not words. [Or maybe both?] Also might be easier to select
accurately from it if horizontally arranged, or in a 3x2 grid.
-280. Need a way to log raw ICS i/o in WinBoard.debug file, as xboard's
-debug mode does. Would help in finding bugs at times.
-
284. dxterm hangs when it receives the escape sequence that sets the
title bar on xterm. I think some other xterm substitutes do too.
402. Internationalization. It probably isn't practical to retrofit
this into the current code base.
-****406. "telluser" needs to be made nonmodal in winboard.
-
409. One user requested a way to put a time delay in the middle of
sending zippyGameEnd commands. This would (for example) let the
computer do a seek only if its opponent doesn't accept a rematch
done=1, we fail to wait. However, we do send commands in the right
order and use ping, so most engines should work fine.
-505. On Windows we use rand() for random numbers, which ranges only up
-to 0x7fff. That means that on Windows, only zippy.lines sayings that
-start in the first 32767 bytes of the file can ever be used. It looks
-like the only fix is to have our own 32-bit implementation of
-random(). Sigh.
-
506. One user wants a board size even smaller than Tiny.
507. Suggested: have the cursor change to a gripping hand while moving
535. For protover 3, the "st" command in the protocol could be
extended to allow for smaller units, not just seconds.
-536. Funny bug where tags show up as "?" on XP when they shouldn't.
-See a couple of emails. [This may have been the gamelist offset bug
-that was fixed in 4.2.7.]
-
537. Clarify in the protocol that "force" while searching means you
should stop the search as soon as you can. (Isn't this clear
already?)
clock is not the master. I was going to do it in time for the July
2002 WCCC. Oops.
-***540. Pick up GNU Chess 5.07! (or whatever is newest)
-
541. Related to #327, John Iverson says, "It would be nice to have the
coordinates shown outside of the board along the edges, rather than in
the squares where they are hard to see and give a cluttered
a pain to create new dialogs by editing the text file. The original
ones were all created using the graphical dialog editor in MSVC 5.
+553. It would be nice for xboard's ICS Input box to have a history
+feature similar to WinBoard's ICS Interaction window. Actually it
+would be nice for xboard to have its own ICS Interaction window with
+all the bells and whistles that WinBoard's has instead of limping
+along using an xterm for interaction.
+
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