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-<title>WGP: Shortcuts for WinBoard</title>\r
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-<table cellpadding="20"><tr><td>\r
-<h1>The WinBoard Gold Pack 4.4.0</h1>\r
-<h2>For the ultimate WinBoard experience!</h2>\r
-</td><td>\r
-<img src="mini.gif">\r
-</td></tr></table>\r
-<h3>Customizing WinBoard through Shortcuts</h3>\r
-<p>\r
-The most convenient way to run invoke WinBoard is usually through PSWBTM,\r
-as this combines an easy way to select the engine with a large choice of engines.\r
-A viable alternative for things you do very often \r
-(e.g. play on FICS, or play your own engine on ICC)\r
-is to use a shortcut.\r
-Such a shortcut hardly offers any flexibility, as it always starts WinBoard with exactly\r
-the same combination of options.\r
-But it does allow you to start this combination with a single mouse click,\r
-which can be convenient for something you do frequently.\r
-And the WinBoard menus offer you a possibility to tailor some settings later.\r
-</p><p>\r
-If you browse to the WinBoard directory of this package (~\WinBoard),\r
-starting from "My Computer" on the desk top,\r
-You will see a number of black-knight icons.\r
-Except for the one marked "winboard" these are all shortcuts\r
-(recognizable from the small arrow in their lower left).\r
-They were defined as examples for how shortcuts can be used to ease some common tasks.\r
-</p><p>\r
-A good example to look how this works at is the "PGN viewer" shortcut.\r
-Double-click this, and you will see WinBoard pop up.\r
-Only the WinBoard main and move-history window will be there.\r
-Compare this to what you get when you click the winboard icon itself (i.e. not a shotcut):\r
-this will pop up the start-up dialog first, where you would have to tick that you want\r
-to use WinBoard to view or edit games only, after which it would come up in the default mode,\r
-with game history, engine output and evaluation graph all open up.\r
-(Unless you changed this default after downloading.)\r
-So to get into the same mode as was pre-programmed in the "PGN Viewer" shortcut,\r
-you would first have to close these auxiiary windows (in the "Mode" menu). \r
-So the shortcut does save quite some effort.\r
-</p><p>\r
-In a shortcut you can include any command-line options with the command that invokes WinBoard\r
-(in the target field that you see when you right-click the shortcut, and select "properties").\r
-The shortcuts in this package are all based on the use of "indirection" file arguments.\r
-That means that the actual arguments for, say, the "PGN Viewer" icon,\r
-are collected into a file "viewer.ini".\r
-The only option on the command-line in the shortcut is then "@viewer".\r
-Such a name preceded by a '@' sign is interpreted by WinBoard as the name of an .ini file\r
-(in this case viewer.ini), which is then read to get the actual option settings.\r
-This allows for far more options than can be put in the target line of the shortcut,\r
-and allows you to easily modify the options with a text editor like NotePad,\r
-rather than in the cramped confines of the shortcut properties dialog.\r
-</p><p>\r
-So when you want to change the settings of the shortcuts,\r
-you only have to change the contents of the corresponding .ini file.\r
-The shortcuts themselves only contain\r
-</p>\r
-~\WinBoard\winboard.exe @INIFILENAME\r
-<p>\r
-in their target field, \r
-where the twiddle stands for the path where you installed the Gold Pack.\r
-(Windows XP adapts this automatically, first time you use the shortcut.)\r
-And this can always stay that way.\r
-(Note that Windows XP and Vista do not show you the "@INIFILENAME" in the target field, \r
-when you open its properties dialog, which is a bit confusing.)\r
-</p>\r
-<h3>Changing the Shortcut Settings</h3>\r
-<p>\r
-There is thus no reason to ever touch the shortcuts themselves.\r
-All you have to do is to edit or replace the corresponding.ini file.\r
-For instance, for the shortcut to play against Fairy-Max,\r
-the settingsfile "fairy.ini" contains:\r
-</p>\r
-<pre>\r
-;\r
-; parameters for playing against an engine\r
-;\r
-/cp\r
-/firstChessProgram="fmax 22"\r
-/firstDirectory="../Fairy-Max"\r
-/secondChessProgram="fmax 22"\r
-/secondDirectory="../Fairy-Max"\r
-;\r
-;\r
-; define window layout\r
-;\r
-/autoLogo=true\r
-/moveHistoryUp=true\r
-/evalGraphUp=false\r
-/engineOutputUp=false\r
-/hideThinkingFromHuman=true\r
-;\r
-; define window positions\r
-;\r
-/winWidth=426\r
-/winHeight=539\r
-/moveHistoryX=426\r
-/moveHistoryY=0\r
-/moveHistoryW=250\r
-/moveHistoryH=539\r
-;\r
-;\r
-; prevent these settings from becoming default\r
-; \r
-/saveSettingsOnExit=false</pre>\r
-<p>\r
-One thing that is apparent is that a .ini file can contain "comments"\r
-describing what the options do, in lines starting with a semicolon.\r
-From top to bottom, the options tell WinBoard that we want it \r
-to run a Chess program (so it skips the startup dialog),\r
-which one, and where to find it.\r
-Note that WinBoard always wants to have two Chess programs in this mode,\r
-so we give it the same twice.\r
-(The second program is only used when you select Two-Machines Mode.)\r
-In the next section we tell WinBoard that it should try to find logos\r
-to display with the players,\r
-that of the three auxiliary windows only the move history should be open,\r
-and that the Human opponent should not be alowed to see what the engine\r
-is thinking.\r
-</p><p>\r
-Then follows a section which describes exactly where to locate the windows,\r
-in this case only the move-history window.\r
-The position of this is given (in pixels) compared to the position of\r
-the main window.\r
-Note it does not specify where to position the main window,\r
-or what boardSize to use.\r
-So for this the default value will be used.\r
-(Usually what was used last time, as remembered in the winboard.ini file.)\r
-For reference, though, the width and height of the main window for\r
-which the position information on the other windows refers,\r
-is mentioned first, as /winWidth and /winHeight.\r
-This allows WinBoard to conclude at startup that the move-history window\r
-was touching the main window on the right edge \r
-(since winWidth = moveHistoryX).\r
-So that it can retain this attachment if we start up WinBoard with\r
-a main window of a different width.\r
-(E.g. because we are playing Gothic Chess on a 10x8 board.)\r
-</p><p>\r
-At the bottom there is an option that says all this should not be copied \r
-to the win board.ini file automatically.\r
-After all, because these settings are collected in a shortcut,\r
-you can summon them at the click of a mouse.\r
-So there is no reason to make them disturb the carefuly chosen settings \r
-of your previous session,\r
-which might take you a lot of effort to reproduce.\r
-</p><p>\r
-OK, that was pretty nasty, especially the coordinates part.\r
-You don't want to calculate coordinates by hand, and find out by trial and\r
-error what looks nice.\r
-A more convenient way of adjusting this, \r
-is to start WinBoard not through a shortcut, but through the startup dialog,\r
-and then drag and size the windows where you want them \r
-(or close them if you don't want them).\r
-You then save the settings in winboard.ini\r
-(usually done automatically, when you close WinBoard,\r
-but you can do it also with the "Options -> Save Settings Now" menu).\r
-Now you can open winboard.ini with the text editor,\r
-and at the end you will see all the coordinates of the windows as\r
-you just layed them out.\r
-Simply copy this information (starting with the /winWidth parameter)\r
-to the .ini file of the shortcut you are customizing.\r
-</p>\r
-<h3>Making a Shortcut from Scratch</h3>\r
-<p>\r
-If you want to create an entirely new shortcut, \r
-e.g. for a task you commonly perform, but which was not delivered with this package,\r
-you can use the following procedure:\r
-</p><p>\r
-First start up WinBoard, and bring it in exactly the state you would want it\r
-to start up in through the shortcut.\r
-Then save the settings on the winboard.ini file,\r
-make a copy of winboard.ini, and rename that copy to "MyShortcut.ini" (say).\r
-Then open this MyShortcut.ini in NotePad (usually by double-left-clicking it).\r
-Now you can add option settings to it which are normally not remembered\r
-from session to session (because they are not saved in winboard.ini),\r
-such as the variant (e.g. /variant=fischerandom),\r
-or the chess program and its folder (e.g. /fcp=Fruit /fd="..\Fruit" /fUCI).\r
-</p><p>\r
-Right-click the "winboard" knight icon (which is not a shortcut),\r
-and select "Make Shortcut" from the popup menu.\r
-Change the name of the newly appearing shortcut to "MyShortcut".\r
-Then right-click this shortcut, and select "Propeties".\r
-The text in the "target" field of the popup will now just be the name of the winboard.exe.\r
-Click this text at the end to put the cursor there (posibly with help of the arrow keys).\r
-Then add to this line " @MyShortcut.ini", so the line becomes:\r
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-~\WinBoard\winboard.exe @MyShortcut.ini\r
-<p>\r
-and click "OK". This completes the process.\r
-</p><p>\r
-This is pretty much all that can be said about how to mak shortcuts;\r
-the main problem is to figure out what the options are that do what you want done.\r
-Looking in the winboard.ini file often can provide inspiration, and when all else fails,\r
-as a final resort, you can read the manual!\r
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