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 2013-02-05 22:52:42 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7 new version number for release of 4.7.0
10 2013-02-05 11:56:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11 Let initial setting of Twice checkbox reflect current state
13 The Twice checkbox in the Tournament dialog of WinBoard was by default
14 starting unticked. It is more convenient to have it preserve the current
15 state, however, based on the -lpi or -lgi value. Like the auto-incremet
18 2013-02-04 22:07:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
19 Put GTK warning in about-box
22 2013-02-04 21:59:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
23 Fix warnings of build server
26 2013-02-02 15:58:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
27 Fix GTK error auto-raising board
29 The variable mainwindow is not set in the gtk2 version. Unfortunately
30 it is still used to determine default board size...
32 2013-02-01 19:42:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
33 Update Dutch WB translation
36 2013-02-01 19:37:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
37 Add some new strings to WB translation template
40 2013-02-01 19:34:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
41 Assign shortcut char to WB menu item
43 The new Save games as Book item did not have a shortcut yet.
45 2013-02-01 19:31:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
46 Let WinBoard start in its installation folder
48 The current directory in WinBoard was not automatically the same as the
49 installDir returned by SearchPath. Especially not if used without shortcut
52 2013-02-01 19:29:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
53 Fix warning in WinBoard
56 2013-01-30 14:25:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
57 Fix expose of to-square with grid off
59 The code relied on drawHighlight to request an expose evet for the entire
60 square, but when lineGap = 0, drawHighlight is a no-op.
62 2013-01-29 08:39:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
65 On OS X dialog windows could not get focus if -lXaw appeared after
66 -lX11 -lXt in the linker command. This was cured by moving
67 @FRONTEND_FLAGS@ (which expands to -lXaw) first in the LDADD parameter
70 2013-01-28 17:38:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
71 Preserve PGN tags when loading engine
73 Switching to EditGame mode would normally erase the tags, but when analyzing
74 a loaded game this would be undesirable. When the engine is playing, keeping
75 the tags is dubious, but it is not obvious what to put in a new name tag,
76 so we leave that for now.
78 2013-01-28 17:23:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
79 Preserve mode on engine loading (sometimes)
81 That the mode always switched to EditGame after engine loading was
82 particularly annoying at the start of a game (where leaving BeginningOfGame
83 mode would disablethe Time Control dialog, and the engine would not
84 automatically reply if you start playing) and AnalyzeMode. These two
85 modes are now preserved, BeginningOfGame by refraining from calling
86 EditGameEvent() and sending 'force' to the new engine, and AnalyzeMode
87 be calling AnalyzeModeEvent() after the engine is loaded and repositioned.
89 2013-01-28 14:14:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
90 Catch unknown engine in tourney games
92 When an XBoard instance is playing on a tourney it can happen that it is
93 using a settings file with an engine list not yet containing a certain
94 participant, because that participant was just installed in the instance
95 that created the tourney file, but it did not save those modifications yet.
96 This error is now caught, and leads to an error popup and stopping of the
97 tourney play. This error was made non-fatal to allow the user to decide
98 if he wants to quit with or without saving the settings (which, after all,
99 does not seem up-to-date).
101 2013-01-26 18:08:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
102 Adjudicate pawn-drop mate as loss in Shogi
104 Mating with a Pawn drop is illegal in Shogi, but rather than burdoning
105 the legality-testing by this complex rule, we simply invert the result
106 for such a mate. After all, Shogi customs are such that everything illegal
107 leads to an immediate loss.
109 2013-01-25 10:05:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
110 Adjudicate perpetual checks as loss also in Shogi
112 The Xiangqi code for recognizing perpetual checks is now also activated for
113 Shogi, but in this case we bail out before checking for perpetual chases.
114 The mini-Shogi case is then recognized as a win for gote.
116 2013-01-25 09:55:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
117 Stalemate is a win in Shogi
119 In regular Shogi this never occurs, but in the mini variants it happens
122 2013-01-22 20:49:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
123 Fix engine timeout problem in match mode
125 Reload of a reuse=0 engine would cause a done=1 event which would be
126 abort the feature timeout of the other engine in the first game.
128 2013-01-22 20:32:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
129 Enforce -popupMoveErrors
131 One move error was using DisplayError(), in stead of DisplayMoveError(),
132 and thus did not obey the -popupMoveErrors option.
134 2013-01-21 15:30:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
138 2013-01-21 10:26:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
142 2013-01-20 19:09:05 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
143 Updated German translation
146 2013-01-19 17:54:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
147 Do delayed board draw also with -stickyWindows false
149 Only CoDrag needs to be suppressed on a configure event with
150 -stickyWindows false, not the board redraw.
152 2013-01-18 11:11:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
153 Let tellothers command add comment to PGN in local mode
156 2012-12-30 15:19:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
157 Allow use of ~ in pieceToChar for shadow pieces in any variant
159 The use of shadow-pieces for promoted Pawns was limited to Crazyhouse and
160 Bughouse. But this is not necessary, and in fact undesirable, as it made
161 it impossible to implement Crazyhouse960, which combines shadow promotions
162 with Fischer castling (only available in variant fischerandom)s, and thus
163 has to be played as 8x8+5_fischerandom, using the Crazyhouse -pieceToChaTable.
165 2012-12-30 15:06:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
166 Resend engine-defined options after reuse=0 reload
168 When the engine process is re-spawned for a new game under -xreuse setting,
169 any alteration of engine settings brought about through the Engine Settings
170 dialogs would be lost, and revert to the engine's default. This is now fixed
171 by re-sending all options (known from the previous load of the same engine)
172 with the current settings immediately after "protover 2", and ignoring the
173 engine's option features. Rather than clearing the option list, and
174 redefining it from the option features.
176 2012-12-30 14:58:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
177 Implement aborting of games on engine request.
179 A new game-end command is added. For bakward compatibility it is disguised
180 as an old one, namely "1/2-1/2 {Engine Abort Request}". These resultDetails
181 are recognized as special, and rather than ending the game in a draw (which
182 GUIs not implementing this), the game will be completely 'expunged' from
183 the match or tourney it is part of, leaving no trace in the saveGameFile.
185 2012-12-30 14:54:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
186 Store some more tourney params in tourney file
188 The hash and threads settings, as well as ponder and book options are now
189 also saved in the tourney file, so that tournaments can be played in
190 parallel where these parameters differ, and no mess up can occur on
191 restarting a touney after doing something else.
193 2012-12-23 11:26:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
194 Do not automatically save aborted games in tourney PGN
196 When the game result is 'unfinished', we prompt for a filename rather
197 then using the specified saveGameFile if a tourney is in progress.
199 2013-01-19 08:35:52 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
200 fix configure bug that showed up on OS X (couldn't find X11/Dialog.h)
202 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.
204 2013-01-18 22:26:13 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
205 Updated Ukrainian translations
208 2013-01-09 07:57:43 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
209 removed trailing whitespace
212 2013-01-09 07:49:20 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
213 Updated copyright notice to 2013
216 2012-12-22 22:46:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
217 Do not move to forwadMostMove when unpausing AnalyzeMode
220 2012-12-22 22:44:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
221 Use Ctrl key in AnalyzeMode to exclude entered move
224 2012-12-22 20:40:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
225 Implement insufficient mating material for Knightmate
227 KBK is draw with Royal Knight. With exo-pieces also KNK and KFK.
229 2012-12-22 20:25:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
230 Fix rep-draw detection in drop games
232 In games like Crazyhouse every move is reversible, as captured pieces
233 can eventually change sides again, and be dropped back on the board.
234 So we have to search back a full 100 ply for repetitions, passing captures
237 2012-12-11 22:33:07 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
241 2012-12-11 22:18:05 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
242 new version number for developer release
245 2012-12-10 14:48:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
246 Prefer pause mode on pondering engine over 'easy'
248 If the thinking engine is stopped after its move because it does not
249 support pause, is is still better to use pause on the pondering engine
250 than to switch of its pondering with 'easy', as the latter might not
251 be instantaneous. Also switch off pondering in the thinking engine before
252 it gives the move, just in case it does not respond immediately to
255 2012-12-10 13:40:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
256 Update WinBoard translation template
259 2012-12-10 13:35:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
260 Fix min-Shogi promotion zone
262 In integer arithmetic N*2/3 is not the same as N - N/3, with as a result
263 that the white promotion zone was 2 ranks deep on 5x5 boards. This only
264 happened in LegalityTest, but because this would classify all moves to
265 4th rank an non-promotions, they would be printed with a faulty
266 deferral (=) sign as promochar in SAN.
268 2012-12-10 13:32:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
269 Do not clear PGN tags on Analyze File
272 2012-12-10 13:28:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
273 Fix -fSAN in AnalyzeFile mode
275 The exception that a PV relates to currentMove rather than forwardMostMove
276 applies not oly in AnalyzeMode, but also in AnalyzeFile. Furthermore,
277 PvToSan did not properly restore the pushed game tail in this case.
279 2012-12-08 16:02:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
280 Improve scaling of border bitmap (WB)
282 The StretchBlt mode is set from dither to delete.
284 2012-12-05 16:34:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
285 Implement use of pause / resume protocol commands
287 Engines that implement feature pause=1 will be paused during their move
288 on a pause event; pondering engines will be controlled either through
289 'pause' or (if they don't support that) 'easy', which both should work
290 instantaneously. If the thinking engine does not support 'pause', the pausing
291 will be deferred to when it produces its move, and is implemented by not
292 relaying the move, and switch off pondering for both.
294 2012-12-03 12:58:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
295 Fix Loop-Chess promotions
297 Loop Chess is not a supported variant, but hould be playable as Crazyhouse
298 with an altered pieceToCharTable, not defining the shadow promotion pieces.
299 But with legality testing on promotion to shadow piece would take place
300 even if the shadow piece was not defined.
302 2012-12-02 22:44:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
303 Fix move highlighting with animation off
305 In WB the moving of SetHighlights to after the animation had broken the
306 highlighting of engine moves, because it was also moved after DrawPosition.
307 While it is DrawPosition that actually draws the highlights. Now it has been
308 moved to just before DrawPosition.
310 2012-12-02 11:09:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
311 Start browsing in currently-selected folder (WB)
313 The folder-browse dialog always started at My Computer, while file browsing
314 started in the globally last-used folder (which might not be related at all
315 to the file entry we are now browsing for).
317 2012-11-29 23:38:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
318 Implement book-creation functions
320 A new menu item triggers conversion of the currently loaded PGN file
321 to a Polyglot book, saved with the GUI-book filename. A (volatile) option
322 -mcBookMode alters the probing algorithm to build a book from scratch by
323 playing games (and using a form of learning).
325 2012-11-29 22:23:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
326 Use colors in Board-Options dialog also for font pieces (WB)
328 The piece color settings now control the pieceColor or fontPieceColor
329 settings, depending on the setting of -usePieceFont.
331 2012-11-29 22:14:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
332 Implement auto-creation of ICS logon file
334 Under control of the new option -autoCreateLogon (which can be set from
335 the ICS Options dialog) the first two lines in response to the ICS "login:"
336 pompt will be saved on a newly created logon file (if logon from such
337 an existing file failed).
339 2012-11-29 21:56:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
340 Add Themes dialog (WB)
342 This dialog, done by the generic popup, contains controls for many settings
343 that so far could only be controlled by options. It also introduces the
344 concept of 'themes', sets of options stored in the multi-line option
346 Add some dummy routines to suppress compile errors in functions that
347 cannot be called yet in XBoard.
349 2012-11-29 21:32:03 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
350 Allow external piece bitmaps and board border (WB)
352 The -pieceImageDirectory is now also used for WinBoard, to indicate
353 a directory of .bmp files, used to replace the built-ins. The outline
354 and solid bitmaps can be full-color. This allows winBoard to use the
355 WinBoard-zeta graphics. A new option -border can indicate a bitmap file
356 used to draw a half-square-wide border around the board.
357 A white background has to be drawn underneath the black pieces, to avoid
358 color-interference with the board, just like happens for the white pieces.
359 These backgrounds now always use bright white, rather than -withePieceColor.
361 We still have to work on the scaling of the zeta (600x600) bitmaps to
362 the actual board size, as for some bitmaps the stratchblt is ugly.
364 2012-11-29 21:05:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
365 Add 'Continue Later' button in Tournament dialog (WB)
367 This button makes it possible to accept the values specified in the
368 dialog without immediately starting the tournament (as OK does),
369 so you can re-open the dialog later, and OK it then.
371 2012-11-29 20:25:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
372 Load opponent logo based on handle in ICS play (WB)
374 The logos for handles on FICS are sought in folder logos\freeches.org\*.bmp,
375 etc. If no logo for the handle is found there, the logo of the ICS is
378 2012-11-19 20:35:05 -0800 Daniel Dugovic <dandydand@gmail.com>:
379 Fix configure script for --enable-zippy (tiny change)
381 reported and patch by Daniel.
383 edited by Arun Persaud:
384 - also fixed #ifndef ZIPPY -> #if !ZIPPY
385 - didn't change #if -> #ifdef
387 2012-11-10 00:12:34 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
388 don't define X_LIBS when using gtk-frontend
391 2012-11-07 22:16:09 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
392 updated po/pot files; added new frontend files
395 2012-11-07 22:14:20 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
396 fix configure script for --with-Xaw and --with-gtk
398 made Xaw the default and included xaw or gtk sources as extras
399 in case the other frontend is selected for make distcheck
401 2012-11-07 21:13:38 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
402 new version number for developer release
405 2012-10-31 09:55:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
406 Draw frames around memos and listboxes
409 2012-10-30 17:39:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
410 Adapt lineGap during sizing
413 2012-10-30 15:04:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
414 Fix clock highlighting
417 2012-10-30 10:59:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
420 The genric TypeInProc is re-instated, and replaces ICSKeyEvent as primary
421 handler for special keys in one-liner text edits.
423 2012-10-29 19:46:27 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
424 Pay attention to NO_CANCEL dialog flag
427 2012-10-29 14:18:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
428 Fix clock clicking with GtkEventBox
430 Like in WinBoard the button-3 case is now handled in the primary
431 event handler (and communicated to it in a kludgy way). It would be
432 better if this was absorbed in ClockClick().
434 2012-10-28 22:25:22 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
437 Graphs were not recognized as possible SAME_ROW elements. A Graph requesting
438 FIXED_H (which only the logos did) is now packed into a (borderless) aspect
441 2012-10-25 23:04:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
442 Add window positioning
444 Sticky windows now sort of works, but needs unexplained fudge factors.
445 Reopening a persistent dialog centers it on the board, and disobeys
446 the positioning command. The WindowPlacement of the BoardWindow was
447 again added (it was commented out during development).
449 2012-10-22 22:41:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
450 Make board sizing work through subtracting fixed height
452 There is now no attempt to give a size to the board drawing area, so it
453 can later be sized as small as we want. The frame width is determined
454 by subtracting the nominal board size from the actual window size,
455 (because the clocks will have that width, and the board will startas 1x1),
456 while the vertical margin is determined as the difference between the
457 bactual window height, the drawing-area height minus a fudge of 25 pixels
458 to compesate for the erroneously allocated blank space below the board.
460 2012-10-22 21:09:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
463 The highTextStart/End are now declared in engineoutput.h, shared between
464 nengineoutput.c and xengineoutput.c. Unused variables were removed.
465 Also fix warnings in xboard.c and xoptions.c.
467 2012-10-22 17:40:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
468 Delete emptied front-end files, and move rest to gtk directory
470 Remove #ifdeffed-out Xt code that has GTK implementation. The xgamelist
471 and xhistory have been completely cleared off content, and were removed.
473 2012-10-27 00:12:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
476 The code from gtk-xt could be used with almost no modification.
478 2012-10-21 09:09:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
479 Some experimenting with sizing
481 Does not work as intended yet.
483 2012-10-21 23:04:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
486 Funny enough it was necessary to swap the two svg icons to make this work!
488 2012-10-20 10:29:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
489 Make some tall dialogs multi-column
491 A dummy button was added to the last row of New Variant to make the
492 number even. A legality-test warning as put in the New Variant dialog
493 Fix width of tourney-file in Match dialog
495 2012-10-20 21:14:33 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
496 updated some icons to SVG
499 2012-10-20 19:57:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
500 Add displaying of icons
502 A new Option type, 'Icon', was added for this as in GTK Icons and Labels
503 need different types of widget. The icons are now svg, so we could
504 remove the icon pixmaps.
506 2012-10-20 14:25:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
510 2012-10-20 14:03:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
511 Add BarBegin, BarEnd options
513 This makes the button bar display correctly. Also fix v-sizing of menu bar.
515 2012-10-20 10:01:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
516 Add listbox double-click callback
518 This function was formerly performed by WheelProc.
520 2012-10-19 17:29:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
521 Add hiding / showing second Engine Output pane
523 The handle of the GTK table for the second engine is stored in the
524 EndMark handle by GenericPopUp, so it can be used later to hise/show
527 2012-10-19 17:15:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
528 Use different tables for different dialog columns
530 Making the same table wider (in steps of 3) to get multiple columns
531 does not work, because it forces options to align vertically. This
532 wrecks dialogs like Load Engine, where one column contains a very
533 high option (listbox). Now differnt tables are created for each column,
534 packed in a new itermediate hbox. In case of the Engine Output window,
535 a vbox is used instead to cause vertical stacking.
536 Only multi-line text-edits and listboxes are now allowed to take up
537 vertical space changes, while only the middle colum of the table
538 can take up horizontal size changes. Within packing boxes space is
540 The labels above the particiant-selection widgets had not the same width
541 as the textview / listbox, leading to misplacement of the second label.
542 For Engine Settings the spontaneous breaking into columns did not
543 involve a SAME_ROW flag, so the 'columns' were stacked vertically.
544 In addition the columns were too tall for GTK. They are now 20 options max.
546 2012-10-19 13:46:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
547 Deselect first char in Move Type-in and ICS Input Box
549 After popup the Move Type-In had the typed character in it, but it was
550 selected, so that typing a second character would erase it again.
551 Same for the ICS Input Box. A prototype for CursorAtEnd is now also added.
553 2012-10-19 13:33:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
554 Close Move Type-in on Enter
556 The code is squeezed into the ICSKeyEvent callback.
558 2012-10-18 21:57:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
559 Add access routines to checkboxes and FocusOnWidget
561 The <Enter> handler of the filter field needs it to return focus to
564 2012-10-18 21:42:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
565 Add game-list callbacks
567 The callbacks for listbox and filter text are treated by the same callback,
568 which does both key presses and button double-clicks.
569 Giving focus back to the listbox after filtering does not yet work!
571 2012-10-18 16:27:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
572 Add optional callback to Label Options
574 For some reason this does not work. The callback isn't called!
576 2012-10-18 13:40:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
577 Add type-in event to board for popping up box
580 2012-10-18 13:12:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
583 The state of Shift and Ctrl was only probed on button clicks, so it
584 is now read out of the button-event struct in the relevant button handlers.
585 For backwad compatibility, they store it in a global, so the routine
586 ShiftKeys can take them from there.
588 2012-10-18 12:35:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
589 Remove some unneeded low-level X11 code
591 Things like tabbing between controls, mouse-wheel scolling etc. are all
592 automatic in GTK, and thuse don't need to be ported.
594 2012-10-18 10:12:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
597 The gtk-xt code for browsing in response to menu items rather than dialog
598 browse buttons) was grafted. It seems desirable to merge the two browsing
599 functions, though. Pass extra params used by Xaw to FileNamePopUpGTK.
600 The code was altered to use DelayedLoad.
602 2012-10-18 09:54:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
603 Fix ListBox, and add some support routines
605 The srolled-window for the listbox used a uninitialized variable for its
606 width, causing a crash. Now it pays attention to the Option.max and .value
607 size hints. The access routines were copied from gtk-xt. HighlightWithScroll
608 could just a wrapper for HighlightListBoxItem, as GTK auto-scrolls.
610 2012-10-17 20:01:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
611 Connect CommentClick handler
613 This can make use of generic memo callback, so it could be entirely
614 backend. Therefore it was moved to dialogs.h. As it shared a global with
615 some other back-end popup routines to remember the current move, these
616 could now be moved out of xboard.c too. (Well, not so for the X11 front-end,
617 so it has now been put in a header. :-( )
619 2012-10-17 19:41:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
622 Because FrameDelay does block the event loop, even though it releaes the
623 CPU, expose events start to lag behind the actual drawing. By combining
624 expose events for overlapping squares, rather than decompose them into
625 3 rectangles, this problem seems to go away. But only if there is an
626 extra exposure on the squares to be drawn also non-overlapping frames
627 will be properly drawn (?!).
629 2012-10-17 14:40:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
630 Implement highlighting in engine output by through generic method
632 HighlightMove was made generally available for all text. It is now just a
633 wrapper for the generic HighlightText, and could be moved to the back-end.
634 (This requires the initialization to be widget specific, and the flag
635 indicating it has been done is now stored in the Option.min field.)
637 2012-10-17 14:33:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
638 Let engine-output memos use new generic callback
641 2012-10-17 13:53:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
642 Add scrolling of Move History
644 To have access to the textview, its handle is now stored in the
645 Option.textValue field.
647 2012-10-17 13:11:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
648 Add highlighting in move list
650 For now it is assumed the normal background will be white (for clearing
653 2012-10-16 19:44:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
654 Make generic memo-event handler, and connect history callback
656 Large text widgets can now define a user handler in their Option.choice
657 field. If they do, agneric callback is added tothem, which catches mouse
658 events. Button release and pointer motion pass their coordinate and type
659 to the specified user routine. Button presses in addition retrieve
660 the text from the widget, set the cursor in it to the clicked point,
661 and convert it to a character position, also passed to the user.
662 The user is responsible for ignoring events he is not interested in.
664 2012-10-16 15:58:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
665 Add key-handler for ICS Input Box
667 In contrast to the X11 code, all intercepted keys are now treated by
668 the same callback. The ICS Input Box callback triggers on Up, Down and
669 Return key, and refers to these symbolically.
671 2012-10-16 15:05:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
672 Highlight Pause button
675 2012-10-16 13:52:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
676 Better cleansing of xboard.c from X11 types
678 The #includes for X11 files were still in there.
680 2012-10-16 13:28:32 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
681 Add text insertion in engine-output memos
684 2012-10-16 09:34:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
685 Append recent engines to engine menu
687 This is now entirely moved to the back-end, by doing it in the table
688 from which the menus are later generated. The special callback for engine
689 items is abandoned, and the euProc for such items is left NULL to flag
690 that RecentEngineEvent should be invoked with the applicable engine number.
691 To calculate the latter a global variable firstEngineItem is dynamically
692 set to the length of the regular engine menu.
694 2012-10-15 22:17:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
695 Transfer more gtk-xt code, and add some new
697 Add input-source handling
698 Graft color picker (<Enter> callbeack in the text field is still missing!)
699 Handle contents of label widgets (store handles in Option for access)
700 Add printing of clocks
701 Add printing of window title
702 Pay attention to BORDER attribute of Label Options (pack in frame)
703 Delete ReadBitmap code (also remove #including of bitmap files for icons)
704 Fix layout of textviews (adapt to newer Option format, incl. wrap, scroll)
705 Support vertical stacking in Break Option (no table widening when !SAME_ROW)
706 Make default horizontal scroll policy automatic (for engine-output window)
707 Fix disabling of unused spinners in TC dialog
709 2012-10-15 20:47:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
710 Connect dialog Browse buttons to GTK browser
713 2012-10-15 19:52:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
714 Implement menu checkmarking and enabling
716 odes in the (later over-written) handle field specify which items
717 are to be checkmarked, and by what style button.
719 2012-10-15 16:18:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
720 Attach expose handler and connect to mouse events
722 The GraphExposeProc is conected to the Graph widgets. A gdk draw routine
723 is used to copy the buffer bitmap to the display. It is also connected
724 to button and motion-notify events.
725 In this version the board can be fully operated with the mouse.
727 2012-10-14 22:00:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
728 Transfer most available gtk-xt code to xoptions.c
730 GenericPopUp and PopDown are grafted from gtk-xt into gtk2.
731 The version compiles, but segfaults before doing anything, with error
732 messages about unexpected cases in GenericPopup for Graph and PopUp Options
733 of the main board. The spin options need special treatment in GetWidgtText.
735 2012-10-15 11:41:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
736 Give LoadListBox two extra parameters
738 It often occurs that we just want to swap two elements, and reloading
739 the entire listbox would be a very inefficient way to do this in widget
740 sets that allow access to a single element.
742 2012-10-14 20:36:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
743 Remove all X11 code by #ifdeffing it out
745 With #ifdef TODO_GTK we disable all X11 code, in order to get a compiling
746 X11-free version. The disabled sections can then be replaced by code
747 for another widget set, the X11 version still showing what it was supposed
750 2012-10-14 17:37:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
751 Move timer functions to new file xtimer.c
753 The timers for the clocks, periodic analysis events and ScheduleDelayedEvent
754 go into a separate file.
756 2012-10-14 15:31:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
757 Make xevalgraph.c backend
759 The only front-end stuff left in xevalgraph.c was an unnecessary reading
760 of the window size (which could be obtained from the WindowPlaceent struct),
761 and drawing (all cairo now). The drawing was moved to draw.c, and the
762 remaining part renamed nevalgraph.c.
764 An attempt to list them in a less chaotic way.
766 2012-10-14 14:34:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
767 Cleanse back-end code of all references to X11 types
769 When compiling for X11, common.h #included X11/Intrinsics.h so that
770 X11-specific data types could still be used throughout the back-end part
771 not shared with WinBoard. By temporarily disabling this, error messages
772 could be generated on all such occurrences, and were then solved. This
773 included the following:
774 The InputSource struct is not uses in usystem.c at all, and its definition
775 could be moved to xboard.c. InputSourceRef, which logically should heve been
776 defined as (InputSource *), is in reality (void *), so the back-end can
778 Some non-platform-dependent stuff of general interest had prototypes
779 (or external vars) in xboard.h. This is now moved to a new header xboard2.h,
780 to allow it to be shared without bringing in X11 dependence.
781 The EngineOutputProc was defined inconsistently, but the header was not
782 sufficiently shared to flag this error. This has been repaired now, by moving
783 the template to menus.h.
785 2012-10-14 13:39:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
786 Remove xedittags.c, .h from project
788 The tiny bit of code that was left was absorbed in dialogs.c, the one
789 prototype to menus.h.
791 2012-10-14 12:53:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
792 Remove inclusion of frontend.h from backendz.h
794 This did not seem to serve any purpose at all.
796 2012-10-14 12:49:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
797 Split xhistory.c in front-end and middle-end part
800 2012-10-14 12:21:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
801 Move MarkMenuItem to xoptions.c
803 This to make xoptions.c completely independent from the inclusion of
804 frontend.h. The prototype is moved to menus.h.
805 Loose end: DrawPosition in board.c does not see the prototype.
806 Very suspect that it wants to see it. Why would it have to correct the
807 flipView setting??? Better se to it that it is correct to start with!
809 2012-10-14 12:14:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
810 move testing for no options to back-end
812 The test if an engine has options and display a note instead of
813 the Engine Settings dialog when this is not the case is moved
814 to outside of GenericPopUp, to make the later independent of calling
817 2012-10-14 11:20:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
818 Remove some unnecessary header includes
821 2012-10-14 10:47:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
822 Move ICS-engine analyze and AnalyzeGame code to shared back-end
824 This code was still duplicated between WB and XB in the front-ends.
825 Because of its incorporation in AnalyzeModeEvent the 'middle-end'
826 function AnalyzeModeProc could be eliminated. AnalyzeModeEvent was made
827 to return an int to flag its success, and keep the JAWS code based
829 The AnalyzeGame code is now incorporated in AnalyzeFileEvent().
831 2012-10-26 10:28:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
832 Add configure switches for Xaw vs GTK.
834 This patch is an adapted version of the one Arun made at the end of the
835 gtk2 branch. It uses the exact same version of his configure.ac, but the
836 Makefile.am is adapted to the situation in master at the beginning of it,
837 after duplication of the X11 front-end files in the xaw directory for
838 preserving them, while the versions that will be modified to GTK front-end
839 are still in the xboard directory.
841 2012-10-25 11:12:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
842 Prepare xoptions.c for middle-end changes
844 Some changes that can be pre-empted, such as the splitting of Label
845 into Label and Icon Option type, and some dummy wrappers are already
846 implemented, so they can be used when needed by GTK.
848 2012-10-25 09:20:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
849 Preserve copies of the X11 front-end in xboard directory
851 The X11 front-end has been moved to the xaw directory, but copies
852 are retained for modifying them to gtk versions.
854 2012-10-24 08:55:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
855 Move X11 front-end to directory xaw
858 2012-10-31 18:18:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
859 Fix initial enables in TC dialog
862 2012-10-30 14:47:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
863 Fix image extension used for browsing to .pgn
866 2012-10-28 21:39:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
867 Fix WinBoard compile error on enum PEN
870 2012-10-30 11:20:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
871 Fix crash in promotion popup
873 There were not enough entries for Capablanca Chess with legality-testing off,
874 where King is also presented as a choice.
876 2012-10-28 18:19:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
877 Fix message in New Variant dialog
879 Even in -ncp mode the message was referring to the 'current engine'.
881 2012-10-28 18:16:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
882 Fix crash on animation after resizing
884 The animate buffers were still holding pointers to a discarded cairo surface.
886 2012-10-21 14:49:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
887 Fix variant-dependent pieces
889 The code to select the actually used piece images from the available ones
890 (from InitDrawingSizes) is now made into a subroutine, and also called
891 after resizing the pieces.
893 2012-10-26 10:18:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
894 Replace marble texture pixmaps by png
897 2012-10-26 10:13:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
898 Replace xiangqi board pixmaps by png images
901 2012-10-26 10:08:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
902 Remove the texture pixmaps from project
904 These were already replaced by png textures.
906 2012-10-23 15:02:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
907 Fix re-rendering of svg on resize
909 The previously prepared bitmaps were retained if we resized, rather then
910 rendering the svg atthe new size.
912 2012-10-21 15:48:30 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
916 2012-10-21 15:47:12 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
917 new version number for developer release
920 2012-10-21 11:10:36 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
921 we still need a few bitmaps, so the directory needs to be included in Makefile.am
923 make distcheck complained about this
925 2012-10-21 15:56:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
926 Rename svg shogi pieces, so they become usable
928 Only white pieces are present. For black they would have to be flipped.
930 2012-10-21 15:54:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
931 Fix bug in resizing on variant switch
933 The fix of the garbage pixels had unfortunately broken this.
935 2012-10-21 15:15:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
936 Fix bug in fallback mechanism
938 After failure to load a piece from a specified -pieceImageDirectory
939 the default theme was not tried, because the cairo function to load
940 from a pgn file returns a valid handle even if the file does not exist.
942 2012-10-21 14:58:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
943 Get svg error message
946 2012-10-21 14:49:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
947 Fix variant-dependent pieces
949 The code to select the actually used piece images from the available ones
950 (from InitDrawingSizes) is now made into a subroutine, and also called
951 after resizing the pieces.
953 2012-10-16 12:08:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
954 Remove caveat on available pieces fromNew Variant dialog
956 In the cairo version all pieces are available at all board sizes.
958 2012-10-21 11:41:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
959 Remove some unused images from png directory
961 Currently only the three board texture files are used. But the piece
962 images are still left, because they might be useful if we ever want
963 to mae XBoard configurable for not using librsvg.
965 2012-10-21 10:40:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
968 The nominal size of the window was not set in the correct Option struct.
970 2012-10-21 09:58:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
971 Prevent odd-width line shift in length direction
974 2012-10-21 09:48:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
975 Print missing-pieces error message to console
977 The GUI might not yet be up at this point.In addition, suppress
978 the rest of the code, because it could give segfaults.
980 2012-10-21 09:30:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
981 Fix garbage pixels on the right of the board
983 The extra pixel that is requested in sizing the board window back to
984 an available size because we ofte get one less pixel than we ask for
985 can lead to a line of garbage pixels next to the board. This is combatted
986 by limiting expose events to the true board area, remembering that in the
987 Graph Option rather than the actual window size, and suppressing resizing
988 when the latter only exceeds the stored width by more than 1 pixel.
990 2012-10-15 10:27:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
991 Trim board-window size
993 The board window will sometimes be a pixel larger than requested.
994 The ReSize routine will now reset the size values in the Graph Option
995 to what they were supposed to be, to prevent expose events will
996 draw nonsense in the extra space.
998 2012-10-13 23:26:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
999 Adapt docs for svg/png in stead of bitmap/pixmap
1002 2012-10-13 09:35:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1003 Spontaeous changes in gettext stuff
1006 2012-10-13 08:03:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1007 Move Shogi svg pieces to own directory
1010 2012-10-13 07:57:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1011 Remove unnecessary Xt colors and call to MakeColors
1014 2012-10-13 07:50:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1015 Code cleanup: move expose redraw to draw.c
1018 2012-10-13 07:37:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1019 Suppress warning for InitDrawingHandle
1022 2012-10-13 07:33:15 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1023 Make fallbackPieceImageDirectory hardcoded
1026 2012-10-13 07:18:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1027 Increase drag delay too 200 msec
1029 On my slow laptop it can take more than 100 msec to reallocate bitmaps
1030 in the generic expose, with as a consequence that the DelayedDrag event
1031 is not processed before the timeout expires. The timeout event then triggers
1032 a redraw, which again takes so long that the timeout expires before the
1033 event to reset the timer could be processed, and this just perpetuates
1034 itself, leading to a large series of queued redraws, and a long waiting time
1035 for an image to appear after the sizing stops.
1037 2012-10-13 07:01:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1038 Fix segfault on faulty command-line option
1041 2012-10-12 14:42:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1042 Suppress anti-aliasing in -monoMode
1044 In the color-substitution code, always use bi-level alpha and color.
1046 2012-10-12 13:34:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1047 Remove piece pixmaps from project
1050 2012-10-12 11:47:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1051 Implement proper fallback cascade
1053 Try in order cached svg, cached bitmap, user png, user svg, default svg.
1055 2012-10-12 11:06:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1059 2012-10-12 10:45:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1060 Install svg pieces in themes/default
1062 The svg pieces are installed with the XBoard data in the directory
1063 .../xboard/themes/default . A new option -fallbackPieceImageDirectory
1064 is added, and is configured in the master settings file to point to
1065 these pieces. This options, which replaces -svgDirectory, is volatile,
1066 and the menu control to set it is removed. The -pngDirectory option
1067 is renamed to -pieceImageDirectory (-pid).
1069 2012-10-12 10:02:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1070 Remove bitmaps from project
1073 2012-10-12 09:55:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1074 Install the wood textures as png
1076 The xboard.conf has to be edited to set these as default textures,
1077 in stead of the .xpm files.
1079 2012-10-12 09:50:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1080 Add hatched board texture
1082 A png file with hatching is added, so it can be used for dark squares
1083 in a monochrome theme. It is installed in a new data directory
1084 .../xboard/themes/textures.
1086 2012-10-11 22:21:06 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1087 added a black and white theme to replace the mono option
1090 2012-10-11 20:56:42 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1091 added SVGs to dist files in automake
1094 2012-10-11 19:44:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1095 Fix exposure of atomic captures
1097 The grid lines had to be repaired too, so damage marker 2 had to be used.
1099 2012-10-11 19:13:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1100 Fix animation with textures off
1102 The blank square was not shifted to (0,0) when drawing the animation buffer.
1104 2012-10-11 19:08:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1105 Fix 1-pixel offset of grid lines on some cairo implementations
1108 2012-10-11 09:51:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1109 Solve odd lineGap problem
1111 Not all cairo versions seem to round the same when an odd-width line
1112 is to be drawn at integer coordinates. So now we explicitly ask it
1113 to be drawn centered on half-odd-integer coordinates.
1115 2012-10-09 18:52:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1116 Add -trueColors option
1119 2012-10-09 14:56:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1120 Always render svg pieces anew on size change
1122 The svg pieces are now unconditionally rendered to supply the pngPieceImage
1123 master source otherwise read from png file. This is then fed into the
1124 original png code (so that if for some reason it fails, we fall back on png
1125 pieces, and finally on built-in pixmaps).
1127 2012-10-09 14:06:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1128 Fix rsvg version in configure.ac
1131 2012-10-08 19:54:19 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1132 initial svg rendering
1135 2012-10-08 18:34:05 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1136 added cairo and librsvg to configure process
1139 2012-10-08 18:32:55 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1142 converted from inkscape SVG to plain SVG before adding
1144 2012-10-10 21:19:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1145 Adapt Eval Graph code to new drawing system
1147 The eval graph now triggers an expose after drawing, and gets its size
1148 from the Option fields.
1150 2012-10-10 20:37:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1151 Fix expose requests seek graph
1154 2012-10-10 20:07:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1155 Make draw handle for board globally available
1158 2012-10-10 19:45:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1159 Let expose requests pay proper attenton to widget
1161 So far, expose requests were always assumed to be for the board widget,
1162 preventing display of the labels.
1164 2012-10-10 18:45:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1165 Fix initial display of logos
1167 The logos were selected and printed during the initialization,
1168 before the main event loop was started. So the expose events during
1169 widget creation, which created the drawing surfaces, were only processed
1170 after the initial drawing of logos, so that there was nothing to draw on!
1172 2012-10-10 17:25:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1173 Fix alignment of highlight expose
1176 2012-10-10 17:19:52 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1180 2012-10-09 13:57:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1181 Make expose handler generic
1183 The Graph Option now returns two handles in hitherto unused fields of its
1184 Option struct: Option.choice is a cairo handle of a memory buffer the user
1185 must draw to, while Option.textValue is the handle to the widget.
1186 Expose events copy the memory buffer to the display for the exposed area.
1187 A routine DrawExpose() is supplied to let the user generate expose events.
1189 2012-10-06 21:30:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1190 Reload piece images when pngDirectory is changed
1192 The OK function of the board options dialog now tests for a change
1193 in pngDirectory and passes a parameter to InitDrawingParams to tell
1194 it to destroy the old images. This cause a reload on scaling the pieces.
1196 2012-10-06 20:16:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1197 Suppress redraw during sizing
1200 2012-10-06 20:10:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1201 Fix bug in resize trigger
1203 Even if the square size does not change, the window has to be shrunk
1204 back to fit the board.
1206 2012-10-06 19:54:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1207 Make Piececolor options work on png pieces
1209 The scaled, antialiased bitmaps are now colored according to the option
1210 settings. This is done by decomposing every pixel in a white, black and
1211 transparency component, which is possible because the opacity is
1212 directly give in the alpha channel, and black originally was a hard zero.
1213 So what you se in the red channel must be white (as the original white
1214 was #FFFFCC), and the rest of the opacity must be due to black.
1215 The color to be replaced (white for the white pieces, black for the black
1216 pieces) is then replaced by the original weight of this color times the
1217 color from the option.
1219 2012-10-06 17:53:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1220 Plug resource leak on rezising with pixmaps
1223 2012-10-06 16:19:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1224 Fall back on built-in pixmaps if png pieces unreadable
1227 2012-10-06 14:21:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1228 Do coordinate text alignment with cairo
1231 2012-10-06 13:40:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1235 2012-10-06 12:14:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1236 Clean up drawing code
1238 Now all routines only draw through cairo, the destination surface can
1239 be passed to them, making it possible to do the duplicate drawing
1240 to the memory board image in a cleaner way.
1242 2012-10-06 11:37:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1243 Check in draw.c, draw.h
1246 2012-10-06 11:26:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1247 Remove all bitmap & pixmap drawing
1249 All Xt code for drawing the board is now removed, as are the
1250 -pixmapDirectory and -bitmapdirectory option. This version is now
1251 completely dependent on cairo for handling of all graphics anywhere.
1252 (The build-in pixmaps are still left, though, for later use as an
1253 alterative cairo source when no png files are found.)
1255 2012-10-06 10:29:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1256 Separate off drawing routines from xboard.c
1258 A new source file draw.c is created to hold all code associated with
1259 board drawing. The routines for loading bitmaps and creating colors
1260 were left in xboard.c, though, as they are also used for handling
1261 icons and colors of widgets.
1263 2012-10-05 19:53:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1264 Fix erasing dots in seek graph
1266 The cairo dots were just a little bit bigger than the old ones, so they
1267 were not properly erased, but left a remnant.
1269 2012-10-05 19:25:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1270 Cleanup CairoOverlayPiece
1273 2012-10-05 19:22:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1274 Draw arrow also on backup image
1277 2012-10-05 19:16:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1278 Fix highlight clearing
1281 2012-10-05 18:59:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1282 Remove acceleration trick
1285 2012-10-05 18:54:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1286 Implement variant-dependent png piece symbols
1289 2012-10-05 18:42:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1290 Fix clearing of markers dots with promo popup
1293 2012-10-05 18:32:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1294 Also render coordinates to backup board
1297 2012-10-05 18:30:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1301 2012-10-05 18:29:13 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1302 Let cairo also do evenly colored squares.
1305 2012-10-05 17:56:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1306 Make dragged piece for excluding moves transparent
1309 2012-10-05 17:42:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1313 2012-10-05 17:40:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1314 Redo coordinate / piece-count printing ith cairo
1317 2012-10-05 15:40:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1318 Also use cairo on slave board
1320 With dual-board observing the drawing should be redirected to the
1321 slave board, so SwitchWindow should also switch the xlib-surface to
1322 one for the slave window.
1324 2012-10-05 15:12:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1325 Cure flashing of piece on from-square
1327 In a drag-drop move the piece was flashed on the from square after the
1328 user dropped it on the to-square, because highlights were set before the
1329 move had updated the board. And highlighting with arrow can cause a redraw
1330 of the last board. Same with setting or clearing marker dots.
1332 2012-10-05 14:20:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1333 Specify proper condition for using cairo animation
1336 2012-10-05 14:07:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1337 Allow resizing of board window
1339 In full png mode the size of the board window is no longer locked.
1340 After resizing, the square size is calculated as the largest one that
1341 would fit the window, and the window is then shrunk around it. To prevent
1342 excessive redrawing during sizing, the redraw is delayed by putting it
1345 2012-10-05 10:41:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1346 Switch to using 64x64 png images
1348 The bitmap scaling works better when the needed factors are not too large,
1349 as the svg rendering's anti-aliasing did not blur more than 1 pixel.
1350 So after shrinking too much the images are not effectively anti-aliased
1353 2012-10-05 10:16:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1354 Maintain in-memory copy of the board image
1356 As reading back from the xlib-surface proves incredibly slow (cairo probably
1357 converts the entire image from Xt format to cairo format when we set it
1358 as a source, even though we only want to read a few dozen pixels), we now
1359 keep an exact copy of the board image as a cairo bitmap in memory. This
1360 restores the speed of the animation, but unfortunately leads to awful code.
1362 2012-10-04 22:15:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1363 Do animation with cairo
1365 Unfortunately this is incredibly slow.
1367 2012-10-04 18:36:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1368 Allow back-texture files to be PNG, (drawn with cairo)
1371 2012-10-04 15:10:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1374 A new directory with 256x256 png piece images is added to the source tree.
1376 2012-10-04 15:01:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1377 Add mode to draw PNG piece images through cairo
1379 The PNG images have to be supplied as files in a -pngDirectory (a new
1380 option) with a 256x256 bitmap. They are then scaled by cairo to the
1381 desired square size. This does not work very well for the smaller sizes.
1383 2012-10-03 14:45:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1384 Redo marker dots with cairo
1387 2012-10-03 14:27:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1388 Redo highlights with cairo
1391 2012-10-03 14:07:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1392 Make convenience routine SetPen globally available
1394 The routine to set a pen as specified by a color string that was used
1395 in xevalgraph is moved to xboard.c, where there also is lots of demand
1396 for it. The arrow drawing now uses it for setting the highlightSquareColor.
1398 2012-10-03 12:28:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1399 Redo grid with cairo
1402 2012-10-03 12:00:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1403 Redo arrow highlighting with cairo
1406 2012-10-03 11:20:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1407 Redo seek graph with cairo
1409 New front-end services DrawSeekOpen() and DrawSeekClose() have been
1410 added, and are called from the back-end to enclose any drawing activity.
1411 In WinBoard these had to be defined as dummies.
1413 2012-10-02 15:31:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1414 Redo logos with cairo
1416 The logos must now be .png files, and are internally handled as their
1417 filenames. (So no preparation of a drawable from it at startup.)
1418 Cairo allows them to be scaled to the requested logoSize.
1420 2012-10-02 14:02:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1421 Fix Eval Graph resolution problems
1423 Anti-aliasing had to be switched off to get a crisp graph. A second problem
1424 was that the dashed lines were drawn in both directions, with interfering
1427 2012-10-02 10:54:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1428 Redo Eval Graph drawing with cairo
1431 2012-10-21 10:21:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1432 Fix button-border-width bug in monoMode
1434 The kludge of signalling we are dealing wih a button rather than a label
1435 was wrongly implemented in case of momoMode.
1437 2012-10-21 10:14:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1438 Reserve more space for button bar
1440 In some board sizes the button bar was wider than the code guessed,
1441 so the window width would be determined by the message + buttons row rather
1444 2012-10-21 11:24:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1445 Fix WinBoard compile errors
1448 2012-10-13 09:33:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1449 Fix non-NLS compile error for XFontStruct
1452 2012-10-12 12:04:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1453 Fix browsing for path
1455 A pathname was still prefixed with the cuurent directory.
1457 2012-10-07 21:00:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1458 Use Pause state in AnalyzeMode to imply move exclusion
1460 The pause state was not used in AnalyzeMode so far. Now it is used to
1461 imply all entered moves are for exclusion/inclusion.
1463 2012-09-30 18:55:13 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1464 new version number for developer release
1467 2012-09-30 22:16:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1468 Fix broken -ics and -cp options
1470 The patch to specify engines and ICS by nickame broke the use of the
1471 regular options to do this, because they could also reset them. Now
1472 this is fixed by only setting them (through |= in stead of =).
1474 2012-09-30 22:01:52 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1477 The description of exclude-moves, multi-game ananalysis and duo-analysis
1480 2012-09-30 10:07:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1481 Resolve conflict between -mps and -inc options
1483 The age-old problem that a persistent valid -inc value will cause -mps
1484 to be ignored is solved by the kludge of storing these two as a single
1485 option (-mps) in the settings file, and declaring the other (-inc) volatile.
1486 The range of negative numbers (invalid as -mps value) was available for
1487 that, and now is used to store the negated value of -inc in msec.
1488 For backward compatibility, specification of -inc causes interpretation
1489 of -mps in the old way. The forcing of -inc to -1 in the master settings file
1490 could be safely removed because of this change, so that the time increment
1491 now is a persistent option.
1493 2012-09-29 23:13:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1494 Allow entry of fractional increment in WB time-control dialog
1496 The numeric edit is changed to a general text edit, and code is added
1497 to convert the text it contains to and from float, with proper error check.
1499 2012-09-29 23:05:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1500 Preconfigure -icsNames in xboard.conf
1502 Although XBoard has no startup dialog with an ICS combobox, the -icsNames
1503 option is now used to select lines from with the -is option, and in
1504 interpretation of positional arguments. The most common ICS are configured
1505 together with a short nickname, so that commands like "xboard fics" will work.
1507 2012-09-29 22:58:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1508 Allow ICS nickname as positional argument
1510 If an argument is encountered that is not preceded by an option name,
1511 it is now first checked if it corresponds to the nickname of an ICS
1512 in -icsNames. If so, it is assumed to be the value of an -is option,
1513 selecting -ics mode with that ICS and all the options installed with it.
1515 2012-09-28 20:28:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1516 Cure some sick behavior in XBoard Engine Output right-clicks
1518 When a PV-walk is in progress, the PV is highlighted by selecting it,
1519 and this focuses the attention of the scroll bar on it, so it remains in
1520 view. But after release, that line was kept in view, rather than scrolling
1521 back to the top of the window (where the header line bust be available
1524 2012-09-28 13:28:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1525 Allow Analyze Game to auto-step through entire game file
1527 If the game index is set to auto-increment (-lgi -1), the Analyze Game
1528 function will automatically load the next game of the current game file
1529 (starting to auto-play/annotate that) when the end of the current game is
1530 reached. This flushes the annotated game if auto-saving was set,
1531 so that eventually all games in the file will be annotatd and saved.
1532 The game index is automatically set to auto-increment when we load
1533 a file while in Analyze Game mode, but switching this mode on while a game
1534 is already loaded will stop at the end of that game, as usual (if -lgi was
1535 not explicitly set).
1537 2012-09-28 13:24:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1538 Let second engine move in lockstep during dual analysis
1540 When the second engine is also analysing (as indicated by its stat variable
1541 second.analyzing), we send all moves / undos / positions / in&excludes that
1542 go to the first engine also to second.
1544 2012-09-27 19:07:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1545 Allow second engine to analyze too
1547 Clicking the Analysis menu when analysis is already in progress will
1548 now toggle the secon engine to analyze the same position. For now,
1549 this lasts only until the position changes (or you leave analyze mode),
1550 after which the second engine is always switched off, and the Engine
1551 Output window returns to single pane. Each pane now has its own header
1552 line; the exclude header is suppressed in the second pane.
1554 2012-09-27 18:11:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1555 Add options -fe, -se, -is to load installed engines/ics from list
1557 The volatile string options -fe, -se ('first/second engine') load the first
1558 and second engine of the given nickname in the -firstChessProgramNames list,
1559 including all options that were installed with it (similar to when in
1560 WinBoard the that engine line had been selected through the Startup Dialog's
1561 combobox). The option -is is similarly used to retrieve the line for an
1562 ICS in the -icsNames list.
1564 2012-09-27 18:02:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1565 Add check on validity of tourney participants
1567 Before allowing OK of the Tournament Options dialog, it is now checked
1568 whether all participants (which are given as nicknames) can be found
1569 in the list of installed engines, so that no problems will occurr with
1570 non-existing engines during the tourney (if typos crept in after hand-
1573 2012-09-25 16:21:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1574 Implement --help option
1576 The list of options is printed before exiting. Some attempt is made
1577 to do it in a nice way.
1579 2012-09-23 20:10:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1580 Implement variant seirawan in -serverMoves option
1582 Write the gating moves such that the ChessLive! viewer will understand them.
1584 2012-09-23 20:05:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1585 Workaround for FICS bug
1587 FICS does not properly understand SAN, and thinks bxc3 can be a Bishop move.
1588 This broke 'Upload to examine', because that uploaded in SAN. In case the
1589 SAN starts with Bx or bx, it now uses long algebraic (with = before the
1592 2012-09-20 18:17:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1593 Define XOP mime type for XBoard
1595 Supply a white-knight icon for this mime type, called application/x-xboard-opt,
1596 and a sesktop file to associate it with running XBoard with this settings file.
1598 2012-09-20 17:24:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1599 Pay attention to extension of 'positional' arguments
1601 An argument without preceding option name was assumed to be an -lgf argument.
1602 This patch still does that by default, but if the argument ends in .fen, .epd,
1603 .trn, .ini or .xop it is considered an -lpf, -tf or -opt argument.
1604 In addition, an implied -lpf or -lgf argument also imply the option -viewer,
1605 which inserts the -viewerOptions string into the command line, and proesses it
1606 as options. A new option -tourneyOptions is similarly inserted for an implied
1607 -tf argument. These strings should contain all options needed to start XBoard
1608 fully configured as game viewer or tourney playing agent on the mentioned file.
1610 2012-09-20 15:29:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1611 Let windows stick to right display edge (WB)
1613 Auxiliary windows docked to the board window from below or to the right, which are
1614 pushed out of view when the board window resizes, will be trimmed to just touch the
1615 diplay edge (if sufficient width or height remains). When the board window shrinks,
1616 auxiliary windows touching the edge will be resized so they remain touching it.
1618 2012-09-20 15:20:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1619 Round board size to one where piece images available (WB)
1621 When using built-in bitmaps, in sizes where unorthodox pieces are needed, but not
1622 available, the size is temporarily rounded to one of the sizes where they are.
1624 2012-07-03 17:21:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1625 Fix bug in Edit Position
1627 Due to = in stead of == the variant was always set to S-Chess in
1630 2012-08-28 21:24:51 -0700 Daniel Macks <dmacks@netspace.org>:
1631 bug #37210: Mishandling of X11 -I flags (tiny change)
1633 AP: applied patch from bugtracker and added one missing 'save_cppflags="$CPPFLAGS"'
1635 2012-06-02 14:31:18 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1636 bug #36229: changed ICS_* from define to enum
1639 2012-05-28 13:58:00 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1640 bug #36229: changed STATE_* from define to enum
1642 enabling better compiler checks
1644 2012-05-28 13:50:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1645 bug #36229: changed PEN_* from define to enum
1647 This should allow better checks by the compiler
1649 2012-05-28 13:01:15 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1650 fix bug #36228: reserved identifier violation
1652 variables and macro names beginning with _ are renamed to XB_. More consistent naming of include guards.
1653 See link in bug report.
1655 2012-05-28 12:36:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1656 Updated German translation
1659 2012-04-30 20:06:00 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1660 new version number for developer release
1663 2012-04-24 11:23:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1664 Decapitalize promoChar in move parser
1667 2012-04-23 14:12:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1668 Keep track of virginity of back-rank pieces in variant seirawan
1670 The forelast rank of the Board array is now used in VariantSChess to
1671 contain flags that indicate virginity of the back-rank pieces, one bit
1672 for white, the other for black. Legality checking of gatings now makes
1673 use of this info. FENs mention all virgin pieces not implied by castling
1674 rights in the castling field, by printing the corresponding file IDs,
1675 as long as holdings are non-empty. The FEN reader now also understands
1676 this format. EditPositionDone fakes virginity for all pieces that are
1677 on their starting square.
1679 2012-04-17 19:49:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1680 Suppress clear-board message after pasting FEN
1682 The message field is now always cleared when you leave EditPosition mode.
1684 2012-04-17 19:45:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1685 Fix faking of castling rights after editing position with holdings
1687 The queen-side rook was always imagined at X=0, which is in the holdings
1688 when these exist, so that Q-side castling in such games was never allowed
1691 2012-04-20 10:29:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1692 Fix WB Engine Settings window
1694 The listbox patch has broken this window, by making it only list the
1695 first option of the engine, by switching to the next column based on a >=
1696 test rather than == test. Fixed by using 1000 as invalid value for the
1697 break point, rather than -1.
1699 2012-04-20 00:01:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1700 Fix key binding of DebugProc
1702 The name used for binding was DebugProc, while the ite was named Debug.
1704 2012-04-16 20:51:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1705 Fix ICS Text Menu popup
1707 The space for the option names needed to be allocated.
1709 2012-04-16 20:37:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1710 Fix disabling of Load Engine menu
1713 2012-04-15 22:53:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1714 Port chat boxes to XBoard
1716 A new menu item Open Chat Window is added to the View menu. It opens a
1717 window that can handle 5 chats. A row of buttons on top selects which is
1718 the foreground chat partner, to which we type, and whose incoming messages
1719 will be displayed in the memo. The leftmost 'button' is not really a button,
1720 but a text edit, and the active partner is displayed there (so it can be
1721 altered). Selecting another chat partner through a button, moves that partner
1722 to the text-edit, and reshuffles the buttons. Incoming messages in a chat
1723 that is not foreground make the corresponding button color orange.
1725 2012-04-16 20:27:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1726 Allow chaining of single-line text-edits to top
1728 For the benefit of the chat window, a text-edit plus leading description
1729 can now also be chained to the top edge of a dialog. The chaining of the
1730 (degenerate) multi-line ICS Input Box and Move Type-In was entirely to the
1731 bottom, which has now been corrected.
1733 2012-04-12 09:30:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1734 Add logo widgets in main board window
1736 New options -logoSize and -logoDir are added. The former enables logo display,
1737 when non-zero and not too big. The latter is used by -autoLogo. The options
1738 -firstLogo and -secondLogo also work. Problem is that the clock height
1739 is larger than the logo height, and for now a nasty trick in GenericPopUp
1740 is used to position the next element (message field) w.r.t. the clocks,
1741 rather than the last element of the row above (the logo): in case of a
1742 SAME_ROW Graph element, 'last' is kept at the previous element.
1744 2012-04-19 10:48:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1745 Fix crash on time forfeit with -st option
1747 When fixed time per move was set from the command line, the time-control
1748 strings were not set. This let to a crash when an engine forfeited.
1749 The GetTimeQuota function is now made resistant to a NULL pointer here.
1751 2012-04-19 10:39:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1752 Solve WinBoard name clashes, fix zippy-analyze menu graying
1754 Some of the function names used in the refactored X11 front-end collided
1755 with Windows system names from winboard.h, or with names of internal routines
1756 in WinBoard front-end files (so they could not be declared in frontend.h).
1757 These were renamed. Some prototypes in engineoutput.h contained X11 types,
1758 and they were moved to xboard.h.
1759 In addition, two menu-item names were corrected to two-part names.
1761 2012-04-18 12:00:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1762 Offer primitive paging in file browser
1764 If there are more than 1000 files that would have to be displayed,
1765 the number will be limited to 999, and a 'next page' entry will appear
1766 at the bottom. Clicking that will give you the next group.
1767 This is an emergency measure only, as it interferes with sorting
1768 (grouping is based on order inside the directory, i.e. kind of arbitrary,
1769 and sorting is only done within a group.) There is no such thing for the
1770 folder list yet. There is no way to go back to a previous page, other
1771 than closing and re-opening the browser, or selecting another file type.
1773 2012-04-18 11:16:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1774 Add pixmap as file type known to browser
1776 Users can browse for a pixmap to set the board texture.
1778 2012-04-17 15:45:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1779 Fix warning about signedness
1781 Note: the promoChar in ExcludeMoves was explicitly defined to make
1782 sure the kludge promoChar = -1 for indicating best move works. But it
1783 should be equivalent to casting the promoChar to (signed char) just
1784 before the comparison.
1786 2012-04-17 15:44:15 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1787 Fix warnings about character index
1790 2012-04-17 15:37:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1791 Move ManProc to xboard.c
1793 It calls ManInner, which requires X11 data types, even if the values are NULL.
1795 2012-04-17 15:27:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1796 Move FileNamePopUp to dialogs.c
1799 2012-04-17 15:15:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1800 Fix readout of numeric combobox
1802 As currently no numeric comboboxes are used, this bug was silent.
1804 2012-04-17 15:10:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1805 Shuffle prototypes to correct header, or add them there
1808 2012-04-17 14:15:15 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1811 This function could crash when called with ann argument that did not
1812 contain a period, while the idea was that it should handle this as if the
1813 item is in noMenu (for user-specified key binding to non-menu funtions).
1815 2012-04-16 19:43:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1816 Fix click-click under-promotion animation save
1819 2012-04-17 11:02:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1820 Define TOPLEVEL in winboard.c
1823 2012-04-17 10:59:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1824 Add two new strings to WinBoard language file
1827 2012-04-17 10:51:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1828 Fix second-engine variant test
1830 The test whether the second engine supports the selected variant took place
1831 before the second engine was loaded, thus always coming to the conclusion
1832 that the variant was not supported, and aborting the TwoMachines command.
1833 The test is now moved to after second-engine loading (but before its
1834 initialization, where non-supporting would become a fatal error).
1836 2012-04-16 12:11:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1837 Fix clearing of ICS input box after send
1840 2012-04-16 19:08:10 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1841 enable -Wall -Wno-parentheses for all compilers that understand them
1844 2012-04-16 13:18:37 +0200 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
1845 Remove 5 unused variables from zippy code
1848 2012-04-16 13:14:06 +0200 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
1849 Remove unused static function ShowTC
1852 2012-04-16 13:10:58 +0200 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
1853 Remove unused static function MenuBarSelect
1856 2012-04-16 13:07:01 +0200 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
1857 Remove unused variable first_entry from function find_key
1860 2012-04-16 13:01:09 +0200 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
1861 Remove unused variable tm from function SaveGamePGN
1864 2012-04-16 12:56:46 +0200 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
1865 Remove unused variable delayedKing from function QuickScan
1868 2012-04-16 12:52:57 +0200 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
1869 Remove unused variable pdown from function UserMoveEvent
1872 2012-04-15 04:25:59 +0200 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
1873 Change some double literals to floats.
1875 To avoid unnecessary implicit promotions of float variables to double.
1877 2012-04-15 11:12:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1881 2012-04-14 22:43:03 +0200 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
1882 Translate "NPS" also in engine output window
1885 2012-04-14 16:19:34 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1886 removed unused variables (-Wunused-variable)
1889 2012-04-14 15:37:05 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1890 added m4 directory to search path for aclocal. As suggested by Michel Van den Bergh
1893 2012-04-14 23:21:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1894 Fix Eval Graph scale in drop games
1897 2012-04-14 23:16:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1898 Fix ArrowDamage out-of-bounds access on drop moves
1901 2012-04-14 21:33:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1902 Implement automatic partner observe
1904 Starting a game, or starting to observe one, now automatically issues a
1905 'pobserve' command if dual-board is switched on, so that the partner game
1906 will pop up in the secondary board (assuming it is bughouse).
1907 The secondary board now displays the players in the title. (This (lightly)
1908 breaks WinBoard again.) When the primary game ends, the secondary board
1909 closes automatically. Initial sizing of the board is repaired, and now uses
1910 the actual current board size, rather than the initial size of the main board.
1912 2012-04-14 15:43:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1913 Fix crash due to empty PV
1915 Reception of a stat01 command before the first PV could cause a crash,
1916 as apparently the parser cannot handle this.
1918 2012-04-14 13:27:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1919 Suppress testing for availability in bughouse drops
1921 Give up on testing legality of bughouse drop moves; this only causes problems,
1922 because the move list sent by the ICS is not accompanied by holdings updates.
1923 So XBoard parses it thinking the holdings are empty, making every drop move
1924 an ImpossibleMove. Bughouse can only be played on ICS, and we might as well
1925 trust the ICS that it will only pass us legal moves. A user should not be
1926 able to enter illegal drops; unavailable pieces cannot be grabbed from the
1927 holdings, and typing is diverted to the ICS directly (which would reject the
1928 illegal drop without XBoard even knowing about it).
1929 Also improve switching to bh/zh, based on drop move in initial board.
1931 2012-04-14 09:11:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1932 Fix some compile errors / warnings
1935 2012-04-13 19:06:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1936 Fix promotionPopDown on new move entry
1938 The promotion popup is non-modal, and old XBoard versions popped it down
1939 as soon as the user clicked the board, so he could just enter a new move
1940 to abort the promotion. This was broken in the new version, because the code
1941 to do the PopDown and abort in HandleUserMove had not been ported.
1943 2012-04-13 18:38:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1944 Use in-place sweep-selection for click-click under-promotion
1946 With detour under-promotion a piece cycles through all possible choices
1947 during backwards dragging. But in a click-click move there is no dragging.
1948 This used to be solved by letting the second click start a drag event of
1949 the default promotion choice, which you could accept by immediately
1950 releasing the mouse button, or drag around to change it first.
1951 The dragging in this case seemed a little unnatural, because the to-square
1952 was already indicated by the down-click. So it has been changed now to the
1953 promo choice appearing on the down-clicked to-square, followed by
1954 EditPosition-like sweep-selection on that square when one wants to under-
1955 promote. The move is always accepted no matter where the up-click takes
1956 place, except when it takes place on the from-square (which offers a last-
1957 resort abort possibiliy).
1958 Note that click-click promotion is essential in variants where it is not
1959 obvious from the from-square alone that a promotion is imminent, but where
1960 it depends on the to-square. (Such as Shogi.) There drag-drop detour under-
1961 promotion is not possible.
1963 2012-04-13 16:05:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1964 Improve arrow drawing
1966 The arrow is now erased together with the border highlights, by marking
1967 the damage it did, and then doing a selected redraw of the board to let
1968 the damaged square be re-drawn. Highlights of a previous move are now
1969 cleared on the down-click that selects a new piece, so there never is an
1970 arrow to infavorably interact with animation of dragging.
1972 2012-04-13 14:57:15 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1973 Also do selective redraw with showTargetSquares on
1975 The XBoard DrawPosition now also keeps track of the previous marker state,
1976 and redraws squares for which thi shas changed. As a result, the routine
1977 MarkTargetSquares does no longer have to force to complete redraw.
1980 2012-04-13 00:33:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1981 Fix click-click sweep promotions to empty square
1983 These did not work, because DragPieceBegin would fail on an EmptySquare.
1985 2012-04-12 23:58:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1986 Move clearing of target squares to after drag end
1988 A dragged piece that would partly overshoot its destination into a square
1989 with a marker would effectively protect that marker from erasing, when the
1990 erasing was done before the piece was released, because redrawal after the
1991 move only would draw the target square. (Unlike erasing, which forces a full
1994 2012-04-12 23:49:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1995 Fix double promotion popup
1997 Only the up-click of a click-click move gives a promotion popup now.
1999 2012-04-12 23:32:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2002 The new GenericPopUp did not like it if the first button had 'SAME_ROW' set.
2004 2012-04-12 17:28:32 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2005 Allow clearing of marker dots in any mode
2007 There might already be dots when you change to a mode where there should
2008 be none, and you don't want them to stay on forever in that case...
2010 2012-04-12 17:00:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2011 Fix redraw of secondary board on flipping view
2014 2012-04-12 10:30:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2015 Let clocks of secondary board count down
2017 The back-end now remembers what is the active clock, and the time left on it.
2018 This is then decremented and updated together with the clocks of your own
2019 game, using the partnerUp flag to divert the clock display to the secondary.
2021 2012-04-12 09:47:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2022 Fix 3 forgotten symbolic widget references
2025 2012-04-11 19:24:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2026 Add sound files to browser menu
2029 2012-04-11 13:04:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2030 Add New Directory button to file browser
2033 2012-04-11 09:54:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2034 Detect engine exit during startup
2036 The case where engine startup failure does not result in a fatal protocol
2037 message, like "No such file", but where it simply exits, is now also covered.
2039 2012-04-10 22:55:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2040 Suppress popup for fatal error after tellusererror
2042 For cooperating better with Polyglot, and allowing more to-the-point
2043 error messaging, the (awful) default message will be suppressed if the
2044 dying engine already provided an explanation for its demise to the user.
2046 2012-04-10 20:28:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2047 Fix Engine Output icon heights in international versions
2049 The text in a label option could not be an empty string, or it would be
2050 'translated' to something of enormous size. So it is set to a space now.
2052 2012-04-10 20:21:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2053 Fix internationalization
2055 The internationalization was broken by moving the XtSetLanguageProc
2056 to behind 'bindtextdomain'.
2058 2012-04-10 20:03:46 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2059 Make reference to board widgets symbolic
2062 2012-04-10 18:39:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2063 Don't strip path from engine name if directory given
2066 2012-04-10 17:54:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2067 Fix vertical chaining of Buttons and browser ListBoxes
2070 2012-04-10 15:53:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2073 The 'narrow search' modification had broken auto-play, because all selected
2074 games were marked as matching position 0, so that they would all start in
2075 thr opening position.
2077 2012-04-10 13:30:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2078 updated po/pot files
2081 2012-04-10 11:54:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2082 new version number for developer release
2085 2012-04-10 13:22:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2089 2012-04-10 13:21:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2090 Fix Makefile EXTRA_DIST
2093 2012-04-02 17:53:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2094 Use Ctrl key in EditPosition mode to copy pieces
2097 2012-03-28 23:51:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2098 Fix bug in FRC castling for position search
2100 In FRC it is essential that both pieces are taken off the board before
2101 any of them is put back, lest they obliterate each other.
2103 2012-03-28 12:25:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2104 Fix bug on loading engine
2106 A newly loaded engine was put at the end of the game, rather than at the
2107 current position, (which is required in EditGame mode).
2109 2012-04-06 17:02:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2110 Add 'Narrow' function to position search
2113 2012-04-06 10:52:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2114 Reorganize main() a bit
2116 The font stuff goes into a separate routine, and the X11 stuff is
2117 moved backwards as far as possible.
2119 2012-04-04 21:55:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2120 Give the dual-board option a separate board window
2122 The second board window pops up whenever an alien board is received
2123 during your game. Moves in it are highlighted by an arrow, irrespective
2124 of the 'Highlight with Arrow' setting. The clocks are displayed, but do
2127 2012-04-05 11:23:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2128 Port engine grouping to Match Options dialog
2131 2012-04-05 15:18:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2132 Change default directory in Load Engine to "."
2135 2012-04-05 10:49:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2136 Port grouping to XBoard Load Engine Add highlight to Load Engine grouping
2139 2012-04-06 17:19:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2140 Fix default file types for browse buttons
2143 2012-04-03 09:14:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2146 Redo file browser with GenericPopUp
2148 This had to solve quite some problems, because it wanted to use a ComboBox
2149 option while a transient dialog could be up, was a non-engine dialog
2150 while an engine dialog is up, and XRaiseWindow does not work properly.
2151 Sorting is done alphabetically, or for digit groups by numeric value.
2153 2012-04-02 14:43:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2154 Use ListBox in stead of ComboBox in Match-Options dialog
2157 2012-04-02 14:09:15 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2158 Use ListBox in stead of ComboBox in Load Engine dialog
2160 Make Load Engine listbox sensitive to double-clicking
2162 2012-03-26 17:06:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2163 Add message about enabling in New Variant dialog
2166 2012-03-31 20:27:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2167 Move LoadGamePopUp to menus.c
2170 2012-03-31 20:25:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2171 Move DisplayMessage to dialogs.c
2173 Use the wrapper SetWidgetLabel to make it back-end.
2175 2012-03-31 15:23:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2176 Fix switching debug option during session.
2178 Switching on debug mode during the session did not create the requested
2181 2012-03-31 15:22:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2182 Correct texi file for use of .Xresources
2185 2012-04-02 19:19:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2186 Fix recent-engines menu
2188 A new primitive to create an item in a given menu was added to do this.
2190 2012-03-31 10:54:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2191 Switch back two two-part menu names
2193 The menu code is again completely changed; a handle field is added
2194 to the MenuItem tables to store the widget for the item, and this info
2195 is used to alter sensitivity or marking. MenuToNr is replaced by
2196 MenuNameToItem, which looks up the two-level name directly in the
2197 menu tables. Put all currently unused MenuProcs in noMenu table,
2198 so they are available for key binding through the new method.
2200 2012-03-24 18:36:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2201 Redo main board window with generic popup
2203 Some of the improvements in GenericPopUp (committed earlier) were added
2204 especiall for this (menu and box Option types), and the commits that used
2205 them to make a fully functional board, listed below, were collapsed into
2208 This uses the new box and menu features of the Generic popup.
2209 Make option table shadow board consistent with refactor
2210 Do main menus in shadow board
2211 The board made by GenericPopUp now also has (functional) menus. The Expose
2212 callback now also uses the new format (passing coordinates).
2213 Use BoxEnd callback to decide about smallLayout
2214 The shadow board now dynamically decides whether it should use smallLayout
2215 positioning of the title-in-window widget, using a callback in the BoxEnd
2216 option for the menu bar: If no reasonable amount of space is left behind
2217 the menu bar, the title is forced under the clocks (smallLayout).
2218 Do some mouse handling on shadow board
2219 Only button 1 events for now. We have to keep track if the button is down!
2220 Connect button 3 to shadow board
2221 For now only for piece and PV manipulation: no context menus yet
2222 Symbolic reference in option formatting
2223 choice <-> textValue xboard.c
2224 Improve expose callback shadow board
2225 Implement context menus of shadow board
2226 This uses the new generic PopUp option
2228 Make mock-up board available through menu item
2229 Make clocks of shadow board sensitive to clicking
2230 Make button bar of shadow board operational
2231 The back-end Event functions are specified as user callbacks directly;
2232 this is not very clean, as they are parameterless, but called with an int
2233 argument. This should have no bad consequences, though.
2234 Switch to using shadow board as main board
2235 The menu marking and enabling had to b switched off for this, as it
2236 only worked on the old menus. Remove HandleUserMove.
2237 Deleting of unused shell variables, clocks to dialogs.c
2238 Move BoardPopUp to dialogs.c
2239 This required passing on fome front-end vars as parameters, and returning
2240 apointer to the option list, to make the handles available in xboard.c.
2241 Simplify InitDrawingSizes
2242 Now that all widgets of the main window are properly chained, there is
2243 no need to resize them when the board format changes: setting a new width
2244 for the shell suffices.
2245 Cleanup some unused Xt Args
2247 2012-03-31 10:53:46 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2248 Remove unnecessary menu unmarking for Edit Tags
2251 2012-03-29 19:09:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2252 Split sync-after options in Match dialog into checkbox + label
2254 Now the checkbox texts are highlighted on hovering, we don't want the
2255 explanatory text behind it to be highlighted with it.
2257 2012-03-26 17:12:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2258 Make variant-unsupported-by-second error non-fatal
2261 2012-03-23 20:06:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2262 Redo Eval Graph with generic popup
2264 The Graph option of the GenericPopUp is used to implement the Eval Graph.
2265 Compared to the previous implementation, which was drawing directly in the
2266 form widget, the new one has one extra widget layer, but that did not
2267 affect the code anywhere. Adapt eval title to width of eval graph.
2269 2012-03-23 15:17:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2270 Redo Engine Output window with generic popup
2272 A new file nengineoutput.c holds the X-independent code. This makes use
2273 of new capablities of GenerciPopup, for having Label widgets on same row,
2274 stacking panes after a Break, and chaining Label and Text widgets.
2276 2012-03-21 23:00:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2277 Redo Game List with generic popup
2279 Check in ngamelist.c
2280 Redo Game List with generic popup
2281 The X-independent code (i.e. almost all) is moved to a new file
2283 Make button in Game List to pop up Game List Options
2284 Fix scrolling game list
2285 Fix popup of existing Game List after loading file
2286 Wheel-scroll game list
2287 Symbolic reference game list
2289 Put format flags with listbox options
2291 2012-03-21 17:58:27 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2292 Redo Game List Options with generic popup
2295 2012-04-05 21:56:52 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2296 Add -dialogColor and -buttonColor options
2298 These only override system defaults if they are non-empty strings.
2300 2012-03-28 15:52:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2301 Add -topLevel option
2303 This persistent Boolean option determines if the auxiliary windows
2304 (Game List, Move List, Engine Output, Eval Graph, Tags and Comment)
2305 use top-level shells (with their own icon on the task bar, and
2306 independently closable). Other dialogs will always use transient shells.
2307 (Also he modal Error and Promotion dialogs, for which the modality
2308 presumably only serves to pop them down without special attention.)
2309 A control for this was added in the General Options dialog.
2311 2012-03-20 15:30:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2312 Redo ErrorPopUp with generic dialog
2314 <Enter> keeps popping down error popup.Multiple Error popups remeain tricky;
2315 add comment to describe problem with multiple ErrorPopUps.
2317 2012-03-20 10:22:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2318 Redo PromotionPopUp with generic dialog
2320 The dialog is no longer modal.
2322 2012-03-19 21:56:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2323 Redo AskQuestion dialog with generic popup
2326 2012-03-19 21:55:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2327 Major refactoring of GenericPopUp
2329 Allow more transient dialogs in GenericPopUp
2330 Remove grab from promotion popup
2331 Fix other generic popup over transient popup
2332 To use the generic dialog generator for 'asynchronous' popups (Ask Qustion
2333 or Error popup caused by engine), the currentOptions setting has to be
2334 restored for the combo and checkbox callbacks of the transient to still
2335 work after the asynchronous dialog returns. Note that only transient dialogs
2336 can have check and combo controls.
2337 Make generic calcel button suppressible
2338 Also #define some more symbols for Option.min flags,
2339 and move them to dialogs.h.
2340 Change TypeInProc to general OK handler
2341 The move type-in now has its own option list, to distinguish it from
2342 the ICS input box, and give it its own OK handler. Rather than having
2343 the translation for <Enter> on the text widget call TypeInEvent directly,
2344 we let it call GenericCallback, which calls GenericReadout, which calls
2345 the OK proc, which does the job.
2346 To be able to call GenericCallback from the TypeInProc, the recognition
2347 of OK and cancel buttons had to be changed. This because it was too difficult
2348 to arrange the calling widget had label OK or cancell. So these buttons are
2349 no longer recognized by name, but by the option number passed as client data.
2350 (This solves the problem that a user could not make buttons named 'cancel'
2352 Make Cancel button optional
2353 Fix closing multiple popups of same kind
2354 The GenericCallback figures out its own shell, so all buttons of
2355 multiple dialogs keep working. External calls to PopDown only work
2356 on the lastcreated instance of that kind, though (including those from
2357 the Delete Window button, which can do 'cross-closing'). shellUp is now
2358 a counter, and PopDowns are only prevented when it reaches 0 or the
2359 current shell does not exist. (To know this, PopDown now resets shells[n]
2360 to NULL when is shell is destroyed.
2361 Beware of double PopDowns (through OK procs); they wreck the system.
2362 Fix Delete Window button of multipe ErrorPopUps
2363 The action routine for handling the Delete Window now pays attention
2364 to the shell widget that the system passes to it, and temporarily
2365 replaces shells[n] by it to let PopDown act on the proper instance.
2366 Add ListBox dialog type to GenericPopUp
2367 Fix vert sizing of ListBox
2368 Put listbox widgets in viewport
2369 Put listbox in viewport
2370 Improved xoptions.c support for focussing and listboxes
2371 Fix OK-row button positioning
2372 Let GenericPopUp take parent and modality as arguments
2373 This makes the code a bit more explicit and less kludgy. It also becomes
2374 possible to call the same dialog (e.g. Load Options) from the main menu
2375 and from another dialog (e.g. the Game List).
2376 Support scroll function for generic popup listboxes
2378 Move HighlightWithScroll to xoptions.c
2379 Change scroll algorithm
2380 Add mouse-wheel scroll to generic list boxes
2381 Implement tabbing between text edits
2382 Implement same-row text labels in generic dialog
2383 Allow labels to specify their chaining in generic popup
2384 The opt.min variable is used to specify the chaining: 0xF0 are the bits
2385 for (left, right) chaining of the left side (0xC0) and right side (0x30).
2386 The 0xC bits determine top or bottom chaining of the entire label.
2387 Without anything spcified (0), the chaining is XtRubber.
2388 TextBox options can also specify top-chaining of their top. All this was
2389 needed to allow decent implementation of the Engine Output window with
2390 the generic popup. (Although tags and comment popup ca benefit from the
2392 Let GenericPopUp support a Graph option
2393 The Graph option results in an area where one can draw something. It is
2394 positioned / chained similar to Label options. A handler for expose events
2395 can be specified in the textValue field of the option.
2396 Implement box widgets and menu buttons in GenericPopup
2397 To enhance the capabilities of GenericPopUp such that it could create the
2398 main window, it needs to be able tha packaging of controls into a box widget
2399 (for mennu and button bar). Menu buttons are also required elements
2400 (although they do look a lot like comboboxes?) Option types BoxBegin and
2401 BoxEnd can now be used to bracket a group of controls that will be put
2402 in a box widget. (Cannot be used recursively!) The positioning of the box
2403 is similar to that of a Label, and is specified in the BogBegin option.
2404 The code to shrink the menu buttons to fit is also incorporated, to act
2405 on any box widget: if the BoxBegin option specifies a width, the elements
2406 in it are shrunk to meet the requirement. Otherwise the box just gets the
2407 size of the sum of its children (plus spacings).
2408 Label options can now specify a font, casted into their textValue field.
2409 (This is needed to get the proper size for the clock widgets.)
2410 Implement callback in BoxEnd options
2411 BoxEnd is a pseudo-option, to trigger packing the preceeding ones in
2412 an earlier-opened box widget. In the process it calculates the size of
2413 the box widget (and trims it if a size was specified for it in the
2414 corresponding BoxBegin). The Option.target field of BoxEnd is now
2415 interpreted as a callback, which can be use to take decisions based
2416 on the determined size for the remaining options in the list, before
2417 these are processed b GenericPopUp.
2419 Make a subroutine to set args shared by almost all widgets. Swap meaning
2420 of '1'-bit in option.min flag of Break option, to be consistent with
2421 SAME_ROW interpretation in other option types.
2422 Make option tables consistent with refactored GenericPopUp
2423 The flag for stacking in the Break option needed to be inverted, and
2424 the BoardPopUp needed to pass the font in another field. Better use was
2425 made of the improved chaining options too.
2426 Improve Graph-option event handling
2427 The user-supplied callback now gets 3 arguments passed: the event type
2428 (0 = pointer motion, 1...5 button press, -1...-5 release, 10 = expose),
2429 and two coordinates. For ouse events these are the pointer (x,y), while
2430 for expose events they are the window size (w,h). The callback is now
2431 specified in the option.target field of the Graph option.
2432 Store engine options in malloc'ed memory
2433 The Option.name field has been re-declared as (char*), from (char[MSG_SIZ]).
2434 There are still MSG_SIZ chars allocated irrespective of actual size, because
2435 the field is also supposed to store the textValue, which can be changed by
2436 the user. But at least it means that unused options of the generous list
2437 now don't waste much space. (And the prparated Option tables in dialogs.c
2438 will shrink by a large factor as well.)
2439 Improve GenericPopUp ComboBox handling.
2440 The dialog type is now passed to the combobox callback as well, and this is
2441 used to really figure out what option it is called for.
2442 Allow numeric comboboxes
2443 When no list of strings is given in Option.choice, the target is assumed
2444 to be (int), and the number of the slected entry is stored there. Also
2445 adapts the Label options that act as fillers to the new method for making
2446 dummies (namely NULL in the Option.name field).
2447 Put comboCallback in Option struct
2448 Rather than having a general comboCallback variable for the entire current
2449 dialog, each ComboBox option can now specify its own callback in the
2450 target field of the option: the COMBO_CALLBACK bit of Option.min indicates
2451 whether the target is a variable to be set or a callback. The callback can
2452 still fetch the choice from the values array.
2453 Allow generic CreateComboPopup also to do main menus
2454 An extra parameter to CreateComboPopup determines if the menu texts
2455 should be taken from a list of strings (the old method with engine-
2456 supplied choices), or from a menu table of MenuItems. It can now also
2457 recognize "----" as a menu break, and keeps margins (for the marking).
2458 Make subroutine for determining curren combo selection
2459 Various fixes to GenericPopUp
2460 Delete one border-width setting
2461 Fix max nr of args in GenerocPopUp
2462 Fix button release events of Graph options
2463 Fix generic Graph callback pointer motion coordinates
2464 Make all format referencing in Option tables symbolic
2465 Let Option.choice define menu texts, rather than Option.textValue
2466 This is more logical than ussing textValue for it, because choice already
2467 has the correct (char**) type, while textValue was (char*), and needed
2468 casting everywhere. Note that for engine options, the fields were the
2469 same anyway, so no back-end change was required. The textValue now
2470 contains the (casted) list of actual string values, where these are
2471 needed. (But for numeric and function menus they aren't.)
2472 Add PopUp Option type
2473 An new pseudo-Option is defined, to add a popup menu to a previous Graph
2474 option. The actual popping up is done by the expose handler.
2475 The function XUngrabPointer is the key to success here. A PopUp option
2476 specifies a callback for handling the selection from the menu, which will
2477 be called with the option number, exacty as with ComboBox options.
2478 Update option explanation in dialogs.h
2479 Make Spin and CheckBox callbacks pass dialog number
2480 No longer rely on 'currentOptions' for getting the option belonging to
2481 the callback, but get it out of the dialogOptions array indexed by dialog
2482 type. This way things cannot be messed up by an asynchrounous error popup.
2483 It also means that it is now save for non-modal dialogs to use these options.
2484 Use button widget for text behind checkbox
2485 Let listboxes use general formatting hints
2486 Let GenericPopUp option always finish last pane after Break
2487 Allow LisBox to specify select callback in Option.textValue
2488 Use double-click to trigger ListBox callback
2489 Make ListBox callback re-entrant
2490 Fix multi-line Label options
2491 Separate CreateMenuItem out from CreateComboPopup
2492 Chain checkbox texts entirely left
2493 Allow a user-specified callback to Label options
2494 This is needed to implement the clocks. Let the CheckBox callback handle
2495 it. For now ther is no distinction between different mouse buttons.
2497 2012-03-21 11:15:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2498 Prevent double PopDowns
2500 Some DialogOK functions ordered an early PopDown themselves. This,
2501 however, resulted in PopDown being called twice when they returned TRUE.
2502 This interfered with the new system for allowing multiple instances of
2503 the same dialog. So these functions are now fixed to suppress the
2504 standard PopDown by always returning FALSE.
2506 2012-03-20 19:10:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2507 Split usounds.c and usystem.c from xboard.c
2509 X-independent code was moved to separate files. The nef file usound.c
2510 contains the sound handling, which in XBoard is trivial, because it uses
2511 an external player, but could be replaced by a complex one on platforms
2512 that have to handle the sound themselves.
2513 The usystem.c file contains all non-X Unix-like stuff, such as fork,
2514 pipe, system, getenv. I also contains some color parsing for the xterm
2515 colors. This stuff could be useful on platforms that support Unix-like
2518 2012-03-26 19:03:19 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2519 Make routine to probe shift keys
2521 The code to probe Alt keys was taken out of MoveTypeInProc, and extended
2522 to probing Ctrl and Shift keys too. These are now returned in the 6 LSB
2523 of an int by ShiftKeys().
2525 2012-03-19 13:15:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2526 Remove one level of indirection on ICSInputBoxPopUp
2529 2012-04-10 10:26:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2532 Remove AskQuestionProc
2533 A bit of cleanup on xboard.c prototypes
2534 Remove dead file-browser code
2535 Delete vestigial jail code
2536 All the stuff about jailColor was deleted. Only one fishy thing remains:
2537 xpmJailSquare seems under some conditions used in BlankSquare to draw a
2538 'neutral' square. it is set to a copy of a light square image. But in the
2539 current design 'neutral' means blacked out between board and holdings,
2540 and even with image use, it should not resemble a light square...
2541 Remove registering of CommentPopDown and TagsPopDown
2542 Merge CopyGameSelection into CopyPositionSelection
2544 2012-03-19 11:38:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2545 Move some back-endish routines from xboard.c to dialogs.c
2547 Move ICS input-history handling to dialogs.c
2548 Move ICS Input Box text handling to dialogs.c
2549 Move DisplayXxxx routines to dialogs.c
2550 Move DisplayTitle to dialogs.c
2551 A wrapper SetWindowTitle remains in xboard.c.
2553 2012-03-18 20:10:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2554 Split back-endish part off xoptions.c, and move to dialogs.c
2556 Some MenuProcs for dialogs were also moved to dialogs.c from menus.c.
2557 MoveTypeInProc which is an event handler for the board widget,
2558 was moved to xboard.c, where it can be static.
2560 Identify dialogs by enum type
2561 A new header dialogs.h is created, which defines an enum type DialogClass
2562 that is now used to identify the various dialogs done by GenericPopUp.
2563 The prototypes for GenericPopUp/PopDown, and other globals shared by the
2564 dialogs code and other modules can go in here as well.
2565 Remove ClearTextWidget
2566 This did the same as SetWidgetText with an empty string.
2567 Split X-code from PutText
2568 Split back-end part from MoveTypeInProc
2569 Take set-title out of comment popup
2570 Sort MenuProcs in dialogs.c with their support functions
2571 Declare globals in dialogs.c with functions where they belong
2572 Add prototypes to dialogs.h
2573 Move prototypes and globals from xoptions.c to dialogs.h
2574 Make accessor DialogExists for dialog shells
2575 Add dialogs.c to makefile: compiles and runs!
2576 Combine 3 calls into front-end to InitDrawingParams
2577 Move EditCommentProc and ICSInputBoxProc to dialogs.c
2578 Pass option list as argument to GenericUpdate and GenericReadOut
2579 Shorten argument name from currentOption to opts
2580 This to prevent confusing it with the global variable of that name.
2582 2012-03-18 15:33:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2583 Declare some shared global variables in backend.h
2585 The vlobals twoBoards and partnerUp were only shared through an extern
2586 declaration in xboard.c
2588 2012-03-18 12:34:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2589 Split back-endish part off drawing code and move to board.c
2591 Split DrawSquare in front-end and back-end part
2592 Back-endize DrawHighlights and DrawPosition
2593 The already existing wrapper FlashDelay is used as a kludge to do an XSync.
2594 We now pass a code for the line color GC to the highight routine. New
2595 wrappers are DrawGrid() and DrawBorder().
2596 Back-endize atomic explosions
2597 Back-endize DrawArrow and DrawDragPiece
2598 DrawDragPiece now calls DrawOneSquare with argument EmptySquare in stead
2599 of the X-type referring BlankSquare. A new wrapper DrawPolygon fixes
2600 DrawArrowBetweenPoints.
2601 Move board-drawing logic to new file board.c
2602 All X-independent drawing logic (board, squares, arrows, highlights,
2603 some animation stuff) has been extracted from xboard.c, and moved to
2604 a new file board.c, which is back-end (but unshared with WinBoard).
2605 A new header board.h defines the cross-references (which of course
2606 required some functions to be no longer declared as static).
2607 A bit of code was moved from DragPieceBegin to BeginAnimation, which
2608 now has an extra argument to indicate which piece should appear from
2609 under a dragged piece. This makes DragPieceBegin free of XCopyArea calls,
2610 so it could be moved too.
2611 Make board.c truly back-end
2612 Get rid of all X data types. For this the AnimState struct had to be
2613 redefined: the GC and Pixmap was taken out and put in front-end arrays
2614 indexed by anim agent (game and player). For this indexing a new enum
2615 was defined. The XPoint type was also replaced by our own type of an
2616 int pair (which is nasty, because the int size could be different).
2617 Move more animation code to board.c
2619 2012-03-18 10:08:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2620 Contract some awful code replication
2622 The code for making an X-color was replicated 6 times, and is now made
2623 into a subroutine. The code for creating GCs was quite repetitive as well.
2625 2012-03-18 08:34:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2626 Move more back-endish menu-related stuff from xboard.c to menus.c
2628 Move menu enabling to menus.c
2629 Only the wrapper EnableMenuItem stays in xboard.c. A new wrapper
2630 EnableButtonBar was necessary, because Training mode wants to enable/disable
2632 Move all back-endish MenuProcs to menus.c
2633 Many if the MenuProcs that could not be eliminated by listing the
2634 corresponding back-end MenuEvent function as handler directly, are
2635 still completely plactform indpendent. (E.g. when the MenuEvent needs
2636 a parameter.) These are all moved to menus.c now.
2637 Convert all dead MenuProcs to using MarkMenuItem
2638 The MenuProcs for the option items that no longer exist were also
2639 converted for check-marking their item in the new way, because we
2640 might revive them for key binding.
2641 Move the dead MenuProcs also to menus.c
2642 Revive dead menu procs
2643 Move GreyRevert to menus.c
2644 Move ModeToWidgetName to menus.c
2645 Move initial menu marking to menus.c
2647 A new function InitMenuMarkers was split off from main() to do this.
2649 2012-03-18 08:17:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2650 Switch to use of short menu references
2652 The prefixes menuXxxx. for the item names are abolished. This made it
2653 necessary to also add a MarkMenuItem function that can handle short names
2654 for putting the xMarkPixmap on the items, as the names returned by
2655 ModeToWidgetName are used for both enabling and check-marking.
2656 Let MarkMenu use MarkMenuItem wrapper
2658 2012-03-17 10:47:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2659 Refactor menu code, and move it to menu.c
2661 Supply new method for key binding
2662 It is annoying that every menu item needs its X-specific handler routine,
2663 because this handler has to be registered to X for becoming eligible as
2664 a key binding. Another disadvantage of this method is that the user wanting
2665 to make the binding has to know the name under which the menu function
2666 is registered (e.g. FlipViewProc).
2667 A new method is now made available, which uses only a single (X-specific)
2668 routine, registered with X as "MenuItem", as generic key-binding handler.
2669 The bindings can then be made by the user specifying "MenuItem(FlipView)".
2670 This requires a new list of potential bindings, which should be filled
2671 by the menu-creation routines. (Currently only contains only a predeficed
2673 No longer register all MenuProcs with X
2674 The list with available menu procs is moved to the user-maintained
2675 menuItemList. Only QuitProc had to stay registered with X, because it is
2676 used in CatchDeleteWindow. (So it is in both lists now.) In the future,
2677 most of the list can be built automatically from the menu tables.
2678 Alter type of MenuProcs to void(void)
2679 By getting rid of the argument list with X-types, most menu procs can
2680 become back-end. In the cases of ManProc and QuitProc the original
2681 version had to be kept as well, because in ManProc the argument was
2682 actually used (with key binding), while QuitProc is used for delete window.
2683 Remove now unnecessary menu wrappers
2684 Now the MenuProc have an empty argument list, those that also call a
2685 single 'MenuEvent' without arguments have become completely redundant,
2686 and have been taken out of the loop by calling the corresponding MenuEvent
2688 Build menuItemList from menu tables
2689 Rather than having an initialized table of name-proc associations (which
2690 used to be the X registrations) for the menu items, we now build the list
2691 during menu cration from the menu tables. The menu "ref" is now used as
2692 proc name. This means the old MenuProc names used in the predefined
2693 key bindings had to be changed to conform to this. Note that the bindings
2694 would slice up names containing spaces in several parameters, so in the
2695 translations the spaces were squeezed out of the item names. This requires
2696 a hand-written comparison routine Equal() to identify the binding.
2697 Remove prototypes of deleted MenuProcs
2698 Move prototypes of platform-independent MenuProcs to menus.h
2699 Create a new header file for the menu stuff, so that we can move
2700 the corresponding handler routines out of xboard.c to a back-end file.
2701 Extract back-end code from menu creation
2702 The menu tables and code to interpret them is moved to a new file menu.c.
2703 Only basic fuctions for creating a pop-down list and for adding an item
2704 to it remain in xboard.c.
2706 2012-04-07 15:59:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2707 Remove some unused (exclude-moves) variables
2710 2012-04-07 15:57:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2711 Install engine within current group
2714 2012-04-07 15:53:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2715 Switch to using listboxes for engine-selection in WinBoard
2718 2012-04-07 15:36:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2719 Implement Narrow button in WB Game List
2722 2012-04-05 15:15:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2723 Silence unjust warning
2726 2012-04-04 12:18:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2727 Fix memory corruption through InitString and second-engine loading
2729 The InitString and ComputerString options were not swapped when replacing
2730 the second engine, so that the ChessProgramStates of the first engine
2731 could point to an invalid (already freed) init string. Also make sure
2732 that appData.directory contains its value in allocated memory, even
2733 when hand-loading engines.
2734 Some of the rare options were not swapped either, and would thus
2735 always be loaded for the first engine when -singleEngineList was true.
2736 They are now also all reset to their default, before engine load,
2737 to prevent options of one engine to linger on for a next that does
2738 not specify them. The intentional exception is -firstHost.
2740 2012-04-01 20:51:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2741 Fix PV sorting during fail low
2743 When an engine reports a fail low as thinking output, and then re-searches
2744 the same move with larger window, it now gets a lower score. This line
2745 would then be sorted below the earlier fail low, because it was mistaken
2746 for a multi-PV line for an inferior move. This patch suppresses PVs
2747 overtaking each other if they start with the same move.
2749 2012-03-30 20:09:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2750 Extend smallLayout regime up to size Medium
2752 Because of the increase number of menus, there is not enough space for a
2753 title next to the menu bar at smaller sizes. In fact it is questionable if
2754 the title should ever go on the same line as the menu bar.
2756 2012-03-30 10:38:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2757 Fix parsing crazyhouse promotions with legality testing off
2759 With legality testing off, any promotion suffixes in a move are taken
2760 'on faith'. But in crazyhouse the piece ID for normal pieces is used as
2761 promotion suffix for promoted pieces, so this would Loop Chess rather than
2762 Crazyhouse. Now attention is payed to presence of ID-less promotion pieces
2763 (indicated by ~ in the pieceToCharTable), and if there are, these prevail
2764 ovr the specified type.
2766 2012-03-30 10:07:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2767 Fix browsing for save file in WB
2769 The generic popup browse buttons used the wrong flavor of browser,
2770 which would only accept existing files. This was inconvenient when browsing
2771 for a save file. The other flavor of browser is now used by default (so that
2772 engine options also use it), and a new flag is added in the option.max field
2773 (which was already indicating file type) to request readonly browsing for a
2776 2012-04-02 10:18:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2777 Let clicking on header line exclude moves
2779 The exclude header in the Engine-Output window can now be clicked, to
2780 toggle the exlusion of the listed move. Clicking on 'none' resets all
2781 exclusions, clicking on 'best' excludes the first move of the latest PV.
2782 The pseudo-move 'tail' represents all non-listed moves.
2784 2012-04-01 22:39:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2785 Keep list of excluded moves in Engine Output header
2787 As long as there is still space, excluded or included moves are added
2788 to a new header line in the Engine Output window (prefixed with + or -
2789 depending on whether they are currently excluded or included). Future
2790 in/exclusions of that same move then alter the prefix.
2792 2012-03-21 23:12:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2793 Fix focus of Game List
2795 After focus was transferred to the filter text-edit, it was impossible
2796 to get it back on the game list (to make the arrow keys working again).
2797 A translation to left down-click is now used to assign focus, just as
2798 it would for text edits. For unknown reason this only worked if the
2799 translations were instated by Overriding, rather than Augmenting,
2800 which again required the normal translation of downclick, Set(), which
2801 selects the clicked item, to be explicitly mentioned as well.
2803 2012-03-16 22:41:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2804 Fix taking effect of some option changes
2806 This fixes a bug reported at Ubuntu: when switching off move highlighting
2807 in Two Machines mode, the last move before the switch stayed highlighted.
2808 The GeneralOptionsOK() now clears any remaining highlights when highlighing
2809 is off. Similar problems with blind-fold mode and coordinates, which require
2810 a total board redraw to take effect, are now solved by also forcing such a
2811 redraw in GeneralOptionsOK() when they change.
2813 2012-03-16 21:58:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2814 Add exclude and setscore to protocol specs
2817 2012-03-16 14:47:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2818 Fix clock stop after dragging
2820 DelayedDrag always cancelled the previous drag timeout event, even when
2821 this was no longer pending because it had already taken place, and the
2822 event ID was resused by some other timeout (usually a clock tick).
2824 2012-03-14 21:06:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2825 Implement exclude moves
2827 Dragging a piece by double-clicking it on the from-square in analysis mode
2828 will not perform the entered move, but send an exclude or include command
2829 to the engine for that move (provided the engine enabled this with
2830 feature exclude=1), depending on if the move was already excluded or not.
2831 To this end a map of excluded moves is kept, and cleared when we move to
2832 another position through moving, undo, setboard or new. The user can see
2833 whether he included or excluded the move, as exclude uses premove highlights.
2834 Commands "exclude|include all" are sent when we throw a double-clicked
2835 piece off board (vertically or horizontally, respectively), but after
2836 exclude all the most recent PV move is included again.
2837 Remaining problem is that promotions can only be excluded.
2839 2012-03-14 15:13:18 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
2840 Mark new text "Click clock to clear board" for translation
2843 2012-03-13 21:46:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2844 More thorough switch to -ncp on engine failure
2846 The ProcRef and InputSource are now also cleared, and just to be sure there
2847 are no surviving adapters, the child is killed when engine startup fails.
2849 2012-03-13 21:25:22 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2850 Install engines as ./exefile in XBoard
2852 When a path name is split into directory and filename, the latter in Linux
2853 must be preceded by ./ in order to make it executable in the directory
2854 XBoard starts it in.
2856 2012-03-13 14:11:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2857 Inform user in EditPosition mode how to clear board
2859 With -pieceMenu false the board is cleared by clicking the clock, but
2860 since this is impossible to guess, it is now printed in the message field.
2862 2012-03-13 14:06:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2863 Fix fall-back on -ncp mode
2865 When the requested engine could not be started, the user still had to
2866 wait for the feature timeout to expire before the UI was re-enabled,
2867 and the now-useless loading action would continue. In stead we now
2868 cancel any scheduled continuation, thaw the UI immediately, and switch
2869 the menus and gameMode to ncp straight away.
2871 2012-03-10 18:55:24 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2872 updated po/pot files
2875 2012-03-10 18:54:32 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2876 new version number for developer release
2879 2012-03-06 16:37:02 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
2880 Fix typo (seach) in string. It is already fixed in branch v4.6.x
2883 2012-03-04 14:52:34 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2884 added some documentation about what's need to be done for a release and a bash-release script
2887 2012-02-28 21:09:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2888 Fix suspected bug in Makefile
2893 2012-02-26 18:55:10 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2894 add information about our webpage and were to report bugs into the help menu
2897 2012-02-26 18:40:27 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2898 fixed "make install-pdf": missing target for recursive make in po directory
2901 2012-02-26 23:06:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2902 Suppress recent-engines menu items in ICS mode
2905 2012-02-26 22:45:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2906 Fix 50-move counter in ICS mode
2908 Marking irreversible moves in the EP_STATUS did not work in ICS mode,
2909 as ApplyMove,which did that is never executed there. Only the boards
2910 sent by ICS are displayed,especially in observing mode. Now the status is
2911 derived from the ICS mov strings (x in the SAN move, or P in the long move.
2913 2012-02-26 17:18:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2914 Fix two 64-bit warnings
2916 Passing the engine number in a pointer variable to the callback needed
2919 2012-02-26 16:53:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2920 Fix piece symbols on switch back to variant normal
2922 Variant switches were not properly detected, meaning the variable pieces
2923 could keep a form belonging to a previous variant. (E.g. Queen remained
2924 a Lance image after switching from shogi to normal.)
2926 2012-02-26 14:07:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2927 Keep XBoard windows attached on resize
2929 Windows attached to bottom or right are displaced with the size increase.
2930 Their perpendicular dimension is also scaled, to keep their edges at the same
2931 fraction of the main window, unless they stick out. In the latter case the
2932 fraction is clipped to 1, so that edge moves with the full size increase.
2934 2012-02-25 22:40:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2935 Implement -stickyWindows in XBoard
2937 This makes the auxiliary windows move with the main window when they were
2938 touching, as in WinBoard. A control is added in the General Options dialog.
2940 2012-02-25 21:14:03 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2941 Use more reliable X-call for getting window position
2943 XtGetValues on XtNx, XtNy is unreliable. XGetWindowAttributes seems
2944 to give more reliable results, and automatically accounts for the width
2945 of window dressing. The -frameX/Y options are no longer needed bcause
2946 of this, and were removed.
2948 2012-02-25 11:55:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2949 Make frame width configurable in XB
2951 New persistent options -frameX, -frameY now can be used to specify
2952 the amount by which Xt lies about the window coordinates.
2954 2012-02-23 20:01:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2955 Use combobox line for recent engines when available
2957 The entry made in the -recentEngineList for the startup engine was
2958 derived from the -fcp value, but this would ignore a possible nickname.
2959 In WinBoard we now use the full combobox line to derive the entry.
2961 2012-02-23 09:29:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2962 Fix translation of EngineOutputTitle WB
2965 2012-02-23 01:34:12 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
2966 Updated Danish translation
2969 2012-02-23 00:59:36 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
2970 One missed translation of cps->which
2973 2012-02-22 19:58:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2974 Undo translation of cps->which = first/second
2976 The string in cps->which should not be translated, because it goes into
2977 the debug file to label engine I/O, and many tools for processing
2978 debug files (broadcasters, PGN extractors) rely on this being "first" or
2979 "second". In all contexts where "first" and "second" need to be translated,
2980 cps->which itself is already enclosed in _().
2982 2012-02-22 18:27:40 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2983 Implement -serverFile option
2985 This writs an extra debug file with only engine communiation on it,
2986 for the benifit of programs like TLCS.
2988 2012-02-22 17:46:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2989 Implement -autoCopyPV
2991 This option causes automatic copying of the last position of a PV walk
2994 2012-02-16 14:58:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2995 Delete some load-game debug printing
2997 The debug printing in Disambiguate was no longer needed. The printing
2998 of the started process in XBoard that went to stderr is now diverted
2999 to debugFP, so it ends up in the debug file.
3001 2012-02-16 14:41:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3002 Move change of debug file to before game load
3004 Loading a game from -lgf is done before TwoMachinesEvent is called,
3005 but logically belongs to the game. So the code to switch to the new
3006 debug file for the game is moved to NextMatchGame now.
3008 2012-02-16 14:09:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3009 Fix button grab for sweep selection
3011 The piece-menu initialization limited the grab of button events to those
3012 occurring inside the board window (presumably intended to limit them to
3013 the piece menu, but that does not pop up in sweep-selection mode).
3014 This is now suppressed when -pieceMenu is off, so that selection continues
3015 outside the the board. (Which is very convenient for pieces pu close to the
3018 2012-02-16 13:16:13 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3019 Don't leave piece selected after piece menu
3021 PieceMenuEvent left the just introduced piece selected, which is almost
3022 never what one wants, as it makes it jump to the next square when selects.
3023 Which is especially annoying if it captures the piece you wanted to grab...
3025 2012-02-16 12:57:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3026 Fix use of middle button for position setup
3028 With sweep selection the actual drop is made on releasing the button,
3029 and this event was not caught for button 2. Button-2 motion events were
3030 also not caught by the sweep-selection handler.
3032 2012-02-16 23:53:08 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
3033 Fix one more typo in the translator comments explaning "first" and "second"
3036 2012-02-16 23:39:32 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
3037 Fix typo in translator comments explaning "first" and "second"
3040 2012-02-16 23:23:20 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
3041 Add args.h to POTFILES.in and change the interface to ExitArgError() so msg is c format string
3043 Having msg as a format string will ease translations because then
3044 badArg doesn't have to come last.
3046 2012-02-16 22:51:44 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
3047 Mark the strings "first" and "sencond" for translation.
3049 ... and assign the translated strings to cps->which in function InitEngine()
3051 2012-02-16 18:42:10 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
3052 Use ngettext() instead of gettext() for a string to allow better translation.
3055 2012-02-16 00:19:59 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3056 translation: updated uk.po
3059 2012-02-15 20:59:09 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3060 modified configure and makefile for handling mimedb update
3062 the default configure will install them using the xdg commands (if they exist on the system)
3064 2012-02-13 22:29:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3065 add configure test for xdg-programs to install mime types; can be disabled for building of e.g. rpms
3067 in case the target system doesn't have the xdg-programs available, we test for them.
3068 Distributions often have their own macros to install these, so we add an enable option to configure
3070 2012-02-13 22:05:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3071 Remove a debug printf
3073 The parsePV debug printf becomes extremely verbose with -fSAN, -sSAN,
3076 2012-02-12 22:18:24 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3077 new developer release
3080 2012-02-12 22:19:37 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3081 updated po/pot files
3084 2012-02-12 22:17:03 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3085 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
3088 2012-02-12 07:52:54 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3089 translation: updated uk.po
3092 2012-02-12 11:38:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3093 Leave height of row that only contains buttons free
3095 All elements of the GenericPopUp are still scaled to the text height,
3096 including buttons appended behind them (browse or color buttons).
3097 But we now make an exception for a row that only contains buttons,
3098 as there is no harm in it being a little higher (and the buttons look
3101 2012-02-12 00:01:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3102 Fix OK button of error popup
3104 The error dialog popped up as a child of the board window, even when
3105 DisplayError was called from a dialog. Now it checks if a transient
3106 dialog is up, and if so, it pops up as a child of that, grabs focus,
3107 and suppresses the system popdown of the transient dialog through a flag
3108 dialogError until it is popped down itself.
3110 2012-02-11 20:07:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3114 2012-02-11 10:18:02 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3115 added some comments for translators
3118 2012-02-11 10:08:46 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3119 fixed comments for translators: comments starting with TRANSLATORS: are now copied to the po file
3122 2012-02-11 19:01:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3123 Also configure sweep selection
3125 To make sure this feature is tested, we set -pieceMenu false in the
3126 master settings file.
3128 2012-02-11 18:26:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3129 Fix date in copyright notice about-box
3132 2012-02-11 17:15:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3133 Fix switching animation masks on variant switch
3135 The masks for variant-dependent piees (E,H in Seirawan, promoted Golds
3136 in Shogi, the Gothic Chancellor) were no longer updated in InitDrawingSizes
3137 because of the patch to reduce X-server calls.
3139 2012-02-11 16:46:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3140 Configure wider game list
3142 The game list was by default too small, so that there was no room for the
3143 filter field. Now a width of 500 is specified, whcih works at -size 49
3146 2012-02-11 16:29:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3147 Fix button chaining and combo/textbox label height
3149 Previous patches forgot to specify the height for the text labels on
3150 -combo and -text options, so they were still too high. Buttons that go
3151 on the same line as the previous element should be chained right, not rubber.
3153 2012-02-11 15:52:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3154 Make -pgnNumberTag option setable from menu
3156 The Save Options dialog now containes a checkbox for this.
3158 2012-02-11 15:48:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3159 Configure some new features switched on
3161 The master settings file switches -showTargetSquares, -sweepPromotions
3162 and -seekGraph on, so that they will get more testing.
3164 2012-02-11 14:43:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3165 Fix heigth of multi-line labels
3167 The previous height patch overlooked that some labels are multi-line,
3168 and need more height.
3170 2012-02-11 14:10:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3171 Fix popdown seekgraph on forward-event XB
3173 Only the grid was drawn when the > or >> button were operated, because
3174 a full redraw was not forced by ForwardInner. The recent patch to take
3175 the seek graph down on such events did not account for that. (BackwardInner
3176 always seems to do full redraw, however?)
3178 2012-02-11 12:59:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3179 Put front-end support for -recentEngines in XBoard
3181 The engines are added to the menu. Problem is still that in XBoard
3182 startup engines are given by command, rather than selected by combobox,
3183 so the command rather than the nickname ends up in the menu. If this is
3184 then selected, it cannot be found in the list. To limit the damage,
3185 Fairy-Max is now pre-installed without nickname. -recentEngines is now
3188 2012-02-11 11:53:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3189 Better solution to button-height problem
3191 In stead of adapting the height of text widgets to that of buttons,
3192 (as represented by the message widget), we now do the opposite, and
3193 adapt the button & label heights. This is made safe by obtaining textHeight
3194 from the fontSet's max_logical_extent, though an XExtendsFontSet() call.
3195 Turns out the default height of text widgets is not exactly that, but
3196 4 pixels larger for borders and margin.
3197 The parameter XtNvertDistance is now used to align the checkboxes with
3198 the following text widget, and their size is derived from textHeight as
3200 The XtNvertDistance is set to -1 for the lower spin button, so that it
3201 its border coincides with that of the upper spin button. Their height is
3202 set to textHeight/2. This makes their combined height just 1 pixel more
3203 than that of the preceeding text widget. (Uh? 2 x tw/2 -1 > tw?), so for
3204 other buttons we use that too (i.e. textHeight = font_extent + 5).
3206 2012-02-10 22:39:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3209 Deleting debug printing had made a variable unused.
3211 2012-02-10 22:26:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3214 The text-edit-height patch introduced a bug that did not have any consquences
3215 (yet), as the extra arg erroneously included leftover from a previous
3216 SetValues call happened to be the same as one of the intended args.
3218 2012-02-10 20:51:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3219 Fix unloading of first engine on tourney start
3221 Because NextTourneyGame was loading a new engine before ReserveGame was
3222 called to unload it with dummy game nr = -1), the first engine proc kept
3225 2012-02-10 18:39:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3226 Remove some of the most verbose debug output
3229 2012-02-10 17:46:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3230 Delete some unused WinBoard bitmaps
3232 There waere up-side-down knight icons that apparently hid by mistake
3233 in the bitmaps directory: they were not part of WinBoard
3235 2012-02-10 17:39:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3236 Cosmetic: change 4.5 to 4.6 in xboard.conf comment
3239 2012-02-10 17:35:22 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3240 Fix crash on empty combobox menu XB
3242 XBoard crashed when a combobox without items was opened, as could easily
3243 happen in the Load Engine dialogs when -firstChessProgramNames contained
3244 no items, as it would without configuring. Now the creation of the popup
3245 menu is suppressed in that case.
3247 2012-02-10 17:13:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3248 Fix position of checkbox XB
3250 With the large height the widget get in internationalization, the
3251 checkboxes are position way too high above the text. To shift them down
3252 a dummy borderless label widget is drawn above them (when needed).
3254 2012-02-10 15:07:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3255 Fix heights in Engine Output window XB
3257 The icons did not fit in the space above the memos anymore, so the height
3258 of this area is now left free.
3260 2012-02-10 14:55:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3261 Derive height of text-edits in dialogs from message widget
3263 With internationalization the default height of buttons has inexpliquably
3264 inreased compared to that of text-edits, messing up the layout of the
3265 GenericPopUp. The message widget is now used as a emasure of how high
3266 the widgets should be.
3268 2012-02-10 14:21:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3269 Configure XBoard engines and textures
3271 The new -useBoardTexture option is needed in xboard.conf, as we want to
3272 distribute with the texture on, while the compiled-in default is off.
3273 A list of 4 engines has been configured (fairymax, fruit, crafty, gnuchess),
3274 as the Load Engine and Match Options checkboxes crash XBoard when the list
3275 is empty. The -recentEngines option is set to 0 to make sure the code
3276 associated with it is never executed: the code is still experimental,
3277 and the required front-end support is only present in WinBoard anyway.
3279 2012-02-10 13:30:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3280 Update Dutch WinBoard translation
3283 2012-02-10 13:18:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3284 Create room in some WB dialogs for translations
3287 2012-02-10 13:17:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3288 Add 5 missing strings to WinBoard translation template
3291 2012-02-09 23:03:58 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3292 new developer release
3295 2012-02-09 23:04:46 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3299 2012-02-09 22:59:05 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3300 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
3302 2012-02-09 22:44:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3303 Fix non-bug in WinBoard
3305 The IDM_RecentEngines was not used in symbolic form everywhere.
3307 2012-02-09 18:46:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3308 Fix MAXENGINES in WinBoard
3310 The front-end arrays for expanding the engine list measured 1000 entries,
3311 in stead of MAXENGINES, leading them to overflow.
3313 2012-02-09 13:05:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3314 Implement kludge to set options through Move Type-in
3316 A leading "!!! " will cause the rest of the line to be parsed as
3317 command line. Very dangerous, as an unknown option (e.g. because of a typo)
3318 will cause a fatal error, which makes XBoard exit.
3320 2012-02-09 13:04:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3321 Put move number in Eval Graph title
3324 2012-02-09 13:00:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3325 Implement -pgnNumberTag option
3327 A new (persistent) boolean option controls if the sequence number is to
3328 be written in saved tourney games as a Number tag, to make it easier
3329 to correlate games with debug files.
3331 2012-02-09 12:55:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3332 Create separate debug fil for each tourney game
3334 Users can now apecify a -debugfile with %d in its name, and this will
3335 be replaced by the sequence number of the game. TwoMachinesEvent then
3336 starts by opening a new file when the name has changed, so that each
3337 game will go to a different file, with recognizable name.
3339 2012-02-09 12:51:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3340 Fix bug in WB combobox readout
3342 The previous patch exposed a latent bug in the readout of the generic popup.
3344 2012-02-08 23:25:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3345 Allow grouping of engines in engine list
3347 Lines "# GROUPNAME" and "# end" enclose a group in -firstChessProgramNames.
3349 2012-02-08 17:47:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3352 A trailing .exe was not removed if the engine name was quoted.
3354 2012-02-08 17:45:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3355 Put recently used engines in WB menu
3357 A new option -recentEngines specifies how many engines should be listed.
3358 The list of nicknames is stored in the ettings file as -recentEngineList.
3359 The engines are appended to the Engine menu.
3361 2012-02-04 19:37:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3362 Fix registering of EditTagsProg
3364 This was registered with X as EditCommentProc!
3366 2012-02-07 23:04:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3367 Increase max nr of engines to 2000
3369 Move the #define for MAXENGINES also to common.h, so that both the
3370 Load and Tourney dialog use the same maximum.
3372 2012-01-19 23:01:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3373 Fix fix of switch to mono-mode
3375 The previous fix had == in stead of != for testing if mono-mode had changed.
3377 2012-01-19 22:21:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3378 Make New Variant dialog visible in mono-mode
3380 All colored buttons did get a black background, and also black text...
3381 Use timer background color in stead, which is white.
3383 2012-01-19 20:48:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3384 Incease size of WB array of translated items
3386 For the BoardOptions dialog 42 items are now needed
3388 2012-01-19 17:18:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3389 Implement Clone Tourney button XBoard
3391 This makes use of the new GenericUpdate().
3393 2012-01-19 16:34:13 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3394 Implement GenericUpdate function
3396 This does the opposite from GenericReadout: it copies the current
3397 parameter values into the dialog.
3399 2012-01-19 12:19:27 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3400 Fix arrow damage with highlightDragging XB
3402 With highlight dragging the highlights of the previous moves are cleared
3403 when lifting the piece. Logically, this should also clear the arrow, but
3404 to do that requires a board redraw, which is not done at this stage. (And
3405 even then this would only be effective after marking the arrow damage,
3406 which is not done yet either). As a temporary fix, we repair the arrow
3408 This patch has moved marking of the arrow damage from DrawArrowHighlight
3409 to a separate routine, so a future better fix can also call that when the
3410 arrow should be erased.
3412 2012-01-18 16:01:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3413 Prevent unnecessary loading of engines
3415 For engines that can be reused, the unloading at the end of a pairing
3416 is in some cases wasteful, as the same engine will be used in the next
3417 pairing as well. In simple gauntlets the gauntlet engine will always
3418 stay first engine, while in multi-gauntlets the oppent engine will stay
3419 the same for an entire round. In these cases unloading is now suppressed.
3421 2012-01-17 22:22:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3422 Reset protocol version before loading new engine
3424 The protocol version was not reset, so if the previous engine was v1,
3425 the newly loaded engine would not be sent a protover command, so
3426 that its features would remain unknown!
3428 2012-01-17 19:33:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3429 Give focus to board window after ICS login
3431 toprevent that the focus remains on any popped up chat boxes, it is
3432 explicitlly set otherwise. The board window is preferred over the
3433 ICS interaction window, because you can type from there to the ICS anyway,
3434 and it makes all accelerator keys available.
3436 2012-01-16 14:37:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3437 Fix seek-graph popup and popdown
3439 Clicking outside the board area in WB (e.g.on the clocks) would also
3440 trigger seek-graph 'popup'. This is now suppressed by testing for
3441 y-coord > 0. In addition, the seek graph is automaticaly taken down
3442 when we step to another position in the current game (using buttons,
3443 arrow keys or whatever).
3445 2012-01-15 21:29:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3446 Suppress empty lines when observing on VICS
3448 Capture of the engine kibitzes when observing an engine game with
3449 -autoKibitz on was still leaking a linefeed on the Variant ICS
3450 (but not FICS or ICC!?).
3452 2012-01-15 21:24:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3453 Fix printing non-numeric kibitz with -autoKibitz
3455 Messages that were not considered kibitzed engine PV info for lack of
3456 numeric content, were kibitzed as coming from "your opponent", which
3457 is nonsense if you were iobserving, and masked the source. Fortunately
3458 star_match[0] is still holding the original name, at that point.
3460 2012-01-11 17:33:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3464 2012-01-11 17:00:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3465 Use same translation of "vs." everywhere
3468 2012-01-11 17:08:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3469 Add new translations to WB language file
3472 2012-01-11 16:20:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3473 Fix re-allocation of PGN-cache memory
3475 It allocated 8 times too much!
3477 2012-01-11 12:47:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3478 Fix height board dialog
3481 2012-01-11 12:34:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3482 Enable WB time-control dialog even when no clock mode
3484 The dialog could be called from the tournament dialog to set a TCfor
3485 the tourney even when currently in game-viewer mode, so it'd better work.
3487 2012-01-11 12:28:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3488 Exempt variant seirawan from -disguisePromoted inheritance
3490 This is not a variant where promoted Pawns have to be distingushed
3491 from primordial pieces, as captured pieces do not go into the holdings.
3493 2012-01-09 21:23:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3494 Add control for overrideLineGap in WB Board dialog
3496 Make it a checkbox to choose between 0 and -1.
3498 2012-01-09 20:56:40 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3499 Add Ctrl-D as alternative to Ctrl+Alt+F12 in WinBoard
3501 The acellerator key Ctrl+Alt+F12 seems reserved on Windows 7.
3503 2012-01-09 20:52:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3504 Fix seek graph for VICS
3506 The sought command on the open-source ICS code is ICC-like (no terminating
3507 line), although the server is FICS like. So also accept prompt as seek-graph
3510 2012-01-09 20:27:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3511 Open WB startup chat boxes only after logged on
3513 The init code for opening the chat boxes ismoved to DisplayIcsTitle().
3515 2012-01-07 20:31:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3516 Install mime types directly
3519 2012-01-07 20:29:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3520 Install desktop files directly
3523 2012-01-07 20:19:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3524 Install icons directly
3526 Rather than letting make-install copy the pixmaps to the XBoard data
3527 directory they are installed directly from the source files. The name
3528 of the TRN icon was also corrected and changed.
3530 2012-01-05 18:41:13 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3531 Update texi file and remove duplicate control
3533 Some missing option descriptions were added. The highlight-dragging
3534 control was removed from the General Options dialog, as it did the same
3535 as Show Target Squares. -highlightDragging wa changed to a volatile option
3536 with default value true, making it effectively disappear as an XBoard
3537 option. (In WinBoard it is still persistent.)
3539 2012-01-05 15:55:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3540 Remove the direct commands to the engines
3543 2012-01-05 21:15:11 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3544 forgot to list new desktop files in EXTRA_DIST section in Makefile.am
3547 2012-01-05 20:08:23 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3548 added some autogenerated po files to .gitignore
3551 2012-01-05 20:05:44 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3552 added desktop and mime-type association to autoconf install process
3554 This should install and uninstall the mime assocciation and also the icons.
3555 Also renamed the desktop files to avoid possible name collisions.
3557 2012-01-03 21:30:59 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3558 code cleanup: make function definition confirm to GNU coding style
3560 change everything in the main directory to
3563 funcname (int a, int b)
3567 2012-01-03 18:43:18 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3568 Updated copyright notice to 2012
3571 2012-01-03 21:32:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3572 Implement -viewerOptions
3574 A mechanism is added to allow the user to configure persistently if the
3575 game viewer that starts on clicking PGN files will use -ncp mode, or
3576 load an egine for analysis (or, in fact, do anything). This by introducing
3577 a persistent string option -viewerOptions, which will be parsed as a
3578 command line after the real command line when the option -viewer was present.
3580 2012-01-03 11:29:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3581 Fix crash in auto-comment
3583 Trailing linefeeds in AppendComment were not properly stripped off,
3584 leading to a mismatch between the allocted and used memory, and thus
3585 possible buffer overruns.
3587 2012-01-02 23:46:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3588 Fix crash at match end
3590 The -afterTourney option had broken old-style matches, because the ranking
3591 string that was tested for "busy" is not set there at all, and remains a
3592 NULL pointer, which strcmp doesn't like.
3594 2012-01-01 19:56:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3595 Add desktop files for PGN viewer and tournament player
3597 The desktop files define startup commands for handling PGN, FEN and
3598 tourney files, calling xboard with the proper command-line options.
3600 2012-01-01 19:53:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3601 Add xml file for defining mime types
3603 The file xboard.xml defines application/x-chess-pgn, aplication/x-chess-fen
3604 and application/x-xboard-trn as mime types for *.pgn, *.fen and *.trn files,
3605 so these files can be associated with XBoard in various modes.
3607 2012-01-01 19:41:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3608 Add icons for PGN and tourney files
3610 Icons are provided in two sizes: 32x32 and 48x48.
3612 2011-12-29 19:55:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3613 Clear square markers on new game
3615 Now that the markers can stay on after a first click, they need to be
3616 explicitly cleared when moving to another board, including a new game.
3618 2011-12-29 15:51:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3619 Abandon single-letter menus in tinyLayout
3621 Now that the items on the main menu bar are clipped, it iso longer
3622 necessary to abbreviate them.
3624 2011-12-29 15:38:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3625 Implement peeking previous position in WinBoard
3627 The backspace key is used to temporarily display the previous position.
3629 2011-12-29 15:32:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3630 Fix parsing of faulty PGN tags
3632 A closing bracket could be missed in a malformed tag
3634 2011-12-29 15:29:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3635 Fix parser for variant seirawan
3637 The new parser didnot understand gating suffixes with /, and did not
3638 allow any suffix at all on SAN castling moves.
3640 2011-12-28 22:32:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3641 Try to not confuse ICS rating adustments as shouts
3643 An explicit pattern match for the rating adjustment is added before
3644 matching the shouts.
3646 2011-12-28 22:21:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3647 Describe -overrideLineGap option in texi file
3650 2011-12-28 22:03:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3651 Use <Enter> in stead of Ctrl+. for peeking last move
3653 I commented out the explicit detection of the Ctrl key, as this
3654 is not needed when there are no 'unnatural' Ctrl keystrokes used
3657 2011-12-28 19:37:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3658 Next try for menu-bar sizing
3660 This time request the width needed to just fit everything, and then start
3661 shaving off pixels from the currently largest until the entire thing fits.
3663 2011-12-28 15:17:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3664 Clip texts on menu bar
3666 The width of the items on the main menu bar is restricted so the bar
3667 will never exceed board width.
3669 2011-12-28 14:01:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3670 Fix format in temporary timing printf
3673 2011-12-28 13:38:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3674 Don't test drops as mate evasions in variant seirawan
3677 2011-12-28 13:36:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3678 Fix ICS castling rights
3680 Copying the castling rights together with CopyBoard seems to have
3681 broken handling of ICS rights, where ParseBoard12 prepares a board
3682 in a local variable, an copies it before parsing the rights.
3684 2011-12-28 13:35:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3685 Fix initial holdings ICS seirawan games
3688 2011-12-27 18:31:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3689 Fix sending of S-Chess gating moves to ICS
3691 Normal moves did not get the gating suffix sent.
3693 2011-12-27 17:56:07 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3694 Fix menu grayout after illegal move
3696 TheThinkingEnables were not reset to user state after the engine rejected
3697 the entered move as illegal.
3699 2011-12-27 13:26:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3700 Allow setting of holdings with edit command
3702 For the benefit of Fairy-Max' Seirawan Chess implementation, the edit command
3703 no also sends holdings contents (if the engine sent feature xedit=1), encoded
3704 as pieceType + '@' + holdingsCount (if the count is non-zero).
3706 2011-12-24 17:54:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3707 Fix out-of-bounds access in check test
3709 Thepath to make the check test work with drops had broken the test
3710 after null move (both have rf<0), which led to corruption of the high
3711 word of the black clock.
3713 2011-12-24 17:51:22 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3714 Fix legality of Spartan promotion to king
3716 In the check test promotion to King is only allowed if there are not
3719 2011-12-21 22:17:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3720 Fix switching back from mono-mode XB
3722 Suppressing unnecesary X-server calls in InitDrawingSizes had broken
3723 switching back from monoMode, because the animVars have to be recreated
3724 for that, and this was only done when the variant changed.
3726 2011-12-21 22:09:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3727 Fix showTargetSquares in mono-mode XB
3729 Make the marker dots black (captures) and white, and draw a circle
3730 in the opposite color around them in monoMode.
3732 2011-12-21 22:00:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3733 Fix arrow highlighting in mono-mode XB
3735 Draw a line around it in darkSquare color in monoMode.
3737 2011-12-21 17:48:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3738 Fix alignment of generic browse button XBoard
3740 The width ofthe browse button is now read back after creating it,
3741 and subtracted from the preceding text edit.
3743 2011-12-21 14:41:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3744 Add -afterTourney option
3746 Only the instance pinting the tourney result will execute this.
3748 2011-12-22 21:01:43 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
3749 Fix buffer possible overflow when writings tags
3751 PGNTagsStatic() could overflow its buffer and is removed. PGNTags() do the work instead of calling it.
3752 It starts by calculation the required buffer size and then allocate the buffer.
3753 PrintPGNTags() now prints directly to the file without having a buffer.
3755 2011-12-22 15:01:31 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
3756 One more string marked for translation
3758 And it is moved inside the if statement that uses it.
3760 2011-12-22 14:30:08 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
3761 Fix checking of return value from snprintf()
3763 snprintf() returns the needed space excluding the trailing 0 byte, so
3764 it has truncated if the returned valued is greater than or EQUAL TO the buffersize
3766 2011-12-19 16:49:31 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
3767 Fix unportable memory initialisation
3769 Memory sat to zero by calloc() cannot safely be assumed to have the pointer value NULL
3771 2011-12-19 13:16:58 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
3772 Add 2 strings for translation
3775 2011-12-19 11:25:11 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
3776 Remove the last 2 compile warnings in gamelist.h
3779 2011-12-19 11:17:48 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
3780 Add #include "moves.h" to gamelist.c for def. of CopyBoard()
3783 2011-12-19 11:11:34 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
3784 Definition of TimeMark moved from 3 c files to backend.h
3787 2011-12-19 01:21:46 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
3788 Transfer a pointer to the promoChar from PromotionPopUp() to PromotionCallback(). Fixes #34980
3791 2011-12-18 17:24:07 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
3792 Duh! Initialise the argument to sscanf() inside the loop, so it always gets a known value when sscanf() fails.
3795 2011-12-18 17:18:12 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
3796 Give numeric options the value 0 if a non-numeric text is entered (one more place). Before the value ended up undefined.
3799 2011-12-18 17:08:46 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
3800 Give numeric options the value 0 if a non-numeric text is entered. Before the value ended up undefined.
3803 2011-12-18 15:41:46 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
3804 Fix possible crash on 64-bit systems when copying game or position
3806 The two convertproc's for X selections caused reads out of bounds on 64-bit systems.
3807 I hope that this is the right solution. I am not experienced with X stuff, but it
3808 follows that I have seen in other programs, testing shows that copying still works,
3809 and the reading out of bounds have disappearinged with this patch.
3811 2011-12-18 13:26:20 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
3812 Fix a possible crash in the file browser
3814 If the OK button was selected in the file browser when no file was selected
3815 there was a read out of bounds which could crash xboard
3817 2011-12-17 22:54:34 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
3818 Fix a memory leak in Sound Options
3821 2011-12-16 02:57:20 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
3822 Fix crash when selecting user soundfile due to free() of not malloc()'ed memory
3825 2011-12-16 02:32:37 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
3826 Make GenericPopUp() more readable by using more named flags instead of numerals
3828 Defines the flags SAME_ROW (value 1) and NO_OK (value 2) for use with buttons and endmarks.
3829 There should no functional change.
3830 Also add a code comment where a condition depends on an uninitialised value. There is no direct harm, as both
3831 branches do the same (that is nothing) when the value is uninitialised.
3833 2011-12-15 02:51:36 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
3834 Add NO_GETTEXT flag for combobox. Fix bug #34991
3836 Define NO_GETTEXT flag to avoid calling gettext() for comboboxes, and define COMBO_CALLBACK
3837 flag to call comboCallback() when an item is selected in a combobox (no new code for this,
3838 just a symbolic value instead of a number). The flags are used for the min field of struct Option.
3839 NO_GETTEXT is used for the Select engine combobixes in the Match Options and Load engine windows.
3841 2011-12-13 19:48:37 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3842 only translate entries in CreateComboPopup if strlen>0; fixes #34991
3845 2011-12-12 19:06:26 -0800 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
3846 fix for repeating key issue, with this allissues this bug should be closed; fixes #35000
3849 2011-12-12 18:45:05 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3850 also don't translate selection in ComboSelect; fixes #34991
3853 2011-12-12 18:40:23 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3854 make entries in CreateComboPopup not translateable; fixes #34991
3857 2011-12-10 16:06:47 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3858 fix translation for engine list; fixes #34991
3860 * click on browse button should be recognized in translated versions
3861 * width of button should auto-scale
3863 2011-12-10 11:04:17 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3864 change keybindings that don't use ctrl, make MoveTypeInProc ctrl aware; fixes #35000
3866 two keybindings were using keys without modifiers, adjusted these to use the ctrl key.
3867 Furthermore when typing in moves we need to check if ctrl was pressed and ignore those inputs.
3869 Also added documentation for these keybindings.
3871 2011-12-10 10:51:18 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3872 replaced unicode character for "'" in xboard.texi
3875 2011-12-10 10:08:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3876 removed Iconify function. Should be handled by the window manager.
3879 2011-12-08 20:53:13 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3880 marked an error messages for translation
3883 2011-12-08 20:33:29 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3884 translation: updated uk.po
3887 2011-12-03 17:52:23 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3888 fixed size of XBoard icon to 48x48
3890 the icon gets installed in the 48x48 directory, but was >200 pixel wide. This gave a warning during rpm creation.
3892 2011-12-03 08:07:32 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3895 marked a lot of new strings for translation
3897 2011-12-03 08:06:42 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3898 added new files to po/POTFILES.in
3901 2011-12-02 22:13:36 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3902 marked more strings for translation
3905 2011-12-02 20:08:01 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3906 translation: added danish translation
3909 2011-12-01 18:45:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3910 Change encoding of seirawan ICS gating-castlings
3912 In stead of using upper/lower-case promoChar, the ICS now uses
3913 RxK notation, like WinBoard writes in SAN, for better consistency.
3915 2011-11-30 15:38:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3916 Put promo-suffix on ICS move in variant seirawan castlings
3918 The distinction upper-case / lowercase determines gating at R / K
3920 2011-11-28 11:56:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3921 Refrain from making unnecessary resize X request
3923 The window resizing code in InitDrawingSizes is suppressed when no
3924 change is needed. Similarly, changing piece bitmaps is suppressed when
3925 we stay in the same variant (and InitDrawingSizes is called e.g. because
3926 of chaging lineGap through the Board dialog).
3928 2011-11-27 22:27:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3929 Fix parsing of O-O castling in variant janus
3931 The new parser did not realize it meant e1i1 rather than wild e1h1.
3933 2011-11-26 22:28:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3934 Show 50-move counter also when observing ICS games
3936 To not cheat 50-move display was suppressed in ICS mode,
3937 but for observing a game this made no sense.
3939 2011-11-26 22:22:07 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3940 Ignore ICS game starts when already in game
3942 The advance switching of the variant on game-start messages was
3943 disruptive for users with gin=1, which also sends such messages
3944 for other games than your own. For now fixed by only reacting on
3945 them when idle (detected by invalid game number).
3947 2011-11-11 18:16:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3948 Fix WinBoard clock-click bug
3950 Clicking on the clock in WinBoard also called the LeftClick routine
3951 for handling clicks on the board. This led to the from-square being set
3952 to some inalid value, so that the next genuine board click was interpreted
3953 as a to-click, with undesired effects, especially with legality testing off
3954 or in EditPosition mode, where weird things are accepted.
3956 2011-11-06 17:20:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3957 Add feature-override options
3959 A few (dangerous) options are added to allow a user to override
3960 engine features, or change their defaults, by supplying a string
3961 with feature commands (e.g. "sigint=0") which tricks XBoard into
3962 thinking the engine sent that. There is a -featureDefaults which is
3963 processed before the engine features, and -first/secondFeatures
3964 which is parsed just before engine initialization.
3965 This goes horribly wrong when the user wouldtry silly things like
3966 including 'option' or 'done' features!
3968 2011-11-05 12:32:39 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3969 translation: updated uk.po
3972 2011-11-04 21:58:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3973 Fix handling of -secondOptions option
3975 The -firstOptions and -secondOptions settigs were not swapped when
3976 -singleEngieList was true, so the second engine's options would never
3977 be set in that case, but used for the first engine.
3979 2011-11-04 21:55:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3980 Accept setup command in variant fairy even with legality testing on
3982 Variant fairy does not really have a defined opening position, but lots
3983 of pieces defined, so we might want to play with legality checking on,
3984 but still rely on the engine for the opening position
3986 2011-11-04 21:52:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3987 Set pieceToCharTable by setup command even when ignoring FEN
3989 When the user starts from a set-up position, the egines default
3990 openingposition has to be ignored, but the pieceToCharTable would
3993 2011-11-04 21:48:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3994 Change default sweep-promotion choicein queenless variants
3996 The initial scanning of the sweep piece until a defined piece is found
3997 is now in the increasing direction (still starting at Queen), so that
3998 the fairy pieces are suggested before R, B and N.
4000 2011-11-03 16:38:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4001 Clear board markers when moving to other position
4003 Now the markers from -showTargetSquares would stay on after a first click
4004 for the benefit of a click-click move, they would also stay on when not
4005 finishing the move, but operating the < > buttons in stead to call up
4006 other positions. ForwardInner and BackwardInner now clear the markers,
4007 like they also cleared highlights.
4009 2011-11-01 18:30:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4010 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
4012 2011-10-25 15:32:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4015 2011-10-24 20:00:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4016 Don't adjust clock on right-click in EditGame mode WB
4018 This was a change that was already done for the left-clicks, but somehow
4019 never made it togit for the right-clicks
4021 2011-10-24 19:50:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4022 Change chase message in .lng files
4024 2011-10-24 19:31:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4025 Let perpetual-chase message mention square
4027 In stead of a boolean, PerpetualChase now returns the square the chased
4028 piece ends on (encoded as an int), and on adjudication it will be printed.
4030 2011-10-24 19:26:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4031 Add mechanism to translate variable messages in WinBoard
4033 A message prefixed with % in the lng file will be considered a match
4034 if it matches the start of the text to be printed, and the remaining
4035 part of the latter will remain untranslated. This was needed to allow
4036 translation of the perpetual change message, now it indicates the square
4037 of the chased piece.
4039 2011-10-24 19:20:13 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4040 Use other interpretation of Asia rules for chase detection
4042 The detection of perpetual chases now ignores pre-existing checks.
4044 2011-10-12 17:28:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4045 Fix crash on loading garbage game file
4047 The code to cache games was not resistant to moves before a valid
4048 game start, or a game filewithout any games at all.
4050 2011-10-08 20:43:52 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4051 Incorporate variant type in book hash key
4053 This prevents booksforone variant being used for another, and allows
4054 multi-variant books.
4056 2011-10-07 15:41:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4057 Update language.txt file
4060 2011-10-07 15:34:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4061 Update Dutch lng file
4064 2011-10-07 15:21:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4065 Fix Load Options dialog WB
4067 Defined fastkeys; reordered elements so that fastkeys focus edit they
4068 are intended for. Changed some of the more obscure texts. Corrected
4069 list of transatble dialog items, adding a few missing ones.
4071 2011-09-13 20:01:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4074 Prototypes were added, ormoved from backend.c to backend.h.
4076 2011-08-26 12:44:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4077 Put 'Load Next' button back in WB Game List
4079 The '>' button for loading the next (filtered) game is re-instated in the
4080 WinBoard GameList. The main window has now accelerator keys Ctrl+Up and
4081 Ctrl+Down for loading the previous and next filtered game.
4083 2011-08-26 12:31:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4084 Speed up position search and consider side to move
4086 The position search is made to pay attention to the side to move,
4087 which produces a speedup, because we only have to compare half the
4088 game positions when looking for an exact position match. An addition
4089 we now keep track of the total number of pieces, and abandon a game when
4090 it drops below the number of pieces in the position we seek.
4092 2011-08-21 23:16:15 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4093 Dynamically allocate move cache
4095 A small statically declared cache good for 250k moves (~3200 games)
4096 will be expanded in steps of a factor 8 when it overflows.
4098 2011-08-18 18:40:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4099 Translate search strings
4102 2011-08-17 22:55:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4103 Implement flipped search
4106 2011-08-16 15:29:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4107 Debug position search cache
4110 2011-08-15 18:44:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4114 2011-08-18 18:01:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4115 Translate search-mode strings
4118 2011-08-15 16:59:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4122 2011-10-23 16:04:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4123 Fix duplicate loading of second engine in tourneys
4125 To decide if new engines should be loaded, it was tested if first.pr
4126 equalled NoProc, assuming that ReserveGame would have left the engine
4127 loaded if the next game would need the same engines. But a reuse=0 engine
4128 could have caused termination of the first engine process anyway, while
4129 the second would still be alive. So unconditionally starting of the second
4130 engine would cause redundant engine processes to abound.
4131 Now we only start new engine processes if both engine processes are dead.
4133 2011-10-23 15:53:32 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4134 Fix PV walking with -fSAN
4136 The SAN options had broken the PV walking, because the shelving of the
4137 walked PV to create space for the conversion to SAN of an incoming PV
4138 would not be properly undone, but would add the walked PV to the game.
4140 2011-10-20 12:39:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4141 Refine clock adjusting
4143 Adjusting the clocks by shift-clicking them is now only allowed with
4144 autoCallFlag off, and an error-popup results when you do it otherwise.
4145 Also, swtching to Edit Game mode won't reset the clocks to the stored
4146 value anymore when you have just adjusted it.
4148 2011-10-12 17:43:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4149 Fix crash on adding items near book end
4151 When Edit Book would add so many entries near the end of an opening
4152 book that the end of the added info would surpass the old end of the
4153 file, the copying of the tail got stuck in an infinite loop, extending
4154 the file without limit with repeating info.
4156 2011-10-12 17:41:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4157 Print message on wrong use of Clone Tourney
4159 The user is urged to first provide the name of an existing tourney file
4160 when he presses the button without one. The button is also renamed.
4162 2011-10-12 17:38:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4163 Fix invalid combobox entry WB
4165 A combobox label that was not in the list (because the user typed
4166 it, rather than selecting one) would cause a crash.
4168 2011-10-12 17:23:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4169 Fix crash on loading garbage game file
4171 XBoard crashed when a game file contained a PGN game result before
4172 any valid game start, because data would be written in a game-list
4173 node that did not exist yet. This would occur frequently when garage
4174 was read; basically any asterisk in the data would do it.
4176 2011-10-11 23:31:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4177 Add control to set -discourageOwnBooks WB
4180 2011-10-11 20:53:52 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4181 only require 0.17 of gettext
4183 This seems to solve many build issues with older distrubtions and doesn't seem to be a problem with newer ones.
4185 2011-10-11 23:31:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4186 Add option -discourageOwnBooks
4188 This boolean option determines the default setting of the hasOwnBook
4189 option before a tourney game starts. By setting it, the hasOwnBook
4190 option is cleared, which would enable use of the GUI book, like the
4191 engine was installedwith the /firstXBook option. An explicit option
4192 on the engine install line can still overrule this, though.
4193 A control to set this option has been added in the XBoard Match dialog,
4194 and it is saved in the tourney file to force consistency.
4196 2011-10-11 22:58:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4197 Reset initString and computerString on engine load
4199 These options are typically engine specific, and must thus be
4200 reset to their default value before loading a new engine.
4202 2011-10-11 22:43:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4203 Add Romanian lng file
4206 2011-10-07 16:55:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4207 Reactivate Falcon Chess
4209 Now the patent for this has expired, Fairy-Max plays it again.
4210 So the XBoard support for it is now switched on, and an item for it is
4211 added to the XBoard New Variant menu dialog. (WinBoard still had that.)
4212 In the array the Lance was changed for the Falcon as a wild-card piece.
4214 2011-10-03 09:59:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4215 Update texi file for new features
4218 2011-10-03 10:30:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4219 Update texi file for position search
4221 The new items in the Load Game Options dialog are described, as well
4222 as the command-line options used to store them in the settings file.
4224 2011-10-03 09:28:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4225 Remove paragraph about .Xresources from texi file
4227 Command-line options can no longer be set through .Xresources already
4228 since version 4.5.0.
4230 2011-10-03 09:13:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4231 Add Dutch WinBoard translation
4234 2011-09-28 20:46:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4235 Prevent Edit Book window from stealing focus (WB)
4237 In WinBoard updating the book window would give it focus. Now the
4238 focus is given back to the main window, except when the Edit Book
4239 window is first created.
4241 2011-09-28 20:42:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4242 Make book-window update part of HistorySet
4245 2011-09-26 16:01:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4246 Fix position loading in tourneys
4248 In a tourney a position must be loaded when the engine is not yet
4249 started, and the old version of LoadPosition could not handle that:
4250 It would start up the engine, and send it commands unconditionally.
4252 2011-09-26 15:58:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4253 Fix resetting -fSAN on engine change
4255 There were two places for loading another engine, Load (from menu) and
4256 SetPlayer (in tourneys), and the previous patch for this missed the
4259 2011-09-26 15:51:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4260 Make too-long game non-fatal
4262 GameEnds is now called when the maximum number of moves is exceeded,
4263 rather than DisplayFatalError. Not sure if this properly terminates the
4264 game in all situations, but DisplayFatalError (after calling GameEnds)
4265 would also wait for the user to confirm the error popup before really
4266 exiting, so that in an unattended automatically running tourney there
4267 was not much fatal, and the entire tourney would in fact be finished.
4269 2011-09-26 15:46:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4272 Rather than opening and closing the book file on every probe, it is
4273 now only closed and opened when the name of it changed.
4275 2011-09-26 15:44:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4276 Suppress playing of book moves with weight 0
4278 Bookmoves with weight 0 could be played when the sum of the weights
4279 of all moves from the position was 0. So it was not possible to suppress
4280 the only move by giving it weight 0. This is now corrected.
4282 2011-10-01 15:00:47 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4283 added NEWS for release of 4.5.3
4286 2011-09-29 20:31:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4287 better contrast for XBoard icon on a dark background
4290 2011-10-01 13:09:59 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4291 translationproject.org: updated Ukrainian translation
4294 2011-09-29 20:49:42 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4295 updated pot file and send to translation project
4298 2011-09-22 12:09:39 +0100 Thomas Adam <thomas@fvwm.org>:
4299 (tiny change) Clarify "-name" option is Xt-only
4301 There's a set of standard options with will get used by Xt, before Xboard
4302 itself will use them. "-name" is an Xt-only option which will set the name
4303 and resource of the window to the value requested. It has nothing to do
4304 with setting opponent/player names.
4306 Signed-off-by: Thomas Adam <thomas@fvwm.org>
4308 modified slightly by Arun Persaud (renamed itemx to item and fixed option name for CMAIL)
4310 2011-09-22 17:17:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4311 Fix LoadGameOrPosition starting up engine
4313 When LoadGameOrPosition() is called from NextMatchGame(), the Reset() that
4314 is called in LoadPosition() when you are running from a position file
4315 would prematurely start up the engine (without waiting for features).
4316 The kludge to suppress this behavior for the explicit call to Reset()
4317 is now extended to encompass LoadGameOrPosition.
4319 2011-09-22 17:14:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4320 Clear fSAN option before new engine load
4322 This to prevent the new engine will inherit it from the previous one.
4323 As the command-line options an only set it, this has to be done by
4324 explicit assignment.
4326 2011-09-13 23:02:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4327 Fix some warnings (prototypes)
4330 2011-09-13 19:55:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4331 Fix write failures in concurrency
4333 In WinBoard a flood of writes by differentprocesses to the same PGN can
4334 cause a "permission denied" error in fopen. This patch causes retries after
4335 a random (5-15 msec) wait, in such cases.
4337 2011-09-13 19:52:19 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4338 Move HistorySet to back-end
4340 This existed in exact duplicates in both front-ends.
4342 2011-09-13 19:46:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4343 Make DoSleep front-end wrapper for msec sleep
4345 DoSleep was #defined as a macro for Sleep/ sleep, with an argument
4346 indicating msec in WinBoard, but seconds in XBoard. Nuw it universally
4347 uses msec, by defining it as a wrapperin the respective front-ends.
4348 (For XBoard itwraps FrameDelay.)
4350 2011-09-10 22:35:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4351 Fix playing sounds when -soundProgram is empty
4353 It made no sense to just send the names of the sound files to the shell.
4354 So the soundProgram isnow tested for being an empty string, and if so,
4355 PlaySound() is aborted.
4357 2011-09-10 14:01:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4358 Add -afterGame option
4360 This option specifies a command line to be executed after each game of
4361 a tournament. To execute the line, the function RunCommand() was added
4362 in the front-end. For XBoard this was a simple call to system(); for
4363 WinBoard part of the StartChildProcess code was cloned (without the pipe
4366 2011-09-10 13:52:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4367 Upgrade -serverMoves option
4369 The (undocumented) -serverMoves option was upgraded to conform to the
4370 ChessLive! protocol extension for sending SAN tags. A bug that allowed
4371 upper-case promoChar to leak through was also fixed, and code was added
4372 to write engine PVs to file. Flushing of the game result to the -serverMoves
4373 file was also fixed.
4375 2011-09-10 13:50:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4378 The joining of two comments was not performed correctly if the second
4379 one had the braces yet to be added: the closing brace was not added in
4382 2011-08-30 19:39:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4383 Auto-popup ICS Input Box
4385 Typing to the board made the move type-in pop up, but in ICS mode
4386 this is of course undesirable. Like in WinBoard, the ICS Input Box
4387 should pop up in stead, and accept the typed character. This is now
4388 realized. If the box already exists and has text in it, the typed
4389 character is appended to that text, and the box is given focus.
4390 Spaces now also are considered as printable.
4392 2011-08-30 18:27:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4393 Slightly decrease sensitivity of sweep actions
4395 The sweep-selection of promotion and drop pieces, or step through the PV
4396 was so sensitive that it was difficult to reliably make the intended choice.
4397 It has now been reduced by a factor 1.5-2, and the sweep selection and
4398 PV walk now also use a different value.
4400 2011-08-27 21:16:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4401 Extra buttons in WB Tournament dialog
4403 A button to copy contents of the tournament fileto the dialog is added.
4404 Buttons to invoke the Common Engine and Time Control dialogs are also added.
4406 2011-08-27 21:15:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4407 Fix crash on typing non-existent enginein Load Engine dialog
4410 2011-08-24 10:30:46 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4411 Fix display state after failed analysis attempt
4413 When an engine responded to the "analyze" command with an "unknown command"
4414 message, a Reset was done without altering the display, causing a
4415 discrepancy between display and internal state, which caused confusion
4416 when it finally corrected itself. I replaced the Reset call by an
4417 EditGameEvent call, to preserve the loaded game. The Reset was presumably
4418 used to allow for the case where the engine would be so upset by the
4419 analyze command that it needed to be reset by a "new" command, but this
4420 seems overly paranoic for an engine that just recognized the command
4423 2011-08-24 09:58:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4424 Fix treatment of PGN score/depth info with linefeeds in them
4426 This is needed to make the PGN more Arena-proof.
4428 2011-08-24 09:51:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4429 Fix quoting in Load Engine dialog
4431 A (space-contaning) engine name only needs quoting when there are parameters,
4432 because the over-all engine command will be quoted anyway. For UCI engines
4433 duplicate quoting is fatal, because when passed as the -ec argument of
4434 Polyglot, it will be quoted yet another time, also with double quotes.
4436 2011-08-23 21:24:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4437 Replace Analyze File by Analyz Game function
4440 2011-08-22 22:16:58 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4441 new developer release
4444 2011-08-22 22:26:56 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4448 2011-08-22 22:24:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4449 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
4452 2011-08-22 22:09:19 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4453 malloc.h is not needed
4456 2011-08-20 22:21:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4457 Fix ICS move-list header mistaken for null moves
4460 2011-08-18 18:53:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4461 Allow two-games-per-opening to work with book
4463 A new option -seedBase is added, and written to the tourney file.
4464 It allows all XBoard instances working on a tourney to generate the same
4465 'random' openings in a deterministic way, based on this one-time seed
4466 and the game number. When -loadGameIndex equals -2, it uses the same seed
4467 for an odd and the following even game.
4469 2011-08-18 18:51:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4472 In some places rand() was called explicitly, rather than through the
4473 (configured) place-holder random().
4475 2011-08-18 17:34:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4476 Translate search texts
4479 2011-08-18 10:29:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4480 Add -useBoardTexture and -usePieceFont options
4482 These options suppress the use of the given texture files or piece fonts
4483 without relying on the kludge to disable them by prefixing an asterisk
4484 to the file or font name. Checkboxes have been added to the Board dialog
4485 to control them. The user can now set piece font in WB font dialog.
4486 The sample text can be used to specify the -fontPieceToCharTable,
4487 the font name itself the -renderPiecesWithFont value.
4489 2011-08-16 23:10:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4490 Fix crash on start without settings file
4492 A primordial -1 in currCurrent caused a crash when WinBoard was started
4493 without ini filein game-viewer mode.
4495 2011-08-12 12:08:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4496 Fix generic-popup failure after empty engine-settings dialog
4498 The error exit ofthe Engine #N Settings dialog in case of an engine without
4499 options forgot to clear currentCps, with as a result that the generic popup
4500 thought every subsequent popup was an empty one, and kept repeating the
4501 'engine has no options' error message for every dialog.
4503 2011-08-10 11:27:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4504 Allow substitution of engines during tournament
4506 Two buttons are added in the tournament options dialog, for upgrading
4507 and for replacing a tourney participant. Lots of tests on the validity
4508 of the request are done, and if all are passed, the tourney file is
4509 written with the new participants (and in case of replace) with the
4510 results of the replaced engines erased from the -results string.
4512 2011-08-08 11:00:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4513 Fix up/down arrows in game list
4516 2011-08-08 10:31:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4517 Add key bindings for loading next/previous game of list
4519 These bindings are set both for the game list and the board window.
4520 To make them useful, focus has to be transferred to the board widget
4521 after loading (it tends to transfer to the tags window), which now
4522 seems to work, but not always. From the game list the shellWidget
4523 seems to get focus rather than the board, which is bad as it is not
4524 sensitive to the key bindings.
4526 2011-08-08 09:58:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4527 Allow deletion of last book move
4529 The book-edit function refused to delete the entiremove list,
4530 for no good reason. This limitation now has been lifted.
4531 Also the error message that the key for the current book entries
4532 is different from that of the currentposition has been suppressed
4533 if there were no entries found for the current position (so that the
4534 book is positioned at the next key), so that it is possible to add
4537 2011-08-08 00:19:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4540 Line numbers > 1, which are common, can exit already during move parsing,
4541 to save lots of matching on resultsand castlings.
4543 2011-08-07 15:13:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4544 Fix missing files in file browser
4546 The file browser was throwing away the first two files, assuming
4547 they were "." and "..". Alas, this is no longer true on every Linux.
4548 Now we actuallyc compare for these names, before skipping them.
4550 2011-08-06 11:57:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4551 Delay file loading to allow expose event first
4554 2011-08-06 09:29:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4558 2011-08-05 22:39:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4559 Better fix of crash on empty game list
4561 An empty list is now replaced by a list containig a simple message.
4563 2011-08-05 20:31:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4564 Add plain arrows as key binding for stepping forward/backward
4567 2011-08-05 20:30:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4568 Debug position selection
4571 2011-08-04 13:22:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4572 Print progress during load / selection of game
4574 The title bar of themain window is used to display a running count
4575 of the number of games loaded / searched.
4577 2011-08-04 12:44:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4578 Parse PGN tags without allocating memory
4580 In WinBoard malloc/free did not seem to work when preparing the game list,
4581 leading to a huge memory list when ParsePGNTag was used. The added code
4582 parses the required tags in an alternative way as a work-around.
4584 2011-08-02 22:58:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4585 Implement searching games in Game List for a position
4587 For this it was needed to reconstruct all positions of the games
4588 without loading them, so they could be compared to the currently
4589 displayed position. A new routine GameContainsPosition is made for that.
4590 In Disambiguate, when the global quickFlag is set, we now do the
4591 disambiguation ignoring check,and only if this leads to an ambiguous
4592 move, we repeat it taking check into account to see if that resolves
4593 the ambiguity. This causes us to miss if unambiguous moves are illegal
4594 because they put their King in check, but who cares?
4595 We now do not make game-list line when not needed. If we do not filter
4596 by text, but by position, there is no need for preparing the game-list
4597 line for games that are not selected. All for efficiency.
4599 2011-07-28 20:47:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4600 Allow entry of variations in PlayFromGameFile mode
4602 Adding variations is more like editing a comment,and not really editing
4603 the game. Therefore we allow it on loaded games. As soon as we are in a
4604 variation, we temporarily switch to a (hidden) EditGame mode, restoring
4605 the original mode when we revert to the main line.
4606 We now also stay in PlayFromGameFile mode after loading a game,
4607 And opening variation (fromtheComment window) in PlayFromGameFile mode
4610 2011-07-27 18:47:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4611 Force Move History refresh after loading/reverting variation
4613 The Move History window was not refreshed after switching to or from
4614 a variation if that variation happened to have the same length as
4615 the main line. Now a change in storedGames since the previous refresh will
4616 force a full refresh to avoid this. For this to work, storedGames
4617 did have to be decremented after ToNrEvent in PopInner, because ToNrEvent
4618 calls HistorySet before the history is restored, so we don't want
4619 it to snatch away the full refresh. A call to HistorySet had to be
4620 added after PopInner is done restoring the move history.
4622 2011-07-27 17:45:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4623 Popdown Comment window on new game
4625 What is in this window cannot possibly remain valid, and can even be harmful.
4627 2011-01-19 11:46:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4628 Allow null move in analysis and edit-game mode
4630 In some games it is allowed to pass your turn. The internal
4631 representation picked for such a null move is the drop of an empty
4632 square, (EmptySquare,DROP_RANK,0,0). Computer-algebraic form is "@@@@",
4633 SAN form is "--", (for compatibility with ChessBase / SCID), and the
4634 non-compliant forms "null", "pass"and "Z0" are recognized in
4635 the parser as well. ApplyMove() has to test for this special case
4636 (to not actually clear a1), and a way to enter the pass for the user had
4637 to be found (clicking the opponent clock, like in EditPosition mode).
4638 The null move is made move irreversible to prevent repetition draws
4639 spanning null moves being adjudicated.
4640 Such entry of null move is now allowed in AnalyzeMode and EditGame mode.
4641 Because Chess engines will not accept null moves, SendMoveToProgram had
4642 to be adapted to send not the move, but the position after it in
4643 case of a null move. This erases the move history in the engine,
4644 so it will not react to 'undo' for that null move, so BackwardInner
4645 had to be adapted to test for intervening null moves, and if one is
4646 found, approach the target from the other side after loading the
4647 earliest position before it not crossing another null move, and
4648 then loading the moves upto the target.
4649 XBoard clock clicks had to be fixed, to pay attention to the shift key.
4651 2011-07-25 21:58:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4652 Give WinBoard Game List its own font
4654 The font fort he Game List used to be shared with the Engine Output and
4655 Move History windows, but this made it impossible to use a figurine font
4656 in the latter two (which displays piece symbols for capitals) without
4657 messing up the Game List. An option -gameListFont has been added to specify
4658 the font for the Game List(and save it in the settings file), while a
4659 control for it is added in the fonts dialog.
4661 2011-07-21 19:02:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4662 Fix crash on OK after Save Changes in Tags and Comment popup.
4664 The global variables tagsText and commentText were used to pass
4665 a string obtained from a widget (and thus not malloc'ed), which
4666 caused a crash when the GenericReadout tried to use those variables
4667 for the new value. Fixed by using GenericReadout (which does malloc)
4668 to read out the text,in stead of GetWidgetText.
4670 2011-07-16 09:31:12 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4671 Revert "fixed segfault in xengineoutput", fixed in the backend now (from HGM)
4673 This reverts commit 33a0e73843115ff6d4eacaf963a38f2e8b20b295.
4675 2011-07-16 14:53:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4676 Suppress some XBoard warnings
4679 2011-07-15 11:21:29 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4680 fixed segfault in xengineoutput
4683 2011-07-11 20:04:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4684 Disable -showTargetSquares in ICS mode
4686 Help like this is considered cheating on FICS, so it is disabled for
4687 all 'classical' ICS variants. (For variants eyont Shogi we don't care.)
4689 2011-07-10 21:20:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4690 Put grab on sweep-selecting in Edit Position
4692 A right down-click starting a sweep-selection event did not grab the
4693 mouse events, so that an up-click outside the window would go
4694 unnoticed, and the pointer motion stayed coupled to selecting the
4695 piece until the next click. By returning 2 from the RightClick back-end
4696 routine we request the grab.
4698 2011-07-09 13:50:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4699 Write more labels on score axis of eval graph
4701 The labels for +/-1 and +/-3 are now also written, provided there is
4704 2011-07-09 13:28:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4705 Improve Eval Graph with -evalZoom and -evalThreshold
4707 The score range between -1 and +1 can now be blown up by a factor
4708 specified through -evalZoom. The threshold below which histogram bars
4709 are no longer printed (wich used to e hard-coded 25 centi-Pawn) can now
4710 be set through the -evalThreshold option.
4712 2011-07-09 13:18:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4713 Print reversible plies done in stead of plies to go
4715 Printing the number of plies left to the draw-adjudication point was
4716 confusing when the N-move rule was set to a non-standard value.
4717 In stead we now print the number of plies since the last irreversible
4718 move, so the user can compare it to both the engine claim point (100)
4719 and the adjudication point he set (which might be beyond 100).
4721 2011-07-09 13:13:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4722 Let WB eval graph react ot single left-click
4724 Unlike in XBoard, the WinBoard eval graph awatys had required double-
4725 clicking to go the the corresponding move, while there really is no
4726 reason for this, as it is no text edit, and single-clicks have no function
4729 2011-07-07 19:37:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4730 Add -scoreWhite option
4732 This is similar to -absoluteAnalysisScores, except that it works in
4733 all modes, and flips the score given by the engines in the engine-output
4734 window when black is to move.
4736 2011-07-07 19:28:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4737 Print 50-move counter in Engine-Output title
4740 2011-07-07 18:50:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4741 Display score/depth in Eval Graph title
4743 No longer print it in the comment window.
4745 2011-07-04 11:06:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4746 Let -sweepPromotions also work for click-click moves
4748 A click-click promotion no longer causes auto-queening, but the down-click
4749 on the to-square causes a Queen to stick to the mouse pointer, and then
4750 allows the user to change it through dragging backwards before releasing it
4752 In WinBoard this required a slight change in DragPieceBegin, because
4753 the dragged piece there only was made visible when the mouse pointer
4754 actually started moving (and dragInfo.pos was set), presumably under the
4755 assumption that before mouse move the piece was already on the clicked
4756 square. Which in the case of a to-square was of course not true. (Because
4757 a piece jumps to the mouse pointer when the click is not centered on a
4758 square, this gives less jittery static clicks.) So DragPieceBegin has
4759 been given an extra argument now, to indicate whether it should attach
4760 the piece to the mouse pointer immediately.
4761 To make the click-click sweepPromotions work in Shogi (for which the
4762 drag-drop sweepPromotions could never work, because it is not clear the
4763 piece has a posibility to promote when you pick it up), translation of
4764 the sweep-selected piece to a Shogi promoChar had to e added.
4766 2011-07-04 10:45:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4767 Improve -showTargetSquares on click-click moves
4769 The markers on move targets are now kept when a first click merely
4770 selects a piece, rather than dragging it elsewhere. The second click
4771 (by definition on the to-square) then clears the markers.
4773 2011-07-04 11:23:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4774 Let PGN parser accept lower-case piece in drop moves
4776 The @ sign prevents amiguity with other notations anyway.
4778 2011-07-04 12:42:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4779 Fix parser.c line endings
4782 2011-06-29 20:29:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4783 Fix writing searchTime in tourneyFile
4785 This had to be derived from the variable searchTime, which gives it
4786 in seconds, as appData.searchTime (a string in minutes) is not reliable,
4787 as it contains the command-line value, which might have been altered
4788 through the time-control dialog.
4790 2011-06-29 20:25:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4791 Fix resetting searchTime if other TC mode is chosen (XB)
4793 This fixes a bug in the new time-control dialog.
4795 2011-06-29 14:32:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4796 Fix coords display on large boards
4798 The file indicators can now run upto 'w'. Only the lowest digit
4799 of the rank number is printed, from a table that is valid to 22.
4801 2011-06-29 13:53:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4802 Fix crash on making too-long FEN
4804 The buffer for in PositionToFEN was only 128 bytes, which was not enough
4805 for large boards such as 19x19 Go. It is enlarged to MSG_SIZ(512) now.
4806 There also is some approximate overflow checking added (but it is not
4807 fool proof in case there are holdings...)
4809 2011-06-29 13:36:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4810 Fix drop moves on boards with more than 10 ranks
4812 The internal encoding for rank 16 is '@', and thus ambiguous with drop
4813 moves. They were always printed as 16, breaking drop games on large
4814 boards. The ambiguity is now solved (for boards with more than 16 ranks)
4815 by checking if the preceeding letter is upper case, in which case it
4816 cannot be a fileindicator, but must be a piece, and thus a drop.
4818 2011-06-29 13:29:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4819 Don't one-click move when legality testing is off
4822 2011-06-23 21:18:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4823 Reorder controls in Engine Setings dialog WB
4825 To get tabbing through the controls in left-to-right order, they are
4826 now added to the template structure in that order. Also add a tabstop
4827 to Label options, so that JAWS will read those.
4829 2011-06-23 14:02:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4830 Add tab stops in WB generic popup
4832 The WinBoard generic popup did not put tab stops on push buttons,
4833 including the OK and cancel button, with as a consequence that these were
4834 skipped when tabbing through the dialog controls. In addition the tabbing
4835 could not begin before the user selected one of the controls with the mouse.
4836 Now all buttons have tab stops, and the cancel button is given focus
4837 when the dialog pops up.
4839 2011-03-10 20:06:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4840 Implement Grand Chess
4842 Grand Chess requires a lot of exceptional handling similar to Superchess
4843 and Great Shatran, because it also allows only promotion to a captured
4844 piece. In addition it shares the enlarged promotion zone with Makruk and
4845 Shogi, as well as the fact that promotion can be deferred. The 10-rank
4846 board furthermore required a better generalization of double-pushes and
4847 e.p. captures. On such a board double puhes are now allowed from 2nd and
4848 3rd rank, e.p. capture from 5th and 4th.
4850 2011-01-28 19:20:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4851 Allow promotion to Pawn with legality testing off
4853 In stead of ImpossibleMove promotionto Pawn now merely is an
4854 IllegalMove, so it can be played with legality testing off.
4856 2011-01-24 15:06:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4857 Create some space in WB New Variant dialog
4860 2011-06-20 23:53:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4861 Allow double-digit rank numbers
4863 The parser already understood double-digit numbers on input, and
4864 CoordsToAlgebraic produced them on otput. This patch also fixes sending
4865 of the moves to the computer, for which the moveList was used. The latter
4866 stored 10 as ':', etc,to always get a 4-char move, the characters of which
4867 were frequently being converted to fromY or toY by adding/subtracting ONE.
4868 To not break that the one-character encoding of rank number is kept in
4869 moveList, but in SendMoveToProgram, characters > '9' are converted to
4872 2011-06-23 11:26:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4873 Add Absolute Analysis Scores in Genral Options dialog XB
4876 2011-06-23 11:16:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4877 Fix texi file, and update it further
4880 2011-06-20 12:15:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4884 2011-06-22 17:51:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4888 2011-06-22 11:02:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4889 Restore echo after ^C in ICS password
4892 2011-06-22 10:45:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4896 2011-06-19 20:30:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4897 Increase efficiency of SAN generation / disambiguation
4899 **************** Risky patch! **********************
4900 The algorithm used for disambiguating and generating SAN was extremely
4901 inefficient, because it generated all pseudo-legal moves from the relevant
4902 position, and then for each of those did a check test (involving generation
4903 of all moves of the opponent), before determining if the move matched the
4904 (proposed or given) SAN move. While it is pointless to generate moves
4905 with a piece that does not match (let alone checking them for legality).
4906 And for a piece that matches, it is pointless to test legality of moves
4907 that do not match the to-square.
4908 To speed up the process GenLegal and GenPseudoLegal have been equiped
4909 with an argument that can indicate the piece type of the required move,
4910 so they can skip generating moves with other pieces. TestLegality,
4911 Disambiguate and CoordsToAlgebraic make use of this facility, and set also
4912 (through global variables rFilter and fFilter) a to-square filter to be
4913 applied in the GenLegalCallback before it tests the move for legality.
4914 This patch is especially tricky for Crazyhouse, where the piece indicated
4915 in the move might not be the piece actually on the board, because the latter
4916 is a promoted Pawn, and has to be demoted toits base type before the
4919 2011-06-19 16:18:15 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4920 Fix compile errors WinBoard
4922 The patch to make non-existing options non-fatal broke WinBoard. All calls
4923 to ExitArgError from it now supply a third argument TRUE to fix it.
4925 2011-06-19 14:28:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4926 Add -fSAN / -sSAN options
4928 These options force the PV of the applicable engine to be converted to SAN.
4929 They make use of the existing ParsePV routine, after shelfing a possible
4930 PV (from user PV walking) to free the space after the last move.
4931 Could be costly in terms of CPU usage.
4933 2011-06-19 10:56:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4934 Cure flicker in Move History window, fix highlighting
4936 The highlighting of the current move in the Move List window by selecting
4937 it did not always work, because some other windows were clearing their text
4938 widgets by selecting the contents and killing it, thus snatching the
4939 selection away. This has been changed to setting XtNstring to an empty
4940 string as a method for clearing without side effects on the selection.
4941 As a bonus the Engine Output window now also no longer has the black flicker
4943 In addition, triggering a scroll by setting the insertion point to the
4944 end of the text caused excessive flicker in the Move List window, apparently
4945 clearing it and redrawing from scratch, (even if there was no scroll motion),
4946 to the point where on my slow laptop the move history stayed entirely blank
4947 during a rapid succession of moves. This has been combatted by using the
4948 end-of-line action procedure (which does not seem to suffer from this) to put
4949 the insertion point at the end, when we need to scroll to close to the end.
4951 2011-06-18 23:48:13 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4952 Fix crash on clearing new Move List window
4954 When a new game started and a previous game had filled the Move List
4955 window, a crash occurred because an attempt was made to undo the
4956 highlighting of a no-longer-existing move, and then scrolling to it.
4958 2011-06-18 20:46:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4959 Use sound for ICS tells also with engine telluser popups
4961 The telluser and tellusererror commands now can be assigned a sound.
4963 2011-06-18 20:45:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4964 Add Score in Move List option to general options dialog XB
4966 Now that we have a WinBoard-style Move History window, this option is
4967 no longer a no-op in XBoard.
4969 2011-06-18 12:42:41 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4970 new developer release
4973 2011-06-18 12:38:32 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4974 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
4977 2011-06-18 12:51:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4978 Update window itle after last game of match
4980 The result printed behind player names during a match would still be the one
4981 without the game, differing from what the popup would show, which looked
4982 sloppy enough for people to complain about it.
4985 2011-06-18 10:26:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4986 Make WB generic popup translatable
4988 When used for internal settings (as in the Load Engine and Tournament
4989 Options dialogs), the option names are now subectto translation.
4991 2011-06-17 21:05:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4992 Redo Move History with generic popup in WinBoard style
4994 The use of color and boldness to make the move list more readable
4995 unfortunately cannot work in Xaw; reverse video by selection is used as an alternative to highlight the current move.
4997 2011-06-17 21:19:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5000 Due to an erroneous else, the window parameters of Move History were
5001 not retreived (and thus incorrectly saved) when the Engine Output was up.
5003 2011-06-14 18:47:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5004 Make non-existing opton in settings file non-fatal
5006 It is rather difficult to recover from a situaton where the settings
5007 file contains an unknown option (e.g. because you downgraded to a
5008 previous version that had fewer options), especially in WinBoard, where
5009 the user settings file is in a hidden folder, and people might not be
5010 able to find it, let alone edit it. By just skipping the line with the
5011 offending option, rather than generating a fatal error, when reading
5012 from a settings file, such options will be automatically purged from the
5013 file as soon as you save settings.
5014 Small problem is that the user cannot be warned, as the initialization
5015 has not progressed far enough at this point to generate error popups. In
5016 XBoard we can at least print to the console, but in WinBoard there is no
5017 warning at all. But the worst thing that can happen is that new options
5018 in a settings file of a more advanced version will revert to their
5021 2011-06-14 18:20:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5022 Change long form of -tf option to -tourneyFile
5024 This is a more logical name, and in the WinBoard docs it was already
5025 described as such. Also remove the -processes option, which in the
5026 current design of the tourney manager is no longer used.
5028 2011-06-14 18:17:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5029 Fix default of -remoteUser
5031 This has to be an empty string, rather than NULL, to prevent XBoard from
5032 segfaulting when the -gateway option is used.
5034 2011-06-14 13:32:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5035 Add -at and -opt options as alternative for @
5037 Windows XP and Vista shortcuts do not display command lines with @ in
5038 them correctly, and these optionsprovide a work-around for that.
5040 2011-06-14 12:46:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5041 Fix empty-string option values in XBoard
5044 2011-06-14 12:40:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5045 Fix crash on switching sound in Vista
5047 When choosing a new sound the wave form of the old one was free'ed, but
5048 because built-in sounds are not really malloc'ed, this led to a crash.
5050 2011-06-14 12:36:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5051 Update WB docs for tourney manager
5054 2011-06-14 12:35:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5055 Add icon to WB for tournament files
5058 2011-06-10 16:52:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5059 Redo Time Control dialog with generic popup
5061 As poor-man's disabling of the unneeded input fields, we print the word
5064 2011-06-10 14:14:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5065 Some refactoring in xoptions.c to separate out front-end
5068 2011-06-10 12:38:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5069 Redo New Shuffle Game dialog with generic popup
5071 The buttons are slightly renamed, and in stead of having an 'off'
5072 button to clear it, shuffleOpenings now has its own checkbox, which is
5073 ticked when a fixed or dynamic random is chosen with the buttons.
5075 2011-06-10 11:58:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5076 Fix type of shuffleOpenings
5078 This was a Boolean option, and thus accessed by the args.h code as such,
5079 while it was declared as an int (and used in backend.c as such). This
5080 could have led to problems with different endianness.
5082 2011-06-09 23:57:43 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
5083 Internationalize the file browser.
5085 The file browser was missed in the previous round of
5086 internationalization and had gotten broken by setting international =
5087 True in its widgets. I got nothing but segfaults trying to set
5088 international to False in the file browser widget subtree when it was
5089 True in the main window, so I gave up and did the
5090 internationalization. It turned out to be pretty easy.
5092 As a tiny bonus fix, I removed some ../'s from includes, and you can
5093 now configure and build xboard in a subdirectory again. This was
5094 useful for building both --enable-nls and --disable-nls from the same
5095 sources to compare functionality and make sure both still work.
5097 2011-06-08 20:26:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5098 Fix crash at end of Swiss tourney
5101 2011-06-08 17:33:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5102 Fix display of logos
5104 The logo files are now sought relative to the WinBoard install
5105 directory. Non-existing logos cause clearing of the logo, rather than
5106 letting the logo of the prevous engine hang. Logo change is requested
5107 explicitly from the back-end (when an engine is initialized for a new
5108 game), rather than using the kludge in StartChileProcess. This required
5109 a dummy UpdateLogos routine in the XBoard front-end.
5111 2011-06-08 18:02:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5112 Fix parameter handling in adapter command
5114 A backslash was not considered the end of an option name, which was
5115 fatal for UCCI2WB, which needs %fd\\%fcp in its command line.
5117 2011-06-08 17:16:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5118 Clear Engine-Output pane when initializing engine
5120 This to prevent output from the previous game hanging there during the
5121 next game, when the engine that is really playing is in book and
5122 doesn't produce thinking output there.
5124 2011-06-08 17:20:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5125 Fix display of last move of last match game
5127 When a game was adjudicated (e.g. because XBoard detected mate) GameEnds
5128 would trigger an exit if it was the last game of the match, and thus
5129 never returned, while the ShowMove was called only after return from
5130 Adjudicate. An extra ToNrEvent is now used in GameEnd in this case to
5131 cause ShowMove to be called before exiting. (Ugly kludge...)
5133 2011-06-08 17:38:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5134 Fix concurrency in Swiss tourneys
5136 The pairing engine was consulted for the next round before all games of
5137 the previous round were finished, if other XBoard instances were still
5138 playing games. This caused the instances finishing early to stall
5139 indefinitely. This is fixed by moving the Swiss pairing code to after
5140 the syncInterval code. The normal pairing code (the call to Pairing)
5141 must stay before it, because it determines the syncInterval. So ther is
5142 a bit of tourneyType dependence cluttering up the code here. :-(
5144 2011-06-08 17:27:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5145 Give error popup when pairing engine fails
5147 An invalid pairing now produces an error popup to inform the user, so he
5148 knows why the tourney stagnates.
5150 2011-06-08 17:24:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5151 Fix clock mode in tourney starting from -ncp mode
5153 When a tourney started from -ncp mode, which was allowed in MatchEvent,
5154 because the tourney loads its own engines anyway, the menu enablings and
5155 clockmode where not restored to their 'GNUMode' state.
5157 2011-06-08 17:11:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5158 Fix round-robin schedule
5160 The first round was played twice, and the formulas used to derive the
5161 pairing were not even-odd resistant anyway. Both even and odd number of
5162 participants should work now.
5164 2011-06-08 17:08:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5165 Fix interrupting tournament
5167 Stopping a tourney by using the Machine Match menu item did not wor
5170 2011-06-08 16:57:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5171 Improve quoting of engine name on install
5173 Rather than always using double quotes for the engine command, the
5174 engine filename is now double-quoted if it contains spaces (and no
5175 double-quotes), and the comand is single-quoted if it contains
5176 double-quotes (and double-quoted otherwise).
5178 2011-06-08 16:49:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5179 Print sensible window title during tourneys
5181 Rather than the "(W-L-D)" in the title we now print game number and
5182 total games, plus indication of the tourney type (rr, gt or sw).
5184 2011-06-08 16:44:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5185 Let XBoard propose name of tourney file
5187 Add an option -defaultTourneyName to configure the name that will be
5188 proposed in the Tournament Options dialog's tournament-file field. The
5189 option can contain %y, %M, %d, %h, %m, %s for year, month, day, hour,
5190 mintes, seconds of the curret time in %02d format, or %Y for the year in
5191 %04d format. Any tournament -file name is ignored when no participants
5192 are given. Participants without a tourney file remains an error.
5194 2011-06-08 16:30:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5195 Improve Tournament dialog layout WB
5198 2011-06-08 17:05:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5199 Fix -matchGames option
5201 The new MatchEvent code had broken the -mg option, and used always
5202 -defaultMatchGames in stead.
5204 2011-05-30 19:55:13 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
5205 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.
5207 - Several files were in utf8 but needed to be marked as such (that is,
5208 "CHARSET" changed to "UTF-8"). Affected es.po, it.po, ru.po, vi.po,
5211 - it.po was missing a \n at the end of one translation.
5213 - ru.po had unescaped double-quote marks in one translation.
5215 - vi.po needed to be normalized to Unicode normalization form C. With
5216 this fix, more characters display correctly, though at least one is
5217 still missing in the X core fonts that xboard is able to use.
5218 See http://vietunicode.sourceforge.net/ for more about Vietnamese.
5220 - zh_HK.po was written in big5 and then utf8-encoded on top of that,
5221 making it unusable. I stripped off the spurious utf8 encoding and
5222 then used recode to convert the file to Unicode properly encoded as
5225 Unfortunately, I wasn't able to test any of the Chinese translations,
5226 as I haven't been able to get XCreateFontSet to work in Chinese
5227 locales with any of the fonts I have installed, even after adding the
5228 Ubuntu language support packages for both simplified and traditional
5229 Chinese. I did spot check a bunch of the translations using Google
5232 I've checked in a couple of tiny Perl scripts that I used to do part
5233 of the fixups on vi.po and zh_HK.po in case we need them again.
5235 2011-05-30 14:12:53 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
5236 The empty string can't be translated and it causes the gettext utilities to complain, so change _("") to "".
5239 2011-05-30 13:21:06 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
5240 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.
5243 2011-05-29 20:14:37 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
5244 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.
5246 In the process I had to rewrite the code to insert the pixel size into
5247 a font name (replacing a "*" in that field). The new code is much
5250 2011-05-28 23:55:42 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5251 translation: activated Ukrainian translation
5254 2011-05-28 23:41:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5255 translation: added new Ukrainian PO file from the TP
5258 2011-05-28 21:07:08 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
5259 Fix display of international characters outside the ASCII range.
5261 1) Set Xaw resources required for internationalization --
5262 *international and *fontSet.
5264 2) Untangle the new XFontSet-aware code from the old FindFont code.
5265 It doesn't make any sense to apply the old (and obsolete) size
5266 searching code from FindFont to a font set, which contains fonts
5267 that are all the requested size.
5269 3) With these changes, the -font option doesn't work at all when given
5270 on the command line. The -font option actually is parsed by the Xt
5271 library, used to set the *font resource, and removed from argv
5272 before xboard can see it, so the option didn't really work properly
5273 with the new WinBoard-style option framework anyway. Now that
5274 -font is even more broken, I changed the documented name of the
5275 option to -messageFont and changed args.h so the option is saved in
5276 ~/.xboard as -messageFont.
5278 2011-05-28 21:05:00 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
5279 Move "hide thinking" option into alphabetical order.
5282 2011-05-28 21:01:25 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
5283 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.
5286 2011-05-23 19:05:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5287 Fix layout tournament Load Engine dialog WB
5290 2011-05-23 19:03:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5294 2011-05-23 19:00:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5295 Add Swiss tourneys through pairing engine
5297 An external program can be designated pairing engine through the new
5298 persistent option -pairingEngine. Defining the option will allow
5299 tourneytype -1 to be chosen for Swiss. In this case the pairing engine
5300 will be queried for a pairing before every new match game, by sending it
5301 the -results string, plus the command 'pairing' + game number.
5303 2011-05-23 17:37:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5304 Allow generic dialog to ignore OK
5306 The EndMark callback can now suppress popdown of the dialog on OK, when
5307 it somehow does not like the values entered by the user. In XBoard this
5308 required all the callbacks to return a value.
5309 Caveat: A refused OK would still have set all new values given in the
5312 2011-05-23 17:22:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5313 Fix CR in multi-line WinBoard text-edits
5315 The generic popup did not add CR when strings containing '\n' were
5316 printed in a multi-line text-edit, thus joining the lines. It was also
5317 not possible to type a CR in a multi-line text-edit.
5319 2011-05-23 14:16:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5320 Let mentioning completed tourney file add one cycle
5322 Secifying a tourney file of a fully completed tourney will now resume
5323 that tourney with another cycle added. When there are still uncomleted
5324 games in the tourney, the usual error message will appear. There are
5325 also error popups added for when the user fails to specify a tourney
5326 file, or gives too few participants.
5328 2011-05-16 11:02:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5329 Make engine startup failure non-fatal in WinBoard
5331 Unlike XBoard, which forks first, the parent process WinBoard has direct
5332 knowledge of a failure to execute the engine command, and used it to
5333 trigger a fatal error. The code doing this has now been disabled. Only
5334 in case of a first engine we switch back to -ncp mode in stead, but no
5335 action is taken to 'bury' the deceased engine process. Like in XBoard,
5336 errors in writing or reading the pipes will trigger this.
5338 2011-05-14 17:03:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5339 Add secondry adapter command for UCCI or USI
5341 The option -uxiAdapter can define a second adapterCommand, which will be
5342 invoked on encountering the options -fUCCI, -sUCCI and -fUSI, sUCI.
5344 2011-05-14 10:05:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5345 Obey san feature when sending book moves
5347 Book moves were always sent in long algebraic, even when the engine had
5348 said it wanted to receive SAN.
5350 2011-05-14 10:03:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5351 Fix initialization of engine state
5353 Some of the initialization relied on variables being zero at startup,
5354 which meant value from the previouly loaded engine hng on after loading
5357 2011-05-11 23:06:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5358 Take account of holdings in book key
5360 The board is numbered by rank, for comptibility with Polyglot format,
5361 starting at a1. We then continue counting in the holdings 'files', in
5362 up-rank direction, each holding spanning the full board height (even if
5363 it is not fully used). Firstthe left (black) holdings, then the right,
5364 Even in Shogi this limits the square number to < 99, which is below the
5365 absolute limit of 128 (where we would run out of hash keys).
5367 2011-05-11 22:48:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5368 Alow promotions and drops in book-editing
5371 2011-05-11 20:15:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5372 Include learn info in book edit
5375 2011-05-09 21:55:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5376 Adapt default directory of lng2po
5378 The path is prefixed with "../" to make it runable from the po directory.
5380 2011-05-09 21:20:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5381 Recode some po files
5383 po files were generated with the aid of lng2po for Russian,
5384 Vietnamese, Chinese(simp) and Chinese(trad), using encodings CP1251,
5385 CP1258, GB2312 and BIG5, respectively.
5387 2011-05-09 20:11:32 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5388 Implement Edit Book in XBoard
5391 2011-05-09 09:52:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5392 Improve WB Load Engine dialog texts
5395 2011-05-09 09:48:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5396 Make 'add to list' default in Load Engine dialog
5399 2011-05-09 09:33:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5400 Add -userFileDirectory option
5402 This volatile option is initialized from 'installDir'. It is
5403 primarily intended for configuration of WinBoard through its master
5404 settings file, and specifies an alternative place to create saveGameFile
5405 or look for other user files, in stead of looking in the installDir.
5407 2011-05-09 09:10:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5408 Add option -absoluteAnalysisScores
5410 This persistent option flips scores in the when black is thinking in
5411 analysis mode, just before they are printed in the engine-output window.
5413 2011-05-08 17:47:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5414 Automatically play moves of clicked PV in analyze mode
5416 The Shift key now no longer needs to be pressed to play moves from the
5417 PV in analyze mode (so it could be given back its original meaning of
5418 starting a variation with the entered moves). In analyze mode the PV
5419 walk begins after the first move, so a static right-click plays the
5420 first PV move. To just peek the PV you have to walk to the start of it
5421 before releasing the mouse button. In other modes the PV walk
5422 stillstarts at the very end.
5424 2011-05-08 17:07:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5425 Let ParsePV always generate SAN move
5428 2011-05-08 13:53:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5429 Fix vscrolling in XBoard Engine-Output window
5431 After clicking the memos they scrolled to the bottom, because SetFocus
5432 put the insertion point at the very end of the text. This behavior is
5433 now reserved for text-edits containing less than 100 characters.
5435 2011-05-08 13:22:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5436 Fix button sizing in generic popup
5439 2011-05-08 13:02:52 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5440 Allow changing MultiPV setting from Engine-Output window
5442 In analyze mode a header line is printed in the first engine-output
5443 pane, which can be right-clicked to increase or decrease the number of
5444 PVs. (Only with engines that support the MultiPV option.)
5446 2011-05-08 11:28:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5447 No clearing of Engine-Output memos on stat01
5450 2011-05-07 23:27:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5451 updated xboard.pot with released version
5454 2011-05-07 22:56:53 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5455 new developer release
5458 2011-05-07 22:54:29 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5459 updated ChangeLog, NEWS, etc.
5462 2011-05-07 23:07:46 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5463 deactivated new languages for the moment...
5465 po files need some cleanup, probably better to wait until the translation-project looked at them
5467 2011-05-07 18:44:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5468 added translations generated via lng2po from all winboard languages
5471 2011-05-07 18:40:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5472 lng2po.sh: added command line options, GPL header
5474 also use a temporary file generated with mktemp instead of a hard coded one
5476 2011-05-07 17:53:10 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5477 fixed access rights to winboard language files (644 instead of 655)
5480 2011-05-07 14:55:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5481 Import WinBoard language files into git
5484 2011-05-06 23:14:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5485 Let Shift+RightClick on PV actually play the PV moves
5488 2011-05-06 18:06:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5489 Make book-edit function WB
5491 The tags dialog is used to display the GUI book moves from the current
5492 position, and will be updated when you step or move to another one.
5493 The edited move list (with weights) can be written back to the book.
5495 2011-05-07 16:21:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5496 Fix resetting engine options
5498 Not all options were reset, and -needsNonCompliantFEN was 'reset'
5499 to a completely wrong value, so that bad FENs would be sent.
5501 2011-05-06 18:51:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5502 Add -first/secondPgnName option
5504 This option replaces the tidy name of the engine in the PGN player tags
5505 of engine-engine games. In WinBoard engines can be installed with this
5506 option through a checkbox in the Load Engine dialog.
5508 2011-05-06 23:31:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5509 Let XB generic popup define default file extensions
5512 2011-05-06 18:25:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5513 Save time-control settings in tourney file
5515 Because parsing the options and storing them in appData is not enough,
5516 the time-control code setting the internally used parameters from the
5517 appData info in InitBackend was made into a subroutine, and also caled
5518 after parsing the tourney file.
5520 2011-05-06 20:40:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5521 Put saveGameFile in tournament dialog
5524 2011-05-06 19:17:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5525 Plug memory leak, filenames relative to installDir
5527 String options are consistently freed now, before assigning a new value
5528 to them through strdup. The init code now even does use strdup when
5529 setting defaults. This is important for optionslike -lgf, which are not
5530 saved in the settings file, and thus are usually left with their
5531 default. When a dialog to set them then uses free, this causes a crash.
5532 When setting the defaults uses strdup, ParseArgs can already free them.
5533 This plugs an important memory leak, as ParseArgs in now called to parse
5534 the tourney file before every tourney game (twice!), and the lists of
5535 participants and results in it can be quite long. Macros are defined in
5536 common.h to make the code look simpler.
5537 Filenames entered through the generic popup are now interpreted
5538 relative to the WinBoard installation folder, just as the saveGameFile
5539 already was. The code handling the atter was made into a subroutine for
5542 2011-05-06 22:02:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5543 Add WB new popup prototypes
5546 2011-05-06 18:58:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5547 Add partcipants at bottom in tourney dialog (WB)
5550 2011-05-06 18:56:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5551 Fix range of tourneyType spin WB
5554 2011-05-06 18:15:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5555 Fix exit popup in tourney mode
5557 Only the instance finishing the last tourney game will cause a popup
5558 with final standings. As long as there are still busy games, it exits or
5559 switches back to idle mode silently.
5561 2011-05-06 18:11:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5562 Fix stopping of match in tourney mode
5565 2011-05-06 18:59:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5566 Add default extension in file browser
5569 2011-05-06 22:37:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5570 Improve sizing of comment and tags dialogs
5572 There seems to be a bug in Xaw for the sizing of buttons; they get
5573 unpredicatble and weird sizes when the size is not explicitly set,
5574 possibly stretching the initial width of a dialog to rediculous values.
5575 Sizing back to a remembered value from the settings file then makes
5576 buttons overlapand text edits shrink to almost nothing. To prevent that
5577 we now define exlicit sizes for the buttons in tags and comment popups.
5579 2011-05-06 21:00:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5580 Fix generic combobox bug
5582 The patch placing gettext markers was done wrong, setting the
5583 translated menu text outside the loop, so all entries became the same.
5585 2011-05-07 14:23:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5586 Fix PV walking in analysis mode
5588 ParsePV assumed that the PV would always have been produced by an engin
5589 thinking about the final position of the game (or the one before it). In
5590 analysismode, however, the engine can be analysing positions internal to
5591 the game, and the PV would be considered invalid. This is fixed by
5592 cutting of the tail off the game (shelving it in variation fashion)
5593 before starting the PV walk, and reverting afterwards.
5594 For this the PushTail and PopTail routines had to be split into an
5595 'inner' part, doing the pushing and popping, and an outer part, handling
5596 menu graying and popdowns (which is undesirable in in this application).
5598 2011-05-03 00:24:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5599 Lift length-limit on text-edits in WB generic popup
5602 2011-05-04 13:53:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5603 Lift limitation of text length in generic dialog XB
5605 All string options should now point to allocated memory, as strdup /
5606 free is consistently used on them. This is OK for values received from
5607 ParseArgs, but for non-arg intermediate variables that must receive strg
5608 values, such as in the comment and tags popups, strdup has to be used to
5611 2011-05-04 14:53:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5612 Implement Tournament Options dialog WinBoard
5614 The file browser now can select on extension WB generic dialogs,
5615 with a default based on the option.max value of the option for which it
5616 browses. A textBox can be forced to be multiline by putting the number
5617 of extra lines in option.min.
5619 2011-05-04 15:30:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5620 Make option to draw second engine from first list
5623 2011-05-03 00:17:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5624 Fix error message on engine load
5627 2011-05-04 15:09:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5628 Implement Load Engine dialog in WinBoard
5630 The Load Engine dialog is implemented for WinBoard, and is invoked by
5631 the menu item Engine->Load, which formerly was Install 2nd. Install 1st
5632 is renamed 'Edit Engine List'. Unlike in XBoard, the dialog has separate
5633 fields for the engine executale and its parameters.
5634 The dialog is implemented by converting the Engine Settings popup into
5635 a generic dialog generator.
5637 2011-05-04 13:43:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5638 Load new logo on engine change WinBoard
5640 Picking the logo for the first engine is made into a subroutine. The
5641 code for picking the logo of the first engine was made into a subrroutne
5642 for this. We use the kludge to recognize the engine by its command line
5643 when starting a new engine process.
5645 2011-05-04 13:36:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5646 Allow switching off match mode through menu
5648 The Machine Match menu item is now checkmarked, and no longer grayed
5649 during a match, and clicking it while a match is running will terminate
5650 the match after the current game. To not be left with hanging
5651 checkmarks, the checkmark is already removed duringthe last match game
5652 (which is logically equivalent to ordinary Two Machines mode anyway).
5654 2011-05-03 00:14:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5655 Calculate and display tourney result
5658 2011-05-04 18:42:13 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5659 Implement Tournament Manager
5661 New command-line options are added to specify the tourney: -tourneyType
5662 (-tt), -tourneyCycles (-cy), -participants, -syncAfterRound,
5663 -syncAfterCycle, -results, to be saved on a -tourneyFile (-tf), but
5664 otherwise volatile. When a tourneyFile is specified during a match,
5665 a new routine NextTourneyGame is called from NextMatchGame before every
5666 game, to decide the pairing, and unload and redefine the engines, when
5667 needed. The XBoard Match Options dialog can be used to set the options
5668 and create the tournament file.
5669 Actual loading of new engines is done by TwoMachinesEvent, which is
5670 now modified to also wait for the feature timeout of the first engine.
5671 Waiting for the matchPause is now also implemented there, after waiting
5672 for the engines (so they can be started during the pause).
5673 Pairings and color assignment is now all done in an absolute
5674 (non-incremental) way, based on a new global game-number variable
5675 nextGame, which takes over the function of matchGame in a tourney. The
5676 latter is now used to count games between the same players, so it can be
5677 still used to derive the load-file indexes (again in absolute fashion).
5678 The next game to play is already picked in GameEnd, so it can be
5679 decided if there is a game to be scheduled, or if we can terminate.
5681 2011-05-04 15:42:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5682 Display note in stead of empty engine-settings dialog XB
5685 2011-04-24 18:02:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5686 Fix crash on empty Engine Settings dialog
5688 The generic popup was not foolproof against this.
5690 2011-04-22 12:47:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5691 Refactor code for loading games and positions in match
5693 The code in NextMatchGame and MatchEvent was nearly the same,
5694 (MatchEvent did a little more error checking, but that is never
5695 harmful), and could be combined. In stead of determining the load index
5696 incrementally, it is now calculated in an absolute way from the game
5697 number, so it can be used more easily in tournament mode.
5699 2011-04-21 22:37:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5700 Add callback possibility to combobox selection
5703 2011-04-24 17:15:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5704 Lock game an position file during writing
5706 The use of flock() on the file desctiptor of the opened stream should
5707 guarantee multiple XBoard instances, saving on the same file, will not
5708 interleave their PGN games or FEN positions.
5710 2011-04-27 17:05:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5711 Remove building rule for parser.c from WB makefiles
5714 2011-04-29 16:58:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5715 Fix Engine Settings buttons in WinBoard
5717 This was broken by a leftover statement from debugging the -file/-path
5720 2011-05-02 13:38:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5721 Implement flock in WinBoard
5723 This system function seems unknown in a MinGW compile, so it is
5724 implemented with the aid of file byte-range locking, using a lock on the
5725 first 1024 bytes of the file as a semaphore.
5727 2011-04-29 23:06:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5728 Fix grayout XB Match Options in ICS mode
5731 2011-05-03 00:22:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5732 Delay loading of second engine until it is used
5735 2011-05-02 15:00:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5736 Fix zippy bughouse partner bug
5738 The patchs to subject Zippy messages to coloriation was faulty, because
5739 there were messages recognized by zippy that were not colorized, and
5740 such messages would then not be 'read away' after zippy recognition
5741 (except for the first character). As a result the messages were
5742 processed over and over again.
5744 2011-05-04 10:59:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5745 Silence more rpm warnings
5748 2011-05-01 20:33:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5749 Fix warnings XBoard file browser
5751 All the prototypes have been moved to selfile.h, to force uniformity.
5752 The order of the #include files xstat.h and selfile.h had to be
5753 swapped, to make sure 'struct stat' is a nown type atthe time of
5754 prototype declaration. The event handler SFmotionList is considered
5755 wrong type because of its third argument (XMotionEvent in stead of
5756 XEvent), and had to be casted to (XtEventHandler) when passed to
5759 2011-05-04 10:56:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5760 Fix some warnings and header-file improvement
5762 Ther were lot of 'extern' declarations in the x-files, so called
5763 'imports from xboard.c', (sometimes backend.c) which logically belonged
5764 in xboard.h (backend.h) to ensure their uniform definition. These have
5765 now been moved there. Some prototypes have been added in xboard.h as
5766 well, for functions that needed calling from xoptions.c.
5768 2011-05-04 10:50:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5769 Create conversion tools for language files
5771 A shell script "lng2po.sh" is provided, to apply the translation given
5772 in a WinBoard .lng file to "xboard.pot", in order to generate a
5773 "language.po" file containing translations for all strings for which
5774 the .lng file had a translation. It makes use of a file "metascript",
5775 which is the ed script used to turn the .lng file in an ed script to
5776 turn the .pot into .po. For example, the command "./lng2po.sh
5777 espa?ol.lng" will create a file "language.po", which can be renamed to
5779 ****************************** WARNING ********************************
5780 Note that the lng2po script does a "recode" that assumes the given
5781 .lng file is encoded in latin-1. This means it canot be used without
5782 modification for the Vietnamese and Chinese translation; you would have
5783 to replace latin-1 by the applicable encoding first (CP1258 / BG2312 /
5786 2011-04-27 22:04:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5787 Put gettext markers in generic dialog creator
5789 This is done by adding extra XtNstring argumentsto the widget gcreaton,
5790 so the displayed name can be different fromthe widget name.
5792 2011-05-01 19:56:38 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
5793 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.
5796 2011-04-24 11:18:28 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5797 updated German translation
5800 2011-04-24 11:17:43 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5801 replaced hardcoded email address with generic PACKAGE_BUGREPORT
5804 2011-04-23 10:51:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5805 updated po-files; updated german translation
5808 2011-04-23 10:51:02 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5809 updated list of files that include translation strings; updated pot-file
5812 2011-04-22 21:50:58 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5813 marked more strings for gettext that were only marked with N_()
5815 they need to be marked again with _() when they are used to get the translated string
5817 2011-04-22 21:39:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5818 updated translation files
5821 2011-04-22 21:37:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5822 added/fixed i18n support via gettext to xboard
5824 this was already added a long time ago, but now it's added again to
5825 autoconf. Also fixed some compile errors that showed up.
5827 2011-04-20 10:27:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5828 Make engine startup error non-fatal
5830 When engine startup fails, do not generate a fatal error, but swicth
5831 back to -ncp mode. Write on broken pipe errors had to be suppressed for
5834 2011-04-20 14:35:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5835 Make engine loadable during session
5837 A "Load Engine ..." menu item is added to the Engine menu, which pops
5838 up a dialog where one can replace the first or second engine by a new
5839 one, without destroying the game state. Switching from -ncp to engine
5840 mode needed activation of some menu items in SetGNUMode, and
5841 re-enabling clockMode. It was also important that noChessProgram is
5842 cleared before re-initializing the ChessProgramState.
5843 The Load-Engine dialog can select from the list of installed
5844 engines, and also add a newly specified engine to this list. In this
5845 case it saves the directory, hasBook, and isUCI info with the engine,
5846 and optionally the current variant. When loading an engine with a
5847 specified variant, it resets the game and switches to the new variant.
5849 2011-04-18 15:56:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5850 Generalize WaitForSecond to WaitForEngine
5853 2011-04-18 15:46:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5854 Add UnloadEngine routine
5857 2011-04-20 13:45:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5858 Put engine initialization code in per-engine function
5860 Initializing of the ChessProgramStates first and second from the
5861 option settings in appData is now done by separate calls to the same
5862 routine. Clearing of options is added to the initialization. This is
5863 needed when reloading an engine. This is done in a separate routine,
5864 which could also be called on -reset options.
5866 2011-04-18 13:21:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5867 Bring structure in appData engine options
5869 All options in appData that came in pairs for both engines are replaced
5870 by arrays of ENGINES (=2, for now) elements. The use of the named
5871 appData field that are replaced in the source is replaced by use of the
5872 corresponding array element, by #define directives in common.h, awaiting
5875 2011-04-19 15:15:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5876 Fix gettext macros in option dialogs
5878 The strings in the tables were using _() in stead of N_().
5880 2011-04-18 20:58:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5881 Fix crash on using Engine #1 Settings in ICS non-zippy mode
5883 If XBoard is compiled with zippy the Engine #1 Settings menu was not
5884 grayed out even when you don't run in zippy mode, and using it would
5887 2011-04-19 15:07:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5890 Some pixmaps forptomoted pieces had wrong background color, others had a
5891 wrong name (so the one with the correct name was missing).
5893 2011-04-17 19:12:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5894 Change texture-install directory to pixmaps/textures
5897 2011-04-17 17:36:32 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5898 Limit install of sound files to those in menu
5900 The sounds directory is set to .../xboard/sounds, and only ten
5901 sounds are kept (all non-spoken).
5903 2011-04-17 17:27:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5904 Remove some bitmaps from install
5906 Some files in the bitmaps source directory need not be installed,
5907 because they are there only to be linked to the binary in a build
5908 without LIBXPM, are README files or conversion programs. I left only the
5909 stuff that is in a Debian binary package in .../xboard/bitmaps.xchess.
5911 2011-04-17 16:34:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5912 Configure some default sounds
5914 The move sound is set to Wood Thunk; the sounds for tell and challenge
5915 events to Phone and Gong, respectively.
5917 2011-04-17 16:17:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5918 Change default sounds in Xboard menu
5920 All spoken sounds are removed now. Thud, Click and Ching are replaced by
5921 Wood Thunk, Slap and Cymbal; Car Horn and Pop are added.
5923 2011-04-17 12:46:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5924 Make user wav file available for try-out in sound dialog
5926 The GenericReadout was adapted to be able to read a single selected
5927 value, so that the callback to the 'play' button in the sounds dialog
5928 could get the name of the 'user WAV file' without accepting all settings
5929 for the other sounds (which should only happen on 'OK', and might still
5930 be cancelled in stead).
5932 2011-04-16 10:36:31 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
5933 configure: enable silent rules by default
5936 2011-04-16 10:28:16 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
5937 configure: added install directory for bitmaps files: .../games/xboard/bitmaps/default/
5940 2011-04-16 10:25:33 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
5941 configure: added install of sounds in .../games/xboard/sounds/default
5944 2011-04-16 09:54:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
5945 configure: renamed bitmapdir to pixmapsdir, since it installed only pixmaps. also changed name of default dir
5947 pixmaps will now be installed under .../games/xboard/pixmaps/default/
5949 2011-04-16 13:40:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5950 Fix gamelist highlight
5952 Reopening the gamelist should highlight the current game.
5954 2011-04-16 10:25:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5955 Fix size limit on 'save as diagram'
5957 In stead of a fixed-size buffer the diagram-save code now uses an
5958 allocated buffer with size calculated from the bitmap parameters to
5959 retreive the bitmap data, so it should work for all sizes.
5961 2011-04-15 22:04:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5962 Fix chaining of bottom-row dialog buttons
5964 The OK & cancel buttons are chained to the bottom. This patch makes sure
5965 that other buttons appearing in the same row (as in the tags and
5966 comment dialogs) will be chained that way too, so that they will behave
5967 the same on vertical sizing. The bottom of a full-width text-edit above
5968 it will be chained to bottom too. To make this work in the tags dialog,
5969 the (optional) cmail-message field had to be put above the tags memo.
5971 2011-04-15 19:18:46 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5972 Fix switching between pixmap and bitmap pieces
5974 There were still several flags that had to be reset when redoing the
5975 graphics initialization. The Debian patch to use a default bitmap
5976 directory when none is given but monoMode is selected or forced, is
5977 moved to a more sensible place, so that it does not disturb matters when
5978 compiled without LIBXPM (when we do have built-in bitmaps).
5980 2011-04-15 15:47:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5981 Remove outline-pieces option from board-options dialog
5983 This option does not exist in XBoard (yet).
5985 2011-04-15 15:41:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5986 Fix running of clock during hash allocation engine
5988 In TwoMachinesEvent we now wait for the second engine to acknowledge the
5989 'ping' after 'new', to make sure it is done allocating hash in reaction
5990 to the preceding 'memory' command, before the clock for the game is
5993 2011-04-14 21:42:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5994 Describe move type-in in texi file
5997 2011-04-14 20:34:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5998 Describe Copy Game List menu item in texi file
6001 2011-04-14 20:30:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6002 Describe -sweepPromotions in texi file
6004 The new method for selection promotion piece, and the -sweepPromotions
6005 option are described in the texi file.
6007 2011-04-14 20:14:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6008 Describe -pieceMenu option in texi file
6010 The sweep method for selecting a piece in Edit-Position mode is
6011 explained, as well as the -pieceMenu option.
6013 2011-04-14 15:59:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6016 Descriptions of the new XBoard menu dialogs are included in the docs.
6018 2011-04-14 21:06:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6019 Reorganize texi description
6022 2011-04-14 12:31:15 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6023 Fix sweep-promotions patch
6025 Setting of the from square was moved to before OKtoStartUserMove in the
6026 LeftClick handler, to make sure we could test the promotion possiblity
6027 when OnlyMove() would have altered (x,y) to be no longer the from
6028 square. But this setting of fromX, fromY hung on also if the move was
6029 not OK, so you could effectively select opponent pieces and empty
6030 squares. The from-square is now set back to undefined when it is not OK
6031 to move the piece you clicked.
6033 2011-04-14 11:56:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6034 Alter treatment of moves with empty squares
6036 In Edit Position mode one can move empty squares, and use them to
6037 'capture' pieces as a means to clear their square. But this often leads
6038 to unintended disappearence of pieces one wants to grab for dragging, if
6039 a previous click had inadvertantly left an empty square selected: the
6040 click on the piece is then seen as the to-click of a click-click move.
6041 This patch treats to-clicks of moves with an empty-square differently
6042 from other to-clicks: Rather than performing the move (in this case
6043 clearing of the to-square) on the down-click, it defers that to the
6044 up-click, and only does it if that up-click is in the same square. This
6045 allows the user to grab the piece on the down-click, and drag it to
6046 another square, if that is what he wanted to do, without being disturbed
6047 by sudden implosion of the piece he tried to grab.
6048 If the to-square is in the holdings, grabbing the piece is the only
6049 action, as moves of empty squares into the holdings are forbidden anyway.
6051 2011-04-13 13:14:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6052 Block selection of a directory when file is needed
6054 When we are not browsing merely to obtain a name to put in a text edit,
6055 but really must return an open file pointer, selection of a directory
6056 (ending in '/') can no longer be OK'ed in the file browser. (XBoard
6057 tends to segfault when offered garbage for game or position file...)
6059 2011-04-13 12:23:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6060 Let double-click select file in file browser
6062 A second click on the already selected entry now has the same effect as
6063 pressing the OK button.
6065 2011-04-12 17:06:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6066 Couple mouse wheel to v-scrolls in file browser
6068 A newly added mouse-wheel event handler was made to call the v-scroll
6069 callback routines with parameters to step one entry. The button-press
6070 handler for the lists themselves was also made to intercept the wheel
6071 events (buttons 4 and 5), to prevent they would select an entry, and
6072 make them scroll in stead as well.
6074 2011-04-13 11:41:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6075 Fix crash copying game list when there is none
6078 2011-04-13 11:15:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6079 Fix changing of float setting by generic popup
6081 Changing a float setting (so far the only one is in the Load Options
6082 dalog) did not always work, because the old value was clipped to (int),
6083 so that changing it back to an integer value might erroneously conclude
6084 there was no change.
6086 2011-04-13 16:15:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6087 Fix crash on closing dialogs in wrong order
6089 When a menu dialog was closed when it still had an open file-browse
6090 daughter, which could be done through the system menu X on the title
6091 bar, later closing of the file browser caused a crash. This is solved by
6092 keeping track of the fact that there is such a daughter through a global
6093 flag, and ignoring the pop-down command if there is one.
6095 2011-04-13 16:33:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6096 Fix startup focus of board window
6098 When there were open auxiliary windows, these would have focus on
6099 starting up XBoard. The XtSetKeyboardFocus call added in XBoard main()
6100 was ineffective in curing that. It has now been replaced by a call to
6101 XSetInputFocus, which does do the job. By giving input focus to the form
6102 widget, rather than the board widget, XBoard will be immediately
6103 sensitive to all key bindings.
6105 2011-04-13 15:48:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6106 Fix game-list highight error when filtered (WB)
6108 When the gamelist was filtered, the game that was highlingted was the
6109 n-th game in the list rather than the n-th game in the file, when the
6110 latter was loaded (and n did not exceed the number of filtered games).
6111 This is fixed now by searching for the line in the listbox that starts
6112 with the game number n, rather than taking the n-th line.
6114 2011-04-12 19:20:46 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6115 Refactor move type-in code
6117 Common code between XBoard and WinBoard was moved to the back-end
6118 creating TypeInEvent() and TypeInDoneEvent() routines.
6120 2011-04-12 10:13:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6121 Fix saving of XBoard fonts with spaces in name
6123 SaveFontArg now prints quotes around the saved font string, so that the
6124 general option-argument parser doesnot stop at the first space it sees.
6126 2011-04-11 20:48:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6127 Implement move type-in for XBoard
6129 By adding an event handler to the main window for key presses, users can
6130 now type moves when the board has focus, like in WinBoard. The typed
6131 character appears as first character in the type-in box that willpop up.
6132 Enter and Escape close the box; finishing the typing of the move enters
6133 it. Like in WinBoard it is also possible to type a move number (to go
6134 there) or (in Edit Position mode) a FEN.
6136 2011-04-11 20:59:44 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
6137 new developer release
6139 tried to keep the v4.5.x branch developed already separated in the NEWS file, as well as DIFFSTAT and SHORTLOG.
6140 The Changelog is just the one from master.
6142 2011-04-10 22:47:59 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
6143 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
6146 2011-04-10 20:32:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6147 Fix use of game/position file in first match game
6149 When a match was started from the menu, it was not paying attention to
6150 game and position files. (Later games were.) The code that handled this
6151 in the initialization when a match is started through the command line
6152 was made into a routine MatchEvent, which can be called from the menu
6155 2011-04-09 20:55:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6156 Fix crash on opening ICS Text Menu
6158 The patch for the color defaults had broken the ICS Text Menu.
6160 2011-04-09 19:22:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6161 Implement Copy Game List menu item for XBoard
6163 Some WinBoard code was cloned for this.
6165 2011-04-09 11:42:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6166 Third method of sweep selection
6168 This method sweeps through the possible promotion choices for the piece
6169 that is being dragged, as long as you drag a 7th-rank Pawn backwards. On
6170 draggin such a Pawn forwards, it immediately shows it as the piece you
6171 are going to promote to.
6173 2011-04-08 23:39:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6174 Alternative sweep promotions
6176 The sweep takes place on the from-square here.
6178 2011-04-07 23:21:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6179 Make sweep-select promotions work in WinBoard
6181 The mouse-move handler had to be connected to the PromoScroll back-end
6184 2011-04-07 23:19:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6185 Fix path browsing in WinBoard
6187 The routine BrowseForFolder was still declared as static in woptions.c,
6188 while it was used from wsettings.c.
6190 2011-04-07 11:14:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6191 Fixes to sweep selection
6194 2011-04-06 23:47:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6195 Implement sweep selection of promotion piece
6197 When the option -sweepPromotions is true, a click-click promotion move
6198 will first display the default choice (usually Queen) on the promotion
6199 square. While you have the mouse button still down, you can change the
6200 piece by moving the mouse vertically.
6202 2011-04-06 21:20:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6203 Implement sweep selection as alternative for the piece menu
6205 When the option -pieceMenu is off, the piece menu will no longer appear
6206 on right-clicks in Edit Position mode. In stead a Pawn of the chosen
6207 color will appear immediately in the clicked square, and vertical
6208 movement of the mouse with the right button down will cycle through
6209 all other pieces defined in the pieceToCharTable of the current variant.
6210 Setting the side to move is acheived by clicking the correspondig
6211 clock. Clear board can be effected by clicking the clock of the side
6212 that already has the move.
6214 2011-03-30 18:17:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6215 Remember Tags and Comment dialog coordinates
6217 The save-settings code now uses the shell and shellUp arrays from the
6218 GenericPopUp to read out the window coordinates for Tags and Comment
6219 window. Pointers used by GenericPopUp are set topoint to the
6220 corresponding WindowPlacement structs.
6222 2011-03-10 19:21:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6225 The generic popup is used for generating the Tags / EditTags popups.
6226 The tags popup use a 'label' field to display the cmail message
6228 2011-04-01 13:43:52 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6229 Implement Edit-Comment window through generic popup
6231 The Edit Comment and Comment popups are combined into one, that can
6232 always be edited (similar to WinBoard). It uses shell number 1.
6233 (Number 0 is for all transient dialogs.) A save-changes button is added.
6234 The positioning is not implemented yet.
6236 2011-04-06 10:56:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6237 Refinements to generic popup and color picker
6239 *) The text part of a checkbox can now be clicked to toggle the option.
6240 *) Typing <Enter> in single-line text edits is ignored
6241 *) Using a spin button now sets focus to the affected text edit, with
6242 the insert position at the end.
6243 *) Using the sample field or an RGB button sets focus to the
6244 corresponding text edit, with the insert position at the end.
6245 *) The adjust buttons now work in reverse, with a D button for "darker".
6246 *) Editing a color field causes the sample field to update to the new
6247 color when you type <Enter>.
6248 *) The color pickers now define a default color, which can be instated
6249 by clicking on the sample field.
6250 *) Fix some 64-bit pointer warnings
6252 2011-04-05 17:05:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6253 Let file browser filter on extension
6255 A new text field is added in the file-browse dialog, to hold (space-
6256 separated) extensions, on which the filenames are then filtered. This
6257 field is initialized by the caller, depending on what we need the file
6258 for, but can be changed by the user. (Directories are always displayed!)
6259 Changes in the extension field become effective after typing a return
6260 in it. Escape typed in the extension field gives focus to the filename
6261 field, and restores the contents. Escape in the filename field cancels
6262 the dialog, return ther OKs it. The extension filter of the browser is
6263 initialized to the extension (if any) of the file currently in the text
6264 edit you are browsing for.
6265 When re-opening the file browser from the XBoard File menu, and there
6266 is no suggested filename, it will now start with the last succesfully
6267 opened name as suggestion. Calling the browser with a NULL argument
6268 for the suggested filename requests that (unlike calling with an empty
6269 string, which will start it in the current directory). To make this
6270 work smoothly, the filebrowser saves the last used name on entry, so it
6271 can be restored on cancel, so that a cancelled browse session really
6272 erases all memory of it.
6274 2011-04-04 19:26:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6275 Fix animation masks on changing piece pixmaps
6277 The animation masks were not remade when new pieces were loaded
6278 interactively through the board-options dialog.
6280 2011-04-04 19:09:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6281 Fix linegap option in board dialog
6283 The lineGC was not recalculated, so the grid lines stayed the same
6284 thickness. In addition, setting the line-gap override to -1 now
6285 retrieves the original line gap that belongs to the current board size.
6287 2011-03-05 23:27:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6288 Make a kind of ICS text menu in XBoard as a dialog
6290 The dialog with buttons can be opened from the View menu. It is
6291 configured by the option -icsMenu; a default setting for this is
6292 included in the master settings file.
6293 The commands specified by the -icsMenu can now contain $name and $input
6294 keywords, which will be replaced by the current primary selection, or
6295 text the user types, respectively. Commands that contain $name will not
6296 be sent when the current selection is empty. Commands that do not
6297 contain $input will be sent to the ICS immediately; otherwise they will
6298 be placed in the ICS Input Box, with the cursor at the point of the
6299 $input, and input focus given to the Input Box, so the user can start
6300 typing. When a command is prefixed by "$add " it will be appended to the
6301 existing ICS Input Box contents, rather than replace it.
6302 The items now have to be separated by ";\n", and button text from
6303 command by ';' (with optional linefeed). This allows configuring of
6304 multi-line commands, as a single linefeed no longer has special
6307 2011-03-31 13:36:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6308 Redo ICS input box with generic popup
6310 This box is just a single text edit, but the complexity is in the added
6311 callbacks. These callbacks remain in xboard.c, and were altered to
6312 access the edit through the option.handle field.
6314 2011-04-03 12:54:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6315 Activate -path and -file options
6317 In XBoard the generic popup was prepared for this. In WinBoard, for
6318 -path options the BrowseFolder routine is used, and had to be made
6319 global (prototype in winboard.h).
6321 2011-04-02 18:40:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6322 Let generic popup generate Engine Settings dialog
6325 2011-04-02 18:36:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6326 Merge SettingsPopUp into GenericPopUp
6328 Based on currentCps the values read from the dialog are sent to the
6329 engine, or stored into the option.target in the callback, and fetched
6330 from the option.target in the PopUp. The currentCps is cleared in the
6331 generic popdown of a transient dialog.
6333 2011-03-06 10:11:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6334 Make generic dialog popup reentrant
6336 To allow persistent dialogs to be implemented through the generic popup,
6337 it must be possible to have several dialogs open at the same time, and
6338 thus make sure the popdowns under the cacel or close-window button know
6339 which one to pop down. To this end an array shells[] is created that
6340 takes over the function of settingsShell, and GenericPopUp gets an extra
6341 parameter telling it which element to use for storing the dialog shell.
6342 This number is then also passed to the callbacks that trigger popdown.
6343 This was a bit nasty for the CatchDeleteWindow stuff, which passes user
6344 data to the callback as text strings.
6345 Keep a separate up/down indicator, so that shell widgets can be kept
6346 for persistent dialogs. Also keep a currentOption per dialog type.
6347 The coordinates and size of the window is read out and stored in a
6348 WindowPlacement structure, (if one is specified for that dialog), when
6349 the dialog is popped down. When initialized the structure is also used
6350 to set the window parameters when the dialog is created. (The idea being
6351 that the structure was saved in the settings file.)
6352 The routine MarkMenu checkmarks a given menu item, and logs it for the
6353 given dialog type, so that a later popdown automatically unchecks is.
6355 2011-02-25 12:14:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6356 Implement Machine Match menu item and options dialog
6358 An item to start a match from the menu is added, similar to what
6359 WinBoard has. (The code is duplicated, so I guess it should be moved to
6360 the back-end now, as MachineMatchEvent(), but it was tiny.) A dialog in
6361 the Options menu was added with the aid of the generic popup, and allows
6362 the user to set the load Game / Position File and Index.
6364 2011-04-01 14:54:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6365 Create General-Options dialog
6367 The generic popup is used to implement a General-Options dialog, which
6368 contains all Boolaen options that used to be set directly from the main
6369 Options menu, plus a spin option for the flash count and flash rate.
6370 The corresponing options are removed from the main Options menu, but the
6371 whole thing is made conditional on a compiler switch OPTIONSDIALOG.
6372 The dialog needs an OK callback for sending an altered ponder-state to
6373 the engine. (Why isn't this option disabled in -ncp mode, btw?)
6374 A spin control is added to adjust -animateSpeed between 5 and 100.
6375 Add dropMenu and showTargetSquares item as well.
6377 2011-04-01 18:16:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6378 Redo new-variant dialog with generic popup
6380 Some special code was added in GenericPopUp() to force buttons of the
6381 type needed in the New Variant dialog (wide, colored, greyed-out on
6382 variant type). The dialog was implemented with these, and callbacks for
6383 the buttons directly exit the dialog, without the need for OK. New spin
6384 controls are added to the dialog for adjusting the board format.
6386 2011-04-01 14:48:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6387 Redo common-engine dialog with generic popup
6389 The ponder option was removed, as it is already in the main Options
6390 menu, and would require nastiness in the OK callback. Added book options
6391 in common-engine dialog.
6393 2011-02-24 13:32:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6394 Redo adjudications dialog through generic popup
6396 We dropped the periodic-updates option, as it is already in the main
6399 2011-04-01 21:56:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6400 Make sounds dialog for XBoard
6402 This uses the combo boxes. A 'play' button isimplemented for a test
6403 sound. A sound directory is introduced, and can be set through the
6404 dialog. A default setting for -soundDirectory is added to xboard.conf.
6406 2011-04-01 23:11:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6407 Add ICS options dialog
6410 2011-04-01 21:52:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6411 Add board dialog XBoard
6413 The GenericPopUp() is used to implement a dialog for board options. The
6414 board dialog needs to trigger redraw and redefinition of the
6415 colors, through an OK callback. Color-pickers are used for the 6 basic
6417 To allow changing board settings during the session (i.e. from a menu
6418 dialog), the routines to allocate resources have to free the resources
6419 for the previous settings first. This patch take care of XtCreateGCs(),
6420 preventing re-creation of resources that are unchangeable (such as the
6421 grid color), and calling XtReleastGC() on GCs that can be changed.
6422 To prevent resource leaks the old pixmaps are deleted before making new
6423 ones on second or later calls of CreateXPMPieces().
6425 2011-04-03 11:39:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6426 Add browse button to generic popup
6428 Options of type FileName and PathName cause a browse button to be added
6429 behind the text field. The SpinCallback is used to handle the
6430 button presses, and invokes the file browser dialog to obtain a
6431 filename, which is then copied to the text field.
6433 2011-04-01 21:49:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6434 Make generic XBoard popup, and implement 2 dialogs
6436 The Engine-Settings dialog of XBoard was cloned to work on predefined
6437 lists of (XBoard) options, rather than engine options. An extra field
6438 was added to the Option struct, to hold a pointer to the XBoard variable
6439 that should hold the option setting, so on OK'ing the dialog the altered
6440 values can be copied there. Not usable for options which should trigger
6441 an action (like redraw, or sending something to the engine).
6442 A Load Game, Save Game and ICS Options dialog were then defined by
6443 tables fed to GenericPopUp(). Options set from these dialogs were removed
6444 from the main Option menu, which removes a lot of code from xboard.c
6445 (for checkmarking, disabling the menu items).
6446 A button defined in the GenericPopUp can attain the color indicated
6447 by a previous text field, and add a callback to change the color in a
6448 spin-like manner (but using R G B W in stead of + - butons).
6449 The EndMark option can specify a callback, to be used on OK.
6450 A non-zero max field in the Option descriptor will be used to set the
6451 width of ComboBox, TextBox and Button optons.
6452 The elements are chained such that extra space goes fully into the input
6453 fields. A label type is added for clarifying texts that would not fit in
6454 the option names. A break-type (pseudo-)option is added. Make OK and
6455 cancel button suppressable in generic popup (by 2 bit of the option.min
6458 2011-04-03 11:34:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6459 Add file-browser option to just return name
6461 By passing mode "f" the file browser dialog will not open the selected
6462 file at all, so it can be used to retreive the name for the benefit of a
6463 file-browser button to a -file option. A mode "p" will limit the
6464 selection to directories only, to browse for a path.
6466 2011-04-03 13:15:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6467 Put insertion point at end of text on SetFocus
6470 2011-04-05 23:47:34 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
6471 fixed 64 bit warnings by casting integers to intptr_t before casting to int
6474 2011-04-05 23:24:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
6475 removed check and #includes for malloc.h, since it's not needed
6477 hopefully this doesn't break things on non-linux systems. OS X seems to be ok, not sure about others ;)
6479 2011-04-03 20:23:49 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
6480 check if malloc.h is present before including it
6482 OS X 10.6 doesn't have malloc.h, so it complained.
6484 2011-04-03 20:01:36 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
6485 Fix bug introduced in commit 89b4744: removed a "/" and forgot to add it in the config file
6487 removed a "/" to make OS X happy, but forgot to add the "/" again in the xboard.conf.in file
6489 2011-03-12 14:08:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6490 Fix display of promotion piece in ICS superchess
6492 In Great Shatranj and Superchess promoted Pawns were displayed as shadow
6493 piece because these variants had holdings, while captured pieces should
6494 go back into the holdings unchanged, rather than reverted to Pawns.
6496 2011-03-13 14:09:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6497 Fix o-o castling in new parser
6499 The non-compliant notation of castling with lower-case 'o' should be
6500 preferred over the non-compliant interpretation of moving a Pawn along
6501 the o-file. Not doing so breaks ICS play, as ICS use o-o and o-o-o for
6502 castling! So an exception is now made for the o-file in the 'fxg'
6505 2011-03-10 19:27:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6506 Implement yynewstr entry point in new parser
6508 This entry point, used for parsing an ICS move list, was forgotten, and
6509 was still an empty routine. This made XBoard crash when observing an ICS
6512 2011-03-07 23:11:00 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
6513 fixed wrong default for polyglotDir mentioned in docs.
6515 Thanks to Hans Aberg for reporting it.
6517 2011-03-05 12:39:01 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
6518 Fix "make install" on Os X10.6.6 (removed a "/")
6520 seems like an extra "/" made "make install" unhappy
6522 2011-03-03 21:19:05 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
6523 removed parser.l from build process, also removed flex dependency from configure
6526 2011-03-02 22:14:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6527 New parser, written in C
6529 A new parser was written to replace the flex-generated one. Immediate
6530 improvements are that it understand double-digit rank numbers, and Shogi
6531 coordinates. No changes were made in the Makefile yet to reflect the
6532 new, flexless building procedure.
6534 2011-03-02 22:23:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6535 Fix bugs in FRC castling rights
6537 When parsing a castling move in FRC when no rights existed, the parser
6538 returned 0 (= EndOfFile) rather than ImpossibleMove. The recognition of
6539 the absence of rights was not adapted to the new encoding NoRights in
6542 2011-03-01 23:42:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6543 Fix parsing bug of FRC castling
6545 The code that was supposed to intercept castling when no rights existed
6546 in FRC was not adapted to the new encoding for this by NoRights, rather
6547 than -1, and furthermore returned 0 (= EndOfFile) rather than
6548 ImpossibleMove. Not sure if the former would manifest itself in any
6549 way, but the latter seems bad.
6551 2011-03-01 23:32:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6552 Fix two bugs in reading position diagram
6554 When reading a game without FEN tag, a position diagram is used to set
6555 the initial position. This calls CharToPiece() with a '.' as argument,
6556 because that is the position-diagram way to indicate empty squares.
6557 altered CharToPiece() over time this would be recognized as the first
6558 undefined piece or, more recently, the first piece without nickName,
6559 which is a white Pawn. Now it returns EmptySquare again in that case.
6560 A second problem was that for position diagrams in braces the brace was
6561 not in the list of ignored characters, and would cause the reading to
6562 get out of phase, so that the side to move was not recognized.
6564 2011-02-26 21:12:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6565 Fix flipBlack option XBoard with board texture
6567 In XBoard -flipBlack is implemented by swapping white and black pieces,
6568 because the Shogi bitmaps from XShogi are made that way. But the mask
6569 used to cut out the whole in the board texture to fit the piece was not
6570 swapped, both when drawing static pieces, as well as during animation.
6572 2011-02-25 14:38:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6573 Improve repairing damage of arrow highlight XBoard
6575 With line gap the highlight arrow necessitated redrawing of the entire
6576 board, to repair damage on the grid. This interfered with flashing of
6577 pieces, which was only done on selective redraws. In stead of forcing a
6578 total repaint we now just redraw the grid lines.
6580 2011-02-23 16:41:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6581 Fix unintended translation in debug file
6583 The words "first" and "second" (cps->which) were sometimes used in
6584 context that should definitely not be translated. (e.g. the indicator
6585 for which engine printed/got the line in the debug file.) So translation
6586 is now deferred to all uses in popups.
6588 2011-02-23 16:29:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6591 The nps settingwas tested for being > 0 in stead of >=0, so that the
6592 case of CPU time was not properly handled.
6594 2011-02-24 19:06:27 +0100 Kamil Blank <caceel@gmail.com>:
6595 Added missing fclose()
6598 Signed-off-by: Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>
6600 2011-02-20 16:12:19 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
6601 release of version 4.5.1
6603 2011-02-20 16:10:16 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
6604 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
6606 2011-02-20 20:36:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6607 Fix two typos in option names in texi file
6609 Polyglot was capitalyzed
6611 2011-02-20 00:03:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6612 Fix some resource leaks
6614 Some files were opened not closed in XBoard, when loading XIM images
6615 (which I doubt anyone ever does) but also when copying the clipboard
6616 (which has the potential of being done very often). There was also some
6617 code that would not work if conditional code which is permanently
6618 disabled would be enabled.
6620 2011-02-17 20:17:04 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
6621 new developer release
6623 2011-02-17 20:14:38 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
6624 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
6626 2011-02-17 15:40:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6627 Fix MSVC snprintf problem
6629 In MSVC snprintf has to be redefined as _snprintf, and this happens
6630 conditionally in config.c. But the latter was not #included in help.c.
6632 2011-02-16 19:41:27 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
6633 updated configure.ac to check for Xaw header files
6635 check for Xaw header files when --without-Xaw3d was given. Before the test was
6636 only done when Xaw3d was specified, but could not be found.
6638 If Xaw3d or Xaw can't be found, print a hopefully useful error message and exit the configure script.
6640 2011-02-16 12:03:22 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6643 Channel 0 messages were not displayed in the console, because the test
6644 for channel number considered every non-numeric or non-existent handle
6645 in a chatbox to be zero. So the messages were diverted to a non-exsting
6646 chatbox. Now it test first for the handle to start with a digit.
6648 2011-02-15 19:13:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6649 Make language choice from menu persistent
6651 Set appData.language to the chosen language file, or empty if English is
6652 chosen, so that the choice is saved with the settings. Increase the
6653 number of possible language choices from 5 to 20. (After all, we already
6656 2011-02-14 11:09:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6657 Fix showing of user move after adjudication
6659 The correction of the fishy patch (removing ShowMove() from Adjudicate())
6660 had broken the adjudication of user moves (that actually did work before
6661 the fishy patch, because there the gobal fromX/Y and toX/Y do contain
6662 the correct values for the move to be shown). An entered move that led
6663 to adjudication (like a checkmate) now was not displayed at all. Adding
6664 an extra ShowMove() after (successful) return of Adudicate() solves it.
6666 2011-02-13 23:49:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6667 Fix Xiangqi King facing
6669 The Spartan patch had broken the CheckTest for Xiangqi, because cl.check
6670 was cleared after the King-facing test, rather than before it.
6672 2011-02-13 22:30:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6673 Fix variant janus size prefix
6675 The default board size of Janus Chess was not consistently taken to be
6676 10x8, which resulted the name to be sent as 10x8+0_janus to the engine.
6678 2011-02-13 12:18:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6681 The test for Alfil (suppressing single steps on the Elephant) contained
6682 a wrong logical operator, so that it could never be active. It also
6683 failed to include Xiangqi as variant with traditional Alfil. This led to
6684 one-step moves of the Elephant in these variants, and false check or
6685 unreliable mate detections.
6687 Fix move of Xiangqi Elephant
6689 2011-02-09 23:19:09 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
6690 fixed configure script to correctly detect Xaw3d library
6693 2011-02-06 22:07:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6694 Fix unmarked translation
6696 The file-browser wndowtitle in WB was not marked for translation.
6698 2011-02-04 10:27:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6699 Put warning in HTML help
6701 A warning is added that the help file is not yet updated for the new
6704 2011-02-04 10:22:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6705 Fix 64-bit Windows compilability
6707 The API interface for Set/GetWindowLong has been changed for 64-bit
6708 Windows, both in the name of the call as in the arguments.
6710 2011-02-04 10:21:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6711 Fix MSVC compilability
6713 Both the makefile and the project file had to be adapted for the new
6714 source file history.c, and the new location of parser.c.
6716 2011-02-05 10:11:58 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
6717 added missing #includes and missing prototypes to filebrowser
6719 thanks to Max Funk for reporting. Now using HAVE_DIRENT_H.
6721 Also cleaned up missing prototypes and some casts.
6723 2011-02-05 09:21:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
6724 added missing header file for sprintf
6727 2011-02-03 08:50:50 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
6728 added history.c to the tar-ball. Needed for Winboard
6731 2011-01-31 23:03:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6732 Fix deselection of greyed-out variant button (WB)
6734 In Windows a disabled radiobutton refuses to deselect when you select
6735 another (enabled) button from the group. There are then 2 buttons
6736 checked, and the code to readout the buttons took the first one. Now it
6737 is changed to take the first enabled one.
6739 2011-02-03 08:28:15 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
6740 Revert "Implement -reset option feature in WinBoard"
6742 This reverts commit efecf86cd9b54072c6a2f38d62f1d775e69c545b.
6744 picked the wrong commit from HGM's git tree.
6746 2011-02-01 22:01:12 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
6747 add DIFFSTAT and SHORTLOG to tar-ball
6749 was only in the v4.4.x branch and not in master
6751 2011-01-30 09:52:15 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6752 release of version 4.5.0
6754 2011-02-01 07:41:04 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
6755 changed size of borders around squares from 0 to 1 as a default
6757 this way highlights show up again.
6759 2011-01-29 20:11:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6760 Implement -reset option feature in WinBoard
6762 2011-01-30 10:12:08 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6763 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
6765 2011-01-30 09:56:39 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6766 updated parser.c form parser.l
6768 2011-01-29 19:59:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6769 Clean up fishy patch
6771 None of the ShowMove() calls in Adjudicate() was working, because when
6772 this code was taken out of HandleMachineMove() it was taken outside the
6773 scope of the local fromX, fromY etc. there, so that it started using the
6774 global variables from the mouse driver. As these usually contain -1,
6775 this suppressed move animation and highlighting. All these calls have
6776 now been removed, and ShowMove() is called after a positive return (from
6777 HandleMachineMove(), so within the correct scope).
6778 This improves the previous fix, which led to some flicker, because the
6779 erroneous ShowMove() calls did draw the new board (instantly), wich in
6780 the fishy patch was then immediately overwritten by the old position, to
6781 start animation. This drawing of the old position is now no longer
6784 2011-01-29 13:36:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6787 The RTF file is adapted to the new menu organization.
6789 2011-01-29 13:31:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6792 The highlight-with-arrow and one-click-move menu items are described.
6793 The highlightMoveWithArrow and variations option are described.
6794 Load Next /Previous Position descriptions are moved to File menu.
6795 The description for entering variations is updated (using Shift key).
6796 The remark that editing holdings is impossible is removed.
6797 Spartan Chess is added to the list of supported variants.
6799 2011-01-28 18:35:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6800 Updated copyright notice to 2011
6803 2011-01-24 15:01:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6804 Greyout unavailable variants in New Variant dialog
6806 The WB radio-button code is refactored to be driven from a list (which
6807 must be kept in phase with the variant definitions in common.h!). It now
6808 also checks if the first engine supports the variant, and greys out the
6809 item if it isn't. XB now also makes this check. Slight re-ordering of
6810 10x8 variants there, to have the more common on top.
6811 If no radio button is selected, keep old variant even on OK.
6813 2011-01-19 11:10:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6814 Move clock-click code to back-end
6816 Some duplicated (or should-be-duplicated) code for handling clicks on
6817 the clocks from the XBoard and WinBoard front-ends was merged and
6818 relocated to the back-end, so it can be shared. Noticeable was that
6819 XBoard allowed turn change in ICS examine mode by clock clicking,
6820 while WinBoard did not. WB, on the other hand, allowed clock adjustment.
6822 2011-01-16 23:15:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6823 Fix legality testing of drop moves
6825 Drops of noexistent pieces (i.e. with a piece indicator letter that is
6826 not corresponding to any defined piece) are now parsed as
6827 ImpossibleMove, rather than IllegalMove, so they are also rejected with
6828 legality testing off.
6830 2011-01-17 00:28:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6831 Fix WB Sound Options greyout and remove some grossness
6833 The sound and ICS Options menu items in WB were accessed 'by position',
6834 with fixed defined positions (always messing up any reorganization of
6835 the menus when you forgot to redefine the position constants in
6836 winboard.h). And not only that, but for completely mysterious reasons,
6837 the greying of the sound item greyed out the game-list options (above
6838 it) in stead when it was defined as 9, and the ICS options (below it)
6839 when it was 10 !!!. Now they are addressed 'by command' (and the
6840 position definitions are removed), which fixes things.
6842 2011-01-25 21:35:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6843 Re-instate load next/prev position menu items
6845 As positions do not use something similar to the game list, these are
6846 still useful. For some reason I could not get Alt+Shift+PgUp/Dn to work,
6847 so I settled for Shift+PgUp/Dn.
6849 2011-01-16 21:56:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6850 Remove superfluous copying of machine move
6852 There was explicit code in HandleMachineMove() and FinishMove() to put
6853 the move in the moveList, while MakeMove() already does this later in a
6854 more reliable way by calling CoordsToComputerAlgebraic(). This
6855 superfluous code is removed now.
6857 2011-01-16 21:44:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6858 Fix spurious mate test in Edit Game mode
6860 When entering a game, it was terminated by the mate test even when
6861 legality checking was switched off (so that mates might not be reliably
6862 recognized). The mate test is now made dependent on legality testing.
6864 2011-01-16 21:37:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6865 Fix type-in of drop moves
6867 Drop moves entered through the move type-in already come in the (piece,
6868 DROP_RANK, x, y) format, rather than having a holdings from square. This
6869 caused UserMoveEvent to consider them illegal when testing if the
6870 piecewas of the side to move, and when this was fixed, to recognize
6871 Knight drops as coming from between board and holdings (and thus
6874 2011-01-16 21:31:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6875 Fix move type-in truncating game
6877 Starting a new variation by keeping Shift pressed did not work when
6878 OK'ing the move type-in, because there was some code ther that truncated
6879 the game. While this could be safely left to UserMoveEvent, which it
6880 calls, as the situation is not different from entering moves through the
6883 2011-01-11 16:12:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6884 Fix legality testing for promotions
6886 Turns out WB has never tested for the legality of the chosen promotion
6887 piece, and would allow promotion to King innorml chess even with
6888 legality testing on (when entered through the keyboard)! Now strict
6889 testing is done, outlawing Pawns and Kings (or Unicorns in
6890 Knightmate). Only in suicide / giveaway Kings are stillallowed, and in
6891 spartan a black King if you do not have two yet.(And promotion
6892 toLnce,representing Hoplite Pawn,is forbidden there.)
6894 2011-01-11 11:34:07 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6895 Reset 50-move counter on all pawn-like Lance moves
6897 Now the Lance represents a Pawn-like piece not only in variant fairy,
6898 but anywhere outside Shogi / Superchess, its moves should also reset the
6899 50-move counter in those cases. Especially important for Spartan Chess,
6900 where the Lance actually participates.
6902 2011-01-11 11:18:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6905 The logos were not repainted when the main window was moved out of the
6906 display area, and then back into view. The reason for this is
6907 unknown, as the PaintProc calls HDCDrawPosition, which was calling
6908 DrawLogoOnDC. But the logos were not drawn, (or on an expose event
6909 sometimes half drawn!) despite the fact that the rest of the board was.
6910 The drawing of logos now has been decoupled from drawing the board,
6911 and has been moved to a separate routine DisplayLogos() (in analogy to
6912 DisplayBothClocks()). This is cleaner anyway, as the logos usually do
6913 not change when the board does. So apart from in PaintProc, it has only
6914 to be called when the mode changes (ModeHighlight()) or on swap clocks.
6915 This seems to fix the problem.
6917 2011-01-10 20:36:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6918 Fix time in PGN info
6920 Saving of the thinking time in the PGN was broken by the patch that
6921 removed the race condition in the clock switching, because that moved
6922 the incrementing of forwardMostMove to behind the code that used fmm to
6923 index pvInfoList. As a result the time was stored in the slot for the
6924 opponent's previous move. The value is corrected now.
6926 2011-01-09 00:24:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6929 The move that delivers checkmate in two-machines mode is not animated
6930 when adjudication is on. There then also is no highlighting of this move
6931 Redrawing the board and calling ShowMove fixes it. Which is rather
6932 strange, because ShowMove was already called in Adjudicate (when it
6933 adjudicates), before GameEnds. For reasons that are not understood this
6934 call to ShowMove() (which calls AnimateMove()) is not effective.
6936 2011-01-09 00:21:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6937 Reset machine colors after match
6939 The colors each engine playse are set to the originals after the last
6940 match game, so that a new match or two-machines game will not have
6943 2011-01-09 00:15:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6944 Reset win/loss counters before match
6946 The win/loss counters were not reset, because the code counted on them
6947 being initialized to zero. But with matches startable from the menu,
6948 this is no longer true after the first match.
6950 2011-01-09 00:08:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6951 Show move that causes false illegal-move claim
6953 Without claim testing XBoard takes back moves that an engine objects to.
6954 But when the engine is forfeited for a false claim, the move should of
6955 course stay. So the claim test is moved to before the take-back.
6957 2011-01-09 00:05:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6958 Fix Spartan promotion to King
6960 Promotions toKing were refused when in check, because XBoard thought
6961 they would not resolve the check. Now the promotion is actually
6962 performed before doing the check test.
6964 2011-01-05 17:31:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6965 Fix WB font-based piece rendering on variant switch
6967 The piece bitmaps were only created from the font characters when the
6968 number of ranks or files changed, because it was done in
6969 InitDrawingSizes(). This caused missing pieces when changing to a
6970 variant on the same board that used other pieces. Now InitDrawingSizes()
6971 is called for any variant switch.
6973 2011-01-05 17:25:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6974 Fix right-alignment pproblem in WB ICS window
6976 Use of Ctrl-R to summon the context menu still trickled through to the
6977 default text-edit window routine, and caused right-alignment. This was
6978 because the text-edit reacts on keyDown rather than the character event.
6979 KeyDown of R with Ctrl pressed is now also intercepted and ignored.
6981 2011-01-03 13:04:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6982 Fix chat window title
6984 The title was using the engine name, rather than the ICS handle, which
6985 did not work outside zippy mode. Now it only uses the engine name when
6986 no ICS handle is known. The titleis now also subjected to translation.
6988 2011-01-03 12:50:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6989 Fix spurious reading of old game title by JAWS
6991 Because focus was switched to the board window before loading the
6992 selected game from the game list, the titlebar still contained the
6993 name of the previously loaded game, which would spontaneously be read by
6994 JAWS. Now the focus switch is done after loading the new game (which
6995 updates the window title.)
6997 2011-01-03 12:37:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6998 Add variant Spartan Chess
7000 In the WB menu it takes the place of the defunct Twilight Chess item.
7001 The setup routine needed patching for setting up Lances in stead of
7002 Pawns for black, the check test had to be adapted to handle duple check,
7003 Alfil and Dragon moves were fine tuned in this variant to make the exact
7004 moves, and the promotion popup was adapted to show King and interpret
7005 Rook and Bishop as Dragon and Alfil for black. The Alfil now always
7006 moves as Modern Elephant except in Shatranj and Courier.
7008 2011-01-03 12:23:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7011 Due to a bug in logical operators drops were tried for mate evasions
7012 even in non-drop games, which broke it in Superchess and Great Shatranj,
7013 and wasted CPU time in other variants.
7015 2011-01-05 17:19:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7016 Fix promotion suffixon disambiguated piece moves
7018 The promotion suffixon piecemoves that needed disambiguation was not
7019 passedon to the back-end in most variants. Now it is passed on in any
7022 2011-01-03 12:08:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7023 Fix promotion of Pawn-like Lance
7025 In variants where the Lance is used to represent an unorthodox Pawn, it
7026 must promote when it reaches last rank. With legality testing on,
7027 however, the promoChar was ignored in ApplyMove in this case. The
7028 promotion suffix also was not appended in SAN moves.
7030 2011-01-03 11:57:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7031 Fix WB promotion popup
7033 The promotion popup did not work properly in variants where black did
7034 not use the pieces that white wanted to promote to. Now the character
7035 for the selected piece is taken from the piece encodings of the side to
7036 move. In addition, selection of undefined pieces is ignored.
7038 2011-01-02 14:17:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7039 Fix bug in parsing variations
7041 The moves parsed from a variation were stored in the moveList without
7042 appended linefeed. This caused errors if the variation extended to
7043 beyond the end of the main line,into a hitherto unused part of the move
7044 list, as the linefeed was then not there from the overwritten move. As a
7045 result moves sent to the engine were concatenated, triggering
7046 illegal-move messages and bringing the engine out of phase.
7048 2011-01-02 14:11:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7049 Define Ctrl-R as right-click in WB Comment dialog
7051 To allow JAWS users to load a variation through the keyboard, Ctrl-R is
7052 equated to a right click at the position of the caret or selection.
7054 2011-01-02 14:10:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7055 Allow starting a variation from keyboard entry in WB-JAWS
7057 The status of the shift key is remembered when space is pressed to
7058 select a board square.
7060 2011-01-02 14:06:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7061 Disable some accelerators in JAWS version
7063 Single-key accelerators that could result in irreversible data loss are
7064 undesirable, because the risk of accidentally pushing them is too large.
7065 So the non-Alt duplicates of next/previous game/position are disabled,
7066 as are Home and End for Revert and Truncate Game. JAWS users will have
7067 to rely on the menus for those functions.
7069 2011-01-02 13:59:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7070 Group engine-output memos with engine names
7072 The engine names are now defined just before the text edits, so that
7073 JAWS 11 will read the engine name when the memo for the output of that
7074 engine is selected. (JAWS 10 will still read the NPS, as it reads in
7077 2011-01-02 13:55:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7078 Put nr CPU earlier in tab cycle of WB Common Engine dialog
7080 By defining the max CPU control after hash size, the tabbing steps
7081 through the controls in geometrical (and logical) order, rather than
7082 having the max CPU in between the book controls.
7084 2010-12-29 23:47:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7085 Update WB language template file
7088 2010-12-29 23:41:27 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7089 Subject JAWS menu and spoken strings to translation
7092 2010-12-29 23:37:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7093 Let JAWS SayString buffer full sentence
7095 The meaning of the flag parameter of SayString was changed to indicate
7096 buffering of flushing. On flushing a message of a single space is used
7097 as a kludge to indicate interruptability. Calls to force flushing where
7100 2010-12-29 23:32:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7101 Adapt JAWS menu to new menu organization
7103 The menus did not correspondto the texts after translation of the main
7106 2010-12-29 23:18:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7107 Translate menus after creation of JAWS menu
7110 2010-12-29 23:07:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7111 Fix ICS context menu for JAWS
7113 The Ctrl+R key did select text at the mouse pointer in stead of at the
7114 curser, now that up and down-click were combined.
7116 2010-12-29 23:04:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7117 Reorganize order of WB New Variant dialog controls
7119 The definitions are re-ordered so that at least JAWS 11 will speak the
7120 board-size elements properly.
7122 2010-12-29 22:57:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7123 Fix order of elements in WB time-control dialog
7125 Someleading texts were defined after the text edit they referred to,so
7126 that JAWS 11 associated them to the wrong one. A tab stop was added to
7127 the time-odds label, to make JAWS speak it.
7129 2010-12-29 22:51:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7130 Change tabbing order in WB sounds dialog
7132 The 'Play' button now gets focus immediately after the controls for
7133 selecting the sound, rather than at the end of the dialog (after OK).
7135 2010-12-29 22:47:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7136 Remove tab stops on first radio button of WB dialogs
7138 The New Variant and Board dialogs had a tab stop on the first radio
7139 button,so that tabbing toit would automatically select variant
7140 normal or size tiny. Now it tabs straight to the current size, without
7141 changing anything. (Important for JAWS users.)
7143 2010-12-29 22:45:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7144 Put OK/Cancel last in tab cycle of some WB dialogs
7147 2010-12-29 22:29:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7148 Fix duplicate menu character for Edit Comment
7150 Edit Comment did have the same shortcut character as Copy Game. Changed
7153 2010-12-11 11:18:56 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7154 fixed automake process: xboard.conf couldn't be generated if $srcdir was not the current directory
7157 2010-12-11 09:50:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7158 new developer release
7161 2010-12-05 18:01:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7162 Subject WB context menus to translation
7164 The innerloopof the menu translation has been made into a separate
7165 routine. This now uses GetMenuItemInfo() in stead of ModifyMenu() to
7166 better preserve menu breaks. Menu #10 is used for context menus (from
7167 the routine that pops them up), and for this number the orignal texts
7168 are not saved in menuText. (This is not needed, because the menu is
7169 created everytime anew from the resource data.)
7171 2010-12-05 15:00:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7172 Update translation template
7174 Add the new menu items; add some notes.
7176 2010-12-05 14:04:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7177 Resize buttons in WB engine-settings dialog
7179 The OK and cancel buttons were to narrow for most translations, and were
7180 a non-standard order as well.
7182 2010-12-05 13:56:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7183 Add one-click move control to WB general-options dialog
7185 This is a duplicate of the one in the ICS options dialog, but the latter
7186 is inaccessible in non-ICS modes, and one-click move is now
7187 alsoavailable in engine mode.
7189 2010-12-05 13:51:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7190 Create space in dialogs for translation
7192 The translated texts often did not fit, because controls were defined
7193 needlessly small (when there was empty space between them). In these
7194 cases they have been enlarged to consume all available space. Some
7195 dialogs are made wider.
7197 2010-12-05 13:47:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7198 Add handle for translator acknowledgement
7200 An empty string is printed in the about box, which can be 'translated'
7201 to a message acknowledging the translator.
7203 2010-12-05 13:43:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7204 Use default logo for user
7206 When no logo with the name of the current user is found, use dummy.bmp.
7208 2010-12-05 15:46:34 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7209 added rlwrap tip to FAQ
7212 2010-12-03 23:24:06 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7213 replace hard coded paths with path from configure script
7215 use $datadir and subdirectories to store some data files. Also make files in xboard.conf use correct path.
7217 2010-12-03 23:02:09 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7218 fixed a typo in the configure script output
7221 2010-12-03 21:46:00 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7222 added a desktop file
7224 taken from the openSUSE project
7226 2010-12-03 22:44:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7227 Fix Edit Game/Position checkmarking in WinBoard
7229 Because the entries in Edit and Mode menu were pure duplicats, the
7230 entries in the wrong menu (Edit) were checkmarked while active. By
7231 defining different IDs for those in the Edit menu, those in the Mode
7232 menu are checkmarked again.
7234 2010-12-03 10:07:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7235 Add XBoard menu items for arrow highlight and one-click move
7237 These items are put in the options menu; the 'Old Save Style' item is
7240 2010-12-03 09:27:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7241 Provide menus for editing WinBoard engine and server lists
7243 The Edit Tags dialog in the WB front-end is adapted to act as a general
7244 edit for string variables, by giving it an extra parameter to indicate
7245 where to store the edited result. Menu items are added to invoke this
7246 dialog for editing the /first, /secondChessProgramNames and /icsNames
7247 options. This solves the problem that people would have to edit an ini
7248 file that they can no longer locate (because the %APPDATA% folder has
7249 different names and locations in the various Windows versions, and is
7250 often a hidden folder on top of that).
7251 There is a slight memory leak here, as the memory for the previous
7252 value of the altered string option is not freed.
7254 2010-12-02 16:18:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7255 Configure arrow highlighting as default in XBoard
7257 Set -highlightMoveWithArrow true in the xboard.conf file, and specify a
7258 lineGap of 0 to make that efficient (and the wood theme even nicer).
7260 2010-12-02 15:56:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7261 Port highlighting with arrow to XBoard
7263 Unfortuntely this duplicates a fair amount of code in the front end.
7264 Removing the arrow is done by a total repaint if there is a non-zero
7265 lineGap, because the clever algorithm for selective redrawing (based
7266 on damage) that XBoard uses does not repair damage to the grid lines.
7267 For lineGap=0, however, (for which the arrow is mainly intended) the
7268 damage mechanism is used, and the damaged squares are determined by
7269 tracing out the arrow in 64 steps, and marking all squares in the
7270 neighborhood as damaged.
7272 2010-12-02 15:55:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7273 Strip CR from xboard.c
7276 2010-12-02 14:21:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7277 Let user decide if he wants highlights in blindfold mode
7279 Remove the automaticsuppression ofhighlighting.
7281 2010-12-02 00:24:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7282 Fix fag-fell marker with logos on
7284 The flag-fell marker "(!)" that is displayed in the clock in WinBoard in
7285 two-machines mode was printed twice when the clock was split over two
7286 lines (as with logos on).
7288 2010-12-01 18:57:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7289 Also exempt variant seirawan from eval-scale doubling
7291 It is not really a drop game, so a scale from -7 to 7 in the eval graph
7292 is good enough (like variants great and super).
7294 2010-12-01 10:33:13 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7295 Configure EGTB cache size in adapterCommand
7297 The hash size, nr of CPUs and EGTB path are transferred through the WB
7298 protocol interface commands memory, cores and egtpath. But there is no
7299 WB command for detailing the EGTB cache size. So the value of the
7300 command-line option -defaultCacheSizeEGTB has to be sent to Polyglot
7301 through its startup command to make it known to UCI engines.
7303 2010-11-30 22:46:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7304 Move Hint and Book items to Engine menu in XBoard
7307 2010-11-30 22:17:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7308 Correct the key bindings fo view menu in texi file
7310 The mentioned bindings for Game List and Eval Graph were wrong.
7312 2010-11-30 21:25:07 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7313 Fix sub-variation display with negative score
7315 The test if the displayed score was the pvInfo score failed for negative
7316 scores, because floats are truncated towards zero. So the previous fix
7317 of spurious score/depth info was not working when the score was
7320 2010-11-30 18:27:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7321 Peel PV out of comment
7323 Arena stores engine PVs not in variation format, but within both braces
7324 and parentheses, before the score/depth info. This caused XBoard to
7325 overlook the score/depth info, (frustrating, e.g., the eval graph),
7326 while the PV would not be accessible for walking it as a variation.
7327 The routine that extracts the score/depth from a comment now has
7328 been made more clever, to recognize a leadin PV in the comment, and then
7329 place it in front of the comment as variation (by moving the opening
7330 brace to behind it). For some reason it does not work if the PV and
7331 score/depth were separated by a newline, but this happens quite rarely.
7333 2010-11-30 18:23:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7334 Allow line-straddling result comments
7336 Some GUIs (in particular Arena) do not have the decency to keep the
7337 result comment on a single line. In this case the parser rules would not
7338 recognize it, and treat it as a normal comment, plus an undetailed PGN
7339 result. The rules are now fixed to allow linefeeds in the comment, and
7340 between comment and PGN result. To correctly process the comment further
7341 (e.g. in game-list lines) the linefeeds are replaced by spaces in the
7342 back-end routines that do use the result comment.
7344 2010-11-30 12:22:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7345 Write key bindings in XBoard menus
7347 Unfortunately tabs are not understood in menu texts, so fine-tuning
7348 through spaces is necessary to get some sort of ragged alignment.
7350 2010-11-29 18:01:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7351 Configure XBoard to use wood board texture by default
7353 The texture pixmaps are sought in /usr/share/games/xboard, with names
7354 wood_l.pm and wood_d.xpm. I guess the " make install" should be adapted
7355 to put them there. XBoard is resitent to non-existence of the files,
7356 btw. It simply ignores the arguments in that case.
7358 2010-11-29 17:48:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7359 Configure -inc as volatile option in XBoard
7361 XBoard users are not used to options being persistent, and thus have
7362 many scripts assuming the timeIncrement is -1 when they don't specify it
7363 on the command line, and want to specify -mps. But a persistent -inc of
7364 0 fom a preious session would then force their -mps to zero, causing
7367 2010-11-29 17:36:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7368 Make WinBoard clocks translation-proof
7370 With logos on, the splitting of the clock over two lines assumed the
7371 lengths of the words "white" and "black" would always be 5. Used strlen.
7373 2010-11-29 14:57:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7374 Improve drawing of highlight arrow
7376 A diagonal arrow sometimes had a notch in the shaft because of
7377 independent rounding of the starting and ending point coordinates.
7378 Furthermore the width of the shaft was unnecessary variable(as a
7379 function of direction) because half the width was rounded and then used
7380 twice. Now rounding of end-points is always done towards a fixed grid
7381 of square centers, which keeps diagonals purely diagonal, and one side
7382 of the shaft is drawn relative to the other side, after the
7383 position of the latter has been rounded, so any rounding error affects
7384 the shaft width only once.
7386 2010-11-29 10:25:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7387 Alter descriptionof Analyze File menu item
7389 This menu item has been given a new function, so a new description was
7392 2010-11-29 10:15:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7393 Add description of Game List Options in texi file
7396 2010-11-29 09:58:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7397 Update texi file for new menu organization
7399 The descriptions are shuffled around and organized into sections
7400 corresponding to the new main menus. Where necessary the name of the
7401 items was changed to their new names. The items removed from the File
7402 menu (the next/previous/same stuff) are nowmoved to the section "other
7403 shortcut keys", as the key bindings for some of them are still active.
7405 2010-11-29 09:06:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7406 Update info on key bindings in texi file
7408 The texi file was still listing the old XBoard key bindings. Where
7409 necessary this is now changed to the new (WinBoard) bindings, and all
7410 the new bindings were added.
7412 2010-11-29 09:04:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7413 Add XBoard key bindings for Revert and Truncate
7415 Use Home key as accelerator for Revert, End for Truncate, as in WinBoard.
7417 2010-11-28 23:12:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7418 Divorce the Edit and Show Tags/Comment menu items
7420 In WinBoard the items in the Edit and View menu for Tags and Comment now
7421 have different IDs, so they can be independently controlled. Only the
7422 items in the View menu are check-marked. The items still do the same.
7424 2010-11-28 23:08:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7425 Alter WinBoard menu text
7427 The texts are slightly adapted, mostly by choosing more convenient
7428 tabbing characters for the new menu organization. The translation
7429 template is updated accordingly.
7431 2010-11-28 20:24:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7432 Let move-history window scroll to bottom after adding move
7434 By activating the scrollbar of the viewport through XtCallActionProc
7435 the move-history window is scrolled to the bottom.
7437 2010-11-27 14:38:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7438 Fix Shogi promotion popup
7440 The texts were adapted to shogi by printing new text items over the
7441 Queen and Knight buttons, but these did not alwys cover it. Now the text
7442 on the buttons is changed as it should be. Also the window title is
7445 2010-11-26 11:22:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7446 Apply gettext macros to menu texts
7448 Now texts and references are separated, the texts in the tables can be
7449 decorated with the N_() macro, so that the _() macro no longer has to be
7450 applied when they are used. (This makes the texts appear in the .po
7453 2010-11-26 11:12:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7454 Adapt some XBoard menu texts
7456 The "Show" prefix is removed from the "View" menu items, as this seems
7457 implied. An ellipsis is added to the Engine #N Settings items, which
7458 could not be there before, because periods in a menu name would break
7459 any reference to it. For some other names the ellipsis was deleted.
7460 (These were not refered to, but who knows what we will do in the future.)
7462 2010-11-26 11:03:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7463 Separate menu text from menu name in XBoard
7465 The text string in the menu-definition tables was used both for the menu
7466 text, as well as for referencing the items from the code (for enabing or
7467 checkmarking). Now these can be defined separately, so that altering the
7468 menu texts is possible without breaing any references to the item.
7469 (Moving them to another menu would still break XBoard, though!)
7470 Currently the texts and names are still the same.
7472 2010-11-26 10:48:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7473 Bugfix XBoard menu translation
7475 The gettext macro N_() was applied to the menu definition tables, but
7476 this would break any translation, as these items are both used as menu
7477 texts as well as reference for enabling and checkmarking. The routines
7478 that create the menus already apply _() dynamically to these items when
7479 they are used as menu texts.
7481 2010-11-26 10:10:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7482 Restrict drops in variant seirawan to back rank
7484 Drops aren't really llowed at all in Seirawan Ches, but there exists an
7485 engine that supports a variant where drops on the back-rank are allowed.
7487 2010-11-25 19:44:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7488 Let Analyze File annotate the loaded game
7490 By not suppressing the auto-play loop in AnalyzeFle mode, we step
7491 through the game while the engine is analyzing, and store the PV info
7492 that the engine produces, as well as the full PV (as variation comment)
7495 2010-11-25 19:41:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7496 Revive Analyze File menu item in WB
7498 We will keep this menu after all, becase it can be given a new meaning.
7500 2010-11-25 19:31:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7501 Fix spurious scores in comments
7503 The comment popup is also used to display engine PV info, but when the
7504 contents of the window is written back when we select a variation,
7505 it was treated as a real comment. This is fixed now by checing in
7506 ReplaceComment() if the comment starts with the PV info, and if so,
7507 ignore the latter. This solves the problem, but I guess the real bug is
7508 that selecting a variation tries to write the comment even if it did not
7511 2010-11-25 19:26:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7512 Display error for wrong use of Machine Match
7515 2010-11-24 13:30:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7516 Reorganize XBoard menus
7519 2010-11-24 11:02:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7520 Reorganize WinBoard menus
7522 New main menus Edit, View and Engine are added; the step menu
7523 disappears. The menu items are redistributed over the new menus.
7524 Sometimes duplicates are created. No adaptation of short-cut characters
7525 as made yet (as this affects translation).
7527 2010-11-20 20:20:27 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7528 removed trailing whitespaces from NEWS
7531 2010-11-20 20:19:30 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7532 merged readme_HGM.txt into the NEWS file
7534 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.
7536 2010-11-20 18:24:19 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7537 typo in date of developer release
7539 but will leave the tagged version as it is, since it's still a unique version number
7541 2010-11-20 18:11:01 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7542 new developer release
7545 2010-11-20 18:12:41 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7546 added latest version of parser.c
7549 2010-11-20 18:05:56 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7550 updated Changelog, etc for developer release
7553 2010-11-20 16:22:00 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7554 Revert "adding gnu-readline support"
7556 This reverts commit c95ef32a700132a134f335f857ca6f1b6f3c169f.
7561 better to use the (relatively) new ICS input box then add readline support.
7563 2010-11-20 16:19:32 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7564 Revert "bugfix: fixed readline support with icslogon option"
7566 This reverts commit b9cdd7422ad1037d7376bce4f8f2db2669396e83.
7571 better to use the (relatively) new ICS input box then add readline support.
7573 2010-11-19 23:10:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7574 Make Hoplite moves irreversible in Spartan Chess
7576 Consider Lance moves in variant Fairy (where the Lance represents the
7577 Spartan Hoplite Pawn) as Pawn moves, so they reset the 50-move counter.
7579 2010-11-19 21:09:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7580 Give Lance moves of Amazon in variant super
7582 Now that Lance is no longer a wild-card piece the moves of Amazon must
7583 be programmed explicitly, to keep the possibbilty to play Superchess
7584 with legality testing on.
7586 2010-11-19 18:32:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7587 Change representation of Bede in variant fairy initial position
7589 This used to be Lance, but the promoted Bishop (Dragon Horse)
7590 is more applicable. Especially now that Lance is supposed to move like a
7593 2010-11-19 18:28:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7594 Make yyskipmoves also suppress examining of drop moves
7596 Not sure if this does any good, but it seemed illogical that this would
7597 happen in all other moves, but not drops.
7599 2010-11-19 18:23:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7600 Define moves for Dragon Horse outside Shogi
7602 Let it move like Bishop + Wazir + Dababba.
7604 2010-11-17 13:40:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7605 Fix safety crash when appending comments
7607 The length limit imposed on safeStrCpy was one too short when copying
7608 an existing comment to the space allocated for the longer (concatenated)
7609 one. It allowed no space for the terminating '\0'.
7611 2010-11-17 13:38:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7614 The test for when to terminate a non-fiting string was one off, and the
7615 debug message was written stdoutin stead of debugFP.
7617 2010-11-16 12:40:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7618 Fix default holdings size for variant seirawan
7620 The holdings for 7 pieces werealways considered an overrule, so that the
7621 variant name was prefixed with "8x8+7_".
7623 2010-11-15 11:36:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7626 When confronted with a path name starting with ~ and not containing a /
7627 XBoard would segfault.
7629 2010-11-14 21:45:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7630 Fix one-click moving on up-click
7632 (First) up-clicks were not always ignored: in Edit-Game mode with
7633 one-click moving enabled this could lead to a capture being made on
7634 the down-click, and the recapture on the correspoding up-click.
7635 This has now been corrected, and only the down-click of a first click
7636 can lead to selecting a piece or a one-click move.
7638 2010-11-15 18:15:40 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7639 fixed buffer size for snprintf
7642 2010-11-13 23:04:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7643 Accept Seirawan-style gating suffixes
7645 The parser rules were extended to accept / as an equivalent of = in
7646 promotion-suffix notation (e.g. Nf3/H in stead of Nf3=H).
7648 2010-11-13 22:55:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7649 Use Falcon and Alfil as built-ins for Seirawan chess
7651 Where available (size 49 and 72) we use Falcon for Archbishop and Alfil
7652 for Chancelor, to better conform to the Seirawan names Hawk and Elephant.
7654 2010-11-13 20:02:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7655 Implement entering gating moves with mouse
7657 A move with a back-rank piece that starts when a piece in the holdings
7658 is selected will be interpreted as a gating move in variant seirawan.
7659 The front-end uses a 'gatingPiece' selected this way todisplay it on the
7660 from square during animate dragging.
7662 2010-11-13 18:56:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7663 Implement variant seirawan
7665 Set upthe position, including Hawk and Elephant in holdings, in
7666 InitPostion(). Suppress putting captured pieces in holding. Let
7667 promoChar indicate gating in ApplyMove(). Remove gated pieces from
7668 the holdings there. Let GenLegal() generate RxK-type castlings to act as
7669 base for gating on Rook square. Gatings are tested for legality
7670 based on the holdings content and whether they occur on the back
7671 rank. Disambiguate() also tests this. Make sure the gated pieces are
7672 printed as move suffixes in CoordsToAlgebraic().
7674 2010-11-13 18:42:27 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7675 Add -variant seirawan to menu
7678 2010-11-13 22:52:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7679 Fix acceptance of null-move with legality testing off
7681 A second click on the same piece was interpreted as a to-square rather
7682 than deselection of the piece.
7684 2010-11-13 22:49:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7687 Disambiguate was imagining captures, so an only capture by double
7688 clicking your own piece did not always work.
7690 2010-11-13 20:08:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7691 Fix mouse-driver buglet
7693 The highlights were not cleared on moves that went vertically off board.
7695 2010-11-12 17:17:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7696 List some undocumented commands as compliant
7698 The engine->GUI commands setboard and setup are now always printed in
7699 the debug file as well.
7701 2010-11-12 17:05:22 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7702 List Hint with compliant commands
7704 This command was omitted, so that in some -engineDebugOutput modes it
7705 would not appear in the debug file.
7707 2010-11-12 17:02:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7708 Restrict use of escape expansion
7710 Only expand escape sequences like \n and \t in telluser(error) comamnds
7711 that ask for it by preficing the messages by double backslash. Otherwise
7712 backward copatiblity is too severely broken for messages that display
7713 DOS-style filenames.
7715 2010-11-12 13:56:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7716 Make safeStrCpy safe
7718 SafeStrCpy was causing a lot of out-of-bound write accesses, as it was
7719 always writing the character at the length limit of the destination.
7720 Now no memory is accessed that is is not needed to hold the copy.
7722 2010-11-07 21:37:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7723 Allow clicked name internal to the icsMenu command string
7725 A command in the /icsMenu that was specified to contain the selected
7726 text or clicked word always appended this word at the end. Now the user
7727 can also configure it to appear in the middle, by putting a %s in the
7728 command string where he wants it to appear.
7730 2010-11-07 21:33:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7731 Let Engine #2 Settings start second engine
7733 If the second engine is not yet running, it would be impossible to use
7734 the settings dialog for it, as the features have not been received and
7735 the dialog will be empty. So the user could not adjust the engine
7736 parameters before starting a match. Using this menu now automatically
7737 starts the engine, and delays the appearence of the popup untill the
7738 features are received, using a similar mechanism as in
7739 TwoMachinesEventIfReady().
7741 2010-11-01 19:40:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7742 Newly lexed parser.c
7745 2010-11-06 19:55:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7746 Fix bug in parsing illegal Pawn captures
7748 When a pawn move of type exf5 was illegal, the parser made an attempt to
7749 interpret it as e.p. capture of f5. This, however, messed up the move,
7750 so that it was now permanently mistaken for e5xf6. Even in cases with
7751 legality testing off, where you would want the original move to be
7752 accepted despite the fact that it was illegal.
7754 2010-11-06 19:49:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7755 Keep last PV while clearing engine-output display
7757 When ponder is on, the display is cleared immediately when the last line
7758 of thinking output appears by the appearing ponder output. So you would
7759 never get the chance to see it. This line is now re-written after
7760 clearing, so it appears at the bottom of the output for the next search.
7762 2010-11-06 19:45:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7763 Give Lance moves of Berolina Pawn
7765 In stead of using it as a wildcard piece, the Lance gets the moves of
7766 the Berolina Pawn (straight capture, diagonal move). The initial double
7767 osh can be a ump, though. (So it is really a Hoplite Pawn from Spartan
7770 2010-11-06 19:42:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7771 Use SAN even on illegal moves
7773 If there is only one piece of type T, moves like Ta1 or Txa1 are never
7774 ambiguous, so adding the from square is just cumbersome.
7776 2010-11-06 19:34:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7777 Use normal SAN for wildcard pieces
7779 SAN often can also be used with pieces we don't know the moves of, e.g.
7780 if there is only one of that type. We just always get rank or file
7781 disambiguators if there are more (even when they might be unnecessary).
7783 2010-11-06 14:52:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7786 Unused variables were removed from parser.l
7788 2010-11-06 14:43:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7789 Allow arbitrary nesting of sub-variations in PGN input
7791 The parsing of subvariations is moved out of the state-machine parsing,
7792 to allow arbitrary nesting. In stead of the entire sub-variation being
7793 parsed by lex as Comment, it now returns Open and Close for the
7794 corresponding parentheses, which are then handled in a wrapper routine
7795 for yylex(): Myylex(). Problem was that yy_text is supposed to return
7796 the entire parsed text of the returned symbol, which thus has to be
7797 collected. To make this possible, yylex has to return everything that it
7798 parses, (even white space!), and a symbol "Nothing" was added to return
7799 in parsing rules that before just ate away irrelevant text without
7802 2010-11-06 21:48:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7803 Implement setup (engine-GUI) command
7805 This allows the frst engine (when legality testing is off) to overrule
7806 the default opening position, in reply to the variant command. Syntax is
7807 "setup (PIECE_TO_CHAR_TABLE) FEN_STRING"
7808 where the FEN string is interpreted in the context of the given
7809 pieceToCharTable (which is optional, and only delimeted by parethesis if
7811 Sendng the position to the second engine is delayed until the first
7812 engine has responded to the ping after the new-game sequence, to make
7813 sure it gets the chance to alter the position before it is sent to the
7814 second engine. This feature is useful for playing variants that WinBoard
7815 does not even know the opening positon for, and can be used even if they
7816 are shuffle variants.
7818 2010-11-06 14:19:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7819 Restrict use of a2a3 kludge
7821 The kudge to send "a2a3" in stead of "black" to get black to move is
7822 fatally flawed in varants that have no Pawn on a2. So in that case we
7823 revert to use of the deprecated "black" command.
7825 2010-11-02 13:06:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7826 Remember values set by -firstOptions, -secondOptions
7828 When an engine announces its option features, and the option name
7829 matches that of a setting given in -first/secondOptions, the engine is
7830 sent hte specified value, but this value was not remembered as current
7831 value (but the latter was left at the engine-announced default),
7832 leading to inconsistent behavior in the Engine #N Settings dialog.
7834 2010-11-01 19:26:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7835 Make test for valid promotion piece color-dependent
7837 This is needed to make it work in variants where white and black have
7838 different armies; quite likely white will promote to pieces that do not
7839 exist in the black army, so we really have to make sure we test if the
7840 white (upper-case) piece exists in this case.
7842 2010-11-01 19:23:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7843 Remove validity test on promochar from parser
7845 The backend routines Disambiguate() and LegalityTest() will catch
7846 invalid promotions, so no need to do it here.
7848 2010-10-31 23:37:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7849 Add the actual size-33 Shogi bitmaps
7851 These were forgotten in the original commit that fixed the .rc file.
7853 2010-10-31 13:20:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7854 Delete some stale promotion code
7856 The correction of the promotion piece to Ferz in Shatran-like variants
7857 in ApplyMove() was no longer needed, as the new promotion code already
7858 does this in the move parser.
7860 2010-10-31 13:08:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7861 Augment moves of some fairy pieces
7863 To get better disambiguation in variants that have to be played with
7864 legality testing off, the Elephant is given also one-step moves (making
7865 it a so-called Modern Elephant) in -variant fairy and great. The Dragon
7866 King (Crowned Rook), which had no moves defined for it outside Shogi at
7867 all, has been given Rook moves plus an orthogonal 2-jump, so that it
7868 can get SAN moves when used as Dababba or Short Rook. (Illegal moves
7869 currently aways force long algebraic notation...)
7871 2010-11-08 22:57:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7872 Bugfix safeStrCpy patch, WinBoard
7874 The use of sizeof on pointers was detected through the same method as
7875 the previous patches, this time while compiling WinBoard. A typo in
7876 jaws.c was fixed as well.
7878 2010-11-08 23:03:13 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7879 Bugfix for safeStrCpy patch for XBoard
7881 By a trick (temporarily redefining safeStrCpy in common.h as
7882 ((char*) (a=1/(4-3rdArgument))) ) a compile-time warning (division by 0)
7883 could be generated for every occurrence where the size argument was equal
7884 to 4, i.e. where the 1st argument was likely a pointer rather than an
7885 array. These cases are now fixed. The file xoptions.c, which is the
7886 only ne that does not #include common.h had to be fixed by making
7887 the #define in the file itself.
7889 2010-10-31 13:16:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7890 Fix spurious promotions with legality testing off
7892 The recent promotion patch had broken playing without legality testing
7893 completely: without legality testing one always gets the piece that was
7894 asked for, but a NULLCHAR should not be taken as a request for a piece!
7895 But it was, and this resulted in any moved piece turning into a white
7896 Pawn! For true promotions the piece was always black, which was also not
7899 Also revert to the use of '+' as internal Shogi promoChar, because
7900 pre-processing turns out not to be possible when reading a game file.
7901 In stead parse any trailing '+' on moves as promoChar. Downside: '++'
7902 can no longer be recognized as checkmate symbol.
7904 2010-10-29 22:54:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7905 Make deferral default in Shogi promotions
7907 Because '+' is intercepted by the parser as check indicator, Shogi moves
7908 are pre-processed to change a trailing '+' into an internally used
7909 alternative '^'. The testing if a promotion character is OK is now done
7910 in LegalityTest() and Disambiguate(), which return ImpossibleMove when
7911 the character does not correspond to any piece, and IllegalMove when in
7912 Shogi anything other than '^' or '=' is used. (Except for the ICS
7913 notations.) On output, in CoordsToComputerAlgebraic() and
7914 CoordsToAlgebraic(), the '^' is translated back to '+'.
7916 2010-10-28 17:51:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7917 Animate piece explosions in drag-drop moves and in XB
7919 This required some code restructuring: the decision if an explosion is
7920 needed is now taken in a new routine Explode() in the backend. This then
7921 calls the front-end driver, and it returns the info if there was an
7922 explosion or not, so the caller (AnimateMove() or the mouse driver) can
7923 take action to repair the damage to the board caused by the blast wave.
7924 A front-end driver for XBoard is provided as well, so that both
7925 click-click (and replay, which is the same) and drag-drop atomic
7926 captures are animated in XB as well as WB.
7927 Explosions on rejected moves are suppressed.
7929 2010-10-28 13:53:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7930 Suppress promotion popup if piece will explode
7932 In atomic, a Pawn capture to last rank is not really a promotion.
7933 Fix choice to Queen.
7935 2010-10-28 18:42:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7936 Make Knight hop first straight, then diagonal
7938 It used to be the other way around, which looked pretty illogical in
7939 Xiangqi: to see Horses, which are blockable pieces there, move over an
7942 2010-10-27 20:04:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7943 Let -oneClickMove also work in EditGame mode
7945 There is really no reason why people that lke one-clcik moves enough to
7946 switch them on would not want to use them too when editing a game.
7947 This solves a nast inconsistency, as before it used to work in -ncp mode
7948 on the _first_ move, as the mode is then BeginningOfGame, and not yet
7949 EditGame, and we do want it to work for BeginningOfGame, as this is
7950 also the game mode when you start playing as white.
7952 2010-10-27 19:40:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7953 Make -flipBlack and -allWhite option volatile
7955 As these options are very Shogi specific, and the variant is volatile,
7956 it seems logical to make them also volatile. Not completely sure about
7957 -allWhite, though. It cold be useful if you want, for example, to play
7958 wth dark-brown pieces for black, as any color but black looks much
7959 better with outline pieces than with solid pieces.
7961 2010-10-27 19:33:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7962 Provide some sample board-texture pixmaps
7964 Wood and marble themes are provided as textures for light and dark
7965 squares, plus two complete Xiangqi boards (wood and evenly colored).
7966 These should probably not goint the distro tar ball.
7968 2010-10-27 19:25:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7969 The -overrideLineGap option is made to work in XBoard
7971 Although XBoard already allowed this in the -boardSize specification,
7972 it is still seful to globally disable grid lines, e.g. for an
7973 oriental Xiangqi board. And it converges XB and WB.
7975 2010-10-27 19:18:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7976 Implement board textures in XBoard
7978 The -darkBackTextureFile and -liteBackTextureFile options now wrk in
7979 XBoard too, for loading a pixmap that will be used to cut out the dark
7980 and light square backgrounds. The cutting algorithm is such that the
7981 pixmap image is completely restored if the size was that of the total
7982 board (e.g. a drawing of a Xiangqi board).
7984 2010-10-27 12:11:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7985 Complete WB (western) bitmaps for Shogi at size 33
7987 The Lance was not replacing Queen in some sizes where the bitmaps were
7988 already available, and new bitmaps for the promotion Golds were added.
7990 2010-10-22 20:30:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7991 Make starting new variation dependent on shift key
7993 The shift key is read during mouse events, and posted in a global
7994 variable, which can then be used by the back-end. The decision to start
7995 a new variation (pushing the game tail rather than clipping it off) when
7996 entring a move in Edit Game or Analyze mode is made dependent on this.
7997 The move-typein also records the shift-key state.
7999 2010-10-22 20:25:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8002 A %g format was used to print an int in sending the level command,
8003 because decimal points were dropped when merging patches. Also an unused
8004 variable was removed to suppress a warning.
8006 2010-10-18 19:50:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8007 Add set of shogi pixmaps for XBoard
8009 The -size 64 pieces from gShogi (and originally XShogi) are made
8010 suitable for loading by XBoard, through redefining the transparent
8011 background color as either light or dark square color. These bitmaps are
8012 not included in the XBoard build, and perhaps should not even be
8013 included in the source distribution, but made available in a separate
8016 2010-10-18 19:46:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8017 Implement -flipBlack in XBoard
8019 When -flipBlack is true, the white and back piece pixmaps are swapped in
8020 flipView. The idea is that the black pieces are upside-down versions of
8021 the white (Shogi) pieces, so that swapping white and black in effect
8022 turns all pieces upside down, which is what should happen in flipView.
8024 2010-10-11 21:06:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8025 Disable some very verbose debug printing
8027 The internationalization seems debugged enough to do without them.
8029 2010-10-11 20:52:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8030 Add option -variations to control variation-tree walking
8032 Just so that users can switch it off if the find it annoying.
8034 2010-10-11 21:01:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8035 Allow full promotion suffixes on SAN piece moves
8037 This facilitates the parsing of (non-standard) Shogi moves in ICS
8038 protocol. It can also be useful for Seirawan Chess, where a future
8039 implementation of it can use promotion suffixes to indicate gating.
8041 2010-10-11 14:07:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8042 Allow lower-case piece indicator in drop-move notation
8044 As it seems that XBoard also sends such moves in zippy play, it seems
8045 more fair to recognize them from the engine as well.
8047 2010-10-10 21:26:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8048 Fix bug in ICS variant switch for Shogi
8050 Because a test for 8x8 variants was done by <= VariantShogi,
8051 rather than <, spurious move-list fetching occurred in Shogi.
8053 2010-10-10 21:23:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8054 Fix WinBoard Lance bug
8056 The choice between Lance and Queen was made on appData.variant, in stead
8057 of gameInfo.variant. Because of this it was not always up-to-date in ICS
8060 2010-10-10 21:15:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8061 Adapt WinBoard to Shogi implementation on Variant ICS
8063 The Variant ICS does not use the '+P' notation for promoted pieces,
8064 neither in the board, nor in SAN, but simply indicates any Gold by 'G',
8065 and uses 'H' and 'D' for +B and +R. The Shogi promotion code in
8066 LegalityTest() and Disambiguate(), which are used in move Parsing, are
8067 adapted to handle this. Deferred promotions sent to the ICS now use an
8070 2010-10-10 21:07:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8071 Inherit promoted-info that ICS does not give from previous board
8073 The ICS does not tell us in Crazyhouse (or Shogi) if a piece is
8074 primordial or a promoted pawn (or a promoted other piece). We now derive
8075 this info from the previous board. The option -disguisePromotedPieces
8076 controls this feature.
8078 2010-10-10 21:03:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8079 Limit multi-session clock handling to non-ICS games
8081 In ICS games a time forfeit crashed XBoard, apparently because the
8082 fullTimeControl string is not properly set when we try to use it to see
8083 if a sudden-death session is indeed the last session.
8085 2010-10-08 11:47:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8086 Change evalgraph scale in drop games
8088 Score swings tend to be much larger in Crazyhouse and Shogi, so the
8089 vertical rangee in those games is doubled to (-14, 14).
8091 2010-10-13 23:05:05 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8092 bugfix: fixed readline support with icslogon option
8094 The icslogon option sends the login and password, so we don't need to handle
8095 special cases for the readline buffer.
8097 2010-10-07 20:35:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8098 fixed some typos that were introduced during the sprintf->snprintf changes
8101 2010-10-07 11:59:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8102 Fix uninitialized variable in book code
8104 The variable ' power' was used uninitialized in case -bookVariation was
8105 set to 0, which can be an error even if it was only multiplied by zero.
8107 2010-10-06 14:20:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8108 Fix menu translation bug
8110 The menuText array was declared too small, so that the last entry of the
8111 File menu got out of bounds and was overwritten by the first of the Mode
8114 2010-10-05 21:14:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8115 Allow -timeIncrement to be a float
8117 The increment can now be fractional seconds. The printing in
8118 ParseTimeControl() and SendTimeControl() is done with %g format, so that
8119 for integer increment there is backward compatibility with the old level
8122 2010-03-30 20:24:49 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8123 adding gnu-readline support
8125 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.
8127 2010-09-24 21:17:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8128 added warning if icsLogon file couldn't be opened
8131 2010-09-24 21:10:28 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8132 security fix: replaced some strcat with strncat
8134 there is still more to do
8136 2010-09-19 20:55:01 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8137 add option for silent builds
8139 this can be enabled for automake versions >1.11 by calling ./configure --enable-silent-rules.
8140 It should still work for older automake versions too
8142 2010-09-19 13:16:40 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8143 bugfix: missing array index
8146 2010-09-19 12:19:44 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8147 added new case for (Chessmove) 0 in common.h
8149 this cleans up a few more -Wall messages
8151 2010-09-17 21:47:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8152 cleaned up -Wall warnings (apart from settings some parentheses)
8154 removed unsused variables, etc mostly everything from -Wall -Wno-parenthesis
8156 2010-09-17 20:36:54 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8157 sizedefaults has 9 members, the last line of the array (NULL) only set 7.
8160 2010-09-12 20:04:03 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8161 security fix: replaced sprintf with snprintf
8163 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.
8165 2010-09-10 23:36:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8166 security fix: replaced strcpy with safeStrCpy from backend.c
8168 see comment in backend.c on how to use safeStrCpy. This was already added by AS, but only used in 3 places.
8170 2010-10-04 11:50:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8171 Enhance multi-session TC clock handling
8173 Some new TC types are introduced: Bronstein and free sessions. The
8174 former is implemented by letting an exclamation point '!' in front of an
8175 increment (in the -tc string) indicate that the increment is limited to
8176 the time actually used on the previous move. The latter is an interval
8177 of given duraton in which you can do any number of moves (even zero),
8178 before the next session starts. This is needed for implementing Shogi
8179 byoyomi-type TC, as a first session, followed by a session of fixed-time
8180 per move. The latter can now be specified with the -tc argument as a
8181 degenerate case of Bronstein, where the time on the clock is <= the
8182 increment (so that it is never possible to think longer than the
8183 increment). A TC of 5 min + 10 sec byoyomi can then be indicated as
8186 The sessions are now separated by ':' in stead of '+', and all times in
8187 the TC string are converted to seconds first (in ParseTimeControl), so
8188 the fullTCstring can now be directly used in a PGN tag.
8190 Note that this patch only addresses clock handling; the engine will not
8191 be informed yet if the TC type or parameters change at the start of new
8194 2010-10-04 09:32:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8195 Remove promotion-piece encoding from ChessMove type
8197 The shizophrenic way to indcate promotion pieces in the XBoard code
8198 (sometimes using a promoChar, at other times relying on moveType) was
8199 cured by combining all promotion move types (such as WhitePromotionRook)
8200 into a single one (WhitePromotion), and relying on promoChar to specify
8201 the piece. This solves the problem of promoting to new piece types in
8202 variants, which formerly also required addition of new move types.
8204 In Shogi the '+' character is now consistently used to indicate
8205 promotions (and recognized in ApplyMove), rather than 'q' or
8206 PieeToChar(BlackQueen), as the latter did not work in minivariants where
8207 the Queen (representng the Lance) did not partcipate.
8209 2010-10-03 20:50:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8210 Pass promoChar to SendMoveToICS
8212 SendMoveToICS was the only place where the promotion piece was derived
8213 from moveType, rather than an explicity passed promoChar.
8215 2010-10-04 09:41:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8216 Suppress spurious use of SAN castling in mini variants
8218 King moves from a central file to the king-side-castled position (1
8219 square away from the right corner) were intercepted and printed as O-O
8220 in CoordsToAlgebraic. But on a 5x5 board (mini-Shogi!) this caught the
8221 normal King move Kc1-d1 as well. The castling notation is now reserved
8222 for King moves larger than one step.
8224 2010-10-04 08:21:19 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8225 Make Shogi promotion zone board-size dependent
8227 In stead of using a fixed size of 3 ranks, we use BOARD_HEIGHT/3, which
8228 would translate to 1 rank for mini-Shogi (5x5) and 2 ranks for Judgkin's
8229 Shogi (6x6), which are indeed what these variants need.
8231 2010-10-03 19:58:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8232 Make board-size overrule options volatile
8234 The options -boardWidth, -boardHeight and -holdingSize were legacies
8235 from the day choosing a variant would not automatically set a board
8236 size. As a result they are seldomly used anymore. The first real
8237 application is mini-Shogi (on 5x5 board), and it turned out very
8238 annoying if the 5x5 settings persisted to the next session, where you
8239 almost certainly want to play another variant.
8241 2010-10-04 09:16:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8242 Strip DOS line endings from parser.l
8245 2010-09-16 18:58:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8246 Extend mate test to drop games
8248 MateTest() in case of no legal moves now also looks if there are legal
8249 drops that can resolve the check. This provides reliable mate testing in
8250 Crazyhouse and Shogi, so these are now made subject to adjudications too.
8252 2010-09-16 18:48:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8253 Extend legality testing to drop moves
8255 LegalityTest() can nowbe called with (internal-format) drop moves, and
8256 delegates their testing to a new routine LegalDrop(). This routine
8257 performs the 'no-pawn-on-back-rank' test that used to be in
8258 UserMoveTest (which now calls LegalityTest also for drop moves).
8259 The more complex Shogi case is also handled (except for Pawn mate
8260 drops) in LegalDrop().
8262 2010-09-16 18:25:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8263 Revert splitting of UserMoveEvent
8265 This splitting into UserMoveTest and FinishMove was no longer needed,
8266 now that the new mouse driver no longer calls UserMoveTest to figure out
8267 if a move is a promotion, and XBoard and WinBoard are unified in this
8268 respect. It was counter-productive, because UserMoveTest was not able to
8269 change the fromX, fromY (call-by-value) parameters for passing them to
8270 FinishMove, so it had to defer the conversion of drop moves to internal
8271 format to the latter, while it did not belong there. (Because
8272 DropMenuEvent already delivers the moves in internal format.) This
8273 whole kludgy construction was therefore abandoned, by going back
8274 to the original 4.2.7 calling scheme, where UserMoveEvent completely
8275 pre-processes the move, and when it is valid, calls FinishMove directly.
8277 2010-09-16 18:02:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8278 Fix silent bug in drop moves
8280 In ApplyMove() the piece on the from square was accessed and used before
8281 we tested for drop moves. As drop moves have off-board from-squares this
8282 led to out-of-bound array access, which apparently was usually harmless.
8284 2010-09-16 17:43:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8285 Allow parsing of upper-case machine moves
8287 Dubious patch, as it caters to non-compliancy. Some variant engines are
8288 very non-compliant, though.
8290 2010-09-16 17:38:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8291 Prevent transmission of spurious promo char to other engine
8293 The parser now strps off spurious promotion characters.
8294 New move types "White/BlackNonPromotion" had to be introduced for this,
8295 to indicate NormalMoves that could have been a promotion, to make sure
8296 the '=' suffix of Shogi deferred promotions survives.
8298 2010-09-16 20:44:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8299 fixed internationalization for winboard
8301 in the original commit some files were forgotten. This should fix it.
8303 2010-08-29 21:07:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8304 Fix JAWS bug saying side to move in ICS play
8306 This was done the wrong way around.
8308 2010-08-27 14:08:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8309 Make WB run-time language switch possible from menu
8311 This is a rather involved patch that might not be worth it. It is
8312 difficult, because translation of things that live forever is not easy
8313 to invert (menus, the auxiliary windows). We hae to remember all
8314 original, English texts there to be able to put them back,or
8315 re-translate. Still does not fully work, although the menus and
8316 temporary dialogs now are all OK.
8318 2010-08-27 14:35:46 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8319 Update WB translation template
8321 The language.txt file now also contains all translatable strings from
8322 the C source files, rather than jsut the resource.
8324 2010-08-27 14:14:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8327 Add descriptions for machine-match menu support and enhanced book
8328 control, nick-name options and language.
8330 2010-08-27 13:59:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8331 Add some forgotten translation hooks
8333 The general-options, file-browse dialogs and the about box did not call
8334 Translate() yet. Also translate contents of combo boxes. Some small bug
8337 2010-08-27 13:28:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8338 Do not translate game-end messages in PGN
8340 The messages themselves are not subjected to _(), but in stead their
8341 displaying in DisplayMove is subjected to T_().
8343 2010-08-23 13:23:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8344 Internationalization for WinBoard
8346 A function Translate() was added, which uses a list of item dialogs,
8347 reads their value, and replaces it by a translation (if available). It
8348 also reads the window title and sets a translation. Calls to this
8349 routine are added in the initialization code of every dialog callback.
8350 In addition all translatable strings in the WnBoard front end are marked
8351 by the gettext macro _(). Because WB is not gettexted yet, a hard
8352 re-definition of this macro is added in each file using it, to the
8353 string-translation routine T_() supplied in winboard.c.
8354 Code to read the translation file, and translate the menu texts is added
8355 in winboard.c. In backend.c the meaning of the gettet macros is
8356 redefined for the WIN32 case.
8358 2010-08-23 13:07:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8359 Make the ID of all WB dialog items unique
8361 Mnany static dialog texts did share the ID -1 (IDC_STATIC). But to
8362 replace tet at run-time for translation purposes, they need to be
8363 addressed individually. So they were given new IDs, with symbols defined
8366 2010-08-23 12:48:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8367 Mark XBoard result messages for internationalization
8369 The GNU gettext macro _() is used with the game-end messages. This might
8370 be controversial, as they will appear in the PGN as well. But only as a
8371 comment. We can always decide not to supply a translation.
8373 2010-08-23 12:43:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8374 Do not exit after match when match started from menu
8376 The codelooks weird, but matchMode == 2 in this case. We then use
8377 DisplayNote() to report the match result.
8379 2010-08-23 12:39:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8380 Trivial-draws recognition improved in Xiangqi
8382 Now based on a routine "SufficientDefence". If both have it, it is draw.
8384 2010-08-20 17:46:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8387 The relocation of parser.c and the addition of history.c was not yet
8388 incorporated in the devcpp proect files.
8390 2010-08-19 13:45:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8391 Fix some MSVC compile errors
8393 Some statements has moved up stream of declaratons, which is an error
8394 that gcc is forgiving about, but where MSVC is strict.
8396 2010-08-14 14:01:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8397 Improved patch for expansion of WB settings-file name
8399 The expansion of environment variables now allows multiple environment
8400 variables in the path name. Tested on %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\winboard.ini
8401 and %APPDATA%\winboard.ini.
8403 2010-08-07 16:53:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8404 Add -colorNickNames option
8406 This option allows non-standard designation of side to move in FENs.
8407 (Useful for Xiangqi, where white is indicated often as r(ed), and Shogi,
8408 where white is s(ente) or b(lack), and black is g(ote) or w(hite).)
8409 Can also be used for FENs in a local language. A match of theinput
8410 character with the nick name translates it to the standard; this means
8411 the standard will continue to be recognized, unless it was defined as a
8414 2010-08-07 16:39:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8415 Tricked by the grossnes
8417 Some WB menu items were referenced by a hard number. As items had been
8418 added over the years, the wrong menu items were grayed. In particular
8419 the Options -> Adjudication menu was grayed out, in -ncp mode, where
8420 this was intended for the Sounds dialog. This accidentally proved
8421 useful, until we started to apply adjudictions also to the Human moves.
8422 Then it was suddenly undesirable, and a small mystery why it happened at
8423 all, when I tried to change it. The numbers are now corrected to the new
8424 locatons of the items in the menus.
8426 2010-08-07 16:35:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8427 Allow match to be started from WB menu
8429 A menu item Machine Match was added in the Mode menu to switch to
8430 matchMode. A persistent option /defaultMatchGames determines the number
8431 of games. A control was added to the Options -> Common Engine dialog to
8434 2010-08-07 16:26:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8435 Add some book-control options
8437 Options /bookDepth and /bookVariation have been added to control the use
8438 of the GUI book. In WinBoard the Optons -> Common Engine dialog now
8439 contains fields to set them.
8441 2010-08-07 00:15:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8442 new developer release
8445 2010-08-06 11:18:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8446 Repair exit-popup deadlock patch
8448 Relocating the exit popup call had made it lose access to the message it
8449 should print, because it was declared only in an inner code block, by
8450 the same name: buf[]. Deleting the inner declaration fixes it.
8452 2010-08-04 11:00:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8453 Fix erors when compiling with --disable-zippy
8455 The file args.h contained a codeblock in #ifdef ZIPPY, in stead of
8458 2010-08-01 13:27:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8459 Fix zippy handling of draw offers from ICS
8461 The patch by DM to fix the problem introduced by the coloration of
8462 zippy-matched commands (namely that the coloration code beat the zippy
8463 draw recognition to it, and ate the draw offer away) was only targeting
8464 ICC. The new fix should work on any ICS (by using the same pattern in
8465 zippy as in the colorization code).
8467 2010-08-01 13:15:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8468 Fix regression in colorization of zippy-matched commands
8470 The patch by Daniel Mehrman from 4.2.pre8 was not properly merged, so
8471 that in XBoard no coloration would take place of ICS commands that were
8472 matched by zippy. (It was using &i as input pointer, rather than &backup.
8473 The XBoard-specific code now has been deleted completely, to remove a
8474 seemingly needless dependence on _WIN32_ of the back-end. Both WB and XB
8475 now use the XBoard method, to only match zippy commands when logged in.
8477 2010-07-31 22:48:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8478 Suggest default file name in browser dialog
8480 The argument 'def' to FileNamePopUp() was not passed through to the new
8481 file-browser routine, which got NULL in stead, and thus started with an
8484 2010-07-30 23:28:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8485 Define /firstUCI and /secondUCI as synonyms for /fUCI, /sUCI
8487 Because the %s expansion of WB options in the /fcp and /scp lines only
8488 works for options that contain 'first' or 'second', and /fUCI thus did
8489 not work, PSWBTM had to rely on the cumbersome /firstIsUCI=true to
8490 install UCI engines. (The latter option should be deprecated really;
8491 the UCI-ness of the engines is a volatile option, so it makes no sense
8492 to supply a way to set them both to false or true. One only needs to be
8493 able to set it to the non-default state.)
8495 2010-07-30 23:21:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8496 Add string option /pieceNickNames
8498 This (volatile) option allows definition of alternate letters for the
8499 pieces, which will be recognized next to the standard symbols as given
8500 in the /pieceToCharTable on input. (Output always uses the standard.)
8501 This can be useful for reading PGN from another language, or
8502 non-compliant FENs (e.g. using B and N for E and H in Xiangqi).
8503 The format of the argument is the same as for /pieceToCharTable.
8504 Because the nickNames are consulted before the standard table, it is
8505 possible to redefine a standard name as a nick for another piece.
8507 2010-07-30 23:10:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8508 Fix deadlock in match-result display
8510 At the end of a match, GameEnds() was recursively calling itself,
8511 through DisplayFatalError() and ExitEvent(), and the latter was then
8512 delaying until the calling GameEnds() terminated. (Which it would of
8513 course never do before ExitEvent returned; fortunately there was a tim
8514 limit to this delay, but in XBoard it was 10 sec in stead of 10 msec.)
8515 Now the calling of DisplayFatalError() (to show the result popup) is
8516 delayed until after GameEnds completes (and resets the anti-recursion
8517 flag 'endingGame'), so that it is simply executed a second time, unaware
8518 of the earlier call. But this second time it does not do anything,
8519 because the gameMode ws set to EndOfGame the first time, and the writing
8520 of the PGN is blocked by the checksum being still the same.
8522 2010-07-12 11:10:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8523 Fix WinBoard game-list title
8525 Number of displayed games and WDL stats were always appended to the
8526 existing title, leading to an ever-growing title in the game-list
8527 window. Now the old actual title is ignored, and the starts is appended
8528 to the original title "Game List". (In the future we could use the
8531 In addition, the title was not updated when re-opening the game-list
8532 window, while the stats could change if filtering was active when the
8533 window was closed. (In that case the filter is cleared on re-opening, so
8534 the number of displayed games changes.) Now a title-update (after
8535 recalculating the stats) is done every time the game-list window is
8538 2010-07-11 11:06:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8539 Refactoring of material-draws adjudication code
8541 Insufficient mating material is now determined per side individually, by
8542 testing for MatingPotential of each side. If both lack mating potential
8543 the game is adjudicated as draw (if the -materialDraws option is set).
8545 This way MatingPotential() can later also be used to correct losses by
8546 forfeit to draws (which currently is only done when the opponent has a
8549 The accuracy of this type of adjudication in Xiangqi has been highly
8552 2010-07-11 10:54:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8553 Fix bug in sending cores command to engine
8555 The cores command was alwas sent to the engine(s) when the user changed
8556 it through the menu, even when the engine had sent feature smp=0 (which
8557 is default anyway). NewSettingEvent() was patched to send the new
8558 setting conditionally, based on the engine properties as recorded in
8559 ChessProgramStates first, second; In this particular case it now
8560 consults cps->maxCores. (Note the code for testing the second engine
8561 contains some dirty pointer arithmetic.)
8563 2010-07-11 10:42:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8564 Fix oneClickMove bug
8566 When checking for unique captures, no attention was payed to the option
8567 setting, so the capture was also made when the option was off.
8569 2010-07-11 10:39:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8570 Remove duplicate testing for cores feature
8572 The testing for this BooleanFeature occurred twice.
8574 2010-07-11 10:35:13 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8575 Remove misspelled prototype
8577 NewSettingEvent occurred, next to the correct one, in misspelled form.
8579 2010-07-05 10:00:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8580 Fix parsing of SAN shogi promotions
8582 A missing promotion character defaults to promotion in the move type,
8583 but the promotion character was not set when this happened in variant
8584 shogi. And it is especially important there, as the promotion character
8585 '+' will always be missing, as the parser will take it to be a 'check'
8586 symbol, and strip it from the move.
8588 2010-07-05 09:55:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8589 Fix variant switch on PGN loading
8591 When the PGN specified an essentially different variant, the
8592 piece bitmaps were not properly adapted, because the switch was done by
8593 calling InitPosition(), rather than Reset(). (The latter would destroy
8594 the PGN tags info.) We now added an explicit call to ResetFrontEnd(),
8595 (which is normally done from Reset()).
8597 2010-07-05 09:51:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8598 Adjudicate Xiangqi material draws with Advisor-less Cannons
8600 Used the Queen counter for counting Cannons. Note that material draws
8601 with stale Pawns (i.e. on the back rank) are not yet adjudicated.
8603 2010-07-05 09:34:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8604 Remove font settings from master settings file
8606 xboard.conf should not contain general font settings (not specific to
8607 one board size) with specified point size. In fact it should not even
8608 specify sizable fonts, as the new system would make specification of a
8609 general font overrule the size-specific settings in the .xboardrc file,
8610 so the persistence of fonts would be completely broken.
8612 2010-06-30 10:52:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8613 Cut board squares out of texture bitmap more cleverly
8615 When the bitmap is larger than the entire board, the squares are now cut
8616 out of the center of the virtual squares from subdividing the bitmap, so
8617 that they stay centered on the grid of a Xiangqi board bitmap. If the
8618 board size exceeds that of the bitmap, the old algorithm is still used,
8619 as the centering would make the edge squares exceed the bitmap, and
8620 cause a black rim around the board.
8622 2010-06-30 10:49:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8623 Allow -flipBlack to work with font-based piece rendering
8625 In addition the font-based pieces will also be flipped vertically in
8626 flipView for variant shogi when -flipBlack is off.
8628 2010-06-30 10:46:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8629 Allow font-based piece rendering in board sizes below petite
8631 At least for variants that use unorthodox pieces, so that switching back
8632 to using bitmaps is not really an option anyway.
8634 2010-06-30 10:41:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8635 Ignore checks in 50-move count for Xiangqi
8637 Both checks and evasions are discounted; this is only done after the
8638 naive counting exceeds the maximum, so during most of the game it causes
8641 2010-06-05 14:38:47 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8642 removed some garbage from configure.ac that got added a while ago
8645 2010-05-25 21:20:27 -0400 Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>:
8646 Remove unnecessary double equals from configure.ac.
8649 2010-05-28 11:07:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8650 Fix e.p. bug in xiangqi with -serverMoves option
8652 Sideway Pawn moves were written as e.p. captures in the file with moves,
8653 which led to disappearence of pieces in the viewer.
8655 2010-05-28 11:05:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8656 Repair score printing with -serverMoves option
8658 A previous patch had moved MakeMove to before the update of pvInfoList,
8659 so that the score/depth info would not appear in the file with moves.
8661 2010-05-28 11:02:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8662 Repair animate dragging
8664 The previous patch had left a stray semicolon in the mouse handler.
8666 2010-05-10 10:32:19 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8667 Fix game end during dragging
8669 The stale-first-click fix interfered with proper handling of a piece
8670 being dragged when a game suddenly ended (because of opponent resign,
8671 or caling the flag), because up-clicks when the from-square was reset
8672 were completely ignored. Now such an 'unmatched' upclick calls
8673 DragPieceEnd() and redraws the board.
8675 2010-05-10 10:09:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8676 Pop down old tags on loadng new game in WinBoard
8678 ResetFrontEnd(), called from Reset(), did not do this in WinBoard
8679 (unlike XBoard), so that the tags from the previous game were left on
8680 display when -autoDisplayTags was off.
8682 2010-05-09 22:15:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8683 Reverse mousewheel action
8685 Apparently WinBoard was stepping in the opposite direction through the
8686 game in reaction to the mousewheel as every other GUI in existence.
8688 2010-05-09 22:07:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8689 Fix bug in sending "usermove" when forcing book moves
8691 The keyword "usermove" was copied to the buffer, but not sent before it
8692 was overwritten by the actual book move.
8694 2010-05-06 17:23:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8695 Fix engine stall on perpetual-check evasion
8697 The adjudication code had already put the engine in force mode after
8698 postponing the actual adjudication to the next move. Now first determine
8699 if we want to adjudicate now, and with which result, before stopping the
8700 engine and ending the game.
8702 2010-05-06 16:37:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8703 Let move parser return ImpossibleMove for off-board moves
8705 It used to return 0, which interfered with buiding a game list. This
8706 broke reading of multi-game PGN files containing games in a variant with
8707 a board size larger than that of the currenty active variant.
8709 2010-04-06 15:05:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8710 Alter XBoard key bindings to mimic WinBoard
8712 A lot of new bindings were added, and four menuProcs had to be registered
8713 to be able to add bindings to them. The use of the control key as
8714 temporary take-back for the last move conflicted with the use of Ctrl
8715 keystrokes, and this function was migrated to '.'. The iconify function
8716 had no shortcut in WinBoard, but to get rid of letter bindings it was
8719 2010-04-05 20:45:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8723 2010-04-03 14:00:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8724 Fix typos in html help file
8727 2010-04-01 15:22:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8728 Fix JAWS piece drop cursor, and streamline some sentences
8730 The cursor square was reset to a1 after every use of the piece menu,
8731 which was very inconvenient. Some of the spoken sentences have been
8732 improved; the square is read before the piece now, when using the arrow
8735 2010-03-31 22:31:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8736 Allow escape sequences in telluser(error) messages
8738 The routine EscapeExpand was moved to backend.c, and applied to the
8739 message received from the engine.
8741 2010-03-31 21:29:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8742 Allow lower-case promochar in moves of type h8=Q
8744 Updated the parser rules. Other move formats already allowed this.
8746 2010-03-31 21:36:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8747 Fix Alt+M JAWS command in Two-Machines mode
8749 The command refused to read the ast move because it contained thinking
8750 output of the other engine. Let it pay attention to evenIfDuplicate.
8752 2010-03-29 09:57:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8753 Fix rep-draw recognition
8755 The refactoring had broken the rep-draw recognition, by adding and extra
8756 condition in a conditional with side effects. The testing of this extra
8757 condition is now moved to after the side effect.
8759 2010-03-28 12:32:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8760 Allow any %ENVIRONMENTVAR% in WB settings file name rather than ~
8762 Only a single variable at the beginning of the file name is recognized,
8763 and the matching is not fool proof (it matches across backslashes).
8765 2010-03-28 11:24:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8766 Fix info lines being used as normal thinking output
8768 The new standard of using thinking output with time = nodes = score = 0
8769 as info messages for printing in the Engine-Output window was not
8770 understood everywhere, and led to such info lines being used for
8771 autoKibitzing and PGN annotation. The programStats are now only updated
8772 from thinking output received from an engine when it is not an info line.
8774 2010-03-27 11:54:41 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8775 new developer release
8778 2010-03-26 21:16:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8779 Suppress background observe for boards with own game number
8781 This is really a work-around for an ICS bug. The Variant-ICS sent the
8782 initial board of a game in a move list with relation = 0, which means
8783 'observed'. So XBoard was thinking it was observing its own game, and
8784 switched to dual board. It seems harmless to suppress such a switch for
8785 all boards of your own game, however, which is now done.
8787 2010-03-26 21:12:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8788 Fix crash on switching to ICS xiangqi game
8790 The oldBoard was a local variable, and only squares of the old board
8791 were initialized. This led to a crash if the copied board was enlarged,
8792 and then displayed. The variable is now declared static, so the
8793 uninitialized squares contain harmless zeros.
8795 2010-03-26 18:32:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8796 Let Chat Boxes pop up above console, rather than on top of it
8798 Use EnsureOnScreen() to have them overlap if there was no room.
8800 2010-03-26 18:26:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8801 Fix disabling of Chat Box navigation buttons
8803 The buttons for non-open boxes were enabed, rather than disabled.
8805 2010-03-26 18:17:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8806 Prevent <Esc> closing chat box
8808 Let it in stead switch focus back to the console window.
8810 2010-03-26 15:28:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8811 Let WinBoard recognize ~ in settings file name as HOMEPATH
8813 Fetch the appropriate environment variable to build the mathname in
8814 MySearchPath() whenever the file name starts with "~\".
8816 2010-03-26 13:59:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8817 Change name of Global Settings menu item to Common Engine Settings
8819 The old name confused ICS users, as this is an engine-only dialog.
8821 2010-03-26 13:58:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8822 Update WinBoard RTF docs
8825 2010-03-26 13:57:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8826 Update WinBoard html help
8829 2010-03-24 18:00:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8830 Allow adjustment of clocks in any mode with shift+click
8832 In practice changing to edit-game mode during a game was very
8833 cumbersome. In WinBoard shift+click is now offered as an alternative.
8834 Make sure a right-click in the clock area is not also counted for other
8837 2010-03-24 17:21:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8838 Allow loading of PGN variations in XBoard
8840 Right-clicking variation comments in the comment-window was implemented
8841 through a translation. The right button is now bound to routines that
8842 set both the end and start of the selection, as setting a new start does
8843 not seem to work if the previous select-start was not completed by a
8844 select-end or extend-end. Finally the main handler uses the selection
8845 cursors to know what was clicked.
8847 2010-03-24 17:16:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8850 Added a descripton of the new ICS options (seek graph, back-ground
8851 observe) and menus (Upload) to the texi file. Also added a description
8852 of the variation (Annotate menu item and PGN variation comments) and PV
8853 walking (clicking engine-output). Describe the -shuffleOpenings option.
8855 2010-03-24 13:30:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8856 Paint highlights on dual board (WB)
8858 The highlight info is hidden in the partner board to pass it to the
8861 2010-03-24 13:14:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8862 Fix handling username change during game
8864 The title bar and gameInfo (going into the PGN) were not adapted when
8865 the username was changed through the menu, so that the change became
8866 only effective on the next game. Requires SetGameInfo to be called from
8867 the front-end, and thus a prototype for it in backend.c.
8869 2010-03-24 11:04:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8870 Fix window-position upset on failing engine start in WinBoard
8872 The main window was only positoned according to the settings-file data
8873 after the engine was started up from InitBackend2(), so that if the
8874 latter gave a fatal error, and Save Settings on Exit was on, a wrong
8875 position for the main window would be saved. The call to InitBackend2()
8876 is now moved until after setting the main-window position.
8878 2010-03-23 23:22:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8879 Display PV from Engine-Output window (XBoard)
8881 Translations are added to bind button 3 to the PV walk for the memo
8882 widgets, and the corresponding handlers are ported from wengineoutput.c.
8884 2010-03-10 18:54:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8885 Set keyboard focus at startup to board window
8887 This makes XBoard sensitive to the keybindings also when the cursor is
8888 outside the board window. This focus seems to persist indefinitely: each
8889 time the board window gets selected, the key bindings become activem
8890 wherever the mouse pointer is. Downside: the mouse pointer is no longer
8891 an arrow outside the board window, but becomes a text-insert tool there.
8893 2010-02-27 20:49:21 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8894 added logo files for xboard
8896 logos are installed in the hicolor theme [1] using $datadir as the basedir.
8897 Added both png and svg logo.
8899 [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html
8901 2010-02-27 17:36:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8902 Remake programVersion string after receiving engine features
8904 The engine could have sent a more accurate version of its own name
8905 than the one derived from the exe filename in a myname feature, and we
8906 better use that in the programVersion string, which will be sent as
8907 interface name to the ICS.
8909 2010-02-25 19:22:00 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8910 Revert "Repair settings-file name"
8912 This reverts commit a02042ef83ce1f3632f0cf3e0a2a4ce9a3ac5d85.
8914 2010-02-25 20:32:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8915 Add -autokibitz checkbox to UCI-options menu dialog
8918 2010-02-25 20:29:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8919 Also capture (numeric) whispers of players for -autoKibitz
8922 2010-02-25 20:25:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8923 Add kibitzes and c-shouts Chat Box
8925 A box dedicated to c-shouts will snatch any c-shout before it is
8926 diverted to a normal shouts box. The kibitzes box can capture the
8927 left-overs of -autoKibitz, if the latter is active.
8929 2010-02-25 15:45:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8930 Mark non-compliant lines of engine in debug file
8932 The option -engineDebugOutput is extended to accept value 3 for printing
8933 a cear indication of non-compliancy in the debug file.
8935 2010-02-25 12:02:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8936 Redraw second board on expose events
8938 The -dualBoard option now does refresh the second board after another
8939 window uncovers it. To acheive this, some data structures remembering
8940 what is displayed had to be duplicated. (lastBoard and damage for XB,
8941 lastReq, lastDrawn, lastReqValid and lastDrawnValid for WB.)
8942 WinBoard now uses clipping also for second board. This required the
8943 clips for the destination to be translated horizontally!
8945 2010-02-25 15:13:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8946 Print seconds with 2 digits in backgroundObserve status line
8949 2010-02-24 17:01:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8950 Do not recognize non-ICS variants from PGN event tag
8952 These variants were introduced after supporting the variant tag, so if
8953 the variant tag is missing, their recognition from the event tag will be
8954 a false match. (Mainly to prevent events with 'super' in the name being
8955 recognized as Superchess.)
8957 2010-02-23 13:52:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8958 Fix display of uninitialized boards in background observe
8960 A variable partnerBoardValid is cleared on starting our own game, and
8961 set when a board from the background game comes in during it. At the end
8962 of our own game, a valid partner board now is put in the display.
8964 2010-02-23 13:46:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8965 Add option Display Logo in WB general-options menu
8967 Changing the option requires InitDrawingSizes to be called for
8968 re-formatting the board window. Switching it off requires clearing of
8969 the cps->programLogo fields to take effect immediately. Switching it on
8970 only takes effect the next session, as we will need some refactoring to
8971 redo the figuring out what logos to display.
8973 2010-02-22 12:02:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8974 Group Chat Boxes with console in stead of board window
8976 They now open and close with the console, which seems more natural, and
8977 prevents the console from covering them.
8979 2010-02-22 11:50:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8980 Put new options in WB ICS-options dialog
8982 The Seek-Graph, background-observe and Chat-Box options are added to the
8983 ICS options dialog. They only control the appData settings, there are no
8984 special actions yet on switching the settings.
8986 2010-02-22 11:46:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8987 Create space in WinBoard ICS-options dialog
8990 2010-02-20 12:42:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8991 Use side-by-side boards to display background game
8993 A game observed in the background (i.e. if -backgroundObserve true) will
8994 be displayed right of the normal board in the same window if the new
8995 (persistent) Boolean option -dualBoard is also set.
8996 Very flakey hack, especially in XBoard, where clocks and messsage
8997 field all get the wrong width (and resist adjustment in the strangest
8998 ways). The clocks of the partner game are not yet displayed, and
8999 disaster happens when the background and foreground games do not have
9000 the same board format.
9002 2010-02-23 14:57:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9003 Repair background-observe patch
9005 Apparently a commit was lost that I collapsed with 3018a6 while the
9006 latter was already pushed to savannah. Here I recreated this commit from
9007 a diff between the respective commits in the savannah & nubati gits.
9009 2010-01-31 11:07:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9010 Repair settings-file name
9012 The default name is put back to /etc/xboard/xboard.conf, so that XBoard
9013 can again find its settings file. "make install" will still install it
9016 2010-02-21 18:43:59 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9017 new developer release
9020 2010-02-21 19:45:58 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9021 fixed compiler warning for file-browser code
9023 missing "void"s in the function declaration and missing returns showed up when trying to build on the opensuse build server. fixed now.
9025 2010-02-21 23:09:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9026 Put newly opened Chat Box on top
9028 Dialogs always pop up in front, so set the onTop variable that prevents
9029 highighting the button to navigate to it from other Chat Boxes
9030 to reflect that a newly opened Chat Box is in view.
9032 2010-02-21 18:55:03 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9033 Fix copying of kibitzed info in Engine-Output window
9035 Make sure all lines end with "\r\n" to not lose line breaks on
9036 copy-paste from the memo. (XBoard would strip those again.)
9038 2010-02-21 18:25:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9039 Allow walking a kibitzed PV
9041 If no tabs are found in te 'thinking output' we assume it is a captured
9042 kibitz message, and look for "PV=" to locate the start of a PV in it.
9043 Also try to include any continuation lines below the selected line.
9045 2010-02-21 17:45:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9046 Insert autoKibitz continuation lines at end of line
9048 In the engine-output window lines that start with the ICS continuation
9049 sequence "\ " are inserted behind the line they belong to, in stead of
9050 at the top. This required keeping thrack of the length of the currently
9051 active line in OutputKibitz().
9053 2010-02-20 15:39:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9054 Don't disturb background observe when receiving new piece
9056 When new holdings are sent when the background game is displayed, we now
9057 ignore this, as presumably we are peeking at our partners game, and thus
9058 should be well aware of what is captured there.
9060 2010-02-19 21:52:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9061 Newly lexed parser in XBoard directory
9064 2010-02-19 11:18:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9065 Let yy_text determine progress of PV parsing
9067 The parsed unit yy_text was not available after ParseOneMove(), because
9068 the buffer switch in yylexstr() apparently destroys it. To solve that,
9069 yylexstr() now is equiped with an extra buffer argument, where it copies
9070 yy_text before the switch, so the caller, ParsePV(), can see what was
9071 parsed in yy_textstr. This is used to update the PV pointer, but also to
9072 save any parsed comments (when ParsePV is used for parsing a PGN variation).
9074 2010-02-18 17:42:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9075 Support playing through PGN variation comments
9077 Right-clicking a variation line in the comment dialog will shelve the
9078 current variation, and parse the comment to replace it. This uses
9079 ParsePV() in an alternative way, for which the latter had to be
9080 enhanced: it was made resistent to move numbers and comments inside
9081 the PV. It now has an argument to indicate if such comments should be
9082 stored with the moves. The Comment Popup is closed on revert, to
9083 make sure no comments to moves that are destroyed, containing
9084 variations on a non-valid line, can keep hanging around.
9086 2010-02-18 16:05:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9087 Add Annotate item in Step menu
9089 This does the same as Revert, except that it adds the destroyed
9090 variation as comment to the original movem in PGN variation format.
9091 RevertEvent now has an argument to indicate if it should add the
9092 comment, or not. Comments in the abandoned variation are included in the
9093 varriation command to the main line. (The exact layout of the variation
9094 comment that results leaves still to be desired.)
9096 2010-02-15 19:07:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9097 Add option -shuffleOpenings
9099 This volatile option is added just to make the existing variable
9100 available from the command line, not only from the menus.
9102 2010-02-19 11:48:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9103 Let the sounds sound on receiving a message in a Chat Box
9105 Use Colorize() to the applicable color to trigger the sound, and then
9106 restore the original color as 'continuation', to do it silently.
9108 2010-02-10 10:55:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9109 Allow WB Chat Box to be dedicated to shouts and 'it'
9111 By putting 'shouts' in the handle field, a chat window will capture all
9112 shouts and c-shouts, and send messages typed into it as shouts.
9113 The bracketing of the shouter name now indicates the type of shout.
9114 The handle for WHISPER Chat Boxes has been changed to 'whispers', to
9115 make it easier to pop them up by clicking the console.
9117 2010-02-16 22:34:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9118 Add -chatBoxes option to open Chat Boxes at startup
9120 This string option contains a semicolon-separated list of handles for
9121 which Chat Boxes should be opened at startup. The value saved in the ini
9122 file is the value that was read, not the actual chat boxes that were
9123 open at the time of saving.
9125 2010-02-16 19:44:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9126 Make Chat Windows pseudo-tabbed
9128 By adding buttons in every Chat Box to navigate directly to every other
9129 Chat Box, a stacked set of Chat Windows behaves like a single tabbed
9130 window, but can still be unstacked. The buttons turn grey to warn that
9131 new text appeared in hidden boxes (i.e. not the one last brought to top).
9133 2010-02-19 21:46:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9134 Allow arrow keys in WB Chat Box to access command history
9136 The history is shared between al boxes and the ICS console.
9138 2010-02-12 22:35:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9139 Make WB Chat Boxes wrap and handle URLs
9141 Cloned the code for the console text field to hande URL. (Initialization
9142 to recogize the link, and notifiction to open it when clicked.)
9143 Removed the ES_AUTOHSCROLL style from the RichEdit in the resource.
9145 2010-02-10 10:58:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9146 Fix copying of WB Chat Window contents
9148 All line breks were lost on copy-pasting the contents of a chat window.
9149 Adding CR to each outputted line in the front-end (wchat.c) solves this.
9150 (Tell messages sent to a handle (which are not echoed by the ICS, and
9151 thus have to copied to the chat box directly) also need CR!)
9153 2010-02-19 22:34:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9154 Add upload of game to ICS for examining
9156 New item "Upload to Examin" in Action menu, calls UploadGameEvent().
9157 Use SAN moves to upload game to ICS, rather than long algebraic
9158 (The ICS did not understand long-algebraic promotion moves)
9159 Use bsetup within examine to set position onFICS, and also variant.
9160 Castling rights do not work yet for FRC. Totally different set of
9161 commands are needed on FICS and ICC.
9162 FICS does not understand w23 or wild/23, but needs 'crazyhouse' in the
9163 besetup command that specifies the variant. XBoard variant names are
9164 used, except for fischerandom, which is 'fr'. Things like nocastle will
9165 probably still not work.
9167 2010-02-18 17:41:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9168 Handle display of PV that starts with other move than played
9170 Insert the retraction of the played move, without premove highlighting.
9172 2010-02-16 19:36:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9173 Bugfix smart capture
9175 Disambiguate was changed to make sure that for ambiguous moves, a
9176 capture would always prevail in the closure, rather than the last move
9177 that happened to be generated. Before, double-clicking a piece would
9178 sometimes plsy a non-capture.
9180 2010-02-13 15:34:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9181 Fix XB crash on giving keyboard focus to non-text widget
9183 In the Engine-Settings dialog SetFocus() could be called for non-text
9184 widgets, and this made XawTextSetInsertionPoint() croak. Setting the
9185 insertion point to the end in SetFocus() was a bad ide anyway, as it
9186 interfered with copying from the engine-output window, which would
9187 uncontrollably scroll on getting focus. It is solved now by setting the
9188 insertion point already on creation of the text widgets.
9190 2010-02-19 22:32:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9191 Seek-Graph bugfix: disappearing output in ICS console
9193 Suppression of output to the cosole was handled fundamentally wrong: it
9194 was not enough to set next_out to after the unit that should be
9195 suppressed, as there can be a backlog in printing of previous units that
9196 came in the same packet. So this has to be flushed first, or it will be
9197 lost. -autoKibitz probably got away with that, because it comes in a
9198 separate packet. But seek ads are often suffixed to other output, and
9199 then that output disappeared! Now we flush everywhere before suppressing.
9200 We now totally rely on the prompt to restart the printing, so that
9201 acknowledgements following the echo of the sent message are also
9202 suppressed. Also suppress LF before diverted chat messages.
9203 Also fixed is the 'mamer bug' in Chat Boxes, due to false parsing of
9204 a "* (*): " pattern in tell messages, because of a missing continue.
9206 2010-02-12 18:08:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9207 Pop up ICS text menu with default item under mouse pointer
9209 The menu popup is migrated to the down-click (was up-click), so the
9210 up-click can select the item. Some trickery is needed to fool the menu
9211 into thinking that the mouse moved, so that a moveless up-down click in
9212 the ICS text field selects the default item (the upper-right one).
9213 Also allow dummy item in ICS text menu: The command "none" in the ICS
9214 text menu will now be treated as a grayed-out (disabled) entry, so it
9215 can be defined in the position underthe mouse pointer to prevent the
9216 up-click from doing anything, while keeping the menu open. Recommended
9217 for use with an entry of spaces.
9219 2010-02-10 14:42:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9220 Allow ICS context menu to pop up a Chat Box on clicking handle
9222 A command "chat" defined in the WinBoard icsMenu string will cause
9223 ChatPopUp() to be called when it is clicked, with the clicked handle
9224 (name) in the ChatPartner field, and focus on the input field.
9225 ChatPopUp() had to get a parameter (the handle) to make this possible.
9226 If that parameter is NULL (as when it is called from the Mode menu),
9227 focus will still start on the (empty) ChatPartner field of the box.
9229 2010-02-10 10:50:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9230 Fix right-edge spillover of Seek-Graph dots in WinBoard
9232 Rescale the X-axis to allow margin for dot size and color offset.
9234 2010-01-30 11:05:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9235 Interface XBoard to GhostView file-browser dialog
9237 Note: The Ghostview dialog was using some deprecated variables for error
9238 printing, and conditionally used getwd() on some systems that presumably
9239 do not have getcwd(), but it did not assess the latter properly.
9241 2010-02-09 14:38:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9242 Allow recalling history in ICS input box with arrow keys
9244 By adding translations for the Up and Down keys, and stealing some code
9245 from winboard.c. Still needs some refactoring to move the duplicate code
9248 2010-02-09 14:34:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9249 Start insertion point at end of text edits in XB dialogs
9251 The function SetFocus now uses XawTextSetInsertionPoint to position the
9252 end of the string it aready contains, rather than at the beginning.
9254 2010-02-08 17:55:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9255 Capture holdings of background observed game
9258 2010-02-08 11:57:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9259 Match handles with multiple titles for channel Chat Boxes
9261 Only handles with at most one suffixed 'title', such as (U), (C), (IM)
9262 or (TD), followed by the parenthesized channel number, were recognized,
9263 so tells by people with more titles always went to the ICS console window.
9264 Patterns are added to recognize handles with upto three such qualifiers.
9266 2010-02-08 11:54:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9267 Do not pop down Seek Graph on on-dot click
9269 Leave the graph up, and let the incoming board of a started game cause
9270 the pop-down. This in case the clicked ad is no longer vailable, or
9271 manuay refused, and fails to start a game.
9273 2010-02-07 21:26:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9274 Observe a game in the background while playing
9276 A new (persistent) option -backgroundObserve true|false is added. When
9277 set, observed boards received while playing a game will not trigger a
9278 game switch, but will be ignored except for storing in a dedicated board
9279 buffer. Pressing the right mouse button will cause the board to be
9280 displayed, until we release it. Time, strength and stm are always
9281 displayed in the message window.
9283 2010-02-07 16:43:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9284 Remove race condition in clock switching
9286 The move number is now incremented inside SwitchClock, when no timer
9287 interrupt is scheduled, so the interrupt cannot occur at the wrong side
9288 of the increment, and decrement the wrong clock.
9290 2010-02-07 11:53:03 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9291 Let second click on piece make only capture, with -oneClickMove
9293 Normally this would clear the highlighting of that piece.
9294 Required new field in DisambiguateClosure to count nr of captures.
9296 2010-02-07 11:18:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9297 Bugfix stale first-click
9299 When the opponent resigned after the user had cicked a from-square,
9300 clicking the from-square for the first move in the next game would
9301 produce an "illegal move" message, because it was considered a to-click!
9302 We now set fromX and fromY to invalid in GameEnds().
9303 Should we also reset them on mode changes?
9305 2010-02-07 11:08:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9306 Add promotions and e.p. to oneClickMove
9308 For e.p. the to-Square of the Pawn has to be clicked. Promotions are
9309 always to Queen when you click the to-square, but use the promotion
9310 pop-up when you click the from-square.
9312 2010-02-07 10:38:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9313 Fix error that compiler does not notice
9315 Boolean GLT_GetFromList did not return a value. But no error on Ubuntu!
9317 2010-02-06 18:55:38 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9318 new developer release
9321 2010-02-06 18:30:42 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9322 updated year in copyright info
9325 2010-02-05 22:27:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9328 Playing on ICS or against engine, clicking a square from or to which
9329 only a single move can be made causes the move to be done, when the new
9330 option -oneClickMove is set to true.
9332 2010-02-04 16:09:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9333 Use squares for computer seek ads
9335 Shape indication passed in sign bit of color (char) variable.
9337 2010-02-04 22:46:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9338 Use right mouse button to view seek ads
9340 Right down-click does the same as left down-click, right up-click
9341 simulates a left up-click off board (so it misses all dots).
9343 Use right-click miss to refresh Seek Graph
9345 The 'moving' parameter had to be made into an int for this, to indicate
9346 right clicks with code 2. Right press now already pushes the clicked ad
9347 to the back, so that the up-click will display an underlying one.
9349 Bugfix pushing back seek ads on right-click
9351 On a right button press the previous in stead of currently hit ad was
9352 receiving the penalty.
9354 Indicate seek-ad multiplicity
9356 If more than one seek ad is inside the capture range of the mouse
9357 pointer, an exclamation point is printed before the seek-ad text.
9359 Some fixes to make seek-ad suppression work in WinBoard
9361 In WinBoard the z-depth was immediately erased by redrawing the graph;
9362 the clearing of zlist had to be moved from PlotSeekAd() to AddAd()
9363 (where it really belongs). Also aging of z-depth is now suppressed on
9364 mere pointer motion.
9366 2010-02-04 22:45:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9369 The new option -autoRefresh sets FICS and ICC to report removal of seek
9370 ads, and then removes those from the Seek Graph. New seek ads are added
9371 to the graph, as soon as the ICS reports them.
9373 2010-02-04 22:42:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9374 Implement SeekGraph in XBoard
9376 For now only controlled by left mouse clicks on board. New options
9377 -seekGraph true|false and -sg to switch this feature on.
9379 Facilitate selection of coinciding seek ads
9381 Seek-ads that are viewed but not answered get a distance penalty on the
9382 up-click that makes their selection more difficult next time, so that
9383 the ad they covered gets a (better) change. The penalty ages away in the
9386 Slightly offset Seek-Graph dots of different color
9388 Dots of different color are now displaced horizontally be 3 pixels, to
9389 prevent them from completely covering each other. (Required the axis
9390 labels to be moved a little too, to not be covered by the 1-min ads.)
9392 Auto-show seek-ad texts in WinBoard
9394 Hovering the mouse above a Seek-Graph dot will make the text belonging
9395 to it appear in the message field without the need to press a button.
9396 Required SeekGraphClick() to be called from the WB mouse event handler,
9397 with an extra argument 'moving' to make the distinction with a real
9400 Show seek-ad text on mouse hovering (XBoard)
9402 The Eventproc is also set to trigger on PointerMotion, and this event
9403 then calls SeekGraphClick with motion=true to handle it.
9405 Put poetic name of wilds in seek-ad text
9407 Use XBoard variant names, except for 'loadable' and 'fischerandom'
9408 (becomes 'setup' and 'chess960'), but leave number (to distinguish wilds
9409 that transate to same XBoard variant).
9411 2010-02-05 20:36:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9412 Fix highlighting bug in XBoard
9414 The from-square was drawn before the to-square was erased, which led to
9415 a missing highlight line if they shared an edge or corner.
9417 2010-02-05 15:49:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9418 Shorten autoKibitz confirmation on FICS
9420 Strip off the "players)", but leave the separatng space.
9422 2010-02-05 14:39:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9423 Repair damage to -autoKibitz done by FICS atomic zippy claim
9425 The sending of -autoKibitz info was also moved back in that patch, but
9426 unfortunately to after clearing of the programStats info. Now the
9427 clearing has been moved also, to remain after it.
9429 2010-02-04 23:33:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9430 Send continuation lines to chat box they belong to
9432 The variable savingComment is used as a kludge to remember where the
9433 comment should go (i.e. which chatbox, or elsewhere), so that when a
9434 continuation line is matched, chatPartner (which was reset at EOL) can
9435 be restored to its original value. Also put space after handle of talker
9436 in channel Chat Windows
9438 2010-02-02 19:08:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9439 Fix u64 format for cygwin
9441 With a -mno-cygwin compile %llu and %lld are definitely not understood
9442 by scanf and printf, although they are by the compiler. In stead, %I64u
9443 seems to work. Put it in under control of a switch USE_I64, which is
9444 defined only in the gcc makefile when MINGW is used.
9446 2010-02-02 19:02:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9447 Remove stray dot from WinBoard makefiles
9449 There was a period suffixed to config.h in the wgamelist.o dependency.
9451 2010-02-01 14:50:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9452 Fix bug in display of logos
9454 The logo continued to be drawn after a boardSize change to a tinyLayout
9455 size, although there was no space reserved for it. Fixed by explicitly
9456 resetting logoHeight when no logo space is reserved in InitDrawingSizes().
9458 2010-01-19 20:15:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9459 Right-click refactoring: step III
9461 Let WinBoard call RightClick in back-end, and delete the duplicate code
9462 it had for this, after rescuing the front-end bits, and let the letter
9463 act depending on the result returned by RightClick.
9465 2010-01-19 19:07:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9466 Right-click refactoring: step II
9468 Migrate the Right-click routine to the back-end. Let it communicate back
9469 square coordinates through pointer arguments, to accomodate their
9470 different naming in XBoard and WinBoard. Template added in frontend.h.
9472 2010-01-19 17:55:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9473 Right-click refactoring, step I
9475 Divorce front-end part from back-end part of PieceMenuPopup in XBoard
9476 front-end, and forge the back-end part into a new routine RightClick.
9477 The right up-click in XBoard, which called unLoadPV() directly, now
9478 calls RightClick through PieceMenuPopUp().
9480 2010-02-04 23:09:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9481 Merge gamelistopt sources into gamelist source files
9483 The files xgamelistopt.c and gamelistopt.c are merged with xgamelist.c
9484 and gamelist.c, respectively. The WB front-end for the dialog already
9485 resided in winboard.c, so there was little need to move it to wgameist.c
9486 file. Makefiles adapted accordingly. Unsuitable key bindings were
9487 removed. The low-level front-end prototypes are now defined in in
9490 2010-01-29 21:47:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9491 Game-List options dialog for XBoard
9493 A dialog similar to that of WinBoard was cloned from the game-list
9494 window. The XBoard front-end is in a separate file xgamelistopt.c,
9495 which in fact implements most of the low-level front-end as back-end.
9497 2010-01-29 12:48:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9498 Refactoring of game-list-options dialog
9500 The back-end part is separated off, and moved to a file gamelistopt.c.
9501 Front-end for now stays in winboard.c. No prototypes in frontend.h yet.
9503 2010-01-26 19:28:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9504 Fix of ancient WB bug: test integer option values for validity
9506 Only a string of digits preceded by an optional sign is accepted now.
9507 Before, any string was accepted, and leaving out a value could lead to
9508 the next option being ignored (if it did not need a value) because it
9509 was considered the value for the previous one!
9511 2010-01-26 19:00:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9512 Fix bug in edit-position of holdings
9514 The holdings were effectivelly taken one too large, so that a promoted
9515 shogi Pawn moved to, or created in the holdings was not demoted to Pawn,
9516 but put in the dark (which you could see by the holding count if you did
9517 it twice). The overflow tests in these two cases now have been corrected.
9519 2010-01-25 13:54:40 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9520 Save fonts in XBoard settings file per boardSize
9522 Each -boardSize now can have its own font specified in the settings file
9523 (and thus by a command-line option, although it would in general not be
9524 very useful to specify a font for a size other than the selected). E.g.
9525 a prefix "size33:" to the font name will apply it only to -size 33.
9526 An unspecified-size font option (not normally in the settings file) will
9527 always prevail over a font option specific for the current size.
9528 A font of some size must have been used or specified in order to be
9531 2010-01-25 08:56:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9532 Fix width of filter field in XBoard GameList
9534 An empirical dependence of the width of this text edit on the square
9535 size now makes for an acceptable layout at any board size.
9537 2010-01-24 19:09:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9538 Use FICS atomic draw claim for sending move in zippy mode
9540 For this the relaying of the move had to be moved until after the
9541 adjudication, which again has to be done after MakeMove(), which is a
9542 bit dubious, as MakeMove might take significant time when animating.
9544 2010-01-24 18:51:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9545 Send FICS atomic claim to ICS if move creates draw after offer
9547 The FICS format "draw MOVE" is used to send the move to the ICS when
9548 the user enters a move that adjudicates as a claimable draw, and he
9549 offered a draw before the move. For the benefit of ICS that do not
9550 understand this format, the plain move is sent afterwards.
9552 2010-01-24 18:16:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9553 Also allow user to claim by offering draw before his move
9555 Use the existing userOfferedDraw variable to test for such offers in
9558 2010-01-24 17:29:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9559 Also adjudicate after user move
9561 Call Adjudicate() in FinishMove().
9563 2010-01-24 15:56:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9564 Refactoring of adjudication code
9566 Put all the rule-based (as opposed to score-based) adjudications in a
9567 separate routine, so they can also be called on user moves. This
9568 requires sending the drawing move to the opponent engine to be made
9569 conditional on existence of the latter. Execution of the code is no
9570 longer dependent on the condition TwoMachinesPlay, but actual game
9571 terminations are now all restricted by an alternative condition (no ICS
9574 2010-01-24 11:46:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9575 Use -keepAlive option to determine connection health
9577 When there has been no ICS response since the previous 'ping', assume we
9578 are disconnected and do a fatal-error exit. Also auto-start the ping
9579 process in InitBackend3().
9581 2010-01-23 23:00:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9582 Use arrow keys in XBoard GameList for entry selection
9584 Add translations for arrows and home/end, to call LoadSelectedProc with
9585 argument to indicate the step, and let the latter perform the action.
9587 2010-01-23 22:24:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9588 Allow <Enter> to apply filter in XB GameList filter edit
9590 Apply a translation to intercept the <Enter> key. Set focus back to the
9591 list display afterwards.
9593 2010-01-23 21:44:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9594 Accept <Enter> for changing chat partner
9596 A kludge stolen from Alessandro's GameList filter allowed to let the
9597 typing of <Enter> while updating the chat-partner field of the WinBoard
9598 chat windows to act as pressing the Change button. Gives focus to the
9599 input field of the window afterwards.
9601 2010-01-23 21:42:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9602 Move duplicat gamelist code to backend
9604 The filtering routines are moved from xgamelist.c and wgamelist.c to
9605 gamelist.c, and a prototype for them is placed in backend.h.
9607 2010-01-23 19:29:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9608 Port game-list filtering to XBoard
9610 Added a text edit and apply button to the XBoard game-list dialog, and
9611 only have it print those lines that match the filter. Translate index in
9612 list to index of game in file when a game is selected, and index in file
9613 to index in list when a line is highlighted. Duplicates some code
9614 between xgamelist.c and wgamelist.c, which should be moved to back-end.
9616 2010-01-21 19:24:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9617 Convert to DOS line endings
9619 For easier understanding of upcoming diffs of winboard.c
9621 2010-01-21 14:32:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9622 Refactoring of move-history code
9624 The WinBoard code in whistory.c was split in a front-end part (remaining
9625 in whistory.c) and a back-end part (now in history.c in the xboard
9626 directory). This to allow easy porting to other platforms.
9628 2010-01-20 12:48:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9629 Add fixed-time/move button in XBoard time-control dialog
9631 Put the TC-type buttons in a radio-group, and highlight the selected mode.
9633 2010-01-19 18:27:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9634 Fix bug in XBoard PV display
9636 The PV was unloaded on anything but a button release, in stead of the
9639 2010-01-23 11:04:11 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9640 fixed hardcoded location of config file for xboard
9642 the location should now follow sysconfdir during the configuration process.
9643 Also added some more output to the configure script.
9645 2010-01-18 12:18:32 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9646 new developer release
9649 2010-01-18 12:15:06 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9650 fixed Makefile.am to handle config file correctly
9653 2010-01-15 21:55:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9654 Change opening array -variant fairy
9656 We now use the position of "Chess with Different Armies", FIDE army vs.
9657 a fantasy army (inspired on the Color-bound Clobberers) as opening
9660 2010-01-13 19:08:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9663 Thai Chess, played by 2 million world-wide. Required pawn promotion to
9664 happen in a zone, and the Alfil to move as Shogi Silver, a new opening
9665 array, and unusual Pawn placement. Because of the latter, I consider it
9666 a setup position, so a FEN will always be sent to the engine.
9668 2010-01-17 14:17:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9669 Fix parsing of O-O and O-O-O after FEN pasting in FRC
9671 Because the initial rights were not set in the FEN reader, the
9672 initial rights of the previous game remained in force, so that the
9673 parser did not understand OO-castling (although it would allow KxR
9676 2010-01-15 14:40:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9677 Fix reading FEN castling rights for knightmate and twokings
9679 Scanning the back-rank for a King did not work in these variants,
9680 because either the Unicorn castles, or there might be two Kings.
9682 2010-01-13 11:42:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9683 Fix omission in castling refactoring for ICS received boards
9685 A default of -1 was still used, in stead of NoRights, when no Rook was
9686 found. In theory this could have had effect in a setup board 0 in FRC,
9687 when there were no Rooks on the back rank.
9689 2010-01-13 11:35:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9690 Fix TwoKings ICS castling-rights bug
9692 Scanning the rank (as is done because of FRC) assigned castling rights
9693 to the rightmost King. Even scanning the opposite direction would not
9694 work, as it is not always the eftmost King that can castle. So we now
9695 explicitly test for a King on e1/e8 in TwoKings and assign it rights,
9696 relying on the Rook rights received from the ICS to control castling.
9698 2009-11-18 19:12:25 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9699 fix double start of zippy engine after switch to gothic
9701 In ICS mode we now switch to the proper variant as soon as we receive
9702 the generic game-start message, to prevent a mismatch when the first
9703 board is received (which would trigger fetching of a move list).
9705 2010-01-11 16:44:40 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9706 Extensive bugfix of -autoKibitz
9708 Suppression of printing of diverted kibitz messages failed when they
9709 extended over more than one read. This could even lead to such
9710 messages being erroneously saved as comments, which then lead to
9711 crashes. The suppression mechanism now waits for a prompt, in stead of
9712 the end of buffer. This required the printing of any leftover in the
9713 buffer to be deferred until the next read completes it.
9714 The number of people kibitzed to is now printed.
9716 2010-01-11 16:30:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9717 Fix piece-to-char table -variant fairy
9719 The letters for Lance and Snake where swapped.
9721 2010-01-09 11:54:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9722 Make WinBoard makefiles use parser.c in XBoard directory
9725 2010-01-08 18:23:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9726 Docs update for new features
9729 2010-01-08 15:18:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9730 Fix new args parsing of -lowTimeWarningColor
9732 This did not occur in the XBoard color translation table yet.
9734 2010-01-08 14:16:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9735 Allow editing of holdings in EditPosition mode
9737 Dragging pieces to and from the holdings now consistently keep track of
9738 the home square of pieces and the piece counts, as does creation of
9739 pieces in the holdings through the piece menu.
9741 2010-01-08 13:59:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9742 Indicate squares a lifted piece can legally move to
9744 Under control of the new option -showTargetSquares when
9745 -highlightDragging and -testLegality are on, the squares a piece can
9746 move to are marked by fat dots in the highlightColor (non-captures) and
9747 premoveHighlightColor (captures), as soon as you grab it for dragging.
9748 In variants with mandatory capture, the capture target of other pieces
9749 is marked with the highlightColor (as non-captures are then not allowed).
9751 2010-01-08 12:35:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9752 Fix bug for incommensurate time odds
9754 After normalization (-timeOddsMode 1) the time odds factors can be
9755 non-integer, and thus must be stored as float.
9757 2010-01-08 11:41:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9758 Display PV right-clicked from EngineOutput window
9760 The clicked PV is selected and the memo gets focus, so that it is
9761 highlighted. This selection is restored in the proper place after
9762 insetrtion of a new line in the memo.
9764 2010-01-08 10:19:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9765 Display PV on right-clicking board
9768 2010-01-08 09:21:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9769 Bugfix legality null move in parsing with -testLegality off
9771 The pointers were compared, in stead of the values.
9772 Furthermore, instead of null moves, it rejected moves on the main diagonal when legality checking was off.
9774 Also exclude moves with empty squares and enemy pieces.
9776 2010-01-07 19:10:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9777 Newly lexed winboard/parser.c
9780 2010-01-07 19:05:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9781 Harmonize declarations of XBoard and WinBoard
9783 The engine-exit and settings patches make some stuff common to WinBoard
9784 and XBoard, which needed to be harmonized, and is moved to frontend.h.
9786 2010-01-07 13:07:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9787 Allow Ctrl-C copying from EngineOutput window text to clipboard
9790 2010-01-07 12:52:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9791 Allow popup-less (fatal) exit of engine after tellusererror
9794 2010-01-07 12:40:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9795 Improve layout of Engine #N Settings dialog
9797 An attempt is made to align the input fields of spins and text-edits
9799 2010-01-07 00:31:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9800 Let XBoard print version with argument --version or -v
9803 2010-01-07 00:25:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9804 Fix castling rule assignment in shuffle games
9806 The conversion to in-board storage for rights copied directly to boards[0] in steadof
9807 initialPosition, and was then overwritten when the latter was copied with uninitialized
9808 rights to boards[0]. This affected FRC and CRC, where rights are non-standard.
9810 2010-01-07 00:17:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9811 Implement castling in -variant caparandom
9813 CRC should be treated as FRC, but until now it never was. We now test for FRC_TYPE_CASTLING.
9815 2010-01-07 00:09:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9816 Fix default castling rights on reading incomplete FEN
9818 This was overlooked in the conversion to the in-board storage of rights.
9820 2010-01-07 00:03:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9821 Fix NoncompliantFEN defaults.
9823 This must be NULL to get compliant FENs, not "", which would suppress castling and e.p. fields.
9825 2010-01-06 23:54:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9826 Change format of -adapterCommand.
9828 first or f at the start of an option name are now automatically changed into second or s,
9829 rather than needing %% to be recognized. The values of -ec and -ed in the default
9830 -adapterCommand are now quoted (now XBoard understands quoting in the engine command line).
9832 2010-01-06 23:51:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9833 Make WinBoard defaults for -fd and -sd equal to "." rather than empty strings.
9836 2010-01-06 23:28:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9837 Delete old indirection settings-file code
9840 2010-01-06 21:45:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9841 Correct XBoard default debug file name
9844 2010-01-06 21:34:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9845 Suppress saving font settings.
9847 The fonts are size dependent, and might thus not be reusable in the next
9848 session. For now we therefore suppress the saving of them in the
9849 settings file, until we diversify the fonts per boardSize.
9851 2009-12-12 23:38:20 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9852 added missing sounds files to be able to compile on windows
9855 2009-12-09 17:29:37 -0700 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
9856 Changes needed to compile master branch.
9859 2009-12-06 12:11:46 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9860 implements the eval-graph window for XBoard
9863 2009-12-06 11:58:34 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9864 improves the XBoard handling of the engine command line
9866 it now understands limited forms of quoting, so engine binaries with spaces in their file name can be handled.
9868 2009-12-06 11:56:40 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9869 A better and more flexible way of invoking Polyglot
9871 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.
9873 2009-12-06 11:34:50 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9874 remove trailing \r in xboard output
9876 there is an annoying carriage return (displayed as ^M) at the end of the PV in the engine-output window, not
9877 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.
9879 2009-11-29 11:56:32 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9880 double buffer size to prevent overflow
9882 This patch doubles the size of the ICS input buffer to 16KB, to prevent
9883 the suspected overflow with -keepLineBreaksICS false when using
9884 "inchannel 1" on FICS and over 500 people are tuned in.
9886 2009-11-28 13:33:52 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9887 fix problem with empty string in -firstNeedsNoncompliantFEN
9889 This fixes a bug in the use of the -firstNeedsNoncompliantFEN option with
9890 an empty string as argument. (Which led to truncation of the FEN.)
9892 2009-11-28 13:32:12 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9893 updates makefiles to include dependency on config.h
9895 adds the dependency of wbres.o on config.c introduced by having the VersionInfo in the resource
9897 2009-11-28 13:28:00 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9898 correctly apply some check boxes from the option menu
9900 Usng the check-boxes in the Option->Adjudications menu to indicate the
9901 engine reports absolute scores is now copied directly to the ChessProgramState,
9902 from where it is used, in stead of only to appData. This makes the change take
9903 effect immediately, in stead of after restarting.
9905 2009-11-28 13:27:43 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9906 score sign in analysis mode
9908 this does not alter any of the current behavior with compliant engines,
9909 but does extend the correction for non-compliant score reporting under
9910 control of the -first(second)ScoreIsAbs option to cases where the engine
9911 is analyzing or playing on an ICS.
9913 2009-11-24 21:09:30 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9914 fix for bug #28077: xboard needs to link against x11
9916 hopefully fixed automake to take care of this
9918 2009-11-23 20:37:20 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9919 Fix castling rights when copying FEN to clipboard (again)
9921 missed a spot last time
9923 2009-11-23 20:22:58 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9924 restoring windows (EngineOutput and MoveHistory) on startup
9926 restoring the open / closed status of the
9927 auxiliary windows (EngineOutput and MoveHistory) on startup
9928 in XBoard like they do in WinBoard, which makes sense now that
9929 we aso remember their coordinates between sessions.
9931 2009-11-23 20:21:14 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9932 fixed some outstanding pixmaps
9934 fixed transparency issues
9936 2009-11-23 20:17:25 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9937 use linux style options for config file and add a system config file for XBoard
9939 This patch makes XBoard write the options to its conf file in
9940 Linux style, "-option value" rather than Windows style "/option=value".
9942 The WinBoard option parsing code has always understood both formats
9943 (including any hybrids), but the format it preferred for writing might
9944 look quite strange to Linux users. I also attached a file to be installed
9945 as /etc/xboard/xboard.conf on "make install".
9947 2009-11-23 19:58:55 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9948 fix window positioning
9950 This patch adds stuff in the header files that allow the various front-end files
9951 to share information on which windows exist, are up, and how they are positioned.
9952 The EngineOutput, MoveHistory and GameList windows now all remember their
9953 position and size, even when they are closed when XBoard exits.
9955 2009-11-23 19:51:19 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9956 same argDescriptor parsing for Xboard and Winbaord
9958 This patch makes XBoard and WinBoard use the same argDescriptor
9959 list of options, and (largely) use the same code for parsing and saving them.
9960 This is acheived by moving this code to a new file args.h, and #including this
9961 in both winboard.c and xboard.c (so that tiny differences, e.g. in default
9962 values in the table, are decided by the context). XBoard has new menu items
9963 "Save Settings Now" and "Save Settings on Exit" in the "Option" menu.
9964 XBoard uses /etc/xboard/xboard.conf as default settings file.
9965 A new option, -saveSettingsFile, can specify where settings should be saved,
9966 without parsing the file. (So that it also works if the file does not yet exist.)
9968 2009-11-22 13:00:31 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9969 new developer release
9971 changed release name to <branch>-<date>
9973 2009-11-22 12:34:13 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9974 fix the irritating wandering off of the MoveHistory window in XBoard on opening/closing.
9977 2009-11-22 12:29:47 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9978 use xtell for talking to handles, but tell for talking into a channel.
9980 by changing the chatboxes to use xtell in stead of tell, we broke
9981 the possibility to use the chat-box for chatting into a channel (which is
9982 apparently not possible with xtell).
9984 2009-11-22 12:15:15 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9985 fix bug in bughouse drop menu
9987 This patch fixes the bughouse drop menu, which was broken by the
9988 new mouse driver, and could no longer drop white Pawns.
9990 2009-11-18 19:29:57 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9991 2nd step for moving option parsing from winboard to the backend
9993 This is the next step in option-setting refactoring: All options that are
9994 defined in XBoard are now included in the WinBoard ArgDescriptor list.
9995 The handling of sound option has been harmonized: the sound names
9996 now all initially go to the appData array, (as in XB) in stead of directly to the
9997 WB-specific variables, and LoadAllSounds now takes care of the copying.
9998 A new routine ExportSounds copies them back before saving settings
9999 (which, in XBoard, could be a no-op).
10001 The definition of defaults for the XB-only options has been moved to common.h.
10003 2009-11-18 19:24:35 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10004 1st step for moving option parsing from winboard to the backend
10006 This is a preparatory step in moving option parsing of WinBoard to the back-end.
10007 The table of command-line options now contains a fifth field, holding the compiled-in default.
10008 This obviates most of the front-end routine InitAppData, which now is replaced by a table-driven
10009 initialization routine SetDefaultsFromList(), which could be back-end.
10011 2009-11-18 12:33:39 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10012 refactoring evalgraph code
10014 This is the refactored EvalGraph code: the back-end part is separated off,
10015 and put in a file evalgraph.c, which in the future can also be used with XBoard.
10016 Only the WinBoard front-end code is left in the file wevalgraph.c. A new
10017 header file defines the variables and routines they share.
10019 2009-11-18 12:29:06 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10022 some file permissions where set up wrong
10023 (e.g. execute permissions for text files)
10025 2009-11-18 11:34:22 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10026 refactoring of engineoutput
10028 This refactoring patch separates the back-end part out of
10029 xengineoutput.c, and puts it in a separate file engineoutput.c.
10030 A new header engineoutput.h included by both defines the routines
10031 for cross calling. Similarly wengineo.c will be stripped from its
10032 back-end code, (and renamed to wengineoutput.c), so WinBoard and
10033 XBoard now both use engineoutput.c rather than maintaining duplicate
10034 code in their front-end part.
10036 I also let the back-end now call EngineOutputUpdate directly, rather then
10037 through a relay in the front-end, by renaming it to SetProgramStats
10038 (the former name of the relay in winboard.c / xboard.c).
10040 Moved some templates of functions in engineoutput.c from winboard.h
10043 2009-11-14 22:13:10 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10044 fixed build on openbsd
10046 added missing header file
10048 2009-11-14 22:06:58 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10049 improve thinking-output for mulit-variant
10051 Improve multi-variant support by sorting the Thinking-Output lines of the most recent depth by score in the Engine-Output window.
10053 2009-11-14 22:05:12 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10054 fix castling rights when copying FEN to clipboard
10056 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.
10058 2009-11-14 22:03:47 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10059 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.
10062 2009-11-06 18:53:19 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10063 fixed prototype for AppendComment
10066 2009-11-06 09:06:44 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10067 cleaned up some debug messages and typos
10070 2009-11-06 09:05:09 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10071 variation-support patch
10073 It allows you to Revert to the main line (or previous variation) when
10074 playing variations on an existing game in EditGame or Analyze mode.
10076 2009-11-06 08:48:09 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10077 fix for new way of saving castling and e.p. information
10079 I forgot to make some conversions to the new-style encoding of castling there
10080 (using the enum constant NoRights instead of -1 to indicate
10081 the absence of rights, which was the price of storing the
10082 rights in the board, which is an unsigned enum type.)
10084 I also was a bit worried about portability, because I casted the enum type ChessSquare
10085 to (int) before comparing it with (possibly negative) constants EP_NONE etc.
10086 Now on my system enum types are (unsigned int), and this works, but I could
10087 imagine there are systems where this would be an unsigned char. (Not sure
10088 if there are rules for this). So to be safe I cast ChessSquare to (signed char),
10089 which should always work to make small negative ints assigned to it read
10090 back as themselves.
10092 2009-11-06 08:44:59 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10093 removed files that should only be in the windboard directory
10096 2009-11-05 19:32:35 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10097 add Winboard source files into tar-ball
10099 forgot to add them when rewriting the Makefile.am
10101 2009-11-05 19:23:44 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10102 Integrate castling and e.p. rights into board array; bugfix for EditPosition
10104 A large-scale operation that I have been postponing since the very first 4.4.0:
10105 The castling and e.p. rights are now integrated into the board array, as
10106 boards[moveNr][CASTLING][i] replacing castlingRights[moveNr][i] and
10107 boards[moveNr][EP_STATUS] replacing epStatus[moveNr]
10108 These quantities are now automatically copied with the position by CopyBoards
10109 (allowing the removal of lots of dedicated copying code), and passed as
10110 function arguments with the position (so that the moves.c functions like
10111 TestLegality, MateTest, CoordsToAlgebraic, Disambiguate, GenLegal
10112 no longer need explicit e.p. and castling parameters.
10114 Also fixed a bug introduced by a recent previous fix: by adding fake castling
10115 rights to a position set up through the EditPosition menu, I destroyed the
10116 castling rights of a pasted FEN. Faking castling rights is now made conditional
10117 in EditPositionDone(), depending on the caller. (I had not realized it was also
10118 called after FEN pasting, to send the position to the engine.)
10120 2009-11-05 19:03:17 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10121 added missing library for build on OS X
10123 Xmu seems to be missing
10125 2009-11-04 22:57:30 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10126 Some code refactoring and cleanup; one small bug fix
10128 Some code refactoring, mainly to bring definitions of routines and variables
10129 shared between winboard.c and one of the auxiliary-windows files
10130 whistory.c, wevalgraph.c, wgamelist.c, wengineo.c somewere in a header file
10131 (winboard.h). Unfortunately this made winboard.h dependent on data types
10132 defined in frontend.h, so that the #include order had to be changed in many
10135 The operation revealed one potentially bad bug: engineOutputDialogUp was
10136 written as int in engineo.c, but declared as char in winboard.c.
10138 I also changed the storage mechanism of the the comment and tags window
10139 positions to use WindowPlacement structs rather than simple variables,
10140 so that in the future they can be docked, like the others.
10142 I also removed some remnants of the Analysis window.
10144 The wgamelist.h and wedittags.h header files contained only 3 lines, and
10145 I absorbed them in winboard.h, rather than creating other such nearly empty
10146 headers engineo.h, whistory.h and wevalgraph.h. This affects the make files.
10148 2009-11-03 18:26:06 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10149 let the clocks run in -searchTime mode
10152 2009-11-02 17:41:12 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10153 add fixed time per move to the WinBoard time-control menu dialog
10156 2009-10-31 10:42:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10157 updated version number to unstable
10160 2009-10-31 10:25:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10161 release of version 4.4.1
10164 2009-10-30 19:59:23 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10165 cleaned up ChangeLog and NEWS
10167 2009-10-30 20:02:40 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10168 use xtell instead of tell in wchat
10170 2009-10-28 20:35:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10171 prevent buffer overflow
10173 This is a buffer-size adjustments to prevent the JAWS version from
10174 crashing when it has to read out loud very long comments.
10176 2009-10-28 02:17:16 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
10177 Further copy/paste fixes
10179 We needed to implement the XA_TARGETS target in order for more
10180 sophisticated apps to really believe we put anything on the clipboard
10183 2009-10-27 23:57:25 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
10184 Make copy/paste position and game use clipboard, bug #27810
10186 Copy actually sets both the clipboard and the selection for
10187 convenience and compatibility with the old way of doing things.
10188 Paste pastes from the clipboard by default, but the new -pasteSelection
10189 option lets you get back the old behavior of pasting from the
10192 2009-10-27 15:44:28 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10193 switch focus to the board after loading a game
10195 2009-10-27 15:32:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10196 fix for bug #27826: fixed autoDisplayComment
10198 apparently the -autoDisplayComment option was not working,
10199 not even in WinBoard. This patch should fix it,both for WB and XB.
10200 (Unfortunately xboard.c and winboard.c were using a different name
10201 for the same front-end variable I needed, so I had to change one of them.)
10203 2009-10-27 12:24:56 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10204 fix for bug #27826: ported two options to xboard
10206 also updated the documentation
10208 2009-10-27 12:22:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10211 turns out the new mouse handler broke the JAWS patch, as I discarded
10212 the function IsPromotion. I adapted it to call HasPromotionChoice instead.
10213 Also fixed two arnings by removing a no-longer needed debug print.
10215 2009-10-27 12:03:02 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10216 reformated html to be correctly validated
10218 2009-10-27 10:33:42 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10219 quick fix for "White Mates" in parser.l
10221 2009-10-27 10:32:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10224 2009-10-26 20:45:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10225 changed stderr to debug output, since stderr is closed in winboard
10227 2009-10-26 20:42:24 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10228 removing empty lines from ICS play
10230 this patch causes removal of spurious prompts during ICS play
10231 also if the prompt is preceeded by a number of empty lines
10232 (as the board for the opponent move is on FICS).
10234 2009-10-26 20:40:00 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10235 another bug in VariantSwitch: an unitialized board was printed.
10237 Must have been there a long time, but this time it crashed WinBoard.
10239 2009-10-26 20:38:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10240 more work on variant switch
10242 the previous solution to the cosmetic problem of displaying a wrong shuffle
10243 in an ICS game that was observed from the very start unfortunately turned
10244 out to cause a real error in diplaying a stored game through the smoves
10245 command, for variants not using the FIDE setup as standard.
10247 This patch displays the position from before setting up the start position
10248 of the new variant, but does setup boards[0] to the initial position of that
10249 variant. (If this is a wrong shuffle, it is thus ot displayed, and a new board
10250 will immediately be sent from the ICS to correct the shuffle.)
10252 2009-10-26 20:34:04 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10253 force full redraw in winboard
10255 Full redraw is now always forced when highlightMovesWithArrow is on,
10256 rather than only when highlight info is available. (As in drop moves the
10257 latter is invalid, but we must still erase the arrow from the previous move.)
10259 2009-10-26 20:25:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10260 fix for bug #27790 and #277772. Suppressing the display of a wrong shuffle
10261 when observing shuffle games from the first move (#27790 bis),
10262 and the sounding of the FICS bell on crazyhouse captures (#27772 bis).
10264 2009-10-26 20:22:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10265 fixed bug related to unsigned char in convert.c
10267 I also fixed the unsigned-char bug in the convert.c for bitmaps that caused the
10268 129x129 XBoard bitmaps to be defective, and a bug that required fixup with sed
10269 afterwards (so I could use it to create a new m33s.bm)
10271 2009-10-25 23:37:48 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10272 unguarded debug printf. added the appropiate if statement
10274 2009-10-25 23:31:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10275 fix for two compiler warnings
10277 2009-10-25 23:29:43 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10278 fix for bug #27799: fix for nested-nested-nested variations
10280 2009-10-25 23:21:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10281 The book-probe code forgot to close the book file after opening it.
10283 fixed by adding an fclose at two points.
10285 2009-10-25 23:18:18 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10286 removed unused v54?.bm bitmaps from resource file
10288 it seems the v54?.bmp bitmaps were actually included in the WinBoard build
10289 (in the resource file), although they were never actually used. So I have
10290 removed their inclusion in the resource file now.
10292 2009-10-25 23:05:30 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10293 replaced defective bitmaps with copies from 4.2.7
10295 2009-10-25 23:02:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10296 removed bitmaps files that are not needed any more
10298 2009-10-25 22:58:34 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10301 2009-10-24 09:41:39 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
10302 Drop an obsolete script that was only used to update my personal web site
10304 2009-10-24 01:23:29 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
10305 Silence warnings when compiling 64-bit xboard
10307 Some harmless warnings were caused by 64-bit mode having 32-bit
10308 int but 64-bit long and pointer. Add casts (etc.) to silence them.
10309 This might require adding a definition of intptr_t (a signed int
10310 type that is the same width as a pointer) on old systems that don't
10313 2009-10-24 00:56:37 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
10314 Fix up man page some more
10316 Sigh, the project history was still partly in reverse chronological
10317 order and partly in forward order. Swapped the order of some
10318 sentences to help straighten it out. I don't really care about this,
10319 so other project members should feel free to do what they like here,
10320 but the messed-up order was bugging me.
10322 2009-10-24 00:46:20 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
10323 Fix some issues in the XBoard man page
10325 Correct places where the XBoard man page was calling XBoard
10326 "WinBoard". Change references to "WinBoard engines" and "WinBoard
10327 protocol" to "XBoard/WinBoard ...". Update bug reporting guidelines.
10328 Reorganize project history to something more like chronological order
10329 -- it had gotten pretty randomly ordered.
10331 2009-10-22 21:45:32 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10332 new pre-release version; updated version numbers
10334 2009-10-22 21:33:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10335 This patch adds <Enter> to the characters that cause an automatic
10336 switch to the ICS console when typed to the board window.
10338 2009-10-22 21:31:16 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10339 fix to the minor graphics issue contained some typos,
10340 as was remarked in the bugs reports
10342 2009-10-22 21:30:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10343 improved mouse handler
10345 The improved mouse handler still needed an extra call to DrawPosition to
10348 2009-10-22 21:28:38 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10349 NPS plays and pondering
10351 Clock updating did not work correctly in node-based time controls when the
10352 engine was pondering. (It was not really meant for use with pondering. Oh well...)
10353 This patch checks if the engine reporting the node count is indeed thinking
10354 (as opposed to pondering).
10356 2009-10-22 21:25:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10357 holdings update and regression fix
10359 The holdings-update patch was not yet satisfactory, because FICS seems to send
10360 holdings both before and after the board! And those received before did overwrite
10361 the holdings received after the previous board. I know tried to fix that in a kludgey
10362 way, by hiding a flag in the board that tells if the holdings have already been written
10363 by the ICS or not, and ignore new holdings when they are. (Except in bughouse,
10364 where holdings updates cannot be tied to a particular board and multiple updates
10365 between boards are normal. (I hope?).)
10367 I also undid a regression in my previous fix for the minor graphics problem,
10368 and solved it in a slightly different way to prevent flicker.
10370 2009-10-22 21:23:39 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10371 improved mouse handler
10373 I improved the mouse handler in a way which will preclude disappearence of pieces
10374 on off-board or ambiguous (in-between squares) drag & drop moves. (As was reported
10375 in the "premove bug?" thread. Also the command-line premove problem reported there
10376 is now fixed, by removing the prefixing.
10378 2009-10-22 21:18:05 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10379 fix for bug #8847: moving backward while examining on FICS not reported to engine
10381 I moved Daniel's code that backs up the engine when a bord with a
10382 lower number is received to a place where it is always done in zippy mode,
10383 rather than only when the engine is analyzing.
10385 Apart from taking back moves, there was also the case where the
10386 user moves forward by more than one move (usually immediately to
10387 end-of-game). In this case a new movelist is fetched from the ICS
10388 to recover the moves that were skipped. But this assumes that the
10389 engine is at the start of the game and feeds all these moves to the
10390 engine. So the engine had to be reset in this case to stay in sync.
10392 2009-10-22 21:16:56 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10393 better init for random number generator
10395 2009-10-21 23:01:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10396 fix for bug #27772: holdings not updated
10398 holdings lines from the ICS nor update the holdings
10399 of boards[forwardMostMove] in stead of boards[currentMove].
10401 2009-10-21 21:32:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10402 allowe parsing / disambiguation of SAN moves like Xe4 in certain situations
10404 This patch allows parsing / disambiguation of SAN moves like Xe4, if there
10405 is only one wild-card piece X on the board. Moves with wild-card pieces
10406 are now considered illegal if they leave the King in check by a piece of
10409 2009-10-20 19:09:46 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10410 fixed bug when switching to variantsuper
10412 2009-10-20 19:06:43 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10413 fix for bug #27715: 2 (minor) graphic issues
10415 I forced a total redraw when Reset is called from the ICS code in case a
10416 new game is encountered, in the hope it will make the reported
10417 (irreproducible) problem go away. As game switches are not frequent, I
10418 guess there is hardly any downside to this.
10420 2009-10-20 18:57:17 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10421 fix for bug #27667: PV line missing in analysis window, part 3
10423 "3. Wish for Engine state string (right to the icon):
10424 Can you add the actual search depth in analyzing mode? A change like "
10426 I also added the requested display of depth of the analysis move in the
10427 EngineOutput window. I guess a similar change could be made to wengineo.c
10428 (as this is in the code they share in common), but no one ever requested
10429 that in the 5 years since Alessandro wrote it. So for now I leave it alone.
10431 2009-10-20 18:52:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10432 fix for bug #27760: debug printf in backend.c and additional check for variant
10434 2009-10-19 23:17:46 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10435 fix for bug #10990: cmail does not seem to support .cmailgames or .cmailaliases
10437 this is correct, deleted the text out of the documentation that claims we support it
10439 2009-10-19 18:40:40 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10440 new alpha version; first one with new naming scheme
10442 2009-10-19 18:07:21 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10443 smarter analysis of the boards that XBoard receives from an ICS
10445 I added smarter analysis of the boards that XBoard receves from an ICS,
10446 based on board size and piece types in the position, to recognize cases
10447 where the board does not match the current variant, and switch to an
10448 appropriate variant.
10450 2009-10-19 18:04:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10451 fix for bug #27667: window should be reference to toplevel
10453 The remaining objections of #27667 should be fixed by bringing the
10454 EngineOutput window under control of the TOPLEVEL compile-time switch.
10456 2009-10-19 18:02:42 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10457 partly fix for bug #27715: scaling of menu bar
10459 the menu bar to the left edge of the window.
10461 2009-10-19 17:59:43 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10462 fixed bug reported in WB forum: second game of a match would
10463 not start when using the GUI book
10465 2009-10-19 17:57:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10466 fix for bug #27751: negative holding counts displayed
10468 I put code in the back-end to prevent holdings counts from
10469 becoming negative when a drop move is made from empty holdings.
10470 (This can happen when re-loading ICS bughouse games,
10471 as the smoves command fails to fill the holdings.)
10473 2009-10-18 20:54:53 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
10474 Updated compiling instructions.
10476 2009-10-18 11:32:55 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
10477 Changes to allow fonts with any charset (such as terminal)
10479 Affects winboard only.
10481 2009-10-16 23:02:41 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
10482 Moved SIGWINCH signal so it can be used...
10484 I goofed putting this in StartChildProcess() originally.
10486 2009-10-16 22:54:12 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
10487 Added internal wrapping ability.
10490 -wrapContinuationSequence "foo" (default: "\\ "
10491 -useInternalWrap (Winboard default: false, XBoard default: true)
10493 Note: -keepLineBreaksICS if set, prevents wrapping, usurping the
10494 useInternalWrap setting. The idea is if you want to keep ICS line
10495 breaks, then you don't want internal wrapping. Because of this,
10496 the new default for keepLineBreaksICS is now false for XBoard.
10498 2009-10-16 19:14:34 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10499 fixed segfaul in convert.c used to convert pixmaps
10501 2009-10-15 19:46:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10502 new mousehandler to correct for premove and promotion popup
10504 this is the new mouse handler for XBoard, which should fully implement
10505 premove, including promotion popup, and yet suppress the promotion popup
10506 on illegal moves that are not premoves. It is almost completely moved to
10507 the back-end now, so that WinBoard will be able to use it as well. I just
10508 must hook it up to winboard.c, in particular harmonize the call-backs of
10509 the mouse driver into the front-end for grabbing and releasing pieces for
10510 dragging, to make sure they have the same names and arguments.
10512 2009-10-15 19:32:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10513 updated black fairy pieces
10515 here is a set of black fairy pieces with opaque white details,
10516 so they have the same style as the orthodox XBoard pieces.
10518 2009-10-15 16:54:51 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
10519 Adjustment to joining to work around server not always including space.
10521 This patch implements commit 98aa02bda540f17f1f50be00e494efafe439b004
10522 into the updated joining routine. This issue seems not to be server
10523 variance, but instead the server electing to omit the space between
10524 words when it occurs at exactly your width setting (-1 actually).
10526 This patch makes the joiner add back the space just like the referenced
10527 commit. Note: this is just a workaround to a server issue-- the joiner
10528 actually joins correctly before this patch.
10530 2009-10-15 07:18:42 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
10531 Fixed joiner detection, allowing it to work with timeseal
10533 When timeseal's buffer fills in the middle of the continuation
10534 sequence, detection fails, and the lines aren't joined.
10536 As a result of this fix, measures intended to bypass joining are
10537 no longer needed, so I removed them. These utilize server vars
10538 when available to prevent splitting.
10540 2009-10-14 14:42:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10541 fixed engingeoutput routine
10543 removed outdated code regarding analysis window
10545 2009-10-14 14:39:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10546 moved bitmap to correct location
10548 was misplaced in a previous commit
10550 2009-10-14 14:26:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10551 fixed wrong number of arguments for EngineOutputPopUp
10553 2009-10-13 21:00:27 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10554 new bitmap converter (including fill option) and new pixmaps
10556 2009-10-13 20:52:40 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10557 forgot to add these two lines to the last commit
10559 2009-10-13 20:51:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10560 removed AnalysisPopUp. Use EngineOutputPopUp instead
10562 this was already in Winboard, copied it to xboard and removed unused code.
10564 2009-10-13 20:32:32 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10565 Proper board and holdings size when switching to variants
10566 gothic, capablanca, great and super within an ICS game.
10568 2009-10-13 20:25:13 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10569 cleaned up an old #ifdef in zippy
10571 2009-10-12 19:25:17 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
10572 neglected this for the auto-width updating in xboard
10574 2009-10-12 19:19:59 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
10575 Added server width adjustment based on client width changes
10577 2009-10-12 19:14:53 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
10578 silence some compiler warnings
10580 2009-10-11 18:39:24 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
10581 Maintainence to support all compilers.
10583 2009-10-11 17:07:27 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
10584 Adjusted alternative joining method to obey keepLineBreaksICS
10586 2009-10-11 14:48:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10587 fix for bug #27668: e.p. field still not passed to engine
10589 PositionToFEN now takes the e.p. rights from epStatus[moveNr],
10590 rather than calculating it on the spot from moveList[moveNr-1]
10591 (which failed on the first move).
10593 2009-10-11 14:46:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10594 fix for bug #27666: naming of variants
10596 Variant names "misc/xxx" are recognized as "normal", rather than "xxx"
10597 to not get confused by the board "misc shogi" run by FICS.
10599 2009-10-11 10:14:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10600 changed enable menus
10602 Put the "Open Chat Window", "Machine Both", and "Engine #N Settings" menu items
10603 in the appropriate enable lists for graying them out wen not applicable.
10605 2009-10-11 10:13:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10606 Added a command-line option -keepLineBreaksICS true/false to control line joining.
10608 2009-10-10 19:30:23 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
10609 Added code to prevent unnecessary width updates.
10611 2009-10-10 18:34:37 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
10612 Turned off wrap when possible on ICS servers.
10614 Turning off line wrap prevents splitting lines up using the
10615 continuation sequence "\\ ". This is desirable when using
10616 timeseal because timeseal's buffer is sometimes too small,
10617 causing it to break lines itself. These lines can't be joined.
10619 2009-10-10 16:30:56 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
10620 vsnprintf() must be _vsnprintf() for MSVC
10622 2009-10-10 16:16:45 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
10623 added code to handle initial width update
10625 2009-10-10 14:21:12 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
10626 Added width updates to ICS client on font and window size changes
10628 What still needs to be done is placing an update call after login
10629 to initialize with the correct width. I didn't see where to put
10632 2009-10-10 14:19:30 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
10633 added ics_printf() and ics_update_width() and utility functions
10635 2009-10-10 11:15:50 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
10636 Cleaned up ConsoleWndProc (not complete, see below)
10638 Using static variables this way is not appropriate. I only addressed
10639 hInput and hText in this commit though. But imagine the WndProc being
10640 used by multiple windows instead of just one, and you can see why
10641 using static variables in this way is wrong.
10643 2009-10-10 11:12:10 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
10644 Restructured URL code so it fits better with how winboard is set up.
10646 2009-10-10 08:57:39 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10647 cleanup: removed "#if 1" statements
10649 2009-10-10 08:55:21 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10650 cleanup: removed "#if 0" from source
10652 a bit of cleanup of the source code
10654 2009-10-10 08:34:10 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10655 fix joining of lines split by ICS
10657 This patch fixes the joining of lines that were split by an ICS, so that adding
10658 a space at the break point is done only when there was not a space already.
10659 (Some ICS leave a space at the end of the broken line, others do not.)
10660 An extra space would interefere with board12 in Gothic Chess, which is so
10661 long that the ICS breaks it, and the WB parser could not handle a double
10662 space within the board.
10664 2009-10-10 08:27:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10665 fix for bug #27642: Clock jumps strangely in engine mode
10667 This moves SwitchClocks() back to after incrementing forwardMostMove,
10668 so that it knows again who has the move (which was broken by the "bare" patch),
10669 and will take the appropriate tick length.
10671 2009-10-10 08:26:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10672 removed test for premove
10674 this was added while looking for the premove bug, but is not needed
10676 2009-10-10 02:03:45 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
10677 added URL detection and provided hotlinks in the ICS client
10679 2009-10-10 02:00:52 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
10680 reverted winboard.c beofre URL commit to correct whitespace conversion
10682 2009-10-09 02:14:22 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
10683 Added URL detection into the console text window for ICS.
10685 2009-10-08 23:51:06 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10686 added some comments and formated code
10688 2009-10-08 23:46:52 -0700 Chris Rorvick <>:
10689 fix printing out help message (list of command line options) (tiny change)
10691 The postfix increment always resulted in an attempt to print out an
10692 option on the right side regardless of one actually existing. Use
10693 prefix increment to prevent a crash when printing an odd number of
10696 2009-10-09 00:04:51 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
10697 Updated navigation accelerators, fixing ICS problems.
10699 Recent changes to the navigation accelerators were in the wrong
10700 accelerator table. Since the goal was to correct non-JAWS versions
10701 back to 4.2.7 behavior, I updated it to how 4.2.7 did it, but still
10702 retained the #ifdef JAWS conditional compilation.
10704 On an ICS, the navigation keys took control away from the ics
10705 client to navigate the game. The update requires the ALT key to
10706 be pressed, but it works identical to 4.2.7, not causing an
10707 unexpected focus back to the board window when you're just editing
10710 2009-10-08 20:33:39 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10711 fixed premove recapture problem;promotion popup appearing on
10712 obviously illegal moves; promotions in Superchess and Great Shatranj
10714 1) the premove recapture problem
10715 2) the promotion popup appearing on obviously illegal moves (the 1. e2a8
10717 3) promotions in Superchess and Great Shatranj, where the piece can now be
10718 selected from the holdings
10720 2009-10-08 20:28:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10721 added forceIllegalMove to xboard
10723 2009-10-05 21:01:32 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10724 bugfix: segfault when invalid option argument was given (bug #27427)
10726 when given a wrong argument to an option (e.g. -tc 0) xboard aborts
10727 before setting up the window, but tried to write a message to the
10728 messageWidget which doesn't exist at that point.
10730 2009-10-05 20:05:00 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10731 small improvement for JAWS version
10733 This is a patch to make JAWS read out any comments when /autoDiplaycomment=true.
10734 As focus does not stay on the Comment window, the comment was not spoken otherwise.
10736 2009-10-05 20:02:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10737 updated to winboard internationalization scripts
10739 Also a slight improvement of the internationalization scripting,
10740 to prevent it from crashing on messages containing a slash.
10742 2009-10-05 20:01:53 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10743 new forceIllegalMoves option
10745 The -forceIllegalMoves option uses setboard or edit to force a position
10746 when an engine refuses the move leading to it by an "Illegal Move" message.
10747 Especially for engines using the edit command this was a bit tricky,
10748 because of the a2a3 kludge to avoid using the white and black commands.
10750 2009-10-05 01:01:54 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
10751 removed _winmajor if not defined so that VC 2008 can compile the project
10753 The oldDialog variable should just be set to 0 in all cases now, and
10754 as such, legacy code supporting the old dialog ought to be removed.
10755 The test for _winmajor is against < 4, which is always false at present,
10756 causing oldDialog to be 0 in every conceviable circumstance.
10758 2009-10-04 09:58:29 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10759 getting ready for 4.4.1 release
10761 2009-10-02 20:47:01 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
10762 Simplified future version changes.
10764 Added a numeric version to config.h that is now used in winboard.rc
10765 instead of being hard-coded there. Just be sure to preserve the
10766 proper format (4 comma-separated 16 bit integers) or else it won't
10769 2009-10-02 16:56:01 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10770 updated version number to 4.4.1.pre
10772 should have done this straight after the last release, but forgot...
10774 2009-10-02 16:48:03 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10775 worked on premove bug
10777 I made an attempt to make premove unsensitive to a race condition,
10778 just in case the premove problem was caused by that (which seems unlikely,
10779 but in any case I added some debug printout to test this).
10781 2009-10-02 16:41:12 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10782 fixed loading of saved games via command line
10784 the variables forwardMostMove and backwardMostMove where set to zero
10785 at the wrong place.
10787 2009-10-02 16:39:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10788 small fixes for the JAWS version
10790 * I moved saying 'check' by the JAWS version to where castling also benefits from it.
10791 * I made sure the check symbols are also recognized on promotion moves
10792 * In the non-JAWS version, define the plain arrows as shortcut keys for the button bar
10794 2009-10-01 16:50:28 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
10795 Fixed bug dereferencing garbage, causing crash.
10797 Commit fa8be4a3fc5d81e9ec1f6c218fcf55c95d34fd10 included code to free the
10798 resultDetails of the gameInfo structure. That exact code exists a few lines
10799 above where it was added. None of these free() calls finish by setting the
10800 member to NULL afterword, therefore repeated attempts to test/free() the
10801 members result in an attempt to free() memory winboard no longer owns, and
10804 link to problematic commit: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/xboard.git/commit/?id=fa8be4a3fc5d81e9ec1f6c218fcf55c95d34fd10
10806 2009-10-01 16:49:57 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
10807 Added wchat.c to the project files we maintain.
10809 2009-10-01 15:52:50 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
10810 Previous fix for VC++/strcasecmp() was wrong-- use StrCaseCmp().
10812 2009-10-01 14:49:58 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
10813 Add resource ID for new Mute menu item.
10815 I know this was probably done by HG, and simply left out of
10816 his commit. Anyway, the project can be built now after this change.
10818 2009-10-01 14:49:09 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
10819 Use of strcasecmp() broke Visual C++.
10821 2009-09-30 20:47:00 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10822 wrong default value for engineDebugOutput
10824 the new default is now 1
10826 2009-09-29 22:55:41 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10827 updated cmail.in to adapt the CVS->git change
10829 don't reference $Revision:$ anymore.
10830 Instead use reference xboard-version via autoconf.
10832 2009-09-29 22:04:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10833 bugfix for protocol extensions: egtbpath -> egtpath
10835 A new and very bad bug was discovered in the implementation of
10836 the protocol extensions: XBoard sends a command "egtbpath" to the
10837 engine in stead of "egtpath" from the protocol specs.
10838 After discussion on WB forum it was decided that egtpath was better
10839 than the egtbpath I originally had proposed, and I changed it accordingly,
10840 but I had not realized that this string occurred TWICE in backend.c,
10841 depending on if matched the -defaultPathEGTB of -egtFormats option.
10842 I only changed the first occurence.
10844 2009-09-27 12:27:44 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10845 fix for edit-position "moves" being sent by XBoard to the engine
10847 2009-09-27 12:25:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10848 Engine did not start playing when out of GUI book on second move with white
10850 2009-09-27 12:24:30 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10851 Opening Engine #1 Settings crashed XBoard when there were no
10852 text-edit options in the dialog (to which to set keyboard focus)
10855 2009-09-27 12:18:35 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10856 added a "Mute All Sounds" item in the WinBoard Options menu, on Eric's request
10858 2009-09-27 12:15:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10859 Updated the RTF docs for the chat windows, engine-settings dialog,
10860 /keepAlive option and new game-list tag
10862 2009-09-27 12:14:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10863 Made the beep sounds for JAWS board navigation configurable through
10864 command-line options
10866 2009-09-27 12:11:49 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10867 Prepared a system to internationalize the WinBoard menus
10869 2009-09-27 12:10:38 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10870 added the result comment to the game-list tags when the game list is
10871 exported to the clipboard
10873 2009-09-27 12:05:32 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10874 rewrote wevalgraph for better frontend/backend separation
10876 I have finished re-writing the eval-graph code to have some
10877 front-end / backe-end separation, something I had already started on my
10878 holiday in Norway (when I had no internet :-) ).
10879 The new code now appears to work exactly like the old code,
10880 and I guess it could be ported to gtk comparatively easily.
10882 2009-09-27 12:00:51 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10883 fix for keepalive and chat window
10885 I made a fix to the keepAlive option so it does not send the date command
10886 to the ICS after every move. This required changing ScheduleDelayedEvent()
10887 so that it does not execute the event if a new identical one gets scheduled.
10888 I also added the option to XBoard. Affects xboard.c (DOS!) and winboard.c
10890 (This also cures the regression of the winboard.c copyright patch)
10892 I extended the chatbox patch to also listen to channel tells, and divert
10893 them to a chatbox for that channel number. Affects
10894 backend.c and wchat.c
10896 That should make those patches fully operational. No docs for either of them
10899 2009-09-27 10:36:23 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10900 fixed parse bug for pgn files
10902 fixed the existing bug that the time-control tag was displayed as "?"
10903 in the game list; turns out it was never parsed on reading PGN files
10905 2009-09-27 10:35:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10906 allow the result comment as a display item in the game list
10908 2009-09-27 10:35:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10909 fixed the HAVE_LIBXPM-dependent compile errors
10911 2009-09-27 10:24:47 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10912 added a chat window to keep track of multiple conversations
10914 The chat-window patch affects:
10915 winboard.c, backend.c, winboard.rc, resource.h, backend.h, and adds
10916 the file winboard/wchat.c, which also affects makefile.gcc and makefile.ms.
10918 In addition I added a new option -keepAlive, which affects
10919 common.h (in addition to winboard.c and backend.c).
10921 As I had to modify backend.h, I also defined the -reset option type there,
10922 which we are going to add later. This required some changes
10923 to suppress warnings in wsettings.c.
10925 2009-09-27 10:22:16 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10926 more files for git to ignore
10928 most of these are generated by make distcheck
10930 2009-09-08 09:33:53 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10931 another bug fix found by Stanislav Brabec
10933 returned -1 in some case although the variable was a char...
10934 changed to signed char
10936 2009-09-20 23:13:13 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
10937 Swapped 'tell' and 'message' parsing order for colorization.
10938 Sometimes messages are relayed as tells and should be colorized as tells.
10940 2009-09-08 09:10:34 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10941 added some more files to be distributed via make dist
10943 as suggested by Stanislav Brabec
10945 2009-09-08 09:01:07 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10946 fixed some implicit declarations reported by Stanislav Brabec
10948 2009-09-07 22:04:39 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10949 fixed a few more small bugs reported by Stanislav Brabec
10951 - A function uses a 'return;' statement, but has actually a value to
10952 return, like an integer ('return 42;') or similar: xboard voidreturn
10953 xengineoutput.c:766, 782
10955 - Program returns random data in a function at xengineoutput.c:602
10957 - With a new toolchain, AM_LDFLAGS cannot contain libraries. Linker
10958 ignores them. Fix is attached.
10960 - ToDo: Convenient name in most projects is TODO (autotools package it
10963 2009-09-06 19:11:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10964 reverted .texi file and fixed Makefile.am
10966 the problem was actually not in the texi-file, but the Makefile.am.
10967 Reverted changes in the .texi and fixed it (hopefully) correctly now.
10969 2009-09-06 18:23:01 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10970 get "make distcheck" to work
10972 needed to add all *.h files to Makefile.am and also the bitmaps that
10973 are needed and some other files. Also had modified copyright.texi.
10975 2009-09-05 09:54:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10976 changed to version 4.4.0
10978 2009-09-05 09:44:21 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10979 updated AUTHORS, README and ChangeLog files for release
10981 2009-09-05 08:52:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10984 2009-09-04 22:39:45 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10985 set castling rights after setting up a position
10987 I was going through old WB forum posts, and I encountered a
10988 bug report for a bug that I never fixed: The castling rights should
10989 be properly set (actually: cleared) after setting up a position
10990 in Edit Position mode (as opposed to pasting a FEN).
10992 2009-09-03 23:11:18 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10993 removed install files from master
10995 they now live in their own branch
10997 2009-09-03 22:30:18 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10998 updated polyglot protocol
11000 I added a new option type "-reset" to the protocol for the new option feature.
11001 4.4.0 does not implement it yet, but Michel wants it for future Polyglots,
11002 and I think it is best to update the protocol in one big swoop.
11003 So I want to already include it in the specs now. (engine-intf.html)
11004 I made xboard's response to an unknown option type compliant
11005 with the new protocol specs.
11007 2009-09-03 22:28:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11010 2009-09-03 20:47:13 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11011 Updated project files for DevCpp and Visual Studio to add wsettings.c
11013 2009-09-03 20:46:33 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11014 Added newline at end of file to silence warning.
11016 2009-08-31 20:29:49 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11017 workaround for error message for missing pieces used in variants
11018 and initstring bugfix: error messages showed for non-existing pieces
11019 showed up for old user supplied pixmaps.
11020 Loading a pixmap of the king for the missing pieces now.
11022 Another bad bug surfaced: the -initString argument does not work in any
11023 XBoard version! (Including 4.2.7b) The escape sequences for linefeed in
11024 the string are not understood: -initString "new\nrandom\n" actually sends
11025 the \ and n to the engine (which then does not recognize the line as a
11028 So I also added a patch to expand escape sequences in the InitString and
11029 ComputerString command-line options.
11031 2009-08-31 20:27:24 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11032 updated installe script
11034 I re-organized the doc files in the install, so they now all go in the
11035 WinBoard\doc folder (and none in the root). I so included the COPYING
11036 and COPYRIGHT files there. This required some updates of the links in
11037 some html files, and of the menu link to README.html in the install script.
11038 I also fixed an error with the current directory
11039 in the menu short-cuts of some engines (which started in the fonts folder,
11040 and could not find the opening book there...).
11042 2009-08-31 20:25:17 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11043 updated documentation
11045 2009-08-31 20:20:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11046 updated installer script
11048 2009-08-31 19:51:48 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11049 new help files for windows
11051 2009-08-25 20:41:29 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11054 2009-08-25 20:36:53 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11055 undid some previous changes
11057 some files got mixed up
11059 2009-08-25 20:32:22 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11060 fixed small bug in wsetting
11062 2009-08-25 20:29:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11063 trigger a focus switch to ICS input field when typing
11065 old behavior was that "." or "," triggered this,
11066 now every printable character except 1-9 will trigger the focus switch
11068 2009-08-25 20:26:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11069 bug in backend.c when receiving lines from ICS
11071 A space was appended to every character received from an ICS
11072 in stead of just at line breaks.
11074 2009-08-24 23:47:48 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11075 fixed warning messages from compiler
11077 2009-08-23 14:24:38 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11078 fixed build on OS X
11080 this seems to fix it. Bug reported by Louis Zulli who also did the testing.
11082 2009-08-23 11:54:28 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11083 OK, this is the beefed up version of the Polyglot info-string kludge,
11086 2009-08-23 10:22:48 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11087 added missing X_LIBS references to Makefile.am
11089 2009-08-22 23:33:44 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11090 made the install script and executable
11092 2009-08-22 23:19:07 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11093 changed beta1 to beta2
11095 2009-08-22 23:14:11 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11096 fixed enable zippy in configure script and added some checks for OS X
11098 make tried to compile zippy even when --disable-zippy was given.
11099 Also fixed a bug in xboard.c where #ifdef instead of #if was used
11100 to test for ZIPPY (it's either 0 or 1, so we need #if). Also added
11101 some special checks for OS X, not sure if these will do it, but it's a start;)
11103 2009-08-22 19:09:54 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11104 added configure summary to configure output, also cleaned up configure.ac a bit
11106 used AS_HELP_STRING where possible
11108 2009-08-22 18:10:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11109 added check for malloc.h
11111 this should fix a build error on OS X
11113 2009-08-22 17:47:44 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11114 A small cosmetic change in the size of buttons
11115 inside a groupbox of the Engine-Setup dialog.
11117 2009-08-22 17:32:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11118 make xboard usable with UCI engines
11120 I made a small patch in xoptions.c (where the corresponding Engine Settings
11121 dialog was for XBoard), to make it at least usable for UCI engines: I now
11122 divide the options over upto 4 columns, if there are too many to fit into
11123 a single column. This seems to work. Still looks very ugly, but it is
11126 2009-08-22 17:30:05 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11127 fix premove for winboard
11129 This might fix the illusive premove problem. In 4.2.7 the code was not properly
11130 indented, and this led to an unbalanced braces error that I then fixed the
11131 wrong way. Click-click premoves did only work after clicking the toSquare twice.
11132 It might be that they actually did work after clicking it once,
11133 but that the highlights were not displayed (although set)
11134 for lack of a display refresh.
11136 2009-08-22 17:28:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11137 fixed bug for double saved games
11139 This patch should solve the problem with doubly saved games when XBoard is
11140 closed. I calculate a cecksum of each saved game now (including move comments),
11141 and suppress saving if the checksum is not changed.
11143 2009-08-22 17:25:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11144 fixed xengineoutput.c, to keep the duplicated code identical to that of wengineo.c.
11146 2009-08-22 17:24:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11147 updated xboard.texi: added warning that pixmaps are not build for all variants
11149 2009-08-22 17:19:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11150 added a dialog for engine-specific option settings
11152 2009-08-22 17:09:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11153 updated some documentation
11155 2009-08-22 17:07:10 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11156 fixed several bugs in the backend and added some more polyglot support
11158 * I added recognition for the new UCI3 option types that are recognized in the WB
11159 option features, to make sure this version is compatible with future Polyglots.
11160 Also fixed a bug that failed to strip an asterisk prefix from the first
11163 * I fixed the ICS-time-in-PGN bug.
11165 * I fixed a bug which caused a space to be missing when long lines broken up by
11166 an ICS were joined.
11168 2009-08-22 17:02:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11169 better polyglot support for engine ouput
11171 I fixed the algorithm for clearing the Engine Output window to work better with
11172 the latest Polyglot, whight outputs UCI "info strings" amongst the thinking
11175 2009-08-22 16:23:32 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11176 Beginnings of installer for 4.4.0. HGM asked me to forward the nsi file,
11177 but it seemed best to just add the installer tree to git even though
11178 it's not finished. You must install NSIS then FontName-0.7.exe
11179 (included in installer folder) then run build.bat in the same directory.
11181 2009-08-05 22:18:29 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11182 patch backend.c to make the -noGUI option also work in ICS mode.
11184 2009-08-01 13:09:49 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11185 temporary fix for pre-select
11187 As a temporary kludge I replaced looking into the holdings for the piece type
11188 by figuring out which piece would belong on the clicked holdings square.
11189 This is a non-trivial process, as it depends on which pieces participate
11190 in a certain variant.
11192 2009-07-30 00:19:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11193 changed click-click moves
11195 I got complaints about the way XBoard 4.4.0 handles click-click moves,
11196 in particular changing the selected piece after selecting King
11197 (for which I suppressed interference with FRC castling in a rather brutal way).
11198 People tell me it is very annoying that clicks sometimes don't work to select a piece.
11199 WinBoard uses refined logic in the back-end to handle this, but the XBoard
11200 front-end is not interfaced with that yet.
11201 (This would require a major rewrite of the mouse handler.)
11202 This temporary patch suppresses this behavior in all variants that do not support
11203 Fischer castling, and even there only exhibit it for Rook-after-King selection
11204 (which will be interpreted as an attempt to enter a castling move as K x own R).
11206 2009-07-26 08:43:35 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11207 option -adjudicateDrawMoves is not included in the XBoard list.
11209 added it to the option list
11211 2009-07-21 20:23:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11212 converted files from dos to unix format
11214 run dos2unix over a bunch of files
11216 2009-07-16 07:43:38 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11217 Stripped out unused VersionInfo
11219 2009-07-15 23:16:19 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11220 changed version to 4.4.0.beta1
11222 2009-07-15 23:12:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11223 updated INSTALL file to add ./autogen.sh
11225 2009-07-15 22:44:05 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11226 higher number of engine options possible now
11228 I upped the number of options per engine from
11229 50 to 100, and the average number of characters per option from 10 to 20.
11231 2009-07-15 12:30:37 -0600 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11234 2009-07-14 23:41:36 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11235 Added version information to resources.
11237 2009-07-14 23:40:50 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11238 Added Jaws targets to IDE projects.
11240 2009-07-14 23:39:12 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11241 Final makefile adjustments and compiling instructions.
11243 2009-07-13 22:35:17 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11244 Cleaned up garbage left behind from my makefile update.
11246 2009-07-13 22:26:56 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11247 Updated cmdline makefiles to be able to produce JAWS binaries.
11249 This breaks support for MSVC 4.x. It may still be possible to
11250 use that compiler if you obtain the latest SDK from Microsoft.
11251 MSVC 6.0 still works, but I had to change the target windows
11252 version to 0x500 which causes warnings about building beta
11253 applications. This is all due to the use of MENUBARINFO data
11254 type in the jaws binary. You can reduce the WINVER to 0x0400
11255 safely if you are not building a JAWS binary, and MSVC 4.x
11258 2009-07-13 22:26:10 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11259 Removed dependency on jfwapi.h
11261 Allows anyone to compile a jaws compatible binary.
11263 2009-07-13 22:23:31 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11264 Fixed duplicate resource in winboard.rc
11266 PLEASE remember to pull before commiting. This is the 2nd
11267 time I've fixed this. It's a waste of time to keep fixing
11270 2009-07-13 19:36:58 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11271 resolved conflict between Xt and Xaw libraries
11273 seems like we don't need to link against Xt.
11275 2009-07-13 19:33:57 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11276 help-menu was not un-grayed in the JAWS version, when it played with engines
11278 2009-07-13 19:29:53 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11279 integrated jaws into winboard
11281 I integrated the JAWS patch now into WinBoard in such a way that the
11282 JAWS and standard version can use the same resource file. This new
11283 winboard.c contains the improved dialog layot of the JAWS version,
11284 but none of the menus and JAWS-specific acclerator keys. The latter
11285 are now generated at run time by code in jaw.s. As a result jaws.h
11286 could be cancelled, as there the JAWS-specific defines are no
11287 longer needed outside jaws.c (now the .rc does not use them), and
11288 is incorporated in it.
11290 2009-07-12 15:37:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11291 fixed problem in autoconf using Xaw3d
11293 rewrote the section for Xaw3d in the autoconf file
11295 2009-07-12 15:29:28 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11296 Added Jaws support to GCC makefile
11298 2009-07-12 15:28:20 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11299 added help support: MSVC IDE and DevCpp IDE project files
11301 2009-07-12 15:26:49 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
11302 Removed obsolete makefiles and support files.
11304 2009-07-12 12:33:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11305 updated AUTHORS with the help of git. use
11307 git log --pretty=oneline --name-only --author=AUTHORNAME v4.2.7..HEAD |sort |uniq
11309 a bit of hand editing and a quick emacs macro later and you have a nice
11310 comma seperated list of all files changes by one author between two commits.
11312 2009-07-12 12:31:47 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11313 updated Changelog using git log --no-merges --pretty="* %ai: %s%n %b" HEAD v4.2.7
11315 2009-07-12 11:34:28 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11316 cleaned up some more copyright notices
11318 2009-07-12 11:22:30 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11319 updated copyright to reflect A. Scotte as copyright holder
11321 need to mention him, since the paperwork won't be finished before the next release
11323 2009-07-12 10:56:29 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11324 updated patchlevel to "k"
11326 2009-07-12 10:53:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11327 fixed autoconf problem with VERSION/PATCHLEVEL variables
11329 xboard used it's own version of PRODUCT, VERSION and PATCHLEVEL variables.
11330 Switched to PACKAGE_STRING provided by autoconf
11332 2009-07-12 10:29:46 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11333 cleaned up old CVS left overs
11335 removed $Id tags from all files
11337 2009-07-12 10:10:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11338 converted xhistory via dos2unix
11340 2009-07-12 10:09:24 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11341 fixed crash in history window
11343 someone discovered that opening the move-history window in XBoard leads to
11344 an immediate crash. Turns out that renaming the menu item broke it! (The
11345 name of the item was apprently used elsewhere in the code to access it,
11346 for putting a check mark there.)
11348 2009-07-12 10:04:30 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11349 fix for Animation of castling moves in Chess960
11351 Animation of castling moves in Chess960 turned out to sometimes make the
11352 king disappear from the display. For the time being I patched this in
11353 xboard.c to suppress animation of FRC castling moves altogether. As FRC
11354 castlings internally are represented as KxR, the to-square does not make
11355 sense anyway, which made the animation look very weird even when it led
11356 not to a king disappearance act. And the Rook move of a castling is never
11359 2009-07-11 22:44:53 -0600 Eric Mullins <eric@hiarcs.(none)>:
11360 Update GCC makefile to remove .obj targets.
11362 Dunno how they got in there, but they should be .o
11364 2009-07-11 22:42:41 -0600 Eric Mullins <eric@hiarcs.(none)>:
11365 Update makefile dependencies on help.c and help.h.
11367 2009-07-11 22:36:59 -0600 Eric Mullins <eric@hiarcs.(none)>:
11368 Allow compiling with MSVC6.0 and 4.1
11370 Move prototypes into help.h, after making sure that DWORD_PTR is
11371 defined. Include help.h from winboard.c and help.c so both files
11372 benefit from the definition.
11374 2009-07-11 18:26:16 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11375 lists these accelerator keys in the menus for JAWS
11377 2009-07-11 18:24:19 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11380 This patch allows the use of Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V for Copy Game
11381 and Paste even in I C S mode when the board has focus.
11383 2009-07-11 18:22:17 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11384 better handling of pasting a game without PGN tags
11386 patch in wclipbrd.h to make it smarter to decide between pasting
11387 a game or a position so it can handle games without PGN tags.
11388 If it doesn't parse as a FEN it is assumed to be a game.
11390 2009-07-11 18:20:56 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11391 fixed parser error for knight move
11393 The parser had a strange quirk: it recognized bd2 as a valid Knight move
11394 (Nb1-d2) while this SAN format should be reserved for Pawn moves only.
11396 2009-07-11 18:19:30 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11397 fixed a few warnings in connection with the help patch (now warning free)
11399 2009-07-11 18:13:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11400 some major re-assignment of accelerator keys in the JAWS
11402 2009-07-11 16:54:53 -0600 Eric Mullins <eric@hiarcs.(none)>:
11403 several small fixes
11405 uptracked winboard.ini
11407 * Cleanup: moved "Some definitions required..." from winboard.c to config.h,
11408 and combined some definitions from borland w/ MS.
11410 * Changed internal HtmlHelp return type and 4th argument to facilitate various
11411 compilers. These changes, while not strictly adhering to HtmlHelp() conventions,
11412 won't impact anything since the function modified is internal only.
11414 * Modified HtmlHelp return values to integer to silence warnings.
11415 * Added help.c to the project in makefile.gcc & makefile.ms.
11416 * Fixed duplicate resource in winboard.rc.
11418 2009-07-09 22:08:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11419 added JAWS support; help files for Vista; bugfixes for winboard.c
11422 * help files should now work under Vista (the user has to have either
11423 a program to view old windows help files or to view html-files installed)
11424 * I fixed the tabbing between all windows that were added according to Tim's sugestions.
11425 * I added typing in of a move number in the move type-in dialog as a shortcut
11426 to going to that position by use of the < and > buttons. Mainly intended to
11427 ease life for the blind, but I think it can be generally useful.
11428 (Although the move-history dialog provides that functionality too,
11429 this is quicker if you don't happen to have it open.)
11430 * I added typing of a FEN in the move type-in dialog in Edit Position mode.
11431 (Which could not be used without mouse at all, and is defective
11432 in crazyhouse even with mouse, as there was no way to populate holdings.)
11434 2009-07-09 22:03:00 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11435 some bugfixes: ICS error handling
11437 * play a different sound for takebacks in ICS mode
11438 * pop up error messages for illegal moves for typed-in moves
11440 2009-07-09 21:50:41 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11441 removed no longer needed debug message
11443 2009-07-09 21:48:23 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11444 fixed compile error from a previous change
11446 2009-07-09 21:44:54 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11447 user selectable font in game list
11449 This makes the game list use the same (user selectable) font
11450 as the the move-history window.
11452 2009-06-30 21:27:34 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11453 fixed typos in xboard.texi documentation.
11455 2009-06-30 21:16:59 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11458 2009-06-27 17:06:26 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11459 changed font in engine output window
11461 The engine-output window now uses the same font as the move-history window
11462 (which was selectable in the "Options -> Fonts..." menu, while the other
11465 2009-06-27 17:03:19 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11466 fixed some characters in xboard.texi
11468 It seems that copying manual sections from the RTF to th texi file did
11469 somehow mess up the double-quote characters, and changed them into some
11470 strange (unicode?) symbols.
11472 2009-06-27 16:56:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11473 two shogi related bugfixes
11475 I discovered a bug in the move generator for the Shogi Dragon King. I
11476 guess it went unnoticed so far because this is a promoted version of the
11477 Rook, which hardly occurs in games. (moves.c)
11479 There was also a problem with the piecesfix I sent you before; Shogi
11480 chosen as initial variant did use wrong piece symbols. (I had tested this
11481 on gothic, but there it happened to work for a different reason, unique to
11482 gothic.) This affects xboard.c.
11484 2009-06-27 16:54:04 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11487 2009-06-27 16:51:02 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11488 adds bitmaps for shogi promotions, and selects the bitmaps or
11489 pixmaps for the more rarely used piece types on a per-variant basis.
11491 2009-06-27 16:44:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11492 adds new piece types in the promotion dialog and edit-position piece menu
11494 2009-06-27 16:13:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11495 updated bitmaps files: files for fairy pieces where missing,
11496 others had names that didn't work with autoloading.
11498 2009-06-27 16:06:35 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11499 fixed a bug concerning bitmaps
11501 2009-06-27 15:53:45 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11502 give a default directory for bitmaps files (tiny change)
11504 this is also one of the debian patches, should be rewritten to use
11505 the correct install directory. No Author was given.
11507 2009-06-27 15:47:52 -0700 Brian May <>:
11508 verbose_error_message_about_recognized_options (tiny change from Debian patches)
11510 2009-06-27 15:45:14 -0700 Matt Zimmerman <>:
11511 add a visual low time warning (tiny change from Debian patches)
11513 2009-06-24 23:31:52 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11514 dos 2 unix conversion of backend.c
11516 2009-06-24 23:30:07 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11517 exchanged some sprintf with snprintf found in a patch for the debian system,
11518 extended it a bit to other sprintf's original patch included only 11 lines
11519 by Florian Ernst <florian@debian.org>
11521 2009-06-24 23:07:23 -0700 Mark Ioli <chessknight>:
11522 enabled a patch for default settings in winboard
11524 2009-06-24 22:53:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11525 updated copyright notice
11528 2009-06-24 22:52:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11529 patches a bug in chosing the initial board size on a virgin startup
11530 I introduced recently
11532 2009-06-24 22:49:33 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11533 I put in testing for the winning condition in 3checks
11535 on a check it just goes through the entire game to subject
11536 every position on a check test, to see if there were two more.
11538 2009-06-24 22:47:01 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11539 updated copyright notice in docs
11541 2009-06-24 22:41:40 -0700 Florian Ernst <florian@debian.org>:
11542 added small patch from debian (tiny change)
11544 according to the debian patch tracker, this patch is by
11545 Florian Ernst <florian@debian.org>.
11546 It fixes whitespace issues in filename called from cmail.
11548 2009-06-24 22:33:13 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11549 converted dos2unix format for xboard.texi
11551 2009-06-24 22:31:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11552 deleted two more files that don't need to be in git
11554 these files can be generated by autogen.sh
11556 2009-06-21 12:10:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11557 major overhaul of the -stickyWindows feature
11559 I did a major overhaul of the -stickyWindows feature.
11560 The game-list and ICS-interaction windows are now also sticky.
11561 I also added a form of stickiness when the main window is resized;
11562 edges of auxiliary windows sticking to the right or bottom side of
11563 the main window stay attached when the window resizes
11564 (due to nr of board squares or their size). The way the window
11565 coordinates are saved in the .ini file is now relative to the
11566 main window, and some dummy options are added to be able to
11567 recognize right- and bottom-edge sticking, and reconstruct that
11568 when WB starts up with another board size. Also added are
11569 volatile options to ensure there will be space for auxiliary windows
11570 above and left of the main window.
11572 2009-06-21 12:07:01 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11573 fixed long-algebraic form of drops
11575 The WB parser turned out not to understand the long-algebraic form
11576 of drops send by an ICS. (like B/@@-e4), so even with
11577 legality testing off I now use the SAN move for drops.
11579 2009-06-18 18:35:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11580 Refined stalemate adjudication in Suicide, some cleanup
11582 Refined stalemate adjudication in Suicide, which seems to be not always won
11583 for the stalemated side, but for the side with the smallest number of pieces.
11584 Cleaned up the adjudication code in the process. (backend.c moves.c, moves.h)
11585 Also includes a tiny change in the -autoKibitz format, as requested on
11588 2009-06-18 18:32:57 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11589 Enhancement of the way -autoLogo decides which logos to display
11591 2009-06-16 00:06:59 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11592 bugfix and enhancement in autoKibitz mode
11594 changed the format of the autoKibitz: score/depth in stead of depth/score,
11595 as in PGN. I also supress the ICS time for the move now in the PGN
11596 if extended info is available. When enhancing the functionality of
11597 the autoKibitz command (using the opponent engine kibitz for the saved PGN)
11598 I discovered that the xengineoutput.c in our tree was obsolete,
11599 and contained a routine of which the arguments were no longer compatble
11600 with the call from backend.c, and caused segfaulting. I copied in
11601 the corresponding routine in wengineo.c, which was compatible. That the
11602 compiler did not flag this is a sign of badly organized code, I suppose...
11604 The enhancement itself affected backend.c.
11606 2009-06-16 00:04:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11607 modified clock layout
11609 I altered the display of the clocks in the presence of engine logos; I used to
11610 stack them, but some inquiry on Talkchess sowed that people disliked the
11611 stacking. So now I display them next to each other again, but as 2-line-high
11612 fields to make room for te logos.
11614 2009-06-15 23:59:32 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11615 new zippy option zippyShortGame
11617 On request of Mike Adams I added a new zippy option, -zippyShortGame,
11618 to make life more difficult for abusers of abort and disconnect for cheating.
11620 2009-06-15 23:56:40 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11621 fixed some bugs in the animation of atomic captures
11623 2009-06-13 15:27:26 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11624 some small bugfixes
11626 I had overlooked one place from which the FEN writer
11627 (of whicf I changed the argument types), which made WB crash
11628 if you copied a FEN (or PGN that cotained FEN) to the clipboard.
11629 I must have overlooked a warning during compile, or some depedency
11630 is not correct in the makefile. Anyway, wclipboard.c had to be changed.
11631 I also moved adjudication of some losing conditions to before tetsing
11632 for stalemate, (e.g. in atomic, if your king get destroyd you lose,
11633 even if you have no moves after that because it was your only piece.).
11634 this affects backend.c.
11635 I had used the same bits in the rule-modifier flags for indicating
11636 mandatory capture as was already used for indicating FRC-style castling.
11637 This led to frequent illegal move calls in FRC... (moves.h)
11639 2009-06-13 10:45:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11640 cleaned up HTML in FAQ.html -- still need to work on content
11642 2009-06-13 09:36:26 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11643 added option for work-around for some FRC engines in regards to FRCFENs
11645 It suddenly occurred to me that I had promised on CCC to include an option
11646 to provide a work-around for the problem that some FRC engines do not
11647 understand FRC FENs (and thus do not play at all under WinBoard,
11648 as FRC always has to begin with sending the initial position).
11649 So I added the options -firstNeedsNoncompliantFEN, -secondNeedsNoncompliantFEN.
11650 This affects winboard.c and xboard.c, (for defining the option),
11651 common.h, backend.h, backend.c, (for implementing it),
11652 xboard.texi and winboard.rtf (decribing it).
11653 This option provides users with a means to always force the FEN castling field
11654 to KQkq (but can be used for many other work-arounds as well).
11656 2009-06-13 09:30:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11657 fixed bug with random calls
11659 There also seemed to be a bug with the shuffling of opening positions;
11660 I had changed the declaration of the position number from
11661 long long int to u64 to comply with MSVC, but this suppressed shuffling
11662 completely. I now changed it to int. I recently noted a problem with true
11663 randomizing anyway: this was based on srand(time()), but time() apparently
11664 did not change fast enough, so that starting several games in rapid succession
11665 (because the book line contained a 3-fold repetition) produced identical games.
11666 So I now seed the random once and for all during startup, based on the msec of
11667 the time mark, and removed the other calls to srand().
11669 2009-06-13 09:26:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11670 changed name for fairymax program in xboard.h
11672 2009-06-13 09:25:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11673 removed my name from copyright message in help->about menu
11675 2009-06-13 09:22:02 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11676 fixed -stickyWindows option
11678 I figured out why -stickyWindows was not working in XP and Vista
11679 (while it always worked under Win2K), and I think I found a fix for
11680 it that works under all Windows versions. (I tried XP and Win2K.)
11682 2009-06-13 09:20:38 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11683 Updated docs for Engine-Settings menu
11685 2009-06-13 09:19:05 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11686 Awareness of winning conditions for atomic and giveaway variants; two bugfixes
11688 fixed bug in claim verification
11689 Bugfix on initial position of Great Shatranj
11691 2009-06-13 09:16:47 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11692 Legality testing (mandatory capture) in giveaway variants
11694 2009-06-13 09:16:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11695 don't ignore winboard/parser.c
11697 2009-06-13 09:12:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11698 Added new variant Twilight Chess
11700 2009-06-13 09:08:57 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11701 some renaming and restructuring of WB menu items, to conform more to XBoard
11703 2009-06-13 09:07:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11704 Fixed bug in atomic patch that interfered with non-atomic variants
11706 2009-06-10 21:46:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11707 fixed different use of engine option compared to Polyglot
11709 it turns out the new Polyglot uses a sightly different version
11710 of the GUI->engine option command than the one I proposed
11711 (and implemented in XBoard; Michel sneaked in an '=' sign
11712 between the NAME and VALUE of the option, to allow for
11713 more unambiguous parsing. I guess in principle this is a good idea,
11714 so I adapted XBoard to Polyglot rather than the other way around.
11715 The result is that there are canges in xboard.c, and the documentation.
11716 I noticed that I unjustly had internationalized the option strings
11717 to be send to the engine in xoptions.c; this was of course nonsense,
11718 as this was WB protocol. So I undid that too.
11720 2009-06-10 21:37:47 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11721 add the already supported variants 3check and great (=Great Shatranj)
11722 to the New Variant... menu.
11724 2009-06-10 21:32:22 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11725 animate explosions in variant atomic (if animate moves is on).
11727 2009-06-10 21:30:19 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11728 fixed castling bug in variant twokings.
11730 2009-06-10 21:22:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11731 fixed forteitary wins for special game variations
11733 feature that corrects forfeitary wins (e.g. on time)
11734 of a bare King to draws of course breaks proper operation
11735 in losers, suicide and giveaway
11737 2009-06-09 21:02:51 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11738 automatically test ini file extension for files from commandline option @filename
11740 The winboard.c is a patch that automatically tries indirection files on the
11741 command line (@filename type arguments) also with an extension .ini if the name itself
11742 did not match any existing file and contained no period. This saves the user typing the
11743 .ini all the time (which I started to find pretty annoying while working on the installer
11746 2009-06-08 15:23:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11747 added gamelisttag option to xboard
11749 also updated documentation.
11751 2009-06-08 15:20:00 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11752 updated RTF file for winboard
11754 2009-06-06 09:12:48 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11755 fixed syntax error in texi file
11757 2009-06-06 08:57:52 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11758 updated to patchlevel "j"
11760 2009-06-06 09:00:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11761 fixed adjudicating probelm in Shantranj
11763 Refrain from adjudicating a draw based on insufficient mating material
11764 (except bare King vs bare King) in Shatranj (where in this case you can
11765 still win by baring the opponent's King).
11767 2009-06-06 08:55:17 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11768 updated documentation and FAQ
11770 2009-06-04 22:52:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11771 source clean up. Fix compiler warning, removed unused variables, etc.
11773 2009-06-04 20:43:29 -0700 Eric Mullins <emwine at earthlink.net>:
11774 adding support for different windows compiler
11776 Eric kindly provided us with some makefiles for different windows
11777 compiler and also fixed some issues that came up while using those compilers.
11779 2009-06-04 18:27:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11780 cleanup: got rid of a lot of files that are not needed for a new release
11782 lots of documentation was available in several places,
11783 old unused source files and not used graphics file were floating around
11784 in the tree. This should clean up most of it. No need to keep these files
11785 around, especially since we are using version control.
11787 2009-05-29 18:56:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11788 Added the Action-menu items that allow the user to adjudicate
11789 ongoing games in Two-Machines mode. This was an already existing
11790 backend function from Winboard_x; I only had to create a menu item for it
11791 to be called. Due to an oversight I had forgotten to do that so far.
11792 (Logically, I should have done it in the 4.3.5 release,
11793 where I updated the XBoard menus to conform to the WinBoard menus.)
11795 I tested them, and they seem to work. (As expected.)
11797 2009-05-28 22:23:00 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11798 updated patchlevel to "i"
11800 2009-05-28 22:19:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11801 small change to mousewheel support; two changes in window behaviour
11803 * Visible effects during resizing suppressed, bug in chosing new size fixed.
11804 * No longer reserves left and top margins next to main window on first popup.
11805 * built in some hysteresis into mousewheel support, ignorng the first event in any new
11806 direction to suppress effects from accidential mouse movement.
11808 2009-05-28 22:11:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11809 corrected 'animate dragging'
11811 I finally figured out how the 'animate dragging' works in XBoard,
11812 so that I could add code to do the unstacking of multiple pieces
11813 in the holdings, rather than always leaving an empty square while
11814 you drag them. (And then suddenly re-growing the remaining pieces
11815 as you make the drop.) It does not look as fancy as in WinBoard
11816 yet, because the counts still only decrease when you release the
11817 piece, rather than when you lift it. But this is not nearly as
11818 disturbing as leaving empty holdings (if only temporarily) when
11819 you still have pieces there.
11821 2009-05-28 22:06:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11822 Added comand-line options -debugFile (as synonym for -nameOfDebugFile,
11823 as WinBoard also has these synonyms), and -engineDebugOutput
11824 (wich already existed in the backend).
11826 2009-05-28 21:57:53 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11827 updated documentation for new release
11829 2009-05-28 21:55:51 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11830 added Xiangqi perpetual-chase detection
11832 2009-05-28 00:06:53 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11833 Updated all files to GPL version 3.
11835 2009-05-28 00:03:32 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11836 converted two files from dos to unix format
11838 2009-05-27 23:12:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11839 updated INSTALL, NEWS and other files for new release
11841 cleaned up a bit and updated some information in the text files.
11843 2009-05-07 21:48:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11844 winboard/config.h shouldn't be in .gitignore, only ./config.h
11846 2009-05-07 21:47:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11847 bumped patchlevel to 0g
11849 2009-05-07 21:46:02 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11850 corrected path in makefile
11852 2009-05-07 21:45:48 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11855 2009-05-07 21:45:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11856 added firstOptions, secondOptions, noGUI, firstXBook, secondXBook
11858 2009-05-07 21:44:03 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11859 handle promotion case for Shogi
11861 2009-05-07 21:43:34 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11862 add note about RESULT command for GUI programmers
11864 2009-05-07 21:42:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11865 small changes to book.c
11867 added code for different board sizes
11868 added some debuginfo
11869 handle promotion of pieces
11871 2009-05-05 23:07:18 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11872 added a .gitignore file
11874 2009-05-03 12:41:06 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11875 wrong line ending for Unix... ran dos2unix on both files
11877 2009-05-02 13:51:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11878 fixed texinfo files, added windows help file, removed config.h from git
11880 texinfo.in is not needed anymore, since it only provided a
11881 version string, but this can be created automatically using autotools
11883 deleted config.h from version control, since it is automatically created.
11884 added winboard.hlp file (not sure if needed)
11886 2009-04-26 23:34:34 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11887 updated autoconf init file
11889 * renamed autoconf init file from configure.in to configure.ac
11890 * added bug-report email address to ac_init
11891 * replaced ac_output(...) with ac_config_files, ac_config_commands and ac_output
11893 2009-04-26 14:49:03 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11894 parser.c is generated by lex, so it shouldn't be tracked
11895 and also parcer.c shouldn't be in Makefile.am
11897 2009-04-26 14:44:51 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11898 added book.c to Makefile.am
11900 2009-04-26 13:49:15 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11901 use autoheader to create config.h.in
11903 no need to track this in git anymore
11905 2009-04-26 11:13:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11906 fixed autoheader warings, remove depreciated acconfig.h
11908 2009-04-26 10:30:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11911 2009-05-02 10:55:39 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11912 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.16
11914 2009-05-02 10:50:10 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11915 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.15
11917 2009-05-02 10:38:39 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11918 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.14
11920 2009-05-02 10:13:41 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11921 HGM fixed cygwin compile for winboard
11923 2009-04-24 16:11:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11924 cross compilier working
11926 2009-04-19 10:00:52 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11927 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.13
11929 2009-04-19 09:52:47 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11930 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.12
11932 2009-04-19 09:48:59 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11933 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.8
11935 2009-04-19 09:44:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11936 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.7
11938 2009-04-19 09:39:19 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11939 changes by H.G. Muller; version 4.3.4
11941 2009-04-19 09:34:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11942 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.2
11944 2009-04-19 10:26:24 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11945 changes from H.G. Muller
11947 2009-04-16 23:06:13 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11948 cleaned up the directory a bit. Removed winboard-dm-beta,
11949 merged the two Changelogs together
11951 2009-04-16 14:12:48 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
11952 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20060129
11954 2009-04-16 14:09:33 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
11955 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20060112
11957 2009-04-16 14:04:02 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
11958 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20051231
11960 2009-04-16 13:59:12 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
11961 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20051129
11963 2009-04-16 13:53:41 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
11964 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20050322
11966 2009-04-10 04:18:59 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11967 translated a handfull of strings and set the codeset to UTF-8
11968 for the translations.
11970 2009-03-18 03:20:50 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11971 Translation: added German po file (roughly 50% translated)
11973 2009-03-01 04:23:54 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11974 fixed bug #22853: changed all .Xdefaults to .Xresources in xboard.texi
11976 2009-03-01 02:43:43 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11977 fixed bug #25672, patch #6182 by adding DESTDIR support to Makefile.in
11979 2009-03-01 02:33:26 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11980 fixed a warning message in the configure script
11982 2009-02-28 22:58:57 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11983 fixed parser.l. Should fix bug #22812
11985 2009-02-28 22:58:14 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11986 fixed parser.l. Should fix bug #22812
11988 2009-02-28 22:55:30 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11989 added myself to the AUTHOR file
11991 2007-06-15 04:26:57 +0000 Mark Loli <chessknight>:
11992 Initial check-in of NSIS Winboard installer files.
11994 * 06/12/2005: bugfix some more possible buffer overflows.
11996 * 06/27/2004: added simple icsEngineAnalyze for xboard
11998 * 06/26/2004: added icsEngineAnalyze for winboard: Analyze observe games
11999 with a chessprogram on a Internet Chess Server (ICS)
12001 * 02/12/2004: Bugfix ICS interaction console crashed while chess
12002 engine starting and user type in some stuff. We wait now to finish
12005 * 02/11/2004: Winboard: Added color lines for the ics interaction
12006 console if zippy used
12008 * 02/09/2004: Added mousewheel support for winboard. Play moves
12009 backward and forward with the mousewheel.
12011 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.7 -- Fri Nov 28 13:36:00 PST 2003 -- Tim Mann
12013 * 11/26/2003: In WinBoard, setting the -debug flag now logs ICS output
12014 to WinBoard.debug too. (This isn't needed in xboard because ICS
12015 output already goes to stdout, so it's easy to capture along with the
12016 debug output on stderr.) This was issue #280 in the ToDo file.
12018 * 11/23/2003: Cleaned up some minor problems in cygwin.mak. Thanks to
12019 Hans Werner Strube for the problem report.
12021 * 11/23/2003: Updated the default list of chess servers in
12022 winboard/defaults.h. Deleted two that appear to be dead and added a
12023 new one that is active.
12025 * 11/19/2003: Swapped icon_white.bm and icon_black.bm in XBoard.
12026 Hopefully this will get them the right way around by default on more X
12027 window managers. I wish I understood this better.
12029 * 11/18/2003: Implemented a simple 32-bit random number generator for
12030 WinBoard, replacing the Windows rand(), which ranges only up to
12031 0x7fff. Formerly on Windows, only zippy.lines sayings that started in
12032 the first 32767 bytes of the file could ever be used. This was issue
12033 #505 from the ToDo file.
12035 * 11/16/2003: The xboard man page and info files are now built from a
12036 common set of texinfo source files, and the xboard man page now covers
12037 cmail as well. Formerly, ever since the texinfo file was first
12038 contributed to the project, it was separate from the man page and the
12039 two files had to be updated in parallel, making for a maintenance
12040 nightmare. To make combining the files possible, I took the Perl
12041 script "texi2man" from the GNU Units project and added support for a
12042 larger subset of the texinfo markup language. I then carefully
12043 compared the old man page and old texinfo file to make sure the latest
12044 and clearest words survived into the new combined texinfo file. It
12045 would be great to merge in WinBoard's help file too, but that's a
12046 larger project. It would have to be heavily conditionalized to
12047 deal with differences in features between XBoard and WinBoard.
12049 * 11/15/2003: Cleaned up and applied a small patch from Daniel
12050 Mehrmann, to stop overly long PVs in thinking output from causing a
12051 buffer overflow crash in backend.c.
12053 * 11/5/2003: When a chess engine sends a "telluser" command (including
12054 the cases where "tellall" or "tellopponent" acts like telluser), the
12055 information now goes into a nonmodel popup that is automatically
12056 dismissed when the user clicks anywhere on the board. This fix is
12057 more significant on WinBoard, where formerly you got a fully modal
12058 dialog that had to be dismissed by clicking on OK before anything else
12059 could happen. The bug was issue #406 in the ToDo file.
12061 * 11/1/2003: Removed email addresses from this file to reduce spam
12062 load, as it gets linked to from the Web.
12064 * 11/1/2003: Updated READ_ME and winboard/READ_ME.txt.
12066 * Modified xboard and winboard makefiles to be able to build the
12067 project in the new combined directory structure.
12069 * Applied a small security fix to pxboard, from Martin Maeok.
12071 * Fixed a bug in the game list dialog. The change in 4.2.6 to opening
12072 games in text mode (meant to avoid getting extra \r's into comments)
12073 caused a new bug in determining seek offsets when parsing a game file
12074 to form the game list. Also, the change was incomplete; on some code
12075 paths games were still being opened in binary mode. Thanks to Lenik
12076 Terenin for reporting the offset bug. I've now gone back to always
12077 using binary mode when reading game files, and I've fixed the comment
12078 bug by adding code to remove \r's from parsed comments explicitly. I
12079 still use text mode for writing game files so that games written by
12080 WinBoard will have Windows-style line endings.
12082 * Fix for minor bug in WinBoard installer. If you chose a non-default
12083 destination directory, the default directory was still used for a
12084 couple of unimportant things, namely setting the App Paths registry
12085 keys (unused by WinBoard) and trying to copy the existing WinBoard.ini
12086 file to WinBoard.old. I inherited this bug from the InstallShield 5
12087 sample template. Thanks to "l.d." for noticing the incorrect keys.
12089 * Patch from Chris Priest: when two engines are being run through rsh,
12090 avoid reusing the same stderr port for both. I'm not sure why this
12091 should be needed, but it's harmless, at least.
12093 * Bugfix: The kludge to deal with old engines that give an error
12094 message because they don't know the "st" command was too sloppy; it
12095 could hit on an "st" substring anywhere in an error message. GNU
12096 Chess 4 is the only engine I know of where the kludge was needed, so I
12097 changed the kludge to match a longer, more GNU-specific string.
12099 * Changed the WinBoard self-extracting installer to choose a unique
12100 temporary subdirectory name within the Windows temp directory instead
12101 of always putting wb-setup directly in temp. Besides being better
12102 practice, this avoids the need to deltree wb-setup first, which
12103 occasionally alarms someone who thinks that deltree is only used by
12104 trojans to delete all your files. (Yes, I'm serious.)
12106 * Fixed a bug where FICS-style "wild/0" strings were not parsed as the
12107 proper wild type. The "/" was not being skipped.
12109 * Fixed a WinBoard bug where temporary files created by game
12110 copy/paste were being created in the root directory of the current
12111 drive instead of the TMP directory and were not always deleted on exit.
12113 * Fixed a small bug in winboard.c's ErrorDialog() function. Thanks to
12114 "Ron" (no last name given). The bug might have caused a problem when
12115 pressing OK or Cancel in an error dialog when more than one error
12116 dialog was being displayed, but I'm not really sure.
12118 * Removed a hack that worked around a bug in very old versions of
12119 Crafty, where it would sometimes reply "illegal move" to a "."
12120 command. The hack kept us from recognizing real illegal move messages
12121 in analyze mode from engines that don't respond to the "." command.
12122 Thanks to Fabien Letouzey for the report.
12124 * Fixed a bug in the xboard version of GetDelayedEvent. It would
12125 return the most recently scheduled event even if it had already fired.
12126 This caused at least one visible error: in -ics -xreuse mode, starting
12127 the engine again and seeing another "feature done=1" would re-run the
12128 initialization code in InitBackEnd3, including the code that opens the
12129 connection to ICS. The WinBoard version didn't have this bug. Thanks
12130 to Bob Hyatt for the bug report.
12132 * The promotion popup for ICC wild 26 (giveaway) now includes King.
12133 Thanks to Fredrik Josefsson for the bug report.
12135 * The first game in a file (or being pasted from the clipboard) can
12136 now start with a bare move -- no PGN tags, no move number "1", etc.
12137 Suggested by Shane Harrelson. One could imagine taking this farther
12138 and accepting something like "e4 e5 1/2-1/2 d4 d5" as two games, but
12139 I haven't done that.
12141 * Bug fix: xboard didn't really accept a paste of multiple games,
12142 contrary to what I wrote when adding the feature to WinBoard in
12143 4.2.4. Now it works in both.
12145 * Fixed generic start/end of game messages to work on chess.net, where
12146 they put ratings in parens after the player names.
12148 * Updated config.sub and config.guess to newer versions from
12149 automake-1.4p5-2. This makes configure work with MacOS X + X11.
12151 * Bugfix: when examining a game fragment on FICS where black plays
12152 first, don't show two "(0:00.000)" times on the initial "none" move.
12154 * If TestLegality is on and one of the engines makes an illegal move
12155 in TwoMachines mode, it forfeits immediately. Formerly the game would
12156 get stuck at that point and the engine that made the illegal move
12157 would eventually lose on time.
12159 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.6 -- Fri Feb 1 22:26:31 PST 2002
12162 Another small bugfix release.
12164 * Put in a small change from Alexander Mai to allow xboard to build in
12165 an OS/2 EMX environment.
12167 * Fix WinBoard-only bug where editing a PGN file with comments would
12168 insert more \r characters before the \n after every Load/Save cycle.
12169 For some unknown reason we were reading the files in "rb" mode but
12170 writing them in "a" mode, so we kept the \r characters on reading and
12171 added an extra one on writing. Fix: change the "rb" to "r". Thanks
12172 to Joel (last name not given) for the bug report.
12174 * Put the arguments to rsh/remsh in the right order for better
12175 portability. Thanks to Michael Kalisz.
12177 * FreezeUI is now implemented in WinBoard; it was previously only
12178 implemented in xboard. This function prevents the user from entering
12179 moves or other commands while we are waiting for an engine to
12180 initialize itself. Implementing it fixes a bug where the user could
12181 start a game (etc.) during feature negotiation. One of the symptoms
12182 of this bug was that we could send "new" one or move moves *after* the
12183 first game started!
12185 * Fixed some handle leaks (WinBoard only), including a nasty one that
12186 leaked one handle per command sent to ICS. Thanks to several folks
12187 who helped characterize the bug and tried to look for leaks.
12189 * We now install and look for the info file in ${prefix}/share/info
12190 instead of ${prefix}/info. The latter is still the default in
12191 autoconf, but the former is currently used in Red Hat Linux and
12192 probably elsewhere.
12194 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.5 -- Sat Dec 15 11:42:51 PST 2001
12197 * Changed the bundled GNU Chess 5.02 in the WinBoard package to
12198 include a much smaller book and to use much less hash table space by
12199 default (8 MB transposition table, 0.5 MB pawn evaluation table). The
12200 large book included with 4.2.4 made the WinBoard download too big for
12201 some people, and the default hash tables were larger than the
12202 available physical memory on some people's computers. I built the
12203 small book by running Crafty's "small.zip" book line collection
12204 through a Perl script that makes it look enough like real PGN games
12205 that the GNU Chess book builder will accept it. The script and some
12206 minor patches to GNU Chess 5 are available in the WinBoard source
12207 distribution and at http://www.tim-mann.org/gnuchess.html.
12209 * Fixed a bug in the code that deals with engines that complain that
12210 "time" and "otim" are illegal moves. This was a new bug in 4.2.4.
12212 * Revamped the implementation of ToStart in analysis mode. Formerly
12213 there was some ill-conceived code that would try to get back to the
12214 start of the game by doing a "new" command (and all the followup
12215 commands that requires) while remaining in analysis mode. This is
12216 problematic for engine authors to support, though it works with
12217 Crafty. This code was trying to solve the problem of ToStart being
12218 slow because the engine would try to start an analysis after every
12219 "undo" command all the way back to the start. But ToEnd already had a
12220 much better solution to this problem, and now ToStart does the same
12221 thing: we exit from analysis mode and enter force mode instead,
12222 make/unmake moves to get to the end/start of the game, and then
12223 reenter analysis mode.
12225 * Formerly, Zippy could try to start playing a game before the engine
12226 was initialized; that is, during the initial timeout for protover 1
12227 engines, or before "feature done=1" for protover 2 engines. We now
12228 wait until the engine is initialized before connecting to ICS, which
12229 fixes this in the common case. If you turn off engine reuse for
12230 multiple games (that is, if you give the -xreuse option), there could
12231 still be problems; see item 503 in the ToDo file. Thanks to Dieter
12232 Buerssner for the bug report.
12234 * Bugfix: All WinBoard versions since the merge with WinBoard Plus
12235 (but not xboard) have had a bug in changing the PeriodicUpdates,
12236 PonderNextMove, and ShowThinking options from the menu. The bug
12237 mostly just caused changing these options during a game to not take
12238 effect until after the next reset. For TwoMachines games, though,
12239 changing PonderNextMove just before the game would take effect
12240 immediately for the second engine but not until the next game for the
12241 first engine. Thanks to Koundinya Veluri for the bug report.
12243 * Bugfix: In 4.2.4, we sometimes got confused when trying to leave and
12244 reenter analyze mode. One symptom was that Analyze File did not work.
12245 Thanks to Igor Syry for the bug report.
12247 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.4 -- Sun Dec 9 14:56:30 PST 2001
12250 * WinBoard now includes GNU Chess 5.02 in place of GNU Chess 5.00.
12252 * WinBoard's PasteGameFromClipboard will now handle a paste with
12253 multiple games in it, popping up the game list dialog. xboard
12254 already did this. Suggested by Robert Gerstman.
12256 * We now use the "clearboard" command on ICC where appropriate.
12258 * Bugfix: don't generate a bogus "variant normal" command to an engine
12259 for the loadable ICC wild types that we internally flag as
12260 VariantLoadable. Also clarified the message that Zippy sends when
12261 declining such wild games -- it can't deal with the possibility of
12262 loading an arbitrary position into the game. Thanks to Dieter
12263 Buerssner for reporting the problem. It would be nice to be able to
12264 actually play these wild types some day; presumably there would have
12265 to be an option to either send "loadgame" with a specified position,
12266 or to deal with an opponent sending it.
12268 * If we get a holdings message from ICS when we thought we were
12269 playing normal chess, we now try asking for a move list so that we can
12270 find out from the header what's really happening. Formerly we guessed
12271 bughouse in this case. Response to a comment from Gian-Carlo
12274 * Fixed two longstanding bugs in the clock code. These affected only
12275 play between a user and a local engine, or between two local engines,
12276 not ICS play. (1) The last fractional second used by a player before
12277 moving and virtually pushing his clock was being charged to his
12278 opponent instead of to him. (2) The time and otim commands were being
12279 sent to an engine before the (buggy) fractional second update was
12280 done. The second bug was pretty harmless in itself, but the first one
12281 was serious. Many thanks to Peter Rosendahl for carefully diagnosing
12282 and reporting these bugs!
12284 * Changed WinBoard timestamp key. Nothing is changed other than the
12285 key and a recompilation. ICC may phase out the old key soon; if they
12286 do, you'll need to use the timestamp.exe from WinBoard 4.2.4 or later
12287 to connect to chessclub.com.
12289 * Fixed an xboard-only bug where most dialogs would not take keyboard
12290 input unless the mouse was actually over the dialog, even if the
12291 dialog window had focus. Thanks to Jason Varsoke for the bug report.
12293 * Bugfix; Remember to send time and otim commands to engine before
12294 sending playother. Thanks to Bob Hyatt for the bug report. Also
12295 fixed a bug where time and otim were sometimes sent even with feature
12298 * Added small patches from Wilkin Ng that are meant to fix a crash in
12299 CopyGameToClipboard and a "can't unlock clipboard memory" error in
12300 PasteTextFromClipboard, under Windows 2000.
12302 * Changed cygwin.mak to not use -mno-cygwin. In other words, it now
12303 uses cygwin1.dll instead of the mingw libraries. This works around
12304 bugs in fileno() and stat() that I encountered in mingw. (fileno
12305 seems to always return 0. stat fails because the library routine uses
12306 a different definition of struct stat than the header files provide.)
12307 Thanks to Robert Gerstman for reporting the symptoms these bugs caused
12308 when WinBoard was compiled with Cygwin.
12310 * Added -showButtonBar option. This lets you delete the << < P > >>
12311 buttons and thus widen the message widget a bit.
12313 * Added code to address a very obscure bug. If an engine dies and
12314 needs to be restarted while in one of the analyze modes, it was not
12315 getting put back into analyze mode. This bug should not really ever
12316 have gotten tickled unless reuse was turned off and the engine sends
12317 game end commands (such as 1-0) when a game ends by rule while in
12318 analyze mode. The next version of the protocol spec will say that
12319 engines should not do that, but version 2 and earlier didn't address
12322 * We now use the FICS "iset ms 1" feature to get times in ms instead
12323 of seconds. Thanks to DAV for email telling me about this feature.
12325 * Changed clock display to show tenths of seconds for 9.9 seconds and
12326 less, instead of 0.9 seconds and less as before.
12328 * It has been discovered that Zippy can play simuls on ICC (but not on
12329 FICS). If you arrange for Zippy to send the ICC command "simulize" in
12330 the -zippyGameStart string, it will accept additional games while
12331 playing. Zippy will use the same engine for every game, so whenever
12332 it switches opponents, the engine's state will be reset with the "new"
12333 command. This will of course weaken its play, so don't enable simuls
12334 if you want your engine to have the highest possible rating. Zippy
12335 was never designed to work with simuls; it just works by accident, and
12336 it hasn't been tested much. So please report any bugs you notice, but
12337 don't expect them to be fixed rapidly. Thanks to Paul McGuire for
12338 noticing that this works.
12340 * Bugfix: Suppress the direct command to engine popup if there is no
12341 engine. In WinBoard this case used to cause a crash. Thanks to
12342 "Dargon" for the bug report.
12344 * Bugfix: formerly we did part of the engine initialization for the
12345 very first game too soon, before feature negotiation. One result of
12346 this is that engines would never get the "ics" command for the first
12349 * Lengthened timeout to detect protocol version 1 chess engines to 10
12350 seconds. This should reduce problems with protocol version 2 engines
12351 that are slow to initialize missing the timeout and not getting a
12352 chance to send their feature commands before the first game starts.
12354 * Klaus Friedel says that adding a short sleep to WinBoard after
12355 starting a new chess engine solves a problem that occurs under Windows
12356 2000, in which engines sometimes don't see the initial command(s) from
12357 WinBoard and hang. I don't understand how that can happen, but the
12358 sleep is harmless, so I've put it in. Others have also reported what
12359 may be the same problem, so hopefully this will fix it for them too.
12361 * Bugfix: editing the Result field in EditTags will no longer cause a
12362 later crash. Thanks to DAV for a clear bug report that let me
12363 reproduce the problem.
12365 * ICC wild 28 is now recognized as shatranj, but it is not supported.
12366 You might be able to play it by turning off Test Legality.
12368 * Formerly we would always turn off "feature time" if the engine
12369 printed an error message with the string "time" or "otim" in it; now
12370 we do that only if the message comes before the engine makes its first
12371 move. This change is useful because some engines spew a lot of bogus
12372 error messages about commands they don't fully parse, so something
12373 like "result 0-1 {White lost on time}" could generate such a message.
12374 Engines shouldn't do that, but if they do, mysteriously turning off
12375 "feature time" is not a good way to react.
12377 * Fixed an infrequently occurring Zippy bug: formerly, resuming from
12378 adjournment by position (that is, with GetMoveList turned off) or
12379 starting/resuming a wild game (nonstandard starting position) would
12380 try to set up the position without putting the engine into force mode
12381 first. That was probably tolerated by most engines, but if the
12382 position was black-to-play and the engine hadn't set feature
12383 setboard=1, then the fake "a2a3" move (which we use as a kludge to get
12384 black to be on move before sending the edit command) would appear to
12385 be a real move, and the engine might reply to it! This bug could also
12386 be seen when trying to use Zippy to play a simul -- something that
12387 Zippy was never designed to support, but which seems to mostly work
12388 anyway. Thanks to Paul McGuire for sending a WinBoard.debug file that
12389 showed the bug occurring. Some other cases of resuming adjournments
12390 or starting games from nonstandard positions may have been broken too;
12391 I think I've straightened out the problems.
12393 * Agreeing to a draw in the human vs. local engine case formerly did
12394 not work if the human offered first; now it does. A human's
12395 unsolicited offer is considered valid until he makes another move.
12396 Thanks to Bruce Moreland for the bug report.
12398 * Bugfix: We used to look for just "fr" in Event tags or strings from
12399 ICSes to recognize Fischer Random games. This caused a lot of false
12400 matches. Now we look for "wild/fr" instead, which is what FICS uses.
12402 * Bugfix: Clicking on a move in the MoveList window only updated the
12403 displayed position; if a chess engine was active, its state was not
12404 updated. Thanks to Alejandro Dubrovsky for the bug report.
12406 * Bugfix: The "resign" command from engine to xboard formerly did not
12407 work in ICS (Zippy) mode.
12409 * Bugfix: Formerly we would register a garbage premove if the user
12410 clicked on a piece, then clicked on an edge or outside the board. Now
12411 such an errant click is ignored.
12413 * Bugfix: GameEnds would send "exit" to an engine in analyze mode even
12414 if we did not actually want to leave analyze mode.
12416 * Bugfix: "feature pause" was being rejected. We don't currently use
12417 it, but that is no reason to reject it. Thanks to Gian-Carlo Pascutto
12418 for the bug report.
12420 * Bugfix: when "partner" needed to be sent both to ICS and the engine,
12421 Zippy was erroneously sending the ICS prefix character to the engine
12422 too. Thanks to Gian-Carlo Pascutto for the bug report.
12424 * Zippy now declines challenges when the engine is not yet ready to
12425 play again, instead of ignoring them. This is needed so that the
12426 server will let the opponent repeat the challenge. It might be better
12427 to remember such challenges and accept them when the engine is ready,
12428 but that would be a bit more complicated to implement.
12430 * Bugfix: Zippy's emotes didn't work on FICS because there, "i" is a
12431 built-in alias for "it", not a real command. So sending "$i foo" gave
12432 an error message instead of doing "it foo". We now leave out the
12433 alias-suppressing prefix for emotes.
12435 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.3 -- Mon Feb 19 19:55:05 PST 2001
12438 * Bugfix: The error message "Variant X not supported by gnuchessx"
12439 formerly could pop up even in -ncp mode.
12441 * Fixed an xboard bug in premove highlighting. If you had
12442 HighlightLastMove turned on, premoves got highlighted in
12443 highlightSquareColor (yellow) instead of premoveHighlightColor (red).
12445 * Modified premove again. Now we are back to displaying the move
12446 locally immediately after sending it to the server, as in versions
12447 prior to 4.2.1. This is good because it lets you register your next
12448 premove sooner. As a better fix to the problem that the change in
12449 4.2.1 had been trying to address, we now suppress animating the
12450 opponent's move if you have a premove reply pending. However, it's
12451 probably still a good idea for you to turn off AnimateMoves entirely
12452 if you are trying to play extremely fast games.
12454 * Removed an erroneous patch that left zombie chess engines around
12455 when both sigterm and reuse were turned off. (Bug was in xboard only,
12458 * Bugfix: loading a game with autostepping did not work for games with
12459 PGN result "*" (unfinished). This bug was introduced in 4.1.0, caused
12460 by some outdated code that was supposed to leave you in EditGame mode
12461 after loading an unfinished game. I fixed this, and also changed it
12462 to leave you in EditGame mode after loading *any* game, but without
12463 changing the tags to say it's an edited game. It's not really clear
12464 whether that is the best thing is to do here -- ideally, perhaps, the
12465 tags should change to say "edited game" if you actually make any
12466 changes, but that is harder to make work.
12468 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.2 -- Tue Feb 6 20:00:00 PST 2001
12471 * Fixed a problem introduced in 4.2.1. In -zippyPlay mode, 4.2.1
12472 started sending the initString immediately after the old game ended,
12473 but then when the next game started, it would still send "force" and
12474 another initString. Another problem was that the first initString put
12475 the engine out of sync with the displayed board position, though that
12476 might not usually have been noticeable. This is now changed to do a
12477 full Reset at the end of the previous game, and avoid doing a Reset at
12478 the start of a new game if we are still in BeginningOfGame mode.
12480 * Fixed some limitations in -zippyPlay mode. The engine was not being
12481 fed the moves or history of games that were displayed but not being
12482 played, so it would get confused if you tried to do something like
12483 examine a game, then enter EditGame mode from somewhere in the middle
12486 * Made a small change so that cygwin can compile xboard for Windows
12487 (an X server is required to run it). Thanks to Volker Zell. Most
12488 people would probably prefer to run WinBoard on Windows, however; note
12489 that cygwin could already compile WinBoard.
12491 * Added some missing documentation to engine-intf.html: It is okay to
12492 send "feature done=0" even before you receive the xboard and protover
12493 commands, if this is needed to give your engine enough time to
12494 initialize. See engine-intf.html for more discussion.
12496 * Bugfix: "feature done=0" did not work for the second engine; now it does.
12498 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.1 -- Sat Feb 3 19:52:26 PST 2001
12501 * Bugfix: in Zippy mode with feature san=1, the elapsed time was being
12502 sent to the engine after the SAN move; for example, "e4 (0:01)" was
12503 sent instead of just "e4".
12505 * It seems that scroll wheel mice with incompletely installed software
12506 (under Windows 95, at least) can send repeated middle button up events
12507 when the wheel is turned. Moved QuickPaste from middle button up to
12508 middle button down to avoid problems with this.
12510 * A premove is now sent *before* the opponent's move that it replies
12511 to is animated. The premove itself is no longer displayed (or
12512 animated) when sent; instead, it is displayed when the chess server
12513 echoes it back as a board update.
12515 * Bug fix: in -xreuse mode, xboard was only sending command line
12516 arguments to the engine the first time it was started. (WinBoard
12517 didn't have this bug.)
12519 * In -zippyPlay mode, we now initialize the chess engine for a new
12520 game immediately after the old game ends. (In -xreuse mode, this
12521 means starting a new engine process; in the default -reuse mode, it
12522 just means sending "new".) If the engine supports ping, we don't
12523 accept challenges until the "new" has finished. This should help
12524 avoid losing time (re)initializing the engine after the game starts.
12526 * We now handle the new FICS field in style 12 that says whether the
12527 clocks are ticking.
12529 * whiteFlag and blackFlag are now reset whenever an ICS board image
12530 arrives, giving autoflag a fresh chance to work.
12532 * Suppressed "geometry error" debug messages unless -debug flag is given.
12534 * Bugfix: avoid core dump on Solaris with -debug flag, caused by
12535 passing NULL to a %s format in GameEnds.
12537 * Added -firstProtocolVersion and -secondProtocolVersion. This will
12538 allow use of extremely broken engines that hang or die when given the
12539 "protover 2" command. It should be rarely if ever needed.
12541 * Zippy now strips highlights from player names in the Creating
12542 message; previously the ratings would not be extracted from this
12543 message properly if you had set the highlight variable.
12545 * Bug fix: Zippy with -zp but not -zt used to be fooled by false
12546 partner tells inside channel tells; e.g.:
12547 Garf(24): Garf (your partner) tells you: sit
12549 * Bug fix: when an engine reported its name with the new "feature
12550 myname=" command, we had been putting just that name into the window
12551 title even when in TwoMachines mode.
12553 * By default, WinBoard no longer uses the new feature introduced in
12554 4.2.0beta of keeping the ICS menu, ICS server list, and lists of chess
12555 engine command lines in separate files; instead, the lists are back in
12556 the winboard.ini file. This gets rid of some problems where the
12557 separate files could not be opened because the working directory was
12558 not set to WinBoard's installation directory.
12560 * WinBoard command lines and ini files now have another optional
12561 syntax for quoting an option value. All characters within { } curly
12562 braces are interpreted literally except for '}' itself. SaveSettings
12563 now uses this syntax for string values that contain a backslash or
12564 newline and do not contain a '}'. This should address the problem
12565 that the separate .ini files had been meant to fix; engine command
12566 line lists can now be written without \-escapes.
12568 * Fixed three bugs in relaying moves between engines in TwoMachines
12569 mode: an engine would be sent SAN if the *other* engine had set
12570 feature san=1, a relayed SAN move did not end with a newline, and
12571 feature usermove was not implemented for relayed moves.
12573 * Fixed several bugs in exiting: File/Exit would sometimes hang;
12574 timestamp/timeseal would not get killed off; an engine crash would
12575 cause error messages to be printed recursively until stack overflow.
12577 * Fixed a bug in the code to detect which ICS is in use and adapt to
12578 it; the chess.net case was broken.
12580 * Removed the leading alias-suppression character when sending a move
12581 to ICS, because it seemed to break accuclock on chess.net.
12583 * Fixed a bug where a FICS prompt like "10:01_fics%" would be matched
12584 as finger note number 10, causing a problem detecting when the user is
12587 * Added tellicsnoalias command to protocol.
12589 * Changed st command in protocol back to old behavior.
12591 * Added done=0 feature to protocol, to lengthen initial timeout.
12593 * Added missing -colorSeek command line option to xboard. (Was
12594 present in WinBoard.)
12596 * Bug fix: setting feature reuse=0 was not working.
12598 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.0beta -- Sat Dec 16 16:34:56 PST 2000
12601 * Setting -searchTime no longer turns off -clockMode. Note that when
12602 -searchTime is set, some engines may search for the lesser of
12603 searchTime and the amount of time their normal clock management would
12604 dictate, while others will disable their normal clock management and
12605 always search for exactly searchTime.
12607 * Fixed WinBoard bug where on Windows 2000 (and maybe Windows 98) the
12608 ICS Interaction window would scroll back to the top whenever it filled
12609 to capacity and WinBoard trimmed some text off the top.
12611 * Changed xboard dragging so that the center of the dragged piece is
12612 forced to be over the mouse cursor. (WinBoard dragging already worked
12613 that way.) This should avoid confusing cases when you start a drag
12614 with the mouse near the edge of a square -- formerly most or all of
12615 the piece could be over one square but the mouse cursor over another.
12618 * Added move list window for xboard. Code contributed by Manuel
12619 Hoelss and re-hacked a bit by me. Performance of this window is poor,
12620 because the implementation regenerates the entire window contents
12621 whenever anything changes. It's hard to avoid this when using the
12622 Athena List widget, though we could be a little smarter and notice
12623 when the current move number has changed but the move list has not.
12624 There are also several drawing problems caused by bugs in the Athena
12625 Form and List widgets. The window should not really allow a
12626 horizontal scroll bar, but the bugs are much worse if I turn it off.
12627 In both Xaw and Xaw3d, the List widget tries to resize itself when
12628 XawListChange is called, even if you tell it not to; and what's worse,
12629 if the widget cannot resize itself to be large enough to avoid
12630 clipping any of the list item, it does not change the list! Arrgh.
12631 On top of that, the Xaw Form widget is very buggy in XFree86 4.0.1
12634 * The OK button in the WinBoard startup dialog is now simply disabled
12635 if none of the radio buttons is selected, instead of bringing up an
12636 error dialog. Suggested by Ted Milbaugh.
12638 * Used ping to address the worst of the race conditions in the
12639 protocol. Now if an engine supports ping, we ping it after sending
12640 the "new" command and after trying to place it in force mode at the
12641 end of a game. When a ping has been sent and the corresponding pong
12642 has not yet come back, we (1) ignore or undo any moves the engine
12643 sends, (2) ignore game end messages (such as "offer draw", etc.) from
12644 the engine, (3) ignore thinking output from the engine, (4) delay
12645 starting the next game if in -matchGames mode, (5) in -zippyPlay mode,
12646 respond to challenges with a polite message to try again soon instead
12647 of accepting them. There are a few more things that should be done
12648 (and item 5 might not be quite what we want), but it's hard to fit
12649 them all into the existing code.
12651 * Patched the version of GNU Chess 5.00 included with WinBoard to
12652 support protover, feature, setboard, and ping, and to fix some minor
12653 bugs. See gnu500+.patch.
12655 * Changed the GNU Chess 4 kludges for missing "st" and "sd" commands
12656 to be invoked only if the engine gives an error message for "st" or
12657 "sd", and to always use protocol commands instead of engine
12658 command-line options. See "Idioms" in engine-intf.html.
12660 * Added new protocol command "protover 2" to tell the engine what
12661 version of the protocol is in use. Version 2 is still compatible with
12662 old engines; see engine-intf.html.
12664 * Add new protocol command "feature ..." The engine can send this in
12665 response to the protover command command, to say what extended
12666 protocol features it would like to enable, etc. xboard responds
12667 "accepted F" or "rejected F" for each feature F that is set. See
12670 * Added new protocol command "setboard <fen>". This is an alternative
12671 to "edit", used only if the engine says "feature setboard=1".
12673 * Added new protocol command "ping <msg>". The engine is supposed to
12674 respond "pong <msg>". This gives us a tool to fix some race
12675 conditions in the protocol, but it is not used to the fullest yet.
12677 * Added new protocol command "tellopponent". This will do a "say" if
12678 you're on a chess server in Zippy mode, or pop up an information
12681 * Added new protocol command "tellall". This will do a "kibitz" if
12682 you're on a chess server in Zippy mode, or pop up an information
12685 * Added new protocol command "tellothers". This will do a "whisper" if
12686 you're on a chess server in Zippy mode, or do nothing otherwise.
12688 * Changed the WinBoard /icsNames, /icsMenu, /firstChessProgramNames,
12689 and /secondChessProgramNames options to accept a filename preceded by
12690 "@", meaning to find the value in the file. Changed the defaults to
12691 use this feature, with filenames icsnames.ini, icsmenu.ini, fcp.ini,
12692 and scp.ini. This should make it easier for users to edit the values,
12693 since one less level of quoting is needed, and each value is in its
12694 own file, not mixed into winboard.ini. Those who upgrade from an
12695 older winboard version and already have a winboard.ini file will not
12696 automatically have these values moved to a file; that has to be done
12697 by hand if desired.
12699 * We now strip .exe from engine names for "name" command, tags, etc.
12701 * Allowed WinBoard input widget to hold more than one line. You can get
12702 a newline into the widget with copy/paste or with Ctrl+Enter.
12704 * Fixed an xboard bug where the [P] button would appear in the
12705 opposite highlight state from what it should be after being pressed.
12707 * We now use the "/" or "$" alias suppression feature on the chess
12708 servers, to avoid problems if the user inadvertently aliases a
12709 needed command to something else.
12711 * Changed the method used to deiconize xboard in AutoRaise and cmail.
12712 This may fix bugs under some window managers where after
12713 deiconization, the board window was mapped but nothing was drawn
12716 * Preliminary, partial support for playing several chess variants
12717 against a local engine or editing variant games. The -variant option
12718 must be given on the command line or WinBoard startup dialog; there is
12719 no menu. The current variant is not displayed (except in the
12720 Tags/EditTags window). Many variants will not work quite right even
12721 if the engine supports them; see item 326 in the ToDo file for
12724 * Added a workaround to detect the variant type when examining a
12725 scratch wild game on an ICS.
12727 * Fixed two cases where "variant" command should be sent to the engine
12728 when necessary but was not: loading a game from a file and restarting
12729 a dead engine. Thanks to Gian-Carlo Pascutto.
12731 * Added missing support for FICS games that start from a bsetup position
12732 with Black moving first.
12734 * Fixed a bug in loading a file from the game list window while in
12735 Analysis or AnalyzeFile mode. This now leaves us in AnalyzeFile
12736 mode, analyzing the new file.
12738 * Fixed a bug in loading games with a comment before the first move.
12740 * Fixed a bug in handling LoadGame (or -lgf) with -td 0.
12742 * Added a command line option to select an initial minor mode from the
12743 Mode menu. This should satisfy requests from a couple of users with
12744 special applications.
12746 * Fixed a problem where some things in WinBoard's General Options
12747 dialog box were grayed out at the wrong time.
12749 * We look for a few messages from the chess engine pipe that are
12750 intended to catch problems starting an engine via rsh, such as "No
12751 such file". Moved code so that these strings won't match until other
12752 protocol messages have been looked for, and documented the messages in
12755 * Fixed the WinBoard bug that sometimes made the console input box
12756 white-on-white even when not in password-entry mode.
12758 * Small changes to WinBoard to be compilable with the latest Cygwin
12759 net release (as of 10-16-2000). Thanks to Mark Schoenberg.
12761 * Recompiled GNU Chess 5.0 for WinBoard with the latest Cygwin net
12762 release (as of 10-16-2000). Also rebuilt the book just to be sure,
12763 since I had one bug report about it. It came out identical and seems
12766 * Added messages for some common InstallShield errors instead of just
12767 printing InstallShield's stupid error code numbers.
12769 * Added -firstComputerString and -secondComputerString, allowing you
12770 to suppress or change the command that is sent to a chess engine when
12771 its opponent is another computer.
12773 * Added "configure --with-Xaw3d" to allow use of Xaw3d widgets instead
12774 of Xaw widgets in xboard. Thanks to Johnny C. Lam of the NetBSD
12775 project. I've left Xaw as the default because Xaw3d is too ugly.
12777 * The version of the Xaw Form widget released in XFree86 4.0.1
12778 (X11R6.4.3) has a bug that causes xboard to display the button bar
12779 on top of the message widget. I've reported the bug and have
12780 installed a kludge workaround into xboard.
12782 xboard/WinBoard 4.1.0 -- Sun Sep 17 17:30:14 PDT 2000
12785 * Merged Winboard Plus 4.0.8 from Mark Williams into xboard
12786 source pool. Status of Winboard Plus features in xboard:
12788 - White pieces now have borders, but the implementation is
12789 completely different from WinBoard's; see below.
12791 - Options menu not changed, probably won't be.
12793 - Copy&paste support working, using Mark's changes to backend.c, Ben
12794 Nye's changes to xboard.c for FEN positions, and some code of my
12795 own in xboard.c for PGN games.
12797 - Premove hooked up and working. No pre-first-move, though.
12799 - ICS Alarm hooked up and working.
12801 - Auto-flip working.
12803 - PGN Training mode hooked up and working.
12805 - Improved menu item enable/disable working.
12807 - Improved >> button working.
12809 - Auto activate board working. I changed this to be optional; you
12810 might not always want it, especially in Zippy mode.
12812 - Blindfold working.
12814 - Documentation updated.
12816 * Fixed more colorization bugs. Commands like "message foo tells you:
12817 xxx" and "tell 33 tells you: xxx" will no longer generate bogus
12820 * Added low-tech sound support to xboard, by invoking an external
12821 program on a filename for each sound to be played.
12823 * ICC wild 27 is now recognized as VariantAtomic, and it sets the
12824 "ignore check" flag, but is not otherwise supported.
12826 * Converted the piece bitmaps from .bm to .xpm for use with xboard's
12827 xpm support. (An .xim version was not created.) Wrote a shell script
12828 using ImageMagick to do the conversion and to bucket fill from
12829 coordinate 0,0 with the background color. Used xpaint by hand to
12830 clean up a few pieces where background color "leaked" into the inside
12831 or didn't flow all the way around the outside, then a sed script to
12832 fix up color names and bitmap names in the xpaint output. If any more
12833 sizes are added later, they should be straightforward to convert with
12834 reference to the existing scripts. With this conversion, not only do
12835 the white pieces now have dark borders, but (unlike with WinBoard) the
12836 light details on the black pieces are opaque.
12838 * If the XPM library is found when building xboard, the new xpm pieces
12839 are compiled in as the default. External bitmap (or xpm) pieces can
12840 still be used by giving the -bitmapDirectory (or -xpmDirectory)
12841 option. If the XPM library is not found, the old bitmap pieces are
12842 the default. In this case external bitmap (or xim) pieces can be used
12843 by giving the -bitmapDirectory (or -xpmDirectory) option. There is no
12844 way to compile in xim pieces.
12846 Winboard Plus 4.0.8 -- Sat Aug 5 15:51 PDT 2000
12851 * Main menu now visible in Win NT. Thanks to Microsoft for creating a
12852 compiler which auto-mutilates the WinBoard.rc file so that the menu is
12853 displayed under Win 98 but not Win NT. I fixed the problem by hand editing the
12856 * "Reset game" now works properly when invoked from Analysis mode when two
12857 engines are present. Correction of bug introduced in Winboard Plus. Thanks to
12858 Mogens Larsen for reporting the bug.
12860 * Pasting a FEN position with Black to move now works in all modes.
12861 Thanks to Mogens Larsen for reporting the bug.
12863 * Added gnuchess.dat to the distribution and a couple of text files that were
12866 *** Merged in the following changes from Tim Mann:
12868 * Bugfix: Highlights would sometimes not be taken down, at least in
12869 xboard. The problem is that SetHighlight works in chess coordinates,
12870 not view coordinates, so if flipView has been toggled since the
12871 highlight was put up, it gets taken down from the wrong square. Fixed
12872 by being careful to call ClearHighlights before toggling flipView, not
12875 * Bugfix: HighlightLastMove would sometimes highlight square a1 after
12876 a FICS "tomove black" command.
12878 * Bugfix: a move list with initial position that has black to play was
12879 not being handled correctly.
12881 * Removed "decline abort" and "decline adjourn" commands from Zippy.
12882 The syntax is changing on FICS, and Zippy really doesn't have to
12883 explicitly decline the requests anyway; it's sufficient to not accept
12886 * ICC wild 26 is now recognized as VariantSuicide (the FICS name; ICC
12887 calls it "giveaway").
12889 * Bugfix: PGN games with black to move in the initial position weren't
12890 being legality checked correctly. I think this was introduced in
12891 4.0.6 when I fixed a different PGN bug. Thanks to Mark Williams for
12892 spotting the bug and suggesting a fix.
12894 * Bugfix: the initial "name(" of a kibitz wasn't being colorized.
12896 Winboard Plus 4.0.7 -- Thu May 12 17:57 PDT 2000
12899 * New white pieces with black borders.
12901 * Major overhaul to Options menu. New dialogs for setting General Options,
12902 Board Options, ICS Options, Sounds, Fonts, Colors.
12904 * Clipboard support for PGN game scores and FEN positions.
12906 * Optional ICS Premove with user-specified first moves for White and Black.
12908 * New sound events: ICS Win, ICS Loss, ICS Draw, ICS Unfinished, ICS Alarm.
12910 * New auto-flip option when playing against a chess program.
12912 * Added PGN Training mode.
12914 * Certain menu options now disabled while program is thinking.
12916 * ">>" button now always goes to the end of the game.
12918 * In ICS mode, the board is automatically activated at the start of a
12921 4.0.7 -- Sun Mar 5 17:17:49 PST 2000 Tim Mann
12923 * Fixed a nasty bug in parsing ICS game histories that was introduced
12926 4.0.6 -- Fri Mar 3 16:20:11 PST 2000 Tim Mann
12928 * Fixed bugs in Zippy's code for responding to messages sent with the
12929 ICS "message" command.
12931 * Fixed bugs where xboard could still create dialogs partially off the
12932 top of the screen. Fixed unwanted interactions between initial sizes
12933 and positions of various unrelated xboard dialogs. Deleted
12934 borderXoffset and borderYoffset resources.
12936 * Fixed restoring the xterm name on exit to work in more cases.
12938 * Small fix to the WinBoard self-extracting installer: when it starts
12939 up, it now always deletes any old wb-setup directory left over from a
12940 previous installation. Formerly this worked only on Windows 95/98, so
12941 on NT the self-extractor would sometimes stop and ask the user whether
12942 it was OK to overwrite the old wb-setup files.
12944 * Modified WinBoard to be compilable with the free Cygwin tools
12945 available from http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/. Based on work by
12946 Mark Schoenberg. (His mods were enough to get WinBoard through the
12947 compiler, but a few things were broken along the way, so I reworked them.)
12949 * Merged changes from Don Fong to make WinBoard compilable with
12950 Borland C++ 4.5. I do not have Borland C++ and am unable to test with
12951 it, but I did make sure the changes don't stop it working with MSVC++
12954 * Forbade entering TwoMachines mode from MachineWhite or MachineBlack
12955 mode when machine is on move. This used to confuse the engine and
12956 cause problems, because when we try to get the engine to stop, it
12957 might make a move first, and it might not do that immediately.
12959 * Variant classification now deals with new ICC wild 25, classifying
12960 it as "3check". Also, we are now conservative about new wild numbers
12961 we don't know about, classifying them as "unknown" instead of
12964 * Replaced bad GNU Chess 5.00 book in WinBoard distribution with a
12965 correct one. 1.e4 now no longer takes GNU Chess 5.00 out of book!
12966 Thanks to Pete Galati.
12968 * Made move parser accept and ignore nonstandard ep suffix on PGN moves,
12969 e.g., "exf6ep" or "exf6e.p."
12971 * Fixed bugs in parsing PGN files starting with no move number, or
12972 with a move number other than "1." (including "1..."). Thanks to
12973 Michael Soulier and Stefan Zipproth for example PGN files
12974 demonstrating the bugs.
12976 * Changed InitComboStringsFromString to not modify the input string;
12977 this caused an exception when WinBoard was compiled with MSVC++ 6.
12978 Thanks to Bert Tuyt for the report.
12980 * In WinBoard, dragging a piece off the edge of the board without
12981 releasing the mouse button no longer instantly aborts the move. You
12982 still must release the mouse button inside a square to complete a
12983 move, but you can now drag off the edge and come back inside.
12985 * WinBoard bugfix: If you went into EditGame or EditPosition mode
12986 while observing or playing an ICS game, and a new move came in
12987 (snapping you back to ICSClient mode) while you were dragging a piece
12988 around, the drag state would not be reset, causing the piece you were
12989 dragging to remain on the board wherever you dropped it. Thanks to
12990 David Brinegar for the bug report.
12992 * WinBoard bugfix: If you moved or resized the board while your
12993 opponent was moving, and you had AnimateMoving on, his move would not
12994 be displayed until after your next move. Thanks to DAV for reporting
12995 the bug repeatedly until I finally understood it.
12997 * Added a Zippy "farewell" feature; see zippy.README.
12999 * Fixed a bug (xboard only) in processing -zippyReplayTimeout on the
13000 command line. Thanks to Steve Beer for the report and patch.
13002 * Send "computer" command to both sides in TwoMachines matches.
13004 * Fixed a Y2K bug in Evan's cmail code! Thanks to Brian Mays for the
13007 * Bugfix: Initialize variant field of GameInfo struct in gameinfo.c.
13008 This could cause crashes in LoadGame. Thanks to Andrzej Nagorko.
13010 * Fixed several pattern matching problems: Finger notes and formula
13011 vars no longer get replied to by zippyTalk or colorized. Channel
13012 tells by players with many titles are now colorized fully, and
13013 zippyTalk handles channel tells by such players correctly. The shout
13014 "--> foo(99): bar" no longer gets colorized as a channel tell. Code
13015 is cleaned up a bit, and autocomment capture now uses the same
13016 criteria as colorization.
13018 * xboard fix: Enter key now closes error popups as in WinBoard.
13019 Especially nice for the "Exiting: Connection closed by ICS" popup.
13021 4.0.5 -- Tue Dec 7 10:30:40 PST 1999 Tim Mann
13023 * Added missing documentation of SIGTERM usage into engine-intf.html.
13025 * Bugfix: New -zippyReplayTimeout option was misspelled in WinBoard as
13026 -zippyReplyTimeout. Thanks to Francesco Di Tolla.
13028 * xboard -ics now restores the xterm's original title upon exit, at
13029 least if $WINDOWID is set.
13031 * Bugfix: -matchGames mode wasn't terminating properly. Final score
13032 popup would come up twice and engines would not be killed off. Thanks
13033 to Frank Quisinsky for the bug report. Bug was introduced in 4.0.4.
13035 * Bugfix: "tell 50 foo shouts: bar" no longer gets colored as a shout;
13036 similarly for "...s-shouts:" and "...c-shouts:". Thanks to David Lee
13037 for the bug report.
13039 4.0.4 -- Fri Dec 3 17:51:27 PST 1999 Tim Mann
13041 * Bug fix: formerly if you invoked SaveGame from EditPosition mode
13042 with black to play, the position was not saved properly. As a quick
13043 fix, SaveGame now takes you out of EditPosition mode before saving.
13045 * Changed -matchGames to keep track of the score (won-lost-drawn) and
13046 display it in the banner. The final score is displayed in a modal
13047 popup before the program exits.
13049 * Changed "Connection closed by ICS" to display in a model popup
13050 before the program exits.
13052 * Added -popupExitMessage option, default on. Setting this to false
13053 suppresses the modal popups that you sometimes get just before
13054 xboard/winboard exits -- both the two new ones listed above and the
13055 existing Fatal Error popup. This is useful when running Zippy
13056 unattended from a shell script (or .bat file) that loops and starts a
13057 new copy after a time delay when there is an error.
13059 * In xboard, added missing support for WM_DELETE_WINDOW to all
13060 windows. This makes xboard a better citizen, and is much needed with
13061 the newer X window managers that put an [X] button on every window and
13062 bind it to "kill application" if the applicationd does not support
13063 "delete window". We can't allow xboard to be thoughtlessly killed,
13064 since that leaves the chess engine running in the background.
13066 * We now avoid positioning tops of xboard dialog boxes offscreen.
13068 * zippy.lines can now use the caret ('^') character as an inter-saying
13069 separator. You no longer need to dig up a text editor that can put NUL
13070 ('\000') characters in text files.
13072 * Bugfix: In traditional chess clock mode, White now gets time added
13073 to its clock as soon as it makes time control. Previously both White
13074 and Black got their time added only when Black made time control,
13075 which would cause some engines to make their 41st move as White too
13076 quickly, thinking they were low on time.
13078 * The zippyAcceptOnly feature no longer sends a decline command or
13079 a tell. Thus you can use it to put Zippy into a manual accept mode.
13081 * Bugfix: "tell 50 foo tells you: bar" no longer gets colored as a
13082 personal tell; similarly for "...whispers:" and "...kibitzes:".
13084 * WinBoard no longer blanks the message line when you start a new
13085 move, unless there was an error message there from the previous move.
13087 * WinBoard now never puts the white piece drop menu on the middle
13088 mouse button. Both colors are always on the right button. Windows
13089 users often don't think to look for a middle button menu, or don't
13090 really have a working middle button despite what Windows says.
13092 * Guest login handles on ICC are now parsed again; an ICC wording
13093 change had broken this feature.
13095 * Autodetect when the engine does not support the "draw" command and
13096 don't relay the command to it in that case. Needed because sending an
13097 unsupported command to GNU Chess makes it move immediately, so people
13098 could make Zippy move without thinking by continually offering a draw.
13099 Thanks to Frank Walker for the problem report.
13101 * Small changes based on code from Robert Jurjevic: The WinBoard
13102 analysis window can be minimized (though not to the taskbar). The
13103 WinBoard ICS Interaction window will autoscroll if you drag the mouse
13104 above or below the window while selecting, and password entry mode
13105 leaves the entry line as the background color instead of using 75%
13106 gray. Seeks are now colorized with a new color of their own.
13108 * Added -zippyMaxGames feature.
13110 * -zippyNoplayCrafty command line option was missing in xboard; fixed.
13111 Thanks to John Perry.
13113 * Fixed bug in detecting when Zippy loses his bughouse partner.
13114 Thanks to Ben Dean-Kawamura.
13116 * allobs fix in 4.0.3 didn't work; corrected it.
13118 * WinBoard will now update the board immediately if a move is made
13119 while the window is being moved or resized.
13121 4.0.3 -- Sun Aug 15 18:44:39 PDT 1999 Tim Mann
13123 * Bugfix: moved winboard wizard functions that send a command directly
13124 to the chess engine from Ctrl+Alt+1 and Ctrl+Alt+2 to Alt+1 and Alt+2.
13125 Ctrl+Alt is equivalent to the European AltGr key, so the old assignments
13126 conflicted with typing an @-sign on some keyboards.
13128 * Bugfix: prevent "If this message stays up, your chess program does
13129 not support analysis" from appearing if AnalysisMode is selected when
13130 already in Analysis or AnalyzeFile mode. Also, deleting analysis window
13131 in WinBoard now switches you to EditGame mode, to avoid the anomaly of
13132 being in an analysis mode with no analysis window present.
13134 * Change all Zippy environment variables to work as command line
13135 options. For now they still work as environment variables too, but
13136 the environment variables are deprecated.
13138 * Use unsigned long to hold node counts from engines.
13140 * Print error instead of crashing on attempts to use xpm or xim pieces
13141 in monochrome mode. Thanks to Jim Torrance for the bug report.
13143 * Tightened pattern recognition for ICS messages sent to Zippy; should
13144 no longer match ICC allobs output. Fixed recognition of when Zippy is
13145 sent a message; small change to FICS output had broken it.
13147 * Zippy now exits if the engine dies unexpectedly.
13149 * Added Zippy "spoofedby" feature; see zippy.README.
13151 * Narrowed the margins on some older WinBoard dialogs to make their
13152 style uniform with the newer ones.
13154 * Bugfix: Changing Ponder Next Move from the Options menu did not take
13155 effect until the next game. This bug was in WinBoard only. Thanks to
13156 Stefan Zipproth for the bug report.
13158 * Got rid of "Internal error: bad move type" message when the engine
13159 makes a move that we can parse but think is illegal. Now the move is
13160 just passed on (which also may be the wrong thing to do).
13162 4.0.2 -- Thu Feb 25 19:55:32 PST 1999 Tim Mann
13164 * Added one more built-in sound choice to WinBoard: move.wav from Pete
13167 * Added new larger piece sizes: big, huge, giant, colossal, titanic.
13169 * Modified the xboard font searcher to be able to use scalable fonts.
13170 The new -fontSizeTolerance flag controls how closely a nonscalable
13171 font must match to be used in preference to a scalable font.
13173 * Zippy environment variables ZIPPYABORT and ZIPPYADJOURN now control
13174 whether Zippy will accept abort and adjourn requests.
13176 * We now determine the variant type being played on ICS, send it as a
13177 command "variant VARTYPE" to the chess engine (if in Zippy mode), and
13178 put it in the PGN tags. See engine-intf.txt for variant names. See
13179 ZIPPYVARIANTS in zippy.README to control what variants Zippy will
13180 accept. Note that this now applies to bughouse, too.
13182 * Zippy now won't do -zippyTalk in a channel unless his handle is
13185 * Zippy now ignores bughouse holdings if not actually playing, instead
13186 of stupidly trying to abort the game. Let me know if other strange
13187 things happen when Zippy is observing a game.
13189 * Set ICS Interaction title bar to "user@server". User name is
13190 determined by parsing message during the login sequence. Zippy now
13191 uses this method to get its name too, so ZIPPYNAME is eliminated.
13192 Problem: with xboard, the title bar gets set to "xterm" upon exit,
13193 since we didn't know what it was to start with.
13195 * Fixed xboard-only bug in -colorChannel1 command line option. Thanks
13196 to Fredrik Sandstrom for the bug report and fix.
13198 * Check for overflow of MAX_MOVES. Still not sure this is checked for
13199 everywhere it needs to be.
13201 * Added .epd to suffixes recognized by WinBoard as position files.
13202 This is a bit of a kludge, as the .fen reading code was not written
13203 with .epd files in mind, but reading them with it is said to work.
13205 * Added ZIPPYGAMESTART feature, suggested by Jason Hoblit. See
13208 * Restored the feature of soaking up the moves from a user-typed "moves",
13209 "oldmoves", or "smoves" ICS command when xboard/WinBoard is idle, but
13210 changed it so that the move list is also echoed to the screen. Some folks
13211 still liked the old feature since it is faster than examine mode, and
13212 printing the moves to the screen should eliminate the confusion it caused
13215 * Bugfix: in WinBoard, starting a click-click move and then clicking on
13216 a black line would cause the source square to be forgotten without taking
13217 the highlight down. Now the errant click is ignored.
13219 * Corrected shortcut key labels for LoadNext/PrevPosition in WinBoard's
13220 File menu. Thanks to Andreas Stabel for the bug report.
13222 * Bugfix: if you had a completely full ICS context menu in WinBoard
13223 (90 items), the last one would do nothing if selected.
13225 * The "computer" engine command added in 4.0.1 was not working; I had
13226 left out part of the code patch. Oops.
13228 4.0.1 -- Fri Feb 12 21:24:15 PST 1999 Tim Mann
13230 This is a minor bugfix release. The first item listed below is the
13231 only interesting new feature.
13233 * You can now type in moves from the keyboard in WinBoard. Either
13234 select TypeInMove from Step menu, or (if you are not in ICS mode),
13235 just start typing. In ICS mode you can type moves into the ICS
13236 interaction window anyway, so I've retained the feature that typing
13237 switches you there. Not implemented in xboard.
13239 * Removed the "noise 1000" command that used to be sent to the chess
13240 engine when entering analysis modes.
13242 * Deleted the feature where we soak up the output of a user-typed ICS
13243 "moves" or "oldmoves" command. This ancient feature is not really
13244 useful anymore, now that "examine" exists, and it caused a lot of
13247 * Increased maximum size of ICS text menu to 90 entries and added
13250 * The command sent to ICS by Zippy at the end of each game can now be
13251 customized with the ZIPPYGAMEEND environment variable.
13253 * We treat xboard.info as a pseudo-source since most people don't have
13254 the tools to rebuild it. But "make install" erroneously had a
13255 dependency on it, even though "make all" did not. Fixed.
13257 * Miscellaneous minor updates and clarifications to engine-intf.txt.
13258 In particular, documented the st and sd commands (support for command
13259 line options -searchTime and -searchDepth), warts and all.
13261 * Added a small code patch from Bob Hyatt to detect when Zippy's ICS
13262 opponent is a computer and send the command "computer" to the engine.
13263 Added this command to engine-intf.txt. Thanks, Bob.
13265 * Bugfix: configure was looking for usleep(), but config.h.in didn't
13266 have an entry for it, so HAVE_USLEEP was never defined. Also, in the
13267 non-HAVE_USLEEP case, there was a possible race condition between the
13268 signal handler and the pause() call. Thanks to Ben Dean-Kawamura for
13271 * Bugfix: a "1..." preceding Black's first move (usually present if
13272 there is a comment on White's first move) would cause the parser
13273 to think a new game started there and report "End of game" on the
13274 current game. Thanks to Dell Garner for the bug report.
13276 * Changed the abbreviation for -searchDepth from -sd to -depth to fix
13277 a clash with -secondDirectory.
13279 * Changed -searchDepth to be orthogonal to the various timing options.
13280 Previously it would search for an unlimited time to the given depth;
13281 now the engine is allowed to choose its search time in the normal way,
13282 but is told to cut off the search early if it reaches the given depth.
13284 * Bugfix: SaveSettings in WinBoard was saving both the long form
13285 option highlightSquareColor and its abbreviation (hsc).
13287 * Fixed a redisplay bug in DisplayBothClocks that could cause White's
13288 clock to be highlighted in EditPosition mode when Black's should have been.
13290 * Fixed Zippy's feature of passing on draw offers from the ICS opponent.
13291 The colorization code was eating the offer before Zippy saw it, so I disabled
13292 colorization of offers while in -zp or -zt mode. (Other types of
13293 colorization are already disabled in Zippy mode for similar reasons.)
13295 * Added some more commands to the default ICS context menu in WinBoard,
13296 and put "(name)" on the ones that insert a playername (or game number).
13298 * Added missing documentation to WinBoard help file: PonderNextMove, the
13299 -ponder/-xponder argument, and the up/down arrow history feature in the
13300 ICS Interaction window.
13302 * Fixed ZIPPYNOPLAYCRAFTY feature to fire only if the opponent is Crafty,
13303 not if some other Crafty is observing the game and kibitzes.
13305 * Fixed bugs in generating "partner" commands when Zippy is playing
13308 4.0.0 -- Sat Jun 20 16:59:47 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
13310 * Fixed WinBoard resizing so that the edges you do not drag remain in
13311 place, even when the final size is different from what you dragged to.
13312 (This doesn't work on NT 3.51 or earlier, if anyone cares.)
13314 * Fixed problems with resizing WinBoard on Windows NT: you no longer get
13315 whitespace around the board, a clipped board, or a lot of flashing during
13318 * Added customization for highlight-square color.
13320 * Bugfix: backend.c wrote to stderr in a few obscure places, which doesn't
13323 * Added Index Number field back to LoadGame/LoadPosition dialog boxes in
13324 WinBoard. This required some extra code to work with both the
13325 Explorer-style dialog boxes and the old-style NT 3.51 dialog boxes. Ugh.
13327 * WinBoard startup dialog now understands -zp mode. The first chess
13328 engine selector is enabled and the value is used.
13330 * Bugfix: ResetGame would send "exit" to engine twice if it was in an
13333 * Bugfix: The response "Illegal move: bk" to the "bk" command, indicating
13334 that it is not implemented, would confuse xboard.
13336 * Bugfix: Ignore empty hints ("Hint:\n") instead of printing a message
13337 saying that some bogus string (often "Hint:") is illegal.
13339 * Bugfix: LoadNextGame/LoadPreviousGame/ReloadSameGame were broken.
13341 3.6.12 -- Sat Jun 13 14:57:10 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
13343 Beta test release of xboard and WinBoard.
13345 * Spruced up xboard man page a bit.
13347 * Added Highlight Last Move to xboard too.
13349 * The revamped xboard mouse click code had several more bugs than the
13350 previous version, so I revamped it again. All fixed now, I hope.
13352 * xboard bugfix: crash in CreatePieceMenu.
13354 * Oops. winboard-3_6_11beta.exe installed 3.6.10beta, not the new version.
13356 3.6.11 -- Fri Jun 12 20:00:48 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
13358 Beta test release of xboard and WinBoard.
13360 * Major reorganization to engine-intf.txt. Some new features added,
13361 many existing features clarified and hints for engine programmers added.
13362 Support for new features added to program.
13364 * Changed defaults for -scp (etc.) back to being independent of -fcp, as
13365 in 3.6.2. That is, the default is no longer to copy the value from -fcp if
13366 -scp is not specified. This will sometimes make command lines longer but
13367 will remove some confusing situations.
13369 * Split -reuseChessPrograms into two options: -reuseFirst and
13370 -reuseSecond. Fixed obscure bugs when reuse is off.
13372 * Detect ICC and change some command usage slightly there: only ICC has
13373 set-quietly; only FICS has iset and bsetup clear. With this feature, we
13374 can now safely use bsetup clear when appropriate instead of deleting each
13377 * Added indent to lines that are wrapped by WinBoard ICS Interaction
13378 window. This seems to tickle a Microsoft bug in the RichEdit control:
13379 occasionally the start of the next line after the wrapped line is indented
13380 too. I think the wrapped indent feature is useful enough that it's worth
13381 having in spite of the bug.
13383 * WinBoard bugfix: bounding box for the board was computed incorrectly by
13384 mouse code. It would think you moved off the bottom of the board before
13385 you really did, so it was hard to drag pieces along the bottom rank on
13386 smaller board sizes.
13388 * Fixed obscure parser.l bug: ambiguity between capture using : instead of
13389 x and email header line. Also removed or simplified a lot of complex
13390 patterns for English (as opposed to PGN) end-of-game indications while I
13393 * Added PonderNextMove option.
13395 * xboard EditPosition piece menus now let you set the side to play by
13396 selecting the "White" or "Black" label at the top of the menu, like
13397 WinBoard. (Both xboard and WinBoard still let you set the side to play by
13398 clicking on the clock.)
13400 * Merged documentation of Crafty and GNU Chess thinking output in
13401 engine-intf.txt. Corrected code in backend.c to match documentation; it
13402 used to require the PV to start in column 27 (!).
13404 * Fixed bug that caused crashes in "-reuseChessProgram false" mode.
13406 * Draw by agreement in Two Machines mode now works as it is supposed to.
13407 Other minor bugs in handling game end messages from machines are also
13408 fixed, and engine-intf.txt is revised in this area.
13410 * Revamped xboard code for handling mouse clicks on the board. In
13411 particular, it had a bug if a click-click promotion move was made.
13413 * Fixed and reinstated optimization for << in analysis modes: send
13414 initString and re-send the board if needed. Sending repeated undos
13415 is bad because Crafty prints some analysis after every one.
13417 * Don't go into a spin loop while pausing between xboard animation frames.
13418 This caused problems, especially when compiling with -O2 on HP-UX.
13420 * WinBoard Options/Colors/RevertToDefaults now also turns off Monochrome
13421 if it was on, and similarly for Options/ICSInteractionColors/RevertToDefaults.
13422 This seemed to confuse people before.
13424 * Bugfix: ICS Interaction context menu items with neither of the two
13425 optional flags set did not work.
13427 * Bugfix: PGN move numbers are optional, but we were insisting on "1"
13428 right after the tags.
13430 * Bugfix: only the first game of an -mg match was loading -lpf or -lgf.
13432 * Other minor fixes and code cleanup.
13434 3.6.10 -- Mon Jun 1 01:32:31 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
13436 * Added ZIPPYNOPLAYCRAFTY feature; see zippy.README.
13438 * Added timestamps for chess engine interaction to -debug output.
13440 * Now allow 10 seconds (was 5) between games in match mode for engines to
13441 respond to "force" command that ended previous game.
13443 * When a game is picked from the game list and the names of White and
13444 Black are known, display them in the window banner instead of the filename
13447 * Changed default for -scp and -sd to be the values of -fcp and -fd.
13449 * Added boxes for both engines to WinBoard startup dialog. Changed to
13450 dropdown boxes whose content can be set from winboard.ini, similar to
13451 the box for ICS name.
13453 * Accept "offer draw" (or "*offer*draw*") from engine to offer a draw.
13455 * Accept "move mmmm" from engine as well as silly "1. ... mmmm" syntax.
13457 * Added support for bughouse engines (Zippy mode only).
13459 * Move bombproofing for engines sending illegal or out of turn moves.
13461 * Always send "xboard\n" to engine as first command. Eliminates need
13462 to run crafty as "crafty xboard".
13464 * Rewrote xboard code for input from engines to fix longstanding bugs.
13465 Previously an engine that sent one line in two separate writes with
13466 some time lapse in between (or perhaps that sent several lines in one
13467 write) could make xboard hang. WinBoard did not have this bug.
13469 * Fixed minor bugs in dealing with illegal moves.
13471 * Added "iset startpos 1" for FICS.
13473 * Removed special support to put "GNU Chess" or "Crafty" in the window
13474 banner instead of the engine's base filename. This gives a more level
13475 playing field for other engines. Also fixed bugs in the code that finds the
13476 engine's base filename.
13478 * Bugfix: Abort or Resign at the very start of a game in chess engine mode
13479 would fail to send "force" to the engine.
13481 * Fixed some minor bugs in new "result" messages, and changed format to
13482 include a trailing PGN comment giving the reason the game ended.
13484 * Changed syntax of /font options in WinBoard; old syntax was assuming
13485 that a font name can't contain a digit, which is wrong. Old font names in
13486 WinBoard.ini files are still accepted.
13488 * Serious further work on getting WinBoard to read/write files in the
13489 "right" directories and documenting exactly what it does.
13491 * Added LoadPreviousPosition, LoadNextPosition, ReloadSamePosition.
13493 * Misc. tiny fixes and cleanup.
13495 3.6.9 -- Sun May 24 20:53:08 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
13497 xboard and WinBoard beta release.
13499 * Tightened up illegal move handling. Illegal or meaningless moves from a
13500 file or chess engine should no longer get translated into a1a1 and blindly
13501 applied. Explicit moves to the same square (like a1a1) no longer make the
13502 piece on that square capture itself and vanish.
13504 * Added AlwaysOnTop feature to winboard.
13506 * Fixed bug in winboard "@" command line indirection operator.
13508 * Removed buggy "optimization" code for ToStart in analysis modes.
13510 * Fixed typo bug in zippy.c that would often cause winboard to crash
13511 right after starting a game in -zp mode.
13513 3.6.8 -- Sat May 23 22:23:19 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
13515 xboard and WinBoard beta release.
13517 * Added -firstDirectory and -secondDirectory so that chess engines can
13518 be started in a different directory from xboard/WinBoard itself.
13520 * Added -matchGames to allow more than one game in -matchMode. The games
13521 are played with colors alternating between the two chess engines. Had to
13522 add a time delay at the end of each game to catch up with game ending
13523 messages from both chess engines -- yuck.
13525 * Changed TwoMachines mode to have firstChessProgram play White by
13526 default. Added -firstPlaysBlack to restore old behavior.
13528 * Major rework of code in backend.c for dealing with first and second
13529 chess engines. Generalized the code and created a struct type with one
13530 instance for each engine. Several small bugs fixed along the way.
13532 * Fixed bugs in Abort in local chess engine mode.
13534 * Tightened pattern matching to recognize moves from machine. Should cure
13535 bogus "Illegal move" errors while Crafty is pondering with Show Thinking
13536 on, among other things.
13538 * WinBoard keeps focus in board window after popping up a comment due to
13539 Forward/Backward/ToStart/ToEnd commands.
13541 * Finally got rid of warnings on compiling moves.c under Windows.
13543 * Fixed so WinBoard will compile on machines where WM_MOUSELEAVE is not
13546 * Removed various bits of unused code.
13548 * Parse (and ignore) NAGs in PGN files.
13550 * Updated engine-intf.txt.
13552 * Send "result R" to the chess program at the end of each game, where
13553 R is the PGN result 1-0, 0-1, 1/2-1/2, or *.
13555 * Bugfix: suppress animation when loading a game with timeDelay=0.
13557 * Bug fix: pondering output from Crafty that contained "..." could be
13558 mistaken for a move, causing bogus error messages and general chaos.
13560 * xboard "make clean" bug fix: moved things created by configure to be
13561 removed only by "make distclean".
13563 * Fixed a remaining case where move was being animated before being
13564 relayed to opponent.
13566 * Backend was reversing time/otim commands to the chess program (new bug),
13567 and was often not sending them on the first move of a game or the first
13568 move after a mode change (old bug). Fixing the latter required a kludge
13569 to work with both GNU Chess and Crafty, because Crafty swaps white and
13570 black clock times when it swaps sides, while GNU Chess does not. The
13571 kludge is that we always make sure the chess engine thinks its opponent is
13572 on move before we set the clock. This will sometimes result in sequences
13573 like "white\ntime xxx\notim yyy\nblack\ngo", or the same with white and
13574 black interchanged.
13576 * Removed last trace of old -whiteString and -blackString arguments.
13578 * Fixed so that you can type "bd" into the Direct Command dialog when
13579 debugging gnuchess, without having xboard parse the clock display
13580 (starting with "White") as "White wins" and end the game.
13582 * Changed moves.c to make a distinction between IllegalMove (where we
13583 could tell what move was intended, but it violates the chess rules) and
13584 MeaninglessMove (where we could not tell). This is a step towards getting
13585 rid of cases where we translate meaningless moves into "a1a1", but some
13586 work is probably needed to track them all down.
13588 * Fixed bug in WinBoard monoMode dragging.
13590 * Changed WinBoard to new style file dialogs. In the process, disabled
13591 the feature that let you enter the index number of a game or position within
13592 the file in the dialog. This is no loss in LoadGame, as you can pick your
13593 game from the game list dialog that follows, but it does remove some
13594 functionality from LoadPosition.
13596 3.6.7 -- Mon May 18 21:25:00 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
13598 xboard and WinBoard beta test release. I've been unable to reproduce some
13599 reported drawing bugs, so they may still not be fixed.
13601 * Changed PopUpErrors option to PopupMoveErrors, which is more useful, and
13602 changed default to off. Errors other than move errors should always be in
13603 popups; they are often too big for the message area and too important to
13604 put where they can be easily missed. But it seems good to get rid of the
13605 popups for move errors by default.
13607 * xboard analysis window no longer forces itself to top whenever there is
13608 new output. Also, now uses built-in Xaw word wrapping instead of trying
13609 to do its own; works better.
13611 * Bugfix: Reset did not take Crafty out of analyze mode.
13613 * A chess engine no longer has to claim to be Crafty to be able to use
13614 AnalysisMode and AnalyzeFile; it just has to implement the analyze
13615 command as Crafty does. Put in heuristics to generate more informative
13616 error messages if the engine does not support analyze, and checked that
13617 they work at least with GNU Chess.
13619 * Added click-click moving, HighlightLastMove, and HighlightDragging to
13620 WinBoard. The highlight features are unlikely to go into xboard unless
13621 the xboard drawing code is cleaned up to do *all* drawing on the board
13622 from DrawPosition, as WinBoard does. This is low priority for me.
13624 * Eliminated bogus "Error gathering move list: no header" popup. You
13625 could get this by observing two fast games at once without turning off
13628 * Disable WinBoard Sounds menu entirely in -ncp mode, since not even
13629 MoveSound is used in that mode.
13631 * WinBoard bugfix: Several problems were caused if the user changed
13632 WinBoard's current directory in a Load, Save, or Browse dialog. In
13633 particular, WinBoard.ini would get saved in the wrong directory, and
13634 sound .wav file names would not get saved with a full pathname. I think
13635 all such problems are now fixed.
13637 * WinBoard bugfix: iconizing the board after an aborted mouse resize would
13638 (partially) resize it to Tiny.
13640 * WinBoard bugfix: board was not being drawn in color on 256-color
13641 displays. This bug was introduced in 3.6.6.
13643 3.6.6 -- Tue May 12 17:43:43 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
13645 xboard and WinBoard beta release. Note: not all reported bugs are fixed.
13647 * Move animation in WinBoard, programmed by Henrik Gram. Great stuff!
13649 * Animate backward moves too.
13651 * xboard bugfix: -font (and friends) can now specify a font alias (such
13652 as "fixed"), not just a full X Consortium name pattern. Previously this
13653 would give a resource conversion error message.
13655 * Some coding style cleanup in xboard.c.
13657 * Earlier error check for moving wrong color piece in EditGame mode.
13659 * Completed fix to pattern matching; see 3.6.5.
13661 * Fixed some software rot bugs in Zippy.
13663 * Split AnimateDragging as separate option from AnimateMoves.
13665 * Added FlashMoves to options menu and -flash/-xflash to command line
13666 options (xboard only).
13668 * Some preliminary work on visible bughouse holding support. Most of the
13669 code is not present in this release because I have not gotten it working
13670 properly yet; my first approach went down a blind alley and I had to
13671 remove most of the partially working code in preparation for a rewrite.
13673 3.6.5 -- Fri May 8 14:22:09 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
13675 Not generally released.
13677 * Pack bughouse holdings display in banner more tightly when board is one
13678 of the smaller sizes (when smallLayout or tinyLayout is true, that is).
13679 An interim measure, but should help.
13681 * Completed fix to make move list parsing recognize the end condition and
13684 * Fixed pattern matching for chatter (tells, etc.) to be more reliable.
13685 This should reduce the incidence of colors starting in the wrong place and
13686 of incorrectly matching things that look like other patterns inside
13687 chatter, such as "shout <12>". (These errors were already rare.)
13689 * WinBoard now lets you customize the list of ICS's in the startup dialog.
13690 For now, at least, requires editing WinBoard.ini with a text editor.
13692 * Bug fix: WinBoard window sizing and position setting save/restore did
13693 not work right when the taskbar was at the top (or left side) of the
13694 screen and not in autohide mode.
13696 * Merged xboard click/click mode and drag mode, and deleted
13697 ClickClickMoving option on menu. Now if you click on a piece, it
13698 highlights and a further click on another square will move it. (A second
13699 click on the same square takes down the highlight.) Or if you press down
13700 on a piece and start to drag, you can drag it to a new square.
13702 * When making click/click style moves, if your second click is on a piece
13703 of the same color, instead of saying "Illegal move", we now cancel the first
13704 starting square, replace it with the second, and wait for another click to
13707 * Separate -secondInitString. Default: same as -initString. Suggested by
13710 * Patch from Frank McIngvale to make animation work with XIMs. Yay!
13712 * Changed move animation to happen after move is passed on to ICS or the
13713 chess engine, where applicable. Fixed problems with updating moveList
13714 that this uncovered.
13716 * Changed game list to show PGN result token for each game.
13718 * The usual minor bug fixes.
13720 3.6.4 -- Thu Apr 30 23:14:43 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
13722 xboard and WinBoard beta test release.
13724 * xboard documentation updated, both man page and info file. An attempt
13725 to generate both from the same source with LinuxDocSGML was abandoned, at
13726 least for now. WinBoard doc updated too.
13728 * Merged updates to animation code from Hugh. Fixed a couple of remaining
13729 bugs, mostly to do with handling Pause mode correctly.
13731 * Added SaveSettingsOnExit to WinBoard.
13733 * WinBoard now saves the last screen position of the Comment, Edit Tags,
13734 Game List, and Analysis windows (in addition to the board and ICS
13735 Interaction windows) in WinBoard.ini.
13737 * WinBoard now provides a way to customize the right-button context menu
13738 in the output area of the ICS Interaction window. For now, requires
13739 editing WinBoard.ini with a text editor.
13741 * Various minor fixes to ICS message recognition, most affecting only Zippy.
13743 * Colorize the notification when someone sends you a message while you are
13744 logged in, not the output of the "messages" command.
13746 * Fixed colorization to turn off at the right place more reliably.
13748 * Added a new color and WinBoard sound for "requests": abort, adjourn,
13749 draw, pause, and takeback. The same color and sound are used for all of
13752 * Added GUI to change sounds in WinBoard.
13754 * Suppressed WinBoard error popup when a sound can't be played. They were
13755 popping up when two separate WinBoards tried to play a sound at the same
13756 time (such as during a bughouse match).
13758 * Fixed WinBoard crash when a sound file didn't exist.
13760 * WinBoard ports of timestamp and timeseal now produce decent error
13761 messages if they fail to connect, and WinBoard captures the messages and
13762 puts them into a popup. Previously WinBoard would exit with no message on
13765 * WinBoard resizing with mouse improved; now accurately picks the largest
13766 size that fits in the new area.
13768 * Added option to turn off error message popups.
13770 * Added sizes slim, dinky, and teeny.
13772 * Fixed some minor problems with error message wording.
13774 3.6.3 -- Mon Feb 23 19:08:57 PST 1998 Tim Mann
13776 xboard beta test release only. Man page is updated for the changes, but info
13779 * Bug fix: LoadGame could not load a PGN game whose first move was
13780 castling (which is possible from setup positions).
13782 * Bug fix: we were ignoring illegal move messages from chess engines in
13783 modes where the engine is refereeing but not participating (EditGame,
13784 LoadGame, AnalyzeFile). The problem was in a workaround for a Crafty bug,
13785 where Crafty generates a bogus illegal move message if a "." (used by
13786 the PeriodicUpdates feature) is sent in analysis mode when the current
13787 analysis reveals a forced mate. Installed a different workaround (that
13788 works in most but not all cases) and reported the Crafty bug. Bob Hyatt
13789 replied with a fix, so the Crafty bug should be gone in Crafty 14.12 or so.
13791 * WinBoard only: enabled resizing board with the mouse. It snaps to the
13792 nearest (but not too much larger) predefined size.
13794 * The xboard default font is now sized according to piece size, just as
13795 clockFont and coordFont have always been.
13797 * Added more sizes: bulky, moderate, average, middling, mediocre, petite.
13799 * xboard only: Added Animate Moves and Click-Click Moving to Options menu.
13801 * xboard only: Added code to animate piece movement, from Hugh Fisher.
13803 * New feature: autoflag is implemented in MachineWhite, MachineBlack, and
13804 TwoMachines modes. If it is on and either a chess program or the user
13805 oversteps his time, xboard will automatically call the flag and end the
13806 game. This feature was requested by someone who runs matches between
13807 programs and wants to penalize GNU Chess for its habit of running slightly
13808 over at the end of a time control. I personally think it's pointless.
13810 * Fixed a bug in Zippy's pattern matching; he can now reply to ICC
13813 * Generate prettier notation for illegal moves. If a move is illegal only
13814 because it leaves the player in check, generate notation as if that were
13815 not illegal. For instance, if two knights are a knight's move away from
13816 f3, one on g1 and one on e5 that is pinned, the notation would be Nf3 to
13817 move the g1 knight, Nef3 to move the e5 knight. (Suggested by Philippe
13818 Schnoebelen.) In addition, if a move is illegal because the type of piece
13819 moved cannot go that way, would be jumping over another piece, etc., we
13820 give fully disambiguated coordinate notation; for example, Ng1g3, Ke1xe8,
13821 d2xd8=Q, etc. An alternative would be to still write Ng3 if there is only
13822 one knight on the board, or Ngg3 if the other knight is not on the g file,
13823 but life is too short to code up all this stuff, and perhaps the way I did
13824 it is better as it emphasizes that this move was really made despite being
13825 illegal. I wonder if the new PGN standard revision will speak to notation
13828 * Fixed gross bug from 3.6.2: if a chess program said "checkmate" and
13829 White was left on move, the PGN outcome was "1-0 {Black mates}" instead
13830 of "0-1 {Black mates}"! The bug occurred only for that specific string.
13832 3.6.2 -- Wed Jul 23 16:47:29 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
13834 * There was a bug in backing up from the end of a game against a chess
13835 engine, introduced when -reuse mode was added. Fixed.
13837 * Recognize "{" as terminating an ICS move list. Previously we needed to
13838 see a prompt (containing %), but occasionally ICC can send more stuff
13839 right after a move list with no prompt in between.
13841 * In WinBoard, -mm now implies -cp, so you don't get the startup dialog.
13843 * WinBoard startup dialog no longer sets -scp. People used to get
13844 confused because they would give the -fcp and -scp arguments, but omit
13845 -cp. This would bring up the startup dialog, which would set both -fcp
13846 and -scp to the value in the engine name box. Now you can change -scp
13847 only with the command-line argument. That will confuse some people too,
13848 but hopefully fewer. I think overall it's better than putting spaces for
13849 both -fcp and -scp in the dialog, which would puzzle newbies.
13851 * Bug fix: Analyze File mode now works in WinBoard.
13853 * Bug fix: WinBoard window no longer cuts off part of the bottom row if
13854 the menu bar wraps to a second line.
13856 * Accept game end messages of the form "PGN-result {comment}" from the
13857 chess engine, where PGN-result is 0-1, 1-0, or 1/2-1/2. Accept "resign"
13858 or "computer resigns" from the chess engine as a synonym for "0-1 {White
13859 resigns}" or "1-0 {Black resigns}". Accept any message from the chess
13860 engine containing "game is a draw" as a synonym for "1/2-1/2 {Draw}".
13861 Accept "White resigns" or "Black resigns".
13863 * Enable "Action / Draw" menu item in chess engine mode. It sends the
13864 command "draw" to the engine. Accept any message from the chess engine
13865 containing "offers a draw" as a draw offer. WARNING: Draw offers from the
13866 user and the engine (or from two engines) are not yet matched up by xboard
13867 in chess engine mode. Two engines could get into a loop offering each
13870 * Bug fix: Game end messages from the chess engine are always ignored in
13871 Zippy mode. Previously they could sometimes be processed, which was
13872 sometimes making Zippy hang at the start of a new game that followed
13873 quickly after an old one.
13875 * Zippy can now respond to titled players in channels. Zippy will avoid
13876 talking to himself in a channel if he knows his own name.
13878 * Bug fix: in colorization arguments, the bold setting was being ignored
13879 if the background color was defaulted. (xboard only.)
13881 * Extended ParseFEN to accept Crafty 12.2's interpretation of FEN.
13882 If fewer than 8 squares are given in a row, or fewer than 8 rows are
13883 given, the uncovered squares are empty. Also, there can be a / after the
13886 3.6.1 -- Sat May 17 01:02:33 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
13888 * Bug fix: Hitting escape while entering a password on WinBoard no longer
13889 sets the font color back to black (which made further typing visible).
13891 * Bug fix: On Windows NT 4.0, WinBoard /ics /icshelper=timestamp would
13892 often hang if you tried to exit with the Exit menu item, the [X] button,
13893 etc. The same fix may also have corrected the problem where running a
13894 chess program with /xreuse would sometimes crash Windows 95 (but not NT)
13895 when the chess program was killed and quickly restarted.
13897 * Bug fix: Periodic Updates would not work if turned on after having been
13898 off. Also, the default was needlessly "off" in WinBoard.
13900 * Zippy bug fix: Continuing an adjourned game was totally broken. The
13901 wrong moves, or no moves at all, were being fed to the chess program.
13903 * WinBoard change: Giving -ics without -icshost now pops up the startup
13904 dialog with "Use an Internet Chess Server" pre-selected, so that you get a
13905 menu of chess servers instead of going directly to ICC.
13907 * Bug fix: WinBoard's SaveSettings was saving -icshost, -icsport, and
13908 -icshelper in winboard.ini. This causes a problem if you use a different
13909 icshost later that needs the default values for icsport (5000) and
13910 icshelper ("", meaning none).
13912 * Disabled complaints about unexpected "[Ii]llegal move" messages from
13913 the chess program; we still get them at times.
13915 * Greatly simplified the code for Move Now and SIGINT (ATTENTION). Fixes
13916 the bug where Move Now did not work with GNU Chess in WinBoard, and
13917 several more obscure bugs as well. Reintroduces a minor bug: GNU Chess might
13918 not think on your time after a Move Now command. Trying to fix this
13919 causes too many other problems. Documented change in engine-intf.txt.
13921 * Cleaned up code for obtaining ratings from ICS. It was kludgey and may
13922 have had bugs on systems with no "Creating:" message. It should fail
13923 gracefully there, just not finding the ratings.
13925 3.6.0 -- Thu May 8 19:55:58 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
13927 * WinBoard now has right-button context menus in the ICS Interaction
13928 window. Some of the items do immediate commands on the player name you
13929 have selected or pointed to. (Suggested by Paolo Casaschi.) Also, the
13930 middle button or shift+right does a immediate Copy and Paste.
13932 * Fixed a bug in Zippy's wild rejection. The bug was causing Zippy to
13933 reject all forms of wild. Now it rejects only 1, 9, 16, 17, and 24, as
13934 was intended. These variants have different rules, while the other
13935 variants defined so far only have different starting positions.
13936 (Actually, wild 2, 3, and 4 never allow castling, but may sometimes by
13937 chance have king and rook start on squares where castling appears legal.
13938 This could cause a problem later.)
13940 * Zippy now resumes adjourned games by feeding the chess program
13941 the move list instead of the position. Setting -getMoveList to False
13942 restores the old behavior. Feeding in the move list is better because
13943 it enables the chess program to correctly handle en passant legality,
13944 castling legality, draw by repetition, and draw by the 50 move rule.
13946 * Added a WinBoard startup dialog for people who run WinBoard.exe without
13947 using the Start menu or reading the help file. Instead of being dumped
13948 directly into GNU Chess mode, you now get a menu of choices. You now have
13949 to give the new WinBoard -cp option to go directly into chess engine mode.
13950 I did not add this feature to xboard.
13952 * Handling of "illegal move" from Crafty is now back on. (It was turned
13953 off in 3.4.6; see below.) Crafty 12.0 doesn't seem to send bogus ones
13954 anymore. I did have to suppress sending time and otim in analyze mode to
13955 make this work, but there is no harm in that.
13957 * Zippy now sends "gameend" to ICS at the end of each game. You can alias
13958 this to "seek" or whatever you like.
13960 * Added Crafty support for Move Now, using the "?" command. We test
13961 whether this command exists by trying it once at the start of the first
13962 game, before it really makes sense. If we don't get a message like
13963 "Illegal move ... ?", we assume it's OK. (We're careful about this
13964 because sending a "?" to GNU Chess on Move Now keeps it from pondering the
13965 next move as it should.)
13967 * Added support for a tellusererror command from the chess engine. See
13970 * Attempted to make engine-intf.txt complete.
13972 * Minor fixes/cleanup to GameEnds code, to be sure we always interrupt
13973 when needed, and always undo an extra move generated by stopping the chess
13974 program while it is thinking.
13976 3.5.7 -- Sat May 03 22:37:44 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
13978 Beta release of both xboard and WinBoard.
13980 * Updated xboard documentation. I really wish the man page was built from
13981 the info file instead of being separate! It's a pain to update them both.
13983 * Updated documentation of the interface between XBoard/WinBoard and chess
13984 programs, and renamed it to engine-intf.txt.
13986 * Added support for tellics, telluser, and askuser commands from the chess
13987 engine. See engine-intf.txt.
13989 * Various bug fixes. On WinBoard, 256 color displays are finally handled
13990 right; no more color flashing when you switch windows unless the colors
13991 really need to be updated. Also, I think the problem of the console font
13992 failing to change or changing back by itself is finally fixed.
13994 3.5.6 -- Tue Apr 29 03:08:00 PDT 1997
13996 Beta release, WinBoard only. ChangeLog was out of date in release,
13999 * Added ICC timestamp and FICS timeseal to WinBoard distribution. These
14000 are my own ports to Win32, based on and used by permission of the owners
14001 of the proprietary source code (Daniel Sleator for timestamp, Henrik Gram
14002 for timeseal). The owners permit these programs to be distributed only in
14003 binary form (to help prevent cheating), so to avoid running afoul of the
14004 GPL, I have kept them as separate programs, not linked into the WinBoard
14005 address space. Updated Start menu icons to use them.
14007 * Miscellaneous smaller changes.
14009 3.5.5 -- Fri Apr 25 03:06:00 PDT 1997
14011 Beta release, WinBoard only. ChangeLog was out of date in release;
14014 * Added simple sound support to WinBoard.
14016 * Updated WinBoard documentation.
14018 * Internal implementation of the telnet protocol is now more complete.
14019 You can now hop through a VMS host on the way to ICS. For example, do
14020 "xboard -ics -icshost vms.host.edu -icsport 23", then log in. Do not use
14021 the -telnet flag; that says to use an *external* telnet program. To avoid
14022 double echoes, you need to force character mode in VMS telnet after
14023 connecting from VMS to ICS. Do "^]^Mset mode char^M^M".
14025 * Display opponent names in the title bar for MachineWhite, MachineBlack,
14026 and TwoMachines modes.
14028 * WinBoard now has an installer, built with InstallShield. The installer
14029 works with a binary-only distribution. Sources are still freely
14030 available, but now separately.
14032 * Added SaveSettings to WinBoard, which saves current option settings to
14033 winboard.ini. Made sure all options can be saved and loaded, including
14034 fonts and com port settings.
14036 * If the game ends while you are dragging a piece, we now don't let you
14037 finish the move. Formerly the move was accepted and your opponent's clock
14038 would start running again.
14040 3.5.4 -- Fri Apr 18 01:15:24 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
14042 Beta test release of WinBoard and xboard. The documentation remains
14045 * Many fixes and improvements to new WinBoard user interface code.
14047 * In Zippy mode, avoid sending another copy of the same move to the chess
14048 program if ICS sends us another copy of the board image. Hard to believe
14049 it took me until now to diagnose and fix this problem!
14051 3.5.3 -- Sat Apr 12 19:49:33 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
14053 Beta test release of WinBoard and xboard.
14055 * Fixed fatal bug in WinBoard input handling.
14057 * Made code to stop chess program for reuse a bit smarter. Removed kludge
14058 of "white" in initString; it didn't work well, and is unneeded
14059 with Crafty 11.21 and later.
14061 3.5.2 -- Sat Apr 12 15:40:01 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
14063 Beta test release of WinBoard.
14065 * Ignore check and permit promotion to King during suicide games; no need
14066 to turn off TestLegality.
14068 * Renamed CheckLegality to TestLegality to avoid confusion with the chess
14071 * Added Rematch to Action menu.
14073 * WinBoard now has a custom ICS interaction window with scrollback, a
14074 separate line for input, and colorization. Accelerators that conflict
14075 with normal editing keys were changed (by requiring Alt+) so they can work
14076 in both the console and the main window.
14078 * WinBoard error popups are now non-modal and disappear when you make a
14079 new move, as in xboard.
14081 * Configure now defaults to --disable-ptys on all systems. If anyone has
14082 an ancient SysV system where pipes don't work with select, they can still
14083 do "configure --enable-ptys" explicitly. I would appreciate getting a bug
14084 report if this happens to anyone, with complete output from configure and
14087 * "make install" now makes the installation directories too.
14089 * Fixed a bug that would cause an "Illegal move" message for Black from
14090 GNU Chess to be incorrectly considered bogus.
14092 * Handle name changes during an ICS game (FICS bname and wname commands).
14094 * You can force both chess programs to be killed at the end of each game
14095 by turning off the reuseChessPrograms option. There are still some
14096 problems with reusing Crafty even in version 11.20.
14098 * Now the second chess program stays around by default too, if it ever
14101 3.5.1 -- Sat Apr 5 16:47:48 PST 1997 Tim Mann
14105 * Don't kill off and restart the chess program for each game; keep the
14106 same one running, using the "new" command to start a new game. This
14107 change works around the problem in Windows 95 that makes WinBoard crash it
14108 at times, and is generally desirable to make new games start faster. The
14109 second chess program (for TwoMachines) is still killed at the end of the
14110 game, and unfortunately this can still crash Windows 95. Temporarily
14111 added "white" to the initString to make this work with Crafty 11.20, which
14112 has a minor bug in "new". Older versions of Crafty have worse bugs in
14113 "new"; they should not be used with this version of xboard.
14115 * Support for FICS suicide chess: Parse illegal moves (that leave King in
14116 check) in game history. If CheckLegality is off, allow promotion to King
14117 and illegal moves in game files. We still generate e2e4 style notation
14120 * Handle FICS "has timeseal; checking" message.
14122 * Changed the coords from white back to black; this was a bug.
14124 * Fixed problems compiling with K&R compilers.
14126 * Fixed an old bug in RegisterMove that was crashing cmail on some systems
14129 3.5.0 -- Thu Jan 2 16:59:49 PST 1997 Tim Mann
14131 Thanks to Frank McIngvale for much of the work on versions 3.4.4 and above!
14133 * Fix Crafty resumed game time bug (frankm)
14135 * Word wrap text in Analysis window (frankm)
14137 * More debug info for XPM loading (frankm)
14139 * Replaced config.sub, config.guess, etc., with up-to-date versions from
14140 autoconf 2.12. Hopefully this will fix problems on Pentium Pro machines.
14142 * Removed some Makefile gunk that was causing looping for one person.
14144 3.4.7 -- Thu Dec 19 14:22:41 PST 1996 Tim Mann
14146 All changes from Frank:
14148 * Retrieve ratings from ICC (and FICS, etc., when they add the Creating:
14149 message), save them in the PGN tags, and pass them to Crafty in Zippy mode.
14151 * Add settable time delay between characters in ICS login script.
14153 * Colorize messages like personal tells. Fix false recognition of channel
14156 * Pass "tells" from Crafty through to ICS (in Zippy mode).
14158 * Implement ~/ filename convention from C shell for game and position file
14161 * ZIPPYACCEPTONLY feature for testing.
14163 3.4, patchlevel 6 -- Sat Nov 23 16:58:50 PST 1996 Tim Mann
14165 * Put recognition of "illegal move" messages from Crafty for
14166 illegal castling, etc., inside an #if that is currently turned off,
14167 because of a bug in Crafty that generates bogus "illegal move" messages
14168 after some moves that are actually legal and accepted by Crafty.
14170 * Added -checkLegality option; previously this could not be turned off.
14172 * Fixed an old bug in finding default board size parameters.
14174 * Differentiated among channel tell, kibitz/whisper, and personal tell/say.
14176 * Fixed a bug in detecting Xpm in the configure script.
14178 3.4, patchlevel 5 -- Mon Nov 18 16:22:53 PST 1996 Tim Mann
14180 * Added zic2xpm to the kit; it had been omitted by mistake.
14182 * Added some default colors for -colorize
14184 3.4, patchlevel 4 -- Sat Nov 16 18:10:17 PST 1996 Tim Mann
14186 This is meant to be a beta release in preparation for version 3.5.
14188 * Added InfoXBoard and ManXBoard to the Help menu.
14190 * Made Frank's ICS input box optional, defaulting to off.
14192 * Merged in Frank McIngvale's XbKit. Many new features, including
14193 -clickClick mode, the Analysis modes, piece flashing, ZIICS import,
14194 ICS text colorization, and the ICS input box. Many thanks to Frank for
14195 supplying and documenting this code.
14197 3.4, patchlevel 3 -- Mon Nov 11 18:23:14 PST 1996 Tim Mann
14199 Small set of changes made while Frank McIngvale was working on XbKit in
14200 parallel. Unreleased in this form.
14202 * Updated zippy.README.
14204 * Removed useless X event handler and removed strange code for copying
14205 form translation table to board that worked around the bug it caused.
14206 This makes changing bindings in .Xdefaults more straightforward.
14208 * Now pressing the Control key steps back one move, and releasing it steps
14211 * Moved quit from "q" to "Q" for greater safety.
14213 * Use "unobserve" instead of "observe" to stop observing; needed on FICS.
14215 * Support for interface variable.
14217 * Strip titles from people who are talking to us, so (for example) Zippy
14218 won't try things like "tell Darooha(*) hello". Needed on FICS.
14220 3.4, patchlevel 2 -- Tue Jul 9 19:06:42 PDT 1996 Tim Mann
14222 This patchlevel is not planned to be an announced release. It's in
14223 preparation for integrating Frank McIngvale's XbKit. It mostly contains
14224 minor fixes I've accumulated since 3.4.pl1.
14226 * WinBoard /telnet option now fires up an external program, as
14227 with xboard, instead of trying to use a feature of NT 3.1 that does not
14228 exist in later versions of NT or in Windows 95. ChangeLog for 3.4.pl1
14229 said this had been implemented there, but it really wasn't.
14231 * Indicating player to move by the icon color now works under Windows 95.
14233 * WinBoard now kills the chess program when you exit using the system menu
14234 or the [X] button. Thanks to Michael Lowe.
14236 * Minor changes to Zippy, including: Now understands wild challenges on
14237 FICS; these used to crash it. Removed limit on how fast a game will be
14238 accepted. Use "set formula ..." on the chess server to limit this if you
14239 are using GNU Chess. Now sends correct opponent name to Crafty.
14241 * Added some missing default values to documentation. Thanks to Stuart
14244 * Bugfix: Trying to print "No fonts match pattern" error message would
14245 crash. This can happen to Linux users who don't install Helvetica, for
14248 * Bugfix: Defaulting feature in -size n,n,n,n,n,n would put us in an
14251 * Added more directories to search for Athena widgets on HPUX.
14253 * New cmail (3.12) from Evan Welsh; includes small fix from Kayvan Sylvan.
14255 * Recognize "illegal move" messages from Crafty for illegal castling, etc.
14257 * Bugfix: "name" command added to zippy.c for Crafty was producing error
14258 message if GNU Chess was in use.
14260 * In bughouse mode, suppress holding messages from console window; show
14261 holdings only in banner.
14263 * Minor fixes/cleanup to Makefile.in and configure.in.
14265 3.4, patchlevel 1 -- Mon Dec 11 13:43:12 PST 1995 Tim Mann
14267 * This patchlevel updates WinBoard to match xboard, and includes a few
14268 fixes and minor improvements. "-size tiny" and "-size n,n,n,n,n,n"
14269 are still not implemented for WinBoard.
14271 * Installed support for Crafty based on code from Bob Hyatt.
14272 Currently the only documentation for this is in the FAQ, and a few
14273 things don't work with Crafty 8.23. Please do not report these
14274 problems as bugs in either xboard or Crafty. Bob and I know about
14275 them. The worst ones (if not all of them) should be fixed in Crafty
14278 * Changed the kludge command we send when gnuchess wants to print
14279 something that doesn't end with a newline, from "help" to "bogus".
14280 This works because the error message gnuchess prints ends with a
14281 newline. It also improves compatibility with Crafty, which doesn't
14282 need the kludge, but for which sending "help" causes a problem.
14284 * Don't draw grid at all if lineGap is 0; previously we drew the grid
14285 with X "0-width" lines (usually 1 pixel wide) and then overwrote it.
14287 * Makefile: Removed xboard.info from "all" target so we won't try to
14288 rebuild it, because this fails on hosts that don't have makeinfo
14289 installed. Other minor fixes to "clean" targets, etc.
14291 * Fixes and cleanup to Auto Comment code that handles continuation
14292 lines and highlighting.
14294 * Auto Observe now tries to observe the game from the point of view of
14295 the player who was on your gnotify list. Requested by rng.
14296 Limitations: We can't tell which player it was unless you have ICS
14297 highlighting turned on. Also, currently "observe foo" works as
14298 required (observing from foo's point of view) only on ICC, but FICS
14299 will probably implement this soon.
14301 * "-size tiny" now makes the default font smaller automatically. This
14302 was implemented by introducing an extra Form widget in the hierarchy
14303 for all xboard windows, named either normalLayout, smallLayout, or
14304 tinyLayout. So you can have resource specifications that apply only
14305 to certain layouts; in particular, XBoard*tinyLayout*font.
14307 * Bug fix: EditGame or EditPosition while playing or examining still was
14308 not really being permitted.
14310 * WinBoard bug fix: On the EditPosition menu, King did not work.
14312 * Added text catalog of WinSock error messages to WinBoard, because
14313 Microsoft still has not put them in the system message catalog.
14315 * Removed support for older ICS game-ending messages that do not have
14316 a PGN result token (*, 0-1, 1-0, or 1/2-1/2) after the closing '}'.
14317 The code for older messages was sometimes firing on the newer
14318 messages, due to parsing ambiguity. If the current code sees an old
14319 message, it will understand that the game is over, but will always
14320 display * as a result token instead of trying to guess the result by
14321 interpreting the text message.
14323 3.4, patchlevel 0 -- Tue Nov 21 01:02:50 PST 1995 Tim Mann
14325 * This patchlevel was released for xboard only.
14327 * Updated the info file. It should now be as up-to-date as the man page,
14328 with good English except in the parts that pertain only to AmyBoard.
14330 * Added "-size tiny", requested by Bob Hyatt. Also cleaned up bitmap
14331 support and added "-size n,n,n,n,n,n" to allow arbitrary-sized bitmaps,
14332 if the actual bitmaps are supplied by the user.
14334 * Updated bughouse support.
14336 3.3, patchlevel 4 -- Sat Nov 18 02:27:21 PST 1995 Tim Mann
14338 * Unreleased beta that works with preliminary FICS bughouse code. Will
14339 need changes before release to track FICS message changes.
14341 * Removed use of .EX macro from man page. It is not supported by some
14342 nroff -man macro packages, notably the one on Slackware Linux. Switched
14343 to boldface for references to xboard and other commands within the man
14344 page, as this seems to be the modern way.
14346 * Bug fix: If ICS rejected a move, it was correctly undone on the board,
14347 but the message widget still displayed the bad move. Reported by DAV.
14349 * Normally, xboard in ICS mode fetches the move list whenever the board
14350 display switches to a new game. Doing this is now an option
14351 (getMoveList) that can be turned off, which is useful if you are watching
14352 multiple blitz games. Requested by rng.
14354 * Move list fetching code is now smarter: it ignores a move list if it is
14355 not for the right game.
14357 * Added support for bughouse as implemented on FICS. Holdings are shown
14358 in the window title in place of the strength numbers. A menu on mouse
14359 buttons 2 and 3 (same on both) lets you drop pieces. There is no checking
14360 as to whether you actually hold the piece you are trying to drop; we rely
14361 on ICS to check that. Notation of the form P@f7 is generated and parsed.
14362 The mate detector does not understand that non-contact mate is not really
14363 mate in bughouse, but this does no real harm. It results in a "#"
14364 suffix being displayed on the move notation, but xboard does not assume the
14367 * Bug fix: Promotion to a knight was not working with ICC! Thanks to
14368 Wendigo for the report.
14370 * Bug fix: Special pty code for host types *-*-aix3* and *-*-irix3*
14371 (supplied from configure.in) had a bug that would cause childio.c to
14372 fail to compile, due to a "continue" that was not within a loop.
14374 * Bug fix: In pgntags.c, memory was being freed while still in use. One
14375 symptom this caused was that on some machines, cmail would fail with a
14376 message that it could not find the BlackNA tag. The error was in some
14377 submitted code that I included in version 3.2.pl3 without reading
14378 carefully enough. Anders Forberg noticed the symptoms, and Evan Welsh
14379 (who had nothing to do with causing the bug) found the bug and submitted a
14380 fix; thanks to them both.
14382 * Removed restriction against using EditGame while playing, observing,
14383 or examining on ICS. You still get a warning popup.
14385 3.3, patchlevel 3 -- Sat Sep 16 11:44:05 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
14387 * Bug fix: Going directly from MachineWhite to TwoMachines mode would kill
14388 off the second chess program after Black's first move.
14390 * Added -timeIncrement feature. Thanks to Joel Rivat.
14392 * Deleted code that tries to keep you from observing more than one game,
14393 or observing while playing or examining. There is actually no problem in
14394 doing this, except that every time an update comes in from a different
14395 game than is currently being displayed, xboard fetches the history of the
14396 new game, which may be time-consuming if you are on a slow link.
14398 * Fixed configure so as not to crash when neither lex nor flex is found.
14399 lex or flex is needed only if the user wants to rebuild parser.c. Thanks
14400 to Phil Humpherys for reporting the crash.
14402 * Bug fix: config.h.in used #define instead of #undef for some macros used
14403 in the pty code in childio.c. This causes the code to fail to compile on
14404 some architectures, because the symbols are supposed to be undefined, not
14405 defined to empty, when they are not set in configure. Bug originated in
14406 3.3.pl0 when config.h was introduced. Thanks to Phil Humpherys for report.
14408 * Bug fix: ShowThinking would not show anything when current position had
14409 no move to display in the move window. E.g., if position was created by
14410 LoadPosition or EditPosition.
14412 3.3, patchlevel 2 -- Mon Aug 28 11:11:11 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
14414 * Zippy code was omitted from xboard-3.3.pl1 by mistake; now included.
14416 * For WinBoard, added hint to help file that you may need to turn off
14417 LocalLineEditing while typing dialing commands to your modem.
14419 3.3, patchlevel 1 -- Sat Aug 19 15:13:30 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
14421 * Zippy distribution is no longer separate from regular xboard distribution.
14423 * Deal properly with Show Thinking output from GNU Chess when it is
14424 thinking on its opponent's time. In TwoMachines mode this output is
14425 suppressed to avoid interfering with the output from the machine that is
14426 on move; in other modes it is displayed (including the move that GNU Chess
14427 is predicting the user will make next). GNU Chess produces this output
14428 only if it is built without -DQUIETBACKGROUND defined; this symbol is
14429 defined by default in patchlevels before pl75, but undefined by default in
14432 * Bug fix: Handling of initial board position in move list for wild games
14433 was broken, so wild games could not be observed and adjourned wild games
14434 could not be continued. Thanks to "Maximum Entropy" for the bug report.
14436 * Added feature: algebraic notation now shows "+" indicator for check
14437 and "#" for checkmate, as called for in PGN standard. Thanks to Kevin
14438 Maher for the suggestion.
14440 3.3, patchlevel 0 -- Thu Jul 27 22:21:07 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
14442 * Changed configuration to use a config.h file instead of passing zillions
14443 of -D options on the cc command line.
14445 * Merged a small fix and some updates to the texinfo file from Jochen
14446 Wiedmann. The texinfo file still needs work.
14448 3.2, patchlevel 5 -- Tue Jul 18 20:29:39 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
14450 * Beta test release of xboard only.
14452 * Updated WinBoard code to include new xboard features.
14454 * Added texinfo file from Jochen Wiedmann to the release, but not as the
14455 primary documentation. It needs updating, and the English needs work.
14456 I did make a few improvements, mostly to change incorrect uses of @var to
14457 either @samp or @code as appropriate.
14459 * Merged in code changes to 3.2.pl4beta from Jochen Wiedmann.
14461 * Fixed EditComment; did not pop up window in previous beta.
14463 * Added AutoComment feature.
14465 * Added GameListDestroy to disable the outdated game list popup in cases
14466 where we load a new game file without building a new popup.
14468 * Added yyskipmoves feature to parser.l to speed up building of gamelist.
14470 * gamelist.c wouldn't compile with a non-ANSI compiler. Fixed.
14472 * Change to yy_text handling in patchlevel 3 still had problems. Can't
14473 use AC_DECL_YYTEXT in configure.in, because that defines YYTEXT_POINTER
14474 according to whether the lexer on the current host makes yytext a pointer.
14475 But most people will be using a parser.c that was generated on another
14476 host and shipped with the package.
14478 3.2, patchlevel 4 -- Sun Jun 25 19:13:43 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
14480 * Beta test release of xboard only.
14482 * Added FIREWALLS section to man page.
14484 * Changed -icsport to be a string. Now with the -telnet option,
14485 specifying -icsport "" suppresses the second argument to telnet.
14487 * Added EditTags feature. Removed AboutGame from menu, because EditTags
14488 subsumes it. EditTags suggested by Jochen Wiedmann and first implemented by
14489 him in AmyBoard. xboard implementation is my own.
14491 * Fixed some missing or incorrect prototypes.
14493 3.2, patchlevel 3 -- Sat Jun 3 18:57:38 1995 Tim Mann
14495 * Beta test release of xboard only.
14497 * New version of cmail from Evan Welsh, to fix compatibility problems with
14500 * Added game list feature on Load Game, based on code from Jochen
14501 Wiedmann. Integrated it with cmail.
14503 * Several bug fixes from Jochen Wiedmann, including one to my yy_text
14504 workaround for the difference in the type of yytext between lex and flex.
14506 * Handle clock pause on FICS.
14508 * Suppress clocks in untimed FICS games (time control 0 0).
14510 * Rebuilt configure script with autoconf 2.3. This fixes a bug in
14511 configuring for X11R6, where -lSM -lICE would not be added when needed.
14513 * Fixed inconsistent type declarations on IntSigHandler and
14514 CmailSigHandler. Bug report from Josh Daynard.
14516 * backend.c wouldn't compile with a non-ANSI compiler. Fixed.
14518 3.2, patchlevel 2 -- Tue Feb 7 14:50:30 1995 Tim Mann
14520 * Minor release of both xboard and WinBoard.
14522 * Added recognition of some FICS messages. On the other hand FICS is also
14523 changing some of its messages to match what xboard already recognizes.
14525 * Temporarily went back to using "promote" command on ICS instead of
14526 "a7a8=Q", because FICS doesn't implement the latter yet.
14528 * We now avoid using overlapped I/O on pipes in WinBoard, to make Windows
14529 95 beta 2 happy. This lets WinBoard work with GNU Chess on Windows 95!
14531 * Installed patches from Jochen Wiedmann to coordinate with Amiga XBoard.
14533 * Installed patch to cmail bug in LoadGame from Evan Welsh.
14535 * Bugfix: checkmate and stalemate moves entered with EditGame in ICS mode
14536 were not being handled correctly. Bug was in GameEnds().
14538 * Implemented EchoOn and EchoOff for xboard, using system("stty echo\n").
14539 Now passwords won't be echoed when you connect directly to ICS. Also,
14540 telnet negotiation characters aren't displayed (when possible).
14542 * Implemented more of the telnet protocol. Now connecting to a telnet
14543 server with "-icsport 23" should work even without giving the -telnet
14544 option. The telnet is in "old line-by-line mode".
14546 3.2, patchlevel 1 -- Sat Dec 10 13:50:46 1994 Tim Mann
14548 * This patchlevel released for WinBoard only.
14550 * winboard.c: Fixed ConsoleInputThread(). Needed to change CRLF to LF,
14551 not to CR. This was stopping normal /ics mode from working. Thanks to
14552 Asher Kobin for the bug report.
14554 * winboard.c: Fixed Raw(), EchoOn(), EchoOff(). Now they take effect
14555 immediately, not on the next console read after the one in progress.
14557 * winboard.c: Attempted to make WinBoard work with gnuchessx running
14558 directly on Windows (not remotely via rsh). It now works on NT, but only
14559 if gnuchess is told not to think on its opponent's time ("easy\n" removed
14560 from initString). The problem seems to be that GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent
14561 is not doing anything. On Windows 95 beta 2, we get error messages on
14562 both reading and writing to gnuchessx; I didn't investigate why.
14564 3.2, patchlevel 0 -- Wed Dec 7 13:23:36 1994 Tim Mann
14566 * Thanks to all the beta testers who gave me feedback: Josef Nelissen,
14567 Steve Booth, Evan Welsh, Dima Dakhnovsky, Chris Petroff, Peter Jansen,
14568 Derek Terveer, Michel van der List, Richard Lloyd, Shelly Mistry, and Mike
14569 Lee. Sorry if I forgot anyone. Thanks to Virendra Kumar Mehta for
14570 information about DYNIX/ptx.
14572 * Don't exit on keyboard EOF unless we get two in a row.
14574 * WinBoard only: added -localLineEdit switch to allow turning off local
14575 line editing if you really want to. It is still a bad idea to let the
14576 echoing be done remotely, however; see below.
14578 * Fixed some configure problems on HP-UX. [Steve Booth]
14580 * Fixed (I hope) configure problem on SunOS 5.3/Solaris 2.3. [Josef Nelissen]
14582 * cmail bugfix from Evan Welsh (cmail 3.4).
14584 3.1, patchlevel 9 -- Fri Dec 2 23:54:56 1994 Tim Mann
14586 * Beta distribution only
14588 * Always do local echo/edit of user typing in ICS mode. Doing the echo
14589 downstream may seem nicer in some modes, and it can be hard to turn that
14590 echo off, but the echoed characters can be interleaved with ICS output
14591 and make it impossible to parse correctly. For xboard this involved only
14592 a change to recommendations in the man page, as Raw() isn't implemented.
14593 For WinBoard, removing Raw() made a real difference. Added code in
14594 WinBoard to change /r/n back into /r on keyboard input, as we get the
14595 former when Raw() is not called.
14597 * Do not issue ICS "refresh" command after we start to observe a game
14598 unless we get to the next prompt without seeing a board image. Newest
14599 version of ICS doesn't require this refresh, but old versions around still
14602 * cmail bugfix and small code cleanup in LoadGame, from Evan Welsh.
14604 * Added keyboard accelerators N/P for LoadNextGame/LoadPreviousGame. Evan
14607 * Using "-" on the command line as a filename for loading (saving) games
14608 or positions specifies the standard input (standard output). Alain Picard
14611 * On WinBoard only, a command line option without a leading '-' or '/' is
14612 now taken as the value of -lgf.
14614 * Changed to not use stdin, stdout, stderr as initializers in backend.c;
14615 needed for GNU libc compatibility. You also must build parser.c with flex
14616 (not lex) if you are using GNU libc, to avoid having the same problem
14619 * Changed WinBoard to avoid using "overlapped" input on the console. It
14620 now seems to fully work on Windows 95 beta 2.
14622 * Improved comment popups on WinBoard. Now newlines are handled properly,
14623 and the plain Comment popup window doesn't disappear and reappear when we
14624 step to a new move with a new comment.
14626 * Fixed bugs in detecting the absence of the time and otim commands.
14628 * Added built-in implementation of rcmd protocol to WinBoard. Windows NT
14629 does not implement passing signals through rsh, and Windows 95 does not
14632 * Added -remoteUser option.
14634 3.1, patchlevel 8 -- Mon Nov 28 15:26:07 1994 Tim Mann
14636 * Beta distribution only
14638 * Rearranged ChangeLog file into reverse chronological order to be closer
14641 * Integrated new cmail code from Evan Welsh (including cmail RCS rev 3.2).
14642 Includes a bug fix to TruncateGame.
14644 * Updated ICS address to be chess.lm.com.
14646 * Bug fixes to handling the aftermath of FatalError. Thanks to Chris
14647 Petroff for the bug report.
14649 * Test for remsh before rsh, other fixes for HP-UX. Thanks to Richard
14650 Lloyd. I wasn't able to do all the things he suggested, so there may
14651 still be some rough edges in building on HP-UX. See the FAQ file for hints.
14653 * Bug fix; added missing check for HAVE_SYS_SYSTEMINFO. Thanks to Josef
14654 Nelissen for testing on Solaris 2.x.
14656 * Updated WinBoard to match xboard. (WinBoard still has a few option
14657 dialogs that don't exist in xboard.)
14659 * Changed Hint output to a popup.
14661 * ShowThinking output and move output no longer overwrite each other.
14662 ShowThinking output won't appear if the displayed position is not current.
14663 ShowThinking output in TwoMachines mode made clearer and documented.
14665 * Implemented --enable-ptys and --disable-ptys arguments to configure.
14667 * Fixed Book and Hint code to work over a pty with echo enabled and tabs
14668 expanded to spaces. Thanks to Dima Dahknovsky for the bug report.
14670 * Moved Attention calls from all over xboard to one place, inside
14673 * Added bulletproofing to ShowThinkingEvent.
14675 * Added code to handle "refresh N" boards that come in from ICS properly,
14676 assuming ICS is changed to mark them with a new relation code (-3).
14678 3.1, patchlevel 7 -- Sun Nov 13 22:16:01 PST 1994 -- Tim Mann
14680 * Beta distribution only
14682 * Changed ShowThinking to just show the current best line in the
14683 DisplayMessage area, instead of dumping everything to stdout.
14685 * Installed new cmail (RCS rev 3.1) and cmail.man (RCS rev 1.10), and
14686 changes to cmail code in backend.c, from Evan Welsh.
14688 * Miscellaneous minor fixes.
14690 3.1, patchlevel 6 -- Fri Nov 4 12:53:53 PST 1994 -- Tim Mann
14692 * This patchlevel was not actually released to anyone.
14694 * Updated the pty code to be based on GNU Emacs 19.24, and moved it to a
14695 separate file. It was hard to split out just the pty configuration from
14696 all the stuff emacs does with its custom configure script and .h files,
14699 * Converted from imake to GNU autoconf. This was a serious upheaval.
14701 * Put in code to help trap "error gathering move list" problem reported by
14702 Michel van der List if it recurs. I couldn't reproduce it.
14704 3.1, patchlevel 5 -- Mon Oct 31 21:12:00 PST 1994 -- Tim Mann
14706 * Beta distribution only.
14708 * We now test for checkmate or stalemate in EditGame mode after every user
14709 move, and in LoadGame mode whenever we hit the end of a game without
14710 seeing a PGN end marker. cmail needs an update to deal with this
14711 correctly; Evan promises one.
14713 * Bugfixes in new move generator. Thanks to Mike Lee for reporting one of
14716 * Imakefile was omitted from patchlevel 4.
14718 3.1, patchlevel 4 -- Mon Sep 19 18:19:46 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
14720 * Beta distribution only.
14722 * The move generator includes a mate tester. Initially this is used only
14723 by cmail, and even that usage needs further work.
14725 * Wrote a true move generator and used it to replace all the move
14726 disambiguation and legality checking code in parser.l. The move generator
14727 is capable of dealing correctly with en passant and castling availability,
14728 but the rest of the program still does not keep track of this information.
14730 * Bug fix: xboard did not handle "foo has made you an examiner of game 23"
14731 message. Thus you could not use examine features until the next board
14732 came in, showing your new relation to the game. Thanks to POOKIEWOOKIE on ICS
14733 for the bug report.
14735 * Added AutoObserve feature. Thanks to Chris Petroff for the idea.
14737 * Added Book feature to use new gnuchess "bk" command. Mike McGann request.
14739 * Redid code to handle missing "time" command in gnuchess, because latest
14740 gnuchess no longer sends a response to this command.
14742 * Eliminated need for -DFLEX. Thanks to Michael Shields (Vladimir?) for
14745 * Added missing code to implement MoveNow in TwoMachines mode.
14747 * Added ShowThinking feature. Thanks to Richard Lloyd for the idea.
14749 * Applied patches from Evan Welsh; some fixes and improvements to the
14752 * Fixed bug in moving from EndOfGame mode to MachineWhite or MachineBlack,
14753 introduced in previous patchlevel. Also fixed related bug in ending a
14754 game in ICS mode; was entering EndOfGame mode instead of IcsIdle.
14756 * Added patch to implement internetChessServerLogonScript flag, from Kevin
14759 3.1, patchlevel 3 -- Wed Sep 7 13:22:07 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
14761 * Beta distribution only.
14763 * Merged in new cmail code from Evan Welsh. He added the ability to have
14764 more than one game per message, needed for official IECG matches. I added
14765 the ability to resign or offer/accept/decline a draw in a cmail game.
14767 * Bugfix: invalid -tc option caused segmentation fault; DisplayFatalError
14768 was called too early in initialization. Georges Honore reported this bug.
14770 * Decided to keep EndOfGame mode as an element of the user interface---it
14771 means that a gnuchess game or loaded game has ended, and the user must
14772 explicitly select EditGame to edit it, rather than just being able to
14773 enter more moves freely. But internally there is no longer an invariant
14774 tying this mode to whether the chess program is running.
14776 * Zippy bugfix: Was saving only the final position in the -sgf file when
14777 the game ended by something other than resignation or flag. Also fixed
14778 the longstanding bug that Zippy would think the final board of such a game
14779 was a new game and restart the chess program.
14781 * Now does a better job of faking castling availability in FEN. We still
14782 don't really keep track of it, but now at least we don't say that castling
14783 is still available when the king or rook is not on its home square.
14785 * Bugfix: Initial board of game history for wild games was going through
14786 too much processing, causing us to forget the game length, which is now
14787 needed by ParseGameHistory. This was causing problems with resuming
14788 adjourned wild games.
14790 * Updated ICS host to ics.onenet.net.
14792 * Zippy now accepts challenges where the opponent specified his color.
14794 * Added ZIPPYPASSWORD2 to let operator give commands directly to gnuchess.
14796 * Bitmap directory can include alternative icons now, too.
14798 * Handle "Game * (*) has no examiners" message from ICS.
14800 * Revamped window title and icon name selection.
14802 3.1, patchlevel 2 -- Sun Jun 12 17:16:28 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
14804 * "Beta" distribution for Zippy users only.
14806 * Bugfix: common.h was assuming that X11 type Boolean is char, which is
14807 not always true. This might have caused all sorts of obscure bugs!
14809 * Installed new bitmaps from Elmar Bartel as the default. Many thanks!
14810 The old bitmaps can be used by changing the "bitmaps" symbolic link before
14811 compiling xboard, or by using the -bitmapDirectory option at runtime.
14813 * Loading a game that ends with the PGN unfinished symbol ("*") now always
14814 leaves you in EditGame mode.
14816 * Added documentation of -icscomm to man page. Thanks to Maarten Remkes
14817 for the linux script.
14819 * ^C now kills gnuchess as well as xboard. Thanks to Dima Dakhnovsky for
14820 reminding me how to do this.
14822 * Bitmap icon color now indicates player to move. Stuart Cracraft
14825 * Changed piece bitmap flags to have just one flag, which points to a
14826 directory full of bitmaps, instead of a flag for each bitmap. Also
14827 changed bitmap naming convention.
14829 * "Connection closed by ICS" is no longer a FatalError popup. This was
14830 too annoying in the normal case where the user typed "quit".
14832 * Changed default font to 14 pixels instead of 10 points. This seems to
14833 make it close to the size I want it to be on more displays.
14835 * Major mode (GNU Chess, etc.) appears in title bar. Stuart Cracraft
14838 * Bug fix: EditGameEvent, MachineBlackEvent, MachineWhiteEvent, and
14839 TwoMachinesEvent were calling PauseEvent to get out of pause mode, which
14840 now has undesired side effects, such as advancing the display to the
14841 forwardMostMove. It works fine to just set pausing = FALSE instead.
14843 * IcsExamining mode now lets you access ICS edit position commands using
14844 the same popup menus as xboard's EditPosition mode. Thanks to DAV on ICS
14845 for inspiring the idea.
14847 * Corrected test for gcc on HP in Imakefile; thanks to Richard Lloyd.
14849 3.1, patchlevel 1 -- Wed Jun 1 16:25:11 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
14851 * Added parser.c.lex and parser.c.flex to the distribution.
14853 * Added HP gcc options to Imakefile, from Mats Nylen.
14855 * EndOfGame mode no longer highlights EditGame mode indicator, because the
14856 modes really do differ. I would like to get rid of EndOfGame mode in the
14857 future, at least as far as users can see.
14859 * Larger %a in parser.l, needed for RS/6000 users.
14861 * Minor improvements to Mail Move error messages.
14863 * When -debug flag is given to xboard, -v is passed to cmail.
14865 * Old Save Style uses "1. ..." instead of "1..." when black moves after a
14866 comment; more like xboard 3.0's actual style.
14868 * New version of cmail from Evan Welsh. Looks for UCB Mail in a more
14869 portable way and has some minor bug fixes.
14871 * Bug fix: Saving a FEN position while in EditPosition mode with black to
14872 play was showing white to play in the saved position.
14874 3.1, patchlevel 0 -- Fri May 20 16:36:15 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
14876 * This is the first general release since 3.0, patchlevel 9. Releases
14877 since then have been limited-distribution or beta releases.
14879 * Thanks to my version 3.1 beta testers: Dmitry Dakhnovsky, Ed Hanway,
14880 Richard Lloyd, Mike McGann, Shelly Mistry, Josef Nelissen, Chris Petroff,
14881 Jack Robertson, Michel van der List, Ky Macpherson, Derek Terveer, and
14882 Evan Welsh. Sorry if I've forgotten anyone who gave me feedback.
14884 * Updated man page.
14886 * Minor cleanup on menu sensitivity code.
14888 * Integrated another even better version of cmail from Evan Welsh,
14889 including some code he supplied in xboard itself.
14891 * A few more fixes to cmail support.
14893 * Automatically update clocks after an ICS "moretime" command.
14895 * Handle ICS automatic examine mode (set examine 1) after a game.
14897 3.0, patchlevel 14 -- Tue May 17 13:41:44 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
14899 * Beta test release only.
14901 * Don't suppress prompt on first board of game being examined; otherwise
14902 it looks like nothing happened at all (i.e., like you're lagged).
14904 * Added StopExamining and StopObserving (Chris Petroff suggestion).
14906 * Made Reset do a refresh on ICS. John Chanak's original ICS code for
14907 xboard tried to do this; I finally decided it was a good idea after all.
14909 * Fixed bugs in handling updates that come in while you are pausing in
14910 examine mode. This is pretty tricky to do right.
14912 * Made un-Pausing immediately pop you to the current position. This is
14913 always necessary in examine mode, since the game may have changed under
14914 you; your remembered moves might no longer be right. So I made it do the
14917 * Took Detach Examine mode back out...used Pause mode for this instead!
14919 * Put in a trap for the GNU Chess bug of printing an Illegal Move message
14920 when its own hint move is illegal.
14922 * Attempted to fix a Zippy bug; bogus "exited unexpectedly" messages after
14923 it checkmates its opponent. This involved adding an argument to GameEnds
14924 to say who says it ended (ICS, GNU, etc.) and taking different actions in
14925 different cases. Unfortunately, this just restored an older Zippy bug, where
14926 Zippy restarts gnuchess when it gets the board with the final position,
14927 because GameEnds still puts xboard in EndOfGame mode. Sigh.
14929 * We now capture elapsed time on last move when getting game history.
14930 (Josef Nelissen bug report)
14932 * Rewrote code to redisplay last file title so it really works.
14934 * Fixed bug in oldSaveStyle.
14936 * Larger %a and %o were needed for lex.
14938 3.0, patchlevel 13 -- Mon May 16 16:26:22 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
14940 * Beta test release only.
14942 * FatalError popups stay on the screen now. If the error is really fatal,
14943 all functions are disabled, and the program exits when you press OK.
14945 * Redisplay last file title when using Load (Next/Previous/Same) Game.
14947 * Zippy understands new match challenge message format on ICS.
14949 * Added Revert command.
14951 * When examining a game on ICS, < > buttons do ICS backward/forward
14952 commands, unless you set the Detach Examine option. Thanks to Dima
14953 Dakhnovsky for the idea.
14955 * Fixed various minor problems in cmail mode.
14957 * cmail generates the tags now. New version of cmail from Evan Welsh.
14959 * cmail mode won't let you do MailMove unless the currently displayed
14960 position is exactly one move past the end of the game you loaded.
14962 * Fixed building of man pages in Imakefile
14964 * Updates to INSTALL file
14966 3.0, patchlevel 12 -- Sat May 7 21:10:03 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
14968 * Beta test release only.
14970 * Brought man page up to date.
14972 * Added Shift+R to resign from keyboard.
14974 * Some items on Action menu available in GNU Chess mode now.
14976 * Revamped Action menu.
14978 * Reordered functions in backend.c as a small step toward reorganizing
14981 * Generate TimeControl PGN tag.
14983 * Get type of ICS game (e.g., rated blitz) and save in PGN tags.
14985 * Bug fix: Clocks were not redisplayed when entering EditGame mode.
14987 * Bug fix: Clocks were not being redisplayed after loading a game file
14988 with -td 0, so they could show the wrong color active.
14990 * Bug fix: Chess programs would be killed and match mode would exit
14991 prematurely when loading a PGN game fragment ending with "*".
14993 * ICS command "sposition" no longer confuses xboard.
14995 * Integrated new version of cmail (with support code in xboard) from Evan
14998 * Added TruncateGame, MoveNow, RetractMove, and QuietPlay.
15000 * Bug fix: switching between MachineWhite and MachineBlack was not calling
15001 Attention(). Reported by Dino Dini.
15003 * More improvements to INSTALL and Imakefile.
15005 * Pack moves into 79 character lines in PGN output. We don't generate
15006 check indications, and we always break the line before the result,
15007 so this is not quite PGN export format.
15009 * Use FEN tag in PGN.
15011 * Improved finding and counting of game starts in save files.
15013 * Negative position or game numbers in -lpi/-lgi mean to seek to that byte
15014 offset. Hook for possible future features, not in man page.
15016 * Detect and handle absence of either "time" or "otim" commands in
15019 * Don't use "promote" command to ICS anymore.
15021 * Handle switching sides and taking back moves on FICS.
15023 * Handle flip state flag in style 12 board.
15025 * Handle examine mode on ICS.
15027 * Improved error popups for various kinds of illegal moves.
15029 * Suppress unasked-for hints from gnuchess (which it generates in post
15032 * Load/save position functions use FEN. Old style also supported.
15034 * Added detailed error messages if loading a bitmap file fails.
15036 * Small board has 2-pixel lines between squares instead of 3-pixel.
15038 * Added OldSaveStyle and AboutGame.
15040 * Renamed ForceMoves to EditGame.
15042 3.0, patchlevel 11 -- Tue Sep 21 15:25:36 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
15044 * The following changes were present in xboard 3.0, patchlevel 11, but the
15045 first group did not make it into WinBoard 3.0 until later. xboard
15046 3.0.pl11 was a limited-distribution release only, mostly to Zippy users.
15048 * Man page minor fixes.
15050 * Added a missing file close.
15052 * Removed automatic error popdown on Reset, which was destroying some
15053 error messages before they could be read.
15055 * Fixed char vs. unsigned char warnings on bitmaps.
15057 * Use ICS board style 12. Some improvements to ICS parsing.
15059 * Comment window is now labelled with the move the comment is on, and
15060 comments don't pop down when you step to the next move.
15062 * Save files now in PGN format.
15064 * Support for loading PGN files. PGN tags pop up when a PGN game file
15067 * More info in INSTALL and Imakefile about building for Suns (and
15070 * WinBoard 3.0 patchlevel 11 split off from an early version of xboard
15071 3.0 patchlevel 11, so it does not have all the features of that
15072 patchlevel. The following changes made it into both xboard and
15075 * Made Comment dialog non-modal in WinBoard.
15077 * EndOfGame mode is now more transparent. It looks like ForceMoves
15078 mode except that there is no chess program running.
15080 * Small bug fixes in clock management. Most noticeably, pausing when
15081 it is gnuchess's move now works as documented (again).
15083 * Add minimal support for -icscomm option. Not documented yet because
15084 I haven't sorted out the issues with setting the tty modes on the comm
15085 port device, or with locking it properly. But it's usable by wizards.
15087 * Don't restart the chess program upon Backward event from EndOfGame mode.
15089 * Suppress extra prompt after ICS sends us a board.
15091 3.0, patchlevel 10 -- Sat Sep 11 18:44:03 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
15093 * Beta test release only.
15095 * Zippy now plays chess. zippy.c and zippy.h are still not included
15096 in the standard distribution, but are available on request.
15098 * Switched to using style 12 on ICS.
15100 * Updated man page, and documented use of XBoard*form.translations to
15101 add more shortcut keys.
15103 * Added shortcut keys "d" to claim/offer/accept a draw, and "t" to
15104 call flag. Suggested by venu on ICS.
15106 * More explicit instructions in INSTALL file.
15108 3.0, patchlevel 9 -- Tue Sep 7 14:02:00 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
15110 * General release, minor update to 3.0.pl8.
15112 * Loosened checking on whether it's okay to start a move, to satisfy
15113 ICS ultra-blitz players. Now we don't check whether it's your turn
15114 until you let go of the piece.
15116 * Parser now recognizes "+-+" as meaning the game ended in a draw.
15118 * Got rid of S_NONE symbol, which seems to conflict with some symbol
15121 * Tweaked the man page. Clarified that there is currently no way for
15122 two people running copies of xboard to play each other without going
15123 through the Internet Chess Server.
15125 * Fixed a bug in color name conversion. Asking for two different
15126 colors whose names were the same in the first four characters would
15127 get you two copies of the first one. Thanks to Volker Zink for the
15130 * Improved confusing Usage() message.
15132 * Added a bunch of Sun information to the Imakefile and INSTALL file.
15133 Thanks to Ed Hanway, Arik Klingensmith, and others who responded.
15135 * Test for defined(WIN32) instead of !defined(unix).
15137 * Avoid using (void *) type with non-ANSI C compilers. Thanks to
15138 James Altucher for the bug report.
15140 3.0, patchlevel 8 -- Thu Sep 2 12:23:01 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
15142 * Note: Patchlevel 8 was the first non-beta release of xboard 3.0
15144 * Added cmail to distribution. Contributed (and still maintained) by
15147 * Bug fix: -queen option wasn't initializing menu check. Reported by
15150 3.0, patchlevel 7 -- Thu Aug 26 13:23:24 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
15152 * Sent WinBoard 3.0.pl7 to Torre on ICS
15154 * Added parser.h to hold the interface to parser.l
15156 * Upgraded COPYING file and copyright notices to GNU GPL version 2.
15158 3.0, patchlevel 6 -- Tue Aug 24 15:16:13 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
15160 * We no longer display intermediate positions or intermediate comments
15161 while loading a game file with -timeDelay 0 or loading an opening to
15162 start up a -matchMode game.
15164 * Loading an empty game from an xboard save file now gives a status
15165 message "No moves in game" instead of an error popup saying "Game not
15168 * Added comment.awk to distribution.
15170 3.0, patchlevel 5 -- Tue Aug 17 16:45:54 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
15172 * Bug fix: xboard would crash if it couldn't get all its colors; now
15173 it switches to monoMode instead. Also, xboard was trying to convert
15174 color resources even when using a b/w display. Reported by Larry
15177 * Bug fix: Declared fields of TimeMark as signed so that we get signed
15178 instead of unsigned arithmetic. SubtractTimeMarks was breaking on
15179 Alpha AXP (which has 64-bit longs) with old declarations. Reported by
15180 Michel van der List.
15182 * Bug fixes: Keyboard accelerators now work after EditComment window is
15183 popped down. Iconize keyboard accelerator now works even if xboard
15184 was started with -iconic flag and later deiconized.
15186 * Bug fix: The routine that tests whether a move is illegal because it
15187 would leave you in check was not handling e.p. captures properly.
15188 Reported by Patrick Surry.
15190 * Bug (?) fix: Was adding time to clocks at time control even when
15191 loading a game file. Actually it's not entirely clear how time
15192 controls should be dealt with when some moves are loaded from a file
15193 or clicked in with ForceMoves. For now ForceMoves mode does add the
15194 time (because it can be used to change moves during a live game), but
15195 LoadGame mode does not.
15197 * Updated usage message.
15199 * Previous attempted fix to matchMode had broken TwoMachines mode and
15200 generally needed more work. Also simplified command line interface to
15203 3.0, patchlevel 4 -- Thu Aug 5 14:17:18 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
15205 * Thanks again to the beta testers listed for 3.0 patchlevel 3, and also
15206 Desnogues, Steve Cariglia, Niklas Engsner, Mark Silver, and Roger Rowe.
15208 * Reorganized man page, splitting OPTIONS into subsections.
15210 * matchMode was very broken; fixed.
15212 * Changed convention for turning off command line options from --opt
15213 to -xopt, to be less inconsistent with GNU standards. Also changed
15214 the long command line options to take True/False arguments like
15215 resources; seems to make more sense this way.
15217 * Added AlwaysQueen option -- suppresses promotion dialog and always
15218 promotes to a queen if you move a pawn to the last rank. Has no
15219 effect on gnuchess (or your ICS opponents!) -- they can still
15222 * Subtracted an extra fudge term when determining how wide message and
15223 title widgets should be. This fixes a problem some beta testers had.
15224 Wish I knew why it's needed.
15226 * Bugfix in parser; symptom was that you couldn't do LoadGame after
15227 observing a game on ICS.
15229 * Bugfix in Forward; didn't work after game ended while Pause was turned on.
15231 * Removed bogus execute bits on .h files.
15233 * Use REMOTE_SHELL and TELNET_PROGRAM definitions.
15235 * MachineWhite and MachineBlack now work from TwoMachines mode.
15237 * Popping down an error message with the [ok] button was not turning off
15238 the errorUp flag, so the next move would cause xboard to try to pop it
15239 down again, resulting in a wild memory reference and sometimes a crash.
15241 3.0, patchlevel 3 -- Tue Aug 3 17:40:27 1993 -- Tim Mann
15243 * Thanks to my beta testers: Patrick Surry, Takuya Kojima, Robert J. Luoma,
15244 Chris L. Petroff, Richard K. Lloyd, Michel van der List, Craig Metz,
15245 Antoon Frehe, Simon Clift, Shelly, Eric Peterson, Christopher Mitchell,
15246 Martin Koch, Ed Hanway, Steve Booth, Udo, Ken Hobday, and Joseph Duhamel.
15248 * Improved error messages for trying to move the wrong color pieces or
15249 to move when it's not your turn.
15251 * Special code for monoMode on 1-bit displays now understands displays
15252 where 1=white and 0=black.
15254 * Declare getenv() if <stdlib.h> not included; avoids a compiler warning.
15256 * Documented borderXoffset and borderYoffset.
15258 * Added -titleInWindow option for use with X window managers that
15259 don't let us set the title in the window banner.
15261 * Fixed error message printing in WinBoard; system error messages no
15262 longer appear as numeric codes.
15264 * The error message popup is now non-modal; you don't have to press the
15265 [ok] button before you can do something else. In addition, the popup is
15266 positioned so that it doesn't cover up the board (too much), and making a
15267 move or otherwise clicking on the board pops it down. (Not implemented in
15270 * You can now call your opponent's flag in ICS mode by clicking on his
15273 * Fixed minor bugs in -flipView option and documented exactly how xboard
15274 decides which way to flip the view.
15276 3.0, patchlevel 2 -- Fri Jul 30 22:20:23 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
15278 * Added Autosave to Options menu. Would be better to have Save
15279 Options dialog as in WinBoard, but this was quick to do and gives the
15280 most-needed functionality.
15282 * Changed "Reload Game" on menu to "Reload Same Game".
15284 3.0, patchlevel 1 -- Thu Jul 8 21:22:59 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
15286 * Sent a copy of patchlevel 1 to Patrick Surry to beta-test.
15288 * Added -cmail option that sets appData.cmailMode. Currently a no-op.
15289 In the future this may set special modes for use by the cmail script
15290 for playing chess by email.
15292 * Added LoadNextGame, LoadPreviousGame, and ReloadGame to File menu.
15293 ReloadGame suggested by Patrick Surry.
15295 * Added -flipView command-line option. Suggested by Patrick Surry.
15297 * Fixed bugs in parser.l: (1) Pattern for "# xboard game file ..."
15298 needed to match to end of line. (2) Start of a new file was not matching
15299 the ^ start-of-line character. The fix for this is a kludge.
15301 * Made game counting code in LoadGame more robust, and made LoadGame
15302 able to detect the end of a saved partial game (by noticing the start
15303 of the next game) in game files created by XBoard itself. We don't
15304 try to find the start of the next game that way in other kinds of game
15305 files, because the only way I can think of to do that is to look for
15306 another move #1, and that technique gets too many false hits.
15308 * Fixed recently introduced bug in LoadGame when game starts with a
15311 3.0, patchlevel 0 -- Fri Jun 25 14:17:17 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
15313 * Changes in this patchlevel were too numerous to list. Larger ones are
15316 * Added a popup dialog to enter and edit comments. Inspired by some
15317 code from Patrick Surry. Changed the normal read-only comment popup
15320 * Added ICS init script feature from Karl Schwamb.
15322 * Added some ESIX fixes and OMIT_SOCKETS ifdef option, from Kayvan Sylvan.
15324 * Revamped code to allow use of flex instead of lex on parser.l.
15325 Using flex requires adding -DFLEX to defines in Imakefile.
15327 * Source code is split into front end (xboard.c), which knows about X
15328 and Unix, and back end (backend.c), which knows about chess, gnuchess,
15329 and the ICS. There is also a front end for Windows NT.
15331 * Boolean command line options now use "-foo" to turn on and "--foo"
15332 to turn off instead of "-foo true" and "-foo false". [Later -xfoo;
15335 * Added menu commands to control autoflag, bell, and coords options.
15337 * User interface has a new look: (1) Menu bar instead of array of
15338 buttons. A few very commonly used features have small buttons in
15339 addition to being on the menus. (2) Large font for clock. (3) Pop-up
15340 dialogs for errors.
15342 2.1, patchlevel 11 -- Sat Jun 5 00:01:01 PDT 1993 -- mann@src.dec.com
15344 * Added code to deal with "wild" games on ICS. This includes allowing
15345 castling with the king on d1 or d8, which is allowed in wild(1) games
15346 if the king started there. Notation is o-o to castle "short"---to
15347 whichever side the king is closer to---and o-o-o to castle "long."
15348 Right now wild castling is always allowed by xboard; we rely on ICS or
15349 gnuchess to reject it when we aren't really in wild mode.
15351 * memcpy call had arguments in wrong order.
15353 * Removed April Fool code
15355 2.1, patchlevel 10 -- Mon Feb 15 10:19:31 PST 1993 -- mann@src.dec.com
15357 * Avoid trying to select on a pipe when using System V. Needed to
15358 copy some code from InitChessProgram() up into establish().
15360 * Bug fix in disambiguating pawn moves like "ed".
15362 * Fix to error handling in ReceiveFromProgram.
15364 * Bug fix: entering EditPosition mode with black to play highlighted
15365 White's clock instead of Black's.
15367 * Added telnetProgram resource in case "telnet" is not the name of the
15370 2.1, patchlevel 9 -- Fri Jan 22 19:08:27 PST 1993 -- mann@src.dec.com
15372 * Entering Force Moves mode clears "flag has fallen" messages from display.
15374 * ICS host name can now be in numeric format; for example 128.2.232.4.
15376 * Bug fix: LegalityTest was failing to test whether a pawn move was
15377 illegal because the move would discover a check.
15379 * Handle ICS message "mann asserts a win over manntest, who disconnected."
15381 * Bug fix: A recent change to PromotionCallBack had broken
15382 underpromotion to a knight.
15384 * Bug fix: In EditPosition mode, dragging a piece onto a square border
15385 would make it vanish. xboard wasn't distinguishing this case from
15386 dragging the piece off the board. Thanks to Matthew Kidd.
15388 * Removed "static" declaration from yywrap for compatibility with IRIX
15389 version of lex. Thanks to stiller@blaze.cs.jhu.edu.
15391 * Added substitutes for bzero, bcopy, and gethostname for Solaris
15392 SVR4. Thanks to Michael Grant.
15394 * Bug fixes to queen move disambiguation. Bugs showed up only when
15395 promotion resulted in more than one queen on the board.
15397 2.1, patchlevel 8 -- Fri Dec 11 17:54:18 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
15399 * parser bug fix: It now really works to leave off the piece a pawn is
15400 promoting to and let it default to queen.
15402 * When starting to observe or play an ICS game, don't draw board in
15403 initial position and then immediately redraw it in the current
15406 * Handle ICS messages when an "abuser" forfeits a game by
15407 disconnecting and when a game is aborted ("removed") by an
15410 * Bug fix: A user move when in LoadGame+Pause mode was resuming the
15411 game load instead of putting us in force mode.
15413 * It seems that crashes inside sscanf when xboard is compiled with gcc
15414 (as on IBM PS/2 AIX, mentioned below, and also on VAX Ultrix 3.1) are
15415 caused by an incompatibility between gcc and the sscanf implementation
15416 on these platforms. A workaround is to specify -fwritable-strings to
15417 gcc (see the gcc documentation). Added info on how to do this to the
15418 Imakefile. Thanks to Tom McConnell for this information.
15420 * Clocks are allowed to go negative. This is mostly for ICS
15421 compatibility, but it affects gnuchess mode too. Also, we give the
15422 time bonus when a player hits the time control boundary even if his
15423 flag is already down. This choice is a bit debatable, but it makes
15424 things look better when you are in TwoMachines mode and gnuchess's
15425 time management screws up causing it to exceed its time limit.
15427 * Implemented move legality checking code. Moves made with the mouse
15428 or parsed from a file are checked for legality before being made.
15429 This is mostly in preparation for future extensions, such as
15430 human-human play. For now it makes -noChessProgram mode more useful.
15432 * If the user takes back moves, we restore the clocks to the earlier
15435 * We now handle the output of the ICS oldmoves command, including
15436 parsing the game end condition.
15438 * Added autoCallFlag mode.
15440 * Fixed glitches in the medium size outline king and rook bitmaps, and
15441 touched up the medium size solid king and outline queen.
15443 * bug fix: DisplayMove would not display backwardMostMove - 1.
15445 * Added CallFlag button and removed AcceptMatch. CallFlag is more
15446 important with new ICS, and accepting the current match offer is easy
15447 with the new ICS command "accept" (can be abbreviated "ac").
15449 * LoadGame and LoadPosition display tail of file name (plus index
15450 number, if any) as title.
15452 * MachineWhite, MachineBlack, and TwoMachines now work properly from
15453 LoadGame and LoadGame+Pause mode.
15455 * Use o-o and o-o-o to castle on ICS, not 00 and 000.
15457 * Stripped out code for old ICS messages; new ICS is now installed.
15459 * Bug fix: don't offer autosave when paused during LoadGame.
15461 2.1, patchlevel 7 - Fri Dec 11 17:40:56 PST 1992 - mann@src.dec.com
15463 * Track change to "Illegal move" message in new ICS.
15465 2.1, patchlevel 6 -- Tue Dec 8 10:48:44 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
15467 * Kludged around bug in keeping comment popup where you put it by
15468 adding borderXoffset and borderYoffset resources that give the width
15469 of the borders added by the window manager. Yucch.
15471 * Changed searchDepth kludge back to using "help" instead of "bd"; the
15472 latter didn't work because the output contains a line starting with
15473 "White", so we think gnuchess is telling us that White won. Oops.
15475 * Removed some code that uses an X11R5 feature, XrmGetDatabase.
15476 Without this, the auto font sizing code is harder to make work, so to
15477 keep my sanity I had to change it to affect only the fonts that appear
15478 in the main window and the comment popup, not the other popups. Maybe
15479 this is better anyway.
15481 * AcceptMatch button now works after a counterchallenge, too.
15483 * Added code for more variants of messages about games being adjourned
15484 or aborted. These messages need to be unified in new version of ICS.
15486 * Added workaround for minor bug in ICS; game number on first board
15489 * Removed code to say "refresh n" instead of "refresh"; was broken and
15490 wasn't needed anyway.
15492 * Added missing casts for compilers that distinguish enums from ints
15493 and missing cast in connect call.
15495 * Added code to recognize "both sides are out of time" draw message
15496 proposed for next version of ICS.
15498 * Thanks to Danny Sleator and Joe Peterson for bug reports.
15500 2.1, patchlevel 5 -- Sun Dec 6 19:52:40 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
15502 * Removed gcc and CDEBUGFLAGS from Imakefile.
15504 * Corrected setting of mode to ForceMoves when game file ends or
15505 contains an AmbiguousMove or BadMove. Previous bug was harmless.
15507 * Added AcceptMatch button and mention of 50-move rule for Draw button
15510 2.1, patchlevel 4 -- Sun Dec 6 02:55:42 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
15512 * Now handles revised messages from new version of ICS. New ICS is
15513 not released yet, so this code might change further. Next patchlevel
15514 will remove support for old ICS; both are there now.
15516 * Initial processing for a new game being watched or played now
15517 happens when we see the first board image. Removes the need to parse
15518 some messages and unifies some code.
15520 2.1, patchlevel 3 -- Tue Dec 1 19:40:40 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
15522 * Handles ICS messages "Draw : neither player has mating
15523 material" and "Draw : White has no material, Black has no time."
15525 * Added AcceptMatch button for ICS mode.
15527 * Fixed bug in previous fix to yylexstr().
15529 * Fixed bugs in code for loading old position files that don't start
15530 with "#" and for handling case where user asked for nth position in
15531 file but there aren't that many.
15533 * Handles ICS message "* has restored your old game"
15535 * ResetProc always clears title line now.
15537 * Don't issue just "refresh" when watching a game; use game number.
15538 Upcoming new version of ICS may need this.
15540 * Added code to try to prevent user from watching and/or playing more
15541 than one game at a time. There is a race condition inherent here; if
15542 we get more than one board from the game before our command to stop
15543 watching it takes effect, we'll think the user started it again. Not
15544 clear how to fix this.
15546 * Redid ParseBoard8 to use sscanf. Code is a good deal cleaner now.
15547 Also, we now parse out the game number too, though we don't make much
15550 * (Tried to put in a feature that recognizes the current game in a
15551 game file must have ended when we see the start of a new one, but had
15552 to disable it because we have too many false hits with the current
15553 parser, especially in gnuchess listing files.)
15555 * Moves read from game files or received from ICS are now translated
15556 into canonical algebraic form just like all other moves. Minor nit:
15557 If you use Reset while playing or observing a game in ICS mode, the
15558 game history (including the current board position) is lost, so the
15559 next move of the current game can't be translated.
15561 * Default fonts now vary with board size, and are chosen by pixel size
15562 instead of point size (since piece bitmaps have a fixed pixel size).
15564 * Bug fix: An extra Forward was required to skip over time indications
15567 2.1 patchlevel 2 -- Fri Nov 27 23:30:00 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
15569 * If you move the comment popup, the next time it pops up it will come
15570 back where you put it.
15572 * Fixed yylexstr() so calls to it can be interspersed with calls to
15575 * Fixed bugs in Forward/Backward while in LoadGame mode.
15577 * Changed Save{Game,Position} functions to append instead of
15578 overwriting if file exists. Changed Load{Game,Position} functions to
15579 deal with multiple games/positions per file.
15581 * Changed load{Game,Position}File resources to trigger automatic load
15582 on program startup. Changed save{Game,Position}File resources to
15583 trigger automatic save after every completed game and on program exit.
15585 * Added autoSaveGames mode.
15587 * Fixed bug with PromoPiece in call to MakeAlg from MakeMove.
15589 * Many changes to get rid of picky compiler warnings and generally
15592 2.1 patchlevel 1 -- Fri Nov 27 02:45:00 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
15594 * A last minute change before patchlevel 0 went out broke
15595 ParseGameHistory(). Immediately fixed in patchlevel 1.
15597 Version 2.1, patchlevel 0 -- Fri Nov 27 02:00:00 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
15599 * Uses "time" command of gnuchess 4.0 and following to keep clocks in
15600 sync. Still works with older versions without this command; we test
15601 whether the command is present the first time each chess program is
15604 * File name dialog pops up under the mouse cursor, so that it's got the
15605 keyboard focus if the window manager is using pointer focus.
15607 * Attempts to move the wrong color piece or an empty square are filtered
15608 out in xboard instead of being passed on to GNU Chess or the ICS.
15610 * The reason a game ended is now remembered even if you move backward
15611 and forward after it ends. It is forgotten only if you make a move
15612 (which is as it should be---this is now a different game, which hasn't
15613 ended yet). The message saying why the game ended no longer wipes out
15616 * Pause, Backward, Forward, ForceMoves, and EditPosition now work from
15619 * Forward and Backward now change only the board display unless you
15620 are in ForceMoves mode. Pause mode keeps new moves that are received
15621 from being displayed on your screen until you unpause (or use
15624 * Added option to ring the bell after opponents' moves.
15626 * Saved games that start from other than the standard initial position
15627 now begin with a postion diagram as in saved position files. The
15628 loader is modified to understand such save files.
15630 * Improved error checking when trying to read from gnuchess.
15632 * Parser understands things that look like time indications, e.g., (0:12),
15633 instead of popping them up as comments.
15635 * Send "quit" to gnuchess before trying to kill it. I needed this
15636 locally because sending a SIGTERM to rsh was not killing the remote
15637 program on some internal field test systems we have.
15639 * Merged in code from John Chanak to make xboard a front end to the
15640 Internet Chess Server, and added several improvements of my own.
15641 (These include parsing end of game messages, loading the current state
15642 and previous history of a game that's joined in progress via "watch"
15643 or "load", automatic switch from board style 1 to 8 when needed,
15644 removing irrelevant buttons and adding some new ones, adding the
15645 useTelnet and gateway resources, and miscellaneous code cleanup, bug
15646 fixes, and documentation.) Many thanks to John for writing and
15647 contributing the initial version of this code.
15649 Fri Oct 30 20:16:40 PST 1992 (patchlevel 25) mann@src.dec.com
15651 * gnuchess now castles by sending us "o-o" or "o-o-o" (starting with a
15652 preliminary version of 4.0.pl60 that I have). Added code to handle
15653 this. The old format ("e1g1", etc.) still works too.
15655 * Added code to format moves in normal abbreviated algebraic notation
15656 (for example, e4, exd4, f8Q, Nf6, 0-0) instead of coordinate algebraic
15657 (for example, e2e4, e3d4, f7f8q, g1f6, e1g1). Moves entered with the
15658 mouse or received from gnuchess are translated into this canonical
15659 format for display on the message line or in saved game files. Moves
15660 read from game files are not translated, however; they are shown and
15661 saved just as they appear in the file.
15663 Mon Sep 14 13:19:01 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 24) mann@src.dec.com
15665 * It's not really correct to write an ep capture of a pawn on e5 as
15666 fxe5; this should be written as fxe6 because e6 is where the capturing
15667 pawn ends up. Nevertheless, the parser now interprets fxe5 as the ep
15668 capture f5xe6 unless there is a pawn on f4, in which case it
15669 interprets fxe5 as f4xe5. By design, the parser does not flag fxe5 as
15670 ambiguous if there are pawns on both f4 and f5; instead it prefers the
15671 more legitimate f4xe5 interpretation.
15673 * A move like fxe6 or fe6 is now interpreted as an e.p. capture of the
15674 pawn on e5 if there is one there and e6 is empty.
15676 * A move like fxe5 can no longer be interpreted as an e.p. capture if
15677 there isn't a pawn on e5 to be captured. Previously this could happen
15678 erroneously if there were pawns on both f4 and f5, and the f4 pawn was
15679 capturing a piece on e5.
15681 * The parser no longer munges the move it is parsing; in the past, for
15682 instance, it would remove the "x" from a move like dxc5 before echoing
15685 * The parser now detects when a move is ambiguous and returns an
15686 error, instead of arbitrarily choosing one possibility as it used to.
15688 Mon Aug 10 18:40:47 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 23) mann@src.dec.com
15690 * Added code so parser can handle fully qualified algebraic, e.g.,
15691 Ng1-f3, N/g1-f3, Ng1f3, or even Pe2-e4. The "P" and "/" work only for
15692 fully qualified moves, not generally.
15694 * Fixed parser bugs in handling moves with rank or file disambiguator,
15697 Mon Jul 6 17:55:32 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 22) mann@src.dec.com
15699 * AIXV3 patch from Tom McConnell; thanks!
15701 * After hitting the Backward button we see the last move made instead of
15702 the word "Pausing" displayed.
15704 * Fixed a couple of problems compiling on IRIX; thanks to Michel Arsenault
15705 and Alan Walsh for bug reports and help with fixes.
15707 * Added optional display of algebraic notation coordinates along left and
15708 bottom edges of board. This was inspired by some code from Jean-Christophe
15711 * Swapped EditPosition and Pause buttons to reduce danger of losing the
15712 game in progress by hitting EditPosition when you wanted Backward. Thanks
15713 to Ove Lundberg for complaining (though it bugged me too).
15715 * Despite one complaint, I kept the feature of changing both clocks when black
15716 makes time control, rather than changing each individually when the player
15717 involved makes it. This is to avoid having it look like White is way ahead on
15718 time while Black is thinking about the last move of the time control period
15719 (i.e., when White has made time control but Black hasn't yet).
15721 * Corrected clocks to work as in real tournaments. Time is *added* when you
15722 reach time control; previously the clocks were simply set to the length of the
15723 new time period. Also, when a player's flag falls, he still does not receive a
15724 new time allotment at the next time control, but his opponent does still
15725 receive more time if *his* flag has not fallen; previously, time controls were
15726 ignored for both players if either flag fell. I forget who reported this bug.
15728 * Added a small ESIX patch from Kayvan Sylvan.
15730 Mon Jun 22 13:24:38 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 21)
15732 * Added some SVR4 support code from Ronald Cole. It's Greek to me.
15734 * Note: Stephen Meatheringham reports a bug causing xboard to crash with an
15735 error from the X server when run on a Sun Sparcstation IPX with Solaris 1.0.1
15736 and OpenWindows 3.0. This bug has not been tracked down yet.
15738 * Fixed a problem with ATTENTION code. On some operating systems, you have to
15739 be even more cautious about when you send a SIGINT to gnuchess, because the
15740 signal handler gets deinstalled each time it is used, and gnuchess does not
15741 reinstall it immediately. In particular, if you send a SIGINT and make an
15742 illegal move or ask for a hint, gnuchess does not reinstall the handler until
15743 *after* you make your next move, so you had better not send a SIGINT before
15744 it. I put a workaround for this case into xboard; I hope there are no more.
15746 * The ATTENTION code is needed when compiling for the ESIX operating system,
15747 because ESIX has a bug in the FIONREAD ioctl, so the code in gnuchess that
15748 lets you interrupt its thinking on your time just by typing in your move does
15749 not work. Perhaps gnuchess will have a workaround for this eventually.
15751 * Fixed yet another bug in using XtGetValues; code to inhibit shell resizing
15752 was leaving a null pointer as the place to store the current sizes.
15754 * Man page fixes: corrected -sl to -sd, updated LIMITATIONS.
15756 * Added include of <sys/time.h> conditional on HAS_GETTIMEOFDAY. I hope this
15757 works for all systems; on mine, <time.h> and <sys/time.h> are the same file,
15758 but with an #ifndef that makes it harmless to include both.
15760 * Thanks for reports from Mike Pearlman, Stephen Meatheringham, Kayvan Sylvan,
15761 d87-mal@nada.kth.se, Urban Koistinen, and Ronald Cole.
15763 Mon Jun 8 11:39:18 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 20)
15765 * Documented default value of initString and explained what it means. This
15766 paragraph also serves to inform the user that xboard by default will tell
15767 gnuchess to think on his time, something one user apparently didn't understand.
15769 * Redid -searchDepth (formerly -searchLevel) and -searchTime code. They both
15770 work correctly with gnuchess 3.1 now. The -searchDepth option also works
15771 correctly with gnuchess 4.0. The -searchTime option does not work with
15772 gnuchess 4.0.pl50 or earlier because those gnuchess versions do not have a
15773 working searchTime feature. Instead of having xboard do a half-baked emulation
15774 of this feature by using a 1-move time control, I will be submitting a patch to
15775 the gnuchess folks to restore the feature as in 3.1.
15777 * Improved clock code. It now keeps accurate track of fractional seconds of
15778 clock running time, if your system has gettimeofday(); if not, it is generous
15779 about them---if a clock has been going for n.m seconds when it is stopped, only
15780 n seconds are charged. Previously, xboard would charge one second immediately
15781 when a clock was started, so if n.m had elapsed when it was stopped, n+1 would
15782 be charged. This should stop xboard from thinking gnuchess has let its flag
15783 fall on the last move of a time control, as it often did before. I also
15784 improved the comments and condensed the code a little. I hope there are no
15785 systems that have X11 and don't have gettimeofday(), but if there are, I'd like
15786 to know what to replace it with.
15788 * "Flag dropped" messages now show up on the top line, beside the clocks, so
15789 that they don't obscure more interesting messages on the second line.
15791 * Fixed confusion of NULL and '\000'.
15793 * Include time.h to get ctime() declaration.
15795 * Fix to "parser bug" messages in parser.l.
15797 * Changed code to work with old-fashioned tolower() macro that requires its
15798 argument to be an uppercase letter.
15800 * Minor fix to some usage error messages; was reversing program name and
15801 erroneous argument value.
15803 * Thanks to Mitch Wright, Ranier Orth, and Henrik Schmiediche for bug reports.
15805 Fri Jun 5 13:06:08 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 19)
15807 * Note: xboard does not seem to work when compiled with gcc 1.40 on a
15808 PS/2 running AIX. It crashes at the sscanf in line 768 of xboard.c.
15809 You can work around the problem by specifying the -timeControl option
15810 on the command line instead of defaulting it. This does not seem to
15811 be a bug in xboard itself; it runs okay on PS/2 AIX when compiled with
15812 MetaWare High C. [But see 2.1.pl8 above.]
15814 * Removed bogus files from distribution.
15816 * Changed variable name that conflicted with SVR4 ttyname function.
15818 * Thanks to Christoph Strozyk for another bug report, and to several
15819 of the folks mentioned under patchlevel 18 for testing it.
15821 Wed Jun 3 17:50:37 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 18) mann@src.dec.com
15823 * Added an include of sys/fcntl.h to pick up the definition of O_RDWR for
15826 * Fixed a bug in CatchPipeSignal; was testing the wrong variable to determine
15827 which chess program got the signal.
15829 * Removed the declaration of strrchr, which was causing problems for some
15830 people, and added an include of <string.h> or <strings.h> instead.
15832 * Fixed a bunch of type errors uncovered by compilers that check more carefully
15833 than the one I was using. I just patched many of them with casts---typically
15834 cases where a function didn't take the same number and type of arguments as the
15835 X header file prototype said it should---because I didn't see any other way to
15836 fix them. The versions of the X header files that I have don't actually have
15837 full prototypes for these function types; they declare only the return type and
15838 just give the argument types as comments.
15840 * InitChessProgram returns immediately if chess program died while we were
15841 waiting for it to say "Chess". I think this fixes a bug that could make xboard
15842 crash or go into an infinite loop printing "Warning: Select failed; error code
15843 9" if gnuchess crashed there.
15845 * Removed code that tries to put the file descriptor used to read messages from
15846 gnuchess into nonblocking mode. I don't see how this kludge could ever have
15847 fixed the problem it was intended to (see below), and it seemed to be causing
15848 a race condition when we were waiting for the initial message from gnuchess
15849 after it started up.
15851 * Thanks to Richard K. Lloyd, Konstantinos Konstantinides, Mark
15852 Seiden, Erik Schoenfelder, Andreas Stolcke, Rainer Orth, Henry Thomas,
15853 and Kris Van Hees for bug reports and help with fixes.
15855 Sun May 31 08:00:00 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 17) Bart Massey bart@cs.uoregon.edu
15857 * 'xboard' suffered from a couple of serious bugs. An initial
15858 size needed to be given to the message label to avoid a race
15859 condition (!) so I gave it some text (otherwise occasionally
15860 xboard would fail because the message widget was 0 width under
15861 MIT X11R4). The sizes needed to be Dimension, not int, because
15862 they were written in by Xt -- on my big-endian box Dimension
15863 is short, causing chaos. Also, I hacked a declaration in for
15864 strrchr() to shut the compiler up -- this is arguably a kludge,
15865 but I couldn't think of anything better; maybe you can.
15867 Fri May 22 13:40:50 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 16)
15869 * First real (non-beta) release of version 2.0.
15871 * Added GNU copyleft notices covering version 2.0 enhancements.
15873 Thu May 21 12:30:09 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 15)
15875 * Removed -g from Imakefile.
15877 * Added casts in parser.l to prevent warning messages from some C compilers.
15879 * Bugfix: code to exit if chess program couldn't be started had bug in error
15882 Tue May 19 11:58:06 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 14)
15884 * Fixes one small bug: If LoadGame does not find a game in the file, it resets
15885 xboard to BeginningOfGame mode (as if the Reset button was pressed), instead of
15886 leaving it in LoadGame mode.
15888 Mon Apr 13 18:32:27 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 13)
15890 * Improved error handling when gnuchessx crashes. Now displays a message and
15891 enters EndOfGame state without exiting. This should help with diagnosing
15892 gnuchessx problems, since the position and move history are not lost.
15894 * Debugged man page.
15896 Version 2.0 -- Thu Apr 2 16:04:54 PST 1992 (patchlevel 12)
15898 * Added small 40x40 pixel pieces; board size now specified as small, medium, or
15901 * Improved man page.
15903 * Saved position files now say "white to play" if it's white's move.
15905 * SavePosition while in EditPosition mode now gets side to play right.
15907 * Made "Pawn" the default on edit position menus.
15909 * Removed "To play" from edit position menus, since it's redundant. Left
15910 support code in so it can be restored if someone wants it.
15912 * Tightened parser's definition of a move number to help further with skipping
15913 over stuff before the first move.
15915 * Put back feature of skipping over stuff in game files before a start of game
15916 marker. This helps when loading electronic mail messages that have things
15917 like "00" in the header (looks like castling), or that talk about moves in
15918 running text before the actual game score. Tradeoff is that we can't load
15919 games that don't either have move numbers or say "gnuchess game" just before
15922 * Changed version number to 2.0 because others have used "1.3" for patched
15923 versions of 1.2. Display version number and patchlevel at startup.
15925 Thu Apr 2 15:30:22 PST 1992 (patchlevel 11)
15927 * Bugfix: Match started with TwoMachines button now handles the case where
15928 user loaded/edited a position *and* forced some moves.
15930 * added error message feedback to many cases where the user's button press is
15931 rejected because it isn't allowed in the current mode.
15933 * added -noChessProgram option to allow use as a passive chessboard without
15934 gnuchess, replacing old buggy scheme that tried to do this automatically when
15935 gnuchess was not found on the search path.
15937 * parser accepts "=" in front of promotion piece
15939 * parser accepts ":" notation for captures
15941 * Removed SwitchSides button to make room for EditPosition. Left code in
15942 place, ifdef'ed out.
15944 * Added EditPosition mode.
15946 * Reformatted xboard.c to eliminate long lines.
15948 * Promotion popup now appears near rank to which pawn is moving.
15950 * UI improvement: Button representing current program mode is kept highlighted.
15952 * Bug fix: Hint button is now disabled when machine is on move.
15954 Sat Mar 21 14:57:37 PST 1992 (patchlevel 10)
15956 * TwoMachines now works from MachineWhite or MachineBlack mode.
15958 * ForceMoves and Backward/Forward now work at the end of a game started by
15959 the TwoMachines button.
15961 * Sends o-o or o-o-o to gnuchess instead of O-O or O-O-O.
15963 * Bug fix: SwitchSides button is now disabled when machine is on move.
15965 * Added -searchLevel option and corrected handling of -searchTime to reflect
15966 the way gnuchess really handles command line options instead of what the
15967 documentation used to say. Allowed optional ":seconds" on times.
15969 Tue Mar 17 21:00:35 PST 1992 (patchlevel 9)
15971 * Removed non-working code that tried to recover when a remote chess program
15972 could not be started; now exits with a message instead.
15974 * Now waits for chess program to print its first message (normally "Chess")
15975 before sending it any commands.
15977 * Matches between two machines can now start from a black-to-play position or
15978 black-to-play opening.
15980 * Bug fix: The program would sometimes lose track of the board position after
15981 the end of the game, drawing a board full of white pawns next time it got an X
15982 redraw request. Now fixed.
15984 * Cleaned up handling of illegal moves in game files. Now we just stop reading
15985 and go into ForceMoves mode.
15987 * Saved games against gnuchess indicate who won (restored and debugged 1.2
15990 * Setting -searchTime turns off -clockMode.
15992 * My trick for setting up a black-to-play position broke in the transition from
15993 gnuchess 3.1+ to 4.0. Installed a different trick that works with both.
15995 * Bug fix: Was clobbering memory by mallocing one byte too few for the file
15996 name in SetupPositionFromFileProc. This usually resulted in a crash on the
15997 second attempt to load a position from a file.
15999 Mon Mar 16 16:49:00 PST 1992 (patchlevel 8)
16001 * Game and position files are saved in CHESSDIR as well as loaded from there.
16002 We actually chdir there, so gnuchess listing files also wind up there.
16004 * Underpromotion moves from gnuchess really work now.
16006 Sat Mar 14 14:55:24 PST 1992 (patchlevel 7)
16008 * Cleaned up lots of bugs and kruft in parser.l. It's a wonder the old version
16009 worked at all. Improved rejection of random text interspersed with the moves.
16011 * Relabeled buttons to reduce confusion (Play From File --> Load Game;
16012 Setup From File --> Load Position).
16014 * Bug fix: Doesn't exit at the end of a game that was started by pressing
16015 the Two Machines button.
16017 * Bug fix: Doesn't get confused if you hit Machine Black (White) while
16018 the machine is already playing black (white) and is on move.
16020 * Prints "White to play" or "Black to play" after loading a position file.
16022 * Bug fix: No longer hangs if no start-of-game is found in a game file.
16024 * More permissive about game file format. The first line is not assumed
16025 to be a header comment unless it starts with "#". We don't insist on
16026 seeing a "1." before the first move.
16028 * Added pop-up dialog to allow underpromotion. Moving a pawn to the last rank
16029 pops up a dialog to let you select what piece to promote to. Also added code
16030 to handle underpromotion moves from gnuchess or from a game file correctly.
16032 * Added code to send SIGINT to gnuchess before trying to move, if gnuchess
16033 might be busy thinking on our time. The code is ifdef'ed out because it's
16034 not necessary; only beta-test versions of gnuchess 4.0 at patchlevel 19 or
16037 Mon Feb 24 20:10:22 PST 1992
16039 * Merged fixes received from Stuart Cracraft and Mike McGann, to iconic mode
16040 and to ShutdownChessPrograms. (They both sent the same fixes.) I did not
16041 install the change that removed "easy" from the initialization string, so
16042 xboard will still try to run gnuchessx in "hard" mode (thinking on opponent's
16043 time) by sending this command.
16045 Version 1.3 -- Thu Dec 19 18:19:00 PST 1991 mann@src.dec.com (Tim Mann)
16047 * I've fixed a slew of bugs in this version of xboard:
16049 * You can now back up from the end of a game, even if gnuchess was playing
16050 against you. Since gnuchess exits upon mate or draw (when it's not in force
16051 mode), this feature works by starting up a new copy of gnuchess and feeding it
16052 the saved starting position and moves. Drawback: the new gnuchess starts with
16053 clocks at the beginning of a fresh time control.
16055 * Note: the "force" command to gnuchess is a toggle. I fixed a couple of
16056 places in xboard where "force" was being issued when gnuchess was already in
16057 force mode, which resulted in chaos. I don't know if they were in 1.2 or if I
16058 added them myself in the course of putting in new features.
16060 * ForceMoves button is now legal in PlayFromFile mode. It closes the game file
16061 and lets you force moves (or go Backward) from whatever position you've
16064 * The parser now recognizes "white resigns" and "black resigns" (in any
16065 combination of upper and lower case, with or without the closing "s"). These
16066 used to be misinterpreted as meaning "white wins" or "black wins" respectively!
16067 Added "1 - 0" and "0 - 1" as equivalents for "1-0" and "0-1".
16069 * I removed the parser feature of considering "!" as a comment delimiter.
16070 "!" is so common as an annotation in game scores that this feature seems like a
16073 * Added a wait() after each successful call to kill() to avoid leaving zombie
16076 * Removed the feature of putting an indication of how the game ended into the
16077 internal move list when playing from a file. The only benefit of this was that
16078 it would get written back out if you saved the game at that point. This
16079 feature doesn't seem too useful, since you are unlikely to save a game you've
16080 read in without making any changes, and it caused a lot of problems in the code
16081 and user interface. The end condition is still displayed as a message when
16082 it's first read in from the file. End conditions when playing against gnuchess
16083 are still saved, too.
16085 * programName is now the last file name component of argv[0], not all of it.
16087 * xboard.c got three compiler warnings due to arguments that didn't match the
16088 prototypes on X toolkit functions. I got rid of them by adding some casts, and
16089 adding extra unused arguments to the ReceiveFromProgram function.
16091 * As I received it, the distribution had an extra period glued on the front
16092 of every line that started with a period. This broke the manpage in an
16093 obvious way. It also broke parser.l in a nonobvious way that stopped
16094 PlayFromFile from working.
16096 * Fixed one or two bugs where the clock was started when it shouldn't have
16097 been. I think one example was if you tried an illegal move in ForceMoves mode.
16099 * Now starts the machine's clock if you hit MachineWhite when white is on move
16100 or MachineBlack when black is on move.
16102 * Now updates the to-move indicator (highlight on clock display) when you use
16103 Forward/Backward or ForceMoves.
16105 * gnuchess 3.1+ has a bug that makes it try to think on its opponent's time
16106 even when in force mode; this causes problems with xboard's SetupFromFile
16107 command because gnuchess's saved hint move is garbage after the new position is
16108 loaded, so gnuchess prints out an error message when it tries to think about
16109 what it would do if the user made this move. Here is a patch for gnuchess
16112 *** nondsp.c~ Mon Dec 2 12:37:18 1991
16113 *-- nondsp.c Thu Dec 19 15:36:06 1991
16116 ok = flag.quit = false;
16119 ! if (hint > 0 && !flag.easy && Book == NULL)
16122 time0 = time ((long *) 0);
16124 ok = flag.quit = false;
16127 ! if (hint > 0 && !flag.easy && Book == NULL && !flag.force)
16130 time0 = time ((long *) 0);
16132 * SavePosition/SetupFromFile now handle black-to-play positions. If it's
16133 black's move in a saved position, the line "black to play" is printed
16134 immediately after the board display. Upon loading a position, xboard
16135 looks for "black" at the beginning of this line to determine whether it's
16138 * SetupFromFile now leaves you (effectively) in ForceMoves mode. This
16139 eliminates some cases where the program would get into an inconsistent state,
16140 and hopefully is more intuitive for the user, too.
16142 * PlayFromFile now leaves xboard in ForceMoves mode after playing through all
16143 the moves in the file. You can use Backward/Forward, make moves, get gnuchess
16144 to join the game with MachineWhite or MachineBlack, etc. The game file can end
16145 with either white or black to play.
16147 * Backward/Forward now seem to work in all cases. Previously using these
16148 buttons during a game against the machine would get xboard out of sync with
16149 gnuchess's idea of what was going on, resulting in chaos. Now using these
16150 buttons puts xboard in ForceMoves mode; you can bring gnuchess back into the
16151 game using the MachineWhite or MachineBlack buttons.
16153 Thu Jun 27 15:06:25 PDT 1991
16155 * Remove comment popups during a reset.
16157 * Bug in my forward move fix. Didn't work for playgamefile mode.
16159 Thu Jun 20 15:04:06 PDT 1991
16161 * Can't do a backward move when it isn't your turn because gnuchess
16162 gets confused. Similar bug for forward move. Do a bunch of moves,
16163 back up move and go forward. These get filtered out now.
16165 * Put easy back into the initString. This DISABLES easy mode which by
16168 * New-line wasn't always being added to forward move strings sent to gnuchess.
16170 * Parsed comments as [ ..............text follows ] into d7d5
16172 * Long game file comments cause core dumps on HP systems.
16174 * Multiple uses of the get positition file button got confused
16175 on the second click.
16177 Minor fixes to the 1.2 release
16179 Version 1.2 -- Tue Jun 11 17:14:12 PDT 1991
16181 * For version 1.2, Jeff Kenton, Richard LLoyd, David Jensen, Martin D.,
16182 Bill Schmidt, Scott Hemphill, Paul Vaughan and Bill Shauck all found
16183 a lot of bugs that we put into xboard just to see if they were paying
16184 attention. They were.
16186 * Changed the protocol that xboard uses to work with the new version of
16189 * There was an off by one error with the clock resetting code. Also,
16190 the clock display highliting was wrong. Thanks to Bill Shauck for
16191 pointing these out.
16193 * enumerations are not really integers on some C compilers. I added casting.
16194 The new version of gnuchess expects the "go" command for two machine
16195 and machine plays white cases. The whiteString resource is for
16196 compatibility with previous gnuchess versions which get confused by go.
16197 Thanks to Martin D. for catching these.
16199 * Fixed a bug where the checkmate message wasn't being parsed and xboard
16200 kept playing. Also, the message was added to game file if saved.
16201 Thanks to Scott Hemhill for pointing this out.
16203 * Fixed a bug where saving a long game, resetting and saving a short game
16204 resulted in appending the end of the long game to the short one.
16205 If a game is just being played out and there is no reason for gnuchessr
16206 to be used, ignore pipe signals. This allows people to use xboard
16207 as a chess board without need for gnuchess. Also, trivially bad moves
16208 such as e2e2 are not passed on to gnuchessr but instead ignored out of
16209 hand. This allows people using xboard as a chessboard with gnuchessr
16210 to pick a piece up, think and put it back down without making a move.
16211 Thanks to Jeff Kenton for pointing these out.
16213 * Added the CHESSDIR environment variable. Game and position files are
16214 found in this directory. If this variable is not declared, then the
16215 current directory is used. File names starting with / are treated
16218 * The bitmap file names were changed so that none exceeded 14 characters.
16219 This is necessary for R5.
16221 fcntl(from_prog[0], F_SETFL, O_NDELAY);
16223 The xboard fix was to set non-blocking i/o on the read pipe for gnuchessr
16225 printz ("Illegal move (no matching move generated)");
16227 * fixed a problem with the new version of gnuchessr where xboard wasn't
16228 getting gnuchessr error messages for illegal moves. The problem seems
16229 to be fixed *without* any gnuchess changes but this is likely to be
16230 highly system dependant. There should be a new line on line 246 of nondsp.c
16232 * -iconic doesn't work at all now. The Iconify() does work. This was
16233 a tradeoff and it is really an Xt bug.
16235 * Fixed a compiler warning for gcc and an error for the IBM RT compilers.
16236 This is the VOID_PROC macro in xboard.h. Thanks to David Jensen for this.
16238 * If the DisplayWidth or DisplayHeight is less than 800, use small size mode.
16239 Also the size of the name widget was reduced from 500 pixels to 400 pixels
16240 because in small size mode there was a gap on the right.
16241 Changed the default font from fixed to helvetica_oblique14 to:
16242 **-helvetica-bold-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
16243 helvetica_oblique14 is a font alias not on all R4 systems.
16244 Curiously enough, the 17 point is not available on 75dpi systems
16245 and the 18 point font is not available on 100dpi systems.
16246 Thanks to Richard K. Lloyd for pointing these out.
16248 * Minor hacks to work with R5 alpha. Had to add an event handler to the
16249 boardWidget to get translations to work. This may go away with the real R5.
16250 Added <Message>WM_PROTOCOLS: QuitProc() for R5 ICCCM compatibility.
16252 * If the first character of the file is not `1' then the first line
16253 of a game or position file is displayed as the name in a label widget.
16255 * Added a PopUp dialog for getting file names.
16257 * Modified the code to use the R4 routines rather than R3 compatibility.
16259 * Changed the forwards/backwards/readgamefile code to allow a play to step
16260 back and forth in a game. If he steps all the way to the beginning
16261 he has to restart the game. If he gets into a mated position, same problem.
16263 * Moved the man page from xboard.1 to xboard.man. This makes imake man page
16264 installs work correctly. Thanks to Richard K. Lloyd for pointing this out.
16266 * Corrected the queening code. XBoard was sending the wrong syntax.
16267 It was sending for example h8(Q) when it should have been sending h8q.
16268 Thanks to Paul Vaughan and Mike McGann for pointing this out.
16270 * Added a lex parser for algebraic games. It should be easy to use the parser
16271 for other interfaces such as the Microsoft Windows version.
16272 It parses comments of the form [anything] and ! to the end of a line.
16274 Version 1.1 -- Mon Jan 7 14:46:03 PST 1991
16276 * Roger Dubar, Konstantinos Konstantinides, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht,
16277 Paul Scowen, Mvh Smidt and Kayvan Sylvan all helped immensely during
16280 * older non-ANSI versions of Sun compilers complain vociferously.
16282 * the remoteShell resource was added for HP-UX systems
16283 and other systems where the remoteShell isn't rsh.
16285 * -iconic doesn't work properly. If XBoard is opened iconic then
16286 iconifying it later with a keystroke doesn't work. I think
16289 * For systems with smaller screens, XBoard can use smaller pieces,
16290 and a smaller board. -bigSizeMode False uses a smaller set of pieces.
16291 These are scaled versions of the large pieces. They look ok but could
16294 * getlogin() does not work in all cases.
16295 It was replaced by getpwuid(getuid())->pw_name).
16297 * Warning messages get displayed in the message box.
16299 * Any button restarts a paused game.
16301 * Kayvan Sylvan contributed a patch for ESIX.
16302 It seems that select() on pipes is broken on his system. We declined
16303 to incorporate his patch though, because it was a work-around for
16304 something that was broken on one system, and selfishly, that system
16305 was not my own. Nevertheless, it is likely that other System V users
16306 on PC's may need to use this patch and it is is included as the file
16307 ESIX.patch. To use it, type
16309 patch xboard.c ESIX.patch
16311 * Fixed a bug where hint didn't work. The local version of gnuchessr
16312 had been hacked. The fix was to clone stderr and stdout for gnuchessr.
16314 * Fixed a bug where a player could play after a game had been finished.
16316 * The bitmaps have been pushed into the bitmaps directory.
16318 * Substantially rewrote and simplified the Two Machine code.
16320 * Added StrStr() because many systems don't have this ANSI function.
16322 * Added keyboard equivalents. Added an iconify keystroke, C or c.
16324 * Works with gcc now. gcc complained about casting float constants
16327 * Detect if the visual doesn't support color. If so, run in monoMode.
16328 An alternative would be to detect grayscale visual and use a collection
16329 of gray user interface colors.
16331 XBoard.clockMode: False
16333 * For people who don't like or use chess clocks a clockMode switch
16334 has been added. It is on by default. It can be turned off in the
16335 .Xdefaults file with
16337 * Added a declaration, xtVersion, which will quickly break on R3 Intrinsics.
16339 * Hal Peterson contributed a new Imakefile.
16341 * Rewrote DisplayClocks().
16343 * Rewrote TwoMachinesPlay mode.
16345 * Konstantinos Konstantinides added the -searchTime option.
16347 * Substantially rewrote and simplified the clock code. If a game was paused
16348 and then resumed, the clocks were out of sync.
16350 * Fixed a bug in HandleUserMove() where the user could make a move while the
16351 machine was thinking. The fix detects and ignores these moves. onMove
16352 was not being used and was removed.