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-<title>WGP: Board and Pieces</title>\r
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-<h1>The WinBoard Gold Pack 4.4.0</h1>\r
-<h2>For the ultimate WinBoard experience!</h2>\r
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-<img src="mini.gif">\r
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-<h3>Using a Bitmap Image for Chess Board</h3>\r
-<p>\r
-WinBoard 4.4 allows the user to use arbitrary images for the board squares.\r
-This feature was first introduced in\r
-<a href="http://www.ascotti.org/programming/chess/winboard_x.htm">Winboard_x</a>.\r
-The images have to be given as a bitmap, and the board squares are cut out of it.\r
-The Winboard_x home page shows some examples of this,\r
-and hosts the bitmap files needed to acheive them for download.\r
-The direct links are listed below.\r
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-The first step is to download the image.\r
-Of course you could also provide one yourself.\r
-The format must be bitmap (.bmp), but if you have an image in another format\r
-(.jpg, .gif) you can use MicroSoft Paint to convert it to .bmp;\r
-simply open the image file in Paint, and the use the "File -> Save as..." menu \r
-to save it as bitmap.\r
-The format in which you save can be selected at the bottom of the save dialog.\r
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-You will need two bitmaps, one for the light squares,the other for the dark.\r
-They have to be placed in the folder 'textures',\r
-which is already premade in the WinBoard folder of this package\r
-(~\WinBoard\textures).\r
-The bitmaps will have to be at least 129x129 \r
-(the largest square size used by winBoard),\r
-but using a larger bitmap will provide more variety in the squares that WinBoard \r
-cuts out of it.\r
-</p><p>\r
-Next step is to tell WinBoard to use the bitmaps.\r
-For this the options /liteBackTextureFile="..." and /darkBackTextureFile="..." exist.\r
-They can be put as arguments on the command line,\r
-in the winboard.ini file, or in special .ini files called from the command line.\r
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-/liteBackTextureFile="textures/wood_l.bmp"\r
-/darkBackTextureFile="textures/wood_d.bmp"\r
-/liteBackTextureMode=2\r
-/darkBackTextureMode=2\r
-/overrideLineGap=0\r
-</pre>\r
-<p>\r
-When board textures are used, the black lines between the squares that WinBoard usually draws\r
-often are spoiling the nice look.\r
-With the /overrideLineGap option you can set them narrower, or make them disappear altogether.\r
-(The number gives the width in pixels.)\r
-Note that WinBoard colors these lines for highlighting from- and to-squares of moves,\r
-so if you make the lines invisibly narrow, you better highlight with an Arrow.\r
-(You can enable this form of highlighting in the "Options -> General..." menu.\r
-The TextureMode options determine how squares cut out of the bitmaps are randomly\r
-rotated before being glued together to form the board.\r
-</p>\r
-<h3>Having Many Pre-defined Board Looks</h3>\r
-<p>\r
-If you don't want these settings to be permanently stored in your winboard.ini file,\r
-e.g. because you frequently want to change between different customized looks,\r
-you can put the options listed above in a small .ini file,\r
-such as the ~\WinBoard\wood.ini that was provided with this package.\r
-You can then summon them up at any time by giving "@wood.ini" (without the quotes)\r
-as an extra option on the bottom line of the startup dialog,\r
-or even make a separate shortcut that has this option on the "target" line.\r
-</p>\r
-<h3>Redefining the Piece Symbols</h3>\r
-<p>\r
-For changing the appearence of the pieces, \r
-you will need to use a true-type font to define the piece symbols.\r
-Such a true-type font can be scaled to any board size.\r
-How to do this is decriped on a separate page of this tutorial.\r
-</p>\r
-<h3>Links</h3>\r
-<p>\r
-<a href="fonts.html">How to Customize the Piece Symbols</a>\r
-</p>\r
-<p>\r
-<a href="shortcuts.html">Customizing WinBoard through Shortcuts</a>\r
-</p>\r
-<h3>Some Texture Bitmaps to Download</h3>\r
-<p>\r
-<a href="http://www.ascotti.org/programming/chess/zip/WbxSandy.zip">Sandy</a>\r
-</p><p>\r
-<a href="http://www.ascotti.org/programming/chess/zip/WbxClouds.zip">Clouds</a>\r
-</p><p>\r
-<a href="http://www.ascotti.org/programming/chess/zip/WbxBpWood.zip">Wood</a>\r
-</p><p>\r
-<a href="http://www.ascotti.org/programming/chess/zip/WbxDave.zip">Wood</a> (already included in the WinBoard Gold Pack)\r
-</p>\r
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