X-Git-Url: http://winboard.nl/cgi-bin?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ChangeLog;h=c622fd1fe043dff80c52b48ec2337ed62e7f49ee;hb=4d04bc8a6c2d5e410d519b25164613c5e5c2d160;hp=5f8226f94bb928d3846f76abcf5e1003ddfa78d8;hpb=19ccf587fb0e132637603b86a1037b133c6f26c6;p=xboard.git diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 5f8226f..c622fd1 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -3,6 +3,1018 @@ ChangeLog for XBoard/WinBoard (latest entries created by git log --no-merges --pretty="%ai %an <%ae>:%n%s%n%n%b" vlast.. ) + +2011-08-22 22:09:19 -0700 Arun Persaud : +malloc.h is not needed + +2011-08-20 22:21:40 +0200 H.G. Muller : +Fix ICS move-list header mistaken for null moves + +2011-08-18 18:53:09 +0200 H.G. Muller : +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 : +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 : +Translate search texts + + +2011-08-18 10:29:35 +0200 H.G. Muller : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +Fix up/down arrows in game list + + +2011-08-08 10:31:24 +0200 H.G. Muller : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +Delay file loading to allow expose event first + + +2011-08-06 09:29:22 +0200 H.G. Muller : +Fix paging + + +2011-08-05 22:39:41 +0200 H.G. Muller : +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 : +Add plain arrows as key binding for stepping forward/backward + + +2011-08-05 20:30:03 +0200 H.G. Muller : +Debug position selection + + +2011-08-04 13:22:55 +0200 H.G. Muller : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +Suppress some XBoard warnings + + +2011-07-15 11:21:29 -0700 Arun Persaud : +fixed segfault in xengineoutput + + +2011-07-11 20:04:57 +0200 H.G. Muller : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +Print 50-move counter in Engine-Output title + + +2011-07-07 18:50:56 +0200 H.G. Muller : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +Fix parser.c line endings + + +2011-06-29 20:29:12 +0200 H.G. Muller : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +Don't one-click move when legality testing is off + + +2011-06-23 21:18:11 +0200 H.G. Muller : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +Create some space in WB New Variant dialog + + +2011-06-20 23:53:49 +0200 H.G. Muller : +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 : +Add Absolute Analysis Scores in Genral Options dialog XB + + +2011-06-23 11:16:34 +0200 H.G. Muller : +Fix texi file, and update it further + + +2011-06-20 12:15:14 +0200 H.G. Muller : +Modified po + + +2011-06-22 17:51:51 +0200 H.G. Muller : +Update texi file + + +2011-06-22 11:02:45 +0200 H.G. Muller : +Restore echo after ^C in ICS password + + +2011-06-22 10:45:27 +0200 H.G. Muller : +Fix some warnings + + +2011-06-19 20:30:09 +0200 H.G. Muller : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +new developer release + +2011-06-18 12:38:32 -0700 Arun Persaud : +updated Changelog, NEWS, etc. + +2011-06-18 12:51:10 +0200 H.G. Muller : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +Fix empty-string option values in XBoard + + +2011-06-14 12:40:11 +0200 H.G. Muller : +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 : +Update WB docs for tourney manager + + +2011-06-14 12:35:01 +0200 H.G. Muller : +Add icon to WB for tournament files + + +2011-06-10 16:52:01 +0200 H.G. Muller : +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 : +Some refactoring in xoptions.c to separate out front-end + + +2011-06-10 12:38:08 +0200 H.G. Muller : +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 : +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 : +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 : +Fix crash at end of Swiss tourney + + +2011-06-08 17:33:34 +0200 H.G. Muller : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +Improve Tournament dialog layout WB + + +2011-06-08 17:05:02 +0200 H.G. Muller : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +translation: activated Ukrainian translation + + +2011-05-28 23:41:24 -0700 Arun Persaud : +translation: added new Ukrainian PO file from the TP + + +2011-05-28 21:07:08 -0700 Tim Mann : +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 : +Move "hide thinking" option into alphabetical order. + + +2011-05-28 21:01:25 -0700 Tim Mann : +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 : +Fix layout tournament Load Engine dialog WB + + +2011-05-23 19:03:56 +0200 H.G. Muller : +Fix ArgTwo warnings + + +2011-05-23 19:00:00 +0200 H.G. Muller : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +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 : +Alow promotions and drops in book-editing + + +2011-05-11 20:15:58 +0200 H.G. Muller : +Include learn info in book edit + + +2011-05-09 21:55:10 +0200 H.G. Muller : +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 : +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 : +Implement Edit Book in XBoard + + +2011-05-09 09:52:54 +0200 H.G. Muller : +Improve WB Load Engine dialog texts + + +2011-05-09 09:48:27 +0200 H.G. Muller : +Make 'add to list' default in Load Engine dialog + + +2011-05-09 09:33:39 +0200 H.G. Muller : +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 : +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 : +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 : +Let ParsePV always generate SAN move + + +2011-05-08 13:53:09 +0200 H.G. Muller : +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 : +Fix button sizing in generic popup + + +2011-05-08 13:02:52 +0200 H.G. Muller : +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 : +No clearing of Engine-Output memos on stat01 + + +2011-05-07 23:27:50 -0700 Arun Persaud : +updated xboard.pot with released version + + +2011-05-07 22:56:53 -0700 Arun Persaud : +new developer release + + +2011-05-07 22:54:29 -0700 Arun Persaud : +updated ChangeLog, NEWS, etc. + + +2011-05-07 23:07:46 -0700 Arun Persaud : +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 : added translations generated via lng2po from all winboard languages