H.G.Muller [Thu, 17 Mar 2016 21:13:28 +0000]
Cleanse help texts of some common TeX escape codes
The TeX escapes \s-1, \s0 around all-capital words, \*(L, \*(R for
distinguishing left/right quoting, a mysterious \& and a \ in general
(e.g. for \- as forced hyphen) occur quite often in the man-page text.
They now no longer clutter the help popups.
H.G.Muller [Thu, 17 Mar 2016 11:04:27 +0000]
Also provide help on adapter options
Adapters often add their own options to thoso of the engine in the
Engine Settings dialog. Polyglot, for instance, has many options,
their names all starting with "Polyglot ...". We adopt this as a
convention, so that XBoard can compare the adapter name (the name
of the program actually run, if that is different from the name
of the engine binary) with the start of the option name for which
help is requested. If there is a match it will conclude we are dealing
with an adapter option, and will consult the adapter manual (for an
option without the adapter-name prefix) instead of the engine manual.
H.G.Muller [Thu, 17 Mar 2016 10:32:02 +0000]
Also buffer engine man page
The path to the engine man file, and possibly its unzipped text, are now
also buffered, together with the name of the engine they are for, so that
they can be re-used when the engine has not changed.
H.G.Muller [Wed, 16 Mar 2016 23:01:25 +0000]
Also recognize .IX lines in man file for help clicks
Beside .B and .SS directives, which tend to mark item headers in the
XBoard manual page, ".IX item" lines are now also recognized.
Such lines are produced by pod2man for =item directives in the .pod file.
H.G.Muller [Wed, 16 Mar 2016 13:40:33 +0000]
Implement XBetza iso modifier
An 'i' modifier on a continuation leg will force it to be of equal length
(measured in steps) as the latest sliding leg (i.e. of maximum length != 1)
before it. This is useful for defining rifle captures of sliding pieces.
On initial legs it still means the move is for virgin pieces only.
H.G.Muller [Tue, 15 Mar 2016 14:15:29 +0000]
Allow access to gzipped man files
For *.gz man files we run gunzip to buffer the unzipped version in
memory. For engines this buffer is not saved, because the engine might
change. (A bit course...)
H.G.Muller [Tue, 15 Mar 2016 11:36:49 +0000]
Fix reading of long man files
The low-level read call to read from the spawned process did not
always return as many characters as we asked for, so we now use fread.
H.G.Muller [Tue, 15 Mar 2016 10:29:35 +0000]
Obtain name of XBoard's man file from external command
Rather than hard-coding the path to the man file, it is now obtained
by running "man -w xboard".
H.G.Muller [Tue, 15 Mar 2016 10:08:04 +0000]
Add routine to run daughter process and collect its output
The routine BufferOutputCommand can run an arbitrary command in a
separate process, and collects its output in a buffer of the requested
size. It will kill the process when it doesn't terminate spontaneously,
and return the allocated buffer.
Joshua Pettus [Wed, 23 Mar 2016 00:56:08 +0000]
Update es.po translation
Joshua Pettus [Sat, 19 Mar 2016 04:03:20 +0000]
Mark the gtk browse button for translation
Joshua Pettus [Fri, 18 Mar 2016 20:45:16 +0000]
Update nl.po translation
Joshua Pettus [Thu, 17 Mar 2016 00:58:07 +0000]
Update fr.po translation
Joshua Pettus [Thu, 17 Mar 2016 00:56:42 +0000]
Update de.po translation
Joshua Pettus [Wed, 16 Mar 2016 03:00:17 +0000]
Update zh_CN.po translation
Joshua Pettus [Wed, 16 Mar 2016 02:54:36 +0000]
Update uk.po translation
Arun Persaud [Tue, 15 Mar 2016 02:36:44 +0000]
configure.ac: add pangocairo to list of needed libraries
H.G.Muller [Mon, 14 Mar 2016 14:18:18 +0000]
Display message on the board at startup
Drawing the board in the first second of running will display a short
message on top of it, to alert the user to the help-click possibility.
H.G.Muller [Mon, 14 Mar 2016 14:07:08 +0000]
Fix expansion of ~~ in OSX App
The ~~ expansion was still using the configured DATADIR rather than
the dynamic one.
H.G.Muller [Mon, 14 Mar 2016 12:59:02 +0000]
Print dynamic Datadir/Mandir on --show-config
Instead of printing the directories from the congigure process,
we print those actually in force, so that the info is valid in the
OSX App (which changes it) too.
H.G.Muller [Sun, 13 Mar 2016 22:25:11 +0000]
Use dataDir/manDir variables always
The DATADIR and MANDIR string constants obtained from the configure
process are now stored in variables, which are then used everywhere
instead of them. The OSX App overwrites these variables, so the
directory location can be made dynamic.
Arun Persaud [Sun, 13 Mar 2016 17:34:08 +0000]
new developer release; updated po/pot
H.G.Muller [Sun, 13 Mar 2016 09:51:49 +0000]
Uncomment line commentized for debugging purposes
The call attaching help clicks to Label Options was still commented out.
H.G.Muller [Sun, 13 Mar 2016 08:21:43 +0000]
Fix popdown of Error/Help dialog through window-close button
Closing an Error popup that was a daughter of another dialog (as Help
dialogs would often be) through the window-close button instead of 'OK'
would permanently block popdown of the parent dialog, because the info
that the Error dialog was still up would not have been reset by the Error
dialog's OK function. GenericPopDown now calls the OK function of such
a dialog (actually FatalDlg) even on a REJECT response.
H.G.Muller [Sat, 12 Mar 2016 22:32:00 +0000]
Make help clicks resistent to NULL-pointer Label names
This should be needed, but just in case...
H.G.Muller [Sat, 12 Mar 2016 22:30:20 +0000]
Silence two warnings
H.G.Muller [Sat, 12 Mar 2016 15:51:44 +0000]
Make help clicks also work for UCI engines
The help clicks were using the engine command to find the manual,
but this would not work for engines with parameters or using adapters.
Now it used the -fcp/scp arguments, and tidies these to stripp off
directory path and arguments. (cps->tidy could not be used, because
it is overwritten by the name reported by the engine itself, which
usually contains version numbers not in the manual name.)
H.G.Muller [Sat, 12 Mar 2016 15:41:38 +0000]
Make location of man file dynamic for OSX
MANDIR is redefined in the case of an OSX App to be a variable, in a
similar way as DATADIR, so it can be determined at startup, and the App
can be 'portable'. The way to concatenate it with the rest of the file
name hd to be made variable-proof.
H.G.Muller [Sat, 12 Mar 2016 13:33:05 +0000]
Suppress empty label at top of Edit Tags dialog
There is a Label Option above the text memo of the Edit Tags dialog
that can display a message, but it is only used in cmail mode, and
is passed as a NULL pointer otherwise. (On which GenericPopup then
crashed when it wanted to attach a help click.) Now we simply suppress
display of that widget when there is no message.
H.G.Muller [Fri, 11 Mar 2016 22:43:48 +0000]
Also try to get help for engine options
Help clicks in the Engine Settings dialogs will try to scan the man page
of the corresponding engine for info about the option. This is a bit
tricky, as it must assume the name of the engine is the same as that
of the engine command and the manual for it is in section 6. In addition
it must look in both /usr/share/man and /usr/local/share/man, as it cannot
know whether the engine was installed from source or repo. Finally it
must hope the man page isn't gzipped.
H.G.Muller [Fri, 11 Mar 2016 15:59:41 +0000]
Fix recognition of .SS lines in manual
The logic for recognizing .SS headers was reversed, and .SS lines were
also not tested for to decide whether display should end.
H.G.Muller [Fri, 11 Mar 2016 15:54:25 +0000]
Let configure supply path to manual file
A new macro MANDIR is passed fro the configure process to the compiler
in a -D option to inform XBoard where to find its manual page.
H.G.Muller [Fri, 11 Mar 2016 14:54:45 +0000]
Fix segfault on single-line help text
The help text itself is displayed in the ErrorPopUp as a label,
and allowing help clicks on a label would apparently trigger some
nfinite recursion of event handlers. Making labels in the ErrorDlg
not sensitive to help clicks solved this.
H.G.Muller [Fri, 11 Mar 2016 14:19:13 +0000]
Mention item in title bar of help dialog
H.G.Muller [Fri, 11 Mar 2016 14:02:21 +0000]
Make dialog labels and comboboxes also accept help clicks
Combobaoxes and bare labels had their own code for creating the label,
nd were not yet made sensitive to help clicks. (Which is a bit cumbersome,
as GTK does not allow attaching callbacks to label widgets, so that you
have to wrap them first into something that does.) The bare labels could
furthermore already have a callback specified (used for the clocks);
in this case, and the case of multi-line labels, no help handler is
attached.
H.G.Muller [Fri, 11 Mar 2016 13:25:19 +0000]
Do not save ICS password in command history
Blanking out the password while typing it would have little effect if
the arrow keys could recall is. So we don't save any lines in the
history when echo is off.
H.G.Muller [Fri, 11 Mar 2016 12:46:55 +0000]
Fix file-type combobox of Xaw file-selector dialog
The list of combobox labels got out of phase with the list of values
after 'Images', because the value for the latter was missing.
H.G.Muller [Thu, 10 Mar 2016 15:28:52 +0000]
Allow hyphen in name of help item
Some dialog items have names with hyphens in them, such as 'Auto-save',
and these would all be confusedif the true name was taken to end before
the hyphen.
H.G.Muller [Thu, 10 Mar 2016 12:03:55 +0000]
Suppress echo of password in ICS Chat window (GTK)
The GTK version uses the set_visibility GTK call to switch echoing
of the ICS input widget. In Xaw this is a dummy. EchoOn/Off had to
be moved to dialogs.c for this.
H.G.Muller [Thu, 10 Mar 2016 09:41:07 +0000]
Fix popdown of menus on help click
Because menus by default also react to button3 clicks, using those
clicks for help popup needs to suppress the default action. But this
action was also reponsible for the popdown of the menu, so that it
stayed up, covering the help dialog. Now we do allow the default action,
but flag to the generic menu handler that it should not execute the
menu function.
H.G.Muller [Wed, 9 Mar 2016 22:15:22 +0000]
Implement rough help popup
A routine is added that searches a given text header in the man file,
and then displays the following text until the next header (after
skipping additional headers that come before any text) in a message
box. The text uses a simple fill and wrap to line length > 80, and
ignores all control characters, except empty lines. Both .B and .SS
directives are recognized as headers.
H.G.Muller [Wed, 9 Mar 2016 16:47:55 +0000]
Implement help clicks
A button3 click on the text labels of text-edit, spin, checkbox and
button controls, as well as menu items, now pops up an alert box
with the name of the clicked item. This as a first step to making an
interactive help that would use that name to look up information on the
item in the texi file, and display that.
H.G.Muller [Wed, 9 Mar 2016 09:53:35 +0000]
Logout from ICS after fatal error
Exiting of XBoard after a fatal error such as crashing of the engine
could be delayed by popping up an exit message, which then had to be
confirmed first. This would leave XBoard in zippy mode open for new
challenges, which it would even accept, and lose by forfeit. Now
we send a 'logout' command to the ICS before popping up the exit
message.
H.G.Muller [Wed, 9 Mar 2016 08:44:45 +0000]
Deprecate -defaultPathEGTB option
The value of the -defaultPathEGTB option is now automatically cleared
at startup, after appending it as "nalimov:" format to -egtFormats.
We also no longer preconfigure a (dummy) value for -defaultPathEGTB,
but instead one for -egtFormats, (which will show up in the EGT path
field of the Common Engine Settings dialog now -defaultPathEGTB is
empty) to serve as an example for the syntax of -egtFormats.
H.G.Muller [Tue, 8 Mar 2016 22:26:57 +0000]
Make EOF error conditionally non-fatal (XB)
When the ICS Chat window is open, an EOF fromkeyboard is ignored.
H.G.Muller [Tue, 8 Mar 2016 22:26:05 +0000]
Fix braces problem in texi file
H.G.Muller [Tue, 8 Mar 2016 20:55:13 +0000]
Describe ICS Text Menu in texi file
H.G.Muller [Tue, 8 Mar 2016 19:41:41 +0000]
Fix WinBoard compile errors
H.G.Muller [Tue, 8 Mar 2016 19:36:56 +0000]
Fix dressed-letter IDs in VariantMen PGN Tag
Due to sign extension the ID suffxes would never be printed.
H.G.Muller [Tue, 8 Mar 2016 19:11:37 +0000]
Make texi file sub-section free
Because the sub-sections did not work, all subsections (which occurred
mainly in the Options Menu section, to describe the various menu dialogs)
are now upgraded to sections.
H.G.Muller [Tue, 8 Mar 2016 18:20:06 +0000]
Describe choice command in protocol specs
H.G.Muller [Tue, 8 Mar 2016 18:14:05 +0000]
Improve highlight-arrow pointing and fix its erasure
The code to calculate whether the arrow shoud endnear an edge or corner
of the to-square was buggy, leading to orientation-dependent decisions.
In addition the damage trace wasnot exactly following the arrow, so that
sometimes parts of the arrow were not displayed or erased.
H.G.Muller [Tue, 8 Mar 2016 16:20:21 +0000]
Improve triple-leg-move animation
When both locust squares (kill and kill2) are set, animation now takes
place in three stages. As kill2 is not retreived when stepping through
the game history, this works only for moves just entered or played by
the engine. Replayed moves are still animated in 2 stages, though, which
does look pretty good on 2-out-1-in moves.
H.G.Muller [Tue, 8 Mar 2016 10:51:29 +0000]
Implement triple capture
Moves can now have two locust squares (and promote even when they are
locust captures). This applies to move entry (but only through click-
click; buttonless dragging does not yet work), as well as sending or
receiving from engine, and generating and parsing SAN.
H.G.Muller [Mon, 7 Mar 2016 15:16:17 +0000]
Allow use of context menu in text memos GTK
Attaching a user handler for button3 events to text memos would suppress
the normal context menu, so you could copy/paste in those only through
the keyboard. Now a button3 event while there is a non-empty selection,
or through a click behind all text, will pop up the normal context menu.
H.G.Muller [Mon, 7 Mar 2016 12:46:50 +0000]
Show moves in Edit Book window as SAN
The opening moves in the GUI book for the current position shown in the
Edit Book window are converted to SAN before showing them, when they have
the simple form fromSqr toSqr promoChar. (This excludes drop moves and
double moves.)
H.G.Muller [Mon, 7 Mar 2016 11:26:07 +0000]
Cleanup Edit Tags/Book/EngineList a bit
The Tags dialog is also used for two other functions, and this hack
causes some problems. This patch ameliorates these a bit. The Edit
Engine List now displays its own title (instead of "Tags"), and popping
it up pops down which other function was in use first. (Unfortunately
this can result in data loss for uncommitted changes.) The name of the
"save changes" button has been changed to "commit changes", to suggest
less strongly that a change in the Engine List would be immediately
saved to file (which in reality requires Save Settings Now as well).
H.G.Muller [Mon, 7 Mar 2016 10:50:21 +0000]
Make OK and Cancel buttons appear in top-level dialogs GTK
The OK and Cancel buttons are created in GTK as part of the
dialog_with_buttons call, but to get top-level windows another call
had to be used, which does not automatically provide them.
We now explicitly add the buttons as requested by the EndMark Option,
paying attention to the SAME_ROW requests. (The code for that is currently
a bit messy, as one suspects that the cumbersome testing on Option.type
was done exactly to make the SAME_ROW request of EndMarks ignored.)
The GTK "clicked" signal is translated to a "response" in a kludgy way,
through a PopDownProxy routine.
H.G.Muller [Sun, 6 Mar 2016 22:52:06 +0000]
Fix spurious clearing of Engine Output during PV walk
Due to messing with forwardMostMove during PV walking the Engine Output
panes couldbe cleared when a new PV arrived.
H.G.Muller [Sun, 6 Mar 2016 22:45:54 +0000]
Prevent out-of-turn grabbing of piece in analysis mode
In Analyze modeit was possible to grab pieces for dragging of the side
that did not have the move.
H.G.Muller [Sat, 5 Mar 2016 21:59:14 +0000]
Fix parent dialog of Error Popup
If the parent dialog of the Error Popup is wrong, the OK button in it
will not manage to pop it down. Migrating the Tourney Options to their
own DialogClass had changed testing for a parent other than the board
window from TransientDlg to MasterDlg, but Toerney Options was not the
only such dialog throwing up errors. (E.g. New Variant coulddo it too.)
So we now test if MasterDlg or TransientDlg is up, and use those as
parent if they are.
H.G.Muller [Sat, 5 Mar 2016 21:42:33 +0000]
Beef up variant detection in New Variant dialog WB
In WinBoard the enabling of radio buttons was still done when the
variant nameon the button was a sub-string of the variants feature,
without requiring a match of the full name (so that 'grande-acedrex'
would enable the 'grand' button of Grand Chess).
H.G.Muller [Sat, 5 Mar 2016 21:33:07 +0000]
Fix crash in New Variant dialog Xaw
The earlier patch to beef up variant recognition couldnot handle it
that some buttons has -1 as variant value.
H.G.Muller [Sat, 5 Mar 2016 08:02:11 +0000]
Remove warning from About box against GTK build
It was still mentioned that the GTK build is unstable.
H.G.Muller [Thu, 3 Mar 2016 10:11:07 +0000]
Suppress underscores in Xaw menus
The underscores that indicate shortcut keys in GTK menu items were
showing up in the Xaw menus. Now we remove them when creating the menu
button.
H.G.Muller [Thu, 3 Mar 2016 09:40:17 +0000]
Fix another Xaw compile error
This is what you get when changing code without testing if it at least
compiles...
H.G.Muller [Wed, 2 Mar 2016 22:42:43 +0000]
Silence warning
Conversion to use of strncpy had led to the length of a (char*) being
tested, and atypically we got away with that so far because the copied
string was only 2 characters long. Now we use length limit 4, which also
renders the use of strncpy instead of strcpy useless, but at least
does notproduce a warning.
H.G.Muller [Wed, 2 Mar 2016 22:39:37 +0000]
Fix recognition of title in small layout
The title handle was set based on invalidation of Options by making
their type -1, while this nowadays is done by setting them to Skip
(as enum types are unsigned).
H.G.Muller [Wed, 2 Mar 2016 22:27:59 +0000]
Fix compile error in SetComboChoice Xaw
H.G.Muller [Wed, 2 Mar 2016 14:18:58 +0000]
Fix crash on changing piece directory
The loop for deleting the old pieces in ActivateTheme was still assuming
the four promo-Golds were stored behind the normal set, which for the
new piece ordering isn't the case anymore.
H.G.Muller [Wed, 2 Mar 2016 10:14:36 +0000]
Fix black border around saved diagrams (WB)
The 'Save as Diagram' function of WinBoard produced bitmaps with a black
border, because the buffer bitmap used for drawing the board (which was
flushed to file to create the diagram) had a size larger than the board,
including somemargins of the main window. Now we copy it to a board-sized
bitmap first, and flush that.
H.G.Muller [Tue, 1 Mar 2016 20:09:49 +0000]
Preserve flip on pasting game when auto-flipView is off
Normally starting a new game would restore the orientation as given by
the -flipView option on the command line, which might flip the view even
when -autoFlipView is off. A new game started through Paste Game now
always preserves the current orientation when -autoFlipView is off.
H.G.Muller [Tue, 1 Mar 2016 19:39:55 +0000]
Describe engine grouping in texi file
The paragraph on the Edit Engine List menu item now contains a description
of the method for organizing engines in groups by adding "# GROUP" and
"# end" lines.
H.G.Muller [Tue, 1 Mar 2016 09:35:11 +0000]
Add 'divide by 60' checkbox in Time Control dialog XB
The TC could not be set to fractional minutes (base time) or seconds
(increment) in the GTK version, as the spin controls there do not allow
you to type such numbers. An added checkbox 'Divide entered times by 60'
allows you to enter base time in seconds, and increment in 1/60 sec.
The dialog always pops upwith this checkbox unticked.
Arun Persaud [Sun, 6 Mar 2016 00:32:37 +0000]
Merge branch 'v4.8.x'
Arun Persaud [Sun, 6 Mar 2016 00:30:45 +0000]
updated copyright for 2016
Arun Persaud [Sat, 5 Mar 2016 21:04:43 +0000]
Merge branch 'v4.8.x'
Arun Persaud [Sat, 5 Mar 2016 21:03:04 +0000]
fixed configure script: GTK default was enabled even with --with-Xaw
Arun Persaud [Tue, 27 Oct 2015 06:08:31 +0000]
update Russian translation
H.G.Muller [Mon, 29 Feb 2016 21:54:44 +0000]
Print score with same sign in message and engine output
There are two options that affect the score POV (always or analysis only),
but they were only working on the score in the Engine Output window, and
not in the message field of the board window. Now they work for both.
H.G.Muller [Mon, 29 Feb 2016 21:24:31 +0000]
Fix bugs in previous 3 commits
The commits before this were pushed a bit prematurely, inspired by
the wish tosee if I could push from my new laptop.
H.G.Muller [Mon, 29 Feb 2016 13:24:11 +0000]
Add configure-options section to texi file
The options data, saveDate, addMasterOption, installEngine, installTheme
and autoClose are now described in the manual.
H.G.Muller [Mon, 29 Feb 2016 12:15:47 +0000]
Update texi file
H.G.Muller [Mon, 29 Feb 2016 11:53:57 +0000]
Add -installTheme option
A new option of type ArgInstall is added, which will add its argument
to the -themeNames list (under the usual restriction it is not already
in there, and that it was not seen before). By appending such a (time-
stamped) option to the master settings file with -addMasterOption,
newly installed themes can be made to trickle their way into the user's
private settings file. All the theme package has to is call XBoard with
the applicable -addMasterOption "-installTheme ...." arguments in its
install script, and copy any associated files to XBoard's datadir.
H.G.Muller [Sun, 28 Feb 2016 11:01:40 +0000]
Fix disappearance of premoved piece
When a premove was done by dragging, (which for expected recaptures would
be the only way, as click-click moving selects the intended target),
the moved piece would disappear from view. This because the from-square
would not be redrawn (in normal move execution it would remain empty).
This could have been an XBoard-only problem. In any case We now force a
complete redraw of the board, which is not very elegant, but should always
fix it.
H.G.Muller [Sun, 28 Feb 2016 10:34:52 +0000]
Fix bug #43792 (no highlights after rejection of premove)
If the sending of a premove fails to add a move to the game, because
XBoard itself judges the move illegal (which could only be determined
after arrival of the opponent move, not when it was entered), XBoard
now re-applies the move highlights for that opponent move.
This does not solve the problem yet with legality testing off,
when it later turns out the ICS rejects the move.
H.G.Muller [Sat, 27 Feb 2016 20:59:52 +0000]
Fix bug #45599 (inclusion of keysym.h in Xaw)
H.G.Muller [Sat, 27 Feb 2016 19:50:27 +0000]
Fix bug #45773 (needless #inclusion of cairo-xlib.h)
As this header no longer exists this was causing a compilation error.
In the GTK version they are of course never needed, and the draw.c
that is also part of an Xaw build also does not call any function to
draw on an Xaw surface directly.
H.G.Muller [Sat, 27 Feb 2016 19:45:01 +0000]
Fix bug #45775 (Infinite loop on nonexistent texture file)
H.G.Muller [Sat, 27 Feb 2016 19:37:09 +0000]
Fix bug #45774 (GTK compile bug with ENABLE_NLS)
The declaration of an XFontSet function was not protected by
H.G.Muller [Sat, 27 Feb 2016 16:06:33 +0000]
Move Common Engine dialog to Engine menu (WB)
The item is renamed to "Common Settings", whith shortut 'C'.
The "Edit Engine List" item is also assigned a shortcut ('E').
H.G.Muller [Fri, 26 Feb 2016 22:35:39 +0000]
Use mouse wheel for selecting piece in Edit Position mode (XB)
Rather than calling ForwardEvent() and BackwardEvent() directly from the
mouse-wheel handler, we now call a backend routine Wheel(), which gets
the pointer coordinates passed to it (which we must remember during
mouse move events). This then calls the Forward/Backward event, except
in EditPosition mode, where it changes the piece in the square below the
pointer.
H.G.Muller [Wed, 17 Feb 2016 19:55:36 +0000]
Allow promotion choice in engine-defined variants
When variant shatranj, courier or makruk, which normally do not have
promotion choice, are used as parent for an engine-defined variant,
we now invoke the piece-selection routine. This to make these variants
also suitable as parent for variants that do have choice (e.g. to give
them the baring rule, which is unique for Shatranj).
H.G.Muller [Wed, 17 Feb 2016 11:47:45 +0000]
Fix erasing of arrow highlight (XB)
On large board with long-range oblique moves (like in Grande Acedrex)
the head of the arrow was not always erased (and not always drawn either).
This was partly due to the arrow pointing to a corner of the target square
even if the path was nearly orthogonal, while the damage trail is always
assumed to connect the square centers. Having the arrow point more
precisely and widening the damage trail a bit solved the problem.
H.G.Muller [Tue, 9 Feb 2016 09:59:31 +0000]
Allow promotion on two-leg move
After a second-leg of a SAN move the parser now checks for apromotion
suffix, and if any is found this is used by ParseOneMove / LoadGameOneMove
to set the promoChar. In converting to SAN for the parseList the promoChar
is now appended to the second leg, rather than the first, and the Edit Book
window will also show it. The promochar is written behind the kill square
in the moveList, and when sending the move there to the engine it is
appended to the second move of the multi-move pair.
H.G.Muller [Tue, 9 Feb 2016 09:25:40 +0000]
Fix type-in of hit-and-run captures
Processing of the move in ParseOneMove (which basically duplicates
the code of LoadGameOneMove) was not yet adapted to ignore ';' as a
promotion character when it is internally used to append 'kill squares'
where locust capture should take place..
H.G.Muller [Tue, 9 Feb 2016 08:53:44 +0000]
Allow setting of piece nicknames from pieceToChar string
A piece IDs in the pieceToChar string can now be suffixed by "=L",
with L an arbitrary single letter, to define a nickname for the piece.
Such a nickname would make it possible to specify a complex ID like +I'
as promotion choice, and by indicating this in the pieceToChar string
the engine can configure that through the 'setup' command. This facility
is needed to force promotion after capture of a contageous piece in
variants with Shogi promotion, such as Maka Dai Dai Shogi.
H.G.Muller [Tue, 9 Feb 2016 08:31:11 +0000]
Slight speedup of parsing promotion suffix
H.G.Muller [Mon, 8 Feb 2016 12:21:20 +0000]
Fix printing of 'x' in position diagram
The times where 'x' was used as PieceToChar result for an empty square
are long behind us; 'x' now is a valid piece ID.
H.G.Muller [Sun, 7 Feb 2016 21:48:34 +0000]
Improve variant recognition for enabling buttons (XB)
Buttons for variants were enabled when the name of the variant they
selected was a sub-string of waht the engine could play, so that
Grand Chess (variant grand) would be enabled by Fairy-Max' grande-acedrex.
Now we test if the matched sub-string of the engine's variants feature
is immediately followed by a comma (or at the end).