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+
+2011-08-22 22:09:19 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
+malloc.h is not needed
+
+2011-08-20 22:21:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix ICS move-list header mistaken for null moves
+
+2011-08-18 18:53:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Allow two-games-per-opening to work with book
+
+A new option -seedBase is added, and written to the tourney file.
+It allows all XBoard instances working on a tourney to generate the same
+'random' openings in a deterministic way, based on this one-time seed
+and the game number. When -loadGameIndex equals -2, it uses the same seed
+for an odd and the following even game.
+
+2011-08-18 18:51:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix use of random
+
+In some places rand() was called explicitly, rather than through the
+(configured) place-holder random().
+
+2011-08-18 17:34:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Translate search texts
+
+
+2011-08-18 10:29:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Add -useBoardTexture and -usePieceFont options
+
+These options suppress the use of the given texture files or piece fonts
+without relying on the kludge to disable them by prefixing an asterisk
+to the file or font name. Checkboxes have been added to the Board dialog
+to control them. The user can now set piece font in WB font dialog.
+The sample text can be used to specify the -fontPieceToCharTable,
+the font name itself the -renderPiecesWithFont value.
+
+2011-08-16 23:10:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix crash on start without settings file
+
+A primordial -1 in currCurrent caused a crash when WinBoard was started
+without ini filein game-viewer mode.
+
+2011-08-12 12:08:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix generic-popup failure after empty engine-settings dialog
+
+The error exit ofthe Engine #N Settings dialog in case of an engine without
+options forgot to clear currentCps, with as a result that the generic popup
+thought every subsequent popup was an empty one, and kept repeating the
+'engine has no options' error message for every dialog.
+
+2011-08-10 11:27:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Allow substitution of engines during tournament
+
+Two buttons are added in the tournament options dialog, for upgrading
+and for replacing a tourney participant. Lots of tests on the validity
+of the request are done, and if all are passed, the tourney file is
+written with the new participants (and in case of replace) with the
+results of the replaced engines erased from the -results string.
+
+2011-08-08 11:00:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix up/down arrows in game list
+
+
+2011-08-08 10:31:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Add key bindings for loading next/previous game of list
+
+These bindings are set both for the game list and the board window.
+To make them useful, focus has to be transferred to the board widget
+after loading (it tends to transfer to the tags window), which now
+seems to work, but not always. From the game list the shellWidget
+seems to get focus rather than the board, which is bad as it is not
+sensitive to the key bindings.
+
+2011-08-08 09:58:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Allow deletion of last book move
+
+The book-edit function refused to delete the entiremove list,
+for no good reason. This limitation now has been lifted.
+Also the error message that the key for the current book entries
+is different from that of the currentposition has been suppressed
+if there were no entries found for the current position (so that the
+book is positioned at the next key), so that it is possible to add
+moves from scratch.
+
+2011-08-08 00:19:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Speed up parser
+
+Line numbers > 1, which are common, can exit already during move parsing,
+to save lots of matching on resultsand castlings.
+
+2011-08-07 15:13:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix missing files in file browser
+
+The file browser was throwing away the first two files, assuming
+they were "." and "..". Alas, this is no longer true on every Linux.
+Now we actuallyc compare for these names, before skipping them.
+
+2011-08-06 11:57:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Delay file loading to allow expose event first
+
+
+2011-08-06 09:29:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix paging
+
+
+2011-08-05 22:39:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Better fix of crash on empty game list
+
+An empty list is now replaced by a list containig a simple message.
+
+2011-08-05 20:31:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Add plain arrows as key binding for stepping forward/backward
+
+
+2011-08-05 20:30:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Debug position selection
+
+
+2011-08-04 13:22:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Print progress during load / selection of game
+
+The title bar of themain window is used to display a running count
+of the number of games loaded / searched.
+
+2011-08-04 12:44:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Parse PGN tags without allocating memory
+
+In WinBoard malloc/free did not seem to work when preparing the game list,
+leading to a huge memory list when ParsePGNTag was used. The added code
+parses the required tags in an alternative way as a work-around.
+
+2011-08-02 22:58:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Implement searching games in Game List for a position
+
+For this it was needed to reconstruct all positions of the games
+without loading them, so they could be compared to the currently
+displayed position. A new routine GameContainsPosition is made for that.
+ In Disambiguate, when the global quickFlag is set, we now do the
+disambiguation ignoring check,and only if this leads to an ambiguous
+move, we repeat it taking check into account to see if that resolves
+the ambiguity. This causes us to miss if unambiguous moves are illegal
+because they put their King in check, but who cares?
+ We now do not make game-list line when not needed. If we do not filter
+by text, but by position, there is no need for preparing the game-list
+line for games that are not selected. All for efficiency.
+
+2011-07-28 20:47:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Allow entry of variations in PlayFromGameFile mode
+
+Adding variations is more like editing a comment,and not really editing
+the game. Therefore we allow it on loaded games. As soon as we are in a
+variation, we temporarily switch to a (hidden) EditGame mode, restoring
+the original mode when we revert to the main line.
+ We now also stay in PlayFromGameFile mode after loading a game,
+And opening variation (fromtheComment window) in PlayFromGameFile mode
+is also allowed.
+
+2011-07-27 18:47:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Force Move History refresh after loading/reverting variation
+
+The Move History window was not refreshed after switching to or from
+a variation if that variation happened to have the same length as
+the main line. Now a change in storedGames since the previous refresh will
+force a full refresh to avoid this. For this to work, storedGames
+did have to be decremented after ToNrEvent in PopInner, because ToNrEvent
+calls HistorySet before the history is restored, so we don't want
+it to snatch away the full refresh. A call to HistorySet had to be
+added after PopInner is done restoring the move history.
+
+2011-07-27 17:45:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Popdown Comment window on new game
+
+What is in this window cannot possibly remain valid, and can even be harmful.
+
+2011-01-19 11:46:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Allow null move in analysis and edit-game mode
+
+In some games it is allowed to pass your turn. The internal
+representation picked for such a null move is the drop of an empty
+square, (EmptySquare,DROP_RANK,0,0). Computer-algebraic form is "@@@@",
+SAN form is "--", (for compatibility with ChessBase / SCID), and the
+non-compliant forms "null", "pass"and "Z0" are recognized in
+the parser as well. ApplyMove() has to test for this special case
+(to not actually clear a1), and a way to enter the pass for the user had
+to be found (clicking the opponent clock, like in EditPosition mode).
+ The null move is made move irreversible to prevent repetition draws
+spanning null moves being adjudicated.
+ Such entry of null move is now allowed in AnalyzeMode and EditGame mode.
+Because Chess engines will not accept null moves, SendMoveToProgram had
+to be adapted to send not the move, but the position after it in
+case of a null move. This erases the move history in the engine,
+so it will not react to 'undo' for that null move, so BackwardInner
+had to be adapted to test for intervening null moves, and if one is
+found, approach the target from the other side after loading the
+earliest position before it not crossing another null move, and
+then loading the moves upto the target.
+ XBoard clock clicks had to be fixed, to pay attention to the shift key.
+
+2011-07-25 21:58:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Give WinBoard Game List its own font
+
+The font fort he Game List used to be shared with the Engine Output and
+Move History windows, but this made it impossible to use a figurine font
+in the latter two (which displays piece symbols for capitals) without
+messing up the Game List. An option -gameListFont has been added to specify
+the font for the Game List(and save it in the settings file), while a
+control for it is added in the fonts dialog.
+
+2011-07-21 19:02:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix crash on OK after Save Changes in Tags and Comment popup.
+
+The global variables tagsText and commentText were used to pass
+a string obtained from a widget (and thus not malloc'ed), which
+caused a crash when the GenericReadout tried to use those variables
+for the new value. Fixed by using GenericReadout (which does malloc)
+to read out the text,in stead of GetWidgetText.
+
+2011-07-16 09:31:12 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
+Revert "fixed segfault in xengineoutput", fixed in the backend now (from HGM)
+
+This reverts commit 33a0e73843115ff6d4eacaf963a38f2e8b20b295.
+
+2011-07-16 14:53:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Suppress some XBoard warnings
+
+
+2011-07-15 11:21:29 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
+fixed segfault in xengineoutput
+
+
+2011-07-11 20:04:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Disable -showTargetSquares in ICS mode
+
+Help like this is considered cheating on FICS, so it is disabled for
+all 'classical' ICS variants. (For variants eyont Shogi we don't care.)
+
+2011-07-10 21:20:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Put grab on sweep-selecting in Edit Position
+
+A right down-click starting a sweep-selection event did not grab the
+mouse events, so that an up-click outside the window would go
+unnoticed, and the pointer motion stayed coupled to selecting the
+piece until the next click. By returning 2 from the RightClick back-end
+routine we request the grab.
+
+2011-07-09 13:50:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Write more labels on score axis of eval graph
+
+The labels for +/-1 and +/-3 are now also written, provided there is
+enough space.
+
+2011-07-09 13:28:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Improve Eval Graph with -evalZoom and -evalThreshold
+
+The score range between -1 and +1 can now be blown up by a factor
+specified through -evalZoom. The threshold below which histogram bars
+are no longer printed (wich used to e hard-coded 25 centi-Pawn) can now
+be set through the -evalThreshold option.
+
+2011-07-09 13:18:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Print reversible plies done in stead of plies to go
+
+Printing the number of plies left to the draw-adjudication point was
+confusing when the N-move rule was set to a non-standard value.
+In stead we now print the number of plies since the last irreversible
+move, so the user can compare it to both the engine claim point (100)
+and the adjudication point he set (which might be beyond 100).
+
+2011-07-09 13:13:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Let WB eval graph react ot single left-click
+
+Unlike in XBoard, the WinBoard eval graph awatys had required double-
+clicking to go the the corresponding move, while there really is no
+reason for this, as it is no text edit, and single-clicks have no function
+(like select).
+
+2011-07-07 19:37:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Add -scoreWhite option
+
+This is similar to -absoluteAnalysisScores, except that it works in
+all modes, and flips the score given by the engines in the engine-output
+window when black is to move.
+
+2011-07-07 19:28:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Print 50-move counter in Engine-Output title
+
+
+2011-07-07 18:50:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Display score/depth in Eval Graph title
+
+No longer print it in the comment window.
+
+2011-07-04 11:06:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Let -sweepPromotions also work for click-click moves
+
+A click-click promotion no longer causes auto-queening, but the down-click
+on the to-square causes a Queen to stick to the mouse pointer, and then
+allows the user to change it through dragging backwards before releasing it
+with an up-click.
+ In WinBoard this required a slight change in DragPieceBegin, because
+the dragged piece there only was made visible when the mouse pointer
+actually started moving (and dragInfo.pos was set), presumably under the
+assumption that before mouse move the piece was already on the clicked
+square. Which in the case of a to-square was of course not true. (Because
+a piece jumps to the mouse pointer when the click is not centered on a
+square, this gives less jittery static clicks.) So DragPieceBegin has
+been given an extra argument now, to indicate whether it should attach
+the piece to the mouse pointer immediately.
+ To make the click-click sweepPromotions work in Shogi (for which the
+drag-drop sweepPromotions could never work, because it is not clear the
+piece has a posibility to promote when you pick it up), translation of
+the sweep-selected piece to a Shogi promoChar had to e added.
+
+2011-07-04 10:45:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Improve -showTargetSquares on click-click moves
+
+The markers on move targets are now kept when a first click merely
+selects a piece, rather than dragging it elsewhere. The second click
+(by definition on the to-square) then clears the markers.
+
+2011-07-04 11:23:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Let PGN parser accept lower-case piece in drop moves
+
+The @ sign prevents amiguity with other notations anyway.
+
+2011-07-04 12:42:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix parser.c line endings
+
+
+2011-06-29 20:29:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix writing searchTime in tourneyFile
+
+This had to be derived from the variable searchTime, which gives it
+in seconds, as appData.searchTime (a string in minutes) is not reliable,
+as it contains the command-line value, which might have been altered
+through the time-control dialog.
+
+2011-06-29 20:25:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix resetting searchTime if other TC mode is chosen (XB)
+
+This fixes a bug in the new time-control dialog.
+
+2011-06-29 14:32:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix coords display on large boards
+
+The file indicators can now run upto 'w'. Only the lowest digit
+of the rank number is printed, from a table that is valid to 22.
+
+2011-06-29 13:53:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix crash on making too-long FEN
+
+The buffer for in PositionToFEN was only 128 bytes, which was not enough
+for large boards such as 19x19 Go. It is enlarged to MSG_SIZ(512) now.
+There also is some approximate overflow checking added (but it is not
+fool proof in case there are holdings...)
+
+2011-06-29 13:36:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix drop moves on boards with more than 10 ranks
+
+The internal encoding for rank 16 is '@', and thus ambiguous with drop
+moves. They were always printed as 16, breaking drop games on large
+boards. The ambiguity is now solved (for boards with more than 16 ranks)
+by checking if the preceeding letter is upper case, in which case it
+cannot be a fileindicator, but must be a piece, and thus a drop.
+
+2011-06-29 13:29:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Don't one-click move when legality testing is off
+
+
+2011-06-23 21:18:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Reorder controls in Engine Setings dialog WB
+
+To get tabbing through the controls in left-to-right order, they are
+now added to the template structure in that order. Also add a tabstop
+to Label options, so that JAWS will read those.
+
+2011-06-23 14:02:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Add tab stops in WB generic popup
+
+The WinBoard generic popup did not put tab stops on push buttons,
+including the OK and cancel button, with as a consequence that these were
+skipped when tabbing through the dialog controls. In addition the tabbing
+could not begin before the user selected one of the controls with the mouse.
+ Now all buttons have tab stops, and the cancel button is given focus
+when the dialog pops up.
+
+2011-03-10 20:06:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Implement Grand Chess
+
+Grand Chess requires a lot of exceptional handling similar to Superchess
+and Great Shatran, because it also allows only promotion to a captured
+piece. In addition it shares the enlarged promotion zone with Makruk and
+Shogi, as well as the fact that promotion can be deferred. The 10-rank
+board furthermore required a better generalization of double-pushes and
+e.p. captures. On such a board double puhes are now allowed from 2nd and
+3rd rank, e.p. capture from 5th and 4th.
+
+2011-01-28 19:20:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Allow promotion to Pawn with legality testing off
+
+In stead of ImpossibleMove promotionto Pawn now merely is an
+IllegalMove, so it can be played with legality testing off.
+
+2011-01-24 15:06:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Create some space in WB New Variant dialog
+
+
+2011-06-20 23:53:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Allow double-digit rank numbers
+
+The parser already understood double-digit numbers on input, and
+CoordsToAlgebraic produced them on otput. This patch also fixes sending
+of the moves to the computer, for which the moveList was used. The latter
+stored 10 as ':', etc,to always get a 4-char move, the characters of which
+were frequently being converted to fromY or toY by adding/subtracting ONE.
+To not break that the one-character encoding of rank number is kept in
+moveList, but in SendMoveToProgram, characters > '9' are converted to
+double digits.
+
+2011-06-23 11:26:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Add Absolute Analysis Scores in Genral Options dialog XB
+
+
+2011-06-23 11:16:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix texi file, and update it further
+
+
+2011-06-20 12:15:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Modified po
+
+
+2011-06-22 17:51:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Update texi file
+
+
+2011-06-22 11:02:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Restore echo after ^C in ICS password
+
+
+2011-06-22 10:45:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix some warnings
+
+
+2011-06-19 20:30:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Increase efficiency of SAN generation / disambiguation
+
+**************** Risky patch! **********************
+The algorithm used for disambiguating and generating SAN was extremely
+inefficient, because it generated all pseudo-legal moves from the relevant
+position, and then for each of those did a check test (involving generation
+of all moves of the opponent), before determining if the move matched the
+(proposed or given) SAN move. While it is pointless to generate moves
+with a piece that does not match (let alone checking them for legality).
+And for a piece that matches, it is pointless to test legality of moves
+that do not match the to-square.
+ To speed up the process GenLegal and GenPseudoLegal have been equiped
+with an argument that can indicate the piece type of the required move,
+so they can skip generating moves with other pieces. TestLegality,
+Disambiguate and CoordsToAlgebraic make use of this facility, and set also
+(through global variables rFilter and fFilter) a to-square filter to be
+applied in the GenLegalCallback before it tests the move for legality.
+ This patch is especially tricky for Crazyhouse, where the piece indicated
+in the move might not be the piece actually on the board, because the latter
+is a promoted Pawn, and has to be demoted toits base type before the
+comparison.
+
+2011-06-19 16:18:15 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix compile errors WinBoard
+
+The patch to make non-existing options non-fatal broke WinBoard. All calls
+to ExitArgError from it now supply a third argument TRUE to fix it.
+
+2011-06-19 14:28:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Add -fSAN / -sSAN options
+
+These options force the PV of the applicable engine to be converted to SAN.
+They make use of the existing ParsePV routine, after shelfing a possible
+PV (from user PV walking) to free the space after the last move.
+Could be costly in terms of CPU usage.
+
+2011-06-19 10:56:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Cure flicker in Move History window, fix highlighting
+
+The highlighting of the current move in the Move List window by selecting
+it did not always work, because some other windows were clearing their text
+widgets by selecting the contents and killing it, thus snatching the
+selection away. This has been changed to setting XtNstring to an empty
+string as a method for clearing without side effects on the selection.
+As a bonus the Engine Output window now also no longer has the black flicker
+on clearing it.
+ In addition, triggering a scroll by setting the insertion point to the
+end of the text caused excessive flicker in the Move List window, apparently
+clearing it and redrawing from scratch, (even if there was no scroll motion),
+to the point where on my slow laptop the move history stayed entirely blank
+during a rapid succession of moves. This has been combatted by using the
+end-of-line action procedure (which does not seem to suffer from this) to put
+the insertion point at the end, when we need to scroll to close to the end.
+
+2011-06-18 23:48:13 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix crash on clearing new Move List window
+
+When a new game started and a previous game had filled the Move List
+window, a crash occurred because an attempt was made to undo the
+highlighting of a no-longer-existing move, and then scrolling to it.
+
+2011-06-18 20:46:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Use sound for ICS tells also with engine telluser popups
+
+The telluser and tellusererror commands now can be assigned a sound.
+
+2011-06-18 20:45:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Add Score in Move List option to general options dialog XB
+
+Now that we have a WinBoard-style Move History window, this option is
+no longer a no-op in XBoard.
+
+2011-06-18 12:42:41 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
+new developer release
+
+2011-06-18 12:38:32 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
+updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
+
+2011-06-18 12:51:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Update window itle after last game of match
+
+The result printed behind player names during a match would still be the one
+without the game, differing from what the popup would show, which looked
+sloppy enough for people to complain about it.
+.
+
+2011-06-18 10:26:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Make WB generic popup translatable
+
+When used for internal settings (as in the Load Engine and Tournament
+Options dialogs), the option names are now subectto translation.
+
+2011-06-17 21:05:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Redo Move History with generic popup in WinBoard style
+
+The use of color and boldness to make the move list more readable
+unfortunately cannot work in Xaw; reverse video by selection is used as an alternative to highlight the current move.
+
+2011-06-17 21:19:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Remove stray else
+
+Due to an erroneous else, the window parameters of Move History were
+not retreived (and thus incorrectly saved) when the Engine Output was up.
+
+2011-06-14 18:47:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Make non-existing opton in settings file non-fatal
+
+It is rather difficult to recover from a situaton where the settings
+file contains an unknown option (e.g. because you downgraded to a
+previous version that had fewer options), especially in WinBoard, where
+the user settings file is in a hidden folder, and people might not be
+able to find it, let alone edit it. By just skipping the line with the
+offending option, rather than generating a fatal error, when reading
+from a settings file, such options will be automatically purged from the
+file as soon as you save settings.
+ Small problem is that the user cannot be warned, as the initialization
+has not progressed far enough at this point to generate error popups. In
+XBoard we can at least print to the console, but in WinBoard there is no
+warning at all. But the worst thing that can happen is that new options
+in a settings file of a more advanced version will revert to their
+defaults.
+
+2011-06-14 18:20:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Change long form of -tf option to -tourneyFile
+
+This is a more logical name, and in the WinBoard docs it was already
+described as such. Also remove the -processes option, which in the
+current design of the tourney manager is no longer used.
+
+2011-06-14 18:17:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix default of -remoteUser
+
+This has to be an empty string, rather than NULL, to prevent XBoard from
+segfaulting when the -gateway option is used.
+
+2011-06-14 13:32:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Add -at and -opt options as alternative for @
+
+Windows XP and Vista shortcuts do not display command lines with @ in
+them correctly, and these optionsprovide a work-around for that.
+
+2011-06-14 12:46:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix empty-string option values in XBoard
+
+
+2011-06-14 12:40:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix crash on switching sound in Vista
+
+When choosing a new sound the wave form of the old one was free'ed, but
+because built-in sounds are not really malloc'ed, this led to a crash.
+
+2011-06-14 12:36:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Update WB docs for tourney manager
+
+
+2011-06-14 12:35:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Add icon to WB for tournament files
+
+
+2011-06-10 16:52:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Redo Time Control dialog with generic popup
+
+As poor-man's disabling of the unneeded input fields, we print the word
+"Unused" in them.
+
+2011-06-10 14:14:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Some refactoring in xoptions.c to separate out front-end
+
+
+2011-06-10 12:38:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Redo New Shuffle Game dialog with generic popup
+
+The buttons are slightly renamed, and in stead of having an 'off'
+button to clear it, shuffleOpenings now has its own checkbox, which is
+ticked when a fixed or dynamic random is chosen with the buttons.
+
+2011-06-10 11:58:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix type of shuffleOpenings
+
+This was a Boolean option, and thus accessed by the args.h code as such,
+while it was declared as an int (and used in backend.c as such). This
+could have led to problems with different endianness.
+
+2011-06-09 23:57:43 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
+Internationalize the file browser.
+
+The file browser was missed in the previous round of
+internationalization and had gotten broken by setting international =
+True in its widgets. I got nothing but segfaults trying to set
+international to False in the file browser widget subtree when it was
+True in the main window, so I gave up and did the
+internationalization. It turned out to be pretty easy.
+
+As a tiny bonus fix, I removed some ../'s from includes, and you can
+now configure and build xboard in a subdirectory again. This was
+useful for building both --enable-nls and --disable-nls from the same
+sources to compare functionality and make sure both still work.
+
+2011-06-08 20:26:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix crash at end of Swiss tourney
+
+
+2011-06-08 17:33:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix display of logos
+
+The logo files are now sought relative to the WinBoard install
+directory. Non-existing logos cause clearing of the logo, rather than
+letting the logo of the prevous engine hang. Logo change is requested
+explicitly from the back-end (when an engine is initialized for a new
+game), rather than using the kludge in StartChileProcess. This required
+a dummy UpdateLogos routine in the XBoard front-end.
+
+2011-06-08 18:02:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix parameter handling in adapter command
+
+A backslash was not considered the end of an option name, which was
+fatal for UCCI2WB, which needs %fd\\%fcp in its command line.
+
+2011-06-08 17:16:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Clear Engine-Output pane when initializing engine
+
+This to prevent output from the previous game hanging there during the
+next game, when the engine that is really playing is in book and
+doesn't produce thinking output there.
+
+2011-06-08 17:20:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix display of last move of last match game
+
+When a game was adjudicated (e.g. because XBoard detected mate) GameEnds
+would trigger an exit if it was the last game of the match, and thus
+never returned, while the ShowMove was called only after return from
+Adjudicate. An extra ToNrEvent is now used in GameEnd in this case to
+cause ShowMove to be called before exiting. (Ugly kludge...)
+
+2011-06-08 17:38:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix concurrency in Swiss tourneys
+
+The pairing engine was consulted for the next round before all games of
+the previous round were finished, if other XBoard instances were still
+playing games. This caused the instances finishing early to stall
+indefinitely. This is fixed by moving the Swiss pairing code to after
+the syncInterval code. The normal pairing code (the call to Pairing)
+must stay before it, because it determines the syncInterval. So ther is
+a bit of tourneyType dependence cluttering up the code here. :-(
+
+2011-06-08 17:27:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Give error popup when pairing engine fails
+
+An invalid pairing now produces an error popup to inform the user, so he
+knows why the tourney stagnates.
+
+2011-06-08 17:24:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix clock mode in tourney starting from -ncp mode
+
+When a tourney started from -ncp mode, which was allowed in MatchEvent,
+because the tourney loads its own engines anyway, the menu enablings and
+clockmode where not restored to their 'GNUMode' state.
+
+2011-06-08 17:11:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix round-robin schedule
+
+The first round was played twice, and the formulas used to derive the
+pairing were not even-odd resistant anyway. Both even and odd number of
+participants should work now.
+
+2011-06-08 17:08:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix interrupting tournament
+
+Stopping a tourney by using the Machine Match menu item did not wor
+properly.
+
+2011-06-08 16:57:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Improve quoting of engine name on install
+
+Rather than always using double quotes for the engine command, the
+engine filename is now double-quoted if it contains spaces (and no
+double-quotes), and the comand is single-quoted if it contains
+double-quotes (and double-quoted otherwise).
+
+2011-06-08 16:49:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Print sensible window title during tourneys
+
+Rather than the "(W-L-D)" in the title we now print game number and
+total games, plus indication of the tourney type (rr, gt or sw).
+
+2011-06-08 16:44:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Let XBoard propose name of tourney file
+
+Add an option -defaultTourneyName to configure the name that will be
+proposed in the Tournament Options dialog's tournament-file field. The
+option can contain %y, %M, %d, %h, %m, %s for year, month, day, hour,
+mintes, seconds of the curret time in %02d format, or %Y for the year in
+%04d format. Any tournament -file name is ignored when no participants
+are given. Participants without a tourney file remains an error.
+
+2011-06-08 16:30:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Improve Tournament dialog layout WB
+
+
+2011-06-08 17:05:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix -matchGames option
+
+The new MatchEvent code had broken the -mg option, and used always
+-defaultMatchGames in stead.
+
+2011-05-30 19:55:13 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
+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.
+
+- Several files were in utf8 but needed to be marked as such (that is,
+ "CHARSET" changed to "UTF-8"). Affected es.po, it.po, ru.po, vi.po,
+ zh_CN.po, zh_TW.po.
+
+- it.po was missing a \n at the end of one translation.
+
+- ru.po had unescaped double-quote marks in one translation.
+
+- vi.po needed to be normalized to Unicode normalization form C. With
+ this fix, more characters display correctly, though at least one is
+ still missing in the X core fonts that xboard is able to use.
+ See http://vietunicode.sourceforge.net/ for more about Vietnamese.
+
+- zh_HK.po was written in big5 and then utf8-encoded on top of that,
+ making it unusable. I stripped off the spurious utf8 encoding and
+ then used recode to convert the file to Unicode properly encoded as
+ utf8.
+
+Unfortunately, I wasn't able to test any of the Chinese translations,
+as I haven't been able to get XCreateFontSet to work in Chinese
+locales with any of the fonts I have installed, even after adding the
+Ubuntu language support packages for both simplified and traditional
+Chinese. I did spot check a bunch of the translations using Google
+Translate.
+
+I've checked in a couple of tiny Perl scripts that I used to do part
+of the fixups on vi.po and zh_HK.po in case we need them again.
+
+2011-05-30 14:12:53 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
+The empty string can't be translated and it causes the gettext utilities to complain, so change _("") to "".
+
+
+2011-05-30 13:21:06 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
+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.
+
+
+2011-05-29 20:14:37 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
+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.
+
+In the process I had to rewrite the code to insert the pixel size into
+a font name (replacing a "*" in that field). The new code is much
+more general.
+
+2011-05-28 23:55:42 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
+translation: activated Ukrainian translation
+
+
+2011-05-28 23:41:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
+translation: added new Ukrainian PO file from the TP
+
+
+2011-05-28 21:07:08 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
+Fix display of international characters outside the ASCII range.
+
+1) Set Xaw resources required for internationalization --
+ *international and *fontSet.
+
+2) Untangle the new XFontSet-aware code from the old FindFont code.
+ It doesn't make any sense to apply the old (and obsolete) size
+ searching code from FindFont to a font set, which contains fonts
+ that are all the requested size.
+
+3) With these changes, the -font option doesn't work at all when given
+ on the command line. The -font option actually is parsed by the Xt
+ library, used to set the *font resource, and removed from argv
+ before xboard can see it, so the option didn't really work properly
+ with the new WinBoard-style option framework anyway. Now that
+ -font is even more broken, I changed the documented name of the
+ option to -messageFont and changed args.h so the option is saved in
+ ~/.xboard as -messageFont.
+
+2011-05-28 21:05:00 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
+Move "hide thinking" option into alphabetical order.
+
+
+2011-05-28 21:01:25 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
+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.
+
+
+2011-05-23 19:05:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix layout tournament Load Engine dialog WB
+
+
+2011-05-23 19:03:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix ArgTwo warnings
+
+
+2011-05-23 19:00:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Add Swiss tourneys through pairing engine
+
+An external program can be designated pairing engine through the new
+persistent option -pairingEngine. Defining the option will allow
+tourneytype -1 to be chosen for Swiss. In this case the pairing engine
+will be queried for a pairing before every new match game, by sending it
+the -results string, plus the command 'pairing' + game number.
+
+2011-05-23 17:37:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Allow generic dialog to ignore OK
+
+The EndMark callback can now suppress popdown of the dialog on OK, when
+it somehow does not like the values entered by the user. In XBoard this
+required all the callbacks to return a value.
+Caveat: A refused OK would still have set all new values given in the
+dialog!
+
+2011-05-23 17:22:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix CR in multi-line WinBoard text-edits
+
+The generic popup did not add CR when strings containing '\n' were
+printed in a multi-line text-edit, thus joining the lines. It was also
+not possible to type a CR in a multi-line text-edit.
+
+2011-05-23 14:16:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Let mentioning completed tourney file add one cycle
+
+Secifying a tourney file of a fully completed tourney will now resume
+that tourney with another cycle added. When there are still uncomleted
+games in the tourney, the usual error message will appear. There are
+also error popups added for when the user fails to specify a tourney
+file, or gives too few participants.
+
+2011-05-16 11:02:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Make engine startup failure non-fatal in WinBoard
+
+Unlike XBoard, which forks first, the parent process WinBoard has direct
+knowledge of a failure to execute the engine command, and used it to
+trigger a fatal error. The code doing this has now been disabled. Only
+in case of a first engine we switch back to -ncp mode in stead, but no
+action is taken to 'bury' the deceased engine process. Like in XBoard,
+errors in writing or reading the pipes will trigger this.
+
+2011-05-14 17:03:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Add secondry adapter command for UCCI or USI
+
+The option -uxiAdapter can define a second adapterCommand, which will be
+invoked on encountering the options -fUCCI, -sUCCI and -fUSI, sUCI.
+
+2011-05-14 10:05:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Obey san feature when sending book moves
+
+Book moves were always sent in long algebraic, even when the engine had
+said it wanted to receive SAN.
+
+2011-05-14 10:03:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix initialization of engine state
+
+Some of the initialization relied on variables being zero at startup,
+which meant value from the previouly loaded engine hng on after loading
+a new one.
+
+2011-05-11 23:06:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Take account of holdings in book key
+
+The board is numbered by rank, for comptibility with Polyglot format,
+starting at a1. We then continue counting in the holdings 'files', in
+up-rank direction, each holding spanning the full board height (even if
+it is not fully used). Firstthe left (black) holdings, then the right,
+Even in Shogi this limits the square number to < 99, which is below the
+absolute limit of 128 (where we would run out of hash keys).
+
+2011-05-11 22:48:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Alow promotions and drops in book-editing
+
+
+2011-05-11 20:15:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Include learn info in book edit
+
+
+2011-05-09 21:55:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Adapt default directory of lng2po
+
+The path is prefixed with "../" to make it runable from the po directory.
+
+2011-05-09 21:20:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Recode some po files
+
+po files were generated with the aid of lng2po for Russian,
+Vietnamese, Chinese(simp) and Chinese(trad), using encodings CP1251,
+CP1258, GB2312 and BIG5, respectively.
+
+2011-05-09 20:11:32 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Implement Edit Book in XBoard
+
+
+2011-05-09 09:52:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Improve WB Load Engine dialog texts
+
+
+2011-05-09 09:48:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Make 'add to list' default in Load Engine dialog
+
+
+2011-05-09 09:33:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Add -userFileDirectory option
+
+This volatile option is initialized from 'installDir'. It is
+primarily intended for configuration of WinBoard through its master
+settings file, and specifies an alternative place to create saveGameFile
+or look for other user files, in stead of looking in the installDir.
+
+2011-05-09 09:10:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Add option -absoluteAnalysisScores
+
+This persistent option flips scores in the when black is thinking in
+analysis mode, just before they are printed in the engine-output window.
+
+2011-05-08 17:47:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Automatically play moves of clicked PV in analyze mode
+
+The Shift key now no longer needs to be pressed to play moves from the
+PV in analyze mode (so it could be given back its original meaning of
+starting a variation with the entered moves). In analyze mode the PV
+walk begins after the first move, so a static right-click plays the
+first PV move. To just peek the PV you have to walk to the start of it
+before releasing the mouse button. In other modes the PV walk
+stillstarts at the very end.
+
+2011-05-08 17:07:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Let ParsePV always generate SAN move
+
+
+2011-05-08 13:53:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix vscrolling in XBoard Engine-Output window
+
+After clicking the memos they scrolled to the bottom, because SetFocus
+put the insertion point at the very end of the text. This behavior is
+now reserved for text-edits containing less than 100 characters.
+
+2011-05-08 13:22:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Fix button sizing in generic popup
+
+
+2011-05-08 13:02:52 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+Allow changing MultiPV setting from Engine-Output window
+
+In analyze mode a header line is printed in the first engine-output
+pane, which can be right-clicked to increase or decrease the number of
+PVs. (Only with engines that support the MultiPV option.)
+
+2011-05-08 11:28:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
+No clearing of Engine-Output memos on stat01
+
+
+2011-05-07 23:27:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
+updated xboard.pot with released version
+
+
+2011-05-07 22:56:53 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
+new developer release
+
+
+2011-05-07 22:54:29 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
+updated ChangeLog, NEWS, etc.
+
+
+2011-05-07 23:07:46 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
+deactivated new languages for the moment...
+
+po files need some cleanup, probably better to wait until the translation-project looked at them
+
2011-05-07 18:44:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
added translations generated via lng2po from all winboard languages
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