, so that both the
3938 Load and Tourney dialog use the same maximum.
3940 2012-01-19 23:01:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3941 Fix fix of switch to mono-mode
3943 The previous fix had == in stead of != for testing if mono-mode had changed.
3945 2012-01-19 22:21:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3946 Make New Variant dialog visible in mono-mode
3948 All colored buttons did get a black background, and also black text...
3949 Use timer background color in stead, which is white.
3951 2012-01-19 20:48:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3952 Incease size of WB array of translated items
3954 For the BoardOptions dialog 42 items are now needed
3956 2012-01-19 17:18:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3957 Implement Clone Tourney button XBoard
3959 This makes use of the new GenericUpdate().
3961 2012-01-19 16:34:13 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3962 Implement GenericUpdate function
3964 This does the opposite from GenericReadout: it copies the current
3965 parameter values into the dialog.
3967 2012-01-19 12:19:27 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3968 Fix arrow damage with highlightDragging XB
3970 With highlight dragging the highlights of the previous moves are cleared
3971 when lifting the piece. Logically, this should also clear the arrow, but
3972 to do that requires a board redraw, which is not done at this stage. (And
3973 even then this would only be effective after marking the arrow damage,
3974 which is not done yet either). As a temporary fix, we repair the arrow
3976 This patch has moved marking of the arrow damage from DrawArrowHighlight
3977 to a separate routine, so a future better fix can also call that when the
3978 arrow should be erased.
3980 2012-01-18 16:01:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3981 Prevent unnecessary loading of engines
3983 For engines that can be reused, the unloading at the end of a pairing
3984 is in some cases wasteful, as the same engine will be used in the next
3985 pairing as well. In simple gauntlets the gauntlet engine will always
3986 stay first engine, while in multi-gauntlets the oppent engine will stay
3987 the same for an entire round. In these cases unloading is now suppressed.
3989 2012-01-17 22:22:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3990 Reset protocol version before loading new engine
3992 The protocol version was not reset, so if the previous engine was v1,
3993 the newly loaded engine would not be sent a protover command, so
3994 that its features would remain unknown!
3996 2012-01-17 19:33:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3997 Give focus to board window after ICS login
3999 toprevent that the focus remains on any popped up chat boxes, it is
4000 explicitlly set otherwise. The board window is preferred over the
4001 ICS interaction window, because you can type from there to the ICS anyway,
4002 and it makes all accelerator keys available.
4004 2012-01-16 14:37:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4005 Fix seek-graph popup and popdown
4007 Clicking outside the board area in WB (e.g.on the clocks) would also
4008 trigger seek-graph 'popup'. This is now suppressed by testing for
4009 y-coord > 0. In addition, the seek graph is automaticaly taken down
4010 when we step to another position in the current game (using buttons,
4011 arrow keys or whatever).
4013 2012-01-15 21:29:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4014 Suppress empty lines when observing on VICS
4016 Capture of the engine kibitzes when observing an engine game with
4017 -autoKibitz on was still leaking a linefeed on the Variant ICS
4018 (but not FICS or ICC!?).
4020 2012-01-15 21:24:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4021 Fix printing non-numeric kibitz with -autoKibitz
4023 Messages that were not considered kibitzed engine PV info for lack of
4024 numeric content, were kibitzed as coming from "your opponent", which
4025 is nonsense if you were iobserving, and masked the source. Fortunately
4026 star_match[0] is still holding the original name, at that point.
4028 2012-01-11 17:33:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4032 2012-01-11 17:00:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4033 Use same translation of "vs." everywhere
4036 2012-01-11 17:08:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4037 Add new translations to WB language file
4040 2012-01-11 16:20:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4041 Fix re-allocation of PGN-cache memory
4043 It allocated 8 times too much!
4045 2012-01-11 12:47:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4046 Fix height board dialog
4049 2012-01-11 12:34:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4050 Enable WB time-control dialog even when no clock mode
4052 The dialog could be called from the tournament dialog to set a TCfor
4053 the tourney even when currently in game-viewer mode, so it'd better work.
4055 2012-01-11 12:28:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4056 Exempt variant seirawan from -disguisePromoted inheritance
4058 This is not a variant where promoted Pawns have to be distingushed
4059 from primordial pieces, as captured pieces do not go into the holdings.
4061 2012-01-09 21:23:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4062 Add control for overrideLineGap in WB Board dialog
4064 Make it a checkbox to choose between 0 and -1.
4066 2012-01-09 20:56:40 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4067 Add Ctrl-D as alternative to Ctrl+Alt+F12 in WinBoard
4069 The acellerator key Ctrl+Alt+F12 seems reserved on Windows 7.
4071 2012-01-09 20:52:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4072 Fix seek graph for VICS
4074 The sought command on the open-source ICS code is ICC-like (no terminating
4075 line), although the server is FICS like. So also accept prompt as seek-graph
4078 2012-01-09 20:27:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4079 Open WB startup chat boxes only after logged on
4081 The init code for opening the chat boxes ismoved to DisplayIcsTitle().
4083 2012-01-07 20:31:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4084 Install mime types directly
4087 2012-01-07 20:29:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4088 Install desktop files directly
4091 2012-01-07 20:19:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4092 Install icons directly
4094 Rather than letting make-install copy the pixmaps to the XBoard data
4095 directory they are installed directly from the source files. The name
4096 of the TRN icon was also corrected and changed.
4098 2012-01-05 18:41:13 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4099 Update texi file and remove duplicate control
4101 Some missing option descriptions were added. The highlight-dragging
4102 control was removed from the General Options dialog, as it did the same
4103 as Show Target Squares. -highlightDragging wa changed to a volatile option
4104 with default value true, making it effectively disappear as an XBoard
4105 option. (In WinBoard it is still persistent.)
4107 2012-01-05 15:55:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4108 Remove the direct commands to the engines
4111 2012-01-05 21:15:11 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4112 forgot to list new desktop files in EXTRA_DIST section in Makefile.am
4115 2012-01-05 20:08:23 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4116 added some autogenerated po files to .gitignore
4119 2012-01-05 20:05:44 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4120 added desktop and mime-type association to autoconf install process
4122 This should install and uninstall the mime assocciation and also the icons.
4123 Also renamed the desktop files to avoid possible name collisions.
4125 2012-01-03 21:30:59 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4126 code cleanup: make function definition confirm to GNU coding style
4128 change everything in the main directory to
4131 funcname (int a, int b)
4135 2012-01-03 18:43:18 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4136 Updated copyright notice to 2012
4139 2012-01-03 21:32:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4140 Implement -viewerOptions
4142 A mechanism is added to allow the user to configure persistently if the
4143 game viewer that starts on clicking PGN files will use -ncp mode, or
4144 load an egine for analysis (or, in fact, do anything). This by introducing
4145 a persistent string option -viewerOptions, which will be parsed as a
4146 command line after the real command line when the option -viewer was present.
4148 2012-01-03 11:29:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4149 Fix crash in auto-comment
4151 Trailing linefeeds in AppendComment were not properly stripped off,
4152 leading to a mismatch between the allocted and used memory, and thus
4153 possible buffer overruns.
4155 2012-01-02 23:46:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4156 Fix crash at match end
4158 The -afterTourney option had broken old-style matches, because the ranking
4159 string that was tested for "busy" is not set there at all, and remains a
4160 NULL pointer, which strcmp doesn't like.
4162 2012-01-01 19:56:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4163 Add desktop files for PGN viewer and tournament player
4165 The desktop files define startup commands for handling PGN, FEN and
4166 tourney files, calling xboard with the proper command-line options.
4168 2012-01-01 19:53:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4169 Add xml file for defining mime types
4171 The file xboard.xml defines application/x-chess-pgn, aplication/x-chess-fen
4172 and application/x-xboard-trn as mime types for *.pgn, *.fen and *.trn files,
4173 so these files can be associated with XBoard in various modes.
4175 2012-01-01 19:41:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4176 Add icons for PGN and tourney files
4178 Icons are provided in two sizes: 32x32 and 48x48.
4180 2011-12-29 19:55:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4181 Clear square markers on new game
4183 Now that the markers can stay on after a first click, they need to be
4184 explicitly cleared when moving to another board, including a new game.
4186 2011-12-29 15:51:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4187 Abandon single-letter menus in tinyLayout
4189 Now that the items on the main menu bar are clipped, it iso longer
4190 necessary to abbreviate them.
4192 2011-12-29 15:38:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4193 Implement peeking previous position in WinBoard
4195 The backspace key is used to temporarily display the previous position.
4197 2011-12-29 15:32:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4198 Fix parsing of faulty PGN tags
4200 A closing bracket could be missed in a malformed tag
4202 2011-12-29 15:29:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4203 Fix parser for variant seirawan
4205 The new parser didnot understand gating suffixes with /, and did not
4206 allow any suffix at all on SAN castling moves.
4208 2011-12-28 22:32:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4209 Try to not confuse ICS rating adustments as shouts
4211 An explicit pattern match for the rating adjustment is added before
4212 matching the shouts.
4214 2011-12-28 22:21:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4215 Describe -overrideLineGap option in texi file
4218 2011-12-28 22:03:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4219 Use <Enter> in stead of Ctrl+. for peeking last move
4221 I commented out the explicit detection of the Ctrl key, as this
4222 is not needed when there are no 'unnatural' Ctrl keystrokes used
4225 2011-12-28 19:37:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4226 Next try for menu-bar sizing
4228 This time request the width needed to just fit everything, and then start
4229 shaving off pixels from the currently largest until the entire thing fits.
4231 2011-12-28 15:17:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4232 Clip texts on menu bar
4234 The width of the items on the main menu bar is restricted so the bar
4235 will never exceed board width.
4237 2011-12-28 14:01:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4238 Fix format in temporary timing printf
4241 2011-12-28 13:38:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4242 Don't test drops as mate evasions in variant seirawan
4245 2011-12-28 13:36:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4246 Fix ICS castling rights
4248 Copying the castling rights together with CopyBoard seems to have
4249 broken handling of ICS rights, where ParseBoard12 prepares a board
4250 in a local variable, an copies it before parsing the rights.
4252 2011-12-28 13:35:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4253 Fix initial holdings ICS seirawan games
4256 2011-12-27 18:31:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4257 Fix sending of S-Chess gating moves to ICS
4259 Normal moves did not get the gating suffix sent.
4261 2011-12-27 17:56:07 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4262 Fix menu grayout after illegal move
4264 TheThinkingEnables were not reset to user state after the engine rejected
4265 the entered move as illegal.
4267 2011-12-27 13:26:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4268 Allow setting of holdings with edit command
4270 For the benefit of Fairy-Max' Seirawan Chess implementation, the edit command
4271 no also sends holdings contents (if the engine sent feature xedit=1), encoded
4272 as pieceType + '@' + holdingsCount (if the count is non-zero).
4274 2011-12-24 17:54:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4275 Fix out-of-bounds access in check test
4277 Thepath to make the check test work with drops had broken the test
4278 after null move (both have rf<0), which led to corruption of the high
4279 word of the black clock.
4281 2011-12-24 17:51:22 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4282 Fix legality of Spartan promotion to king
4284 In the check test promotion to King is only allowed if there are not
4287 2011-12-21 22:17:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4288 Fix switching back from mono-mode XB
4290 Suppressing unnecesary X-server calls in InitDrawingSizes had broken
4291 switching back from monoMode, because the animVars have to be recreated
4292 for that, and this was only done when the variant changed.
4294 2011-12-21 22:09:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4295 Fix showTargetSquares in mono-mode XB
4297 Make the marker dots black (captures) and white, and draw a circle
4298 in the opposite color around them in monoMode.
4300 2011-12-21 22:00:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4301 Fix arrow highlighting in mono-mode XB
4303 Draw a line around it in darkSquare color in monoMode.
4305 2011-12-21 17:48:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4306 Fix alignment of generic browse button XBoard
4308 The width ofthe browse button is now read back after creating it,
4309 and subtracted from the preceding text edit.
4311 2011-12-21 14:41:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4312 Add -afterTourney option
4314 Only the instance pinting the tourney result will execute this.
4316 2011-12-22 21:01:43 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
4317 Fix buffer possible overflow when writings tags
4319 PGNTagsStatic() could overflow its buffer and is removed. PGNTags() do the work instead of calling it.
4320 It starts by calculation the required buffer size and then allocate the buffer.
4321 PrintPGNTags() now prints directly to the file without having a buffer.
4323 2011-12-22 15:01:31 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
4324 One more string marked for translation
4326 And it is moved inside the if statement that uses it.
4328 2011-12-22 14:30:08 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
4329 Fix checking of return value from snprintf()
4331 snprintf() returns the needed space excluding the trailing 0 byte, so
4332 it has truncated if the returned valued is greater than or EQUAL TO the buffersize
4334 2011-12-19 16:49:31 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
4335 Fix unportable memory initialisation
4337 Memory sat to zero by calloc() cannot safely be assumed to have the pointer value NULL
4339 2011-12-19 13:16:58 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
4340 Add 2 strings for translation
4343 2011-12-19 11:25:11 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
4344 Remove the last 2 compile warnings in gamelist.h
4347 2011-12-19 11:17:48 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
4348 Add #include "moves.h" to gamelist.c for def. of CopyBoard()
4351 2011-12-19 11:11:34 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
4352 Definition of TimeMark moved from 3 c files to backend.h
4355 2011-12-19 01:21:46 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
4356 Transfer a pointer to the promoChar from PromotionPopUp() to PromotionCallback(). Fixes #34980
4359 2011-12-18 17:24:07 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
4360 Duh! Initialise the argument to sscanf() inside the loop, so it always gets a known value when sscanf() fails.
4363 2011-12-18 17:18:12 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
4364 Give numeric options the value 0 if a non-numeric text is entered (one more place). Before the value ended up undefined.
4367 2011-12-18 17:08:46 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
4368 Give numeric options the value 0 if a non-numeric text is entered. Before the value ended up undefined.
4371 2011-12-18 15:41:46 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
4372 Fix possible crash on 64-bit systems when copying game or position
4374 The two convertproc's for X selections caused reads out of bounds on 64-bit systems.
4375 I hope that this is the right solution. I am not experienced with X stuff, but it
4376 follows that I have seen in other programs, testing shows that copying still works,
4377 and the reading out of bounds have disappearinged with this patch.
4379 2011-12-18 13:26:20 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
4380 Fix a possible crash in the file browser
4382 If the OK button was selected in the file browser when no file was selected
4383 there was a read out of bounds which could crash xboard
4385 2011-12-17 22:54:34 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
4386 Fix a memory leak in Sound Options
4389 2011-12-16 02:57:20 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
4390 Fix crash when selecting user soundfile due to free() of not malloc()'ed memory
4393 2011-12-16 02:32:37 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
4394 Make GenericPopUp() more readable by using more named flags instead of numerals
4396 Defines the flags SAME_ROW (value 1) and NO_OK (value 2) for use with buttons and endmarks.
4397 There should no functional change.
4398 Also add a code comment where a condition depends on an uninitialised value. There is no direct harm, as both
4399 branches do the same (that is nothing) when the value is uninitialised.
4401 2011-12-15 02:51:36 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
4402 Add NO_GETTEXT flag for combobox. Fix bug #34991
4404 Define NO_GETTEXT flag to avoid calling gettext() for comboboxes, and define COMBO_CALLBACK
4405 flag to call comboCallback() when an item is selected in a combobox (no new code for this,
4406 just a symbolic value instead of a number). The flags are used for the min field of struct Option.
4407 NO_GETTEXT is used for the Select engine combobixes in the Match Options and Load engine windows.
4409 2011-12-13 19:48:37 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4410 only translate entries in CreateComboPopup if strlen>0; fixes #34991
4413 2011-12-12 19:06:26 -0800 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
4414 fix for repeating key issue, with this allissues this bug should be closed; fixes #35000
4417 2011-12-12 18:45:05 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4418 also don't translate selection in ComboSelect; fixes #34991
4421 2011-12-12 18:40:23 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4422 make entries in CreateComboPopup not translateable; fixes #34991
4425 2011-12-10 16:06:47 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4426 fix translation for engine list; fixes #34991
4428 * click on browse button should be recognized in translated versions
4429 * width of button should auto-scale
4431 2011-12-10 11:04:17 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4432 change keybindings that don't use ctrl, make MoveTypeInProc ctrl aware; fixes #35000
4434 two keybindings were using keys without modifiers, adjusted these to use the ctrl key.
4435 Furthermore when typing in moves we need to check if ctrl was pressed and ignore those inputs.
4437 Also added documentation for these keybindings.
4439 2011-12-10 10:51:18 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4440 replaced unicode character for "'" in xboard.texi
4443 2011-12-10 10:08:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4444 removed Iconify function. Should be handled by the window manager.
4447 2011-12-08 20:53:13 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4448 marked an error messages for translation
4451 2011-12-08 20:33:29 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4452 translation: updated uk.po
4455 2011-12-03 17:52:23 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4456 fixed size of XBoard icon to 48x48
4458 the icon gets installed in the 48x48 directory, but was >200 pixel wide. This gave a warning during rpm creation.
4460 2011-12-03 08:07:32 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4463 marked a lot of new strings for translation
4465 2011-12-03 08:06:42 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4466 added new files to po/POTFILES.in
4469 2011-12-02 22:13:36 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4470 marked more strings for translation
4473 2011-12-02 20:08:01 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4474 translation: added danish translation
4477 2011-12-01 18:45:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4478 Change encoding of seirawan ICS gating-castlings
4480 In stead of using upper/lower-case promoChar, the ICS now uses
4481 RxK notation, like WinBoard writes in SAN, for better consistency.
4483 2011-11-30 15:38:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4484 Put promo-suffix on ICS move in variant seirawan castlings
4486 The distinction upper-case / lowercase determines gating at R / K
4488 2011-11-28 11:56:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4489 Refrain from making unnecessary resize X request
4491 The window resizing code in InitDrawingSizes is suppressed when no
4492 change is needed. Similarly, changing piece bitmaps is suppressed when
4493 we stay in the same variant (and InitDrawingSizes is called e.g. because
4494 of chaging lineGap through the Board dialog).
4496 2011-11-27 22:27:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4497 Fix parsing of O-O castling in variant janus
4499 The new parser did not realize it meant e1i1 rather than wild e1h1.
4501 2011-11-26 22:28:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4502 Show 50-move counter also when observing ICS games
4504 To not cheat 50-move display was suppressed in ICS mode,
4505 but for observing a game this made no sense.
4507 2011-11-26 22:22:07 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4508 Ignore ICS game starts when already in game
4510 The advance switching of the variant on game-start messages was
4511 disruptive for users with gin=1, which also sends such messages
4512 for other games than your own. For now fixed by only reacting on
4513 them when idle (detected by invalid game number).
4515 2011-11-11 18:16:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4516 Fix WinBoard clock-click bug
4518 Clicking on the clock in WinBoard also called the LeftClick routine
4519 for handling clicks on the board. This led to the from-square being set
4520 to some inalid value, so that the next genuine board click was interpreted
4521 as a to-click, with undesired effects, especially with legality testing off
4522 or in EditPosition mode, where weird things are accepted.
4524 2011-11-06 17:20:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4525 Add feature-override options
4527 A few (dangerous) options are added to allow a user to override
4528 engine features, or change their defaults, by supplying a string
4529 with feature commands (e.g. "sigint=0") which tricks XBoard into
4530 thinking the engine sent that. There is a -featureDefaults which is
4531 processed before the engine features, and -first/secondFeatures
4532 which is parsed just before engine initialization.
4533 This goes horribly wrong when the user wouldtry silly things like
4534 including 'option' or 'done' features!
4536 2011-11-05 12:32:39 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4537 translation: updated uk.po
4540 2011-11-04 21:58:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4541 Fix handling of -secondOptions option
4543 The -firstOptions and -secondOptions settigs were not swapped when
4544 -singleEngieList was true, so the second engine's options would never
4545 be set in that case, but used for the first engine.
4547 2011-11-04 21:55:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4548 Accept setup command in variant fairy even with legality testing on
4550 Variant fairy does not really have a defined opening position, but lots
4551 of pieces defined, so we might want to play with legality checking on,
4552 but still rely on the engine for the opening position
4554 2011-11-04 21:52:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4555 Set pieceToCharTable by setup command even when ignoring FEN
4557 When the user starts from a set-up position, the egines default
4558 openingposition has to be ignored, but the pieceToCharTable would
4561 2011-11-04 21:48:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4562 Change default sweep-promotion choicein queenless variants
4564 The initial scanning of the sweep piece until a defined piece is found
4565 is now in the increasing direction (still starting at Queen), so that
4566 the fairy pieces are suggested before R, B and N.
4568 2011-11-03 16:38:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4569 Clear board markers when moving to other position
4571 Now the markers from -showTargetSquares would stay on after a first click
4572 for the benefit of a click-click move, they would also stay on when not
4573 finishing the move, but operating the < > buttons in stead to call up
4574 other positions. ForwardInner and BackwardInner now clear the markers,
4575 like they also cleared highlights.
4577 2011-11-01 18:30:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4578 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
4580 2011-10-25 15:32:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4583 2011-10-24 20:00:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4584 Don't adjust clock on right-click in EditGame mode WB
4586 This was a change that was already done for the left-clicks, but somehow
4587 never made it togit for the right-clicks
4589 2011-10-24 19:50:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4590 Change chase message in .lng files
4592 2011-10-24 19:31:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4593 Let perpetual-chase message mention square
4595 In stead of a boolean, PerpetualChase now returns the square the chased
4596 piece ends on (encoded as an int), and on adjudication it will be printed.
4598 2011-10-24 19:26:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4599 Add mechanism to translate variable messages in WinBoard
4601 A message prefixed with % in the lng file will be considered a match
4602 if it matches the start of the text to be printed, and the remaining
4603 part of the latter will remain untranslated. This was needed to allow
4604 translation of the perpetual change message, now it indicates the square
4605 of the chased piece.
4607 2011-10-24 19:20:13 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4608 Use other interpretation of Asia rules for chase detection
4610 The detection of perpetual chases now ignores pre-existing checks.
4612 2011-10-12 17:28:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4613 Fix crash on loading garbage game file
4615 The code to cache games was not resistant to moves before a valid
4616 game start, or a game filewithout any games at all.
4618 2011-10-08 20:43:52 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4619 Incorporate variant type in book hash key
4621 This prevents booksforone variant being used for another, and allows
4622 multi-variant books.
4624 2011-10-07 15:41:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4625 Update language.txt file
4628 2011-10-07 15:34:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4629 Update Dutch lng file
4632 2011-10-07 15:21:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4633 Fix Load Options dialog WB
4635 Defined fastkeys; reordered elements so that fastkeys focus edit they
4636 are intended for. Changed some of the more obscure texts. Corrected
4637 list of transatble dialog items, adding a few missing ones.
4639 2011-09-13 20:01:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4642 Prototypes were added, ormoved from backend.c to backend.h.
4644 2011-08-26 12:44:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4645 Put 'Load Next' button back in WB Game List
4647 The '>' button for loading the next (filtered) game is re-instated in the
4648 WinBoard GameList. The main window has now accelerator keys Ctrl+Up and
4649 Ctrl+Down for loading the previous and next filtered game.
4651 2011-08-26 12:31:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4652 Speed up position search and consider side to move
4654 The position search is made to pay attention to the side to move,
4655 which produces a speedup, because we only have to compare half the
4656 game positions when looking for an exact position match. An addition
4657 we now keep track of the total number of pieces, and abandon a game when
4658 it drops below the number of pieces in the position we seek.
4660 2011-08-21 23:16:15 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4661 Dynamically allocate move cache
4663 A small statically declared cache good for 250k moves (~3200 games)
4664 will be expanded in steps of a factor 8 when it overflows.
4666 2011-08-18 18:40:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4667 Translate search strings
4670 2011-08-17 22:55:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4671 Implement flipped search
4674 2011-08-16 15:29:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4675 Debug position search cache
4678 2011-08-15 18:44:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4682 2011-08-18 18:01:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4683 Translate search-mode strings
4686 2011-08-15 16:59:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4690 2011-10-23 16:04:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4691 Fix duplicate loading of second engine in tourneys
4693 To decide if new engines should be loaded, it was tested if first.pr
4694 equalled NoProc, assuming that ReserveGame would have left the engine
4695 loaded if the next game would need the same engines. But a reuse=0 engine
4696 could have caused termination of the first engine process anyway, while
4697 the second would still be alive. So unconditionally starting of the second
4698 engine would cause redundant engine processes to abound.
4699 Now we only start new engine processes if both engine processes are dead.
4701 2011-10-23 15:53:32 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4702 Fix PV walking with -fSAN
4704 The SAN options had broken the PV walking, because the shelving of the
4705 walked PV to create space for the conversion to SAN of an incoming PV
4706 would not be properly undone, but would add the walked PV to the game.
4708 2011-10-20 12:39:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4709 Refine clock adjusting
4711 Adjusting the clocks by shift-clicking them is now only allowed with
4712 autoCallFlag off, and an error-popup results when you do it otherwise.
4713 Also, swtching to Edit Game mode won't reset the clocks to the stored
4714 value anymore when you have just adjusted it.
4716 2011-10-12 17:43:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4717 Fix crash on adding items near book end
4719 When Edit Book would add so many entries near the end of an opening
4720 book that the end of the added info would surpass the old end of the
4721 file, the copying of the tail got stuck in an infinite loop, extending
4722 the file without limit with repeating info.
4724 2011-10-12 17:41:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4725 Print message on wrong use of Clone Tourney
4727 The user is urged to first provide the name of an existing tourney file
4728 when he presses the button without one. The button is also renamed.
4730 2011-10-12 17:38:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4731 Fix invalid combobox entry WB
4733 A combobox label that was not in the list (because the user typed
4734 it, rather than selecting one) would cause a crash.
4736 2011-10-12 17:23:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4737 Fix crash on loading garbage game file
4739 XBoard crashed when a game file contained a PGN game result before
4740 any valid game start, because data would be written in a game-list
4741 node that did not exist yet. This would occur frequently when garage
4742 was read; basically any asterisk in the data would do it.
4744 2011-10-11 23:31:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4745 Add control to set -discourageOwnBooks WB
4748 2011-10-11 20:53:52 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4749 only require 0.17 of gettext
4751 This seems to solve many build issues with older distrubtions and doesn't seem to be a problem with newer ones.
4753 2011-10-11 23:31:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4754 Add option -discourageOwnBooks
4756 This boolean option determines the default setting of the hasOwnBook
4757 option before a tourney game starts. By setting it, the hasOwnBook
4758 option is cleared, which would enable use of the GUI book, like the
4759 engine was installedwith the /firstXBook option. An explicit option
4760 on the engine install line can still overrule this, though.
4761 A control to set this option has been added in the XBoard Match dialog,
4762 and it is saved in the tourney file to force consistency.
4764 2011-10-11 22:58:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4765 Reset initString and computerString on engine load
4767 These options are typically engine specific, and must thus be
4768 reset to their default value before loading a new engine.
4770 2011-10-11 22:43:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4771 Add Romanian lng file
4774 2011-10-07 16:55:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4775 Reactivate Falcon Chess
4777 Now the patent for this has expired, Fairy-Max plays it again.
4778 So the XBoard support for it is now switched on, and an item for it is
4779 added to the XBoard New Variant menu dialog. (WinBoard still had that.)
4780 In the array the Lance was changed for the Falcon as a wild-card piece.
4782 2011-10-03 09:59:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4783 Update texi file for new features
4786 2011-10-03 10:30:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4787 Update texi file for position search
4789 The new items in the Load Game Options dialog are described, as well
4790 as the command-line options used to store them in the settings file.
4792 2011-10-03 09:28:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4793 Remove paragraph about .Xresources from texi file
4795 Command-line options can no longer be set through .Xresources already
4796 since version 4.5.0.
4798 2011-10-03 09:13:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4799 Add Dutch WinBoard translation
4802 2011-09-28 20:46:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4803 Prevent Edit Book window from stealing focus (WB)
4805 In WinBoard updating the book window would give it focus. Now the
4806 focus is given back to the main window, except when the Edit Book
4807 window is first created.
4809 2011-09-28 20:42:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4810 Make book-window update part of HistorySet
4813 2011-09-26 16:01:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4814 Fix position loading in tourneys
4816 In a tourney a position must be loaded when the engine is not yet
4817 started, and the old version of LoadPosition could not handle that:
4818 It would start up the engine, and send it commands unconditionally.
4820 2011-09-26 15:58:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4821 Fix resetting -fSAN on engine change
4823 There were two places for loading another engine, Load (from menu) and
4824 SetPlayer (in tourneys), and the previous patch for this missed the
4827 2011-09-26 15:51:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4828 Make too-long game non-fatal
4830 GameEnds is now called when the maximum number of moves is exceeded,
4831 rather than DisplayFatalError. Not sure if this properly terminates the
4832 game in all situations, but DisplayFatalError (after calling GameEnds)
4833 would also wait for the user to confirm the error popup before really
4834 exiting, so that in an unattended automatically running tourney there
4835 was not much fatal, and the entire tourney would in fact be finished.
4837 2011-09-26 15:46:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4840 Rather than opening and closing the book file on every probe, it is
4841 now only closed and opened when the name of it changed.
4843 2011-09-26 15:44:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4844 Suppress playing of book moves with weight 0
4846 Bookmoves with weight 0 could be played when the sum of the weights
4847 of all moves from the position was 0. So it was not possible to suppress
4848 the only move by giving it weight 0. This is now corrected.
4850 2011-10-01 15:00:47 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4851 added NEWS for release of 4.5.3
4854 2011-09-29 20:31:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4855 better contrast for XBoard icon on a dark background
4858 2011-10-01 13:09:59 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4859 translationproject.org: updated Ukrainian translation
4862 2011-09-29 20:49:42 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4863 updated pot file and send to translation project
4866 2011-09-22 12:09:39 +0100 Thomas Adam <thomas@fvwm.org>:
4867 (tiny change) Clarify "-name" option is Xt-only
4869 There's a set of standard options with will get used by Xt, before Xboard
4870 itself will use them. "-name" is an Xt-only option which will set the name
4871 and resource of the window to the value requested. It has nothing to do
4872 with setting opponent/player names.
4874 Signed-off-by: Thomas Adam <thomas@fvwm.org>
4876 modified slightly by Arun Persaud (renamed itemx to item and fixed option name for CMAIL)
4878 2011-09-22 17:17:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4879 Fix LoadGameOrPosition starting up engine
4881 When LoadGameOrPosition() is called from NextMatchGame(), the Reset() that
4882 is called in LoadPosition() when you are running from a position file
4883 would prematurely start up the engine (without waiting for features).
4884 The kludge to suppress this behavior for the explicit call to Reset()
4885 is now extended to encompass LoadGameOrPosition.
4887 2011-09-22 17:14:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4888 Clear fSAN option before new engine load
4890 This to prevent the new engine will inherit it from the previous one.
4891 As the command-line options an only set it, this has to be done by
4892 explicit assignment.
4894 2011-09-13 23:02:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4895 Fix some warnings (prototypes)
4898 2011-09-13 19:55:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4899 Fix write failures in concurrency
4901 In WinBoard a flood of writes by differentprocesses to the same PGN can
4902 cause a "permission denied" error in fopen. This patch causes retries after
4903 a random (5-15 msec) wait, in such cases.
4905 2011-09-13 19:52:19 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4906 Move HistorySet to back-end
4908 This existed in exact duplicates in both front-ends.
4910 2011-09-13 19:46:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4911 Make DoSleep front-end wrapper for msec sleep
4913 DoSleep was #defined as a macro for Sleep/ sleep, with an argument
4914 indicating msec in WinBoard, but seconds in XBoard. Nuw it universally
4915 uses msec, by defining it as a wrapperin the respective front-ends.
4916 (For XBoard itwraps FrameDelay.)
4918 2011-09-10 22:35:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4919 Fix playing sounds when -soundProgram is empty
4921 It made no sense to just send the names of the sound files to the shell.
4922 So the soundProgram isnow tested for being an empty string, and if so,
4923 PlaySound() is aborted.
4925 2011-09-10 14:01:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4926 Add -afterGame option
4928 This option specifies a command line to be executed after each game of
4929 a tournament. To execute the line, the function RunCommand() was added
4930 in the front-end. For XBoard this was a simple call to system(); for
4931 WinBoard part of the StartChildProcess code was cloned (without the pipe
4934 2011-09-10 13:52:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4935 Upgrade -serverMoves option
4937 The (undocumented) -serverMoves option was upgraded to conform to the
4938 ChessLive! protocol extension for sending SAN tags. A bug that allowed
4939 upper-case promoChar to leak through was also fixed, and code was added
4940 to write engine PVs to file. Flushing of the game result to the -serverMoves
4941 file was also fixed.
4943 2011-09-10 13:50:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4946 The joining of two comments was not performed correctly if the second
4947 one had the braces yet to be added: the closing brace was not added in
4950 2011-08-30 19:39:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4951 Auto-popup ICS Input Box
4953 Typing to the board made the move type-in pop up, but in ICS mode
4954 this is of course undesirable. Like in WinBoard, the ICS Input Box
4955 should pop up in stead, and accept the typed character. This is now
4956 realized. If the box already exists and has text in it, the typed
4957 character is appended to that text, and the box is given focus.
4958 Spaces now also are considered as printable.
4960 2011-08-30 18:27:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4961 Slightly decrease sensitivity of sweep actions
4963 The sweep-selection of promotion and drop pieces, or step through the PV
4964 was so sensitive that it was difficult to reliably make the intended choice.
4965 It has now been reduced by a factor 1.5-2, and the sweep selection and
4966 PV walk now also use a different value.
4968 2011-08-27 21:16:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4969 Extra buttons in WB Tournament dialog
4971 A button to copy contents of the tournament fileto the dialog is added.
4972 Buttons to invoke the Common Engine and Time Control dialogs are also added.
4974 2011-08-27 21:15:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4975 Fix crash on typing non-existent enginein Load Engine dialog
4978 2011-08-24 10:30:46 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4979 Fix display state after failed analysis attempt
4981 When an engine responded to the "analyze" command with an "unknown command"
4982 message, a Reset was done without altering the display, causing a
4983 discrepancy between display and internal state, which caused confusion
4984 when it finally corrected itself. I replaced the Reset call by an
4985 EditGameEvent call, to preserve the loaded game. The Reset was presumably
4986 used to allow for the case where the engine would be so upset by the
4987 analyze command that it needed to be reset by a "new" command, but this
4988 seems overly paranoic for an engine that just recognized the command
4991 2011-08-24 09:58:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4992 Fix treatment of PGN score/depth info with linefeeds in them
4994 This is needed to make the PGN more Arena-proof.
4996 2011-08-24 09:51:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4997 Fix quoting in Load Engine dialog
4999 A (space-contaning) engine name only needs quoting when there are parameters,
5000 because the over-all engine command will be quoted anyway. For UCI engines
5001 duplicate quoting is fatal, because when passed as the -ec argument of
5002 Polyglot, it will be quoted yet another time, also with double quotes.
5004 2011-08-23 21:24:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5005 Replace Analyze File by Analyz Game function
5008 2011-08-22 22:16:58 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5009 new developer release
5012 2011-08-22 22:26:56 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5016 2011-08-22 22:24:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5017 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
5020 2011-08-22 22:09:19 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5021 malloc.h is not needed
5024 2011-08-20 22:21:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5025 Fix ICS move-list header mistaken for null moves
5028 2011-08-18 18:53:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5029 Allow two-games-per-opening to work with book
5031 A new option -seedBase is added, and written to the tourney file.
5032 It allows all XBoard instances working on a tourney to generate the same
5033 'random' openings in a deterministic way, based on this one-time seed
5034 and the game number. When -loadGameIndex equals -2, it uses the same seed
5035 for an odd and the following even game.
5037 2011-08-18 18:51:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5040 In some places rand() was called explicitly, rather than through the
5041 (configured) place-holder random().
5043 2011-08-18 17:34:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5044 Translate search texts
5047 2011-08-18 10:29:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5048 Add -useBoardTexture and -usePieceFont options
5050 These options suppress the use of the given texture files or piece fonts
5051 without relying on the kludge to disable them by prefixing an asterisk
5052 to the file or font name. Checkboxes have been added to the Board dialog
5053 to control them. The user can now set piece font in WB font dialog.
5054 The sample text can be used to specify the -fontPieceToCharTable,
5055 the font name itself the -renderPiecesWithFont value.
5057 2011-08-16 23:10:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5058 Fix crash on start without settings file
5060 A primordial -1 in currCurrent caused a crash when WinBoard was started
5061 without ini filein game-viewer mode.
5063 2011-08-12 12:08:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5064 Fix generic-popup failure after empty engine-settings dialog
5066 The error exit ofthe Engine #N Settings dialog in case of an engine without
5067 options forgot to clear currentCps, with as a result that the generic popup
5068 thought every subsequent popup was an empty one, and kept repeating the
5069 'engine has no options' error message for every dialog.
5071 2011-08-10 11:27:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5072 Allow substitution of engines during tournament
5074 Two buttons are added in the tournament options dialog, for upgrading
5075 and for replacing a tourney participant. Lots of tests on the validity
5076 of the request are done, and if all are passed, the tourney file is
5077 written with the new participants (and in case of replace) with the
5078 results of the replaced engines erased from the -results string.
5080 2011-08-08 11:00:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5081 Fix up/down arrows in game list
5084 2011-08-08 10:31:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5085 Add key bindings for loading next/previous game of list
5087 These bindings are set both for the game list and the board window.
5088 To make them useful, focus has to be transferred to the board widget
5089 after loading (it tends to transfer to the tags window), which now
5090 seems to work, but not always. From the game list the shellWidget
5091 seems to get focus rather than the board, which is bad as it is not
5092 sensitive to the key bindings.
5094 2011-08-08 09:58:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5095 Allow deletion of last book move
5097 The book-edit function refused to delete the entiremove list,
5098 for no good reason. This limitation now has been lifted.
5099 Also the error message that the key for the current book entries
5100 is different from that of the currentposition has been suppressed
5101 if there were no entries found for the current position (so that the
5102 book is positioned at the next key), so that it is possible to add
5105 2011-08-08 00:19:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5108 Line numbers > 1, which are common, can exit already during move parsing,
5109 to save lots of matching on resultsand castlings.
5111 2011-08-07 15:13:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5112 Fix missing files in file browser
5114 The file browser was throwing away the first two files, assuming
5115 they were "." and "..". Alas, this is no longer true on every Linux.
5116 Now we actuallyc compare for these names, before skipping them.
5118 2011-08-06 11:57:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5119 Delay file loading to allow expose event first
5122 2011-08-06 09:29:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5126 2011-08-05 22:39:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5127 Better fix of crash on empty game list
5129 An empty list is now replaced by a list containig a simple message.
5131 2011-08-05 20:31:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5132 Add plain arrows as key binding for stepping forward/backward
5135 2011-08-05 20:30:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5136 Debug position selection
5139 2011-08-04 13:22:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5140 Print progress during load / selection of game
5142 The title bar of themain window is used to display a running count
5143 of the number of games loaded / searched.
5145 2011-08-04 12:44:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5146 Parse PGN tags without allocating memory
5148 In WinBoard malloc/free did not seem to work when preparing the game list,
5149 leading to a huge memory list when ParsePGNTag was used. The added code
5150 parses the required tags in an alternative way as a work-around.
5152 2011-08-02 22:58:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5153 Implement searching games in Game List for a position
5155 For this it was needed to reconstruct all positions of the games
5156 without loading them, so they could be compared to the currently
5157 displayed position. A new routine GameContainsPosition is made for that.
5158 In Disambiguate, when the global quickFlag is set, we now do the
5159 disambiguation ignoring check,and only if this leads to an ambiguous
5160 move, we repeat it taking check into account to see if that resolves
5161 the ambiguity. This causes us to miss if unambiguous moves are illegal
5162 because they put their King in check, but who cares?
5163 We now do not make game-list line when not needed. If we do not filter
5164 by text, but by position, there is no need for preparing the game-list
5165 line for games that are not selected. All for efficiency.
5167 2011-07-28 20:47:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5168 Allow entry of variations in PlayFromGameFile mode
5170 Adding variations is more like editing a comment,and not really editing
5171 the game. Therefore we allow it on loaded games. As soon as we are in a
5172 variation, we temporarily switch to a (hidden) EditGame mode, restoring
5173 the original mode when we revert to the main line.
5174 We now also stay in PlayFromGameFile mode after loading a game,
5175 And opening variation (fromtheComment window) in PlayFromGameFile mode
5178 2011-07-27 18:47:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5179 Force Move History refresh after loading/reverting variation
5181 The Move History window was not refreshed after switching to or from
5182 a variation if that variation happened to have the same length as
5183 the main line. Now a change in storedGames since the previous refresh will
5184 force a full refresh to avoid this. For this to work, storedGames
5185 did have to be decremented after ToNrEvent in PopInner, because ToNrEvent
5186 calls HistorySet before the history is restored, so we don't want
5187 it to snatch away the full refresh. A call to HistorySet had to be
5188 added after PopInner is done restoring the move history.
5190 2011-07-27 17:45:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5191 Popdown Comment window on new game
5193 What is in this window cannot possibly remain valid, and can even be harmful.
5195 2011-01-19 11:46:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5196 Allow null move in analysis and edit-game mode
5198 In some games it is allowed to pass your turn. The internal
5199 representation picked for such a null move is the drop of an empty
5200 square, (EmptySquare,DROP_RANK,0,0). Computer-algebraic form is "@@@@",
5201 SAN form is "--", (for compatibility with ChessBase / SCID), and the
5202 non-compliant forms "null", "pass"and "Z0" are recognized in
5203 the parser as well. ApplyMove() has to test for this special case
5204 (to not actually clear a1), and a way to enter the pass for the user had
5205 to be found (clicking the opponent clock, like in EditPosition mode).
5206 The null move is made move irreversible to prevent repetition draws
5207 spanning null moves being adjudicated.
5208 Such entry of null move is now allowed in AnalyzeMode and EditGame mode.
5209 Because Chess engines will not accept null moves, SendMoveToProgram had
5210 to be adapted to send not the move, but the position after it in
5211 case of a null move. This erases the move history in the engine,
5212 so it will not react to 'undo' for that null move, so BackwardInner
5213 had to be adapted to test for intervening null moves, and if one is
5214 found, approach the target from the other side after loading the
5215 earliest position before it not crossing another null move, and
5216 then loading the moves upto the target.
5217 XBoard clock clicks had to be fixed, to pay attention to the shift key.
5219 2011-07-25 21:58:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5220 Give WinBoard Game List its own font
5222 The font fort he Game List used to be shared with the Engine Output and
5223 Move History windows, but this made it impossible to use a figurine font
5224 in the latter two (which displays piece symbols for capitals) without
5225 messing up the Game List. An option -gameListFont has been added to specify
5226 the font for the Game List(and save it in the settings file), while a
5227 control for it is added in the fonts dialog.
5229 2011-07-21 19:02:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5230 Fix crash on OK after Save Changes in Tags and Comment popup.
5232 The global variables tagsText and commentText were used to pass
5233 a string obtained from a widget (and thus not malloc'ed), which
5234 caused a crash when the GenericReadout tried to use those variables
5235 for the new value. Fixed by using GenericReadout (which does malloc)
5236 to read out the text,in stead of GetWidgetText.
5238 2011-07-16 09:31:12 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5239 Revert "fixed segfault in xengineoutput", fixed in the backend now (from HGM)
5241 This reverts commit 33a0e73843115ff6d4eacaf963a38f2e8b20b295.
5243 2011-07-16 14:53:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5244 Suppress some XBoard warnings
5247 2011-07-15 11:21:29 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5248 fixed segfault in xengineoutput
5251 2011-07-11 20:04:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5252 Disable -showTargetSquares in ICS mode
5254 Help like this is considered cheating on FICS, so it is disabled for
5255 all 'classical' ICS variants. (For variants eyont Shogi we don't care.)
5257 2011-07-10 21:20:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5258 Put grab on sweep-selecting in Edit Position
5260 A right down-click starting a sweep-selection event did not grab the
5261 mouse events, so that an up-click outside the window would go
5262 unnoticed, and the pointer motion stayed coupled to selecting the
5263 piece until the next click. By returning 2 from the RightClick back-end
5264 routine we request the grab.
5266 2011-07-09 13:50:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5267 Write more labels on score axis of eval graph
5269 The labels for +/-1 and +/-3 are now also written, provided there is
5272 2011-07-09 13:28:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5273 Improve Eval Graph with -evalZoom and -evalThreshold
5275 The score range between -1 and +1 can now be blown up by a factor
5276 specified through -evalZoom. The threshold below which histogram bars
5277 are no longer printed (wich used to e hard-coded 25 centi-Pawn) can now
5278 be set through the -evalThreshold option.
5280 2011-07-09 13:18:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5281 Print reversible plies done in stead of plies to go
5283 Printing the number of plies left to the draw-adjudication point was
5284 confusing when the N-move rule was set to a non-standard value.
5285 In stead we now print the number of plies since the last irreversible
5286 move, so the user can compare it to both the engine claim point (100)
5287 and the adjudication point he set (which might be beyond 100).
5289 2011-07-09 13:13:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5290 Let WB eval graph react ot single left-click
5292 Unlike in XBoard, the WinBoard eval graph awatys had required double-
5293 clicking to go the the corresponding move, while there really is no
5294 reason for this, as it is no text edit, and single-clicks have no function
5297 2011-07-07 19:37:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5298 Add -scoreWhite option
5300 This is similar to -absoluteAnalysisScores, except that it works in
5301 all modes, and flips the score given by the engines in the engine-output
5302 window when black is to move.
5304 2011-07-07 19:28:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5305 Print 50-move counter in Engine-Output title
5308 2011-07-07 18:50:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5309 Display score/depth in Eval Graph title
5311 No longer print it in the comment window.
5313 2011-07-04 11:06:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5314 Let -sweepPromotions also work for click-click moves
5316 A click-click promotion no longer causes auto-queening, but the down-click
5317 on the to-square causes a Queen to stick to the mouse pointer, and then
5318 allows the user to change it through dragging backwards before releasing it
5320 In WinBoard this required a slight change in DragPieceBegin, because
5321 the dragged piece there only was made visible when the mouse pointer
5322 actually started moving (and dragInfo.pos was set), presumably under the
5323 assumption that before mouse move the piece was already on the clicked
5324 square. Which in the case of a to-square was of course not true. (Because
5325 a piece jumps to the mouse pointer when the click is not centered on a
5326 square, this gives less jittery static clicks.) So DragPieceBegin has
5327 been given an extra argument now, to indicate whether it should attach
5328 the piece to the mouse pointer immediately.
5329 To make the click-click sweepPromotions work in Shogi (for which the
5330 drag-drop sweepPromotions could never work, because it is not clear the
5331 piece has a posibility to promote when you pick it up), translation of
5332 the sweep-selected piece to a Shogi promoChar had to e added.
5334 2011-07-04 10:45:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5335 Improve -showTargetSquares on click-click moves
5337 The markers on move targets are now kept when a first click merely
5338 selects a piece, rather than dragging it elsewhere. The second click
5339 (by definition on the to-square) then clears the markers.
5341 2011-07-04 11:23:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5342 Let PGN parser accept lower-case piece in drop moves
5344 The @ sign prevents amiguity with other notations anyway.
5346 2011-07-04 12:42:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5347 Fix parser.c line endings
5350 2011-06-29 20:29:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5351 Fix writing searchTime in tourneyFile
5353 This had to be derived from the variable searchTime, which gives it
5354 in seconds, as appData.searchTime (a string in minutes) is not reliable,
5355 as it contains the command-line value, which might have been altered
5356 through the time-control dialog.
5358 2011-06-29 20:25:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5359 Fix resetting searchTime if other TC mode is chosen (XB)
5361 This fixes a bug in the new time-control dialog.
5363 2011-06-29 14:32:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5364 Fix coords display on large boards
5366 The file indicators can now run upto 'w'. Only the lowest digit
5367 of the rank number is printed, from a table that is valid to 22.
5369 2011-06-29 13:53:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5370 Fix crash on making too-long FEN
5372 The buffer for in PositionToFEN was only 128 bytes, which was not enough
5373 for large boards such as 19x19 Go. It is enlarged to MSG_SIZ(512) now.
5374 There also is some approximate overflow checking added (but it is not
5375 fool proof in case there are holdings...)
5377 2011-06-29 13:36:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5378 Fix drop moves on boards with more than 10 ranks
5380 The internal encoding for rank 16 is '@', and thus ambiguous with drop
5381 moves. They were always printed as 16, breaking drop games on large
5382 boards. The ambiguity is now solved (for boards with more than 16 ranks)
5383 by checking if the preceeding letter is upper case, in which case it
5384 cannot be a fileindicator, but must be a piece, and thus a drop.
5386 2011-06-29 13:29:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5387 Don't one-click move when legality testing is off
5390 2011-06-23 21:18:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5391 Reorder controls in Engine Setings dialog WB
5393 To get tabbing through the controls in left-to-right order, they are
5394 now added to the template structure in that order. Also add a tabstop
5395 to Label options, so that JAWS will read those.
5397 2011-06-23 14:02:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5398 Add tab stops in WB generic popup
5400 The WinBoard generic popup did not put tab stops on push buttons,
5401 including the OK and cancel button, with as a consequence that these were
5402 skipped when tabbing through the dialog controls. In addition the tabbing
5403 could not begin before the user selected one of the controls with the mouse.
5404 Now all buttons have tab stops, and the cancel button is given focus
5405 when the dialog pops up.
5407 2011-03-10 20:06:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5408 Implement Grand Chess
5410 Grand Chess requires a lot of exceptional handling similar to Superchess
5411 and Great Shatran, because it also allows only promotion to a captured
5412 piece. In addition it shares the enlarged promotion zone with Makruk and
5413 Shogi, as well as the fact that promotion can be deferred. The 10-rank
5414 board furthermore required a better generalization of double-pushes and
5415 e.p. captures. On such a board double puhes are now allowed from 2nd and
5416 3rd rank, e.p. capture from 5th and 4th.
5418 2011-01-28 19:20:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5419 Allow promotion to Pawn with legality testing off
5421 In stead of ImpossibleMove promotionto Pawn now merely is an
5422 IllegalMove, so it can be played with legality testing off.
5424 2011-01-24 15:06:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5425 Create some space in WB New Variant dialog
5428 2011-06-20 23:53:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5429 Allow double-digit rank numbers
5431 The parser already understood double-digit numbers on input, and
5432 CoordsToAlgebraic produced them on otput. This patch also fixes sending
5433 of the moves to the computer, for which the moveList was used. The latter
5434 stored 10 as ':', etc,to always get a 4-char move, the characters of which
5435 were frequently being converted to fromY or toY by adding/subtracting ONE.
5436 To not break that the one-character encoding of rank number is kept in
5437 moveList, but in SendMoveToProgram, characters > '9' are converted to
5440 2011-06-23 11:26:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5441 Add Absolute Analysis Scores in Genral Options dialog XB
5444 2011-06-23 11:16:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5445 Fix texi file, and update it further
5448 2011-06-20 12:15:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5452 2011-06-22 17:51:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5456 2011-06-22 11:02:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5457 Restore echo after ^C in ICS password
5460 2011-06-22 10:45:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5464 2011-06-19 20:30:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5465 Increase efficiency of SAN generation / disambiguation
5467 **************** Risky patch! **********************
5468 The algorithm used for disambiguating and generating SAN was extremely
5469 inefficient, because it generated all pseudo-legal moves from the relevant
5470 position, and then for each of those did a check test (involving generation
5471 of all moves of the opponent), before determining if the move matched the
5472 (proposed or given) SAN move. While it is pointless to generate moves
5473 with a piece that does not match (let alone checking them for legality).
5474 And for a piece that matches, it is pointless to test legality of moves
5475 that do not match the to-square.
5476 To speed up the process GenLegal and GenPseudoLegal have been equiped
5477 with an argument that can indicate the piece type of the required move,
5478 so they can skip generating moves with other pieces. TestLegality,
5479 Disambiguate and CoordsToAlgebraic make use of this facility, and set also
5480 (through global variables rFilter and fFilter) a to-square filter to be
5481 applied in the GenLegalCallback before it tests the move for legality.
5482 This patch is especially tricky for Crazyhouse, where the piece indicated
5483 in the move might not be the piece actually on the board, because the latter
5484 is a promoted Pawn, and has to be demoted toits base type before the
5487 2011-06-19 16:18:15 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5488 Fix compile errors WinBoard
5490 The patch to make non-existing options non-fatal broke WinBoard. All calls
5491 to ExitArgError from it now supply a third argument TRUE to fix it.
5493 2011-06-19 14:28:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5494 Add -fSAN / -sSAN options
5496 These options force the PV of the applicable engine to be converted to SAN.
5497 They make use of the existing ParsePV routine, after shelfing a possible
5498 PV (from user PV walking) to free the space after the last move.
5499 Could be costly in terms of CPU usage.
5501 2011-06-19 10:56:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5502 Cure flicker in Move History window, fix highlighting
5504 The highlighting of the current move in the Move List window by selecting
5505 it did not always work, because some other windows were clearing their text
5506 widgets by selecting the contents and killing it, thus snatching the
5507 selection away. This has been changed to setting XtNstring to an empty
5508 string as a method for clearing without side effects on the selection.
5509 As a bonus the Engine Output window now also no longer has the black flicker
5511 In addition, triggering a scroll by setting the insertion point to the
5512 end of the text caused excessive flicker in the Move List window, apparently
5513 clearing it and redrawing from scratch, (even if there was no scroll motion),
5514 to the point where on my slow laptop the move history stayed entirely blank
5515 during a rapid succession of moves. This has been combatted by using the
5516 end-of-line action procedure (which does not seem to suffer from this) to put
5517 the insertion point at the end, when we need to scroll to close to the end.
5519 2011-06-18 23:48:13 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5520 Fix crash on clearing new Move List window
5522 When a new game started and a previous game had filled the Move List
5523 window, a crash occurred because an attempt was made to undo the
5524 highlighting of a no-longer-existing move, and then scrolling to it.
5526 2011-06-18 20:46:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5527 Use sound for ICS tells also with engine telluser popups
5529 The telluser and tellusererror commands now can be assigned a sound.
5531 2011-06-18 20:45:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5532 Add Score in Move List option to general options dialog XB
5534 Now that we have a WinBoard-style Move History window, this option is
5535 no longer a no-op in XBoard.
5537 2011-06-18 12:42:41 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5538 new developer release
5541 2011-06-18 12:38:32 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5542 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
5545 2011-06-18 12:51:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5546 Update window itle after last game of match
5548 The result printed behind player names during a match would still be the one
5549 without the game, differing from what the popup would show, which looked
5550 sloppy enough for people to complain about it.
5553 2011-06-18 10:26:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5554 Make WB generic popup translatable
5556 When used for internal settings (as in the Load Engine and Tournament
5557 Options dialogs), the option names are now subectto translation.
5559 2011-06-17 21:05:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5560 Redo Move History with generic popup in WinBoard style
5562 The use of color and boldness to make the move list more readable
5563 unfortunately cannot work in Xaw; reverse video by selection is used as an alternative to highlight the current move.
5565 2011-06-17 21:19:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5568 Due to an erroneous else, the window parameters of Move History were
5569 not retreived (and thus incorrectly saved) when the Engine Output was up.
5571 2011-06-14 18:47:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5572 Make non-existing opton in settings file non-fatal
5574 It is rather difficult to recover from a situaton where the settings
5575 file contains an unknown option (e.g. because you downgraded to a
5576 previous version that had fewer options), especially in WinBoard, where
5577 the user settings file is in a hidden folder, and people might not be
5578 able to find it, let alone edit it. By just skipping the line with the
5579 offending option, rather than generating a fatal error, when reading
5580 from a settings file, such options will be automatically purged from the
5581 file as soon as you save settings.
5582 Small problem is that the user cannot be warned, as the initialization
5583 has not progressed far enough at this point to generate error popups. In
5584 XBoard we can at least print to the console, but in WinBoard there is no
5585 warning at all. But the worst thing that can happen is that new options
5586 in a settings file of a more advanced version will revert to their
5589 2011-06-14 18:20:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5590 Change long form of -tf option to -tourneyFile
5592 This is a more logical name, and in the WinBoard docs it was already
5593 described as such. Also remove the -processes option, which in the
5594 current design of the tourney manager is no longer used.
5596 2011-06-14 18:17:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5597 Fix default of -remoteUser
5599 This has to be an empty string, rather than NULL, to prevent XBoard from
5600 segfaulting when the -gateway option is used.
5602 2011-06-14 13:32:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5603 Add -at and -opt options as alternative for @
5605 Windows XP and Vista shortcuts do not display command lines with @ in
5606 them correctly, and these optionsprovide a work-around for that.
5608 2011-06-14 12:46:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5609 Fix empty-string option values in XBoard
5612 2011-06-14 12:40:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5613 Fix crash on switching sound in Vista
5615 When choosing a new sound the wave form of the old one was free'ed, but
5616 because built-in sounds are not really malloc'ed, this led to a crash.
5618 2011-06-14 12:36:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5619 Update WB docs for tourney manager
5622 2011-06-14 12:35:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5623 Add icon to WB for tournament files
5626 2011-06-10 16:52:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5627 Redo Time Control dialog with generic popup
5629 As poor-man's disabling of the unneeded input fields, we print the word
5632 2011-06-10 14:14:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5633 Some refactoring in xoptions.c to separate out front-end
5636 2011-06-10 12:38:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5637 Redo New Shuffle Game dialog with generic popup
5639 The buttons are slightly renamed, and in stead of having an 'off'
5640 button to clear it, shuffleOpenings now has its own checkbox, which is
5641 ticked when a fixed or dynamic random is chosen with the buttons.
5643 2011-06-10 11:58:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5644 Fix type of shuffleOpenings
5646 This was a Boolean option, and thus accessed by the args.h code as such,
5647 while it was declared as an int (and used in backend.c as such). This
5648 could have led to problems with different endianness.
5650 2011-06-09 23:57:43 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
5651 Internationalize the file browser.
5653 The file browser was missed in the previous round of
5654 internationalization and had gotten broken by setting international =
5655 True in its widgets. I got nothing but segfaults trying to set
5656 international to False in the file browser widget subtree when it was
5657 True in the main window, so I gave up and did the
5658 internationalization. It turned out to be pretty easy.
5660 As a tiny bonus fix, I removed some ../'s from includes, and you can
5661 now configure and build xboard in a subdirectory again. This was
5662 useful for building both --enable-nls and --disable-nls from the same
5663 sources to compare functionality and make sure both still work.
5665 2011-06-08 20:26:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5666 Fix crash at end of Swiss tourney
5669 2011-06-08 17:33:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5670 Fix display of logos
5672 The logo files are now sought relative to the WinBoard install
5673 directory. Non-existing logos cause clearing of the logo, rather than
5674 letting the logo of the prevous engine hang. Logo change is requested
5675 explicitly from the back-end (when an engine is initialized for a new
5676 game), rather than using the kludge in StartChileProcess. This required
5677 a dummy UpdateLogos routine in the XBoard front-end.
5679 2011-06-08 18:02:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5680 Fix parameter handling in adapter command
5682 A backslash was not considered the end of an option name, which was
5683 fatal for UCCI2WB, which needs %fd\\%fcp in its command line.
5685 2011-06-08 17:16:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5686 Clear Engine-Output pane when initializing engine
5688 This to prevent output from the previous game hanging there during the
5689 next game, when the engine that is really playing is in book and
5690 doesn't produce thinking output there.
5692 2011-06-08 17:20:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5693 Fix display of last move of last match game
5695 When a game was adjudicated (e.g. because XBoard detected mate) GameEnds
5696 would trigger an exit if it was the last game of the match, and thus
5697 never returned, while the ShowMove was called only after return from
5698 Adjudicate. An extra ToNrEvent is now used in GameEnd in this case to
5699 cause ShowMove to be called before exiting. (Ugly kludge...)
5701 2011-06-08 17:38:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5702 Fix concurrency in Swiss tourneys
5704 The pairing engine was consulted for the next round before all games of
5705 the previous round were finished, if other XBoard instances were still
5706 playing games. This caused the instances finishing early to stall
5707 indefinitely. This is fixed by moving the Swiss pairing code to after
5708 the syncInterval code. The normal pairing code (the call to Pairing)
5709 must stay before it, because it determines the syncInterval. So ther is
5710 a bit of tourneyType dependence cluttering up the code here. :-(
5712 2011-06-08 17:27:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5713 Give error popup when pairing engine fails
5715 An invalid pairing now produces an error popup to inform the user, so he
5716 knows why the tourney stagnates.
5718 2011-06-08 17:24:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5719 Fix clock mode in tourney starting from -ncp mode
5721 When a tourney started from -ncp mode, which was allowed in MatchEvent,
5722 because the tourney loads its own engines anyway, the menu enablings and
5723 clockmode where not restored to their 'GNUMode' state.
5725 2011-06-08 17:11:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5726 Fix round-robin schedule
5728 The first round was played twice, and the formulas used to derive the
5729 pairing were not even-odd resistant anyway. Both even and odd number of
5730 participants should work now.
5732 2011-06-08 17:08:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5733 Fix interrupting tournament
5735 Stopping a tourney by using the Machine Match menu item did not wor
5738 2011-06-08 16:57:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5739 Improve quoting of engine name on install
5741 Rather than always using double quotes for the engine command, the
5742 engine filename is now double-quoted if it contains spaces (and no
5743 double-quotes), and the comand is single-quoted if it contains
5744 double-quotes (and double-quoted otherwise).
5746 2011-06-08 16:49:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5747 Print sensible window title during tourneys
5749 Rather than the "(W-L-D)" in the title we now print game number and
5750 total games, plus indication of the tourney type (rr, gt or sw).
5752 2011-06-08 16:44:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5753 Let XBoard propose name of tourney file
5755 Add an option -defaultTourneyName to configure the name that will be
5756 proposed in the Tournament Options dialog's tournament-file field. The
5757 option can contain %y, %M, %d, %h, %m, %s for year, month, day, hour,
5758 mintes, seconds of the curret time in %02d format, or %Y for the year in
5759 %04d format. Any tournament -file name is ignored when no participants
5760 are given. Participants without a tourney file remains an error.
5762 2011-06-08 16:30:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5763 Improve Tournament dialog layout WB
5766 2011-06-08 17:05:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5767 Fix -matchGames option
5769 The new MatchEvent code had broken the -mg option, and used always
5770 -defaultMatchGames in stead.
5772 2011-05-30 19:55:13 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
5773 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.
5775 - Several files were in utf8 but needed to be marked as such (that is,
5776 "CHARSET" changed to "UTF-8"). Affected es.po, it.po, ru.po, vi.po,
5779 - it.po was missing a \n at the end of one translation.
5781 - ru.po had unescaped double-quote marks in one translation.
5783 - vi.po needed to be normalized to Unicode normalization form C. With
5784 this fix, more characters display correctly, though at least one is
5785 still missing in the X core fonts that xboard is able to use.
5786 See http://vietunicode.sourceforge.net/ for more about Vietnamese.
5788 - zh_HK.po was written in big5 and then utf8-encoded on top of that,
5789 making it unusable. I stripped off the spurious utf8 encoding and
5790 then used recode to convert the file to Unicode properly encoded as
5793 Unfortunately, I wasn't able to test any of the Chinese translations,
5794 as I haven't been able to get XCreateFontSet to work in Chinese
5795 locales with any of the fonts I have installed, even after adding the
5796 Ubuntu language support packages for both simplified and traditional
5797 Chinese. I did spot check a bunch of the translations using Google
5800 I've checked in a couple of tiny Perl scripts that I used to do part
5801 of the fixups on vi.po and zh_HK.po in case we need them again.
5803 2011-05-30 14:12:53 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
5804 The empty string can't be translated and it causes the gettext utilities to complain, so change _("") to "".
5807 2011-05-30 13:21:06 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
5808 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.
5811 2011-05-29 20:14:37 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
5812 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.
5814 In the process I had to rewrite the code to insert the pixel size into
5815 a font name (replacing a "*" in that field). The new code is much
5818 2011-05-28 23:55:42 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5819 translation: activated Ukrainian translation
5822 2011-05-28 23:41:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5823 translation: added new Ukrainian PO file from the TP
5826 2011-05-28 21:07:08 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
5827 Fix display of international characters outside the ASCII range.
5829 1) Set Xaw resources required for internationalization --
5830 *international and *fontSet.
5832 2) Untangle the new XFontSet-aware code from the old FindFont code.
5833 It doesn't make any sense to apply the old (and obsolete) size
5834 searching code from FindFont to a font set, which contains fonts
5835 that are all the requested size.
5837 3) With these changes, the -font option doesn't work at all when given
5838 on the command line. The -font option actually is parsed by the Xt
5839 library, used to set the *font resource, and removed from argv
5840 before xboard can see it, so the option didn't really work properly
5841 with the new WinBoard-style option framework anyway. Now that
5842 -font is even more broken, I changed the documented name of the
5843 option to -messageFont and changed args.h so the option is saved in
5844 ~/.xboard as -messageFont.
5846 2011-05-28 21:05:00 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
5847 Move "hide thinking" option into alphabetical order.
5850 2011-05-28 21:01:25 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
5851 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.
5854 2011-05-23 19:05:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5855 Fix layout tournament Load Engine dialog WB
5858 2011-05-23 19:03:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5862 2011-05-23 19:00:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5863 Add Swiss tourneys through pairing engine
5865 An external program can be designated pairing engine through the new
5866 persistent option -pairingEngine. Defining the option will allow
5867 tourneytype -1 to be chosen for Swiss. In this case the pairing engine
5868 will be queried for a pairing before every new match game, by sending it
5869 the -results string, plus the command 'pairing' + game number.
5871 2011-05-23 17:37:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5872 Allow generic dialog to ignore OK
5874 The EndMark callback can now suppress popdown of the dialog on OK, when
5875 it somehow does not like the values entered by the user. In XBoard this
5876 required all the callbacks to return a value.
5877 Caveat: A refused OK would still have set all new values given in the
5880 2011-05-23 17:22:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5881 Fix CR in multi-line WinBoard text-edits
5883 The generic popup did not add CR when strings containing '\n' were
5884 printed in a multi-line text-edit, thus joining the lines. It was also
5885 not possible to type a CR in a multi-line text-edit.
5887 2011-05-23 14:16:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5888 Let mentioning completed tourney file add one cycle
5890 Secifying a tourney file of a fully completed tourney will now resume
5891 that tourney with another cycle added. When there are still uncomleted
5892 games in the tourney, the usual error message will appear. There are
5893 also error popups added for when the user fails to specify a tourney
5894 file, or gives too few participants.
5896 2011-05-16 11:02:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5897 Make engine startup failure non-fatal in WinBoard
5899 Unlike XBoard, which forks first, the parent process WinBoard has direct
5900 knowledge of a failure to execute the engine command, and used it to
5901 trigger a fatal error. The code doing this has now been disabled. Only
5902 in case of a first engine we switch back to -ncp mode in stead, but no
5903 action is taken to 'bury' the deceased engine process. Like in XBoard,
5904 errors in writing or reading the pipes will trigger this.
5906 2011-05-14 17:03:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5907 Add secondry adapter command for UCCI or USI
5909 The option -uxiAdapter can define a second adapterCommand, which will be
5910 invoked on encountering the options -fUCCI, -sUCCI and -fUSI, sUCI.
5912 2011-05-14 10:05:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5913 Obey san feature when sending book moves
5915 Book moves were always sent in long algebraic, even when the engine had
5916 said it wanted to receive SAN.
5918 2011-05-14 10:03:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5919 Fix initialization of engine state
5921 Some of the initialization relied on variables being zero at startup,
5922 which meant value from the previouly loaded engine hng on after loading
5925 2011-05-11 23:06:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5926 Take account of holdings in book key
5928 The board is numbered by rank, for comptibility with Polyglot format,
5929 starting at a1. We then continue counting in the holdings 'files', in
5930 up-rank direction, each holding spanning the full board height (even if
5931 it is not fully used). Firstthe left (black) holdings, then the right,
5932 Even in Shogi this limits the square number to < 99, which is below the
5933 absolute limit of 128 (where we would run out of hash keys).
5935 2011-05-11 22:48:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5936 Alow promotions and drops in book-editing
5939 2011-05-11 20:15:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5940 Include learn info in book edit
5943 2011-05-09 21:55:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5944 Adapt default directory of lng2po
5946 The path is prefixed with "../" to make it runable from the po directory.
5948 2011-05-09 21:20:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5949 Recode some po files
5951 po files were generated with the aid of lng2po for Russian,
5952 Vietnamese, Chinese(simp) and Chinese(trad), using encodings CP1251,
5953 CP1258, GB2312 and BIG5, respectively.
5955 2011-05-09 20:11:32 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5956 Implement Edit Book in XBoard
5959 2011-05-09 09:52:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5960 Improve WB Load Engine dialog texts
5963 2011-05-09 09:48:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5964 Make 'add to list' default in Load Engine dialog
5967 2011-05-09 09:33:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5968 Add -userFileDirectory option
5970 This volatile option is initialized from 'installDir'. It is
5971 primarily intended for configuration of WinBoard through its master
5972 settings file, and specifies an alternative place to create saveGameFile
5973 or look for other user files, in stead of looking in the installDir.
5975 2011-05-09 09:10:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5976 Add option -absoluteAnalysisScores
5978 This persistent option flips scores in the when black is thinking in
5979 analysis mode, just before they are printed in the engine-output window.
5981 2011-05-08 17:47:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5982 Automatically play moves of clicked PV in analyze mode
5984 The Shift key now no longer needs to be pressed to play moves from the
5985 PV in analyze mode (so it could be given back its original meaning of
5986 starting a variation with the entered moves). In analyze mode the PV
5987 walk begins after the first move, so a static right-click plays the
5988 first PV move. To just peek the PV you have to walk to the start of it
5989 before releasing the mouse button. In other modes the PV walk
5990 stillstarts at the very end.
5992 2011-05-08 17:07:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5993 Let ParsePV always generate SAN move
5996 2011-05-08 13:53:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5997 Fix vscrolling in XBoard Engine-Output window
5999 After clicking the memos they scrolled to the bottom, because SetFocus
6000 put the insertion point at the very end of the text. This behavior is
6001 now reserved for text-edits containing less than 100 characters.
6003 2011-05-08 13:22:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6004 Fix button sizing in generic popup
6007 2011-05-08 13:02:52 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6008 Allow changing MultiPV setting from Engine-Output window
6010 In analyze mode a header line is printed in the first engine-output
6011 pane, which can be right-clicked to increase or decrease the number of
6012 PVs. (Only with engines that support the MultiPV option.)
6014 2011-05-08 11:28:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6015 No clearing of Engine-Output memos on stat01
6018 2011-05-07 23:27:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6019 updated xboard.pot with released version
6022 2011-05-07 22:56:53 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6023 new developer release
6026 2011-05-07 22:54:29 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6027 updated ChangeLog, NEWS, etc.
6030 2011-05-07 23:07:46 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6031 deactivated new languages for the moment...
6033 po files need some cleanup, probably better to wait until the translation-project looked at them
6035 2011-05-07 18:44:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6036 added translations generated via lng2po from all winboard languages
6039 2011-05-07 18:40:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6040 lng2po.sh: added command line options, GPL header
6042 also use a temporary file generated with mktemp instead of a hard coded one
6044 2011-05-07 17:53:10 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6045 fixed access rights to winboard language files (644 instead of 655)
6048 2011-05-07 14:55:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6049 Import WinBoard language files into git
6052 2011-05-06 23:14:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6053 Let Shift+RightClick on PV actually play the PV moves
6056 2011-05-06 18:06:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6057 Make book-edit function WB
6059 The tags dialog is used to display the GUI book moves from the current
6060 position, and will be updated when you step or move to another one.
6061 The edited move list (with weights) can be written back to the book.
6063 2011-05-07 16:21:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6064 Fix resetting engine options
6066 Not all options were reset, and -needsNonCompliantFEN was 'reset'
6067 to a completely wrong value, so that bad FENs would be sent.
6069 2011-05-06 18:51:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6070 Add -first/secondPgnName option
6072 This option replaces the tidy name of the engine in the PGN player tags
6073 of engine-engine games. In WinBoard engines can be installed with this
6074 option through a checkbox in the Load Engine dialog.
6076 2011-05-06 23:31:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6077 Let XB generic popup define default file extensions
6080 2011-05-06 18:25:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6081 Save time-control settings in tourney file
6083 Because parsing the options and storing them in appData is not enough,
6084 the time-control code setting the internally used parameters from the
6085 appData info in InitBackend was made into a subroutine, and also caled
6086 after parsing the tourney file.
6088 2011-05-06 20:40:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6089 Put saveGameFile in tournament dialog
6092 2011-05-06 19:17:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6093 Plug memory leak, filenames relative to installDir
6095 String options are consistently freed now, before assigning a new value
6096 to them through strdup. The init code now even does use strdup when
6097 setting defaults. This is important for optionslike -lgf, which are not
6098 saved in the settings file, and thus are usually left with their
6099 default. When a dialog to set them then uses free, this causes a crash.
6100 When setting the defaults uses strdup, ParseArgs can already free them.
6101 This plugs an important memory leak, as ParseArgs in now called to parse
6102 the tourney file before every tourney game (twice!), and the lists of
6103 participants and results in it can be quite long. Macros are defined in
6104 common.h to make the code look simpler.
6105 Filenames entered through the generic popup are now interpreted
6106 relative to the WinBoard installation folder, just as the saveGameFile
6107 already was. The code handling the atter was made into a subroutine for
6110 2011-05-06 22:02:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6111 Add WB new popup prototypes
6114 2011-05-06 18:58:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6115 Add partcipants at bottom in tourney dialog (WB)
6118 2011-05-06 18:56:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6119 Fix range of tourneyType spin WB
6122 2011-05-06 18:15:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6123 Fix exit popup in tourney mode
6125 Only the instance finishing the last tourney game will cause a popup
6126 with final standings. As long as there are still busy games, it exits or
6127 switches back to idle mode silently.
6129 2011-05-06 18:11:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6130 Fix stopping of match in tourney mode
6133 2011-05-06 18:59:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6134 Add default extension in file browser
6137 2011-05-06 22:37:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6138 Improve sizing of comment and tags dialogs
6140 There seems to be a bug in Xaw for the sizing of buttons; they get
6141 unpredicatble and weird sizes when the size is not explicitly set,
6142 possibly stretching the initial width of a dialog to rediculous values.
6143 Sizing back to a remembered value from the settings file then makes
6144 buttons overlapand text edits shrink to almost nothing. To prevent that
6145 we now define exlicit sizes for the buttons in tags and comment popups.
6147 2011-05-06 21:00:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6148 Fix generic combobox bug
6150 The patch placing gettext markers was done wrong, setting the
6151 translated menu text outside the loop, so all entries became the same.
6153 2011-05-07 14:23:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6154 Fix PV walking in analysis mode
6156 ParsePV assumed that the PV would always have been produced by an engin
6157 thinking about the final position of the game (or the one before it). In
6158 analysismode, however, the engine can be analysing positions internal to
6159 the game, and the PV would be considered invalid. This is fixed by
6160 cutting of the tail off the game (shelving it in variation fashion)
6161 before starting the PV walk, and reverting afterwards.
6162 For this the PushTail and PopTail routines had to be split into an
6163 'inner' part, doing the pushing and popping, and an outer part, handling
6164 menu graying and popdowns (which is undesirable in in this application).
6166 2011-05-03 00:24:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6167 Lift length-limit on text-edits in WB generic popup
6170 2011-05-04 13:53:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6171 Lift limitation of text length in generic dialog XB
6173 All string options should now point to allocated memory, as strdup /
6174 free is consistently used on them. This is OK for values received from
6175 ParseArgs, but for non-arg intermediate variables that must receive strg
6176 values, such as in the comment and tags popups, strdup has to be used to
6179 2011-05-04 14:53:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6180 Implement Tournament Options dialog WinBoard
6182 The file browser now can select on extension WB generic dialogs,
6183 with a default based on the option.max value of the option for which it
6184 browses. A textBox can be forced to be multiline by putting the number
6185 of extra lines in option.min.
6187 2011-05-04 15:30:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6188 Make option to draw second engine from first list
6191 2011-05-03 00:17:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6192 Fix error message on engine load
6195 2011-05-04 15:09:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6196 Implement Load Engine dialog in WinBoard
6198 The Load Engine dialog is implemented for WinBoard, and is invoked by
6199 the menu item Engine->Load, which formerly was Install 2nd. Install 1st
6200 is renamed 'Edit Engine List'. Unlike in XBoard, the dialog has separate
6201 fields for the engine executale and its parameters.
6202 The dialog is implemented by converting the Engine Settings popup into
6203 a generic dialog generator.
6205 2011-05-04 13:43:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6206 Load new logo on engine change WinBoard
6208 Picking the logo for the first engine is made into a subroutine. The
6209 code for picking the logo of the first engine was made into a subrroutne
6210 for this. We use the kludge to recognize the engine by its command line
6211 when starting a new engine process.
6213 2011-05-04 13:36:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6214 Allow switching off match mode through menu
6216 The Machine Match menu item is now checkmarked, and no longer grayed
6217 during a match, and clicking it while a match is running will terminate
6218 the match after the current game. To not be left with hanging
6219 checkmarks, the checkmark is already removed duringthe last match game
6220 (which is logically equivalent to ordinary Two Machines mode anyway).
6222 2011-05-03 00:14:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6223 Calculate and display tourney result
6226 2011-05-04 18:42:13 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6227 Implement Tournament Manager
6229 New command-line options are added to specify the tourney: -tourneyType
6230 (-tt), -tourneyCycles (-cy), -participants, -syncAfterRound,
6231 -syncAfterCycle, -results, to be saved on a -tourneyFile (-tf), but
6232 otherwise volatile. When a tourneyFile is specified during a match,
6233 a new routine NextTourneyGame is called from NextMatchGame before every
6234 game, to decide the pairing, and unload and redefine the engines, when
6235 needed. The XBoard Match Options dialog can be used to set the options
6236 and create the tournament file.
6237 Actual loading of new engines is done by TwoMachinesEvent, which is
6238 now modified to also wait for the feature timeout of the first engine.
6239 Waiting for the matchPause is now also implemented there, after waiting
6240 for the engines (so they can be started during the pause).
6241 Pairings and color assignment is now all done in an absolute
6242 (non-incremental) way, based on a new global game-number variable
6243 nextGame, which takes over the function of matchGame in a tourney. The
6244 latter is now used to count games between the same players, so it can be
6245 still used to derive the load-file indexes (again in absolute fashion).
6246 The next game to play is already picked in GameEnd, so it can be
6247 decided if there is a game to be scheduled, or if we can terminate.
6249 2011-05-04 15:42:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6250 Display note in stead of empty engine-settings dialog XB
6253 2011-04-24 18:02:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6254 Fix crash on empty Engine Settings dialog
6256 The generic popup was not foolproof against this.
6258 2011-04-22 12:47:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6259 Refactor code for loading games and positions in match
6261 The code in NextMatchGame and MatchEvent was nearly the same,
6262 (MatchEvent did a little more error checking, but that is never
6263 harmful), and could be combined. In stead of determining the load index
6264 incrementally, it is now calculated in an absolute way from the game
6265 number, so it can be used more easily in tournament mode.
6267 2011-04-21 22:37:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6268 Add callback possibility to combobox selection
6271 2011-04-24 17:15:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6272 Lock game an position file during writing
6274 The use of flock() on the file desctiptor of the opened stream should
6275 guarantee multiple XBoard instances, saving on the same file, will not
6276 interleave their PGN games or FEN positions.
6278 2011-04-27 17:05:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6279 Remove building rule for parser.c from WB makefiles
6282 2011-04-29 16:58:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6283 Fix Engine Settings buttons in WinBoard
6285 This was broken by a leftover statement from debugging the -file/-path
6288 2011-05-02 13:38:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6289 Implement flock in WinBoard
6291 This system function seems unknown in a MinGW compile, so it is
6292 implemented with the aid of file byte-range locking, using a lock on the
6293 first 1024 bytes of the file as a semaphore.
6295 2011-04-29 23:06:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6296 Fix grayout XB Match Options in ICS mode
6299 2011-05-03 00:22:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6300 Delay loading of second engine until it is used
6303 2011-05-02 15:00:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6304 Fix zippy bughouse partner bug
6306 The patchs to subject Zippy messages to coloriation was faulty, because
6307 there were messages recognized by zippy that were not colorized, and
6308 such messages would then not be 'read away' after zippy recognition
6309 (except for the first character). As a result the messages were
6310 processed over and over again.
6312 2011-05-04 10:59:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6313 Silence more rpm warnings
6316 2011-05-01 20:33:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6317 Fix warnings XBoard file browser
6319 All the prototypes have been moved to selfile.h, to force uniformity.
6320 The order of the #include files xstat.h and selfile.h had to be
6321 swapped, to make sure 'struct stat' is a nown type atthe time of
6322 prototype declaration. The event handler SFmotionList is considered
6323 wrong type because of its third argument (XMotionEvent in stead of
6324 XEvent), and had to be casted to (XtEventHandler) when passed to
6327 2011-05-04 10:56:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6328 Fix some warnings and header-file improvement
6330 Ther were lot of 'extern' declarations in the x-files, so called
6331 'imports from xboard.c', (sometimes backend.c) which logically belonged
6332 in xboard.h (backend.h) to ensure their uniform definition. These have
6333 now been moved there. Some prototypes have been added in xboard.h as
6334 well, for functions that needed calling from xoptions.c.
6336 2011-05-04 10:50:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6337 Create conversion tools for language files
6339 A shell script "lng2po.sh" is provided, to apply the translation given
6340 in a WinBoard .lng file to "xboard.pot", in order to generate a
6341 "language.po" file containing translations for all strings for which
6342 the .lng file had a translation. It makes use of a file "metascript",
6343 which is the ed script used to turn the .lng file in an ed script to
6344 turn the .pot into .po. For example, the command "./lng2po.sh
6345 espa?ol.lng" will create a file "language.po", which can be renamed to
6347 ****************************** WARNING ********************************
6348 Note that the lng2po script does a "recode" that assumes the given
6349 .lng file is encoded in latin-1. This means it canot be used without
6350 modification for the Vietnamese and Chinese translation; you would have
6351 to replace latin-1 by the applicable encoding first (CP1258 / BG2312 /
6354 2011-04-27 22:04:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6355 Put gettext markers in generic dialog creator
6357 This is done by adding extra XtNstring argumentsto the widget gcreaton,
6358 so the displayed name can be different fromthe widget name.
6360 2011-05-01 19:56:38 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
6361 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.
6364 2011-04-24 11:18:28 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6365 updated German translation
6368 2011-04-24 11:17:43 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6369 replaced hardcoded email address with generic PACKAGE_BUGREPORT
6372 2011-04-23 10:51:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6373 updated po-files; updated german translation
6376 2011-04-23 10:51:02 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6377 updated list of files that include translation strings; updated pot-file
6380 2011-04-22 21:50:58 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6381 marked more strings for gettext that were only marked with N_()
6383 they need to be marked again with _() when they are used to get the translated string
6385 2011-04-22 21:39:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6386 updated translation files
6389 2011-04-22 21:37:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6390 added/fixed i18n support via gettext to xboard
6392 this was already added a long time ago, but now it's added again to
6393 autoconf. Also fixed some compile errors that showed up.
6395 2011-04-20 10:27:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6396 Make engine startup error non-fatal
6398 When engine startup fails, do not generate a fatal error, but swicth
6399 back to -ncp mode. Write on broken pipe errors had to be suppressed for
6402 2011-04-20 14:35:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6403 Make engine loadable during session
6405 A "Load Engine ..." menu item is added to the Engine menu, which pops
6406 up a dialog where one can replace the first or second engine by a new
6407 one, without destroying the game state. Switching from -ncp to engine
6408 mode needed activation of some menu items in SetGNUMode, and
6409 re-enabling clockMode. It was also important that noChessProgram is
6410 cleared before re-initializing the ChessProgramState.
6411 The Load-Engine dialog can select from the list of installed
6412 engines, and also add a newly specified engine to this list. In this
6413 case it saves the directory, hasBook, and isUCI info with the engine,
6414 and optionally the current variant. When loading an engine with a
6415 specified variant, it resets the game and switches to the new variant.
6417 2011-04-18 15:56:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6418 Generalize WaitForSecond to WaitForEngine
6421 2011-04-18 15:46:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6422 Add UnloadEngine routine
6425 2011-04-20 13:45:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6426 Put engine initialization code in per-engine function
6428 Initializing of the ChessProgramStates first and second from the
6429 option settings in appData is now done by separate calls to the same
6430 routine. Clearing of options is added to the initialization. This is
6431 needed when reloading an engine. This is done in a separate routine,
6432 which could also be called on -reset options.
6434 2011-04-18 13:21:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6435 Bring structure in appData engine options
6437 All options in appData that came in pairs for both engines are replaced
6438 by arrays of ENGINES (=2, for now) elements. The use of the named
6439 appData field that are replaced in the source is replaced by use of the
6440 corresponding array element, by #define directives in common.h, awaiting
6443 2011-04-19 15:15:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6444 Fix gettext macros in option dialogs
6446 The strings in the tables were using _() in stead of N_().
6448 2011-04-18 20:58:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6449 Fix crash on using Engine #1 Settings in ICS non-zippy mode
6451 If XBoard is compiled with zippy the Engine #1 Settings menu was not
6452 grayed out even when you don't run in zippy mode, and using it would
6455 2011-04-19 15:07:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6458 Some pixmaps forptomoted pieces had wrong background color, others had a
6459 wrong name (so the one with the correct name was missing).
6461 2011-04-17 19:12:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6462 Change texture-install directory to pixmaps/textures
6465 2011-04-17 17:36:32 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6466 Limit install of sound files to those in menu
6468 The sounds directory is set to .../xboard/sounds, and only ten
6469 sounds are kept (all non-spoken).
6471 2011-04-17 17:27:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6472 Remove some bitmaps from install
6474 Some files in the bitmaps source directory need not be installed,
6475 because they are there only to be linked to the binary in a build
6476 without LIBXPM, are README files or conversion programs. I left only the
6477 stuff that is in a Debian binary package in .../xboard/bitmaps.xchess.
6479 2011-04-17 16:34:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6480 Configure some default sounds
6482 The move sound is set to Wood Thunk; the sounds for tell and challenge
6483 events to Phone and Gong, respectively.
6485 2011-04-17 16:17:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6486 Change default sounds in Xboard menu
6488 All spoken sounds are removed now. Thud, Click and Ching are replaced by
6489 Wood Thunk, Slap and Cymbal; Car Horn and Pop are added.
6491 2011-04-17 12:46:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6492 Make user wav file available for try-out in sound dialog
6494 The GenericReadout was adapted to be able to read a single selected
6495 value, so that the callback to the 'play' button in the sounds dialog
6496 could get the name of the 'user WAV file' without accepting all settings
6497 for the other sounds (which should only happen on 'OK', and might still
6498 be cancelled in stead).
6500 2011-04-16 10:36:31 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
6501 configure: enable silent rules by default
6504 2011-04-16 10:28:16 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
6505 configure: added install directory for bitmaps files: .../games/xboard/bitmaps/default/
6508 2011-04-16 10:25:33 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
6509 configure: added install of sounds in .../games/xboard/sounds/default
6512 2011-04-16 09:54:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
6513 configure: renamed bitmapdir to pixmapsdir, since it installed only pixmaps. also changed name of default dir
6515 pixmaps will now be installed under .../games/xboard/pixmaps/default/
6517 2011-04-16 13:40:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6518 Fix gamelist highlight
6520 Reopening the gamelist should highlight the current game.
6522 2011-04-16 10:25:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6523 Fix size limit on 'save as diagram'
6525 In stead of a fixed-size buffer the diagram-save code now uses an
6526 allocated buffer with size calculated from the bitmap parameters to
6527 retreive the bitmap data, so it should work for all sizes.
6529 2011-04-15 22:04:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6530 Fix chaining of bottom-row dialog buttons
6532 The OK & cancel buttons are chained to the bottom. This patch makes sure
6533 that other buttons appearing in the same row (as in the tags and
6534 comment dialogs) will be chained that way too, so that they will behave
6535 the same on vertical sizing. The bottom of a full-width text-edit above
6536 it will be chained to bottom too. To make this work in the tags dialog,
6537 the (optional) cmail-message field had to be put above the tags memo.
6539 2011-04-15 19:18:46 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6540 Fix switching between pixmap and bitmap pieces
6542 There were still several flags that had to be reset when redoing the
6543 graphics initialization. The Debian patch to use a default bitmap
6544 directory when none is given but monoMode is selected or forced, is
6545 moved to a more sensible place, so that it does not disturb matters when
6546 compiled without LIBXPM (when we do have built-in bitmaps).
6548 2011-04-15 15:47:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6549 Remove outline-pieces option from board-options dialog
6551 This option does not exist in XBoard (yet).
6553 2011-04-15 15:41:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6554 Fix running of clock during hash allocation engine
6556 In TwoMachinesEvent we now wait for the second engine to acknowledge the
6557 'ping' after 'new', to make sure it is done allocating hash in reaction
6558 to the preceding 'memory' command, before the clock for the game is
6561 2011-04-14 21:42:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6562 Describe move type-in in texi file
6565 2011-04-14 20:34:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6566 Describe Copy Game List menu item in texi file
6569 2011-04-14 20:30:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6570 Describe -sweepPromotions in texi file
6572 The new method for selection promotion piece, and the -sweepPromotions
6573 option are described in the texi file.
6575 2011-04-14 20:14:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6576 Describe -pieceMenu option in texi file
6578 The sweep method for selecting a piece in Edit-Position mode is
6579 explained, as well as the -pieceMenu option.
6581 2011-04-14 15:59:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6584 Descriptions of the new XBoard menu dialogs are included in the docs.
6586 2011-04-14 21:06:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6587 Reorganize texi description
6590 2011-04-14 12:31:15 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6591 Fix sweep-promotions patch
6593 Setting of the from square was moved to before OKtoStartUserMove in the
6594 LeftClick handler, to make sure we could test the promotion possiblity
6595 when OnlyMove() would have altered (x,y) to be no longer the from
6596 square. But this setting of fromX, fromY hung on also if the move was
6597 not OK, so you could effectively select opponent pieces and empty
6598 squares. The from-square is now set back to undefined when it is not OK
6599 to move the piece you clicked.
6601 2011-04-14 11:56:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6602 Alter treatment of moves with empty squares
6604 In Edit Position mode one can move empty squares, and use them to
6605 'capture' pieces as a means to clear their square. But this often leads
6606 to unintended disappearence of pieces one wants to grab for dragging, if
6607 a previous click had inadvertantly left an empty square selected: the
6608 click on the piece is then seen as the to-click of a click-click move.
6609 This patch treats to-clicks of moves with an empty-square differently
6610 from other to-clicks: Rather than performing the move (in this case
6611 clearing of the to-square) on the down-click, it defers that to the
6612 up-click, and only does it if that up-click is in the same square. This
6613 allows the user to grab the piece on the down-click, and drag it to
6614 another square, if that is what he wanted to do, without being disturbed
6615 by sudden implosion of the piece he tried to grab.
6616 If the to-square is in the holdings, grabbing the piece is the only
6617 action, as moves of empty squares into the holdings are forbidden anyway.
6619 2011-04-13 13:14:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6620 Block selection of a directory when file is needed
6622 When we are not browsing merely to obtain a name to put in a text edit,
6623 but really must return an open file pointer, selection of a directory
6624 (ending in '/') can no longer be OK'ed in the file browser. (XBoard
6625 tends to segfault when offered garbage for game or position file...)
6627 2011-04-13 12:23:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6628 Let double-click select file in file browser
6630 A second click on the already selected entry now has the same effect as
6631 pressing the OK button.
6633 2011-04-12 17:06:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6634 Couple mouse wheel to v-scrolls in file browser
6636 A newly added mouse-wheel event handler was made to call the v-scroll
6637 callback routines with parameters to step one entry. The button-press
6638 handler for the lists themselves was also made to intercept the wheel
6639 events (buttons 4 and 5), to prevent they would select an entry, and
6640 make them scroll in stead as well.
6642 2011-04-13 11:41:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6643 Fix crash copying game list when there is none
6646 2011-04-13 11:15:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6647 Fix changing of float setting by generic popup
6649 Changing a float setting (so far the only one is in the Load Options
6650 dalog) did not always work, because the old value was clipped to (int),
6651 so that changing it back to an integer value might erroneously conclude
6652 there was no change.
6654 2011-04-13 16:15:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6655 Fix crash on closing dialogs in wrong order
6657 When a menu dialog was closed when it still had an open file-browse
6658 daughter, which could be done through the system menu X on the title
6659 bar, later closing of the file browser caused a crash. This is solved by
6660 keeping track of the fact that there is such a daughter through a global
6661 flag, and ignoring the pop-down command if there is one.
6663 2011-04-13 16:33:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6664 Fix startup focus of board window
6666 When there were open auxiliary windows, these would have focus on
6667 starting up XBoard. The XtSetKeyboardFocus call added in XBoard main()
6668 was ineffective in curing that. It has now been replaced by a call to
6669 XSetInputFocus, which does do the job. By giving input focus to the form
6670 widget, rather than the board widget, XBoard will be immediately
6671 sensitive to all key bindings.
6673 2011-04-13 15:48:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6674 Fix game-list highight error when filtered (WB)
6676 When the gamelist was filtered, the game that was highlingted was the
6677 n-th game in the list rather than the n-th game in the file, when the
6678 latter was loaded (and n did not exceed the number of filtered games).
6679 This is fixed now by searching for the line in the listbox that starts
6680 with the game number n, rather than taking the n-th line.
6682 2011-04-12 19:20:46 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6683 Refactor move type-in code
6685 Common code between XBoard and WinBoard was moved to the back-end
6686 creating TypeInEvent() and TypeInDoneEvent() routines.
6688 2011-04-12 10:13:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6689 Fix saving of XBoard fonts with spaces in name
6691 SaveFontArg now prints quotes around the saved font string, so that the
6692 general option-argument parser doesnot stop at the first space it sees.
6694 2011-04-11 20:48:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6695 Implement move type-in for XBoard
6697 By adding an event handler to the main window for key presses, users can
6698 now type moves when the board has focus, like in WinBoard. The typed
6699 character appears as first character in the type-in box that willpop up.
6700 Enter and Escape close the box; finishing the typing of the move enters
6701 it. Like in WinBoard it is also possible to type a move number (to go
6702 there) or (in Edit Position mode) a FEN.
6704 2011-04-11 20:59:44 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
6705 new developer release
6707 tried to keep the v4.5.x branch developed already separated in the NEWS file, as well as DIFFSTAT and SHORTLOG.
6708 The Changelog is just the one from master.
6710 2011-04-10 22:47:59 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
6711 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
6714 2011-04-10 20:32:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6715 Fix use of game/position file in first match game
6717 When a match was started from the menu, it was not paying attention to
6718 game and position files. (Later games were.) The code that handled this
6719 in the initialization when a match is started through the command line
6720 was made into a routine MatchEvent, which can be called from the menu
6723 2011-04-09 20:55:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6724 Fix crash on opening ICS Text Menu
6726 The patch for the color defaults had broken the ICS Text Menu.
6728 2011-04-09 19:22:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6729 Implement Copy Game List menu item for XBoard
6731 Some WinBoard code was cloned for this.
6733 2011-04-09 11:42:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6734 Third method of sweep selection
6736 This method sweeps through the possible promotion choices for the piece
6737 that is being dragged, as long as you drag a 7th-rank Pawn backwards. On
6738 draggin such a Pawn forwards, it immediately shows it as the piece you
6739 are going to promote to.
6741 2011-04-08 23:39:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6742 Alternative sweep promotions
6744 The sweep takes place on the from-square here.
6746 2011-04-07 23:21:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6747 Make sweep-select promotions work in WinBoard
6749 The mouse-move handler had to be connected to the PromoScroll back-end
6752 2011-04-07 23:19:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6753 Fix path browsing in WinBoard
6755 The routine BrowseForFolder was still declared as static in woptions.c,
6756 while it was used from wsettings.c.
6758 2011-04-07 11:14:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6759 Fixes to sweep selection
6762 2011-04-06 23:47:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6763 Implement sweep selection of promotion piece
6765 When the option -sweepPromotions is true, a click-click promotion move
6766 will first display the default choice (usually Queen) on the promotion
6767 square. While you have the mouse button still down, you can change the
6768 piece by moving the mouse vertically.
6770 2011-04-06 21:20:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6771 Implement sweep selection as alternative for the piece menu
6773 When the option -pieceMenu is off, the piece menu will no longer appear
6774 on right-clicks in Edit Position mode. In stead a Pawn of the chosen
6775 color will appear immediately in the clicked square, and vertical
6776 movement of the mouse with the right button down will cycle through
6777 all other pieces defined in the pieceToCharTable of the current variant.
6778 Setting the side to move is acheived by clicking the correspondig
6779 clock. Clear board can be effected by clicking the clock of the side
6780 that already has the move.
6782 2011-03-30 18:17:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6783 Remember Tags and Comment dialog coordinates
6785 The save-settings code now uses the shell and shellUp arrays from the
6786 GenericPopUp to read out the window coordinates for Tags and Comment
6787 window. Pointers used by GenericPopUp are set topoint to the
6788 corresponding WindowPlacement structs.
6790 2011-03-10 19:21:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6793 The generic popup is used for generating the Tags / EditTags popups.
6794 The tags popup use a 'label' field to display the cmail message
6796 2011-04-01 13:43:52 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6797 Implement Edit-Comment window through generic popup
6799 The Edit Comment and Comment popups are combined into one, that can
6800 always be edited (similar to WinBoard). It uses shell number 1.
6801 (Number 0 is for all transient dialogs.) A save-changes button is added.
6802 The positioning is not implemented yet.
6804 2011-04-06 10:56:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6805 Refinements to generic popup and color picker
6807 *) The text part of a checkbox can now be clicked to toggle the option.
6808 *) Typing <Enter> in single-line text edits is ignored
6809 *) Using a spin button now sets focus to the affected text edit, with
6810 the insert position at the end.
6811 *) Using the sample field or an RGB button sets focus to the
6812 corresponding text edit, with the insert position at the end.
6813 *) The adjust buttons now work in reverse, with a D button for "darker".
6814 *) Editing a color field causes the sample field to update to the new
6815 color when you type <Enter>.
6816 *) The color pickers now define a default color, which can be instated
6817 by clicking on the sample field.
6818 *) Fix some 64-bit pointer warnings
6820 2011-04-05 17:05:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6821 Let file browser filter on extension
6823 A new text field is added in the file-browse dialog, to hold (space-
6824 separated) extensions, on which the filenames are then filtered. This
6825 field is initialized by the caller, depending on what we need the file
6826 for, but can be changed by the user. (Directories are always displayed!)
6827 Changes in the extension field become effective after typing a return
6828 in it. Escape typed in the extension field gives focus to the filename
6829 field, and restores the contents. Escape in the filename field cancels
6830 the dialog, return ther OKs it. The extension filter of the browser is
6831 initialized to the extension (if any) of the file currently in the text
6832 edit you are browsing for.
6833 When re-opening the file browser from the XBoard File menu, and there
6834 is no suggested filename, it will now start with the last succesfully
6835 opened name as suggestion. Calling the browser with a NULL argument
6836 for the suggested filename requests that (unlike calling with an empty
6837 string, which will start it in the current directory). To make this
6838 work smoothly, the filebrowser saves the last used name on entry, so it
6839 can be restored on cancel, so that a cancelled browse session really
6840 erases all memory of it.
6842 2011-04-04 19:26:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6843 Fix animation masks on changing piece pixmaps
6845 The animation masks were not remade when new pieces were loaded
6846 interactively through the board-options dialog.
6848 2011-04-04 19:09:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6849 Fix linegap option in board dialog
6851 The lineGC was not recalculated, so the grid lines stayed the same
6852 thickness. In addition, setting the line-gap override to -1 now
6853 retrieves the original line gap that belongs to the current board size.
6855 2011-03-05 23:27:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6856 Make a kind of ICS text menu in XBoard as a dialog
6858 The dialog with buttons can be opened from the View menu. It is
6859 configured by the option -icsMenu; a default setting for this is
6860 included in the master settings file.
6861 The commands specified by the -icsMenu can now contain $name and $input
6862 keywords, which will be replaced by the current primary selection, or
6863 text the user types, respectively. Commands that contain $name will not
6864 be sent when the current selection is empty. Commands that do not
6865 contain $input will be sent to the ICS immediately; otherwise they will
6866 be placed in the ICS Input Box, with the cursor at the point of the
6867 $input, and input focus given to the Input Box, so the user can start
6868 typing. When a command is prefixed by "$add " it will be appended to the
6869 existing ICS Input Box contents, rather than replace it.
6870 The items now have to be separated by ";\n", and button text from
6871 command by ';' (with optional linefeed). This allows configuring of
6872 multi-line commands, as a single linefeed no longer has special
6875 2011-03-31 13:36:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6876 Redo ICS input box with generic popup
6878 This box is just a single text edit, but the complexity is in the added
6879 callbacks. These callbacks remain in xboard.c, and were altered to
6880 access the edit through the option.handle field.
6882 2011-04-03 12:54:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6883 Activate -path and -file options
6885 In XBoard the generic popup was prepared for this. In WinBoard, for
6886 -path options the BrowseFolder routine is used, and had to be made
6887 global (prototype in winboard.h).
6889 2011-04-02 18:40:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6890 Let generic popup generate Engine Settings dialog
6893 2011-04-02 18:36:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6894 Merge SettingsPopUp into GenericPopUp
6896 Based on currentCps the values read from the dialog are sent to the
6897 engine, or stored into the option.target in the callback, and fetched
6898 from the option.target in the PopUp. The currentCps is cleared in the
6899 generic popdown of a transient dialog.
6901 2011-03-06 10:11:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6902 Make generic dialog popup reentrant
6904 To allow persistent dialogs to be implemented through the generic popup,
6905 it must be possible to have several dialogs open at the same time, and
6906 thus make sure the popdowns under the cacel or close-window button know
6907 which one to pop down. To this end an array shells[] is created that
6908 takes over the function of settingsShell, and GenericPopUp gets an extra
6909 parameter telling it which element to use for storing the dialog shell.
6910 This number is then also passed to the callbacks that trigger popdown.
6911 This was a bit nasty for the CatchDeleteWindow stuff, which passes user
6912 data to the callback as text strings.
6913 Keep a separate up/down indicator, so that shell widgets can be kept
6914 for persistent dialogs. Also keep a currentOption per dialog type.
6915 The coordinates and size of the window is read out and stored in a
6916 WindowPlacement structure, (if one is specified for that dialog), when
6917 the dialog is popped down. When initialized the structure is also used
6918 to set the window parameters when the dialog is created. (The idea being
6919 that the structure was saved in the settings file.)
6920 The routine MarkMenu checkmarks a given menu item, and logs it for the
6921 given dialog type, so that a later popdown automatically unchecks is.
6923 2011-02-25 12:14:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6924 Implement Machine Match menu item and options dialog
6926 An item to start a match from the menu is added, similar to what
6927 WinBoard has. (The code is duplicated, so I guess it should be moved to
6928 the back-end now, as MachineMatchEvent(), but it was tiny.) A dialog in
6929 the Options menu was added with the aid of the generic popup, and allows
6930 the user to set the load Game / Position File and Index.
6932 2011-04-01 14:54:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6933 Create General-Options dialog
6935 The generic popup is used to implement a General-Options dialog, which
6936 contains all Boolaen options that used to be set directly from the main
6937 Options menu, plus a spin option for the flash count and flash rate.
6938 The corresponing options are removed from the main Options menu, but the
6939 whole thing is made conditional on a compiler switch OPTIONSDIALOG.
6940 The dialog needs an OK callback for sending an altered ponder-state to
6941 the engine. (Why isn't this option disabled in -ncp mode, btw?)
6942 A spin control is added to adjust -animateSpeed between 5 and 100.
6943 Add dropMenu and showTargetSquares item as well.
6945 2011-04-01 18:16:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6946 Redo new-variant dialog with generic popup
6948 Some special code was added in GenericPopUp() to force buttons of the
6949 type needed in the New Variant dialog (wide, colored, greyed-out on
6950 variant type). The dialog was implemented with these, and callbacks for
6951 the buttons directly exit the dialog, without the need for OK. New spin
6952 controls are added to the dialog for adjusting the board format.
6954 2011-04-01 14:48:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6955 Redo common-engine dialog with generic popup
6957 The ponder option was removed, as it is already in the main Options
6958 menu, and would require nastiness in the OK callback. Added book options
6959 in common-engine dialog.
6961 2011-02-24 13:32:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6962 Redo adjudications dialog through generic popup
6964 We dropped the periodic-updates option, as it is already in the main
6967 2011-04-01 21:56:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6968 Make sounds dialog for XBoard
6970 This uses the combo boxes. A 'play' button isimplemented for a test
6971 sound. A sound directory is introduced, and can be set through the
6972 dialog. A default setting for -soundDirectory is added to xboard.conf.
6974 2011-04-01 23:11:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6975 Add ICS options dialog
6978 2011-04-01 21:52:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6979 Add board dialog XBoard
6981 The GenericPopUp() is used to implement a dialog for board options. The
6982 board dialog needs to trigger redraw and redefinition of the
6983 colors, through an OK callback. Color-pickers are used for the 6 basic
6985 To allow changing board settings during the session (i.e. from a menu
6986 dialog), the routines to allocate resources have to free the resources
6987 for the previous settings first. This patch take care of XtCreateGCs(),
6988 preventing re-creation of resources that are unchangeable (such as the
6989 grid color), and calling XtReleastGC() on GCs that can be changed.
6990 To prevent resource leaks the old pixmaps are deleted before making new
6991 ones on second or later calls of CreateXPMPieces().
6993 2011-04-03 11:39:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6994 Add browse button to generic popup
6996 Options of type FileName and PathName cause a browse button to be added
6997 behind the text field. The SpinCallback is used to handle the
6998 button presses, and invokes the file browser dialog to obtain a
6999 filename, which is then copied to the text field.
7001 2011-04-01 21:49:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7002 Make generic XBoard popup, and implement 2 dialogs
7004 The Engine-Settings dialog of XBoard was cloned to work on predefined
7005 lists of (XBoard) options, rather than engine options. An extra field
7006 was added to the Option struct, to hold a pointer to the XBoard variable
7007 that should hold the option setting, so on OK'ing the dialog the altered
7008 values can be copied there. Not usable for options which should trigger
7009 an action (like redraw, or sending something to the engine).
7010 A Load Game, Save Game and ICS Options dialog were then defined by
7011 tables fed to GenericPopUp(). Options set from these dialogs were removed
7012 from the main Option menu, which removes a lot of code from xboard.c
7013 (for checkmarking, disabling the menu items).
7014 A button defined in the GenericPopUp can attain the color indicated
7015 by a previous text field, and add a callback to change the color in a
7016 spin-like manner (but using R G B W in stead of + - butons).
7017 The EndMark option can specify a callback, to be used on OK.
7018 A non-zero max field in the Option descriptor will be used to set the
7019 width of ComboBox, TextBox and Button optons.
7020 The elements are chained such that extra space goes fully into the input
7021 fields. A label type is added for clarifying texts that would not fit in
7022 the option names. A break-type (pseudo-)option is added. Make OK and
7023 cancel button suppressable in generic popup (by 2 bit of the option.min
7026 2011-04-03 11:34:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7027 Add file-browser option to just return name
7029 By passing mode "f" the file browser dialog will not open the selected
7030 file at all, so it can be used to retreive the name for the benefit of a
7031 file-browser button to a -file option. A mode "p" will limit the
7032 selection to directories only, to browse for a path.
7034 2011-04-03 13:15:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7035 Put insertion point at end of text on SetFocus
7038 2011-04-05 23:47:34 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
7039 fixed 64 bit warnings by casting integers to intptr_t before casting to int
7042 2011-04-05 23:24:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
7043 removed check and #includes for malloc.h, since it's not needed
7045 hopefully this doesn't break things on non-linux systems. OS X seems to be ok, not sure about others ;)
7047 2011-04-03 20:23:49 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
7048 check if malloc.h is present before including it
7050 OS X 10.6 doesn't have malloc.h, so it complained.
7052 2011-04-03 20:01:36 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
7053 Fix bug introduced in commit 89b4744: removed a "/" and forgot to add it in the config file
7055 removed a "/" to make OS X happy, but forgot to add the "/" again in the xboard.conf.in file
7057 2011-03-12 14:08:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7058 Fix display of promotion piece in ICS superchess
7060 In Great Shatranj and Superchess promoted Pawns were displayed as shadow
7061 piece because these variants had holdings, while captured pieces should
7062 go back into the holdings unchanged, rather than reverted to Pawns.
7064 2011-03-13 14:09:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7065 Fix o-o castling in new parser
7067 The non-compliant notation of castling with lower-case 'o' should be
7068 preferred over the non-compliant interpretation of moving a Pawn along
7069 the o-file. Not doing so breaks ICS play, as ICS use o-o and o-o-o for
7070 castling! So an exception is now made for the o-file in the 'fxg'
7073 2011-03-10 19:27:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7074 Implement yynewstr entry point in new parser
7076 This entry point, used for parsing an ICS move list, was forgotten, and
7077 was still an empty routine. This made XBoard crash when observing an ICS
7080 2011-03-07 23:11:00 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
7081 fixed wrong default for polyglotDir mentioned in docs.
7083 Thanks to Hans Aberg for reporting it.
7085 2011-03-05 12:39:01 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
7086 Fix "make install" on Os X10.6.6 (removed a "/")
7088 seems like an extra "/" made "make install" unhappy
7090 2011-03-03 21:19:05 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
7091 removed parser.l from build process, also removed flex dependency from configure
7094 2011-03-02 22:14:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7095 New parser, written in C
7097 A new parser was written to replace the flex-generated one. Immediate
7098 improvements are that it understand double-digit rank numbers, and Shogi
7099 coordinates. No changes were made in the Makefile yet to reflect the
7100 new, flexless building procedure.
7102 2011-03-02 22:23:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7103 Fix bugs in FRC castling rights
7105 When parsing a castling move in FRC when no rights existed, the parser
7106 returned 0 (= EndOfFile) rather than ImpossibleMove. The recognition of
7107 the absence of rights was not adapted to the new encoding NoRights in
7110 2011-03-01 23:42:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7111 Fix parsing bug of FRC castling
7113 The code that was supposed to intercept castling when no rights existed
7114 in FRC was not adapted to the new encoding for this by NoRights, rather
7115 than -1, and furthermore returned 0 (= EndOfFile) rather than
7116 ImpossibleMove. Not sure if the former would manifest itself in any
7117 way, but the latter seems bad.
7119 2011-03-01 23:32:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7120 Fix two bugs in reading position diagram
7122 When reading a game without FEN tag, a position diagram is used to set
7123 the initial position. This calls CharToPiece() with a '.' as argument,
7124 because that is the position-diagram way to indicate empty squares.
7125 altered CharToPiece() over time this would be recognized as the first
7126 undefined piece or, more recently, the first piece without nickName,
7127 which is a white Pawn. Now it returns EmptySquare again in that case.
7128 A second problem was that for position diagrams in braces the brace was
7129 not in the list of ignored characters, and would cause the reading to
7130 get out of phase, so that the side to move was not recognized.
7132 2011-02-26 21:12:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7133 Fix flipBlack option XBoard with board texture
7135 In XBoard -flipBlack is implemented by swapping white and black pieces,
7136 because the Shogi bitmaps from XShogi are made that way. But the mask
7137 used to cut out the whole in the board texture to fit the piece was not
7138 swapped, both when drawing static pieces, as well as during animation.
7140 2011-02-25 14:38:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7141 Improve repairing damage of arrow highlight XBoard
7143 With line gap the highlight arrow necessitated redrawing of the entire
7144 board, to repair damage on the grid. This interfered with flashing of
7145 pieces, which was only done on selective redraws. In stead of forcing a
7146 total repaint we now just redraw the grid lines.
7148 2011-02-23 16:41:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7149 Fix unintended translation in debug file
7151 The words "first" and "second" (cps->which) were sometimes used in
7152 context that should definitely not be translated. (e.g. the indicator
7153 for which engine printed/got the line in the debug file.) So translation
7154 is now deferred to all uses in popups.
7156 2011-02-23 16:29:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7159 The nps settingwas tested for being > 0 in stead of >=0, so that the
7160 case of CPU time was not properly handled.
7162 2011-02-24 19:06:27 +0100 Kamil Blank <caceel@gmail.com>:
7163 Added missing fclose()
7166 Signed-off-by: Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>
7168 2011-02-20 16:12:19 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
7169 release of version 4.5.1
7171 2011-02-20 16:10:16 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
7172 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
7174 2011-02-20 20:36:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7175 Fix two typos in option names in texi file
7177 Polyglot was capitalyzed
7179 2011-02-20 00:03:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7180 Fix some resource leaks
7182 Some files were opened not closed in XBoard, when loading XIM images
7183 (which I doubt anyone ever does) but also when copying the clipboard
7184 (which has the potential of being done very often). There was also some
7185 code that would not work if conditional code which is permanently
7186 disabled would be enabled.
7188 2011-02-17 20:17:04 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
7189 new developer release
7191 2011-02-17 20:14:38 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
7192 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
7194 2011-02-17 15:40:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7195 Fix MSVC snprintf problem
7197 In MSVC snprintf has to be redefined as _snprintf, and this happens
7198 conditionally in config.c. But the latter was not #included in help.c.
7200 2011-02-16 19:41:27 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
7201 updated configure.ac to check for Xaw header files
7203 check for Xaw header files when --without-Xaw3d was given. Before the test was
7204 only done when Xaw3d was specified, but could not be found.
7206 If Xaw3d or Xaw can't be found, print a hopefully useful error message and exit the configure script.
7208 2011-02-16 12:03:22 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7211 Channel 0 messages were not displayed in the console, because the test
7212 for channel number considered every non-numeric or non-existent handle
7213 in a chatbox to be zero. So the messages were diverted to a non-exsting
7214 chatbox. Now it test first for the handle to start with a digit.
7216 2011-02-15 19:13:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7217 Make language choice from menu persistent
7219 Set appData.language to the chosen language file, or empty if English is
7220 chosen, so that the choice is saved with the settings. Increase the
7221 number of possible language choices from 5 to 20. (After all, we already
7224 2011-02-14 11:09:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7225 Fix showing of user move after adjudication
7227 The correction of the fishy patch (removing ShowMove() from Adjudicate())
7228 had broken the adjudication of user moves (that actually did work before
7229 the fishy patch, because there the gobal fromX/Y and toX/Y do contain
7230 the correct values for the move to be shown). An entered move that led
7231 to adjudication (like a checkmate) now was not displayed at all. Adding
7232 an extra ShowMove() after (successful) return of Adudicate() solves it.
7234 2011-02-13 23:49:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7235 Fix Xiangqi King facing
7237 The Spartan patch had broken the CheckTest for Xiangqi, because cl.check
7238 was cleared after the King-facing test, rather than before it.
7240 2011-02-13 22:30:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7241 Fix variant janus size prefix
7243 The default board size of Janus Chess was not consistently taken to be
7244 10x8, which resulted the name to be sent as 10x8+0_janus to the engine.
7246 2011-02-13 12:18:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7249 The test for Alfil (suppressing single steps on the Elephant) contained
7250 a wrong logical operator, so that it could never be active. It also
7251 failed to include Xiangqi as variant with traditional Alfil. This led to
7252 one-step moves of the Elephant in these variants, and false check or
7253 unreliable mate detections.
7255 Fix move of Xiangqi Elephant
7257 2011-02-09 23:19:09 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
7258 fixed configure script to correctly detect Xaw3d library
7261 2011-02-06 22:07:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7262 Fix unmarked translation
7264 The file-browser wndowtitle in WB was not marked for translation.
7266 2011-02-04 10:27:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7267 Put warning in HTML help
7269 A warning is added that the help file is not yet updated for the new
7272 2011-02-04 10:22:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7273 Fix 64-bit Windows compilability
7275 The API interface for Set/GetWindowLong has been changed for 64-bit
7276 Windows, both in the name of the call as in the arguments.
7278 2011-02-04 10:21:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7279 Fix MSVC compilability
7281 Both the makefile and the project file had to be adapted for the new
7282 source file history.c, and the new location of parser.c.
7284 2011-02-05 10:11:58 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
7285 added missing #includes and missing prototypes to filebrowser
7287 thanks to Max Funk for reporting. Now using HAVE_DIRENT_H.
7289 Also cleaned up missing prototypes and some casts.
7291 2011-02-05 09:21:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
7292 added missing header file for sprintf
7295 2011-02-03 08:50:50 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
7296 added history.c to the tar-ball. Needed for Winboard
7299 2011-01-31 23:03:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7300 Fix deselection of greyed-out variant button (WB)
7302 In Windows a disabled radiobutton refuses to deselect when you select
7303 another (enabled) button from the group. There are then 2 buttons
7304 checked, and the code to readout the buttons took the first one. Now it
7305 is changed to take the first enabled one.
7307 2011-02-03 08:28:15 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
7308 Revert "Implement -reset option feature in WinBoard"
7310 This reverts commit efecf86cd9b54072c6a2f38d62f1d775e69c545b.
7312 picked the wrong commit from HGM's git tree.
7314 2011-02-01 22:01:12 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
7315 add DIFFSTAT and SHORTLOG to tar-ball
7317 was only in the v4.4.x branch and not in master
7319 2011-01-30 09:52:15 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7320 release of version 4.5.0
7322 2011-02-01 07:41:04 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
7323 changed size of borders around squares from 0 to 1 as a default
7325 this way highlights show up again.
7327 2011-01-29 20:11:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7328 Implement -reset option feature in WinBoard
7330 2011-01-30 10:12:08 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7331 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
7333 2011-01-30 09:56:39 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7334 updated parser.c form parser.l
7336 2011-01-29 19:59:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7337 Clean up fishy patch
7339 None of the ShowMove() calls in Adjudicate() was working, because when
7340 this code was taken out of HandleMachineMove() it was taken outside the
7341 scope of the local fromX, fromY etc. there, so that it started using the
7342 global variables from the mouse driver. As these usually contain -1,
7343 this suppressed move animation and highlighting. All these calls have
7344 now been removed, and ShowMove() is called after a positive return (from
7345 HandleMachineMove(), so within the correct scope).
7346 This improves the previous fix, which led to some flicker, because the
7347 erroneous ShowMove() calls did draw the new board (instantly), wich in
7348 the fishy patch was then immediately overwritten by the old position, to
7349 start animation. This drawing of the old position is now no longer
7352 2011-01-29 13:36:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7355 The RTF file is adapted to the new menu organization.
7357 2011-01-29 13:31:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7360 The highlight-with-arrow and one-click-move menu items are described.
7361 The highlightMoveWithArrow and variations option are described.
7362 Load Next /Previous Position descriptions are moved to File menu.
7363 The description for entering variations is updated (using Shift key).
7364 The remark that editing holdings is impossible is removed.
7365 Spartan Chess is added to the list of supported variants.
7367 2011-01-28 18:35:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7368 Updated copyright notice to 2011
7371 2011-01-24 15:01:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7372 Greyout unavailable variants in New Variant dialog
7374 The WB radio-button code is refactored to be driven from a list (which
7375 must be kept in phase with the variant definitions in common.h!). It now
7376 also checks if the first engine supports the variant, and greys out the
7377 item if it isn't. XB now also makes this check. Slight re-ordering of
7378 10x8 variants there, to have the more common on top.
7379 If no radio button is selected, keep old variant even on OK.
7381 2011-01-19 11:10:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7382 Move clock-click code to back-end
7384 Some duplicated (or should-be-duplicated) code for handling clicks on
7385 the clocks from the XBoard and WinBoard front-ends was merged and
7386 relocated to the back-end, so it can be shared. Noticeable was that
7387 XBoard allowed turn change in ICS examine mode by clock clicking,
7388 while WinBoard did not. WB, on the other hand, allowed clock adjustment.
7390 2011-01-16 23:15:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7391 Fix legality testing of drop moves
7393 Drops of noexistent pieces (i.e. with a piece indicator letter that is
7394 not corresponding to any defined piece) are now parsed as
7395 ImpossibleMove, rather than IllegalMove, so they are also rejected with
7396 legality testing off.
7398 2011-01-17 00:28:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7399 Fix WB Sound Options greyout and remove some grossness
7401 The sound and ICS Options menu items in WB were accessed 'by position',
7402 with fixed defined positions (always messing up any reorganization of
7403 the menus when you forgot to redefine the position constants in
7404 winboard.h). And not only that, but for completely mysterious reasons,
7405 the greying of the sound item greyed out the game-list options (above
7406 it) in stead when it was defined as 9, and the ICS options (below it)
7407 when it was 10 !!!. Now they are addressed 'by command' (and the
7408 position definitions are removed), which fixes things.
7410 2011-01-25 21:35:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7411 Re-instate load next/prev position menu items
7413 As positions do not use something similar to the game list, these are
7414 still useful. For some reason I could not get Alt+Shift+PgUp/Dn to work,
7415 so I settled for Shift+PgUp/Dn.
7417 2011-01-16 21:56:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7418 Remove superfluous copying of machine move
7420 There was explicit code in HandleMachineMove() and FinishMove() to put
7421 the move in the moveList, while MakeMove() already does this later in a
7422 more reliable way by calling CoordsToComputerAlgebraic(). This
7423 superfluous code is removed now.
7425 2011-01-16 21:44:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7426 Fix spurious mate test in Edit Game mode
7428 When entering a game, it was terminated by the mate test even when
7429 legality checking was switched off (so that mates might not be reliably
7430 recognized). The mate test is now made dependent on legality testing.
7432 2011-01-16 21:37:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7433 Fix type-in of drop moves
7435 Drop moves entered through the move type-in already come in the (piece,
7436 DROP_RANK, x, y) format, rather than having a holdings from square. This
7437 caused UserMoveEvent to consider them illegal when testing if the
7438 piecewas of the side to move, and when this was fixed, to recognize
7439 Knight drops as coming from between board and holdings (and thus
7442 2011-01-16 21:31:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7443 Fix move type-in truncating game
7445 Starting a new variation by keeping Shift pressed did not work when
7446 OK'ing the move type-in, because there was some code ther that truncated
7447 the game. While this could be safely left to UserMoveEvent, which it
7448 calls, as the situation is not different from entering moves through the
7451 2011-01-11 16:12:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7452 Fix legality testing for promotions
7454 Turns out WB has never tested for the legality of the chosen promotion
7455 piece, and would allow promotion to King innorml chess even with
7456 legality testing on (when entered through the keyboard)! Now strict
7457 testing is done, outlawing Pawns and Kings (or Unicorns in
7458 Knightmate). Only in suicide / giveaway Kings are stillallowed, and in
7459 spartan a black King if you do not have two yet.(And promotion
7460 toLnce,representing Hoplite Pawn,is forbidden there.)
7462 2011-01-11 11:34:07 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7463 Reset 50-move counter on all pawn-like Lance moves
7465 Now the Lance represents a Pawn-like piece not only in variant fairy,
7466 but anywhere outside Shogi / Superchess, its moves should also reset the
7467 50-move counter in those cases. Especially important for Spartan Chess,
7468 where the Lance actually participates.
7470 2011-01-11 11:18:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7473 The logos were not repainted when the main window was moved out of the
7474 display area, and then back into view. The reason for this is
7475 unknown, as the PaintProc calls HDCDrawPosition, which was calling
7476 DrawLogoOnDC. But the logos were not drawn, (or on an expose event
7477 sometimes half drawn!) despite the fact that the rest of the board was.
7478 The drawing of logos now has been decoupled from drawing the board,
7479 and has been moved to a separate routine DisplayLogos() (in analogy to
7480 DisplayBothClocks()). This is cleaner anyway, as the logos usually do
7481 not change when the board does. So apart from in PaintProc, it has only
7482 to be called when the mode changes (ModeHighlight()) or on swap clocks.
7483 This seems to fix the problem.
7485 2011-01-10 20:36:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7486 Fix time in PGN info
7488 Saving of the thinking time in the PGN was broken by the patch that
7489 removed the race condition in the clock switching, because that moved
7490 the incrementing of forwardMostMove to behind the code that used fmm to
7491 index pvInfoList. As a result the time was stored in the slot for the
7492 opponent's previous move. The value is corrected now.
7494 2011-01-09 00:24:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7497 The move that delivers checkmate in two-machines mode is not animated
7498 when adjudication is on. There then also is no highlighting of this move
7499 Redrawing the board and calling ShowMove fixes it. Which is rather
7500 strange, because ShowMove was already called in Adjudicate (when it
7501 adjudicates), before GameEnds. For reasons that are not understood this
7502 call to ShowMove() (which calls AnimateMove()) is not effective.
7504 2011-01-09 00:21:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7505 Reset machine colors after match
7507 The colors each engine playse are set to the originals after the last
7508 match game, so that a new match or two-machines game will not have
7511 2011-01-09 00:15:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7512 Reset win/loss counters before match
7514 The win/loss counters were not reset, because the code counted on them
7515 being initialized to zero. But with matches startable from the menu,
7516 this is no longer true after the first match.
7518 2011-01-09 00:08:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7519 Show move that causes false illegal-move claim
7521 Without claim testing XBoard takes back moves that an engine objects to.
7522 But when the engine is forfeited for a false claim, the move should of
7523 course stay. So the claim test is moved to before the take-back.
7525 2011-01-09 00:05:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7526 Fix Spartan promotion to King
7528 Promotions toKing were refused when in check, because XBoard thought
7529 they would not resolve the check. Now the promotion is actually
7530 performed before doing the check test.
7532 2011-01-05 17:31:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7533 Fix WB font-based piece rendering on variant switch
7535 The piece bitmaps were only created from the font characters when the
7536 number of ranks or files changed, because it was done in
7537 InitDrawingSizes(). This caused missing pieces when changing to a
7538 variant on the same board that used other pieces. Now InitDrawingSizes()
7539 is called for any variant switch.
7541 2011-01-05 17:25:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7542 Fix right-alignment pproblem in WB ICS window
7544 Use of Ctrl-R to summon the context menu still trickled through to the
7545 default text-edit window routine, and caused right-alignment. This was
7546 because the text-edit reacts on keyDown rather than the character event.
7547 KeyDown of R with Ctrl pressed is now also intercepted and ignored.
7549 2011-01-03 13:04:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7550 Fix chat window title
7552 The title was using the engine name, rather than the ICS handle, which
7553 did not work outside zippy mode. Now it only uses the engine name when
7554 no ICS handle is known. The titleis now also subjected to translation.
7556 2011-01-03 12:50:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7557 Fix spurious reading of old game title by JAWS
7559 Because focus was switched to the board window before loading the
7560 selected game from the game list, the titlebar still contained the
7561 name of the previously loaded game, which would spontaneously be read by
7562 JAWS. Now the focus switch is done after loading the new game (which
7563 updates the window title.)
7565 2011-01-03 12:37:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7566 Add variant Spartan Chess
7568 In the WB menu it takes the place of the defunct Twilight Chess item.
7569 The setup routine needed patching for setting up Lances in stead of
7570 Pawns for black, the check test had to be adapted to handle duple check,
7571 Alfil and Dragon moves were fine tuned in this variant to make the exact
7572 moves, and the promotion popup was adapted to show King and interpret
7573 Rook and Bishop as Dragon and Alfil for black. The Alfil now always
7574 moves as Modern Elephant except in Shatranj and Courier.
7576 2011-01-03 12:23:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7579 Due to a bug in logical operators drops were tried for mate evasions
7580 even in non-drop games, which broke it in Superchess and Great Shatranj,
7581 and wasted CPU time in other variants.
7583 2011-01-05 17:19:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7584 Fix promotion suffixon disambiguated piece moves
7586 The promotion suffixon piecemoves that needed disambiguation was not
7587 passedon to the back-end in most variants. Now it is passed on in any
7590 2011-01-03 12:08:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7591 Fix promotion of Pawn-like Lance
7593 In variants where the Lance is used to represent an unorthodox Pawn, it
7594 must promote when it reaches last rank. With legality testing on,
7595 however, the promoChar was ignored in ApplyMove in this case. The
7596 promotion suffix also was not appended in SAN moves.
7598 2011-01-03 11:57:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7599 Fix WB promotion popup
7601 The promotion popup did not work properly in variants where black did
7602 not use the pieces that white wanted to promote to. Now the character
7603 for the selected piece is taken from the piece encodings of the side to
7604 move. In addition, selection of undefined pieces is ignored.
7606 2011-01-02 14:17:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7607 Fix bug in parsing variations
7609 The moves parsed from a variation were stored in the moveList without
7610 appended linefeed. This caused errors if the variation extended to
7611 beyond the end of the main line,into a hitherto unused part of the move
7612 list, as the linefeed was then not there from the overwritten move. As a
7613 result moves sent to the engine were concatenated, triggering
7614 illegal-move messages and bringing the engine out of phase.
7616 2011-01-02 14:11:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7617 Define Ctrl-R as right-click in WB Comment dialog
7619 To allow JAWS users to load a variation through the keyboard, Ctrl-R is
7620 equated to a right click at the position of the caret or selection.
7622 2011-01-02 14:10:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7623 Allow starting a variation from keyboard entry in WB-JAWS
7625 The status of the shift key is remembered when space is pressed to
7626 select a board square.
7628 2011-01-02 14:06:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7629 Disable some accelerators in JAWS version
7631 Single-key accelerators that could result in irreversible data loss are
7632 undesirable, because the risk of accidentally pushing them is too large.
7633 So the non-Alt duplicates of next/previous game/position are disabled,
7634 as are Home and End for Revert and Truncate Game. JAWS users will have
7635 to rely on the menus for those functions.
7637 2011-01-02 13:59:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7638 Group engine-output memos with engine names
7640 The engine names are now defined just before the text edits, so that
7641 JAWS 11 will read the engine name when the memo for the output of that
7642 engine is selected. (JAWS 10 will still read the NPS, as it reads in
7645 2011-01-02 13:55:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7646 Put nr CPU earlier in tab cycle of WB Common Engine dialog
7648 By defining the max CPU control after hash size, the tabbing steps
7649 through the controls in geometrical (and logical) order, rather than
7650 having the max CPU in between the book controls.
7652 2010-12-29 23:47:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7653 Update WB language template file
7656 2010-12-29 23:41:27 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7657 Subject JAWS menu and spoken strings to translation
7660 2010-12-29 23:37:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7661 Let JAWS SayString buffer full sentence
7663 The meaning of the flag parameter of SayString was changed to indicate
7664 buffering of flushing. On flushing a message of a single space is used
7665 as a kludge to indicate interruptability. Calls to force flushing where
7668 2010-12-29 23:32:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7669 Adapt JAWS menu to new menu organization
7671 The menus did not correspondto the texts after translation of the main
7674 2010-12-29 23:18:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7675 Translate menus after creation of JAWS menu
7678 2010-12-29 23:07:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7679 Fix ICS context menu for JAWS
7681 The Ctrl+R key did select text at the mouse pointer in stead of at the
7682 curser, now that up and down-click were combined.
7684 2010-12-29 23:04:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7685 Reorganize order of WB New Variant dialog controls
7687 The definitions are re-ordered so that at least JAWS 11 will speak the
7688 board-size elements properly.
7690 2010-12-29 22:57:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7691 Fix order of elements in WB time-control dialog
7693 Someleading texts were defined after the text edit they referred to,so
7694 that JAWS 11 associated them to the wrong one. A tab stop was added to
7695 the time-odds label, to make JAWS speak it.
7697 2010-12-29 22:51:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7698 Change tabbing order in WB sounds dialog
7700 The 'Play' button now gets focus immediately after the controls for
7701 selecting the sound, rather than at the end of the dialog (after OK).
7703 2010-12-29 22:47:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7704 Remove tab stops on first radio button of WB dialogs
7706 The New Variant and Board dialogs had a tab stop on the first radio
7707 button,so that tabbing toit would automatically select variant
7708 normal or size tiny. Now it tabs straight to the current size, without
7709 changing anything. (Important for JAWS users.)
7711 2010-12-29 22:45:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7712 Put OK/Cancel last in tab cycle of some WB dialogs
7715 2010-12-29 22:29:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7716 Fix duplicate menu character for Edit Comment
7718 Edit Comment did have the same shortcut character as Copy Game. Changed
7721 2010-12-11 11:18:56 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7722 fixed automake process: xboard.conf couldn't be generated if $srcdir was not the current directory
7725 2010-12-11 09:50:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7726 new developer release
7729 2010-12-05 18:01:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7730 Subject WB context menus to translation
7732 The innerloopof the menu translation has been made into a separate
7733 routine. This now uses GetMenuItemInfo() in stead of ModifyMenu() to
7734 better preserve menu breaks. Menu #10 is used for context menus (from
7735 the routine that pops them up), and for this number the orignal texts
7736 are not saved in menuText. (This is not needed, because the menu is
7737 created everytime anew from the resource data.)
7739 2010-12-05 15:00:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7740 Update translation template
7742 Add the new menu items; add some notes.
7744 2010-12-05 14:04:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7745 Resize buttons in WB engine-settings dialog
7747 The OK and cancel buttons were to narrow for most translations, and were
7748 a non-standard order as well.
7750 2010-12-05 13:56:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7751 Add one-click move control to WB general-options dialog
7753 This is a duplicate of the one in the ICS options dialog, but the latter
7754 is inaccessible in non-ICS modes, and one-click move is now
7755 alsoavailable in engine mode.
7757 2010-12-05 13:51:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7758 Create space in dialogs for translation
7760 The translated texts often did not fit, because controls were defined
7761 needlessly small (when there was empty space between them). In these
7762 cases they have been enlarged to consume all available space. Some
7763 dialogs are made wider.
7765 2010-12-05 13:47:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7766 Add handle for translator acknowledgement
7768 An empty string is printed in the about box, which can be 'translated'
7769 to a message acknowledging the translator.
7771 2010-12-05 13:43:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7772 Use default logo for user
7774 When no logo with the name of the current user is found, use dummy.bmp.
7776 2010-12-05 15:46:34 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7777 added rlwrap tip to FAQ
7780 2010-12-03 23:24:06 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7781 replace hard coded paths with path from configure script
7783 use $datadir and subdirectories to store some data files. Also make files in xboard.conf use correct path.
7785 2010-12-03 23:02:09 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7786 fixed a typo in the configure script output
7789 2010-12-03 21:46:00 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7790 added a desktop file
7792 taken from the openSUSE project
7794 2010-12-03 22:44:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7795 Fix Edit Game/Position checkmarking in WinBoard
7797 Because the entries in Edit and Mode menu were pure duplicats, the
7798 entries in the wrong menu (Edit) were checkmarked while active. By
7799 defining different IDs for those in the Edit menu, those in the Mode
7800 menu are checkmarked again.
7802 2010-12-03 10:07:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7803 Add XBoard menu items for arrow highlight and one-click move
7805 These items are put in the options menu; the 'Old Save Style' item is
7808 2010-12-03 09:27:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7809 Provide menus for editing WinBoard engine and server lists
7811 The Edit Tags dialog in the WB front-end is adapted to act as a general
7812 edit for string variables, by giving it an extra parameter to indicate
7813 where to store the edited result. Menu items are added to invoke this
7814 dialog for editing the /first, /secondChessProgramNames and /icsNames
7815 options. This solves the problem that people would have to edit an ini
7816 file that they can no longer locate (because the %APPDATA% folder has
7817 different names and locations in the various Windows versions, and is
7818 often a hidden folder on top of that).
7819 There is a slight memory leak here, as the memory for the previous
7820 value of the altered string option is not freed.
7822 2010-12-02 16:18:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7823 Configure arrow highlighting as default in XBoard
7825 Set -highlightMoveWithArrow true in the xboard.conf file, and specify a
7826 lineGap of 0 to make that efficient (and the wood theme even nicer).
7828 2010-12-02 15:56:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7829 Port highlighting with arrow to XBoard
7831 Unfortuntely this duplicates a fair amount of code in the front end.
7832 Removing the arrow is done by a total repaint if there is a non-zero
7833 lineGap, because the clever algorithm for selective redrawing (based
7834 on damage) that XBoard uses does not repair damage to the grid lines.
7835 For lineGap=0, however, (for which the arrow is mainly intended) the
7836 damage mechanism is used, and the damaged squares are determined by
7837 tracing out the arrow in 64 steps, and marking all squares in the
7838 neighborhood as damaged.
7840 2010-12-02 15:55:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7841 Strip CR from xboard.c
7844 2010-12-02 14:21:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7845 Let user decide if he wants highlights in blindfold mode
7847 Remove the automaticsuppression ofhighlighting.
7849 2010-12-02 00:24:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7850 Fix fag-fell marker with logos on
7852 The flag-fell marker "(!)" that is displayed in the clock in WinBoard in
7853 two-machines mode was printed twice when the clock was split over two
7854 lines (as with logos on).
7856 2010-12-01 18:57:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7857 Also exempt variant seirawan from eval-scale doubling
7859 It is not really a drop game, so a scale from -7 to 7 in the eval graph
7860 is good enough (like variants great and super).
7862 2010-12-01 10:33:13 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7863 Configure EGTB cache size in adapterCommand
7865 The hash size, nr of CPUs and EGTB path are transferred through the WB
7866 protocol interface commands memory, cores and egtpath. But there is no
7867 WB command for detailing the EGTB cache size. So the value of the
7868 command-line option -defaultCacheSizeEGTB has to be sent to Polyglot
7869 through its startup command to make it known to UCI engines.
7871 2010-11-30 22:46:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7872 Move Hint and Book items to Engine menu in XBoard
7875 2010-11-30 22:17:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7876 Correct the key bindings fo view menu in texi file
7878 The mentioned bindings for Game List and Eval Graph were wrong.
7880 2010-11-30 21:25:07 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7881 Fix sub-variation display with negative score
7883 The test if the displayed score was the pvInfo score failed for negative
7884 scores, because floats are truncated towards zero. So the previous fix
7885 of spurious score/depth info was not working when the score was
7888 2010-11-30 18:27:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7889 Peel PV out of comment
7891 Arena stores engine PVs not in variation format, but within both braces
7892 and parentheses, before the score/depth info. This caused XBoard to
7893 overlook the score/depth info, (frustrating, e.g., the eval graph),
7894 while the PV would not be accessible for walking it as a variation.
7895 The routine that extracts the score/depth from a comment now has
7896 been made more clever, to recognize a leadin PV in the comment, and then
7897 place it in front of the comment as variation (by moving the opening
7898 brace to behind it). For some reason it does not work if the PV and
7899 score/depth were separated by a newline, but this happens quite rarely.
7901 2010-11-30 18:23:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7902 Allow line-straddling result comments
7904 Some GUIs (in particular Arena) do not have the decency to keep the
7905 result comment on a single line. In this case the parser rules would not
7906 recognize it, and treat it as a normal comment, plus an undetailed PGN
7907 result. The rules are now fixed to allow linefeeds in the comment, and
7908 between comment and PGN result. To correctly process the comment further
7909 (e.g. in game-list lines) the linefeeds are replaced by spaces in the
7910 back-end routines that do use the result comment.
7912 2010-11-30 12:22:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7913 Write key bindings in XBoard menus
7915 Unfortunately tabs are not understood in menu texts, so fine-tuning
7916 through spaces is necessary to get some sort of ragged alignment.
7918 2010-11-29 18:01:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7919 Configure XBoard to use wood board texture by default
7921 The texture pixmaps are sought in /usr/share/games/xboard, with names
7922 wood_l.pm and wood_d.xpm. I guess the " make install" should be adapted
7923 to put them there. XBoard is resitent to non-existence of the files,
7924 btw. It simply ignores the arguments in that case.
7926 2010-11-29 17:48:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7927 Configure -inc as volatile option in XBoard
7929 XBoard users are not used to options being persistent, and thus have
7930 many scripts assuming the timeIncrement is -1 when they don't specify it
7931 on the command line, and want to specify -mps. But a persistent -inc of
7932 0 fom a preious session would then force their -mps to zero, causing
7935 2010-11-29 17:36:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7936 Make WinBoard clocks translation-proof
7938 With logos on, the splitting of the clock over two lines assumed the
7939 lengths of the words "white" and "black" would always be 5. Used strlen.
7941 2010-11-29 14:57:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7942 Improve drawing of highlight arrow
7944 A diagonal arrow sometimes had a notch in the shaft because of
7945 independent rounding of the starting and ending point coordinates.
7946 Furthermore the width of the shaft was unnecessary variable(as a
7947 function of direction) because half the width was rounded and then used
7948 twice. Now rounding of end-points is always done towards a fixed grid
7949 of square centers, which keeps diagonals purely diagonal, and one side
7950 of the shaft is drawn relative to the other side, after the
7951 position of the latter has been rounded, so any rounding error affects
7952 the shaft width only once.
7954 2010-11-29 10:25:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7955 Alter descriptionof Analyze File menu item
7957 This menu item has been given a new function, so a new description was
7960 2010-11-29 10:15:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7961 Add description of Game List Options in texi file
7964 2010-11-29 09:58:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7965 Update texi file for new menu organization
7967 The descriptions are shuffled around and organized into sections
7968 corresponding to the new main menus. Where necessary the name of the
7969 items was changed to their new names. The items removed from the File
7970 menu (the next/previous/same stuff) are nowmoved to the section "other
7971 shortcut keys", as the key bindings for some of them are still active.
7973 2010-11-29 09:06:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7974 Update info on key bindings in texi file
7976 The texi file was still listing the old XBoard key bindings. Where
7977 necessary this is now changed to the new (WinBoard) bindings, and all
7978 the new bindings were added.
7980 2010-11-29 09:04:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7981 Add XBoard key bindings for Revert and Truncate
7983 Use Home key as accelerator for Revert, End for Truncate, as in WinBoard.
7985 2010-11-28 23:12:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7986 Divorce the Edit and Show Tags/Comment menu items
7988 In WinBoard the items in the Edit and View menu for Tags and Comment now
7989 have different IDs, so they can be independently controlled. Only the
7990 items in the View menu are check-marked. The items still do the same.
7992 2010-11-28 23:08:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7993 Alter WinBoard menu text
7995 The texts are slightly adapted, mostly by choosing more convenient
7996 tabbing characters for the new menu organization. The translation
7997 template is updated accordingly.
7999 2010-11-28 20:24:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8000 Let move-history window scroll to bottom after adding move
8002 By activating the scrollbar of the viewport through XtCallActionProc
8003 the move-history window is scrolled to the bottom.
8005 2010-11-27 14:38:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8006 Fix Shogi promotion popup
8008 The texts were adapted to shogi by printing new text items over the
8009 Queen and Knight buttons, but these did not alwys cover it. Now the text
8010 on the buttons is changed as it should be. Also the window title is
8013 2010-11-26 11:22:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8014 Apply gettext macros to menu texts
8016 Now texts and references are separated, the texts in the tables can be
8017 decorated with the N_() macro, so that the _() macro no longer has to be
8018 applied when they are used. (This makes the texts appear in the .po
8021 2010-11-26 11:12:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8022 Adapt some XBoard menu texts
8024 The "Show" prefix is removed from the "View" menu items, as this seems
8025 implied. An ellipsis is added to the Engine #N Settings items, which
8026 could not be there before, because periods in a menu name would break
8027 any reference to it. For some other names the ellipsis was deleted.
8028 (These were not refered to, but who knows what we will do in the future.)
8030 2010-11-26 11:03:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8031 Separate menu text from menu name in XBoard
8033 The text string in the menu-definition tables was used both for the menu
8034 text, as well as for referencing the items from the code (for enabing or
8035 checkmarking). Now these can be defined separately, so that altering the
8036 menu texts is possible without breaing any references to the item.
8037 (Moving them to another menu would still break XBoard, though!)
8038 Currently the texts and names are still the same.
8040 2010-11-26 10:48:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8041 Bugfix XBoard menu translation
8043 The gettext macro N_() was applied to the menu definition tables, but
8044 this would break any translation, as these items are both used as menu
8045 texts as well as reference for enabling and checkmarking. The routines
8046 that create the menus already apply _() dynamically to these items when
8047 they are used as menu texts.
8049 2010-11-26 10:10:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8050 Restrict drops in variant seirawan to back rank
8052 Drops aren't really llowed at all in Seirawan Ches, but there exists an
8053 engine that supports a variant where drops on the back-rank are allowed.
8055 2010-11-25 19:44:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8056 Let Analyze File annotate the loaded game
8058 By not suppressing the auto-play loop in AnalyzeFle mode, we step
8059 through the game while the engine is analyzing, and store the PV info
8060 that the engine produces, as well as the full PV (as variation comment)
8063 2010-11-25 19:41:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8064 Revive Analyze File menu item in WB
8066 We will keep this menu after all, becase it can be given a new meaning.
8068 2010-11-25 19:31:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8069 Fix spurious scores in comments
8071 The comment popup is also used to display engine PV info, but when the
8072 contents of the window is written back when we select a variation,
8073 it was treated as a real comment. This is fixed now by checing in
8074 ReplaceComment() if the comment starts with the PV info, and if so,
8075 ignore the latter. This solves the problem, but I guess the real bug is
8076 that selecting a variation tries to write the comment even if it did not
8079 2010-11-25 19:26:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8080 Display error for wrong use of Machine Match
8083 2010-11-24 13:30:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8084 Reorganize XBoard menus
8087 2010-11-24 11:02:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8088 Reorganize WinBoard menus
8090 New main menus Edit, View and Engine are added; the step menu
8091 disappears. The menu items are redistributed over the new menus.
8092 Sometimes duplicates are created. No adaptation of short-cut characters
8093 as made yet (as this affects translation).
8095 2010-11-20 20:20:27 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8096 removed trailing whitespaces from NEWS
8099 2010-11-20 20:19:30 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8100 merged readme_HGM.txt into the NEWS file
8102 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.
8104 2010-11-20 18:24:19 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8105 typo in date of developer release
8107 but will leave the tagged version as it is, since it's still a unique version number
8109 2010-11-20 18:11:01 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8110 new developer release
8113 2010-11-20 18:12:41 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8114 added latest version of parser.c
8117 2010-11-20 18:05:56 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8118 updated Changelog, etc for developer release
8121 2010-11-20 16:22:00 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8122 Revert "adding gnu-readline support"
8124 This reverts commit c95ef32a700132a134f335f857ca6f1b6f3c169f.
8129 better to use the (relatively) new ICS input box then add readline support.
8131 2010-11-20 16:19:32 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8132 Revert "bugfix: fixed readline support with icslogon option"
8134 This reverts commit b9cdd7422ad1037d7376bce4f8f2db2669396e83.
8139 better to use the (relatively) new ICS input box then add readline support.
8141 2010-11-19 23:10:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8142 Make Hoplite moves irreversible in Spartan Chess
8144 Consider Lance moves in variant Fairy (where the Lance represents the
8145 Spartan Hoplite Pawn) as Pawn moves, so they reset the 50-move counter.
8147 2010-11-19 21:09:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8148 Give Lance moves of Amazon in variant super
8150 Now that Lance is no longer a wild-card piece the moves of Amazon must
8151 be programmed explicitly, to keep the possibbilty to play Superchess
8152 with legality testing on.
8154 2010-11-19 18:32:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8155 Change representation of Bede in variant fairy initial position
8157 This used to be Lance, but the promoted Bishop (Dragon Horse)
8158 is more applicable. Especially now that Lance is supposed to move like a
8161 2010-11-19 18:28:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8162 Make yyskipmoves also suppress examining of drop moves
8164 Not sure if this does any good, but it seemed illogical that this would
8165 happen in all other moves, but not drops.
8167 2010-11-19 18:23:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8168 Define moves for Dragon Horse outside Shogi
8170 Let it move like Bishop + Wazir + Dababba.
8172 2010-11-17 13:40:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8173 Fix safety crash when appending comments
8175 The length limit imposed on safeStrCpy was one too short when copying
8176 an existing comment to the space allocated for the longer (concatenated)
8177 one. It allowed no space for the terminating '\0'.
8179 2010-11-17 13:38:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8182 The test for when to terminate a non-fiting string was one off, and the
8183 debug message was written stdoutin stead of debugFP.
8185 2010-11-16 12:40:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8186 Fix default holdings size for variant seirawan
8188 The holdings for 7 pieces werealways considered an overrule, so that the
8189 variant name was prefixed with "8x8+7_".
8191 2010-11-15 11:36:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8194 When confronted with a path name starting with ~ and not containing a /
8195 XBoard would segfault.
8197 2010-11-14 21:45:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8198 Fix one-click moving on up-click
8200 (First) up-clicks were not always ignored: in Edit-Game mode with
8201 one-click moving enabled this could lead to a capture being made on
8202 the down-click, and the recapture on the correspoding up-click.
8203 This has now been corrected, and only the down-click of a first click
8204 can lead to selecting a piece or a one-click move.
8206 2010-11-15 18:15:40 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8207 fixed buffer size for snprintf
8210 2010-11-13 23:04:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8211 Accept Seirawan-style gating suffixes
8213 The parser rules were extended to accept / as an equivalent of = in
8214 promotion-suffix notation (e.g. Nf3/H in stead of Nf3=H).
8216 2010-11-13 22:55:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8217 Use Falcon and Alfil as built-ins for Seirawan chess
8219 Where available (size 49 and 72) we use Falcon for Archbishop and Alfil
8220 for Chancelor, to better conform to the Seirawan names Hawk and Elephant.
8222 2010-11-13 20:02:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8223 Implement entering gating moves with mouse
8225 A move with a back-rank piece that starts when a piece in the holdings
8226 is selected will be interpreted as a gating move in variant seirawan.
8227 The front-end uses a 'gatingPiece' selected this way todisplay it on the
8228 from square during animate dragging.
8230 2010-11-13 18:56:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8231 Implement variant seirawan
8233 Set upthe position, including Hawk and Elephant in holdings, in
8234 InitPostion(). Suppress putting captured pieces in holding. Let
8235 promoChar indicate gating in ApplyMove(). Remove gated pieces from
8236 the holdings there. Let GenLegal() generate RxK-type castlings to act as
8237 base for gating on Rook square. Gatings are tested for legality
8238 based on the holdings content and whether they occur on the back
8239 rank. Disambiguate() also tests this. Make sure the gated pieces are
8240 printed as move suffixes in CoordsToAlgebraic().
8242 2010-11-13 18:42:27 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8243 Add -variant seirawan to menu
8246 2010-11-13 22:52:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8247 Fix acceptance of null-move with legality testing off
8249 A second click on the same piece was interpreted as a to-square rather
8250 than deselection of the piece.
8252 2010-11-13 22:49:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8255 Disambiguate was imagining captures, so an only capture by double
8256 clicking your own piece did not always work.
8258 2010-11-13 20:08:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8259 Fix mouse-driver buglet
8261 The highlights were not cleared on moves that went vertically off board.
8263 2010-11-12 17:17:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8264 List some undocumented commands as compliant
8266 The engine->GUI commands setboard and setup are now always printed in
8267 the debug file as well.
8269 2010-11-12 17:05:22 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8270 List Hint with compliant commands
8272 This command was omitted, so that in some -engineDebugOutput modes it
8273 would not appear in the debug file.
8275 2010-11-12 17:02:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8276 Restrict use of escape expansion
8278 Only expand escape sequences like \n and \t in telluser(error) comamnds
8279 that ask for it by preficing the messages by double backslash. Otherwise
8280 backward copatiblity is too severely broken for messages that display
8281 DOS-style filenames.
8283 2010-11-12 13:56:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8284 Make safeStrCpy safe
8286 SafeStrCpy was causing a lot of out-of-bound write accesses, as it was
8287 always writing the character at the length limit of the destination.
8288 Now no memory is accessed that is is not needed to hold the copy.
8290 2010-11-07 21:37:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8291 Allow clicked name internal to the icsMenu command string
8293 A command in the /icsMenu that was specified to contain the selected
8294 text or clicked word always appended this word at the end. Now the user
8295 can also configure it to appear in the middle, by putting a %s in the
8296 command string where he wants it to appear.
8298 2010-11-07 21:33:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8299 Let Engine #2 Settings start second engine
8301 If the second engine is not yet running, it would be impossible to use
8302 the settings dialog for it, as the features have not been received and
8303 the dialog will be empty. So the user could not adjust the engine
8304 parameters before starting a match. Using this menu now automatically
8305 starts the engine, and delays the appearence of the popup untill the
8306 features are received, using a similar mechanism as in
8307 TwoMachinesEventIfReady().
8309 2010-11-01 19:40:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8310 Newly lexed parser.c
8313 2010-11-06 19:55:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8314 Fix bug in parsing illegal Pawn captures
8316 When a pawn move of type exf5 was illegal, the parser made an attempt to
8317 interpret it as e.p. capture of f5. This, however, messed up the move,
8318 so that it was now permanently mistaken for e5xf6. Even in cases with
8319 legality testing off, where you would want the original move to be
8320 accepted despite the fact that it was illegal.
8322 2010-11-06 19:49:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8323 Keep last PV while clearing engine-output display
8325 When ponder is on, the display is cleared immediately when the last line
8326 of thinking output appears by the appearing ponder output. So you would
8327 never get the chance to see it. This line is now re-written after
8328 clearing, so it appears at the bottom of the output for the next search.
8330 2010-11-06 19:45:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8331 Give Lance moves of Berolina Pawn
8333 In stead of using it as a wildcard piece, the Lance gets the moves of
8334 the Berolina Pawn (straight capture, diagonal move). The initial double
8335 osh can be a ump, though. (So it is really a Hoplite Pawn from Spartan
8338 2010-11-06 19:42:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8339 Use SAN even on illegal moves
8341 If there is only one piece of type T, moves like Ta1 or Txa1 are never
8342 ambiguous, so adding the from square is just cumbersome.
8344 2010-11-06 19:34:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8345 Use normal SAN for wildcard pieces
8347 SAN often can also be used with pieces we don't know the moves of, e.g.
8348 if there is only one of that type. We just always get rank or file
8349 disambiguators if there are more (even when they might be unnecessary).
8351 2010-11-06 14:52:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8354 Unused variables were removed from parser.l
8356 2010-11-06 14:43:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8357 Allow arbitrary nesting of sub-variations in PGN input
8359 The parsing of subvariations is moved out of the state-machine parsing,
8360 to allow arbitrary nesting. In stead of the entire sub-variation being
8361 parsed by lex as Comment, it now returns Open and Close for the
8362 corresponding parentheses, which are then handled in a wrapper routine
8363 for yylex(): Myylex(). Problem was that yy_text is supposed to return
8364 the entire parsed text of the returned symbol, which thus has to be
8365 collected. To make this possible, yylex has to return everything that it
8366 parses, (even white space!), and a symbol "Nothing" was added to return
8367 in parsing rules that before just ate away irrelevant text without
8370 2010-11-06 21:48:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8371 Implement setup (engine-GUI) command
8373 This allows the frst engine (when legality testing is off) to overrule
8374 the default opening position, in reply to the variant command. Syntax is
8375 "setup (PIECE_TO_CHAR_TABLE) FEN_STRING"
8376 where the FEN string is interpreted in the context of the given
8377 pieceToCharTable (which is optional, and only delimeted by parethesis if
8379 Sendng the position to the second engine is delayed until the first
8380 engine has responded to the ping after the new-game sequence, to make
8381 sure it gets the chance to alter the position before it is sent to the
8382 second engine. This feature is useful for playing variants that WinBoard
8383 does not even know the opening positon for, and can be used even if they
8384 are shuffle variants.
8386 2010-11-06 14:19:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8387 Restrict use of a2a3 kludge
8389 The kudge to send "a2a3" in stead of "black" to get black to move is
8390 fatally flawed in varants that have no Pawn on a2. So in that case we
8391 revert to use of the deprecated "black" command.
8393 2010-11-02 13:06:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8394 Remember values set by -firstOptions, -secondOptions
8396 When an engine announces its option features, and the option name
8397 matches that of a setting given in -first/secondOptions, the engine is
8398 sent hte specified value, but this value was not remembered as current
8399 value (but the latter was left at the engine-announced default),
8400 leading to inconsistent behavior in the Engine #N Settings dialog.
8402 2010-11-01 19:26:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8403 Make test for valid promotion piece color-dependent
8405 This is needed to make it work in variants where white and black have
8406 different armies; quite likely white will promote to pieces that do not
8407 exist in the black army, so we really have to make sure we test if the
8408 white (upper-case) piece exists in this case.
8410 2010-11-01 19:23:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8411 Remove validity test on promochar from parser
8413 The backend routines Disambiguate() and LegalityTest() will catch
8414 invalid promotions, so no need to do it here.
8416 2010-10-31 23:37:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8417 Add the actual size-33 Shogi bitmaps
8419 These were forgotten in the original commit that fixed the .rc file.
8421 2010-10-31 13:20:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8422 Delete some stale promotion code
8424 The correction of the promotion piece to Ferz in Shatran-like variants
8425 in ApplyMove() was no longer needed, as the new promotion code already
8426 does this in the move parser.
8428 2010-10-31 13:08:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8429 Augment moves of some fairy pieces
8431 To get better disambiguation in variants that have to be played with
8432 legality testing off, the Elephant is given also one-step moves (making
8433 it a so-called Modern Elephant) in -variant fairy and great. The Dragon
8434 King (Crowned Rook), which had no moves defined for it outside Shogi at
8435 all, has been given Rook moves plus an orthogonal 2-jump, so that it
8436 can get SAN moves when used as Dababba or Short Rook. (Illegal moves
8437 currently aways force long algebraic notation...)
8439 2010-11-08 22:57:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8440 Bugfix safeStrCpy patch, WinBoard
8442 The use of sizeof on pointers was detected through the same method as
8443 the previous patches, this time while compiling WinBoard. A typo in
8444 jaws.c was fixed as well.
8446 2010-11-08 23:03:13 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8447 Bugfix for safeStrCpy patch for XBoard
8449 By a trick (temporarily redefining safeStrCpy in common.h as
8450 ((char*) (a=1/(4-3rdArgument))) ) a compile-time warning (division by 0)
8451 could be generated for every occurrence where the size argument was equal
8452 to 4, i.e. where the 1st argument was likely a pointer rather than an
8453 array. These cases are now fixed. The file xoptions.c, which is the
8454 only ne that does not #include common.h had to be fixed by making
8455 the #define in the file itself.
8457 2010-10-31 13:16:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8458 Fix spurious promotions with legality testing off
8460 The recent promotion patch had broken playing without legality testing
8461 completely: without legality testing one always gets the piece that was
8462 asked for, but a NULLCHAR should not be taken as a request for a piece!
8463 But it was, and this resulted in any moved piece turning into a white
8464 Pawn! For true promotions the piece was always black, which was also not
8467 Also revert to the use of '+' as internal Shogi promoChar, because
8468 pre-processing turns out not to be possible when reading a game file.
8469 In stead parse any trailing '+' on moves as promoChar. Downside: '++'
8470 can no longer be recognized as checkmate symbol.
8472 2010-10-29 22:54:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8473 Make deferral default in Shogi promotions
8475 Because '+' is intercepted by the parser as check indicator, Shogi moves
8476 are pre-processed to change a trailing '+' into an internally used
8477 alternative '^'. The testing if a promotion character is OK is now done
8478 in LegalityTest() and Disambiguate(), which return ImpossibleMove when
8479 the character does not correspond to any piece, and IllegalMove when in
8480 Shogi anything other than '^' or '=' is used. (Except for the ICS
8481 notations.) On output, in CoordsToComputerAlgebraic() and
8482 CoordsToAlgebraic(), the '^' is translated back to '+'.
8484 2010-10-28 17:51:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8485 Animate piece explosions in drag-drop moves and in XB
8487 This required some code restructuring: the decision if an explosion is
8488 needed is now taken in a new routine Explode() in the backend. This then
8489 calls the front-end driver, and it returns the info if there was an
8490 explosion or not, so the caller (AnimateMove() or the mouse driver) can
8491 take action to repair the damage to the board caused by the blast wave.
8492 A front-end driver for XBoard is provided as well, so that both
8493 click-click (and replay, which is the same) and drag-drop atomic
8494 captures are animated in XB as well as WB.
8495 Explosions on rejected moves are suppressed.
8497 2010-10-28 13:53:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8498 Suppress promotion popup if piece will explode
8500 In atomic, a Pawn capture to last rank is not really a promotion.
8501 Fix choice to Queen.
8503 2010-10-28 18:42:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8504 Make Knight hop first straight, then diagonal
8506 It used to be the other way around, which looked pretty illogical in
8507 Xiangqi: to see Horses, which are blockable pieces there, move over an
8510 2010-10-27 20:04:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8511 Let -oneClickMove also work in EditGame mode
8513 There is really no reason why people that lke one-clcik moves enough to
8514 switch them on would not want to use them too when editing a game.
8515 This solves a nast inconsistency, as before it used to work in -ncp mode
8516 on the _first_ move, as the mode is then BeginningOfGame, and not yet
8517 EditGame, and we do want it to work for BeginningOfGame, as this is
8518 also the game mode when you start playing as white.
8520 2010-10-27 19:40:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8521 Make -flipBlack and -allWhite option volatile
8523 As these options are very Shogi specific, and the variant is volatile,
8524 it seems logical to make them also volatile. Not completely sure about
8525 -allWhite, though. It cold be useful if you want, for example, to play
8526 wth dark-brown pieces for black, as any color but black looks much
8527 better with outline pieces than with solid pieces.
8529 2010-10-27 19:33:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8530 Provide some sample board-texture pixmaps
8532 Wood and marble themes are provided as textures for light and dark
8533 squares, plus two complete Xiangqi boards (wood and evenly colored).
8534 These should probably not goint the distro tar ball.
8536 2010-10-27 19:25:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8537 The -overrideLineGap option is made to work in XBoard
8539 Although XBoard already allowed this in the -boardSize specification,
8540 it is still seful to globally disable grid lines, e.g. for an
8541 oriental Xiangqi board. And it converges XB and WB.
8543 2010-10-27 19:18:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8544 Implement board textures in XBoard
8546 The -darkBackTextureFile and -liteBackTextureFile options now wrk in
8547 XBoard too, for loading a pixmap that will be used to cut out the dark
8548 and light square backgrounds. The cutting algorithm is such that the
8549 pixmap image is completely restored if the size was that of the total
8550 board (e.g. a drawing of a Xiangqi board).
8552 2010-10-27 12:11:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8553 Complete WB (western) bitmaps for Shogi at size 33
8555 The Lance was not replacing Queen in some sizes where the bitmaps were
8556 already available, and new bitmaps for the promotion Golds were added.
8558 2010-10-22 20:30:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8559 Make starting new variation dependent on shift key
8561 The shift key is read during mouse events, and posted in a global
8562 variable, which can then be used by the back-end. The decision to start
8563 a new variation (pushing the game tail rather than clipping it off) when
8564 entring a move in Edit Game or Analyze mode is made dependent on this.
8565 The move-typein also records the shift-key state.
8567 2010-10-22 20:25:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8570 A %g format was used to print an int in sending the level command,
8571 because decimal points were dropped when merging patches. Also an unused
8572 variable was removed to suppress a warning.
8574 2010-10-18 19:50:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8575 Add set of shogi pixmaps for XBoard
8577 The -size 64 pieces from gShogi (and originally XShogi) are made
8578 suitable for loading by XBoard, through redefining the transparent
8579 background color as either light or dark square color. These bitmaps are
8580 not included in the XBoard build, and perhaps should not even be
8581 included in the source distribution, but made available in a separate
8584 2010-10-18 19:46:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8585 Implement -flipBlack in XBoard
8587 When -flipBlack is true, the white and back piece pixmaps are swapped in
8588 flipView. The idea is that the black pieces are upside-down versions of
8589 the white (Shogi) pieces, so that swapping white and black in effect
8590 turns all pieces upside down, which is what should happen in flipView.
8592 2010-10-11 21:06:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8593 Disable some very verbose debug printing
8595 The internationalization seems debugged enough to do without them.
8597 2010-10-11 20:52:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8598 Add option -variations to control variation-tree walking
8600 Just so that users can switch it off if the find it annoying.
8602 2010-10-11 21:01:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8603 Allow full promotion suffixes on SAN piece moves
8605 This facilitates the parsing of (non-standard) Shogi moves in ICS
8606 protocol. It can also be useful for Seirawan Chess, where a future
8607 implementation of it can use promotion suffixes to indicate gating.
8609 2010-10-11 14:07:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8610 Allow lower-case piece indicator in drop-move notation
8612 As it seems that XBoard also sends such moves in zippy play, it seems
8613 more fair to recognize them from the engine as well.
8615 2010-10-10 21:26:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8616 Fix bug in ICS variant switch for Shogi
8618 Because a test for 8x8 variants was done by <= VariantShogi,
8619 rather than <, spurious move-list fetching occurred in Shogi.
8621 2010-10-10 21:23:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8622 Fix WinBoard Lance bug
8624 The choice between Lance and Queen was made on appData.variant, in stead
8625 of gameInfo.variant. Because of this it was not always up-to-date in ICS
8628 2010-10-10 21:15:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8629 Adapt WinBoard to Shogi implementation on Variant ICS
8631 The Variant ICS does not use the '+P' notation for promoted pieces,
8632 neither in the board, nor in SAN, but simply indicates any Gold by 'G',
8633 and uses 'H' and 'D' for +B and +R. The Shogi promotion code in
8634 LegalityTest() and Disambiguate(), which are used in move Parsing, are
8635 adapted to handle this. Deferred promotions sent to the ICS now use an
8638 2010-10-10 21:07:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8639 Inherit promoted-info that ICS does not give from previous board
8641 The ICS does not tell us in Crazyhouse (or Shogi) if a piece is
8642 primordial or a promoted pawn (or a promoted other piece). We now derive
8643 this info from the previous board. The option -disguisePromotedPieces
8644 controls this feature.
8646 2010-10-10 21:03:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8647 Limit multi-session clock handling to non-ICS games
8649 In ICS games a time forfeit crashed XBoard, apparently because the
8650 fullTimeControl string is not properly set when we try to use it to see
8651 if a sudden-death session is indeed the last session.
8653 2010-10-08 11:47:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8654 Change evalgraph scale in drop games
8656 Score swings tend to be much larger in Crazyhouse and Shogi, so the
8657 vertical rangee in those games is doubled to (-14, 14).
8659 2010-10-13 23:05:05 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8660 bugfix: fixed readline support with icslogon option
8662 The icslogon option sends the login and password, so we don't need to handle
8663 special cases for the readline buffer.
8665 2010-10-07 20:35:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8666 fixed some typos that were introduced during the sprintf->snprintf changes
8669 2010-10-07 11:59:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8670 Fix uninitialized variable in book code
8672 The variable ' power' was used uninitialized in case -bookVariation was
8673 set to 0, which can be an error even if it was only multiplied by zero.
8675 2010-10-06 14:20:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8676 Fix menu translation bug
8678 The menuText array was declared too small, so that the last entry of the
8679 File menu got out of bounds and was overwritten by the first of the Mode
8682 2010-10-05 21:14:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8683 Allow -timeIncrement to be a float
8685 The increment can now be fractional seconds. The printing in
8686 ParseTimeControl() and SendTimeControl() is done with %g format, so that
8687 for integer increment there is backward compatibility with the old level
8690 2010-03-30 20:24:49 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8691 adding gnu-readline support
8693 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.
8695 2010-09-24 21:17:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8696 added warning if icsLogon file couldn't be opened
8699 2010-09-24 21:10:28 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8700 security fix: replaced some strcat with strncat
8702 there is still more to do
8704 2010-09-19 20:55:01 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8705 add option for silent builds
8707 this can be enabled for automake versions >1.11 by calling ./configure --enable-silent-rules.
8708 It should still work for older automake versions too
8710 2010-09-19 13:16:40 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8711 bugfix: missing array index
8714 2010-09-19 12:19:44 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8715 added new case for (Chessmove) 0 in common.h
8717 this cleans up a few more -Wall messages
8719 2010-09-17 21:47:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8720 cleaned up -Wall warnings (apart from settings some parentheses)
8722 removed unsused variables, etc mostly everything from -Wall -Wno-parenthesis
8724 2010-09-17 20:36:54 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8725 sizedefaults has 9 members, the last line of the array (NULL) only set 7.
8728 2010-09-12 20:04:03 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8729 security fix: replaced sprintf with snprintf
8731 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.
8733 2010-09-10 23:36:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8734 security fix: replaced strcpy with safeStrCpy from backend.c
8736 see comment in backend.c on how to use safeStrCpy. This was already added by AS, but only used in 3 places.
8738 2010-10-04 11:50:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8739 Enhance multi-session TC clock handling
8741 Some new TC types are introduced: Bronstein and free sessions. The
8742 former is implemented by letting an exclamation point '!' in front of an
8743 increment (in the -tc string) indicate that the increment is limited to
8744 the time actually used on the previous move. The latter is an interval
8745 of given duraton in which you can do any number of moves (even zero),
8746 before the next session starts. This is needed for implementing Shogi
8747 byoyomi-type TC, as a first session, followed by a session of fixed-time
8748 per move. The latter can now be specified with the -tc argument as a
8749 degenerate case of Bronstein, where the time on the clock is <= the
8750 increment (so that it is never possible to think longer than the
8751 increment). A TC of 5 min + 10 sec byoyomi can then be indicated as
8754 The sessions are now separated by ':' in stead of '+', and all times in
8755 the TC string are converted to seconds first (in ParseTimeControl), so
8756 the fullTCstring can now be directly used in a PGN tag.
8758 Note that this patch only addresses clock handling; the engine will not
8759 be informed yet if the TC type or parameters change at the start of new
8762 2010-10-04 09:32:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8763 Remove promotion-piece encoding from ChessMove type
8765 The shizophrenic way to indcate promotion pieces in the XBoard code
8766 (sometimes using a promoChar, at other times relying on moveType) was
8767 cured by combining all promotion move types (such as WhitePromotionRook)
8768 into a single one (WhitePromotion), and relying on promoChar to specify
8769 the piece. This solves the problem of promoting to new piece types in
8770 variants, which formerly also required addition of new move types.
8772 In Shogi the '+' character is now consistently used to indicate
8773 promotions (and recognized in ApplyMove), rather than 'q' or
8774 PieeToChar(BlackQueen), as the latter did not work in minivariants where
8775 the Queen (representng the Lance) did not partcipate.
8777 2010-10-03 20:50:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8778 Pass promoChar to SendMoveToICS
8780 SendMoveToICS was the only place where the promotion piece was derived
8781 from moveType, rather than an explicity passed promoChar.
8783 2010-10-04 09:41:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8784 Suppress spurious use of SAN castling in mini variants
8786 King moves from a central file to the king-side-castled position (1
8787 square away from the right corner) were intercepted and printed as O-O
8788 in CoordsToAlgebraic. But on a 5x5 board (mini-Shogi!) this caught the
8789 normal King move Kc1-d1 as well. The castling notation is now reserved
8790 for King moves larger than one step.
8792 2010-10-04 08:21:19 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8793 Make Shogi promotion zone board-size dependent
8795 In stead of using a fixed size of 3 ranks, we use BOARD_HEIGHT/3, which
8796 would translate to 1 rank for mini-Shogi (5x5) and 2 ranks for Judgkin's
8797 Shogi (6x6), which are indeed what these variants need.
8799 2010-10-03 19:58:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8800 Make board-size overrule options volatile
8802 The options -boardWidth, -boardHeight and -holdingSize were legacies
8803 from the day choosing a variant would not automatically set a board
8804 size. As a result they are seldomly used anymore. The first real
8805 application is mini-Shogi (on 5x5 board), and it turned out very
8806 annoying if the 5x5 settings persisted to the next session, where you
8807 almost certainly want to play another variant.
8809 2010-10-04 09:16:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8810 Strip DOS line endings from parser.l
8813 2010-09-16 18:58:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8814 Extend mate test to drop games
8816 MateTest() in case of no legal moves now also looks if there are legal
8817 drops that can resolve the check. This provides reliable mate testing in
8818 Crazyhouse and Shogi, so these are now made subject to adjudications too.
8820 2010-09-16 18:48:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8821 Extend legality testing to drop moves
8823 LegalityTest() can nowbe called with (internal-format) drop moves, and
8824 delegates their testing to a new routine LegalDrop(). This routine
8825 performs the 'no-pawn-on-back-rank' test that used to be in
8826 UserMoveTest (which now calls LegalityTest also for drop moves).
8827 The more complex Shogi case is also handled (except for Pawn mate
8828 drops) in LegalDrop().
8830 2010-09-16 18:25:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8831 Revert splitting of UserMoveEvent
8833 This splitting into UserMoveTest and FinishMove was no longer needed,
8834 now that the new mouse driver no longer calls UserMoveTest to figure out
8835 if a move is a promotion, and XBoard and WinBoard are unified in this
8836 respect. It was counter-productive, because UserMoveTest was not able to
8837 change the fromX, fromY (call-by-value) parameters for passing them to
8838 FinishMove, so it had to defer the conversion of drop moves to internal
8839 format to the latter, while it did not belong there. (Because
8840 DropMenuEvent already delivers the moves in internal format.) This
8841 whole kludgy construction was therefore abandoned, by going back
8842 to the original 4.2.7 calling scheme, where UserMoveEvent completely
8843 pre-processes the move, and when it is valid, calls FinishMove directly.
8845 2010-09-16 18:02:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8846 Fix silent bug in drop moves
8848 In ApplyMove() the piece on the from square was accessed and used before
8849 we tested for drop moves. As drop moves have off-board from-squares this
8850 led to out-of-bound array access, which apparently was usually harmless.
8852 2010-09-16 17:43:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8853 Allow parsing of upper-case machine moves
8855 Dubious patch, as it caters to non-compliancy. Some variant engines are
8856 very non-compliant, though.
8858 2010-09-16 17:38:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8859 Prevent transmission of spurious promo char to other engine
8861 The parser now strps off spurious promotion characters.
8862 New move types "White/BlackNonPromotion" had to be introduced for this,
8863 to indicate NormalMoves that could have been a promotion, to make sure
8864 the '=' suffix of Shogi deferred promotions survives.
8866 2010-09-16 20:44:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8867 fixed internationalization for winboard
8869 in the original commit some files were forgotten. This should fix it.
8871 2010-08-29 21:07:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8872 Fix JAWS bug saying side to move in ICS play
8874 This was done the wrong way around.
8876 2010-08-27 14:08:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8877 Make WB run-time language switch possible from menu
8879 This is a rather involved patch that might not be worth it. It is
8880 difficult, because translation of things that live forever is not easy
8881 to invert (menus, the auxiliary windows). We hae to remember all
8882 original, English texts there to be able to put them back,or
8883 re-translate. Still does not fully work, although the menus and
8884 temporary dialogs now are all OK.
8886 2010-08-27 14:35:46 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8887 Update WB translation template
8889 The language.txt file now also contains all translatable strings from
8890 the C source files, rather than jsut the resource.
8892 2010-08-27 14:14:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8895 Add descriptions for machine-match menu support and enhanced book
8896 control, nick-name options and language.
8898 2010-08-27 13:59:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8899 Add some forgotten translation hooks
8901 The general-options, file-browse dialogs and the about box did not call
8902 Translate() yet. Also translate contents of combo boxes. Some small bug
8905 2010-08-27 13:28:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8906 Do not translate game-end messages in PGN
8908 The messages themselves are not subjected to _(), but in stead their
8909 displaying in DisplayMove is subjected to T_().
8911 2010-08-23 13:23:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8912 Internationalization for WinBoard
8914 A function Translate() was added, which uses a list of item dialogs,
8915 reads their value, and replaces it by a translation (if available). It
8916 also reads the window title and sets a translation. Calls to this
8917 routine are added in the initialization code of every dialog callback.
8918 In addition all translatable strings in the WnBoard front end are marked
8919 by the gettext macro _(). Because WB is not gettexted yet, a hard
8920 re-definition of this macro is added in each file using it, to the
8921 string-translation routine T_() supplied in winboard.c.
8922 Code to read the translation file, and translate the menu texts is added
8923 in winboard.c. In backend.c the meaning of the gettet macros is
8924 redefined for the WIN32 case.
8926 2010-08-23 13:07:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8927 Make the ID of all WB dialog items unique
8929 Mnany static dialog texts did share the ID -1 (IDC_STATIC). But to
8930 replace tet at run-time for translation purposes, they need to be
8931 addressed individually. So they were given new IDs, with symbols defined
8934 2010-08-23 12:48:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8935 Mark XBoard result messages for internationalization
8937 The GNU gettext macro _() is used with the game-end messages. This might
8938 be controversial, as they will appear in the PGN as well. But only as a
8939 comment. We can always decide not to supply a translation.
8941 2010-08-23 12:43:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8942 Do not exit after match when match started from menu
8944 The codelooks weird, but matchMode == 2 in this case. We then use
8945 DisplayNote() to report the match result.
8947 2010-08-23 12:39:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8948 Trivial-draws recognition improved in Xiangqi
8950 Now based on a routine "SufficientDefence". If both have it, it is draw.
8952 2010-08-20 17:46:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8955 The relocation of parser.c and the addition of history.c was not yet
8956 incorporated in the devcpp proect files.
8958 2010-08-19 13:45:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8959 Fix some MSVC compile errors
8961 Some statements has moved up stream of declaratons, which is an error
8962 that gcc is forgiving about, but where MSVC is strict.
8964 2010-08-14 14:01:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8965 Improved patch for expansion of WB settings-file name
8967 The expansion of environment variables now allows multiple environment
8968 variables in the path name. Tested on %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\winboard.ini
8969 and %APPDATA%\winboard.ini.
8971 2010-08-07 16:53:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8972 Add -colorNickNames option
8974 This option allows non-standard designation of side to move in FENs.
8975 (Useful for Xiangqi, where white is indicated often as r(ed), and Shogi,
8976 where white is s(ente) or b(lack), and black is g(ote) or w(hite).)
8977 Can also be used for FENs in a local language. A match of theinput
8978 character with the nick name translates it to the standard; this means
8979 the standard will continue to be recognized, unless it was defined as a
8982 2010-08-07 16:39:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8983 Tricked by the grossnes
8985 Some WB menu items were referenced by a hard number. As items had been
8986 added over the years, the wrong menu items were grayed. In particular
8987 the Options -> Adjudication menu was grayed out, in -ncp mode, where
8988 this was intended for the Sounds dialog. This accidentally proved
8989 useful, until we started to apply adjudictions also to the Human moves.
8990 Then it was suddenly undesirable, and a small mystery why it happened at
8991 all, when I tried to change it. The numbers are now corrected to the new
8992 locatons of the items in the menus.
8994 2010-08-07 16:35:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8995 Allow match to be started from WB menu
8997 A menu item Machine Match was added in the Mode menu to switch to
8998 matchMode. A persistent option /defaultMatchGames determines the number
8999 of games. A control was added to the Options -> Common Engine dialog to
9002 2010-08-07 16:26:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9003 Add some book-control options
9005 Options /bookDepth and /bookVariation have been added to control the use
9006 of the GUI book. In WinBoard the Optons -> Common Engine dialog now
9007 contains fields to set them.
9009 2010-08-07 00:15:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9010 new developer release
9013 2010-08-06 11:18:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9014 Repair exit-popup deadlock patch
9016 Relocating the exit popup call had made it lose access to the message it
9017 should print, because it was declared only in an inner code block, by
9018 the same name: buf[]. Deleting the inner declaration fixes it.
9020 2010-08-04 11:00:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9021 Fix erors when compiling with --disable-zippy
9023 The file args.h contained a codeblock in #ifdef ZIPPY, in stead of
9026 2010-08-01 13:27:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9027 Fix zippy handling of draw offers from ICS
9029 The patch by DM to fix the problem introduced by the coloration of
9030 zippy-matched commands (namely that the coloration code beat the zippy
9031 draw recognition to it, and ate the draw offer away) was only targeting
9032 ICC. The new fix should work on any ICS (by using the same pattern in
9033 zippy as in the colorization code).
9035 2010-08-01 13:15:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9036 Fix regression in colorization of zippy-matched commands
9038 The patch by Daniel Mehrman from 4.2.pre8 was not properly merged, so
9039 that in XBoard no coloration would take place of ICS commands that were
9040 matched by zippy. (It was using &i as input pointer, rather than &backup.
9041 The XBoard-specific code now has been deleted completely, to remove a
9042 seemingly needless dependence on _WIN32_ of the back-end. Both WB and XB
9043 now use the XBoard method, to only match zippy commands when logged in.
9045 2010-07-31 22:48:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9046 Suggest default file name in browser dialog
9048 The argument 'def' to FileNamePopUp() was not passed through to the new
9049 file-browser routine, which got NULL in stead, and thus started with an
9052 2010-07-30 23:28:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9053 Define /firstUCI and /secondUCI as synonyms for /fUCI, /sUCI
9055 Because the %s expansion of WB options in the /fcp and /scp lines only
9056 works for options that contain 'first' or 'second', and /fUCI thus did
9057 not work, PSWBTM had to rely on the cumbersome /firstIsUCI=true to
9058 install UCI engines. (The latter option should be deprecated really;
9059 the UCI-ness of the engines is a volatile option, so it makes no sense
9060 to supply a way to set them both to false or true. One only needs to be
9061 able to set it to the non-default state.)
9063 2010-07-30 23:21:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9064 Add string option /pieceNickNames
9066 This (volatile) option allows definition of alternate letters for the
9067 pieces, which will be recognized next to the standard symbols as given
9068 in the /pieceToCharTable on input. (Output always uses the standard.)
9069 This can be useful for reading PGN from another language, or
9070 non-compliant FENs (e.g. using B and N for E and H in Xiangqi).
9071 The format of the argument is the same as for /pieceToCharTable.
9072 Because the nickNames are consulted before the standard table, it is
9073 possible to redefine a standard name as a nick for another piece.
9075 2010-07-30 23:10:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9076 Fix deadlock in match-result display
9078 At the end of a match, GameEnds() was recursively calling itself,
9079 through DisplayFatalError() and ExitEvent(), and the latter was then
9080 delaying until the calling GameEnds() terminated. (Which it would of
9081 course never do before ExitEvent returned; fortunately there was a tim
9082 limit to this delay, but in XBoard it was 10 sec in stead of 10 msec.)
9083 Now the calling of DisplayFatalError() (to show the result popup) is
9084 delayed until after GameEnds completes (and resets the anti-recursion
9085 flag 'endingGame'), so that it is simply executed a second time, unaware
9086 of the earlier call. But this second time it does not do anything,
9087 because the gameMode ws set to EndOfGame the first time, and the writing
9088 of the PGN is blocked by the checksum being still the same.
9090 2010-07-12 11:10:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9091 Fix WinBoard game-list title
9093 Number of displayed games and WDL stats were always appended to the
9094 existing title, leading to an ever-growing title in the game-list
9095 window. Now the old actual title is ignored, and the starts is appended
9096 to the original title "Game List". (In the future we could use the
9099 In addition, the title was not updated when re-opening the game-list
9100 window, while the stats could change if filtering was active when the
9101 window was closed. (In that case the filter is cleared on re-opening, so
9102 the number of displayed games changes.) Now a title-update (after
9103 recalculating the stats) is done every time the game-list window is
9106 2010-07-11 11:06:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9107 Refactoring of material-draws adjudication code
9109 Insufficient mating material is now determined per side individually, by
9110 testing for MatingPotential of each side. If both lack mating potential
9111 the game is adjudicated as draw (if the -materialDraws option is set).
9113 This way MatingPotential() can later also be used to correct losses by
9114 forfeit to draws (which currently is only done when the opponent has a
9117 The accuracy of this type of adjudication in Xiangqi has been highly
9120 2010-07-11 10:54:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9121 Fix bug in sending cores command to engine
9123 The cores command was alwas sent to the engine(s) when the user changed
9124 it through the menu, even when the engine had sent feature smp=0 (which
9125 is default anyway). NewSettingEvent() was patched to send the new
9126 setting conditionally, based on the engine properties as recorded in
9127 ChessProgramStates first, second; In this particular case it now
9128 consults cps->maxCores. (Note the code for testing the second engine
9129 contains some dirty pointer arithmetic.)
9131 2010-07-11 10:42:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9132 Fix oneClickMove bug
9134 When checking for unique captures, no attention was payed to the option
9135 setting, so the capture was also made when the option was off.
9137 2010-07-11 10:39:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9138 Remove duplicate testing for cores feature
9140 The testing for this BooleanFeature occurred twice.
9142 2010-07-11 10:35:13 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9143 Remove misspelled prototype
9145 NewSettingEvent occurred, next to the correct one, in misspelled form.
9147 2010-07-05 10:00:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9148 Fix parsing of SAN shogi promotions
9150 A missing promotion character defaults to promotion in the move type,
9151 but the promotion character was not set when this happened in variant
9152 shogi. And it is especially important there, as the promotion character
9153 '+' will always be missing, as the parser will take it to be a 'check'
9154 symbol, and strip it from the move.
9156 2010-07-05 09:55:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9157 Fix variant switch on PGN loading
9159 When the PGN specified an essentially different variant, the
9160 piece bitmaps were not properly adapted, because the switch was done by
9161 calling InitPosition(), rather than Reset(). (The latter would destroy
9162 the PGN tags info.) We now added an explicit call to ResetFrontEnd(),
9163 (which is normally done from Reset()).
9165 2010-07-05 09:51:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9166 Adjudicate Xiangqi material draws with Advisor-less Cannons
9168 Used the Queen counter for counting Cannons. Note that material draws
9169 with stale Pawns (i.e. on the back rank) are not yet adjudicated.
9171 2010-07-05 09:34:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9172 Remove font settings from master settings file
9174 xboard.conf should not contain general font settings (not specific to
9175 one board size) with specified point size. In fact it should not even
9176 specify sizable fonts, as the new system would make specification of a
9177 general font overrule the size-specific settings in the .xboardrc file,
9178 so the persistence of fonts would be completely broken.
9180 2010-06-30 10:52:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9181 Cut board squares out of texture bitmap more cleverly
9183 When the bitmap is larger than the entire board, the squares are now cut
9184 out of the center of the virtual squares from subdividing the bitmap, so
9185 that they stay centered on the grid of a Xiangqi board bitmap. If the
9186 board size exceeds that of the bitmap, the old algorithm is still used,
9187 as the centering would make the edge squares exceed the bitmap, and
9188 cause a black rim around the board.
9190 2010-06-30 10:49:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9191 Allow -flipBlack to work with font-based piece rendering
9193 In addition the font-based pieces will also be flipped vertically in
9194 flipView for variant shogi when -flipBlack is off.
9196 2010-06-30 10:46:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9197 Allow font-based piece rendering in board sizes below petite
9199 At least for variants that use unorthodox pieces, so that switching back
9200 to using bitmaps is not really an option anyway.
9202 2010-06-30 10:41:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9203 Ignore checks in 50-move count for Xiangqi
9205 Both checks and evasions are discounted; this is only done after the
9206 naive counting exceeds the maximum, so during most of the game it causes
9209 2010-06-05 14:38:47 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9210 removed some garbage from configure.ac that got added a while ago
9213 2010-05-25 21:20:27 -0400 Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>:
9214 Remove unnecessary double equals from configure.ac.
9217 2010-05-28 11:07:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9218 Fix e.p. bug in xiangqi with -serverMoves option
9220 Sideway Pawn moves were written as e.p. captures in the file with moves,
9221 which led to disappearence of pieces in the viewer.
9223 2010-05-28 11:05:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9224 Repair score printing with -serverMoves option
9226 A previous patch had moved MakeMove to before the update of pvInfoList,
9227 so that the score/depth info would not appear in the file with moves.
9229 2010-05-28 11:02:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9230 Repair animate dragging
9232 The previous patch had left a stray semicolon in the mouse handler.
9234 2010-05-10 10:32:19 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9235 Fix game end during dragging
9237 The stale-first-click fix interfered with proper handling of a piece
9238 being dragged when a game suddenly ended (because of opponent resign,
9239 or caling the flag), because up-clicks when the from-square was reset
9240 were completely ignored. Now such an 'unmatched' upclick calls
9241 DragPieceEnd() and redraws the board.
9243 2010-05-10 10:09:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9244 Pop down old tags on loadng new game in WinBoard
9246 ResetFrontEnd(), called from Reset(), did not do this in WinBoard
9247 (unlike XBoard), so that the tags from the previous game were left on
9248 display when -autoDisplayTags was off.
9250 2010-05-09 22:15:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9251 Reverse mousewheel action
9253 Apparently WinBoard was stepping in the opposite direction through the
9254 game in reaction to the mousewheel as every other GUI in existence.
9256 2010-05-09 22:07:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9257 Fix bug in sending "usermove" when forcing book moves
9259 The keyword "usermove" was copied to the buffer, but not sent before it
9260 was overwritten by the actual book move.
9262 2010-05-06 17:23:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9263 Fix engine stall on perpetual-check evasion
9265 The adjudication code had already put the engine in force mode after
9266 postponing the actual adjudication to the next move. Now first determine
9267 if we want to adjudicate now, and with which result, before stopping the
9268 engine and ending the game.
9270 2010-05-06 16:37:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9271 Let move parser return ImpossibleMove for off-board moves
9273 It used to return 0, which interfered with buiding a game list. This
9274 broke reading of multi-game PGN files containing games in a variant with
9275 a board size larger than that of the currenty active variant.
9277 2010-04-06 15:05:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9278 Alter XBoard key bindings to mimic WinBoard
9280 A lot of new bindings were added, and four menuProcs had to be registered
9281 to be able to add bindings to them. The use of the control key as
9282 temporary take-back for the last move conflicted with the use of Ctrl
9283 keystrokes, and this function was migrated to '.'. The iconify function
9284 had no shortcut in WinBoard, but to get rid of letter bindings it was
9287 2010-04-05 20:45:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9291 2010-04-03 14:00:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9292 Fix typos in html help file
9295 2010-04-01 15:22:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9296 Fix JAWS piece drop cursor, and streamline some sentences
9298 The cursor square was reset to a1 after every use of the piece menu,
9299 which was very inconvenient. Some of the spoken sentences have been
9300 improved; the square is read before the piece now, when using the arrow
9303 2010-03-31 22:31:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9304 Allow escape sequences in telluser(error) messages
9306 The routine EscapeExpand was moved to backend.c, and applied to the
9307 message received from the engine.
9309 2010-03-31 21:29:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9310 Allow lower-case promochar in moves of type h8=Q
9312 Updated the parser rules. Other move formats already allowed this.
9314 2010-03-31 21:36:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9315 Fix Alt+M JAWS command in Two-Machines mode
9317 The command refused to read the ast move because it contained thinking
9318 output of the other engine. Let it pay attention to evenIfDuplicate.
9320 2010-03-29 09:57:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9321 Fix rep-draw recognition
9323 The refactoring had broken the rep-draw recognition, by adding and extra
9324 condition in a conditional with side effects. The testing of this extra
9325 condition is now moved to after the side effect.
9327 2010-03-28 12:32:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9328 Allow any %ENVIRONMENTVAR% in WB settings file name rather than ~
9330 Only a single variable at the beginning of the file name is recognized,
9331 and the matching is not fool proof (it matches across backslashes).
9333 2010-03-28 11:24:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9334 Fix info lines being used as normal thinking output
9336 The new standard of using thinking output with time = nodes = score = 0
9337 as info messages for printing in the Engine-Output window was not
9338 understood everywhere, and led to such info lines being used for
9339 autoKibitzing and PGN annotation. The programStats are now only updated
9340 from thinking output received from an engine when it is not an info line.
9342 2010-03-27 11:54:41 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9343 new developer release
9346 2010-03-26 21:16:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9347 Suppress background observe for boards with own game number
9349 This is really a work-around for an ICS bug. The Variant-ICS sent the
9350 initial board of a game in a move list with relation = 0, which means
9351 'observed'. So XBoard was thinking it was observing its own game, and
9352 switched to dual board. It seems harmless to suppress such a switch for
9353 all boards of your own game, however, which is now done.
9355 2010-03-26 21:12:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9356 Fix crash on switching to ICS xiangqi game
9358 The oldBoard was a local variable, and only squares of the old board
9359 were initialized. This led to a crash if the copied board was enlarged,
9360 and then displayed. The variable is now declared static, so the
9361 uninitialized squares contain harmless zeros.
9363 2010-03-26 18:32:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9364 Let Chat Boxes pop up above console, rather than on top of it
9366 Use EnsureOnScreen() to have them overlap if there was no room.
9368 2010-03-26 18:26:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9369 Fix disabling of Chat Box navigation buttons
9371 The buttons for non-open boxes were enabed, rather than disabled.
9373 2010-03-26 18:17:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9374 Prevent <Esc> closing chat box
9376 Let it in stead switch focus back to the console window.
9378 2010-03-26 15:28:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9379 Let WinBoard recognize ~ in settings file name as HOMEPATH
9381 Fetch the appropriate environment variable to build the mathname in
9382 MySearchPath() whenever the file name starts with "~\".
9384 2010-03-26 13:59:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9385 Change name of Global Settings menu item to Common Engine Settings
9387 The old name confused ICS users, as this is an engine-only dialog.
9389 2010-03-26 13:58:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9390 Update WinBoard RTF docs
9393 2010-03-26 13:57:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9394 Update WinBoard html help
9397 2010-03-24 18:00:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9398 Allow adjustment of clocks in any mode with shift+click
9400 In practice changing to edit-game mode during a game was very
9401 cumbersome. In WinBoard shift+click is now offered as an alternative.
9402 Make sure a right-click in the clock area is not also counted for other
9405 2010-03-24 17:21:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9406 Allow loading of PGN variations in XBoard
9408 Right-clicking variation comments in the comment-window was implemented
9409 through a translation. The right button is now bound to routines that
9410 set both the end and start of the selection, as setting a new start does
9411 not seem to work if the previous select-start was not completed by a
9412 select-end or extend-end. Finally the main handler uses the selection
9413 cursors to know what was clicked.
9415 2010-03-24 17:16:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9418 Added a descripton of the new ICS options (seek graph, back-ground
9419 observe) and menus (Upload) to the texi file. Also added a description
9420 of the variation (Annotate menu item and PGN variation comments) and PV
9421 walking (clicking engine-output). Describe the -shuffleOpenings option.
9423 2010-03-24 13:30:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9424 Paint highlights on dual board (WB)
9426 The highlight info is hidden in the partner board to pass it to the
9429 2010-03-24 13:14:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9430 Fix handling username change during game
9432 The title bar and gameInfo (going into the PGN) were not adapted when
9433 the username was changed through the menu, so that the change became
9434 only effective on the next game. Requires SetGameInfo to be called from
9435 the front-end, and thus a prototype for it in backend.c.
9437 2010-03-24 11:04:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9438 Fix window-position upset on failing engine start in WinBoard
9440 The main window was only positoned according to the settings-file data
9441 after the engine was started up from InitBackend2(), so that if the
9442 latter gave a fatal error, and Save Settings on Exit was on, a wrong
9443 position for the main window would be saved. The call to InitBackend2()
9444 is now moved until after setting the main-window position.
9446 2010-03-23 23:22:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9447 Display PV from Engine-Output window (XBoard)
9449 Translations are added to bind button 3 to the PV walk for the memo
9450 widgets, and the corresponding handlers are ported from wengineoutput.c.
9452 2010-03-10 18:54:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9453 Set keyboard focus at startup to board window
9455 This makes XBoard sensitive to the keybindings also when the cursor is
9456 outside the board window. This focus seems to persist indefinitely: each
9457 time the board window gets selected, the key bindings become activem
9458 wherever the mouse pointer is. Downside: the mouse pointer is no longer
9459 an arrow outside the board window, but becomes a text-insert tool there.
9461 2010-02-27 20:49:21 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9462 added logo files for xboard
9464 logos are installed in the hicolor theme [1] using $datadir as the basedir.
9465 Added both png and svg logo.
9467 [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html
9469 2010-02-27 17:36:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9470 Remake programVersion string after receiving engine features
9472 The engine could have sent a more accurate version of its own name
9473 than the one derived from the exe filename in a myname feature, and we
9474 better use that in the programVersion string, which will be sent as
9475 interface name to the ICS.
9477 2010-02-25 19:22:00 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9478 Revert "Repair settings-file name"
9480 This reverts commit a02042ef83ce1f3632f0cf3e0a2a4ce9a3ac5d85.
9482 2010-02-25 20:32:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9483 Add -autokibitz checkbox to UCI-options menu dialog
9486 2010-02-25 20:29:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9487 Also capture (numeric) whispers of players for -autoKibitz
9490 2010-02-25 20:25:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9491 Add kibitzes and c-shouts Chat Box
9493 A box dedicated to c-shouts will snatch any c-shout before it is
9494 diverted to a normal shouts box. The kibitzes box can capture the
9495 left-overs of -autoKibitz, if the latter is active.
9497 2010-02-25 15:45:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9498 Mark non-compliant lines of engine in debug file
9500 The option -engineDebugOutput is extended to accept value 3 for printing
9501 a cear indication of non-compliancy in the debug file.
9503 2010-02-25 12:02:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9504 Redraw second board on expose events
9506 The -dualBoard option now does refresh the second board after another
9507 window uncovers it. To acheive this, some data structures remembering
9508 what is displayed had to be duplicated. (lastBoard and damage for XB,
9509 lastReq, lastDrawn, lastReqValid and lastDrawnValid for WB.)
9510 WinBoard now uses clipping also for second board. This required the
9511 clips for the destination to be translated horizontally!
9513 2010-02-25 15:13:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9514 Print seconds with 2 digits in backgroundObserve status line
9517 2010-02-24 17:01:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9518 Do not recognize non-ICS variants from PGN event tag
9520 These variants were introduced after supporting the variant tag, so if
9521 the variant tag is missing, their recognition from the event tag will be
9522 a false match. (Mainly to prevent events with 'super' in the name being
9523 recognized as Superchess.)
9525 2010-02-23 13:52:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9526 Fix display of uninitialized boards in background observe
9528 A variable partnerBoardValid is cleared on starting our own game, and
9529 set when a board from the background game comes in during it. At the end
9530 of our own game, a valid partner board now is put in the display.
9532 2010-02-23 13:46:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9533 Add option Display Logo in WB general-options menu
9535 Changing the option requires InitDrawingSizes to be called for
9536 re-formatting the board window. Switching it off requires clearing of
9537 the cps->programLogo fields to take effect immediately. Switching it on
9538 only takes effect the next session, as we will need some refactoring to
9539 redo the figuring out what logos to display.
9541 2010-02-22 12:02:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9542 Group Chat Boxes with console in stead of board window
9544 They now open and close with the console, which seems more natural, and
9545 prevents the console from covering them.
9547 2010-02-22 11:50:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9548 Put new options in WB ICS-options dialog
9550 The Seek-Graph, background-observe and Chat-Box options are added to the
9551 ICS options dialog. They only control the appData settings, there are no
9552 special actions yet on switching the settings.
9554 2010-02-22 11:46:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9555 Create space in WinBoard ICS-options dialog
9558 2010-02-20 12:42:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9559 Use side-by-side boards to display background game
9561 A game observed in the background (i.e. if -backgroundObserve true) will
9562 be displayed right of the normal board in the same window if the new
9563 (persistent) Boolean option -dualBoard is also set.
9564 Very flakey hack, especially in XBoard, where clocks and messsage
9565 field all get the wrong width (and resist adjustment in the strangest
9566 ways). The clocks of the partner game are not yet displayed, and
9567 disaster happens when the background and foreground games do not have
9568 the same board format.
9570 2010-02-23 14:57:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9571 Repair background-observe patch
9573 Apparently a commit was lost that I collapsed with 3018a6 while the
9574 latter was already pushed to savannah. Here I recreated this commit from
9575 a diff between the respective commits in the savannah & nubati gits.
9577 2010-01-31 11:07:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9578 Repair settings-file name
9580 The default name is put back to /etc/xboard/xboard.conf, so that XBoard
9581 can again find its settings file. "make install" will still install it
9584 2010-02-21 18:43:59 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9585 new developer release
9588 2010-02-21 19:45:58 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9589 fixed compiler warning for file-browser code
9591 missing "void"s in the function declaration and missing returns showed up when trying to build on the opensuse build server. fixed now.
9593 2010-02-21 23:09:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9594 Put newly opened Chat Box on top
9596 Dialogs always pop up in front, so set the onTop variable that prevents
9597 highighting the button to navigate to it from other Chat Boxes
9598 to reflect that a newly opened Chat Box is in view.
9600 2010-02-21 18:55:03 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9601 Fix copying of kibitzed info in Engine-Output window
9603 Make sure all lines end with "\r\n" to not lose line breaks on
9604 copy-paste from the memo. (XBoard would strip those again.)
9606 2010-02-21 18:25:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9607 Allow walking a kibitzed PV
9609 If no tabs are found in te 'thinking output' we assume it is a captured
9610 kibitz message, and look for "PV=" to locate the start of a PV in it.
9611 Also try to include any continuation lines below the selected line.
9613 2010-02-21 17:45:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9614 Insert autoKibitz continuation lines at end of line
9616 In the engine-output window lines that start with the ICS continuation
9617 sequence "\ " are inserted behind the line they belong to, in stead of
9618 at the top. This required keeping thrack of the length of the currently
9619 active line in OutputKibitz().
9621 2010-02-20 15:39:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9622 Don't disturb background observe when receiving new piece
9624 When new holdings are sent when the background game is displayed, we now
9625 ignore this, as presumably we are peeking at our partners game, and thus
9626 should be well aware of what is captured there.
9628 2010-02-19 21:52:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9629 Newly lexed parser in XBoard directory
9632 2010-02-19 11:18:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9633 Let yy_text determine progress of PV parsing
9635 The parsed unit yy_text was not available after ParseOneMove(), because
9636 the buffer switch in yylexstr() apparently destroys it. To solve that,
9637 yylexstr() now is equiped with an extra buffer argument, where it copies
9638 yy_text before the switch, so the caller, ParsePV(), can see what was
9639 parsed in yy_textstr. This is used to update the PV pointer, but also to
9640 save any parsed comments (when ParsePV is used for parsing a PGN variation).
9642 2010-02-18 17:42:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9643 Support playing through PGN variation comments
9645 Right-clicking a variation line in the comment dialog will shelve the
9646 current variation, and parse the comment to replace it. This uses
9647 ParsePV() in an alternative way, for which the latter had to be
9648 enhanced: it was made resistent to move numbers and comments inside
9649 the PV. It now has an argument to indicate if such comments should be
9650 stored with the moves. The Comment Popup is closed on revert, to
9651 make sure no comments to moves that are destroyed, containing
9652 variations on a non-valid line, can keep hanging around.
9654 2010-02-18 16:05:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9655 Add Annotate item in Step menu
9657 This does the same as Revert, except that it adds the destroyed
9658 variation as comment to the original movem in PGN variation format.
9659 RevertEvent now has an argument to indicate if it should add the
9660 comment, or not. Comments in the abandoned variation are included in the
9661 varriation command to the main line. (The exact layout of the variation
9662 comment that results leaves still to be desired.)
9664 2010-02-15 19:07:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9665 Add option -shuffleOpenings
9667 This volatile option is added just to make the existing variable
9668 available from the command line, not only from the menus.
9670 2010-02-19 11:48:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9671 Let the sounds sound on receiving a message in a Chat Box
9673 Use Colorize() to the applicable color to trigger the sound, and then
9674 restore the original color as 'continuation', to do it silently.
9676 2010-02-10 10:55:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9677 Allow WB Chat Box to be dedicated to shouts and 'it'
9679 By putting 'shouts' in the handle field, a chat window will capture all
9680 shouts and c-shouts, and send messages typed into it as shouts.
9681 The bracketing of the shouter name now indicates the type of shout.
9682 The handle for WHISPER Chat Boxes has been changed to 'whispers', to
9683 make it easier to pop them up by clicking the console.
9685 2010-02-16 22:34:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9686 Add -chatBoxes option to open Chat Boxes at startup
9688 This string option contains a semicolon-separated list of handles for
9689 which Chat Boxes should be opened at startup. The value saved in the ini
9690 file is the value that was read, not the actual chat boxes that were
9691 open at the time of saving.
9693 2010-02-16 19:44:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9694 Make Chat Windows pseudo-tabbed
9696 By adding buttons in every Chat Box to navigate directly to every other
9697 Chat Box, a stacked set of Chat Windows behaves like a single tabbed
9698 window, but can still be unstacked. The buttons turn grey to warn that
9699 new text appeared in hidden boxes (i.e. not the one last brought to top).
9701 2010-02-19 21:46:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9702 Allow arrow keys in WB Chat Box to access command history
9704 The history is shared between al boxes and the ICS console.
9706 2010-02-12 22:35:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9707 Make WB Chat Boxes wrap and handle URLs
9709 Cloned the code for the console text field to hande URL. (Initialization
9710 to recogize the link, and notifiction to open it when clicked.)
9711 Removed the ES_AUTOHSCROLL style from the RichEdit in the resource.
9713 2010-02-10 10:58:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9714 Fix copying of WB Chat Window contents
9716 All line breks were lost on copy-pasting the contents of a chat window.
9717 Adding CR to each outputted line in the front-end (wchat.c) solves this.
9718 (Tell messages sent to a handle (which are not echoed by the ICS, and
9719 thus have to copied to the chat box directly) also need CR!)
9721 2010-02-19 22:34:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9722 Add upload of game to ICS for examining
9724 New item "Upload to Examin" in Action menu, calls UploadGameEvent().
9725 Use SAN moves to upload game to ICS, rather than long algebraic
9726 (The ICS did not understand long-algebraic promotion moves)
9727 Use bsetup within examine to set position onFICS, and also variant.
9728 Castling rights do not work yet for FRC. Totally different set of
9729 commands are needed on FICS and ICC.
9730 FICS does not understand w23 or wild/23, but needs 'crazyhouse' in the
9731 besetup command that specifies the variant. XBoard variant names are
9732 used, except for fischerandom, which is 'fr'. Things like nocastle will
9733 probably still not work.
9735 2010-02-18 17:41:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9736 Handle display of PV that starts with other move than played
9738 Insert the retraction of the played move, without premove highlighting.
9740 2010-02-16 19:36:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9741 Bugfix smart capture
9743 Disambiguate was changed to make sure that for ambiguous moves, a
9744 capture would always prevail in the closure, rather than the last move
9745 that happened to be generated. Before, double-clicking a piece would
9746 sometimes plsy a non-capture.
9748 2010-02-13 15:34:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9749 Fix XB crash on giving keyboard focus to non-text widget
9751 In the Engine-Settings dialog SetFocus() could be called for non-text
9752 widgets, and this made XawTextSetInsertionPoint() croak. Setting the
9753 insertion point to the end in SetFocus() was a bad ide anyway, as it
9754 interfered with copying from the engine-output window, which would
9755 uncontrollably scroll on getting focus. It is solved now by setting the
9756 insertion point already on creation of the text widgets.
9758 2010-02-19 22:32:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9759 Seek-Graph bugfix: disappearing output in ICS console
9761 Suppression of output to the cosole was handled fundamentally wrong: it
9762 was not enough to set next_out to after the unit that should be
9763 suppressed, as there can be a backlog in printing of previous units that
9764 came in the same packet. So this has to be flushed first, or it will be
9765 lost. -autoKibitz probably got away with that, because it comes in a
9766 separate packet. But seek ads are often suffixed to other output, and
9767 then that output disappeared! Now we flush everywhere before suppressing.
9768 We now totally rely on the prompt to restart the printing, so that
9769 acknowledgements following the echo of the sent message are also
9770 suppressed. Also suppress LF before diverted chat messages.
9771 Also fixed is the 'mamer bug' in Chat Boxes, due to false parsing of
9772 a "* (*): " pattern in tell messages, because of a missing continue.
9774 2010-02-12 18:08:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9775 Pop up ICS text menu with default item under mouse pointer
9777 The menu popup is migrated to the down-click (was up-click), so the
9778 up-click can select the item. Some trickery is needed to fool the menu
9779 into thinking that the mouse moved, so that a moveless up-down click in
9780 the ICS text field selects the default item (the upper-right one).
9781 Also allow dummy item in ICS text menu: The command "none" in the ICS
9782 text menu will now be treated as a grayed-out (disabled) entry, so it
9783 can be defined in the position underthe mouse pointer to prevent the
9784 up-click from doing anything, while keeping the menu open. Recommended
9785 for use with an entry of spaces.
9787 2010-02-10 14:42:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9788 Allow ICS context menu to pop up a Chat Box on clicking handle
9790 A command "chat" defined in the WinBoard icsMenu string will cause
9791 ChatPopUp() to be called when it is clicked, with the clicked handle
9792 (name) in the ChatPartner field, and focus on the input field.
9793 ChatPopUp() had to get a parameter (the handle) to make this possible.
9794 If that parameter is NULL (as when it is called from the Mode menu),
9795 focus will still start on the (empty) ChatPartner field of the box.
9797 2010-02-10 10:50:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9798 Fix right-edge spillover of Seek-Graph dots in WinBoard
9800 Rescale the X-axis to allow margin for dot size and color offset.
9802 2010-01-30 11:05:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9803 Interface XBoard to GhostView file-browser dialog
9805 Note: The Ghostview dialog was using some deprecated variables for error
9806 printing, and conditionally used getwd() on some systems that presumably
9807 do not have getcwd(), but it did not assess the latter properly.
9809 2010-02-09 14:38:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9810 Allow recalling history in ICS input box with arrow keys
9812 By adding translations for the Up and Down keys, and stealing some code
9813 from winboard.c. Still needs some refactoring to move the duplicate code
9816 2010-02-09 14:34:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9817 Start insertion point at end of text edits in XB dialogs
9819 The function SetFocus now uses XawTextSetInsertionPoint to position the
9820 end of the string it aready contains, rather than at the beginning.
9822 2010-02-08 17:55:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9823 Capture holdings of background observed game
9826 2010-02-08 11:57:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9827 Match handles with multiple titles for channel Chat Boxes
9829 Only handles with at most one suffixed 'title', such as (U), (C), (IM)
9830 or (TD), followed by the parenthesized channel number, were recognized,
9831 so tells by people with more titles always went to the ICS console window.
9832 Patterns are added to recognize handles with upto three such qualifiers.
9834 2010-02-08 11:54:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9835 Do not pop down Seek Graph on on-dot click
9837 Leave the graph up, and let the incoming board of a started game cause
9838 the pop-down. This in case the clicked ad is no longer vailable, or
9839 manuay refused, and fails to start a game.
9841 2010-02-07 21:26:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9842 Observe a game in the background while playing
9844 A new (persistent) option -backgroundObserve true|false is added. When
9845 set, observed boards received while playing a game will not trigger a
9846 game switch, but will be ignored except for storing in a dedicated board
9847 buffer. Pressing the right mouse button will cause the board to be
9848 displayed, until we release it. Time, strength and stm are always
9849 displayed in the message window.
9851 2010-02-07 16:43:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9852 Remove race condition in clock switching
9854 The move number is now incremented inside SwitchClock, when no timer
9855 interrupt is scheduled, so the interrupt cannot occur at the wrong side
9856 of the increment, and decrement the wrong clock.
9858 2010-02-07 11:53:03 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9859 Let second click on piece make only capture, with -oneClickMove
9861 Normally this would clear the highlighting of that piece.
9862 Required new field in DisambiguateClosure to count nr of captures.
9864 2010-02-07 11:18:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9865 Bugfix stale first-click
9867 When the opponent resigned after the user had cicked a from-square,
9868 clicking the from-square for the first move in the next game would
9869 produce an "illegal move" message, because it was considered a to-click!
9870 We now set fromX and fromY to invalid in GameEnds().
9871 Should we also reset them on mode changes?
9873 2010-02-07 11:08:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9874 Add promotions and e.p. to oneClickMove
9876 For e.p. the to-Square of the Pawn has to be clicked. Promotions are
9877 always to Queen when you click the to-square, but use the promotion
9878 pop-up when you click the from-square.
9880 2010-02-07 10:38:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9881 Fix error that compiler does not notice
9883 Boolean GLT_GetFromList did not return a value. But no error on Ubuntu!
9885 2010-02-06 18:55:38 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9886 new developer release
9889 2010-02-06 18:30:42 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9890 updated year in copyright info
9893 2010-02-05 22:27:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9896 Playing on ICS or against engine, clicking a square from or to which
9897 only a single move can be made causes the move to be done, when the new
9898 option -oneClickMove is set to true.
9900 2010-02-04 16:09:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9901 Use squares for computer seek ads
9903 Shape indication passed in sign bit of color (char) variable.
9905 2010-02-04 22:46:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9906 Use right mouse button to view seek ads
9908 Right down-click does the same as left down-click, right up-click
9909 simulates a left up-click off board (so it misses all dots).
9911 Use right-click miss to refresh Seek Graph
9913 The 'moving' parameter had to be made into an int for this, to indicate
9914 right clicks with code 2. Right press now already pushes the clicked ad
9915 to the back, so that the up-click will display an underlying one.
9917 Bugfix pushing back seek ads on right-click
9919 On a right button press the previous in stead of currently hit ad was
9920 receiving the penalty.
9922 Indicate seek-ad multiplicity
9924 If more than one seek ad is inside the capture range of the mouse
9925 pointer, an exclamation point is printed before the seek-ad text.
9927 Some fixes to make seek-ad suppression work in WinBoard
9929 In WinBoard the z-depth was immediately erased by redrawing the graph;
9930 the clearing of zlist had to be moved from PlotSeekAd() to AddAd()
9931 (where it really belongs). Also aging of z-depth is now suppressed on
9932 mere pointer motion.
9934 2010-02-04 22:45:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9937 The new option -autoRefresh sets FICS and ICC to report removal of seek
9938 ads, and then removes those from the Seek Graph. New seek ads are added
9939 to the graph, as soon as the ICS reports them.
9941 2010-02-04 22:42:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9942 Implement SeekGraph in XBoard
9944 For now only controlled by left mouse clicks on board. New options
9945 -seekGraph true|false and -sg to switch this feature on.
9947 Facilitate selection of coinciding seek ads
9949 Seek-ads that are viewed but not answered get a distance penalty on the
9950 up-click that makes their selection more difficult next time, so that
9951 the ad they covered gets a (better) change. The penalty ages away in the
9954 Slightly offset Seek-Graph dots of different color
9956 Dots of different color are now displaced horizontally be 3 pixels, to
9957 prevent them from completely covering each other. (Required the axis
9958 labels to be moved a little too, to not be covered by the 1-min ads.)
9960 Auto-show seek-ad texts in WinBoard
9962 Hovering the mouse above a Seek-Graph dot will make the text belonging
9963 to it appear in the message field without the need to press a button.
9964 Required SeekGraphClick() to be called from the WB mouse event handler,
9965 with an extra argument 'moving' to make the distinction with a real
9968 Show seek-ad text on mouse hovering (XBoard)
9970 The Eventproc is also set to trigger on PointerMotion, and this event
9971 then calls SeekGraphClick with motion=true to handle it.
9973 Put poetic name of wilds in seek-ad text
9975 Use XBoard variant names, except for 'loadable' and 'fischerandom'
9976 (becomes 'setup' and 'chess960'), but leave number (to distinguish wilds
9977 that transate to same XBoard variant).
9979 2010-02-05 20:36:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9980 Fix highlighting bug in XBoard
9982 The from-square was drawn before the to-square was erased, which led to
9983 a missing highlight line if they shared an edge or corner.
9985 2010-02-05 15:49:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9986 Shorten autoKibitz confirmation on FICS
9988 Strip off the "players)", but leave the separatng space.
9990 2010-02-05 14:39:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9991 Repair damage to -autoKibitz done by FICS atomic zippy claim
9993 The sending of -autoKibitz info was also moved back in that patch, but
9994 unfortunately to after clearing of the programStats info. Now the
9995 clearing has been moved also, to remain after it.
9997 2010-02-04 23:33:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9998 Send continuation lines to chat box they belong to
10000 The variable savingComment is used as a kludge to remember where the
10001 comment should go (i.e. which chatbox, or elsewhere), so that when a
10002 continuation line is matched, chatPartner (which was reset at EOL) can
10003 be restored to its original value. Also put space after handle of talker
10004 in channel Chat Windows
10006 2010-02-02 19:08:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10007 Fix u64 format for cygwin
10009 With a -mno-cygwin compile %llu and %lld are definitely not understood
10010 by scanf and printf, although they are by the compiler. In stead, %I64u
10011 seems to work. Put it in under control of a switch USE_I64, which is
10012 defined only in the gcc makefile when MINGW is used.
10014 2010-02-02 19:02:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10015 Remove stray dot from WinBoard makefiles
10017 There was a period suffixed to config.h in the wgamelist.o dependency.
10019 2010-02-01 14:50:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10020 Fix bug in display of logos
10022 The logo continued to be drawn after a boardSize change to a tinyLayout
10023 size, although there was no space reserved for it. Fixed by explicitly
10024 resetting logoHeight when no logo space is reserved in InitDrawingSizes().
10026 2010-01-19 20:15:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10027 Right-click refactoring: step III
10029 Let WinBoard call RightClick in back-end, and delete the duplicate code
10030 it had for this, after rescuing the front-end bits, and let the letter
10031 act depending on the result returned by RightClick.
10033 2010-01-19 19:07:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10034 Right-click refactoring: step II
10036 Migrate the Right-click routine to the back-end. Let it communicate back
10037 square coordinates through pointer arguments, to accomodate their
10038 different naming in XBoard and WinBoard. Template added in frontend.h.
10040 2010-01-19 17:55:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10041 Right-click refactoring, step I
10043 Divorce front-end part from back-end part of PieceMenuPopup in XBoard
10044 front-end, and forge the back-end part into a new routine RightClick.
10045 The right up-click in XBoard, which called unLoadPV() directly, now
10046 calls RightClick through PieceMenuPopUp().
10048 2010-02-04 23:09:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10049 Merge gamelistopt sources into gamelist source files
10051 The files xgamelistopt.c and gamelistopt.c are merged with xgamelist.c
10052 and gamelist.c, respectively. The WB front-end for the dialog already
10053 resided in winboard.c, so there was little need to move it to wgameist.c
10054 file. Makefiles adapted accordingly. Unsuitable key bindings were
10055 removed. The low-level front-end prototypes are now defined in in
10058 2010-01-29 21:47:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10059 Game-List options dialog for XBoard
10061 A dialog similar to that of WinBoard was cloned from the game-list
10062 window. The XBoard front-end is in a separate file xgamelistopt.c,
10063 which in fact implements most of the low-level front-end as back-end.
10065 2010-01-29 12:48:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10066 Refactoring of game-list-options dialog
10068 The back-end part is separated off, and moved to a file gamelistopt.c.
10069 Front-end for now stays in winboard.c. No prototypes in frontend.h yet.
10071 2010-01-26 19:28:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10072 Fix of ancient WB bug: test integer option values for validity
10074 Only a string of digits preceded by an optional sign is accepted now.
10075 Before, any string was accepted, and leaving out a value could lead to
10076 the next option being ignored (if it did not need a value) because it
10077 was considered the value for the previous one!
10079 2010-01-26 19:00:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10080 Fix bug in edit-position of holdings
10082 The holdings were effectivelly taken one too large, so that a promoted
10083 shogi Pawn moved to, or created in the holdings was not demoted to Pawn,
10084 but put in the dark (which you could see by the holding count if you did
10085 it twice). The overflow tests in these two cases now have been corrected.
10087 2010-01-25 13:54:40 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10088 Save fonts in XBoard settings file per boardSize
10090 Each -boardSize now can have its own font specified in the settings file
10091 (and thus by a command-line option, although it would in general not be
10092 very useful to specify a font for a size other than the selected). E.g.
10093 a prefix "size33:" to the font name will apply it only to -size 33.
10094 An unspecified-size font option (not normally in the settings file) will
10095 always prevail over a font option specific for the current size.
10096 A font of some size must have been used or specified in order to be
10099 2010-01-25 08:56:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10100 Fix width of filter field in XBoard GameList
10102 An empirical dependence of the width of this text edit on the square
10103 size now makes for an acceptable layout at any board size.
10105 2010-01-24 19:09:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10106 Use FICS atomic draw claim for sending move in zippy mode
10108 For this the relaying of the move had to be moved until after the
10109 adjudication, which again has to be done after MakeMove(), which is a
10110 bit dubious, as MakeMove might take significant time when animating.
10112 2010-01-24 18:51:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10113 Send FICS atomic claim to ICS if move creates draw after offer
10115 The FICS format "draw MOVE" is used to send the move to the ICS when
10116 the user enters a move that adjudicates as a claimable draw, and he
10117 offered a draw before the move. For the benefit of ICS that do not
10118 understand this format, the plain move is sent afterwards.
10120 2010-01-24 18:16:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10121 Also allow user to claim by offering draw before his move
10123 Use the existing userOfferedDraw variable to test for such offers in
10126 2010-01-24 17:29:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10127 Also adjudicate after user move
10129 Call Adjudicate() in FinishMove().
10131 2010-01-24 15:56:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10132 Refactoring of adjudication code
10134 Put all the rule-based (as opposed to score-based) adjudications in a
10135 separate routine, so they can also be called on user moves. This
10136 requires sending the drawing move to the opponent engine to be made
10137 conditional on existence of the latter. Execution of the code is no
10138 longer dependent on the condition TwoMachinesPlay, but actual game
10139 terminations are now all restricted by an alternative condition (no ICS
10142 2010-01-24 11:46:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10143 Use -keepAlive option to determine connection health
10145 When there has been no ICS response since the previous 'ping', assume we
10146 are disconnected and do a fatal-error exit. Also auto-start the ping
10147 process in InitBackend3().
10149 2010-01-23 23:00:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10150 Use arrow keys in XBoard GameList for entry selection
10152 Add translations for arrows and home/end, to call LoadSelectedProc with
10153 argument to indicate the step, and let the latter perform the action.
10155 2010-01-23 22:24:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10156 Allow <Enter> to apply filter in XB GameList filter edit
10158 Apply a translation to intercept the <Enter> key. Set focus back to the
10159 list display afterwards.
10161 2010-01-23 21:44:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10162 Accept <Enter> for changing chat partner
10164 A kludge stolen from Alessandro's GameList filter allowed to let the
10165 typing of <Enter> while updating the chat-partner field of the WinBoard
10166 chat windows to act as pressing the Change button. Gives focus to the
10167 input field of the window afterwards.
10169 2010-01-23 21:42:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10170 Move duplicat gamelist code to backend
10172 The filtering routines are moved from xgamelist.c and wgamelist.c to
10173 gamelist.c, and a prototype for them is placed in backend.h.
10175 2010-01-23 19:29:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10176 Port game-list filtering to XBoard
10178 Added a text edit and apply button to the XBoard game-list dialog, and
10179 only have it print those lines that match the filter. Translate index in
10180 list to index of game in file when a game is selected, and index in file
10181 to index in list when a line is highlighted. Duplicates some code
10182 between xgamelist.c and wgamelist.c, which should be moved to back-end.
10184 2010-01-21 19:24:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10185 Convert to DOS line endings
10187 For easier understanding of upcoming diffs of winboard.c
10189 2010-01-21 14:32:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10190 Refactoring of move-history code
10192 The WinBoard code in whistory.c was split in a front-end part (remaining
10193 in whistory.c) and a back-end part (now in history.c in the xboard
10194 directory). This to allow easy porting to other platforms.
10196 2010-01-20 12:48:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10197 Add fixed-time/move button in XBoard time-control dialog
10199 Put the TC-type buttons in a radio-group, and highlight the selected mode.
10201 2010-01-19 18:27:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10202 Fix bug in XBoard PV display
10204 The PV was unloaded on anything but a button release, in stead of the
10207 2010-01-23 11:04:11 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10208 fixed hardcoded location of config file for xboard
10210 the location should now follow sysconfdir during the configuration process.
10211 Also added some more output to the configure script.
10213 2010-01-18 12:18:32 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10214 new developer release
10217 2010-01-18 12:15:06 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10218 fixed Makefile.am to handle config file correctly
10221 2010-01-15 21:55:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10222 Change opening array -variant fairy
10224 We now use the position of "Chess with Different Armies", FIDE army vs.
10225 a fantasy army (inspired on the Color-bound Clobberers) as opening
10228 2010-01-13 19:08:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10231 Thai Chess, played by 2 million world-wide. Required pawn promotion to
10232 happen in a zone, and the Alfil to move as Shogi Silver, a new opening
10233 array, and unusual Pawn placement. Because of the latter, I consider it
10234 a setup position, so a FEN will always be sent to the engine.
10236 2010-01-17 14:17:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10237 Fix parsing of O-O and O-O-O after FEN pasting in FRC
10239 Because the initial rights were not set in the FEN reader, the
10240 initial rights of the previous game remained in force, so that the
10241 parser did not understand OO-castling (although it would allow KxR
10244 2010-01-15 14:40:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10245 Fix reading FEN castling rights for knightmate and twokings
10247 Scanning the back-rank for a King did not work in these variants,
10248 because either the Unicorn castles, or there might be two Kings.
10250 2010-01-13 11:42:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10251 Fix omission in castling refactoring for ICS received boards
10253 A default of -1 was still used, in stead of NoRights, when no Rook was
10254 found. In theory this could have had effect in a setup board 0 in FRC,
10255 when there were no Rooks on the back rank.
10257 2010-01-13 11:35:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10258 Fix TwoKings ICS castling-rights bug
10260 Scanning the rank (as is done because of FRC) assigned castling rights
10261 to the rightmost King. Even scanning the opposite direction would not
10262 work, as it is not always the eftmost King that can castle. So we now
10263 explicitly test for a King on e1/e8 in TwoKings and assign it rights,
10264 relying on the Rook rights received from the ICS to control castling.
10266 2009-11-18 19:12:25 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10267 fix double start of zippy engine after switch to gothic
10269 In ICS mode we now switch to the proper variant as soon as we receive
10270 the generic game-start message, to prevent a mismatch when the first
10271 board is received (which would trigger fetching of a move list).
10273 2010-01-11 16:44:40 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10274 Extensive bugfix of -autoKibitz
10276 Suppression of printing of diverted kibitz messages failed when they
10277 extended over more than one read. This could even lead to such
10278 messages being erroneously saved as comments, which then lead to
10279 crashes. The suppression mechanism now waits for a prompt, in stead of
10280 the end of buffer. This required the printing of any leftover in the
10281 buffer to be deferred until the next read completes it.
10282 The number of people kibitzed to is now printed.
10284 2010-01-11 16:30:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10285 Fix piece-to-char table -variant fairy
10287 The letters for Lance and Snake where swapped.
10289 2010-01-09 11:54:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10290 Make WinBoard makefiles use parser.c in XBoard directory
10293 2010-01-08 18:23:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10294 Docs update for new features
10297 2010-01-08 15:18:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10298 Fix new args parsing of -lowTimeWarningColor
10300 This did not occur in the XBoard color translation table yet.
10302 2010-01-08 14:16:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10303 Allow editing of holdings in EditPosition mode
10305 Dragging pieces to and from the holdings now consistently keep track of
10306 the home square of pieces and the piece counts, as does creation of
10307 pieces in the holdings through the piece menu.
10309 2010-01-08 13:59:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10310 Indicate squares a lifted piece can legally move to
10312 Under control of the new option -showTargetSquares when
10313 -highlightDragging and -testLegality are on, the squares a piece can
10314 move to are marked by fat dots in the highlightColor (non-captures) and
10315 premoveHighlightColor (captures), as soon as you grab it for dragging.
10316 In variants with mandatory capture, the capture target of other pieces
10317 is marked with the highlightColor (as non-captures are then not allowed).
10319 2010-01-08 12:35:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10320 Fix bug for incommensurate time odds
10322 After normalization (-timeOddsMode 1) the time odds factors can be
10323 non-integer, and thus must be stored as float.
10325 2010-01-08 11:41:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10326 Display PV right-clicked from EngineOutput window
10328 The clicked PV is selected and the memo gets focus, so that it is
10329 highlighted. This selection is restored in the proper place after
10330 insetrtion of a new line in the memo.
10332 2010-01-08 10:19:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10333 Display PV on right-clicking board
10336 2010-01-08 09:21:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10337 Bugfix legality null move in parsing with -testLegality off
10339 The pointers were compared, in stead of the values.
10340 Furthermore, instead of null moves, it rejected moves on the main diagonal when legality checking was off.
10342 Also exclude moves with empty squares and enemy pieces.
10344 2010-01-07 19:10:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10345 Newly lexed winboard/parser.c
10348 2010-01-07 19:05:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10349 Harmonize declarations of XBoard and WinBoard
10351 The engine-exit and settings patches make some stuff common to WinBoard
10352 and XBoard, which needed to be harmonized, and is moved to frontend.h.
10354 2010-01-07 13:07:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10355 Allow Ctrl-C copying from EngineOutput window text to clipboard
10358 2010-01-07 12:52:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10359 Allow popup-less (fatal) exit of engine after tellusererror
10362 2010-01-07 12:40:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10363 Improve layout of Engine #N Settings dialog
10365 An attempt is made to align the input fields of spins and text-edits
10367 2010-01-07 00:31:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10368 Let XBoard print version with argument --version or -v
10371 2010-01-07 00:25:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10372 Fix castling rule assignment in shuffle games
10374 The conversion to in-board storage for rights copied directly to boards[0] in steadof
10375 initialPosition, and was then overwritten when the latter was copied with uninitialized
10376 rights to boards[0]. This affected FRC and CRC, where rights are non-standard.
10378 2010-01-07 00:17:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10379 Implement castling in -variant caparandom
10381 CRC should be treated as FRC, but until now it never was. We now test for FRC_TYPE_CASTLING.
10383 2010-01-07 00:09:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10384 Fix default castling rights on reading incomplete FEN
10386 This was overlooked in the conversion to the in-board storage of rights.
10388 2010-01-07 00:03:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10389 Fix NoncompliantFEN defaults.
10391 This must be NULL to get compliant FENs, not "", which would suppress castling and e.p. fields.
10393 2010-01-06 23:54:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10394 Change format of -adapterCommand.
10396 first or f at the start of an option name are now automatically changed into second or s,
10397 rather than needing %% to be recognized. The values of -ec and -ed in the default
10398 -adapterCommand are now quoted (now XBoard understands quoting in the engine command line).
10400 2010-01-06 23:51:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10401 Make WinBoard defaults for -fd and -sd equal to "." rather than empty strings.
10404 2010-01-06 23:28:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10405 Delete old indirection settings-file code
10408 2010-01-06 21:45:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10409 Correct XBoard default debug file name
10412 2010-01-06 21:34:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10413 Suppress saving font settings.
10415 The fonts are size dependent, and might thus not be reusable in the next
10416 session. For now we therefore suppress the saving of them in the
10417 settings file, until we diversify the fonts per boardSize.
10419 2009-12-12 23:38:20 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10420 added missing sounds files to be able to compile on windows
10423 2009-12-09 17:29:37 -0700 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
10424 Changes needed to compile master branch.
10427 2009-12-06 12:11:46 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10428 implements the eval-graph window for XBoard
10431 2009-12-06 11:58:34 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10432 improves the XBoard handling of the engine command line
10434 it now understands limited forms of quoting, so engine binaries with spaces in their file name can be handled.
10436 2009-12-06 11:56:40 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10437 A better and more flexible way of invoking Polyglot
10439 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.
10441 2009-12-06 11:34:50 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10442 remove trailing \r in xboard output
10444 there is an annoying carriage return (displayed as ^M) at the end of the PV in the engine-output window, not
10445 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.
10447 2009-11-29 11:56:32 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10448 double buffer size to prevent overflow
10450 This patch doubles the size of the ICS input buffer to 16KB, to prevent
10451 the suspected overflow with -keepLineBreaksICS false when using
10452 "inchannel 1" on FICS and over 500 people are tuned in.
10454 2009-11-28 13:33:52 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10455 fix problem with empty string in -firstNeedsNoncompliantFEN
10457 This fixes a bug in the use of the -firstNeedsNoncompliantFEN option with
10458 an empty string as argument. (Which led to truncation of the FEN.)
10460 2009-11-28 13:32:12 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10461 updates makefiles to include dependency on config.h
10463 adds the dependency of wbres.o on config.c introduced by having the VersionInfo in the resource
10465 2009-11-28 13:28:00 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10466 correctly apply some check boxes from the option menu
10468 Usng the check-boxes in the Option->Adjudications menu to indicate the
10469 engine reports absolute scores is now copied directly to the ChessProgramState,
10470 from where it is used, in stead of only to appData. This makes the change take
10471 effect immediately, in stead of after restarting.
10473 2009-11-28 13:27:43 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10474 score sign in analysis mode
10476 this does not alter any of the current behavior with compliant engines,
10477 but does extend the correction for non-compliant score reporting under
10478 control of the -first(second)ScoreIsAbs option to cases where the engine
10479 is analyzing or playing on an ICS.
10481 2009-11-24 21:09:30 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10482 fix for bug #28077: xboard needs to link against x11
10484 hopefully fixed automake to take care of this
10486 2009-11-23 20:37:20 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10487 Fix castling rights when copying FEN to clipboard (again)
10489 missed a spot last time
10491 2009-11-23 20:22:58 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10492 restoring windows (EngineOutput and MoveHistory) on startup
10494 restoring the open / closed status of the
10495 auxiliary windows (EngineOutput and MoveHistory) on startup
10496 in XBoard like they do in WinBoard, which makes sense now that
10497 we aso remember their coordinates between sessions.
10499 2009-11-23 20:21:14 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10500 fixed some outstanding pixmaps
10502 fixed transparency issues
10504 2009-11-23 20:17:25 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10505 use linux style options for config file and add a system config file for XBoard
10507 This patch makes XBoard write the options to its conf file in
10508 Linux style, "-option value" rather than Windows style "/option=value".
10510 The WinBoard option parsing code has always understood both formats
10511 (including any hybrids), but the format it preferred for writing might
10512 look quite strange to Linux users. I also attached a file to be installed
10513 as /etc/xboard/xboard.conf on "make install".
10515 2009-11-23 19:58:55 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10516 fix window positioning
10518 This patch adds stuff in the header files that allow the various front-end files
10519 to share information on which windows exist, are up, and how they are positioned.
10520 The EngineOutput, MoveHistory and GameList windows now all remember their
10521 position and size, even when they are closed when XBoard exits.
10523 2009-11-23 19:51:19 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10524 same argDescriptor parsing for Xboard and Winbaord
10526 This patch makes XBoard and WinBoard use the same argDescriptor
10527 list of options, and (largely) use the same code for parsing and saving them.
10528 This is acheived by moving this code to a new file args.h, and #including this
10529 in both winboard.c and xboard.c (so that tiny differences, e.g. in default
10530 values in the table, are decided by the context). XBoard has new menu items
10531 "Save Settings Now" and "Save Settings on Exit" in the "Option" menu.
10532 XBoard uses /etc/xboard/xboard.conf as default settings file.
10533 A new option, -saveSettingsFile, can specify where settings should be saved,
10534 without parsing the file. (So that it also works if the file does not yet exist.)
10536 2009-11-22 13:00:31 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10537 new developer release
10539 changed release name to <branch>-<date>
10541 2009-11-22 12:34:13 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10542 fix the irritating wandering off of the MoveHistory window in XBoard on opening/closing.
10545 2009-11-22 12:29:47 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10546 use xtell for talking to handles, but tell for talking into a channel.
10548 by changing the chatboxes to use xtell in stead of tell, we broke
10549 the possibility to use the chat-box for chatting into a channel (which is
10550 apparently not possible with xtell).
10552 2009-11-22 12:15:15 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10553 fix bug in bughouse drop menu
10555 This patch fixes the bughouse drop menu, which was broken by the
10556 new mouse driver, and could no longer drop white Pawns.
10558 2009-11-18 19:29:57 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10559 2nd step for moving option parsing from winboard to the backend
10561 This is the next step in option-setting refactoring: All options that are
10562 defined in XBoard are now included in the WinBoard ArgDescriptor list.
10563 The handling of sound option has been harmonized: the sound names
10564 now all initially go to the appData array, (as in XB) in stead of directly to the
10565 WB-specific variables, and LoadAllSounds now takes care of the copying.
10566 A new routine ExportSounds copies them back before saving settings
10567 (which, in XBoard, could be a no-op).
10569 The definition of defaults for the XB-only options has been moved to common.h.
10571 2009-11-18 19:24:35 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10572 1st step for moving option parsing from winboard to the backend
10574 This is a preparatory step in moving option parsing of WinBoard to the back-end.
10575 The table of command-line options now contains a fifth field, holding the compiled-in default.
10576 This obviates most of the front-end routine InitAppData, which now is replaced by a table-driven
10577 initialization routine SetDefaultsFromList(), which could be back-end.
10579 2009-11-18 12:33:39 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10580 refactoring evalgraph code
10582 This is the refactored EvalGraph code: the back-end part is separated off,
10583 and put in a file evalgraph.c, which in the future can also be used with XBoard.
10584 Only the WinBoard front-end code is left in the file wevalgraph.c. A new
10585 header file defines the variables and routines they share.
10587 2009-11-18 12:29:06 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10590 some file permissions where set up wrong
10591 (e.g. execute permissions for text files)
10593 2009-11-18 11:34:22 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10594 refactoring of engineoutput
10596 This refactoring patch separates the back-end part out of
10597 xengineoutput.c, and puts it in a separate file engineoutput.c.
10598 A new header engineoutput.h included by both defines the routines
10599 for cross calling. Similarly wengineo.c will be stripped from its
10600 back-end code, (and renamed to wengineoutput.c), so WinBoard and
10601 XBoard now both use engineoutput.c rather than maintaining duplicate
10602 code in their front-end part.
10604 I also let the back-end now call EngineOutputUpdate directly, rather then
10605 through a relay in the front-end, by renaming it to SetProgramStats
10606 (the former name of the relay in winboard.c / xboard.c).
10608 Moved some templates of functions in engineoutput.c from winboard.h
10611 2009-11-14 22:13:10 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10612 fixed build on openbsd
10614 added missing header file
10616 2009-11-14 22:06:58 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10617 improve thinking-output for mulit-variant
10619 Improve multi-variant support by sorting the Thinking-Output lines of the most recent depth by score in the Engine-Output window.
10621 2009-11-14 22:05:12 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10622 fix castling rights when copying FEN to clipboard
10624 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.
10626 2009-11-14 22:03:47 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10627 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.
10630 2009-11-06 18:53:19 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10631 fixed prototype for AppendComment
10634 2009-11-06 09:06:44 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10635 cleaned up some debug messages and typos
10638 2009-11-06 09:05:09 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10639 variation-support patch
10641 It allows you to Revert to the main line (or previous variation) when
10642 playing variations on an existing game in EditGame or Analyze mode.
10644 2009-11-06 08:48:09 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10645 fix for new way of saving castling and e.p. information
10647 I forgot to make some conversions to the new-style encoding of castling there
10648 (using the enum constant NoRights instead of -1 to indicate
10649 the absence of rights, which was the price of storing the
10650 rights in the board, which is an unsigned enum type.)
10652 I also was a bit worried about portability, because I casted the enum type ChessSquare
10653 to (int) before comparing it with (possibly negative) constants EP_NONE etc.
10654 Now on my system enum types are (unsigned int), and this works, but I could
10655 imagine there are systems where this would be an unsigned char. (Not sure
10656 if there are rules for this). So to be safe I cast ChessSquare to (signed char),
10657 which should always work to make small negative ints assigned to it read
10658 back as themselves.
10660 2009-11-06 08:44:59 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10661 removed files that should only be in the windboard directory
10664 2009-11-05 19:32:35 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10665 add Winboard source files into tar-ball
10667 forgot to add them when rewriting the Makefile.am
10669 2009-11-05 19:23:44 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10670 Integrate castling and e.p. rights into board array; bugfix for EditPosition
10672 A large-scale operation that I have been postponing since the very first 4.4.0:
10673 The castling and e.p. rights are now integrated into the board array, as
10674 boards[moveNr][CASTLING][i] replacing castlingRights[moveNr][i] and
10675 boards[moveNr][EP_STATUS] replacing epStatus[moveNr]
10676 These quantities are now automatically copied with the position by CopyBoards
10677 (allowing the removal of lots of dedicated copying code), and passed as
10678 function arguments with the position (so that the moves.c functions like
10679 TestLegality, MateTest, CoordsToAlgebraic, Disambiguate, GenLegal
10680 no longer need explicit e.p. and castling parameters.
10682 Also fixed a bug introduced by a recent previous fix: by adding fake castling
10683 rights to a position set up through the EditPosition menu, I destroyed the
10684 castling rights of a pasted FEN. Faking castling rights is now made conditional
10685 in EditPositionDone(), depending on the caller. (I had not realized it was also
10686 called after FEN pasting, to send the position to the engine.)
10688 2009-11-05 19:03:17 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10689 added missing library for build on OS X
10691 Xmu seems to be missing
10693 2009-11-04 22:57:30 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10694 Some code refactoring and cleanup; one small bug fix
10696 Some code refactoring, mainly to bring definitions of routines and variables
10697 shared between winboard.c and one of the auxiliary-windows files
10698 whistory.c, wevalgraph.c, wgamelist.c, wengineo.c somewere in a header file
10699 (winboard.h). Unfortunately this made winboard.h dependent on data types
10700 defined in frontend.h, so that the #include order had to be changed in many
10703 The operation revealed one potentially bad bug: engineOutputDialogUp was
10704 written as int in engineo.c, but declared as char in winboard.c.
10706 I also changed the storage mechanism of the the comment and tags window
10707 positions to use WindowPlacement structs rather than simple variables,
10708 so that in the future they can be docked, like the others.
10710 I also removed some remnants of the Analysis window.
10712 The wgamelist.h and wedittags.h header files contained only 3 lines, and
10713 I absorbed them in winboard.h, rather than creating other such nearly empty
10714 headers engineo.h, whistory.h and wevalgraph.h. This affects the make files.
10716 2009-11-03 18:26:06 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10717 let the clocks run in -searchTime mode
10720 2009-11-02 17:41:12 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10721 add fixed time per move to the WinBoard time-control menu dialog
10724 2009-10-31 10:42:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10725 updated version number to unstable
10728 2009-10-31 10:25:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10729 release of version 4.4.1
10732 2009-10-30 19:59:23 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10733 cleaned up ChangeLog and NEWS
10735 2009-10-30 20:02:40 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10736 use xtell instead of tell in wchat
10738 2009-10-28 20:35:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10739 prevent buffer overflow
10741 This is a buffer-size adjustments to prevent the JAWS version from
10742 crashing when it has to read out loud very long comments.
10744 2009-10-28 02:17:16 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
10745 Further copy/paste fixes
10747 We needed to implement the XA_TARGETS target in order for more
10748 sophisticated apps to really believe we put anything on the clipboard
10751 2009-10-27 23:57:25 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
10752 Make copy/paste position and game use clipboard, bug #27810
10754 Copy actually sets both the clipboard and the selection for
10755 convenience and compatibility with the old way of doing things.
10756 Paste pastes from the clipboard by default, but the new -pasteSelection
10757 option lets you get back the old behavior of pasting from the
10760 2009-10-27 15:44:28 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10761 switch focus to the board after loading a game
10763 2009-10-27 15:32:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10764 fix for bug #27826: fixed autoDisplayComment
10766 apparently the -autoDisplayComment option was not working,
10767 not even in WinBoard. This patch should fix it,both for WB and XB.
10768 (Unfortunately xboard.c and winboard.c were using a different name
10769 for the same front-end variable I needed, so I had to change one of them.)
10771 2009-10-27 12:24:56 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10772 fix for bug #27826: ported two options to xboard
10774 also updated the documentation
10776 2009-10-27 12:22:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10779 turns out the new mouse handler broke the JAWS patch, as I discarded
10780 the function IsPromotion. I adapted it to call HasPromotionChoice instead.
10781 Also fixed two arnings by removing a no-longer needed debug print.
10783 2009-10-27 12:03:02 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10784 reformated html to be correctly validated
10786 2009-10-27 10:33:42 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10787 quick fix for "White Mates" in parser.l
10789 2009-10-27 10:32:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10792 2009-10-26 20:45:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10793 changed stderr to debug output, since stderr is closed in winboard
10795 2009-10-26 20:42:24 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10796 removing empty lines from ICS play
10798 this patch causes removal of spurious prompts during ICS play
10799 also if the prompt is preceeded by a number of empty lines
10800 (as the board for the opponent move is on FICS).
10802 2009-10-26 20:40:00 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10803 another bug in VariantSwitch: an unitialized board was printed.
10805 Must have been there a long time, but this time it crashed WinBoard.
10807 2009-10-26 20:38:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10808 more work on variant switch
10810 the previous solution to the cosmetic problem of displaying a wrong shuffle
10811 in an ICS game that was observed from the very start unfortunately turned
10812 out to cause a real error in diplaying a stored game through the smoves
10813 command, for variants not using the FIDE setup as standard.
10815 This patch displays the position from before setting up the start position
10816 of the new variant, but does setup boards[0] to the initial position of that
10817 variant. (If this is a wrong shuffle, it is thus ot displayed, and a new board
10818 will immediately be sent from the ICS to correct the shuffle.)
10820 2009-10-26 20:34:04 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10821 force full redraw in winboard
10823 Full redraw is now always forced when highlightMovesWithArrow is on,
10824 rather than only when highlight info is available. (As in drop moves the
10825 latter is invalid, but we must still erase the arrow from the previous move.)
10827 2009-10-26 20:25:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10828 fix for bug #27790 and #277772. Suppressing the display of a wrong shuffle
10829 when observing shuffle games from the first move (#27790 bis),
10830 and the sounding of the FICS bell on crazyhouse captures (#27772 bis).
10832 2009-10-26 20:22:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10833 fixed bug related to unsigned char in convert.c
10835 I also fixed the unsigned-char bug in the convert.c for bitmaps that caused the
10836 129x129 XBoard bitmaps to be defective, and a bug that required fixup with sed
10837 afterwards (so I could use it to create a new m33s.bm)
10839 2009-10-25 23:37:48 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10840 unguarded debug printf. added the appropiate if statement
10842 2009-10-25 23:31:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10843 fix for two compiler warnings
10845 2009-10-25 23:29:43 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10846 fix for bug #27799: fix for nested-nested-nested variations
10848 2009-10-25 23:21:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10849 The book-probe code forgot to close the book file after opening it.
10851 fixed by adding an fclose at two points.
10853 2009-10-25 23:18:18 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10854 removed unused v54?.bm bitmaps from resource file
10856 it seems the v54?.bmp bitmaps were actually included in the WinBoard build
10857 (in the resource file), although they were never actually used. So I have
10858 removed their inclusion in the resource file now.
10860 2009-10-25 23:05:30 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10861 replaced defective bitmaps with copies from 4.2.7
10863 2009-10-25 23:02:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10864 removed bitmaps files that are not needed any more
10866 2009-10-25 22:58:34 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10869 2009-10-24 09:41:39 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
10870 Drop an obsolete script that was only used to update my personal web site
10872 2009-10-24 01:23:29 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
10873 Silence warnings when compiling 64-bit xboard
10875 Some harmless warnings were caused by 64-bit mode having 32-bit
10876 int but 64-bit long and pointer. Add casts (etc.) to silence them.
10877 This might require adding a definition of intptr_t (a signed int
10878 type that is the same width as a pointer) on old systems that don't
10881 2009-10-24 00:56:37 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
10882 Fix up man page some more
10884 Sigh, the project history was still partly in reverse chronological
10885 order and partly in forward order. Swapped the order of some
10886 sentences to help straighten it out. I don't really care about this,
10887 so other project members should feel free to do what they like here,
10888 but the messed-up order was bugging me.
10890 2009-10-24 00:46:20 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
10891 Fix some issues in the XBoard man page
10893 Correct places where the XBoard man page was calling XBoard
10894 "WinBoard". Change references to "WinBoard engines" and "WinBoard
10895 protocol" to "XBoard/WinBoard ...". Update bug reporting guidelines.
10896 Reorganize project history to something more like chronological order
10897 -- it had gotten pretty randomly ordered.
10899 2009-10-22 21:45:32 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10900 new pre-release version; updated version numbers
10902 2009-10-22 21:33:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10903 This patch adds <Enter> to the characters that cause an automatic
10904 switch to the ICS console when typed to the board window.
10906 2009-10-22 21:31:16 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10907 fix to the minor graphics issue contained some typos,
10908 as was remarked in the bugs reports
10910 2009-10-22 21:30:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10911 improved mouse handler
10913 The improved mouse handler still needed an extra call to DrawPosition to
10916 2009-10-22 21:28:38 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10917 NPS plays and pondering
10919 Clock updating did not work correctly in node-based time controls when the
10920 engine was pondering. (It was not really meant for use with pondering. Oh well...)
10921 This patch checks if the engine reporting the node count is indeed thinking
10922 (as opposed to pondering).
10924 2009-10-22 21:25:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10925 holdings update and regression fix
10927 The holdings-update patch was not yet satisfactory, because FICS seems to send
10928 holdings both before and after the board! And those received before did overwrite
10929 the holdings received after the previous board. I know tried to fix that in a kludgey
10930 way, by hiding a flag in the board that tells if the holdings have already been written
10931 by the ICS or not, and ignore new holdings when they are. (Except in bughouse,
10932 where holdings updates cannot be tied to a particular board and multiple updates
10933 between boards are normal. (I hope?).)
10935 I also undid a regression in my previous fix for the minor graphics problem,
10936 and solved it in a slightly different way to prevent flicker.
10938 2009-10-22 21:23:39 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10939 improved mouse handler
10941 I improved the mouse handler in a way which will preclude disappearence of pieces
10942 on off-board or ambiguous (in-between squares) drag & drop moves. (As was reported
10943 in the "premove bug?" thread. Also the command-line premove problem reported there
10944 is now fixed, by removing the prefixing.
10946 2009-10-22 21:18:05 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10947 fix for bug #8847: moving backward while examining on FICS not reported to engine
10949 I moved Daniel's code that backs up the engine when a bord with a
10950 lower number is received to a place where it is always done in zippy mode,
10951 rather than only when the engine is analyzing.
10953 Apart from taking back moves, there was also the case where the
10954 user moves forward by more than one move (usually immediately to
10955 end-of-game). In this case a new movelist is fetched from the ICS
10956 to recover the moves that were skipped. But this assumes that the
10957 engine is at the start of the game and feeds all these moves to the
10958 engine. So the engine had to be reset in this case to stay in sync.
10960 2009-10-22 21:16:56 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10961 better init for random number generator
10963 2009-10-21 23:01:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10964 fix for bug #27772: holdings not updated
10966 holdings lines from the ICS nor update the holdings
10967 of boards[forwardMostMove] in stead of boards[currentMove].
10969 2009-10-21 21:32:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10970 allowe parsing / disambiguation of SAN moves like Xe4 in certain situations
10972 This patch allows parsing / disambiguation of SAN moves like Xe4, if there
10973 is only one wild-card piece X on the board. Moves with wild-card pieces
10974 are now considered illegal if they leave the King in check by a piece of
10977 2009-10-20 19:09:46 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10978 fixed bug when switching to variantsuper
10980 2009-10-20 19:06:43 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10981 fix for bug #27715: 2 (minor) graphic issues
10983 I forced a total redraw when Reset is called from the ICS code in case a
10984 new game is encountered, in the hope it will make the reported
10985 (irreproducible) problem go away. As game switches are not frequent, I
10986 guess there is hardly any downside to this.
10988 2009-10-20 18:57:17 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10989 fix for bug #27667: PV line missing in analysis window, part 3
10991 "3. Wish for Engine state string (right to the icon):
10992 Can you add the actual search depth in analyzing mode? A change like "
10994 I also added the requested display of depth of the analysis move in the
10995 EngineOutput window. I guess a similar change could be made to wengineo.c
10996 (as this is in the code they share in common), but no one ever requested
10997 that in the 5 years since Alessandro wrote it. So for now I leave it alone.
10999 2009-10-20 18:52:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11000 fix for bug #27760: debug printf in backend.c and additional check for variant
11002 2009-10-19 23:17:46 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11003 fix for bug #10990: cmail does not seem to support .cmailgames or .cmailaliases
11005 this is correct, deleted the text out of the documentation that claims we support it
11007 2009-10-19 18:40:40 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11008 new alpha version; first one with new naming scheme
11010 2009-10-19 18:07:21 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11011 smarter analysis of the boards that XBoard receives from an ICS
11013 I added smarter analysis of the boards that XBoard receves from an ICS,
11014 based on board size and piece types in the position, to recognize cases
11015 where the board does not match the current variant, and switch to an
11016 appropriate variant.
11018 2009-10-19 18:04:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11019 fix for bug #27667: window should be reference to toplevel
11021 The remaining objections of #27667 should be fixed by bringing the
11022 EngineOutput window under control of the TOPLEVEL compile-time switch.
11024 2009-10-19 18:02:42 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11025 partly fix for bug #27715: scaling of menu bar
11027 the menu bar to the left edge of the window.
11029 2009-10-19 17:59:43 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11030 fixed bug reported in WB forum: second game of a match would
11031 not start when using the GUI book
11033 2009-10-19 17:57:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11034 fix for bug #27751: negative holding counts displayed
11036 I put code in the back-end to prevent holdings counts from
11037 becoming negative when a drop move is made from empty holdings.
11038 (This can happen when re-loading ICS bughouse games,
11039 as the smoves command fails to fill the holdings.)
11041 2009-10-18 20:54:53 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11042 Updated compiling instructions.
11044 2009-10-18 11:32:55 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11045 Changes to allow fonts with any charset (such as terminal)
11047 Affects winboard only.
11049 2009-10-16 23:02:41 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11050 Moved SIGWINCH signal so it can be used...
11052 I goofed putting this in StartChildProcess() originally.
11054 2009-10-16 22:54:12 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11055 Added internal wrapping ability.
11058 -wrapContinuationSequence "foo" (default: "\\ "
11059 -useInternalWrap (Winboard default: false, XBoard default: true)
11061 Note: -keepLineBreaksICS if set, prevents wrapping, usurping the
11062 useInternalWrap setting. The idea is if you want to keep ICS line
11063 breaks, then you don't want internal wrapping. Because of this,
11064 the new default for keepLineBreaksICS is now false for XBoard.
11066 2009-10-16 19:14:34 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11067 fixed segfaul in convert.c used to convert pixmaps
11069 2009-10-15 19:46:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11070 new mousehandler to correct for premove and promotion popup
11072 this is the new mouse handler for XBoard, which should fully implement
11073 premove, including promotion popup, and yet suppress the promotion popup
11074 on illegal moves that are not premoves. It is almost completely moved to
11075 the back-end now, so that WinBoard will be able to use it as well. I just
11076 must hook it up to winboard.c, in particular harmonize the call-backs of
11077 the mouse driver into the front-end for grabbing and releasing pieces for
11078 dragging, to make sure they have the same names and arguments.
11080 2009-10-15 19:32:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11081 updated black fairy pieces
11083 here is a set of black fairy pieces with opaque white details,
11084 so they have the same style as the orthodox XBoard pieces.
11086 2009-10-15 16:54:51 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11087 Adjustment to joining to work around server not always including space.
11089 This patch implements commit 98aa02bda540f17f1f50be00e494efafe439b004
11090 into the updated joining routine. This issue seems not to be server
11091 variance, but instead the server electing to omit the space between
11092 words when it occurs at exactly your width setting (-1 actually).
11094 This patch makes the joiner add back the space just like the referenced
11095 commit. Note: this is just a workaround to a server issue-- the joiner
11096 actually joins correctly before this patch.
11098 2009-10-15 07:18:42 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11099 Fixed joiner detection, allowing it to work with timeseal
11101 When timeseal's buffer fills in the middle of the continuation
11102 sequence, detection fails, and the lines aren't joined.
11104 As a result of this fix, measures intended to bypass joining are
11105 no longer needed, so I removed them. These utilize server vars
11106 when available to prevent splitting.
11108 2009-10-14 14:42:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11109 fixed engingeoutput routine
11111 removed outdated code regarding analysis window
11113 2009-10-14 14:39:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11114 moved bitmap to correct location
11116 was misplaced in a previous commit
11118 2009-10-14 14:26:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11119 fixed wrong number of arguments for EngineOutputPopUp
11121 2009-10-13 21:00:27 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11122 new bitmap converter (including fill option) and new pixmaps
11124 2009-10-13 20:52:40 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11125 forgot to add these two lines to the last commit
11127 2009-10-13 20:51:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11128 removed AnalysisPopUp. Use EngineOutputPopUp instead
11130 this was already in Winboard, copied it to xboard and removed unused code.
11132 2009-10-13 20:32:32 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11133 Proper board and holdings size when switching to variants
11134 gothic, capablanca, great and super within an ICS game.
11136 2009-10-13 20:25:13 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11137 cleaned up an old #ifdef in zippy
11139 2009-10-12 19:25:17 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11140 neglected this for the auto-width updating in xboard
11142 2009-10-12 19:19:59 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11143 Added server width adjustment based on client width changes
11145 2009-10-12 19:14:53 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11146 silence some compiler warnings
11148 2009-10-11 18:39:24 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11149 Maintainence to support all compilers.
11151 2009-10-11 17:07:27 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11152 Adjusted alternative joining method to obey keepLineBreaksICS
11154 2009-10-11 14:48:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11155 fix for bug #27668: e.p. field still not passed to engine
11157 PositionToFEN now takes the e.p. rights from epStatus[moveNr],
11158 rather than calculating it on the spot from moveList[moveNr-1]
11159 (which failed on the first move).
11161 2009-10-11 14:46:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11162 fix for bug #27666: naming of variants
11164 Variant names "misc/xxx" are recognized as "normal", rather than "xxx"
11165 to not get confused by the board "misc shogi" run by FICS.
11167 2009-10-11 10:14:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11168 changed enable menus
11170 Put the "Open Chat Window", "Machine Both", and "Engine #N Settings" menu items
11171 in the appropriate enable lists for graying them out wen not applicable.
11173 2009-10-11 10:13:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11174 Added a command-line option -keepLineBreaksICS true/false to control line joining.
11176 2009-10-10 19:30:23 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11177 Added code to prevent unnecessary width updates.
11179 2009-10-10 18:34:37 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11180 Turned off wrap when possible on ICS servers.
11182 Turning off line wrap prevents splitting lines up using the
11183 continuation sequence "\\ ". This is desirable when using
11184 timeseal because timeseal's buffer is sometimes too small,
11185 causing it to break lines itself. These lines can't be joined.
11187 2009-10-10 16:30:56 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11188 vsnprintf() must be _vsnprintf() for MSVC
11190 2009-10-10 16:16:45 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11191 added code to handle initial width update
11193 2009-10-10 14:21:12 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11194 Added width updates to ICS client on font and window size changes
11196 What still needs to be done is placing an update call after login
11197 to initialize with the correct width. I didn't see where to put
11200 2009-10-10 14:19:30 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11201 added ics_printf() and ics_update_width() and utility functions
11203 2009-10-10 11:15:50 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11204 Cleaned up ConsoleWndProc (not complete, see below)
11206 Using static variables this way is not appropriate. I only addressed
11207 hInput and hText in this commit though. But imagine the WndProc being
11208 used by multiple windows instead of just one, and you can see why
11209 using static variables in this way is wrong.
11211 2009-10-10 11:12:10 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11212 Restructured URL code so it fits better with how winboard is set up.
11214 2009-10-10 08:57:39 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11215 cleanup: removed "#if 1" statements
11217 2009-10-10 08:55:21 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11218 cleanup: removed "#if 0" from source
11220 a bit of cleanup of the source code
11222 2009-10-10 08:34:10 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11223 fix joining of lines split by ICS
11225 This patch fixes the joining of lines that were split by an ICS, so that adding
11226 a space at the break point is done only when there was not a space already.
11227 (Some ICS leave a space at the end of the broken line, others do not.)
11228 An extra space would interefere with board12 in Gothic Chess, which is so
11229 long that the ICS breaks it, and the WB parser could not handle a double
11230 space within the board.
11232 2009-10-10 08:27:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11233 fix for bug #27642: Clock jumps strangely in engine mode
11235 This moves SwitchClocks() back to after incrementing forwardMostMove,
11236 so that it knows again who has the move (which was broken by the "bare" patch),
11237 and will take the appropriate tick length.
11239 2009-10-10 08:26:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11240 removed test for premove
11242 this was added while looking for the premove bug, but is not needed
11244 2009-10-10 02:03:45 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11245 added URL detection and provided hotlinks in the ICS client
11247 2009-10-10 02:00:52 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11248 reverted winboard.c beofre URL commit to correct whitespace conversion
11250 2009-10-09 02:14:22 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11251 Added URL detection into the console text window for ICS.
11253 2009-10-08 23:51:06 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11254 added some comments and formated code
11256 2009-10-08 23:46:52 -0700 Chris Rorvick <>:
11257 fix printing out help message (list of command line options) (tiny change)
11259 The postfix increment always resulted in an attempt to print out an
11260 option on the right side regardless of one actually existing. Use
11261 prefix increment to prevent a crash when printing an odd number of
11264 2009-10-09 00:04:51 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11265 Updated navigation accelerators, fixing ICS problems.
11267 Recent changes to the navigation accelerators were in the wrong
11268 accelerator table. Since the goal was to correct non-JAWS versions
11269 back to 4.2.7 behavior, I updated it to how 4.2.7 did it, but still
11270 retained the #ifdef JAWS conditional compilation.
11272 On an ICS, the navigation keys took control away from the ics
11273 client to navigate the game. The update requires the ALT key to
11274 be pressed, but it works identical to 4.2.7, not causing an
11275 unexpected focus back to the board window when you're just editing
11278 2009-10-08 20:33:39 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11279 fixed premove recapture problem;promotion popup appearing on
11280 obviously illegal moves; promotions in Superchess and Great Shatranj
11282 1) the premove recapture problem
11283 2) the promotion popup appearing on obviously illegal moves (the 1. e2a8
11285 3) promotions in Superchess and Great Shatranj, where the piece can now be
11286 selected from the holdings
11288 2009-10-08 20:28:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11289 added forceIllegalMove to xboard
11291 2009-10-05 21:01:32 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11292 bugfix: segfault when invalid option argument was given (bug #27427)
11294 when given a wrong argument to an option (e.g. -tc 0) xboard aborts
11295 before setting up the window, but tried to write a message to the
11296 messageWidget which doesn't exist at that point.
11298 2009-10-05 20:05:00 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11299 small improvement for JAWS version
11301 This is a patch to make JAWS read out any comments when /autoDiplaycomment=true.
11302 As focus does not stay on the Comment window, the comment was not spoken otherwise.
11304 2009-10-05 20:02:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11305 updated to winboard internationalization scripts
11307 Also a slight improvement of the internationalization scripting,
11308 to prevent it from crashing on messages containing a slash.
11310 2009-10-05 20:01:53 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11311 new forceIllegalMoves option
11313 The -forceIllegalMoves option uses setboard or edit to force a position
11314 when an engine refuses the move leading to it by an "Illegal Move" message.
11315 Especially for engines using the edit command this was a bit tricky,
11316 because of the a2a3 kludge to avoid using the white and black commands.
11318 2009-10-05 01:01:54 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11319 removed _winmajor if not defined so that VC 2008 can compile the project
11321 The oldDialog variable should just be set to 0 in all cases now, and
11322 as such, legacy code supporting the old dialog ought to be removed.
11323 The test for _winmajor is against < 4, which is always false at present,
11324 causing oldDialog to be 0 in every conceviable circumstance.
11326 2009-10-04 09:58:29 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11327 getting ready for 4.4.1 release
11329 2009-10-02 20:47:01 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11330 Simplified future version changes.
11332 Added a numeric version to config.h that is now used in winboard.rc
11333 instead of being hard-coded there. Just be sure to preserve the
11334 proper format (4 comma-separated 16 bit integers) or else it won't
11337 2009-10-02 16:56:01 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11338 updated version number to 4.4.1.pre
11340 should have done this straight after the last release, but forgot...
11342 2009-10-02 16:48:03 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11343 worked on premove bug
11345 I made an attempt to make premove unsensitive to a race condition,
11346 just in case the premove problem was caused by that (which seems unlikely,
11347 but in any case I added some debug printout to test this).
11349 2009-10-02 16:41:12 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11350 fixed loading of saved games via command line
11352 the variables forwardMostMove and backwardMostMove where set to zero
11353 at the wrong place.
11355 2009-10-02 16:39:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11356 small fixes for the JAWS version
11358 * I moved saying 'check' by the JAWS version to where castling also benefits from it.
11359 * I made sure the check symbols are also recognized on promotion moves
11360 * In the non-JAWS version, define the plain arrows as shortcut keys for the button bar
11362 2009-10-01 16:50:28 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11363 Fixed bug dereferencing garbage, causing crash.
11365 Commit fa8be4a3fc5d81e9ec1f6c218fcf55c95d34fd10 included code to free the
11366 resultDetails of the gameInfo structure. That exact code exists a few lines
11367 above where it was added. None of these free() calls finish by setting the
11368 member to NULL afterword, therefore repeated attempts to test/free() the
11369 members result in an attempt to free() memory winboard no longer owns, and
11372 link to problematic commit: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/xboard.git/commit/?id=fa8be4a3fc5d81e9ec1f6c218fcf55c95d34fd10
11374 2009-10-01 16:49:57 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11375 Added wchat.c to the project files we maintain.
11377 2009-10-01 15:52:50 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11378 Previous fix for VC++/strcasecmp() was wrong-- use StrCaseCmp().
11380 2009-10-01 14:49:58 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11381 Add resource ID for new Mute menu item.
11383 I know this was probably done by HG, and simply left out of
11384 his commit. Anyway, the project can be built now after this change.
11386 2009-10-01 14:49:09 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11387 Use of strcasecmp() broke Visual C++.
11389 2009-09-30 20:47:00 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11390 wrong default value for engineDebugOutput
11392 the new default is now 1
11394 2009-09-29 22:55:41 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11395 updated cmail.in to adapt the CVS->git change
11397 don't reference $Revision:$ anymore.
11398 Instead use reference xboard-version via autoconf.
11400 2009-09-29 22:04:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11401 bugfix for protocol extensions: egtbpath -> egtpath
11403 A new and very bad bug was discovered in the implementation of
11404 the protocol extensions: XBoard sends a command "egtbpath" to the
11405 engine in stead of "egtpath" from the protocol specs.
11406 After discussion on WB forum it was decided that egtpath was better
11407 than the egtbpath I originally had proposed, and I changed it accordingly,
11408 but I had not realized that this string occurred TWICE in backend.c,
11409 depending on if matched the -defaultPathEGTB of -egtFormats option.
11410 I only changed the first occurence.
11412 2009-09-27 12:27:44 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11413 fix for edit-position "moves" being sent by XBoard to the engine
11415 2009-09-27 12:25:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11416 Engine did not start playing when out of GUI book on second move with white
11418 2009-09-27 12:24:30 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11419 Opening Engine #1 Settings crashed XBoard when there were no
11420 text-edit options in the dialog (to which to set keyboard focus)
11423 2009-09-27 12:18:35 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11424 added a "Mute All Sounds" item in the WinBoard Options menu, on Eric's request
11426 2009-09-27 12:15:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11427 Updated the RTF docs for the chat windows, engine-settings dialog,
11428 /keepAlive option and new game-list tag
11430 2009-09-27 12:14:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11431 Made the beep sounds for JAWS board navigation configurable through
11432 command-line options
11434 2009-09-27 12:11:49 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11435 Prepared a system to internationalize the WinBoard menus
11437 2009-09-27 12:10:38 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11438 added the result comment to the game-list tags when the game list is
11439 exported to the clipboard
11441 2009-09-27 12:05:32 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11442 rewrote wevalgraph for better frontend/backend separation
11444 I have finished re-writing the eval-graph code to have some
11445 front-end / backe-end separation, something I had already started on my
11446 holiday in Norway (when I had no internet :-) ).
11447 The new code now appears to work exactly like the old code,
11448 and I guess it could be ported to gtk comparatively easily.
11450 2009-09-27 12:00:51 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11451 fix for keepalive and chat window
11453 I made a fix to the keepAlive option so it does not send the date command
11454 to the ICS after every move. This required changing ScheduleDelayedEvent()
11455 so that it does not execute the event if a new identical one gets scheduled.
11456 I also added the option to XBoard. Affects xboard.c (DOS!) and winboard.c
11458 (This also cures the regression of the winboard.c copyright patch)
11460 I extended the chatbox patch to also listen to channel tells, and divert
11461 them to a chatbox for that channel number. Affects
11462 backend.c and wchat.c
11464 That should make those patches fully operational. No docs for either of them
11467 2009-09-27 10:36:23 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11468 fixed parse bug for pgn files
11470 fixed the existing bug that the time-control tag was displayed as "?"
11471 in the game list; turns out it was never parsed on reading PGN files
11473 2009-09-27 10:35:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11474 allow the result comment as a display item in the game list
11476 2009-09-27 10:35:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11477 fixed the HAVE_LIBXPM-dependent compile errors
11479 2009-09-27 10:24:47 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11480 added a chat window to keep track of multiple conversations
11482 The chat-window patch affects:
11483 winboard.c, backend.c, winboard.rc, resource.h, backend.h, and adds
11484 the file winboard/wchat.c, which also affects makefile.gcc and makefile.ms.
11486 In addition I added a new option -keepAlive, which affects
11487 common.h (in addition to winboard.c and backend.c).
11489 As I had to modify backend.h, I also defined the -reset option type there,
11490 which we are going to add later. This required some changes
11491 to suppress warnings in wsettings.c.
11493 2009-09-27 10:22:16 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11494 more files for git to ignore
11496 most of these are generated by make distcheck
11498 2009-09-08 09:33:53 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11499 another bug fix found by Stanislav Brabec
11501 returned -1 in some case although the variable was a char...
11502 changed to signed char
11504 2009-09-20 23:13:13 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11505 Swapped 'tell' and 'message' parsing order for colorization.
11506 Sometimes messages are relayed as tells and should be colorized as tells.
11508 2009-09-08 09:10:34 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11509 added some more files to be distributed via make dist
11511 as suggested by Stanislav Brabec
11513 2009-09-08 09:01:07 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11514 fixed some implicit declarations reported by Stanislav Brabec
11516 2009-09-07 22:04:39 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11517 fixed a few more small bugs reported by Stanislav Brabec
11519 - A function uses a 'return;' statement, but has actually a value to
11520 return, like an integer ('return 42;') or similar: xboard voidreturn
11521 xengineoutput.c:766, 782
11523 - Program returns random data in a function at xengineoutput.c:602
11525 - With a new toolchain, AM_LDFLAGS cannot contain libraries. Linker
11526 ignores them. Fix is attached.
11528 - ToDo: Convenient name in most projects is TODO (autotools package it
11531 2009-09-06 19:11:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11532 reverted .texi file and fixed Makefile.am
11534 the problem was actually not in the texi-file, but the Makefile.am.
11535 Reverted changes in the .texi and fixed it (hopefully) correctly now.
11537 2009-09-06 18:23:01 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11538 get "make distcheck" to work
11540 needed to add all *.h files to Makefile.am and also the bitmaps that
11541 are needed and some other files. Also had modified copyright.texi.
11543 2009-09-05 09:54:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11544 changed to version 4.4.0
11546 2009-09-05 09:44:21 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11547 updated AUTHORS, README and ChangeLog files for release
11549 2009-09-05 08:52:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11552 2009-09-04 22:39:45 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11553 set castling rights after setting up a position
11555 I was going through old WB forum posts, and I encountered a
11556 bug report for a bug that I never fixed: The castling rights should
11557 be properly set (actually: cleared) after setting up a position
11558 in Edit Position mode (as opposed to pasting a FEN).
11560 2009-09-03 23:11:18 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11561 removed install files from master
11563 they now live in their own branch
11565 2009-09-03 22:30:18 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11566 updated polyglot protocol
11568 I added a new option type "-reset" to the protocol for the new option feature.
11569 4.4.0 does not implement it yet, but Michel wants it for future Polyglots,
11570 and I think it is best to update the protocol in one big swoop.
11571 So I want to already include it in the specs now. (engine-intf.html)
11572 I made xboard's response to an unknown option type compliant
11573 with the new protocol specs.
11575 2009-09-03 22:28:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11578 2009-09-03 20:47:13 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11579 Updated project files for DevCpp and Visual Studio to add wsettings.c
11581 2009-09-03 20:46:33 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11582 Added newline at end of file to silence warning.
11584 2009-08-31 20:29:49 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11585 workaround for error message for missing pieces used in variants
11586 and initstring bugfix: error messages showed for non-existing pieces
11587 showed up for old user supplied pixmaps.
11588 Loading a pixmap of the king for the missing pieces now.
11590 Another bad bug surfaced: the -initString argument does not work in any
11591 XBoard version! (Including 4.2.7b) The escape sequences for linefeed in
11592 the string are not understood: -initString "new\nrandom\n" actually sends
11593 the \ and n to the engine (which then does not recognize the line as a
11596 So I also added a patch to expand escape sequences in the InitString and
11597 ComputerString command-line options.
11599 2009-08-31 20:27:24 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11600 updated installe script
11602 I re-organized the doc files in the install, so they now all go in the
11603 WinBoard\doc folder (and none in the root). I so included the COPYING
11604 and COPYRIGHT files there. This required some updates of the links in
11605 some html files, and of the menu link to README.html in the install script.
11606 I also fixed an error with the current directory
11607 in the menu short-cuts of some engines (which started in the fonts folder,
11608 and could not find the opening book there...).
11610 2009-08-31 20:25:17 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11611 updated documentation
11613 2009-08-31 20:20:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11614 updated installer script
11616 2009-08-31 19:51:48 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11617 new help files for windows
11619 2009-08-25 20:41:29 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11622 2009-08-25 20:36:53 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11623 undid some previous changes
11625 some files got mixed up
11627 2009-08-25 20:32:22 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11628 fixed small bug in wsetting
11630 2009-08-25 20:29:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11631 trigger a focus switch to ICS input field when typing
11633 old behavior was that "." or "," triggered this,
11634 now every printable character except 1-9 will trigger the focus switch
11636 2009-08-25 20:26:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11637 bug in backend.c when receiving lines from ICS
11639 A space was appended to every character received from an ICS
11640 in stead of just at line breaks.
11642 2009-08-24 23:47:48 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11643 fixed warning messages from compiler
11645 2009-08-23 14:24:38 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11646 fixed build on OS X
11648 this seems to fix it. Bug reported by Louis Zulli who also did the testing.
11650 2009-08-23 11:54:28 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11651 OK, this is the beefed up version of the Polyglot info-string kludge,
11654 2009-08-23 10:22:48 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11655 added missing X_LIBS references to Makefile.am
11657 2009-08-22 23:33:44 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11658 made the install script and executable
11660 2009-08-22 23:19:07 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11661 changed beta1 to beta2
11663 2009-08-22 23:14:11 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11664 fixed enable zippy in configure script and added some checks for OS X
11666 make tried to compile zippy even when --disable-zippy was given.
11667 Also fixed a bug in xboard.c where #ifdef instead of #if was used
11668 to test for ZIPPY (it's either 0 or 1, so we need #if). Also added
11669 some special checks for OS X, not sure if these will do it, but it's a start;)
11671 2009-08-22 19:09:54 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11672 added configure summary to configure output, also cleaned up configure.ac a bit
11674 used AS_HELP_STRING where possible
11676 2009-08-22 18:10:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11677 added check for malloc.h
11679 this should fix a build error on OS X
11681 2009-08-22 17:47:44 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11682 A small cosmetic change in the size of buttons
11683 inside a groupbox of the Engine-Setup dialog.
11685 2009-08-22 17:32:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11686 make xboard usable with UCI engines
11688 I made a small patch in xoptions.c (where the corresponding Engine Settings
11689 dialog was for XBoard), to make it at least usable for UCI engines: I now
11690 divide the options over upto 4 columns, if there are too many to fit into
11691 a single column. This seems to work. Still looks very ugly, but it is
11694 2009-08-22 17:30:05 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11695 fix premove for winboard
11697 This might fix the illusive premove problem. In 4.2.7 the code was not properly
11698 indented, and this led to an unbalanced braces error that I then fixed the
11699 wrong way. Click-click premoves did only work after clicking the toSquare twice.
11700 It might be that they actually did work after clicking it once,
11701 but that the highlights were not displayed (although set)
11702 for lack of a display refresh.
11704 2009-08-22 17:28:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11705 fixed bug for double saved games
11707 This patch should solve the problem with doubly saved games when XBoard is
11708 closed. I calculate a cecksum of each saved game now (including move comments),
11709 and suppress saving if the checksum is not changed.
11711 2009-08-22 17:25:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11712 fixed xengineoutput.c, to keep the duplicated code identical to that of wengineo.c.
11714 2009-08-22 17:24:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11715 updated xboard.texi: added warning that pixmaps are not build for all variants
11717 2009-08-22 17:19:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11718 added a dialog for engine-specific option settings
11720 2009-08-22 17:09:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11721 updated some documentation
11723 2009-08-22 17:07:10 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11724 fixed several bugs in the backend and added some more polyglot support
11726 * I added recognition for the new UCI3 option types that are recognized in the WB
11727 option features, to make sure this version is compatible with future Polyglots.
11728 Also fixed a bug that failed to strip an asterisk prefix from the first
11731 * I fixed the ICS-time-in-PGN bug.
11733 * I fixed a bug which caused a space to be missing when long lines broken up by
11734 an ICS were joined.
11736 2009-08-22 17:02:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11737 better polyglot support for engine ouput
11739 I fixed the algorithm for clearing the Engine Output window to work better with
11740 the latest Polyglot, whight outputs UCI "info strings" amongst the thinking
11743 2009-08-22 16:23:32 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11744 Beginnings of installer for 4.4.0. HGM asked me to forward the nsi file,
11745 but it seemed best to just add the installer tree to git even though
11746 it's not finished. You must install NSIS then FontName-0.7.exe
11747 (included in installer folder) then run build.bat in the same directory.
11749 2009-08-05 22:18:29 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11750 patch backend.c to make the -noGUI option also work in ICS mode.
11752 2009-08-01 13:09:49 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11753 temporary fix for pre-select
11755 As a temporary kludge I replaced looking into the holdings for the piece type
11756 by figuring out which piece would belong on the clicked holdings square.
11757 This is a non-trivial process, as it depends on which pieces participate
11758 in a certain variant.
11760 2009-07-30 00:19:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11761 changed click-click moves
11763 I got complaints about the way XBoard 4.4.0 handles click-click moves,
11764 in particular changing the selected piece after selecting King
11765 (for which I suppressed interference with FRC castling in a rather brutal way).
11766 People tell me it is very annoying that clicks sometimes don't work to select a piece.
11767 WinBoard uses refined logic in the back-end to handle this, but the XBoard
11768 front-end is not interfaced with that yet.
11769 (This would require a major rewrite of the mouse handler.)
11770 This temporary patch suppresses this behavior in all variants that do not support
11771 Fischer castling, and even there only exhibit it for Rook-after-King selection
11772 (which will be interpreted as an attempt to enter a castling move as K x own R).
11774 2009-07-26 08:43:35 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11775 option -adjudicateDrawMoves is not included in the XBoard list.
11777 added it to the option list
11779 2009-07-21 20:23:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11780 converted files from dos to unix format
11782 run dos2unix over a bunch of files
11784 2009-07-16 07:43:38 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11785 Stripped out unused VersionInfo
11787 2009-07-15 23:16:19 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11788 changed version to 4.4.0.beta1
11790 2009-07-15 23:12:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11791 updated INSTALL file to add ./autogen.sh
11793 2009-07-15 22:44:05 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11794 higher number of engine options possible now
11796 I upped the number of options per engine from
11797 50 to 100, and the average number of characters per option from 10 to 20.
11799 2009-07-15 12:30:37 -0600 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11802 2009-07-14 23:41:36 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11803 Added version information to resources.
11805 2009-07-14 23:40:50 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11806 Added Jaws targets to IDE projects.
11808 2009-07-14 23:39:12 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11809 Final makefile adjustments and compiling instructions.
11811 2009-07-13 22:35:17 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11812 Cleaned up garbage left behind from my makefile update.
11814 2009-07-13 22:26:56 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11815 Updated cmdline makefiles to be able to produce JAWS binaries.
11817 This breaks support for MSVC 4.x. It may still be possible to
11818 use that compiler if you obtain the latest SDK from Microsoft.
11819 MSVC 6.0 still works, but I had to change the target windows
11820 version to 0x500 which causes warnings about building beta
11821 applications. This is all due to the use of MENUBARINFO data
11822 type in the jaws binary. You can reduce the WINVER to 0x0400
11823 safely if you are not building a JAWS binary, and MSVC 4.x
11826 2009-07-13 22:26:10 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11827 Removed dependency on jfwapi.h
11829 Allows anyone to compile a jaws compatible binary.
11831 2009-07-13 22:23:31 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11832 Fixed duplicate resource in winboard.rc
11834 PLEASE remember to pull before commiting. This is the 2nd
11835 time I've fixed this. It's a waste of time to keep fixing
11838 2009-07-13 19:36:58 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11839 resolved conflict between Xt and Xaw libraries
11841 seems like we don't need to link against Xt.
11843 2009-07-13 19:33:57 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11844 help-menu was not un-grayed in the JAWS version, when it played with engines
11846 2009-07-13 19:29:53 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11847 integrated jaws into winboard
11849 I integrated the JAWS patch now into WinBoard in such a way that the
11850 JAWS and standard version can use the same resource file. This new
11851 winboard.c contains the improved dialog layot of the JAWS version,
11852 but none of the menus and JAWS-specific acclerator keys. The latter
11853 are now generated at run time by code in jaw.s. As a result jaws.h
11854 could be cancelled, as there the JAWS-specific defines are no
11855 longer needed outside jaws.c (now the .rc does not use them), and
11856 is incorporated in it.
11858 2009-07-12 15:37:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11859 fixed problem in autoconf using Xaw3d
11861 rewrote the section for Xaw3d in the autoconf file
11863 2009-07-12 15:29:28 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11864 Added Jaws support to GCC makefile
11866 2009-07-12 15:28:20 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11867 added help support: MSVC IDE and DevCpp IDE project files
11869 2009-07-12 15:26:49 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11870 Removed obsolete makefiles and support files.
11872 2009-07-12 12:33:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11873 updated AUTHORS with the help of git. use
11875 git log --pretty=oneline --name-only --author=AUTHORNAME v4.2.7..HEAD |sort |uniq
11877 a bit of hand editing and a quick emacs macro later and you have a nice
11878 comma seperated list of all files changes by one author between two commits.
11880 2009-07-12 12:31:47 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11881 updated Changelog using git log --no-merges --pretty="* %ai: %s%n %b" HEAD v4.2.7
11883 2009-07-12 11:34:28 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11884 cleaned up some more copyright notices
11886 2009-07-12 11:22:30 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11887 updated copyright to reflect A. Scotte as copyright holder
11889 need to mention him, since the paperwork won't be finished before the next release
11891 2009-07-12 10:56:29 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11892 updated patchlevel to "k"
11894 2009-07-12 10:53:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11895 fixed autoconf problem with VERSION/PATCHLEVEL variables
11897 xboard used it's own version of PRODUCT, VERSION and PATCHLEVEL variables.
11898 Switched to PACKAGE_STRING provided by autoconf
11900 2009-07-12 10:29:46 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11901 cleaned up old CVS left overs
11903 removed $Id tags from all files
11905 2009-07-12 10:10:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11906 converted xhistory via dos2unix
11908 2009-07-12 10:09:24 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11909 fixed crash in history window
11911 someone discovered that opening the move-history window in XBoard leads to
11912 an immediate crash. Turns out that renaming the menu item broke it! (The
11913 name of the item was apprently used elsewhere in the code to access it,
11914 for putting a check mark there.)
11916 2009-07-12 10:04:30 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11917 fix for Animation of castling moves in Chess960
11919 Animation of castling moves in Chess960 turned out to sometimes make the
11920 king disappear from the display. For the time being I patched this in
11921 xboard.c to suppress animation of FRC castling moves altogether. As FRC
11922 castlings internally are represented as KxR, the to-square does not make
11923 sense anyway, which made the animation look very weird even when it led
11924 not to a king disappearance act. And the Rook move of a castling is never
11927 2009-07-11 22:44:53 -0600 Eric Mullins <eric@hiarcs.(none)>:
11928 Update GCC makefile to remove .obj targets.
11930 Dunno how they got in there, but they should be .o
11932 2009-07-11 22:42:41 -0600 Eric Mullins <eric@hiarcs.(none)>:
11933 Update makefile dependencies on help.c and help.h.
11935 2009-07-11 22:36:59 -0600 Eric Mullins <eric@hiarcs.(none)>:
11936 Allow compiling with MSVC6.0 and 4.1
11938 Move prototypes into help.h, after making sure that DWORD_PTR is
11939 defined. Include help.h from winboard.c and help.c so both files
11940 benefit from the definition.
11942 2009-07-11 18:26:16 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11943 lists these accelerator keys in the menus for JAWS
11945 2009-07-11 18:24:19 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11948 This patch allows the use of Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V for Copy Game
11949 and Paste even in I C S mode when the board has focus.
11951 2009-07-11 18:22:17 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11952 better handling of pasting a game without PGN tags
11954 patch in wclipbrd.h to make it smarter to decide between pasting
11955 a game or a position so it can handle games without PGN tags.
11956 If it doesn't parse as a FEN it is assumed to be a game.
11958 2009-07-11 18:20:56 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11959 fixed parser error for knight move
11961 The parser had a strange quirk: it recognized bd2 as a valid Knight move
11962 (Nb1-d2) while this SAN format should be reserved for Pawn moves only.
11964 2009-07-11 18:19:30 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11965 fixed a few warnings in connection with the help patch (now warning free)
11967 2009-07-11 18:13:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11968 some major re-assignment of accelerator keys in the JAWS
11970 2009-07-11 16:54:53 -0600 Eric Mullins <eric@hiarcs.(none)>:
11971 several small fixes
11973 uptracked winboard.ini
11975 * Cleanup: moved "Some definitions required..." from winboard.c to config.h,
11976 and combined some definitions from borland w/ MS.
11978 * Changed internal HtmlHelp return type and 4th argument to facilitate various
11979 compilers. These changes, while not strictly adhering to HtmlHelp() conventions,
11980 won't impact anything since the function modified is internal only.
11982 * Modified HtmlHelp return values to integer to silence warnings.
11983 * Added help.c to the project in makefile.gcc & makefile.ms.
11984 * Fixed duplicate resource in winboard.rc.
11986 2009-07-09 22:08:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11987 added JAWS support; help files for Vista; bugfixes for winboard.c
11990 * help files should now work under Vista (the user has to have either
11991 a program to view old windows help files or to view html-files installed)
11992 * I fixed the tabbing between all windows that were added according to Tim's sugestions.
11993 * I added typing in of a move number in the move type-in dialog as a shortcut
11994 to going to that position by use of the < and > buttons. Mainly intended to
11995 ease life for the blind, but I think it can be generally useful.
11996 (Although the move-history dialog provides that functionality too,
11997 this is quicker if you don't happen to have it open.)
11998 * I added typing of a FEN in the move type-in dialog in Edit Position mode.
11999 (Which could not be used without mouse at all, and is defective
12000 in crazyhouse even with mouse, as there was no way to populate holdings.)
12002 2009-07-09 22:03:00 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12003 some bugfixes: ICS error handling
12005 * play a different sound for takebacks in ICS mode
12006 * pop up error messages for illegal moves for typed-in moves
12008 2009-07-09 21:50:41 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12009 removed no longer needed debug message
12011 2009-07-09 21:48:23 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12012 fixed compile error from a previous change
12014 2009-07-09 21:44:54 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12015 user selectable font in game list
12017 This makes the game list use the same (user selectable) font
12018 as the the move-history window.
12020 2009-06-30 21:27:34 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12021 fixed typos in xboard.texi documentation.
12023 2009-06-30 21:16:59 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12026 2009-06-27 17:06:26 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12027 changed font in engine output window
12029 The engine-output window now uses the same font as the move-history window
12030 (which was selectable in the "Options -> Fonts..." menu, while the other
12033 2009-06-27 17:03:19 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12034 fixed some characters in xboard.texi
12036 It seems that copying manual sections from the RTF to th texi file did
12037 somehow mess up the double-quote characters, and changed them into some
12038 strange (unicode?) symbols.
12040 2009-06-27 16:56:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12041 two shogi related bugfixes
12043 I discovered a bug in the move generator for the Shogi Dragon King. I
12044 guess it went unnoticed so far because this is a promoted version of the
12045 Rook, which hardly occurs in games. (moves.c)
12047 There was also a problem with the piecesfix I sent you before; Shogi
12048 chosen as initial variant did use wrong piece symbols. (I had tested this
12049 on gothic, but there it happened to work for a different reason, unique to
12050 gothic.) This affects xboard.c.
12052 2009-06-27 16:54:04 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12055 2009-06-27 16:51:02 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12056 adds bitmaps for shogi promotions, and selects the bitmaps or
12057 pixmaps for the more rarely used piece types on a per-variant basis.
12059 2009-06-27 16:44:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12060 adds new piece types in the promotion dialog and edit-position piece menu
12062 2009-06-27 16:13:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12063 updated bitmaps files: files for fairy pieces where missing,
12064 others had names that didn't work with autoloading.
12066 2009-06-27 16:06:35 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12067 fixed a bug concerning bitmaps
12069 2009-06-27 15:53:45 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12070 give a default directory for bitmaps files (tiny change)
12072 this is also one of the debian patches, should be rewritten to use
12073 the correct install directory. No Author was given.
12075 2009-06-27 15:47:52 -0700 Brian May <>:
12076 verbose_error_message_about_recognized_options (tiny change from Debian patches)
12078 2009-06-27 15:45:14 -0700 Matt Zimmerman <>:
12079 add a visual low time warning (tiny change from Debian patches)
12081 2009-06-24 23:31:52 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12082 dos 2 unix conversion of backend.c
12084 2009-06-24 23:30:07 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12085 exchanged some sprintf with snprintf found in a patch for the debian system,
12086 extended it a bit to other sprintf's original patch included only 11 lines
12087 by Florian Ernst <florian@debian.org>
12089 2009-06-24 23:07:23 -0700 Mark Ioli <chessknight>:
12090 enabled a patch for default settings in winboard
12092 2009-06-24 22:53:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12093 updated copyright notice
12096 2009-06-24 22:52:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12097 patches a bug in chosing the initial board size on a virgin startup
12098 I introduced recently
12100 2009-06-24 22:49:33 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12101 I put in testing for the winning condition in 3checks
12103 on a check it just goes through the entire game to subject
12104 every position on a check test, to see if there were two more.
12106 2009-06-24 22:47:01 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12107 updated copyright notice in docs
12109 2009-06-24 22:41:40 -0700 Florian Ernst <florian@debian.org>:
12110 added small patch from debian (tiny change)
12112 according to the debian patch tracker, this patch is by
12113 Florian Ernst <florian@debian.org>.
12114 It fixes whitespace issues in filename called from cmail.
12116 2009-06-24 22:33:13 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12117 converted dos2unix format for xboard.texi
12119 2009-06-24 22:31:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12120 deleted two more files that don't need to be in git
12122 these files can be generated by autogen.sh
12124 2009-06-21 12:10:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12125 major overhaul of the -stickyWindows feature
12127 I did a major overhaul of the -stickyWindows feature.
12128 The game-list and ICS-interaction windows are now also sticky.
12129 I also added a form of stickiness when the main window is resized;
12130 edges of auxiliary windows sticking to the right or bottom side of
12131 the main window stay attached when the window resizes
12132 (due to nr of board squares or their size). The way the window
12133 coordinates are saved in the .ini file is now relative to the
12134 main window, and some dummy options are added to be able to
12135 recognize right- and bottom-edge sticking, and reconstruct that
12136 when WB starts up with another board size. Also added are
12137 volatile options to ensure there will be space for auxiliary windows
12138 above and left of the main window.
12140 2009-06-21 12:07:01 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12141 fixed long-algebraic form of drops
12143 The WB parser turned out not to understand the long-algebraic form
12144 of drops send by an ICS. (like B/@@-e4), so even with
12145 legality testing off I now use the SAN move for drops.
12147 2009-06-18 18:35:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12148 Refined stalemate adjudication in Suicide, some cleanup
12150 Refined stalemate adjudication in Suicide, which seems to be not always won
12151 for the stalemated side, but for the side with the smallest number of pieces.
12152 Cleaned up the adjudication code in the process. (backend.c moves.c, moves.h)
12153 Also includes a tiny change in the -autoKibitz format, as requested on
12156 2009-06-18 18:32:57 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12157 Enhancement of the way -autoLogo decides which logos to display
12159 2009-06-16 00:06:59 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12160 bugfix and enhancement in autoKibitz mode
12162 changed the format of the autoKibitz: score/depth in stead of depth/score,
12163 as in PGN. I also supress the ICS time for the move now in the PGN
12164 if extended info is available. When enhancing the functionality of
12165 the autoKibitz command (using the opponent engine kibitz for the saved PGN)
12166 I discovered that the xengineoutput.c in our tree was obsolete,
12167 and contained a routine of which the arguments were no longer compatble
12168 with the call from backend.c, and caused segfaulting. I copied in
12169 the corresponding routine in wengineo.c, which was compatible. That the
12170 compiler did not flag this is a sign of badly organized code, I suppose...
12172 The enhancement itself affected backend.c.
12174 2009-06-16 00:04:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12175 modified clock layout
12177 I altered the display of the clocks in the presence of engine logos; I used to
12178 stack them, but some inquiry on Talkchess sowed that people disliked the
12179 stacking. So now I display them next to each other again, but as 2-line-high
12180 fields to make room for te logos.
12182 2009-06-15 23:59:32 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12183 new zippy option zippyShortGame
12185 On request of Mike Adams I added a new zippy option, -zippyShortGame,
12186 to make life more difficult for abusers of abort and disconnect for cheating.
12188 2009-06-15 23:56:40 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12189 fixed some bugs in the animation of atomic captures
12191 2009-06-13 15:27:26 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12192 some small bugfixes
12194 I had overlooked one place from which the FEN writer
12195 (of whicf I changed the argument types), which made WB crash
12196 if you copied a FEN (or PGN that cotained FEN) to the clipboard.
12197 I must have overlooked a warning during compile, or some depedency
12198 is not correct in the makefile. Anyway, wclipboard.c had to be changed.
12199 I also moved adjudication of some losing conditions to before tetsing
12200 for stalemate, (e.g. in atomic, if your king get destroyd you lose,
12201 even if you have no moves after that because it was your only piece.).
12202 this affects backend.c.
12203 I had used the same bits in the rule-modifier flags for indicating
12204 mandatory capture as was already used for indicating FRC-style castling.
12205 This led to frequent illegal move calls in FRC... (moves.h)
12207 2009-06-13 10:45:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12208 cleaned up HTML in FAQ.html -- still need to work on content
12210 2009-06-13 09:36:26 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12211 added option for work-around for some FRC engines in regards to FRCFENs
12213 It suddenly occurred to me that I had promised on CCC to include an option
12214 to provide a work-around for the problem that some FRC engines do not
12215 understand FRC FENs (and thus do not play at all under WinBoard,
12216 as FRC always has to begin with sending the initial position).
12217 So I added the options -firstNeedsNoncompliantFEN, -secondNeedsNoncompliantFEN.
12218 This affects winboard.c and xboard.c, (for defining the option),
12219 common.h, backend.h, backend.c, (for implementing it),
12220 xboard.texi and winboard.rtf (decribing it).
12221 This option provides users with a means to always force the FEN castling field
12222 to KQkq (but can be used for many other work-arounds as well).
12224 2009-06-13 09:30:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12225 fixed bug with random calls
12227 There also seemed to be a bug with the shuffling of opening positions;
12228 I had changed the declaration of the position number from
12229 long long int to u64 to comply with MSVC, but this suppressed shuffling
12230 completely. I now changed it to int. I recently noted a problem with true
12231 randomizing anyway: this was based on srand(time()), but time() apparently
12232 did not change fast enough, so that starting several games in rapid succession
12233 (because the book line contained a 3-fold repetition) produced identical games.
12234 So I now seed the random once and for all during startup, based on the msec of
12235 the time mark, and removed the other calls to srand().
12237 2009-06-13 09:26:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12238 changed name for fairymax program in xboard.h
12240 2009-06-13 09:25:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12241 removed my name from copyright message in help->about menu
12243 2009-06-13 09:22:02 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12244 fixed -stickyWindows option
12246 I figured out why -stickyWindows was not working in XP and Vista
12247 (while it always worked under Win2K), and I think I found a fix for
12248 it that works under all Windows versions. (I tried XP and Win2K.)
12250 2009-06-13 09:20:38 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12251 Updated docs for Engine-Settings menu
12253 2009-06-13 09:19:05 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12254 Awareness of winning conditions for atomic and giveaway variants; two bugfixes
12256 fixed bug in claim verification
12257 Bugfix on initial position of Great Shatranj
12259 2009-06-13 09:16:47 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12260 Legality testing (mandatory capture) in giveaway variants
12262 2009-06-13 09:16:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12263 don't ignore winboard/parser.c
12265 2009-06-13 09:12:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12266 Added new variant Twilight Chess
12268 2009-06-13 09:08:57 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12269 some renaming and restructuring of WB menu items, to conform more to XBoard
12271 2009-06-13 09:07:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12272 Fixed bug in atomic patch that interfered with non-atomic variants
12274 2009-06-10 21:46:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12275 fixed different use of engine option compared to Polyglot
12277 it turns out the new Polyglot uses a sightly different version
12278 of the GUI->engine option command than the one I proposed
12279 (and implemented in XBoard; Michel sneaked in an '=' sign
12280 between the NAME and VALUE of the option, to allow for
12281 more unambiguous parsing. I guess in principle this is a good idea,
12282 so I adapted XBoard to Polyglot rather than the other way around.
12283 The result is that there are canges in xboard.c, and the documentation.
12284 I noticed that I unjustly had internationalized the option strings
12285 to be send to the engine in xoptions.c; this was of course nonsense,
12286 as this was WB protocol. So I undid that too.
12288 2009-06-10 21:37:47 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12289 add the already supported variants 3check and great (=Great Shatranj)
12290 to the New Variant... menu.
12292 2009-06-10 21:32:22 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12293 animate explosions in variant atomic (if animate moves is on).
12295 2009-06-10 21:30:19 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12296 fixed castling bug in variant twokings.
12298 2009-06-10 21:22:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12299 fixed forteitary wins for special game variations
12301 feature that corrects forfeitary wins (e.g. on time)
12302 of a bare King to draws of course breaks proper operation
12303 in losers, suicide and giveaway
12305 2009-06-09 21:02:51 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12306 automatically test ini file extension for files from commandline option @filename
12308 The winboard.c is a patch that automatically tries indirection files on the
12309 command line (@filename type arguments) also with an extension .ini if the name itself
12310 did not match any existing file and contained no period. This saves the user typing the
12311 .ini all the time (which I started to find pretty annoying while working on the installer
12314 2009-06-08 15:23:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12315 added gamelisttag option to xboard
12317 also updated documentation.
12319 2009-06-08 15:20:00 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12320 updated RTF file for winboard
12322 2009-06-06 09:12:48 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12323 fixed syntax error in texi file
12325 2009-06-06 08:57:52 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12326 updated to patchlevel "j"
12328 2009-06-06 09:00:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12329 fixed adjudicating probelm in Shantranj
12331 Refrain from adjudicating a draw based on insufficient mating material
12332 (except bare King vs bare King) in Shatranj (where in this case you can
12333 still win by baring the opponent's King).
12335 2009-06-06 08:55:17 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12336 updated documentation and FAQ
12338 2009-06-04 22:52:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12339 source clean up. Fix compiler warning, removed unused variables, etc.
12341 2009-06-04 20:43:29 -0700 Eric Mullins <emwine at earthlink.net>:
12342 adding support for different windows compiler
12344 Eric kindly provided us with some makefiles for different windows
12345 compiler and also fixed some issues that came up while using those compilers.
12347 2009-06-04 18:27:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12348 cleanup: got rid of a lot of files that are not needed for a new release
12350 lots of documentation was available in several places,
12351 old unused source files and not used graphics file were floating around
12352 in the tree. This should clean up most of it. No need to keep these files
12353 around, especially since we are using version control.
12355 2009-05-29 18:56:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12356 Added the Action-menu items that allow the user to adjudicate
12357 ongoing games in Two-Machines mode. This was an already existing
12358 backend function from Winboard_x; I only had to create a menu item for it
12359 to be called. Due to an oversight I had forgotten to do that so far.
12360 (Logically, I should have done it in the 4.3.5 release,
12361 where I updated the XBoard menus to conform to the WinBoard menus.)
12363 I tested them, and they seem to work. (As expected.)
12365 2009-05-28 22:23:00 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12366 updated patchlevel to "i"
12368 2009-05-28 22:19:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12369 small change to mousewheel support; two changes in window behaviour
12371 * Visible effects during resizing suppressed, bug in chosing new size fixed.
12372 * No longer reserves left and top margins next to main window on first popup.
12373 * built in some hysteresis into mousewheel support, ignorng the first event in any new
12374 direction to suppress effects from accidential mouse movement.
12376 2009-05-28 22:11:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12377 corrected 'animate dragging'
12379 I finally figured out how the 'animate dragging' works in XBoard,
12380 so that I could add code to do the unstacking of multiple pieces
12381 in the holdings, rather than always leaving an empty square while
12382 you drag them. (And then suddenly re-growing the remaining pieces
12383 as you make the drop.) It does not look as fancy as in WinBoard
12384 yet, because the counts still only decrease when you release the
12385 piece, rather than when you lift it. But this is not nearly as
12386 disturbing as leaving empty holdings (if only temporarily) when
12387 you still have pieces there.
12389 2009-05-28 22:06:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12390 Added comand-line options -debugFile (as synonym for -nameOfDebugFile,
12391 as WinBoard also has these synonyms), and -engineDebugOutput
12392 (wich already existed in the backend).
12394 2009-05-28 21:57:53 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12395 updated documentation for new release
12397 2009-05-28 21:55:51 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12398 added Xiangqi perpetual-chase detection
12400 2009-05-28 00:06:53 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12401 Updated all files to GPL version 3.
12403 2009-05-28 00:03:32 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12404 converted two files from dos to unix format
12406 2009-05-27 23:12:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12407 updated INSTALL, NEWS and other files for new release
12409 cleaned up a bit and updated some information in the text files.
12411 2009-05-07 21:48:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12412 winboard/config.h shouldn't be in .gitignore, only ./config.h
12414 2009-05-07 21:47:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12415 bumped patchlevel to 0g
12417 2009-05-07 21:46:02 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12418 corrected path in makefile
12420 2009-05-07 21:45:48 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12423 2009-05-07 21:45:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12424 added firstOptions, secondOptions, noGUI, firstXBook, secondXBook
12426 2009-05-07 21:44:03 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12427 handle promotion case for Shogi
12429 2009-05-07 21:43:34 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12430 add note about RESULT command for GUI programmers
12432 2009-05-07 21:42:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12433 small changes to book.c
12435 added code for different board sizes
12436 added some debuginfo
12437 handle promotion of pieces
12439 2009-05-05 23:07:18 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12440 added a .gitignore file
12442 2009-05-03 12:41:06 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12443 wrong line ending for Unix... ran dos2unix on both files
12445 2009-05-02 13:51:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12446 fixed texinfo files, added windows help file, removed config.h from git
12448 texinfo.in is not needed anymore, since it only provided a
12449 version string, but this can be created automatically using autotools
12451 deleted config.h from version control, since it is automatically created.
12452 added winboard.hlp file (not sure if needed)
12454 2009-04-26 23:34:34 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12455 updated autoconf init file
12457 * renamed autoconf init file from configure.in to configure.ac
12458 * added bug-report email address to ac_init
12459 * replaced ac_output(...) with ac_config_files, ac_config_commands and ac_output
12461 2009-04-26 14:49:03 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12462 parser.c is generated by lex, so it shouldn't be tracked
12463 and also parcer.c shouldn't be in Makefile.am
12465 2009-04-26 14:44:51 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12466 added book.c to Makefile.am
12468 2009-04-26 13:49:15 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12469 use autoheader to create config.h.in
12471 no need to track this in git anymore
12473 2009-04-26 11:13:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12474 fixed autoheader warings, remove depreciated acconfig.h
12476 2009-04-26 10:30:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12479 2009-05-02 10:55:39 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12480 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.16
12482 2009-05-02 10:50:10 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12483 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.15
12485 2009-05-02 10:38:39 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12486 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.14
12488 2009-05-02 10:13:41 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12489 HGM fixed cygwin compile for winboard
12491 2009-04-24 16:11:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12492 cross compilier working
12494 2009-04-19 10:00:52 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12495 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.13
12497 2009-04-19 09:52:47 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12498 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.12
12500 2009-04-19 09:48:59 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12501 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.8
12503 2009-04-19 09:44:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12504 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.7
12506 2009-04-19 09:39:19 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12507 changes by H.G. Muller; version 4.3.4
12509 2009-04-19 09:34:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12510 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.2
12512 2009-04-19 10:26:24 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12513 changes from H.G. Muller
12515 2009-04-16 23:06:13 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12516 cleaned up the directory a bit. Removed winboard-dm-beta,
12517 merged the two Changelogs together
12519 2009-04-16 14:12:48 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
12520 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20060129
12522 2009-04-16 14:09:33 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
12523 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20060112
12525 2009-04-16 14:04:02 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
12526 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20051231
12528 2009-04-16 13:59:12 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
12529 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20051129
12531 2009-04-16 13:53:41 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
12532 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20050322
12534 2009-04-10 04:18:59 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12535 translated a handfull of strings and set the codeset to UTF-8
12536 for the translations.
12538 2009-03-18 03:20:50 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12539 Translation: added German po file (roughly 50% translated)
12541 2009-03-01 04:23:54 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12542 fixed bug #22853: changed all .Xdefaults to .Xresources in xboard.texi
12544 2009-03-01 02:43:43 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12545 fixed bug #25672, patch #6182 by adding DESTDIR support to Makefile.in
12547 2009-03-01 02:33:26 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12548 fixed a warning message in the configure script
12550 2009-02-28 22:58:57 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12551 fixed parser.l. Should fix bug #22812
12553 2009-02-28 22:58:14 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12554 fixed parser.l. Should fix bug #22812
12556 2009-02-28 22:55:30 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12557 added myself to the AUTHOR file
12559 2007-06-15 04:26:57 +0000 Mark Loli <chessknight>:
12560 Initial check-in of NSIS Winboard installer files.
12562 * 06/12/2005: bugfix some more possible buffer overflows.
12564 * 06/27/2004: added simple icsEngineAnalyze for xboard
12566 * 06/26/2004: added icsEngineAnalyze for winboard: Analyze observe games
12567 with a chessprogram on a Internet Chess Server (ICS)
12569 * 02/12/2004: Bugfix ICS interaction console crashed while chess
12570 engine starting and user type in some stuff. We wait now to finish
12573 * 02/11/2004: Winboard: Added color lines for the ics interaction
12574 console if zippy used
12576 * 02/09/2004: Added mousewheel support for winboard. Play moves
12577 backward and forward with the mousewheel.
12579 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.7 -- Fri Nov 28 13:36:00 PST 2003 -- Tim Mann
12581 * 11/26/2003: In WinBoard, setting the -debug flag now logs ICS output
12582 to WinBoard.debug too. (This isn't needed in xboard because ICS
12583 output already goes to stdout, so it's easy to capture along with the
12584 debug output on stderr.) This was issue #280 in the ToDo file.
12586 * 11/23/2003: Cleaned up some minor problems in cygwin.mak. Thanks to
12587 Hans Werner Strube for the problem report.
12589 * 11/23/2003: Updated the default list of chess servers in
12590 winboard/defaults.h. Deleted two that appear to be dead and added a
12591 new one that is active.
12593 * 11/19/2003: Swapped icon_white.bm and icon_black.bm in XBoard.
12594 Hopefully this will get them the right way around by default on more X
12595 window managers. I wish I understood this better.
12597 * 11/18/2003: Implemented a simple 32-bit random number generator for
12598 WinBoard, replacing the Windows rand(), which ranges only up to
12599 0x7fff. Formerly on Windows, only zippy.lines sayings that started in
12600 the first 32767 bytes of the file could ever be used. This was issue
12601 #505 from the ToDo file.
12603 * 11/16/2003: The xboard man page and info files are now built from a
12604 common set of texinfo source files, and the xboard man page now covers
12605 cmail as well. Formerly, ever since the texinfo file was first
12606 contributed to the project, it was separate from the man page and the
12607 two files had to be updated in parallel, making for a maintenance
12608 nightmare. To make combining the files possible, I took the Perl
12609 script "texi2man" from the GNU Units project and added support for a
12610 larger subset of the texinfo markup language. I then carefully
12611 compared the old man page and old texinfo file to make sure the latest
12612 and clearest words survived into the new combined texinfo file. It
12613 would be great to merge in WinBoard's help file too, but that's a
12614 larger project. It would have to be heavily conditionalized to
12615 deal with differences in features between XBoard and WinBoard.
12617 * 11/15/2003: Cleaned up and applied a small patch from Daniel
12618 Mehrmann, to stop overly long PVs in thinking output from causing a
12619 buffer overflow crash in backend.c.
12621 * 11/5/2003: When a chess engine sends a "telluser" command (including
12622 the cases where "tellall" or "tellopponent" acts like telluser), the
12623 information now goes into a nonmodel popup that is automatically
12624 dismissed when the user clicks anywhere on the board. This fix is
12625 more significant on WinBoard, where formerly you got a fully modal
12626 dialog that had to be dismissed by clicking on OK before anything else
12627 could happen. The bug was issue #406 in the ToDo file.
12629 * 11/1/2003: Removed email addresses from this file to reduce spam
12630 load, as it gets linked to from the Web.
12632 * 11/1/2003: Updated READ_ME and winboard/READ_ME.txt.
12634 * Modified xboard and winboard makefiles to be able to build the
12635 project in the new combined directory structure.
12637 * Applied a small security fix to pxboard, from Martin Maeok.
12639 * Fixed a bug in the game list dialog. The change in 4.2.6 to opening
12640 games in text mode (meant to avoid getting extra \r's into comments)
12641 caused a new bug in determining seek offsets when parsing a game file
12642 to form the game list. Also, the change was incomplete; on some code
12643 paths games were still being opened in binary mode. Thanks to Lenik
12644 Terenin for reporting the offset bug. I've now gone back to always
12645 using binary mode when reading game files, and I've fixed the comment
12646 bug by adding code to remove \r's from parsed comments explicitly. I
12647 still use text mode for writing game files so that games written by
12648 WinBoard will have Windows-style line endings.
12650 * Fix for minor bug in WinBoard installer. If you chose a non-default
12651 destination directory, the default directory was still used for a
12652 couple of unimportant things, namely setting the App Paths registry
12653 keys (unused by WinBoard) and trying to copy the existing WinBoard.ini
12654 file to WinBoard.old. I inherited this bug from the InstallShield 5
12655 sample template. Thanks to "l.d." for noticing the incorrect keys.
12657 * Patch from Chris Priest: when two engines are being run through rsh,
12658 avoid reusing the same stderr port for both. I'm not sure why this
12659 should be needed, but it's harmless, at least.
12661 * Bugfix: The kludge to deal with old engines that give an error
12662 message because they don't know the "st" command was too sloppy; it
12663 could hit on an "st" substring anywhere in an error message. GNU
12664 Chess 4 is the only engine I know of where the kludge was needed, so I
12665 changed the kludge to match a longer, more GNU-specific string.
12667 * Changed the WinBoard self-extracting installer to choose a unique
12668 temporary subdirectory name within the Windows temp directory instead
12669 of always putting wb-setup directly in temp. Besides being better
12670 practice, this avoids the need to deltree wb-setup first, which
12671 occasionally alarms someone who thinks that deltree is only used by
12672 trojans to delete all your files. (Yes, I'm serious.)
12674 * Fixed a bug where FICS-style "wild/0" strings were not parsed as the
12675 proper wild type. The "/" was not being skipped.
12677 * Fixed a WinBoard bug where temporary files created by game
12678 copy/paste were being created in the root directory of the current
12679 drive instead of the TMP directory and were not always deleted on exit.
12681 * Fixed a small bug in winboard.c's ErrorDialog() function. Thanks to
12682 "Ron" (no last name given). The bug might have caused a problem when
12683 pressing OK or Cancel in an error dialog when more than one error
12684 dialog was being displayed, but I'm not really sure.
12686 * Removed a hack that worked around a bug in very old versions of
12687 Crafty, where it would sometimes reply "illegal move" to a "."
12688 command. The hack kept us from recognizing real illegal move messages
12689 in analyze mode from engines that don't respond to the "." command.
12690 Thanks to Fabien Letouzey for the report.
12692 * Fixed a bug in the xboard version of GetDelayedEvent. It would
12693 return the most recently scheduled event even if it had already fired.
12694 This caused at least one visible error: in -ics -xreuse mode, starting
12695 the engine again and seeing another "feature done=1" would re-run the
12696 initialization code in InitBackEnd3, including the code that opens the
12697 connection to ICS. The WinBoard version didn't have this bug. Thanks
12698 to Bob Hyatt for the bug report.
12700 * The promotion popup for ICC wild 26 (giveaway) now includes King.
12701 Thanks to Fredrik Josefsson for the bug report.
12703 * The first game in a file (or being pasted from the clipboard) can
12704 now start with a bare move -- no PGN tags, no move number "1", etc.
12705 Suggested by Shane Harrelson. One could imagine taking this farther
12706 and accepting something like "e4 e5 1/2-1/2 d4 d5" as two games, but
12707 I haven't done that.
12709 * Bug fix: xboard didn't really accept a paste of multiple games,
12710 contrary to what I wrote when adding the feature to WinBoard in
12711 4.2.4. Now it works in both.
12713 * Fixed generic start/end of game messages to work on chess.net, where
12714 they put ratings in parens after the player names.
12716 * Updated config.sub and config.guess to newer versions from
12717 automake-1.4p5-2. This makes configure work with MacOS X + X11.
12719 * Bugfix: when examining a game fragment on FICS where black plays
12720 first, don't show two "(0:00.000)" times on the initial "none" move.
12722 * If TestLegality is on and one of the engines makes an illegal move
12723 in TwoMachines mode, it forfeits immediately. Formerly the game would
12724 get stuck at that point and the engine that made the illegal move
12725 would eventually lose on time.
12727 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.6 -- Fri Feb 1 22:26:31 PST 2002
12730 Another small bugfix release.
12732 * Put in a small change from Alexander Mai to allow xboard to build in
12733 an OS/2 EMX environment.
12735 * Fix WinBoard-only bug where editing a PGN file with comments would
12736 insert more \r characters before the \n after every Load/Save cycle.
12737 For some unknown reason we were reading the files in "rb" mode but
12738 writing them in "a" mode, so we kept the \r characters on reading and
12739 added an extra one on writing. Fix: change the "rb" to "r". Thanks
12740 to Joel (last name not given) for the bug report.
12742 * Put the arguments to rsh/remsh in the right order for better
12743 portability. Thanks to Michael Kalisz.
12745 * FreezeUI is now implemented in WinBoard; it was previously only
12746 implemented in xboard. This function prevents the user from entering
12747 moves or other commands while we are waiting for an engine to
12748 initialize itself. Implementing it fixes a bug where the user could
12749 start a game (etc.) during feature negotiation. One of the symptoms
12750 of this bug was that we could send "new" one or move moves *after* the
12751 first game started!
12753 * Fixed some handle leaks (WinBoard only), including a nasty one that
12754 leaked one handle per command sent to ICS. Thanks to several folks
12755 who helped characterize the bug and tried to look for leaks.
12757 * We now install and look for the info file in ${prefix}/share/info
12758 instead of ${prefix}/info. The latter is still the default in
12759 autoconf, but the former is currently used in Red Hat Linux and
12760 probably elsewhere.
12762 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.5 -- Sat Dec 15 11:42:51 PST 2001
12765 * Changed the bundled GNU Chess 5.02 in the WinBoard package to
12766 include a much smaller book and to use much less hash table space by
12767 default (8 MB transposition table, 0.5 MB pawn evaluation table). The
12768 large book included with 4.2.4 made the WinBoard download too big for
12769 some people, and the default hash tables were larger than the
12770 available physical memory on some people's computers. I built the
12771 small book by running Crafty's "small.zip" book line collection
12772 through a Perl script that makes it look enough like real PGN games
12773 that the GNU Chess book builder will accept it. The script and some
12774 minor patches to GNU Chess 5 are available in the WinBoard source
12775 distribution and at http://www.tim-mann.org/gnuchess.html.
12777 * Fixed a bug in the code that deals with engines that complain that
12778 "time" and "otim" are illegal moves. This was a new bug in 4.2.4.
12780 * Revamped the implementation of ToStart in analysis mode. Formerly
12781 there was some ill-conceived code that would try to get back to the
12782 start of the game by doing a "new" command (and all the followup
12783 commands that requires) while remaining in analysis mode. This is
12784 problematic for engine authors to support, though it works with
12785 Crafty. This code was trying to solve the problem of ToStart being
12786 slow because the engine would try to start an analysis after every
12787 "undo" command all the way back to the start. But ToEnd already had a
12788 much better solution to this problem, and now ToStart does the same
12789 thing: we exit from analysis mode and enter force mode instead,
12790 make/unmake moves to get to the end/start of the game, and then
12791 reenter analysis mode.
12793 * Formerly, Zippy could try to start playing a game before the engine
12794 was initialized; that is, during the initial timeout for protover 1
12795 engines, or before "feature done=1" for protover 2 engines. We now
12796 wait until the engine is initialized before connecting to ICS, which
12797 fixes this in the common case. If you turn off engine reuse for
12798 multiple games (that is, if you give the -xreuse option), there could
12799 still be problems; see item 503 in the ToDo file. Thanks to Dieter
12800 Buerssner for the bug report.
12802 * Bugfix: All WinBoard versions since the merge with WinBoard Plus
12803 (but not xboard) have had a bug in changing the PeriodicUpdates,
12804 PonderNextMove, and ShowThinking options from the menu. The bug
12805 mostly just caused changing these options during a game to not take
12806 effect until after the next reset. For TwoMachines games, though,
12807 changing PonderNextMove just before the game would take effect
12808 immediately for the second engine but not until the next game for the
12809 first engine. Thanks to Koundinya Veluri for the bug report.
12811 * Bugfix: In 4.2.4, we sometimes got confused when trying to leave and
12812 reenter analyze mode. One symptom was that Analyze File did not work.
12813 Thanks to Igor Syry for the bug report.
12815 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.4 -- Sun Dec 9 14:56:30 PST 2001
12818 * WinBoard now includes GNU Chess 5.02 in place of GNU Chess 5.00.
12820 * WinBoard's PasteGameFromClipboard will now handle a paste with
12821 multiple games in it, popping up the game list dialog. xboard
12822 already did this. Suggested by Robert Gerstman.
12824 * We now use the "clearboard" command on ICC where appropriate.
12826 * Bugfix: don't generate a bogus "variant normal" command to an engine
12827 for the loadable ICC wild types that we internally flag as
12828 VariantLoadable. Also clarified the message that Zippy sends when
12829 declining such wild games -- it can't deal with the possibility of
12830 loading an arbitrary position into the game. Thanks to Dieter
12831 Buerssner for reporting the problem. It would be nice to be able to
12832 actually play these wild types some day; presumably there would have
12833 to be an option to either send "loadgame" with a specified position,
12834 or to deal with an opponent sending it.
12836 * If we get a holdings message from ICS when we thought we were
12837 playing normal chess, we now try asking for a move list so that we can
12838 find out from the header what's really happening. Formerly we guessed
12839 bughouse in this case. Response to a comment from Gian-Carlo
12842 * Fixed two longstanding bugs in the clock code. These affected only
12843 play between a user and a local engine, or between two local engines,
12844 not ICS play. (1) The last fractional second used by a player before
12845 moving and virtually pushing his clock was being charged to his
12846 opponent instead of to him. (2) The time and otim commands were being
12847 sent to an engine before the (buggy) fractional second update was
12848 done. The second bug was pretty harmless in itself, but the first one
12849 was serious. Many thanks to Peter Rosendahl for carefully diagnosing
12850 and reporting these bugs!
12852 * Changed WinBoard timestamp key. Nothing is changed other than the
12853 key and a recompilation. ICC may phase out the old key soon; if they
12854 do, you'll need to use the timestamp.exe from WinBoard 4.2.4 or later
12855 to connect to chessclub.com.
12857 * Fixed an xboard-only bug where most dialogs would not take keyboard
12858 input unless the mouse was actually over the dialog, even if the
12859 dialog window had focus. Thanks to Jason Varsoke for the bug report.
12861 * Bugfix; Remember to send time and otim commands to engine before
12862 sending playother. Thanks to Bob Hyatt for the bug report. Also
12863 fixed a bug where time and otim were sometimes sent even with feature
12866 * Added small patches from Wilkin Ng that are meant to fix a crash in
12867 CopyGameToClipboard and a "can't unlock clipboard memory" error in
12868 PasteTextFromClipboard, under Windows 2000.
12870 * Changed cygwin.mak to not use -mno-cygwin. In other words, it now
12871 uses cygwin1.dll instead of the mingw libraries. This works around
12872 bugs in fileno() and stat() that I encountered in mingw. (fileno
12873 seems to always return 0. stat fails because the library routine uses
12874 a different definition of struct stat than the header files provide.)
12875 Thanks to Robert Gerstman for reporting the symptoms these bugs caused
12876 when WinBoard was compiled with Cygwin.
12878 * Added -showButtonBar option. This lets you delete the << < P > >>
12879 buttons and thus widen the message widget a bit.
12881 * Added code to address a very obscure bug. If an engine dies and
12882 needs to be restarted while in one of the analyze modes, it was not
12883 getting put back into analyze mode. This bug should not really ever
12884 have gotten tickled unless reuse was turned off and the engine sends
12885 game end commands (such as 1-0) when a game ends by rule while in
12886 analyze mode. The next version of the protocol spec will say that
12887 engines should not do that, but version 2 and earlier didn't address
12890 * We now use the FICS "iset ms 1" feature to get times in ms instead
12891 of seconds. Thanks to DAV for email telling me about this feature.
12893 * Changed clock display to show tenths of seconds for 9.9 seconds and
12894 less, instead of 0.9 seconds and less as before.
12896 * It has been discovered that Zippy can play simuls on ICC (but not on
12897 FICS). If you arrange for Zippy to send the ICC command "simulize" in
12898 the -zippyGameStart string, it will accept additional games while
12899 playing. Zippy will use the same engine for every game, so whenever
12900 it switches opponents, the engine's state will be reset with the "new"
12901 command. This will of course weaken its play, so don't enable simuls
12902 if you want your engine to have the highest possible rating. Zippy
12903 was never designed to work with simuls; it just works by accident, and
12904 it hasn't been tested much. So please report any bugs you notice, but
12905 don't expect them to be fixed rapidly. Thanks to Paul McGuire for
12906 noticing that this works.
12908 * Bugfix: Suppress the direct command to engine popup if there is no
12909 engine. In WinBoard this case used to cause a crash. Thanks to
12910 "Dargon" for the bug report.
12912 * Bugfix: formerly we did part of the engine initialization for the
12913 very first game too soon, before feature negotiation. One result of
12914 this is that engines would never get the "ics" command for the first
12917 * Lengthened timeout to detect protocol version 1 chess engines to 10
12918 seconds. This should reduce problems with protocol version 2 engines
12919 that are slow to initialize missing the timeout and not getting a
12920 chance to send their feature commands before the first game starts.
12922 * Klaus Friedel says that adding a short sleep to WinBoard after
12923 starting a new chess engine solves a problem that occurs under Windows
12924 2000, in which engines sometimes don't see the initial command(s) from
12925 WinBoard and hang. I don't understand how that can happen, but the
12926 sleep is harmless, so I've put it in. Others have also reported what
12927 may be the same problem, so hopefully this will fix it for them too.
12929 * Bugfix: editing the Result field in EditTags will no longer cause a
12930 later crash. Thanks to DAV for a clear bug report that let me
12931 reproduce the problem.
12933 * ICC wild 28 is now recognized as shatranj, but it is not supported.
12934 You might be able to play it by turning off Test Legality.
12936 * Formerly we would always turn off "feature time" if the engine
12937 printed an error message with the string "time" or "otim" in it; now
12938 we do that only if the message comes before the engine makes its first
12939 move. This change is useful because some engines spew a lot of bogus
12940 error messages about commands they don't fully parse, so something
12941 like "result 0-1 {White lost on time}" could generate such a message.
12942 Engines shouldn't do that, but if they do, mysteriously turning off
12943 "feature time" is not a good way to react.
12945 * Fixed an infrequently occurring Zippy bug: formerly, resuming from
12946 adjournment by position (that is, with GetMoveList turned off) or
12947 starting/resuming a wild game (nonstandard starting position) would
12948 try to set up the position without putting the engine into force mode
12949 first. That was probably tolerated by most engines, but if the
12950 position was black-to-play and the engine hadn't set feature
12951 setboard=1, then the fake "a2a3" move (which we use as a kludge to get
12952 black to be on move before sending the edit command) would appear to
12953 be a real move, and the engine might reply to it! This bug could also
12954 be seen when trying to use Zippy to play a simul -- something that
12955 Zippy was never designed to support, but which seems to mostly work
12956 anyway. Thanks to Paul McGuire for sending a WinBoard.debug file that
12957 showed the bug occurring. Some other cases of resuming adjournments
12958 or starting games from nonstandard positions may have been broken too;
12959 I think I've straightened out the problems.
12961 * Agreeing to a draw in the human vs. local engine case formerly did
12962 not work if the human offered first; now it does. A human's
12963 unsolicited offer is considered valid until he makes another move.
12964 Thanks to Bruce Moreland for the bug report.
12966 * Bugfix: We used to look for just "fr" in Event tags or strings from
12967 ICSes to recognize Fischer Random games. This caused a lot of false
12968 matches. Now we look for "wild/fr" instead, which is what FICS uses.
12970 * Bugfix: Clicking on a move in the MoveList window only updated the
12971 displayed position; if a chess engine was active, its state was not
12972 updated. Thanks to Alejandro Dubrovsky for the bug report.
12974 * Bugfix: The "resign" command from engine to xboard formerly did not
12975 work in ICS (Zippy) mode.
12977 * Bugfix: Formerly we would register a garbage premove if the user
12978 clicked on a piece, then clicked on an edge or outside the board. Now
12979 such an errant click is ignored.
12981 * Bugfix: GameEnds would send "exit" to an engine in analyze mode even
12982 if we did not actually want to leave analyze mode.
12984 * Bugfix: "feature pause" was being rejected. We don't currently use
12985 it, but that is no reason to reject it. Thanks to Gian-Carlo Pascutto
12986 for the bug report.
12988 * Bugfix: when "partner" needed to be sent both to ICS and the engine,
12989 Zippy was erroneously sending the ICS prefix character to the engine
12990 too. Thanks to Gian-Carlo Pascutto for the bug report.
12992 * Zippy now declines challenges when the engine is not yet ready to
12993 play again, instead of ignoring them. This is needed so that the
12994 server will let the opponent repeat the challenge. It might be better
12995 to remember such challenges and accept them when the engine is ready,
12996 but that would be a bit more complicated to implement.
12998 * Bugfix: Zippy's emotes didn't work on FICS because there, "i" is a
12999 built-in alias for "it", not a real command. So sending "$i foo" gave
13000 an error message instead of doing "it foo". We now leave out the
13001 alias-suppressing prefix for emotes.
13003 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.3 -- Mon Feb 19 19:55:05 PST 2001
13006 * Bugfix: The error message "Variant X not supported by gnuchessx"
13007 formerly could pop up even in -ncp mode.
13009 * Fixed an xboard bug in premove highlighting. If you had
13010 HighlightLastMove turned on, premoves got highlighted in
13011 highlightSquareColor (yellow) instead of premoveHighlightColor (red).
13013 * Modified premove again. Now we are back to displaying the move
13014 locally immediately after sending it to the server, as in versions
13015 prior to 4.2.1. This is good because it lets you register your next
13016 premove sooner. As a better fix to the problem that the change in
13017 4.2.1 had been trying to address, we now suppress animating the
13018 opponent's move if you have a premove reply pending. However, it's
13019 probably still a good idea for you to turn off AnimateMoves entirely
13020 if you are trying to play extremely fast games.
13022 * Removed an erroneous patch that left zombie chess engines around
13023 when both sigterm and reuse were turned off. (Bug was in xboard only,
13026 * Bugfix: loading a game with autostepping did not work for games with
13027 PGN result "*" (unfinished). This bug was introduced in 4.1.0, caused
13028 by some outdated code that was supposed to leave you in EditGame mode
13029 after loading an unfinished game. I fixed this, and also changed it
13030 to leave you in EditGame mode after loading *any* game, but without
13031 changing the tags to say it's an edited game. It's not really clear
13032 whether that is the best thing is to do here -- ideally, perhaps, the
13033 tags should change to say "edited game" if you actually make any
13034 changes, but that is harder to make work.
13036 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.2 -- Tue Feb 6 20:00:00 PST 2001
13039 * Fixed a problem introduced in 4.2.1. In -zippyPlay mode, 4.2.1
13040 started sending the initString immediately after the old game ended,
13041 but then when the next game started, it would still send "force" and
13042 another initString. Another problem was that the first initString put
13043 the engine out of sync with the displayed board position, though that
13044 might not usually have been noticeable. This is now changed to do a
13045 full Reset at the end of the previous game, and avoid doing a Reset at
13046 the start of a new game if we are still in BeginningOfGame mode.
13048 * Fixed some limitations in -zippyPlay mode. The engine was not being
13049 fed the moves or history of games that were displayed but not being
13050 played, so it would get confused if you tried to do something like
13051 examine a game, then enter EditGame mode from somewhere in the middle
13054 * Made a small change so that cygwin can compile xboard for Windows
13055 (an X server is required to run it). Thanks to Volker Zell. Most
13056 people would probably prefer to run WinBoard on Windows, however; note
13057 that cygwin could already compile WinBoard.
13059 * Added some missing documentation to engine-intf.html: It is okay to
13060 send "feature done=0" even before you receive the xboard and protover
13061 commands, if this is needed to give your engine enough time to
13062 initialize. See engine-intf.html for more discussion.
13064 * Bugfix: "feature done=0" did not work for the second engine; now it does.
13066 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.1 -- Sat Feb 3 19:52:26 PST 2001
13069 * Bugfix: in Zippy mode with feature san=1, the elapsed time was being
13070 sent to the engine after the SAN move; for example, "e4 (0:01)" was
13071 sent instead of just "e4".
13073 * It seems that scroll wheel mice with incompletely installed software
13074 (under Windows 95, at least) can send repeated middle button up events
13075 when the wheel is turned. Moved QuickPaste from middle button up to
13076 middle button down to avoid problems with this.
13078 * A premove is now sent *before* the opponent's move that it replies
13079 to is animated. The premove itself is no longer displayed (or
13080 animated) when sent; instead, it is displayed when the chess server
13081 echoes it back as a board update.
13083 * Bug fix: in -xreuse mode, xboard was only sending command line
13084 arguments to the engine the first time it was started. (WinBoard
13085 didn't have this bug.)
13087 * In -zippyPlay mode, we now initialize the chess engine for a new
13088 game immediately after the old game ends. (In -xreuse mode, this
13089 means starting a new engine process; in the default -reuse mode, it
13090 just means sending "new".) If the engine supports ping, we don't
13091 accept challenges until the "new" has finished. This should help
13092 avoid losing time (re)initializing the engine after the game starts.
13094 * We now handle the new FICS field in style 12 that says whether the
13095 clocks are ticking.
13097 * whiteFlag and blackFlag are now reset whenever an ICS board image
13098 arrives, giving autoflag a fresh chance to work.
13100 * Suppressed "geometry error" debug messages unless -debug flag is given.
13102 * Bugfix: avoid core dump on Solaris with -debug flag, caused by
13103 passing NULL to a %s format in GameEnds.
13105 * Added -firstProtocolVersion and -secondProtocolVersion. This will
13106 allow use of extremely broken engines that hang or die when given the
13107 "protover 2" command. It should be rarely if ever needed.
13109 * Zippy now strips highlights from player names in the Creating
13110 message; previously the ratings would not be extracted from this
13111 message properly if you had set the highlight variable.
13113 * Bug fix: Zippy with -zp but not -zt used to be fooled by false
13114 partner tells inside channel tells; e.g.:
13115 Garf(24): Garf (your partner) tells you: sit
13117 * Bug fix: when an engine reported its name with the new "feature
13118 myname=" command, we had been putting just that name into the window
13119 title even when in TwoMachines mode.
13121 * By default, WinBoard no longer uses the new feature introduced in
13122 4.2.0beta of keeping the ICS menu, ICS server list, and lists of chess
13123 engine command lines in separate files; instead, the lists are back in
13124 the winboard.ini file. This gets rid of some problems where the
13125 separate files could not be opened because the working directory was
13126 not set to WinBoard's installation directory.
13128 * WinBoard command lines and ini files now have another optional
13129 syntax for quoting an option value. All characters within { } curly
13130 braces are interpreted literally except for '}' itself. SaveSettings
13131 now uses this syntax for string values that contain a backslash or
13132 newline and do not contain a '}'. This should address the problem
13133 that the separate .ini files had been meant to fix; engine command
13134 line lists can now be written without \-escapes.
13136 * Fixed three bugs in relaying moves between engines in TwoMachines
13137 mode: an engine would be sent SAN if the *other* engine had set
13138 feature san=1, a relayed SAN move did not end with a newline, and
13139 feature usermove was not implemented for relayed moves.
13141 * Fixed several bugs in exiting: File/Exit would sometimes hang;
13142 timestamp/timeseal would not get killed off; an engine crash would
13143 cause error messages to be printed recursively until stack overflow.
13145 * Fixed a bug in the code to detect which ICS is in use and adapt to
13146 it; the chess.net case was broken.
13148 * Removed the leading alias-suppression character when sending a move
13149 to ICS, because it seemed to break accuclock on chess.net.
13151 * Fixed a bug where a FICS prompt like "10:01_fics%" would be matched
13152 as finger note number 10, causing a problem detecting when the user is
13155 * Added tellicsnoalias command to protocol.
13157 * Changed st command in protocol back to old behavior.
13159 * Added done=0 feature to protocol, to lengthen initial timeout.
13161 * Added missing -colorSeek command line option to xboard. (Was
13162 present in WinBoard.)
13164 * Bug fix: setting feature reuse=0 was not working.
13166 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.0beta -- Sat Dec 16 16:34:56 PST 2000
13169 * Setting -searchTime no longer turns off -clockMode. Note that when
13170 -searchTime is set, some engines may search for the lesser of
13171 searchTime and the amount of time their normal clock management would
13172 dictate, while others will disable their normal clock management and
13173 always search for exactly searchTime.
13175 * Fixed WinBoard bug where on Windows 2000 (and maybe Windows 98) the
13176 ICS Interaction window would scroll back to the top whenever it filled
13177 to capacity and WinBoard trimmed some text off the top.
13179 * Changed xboard dragging so that the center of the dragged piece is
13180 forced to be over the mouse cursor. (WinBoard dragging already worked
13181 that way.) This should avoid confusing cases when you start a drag
13182 with the mouse near the edge of a square -- formerly most or all of
13183 the piece could be over one square but the mouse cursor over another.
13186 * Added move list window for xboard. Code contributed by Manuel
13187 Hoelss and re-hacked a bit by me. Performance of this window is poor,
13188 because the implementation regenerates the entire window contents
13189 whenever anything changes. It's hard to avoid this when using the
13190 Athena List widget, though we could be a little smarter and notice
13191 when the current move number has changed but the move list has not.
13192 There are also several drawing problems caused by bugs in the Athena
13193 Form and List widgets. The window should not really allow a
13194 horizontal scroll bar, but the bugs are much worse if I turn it off.
13195 In both Xaw and Xaw3d, the List widget tries to resize itself when
13196 XawListChange is called, even if you tell it not to; and what's worse,
13197 if the widget cannot resize itself to be large enough to avoid
13198 clipping any of the list item, it does not change the list! Arrgh.
13199 On top of that, the Xaw Form widget is very buggy in XFree86 4.0.1
13202 * The OK button in the WinBoard startup dialog is now simply disabled
13203 if none of the radio buttons is selected, instead of bringing up an
13204 error dialog. Suggested by Ted Milbaugh.
13206 * Used ping to address the worst of the race conditions in the
13207 protocol. Now if an engine supports ping, we ping it after sending
13208 the "new" command and after trying to place it in force mode at the
13209 end of a game. When a ping has been sent and the corresponding pong
13210 has not yet come back, we (1) ignore or undo any moves the engine
13211 sends, (2) ignore game end messages (such as "offer draw", etc.) from
13212 the engine, (3) ignore thinking output from the engine, (4) delay
13213 starting the next game if in -matchGames mode, (5) in -zippyPlay mode,
13214 respond to challenges with a polite message to try again soon instead
13215 of accepting them. There are a few more things that should be done
13216 (and item 5 might not be quite what we want), but it's hard to fit
13217 them all into the existing code.
13219 * Patched the version of GNU Chess 5.00 included with WinBoard to
13220 support protover, feature, setboard, and ping, and to fix some minor
13221 bugs. See gnu500+.patch.
13223 * Changed the GNU Chess 4 kludges for missing "st" and "sd" commands
13224 to be invoked only if the engine gives an error message for "st" or
13225 "sd", and to always use protocol commands instead of engine
13226 command-line options. See "Idioms" in engine-intf.html.
13228 * Added new protocol command "protover 2" to tell the engine what
13229 version of the protocol is in use. Version 2 is still compatible with
13230 old engines; see engine-intf.html.
13232 * Add new protocol command "feature ..." The engine can send this in
13233 response to the protover command command, to say what extended
13234 protocol features it would like to enable, etc. xboard responds
13235 "accepted F" or "rejected F" for each feature F that is set. See
13238 * Added new protocol command "setboard <fen>". This is an alternative
13239 to "edit", used only if the engine says "feature setboard=1".
13241 * Added new protocol command "ping <msg>". The engine is supposed to
13242 respond "pong <msg>". This gives us a tool to fix some race
13243 conditions in the protocol, but it is not used to the fullest yet.
13245 * Added new protocol command "tellopponent". This will do a "say" if
13246 you're on a chess server in Zippy mode, or pop up an information
13249 * Added new protocol command "tellall". This will do a "kibitz" if
13250 you're on a chess server in Zippy mode, or pop up an information
13253 * Added new protocol command "tellothers". This will do a "whisper" if
13254 you're on a chess server in Zippy mode, or do nothing otherwise.
13256 * Changed the WinBoard /icsNames, /icsMenu, /firstChessProgramNames,
13257 and /secondChessProgramNames options to accept a filename preceded by
13258 "@", meaning to find the value in the file. Changed the defaults to
13259 use this feature, with filenames icsnames.ini, icsmenu.ini, fcp.ini,
13260 and scp.ini. This should make it easier for users to edit the values,
13261 since one less level of quoting is needed, and each value is in its
13262 own file, not mixed into winboard.ini. Those who upgrade from an
13263 older winboard version and already have a winboard.ini file will not
13264 automatically have these values moved to a file; that has to be done
13265 by hand if desired.
13267 * We now strip .exe from engine names for "name" command, tags, etc.
13269 * Allowed WinBoard input widget to hold more than one line. You can get
13270 a newline into the widget with copy/paste or with Ctrl+Enter.
13272 * Fixed an xboard bug where the [P] button would appear in the
13273 opposite highlight state from what it should be after being pressed.
13275 * We now use the "/" or "$" alias suppression feature on the chess
13276 servers, to avoid problems if the user inadvertently aliases a
13277 needed command to something else.
13279 * Changed the method used to deiconize xboard in AutoRaise and cmail.
13280 This may fix bugs under some window managers where after
13281 deiconization, the board window was mapped but nothing was drawn
13284 * Preliminary, partial support for playing several chess variants
13285 against a local engine or editing variant games. The -variant option
13286 must be given on the command line or WinBoard startup dialog; there is
13287 no menu. The current variant is not displayed (except in the
13288 Tags/EditTags window). Many variants will not work quite right even
13289 if the engine supports them; see item 326 in the ToDo file for
13292 * Added a workaround to detect the variant type when examining a
13293 scratch wild game on an ICS.
13295 * Fixed two cases where "variant" command should be sent to the engine
13296 when necessary but was not: loading a game from a file and restarting
13297 a dead engine. Thanks to Gian-Carlo Pascutto.
13299 * Added missing support for FICS games that start from a bsetup position
13300 with Black moving first.
13302 * Fixed a bug in loading a file from the game list window while in
13303 Analysis or AnalyzeFile mode. This now leaves us in AnalyzeFile
13304 mode, analyzing the new file.
13306 * Fixed a bug in loading games with a comment before the first move.
13308 * Fixed a bug in handling LoadGame (or -lgf) with -td 0.
13310 * Added a command line option to select an initial minor mode from the
13311 Mode menu. This should satisfy requests from a couple of users with
13312 special applications.
13314 * Fixed a problem where some things in WinBoard's General Options
13315 dialog box were grayed out at the wrong time.
13317 * We look for a few messages from the chess engine pipe that are
13318 intended to catch problems starting an engine via rsh, such as "No
13319 such file". Moved code so that these strings won't match until other
13320 protocol messages have been looked for, and documented the messages in
13323 * Fixed the WinBoard bug that sometimes made the console input box
13324 white-on-white even when not in password-entry mode.
13326 * Small changes to WinBoard to be compilable with the latest Cygwin
13327 net release (as of 10-16-2000). Thanks to Mark Schoenberg.
13329 * Recompiled GNU Chess 5.0 for WinBoard with the latest Cygwin net
13330 release (as of 10-16-2000). Also rebuilt the book just to be sure,
13331 since I had one bug report about it. It came out identical and seems
13334 * Added messages for some common InstallShield errors instead of just
13335 printing InstallShield's stupid error code numbers.
13337 * Added -firstComputerString and -secondComputerString, allowing you
13338 to suppress or change the command that is sent to a chess engine when
13339 its opponent is another computer.
13341 * Added "configure --with-Xaw3d" to allow use of Xaw3d widgets instead
13342 of Xaw widgets in xboard. Thanks to Johnny C. Lam of the NetBSD
13343 project. I've left Xaw as the default because Xaw3d is too ugly.
13345 * The version of the Xaw Form widget released in XFree86 4.0.1
13346 (X11R6.4.3) has a bug that causes xboard to display the button bar
13347 on top of the message widget. I've reported the bug and have
13348 installed a kludge workaround into xboard.
13350 xboard/WinBoard 4.1.0 -- Sun Sep 17 17:30:14 PDT 2000
13353 * Merged Winboard Plus 4.0.8 from Mark Williams into xboard
13354 source pool. Status of Winboard Plus features in xboard:
13356 - White pieces now have borders, but the implementation is
13357 completely different from WinBoard's; see below.
13359 - Options menu not changed, probably won't be.
13361 - Copy&paste support working, using Mark's changes to backend.c, Ben
13362 Nye's changes to xboard.c for FEN positions, and some code of my
13363 own in xboard.c for PGN games.
13365 - Premove hooked up and working. No pre-first-move, though.
13367 - ICS Alarm hooked up and working.
13369 - Auto-flip working.
13371 - PGN Training mode hooked up and working.
13373 - Improved menu item enable/disable working.
13375 - Improved >> button working.
13377 - Auto activate board working. I changed this to be optional; you
13378 might not always want it, especially in Zippy mode.
13380 - Blindfold working.
13382 - Documentation updated.
13384 * Fixed more colorization bugs. Commands like "message foo tells you:
13385 xxx" and "tell 33 tells you: xxx" will no longer generate bogus
13388 * Added low-tech sound support to xboard, by invoking an external
13389 program on a filename for each sound to be played.
13391 * ICC wild 27 is now recognized as VariantAtomic, and it sets the
13392 "ignore check" flag, but is not otherwise supported.
13394 * Converted the piece bitmaps from .bm to .xpm for use with xboard's
13395 xpm support. (An .xim version was not created.) Wrote a shell script
13396 using ImageMagick to do the conversion and to bucket fill from
13397 coordinate 0,0 with the background color. Used xpaint by hand to
13398 clean up a few pieces where background color "leaked" into the inside
13399 or didn't flow all the way around the outside, then a sed script to
13400 fix up color names and bitmap names in the xpaint output. If any more
13401 sizes are added later, they should be straightforward to convert with
13402 reference to the existing scripts. With this conversion, not only do
13403 the white pieces now have dark borders, but (unlike with WinBoard) the
13404 light details on the black pieces are opaque.
13406 * If the XPM library is found when building xboard, the new xpm pieces
13407 are compiled in as the default. External bitmap (or xpm) pieces can
13408 still be used by giving the -bitmapDirectory (or -xpmDirectory)
13409 option. If the XPM library is not found, the old bitmap pieces are
13410 the default. In this case external bitmap (or xim) pieces can be used
13411 by giving the -bitmapDirectory (or -xpmDirectory) option. There is no
13412 way to compile in xim pieces.
13414 Winboard Plus 4.0.8 -- Sat Aug 5 15:51 PDT 2000
13419 * Main menu now visible in Win NT. Thanks to Microsoft for creating a
13420 compiler which auto-mutilates the WinBoard.rc file so that the menu is
13421 displayed under Win 98 but not Win NT. I fixed the problem by hand editing the
13424 * "Reset game" now works properly when invoked from Analysis mode when two
13425 engines are present. Correction of bug introduced in Winboard Plus. Thanks to
13426 Mogens Larsen for reporting the bug.
13428 * Pasting a FEN position with Black to move now works in all modes.
13429 Thanks to Mogens Larsen for reporting the bug.
13431 * Added gnuchess.dat to the distribution and a couple of text files that were
13434 *** Merged in the following changes from Tim Mann:
13436 * Bugfix: Highlights would sometimes not be taken down, at least in
13437 xboard. The problem is that SetHighlight works in chess coordinates,
13438 not view coordinates, so if flipView has been toggled since the
13439 highlight was put up, it gets taken down from the wrong square. Fixed
13440 by being careful to call ClearHighlights before toggling flipView, not
13443 * Bugfix: HighlightLastMove would sometimes highlight square a1 after
13444 a FICS "tomove black" command.
13446 * Bugfix: a move list with initial position that has black to play was
13447 not being handled correctly.
13449 * Removed "decline abort" and "decline adjourn" commands from Zippy.
13450 The syntax is changing on FICS, and Zippy really doesn't have to
13451 explicitly decline the requests anyway; it's sufficient to not accept
13454 * ICC wild 26 is now recognized as VariantSuicide (the FICS name; ICC
13455 calls it "giveaway").
13457 * Bugfix: PGN games with black to move in the initial position weren't
13458 being legality checked correctly. I think this was introduced in
13459 4.0.6 when I fixed a different PGN bug. Thanks to Mark Williams for
13460 spotting the bug and suggesting a fix.
13462 * Bugfix: the initial "name(" of a kibitz wasn't being colorized.
13464 Winboard Plus 4.0.7 -- Thu May 12 17:57 PDT 2000
13467 * New white pieces with black borders.
13469 * Major overhaul to Options menu. New dialogs for setting General Options,
13470 Board Options, ICS Options, Sounds, Fonts, Colors.
13472 * Clipboard support for PGN game scores and FEN positions.
13474 * Optional ICS Premove with user-specified first moves for White and Black.
13476 * New sound events: ICS Win, ICS Loss, ICS Draw, ICS Unfinished, ICS Alarm.
13478 * New auto-flip option when playing against a chess program.
13480 * Added PGN Training mode.
13482 * Certain menu options now disabled while program is thinking.
13484 * ">>" button now always goes to the end of the game.
13486 * In ICS mode, the board is automatically activated at the start of a
13489 4.0.7 -- Sun Mar 5 17:17:49 PST 2000 Tim Mann
13491 * Fixed a nasty bug in parsing ICS game histories that was introduced
13494 4.0.6 -- Fri Mar 3 16:20:11 PST 2000 Tim Mann
13496 * Fixed bugs in Zippy's code for responding to messages sent with the
13497 ICS "message" command.
13499 * Fixed bugs where xboard could still create dialogs partially off the
13500 top of the screen. Fixed unwanted interactions between initial sizes
13501 and positions of various unrelated xboard dialogs. Deleted
13502 borderXoffset and borderYoffset resources.
13504 * Fixed restoring the xterm name on exit to work in more cases.
13506 * Small fix to the WinBoard self-extracting installer: when it starts
13507 up, it now always deletes any old wb-setup directory left over from a
13508 previous installation. Formerly this worked only on Windows 95/98, so
13509 on NT the self-extractor would sometimes stop and ask the user whether
13510 it was OK to overwrite the old wb-setup files.
13512 * Modified WinBoard to be compilable with the free Cygwin tools
13513 available from http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/. Based on work by
13514 Mark Schoenberg. (His mods were enough to get WinBoard through the
13515 compiler, but a few things were broken along the way, so I reworked them.)
13517 * Merged changes from Don Fong to make WinBoard compilable with
13518 Borland C++ 4.5. I do not have Borland C++ and am unable to test with
13519 it, but I did make sure the changes don't stop it working with MSVC++
13522 * Forbade entering TwoMachines mode from MachineWhite or MachineBlack
13523 mode when machine is on move. This used to confuse the engine and
13524 cause problems, because when we try to get the engine to stop, it
13525 might make a move first, and it might not do that immediately.
13527 * Variant classification now deals with new ICC wild 25, classifying
13528 it as "3check". Also, we are now conservative about new wild numbers
13529 we don't know about, classifying them as "unknown" instead of
13532 * Replaced bad GNU Chess 5.00 book in WinBoard distribution with a
13533 correct one. 1.e4 now no longer takes GNU Chess 5.00 out of book!
13534 Thanks to Pete Galati.
13536 * Made move parser accept and ignore nonstandard ep suffix on PGN moves,
13537 e.g., "exf6ep" or "exf6e.p."
13539 * Fixed bugs in parsing PGN files starting with no move number, or
13540 with a move number other than "1." (including "1..."). Thanks to
13541 Michael Soulier and Stefan Zipproth for example PGN files
13542 demonstrating the bugs.
13544 * Changed InitComboStringsFromString to not modify the input string;
13545 this caused an exception when WinBoard was compiled with MSVC++ 6.
13546 Thanks to Bert Tuyt for the report.
13548 * In WinBoard, dragging a piece off the edge of the board without
13549 releasing the mouse button no longer instantly aborts the move. You
13550 still must release the mouse button inside a square to complete a
13551 move, but you can now drag off the edge and come back inside.
13553 * WinBoard bugfix: If you went into EditGame or EditPosition mode
13554 while observing or playing an ICS game, and a new move came in
13555 (snapping you back to ICSClient mode) while you were dragging a piece
13556 around, the drag state would not be reset, causing the piece you were
13557 dragging to remain on the board wherever you dropped it. Thanks to
13558 David Brinegar for the bug report.
13560 * WinBoard bugfix: If you moved or resized the board while your
13561 opponent was moving, and you had AnimateMoving on, his move would not
13562 be displayed until after your next move. Thanks to DAV for reporting
13563 the bug repeatedly until I finally understood it.
13565 * Added a Zippy "farewell" feature; see zippy.README.
13567 * Fixed a bug (xboard only) in processing -zippyReplayTimeout on the
13568 command line. Thanks to Steve Beer for the report and patch.
13570 * Send "computer" command to both sides in TwoMachines matches.
13572 * Fixed a Y2K bug in Evan's cmail code! Thanks to Brian Mays for the
13575 * Bugfix: Initialize variant field of GameInfo struct in gameinfo.c.
13576 This could cause crashes in LoadGame. Thanks to Andrzej Nagorko.
13578 * Fixed several pattern matching problems: Finger notes and formula
13579 vars no longer get replied to by zippyTalk or colorized. Channel
13580 tells by players with many titles are now colorized fully, and
13581 zippyTalk handles channel tells by such players correctly. The shout
13582 "--> foo(99): bar" no longer gets colorized as a channel tell. Code
13583 is cleaned up a bit, and autocomment capture now uses the same
13584 criteria as colorization.
13586 * xboard fix: Enter key now closes error popups as in WinBoard.
13587 Especially nice for the "Exiting: Connection closed by ICS" popup.
13589 4.0.5 -- Tue Dec 7 10:30:40 PST 1999 Tim Mann
13591 * Added missing documentation of SIGTERM usage into engine-intf.html.
13593 * Bugfix: New -zippyReplayTimeout option was misspelled in WinBoard as
13594 -zippyReplyTimeout. Thanks to Francesco Di Tolla.
13596 * xboard -ics now restores the xterm's original title upon exit, at
13597 least if $WINDOWID is set.
13599 * Bugfix: -matchGames mode wasn't terminating properly. Final score
13600 popup would come up twice and engines would not be killed off. Thanks
13601 to Frank Quisinsky for the bug report. Bug was introduced in 4.0.4.
13603 * Bugfix: "tell 50 foo shouts: bar" no longer gets colored as a shout;
13604 similarly for "...s-shouts:" and "...c-shouts:". Thanks to David Lee
13605 for the bug report.
13607 4.0.4 -- Fri Dec 3 17:51:27 PST 1999 Tim Mann
13609 * Bug fix: formerly if you invoked SaveGame from EditPosition mode
13610 with black to play, the position was not saved properly. As a quick
13611 fix, SaveGame now takes you out of EditPosition mode before saving.
13613 * Changed -matchGames to keep track of the score (won-lost-drawn) and
13614 display it in the banner. The final score is displayed in a modal
13615 popup before the program exits.
13617 * Changed "Connection closed by ICS" to display in a model popup
13618 before the program exits.
13620 * Added -popupExitMessage option, default on. Setting this to false
13621 suppresses the modal popups that you sometimes get just before
13622 xboard/winboard exits -- both the two new ones listed above and the
13623 existing Fatal Error popup. This is useful when running Zippy
13624 unattended from a shell script (or .bat file) that loops and starts a
13625 new copy after a time delay when there is an error.
13627 * In xboard, added missing support for WM_DELETE_WINDOW to all
13628 windows. This makes xboard a better citizen, and is much needed with
13629 the newer X window managers that put an [X] button on every window and
13630 bind it to "kill application" if the applicationd does not support
13631 "delete window". We can't allow xboard to be thoughtlessly killed,
13632 since that leaves the chess engine running in the background.
13634 * We now avoid positioning tops of xboard dialog boxes offscreen.
13636 * zippy.lines can now use the caret ('^') character as an inter-saying
13637 separator. You no longer need to dig up a text editor that can put NUL
13638 ('\000') characters in text files.
13640 * Bugfix: In traditional chess clock mode, White now gets time added
13641 to its clock as soon as it makes time control. Previously both White
13642 and Black got their time added only when Black made time control,
13643 which would cause some engines to make their 41st move as White too
13644 quickly, thinking they were low on time.
13646 * The zippyAcceptOnly feature no longer sends a decline command or
13647 a tell. Thus you can use it to put Zippy into a manual accept mode.
13649 * Bugfix: "tell 50 foo tells you: bar" no longer gets colored as a
13650 personal tell; similarly for "...whispers:" and "...kibitzes:".
13652 * WinBoard no longer blanks the message line when you start a new
13653 move, unless there was an error message there from the previous move.
13655 * WinBoard now never puts the white piece drop menu on the middle
13656 mouse button. Both colors are always on the right button. Windows
13657 users often don't think to look for a middle button menu, or don't
13658 really have a working middle button despite what Windows says.
13660 * Guest login handles on ICC are now parsed again; an ICC wording
13661 change had broken this feature.
13663 * Autodetect when the engine does not support the "draw" command and
13664 don't relay the command to it in that case. Needed because sending an
13665 unsupported command to GNU Chess makes it move immediately, so people
13666 could make Zippy move without thinking by continually offering a draw.
13667 Thanks to Frank Walker for the problem report.
13669 * Small changes based on code from Robert Jurjevic: The WinBoard
13670 analysis window can be minimized (though not to the taskbar). The
13671 WinBoard ICS Interaction window will autoscroll if you drag the mouse
13672 above or below the window while selecting, and password entry mode
13673 leaves the entry line as the background color instead of using 75%
13674 gray. Seeks are now colorized with a new color of their own.
13676 * Added -zippyMaxGames feature.
13678 * -zippyNoplayCrafty command line option was missing in xboard; fixed.
13679 Thanks to John Perry.
13681 * Fixed bug in detecting when Zippy loses his bughouse partner.
13682 Thanks to Ben Dean-Kawamura.
13684 * allobs fix in 4.0.3 didn't work; corrected it.
13686 * WinBoard will now update the board immediately if a move is made
13687 while the window is being moved or resized.
13689 4.0.3 -- Sun Aug 15 18:44:39 PDT 1999 Tim Mann
13691 * Bugfix: moved winboard wizard functions that send a command directly
13692 to the chess engine from Ctrl+Alt+1 and Ctrl+Alt+2 to Alt+1 and Alt+2.
13693 Ctrl+Alt is equivalent to the European AltGr key, so the old assignments
13694 conflicted with typing an @-sign on some keyboards.
13696 * Bugfix: prevent "If this message stays up, your chess program does
13697 not support analysis" from appearing if AnalysisMode is selected when
13698 already in Analysis or AnalyzeFile mode. Also, deleting analysis window
13699 in WinBoard now switches you to EditGame mode, to avoid the anomaly of
13700 being in an analysis mode with no analysis window present.
13702 * Change all Zippy environment variables to work as command line
13703 options. For now they still work as environment variables too, but
13704 the environment variables are deprecated.
13706 * Use unsigned long to hold node counts from engines.
13708 * Print error instead of crashing on attempts to use xpm or xim pieces
13709 in monochrome mode. Thanks to Jim Torrance for the bug report.
13711 * Tightened pattern recognition for ICS messages sent to Zippy; should
13712 no longer match ICC allobs output. Fixed recognition of when Zippy is
13713 sent a message; small change to FICS output had broken it.
13715 * Zippy now exits if the engine dies unexpectedly.
13717 * Added Zippy "spoofedby" feature; see zippy.README.
13719 * Narrowed the margins on some older WinBoard dialogs to make their
13720 style uniform with the newer ones.
13722 * Bugfix: Changing Ponder Next Move from the Options menu did not take
13723 effect until the next game. This bug was in WinBoard only. Thanks to
13724 Stefan Zipproth for the bug report.
13726 * Got rid of "Internal error: bad move type" message when the engine
13727 makes a move that we can parse but think is illegal. Now the move is
13728 just passed on (which also may be the wrong thing to do).
13730 4.0.2 -- Thu Feb 25 19:55:32 PST 1999 Tim Mann
13732 * Added one more built-in sound choice to WinBoard: move.wav from Pete
13735 * Added new larger piece sizes: big, huge, giant, colossal, titanic.
13737 * Modified the xboard font searcher to be able to use scalable fonts.
13738 The new -fontSizeTolerance flag controls how closely a nonscalable
13739 font must match to be used in preference to a scalable font.
13741 * Zippy environment variables ZIPPYABORT and ZIPPYADJOURN now control
13742 whether Zippy will accept abort and adjourn requests.
13744 * We now determine the variant type being played on ICS, send it as a
13745 command "variant VARTYPE" to the chess engine (if in Zippy mode), and
13746 put it in the PGN tags. See engine-intf.txt for variant names. See
13747 ZIPPYVARIANTS in zippy.README to control what variants Zippy will
13748 accept. Note that this now applies to bughouse, too.
13750 * Zippy now won't do -zippyTalk in a channel unless his handle is
13753 * Zippy now ignores bughouse holdings if not actually playing, instead
13754 of stupidly trying to abort the game. Let me know if other strange
13755 things happen when Zippy is observing a game.
13757 * Set ICS Interaction title bar to "user@server". User name is
13758 determined by parsing message during the login sequence. Zippy now
13759 uses this method to get its name too, so ZIPPYNAME is eliminated.
13760 Problem: with xboard, the title bar gets set to "xterm" upon exit,
13761 since we didn't know what it was to start with.
13763 * Fixed xboard-only bug in -colorChannel1 command line option. Thanks
13764 to Fredrik Sandstrom for the bug report and fix.
13766 * Check for overflow of MAX_MOVES. Still not sure this is checked for
13767 everywhere it needs to be.
13769 * Added .epd to suffixes recognized by WinBoard as position files.
13770 This is a bit of a kludge, as the .fen reading code was not written
13771 with .epd files in mind, but reading them with it is said to work.
13773 * Added ZIPPYGAMESTART feature, suggested by Jason Hoblit. See
13776 * Restored the feature of soaking up the moves from a user-typed "moves",
13777 "oldmoves", or "smoves" ICS command when xboard/WinBoard is idle, but
13778 changed it so that the move list is also echoed to the screen. Some folks
13779 still liked the old feature since it is faster than examine mode, and
13780 printing the moves to the screen should eliminate the confusion it caused
13783 * Bugfix: in WinBoard, starting a click-click move and then clicking on
13784 a black line would cause the source square to be forgotten without taking
13785 the highlight down. Now the errant click is ignored.
13787 * Corrected shortcut key labels for LoadNext/PrevPosition in WinBoard's
13788 File menu. Thanks to Andreas Stabel for the bug report.
13790 * Bugfix: if you had a completely full ICS context menu in WinBoard
13791 (90 items), the last one would do nothing if selected.
13793 * The "computer" engine command added in 4.0.1 was not working; I had
13794 left out part of the code patch. Oops.
13796 4.0.1 -- Fri Feb 12 21:24:15 PST 1999 Tim Mann
13798 This is a minor bugfix release. The first item listed below is the
13799 only interesting new feature.
13801 * You can now type in moves from the keyboard in WinBoard. Either
13802 select TypeInMove from Step menu, or (if you are not in ICS mode),
13803 just start typing. In ICS mode you can type moves into the ICS
13804 interaction window anyway, so I've retained the feature that typing
13805 switches you there. Not implemented in xboard.
13807 * Removed the "noise 1000" command that used to be sent to the chess
13808 engine when entering analysis modes.
13810 * Deleted the feature where we soak up the output of a user-typed ICS
13811 "moves" or "oldmoves" command. This ancient feature is not really
13812 useful anymore, now that "examine" exists, and it caused a lot of
13815 * Increased maximum size of ICS text menu to 90 entries and added
13818 * The command sent to ICS by Zippy at the end of each game can now be
13819 customized with the ZIPPYGAMEEND environment variable.
13821 * We treat xboard.info as a pseudo-source since most people don't have
13822 the tools to rebuild it. But "make install" erroneously had a
13823 dependency on it, even though "make all" did not. Fixed.
13825 * Miscellaneous minor updates and clarifications to engine-intf.txt.
13826 In particular, documented the st and sd commands (support for command
13827 line options -searchTime and -searchDepth), warts and all.
13829 * Added a small code patch from Bob Hyatt to detect when Zippy's ICS
13830 opponent is a computer and send the command "computer" to the engine.
13831 Added this command to engine-intf.txt. Thanks, Bob.
13833 * Bugfix: configure was looking for usleep(), but config.h.in didn't
13834 have an entry for it, so HAVE_USLEEP was never defined. Also, in the
13835 non-HAVE_USLEEP case, there was a possible race condition between the
13836 signal handler and the pause() call. Thanks to Ben Dean-Kawamura for
13839 * Bugfix: a "1..." preceding Black's first move (usually present if
13840 there is a comment on White's first move) would cause the parser
13841 to think a new game started there and report "End of game" on the
13842 current game. Thanks to Dell Garner for the bug report.
13844 * Changed the abbreviation for -searchDepth from -sd to -depth to fix
13845 a clash with -secondDirectory.
13847 * Changed -searchDepth to be orthogonal to the various timing options.
13848 Previously it would search for an unlimited time to the given depth;
13849 now the engine is allowed to choose its search time in the normal way,
13850 but is told to cut off the search early if it reaches the given depth.
13852 * Bugfix: SaveSettings in WinBoard was saving both the long form
13853 option highlightSquareColor and its abbreviation (hsc).
13855 * Fixed a redisplay bug in DisplayBothClocks that could cause White's
13856 clock to be highlighted in EditPosition mode when Black's should have been.
13858 * Fixed Zippy's feature of passing on draw offers from the ICS opponent.
13859 The colorization code was eating the offer before Zippy saw it, so I disabled
13860 colorization of offers while in -zp or -zt mode. (Other types of
13861 colorization are already disabled in Zippy mode for similar reasons.)
13863 * Added some more commands to the default ICS context menu in WinBoard,
13864 and put "(name)" on the ones that insert a playername (or game number).
13866 * Added missing documentation to WinBoard help file: PonderNextMove, the
13867 -ponder/-xponder argument, and the up/down arrow history feature in the
13868 ICS Interaction window.
13870 * Fixed ZIPPYNOPLAYCRAFTY feature to fire only if the opponent is Crafty,
13871 not if some other Crafty is observing the game and kibitzes.
13873 * Fixed bugs in generating "partner" commands when Zippy is playing
13876 4.0.0 -- Sat Jun 20 16:59:47 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
13878 * Fixed WinBoard resizing so that the edges you do not drag remain in
13879 place, even when the final size is different from what you dragged to.
13880 (This doesn't work on NT 3.51 or earlier, if anyone cares.)
13882 * Fixed problems with resizing WinBoard on Windows NT: you no longer get
13883 whitespace around the board, a clipped board, or a lot of flashing during
13886 * Added customization for highlight-square color.
13888 * Bugfix: backend.c wrote to stderr in a few obscure places, which doesn't
13891 * Added Index Number field back to LoadGame/LoadPosition dialog boxes in
13892 WinBoard. This required some extra code to work with both the
13893 Explorer-style dialog boxes and the old-style NT 3.51 dialog boxes. Ugh.
13895 * WinBoard startup dialog now understands -zp mode. The first chess
13896 engine selector is enabled and the value is used.
13898 * Bugfix: ResetGame would send "exit" to engine twice if it was in an
13901 * Bugfix: The response "Illegal move: bk" to the "bk" command, indicating
13902 that it is not implemented, would confuse xboard.
13904 * Bugfix: Ignore empty hints ("Hint:\n") instead of printing a message
13905 saying that some bogus string (often "Hint:") is illegal.
13907 * Bugfix: LoadNextGame/LoadPreviousGame/ReloadSameGame were broken.
13909 3.6.12 -- Sat Jun 13 14:57:10 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
13911 Beta test release of xboard and WinBoard.
13913 * Spruced up xboard man page a bit.
13915 * Added Highlight Last Move to xboard too.
13917 * The revamped xboard mouse click code had several more bugs than the
13918 previous version, so I revamped it again. All fixed now, I hope.
13920 * xboard bugfix: crash in CreatePieceMenu.
13922 * Oops. winboard-3_6_11beta.exe installed 3.6.10beta, not the new version.
13924 3.6.11 -- Fri Jun 12 20:00:48 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
13926 Beta test release of xboard and WinBoard.
13928 * Major reorganization to engine-intf.txt. Some new features added,
13929 many existing features clarified and hints for engine programmers added.
13930 Support for new features added to program.
13932 * Changed defaults for -scp (etc.) back to being independent of -fcp, as
13933 in 3.6.2. That is, the default is no longer to copy the value from -fcp if
13934 -scp is not specified. This will sometimes make command lines longer but
13935 will remove some confusing situations.
13937 * Split -reuseChessPrograms into two options: -reuseFirst and
13938 -reuseSecond. Fixed obscure bugs when reuse is off.
13940 * Detect ICC and change some command usage slightly there: only ICC has
13941 set-quietly; only FICS has iset and bsetup clear. With this feature, we
13942 can now safely use bsetup clear when appropriate instead of deleting each
13945 * Added indent to lines that are wrapped by WinBoard ICS Interaction
13946 window. This seems to tickle a Microsoft bug in the RichEdit control:
13947 occasionally the start of the next line after the wrapped line is indented
13948 too. I think the wrapped indent feature is useful enough that it's worth
13949 having in spite of the bug.
13951 * WinBoard bugfix: bounding box for the board was computed incorrectly by
13952 mouse code. It would think you moved off the bottom of the board before
13953 you really did, so it was hard to drag pieces along the bottom rank on
13954 smaller board sizes.
13956 * Fixed obscure parser.l bug: ambiguity between capture using : instead of
13957 x and email header line. Also removed or simplified a lot of complex
13958 patterns for English (as opposed to PGN) end-of-game indications while I
13961 * Added PonderNextMove option.
13963 * xboard EditPosition piece menus now let you set the side to play by
13964 selecting the "White" or "Black" label at the top of the menu, like
13965 WinBoard. (Both xboard and WinBoard still let you set the side to play by
13966 clicking on the clock.)
13968 * Merged documentation of Crafty and GNU Chess thinking output in
13969 engine-intf.txt. Corrected code in backend.c to match documentation; it
13970 used to require the PV to start in column 27 (!).
13972 * Fixed bug that caused crashes in "-reuseChessProgram false" mode.
13974 * Draw by agreement in Two Machines mode now works as it is supposed to.
13975 Other minor bugs in handling game end messages from machines are also
13976 fixed, and engine-intf.txt is revised in this area.
13978 * Revamped xboard code for handling mouse clicks on the board. In
13979 particular, it had a bug if a click-click promotion move was made.
13981 * Fixed and reinstated optimization for << in analysis modes: send
13982 initString and re-send the board if needed. Sending repeated undos
13983 is bad because Crafty prints some analysis after every one.
13985 * Don't go into a spin loop while pausing between xboard animation frames.
13986 This caused problems, especially when compiling with -O2 on HP-UX.
13988 * WinBoard Options/Colors/RevertToDefaults now also turns off Monochrome
13989 if it was on, and similarly for Options/ICSInteractionColors/RevertToDefaults.
13990 This seemed to confuse people before.
13992 * Bugfix: ICS Interaction context menu items with neither of the two
13993 optional flags set did not work.
13995 * Bugfix: PGN move numbers are optional, but we were insisting on "1"
13996 right after the tags.
13998 * Bugfix: only the first game of an -mg match was loading -lpf or -lgf.
14000 * Other minor fixes and code cleanup.
14002 3.6.10 -- Mon Jun 1 01:32:31 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
14004 * Added ZIPPYNOPLAYCRAFTY feature; see zippy.README.
14006 * Added timestamps for chess engine interaction to -debug output.
14008 * Now allow 10 seconds (was 5) between games in match mode for engines to
14009 respond to "force" command that ended previous game.
14011 * When a game is picked from the game list and the names of White and
14012 Black are known, display them in the window banner instead of the filename
14015 * Changed default for -scp and -sd to be the values of -fcp and -fd.
14017 * Added boxes for both engines to WinBoard startup dialog. Changed to
14018 dropdown boxes whose content can be set from winboard.ini, similar to
14019 the box for ICS name.
14021 * Accept "offer draw" (or "*offer*draw*") from engine to offer a draw.
14023 * Accept "move mmmm" from engine as well as silly "1. ... mmmm" syntax.
14025 * Added support for bughouse engines (Zippy mode only).
14027 * Move bombproofing for engines sending illegal or out of turn moves.
14029 * Always send "xboard\n" to engine as first command. Eliminates need
14030 to run crafty as "crafty xboard".
14032 * Rewrote xboard code for input from engines to fix longstanding bugs.
14033 Previously an engine that sent one line in two separate writes with
14034 some time lapse in between (or perhaps that sent several lines in one
14035 write) could make xboard hang. WinBoard did not have this bug.
14037 * Fixed minor bugs in dealing with illegal moves.
14039 * Added "iset startpos 1" for FICS.
14041 * Removed special support to put "GNU Chess" or "Crafty" in the window
14042 banner instead of the engine's base filename. This gives a more level
14043 playing field for other engines. Also fixed bugs in the code that finds the
14044 engine's base filename.
14046 * Bugfix: Abort or Resign at the very start of a game in chess engine mode
14047 would fail to send "force" to the engine.
14049 * Fixed some minor bugs in new "result" messages, and changed format to
14050 include a trailing PGN comment giving the reason the game ended.
14052 * Changed syntax of /font options in WinBoard; old syntax was assuming
14053 that a font name can't contain a digit, which is wrong. Old font names in
14054 WinBoard.ini files are still accepted.
14056 * Serious further work on getting WinBoard to read/write files in the
14057 "right" directories and documenting exactly what it does.
14059 * Added LoadPreviousPosition, LoadNextPosition, ReloadSamePosition.
14061 * Misc. tiny fixes and cleanup.
14063 3.6.9 -- Sun May 24 20:53:08 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
14065 xboard and WinBoard beta release.
14067 * Tightened up illegal move handling. Illegal or meaningless moves from a
14068 file or chess engine should no longer get translated into a1a1 and blindly
14069 applied. Explicit moves to the same square (like a1a1) no longer make the
14070 piece on that square capture itself and vanish.
14072 * Added AlwaysOnTop feature to winboard.
14074 * Fixed bug in winboard "@" command line indirection operator.
14076 * Removed buggy "optimization" code for ToStart in analysis modes.
14078 * Fixed typo bug in zippy.c that would often cause winboard to crash
14079 right after starting a game in -zp mode.
14081 3.6.8 -- Sat May 23 22:23:19 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
14083 xboard and WinBoard beta release.
14085 * Added -firstDirectory and -secondDirectory so that chess engines can
14086 be started in a different directory from xboard/WinBoard itself.
14088 * Added -matchGames to allow more than one game in -matchMode. The games
14089 are played with colors alternating between the two chess engines. Had to
14090 add a time delay at the end of each game to catch up with game ending
14091 messages from both chess engines -- yuck.
14093 * Changed TwoMachines mode to have firstChessProgram play White by
14094 default. Added -firstPlaysBlack to restore old behavior.
14096 * Major rework of code in backend.c for dealing with first and second
14097 chess engines. Generalized the code and created a struct type with one
14098 instance for each engine. Several small bugs fixed along the way.
14100 * Fixed bugs in Abort in local chess engine mode.
14102 * Tightened pattern matching to recognize moves from machine. Should cure
14103 bogus "Illegal move" errors while Crafty is pondering with Show Thinking
14104 on, among other things.
14106 * WinBoard keeps focus in board window after popping up a comment due to
14107 Forward/Backward/ToStart/ToEnd commands.
14109 * Finally got rid of warnings on compiling moves.c under Windows.
14111 * Fixed so WinBoard will compile on machines where WM_MOUSELEAVE is not
14114 * Removed various bits of unused code.
14116 * Parse (and ignore) NAGs in PGN files.
14118 * Updated engine-intf.txt.
14120 * Send "result R" to the chess program at the end of each game, where
14121 R is the PGN result 1-0, 0-1, 1/2-1/2, or *.
14123 * Bugfix: suppress animation when loading a game with timeDelay=0.
14125 * Bug fix: pondering output from Crafty that contained "..." could be
14126 mistaken for a move, causing bogus error messages and general chaos.
14128 * xboard "make clean" bug fix: moved things created by configure to be
14129 removed only by "make distclean".
14131 * Fixed a remaining case where move was being animated before being
14132 relayed to opponent.
14134 * Backend was reversing time/otim commands to the chess program (new bug),
14135 and was often not sending them on the first move of a game or the first
14136 move after a mode change (old bug). Fixing the latter required a kludge
14137 to work with both GNU Chess and Crafty, because Crafty swaps white and
14138 black clock times when it swaps sides, while GNU Chess does not. The
14139 kludge is that we always make sure the chess engine thinks its opponent is
14140 on move before we set the clock. This will sometimes result in sequences
14141 like "white\ntime xxx\notim yyy\nblack\ngo", or the same with white and
14142 black interchanged.
14144 * Removed last trace of old -whiteString and -blackString arguments.
14146 * Fixed so that you can type "bd" into the Direct Command dialog when
14147 debugging gnuchess, without having xboard parse the clock display
14148 (starting with "White") as "White wins" and end the game.
14150 * Changed moves.c to make a distinction between IllegalMove (where we
14151 could tell what move was intended, but it violates the chess rules) and
14152 MeaninglessMove (where we could not tell). This is a step towards getting
14153 rid of cases where we translate meaningless moves into "a1a1", but some
14154 work is probably needed to track them all down.
14156 * Fixed bug in WinBoard monoMode dragging.
14158 * Changed WinBoard to new style file dialogs. In the process, disabled
14159 the feature that let you enter the index number of a game or position within
14160 the file in the dialog. This is no loss in LoadGame, as you can pick your
14161 game from the game list dialog that follows, but it does remove some
14162 functionality from LoadPosition.
14164 3.6.7 -- Mon May 18 21:25:00 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
14166 xboard and WinBoard beta test release. I've been unable to reproduce some
14167 reported drawing bugs, so they may still not be fixed.
14169 * Changed PopUpErrors option to PopupMoveErrors, which is more useful, and
14170 changed default to off. Errors other than move errors should always be in
14171 popups; they are often too big for the message area and too important to
14172 put where they can be easily missed. But it seems good to get rid of the
14173 popups for move errors by default.
14175 * xboard analysis window no longer forces itself to top whenever there is
14176 new output. Also, now uses built-in Xaw word wrapping instead of trying
14177 to do its own; works better.
14179 * Bugfix: Reset did not take Crafty out of analyze mode.
14181 * A chess engine no longer has to claim to be Crafty to be able to use
14182 AnalysisMode and AnalyzeFile; it just has to implement the analyze
14183 command as Crafty does. Put in heuristics to generate more informative
14184 error messages if the engine does not support analyze, and checked that
14185 they work at least with GNU Chess.
14187 * Added click-click moving, HighlightLastMove, and HighlightDragging to
14188 WinBoard. The highlight features are unlikely to go into xboard unless
14189 the xboard drawing code is cleaned up to do *all* drawing on the board
14190 from DrawPosition, as WinBoard does. This is low priority for me.
14192 * Eliminated bogus "Error gathering move list: no header" popup. You
14193 could get this by observing two fast games at once without turning off
14196 * Disable WinBoard Sounds menu entirely in -ncp mode, since not even
14197 MoveSound is used in that mode.
14199 * WinBoard bugfix: Several problems were caused if the user changed
14200 WinBoard's current directory in a Load, Save, or Browse dialog. In
14201 particular, WinBoard.ini would get saved in the wrong directory, and
14202 sound .wav file names would not get saved with a full pathname. I think
14203 all such problems are now fixed.
14205 * WinBoard bugfix: iconizing the board after an aborted mouse resize would
14206 (partially) resize it to Tiny.
14208 * WinBoard bugfix: board was not being drawn in color on 256-color
14209 displays. This bug was introduced in 3.6.6.
14211 3.6.6 -- Tue May 12 17:43:43 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
14213 xboard and WinBoard beta release. Note: not all reported bugs are fixed.
14215 * Move animation in WinBoard, programmed by Henrik Gram. Great stuff!
14217 * Animate backward moves too.
14219 * xboard bugfix: -font (and friends) can now specify a font alias (such
14220 as "fixed"), not just a full X Consortium name pattern. Previously this
14221 would give a resource conversion error message.
14223 * Some coding style cleanup in xboard.c.
14225 * Earlier error check for moving wrong color piece in EditGame mode.
14227 * Completed fix to pattern matching; see 3.6.5.
14229 * Fixed some software rot bugs in Zippy.
14231 * Split AnimateDragging as separate option from AnimateMoves.
14233 * Added FlashMoves to options menu and -flash/-xflash to command line
14234 options (xboard only).
14236 * Some preliminary work on visible bughouse holding support. Most of the
14237 code is not present in this release because I have not gotten it working
14238 properly yet; my first approach went down a blind alley and I had to
14239 remove most of the partially working code in preparation for a rewrite.
14241 3.6.5 -- Fri May 8 14:22:09 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
14243 Not generally released.
14245 * Pack bughouse holdings display in banner more tightly when board is one
14246 of the smaller sizes (when smallLayout or tinyLayout is true, that is).
14247 An interim measure, but should help.
14249 * Completed fix to make move list parsing recognize the end condition and
14252 * Fixed pattern matching for chatter (tells, etc.) to be more reliable.
14253 This should reduce the incidence of colors starting in the wrong place and
14254 of incorrectly matching things that look like other patterns inside
14255 chatter, such as "shout <12>". (These errors were already rare.)
14257 * WinBoard now lets you customize the list of ICS's in the startup dialog.
14258 For now, at least, requires editing WinBoard.ini with a text editor.
14260 * Bug fix: WinBoard window sizing and position setting save/restore did
14261 not work right when the taskbar was at the top (or left side) of the
14262 screen and not in autohide mode.
14264 * Merged xboard click/click mode and drag mode, and deleted
14265 ClickClickMoving option on menu. Now if you click on a piece, it
14266 highlights and a further click on another square will move it. (A second
14267 click on the same square takes down the highlight.) Or if you press down
14268 on a piece and start to drag, you can drag it to a new square.
14270 * When making click/click style moves, if your second click is on a piece
14271 of the same color, instead of saying "Illegal move", we now cancel the first
14272 starting square, replace it with the second, and wait for another click to
14275 * Separate -secondInitString. Default: same as -initString. Suggested by
14278 * Patch from Frank McIngvale to make animation work with XIMs. Yay!
14280 * Changed move animation to happen after move is passed on to ICS or the
14281 chess engine, where applicable. Fixed problems with updating moveList
14282 that this uncovered.
14284 * Changed game list to show PGN result token for each game.
14286 * The usual minor bug fixes.
14288 3.6.4 -- Thu Apr 30 23:14:43 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
14290 xboard and WinBoard beta test release.
14292 * xboard documentation updated, both man page and info file. An attempt
14293 to generate both from the same source with LinuxDocSGML was abandoned, at
14294 least for now. WinBoard doc updated too.
14296 * Merged updates to animation code from Hugh. Fixed a couple of remaining
14297 bugs, mostly to do with handling Pause mode correctly.
14299 * Added SaveSettingsOnExit to WinBoard.
14301 * WinBoard now saves the last screen position of the Comment, Edit Tags,
14302 Game List, and Analysis windows (in addition to the board and ICS
14303 Interaction windows) in WinBoard.ini.
14305 * WinBoard now provides a way to customize the right-button context menu
14306 in the output area of the ICS Interaction window. For now, requires
14307 editing WinBoard.ini with a text editor.
14309 * Various minor fixes to ICS message recognition, most affecting only Zippy.
14311 * Colorize the notification when someone sends you a message while you are
14312 logged in, not the output of the "messages" command.
14314 * Fixed colorization to turn off at the right place more reliably.
14316 * Added a new color and WinBoard sound for "requests": abort, adjourn,
14317 draw, pause, and takeback. The same color and sound are used for all of
14320 * Added GUI to change sounds in WinBoard.
14322 * Suppressed WinBoard error popup when a sound can't be played. They were
14323 popping up when two separate WinBoards tried to play a sound at the same
14324 time (such as during a bughouse match).
14326 * Fixed WinBoard crash when a sound file didn't exist.
14328 * WinBoard ports of timestamp and timeseal now produce decent error
14329 messages if they fail to connect, and WinBoard captures the messages and
14330 puts them into a popup. Previously WinBoard would exit with no message on
14333 * WinBoard resizing with mouse improved; now accurately picks the largest
14334 size that fits in the new area.
14336 * Added option to turn off error message popups.
14338 * Added sizes slim, dinky, and teeny.
14340 * Fixed some minor problems with error message wording.
14342 3.6.3 -- Mon Feb 23 19:08:57 PST 1998 Tim Mann
14344 xboard beta test release only. Man page is updated for the changes, but info
14347 * Bug fix: LoadGame could not load a PGN game whose first move was
14348 castling (which is possible from setup positions).
14350 * Bug fix: we were ignoring illegal move messages from chess engines in
14351 modes where the engine is refereeing but not participating (EditGame,
14352 LoadGame, AnalyzeFile). The problem was in a workaround for a Crafty bug,
14353 where Crafty generates a bogus illegal move message if a "." (used by
14354 the PeriodicUpdates feature) is sent in analysis mode when the current
14355 analysis reveals a forced mate. Installed a different workaround (that
14356 works in most but not all cases) and reported the Crafty bug. Bob Hyatt
14357 replied with a fix, so the Crafty bug should be gone in Crafty 14.12 or so.
14359 * WinBoard only: enabled resizing board with the mouse. It snaps to the
14360 nearest (but not too much larger) predefined size.
14362 * The xboard default font is now sized according to piece size, just as
14363 clockFont and coordFont have always been.
14365 * Added more sizes: bulky, moderate, average, middling, mediocre, petite.
14367 * xboard only: Added Animate Moves and Click-Click Moving to Options menu.
14369 * xboard only: Added code to animate piece movement, from Hugh Fisher.
14371 * New feature: autoflag is implemented in MachineWhite, MachineBlack, and
14372 TwoMachines modes. If it is on and either a chess program or the user
14373 oversteps his time, xboard will automatically call the flag and end the
14374 game. This feature was requested by someone who runs matches between
14375 programs and wants to penalize GNU Chess for its habit of running slightly
14376 over at the end of a time control. I personally think it's pointless.
14378 * Fixed a bug in Zippy's pattern matching; he can now reply to ICC
14381 * Generate prettier notation for illegal moves. If a move is illegal only
14382 because it leaves the player in check, generate notation as if that were
14383 not illegal. For instance, if two knights are a knight's move away from
14384 f3, one on g1 and one on e5 that is pinned, the notation would be Nf3 to
14385 move the g1 knight, Nef3 to move the e5 knight. (Suggested by Philippe
14386 Schnoebelen.) In addition, if a move is illegal because the type of piece
14387 moved cannot go that way, would be jumping over another piece, etc., we
14388 give fully disambiguated coordinate notation; for example, Ng1g3, Ke1xe8,
14389 d2xd8=Q, etc. An alternative would be to still write Ng3 if there is only
14390 one knight on the board, or Ngg3 if the other knight is not on the g file,
14391 but life is too short to code up all this stuff, and perhaps the way I did
14392 it is better as it emphasizes that this move was really made despite being
14393 illegal. I wonder if the new PGN standard revision will speak to notation
14396 * Fixed gross bug from 3.6.2: if a chess program said "checkmate" and
14397 White was left on move, the PGN outcome was "1-0 {Black mates}" instead
14398 of "0-1 {Black mates}"! The bug occurred only for that specific string.
14400 3.6.2 -- Wed Jul 23 16:47:29 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
14402 * There was a bug in backing up from the end of a game against a chess
14403 engine, introduced when -reuse mode was added. Fixed.
14405 * Recognize "{" as terminating an ICS move list. Previously we needed to
14406 see a prompt (containing %), but occasionally ICC can send more stuff
14407 right after a move list with no prompt in between.
14409 * In WinBoard, -mm now implies -cp, so you don't get the startup dialog.
14411 * WinBoard startup dialog no longer sets -scp. People used to get
14412 confused because they would give the -fcp and -scp arguments, but omit
14413 -cp. This would bring up the startup dialog, which would set both -fcp
14414 and -scp to the value in the engine name box. Now you can change -scp
14415 only with the command-line argument. That will confuse some people too,
14416 but hopefully fewer. I think overall it's better than putting spaces for
14417 both -fcp and -scp in the dialog, which would puzzle newbies.
14419 * Bug fix: Analyze File mode now works in WinBoard.
14421 * Bug fix: WinBoard window no longer cuts off part of the bottom row if
14422 the menu bar wraps to a second line.
14424 * Accept game end messages of the form "PGN-result {comment}" from the
14425 chess engine, where PGN-result is 0-1, 1-0, or 1/2-1/2. Accept "resign"
14426 or "computer resigns" from the chess engine as a synonym for "0-1 {White
14427 resigns}" or "1-0 {Black resigns}". Accept any message from the chess
14428 engine containing "game is a draw" as a synonym for "1/2-1/2 {Draw}".
14429 Accept "White resigns" or "Black resigns".
14431 * Enable "Action / Draw" menu item in chess engine mode. It sends the
14432 command "draw" to the engine. Accept any message from the chess engine
14433 containing "offers a draw" as a draw offer. WARNING: Draw offers from the
14434 user and the engine (or from two engines) are not yet matched up by xboard
14435 in chess engine mode. Two engines could get into a loop offering each
14438 * Bug fix: Game end messages from the chess engine are always ignored in
14439 Zippy mode. Previously they could sometimes be processed, which was
14440 sometimes making Zippy hang at the start of a new game that followed
14441 quickly after an old one.
14443 * Zippy can now respond to titled players in channels. Zippy will avoid
14444 talking to himself in a channel if he knows his own name.
14446 * Bug fix: in colorization arguments, the bold setting was being ignored
14447 if the background color was defaulted. (xboard only.)
14449 * Extended ParseFEN to accept Crafty 12.2's interpretation of FEN.
14450 If fewer than 8 squares are given in a row, or fewer than 8 rows are
14451 given, the uncovered squares are empty. Also, there can be a / after the
14454 3.6.1 -- Sat May 17 01:02:33 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
14456 * Bug fix: Hitting escape while entering a password on WinBoard no longer
14457 sets the font color back to black (which made further typing visible).
14459 * Bug fix: On Windows NT 4.0, WinBoard /ics /icshelper=timestamp would
14460 often hang if you tried to exit with the Exit menu item, the [X] button,
14461 etc. The same fix may also have corrected the problem where running a
14462 chess program with /xreuse would sometimes crash Windows 95 (but not NT)
14463 when the chess program was killed and quickly restarted.
14465 * Bug fix: Periodic Updates would not work if turned on after having been
14466 off. Also, the default was needlessly "off" in WinBoard.
14468 * Zippy bug fix: Continuing an adjourned game was totally broken. The
14469 wrong moves, or no moves at all, were being fed to the chess program.
14471 * WinBoard change: Giving -ics without -icshost now pops up the startup
14472 dialog with "Use an Internet Chess Server" pre-selected, so that you get a
14473 menu of chess servers instead of going directly to ICC.
14475 * Bug fix: WinBoard's SaveSettings was saving -icshost, -icsport, and
14476 -icshelper in winboard.ini. This causes a problem if you use a different
14477 icshost later that needs the default values for icsport (5000) and
14478 icshelper ("", meaning none).
14480 * Disabled complaints about unexpected "[Ii]llegal move" messages from
14481 the chess program; we still get them at times.
14483 * Greatly simplified the code for Move Now and SIGINT (ATTENTION). Fixes
14484 the bug where Move Now did not work with GNU Chess in WinBoard, and
14485 several more obscure bugs as well. Reintroduces a minor bug: GNU Chess might
14486 not think on your time after a Move Now command. Trying to fix this
14487 causes too many other problems. Documented change in engine-intf.txt.
14489 * Cleaned up code for obtaining ratings from ICS. It was kludgey and may
14490 have had bugs on systems with no "Creating:" message. It should fail
14491 gracefully there, just not finding the ratings.
14493 3.6.0 -- Thu May 8 19:55:58 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
14495 * WinBoard now has right-button context menus in the ICS Interaction
14496 window. Some of the items do immediate commands on the player name you
14497 have selected or pointed to. (Suggested by Paolo Casaschi.) Also, the
14498 middle button or shift+right does a immediate Copy and Paste.
14500 * Fixed a bug in Zippy's wild rejection. The bug was causing Zippy to
14501 reject all forms of wild. Now it rejects only 1, 9, 16, 17, and 24, as
14502 was intended. These variants have different rules, while the other
14503 variants defined so far only have different starting positions.
14504 (Actually, wild 2, 3, and 4 never allow castling, but may sometimes by
14505 chance have king and rook start on squares where castling appears legal.
14506 This could cause a problem later.)
14508 * Zippy now resumes adjourned games by feeding the chess program
14509 the move list instead of the position. Setting -getMoveList to False
14510 restores the old behavior. Feeding in the move list is better because
14511 it enables the chess program to correctly handle en passant legality,
14512 castling legality, draw by repetition, and draw by the 50 move rule.
14514 * Added a WinBoard startup dialog for people who run WinBoard.exe without
14515 using the Start menu or reading the help file. Instead of being dumped
14516 directly into GNU Chess mode, you now get a menu of choices. You now have
14517 to give the new WinBoard -cp option to go directly into chess engine mode.
14518 I did not add this feature to xboard.
14520 * Handling of "illegal move" from Crafty is now back on. (It was turned
14521 off in 3.4.6; see below.) Crafty 12.0 doesn't seem to send bogus ones
14522 anymore. I did have to suppress sending time and otim in analyze mode to
14523 make this work, but there is no harm in that.
14525 * Zippy now sends "gameend" to ICS at the end of each game. You can alias
14526 this to "seek" or whatever you like.
14528 * Added Crafty support for Move Now, using the "?" command. We test
14529 whether this command exists by trying it once at the start of the first
14530 game, before it really makes sense. If we don't get a message like
14531 "Illegal move ... ?", we assume it's OK. (We're careful about this
14532 because sending a "?" to GNU Chess on Move Now keeps it from pondering the
14533 next move as it should.)
14535 * Added support for a tellusererror command from the chess engine. See
14538 * Attempted to make engine-intf.txt complete.
14540 * Minor fixes/cleanup to GameEnds code, to be sure we always interrupt
14541 when needed, and always undo an extra move generated by stopping the chess
14542 program while it is thinking.
14544 3.5.7 -- Sat May 03 22:37:44 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
14546 Beta release of both xboard and WinBoard.
14548 * Updated xboard documentation. I really wish the man page was built from
14549 the info file instead of being separate! It's a pain to update them both.
14551 * Updated documentation of the interface between XBoard/WinBoard and chess
14552 programs, and renamed it to engine-intf.txt.
14554 * Added support for tellics, telluser, and askuser commands from the chess
14555 engine. See engine-intf.txt.
14557 * Various bug fixes. On WinBoard, 256 color displays are finally handled
14558 right; no more color flashing when you switch windows unless the colors
14559 really need to be updated. Also, I think the problem of the console font
14560 failing to change or changing back by itself is finally fixed.
14562 3.5.6 -- Tue Apr 29 03:08:00 PDT 1997
14564 Beta release, WinBoard only. ChangeLog was out of date in release,
14567 * Added ICC timestamp and FICS timeseal to WinBoard distribution. These
14568 are my own ports to Win32, based on and used by permission of the owners
14569 of the proprietary source code (Daniel Sleator for timestamp, Henrik Gram
14570 for timeseal). The owners permit these programs to be distributed only in
14571 binary form (to help prevent cheating), so to avoid running afoul of the
14572 GPL, I have kept them as separate programs, not linked into the WinBoard
14573 address space. Updated Start menu icons to use them.
14575 * Miscellaneous smaller changes.
14577 3.5.5 -- Fri Apr 25 03:06:00 PDT 1997
14579 Beta release, WinBoard only. ChangeLog was out of date in release;
14582 * Added simple sound support to WinBoard.
14584 * Updated WinBoard documentation.
14586 * Internal implementation of the telnet protocol is now more complete.
14587 You can now hop through a VMS host on the way to ICS. For example, do
14588 "xboard -ics -icshost vms.host.edu -icsport 23", then log in. Do not use
14589 the -telnet flag; that says to use an *external* telnet program. To avoid
14590 double echoes, you need to force character mode in VMS telnet after
14591 connecting from VMS to ICS. Do "^]^Mset mode char^M^M".
14593 * Display opponent names in the title bar for MachineWhite, MachineBlack,
14594 and TwoMachines modes.
14596 * WinBoard now has an installer, built with InstallShield. The installer
14597 works with a binary-only distribution. Sources are still freely
14598 available, but now separately.
14600 * Added SaveSettings to WinBoard, which saves current option settings to
14601 winboard.ini. Made sure all options can be saved and loaded, including
14602 fonts and com port settings.
14604 * If the game ends while you are dragging a piece, we now don't let you
14605 finish the move. Formerly the move was accepted and your opponent's clock
14606 would start running again.
14608 3.5.4 -- Fri Apr 18 01:15:24 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
14610 Beta test release of WinBoard and xboard. The documentation remains
14613 * Many fixes and improvements to new WinBoard user interface code.
14615 * In Zippy mode, avoid sending another copy of the same move to the chess
14616 program if ICS sends us another copy of the board image. Hard to believe
14617 it took me until now to diagnose and fix this problem!
14619 3.5.3 -- Sat Apr 12 19:49:33 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
14621 Beta test release of WinBoard and xboard.
14623 * Fixed fatal bug in WinBoard input handling.
14625 * Made code to stop chess program for reuse a bit smarter. Removed kludge
14626 of "white" in initString; it didn't work well, and is unneeded
14627 with Crafty 11.21 and later.
14629 3.5.2 -- Sat Apr 12 15:40:01 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
14631 Beta test release of WinBoard.
14633 * Ignore check and permit promotion to King during suicide games; no need
14634 to turn off TestLegality.
14636 * Renamed CheckLegality to TestLegality to avoid confusion with the chess
14639 * Added Rematch to Action menu.
14641 * WinBoard now has a custom ICS interaction window with scrollback, a
14642 separate line for input, and colorization. Accelerators that conflict
14643 with normal editing keys were changed (by requiring Alt+) so they can work
14644 in both the console and the main window.
14646 * WinBoard error popups are now non-modal and disappear when you make a
14647 new move, as in xboard.
14649 * Configure now defaults to --disable-ptys on all systems. If anyone has
14650 an ancient SysV system where pipes don't work with select, they can still
14651 do "configure --enable-ptys" explicitly. I would appreciate getting a bug
14652 report if this happens to anyone, with complete output from configure and
14655 * "make install" now makes the installation directories too.
14657 * Fixed a bug that would cause an "Illegal move" message for Black from
14658 GNU Chess to be incorrectly considered bogus.
14660 * Handle name changes during an ICS game (FICS bname and wname commands).
14662 * You can force both chess programs to be killed at the end of each game
14663 by turning off the reuseChessPrograms option. There are still some
14664 problems with reusing Crafty even in version 11.20.
14666 * Now the second chess program stays around by default too, if it ever
14669 3.5.1 -- Sat Apr 5 16:47:48 PST 1997 Tim Mann
14673 * Don't kill off and restart the chess program for each game; keep the
14674 same one running, using the "new" command to start a new game. This
14675 change works around the problem in Windows 95 that makes WinBoard crash it
14676 at times, and is generally desirable to make new games start faster. The
14677 second chess program (for TwoMachines) is still killed at the end of the
14678 game, and unfortunately this can still crash Windows 95. Temporarily
14679 added "white" to the initString to make this work with Crafty 11.20, which
14680 has a minor bug in "new". Older versions of Crafty have worse bugs in
14681 "new"; they should not be used with this version of xboard.
14683 * Support for FICS suicide chess: Parse illegal moves (that leave King in
14684 check) in game history. If CheckLegality is off, allow promotion to King
14685 and illegal moves in game files. We still generate e2e4 style notation
14688 * Handle FICS "has timeseal; checking" message.
14690 * Changed the coords from white back to black; this was a bug.
14692 * Fixed problems compiling with K&R compilers.
14694 * Fixed an old bug in RegisterMove that was crashing cmail on some systems
14697 3.5.0 -- Thu Jan 2 16:59:49 PST 1997 Tim Mann
14699 Thanks to Frank McIngvale for much of the work on versions 3.4.4 and above!
14701 * Fix Crafty resumed game time bug (frankm)
14703 * Word wrap text in Analysis window (frankm)
14705 * More debug info for XPM loading (frankm)
14707 * Replaced config.sub, config.guess, etc., with up-to-date versions from
14708 autoconf 2.12. Hopefully this will fix problems on Pentium Pro machines.
14710 * Removed some Makefile gunk that was causing looping for one person.
14712 3.4.7 -- Thu Dec 19 14:22:41 PST 1996 Tim Mann
14714 All changes from Frank:
14716 * Retrieve ratings from ICC (and FICS, etc., when they add the Creating:
14717 message), save them in the PGN tags, and pass them to Crafty in Zippy mode.
14719 * Add settable time delay between characters in ICS login script.
14721 * Colorize messages like personal tells. Fix false recognition of channel
14724 * Pass "tells" from Crafty through to ICS (in Zippy mode).
14726 * Implement ~/ filename convention from C shell for game and position file
14729 * ZIPPYACCEPTONLY feature for testing.
14731 3.4, patchlevel 6 -- Sat Nov 23 16:58:50 PST 1996 Tim Mann
14733 * Put recognition of "illegal move" messages from Crafty for
14734 illegal castling, etc., inside an #if that is currently turned off,
14735 because of a bug in Crafty that generates bogus "illegal move" messages
14736 after some moves that are actually legal and accepted by Crafty.
14738 * Added -checkLegality option; previously this could not be turned off.
14740 * Fixed an old bug in finding default board size parameters.
14742 * Differentiated among channel tell, kibitz/whisper, and personal tell/say.
14744 * Fixed a bug in detecting Xpm in the configure script.
14746 3.4, patchlevel 5 -- Mon Nov 18 16:22:53 PST 1996 Tim Mann
14748 * Added zic2xpm to the kit; it had been omitted by mistake.
14750 * Added some default colors for -colorize
14752 3.4, patchlevel 4 -- Sat Nov 16 18:10:17 PST 1996 Tim Mann
14754 This is meant to be a beta release in preparation for version 3.5.
14756 * Added InfoXBoard and ManXBoard to the Help menu.
14758 * Made Frank's ICS input box optional, defaulting to off.
14760 * Merged in Frank McIngvale's XbKit. Many new features, including
14761 -clickClick mode, the Analysis modes, piece flashing, ZIICS import,
14762 ICS text colorization, and the ICS input box. Many thanks to Frank for
14763 supplying and documenting this code.
14765 3.4, patchlevel 3 -- Mon Nov 11 18:23:14 PST 1996 Tim Mann
14767 Small set of changes made while Frank McIngvale was working on XbKit in
14768 parallel. Unreleased in this form.
14770 * Updated zippy.README.
14772 * Removed useless X event handler and removed strange code for copying
14773 form translation table to board that worked around the bug it caused.
14774 This makes changing bindings in .Xdefaults more straightforward.
14776 * Now pressing the Control key steps back one move, and releasing it steps
14779 * Moved quit from "q" to "Q" for greater safety.
14781 * Use "unobserve" instead of "observe" to stop observing; needed on FICS.
14783 * Support for interface variable.
14785 * Strip titles from people who are talking to us, so (for example) Zippy
14786 won't try things like "tell Darooha(*) hello". Needed on FICS.
14788 3.4, patchlevel 2 -- Tue Jul 9 19:06:42 PDT 1996 Tim Mann
14790 This patchlevel is not planned to be an announced release. It's in
14791 preparation for integrating Frank McIngvale's XbKit. It mostly contains
14792 minor fixes I've accumulated since 3.4.pl1.
14794 * WinBoard /telnet option now fires up an external program, as
14795 with xboard, instead of trying to use a feature of NT 3.1 that does not
14796 exist in later versions of NT or in Windows 95. ChangeLog for 3.4.pl1
14797 said this had been implemented there, but it really wasn't.
14799 * Indicating player to move by the icon color now works under Windows 95.
14801 * WinBoard now kills the chess program when you exit using the system menu
14802 or the [X] button. Thanks to Michael Lowe.
14804 * Minor changes to Zippy, including: Now understands wild challenges on
14805 FICS; these used to crash it. Removed limit on how fast a game will be
14806 accepted. Use "set formula ..." on the chess server to limit this if you
14807 are using GNU Chess. Now sends correct opponent name to Crafty.
14809 * Added some missing default values to documentation. Thanks to Stuart
14812 * Bugfix: Trying to print "No fonts match pattern" error message would
14813 crash. This can happen to Linux users who don't install Helvetica, for
14816 * Bugfix: Defaulting feature in -size n,n,n,n,n,n would put us in an
14819 * Added more directories to search for Athena widgets on HPUX.
14821 * New cmail (3.12) from Evan Welsh; includes small fix from Kayvan Sylvan.
14823 * Recognize "illegal move" messages from Crafty for illegal castling, etc.
14825 * Bugfix: "name" command added to zippy.c for Crafty was producing error
14826 message if GNU Chess was in use.
14828 * In bughouse mode, suppress holding messages from console window; show
14829 holdings only in banner.
14831 * Minor fixes/cleanup to Makefile.in and configure.in.
14833 3.4, patchlevel 1 -- Mon Dec 11 13:43:12 PST 1995 Tim Mann
14835 * This patchlevel updates WinBoard to match xboard, and includes a few
14836 fixes and minor improvements. "-size tiny" and "-size n,n,n,n,n,n"
14837 are still not implemented for WinBoard.
14839 * Installed support for Crafty based on code from Bob Hyatt.
14840 Currently the only documentation for this is in the FAQ, and a few
14841 things don't work with Crafty 8.23. Please do not report these
14842 problems as bugs in either xboard or Crafty. Bob and I know about
14843 them. The worst ones (if not all of them) should be fixed in Crafty
14846 * Changed the kludge command we send when gnuchess wants to print
14847 something that doesn't end with a newline, from "help" to "bogus".
14848 This works because the error message gnuchess prints ends with a
14849 newline. It also improves compatibility with Crafty, which doesn't
14850 need the kludge, but for which sending "help" causes a problem.
14852 * Don't draw grid at all if lineGap is 0; previously we drew the grid
14853 with X "0-width" lines (usually 1 pixel wide) and then overwrote it.
14855 * Makefile: Removed xboard.info from "all" target so we won't try to
14856 rebuild it, because this fails on hosts that don't have makeinfo
14857 installed. Other minor fixes to "clean" targets, etc.
14859 * Fixes and cleanup to Auto Comment code that handles continuation
14860 lines and highlighting.
14862 * Auto Observe now tries to observe the game from the point of view of
14863 the player who was on your gnotify list. Requested by rng.
14864 Limitations: We can't tell which player it was unless you have ICS
14865 highlighting turned on. Also, currently "observe foo" works as
14866 required (observing from foo's point of view) only on ICC, but FICS
14867 will probably implement this soon.
14869 * "-size tiny" now makes the default font smaller automatically. This
14870 was implemented by introducing an extra Form widget in the hierarchy
14871 for all xboard windows, named either normalLayout, smallLayout, or
14872 tinyLayout. So you can have resource specifications that apply only
14873 to certain layouts; in particular, XBoard*tinyLayout*font.
14875 * Bug fix: EditGame or EditPosition while playing or examining still was
14876 not really being permitted.
14878 * WinBoard bug fix: On the EditPosition menu, King did not work.
14880 * Added text catalog of WinSock error messages to WinBoard, because
14881 Microsoft still has not put them in the system message catalog.
14883 * Removed support for older ICS game-ending messages that do not have
14884 a PGN result token (*, 0-1, 1-0, or 1/2-1/2) after the closing '}'.
14885 The code for older messages was sometimes firing on the newer
14886 messages, due to parsing ambiguity. If the current code sees an old
14887 message, it will understand that the game is over, but will always
14888 display * as a result token instead of trying to guess the result by
14889 interpreting the text message.
14891 3.4, patchlevel 0 -- Tue Nov 21 01:02:50 PST 1995 Tim Mann
14893 * This patchlevel was released for xboard only.
14895 * Updated the info file. It should now be as up-to-date as the man page,
14896 with good English except in the parts that pertain only to AmyBoard.
14898 * Added "-size tiny", requested by Bob Hyatt. Also cleaned up bitmap
14899 support and added "-size n,n,n,n,n,n" to allow arbitrary-sized bitmaps,
14900 if the actual bitmaps are supplied by the user.
14902 * Updated bughouse support.
14904 3.3, patchlevel 4 -- Sat Nov 18 02:27:21 PST 1995 Tim Mann
14906 * Unreleased beta that works with preliminary FICS bughouse code. Will
14907 need changes before release to track FICS message changes.
14909 * Removed use of .EX macro from man page. It is not supported by some
14910 nroff -man macro packages, notably the one on Slackware Linux. Switched
14911 to boldface for references to xboard and other commands within the man
14912 page, as this seems to be the modern way.
14914 * Bug fix: If ICS rejected a move, it was correctly undone on the board,
14915 but the message widget still displayed the bad move. Reported by DAV.
14917 * Normally, xboard in ICS mode fetches the move list whenever the board
14918 display switches to a new game. Doing this is now an option
14919 (getMoveList) that can be turned off, which is useful if you are watching
14920 multiple blitz games. Requested by rng.
14922 * Move list fetching code is now smarter: it ignores a move list if it is
14923 not for the right game.
14925 * Added support for bughouse as implemented on FICS. Holdings are shown
14926 in the window title in place of the strength numbers. A menu on mouse
14927 buttons 2 and 3 (same on both) lets you drop pieces. There is no checking
14928 as to whether you actually hold the piece you are trying to drop; we rely
14929 on ICS to check that. Notation of the form P@f7 is generated and parsed.
14930 The mate detector does not understand that non-contact mate is not really
14931 mate in bughouse, but this does no real harm. It results in a "#"
14932 suffix being displayed on the move notation, but xboard does not assume the
14935 * Bug fix: Promotion to a knight was not working with ICC! Thanks to
14936 Wendigo for the report.
14938 * Bug fix: Special pty code for host types *-*-aix3* and *-*-irix3*
14939 (supplied from configure.in) had a bug that would cause childio.c to
14940 fail to compile, due to a "continue" that was not within a loop.
14942 * Bug fix: In pgntags.c, memory was being freed while still in use. One
14943 symptom this caused was that on some machines, cmail would fail with a
14944 message that it could not find the BlackNA tag. The error was in some
14945 submitted code that I included in version 3.2.pl3 without reading
14946 carefully enough. Anders Forberg noticed the symptoms, and Evan Welsh
14947 (who had nothing to do with causing the bug) found the bug and submitted a
14948 fix; thanks to them both.
14950 * Removed restriction against using EditGame while playing, observing,
14951 or examining on ICS. You still get a warning popup.
14953 3.3, patchlevel 3 -- Sat Sep 16 11:44:05 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
14955 * Bug fix: Going directly from MachineWhite to TwoMachines mode would kill
14956 off the second chess program after Black's first move.
14958 * Added -timeIncrement feature. Thanks to Joel Rivat.
14960 * Deleted code that tries to keep you from observing more than one game,
14961 or observing while playing or examining. There is actually no problem in
14962 doing this, except that every time an update comes in from a different
14963 game than is currently being displayed, xboard fetches the history of the
14964 new game, which may be time-consuming if you are on a slow link.
14966 * Fixed configure so as not to crash when neither lex nor flex is found.
14967 lex or flex is needed only if the user wants to rebuild parser.c. Thanks
14968 to Phil Humpherys for reporting the crash.
14970 * Bug fix: config.h.in used #define instead of #undef for some macros used
14971 in the pty code in childio.c. This causes the code to fail to compile on
14972 some architectures, because the symbols are supposed to be undefined, not
14973 defined to empty, when they are not set in configure. Bug originated in
14974 3.3.pl0 when config.h was introduced. Thanks to Phil Humpherys for report.
14976 * Bug fix: ShowThinking would not show anything when current position had
14977 no move to display in the move window. E.g., if position was created by
14978 LoadPosition or EditPosition.
14980 3.3, patchlevel 2 -- Mon Aug 28 11:11:11 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
14982 * Zippy code was omitted from xboard-3.3.pl1 by mistake; now included.
14984 * For WinBoard, added hint to help file that you may need to turn off
14985 LocalLineEditing while typing dialing commands to your modem.
14987 3.3, patchlevel 1 -- Sat Aug 19 15:13:30 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
14989 * Zippy distribution is no longer separate from regular xboard distribution.
14991 * Deal properly with Show Thinking output from GNU Chess when it is
14992 thinking on its opponent's time. In TwoMachines mode this output is
14993 suppressed to avoid interfering with the output from the machine that is
14994 on move; in other modes it is displayed (including the move that GNU Chess
14995 is predicting the user will make next). GNU Chess produces this output
14996 only if it is built without -DQUIETBACKGROUND defined; this symbol is
14997 defined by default in patchlevels before pl75, but undefined by default in
15000 * Bug fix: Handling of initial board position in move list for wild games
15001 was broken, so wild games could not be observed and adjourned wild games
15002 could not be continued. Thanks to "Maximum Entropy" for the bug report.
15004 * Added feature: algebraic notation now shows "+" indicator for check
15005 and "#" for checkmate, as called for in PGN standard. Thanks to Kevin
15006 Maher for the suggestion.
15008 3.3, patchlevel 0 -- Thu Jul 27 22:21:07 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
15010 * Changed configuration to use a config.h file instead of passing zillions
15011 of -D options on the cc command line.
15013 * Merged a small fix and some updates to the texinfo file from Jochen
15014 Wiedmann. The texinfo file still needs work.
15016 3.2, patchlevel 5 -- Tue Jul 18 20:29:39 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
15018 * Beta test release of xboard only.
15020 * Updated WinBoard code to include new xboard features.
15022 * Added texinfo file from Jochen Wiedmann to the release, but not as the
15023 primary documentation. It needs updating, and the English needs work.
15024 I did make a few improvements, mostly to change incorrect uses of @var to
15025 either @samp or @code as appropriate.
15027 * Merged in code changes to 3.2.pl4beta from Jochen Wiedmann.
15029 * Fixed EditComment; did not pop up window in previous beta.
15031 * Added AutoComment feature.
15033 * Added GameListDestroy to disable the outdated game list popup in cases
15034 where we load a new game file without building a new popup.
15036 * Added yyskipmoves feature to parser.l to speed up building of gamelist.
15038 * gamelist.c wouldn't compile with a non-ANSI compiler. Fixed.
15040 * Change to yy_text handling in patchlevel 3 still had problems. Can't
15041 use AC_DECL_YYTEXT in configure.in, because that defines YYTEXT_POINTER
15042 according to whether the lexer on the current host makes yytext a pointer.
15043 But most people will be using a parser.c that was generated on another
15044 host and shipped with the package.
15046 3.2, patchlevel 4 -- Sun Jun 25 19:13:43 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
15048 * Beta test release of xboard only.
15050 * Added FIREWALLS section to man page.
15052 * Changed -icsport to be a string. Now with the -telnet option,
15053 specifying -icsport "" suppresses the second argument to telnet.
15055 * Added EditTags feature. Removed AboutGame from menu, because EditTags
15056 subsumes it. EditTags suggested by Jochen Wiedmann and first implemented by
15057 him in AmyBoard. xboard implementation is my own.
15059 * Fixed some missing or incorrect prototypes.
15061 3.2, patchlevel 3 -- Sat Jun 3 18:57:38 1995 Tim Mann
15063 * Beta test release of xboard only.
15065 * New version of cmail from Evan Welsh, to fix compatibility problems with
15068 * Added game list feature on Load Game, based on code from Jochen
15069 Wiedmann. Integrated it with cmail.
15071 * Several bug fixes from Jochen Wiedmann, including one to my yy_text
15072 workaround for the difference in the type of yytext between lex and flex.
15074 * Handle clock pause on FICS.
15076 * Suppress clocks in untimed FICS games (time control 0 0).
15078 * Rebuilt configure script with autoconf 2.3. This fixes a bug in
15079 configuring for X11R6, where -lSM -lICE would not be added when needed.
15081 * Fixed inconsistent type declarations on IntSigHandler and
15082 CmailSigHandler. Bug report from Josh Daynard.
15084 * backend.c wouldn't compile with a non-ANSI compiler. Fixed.
15086 3.2, patchlevel 2 -- Tue Feb 7 14:50:30 1995 Tim Mann
15088 * Minor release of both xboard and WinBoard.
15090 * Added recognition of some FICS messages. On the other hand FICS is also
15091 changing some of its messages to match what xboard already recognizes.
15093 * Temporarily went back to using "promote" command on ICS instead of
15094 "a7a8=Q", because FICS doesn't implement the latter yet.
15096 * We now avoid using overlapped I/O on pipes in WinBoard, to make Windows
15097 95 beta 2 happy. This lets WinBoard work with GNU Chess on Windows 95!
15099 * Installed patches from Jochen Wiedmann to coordinate with Amiga XBoard.
15101 * Installed patch to cmail bug in LoadGame from Evan Welsh.
15103 * Bugfix: checkmate and stalemate moves entered with EditGame in ICS mode
15104 were not being handled correctly. Bug was in GameEnds().
15106 * Implemented EchoOn and EchoOff for xboard, using system("stty echo\n").
15107 Now passwords won't be echoed when you connect directly to ICS. Also,
15108 telnet negotiation characters aren't displayed (when possible).
15110 * Implemented more of the telnet protocol. Now connecting to a telnet
15111 server with "-icsport 23" should work even without giving the -telnet
15112 option. The telnet is in "old line-by-line mode".
15114 3.2, patchlevel 1 -- Sat Dec 10 13:50:46 1994 Tim Mann
15116 * This patchlevel released for WinBoard only.
15118 * winboard.c: Fixed ConsoleInputThread(). Needed to change CRLF to LF,
15119 not to CR. This was stopping normal /ics mode from working. Thanks to
15120 Asher Kobin for the bug report.
15122 * winboard.c: Fixed Raw(), EchoOn(), EchoOff(). Now they take effect
15123 immediately, not on the next console read after the one in progress.
15125 * winboard.c: Attempted to make WinBoard work with gnuchessx running
15126 directly on Windows (not remotely via rsh). It now works on NT, but only
15127 if gnuchess is told not to think on its opponent's time ("easy\n" removed
15128 from initString). The problem seems to be that GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent
15129 is not doing anything. On Windows 95 beta 2, we get error messages on
15130 both reading and writing to gnuchessx; I didn't investigate why.
15132 3.2, patchlevel 0 -- Wed Dec 7 13:23:36 1994 Tim Mann
15134 * Thanks to all the beta testers who gave me feedback: Josef Nelissen,
15135 Steve Booth, Evan Welsh, Dima Dakhnovsky, Chris Petroff, Peter Jansen,
15136 Derek Terveer, Michel van der List, Richard Lloyd, Shelly Mistry, and Mike
15137 Lee. Sorry if I forgot anyone. Thanks to Virendra Kumar Mehta for
15138 information about DYNIX/ptx.
15140 * Don't exit on keyboard EOF unless we get two in a row.
15142 * WinBoard only: added -localLineEdit switch to allow turning off local
15143 line editing if you really want to. It is still a bad idea to let the
15144 echoing be done remotely, however; see below.
15146 * Fixed some configure problems on HP-UX. [Steve Booth]
15148 * Fixed (I hope) configure problem on SunOS 5.3/Solaris 2.3. [Josef Nelissen]
15150 * cmail bugfix from Evan Welsh (cmail 3.4).
15152 3.1, patchlevel 9 -- Fri Dec 2 23:54:56 1994 Tim Mann
15154 * Beta distribution only
15156 * Always do local echo/edit of user typing in ICS mode. Doing the echo
15157 downstream may seem nicer in some modes, and it can be hard to turn that
15158 echo off, but the echoed characters can be interleaved with ICS output
15159 and make it impossible to parse correctly. For xboard this involved only
15160 a change to recommendations in the man page, as Raw() isn't implemented.
15161 For WinBoard, removing Raw() made a real difference. Added code in
15162 WinBoard to change /r/n back into /r on keyboard input, as we get the
15163 former when Raw() is not called.
15165 * Do not issue ICS "refresh" command after we start to observe a game
15166 unless we get to the next prompt without seeing a board image. Newest
15167 version of ICS doesn't require this refresh, but old versions around still
15170 * cmail bugfix and small code cleanup in LoadGame, from Evan Welsh.
15172 * Added keyboard accelerators N/P for LoadNextGame/LoadPreviousGame. Evan
15175 * Using "-" on the command line as a filename for loading (saving) games
15176 or positions specifies the standard input (standard output). Alain Picard
15179 * On WinBoard only, a command line option without a leading '-' or '/' is
15180 now taken as the value of -lgf.
15182 * Changed to not use stdin, stdout, stderr as initializers in backend.c;
15183 needed for GNU libc compatibility. You also must build parser.c with flex
15184 (not lex) if you are using GNU libc, to avoid having the same problem
15187 * Changed WinBoard to avoid using "overlapped" input on the console. It
15188 now seems to fully work on Windows 95 beta 2.
15190 * Improved comment popups on WinBoard. Now newlines are handled properly,
15191 and the plain Comment popup window doesn't disappear and reappear when we
15192 step to a new move with a new comment.
15194 * Fixed bugs in detecting the absence of the time and otim commands.
15196 * Added built-in implementation of rcmd protocol to WinBoard. Windows NT
15197 does not implement passing signals through rsh, and Windows 95 does not
15200 * Added -remoteUser option.
15202 3.1, patchlevel 8 -- Mon Nov 28 15:26:07 1994 Tim Mann
15204 * Beta distribution only
15206 * Rearranged ChangeLog file into reverse chronological order to be closer
15209 * Integrated new cmail code from Evan Welsh (including cmail RCS rev 3.2).
15210 Includes a bug fix to TruncateGame.
15212 * Updated ICS address to be chess.lm.com.
15214 * Bug fixes to handling the aftermath of FatalError. Thanks to Chris
15215 Petroff for the bug report.
15217 * Test for remsh before rsh, other fixes for HP-UX. Thanks to Richard
15218 Lloyd. I wasn't able to do all the things he suggested, so there may
15219 still be some rough edges in building on HP-UX. See the FAQ file for hints.
15221 * Bug fix; added missing check for HAVE_SYS_SYSTEMINFO. Thanks to Josef
15222 Nelissen for testing on Solaris 2.x.
15224 * Updated WinBoard to match xboard. (WinBoard still has a few option
15225 dialogs that don't exist in xboard.)
15227 * Changed Hint output to a popup.
15229 * ShowThinking output and move output no longer overwrite each other.
15230 ShowThinking output won't appear if the displayed position is not current.
15231 ShowThinking output in TwoMachines mode made clearer and documented.
15233 * Implemented --enable-ptys and --disable-ptys arguments to configure.
15235 * Fixed Book and Hint code to work over a pty with echo enabled and tabs
15236 expanded to spaces. Thanks to Dima Dahknovsky for the bug report.
15238 * Moved Attention calls from all over xboard to one place, inside
15241 * Added bulletproofing to ShowThinkingEvent.
15243 * Added code to handle "refresh N" boards that come in from ICS properly,
15244 assuming ICS is changed to mark them with a new relation code (-3).
15246 3.1, patchlevel 7 -- Sun Nov 13 22:16:01 PST 1994 -- Tim Mann
15248 * Beta distribution only
15250 * Changed ShowThinking to just show the current best line in the
15251 DisplayMessage area, instead of dumping everything to stdout.
15253 * Installed new cmail (RCS rev 3.1) and cmail.man (RCS rev 1.10), and
15254 changes to cmail code in backend.c, from Evan Welsh.
15256 * Miscellaneous minor fixes.
15258 3.1, patchlevel 6 -- Fri Nov 4 12:53:53 PST 1994 -- Tim Mann
15260 * This patchlevel was not actually released to anyone.
15262 * Updated the pty code to be based on GNU Emacs 19.24, and moved it to a
15263 separate file. It was hard to split out just the pty configuration from
15264 all the stuff emacs does with its custom configure script and .h files,
15267 * Converted from imake to GNU autoconf. This was a serious upheaval.
15269 * Put in code to help trap "error gathering move list" problem reported by
15270 Michel van der List if it recurs. I couldn't reproduce it.
15272 3.1, patchlevel 5 -- Mon Oct 31 21:12:00 PST 1994 -- Tim Mann
15274 * Beta distribution only.
15276 * We now test for checkmate or stalemate in EditGame mode after every user
15277 move, and in LoadGame mode whenever we hit the end of a game without
15278 seeing a PGN end marker. cmail needs an update to deal with this
15279 correctly; Evan promises one.
15281 * Bugfixes in new move generator. Thanks to Mike Lee for reporting one of
15284 * Imakefile was omitted from patchlevel 4.
15286 3.1, patchlevel 4 -- Mon Sep 19 18:19:46 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
15288 * Beta distribution only.
15290 * The move generator includes a mate tester. Initially this is used only
15291 by cmail, and even that usage needs further work.
15293 * Wrote a true move generator and used it to replace all the move
15294 disambiguation and legality checking code in parser.l. The move generator
15295 is capable of dealing correctly with en passant and castling availability,
15296 but the rest of the program still does not keep track of this information.
15298 * Bug fix: xboard did not handle "foo has made you an examiner of game 23"
15299 message. Thus you could not use examine features until the next board
15300 came in, showing your new relation to the game. Thanks to POOKIEWOOKIE on ICS
15301 for the bug report.
15303 * Added AutoObserve feature. Thanks to Chris Petroff for the idea.
15305 * Added Book feature to use new gnuchess "bk" command. Mike McGann request.
15307 * Redid code to handle missing "time" command in gnuchess, because latest
15308 gnuchess no longer sends a response to this command.
15310 * Eliminated need for -DFLEX. Thanks to Michael Shields (Vladimir?) for
15313 * Added missing code to implement MoveNow in TwoMachines mode.
15315 * Added ShowThinking feature. Thanks to Richard Lloyd for the idea.
15317 * Applied patches from Evan Welsh; some fixes and improvements to the
15320 * Fixed bug in moving from EndOfGame mode to MachineWhite or MachineBlack,
15321 introduced in previous patchlevel. Also fixed related bug in ending a
15322 game in ICS mode; was entering EndOfGame mode instead of IcsIdle.
15324 * Added patch to implement internetChessServerLogonScript flag, from Kevin
15327 3.1, patchlevel 3 -- Wed Sep 7 13:22:07 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
15329 * Beta distribution only.
15331 * Merged in new cmail code from Evan Welsh. He added the ability to have
15332 more than one game per message, needed for official IECG matches. I added
15333 the ability to resign or offer/accept/decline a draw in a cmail game.
15335 * Bugfix: invalid -tc option caused segmentation fault; DisplayFatalError
15336 was called too early in initialization. Georges Honore reported this bug.
15338 * Decided to keep EndOfGame mode as an element of the user interface---it
15339 means that a gnuchess game or loaded game has ended, and the user must
15340 explicitly select EditGame to edit it, rather than just being able to
15341 enter more moves freely. But internally there is no longer an invariant
15342 tying this mode to whether the chess program is running.
15344 * Zippy bugfix: Was saving only the final position in the -sgf file when
15345 the game ended by something other than resignation or flag. Also fixed
15346 the longstanding bug that Zippy would think the final board of such a game
15347 was a new game and restart the chess program.
15349 * Now does a better job of faking castling availability in FEN. We still
15350 don't really keep track of it, but now at least we don't say that castling
15351 is still available when the king or rook is not on its home square.
15353 * Bugfix: Initial board of game history for wild games was going through
15354 too much processing, causing us to forget the game length, which is now
15355 needed by ParseGameHistory. This was causing problems with resuming
15356 adjourned wild games.
15358 * Updated ICS host to ics.onenet.net.
15360 * Zippy now accepts challenges where the opponent specified his color.
15362 * Added ZIPPYPASSWORD2 to let operator give commands directly to gnuchess.
15364 * Bitmap directory can include alternative icons now, too.
15366 * Handle "Game * (*) has no examiners" message from ICS.
15368 * Revamped window title and icon name selection.
15370 3.1, patchlevel 2 -- Sun Jun 12 17:16:28 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
15372 * "Beta" distribution for Zippy users only.
15374 * Bugfix: common.h was assuming that X11 type Boolean is char, which is
15375 not always true. This might have caused all sorts of obscure bugs!
15377 * Installed new bitmaps from Elmar Bartel as the default. Many thanks!
15378 The old bitmaps can be used by changing the "bitmaps" symbolic link before
15379 compiling xboard, or by using the -bitmapDirectory option at runtime.
15381 * Loading a game that ends with the PGN unfinished symbol ("*") now always
15382 leaves you in EditGame mode.
15384 * Added documentation of -icscomm to man page. Thanks to Maarten Remkes
15385 for the linux script.
15387 * ^C now kills gnuchess as well as xboard. Thanks to Dima Dakhnovsky for
15388 reminding me how to do this.
15390 * Bitmap icon color now indicates player to move. Stuart Cracraft
15393 * Changed piece bitmap flags to have just one flag, which points to a
15394 directory full of bitmaps, instead of a flag for each bitmap. Also
15395 changed bitmap naming convention.
15397 * "Connection closed by ICS" is no longer a FatalError popup. This was
15398 too annoying in the normal case where the user typed "quit".
15400 * Changed default font to 14 pixels instead of 10 points. This seems to
15401 make it close to the size I want it to be on more displays.
15403 * Major mode (GNU Chess, etc.) appears in title bar. Stuart Cracraft
15406 * Bug fix: EditGameEvent, MachineBlackEvent, MachineWhiteEvent, and
15407 TwoMachinesEvent were calling PauseEvent to get out of pause mode, which
15408 now has undesired side effects, such as advancing the display to the
15409 forwardMostMove. It works fine to just set pausing = FALSE instead.
15411 * IcsExamining mode now lets you access ICS edit position commands using
15412 the same popup menus as xboard's EditPosition mode. Thanks to DAV on ICS
15413 for inspiring the idea.
15415 * Corrected test for gcc on HP in Imakefile; thanks to Richard Lloyd.
15417 3.1, patchlevel 1 -- Wed Jun 1 16:25:11 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
15419 * Added parser.c.lex and parser.c.flex to the distribution.
15421 * Added HP gcc options to Imakefile, from Mats Nylen.
15423 * EndOfGame mode no longer highlights EditGame mode indicator, because the
15424 modes really do differ. I would like to get rid of EndOfGame mode in the
15425 future, at least as far as users can see.
15427 * Larger %a in parser.l, needed for RS/6000 users.
15429 * Minor improvements to Mail Move error messages.
15431 * When -debug flag is given to xboard, -v is passed to cmail.
15433 * Old Save Style uses "1. ..." instead of "1..." when black moves after a
15434 comment; more like xboard 3.0's actual style.
15436 * New version of cmail from Evan Welsh. Looks for UCB Mail in a more
15437 portable way and has some minor bug fixes.
15439 * Bug fix: Saving a FEN position while in EditPosition mode with black to
15440 play was showing white to play in the saved position.
15442 3.1, patchlevel 0 -- Fri May 20 16:36:15 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
15444 * This is the first general release since 3.0, patchlevel 9. Releases
15445 since then have been limited-distribution or beta releases.
15447 * Thanks to my version 3.1 beta testers: Dmitry Dakhnovsky, Ed Hanway,
15448 Richard Lloyd, Mike McGann, Shelly Mistry, Josef Nelissen, Chris Petroff,
15449 Jack Robertson, Michel van der List, Ky Macpherson, Derek Terveer, and
15450 Evan Welsh. Sorry if I've forgotten anyone who gave me feedback.
15452 * Updated man page.
15454 * Minor cleanup on menu sensitivity code.
15456 * Integrated another even better version of cmail from Evan Welsh,
15457 including some code he supplied in xboard itself.
15459 * A few more fixes to cmail support.
15461 * Automatically update clocks after an ICS "moretime" command.
15463 * Handle ICS automatic examine mode (set examine 1) after a game.
15465 3.0, patchlevel 14 -- Tue May 17 13:41:44 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
15467 * Beta test release only.
15469 * Don't suppress prompt on first board of game being examined; otherwise
15470 it looks like nothing happened at all (i.e., like you're lagged).
15472 * Added StopExamining and StopObserving (Chris Petroff suggestion).
15474 * Made Reset do a refresh on ICS. John Chanak's original ICS code for
15475 xboard tried to do this; I finally decided it was a good idea after all.
15477 * Fixed bugs in handling updates that come in while you are pausing in
15478 examine mode. This is pretty tricky to do right.
15480 * Made un-Pausing immediately pop you to the current position. This is
15481 always necessary in examine mode, since the game may have changed under
15482 you; your remembered moves might no longer be right. So I made it do the
15485 * Took Detach Examine mode back out...used Pause mode for this instead!
15487 * Put in a trap for the GNU Chess bug of printing an Illegal Move message
15488 when its own hint move is illegal.
15490 * Attempted to fix a Zippy bug; bogus "exited unexpectedly" messages after
15491 it checkmates its opponent. This involved adding an argument to GameEnds
15492 to say who says it ended (ICS, GNU, etc.) and taking different actions in
15493 different cases. Unfortunately, this just restored an older Zippy bug, where
15494 Zippy restarts gnuchess when it gets the board with the final position,
15495 because GameEnds still puts xboard in EndOfGame mode. Sigh.
15497 * We now capture elapsed time on last move when getting game history.
15498 (Josef Nelissen bug report)
15500 * Rewrote code to redisplay last file title so it really works.
15502 * Fixed bug in oldSaveStyle.
15504 * Larger %a and %o were needed for lex.
15506 3.0, patchlevel 13 -- Mon May 16 16:26:22 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
15508 * Beta test release only.
15510 * FatalError popups stay on the screen now. If the error is really fatal,
15511 all functions are disabled, and the program exits when you press OK.
15513 * Redisplay last file title when using Load (Next/Previous/Same) Game.
15515 * Zippy understands new match challenge message format on ICS.
15517 * Added Revert command.
15519 * When examining a game on ICS, < > buttons do ICS backward/forward
15520 commands, unless you set the Detach Examine option. Thanks to Dima
15521 Dakhnovsky for the idea.
15523 * Fixed various minor problems in cmail mode.
15525 * cmail generates the tags now. New version of cmail from Evan Welsh.
15527 * cmail mode won't let you do MailMove unless the currently displayed
15528 position is exactly one move past the end of the game you loaded.
15530 * Fixed building of man pages in Imakefile
15532 * Updates to INSTALL file
15534 3.0, patchlevel 12 -- Sat May 7 21:10:03 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
15536 * Beta test release only.
15538 * Brought man page up to date.
15540 * Added Shift+R to resign from keyboard.
15542 * Some items on Action menu available in GNU Chess mode now.
15544 * Revamped Action menu.
15546 * Reordered functions in backend.c as a small step toward reorganizing
15549 * Generate TimeControl PGN tag.
15551 * Get type of ICS game (e.g., rated blitz) and save in PGN tags.
15553 * Bug fix: Clocks were not redisplayed when entering EditGame mode.
15555 * Bug fix: Clocks were not being redisplayed after loading a game file
15556 with -td 0, so they could show the wrong color active.
15558 * Bug fix: Chess programs would be killed and match mode would exit
15559 prematurely when loading a PGN game fragment ending with "*".
15561 * ICS command "sposition" no longer confuses xboard.
15563 * Integrated new version of cmail (with support code in xboard) from Evan
15566 * Added TruncateGame, MoveNow, RetractMove, and QuietPlay.
15568 * Bug fix: switching between MachineWhite and MachineBlack was not calling
15569 Attention(). Reported by Dino Dini.
15571 * More improvements to INSTALL and Imakefile.
15573 * Pack moves into 79 character lines in PGN output. We don't generate
15574 check indications, and we always break the line before the result,
15575 so this is not quite PGN export format.
15577 * Use FEN tag in PGN.
15579 * Improved finding and counting of game starts in save files.
15581 * Negative position or game numbers in -lpi/-lgi mean to seek to that byte
15582 offset. Hook for possible future features, not in man page.
15584 * Detect and handle absence of either "time" or "otim" commands in
15587 * Don't use "promote" command to ICS anymore.
15589 * Handle switching sides and taking back moves on FICS.
15591 * Handle flip state flag in style 12 board.
15593 * Handle examine mode on ICS.
15595 * Improved error popups for various kinds of illegal moves.
15597 * Suppress unasked-for hints from gnuchess (which it generates in post
15600 * Load/save position functions use FEN. Old style also supported.
15602 * Added detailed error messages if loading a bitmap file fails.
15604 * Small board has 2-pixel lines between squares instead of 3-pixel.
15606 * Added OldSaveStyle and AboutGame.
15608 * Renamed ForceMoves to EditGame.
15610 3.0, patchlevel 11 -- Tue Sep 21 15:25:36 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
15612 * The following changes were present in xboard 3.0, patchlevel 11, but the
15613 first group did not make it into WinBoard 3.0 until later. xboard
15614 3.0.pl11 was a limited-distribution release only, mostly to Zippy users.
15616 * Man page minor fixes.
15618 * Added a missing file close.
15620 * Removed automatic error popdown on Reset, which was destroying some
15621 error messages before they could be read.
15623 * Fixed char vs. unsigned char warnings on bitmaps.
15625 * Use ICS board style 12. Some improvements to ICS parsing.
15627 * Comment window is now labelled with the move the comment is on, and
15628 comments don't pop down when you step to the next move.
15630 * Save files now in PGN format.
15632 * Support for loading PGN files. PGN tags pop up when a PGN game file
15635 * More info in INSTALL and Imakefile about building for Suns (and
15638 * WinBoard 3.0 patchlevel 11 split off from an early version of xboard
15639 3.0 patchlevel 11, so it does not have all the features of that
15640 patchlevel. The following changes made it into both xboard and
15643 * Made Comment dialog non-modal in WinBoard.
15645 * EndOfGame mode is now more transparent. It looks like ForceMoves
15646 mode except that there is no chess program running.
15648 * Small bug fixes in clock management. Most noticeably, pausing when
15649 it is gnuchess's move now works as documented (again).
15651 * Add minimal support for -icscomm option. Not documented yet because
15652 I haven't sorted out the issues with setting the tty modes on the comm
15653 port device, or with locking it properly. But it's usable by wizards.
15655 * Don't restart the chess program upon Backward event from EndOfGame mode.
15657 * Suppress extra prompt after ICS sends us a board.
15659 3.0, patchlevel 10 -- Sat Sep 11 18:44:03 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
15661 * Beta test release only.
15663 * Zippy now plays chess. zippy.c and zippy.h are still not included
15664 in the standard distribution, but are available on request.
15666 * Switched to using style 12 on ICS.
15668 * Updated man page, and documented use of XBoard*form.translations to
15669 add more shortcut keys.
15671 * Added shortcut keys "d" to claim/offer/accept a draw, and "t" to
15672 call flag. Suggested by venu on ICS.
15674 * More explicit instructions in INSTALL file.
15676 3.0, patchlevel 9 -- Tue Sep 7 14:02:00 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
15678 * General release, minor update to 3.0.pl8.
15680 * Loosened checking on whether it's okay to start a move, to satisfy
15681 ICS ultra-blitz players. Now we don't check whether it's your turn
15682 until you let go of the piece.
15684 * Parser now recognizes "+-+" as meaning the game ended in a draw.
15686 * Got rid of S_NONE symbol, which seems to conflict with some symbol
15689 * Tweaked the man page. Clarified that there is currently no way for
15690 two people running copies of xboard to play each other without going
15691 through the Internet Chess Server.
15693 * Fixed a bug in color name conversion. Asking for two different
15694 colors whose names were the same in the first four characters would
15695 get you two copies of the first one. Thanks to Volker Zink for the
15698 * Improved confusing Usage() message.
15700 * Added a bunch of Sun information to the Imakefile and INSTALL file.
15701 Thanks to Ed Hanway, Arik Klingensmith, and others who responded.
15703 * Test for defined(WIN32) instead of !defined(unix).
15705 * Avoid using (void *) type with non-ANSI C compilers. Thanks to
15706 James Altucher for the bug report.
15708 3.0, patchlevel 8 -- Thu Sep 2 12:23:01 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
15710 * Note: Patchlevel 8 was the first non-beta release of xboard 3.0
15712 * Added cmail to distribution. Contributed (and still maintained) by
15715 * Bug fix: -queen option wasn't initializing menu check. Reported by
15718 3.0, patchlevel 7 -- Thu Aug 26 13:23:24 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
15720 * Sent WinBoard 3.0.pl7 to Torre on ICS
15722 * Added parser.h to hold the interface to parser.l
15724 * Upgraded COPYING file and copyright notices to GNU GPL version 2.
15726 3.0, patchlevel 6 -- Tue Aug 24 15:16:13 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
15728 * We no longer display intermediate positions or intermediate comments
15729 while loading a game file with -timeDelay 0 or loading an opening to
15730 start up a -matchMode game.
15732 * Loading an empty game from an xboard save file now gives a status
15733 message "No moves in game" instead of an error popup saying "Game not
15736 * Added comment.awk to distribution.
15738 3.0, patchlevel 5 -- Tue Aug 17 16:45:54 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
15740 * Bug fix: xboard would crash if it couldn't get all its colors; now
15741 it switches to monoMode instead. Also, xboard was trying to convert
15742 color resources even when using a b/w display. Reported by Larry
15745 * Bug fix: Declared fields of TimeMark as signed so that we get signed
15746 instead of unsigned arithmetic. SubtractTimeMarks was breaking on
15747 Alpha AXP (which has 64-bit longs) with old declarations. Reported by
15748 Michel van der List.
15750 * Bug fixes: Keyboard accelerators now work after EditComment window is
15751 popped down. Iconize keyboard accelerator now works even if xboard
15752 was started with -iconic flag and later deiconized.
15754 * Bug fix: The routine that tests whether a move is illegal because it
15755 would leave you in check was not handling e.p. captures properly.
15756 Reported by Patrick Surry.
15758 * Bug (?) fix: Was adding time to clocks at time control even when
15759 loading a game file. Actually it's not entirely clear how time
15760 controls should be dealt with when some moves are loaded from a file
15761 or clicked in with ForceMoves. For now ForceMoves mode does add the
15762 time (because it can be used to change moves during a live game), but
15763 LoadGame mode does not.
15765 * Updated usage message.
15767 * Previous attempted fix to matchMode had broken TwoMachines mode and
15768 generally needed more work. Also simplified command line interface to
15771 3.0, patchlevel 4 -- Thu Aug 5 14:17:18 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
15773 * Thanks again to the beta testers listed for 3.0 patchlevel 3, and also
15774 Desnogues, Steve Cariglia, Niklas Engsner, Mark Silver, and Roger Rowe.
15776 * Reorganized man page, splitting OPTIONS into subsections.
15778 * matchMode was very broken; fixed.
15780 * Changed convention for turning off command line options from --opt
15781 to -xopt, to be less inconsistent with GNU standards. Also changed
15782 the long command line options to take True/False arguments like
15783 resources; seems to make more sense this way.
15785 * Added AlwaysQueen option -- suppresses promotion dialog and always
15786 promotes to a queen if you move a pawn to the last rank. Has no
15787 effect on gnuchess (or your ICS opponents!) -- they can still
15790 * Subtracted an extra fudge term when determining how wide message and
15791 title widgets should be. This fixes a problem some beta testers had.
15792 Wish I knew why it's needed.
15794 * Bugfix in parser; symptom was that you couldn't do LoadGame after
15795 observing a game on ICS.
15797 * Bugfix in Forward; didn't work after game ended while Pause was turned on.
15799 * Removed bogus execute bits on .h files.
15801 * Use REMOTE_SHELL and TELNET_PROGRAM definitions.
15803 * MachineWhite and MachineBlack now work from TwoMachines mode.
15805 * Popping down an error message with the [ok] button was not turning off
15806 the errorUp flag, so the next move would cause xboard to try to pop it
15807 down again, resulting in a wild memory reference and sometimes a crash.
15809 3.0, patchlevel 3 -- Tue Aug 3 17:40:27 1993 -- Tim Mann
15811 * Thanks to my beta testers: Patrick Surry, Takuya Kojima, Robert J. Luoma,
15812 Chris L. Petroff, Richard K. Lloyd, Michel van der List, Craig Metz,
15813 Antoon Frehe, Simon Clift, Shelly, Eric Peterson, Christopher Mitchell,
15814 Martin Koch, Ed Hanway, Steve Booth, Udo, Ken Hobday, and Joseph Duhamel.
15816 * Improved error messages for trying to move the wrong color pieces or
15817 to move when it's not your turn.
15819 * Special code for monoMode on 1-bit displays now understands displays
15820 where 1=white and 0=black.
15822 * Declare getenv() if <stdlib.h> not included; avoids a compiler warning.
15824 * Documented borderXoffset and borderYoffset.
15826 * Added -titleInWindow option for use with X window managers that
15827 don't let us set the title in the window banner.
15829 * Fixed error message printing in WinBoard; system error messages no
15830 longer appear as numeric codes.
15832 * The error message popup is now non-modal; you don't have to press the
15833 [ok] button before you can do something else. In addition, the popup is
15834 positioned so that it doesn't cover up the board (too much), and making a
15835 move or otherwise clicking on the board pops it down. (Not implemented in
15838 * You can now call your opponent's flag in ICS mode by clicking on his
15841 * Fixed minor bugs in -flipView option and documented exactly how xboard
15842 decides which way to flip the view.
15844 3.0, patchlevel 2 -- Fri Jul 30 22:20:23 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
15846 * Added Autosave to Options menu. Would be better to have Save
15847 Options dialog as in WinBoard, but this was quick to do and gives the
15848 most-needed functionality.
15850 * Changed "Reload Game" on menu to "Reload Same Game".
15852 3.0, patchlevel 1 -- Thu Jul 8 21:22:59 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
15854 * Sent a copy of patchlevel 1 to Patrick Surry to beta-test.
15856 * Added -cmail option that sets appData.cmailMode. Currently a no-op.
15857 In the future this may set special modes for use by the cmail script
15858 for playing chess by email.
15860 * Added LoadNextGame, LoadPreviousGame, and ReloadGame to File menu.
15861 ReloadGame suggested by Patrick Surry.
15863 * Added -flipView command-line option. Suggested by Patrick Surry.
15865 * Fixed bugs in parser.l: (1) Pattern for "# xboard game file ..."
15866 needed to match to end of line. (2) Start of a new file was not matching
15867 the ^ start-of-line character. The fix for this is a kludge.
15869 * Made game counting code in LoadGame more robust, and made LoadGame
15870 able to detect the end of a saved partial game (by noticing the start
15871 of the next game) in game files created by XBoard itself. We don't
15872 try to find the start of the next game that way in other kinds of game
15873 files, because the only way I can think of to do that is to look for
15874 another move #1, and that technique gets too many false hits.
15876 * Fixed recently introduced bug in LoadGame when game starts with a
15879 3.0, patchlevel 0 -- Fri Jun 25 14:17:17 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
15881 * Changes in this patchlevel were too numerous to list. Larger ones are
15884 * Added a popup dialog to enter and edit comments. Inspired by some
15885 code from Patrick Surry. Changed the normal read-only comment popup
15888 * Added ICS init script feature from Karl Schwamb.
15890 * Added some ESIX fixes and OMIT_SOCKETS ifdef option, from Kayvan Sylvan.
15892 * Revamped code to allow use of flex instead of lex on parser.l.
15893 Using flex requires adding -DFLEX to defines in Imakefile.
15895 * Source code is split into front end (xboard.c), which knows about X
15896 and Unix, and back end (backend.c), which knows about chess, gnuchess,
15897 and the ICS. There is also a front end for Windows NT.
15899 * Boolean command line options now use "-foo" to turn on and "--foo"
15900 to turn off instead of "-foo true" and "-foo false". [Later -xfoo;
15903 * Added menu commands to control autoflag, bell, and coords options.
15905 * User interface has a new look: (1) Menu bar instead of array of
15906 buttons. A few very commonly used features have small buttons in
15907 addition to being on the menus. (2) Large font for clock. (3) Pop-up
15908 dialogs for errors.
15910 2.1, patchlevel 11 -- Sat Jun 5 00:01:01 PDT 1993 -- mann@src.dec.com
15912 * Added code to deal with "wild" games on ICS. This includes allowing
15913 castling with the king on d1 or d8, which is allowed in wild(1) games
15914 if the king started there. Notation is o-o to castle "short"---to
15915 whichever side the king is closer to---and o-o-o to castle "long."
15916 Right now wild castling is always allowed by xboard; we rely on ICS or
15917 gnuchess to reject it when we aren't really in wild mode.
15919 * memcpy call had arguments in wrong order.
15921 * Removed April Fool code
15923 2.1, patchlevel 10 -- Mon Feb 15 10:19:31 PST 1993 -- mann@src.dec.com
15925 * Avoid trying to select on a pipe when using System V. Needed to
15926 copy some code from InitChessProgram() up into establish().
15928 * Bug fix in disambiguating pawn moves like "ed".
15930 * Fix to error handling in ReceiveFromProgram.
15932 * Bug fix: entering EditPosition mode with black to play highlighted
15933 White's clock instead of Black's.
15935 * Added telnetProgram resource in case "telnet" is not the name of the
15938 2.1, patchlevel 9 -- Fri Jan 22 19:08:27 PST 1993 -- mann@src.dec.com
15940 * Entering Force Moves mode clears "flag has fallen" messages from display.
15942 * ICS host name can now be in numeric format; for example 128.2.232.4.
15944 * Bug fix: LegalityTest was failing to test whether a pawn move was
15945 illegal because the move would discover a check.
15947 * Handle ICS message "mann asserts a win over manntest, who disconnected."
15949 * Bug fix: A recent change to PromotionCallBack had broken
15950 underpromotion to a knight.
15952 * Bug fix: In EditPosition mode, dragging a piece onto a square border
15953 would make it vanish. xboard wasn't distinguishing this case from
15954 dragging the piece off the board. Thanks to Matthew Kidd.
15956 * Removed "static" declaration from yywrap for compatibility with IRIX
15957 version of lex. Thanks to stiller@blaze.cs.jhu.edu.
15959 * Added substitutes for bzero, bcopy, and gethostname for Solaris
15960 SVR4. Thanks to Michael Grant.
15962 * Bug fixes to queen move disambiguation. Bugs showed up only when
15963 promotion resulted in more than one queen on the board.
15965 2.1, patchlevel 8 -- Fri Dec 11 17:54:18 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
15967 * parser bug fix: It now really works to leave off the piece a pawn is
15968 promoting to and let it default to queen.
15970 * When starting to observe or play an ICS game, don't draw board in
15971 initial position and then immediately redraw it in the current
15974 * Handle ICS messages when an "abuser" forfeits a game by
15975 disconnecting and when a game is aborted ("removed") by an
15978 * Bug fix: A user move when in LoadGame+Pause mode was resuming the
15979 game load instead of putting us in force mode.
15981 * It seems that crashes inside sscanf when xboard is compiled with gcc
15982 (as on IBM PS/2 AIX, mentioned below, and also on VAX Ultrix 3.1) are
15983 caused by an incompatibility between gcc and the sscanf implementation
15984 on these platforms. A workaround is to specify -fwritable-strings to
15985 gcc (see the gcc documentation). Added info on how to do this to the
15986 Imakefile. Thanks to Tom McConnell for this information.
15988 * Clocks are allowed to go negative. This is mostly for ICS
15989 compatibility, but it affects gnuchess mode too. Also, we give the
15990 time bonus when a player hits the time control boundary even if his
15991 flag is already down. This choice is a bit debatable, but it makes
15992 things look better when you are in TwoMachines mode and gnuchess's
15993 time management screws up causing it to exceed its time limit.
15995 * Implemented move legality checking code. Moves made with the mouse
15996 or parsed from a file are checked for legality before being made.
15997 This is mostly in preparation for future extensions, such as
15998 human-human play. For now it makes -noChessProgram mode more useful.
16000 * If the user takes back moves, we restore the clocks to the earlier
16003 * We now handle the output of the ICS oldmoves command, including
16004 parsing the game end condition.
16006 * Added autoCallFlag mode.
16008 * Fixed glitches in the medium size outline king and rook bitmaps, and
16009 touched up the medium size solid king and outline queen.
16011 * bug fix: DisplayMove would not display backwardMostMove - 1.
16013 * Added CallFlag button and removed AcceptMatch. CallFlag is more
16014 important with new ICS, and accepting the current match offer is easy
16015 with the new ICS command "accept" (can be abbreviated "ac").
16017 * LoadGame and LoadPosition display tail of file name (plus index
16018 number, if any) as title.
16020 * MachineWhite, MachineBlack, and TwoMachines now work properly from
16021 LoadGame and LoadGame+Pause mode.
16023 * Use o-o and o-o-o to castle on ICS, not 00 and 000.
16025 * Stripped out code for old ICS messages; new ICS is now installed.
16027 * Bug fix: don't offer autosave when paused during LoadGame.
16029 2.1, patchlevel 7 - Fri Dec 11 17:40:56 PST 1992 - mann@src.dec.com
16031 * Track change to "Illegal move" message in new ICS.
16033 2.1, patchlevel 6 -- Tue Dec 8 10:48:44 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
16035 * Kludged around bug in keeping comment popup where you put it by
16036 adding borderXoffset and borderYoffset resources that give the width
16037 of the borders added by the window manager. Yucch.
16039 * Changed searchDepth kludge back to using "help" instead of "bd"; the
16040 latter didn't work because the output contains a line starting with
16041 "White", so we think gnuchess is telling us that White won. Oops.
16043 * Removed some code that uses an X11R5 feature, XrmGetDatabase.
16044 Without this, the auto font sizing code is harder to make work, so to
16045 keep my sanity I had to change it to affect only the fonts that appear
16046 in the main window and the comment popup, not the other popups. Maybe
16047 this is better anyway.
16049 * AcceptMatch button now works after a counterchallenge, too.
16051 * Added code for more variants of messages about games being adjourned
16052 or aborted. These messages need to be unified in new version of ICS.
16054 * Added workaround for minor bug in ICS; game number on first board
16057 * Removed code to say "refresh n" instead of "refresh"; was broken and
16058 wasn't needed anyway.
16060 * Added missing casts for compilers that distinguish enums from ints
16061 and missing cast in connect call.
16063 * Added code to recognize "both sides are out of time" draw message
16064 proposed for next version of ICS.
16066 * Thanks to Danny Sleator and Joe Peterson for bug reports.
16068 2.1, patchlevel 5 -- Sun Dec 6 19:52:40 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
16070 * Removed gcc and CDEBUGFLAGS from Imakefile.
16072 * Corrected setting of mode to ForceMoves when game file ends or
16073 contains an AmbiguousMove or BadMove. Previous bug was harmless.
16075 * Added AcceptMatch button and mention of 50-move rule for Draw button
16078 2.1, patchlevel 4 -- Sun Dec 6 02:55:42 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
16080 * Now handles revised messages from new version of ICS. New ICS is
16081 not released yet, so this code might change further. Next patchlevel
16082 will remove support for old ICS; both are there now.
16084 * Initial processing for a new game being watched or played now
16085 happens when we see the first board image. Removes the need to parse
16086 some messages and unifies some code.
16088 2.1, patchlevel 3 -- Tue Dec 1 19:40:40 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
16090 * Handles ICS messages "Draw : neither player has mating
16091 material" and "Draw : White has no material, Black has no time."
16093 * Added AcceptMatch button for ICS mode.
16095 * Fixed bug in previous fix to yylexstr().
16097 * Fixed bugs in code for loading old position files that don't start
16098 with "#" and for handling case where user asked for nth position in
16099 file but there aren't that many.
16101 * Handles ICS message "* has restored your old game"
16103 * ResetProc always clears title line now.
16105 * Don't issue just "refresh" when watching a game; use game number.
16106 Upcoming new version of ICS may need this.
16108 * Added code to try to prevent user from watching and/or playing more
16109 than one game at a time. There is a race condition inherent here; if
16110 we get more than one board from the game before our command to stop
16111 watching it takes effect, we'll think the user started it again. Not
16112 clear how to fix this.
16114 * Redid ParseBoard8 to use sscanf. Code is a good deal cleaner now.
16115 Also, we now parse out the game number too, though we don't make much
16118 * (Tried to put in a feature that recognizes the current game in a
16119 game file must have ended when we see the start of a new one, but had
16120 to disable it because we have too many false hits with the current
16121 parser, especially in gnuchess listing files.)
16123 * Moves read from game files or received from ICS are now translated
16124 into canonical algebraic form just like all other moves. Minor nit:
16125 If you use Reset while playing or observing a game in ICS mode, the
16126 game history (including the current board position) is lost, so the
16127 next move of the current game can't be translated.
16129 * Default fonts now vary with board size, and are chosen by pixel size
16130 instead of point size (since piece bitmaps have a fixed pixel size).
16132 * Bug fix: An extra Forward was required to skip over time indications
16135 2.1 patchlevel 2 -- Fri Nov 27 23:30:00 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
16137 * If you move the comment popup, the next time it pops up it will come
16138 back where you put it.
16140 * Fixed yylexstr() so calls to it can be interspersed with calls to
16143 * Fixed bugs in Forward/Backward while in LoadGame mode.
16145 * Changed Save{Game,Position} functions to append instead of
16146 overwriting if file exists. Changed Load{Game,Position} functions to
16147 deal with multiple games/positions per file.
16149 * Changed load{Game,Position}File resources to trigger automatic load
16150 on program startup. Changed save{Game,Position}File resources to
16151 trigger automatic save after every completed game and on program exit.
16153 * Added autoSaveGames mode.
16155 * Fixed bug with PromoPiece in call to MakeAlg from MakeMove.
16157 * Many changes to get rid of picky compiler warnings and generally
16160 2.1 patchlevel 1 -- Fri Nov 27 02:45:00 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
16162 * A last minute change before patchlevel 0 went out broke
16163 ParseGameHistory(). Immediately fixed in patchlevel 1.
16165 Version 2.1, patchlevel 0 -- Fri Nov 27 02:00:00 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
16167 * Uses "time" command of gnuchess 4.0 and following to keep clocks in
16168 sync. Still works with older versions without this command; we test
16169 whether the command is present the first time each chess program is
16172 * File name dialog pops up under the mouse cursor, so that it's got the
16173 keyboard focus if the window manager is using pointer focus.
16175 * Attempts to move the wrong color piece or an empty square are filtered
16176 out in xboard instead of being passed on to GNU Chess or the ICS.
16178 * The reason a game ended is now remembered even if you move backward
16179 and forward after it ends. It is forgotten only if you make a move
16180 (which is as it should be---this is now a different game, which hasn't
16181 ended yet). The message saying why the game ended no longer wipes out
16184 * Pause, Backward, Forward, ForceMoves, and EditPosition now work from
16187 * Forward and Backward now change only the board display unless you
16188 are in ForceMoves mode. Pause mode keeps new moves that are received
16189 from being displayed on your screen until you unpause (or use
16192 * Added option to ring the bell after opponents' moves.
16194 * Saved games that start from other than the standard initial position
16195 now begin with a postion diagram as in saved position files. The
16196 loader is modified to understand such save files.
16198 * Improved error checking when trying to read from gnuchess.
16200 * Parser understands things that look like time indications, e.g., (0:12),
16201 instead of popping them up as comments.
16203 * Send "quit" to gnuchess before trying to kill it. I needed this
16204 locally because sending a SIGTERM to rsh was not killing the remote
16205 program on some internal field test systems we have.
16207 * Merged in code from John Chanak to make xboard a front end to the
16208 Internet Chess Server, and added several improvements of my own.
16209 (These include parsing end of game messages, loading the current state
16210 and previous history of a game that's joined in progress via "watch"
16211 or "load", automatic switch from board style 1 to 8 when needed,
16212 removing irrelevant buttons and adding some new ones, adding the
16213 useTelnet and gateway resources, and miscellaneous code cleanup, bug
16214 fixes, and documentation.) Many thanks to John for writing and
16215 contributing the initial version of this code.
16217 Fri Oct 30 20:16:40 PST 1992 (patchlevel 25) mann@src.dec.com
16219 * gnuchess now castles by sending us "o-o" or "o-o-o" (starting with a
16220 preliminary version of 4.0.pl60 that I have). Added code to handle
16221 this. The old format ("e1g1", etc.) still works too.
16223 * Added code to format moves in normal abbreviated algebraic notation
16224 (for example, e4, exd4, f8Q, Nf6, 0-0) instead of coordinate algebraic
16225 (for example, e2e4, e3d4, f7f8q, g1f6, e1g1). Moves entered with the
16226 mouse or received from gnuchess are translated into this canonical
16227 format for display on the message line or in saved game files. Moves
16228 read from game files are not translated, however; they are shown and
16229 saved just as they appear in the file.
16231 Mon Sep 14 13:19:01 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 24) mann@src.dec.com
16233 * It's not really correct to write an ep capture of a pawn on e5 as
16234 fxe5; this should be written as fxe6 because e6 is where the capturing
16235 pawn ends up. Nevertheless, the parser now interprets fxe5 as the ep
16236 capture f5xe6 unless there is a pawn on f4, in which case it
16237 interprets fxe5 as f4xe5. By design, the parser does not flag fxe5 as
16238 ambiguous if there are pawns on both f4 and f5; instead it prefers the
16239 more legitimate f4xe5 interpretation.
16241 * A move like fxe6 or fe6 is now interpreted as an e.p. capture of the
16242 pawn on e5 if there is one there and e6 is empty.
16244 * A move like fxe5 can no longer be interpreted as an e.p. capture if
16245 there isn't a pawn on e5 to be captured. Previously this could happen
16246 erroneously if there were pawns on both f4 and f5, and the f4 pawn was
16247 capturing a piece on e5.
16249 * The parser no longer munges the move it is parsing; in the past, for
16250 instance, it would remove the "x" from a move like dxc5 before echoing
16253 * The parser now detects when a move is ambiguous and returns an
16254 error, instead of arbitrarily choosing one possibility as it used to.
16256 Mon Aug 10 18:40:47 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 23) mann@src.dec.com
16258 * Added code so parser can handle fully qualified algebraic, e.g.,
16259 Ng1-f3, N/g1-f3, Ng1f3, or even Pe2-e4. The "P" and "/" work only for
16260 fully qualified moves, not generally.
16262 * Fixed parser bugs in handling moves with rank or file disambiguator,
16265 Mon Jul 6 17:55:32 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 22) mann@src.dec.com
16267 * AIXV3 patch from Tom McConnell; thanks!
16269 * After hitting the Backward button we see the last move made instead of
16270 the word "Pausing" displayed.
16272 * Fixed a couple of problems compiling on IRIX; thanks to Michel Arsenault
16273 and Alan Walsh for bug reports and help with fixes.
16275 * Added optional display of algebraic notation coordinates along left and
16276 bottom edges of board. This was inspired by some code from Jean-Christophe
16279 * Swapped EditPosition and Pause buttons to reduce danger of losing the
16280 game in progress by hitting EditPosition when you wanted Backward. Thanks
16281 to Ove Lundberg for complaining (though it bugged me too).
16283 * Despite one complaint, I kept the feature of changing both clocks when black
16284 makes time control, rather than changing each individually when the player
16285 involved makes it. This is to avoid having it look like White is way ahead on
16286 time while Black is thinking about the last move of the time control period
16287 (i.e., when White has made time control but Black hasn't yet).
16289 * Corrected clocks to work as in real tournaments. Time is *added* when you
16290 reach time control; previously the clocks were simply set to the length of the
16291 new time period. Also, when a player's flag falls, he still does not receive a
16292 new time allotment at the next time control, but his opponent does still
16293 receive more time if *his* flag has not fallen; previously, time controls were
16294 ignored for both players if either flag fell. I forget who reported this bug.
16296 * Added a small ESIX patch from Kayvan Sylvan.
16298 Mon Jun 22 13:24:38 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 21)
16300 * Added some SVR4 support code from Ronald Cole. It's Greek to me.
16302 * Note: Stephen Meatheringham reports a bug causing xboard to crash with an
16303 error from the X server when run on a Sun Sparcstation IPX with Solaris 1.0.1
16304 and OpenWindows 3.0. This bug has not been tracked down yet.
16306 * Fixed a problem with ATTENTION code. On some operating systems, you have to
16307 be even more cautious about when you send a SIGINT to gnuchess, because the
16308 signal handler gets deinstalled each time it is used, and gnuchess does not
16309 reinstall it immediately. In particular, if you send a SIGINT and make an
16310 illegal move or ask for a hint, gnuchess does not reinstall the handler until
16311 *after* you make your next move, so you had better not send a SIGINT before
16312 it. I put a workaround for this case into xboard; I hope there are no more.
16314 * The ATTENTION code is needed when compiling for the ESIX operating system,
16315 because ESIX has a bug in the FIONREAD ioctl, so the code in gnuchess that
16316 lets you interrupt its thinking on your time just by typing in your move does
16317 not work. Perhaps gnuchess will have a workaround for this eventually.
16319 * Fixed yet another bug in using XtGetValues; code to inhibit shell resizing
16320 was leaving a null pointer as the place to store the current sizes.
16322 * Man page fixes: corrected -sl to -sd, updated LIMITATIONS.
16324 * Added include of <sys/time.h> conditional on HAS_GETTIMEOFDAY. I hope this
16325 works for all systems; on mine, <time.h> and <sys/time.h> are the same file,
16326 but with an #ifndef that makes it harmless to include both.
16328 * Thanks for reports from Mike Pearlman, Stephen Meatheringham, Kayvan Sylvan,
16329 d87-mal@nada.kth.se, Urban Koistinen, and Ronald Cole.
16331 Mon Jun 8 11:39:18 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 20)
16333 * Documented default value of initString and explained what it means. This
16334 paragraph also serves to inform the user that xboard by default will tell
16335 gnuchess to think on his time, something one user apparently didn't understand.
16337 * Redid -searchDepth (formerly -searchLevel) and -searchTime code. They both
16338 work correctly with gnuchess 3.1 now. The -searchDepth option also works
16339 correctly with gnuchess 4.0. The -searchTime option does not work with
16340 gnuchess 4.0.pl50 or earlier because those gnuchess versions do not have a
16341 working searchTime feature. Instead of having xboard do a half-baked emulation
16342 of this feature by using a 1-move time control, I will be submitting a patch to
16343 the gnuchess folks to restore the feature as in 3.1.
16345 * Improved clock code. It now keeps accurate track of fractional seconds of
16346 clock running time, if your system has gettimeofday(); if not, it is generous
16347 about them---if a clock has been going for n.m seconds when it is stopped, only
16348 n seconds are charged. Previously, xboard would charge one second immediately
16349 when a clock was started, so if n.m had elapsed when it was stopped, n+1 would
16350 be charged. This should stop xboard from thinking gnuchess has let its flag
16351 fall on the last move of a time control, as it often did before. I also
16352 improved the comments and condensed the code a little. I hope there are no
16353 systems that have X11 and don't have gettimeofday(), but if there are, I'd like
16354 to know what to replace it with.
16356 * "Flag dropped" messages now show up on the top line, beside the clocks, so
16357 that they don't obscure more interesting messages on the second line.
16359 * Fixed confusion of NULL and '\000'.
16361 * Include time.h to get ctime() declaration.
16363 * Fix to "parser bug" messages in parser.l.
16365 * Changed code to work with old-fashioned tolower() macro that requires its
16366 argument to be an uppercase letter.
16368 * Minor fix to some usage error messages; was reversing program name and
16369 erroneous argument value.
16371 * Thanks to Mitch Wright, Ranier Orth, and Henrik Schmiediche for bug reports.
16373 Fri Jun 5 13:06:08 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 19)
16375 * Note: xboard does not seem to work when compiled with gcc 1.40 on a
16376 PS/2 running AIX. It crashes at the sscanf in line 768 of xboard.c.
16377 You can work around the problem by specifying the -timeControl option
16378 on the command line instead of defaulting it. This does not seem to
16379 be a bug in xboard itself; it runs okay on PS/2 AIX when compiled with
16380 MetaWare High C. [But see 2.1.pl8 above.]
16382 * Removed bogus files from distribution.
16384 * Changed variable name that conflicted with SVR4 ttyname function.
16386 * Thanks to Christoph Strozyk for another bug report, and to several
16387 of the folks mentioned under patchlevel 18 for testing it.
16389 Wed Jun 3 17:50:37 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 18) mann@src.dec.com
16391 * Added an include of sys/fcntl.h to pick up the definition of O_RDWR for
16394 * Fixed a bug in CatchPipeSignal; was testing the wrong variable to determine
16395 which chess program got the signal.
16397 * Removed the declaration of strrchr, which was causing problems for some
16398 people, and added an include of <string.h> or <strings.h> instead.
16400 * Fixed a bunch of type errors uncovered by compilers that check more carefully
16401 than the one I was using. I just patched many of them with casts---typically
16402 cases where a function didn't take the same number and type of arguments as the
16403 X header file prototype said it should---because I didn't see any other way to
16404 fix them. The versions of the X header files that I have don't actually have
16405 full prototypes for these function types; they declare only the return type and
16406 just give the argument types as comments.
16408 * InitChessProgram returns immediately if chess program died while we were
16409 waiting for it to say "Chess". I think this fixes a bug that could make xboard
16410 crash or go into an infinite loop printing "Warning: Select failed; error code
16411 9" if gnuchess crashed there.
16413 * Removed code that tries to put the file descriptor used to read messages from
16414 gnuchess into nonblocking mode. I don't see how this kludge could ever have
16415 fixed the problem it was intended to (see below), and it seemed to be causing
16416 a race condition when we were waiting for the initial message from gnuchess
16417 after it started up.
16419 * Thanks to Richard K. Lloyd, Konstantinos Konstantinides, Mark
16420 Seiden, Erik Schoenfelder, Andreas Stolcke, Rainer Orth, Henry Thomas,
16421 and Kris Van Hees for bug reports and help with fixes.
16423 Sun May 31 08:00:00 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 17) Bart Massey bart@cs.uoregon.edu
16425 * 'xboard' suffered from a couple of serious bugs. An initial
16426 size needed to be given to the message label to avoid a race
16427 condition (!) so I gave it some text (otherwise occasionally
16428 xboard would fail because the message widget was 0 width under
16429 MIT X11R4). The sizes needed to be Dimension, not int, because
16430 they were written in by Xt -- on my big-endian box Dimension
16431 is short, causing chaos. Also, I hacked a declaration in for
16432 strrchr() to shut the compiler up -- this is arguably a kludge,
16433 but I couldn't think of anything better; maybe you can.
16435 Fri May 22 13:40:50 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 16)
16437 * First real (non-beta) release of version 2.0.
16439 * Added GNU copyleft notices covering version 2.0 enhancements.
16441 Thu May 21 12:30:09 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 15)
16443 * Removed -g from Imakefile.
16445 * Added casts in parser.l to prevent warning messages from some C compilers.
16447 * Bugfix: code to exit if chess program couldn't be started had bug in error
16450 Tue May 19 11:58:06 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 14)
16452 * Fixes one small bug: If LoadGame does not find a game in the file, it resets
16453 xboard to BeginningOfGame mode (as if the Reset button was pressed), instead of
16454 leaving it in LoadGame mode.
16456 Mon Apr 13 18:32:27 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 13)
16458 * Improved error handling when gnuchessx crashes. Now displays a message and
16459 enters EndOfGame state without exiting. This should help with diagnosing
16460 gnuchessx problems, since the position and move history are not lost.
16462 * Debugged man page.
16464 Version 2.0 -- Thu Apr 2 16:04:54 PST 1992 (patchlevel 12)
16466 * Added small 40x40 pixel pieces; board size now specified as small, medium, or
16469 * Improved man page.
16471 * Saved position files now say "white to play" if it's white's move.
16473 * SavePosition while in EditPosition mode now gets side to play right.
16475 * Made "Pawn" the default on edit position menus.
16477 * Removed "To play" from edit position menus, since it's redundant. Left
16478 support code in so it can be restored if someone wants it.
16480 * Tightened parser's definition of a move number to help further with skipping
16481 over stuff before the first move.
16483 * Put back feature of skipping over stuff in game files before a start of game
16484 marker. This helps when loading electronic mail messages that have things
16485 like "00" in the header (looks like castling), or that talk about moves in
16486 running text before the actual game score. Tradeoff is that we can't load
16487 games that don't either have move numbers or say "gnuchess game" just before
16490 * Changed version number to 2.0 because others have used "1.3" for patched
16491 versions of 1.2. Display version number and patchlevel at startup.
16493 Thu Apr 2 15:30:22 PST 1992 (patchlevel 11)
16495 * Bugfix: Match started with TwoMachines button now handles the case where
16496 user loaded/edited a position *and* forced some moves.
16498 * added error message feedback to many cases where the user's button press is
16499 rejected because it isn't allowed in the current mode.
16501 * added -noChessProgram option to allow use as a passive chessboard without
16502 gnuchess, replacing old buggy scheme that tried to do this automatically when
16503 gnuchess was not found on the search path.
16505 * parser accepts "=" in front of promotion piece
16507 * parser accepts ":" notation for captures
16509 * Removed SwitchSides button to make room for EditPosition. Left code in
16510 place, ifdef'ed out.
16512 * Added EditPosition mode.
16514 * Reformatted xboard.c to eliminate long lines.
16516 * Promotion popup now appears near rank to which pawn is moving.
16518 * UI improvement: Button representing current program mode is kept highlighted.
16520 * Bug fix: Hint button is now disabled when machine is on move.
16522 Sat Mar 21 14:57:37 PST 1992 (patchlevel 10)
16524 * TwoMachines now works from MachineWhite or MachineBlack mode.
16526 * ForceMoves and Backward/Forward now work at the end of a game started by
16527 the TwoMachines button.
16529 * Sends o-o or o-o-o to gnuchess instead of O-O or O-O-O.
16531 * Bug fix: SwitchSides button is now disabled when machine is on move.
16533 * Added -searchLevel option and corrected handling of -searchTime to reflect
16534 the way gnuchess really handles command line options instead of what the
16535 documentation used to say. Allowed optional ":seconds" on times.
16537 Tue Mar 17 21:00:35 PST 1992 (patchlevel 9)
16539 * Removed non-working code that tried to recover when a remote chess program
16540 could not be started; now exits with a message instead.
16542 * Now waits for chess program to print its first message (normally "Chess")
16543 before sending it any commands.
16545 * Matches between two machines can now start from a black-to-play position or
16546 black-to-play opening.
16548 * Bug fix: The program would sometimes lose track of the board position after
16549 the end of the game, drawing a board full of white pawns next time it got an X
16550 redraw request. Now fixed.
16552 * Cleaned up handling of illegal moves in game files. Now we just stop reading
16553 and go into ForceMoves mode.
16555 * Saved games against gnuchess indicate who won (restored and debugged 1.2
16558 * Setting -searchTime turns off -clockMode.
16560 * My trick for setting up a black-to-play position broke in the transition from
16561 gnuchess 3.1+ to 4.0. Installed a different trick that works with both.
16563 * Bug fix: Was clobbering memory by mallocing one byte too few for the file
16564 name in SetupPositionFromFileProc. This usually resulted in a crash on the
16565 second attempt to load a position from a file.
16567 Mon Mar 16 16:49:00 PST 1992 (patchlevel 8)
16569 * Game and position files are saved in CHESSDIR as well as loaded from there.
16570 We actually chdir there, so gnuchess listing files also wind up there.
16572 * Underpromotion moves from gnuchess really work now.
16574 Sat Mar 14 14:55:24 PST 1992 (patchlevel 7)
16576 * Cleaned up lots of bugs and kruft in parser.l. It's a wonder the old version
16577 worked at all. Improved rejection of random text interspersed with the moves.
16579 * Relabeled buttons to reduce confusion (Play From File --> Load Game;
16580 Setup From File --> Load Position).
16582 * Bug fix: Doesn't exit at the end of a game that was started by pressing
16583 the Two Machines button.
16585 * Bug fix: Doesn't get confused if you hit Machine Black (White) while
16586 the machine is already playing black (white) and is on move.
16588 * Prints "White to play" or "Black to play" after loading a position file.
16590 * Bug fix: No longer hangs if no start-of-game is found in a game file.
16592 * More permissive about game file format. The first line is not assumed
16593 to be a header comment unless it starts with "#". We don't insist on
16594 seeing a "1." before the first move.
16596 * Added pop-up dialog to allow underpromotion. Moving a pawn to the last rank
16597 pops up a dialog to let you select what piece to promote to. Also added code
16598 to handle underpromotion moves from gnuchess or from a game file correctly.
16600 * Added code to send SIGINT to gnuchess before trying to move, if gnuchess
16601 might be busy thinking on our time. The code is ifdef'ed out because it's
16602 not necessary; only beta-test versions of gnuchess 4.0 at patchlevel 19 or
16605 Mon Feb 24 20:10:22 PST 1992
16607 * Merged fixes received from Stuart Cracraft and Mike McGann, to iconic mode
16608 and to ShutdownChessPrograms. (They both sent the same fixes.) I did not
16609 install the change that removed "easy" from the initialization string, so
16610 xboard will still try to run gnuchessx in "hard" mode (thinking on opponent's
16611 time) by sending this command.
16613 Version 1.3 -- Thu Dec 19 18:19:00 PST 1991 mann@src.dec.com (Tim Mann)
16615 * I've fixed a slew of bugs in this version of xboard:
16617 * You can now back up from the end of a game, even if gnuchess was playing
16618 against you. Since gnuchess exits upon mate or draw (when it's not in force
16619 mode), this feature works by starting up a new copy of gnuchess and feeding it
16620 the saved starting position and moves. Drawback: the new gnuchess starts with
16621 clocks at the beginning of a fresh time control.
16623 * Note: the "force" command to gnuchess is a toggle. I fixed a couple of
16624 places in xboard where "force" was being issued when gnuchess was already in
16625 force mode, which resulted in chaos. I don't know if they were in 1.2 or if I
16626 added them myself in the course of putting in new features.
16628 * ForceMoves button is now legal in PlayFromFile mode. It closes the game file
16629 and lets you force moves (or go Backward) from whatever position you've
16632 * The parser now recognizes "white resigns" and "black resigns" (in any
16633 combination of upper and lower case, with or without the closing "s"). These
16634 used to be misinterpreted as meaning "white wins" or "black wins" respectively!
16635 Added "1 - 0" and "0 - 1" as equivalents for "1-0" and "0-1".
16637 * I removed the parser feature of considering "!" as a comment delimiter.
16638 "!" is so common as an annotation in game scores that this feature seems like a
16641 * Added a wait() after each successful call to kill() to avoid leaving zombie
16644 * Removed the feature of putting an indication of how the game ended into the
16645 internal move list when playing from a file. The only benefit of this was that
16646 it would get written back out if you saved the game at that point. This
16647 feature doesn't seem too useful, since you are unlikely to save a game you've
16648 read in without making any changes, and it caused a lot of problems in the code
16649 and user interface. The end condition is still displayed as a message when
16650 it's first read in from the file. End conditions when playing against gnuchess
16651 are still saved, too.
16653 * programName is now the last file name component of argv[0], not all of it.
16655 * xboard.c got three compiler warnings due to arguments that didn't match the
16656 prototypes on X toolkit functions. I got rid of them by adding some casts, and
16657 adding extra unused arguments to the ReceiveFromProgram function.
16659 * As I received it, the distribution had an extra period glued on the front
16660 of every line that started with a period. This broke the manpage in an
16661 obvious way. It also broke parser.l in a nonobvious way that stopped
16662 PlayFromFile from working.
16664 * Fixed one or two bugs where the clock was started when it shouldn't have
16665 been. I think one example was if you tried an illegal move in ForceMoves mode.
16667 * Now starts the machine's clock if you hit MachineWhite when white is on move
16668 or MachineBlack when black is on move.
16670 * Now updates the to-move indicator (highlight on clock display) when you use
16671 Forward/Backward or ForceMoves.
16673 * gnuchess 3.1+ has a bug that makes it try to think on its opponent's time
16674 even when in force mode; this causes problems with xboard's SetupFromFile
16675 command because gnuchess's saved hint move is garbage after the new position is
16676 loaded, so gnuchess prints out an error message when it tries to think about
16677 what it would do if the user made this move. Here is a patch for gnuchess
16680 *** nondsp.c~ Mon Dec 2 12:37:18 1991
16681 *-- nondsp.c Thu Dec 19 15:36:06 1991
16684 ok = flag.quit = false;
16687 ! if (hint > 0 && !flag.easy && Book == NULL)
16690 time0 = time ((long *) 0);
16692 ok = flag.quit = false;
16695 ! if (hint > 0 && !flag.easy && Book == NULL && !flag.force)
16698 time0 = time ((long *) 0);
16700 * SavePosition/SetupFromFile now handle black-to-play positions. If it's
16701 black's move in a saved position, the line "black to play" is printed
16702 immediately after the board display. Upon loading a position, xboard
16703 looks for "black" at the beginning of this line to determine whether it's
16706 * SetupFromFile now leaves you (effectively) in ForceMoves mode. This
16707 eliminates some cases where the program would get into an inconsistent state,
16708 and hopefully is more intuitive for the user, too.
16710 * PlayFromFile now leaves xboard in ForceMoves mode after playing through all
16711 the moves in the file. You can use Backward/Forward, make moves, get gnuchess
16712 to join the game with MachineWhite or MachineBlack, etc. The game file can end
16713 with either white or black to play.
16715 * Backward/Forward now seem to work in all cases. Previously using these
16716 buttons during a game against the machine would get xboard out of sync with
16717 gnuchess's idea of what was going on, resulting in chaos. Now using these
16718 buttons puts xboard in ForceMoves mode; you can bring gnuchess back into the
16719 game using the MachineWhite or MachineBlack buttons.
16721 Thu Jun 27 15:06:25 PDT 1991
16723 * Remove comment popups during a reset.
16725 * Bug in my forward move fix. Didn't work for playgamefile mode.
16727 Thu Jun 20 15:04:06 PDT 1991
16729 * Can't do a backward move when it isn't your turn because gnuchess
16730 gets confused. Similar bug for forward move. Do a bunch of moves,
16731 back up move and go forward. These get filtered out now.
16733 * Put easy back into the initString. This DISABLES easy mode which by
16736 * New-line wasn't always being added to forward move strings sent to gnuchess.
16738 * Parsed comments as [ ..............text follows ] into d7d5
16740 * Long game file comments cause core dumps on HP systems.
16742 * Multiple uses of the get positition file button got confused
16743 on the second click.
16745 Minor fixes to the 1.2 release
16747 Version 1.2 -- Tue Jun 11 17:14:12 PDT 1991
16749 * For version 1.2, Jeff Kenton, Richard LLoyd, David Jensen, Martin D.,
16750 Bill Schmidt, Scott Hemphill, Paul Vaughan and Bill Shauck all found
16751 a lot of bugs that we put into xboard just to see if they were paying
16752 attention. They were.
16754 * Changed the protocol that xboard uses to work with the new version of
16757 * There was an off by one error with the clock resetting code. Also,
16758 the clock display highliting was wrong. Thanks to Bill Shauck for
16759 pointing these out.
16761 * enumerations are not really integers on some C compilers. I added casting.
16762 The new version of gnuchess expects the "go" command for two machine
16763 and machine plays white cases. The whiteString resource is for
16764 compatibility with previous gnuchess versions which get confused by go.
16765 Thanks to Martin D. for catching these.
16767 * Fixed a bug where the checkmate message wasn't being parsed and xboard
16768 kept playing. Also, the message was added to game file if saved.
16769 Thanks to Scott Hemhill for pointing this out.
16771 * Fixed a bug where saving a long game, resetting and saving a short game
16772 resulted in appending the end of the long game to the short one.
16773 If a game is just being played out and there is no reason for gnuchessr
16774 to be used, ignore pipe signals. This allows people to use xboard
16775 as a chess board without need for gnuchess. Also, trivially bad moves
16776 such as e2e2 are not passed on to gnuchessr but instead ignored out of
16777 hand. This allows people using xboard as a chessboard with gnuchessr
16778 to pick a piece up, think and put it back down without making a move.
16779 Thanks to Jeff Kenton for pointing these out.
16781 * Added the CHESSDIR environment variable. Game and position files are
16782 found in this directory. If this variable is not declared, then the
16783 current directory is used. File names starting with / are treated
16786 * The bitmap file names were changed so that none exceeded 14 characters.
16787 This is necessary for R5.
16789 fcntl(from_prog[0], F_SETFL, O_NDELAY);
16791 The xboard fix was to set non-blocking i/o on the read pipe for gnuchessr
16793 printz ("Illegal move (no matching move generated)");
16795 * fixed a problem with the new version of gnuchessr where xboard wasn't
16796 getting gnuchessr error messages for illegal moves. The problem seems
16797 to be fixed *without* any gnuchess changes but this is likely to be
16798 highly system dependant. There should be a new line on line 246 of nondsp.c
16800 * -iconic doesn't work at all now. The Iconify() does work. This was
16801 a tradeoff and it is really an Xt bug.
16803 * Fixed a compiler warning for gcc and an error for the IBM RT compilers.
16804 This is the VOID_PROC macro in xboard.h. Thanks to David Jensen for this.
16806 * If the DisplayWidth or DisplayHeight is less than 800, use small size mode.
16807 Also the size of the name widget was reduced from 500 pixels to 400 pixels
16808 because in small size mode there was a gap on the right.
16809 Changed the default font from fixed to helvetica_oblique14 to:
16810 **-helvetica-bold-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
16811 helvetica_oblique14 is a font alias not on all R4 systems.
16812 Curiously enough, the 17 point is not available on 75dpi systems
16813 and the 18 point font is not available on 100dpi systems.
16814 Thanks to Richard K. Lloyd for pointing these out.
16816 * Minor hacks to work with R5 alpha. Had to add an event handler to the
16817 boardWidget to get translations to work. This may go away with the real R5.
16818 Added <Message>WM_PROTOCOLS: QuitProc() for R5 ICCCM compatibility.
16820 * If the first character of the file is not `1' then the first line
16821 of a game or position file is displayed as the name in a label widget.
16823 * Added a PopUp dialog for getting file names.
16825 * Modified the code to use the R4 routines rather than R3 compatibility.
16827 * Changed the forwards/backwards/readgamefile code to allow a play to step
16828 back and forth in a game. If he steps all the way to the beginning
16829 he has to restart the game. If he gets into a mated position, same problem.
16831 * Moved the man page from xboard.1 to xboard.man. This makes imake man page
16832 installs work correctly. Thanks to Richard K. Lloyd for pointing this out.
16834 * Corrected the queening code. XBoard was sending the wrong syntax.
16835 It was sending for example h8(Q) when it should have been sending h8q.
16836 Thanks to Paul Vaughan and Mike McGann for pointing this out.
16838 * Added a lex parser for algebraic games. It should be easy to use the parser
16839 for other interfaces such as the Microsoft Windows version.
16840 It parses comments of the form [anything] and ! to the end of a line.
16842 Version 1.1 -- Mon Jan 7 14:46:03 PST 1991
16844 * Roger Dubar, Konstantinos Konstantinides, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht,
16845 Paul Scowen, Mvh Smidt and Kayvan Sylvan all helped immensely during
16848 * older non-ANSI versions of Sun compilers complain vociferously.
16850 * the remoteShell resource was added for HP-UX systems
16851 and other systems where the remoteShell isn't rsh.
16853 * -iconic doesn't work properly. If XBoard is opened iconic then
16854 iconifying it later with a keystroke doesn't work. I think
16857 * For systems with smaller screens, XBoard can use smaller pieces,
16858 and a smaller board. -bigSizeMode False uses a smaller set of pieces.
16859 These are scaled versions of the large pieces. They look ok but could
16862 * getlogin() does not work in all cases.
16863 It was replaced by getpwuid(getuid())->pw_name).
16865 * Warning messages get displayed in the message box.
16867 * Any button restarts a paused game.
16869 * Kayvan Sylvan contributed a patch for ESIX.
16870 It seems that select() on pipes is broken on his system. We declined
16871 to incorporate his patch though, because it was a work-around for
16872 something that was broken on one system, and selfishly, that system
16873 was not my own. Nevertheless, it is likely that other System V users
16874 on PC's may need to use this patch and it is is included as the file
16875 ESIX.patch. To use it, type
16877 patch xboard.c ESIX.patch
16879 * Fixed a bug where hint didn't work. The local version of gnuchessr
16880 had been hacked. The fix was to clone stderr and stdout for gnuchessr.
16882 * Fixed a bug where a player could play after a game had been finished.
16884 * The bitmaps have been pushed into the bitmaps directory.
16886 * Substantially rewrote and simplified the Two Machine code.
16888 * Added StrStr() because many systems don't have this ANSI function.
16890 * Added keyboard equivalents. Added an iconify keystroke, C or c.
16892 * Works with gcc now. gcc complained about casting float constants
16895 * Detect if the visual doesn't support color. If so, run in monoMode.
16896 An alternative would be to detect grayscale visual and use a collection
16897 of gray user interface colors.
16899 XBoard.clockMode: False
16901 * For people who don't like or use chess clocks a clockMode switch
16902 has been added. It is on by default. It can be turned off in the
16903 .Xdefaults file with
16905 * Added a declaration, xtVersion, which will quickly break on R3 Intrinsics.
16907 * Hal Peterson contributed a new Imakefile.
16909 * Rewrote DisplayClocks().
16911 * Rewrote TwoMachinesPlay mode.
16913 * Konstantinos Konstantinides added the -searchTime option.
16915 * Substantially rewrote and simplified the clock code. If a game was paused
16916 and then resumed, the clocks were out of sync.
16918 * Fixed a bug in HandleUserMove() where the user could make a move while the
16919 machine was thinking. The fix detects and ignores these moves. onMove
16920 was not being used and was removed.