H.G. Muller [Sat, 13 Nov 2010 19:02:31 +0000]
Implement entering gating moves with mouse
A move with a back-rank piece that starts when a piece in the holdings
is selected will be interpreted as a gating move in variant seirawan.
The front-end uses a 'gatingPiece' selected this way todisplay it on the
from square during animate dragging.
H.G. Muller [Sat, 13 Nov 2010 17:56:15 +0000]
Implement variant seirawan
Set upthe position, including Hawk and Elephant in holdings, in
InitPostion(). Suppress putting captured pieces in holding. Let
promoChar indicate gating in ApplyMove(). Remove gated pieces from
the holdings there. Let GenLegal() generate RxK-type castlings to act as
base for gating on Rook square. Gatings are tested for legality
based on the holdings content and whether they occur on the back
rank. Disambiguate() also tests this. Make sure the gated pieces are
printed as move suffixes in CoordsToAlgebraic().
H.G. Muller [Sat, 13 Nov 2010 17:42:27 +0000]
Add -variant seirawan to menu
H.G. Muller [Sat, 13 Nov 2010 21:52:09 +0000]
Fix acceptance of null-move with legality testing off
A second click on the same piece was interpreted as a to-square rather
than deselection of the piece.
H.G. Muller [Sat, 13 Nov 2010 21:49:43 +0000]
Fix one-click bug
Disambiguate was imagining captures, so an only capture by double
clicking your own piece did not always work.
H.G. Muller [Sat, 13 Nov 2010 19:08:32 +0000]
Fix mouse-driver buglet
The highlights were not cleared on moves that went vertically off board.
H.G. Muller [Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:17:41 +0000]
List some undocumented commands as compliant
The engine->GUI commands setboard and setup are now always printed in
the debug file as well.
H.G. Muller [Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:05:22 +0000]
List Hint with compliant commands
This command was omitted, so that in some -engineDebugOutput modes it
would not appear in the debug file.
H.G. Muller [Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:02:53 +0000]
Restrict use of escape expansion
Only expand escape sequences like \n and \t in telluser(error) comamnds
that ask for it by preficing the messages by double backslash. Otherwise
backward copatiblity is too severely broken for messages that display
DOS-style filenames.
H.G. Muller [Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:56:33 +0000]
Make safeStrCpy safe
SafeStrCpy was causing a lot of out-of-bound write accesses, as it was
always writing the character at the length limit of the destination.
Now no memory is accessed that is is not needed to hold the copy.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 7 Nov 2010 20:37:10 +0000]
Allow clicked name internal to the icsMenu command string
A command in the /icsMenu that was specified to contain the selected
text or clicked word always appended this word at the end. Now the user
can also configure it to appear in the middle, by putting a %s in the
command string where he wants it to appear.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 7 Nov 2010 20:33:19 +0000]
Let Engine #2 Settings start second engine
If the second engine is not yet running, it would be impossible to use
the settings dialog for it, as the features have not been received and
the dialog will be empty. So the user could not adjust the engine
parameters before starting a match. Using this menu now automatically
starts the engine, and delays the appearence of the popup untill the
features are received, using a similar mechanism as in
TwoMachinesEventIfReady().
H.G. Muller [Mon, 1 Nov 2010 18:40:26 +0000]
Newly lexed parser.c
H.G. Muller [Sat, 6 Nov 2010 18:55:31 +0000]
Fix bug in parsing illegal Pawn captures
When a pawn move of type exf5 was illegal, the parser made an attempt to
interpret it as e.p. capture of f5. This, however, messed up the move,
so that it was now permanently mistaken for e5xf6. Even in cases with
legality testing off, where you would want the original move to be
accepted despite the fact that it was illegal.
H.G. Muller [Sat, 6 Nov 2010 18:49:45 +0000]
Keep last PV while clearing engine-output display
When ponder is on, the display is cleared immediately when the last line
of thinking output appears by the appearing ponder output. So you would
never get the chance to see it. This line is now re-written after
clearing, so it appears at the bottom of the output for the next search.
H.G. Muller [Sat, 6 Nov 2010 18:45:18 +0000]
Give Lance moves of Berolina Pawn
In stead of using it as a wildcard piece, the Lance gets the moves of
the Berolina Pawn (straight capture, diagonal move). The initial double
osh can be a ump, though. (So it is really a Hoplite Pawn from Spartan
Chess.)
H.G. Muller [Sat, 6 Nov 2010 18:42:16 +0000]
Use SAN even on illegal moves
If there is only one piece of type T, moves like Ta1 or Txa1 are never
ambiguous, so adding the from square is just cumbersome.
H.G. Muller [Sat, 6 Nov 2010 18:34:53 +0000]
Use normal SAN for wildcard pieces
SAN often can also be used with pieces we don't know the moves of, e.g.
if there is only one of that type. We just always get rank or file
disambiguators if there are more (even when they might be unnecessary).
H.G. Muller [Sat, 6 Nov 2010 13:52:12 +0000]
Fix some warnings
Unused variables were removed from parser.l
H.G. Muller [Sat, 6 Nov 2010 13:43:54 +0000]
Allow arbitrary nesting of sub-variations in PGN input
The parsing of subvariations is moved out of the state-machine parsing,
to allow arbitrary nesting. In stead of the entire sub-variation being
parsed by lex as Comment, it now returns Open and Close for the
corresponding parentheses, which are then handled in a wrapper routine
for yylex(): Myylex(). Problem was that yy_text is supposed to return
the entire parsed text of the returned symbol, which thus has to be
collected. To make this possible, yylex has to return everything that it
parses, (even white space!), and a symbol "Nothing" was added to return
in parsing rules that before just ate away irrelevant text without
returning anything.
H.G. Muller [Sat, 6 Nov 2010 20:48:47 +0000]
Implement setup (engine-GUI) command
This allows the frst engine (when legality testing is off) to overrule
the default opening position, in reply to the variant command. Syntax is
"setup (PIECE_TO_CHAR_TABLE) FEN_STRING"
where the FEN string is interpreted in the context of the given
pieceToCharTable (which is optional, and only delimeted by parethesis if
it is present).
Sendng the position to the second engine is delayed until the first
engine has responded to the ping after the new-game sequence, to make
sure it gets the chance to alter the position before it is sent to the
second engine. This feature is useful for playing variants that WinBoard
does not even know the opening positon for, and can be used even if they
are shuffle variants.
H.G. Muller [Sat, 6 Nov 2010 13:19:56 +0000]
Restrict use of a2a3 kludge
The kudge to send "a2a3" in stead of "black" to get black to move is
fatally flawed in varants that have no Pawn on a2. So in that case we
revert to use of the deprecated "black" command.
H.G. Muller [Tue, 2 Nov 2010 12:06:58 +0000]
Remember values set by -firstOptions, -secondOptions
When an engine announces its option features, and the option name
matches that of a setting given in -first/secondOptions, the engine is
sent hte specified value, but this value was not remembered as current
value (but the latter was left at the engine-announced default),
leading to inconsistent behavior in the Engine #N Settings dialog.
H.G. Muller [Mon, 1 Nov 2010 18:26:19 +0000]
Make test for valid promotion piece color-dependent
This is needed to make it work in variants where white and black have
different armies; quite likely white will promote to pieces that do not
exist in the black army, so we really have to make sure we test if the
white (upper-case) piece exists in this case.
H.G. Muller [Mon, 1 Nov 2010 18:23:43 +0000]
Remove validity test on promochar from parser
The backend routines Disambiguate() and LegalityTest() will catch
invalid promotions, so no need to do it here.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 31 Oct 2010 22:37:06 +0000]
Add the actual size-33 Shogi bitmaps
These were forgotten in the original commit that fixed the .rc file.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:20:08 +0000]
Delete some stale promotion code
The correction of the promotion piece to Ferz in Shatran-like variants
in ApplyMove() was no longer needed, as the new promotion code already
does this in the move parser.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:08:52 +0000]
Augment moves of some fairy pieces
To get better disambiguation in variants that have to be played with
legality testing off, the Elephant is given also one-step moves (making
it a so-called Modern Elephant) in -variant fairy and great. The Dragon
King (Crowned Rook), which had no moves defined for it outside Shogi at
all, has been given Rook moves plus an orthogonal 2-jump, so that it
can get SAN moves when used as Dababba or Short Rook. (Illegal moves
currently aways force long algebraic notation...)
H.G. Muller [Mon, 8 Nov 2010 21:57:56 +0000]
Bugfix safeStrCpy patch, WinBoard
The use of sizeof on pointers was detected through the same method as
the previous patches, this time while compiling WinBoard. A typo in
jaws.c was fixed as well.
H.G. Muller [Mon, 8 Nov 2010 22:03:13 +0000]
Bugfix for safeStrCpy patch for XBoard
By a trick (temporarily redefining safeStrCpy in common.h as
((char*) (a=1/(4-3rdArgument))) ) a compile-time warning (division by 0)
could be generated for every occurrence where the size argument was equal
to 4, i.e. where the 1st argument was likely a pointer rather than an
array. These cases are now fixed. The file xoptions.c, which is the
only ne that does not #include common.h had to be fixed by making
the #define in the file itself.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:16:01 +0000]
Fix spurious promotions with legality testing off
The recent promotion patch had broken playing without legality testing
completely: without legality testing one always gets the piece that was
asked for, but a NULLCHAR should not be taken as a request for a piece!
But it was, and this resulted in any moved piece turning into a white
Pawn! For true promotions the piece was always black, which was also not
very useful.
Also revert to the use of '+' as internal Shogi promoChar, because
pre-processing turns out not to be possible when reading a game file.
In stead parse any trailing '+' on moves as promoChar. Downside: '++'
can no longer be recognized as checkmate symbol.
H.G. Muller [Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:54:18 +0000]
Make deferral default in Shogi promotions
Because '+' is intercepted by the parser as check indicator, Shogi moves
are pre-processed to change a trailing '+' into an internally used
alternative '^'. The testing if a promotion character is OK is now done
in LegalityTest() and Disambiguate(), which return ImpossibleMove when
the character does not correspond to any piece, and IllegalMove when in
Shogi anything other than '^' or '=' is used. (Except for the ICS
notations.) On output, in CoordsToComputerAlgebraic() and
CoordsToAlgebraic(), the '^' is translated back to '+'.
H.G. Muller [Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:51:34 +0000]
Animate piece explosions in drag-drop moves and in XB
This required some code restructuring: the decision if an explosion is
needed is now taken in a new routine Explode() in the backend. This then
calls the front-end driver, and it returns the info if there was an
explosion or not, so the caller (AnimateMove() or the mouse driver) can
take action to repair the damage to the board caused by the blast wave.
A front-end driver for XBoard is provided as well, so that both
click-click (and replay, which is the same) and drag-drop atomic
captures are animated in XB as well as WB.
Explosions on rejected moves are suppressed.
H.G. Muller [Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:53:51 +0000]
Suppress promotion popup if piece will explode
In atomic, a Pawn capture to last rank is not really a promotion.
Fix choice to Queen.
H.G. Muller [Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:42:25 +0000]
Make Knight hop first straight, then diagonal
It used to be the other way around, which looked pretty illogical in
Xiangqi: to see Horses, which are blockable pieces there, move over an
occupied square.
H.G. Muller [Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:04:01 +0000]
Let -oneClickMove also work in EditGame mode
There is really no reason why people that lke one-clcik moves enough to
switch them on would not want to use them too when editing a game.
This solves a nast inconsistency, as before it used to work in -ncp mode
on the _first_ move, as the mode is then BeginningOfGame, and not yet
EditGame, and we do want it to work for BeginningOfGame, as this is
also the game mode when you start playing as white.
H.G. Muller [Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:40:22 +0000]
Make -flipBlack and -allWhite option volatile
As these options are very Shogi specific, and the variant is volatile,
it seems logical to make them also volatile. Not completely sure about
-allWhite, though. It cold be useful if you want, for example, to play
wth dark-brown pieces for black, as any color but black looks much
better with outline pieces than with solid pieces.
H.G. Muller [Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:33:44 +0000]
Provide some sample board-texture pixmaps
Wood and marble themes are provided as textures for light and dark
squares, plus two complete Xiangqi boards (wood and evenly colored).
These should probably not goint the distro tar ball.
H.G. Muller [Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:25:56 +0000]
The -overrideLineGap option is made to work in XBoard
Although XBoard already allowed this in the -boardSize specification,
it is still seful to globally disable grid lines, e.g. for an
oriental Xiangqi board. And it converges XB and WB.
H.G. Muller [Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:18:41 +0000]
Implement board textures in XBoard
The -darkBackTextureFile and -liteBackTextureFile options now wrk in
XBoard too, for loading a pixmap that will be used to cut out the dark
and light square backgrounds. The cutting algorithm is such that the
pixmap image is completely restored if the size was that of the total
board (e.g. a drawing of a Xiangqi board).
H.G. Muller [Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:11:02 +0000]
Complete WB (western) bitmaps for Shogi at size 33
The Lance was not replacing Queen in some sizes where the bitmaps were
already available, and new bitmaps for the promotion Golds were added.
H.G. Muller [Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:30:06 +0000]
Make starting new variation dependent on shift key
The shift key is read during mouse events, and posted in a global
variable, which can then be used by the back-end. The decision to start
a new variation (pushing the game tail rather than clipping it off) when
entring a move in Edit Game or Analyze mode is made dependent on this.
The move-typein also records the shift-key state.
H.G. Muller [Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:25:06 +0000]
Fix merging bug
A %g format was used to print an int in sending the level command,
because decimal points were dropped when merging patches. Also an unused
variable was removed to suppress a warning.
H.G. Muller [Mon, 18 Oct 2010 17:50:09 +0000]
Add set of shogi pixmaps for XBoard
The -size 64 pieces from gShogi (and originally XShogi) are made
suitable for loading by XBoard, through redefining the transparent
background color as either light or dark square color. These bitmaps are
not included in the XBoard build, and perhaps should not even be
included in the source distribution, but made available in a separate
distribution?
H.G. Muller [Mon, 18 Oct 2010 17:46:33 +0000]
Implement -flipBlack in XBoard
When -flipBlack is true, the white and back piece pixmaps are swapped in
flipView. The idea is that the black pieces are upside-down versions of
the white (Shogi) pieces, so that swapping white and black in effect
turns all pieces upside down, which is what should happen in flipView.
H.G. Muller [Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:06:41 +0000]
Disable some very verbose debug printing
The internationalization seems debugged enough to do without them.
H.G. Muller [Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:52:10 +0000]
Add option -variations to control variation-tree walking
Just so that users can switch it off if the find it annoying.
H.G. Muller [Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:01:00 +0000]
Allow full promotion suffixes on SAN piece moves
This facilitates the parsing of (non-standard) Shogi moves in ICS
protocol. It can also be useful for Seirawan Chess, where a future
implementation of it can use promotion suffixes to indicate gating.
H.G. Muller [Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:07:02 +0000]
Allow lower-case piece indicator in drop-move notation
As it seems that XBoard also sends such moves in zippy play, it seems
more fair to recognize them from the engine as well.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:26:11 +0000]
Fix bug in ICS variant switch for Shogi
Because a test for 8x8 variants was done by <= VariantShogi,
rather than <, spurious move-list fetching occurred in Shogi.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:23:09 +0000]
Fix WinBoard Lance bug
The choice between Lance and Queen was made on appData.variant, in stead
of gameInfo.variant. Because of this it was not always up-to-date in ICS
games.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:15:06 +0000]
Adapt WinBoard to Shogi implementation on Variant ICS
The Variant ICS does not use the '+P' notation for promoted pieces,
neither in the board, nor in SAN, but simply indicates any Gold by 'G',
and uses 'H' and 'D' for +B and +R. The Shogi promotion code in
LegalityTest() and Disambiguate(), which are used in move Parsing, are
adapted to handle this. Deferred promotions sent to the ICS now use an
== suffix.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:07:18 +0000]
Inherit promoted-info that ICS does not give from previous board
The ICS does not tell us in Crazyhouse (or Shogi) if a piece is
primordial or a promoted pawn (or a promoted other piece). We now derive
this info from the previous board. The option -disguisePromotedPieces
controls this feature.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:03:29 +0000]
Limit multi-session clock handling to non-ICS games
In ICS games a time forfeit crashed XBoard, apparently because the
fullTimeControl string is not properly set when we try to use it to see
if a sudden-death session is indeed the last session.
H.G. Muller [Fri, 8 Oct 2010 09:47:34 +0000]
Change evalgraph scale in drop games
Score swings tend to be much larger in Crazyhouse and Shogi, so the
vertical rangee in those games is doubled to (-14, 14).
Arun Persaud [Thu, 14 Oct 2010 06:05:05 +0000]
bugfix: fixed readline support with icslogon option
The icslogon option sends the login and password, so we don't need to handle
special cases for the readline buffer.
Arun Persaud [Fri, 8 Oct 2010 03:35:26 +0000]
fixed some typos that were introduced during the sprintf->snprintf changes
H.G. Muller [Thu, 7 Oct 2010 09:59:33 +0000]
Fix uninitialized variable in book code
The variable ' power' was used uninitialized in case -bookVariation was
set to 0, which can be an error even if it was only multiplied by zero.
H.G. Muller [Wed, 6 Oct 2010 12:20:03 +0000]
Fix menu translation bug
The menuText array was declared too small, so that the last entry of the
File menu got out of bounds and was overwritten by the first of the Mode
menu.
H.G. Muller [Tue, 5 Oct 2010 19:14:08 +0000]
Allow -timeIncrement to be a float
The increment can now be fractional seconds. The printing in
ParseTimeControl() and SendTimeControl() is done with %g format, so that
for integer increment there is backward compatibility with the old level
command.
Arun Persaud [Wed, 31 Mar 2010 03:24:49 +0000]
adding gnu-readline support
should make the user interface for xboard a bit nicer. In the end we want to have a separate input window, but this probably will have to wait until the GTK version.
Arun Persaud [Sat, 25 Sep 2010 04:17:50 +0000]
added warning if icsLogon file couldn't be opened
Arun Persaud [Sat, 25 Sep 2010 04:10:28 +0000]
security fix: replaced some strcat with strncat
there is still more to do
Arun Persaud [Mon, 20 Sep 2010 03:55:01 +0000]
add option for silent builds
this can be enabled for automake versions >1.11 by calling ./configure --enable-silent-rules.
It should still work for older automake versions too
Arun Persaud [Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:16:40 +0000]
bugfix: missing array index
Arun Persaud [Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:19:44 +0000]
added new case for (Chessmove) 0 in common.h
this cleans up a few more -Wall messages
Arun Persaud [Sat, 18 Sep 2010 04:47:22 +0000]
cleaned up -Wall warnings (apart from settings some parentheses)
removed unsused variables, etc mostly everything from -Wall -Wno-parenthesis
Arun Persaud [Sat, 18 Sep 2010 03:36:54 +0000]
sizedefaults has 9 members, the last line of the array (NULL) only set 7.
Arun Persaud [Mon, 13 Sep 2010 03:04:03 +0000]
security fix: replaced sprintf with snprintf
replaced most sprintf with snprintf. There are still some left where for example a pointer is used and is allocated in the line before, which should be fine... and some others.
Arun Persaud [Sat, 11 Sep 2010 06:36:23 +0000]
security fix: replaced strcpy with safeStrCpy from backend.c
see comment in backend.c on how to use safeStrCpy. This was already added by AS, but only used in 3 places.
H.G. Muller [Mon, 4 Oct 2010 09:50:38 +0000]
Enhance multi-session TC clock handling
Some new TC types are introduced: Bronstein and free sessions. The
former is implemented by letting an exclamation point '!' in front of an
increment (in the -tc string) indicate that the increment is limited to
the time actually used on the previous move. The latter is an interval
of given duraton in which you can do any number of moves (even zero),
before the next session starts. This is needed for implementing Shogi
byoyomi-type TC, as a first session, followed by a session of fixed-time
per move. The latter can now be specified with the -tc argument as a
degenerate case of Bronstein, where the time on the clock is <= the
increment (so that it is never possible to think longer than the
increment). A TC of 5 min + 10 sec byoyomi can then be indicated as
300:10+!10.
The sessions are now separated by ':' in stead of '+', and all times in
the TC string are converted to seconds first (in ParseTimeControl), so
the fullTCstring can now be directly used in a PGN tag.
Note that this patch only addresses clock handling; the engine will not
be informed yet if the TC type or parameters change at the start of new
session!
H.G. Muller [Mon, 4 Oct 2010 07:32:18 +0000]
Remove promotion-piece encoding from ChessMove type
The shizophrenic way to indcate promotion pieces in the XBoard code
(sometimes using a promoChar, at other times relying on moveType) was
cured by combining all promotion move types (such as WhitePromotionRook)
into a single one (WhitePromotion), and relying on promoChar to specify
the piece. This solves the problem of promoting to new piece types in
variants, which formerly also required addition of new move types.
In Shogi the '+' character is now consistently used to indicate
promotions (and recognized in ApplyMove), rather than 'q' or
PieeToChar(BlackQueen), as the latter did not work in minivariants where
the Queen (representng the Lance) did not partcipate.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 3 Oct 2010 18:50:01 +0000]
Pass promoChar to SendMoveToICS
SendMoveToICS was the only place where the promotion piece was derived
from moveType, rather than an explicity passed promoChar.
H.G. Muller [Mon, 4 Oct 2010 07:41:11 +0000]
Suppress spurious use of SAN castling in mini variants
King moves from a central file to the king-side-castled position (1
square away from the right corner) were intercepted and printed as O-O
in CoordsToAlgebraic. But on a 5x5 board (mini-Shogi!) this caught the
normal King move Kc1-d1 as well. The castling notation is now reserved
for King moves larger than one step.
H.G. Muller [Mon, 4 Oct 2010 06:21:19 +0000]
Make Shogi promotion zone board-size dependent
In stead of using a fixed size of 3 ranks, we use BOARD_HEIGHT/3, which
would translate to 1 rank for mini-Shogi (5x5) and 2 ranks for Judgkin's
Shogi (6x6), which are indeed what these variants need.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 3 Oct 2010 17:58:00 +0000]
Make board-size overrule options volatile
The options -boardWidth, -boardHeight and -holdingSize were legacies
from the day choosing a variant would not automatically set a board
size. As a result they are seldomly used anymore. The first real
application is mini-Shogi (on 5x5 board), and it turned out very
annoying if the 5x5 settings persisted to the next session, where you
almost certainly want to play another variant.
H.G. Muller [Mon, 4 Oct 2010 07:16:47 +0000]
Strip DOS line endings from parser.l
H.G. Muller [Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:58:37 +0000]
Extend mate test to drop games
MateTest() in case of no legal moves now also looks if there are legal
drops that can resolve the check. This provides reliable mate testing in
Crazyhouse and Shogi, so these are now made subject to adjudications too.
H.G. Muller [Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:48:29 +0000]
Extend legality testing to drop moves
LegalityTest() can nowbe called with (internal-format) drop moves, and
delegates their testing to a new routine LegalDrop(). This routine
performs the 'no-pawn-on-back-rank' test that used to be in
UserMoveTest (which now calls LegalityTest also for drop moves).
The more complex Shogi case is also handled (except for Pawn mate
drops) in LegalDrop().
H.G. Muller [Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:25:21 +0000]
Revert splitting of UserMoveEvent
This splitting into UserMoveTest and FinishMove was no longer needed,
now that the new mouse driver no longer calls UserMoveTest to figure out
if a move is a promotion, and XBoard and WinBoard are unified in this
respect. It was counter-productive, because UserMoveTest was not able to
change the fromX, fromY (call-by-value) parameters for passing them to
FinishMove, so it had to defer the conversion of drop moves to internal
format to the latter, while it did not belong there. (Because
DropMenuEvent already delivers the moves in internal format.) This
whole kludgy construction was therefore abandoned, by going back
to the original 4.2.7 calling scheme, where UserMoveEvent completely
pre-processes the move, and when it is valid, calls FinishMove directly.
H.G. Muller [Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:02:40 +0000]
Fix silent bug in drop moves
In ApplyMove() the piece on the from square was accessed and used before
we tested for drop moves. As drop moves have off-board from-squares this
led to out-of-bound array access, which apparently was usually harmless.
H.G. Muller [Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:43:59 +0000]
Allow parsing of upper-case machine moves
Dubious patch, as it caters to non-compliancy. Some variant engines are
very non-compliant, though.
H.G. Muller [Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:38:35 +0000]
Prevent transmission of spurious promo char to other engine
The parser now strps off spurious promotion characters.
New move types "White/BlackNonPromotion" had to be introduced for this,
to indicate NormalMoves that could have been a promotion, to make sure
the '=' suffix of Shogi deferred promotions survives.
Arun Persaud [Fri, 17 Sep 2010 03:44:37 +0000]
fixed internationalization for winboard
in the original commit some files were forgotten. This should fix it.
H.G. Muller [Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:07:12 +0000]
Fix JAWS bug saying side to move in ICS play
This was done the wrong way around.
H.G. Muller [Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:08:39 +0000]
Make WB run-time language switch possible from menu
This is a rather involved patch that might not be worth it. It is
difficult, because translation of things that live forever is not easy
to invert (menus, the auxiliary windows). We hae to remember all
original, English texts there to be able to put them back,or
re-translate. Still does not fully work, although the menus and
temporary dialogs now are all OK.
H.G. Muller [Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:35:46 +0000]
Update WB translation template
The language.txt file now also contains all translatable strings from
the C source files, rather than jsut the resource.
H.G. Muller [Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:14:51 +0000]
Update docs
Add descriptions for machine-match menu support and enhanced book
control, nick-name options and language.
H.G. Muller [Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:59:09 +0000]
Add some forgotten translation hooks
The general-options, file-browse dialogs and the about box did not call
Translate() yet. Also translate contents of combo boxes. Some small bug
fixes.
H.G. Muller [Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:28:33 +0000]
Do not translate game-end messages in PGN
The messages themselves are not subjected to _(), but in stead their
displaying in DisplayMove is subjected to T_().
H.G. Muller [Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:23:22 +0000]
Internationalization for WinBoard
A function Translate() was added, which uses a list of item dialogs,
reads their value, and replaces it by a translation (if available). It
also reads the window title and sets a translation. Calls to this
routine are added in the initialization code of every dialog callback.
In addition all translatable strings in the WnBoard front end are marked
by the gettext macro _(). Because WB is not gettexted yet, a hard
re-definition of this macro is added in each file using it, to the
string-translation routine T_() supplied in winboard.c.
Code to read the translation file, and translate the menu texts is added
in winboard.c. In backend.c the meaning of the gettet macros is
redefined for the WIN32 case.
H.G. Muller [Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:07:40 +0000]
Make the ID of all WB dialog items unique
Mnany static dialog texts did share the ID -1 (IDC_STATIC). But to
replace tet at run-time for translation purposes, they need to be
addressed individually. So they were given new IDs, with symbols defined
for those.
H.G. Muller [Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:48:07 +0000]
Mark XBoard result messages for internationalization
The GNU gettext macro _() is used with the game-end messages. This might
be controversial, as they will appear in the PGN as well. But only as a
comment. We can always decide not to supply a translation.
H.G. Muller [Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:43:27 +0000]
Do not exit after match when match started from menu
The codelooks weird, but matchMode == 2 in this case. We then use
DisplayNote() to report the match result.
H.G. Muller [Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:39:07 +0000]
Trivial-draws recognition improved in Xiangqi
Now based on a routine "SufficientDefence". If both have it, it is draw.
H.G. Muller [Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:46:45 +0000]
Update .dev files
The relocation of parser.c and the addition of history.c was not yet
incorporated in the devcpp proect files.
H.G. Muller [Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:45:04 +0000]
Fix some MSVC compile errors
Some statements has moved up stream of declaratons, which is an error
that gcc is forgiving about, but where MSVC is strict.
H.G. Muller [Sat, 14 Aug 2010 12:01:44 +0000]
Improved patch for expansion of WB settings-file name
The expansion of environment variables now allows multiple environment
variables in the path name. Tested on %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\winboard.ini
and %APPDATA%\winboard.ini.
H.G. Muller [Sat, 7 Aug 2010 14:53:50 +0000]
Add -colorNickNames option
This option allows non-standard designation of side to move in FENs.
(Useful for Xiangqi, where white is indicated often as r(ed), and Shogi,
where white is s(ente) or b(lack), and black is g(ote) or w(hite).)
Can also be used for FENs in a local language. A match of theinput
character with the nick name translates it to the standard; this means
the standard will continue to be recognized, unless it was defined as a
nick name.
H.G. Muller [Sat, 7 Aug 2010 14:39:16 +0000]
Tricked by the grossnes
Some WB menu items were referenced by a hard number. As items had been
added over the years, the wrong menu items were grayed. In particular
the Options -> Adjudication menu was grayed out, in -ncp mode, where
this was intended for the Sounds dialog. This accidentally proved
useful, until we started to apply adjudictions also to the Human moves.
Then it was suddenly undesirable, and a small mystery why it happened at
all, when I tried to change it. The numbers are now corrected to the new
locatons of the items in the menus.