H.G. Muller [Wed, 26 Feb 2014 15:34:52 +0000]
Kludge repair of expose after startup resize
Redraw of the main board after resize is delegated to DragProc, which is
scheduled after a delay, to make sure the user is done sizing (mainly to
reposition docked windows). But at startup the program-requested resize when
an engine does not support variant normal and needs a different board format
takes so long that the finale size expose occurs after the DragProc timeout.
As a result, the board was never drawn on the resized canvas.
This is quite hard to fix in a satisfactory way. For now the suppression
of board redrawing during resize is disabled during the first 10 seconds
after startup, as any resize during that time is likely to be the result
of a program request.
H.G. Muller [Wed, 26 Feb 2014 12:08:50 +0000]
Use first engine as default for second
Rather than having the same fixed default for both engines, we noww only
have a fixed default for the first, and use the actual first as default
for the second. One advantage is that this guarantees the second engine
plays the same variants as the first by default.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 23 Feb 2014 22:51:20 +0000]
Allow adding played move to book
A button is added in the Edit Book dialog to prime XBoard for adding the
next move entered through the user interface to the book window, without
actually playing it.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 23 Feb 2014 21:54:55 +0000]
Play move right-clicked in Edit Book dialog
A handler for button-3 down-clicks is added to the Edit Tags dialog,
which fakes the clicked word was typed in the move type-in box.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 23 Feb 2014 18:23:28 +0000]
Fix pop-down of ChatDlg and TextMenuDlg from menu
Unlike other windows these two would not react to clicking the menu item
once they were up. Now they pop down in that case.
H.G. Muller [Fri, 21 Feb 2014 10:10:41 +0000]
Preserve window width on board-format change
When a variant switch would cause recalculation of the board window,
we now first recalculate square size to keep the window width fixed.
Also adapt initial width on high boards.
H.G. Muller [Tue, 18 Feb 2014 21:37:31 +0000]
Equip Board Options dialog with themes listbox
The option -themeNames is made persistent for XBoard, and its value is
displayed in a listbox added to the View -> Board dialog. The user
can select themes from this, and manipulate the contents similar to
the engine list in Load Engine. A textedit allows the user to define a
theme name for the current settings, and doing so adds the theme to the
-themeNames list.
H.G. Muller [Fri, 7 Feb 2014 10:22:44 +0000]
Implement copy function in ICS Text Menu
A command consisting of the word $copy will place the clicked word on
the clipboard. When there was already text selected during the click,
that selected text will be used for $copy and $name, rather than the
right-clicked word.
H.G. Muller [Fri, 7 Feb 2014 08:48:31 +0000]
When ICS Console open EOF from keyboard is no error
In case the user started without a terminal, we just close the input source,
and suppress future writing to the xterm.
H.G. Muller [Thu, 6 Feb 2014 17:46:21 +0000]
Leave xterm at start of new line after quitting XBoard
H.G. Muller [Thu, 6 Feb 2014 17:36:41 +0000]
Also display channel tell in ICS Console during private chat
Channel tells of players for which a chat wa opened were displayed in that
chat, as well as in the channel chatbox, if the latter was open. But when
there was no channel chatbox it would not appear as colorized channel tell
in the console. This is now fixed, and in the private chat box such a
message is indicated as 'broadcast'.
H.G. Muller [Wed, 5 Feb 2014 22:08:50 +0000]
Write broadcasts also to private chatbox of talker
The shouts or channel chatboxes capture messages first, but if a private
chat with the talker is opened, it now goes there too. Prefixed with
the type of broadcast.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 2 Mar 2014 12:18:34 +0000]
Fix Xaw Chat Console
H.G. Muller [Wed, 5 Feb 2014 21:38:09 +0000]
Let Ctrl-O key open chat for last talker
H.G. Muller [Wed, 5 Feb 2014 21:15:03 +0000]
Add End Chat button
This button clears the current chat, so that it becomes free for
assignement to another partner.
H.G. Muller [Wed, 5 Feb 2014 20:59:10 +0000]
Ctrl-N in chat opens empty chat
This key isequivalent to pressing the left-most New Chat button.
If no unused chat present, it the command will be ignored.
H.G. Muller [Wed, 5 Feb 2014 20:29:42 +0000]
Preserve unfinished input lines during chat switch
This is problematic, as apparently we cannot write in widgets that are
active with key hits, so attempting to write it back in response to Tab
did not work. This is now done with a delay, for lack of a better method.
H.G. Muller [Tue, 4 Feb 2014 12:57:16 +0000]
Recognize Esc and Tab in ICS Console input
Esc is used to close the chat, or transfer focus to the board window.
Tab is used to navigate between chats (or open the first). Priority
is given to dirty chats.
H.G. Muller [Mon, 3 Feb 2014 19:35:31 +0000]
Let ICS Console pop up GTK in stead of ICS Input Box
H.G. Muller [Mon, 3 Feb 2014 18:45:44 +0000]
Add context menu to ICS console XB-GTK
A right-click handler is added to the output memos of the ICS Interaction
window. It pops up the ICS text menu. It is remembered whether the menu
was already up; if not, it will be popped down after a command is selected
from it. Like the WinBoard context menu, the commands will be able to use
the clicked word.
The -icsMenu 'command' $chat is now recognized as a special case, not to
be sent to the ICS, but executed by XBoard. It will assign one of the
five chats to the clicked name. If no empty chat is available, the last
chat will be used (but not cleared).
The -icsMenu in the master config file is now configured to contain
this command, but unfortunately this will not become effective for users
that already have a settings file.
The Text Menu now puts $input commands in ICS Console Input field when the
ICS Input Box is not up.
The text placed in the input field for completion (as per $input directive)
turned out to be selected in GTK, so that when you stated typing, it was
erased again!
By making the Text menu dialog subject to WindowPlacement control,
and interrogating the poition of the ICS Console window, the Text Menu
can be popped up such that the mouse pointer is on the bottom-left button.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 2 Feb 2014 20:17:00 +0000]
Integrate ICS output into Chat Window
An extra pane has been added to the Chat Window to display the ICS output.
In GTK this output is colorized just as in the xterm. For Xaw this is not
possible. This pane is always visible, and the chat output can be hidden,
to double its size. Entered input will go to the selected chat (when not
hidden) as a tell or shout, or to the ICS as a command. The Chat-Partner
field is hidden together with the chat pane and the Hide button. Each of
the five chats now has a dedicated button; for unused chats (empty Chat-
Partner field) these now gets the text 'New Chat' inscribed on it.
Focussing is made more intelligent (to the Partner field when shown and
empty, otherwise to the input field).
The Up and Down arrows now work in the input field to recall old input.
ScrollToCursor() was broken in GTK, because a mark was made for only
a single buffer. Now each buffer has its own end mark.
Another problem was that using ScrollToCursow immediately after a memo
was shrunk (because a neighboring one expanded) it would still use the
old memo size, so that the bottom part remained out of view. Delaying it
50 ms solved that problem.
A new option -icsUp was added to store the visibility in the settings.
It is updated only in ICS mode. The ICS Console pops up automatically
when the stored parameters say so. It is also made sticky.
Unlike the xterm the textView does not extend background color to unwritten
positions behind the line. A separate GTK call is now added to set the
unwritten part to the same color as the background in normal text.
A control was added in the ICS Options dialog for setting the colors
of normal text (-colorNormal).
H.G. Muller [Sun, 2 Feb 2014 16:27:26 +0000]
Add logo-size control XBoard
This is mainly for the benefit of OS X useres who cannot find their
settings file. It requires a restart to become effective, which is
really sub-standard.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 2 Feb 2014 16:18:56 +0000]
Add Edit Engine List menu item to XBoard
In OS X the settings file is hard to find...
H.G. Muller [Sun, 2 Feb 2014 15:41:13 +0000]
Fix warnings
Some unread variables are commented out, rather than removed, because they
can be useful for future development.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 2 Feb 2014 15:33:34 +0000]
Fix moves of Spartan Captain
The rewrite of the move generator did no longer pay attention to rookRange,
so that the Spartan Captain moved like a Rook.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 2 Feb 2014 15:18:07 +0000]
Add Option type 'Skip'
The value -1 used to suppress rendering of option controls was drawing
error messages, because enums are unsigned. So a new member Skip was added
to the enum.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 2 Feb 2014 13:40:16 +0000]
Detect Fischer castling in FENs
Castling rights with unorthodox piece placement imply Fischer castling.
Make sure shuffling is done after detecting this, because it means K & R
can also be shuffled (as long as K remains between both R).
H.G. Muller [Sun, 2 Feb 2014 13:09:19 +0000]
Allow shuffling indicators in FEN
If the back ranks are enclosed by < > in a FEN, the route to shuffle
initial positions is invoked on it.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 2 Feb 2014 12:51:37 +0000]
Allow wild-cards in FEN
A question mark in a FEN will now be interpreted as a piece randomly
chosen from the holdings. (From which it will be removed.) Intended
for use in symmetric black/white pairs; when used on asymetric locations
or with non-identical holdings the results will be undefined.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 2 Feb 2014 09:40:18 +0000]
Fix Seirawan reverse-castling animation
In Chess960 animation of castlings is suppressed, because the move is encoded
as KxR, so that the to-square in general is not the final destination of the
King. So it is just confusing to the eye to see the King slide to the Rook,
and then jump to an entirely different square. In S-Chess castlings can
similarly be encoded as RxK (to indicate gating at the Rook square), and
animation of those moves should be suppressed for the same reason. But it
wasn't, and in Fischer castlings denoted as RxK this even caused the Rook
to disappear when it didn't need to moved.
Perhaps one day a smart method of animating Fischer castlings can be
designed. (E.g. remove Rook, animate King move to true to-square, place Rook?
But what if the King doesn't move at all? Animate Rook then? Normal castlings
now animate the King, and then just displace the Rook.)
H.G. Muller [Sun, 2 Feb 2014 09:22:25 +0000]
Make Fischer castling generally available
A new volatile option -fischerCastlings allows every variant to be played
with Fischer castling, which so far was only allowed in variants FRC/CRC.
This only makes sense in shuffle variants, where King and Rooks might not
be in their orthodox locations. But even when they are, it has consequences
for the user interface, which will require dragging King on Rook as the only
way to enter castling. Like -shuffleOpenings the setting will be cleared
as soon as you switch variant (unless you switch to FRC/CRC, where they
Fischer castling is on by default). It can be set from the New Shuffle dialog.
Arun Persaud [Mon, 20 Jan 2014 06:41:52 +0000]
updated po/pot files
Arun Persaud [Mon, 20 Jan 2014 06:19:10 +0000]
new version number for developer release
Arun Persaud [Mon, 20 Jan 2014 06:15:33 +0000]
updated Dutch translation
H.G. Muller [Sun, 19 Jan 2014 19:44:33 +0000]
Put ponder checkbox in Common Engine dialog WB
This is yet another duplicate of the one in General Options and Adjudiactions.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 19 Jan 2014 19:27:59 +0000]
Expand %s in -openCommand to DATADIR and fix OSX settings-file name
This can be used in OS X to biggy-back a cd to a directory in the App
on the open command.
H.G. Muller [Sat, 18 Jan 2014 22:42:01 +0000]
Add some checkboxes in General Options dialog WB
Checkboxes are added for -variations, -memoHeaders and -autoExtend.
H.G. Muller [Sat, 18 Jan 2014 22:26:03 +0000]
Fix warning in CheckTest
H.G. Muller [Sat, 18 Jan 2014 21:40:27 +0000]
Fix printing of engine-output headers
They were not printed on analyis of the first position after opening
the Engine Output window.
H.G. Muller [Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:07:28 +0000]
Fix sticky windows on Win8
H.G. Muller [Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:54:32 +0000]
Drag touching edges together (WB)
When an auxiliary window is dragged by an edge, the snap code now checks
if that edge was touching another window. If so, that other window is sized
to keep touching the dragged edge. Unless it was also touching the main
window.
H.G. Muller [Wed, 15 Jan 2014 21:35:23 +0000]
Implement new mate-score standard
Matescores are now indicated in the protocol as +/- 100000+DTM,
and in the Engine Output window as #DTM or #-DTM.
H.G. Muller [Wed, 15 Jan 2014 20:28:51 +0000]
Put fail-high/fail-low indicators in protocol specs
H.G. Muller [Wed, 15 Jan 2014 19:43:55 +0000]
switch to new tbhits protocol
The extended info is now expected as 3 bare integers, the last one
separated from the PV by at least one tab character.
The protocol extension is described in the CECP specs document.
H.G. Muller [Tue, 14 Jan 2014 21:37:30 +0000]
Fix sorting of Engine Output
The moveKey of the top line was never stored, so that more recent
lower scores could not pass it even if they had the same move.
H.G. Muller [Tue, 14 Jan 2014 21:35:22 +0000]
Handle fali-low & fail high
A ? or ! at the end of the PV are now also written behind the score.
H.G. Muller [Tue, 14 Jan 2014 19:31:46 +0000]
Implement extended thinking output
The PV field can now start with three quantities, selective depth,
engine speed and tablebase hits, disguised as PGN comment. XBoard will
strip that off, and allow them to be displayed in separate columns of
the engine-output window.
H.G. Muller [Tue, 14 Jan 2014 13:46:47 +0000]
Allow hide/show of columns in Engine Output
A new persistent Boolean option -memoHeaders enables a new feature:
text headers are shown above the depth, score, nodes, time columns in the
engine output. Right-clicking them will subsequently hide the corresponding
data, and move the column header to above the PV in a 'not shown' list,
where it can be clicked again to re-open the column.
Configure maseter settings to switch -memoHeaders on by default.
H.G. Muller [Tue, 14 Jan 2014 08:55:40 +0000]
Fix ManProc for OS X
H.G. Muller [Tue, 14 Jan 2014 09:02:22 +0000]
Fix access to ~~/themes/conf for OS X
In OS X DATADIR is a variable.
H.G. Muller [Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:23:30 +0000]
Add 'Continue later' button to Tournament dialog XB
To do GenericReadout without triggering a call to the OK function,
we introduced a new value for the option-number parameter, -2.
H.G. Muller [Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:32:28 +0000]
Fix Tournament Options dialog
Deleting a Label option had renumbered the remaining Options, breaking
the dialog and causing a crash when an engine was selected. A considyency
check is now added to catch this condition, and throw an error popup
when we mess up again.
H.G. Muller [Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:09:01 +0000]
Allow popup of TC and Common Engine from Tournament dialog
A new dialog class MasterDlg was added, similar to TransientDlg,
but to allow two dialogs to be up simultaneously. The Tournament Options
dialog was migrated to this class, so it can now get buttons to pop up
the Time Control and Common Engine dialog, like WinBoard. It even has
a button for the General options dialog.
Special care had to be taken to prevent popdown of the MasterDlg when
a Transient child is still up (similar to browser or error childs).
H.G. Muller [Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:21:59 +0000]
Add --show-config special option
This prints a list of configure parameters, and then exits. If a second
argument is given, it only prints the value of that config parameter,
so that tricks like cp *.svg `xboard --show-config Datadir`/themes/chu
can be used in install scripts of packages with piece images.
H.G. Muller [Mon, 13 Jan 2014 13:25:30 +0000]
Overhaul kill code
Engines were not always forcefully killed in XBoard, which could make
the tournament manager hang when an engine became unresponsive to "quit".
The various levels of killing are now revised, and the -delayAfterQuit
is absorbed in DestroyChildProcess(). There is a hard killing mode 9,
which immediately sends SIGKILL, intended for engines that have already
proven to malfunction or could not start at all. In other cases SIGTERM
is sent according to specs, but a SIGKILL is scheduled -delayAfterQuit + 1
sec later just in case the SIGTERM would be ignored.
H.G. Muller [Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:38:47 +0000]
Fix name of master settings file in OS X
The name needs to be relative to the bundle path, but ~~ expansion
did not work for compiled-in defaults, as the expansion takes place
when parsing an option. The dataDir is now also kept in an array rather
than as a pointer, to allow it to appear in statically initialized tables.
H.G. Muller [Wed, 8 Jan 2014 15:25:25 +0000]
Fix Chu promotion of L, HM and GB
The promotion popup would not be shown for HM and GB with legality testing
on because the piece types used for them were wild-card pieces. The Lance
was treated as a Pawn in HasPrmotionChoice().
H.G. Muller [Wed, 8 Jan 2014 15:09:15 +0000]
Remove redefine of DATADIR that leaked in from v4.7.x
Arun Persaud [Sun, 5 Jan 2014 20:42:56 +0000]
updated po/pot files
Arun Persaud [Sun, 5 Jan 2014 20:40:23 +0000]
new version number for developer release
Arun Persaud [Sun, 5 Jan 2014 19:26:14 +0000]
added check for apply OS X
added libraries needed to build gtk version on OS X
Arun Persaud [Sun, 5 Jan 2014 18:59:20 +0000]
Merge branch 'v4.7.x'
Arun Persaud [Sun, 5 Jan 2014 18:58:48 +0000]
updated copyright to 2014 in menu.c
Arun Persaud [Sun, 5 Jan 2014 18:51:08 +0000]
Merge branch 'v4.7.x' into master
Conflicts:
dialogs.c
gtk/xboard.c
gtk/xoptions.c
po/es.po
winboard/config.h
winboard/winboard.c
Arun Persaud [Sun, 5 Jan 2014 18:37:56 +0000]
removed .DS_Store file from git
Arun Persaud [Sun, 5 Jan 2014 18:34:08 +0000]
Updated copyright notice to 2014
Arun Persaud [Sun, 5 Jan 2014 18:27:53 +0000]
cleanup some trailing whitespaces
H.G. Muller [Sun, 5 Jan 2014 15:07:30 +0000]
Start rank counting at 1 for boards deeper than 10
Only exactly 10 ranks now starts counting at 1, to respect Xiangqi standard.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 29 Dec 2013 12:46:40 +0000]
Fix crash on use of dialog Browse buttons GTK
The code to set a filter did not expect multiple extensions, and would
cause a buffer overrun when there were.
H.G. Muller [Fri, 27 Dec 2013 19:12:23 +0000]
Make building of Windows .hlp file optional
By using && and || operators in the build recipe, the building of WinBoard
with Cygwin is now not aborted whe the Help Compiler is not installed.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 5 Jan 2014 10:47:18 +0000]
Use __APPLE__ compile switch for OS X
It seems that on Apple machines the compiler will always define the
symbol __APPLE__, so this is now used instead of OSX, which had to
be defined with a -DOSX compiler flag. The gtkmacintegration header
is now using <> in stead of "" in its #include. (Strange enough both
were working.)
H.G. Muller [Sat, 4 Jan 2014 11:18:30 +0000]
Set ~~ to bundle path for OS X
DATADIR is now #defined in WinBoard as "~~" to make the expansion a no-op
there. For OS X it is redefined as a variable, obtained from GTK-OSX.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 29 Dec 2013 16:27:24 +0000]
Implement EGBB probing and -first/secondDrawDepth
The new volatile options -first/secondDrawDepth N can be used with engines
that use tablebase, to limit their search depth to N ply in drawn positions
(as determined by bitbase probing). This prevents them from wasting lots
of CPU time on deep searches, when we know there is nothing to be discovered.
In won or lost positios such engines should move instantly anyway.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 29 Dec 2013 12:46:40 +0000]
Fix crash on use of dialog Browse buttons GTK
The code to set a filter did not expect multiple extensions, and would
cause a buffer overrun when there were.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 29 Dec 2013 22:27:12 +0000]
Activate ManProc in GTK
H.G. Muller [Sun, 29 Dec 2013 21:14:06 +0000]
Remove use of strndup
The use of strndup was actually unsafe, as the length was passed using
an ordinary strlen. strndup was not availableon OS X 10.6, and is now
replaced by an ordinary strdup, which should be save enough.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 29 Dec 2013 21:09:10 +0000]
Put some OSX code into gtk version
Under control of #ifdef OSX code is added to integrate the GTK front-end
into OS X. This involves moving the menu bar to outside the window, and
catching the signal that OS X sends to running applications when opening
another instance was requested. Som files are renamed to conform to the
file tree of the OS X App package.
H.G. Muller [Fri, 27 Dec 2013 21:56:56 +0000]
Update protocol specs for setup command
H.G. Muller [Fri, 27 Dec 2013 21:00:43 +0000]
Write -date stamp always with 10 characters
To make it easier to replace date stamps on uninstall, we give them
fixed length.
H.G. Muller [Fri, 27 Dec 2013 20:47:55 +0000]
Cure weirdness when dragging outside of board
Dragging outside the board (when people maximized the window) did not
properly restore background, (leaving a trail of dragged piece). Filling
the canvas with white when it is creatd cured this. The problem most likely
was that unitialized cairo surfaces had transparancy, and writing back
transparancy doesn't helpmuch to erase things.
H.G. Muller [Fri, 27 Dec 2013 19:29:26 +0000]
Fix WB New Variant dialog
After selecting an engine-defined variant, all radio buttons would refer to
the already selected variant, and thus all appear active, but do nothing.
H.G. Muller [Fri, 27 Dec 2013 19:25:25 +0000]
Fix compile error promo dialog WB
H.G. Muller [Fri, 27 Dec 2013 19:12:23 +0000]
Make building of Windows .hlp file optional
By using && and || operators in the build recipe, the building of WinBoard
with Cygwin is now not aborted whe the Help Compiler is not installed.
H.G. Muller [Fri, 27 Dec 2013 19:06:21 +0000]
Fix promotion in Ai-Wok
When in a variant with fixed promotion, such as Makruk, the promotion
piece did not participate, this led to disappearence of the piece, and
an =. suffix in SAN. This is relevant for the Makruk variant Ai-Wok,
which replaces the Met by a much more powerful Ai-Wok, which could not
be represented by another XBoard piece type due to this problem.
Now we search through the pieceToCharTable until a valid piece is found,
which works when the Ai-Wok is represented by a SMIRF Archbishop symbol.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 22 Dec 2013 20:01:36 +0000]
Make filler buttons in New Variant insensitive
H.G. Muller [Fri, 25 Oct 2013 12:39:23 +0000]
Implement option complex for installing engines
Options are added to allow XBoard to be called to install engines in the
user settings files. With -addMasterOption a line can be added to the
master settings file, and this will be automatically be preceded by a
-date option to record the date it was added. This is intended for adding
-installEngine options to the master file, in order to 'broadcast' the
availability of the engine to the users.
We now store the date in the user settings file, through a new -saveDate
option (as integer). This allows XBoard to relate the date of the saved
settings to -date stamps in the master settings file, and thus decide
if the latter (and install options that follow it) are seen for the first
time, or not. Depending on that it can decide if the install option should
be ignored.
The volatile Boolean optio -autoClose causes XBoard to save its settings
and exit before bringing up its GUI (but after processing the command line).
This is added to facilitate calling XBoard from engine-install scripts,
with an -addMasterOption argument.
H.G. Muller [Sat, 4 Jan 2014 11:18:30 +0000]
Expand ~~/ to bundle path (OSX)
DATADIR is #defined in WinBoard as "~~" to make the expansion a no-op
there. Same for Linux compiles. For OS X it is #defined as a variable,
obtained from GTK-OSX at startup.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 29 Dec 2013 22:27:12 +0000]
Activate ManProc in GTK
H.G. Muller [Sun, 29 Dec 2013 21:14:06 +0000]
Remove use of strndup
The use of strndup was actually unsafe, as the length was passed using
an ordinary strlen. strndup was not availableon OS X 10.6, and is now
replaced by an ordinary strdup, which should be save enough.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 29 Dec 2013 21:09:10 +0000]
Put some OSX code into gtk version
Under control of #ifdef OSX code is added to integrate the GTK front-end
into OS X. This involves moving the menu bar to outside the window, and
catching the signal that OS X sends to running applications when opening
another instance was requested. Som files are renamed to conform to the
file tree of the OS X App package.
H.G. Muller [Fri, 27 Dec 2013 20:47:55 +0000]
Cure weirdness when dragging outside of board
Dragging outside the board (when people maximized the window) did not
properly restore background, (leaving a trail of dragged piece). Filling
the canvas with white when it is creatd cured this. The problem most likely
was that unitialized cairo surfaces had transparancy, and writing back
transparancy doesn't helpmuch to erase things.
H.G. Muller [Fri, 22 Nov 2013 22:40:33 +0000]
Fix mate and stalemate test in Chu Shogi
Chu Shogi officially has no check, but we do want checkmate signs to
be displayed in SAN, and proper game-end messages to appear, rather than
force the user to play on until the King is captured. we also don't want
to allow him blundering away his King. So we don't use the F_IGNORE_CHECK
flag for Chu. But that means mate and stalemate will be recognized.
So it has to know stalemate is a win. Furthermore, check has to take
into account a possible spare royal. Finally, the + symbol to indicate
check should not be used in Chu, as in all Shogi variants this is reserved
to indicate promotion.
H.G. Muller [Fri, 22 Nov 2013 21:55:27 +0000]
Fix Chu-Shogi Lance deferral
The Lance was not exempted from being considerd a Hoplite Pawn, and would
thus be promoted in the Pawn-push code when it reached last rank to an
empty square (CharToPiece('=')).
H.G. Muller [Wed, 30 Oct 2013 13:03:17 +0000]
Allow Crown-Prince image to differ from King
Some of the pieces in the extended series have been assigned a new image,
in particular Prince, Phoenix and Kylin. These images are, however, optional.
If they cannot be found, the image files for King, Queen and Lion will be
used instead.
H.G. Muller [Fri, 25 Oct 2013 20:24:43 +0000]
Implement -installEngine option
This volatile string option conditionally adds its argument as a line
to the engine list (-firstChessProgramNames). The condition is that the
line is not yet already there, and either that the -versionNumber option
read from settings files or command line has a value different from the
version of the binary, or that -autoClose is set. It can be used for two
purposes: to install engines from the master settings file (so that it
only works first time after upgrades, when the stored versionNumber is
obsolete), or from engine install scripts (calling XBoard with -autoClose).
H.G. Muller [Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:15:37 +0000]
Automatically switch to variant engine supports
When XBoard is started with an engine that announces variants, but does
not lists normal or FRC amongst them, it switches to the first variant
that the engine announced (if not starting in a mode that involves other
engines or ICS). This will even take into account size overrides.
H.G. Muller [Wed, 23 Oct 2013 19:30:14 +0000]
Fix promoting of Sho Elephant
H.G. Muller [Wed, 23 Oct 2013 19:03:27 +0000]
Change color of XQ board to better contrast with pieces
H.G. Muller [Wed, 23 Oct 2013 14:31:01 +0000]
Supply oriental theme settings
Install creates a new directory .../themes/conf, in which a number of
settings files are places for defining oriental themes. These redefine the
user settings file for each of them to ~/.xboard-xxx-rc, so the settings
cannot leak into the default user settings file, but are nevertheless
persistent on revisiting the theme. XBoard now looks in this directory
for settingsfiles it could otherwise not find, so they can be invoked
with @shogi, @xq, @chu on the XBoard command line.
Filenames starting with ~~ will now be expanded to the directory where
the XBoard data files are installed, so the installed settings files can
easily refer to installed other files (e.g. piece SVGs and textures).
The themes files will also redefine the default engine when they belong
to variants that Fairy-Max does not play.
Some minor settings files for implementing variants that are not standard
(such as mini- and Sho Shogi) are also added in the conf directory.
H.G. Muller [Tue, 22 Oct 2013 15:16:13 +0000]
Fix hover event (again)