1 ChangeLog for XBoard/WinBoard
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4 (latest entries created by git log --no-merges --pretty="%ai %an <%ae>:%n%s%n%n%b" vlast.. )
6 2014-10-15 21:06:36 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7 fix osxapp enable option in configure.ac
10 2014-10-15 21:06:00 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11 remove experimental from gtk build option
14 2014-10-15 21:02:38 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
15 only enable osxapp build target on apple systems, clean up configure.ac a tiny bit
18 2014-10-15 20:57:28 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
22 2014-10-15 23:48:14 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
23 Don't switch to engine-defined variant on game loading
25 When loading a game from PGN the variant tag will have been decoded as
26 'normal' in case of an engine-defined variant, and we certainly would
27 not want to switch to that. Better stay in the variant the user had
28 selected before, and hope for the best.
30 2014-10-15 21:50:44 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
31 Implement displaying of variant tag in Game List
33 The variant tag was displayed as an empty string in game-header lines.
34 Processing it during PGN load was not able to handle engine-defined
35 variants anyway; they were recognized as 'normal'. A new field in the
36 GameInfo struct now holds variantName in text form, and this is the
37 primary place from which it is displayed in the Game List.
39 2014-10-15 21:06:53 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
40 Update Game List when setting new Game List Tags
42 Using the Game List Tags dialog to alter the gae header lines now
43 automatically causes an update of the Game list according to the new
46 2014-10-15 20:26:31 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
47 Reset move entry on Clear Board
49 The board markers would stay on when the board was cleared, and a
50 no-longer-present piece would stay selected, leading to deletion of the
51 first piece that you tried to select.
53 2014-10-14 09:38:05 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
54 Split Tournament dialog in side-by-side panes
56 This seems to cure a sickness in some Xaw versions, which refused
57 to display text in the text widgets, or make them sensitive for mouse
58 clicks if the last three buttons were added. It also helps keeping
59 the 'OK' button on-screen in the GTK version.
61 2014-10-12 19:43:24 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
62 Remember position obtained from setup
64 When the engine sends a setup command, it should be remembered as
65 initialPosition, in order for the castling 'rook' test of the Betza
66 move generator to work.
68 2014-09-13 12:35:12 -0700 Joshua Pettus <jshpettus@gmail.com>:
69 Add build script to configure for a XBoard.app for OS X
71 This relies on the the gtk build and adds some special code in
72 gtk/xboard.c so that XBoard can be installed inside the app directory
73 independ on where the app file is located.
75 2014-10-12 10:09:51 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
76 replaced hardcoded pngdir with built-in ~~
78 don't need to create xboard.conf from xboard.conf.in anymore
80 2014-10-12 00:18:50 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
81 Some improvement on new Shogi SVG pieces
84 2014-10-11 10:55:41 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
85 updated spanish, ukranian, and dutch translation
88 2014-10-11 19:42:03 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
91 The patch for logo standard left a typo and an excess line in the Xaw
92 version. This is fixed, and also implements the user-logo cascade for
95 2014-10-11 19:26:23 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
96 Try also /home/<user>/.logo.pgn for user logo
98 The user logo now also has a cascade, first looking in the user's home
99 folder for a file .logo.png, and then in the -logoDir for <user>.png.
101 2014-10-11 16:38:03 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
105 2014-10-10 18:14:09 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
106 Show current variant on New Variant buttons GTK in bold
108 If an engine-defined variant is selected, we compare its name to the
109 inscription on the button, otherwise we compare the variant numbers.
110 (Test to trigger this is a bit awkward, to not inadvertantly apply it
111 to the ICS Text Menu, which also has colored buttoms.)
113 2014-10-10 17:01:51 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
114 Increase number of engine-defined-variants Buttons XB
116 An third column is added to the New Variant dialog when necessary.
118 2014-10-09 23:25:26 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
119 Force GTK logo size to quarter board width
121 This is what GTK will do anyway, because clocks and logos are in a hbox
122 that equally divides space, so telling XBoard different just misinforms it.
124 2014-10-09 17:08:45 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
125 Replace default Shogi pieces
127 The SVG Shogi pieces are replaced by a new set, made by Joshua Pettus.
128 This set also contains and Elephant and Crown Prince.
130 2014-10-09 09:35:33 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
131 Implement new logo standard
133 XBoard now looks in the system directories for plugin logos,
134 /usr/(local/)share/games/plugins/logos, according to the cascade
135 -logoDir, engine dir (-fd,-sd), /usr/local/..., /usr/...
137 2014-10-09 08:47:25 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
138 Relocate OS X' LOCALEDIR
141 2014-10-08 21:56:28 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
142 Fix check test with multi-leg moves
144 The check test after a multi-leg move was still using the same kill
145 square in the opponent's reply, making it blind to King captures in
146 a second leg. So far we got away with that because the Shogi multi-leg
147 pieces also can reach all their potential victims in a single step,
148 but with engine-defined multi-leg moves there is no guarantee this
149 will always be the case.
151 2014-10-08 21:55:17 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
152 Fix infinite loop in cylinder moves
155 2014-10-07 19:13:54 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
156 Let t on final leg in Betza notation forbid checking
158 To allow approximate definition of pieces that are too difficult to
159 describe exactly, we can revoke their capture rights on Kings,
160 to prevent imagined moves that happen to threaten a King forces the
161 opponent to evade this imagined check, making most of his moves illegal.
162 Then the piece can be safely replaced by an upward-compatible one,
163 leaving rejection of the extra moves to the engine.
165 2014-10-07 18:56:59 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
166 Implement Betza hr and hr as chiral move sets
168 To easily separate right- and left-handed moves on oblique atoms
169 (which needs opposite use of l and r in their multi-leg continuations),
170 the direction sets hr and hl are added.
172 2014-10-07 08:20:06 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
173 Preserve other Betza mode bits on setting default modality
176 2014-10-06 20:20:00 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
177 Switch to new Betza orth-diag conversion standard
179 The interconversion from orthogonal to diagonal atoms is now possible
180 for any 4-way atom, based on specification of an 'in-between' direction,
181 irrespective of modality. Also take backward out of default continuation
184 2014-10-03 10:31:47 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
185 Implement Betza t modifier for hop-own
187 The 't' modifier will restrict any form of hopping as specified by
188 p or g modifiers to friendly pieces. This only works on non-final legs.
190 2014-10-02 19:32:45 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
191 Implement directional modifiers on KQ, and let y&g upgrade
193 The Betza y and g modifiers now not only change range, but also upgrade
194 the directional capabilities of the atom to full non-degenerate 8-fold.
195 Directional modifiers can now be used in that symmetry too, to maximally
196 exploit this, and implement 4-fold pieces that make 45-degree turns.
197 Let oblique continuation legs also use the non-degenerate system.
199 2014-10-02 15:19:09 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
200 Implement Betza y modifier
202 The non-standard modifier 'y' is the spontaneous counterpart of 'g',
203 changing the range of the atom, and upgrading its directionality.
205 2014-10-02 10:21:43 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
206 Implement Betza g modifier for non-final legs
208 The g modifier is implemented as a p that turns a rider into the
209 corresponding leaper when it hops, and vice versa. This is done by
210 stripping off any existing range indicator, and making the range
211 infinite by suffixing '0' when the old range was 1 (whether implied
212 or explicitly written). Except that for sliders/steppers this is done
213 by atom-name conversion after stripping off the range. Limited range
214 thus in general turns into leaper (D -> D0, Dn -> D), but with FWK
215 W3 -> R and R3 -> W, etc.
217 2014-10-01 15:32:14 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
218 Implement Betza a modifier
220 This is pretty complex, and might overload the current primitive two-leg
221 legality testing when pieces are defined that can reach squares only in
224 2014-10-01 09:28:32 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
225 Implement Betza j on W,F as skip first square
228 2014-10-04 21:56:14 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
229 Always accept piece commands for Falcon and Cobra
231 The wild-card pieces Falcon and Cobra do not have any moves assigned to
232 them, and XBoard would accept any move for them even when legality
233 checking is on. So for these pieces it is always better to trust the
234 engine's piece definition.
236 2014-10-04 21:52:51 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
237 Fix pieceToCharTable of Falcon Chess
239 This variant was using the Falcon piece, but defining ID F for the
240 unused Lance instead.
242 2014-10-04 19:59:13 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
243 Don't preserve setup position on board-size change
245 Normally the setup command sent by an engine is ignored if the user
246 already has set up a position, to not render it impossible to do the
247 latter. But if the setup command orders a different board size nothing
248 the user has set up can possibly remain valid.
250 2014-10-04 19:39:06 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
251 Reset move entry on stepping through game
253 A forward or backward step through the game after selecting a from-square
254 did not erase the latter, so that it became impossible to select a
255 from-square for an opponent move, as it would be interpreted as the
256 to-square for the patially entered move. This was especially annoying
257 with legality testing off, as the legality test there, based on the
258 square markings, does not reset the entry state either, but waits
259 until you do click a legal to-square, so that you had to attempt
260 moving with pieces of the side not to move to get out of this state.
261 Now stepping through another position will reset the move-entry state
262 completely, always considering the first click a from-square selection.
264 2014-10-07 20:55:00 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
265 Fix engine-defined variant as startup
267 Non-standard names were all recognized as 'normal' in InitBackend1().
268 Now if the -variant argument was not "normal", it is assumed to be an
269 engine-defined variant if we run with engine.
271 2014-10-07 18:53:50 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
272 Fix clipping of board GTK
274 ResizeBoardWindow now measures the with of the window dressing by
275 brute force, interrogating GTK both for the width of the top-level
276 window and the board widget, and subtracting the two.
278 2014-10-08 18:28:09 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
279 Fix writing of Seirawan960 virginity in FEN
281 When variant seirawan was played with Fischer castling, only the
282 castling rights were written, and not the virginity of other pieces.
283 Now all virgin files are dumped in Shredder-FEN style.
285 2014-09-29 21:07:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
289 2014-09-29 21:00:42 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
290 new version number for release 4.8.0
293 2014-09-13 14:33:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
294 fixed whitespace error in configure.ac for os x
297 2014-09-20 10:06:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
298 update gettext configuration to not include any generated files in git
300 before we had a somewhat mixed setup, which seems to create problems
301 when a different gettext version was installed on the users machine compared
302 to the version used to generate the files in git. This should solve
303 the problem. The user will now have to generate these files using autopoint,
304 which we call from autogen.sh.
306 2014-09-28 22:19:00 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
307 Configure XBoard for -size 49 in master settings
309 Now the code for auto-sizing works, it turns out this does more harm than
310 good in the GTK build, as it takes maximum size that fits the screen as
311 initial size, and the board window then cannot be shrunk below that.
312 So we configure a hard -size 49 for a cold startup.
314 2014-09-28 21:27:22 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
315 Implement ff etc. in Betza parser
317 Dupliacated directional modifiers can be needed with oblique moves
318 to unambiguously specify a direction set, e.g. ffrrN.
320 2014-09-28 13:40:13 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
321 Rename PGN Pieces tag to VariantMen
323 Following a suggestion from Steven Edwards, this indeed makes a much
324 clearer name. Also add code to skip the tag on reading, rather than
325 allowing it to end up with the 'extra tags', as the latter could lead
326 to duplication of the tag on subsequent saves.
328 2014-09-28 11:18:10 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
329 Suppress use of promo-Gold bitmaps in Tori Shogi (WB)
331 In Tori Shogi the Swallow Pawn does not promote to Tokin, so the use
332 of a Gold General pictogram would only be confusing. So we stick to
333 the regular fairy bitmaps in Tori, which is recognized by the board
334 having 7 ranks in Shogi.
336 2014-09-28 10:55:10 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
337 Prevent board-size oscillations
339 It could happen that after resize there was room for enlarging the
340 squares by one pixel, but that this crossed the boundary where the line
341 gaps also become wider, and there is no room for making both squares
342 and line gap. This would cause perpetual oscillations of the window size.
343 Resizing is now suppressed when a 1-pixel square-size increase would also
344 result in a line-gap increase.
346 2014-09-28 10:09:17 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
347 Allow use of second-row pieces for non-promoted in drop games
349 Second-row pieces were automatically demoted on capture, but this
350 should really happen only when the piece-to-char table says it is a
351 shogi-promoted piece (assigned a '+' there). Pieces assigned a letter
352 should really stay themselves.
353 PieceToNumber had to be adapted to skip '+' pieces in order to count
354 correctly for second-row pieces, as did the code in UserMoveEvent() that
355 mapped the from-square onto the piece type. (Why do we do that anyway?
356 The piece type was displayed on the from-square!)
358 2014-09-26 20:24:05 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
359 Fix reset of 50-move counter on FRC castling
361 The FxR internal representation was taken a bit too seriously!
363 2014-09-26 20:15:33 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
364 Fix abort of machine game on variant mismatch
366 When the second engine did not support the current variant, and we clicked
367 Two Machines, there was an error popup, but the Two Machines menu item
368 stayed checkmarked. Now we explicitly uncheck it, and switch to EditGame
371 2014-09-26 19:47:08 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
372 Make unsupported variant on loading 1st engine non-fatal
374 Like in the startup code, when the loaded engine does not play the
375 currently selected variant, we now figure out what the engine does play,
376 and switch to that. The error message still pops up, but not non-fatal.
378 2014-09-25 23:37:24 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
379 Print PGN Piece tag listing engine-defined pieces
381 A newly defined PGN tag is printed, which summarizes all non-standard
382 pieces. Black copies of identically named white pieces are suppressed.
383 In the future also non-standard naming should be reported here.
385 2014-09-25 19:11:21 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
386 Always accept piece commands in partly supported variants
388 Normally piece commands are ignored when legality checking is on, as
389 XBoard's idea of legality should obviously overrule the engine's.
390 In variants that are not or only partly supported, however, XBoard has
391 no own idea of what is legal, so it is better to take the engine's
392 advice than enforcing wrong rules.
394 2014-09-25 12:29:15 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
395 Size seek graph to also cover board rim WinBoard
397 The seek graph always used the plain board size, but in WB it is
398 possible to diplay a rim around the board, and the seekgraph would
399 then be positioned in the upper-left corner of the rim, leaving the
400 lower and right board edge and rim uncovered. Its size is now increased
401 to fill the entire window (as leaving a rim around it seems not useful).
403 2014-09-25 11:48:00 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
404 Reparse ambiguous move under built-in rules
406 When a move parses as ambiguous under engine-defined piece locomotion,
407 we re-parse it with XBoard's native idea of the pieces, just in case
408 it is a move from a game that was saved without the engine having
409 redefined the pieces. This keeps games created before the introduction
410 of the 'piece' command loadable.
412 2014-09-25 11:14:06 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
413 Prevent multi-path moves from parsing as ambiguous
415 In Cylinder Chess the MovesFromString() generator might generate duplicate
416 moves, one wrapping, the other direct. When they were both counted as
417 matching the SAN input move, Disambiguate() would think it an ambiguous
418 move. So a move that came from the same square as the one we already
419 have must not be counted.
421 2014-09-24 21:47:59 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
422 Fix cross-edge e.p. capture in Cylinder Chess
424 ApplyMove() did not remove the e.p. victim when an edge-crossing e.p.
425 capture was made, because e.p. rights are only set to neighboring files
426 (after checking there is a Pawn there to capture). The e.p. heuristic
427 has now been changed to also assume e.p. on file-changing Pawn moves
428 that span a large number of files, assuming that these will be wrapping
429 moves. Eventually we should change to better e.p. logic that can be
430 integrated with engine-configured move generation, as the current system
431 would fail for any Pawn that captures more than just neighbor ranks.
433 2014-09-24 19:43:27 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
434 Implement Betza o modifier for cylinder boards
437 2014-09-24 17:02:37 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
438 Improve virginity test for engine-defined pieces
440 Two squares in the board are now reserved for flags that indicate
441 whether back-rank pieces have been touched. This allows MovesFromString()
442 to accurately test virginity of these pieces, rather than having to assume
443 it when the piece matches that in the opening position. For other ranks
444 the latter test is still used, as these are normally (irreversible) Pawns,
445 which cannot return there (and in drop games, when they would, would again
446 be considered virgin enough for the purpose of double-pushing!).
448 2014-09-24 13:20:31 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
449 Implement Betza p and g modifiers in piece command
452 2014-09-24 08:28:40 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
453 Repair piece defs with showTargetSquares off
455 The proxy legality checking based on marking of target square was
456 rejecting all moves when target squares were not highlighted.
458 2014-09-23 21:53:55 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
459 Allow definition of castling in piece command
461 Castling is defined by the O atom, with a suffix indicating the number
462 of steps the King must step in the direction of the corner. Kings keep
463 their normal castling unless overruled by this. Can currently only be
464 used on the variant's royal piece, as XBoard's ApplyMove() is not smart
465 enough to understand displacing the corner piece is implied when it is
466 used on other pieces.
468 2014-09-23 21:49:44 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
469 Update description of piece command in protocol specs
472 2014-09-23 14:52:16 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
473 Improve SAN of Pawn moves and allow Betza e.p. definition
475 The move descriptions in 'piece' commands can now use 'i' and 'n'
476 modifiers to define a blockable double push. ('n' only work for moves
477 of stride 2!) The test for initial moves now is based on comparison with
478 the opening position, rather than on a way-to-generous heuristic. (This
479 still does not prove in generak the piece did not move, though, but it
480 does for Pawns.) A new 'e' modifier stands for e.p. capture; to implement
481 this the rank and file of the e.p. square are now stored in the board.
482 (EP_STATUS was holding the file of the moved Pawn, which in Berolina Chess
483 is not the file of the e.p. square!)
484 The generation of SAN moves for Pawns can now reliably distinguish between
485 captures and non-captures even in Berolina, when the move generator informs
486 it whether the move was e.p. capture.
488 2014-09-22 22:48:50 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
489 Retune -stickyWindows GTK
491 This still does not work well, and in particular windows refuse to stick
492 to the top of the board window.
494 2014-09-22 21:59:00 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
495 Fix detection of screen size GTK
497 A gdk call that can get the screen without there first being a window
498 mapped to it is used now. This fixes initial sizing of the board window
501 2014-09-22 21:57:23 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
502 Configure a size for the Eval Graph
504 If no size for the Eval Graph window is configured in the master
505 settings file, the window will pop up as 2x4 pixels.
507 2014-09-22 20:39:21 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
508 Prevent crash on specifying non-existent texture XB
510 By setting the texture width to 0 when the texture could not be loaded,
511 XBoard will never attempt to draw it.
513 2014-09-22 20:30:50 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
514 Configure some themes in XBoard master settings
516 The -themeNames option is set to contain some themes that could be
517 defined with the default pieces and textures that come with XBoard.
519 2014-09-22 18:48:00 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
523 2014-09-21 16:47:41 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
524 Control Eval Graph with mouse
526 Let mousewheel control evalZoom, and right-click toggle between
527 normal view and differential view ('blunder graph').
529 2014-09-21 16:10:19 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
530 Add extra font field to Option struct
532 Storing the font in the textValue field was too kludgy, as this field
533 is already heavily used in the various Option types, for storing handles,
534 or defining colors and callbacks. A 'font' field is now added at the end,
535 so that it can be optionally initialized in the rare case it is needed.
537 2014-09-21 13:44:11 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
538 Repair damage done by merging with v4.7.x
541 2014-09-21 08:36:22 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
542 Sort fail lows and fail highs below others
544 Every more recent line should always float up aove lines that were
545 indicated to be fail lows or fail highs through ? or ! PV suffixes.
547 2014-09-20 12:58:32 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
548 Describe the new texture conventions in manual
550 The exact rules for how textures are scaled in response to their
551 filename is described in the manual.
553 2014-09-19 10:22:14 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
554 Force exactly overlayed texture scaling through filename
556 A filename suffix -NxM.png on a texture image will cause XBoard to scale
557 the image as if it were the image of a complete board of N files and M
558 ranks, to make the square size equal to that of the current board,
559 and adjust the cutting parameters such that contiguous squares are cut
560 out of it. (If the current board format is larger than NxM, the remaining
561 space will be padded with white!)
562 If N=M=0, N and M are assumed to correspond to the current board size,
563 and the bitmap will be scaled to fit the height of the board.
564 If no suffix is present, the old cut-and-tile algorithm is used. It will
565 be assumed the texture bitmap is intended for a single square, unless the
566 pathname contains a file that starts with "xq", in which case it is assumed
567 that the file contains a Xiangqi board.
569 2014-09-18 23:30:09 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
570 Allow two Pawns per file in Tori Shogi
572 When the board has 7 ranks it is assumed to be Tori Shogi, and the
573 requirement for maximally one Pawn per file is relaxed to two.
575 2014-09-18 23:08:36 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
576 Test legality even when off if engine defined pieces
578 After reception of a piece command XBoard will mark target squares
579 even when legality testing is off, and now also will require the lifted
580 piece to land on a marked square (like when the engine highlighted them
581 through a highlight command).
582 A problem is that this does not work for drops, as drops do not mark
583 target squares. So drops are always accepted. Which of course is bad
584 for Pawn drops. But there really is no way yet for an engine to specify
585 how pieces can be dropped, similar to the 'piece' command.
587 2014-09-17 22:32:43 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
591 2014-09-17 13:41:58 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
592 Implement engine-defined pieces
594 When legality testing is off, XBoard now listens to 'piece' commands
595 to redefine its move generator. After such a piece command is received,
596 target-square marking also can be used when legality testing is off.
597 The engine keeps in charge of legality testing, though.
598 Only a very basic version of Betza notation is currently understood for
599 the move description: mode modifiers have to appear in the order mcd,
600 and gpz modifiers are ignored. Multi-leg moves as in Betza 2.0 is not
601 implemented at all. A leading i modifier limits the moves to the first
602 two ranks, which is no good at all. (But XBoard does not keep track of
603 which pieces have moved, and this at least would work for Pawns in a
604 FIDE-like setup, in particular Berolina.)
606 2014-09-17 09:44:15 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
607 Scale texture bitmaps that are not large enough
609 Texture bitmaps are now sized up by an integer factor to be at least
610 as large as the board (if they seem intended for a full XQ board, which is
611 assumed when they are larger than 256x256) or the square. This necessitated
612 the textures to be re-initialized in InitDrawingSizes whenever the window
615 2014-09-16 19:04:19 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
616 Ignore color arguments not starting with #
618 Old settings files from xpm-using version might still contain color
619 designations like 'white' or 'red'. Since Cairo would interpret these
620 as black, it is better to ignore them, so the default color is used.
622 2014-09-15 15:30:40 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
623 Implement -autoInstall option
625 When -autoInstall is a non-empty string, XBoard will scan the system's
626 plugin specs directories for UCI and WB protocol, to see if new engines
627 were added since the last settings save. If so, they are added to the
628 list of installed engines.
629 The variants listed in the plugin-spec files are currently ignored,
630 but the option is already configured to install engines for all variants.
632 2014-09-14 22:47:55 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
636 2014-09-14 21:41:04 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
637 Make inlined functions static
639 Clang apparently chokes on non-static inline functions,
640 and they were not used from other files anyway.
642 2014-09-09 20:29:15 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
643 updated spanish translation, added new polish translation
646 2014-09-13 09:12:54 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
647 Look for logo in engine dir first (GTK)
649 When setting engine logos, we look for a file logo.png in the engine
650 directory, before trying <enginename>.png in the -logoDir. This is useful
651 on OS X. Fix bug that checks for existence of -fd/sd rather than -logoDir,
652 when using the latter (also in Xaw).
654 2014-09-11 23:10:59 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
655 Fix checkmarking of OS X menu items
657 The routine MarkMenuItem() was moved to xboard.c, where it can see
658 the OSX-specific #defines, and calls to sync_menu_bar were added
659 to it, and to EnableNamendMenuItem().
661 2014-09-11 22:48:10 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
662 Fix crash of tournament dialog GTK
664 The font/color disambiguation of the Option.textField in Label and
665 ulti-line TextBox options cannot stand it if unused elements are
666 initialized as "" rather than NULL.
668 2014-09-11 19:17:55 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
669 Let OS X display dock icon
672 2014-09-11 12:41:50 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
673 Fix Xaw button color error
675 The textValue field, now also used to indicate font, was used in two
676 places when popping up buttons, and the font patch only addressed one.
678 2014-09-11 10:23:42 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
679 Make SVGDIR a variable
681 Replace all occurrences of SVGDIR in the source by svgDir, a char array
682 that is initialized to SVGDIR, so that it can be altered at run time.
683 This is needed to make portable apps. Where SVGDIR was used in string
684 concatenation, the code had to be re-written to use snprintf to do the
685 concatenation at run time, through a new function LoadIconFile.
686 The extension of image files used there is now made dependent on the
687 __APPLE__ switch, so that it can use .png in OS X (which does not seem
688 to understand SVG icons).
690 2014-09-10 21:20:40 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
691 Fix warning in dead code Show
694 2014-09-10 20:49:38 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
695 Reorder variants, to comply with Polyglot book specs
697 XBoard's variant number is used as a key to access Polyglot opening
698 books, and thus cannot be changed without consequences. (As it was when
699 we introduced ASEAN and Chu Shogi.)
700 We also renamed Chu Chess to Elven Chess (under which name it is now
701 described on chessvariants.org).
703 2014-09-10 19:52:12 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
704 Reserve piece command in protocol specs
707 2014-09-10 18:54:45 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
708 suppress Alien Edition standard variants
710 Variants that are standard in the Alien Edition should not be
711 recognized as engine-defined variants: the engines that announce
712 them will not respond with the required setup command, so allowing
713 the user to select them just leads to trouble.
715 2014-09-10 13:51:44 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
716 Fix SetWidgetFont GTK
718 This was testing for an empty font spec in the wrong way, with as a side
719 effect that some pointers to font strings would be interpreted as colors.
721 2014-09-10 15:56:59 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
722 Update protocol specs
725 2014-09-09 21:43:39 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
726 Let message field and button bar use GTK -messageFont
728 The -messageFont spec (using the default coordFont pixel size, like the
729 others) is now used to modify the fonts of message field and buttons
730 in the button bar. They pass a pointer to the appData font variable in
731 their Option's textField. This conflicts with the use of this field in
732 buttons for specifying a color, as done in the New Variant buttons.
733 This is resolved by checking if the first byte of the pointed-to value
734 is a #. The Xaw version must ignore the textField if it does not
737 2014-09-09 20:51:54 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
741 2014-09-09 19:57:52 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
742 Use coordFont default pixel size for other fonts
744 The message-font is way too large for the dialogs. A better solution
745 would be to redo the entire table of SIZE_DEFAULTS in xboard.h, as
746 this file is front-end-specific anyway.
748 2014-09-09 19:39:50 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
749 Use -gameListFont in Game List
751 Not implemented in a very generic way, but hacked into the code that
752 added the handler. There aren't many other listboxes that would need
755 2014-09-09 16:49:18 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
756 Fix Chat window for Xaw build
758 The ICS output field and Hide button are removed from the ICS Interaction
759 window, to make it similar to the old Chat window. This required adding
760 some tests in the handlers of this window, to prevent segfaults due to
763 2014-09-09 15:53:29 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
764 Fix infinite-regression problem on OS X
766 Apparently the OpenFile handler can already be called during
767 gtkosx_application_ready (or gtk_signal_connect), so we have to make
768 sure 'suppress' is set before we call those.
770 2014-09-09 10:47:41 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
771 Correct for .Xresources form->paneA renaming in manual
773 In the Xaw build the name of the form widget of dialog.layout.form...
774 hierarchy was changed to paneA, paneB, ... when allowing multi-pane
775 dialogs through the Break Option (such as the Engine Output window).
777 2014-09-09 10:36:42 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
778 Use GTK fonts in Engine Output and Move History
781 2014-09-08 20:42:11 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
782 Include some conditional OS X fixes
784 DATADIR must be corrected to ~~ in the OS X app, and the info command
785 must be started in a different way.
787 2014-09-08 20:12:08 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
788 Fix WB DoEvents error
791 2014-09-08 19:06:35 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
792 Limit auto-extending to click on first move of PV
794 Even when auto-exted on clicks on the tail of a PV will no longer cause
795 any moves to be added to the game. Only clicks on or before the first
796 move can do that now.
798 2014-09-08 16:20:26 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
799 Animate multi-leg in auto-play and forward event
801 Replaying multi-leg moves is now also done by animating both legs.
802 In addition, the highlights are set on final and intermediate square,
803 rather than from-square.
804 (There seems to be a great deal of code duplication here. Why doesn't
805 AutoPlayOneMove simply call ForwardInner?)
807 2014-09-08 14:45:51 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
808 Fix key bindings for non-menu functions
810 The accelerator keystrokes for next game, previous game and debug mode,
811 which don't have menu items, and are grouped in the menu table 'noMenu',
812 were not treated in the building of the translation table, as 'noMenu'
813 does not occur on the menu bar. An extra iteration is done now to
814 treat this menu group.
816 2014-09-08 14:24:59 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
819 The routine to automatically construct the translation table for
820 accelerator keys did not respect the rule that more specific keystrokes
821 (like :Meta<Key>Home:) have to be defined before more general ones
822 (like :<Key>Home:). As a result Alt+Home would activate the Revert
823 item, intended for plain Home.
825 2014-09-08 14:20:08 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
826 Define default font names
829 2014-09-08 09:25:18 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
832 Book.c did not include config.h, and thus missed the redefinition of
833 snprintf (which is not known in MSVC). The use of 'inline' in parser.c
834 also needed an MSVC redefinition, now added to winboard/config.h.
836 2014-09-08 09:22:55 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
840 2014-09-07 23:35:22 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
841 Replace strcasecmp by StrCaseCmp
843 The MicroSoft compiler does not know strcasecmp, so we better use
844 our own function for this everywhere.
846 2014-09-07 23:28:29 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
847 Let GTK build pay attention to font arguments
849 Multi-line text edits now use the initial value of the Option.textValue
850 field as a pointer to a (char*) holding a font name, to be used for
851 the text displayed in it. (After which they overwrite the field with
852 the textView handle.) The font options -tagsFont, -commentFont, icsFont,
853 -moveHistoryFont and -gameListFont are now activated in the GTK build,
854 to control the corresponding memos.
856 2014-09-07 13:58:15 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
857 Fix auto-display comment option in General Options
859 This options had the same ID as auto-Queen, making it ignored.
861 2014-09-07 13:43:48 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
862 Call DoEvents during time-consuming operations
864 Processing of a game file for reading it, searching positions, saving
865 selected games or creating a book from them can take minutes. To keep
866 the application responsive during that time, the main loops of those
867 tasks calls DoEvents(). A possible risk is that the user can now do
868 too much, and will initiate actions that interfere with the tast in
871 2014-09-07 13:32:49 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
872 Fix GameListHighlight WB
874 The routine to highlight a game line in the Game List listbox of WinBoard
875 used an extremely inefficient linear search to find the game amongst the
876 selected games. This has now been replaced by bisection, after finding
877 an upper limit to the number of entries in the listbox by doubling
880 2014-09-07 12:10:50 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
881 Provide DoEvents function in front-ends
883 A routine to process all pending events in a non-blocking way is now
884 provided in the Xaw, GTK+ and WinBoard front-ends, so that time-consuming
885 tasks (such as PGN loading or opening-book creation) can call it to keep
886 the user control over the application alive.
888 2014-09-06 23:13:01 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
889 Fix syntax error in bitbase code
892 2014-09-06 22:35:22 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
893 Describe Save Selected Games menu in manual
896 2014-09-06 22:29:43 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
897 Let Save Games as Book only use selected games
899 The book-creation code now only takes games into account that are
900 selected for display in the Game List.
902 2014-09-06 22:20:19 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
903 Rewrite key-binding section of manual
905 This section still wrongly described the key-binding procedure from
906 before the rewrite of the XBoard front-end.
908 2014-09-06 13:21:13 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
909 Connect scroll event to Graph Option in GTK
911 The mouse wheel is now detected in graphics widgets, and passed to
912 the user handler as button 4/5 mouse events.
914 2014-09-06 13:15:55 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
915 Make sure node count is positive
917 Engines that print the node count as an int overflow into negative values
918 when the count exceeds 2G. This is really an engine bug, but as it
919 interferes extremely annoyingly with the alignment of the Thinking Output
920 XBoard now repairs it by adding 4G to undo the overflow.
922 2014-09-05 14:03:49 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
923 Connect mousewheel to Forward/BackwardEvent (XB)
925 The mouse buttons 4 and 5 are now processed in the handler for the
928 2014-09-05 13:41:34 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
929 Fix size of time in Engine Output window
931 When the thinking time exceeds an hour, the format hr:min:sec is now used,
932 in stead of min:sec.cents. This prevents the field from extending beyond
933 the tab stop when thr hours kick in, and should work upto 100 hrs.
934 (Going beyond that at the moment does not seem useful.)
936 2014-09-04 22:57:07 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
937 Verify if font-spec looks like one in Xaw
939 To make XBoard resistant to mixed use of Xaw and GTK builds, which
940 would not understand each others font specs stored in the settings
941 file (they have in common), we now determine if the value looks like
942 an X-font. If it doesn't, the Xaw version ignores it. The GTK build already
943 ignored it if it did lool like an X-font spec.
945 2014-09-04 17:03:55 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
946 Fix alignment in Engine Output window
948 Numbers above 1000M would become too wide for their field. This is
949 solved by introducing the abbreviation 'G'. Values below 10M or 10G
950 now get an extra digit in their fraction, so that the precision is
953 2014-09-01 14:44:54 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
954 Add Save Selected Games menu item
956 A menu item to save all selected games in the Game List on a single
959 2014-09-01 12:03:58 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
960 Add final piece count to search criteria
962 The Load Options dialog now has a text field in which a range can be
963 entered (like 8-10). Position search will then only select games that
964 had their final number of pieces in this range.
966 2014-08-29 21:15:29 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
967 Fix castling rights on using -lgf
969 The dummy InitPosition to force loading pieces was taking place after
970 InitBackend2(), while the latter could have already loaded a game
971 from an -lgf argument (which would then be spoiled by the InitPosition).
972 It has been moved to before InitBackend2() now.
974 2014-07-29 15:03:04 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
975 Fix crash on double-click in Game List Tags
977 A double-click in the Game List Tags listbox has no function, but it
978 crashed XBoard, because the textValue field of teh ListBox Option definition,
979 supposed to contain a pointer to the user-supplied handler, contained a
980 pointer to an empty string.
982 2014-07-02 14:34:53 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
983 Fix typing of null moves
985 Entering a null move through the move type-in could fail because the
986 to-square coordinates (not used in its encoding) could have invalid values,
987 which would reject the move in an early stage of UserMoveEvent().
988 Null moves are now exempted from this vaidity test, while variants where
989 null moves are legal now accept them in any gameMode.
991 2014-07-02 14:04:22 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
992 Fix adjusting clocks in Xaw version
994 The handler attached to Label options failed to flip the sign of the
995 option number when a button other than Button1 was pressed, so that time
996 would always be subtracted on Shift + ClockClick and never added.
997 Shift now also suppresses interpretation as null move when playing.
998 (In Analyze / EditGame mode it is still null move starting a variation.)
1000 2014-07-02 12:37:18 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
1001 Fix null-move entry during play
1003 Null moving by clicking the clock was only accepted in Edit Game and Analyze
1004 mode, while in Chu Shogi and spin-offs it is also allowed during play.
1005 An F_NULL_MOVE flag was introduced to make it easy to test for such variants,
1006 and Machine White/Black mode now also interpret clock clicks as a null move
1007 if the opponent's flag has not yet fallen.
1009 2014-04-09 09:53:56 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
1010 Let EditPosition double-click on piece promote it
1012 For pieces with Shogi-like promotion (i.e. if the promoted piece has
1013 pieceToChar defined as '+'), let a second click on it in Edit Position
1014 mode promote or demote it (as the case requires) when the piece menu is off,
1015 rather than remove it (as was the old behavior.
1017 2014-04-09 09:19:43 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
1018 Make EditPosition pallette work in Asian variants
1020 Construction of the pallette position was not working in variants that
1021 did not have Pawns start on 2nd rank, or that had multiple ranks of pieces.
1022 Now the algorithm is applied to all ranks.
1024 2014-04-05 23:00:17 +0200 H.G.Muller <hgm@hgm-xboard.(none)>:
1025 Fix crash on opening Tags window Xaw
1027 Suppressing the optional book button made the Xaw generic popup crash,
1028 because the following button had the SAME_ROW modality, and was thus
1029 positioned w.r.t. a non-existent widget.
1031 2014-04-05 20:39:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1032 Fix writing of Chu-Shogi FENs
1034 Promoted pieces were getting the wrong ID letter, of the piece demoted
1035 by 11, rather than 22.
1037 2014-04-01 18:20:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1038 Allow pseudo-engines to adjust the clocks
1040 Implement new options -first/secondPseudo, which declare the corresponding
1041 engine to be a pseudo-engine, which will then be granted super-powers
1042 through some new engine->GUI commands. For instance, to adjust the time
1043 remaining on the GUI clocks through wtime and btime commands (using msec).
1045 2014-04-01 12:00:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1046 Fix piece inscriptions
1049 2014-04-01 11:16:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1050 Fix reading Chu Shogi FENs
1052 The X (for Phoenix) was interpreted a 10 empty squares.
1054 2014-03-17 23:26:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1055 Fix loading positions in engine-defined variant
1057 Paste Position did not work when an engine-defined variant had redefined
1058 the pieceToCharTable, as the position would be interpreted and sent to the
1059 engine before receiving the setup command. Copying the pieceToCharTable
1060 received from an earlier game to appData cures this, because it will then
1061 be used by InitPosition, which would reset the table to default otherwise.
1062 Another problem was that setupSpoiledMachineBlack would not be reset
1063 after a game with no moves, leading to a spurious 'go' command to the engine.
1065 2014-03-17 23:05:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1066 Render inscriptions on Chu-promoted pieces in red
1069 2014-03-17 22:56:07 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1070 Allow writing text on pieces
1072 A new persistent string option -inscriptions allows the user to define
1073 characters to be written on the various piece types. The string is
1074 interpreted as UTF-8. This option is useful for on-the-fly synthesis
1075 of Shogi pieces, where the string can contain the various kanji in
1076 the canonical pieceToCharTable order. Except that only a single color
1079 2014-03-12 22:08:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1080 Fix initial sizing of board
1082 Previous patches had destroyed the ability to obey the -size option.
1084 2014-03-10 21:15:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1085 Fix width of menu bar
1087 The truncated name might not have been terminated with '\0'.
1088 TinyLayout now specifies the number of characters kept in the menu names.
1089 In the OS X version truncating is never needed, as the menu bar is
1090 at the top of the screen, independent of board size.
1092 2014-03-09 20:38:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1093 Fix warnings fonts patch
1096 2014-03-02 23:10:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1097 Implement (clock-)font handling in GTK
1099 The options -clockFont, -coordFont and -messageFont are activated,
1100 and supposed to have string values like "Sans Bold 12". The default
1101 values have the point size as 'wild-card' %d, however "Sans Bold %d",
1102 and are expanded by a printf with the point size taken from the defaults
1103 table. The expanded versions are saved back into the settings file,
1104 prefixed with a size tag, as usual.
1105 So far -clockFont is the only font that is actually applied while
1107 The 'clock kludge' was interfering with the initial sizing, as for some
1108 sizes the initial clock-widget height happened to be equal to the final
1109 height. It was therefore abandoned, and we seem to be able to live without
1111 Sizes smaller than 49 were dominated (for 8-wide boards) by the menu bar.
1112 Therefore tinyLayout now uses single-letter menu labels.
1114 2014-03-02 20:45:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1115 Also search indirection files in user's .xboard tree
1118 2014-03-02 18:53:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1119 Fix error Engine Output text highlighting
1121 In wengineoutput.c higeTextStart and End where decalred both static and
1122 extern, which somecompilers justifiably don't like.
1124 2014-03-01 16:09:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1125 Fix Board-dialog bug WB
1127 The drawing code for the sample square did ot restore the correct brush.
1129 2014-02-28 21:48:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1130 Fix various warnings
1132 Mostly written but never read errors. Also removed a debug printf that was
1133 causing a format warning.
1135 2014-02-26 16:34:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1136 Kludge repair of expose after startup resize
1138 Redraw of the main board after resize is delegated to DragProc, which is
1139 scheduled after a delay, to make sure the user is done sizing (mainly to
1140 reposition docked windows). But at startup the program-requested resize when
1141 an engine does not support variant normal and needs a different board format
1142 takes so long that the finale size expose occurs after the DragProc timeout.
1143 As a result, the board was never drawn on the resized canvas.
1144 This is quite hard to fix in a satisfactory way. For now the suppression
1145 of board redrawing during resize is disabled during the first 10 seconds
1146 after startup, as any resize during that time is likely to be the result
1147 of a program request.
1149 2014-02-26 13:08:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1150 Use first engine as default for second
1152 Rather than having the same fixed default for both engines, we noww only
1153 have a fixed default for the first, and use the actual first as default
1154 for the second. One advantage is that this guarantees the second engine
1155 plays the same variants as the first by default.
1157 2014-02-23 23:51:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1158 Allow adding played move to book
1160 A button is added in the Edit Book dialog to prime XBoard for adding the
1161 next move entered through the user interface to the book window, without
1162 actually playing it.
1164 2014-02-23 22:54:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1165 Play move right-clicked in Edit Book dialog
1167 A handler for button-3 down-clicks is added to the Edit Tags dialog,
1168 which fakes the clicked word was typed in the move type-in box.
1170 2014-02-23 19:23:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1171 Fix pop-down of ChatDlg and TextMenuDlg from menu
1173 Unlike other windows these two would not react to clicking the menu item
1174 once they were up. Now they pop down in that case.
1176 2014-02-21 11:10:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1177 Preserve window width on board-format change
1179 When a variant switch would cause recalculation of the board window,
1180 we now first recalculate square size to keep the window width fixed.
1181 Also adapt initial width on high boards.
1183 2014-02-18 22:37:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1184 Equip Board Options dialog with themes listbox
1186 The option -themeNames is made persistent for XBoard, and its value is
1187 displayed in a listbox added to the View -> Board dialog. The user
1188 can select themes from this, and manipulate the contents similar to
1189 the engine list in Load Engine. A textedit allows the user to define a
1190 theme name for the current settings, and doing so adds the theme to the
1193 2014-02-07 11:22:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1194 Implement copy function in ICS Text Menu
1196 A command consisting of the word $copy will place the clicked word on
1197 the clipboard. When there was already text selected during the click,
1198 that selected text will be used for $copy and $name, rather than the
1201 2014-02-07 09:48:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1202 When ICS Console open EOF from keyboard is no error
1204 In case the user started without a terminal, we just close the input source,
1205 and suppress future writing to the xterm.
1207 2014-02-06 18:46:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1208 Leave xterm at start of new line after quitting XBoard
1211 2014-02-06 18:36:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1212 Also display channel tell in ICS Console during private chat
1214 Channel tells of players for which a chat wa opened were displayed in that
1215 chat, as well as in the channel chatbox, if the latter was open. But when
1216 there was no channel chatbox it would not appear as colorized channel tell
1217 in the console. This is now fixed, and in the private chat box such a
1218 message is indicated as 'broadcast'.
1220 2014-02-05 23:08:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1221 Write broadcasts also to private chatbox of talker
1223 The shouts or channel chatboxes capture messages first, but if a private
1224 chat with the talker is opened, it now goes there too. Prefixed with
1225 the type of broadcast.
1227 2014-03-02 13:18:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1228 Fix Xaw Chat Console
1231 2014-02-05 22:38:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1232 Let Ctrl-O key open chat for last talker
1235 2014-02-05 22:15:03 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1238 This button clears the current chat, so that it becomes free for
1239 assignement to another partner.
1241 2014-02-05 21:59:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1242 Ctrl-N in chat opens empty chat
1244 This key isequivalent to pressing the left-most New Chat button.
1245 If no unused chat present, it the command will be ignored.
1247 2014-02-05 21:29:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1248 Preserve unfinished input lines during chat switch
1250 This is problematic, as apparently we cannot write in widgets that are
1251 active with key hits, so attempting to write it back in response to Tab
1252 did not work. This is now done with a delay, for lack of a better method.
1254 2014-02-04 13:57:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1255 Recognize Esc and Tab in ICS Console input
1257 Esc is used to close the chat, or transfer focus to the board window.
1258 Tab is used to navigate between chats (or open the first). Priority
1259 is given to dirty chats.
1261 2014-02-03 20:35:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1262 Let ICS Console pop up GTK in stead of ICS Input Box
1265 2014-02-03 19:45:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1266 Add context menu to ICS console XB-GTK
1268 A right-click handler is added to the output memos of the ICS Interaction
1269 window. It pops up the ICS text menu. It is remembered whether the menu
1270 was already up; if not, it will be popped down after a command is selected
1271 from it. Like the WinBoard context menu, the commands will be able to use
1273 The -icsMenu 'command' $chat is now recognized as a special case, not to
1274 be sent to the ICS, but executed by XBoard. It will assign one of the
1275 five chats to the clicked name. If no empty chat is available, the last
1276 chat will be used (but not cleared).
1277 The -icsMenu in the master config file is now configured to contain
1278 this command, but unfortunately this will not become effective for users
1279 that already have a settings file.
1280 The Text Menu now puts $input commands in ICS Console Input field when the
1281 ICS Input Box is not up.
1282 The text placed in the input field for completion (as per $input directive)
1283 turned out to be selected in GTK, so that when you stated typing, it was
1285 By making the Text menu dialog subject to WindowPlacement control,
1286 and interrogating the poition of the ICS Console window, the Text Menu
1287 can be popped up such that the mouse pointer is on the bottom-left button.
1289 2014-02-02 21:17:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1290 Integrate ICS output into Chat Window
1292 An extra pane has been added to the Chat Window to display the ICS output.
1293 In GTK this output is colorized just as in the xterm. For Xaw this is not
1294 possible. This pane is always visible, and the chat output can be hidden,
1295 to double its size. Entered input will go to the selected chat (when not
1296 hidden) as a tell or shout, or to the ICS as a command. The Chat-Partner
1297 field is hidden together with the chat pane and the Hide button. Each of
1298 the five chats now has a dedicated button; for unused chats (empty Chat-
1299 Partner field) these now gets the text 'New Chat' inscribed on it.
1300 Focussing is made more intelligent (to the Partner field when shown and
1301 empty, otherwise to the input field).
1302 The Up and Down arrows now work in the input field to recall old input.
1303 ScrollToCursor() was broken in GTK, because a mark was made for only
1304 a single buffer. Now each buffer has its own end mark.
1305 Another problem was that using ScrollToCursow immediately after a memo
1306 was shrunk (because a neighboring one expanded) it would still use the
1307 old memo size, so that the bottom part remained out of view. Delaying it
1308 50 ms solved that problem.
1309 A new option -icsUp was added to store the visibility in the settings.
1310 It is updated only in ICS mode. The ICS Console pops up automatically
1311 when the stored parameters say so. It is also made sticky.
1312 Unlike the xterm the textView does not extend background color to unwritten
1313 positions behind the line. A separate GTK call is now added to set the
1314 unwritten part to the same color as the background in normal text.
1315 A control was added in the ICS Options dialog for setting the colors
1316 of normal text (-colorNormal).
1318 2014-02-02 17:27:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1319 Add logo-size control XBoard
1321 This is mainly for the benefit of OS X useres who cannot find their
1322 settings file. It requires a restart to become effective, which is
1323 really sub-standard.
1325 2014-02-02 17:18:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1326 Add Edit Engine List menu item to XBoard
1328 In OS X the settings file is hard to find...
1330 2014-02-02 16:41:13 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1333 Some unread variables are commented out, rather than removed, because they
1334 can be useful for future development.
1336 2014-02-02 16:33:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1337 Fix moves of Spartan Captain
1339 The rewrite of the move generator did no longer pay attention to rookRange,
1340 so that the Spartan Captain moved like a Rook.
1342 2014-02-02 16:18:07 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1343 Add Option type 'Skip'
1345 The value -1 used to suppress rendering of option controls was drawing
1346 error messages, because enums are unsigned. So a new member Skip was added
1349 2014-02-02 14:40:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1350 Detect Fischer castling in FENs
1352 Castling rights with unorthodox piece placement imply Fischer castling.
1353 Make sure shuffling is done after detecting this, because it means K & R
1354 can also be shuffled (as long as K remains between both R).
1356 2014-02-02 14:09:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1357 Allow shuffling indicators in FEN
1359 If the back ranks are enclosed by < > in a FEN, the route to shuffle
1360 initial positions is invoked on it.
1362 2014-02-02 13:51:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1363 Allow wild-cards in FEN
1365 A question mark in a FEN will now be interpreted as a piece randomly
1366 chosen from the holdings. (From which it will be removed.) Intended
1367 for use in symmetric black/white pairs; when used on asymetric locations
1368 or with non-identical holdings the results will be undefined.
1370 2014-02-02 10:40:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1371 Fix Seirawan reverse-castling animation
1373 In Chess960 animation of castlings is suppressed, because the move is encoded
1374 as KxR, so that the to-square in general is not the final destination of the
1375 King. So it is just confusing to the eye to see the King slide to the Rook,
1376 and then jump to an entirely different square. In S-Chess castlings can
1377 similarly be encoded as RxK (to indicate gating at the Rook square), and
1378 animation of those moves should be suppressed for the same reason. But it
1379 wasn't, and in Fischer castlings denoted as RxK this even caused the Rook
1380 to disappear when it didn't need to moved.
1381 Perhaps one day a smart method of animating Fischer castlings can be
1382 designed. (E.g. remove Rook, animate King move to true to-square, place Rook?
1383 But what if the King doesn't move at all? Animate Rook then? Normal castlings
1384 now animate the King, and then just displace the Rook.)
1386 2014-02-02 10:22:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1387 Make Fischer castling generally available
1389 A new volatile option -fischerCastlings allows every variant to be played
1390 with Fischer castling, which so far was only allowed in variants FRC/CRC.
1391 This only makes sense in shuffle variants, where King and Rooks might not
1392 be in their orthodox locations. But even when they are, it has consequences
1393 for the user interface, which will require dragging King on Rook as the only
1394 way to enter castling. Like -shuffleOpenings the setting will be cleared
1395 as soon as you switch variant (unless you switch to FRC/CRC, where they
1396 Fischer castling is on by default). It can be set from the New Shuffle dialog.
1398 2014-01-19 22:41:52 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1399 updated po/pot files
1402 2014-01-19 22:19:10 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1403 new version number for developer release
1406 2014-01-19 22:15:33 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1407 updated Dutch translation
1410 2014-01-19 20:44:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1411 Put ponder checkbox in Common Engine dialog WB
1413 This is yet another duplicate of the one in General Options and Adjudiactions.
1415 2014-01-19 20:27:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1416 Expand %s in -openCommand to DATADIR and fix OSX settings-file name
1418 This can be used in OS X to biggy-back a cd to a directory in the App
1419 on the open command.
1421 2014-01-18 23:42:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1422 Add some checkboxes in General Options dialog WB
1424 Checkboxes are added for -variations, -memoHeaders and -autoExtend.
1426 2014-01-18 23:26:03 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1427 Fix warning in CheckTest
1430 2014-01-18 22:40:27 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1431 Fix printing of engine-output headers
1433 They were not printed on analyis of the first position after opening
1434 the Engine Output window.
1436 2014-01-16 23:07:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1437 Fix sticky windows on Win8
1440 2014-01-16 22:54:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1441 Drag touching edges together (WB)
1443 When an auxiliary window is dragged by an edge, the snap code now checks
1444 if that edge was touching another window. If so, that other window is sized
1445 to keep touching the dragged edge. Unless it was also touching the main
1448 2014-01-15 22:35:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1449 Implement new mate-score standard
1451 Matescores are now indicated in the protocol as +/- 100000+DTM,
1452 and in the Engine Output window as #DTM or #-DTM.
1454 2014-01-15 21:28:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1455 Put fail-high/fail-low indicators in protocol specs
1458 2014-01-15 20:43:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1459 switch to new tbhits protocol
1461 The extended info is now expected as 3 bare integers, the last one
1462 separated from the PV by at least one tab character.
1463 The protocol extension is described in the CECP specs document.
1465 2014-01-14 22:37:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1466 Fix sorting of Engine Output
1468 The moveKey of the top line was never stored, so that more recent
1469 lower scores could not pass it even if they had the same move.
1471 2014-01-14 22:35:22 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1472 Handle fali-low & fail high
1474 A ? or ! at the end of the PV are now also written behind the score.
1476 2014-01-14 20:31:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1477 Implement extended thinking output
1479 The PV field can now start with three quantities, selective depth,
1480 engine speed and tablebase hits, disguised as PGN comment. XBoard will
1481 strip that off, and allow them to be displayed in separate columns of
1482 the engine-output window.
1484 2014-01-14 14:46:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1485 Allow hide/show of columns in Engine Output
1487 A new persistent Boolean option -memoHeaders enables a new feature:
1488 text headers are shown above the depth, score, nodes, time columns in the
1489 engine output. Right-clicking them will subsequently hide the corresponding
1490 data, and move the column header to above the PV in a 'not shown' list,
1491 where it can be clicked again to re-open the column.
1492 Configure maseter settings to switch -memoHeaders on by default.
1494 2014-01-14 09:55:40 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1495 Fix ManProc for OS X
1498 2014-01-14 10:02:22 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1499 Fix access to ~~/themes/conf for OS X
1501 In OS X DATADIR is a variable.
1503 2014-01-13 19:23:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1504 Add 'Continue later' button to Tournament dialog XB
1506 To do GenericReadout without triggering a call to the OK function,
1507 we introduced a new value for the option-number parameter, -2.
1509 2014-01-13 17:32:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1510 Fix Tournament Options dialog
1512 Deleting a Label option had renumbered the remaining Options, breaking
1513 the dialog and causing a crash when an engine was selected. A considyency
1514 check is now added to catch this condition, and throw an error popup
1515 when we mess up again.
1517 2014-01-13 17:09:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1518 Allow popup of TC and Common Engine from Tournament dialog
1520 A new dialog class MasterDlg was added, similar to TransientDlg,
1521 but to allow two dialogs to be up simultaneously. The Tournament Options
1522 dialog was migrated to this class, so it can now get buttons to pop up
1523 the Time Control and Common Engine dialog, like WinBoard. It even has
1524 a button for the General options dialog.
1525 Special care had to be taken to prevent popdown of the MasterDlg when
1526 a Transient child is still up (similar to browser or error childs).
1528 2014-01-13 16:21:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1529 Add --show-config special option
1531 This prints a list of configure parameters, and then exits. If a second
1532 argument is given, it only prints the value of that config parameter,
1533 so that tricks like cp *.svg `xboard --show-config Datadir`/themes/chu
1534 can be used in install scripts of packages with piece images.
1536 2014-01-13 14:25:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1539 Engines were not always forcefully killed in XBoard, which could make
1540 the tournament manager hang when an engine became unresponsive to "quit".
1541 The various levels of killing are now revised, and the -delayAfterQuit
1542 is absorbed in DestroyChildProcess(). There is a hard killing mode 9,
1543 which immediately sends SIGKILL, intended for engines that have already
1544 proven to malfunction or could not start at all. In other cases SIGTERM
1545 is sent according to specs, but a SIGKILL is scheduled -delayAfterQuit + 1
1546 sec later just in case the SIGTERM would be ignored.
1548 2014-01-13 13:38:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1549 Fix name of master settings file in OS X
1551 The name needs to be relative to the bundle path, but ~~ expansion
1552 did not work for compiled-in defaults, as the expansion takes place
1553 when parsing an option. The dataDir is now also kept in an array rather
1554 than as a pointer, to allow it to appear in statically initialized tables.
1556 2014-01-08 16:25:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1557 Fix Chu promotion of L, HM and GB
1559 The promotion popup would not be shown for HM and GB with legality testing
1560 on because the piece types used for them were wild-card pieces. The Lance
1561 was treated as a Pawn in HasPrmotionChoice().
1563 2014-01-08 16:09:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1564 Remove redefine of DATADIR that leaked in from v4.7.x
1566 2014-01-05 12:52:46 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1567 updated po/pot files
1570 2014-01-05 12:51:50 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1571 new version number for release 4.7.3
1574 2014-01-05 10:58:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1575 updated copyright to 2014 in menu.c
1578 2014-01-05 10:37:56 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1579 removed .DS_Store file from git
1582 2014-01-05 10:34:08 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1583 Updated copyright notice to 2014
1586 2014-01-05 10:27:53 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1587 cleanup some trailing whitespaces
1590 2013-12-29 13:46:40 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1591 Fix crash on use of dialog Browse buttons GTK
1593 The code to set a filter did not expect multiple extensions, and would
1594 cause a buffer overrun when there were.
1596 2013-12-27 20:12:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1597 Make building of Windows .hlp file optional
1599 By using && and || operators in the build recipe, the building of WinBoard
1600 with Cygwin is now not aborted whe the Help Compiler is not installed.
1602 2014-01-05 11:47:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1603 Use __APPLE__ compile switch for OS X
1605 It seems that on Apple machines the compiler will always define the
1606 symbol __APPLE__, so this is now used instead of OSX, which had to
1607 be defined with a -DOSX compiler flag. The gtkmacintegration header
1608 is now using <> in stead of "" in its #include. (Strange enough both
1611 2014-01-04 12:18:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1612 Expand ~~/ to bundle path (OSX)
1614 DATADIR is #defined in WinBoard as "~~" to make the expansion a no-op
1615 there. Same for Linux compiles. For OS X it is #defined as a variable,
1616 obtained from GTK-OSX at startup.
1618 2013-12-29 23:27:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1619 Activate ManProc in GTK
1622 2013-12-29 22:14:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1623 Remove use of strndup
1625 The use of strndup was actually unsafe, as the length was passed using
1626 an ordinary strlen. strndup was not availableon OS X 10.6, and is now
1627 replaced by an ordinary strdup, which should be save enough.
1629 2013-12-29 22:09:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1630 Put some OSX code into gtk version
1632 Under control of #ifdef OSX code is added to integrate the GTK front-end
1633 into OS X. This involves moving the menu bar to outside the window, and
1634 catching the signal that OS X sends to running applications when opening
1635 another instance was requested. Som files are renamed to conform to the
1636 file tree of the OS X App package.
1638 2013-12-27 21:47:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1639 Cure weirdness when dragging outside of board
1641 Dragging outside the board (when people maximized the window) did not
1642 properly restore background, (leaving a trail of dragged piece). Filling
1643 the canvas with white when it is creatd cured this. The problem most likely
1644 was that unitialized cairo surfaces had transparancy, and writing back
1645 transparancy doesn't helpmuch to erase things.
1647 2013-12-09 14:52:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1648 Fix sorting of lines in Engine Output
1650 Lines tat were fail-lows or fail-ighs should get the scores on the basis
1651 of wich they are sorted corrected to that of te line (for the same move)
1652 superceding them, so that other moves can rise to above them, when they
1653 score higher than the corrected score.
1655 2013-12-05 20:08:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1656 Make filler variant button inactive
1659 2013-12-05 17:50:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1660 Fix packing of FRC castlings
1662 The routine for packing moves to the internal database format was not
1663 working for FRC castlings, totally messing up position search for FRC
1666 2013-12-05 16:23:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1667 Fix Xaw file-browser New Directory
1669 Prevent people from using the error messages that will be printed here
1670 as directory name by pressing New Directory a second time after first
1671 pressing it with an empty or existing name.
1673 2013-12-05 16:14:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1674 Widen Xaw text entries for larger square sizes
1676 Presumably people will use larger fonts if they use larger board squares.
1677 (And in any case te default fonts would be larger.) This means they need
1678 more space to see what is the current value of text options.
1680 2013-12-05 15:47:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1681 Remove width limiting of shuffle checkbox
1684 2013-11-28 13:30:40 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1685 Allow castling and e.p. to be edited in opening book
1688 2013-09-16 22:32:32 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1689 Repair FRC A-side castling legality testing
1691 XBoard allowed A-side castling when a rook started on the a-file,
1692 and the b-file was blocked.
1694 2013-09-16 22:27:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1695 Repair XBoard from node-count patch
1697 u64 was #defined in backend.h, which unfortunately was almost alwats
1698 (Not sure why WinBoard did not suffer from this!) This, and related
1699 definitions have now been moved to common.h (which is always #included
1702 2013-09-15 20:13:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1703 WinBoard multi-monitor support
1705 A patch provided by Tim Kosse
1707 2013-09-15 19:28:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1708 Fix node count range
1710 The node count was still clipped to 32 bit because one of the structs
1711 it passes through (FrontEndProgramStats) had the nodes field declared
1712 as an unsigned long.
1714 2013-09-15 19:12:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1715 Fix adjudication of Giveaway stalemates
1717 The case where the side-to-move would win by stalemate was not treated
1718 in the Adjudicate switch.
1720 2013-08-30 17:33:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1721 Fix buffer overflow in parser
1723 When a line ended with a comment, the parser had to read a line ahead
1724 to check if there was a PGNresult following, without being able to
1725 throw away the previous line yet. This could lead to buffer overflow
1726 in a long game where every line ended in a comment. The buffer now is
1727 cleansed of already parsed data when starting on a new syntactical unit.
1729 2013-08-27 22:55:52 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1730 Fix -zippyVariants option
1732 Due to the change of cps->variants from (char []) to (char *), copying
1733 zippyVariants to it on behalf of v1 engines would no longer work. This
1734 is fixed by using ASSIGN() in stead of safeStrCpy().
1736 2013-08-26 18:25:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1737 Fix initial board sizing WB
1739 The initial board size was based on the assumption the board would be 8x8.
1740 This could push auxiliary windows off screen if the board was smaller,
1741 after which EnsureOnScreen would undock them and park them in the upper-
1742 right corner before the board assumed its true size. InitPos() is now called
1743 before the initial sizing to et the board format correctly, InitDrawingSizes()
1744 had to be made resitant to calling before a board size was picked for this
1745 (because InitPos() might call that too).
1746 ActivateTheme() now uses the new board size, not the previous one (as was
1747 indicated by size -2), so that -boardSize specifications inside a theme
1749 Board size petite should not be forbidden for Shogi; all pieces exist there.
1751 2013-08-26 14:40:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1752 Fix grabbing of selected piece
1754 A second static click on a selected piece should deselect it, but an attempt
1755 to drag an already selected piece should not 'bounce off'. It was already
1756 possible to move a selected piece to another square, but the dragging was
1757 not animated. This is now fixed, by only skipping the code to start dragging
1758 when the second click is part of the only-move double-click for only capture.
1759 (Before it was skipped on any second click.)
1761 2013-08-26 13:35:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1762 Allow entry of negative numbers in spin control (WB)
1764 Windows numeric controls do not accept negative numbers, so in case the
1765 range of a spin option can go negative, the style ES_NUMBER should not be
1768 2013-08-26 11:37:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1769 Allow drops / promotions/ deferrals to be edited into book
1771 For no real reason only NormalMove would be accepted when parsing the list
1774 2013-08-26 11:28:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1775 Fix GUI book after setup position
1777 The routine to send move to the engine would automatically append a 'go'
1778 is a preious setboard had put the engine in force mode, but this should
1779 not happen on a book hit, where the engine should even be put in force mode
1780 if it was not yet there.
1782 2013-07-05 18:32:46 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1785 Due to duplicate use of the same file pointer variable the game file would be
1786 closed before any games were read from it.
1788 2013-05-20 11:14:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1789 Make PGN parser immune to unprotected time stamps
1791 The parser choked on time stamps of the form dd:dd or dd:dd:dd if one
1792 of the fields happened to be 00, because it wouldmistake that for a
1793 non-compliant king-side castling. By excluding this interpretation when
1794 the 00 is immediately preceded or followed by ':' this is now prevented.
1796 2013-05-05 08:03:00 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1797 updated po files for new release (make distcheck)
1800 2013-05-05 07:57:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1801 new version number for release 4.7.1
1804 2013-05-05 07:53:54 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1805 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
1808 2013-05-02 22:47:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1811 It is explained how to generate multi-line commands for -zipyGameEnd.
1813 2013-04-01 20:43:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1814 Fix Xaw file browser
1816 The 'next page' entry of the Xaw file browser contained a \177 character
1817 to keep at sorted at the bottom. This caused trouble for gettext.
1818 Now the sorting range is adapted so the 'next page' is never part of it.
1819 More seriously, the listbox fill code had a wrong cast when testing for
1820 an empty listbox on the first element, so that it only tested the low byte
1821 of the pointer, in stead of the entire pointer for NULLness. As a result
1822 the contents of the listboxes could suddenly disappear when even when it
1823 was non-empty, because the first filename was allocated at an unlucky address.
1825 2013-03-22 19:23:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1826 Make Chat Box window obey -topLevel option
1828 It was always popping up as a dialog of the main board, covering it.
1829 One could argue it should always be to-level.
1831 2013-03-19 13:20:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1832 Fix scrolling of Chat Box
1834 Seems the problem is that scroll_to_iter does not work until after some time,
1835 needed to calculate line heights. Use scroll_to_mark instead, after clumsily
1838 2013-03-17 10:33:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1839 Fix GTK SetInsertPos
1841 SetInsertPos() was not yet ported to GTK, with as a result that the cursor
1842 was positioned at the start of a line recalled in the ICS Input Box,
1843 rather than at the end. The code also called SetInsertPos to force scrolling
1844 to that point in the text (which in Xaw is an automatic side effect). So for
1845 multi-line text edits this function calls ScrollToCursor(). For some reason
1846 this does not work when replacing texts in the Chat Box memo, when switching
1847 chat, although it does work in the same memo when a line is added to the
1850 2013-03-07 21:38:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1851 Print score of final position in Analyze Game
1853 The score/depth of the final position of the analyed game is added
1854 (as an explicit comment) behind the PV of the forelast position.
1855 To make this work, a new 'addBraces' mode (3) had to be added to
1856 AppendComment, which suppresses stripping of the score/depth from
1859 2013-03-12 18:50:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1860 Fix horrible bug in reading scores from PGN
1862 Reading scores like -0.94 flipped the sign, because the integer part
1863 -0 would read as 0, and thus was no reason for sign flipping.
1865 2013-03-10 12:43:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1866 Fix disappearence of pieces that were moved illegally
1868 Dragging damages the from-square, but it is not marked as such, because
1869 selective board redraws to update highlights and such would draw the piece
1870 that is really still there, making it flash on the from-square before
1871 the position after the move is drawn. This, however, backfires when the
1872 move was illegal, as then there is no draw of a new position, and the
1873 from-square stays empty. For now this is solved by making DisplayMoveError()
1874 order a total redraw. (As this is rare, only done in case of an error,
1875 and might even throw up a pop-up, the performance cost of this is acceptable.)
1877 2013-03-20 17:50:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1878 Fix quoting of book name in tourney file
1880 The argument of -polyglotBook was written to the tourney file unquoted,
1881 which effectively made it disappear if it was an empty or blank string.
1883 2013-03-07 18:11:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1884 Provide compatibility with Alien Edition setup command
1886 The setup command of the Alien Edition has a board-size specifier
1887 (possibly as prefix on a parent-variant name) between pieceToCharTable
1888 and FEN. The regular version would choke on that, precluding engines
1889 designed for the Alien protocol extension to have their setup processed
1890 when running under regular XBoard. This patch makes it skip the extra info.
1892 2013-03-07 17:52:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1893 Fix saving of analyzed game
1895 Anotated games after batch-mode Analyze Game were not auto-saved,
1896 because the GameEnds() call supposed to do that was called with a NULL
1897 argument for resultDetails. Now it is called with the resultDetails as
1898 pre-existing in the gameInfo, or an empty string if none exist. This bug
1899 was masked by the fact that in standard game ends (mate, etc.) the
1900 analyzing engine would declare game end and supply a message.
1901 Also makes a distinction between Analyze Game and regular Analyze mode
1902 when resuming analysis after loading a game; only the former now would
1903 trigger a batch analysis.
1905 2013-03-07 17:48:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1906 Fix spurious popup after batch-mode Analyze Game
1908 A batch analysis of games was not properly terminated, because the game
1909 mode was tested after it had already been changed. No oldGameMode is
1912 2013-03-02 22:21:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1913 Let XBoard -autoBox option also affect move type-in
1916 2013-03-02 22:17:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1919 Key values > 255 are used for PgUp, PgDown etc., so to pop up only on
1920 printables needs a two-sided test.
1922 2013-03-01 12:50:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1923 Fix fatal error on unsupported board size
1925 When a board size unsupported by the engine was requested through the
1926 New Variant dialog, this was discovered while the dialog was still up,
1927 causing the error message to pop up as a child of the New Variant dialog,
1928 so that it would immediately be taken down as the latter closed.
1929 As a result it could not be confirmed, so that XBoard would not exit, and
1930 was left in a pathologic state (ignoring window-close). This is fixed
1931 by performing Reset (which detects the error) after PopDown of New Variant.
1933 2013-03-01 12:39:40 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1934 Accept setup command for non-standard board size
1936 The code to test if board-size is standard for the current variant
1937 has been moved to a subroutine, to allow its calling when receiving
1938 a "setup" command from the engine.
1940 2013-03-01 11:57:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1941 Fix buffer overflow in feature parsing
1943 String features (variants, egt, myname and option) relied on a buf[MSG_SIZ]
1944 for processing their value. The Nebiyu engine had combobox options that
1945 required more than that. All string features are now stored in allocated
1946 memory rather than in static arrays, and StringFeature allocates a buffer
1947 of sufficient size for them. Only limitation now is the low-level input
1948 buffer in the InputSource threads, whih is a static buffer of 4096
1949 (=INPUT_SOURCE_BUF_SIZE) characters.
1951 2013-02-27 23:44:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1952 Fix vertical sizing of GTK board
1954 The clipping of the boad at the bottom was due to resizing of the clock
1955 height when we first write it with a big font. This patch delays calculation
1956 of the final size until after the clock height changes.
1958 2013-02-26 21:13:32 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1959 Updated German translation
1962 2013-02-26 20:27:24 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
1963 Updated Ukrainian translations
1966 2013-02-26 17:59:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1967 Fix of argument error
1969 Oops. Pevious patch for skipping unknown multi-line arguments
1972 2013-02-26 17:44:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1973 Let popping up of WinBoard chatbox for channel open it
1975 WinBoard now issues a +ch command for a channel when you pop up a chatbox
1976 for that channel. A work-around is added for the fact that the public
1977 FICS seems to ignore the first such command.
1979 2013-02-26 17:27:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1980 Make skipping of unknown option smarter
1982 To make XBoard better resistant to the presence of disbanded or future
1983 options in its settings file, encountering those is no longer a fatal error.
1984 But the error recovery only consisted of skipping the rest of the line.
1985 This fails badly on string options with a multi-line value, which is
1986 enclosed by {braces}. We now detect that case, to skip to } instead.
1988 2013-02-26 17:15:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1989 Add -backupSettingsFile option
1991 For better configurability of WinBoard, an option is added to optionally
1992 read a settings file, namely if no other settings file (other than the
1993 master file) was read so far. This can be used to import settings from
1994 a previous version, without destroying its settings file.
1996 2013-02-26 16:55:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1997 Repair WinBoard compile error
1999 __GITVERSION was not defined in WinBoard, as it was only defined with a
2000 compiler flag by ./configure, which WinBoard does not use.
2002 2013-02-26 16:47:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2003 Work-around for Xt selection bug
2005 In some Xt implementations calling extend-end with 0 params causes a crash,
2006 although the mmanual specifies this should default to a call with 'PRIMARY'.
2007 The default selection is now explicitly mentioned in all extend-end calls.
2009 2013-02-24 09:31:57 -0800 Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@burggraben.net>:
2010 fix bug #38401: xboard.texi doesn't build with texinfo-5.0 (tiny change)
2012 xboard-4.7.0's documentation is not buildable with texinfo-5.0, it fails with a lot of error messages from makeinfo like
2013 ./xboard.texi:1026: @itemx must follow @item
2014 makeinfo seems right, @itemx is not used as described in the texinfo manual.
2015 Attached patch puts each item of the "Options" menu in it's own @subsection and formats the description of each item as a @table as neccessary. This way, xboard builds again and the manual doesn't look too bad.
2017 2013-02-24 09:09:54 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2018 updated po/pot files
2021 2013-02-24 09:04:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2022 new version number for developer release
2025 2013-02-20 21:28:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2026 Try to make life more bearable in Xaw menus
2028 The alignment still sucks, but not as much as before.
2030 2013-02-20 19:26:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2031 Fix -topLevel option
2033 This option was copletely ignored, after the refactorig.
2035 2013-02-20 18:16:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2036 Fix testing for valid window placement Xaw
2039 2013-02-20 12:15:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2040 Suppress printing of status line in dual-board mode
2043 2013-02-20 11:56:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2044 Fix sizing of slave board GTK
2046 For lack of a known method to specify a default size for Graph widgets,
2047 we have to use the same system as for the main board: create with 0x0 size,
2048 and measure the size of the outer window to determine margins.
2049 After every popup we then resize to the required board size plus these
2052 2013-02-20 10:08:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2053 Better handling of undefined window parameters
2055 Repositioning and resizing a newly created dialog was based on the width
2056 parameter of the stored sizing info being valid. Now it is separately
2057 tested if the position is valid, so that sizing and moving can be done
2058 independently. This allows us to store position info, but not size info
2059 for the slave board, so that it automatically will use the size of the
2060 main board when first opened.
2062 2013-02-19 19:14:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2063 Limit debug print to debug mode
2066 2013-02-19 19:14:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2067 Fix repositioning of GTK windows
2069 After 'hide' and 'show' GTK would not position the window in the same place,
2070 but center it on the parent. Now we reposition the window after 'show' based
2071 on the WindowPlacement data (if available).
2073 2013-02-19 18:52:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2074 Remember window params of slave board
2076 The slave board now has been assigned a WindowPlacement, which is also
2077 saved in the settings file, through new options -slaveX/Y/W/H.
2079 2013-02-19 17:48:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2080 Fix repairing of arrow damage
2082 The '2' bit in damage[][] to indicate the arrow was erroneously cleared,
2085 2013-02-18 19:55:20 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2086 fix OK-response in gtk dialogs, see c7f8df124
2088 the fix in c7f8df124 needs to be applied to both of those if cases
2090 2013-02-18 17:11:32 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2091 removed two more translations from debug output
2094 2013-02-18 17:09:30 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2095 fixed segfault of g_markup_printf_escaped which needs utf-8 strings
2097 defined text-domain as utf-8 solved this
2099 2013-02-18 13:38:51 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2103 2013-02-18 10:06:36 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2104 removed some translation calls for messages in the debug log
2107 2013-02-18 09:46:53 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2108 add keyboard shortcuts back into Xaw version
2111 2013-02-17 14:13:30 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2112 in debug mode also print the git-version if available during build
2115 2013-02-18 21:19:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2116 Print game-list timing messages only in debug mode
2119 2013-02-18 21:01:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2120 Fix title of top-level windows
2123 2013-02-18 18:51:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2124 Cure GTK warning in top-level windows
2126 There is no OK button in top-level windows, so the 'response' signal is
2127 not defined, and should not be connected.
2129 2013-02-18 18:33:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2130 Fix graying of Revert menu item
2132 The new code was checkmarking it in stead of enabling it!
2134 2013-02-18 11:38:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2135 Add -onlyOwnGames option
2137 This suppresses auto-saving of ICS observed games.
2139 2013-02-18 11:17:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2140 Allow display of 50-move counter in zippy mode
2142 No chance it could be considered cheating there.
2144 2013-02-18 10:48:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2145 Add new vertical pixel fudge
2147 With the new GTK window type the board is 13 pixels too small.
2149 2013-02-18 10:29:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2150 Don't add PV moves on board clicking in AnalyzeMode
2152 Playing PV moves by right-clicking the PV was only intended for clicks
2153 in the engine Output window, selecting from multi-PV analysis output,
2154 where by default it plays only the first move. PV walkig by right-clicking
2155 the board, however, would start the walk at the end even in AnalyzeMode,
2156 and thus add the entire PV. Which is probably not useful. So adding moves
2157 in that case has now completely been suppressed, so it can be used for
2158 harmless viewing of the latest PV.
2159 The behavior has also been made subject to a persistent Boolean option
2160 -appendPV, configured to true, with a checkbox in General Options.
2161 A checkbox has also been added there for controlling the -variations option,
2162 which is now also configured to true.
2164 2013-02-18 10:25:40 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2165 Remove checkbox for 'Move Sound'
2167 This function is better controlled from the Sounds dialog.
2169 2013-02-18 09:59:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2170 Make switching between board windows absolute
2172 Selecting the window in which to draw the board when the slave board for
2173 -dualBoard was up was done by a toggle. For unknown reason this could cause
2174 a situation where the drawing took place in the other window than the
2175 intended one. The code is made more robust by explicitly specifying which
2176 window to draw in, based on the partnerUp flag.
2178 2013-02-18 09:50:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2179 Warn about experimental nature of dual board
2181 The message field, which for now is unused, now contains a warning message.
2183 2013-02-17 10:49:21 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2184 add close buttons to gtk windows
2186 use windows instead of dialogs for toplevel elements
2188 2013-02-16 19:02:52 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2189 keyboard accelerators for both front ends.
2191 moved them out of the string definition, so that gtk can add them automatically.
2192 Also wrote a function that loads them for X11.
2194 TODO: add them again when creating X11 menu names
2196 2013-02-15 11:03:02 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2197 added rotated shogi pieces for -flipback option and moved them to the themes directory
2200 2013-02-14 17:27:27 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2201 add test for pkg-config
2203 exit configure in case we can't find it.
2205 2013-02-14 13:02:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2206 Only perform e.p. capture if there are rights
2208 The heuristic for e.p. capture was such that any non-forward move with
2209 a Pawn to an empty square would delete the piece behind its new location
2210 (Xiangqi exempted). This is now limited to cases where EP_STATUS indicates
2211 that the deleted piece was a Pawn that performed a double-push on the
2212 previous move. (Or if there is unknown EP_STATUS.)
2213 This makes XBoard more generally suitable for use with variants that have
2214 non-conventional Pawn moves (with legality testing off). To guarantee this
2215 will not have any unexpected effects in normal Chess, this patch will only
2216 be active if legality testing is off.
2218 2013-02-11 16:25:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2219 Unreserve tourney game on exit during engine load
2221 While waiting for the feature timeout we are not yet in TwoMachines mode,
2222 so quitting XBoard at that stage would not unreserve the upcoming game.
2223 A global flag 'startingEngine' similar to 'waitingForGame' now signals
2226 2013-02-10 13:40:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2227 Better fix of feature timeout
2229 The previous fix of the 2nd engine's done=1 aborting the 1st engine's
2230 feature timeout by starting the game caused problems with v1 engines,
2231 or other engines that would never send done=1. It is now fixed by
2232 explicitly testing for a pending feature timeout after resurrecting
2233 the 1st engine, rather than having TwoMachinesEventIfReady wait for
2234 initDone to be set by reception of done=1.
2235 Also refrain from freezing the UI between match games, as in TwoMachines
2236 mode the UI is mostly disabled anyway.
2238 2013-02-08 16:24:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2239 Connect Ctrl key in WinBoard
2241 The Control key is now checked during move entry, for excluding moves
2242 during analysis, or for copying pieces when editing a positions. But the
2243 WB front-end did not read it out yet!
2245 2013-02-08 16:23:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2246 Fix Makefile for install of Xiangqi pieces
2249 2013-02-08 15:35:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2250 Add Xiangqi piece images to project
2252 Let the images install in themes/xiangqi.
2254 2013-02-08 15:14:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2255 Revive -flipBlack option
2257 The -flipBlack option in the cairo version is now implemented the same
2258 way as it was in XBoard, swapping white and black pieces in filpView mode.
2259 This requires a set black piece images that are the upside-down versions
2262 2013-02-07 13:55:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2263 Remove empty-square SVG images from project
2266 2013-02-06 19:00:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2267 Add desktop stuff for .xop MIME type.
2269 Icons and desktop file were missing, as was the automake code to package them.
2271 2013-02-06 16:48:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2275 2013-02-06 14:48:27 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2276 Add boolean -autoBox option
2278 This option controls the automatic popup of the ICS Input Box on typing
2279 a printable character, which was annoing to some. The option can be
2280 set from the ICS Options dialog.
2282 2013-02-06 10:56:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2283 Draw both coords in a1
2285 The lower-left board square needed two inscriptions, but DrawOneSquare()
2286 only allowed one, so that the file ID would not be written. Now two strings
2287 can be passed, and when align > 1 to indicate the alignment of the top
2288 string, it is still checked if a bottom string is present as well, which
2289 then is drawn with alignment 1 (= bottom right).
2290 The rank coord or piece count can now also be double digit.
2292 2013-02-05 23:03:42 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2293 updated po files for new release (make distcheck)
2295 2013-02-05 23:02:07 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2296 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
2298 2013-02-05 22:52:42 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2299 new version number for release of 4.7.0
2301 2013-02-05 11:56:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2302 Let initial setting of Twice checkbox reflect current state
2304 The Twice checkbox in the Tournament dialog of WinBoard was by default
2305 starting unticked. It is more convenient to have it preserve the current
2306 state, however, based on the -lpi or -lgi value. Like the auto-incremet
2307 checkbox already did.
2309 2013-02-04 22:07:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2310 Put GTK warning in about-box
2313 2013-02-04 21:59:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2314 Fix warnings of build server
2317 2013-02-02 15:58:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2318 Fix GTK error auto-raising board
2320 The variable mainwindow is not set in the gtk2 version. Unfortunately
2321 it is still used to determine default board size...
2323 2013-02-01 19:42:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2324 Update Dutch WB translation
2327 2013-02-01 19:37:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2328 Add some new strings to WB translation template
2331 2013-02-01 19:34:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2332 Assign shortcut char to WB menu item
2334 The new Save games as Book item did not have a shortcut yet.
2336 2013-02-01 19:31:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2337 Let WinBoard start in its installation folder
2339 The current directory in WinBoard was not automatically the same as the
2340 installDir returned by SearchPath. Especially not if used without shortcut
2341 by file association.
2343 2013-02-01 19:29:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2344 Fix warning in WinBoard
2347 2013-01-30 14:25:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2348 Fix expose of to-square with grid off
2350 The code relied on drawHighlight to request an expose evet for the entire
2351 square, but when lineGap = 0, drawHighlight is a no-op.
2353 2013-01-29 08:39:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2356 On OS X dialog windows could not get focus if -lXaw appeared after
2357 -lX11 -lXt in the linker command. This was cured by moving
2358 @FRONTEND_FLAGS@ (which expands to -lXaw) first in the LDADD parameter
2359 of the automake file.
2361 2013-01-28 17:38:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2362 Preserve PGN tags when loading engine
2364 Switching to EditGame mode would normally erase the tags, but when analyzing
2365 a loaded game this would be undesirable. When the engine is playing, keeping
2366 the tags is dubious, but it is not obvious what to put in a new name tag,
2367 so we leave that for now.
2369 2013-01-28 17:23:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2370 Preserve mode on engine loading (sometimes)
2372 That the mode always switched to EditGame after engine loading was
2373 particularly annoying at the start of a game (where leaving BeginningOfGame
2374 mode would disablethe Time Control dialog, and the engine would not
2375 automatically reply if you start playing) and AnalyzeMode. These two
2376 modes are now preserved, BeginningOfGame by refraining from calling
2377 EditGameEvent() and sending 'force' to the new engine, and AnalyzeMode
2378 be calling AnalyzeModeEvent() after the engine is loaded and repositioned.
2380 2013-01-28 14:14:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2381 Catch unknown engine in tourney games
2383 When an XBoard instance is playing on a tourney it can happen that it is
2384 using a settings file with an engine list not yet containing a certain
2385 participant, because that participant was just installed in the instance
2386 that created the tourney file, but it did not save those modifications yet.
2387 This error is now caught, and leads to an error popup and stopping of the
2388 tourney play. This error was made non-fatal to allow the user to decide
2389 if he wants to quit with or without saving the settings (which, after all,
2390 does not seem up-to-date).
2392 2013-01-26 18:08:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2393 Adjudicate pawn-drop mate as loss in Shogi
2395 Mating with a Pawn drop is illegal in Shogi, but rather than burdoning
2396 the legality-testing by this complex rule, we simply invert the result
2397 for such a mate. After all, Shogi customs are such that everything illegal
2398 leads to an immediate loss.
2400 2013-01-25 10:05:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2401 Adjudicate perpetual checks as loss also in Shogi
2403 The Xiangqi code for recognizing perpetual checks is now also activated for
2404 Shogi, but in this case we bail out before checking for perpetual chases.
2405 The mini-Shogi case is then recognized as a win for gote.
2407 2013-01-25 09:55:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2408 Stalemate is a win in Shogi
2410 In regular Shogi this never occurs, but in the mini variants it happens
2413 2013-01-22 20:49:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2414 Fix engine timeout problem in match mode
2416 Reload of a reuse=0 engine would cause a done=1 event which would be
2417 abort the feature timeout of the other engine in the first game.
2419 2013-01-22 20:32:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2420 Enforce -popupMoveErrors
2422 One move error was using DisplayError(), in stead of DisplayMoveError(),
2423 and thus did not obey the -popupMoveErrors option.
2425 2013-01-21 15:30:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2429 2013-01-21 10:26:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2433 2013-01-20 19:09:05 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2434 Updated German translation
2437 2013-01-19 17:54:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2438 Do delayed board draw also with -stickyWindows false
2440 Only CoDrag needs to be suppressed on a configure event with
2441 -stickyWindows false, not the board redraw.
2443 2013-01-18 11:11:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2444 Let tellothers command add comment to PGN in local mode
2447 2012-12-30 15:19:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2448 Allow use of ~ in pieceToChar for shadow pieces in any variant
2450 The use of shadow-pieces for promoted Pawns was limited to Crazyhouse and
2451 Bughouse. But this is not necessary, and in fact undesirable, as it made
2452 it impossible to implement Crazyhouse960, which combines shadow promotions
2453 with Fischer castling (only available in variant fischerandom)s, and thus
2454 has to be played as 8x8+5_fischerandom, using the Crazyhouse -pieceToChaTable.
2456 2012-12-30 15:06:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2457 Resend engine-defined options after reuse=0 reload
2459 When the engine process is re-spawned for a new game under -xreuse setting,
2460 any alteration of engine settings brought about through the Engine Settings
2461 dialogs would be lost, and revert to the engine's default. This is now fixed
2462 by re-sending all options (known from the previous load of the same engine)
2463 with the current settings immediately after "protover 2", and ignoring the
2464 engine's option features. Rather than clearing the option list, and
2465 redefining it from the option features.
2467 2012-12-30 14:58:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2468 Implement aborting of games on engine request.
2470 A new game-end command is added. For bakward compatibility it is disguised
2471 as an old one, namely "1/2-1/2 {Engine Abort Request}". These resultDetails
2472 are recognized as special, and rather than ending the game in a draw (which
2473 GUIs not implementing this), the game will be completely 'expunged' from
2474 the match or tourney it is part of, leaving no trace in the saveGameFile.
2476 2012-12-30 14:54:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2477 Store some more tourney params in tourney file
2479 The hash and threads settings, as well as ponder and book options are now
2480 also saved in the tourney file, so that tournaments can be played in
2481 parallel where these parameters differ, and no mess up can occur on
2482 restarting a touney after doing something else.
2484 2012-12-23 11:26:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2485 Do not automatically save aborted games in tourney PGN
2487 When the game result is 'unfinished', we prompt for a filename rather
2488 then using the specified saveGameFile if a tourney is in progress.
2490 2013-01-19 08:35:52 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2491 fix configure bug that showed up on OS X (couldn't find X11/Dialog.h)
2493 X_CFLAGS (set by AC_PATH_XTRA) was not used in Makefile.am. It was used in tests for X11/Dialog.h, etc. so configure worked, but make didn't.
2495 2013-01-18 22:26:13 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2496 Updated Ukrainian translations
2499 2013-01-09 07:57:43 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2500 removed trailing whitespace
2503 2013-01-09 07:49:20 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2504 Updated copyright notice to 2013
2507 2012-12-22 22:46:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2508 Do not move to forwadMostMove when unpausing AnalyzeMode
2511 2012-12-22 22:44:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2512 Use Ctrl key in AnalyzeMode to exclude entered move
2515 2012-12-22 20:40:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2516 Implement insufficient mating material for Knightmate
2518 KBK is draw with Royal Knight. With exo-pieces also KNK and KFK.
2520 2012-12-22 20:25:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2521 Fix rep-draw detection in drop games
2523 In games like Crazyhouse every move is reversible, as captured pieces
2524 can eventually change sides again, and be dropped back on the board.
2525 So we have to search back a full 100 ply for repetitions, passing captures
2528 2012-12-11 22:33:07 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2529 updated po/pot files
2532 2012-12-11 22:18:05 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2533 new version number for developer release
2536 2012-12-10 14:48:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2537 Prefer pause mode on pondering engine over 'easy'
2539 If the thinking engine is stopped after its move because it does not
2540 support pause, is is still better to use pause on the pondering engine
2541 than to switch of its pondering with 'easy', as the latter might not
2542 be instantaneous. Also switch off pondering in the thinking engine before
2543 it gives the move, just in case it does not respond immediately to
2546 2012-12-10 13:40:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2547 Update WinBoard translation template
2550 2012-12-10 13:35:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2551 Fix min-Shogi promotion zone
2553 In integer arithmetic N*2/3 is not the same as N - N/3, with as a result
2554 that the white promotion zone was 2 ranks deep on 5x5 boards. This only
2555 happened in LegalityTest, but because this would classify all moves to
2556 4th rank an non-promotions, they would be printed with a faulty
2557 deferral (=) sign as promochar in SAN.
2559 2012-12-10 13:32:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2560 Do not clear PGN tags on Analyze File
2563 2012-12-10 13:28:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2564 Fix -fSAN in AnalyzeFile mode
2566 The exception that a PV relates to currentMove rather than forwardMostMove
2567 applies not oly in AnalyzeMode, but also in AnalyzeFile. Furthermore,
2568 PvToSan did not properly restore the pushed game tail in this case.
2570 2012-12-08 16:02:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2571 Improve scaling of border bitmap (WB)
2573 The StretchBlt mode is set from dither to delete.
2575 2012-12-05 16:34:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2576 Implement use of pause / resume protocol commands
2578 Engines that implement feature pause=1 will be paused during their move
2579 on a pause event; pondering engines will be controlled either through
2580 'pause' or (if they don't support that) 'easy', which both should work
2581 instantaneously. If the thinking engine does not support 'pause', the pausing
2582 will be deferred to when it produces its move, and is implemented by not
2583 relaying the move, and switch off pondering for both.
2585 2012-12-03 12:58:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2586 Fix Loop-Chess promotions
2588 Loop Chess is not a supported variant, but hould be playable as Crazyhouse
2589 with an altered pieceToCharTable, not defining the shadow promotion pieces.
2590 But with legality testing on promotion to shadow piece would take place
2591 even if the shadow piece was not defined.
2593 2012-12-02 22:44:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2594 Fix move highlighting with animation off
2596 In WB the moving of SetHighlights to after the animation had broken the
2597 highlighting of engine moves, because it was also moved after DrawPosition.
2598 While it is DrawPosition that actually draws the highlights. Now it has been
2599 moved to just before DrawPosition.
2601 2012-12-02 11:09:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2602 Start browsing in currently-selected folder (WB)
2604 The folder-browse dialog always started at My Computer, while file browsing
2605 started in the globally last-used folder (which might not be related at all
2606 to the file entry we are now browsing for).
2608 2012-11-29 23:38:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2609 Implement book-creation functions
2611 A new menu item triggers conversion of the currently loaded PGN file
2612 to a Polyglot book, saved with the GUI-book filename. A (volatile) option
2613 -mcBookMode alters the probing algorithm to build a book from scratch by
2614 playing games (and using a form of learning).
2616 2012-11-29 22:23:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2617 Use colors in Board-Options dialog also for font pieces (WB)
2619 The piece color settings now control the pieceColor or fontPieceColor
2620 settings, depending on the setting of -usePieceFont.
2622 2012-11-29 22:14:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2623 Implement auto-creation of ICS logon file
2625 Under control of the new option -autoCreateLogon (which can be set from
2626 the ICS Options dialog) the first two lines in response to the ICS "login:"
2627 pompt will be saved on a newly created logon file (if logon from such
2628 an existing file failed).
2630 2012-11-29 21:56:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2631 Add Themes dialog (WB)
2633 This dialog, done by the generic popup, contains controls for many settings
2634 that so far could only be controlled by options. It also introduces the
2635 concept of 'themes', sets of options stored in the multi-line option
2637 Add some dummy routines to suppress compile errors in functions that
2638 cannot be called yet in XBoard.
2640 2012-11-29 21:32:03 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2641 Allow external piece bitmaps and board border (WB)
2643 The -pieceImageDirectory is now also used for WinBoard, to indicate
2644 a directory of .bmp files, used to replace the built-ins. The outline
2645 and solid bitmaps can be full-color. This allows winBoard to use the
2646 WinBoard-zeta graphics. A new option -border can indicate a bitmap file
2647 used to draw a half-square-wide border around the board.
2648 A white background has to be drawn underneath the black pieces, to avoid
2649 color-interference with the board, just like happens for the white pieces.
2650 These backgrounds now always use bright white, rather than -withePieceColor.
2652 We still have to work on the scaling of the zeta (600x600) bitmaps to
2653 the actual board size, as for some bitmaps the stratchblt is ugly.
2655 2012-11-29 21:05:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2656 Add 'Continue Later' button in Tournament dialog (WB)
2658 This button makes it possible to accept the values specified in the
2659 dialog without immediately starting the tournament (as OK does),
2660 so you can re-open the dialog later, and OK it then.
2662 2012-11-29 20:25:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2663 Load opponent logo based on handle in ICS play (WB)
2665 The logos for handles on FICS are sought in folder logos\freeches.org\*.bmp,
2666 etc. If no logo for the handle is found there, the logo of the ICS is
2669 2012-11-19 20:35:05 -0800 Daniel Dugovic <dandydand@gmail.com>:
2670 Fix configure script for --enable-zippy (tiny change)
2672 reported and patch by Daniel.
2674 edited by Arun Persaud:
2675 - also fixed #ifndef ZIPPY -> #if !ZIPPY
2676 - didn't change #if -> #ifdef
2678 2012-11-10 00:12:34 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2679 don't define X_LIBS when using gtk-frontend
2682 2012-11-07 22:16:09 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2683 updated po/pot files; added new frontend files
2686 2012-11-07 22:14:20 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2687 fix configure script for --with-Xaw and --with-gtk
2689 made Xaw the default and included xaw or gtk sources as extras
2690 in case the other frontend is selected for make distcheck
2692 2012-11-07 21:13:38 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2693 new version number for developer release
2696 2012-10-31 09:55:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2697 Draw frames around memos and listboxes
2700 2012-10-30 17:39:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2701 Adapt lineGap during sizing
2704 2012-10-30 15:04:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2705 Fix clock highlighting
2708 2012-10-30 10:59:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2711 The genric TypeInProc is re-instated, and replaces ICSKeyEvent as primary
2712 handler for special keys in one-liner text edits.
2714 2012-10-29 19:46:27 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2715 Pay attention to NO_CANCEL dialog flag
2718 2012-10-29 14:18:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2719 Fix clock clicking with GtkEventBox
2721 Like in WinBoard the button-3 case is now handled in the primary
2722 event handler (and communicated to it in a kludgy way). It would be
2723 better if this was absorbed in ClockClick().
2725 2012-10-28 22:25:22 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2728 Graphs were not recognized as possible SAME_ROW elements. A Graph requesting
2729 FIXED_H (which only the logos did) is now packed into a (borderless) aspect
2732 2012-10-25 23:04:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2733 Add window positioning
2735 Sticky windows now sort of works, but needs unexplained fudge factors.
2736 Reopening a persistent dialog centers it on the board, and disobeys
2737 the positioning command. The WindowPlacement of the BoardWindow was
2738 again added (it was commented out during development).
2740 2012-10-22 22:41:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2741 Make board sizing work through subtracting fixed height
2743 There is now no attempt to give a size to the board drawing area, so it
2744 can later be sized as small as we want. The frame width is determined
2745 by subtracting the nominal board size from the actual window size,
2746 (because the clocks will have that width, and the board will startas 1x1),
2747 while the vertical margin is determined as the difference between the
2748 bactual window height, the drawing-area height minus a fudge of 25 pixels
2749 to compesate for the erroneously allocated blank space below the board.
2751 2012-10-22 21:09:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2754 The highTextStart/End are now declared in engineoutput.h, shared between
2755 nengineoutput.c and xengineoutput.c. Unused variables were removed.
2756 Also fix warnings in xboard.c and xoptions.c.
2758 2012-10-22 17:40:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2759 Delete emptied front-end files, and move rest to gtk directory
2761 Remove #ifdeffed-out Xt code that has GTK implementation. The xgamelist
2762 and xhistory have been completely cleared off content, and were removed.
2764 2012-10-27 00:12:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2767 The code from gtk-xt could be used with almost no modification.
2769 2012-10-21 09:09:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2770 Some experimenting with sizing
2772 Does not work as intended yet.
2774 2012-10-21 23:04:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2777 Funny enough it was necessary to swap the two svg icons to make this work!
2779 2012-10-20 10:29:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2780 Make some tall dialogs multi-column
2782 A dummy button was added to the last row of New Variant to make the
2783 number even. A legality-test warning as put in the New Variant dialog
2784 Fix width of tourney-file in Match dialog
2786 2012-10-20 21:14:33 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
2787 updated some icons to SVG
2790 2012-10-20 19:57:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2791 Add displaying of icons
2793 A new Option type, 'Icon', was added for this as in GTK Icons and Labels
2794 need different types of widget. The icons are now svg, so we could
2795 remove the icon pixmaps.
2797 2012-10-20 14:25:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2801 2012-10-20 14:03:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2802 Add BarBegin, BarEnd options
2804 This makes the button bar display correctly. Also fix v-sizing of menu bar.
2806 2012-10-20 10:01:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2807 Add listbox double-click callback
2809 This function was formerly performed by WheelProc.
2811 2012-10-19 17:29:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2812 Add hiding / showing second Engine Output pane
2814 The handle of the GTK table for the second engine is stored in the
2815 EndMark handle by GenericPopUp, so it can be used later to hise/show
2818 2012-10-19 17:15:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2819 Use different tables for different dialog columns
2821 Making the same table wider (in steps of 3) to get multiple columns
2822 does not work, because it forces options to align vertically. This
2823 wrecks dialogs like Load Engine, where one column contains a very
2824 high option (listbox). Now differnt tables are created for each column,
2825 packed in a new itermediate hbox. In case of the Engine Output window,
2826 a vbox is used instead to cause vertical stacking.
2827 Only multi-line text-edits and listboxes are now allowed to take up
2828 vertical space changes, while only the middle colum of the table
2829 can take up horizontal size changes. Within packing boxes space is
2830 equally distributed.
2831 The labels above the particiant-selection widgets had not the same width
2832 as the textview / listbox, leading to misplacement of the second label.
2833 For Engine Settings the spontaneous breaking into columns did not
2834 involve a SAME_ROW flag, so the 'columns' were stacked vertically.
2835 In addition the columns were too tall for GTK. They are now 20 options max.
2837 2012-10-19 13:46:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2838 Deselect first char in Move Type-in and ICS Input Box
2840 After popup the Move Type-In had the typed character in it, but it was
2841 selected, so that typing a second character would erase it again.
2842 Same for the ICS Input Box. A prototype for CursorAtEnd is now also added.
2844 2012-10-19 13:33:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2845 Close Move Type-in on Enter
2847 The code is squeezed into the ICSKeyEvent callback.
2849 2012-10-18 21:57:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2850 Add access routines to checkboxes and FocusOnWidget
2852 The <Enter> handler of the filter field needs it to return focus to
2855 2012-10-18 21:42:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2856 Add game-list callbacks
2858 The callbacks for listbox and filter text are treated by the same callback,
2859 which does both key presses and button double-clicks.
2860 Giving focus back to the listbox after filtering does not yet work!
2862 2012-10-18 16:27:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2863 Add optional callback to Label Options
2865 For some reason this does not work. The callback isn't called!
2867 2012-10-18 13:40:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2868 Add type-in event to board for popping up box
2871 2012-10-18 13:12:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2874 The state of Shift and Ctrl was only probed on button clicks, so it
2875 is now read out of the button-event struct in the relevant button handlers.
2876 For backwad compatibility, they store it in a global, so the routine
2877 ShiftKeys can take them from there.
2879 2012-10-18 12:35:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2880 Remove some unneeded low-level X11 code
2882 Things like tabbing between controls, mouse-wheel scolling etc. are all
2883 automatic in GTK, and thuse don't need to be ported.
2885 2012-10-18 10:12:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2888 The gtk-xt code for browsing in response to menu items rather than dialog
2889 browse buttons) was grafted. It seems desirable to merge the two browsing
2890 functions, though. Pass extra params used by Xaw to FileNamePopUpGTK.
2891 The code was altered to use DelayedLoad.
2893 2012-10-18 09:54:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2894 Fix ListBox, and add some support routines
2896 The srolled-window for the listbox used a uninitialized variable for its
2897 width, causing a crash. Now it pays attention to the Option.max and .value
2898 size hints. The access routines were copied from gtk-xt. HighlightWithScroll
2899 could just a wrapper for HighlightListBoxItem, as GTK auto-scrolls.
2901 2012-10-17 20:01:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2902 Connect CommentClick handler
2904 This can make use of generic memo callback, so it could be entirely
2905 backend. Therefore it was moved to dialogs.h. As it shared a global with
2906 some other back-end popup routines to remember the current move, these
2907 could now be moved out of xboard.c too. (Well, not so for the X11 front-end,
2908 so it has now been put in a header. :-( )
2910 2012-10-17 19:41:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2913 Because FrameDelay does block the event loop, even though it releaes the
2914 CPU, expose events start to lag behind the actual drawing. By combining
2915 expose events for overlapping squares, rather than decompose them into
2916 3 rectangles, this problem seems to go away. But only if there is an
2917 extra exposure on the squares to be drawn also non-overlapping frames
2918 will be properly drawn (?!).
2920 2012-10-17 14:40:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2921 Implement highlighting in engine output by through generic method
2923 HighlightMove was made generally available for all text. It is now just a
2924 wrapper for the generic HighlightText, and could be moved to the back-end.
2925 (This requires the initialization to be widget specific, and the flag
2926 indicating it has been done is now stored in the Option.min field.)
2928 2012-10-17 14:33:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2929 Let engine-output memos use new generic callback
2932 2012-10-17 13:53:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2933 Add scrolling of Move History
2935 To have access to the textview, its handle is now stored in the
2936 Option.textValue field.
2938 2012-10-17 13:11:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2939 Add highlighting in move list
2941 For now it is assumed the normal background will be white (for clearing
2944 2012-10-16 19:44:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2945 Make generic memo-event handler, and connect history callback
2947 Large text widgets can now define a user handler in their Option.choice
2948 field. If they do, agneric callback is added tothem, which catches mouse
2949 events. Button release and pointer motion pass their coordinate and type
2950 to the specified user routine. Button presses in addition retrieve
2951 the text from the widget, set the cursor in it to the clicked point,
2952 and convert it to a character position, also passed to the user.
2953 The user is responsible for ignoring events he is not interested in.
2955 2012-10-16 15:58:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2956 Add key-handler for ICS Input Box
2958 In contrast to the X11 code, all intercepted keys are now treated by
2959 the same callback. The ICS Input Box callback triggers on Up, Down and
2960 Return key, and refers to these symbolically.
2962 2012-10-16 15:05:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2963 Highlight Pause button
2966 2012-10-16 13:52:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2967 Better cleansing of xboard.c from X11 types
2969 The #includes for X11 files were still in there.
2971 2012-10-16 13:28:32 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2972 Add text insertion in engine-output memos
2975 2012-10-16 09:34:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2976 Append recent engines to engine menu
2978 This is now entirely moved to the back-end, by doing it in the table
2979 from which the menus are later generated. The special callback for engine
2980 items is abandoned, and the euProc for such items is left NULL to flag
2981 that RecentEngineEvent should be invoked with the applicable engine number.
2982 To calculate the latter a global variable firstEngineItem is dynamically
2983 set to the length of the regular engine menu.
2985 2012-10-15 22:17:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2986 Transfer more gtk-xt code, and add some new
2988 Add input-source handling
2989 Graft color picker (<Enter> callbeack in the text field is still missing!)
2990 Handle contents of label widgets (store handles in Option for access)
2991 Add printing of clocks
2992 Add printing of window title
2993 Pay attention to BORDER attribute of Label Options (pack in frame)
2994 Delete ReadBitmap code (also remove #including of bitmap files for icons)
2995 Fix layout of textviews (adapt to newer Option format, incl. wrap, scroll)
2996 Support vertical stacking in Break Option (no table widening when !SAME_ROW)
2997 Make default horizontal scroll policy automatic (for engine-output window)
2998 Fix disabling of unused spinners in TC dialog
3000 2012-10-15 20:47:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3001 Connect dialog Browse buttons to GTK browser
3004 2012-10-15 19:52:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3005 Implement menu checkmarking and enabling
3007 odes in the (later over-written) handle field specify which items
3008 are to be checkmarked, and by what style button.
3010 2012-10-15 16:18:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3011 Attach expose handler and connect to mouse events
3013 The GraphExposeProc is conected to the Graph widgets. A gdk draw routine
3014 is used to copy the buffer bitmap to the display. It is also connected
3015 to button and motion-notify events.
3016 In this version the board can be fully operated with the mouse.
3018 2012-10-14 22:00:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3019 Transfer most available gtk-xt code to xoptions.c
3021 GenericPopUp and PopDown are grafted from gtk-xt into gtk2.
3022 The version compiles, but segfaults before doing anything, with error
3023 messages about unexpected cases in GenericPopup for Graph and PopUp Options
3024 of the main board. The spin options need special treatment in GetWidgtText.
3026 2012-10-15 11:41:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3027 Give LoadListBox two extra parameters
3029 It often occurs that we just want to swap two elements, and reloading
3030 the entire listbox would be a very inefficient way to do this in widget
3031 sets that allow access to a single element.
3033 2012-10-14 20:36:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3034 Remove all X11 code by #ifdeffing it out
3036 With #ifdef TODO_GTK we disable all X11 code, in order to get a compiling
3037 X11-free version. The disabled sections can then be replaced by code
3038 for another widget set, the X11 version still showing what it was supposed
3041 2012-10-14 17:37:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3042 Move timer functions to new file xtimer.c
3044 The timers for the clocks, periodic analysis events and ScheduleDelayedEvent
3045 go into a separate file.
3047 2012-10-14 15:31:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3048 Make xevalgraph.c backend
3050 The only front-end stuff left in xevalgraph.c was an unnecessary reading
3051 of the window size (which could be obtained from the WindowPlaceent struct),
3052 and drawing (all cairo now). The drawing was moved to draw.c, and the
3053 remaining part renamed nevalgraph.c.
3055 An attempt to list them in a less chaotic way.
3057 2012-10-14 14:34:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3058 Cleanse back-end code of all references to X11 types
3060 When compiling for X11, common.h #included X11/Intrinsics.h so that
3061 X11-specific data types could still be used throughout the back-end part
3062 not shared with WinBoard. By temporarily disabling this, error messages
3063 could be generated on all such occurrences, and were then solved. This
3064 included the following:
3065 The InputSource struct is not uses in usystem.c at all, and its definition
3066 could be moved to xboard.c. InputSourceRef, which logically should heve been
3067 defined as (InputSource *), is in reality (void *), so the back-end can
3069 Some non-platform-dependent stuff of general interest had prototypes
3070 (or external vars) in xboard.h. This is now moved to a new header xboard2.h,
3071 to allow it to be shared without bringing in X11 dependence.
3072 The EngineOutputProc was defined inconsistently, but the header was not
3073 sufficiently shared to flag this error. This has been repaired now, by moving
3074 the template to menus.h.
3076 2012-10-14 13:39:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3077 Remove xedittags.c, .h from project
3079 The tiny bit of code that was left was absorbed in dialogs.c, the one
3080 prototype to menus.h.
3082 2012-10-14 12:53:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3083 Remove inclusion of frontend.h from backendz.h
3085 This did not seem to serve any purpose at all.
3087 2012-10-14 12:49:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3088 Split xhistory.c in front-end and middle-end part
3091 2012-10-14 12:21:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3092 Move MarkMenuItem to xoptions.c
3094 This to make xoptions.c completely independent from the inclusion of
3095 frontend.h. The prototype is moved to menus.h.
3096 Loose end: DrawPosition in board.c does not see the prototype.
3097 Very suspect that it wants to see it. Why would it have to correct the
3098 flipView setting??? Better se to it that it is correct to start with!
3100 2012-10-14 12:14:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3101 move testing for no options to back-end
3103 The test if an engine has options and display a note instead of
3104 the Engine Settings dialog when this is not the case is moved
3105 to outside of GenericPopUp, to make the later independent of calling
3108 2012-10-14 11:20:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3109 Remove some unnecessary header includes
3112 2012-10-14 10:47:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3113 Move ICS-engine analyze and AnalyzeGame code to shared back-end
3115 This code was still duplicated between WB and XB in the front-ends.
3116 Because of its incorporation in AnalyzeModeEvent the 'middle-end'
3117 function AnalyzeModeProc could be eliminated. AnalyzeModeEvent was made
3118 to return an int to flag its success, and keep the JAWS code based
3119 on it out of XBoard.
3120 The AnalyzeGame code is now incorporated in AnalyzeFileEvent().
3122 2012-10-26 10:28:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3123 Add configure switches for Xaw vs GTK.
3125 This patch is an adapted version of the one Arun made at the end of the
3126 gtk2 branch. It uses the exact same version of his configure.ac, but the
3127 Makefile.am is adapted to the situation in master at the beginning of it,
3128 after duplication of the X11 front-end files in the xaw directory for
3129 preserving them, while the versions that will be modified to GTK front-end
3130 are still in the xboard directory.
3132 2012-10-25 11:12:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3133 Prepare xoptions.c for middle-end changes
3135 Some changes that can be pre-empted, such as the splitting of Label
3136 into Label and Icon Option type, and some dummy wrappers are already
3137 implemented, so they can be used when needed by GTK.
3139 2012-10-25 09:20:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3140 Preserve copies of the X11 front-end in xboard directory
3142 The X11 front-end has been moved to the xaw directory, but copies
3143 are retained for modifying them to gtk versions.
3145 2012-10-24 08:55:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3146 Move X11 front-end to directory xaw
3149 2012-10-31 18:18:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3150 Fix initial enables in TC dialog
3153 2012-10-30 14:47:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3154 Fix image extension used for browsing to .pgn
3157 2012-10-28 21:39:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3158 Fix WinBoard compile error on enum PEN
3161 2012-10-30 11:20:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3162 Fix crash in promotion popup
3164 There were not enough entries for Capablanca Chess with legality-testing off,
3165 where King is also presented as a choice.
3167 2012-10-28 18:19:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3168 Fix message in New Variant dialog
3170 Even in -ncp mode the message was referring to the 'current engine'.
3172 2012-10-28 18:16:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3173 Fix crash on animation after resizing
3175 The animate buffers were still holding pointers to a discarded cairo surface.
3177 2012-10-21 14:49:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3178 Fix variant-dependent pieces
3180 The code to select the actually used piece images from the available ones
3181 (from InitDrawingSizes) is now made into a subroutine, and also called
3182 after resizing the pieces.
3184 2012-10-26 10:18:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3185 Replace marble texture pixmaps by png
3188 2012-10-26 10:13:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3189 Replace xiangqi board pixmaps by png images
3192 2012-10-26 10:08:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3193 Remove the texture pixmaps from project
3195 These were already replaced by png textures.
3197 2012-10-23 15:02:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3198 Fix re-rendering of svg on resize
3200 The previously prepared bitmaps were retained if we resized, rather then
3201 rendering the svg atthe new size.
3203 2012-10-21 15:48:30 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3207 2012-10-21 15:47:12 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3208 new version number for developer release
3211 2012-10-21 11:10:36 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3212 we still need a few bitmaps, so the directory needs to be included in Makefile.am
3214 make distcheck complained about this
3216 2012-10-21 15:56:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3217 Rename svg shogi pieces, so they become usable
3219 Only white pieces are present. For black they would have to be flipped.
3221 2012-10-21 15:54:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3222 Fix bug in resizing on variant switch
3224 The fix of the garbage pixels had unfortunately broken this.
3226 2012-10-21 15:15:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3227 Fix bug in fallback mechanism
3229 After failure to load a piece from a specified -pieceImageDirectory
3230 the default theme was not tried, because the cairo function to load
3231 from a pgn file returns a valid handle even if the file does not exist.
3233 2012-10-21 14:58:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3234 Get svg error message
3237 2012-10-21 14:49:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3238 Fix variant-dependent pieces
3240 The code to select the actually used piece images from the available ones
3241 (from InitDrawingSizes) is now made into a subroutine, and also called
3242 after resizing the pieces.
3244 2012-10-16 12:08:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3245 Remove caveat on available pieces fromNew Variant dialog
3247 In the cairo version all pieces are available at all board sizes.
3249 2012-10-21 11:41:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3250 Remove some unused images from png directory
3252 Currently only the three board texture files are used. But the piece
3253 images are still left, because they might be useful if we ever want
3254 to mae XBoard configurable for not using librsvg.
3256 2012-10-21 10:40:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3259 The nominal size of the window was not set in the correct Option struct.
3261 2012-10-21 09:58:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3262 Prevent odd-width line shift in length direction
3265 2012-10-21 09:48:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3266 Print missing-pieces error message to console
3268 The GUI might not yet be up at this point.In addition, suppress
3269 the rest of the code, because it could give segfaults.
3271 2012-10-21 09:30:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3272 Fix garbage pixels on the right of the board
3274 The extra pixel that is requested in sizing the board window back to
3275 an available size because we ofte get one less pixel than we ask for
3276 can lead to a line of garbage pixels next to the board. This is combatted
3277 by limiting expose events to the true board area, remembering that in the
3278 Graph Option rather than the actual window size, and suppressing resizing
3279 when the latter only exceeds the stored width by more than 1 pixel.
3281 2012-10-15 10:27:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3282 Trim board-window size
3284 The board window will sometimes be a pixel larger than requested.
3285 The ReSize routine will now reset the size values in the Graph Option
3286 to what they were supposed to be, to prevent expose events will
3287 draw nonsense in the extra space.
3289 2012-10-13 23:26:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3290 Adapt docs for svg/png in stead of bitmap/pixmap
3293 2012-10-13 09:35:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3294 Spontaeous changes in gettext stuff
3297 2012-10-13 08:03:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3298 Move Shogi svg pieces to own directory
3301 2012-10-13 07:57:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3302 Remove unnecessary Xt colors and call to MakeColors
3305 2012-10-13 07:50:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3306 Code cleanup: move expose redraw to draw.c
3309 2012-10-13 07:37:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3310 Suppress warning for InitDrawingHandle
3313 2012-10-13 07:33:15 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3314 Make fallbackPieceImageDirectory hardcoded
3317 2012-10-13 07:18:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3318 Increase drag delay too 200 msec
3320 On my slow laptop it can take more than 100 msec to reallocate bitmaps
3321 in the generic expose, with as a consequence that the DelayedDrag event
3322 is not processed before the timeout expires. The timeout event then triggers
3323 a redraw, which again takes so long that the timeout expires before the
3324 event to reset the timer could be processed, and this just perpetuates
3325 itself, leading to a large series of queued redraws, and a long waiting time
3326 for an image to appear after the sizing stops.
3328 2012-10-13 07:01:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3329 Fix segfault on faulty command-line option
3332 2012-10-12 14:42:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3333 Suppress anti-aliasing in -monoMode
3335 In the color-substitution code, always use bi-level alpha and color.
3337 2012-10-12 13:34:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3338 Remove piece pixmaps from project
3341 2012-10-12 11:47:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3342 Implement proper fallback cascade
3344 Try in order cached svg, cached bitmap, user png, user svg, default svg.
3346 2012-10-12 11:06:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3350 2012-10-12 10:45:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3351 Install svg pieces in themes/default
3353 The svg pieces are installed with the XBoard data in the directory
3354 .../xboard/themes/default . A new option -fallbackPieceImageDirectory
3355 is added, and is configured in the master settings file to point to
3356 these pieces. This options, which replaces -svgDirectory, is volatile,
3357 and the menu control to set it is removed. The -pngDirectory option
3358 is renamed to -pieceImageDirectory (-pid).
3360 2012-10-12 10:02:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3361 Remove bitmaps from project
3364 2012-10-12 09:55:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3365 Install the wood textures as png
3367 The xboard.conf has to be edited to set these as default textures,
3368 in stead of the .xpm files.
3370 2012-10-12 09:50:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3371 Add hatched board texture
3373 A png file with hatching is added, so it can be used for dark squares
3374 in a monochrome theme. It is installed in a new data directory
3375 .../xboard/themes/textures.
3377 2012-10-11 22:21:06 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3378 added a black and white theme to replace the mono option
3381 2012-10-11 20:56:42 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3382 added SVGs to dist files in automake
3385 2012-10-11 19:44:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3386 Fix exposure of atomic captures
3388 The grid lines had to be repaired too, so damage marker 2 had to be used.
3390 2012-10-11 19:13:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3391 Fix animation with textures off
3393 The blank square was not shifted to (0,0) when drawing the animation buffer.
3395 2012-10-11 19:08:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3396 Fix 1-pixel offset of grid lines on some cairo implementations
3399 2012-10-11 09:51:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3400 Solve odd lineGap problem
3402 Not all cairo versions seem to round the same when an odd-width line
3403 is to be drawn at integer coordinates. So now we explicitly ask it
3404 to be drawn centered on half-odd-integer coordinates.
3406 2012-10-09 18:52:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3407 Add -trueColors option
3410 2012-10-09 14:56:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3411 Always render svg pieces anew on size change
3413 The svg pieces are now unconditionally rendered to supply the pngPieceImage
3414 master source otherwise read from png file. This is then fed into the
3415 original png code (so that if for some reason it fails, we fall back on png
3416 pieces, and finally on built-in pixmaps).
3418 2012-10-09 14:06:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3419 Fix rsvg version in configure.ac
3422 2012-10-08 19:54:19 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3423 initial svg rendering
3426 2012-10-08 18:34:05 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3427 added cairo and librsvg to configure process
3430 2012-10-08 18:32:55 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3433 converted from inkscape SVG to plain SVG before adding
3435 2012-10-10 21:19:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3436 Adapt Eval Graph code to new drawing system
3438 The eval graph now triggers an expose after drawing, and gets its size
3439 from the Option fields.
3441 2012-10-10 20:37:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3442 Fix expose requests seek graph
3445 2012-10-10 20:07:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3446 Make draw handle for board globally available
3449 2012-10-10 19:45:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3450 Let expose requests pay proper attenton to widget
3452 So far, expose requests were always assumed to be for the board widget,
3453 preventing display of the labels.
3455 2012-10-10 18:45:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3456 Fix initial display of logos
3458 The logos were selected and printed during the initialization,
3459 before the main event loop was started. So the expose events during
3460 widget creation, which created the drawing surfaces, were only processed
3461 after the initial drawing of logos, so that there was nothing to draw on!
3463 2012-10-10 17:25:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3464 Fix alignment of highlight expose
3467 2012-10-10 17:19:52 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3471 2012-10-09 13:57:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3472 Make expose handler generic
3474 The Graph Option now returns two handles in hitherto unused fields of its
3475 Option struct: Option.choice is a cairo handle of a memory buffer the user
3476 must draw to, while Option.textValue is the handle to the widget.
3477 Expose events copy the memory buffer to the display for the exposed area.
3478 A routine DrawExpose() is supplied to let the user generate expose events.
3480 2012-10-06 21:30:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3481 Reload piece images when pngDirectory is changed
3483 The OK function of the board options dialog now tests for a change
3484 in pngDirectory and passes a parameter to InitDrawingParams to tell
3485 it to destroy the old images. This cause a reload on scaling the pieces.
3487 2012-10-06 20:16:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3488 Suppress redraw during sizing
3491 2012-10-06 20:10:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3492 Fix bug in resize trigger
3494 Even if the square size does not change, the window has to be shrunk
3495 back to fit the board.
3497 2012-10-06 19:54:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3498 Make Piececolor options work on png pieces
3500 The scaled, antialiased bitmaps are now colored according to the option
3501 settings. This is done by decomposing every pixel in a white, black and
3502 transparency component, which is possible because the opacity is
3503 directly give in the alpha channel, and black originally was a hard zero.
3504 So what you se in the red channel must be white (as the original white
3505 was #FFFFCC), and the rest of the opacity must be due to black.
3506 The color to be replaced (white for the white pieces, black for the black
3507 pieces) is then replaced by the original weight of this color times the
3508 color from the option.
3510 2012-10-06 17:53:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3511 Plug resource leak on rezising with pixmaps
3514 2012-10-06 16:19:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3515 Fall back on built-in pixmaps if png pieces unreadable
3518 2012-10-06 14:21:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3519 Do coordinate text alignment with cairo
3522 2012-10-06 13:40:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3526 2012-10-06 12:14:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3527 Clean up drawing code
3529 Now all routines only draw through cairo, the destination surface can
3530 be passed to them, making it possible to do the duplicate drawing
3531 to the memory board image in a cleaner way.
3533 2012-10-06 11:37:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3534 Check in draw.c, draw.h
3537 2012-10-06 11:26:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3538 Remove all bitmap & pixmap drawing
3540 All Xt code for drawing the board is now removed, as are the
3541 -pixmapDirectory and -bitmapdirectory option. This version is now
3542 completely dependent on cairo for handling of all graphics anywhere.
3543 (The build-in pixmaps are still left, though, for later use as an
3544 alterative cairo source when no png files are found.)
3546 2012-10-06 10:29:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3547 Separate off drawing routines from xboard.c
3549 A new source file draw.c is created to hold all code associated with
3550 board drawing. The routines for loading bitmaps and creating colors
3551 were left in xboard.c, though, as they are also used for handling
3552 icons and colors of widgets.
3554 2012-10-05 19:53:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3555 Fix erasing dots in seek graph
3557 The cairo dots were just a little bit bigger than the old ones, so they
3558 were not properly erased, but left a remnant.
3560 2012-10-05 19:25:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3561 Cleanup CairoOverlayPiece
3564 2012-10-05 19:22:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3565 Draw arrow also on backup image
3568 2012-10-05 19:16:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3569 Fix highlight clearing
3572 2012-10-05 18:59:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3573 Remove acceleration trick
3576 2012-10-05 18:54:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3577 Implement variant-dependent png piece symbols
3580 2012-10-05 18:42:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3581 Fix clearing of markers dots with promo popup
3584 2012-10-05 18:32:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3585 Also render coordinates to backup board
3588 2012-10-05 18:30:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3592 2012-10-05 18:29:13 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3593 Let cairo also do evenly colored squares.
3596 2012-10-05 17:56:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3597 Make dragged piece for excluding moves transparent
3600 2012-10-05 17:42:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3604 2012-10-05 17:40:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3605 Redo coordinate / piece-count printing ith cairo
3608 2012-10-05 15:40:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3609 Also use cairo on slave board
3611 With dual-board observing the drawing should be redirected to the
3612 slave board, so SwitchWindow should also switch the xlib-surface to
3613 one for the slave window.
3615 2012-10-05 15:12:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3616 Cure flashing of piece on from-square
3618 In a drag-drop move the piece was flashed on the from square after the
3619 user dropped it on the to-square, because highlights were set before the
3620 move had updated the board. And highlighting with arrow can cause a redraw
3621 of the last board. Same with setting or clearing marker dots.
3623 2012-10-05 14:20:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3624 Specify proper condition for using cairo animation
3627 2012-10-05 14:07:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3628 Allow resizing of board window
3630 In full png mode the size of the board window is no longer locked.
3631 After resizing, the square size is calculated as the largest one that
3632 would fit the window, and the window is then shrunk around it. To prevent
3633 excessive redrawing during sizing, the redraw is delayed by putting it
3636 2012-10-05 10:41:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3637 Switch to using 64x64 png images
3639 The bitmap scaling works better when the needed factors are not too large,
3640 as the svg rendering's anti-aliasing did not blur more than 1 pixel.
3641 So after shrinking too much the images are not effectively anti-aliased
3644 2012-10-05 10:16:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3645 Maintain in-memory copy of the board image
3647 As reading back from the xlib-surface proves incredibly slow (cairo probably
3648 converts the entire image from Xt format to cairo format when we set it
3649 as a source, even though we only want to read a few dozen pixels), we now
3650 keep an exact copy of the board image as a cairo bitmap in memory. This
3651 restores the speed of the animation, but unfortunately leads to awful code.
3653 2012-10-04 22:15:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3654 Do animation with cairo
3656 Unfortunately this is incredibly slow.
3658 2012-10-04 18:36:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3659 Allow back-texture files to be PNG, (drawn with cairo)
3662 2012-10-04 15:10:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3665 A new directory with 256x256 png piece images is added to the source tree.
3667 2012-10-04 15:01:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3668 Add mode to draw PNG piece images through cairo
3670 The PNG images have to be supplied as files in a -pngDirectory (a new
3671 option) with a 256x256 bitmap. They are then scaled by cairo to the
3672 desired square size. This does not work very well for the smaller sizes.
3674 2012-10-03 14:45:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3675 Redo marker dots with cairo
3678 2012-10-03 14:27:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3679 Redo highlights with cairo
3682 2012-10-03 14:07:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3683 Make convenience routine SetPen globally available
3685 The routine to set a pen as specified by a color string that was used
3686 in xevalgraph is moved to xboard.c, where there also is lots of demand
3687 for it. The arrow drawing now uses it for setting the highlightSquareColor.
3689 2012-10-03 12:28:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3690 Redo grid with cairo
3693 2012-10-03 12:00:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3694 Redo arrow highlighting with cairo
3697 2012-10-03 11:20:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3698 Redo seek graph with cairo
3700 New front-end services DrawSeekOpen() and DrawSeekClose() have been
3701 added, and are called from the back-end to enclose any drawing activity.
3702 In WinBoard these had to be defined as dummies.
3704 2012-10-02 15:31:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3705 Redo logos with cairo
3707 The logos must now be .png files, and are internally handled as their
3708 filenames. (So no preparation of a drawable from it at startup.)
3709 Cairo allows them to be scaled to the requested logoSize.
3711 2012-10-02 14:02:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3712 Fix Eval Graph resolution problems
3714 Anti-aliasing had to be switched off to get a crisp graph. A second problem
3715 was that the dashed lines were drawn in both directions, with interfering
3718 2012-10-02 10:54:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3719 Redo Eval Graph drawing with cairo
3722 2012-10-21 10:21:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3723 Fix button-border-width bug in monoMode
3725 The kludge of signalling we are dealing wih a button rather than a label
3726 was wrongly implemented in case of momoMode.
3728 2012-10-21 10:14:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3729 Reserve more space for button bar
3731 In some board sizes the button bar was wider than the code guessed,
3732 so the window width would be determined by the message + buttons row rather
3735 2012-10-21 11:24:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3736 Fix WinBoard compile errors
3739 2012-10-13 09:33:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3740 Fix non-NLS compile error for XFontStruct
3743 2012-10-12 12:04:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3744 Fix browsing for path
3746 A pathname was still prefixed with the cuurent directory.
3748 2012-10-07 21:00:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3749 Use Pause state in AnalyzeMode to imply move exclusion
3751 The pause state was not used in AnalyzeMode so far. Now it is used to
3752 imply all entered moves are for exclusion/inclusion.
3754 2012-09-30 18:55:13 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3755 new version number for developer release
3758 2012-09-30 22:16:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3759 Fix broken -ics and -cp options
3761 The patch to specify engines and ICS by nickame broke the use of the
3762 regular options to do this, because they could also reset them. Now
3763 this is fixed by only setting them (through |= in stead of =).
3765 2012-09-30 22:01:52 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3768 The description of exclude-moves, multi-game ananalysis and duo-analysis
3771 2012-09-30 10:07:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3772 Resolve conflict between -mps and -inc options
3774 The age-old problem that a persistent valid -inc value will cause -mps
3775 to be ignored is solved by the kludge of storing these two as a single
3776 option (-mps) in the settings file, and declaring the other (-inc) volatile.
3777 The range of negative numbers (invalid as -mps value) was available for
3778 that, and now is used to store the negated value of -inc in msec.
3779 For backward compatibility, specification of -inc causes interpretation
3780 of -mps in the old way. The forcing of -inc to -1 in the master settings file
3781 could be safely removed because of this change, so that the time increment
3782 now is a persistent option.
3784 2012-09-29 23:13:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3785 Allow entry of fractional increment in WB time-control dialog
3787 The numeric edit is changed to a general text edit, and code is added
3788 to convert the text it contains to and from float, with proper error check.
3790 2012-09-29 23:05:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3791 Preconfigure -icsNames in xboard.conf
3793 Although XBoard has no startup dialog with an ICS combobox, the -icsNames
3794 option is now used to select lines from with the -is option, and in
3795 interpretation of positional arguments. The most common ICS are configured
3796 together with a short nickname, so that commands like "xboard fics" will work.
3798 2012-09-29 22:58:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3799 Allow ICS nickname as positional argument
3801 If an argument is encountered that is not preceded by an option name,
3802 it is now first checked if it corresponds to the nickname of an ICS
3803 in -icsNames. If so, it is assumed to be the value of an -is option,
3804 selecting -ics mode with that ICS and all the options installed with it.
3806 2012-09-28 20:28:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3807 Cure some sick behavior in XBoard Engine Output right-clicks
3809 When a PV-walk is in progress, the PV is highlighted by selecting it,
3810 and this focuses the attention of the scroll bar on it, so it remains in
3811 view. But after release, that line was kept in view, rather than scrolling
3812 back to the top of the window (where the header line bust be available
3815 2012-09-28 13:28:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3816 Allow Analyze Game to auto-step through entire game file
3818 If the game index is set to auto-increment (-lgi -1), the Analyze Game
3819 function will automatically load the next game of the current game file
3820 (starting to auto-play/annotate that) when the end of the current game is
3821 reached. This flushes the annotated game if auto-saving was set,
3822 so that eventually all games in the file will be annotatd and saved.
3823 The game index is automatically set to auto-increment when we load
3824 a file while in Analyze Game mode, but switching this mode on while a game
3825 is already loaded will stop at the end of that game, as usual (if -lgi was
3826 not explicitly set).
3828 2012-09-28 13:24:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3829 Let second engine move in lockstep during dual analysis
3831 When the second engine is also analysing (as indicated by its stat variable
3832 second.analyzing), we send all moves / undos / positions / in&excludes that
3833 go to the first engine also to second.
3835 2012-09-27 19:07:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3836 Allow second engine to analyze too
3838 Clicking the Analysis menu when analysis is already in progress will
3839 now toggle the secon engine to analyze the same position. For now,
3840 this lasts only until the position changes (or you leave analyze mode),
3841 after which the second engine is always switched off, and the Engine
3842 Output window returns to single pane. Each pane now has its own header
3843 line; the exclude header is suppressed in the second pane.
3845 2012-09-27 18:11:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3846 Add options -fe, -se, -is to load installed engines/ics from list
3848 The volatile string options -fe, -se ('first/second engine') load the first
3849 and second engine of the given nickname in the -firstChessProgramNames list,
3850 including all options that were installed with it (similar to when in
3851 WinBoard the that engine line had been selected through the Startup Dialog's
3852 combobox). The option -is is similarly used to retrieve the line for an
3853 ICS in the -icsNames list.
3855 2012-09-27 18:02:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3856 Add check on validity of tourney participants
3858 Before allowing OK of the Tournament Options dialog, it is now checked
3859 whether all participants (which are given as nicknames) can be found
3860 in the list of installed engines, so that no problems will occurr with
3861 non-existing engines during the tourney (if typos crept in after hand-
3864 2012-09-25 16:21:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3865 Implement --help option
3867 The list of options is printed before exiting. Some attempt is made
3868 to do it in a nice way.
3870 2012-09-23 20:10:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3871 Implement variant seirawan in -serverMoves option
3873 Write the gating moves such that the ChessLive! viewer will understand them.
3875 2012-09-23 20:05:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3876 Workaround for FICS bug
3878 FICS does not properly understand SAN, and thinks bxc3 can be a Bishop move.
3879 This broke 'Upload to examine', because that uploaded in SAN. In case the
3880 SAN starts with Bx or bx, it now uses long algebraic (with = before the
3883 2012-09-20 18:17:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3884 Define XOP mime type for XBoard
3886 Supply a white-knight icon for this mime type, called application/x-xboard-opt,
3887 and a sesktop file to associate it with running XBoard with this settings file.
3889 2012-09-20 17:24:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3890 Pay attention to extension of 'positional' arguments
3892 An argument without preceding option name was assumed to be an -lgf argument.
3893 This patch still does that by default, but if the argument ends in .fen, .epd,
3894 .trn, .ini or .xop it is considered an -lpf, -tf or -opt argument.
3895 In addition, an implied -lpf or -lgf argument also imply the option -viewer,
3896 which inserts the -viewerOptions string into the command line, and proesses it
3897 as options. A new option -tourneyOptions is similarly inserted for an implied
3898 -tf argument. These strings should contain all options needed to start XBoard
3899 fully configured as game viewer or tourney playing agent on the mentioned file.
3901 2012-09-20 15:29:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3902 Let windows stick to right display edge (WB)
3904 Auxiliary windows docked to the board window from below or to the right, which are
3905 pushed out of view when the board window resizes, will be trimmed to just touch the
3906 diplay edge (if sufficient width or height remains). When the board window shrinks,
3907 auxiliary windows touching the edge will be resized so they remain touching it.
3909 2012-09-20 15:20:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3910 Round board size to one where piece images available (WB)
3912 When using built-in bitmaps, in sizes where unorthodox pieces are needed, but not
3913 available, the size is temporarily rounded to one of the sizes where they are.
3915 2012-07-03 17:21:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3916 Fix bug in Edit Position
3918 Due to = in stead of == the variant was always set to S-Chess in
3921 2012-08-28 21:24:51 -0700 Daniel Macks <dmacks@netspace.org>:
3922 bug #37210: Mishandling of X11 -I flags (tiny change)
3924 AP: applied patch from bugtracker and added one missing 'save_cppflags="$CPPFLAGS"'
3926 2012-06-02 14:31:18 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3927 bug #36229: changed ICS_* from define to enum
3930 2012-05-28 13:58:00 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3931 bug #36229: changed STATE_* from define to enum
3933 enabling better compiler checks
3935 2012-05-28 13:50:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3936 bug #36229: changed PEN_* from define to enum
3938 This should allow better checks by the compiler
3940 2012-05-28 13:01:15 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3941 fix bug #36228: reserved identifier violation
3943 variables and macro names beginning with _ are renamed to XB_. More consistent naming of include guards.
3944 See link in bug report.
3946 2012-05-28 12:36:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3947 Updated German translation
3950 2012-04-30 20:06:00 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
3951 new version number for developer release
3954 2012-04-24 11:23:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3955 Decapitalize promoChar in move parser
3958 2012-04-23 14:12:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3959 Keep track of virginity of back-rank pieces in variant seirawan
3961 The forelast rank of the Board array is now used in VariantSChess to
3962 contain flags that indicate virginity of the back-rank pieces, one bit
3963 for white, the other for black. Legality checking of gatings now makes
3964 use of this info. FENs mention all virgin pieces not implied by castling
3965 rights in the castling field, by printing the corresponding file IDs,
3966 as long as holdings are non-empty. The FEN reader now also understands
3967 this format. EditPositionDone fakes virginity for all pieces that are
3968 on their starting square.
3970 2012-04-17 19:49:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3971 Suppress clear-board message after pasting FEN
3973 The message field is now always cleared when you leave EditPosition mode.
3975 2012-04-17 19:45:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3976 Fix faking of castling rights after editing position with holdings
3978 The queen-side rook was always imagined at X=0, which is in the holdings
3979 when these exist, so that Q-side castling in such games was never allowed
3982 2012-04-20 10:29:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3983 Fix WB Engine Settings window
3985 The listbox patch has broken this window, by making it only list the
3986 first option of the engine, by switching to the next column based on a >=
3987 test rather than == test. Fixed by using 1000 as invalid value for the
3988 break point, rather than -1.
3990 2012-04-20 00:01:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3991 Fix key binding of DebugProc
3993 The name used for binding was DebugProc, while the ite was named Debug.
3995 2012-04-16 20:51:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
3996 Fix ICS Text Menu popup
3998 The space for the option names needed to be allocated.
4000 2012-04-16 20:37:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4001 Fix disabling of Load Engine menu
4004 2012-04-15 22:53:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4005 Port chat boxes to XBoard
4007 A new menu item Open Chat Window is added to the View menu. It opens a
4008 window that can handle 5 chats. A row of buttons on top selects which is
4009 the foreground chat partner, to which we type, and whose incoming messages
4010 will be displayed in the memo. The leftmost 'button' is not really a button,
4011 but a text edit, and the active partner is displayed there (so it can be
4012 altered). Selecting another chat partner through a button, moves that partner
4013 to the text-edit, and reshuffles the buttons. Incoming messages in a chat
4014 that is not foreground make the corresponding button color orange.
4016 2012-04-16 20:27:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4017 Allow chaining of single-line text-edits to top
4019 For the benefit of the chat window, a text-edit plus leading description
4020 can now also be chained to the top edge of a dialog. The chaining of the
4021 (degenerate) multi-line ICS Input Box and Move Type-In was entirely to the
4022 bottom, which has now been corrected.
4024 2012-04-12 09:30:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4025 Add logo widgets in main board window
4027 New options -logoSize and -logoDir are added. The former enables logo display,
4028 when non-zero and not too big. The latter is used by -autoLogo. The options
4029 -firstLogo and -secondLogo also work. Problem is that the clock height
4030 is larger than the logo height, and for now a nasty trick in GenericPopUp
4031 is used to position the next element (message field) w.r.t. the clocks,
4032 rather than the last element of the row above (the logo): in case of a
4033 SAME_ROW Graph element, 'last' is kept at the previous element.
4035 2012-04-19 10:48:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4036 Fix crash on time forfeit with -st option
4038 When fixed time per move was set from the command line, the time-control
4039 strings were not set. This let to a crash when an engine forfeited.
4040 The GetTimeQuota function is now made resistant to a NULL pointer here.
4042 2012-04-19 10:39:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4043 Solve WinBoard name clashes, fix zippy-analyze menu graying
4045 Some of the function names used in the refactored X11 front-end collided
4046 with Windows system names from winboard.h, or with names of internal routines
4047 in WinBoard front-end files (so they could not be declared in frontend.h).
4048 These were renamed. Some prototypes in engineoutput.h contained X11 types,
4049 and they were moved to xboard.h.
4050 In addition, two menu-item names were corrected to two-part names.
4052 2012-04-18 12:00:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4053 Offer primitive paging in file browser
4055 If there are more than 1000 files that would have to be displayed,
4056 the number will be limited to 999, and a 'next page' entry will appear
4057 at the bottom. Clicking that will give you the next group.
4058 This is an emergency measure only, as it interferes with sorting
4059 (grouping is based on order inside the directory, i.e. kind of arbitrary,
4060 and sorting is only done within a group.) There is no such thing for the
4061 folder list yet. There is no way to go back to a previous page, other
4062 than closing and re-opening the browser, or selecting another file type.
4064 2012-04-18 11:16:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4065 Add pixmap as file type known to browser
4067 Users can browse for a pixmap to set the board texture.
4069 2012-04-17 15:45:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4070 Fix warning about signedness
4072 Note: the promoChar in ExcludeMoves was explicitly defined to make
4073 sure the kludge promoChar = -1 for indicating best move works. But it
4074 should be equivalent to casting the promoChar to (signed char) just
4075 before the comparison.
4077 2012-04-17 15:44:15 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4078 Fix warnings about character index
4081 2012-04-17 15:37:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4082 Move ManProc to xboard.c
4084 It calls ManInner, which requires X11 data types, even if the values are NULL.
4086 2012-04-17 15:27:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4087 Move FileNamePopUp to dialogs.c
4090 2012-04-17 15:15:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4091 Fix readout of numeric combobox
4093 As currently no numeric comboboxes are used, this bug was silent.
4095 2012-04-17 15:10:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4096 Shuffle prototypes to correct header, or add them there
4099 2012-04-17 14:15:15 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4102 This function could crash when called with ann argument that did not
4103 contain a period, while the idea was that it should handle this as if the
4104 item is in noMenu (for user-specified key binding to non-menu funtions).
4106 2012-04-16 19:43:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4107 Fix click-click under-promotion animation save
4110 2012-04-17 11:02:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4111 Define TOPLEVEL in winboard.c
4114 2012-04-17 10:59:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4115 Add two new strings to WinBoard language file
4118 2012-04-17 10:51:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4119 Fix second-engine variant test
4121 The test whether the second engine supports the selected variant took place
4122 before the second engine was loaded, thus always coming to the conclusion
4123 that the variant was not supported, and aborting the TwoMachines command.
4124 The test is now moved to after second-engine loading (but before its
4125 initialization, where non-supporting would become a fatal error).
4127 2012-04-16 12:11:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4128 Fix clearing of ICS input box after send
4131 2012-04-16 19:08:10 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4132 enable -Wall -Wno-parentheses for all compilers that understand them
4135 2012-04-16 13:18:37 +0200 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
4136 Remove 5 unused variables from zippy code
4139 2012-04-16 13:14:06 +0200 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
4140 Remove unused static function ShowTC
4143 2012-04-16 13:10:58 +0200 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
4144 Remove unused static function MenuBarSelect
4147 2012-04-16 13:07:01 +0200 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
4148 Remove unused variable first_entry from function find_key
4151 2012-04-16 13:01:09 +0200 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
4152 Remove unused variable tm from function SaveGamePGN
4155 2012-04-16 12:56:46 +0200 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
4156 Remove unused variable delayedKing from function QuickScan
4159 2012-04-16 12:52:57 +0200 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
4160 Remove unused variable pdown from function UserMoveEvent
4163 2012-04-15 04:25:59 +0200 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
4164 Change some double literals to floats.
4166 To avoid unnecessary implicit promotions of float variables to double.
4168 2012-04-15 11:12:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4172 2012-04-14 22:43:03 +0200 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
4173 Translate "NPS" also in engine output window
4176 2012-04-14 16:19:34 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4177 removed unused variables (-Wunused-variable)
4180 2012-04-14 15:37:05 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
4181 added m4 directory to search path for aclocal. As suggested by Michel Van den Bergh
4184 2012-04-14 23:21:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4185 Fix Eval Graph scale in drop games
4188 2012-04-14 23:16:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4189 Fix ArrowDamage out-of-bounds access on drop moves
4192 2012-04-14 21:33:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4193 Implement automatic partner observe
4195 Starting a game, or starting to observe one, now automatically issues a
4196 'pobserve' command if dual-board is switched on, so that the partner game
4197 will pop up in the secondary board (assuming it is bughouse).
4198 The secondary board now displays the players in the title. (This (lightly)
4199 breaks WinBoard again.) When the primary game ends, the secondary board
4200 closes automatically. Initial sizing of the board is repaired, and now uses
4201 the actual current board size, rather than the initial size of the main board.
4203 2012-04-14 15:43:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4204 Fix crash due to empty PV
4206 Reception of a stat01 command before the first PV could cause a crash,
4207 as apparently the parser cannot handle this.
4209 2012-04-14 13:27:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4210 Suppress testing for availability in bughouse drops
4212 Give up on testing legality of bughouse drop moves; this only causes problems,
4213 because the move list sent by the ICS is not accompanied by holdings updates.
4214 So XBoard parses it thinking the holdings are empty, making every drop move
4215 an ImpossibleMove. Bughouse can only be played on ICS, and we might as well
4216 trust the ICS that it will only pass us legal moves. A user should not be
4217 able to enter illegal drops; unavailable pieces cannot be grabbed from the
4218 holdings, and typing is diverted to the ICS directly (which would reject the
4219 illegal drop without XBoard even knowing about it).
4220 Also improve switching to bh/zh, based on drop move in initial board.
4222 2012-04-14 09:11:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4223 Fix some compile errors / warnings
4226 2012-04-13 19:06:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4227 Fix promotionPopDown on new move entry
4229 The promotion popup is non-modal, and old XBoard versions popped it down
4230 as soon as the user clicked the board, so he could just enter a new move
4231 to abort the promotion. This was broken in the new version, because the code
4232 to do the PopDown and abort in HandleUserMove had not been ported.
4234 2012-04-13 18:38:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4235 Use in-place sweep-selection for click-click under-promotion
4237 With detour under-promotion a piece cycles through all possible choices
4238 during backwards dragging. But in a click-click move there is no dragging.
4239 This used to be solved by letting the second click start a drag event of
4240 the default promotion choice, which you could accept by immediately
4241 releasing the mouse button, or drag around to change it first.
4242 The dragging in this case seemed a little unnatural, because the to-square
4243 was already indicated by the down-click. So it has been changed now to the
4244 promo choice appearing on the down-clicked to-square, followed by
4245 EditPosition-like sweep-selection on that square when one wants to under-
4246 promote. The move is always accepted no matter where the up-click takes
4247 place, except when it takes place on the from-square (which offers a last-
4248 resort abort possibiliy).
4249 Note that click-click promotion is essential in variants where it is not
4250 obvious from the from-square alone that a promotion is imminent, but where
4251 it depends on the to-square. (Such as Shogi.) There drag-drop detour under-
4252 promotion is not possible.
4254 2012-04-13 16:05:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4255 Improve arrow drawing
4257 The arrow is now erased together with the border highlights, by marking
4258 the damage it did, and then doing a selected redraw of the board to let
4259 the damaged square be re-drawn. Highlights of a previous move are now
4260 cleared on the down-click that selects a new piece, so there never is an
4261 arrow to infavorably interact with animation of dragging.
4263 2012-04-13 14:57:15 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4264 Also do selective redraw with showTargetSquares on
4266 The XBoard DrawPosition now also keeps track of the previous marker state,
4267 and redraws squares for which thi shas changed. As a result, the routine
4268 MarkTargetSquares does no longer have to force to complete redraw.
4271 2012-04-13 00:33:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4272 Fix click-click sweep promotions to empty square
4274 These did not work, because DragPieceBegin would fail on an EmptySquare.
4276 2012-04-12 23:58:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4277 Move clearing of target squares to after drag end
4279 A dragged piece that would partly overshoot its destination into a square
4280 with a marker would effectively protect that marker from erasing, when the
4281 erasing was done before the piece was released, because redrawal after the
4282 move only would draw the target square. (Unlike erasing, which forces a full
4285 2012-04-12 23:49:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4286 Fix double promotion popup
4288 Only the up-click of a click-click move gives a promotion popup now.
4290 2012-04-12 23:32:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4293 The new GenericPopUp did not like it if the first button had 'SAME_ROW' set.
4295 2012-04-12 17:28:32 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4296 Allow clearing of marker dots in any mode
4298 There might already be dots when you change to a mode where there should
4299 be none, and you don't want them to stay on forever in that case...
4301 2012-04-12 17:00:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4302 Fix redraw of secondary board on flipping view
4305 2012-04-12 10:30:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4306 Let clocks of secondary board count down
4308 The back-end now remembers what is the active clock, and the time left on it.
4309 This is then decremented and updated together with the clocks of your own
4310 game, using the partnerUp flag to divert the clock display to the secondary.
4312 2012-04-12 09:47:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4313 Fix 3 forgotten symbolic widget references
4316 2012-04-11 19:24:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4317 Add sound files to browser menu
4320 2012-04-11 13:04:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4321 Add New Directory button to file browser
4324 2012-04-11 09:54:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4325 Detect engine exit during startup
4327 The case where engine startup failure does not result in a fatal protocol
4328 message, like "No such file", but where it simply exits, is now also covered.
4330 2012-04-10 22:55:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4331 Suppress popup for fatal error after tellusererror
4333 For cooperating better with Polyglot, and allowing more to-the-point
4334 error messaging, the (awful) default message will be suppressed if the
4335 dying engine already provided an explanation for its demise to the user.
4337 2012-04-10 20:28:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4338 Fix Engine Output icon heights in international versions
4340 The text in a label option could not be an empty string, or it would be
4341 'translated' to something of enormous size. So it is set to a space now.
4343 2012-04-10 20:21:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4344 Fix internationalization
4346 The internationalization was broken by moving the XtSetLanguageProc
4347 to behind 'bindtextdomain'.
4349 2012-04-10 20:03:46 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4350 Make reference to board widgets symbolic
4353 2012-04-10 18:39:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4354 Don't strip path from engine name if directory given
4357 2012-04-10 17:54:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4358 Fix vertical chaining of Buttons and browser ListBoxes
4361 2012-04-10 15:53:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4364 The 'narrow search' modification had broken auto-play, because all selected
4365 games were marked as matching position 0, so that they would all start in
4366 thr opening position.
4368 2012-04-10 13:30:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4369 updated po/pot files
4372 2012-04-10 11:54:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4373 new version number for developer release
4376 2012-04-10 13:22:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4380 2012-04-10 13:21:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4381 Fix Makefile EXTRA_DIST
4384 2012-04-02 17:53:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4385 Use Ctrl key in EditPosition mode to copy pieces
4388 2012-03-28 23:51:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4389 Fix bug in FRC castling for position search
4391 In FRC it is essential that both pieces are taken off the board before
4392 any of them is put back, lest they obliterate each other.
4394 2012-03-28 12:25:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4395 Fix bug on loading engine
4397 A newly loaded engine was put at the end of the game, rather than at the
4398 current position, (which is required in EditGame mode).
4400 2012-04-06 17:02:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4401 Add 'Narrow' function to position search
4404 2012-04-06 10:52:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4405 Reorganize main() a bit
4407 The font stuff goes into a separate routine, and the X11 stuff is
4408 moved backwards as far as possible.
4410 2012-04-04 21:55:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4411 Give the dual-board option a separate board window
4413 The second board window pops up whenever an alien board is received
4414 during your game. Moves in it are highlighted by an arrow, irrespective
4415 of the 'Highlight with Arrow' setting. The clocks are displayed, but do
4418 2012-04-05 11:23:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4419 Port engine grouping to Match Options dialog
4422 2012-04-05 15:18:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4423 Change default directory in Load Engine to "."
4426 2012-04-05 10:49:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4427 Port grouping to XBoard Load Engine Add highlight to Load Engine grouping
4430 2012-04-06 17:19:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4431 Fix default file types for browse buttons
4434 2012-04-03 09:14:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4437 Redo file browser with GenericPopUp
4439 This had to solve quite some problems, because it wanted to use a ComboBox
4440 option while a transient dialog could be up, was a non-engine dialog
4441 while an engine dialog is up, and XRaiseWindow does not work properly.
4442 Sorting is done alphabetically, or for digit groups by numeric value.
4444 2012-04-02 14:43:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4445 Use ListBox in stead of ComboBox in Match-Options dialog
4448 2012-04-02 14:09:15 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4449 Use ListBox in stead of ComboBox in Load Engine dialog
4451 Make Load Engine listbox sensitive to double-clicking
4453 2012-03-26 17:06:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4454 Add message about enabling in New Variant dialog
4457 2012-03-31 20:27:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4458 Move LoadGamePopUp to menus.c
4461 2012-03-31 20:25:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4462 Move DisplayMessage to dialogs.c
4464 Use the wrapper SetWidgetLabel to make it back-end.
4466 2012-03-31 15:23:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4467 Fix switching debug option during session.
4469 Switching on debug mode during the session did not create the requested
4472 2012-03-31 15:22:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4473 Correct texi file for use of .Xresources
4476 2012-04-02 19:19:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4477 Fix recent-engines menu
4479 A new primitive to create an item in a given menu was added to do this.
4481 2012-03-31 10:54:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4482 Switch back two two-part menu names
4484 The menu code is again completely changed; a handle field is added
4485 to the MenuItem tables to store the widget for the item, and this info
4486 is used to alter sensitivity or marking. MenuToNr is replaced by
4487 MenuNameToItem, which looks up the two-level name directly in the
4488 menu tables. Put all currently unused MenuProcs in noMenu table,
4489 so they are available for key binding through the new method.
4491 2012-03-24 18:36:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4492 Redo main board window with generic popup
4494 Some of the improvements in GenericPopUp (committed earlier) were added
4495 especiall for this (menu and box Option types), and the commits that used
4496 them to make a fully functional board, listed below, were collapsed into
4499 This uses the new box and menu features of the Generic popup.
4500 Make option table shadow board consistent with refactor
4501 Do main menus in shadow board
4502 The board made by GenericPopUp now also has (functional) menus. The Expose
4503 callback now also uses the new format (passing coordinates).
4504 Use BoxEnd callback to decide about smallLayout
4505 The shadow board now dynamically decides whether it should use smallLayout
4506 positioning of the title-in-window widget, using a callback in the BoxEnd
4507 option for the menu bar: If no reasonable amount of space is left behind
4508 the menu bar, the title is forced under the clocks (smallLayout).
4509 Do some mouse handling on shadow board
4510 Only button 1 events for now. We have to keep track if the button is down!
4511 Connect button 3 to shadow board
4512 For now only for piece and PV manipulation: no context menus yet
4513 Symbolic reference in option formatting
4514 choice <-> textValue xboard.c
4515 Improve expose callback shadow board
4516 Implement context menus of shadow board
4517 This uses the new generic PopUp option
4519 Make mock-up board available through menu item
4520 Make clocks of shadow board sensitive to clicking
4521 Make button bar of shadow board operational
4522 The back-end Event functions are specified as user callbacks directly;
4523 this is not very clean, as they are parameterless, but called with an int
4524 argument. This should have no bad consequences, though.
4525 Switch to using shadow board as main board
4526 The menu marking and enabling had to b switched off for this, as it
4527 only worked on the old menus. Remove HandleUserMove.
4528 Deleting of unused shell variables, clocks to dialogs.c
4529 Move BoardPopUp to dialogs.c
4530 This required passing on fome front-end vars as parameters, and returning
4531 apointer to the option list, to make the handles available in xboard.c.
4532 Simplify InitDrawingSizes
4533 Now that all widgets of the main window are properly chained, there is
4534 no need to resize them when the board format changes: setting a new width
4535 for the shell suffices.
4536 Cleanup some unused Xt Args
4538 2012-03-31 10:53:46 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4539 Remove unnecessary menu unmarking for Edit Tags
4542 2012-03-29 19:09:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4543 Split sync-after options in Match dialog into checkbox + label
4545 Now the checkbox texts are highlighted on hovering, we don't want the
4546 explanatory text behind it to be highlighted with it.
4548 2012-03-26 17:12:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4549 Make variant-unsupported-by-second error non-fatal
4552 2012-03-23 20:06:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4553 Redo Eval Graph with generic popup
4555 The Graph option of the GenericPopUp is used to implement the Eval Graph.
4556 Compared to the previous implementation, which was drawing directly in the
4557 form widget, the new one has one extra widget layer, but that did not
4558 affect the code anywhere. Adapt eval title to width of eval graph.
4560 2012-03-23 15:17:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4561 Redo Engine Output window with generic popup
4563 A new file nengineoutput.c holds the X-independent code. This makes use
4564 of new capablities of GenerciPopup, for having Label widgets on same row,
4565 stacking panes after a Break, and chaining Label and Text widgets.
4567 2012-03-21 23:00:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4568 Redo Game List with generic popup
4570 Check in ngamelist.c
4571 Redo Game List with generic popup
4572 The X-independent code (i.e. almost all) is moved to a new file
4574 Make button in Game List to pop up Game List Options
4575 Fix scrolling game list
4576 Fix popup of existing Game List after loading file
4577 Wheel-scroll game list
4578 Symbolic reference game list
4580 Put format flags with listbox options
4582 2012-03-21 17:58:27 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4583 Redo Game List Options with generic popup
4586 2012-04-05 21:56:52 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4587 Add -dialogColor and -buttonColor options
4589 These only override system defaults if they are non-empty strings.
4591 2012-03-28 15:52:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4592 Add -topLevel option
4594 This persistent Boolean option determines if the auxiliary windows
4595 (Game List, Move List, Engine Output, Eval Graph, Tags and Comment)
4596 use top-level shells (with their own icon on the task bar, and
4597 independently closable). Other dialogs will always use transient shells.
4598 (Also he modal Error and Promotion dialogs, for which the modality
4599 presumably only serves to pop them down without special attention.)
4600 A control for this was added in the General Options dialog.
4602 2012-03-20 15:30:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4603 Redo ErrorPopUp with generic dialog
4605 <Enter> keeps popping down error popup.Multiple Error popups remeain tricky;
4606 add comment to describe problem with multiple ErrorPopUps.
4608 2012-03-20 10:22:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4609 Redo PromotionPopUp with generic dialog
4611 The dialog is no longer modal.
4613 2012-03-19 21:56:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4614 Redo AskQuestion dialog with generic popup
4617 2012-03-19 21:55:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4618 Major refactoring of GenericPopUp
4620 Allow more transient dialogs in GenericPopUp
4621 Remove grab from promotion popup
4622 Fix other generic popup over transient popup
4623 To use the generic dialog generator for 'asynchronous' popups (Ask Qustion
4624 or Error popup caused by engine), the currentOptions setting has to be
4625 restored for the combo and checkbox callbacks of the transient to still
4626 work after the asynchronous dialog returns. Note that only transient dialogs
4627 can have check and combo controls.
4628 Make generic calcel button suppressible
4629 Also #define some more symbols for Option.min flags,
4630 and move them to dialogs.h.
4631 Change TypeInProc to general OK handler
4632 The move type-in now has its own option list, to distinguish it from
4633 the ICS input box, and give it its own OK handler. Rather than having
4634 the translation for <Enter> on the text widget call TypeInEvent directly,
4635 we let it call GenericCallback, which calls GenericReadout, which calls
4636 the OK proc, which does the job.
4637 To be able to call GenericCallback from the TypeInProc, the recognition
4638 of OK and cancel buttons had to be changed. This because it was too difficult
4639 to arrange the calling widget had label OK or cancell. So these buttons are
4640 no longer recognized by name, but by the option number passed as client data.
4641 (This solves the problem that a user could not make buttons named 'cancel'
4643 Make Cancel button optional
4644 Fix closing multiple popups of same kind
4645 The GenericCallback figures out its own shell, so all buttons of
4646 multiple dialogs keep working. External calls to PopDown only work
4647 on the lastcreated instance of that kind, though (including those from
4648 the Delete Window button, which can do 'cross-closing'). shellUp is now
4649 a counter, and PopDowns are only prevented when it reaches 0 or the
4650 current shell does not exist. (To know this, PopDown now resets shells[n]
4651 to NULL when is shell is destroyed.
4652 Beware of double PopDowns (through OK procs); they wreck the system.
4653 Fix Delete Window button of multipe ErrorPopUps
4654 The action routine for handling the Delete Window now pays attention
4655 to the shell widget that the system passes to it, and temporarily
4656 replaces shells[n] by it to let PopDown act on the proper instance.
4657 Add ListBox dialog type to GenericPopUp
4658 Fix vert sizing of ListBox
4659 Put listbox widgets in viewport
4660 Put listbox in viewport
4661 Improved xoptions.c support for focussing and listboxes
4662 Fix OK-row button positioning
4663 Let GenericPopUp take parent and modality as arguments
4664 This makes the code a bit more explicit and less kludgy. It also becomes
4665 possible to call the same dialog (e.g. Load Options) from the main menu
4666 and from another dialog (e.g. the Game List).
4667 Support scroll function for generic popup listboxes
4669 Move HighlightWithScroll to xoptions.c
4670 Change scroll algorithm
4671 Add mouse-wheel scroll to generic list boxes
4672 Implement tabbing between text edits
4673 Implement same-row text labels in generic dialog
4674 Allow labels to specify their chaining in generic popup
4675 The opt.min variable is used to specify the chaining: 0xF0 are the bits
4676 for (left, right) chaining of the left side (0xC0) and right side (0x30).
4677 The 0xC bits determine top or bottom chaining of the entire label.
4678 Without anything spcified (0), the chaining is XtRubber.
4679 TextBox options can also specify top-chaining of their top. All this was
4680 needed to allow decent implementation of the Engine Output window with
4681 the generic popup. (Although tags and comment popup ca benefit from the
4683 Let GenericPopUp support a Graph option
4684 The Graph option results in an area where one can draw something. It is
4685 positioned / chained similar to Label options. A handler for expose events
4686 can be specified in the textValue field of the option.
4687 Implement box widgets and menu buttons in GenericPopup
4688 To enhance the capabilities of GenericPopUp such that it could create the
4689 main window, it needs to be able tha packaging of controls into a box widget
4690 (for mennu and button bar). Menu buttons are also required elements
4691 (although they do look a lot like comboboxes?) Option types BoxBegin and
4692 BoxEnd can now be used to bracket a group of controls that will be put
4693 in a box widget. (Cannot be used recursively!) The positioning of the box
4694 is similar to that of a Label, and is specified in the BogBegin option.
4695 The code to shrink the menu buttons to fit is also incorporated, to act
4696 on any box widget: if the BoxBegin option specifies a width, the elements
4697 in it are shrunk to meet the requirement. Otherwise the box just gets the
4698 size of the sum of its children (plus spacings).
4699 Label options can now specify a font, casted into their textValue field.
4700 (This is needed to get the proper size for the clock widgets.)
4701 Implement callback in BoxEnd options
4702 BoxEnd is a pseudo-option, to trigger packing the preceeding ones in
4703 an earlier-opened box widget. In the process it calculates the size of
4704 the box widget (and trims it if a size was specified for it in the
4705 corresponding BoxBegin). The Option.target field of BoxEnd is now
4706 interpreted as a callback, which can be use to take decisions based
4707 on the determined size for the remaining options in the list, before
4708 these are processed b GenericPopUp.
4710 Make a subroutine to set args shared by almost all widgets. Swap meaning
4711 of '1'-bit in option.min flag of Break option, to be consistent with
4712 SAME_ROW interpretation in other option types.
4713 Make option tables consistent with refactored GenericPopUp
4714 The flag for stacking in the Break option needed to be inverted, and
4715 the BoardPopUp needed to pass the font in another field. Better use was
4716 made of the improved chaining options too.
4717 Improve Graph-option event handling
4718 The user-supplied callback now gets 3 arguments passed: the event type
4719 (0 = pointer motion, 1...5 button press, -1...-5 release, 10 = expose),
4720 and two coordinates. For ouse events these are the pointer (x,y), while
4721 for expose events they are the window size (w,h). The callback is now
4722 specified in the option.target field of the Graph option.
4723 Store engine options in malloc'ed memory
4724 The Option.name field has been re-declared as (char*), from (char[MSG_SIZ]).
4725 There are still MSG_SIZ chars allocated irrespective of actual size, because
4726 the field is also supposed to store the textValue, which can be changed by
4727 the user. But at least it means that unused options of the generous list
4728 now don't waste much space. (And the prparated Option tables in dialogs.c
4729 will shrink by a large factor as well.)
4730 Improve GenericPopUp ComboBox handling.
4731 The dialog type is now passed to the combobox callback as well, and this is
4732 used to really figure out what option it is called for.
4733 Allow numeric comboboxes
4734 When no list of strings is given in Option.choice, the target is assumed
4735 to be (int), and the number of the slected entry is stored there. Also
4736 adapts the Label options that act as fillers to the new method for making
4737 dummies (namely NULL in the Option.name field).
4738 Put comboCallback in Option struct
4739 Rather than having a general comboCallback variable for the entire current
4740 dialog, each ComboBox option can now specify its own callback in the
4741 target field of the option: the COMBO_CALLBACK bit of Option.min indicates
4742 whether the target is a variable to be set or a callback. The callback can
4743 still fetch the choice from the values array.
4744 Allow generic CreateComboPopup also to do main menus
4745 An extra parameter to CreateComboPopup determines if the menu texts
4746 should be taken from a list of strings (the old method with engine-
4747 supplied choices), or from a menu table of MenuItems. It can now also
4748 recognize "----" as a menu break, and keeps margins (for the marking).
4749 Make subroutine for determining curren combo selection
4750 Various fixes to GenericPopUp
4751 Delete one border-width setting
4752 Fix max nr of args in GenerocPopUp
4753 Fix button release events of Graph options
4754 Fix generic Graph callback pointer motion coordinates
4755 Make all format referencing in Option tables symbolic
4756 Let Option.choice define menu texts, rather than Option.textValue
4757 This is more logical than ussing textValue for it, because choice already
4758 has the correct (char**) type, while textValue was (char*), and needed
4759 casting everywhere. Note that for engine options, the fields were the
4760 same anyway, so no back-end change was required. The textValue now
4761 contains the (casted) list of actual string values, where these are
4762 needed. (But for numeric and function menus they aren't.)
4763 Add PopUp Option type
4764 An new pseudo-Option is defined, to add a popup menu to a previous Graph
4765 option. The actual popping up is done by the expose handler.
4766 The function XUngrabPointer is the key to success here. A PopUp option
4767 specifies a callback for handling the selection from the menu, which will
4768 be called with the option number, exacty as with ComboBox options.
4769 Update option explanation in dialogs.h
4770 Make Spin and CheckBox callbacks pass dialog number
4771 No longer rely on 'currentOptions' for getting the option belonging to
4772 the callback, but get it out of the dialogOptions array indexed by dialog
4773 type. This way things cannot be messed up by an asynchrounous error popup.
4774 It also means that it is now save for non-modal dialogs to use these options.
4775 Use button widget for text behind checkbox
4776 Let listboxes use general formatting hints
4777 Let GenericPopUp option always finish last pane after Break
4778 Allow LisBox to specify select callback in Option.textValue
4779 Use double-click to trigger ListBox callback
4780 Make ListBox callback re-entrant
4781 Fix multi-line Label options
4782 Separate CreateMenuItem out from CreateComboPopup
4783 Chain checkbox texts entirely left
4784 Allow a user-specified callback to Label options
4785 This is needed to implement the clocks. Let the CheckBox callback handle
4786 it. For now ther is no distinction between different mouse buttons.
4788 2012-03-21 11:15:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4789 Prevent double PopDowns
4791 Some DialogOK functions ordered an early PopDown themselves. This,
4792 however, resulted in PopDown being called twice when they returned TRUE.
4793 This interfered with the new system for allowing multiple instances of
4794 the same dialog. So these functions are now fixed to suppress the
4795 standard PopDown by always returning FALSE.
4797 2012-03-20 19:10:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4798 Split usounds.c and usystem.c from xboard.c
4800 X-independent code was moved to separate files. The nef file usound.c
4801 contains the sound handling, which in XBoard is trivial, because it uses
4802 an external player, but could be replaced by a complex one on platforms
4803 that have to handle the sound themselves.
4804 The usystem.c file contains all non-X Unix-like stuff, such as fork,
4805 pipe, system, getenv. I also contains some color parsing for the xterm
4806 colors. This stuff could be useful on platforms that support Unix-like
4809 2012-03-26 19:03:19 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4810 Make routine to probe shift keys
4812 The code to probe Alt keys was taken out of MoveTypeInProc, and extended
4813 to probing Ctrl and Shift keys too. These are now returned in the 6 LSB
4814 of an int by ShiftKeys().
4816 2012-03-19 13:15:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4817 Remove one level of indirection on ICSInputBoxPopUp
4820 2012-04-10 10:26:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4823 Remove AskQuestionProc
4824 A bit of cleanup on xboard.c prototypes
4825 Remove dead file-browser code
4826 Delete vestigial jail code
4827 All the stuff about jailColor was deleted. Only one fishy thing remains:
4828 xpmJailSquare seems under some conditions used in BlankSquare to draw a
4829 'neutral' square. it is set to a copy of a light square image. But in the
4830 current design 'neutral' means blacked out between board and holdings,
4831 and even with image use, it should not resemble a light square...
4832 Remove registering of CommentPopDown and TagsPopDown
4833 Merge CopyGameSelection into CopyPositionSelection
4835 2012-03-19 11:38:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4836 Move some back-endish routines from xboard.c to dialogs.c
4838 Move ICS input-history handling to dialogs.c
4839 Move ICS Input Box text handling to dialogs.c
4840 Move DisplayXxxx routines to dialogs.c
4841 Move DisplayTitle to dialogs.c
4842 A wrapper SetWindowTitle remains in xboard.c.
4844 2012-03-18 20:10:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4845 Split back-endish part off xoptions.c, and move to dialogs.c
4847 Some MenuProcs for dialogs were also moved to dialogs.c from menus.c.
4848 MoveTypeInProc which is an event handler for the board widget,
4849 was moved to xboard.c, where it can be static.
4851 Identify dialogs by enum type
4852 A new header dialogs.h is created, which defines an enum type DialogClass
4853 that is now used to identify the various dialogs done by GenericPopUp.
4854 The prototypes for GenericPopUp/PopDown, and other globals shared by the
4855 dialogs code and other modules can go in here as well.
4856 Remove ClearTextWidget
4857 This did the same as SetWidgetText with an empty string.
4858 Split X-code from PutText
4859 Split back-end part from MoveTypeInProc
4860 Take set-title out of comment popup
4861 Sort MenuProcs in dialogs.c with their support functions
4862 Declare globals in dialogs.c with functions where they belong
4863 Add prototypes to dialogs.h
4864 Move prototypes and globals from xoptions.c to dialogs.h
4865 Make accessor DialogExists for dialog shells
4866 Add dialogs.c to makefile: compiles and runs!
4867 Combine 3 calls into front-end to InitDrawingParams
4868 Move EditCommentProc and ICSInputBoxProc to dialogs.c
4869 Pass option list as argument to GenericUpdate and GenericReadOut
4870 Shorten argument name from currentOption to opts
4871 This to prevent confusing it with the global variable of that name.
4873 2012-03-18 15:33:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4874 Declare some shared global variables in backend.h
4876 The vlobals twoBoards and partnerUp were only shared through an extern
4877 declaration in xboard.c
4879 2012-03-18 12:34:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4880 Split back-endish part off drawing code and move to board.c
4882 Split DrawSquare in front-end and back-end part
4883 Back-endize DrawHighlights and DrawPosition
4884 The already existing wrapper FlashDelay is used as a kludge to do an XSync.
4885 We now pass a code for the line color GC to the highight routine. New
4886 wrappers are DrawGrid() and DrawBorder().
4887 Back-endize atomic explosions
4888 Back-endize DrawArrow and DrawDragPiece
4889 DrawDragPiece now calls DrawOneSquare with argument EmptySquare in stead
4890 of the X-type referring BlankSquare. A new wrapper DrawPolygon fixes
4891 DrawArrowBetweenPoints.
4892 Move board-drawing logic to new file board.c
4893 All X-independent drawing logic (board, squares, arrows, highlights,
4894 some animation stuff) has been extracted from xboard.c, and moved to
4895 a new file board.c, which is back-end (but unshared with WinBoard).
4896 A new header board.h defines the cross-references (which of course
4897 required some functions to be no longer declared as static).
4898 A bit of code was moved from DragPieceBegin to BeginAnimation, which
4899 now has an extra argument to indicate which piece should appear from
4900 under a dragged piece. This makes DragPieceBegin free of XCopyArea calls,
4901 so it could be moved too.
4902 Make board.c truly back-end
4903 Get rid of all X data types. For this the AnimState struct had to be
4904 redefined: the GC and Pixmap was taken out and put in front-end arrays
4905 indexed by anim agent (game and player). For this indexing a new enum
4906 was defined. The XPoint type was also replaced by our own type of an
4907 int pair (which is nasty, because the int size could be different).
4908 Move more animation code to board.c
4910 2012-03-18 10:08:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4911 Contract some awful code replication
4913 The code for making an X-color was replicated 6 times, and is now made
4914 into a subroutine. The code for creating GCs was quite repetitive as well.
4916 2012-03-18 08:34:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4917 Move more back-endish menu-related stuff from xboard.c to menus.c
4919 Move menu enabling to menus.c
4920 Only the wrapper EnableMenuItem stays in xboard.c. A new wrapper
4921 EnableButtonBar was necessary, because Training mode wants to enable/disable
4923 Move all back-endish MenuProcs to menus.c
4924 Many if the MenuProcs that could not be eliminated by listing the
4925 corresponding back-end MenuEvent function as handler directly, are
4926 still completely plactform indpendent. (E.g. when the MenuEvent needs
4927 a parameter.) These are all moved to menus.c now.
4928 Convert all dead MenuProcs to using MarkMenuItem
4929 The MenuProcs for the option items that no longer exist were also
4930 converted for check-marking their item in the new way, because we
4931 might revive them for key binding.
4932 Move the dead MenuProcs also to menus.c
4933 Revive dead menu procs
4934 Move GreyRevert to menus.c
4935 Move ModeToWidgetName to menus.c
4936 Move initial menu marking to menus.c
4938 A new function InitMenuMarkers was split off from main() to do this.
4940 2012-03-18 08:17:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4941 Switch to use of short menu references
4943 The prefixes menuXxxx. for the item names are abolished. This made it
4944 necessary to also add a MarkMenuItem function that can handle short names
4945 for putting the xMarkPixmap on the items, as the names returned by
4946 ModeToWidgetName are used for both enabling and check-marking.
4947 Let MarkMenu use MarkMenuItem wrapper
4949 2012-03-17 10:47:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4950 Refactor menu code, and move it to menu.c
4952 Supply new method for key binding
4953 It is annoying that every menu item needs its X-specific handler routine,
4954 because this handler has to be registered to X for becoming eligible as
4955 a key binding. Another disadvantage of this method is that the user wanting
4956 to make the binding has to know the name under which the menu function
4957 is registered (e.g. FlipViewProc).
4958 A new method is now made available, which uses only a single (X-specific)
4959 routine, registered with X as "MenuItem", as generic key-binding handler.
4960 The bindings can then be made by the user specifying "MenuItem(FlipView)".
4961 This requires a new list of potential bindings, which should be filled
4962 by the menu-creation routines. (Currently only contains only a predeficed
4964 No longer register all MenuProcs with X
4965 The list with available menu procs is moved to the user-maintained
4966 menuItemList. Only QuitProc had to stay registered with X, because it is
4967 used in CatchDeleteWindow. (So it is in both lists now.) In the future,
4968 most of the list can be built automatically from the menu tables.
4969 Alter type of MenuProcs to void(void)
4970 By getting rid of the argument list with X-types, most menu procs can
4971 become back-end. In the cases of ManProc and QuitProc the original
4972 version had to be kept as well, because in ManProc the argument was
4973 actually used (with key binding), while QuitProc is used for delete window.
4974 Remove now unnecessary menu wrappers
4975 Now the MenuProc have an empty argument list, those that also call a
4976 single 'MenuEvent' without arguments have become completely redundant,
4977 and have been taken out of the loop by calling the corresponding MenuEvent
4979 Build menuItemList from menu tables
4980 Rather than having an initialized table of name-proc associations (which
4981 used to be the X registrations) for the menu items, we now build the list
4982 during menu cration from the menu tables. The menu "ref" is now used as
4983 proc name. This means the old MenuProc names used in the predefined
4984 key bindings had to be changed to conform to this. Note that the bindings
4985 would slice up names containing spaces in several parameters, so in the
4986 translations the spaces were squeezed out of the item names. This requires
4987 a hand-written comparison routine Equal() to identify the binding.
4988 Remove prototypes of deleted MenuProcs
4989 Move prototypes of platform-independent MenuProcs to menus.h
4990 Create a new header file for the menu stuff, so that we can move
4991 the corresponding handler routines out of xboard.c to a back-end file.
4992 Extract back-end code from menu creation
4993 The menu tables and code to interpret them is moved to a new file menu.c.
4994 Only basic fuctions for creating a pop-down list and for adding an item
4995 to it remain in xboard.c.
4997 2012-04-07 15:59:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
4998 Remove some unused (exclude-moves) variables
5001 2012-04-07 15:57:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5002 Install engine within current group
5005 2012-04-07 15:53:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5006 Switch to using listboxes for engine-selection in WinBoard
5009 2012-04-07 15:36:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5010 Implement Narrow button in WB Game List
5013 2012-04-05 15:15:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5014 Silence unjust warning
5017 2012-04-04 12:18:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5018 Fix memory corruption through InitString and second-engine loading
5020 The InitString and ComputerString options were not swapped when replacing
5021 the second engine, so that the ChessProgramStates of the first engine
5022 could point to an invalid (already freed) init string. Also make sure
5023 that appData.directory contains its value in allocated memory, even
5024 when hand-loading engines.
5025 Some of the rare options were not swapped either, and would thus
5026 always be loaded for the first engine when -singleEngineList was true.
5027 They are now also all reset to their default, before engine load,
5028 to prevent options of one engine to linger on for a next that does
5029 not specify them. The intentional exception is -firstHost.
5031 2012-04-01 20:51:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5032 Fix PV sorting during fail low
5034 When an engine reports a fail low as thinking output, and then re-searches
5035 the same move with larger window, it now gets a lower score. This line
5036 would then be sorted below the earlier fail low, because it was mistaken
5037 for a multi-PV line for an inferior move. This patch suppresses PVs
5038 overtaking each other if they start with the same move.
5040 2012-03-30 20:09:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5041 Extend smallLayout regime up to size Medium
5043 Because of the increase number of menus, there is not enough space for a
5044 title next to the menu bar at smaller sizes. In fact it is questionable if
5045 the title should ever go on the same line as the menu bar.
5047 2012-03-30 10:38:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5048 Fix parsing crazyhouse promotions with legality testing off
5050 With legality testing off, any promotion suffixes in a move are taken
5051 'on faith'. But in crazyhouse the piece ID for normal pieces is used as
5052 promotion suffix for promoted pieces, so this would Loop Chess rather than
5053 Crazyhouse. Now attention is payed to presence of ID-less promotion pieces
5054 (indicated by ~ in the pieceToCharTable), and if there are, these prevail
5055 ovr the specified type.
5057 2012-03-30 10:07:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5058 Fix browsing for save file in WB
5060 The generic popup browse buttons used the wrong flavor of browser,
5061 which would only accept existing files. This was inconvenient when browsing
5062 for a save file. The other flavor of browser is now used by default (so that
5063 engine options also use it), and a new flag is added in the option.max field
5064 (which was already indicating file type) to request readonly browsing for a
5067 2012-04-02 10:18:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5068 Let clicking on header line exclude moves
5070 The exclude header in the Engine-Output window can now be clicked, to
5071 toggle the exlusion of the listed move. Clicking on 'none' resets all
5072 exclusions, clicking on 'best' excludes the first move of the latest PV.
5073 The pseudo-move 'tail' represents all non-listed moves.
5075 2012-04-01 22:39:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5076 Keep list of excluded moves in Engine Output header
5078 As long as there is still space, excluded or included moves are added
5079 to a new header line in the Engine Output window (prefixed with + or -
5080 depending on whether they are currently excluded or included). Future
5081 in/exclusions of that same move then alter the prefix.
5083 2012-03-21 23:12:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5084 Fix focus of Game List
5086 After focus was transferred to the filter text-edit, it was impossible
5087 to get it back on the game list (to make the arrow keys working again).
5088 A translation to left down-click is now used to assign focus, just as
5089 it would for text edits. For unknown reason this only worked if the
5090 translations were instated by Overriding, rather than Augmenting,
5091 which again required the normal translation of downclick, Set(), which
5092 selects the clicked item, to be explicitly mentioned as well.
5094 2012-03-16 22:41:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5095 Fix taking effect of some option changes
5097 This fixes a bug reported at Ubuntu: when switching off move highlighting
5098 in Two Machines mode, the last move before the switch stayed highlighted.
5099 The GeneralOptionsOK() now clears any remaining highlights when highlighing
5100 is off. Similar problems with blind-fold mode and coordinates, which require
5101 a total board redraw to take effect, are now solved by also forcing such a
5102 redraw in GeneralOptionsOK() when they change.
5104 2012-03-16 21:58:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5105 Add exclude and setscore to protocol specs
5108 2012-03-16 14:47:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5109 Fix clock stop after dragging
5111 DelayedDrag always cancelled the previous drag timeout event, even when
5112 this was no longer pending because it had already taken place, and the
5113 event ID was resused by some other timeout (usually a clock tick).
5115 2012-03-14 21:06:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5116 Implement exclude moves
5118 Dragging a piece by double-clicking it on the from-square in analysis mode
5119 will not perform the entered move, but send an exclude or include command
5120 to the engine for that move (provided the engine enabled this with
5121 feature exclude=1), depending on if the move was already excluded or not.
5122 To this end a map of excluded moves is kept, and cleared when we move to
5123 another position through moving, undo, setboard or new. The user can see
5124 whether he included or excluded the move, as exclude uses premove highlights.
5125 Commands "exclude|include all" are sent when we throw a double-clicked
5126 piece off board (vertically or horizontally, respectively), but after
5127 exclude all the most recent PV move is included again.
5128 Remaining problem is that promotions can only be excluded.
5130 2012-03-14 15:13:18 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
5131 Mark new text "Click clock to clear board" for translation
5134 2012-03-13 21:46:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5135 More thorough switch to -ncp on engine failure
5137 The ProcRef and InputSource are now also cleared, and just to be sure there
5138 are no surviving adapters, the child is killed when engine startup fails.
5140 2012-03-13 21:25:22 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5141 Install engines as ./exefile in XBoard
5143 When a path name is split into directory and filename, the latter in Linux
5144 must be preceded by ./ in order to make it executable in the directory
5145 XBoard starts it in.
5147 2012-03-13 14:11:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5148 Inform user in EditPosition mode how to clear board
5150 With -pieceMenu false the board is cleared by clicking the clock, but
5151 since this is impossible to guess, it is now printed in the message field.
5153 2012-03-13 14:06:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5154 Fix fall-back on -ncp mode
5156 When the requested engine could not be started, the user still had to
5157 wait for the feature timeout to expire before the UI was re-enabled,
5158 and the now-useless loading action would continue. In stead we now
5159 cancel any scheduled continuation, thaw the UI immediately, and switch
5160 the menus and gameMode to ncp straight away.
5162 2012-03-10 18:55:24 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5163 updated po/pot files
5166 2012-03-10 18:54:32 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5167 new version number for developer release
5170 2012-03-06 16:37:02 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
5171 Fix typo (seach) in string. It is already fixed in branch v4.6.x
5174 2012-03-04 14:52:34 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5175 added some documentation about what's need to be done for a release and a bash-release script
5178 2012-02-28 21:09:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5179 Fix suspected bug in Makefile
5184 2012-02-26 18:55:10 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5185 add information about our webpage and were to report bugs into the help menu
5188 2012-02-26 18:40:27 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5189 fixed "make install-pdf": missing target for recursive make in po directory
5192 2012-02-26 23:06:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5193 Suppress recent-engines menu items in ICS mode
5196 2012-02-26 22:45:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5197 Fix 50-move counter in ICS mode
5199 Marking irreversible moves in the EP_STATUS did not work in ICS mode,
5200 as ApplyMove,which did that is never executed there. Only the boards
5201 sent by ICS are displayed,especially in observing mode. Now the status is
5202 derived from the ICS mov strings (x in the SAN move, or P in the long move.
5204 2012-02-26 17:18:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5205 Fix two 64-bit warnings
5207 Passing the engine number in a pointer variable to the callback needed
5210 2012-02-26 16:53:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5211 Fix piece symbols on switch back to variant normal
5213 Variant switches were not properly detected, meaning the variable pieces
5214 could keep a form belonging to a previous variant. (E.g. Queen remained
5215 a Lance image after switching from shogi to normal.)
5217 2012-02-26 14:07:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5218 Keep XBoard windows attached on resize
5220 Windows attached to bottom or right are displaced with the size increase.
5221 Their perpendicular dimension is also scaled, to keep their edges at the same
5222 fraction of the main window, unless they stick out. In the latter case the
5223 fraction is clipped to 1, so that edge moves with the full size increase.
5225 2012-02-25 22:40:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5226 Implement -stickyWindows in XBoard
5228 This makes the auxiliary windows move with the main window when they were
5229 touching, as in WinBoard. A control is added in the General Options dialog.
5231 2012-02-25 21:14:03 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5232 Use more reliable X-call for getting window position
5234 XtGetValues on XtNx, XtNy is unreliable. XGetWindowAttributes seems
5235 to give more reliable results, and automatically accounts for the width
5236 of window dressing. The -frameX/Y options are no longer needed bcause
5237 of this, and were removed.
5239 2012-02-25 11:55:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5240 Make frame width configurable in XB
5242 New persistent options -frameX, -frameY now can be used to specify
5243 the amount by which Xt lies about the window coordinates.
5245 2012-02-23 20:01:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5246 Use combobox line for recent engines when available
5248 The entry made in the -recentEngineList for the startup engine was
5249 derived from the -fcp value, but this would ignore a possible nickname.
5250 In WinBoard we now use the full combobox line to derive the entry.
5252 2012-02-23 09:29:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5253 Fix translation of EngineOutputTitle WB
5256 2012-02-23 01:34:12 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
5257 Updated Danish translation
5260 2012-02-23 00:59:36 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
5261 One missed translation of cps->which
5264 2012-02-22 19:58:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5265 Undo translation of cps->which = first/second
5267 The string in cps->which should not be translated, because it goes into
5268 the debug file to label engine I/O, and many tools for processing
5269 debug files (broadcasters, PGN extractors) rely on this being "first" or
5270 "second". In all contexts where "first" and "second" need to be translated,
5271 cps->which itself is already enclosed in _().
5273 2012-02-22 18:27:40 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5274 Implement -serverFile option
5276 This writs an extra debug file with only engine communiation on it,
5277 for the benifit of programs like TLCS.
5279 2012-02-22 17:46:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5280 Implement -autoCopyPV
5282 This option causes automatic copying of the last position of a PV walk
5285 2012-02-16 14:58:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5286 Delete some load-game debug printing
5288 The debug printing in Disambiguate was no longer needed. The printing
5289 of the started process in XBoard that went to stderr is now diverted
5290 to debugFP, so it ends up in the debug file.
5292 2012-02-16 14:41:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5293 Move change of debug file to before game load
5295 Loading a game from -lgf is done before TwoMachinesEvent is called,
5296 but logically belongs to the game. So the code to switch to the new
5297 debug file for the game is moved to NextMatchGame now.
5299 2012-02-16 14:09:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5300 Fix button grab for sweep selection
5302 The piece-menu initialization limited the grab of button events to those
5303 occurring inside the board window (presumably intended to limit them to
5304 the piece menu, but that does not pop up in sweep-selection mode).
5305 This is now suppressed when -pieceMenu is off, so that selection continues
5306 outside the the board. (Which is very convenient for pieces pu close to the
5309 2012-02-16 13:16:13 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5310 Don't leave piece selected after piece menu
5312 PieceMenuEvent left the just introduced piece selected, which is almost
5313 never what one wants, as it makes it jump to the next square when selects.
5314 Which is especially annoying if it captures the piece you wanted to grab...
5316 2012-02-16 12:57:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5317 Fix use of middle button for position setup
5319 With sweep selection the actual drop is made on releasing the button,
5320 and this event was not caught for button 2. Button-2 motion events were
5321 also not caught by the sweep-selection handler.
5323 2012-02-16 23:53:08 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
5324 Fix one more typo in the translator comments explaning "first" and "second"
5327 2012-02-16 23:39:32 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
5328 Fix typo in translator comments explaning "first" and "second"
5331 2012-02-16 23:23:20 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
5332 Add args.h to POTFILES.in and change the interface to ExitArgError() so msg is c format string
5334 Having msg as a format string will ease translations because then
5335 badArg doesn't have to come last.
5337 2012-02-16 22:51:44 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
5338 Mark the strings "first" and "sencond" for translation.
5340 ... and assign the translated strings to cps->which in function InitEngine()
5342 2012-02-16 18:42:10 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
5343 Use ngettext() instead of gettext() for a string to allow better translation.
5346 2012-02-16 00:19:59 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5347 translation: updated uk.po
5350 2012-02-15 20:59:09 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5351 modified configure and makefile for handling mimedb update
5353 the default configure will install them using the xdg commands (if they exist on the system)
5355 2012-02-13 22:29:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5356 add configure test for xdg-programs to install mime types; can be disabled for building of e.g. rpms
5358 in case the target system doesn't have the xdg-programs available, we test for them.
5359 Distributions often have their own macros to install these, so we add an enable option to configure
5361 2012-02-13 22:05:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5362 Remove a debug printf
5364 The parsePV debug printf becomes extremely verbose with -fSAN, -sSAN,
5367 2012-02-12 22:18:24 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5368 new developer release
5371 2012-02-12 22:19:37 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5372 updated po/pot files
5375 2012-02-12 22:17:03 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5376 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
5379 2012-02-12 07:52:54 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5380 translation: updated uk.po
5383 2012-02-12 11:38:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5384 Leave height of row that only contains buttons free
5386 All elements of the GenericPopUp are still scaled to the text height,
5387 including buttons appended behind them (browse or color buttons).
5388 But we now make an exception for a row that only contains buttons,
5389 as there is no harm in it being a little higher (and the buttons look
5392 2012-02-12 00:01:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5393 Fix OK button of error popup
5395 The error dialog popped up as a child of the board window, even when
5396 DisplayError was called from a dialog. Now it checks if a transient
5397 dialog is up, and if so, it pops up as a child of that, grabs focus,
5398 and suppresses the system popdown of the transient dialog through a flag
5399 dialogError until it is popped down itself.
5401 2012-02-11 20:07:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5405 2012-02-11 10:18:02 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5406 added some comments for translators
5409 2012-02-11 10:08:46 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5410 fixed comments for translators: comments starting with TRANSLATORS: are now copied to the po file
5413 2012-02-11 19:01:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5414 Also configure sweep selection
5416 To make sure this feature is tested, we set -pieceMenu false in the
5417 master settings file.
5419 2012-02-11 18:26:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5420 Fix date in copyright notice about-box
5423 2012-02-11 17:15:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5424 Fix switching animation masks on variant switch
5426 The masks for variant-dependent piees (E,H in Seirawan, promoted Golds
5427 in Shogi, the Gothic Chancellor) were no longer updated in InitDrawingSizes
5428 because of the patch to reduce X-server calls.
5430 2012-02-11 16:46:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5431 Configure wider game list
5433 The game list was by default too small, so that there was no room for the
5434 filter field. Now a width of 500 is specified, whcih works at -size 49
5437 2012-02-11 16:29:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5438 Fix button chaining and combo/textbox label height
5440 Previous patches forgot to specify the height for the text labels on
5441 -combo and -text options, so they were still too high. Buttons that go
5442 on the same line as the previous element should be chained right, not rubber.
5444 2012-02-11 15:52:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5445 Make -pgnNumberTag option setable from menu
5447 The Save Options dialog now containes a checkbox for this.
5449 2012-02-11 15:48:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5450 Configure some new features switched on
5452 The master settings file switches -showTargetSquares, -sweepPromotions
5453 and -seekGraph on, so that they will get more testing.
5455 2012-02-11 14:43:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5456 Fix heigth of multi-line labels
5458 The previous height patch overlooked that some labels are multi-line,
5459 and need more height.
5461 2012-02-11 14:10:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5462 Fix popdown seekgraph on forward-event XB
5464 Only the grid was drawn when the > or >> button were operated, because
5465 a full redraw was not forced by ForwardInner. The recent patch to take
5466 the seek graph down on such events did not account for that. (BackwardInner
5467 always seems to do full redraw, however?)
5469 2012-02-11 12:59:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5470 Put front-end support for -recentEngines in XBoard
5472 The engines are added to the menu. Problem is still that in XBoard
5473 startup engines are given by command, rather than selected by combobox,
5474 so the command rather than the nickname ends up in the menu. If this is
5475 then selected, it cannot be found in the list. To limit the damage,
5476 Fairy-Max is now pre-installed without nickname. -recentEngines is now
5479 2012-02-11 11:53:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5480 Better solution to button-height problem
5482 In stead of adapting the height of text widgets to that of buttons,
5483 (as represented by the message widget), we now do the opposite, and
5484 adapt the button & label heights. This is made safe by obtaining textHeight
5485 from the fontSet's max_logical_extent, though an XExtendsFontSet() call.
5486 Turns out the default height of text widgets is not exactly that, but
5487 4 pixels larger for borders and margin.
5488 The parameter XtNvertDistance is now used to align the checkboxes with
5489 the following text widget, and their size is derived from textHeight as
5491 The XtNvertDistance is set to -1 for the lower spin button, so that it
5492 its border coincides with that of the upper spin button. Their height is
5493 set to textHeight/2. This makes their combined height just 1 pixel more
5494 than that of the preceeding text widget. (Uh? 2 x tw/2 -1 > tw?), so for
5495 other buttons we use that too (i.e. textHeight = font_extent + 5).
5497 2012-02-10 22:39:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5500 Deleting debug printing had made a variable unused.
5502 2012-02-10 22:26:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5505 The text-edit-height patch introduced a bug that did not have any consquences
5506 (yet), as the extra arg erroneously included leftover from a previous
5507 SetValues call happened to be the same as one of the intended args.
5509 2012-02-10 20:51:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5510 Fix unloading of first engine on tourney start
5512 Because NextTourneyGame was loading a new engine before ReserveGame was
5513 called to unload it with dummy game nr = -1), the first engine proc kept
5516 2012-02-10 18:39:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5517 Remove some of the most verbose debug output
5520 2012-02-10 17:46:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5521 Delete some unused WinBoard bitmaps
5523 There waere up-side-down knight icons that apparently hid by mistake
5524 in the bitmaps directory: they were not part of WinBoard
5526 2012-02-10 17:39:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5527 Cosmetic: change 4.5 to 4.6 in xboard.conf comment
5530 2012-02-10 17:35:22 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5531 Fix crash on empty combobox menu XB
5533 XBoard crashed when a combobox without items was opened, as could easily
5534 happen in the Load Engine dialogs when -firstChessProgramNames contained
5535 no items, as it would without configuring. Now the creation of the popup
5536 menu is suppressed in that case.
5538 2012-02-10 17:13:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5539 Fix position of checkbox XB
5541 With the large height the widget get in internationalization, the
5542 checkboxes are position way too high above the text. To shift them down
5543 a dummy borderless label widget is drawn above them (when needed).
5545 2012-02-10 15:07:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5546 Fix heights in Engine Output window XB
5548 The icons did not fit in the space above the memos anymore, so the height
5549 of this area is now left free.
5551 2012-02-10 14:55:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5552 Derive height of text-edits in dialogs from message widget
5554 With internationalization the default height of buttons has inexpliquably
5555 inreased compared to that of text-edits, messing up the layout of the
5556 GenericPopUp. The message widget is now used as a emasure of how high
5557 the widgets should be.
5559 2012-02-10 14:21:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5560 Configure XBoard engines and textures
5562 The new -useBoardTexture option is needed in xboard.conf, as we want to
5563 distribute with the texture on, while the compiled-in default is off.
5564 A list of 4 engines has been configured (fairymax, fruit, crafty, gnuchess),
5565 as the Load Engine and Match Options checkboxes crash XBoard when the list
5566 is empty. The -recentEngines option is set to 0 to make sure the code
5567 associated with it is never executed: the code is still experimental,
5568 and the required front-end support is only present in WinBoard anyway.
5570 2012-02-10 13:30:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5571 Update Dutch WinBoard translation
5574 2012-02-10 13:18:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5575 Create room in some WB dialogs for translations
5578 2012-02-10 13:17:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5579 Add 5 missing strings to WinBoard translation template
5582 2012-02-09 23:03:58 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5583 new developer release
5586 2012-02-09 23:04:46 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5590 2012-02-09 22:59:05 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5591 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
5593 2012-02-09 22:44:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5594 Fix non-bug in WinBoard
5596 The IDM_RecentEngines was not used in symbolic form everywhere.
5598 2012-02-09 18:46:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5599 Fix MAXENGINES in WinBoard
5601 The front-end arrays for expanding the engine list measured 1000 entries,
5602 in stead of MAXENGINES, leading them to overflow.
5604 2012-02-09 13:05:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5605 Implement kludge to set options through Move Type-in
5607 A leading "!!! " will cause the rest of the line to be parsed as
5608 command line. Very dangerous, as an unknown option (e.g. because of a typo)
5609 will cause a fatal error, which makes XBoard exit.
5611 2012-02-09 13:04:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5612 Put move number in Eval Graph title
5615 2012-02-09 13:00:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5616 Implement -pgnNumberTag option
5618 A new (persistent) boolean option controls if the sequence number is to
5619 be written in saved tourney games as a Number tag, to make it easier
5620 to correlate games with debug files.
5622 2012-02-09 12:55:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5623 Create separate debug fil for each tourney game
5625 Users can now apecify a -debugfile with %d in its name, and this will
5626 be replaced by the sequence number of the game. TwoMachinesEvent then
5627 starts by opening a new file when the name has changed, so that each
5628 game will go to a different file, with recognizable name.
5630 2012-02-09 12:51:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5631 Fix bug in WB combobox readout
5633 The previous patch exposed a latent bug in the readout of the generic popup.
5635 2012-02-08 23:25:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5636 Allow grouping of engines in engine list
5638 Lines "# GROUPNAME" and "# end" enclose a group in -firstChessProgramNames.
5640 2012-02-08 17:47:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5643 A trailing .exe was not removed if the engine name was quoted.
5645 2012-02-08 17:45:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5646 Put recently used engines in WB menu
5648 A new option -recentEngines specifies how many engines should be listed.
5649 The list of nicknames is stored in the ettings file as -recentEngineList.
5650 The engines are appended to the Engine menu.
5652 2012-02-04 19:37:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5653 Fix registering of EditTagsProg
5655 This was registered with X as EditCommentProc!
5657 2012-02-07 23:04:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5658 Increase max nr of engines to 2000
5660 Move the #define for MAXENGINES also to common.h, so that both the
5661 Load and Tourney dialog use the same maximum.
5663 2012-01-19 23:01:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5664 Fix fix of switch to mono-mode
5666 The previous fix had == in stead of != for testing if mono-mode had changed.
5668 2012-01-19 22:21:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5669 Make New Variant dialog visible in mono-mode
5671 All colored buttons did get a black background, and also black text...
5672 Use timer background color in stead, which is white.
5674 2012-01-19 20:48:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5675 Incease size of WB array of translated items
5677 For the BoardOptions dialog 42 items are now needed
5679 2012-01-19 17:18:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5680 Implement Clone Tourney button XBoard
5682 This makes use of the new GenericUpdate().
5684 2012-01-19 16:34:13 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5685 Implement GenericUpdate function
5687 This does the opposite from GenericReadout: it copies the current
5688 parameter values into the dialog.
5690 2012-01-19 12:19:27 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5691 Fix arrow damage with highlightDragging XB
5693 With highlight dragging the highlights of the previous moves are cleared
5694 when lifting the piece. Logically, this should also clear the arrow, but
5695 to do that requires a board redraw, which is not done at this stage. (And
5696 even then this would only be effective after marking the arrow damage,
5697 which is not done yet either). As a temporary fix, we repair the arrow
5699 This patch has moved marking of the arrow damage from DrawArrowHighlight
5700 to a separate routine, so a future better fix can also call that when the
5701 arrow should be erased.
5703 2012-01-18 16:01:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5704 Prevent unnecessary loading of engines
5706 For engines that can be reused, the unloading at the end of a pairing
5707 is in some cases wasteful, as the same engine will be used in the next
5708 pairing as well. In simple gauntlets the gauntlet engine will always
5709 stay first engine, while in multi-gauntlets the oppent engine will stay
5710 the same for an entire round. In these cases unloading is now suppressed.
5712 2012-01-17 22:22:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5713 Reset protocol version before loading new engine
5715 The protocol version was not reset, so if the previous engine was v1,
5716 the newly loaded engine would not be sent a protover command, so
5717 that its features would remain unknown!
5719 2012-01-17 19:33:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5720 Give focus to board window after ICS login
5722 toprevent that the focus remains on any popped up chat boxes, it is
5723 explicitlly set otherwise. The board window is preferred over the
5724 ICS interaction window, because you can type from there to the ICS anyway,
5725 and it makes all accelerator keys available.
5727 2012-01-16 14:37:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5728 Fix seek-graph popup and popdown
5730 Clicking outside the board area in WB (e.g.on the clocks) would also
5731 trigger seek-graph 'popup'. This is now suppressed by testing for
5732 y-coord > 0. In addition, the seek graph is automaticaly taken down
5733 when we step to another position in the current game (using buttons,
5734 arrow keys or whatever).
5736 2012-01-15 21:29:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5737 Suppress empty lines when observing on VICS
5739 Capture of the engine kibitzes when observing an engine game with
5740 -autoKibitz on was still leaking a linefeed on the Variant ICS
5741 (but not FICS or ICC!?).
5743 2012-01-15 21:24:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5744 Fix printing non-numeric kibitz with -autoKibitz
5746 Messages that were not considered kibitzed engine PV info for lack of
5747 numeric content, were kibitzed as coming from "your opponent", which
5748 is nonsense if you were iobserving, and masked the source. Fortunately
5749 star_match[0] is still holding the original name, at that point.
5751 2012-01-11 17:33:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5755 2012-01-11 17:00:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5756 Use same translation of "vs." everywhere
5759 2012-01-11 17:08:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5760 Add new translations to WB language file
5763 2012-01-11 16:20:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5764 Fix re-allocation of PGN-cache memory
5766 It allocated 8 times too much!
5768 2012-01-11 12:47:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5769 Fix height board dialog
5772 2012-01-11 12:34:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5773 Enable WB time-control dialog even when no clock mode
5775 The dialog could be called from the tournament dialog to set a TCfor
5776 the tourney even when currently in game-viewer mode, so it'd better work.
5778 2012-01-11 12:28:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5779 Exempt variant seirawan from -disguisePromoted inheritance
5781 This is not a variant where promoted Pawns have to be distingushed
5782 from primordial pieces, as captured pieces do not go into the holdings.
5784 2012-01-09 21:23:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5785 Add control for overrideLineGap in WB Board dialog
5787 Make it a checkbox to choose between 0 and -1.
5789 2012-01-09 20:56:40 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5790 Add Ctrl-D as alternative to Ctrl+Alt+F12 in WinBoard
5792 The acellerator key Ctrl+Alt+F12 seems reserved on Windows 7.
5794 2012-01-09 20:52:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5795 Fix seek graph for VICS
5797 The sought command on the open-source ICS code is ICC-like (no terminating
5798 line), although the server is FICS like. So also accept prompt as seek-graph
5801 2012-01-09 20:27:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5802 Open WB startup chat boxes only after logged on
5804 The init code for opening the chat boxes ismoved to DisplayIcsTitle().
5806 2012-01-07 20:31:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5807 Install mime types directly
5810 2012-01-07 20:29:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5811 Install desktop files directly
5814 2012-01-07 20:19:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5815 Install icons directly
5817 Rather than letting make-install copy the pixmaps to the XBoard data
5818 directory they are installed directly from the source files. The name
5819 of the TRN icon was also corrected and changed.
5821 2012-01-05 18:41:13 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5822 Update texi file and remove duplicate control
5824 Some missing option descriptions were added. The highlight-dragging
5825 control was removed from the General Options dialog, as it did the same
5826 as Show Target Squares. -highlightDragging wa changed to a volatile option
5827 with default value true, making it effectively disappear as an XBoard
5828 option. (In WinBoard it is still persistent.)
5830 2012-01-05 15:55:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5831 Remove the direct commands to the engines
5834 2012-01-05 21:15:11 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5835 forgot to list new desktop files in EXTRA_DIST section in Makefile.am
5838 2012-01-05 20:08:23 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5839 added some autogenerated po files to .gitignore
5842 2012-01-05 20:05:44 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5843 added desktop and mime-type association to autoconf install process
5845 This should install and uninstall the mime assocciation and also the icons.
5846 Also renamed the desktop files to avoid possible name collisions.
5848 2012-01-03 21:30:59 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5849 code cleanup: make function definition confirm to GNU coding style
5851 change everything in the main directory to
5854 funcname (int a, int b)
5858 2012-01-03 18:43:18 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
5859 Updated copyright notice to 2012
5862 2012-01-03 21:32:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5863 Implement -viewerOptions
5865 A mechanism is added to allow the user to configure persistently if the
5866 game viewer that starts on clicking PGN files will use -ncp mode, or
5867 load an egine for analysis (or, in fact, do anything). This by introducing
5868 a persistent string option -viewerOptions, which will be parsed as a
5869 command line after the real command line when the option -viewer was present.
5871 2012-01-03 11:29:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5872 Fix crash in auto-comment
5874 Trailing linefeeds in AppendComment were not properly stripped off,
5875 leading to a mismatch between the allocted and used memory, and thus
5876 possible buffer overruns.
5878 2012-01-02 23:46:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5879 Fix crash at match end
5881 The -afterTourney option had broken old-style matches, because the ranking
5882 string that was tested for "busy" is not set there at all, and remains a
5883 NULL pointer, which strcmp doesn't like.
5885 2012-01-01 19:56:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5886 Add desktop files for PGN viewer and tournament player
5888 The desktop files define startup commands for handling PGN, FEN and
5889 tourney files, calling xboard with the proper command-line options.
5891 2012-01-01 19:53:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5892 Add xml file for defining mime types
5894 The file xboard.xml defines application/x-chess-pgn, aplication/x-chess-fen
5895 and application/x-xboard-trn as mime types for *.pgn, *.fen and *.trn files,
5896 so these files can be associated with XBoard in various modes.
5898 2012-01-01 19:41:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5899 Add icons for PGN and tourney files
5901 Icons are provided in two sizes: 32x32 and 48x48.
5903 2011-12-29 19:55:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5904 Clear square markers on new game
5906 Now that the markers can stay on after a first click, they need to be
5907 explicitly cleared when moving to another board, including a new game.
5909 2011-12-29 15:51:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5910 Abandon single-letter menus in tinyLayout
5912 Now that the items on the main menu bar are clipped, it iso longer
5913 necessary to abbreviate them.
5915 2011-12-29 15:38:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5916 Implement peeking previous position in WinBoard
5918 The backspace key is used to temporarily display the previous position.
5920 2011-12-29 15:32:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5921 Fix parsing of faulty PGN tags
5923 A closing bracket could be missed in a malformed tag
5925 2011-12-29 15:29:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5926 Fix parser for variant seirawan
5928 The new parser didnot understand gating suffixes with /, and did not
5929 allow any suffix at all on SAN castling moves.
5931 2011-12-28 22:32:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5932 Try to not confuse ICS rating adustments as shouts
5934 An explicit pattern match for the rating adjustment is added before
5935 matching the shouts.
5937 2011-12-28 22:21:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5938 Describe -overrideLineGap option in texi file
5941 2011-12-28 22:03:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5942 Use <Enter> in stead of Ctrl+. for peeking last move
5944 I commented out the explicit detection of the Ctrl key, as this
5945 is not needed when there are no 'unnatural' Ctrl keystrokes used
5948 2011-12-28 19:37:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5949 Next try for menu-bar sizing
5951 This time request the width needed to just fit everything, and then start
5952 shaving off pixels from the currently largest until the entire thing fits.
5954 2011-12-28 15:17:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5955 Clip texts on menu bar
5957 The width of the items on the main menu bar is restricted so the bar
5958 will never exceed board width.
5960 2011-12-28 14:01:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5961 Fix format in temporary timing printf
5964 2011-12-28 13:38:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5965 Don't test drops as mate evasions in variant seirawan
5968 2011-12-28 13:36:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5969 Fix ICS castling rights
5971 Copying the castling rights together with CopyBoard seems to have
5972 broken handling of ICS rights, where ParseBoard12 prepares a board
5973 in a local variable, an copies it before parsing the rights.
5975 2011-12-28 13:35:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5976 Fix initial holdings ICS seirawan games
5979 2011-12-27 18:31:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5980 Fix sending of S-Chess gating moves to ICS
5982 Normal moves did not get the gating suffix sent.
5984 2011-12-27 17:56:07 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5985 Fix menu grayout after illegal move
5987 TheThinkingEnables were not reset to user state after the engine rejected
5988 the entered move as illegal.
5990 2011-12-27 13:26:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5991 Allow setting of holdings with edit command
5993 For the benefit of Fairy-Max' Seirawan Chess implementation, the edit command
5994 no also sends holdings contents (if the engine sent feature xedit=1), encoded
5995 as pieceType + '@' + holdingsCount (if the count is non-zero).
5997 2011-12-24 17:54:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
5998 Fix out-of-bounds access in check test
6000 Thepath to make the check test work with drops had broken the test
6001 after null move (both have rf<0), which led to corruption of the high
6002 word of the black clock.
6004 2011-12-24 17:51:22 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6005 Fix legality of Spartan promotion to king
6007 In the check test promotion to King is only allowed if there are not
6010 2011-12-21 22:17:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6011 Fix switching back from mono-mode XB
6013 Suppressing unnecesary X-server calls in InitDrawingSizes had broken
6014 switching back from monoMode, because the animVars have to be recreated
6015 for that, and this was only done when the variant changed.
6017 2011-12-21 22:09:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6018 Fix showTargetSquares in mono-mode XB
6020 Make the marker dots black (captures) and white, and draw a circle
6021 in the opposite color around them in monoMode.
6023 2011-12-21 22:00:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6024 Fix arrow highlighting in mono-mode XB
6026 Draw a line around it in darkSquare color in monoMode.
6028 2011-12-21 17:48:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6029 Fix alignment of generic browse button XBoard
6031 The width ofthe browse button is now read back after creating it,
6032 and subtracted from the preceding text edit.
6034 2011-12-21 14:41:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6035 Add -afterTourney option
6037 Only the instance pinting the tourney result will execute this.
6039 2011-12-22 21:01:43 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
6040 Fix buffer possible overflow when writings tags
6042 PGNTagsStatic() could overflow its buffer and is removed. PGNTags() do the work instead of calling it.
6043 It starts by calculation the required buffer size and then allocate the buffer.
6044 PrintPGNTags() now prints directly to the file without having a buffer.
6046 2011-12-22 15:01:31 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
6047 One more string marked for translation
6049 And it is moved inside the if statement that uses it.
6051 2011-12-22 14:30:08 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
6052 Fix checking of return value from snprintf()
6054 snprintf() returns the needed space excluding the trailing 0 byte, so
6055 it has truncated if the returned valued is greater than or EQUAL TO the buffersize
6057 2011-12-19 16:49:31 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
6058 Fix unportable memory initialisation
6060 Memory sat to zero by calloc() cannot safely be assumed to have the pointer value NULL
6062 2011-12-19 13:16:58 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
6063 Add 2 strings for translation
6066 2011-12-19 11:25:11 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
6067 Remove the last 2 compile warnings in gamelist.h
6070 2011-12-19 11:17:48 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
6071 Add #include "moves.h" to gamelist.c for def. of CopyBoard()
6074 2011-12-19 11:11:34 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
6075 Definition of TimeMark moved from 3 c files to backend.h
6078 2011-12-19 01:21:46 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
6079 Transfer a pointer to the promoChar from PromotionPopUp() to PromotionCallback(). Fixes #34980
6082 2011-12-18 17:24:07 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
6083 Duh! Initialise the argument to sscanf() inside the loop, so it always gets a known value when sscanf() fails.
6086 2011-12-18 17:18:12 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
6087 Give numeric options the value 0 if a non-numeric text is entered (one more place). Before the value ended up undefined.
6090 2011-12-18 17:08:46 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
6091 Give numeric options the value 0 if a non-numeric text is entered. Before the value ended up undefined.
6094 2011-12-18 15:41:46 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
6095 Fix possible crash on 64-bit systems when copying game or position
6097 The two convertproc's for X selections caused reads out of bounds on 64-bit systems.
6098 I hope that this is the right solution. I am not experienced with X stuff, but it
6099 follows that I have seen in other programs, testing shows that copying still works,
6100 and the reading out of bounds have disappearinged with this patch.
6102 2011-12-18 13:26:20 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
6103 Fix a possible crash in the file browser
6105 If the OK button was selected in the file browser when no file was selected
6106 there was a read out of bounds which could crash xboard
6108 2011-12-17 22:54:34 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
6109 Fix a memory leak in Sound Options
6112 2011-12-16 02:57:20 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
6113 Fix crash when selecting user soundfile due to free() of not malloc()'ed memory
6116 2011-12-16 02:32:37 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
6117 Make GenericPopUp() more readable by using more named flags instead of numerals
6119 Defines the flags SAME_ROW (value 1) and NO_OK (value 2) for use with buttons and endmarks.
6120 There should no functional change.
6121 Also add a code comment where a condition depends on an uninitialised value. There is no direct harm, as both
6122 branches do the same (that is nothing) when the value is uninitialised.
6124 2011-12-15 02:51:36 +0100 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
6125 Add NO_GETTEXT flag for combobox. Fix bug #34991
6127 Define NO_GETTEXT flag to avoid calling gettext() for comboboxes, and define COMBO_CALLBACK
6128 flag to call comboCallback() when an item is selected in a combobox (no new code for this,
6129 just a symbolic value instead of a number). The flags are used for the min field of struct Option.
6130 NO_GETTEXT is used for the Select engine combobixes in the Match Options and Load engine windows.
6132 2011-12-13 19:48:37 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6133 only translate entries in CreateComboPopup if strlen>0; fixes #34991
6136 2011-12-12 19:06:26 -0800 Byrial Jensen <byrial@vip.cybercity.dk>:
6137 fix for repeating key issue, with this allissues this bug should be closed; fixes #35000
6140 2011-12-12 18:45:05 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6141 also don't translate selection in ComboSelect; fixes #34991
6144 2011-12-12 18:40:23 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6145 make entries in CreateComboPopup not translateable; fixes #34991
6148 2011-12-10 16:06:47 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6149 fix translation for engine list; fixes #34991
6151 * click on browse button should be recognized in translated versions
6152 * width of button should auto-scale
6154 2011-12-10 11:04:17 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6155 change keybindings that don't use ctrl, make MoveTypeInProc ctrl aware; fixes #35000
6157 two keybindings were using keys without modifiers, adjusted these to use the ctrl key.
6158 Furthermore when typing in moves we need to check if ctrl was pressed and ignore those inputs.
6160 Also added documentation for these keybindings.
6162 2011-12-10 10:51:18 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6163 replaced unicode character for "'" in xboard.texi
6166 2011-12-10 10:08:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6167 removed Iconify function. Should be handled by the window manager.
6170 2011-12-08 20:53:13 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6171 marked an error messages for translation
6174 2011-12-08 20:33:29 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6175 translation: updated uk.po
6178 2011-12-03 17:52:23 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6179 fixed size of XBoard icon to 48x48
6181 the icon gets installed in the 48x48 directory, but was >200 pixel wide. This gave a warning during rpm creation.
6183 2011-12-03 08:07:32 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6186 marked a lot of new strings for translation
6188 2011-12-03 08:06:42 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6189 added new files to po/POTFILES.in
6192 2011-12-02 22:13:36 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6193 marked more strings for translation
6196 2011-12-02 20:08:01 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6197 translation: added danish translation
6200 2011-12-01 18:45:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6201 Change encoding of seirawan ICS gating-castlings
6203 In stead of using upper/lower-case promoChar, the ICS now uses
6204 RxK notation, like WinBoard writes in SAN, for better consistency.
6206 2011-11-30 15:38:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6207 Put promo-suffix on ICS move in variant seirawan castlings
6209 The distinction upper-case / lowercase determines gating at R / K
6211 2011-11-28 11:56:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6212 Refrain from making unnecessary resize X request
6214 The window resizing code in InitDrawingSizes is suppressed when no
6215 change is needed. Similarly, changing piece bitmaps is suppressed when
6216 we stay in the same variant (and InitDrawingSizes is called e.g. because
6217 of chaging lineGap through the Board dialog).
6219 2011-11-27 22:27:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6220 Fix parsing of O-O castling in variant janus
6222 The new parser did not realize it meant e1i1 rather than wild e1h1.
6224 2011-11-26 22:28:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6225 Show 50-move counter also when observing ICS games
6227 To not cheat 50-move display was suppressed in ICS mode,
6228 but for observing a game this made no sense.
6230 2011-11-26 22:22:07 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6231 Ignore ICS game starts when already in game
6233 The advance switching of the variant on game-start messages was
6234 disruptive for users with gin=1, which also sends such messages
6235 for other games than your own. For now fixed by only reacting on
6236 them when idle (detected by invalid game number).
6238 2011-11-11 18:16:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6239 Fix WinBoard clock-click bug
6241 Clicking on the clock in WinBoard also called the LeftClick routine
6242 for handling clicks on the board. This led to the from-square being set
6243 to some inalid value, so that the next genuine board click was interpreted
6244 as a to-click, with undesired effects, especially with legality testing off
6245 or in EditPosition mode, where weird things are accepted.
6247 2011-11-06 17:20:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6248 Add feature-override options
6250 A few (dangerous) options are added to allow a user to override
6251 engine features, or change their defaults, by supplying a string
6252 with feature commands (e.g. "sigint=0") which tricks XBoard into
6253 thinking the engine sent that. There is a -featureDefaults which is
6254 processed before the engine features, and -first/secondFeatures
6255 which is parsed just before engine initialization.
6256 This goes horribly wrong when the user wouldtry silly things like
6257 including 'option' or 'done' features!
6259 2011-11-05 12:32:39 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6260 translation: updated uk.po
6263 2011-11-04 21:58:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6264 Fix handling of -secondOptions option
6266 The -firstOptions and -secondOptions settigs were not swapped when
6267 -singleEngieList was true, so the second engine's options would never
6268 be set in that case, but used for the first engine.
6270 2011-11-04 21:55:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6271 Accept setup command in variant fairy even with legality testing on
6273 Variant fairy does not really have a defined opening position, but lots
6274 of pieces defined, so we might want to play with legality checking on,
6275 but still rely on the engine for the opening position
6277 2011-11-04 21:52:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6278 Set pieceToCharTable by setup command even when ignoring FEN
6280 When the user starts from a set-up position, the egines default
6281 openingposition has to be ignored, but the pieceToCharTable would
6284 2011-11-04 21:48:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6285 Change default sweep-promotion choicein queenless variants
6287 The initial scanning of the sweep piece until a defined piece is found
6288 is now in the increasing direction (still starting at Queen), so that
6289 the fairy pieces are suggested before R, B and N.
6291 2011-11-03 16:38:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6292 Clear board markers when moving to other position
6294 Now the markers from -showTargetSquares would stay on after a first click
6295 for the benefit of a click-click move, they would also stay on when not
6296 finishing the move, but operating the < > buttons in stead to call up
6297 other positions. ForwardInner and BackwardInner now clear the markers,
6298 like they also cleared highlights.
6300 2011-11-01 18:30:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6301 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
6303 2011-10-25 15:32:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6306 2011-10-24 20:00:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6307 Don't adjust clock on right-click in EditGame mode WB
6309 This was a change that was already done for the left-clicks, but somehow
6310 never made it togit for the right-clicks
6312 2011-10-24 19:50:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6313 Change chase message in .lng files
6315 2011-10-24 19:31:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6316 Let perpetual-chase message mention square
6318 In stead of a boolean, PerpetualChase now returns the square the chased
6319 piece ends on (encoded as an int), and on adjudication it will be printed.
6321 2011-10-24 19:26:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6322 Add mechanism to translate variable messages in WinBoard
6324 A message prefixed with % in the lng file will be considered a match
6325 if it matches the start of the text to be printed, and the remaining
6326 part of the latter will remain untranslated. This was needed to allow
6327 translation of the perpetual change message, now it indicates the square
6328 of the chased piece.
6330 2011-10-24 19:20:13 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6331 Use other interpretation of Asia rules for chase detection
6333 The detection of perpetual chases now ignores pre-existing checks.
6335 2011-10-12 17:28:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6336 Fix crash on loading garbage game file
6338 The code to cache games was not resistant to moves before a valid
6339 game start, or a game filewithout any games at all.
6341 2011-10-08 20:43:52 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6342 Incorporate variant type in book hash key
6344 This prevents booksforone variant being used for another, and allows
6345 multi-variant books.
6347 2011-10-07 15:41:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6348 Update language.txt file
6351 2011-10-07 15:34:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6352 Update Dutch lng file
6355 2011-10-07 15:21:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6356 Fix Load Options dialog WB
6358 Defined fastkeys; reordered elements so that fastkeys focus edit they
6359 are intended for. Changed some of the more obscure texts. Corrected
6360 list of transatble dialog items, adding a few missing ones.
6362 2011-09-13 20:01:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6365 Prototypes were added, ormoved from backend.c to backend.h.
6367 2011-08-26 12:44:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6368 Put 'Load Next' button back in WB Game List
6370 The '>' button for loading the next (filtered) game is re-instated in the
6371 WinBoard GameList. The main window has now accelerator keys Ctrl+Up and
6372 Ctrl+Down for loading the previous and next filtered game.
6374 2011-08-26 12:31:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6375 Speed up position search and consider side to move
6377 The position search is made to pay attention to the side to move,
6378 which produces a speedup, because we only have to compare half the
6379 game positions when looking for an exact position match. An addition
6380 we now keep track of the total number of pieces, and abandon a game when
6381 it drops below the number of pieces in the position we seek.
6383 2011-08-21 23:16:15 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6384 Dynamically allocate move cache
6386 A small statically declared cache good for 250k moves (~3200 games)
6387 will be expanded in steps of a factor 8 when it overflows.
6389 2011-08-18 18:40:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6390 Translate search strings
6393 2011-08-17 22:55:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6394 Implement flipped search
6397 2011-08-16 15:29:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6398 Debug position search cache
6401 2011-08-15 18:44:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6405 2011-08-18 18:01:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6406 Translate search-mode strings
6409 2011-08-15 16:59:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6413 2011-10-23 16:04:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6414 Fix duplicate loading of second engine in tourneys
6416 To decide if new engines should be loaded, it was tested if first.pr
6417 equalled NoProc, assuming that ReserveGame would have left the engine
6418 loaded if the next game would need the same engines. But a reuse=0 engine
6419 could have caused termination of the first engine process anyway, while
6420 the second would still be alive. So unconditionally starting of the second
6421 engine would cause redundant engine processes to abound.
6422 Now we only start new engine processes if both engine processes are dead.
6424 2011-10-23 15:53:32 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6425 Fix PV walking with -fSAN
6427 The SAN options had broken the PV walking, because the shelving of the
6428 walked PV to create space for the conversion to SAN of an incoming PV
6429 would not be properly undone, but would add the walked PV to the game.
6431 2011-10-20 12:39:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6432 Refine clock adjusting
6434 Adjusting the clocks by shift-clicking them is now only allowed with
6435 autoCallFlag off, and an error-popup results when you do it otherwise.
6436 Also, swtching to Edit Game mode won't reset the clocks to the stored
6437 value anymore when you have just adjusted it.
6439 2011-10-12 17:43:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6440 Fix crash on adding items near book end
6442 When Edit Book would add so many entries near the end of an opening
6443 book that the end of the added info would surpass the old end of the
6444 file, the copying of the tail got stuck in an infinite loop, extending
6445 the file without limit with repeating info.
6447 2011-10-12 17:41:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6448 Print message on wrong use of Clone Tourney
6450 The user is urged to first provide the name of an existing tourney file
6451 when he presses the button without one. The button is also renamed.
6453 2011-10-12 17:38:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6454 Fix invalid combobox entry WB
6456 A combobox label that was not in the list (because the user typed
6457 it, rather than selecting one) would cause a crash.
6459 2011-10-12 17:23:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6460 Fix crash on loading garbage game file
6462 XBoard crashed when a game file contained a PGN game result before
6463 any valid game start, because data would be written in a game-list
6464 node that did not exist yet. This would occur frequently when garage
6465 was read; basically any asterisk in the data would do it.
6467 2011-10-11 23:31:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6468 Add control to set -discourageOwnBooks WB
6471 2011-10-11 20:53:52 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6472 only require 0.17 of gettext
6474 This seems to solve many build issues with older distrubtions and doesn't seem to be a problem with newer ones.
6476 2011-10-11 23:31:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6477 Add option -discourageOwnBooks
6479 This boolean option determines the default setting of the hasOwnBook
6480 option before a tourney game starts. By setting it, the hasOwnBook
6481 option is cleared, which would enable use of the GUI book, like the
6482 engine was installedwith the /firstXBook option. An explicit option
6483 on the engine install line can still overrule this, though.
6484 A control to set this option has been added in the XBoard Match dialog,
6485 and it is saved in the tourney file to force consistency.
6487 2011-10-11 22:58:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6488 Reset initString and computerString on engine load
6490 These options are typically engine specific, and must thus be
6491 reset to their default value before loading a new engine.
6493 2011-10-11 22:43:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6494 Add Romanian lng file
6497 2011-10-07 16:55:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6498 Reactivate Falcon Chess
6500 Now the patent for this has expired, Fairy-Max plays it again.
6501 So the XBoard support for it is now switched on, and an item for it is
6502 added to the XBoard New Variant menu dialog. (WinBoard still had that.)
6503 In the array the Lance was changed for the Falcon as a wild-card piece.
6505 2011-10-03 09:59:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6506 Update texi file for new features
6509 2011-10-03 10:30:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6510 Update texi file for position search
6512 The new items in the Load Game Options dialog are described, as well
6513 as the command-line options used to store them in the settings file.
6515 2011-10-03 09:28:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6516 Remove paragraph about .Xresources from texi file
6518 Command-line options can no longer be set through .Xresources already
6519 since version 4.5.0.
6521 2011-10-03 09:13:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6522 Add Dutch WinBoard translation
6525 2011-09-28 20:46:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6526 Prevent Edit Book window from stealing focus (WB)
6528 In WinBoard updating the book window would give it focus. Now the
6529 focus is given back to the main window, except when the Edit Book
6530 window is first created.
6532 2011-09-28 20:42:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6533 Make book-window update part of HistorySet
6536 2011-09-26 16:01:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6537 Fix position loading in tourneys
6539 In a tourney a position must be loaded when the engine is not yet
6540 started, and the old version of LoadPosition could not handle that:
6541 It would start up the engine, and send it commands unconditionally.
6543 2011-09-26 15:58:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6544 Fix resetting -fSAN on engine change
6546 There were two places for loading another engine, Load (from menu) and
6547 SetPlayer (in tourneys), and the previous patch for this missed the
6550 2011-09-26 15:51:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6551 Make too-long game non-fatal
6553 GameEnds is now called when the maximum number of moves is exceeded,
6554 rather than DisplayFatalError. Not sure if this properly terminates the
6555 game in all situations, but DisplayFatalError (after calling GameEnds)
6556 would also wait for the user to confirm the error popup before really
6557 exiting, so that in an unattended automatically running tourney there
6558 was not much fatal, and the entire tourney would in fact be finished.
6560 2011-09-26 15:46:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6563 Rather than opening and closing the book file on every probe, it is
6564 now only closed and opened when the name of it changed.
6566 2011-09-26 15:44:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6567 Suppress playing of book moves with weight 0
6569 Bookmoves with weight 0 could be played when the sum of the weights
6570 of all moves from the position was 0. So it was not possible to suppress
6571 the only move by giving it weight 0. This is now corrected.
6573 2011-10-01 15:00:47 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6574 added NEWS for release of 4.5.3
6577 2011-09-29 20:31:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6578 better contrast for XBoard icon on a dark background
6581 2011-10-01 13:09:59 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6582 translationproject.org: updated Ukrainian translation
6585 2011-09-29 20:49:42 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6586 updated pot file and send to translation project
6589 2011-09-22 12:09:39 +0100 Thomas Adam <thomas@fvwm.org>:
6590 (tiny change) Clarify "-name" option is Xt-only
6592 There's a set of standard options with will get used by Xt, before Xboard
6593 itself will use them. "-name" is an Xt-only option which will set the name
6594 and resource of the window to the value requested. It has nothing to do
6595 with setting opponent/player names.
6597 Signed-off-by: Thomas Adam <thomas@fvwm.org>
6599 modified slightly by Arun Persaud (renamed itemx to item and fixed option name for CMAIL)
6601 2011-09-22 17:17:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6602 Fix LoadGameOrPosition starting up engine
6604 When LoadGameOrPosition() is called from NextMatchGame(), the Reset() that
6605 is called in LoadPosition() when you are running from a position file
6606 would prematurely start up the engine (without waiting for features).
6607 The kludge to suppress this behavior for the explicit call to Reset()
6608 is now extended to encompass LoadGameOrPosition.
6610 2011-09-22 17:14:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6611 Clear fSAN option before new engine load
6613 This to prevent the new engine will inherit it from the previous one.
6614 As the command-line options an only set it, this has to be done by
6615 explicit assignment.
6617 2011-09-13 23:02:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6618 Fix some warnings (prototypes)
6621 2011-09-13 19:55:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6622 Fix write failures in concurrency
6624 In WinBoard a flood of writes by differentprocesses to the same PGN can
6625 cause a "permission denied" error in fopen. This patch causes retries after
6626 a random (5-15 msec) wait, in such cases.
6628 2011-09-13 19:52:19 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6629 Move HistorySet to back-end
6631 This existed in exact duplicates in both front-ends.
6633 2011-09-13 19:46:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6634 Make DoSleep front-end wrapper for msec sleep
6636 DoSleep was #defined as a macro for Sleep/ sleep, with an argument
6637 indicating msec in WinBoard, but seconds in XBoard. Nuw it universally
6638 uses msec, by defining it as a wrapperin the respective front-ends.
6639 (For XBoard itwraps FrameDelay.)
6641 2011-09-10 22:35:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6642 Fix playing sounds when -soundProgram is empty
6644 It made no sense to just send the names of the sound files to the shell.
6645 So the soundProgram isnow tested for being an empty string, and if so,
6646 PlaySound() is aborted.
6648 2011-09-10 14:01:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6649 Add -afterGame option
6651 This option specifies a command line to be executed after each game of
6652 a tournament. To execute the line, the function RunCommand() was added
6653 in the front-end. For XBoard this was a simple call to system(); for
6654 WinBoard part of the StartChildProcess code was cloned (without the pipe
6657 2011-09-10 13:52:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6658 Upgrade -serverMoves option
6660 The (undocumented) -serverMoves option was upgraded to conform to the
6661 ChessLive! protocol extension for sending SAN tags. A bug that allowed
6662 upper-case promoChar to leak through was also fixed, and code was added
6663 to write engine PVs to file. Flushing of the game result to the -serverMoves
6664 file was also fixed.
6666 2011-09-10 13:50:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6669 The joining of two comments was not performed correctly if the second
6670 one had the braces yet to be added: the closing brace was not added in
6673 2011-08-30 19:39:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6674 Auto-popup ICS Input Box
6676 Typing to the board made the move type-in pop up, but in ICS mode
6677 this is of course undesirable. Like in WinBoard, the ICS Input Box
6678 should pop up in stead, and accept the typed character. This is now
6679 realized. If the box already exists and has text in it, the typed
6680 character is appended to that text, and the box is given focus.
6681 Spaces now also are considered as printable.
6683 2011-08-30 18:27:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6684 Slightly decrease sensitivity of sweep actions
6686 The sweep-selection of promotion and drop pieces, or step through the PV
6687 was so sensitive that it was difficult to reliably make the intended choice.
6688 It has now been reduced by a factor 1.5-2, and the sweep selection and
6689 PV walk now also use a different value.
6691 2011-08-27 21:16:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6692 Extra buttons in WB Tournament dialog
6694 A button to copy contents of the tournament fileto the dialog is added.
6695 Buttons to invoke the Common Engine and Time Control dialogs are also added.
6697 2011-08-27 21:15:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6698 Fix crash on typing non-existent enginein Load Engine dialog
6701 2011-08-24 10:30:46 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6702 Fix display state after failed analysis attempt
6704 When an engine responded to the "analyze" command with an "unknown command"
6705 message, a Reset was done without altering the display, causing a
6706 discrepancy between display and internal state, which caused confusion
6707 when it finally corrected itself. I replaced the Reset call by an
6708 EditGameEvent call, to preserve the loaded game. The Reset was presumably
6709 used to allow for the case where the engine would be so upset by the
6710 analyze command that it needed to be reset by a "new" command, but this
6711 seems overly paranoic for an engine that just recognized the command
6714 2011-08-24 09:58:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6715 Fix treatment of PGN score/depth info with linefeeds in them
6717 This is needed to make the PGN more Arena-proof.
6719 2011-08-24 09:51:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6720 Fix quoting in Load Engine dialog
6722 A (space-contaning) engine name only needs quoting when there are parameters,
6723 because the over-all engine command will be quoted anyway. For UCI engines
6724 duplicate quoting is fatal, because when passed as the -ec argument of
6725 Polyglot, it will be quoted yet another time, also with double quotes.
6727 2011-08-23 21:24:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6728 Replace Analyze File by Analyz Game function
6731 2011-08-22 22:16:58 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6732 new developer release
6735 2011-08-22 22:26:56 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6739 2011-08-22 22:24:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6740 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
6743 2011-08-22 22:09:19 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6744 malloc.h is not needed
6747 2011-08-20 22:21:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6748 Fix ICS move-list header mistaken for null moves
6751 2011-08-18 18:53:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6752 Allow two-games-per-opening to work with book
6754 A new option -seedBase is added, and written to the tourney file.
6755 It allows all XBoard instances working on a tourney to generate the same
6756 'random' openings in a deterministic way, based on this one-time seed
6757 and the game number. When -loadGameIndex equals -2, it uses the same seed
6758 for an odd and the following even game.
6760 2011-08-18 18:51:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6763 In some places rand() was called explicitly, rather than through the
6764 (configured) place-holder random().
6766 2011-08-18 17:34:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6767 Translate search texts
6770 2011-08-18 10:29:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6771 Add -useBoardTexture and -usePieceFont options
6773 These options suppress the use of the given texture files or piece fonts
6774 without relying on the kludge to disable them by prefixing an asterisk
6775 to the file or font name. Checkboxes have been added to the Board dialog
6776 to control them. The user can now set piece font in WB font dialog.
6777 The sample text can be used to specify the -fontPieceToCharTable,
6778 the font name itself the -renderPiecesWithFont value.
6780 2011-08-16 23:10:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6781 Fix crash on start without settings file
6783 A primordial -1 in currCurrent caused a crash when WinBoard was started
6784 without ini filein game-viewer mode.
6786 2011-08-12 12:08:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6787 Fix generic-popup failure after empty engine-settings dialog
6789 The error exit ofthe Engine #N Settings dialog in case of an engine without
6790 options forgot to clear currentCps, with as a result that the generic popup
6791 thought every subsequent popup was an empty one, and kept repeating the
6792 'engine has no options' error message for every dialog.
6794 2011-08-10 11:27:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6795 Allow substitution of engines during tournament
6797 Two buttons are added in the tournament options dialog, for upgrading
6798 and for replacing a tourney participant. Lots of tests on the validity
6799 of the request are done, and if all are passed, the tourney file is
6800 written with the new participants (and in case of replace) with the
6801 results of the replaced engines erased from the -results string.
6803 2011-08-08 11:00:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6804 Fix up/down arrows in game list
6807 2011-08-08 10:31:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6808 Add key bindings for loading next/previous game of list
6810 These bindings are set both for the game list and the board window.
6811 To make them useful, focus has to be transferred to the board widget
6812 after loading (it tends to transfer to the tags window), which now
6813 seems to work, but not always. From the game list the shellWidget
6814 seems to get focus rather than the board, which is bad as it is not
6815 sensitive to the key bindings.
6817 2011-08-08 09:58:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6818 Allow deletion of last book move
6820 The book-edit function refused to delete the entiremove list,
6821 for no good reason. This limitation now has been lifted.
6822 Also the error message that the key for the current book entries
6823 is different from that of the currentposition has been suppressed
6824 if there were no entries found for the current position (so that the
6825 book is positioned at the next key), so that it is possible to add
6828 2011-08-08 00:19:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6831 Line numbers > 1, which are common, can exit already during move parsing,
6832 to save lots of matching on resultsand castlings.
6834 2011-08-07 15:13:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6835 Fix missing files in file browser
6837 The file browser was throwing away the first two files, assuming
6838 they were "." and "..". Alas, this is no longer true on every Linux.
6839 Now we actuallyc compare for these names, before skipping them.
6841 2011-08-06 11:57:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6842 Delay file loading to allow expose event first
6845 2011-08-06 09:29:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6849 2011-08-05 22:39:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6850 Better fix of crash on empty game list
6852 An empty list is now replaced by a list containig a simple message.
6854 2011-08-05 20:31:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6855 Add plain arrows as key binding for stepping forward/backward
6858 2011-08-05 20:30:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6859 Debug position selection
6862 2011-08-04 13:22:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6863 Print progress during load / selection of game
6865 The title bar of themain window is used to display a running count
6866 of the number of games loaded / searched.
6868 2011-08-04 12:44:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6869 Parse PGN tags without allocating memory
6871 In WinBoard malloc/free did not seem to work when preparing the game list,
6872 leading to a huge memory list when ParsePGNTag was used. The added code
6873 parses the required tags in an alternative way as a work-around.
6875 2011-08-02 22:58:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6876 Implement searching games in Game List for a position
6878 For this it was needed to reconstruct all positions of the games
6879 without loading them, so they could be compared to the currently
6880 displayed position. A new routine GameContainsPosition is made for that.
6881 In Disambiguate, when the global quickFlag is set, we now do the
6882 disambiguation ignoring check,and only if this leads to an ambiguous
6883 move, we repeat it taking check into account to see if that resolves
6884 the ambiguity. This causes us to miss if unambiguous moves are illegal
6885 because they put their King in check, but who cares?
6886 We now do not make game-list line when not needed. If we do not filter
6887 by text, but by position, there is no need for preparing the game-list
6888 line for games that are not selected. All for efficiency.
6890 2011-07-28 20:47:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6891 Allow entry of variations in PlayFromGameFile mode
6893 Adding variations is more like editing a comment,and not really editing
6894 the game. Therefore we allow it on loaded games. As soon as we are in a
6895 variation, we temporarily switch to a (hidden) EditGame mode, restoring
6896 the original mode when we revert to the main line.
6897 We now also stay in PlayFromGameFile mode after loading a game,
6898 And opening variation (fromtheComment window) in PlayFromGameFile mode
6901 2011-07-27 18:47:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6902 Force Move History refresh after loading/reverting variation
6904 The Move History window was not refreshed after switching to or from
6905 a variation if that variation happened to have the same length as
6906 the main line. Now a change in storedGames since the previous refresh will
6907 force a full refresh to avoid this. For this to work, storedGames
6908 did have to be decremented after ToNrEvent in PopInner, because ToNrEvent
6909 calls HistorySet before the history is restored, so we don't want
6910 it to snatch away the full refresh. A call to HistorySet had to be
6911 added after PopInner is done restoring the move history.
6913 2011-07-27 17:45:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6914 Popdown Comment window on new game
6916 What is in this window cannot possibly remain valid, and can even be harmful.
6918 2011-01-19 11:46:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6919 Allow null move in analysis and edit-game mode
6921 In some games it is allowed to pass your turn. The internal
6922 representation picked for such a null move is the drop of an empty
6923 square, (EmptySquare,DROP_RANK,0,0). Computer-algebraic form is "@@@@",
6924 SAN form is "--", (for compatibility with ChessBase / SCID), and the
6925 non-compliant forms "null", "pass"and "Z0" are recognized in
6926 the parser as well. ApplyMove() has to test for this special case
6927 (to not actually clear a1), and a way to enter the pass for the user had
6928 to be found (clicking the opponent clock, like in EditPosition mode).
6929 The null move is made move irreversible to prevent repetition draws
6930 spanning null moves being adjudicated.
6931 Such entry of null move is now allowed in AnalyzeMode and EditGame mode.
6932 Because Chess engines will not accept null moves, SendMoveToProgram had
6933 to be adapted to send not the move, but the position after it in
6934 case of a null move. This erases the move history in the engine,
6935 so it will not react to 'undo' for that null move, so BackwardInner
6936 had to be adapted to test for intervening null moves, and if one is
6937 found, approach the target from the other side after loading the
6938 earliest position before it not crossing another null move, and
6939 then loading the moves upto the target.
6940 XBoard clock clicks had to be fixed, to pay attention to the shift key.
6942 2011-07-25 21:58:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6943 Give WinBoard Game List its own font
6945 The font fort he Game List used to be shared with the Engine Output and
6946 Move History windows, but this made it impossible to use a figurine font
6947 in the latter two (which displays piece symbols for capitals) without
6948 messing up the Game List. An option -gameListFont has been added to specify
6949 the font for the Game List(and save it in the settings file), while a
6950 control for it is added in the fonts dialog.
6952 2011-07-21 19:02:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6953 Fix crash on OK after Save Changes in Tags and Comment popup.
6955 The global variables tagsText and commentText were used to pass
6956 a string obtained from a widget (and thus not malloc'ed), which
6957 caused a crash when the GenericReadout tried to use those variables
6958 for the new value. Fixed by using GenericReadout (which does malloc)
6959 to read out the text,in stead of GetWidgetText.
6961 2011-07-16 09:31:12 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6962 Revert "fixed segfault in xengineoutput", fixed in the backend now (from HGM)
6964 This reverts commit 33a0e73843115ff6d4eacaf963a38f2e8b20b295.
6966 2011-07-16 14:53:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6967 Suppress some XBoard warnings
6970 2011-07-15 11:21:29 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
6971 fixed segfault in xengineoutput
6974 2011-07-11 20:04:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6975 Disable -showTargetSquares in ICS mode
6977 Help like this is considered cheating on FICS, so it is disabled for
6978 all 'classical' ICS variants. (For variants eyont Shogi we don't care.)
6980 2011-07-10 21:20:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6981 Put grab on sweep-selecting in Edit Position
6983 A right down-click starting a sweep-selection event did not grab the
6984 mouse events, so that an up-click outside the window would go
6985 unnoticed, and the pointer motion stayed coupled to selecting the
6986 piece until the next click. By returning 2 from the RightClick back-end
6987 routine we request the grab.
6989 2011-07-09 13:50:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6990 Write more labels on score axis of eval graph
6992 The labels for +/-1 and +/-3 are now also written, provided there is
6995 2011-07-09 13:28:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
6996 Improve Eval Graph with -evalZoom and -evalThreshold
6998 The score range between -1 and +1 can now be blown up by a factor
6999 specified through -evalZoom. The threshold below which histogram bars
7000 are no longer printed (wich used to e hard-coded 25 centi-Pawn) can now
7001 be set through the -evalThreshold option.
7003 2011-07-09 13:18:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7004 Print reversible plies done in stead of plies to go
7006 Printing the number of plies left to the draw-adjudication point was
7007 confusing when the N-move rule was set to a non-standard value.
7008 In stead we now print the number of plies since the last irreversible
7009 move, so the user can compare it to both the engine claim point (100)
7010 and the adjudication point he set (which might be beyond 100).
7012 2011-07-09 13:13:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7013 Let WB eval graph react ot single left-click
7015 Unlike in XBoard, the WinBoard eval graph awatys had required double-
7016 clicking to go the the corresponding move, while there really is no
7017 reason for this, as it is no text edit, and single-clicks have no function
7020 2011-07-07 19:37:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7021 Add -scoreWhite option
7023 This is similar to -absoluteAnalysisScores, except that it works in
7024 all modes, and flips the score given by the engines in the engine-output
7025 window when black is to move.
7027 2011-07-07 19:28:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7028 Print 50-move counter in Engine-Output title
7031 2011-07-07 18:50:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7032 Display score/depth in Eval Graph title
7034 No longer print it in the comment window.
7036 2011-07-04 11:06:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7037 Let -sweepPromotions also work for click-click moves
7039 A click-click promotion no longer causes auto-queening, but the down-click
7040 on the to-square causes a Queen to stick to the mouse pointer, and then
7041 allows the user to change it through dragging backwards before releasing it
7043 In WinBoard this required a slight change in DragPieceBegin, because
7044 the dragged piece there only was made visible when the mouse pointer
7045 actually started moving (and dragInfo.pos was set), presumably under the
7046 assumption that before mouse move the piece was already on the clicked
7047 square. Which in the case of a to-square was of course not true. (Because
7048 a piece jumps to the mouse pointer when the click is not centered on a
7049 square, this gives less jittery static clicks.) So DragPieceBegin has
7050 been given an extra argument now, to indicate whether it should attach
7051 the piece to the mouse pointer immediately.
7052 To make the click-click sweepPromotions work in Shogi (for which the
7053 drag-drop sweepPromotions could never work, because it is not clear the
7054 piece has a posibility to promote when you pick it up), translation of
7055 the sweep-selected piece to a Shogi promoChar had to e added.
7057 2011-07-04 10:45:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7058 Improve -showTargetSquares on click-click moves
7060 The markers on move targets are now kept when a first click merely
7061 selects a piece, rather than dragging it elsewhere. The second click
7062 (by definition on the to-square) then clears the markers.
7064 2011-07-04 11:23:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7065 Let PGN parser accept lower-case piece in drop moves
7067 The @ sign prevents amiguity with other notations anyway.
7069 2011-07-04 12:42:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7070 Fix parser.c line endings
7073 2011-06-29 20:29:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7074 Fix writing searchTime in tourneyFile
7076 This had to be derived from the variable searchTime, which gives it
7077 in seconds, as appData.searchTime (a string in minutes) is not reliable,
7078 as it contains the command-line value, which might have been altered
7079 through the time-control dialog.
7081 2011-06-29 20:25:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7082 Fix resetting searchTime if other TC mode is chosen (XB)
7084 This fixes a bug in the new time-control dialog.
7086 2011-06-29 14:32:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7087 Fix coords display on large boards
7089 The file indicators can now run upto 'w'. Only the lowest digit
7090 of the rank number is printed, from a table that is valid to 22.
7092 2011-06-29 13:53:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7093 Fix crash on making too-long FEN
7095 The buffer for in PositionToFEN was only 128 bytes, which was not enough
7096 for large boards such as 19x19 Go. It is enlarged to MSG_SIZ(512) now.
7097 There also is some approximate overflow checking added (but it is not
7098 fool proof in case there are holdings...)
7100 2011-06-29 13:36:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7101 Fix drop moves on boards with more than 10 ranks
7103 The internal encoding for rank 16 is '@', and thus ambiguous with drop
7104 moves. They were always printed as 16, breaking drop games on large
7105 boards. The ambiguity is now solved (for boards with more than 16 ranks)
7106 by checking if the preceeding letter is upper case, in which case it
7107 cannot be a fileindicator, but must be a piece, and thus a drop.
7109 2011-06-29 13:29:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7110 Don't one-click move when legality testing is off
7113 2011-06-23 21:18:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7114 Reorder controls in Engine Setings dialog WB
7116 To get tabbing through the controls in left-to-right order, they are
7117 now added to the template structure in that order. Also add a tabstop
7118 to Label options, so that JAWS will read those.
7120 2011-06-23 14:02:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7121 Add tab stops in WB generic popup
7123 The WinBoard generic popup did not put tab stops on push buttons,
7124 including the OK and cancel button, with as a consequence that these were
7125 skipped when tabbing through the dialog controls. In addition the tabbing
7126 could not begin before the user selected one of the controls with the mouse.
7127 Now all buttons have tab stops, and the cancel button is given focus
7128 when the dialog pops up.
7130 2011-03-10 20:06:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7131 Implement Grand Chess
7133 Grand Chess requires a lot of exceptional handling similar to Superchess
7134 and Great Shatran, because it also allows only promotion to a captured
7135 piece. In addition it shares the enlarged promotion zone with Makruk and
7136 Shogi, as well as the fact that promotion can be deferred. The 10-rank
7137 board furthermore required a better generalization of double-pushes and
7138 e.p. captures. On such a board double puhes are now allowed from 2nd and
7139 3rd rank, e.p. capture from 5th and 4th.
7141 2011-01-28 19:20:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7142 Allow promotion to Pawn with legality testing off
7144 In stead of ImpossibleMove promotionto Pawn now merely is an
7145 IllegalMove, so it can be played with legality testing off.
7147 2011-01-24 15:06:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7148 Create some space in WB New Variant dialog
7151 2011-06-20 23:53:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7152 Allow double-digit rank numbers
7154 The parser already understood double-digit numbers on input, and
7155 CoordsToAlgebraic produced them on otput. This patch also fixes sending
7156 of the moves to the computer, for which the moveList was used. The latter
7157 stored 10 as ':', etc,to always get a 4-char move, the characters of which
7158 were frequently being converted to fromY or toY by adding/subtracting ONE.
7159 To not break that the one-character encoding of rank number is kept in
7160 moveList, but in SendMoveToProgram, characters > '9' are converted to
7163 2011-06-23 11:26:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7164 Add Absolute Analysis Scores in Genral Options dialog XB
7167 2011-06-23 11:16:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7168 Fix texi file, and update it further
7171 2011-06-20 12:15:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7175 2011-06-22 17:51:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7179 2011-06-22 11:02:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7180 Restore echo after ^C in ICS password
7183 2011-06-22 10:45:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7187 2011-06-19 20:30:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7188 Increase efficiency of SAN generation / disambiguation
7190 **************** Risky patch! **********************
7191 The algorithm used for disambiguating and generating SAN was extremely
7192 inefficient, because it generated all pseudo-legal moves from the relevant
7193 position, and then for each of those did a check test (involving generation
7194 of all moves of the opponent), before determining if the move matched the
7195 (proposed or given) SAN move. While it is pointless to generate moves
7196 with a piece that does not match (let alone checking them for legality).
7197 And for a piece that matches, it is pointless to test legality of moves
7198 that do not match the to-square.
7199 To speed up the process GenLegal and GenPseudoLegal have been equiped
7200 with an argument that can indicate the piece type of the required move,
7201 so they can skip generating moves with other pieces. TestLegality,
7202 Disambiguate and CoordsToAlgebraic make use of this facility, and set also
7203 (through global variables rFilter and fFilter) a to-square filter to be
7204 applied in the GenLegalCallback before it tests the move for legality.
7205 This patch is especially tricky for Crazyhouse, where the piece indicated
7206 in the move might not be the piece actually on the board, because the latter
7207 is a promoted Pawn, and has to be demoted toits base type before the
7210 2011-06-19 16:18:15 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7211 Fix compile errors WinBoard
7213 The patch to make non-existing options non-fatal broke WinBoard. All calls
7214 to ExitArgError from it now supply a third argument TRUE to fix it.
7216 2011-06-19 14:28:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7217 Add -fSAN / -sSAN options
7219 These options force the PV of the applicable engine to be converted to SAN.
7220 They make use of the existing ParsePV routine, after shelfing a possible
7221 PV (from user PV walking) to free the space after the last move.
7222 Could be costly in terms of CPU usage.
7224 2011-06-19 10:56:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7225 Cure flicker in Move History window, fix highlighting
7227 The highlighting of the current move in the Move List window by selecting
7228 it did not always work, because some other windows were clearing their text
7229 widgets by selecting the contents and killing it, thus snatching the
7230 selection away. This has been changed to setting XtNstring to an empty
7231 string as a method for clearing without side effects on the selection.
7232 As a bonus the Engine Output window now also no longer has the black flicker
7234 In addition, triggering a scroll by setting the insertion point to the
7235 end of the text caused excessive flicker in the Move List window, apparently
7236 clearing it and redrawing from scratch, (even if there was no scroll motion),
7237 to the point where on my slow laptop the move history stayed entirely blank
7238 during a rapid succession of moves. This has been combatted by using the
7239 end-of-line action procedure (which does not seem to suffer from this) to put
7240 the insertion point at the end, when we need to scroll to close to the end.
7242 2011-06-18 23:48:13 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7243 Fix crash on clearing new Move List window
7245 When a new game started and a previous game had filled the Move List
7246 window, a crash occurred because an attempt was made to undo the
7247 highlighting of a no-longer-existing move, and then scrolling to it.
7249 2011-06-18 20:46:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7250 Use sound for ICS tells also with engine telluser popups
7252 The telluser and tellusererror commands now can be assigned a sound.
7254 2011-06-18 20:45:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7255 Add Score in Move List option to general options dialog XB
7257 Now that we have a WinBoard-style Move History window, this option is
7258 no longer a no-op in XBoard.
7260 2011-06-18 12:42:41 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7261 new developer release
7264 2011-06-18 12:38:32 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7265 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
7268 2011-06-18 12:51:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7269 Update window itle after last game of match
7271 The result printed behind player names during a match would still be the one
7272 without the game, differing from what the popup would show, which looked
7273 sloppy enough for people to complain about it.
7276 2011-06-18 10:26:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7277 Make WB generic popup translatable
7279 When used for internal settings (as in the Load Engine and Tournament
7280 Options dialogs), the option names are now subectto translation.
7282 2011-06-17 21:05:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7283 Redo Move History with generic popup in WinBoard style
7285 The use of color and boldness to make the move list more readable
7286 unfortunately cannot work in Xaw; reverse video by selection is used as an alternative to highlight the current move.
7288 2011-06-17 21:19:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7291 Due to an erroneous else, the window parameters of Move History were
7292 not retreived (and thus incorrectly saved) when the Engine Output was up.
7294 2011-06-14 18:47:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7295 Make non-existing opton in settings file non-fatal
7297 It is rather difficult to recover from a situaton where the settings
7298 file contains an unknown option (e.g. because you downgraded to a
7299 previous version that had fewer options), especially in WinBoard, where
7300 the user settings file is in a hidden folder, and people might not be
7301 able to find it, let alone edit it. By just skipping the line with the
7302 offending option, rather than generating a fatal error, when reading
7303 from a settings file, such options will be automatically purged from the
7304 file as soon as you save settings.
7305 Small problem is that the user cannot be warned, as the initialization
7306 has not progressed far enough at this point to generate error popups. In
7307 XBoard we can at least print to the console, but in WinBoard there is no
7308 warning at all. But the worst thing that can happen is that new options
7309 in a settings file of a more advanced version will revert to their
7312 2011-06-14 18:20:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7313 Change long form of -tf option to -tourneyFile
7315 This is a more logical name, and in the WinBoard docs it was already
7316 described as such. Also remove the -processes option, which in the
7317 current design of the tourney manager is no longer used.
7319 2011-06-14 18:17:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7320 Fix default of -remoteUser
7322 This has to be an empty string, rather than NULL, to prevent XBoard from
7323 segfaulting when the -gateway option is used.
7325 2011-06-14 13:32:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7326 Add -at and -opt options as alternative for @
7328 Windows XP and Vista shortcuts do not display command lines with @ in
7329 them correctly, and these optionsprovide a work-around for that.
7331 2011-06-14 12:46:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7332 Fix empty-string option values in XBoard
7335 2011-06-14 12:40:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7336 Fix crash on switching sound in Vista
7338 When choosing a new sound the wave form of the old one was free'ed, but
7339 because built-in sounds are not really malloc'ed, this led to a crash.
7341 2011-06-14 12:36:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7342 Update WB docs for tourney manager
7345 2011-06-14 12:35:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7346 Add icon to WB for tournament files
7349 2011-06-10 16:52:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7350 Redo Time Control dialog with generic popup
7352 As poor-man's disabling of the unneeded input fields, we print the word
7355 2011-06-10 14:14:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7356 Some refactoring in xoptions.c to separate out front-end
7359 2011-06-10 12:38:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7360 Redo New Shuffle Game dialog with generic popup
7362 The buttons are slightly renamed, and in stead of having an 'off'
7363 button to clear it, shuffleOpenings now has its own checkbox, which is
7364 ticked when a fixed or dynamic random is chosen with the buttons.
7366 2011-06-10 11:58:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7367 Fix type of shuffleOpenings
7369 This was a Boolean option, and thus accessed by the args.h code as such,
7370 while it was declared as an int (and used in backend.c as such). This
7371 could have led to problems with different endianness.
7373 2011-06-09 23:57:43 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
7374 Internationalize the file browser.
7376 The file browser was missed in the previous round of
7377 internationalization and had gotten broken by setting international =
7378 True in its widgets. I got nothing but segfaults trying to set
7379 international to False in the file browser widget subtree when it was
7380 True in the main window, so I gave up and did the
7381 internationalization. It turned out to be pretty easy.
7383 As a tiny bonus fix, I removed some ../'s from includes, and you can
7384 now configure and build xboard in a subdirectory again. This was
7385 useful for building both --enable-nls and --disable-nls from the same
7386 sources to compare functionality and make sure both still work.
7388 2011-06-08 20:26:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7389 Fix crash at end of Swiss tourney
7392 2011-06-08 17:33:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7393 Fix display of logos
7395 The logo files are now sought relative to the WinBoard install
7396 directory. Non-existing logos cause clearing of the logo, rather than
7397 letting the logo of the prevous engine hang. Logo change is requested
7398 explicitly from the back-end (when an engine is initialized for a new
7399 game), rather than using the kludge in StartChileProcess. This required
7400 a dummy UpdateLogos routine in the XBoard front-end.
7402 2011-06-08 18:02:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7403 Fix parameter handling in adapter command
7405 A backslash was not considered the end of an option name, which was
7406 fatal for UCCI2WB, which needs %fd\\%fcp in its command line.
7408 2011-06-08 17:16:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7409 Clear Engine-Output pane when initializing engine
7411 This to prevent output from the previous game hanging there during the
7412 next game, when the engine that is really playing is in book and
7413 doesn't produce thinking output there.
7415 2011-06-08 17:20:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7416 Fix display of last move of last match game
7418 When a game was adjudicated (e.g. because XBoard detected mate) GameEnds
7419 would trigger an exit if it was the last game of the match, and thus
7420 never returned, while the ShowMove was called only after return from
7421 Adjudicate. An extra ToNrEvent is now used in GameEnd in this case to
7422 cause ShowMove to be called before exiting. (Ugly kludge...)
7424 2011-06-08 17:38:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7425 Fix concurrency in Swiss tourneys
7427 The pairing engine was consulted for the next round before all games of
7428 the previous round were finished, if other XBoard instances were still
7429 playing games. This caused the instances finishing early to stall
7430 indefinitely. This is fixed by moving the Swiss pairing code to after
7431 the syncInterval code. The normal pairing code (the call to Pairing)
7432 must stay before it, because it determines the syncInterval. So ther is
7433 a bit of tourneyType dependence cluttering up the code here. :-(
7435 2011-06-08 17:27:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7436 Give error popup when pairing engine fails
7438 An invalid pairing now produces an error popup to inform the user, so he
7439 knows why the tourney stagnates.
7441 2011-06-08 17:24:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7442 Fix clock mode in tourney starting from -ncp mode
7444 When a tourney started from -ncp mode, which was allowed in MatchEvent,
7445 because the tourney loads its own engines anyway, the menu enablings and
7446 clockmode where not restored to their 'GNUMode' state.
7448 2011-06-08 17:11:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7449 Fix round-robin schedule
7451 The first round was played twice, and the formulas used to derive the
7452 pairing were not even-odd resistant anyway. Both even and odd number of
7453 participants should work now.
7455 2011-06-08 17:08:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7456 Fix interrupting tournament
7458 Stopping a tourney by using the Machine Match menu item did not wor
7461 2011-06-08 16:57:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7462 Improve quoting of engine name on install
7464 Rather than always using double quotes for the engine command, the
7465 engine filename is now double-quoted if it contains spaces (and no
7466 double-quotes), and the comand is single-quoted if it contains
7467 double-quotes (and double-quoted otherwise).
7469 2011-06-08 16:49:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7470 Print sensible window title during tourneys
7472 Rather than the "(W-L-D)" in the title we now print game number and
7473 total games, plus indication of the tourney type (rr, gt or sw).
7475 2011-06-08 16:44:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7476 Let XBoard propose name of tourney file
7478 Add an option -defaultTourneyName to configure the name that will be
7479 proposed in the Tournament Options dialog's tournament-file field. The
7480 option can contain %y, %M, %d, %h, %m, %s for year, month, day, hour,
7481 mintes, seconds of the curret time in %02d format, or %Y for the year in
7482 %04d format. Any tournament -file name is ignored when no participants
7483 are given. Participants without a tourney file remains an error.
7485 2011-06-08 16:30:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7486 Improve Tournament dialog layout WB
7489 2011-06-08 17:05:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7490 Fix -matchGames option
7492 The new MatchEvent code had broken the -mg option, and used always
7493 -defaultMatchGames in stead.
7495 2011-05-30 19:55:13 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
7496 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.
7498 - Several files were in utf8 but needed to be marked as such (that is,
7499 "CHARSET" changed to "UTF-8"). Affected es.po, it.po, ru.po, vi.po,
7502 - it.po was missing a \n at the end of one translation.
7504 - ru.po had unescaped double-quote marks in one translation.
7506 - vi.po needed to be normalized to Unicode normalization form C. With
7507 this fix, more characters display correctly, though at least one is
7508 still missing in the X core fonts that xboard is able to use.
7509 See http://vietunicode.sourceforge.net/ for more about Vietnamese.
7511 - zh_HK.po was written in big5 and then utf8-encoded on top of that,
7512 making it unusable. I stripped off the spurious utf8 encoding and
7513 then used recode to convert the file to Unicode properly encoded as
7516 Unfortunately, I wasn't able to test any of the Chinese translations,
7517 as I haven't been able to get XCreateFontSet to work in Chinese
7518 locales with any of the fonts I have installed, even after adding the
7519 Ubuntu language support packages for both simplified and traditional
7520 Chinese. I did spot check a bunch of the translations using Google
7523 I've checked in a couple of tiny Perl scripts that I used to do part
7524 of the fixups on vi.po and zh_HK.po in case we need them again.
7526 2011-05-30 14:12:53 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
7527 The empty string can't be translated and it causes the gettext utilities to complain, so change _("") to "".
7530 2011-05-30 13:21:06 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
7531 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.
7534 2011-05-29 20:14:37 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
7535 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.
7537 In the process I had to rewrite the code to insert the pixel size into
7538 a font name (replacing a "*" in that field). The new code is much
7541 2011-05-28 23:55:42 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7542 translation: activated Ukrainian translation
7545 2011-05-28 23:41:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7546 translation: added new Ukrainian PO file from the TP
7549 2011-05-28 21:07:08 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
7550 Fix display of international characters outside the ASCII range.
7552 1) Set Xaw resources required for internationalization --
7553 *international and *fontSet.
7555 2) Untangle the new XFontSet-aware code from the old FindFont code.
7556 It doesn't make any sense to apply the old (and obsolete) size
7557 searching code from FindFont to a font set, which contains fonts
7558 that are all the requested size.
7560 3) With these changes, the -font option doesn't work at all when given
7561 on the command line. The -font option actually is parsed by the Xt
7562 library, used to set the *font resource, and removed from argv
7563 before xboard can see it, so the option didn't really work properly
7564 with the new WinBoard-style option framework anyway. Now that
7565 -font is even more broken, I changed the documented name of the
7566 option to -messageFont and changed args.h so the option is saved in
7567 ~/.xboard as -messageFont.
7569 2011-05-28 21:05:00 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
7570 Move "hide thinking" option into alphabetical order.
7573 2011-05-28 21:01:25 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
7574 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.
7577 2011-05-23 19:05:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7578 Fix layout tournament Load Engine dialog WB
7581 2011-05-23 19:03:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7585 2011-05-23 19:00:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7586 Add Swiss tourneys through pairing engine
7588 An external program can be designated pairing engine through the new
7589 persistent option -pairingEngine. Defining the option will allow
7590 tourneytype -1 to be chosen for Swiss. In this case the pairing engine
7591 will be queried for a pairing before every new match game, by sending it
7592 the -results string, plus the command 'pairing' + game number.
7594 2011-05-23 17:37:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7595 Allow generic dialog to ignore OK
7597 The EndMark callback can now suppress popdown of the dialog on OK, when
7598 it somehow does not like the values entered by the user. In XBoard this
7599 required all the callbacks to return a value.
7600 Caveat: A refused OK would still have set all new values given in the
7603 2011-05-23 17:22:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7604 Fix CR in multi-line WinBoard text-edits
7606 The generic popup did not add CR when strings containing '\n' were
7607 printed in a multi-line text-edit, thus joining the lines. It was also
7608 not possible to type a CR in a multi-line text-edit.
7610 2011-05-23 14:16:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7611 Let mentioning completed tourney file add one cycle
7613 Secifying a tourney file of a fully completed tourney will now resume
7614 that tourney with another cycle added. When there are still uncomleted
7615 games in the tourney, the usual error message will appear. There are
7616 also error popups added for when the user fails to specify a tourney
7617 file, or gives too few participants.
7619 2011-05-16 11:02:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7620 Make engine startup failure non-fatal in WinBoard
7622 Unlike XBoard, which forks first, the parent process WinBoard has direct
7623 knowledge of a failure to execute the engine command, and used it to
7624 trigger a fatal error. The code doing this has now been disabled. Only
7625 in case of a first engine we switch back to -ncp mode in stead, but no
7626 action is taken to 'bury' the deceased engine process. Like in XBoard,
7627 errors in writing or reading the pipes will trigger this.
7629 2011-05-14 17:03:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7630 Add secondry adapter command for UCCI or USI
7632 The option -uxiAdapter can define a second adapterCommand, which will be
7633 invoked on encountering the options -fUCCI, -sUCCI and -fUSI, sUCI.
7635 2011-05-14 10:05:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7636 Obey san feature when sending book moves
7638 Book moves were always sent in long algebraic, even when the engine had
7639 said it wanted to receive SAN.
7641 2011-05-14 10:03:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7642 Fix initialization of engine state
7644 Some of the initialization relied on variables being zero at startup,
7645 which meant value from the previouly loaded engine hng on after loading
7648 2011-05-11 23:06:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7649 Take account of holdings in book key
7651 The board is numbered by rank, for comptibility with Polyglot format,
7652 starting at a1. We then continue counting in the holdings 'files', in
7653 up-rank direction, each holding spanning the full board height (even if
7654 it is not fully used). Firstthe left (black) holdings, then the right,
7655 Even in Shogi this limits the square number to < 99, which is below the
7656 absolute limit of 128 (where we would run out of hash keys).
7658 2011-05-11 22:48:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7659 Alow promotions and drops in book-editing
7662 2011-05-11 20:15:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7663 Include learn info in book edit
7666 2011-05-09 21:55:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7667 Adapt default directory of lng2po
7669 The path is prefixed with "../" to make it runable from the po directory.
7671 2011-05-09 21:20:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7672 Recode some po files
7674 po files were generated with the aid of lng2po for Russian,
7675 Vietnamese, Chinese(simp) and Chinese(trad), using encodings CP1251,
7676 CP1258, GB2312 and BIG5, respectively.
7678 2011-05-09 20:11:32 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7679 Implement Edit Book in XBoard
7682 2011-05-09 09:52:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7683 Improve WB Load Engine dialog texts
7686 2011-05-09 09:48:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7687 Make 'add to list' default in Load Engine dialog
7690 2011-05-09 09:33:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7691 Add -userFileDirectory option
7693 This volatile option is initialized from 'installDir'. It is
7694 primarily intended for configuration of WinBoard through its master
7695 settings file, and specifies an alternative place to create saveGameFile
7696 or look for other user files, in stead of looking in the installDir.
7698 2011-05-09 09:10:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7699 Add option -absoluteAnalysisScores
7701 This persistent option flips scores in the when black is thinking in
7702 analysis mode, just before they are printed in the engine-output window.
7704 2011-05-08 17:47:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7705 Automatically play moves of clicked PV in analyze mode
7707 The Shift key now no longer needs to be pressed to play moves from the
7708 PV in analyze mode (so it could be given back its original meaning of
7709 starting a variation with the entered moves). In analyze mode the PV
7710 walk begins after the first move, so a static right-click plays the
7711 first PV move. To just peek the PV you have to walk to the start of it
7712 before releasing the mouse button. In other modes the PV walk
7713 stillstarts at the very end.
7715 2011-05-08 17:07:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7716 Let ParsePV always generate SAN move
7719 2011-05-08 13:53:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7720 Fix vscrolling in XBoard Engine-Output window
7722 After clicking the memos they scrolled to the bottom, because SetFocus
7723 put the insertion point at the very end of the text. This behavior is
7724 now reserved for text-edits containing less than 100 characters.
7726 2011-05-08 13:22:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7727 Fix button sizing in generic popup
7730 2011-05-08 13:02:52 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7731 Allow changing MultiPV setting from Engine-Output window
7733 In analyze mode a header line is printed in the first engine-output
7734 pane, which can be right-clicked to increase or decrease the number of
7735 PVs. (Only with engines that support the MultiPV option.)
7737 2011-05-08 11:28:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7738 No clearing of Engine-Output memos on stat01
7741 2011-05-07 23:27:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7742 updated xboard.pot with released version
7745 2011-05-07 22:56:53 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7746 new developer release
7749 2011-05-07 22:54:29 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7750 updated ChangeLog, NEWS, etc.
7753 2011-05-07 23:07:46 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7754 deactivated new languages for the moment...
7756 po files need some cleanup, probably better to wait until the translation-project looked at them
7758 2011-05-07 18:44:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7759 added translations generated via lng2po from all winboard languages
7762 2011-05-07 18:40:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7763 lng2po.sh: added command line options, GPL header
7765 also use a temporary file generated with mktemp instead of a hard coded one
7767 2011-05-07 17:53:10 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
7768 fixed access rights to winboard language files (644 instead of 655)
7771 2011-05-07 14:55:55 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7772 Import WinBoard language files into git
7775 2011-05-06 23:14:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7776 Let Shift+RightClick on PV actually play the PV moves
7779 2011-05-06 18:06:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7780 Make book-edit function WB
7782 The tags dialog is used to display the GUI book moves from the current
7783 position, and will be updated when you step or move to another one.
7784 The edited move list (with weights) can be written back to the book.
7786 2011-05-07 16:21:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7787 Fix resetting engine options
7789 Not all options were reset, and -needsNonCompliantFEN was 'reset'
7790 to a completely wrong value, so that bad FENs would be sent.
7792 2011-05-06 18:51:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7793 Add -first/secondPgnName option
7795 This option replaces the tidy name of the engine in the PGN player tags
7796 of engine-engine games. In WinBoard engines can be installed with this
7797 option through a checkbox in the Load Engine dialog.
7799 2011-05-06 23:31:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7800 Let XB generic popup define default file extensions
7803 2011-05-06 18:25:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7804 Save time-control settings in tourney file
7806 Because parsing the options and storing them in appData is not enough,
7807 the time-control code setting the internally used parameters from the
7808 appData info in InitBackend was made into a subroutine, and also caled
7809 after parsing the tourney file.
7811 2011-05-06 20:40:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7812 Put saveGameFile in tournament dialog
7815 2011-05-06 19:17:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7816 Plug memory leak, filenames relative to installDir
7818 String options are consistently freed now, before assigning a new value
7819 to them through strdup. The init code now even does use strdup when
7820 setting defaults. This is important for optionslike -lgf, which are not
7821 saved in the settings file, and thus are usually left with their
7822 default. When a dialog to set them then uses free, this causes a crash.
7823 When setting the defaults uses strdup, ParseArgs can already free them.
7824 This plugs an important memory leak, as ParseArgs in now called to parse
7825 the tourney file before every tourney game (twice!), and the lists of
7826 participants and results in it can be quite long. Macros are defined in
7827 common.h to make the code look simpler.
7828 Filenames entered through the generic popup are now interpreted
7829 relative to the WinBoard installation folder, just as the saveGameFile
7830 already was. The code handling the atter was made into a subroutine for
7833 2011-05-06 22:02:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7834 Add WB new popup prototypes
7837 2011-05-06 18:58:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7838 Add partcipants at bottom in tourney dialog (WB)
7841 2011-05-06 18:56:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7842 Fix range of tourneyType spin WB
7845 2011-05-06 18:15:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7846 Fix exit popup in tourney mode
7848 Only the instance finishing the last tourney game will cause a popup
7849 with final standings. As long as there are still busy games, it exits or
7850 switches back to idle mode silently.
7852 2011-05-06 18:11:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7853 Fix stopping of match in tourney mode
7856 2011-05-06 18:59:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7857 Add default extension in file browser
7860 2011-05-06 22:37:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7861 Improve sizing of comment and tags dialogs
7863 There seems to be a bug in Xaw for the sizing of buttons; they get
7864 unpredicatble and weird sizes when the size is not explicitly set,
7865 possibly stretching the initial width of a dialog to rediculous values.
7866 Sizing back to a remembered value from the settings file then makes
7867 buttons overlapand text edits shrink to almost nothing. To prevent that
7868 we now define exlicit sizes for the buttons in tags and comment popups.
7870 2011-05-06 21:00:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7871 Fix generic combobox bug
7873 The patch placing gettext markers was done wrong, setting the
7874 translated menu text outside the loop, so all entries became the same.
7876 2011-05-07 14:23:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7877 Fix PV walking in analysis mode
7879 ParsePV assumed that the PV would always have been produced by an engin
7880 thinking about the final position of the game (or the one before it). In
7881 analysismode, however, the engine can be analysing positions internal to
7882 the game, and the PV would be considered invalid. This is fixed by
7883 cutting of the tail off the game (shelving it in variation fashion)
7884 before starting the PV walk, and reverting afterwards.
7885 For this the PushTail and PopTail routines had to be split into an
7886 'inner' part, doing the pushing and popping, and an outer part, handling
7887 menu graying and popdowns (which is undesirable in in this application).
7889 2011-05-03 00:24:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7890 Lift length-limit on text-edits in WB generic popup
7893 2011-05-04 13:53:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7894 Lift limitation of text length in generic dialog XB
7896 All string options should now point to allocated memory, as strdup /
7897 free is consistently used on them. This is OK for values received from
7898 ParseArgs, but for non-arg intermediate variables that must receive strg
7899 values, such as in the comment and tags popups, strdup has to be used to
7902 2011-05-04 14:53:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7903 Implement Tournament Options dialog WinBoard
7905 The file browser now can select on extension WB generic dialogs,
7906 with a default based on the option.max value of the option for which it
7907 browses. A textBox can be forced to be multiline by putting the number
7908 of extra lines in option.min.
7910 2011-05-04 15:30:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7911 Make option to draw second engine from first list
7914 2011-05-03 00:17:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7915 Fix error message on engine load
7918 2011-05-04 15:09:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7919 Implement Load Engine dialog in WinBoard
7921 The Load Engine dialog is implemented for WinBoard, and is invoked by
7922 the menu item Engine->Load, which formerly was Install 2nd. Install 1st
7923 is renamed 'Edit Engine List'. Unlike in XBoard, the dialog has separate
7924 fields for the engine executale and its parameters.
7925 The dialog is implemented by converting the Engine Settings popup into
7926 a generic dialog generator.
7928 2011-05-04 13:43:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7929 Load new logo on engine change WinBoard
7931 Picking the logo for the first engine is made into a subroutine. The
7932 code for picking the logo of the first engine was made into a subrroutne
7933 for this. We use the kludge to recognize the engine by its command line
7934 when starting a new engine process.
7936 2011-05-04 13:36:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7937 Allow switching off match mode through menu
7939 The Machine Match menu item is now checkmarked, and no longer grayed
7940 during a match, and clicking it while a match is running will terminate
7941 the match after the current game. To not be left with hanging
7942 checkmarks, the checkmark is already removed duringthe last match game
7943 (which is logically equivalent to ordinary Two Machines mode anyway).
7945 2011-05-03 00:14:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7946 Calculate and display tourney result
7949 2011-05-04 18:42:13 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7950 Implement Tournament Manager
7952 New command-line options are added to specify the tourney: -tourneyType
7953 (-tt), -tourneyCycles (-cy), -participants, -syncAfterRound,
7954 -syncAfterCycle, -results, to be saved on a -tourneyFile (-tf), but
7955 otherwise volatile. When a tourneyFile is specified during a match,
7956 a new routine NextTourneyGame is called from NextMatchGame before every
7957 game, to decide the pairing, and unload and redefine the engines, when
7958 needed. The XBoard Match Options dialog can be used to set the options
7959 and create the tournament file.
7960 Actual loading of new engines is done by TwoMachinesEvent, which is
7961 now modified to also wait for the feature timeout of the first engine.
7962 Waiting for the matchPause is now also implemented there, after waiting
7963 for the engines (so they can be started during the pause).
7964 Pairings and color assignment is now all done in an absolute
7965 (non-incremental) way, based on a new global game-number variable
7966 nextGame, which takes over the function of matchGame in a tourney. The
7967 latter is now used to count games between the same players, so it can be
7968 still used to derive the load-file indexes (again in absolute fashion).
7969 The next game to play is already picked in GameEnd, so it can be
7970 decided if there is a game to be scheduled, or if we can terminate.
7972 2011-05-04 15:42:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7973 Display note in stead of empty engine-settings dialog XB
7976 2011-04-24 18:02:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7977 Fix crash on empty Engine Settings dialog
7979 The generic popup was not foolproof against this.
7981 2011-04-22 12:47:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7982 Refactor code for loading games and positions in match
7984 The code in NextMatchGame and MatchEvent was nearly the same,
7985 (MatchEvent did a little more error checking, but that is never
7986 harmful), and could be combined. In stead of determining the load index
7987 incrementally, it is now calculated in an absolute way from the game
7988 number, so it can be used more easily in tournament mode.
7990 2011-04-21 22:37:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7991 Add callback possibility to combobox selection
7994 2011-04-24 17:15:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
7995 Lock game an position file during writing
7997 The use of flock() on the file desctiptor of the opened stream should
7998 guarantee multiple XBoard instances, saving on the same file, will not
7999 interleave their PGN games or FEN positions.
8001 2011-04-27 17:05:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8002 Remove building rule for parser.c from WB makefiles
8005 2011-04-29 16:58:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8006 Fix Engine Settings buttons in WinBoard
8008 This was broken by a leftover statement from debugging the -file/-path
8011 2011-05-02 13:38:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8012 Implement flock in WinBoard
8014 This system function seems unknown in a MinGW compile, so it is
8015 implemented with the aid of file byte-range locking, using a lock on the
8016 first 1024 bytes of the file as a semaphore.
8018 2011-04-29 23:06:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8019 Fix grayout XB Match Options in ICS mode
8022 2011-05-03 00:22:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8023 Delay loading of second engine until it is used
8026 2011-05-02 15:00:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8027 Fix zippy bughouse partner bug
8029 The patchs to subject Zippy messages to coloriation was faulty, because
8030 there were messages recognized by zippy that were not colorized, and
8031 such messages would then not be 'read away' after zippy recognition
8032 (except for the first character). As a result the messages were
8033 processed over and over again.
8035 2011-05-04 10:59:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8036 Silence more rpm warnings
8039 2011-05-01 20:33:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8040 Fix warnings XBoard file browser
8042 All the prototypes have been moved to selfile.h, to force uniformity.
8043 The order of the #include files xstat.h and selfile.h had to be
8044 swapped, to make sure 'struct stat' is a nown type atthe time of
8045 prototype declaration. The event handler SFmotionList is considered
8046 wrong type because of its third argument (XMotionEvent in stead of
8047 XEvent), and had to be casted to (XtEventHandler) when passed to
8050 2011-05-04 10:56:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8051 Fix some warnings and header-file improvement
8053 Ther were lot of 'extern' declarations in the x-files, so called
8054 'imports from xboard.c', (sometimes backend.c) which logically belonged
8055 in xboard.h (backend.h) to ensure their uniform definition. These have
8056 now been moved there. Some prototypes have been added in xboard.h as
8057 well, for functions that needed calling from xoptions.c.
8059 2011-05-04 10:50:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8060 Create conversion tools for language files
8062 A shell script "lng2po.sh" is provided, to apply the translation given
8063 in a WinBoard .lng file to "xboard.pot", in order to generate a
8064 "language.po" file containing translations for all strings for which
8065 the .lng file had a translation. It makes use of a file "metascript",
8066 which is the ed script used to turn the .lng file in an ed script to
8067 turn the .pot into .po. For example, the command "./lng2po.sh
8068 espa?ol.lng" will create a file "language.po", which can be renamed to
8070 ****************************** WARNING ********************************
8071 Note that the lng2po script does a "recode" that assumes the given
8072 .lng file is encoded in latin-1. This means it canot be used without
8073 modification for the Vietnamese and Chinese translation; you would have
8074 to replace latin-1 by the applicable encoding first (CP1258 / BG2312 /
8077 2011-04-27 22:04:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8078 Put gettext markers in generic dialog creator
8080 This is done by adding extra XtNstring argumentsto the widget gcreaton,
8081 so the displayed name can be different fromthe widget name.
8083 2011-05-01 19:56:38 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
8084 Use getaddrinfo instead of gethostbyname. Hopefully this makes us compatible with IPv6 and with hosts that have more than one IP address. However, I don't know of any chess servers that have either of those properties, so I couldn't test that. I did test that xboard still works with freechess.org and chessclub.com and that it gives an error message for invalid host names.
8087 2011-04-24 11:18:28 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8088 updated German translation
8091 2011-04-24 11:17:43 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8092 replaced hardcoded email address with generic PACKAGE_BUGREPORT
8095 2011-04-23 10:51:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8096 updated po-files; updated german translation
8099 2011-04-23 10:51:02 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8100 updated list of files that include translation strings; updated pot-file
8103 2011-04-22 21:50:58 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8104 marked more strings for gettext that were only marked with N_()
8106 they need to be marked again with _() when they are used to get the translated string
8108 2011-04-22 21:39:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8109 updated translation files
8112 2011-04-22 21:37:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
8113 added/fixed i18n support via gettext to xboard
8115 this was already added a long time ago, but now it's added again to
8116 autoconf. Also fixed some compile errors that showed up.
8118 2011-04-20 10:27:20 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8119 Make engine startup error non-fatal
8121 When engine startup fails, do not generate a fatal error, but swicth
8122 back to -ncp mode. Write on broken pipe errors had to be suppressed for
8125 2011-04-20 14:35:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8126 Make engine loadable during session
8128 A "Load Engine ..." menu item is added to the Engine menu, which pops
8129 up a dialog where one can replace the first or second engine by a new
8130 one, without destroying the game state. Switching from -ncp to engine
8131 mode needed activation of some menu items in SetGNUMode, and
8132 re-enabling clockMode. It was also important that noChessProgram is
8133 cleared before re-initializing the ChessProgramState.
8134 The Load-Engine dialog can select from the list of installed
8135 engines, and also add a newly specified engine to this list. In this
8136 case it saves the directory, hasBook, and isUCI info with the engine,
8137 and optionally the current variant. When loading an engine with a
8138 specified variant, it resets the game and switches to the new variant.
8140 2011-04-18 15:56:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8141 Generalize WaitForSecond to WaitForEngine
8144 2011-04-18 15:46:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8145 Add UnloadEngine routine
8148 2011-04-20 13:45:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8149 Put engine initialization code in per-engine function
8151 Initializing of the ChessProgramStates first and second from the
8152 option settings in appData is now done by separate calls to the same
8153 routine. Clearing of options is added to the initialization. This is
8154 needed when reloading an engine. This is done in a separate routine,
8155 which could also be called on -reset options.
8157 2011-04-18 13:21:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8158 Bring structure in appData engine options
8160 All options in appData that came in pairs for both engines are replaced
8161 by arrays of ENGINES (=2, for now) elements. The use of the named
8162 appData field that are replaced in the source is replaced by use of the
8163 corresponding array element, by #define directives in common.h, awaiting
8166 2011-04-19 15:15:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8167 Fix gettext macros in option dialogs
8169 The strings in the tables were using _() in stead of N_().
8171 2011-04-18 20:58:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8172 Fix crash on using Engine #1 Settings in ICS non-zippy mode
8174 If XBoard is compiled with zippy the Engine #1 Settings menu was not
8175 grayed out even when you don't run in zippy mode, and using it would
8178 2011-04-19 15:07:31 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8181 Some pixmaps forptomoted pieces had wrong background color, others had a
8182 wrong name (so the one with the correct name was missing).
8184 2011-04-17 19:12:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8185 Change texture-install directory to pixmaps/textures
8188 2011-04-17 17:36:32 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8189 Limit install of sound files to those in menu
8191 The sounds directory is set to .../xboard/sounds, and only ten
8192 sounds are kept (all non-spoken).
8194 2011-04-17 17:27:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8195 Remove some bitmaps from install
8197 Some files in the bitmaps source directory need not be installed,
8198 because they are there only to be linked to the binary in a build
8199 without LIBXPM, are README files or conversion programs. I left only the
8200 stuff that is in a Debian binary package in .../xboard/bitmaps.xchess.
8202 2011-04-17 16:34:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8203 Configure some default sounds
8205 The move sound is set to Wood Thunk; the sounds for tell and challenge
8206 events to Phone and Gong, respectively.
8208 2011-04-17 16:17:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8209 Change default sounds in Xboard menu
8211 All spoken sounds are removed now. Thud, Click and Ching are replaced by
8212 Wood Thunk, Slap and Cymbal; Car Horn and Pop are added.
8214 2011-04-17 12:46:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8215 Make user wav file available for try-out in sound dialog
8217 The GenericReadout was adapted to be able to read a single selected
8218 value, so that the callback to the 'play' button in the sounds dialog
8219 could get the name of the 'user WAV file' without accepting all settings
8220 for the other sounds (which should only happen on 'OK', and might still
8221 be cancelled in stead).
8223 2011-04-16 10:36:31 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
8224 configure: enable silent rules by default
8227 2011-04-16 10:28:16 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
8228 configure: added install directory for bitmaps files: .../games/xboard/bitmaps/default/
8231 2011-04-16 10:25:33 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
8232 configure: added install of sounds in .../games/xboard/sounds/default
8235 2011-04-16 09:54:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
8236 configure: renamed bitmapdir to pixmapsdir, since it installed only pixmaps. also changed name of default dir
8238 pixmaps will now be installed under .../games/xboard/pixmaps/default/
8240 2011-04-16 13:40:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8241 Fix gamelist highlight
8243 Reopening the gamelist should highlight the current game.
8245 2011-04-16 10:25:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8246 Fix size limit on 'save as diagram'
8248 In stead of a fixed-size buffer the diagram-save code now uses an
8249 allocated buffer with size calculated from the bitmap parameters to
8250 retreive the bitmap data, so it should work for all sizes.
8252 2011-04-15 22:04:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8253 Fix chaining of bottom-row dialog buttons
8255 The OK & cancel buttons are chained to the bottom. This patch makes sure
8256 that other buttons appearing in the same row (as in the tags and
8257 comment dialogs) will be chained that way too, so that they will behave
8258 the same on vertical sizing. The bottom of a full-width text-edit above
8259 it will be chained to bottom too. To make this work in the tags dialog,
8260 the (optional) cmail-message field had to be put above the tags memo.
8262 2011-04-15 19:18:46 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8263 Fix switching between pixmap and bitmap pieces
8265 There were still several flags that had to be reset when redoing the
8266 graphics initialization. The Debian patch to use a default bitmap
8267 directory when none is given but monoMode is selected or forced, is
8268 moved to a more sensible place, so that it does not disturb matters when
8269 compiled without LIBXPM (when we do have built-in bitmaps).
8271 2011-04-15 15:47:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8272 Remove outline-pieces option from board-options dialog
8274 This option does not exist in XBoard (yet).
8276 2011-04-15 15:41:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8277 Fix running of clock during hash allocation engine
8279 In TwoMachinesEvent we now wait for the second engine to acknowledge the
8280 'ping' after 'new', to make sure it is done allocating hash in reaction
8281 to the preceding 'memory' command, before the clock for the game is
8284 2011-04-14 21:42:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8285 Describe move type-in in texi file
8288 2011-04-14 20:34:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8289 Describe Copy Game List menu item in texi file
8292 2011-04-14 20:30:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8293 Describe -sweepPromotions in texi file
8295 The new method for selection promotion piece, and the -sweepPromotions
8296 option are described in the texi file.
8298 2011-04-14 20:14:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8299 Describe -pieceMenu option in texi file
8301 The sweep method for selecting a piece in Edit-Position mode is
8302 explained, as well as the -pieceMenu option.
8304 2011-04-14 15:59:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8307 Descriptions of the new XBoard menu dialogs are included in the docs.
8309 2011-04-14 21:06:49 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8310 Reorganize texi description
8313 2011-04-14 12:31:15 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8314 Fix sweep-promotions patch
8316 Setting of the from square was moved to before OKtoStartUserMove in the
8317 LeftClick handler, to make sure we could test the promotion possiblity
8318 when OnlyMove() would have altered (x,y) to be no longer the from
8319 square. But this setting of fromX, fromY hung on also if the move was
8320 not OK, so you could effectively select opponent pieces and empty
8321 squares. The from-square is now set back to undefined when it is not OK
8322 to move the piece you clicked.
8324 2011-04-14 11:56:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8325 Alter treatment of moves with empty squares
8327 In Edit Position mode one can move empty squares, and use them to
8328 'capture' pieces as a means to clear their square. But this often leads
8329 to unintended disappearence of pieces one wants to grab for dragging, if
8330 a previous click had inadvertantly left an empty square selected: the
8331 click on the piece is then seen as the to-click of a click-click move.
8332 This patch treats to-clicks of moves with an empty-square differently
8333 from other to-clicks: Rather than performing the move (in this case
8334 clearing of the to-square) on the down-click, it defers that to the
8335 up-click, and only does it if that up-click is in the same square. This
8336 allows the user to grab the piece on the down-click, and drag it to
8337 another square, if that is what he wanted to do, without being disturbed
8338 by sudden implosion of the piece he tried to grab.
8339 If the to-square is in the holdings, grabbing the piece is the only
8340 action, as moves of empty squares into the holdings are forbidden anyway.
8342 2011-04-13 13:14:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8343 Block selection of a directory when file is needed
8345 When we are not browsing merely to obtain a name to put in a text edit,
8346 but really must return an open file pointer, selection of a directory
8347 (ending in '/') can no longer be OK'ed in the file browser. (XBoard
8348 tends to segfault when offered garbage for game or position file...)
8350 2011-04-13 12:23:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8351 Let double-click select file in file browser
8353 A second click on the already selected entry now has the same effect as
8354 pressing the OK button.
8356 2011-04-12 17:06:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8357 Couple mouse wheel to v-scrolls in file browser
8359 A newly added mouse-wheel event handler was made to call the v-scroll
8360 callback routines with parameters to step one entry. The button-press
8361 handler for the lists themselves was also made to intercept the wheel
8362 events (buttons 4 and 5), to prevent they would select an entry, and
8363 make them scroll in stead as well.
8365 2011-04-13 11:41:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8366 Fix crash copying game list when there is none
8369 2011-04-13 11:15:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8370 Fix changing of float setting by generic popup
8372 Changing a float setting (so far the only one is in the Load Options
8373 dalog) did not always work, because the old value was clipped to (int),
8374 so that changing it back to an integer value might erroneously conclude
8375 there was no change.
8377 2011-04-13 16:15:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8378 Fix crash on closing dialogs in wrong order
8380 When a menu dialog was closed when it still had an open file-browse
8381 daughter, which could be done through the system menu X on the title
8382 bar, later closing of the file browser caused a crash. This is solved by
8383 keeping track of the fact that there is such a daughter through a global
8384 flag, and ignoring the pop-down command if there is one.
8386 2011-04-13 16:33:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8387 Fix startup focus of board window
8389 When there were open auxiliary windows, these would have focus on
8390 starting up XBoard. The XtSetKeyboardFocus call added in XBoard main()
8391 was ineffective in curing that. It has now been replaced by a call to
8392 XSetInputFocus, which does do the job. By giving input focus to the form
8393 widget, rather than the board widget, XBoard will be immediately
8394 sensitive to all key bindings.
8396 2011-04-13 15:48:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8397 Fix game-list highight error when filtered (WB)
8399 When the gamelist was filtered, the game that was highlingted was the
8400 n-th game in the list rather than the n-th game in the file, when the
8401 latter was loaded (and n did not exceed the number of filtered games).
8402 This is fixed now by searching for the line in the listbox that starts
8403 with the game number n, rather than taking the n-th line.
8405 2011-04-12 19:20:46 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8406 Refactor move type-in code
8408 Common code between XBoard and WinBoard was moved to the back-end
8409 creating TypeInEvent() and TypeInDoneEvent() routines.
8411 2011-04-12 10:13:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8412 Fix saving of XBoard fonts with spaces in name
8414 SaveFontArg now prints quotes around the saved font string, so that the
8415 general option-argument parser doesnot stop at the first space it sees.
8417 2011-04-11 20:48:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8418 Implement move type-in for XBoard
8420 By adding an event handler to the main window for key presses, users can
8421 now type moves when the board has focus, like in WinBoard. The typed
8422 character appears as first character in the type-in box that willpop up.
8423 Enter and Escape close the box; finishing the typing of the move enters
8424 it. Like in WinBoard it is also possible to type a move number (to go
8425 there) or (in Edit Position mode) a FEN.
8427 2011-04-11 20:59:44 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
8428 new developer release
8430 tried to keep the v4.5.x branch developed already separated in the NEWS file, as well as DIFFSTAT and SHORTLOG.
8431 The Changelog is just the one from master.
8433 2011-04-10 22:47:59 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
8434 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
8437 2011-04-10 20:32:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8438 Fix use of game/position file in first match game
8440 When a match was started from the menu, it was not paying attention to
8441 game and position files. (Later games were.) The code that handled this
8442 in the initialization when a match is started through the command line
8443 was made into a routine MatchEvent, which can be called from the menu
8446 2011-04-09 20:55:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8447 Fix crash on opening ICS Text Menu
8449 The patch for the color defaults had broken the ICS Text Menu.
8451 2011-04-09 19:22:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8452 Implement Copy Game List menu item for XBoard
8454 Some WinBoard code was cloned for this.
8456 2011-04-09 11:42:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8457 Third method of sweep selection
8459 This method sweeps through the possible promotion choices for the piece
8460 that is being dragged, as long as you drag a 7th-rank Pawn backwards. On
8461 draggin such a Pawn forwards, it immediately shows it as the piece you
8462 are going to promote to.
8464 2011-04-08 23:39:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8465 Alternative sweep promotions
8467 The sweep takes place on the from-square here.
8469 2011-04-07 23:21:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8470 Make sweep-select promotions work in WinBoard
8472 The mouse-move handler had to be connected to the PromoScroll back-end
8475 2011-04-07 23:19:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8476 Fix path browsing in WinBoard
8478 The routine BrowseForFolder was still declared as static in woptions.c,
8479 while it was used from wsettings.c.
8481 2011-04-07 11:14:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8482 Fixes to sweep selection
8485 2011-04-06 23:47:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8486 Implement sweep selection of promotion piece
8488 When the option -sweepPromotions is true, a click-click promotion move
8489 will first display the default choice (usually Queen) on the promotion
8490 square. While you have the mouse button still down, you can change the
8491 piece by moving the mouse vertically.
8493 2011-04-06 21:20:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8494 Implement sweep selection as alternative for the piece menu
8496 When the option -pieceMenu is off, the piece menu will no longer appear
8497 on right-clicks in Edit Position mode. In stead a Pawn of the chosen
8498 color will appear immediately in the clicked square, and vertical
8499 movement of the mouse with the right button down will cycle through
8500 all other pieces defined in the pieceToCharTable of the current variant.
8501 Setting the side to move is acheived by clicking the correspondig
8502 clock. Clear board can be effected by clicking the clock of the side
8503 that already has the move.
8505 2011-03-30 18:17:58 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8506 Remember Tags and Comment dialog coordinates
8508 The save-settings code now uses the shell and shellUp arrays from the
8509 GenericPopUp to read out the window coordinates for Tags and Comment
8510 window. Pointers used by GenericPopUp are set topoint to the
8511 corresponding WindowPlacement structs.
8513 2011-03-10 19:21:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8516 The generic popup is used for generating the Tags / EditTags popups.
8517 The tags popup use a 'label' field to display the cmail message
8519 2011-04-01 13:43:52 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8520 Implement Edit-Comment window through generic popup
8522 The Edit Comment and Comment popups are combined into one, that can
8523 always be edited (similar to WinBoard). It uses shell number 1.
8524 (Number 0 is for all transient dialogs.) A save-changes button is added.
8525 The positioning is not implemented yet.
8527 2011-04-06 10:56:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8528 Refinements to generic popup and color picker
8530 *) The text part of a checkbox can now be clicked to toggle the option.
8531 *) Typing <Enter> in single-line text edits is ignored
8532 *) Using a spin button now sets focus to the affected text edit, with
8533 the insert position at the end.
8534 *) Using the sample field or an RGB button sets focus to the
8535 corresponding text edit, with the insert position at the end.
8536 *) The adjust buttons now work in reverse, with a D button for "darker".
8537 *) Editing a color field causes the sample field to update to the new
8538 color when you type <Enter>.
8539 *) The color pickers now define a default color, which can be instated
8540 by clicking on the sample field.
8541 *) Fix some 64-bit pointer warnings
8543 2011-04-05 17:05:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8544 Let file browser filter on extension
8546 A new text field is added in the file-browse dialog, to hold (space-
8547 separated) extensions, on which the filenames are then filtered. This
8548 field is initialized by the caller, depending on what we need the file
8549 for, but can be changed by the user. (Directories are always displayed!)
8550 Changes in the extension field become effective after typing a return
8551 in it. Escape typed in the extension field gives focus to the filename
8552 field, and restores the contents. Escape in the filename field cancels
8553 the dialog, return ther OKs it. The extension filter of the browser is
8554 initialized to the extension (if any) of the file currently in the text
8555 edit you are browsing for.
8556 When re-opening the file browser from the XBoard File menu, and there
8557 is no suggested filename, it will now start with the last succesfully
8558 opened name as suggestion. Calling the browser with a NULL argument
8559 for the suggested filename requests that (unlike calling with an empty
8560 string, which will start it in the current directory). To make this
8561 work smoothly, the filebrowser saves the last used name on entry, so it
8562 can be restored on cancel, so that a cancelled browse session really
8563 erases all memory of it.
8565 2011-04-04 19:26:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8566 Fix animation masks on changing piece pixmaps
8568 The animation masks were not remade when new pieces were loaded
8569 interactively through the board-options dialog.
8571 2011-04-04 19:09:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8572 Fix linegap option in board dialog
8574 The lineGC was not recalculated, so the grid lines stayed the same
8575 thickness. In addition, setting the line-gap override to -1 now
8576 retrieves the original line gap that belongs to the current board size.
8578 2011-03-05 23:27:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8579 Make a kind of ICS text menu in XBoard as a dialog
8581 The dialog with buttons can be opened from the View menu. It is
8582 configured by the option -icsMenu; a default setting for this is
8583 included in the master settings file.
8584 The commands specified by the -icsMenu can now contain $name and $input
8585 keywords, which will be replaced by the current primary selection, or
8586 text the user types, respectively. Commands that contain $name will not
8587 be sent when the current selection is empty. Commands that do not
8588 contain $input will be sent to the ICS immediately; otherwise they will
8589 be placed in the ICS Input Box, with the cursor at the point of the
8590 $input, and input focus given to the Input Box, so the user can start
8591 typing. When a command is prefixed by "$add " it will be appended to the
8592 existing ICS Input Box contents, rather than replace it.
8593 The items now have to be separated by ";\n", and button text from
8594 command by ';' (with optional linefeed). This allows configuring of
8595 multi-line commands, as a single linefeed no longer has special
8598 2011-03-31 13:36:05 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8599 Redo ICS input box with generic popup
8601 This box is just a single text edit, but the complexity is in the added
8602 callbacks. These callbacks remain in xboard.c, and were altered to
8603 access the edit through the option.handle field.
8605 2011-04-03 12:54:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8606 Activate -path and -file options
8608 In XBoard the generic popup was prepared for this. In WinBoard, for
8609 -path options the BrowseFolder routine is used, and had to be made
8610 global (prototype in winboard.h).
8612 2011-04-02 18:40:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8613 Let generic popup generate Engine Settings dialog
8616 2011-04-02 18:36:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8617 Merge SettingsPopUp into GenericPopUp
8619 Based on currentCps the values read from the dialog are sent to the
8620 engine, or stored into the option.target in the callback, and fetched
8621 from the option.target in the PopUp. The currentCps is cleared in the
8622 generic popdown of a transient dialog.
8624 2011-03-06 10:11:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8625 Make generic dialog popup reentrant
8627 To allow persistent dialogs to be implemented through the generic popup,
8628 it must be possible to have several dialogs open at the same time, and
8629 thus make sure the popdowns under the cacel or close-window button know
8630 which one to pop down. To this end an array shells[] is created that
8631 takes over the function of settingsShell, and GenericPopUp gets an extra
8632 parameter telling it which element to use for storing the dialog shell.
8633 This number is then also passed to the callbacks that trigger popdown.
8634 This was a bit nasty for the CatchDeleteWindow stuff, which passes user
8635 data to the callback as text strings.
8636 Keep a separate up/down indicator, so that shell widgets can be kept
8637 for persistent dialogs. Also keep a currentOption per dialog type.
8638 The coordinates and size of the window is read out and stored in a
8639 WindowPlacement structure, (if one is specified for that dialog), when
8640 the dialog is popped down. When initialized the structure is also used
8641 to set the window parameters when the dialog is created. (The idea being
8642 that the structure was saved in the settings file.)
8643 The routine MarkMenu checkmarks a given menu item, and logs it for the
8644 given dialog type, so that a later popdown automatically unchecks is.
8646 2011-02-25 12:14:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8647 Implement Machine Match menu item and options dialog
8649 An item to start a match from the menu is added, similar to what
8650 WinBoard has. (The code is duplicated, so I guess it should be moved to
8651 the back-end now, as MachineMatchEvent(), but it was tiny.) A dialog in
8652 the Options menu was added with the aid of the generic popup, and allows
8653 the user to set the load Game / Position File and Index.
8655 2011-04-01 14:54:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8656 Create General-Options dialog
8658 The generic popup is used to implement a General-Options dialog, which
8659 contains all Boolaen options that used to be set directly from the main
8660 Options menu, plus a spin option for the flash count and flash rate.
8661 The corresponing options are removed from the main Options menu, but the
8662 whole thing is made conditional on a compiler switch OPTIONSDIALOG.
8663 The dialog needs an OK callback for sending an altered ponder-state to
8664 the engine. (Why isn't this option disabled in -ncp mode, btw?)
8665 A spin control is added to adjust -animateSpeed between 5 and 100.
8666 Add dropMenu and showTargetSquares item as well.
8668 2011-04-01 18:16:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8669 Redo new-variant dialog with generic popup
8671 Some special code was added in GenericPopUp() to force buttons of the
8672 type needed in the New Variant dialog (wide, colored, greyed-out on
8673 variant type). The dialog was implemented with these, and callbacks for
8674 the buttons directly exit the dialog, without the need for OK. New spin
8675 controls are added to the dialog for adjusting the board format.
8677 2011-04-01 14:48:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8678 Redo common-engine dialog with generic popup
8680 The ponder option was removed, as it is already in the main Options
8681 menu, and would require nastiness in the OK callback. Added book options
8682 in common-engine dialog.
8684 2011-02-24 13:32:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8685 Redo adjudications dialog through generic popup
8687 We dropped the periodic-updates option, as it is already in the main
8690 2011-04-01 21:56:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8691 Make sounds dialog for XBoard
8693 This uses the combo boxes. A 'play' button isimplemented for a test
8694 sound. A sound directory is introduced, and can be set through the
8695 dialog. A default setting for -soundDirectory is added to xboard.conf.
8697 2011-04-01 23:11:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8698 Add ICS options dialog
8701 2011-04-01 21:52:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8702 Add board dialog XBoard
8704 The GenericPopUp() is used to implement a dialog for board options. The
8705 board dialog needs to trigger redraw and redefinition of the
8706 colors, through an OK callback. Color-pickers are used for the 6 basic
8708 To allow changing board settings during the session (i.e. from a menu
8709 dialog), the routines to allocate resources have to free the resources
8710 for the previous settings first. This patch take care of XtCreateGCs(),
8711 preventing re-creation of resources that are unchangeable (such as the
8712 grid color), and calling XtReleastGC() on GCs that can be changed.
8713 To prevent resource leaks the old pixmaps are deleted before making new
8714 ones on second or later calls of CreateXPMPieces().
8716 2011-04-03 11:39:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8717 Add browse button to generic popup
8719 Options of type FileName and PathName cause a browse button to be added
8720 behind the text field. The SpinCallback is used to handle the
8721 button presses, and invokes the file browser dialog to obtain a
8722 filename, which is then copied to the text field.
8724 2011-04-01 21:49:26 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8725 Make generic XBoard popup, and implement 2 dialogs
8727 The Engine-Settings dialog of XBoard was cloned to work on predefined
8728 lists of (XBoard) options, rather than engine options. An extra field
8729 was added to the Option struct, to hold a pointer to the XBoard variable
8730 that should hold the option setting, so on OK'ing the dialog the altered
8731 values can be copied there. Not usable for options which should trigger
8732 an action (like redraw, or sending something to the engine).
8733 A Load Game, Save Game and ICS Options dialog were then defined by
8734 tables fed to GenericPopUp(). Options set from these dialogs were removed
8735 from the main Option menu, which removes a lot of code from xboard.c
8736 (for checkmarking, disabling the menu items).
8737 A button defined in the GenericPopUp can attain the color indicated
8738 by a previous text field, and add a callback to change the color in a
8739 spin-like manner (but using R G B W in stead of + - butons).
8740 The EndMark option can specify a callback, to be used on OK.
8741 A non-zero max field in the Option descriptor will be used to set the
8742 width of ComboBox, TextBox and Button optons.
8743 The elements are chained such that extra space goes fully into the input
8744 fields. A label type is added for clarifying texts that would not fit in
8745 the option names. A break-type (pseudo-)option is added. Make OK and
8746 cancel button suppressable in generic popup (by 2 bit of the option.min
8749 2011-04-03 11:34:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8750 Add file-browser option to just return name
8752 By passing mode "f" the file browser dialog will not open the selected
8753 file at all, so it can be used to retreive the name for the benefit of a
8754 file-browser button to a -file option. A mode "p" will limit the
8755 selection to directories only, to browse for a path.
8757 2011-04-03 13:15:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8758 Put insertion point at end of text on SetFocus
8761 2011-04-05 23:47:34 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
8762 fixed 64 bit warnings by casting integers to intptr_t before casting to int
8765 2011-04-05 23:24:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
8766 removed check and #includes for malloc.h, since it's not needed
8768 hopefully this doesn't break things on non-linux systems. OS X seems to be ok, not sure about others ;)
8770 2011-04-03 20:23:49 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
8771 check if malloc.h is present before including it
8773 OS X 10.6 doesn't have malloc.h, so it complained.
8775 2011-04-03 20:01:36 -0700 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
8776 Fix bug introduced in commit 89b4744: removed a "/" and forgot to add it in the config file
8778 removed a "/" to make OS X happy, but forgot to add the "/" again in the xboard.conf.in file
8780 2011-03-12 14:08:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8781 Fix display of promotion piece in ICS superchess
8783 In Great Shatranj and Superchess promoted Pawns were displayed as shadow
8784 piece because these variants had holdings, while captured pieces should
8785 go back into the holdings unchanged, rather than reverted to Pawns.
8787 2011-03-13 14:09:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8788 Fix o-o castling in new parser
8790 The non-compliant notation of castling with lower-case 'o' should be
8791 preferred over the non-compliant interpretation of moving a Pawn along
8792 the o-file. Not doing so breaks ICS play, as ICS use o-o and o-o-o for
8793 castling! So an exception is now made for the o-file in the 'fxg'
8796 2011-03-10 19:27:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8797 Implement yynewstr entry point in new parser
8799 This entry point, used for parsing an ICS move list, was forgotten, and
8800 was still an empty routine. This made XBoard crash when observing an ICS
8803 2011-03-07 23:11:00 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
8804 fixed wrong default for polyglotDir mentioned in docs.
8806 Thanks to Hans Aberg for reporting it.
8808 2011-03-05 12:39:01 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
8809 Fix "make install" on Os X10.6.6 (removed a "/")
8811 seems like an extra "/" made "make install" unhappy
8813 2011-03-03 21:19:05 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
8814 removed parser.l from build process, also removed flex dependency from configure
8817 2011-03-02 22:14:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8818 New parser, written in C
8820 A new parser was written to replace the flex-generated one. Immediate
8821 improvements are that it understand double-digit rank numbers, and Shogi
8822 coordinates. No changes were made in the Makefile yet to reflect the
8823 new, flexless building procedure.
8825 2011-03-02 22:23:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8826 Fix bugs in FRC castling rights
8828 When parsing a castling move in FRC when no rights existed, the parser
8829 returned 0 (= EndOfFile) rather than ImpossibleMove. The recognition of
8830 the absence of rights was not adapted to the new encoding NoRights in
8833 2011-03-01 23:42:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8834 Fix parsing bug of FRC castling
8836 The code that was supposed to intercept castling when no rights existed
8837 in FRC was not adapted to the new encoding for this by NoRights, rather
8838 than -1, and furthermore returned 0 (= EndOfFile) rather than
8839 ImpossibleMove. Not sure if the former would manifest itself in any
8840 way, but the latter seems bad.
8842 2011-03-01 23:32:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8843 Fix two bugs in reading position diagram
8845 When reading a game without FEN tag, a position diagram is used to set
8846 the initial position. This calls CharToPiece() with a '.' as argument,
8847 because that is the position-diagram way to indicate empty squares.
8848 altered CharToPiece() over time this would be recognized as the first
8849 undefined piece or, more recently, the first piece without nickName,
8850 which is a white Pawn. Now it returns EmptySquare again in that case.
8851 A second problem was that for position diagrams in braces the brace was
8852 not in the list of ignored characters, and would cause the reading to
8853 get out of phase, so that the side to move was not recognized.
8855 2011-02-26 21:12:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8856 Fix flipBlack option XBoard with board texture
8858 In XBoard -flipBlack is implemented by swapping white and black pieces,
8859 because the Shogi bitmaps from XShogi are made that way. But the mask
8860 used to cut out the whole in the board texture to fit the piece was not
8861 swapped, both when drawing static pieces, as well as during animation.
8863 2011-02-25 14:38:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8864 Improve repairing damage of arrow highlight XBoard
8866 With line gap the highlight arrow necessitated redrawing of the entire
8867 board, to repair damage on the grid. This interfered with flashing of
8868 pieces, which was only done on selective redraws. In stead of forcing a
8869 total repaint we now just redraw the grid lines.
8871 2011-02-23 16:41:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8872 Fix unintended translation in debug file
8874 The words "first" and "second" (cps->which) were sometimes used in
8875 context that should definitely not be translated. (e.g. the indicator
8876 for which engine printed/got the line in the debug file.) So translation
8877 is now deferred to all uses in popups.
8879 2011-02-23 16:29:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8882 The nps settingwas tested for being > 0 in stead of >=0, so that the
8883 case of CPU time was not properly handled.
8885 2011-02-24 19:06:27 +0100 Kamil Blank <caceel@gmail.com>:
8886 Added missing fclose()
8889 Signed-off-by: Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>
8891 2011-02-20 16:12:19 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
8892 release of version 4.5.1
8894 2011-02-20 16:10:16 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
8895 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
8897 2011-02-20 20:36:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8898 Fix two typos in option names in texi file
8900 Polyglot was capitalyzed
8902 2011-02-20 00:03:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8903 Fix some resource leaks
8905 Some files were opened not closed in XBoard, when loading XIM images
8906 (which I doubt anyone ever does) but also when copying the clipboard
8907 (which has the potential of being done very often). There was also some
8908 code that would not work if conditional code which is permanently
8909 disabled would be enabled.
8911 2011-02-17 20:17:04 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
8912 new developer release
8914 2011-02-17 20:14:38 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
8915 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
8917 2011-02-17 15:40:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8918 Fix MSVC snprintf problem
8920 In MSVC snprintf has to be redefined as _snprintf, and this happens
8921 conditionally in config.c. But the latter was not #included in help.c.
8923 2011-02-16 19:41:27 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
8924 updated configure.ac to check for Xaw header files
8926 check for Xaw header files when --without-Xaw3d was given. Before the test was
8927 only done when Xaw3d was specified, but could not be found.
8929 If Xaw3d or Xaw can't be found, print a hopefully useful error message and exit the configure script.
8931 2011-02-16 12:03:22 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8934 Channel 0 messages were not displayed in the console, because the test
8935 for channel number considered every non-numeric or non-existent handle
8936 in a chatbox to be zero. So the messages were diverted to a non-exsting
8937 chatbox. Now it test first for the handle to start with a digit.
8939 2011-02-15 19:13:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8940 Make language choice from menu persistent
8942 Set appData.language to the chosen language file, or empty if English is
8943 chosen, so that the choice is saved with the settings. Increase the
8944 number of possible language choices from 5 to 20. (After all, we already
8947 2011-02-14 11:09:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8948 Fix showing of user move after adjudication
8950 The correction of the fishy patch (removing ShowMove() from Adjudicate())
8951 had broken the adjudication of user moves (that actually did work before
8952 the fishy patch, because there the gobal fromX/Y and toX/Y do contain
8953 the correct values for the move to be shown). An entered move that led
8954 to adjudication (like a checkmate) now was not displayed at all. Adding
8955 an extra ShowMove() after (successful) return of Adudicate() solves it.
8957 2011-02-13 23:49:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8958 Fix Xiangqi King facing
8960 The Spartan patch had broken the CheckTest for Xiangqi, because cl.check
8961 was cleared after the King-facing test, rather than before it.
8963 2011-02-13 22:30:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8964 Fix variant janus size prefix
8966 The default board size of Janus Chess was not consistently taken to be
8967 10x8, which resulted the name to be sent as 10x8+0_janus to the engine.
8969 2011-02-13 12:18:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8972 The test for Alfil (suppressing single steps on the Elephant) contained
8973 a wrong logical operator, so that it could never be active. It also
8974 failed to include Xiangqi as variant with traditional Alfil. This led to
8975 one-step moves of the Elephant in these variants, and false check or
8976 unreliable mate detections.
8978 Fix move of Xiangqi Elephant
8980 2011-02-09 23:19:09 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
8981 fixed configure script to correctly detect Xaw3d library
8984 2011-02-06 22:07:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8985 Fix unmarked translation
8987 The file-browser wndowtitle in WB was not marked for translation.
8989 2011-02-04 10:27:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8990 Put warning in HTML help
8992 A warning is added that the help file is not yet updated for the new
8995 2011-02-04 10:22:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
8996 Fix 64-bit Windows compilability
8998 The API interface for Set/GetWindowLong has been changed for 64-bit
8999 Windows, both in the name of the call as in the arguments.
9001 2011-02-04 10:21:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9002 Fix MSVC compilability
9004 Both the makefile and the project file had to be adapted for the new
9005 source file history.c, and the new location of parser.c.
9007 2011-02-05 10:11:58 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
9008 added missing #includes and missing prototypes to filebrowser
9010 thanks to Max Funk for reporting. Now using HAVE_DIRENT_H.
9012 Also cleaned up missing prototypes and some casts.
9014 2011-02-05 09:21:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
9015 added missing header file for sprintf
9018 2011-02-03 08:50:50 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
9019 added history.c to the tar-ball. Needed for Winboard
9022 2011-01-31 23:03:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9023 Fix deselection of greyed-out variant button (WB)
9025 In Windows a disabled radiobutton refuses to deselect when you select
9026 another (enabled) button from the group. There are then 2 buttons
9027 checked, and the code to readout the buttons took the first one. Now it
9028 is changed to take the first enabled one.
9030 2011-02-03 08:28:15 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
9031 Revert "Implement -reset option feature in WinBoard"
9033 This reverts commit efecf86cd9b54072c6a2f38d62f1d775e69c545b.
9035 picked the wrong commit from HGM's git tree.
9037 2011-02-01 22:01:12 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
9038 add DIFFSTAT and SHORTLOG to tar-ball
9040 was only in the v4.4.x branch and not in master
9042 2011-01-30 09:52:15 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9043 release of version 4.5.0
9045 2011-02-01 07:41:04 -0800 Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov>:
9046 changed size of borders around squares from 0 to 1 as a default
9048 this way highlights show up again.
9050 2011-01-29 20:11:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9051 Implement -reset option feature in WinBoard
9053 2011-01-30 10:12:08 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9054 updated Changelog, NEWS, etc.
9056 2011-01-30 09:56:39 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9057 updated parser.c form parser.l
9059 2011-01-29 19:59:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9060 Clean up fishy patch
9062 None of the ShowMove() calls in Adjudicate() was working, because when
9063 this code was taken out of HandleMachineMove() it was taken outside the
9064 scope of the local fromX, fromY etc. there, so that it started using the
9065 global variables from the mouse driver. As these usually contain -1,
9066 this suppressed move animation and highlighting. All these calls have
9067 now been removed, and ShowMove() is called after a positive return (from
9068 HandleMachineMove(), so within the correct scope).
9069 This improves the previous fix, which led to some flicker, because the
9070 erroneous ShowMove() calls did draw the new board (instantly), wich in
9071 the fishy patch was then immediately overwritten by the old position, to
9072 start animation. This drawing of the old position is now no longer
9075 2011-01-29 13:36:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9078 The RTF file is adapted to the new menu organization.
9080 2011-01-29 13:31:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9083 The highlight-with-arrow and one-click-move menu items are described.
9084 The highlightMoveWithArrow and variations option are described.
9085 Load Next /Previous Position descriptions are moved to File menu.
9086 The description for entering variations is updated (using Shift key).
9087 The remark that editing holdings is impossible is removed.
9088 Spartan Chess is added to the list of supported variants.
9090 2011-01-28 18:35:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9091 Updated copyright notice to 2011
9094 2011-01-24 15:01:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9095 Greyout unavailable variants in New Variant dialog
9097 The WB radio-button code is refactored to be driven from a list (which
9098 must be kept in phase with the variant definitions in common.h!). It now
9099 also checks if the first engine supports the variant, and greys out the
9100 item if it isn't. XB now also makes this check. Slight re-ordering of
9101 10x8 variants there, to have the more common on top.
9102 If no radio button is selected, keep old variant even on OK.
9104 2011-01-19 11:10:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9105 Move clock-click code to back-end
9107 Some duplicated (or should-be-duplicated) code for handling clicks on
9108 the clocks from the XBoard and WinBoard front-ends was merged and
9109 relocated to the back-end, so it can be shared. Noticeable was that
9110 XBoard allowed turn change in ICS examine mode by clock clicking,
9111 while WinBoard did not. WB, on the other hand, allowed clock adjustment.
9113 2011-01-16 23:15:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9114 Fix legality testing of drop moves
9116 Drops of noexistent pieces (i.e. with a piece indicator letter that is
9117 not corresponding to any defined piece) are now parsed as
9118 ImpossibleMove, rather than IllegalMove, so they are also rejected with
9119 legality testing off.
9121 2011-01-17 00:28:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9122 Fix WB Sound Options greyout and remove some grossness
9124 The sound and ICS Options menu items in WB were accessed 'by position',
9125 with fixed defined positions (always messing up any reorganization of
9126 the menus when you forgot to redefine the position constants in
9127 winboard.h). And not only that, but for completely mysterious reasons,
9128 the greying of the sound item greyed out the game-list options (above
9129 it) in stead when it was defined as 9, and the ICS options (below it)
9130 when it was 10 !!!. Now they are addressed 'by command' (and the
9131 position definitions are removed), which fixes things.
9133 2011-01-25 21:35:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9134 Re-instate load next/prev position menu items
9136 As positions do not use something similar to the game list, these are
9137 still useful. For some reason I could not get Alt+Shift+PgUp/Dn to work,
9138 so I settled for Shift+PgUp/Dn.
9140 2011-01-16 21:56:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9141 Remove superfluous copying of machine move
9143 There was explicit code in HandleMachineMove() and FinishMove() to put
9144 the move in the moveList, while MakeMove() already does this later in a
9145 more reliable way by calling CoordsToComputerAlgebraic(). This
9146 superfluous code is removed now.
9148 2011-01-16 21:44:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9149 Fix spurious mate test in Edit Game mode
9151 When entering a game, it was terminated by the mate test even when
9152 legality checking was switched off (so that mates might not be reliably
9153 recognized). The mate test is now made dependent on legality testing.
9155 2011-01-16 21:37:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9156 Fix type-in of drop moves
9158 Drop moves entered through the move type-in already come in the (piece,
9159 DROP_RANK, x, y) format, rather than having a holdings from square. This
9160 caused UserMoveEvent to consider them illegal when testing if the
9161 piecewas of the side to move, and when this was fixed, to recognize
9162 Knight drops as coming from between board and holdings (and thus
9165 2011-01-16 21:31:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9166 Fix move type-in truncating game
9168 Starting a new variation by keeping Shift pressed did not work when
9169 OK'ing the move type-in, because there was some code ther that truncated
9170 the game. While this could be safely left to UserMoveEvent, which it
9171 calls, as the situation is not different from entering moves through the
9174 2011-01-11 16:12:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9175 Fix legality testing for promotions
9177 Turns out WB has never tested for the legality of the chosen promotion
9178 piece, and would allow promotion to King innorml chess even with
9179 legality testing on (when entered through the keyboard)! Now strict
9180 testing is done, outlawing Pawns and Kings (or Unicorns in
9181 Knightmate). Only in suicide / giveaway Kings are stillallowed, and in
9182 spartan a black King if you do not have two yet.(And promotion
9183 toLnce,representing Hoplite Pawn,is forbidden there.)
9185 2011-01-11 11:34:07 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9186 Reset 50-move counter on all pawn-like Lance moves
9188 Now the Lance represents a Pawn-like piece not only in variant fairy,
9189 but anywhere outside Shogi / Superchess, its moves should also reset the
9190 50-move counter in those cases. Especially important for Spartan Chess,
9191 where the Lance actually participates.
9193 2011-01-11 11:18:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9196 The logos were not repainted when the main window was moved out of the
9197 display area, and then back into view. The reason for this is
9198 unknown, as the PaintProc calls HDCDrawPosition, which was calling
9199 DrawLogoOnDC. But the logos were not drawn, (or on an expose event
9200 sometimes half drawn!) despite the fact that the rest of the board was.
9201 The drawing of logos now has been decoupled from drawing the board,
9202 and has been moved to a separate routine DisplayLogos() (in analogy to
9203 DisplayBothClocks()). This is cleaner anyway, as the logos usually do
9204 not change when the board does. So apart from in PaintProc, it has only
9205 to be called when the mode changes (ModeHighlight()) or on swap clocks.
9206 This seems to fix the problem.
9208 2011-01-10 20:36:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9209 Fix time in PGN info
9211 Saving of the thinking time in the PGN was broken by the patch that
9212 removed the race condition in the clock switching, because that moved
9213 the incrementing of forwardMostMove to behind the code that used fmm to
9214 index pvInfoList. As a result the time was stored in the slot for the
9215 opponent's previous move. The value is corrected now.
9217 2011-01-09 00:24:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9220 The move that delivers checkmate in two-machines mode is not animated
9221 when adjudication is on. There then also is no highlighting of this move
9222 Redrawing the board and calling ShowMove fixes it. Which is rather
9223 strange, because ShowMove was already called in Adjudicate (when it
9224 adjudicates), before GameEnds. For reasons that are not understood this
9225 call to ShowMove() (which calls AnimateMove()) is not effective.
9227 2011-01-09 00:21:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9228 Reset machine colors after match
9230 The colors each engine playse are set to the originals after the last
9231 match game, so that a new match or two-machines game will not have
9234 2011-01-09 00:15:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9235 Reset win/loss counters before match
9237 The win/loss counters were not reset, because the code counted on them
9238 being initialized to zero. But with matches startable from the menu,
9239 this is no longer true after the first match.
9241 2011-01-09 00:08:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9242 Show move that causes false illegal-move claim
9244 Without claim testing XBoard takes back moves that an engine objects to.
9245 But when the engine is forfeited for a false claim, the move should of
9246 course stay. So the claim test is moved to before the take-back.
9248 2011-01-09 00:05:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9249 Fix Spartan promotion to King
9251 Promotions toKing were refused when in check, because XBoard thought
9252 they would not resolve the check. Now the promotion is actually
9253 performed before doing the check test.
9255 2011-01-05 17:31:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9256 Fix WB font-based piece rendering on variant switch
9258 The piece bitmaps were only created from the font characters when the
9259 number of ranks or files changed, because it was done in
9260 InitDrawingSizes(). This caused missing pieces when changing to a
9261 variant on the same board that used other pieces. Now InitDrawingSizes()
9262 is called for any variant switch.
9264 2011-01-05 17:25:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9265 Fix right-alignment pproblem in WB ICS window
9267 Use of Ctrl-R to summon the context menu still trickled through to the
9268 default text-edit window routine, and caused right-alignment. This was
9269 because the text-edit reacts on keyDown rather than the character event.
9270 KeyDown of R with Ctrl pressed is now also intercepted and ignored.
9272 2011-01-03 13:04:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9273 Fix chat window title
9275 The title was using the engine name, rather than the ICS handle, which
9276 did not work outside zippy mode. Now it only uses the engine name when
9277 no ICS handle is known. The titleis now also subjected to translation.
9279 2011-01-03 12:50:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9280 Fix spurious reading of old game title by JAWS
9282 Because focus was switched to the board window before loading the
9283 selected game from the game list, the titlebar still contained the
9284 name of the previously loaded game, which would spontaneously be read by
9285 JAWS. Now the focus switch is done after loading the new game (which
9286 updates the window title.)
9288 2011-01-03 12:37:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9289 Add variant Spartan Chess
9291 In the WB menu it takes the place of the defunct Twilight Chess item.
9292 The setup routine needed patching for setting up Lances in stead of
9293 Pawns for black, the check test had to be adapted to handle duple check,
9294 Alfil and Dragon moves were fine tuned in this variant to make the exact
9295 moves, and the promotion popup was adapted to show King and interpret
9296 Rook and Bishop as Dragon and Alfil for black. The Alfil now always
9297 moves as Modern Elephant except in Shatranj and Courier.
9299 2011-01-03 12:23:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9302 Due to a bug in logical operators drops were tried for mate evasions
9303 even in non-drop games, which broke it in Superchess and Great Shatranj,
9304 and wasted CPU time in other variants.
9306 2011-01-05 17:19:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9307 Fix promotion suffixon disambiguated piece moves
9309 The promotion suffixon piecemoves that needed disambiguation was not
9310 passedon to the back-end in most variants. Now it is passed on in any
9313 2011-01-03 12:08:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9314 Fix promotion of Pawn-like Lance
9316 In variants where the Lance is used to represent an unorthodox Pawn, it
9317 must promote when it reaches last rank. With legality testing on,
9318 however, the promoChar was ignored in ApplyMove in this case. The
9319 promotion suffix also was not appended in SAN moves.
9321 2011-01-03 11:57:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9322 Fix WB promotion popup
9324 The promotion popup did not work properly in variants where black did
9325 not use the pieces that white wanted to promote to. Now the character
9326 for the selected piece is taken from the piece encodings of the side to
9327 move. In addition, selection of undefined pieces is ignored.
9329 2011-01-02 14:17:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9330 Fix bug in parsing variations
9332 The moves parsed from a variation were stored in the moveList without
9333 appended linefeed. This caused errors if the variation extended to
9334 beyond the end of the main line,into a hitherto unused part of the move
9335 list, as the linefeed was then not there from the overwritten move. As a
9336 result moves sent to the engine were concatenated, triggering
9337 illegal-move messages and bringing the engine out of phase.
9339 2011-01-02 14:11:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9340 Define Ctrl-R as right-click in WB Comment dialog
9342 To allow JAWS users to load a variation through the keyboard, Ctrl-R is
9343 equated to a right click at the position of the caret or selection.
9345 2011-01-02 14:10:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9346 Allow starting a variation from keyboard entry in WB-JAWS
9348 The status of the shift key is remembered when space is pressed to
9349 select a board square.
9351 2011-01-02 14:06:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9352 Disable some accelerators in JAWS version
9354 Single-key accelerators that could result in irreversible data loss are
9355 undesirable, because the risk of accidentally pushing them is too large.
9356 So the non-Alt duplicates of next/previous game/position are disabled,
9357 as are Home and End for Revert and Truncate Game. JAWS users will have
9358 to rely on the menus for those functions.
9360 2011-01-02 13:59:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9361 Group engine-output memos with engine names
9363 The engine names are now defined just before the text edits, so that
9364 JAWS 11 will read the engine name when the memo for the output of that
9365 engine is selected. (JAWS 10 will still read the NPS, as it reads in
9368 2011-01-02 13:55:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9369 Put nr CPU earlier in tab cycle of WB Common Engine dialog
9371 By defining the max CPU control after hash size, the tabbing steps
9372 through the controls in geometrical (and logical) order, rather than
9373 having the max CPU in between the book controls.
9375 2010-12-29 23:47:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9376 Update WB language template file
9379 2010-12-29 23:41:27 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9380 Subject JAWS menu and spoken strings to translation
9383 2010-12-29 23:37:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9384 Let JAWS SayString buffer full sentence
9386 The meaning of the flag parameter of SayString was changed to indicate
9387 buffering of flushing. On flushing a message of a single space is used
9388 as a kludge to indicate interruptability. Calls to force flushing where
9391 2010-12-29 23:32:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9392 Adapt JAWS menu to new menu organization
9394 The menus did not correspondto the texts after translation of the main
9397 2010-12-29 23:18:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9398 Translate menus after creation of JAWS menu
9401 2010-12-29 23:07:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9402 Fix ICS context menu for JAWS
9404 The Ctrl+R key did select text at the mouse pointer in stead of at the
9405 curser, now that up and down-click were combined.
9407 2010-12-29 23:04:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9408 Reorganize order of WB New Variant dialog controls
9410 The definitions are re-ordered so that at least JAWS 11 will speak the
9411 board-size elements properly.
9413 2010-12-29 22:57:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9414 Fix order of elements in WB time-control dialog
9416 Someleading texts were defined after the text edit they referred to,so
9417 that JAWS 11 associated them to the wrong one. A tab stop was added to
9418 the time-odds label, to make JAWS speak it.
9420 2010-12-29 22:51:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9421 Change tabbing order in WB sounds dialog
9423 The 'Play' button now gets focus immediately after the controls for
9424 selecting the sound, rather than at the end of the dialog (after OK).
9426 2010-12-29 22:47:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9427 Remove tab stops on first radio button of WB dialogs
9429 The New Variant and Board dialogs had a tab stop on the first radio
9430 button,so that tabbing toit would automatically select variant
9431 normal or size tiny. Now it tabs straight to the current size, without
9432 changing anything. (Important for JAWS users.)
9434 2010-12-29 22:45:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9435 Put OK/Cancel last in tab cycle of some WB dialogs
9438 2010-12-29 22:29:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9439 Fix duplicate menu character for Edit Comment
9441 Edit Comment did have the same shortcut character as Copy Game. Changed
9444 2010-12-11 11:18:56 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9445 fixed automake process: xboard.conf couldn't be generated if $srcdir was not the current directory
9448 2010-12-11 09:50:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9449 new developer release
9452 2010-12-05 18:01:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9453 Subject WB context menus to translation
9455 The innerloopof the menu translation has been made into a separate
9456 routine. This now uses GetMenuItemInfo() in stead of ModifyMenu() to
9457 better preserve menu breaks. Menu #10 is used for context menus (from
9458 the routine that pops them up), and for this number the orignal texts
9459 are not saved in menuText. (This is not needed, because the menu is
9460 created everytime anew from the resource data.)
9462 2010-12-05 15:00:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9463 Update translation template
9465 Add the new menu items; add some notes.
9467 2010-12-05 14:04:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9468 Resize buttons in WB engine-settings dialog
9470 The OK and cancel buttons were to narrow for most translations, and were
9471 a non-standard order as well.
9473 2010-12-05 13:56:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9474 Add one-click move control to WB general-options dialog
9476 This is a duplicate of the one in the ICS options dialog, but the latter
9477 is inaccessible in non-ICS modes, and one-click move is now
9478 alsoavailable in engine mode.
9480 2010-12-05 13:51:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9481 Create space in dialogs for translation
9483 The translated texts often did not fit, because controls were defined
9484 needlessly small (when there was empty space between them). In these
9485 cases they have been enlarged to consume all available space. Some
9486 dialogs are made wider.
9488 2010-12-05 13:47:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9489 Add handle for translator acknowledgement
9491 An empty string is printed in the about box, which can be 'translated'
9492 to a message acknowledging the translator.
9494 2010-12-05 13:43:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9495 Use default logo for user
9497 When no logo with the name of the current user is found, use dummy.bmp.
9499 2010-12-05 15:46:34 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9500 added rlwrap tip to FAQ
9503 2010-12-03 23:24:06 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9504 replace hard coded paths with path from configure script
9506 use $datadir and subdirectories to store some data files. Also make files in xboard.conf use correct path.
9508 2010-12-03 23:02:09 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9509 fixed a typo in the configure script output
9512 2010-12-03 21:46:00 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9513 added a desktop file
9515 taken from the openSUSE project
9517 2010-12-03 22:44:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9518 Fix Edit Game/Position checkmarking in WinBoard
9520 Because the entries in Edit and Mode menu were pure duplicats, the
9521 entries in the wrong menu (Edit) were checkmarked while active. By
9522 defining different IDs for those in the Edit menu, those in the Mode
9523 menu are checkmarked again.
9525 2010-12-03 10:07:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9526 Add XBoard menu items for arrow highlight and one-click move
9528 These items are put in the options menu; the 'Old Save Style' item is
9531 2010-12-03 09:27:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9532 Provide menus for editing WinBoard engine and server lists
9534 The Edit Tags dialog in the WB front-end is adapted to act as a general
9535 edit for string variables, by giving it an extra parameter to indicate
9536 where to store the edited result. Menu items are added to invoke this
9537 dialog for editing the /first, /secondChessProgramNames and /icsNames
9538 options. This solves the problem that people would have to edit an ini
9539 file that they can no longer locate (because the %APPDATA% folder has
9540 different names and locations in the various Windows versions, and is
9541 often a hidden folder on top of that).
9542 There is a slight memory leak here, as the memory for the previous
9543 value of the altered string option is not freed.
9545 2010-12-02 16:18:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9546 Configure arrow highlighting as default in XBoard
9548 Set -highlightMoveWithArrow true in the xboard.conf file, and specify a
9549 lineGap of 0 to make that efficient (and the wood theme even nicer).
9551 2010-12-02 15:56:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9552 Port highlighting with arrow to XBoard
9554 Unfortuntely this duplicates a fair amount of code in the front end.
9555 Removing the arrow is done by a total repaint if there is a non-zero
9556 lineGap, because the clever algorithm for selective redrawing (based
9557 on damage) that XBoard uses does not repair damage to the grid lines.
9558 For lineGap=0, however, (for which the arrow is mainly intended) the
9559 damage mechanism is used, and the damaged squares are determined by
9560 tracing out the arrow in 64 steps, and marking all squares in the
9561 neighborhood as damaged.
9563 2010-12-02 15:55:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9564 Strip CR from xboard.c
9567 2010-12-02 14:21:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9568 Let user decide if he wants highlights in blindfold mode
9570 Remove the automaticsuppression ofhighlighting.
9572 2010-12-02 00:24:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9573 Fix fag-fell marker with logos on
9575 The flag-fell marker "(!)" that is displayed in the clock in WinBoard in
9576 two-machines mode was printed twice when the clock was split over two
9577 lines (as with logos on).
9579 2010-12-01 18:57:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9580 Also exempt variant seirawan from eval-scale doubling
9582 It is not really a drop game, so a scale from -7 to 7 in the eval graph
9583 is good enough (like variants great and super).
9585 2010-12-01 10:33:13 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9586 Configure EGTB cache size in adapterCommand
9588 The hash size, nr of CPUs and EGTB path are transferred through the WB
9589 protocol interface commands memory, cores and egtpath. But there is no
9590 WB command for detailing the EGTB cache size. So the value of the
9591 command-line option -defaultCacheSizeEGTB has to be sent to Polyglot
9592 through its startup command to make it known to UCI engines.
9594 2010-11-30 22:46:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9595 Move Hint and Book items to Engine menu in XBoard
9598 2010-11-30 22:17:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9599 Correct the key bindings fo view menu in texi file
9601 The mentioned bindings for Game List and Eval Graph were wrong.
9603 2010-11-30 21:25:07 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9604 Fix sub-variation display with negative score
9606 The test if the displayed score was the pvInfo score failed for negative
9607 scores, because floats are truncated towards zero. So the previous fix
9608 of spurious score/depth info was not working when the score was
9611 2010-11-30 18:27:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9612 Peel PV out of comment
9614 Arena stores engine PVs not in variation format, but within both braces
9615 and parentheses, before the score/depth info. This caused XBoard to
9616 overlook the score/depth info, (frustrating, e.g., the eval graph),
9617 while the PV would not be accessible for walking it as a variation.
9618 The routine that extracts the score/depth from a comment now has
9619 been made more clever, to recognize a leadin PV in the comment, and then
9620 place it in front of the comment as variation (by moving the opening
9621 brace to behind it). For some reason it does not work if the PV and
9622 score/depth were separated by a newline, but this happens quite rarely.
9624 2010-11-30 18:23:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9625 Allow line-straddling result comments
9627 Some GUIs (in particular Arena) do not have the decency to keep the
9628 result comment on a single line. In this case the parser rules would not
9629 recognize it, and treat it as a normal comment, plus an undetailed PGN
9630 result. The rules are now fixed to allow linefeeds in the comment, and
9631 between comment and PGN result. To correctly process the comment further
9632 (e.g. in game-list lines) the linefeeds are replaced by spaces in the
9633 back-end routines that do use the result comment.
9635 2010-11-30 12:22:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9636 Write key bindings in XBoard menus
9638 Unfortunately tabs are not understood in menu texts, so fine-tuning
9639 through spaces is necessary to get some sort of ragged alignment.
9641 2010-11-29 18:01:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9642 Configure XBoard to use wood board texture by default
9644 The texture pixmaps are sought in /usr/share/games/xboard, with names
9645 wood_l.pm and wood_d.xpm. I guess the " make install" should be adapted
9646 to put them there. XBoard is resitent to non-existence of the files,
9647 btw. It simply ignores the arguments in that case.
9649 2010-11-29 17:48:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9650 Configure -inc as volatile option in XBoard
9652 XBoard users are not used to options being persistent, and thus have
9653 many scripts assuming the timeIncrement is -1 when they don't specify it
9654 on the command line, and want to specify -mps. But a persistent -inc of
9655 0 fom a preious session would then force their -mps to zero, causing
9658 2010-11-29 17:36:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9659 Make WinBoard clocks translation-proof
9661 With logos on, the splitting of the clock over two lines assumed the
9662 lengths of the words "white" and "black" would always be 5. Used strlen.
9664 2010-11-29 14:57:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9665 Improve drawing of highlight arrow
9667 A diagonal arrow sometimes had a notch in the shaft because of
9668 independent rounding of the starting and ending point coordinates.
9669 Furthermore the width of the shaft was unnecessary variable(as a
9670 function of direction) because half the width was rounded and then used
9671 twice. Now rounding of end-points is always done towards a fixed grid
9672 of square centers, which keeps diagonals purely diagonal, and one side
9673 of the shaft is drawn relative to the other side, after the
9674 position of the latter has been rounded, so any rounding error affects
9675 the shaft width only once.
9677 2010-11-29 10:25:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9678 Alter descriptionof Analyze File menu item
9680 This menu item has been given a new function, so a new description was
9683 2010-11-29 10:15:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9684 Add description of Game List Options in texi file
9687 2010-11-29 09:58:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9688 Update texi file for new menu organization
9690 The descriptions are shuffled around and organized into sections
9691 corresponding to the new main menus. Where necessary the name of the
9692 items was changed to their new names. The items removed from the File
9693 menu (the next/previous/same stuff) are nowmoved to the section "other
9694 shortcut keys", as the key bindings for some of them are still active.
9696 2010-11-29 09:06:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9697 Update info on key bindings in texi file
9699 The texi file was still listing the old XBoard key bindings. Where
9700 necessary this is now changed to the new (WinBoard) bindings, and all
9701 the new bindings were added.
9703 2010-11-29 09:04:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9704 Add XBoard key bindings for Revert and Truncate
9706 Use Home key as accelerator for Revert, End for Truncate, as in WinBoard.
9708 2010-11-28 23:12:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9709 Divorce the Edit and Show Tags/Comment menu items
9711 In WinBoard the items in the Edit and View menu for Tags and Comment now
9712 have different IDs, so they can be independently controlled. Only the
9713 items in the View menu are check-marked. The items still do the same.
9715 2010-11-28 23:08:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9716 Alter WinBoard menu text
9718 The texts are slightly adapted, mostly by choosing more convenient
9719 tabbing characters for the new menu organization. The translation
9720 template is updated accordingly.
9722 2010-11-28 20:24:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9723 Let move-history window scroll to bottom after adding move
9725 By activating the scrollbar of the viewport through XtCallActionProc
9726 the move-history window is scrolled to the bottom.
9728 2010-11-27 14:38:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9729 Fix Shogi promotion popup
9731 The texts were adapted to shogi by printing new text items over the
9732 Queen and Knight buttons, but these did not alwys cover it. Now the text
9733 on the buttons is changed as it should be. Also the window title is
9736 2010-11-26 11:22:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9737 Apply gettext macros to menu texts
9739 Now texts and references are separated, the texts in the tables can be
9740 decorated with the N_() macro, so that the _() macro no longer has to be
9741 applied when they are used. (This makes the texts appear in the .po
9744 2010-11-26 11:12:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9745 Adapt some XBoard menu texts
9747 The "Show" prefix is removed from the "View" menu items, as this seems
9748 implied. An ellipsis is added to the Engine #N Settings items, which
9749 could not be there before, because periods in a menu name would break
9750 any reference to it. For some other names the ellipsis was deleted.
9751 (These were not refered to, but who knows what we will do in the future.)
9753 2010-11-26 11:03:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9754 Separate menu text from menu name in XBoard
9756 The text string in the menu-definition tables was used both for the menu
9757 text, as well as for referencing the items from the code (for enabing or
9758 checkmarking). Now these can be defined separately, so that altering the
9759 menu texts is possible without breaing any references to the item.
9760 (Moving them to another menu would still break XBoard, though!)
9761 Currently the texts and names are still the same.
9763 2010-11-26 10:48:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9764 Bugfix XBoard menu translation
9766 The gettext macro N_() was applied to the menu definition tables, but
9767 this would break any translation, as these items are both used as menu
9768 texts as well as reference for enabling and checkmarking. The routines
9769 that create the menus already apply _() dynamically to these items when
9770 they are used as menu texts.
9772 2010-11-26 10:10:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9773 Restrict drops in variant seirawan to back rank
9775 Drops aren't really llowed at all in Seirawan Ches, but there exists an
9776 engine that supports a variant where drops on the back-rank are allowed.
9778 2010-11-25 19:44:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9779 Let Analyze File annotate the loaded game
9781 By not suppressing the auto-play loop in AnalyzeFle mode, we step
9782 through the game while the engine is analyzing, and store the PV info
9783 that the engine produces, as well as the full PV (as variation comment)
9786 2010-11-25 19:41:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9787 Revive Analyze File menu item in WB
9789 We will keep this menu after all, becase it can be given a new meaning.
9791 2010-11-25 19:31:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9792 Fix spurious scores in comments
9794 The comment popup is also used to display engine PV info, but when the
9795 contents of the window is written back when we select a variation,
9796 it was treated as a real comment. This is fixed now by checing in
9797 ReplaceComment() if the comment starts with the PV info, and if so,
9798 ignore the latter. This solves the problem, but I guess the real bug is
9799 that selecting a variation tries to write the comment even if it did not
9802 2010-11-25 19:26:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9803 Display error for wrong use of Machine Match
9806 2010-11-24 13:30:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9807 Reorganize XBoard menus
9810 2010-11-24 11:02:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9811 Reorganize WinBoard menus
9813 New main menus Edit, View and Engine are added; the step menu
9814 disappears. The menu items are redistributed over the new menus.
9815 Sometimes duplicates are created. No adaptation of short-cut characters
9816 as made yet (as this affects translation).
9818 2010-11-20 20:20:27 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9819 removed trailing whitespaces from NEWS
9822 2010-11-20 20:19:30 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9823 merged readme_HGM.txt into the NEWS file
9825 seems like a better place for the release notes, although those releases where not officially part of GNU, but the NEWS file already covers similar releases, so it might as well cover all of them.
9827 2010-11-20 18:24:19 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9828 typo in date of developer release
9830 but will leave the tagged version as it is, since it's still a unique version number
9832 2010-11-20 18:11:01 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9833 new developer release
9836 2010-11-20 18:12:41 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9837 added latest version of parser.c
9840 2010-11-20 18:05:56 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9841 updated Changelog, etc for developer release
9844 2010-11-20 16:22:00 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9845 Revert "adding gnu-readline support"
9847 This reverts commit c95ef32a700132a134f335f857ca6f1b6f3c169f.
9852 better to use the (relatively) new ICS input box then add readline support.
9854 2010-11-20 16:19:32 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9855 Revert "bugfix: fixed readline support with icslogon option"
9857 This reverts commit b9cdd7422ad1037d7376bce4f8f2db2669396e83.
9862 better to use the (relatively) new ICS input box then add readline support.
9864 2010-11-19 23:10:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9865 Make Hoplite moves irreversible in Spartan Chess
9867 Consider Lance moves in variant Fairy (where the Lance represents the
9868 Spartan Hoplite Pawn) as Pawn moves, so they reset the 50-move counter.
9870 2010-11-19 21:09:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9871 Give Lance moves of Amazon in variant super
9873 Now that Lance is no longer a wild-card piece the moves of Amazon must
9874 be programmed explicitly, to keep the possibbilty to play Superchess
9875 with legality testing on.
9877 2010-11-19 18:32:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9878 Change representation of Bede in variant fairy initial position
9880 This used to be Lance, but the promoted Bishop (Dragon Horse)
9881 is more applicable. Especially now that Lance is supposed to move like a
9884 2010-11-19 18:28:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9885 Make yyskipmoves also suppress examining of drop moves
9887 Not sure if this does any good, but it seemed illogical that this would
9888 happen in all other moves, but not drops.
9890 2010-11-19 18:23:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9891 Define moves for Dragon Horse outside Shogi
9893 Let it move like Bishop + Wazir + Dababba.
9895 2010-11-17 13:40:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9896 Fix safety crash when appending comments
9898 The length limit imposed on safeStrCpy was one too short when copying
9899 an existing comment to the space allocated for the longer (concatenated)
9900 one. It allowed no space for the terminating '\0'.
9902 2010-11-17 13:38:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9905 The test for when to terminate a non-fiting string was one off, and the
9906 debug message was written stdoutin stead of debugFP.
9908 2010-11-16 12:40:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9909 Fix default holdings size for variant seirawan
9911 The holdings for 7 pieces werealways considered an overrule, so that the
9912 variant name was prefixed with "8x8+7_".
9914 2010-11-15 11:36:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9917 When confronted with a path name starting with ~ and not containing a /
9918 XBoard would segfault.
9920 2010-11-14 21:45:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9921 Fix one-click moving on up-click
9923 (First) up-clicks were not always ignored: in Edit-Game mode with
9924 one-click moving enabled this could lead to a capture being made on
9925 the down-click, and the recapture on the correspoding up-click.
9926 This has now been corrected, and only the down-click of a first click
9927 can lead to selecting a piece or a one-click move.
9929 2010-11-15 18:15:40 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
9930 fixed buffer size for snprintf
9933 2010-11-13 23:04:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9934 Accept Seirawan-style gating suffixes
9936 The parser rules were extended to accept / as an equivalent of = in
9937 promotion-suffix notation (e.g. Nf3/H in stead of Nf3=H).
9939 2010-11-13 22:55:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9940 Use Falcon and Alfil as built-ins for Seirawan chess
9942 Where available (size 49 and 72) we use Falcon for Archbishop and Alfil
9943 for Chancelor, to better conform to the Seirawan names Hawk and Elephant.
9945 2010-11-13 20:02:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9946 Implement entering gating moves with mouse
9948 A move with a back-rank piece that starts when a piece in the holdings
9949 is selected will be interpreted as a gating move in variant seirawan.
9950 The front-end uses a 'gatingPiece' selected this way todisplay it on the
9951 from square during animate dragging.
9953 2010-11-13 18:56:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9954 Implement variant seirawan
9956 Set upthe position, including Hawk and Elephant in holdings, in
9957 InitPostion(). Suppress putting captured pieces in holding. Let
9958 promoChar indicate gating in ApplyMove(). Remove gated pieces from
9959 the holdings there. Let GenLegal() generate RxK-type castlings to act as
9960 base for gating on Rook square. Gatings are tested for legality
9961 based on the holdings content and whether they occur on the back
9962 rank. Disambiguate() also tests this. Make sure the gated pieces are
9963 printed as move suffixes in CoordsToAlgebraic().
9965 2010-11-13 18:42:27 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9966 Add -variant seirawan to menu
9969 2010-11-13 22:52:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9970 Fix acceptance of null-move with legality testing off
9972 A second click on the same piece was interpreted as a to-square rather
9973 than deselection of the piece.
9975 2010-11-13 22:49:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9978 Disambiguate was imagining captures, so an only capture by double
9979 clicking your own piece did not always work.
9981 2010-11-13 20:08:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9982 Fix mouse-driver buglet
9984 The highlights were not cleared on moves that went vertically off board.
9986 2010-11-12 17:17:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9987 List some undocumented commands as compliant
9989 The engine->GUI commands setboard and setup are now always printed in
9990 the debug file as well.
9992 2010-11-12 17:05:22 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9993 List Hint with compliant commands
9995 This command was omitted, so that in some -engineDebugOutput modes it
9996 would not appear in the debug file.
9998 2010-11-12 17:02:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
9999 Restrict use of escape expansion
10001 Only expand escape sequences like \n and \t in telluser(error) comamnds
10002 that ask for it by preficing the messages by double backslash. Otherwise
10003 backward copatiblity is too severely broken for messages that display
10004 DOS-style filenames.
10006 2010-11-12 13:56:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10007 Make safeStrCpy safe
10009 SafeStrCpy was causing a lot of out-of-bound write accesses, as it was
10010 always writing the character at the length limit of the destination.
10011 Now no memory is accessed that is is not needed to hold the copy.
10013 2010-11-07 21:37:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10014 Allow clicked name internal to the icsMenu command string
10016 A command in the /icsMenu that was specified to contain the selected
10017 text or clicked word always appended this word at the end. Now the user
10018 can also configure it to appear in the middle, by putting a %s in the
10019 command string where he wants it to appear.
10021 2010-11-07 21:33:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10022 Let Engine #2 Settings start second engine
10024 If the second engine is not yet running, it would be impossible to use
10025 the settings dialog for it, as the features have not been received and
10026 the dialog will be empty. So the user could not adjust the engine
10027 parameters before starting a match. Using this menu now automatically
10028 starts the engine, and delays the appearence of the popup untill the
10029 features are received, using a similar mechanism as in
10030 TwoMachinesEventIfReady().
10032 2010-11-01 19:40:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10033 Newly lexed parser.c
10036 2010-11-06 19:55:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10037 Fix bug in parsing illegal Pawn captures
10039 When a pawn move of type exf5 was illegal, the parser made an attempt to
10040 interpret it as e.p. capture of f5. This, however, messed up the move,
10041 so that it was now permanently mistaken for e5xf6. Even in cases with
10042 legality testing off, where you would want the original move to be
10043 accepted despite the fact that it was illegal.
10045 2010-11-06 19:49:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10046 Keep last PV while clearing engine-output display
10048 When ponder is on, the display is cleared immediately when the last line
10049 of thinking output appears by the appearing ponder output. So you would
10050 never get the chance to see it. This line is now re-written after
10051 clearing, so it appears at the bottom of the output for the next search.
10053 2010-11-06 19:45:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10054 Give Lance moves of Berolina Pawn
10056 In stead of using it as a wildcard piece, the Lance gets the moves of
10057 the Berolina Pawn (straight capture, diagonal move). The initial double
10058 osh can be a ump, though. (So it is really a Hoplite Pawn from Spartan
10061 2010-11-06 19:42:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10062 Use SAN even on illegal moves
10064 If there is only one piece of type T, moves like Ta1 or Txa1 are never
10065 ambiguous, so adding the from square is just cumbersome.
10067 2010-11-06 19:34:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10068 Use normal SAN for wildcard pieces
10070 SAN often can also be used with pieces we don't know the moves of, e.g.
10071 if there is only one of that type. We just always get rank or file
10072 disambiguators if there are more (even when they might be unnecessary).
10074 2010-11-06 14:52:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10077 Unused variables were removed from parser.l
10079 2010-11-06 14:43:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10080 Allow arbitrary nesting of sub-variations in PGN input
10082 The parsing of subvariations is moved out of the state-machine parsing,
10083 to allow arbitrary nesting. In stead of the entire sub-variation being
10084 parsed by lex as Comment, it now returns Open and Close for the
10085 corresponding parentheses, which are then handled in a wrapper routine
10086 for yylex(): Myylex(). Problem was that yy_text is supposed to return
10087 the entire parsed text of the returned symbol, which thus has to be
10088 collected. To make this possible, yylex has to return everything that it
10089 parses, (even white space!), and a symbol "Nothing" was added to return
10090 in parsing rules that before just ate away irrelevant text without
10091 returning anything.
10093 2010-11-06 21:48:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10094 Implement setup (engine-GUI) command
10096 This allows the frst engine (when legality testing is off) to overrule
10097 the default opening position, in reply to the variant command. Syntax is
10098 "setup (PIECE_TO_CHAR_TABLE) FEN_STRING"
10099 where the FEN string is interpreted in the context of the given
10100 pieceToCharTable (which is optional, and only delimeted by parethesis if
10102 Sendng the position to the second engine is delayed until the first
10103 engine has responded to the ping after the new-game sequence, to make
10104 sure it gets the chance to alter the position before it is sent to the
10105 second engine. This feature is useful for playing variants that WinBoard
10106 does not even know the opening positon for, and can be used even if they
10107 are shuffle variants.
10109 2010-11-06 14:19:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10110 Restrict use of a2a3 kludge
10112 The kudge to send "a2a3" in stead of "black" to get black to move is
10113 fatally flawed in varants that have no Pawn on a2. So in that case we
10114 revert to use of the deprecated "black" command.
10116 2010-11-02 13:06:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10117 Remember values set by -firstOptions, -secondOptions
10119 When an engine announces its option features, and the option name
10120 matches that of a setting given in -first/secondOptions, the engine is
10121 sent hte specified value, but this value was not remembered as current
10122 value (but the latter was left at the engine-announced default),
10123 leading to inconsistent behavior in the Engine #N Settings dialog.
10125 2010-11-01 19:26:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10126 Make test for valid promotion piece color-dependent
10128 This is needed to make it work in variants where white and black have
10129 different armies; quite likely white will promote to pieces that do not
10130 exist in the black army, so we really have to make sure we test if the
10131 white (upper-case) piece exists in this case.
10133 2010-11-01 19:23:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10134 Remove validity test on promochar from parser
10136 The backend routines Disambiguate() and LegalityTest() will catch
10137 invalid promotions, so no need to do it here.
10139 2010-10-31 23:37:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10140 Add the actual size-33 Shogi bitmaps
10142 These were forgotten in the original commit that fixed the .rc file.
10144 2010-10-31 13:20:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10145 Delete some stale promotion code
10147 The correction of the promotion piece to Ferz in Shatran-like variants
10148 in ApplyMove() was no longer needed, as the new promotion code already
10149 does this in the move parser.
10151 2010-10-31 13:08:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10152 Augment moves of some fairy pieces
10154 To get better disambiguation in variants that have to be played with
10155 legality testing off, the Elephant is given also one-step moves (making
10156 it a so-called Modern Elephant) in -variant fairy and great. The Dragon
10157 King (Crowned Rook), which had no moves defined for it outside Shogi at
10158 all, has been given Rook moves plus an orthogonal 2-jump, so that it
10159 can get SAN moves when used as Dababba or Short Rook. (Illegal moves
10160 currently aways force long algebraic notation...)
10162 2010-11-08 22:57:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10163 Bugfix safeStrCpy patch, WinBoard
10165 The use of sizeof on pointers was detected through the same method as
10166 the previous patches, this time while compiling WinBoard. A typo in
10167 jaws.c was fixed as well.
10169 2010-11-08 23:03:13 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10170 Bugfix for safeStrCpy patch for XBoard
10172 By a trick (temporarily redefining safeStrCpy in common.h as
10173 ((char*) (a=1/(4-3rdArgument))) ) a compile-time warning (division by 0)
10174 could be generated for every occurrence where the size argument was equal
10175 to 4, i.e. where the 1st argument was likely a pointer rather than an
10176 array. These cases are now fixed. The file xoptions.c, which is the
10177 only ne that does not #include common.h had to be fixed by making
10178 the #define in the file itself.
10180 2010-10-31 13:16:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10181 Fix spurious promotions with legality testing off
10183 The recent promotion patch had broken playing without legality testing
10184 completely: without legality testing one always gets the piece that was
10185 asked for, but a NULLCHAR should not be taken as a request for a piece!
10186 But it was, and this resulted in any moved piece turning into a white
10187 Pawn! For true promotions the piece was always black, which was also not
10190 Also revert to the use of '+' as internal Shogi promoChar, because
10191 pre-processing turns out not to be possible when reading a game file.
10192 In stead parse any trailing '+' on moves as promoChar. Downside: '++'
10193 can no longer be recognized as checkmate symbol.
10195 2010-10-29 22:54:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10196 Make deferral default in Shogi promotions
10198 Because '+' is intercepted by the parser as check indicator, Shogi moves
10199 are pre-processed to change a trailing '+' into an internally used
10200 alternative '^'. The testing if a promotion character is OK is now done
10201 in LegalityTest() and Disambiguate(), which return ImpossibleMove when
10202 the character does not correspond to any piece, and IllegalMove when in
10203 Shogi anything other than '^' or '=' is used. (Except for the ICS
10204 notations.) On output, in CoordsToComputerAlgebraic() and
10205 CoordsToAlgebraic(), the '^' is translated back to '+'.
10207 2010-10-28 17:51:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10208 Animate piece explosions in drag-drop moves and in XB
10210 This required some code restructuring: the decision if an explosion is
10211 needed is now taken in a new routine Explode() in the backend. This then
10212 calls the front-end driver, and it returns the info if there was an
10213 explosion or not, so the caller (AnimateMove() or the mouse driver) can
10214 take action to repair the damage to the board caused by the blast wave.
10215 A front-end driver for XBoard is provided as well, so that both
10216 click-click (and replay, which is the same) and drag-drop atomic
10217 captures are animated in XB as well as WB.
10218 Explosions on rejected moves are suppressed.
10220 2010-10-28 13:53:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10221 Suppress promotion popup if piece will explode
10223 In atomic, a Pawn capture to last rank is not really a promotion.
10224 Fix choice to Queen.
10226 2010-10-28 18:42:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10227 Make Knight hop first straight, then diagonal
10229 It used to be the other way around, which looked pretty illogical in
10230 Xiangqi: to see Horses, which are blockable pieces there, move over an
10233 2010-10-27 20:04:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10234 Let -oneClickMove also work in EditGame mode
10236 There is really no reason why people that lke one-clcik moves enough to
10237 switch them on would not want to use them too when editing a game.
10238 This solves a nast inconsistency, as before it used to work in -ncp mode
10239 on the _first_ move, as the mode is then BeginningOfGame, and not yet
10240 EditGame, and we do want it to work for BeginningOfGame, as this is
10241 also the game mode when you start playing as white.
10243 2010-10-27 19:40:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10244 Make -flipBlack and -allWhite option volatile
10246 As these options are very Shogi specific, and the variant is volatile,
10247 it seems logical to make them also volatile. Not completely sure about
10248 -allWhite, though. It cold be useful if you want, for example, to play
10249 wth dark-brown pieces for black, as any color but black looks much
10250 better with outline pieces than with solid pieces.
10252 2010-10-27 19:33:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10253 Provide some sample board-texture pixmaps
10255 Wood and marble themes are provided as textures for light and dark
10256 squares, plus two complete Xiangqi boards (wood and evenly colored).
10257 These should probably not goint the distro tar ball.
10259 2010-10-27 19:25:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10260 The -overrideLineGap option is made to work in XBoard
10262 Although XBoard already allowed this in the -boardSize specification,
10263 it is still seful to globally disable grid lines, e.g. for an
10264 oriental Xiangqi board. And it converges XB and WB.
10266 2010-10-27 19:18:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10267 Implement board textures in XBoard
10269 The -darkBackTextureFile and -liteBackTextureFile options now wrk in
10270 XBoard too, for loading a pixmap that will be used to cut out the dark
10271 and light square backgrounds. The cutting algorithm is such that the
10272 pixmap image is completely restored if the size was that of the total
10273 board (e.g. a drawing of a Xiangqi board).
10275 2010-10-27 12:11:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10276 Complete WB (western) bitmaps for Shogi at size 33
10278 The Lance was not replacing Queen in some sizes where the bitmaps were
10279 already available, and new bitmaps for the promotion Golds were added.
10281 2010-10-22 20:30:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10282 Make starting new variation dependent on shift key
10284 The shift key is read during mouse events, and posted in a global
10285 variable, which can then be used by the back-end. The decision to start
10286 a new variation (pushing the game tail rather than clipping it off) when
10287 entring a move in Edit Game or Analyze mode is made dependent on this.
10288 The move-typein also records the shift-key state.
10290 2010-10-22 20:25:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10293 A %g format was used to print an int in sending the level command,
10294 because decimal points were dropped when merging patches. Also an unused
10295 variable was removed to suppress a warning.
10297 2010-10-18 19:50:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10298 Add set of shogi pixmaps for XBoard
10300 The -size 64 pieces from gShogi (and originally XShogi) are made
10301 suitable for loading by XBoard, through redefining the transparent
10302 background color as either light or dark square color. These bitmaps are
10303 not included in the XBoard build, and perhaps should not even be
10304 included in the source distribution, but made available in a separate
10307 2010-10-18 19:46:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10308 Implement -flipBlack in XBoard
10310 When -flipBlack is true, the white and back piece pixmaps are swapped in
10311 flipView. The idea is that the black pieces are upside-down versions of
10312 the white (Shogi) pieces, so that swapping white and black in effect
10313 turns all pieces upside down, which is what should happen in flipView.
10315 2010-10-11 21:06:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10316 Disable some very verbose debug printing
10318 The internationalization seems debugged enough to do without them.
10320 2010-10-11 20:52:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10321 Add option -variations to control variation-tree walking
10323 Just so that users can switch it off if the find it annoying.
10325 2010-10-11 21:01:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10326 Allow full promotion suffixes on SAN piece moves
10328 This facilitates the parsing of (non-standard) Shogi moves in ICS
10329 protocol. It can also be useful for Seirawan Chess, where a future
10330 implementation of it can use promotion suffixes to indicate gating.
10332 2010-10-11 14:07:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10333 Allow lower-case piece indicator in drop-move notation
10335 As it seems that XBoard also sends such moves in zippy play, it seems
10336 more fair to recognize them from the engine as well.
10338 2010-10-10 21:26:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10339 Fix bug in ICS variant switch for Shogi
10341 Because a test for 8x8 variants was done by <= VariantShogi,
10342 rather than <, spurious move-list fetching occurred in Shogi.
10344 2010-10-10 21:23:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10345 Fix WinBoard Lance bug
10347 The choice between Lance and Queen was made on appData.variant, in stead
10348 of gameInfo.variant. Because of this it was not always up-to-date in ICS
10351 2010-10-10 21:15:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10352 Adapt WinBoard to Shogi implementation on Variant ICS
10354 The Variant ICS does not use the '+P' notation for promoted pieces,
10355 neither in the board, nor in SAN, but simply indicates any Gold by 'G',
10356 and uses 'H' and 'D' for +B and +R. The Shogi promotion code in
10357 LegalityTest() and Disambiguate(), which are used in move Parsing, are
10358 adapted to handle this. Deferred promotions sent to the ICS now use an
10361 2010-10-10 21:07:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10362 Inherit promoted-info that ICS does not give from previous board
10364 The ICS does not tell us in Crazyhouse (or Shogi) if a piece is
10365 primordial or a promoted pawn (or a promoted other piece). We now derive
10366 this info from the previous board. The option -disguisePromotedPieces
10367 controls this feature.
10369 2010-10-10 21:03:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10370 Limit multi-session clock handling to non-ICS games
10372 In ICS games a time forfeit crashed XBoard, apparently because the
10373 fullTimeControl string is not properly set when we try to use it to see
10374 if a sudden-death session is indeed the last session.
10376 2010-10-08 11:47:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10377 Change evalgraph scale in drop games
10379 Score swings tend to be much larger in Crazyhouse and Shogi, so the
10380 vertical rangee in those games is doubled to (-14, 14).
10382 2010-10-13 23:05:05 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10383 bugfix: fixed readline support with icslogon option
10385 The icslogon option sends the login and password, so we don't need to handle
10386 special cases for the readline buffer.
10388 2010-10-07 20:35:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10389 fixed some typos that were introduced during the sprintf->snprintf changes
10392 2010-10-07 11:59:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10393 Fix uninitialized variable in book code
10395 The variable ' power' was used uninitialized in case -bookVariation was
10396 set to 0, which can be an error even if it was only multiplied by zero.
10398 2010-10-06 14:20:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10399 Fix menu translation bug
10401 The menuText array was declared too small, so that the last entry of the
10402 File menu got out of bounds and was overwritten by the first of the Mode
10405 2010-10-05 21:14:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10406 Allow -timeIncrement to be a float
10408 The increment can now be fractional seconds. The printing in
10409 ParseTimeControl() and SendTimeControl() is done with %g format, so that
10410 for integer increment there is backward compatibility with the old level
10413 2010-03-30 20:24:49 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10414 adding gnu-readline support
10416 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.
10418 2010-09-24 21:17:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10419 added warning if icsLogon file couldn't be opened
10422 2010-09-24 21:10:28 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10423 security fix: replaced some strcat with strncat
10425 there is still more to do
10427 2010-09-19 20:55:01 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10428 add option for silent builds
10430 this can be enabled for automake versions >1.11 by calling ./configure --enable-silent-rules.
10431 It should still work for older automake versions too
10433 2010-09-19 13:16:40 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10434 bugfix: missing array index
10437 2010-09-19 12:19:44 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10438 added new case for (Chessmove) 0 in common.h
10440 this cleans up a few more -Wall messages
10442 2010-09-17 21:47:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10443 cleaned up -Wall warnings (apart from settings some parentheses)
10445 removed unsused variables, etc mostly everything from -Wall -Wno-parenthesis
10447 2010-09-17 20:36:54 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10448 sizedefaults has 9 members, the last line of the array (NULL) only set 7.
10451 2010-09-12 20:04:03 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10452 security fix: replaced sprintf with snprintf
10454 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.
10456 2010-09-10 23:36:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10457 security fix: replaced strcpy with safeStrCpy from backend.c
10459 see comment in backend.c on how to use safeStrCpy. This was already added by AS, but only used in 3 places.
10461 2010-10-04 11:50:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10462 Enhance multi-session TC clock handling
10464 Some new TC types are introduced: Bronstein and free sessions. The
10465 former is implemented by letting an exclamation point '!' in front of an
10466 increment (in the -tc string) indicate that the increment is limited to
10467 the time actually used on the previous move. The latter is an interval
10468 of given duraton in which you can do any number of moves (even zero),
10469 before the next session starts. This is needed for implementing Shogi
10470 byoyomi-type TC, as a first session, followed by a session of fixed-time
10471 per move. The latter can now be specified with the -tc argument as a
10472 degenerate case of Bronstein, where the time on the clock is <= the
10473 increment (so that it is never possible to think longer than the
10474 increment). A TC of 5 min + 10 sec byoyomi can then be indicated as
10477 The sessions are now separated by ':' in stead of '+', and all times in
10478 the TC string are converted to seconds first (in ParseTimeControl), so
10479 the fullTCstring can now be directly used in a PGN tag.
10481 Note that this patch only addresses clock handling; the engine will not
10482 be informed yet if the TC type or parameters change at the start of new
10485 2010-10-04 09:32:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10486 Remove promotion-piece encoding from ChessMove type
10488 The shizophrenic way to indcate promotion pieces in the XBoard code
10489 (sometimes using a promoChar, at other times relying on moveType) was
10490 cured by combining all promotion move types (such as WhitePromotionRook)
10491 into a single one (WhitePromotion), and relying on promoChar to specify
10492 the piece. This solves the problem of promoting to new piece types in
10493 variants, which formerly also required addition of new move types.
10495 In Shogi the '+' character is now consistently used to indicate
10496 promotions (and recognized in ApplyMove), rather than 'q' or
10497 PieeToChar(BlackQueen), as the latter did not work in minivariants where
10498 the Queen (representng the Lance) did not partcipate.
10500 2010-10-03 20:50:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10501 Pass promoChar to SendMoveToICS
10503 SendMoveToICS was the only place where the promotion piece was derived
10504 from moveType, rather than an explicity passed promoChar.
10506 2010-10-04 09:41:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10507 Suppress spurious use of SAN castling in mini variants
10509 King moves from a central file to the king-side-castled position (1
10510 square away from the right corner) were intercepted and printed as O-O
10511 in CoordsToAlgebraic. But on a 5x5 board (mini-Shogi!) this caught the
10512 normal King move Kc1-d1 as well. The castling notation is now reserved
10513 for King moves larger than one step.
10515 2010-10-04 08:21:19 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10516 Make Shogi promotion zone board-size dependent
10518 In stead of using a fixed size of 3 ranks, we use BOARD_HEIGHT/3, which
10519 would translate to 1 rank for mini-Shogi (5x5) and 2 ranks for Judgkin's
10520 Shogi (6x6), which are indeed what these variants need.
10522 2010-10-03 19:58:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10523 Make board-size overrule options volatile
10525 The options -boardWidth, -boardHeight and -holdingSize were legacies
10526 from the day choosing a variant would not automatically set a board
10527 size. As a result they are seldomly used anymore. The first real
10528 application is mini-Shogi (on 5x5 board), and it turned out very
10529 annoying if the 5x5 settings persisted to the next session, where you
10530 almost certainly want to play another variant.
10532 2010-10-04 09:16:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10533 Strip DOS line endings from parser.l
10536 2010-09-16 18:58:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10537 Extend mate test to drop games
10539 MateTest() in case of no legal moves now also looks if there are legal
10540 drops that can resolve the check. This provides reliable mate testing in
10541 Crazyhouse and Shogi, so these are now made subject to adjudications too.
10543 2010-09-16 18:48:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10544 Extend legality testing to drop moves
10546 LegalityTest() can nowbe called with (internal-format) drop moves, and
10547 delegates their testing to a new routine LegalDrop(). This routine
10548 performs the 'no-pawn-on-back-rank' test that used to be in
10549 UserMoveTest (which now calls LegalityTest also for drop moves).
10550 The more complex Shogi case is also handled (except for Pawn mate
10551 drops) in LegalDrop().
10553 2010-09-16 18:25:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10554 Revert splitting of UserMoveEvent
10556 This splitting into UserMoveTest and FinishMove was no longer needed,
10557 now that the new mouse driver no longer calls UserMoveTest to figure out
10558 if a move is a promotion, and XBoard and WinBoard are unified in this
10559 respect. It was counter-productive, because UserMoveTest was not able to
10560 change the fromX, fromY (call-by-value) parameters for passing them to
10561 FinishMove, so it had to defer the conversion of drop moves to internal
10562 format to the latter, while it did not belong there. (Because
10563 DropMenuEvent already delivers the moves in internal format.) This
10564 whole kludgy construction was therefore abandoned, by going back
10565 to the original 4.2.7 calling scheme, where UserMoveEvent completely
10566 pre-processes the move, and when it is valid, calls FinishMove directly.
10568 2010-09-16 18:02:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10569 Fix silent bug in drop moves
10571 In ApplyMove() the piece on the from square was accessed and used before
10572 we tested for drop moves. As drop moves have off-board from-squares this
10573 led to out-of-bound array access, which apparently was usually harmless.
10575 2010-09-16 17:43:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10576 Allow parsing of upper-case machine moves
10578 Dubious patch, as it caters to non-compliancy. Some variant engines are
10579 very non-compliant, though.
10581 2010-09-16 17:38:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10582 Prevent transmission of spurious promo char to other engine
10584 The parser now strps off spurious promotion characters.
10585 New move types "White/BlackNonPromotion" had to be introduced for this,
10586 to indicate NormalMoves that could have been a promotion, to make sure
10587 the '=' suffix of Shogi deferred promotions survives.
10589 2010-09-16 20:44:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10590 fixed internationalization for winboard
10592 in the original commit some files were forgotten. This should fix it.
10594 2010-08-29 21:07:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10595 Fix JAWS bug saying side to move in ICS play
10597 This was done the wrong way around.
10599 2010-08-27 14:08:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10600 Make WB run-time language switch possible from menu
10602 This is a rather involved patch that might not be worth it. It is
10603 difficult, because translation of things that live forever is not easy
10604 to invert (menus, the auxiliary windows). We hae to remember all
10605 original, English texts there to be able to put them back,or
10606 re-translate. Still does not fully work, although the menus and
10607 temporary dialogs now are all OK.
10609 2010-08-27 14:35:46 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10610 Update WB translation template
10612 The language.txt file now also contains all translatable strings from
10613 the C source files, rather than jsut the resource.
10615 2010-08-27 14:14:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10618 Add descriptions for machine-match menu support and enhanced book
10619 control, nick-name options and language.
10621 2010-08-27 13:59:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10622 Add some forgotten translation hooks
10624 The general-options, file-browse dialogs and the about box did not call
10625 Translate() yet. Also translate contents of combo boxes. Some small bug
10628 2010-08-27 13:28:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10629 Do not translate game-end messages in PGN
10631 The messages themselves are not subjected to _(), but in stead their
10632 displaying in DisplayMove is subjected to T_().
10634 2010-08-23 13:23:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10635 Internationalization for WinBoard
10637 A function Translate() was added, which uses a list of item dialogs,
10638 reads their value, and replaces it by a translation (if available). It
10639 also reads the window title and sets a translation. Calls to this
10640 routine are added in the initialization code of every dialog callback.
10641 In addition all translatable strings in the WnBoard front end are marked
10642 by the gettext macro _(). Because WB is not gettexted yet, a hard
10643 re-definition of this macro is added in each file using it, to the
10644 string-translation routine T_() supplied in winboard.c.
10645 Code to read the translation file, and translate the menu texts is added
10646 in winboard.c. In backend.c the meaning of the gettet macros is
10647 redefined for the WIN32 case.
10649 2010-08-23 13:07:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10650 Make the ID of all WB dialog items unique
10652 Mnany static dialog texts did share the ID -1 (IDC_STATIC). But to
10653 replace tet at run-time for translation purposes, they need to be
10654 addressed individually. So they were given new IDs, with symbols defined
10657 2010-08-23 12:48:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10658 Mark XBoard result messages for internationalization
10660 The GNU gettext macro _() is used with the game-end messages. This might
10661 be controversial, as they will appear in the PGN as well. But only as a
10662 comment. We can always decide not to supply a translation.
10664 2010-08-23 12:43:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10665 Do not exit after match when match started from menu
10667 The codelooks weird, but matchMode == 2 in this case. We then use
10668 DisplayNote() to report the match result.
10670 2010-08-23 12:39:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10671 Trivial-draws recognition improved in Xiangqi
10673 Now based on a routine "SufficientDefence". If both have it, it is draw.
10675 2010-08-20 17:46:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10678 The relocation of parser.c and the addition of history.c was not yet
10679 incorporated in the devcpp proect files.
10681 2010-08-19 13:45:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10682 Fix some MSVC compile errors
10684 Some statements has moved up stream of declaratons, which is an error
10685 that gcc is forgiving about, but where MSVC is strict.
10687 2010-08-14 14:01:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10688 Improved patch for expansion of WB settings-file name
10690 The expansion of environment variables now allows multiple environment
10691 variables in the path name. Tested on %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\winboard.ini
10692 and %APPDATA%\winboard.ini.
10694 2010-08-07 16:53:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10695 Add -colorNickNames option
10697 This option allows non-standard designation of side to move in FENs.
10698 (Useful for Xiangqi, where white is indicated often as r(ed), and Shogi,
10699 where white is s(ente) or b(lack), and black is g(ote) or w(hite).)
10700 Can also be used for FENs in a local language. A match of theinput
10701 character with the nick name translates it to the standard; this means
10702 the standard will continue to be recognized, unless it was defined as a
10705 2010-08-07 16:39:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10706 Tricked by the grossnes
10708 Some WB menu items were referenced by a hard number. As items had been
10709 added over the years, the wrong menu items were grayed. In particular
10710 the Options -> Adjudication menu was grayed out, in -ncp mode, where
10711 this was intended for the Sounds dialog. This accidentally proved
10712 useful, until we started to apply adjudictions also to the Human moves.
10713 Then it was suddenly undesirable, and a small mystery why it happened at
10714 all, when I tried to change it. The numbers are now corrected to the new
10715 locatons of the items in the menus.
10717 2010-08-07 16:35:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10718 Allow match to be started from WB menu
10720 A menu item Machine Match was added in the Mode menu to switch to
10721 matchMode. A persistent option /defaultMatchGames determines the number
10722 of games. A control was added to the Options -> Common Engine dialog to
10725 2010-08-07 16:26:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10726 Add some book-control options
10728 Options /bookDepth and /bookVariation have been added to control the use
10729 of the GUI book. In WinBoard the Optons -> Common Engine dialog now
10730 contains fields to set them.
10732 2010-08-07 00:15:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10733 new developer release
10736 2010-08-06 11:18:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10737 Repair exit-popup deadlock patch
10739 Relocating the exit popup call had made it lose access to the message it
10740 should print, because it was declared only in an inner code block, by
10741 the same name: buf[]. Deleting the inner declaration fixes it.
10743 2010-08-04 11:00:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10744 Fix erors when compiling with --disable-zippy
10746 The file args.h contained a codeblock in #ifdef ZIPPY, in stead of
10749 2010-08-01 13:27:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10750 Fix zippy handling of draw offers from ICS
10752 The patch by DM to fix the problem introduced by the coloration of
10753 zippy-matched commands (namely that the coloration code beat the zippy
10754 draw recognition to it, and ate the draw offer away) was only targeting
10755 ICC. The new fix should work on any ICS (by using the same pattern in
10756 zippy as in the colorization code).
10758 2010-08-01 13:15:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10759 Fix regression in colorization of zippy-matched commands
10761 The patch by Daniel Mehrman from 4.2.pre8 was not properly merged, so
10762 that in XBoard no coloration would take place of ICS commands that were
10763 matched by zippy. (It was using &i as input pointer, rather than &backup.
10764 The XBoard-specific code now has been deleted completely, to remove a
10765 seemingly needless dependence on _WIN32_ of the back-end. Both WB and XB
10766 now use the XBoard method, to only match zippy commands when logged in.
10768 2010-07-31 22:48:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10769 Suggest default file name in browser dialog
10771 The argument 'def' to FileNamePopUp() was not passed through to the new
10772 file-browser routine, which got NULL in stead, and thus started with an
10775 2010-07-30 23:28:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10776 Define /firstUCI and /secondUCI as synonyms for /fUCI, /sUCI
10778 Because the %s expansion of WB options in the /fcp and /scp lines only
10779 works for options that contain 'first' or 'second', and /fUCI thus did
10780 not work, PSWBTM had to rely on the cumbersome /firstIsUCI=true to
10781 install UCI engines. (The latter option should be deprecated really;
10782 the UCI-ness of the engines is a volatile option, so it makes no sense
10783 to supply a way to set them both to false or true. One only needs to be
10784 able to set it to the non-default state.)
10786 2010-07-30 23:21:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10787 Add string option /pieceNickNames
10789 This (volatile) option allows definition of alternate letters for the
10790 pieces, which will be recognized next to the standard symbols as given
10791 in the /pieceToCharTable on input. (Output always uses the standard.)
10792 This can be useful for reading PGN from another language, or
10793 non-compliant FENs (e.g. using B and N for E and H in Xiangqi).
10794 The format of the argument is the same as for /pieceToCharTable.
10795 Because the nickNames are consulted before the standard table, it is
10796 possible to redefine a standard name as a nick for another piece.
10798 2010-07-30 23:10:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10799 Fix deadlock in match-result display
10801 At the end of a match, GameEnds() was recursively calling itself,
10802 through DisplayFatalError() and ExitEvent(), and the latter was then
10803 delaying until the calling GameEnds() terminated. (Which it would of
10804 course never do before ExitEvent returned; fortunately there was a tim
10805 limit to this delay, but in XBoard it was 10 sec in stead of 10 msec.)
10806 Now the calling of DisplayFatalError() (to show the result popup) is
10807 delayed until after GameEnds completes (and resets the anti-recursion
10808 flag 'endingGame'), so that it is simply executed a second time, unaware
10809 of the earlier call. But this second time it does not do anything,
10810 because the gameMode ws set to EndOfGame the first time, and the writing
10811 of the PGN is blocked by the checksum being still the same.
10813 2010-07-12 11:10:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10814 Fix WinBoard game-list title
10816 Number of displayed games and WDL stats were always appended to the
10817 existing title, leading to an ever-growing title in the game-list
10818 window. Now the old actual title is ignored, and the starts is appended
10819 to the original title "Game List". (In the future we could use the
10822 In addition, the title was not updated when re-opening the game-list
10823 window, while the stats could change if filtering was active when the
10824 window was closed. (In that case the filter is cleared on re-opening, so
10825 the number of displayed games changes.) Now a title-update (after
10826 recalculating the stats) is done every time the game-list window is
10829 2010-07-11 11:06:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10830 Refactoring of material-draws adjudication code
10832 Insufficient mating material is now determined per side individually, by
10833 testing for MatingPotential of each side. If both lack mating potential
10834 the game is adjudicated as draw (if the -materialDraws option is set).
10836 This way MatingPotential() can later also be used to correct losses by
10837 forfeit to draws (which currently is only done when the opponent has a
10840 The accuracy of this type of adjudication in Xiangqi has been highly
10843 2010-07-11 10:54:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10844 Fix bug in sending cores command to engine
10846 The cores command was alwas sent to the engine(s) when the user changed
10847 it through the menu, even when the engine had sent feature smp=0 (which
10848 is default anyway). NewSettingEvent() was patched to send the new
10849 setting conditionally, based on the engine properties as recorded in
10850 ChessProgramStates first, second; In this particular case it now
10851 consults cps->maxCores. (Note the code for testing the second engine
10852 contains some dirty pointer arithmetic.)
10854 2010-07-11 10:42:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10855 Fix oneClickMove bug
10857 When checking for unique captures, no attention was payed to the option
10858 setting, so the capture was also made when the option was off.
10860 2010-07-11 10:39:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10861 Remove duplicate testing for cores feature
10863 The testing for this BooleanFeature occurred twice.
10865 2010-07-11 10:35:13 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10866 Remove misspelled prototype
10868 NewSettingEvent occurred, next to the correct one, in misspelled form.
10870 2010-07-05 10:00:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10871 Fix parsing of SAN shogi promotions
10873 A missing promotion character defaults to promotion in the move type,
10874 but the promotion character was not set when this happened in variant
10875 shogi. And it is especially important there, as the promotion character
10876 '+' will always be missing, as the parser will take it to be a 'check'
10877 symbol, and strip it from the move.
10879 2010-07-05 09:55:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10880 Fix variant switch on PGN loading
10882 When the PGN specified an essentially different variant, the
10883 piece bitmaps were not properly adapted, because the switch was done by
10884 calling InitPosition(), rather than Reset(). (The latter would destroy
10885 the PGN tags info.) We now added an explicit call to ResetFrontEnd(),
10886 (which is normally done from Reset()).
10888 2010-07-05 09:51:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10889 Adjudicate Xiangqi material draws with Advisor-less Cannons
10891 Used the Queen counter for counting Cannons. Note that material draws
10892 with stale Pawns (i.e. on the back rank) are not yet adjudicated.
10894 2010-07-05 09:34:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10895 Remove font settings from master settings file
10897 xboard.conf should not contain general font settings (not specific to
10898 one board size) with specified point size. In fact it should not even
10899 specify sizable fonts, as the new system would make specification of a
10900 general font overrule the size-specific settings in the .xboardrc file,
10901 so the persistence of fonts would be completely broken.
10903 2010-06-30 10:52:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10904 Cut board squares out of texture bitmap more cleverly
10906 When the bitmap is larger than the entire board, the squares are now cut
10907 out of the center of the virtual squares from subdividing the bitmap, so
10908 that they stay centered on the grid of a Xiangqi board bitmap. If the
10909 board size exceeds that of the bitmap, the old algorithm is still used,
10910 as the centering would make the edge squares exceed the bitmap, and
10911 cause a black rim around the board.
10913 2010-06-30 10:49:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10914 Allow -flipBlack to work with font-based piece rendering
10916 In addition the font-based pieces will also be flipped vertically in
10917 flipView for variant shogi when -flipBlack is off.
10919 2010-06-30 10:46:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10920 Allow font-based piece rendering in board sizes below petite
10922 At least for variants that use unorthodox pieces, so that switching back
10923 to using bitmaps is not really an option anyway.
10925 2010-06-30 10:41:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10926 Ignore checks in 50-move count for Xiangqi
10928 Both checks and evasions are discounted; this is only done after the
10929 naive counting exceeds the maximum, so during most of the game it causes
10932 2010-06-05 14:38:47 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
10933 removed some garbage from configure.ac that got added a while ago
10936 2010-05-25 21:20:27 -0400 Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>:
10937 Remove unnecessary double equals from configure.ac.
10940 2010-05-28 11:07:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10941 Fix e.p. bug in xiangqi with -serverMoves option
10943 Sideway Pawn moves were written as e.p. captures in the file with moves,
10944 which led to disappearence of pieces in the viewer.
10946 2010-05-28 11:05:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10947 Repair score printing with -serverMoves option
10949 A previous patch had moved MakeMove to before the update of pvInfoList,
10950 so that the score/depth info would not appear in the file with moves.
10952 2010-05-28 11:02:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10953 Repair animate dragging
10955 The previous patch had left a stray semicolon in the mouse handler.
10957 2010-05-10 10:32:19 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10958 Fix game end during dragging
10960 The stale-first-click fix interfered with proper handling of a piece
10961 being dragged when a game suddenly ended (because of opponent resign,
10962 or caling the flag), because up-clicks when the from-square was reset
10963 were completely ignored. Now such an 'unmatched' upclick calls
10964 DragPieceEnd() and redraws the board.
10966 2010-05-10 10:09:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10967 Pop down old tags on loadng new game in WinBoard
10969 ResetFrontEnd(), called from Reset(), did not do this in WinBoard
10970 (unlike XBoard), so that the tags from the previous game were left on
10971 display when -autoDisplayTags was off.
10973 2010-05-09 22:15:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10974 Reverse mousewheel action
10976 Apparently WinBoard was stepping in the opposite direction through the
10977 game in reaction to the mousewheel as every other GUI in existence.
10979 2010-05-09 22:07:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10980 Fix bug in sending "usermove" when forcing book moves
10982 The keyword "usermove" was copied to the buffer, but not sent before it
10983 was overwritten by the actual book move.
10985 2010-05-06 17:23:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10986 Fix engine stall on perpetual-check evasion
10988 The adjudication code had already put the engine in force mode after
10989 postponing the actual adjudication to the next move. Now first determine
10990 if we want to adjudicate now, and with which result, before stopping the
10991 engine and ending the game.
10993 2010-05-06 16:37:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
10994 Let move parser return ImpossibleMove for off-board moves
10996 It used to return 0, which interfered with buiding a game list. This
10997 broke reading of multi-game PGN files containing games in a variant with
10998 a board size larger than that of the currenty active variant.
11000 2010-04-06 15:05:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11001 Alter XBoard key bindings to mimic WinBoard
11003 A lot of new bindings were added, and four menuProcs had to be registered
11004 to be able to add bindings to them. The use of the control key as
11005 temporary take-back for the last move conflicted with the use of Ctrl
11006 keystrokes, and this function was migrated to '.'. The iconify function
11007 had no shortcut in WinBoard, but to get rid of letter bindings it was
11010 2010-04-05 20:45:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11014 2010-04-03 14:00:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11015 Fix typos in html help file
11018 2010-04-01 15:22:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11019 Fix JAWS piece drop cursor, and streamline some sentences
11021 The cursor square was reset to a1 after every use of the piece menu,
11022 which was very inconvenient. Some of the spoken sentences have been
11023 improved; the square is read before the piece now, when using the arrow
11026 2010-03-31 22:31:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11027 Allow escape sequences in telluser(error) messages
11029 The routine EscapeExpand was moved to backend.c, and applied to the
11030 message received from the engine.
11032 2010-03-31 21:29:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11033 Allow lower-case promochar in moves of type h8=Q
11035 Updated the parser rules. Other move formats already allowed this.
11037 2010-03-31 21:36:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11038 Fix Alt+M JAWS command in Two-Machines mode
11040 The command refused to read the ast move because it contained thinking
11041 output of the other engine. Let it pay attention to evenIfDuplicate.
11043 2010-03-29 09:57:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11044 Fix rep-draw recognition
11046 The refactoring had broken the rep-draw recognition, by adding and extra
11047 condition in a conditional with side effects. The testing of this extra
11048 condition is now moved to after the side effect.
11050 2010-03-28 12:32:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11051 Allow any %ENVIRONMENTVAR% in WB settings file name rather than ~
11053 Only a single variable at the beginning of the file name is recognized,
11054 and the matching is not fool proof (it matches across backslashes).
11056 2010-03-28 11:24:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11057 Fix info lines being used as normal thinking output
11059 The new standard of using thinking output with time = nodes = score = 0
11060 as info messages for printing in the Engine-Output window was not
11061 understood everywhere, and led to such info lines being used for
11062 autoKibitzing and PGN annotation. The programStats are now only updated
11063 from thinking output received from an engine when it is not an info line.
11065 2010-03-27 11:54:41 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11066 new developer release
11069 2010-03-26 21:16:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11070 Suppress background observe for boards with own game number
11072 This is really a work-around for an ICS bug. The Variant-ICS sent the
11073 initial board of a game in a move list with relation = 0, which means
11074 'observed'. So XBoard was thinking it was observing its own game, and
11075 switched to dual board. It seems harmless to suppress such a switch for
11076 all boards of your own game, however, which is now done.
11078 2010-03-26 21:12:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11079 Fix crash on switching to ICS xiangqi game
11081 The oldBoard was a local variable, and only squares of the old board
11082 were initialized. This led to a crash if the copied board was enlarged,
11083 and then displayed. The variable is now declared static, so the
11084 uninitialized squares contain harmless zeros.
11086 2010-03-26 18:32:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11087 Let Chat Boxes pop up above console, rather than on top of it
11089 Use EnsureOnScreen() to have them overlap if there was no room.
11091 2010-03-26 18:26:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11092 Fix disabling of Chat Box navigation buttons
11094 The buttons for non-open boxes were enabed, rather than disabled.
11096 2010-03-26 18:17:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11097 Prevent <Esc> closing chat box
11099 Let it in stead switch focus back to the console window.
11101 2010-03-26 15:28:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11102 Let WinBoard recognize ~ in settings file name as HOMEPATH
11104 Fetch the appropriate environment variable to build the mathname in
11105 MySearchPath() whenever the file name starts with "~\".
11107 2010-03-26 13:59:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11108 Change name of Global Settings menu item to Common Engine Settings
11110 The old name confused ICS users, as this is an engine-only dialog.
11112 2010-03-26 13:58:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11113 Update WinBoard RTF docs
11116 2010-03-26 13:57:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11117 Update WinBoard html help
11120 2010-03-24 18:00:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11121 Allow adjustment of clocks in any mode with shift+click
11123 In practice changing to edit-game mode during a game was very
11124 cumbersome. In WinBoard shift+click is now offered as an alternative.
11125 Make sure a right-click in the clock area is not also counted for other
11128 2010-03-24 17:21:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11129 Allow loading of PGN variations in XBoard
11131 Right-clicking variation comments in the comment-window was implemented
11132 through a translation. The right button is now bound to routines that
11133 set both the end and start of the selection, as setting a new start does
11134 not seem to work if the previous select-start was not completed by a
11135 select-end or extend-end. Finally the main handler uses the selection
11136 cursors to know what was clicked.
11138 2010-03-24 17:16:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11141 Added a descripton of the new ICS options (seek graph, back-ground
11142 observe) and menus (Upload) to the texi file. Also added a description
11143 of the variation (Annotate menu item and PGN variation comments) and PV
11144 walking (clicking engine-output). Describe the -shuffleOpenings option.
11146 2010-03-24 13:30:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11147 Paint highlights on dual board (WB)
11149 The highlight info is hidden in the partner board to pass it to the
11152 2010-03-24 13:14:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11153 Fix handling username change during game
11155 The title bar and gameInfo (going into the PGN) were not adapted when
11156 the username was changed through the menu, so that the change became
11157 only effective on the next game. Requires SetGameInfo to be called from
11158 the front-end, and thus a prototype for it in backend.c.
11160 2010-03-24 11:04:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11161 Fix window-position upset on failing engine start in WinBoard
11163 The main window was only positoned according to the settings-file data
11164 after the engine was started up from InitBackend2(), so that if the
11165 latter gave a fatal error, and Save Settings on Exit was on, a wrong
11166 position for the main window would be saved. The call to InitBackend2()
11167 is now moved until after setting the main-window position.
11169 2010-03-23 23:22:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11170 Display PV from Engine-Output window (XBoard)
11172 Translations are added to bind button 3 to the PV walk for the memo
11173 widgets, and the corresponding handlers are ported from wengineoutput.c.
11175 2010-03-10 18:54:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11176 Set keyboard focus at startup to board window
11178 This makes XBoard sensitive to the keybindings also when the cursor is
11179 outside the board window. This focus seems to persist indefinitely: each
11180 time the board window gets selected, the key bindings become activem
11181 wherever the mouse pointer is. Downside: the mouse pointer is no longer
11182 an arrow outside the board window, but becomes a text-insert tool there.
11184 2010-02-27 20:49:21 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11185 added logo files for xboard
11187 logos are installed in the hicolor theme [1] using $datadir as the basedir.
11188 Added both png and svg logo.
11190 [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html
11192 2010-02-27 17:36:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11193 Remake programVersion string after receiving engine features
11195 The engine could have sent a more accurate version of its own name
11196 than the one derived from the exe filename in a myname feature, and we
11197 better use that in the programVersion string, which will be sent as
11198 interface name to the ICS.
11200 2010-02-25 19:22:00 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11201 Revert "Repair settings-file name"
11203 This reverts commit a02042ef83ce1f3632f0cf3e0a2a4ce9a3ac5d85.
11205 2010-02-25 20:32:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11206 Add -autokibitz checkbox to UCI-options menu dialog
11209 2010-02-25 20:29:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11210 Also capture (numeric) whispers of players for -autoKibitz
11213 2010-02-25 20:25:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11214 Add kibitzes and c-shouts Chat Box
11216 A box dedicated to c-shouts will snatch any c-shout before it is
11217 diverted to a normal shouts box. The kibitzes box can capture the
11218 left-overs of -autoKibitz, if the latter is active.
11220 2010-02-25 15:45:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11221 Mark non-compliant lines of engine in debug file
11223 The option -engineDebugOutput is extended to accept value 3 for printing
11224 a cear indication of non-compliancy in the debug file.
11226 2010-02-25 12:02:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11227 Redraw second board on expose events
11229 The -dualBoard option now does refresh the second board after another
11230 window uncovers it. To acheive this, some data structures remembering
11231 what is displayed had to be duplicated. (lastBoard and damage for XB,
11232 lastReq, lastDrawn, lastReqValid and lastDrawnValid for WB.)
11233 WinBoard now uses clipping also for second board. This required the
11234 clips for the destination to be translated horizontally!
11236 2010-02-25 15:13:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11237 Print seconds with 2 digits in backgroundObserve status line
11240 2010-02-24 17:01:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11241 Do not recognize non-ICS variants from PGN event tag
11243 These variants were introduced after supporting the variant tag, so if
11244 the variant tag is missing, their recognition from the event tag will be
11245 a false match. (Mainly to prevent events with 'super' in the name being
11246 recognized as Superchess.)
11248 2010-02-23 13:52:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11249 Fix display of uninitialized boards in background observe
11251 A variable partnerBoardValid is cleared on starting our own game, and
11252 set when a board from the background game comes in during it. At the end
11253 of our own game, a valid partner board now is put in the display.
11255 2010-02-23 13:46:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11256 Add option Display Logo in WB general-options menu
11258 Changing the option requires InitDrawingSizes to be called for
11259 re-formatting the board window. Switching it off requires clearing of
11260 the cps->programLogo fields to take effect immediately. Switching it on
11261 only takes effect the next session, as we will need some refactoring to
11262 redo the figuring out what logos to display.
11264 2010-02-22 12:02:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11265 Group Chat Boxes with console in stead of board window
11267 They now open and close with the console, which seems more natural, and
11268 prevents the console from covering them.
11270 2010-02-22 11:50:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11271 Put new options in WB ICS-options dialog
11273 The Seek-Graph, background-observe and Chat-Box options are added to the
11274 ICS options dialog. They only control the appData settings, there are no
11275 special actions yet on switching the settings.
11277 2010-02-22 11:46:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11278 Create space in WinBoard ICS-options dialog
11281 2010-02-20 12:42:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11282 Use side-by-side boards to display background game
11284 A game observed in the background (i.e. if -backgroundObserve true) will
11285 be displayed right of the normal board in the same window if the new
11286 (persistent) Boolean option -dualBoard is also set.
11287 Very flakey hack, especially in XBoard, where clocks and messsage
11288 field all get the wrong width (and resist adjustment in the strangest
11289 ways). The clocks of the partner game are not yet displayed, and
11290 disaster happens when the background and foreground games do not have
11291 the same board format.
11293 2010-02-23 14:57:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11294 Repair background-observe patch
11296 Apparently a commit was lost that I collapsed with 3018a6 while the
11297 latter was already pushed to savannah. Here I recreated this commit from
11298 a diff between the respective commits in the savannah & nubati gits.
11300 2010-01-31 11:07:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11301 Repair settings-file name
11303 The default name is put back to /etc/xboard/xboard.conf, so that XBoard
11304 can again find its settings file. "make install" will still install it
11305 in the wrong place.
11307 2010-02-21 18:43:59 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11308 new developer release
11311 2010-02-21 19:45:58 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11312 fixed compiler warning for file-browser code
11314 missing "void"s in the function declaration and missing returns showed up when trying to build on the opensuse build server. fixed now.
11316 2010-02-21 23:09:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11317 Put newly opened Chat Box on top
11319 Dialogs always pop up in front, so set the onTop variable that prevents
11320 highighting the button to navigate to it from other Chat Boxes
11321 to reflect that a newly opened Chat Box is in view.
11323 2010-02-21 18:55:03 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11324 Fix copying of kibitzed info in Engine-Output window
11326 Make sure all lines end with "\r\n" to not lose line breaks on
11327 copy-paste from the memo. (XBoard would strip those again.)
11329 2010-02-21 18:25:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11330 Allow walking a kibitzed PV
11332 If no tabs are found in te 'thinking output' we assume it is a captured
11333 kibitz message, and look for "PV=" to locate the start of a PV in it.
11334 Also try to include any continuation lines below the selected line.
11336 2010-02-21 17:45:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11337 Insert autoKibitz continuation lines at end of line
11339 In the engine-output window lines that start with the ICS continuation
11340 sequence "\ " are inserted behind the line they belong to, in stead of
11341 at the top. This required keeping thrack of the length of the currently
11342 active line in OutputKibitz().
11344 2010-02-20 15:39:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11345 Don't disturb background observe when receiving new piece
11347 When new holdings are sent when the background game is displayed, we now
11348 ignore this, as presumably we are peeking at our partners game, and thus
11349 should be well aware of what is captured there.
11351 2010-02-19 21:52:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11352 Newly lexed parser in XBoard directory
11355 2010-02-19 11:18:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11356 Let yy_text determine progress of PV parsing
11358 The parsed unit yy_text was not available after ParseOneMove(), because
11359 the buffer switch in yylexstr() apparently destroys it. To solve that,
11360 yylexstr() now is equiped with an extra buffer argument, where it copies
11361 yy_text before the switch, so the caller, ParsePV(), can see what was
11362 parsed in yy_textstr. This is used to update the PV pointer, but also to
11363 save any parsed comments (when ParsePV is used for parsing a PGN variation).
11365 2010-02-18 17:42:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11366 Support playing through PGN variation comments
11368 Right-clicking a variation line in the comment dialog will shelve the
11369 current variation, and parse the comment to replace it. This uses
11370 ParsePV() in an alternative way, for which the latter had to be
11371 enhanced: it was made resistent to move numbers and comments inside
11372 the PV. It now has an argument to indicate if such comments should be
11373 stored with the moves. The Comment Popup is closed on revert, to
11374 make sure no comments to moves that are destroyed, containing
11375 variations on a non-valid line, can keep hanging around.
11377 2010-02-18 16:05:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11378 Add Annotate item in Step menu
11380 This does the same as Revert, except that it adds the destroyed
11381 variation as comment to the original movem in PGN variation format.
11382 RevertEvent now has an argument to indicate if it should add the
11383 comment, or not. Comments in the abandoned variation are included in the
11384 varriation command to the main line. (The exact layout of the variation
11385 comment that results leaves still to be desired.)
11387 2010-02-15 19:07:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11388 Add option -shuffleOpenings
11390 This volatile option is added just to make the existing variable
11391 available from the command line, not only from the menus.
11393 2010-02-19 11:48:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11394 Let the sounds sound on receiving a message in a Chat Box
11396 Use Colorize() to the applicable color to trigger the sound, and then
11397 restore the original color as 'continuation', to do it silently.
11399 2010-02-10 10:55:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11400 Allow WB Chat Box to be dedicated to shouts and 'it'
11402 By putting 'shouts' in the handle field, a chat window will capture all
11403 shouts and c-shouts, and send messages typed into it as shouts.
11404 The bracketing of the shouter name now indicates the type of shout.
11405 The handle for WHISPER Chat Boxes has been changed to 'whispers', to
11406 make it easier to pop them up by clicking the console.
11408 2010-02-16 22:34:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11409 Add -chatBoxes option to open Chat Boxes at startup
11411 This string option contains a semicolon-separated list of handles for
11412 which Chat Boxes should be opened at startup. The value saved in the ini
11413 file is the value that was read, not the actual chat boxes that were
11414 open at the time of saving.
11416 2010-02-16 19:44:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11417 Make Chat Windows pseudo-tabbed
11419 By adding buttons in every Chat Box to navigate directly to every other
11420 Chat Box, a stacked set of Chat Windows behaves like a single tabbed
11421 window, but can still be unstacked. The buttons turn grey to warn that
11422 new text appeared in hidden boxes (i.e. not the one last brought to top).
11424 2010-02-19 21:46:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11425 Allow arrow keys in WB Chat Box to access command history
11427 The history is shared between al boxes and the ICS console.
11429 2010-02-12 22:35:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11430 Make WB Chat Boxes wrap and handle URLs
11432 Cloned the code for the console text field to hande URL. (Initialization
11433 to recogize the link, and notifiction to open it when clicked.)
11434 Removed the ES_AUTOHSCROLL style from the RichEdit in the resource.
11436 2010-02-10 10:58:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11437 Fix copying of WB Chat Window contents
11439 All line breks were lost on copy-pasting the contents of a chat window.
11440 Adding CR to each outputted line in the front-end (wchat.c) solves this.
11441 (Tell messages sent to a handle (which are not echoed by the ICS, and
11442 thus have to copied to the chat box directly) also need CR!)
11444 2010-02-19 22:34:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11445 Add upload of game to ICS for examining
11447 New item "Upload to Examin" in Action menu, calls UploadGameEvent().
11448 Use SAN moves to upload game to ICS, rather than long algebraic
11449 (The ICS did not understand long-algebraic promotion moves)
11450 Use bsetup within examine to set position onFICS, and also variant.
11451 Castling rights do not work yet for FRC. Totally different set of
11452 commands are needed on FICS and ICC.
11453 FICS does not understand w23 or wild/23, but needs 'crazyhouse' in the
11454 besetup command that specifies the variant. XBoard variant names are
11455 used, except for fischerandom, which is 'fr'. Things like nocastle will
11456 probably still not work.
11458 2010-02-18 17:41:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11459 Handle display of PV that starts with other move than played
11461 Insert the retraction of the played move, without premove highlighting.
11463 2010-02-16 19:36:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11464 Bugfix smart capture
11466 Disambiguate was changed to make sure that for ambiguous moves, a
11467 capture would always prevail in the closure, rather than the last move
11468 that happened to be generated. Before, double-clicking a piece would
11469 sometimes plsy a non-capture.
11471 2010-02-13 15:34:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11472 Fix XB crash on giving keyboard focus to non-text widget
11474 In the Engine-Settings dialog SetFocus() could be called for non-text
11475 widgets, and this made XawTextSetInsertionPoint() croak. Setting the
11476 insertion point to the end in SetFocus() was a bad ide anyway, as it
11477 interfered with copying from the engine-output window, which would
11478 uncontrollably scroll on getting focus. It is solved now by setting the
11479 insertion point already on creation of the text widgets.
11481 2010-02-19 22:32:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11482 Seek-Graph bugfix: disappearing output in ICS console
11484 Suppression of output to the cosole was handled fundamentally wrong: it
11485 was not enough to set next_out to after the unit that should be
11486 suppressed, as there can be a backlog in printing of previous units that
11487 came in the same packet. So this has to be flushed first, or it will be
11488 lost. -autoKibitz probably got away with that, because it comes in a
11489 separate packet. But seek ads are often suffixed to other output, and
11490 then that output disappeared! Now we flush everywhere before suppressing.
11491 We now totally rely on the prompt to restart the printing, so that
11492 acknowledgements following the echo of the sent message are also
11493 suppressed. Also suppress LF before diverted chat messages.
11494 Also fixed is the 'mamer bug' in Chat Boxes, due to false parsing of
11495 a "* (*): " pattern in tell messages, because of a missing continue.
11497 2010-02-12 18:08:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11498 Pop up ICS text menu with default item under mouse pointer
11500 The menu popup is migrated to the down-click (was up-click), so the
11501 up-click can select the item. Some trickery is needed to fool the menu
11502 into thinking that the mouse moved, so that a moveless up-down click in
11503 the ICS text field selects the default item (the upper-right one).
11504 Also allow dummy item in ICS text menu: The command "none" in the ICS
11505 text menu will now be treated as a grayed-out (disabled) entry, so it
11506 can be defined in the position underthe mouse pointer to prevent the
11507 up-click from doing anything, while keeping the menu open. Recommended
11508 for use with an entry of spaces.
11510 2010-02-10 14:42:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11511 Allow ICS context menu to pop up a Chat Box on clicking handle
11513 A command "chat" defined in the WinBoard icsMenu string will cause
11514 ChatPopUp() to be called when it is clicked, with the clicked handle
11515 (name) in the ChatPartner field, and focus on the input field.
11516 ChatPopUp() had to get a parameter (the handle) to make this possible.
11517 If that parameter is NULL (as when it is called from the Mode menu),
11518 focus will still start on the (empty) ChatPartner field of the box.
11520 2010-02-10 10:50:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11521 Fix right-edge spillover of Seek-Graph dots in WinBoard
11523 Rescale the X-axis to allow margin for dot size and color offset.
11525 2010-01-30 11:05:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11526 Interface XBoard to GhostView file-browser dialog
11528 Note: The Ghostview dialog was using some deprecated variables for error
11529 printing, and conditionally used getwd() on some systems that presumably
11530 do not have getcwd(), but it did not assess the latter properly.
11532 2010-02-09 14:38:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11533 Allow recalling history in ICS input box with arrow keys
11535 By adding translations for the Up and Down keys, and stealing some code
11536 from winboard.c. Still needs some refactoring to move the duplicate code
11539 2010-02-09 14:34:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11540 Start insertion point at end of text edits in XB dialogs
11542 The function SetFocus now uses XawTextSetInsertionPoint to position the
11543 end of the string it aready contains, rather than at the beginning.
11545 2010-02-08 17:55:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11546 Capture holdings of background observed game
11549 2010-02-08 11:57:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11550 Match handles with multiple titles for channel Chat Boxes
11552 Only handles with at most one suffixed 'title', such as (U), (C), (IM)
11553 or (TD), followed by the parenthesized channel number, were recognized,
11554 so tells by people with more titles always went to the ICS console window.
11555 Patterns are added to recognize handles with upto three such qualifiers.
11557 2010-02-08 11:54:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11558 Do not pop down Seek Graph on on-dot click
11560 Leave the graph up, and let the incoming board of a started game cause
11561 the pop-down. This in case the clicked ad is no longer vailable, or
11562 manuay refused, and fails to start a game.
11564 2010-02-07 21:26:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11565 Observe a game in the background while playing
11567 A new (persistent) option -backgroundObserve true|false is added. When
11568 set, observed boards received while playing a game will not trigger a
11569 game switch, but will be ignored except for storing in a dedicated board
11570 buffer. Pressing the right mouse button will cause the board to be
11571 displayed, until we release it. Time, strength and stm are always
11572 displayed in the message window.
11574 2010-02-07 16:43:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11575 Remove race condition in clock switching
11577 The move number is now incremented inside SwitchClock, when no timer
11578 interrupt is scheduled, so the interrupt cannot occur at the wrong side
11579 of the increment, and decrement the wrong clock.
11581 2010-02-07 11:53:03 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11582 Let second click on piece make only capture, with -oneClickMove
11584 Normally this would clear the highlighting of that piece.
11585 Required new field in DisambiguateClosure to count nr of captures.
11587 2010-02-07 11:18:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11588 Bugfix stale first-click
11590 When the opponent resigned after the user had cicked a from-square,
11591 clicking the from-square for the first move in the next game would
11592 produce an "illegal move" message, because it was considered a to-click!
11593 We now set fromX and fromY to invalid in GameEnds().
11594 Should we also reset them on mode changes?
11596 2010-02-07 11:08:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11597 Add promotions and e.p. to oneClickMove
11599 For e.p. the to-Square of the Pawn has to be clicked. Promotions are
11600 always to Queen when you click the to-square, but use the promotion
11601 pop-up when you click the from-square.
11603 2010-02-07 10:38:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11604 Fix error that compiler does not notice
11606 Boolean GLT_GetFromList did not return a value. But no error on Ubuntu!
11608 2010-02-06 18:55:38 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11609 new developer release
11612 2010-02-06 18:30:42 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11613 updated year in copyright info
11616 2010-02-05 22:27:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11619 Playing on ICS or against engine, clicking a square from or to which
11620 only a single move can be made causes the move to be done, when the new
11621 option -oneClickMove is set to true.
11623 2010-02-04 16:09:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11624 Use squares for computer seek ads
11626 Shape indication passed in sign bit of color (char) variable.
11628 2010-02-04 22:46:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11629 Use right mouse button to view seek ads
11631 Right down-click does the same as left down-click, right up-click
11632 simulates a left up-click off board (so it misses all dots).
11634 Use right-click miss to refresh Seek Graph
11636 The 'moving' parameter had to be made into an int for this, to indicate
11637 right clicks with code 2. Right press now already pushes the clicked ad
11638 to the back, so that the up-click will display an underlying one.
11640 Bugfix pushing back seek ads on right-click
11642 On a right button press the previous in stead of currently hit ad was
11643 receiving the penalty.
11645 Indicate seek-ad multiplicity
11647 If more than one seek ad is inside the capture range of the mouse
11648 pointer, an exclamation point is printed before the seek-ad text.
11650 Some fixes to make seek-ad suppression work in WinBoard
11652 In WinBoard the z-depth was immediately erased by redrawing the graph;
11653 the clearing of zlist had to be moved from PlotSeekAd() to AddAd()
11654 (where it really belongs). Also aging of z-depth is now suppressed on
11655 mere pointer motion.
11657 2010-02-04 22:45:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11660 The new option -autoRefresh sets FICS and ICC to report removal of seek
11661 ads, and then removes those from the Seek Graph. New seek ads are added
11662 to the graph, as soon as the ICS reports them.
11664 2010-02-04 22:42:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11665 Implement SeekGraph in XBoard
11667 For now only controlled by left mouse clicks on board. New options
11668 -seekGraph true|false and -sg to switch this feature on.
11670 Facilitate selection of coinciding seek ads
11672 Seek-ads that are viewed but not answered get a distance penalty on the
11673 up-click that makes their selection more difficult next time, so that
11674 the ad they covered gets a (better) change. The penalty ages away in the
11675 course of 5 clicks.
11677 Slightly offset Seek-Graph dots of different color
11679 Dots of different color are now displaced horizontally be 3 pixels, to
11680 prevent them from completely covering each other. (Required the axis
11681 labels to be moved a little too, to not be covered by the 1-min ads.)
11683 Auto-show seek-ad texts in WinBoard
11685 Hovering the mouse above a Seek-Graph dot will make the text belonging
11686 to it appear in the message field without the need to press a button.
11687 Required SeekGraphClick() to be called from the WB mouse event handler,
11688 with an extra argument 'moving' to make the distinction with a real
11691 Show seek-ad text on mouse hovering (XBoard)
11693 The Eventproc is also set to trigger on PointerMotion, and this event
11694 then calls SeekGraphClick with motion=true to handle it.
11696 Put poetic name of wilds in seek-ad text
11698 Use XBoard variant names, except for 'loadable' and 'fischerandom'
11699 (becomes 'setup' and 'chess960'), but leave number (to distinguish wilds
11700 that transate to same XBoard variant).
11702 2010-02-05 20:36:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11703 Fix highlighting bug in XBoard
11705 The from-square was drawn before the to-square was erased, which led to
11706 a missing highlight line if they shared an edge or corner.
11708 2010-02-05 15:49:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11709 Shorten autoKibitz confirmation on FICS
11711 Strip off the "players)", but leave the separatng space.
11713 2010-02-05 14:39:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11714 Repair damage to -autoKibitz done by FICS atomic zippy claim
11716 The sending of -autoKibitz info was also moved back in that patch, but
11717 unfortunately to after clearing of the programStats info. Now the
11718 clearing has been moved also, to remain after it.
11720 2010-02-04 23:33:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11721 Send continuation lines to chat box they belong to
11723 The variable savingComment is used as a kludge to remember where the
11724 comment should go (i.e. which chatbox, or elsewhere), so that when a
11725 continuation line is matched, chatPartner (which was reset at EOL) can
11726 be restored to its original value. Also put space after handle of talker
11727 in channel Chat Windows
11729 2010-02-02 19:08:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11730 Fix u64 format for cygwin
11732 With a -mno-cygwin compile %llu and %lld are definitely not understood
11733 by scanf and printf, although they are by the compiler. In stead, %I64u
11734 seems to work. Put it in under control of a switch USE_I64, which is
11735 defined only in the gcc makefile when MINGW is used.
11737 2010-02-02 19:02:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11738 Remove stray dot from WinBoard makefiles
11740 There was a period suffixed to config.h in the wgamelist.o dependency.
11742 2010-02-01 14:50:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11743 Fix bug in display of logos
11745 The logo continued to be drawn after a boardSize change to a tinyLayout
11746 size, although there was no space reserved for it. Fixed by explicitly
11747 resetting logoHeight when no logo space is reserved in InitDrawingSizes().
11749 2010-01-19 20:15:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11750 Right-click refactoring: step III
11752 Let WinBoard call RightClick in back-end, and delete the duplicate code
11753 it had for this, after rescuing the front-end bits, and let the letter
11754 act depending on the result returned by RightClick.
11756 2010-01-19 19:07:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11757 Right-click refactoring: step II
11759 Migrate the Right-click routine to the back-end. Let it communicate back
11760 square coordinates through pointer arguments, to accomodate their
11761 different naming in XBoard and WinBoard. Template added in frontend.h.
11763 2010-01-19 17:55:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11764 Right-click refactoring, step I
11766 Divorce front-end part from back-end part of PieceMenuPopup in XBoard
11767 front-end, and forge the back-end part into a new routine RightClick.
11768 The right up-click in XBoard, which called unLoadPV() directly, now
11769 calls RightClick through PieceMenuPopUp().
11771 2010-02-04 23:09:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11772 Merge gamelistopt sources into gamelist source files
11774 The files xgamelistopt.c and gamelistopt.c are merged with xgamelist.c
11775 and gamelist.c, respectively. The WB front-end for the dialog already
11776 resided in winboard.c, so there was little need to move it to wgameist.c
11777 file. Makefiles adapted accordingly. Unsuitable key bindings were
11778 removed. The low-level front-end prototypes are now defined in in
11781 2010-01-29 21:47:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11782 Game-List options dialog for XBoard
11784 A dialog similar to that of WinBoard was cloned from the game-list
11785 window. The XBoard front-end is in a separate file xgamelistopt.c,
11786 which in fact implements most of the low-level front-end as back-end.
11788 2010-01-29 12:48:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11789 Refactoring of game-list-options dialog
11791 The back-end part is separated off, and moved to a file gamelistopt.c.
11792 Front-end for now stays in winboard.c. No prototypes in frontend.h yet.
11794 2010-01-26 19:28:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11795 Fix of ancient WB bug: test integer option values for validity
11797 Only a string of digits preceded by an optional sign is accepted now.
11798 Before, any string was accepted, and leaving out a value could lead to
11799 the next option being ignored (if it did not need a value) because it
11800 was considered the value for the previous one!
11802 2010-01-26 19:00:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11803 Fix bug in edit-position of holdings
11805 The holdings were effectivelly taken one too large, so that a promoted
11806 shogi Pawn moved to, or created in the holdings was not demoted to Pawn,
11807 but put in the dark (which you could see by the holding count if you did
11808 it twice). The overflow tests in these two cases now have been corrected.
11810 2010-01-25 13:54:40 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11811 Save fonts in XBoard settings file per boardSize
11813 Each -boardSize now can have its own font specified in the settings file
11814 (and thus by a command-line option, although it would in general not be
11815 very useful to specify a font for a size other than the selected). E.g.
11816 a prefix "size33:" to the font name will apply it only to -size 33.
11817 An unspecified-size font option (not normally in the settings file) will
11818 always prevail over a font option specific for the current size.
11819 A font of some size must have been used or specified in order to be
11822 2010-01-25 08:56:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11823 Fix width of filter field in XBoard GameList
11825 An empirical dependence of the width of this text edit on the square
11826 size now makes for an acceptable layout at any board size.
11828 2010-01-24 19:09:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11829 Use FICS atomic draw claim for sending move in zippy mode
11831 For this the relaying of the move had to be moved until after the
11832 adjudication, which again has to be done after MakeMove(), which is a
11833 bit dubious, as MakeMove might take significant time when animating.
11835 2010-01-24 18:51:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11836 Send FICS atomic claim to ICS if move creates draw after offer
11838 The FICS format "draw MOVE" is used to send the move to the ICS when
11839 the user enters a move that adjudicates as a claimable draw, and he
11840 offered a draw before the move. For the benefit of ICS that do not
11841 understand this format, the plain move is sent afterwards.
11843 2010-01-24 18:16:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11844 Also allow user to claim by offering draw before his move
11846 Use the existing userOfferedDraw variable to test for such offers in
11849 2010-01-24 17:29:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11850 Also adjudicate after user move
11852 Call Adjudicate() in FinishMove().
11854 2010-01-24 15:56:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11855 Refactoring of adjudication code
11857 Put all the rule-based (as opposed to score-based) adjudications in a
11858 separate routine, so they can also be called on user moves. This
11859 requires sending the drawing move to the opponent engine to be made
11860 conditional on existence of the latter. Execution of the code is no
11861 longer dependent on the condition TwoMachinesPlay, but actual game
11862 terminations are now all restricted by an alternative condition (no ICS
11865 2010-01-24 11:46:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11866 Use -keepAlive option to determine connection health
11868 When there has been no ICS response since the previous 'ping', assume we
11869 are disconnected and do a fatal-error exit. Also auto-start the ping
11870 process in InitBackend3().
11872 2010-01-23 23:00:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11873 Use arrow keys in XBoard GameList for entry selection
11875 Add translations for arrows and home/end, to call LoadSelectedProc with
11876 argument to indicate the step, and let the latter perform the action.
11878 2010-01-23 22:24:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11879 Allow <Enter> to apply filter in XB GameList filter edit
11881 Apply a translation to intercept the <Enter> key. Set focus back to the
11882 list display afterwards.
11884 2010-01-23 21:44:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11885 Accept <Enter> for changing chat partner
11887 A kludge stolen from Alessandro's GameList filter allowed to let the
11888 typing of <Enter> while updating the chat-partner field of the WinBoard
11889 chat windows to act as pressing the Change button. Gives focus to the
11890 input field of the window afterwards.
11892 2010-01-23 21:42:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11893 Move duplicat gamelist code to backend
11895 The filtering routines are moved from xgamelist.c and wgamelist.c to
11896 gamelist.c, and a prototype for them is placed in backend.h.
11898 2010-01-23 19:29:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11899 Port game-list filtering to XBoard
11901 Added a text edit and apply button to the XBoard game-list dialog, and
11902 only have it print those lines that match the filter. Translate index in
11903 list to index of game in file when a game is selected, and index in file
11904 to index in list when a line is highlighted. Duplicates some code
11905 between xgamelist.c and wgamelist.c, which should be moved to back-end.
11907 2010-01-21 19:24:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11908 Convert to DOS line endings
11910 For easier understanding of upcoming diffs of winboard.c
11912 2010-01-21 14:32:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11913 Refactoring of move-history code
11915 The WinBoard code in whistory.c was split in a front-end part (remaining
11916 in whistory.c) and a back-end part (now in history.c in the xboard
11917 directory). This to allow easy porting to other platforms.
11919 2010-01-20 12:48:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11920 Add fixed-time/move button in XBoard time-control dialog
11922 Put the TC-type buttons in a radio-group, and highlight the selected mode.
11924 2010-01-19 18:27:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11925 Fix bug in XBoard PV display
11927 The PV was unloaded on anything but a button release, in stead of the
11930 2010-01-23 11:04:11 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11931 fixed hardcoded location of config file for xboard
11933 the location should now follow sysconfdir during the configuration process.
11934 Also added some more output to the configure script.
11936 2010-01-18 12:18:32 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11937 new developer release
11940 2010-01-18 12:15:06 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
11941 fixed Makefile.am to handle config file correctly
11944 2010-01-15 21:55:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11945 Change opening array -variant fairy
11947 We now use the position of "Chess with Different Armies", FIDE army vs.
11948 a fantasy army (inspired on the Color-bound Clobberers) as opening
11951 2010-01-13 19:08:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11954 Thai Chess, played by 2 million world-wide. Required pawn promotion to
11955 happen in a zone, and the Alfil to move as Shogi Silver, a new opening
11956 array, and unusual Pawn placement. Because of the latter, I consider it
11957 a setup position, so a FEN will always be sent to the engine.
11959 2010-01-17 14:17:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11960 Fix parsing of O-O and O-O-O after FEN pasting in FRC
11962 Because the initial rights were not set in the FEN reader, the
11963 initial rights of the previous game remained in force, so that the
11964 parser did not understand OO-castling (although it would allow KxR
11967 2010-01-15 14:40:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11968 Fix reading FEN castling rights for knightmate and twokings
11970 Scanning the back-rank for a King did not work in these variants,
11971 because either the Unicorn castles, or there might be two Kings.
11973 2010-01-13 11:42:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11974 Fix omission in castling refactoring for ICS received boards
11976 A default of -1 was still used, in stead of NoRights, when no Rook was
11977 found. In theory this could have had effect in a setup board 0 in FRC,
11978 when there were no Rooks on the back rank.
11980 2010-01-13 11:35:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11981 Fix TwoKings ICS castling-rights bug
11983 Scanning the rank (as is done because of FRC) assigned castling rights
11984 to the rightmost King. Even scanning the opposite direction would not
11985 work, as it is not always the eftmost King that can castle. So we now
11986 explicitly test for a King on e1/e8 in TwoKings and assign it rights,
11987 relying on the Rook rights received from the ICS to control castling.
11989 2009-11-18 19:12:25 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11990 fix double start of zippy engine after switch to gothic
11992 In ICS mode we now switch to the proper variant as soon as we receive
11993 the generic game-start message, to prevent a mismatch when the first
11994 board is received (which would trigger fetching of a move list).
11996 2010-01-11 16:44:40 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
11997 Extensive bugfix of -autoKibitz
11999 Suppression of printing of diverted kibitz messages failed when they
12000 extended over more than one read. This could even lead to such
12001 messages being erroneously saved as comments, which then lead to
12002 crashes. The suppression mechanism now waits for a prompt, in stead of
12003 the end of buffer. This required the printing of any leftover in the
12004 buffer to be deferred until the next read completes it.
12005 The number of people kibitzed to is now printed.
12007 2010-01-11 16:30:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12008 Fix piece-to-char table -variant fairy
12010 The letters for Lance and Snake where swapped.
12012 2010-01-09 11:54:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12013 Make WinBoard makefiles use parser.c in XBoard directory
12016 2010-01-08 18:23:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12017 Docs update for new features
12020 2010-01-08 15:18:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12021 Fix new args parsing of -lowTimeWarningColor
12023 This did not occur in the XBoard color translation table yet.
12025 2010-01-08 14:16:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12026 Allow editing of holdings in EditPosition mode
12028 Dragging pieces to and from the holdings now consistently keep track of
12029 the home square of pieces and the piece counts, as does creation of
12030 pieces in the holdings through the piece menu.
12032 2010-01-08 13:59:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12033 Indicate squares a lifted piece can legally move to
12035 Under control of the new option -showTargetSquares when
12036 -highlightDragging and -testLegality are on, the squares a piece can
12037 move to are marked by fat dots in the highlightColor (non-captures) and
12038 premoveHighlightColor (captures), as soon as you grab it for dragging.
12039 In variants with mandatory capture, the capture target of other pieces
12040 is marked with the highlightColor (as non-captures are then not allowed).
12042 2010-01-08 12:35:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12043 Fix bug for incommensurate time odds
12045 After normalization (-timeOddsMode 1) the time odds factors can be
12046 non-integer, and thus must be stored as float.
12048 2010-01-08 11:41:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12049 Display PV right-clicked from EngineOutput window
12051 The clicked PV is selected and the memo gets focus, so that it is
12052 highlighted. This selection is restored in the proper place after
12053 insetrtion of a new line in the memo.
12055 2010-01-08 10:19:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12056 Display PV on right-clicking board
12059 2010-01-08 09:21:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12060 Bugfix legality null move in parsing with -testLegality off
12062 The pointers were compared, in stead of the values.
12063 Furthermore, instead of null moves, it rejected moves on the main diagonal when legality checking was off.
12065 Also exclude moves with empty squares and enemy pieces.
12067 2010-01-07 19:10:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12068 Newly lexed winboard/parser.c
12071 2010-01-07 19:05:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12072 Harmonize declarations of XBoard and WinBoard
12074 The engine-exit and settings patches make some stuff common to WinBoard
12075 and XBoard, which needed to be harmonized, and is moved to frontend.h.
12077 2010-01-07 13:07:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12078 Allow Ctrl-C copying from EngineOutput window text to clipboard
12081 2010-01-07 12:52:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12082 Allow popup-less (fatal) exit of engine after tellusererror
12085 2010-01-07 12:40:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12086 Improve layout of Engine #N Settings dialog
12088 An attempt is made to align the input fields of spins and text-edits
12090 2010-01-07 00:31:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12091 Let XBoard print version with argument --version or -v
12094 2010-01-07 00:25:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12095 Fix castling rule assignment in shuffle games
12097 The conversion to in-board storage for rights copied directly to boards[0] in steadof
12098 initialPosition, and was then overwritten when the latter was copied with uninitialized
12099 rights to boards[0]. This affected FRC and CRC, where rights are non-standard.
12101 2010-01-07 00:17:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12102 Implement castling in -variant caparandom
12104 CRC should be treated as FRC, but until now it never was. We now test for FRC_TYPE_CASTLING.
12106 2010-01-07 00:09:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12107 Fix default castling rights on reading incomplete FEN
12109 This was overlooked in the conversion to the in-board storage of rights.
12111 2010-01-07 00:03:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12112 Fix NoncompliantFEN defaults.
12114 This must be NULL to get compliant FENs, not "", which would suppress castling and e.p. fields.
12116 2010-01-06 23:54:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12117 Change format of -adapterCommand.
12119 first or f at the start of an option name are now automatically changed into second or s,
12120 rather than needing %% to be recognized. The values of -ec and -ed in the default
12121 -adapterCommand are now quoted (now XBoard understands quoting in the engine command line).
12123 2010-01-06 23:51:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12124 Make WinBoard defaults for -fd and -sd equal to "." rather than empty strings.
12127 2010-01-06 23:28:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12128 Delete old indirection settings-file code
12131 2010-01-06 21:45:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12132 Correct XBoard default debug file name
12135 2010-01-06 21:34:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12136 Suppress saving font settings.
12138 The fonts are size dependent, and might thus not be reusable in the next
12139 session. For now we therefore suppress the saving of them in the
12140 settings file, until we diversify the fonts per boardSize.
12142 2009-12-12 23:38:20 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12143 added missing sounds files to be able to compile on windows
12146 2009-12-09 17:29:37 -0700 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
12147 Changes needed to compile master branch.
12150 2009-12-06 12:11:46 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12151 implements the eval-graph window for XBoard
12154 2009-12-06 11:58:34 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12155 improves the XBoard handling of the engine command line
12157 it now understands limited forms of quoting, so engine binaries with spaces in their file name can be handled.
12159 2009-12-06 11:56:40 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12160 A better and more flexible way of invoking Polyglot
12162 rewrote uci.c. No more use of temporary files, all data passed through the engine command line. Adds a new command-line option -adapterCommand for this.
12164 2009-12-06 11:34:50 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12165 remove trailing \r in xboard output
12167 there is an annoying carriage return (displayed as ^M) at the end of the PV in the engine-output window, not
12168 only with Fairy-Max, but also with UCI engine running under Polyglot. This patch replaces the trailing CR that Linux programs send after the PV line y a space.
12170 2009-11-29 11:56:32 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12171 double buffer size to prevent overflow
12173 This patch doubles the size of the ICS input buffer to 16KB, to prevent
12174 the suspected overflow with -keepLineBreaksICS false when using
12175 "inchannel 1" on FICS and over 500 people are tuned in.
12177 2009-11-28 13:33:52 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12178 fix problem with empty string in -firstNeedsNoncompliantFEN
12180 This fixes a bug in the use of the -firstNeedsNoncompliantFEN option with
12181 an empty string as argument. (Which led to truncation of the FEN.)
12183 2009-11-28 13:32:12 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12184 updates makefiles to include dependency on config.h
12186 adds the dependency of wbres.o on config.c introduced by having the VersionInfo in the resource
12188 2009-11-28 13:28:00 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12189 correctly apply some check boxes from the option menu
12191 Usng the check-boxes in the Option->Adjudications menu to indicate the
12192 engine reports absolute scores is now copied directly to the ChessProgramState,
12193 from where it is used, in stead of only to appData. This makes the change take
12194 effect immediately, in stead of after restarting.
12196 2009-11-28 13:27:43 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12197 score sign in analysis mode
12199 this does not alter any of the current behavior with compliant engines,
12200 but does extend the correction for non-compliant score reporting under
12201 control of the -first(second)ScoreIsAbs option to cases where the engine
12202 is analyzing or playing on an ICS.
12204 2009-11-24 21:09:30 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12205 fix for bug #28077: xboard needs to link against x11
12207 hopefully fixed automake to take care of this
12209 2009-11-23 20:37:20 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12210 Fix castling rights when copying FEN to clipboard (again)
12212 missed a spot last time
12214 2009-11-23 20:22:58 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12215 restoring windows (EngineOutput and MoveHistory) on startup
12217 restoring the open / closed status of the
12218 auxiliary windows (EngineOutput and MoveHistory) on startup
12219 in XBoard like they do in WinBoard, which makes sense now that
12220 we aso remember their coordinates between sessions.
12222 2009-11-23 20:21:14 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12223 fixed some outstanding pixmaps
12225 fixed transparency issues
12227 2009-11-23 20:17:25 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12228 use linux style options for config file and add a system config file for XBoard
12230 This patch makes XBoard write the options to its conf file in
12231 Linux style, "-option value" rather than Windows style "/option=value".
12233 The WinBoard option parsing code has always understood both formats
12234 (including any hybrids), but the format it preferred for writing might
12235 look quite strange to Linux users. I also attached a file to be installed
12236 as /etc/xboard/xboard.conf on "make install".
12238 2009-11-23 19:58:55 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12239 fix window positioning
12241 This patch adds stuff in the header files that allow the various front-end files
12242 to share information on which windows exist, are up, and how they are positioned.
12243 The EngineOutput, MoveHistory and GameList windows now all remember their
12244 position and size, even when they are closed when XBoard exits.
12246 2009-11-23 19:51:19 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12247 same argDescriptor parsing for Xboard and Winbaord
12249 This patch makes XBoard and WinBoard use the same argDescriptor
12250 list of options, and (largely) use the same code for parsing and saving them.
12251 This is acheived by moving this code to a new file args.h, and #including this
12252 in both winboard.c and xboard.c (so that tiny differences, e.g. in default
12253 values in the table, are decided by the context). XBoard has new menu items
12254 "Save Settings Now" and "Save Settings on Exit" in the "Option" menu.
12255 XBoard uses /etc/xboard/xboard.conf as default settings file.
12256 A new option, -saveSettingsFile, can specify where settings should be saved,
12257 without parsing the file. (So that it also works if the file does not yet exist.)
12259 2009-11-22 13:00:31 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12260 new developer release
12262 changed release name to <branch>-<date>
12264 2009-11-22 12:34:13 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12265 fix the irritating wandering off of the MoveHistory window in XBoard on opening/closing.
12268 2009-11-22 12:29:47 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12269 use xtell for talking to handles, but tell for talking into a channel.
12271 by changing the chatboxes to use xtell in stead of tell, we broke
12272 the possibility to use the chat-box for chatting into a channel (which is
12273 apparently not possible with xtell).
12275 2009-11-22 12:15:15 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12276 fix bug in bughouse drop menu
12278 This patch fixes the bughouse drop menu, which was broken by the
12279 new mouse driver, and could no longer drop white Pawns.
12281 2009-11-18 19:29:57 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12282 2nd step for moving option parsing from winboard to the backend
12284 This is the next step in option-setting refactoring: All options that are
12285 defined in XBoard are now included in the WinBoard ArgDescriptor list.
12286 The handling of sound option has been harmonized: the sound names
12287 now all initially go to the appData array, (as in XB) in stead of directly to the
12288 WB-specific variables, and LoadAllSounds now takes care of the copying.
12289 A new routine ExportSounds copies them back before saving settings
12290 (which, in XBoard, could be a no-op).
12292 The definition of defaults for the XB-only options has been moved to common.h.
12294 2009-11-18 19:24:35 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12295 1st step for moving option parsing from winboard to the backend
12297 This is a preparatory step in moving option parsing of WinBoard to the back-end.
12298 The table of command-line options now contains a fifth field, holding the compiled-in default.
12299 This obviates most of the front-end routine InitAppData, which now is replaced by a table-driven
12300 initialization routine SetDefaultsFromList(), which could be back-end.
12302 2009-11-18 12:33:39 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12303 refactoring evalgraph code
12305 This is the refactored EvalGraph code: the back-end part is separated off,
12306 and put in a file evalgraph.c, which in the future can also be used with XBoard.
12307 Only the WinBoard front-end code is left in the file wevalgraph.c. A new
12308 header file defines the variables and routines they share.
12310 2009-11-18 12:29:06 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12313 some file permissions where set up wrong
12314 (e.g. execute permissions for text files)
12316 2009-11-18 11:34:22 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12317 refactoring of engineoutput
12319 This refactoring patch separates the back-end part out of
12320 xengineoutput.c, and puts it in a separate file engineoutput.c.
12321 A new header engineoutput.h included by both defines the routines
12322 for cross calling. Similarly wengineo.c will be stripped from its
12323 back-end code, (and renamed to wengineoutput.c), so WinBoard and
12324 XBoard now both use engineoutput.c rather than maintaining duplicate
12325 code in their front-end part.
12327 I also let the back-end now call EngineOutputUpdate directly, rather then
12328 through a relay in the front-end, by renaming it to SetProgramStats
12329 (the former name of the relay in winboard.c / xboard.c).
12331 Moved some templates of functions in engineoutput.c from winboard.h
12334 2009-11-14 22:13:10 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12335 fixed build on openbsd
12337 added missing header file
12339 2009-11-14 22:06:58 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12340 improve thinking-output for mulit-variant
12342 Improve multi-variant support by sorting the Thinking-Output lines of the most recent depth by score in the Engine-Output window.
12344 2009-11-14 22:05:12 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12345 fix castling rights when copying FEN to clipboard
12347 This patch forces leaving of Edit-Position mode before copying a FEN to the clipboard, to make sure castling rights are faked in a consistent way. Before you could get FENs that had castling rights for non-existent Rooks.
12349 2009-11-14 22:03:47 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12350 This patch gives a better handling of comments in PGN files, and adds the variation as comment to the main line on using Revert in local mode.
12353 2009-11-06 18:53:19 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12354 fixed prototype for AppendComment
12357 2009-11-06 09:06:44 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12358 cleaned up some debug messages and typos
12361 2009-11-06 09:05:09 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12362 variation-support patch
12364 It allows you to Revert to the main line (or previous variation) when
12365 playing variations on an existing game in EditGame or Analyze mode.
12367 2009-11-06 08:48:09 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12368 fix for new way of saving castling and e.p. information
12370 I forgot to make some conversions to the new-style encoding of castling there
12371 (using the enum constant NoRights instead of -1 to indicate
12372 the absence of rights, which was the price of storing the
12373 rights in the board, which is an unsigned enum type.)
12375 I also was a bit worried about portability, because I casted the enum type ChessSquare
12376 to (int) before comparing it with (possibly negative) constants EP_NONE etc.
12377 Now on my system enum types are (unsigned int), and this works, but I could
12378 imagine there are systems where this would be an unsigned char. (Not sure
12379 if there are rules for this). So to be safe I cast ChessSquare to (signed char),
12380 which should always work to make small negative ints assigned to it read
12381 back as themselves.
12383 2009-11-06 08:44:59 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12384 removed files that should only be in the windboard directory
12387 2009-11-05 19:32:35 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12388 add Winboard source files into tar-ball
12390 forgot to add them when rewriting the Makefile.am
12392 2009-11-05 19:23:44 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12393 Integrate castling and e.p. rights into board array; bugfix for EditPosition
12395 A large-scale operation that I have been postponing since the very first 4.4.0:
12396 The castling and e.p. rights are now integrated into the board array, as
12397 boards[moveNr][CASTLING][i] replacing castlingRights[moveNr][i] and
12398 boards[moveNr][EP_STATUS] replacing epStatus[moveNr]
12399 These quantities are now automatically copied with the position by CopyBoards
12400 (allowing the removal of lots of dedicated copying code), and passed as
12401 function arguments with the position (so that the moves.c functions like
12402 TestLegality, MateTest, CoordsToAlgebraic, Disambiguate, GenLegal
12403 no longer need explicit e.p. and castling parameters.
12405 Also fixed a bug introduced by a recent previous fix: by adding fake castling
12406 rights to a position set up through the EditPosition menu, I destroyed the
12407 castling rights of a pasted FEN. Faking castling rights is now made conditional
12408 in EditPositionDone(), depending on the caller. (I had not realized it was also
12409 called after FEN pasting, to send the position to the engine.)
12411 2009-11-05 19:03:17 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12412 added missing library for build on OS X
12414 Xmu seems to be missing
12416 2009-11-04 22:57:30 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12417 Some code refactoring and cleanup; one small bug fix
12419 Some code refactoring, mainly to bring definitions of routines and variables
12420 shared between winboard.c and one of the auxiliary-windows files
12421 whistory.c, wevalgraph.c, wgamelist.c, wengineo.c somewere in a header file
12422 (winboard.h). Unfortunately this made winboard.h dependent on data types
12423 defined in frontend.h, so that the #include order had to be changed in many
12426 The operation revealed one potentially bad bug: engineOutputDialogUp was
12427 written as int in engineo.c, but declared as char in winboard.c.
12429 I also changed the storage mechanism of the the comment and tags window
12430 positions to use WindowPlacement structs rather than simple variables,
12431 so that in the future they can be docked, like the others.
12433 I also removed some remnants of the Analysis window.
12435 The wgamelist.h and wedittags.h header files contained only 3 lines, and
12436 I absorbed them in winboard.h, rather than creating other such nearly empty
12437 headers engineo.h, whistory.h and wevalgraph.h. This affects the make files.
12439 2009-11-03 18:26:06 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12440 let the clocks run in -searchTime mode
12443 2009-11-02 17:41:12 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12444 add fixed time per move to the WinBoard time-control menu dialog
12447 2009-10-31 10:42:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12448 updated version number to unstable
12451 2009-10-31 10:25:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12452 release of version 4.4.1
12455 2009-10-30 19:59:23 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12456 cleaned up ChangeLog and NEWS
12458 2009-10-30 20:02:40 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12459 use xtell instead of tell in wchat
12461 2009-10-28 20:35:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12462 prevent buffer overflow
12464 This is a buffer-size adjustments to prevent the JAWS version from
12465 crashing when it has to read out loud very long comments.
12467 2009-10-28 02:17:16 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
12468 Further copy/paste fixes
12470 We needed to implement the XA_TARGETS target in order for more
12471 sophisticated apps to really believe we put anything on the clipboard
12474 2009-10-27 23:57:25 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
12475 Make copy/paste position and game use clipboard, bug #27810
12477 Copy actually sets both the clipboard and the selection for
12478 convenience and compatibility with the old way of doing things.
12479 Paste pastes from the clipboard by default, but the new -pasteSelection
12480 option lets you get back the old behavior of pasting from the
12483 2009-10-27 15:44:28 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12484 switch focus to the board after loading a game
12486 2009-10-27 15:32:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12487 fix for bug #27826: fixed autoDisplayComment
12489 apparently the -autoDisplayComment option was not working,
12490 not even in WinBoard. This patch should fix it,both for WB and XB.
12491 (Unfortunately xboard.c and winboard.c were using a different name
12492 for the same front-end variable I needed, so I had to change one of them.)
12494 2009-10-27 12:24:56 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12495 fix for bug #27826: ported two options to xboard
12497 also updated the documentation
12499 2009-10-27 12:22:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12502 turns out the new mouse handler broke the JAWS patch, as I discarded
12503 the function IsPromotion. I adapted it to call HasPromotionChoice instead.
12504 Also fixed two arnings by removing a no-longer needed debug print.
12506 2009-10-27 12:03:02 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12507 reformated html to be correctly validated
12509 2009-10-27 10:33:42 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12510 quick fix for "White Mates" in parser.l
12512 2009-10-27 10:32:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12515 2009-10-26 20:45:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12516 changed stderr to debug output, since stderr is closed in winboard
12518 2009-10-26 20:42:24 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12519 removing empty lines from ICS play
12521 this patch causes removal of spurious prompts during ICS play
12522 also if the prompt is preceeded by a number of empty lines
12523 (as the board for the opponent move is on FICS).
12525 2009-10-26 20:40:00 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12526 another bug in VariantSwitch: an unitialized board was printed.
12528 Must have been there a long time, but this time it crashed WinBoard.
12530 2009-10-26 20:38:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12531 more work on variant switch
12533 the previous solution to the cosmetic problem of displaying a wrong shuffle
12534 in an ICS game that was observed from the very start unfortunately turned
12535 out to cause a real error in diplaying a stored game through the smoves
12536 command, for variants not using the FIDE setup as standard.
12538 This patch displays the position from before setting up the start position
12539 of the new variant, but does setup boards[0] to the initial position of that
12540 variant. (If this is a wrong shuffle, it is thus ot displayed, and a new board
12541 will immediately be sent from the ICS to correct the shuffle.)
12543 2009-10-26 20:34:04 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12544 force full redraw in winboard
12546 Full redraw is now always forced when highlightMovesWithArrow is on,
12547 rather than only when highlight info is available. (As in drop moves the
12548 latter is invalid, but we must still erase the arrow from the previous move.)
12550 2009-10-26 20:25:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12551 fix for bug #27790 and #277772. Suppressing the display of a wrong shuffle
12552 when observing shuffle games from the first move (#27790 bis),
12553 and the sounding of the FICS bell on crazyhouse captures (#27772 bis).
12555 2009-10-26 20:22:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12556 fixed bug related to unsigned char in convert.c
12558 I also fixed the unsigned-char bug in the convert.c for bitmaps that caused the
12559 129x129 XBoard bitmaps to be defective, and a bug that required fixup with sed
12560 afterwards (so I could use it to create a new m33s.bm)
12562 2009-10-25 23:37:48 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12563 unguarded debug printf. added the appropiate if statement
12565 2009-10-25 23:31:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12566 fix for two compiler warnings
12568 2009-10-25 23:29:43 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12569 fix for bug #27799: fix for nested-nested-nested variations
12571 2009-10-25 23:21:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12572 The book-probe code forgot to close the book file after opening it.
12574 fixed by adding an fclose at two points.
12576 2009-10-25 23:18:18 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12577 removed unused v54?.bm bitmaps from resource file
12579 it seems the v54?.bmp bitmaps were actually included in the WinBoard build
12580 (in the resource file), although they were never actually used. So I have
12581 removed their inclusion in the resource file now.
12583 2009-10-25 23:05:30 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12584 replaced defective bitmaps with copies from 4.2.7
12586 2009-10-25 23:02:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12587 removed bitmaps files that are not needed any more
12589 2009-10-25 22:58:34 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12592 2009-10-24 09:41:39 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
12593 Drop an obsolete script that was only used to update my personal web site
12595 2009-10-24 01:23:29 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
12596 Silence warnings when compiling 64-bit xboard
12598 Some harmless warnings were caused by 64-bit mode having 32-bit
12599 int but 64-bit long and pointer. Add casts (etc.) to silence them.
12600 This might require adding a definition of intptr_t (a signed int
12601 type that is the same width as a pointer) on old systems that don't
12604 2009-10-24 00:56:37 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
12605 Fix up man page some more
12607 Sigh, the project history was still partly in reverse chronological
12608 order and partly in forward order. Swapped the order of some
12609 sentences to help straighten it out. I don't really care about this,
12610 so other project members should feel free to do what they like here,
12611 but the messed-up order was bugging me.
12613 2009-10-24 00:46:20 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
12614 Fix some issues in the XBoard man page
12616 Correct places where the XBoard man page was calling XBoard
12617 "WinBoard". Change references to "WinBoard engines" and "WinBoard
12618 protocol" to "XBoard/WinBoard ...". Update bug reporting guidelines.
12619 Reorganize project history to something more like chronological order
12620 -- it had gotten pretty randomly ordered.
12622 2009-10-22 21:45:32 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12623 new pre-release version; updated version numbers
12625 2009-10-22 21:33:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12626 This patch adds <Enter> to the characters that cause an automatic
12627 switch to the ICS console when typed to the board window.
12629 2009-10-22 21:31:16 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12630 fix to the minor graphics issue contained some typos,
12631 as was remarked in the bugs reports
12633 2009-10-22 21:30:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12634 improved mouse handler
12636 The improved mouse handler still needed an extra call to DrawPosition to
12639 2009-10-22 21:28:38 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12640 NPS plays and pondering
12642 Clock updating did not work correctly in node-based time controls when the
12643 engine was pondering. (It was not really meant for use with pondering. Oh well...)
12644 This patch checks if the engine reporting the node count is indeed thinking
12645 (as opposed to pondering).
12647 2009-10-22 21:25:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12648 holdings update and regression fix
12650 The holdings-update patch was not yet satisfactory, because FICS seems to send
12651 holdings both before and after the board! And those received before did overwrite
12652 the holdings received after the previous board. I know tried to fix that in a kludgey
12653 way, by hiding a flag in the board that tells if the holdings have already been written
12654 by the ICS or not, and ignore new holdings when they are. (Except in bughouse,
12655 where holdings updates cannot be tied to a particular board and multiple updates
12656 between boards are normal. (I hope?).)
12658 I also undid a regression in my previous fix for the minor graphics problem,
12659 and solved it in a slightly different way to prevent flicker.
12661 2009-10-22 21:23:39 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12662 improved mouse handler
12664 I improved the mouse handler in a way which will preclude disappearence of pieces
12665 on off-board or ambiguous (in-between squares) drag & drop moves. (As was reported
12666 in the "premove bug?" thread. Also the command-line premove problem reported there
12667 is now fixed, by removing the prefixing.
12669 2009-10-22 21:18:05 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12670 fix for bug #8847: moving backward while examining on FICS not reported to engine
12672 I moved Daniel's code that backs up the engine when a bord with a
12673 lower number is received to a place where it is always done in zippy mode,
12674 rather than only when the engine is analyzing.
12676 Apart from taking back moves, there was also the case where the
12677 user moves forward by more than one move (usually immediately to
12678 end-of-game). In this case a new movelist is fetched from the ICS
12679 to recover the moves that were skipped. But this assumes that the
12680 engine is at the start of the game and feeds all these moves to the
12681 engine. So the engine had to be reset in this case to stay in sync.
12683 2009-10-22 21:16:56 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12684 better init for random number generator
12686 2009-10-21 23:01:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12687 fix for bug #27772: holdings not updated
12689 holdings lines from the ICS nor update the holdings
12690 of boards[forwardMostMove] in stead of boards[currentMove].
12692 2009-10-21 21:32:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12693 allowe parsing / disambiguation of SAN moves like Xe4 in certain situations
12695 This patch allows parsing / disambiguation of SAN moves like Xe4, if there
12696 is only one wild-card piece X on the board. Moves with wild-card pieces
12697 are now considered illegal if they leave the King in check by a piece of
12700 2009-10-20 19:09:46 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12701 fixed bug when switching to variantsuper
12703 2009-10-20 19:06:43 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12704 fix for bug #27715: 2 (minor) graphic issues
12706 I forced a total redraw when Reset is called from the ICS code in case a
12707 new game is encountered, in the hope it will make the reported
12708 (irreproducible) problem go away. As game switches are not frequent, I
12709 guess there is hardly any downside to this.
12711 2009-10-20 18:57:17 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12712 fix for bug #27667: PV line missing in analysis window, part 3
12714 "3. Wish for Engine state string (right to the icon):
12715 Can you add the actual search depth in analyzing mode? A change like "
12717 I also added the requested display of depth of the analysis move in the
12718 EngineOutput window. I guess a similar change could be made to wengineo.c
12719 (as this is in the code they share in common), but no one ever requested
12720 that in the 5 years since Alessandro wrote it. So for now I leave it alone.
12722 2009-10-20 18:52:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12723 fix for bug #27760: debug printf in backend.c and additional check for variant
12725 2009-10-19 23:17:46 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12726 fix for bug #10990: cmail does not seem to support .cmailgames or .cmailaliases
12728 this is correct, deleted the text out of the documentation that claims we support it
12730 2009-10-19 18:40:40 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12731 new alpha version; first one with new naming scheme
12733 2009-10-19 18:07:21 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12734 smarter analysis of the boards that XBoard receives from an ICS
12736 I added smarter analysis of the boards that XBoard receves from an ICS,
12737 based on board size and piece types in the position, to recognize cases
12738 where the board does not match the current variant, and switch to an
12739 appropriate variant.
12741 2009-10-19 18:04:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12742 fix for bug #27667: window should be reference to toplevel
12744 The remaining objections of #27667 should be fixed by bringing the
12745 EngineOutput window under control of the TOPLEVEL compile-time switch.
12747 2009-10-19 18:02:42 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12748 partly fix for bug #27715: scaling of menu bar
12750 the menu bar to the left edge of the window.
12752 2009-10-19 17:59:43 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12753 fixed bug reported in WB forum: second game of a match would
12754 not start when using the GUI book
12756 2009-10-19 17:57:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12757 fix for bug #27751: negative holding counts displayed
12759 I put code in the back-end to prevent holdings counts from
12760 becoming negative when a drop move is made from empty holdings.
12761 (This can happen when re-loading ICS bughouse games,
12762 as the smoves command fails to fill the holdings.)
12764 2009-10-18 20:54:53 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
12765 Updated compiling instructions.
12767 2009-10-18 11:32:55 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
12768 Changes to allow fonts with any charset (such as terminal)
12770 Affects winboard only.
12772 2009-10-16 23:02:41 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
12773 Moved SIGWINCH signal so it can be used...
12775 I goofed putting this in StartChildProcess() originally.
12777 2009-10-16 22:54:12 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
12778 Added internal wrapping ability.
12781 -wrapContinuationSequence "foo" (default: "\\ "
12782 -useInternalWrap (Winboard default: false, XBoard default: true)
12784 Note: -keepLineBreaksICS if set, prevents wrapping, usurping the
12785 useInternalWrap setting. The idea is if you want to keep ICS line
12786 breaks, then you don't want internal wrapping. Because of this,
12787 the new default for keepLineBreaksICS is now false for XBoard.
12789 2009-10-16 19:14:34 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12790 fixed segfaul in convert.c used to convert pixmaps
12792 2009-10-15 19:46:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12793 new mousehandler to correct for premove and promotion popup
12795 this is the new mouse handler for XBoard, which should fully implement
12796 premove, including promotion popup, and yet suppress the promotion popup
12797 on illegal moves that are not premoves. It is almost completely moved to
12798 the back-end now, so that WinBoard will be able to use it as well. I just
12799 must hook it up to winboard.c, in particular harmonize the call-backs of
12800 the mouse driver into the front-end for grabbing and releasing pieces for
12801 dragging, to make sure they have the same names and arguments.
12803 2009-10-15 19:32:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12804 updated black fairy pieces
12806 here is a set of black fairy pieces with opaque white details,
12807 so they have the same style as the orthodox XBoard pieces.
12809 2009-10-15 16:54:51 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
12810 Adjustment to joining to work around server not always including space.
12812 This patch implements commit 98aa02bda540f17f1f50be00e494efafe439b004
12813 into the updated joining routine. This issue seems not to be server
12814 variance, but instead the server electing to omit the space between
12815 words when it occurs at exactly your width setting (-1 actually).
12817 This patch makes the joiner add back the space just like the referenced
12818 commit. Note: this is just a workaround to a server issue-- the joiner
12819 actually joins correctly before this patch.
12821 2009-10-15 07:18:42 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
12822 Fixed joiner detection, allowing it to work with timeseal
12824 When timeseal's buffer fills in the middle of the continuation
12825 sequence, detection fails, and the lines aren't joined.
12827 As a result of this fix, measures intended to bypass joining are
12828 no longer needed, so I removed them. These utilize server vars
12829 when available to prevent splitting.
12831 2009-10-14 14:42:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12832 fixed engingeoutput routine
12834 removed outdated code regarding analysis window
12836 2009-10-14 14:39:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12837 moved bitmap to correct location
12839 was misplaced in a previous commit
12841 2009-10-14 14:26:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12842 fixed wrong number of arguments for EngineOutputPopUp
12844 2009-10-13 21:00:27 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12845 new bitmap converter (including fill option) and new pixmaps
12847 2009-10-13 20:52:40 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12848 forgot to add these two lines to the last commit
12850 2009-10-13 20:51:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12851 removed AnalysisPopUp. Use EngineOutputPopUp instead
12853 this was already in Winboard, copied it to xboard and removed unused code.
12855 2009-10-13 20:32:32 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12856 Proper board and holdings size when switching to variants
12857 gothic, capablanca, great and super within an ICS game.
12859 2009-10-13 20:25:13 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12860 cleaned up an old #ifdef in zippy
12862 2009-10-12 19:25:17 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
12863 neglected this for the auto-width updating in xboard
12865 2009-10-12 19:19:59 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
12866 Added server width adjustment based on client width changes
12868 2009-10-12 19:14:53 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
12869 silence some compiler warnings
12871 2009-10-11 18:39:24 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
12872 Maintainence to support all compilers.
12874 2009-10-11 17:07:27 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
12875 Adjusted alternative joining method to obey keepLineBreaksICS
12877 2009-10-11 14:48:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12878 fix for bug #27668: e.p. field still not passed to engine
12880 PositionToFEN now takes the e.p. rights from epStatus[moveNr],
12881 rather than calculating it on the spot from moveList[moveNr-1]
12882 (which failed on the first move).
12884 2009-10-11 14:46:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12885 fix for bug #27666: naming of variants
12887 Variant names "misc/xxx" are recognized as "normal", rather than "xxx"
12888 to not get confused by the board "misc shogi" run by FICS.
12890 2009-10-11 10:14:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12891 changed enable menus
12893 Put the "Open Chat Window", "Machine Both", and "Engine #N Settings" menu items
12894 in the appropriate enable lists for graying them out wen not applicable.
12896 2009-10-11 10:13:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12897 Added a command-line option -keepLineBreaksICS true/false to control line joining.
12899 2009-10-10 19:30:23 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
12900 Added code to prevent unnecessary width updates.
12902 2009-10-10 18:34:37 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
12903 Turned off wrap when possible on ICS servers.
12905 Turning off line wrap prevents splitting lines up using the
12906 continuation sequence "\\ ". This is desirable when using
12907 timeseal because timeseal's buffer is sometimes too small,
12908 causing it to break lines itself. These lines can't be joined.
12910 2009-10-10 16:30:56 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
12911 vsnprintf() must be _vsnprintf() for MSVC
12913 2009-10-10 16:16:45 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
12914 added code to handle initial width update
12916 2009-10-10 14:21:12 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
12917 Added width updates to ICS client on font and window size changes
12919 What still needs to be done is placing an update call after login
12920 to initialize with the correct width. I didn't see where to put
12923 2009-10-10 14:19:30 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
12924 added ics_printf() and ics_update_width() and utility functions
12926 2009-10-10 11:15:50 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
12927 Cleaned up ConsoleWndProc (not complete, see below)
12929 Using static variables this way is not appropriate. I only addressed
12930 hInput and hText in this commit though. But imagine the WndProc being
12931 used by multiple windows instead of just one, and you can see why
12932 using static variables in this way is wrong.
12934 2009-10-10 11:12:10 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
12935 Restructured URL code so it fits better with how winboard is set up.
12937 2009-10-10 08:57:39 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12938 cleanup: removed "#if 1" statements
12940 2009-10-10 08:55:21 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12941 cleanup: removed "#if 0" from source
12943 a bit of cleanup of the source code
12945 2009-10-10 08:34:10 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12946 fix joining of lines split by ICS
12948 This patch fixes the joining of lines that were split by an ICS, so that adding
12949 a space at the break point is done only when there was not a space already.
12950 (Some ICS leave a space at the end of the broken line, others do not.)
12951 An extra space would interefere with board12 in Gothic Chess, which is so
12952 long that the ICS breaks it, and the WB parser could not handle a double
12953 space within the board.
12955 2009-10-10 08:27:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12956 fix for bug #27642: Clock jumps strangely in engine mode
12958 This moves SwitchClocks() back to after incrementing forwardMostMove,
12959 so that it knows again who has the move (which was broken by the "bare" patch),
12960 and will take the appropriate tick length.
12962 2009-10-10 08:26:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
12963 removed test for premove
12965 this was added while looking for the premove bug, but is not needed
12967 2009-10-10 02:03:45 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
12968 added URL detection and provided hotlinks in the ICS client
12970 2009-10-10 02:00:52 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
12971 reverted winboard.c beofre URL commit to correct whitespace conversion
12973 2009-10-09 02:14:22 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
12974 Added URL detection into the console text window for ICS.
12976 2009-10-08 23:51:06 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
12977 added some comments and formated code
12979 2009-10-08 23:46:52 -0700 Chris Rorvick <>:
12980 fix printing out help message (list of command line options) (tiny change)
12982 The postfix increment always resulted in an attempt to print out an
12983 option on the right side regardless of one actually existing. Use
12984 prefix increment to prevent a crash when printing an odd number of
12987 2009-10-09 00:04:51 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
12988 Updated navigation accelerators, fixing ICS problems.
12990 Recent changes to the navigation accelerators were in the wrong
12991 accelerator table. Since the goal was to correct non-JAWS versions
12992 back to 4.2.7 behavior, I updated it to how 4.2.7 did it, but still
12993 retained the #ifdef JAWS conditional compilation.
12995 On an ICS, the navigation keys took control away from the ics
12996 client to navigate the game. The update requires the ALT key to
12997 be pressed, but it works identical to 4.2.7, not causing an
12998 unexpected focus back to the board window when you're just editing
13001 2009-10-08 20:33:39 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13002 fixed premove recapture problem;promotion popup appearing on
13003 obviously illegal moves; promotions in Superchess and Great Shatranj
13005 1) the premove recapture problem
13006 2) the promotion popup appearing on obviously illegal moves (the 1. e2a8
13008 3) promotions in Superchess and Great Shatranj, where the piece can now be
13009 selected from the holdings
13011 2009-10-08 20:28:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13012 added forceIllegalMove to xboard
13014 2009-10-05 21:01:32 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13015 bugfix: segfault when invalid option argument was given (bug #27427)
13017 when given a wrong argument to an option (e.g. -tc 0) xboard aborts
13018 before setting up the window, but tried to write a message to the
13019 messageWidget which doesn't exist at that point.
13021 2009-10-05 20:05:00 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13022 small improvement for JAWS version
13024 This is a patch to make JAWS read out any comments when /autoDiplaycomment=true.
13025 As focus does not stay on the Comment window, the comment was not spoken otherwise.
13027 2009-10-05 20:02:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13028 updated to winboard internationalization scripts
13030 Also a slight improvement of the internationalization scripting,
13031 to prevent it from crashing on messages containing a slash.
13033 2009-10-05 20:01:53 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13034 new forceIllegalMoves option
13036 The -forceIllegalMoves option uses setboard or edit to force a position
13037 when an engine refuses the move leading to it by an "Illegal Move" message.
13038 Especially for engines using the edit command this was a bit tricky,
13039 because of the a2a3 kludge to avoid using the white and black commands.
13041 2009-10-05 01:01:54 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
13042 removed _winmajor if not defined so that VC 2008 can compile the project
13044 The oldDialog variable should just be set to 0 in all cases now, and
13045 as such, legacy code supporting the old dialog ought to be removed.
13046 The test for _winmajor is against < 4, which is always false at present,
13047 causing oldDialog to be 0 in every conceviable circumstance.
13049 2009-10-04 09:58:29 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13050 getting ready for 4.4.1 release
13052 2009-10-02 20:47:01 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
13053 Simplified future version changes.
13055 Added a numeric version to config.h that is now used in winboard.rc
13056 instead of being hard-coded there. Just be sure to preserve the
13057 proper format (4 comma-separated 16 bit integers) or else it won't
13060 2009-10-02 16:56:01 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13061 updated version number to 4.4.1.pre
13063 should have done this straight after the last release, but forgot...
13065 2009-10-02 16:48:03 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13066 worked on premove bug
13068 I made an attempt to make premove unsensitive to a race condition,
13069 just in case the premove problem was caused by that (which seems unlikely,
13070 but in any case I added some debug printout to test this).
13072 2009-10-02 16:41:12 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13073 fixed loading of saved games via command line
13075 the variables forwardMostMove and backwardMostMove where set to zero
13076 at the wrong place.
13078 2009-10-02 16:39:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13079 small fixes for the JAWS version
13081 * I moved saying 'check' by the JAWS version to where castling also benefits from it.
13082 * I made sure the check symbols are also recognized on promotion moves
13083 * In the non-JAWS version, define the plain arrows as shortcut keys for the button bar
13085 2009-10-01 16:50:28 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
13086 Fixed bug dereferencing garbage, causing crash.
13088 Commit fa8be4a3fc5d81e9ec1f6c218fcf55c95d34fd10 included code to free the
13089 resultDetails of the gameInfo structure. That exact code exists a few lines
13090 above where it was added. None of these free() calls finish by setting the
13091 member to NULL afterword, therefore repeated attempts to test/free() the
13092 members result in an attempt to free() memory winboard no longer owns, and
13095 link to problematic commit: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/xboard.git/commit/?id=fa8be4a3fc5d81e9ec1f6c218fcf55c95d34fd10
13097 2009-10-01 16:49:57 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
13098 Added wchat.c to the project files we maintain.
13100 2009-10-01 15:52:50 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
13101 Previous fix for VC++/strcasecmp() was wrong-- use StrCaseCmp().
13103 2009-10-01 14:49:58 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
13104 Add resource ID for new Mute menu item.
13106 I know this was probably done by HG, and simply left out of
13107 his commit. Anyway, the project can be built now after this change.
13109 2009-10-01 14:49:09 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
13110 Use of strcasecmp() broke Visual C++.
13112 2009-09-30 20:47:00 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13113 wrong default value for engineDebugOutput
13115 the new default is now 1
13117 2009-09-29 22:55:41 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13118 updated cmail.in to adapt the CVS->git change
13120 don't reference $Revision:$ anymore.
13121 Instead use reference xboard-version via autoconf.
13123 2009-09-29 22:04:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13124 bugfix for protocol extensions: egtbpath -> egtpath
13126 A new and very bad bug was discovered in the implementation of
13127 the protocol extensions: XBoard sends a command "egtbpath" to the
13128 engine in stead of "egtpath" from the protocol specs.
13129 After discussion on WB forum it was decided that egtpath was better
13130 than the egtbpath I originally had proposed, and I changed it accordingly,
13131 but I had not realized that this string occurred TWICE in backend.c,
13132 depending on if matched the -defaultPathEGTB of -egtFormats option.
13133 I only changed the first occurence.
13135 2009-09-27 12:27:44 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13136 fix for edit-position "moves" being sent by XBoard to the engine
13138 2009-09-27 12:25:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13139 Engine did not start playing when out of GUI book on second move with white
13141 2009-09-27 12:24:30 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13142 Opening Engine #1 Settings crashed XBoard when there were no
13143 text-edit options in the dialog (to which to set keyboard focus)
13146 2009-09-27 12:18:35 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13147 added a "Mute All Sounds" item in the WinBoard Options menu, on Eric's request
13149 2009-09-27 12:15:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13150 Updated the RTF docs for the chat windows, engine-settings dialog,
13151 /keepAlive option and new game-list tag
13153 2009-09-27 12:14:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13154 Made the beep sounds for JAWS board navigation configurable through
13155 command-line options
13157 2009-09-27 12:11:49 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13158 Prepared a system to internationalize the WinBoard menus
13160 2009-09-27 12:10:38 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13161 added the result comment to the game-list tags when the game list is
13162 exported to the clipboard
13164 2009-09-27 12:05:32 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13165 rewrote wevalgraph for better frontend/backend separation
13167 I have finished re-writing the eval-graph code to have some
13168 front-end / backe-end separation, something I had already started on my
13169 holiday in Norway (when I had no internet :-) ).
13170 The new code now appears to work exactly like the old code,
13171 and I guess it could be ported to gtk comparatively easily.
13173 2009-09-27 12:00:51 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13174 fix for keepalive and chat window
13176 I made a fix to the keepAlive option so it does not send the date command
13177 to the ICS after every move. This required changing ScheduleDelayedEvent()
13178 so that it does not execute the event if a new identical one gets scheduled.
13179 I also added the option to XBoard. Affects xboard.c (DOS!) and winboard.c
13181 (This also cures the regression of the winboard.c copyright patch)
13183 I extended the chatbox patch to also listen to channel tells, and divert
13184 them to a chatbox for that channel number. Affects
13185 backend.c and wchat.c
13187 That should make those patches fully operational. No docs for either of them
13190 2009-09-27 10:36:23 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13191 fixed parse bug for pgn files
13193 fixed the existing bug that the time-control tag was displayed as "?"
13194 in the game list; turns out it was never parsed on reading PGN files
13196 2009-09-27 10:35:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13197 allow the result comment as a display item in the game list
13199 2009-09-27 10:35:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13200 fixed the HAVE_LIBXPM-dependent compile errors
13202 2009-09-27 10:24:47 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13203 added a chat window to keep track of multiple conversations
13205 The chat-window patch affects:
13206 winboard.c, backend.c, winboard.rc, resource.h, backend.h, and adds
13207 the file winboard/wchat.c, which also affects makefile.gcc and makefile.ms.
13209 In addition I added a new option -keepAlive, which affects
13210 common.h (in addition to winboard.c and backend.c).
13212 As I had to modify backend.h, I also defined the -reset option type there,
13213 which we are going to add later. This required some changes
13214 to suppress warnings in wsettings.c.
13216 2009-09-27 10:22:16 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13217 more files for git to ignore
13219 most of these are generated by make distcheck
13221 2009-09-08 09:33:53 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13222 another bug fix found by Stanislav Brabec
13224 returned -1 in some case although the variable was a char...
13225 changed to signed char
13227 2009-09-20 23:13:13 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
13228 Swapped 'tell' and 'message' parsing order for colorization.
13229 Sometimes messages are relayed as tells and should be colorized as tells.
13231 2009-09-08 09:10:34 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13232 added some more files to be distributed via make dist
13234 as suggested by Stanislav Brabec
13236 2009-09-08 09:01:07 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13237 fixed some implicit declarations reported by Stanislav Brabec
13239 2009-09-07 22:04:39 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13240 fixed a few more small bugs reported by Stanislav Brabec
13242 - A function uses a 'return;' statement, but has actually a value to
13243 return, like an integer ('return 42;') or similar: xboard voidreturn
13244 xengineoutput.c:766, 782
13246 - Program returns random data in a function at xengineoutput.c:602
13248 - With a new toolchain, AM_LDFLAGS cannot contain libraries. Linker
13249 ignores them. Fix is attached.
13251 - ToDo: Convenient name in most projects is TODO (autotools package it
13254 2009-09-06 19:11:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13255 reverted .texi file and fixed Makefile.am
13257 the problem was actually not in the texi-file, but the Makefile.am.
13258 Reverted changes in the .texi and fixed it (hopefully) correctly now.
13260 2009-09-06 18:23:01 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13261 get "make distcheck" to work
13263 needed to add all *.h files to Makefile.am and also the bitmaps that
13264 are needed and some other files. Also had modified copyright.texi.
13266 2009-09-05 09:54:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13267 changed to version 4.4.0
13269 2009-09-05 09:44:21 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13270 updated AUTHORS, README and ChangeLog files for release
13272 2009-09-05 08:52:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13275 2009-09-04 22:39:45 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13276 set castling rights after setting up a position
13278 I was going through old WB forum posts, and I encountered a
13279 bug report for a bug that I never fixed: The castling rights should
13280 be properly set (actually: cleared) after setting up a position
13281 in Edit Position mode (as opposed to pasting a FEN).
13283 2009-09-03 23:11:18 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13284 removed install files from master
13286 they now live in their own branch
13288 2009-09-03 22:30:18 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13289 updated polyglot protocol
13291 I added a new option type "-reset" to the protocol for the new option feature.
13292 4.4.0 does not implement it yet, but Michel wants it for future Polyglots,
13293 and I think it is best to update the protocol in one big swoop.
13294 So I want to already include it in the specs now. (engine-intf.html)
13295 I made xboard's response to an unknown option type compliant
13296 with the new protocol specs.
13298 2009-09-03 22:28:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13301 2009-09-03 20:47:13 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
13302 Updated project files for DevCpp and Visual Studio to add wsettings.c
13304 2009-09-03 20:46:33 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
13305 Added newline at end of file to silence warning.
13307 2009-08-31 20:29:49 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13308 workaround for error message for missing pieces used in variants
13309 and initstring bugfix: error messages showed for non-existing pieces
13310 showed up for old user supplied pixmaps.
13311 Loading a pixmap of the king for the missing pieces now.
13313 Another bad bug surfaced: the -initString argument does not work in any
13314 XBoard version! (Including 4.2.7b) The escape sequences for linefeed in
13315 the string are not understood: -initString "new\nrandom\n" actually sends
13316 the \ and n to the engine (which then does not recognize the line as a
13319 So I also added a patch to expand escape sequences in the InitString and
13320 ComputerString command-line options.
13322 2009-08-31 20:27:24 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13323 updated installe script
13325 I re-organized the doc files in the install, so they now all go in the
13326 WinBoard\doc folder (and none in the root). I so included the COPYING
13327 and COPYRIGHT files there. This required some updates of the links in
13328 some html files, and of the menu link to README.html in the install script.
13329 I also fixed an error with the current directory
13330 in the menu short-cuts of some engines (which started in the fonts folder,
13331 and could not find the opening book there...).
13333 2009-08-31 20:25:17 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13334 updated documentation
13336 2009-08-31 20:20:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13337 updated installer script
13339 2009-08-31 19:51:48 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13340 new help files for windows
13342 2009-08-25 20:41:29 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13345 2009-08-25 20:36:53 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13346 undid some previous changes
13348 some files got mixed up
13350 2009-08-25 20:32:22 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13351 fixed small bug in wsetting
13353 2009-08-25 20:29:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13354 trigger a focus switch to ICS input field when typing
13356 old behavior was that "." or "," triggered this,
13357 now every printable character except 1-9 will trigger the focus switch
13359 2009-08-25 20:26:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13360 bug in backend.c when receiving lines from ICS
13362 A space was appended to every character received from an ICS
13363 in stead of just at line breaks.
13365 2009-08-24 23:47:48 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13366 fixed warning messages from compiler
13368 2009-08-23 14:24:38 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13369 fixed build on OS X
13371 this seems to fix it. Bug reported by Louis Zulli who also did the testing.
13373 2009-08-23 11:54:28 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13374 OK, this is the beefed up version of the Polyglot info-string kludge,
13377 2009-08-23 10:22:48 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13378 added missing X_LIBS references to Makefile.am
13380 2009-08-22 23:33:44 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13381 made the install script and executable
13383 2009-08-22 23:19:07 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13384 changed beta1 to beta2
13386 2009-08-22 23:14:11 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13387 fixed enable zippy in configure script and added some checks for OS X
13389 make tried to compile zippy even when --disable-zippy was given.
13390 Also fixed a bug in xboard.c where #ifdef instead of #if was used
13391 to test for ZIPPY (it's either 0 or 1, so we need #if). Also added
13392 some special checks for OS X, not sure if these will do it, but it's a start;)
13394 2009-08-22 19:09:54 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13395 added configure summary to configure output, also cleaned up configure.ac a bit
13397 used AS_HELP_STRING where possible
13399 2009-08-22 18:10:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13400 added check for malloc.h
13402 this should fix a build error on OS X
13404 2009-08-22 17:47:44 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13405 A small cosmetic change in the size of buttons
13406 inside a groupbox of the Engine-Setup dialog.
13408 2009-08-22 17:32:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13409 make xboard usable with UCI engines
13411 I made a small patch in xoptions.c (where the corresponding Engine Settings
13412 dialog was for XBoard), to make it at least usable for UCI engines: I now
13413 divide the options over upto 4 columns, if there are too many to fit into
13414 a single column. This seems to work. Still looks very ugly, but it is
13417 2009-08-22 17:30:05 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13418 fix premove for winboard
13420 This might fix the illusive premove problem. In 4.2.7 the code was not properly
13421 indented, and this led to an unbalanced braces error that I then fixed the
13422 wrong way. Click-click premoves did only work after clicking the toSquare twice.
13423 It might be that they actually did work after clicking it once,
13424 but that the highlights were not displayed (although set)
13425 for lack of a display refresh.
13427 2009-08-22 17:28:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13428 fixed bug for double saved games
13430 This patch should solve the problem with doubly saved games when XBoard is
13431 closed. I calculate a cecksum of each saved game now (including move comments),
13432 and suppress saving if the checksum is not changed.
13434 2009-08-22 17:25:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13435 fixed xengineoutput.c, to keep the duplicated code identical to that of wengineo.c.
13437 2009-08-22 17:24:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13438 updated xboard.texi: added warning that pixmaps are not build for all variants
13440 2009-08-22 17:19:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13441 added a dialog for engine-specific option settings
13443 2009-08-22 17:09:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13444 updated some documentation
13446 2009-08-22 17:07:10 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13447 fixed several bugs in the backend and added some more polyglot support
13449 * I added recognition for the new UCI3 option types that are recognized in the WB
13450 option features, to make sure this version is compatible with future Polyglots.
13451 Also fixed a bug that failed to strip an asterisk prefix from the first
13454 * I fixed the ICS-time-in-PGN bug.
13456 * I fixed a bug which caused a space to be missing when long lines broken up by
13457 an ICS were joined.
13459 2009-08-22 17:02:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13460 better polyglot support for engine ouput
13462 I fixed the algorithm for clearing the Engine Output window to work better with
13463 the latest Polyglot, whight outputs UCI "info strings" amongst the thinking
13466 2009-08-22 16:23:32 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
13467 Beginnings of installer for 4.4.0. HGM asked me to forward the nsi file,
13468 but it seemed best to just add the installer tree to git even though
13469 it's not finished. You must install NSIS then FontName-0.7.exe
13470 (included in installer folder) then run build.bat in the same directory.
13472 2009-08-05 22:18:29 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13473 patch backend.c to make the -noGUI option also work in ICS mode.
13475 2009-08-01 13:09:49 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13476 temporary fix for pre-select
13478 As a temporary kludge I replaced looking into the holdings for the piece type
13479 by figuring out which piece would belong on the clicked holdings square.
13480 This is a non-trivial process, as it depends on which pieces participate
13481 in a certain variant.
13483 2009-07-30 00:19:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13484 changed click-click moves
13486 I got complaints about the way XBoard 4.4.0 handles click-click moves,
13487 in particular changing the selected piece after selecting King
13488 (for which I suppressed interference with FRC castling in a rather brutal way).
13489 People tell me it is very annoying that clicks sometimes don't work to select a piece.
13490 WinBoard uses refined logic in the back-end to handle this, but the XBoard
13491 front-end is not interfaced with that yet.
13492 (This would require a major rewrite of the mouse handler.)
13493 This temporary patch suppresses this behavior in all variants that do not support
13494 Fischer castling, and even there only exhibit it for Rook-after-King selection
13495 (which will be interpreted as an attempt to enter a castling move as K x own R).
13497 2009-07-26 08:43:35 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13498 option -adjudicateDrawMoves is not included in the XBoard list.
13500 added it to the option list
13502 2009-07-21 20:23:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13503 converted files from dos to unix format
13505 run dos2unix over a bunch of files
13507 2009-07-16 07:43:38 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
13508 Stripped out unused VersionInfo
13510 2009-07-15 23:16:19 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13511 changed version to 4.4.0.beta1
13513 2009-07-15 23:12:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13514 updated INSTALL file to add ./autogen.sh
13516 2009-07-15 22:44:05 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13517 higher number of engine options possible now
13519 I upped the number of options per engine from
13520 50 to 100, and the average number of characters per option from 10 to 20.
13522 2009-07-15 12:30:37 -0600 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13525 2009-07-14 23:41:36 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
13526 Added version information to resources.
13528 2009-07-14 23:40:50 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
13529 Added Jaws targets to IDE projects.
13531 2009-07-14 23:39:12 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
13532 Final makefile adjustments and compiling instructions.
13534 2009-07-13 22:35:17 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
13535 Cleaned up garbage left behind from my makefile update.
13537 2009-07-13 22:26:56 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
13538 Updated cmdline makefiles to be able to produce JAWS binaries.
13540 This breaks support for MSVC 4.x. It may still be possible to
13541 use that compiler if you obtain the latest SDK from Microsoft.
13542 MSVC 6.0 still works, but I had to change the target windows
13543 version to 0x500 which causes warnings about building beta
13544 applications. This is all due to the use of MENUBARINFO data
13545 type in the jaws binary. You can reduce the WINVER to 0x0400
13546 safely if you are not building a JAWS binary, and MSVC 4.x
13549 2009-07-13 22:26:10 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
13550 Removed dependency on jfwapi.h
13552 Allows anyone to compile a jaws compatible binary.
13554 2009-07-13 22:23:31 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
13555 Fixed duplicate resource in winboard.rc
13557 PLEASE remember to pull before commiting. This is the 2nd
13558 time I've fixed this. It's a waste of time to keep fixing
13561 2009-07-13 19:36:58 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13562 resolved conflict between Xt and Xaw libraries
13564 seems like we don't need to link against Xt.
13566 2009-07-13 19:33:57 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13567 help-menu was not un-grayed in the JAWS version, when it played with engines
13569 2009-07-13 19:29:53 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13570 integrated jaws into winboard
13572 I integrated the JAWS patch now into WinBoard in such a way that the
13573 JAWS and standard version can use the same resource file. This new
13574 winboard.c contains the improved dialog layot of the JAWS version,
13575 but none of the menus and JAWS-specific acclerator keys. The latter
13576 are now generated at run time by code in jaw.s. As a result jaws.h
13577 could be cancelled, as there the JAWS-specific defines are no
13578 longer needed outside jaws.c (now the .rc does not use them), and
13579 is incorporated in it.
13581 2009-07-12 15:37:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13582 fixed problem in autoconf using Xaw3d
13584 rewrote the section for Xaw3d in the autoconf file
13586 2009-07-12 15:29:28 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
13587 Added Jaws support to GCC makefile
13589 2009-07-12 15:28:20 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
13590 added help support: MSVC IDE and DevCpp IDE project files
13592 2009-07-12 15:26:49 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
13593 Removed obsolete makefiles and support files.
13595 2009-07-12 12:33:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13596 updated AUTHORS with the help of git. use
13598 git log --pretty=oneline --name-only --author=AUTHORNAME v4.2.7..HEAD |sort |uniq
13600 a bit of hand editing and a quick emacs macro later and you have a nice
13601 comma seperated list of all files changes by one author between two commits.
13603 2009-07-12 12:31:47 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13604 updated Changelog using git log --no-merges --pretty="* %ai: %s%n %b" HEAD v4.2.7
13606 2009-07-12 11:34:28 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13607 cleaned up some more copyright notices
13609 2009-07-12 11:22:30 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13610 updated copyright to reflect A. Scotte as copyright holder
13612 need to mention him, since the paperwork won't be finished before the next release
13614 2009-07-12 10:56:29 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13615 updated patchlevel to "k"
13617 2009-07-12 10:53:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13618 fixed autoconf problem with VERSION/PATCHLEVEL variables
13620 xboard used it's own version of PRODUCT, VERSION and PATCHLEVEL variables.
13621 Switched to PACKAGE_STRING provided by autoconf
13623 2009-07-12 10:29:46 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13624 cleaned up old CVS left overs
13626 removed $Id tags from all files
13628 2009-07-12 10:10:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13629 converted xhistory via dos2unix
13631 2009-07-12 10:09:24 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13632 fixed crash in history window
13634 someone discovered that opening the move-history window in XBoard leads to
13635 an immediate crash. Turns out that renaming the menu item broke it! (The
13636 name of the item was apprently used elsewhere in the code to access it,
13637 for putting a check mark there.)
13639 2009-07-12 10:04:30 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13640 fix for Animation of castling moves in Chess960
13642 Animation of castling moves in Chess960 turned out to sometimes make the
13643 king disappear from the display. For the time being I patched this in
13644 xboard.c to suppress animation of FRC castling moves altogether. As FRC
13645 castlings internally are represented as KxR, the to-square does not make
13646 sense anyway, which made the animation look very weird even when it led
13647 not to a king disappearance act. And the Rook move of a castling is never
13650 2009-07-11 22:44:53 -0600 Eric Mullins <eric@hiarcs.(none)>:
13651 Update GCC makefile to remove .obj targets.
13653 Dunno how they got in there, but they should be .o
13655 2009-07-11 22:42:41 -0600 Eric Mullins <eric@hiarcs.(none)>:
13656 Update makefile dependencies on help.c and help.h.
13658 2009-07-11 22:36:59 -0600 Eric Mullins <eric@hiarcs.(none)>:
13659 Allow compiling with MSVC6.0 and 4.1
13661 Move prototypes into help.h, after making sure that DWORD_PTR is
13662 defined. Include help.h from winboard.c and help.c so both files
13663 benefit from the definition.
13665 2009-07-11 18:26:16 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13666 lists these accelerator keys in the menus for JAWS
13668 2009-07-11 18:24:19 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13671 This patch allows the use of Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V for Copy Game
13672 and Paste even in I C S mode when the board has focus.
13674 2009-07-11 18:22:17 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13675 better handling of pasting a game without PGN tags
13677 patch in wclipbrd.h to make it smarter to decide between pasting
13678 a game or a position so it can handle games without PGN tags.
13679 If it doesn't parse as a FEN it is assumed to be a game.
13681 2009-07-11 18:20:56 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13682 fixed parser error for knight move
13684 The parser had a strange quirk: it recognized bd2 as a valid Knight move
13685 (Nb1-d2) while this SAN format should be reserved for Pawn moves only.
13687 2009-07-11 18:19:30 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13688 fixed a few warnings in connection with the help patch (now warning free)
13690 2009-07-11 18:13:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13691 some major re-assignment of accelerator keys in the JAWS
13693 2009-07-11 16:54:53 -0600 Eric Mullins <eric@hiarcs.(none)>:
13694 several small fixes
13696 uptracked winboard.ini
13698 * Cleanup: moved "Some definitions required..." from winboard.c to config.h,
13699 and combined some definitions from borland w/ MS.
13701 * Changed internal HtmlHelp return type and 4th argument to facilitate various
13702 compilers. These changes, while not strictly adhering to HtmlHelp() conventions,
13703 won't impact anything since the function modified is internal only.
13705 * Modified HtmlHelp return values to integer to silence warnings.
13706 * Added help.c to the project in makefile.gcc & makefile.ms.
13707 * Fixed duplicate resource in winboard.rc.
13709 2009-07-09 22:08:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13710 added JAWS support; help files for Vista; bugfixes for winboard.c
13713 * help files should now work under Vista (the user has to have either
13714 a program to view old windows help files or to view html-files installed)
13715 * I fixed the tabbing between all windows that were added according to Tim's sugestions.
13716 * I added typing in of a move number in the move type-in dialog as a shortcut
13717 to going to that position by use of the < and > buttons. Mainly intended to
13718 ease life for the blind, but I think it can be generally useful.
13719 (Although the move-history dialog provides that functionality too,
13720 this is quicker if you don't happen to have it open.)
13721 * I added typing of a FEN in the move type-in dialog in Edit Position mode.
13722 (Which could not be used without mouse at all, and is defective
13723 in crazyhouse even with mouse, as there was no way to populate holdings.)
13725 2009-07-09 22:03:00 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13726 some bugfixes: ICS error handling
13728 * play a different sound for takebacks in ICS mode
13729 * pop up error messages for illegal moves for typed-in moves
13731 2009-07-09 21:50:41 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13732 removed no longer needed debug message
13734 2009-07-09 21:48:23 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13735 fixed compile error from a previous change
13737 2009-07-09 21:44:54 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13738 user selectable font in game list
13740 This makes the game list use the same (user selectable) font
13741 as the the move-history window.
13743 2009-06-30 21:27:34 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13744 fixed typos in xboard.texi documentation.
13746 2009-06-30 21:16:59 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13749 2009-06-27 17:06:26 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13750 changed font in engine output window
13752 The engine-output window now uses the same font as the move-history window
13753 (which was selectable in the "Options -> Fonts..." menu, while the other
13756 2009-06-27 17:03:19 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13757 fixed some characters in xboard.texi
13759 It seems that copying manual sections from the RTF to th texi file did
13760 somehow mess up the double-quote characters, and changed them into some
13761 strange (unicode?) symbols.
13763 2009-06-27 16:56:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13764 two shogi related bugfixes
13766 I discovered a bug in the move generator for the Shogi Dragon King. I
13767 guess it went unnoticed so far because this is a promoted version of the
13768 Rook, which hardly occurs in games. (moves.c)
13770 There was also a problem with the piecesfix I sent you before; Shogi
13771 chosen as initial variant did use wrong piece symbols. (I had tested this
13772 on gothic, but there it happened to work for a different reason, unique to
13773 gothic.) This affects xboard.c.
13775 2009-06-27 16:54:04 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13778 2009-06-27 16:51:02 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13779 adds bitmaps for shogi promotions, and selects the bitmaps or
13780 pixmaps for the more rarely used piece types on a per-variant basis.
13782 2009-06-27 16:44:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13783 adds new piece types in the promotion dialog and edit-position piece menu
13785 2009-06-27 16:13:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13786 updated bitmaps files: files for fairy pieces where missing,
13787 others had names that didn't work with autoloading.
13789 2009-06-27 16:06:35 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13790 fixed a bug concerning bitmaps
13792 2009-06-27 15:53:45 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13793 give a default directory for bitmaps files (tiny change)
13795 this is also one of the debian patches, should be rewritten to use
13796 the correct install directory. No Author was given.
13798 2009-06-27 15:47:52 -0700 Brian May <>:
13799 verbose_error_message_about_recognized_options (tiny change from Debian patches)
13801 2009-06-27 15:45:14 -0700 Matt Zimmerman <>:
13802 add a visual low time warning (tiny change from Debian patches)
13804 2009-06-24 23:31:52 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13805 dos 2 unix conversion of backend.c
13807 2009-06-24 23:30:07 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13808 exchanged some sprintf with snprintf found in a patch for the debian system,
13809 extended it a bit to other sprintf's original patch included only 11 lines
13810 by Florian Ernst <florian@debian.org>
13812 2009-06-24 23:07:23 -0700 Mark Ioli <chessknight>:
13813 enabled a patch for default settings in winboard
13815 2009-06-24 22:53:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13816 updated copyright notice
13819 2009-06-24 22:52:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13820 patches a bug in chosing the initial board size on a virgin startup
13821 I introduced recently
13823 2009-06-24 22:49:33 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13824 I put in testing for the winning condition in 3checks
13826 on a check it just goes through the entire game to subject
13827 every position on a check test, to see if there were two more.
13829 2009-06-24 22:47:01 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13830 updated copyright notice in docs
13832 2009-06-24 22:41:40 -0700 Florian Ernst <florian@debian.org>:
13833 added small patch from debian (tiny change)
13835 according to the debian patch tracker, this patch is by
13836 Florian Ernst <florian@debian.org>.
13837 It fixes whitespace issues in filename called from cmail.
13839 2009-06-24 22:33:13 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13840 converted dos2unix format for xboard.texi
13842 2009-06-24 22:31:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13843 deleted two more files that don't need to be in git
13845 these files can be generated by autogen.sh
13847 2009-06-21 12:10:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13848 major overhaul of the -stickyWindows feature
13850 I did a major overhaul of the -stickyWindows feature.
13851 The game-list and ICS-interaction windows are now also sticky.
13852 I also added a form of stickiness when the main window is resized;
13853 edges of auxiliary windows sticking to the right or bottom side of
13854 the main window stay attached when the window resizes
13855 (due to nr of board squares or their size). The way the window
13856 coordinates are saved in the .ini file is now relative to the
13857 main window, and some dummy options are added to be able to
13858 recognize right- and bottom-edge sticking, and reconstruct that
13859 when WB starts up with another board size. Also added are
13860 volatile options to ensure there will be space for auxiliary windows
13861 above and left of the main window.
13863 2009-06-21 12:07:01 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13864 fixed long-algebraic form of drops
13866 The WB parser turned out not to understand the long-algebraic form
13867 of drops send by an ICS. (like B/@@-e4), so even with
13868 legality testing off I now use the SAN move for drops.
13870 2009-06-18 18:35:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13871 Refined stalemate adjudication in Suicide, some cleanup
13873 Refined stalemate adjudication in Suicide, which seems to be not always won
13874 for the stalemated side, but for the side with the smallest number of pieces.
13875 Cleaned up the adjudication code in the process. (backend.c moves.c, moves.h)
13876 Also includes a tiny change in the -autoKibitz format, as requested on
13879 2009-06-18 18:32:57 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13880 Enhancement of the way -autoLogo decides which logos to display
13882 2009-06-16 00:06:59 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13883 bugfix and enhancement in autoKibitz mode
13885 changed the format of the autoKibitz: score/depth in stead of depth/score,
13886 as in PGN. I also supress the ICS time for the move now in the PGN
13887 if extended info is available. When enhancing the functionality of
13888 the autoKibitz command (using the opponent engine kibitz for the saved PGN)
13889 I discovered that the xengineoutput.c in our tree was obsolete,
13890 and contained a routine of which the arguments were no longer compatble
13891 with the call from backend.c, and caused segfaulting. I copied in
13892 the corresponding routine in wengineo.c, which was compatible. That the
13893 compiler did not flag this is a sign of badly organized code, I suppose...
13895 The enhancement itself affected backend.c.
13897 2009-06-16 00:04:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13898 modified clock layout
13900 I altered the display of the clocks in the presence of engine logos; I used to
13901 stack them, but some inquiry on Talkchess sowed that people disliked the
13902 stacking. So now I display them next to each other again, but as 2-line-high
13903 fields to make room for te logos.
13905 2009-06-15 23:59:32 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13906 new zippy option zippyShortGame
13908 On request of Mike Adams I added a new zippy option, -zippyShortGame,
13909 to make life more difficult for abusers of abort and disconnect for cheating.
13911 2009-06-15 23:56:40 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13912 fixed some bugs in the animation of atomic captures
13914 2009-06-13 15:27:26 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13915 some small bugfixes
13917 I had overlooked one place from which the FEN writer
13918 (of whicf I changed the argument types), which made WB crash
13919 if you copied a FEN (or PGN that cotained FEN) to the clipboard.
13920 I must have overlooked a warning during compile, or some depedency
13921 is not correct in the makefile. Anyway, wclipboard.c had to be changed.
13922 I also moved adjudication of some losing conditions to before tetsing
13923 for stalemate, (e.g. in atomic, if your king get destroyd you lose,
13924 even if you have no moves after that because it was your only piece.).
13925 this affects backend.c.
13926 I had used the same bits in the rule-modifier flags for indicating
13927 mandatory capture as was already used for indicating FRC-style castling.
13928 This led to frequent illegal move calls in FRC... (moves.h)
13930 2009-06-13 10:45:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13931 cleaned up HTML in FAQ.html -- still need to work on content
13933 2009-06-13 09:36:26 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13934 added option for work-around for some FRC engines in regards to FRCFENs
13936 It suddenly occurred to me that I had promised on CCC to include an option
13937 to provide a work-around for the problem that some FRC engines do not
13938 understand FRC FENs (and thus do not play at all under WinBoard,
13939 as FRC always has to begin with sending the initial position).
13940 So I added the options -firstNeedsNoncompliantFEN, -secondNeedsNoncompliantFEN.
13941 This affects winboard.c and xboard.c, (for defining the option),
13942 common.h, backend.h, backend.c, (for implementing it),
13943 xboard.texi and winboard.rtf (decribing it).
13944 This option provides users with a means to always force the FEN castling field
13945 to KQkq (but can be used for many other work-arounds as well).
13947 2009-06-13 09:30:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13948 fixed bug with random calls
13950 There also seemed to be a bug with the shuffling of opening positions;
13951 I had changed the declaration of the position number from
13952 long long int to u64 to comply with MSVC, but this suppressed shuffling
13953 completely. I now changed it to int. I recently noted a problem with true
13954 randomizing anyway: this was based on srand(time()), but time() apparently
13955 did not change fast enough, so that starting several games in rapid succession
13956 (because the book line contained a 3-fold repetition) produced identical games.
13957 So I now seed the random once and for all during startup, based on the msec of
13958 the time mark, and removed the other calls to srand().
13960 2009-06-13 09:26:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13961 changed name for fairymax program in xboard.h
13963 2009-06-13 09:25:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13964 removed my name from copyright message in help->about menu
13966 2009-06-13 09:22:02 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13967 fixed -stickyWindows option
13969 I figured out why -stickyWindows was not working in XP and Vista
13970 (while it always worked under Win2K), and I think I found a fix for
13971 it that works under all Windows versions. (I tried XP and Win2K.)
13973 2009-06-13 09:20:38 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13974 Updated docs for Engine-Settings menu
13976 2009-06-13 09:19:05 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13977 Awareness of winning conditions for atomic and giveaway variants; two bugfixes
13979 fixed bug in claim verification
13980 Bugfix on initial position of Great Shatranj
13982 2009-06-13 09:16:47 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13983 Legality testing (mandatory capture) in giveaway variants
13985 2009-06-13 09:16:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
13986 don't ignore winboard/parser.c
13988 2009-06-13 09:12:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13989 Added new variant Twilight Chess
13991 2009-06-13 09:08:57 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13992 some renaming and restructuring of WB menu items, to conform more to XBoard
13994 2009-06-13 09:07:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13995 Fixed bug in atomic patch that interfered with non-atomic variants
13997 2009-06-10 21:46:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
13998 fixed different use of engine option compared to Polyglot
14000 it turns out the new Polyglot uses a sightly different version
14001 of the GUI->engine option command than the one I proposed
14002 (and implemented in XBoard; Michel sneaked in an '=' sign
14003 between the NAME and VALUE of the option, to allow for
14004 more unambiguous parsing. I guess in principle this is a good idea,
14005 so I adapted XBoard to Polyglot rather than the other way around.
14006 The result is that there are canges in xboard.c, and the documentation.
14007 I noticed that I unjustly had internationalized the option strings
14008 to be send to the engine in xoptions.c; this was of course nonsense,
14009 as this was WB protocol. So I undid that too.
14011 2009-06-10 21:37:47 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14012 add the already supported variants 3check and great (=Great Shatranj)
14013 to the New Variant... menu.
14015 2009-06-10 21:32:22 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14016 animate explosions in variant atomic (if animate moves is on).
14018 2009-06-10 21:30:19 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14019 fixed castling bug in variant twokings.
14021 2009-06-10 21:22:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14022 fixed forteitary wins for special game variations
14024 feature that corrects forfeitary wins (e.g. on time)
14025 of a bare King to draws of course breaks proper operation
14026 in losers, suicide and giveaway
14028 2009-06-09 21:02:51 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14029 automatically test ini file extension for files from commandline option @filename
14031 The winboard.c is a patch that automatically tries indirection files on the
14032 command line (@filename type arguments) also with an extension .ini if the name itself
14033 did not match any existing file and contained no period. This saves the user typing the
14034 .ini all the time (which I started to find pretty annoying while working on the installer
14037 2009-06-08 15:23:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14038 added gamelisttag option to xboard
14040 also updated documentation.
14042 2009-06-08 15:20:00 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14043 updated RTF file for winboard
14045 2009-06-06 09:12:48 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
14046 fixed syntax error in texi file
14048 2009-06-06 08:57:52 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
14049 updated to patchlevel "j"
14051 2009-06-06 09:00:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14052 fixed adjudicating probelm in Shantranj
14054 Refrain from adjudicating a draw based on insufficient mating material
14055 (except bare King vs bare King) in Shatranj (where in this case you can
14056 still win by baring the opponent's King).
14058 2009-06-06 08:55:17 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14059 updated documentation and FAQ
14061 2009-06-04 22:52:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14062 source clean up. Fix compiler warning, removed unused variables, etc.
14064 2009-06-04 20:43:29 -0700 Eric Mullins <emwine at earthlink.net>:
14065 adding support for different windows compiler
14067 Eric kindly provided us with some makefiles for different windows
14068 compiler and also fixed some issues that came up while using those compilers.
14070 2009-06-04 18:27:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
14071 cleanup: got rid of a lot of files that are not needed for a new release
14073 lots of documentation was available in several places,
14074 old unused source files and not used graphics file were floating around
14075 in the tree. This should clean up most of it. No need to keep these files
14076 around, especially since we are using version control.
14078 2009-05-29 18:56:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14079 Added the Action-menu items that allow the user to adjudicate
14080 ongoing games in Two-Machines mode. This was an already existing
14081 backend function from Winboard_x; I only had to create a menu item for it
14082 to be called. Due to an oversight I had forgotten to do that so far.
14083 (Logically, I should have done it in the 4.3.5 release,
14084 where I updated the XBoard menus to conform to the WinBoard menus.)
14086 I tested them, and they seem to work. (As expected.)
14088 2009-05-28 22:23:00 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
14089 updated patchlevel to "i"
14091 2009-05-28 22:19:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14092 small change to mousewheel support; two changes in window behaviour
14094 * Visible effects during resizing suppressed, bug in chosing new size fixed.
14095 * No longer reserves left and top margins next to main window on first popup.
14096 * built in some hysteresis into mousewheel support, ignorng the first event in any new
14097 direction to suppress effects from accidential mouse movement.
14099 2009-05-28 22:11:11 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14100 corrected 'animate dragging'
14102 I finally figured out how the 'animate dragging' works in XBoard,
14103 so that I could add code to do the unstacking of multiple pieces
14104 in the holdings, rather than always leaving an empty square while
14105 you drag them. (And then suddenly re-growing the remaining pieces
14106 as you make the drop.) It does not look as fancy as in WinBoard
14107 yet, because the counts still only decrease when you release the
14108 piece, rather than when you lift it. But this is not nearly as
14109 disturbing as leaving empty holdings (if only temporarily) when
14110 you still have pieces there.
14112 2009-05-28 22:06:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14113 Added comand-line options -debugFile (as synonym for -nameOfDebugFile,
14114 as WinBoard also has these synonyms), and -engineDebugOutput
14115 (wich already existed in the backend).
14117 2009-05-28 21:57:53 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14118 updated documentation for new release
14120 2009-05-28 21:55:51 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14121 added Xiangqi perpetual-chase detection
14123 2009-05-28 00:06:53 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
14124 Updated all files to GPL version 3.
14126 2009-05-28 00:03:32 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
14127 converted two files from dos to unix format
14129 2009-05-27 23:12:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
14130 updated INSTALL, NEWS and other files for new release
14132 cleaned up a bit and updated some information in the text files.
14134 2009-05-07 21:48:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
14135 winboard/config.h shouldn't be in .gitignore, only ./config.h
14137 2009-05-07 21:47:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14138 bumped patchlevel to 0g
14140 2009-05-07 21:46:02 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14141 corrected path in makefile
14143 2009-05-07 21:45:48 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14146 2009-05-07 21:45:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14147 added firstOptions, secondOptions, noGUI, firstXBook, secondXBook
14149 2009-05-07 21:44:03 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14150 handle promotion case for Shogi
14152 2009-05-07 21:43:34 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14153 add note about RESULT command for GUI programmers
14155 2009-05-07 21:42:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14156 small changes to book.c
14158 added code for different board sizes
14159 added some debuginfo
14160 handle promotion of pieces
14162 2009-05-05 23:07:18 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
14163 added a .gitignore file
14165 2009-05-03 12:41:06 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
14166 wrong line ending for Unix... ran dos2unix on both files
14168 2009-05-02 13:51:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
14169 fixed texinfo files, added windows help file, removed config.h from git
14171 texinfo.in is not needed anymore, since it only provided a
14172 version string, but this can be created automatically using autotools
14174 deleted config.h from version control, since it is automatically created.
14175 added winboard.hlp file (not sure if needed)
14177 2009-04-26 23:34:34 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
14178 updated autoconf init file
14180 * renamed autoconf init file from configure.in to configure.ac
14181 * added bug-report email address to ac_init
14182 * replaced ac_output(...) with ac_config_files, ac_config_commands and ac_output
14184 2009-04-26 14:49:03 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
14185 parser.c is generated by lex, so it shouldn't be tracked
14186 and also parcer.c shouldn't be in Makefile.am
14188 2009-04-26 14:44:51 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
14189 added book.c to Makefile.am
14191 2009-04-26 13:49:15 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
14192 use autoheader to create config.h.in
14194 no need to track this in git anymore
14196 2009-04-26 11:13:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
14197 fixed autoheader warings, remove depreciated acconfig.h
14199 2009-04-26 10:30:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
14202 2009-05-02 10:55:39 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14203 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.16
14205 2009-05-02 10:50:10 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14206 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.15
14208 2009-05-02 10:38:39 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14209 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.14
14211 2009-05-02 10:13:41 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14212 HGM fixed cygwin compile for winboard
14214 2009-04-24 16:11:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
14215 cross compilier working
14217 2009-04-19 10:00:52 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14218 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.13
14220 2009-04-19 09:52:47 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14221 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.12
14223 2009-04-19 09:48:59 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14224 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.8
14226 2009-04-19 09:44:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14227 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.7
14229 2009-04-19 09:39:19 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14230 changes by H.G. Muller; version 4.3.4
14232 2009-04-19 09:34:31 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14233 changes from H.G. Muller; version 4.3.2
14235 2009-04-19 10:26:24 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
14236 changes from H.G. Muller
14238 2009-04-16 23:06:13 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
14239 cleaned up the directory a bit. Removed winboard-dm-beta,
14240 merged the two Changelogs together
14242 2009-04-16 14:12:48 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
14243 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20060129
14245 2009-04-16 14:09:33 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
14246 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20060112
14248 2009-04-16 14:04:02 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
14249 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20051231
14251 2009-04-16 13:59:12 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
14252 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20051129
14254 2009-04-16 13:53:41 -0700 A. Scotti <dev@ascotti.org>:
14255 changes from Alessandro Scotti from 20050322
14257 2009-04-10 04:18:59 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
14258 translated a handfull of strings and set the codeset to UTF-8
14259 for the translations.
14261 2009-03-18 03:20:50 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
14262 Translation: added German po file (roughly 50% translated)
14264 2009-03-01 04:23:54 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
14265 fixed bug #22853: changed all .Xdefaults to .Xresources in xboard.texi
14267 2009-03-01 02:43:43 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
14268 fixed bug #25672, patch #6182 by adding DESTDIR support to Makefile.in
14270 2009-03-01 02:33:26 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
14271 fixed a warning message in the configure script
14273 2009-02-28 22:58:57 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
14274 fixed parser.l. Should fix bug #22812
14276 2009-02-28 22:58:14 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
14277 fixed parser.l. Should fix bug #22812
14279 2009-02-28 22:55:30 +0000 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
14280 added myself to the AUTHOR file
14282 2007-06-15 04:26:57 +0000 Mark Loli <chessknight>:
14283 Initial check-in of NSIS Winboard installer files.
14285 * 06/12/2005: bugfix some more possible buffer overflows.
14287 * 06/27/2004: added simple icsEngineAnalyze for xboard
14289 * 06/26/2004: added icsEngineAnalyze for winboard: Analyze observe games
14290 with a chessprogram on a Internet Chess Server (ICS)
14292 * 02/12/2004: Bugfix ICS interaction console crashed while chess
14293 engine starting and user type in some stuff. We wait now to finish
14296 * 02/11/2004: Winboard: Added color lines for the ics interaction
14297 console if zippy used
14299 * 02/09/2004: Added mousewheel support for winboard. Play moves
14300 backward and forward with the mousewheel.
14302 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.7 -- Fri Nov 28 13:36:00 PST 2003 -- Tim Mann
14304 * 11/26/2003: In WinBoard, setting the -debug flag now logs ICS output
14305 to WinBoard.debug too. (This isn't needed in xboard because ICS
14306 output already goes to stdout, so it's easy to capture along with the
14307 debug output on stderr.) This was issue #280 in the ToDo file.
14309 * 11/23/2003: Cleaned up some minor problems in cygwin.mak. Thanks to
14310 Hans Werner Strube for the problem report.
14312 * 11/23/2003: Updated the default list of chess servers in
14313 winboard/defaults.h. Deleted two that appear to be dead and added a
14314 new one that is active.
14316 * 11/19/2003: Swapped icon_white.bm and icon_black.bm in XBoard.
14317 Hopefully this will get them the right way around by default on more X
14318 window managers. I wish I understood this better.
14320 * 11/18/2003: Implemented a simple 32-bit random number generator for
14321 WinBoard, replacing the Windows rand(), which ranges only up to
14322 0x7fff. Formerly on Windows, only zippy.lines sayings that started in
14323 the first 32767 bytes of the file could ever be used. This was issue
14324 #505 from the ToDo file.
14326 * 11/16/2003: The xboard man page and info files are now built from a
14327 common set of texinfo source files, and the xboard man page now covers
14328 cmail as well. Formerly, ever since the texinfo file was first
14329 contributed to the project, it was separate from the man page and the
14330 two files had to be updated in parallel, making for a maintenance
14331 nightmare. To make combining the files possible, I took the Perl
14332 script "texi2man" from the GNU Units project and added support for a
14333 larger subset of the texinfo markup language. I then carefully
14334 compared the old man page and old texinfo file to make sure the latest
14335 and clearest words survived into the new combined texinfo file. It
14336 would be great to merge in WinBoard's help file too, but that's a
14337 larger project. It would have to be heavily conditionalized to
14338 deal with differences in features between XBoard and WinBoard.
14340 * 11/15/2003: Cleaned up and applied a small patch from Daniel
14341 Mehrmann, to stop overly long PVs in thinking output from causing a
14342 buffer overflow crash in backend.c.
14344 * 11/5/2003: When a chess engine sends a "telluser" command (including
14345 the cases where "tellall" or "tellopponent" acts like telluser), the
14346 information now goes into a nonmodel popup that is automatically
14347 dismissed when the user clicks anywhere on the board. This fix is
14348 more significant on WinBoard, where formerly you got a fully modal
14349 dialog that had to be dismissed by clicking on OK before anything else
14350 could happen. The bug was issue #406 in the ToDo file.
14352 * 11/1/2003: Removed email addresses from this file to reduce spam
14353 load, as it gets linked to from the Web.
14355 * 11/1/2003: Updated READ_ME and winboard/READ_ME.txt.
14357 * Modified xboard and winboard makefiles to be able to build the
14358 project in the new combined directory structure.
14360 * Applied a small security fix to pxboard, from Martin Maeok.
14362 * Fixed a bug in the game list dialog. The change in 4.2.6 to opening
14363 games in text mode (meant to avoid getting extra \r's into comments)
14364 caused a new bug in determining seek offsets when parsing a game file
14365 to form the game list. Also, the change was incomplete; on some code
14366 paths games were still being opened in binary mode. Thanks to Lenik
14367 Terenin for reporting the offset bug. I've now gone back to always
14368 using binary mode when reading game files, and I've fixed the comment
14369 bug by adding code to remove \r's from parsed comments explicitly. I
14370 still use text mode for writing game files so that games written by
14371 WinBoard will have Windows-style line endings.
14373 * Fix for minor bug in WinBoard installer. If you chose a non-default
14374 destination directory, the default directory was still used for a
14375 couple of unimportant things, namely setting the App Paths registry
14376 keys (unused by WinBoard) and trying to copy the existing WinBoard.ini
14377 file to WinBoard.old. I inherited this bug from the InstallShield 5
14378 sample template. Thanks to "l.d." for noticing the incorrect keys.
14380 * Patch from Chris Priest: when two engines are being run through rsh,
14381 avoid reusing the same stderr port for both. I'm not sure why this
14382 should be needed, but it's harmless, at least.
14384 * Bugfix: The kludge to deal with old engines that give an error
14385 message because they don't know the "st" command was too sloppy; it
14386 could hit on an "st" substring anywhere in an error message. GNU
14387 Chess 4 is the only engine I know of where the kludge was needed, so I
14388 changed the kludge to match a longer, more GNU-specific string.
14390 * Changed the WinBoard self-extracting installer to choose a unique
14391 temporary subdirectory name within the Windows temp directory instead
14392 of always putting wb-setup directly in temp. Besides being better
14393 practice, this avoids the need to deltree wb-setup first, which
14394 occasionally alarms someone who thinks that deltree is only used by
14395 trojans to delete all your files. (Yes, I'm serious.)
14397 * Fixed a bug where FICS-style "wild/0" strings were not parsed as the
14398 proper wild type. The "/" was not being skipped.
14400 * Fixed a WinBoard bug where temporary files created by game
14401 copy/paste were being created in the root directory of the current
14402 drive instead of the TMP directory and were not always deleted on exit.
14404 * Fixed a small bug in winboard.c's ErrorDialog() function. Thanks to
14405 "Ron" (no last name given). The bug might have caused a problem when
14406 pressing OK or Cancel in an error dialog when more than one error
14407 dialog was being displayed, but I'm not really sure.
14409 * Removed a hack that worked around a bug in very old versions of
14410 Crafty, where it would sometimes reply "illegal move" to a "."
14411 command. The hack kept us from recognizing real illegal move messages
14412 in analyze mode from engines that don't respond to the "." command.
14413 Thanks to Fabien Letouzey for the report.
14415 * Fixed a bug in the xboard version of GetDelayedEvent. It would
14416 return the most recently scheduled event even if it had already fired.
14417 This caused at least one visible error: in -ics -xreuse mode, starting
14418 the engine again and seeing another "feature done=1" would re-run the
14419 initialization code in InitBackEnd3, including the code that opens the
14420 connection to ICS. The WinBoard version didn't have this bug. Thanks
14421 to Bob Hyatt for the bug report.
14423 * The promotion popup for ICC wild 26 (giveaway) now includes King.
14424 Thanks to Fredrik Josefsson for the bug report.
14426 * The first game in a file (or being pasted from the clipboard) can
14427 now start with a bare move -- no PGN tags, no move number "1", etc.
14428 Suggested by Shane Harrelson. One could imagine taking this farther
14429 and accepting something like "e4 e5 1/2-1/2 d4 d5" as two games, but
14430 I haven't done that.
14432 * Bug fix: xboard didn't really accept a paste of multiple games,
14433 contrary to what I wrote when adding the feature to WinBoard in
14434 4.2.4. Now it works in both.
14436 * Fixed generic start/end of game messages to work on chess.net, where
14437 they put ratings in parens after the player names.
14439 * Updated config.sub and config.guess to newer versions from
14440 automake-1.4p5-2. This makes configure work with MacOS X + X11.
14442 * Bugfix: when examining a game fragment on FICS where black plays
14443 first, don't show two "(0:00.000)" times on the initial "none" move.
14445 * If TestLegality is on and one of the engines makes an illegal move
14446 in TwoMachines mode, it forfeits immediately. Formerly the game would
14447 get stuck at that point and the engine that made the illegal move
14448 would eventually lose on time.
14450 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.6 -- Fri Feb 1 22:26:31 PST 2002
14453 Another small bugfix release.
14455 * Put in a small change from Alexander Mai to allow xboard to build in
14456 an OS/2 EMX environment.
14458 * Fix WinBoard-only bug where editing a PGN file with comments would
14459 insert more \r characters before the \n after every Load/Save cycle.
14460 For some unknown reason we were reading the files in "rb" mode but
14461 writing them in "a" mode, so we kept the \r characters on reading and
14462 added an extra one on writing. Fix: change the "rb" to "r". Thanks
14463 to Joel (last name not given) for the bug report.
14465 * Put the arguments to rsh/remsh in the right order for better
14466 portability. Thanks to Michael Kalisz.
14468 * FreezeUI is now implemented in WinBoard; it was previously only
14469 implemented in xboard. This function prevents the user from entering
14470 moves or other commands while we are waiting for an engine to
14471 initialize itself. Implementing it fixes a bug where the user could
14472 start a game (etc.) during feature negotiation. One of the symptoms
14473 of this bug was that we could send "new" one or move moves *after* the
14474 first game started!
14476 * Fixed some handle leaks (WinBoard only), including a nasty one that
14477 leaked one handle per command sent to ICS. Thanks to several folks
14478 who helped characterize the bug and tried to look for leaks.
14480 * We now install and look for the info file in ${prefix}/share/info
14481 instead of ${prefix}/info. The latter is still the default in
14482 autoconf, but the former is currently used in Red Hat Linux and
14483 probably elsewhere.
14485 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.5 -- Sat Dec 15 11:42:51 PST 2001
14488 * Changed the bundled GNU Chess 5.02 in the WinBoard package to
14489 include a much smaller book and to use much less hash table space by
14490 default (8 MB transposition table, 0.5 MB pawn evaluation table). The
14491 large book included with 4.2.4 made the WinBoard download too big for
14492 some people, and the default hash tables were larger than the
14493 available physical memory on some people's computers. I built the
14494 small book by running Crafty's "small.zip" book line collection
14495 through a Perl script that makes it look enough like real PGN games
14496 that the GNU Chess book builder will accept it. The script and some
14497 minor patches to GNU Chess 5 are available in the WinBoard source
14498 distribution and at http://www.tim-mann.org/gnuchess.html.
14500 * Fixed a bug in the code that deals with engines that complain that
14501 "time" and "otim" are illegal moves. This was a new bug in 4.2.4.
14503 * Revamped the implementation of ToStart in analysis mode. Formerly
14504 there was some ill-conceived code that would try to get back to the
14505 start of the game by doing a "new" command (and all the followup
14506 commands that requires) while remaining in analysis mode. This is
14507 problematic for engine authors to support, though it works with
14508 Crafty. This code was trying to solve the problem of ToStart being
14509 slow because the engine would try to start an analysis after every
14510 "undo" command all the way back to the start. But ToEnd already had a
14511 much better solution to this problem, and now ToStart does the same
14512 thing: we exit from analysis mode and enter force mode instead,
14513 make/unmake moves to get to the end/start of the game, and then
14514 reenter analysis mode.
14516 * Formerly, Zippy could try to start playing a game before the engine
14517 was initialized; that is, during the initial timeout for protover 1
14518 engines, or before "feature done=1" for protover 2 engines. We now
14519 wait until the engine is initialized before connecting to ICS, which
14520 fixes this in the common case. If you turn off engine reuse for
14521 multiple games (that is, if you give the -xreuse option), there could
14522 still be problems; see item 503 in the ToDo file. Thanks to Dieter
14523 Buerssner for the bug report.
14525 * Bugfix: All WinBoard versions since the merge with WinBoard Plus
14526 (but not xboard) have had a bug in changing the PeriodicUpdates,
14527 PonderNextMove, and ShowThinking options from the menu. The bug
14528 mostly just caused changing these options during a game to not take
14529 effect until after the next reset. For TwoMachines games, though,
14530 changing PonderNextMove just before the game would take effect
14531 immediately for the second engine but not until the next game for the
14532 first engine. Thanks to Koundinya Veluri for the bug report.
14534 * Bugfix: In 4.2.4, we sometimes got confused when trying to leave and
14535 reenter analyze mode. One symptom was that Analyze File did not work.
14536 Thanks to Igor Syry for the bug report.
14538 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.4 -- Sun Dec 9 14:56:30 PST 2001
14541 * WinBoard now includes GNU Chess 5.02 in place of GNU Chess 5.00.
14543 * WinBoard's PasteGameFromClipboard will now handle a paste with
14544 multiple games in it, popping up the game list dialog. xboard
14545 already did this. Suggested by Robert Gerstman.
14547 * We now use the "clearboard" command on ICC where appropriate.
14549 * Bugfix: don't generate a bogus "variant normal" command to an engine
14550 for the loadable ICC wild types that we internally flag as
14551 VariantLoadable. Also clarified the message that Zippy sends when
14552 declining such wild games -- it can't deal with the possibility of
14553 loading an arbitrary position into the game. Thanks to Dieter
14554 Buerssner for reporting the problem. It would be nice to be able to
14555 actually play these wild types some day; presumably there would have
14556 to be an option to either send "loadgame" with a specified position,
14557 or to deal with an opponent sending it.
14559 * If we get a holdings message from ICS when we thought we were
14560 playing normal chess, we now try asking for a move list so that we can
14561 find out from the header what's really happening. Formerly we guessed
14562 bughouse in this case. Response to a comment from Gian-Carlo
14565 * Fixed two longstanding bugs in the clock code. These affected only
14566 play between a user and a local engine, or between two local engines,
14567 not ICS play. (1) The last fractional second used by a player before
14568 moving and virtually pushing his clock was being charged to his
14569 opponent instead of to him. (2) The time and otim commands were being
14570 sent to an engine before the (buggy) fractional second update was
14571 done. The second bug was pretty harmless in itself, but the first one
14572 was serious. Many thanks to Peter Rosendahl for carefully diagnosing
14573 and reporting these bugs!
14575 * Changed WinBoard timestamp key. Nothing is changed other than the
14576 key and a recompilation. ICC may phase out the old key soon; if they
14577 do, you'll need to use the timestamp.exe from WinBoard 4.2.4 or later
14578 to connect to chessclub.com.
14580 * Fixed an xboard-only bug where most dialogs would not take keyboard
14581 input unless the mouse was actually over the dialog, even if the
14582 dialog window had focus. Thanks to Jason Varsoke for the bug report.
14584 * Bugfix; Remember to send time and otim commands to engine before
14585 sending playother. Thanks to Bob Hyatt for the bug report. Also
14586 fixed a bug where time and otim were sometimes sent even with feature
14589 * Added small patches from Wilkin Ng that are meant to fix a crash in
14590 CopyGameToClipboard and a "can't unlock clipboard memory" error in
14591 PasteTextFromClipboard, under Windows 2000.
14593 * Changed cygwin.mak to not use -mno-cygwin. In other words, it now
14594 uses cygwin1.dll instead of the mingw libraries. This works around
14595 bugs in fileno() and stat() that I encountered in mingw. (fileno
14596 seems to always return 0. stat fails because the library routine uses
14597 a different definition of struct stat than the header files provide.)
14598 Thanks to Robert Gerstman for reporting the symptoms these bugs caused
14599 when WinBoard was compiled with Cygwin.
14601 * Added -showButtonBar option. This lets you delete the << < P > >>
14602 buttons and thus widen the message widget a bit.
14604 * Added code to address a very obscure bug. If an engine dies and
14605 needs to be restarted while in one of the analyze modes, it was not
14606 getting put back into analyze mode. This bug should not really ever
14607 have gotten tickled unless reuse was turned off and the engine sends
14608 game end commands (such as 1-0) when a game ends by rule while in
14609 analyze mode. The next version of the protocol spec will say that
14610 engines should not do that, but version 2 and earlier didn't address
14613 * We now use the FICS "iset ms 1" feature to get times in ms instead
14614 of seconds. Thanks to DAV for email telling me about this feature.
14616 * Changed clock display to show tenths of seconds for 9.9 seconds and
14617 less, instead of 0.9 seconds and less as before.
14619 * It has been discovered that Zippy can play simuls on ICC (but not on
14620 FICS). If you arrange for Zippy to send the ICC command "simulize" in
14621 the -zippyGameStart string, it will accept additional games while
14622 playing. Zippy will use the same engine for every game, so whenever
14623 it switches opponents, the engine's state will be reset with the "new"
14624 command. This will of course weaken its play, so don't enable simuls
14625 if you want your engine to have the highest possible rating. Zippy
14626 was never designed to work with simuls; it just works by accident, and
14627 it hasn't been tested much. So please report any bugs you notice, but
14628 don't expect them to be fixed rapidly. Thanks to Paul McGuire for
14629 noticing that this works.
14631 * Bugfix: Suppress the direct command to engine popup if there is no
14632 engine. In WinBoard this case used to cause a crash. Thanks to
14633 "Dargon" for the bug report.
14635 * Bugfix: formerly we did part of the engine initialization for the
14636 very first game too soon, before feature negotiation. One result of
14637 this is that engines would never get the "ics" command for the first
14640 * Lengthened timeout to detect protocol version 1 chess engines to 10
14641 seconds. This should reduce problems with protocol version 2 engines
14642 that are slow to initialize missing the timeout and not getting a
14643 chance to send their feature commands before the first game starts.
14645 * Klaus Friedel says that adding a short sleep to WinBoard after
14646 starting a new chess engine solves a problem that occurs under Windows
14647 2000, in which engines sometimes don't see the initial command(s) from
14648 WinBoard and hang. I don't understand how that can happen, but the
14649 sleep is harmless, so I've put it in. Others have also reported what
14650 may be the same problem, so hopefully this will fix it for them too.
14652 * Bugfix: editing the Result field in EditTags will no longer cause a
14653 later crash. Thanks to DAV for a clear bug report that let me
14654 reproduce the problem.
14656 * ICC wild 28 is now recognized as shatranj, but it is not supported.
14657 You might be able to play it by turning off Test Legality.
14659 * Formerly we would always turn off "feature time" if the engine
14660 printed an error message with the string "time" or "otim" in it; now
14661 we do that only if the message comes before the engine makes its first
14662 move. This change is useful because some engines spew a lot of bogus
14663 error messages about commands they don't fully parse, so something
14664 like "result 0-1 {White lost on time}" could generate such a message.
14665 Engines shouldn't do that, but if they do, mysteriously turning off
14666 "feature time" is not a good way to react.
14668 * Fixed an infrequently occurring Zippy bug: formerly, resuming from
14669 adjournment by position (that is, with GetMoveList turned off) or
14670 starting/resuming a wild game (nonstandard starting position) would
14671 try to set up the position without putting the engine into force mode
14672 first. That was probably tolerated by most engines, but if the
14673 position was black-to-play and the engine hadn't set feature
14674 setboard=1, then the fake "a2a3" move (which we use as a kludge to get
14675 black to be on move before sending the edit command) would appear to
14676 be a real move, and the engine might reply to it! This bug could also
14677 be seen when trying to use Zippy to play a simul -- something that
14678 Zippy was never designed to support, but which seems to mostly work
14679 anyway. Thanks to Paul McGuire for sending a WinBoard.debug file that
14680 showed the bug occurring. Some other cases of resuming adjournments
14681 or starting games from nonstandard positions may have been broken too;
14682 I think I've straightened out the problems.
14684 * Agreeing to a draw in the human vs. local engine case formerly did
14685 not work if the human offered first; now it does. A human's
14686 unsolicited offer is considered valid until he makes another move.
14687 Thanks to Bruce Moreland for the bug report.
14689 * Bugfix: We used to look for just "fr" in Event tags or strings from
14690 ICSes to recognize Fischer Random games. This caused a lot of false
14691 matches. Now we look for "wild/fr" instead, which is what FICS uses.
14693 * Bugfix: Clicking on a move in the MoveList window only updated the
14694 displayed position; if a chess engine was active, its state was not
14695 updated. Thanks to Alejandro Dubrovsky for the bug report.
14697 * Bugfix: The "resign" command from engine to xboard formerly did not
14698 work in ICS (Zippy) mode.
14700 * Bugfix: Formerly we would register a garbage premove if the user
14701 clicked on a piece, then clicked on an edge or outside the board. Now
14702 such an errant click is ignored.
14704 * Bugfix: GameEnds would send "exit" to an engine in analyze mode even
14705 if we did not actually want to leave analyze mode.
14707 * Bugfix: "feature pause" was being rejected. We don't currently use
14708 it, but that is no reason to reject it. Thanks to Gian-Carlo Pascutto
14709 for the bug report.
14711 * Bugfix: when "partner" needed to be sent both to ICS and the engine,
14712 Zippy was erroneously sending the ICS prefix character to the engine
14713 too. Thanks to Gian-Carlo Pascutto for the bug report.
14715 * Zippy now declines challenges when the engine is not yet ready to
14716 play again, instead of ignoring them. This is needed so that the
14717 server will let the opponent repeat the challenge. It might be better
14718 to remember such challenges and accept them when the engine is ready,
14719 but that would be a bit more complicated to implement.
14721 * Bugfix: Zippy's emotes didn't work on FICS because there, "i" is a
14722 built-in alias for "it", not a real command. So sending "$i foo" gave
14723 an error message instead of doing "it foo". We now leave out the
14724 alias-suppressing prefix for emotes.
14726 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.3 -- Mon Feb 19 19:55:05 PST 2001
14729 * Bugfix: The error message "Variant X not supported by gnuchessx"
14730 formerly could pop up even in -ncp mode.
14732 * Fixed an xboard bug in premove highlighting. If you had
14733 HighlightLastMove turned on, premoves got highlighted in
14734 highlightSquareColor (yellow) instead of premoveHighlightColor (red).
14736 * Modified premove again. Now we are back to displaying the move
14737 locally immediately after sending it to the server, as in versions
14738 prior to 4.2.1. This is good because it lets you register your next
14739 premove sooner. As a better fix to the problem that the change in
14740 4.2.1 had been trying to address, we now suppress animating the
14741 opponent's move if you have a premove reply pending. However, it's
14742 probably still a good idea for you to turn off AnimateMoves entirely
14743 if you are trying to play extremely fast games.
14745 * Removed an erroneous patch that left zombie chess engines around
14746 when both sigterm and reuse were turned off. (Bug was in xboard only,
14749 * Bugfix: loading a game with autostepping did not work for games with
14750 PGN result "*" (unfinished). This bug was introduced in 4.1.0, caused
14751 by some outdated code that was supposed to leave you in EditGame mode
14752 after loading an unfinished game. I fixed this, and also changed it
14753 to leave you in EditGame mode after loading *any* game, but without
14754 changing the tags to say it's an edited game. It's not really clear
14755 whether that is the best thing is to do here -- ideally, perhaps, the
14756 tags should change to say "edited game" if you actually make any
14757 changes, but that is harder to make work.
14759 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.2 -- Tue Feb 6 20:00:00 PST 2001
14762 * Fixed a problem introduced in 4.2.1. In -zippyPlay mode, 4.2.1
14763 started sending the initString immediately after the old game ended,
14764 but then when the next game started, it would still send "force" and
14765 another initString. Another problem was that the first initString put
14766 the engine out of sync with the displayed board position, though that
14767 might not usually have been noticeable. This is now changed to do a
14768 full Reset at the end of the previous game, and avoid doing a Reset at
14769 the start of a new game if we are still in BeginningOfGame mode.
14771 * Fixed some limitations in -zippyPlay mode. The engine was not being
14772 fed the moves or history of games that were displayed but not being
14773 played, so it would get confused if you tried to do something like
14774 examine a game, then enter EditGame mode from somewhere in the middle
14777 * Made a small change so that cygwin can compile xboard for Windows
14778 (an X server is required to run it). Thanks to Volker Zell. Most
14779 people would probably prefer to run WinBoard on Windows, however; note
14780 that cygwin could already compile WinBoard.
14782 * Added some missing documentation to engine-intf.html: It is okay to
14783 send "feature done=0" even before you receive the xboard and protover
14784 commands, if this is needed to give your engine enough time to
14785 initialize. See engine-intf.html for more discussion.
14787 * Bugfix: "feature done=0" did not work for the second engine; now it does.
14789 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.1 -- Sat Feb 3 19:52:26 PST 2001
14792 * Bugfix: in Zippy mode with feature san=1, the elapsed time was being
14793 sent to the engine after the SAN move; for example, "e4 (0:01)" was
14794 sent instead of just "e4".
14796 * It seems that scroll wheel mice with incompletely installed software
14797 (under Windows 95, at least) can send repeated middle button up events
14798 when the wheel is turned. Moved QuickPaste from middle button up to
14799 middle button down to avoid problems with this.
14801 * A premove is now sent *before* the opponent's move that it replies
14802 to is animated. The premove itself is no longer displayed (or
14803 animated) when sent; instead, it is displayed when the chess server
14804 echoes it back as a board update.
14806 * Bug fix: in -xreuse mode, xboard was only sending command line
14807 arguments to the engine the first time it was started. (WinBoard
14808 didn't have this bug.)
14810 * In -zippyPlay mode, we now initialize the chess engine for a new
14811 game immediately after the old game ends. (In -xreuse mode, this
14812 means starting a new engine process; in the default -reuse mode, it
14813 just means sending "new".) If the engine supports ping, we don't
14814 accept challenges until the "new" has finished. This should help
14815 avoid losing time (re)initializing the engine after the game starts.
14817 * We now handle the new FICS field in style 12 that says whether the
14818 clocks are ticking.
14820 * whiteFlag and blackFlag are now reset whenever an ICS board image
14821 arrives, giving autoflag a fresh chance to work.
14823 * Suppressed "geometry error" debug messages unless -debug flag is given.
14825 * Bugfix: avoid core dump on Solaris with -debug flag, caused by
14826 passing NULL to a %s format in GameEnds.
14828 * Added -firstProtocolVersion and -secondProtocolVersion. This will
14829 allow use of extremely broken engines that hang or die when given the
14830 "protover 2" command. It should be rarely if ever needed.
14832 * Zippy now strips highlights from player names in the Creating
14833 message; previously the ratings would not be extracted from this
14834 message properly if you had set the highlight variable.
14836 * Bug fix: Zippy with -zp but not -zt used to be fooled by false
14837 partner tells inside channel tells; e.g.:
14838 Garf(24): Garf (your partner) tells you: sit
14840 * Bug fix: when an engine reported its name with the new "feature
14841 myname=" command, we had been putting just that name into the window
14842 title even when in TwoMachines mode.
14844 * By default, WinBoard no longer uses the new feature introduced in
14845 4.2.0beta of keeping the ICS menu, ICS server list, and lists of chess
14846 engine command lines in separate files; instead, the lists are back in
14847 the winboard.ini file. This gets rid of some problems where the
14848 separate files could not be opened because the working directory was
14849 not set to WinBoard's installation directory.
14851 * WinBoard command lines and ini files now have another optional
14852 syntax for quoting an option value. All characters within { } curly
14853 braces are interpreted literally except for '}' itself. SaveSettings
14854 now uses this syntax for string values that contain a backslash or
14855 newline and do not contain a '}'. This should address the problem
14856 that the separate .ini files had been meant to fix; engine command
14857 line lists can now be written without \-escapes.
14859 * Fixed three bugs in relaying moves between engines in TwoMachines
14860 mode: an engine would be sent SAN if the *other* engine had set
14861 feature san=1, a relayed SAN move did not end with a newline, and
14862 feature usermove was not implemented for relayed moves.
14864 * Fixed several bugs in exiting: File/Exit would sometimes hang;
14865 timestamp/timeseal would not get killed off; an engine crash would
14866 cause error messages to be printed recursively until stack overflow.
14868 * Fixed a bug in the code to detect which ICS is in use and adapt to
14869 it; the chess.net case was broken.
14871 * Removed the leading alias-suppression character when sending a move
14872 to ICS, because it seemed to break accuclock on chess.net.
14874 * Fixed a bug where a FICS prompt like "10:01_fics%" would be matched
14875 as finger note number 10, causing a problem detecting when the user is
14878 * Added tellicsnoalias command to protocol.
14880 * Changed st command in protocol back to old behavior.
14882 * Added done=0 feature to protocol, to lengthen initial timeout.
14884 * Added missing -colorSeek command line option to xboard. (Was
14885 present in WinBoard.)
14887 * Bug fix: setting feature reuse=0 was not working.
14889 xboard/WinBoard 4.2.0beta -- Sat Dec 16 16:34:56 PST 2000
14892 * Setting -searchTime no longer turns off -clockMode. Note that when
14893 -searchTime is set, some engines may search for the lesser of
14894 searchTime and the amount of time their normal clock management would
14895 dictate, while others will disable their normal clock management and
14896 always search for exactly searchTime.
14898 * Fixed WinBoard bug where on Windows 2000 (and maybe Windows 98) the
14899 ICS Interaction window would scroll back to the top whenever it filled
14900 to capacity and WinBoard trimmed some text off the top.
14902 * Changed xboard dragging so that the center of the dragged piece is
14903 forced to be over the mouse cursor. (WinBoard dragging already worked
14904 that way.) This should avoid confusing cases when you start a drag
14905 with the mouse near the edge of a square -- formerly most or all of
14906 the piece could be over one square but the mouse cursor over another.
14909 * Added move list window for xboard. Code contributed by Manuel
14910 Hoelss and re-hacked a bit by me. Performance of this window is poor,
14911 because the implementation regenerates the entire window contents
14912 whenever anything changes. It's hard to avoid this when using the
14913 Athena List widget, though we could be a little smarter and notice
14914 when the current move number has changed but the move list has not.
14915 There are also several drawing problems caused by bugs in the Athena
14916 Form and List widgets. The window should not really allow a
14917 horizontal scroll bar, but the bugs are much worse if I turn it off.
14918 In both Xaw and Xaw3d, the List widget tries to resize itself when
14919 XawListChange is called, even if you tell it not to; and what's worse,
14920 if the widget cannot resize itself to be large enough to avoid
14921 clipping any of the list item, it does not change the list! Arrgh.
14922 On top of that, the Xaw Form widget is very buggy in XFree86 4.0.1
14925 * The OK button in the WinBoard startup dialog is now simply disabled
14926 if none of the radio buttons is selected, instead of bringing up an
14927 error dialog. Suggested by Ted Milbaugh.
14929 * Used ping to address the worst of the race conditions in the
14930 protocol. Now if an engine supports ping, we ping it after sending
14931 the "new" command and after trying to place it in force mode at the
14932 end of a game. When a ping has been sent and the corresponding pong
14933 has not yet come back, we (1) ignore or undo any moves the engine
14934 sends, (2) ignore game end messages (such as "offer draw", etc.) from
14935 the engine, (3) ignore thinking output from the engine, (4) delay
14936 starting the next game if in -matchGames mode, (5) in -zippyPlay mode,
14937 respond to challenges with a polite message to try again soon instead
14938 of accepting them. There are a few more things that should be done
14939 (and item 5 might not be quite what we want), but it's hard to fit
14940 them all into the existing code.
14942 * Patched the version of GNU Chess 5.00 included with WinBoard to
14943 support protover, feature, setboard, and ping, and to fix some minor
14944 bugs. See gnu500+.patch.
14946 * Changed the GNU Chess 4 kludges for missing "st" and "sd" commands
14947 to be invoked only if the engine gives an error message for "st" or
14948 "sd", and to always use protocol commands instead of engine
14949 command-line options. See "Idioms" in engine-intf.html.
14951 * Added new protocol command "protover 2" to tell the engine what
14952 version of the protocol is in use. Version 2 is still compatible with
14953 old engines; see engine-intf.html.
14955 * Add new protocol command "feature ..." The engine can send this in
14956 response to the protover command command, to say what extended
14957 protocol features it would like to enable, etc. xboard responds
14958 "accepted F" or "rejected F" for each feature F that is set. See
14961 * Added new protocol command "setboard <fen>". This is an alternative
14962 to "edit", used only if the engine says "feature setboard=1".
14964 * Added new protocol command "ping <msg>". The engine is supposed to
14965 respond "pong <msg>". This gives us a tool to fix some race
14966 conditions in the protocol, but it is not used to the fullest yet.
14968 * Added new protocol command "tellopponent". This will do a "say" if
14969 you're on a chess server in Zippy mode, or pop up an information
14972 * Added new protocol command "tellall". This will do a "kibitz" if
14973 you're on a chess server in Zippy mode, or pop up an information
14976 * Added new protocol command "tellothers". This will do a "whisper" if
14977 you're on a chess server in Zippy mode, or do nothing otherwise.
14979 * Changed the WinBoard /icsNames, /icsMenu, /firstChessProgramNames,
14980 and /secondChessProgramNames options to accept a filename preceded by
14981 "@", meaning to find the value in the file. Changed the defaults to
14982 use this feature, with filenames icsnames.ini, icsmenu.ini, fcp.ini,
14983 and scp.ini. This should make it easier for users to edit the values,
14984 since one less level of quoting is needed, and each value is in its
14985 own file, not mixed into winboard.ini. Those who upgrade from an
14986 older winboard version and already have a winboard.ini file will not
14987 automatically have these values moved to a file; that has to be done
14988 by hand if desired.
14990 * We now strip .exe from engine names for "name" command, tags, etc.
14992 * Allowed WinBoard input widget to hold more than one line. You can get
14993 a newline into the widget with copy/paste or with Ctrl+Enter.
14995 * Fixed an xboard bug where the [P] button would appear in the
14996 opposite highlight state from what it should be after being pressed.
14998 * We now use the "/" or "$" alias suppression feature on the chess
14999 servers, to avoid problems if the user inadvertently aliases a
15000 needed command to something else.
15002 * Changed the method used to deiconize xboard in AutoRaise and cmail.
15003 This may fix bugs under some window managers where after
15004 deiconization, the board window was mapped but nothing was drawn
15007 * Preliminary, partial support for playing several chess variants
15008 against a local engine or editing variant games. The -variant option
15009 must be given on the command line or WinBoard startup dialog; there is
15010 no menu. The current variant is not displayed (except in the
15011 Tags/EditTags window). Many variants will not work quite right even
15012 if the engine supports them; see item 326 in the ToDo file for
15015 * Added a workaround to detect the variant type when examining a
15016 scratch wild game on an ICS.
15018 * Fixed two cases where "variant" command should be sent to the engine
15019 when necessary but was not: loading a game from a file and restarting
15020 a dead engine. Thanks to Gian-Carlo Pascutto.
15022 * Added missing support for FICS games that start from a bsetup position
15023 with Black moving first.
15025 * Fixed a bug in loading a file from the game list window while in
15026 Analysis or AnalyzeFile mode. This now leaves us in AnalyzeFile
15027 mode, analyzing the new file.
15029 * Fixed a bug in loading games with a comment before the first move.
15031 * Fixed a bug in handling LoadGame (or -lgf) with -td 0.
15033 * Added a command line option to select an initial minor mode from the
15034 Mode menu. This should satisfy requests from a couple of users with
15035 special applications.
15037 * Fixed a problem where some things in WinBoard's General Options
15038 dialog box were grayed out at the wrong time.
15040 * We look for a few messages from the chess engine pipe that are
15041 intended to catch problems starting an engine via rsh, such as "No
15042 such file". Moved code so that these strings won't match until other
15043 protocol messages have been looked for, and documented the messages in
15046 * Fixed the WinBoard bug that sometimes made the console input box
15047 white-on-white even when not in password-entry mode.
15049 * Small changes to WinBoard to be compilable with the latest Cygwin
15050 net release (as of 10-16-2000). Thanks to Mark Schoenberg.
15052 * Recompiled GNU Chess 5.0 for WinBoard with the latest Cygwin net
15053 release (as of 10-16-2000). Also rebuilt the book just to be sure,
15054 since I had one bug report about it. It came out identical and seems
15057 * Added messages for some common InstallShield errors instead of just
15058 printing InstallShield's stupid error code numbers.
15060 * Added -firstComputerString and -secondComputerString, allowing you
15061 to suppress or change the command that is sent to a chess engine when
15062 its opponent is another computer.
15064 * Added "configure --with-Xaw3d" to allow use of Xaw3d widgets instead
15065 of Xaw widgets in xboard. Thanks to Johnny C. Lam of the NetBSD
15066 project. I've left Xaw as the default because Xaw3d is too ugly.
15068 * The version of the Xaw Form widget released in XFree86 4.0.1
15069 (X11R6.4.3) has a bug that causes xboard to display the button bar
15070 on top of the message widget. I've reported the bug and have
15071 installed a kludge workaround into xboard.
15073 xboard/WinBoard 4.1.0 -- Sun Sep 17 17:30:14 PDT 2000
15076 * Merged Winboard Plus 4.0.8 from Mark Williams into xboard
15077 source pool. Status of Winboard Plus features in xboard:
15079 - White pieces now have borders, but the implementation is
15080 completely different from WinBoard's; see below.
15082 - Options menu not changed, probably won't be.
15084 - Copy&paste support working, using Mark's changes to backend.c, Ben
15085 Nye's changes to xboard.c for FEN positions, and some code of my
15086 own in xboard.c for PGN games.
15088 - Premove hooked up and working. No pre-first-move, though.
15090 - ICS Alarm hooked up and working.
15092 - Auto-flip working.
15094 - PGN Training mode hooked up and working.
15096 - Improved menu item enable/disable working.
15098 - Improved >> button working.
15100 - Auto activate board working. I changed this to be optional; you
15101 might not always want it, especially in Zippy mode.
15103 - Blindfold working.
15105 - Documentation updated.
15107 * Fixed more colorization bugs. Commands like "message foo tells you:
15108 xxx" and "tell 33 tells you: xxx" will no longer generate bogus
15111 * Added low-tech sound support to xboard, by invoking an external
15112 program on a filename for each sound to be played.
15114 * ICC wild 27 is now recognized as VariantAtomic, and it sets the
15115 "ignore check" flag, but is not otherwise supported.
15117 * Converted the piece bitmaps from .bm to .xpm for use with xboard's
15118 xpm support. (An .xim version was not created.) Wrote a shell script
15119 using ImageMagick to do the conversion and to bucket fill from
15120 coordinate 0,0 with the background color. Used xpaint by hand to
15121 clean up a few pieces where background color "leaked" into the inside
15122 or didn't flow all the way around the outside, then a sed script to
15123 fix up color names and bitmap names in the xpaint output. If any more
15124 sizes are added later, they should be straightforward to convert with
15125 reference to the existing scripts. With this conversion, not only do
15126 the white pieces now have dark borders, but (unlike with WinBoard) the
15127 light details on the black pieces are opaque.
15129 * If the XPM library is found when building xboard, the new xpm pieces
15130 are compiled in as the default. External bitmap (or xpm) pieces can
15131 still be used by giving the -bitmapDirectory (or -xpmDirectory)
15132 option. If the XPM library is not found, the old bitmap pieces are
15133 the default. In this case external bitmap (or xim) pieces can be used
15134 by giving the -bitmapDirectory (or -xpmDirectory) option. There is no
15135 way to compile in xim pieces.
15137 Winboard Plus 4.0.8 -- Sat Aug 5 15:51 PDT 2000
15142 * Main menu now visible in Win NT. Thanks to Microsoft for creating a
15143 compiler which auto-mutilates the WinBoard.rc file so that the menu is
15144 displayed under Win 98 but not Win NT. I fixed the problem by hand editing the
15147 * "Reset game" now works properly when invoked from Analysis mode when two
15148 engines are present. Correction of bug introduced in Winboard Plus. Thanks to
15149 Mogens Larsen for reporting the bug.
15151 * Pasting a FEN position with Black to move now works in all modes.
15152 Thanks to Mogens Larsen for reporting the bug.
15154 * Added gnuchess.dat to the distribution and a couple of text files that were
15157 *** Merged in the following changes from Tim Mann:
15159 * Bugfix: Highlights would sometimes not be taken down, at least in
15160 xboard. The problem is that SetHighlight works in chess coordinates,
15161 not view coordinates, so if flipView has been toggled since the
15162 highlight was put up, it gets taken down from the wrong square. Fixed
15163 by being careful to call ClearHighlights before toggling flipView, not
15166 * Bugfix: HighlightLastMove would sometimes highlight square a1 after
15167 a FICS "tomove black" command.
15169 * Bugfix: a move list with initial position that has black to play was
15170 not being handled correctly.
15172 * Removed "decline abort" and "decline adjourn" commands from Zippy.
15173 The syntax is changing on FICS, and Zippy really doesn't have to
15174 explicitly decline the requests anyway; it's sufficient to not accept
15177 * ICC wild 26 is now recognized as VariantSuicide (the FICS name; ICC
15178 calls it "giveaway").
15180 * Bugfix: PGN games with black to move in the initial position weren't
15181 being legality checked correctly. I think this was introduced in
15182 4.0.6 when I fixed a different PGN bug. Thanks to Mark Williams for
15183 spotting the bug and suggesting a fix.
15185 * Bugfix: the initial "name(" of a kibitz wasn't being colorized.
15187 Winboard Plus 4.0.7 -- Thu May 12 17:57 PDT 2000
15190 * New white pieces with black borders.
15192 * Major overhaul to Options menu. New dialogs for setting General Options,
15193 Board Options, ICS Options, Sounds, Fonts, Colors.
15195 * Clipboard support for PGN game scores and FEN positions.
15197 * Optional ICS Premove with user-specified first moves for White and Black.
15199 * New sound events: ICS Win, ICS Loss, ICS Draw, ICS Unfinished, ICS Alarm.
15201 * New auto-flip option when playing against a chess program.
15203 * Added PGN Training mode.
15205 * Certain menu options now disabled while program is thinking.
15207 * ">>" button now always goes to the end of the game.
15209 * In ICS mode, the board is automatically activated at the start of a
15212 4.0.7 -- Sun Mar 5 17:17:49 PST 2000 Tim Mann
15214 * Fixed a nasty bug in parsing ICS game histories that was introduced
15217 4.0.6 -- Fri Mar 3 16:20:11 PST 2000 Tim Mann
15219 * Fixed bugs in Zippy's code for responding to messages sent with the
15220 ICS "message" command.
15222 * Fixed bugs where xboard could still create dialogs partially off the
15223 top of the screen. Fixed unwanted interactions between initial sizes
15224 and positions of various unrelated xboard dialogs. Deleted
15225 borderXoffset and borderYoffset resources.
15227 * Fixed restoring the xterm name on exit to work in more cases.
15229 * Small fix to the WinBoard self-extracting installer: when it starts
15230 up, it now always deletes any old wb-setup directory left over from a
15231 previous installation. Formerly this worked only on Windows 95/98, so
15232 on NT the self-extractor would sometimes stop and ask the user whether
15233 it was OK to overwrite the old wb-setup files.
15235 * Modified WinBoard to be compilable with the free Cygwin tools
15236 available from http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/. Based on work by
15237 Mark Schoenberg. (His mods were enough to get WinBoard through the
15238 compiler, but a few things were broken along the way, so I reworked them.)
15240 * Merged changes from Don Fong to make WinBoard compilable with
15241 Borland C++ 4.5. I do not have Borland C++ and am unable to test with
15242 it, but I did make sure the changes don't stop it working with MSVC++
15245 * Forbade entering TwoMachines mode from MachineWhite or MachineBlack
15246 mode when machine is on move. This used to confuse the engine and
15247 cause problems, because when we try to get the engine to stop, it
15248 might make a move first, and it might not do that immediately.
15250 * Variant classification now deals with new ICC wild 25, classifying
15251 it as "3check". Also, we are now conservative about new wild numbers
15252 we don't know about, classifying them as "unknown" instead of
15255 * Replaced bad GNU Chess 5.00 book in WinBoard distribution with a
15256 correct one. 1.e4 now no longer takes GNU Chess 5.00 out of book!
15257 Thanks to Pete Galati.
15259 * Made move parser accept and ignore nonstandard ep suffix on PGN moves,
15260 e.g., "exf6ep" or "exf6e.p."
15262 * Fixed bugs in parsing PGN files starting with no move number, or
15263 with a move number other than "1." (including "1..."). Thanks to
15264 Michael Soulier and Stefan Zipproth for example PGN files
15265 demonstrating the bugs.
15267 * Changed InitComboStringsFromString to not modify the input string;
15268 this caused an exception when WinBoard was compiled with MSVC++ 6.
15269 Thanks to Bert Tuyt for the report.
15271 * In WinBoard, dragging a piece off the edge of the board without
15272 releasing the mouse button no longer instantly aborts the move. You
15273 still must release the mouse button inside a square to complete a
15274 move, but you can now drag off the edge and come back inside.
15276 * WinBoard bugfix: If you went into EditGame or EditPosition mode
15277 while observing or playing an ICS game, and a new move came in
15278 (snapping you back to ICSClient mode) while you were dragging a piece
15279 around, the drag state would not be reset, causing the piece you were
15280 dragging to remain on the board wherever you dropped it. Thanks to
15281 David Brinegar for the bug report.
15283 * WinBoard bugfix: If you moved or resized the board while your
15284 opponent was moving, and you had AnimateMoving on, his move would not
15285 be displayed until after your next move. Thanks to DAV for reporting
15286 the bug repeatedly until I finally understood it.
15288 * Added a Zippy "farewell" feature; see zippy.README.
15290 * Fixed a bug (xboard only) in processing -zippyReplayTimeout on the
15291 command line. Thanks to Steve Beer for the report and patch.
15293 * Send "computer" command to both sides in TwoMachines matches.
15295 * Fixed a Y2K bug in Evan's cmail code! Thanks to Brian Mays for the
15298 * Bugfix: Initialize variant field of GameInfo struct in gameinfo.c.
15299 This could cause crashes in LoadGame. Thanks to Andrzej Nagorko.
15301 * Fixed several pattern matching problems: Finger notes and formula
15302 vars no longer get replied to by zippyTalk or colorized. Channel
15303 tells by players with many titles are now colorized fully, and
15304 zippyTalk handles channel tells by such players correctly. The shout
15305 "--> foo(99): bar" no longer gets colorized as a channel tell. Code
15306 is cleaned up a bit, and autocomment capture now uses the same
15307 criteria as colorization.
15309 * xboard fix: Enter key now closes error popups as in WinBoard.
15310 Especially nice for the "Exiting: Connection closed by ICS" popup.
15312 4.0.5 -- Tue Dec 7 10:30:40 PST 1999 Tim Mann
15314 * Added missing documentation of SIGTERM usage into engine-intf.html.
15316 * Bugfix: New -zippyReplayTimeout option was misspelled in WinBoard as
15317 -zippyReplyTimeout. Thanks to Francesco Di Tolla.
15319 * xboard -ics now restores the xterm's original title upon exit, at
15320 least if $WINDOWID is set.
15322 * Bugfix: -matchGames mode wasn't terminating properly. Final score
15323 popup would come up twice and engines would not be killed off. Thanks
15324 to Frank Quisinsky for the bug report. Bug was introduced in 4.0.4.
15326 * Bugfix: "tell 50 foo shouts: bar" no longer gets colored as a shout;
15327 similarly for "...s-shouts:" and "...c-shouts:". Thanks to David Lee
15328 for the bug report.
15330 4.0.4 -- Fri Dec 3 17:51:27 PST 1999 Tim Mann
15332 * Bug fix: formerly if you invoked SaveGame from EditPosition mode
15333 with black to play, the position was not saved properly. As a quick
15334 fix, SaveGame now takes you out of EditPosition mode before saving.
15336 * Changed -matchGames to keep track of the score (won-lost-drawn) and
15337 display it in the banner. The final score is displayed in a modal
15338 popup before the program exits.
15340 * Changed "Connection closed by ICS" to display in a model popup
15341 before the program exits.
15343 * Added -popupExitMessage option, default on. Setting this to false
15344 suppresses the modal popups that you sometimes get just before
15345 xboard/winboard exits -- both the two new ones listed above and the
15346 existing Fatal Error popup. This is useful when running Zippy
15347 unattended from a shell script (or .bat file) that loops and starts a
15348 new copy after a time delay when there is an error.
15350 * In xboard, added missing support for WM_DELETE_WINDOW to all
15351 windows. This makes xboard a better citizen, and is much needed with
15352 the newer X window managers that put an [X] button on every window and
15353 bind it to "kill application" if the applicationd does not support
15354 "delete window". We can't allow xboard to be thoughtlessly killed,
15355 since that leaves the chess engine running in the background.
15357 * We now avoid positioning tops of xboard dialog boxes offscreen.
15359 * zippy.lines can now use the caret ('^') character as an inter-saying
15360 separator. You no longer need to dig up a text editor that can put NUL
15361 ('\000') characters in text files.
15363 * Bugfix: In traditional chess clock mode, White now gets time added
15364 to its clock as soon as it makes time control. Previously both White
15365 and Black got their time added only when Black made time control,
15366 which would cause some engines to make their 41st move as White too
15367 quickly, thinking they were low on time.
15369 * The zippyAcceptOnly feature no longer sends a decline command or
15370 a tell. Thus you can use it to put Zippy into a manual accept mode.
15372 * Bugfix: "tell 50 foo tells you: bar" no longer gets colored as a
15373 personal tell; similarly for "...whispers:" and "...kibitzes:".
15375 * WinBoard no longer blanks the message line when you start a new
15376 move, unless there was an error message there from the previous move.
15378 * WinBoard now never puts the white piece drop menu on the middle
15379 mouse button. Both colors are always on the right button. Windows
15380 users often don't think to look for a middle button menu, or don't
15381 really have a working middle button despite what Windows says.
15383 * Guest login handles on ICC are now parsed again; an ICC wording
15384 change had broken this feature.
15386 * Autodetect when the engine does not support the "draw" command and
15387 don't relay the command to it in that case. Needed because sending an
15388 unsupported command to GNU Chess makes it move immediately, so people
15389 could make Zippy move without thinking by continually offering a draw.
15390 Thanks to Frank Walker for the problem report.
15392 * Small changes based on code from Robert Jurjevic: The WinBoard
15393 analysis window can be minimized (though not to the taskbar). The
15394 WinBoard ICS Interaction window will autoscroll if you drag the mouse
15395 above or below the window while selecting, and password entry mode
15396 leaves the entry line as the background color instead of using 75%
15397 gray. Seeks are now colorized with a new color of their own.
15399 * Added -zippyMaxGames feature.
15401 * -zippyNoplayCrafty command line option was missing in xboard; fixed.
15402 Thanks to John Perry.
15404 * Fixed bug in detecting when Zippy loses his bughouse partner.
15405 Thanks to Ben Dean-Kawamura.
15407 * allobs fix in 4.0.3 didn't work; corrected it.
15409 * WinBoard will now update the board immediately if a move is made
15410 while the window is being moved or resized.
15412 4.0.3 -- Sun Aug 15 18:44:39 PDT 1999 Tim Mann
15414 * Bugfix: moved winboard wizard functions that send a command directly
15415 to the chess engine from Ctrl+Alt+1 and Ctrl+Alt+2 to Alt+1 and Alt+2.
15416 Ctrl+Alt is equivalent to the European AltGr key, so the old assignments
15417 conflicted with typing an @-sign on some keyboards.
15419 * Bugfix: prevent "If this message stays up, your chess program does
15420 not support analysis" from appearing if AnalysisMode is selected when
15421 already in Analysis or AnalyzeFile mode. Also, deleting analysis window
15422 in WinBoard now switches you to EditGame mode, to avoid the anomaly of
15423 being in an analysis mode with no analysis window present.
15425 * Change all Zippy environment variables to work as command line
15426 options. For now they still work as environment variables too, but
15427 the environment variables are deprecated.
15429 * Use unsigned long to hold node counts from engines.
15431 * Print error instead of crashing on attempts to use xpm or xim pieces
15432 in monochrome mode. Thanks to Jim Torrance for the bug report.
15434 * Tightened pattern recognition for ICS messages sent to Zippy; should
15435 no longer match ICC allobs output. Fixed recognition of when Zippy is
15436 sent a message; small change to FICS output had broken it.
15438 * Zippy now exits if the engine dies unexpectedly.
15440 * Added Zippy "spoofedby" feature; see zippy.README.
15442 * Narrowed the margins on some older WinBoard dialogs to make their
15443 style uniform with the newer ones.
15445 * Bugfix: Changing Ponder Next Move from the Options menu did not take
15446 effect until the next game. This bug was in WinBoard only. Thanks to
15447 Stefan Zipproth for the bug report.
15449 * Got rid of "Internal error: bad move type" message when the engine
15450 makes a move that we can parse but think is illegal. Now the move is
15451 just passed on (which also may be the wrong thing to do).
15453 4.0.2 -- Thu Feb 25 19:55:32 PST 1999 Tim Mann
15455 * Added one more built-in sound choice to WinBoard: move.wav from Pete
15458 * Added new larger piece sizes: big, huge, giant, colossal, titanic.
15460 * Modified the xboard font searcher to be able to use scalable fonts.
15461 The new -fontSizeTolerance flag controls how closely a nonscalable
15462 font must match to be used in preference to a scalable font.
15464 * Zippy environment variables ZIPPYABORT and ZIPPYADJOURN now control
15465 whether Zippy will accept abort and adjourn requests.
15467 * We now determine the variant type being played on ICS, send it as a
15468 command "variant VARTYPE" to the chess engine (if in Zippy mode), and
15469 put it in the PGN tags. See engine-intf.txt for variant names. See
15470 ZIPPYVARIANTS in zippy.README to control what variants Zippy will
15471 accept. Note that this now applies to bughouse, too.
15473 * Zippy now won't do -zippyTalk in a channel unless his handle is
15476 * Zippy now ignores bughouse holdings if not actually playing, instead
15477 of stupidly trying to abort the game. Let me know if other strange
15478 things happen when Zippy is observing a game.
15480 * Set ICS Interaction title bar to "user@server". User name is
15481 determined by parsing message during the login sequence. Zippy now
15482 uses this method to get its name too, so ZIPPYNAME is eliminated.
15483 Problem: with xboard, the title bar gets set to "xterm" upon exit,
15484 since we didn't know what it was to start with.
15486 * Fixed xboard-only bug in -colorChannel1 command line option. Thanks
15487 to Fredrik Sandstrom for the bug report and fix.
15489 * Check for overflow of MAX_MOVES. Still not sure this is checked for
15490 everywhere it needs to be.
15492 * Added .epd to suffixes recognized by WinBoard as position files.
15493 This is a bit of a kludge, as the .fen reading code was not written
15494 with .epd files in mind, but reading them with it is said to work.
15496 * Added ZIPPYGAMESTART feature, suggested by Jason Hoblit. See
15499 * Restored the feature of soaking up the moves from a user-typed "moves",
15500 "oldmoves", or "smoves" ICS command when xboard/WinBoard is idle, but
15501 changed it so that the move list is also echoed to the screen. Some folks
15502 still liked the old feature since it is faster than examine mode, and
15503 printing the moves to the screen should eliminate the confusion it caused
15506 * Bugfix: in WinBoard, starting a click-click move and then clicking on
15507 a black line would cause the source square to be forgotten without taking
15508 the highlight down. Now the errant click is ignored.
15510 * Corrected shortcut key labels for LoadNext/PrevPosition in WinBoard's
15511 File menu. Thanks to Andreas Stabel for the bug report.
15513 * Bugfix: if you had a completely full ICS context menu in WinBoard
15514 (90 items), the last one would do nothing if selected.
15516 * The "computer" engine command added in 4.0.1 was not working; I had
15517 left out part of the code patch. Oops.
15519 4.0.1 -- Fri Feb 12 21:24:15 PST 1999 Tim Mann
15521 This is a minor bugfix release. The first item listed below is the
15522 only interesting new feature.
15524 * You can now type in moves from the keyboard in WinBoard. Either
15525 select TypeInMove from Step menu, or (if you are not in ICS mode),
15526 just start typing. In ICS mode you can type moves into the ICS
15527 interaction window anyway, so I've retained the feature that typing
15528 switches you there. Not implemented in xboard.
15530 * Removed the "noise 1000" command that used to be sent to the chess
15531 engine when entering analysis modes.
15533 * Deleted the feature where we soak up the output of a user-typed ICS
15534 "moves" or "oldmoves" command. This ancient feature is not really
15535 useful anymore, now that "examine" exists, and it caused a lot of
15538 * Increased maximum size of ICS text menu to 90 entries and added
15541 * The command sent to ICS by Zippy at the end of each game can now be
15542 customized with the ZIPPYGAMEEND environment variable.
15544 * We treat xboard.info as a pseudo-source since most people don't have
15545 the tools to rebuild it. But "make install" erroneously had a
15546 dependency on it, even though "make all" did not. Fixed.
15548 * Miscellaneous minor updates and clarifications to engine-intf.txt.
15549 In particular, documented the st and sd commands (support for command
15550 line options -searchTime and -searchDepth), warts and all.
15552 * Added a small code patch from Bob Hyatt to detect when Zippy's ICS
15553 opponent is a computer and send the command "computer" to the engine.
15554 Added this command to engine-intf.txt. Thanks, Bob.
15556 * Bugfix: configure was looking for usleep(), but config.h.in didn't
15557 have an entry for it, so HAVE_USLEEP was never defined. Also, in the
15558 non-HAVE_USLEEP case, there was a possible race condition between the
15559 signal handler and the pause() call. Thanks to Ben Dean-Kawamura for
15562 * Bugfix: a "1..." preceding Black's first move (usually present if
15563 there is a comment on White's first move) would cause the parser
15564 to think a new game started there and report "End of game" on the
15565 current game. Thanks to Dell Garner for the bug report.
15567 * Changed the abbreviation for -searchDepth from -sd to -depth to fix
15568 a clash with -secondDirectory.
15570 * Changed -searchDepth to be orthogonal to the various timing options.
15571 Previously it would search for an unlimited time to the given depth;
15572 now the engine is allowed to choose its search time in the normal way,
15573 but is told to cut off the search early if it reaches the given depth.
15575 * Bugfix: SaveSettings in WinBoard was saving both the long form
15576 option highlightSquareColor and its abbreviation (hsc).
15578 * Fixed a redisplay bug in DisplayBothClocks that could cause White's
15579 clock to be highlighted in EditPosition mode when Black's should have been.
15581 * Fixed Zippy's feature of passing on draw offers from the ICS opponent.
15582 The colorization code was eating the offer before Zippy saw it, so I disabled
15583 colorization of offers while in -zp or -zt mode. (Other types of
15584 colorization are already disabled in Zippy mode for similar reasons.)
15586 * Added some more commands to the default ICS context menu in WinBoard,
15587 and put "(name)" on the ones that insert a playername (or game number).
15589 * Added missing documentation to WinBoard help file: PonderNextMove, the
15590 -ponder/-xponder argument, and the up/down arrow history feature in the
15591 ICS Interaction window.
15593 * Fixed ZIPPYNOPLAYCRAFTY feature to fire only if the opponent is Crafty,
15594 not if some other Crafty is observing the game and kibitzes.
15596 * Fixed bugs in generating "partner" commands when Zippy is playing
15599 4.0.0 -- Sat Jun 20 16:59:47 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
15601 * Fixed WinBoard resizing so that the edges you do not drag remain in
15602 place, even when the final size is different from what you dragged to.
15603 (This doesn't work on NT 3.51 or earlier, if anyone cares.)
15605 * Fixed problems with resizing WinBoard on Windows NT: you no longer get
15606 whitespace around the board, a clipped board, or a lot of flashing during
15609 * Added customization for highlight-square color.
15611 * Bugfix: backend.c wrote to stderr in a few obscure places, which doesn't
15614 * Added Index Number field back to LoadGame/LoadPosition dialog boxes in
15615 WinBoard. This required some extra code to work with both the
15616 Explorer-style dialog boxes and the old-style NT 3.51 dialog boxes. Ugh.
15618 * WinBoard startup dialog now understands -zp mode. The first chess
15619 engine selector is enabled and the value is used.
15621 * Bugfix: ResetGame would send "exit" to engine twice if it was in an
15624 * Bugfix: The response "Illegal move: bk" to the "bk" command, indicating
15625 that it is not implemented, would confuse xboard.
15627 * Bugfix: Ignore empty hints ("Hint:\n") instead of printing a message
15628 saying that some bogus string (often "Hint:") is illegal.
15630 * Bugfix: LoadNextGame/LoadPreviousGame/ReloadSameGame were broken.
15632 3.6.12 -- Sat Jun 13 14:57:10 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
15634 Beta test release of xboard and WinBoard.
15636 * Spruced up xboard man page a bit.
15638 * Added Highlight Last Move to xboard too.
15640 * The revamped xboard mouse click code had several more bugs than the
15641 previous version, so I revamped it again. All fixed now, I hope.
15643 * xboard bugfix: crash in CreatePieceMenu.
15645 * Oops. winboard-3_6_11beta.exe installed 3.6.10beta, not the new version.
15647 3.6.11 -- Fri Jun 12 20:00:48 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
15649 Beta test release of xboard and WinBoard.
15651 * Major reorganization to engine-intf.txt. Some new features added,
15652 many existing features clarified and hints for engine programmers added.
15653 Support for new features added to program.
15655 * Changed defaults for -scp (etc.) back to being independent of -fcp, as
15656 in 3.6.2. That is, the default is no longer to copy the value from -fcp if
15657 -scp is not specified. This will sometimes make command lines longer but
15658 will remove some confusing situations.
15660 * Split -reuseChessPrograms into two options: -reuseFirst and
15661 -reuseSecond. Fixed obscure bugs when reuse is off.
15663 * Detect ICC and change some command usage slightly there: only ICC has
15664 set-quietly; only FICS has iset and bsetup clear. With this feature, we
15665 can now safely use bsetup clear when appropriate instead of deleting each
15668 * Added indent to lines that are wrapped by WinBoard ICS Interaction
15669 window. This seems to tickle a Microsoft bug in the RichEdit control:
15670 occasionally the start of the next line after the wrapped line is indented
15671 too. I think the wrapped indent feature is useful enough that it's worth
15672 having in spite of the bug.
15674 * WinBoard bugfix: bounding box for the board was computed incorrectly by
15675 mouse code. It would think you moved off the bottom of the board before
15676 you really did, so it was hard to drag pieces along the bottom rank on
15677 smaller board sizes.
15679 * Fixed obscure parser.l bug: ambiguity between capture using : instead of
15680 x and email header line. Also removed or simplified a lot of complex
15681 patterns for English (as opposed to PGN) end-of-game indications while I
15684 * Added PonderNextMove option.
15686 * xboard EditPosition piece menus now let you set the side to play by
15687 selecting the "White" or "Black" label at the top of the menu, like
15688 WinBoard. (Both xboard and WinBoard still let you set the side to play by
15689 clicking on the clock.)
15691 * Merged documentation of Crafty and GNU Chess thinking output in
15692 engine-intf.txt. Corrected code in backend.c to match documentation; it
15693 used to require the PV to start in column 27 (!).
15695 * Fixed bug that caused crashes in "-reuseChessProgram false" mode.
15697 * Draw by agreement in Two Machines mode now works as it is supposed to.
15698 Other minor bugs in handling game end messages from machines are also
15699 fixed, and engine-intf.txt is revised in this area.
15701 * Revamped xboard code for handling mouse clicks on the board. In
15702 particular, it had a bug if a click-click promotion move was made.
15704 * Fixed and reinstated optimization for << in analysis modes: send
15705 initString and re-send the board if needed. Sending repeated undos
15706 is bad because Crafty prints some analysis after every one.
15708 * Don't go into a spin loop while pausing between xboard animation frames.
15709 This caused problems, especially when compiling with -O2 on HP-UX.
15711 * WinBoard Options/Colors/RevertToDefaults now also turns off Monochrome
15712 if it was on, and similarly for Options/ICSInteractionColors/RevertToDefaults.
15713 This seemed to confuse people before.
15715 * Bugfix: ICS Interaction context menu items with neither of the two
15716 optional flags set did not work.
15718 * Bugfix: PGN move numbers are optional, but we were insisting on "1"
15719 right after the tags.
15721 * Bugfix: only the first game of an -mg match was loading -lpf or -lgf.
15723 * Other minor fixes and code cleanup.
15725 3.6.10 -- Mon Jun 1 01:32:31 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
15727 * Added ZIPPYNOPLAYCRAFTY feature; see zippy.README.
15729 * Added timestamps for chess engine interaction to -debug output.
15731 * Now allow 10 seconds (was 5) between games in match mode for engines to
15732 respond to "force" command that ended previous game.
15734 * When a game is picked from the game list and the names of White and
15735 Black are known, display them in the window banner instead of the filename
15738 * Changed default for -scp and -sd to be the values of -fcp and -fd.
15740 * Added boxes for both engines to WinBoard startup dialog. Changed to
15741 dropdown boxes whose content can be set from winboard.ini, similar to
15742 the box for ICS name.
15744 * Accept "offer draw" (or "*offer*draw*") from engine to offer a draw.
15746 * Accept "move mmmm" from engine as well as silly "1. ... mmmm" syntax.
15748 * Added support for bughouse engines (Zippy mode only).
15750 * Move bombproofing for engines sending illegal or out of turn moves.
15752 * Always send "xboard\n" to engine as first command. Eliminates need
15753 to run crafty as "crafty xboard".
15755 * Rewrote xboard code for input from engines to fix longstanding bugs.
15756 Previously an engine that sent one line in two separate writes with
15757 some time lapse in between (or perhaps that sent several lines in one
15758 write) could make xboard hang. WinBoard did not have this bug.
15760 * Fixed minor bugs in dealing with illegal moves.
15762 * Added "iset startpos 1" for FICS.
15764 * Removed special support to put "GNU Chess" or "Crafty" in the window
15765 banner instead of the engine's base filename. This gives a more level
15766 playing field for other engines. Also fixed bugs in the code that finds the
15767 engine's base filename.
15769 * Bugfix: Abort or Resign at the very start of a game in chess engine mode
15770 would fail to send "force" to the engine.
15772 * Fixed some minor bugs in new "result" messages, and changed format to
15773 include a trailing PGN comment giving the reason the game ended.
15775 * Changed syntax of /font options in WinBoard; old syntax was assuming
15776 that a font name can't contain a digit, which is wrong. Old font names in
15777 WinBoard.ini files are still accepted.
15779 * Serious further work on getting WinBoard to read/write files in the
15780 "right" directories and documenting exactly what it does.
15782 * Added LoadPreviousPosition, LoadNextPosition, ReloadSamePosition.
15784 * Misc. tiny fixes and cleanup.
15786 3.6.9 -- Sun May 24 20:53:08 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
15788 xboard and WinBoard beta release.
15790 * Tightened up illegal move handling. Illegal or meaningless moves from a
15791 file or chess engine should no longer get translated into a1a1 and blindly
15792 applied. Explicit moves to the same square (like a1a1) no longer make the
15793 piece on that square capture itself and vanish.
15795 * Added AlwaysOnTop feature to winboard.
15797 * Fixed bug in winboard "@" command line indirection operator.
15799 * Removed buggy "optimization" code for ToStart in analysis modes.
15801 * Fixed typo bug in zippy.c that would often cause winboard to crash
15802 right after starting a game in -zp mode.
15804 3.6.8 -- Sat May 23 22:23:19 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
15806 xboard and WinBoard beta release.
15808 * Added -firstDirectory and -secondDirectory so that chess engines can
15809 be started in a different directory from xboard/WinBoard itself.
15811 * Added -matchGames to allow more than one game in -matchMode. The games
15812 are played with colors alternating between the two chess engines. Had to
15813 add a time delay at the end of each game to catch up with game ending
15814 messages from both chess engines -- yuck.
15816 * Changed TwoMachines mode to have firstChessProgram play White by
15817 default. Added -firstPlaysBlack to restore old behavior.
15819 * Major rework of code in backend.c for dealing with first and second
15820 chess engines. Generalized the code and created a struct type with one
15821 instance for each engine. Several small bugs fixed along the way.
15823 * Fixed bugs in Abort in local chess engine mode.
15825 * Tightened pattern matching to recognize moves from machine. Should cure
15826 bogus "Illegal move" errors while Crafty is pondering with Show Thinking
15827 on, among other things.
15829 * WinBoard keeps focus in board window after popping up a comment due to
15830 Forward/Backward/ToStart/ToEnd commands.
15832 * Finally got rid of warnings on compiling moves.c under Windows.
15834 * Fixed so WinBoard will compile on machines where WM_MOUSELEAVE is not
15837 * Removed various bits of unused code.
15839 * Parse (and ignore) NAGs in PGN files.
15841 * Updated engine-intf.txt.
15843 * Send "result R" to the chess program at the end of each game, where
15844 R is the PGN result 1-0, 0-1, 1/2-1/2, or *.
15846 * Bugfix: suppress animation when loading a game with timeDelay=0.
15848 * Bug fix: pondering output from Crafty that contained "..." could be
15849 mistaken for a move, causing bogus error messages and general chaos.
15851 * xboard "make clean" bug fix: moved things created by configure to be
15852 removed only by "make distclean".
15854 * Fixed a remaining case where move was being animated before being
15855 relayed to opponent.
15857 * Backend was reversing time/otim commands to the chess program (new bug),
15858 and was often not sending them on the first move of a game or the first
15859 move after a mode change (old bug). Fixing the latter required a kludge
15860 to work with both GNU Chess and Crafty, because Crafty swaps white and
15861 black clock times when it swaps sides, while GNU Chess does not. The
15862 kludge is that we always make sure the chess engine thinks its opponent is
15863 on move before we set the clock. This will sometimes result in sequences
15864 like "white\ntime xxx\notim yyy\nblack\ngo", or the same with white and
15865 black interchanged.
15867 * Removed last trace of old -whiteString and -blackString arguments.
15869 * Fixed so that you can type "bd" into the Direct Command dialog when
15870 debugging gnuchess, without having xboard parse the clock display
15871 (starting with "White") as "White wins" and end the game.
15873 * Changed moves.c to make a distinction between IllegalMove (where we
15874 could tell what move was intended, but it violates the chess rules) and
15875 MeaninglessMove (where we could not tell). This is a step towards getting
15876 rid of cases where we translate meaningless moves into "a1a1", but some
15877 work is probably needed to track them all down.
15879 * Fixed bug in WinBoard monoMode dragging.
15881 * Changed WinBoard to new style file dialogs. In the process, disabled
15882 the feature that let you enter the index number of a game or position within
15883 the file in the dialog. This is no loss in LoadGame, as you can pick your
15884 game from the game list dialog that follows, but it does remove some
15885 functionality from LoadPosition.
15887 3.6.7 -- Mon May 18 21:25:00 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
15889 xboard and WinBoard beta test release. I've been unable to reproduce some
15890 reported drawing bugs, so they may still not be fixed.
15892 * Changed PopUpErrors option to PopupMoveErrors, which is more useful, and
15893 changed default to off. Errors other than move errors should always be in
15894 popups; they are often too big for the message area and too important to
15895 put where they can be easily missed. But it seems good to get rid of the
15896 popups for move errors by default.
15898 * xboard analysis window no longer forces itself to top whenever there is
15899 new output. Also, now uses built-in Xaw word wrapping instead of trying
15900 to do its own; works better.
15902 * Bugfix: Reset did not take Crafty out of analyze mode.
15904 * A chess engine no longer has to claim to be Crafty to be able to use
15905 AnalysisMode and AnalyzeFile; it just has to implement the analyze
15906 command as Crafty does. Put in heuristics to generate more informative
15907 error messages if the engine does not support analyze, and checked that
15908 they work at least with GNU Chess.
15910 * Added click-click moving, HighlightLastMove, and HighlightDragging to
15911 WinBoard. The highlight features are unlikely to go into xboard unless
15912 the xboard drawing code is cleaned up to do *all* drawing on the board
15913 from DrawPosition, as WinBoard does. This is low priority for me.
15915 * Eliminated bogus "Error gathering move list: no header" popup. You
15916 could get this by observing two fast games at once without turning off
15919 * Disable WinBoard Sounds menu entirely in -ncp mode, since not even
15920 MoveSound is used in that mode.
15922 * WinBoard bugfix: Several problems were caused if the user changed
15923 WinBoard's current directory in a Load, Save, or Browse dialog. In
15924 particular, WinBoard.ini would get saved in the wrong directory, and
15925 sound .wav file names would not get saved with a full pathname. I think
15926 all such problems are now fixed.
15928 * WinBoard bugfix: iconizing the board after an aborted mouse resize would
15929 (partially) resize it to Tiny.
15931 * WinBoard bugfix: board was not being drawn in color on 256-color
15932 displays. This bug was introduced in 3.6.6.
15934 3.6.6 -- Tue May 12 17:43:43 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
15936 xboard and WinBoard beta release. Note: not all reported bugs are fixed.
15938 * Move animation in WinBoard, programmed by Henrik Gram. Great stuff!
15940 * Animate backward moves too.
15942 * xboard bugfix: -font (and friends) can now specify a font alias (such
15943 as "fixed"), not just a full X Consortium name pattern. Previously this
15944 would give a resource conversion error message.
15946 * Some coding style cleanup in xboard.c.
15948 * Earlier error check for moving wrong color piece in EditGame mode.
15950 * Completed fix to pattern matching; see 3.6.5.
15952 * Fixed some software rot bugs in Zippy.
15954 * Split AnimateDragging as separate option from AnimateMoves.
15956 * Added FlashMoves to options menu and -flash/-xflash to command line
15957 options (xboard only).
15959 * Some preliminary work on visible bughouse holding support. Most of the
15960 code is not present in this release because I have not gotten it working
15961 properly yet; my first approach went down a blind alley and I had to
15962 remove most of the partially working code in preparation for a rewrite.
15964 3.6.5 -- Fri May 8 14:22:09 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
15966 Not generally released.
15968 * Pack bughouse holdings display in banner more tightly when board is one
15969 of the smaller sizes (when smallLayout or tinyLayout is true, that is).
15970 An interim measure, but should help.
15972 * Completed fix to make move list parsing recognize the end condition and
15975 * Fixed pattern matching for chatter (tells, etc.) to be more reliable.
15976 This should reduce the incidence of colors starting in the wrong place and
15977 of incorrectly matching things that look like other patterns inside
15978 chatter, such as "shout <12>". (These errors were already rare.)
15980 * WinBoard now lets you customize the list of ICS's in the startup dialog.
15981 For now, at least, requires editing WinBoard.ini with a text editor.
15983 * Bug fix: WinBoard window sizing and position setting save/restore did
15984 not work right when the taskbar was at the top (or left side) of the
15985 screen and not in autohide mode.
15987 * Merged xboard click/click mode and drag mode, and deleted
15988 ClickClickMoving option on menu. Now if you click on a piece, it
15989 highlights and a further click on another square will move it. (A second
15990 click on the same square takes down the highlight.) Or if you press down
15991 on a piece and start to drag, you can drag it to a new square.
15993 * When making click/click style moves, if your second click is on a piece
15994 of the same color, instead of saying "Illegal move", we now cancel the first
15995 starting square, replace it with the second, and wait for another click to
15998 * Separate -secondInitString. Default: same as -initString. Suggested by
16001 * Patch from Frank McIngvale to make animation work with XIMs. Yay!
16003 * Changed move animation to happen after move is passed on to ICS or the
16004 chess engine, where applicable. Fixed problems with updating moveList
16005 that this uncovered.
16007 * Changed game list to show PGN result token for each game.
16009 * The usual minor bug fixes.
16011 3.6.4 -- Thu Apr 30 23:14:43 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
16013 xboard and WinBoard beta test release.
16015 * xboard documentation updated, both man page and info file. An attempt
16016 to generate both from the same source with LinuxDocSGML was abandoned, at
16017 least for now. WinBoard doc updated too.
16019 * Merged updates to animation code from Hugh. Fixed a couple of remaining
16020 bugs, mostly to do with handling Pause mode correctly.
16022 * Added SaveSettingsOnExit to WinBoard.
16024 * WinBoard now saves the last screen position of the Comment, Edit Tags,
16025 Game List, and Analysis windows (in addition to the board and ICS
16026 Interaction windows) in WinBoard.ini.
16028 * WinBoard now provides a way to customize the right-button context menu
16029 in the output area of the ICS Interaction window. For now, requires
16030 editing WinBoard.ini with a text editor.
16032 * Various minor fixes to ICS message recognition, most affecting only Zippy.
16034 * Colorize the notification when someone sends you a message while you are
16035 logged in, not the output of the "messages" command.
16037 * Fixed colorization to turn off at the right place more reliably.
16039 * Added a new color and WinBoard sound for "requests": abort, adjourn,
16040 draw, pause, and takeback. The same color and sound are used for all of
16043 * Added GUI to change sounds in WinBoard.
16045 * Suppressed WinBoard error popup when a sound can't be played. They were
16046 popping up when two separate WinBoards tried to play a sound at the same
16047 time (such as during a bughouse match).
16049 * Fixed WinBoard crash when a sound file didn't exist.
16051 * WinBoard ports of timestamp and timeseal now produce decent error
16052 messages if they fail to connect, and WinBoard captures the messages and
16053 puts them into a popup. Previously WinBoard would exit with no message on
16056 * WinBoard resizing with mouse improved; now accurately picks the largest
16057 size that fits in the new area.
16059 * Added option to turn off error message popups.
16061 * Added sizes slim, dinky, and teeny.
16063 * Fixed some minor problems with error message wording.
16065 3.6.3 -- Mon Feb 23 19:08:57 PST 1998 Tim Mann
16067 xboard beta test release only. Man page is updated for the changes, but info
16070 * Bug fix: LoadGame could not load a PGN game whose first move was
16071 castling (which is possible from setup positions).
16073 * Bug fix: we were ignoring illegal move messages from chess engines in
16074 modes where the engine is refereeing but not participating (EditGame,
16075 LoadGame, AnalyzeFile). The problem was in a workaround for a Crafty bug,
16076 where Crafty generates a bogus illegal move message if a "." (used by
16077 the PeriodicUpdates feature) is sent in analysis mode when the current
16078 analysis reveals a forced mate. Installed a different workaround (that
16079 works in most but not all cases) and reported the Crafty bug. Bob Hyatt
16080 replied with a fix, so the Crafty bug should be gone in Crafty 14.12 or so.
16082 * WinBoard only: enabled resizing board with the mouse. It snaps to the
16083 nearest (but not too much larger) predefined size.
16085 * The xboard default font is now sized according to piece size, just as
16086 clockFont and coordFont have always been.
16088 * Added more sizes: bulky, moderate, average, middling, mediocre, petite.
16090 * xboard only: Added Animate Moves and Click-Click Moving to Options menu.
16092 * xboard only: Added code to animate piece movement, from Hugh Fisher.
16094 * New feature: autoflag is implemented in MachineWhite, MachineBlack, and
16095 TwoMachines modes. If it is on and either a chess program or the user
16096 oversteps his time, xboard will automatically call the flag and end the
16097 game. This feature was requested by someone who runs matches between
16098 programs and wants to penalize GNU Chess for its habit of running slightly
16099 over at the end of a time control. I personally think it's pointless.
16101 * Fixed a bug in Zippy's pattern matching; he can now reply to ICC
16104 * Generate prettier notation for illegal moves. If a move is illegal only
16105 because it leaves the player in check, generate notation as if that were
16106 not illegal. For instance, if two knights are a knight's move away from
16107 f3, one on g1 and one on e5 that is pinned, the notation would be Nf3 to
16108 move the g1 knight, Nef3 to move the e5 knight. (Suggested by Philippe
16109 Schnoebelen.) In addition, if a move is illegal because the type of piece
16110 moved cannot go that way, would be jumping over another piece, etc., we
16111 give fully disambiguated coordinate notation; for example, Ng1g3, Ke1xe8,
16112 d2xd8=Q, etc. An alternative would be to still write Ng3 if there is only
16113 one knight on the board, or Ngg3 if the other knight is not on the g file,
16114 but life is too short to code up all this stuff, and perhaps the way I did
16115 it is better as it emphasizes that this move was really made despite being
16116 illegal. I wonder if the new PGN standard revision will speak to notation
16119 * Fixed gross bug from 3.6.2: if a chess program said "checkmate" and
16120 White was left on move, the PGN outcome was "1-0 {Black mates}" instead
16121 of "0-1 {Black mates}"! The bug occurred only for that specific string.
16123 3.6.2 -- Wed Jul 23 16:47:29 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
16125 * There was a bug in backing up from the end of a game against a chess
16126 engine, introduced when -reuse mode was added. Fixed.
16128 * Recognize "{" as terminating an ICS move list. Previously we needed to
16129 see a prompt (containing %), but occasionally ICC can send more stuff
16130 right after a move list with no prompt in between.
16132 * In WinBoard, -mm now implies -cp, so you don't get the startup dialog.
16134 * WinBoard startup dialog no longer sets -scp. People used to get
16135 confused because they would give the -fcp and -scp arguments, but omit
16136 -cp. This would bring up the startup dialog, which would set both -fcp
16137 and -scp to the value in the engine name box. Now you can change -scp
16138 only with the command-line argument. That will confuse some people too,
16139 but hopefully fewer. I think overall it's better than putting spaces for
16140 both -fcp and -scp in the dialog, which would puzzle newbies.
16142 * Bug fix: Analyze File mode now works in WinBoard.
16144 * Bug fix: WinBoard window no longer cuts off part of the bottom row if
16145 the menu bar wraps to a second line.
16147 * Accept game end messages of the form "PGN-result {comment}" from the
16148 chess engine, where PGN-result is 0-1, 1-0, or 1/2-1/2. Accept "resign"
16149 or "computer resigns" from the chess engine as a synonym for "0-1 {White
16150 resigns}" or "1-0 {Black resigns}". Accept any message from the chess
16151 engine containing "game is a draw" as a synonym for "1/2-1/2 {Draw}".
16152 Accept "White resigns" or "Black resigns".
16154 * Enable "Action / Draw" menu item in chess engine mode. It sends the
16155 command "draw" to the engine. Accept any message from the chess engine
16156 containing "offers a draw" as a draw offer. WARNING: Draw offers from the
16157 user and the engine (or from two engines) are not yet matched up by xboard
16158 in chess engine mode. Two engines could get into a loop offering each
16161 * Bug fix: Game end messages from the chess engine are always ignored in
16162 Zippy mode. Previously they could sometimes be processed, which was
16163 sometimes making Zippy hang at the start of a new game that followed
16164 quickly after an old one.
16166 * Zippy can now respond to titled players in channels. Zippy will avoid
16167 talking to himself in a channel if he knows his own name.
16169 * Bug fix: in colorization arguments, the bold setting was being ignored
16170 if the background color was defaulted. (xboard only.)
16172 * Extended ParseFEN to accept Crafty 12.2's interpretation of FEN.
16173 If fewer than 8 squares are given in a row, or fewer than 8 rows are
16174 given, the uncovered squares are empty. Also, there can be a / after the
16177 3.6.1 -- Sat May 17 01:02:33 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
16179 * Bug fix: Hitting escape while entering a password on WinBoard no longer
16180 sets the font color back to black (which made further typing visible).
16182 * Bug fix: On Windows NT 4.0, WinBoard /ics /icshelper=timestamp would
16183 often hang if you tried to exit with the Exit menu item, the [X] button,
16184 etc. The same fix may also have corrected the problem where running a
16185 chess program with /xreuse would sometimes crash Windows 95 (but not NT)
16186 when the chess program was killed and quickly restarted.
16188 * Bug fix: Periodic Updates would not work if turned on after having been
16189 off. Also, the default was needlessly "off" in WinBoard.
16191 * Zippy bug fix: Continuing an adjourned game was totally broken. The
16192 wrong moves, or no moves at all, were being fed to the chess program.
16194 * WinBoard change: Giving -ics without -icshost now pops up the startup
16195 dialog with "Use an Internet Chess Server" pre-selected, so that you get a
16196 menu of chess servers instead of going directly to ICC.
16198 * Bug fix: WinBoard's SaveSettings was saving -icshost, -icsport, and
16199 -icshelper in winboard.ini. This causes a problem if you use a different
16200 icshost later that needs the default values for icsport (5000) and
16201 icshelper ("", meaning none).
16203 * Disabled complaints about unexpected "[Ii]llegal move" messages from
16204 the chess program; we still get them at times.
16206 * Greatly simplified the code for Move Now and SIGINT (ATTENTION). Fixes
16207 the bug where Move Now did not work with GNU Chess in WinBoard, and
16208 several more obscure bugs as well. Reintroduces a minor bug: GNU Chess might
16209 not think on your time after a Move Now command. Trying to fix this
16210 causes too many other problems. Documented change in engine-intf.txt.
16212 * Cleaned up code for obtaining ratings from ICS. It was kludgey and may
16213 have had bugs on systems with no "Creating:" message. It should fail
16214 gracefully there, just not finding the ratings.
16216 3.6.0 -- Thu May 8 19:55:58 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
16218 * WinBoard now has right-button context menus in the ICS Interaction
16219 window. Some of the items do immediate commands on the player name you
16220 have selected or pointed to. (Suggested by Paolo Casaschi.) Also, the
16221 middle button or shift+right does a immediate Copy and Paste.
16223 * Fixed a bug in Zippy's wild rejection. The bug was causing Zippy to
16224 reject all forms of wild. Now it rejects only 1, 9, 16, 17, and 24, as
16225 was intended. These variants have different rules, while the other
16226 variants defined so far only have different starting positions.
16227 (Actually, wild 2, 3, and 4 never allow castling, but may sometimes by
16228 chance have king and rook start on squares where castling appears legal.
16229 This could cause a problem later.)
16231 * Zippy now resumes adjourned games by feeding the chess program
16232 the move list instead of the position. Setting -getMoveList to False
16233 restores the old behavior. Feeding in the move list is better because
16234 it enables the chess program to correctly handle en passant legality,
16235 castling legality, draw by repetition, and draw by the 50 move rule.
16237 * Added a WinBoard startup dialog for people who run WinBoard.exe without
16238 using the Start menu or reading the help file. Instead of being dumped
16239 directly into GNU Chess mode, you now get a menu of choices. You now have
16240 to give the new WinBoard -cp option to go directly into chess engine mode.
16241 I did not add this feature to xboard.
16243 * Handling of "illegal move" from Crafty is now back on. (It was turned
16244 off in 3.4.6; see below.) Crafty 12.0 doesn't seem to send bogus ones
16245 anymore. I did have to suppress sending time and otim in analyze mode to
16246 make this work, but there is no harm in that.
16248 * Zippy now sends "gameend" to ICS at the end of each game. You can alias
16249 this to "seek" or whatever you like.
16251 * Added Crafty support for Move Now, using the "?" command. We test
16252 whether this command exists by trying it once at the start of the first
16253 game, before it really makes sense. If we don't get a message like
16254 "Illegal move ... ?", we assume it's OK. (We're careful about this
16255 because sending a "?" to GNU Chess on Move Now keeps it from pondering the
16256 next move as it should.)
16258 * Added support for a tellusererror command from the chess engine. See
16261 * Attempted to make engine-intf.txt complete.
16263 * Minor fixes/cleanup to GameEnds code, to be sure we always interrupt
16264 when needed, and always undo an extra move generated by stopping the chess
16265 program while it is thinking.
16267 3.5.7 -- Sat May 03 22:37:44 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
16269 Beta release of both xboard and WinBoard.
16271 * Updated xboard documentation. I really wish the man page was built from
16272 the info file instead of being separate! It's a pain to update them both.
16274 * Updated documentation of the interface between XBoard/WinBoard and chess
16275 programs, and renamed it to engine-intf.txt.
16277 * Added support for tellics, telluser, and askuser commands from the chess
16278 engine. See engine-intf.txt.
16280 * Various bug fixes. On WinBoard, 256 color displays are finally handled
16281 right; no more color flashing when you switch windows unless the colors
16282 really need to be updated. Also, I think the problem of the console font
16283 failing to change or changing back by itself is finally fixed.
16285 3.5.6 -- Tue Apr 29 03:08:00 PDT 1997
16287 Beta release, WinBoard only. ChangeLog was out of date in release,
16290 * Added ICC timestamp and FICS timeseal to WinBoard distribution. These
16291 are my own ports to Win32, based on and used by permission of the owners
16292 of the proprietary source code (Daniel Sleator for timestamp, Henrik Gram
16293 for timeseal). The owners permit these programs to be distributed only in
16294 binary form (to help prevent cheating), so to avoid running afoul of the
16295 GPL, I have kept them as separate programs, not linked into the WinBoard
16296 address space. Updated Start menu icons to use them.
16298 * Miscellaneous smaller changes.
16300 3.5.5 -- Fri Apr 25 03:06:00 PDT 1997
16302 Beta release, WinBoard only. ChangeLog was out of date in release;
16305 * Added simple sound support to WinBoard.
16307 * Updated WinBoard documentation.
16309 * Internal implementation of the telnet protocol is now more complete.
16310 You can now hop through a VMS host on the way to ICS. For example, do
16311 "xboard -ics -icshost vms.host.edu -icsport 23", then log in. Do not use
16312 the -telnet flag; that says to use an *external* telnet program. To avoid
16313 double echoes, you need to force character mode in VMS telnet after
16314 connecting from VMS to ICS. Do "^]^Mset mode char^M^M".
16316 * Display opponent names in the title bar for MachineWhite, MachineBlack,
16317 and TwoMachines modes.
16319 * WinBoard now has an installer, built with InstallShield. The installer
16320 works with a binary-only distribution. Sources are still freely
16321 available, but now separately.
16323 * Added SaveSettings to WinBoard, which saves current option settings to
16324 winboard.ini. Made sure all options can be saved and loaded, including
16325 fonts and com port settings.
16327 * If the game ends while you are dragging a piece, we now don't let you
16328 finish the move. Formerly the move was accepted and your opponent's clock
16329 would start running again.
16331 3.5.4 -- Fri Apr 18 01:15:24 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
16333 Beta test release of WinBoard and xboard. The documentation remains
16336 * Many fixes and improvements to new WinBoard user interface code.
16338 * In Zippy mode, avoid sending another copy of the same move to the chess
16339 program if ICS sends us another copy of the board image. Hard to believe
16340 it took me until now to diagnose and fix this problem!
16342 3.5.3 -- Sat Apr 12 19:49:33 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
16344 Beta test release of WinBoard and xboard.
16346 * Fixed fatal bug in WinBoard input handling.
16348 * Made code to stop chess program for reuse a bit smarter. Removed kludge
16349 of "white" in initString; it didn't work well, and is unneeded
16350 with Crafty 11.21 and later.
16352 3.5.2 -- Sat Apr 12 15:40:01 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
16354 Beta test release of WinBoard.
16356 * Ignore check and permit promotion to King during suicide games; no need
16357 to turn off TestLegality.
16359 * Renamed CheckLegality to TestLegality to avoid confusion with the chess
16362 * Added Rematch to Action menu.
16364 * WinBoard now has a custom ICS interaction window with scrollback, a
16365 separate line for input, and colorization. Accelerators that conflict
16366 with normal editing keys were changed (by requiring Alt+) so they can work
16367 in both the console and the main window.
16369 * WinBoard error popups are now non-modal and disappear when you make a
16370 new move, as in xboard.
16372 * Configure now defaults to --disable-ptys on all systems. If anyone has
16373 an ancient SysV system where pipes don't work with select, they can still
16374 do "configure --enable-ptys" explicitly. I would appreciate getting a bug
16375 report if this happens to anyone, with complete output from configure and
16378 * "make install" now makes the installation directories too.
16380 * Fixed a bug that would cause an "Illegal move" message for Black from
16381 GNU Chess to be incorrectly considered bogus.
16383 * Handle name changes during an ICS game (FICS bname and wname commands).
16385 * You can force both chess programs to be killed at the end of each game
16386 by turning off the reuseChessPrograms option. There are still some
16387 problems with reusing Crafty even in version 11.20.
16389 * Now the second chess program stays around by default too, if it ever
16392 3.5.1 -- Sat Apr 5 16:47:48 PST 1997 Tim Mann
16396 * Don't kill off and restart the chess program for each game; keep the
16397 same one running, using the "new" command to start a new game. This
16398 change works around the problem in Windows 95 that makes WinBoard crash it
16399 at times, and is generally desirable to make new games start faster. The
16400 second chess program (for TwoMachines) is still killed at the end of the
16401 game, and unfortunately this can still crash Windows 95. Temporarily
16402 added "white" to the initString to make this work with Crafty 11.20, which
16403 has a minor bug in "new". Older versions of Crafty have worse bugs in
16404 "new"; they should not be used with this version of xboard.
16406 * Support for FICS suicide chess: Parse illegal moves (that leave King in
16407 check) in game history. If CheckLegality is off, allow promotion to King
16408 and illegal moves in game files. We still generate e2e4 style notation
16411 * Handle FICS "has timeseal; checking" message.
16413 * Changed the coords from white back to black; this was a bug.
16415 * Fixed problems compiling with K&R compilers.
16417 * Fixed an old bug in RegisterMove that was crashing cmail on some systems
16420 3.5.0 -- Thu Jan 2 16:59:49 PST 1997 Tim Mann
16422 Thanks to Frank McIngvale for much of the work on versions 3.4.4 and above!
16424 * Fix Crafty resumed game time bug (frankm)
16426 * Word wrap text in Analysis window (frankm)
16428 * More debug info for XPM loading (frankm)
16430 * Replaced config.sub, config.guess, etc., with up-to-date versions from
16431 autoconf 2.12. Hopefully this will fix problems on Pentium Pro machines.
16433 * Removed some Makefile gunk that was causing looping for one person.
16435 3.4.7 -- Thu Dec 19 14:22:41 PST 1996 Tim Mann
16437 All changes from Frank:
16439 * Retrieve ratings from ICC (and FICS, etc., when they add the Creating:
16440 message), save them in the PGN tags, and pass them to Crafty in Zippy mode.
16442 * Add settable time delay between characters in ICS login script.
16444 * Colorize messages like personal tells. Fix false recognition of channel
16447 * Pass "tells" from Crafty through to ICS (in Zippy mode).
16449 * Implement ~/ filename convention from C shell for game and position file
16452 * ZIPPYACCEPTONLY feature for testing.
16454 3.4, patchlevel 6 -- Sat Nov 23 16:58:50 PST 1996 Tim Mann
16456 * Put recognition of "illegal move" messages from Crafty for
16457 illegal castling, etc., inside an #if that is currently turned off,
16458 because of a bug in Crafty that generates bogus "illegal move" messages
16459 after some moves that are actually legal and accepted by Crafty.
16461 * Added -checkLegality option; previously this could not be turned off.
16463 * Fixed an old bug in finding default board size parameters.
16465 * Differentiated among channel tell, kibitz/whisper, and personal tell/say.
16467 * Fixed a bug in detecting Xpm in the configure script.
16469 3.4, patchlevel 5 -- Mon Nov 18 16:22:53 PST 1996 Tim Mann
16471 * Added zic2xpm to the kit; it had been omitted by mistake.
16473 * Added some default colors for -colorize
16475 3.4, patchlevel 4 -- Sat Nov 16 18:10:17 PST 1996 Tim Mann
16477 This is meant to be a beta release in preparation for version 3.5.
16479 * Added InfoXBoard and ManXBoard to the Help menu.
16481 * Made Frank's ICS input box optional, defaulting to off.
16483 * Merged in Frank McIngvale's XbKit. Many new features, including
16484 -clickClick mode, the Analysis modes, piece flashing, ZIICS import,
16485 ICS text colorization, and the ICS input box. Many thanks to Frank for
16486 supplying and documenting this code.
16488 3.4, patchlevel 3 -- Mon Nov 11 18:23:14 PST 1996 Tim Mann
16490 Small set of changes made while Frank McIngvale was working on XbKit in
16491 parallel. Unreleased in this form.
16493 * Updated zippy.README.
16495 * Removed useless X event handler and removed strange code for copying
16496 form translation table to board that worked around the bug it caused.
16497 This makes changing bindings in .Xdefaults more straightforward.
16499 * Now pressing the Control key steps back one move, and releasing it steps
16502 * Moved quit from "q" to "Q" for greater safety.
16504 * Use "unobserve" instead of "observe" to stop observing; needed on FICS.
16506 * Support for interface variable.
16508 * Strip titles from people who are talking to us, so (for example) Zippy
16509 won't try things like "tell Darooha(*) hello". Needed on FICS.
16511 3.4, patchlevel 2 -- Tue Jul 9 19:06:42 PDT 1996 Tim Mann
16513 This patchlevel is not planned to be an announced release. It's in
16514 preparation for integrating Frank McIngvale's XbKit. It mostly contains
16515 minor fixes I've accumulated since 3.4.pl1.
16517 * WinBoard /telnet option now fires up an external program, as
16518 with xboard, instead of trying to use a feature of NT 3.1 that does not
16519 exist in later versions of NT or in Windows 95. ChangeLog for 3.4.pl1
16520 said this had been implemented there, but it really wasn't.
16522 * Indicating player to move by the icon color now works under Windows 95.
16524 * WinBoard now kills the chess program when you exit using the system menu
16525 or the [X] button. Thanks to Michael Lowe.
16527 * Minor changes to Zippy, including: Now understands wild challenges on
16528 FICS; these used to crash it. Removed limit on how fast a game will be
16529 accepted. Use "set formula ..." on the chess server to limit this if you
16530 are using GNU Chess. Now sends correct opponent name to Crafty.
16532 * Added some missing default values to documentation. Thanks to Stuart
16535 * Bugfix: Trying to print "No fonts match pattern" error message would
16536 crash. This can happen to Linux users who don't install Helvetica, for
16539 * Bugfix: Defaulting feature in -size n,n,n,n,n,n would put us in an
16542 * Added more directories to search for Athena widgets on HPUX.
16544 * New cmail (3.12) from Evan Welsh; includes small fix from Kayvan Sylvan.
16546 * Recognize "illegal move" messages from Crafty for illegal castling, etc.
16548 * Bugfix: "name" command added to zippy.c for Crafty was producing error
16549 message if GNU Chess was in use.
16551 * In bughouse mode, suppress holding messages from console window; show
16552 holdings only in banner.
16554 * Minor fixes/cleanup to Makefile.in and configure.in.
16556 3.4, patchlevel 1 -- Mon Dec 11 13:43:12 PST 1995 Tim Mann
16558 * This patchlevel updates WinBoard to match xboard, and includes a few
16559 fixes and minor improvements. "-size tiny" and "-size n,n,n,n,n,n"
16560 are still not implemented for WinBoard.
16562 * Installed support for Crafty based on code from Bob Hyatt.
16563 Currently the only documentation for this is in the FAQ, and a few
16564 things don't work with Crafty 8.23. Please do not report these
16565 problems as bugs in either xboard or Crafty. Bob and I know about
16566 them. The worst ones (if not all of them) should be fixed in Crafty
16569 * Changed the kludge command we send when gnuchess wants to print
16570 something that doesn't end with a newline, from "help" to "bogus".
16571 This works because the error message gnuchess prints ends with a
16572 newline. It also improves compatibility with Crafty, which doesn't
16573 need the kludge, but for which sending "help" causes a problem.
16575 * Don't draw grid at all if lineGap is 0; previously we drew the grid
16576 with X "0-width" lines (usually 1 pixel wide) and then overwrote it.
16578 * Makefile: Removed xboard.info from "all" target so we won't try to
16579 rebuild it, because this fails on hosts that don't have makeinfo
16580 installed. Other minor fixes to "clean" targets, etc.
16582 * Fixes and cleanup to Auto Comment code that handles continuation
16583 lines and highlighting.
16585 * Auto Observe now tries to observe the game from the point of view of
16586 the player who was on your gnotify list. Requested by rng.
16587 Limitations: We can't tell which player it was unless you have ICS
16588 highlighting turned on. Also, currently "observe foo" works as
16589 required (observing from foo's point of view) only on ICC, but FICS
16590 will probably implement this soon.
16592 * "-size tiny" now makes the default font smaller automatically. This
16593 was implemented by introducing an extra Form widget in the hierarchy
16594 for all xboard windows, named either normalLayout, smallLayout, or
16595 tinyLayout. So you can have resource specifications that apply only
16596 to certain layouts; in particular, XBoard*tinyLayout*font.
16598 * Bug fix: EditGame or EditPosition while playing or examining still was
16599 not really being permitted.
16601 * WinBoard bug fix: On the EditPosition menu, King did not work.
16603 * Added text catalog of WinSock error messages to WinBoard, because
16604 Microsoft still has not put them in the system message catalog.
16606 * Removed support for older ICS game-ending messages that do not have
16607 a PGN result token (*, 0-1, 1-0, or 1/2-1/2) after the closing '}'.
16608 The code for older messages was sometimes firing on the newer
16609 messages, due to parsing ambiguity. If the current code sees an old
16610 message, it will understand that the game is over, but will always
16611 display * as a result token instead of trying to guess the result by
16612 interpreting the text message.
16614 3.4, patchlevel 0 -- Tue Nov 21 01:02:50 PST 1995 Tim Mann
16616 * This patchlevel was released for xboard only.
16618 * Updated the info file. It should now be as up-to-date as the man page,
16619 with good English except in the parts that pertain only to AmyBoard.
16621 * Added "-size tiny", requested by Bob Hyatt. Also cleaned up bitmap
16622 support and added "-size n,n,n,n,n,n" to allow arbitrary-sized bitmaps,
16623 if the actual bitmaps are supplied by the user.
16625 * Updated bughouse support.
16627 3.3, patchlevel 4 -- Sat Nov 18 02:27:21 PST 1995 Tim Mann
16629 * Unreleased beta that works with preliminary FICS bughouse code. Will
16630 need changes before release to track FICS message changes.
16632 * Removed use of .EX macro from man page. It is not supported by some
16633 nroff -man macro packages, notably the one on Slackware Linux. Switched
16634 to boldface for references to xboard and other commands within the man
16635 page, as this seems to be the modern way.
16637 * Bug fix: If ICS rejected a move, it was correctly undone on the board,
16638 but the message widget still displayed the bad move. Reported by DAV.
16640 * Normally, xboard in ICS mode fetches the move list whenever the board
16641 display switches to a new game. Doing this is now an option
16642 (getMoveList) that can be turned off, which is useful if you are watching
16643 multiple blitz games. Requested by rng.
16645 * Move list fetching code is now smarter: it ignores a move list if it is
16646 not for the right game.
16648 * Added support for bughouse as implemented on FICS. Holdings are shown
16649 in the window title in place of the strength numbers. A menu on mouse
16650 buttons 2 and 3 (same on both) lets you drop pieces. There is no checking
16651 as to whether you actually hold the piece you are trying to drop; we rely
16652 on ICS to check that. Notation of the form P@f7 is generated and parsed.
16653 The mate detector does not understand that non-contact mate is not really
16654 mate in bughouse, but this does no real harm. It results in a "#"
16655 suffix being displayed on the move notation, but xboard does not assume the
16658 * Bug fix: Promotion to a knight was not working with ICC! Thanks to
16659 Wendigo for the report.
16661 * Bug fix: Special pty code for host types *-*-aix3* and *-*-irix3*
16662 (supplied from configure.in) had a bug that would cause childio.c to
16663 fail to compile, due to a "continue" that was not within a loop.
16665 * Bug fix: In pgntags.c, memory was being freed while still in use. One
16666 symptom this caused was that on some machines, cmail would fail with a
16667 message that it could not find the BlackNA tag. The error was in some
16668 submitted code that I included in version 3.2.pl3 without reading
16669 carefully enough. Anders Forberg noticed the symptoms, and Evan Welsh
16670 (who had nothing to do with causing the bug) found the bug and submitted a
16671 fix; thanks to them both.
16673 * Removed restriction against using EditGame while playing, observing,
16674 or examining on ICS. You still get a warning popup.
16676 3.3, patchlevel 3 -- Sat Sep 16 11:44:05 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
16678 * Bug fix: Going directly from MachineWhite to TwoMachines mode would kill
16679 off the second chess program after Black's first move.
16681 * Added -timeIncrement feature. Thanks to Joel Rivat.
16683 * Deleted code that tries to keep you from observing more than one game,
16684 or observing while playing or examining. There is actually no problem in
16685 doing this, except that every time an update comes in from a different
16686 game than is currently being displayed, xboard fetches the history of the
16687 new game, which may be time-consuming if you are on a slow link.
16689 * Fixed configure so as not to crash when neither lex nor flex is found.
16690 lex or flex is needed only if the user wants to rebuild parser.c. Thanks
16691 to Phil Humpherys for reporting the crash.
16693 * Bug fix: config.h.in used #define instead of #undef for some macros used
16694 in the pty code in childio.c. This causes the code to fail to compile on
16695 some architectures, because the symbols are supposed to be undefined, not
16696 defined to empty, when they are not set in configure. Bug originated in
16697 3.3.pl0 when config.h was introduced. Thanks to Phil Humpherys for report.
16699 * Bug fix: ShowThinking would not show anything when current position had
16700 no move to display in the move window. E.g., if position was created by
16701 LoadPosition or EditPosition.
16703 3.3, patchlevel 2 -- Mon Aug 28 11:11:11 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
16705 * Zippy code was omitted from xboard-3.3.pl1 by mistake; now included.
16707 * For WinBoard, added hint to help file that you may need to turn off
16708 LocalLineEditing while typing dialing commands to your modem.
16710 3.3, patchlevel 1 -- Sat Aug 19 15:13:30 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
16712 * Zippy distribution is no longer separate from regular xboard distribution.
16714 * Deal properly with Show Thinking output from GNU Chess when it is
16715 thinking on its opponent's time. In TwoMachines mode this output is
16716 suppressed to avoid interfering with the output from the machine that is
16717 on move; in other modes it is displayed (including the move that GNU Chess
16718 is predicting the user will make next). GNU Chess produces this output
16719 only if it is built without -DQUIETBACKGROUND defined; this symbol is
16720 defined by default in patchlevels before pl75, but undefined by default in
16723 * Bug fix: Handling of initial board position in move list for wild games
16724 was broken, so wild games could not be observed and adjourned wild games
16725 could not be continued. Thanks to "Maximum Entropy" for the bug report.
16727 * Added feature: algebraic notation now shows "+" indicator for check
16728 and "#" for checkmate, as called for in PGN standard. Thanks to Kevin
16729 Maher for the suggestion.
16731 3.3, patchlevel 0 -- Thu Jul 27 22:21:07 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
16733 * Changed configuration to use a config.h file instead of passing zillions
16734 of -D options on the cc command line.
16736 * Merged a small fix and some updates to the texinfo file from Jochen
16737 Wiedmann. The texinfo file still needs work.
16739 3.2, patchlevel 5 -- Tue Jul 18 20:29:39 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
16741 * Beta test release of xboard only.
16743 * Updated WinBoard code to include new xboard features.
16745 * Added texinfo file from Jochen Wiedmann to the release, but not as the
16746 primary documentation. It needs updating, and the English needs work.
16747 I did make a few improvements, mostly to change incorrect uses of @var to
16748 either @samp or @code as appropriate.
16750 * Merged in code changes to 3.2.pl4beta from Jochen Wiedmann.
16752 * Fixed EditComment; did not pop up window in previous beta.
16754 * Added AutoComment feature.
16756 * Added GameListDestroy to disable the outdated game list popup in cases
16757 where we load a new game file without building a new popup.
16759 * Added yyskipmoves feature to parser.l to speed up building of gamelist.
16761 * gamelist.c wouldn't compile with a non-ANSI compiler. Fixed.
16763 * Change to yy_text handling in patchlevel 3 still had problems. Can't
16764 use AC_DECL_YYTEXT in configure.in, because that defines YYTEXT_POINTER
16765 according to whether the lexer on the current host makes yytext a pointer.
16766 But most people will be using a parser.c that was generated on another
16767 host and shipped with the package.
16769 3.2, patchlevel 4 -- Sun Jun 25 19:13:43 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
16771 * Beta test release of xboard only.
16773 * Added FIREWALLS section to man page.
16775 * Changed -icsport to be a string. Now with the -telnet option,
16776 specifying -icsport "" suppresses the second argument to telnet.
16778 * Added EditTags feature. Removed AboutGame from menu, because EditTags
16779 subsumes it. EditTags suggested by Jochen Wiedmann and first implemented by
16780 him in AmyBoard. xboard implementation is my own.
16782 * Fixed some missing or incorrect prototypes.
16784 3.2, patchlevel 3 -- Sat Jun 3 18:57:38 1995 Tim Mann
16786 * Beta test release of xboard only.
16788 * New version of cmail from Evan Welsh, to fix compatibility problems with
16791 * Added game list feature on Load Game, based on code from Jochen
16792 Wiedmann. Integrated it with cmail.
16794 * Several bug fixes from Jochen Wiedmann, including one to my yy_text
16795 workaround for the difference in the type of yytext between lex and flex.
16797 * Handle clock pause on FICS.
16799 * Suppress clocks in untimed FICS games (time control 0 0).
16801 * Rebuilt configure script with autoconf 2.3. This fixes a bug in
16802 configuring for X11R6, where -lSM -lICE would not be added when needed.
16804 * Fixed inconsistent type declarations on IntSigHandler and
16805 CmailSigHandler. Bug report from Josh Daynard.
16807 * backend.c wouldn't compile with a non-ANSI compiler. Fixed.
16809 3.2, patchlevel 2 -- Tue Feb 7 14:50:30 1995 Tim Mann
16811 * Minor release of both xboard and WinBoard.
16813 * Added recognition of some FICS messages. On the other hand FICS is also
16814 changing some of its messages to match what xboard already recognizes.
16816 * Temporarily went back to using "promote" command on ICS instead of
16817 "a7a8=Q", because FICS doesn't implement the latter yet.
16819 * We now avoid using overlapped I/O on pipes in WinBoard, to make Windows
16820 95 beta 2 happy. This lets WinBoard work with GNU Chess on Windows 95!
16822 * Installed patches from Jochen Wiedmann to coordinate with Amiga XBoard.
16824 * Installed patch to cmail bug in LoadGame from Evan Welsh.
16826 * Bugfix: checkmate and stalemate moves entered with EditGame in ICS mode
16827 were not being handled correctly. Bug was in GameEnds().
16829 * Implemented EchoOn and EchoOff for xboard, using system("stty echo\n").
16830 Now passwords won't be echoed when you connect directly to ICS. Also,
16831 telnet negotiation characters aren't displayed (when possible).
16833 * Implemented more of the telnet protocol. Now connecting to a telnet
16834 server with "-icsport 23" should work even without giving the -telnet
16835 option. The telnet is in "old line-by-line mode".
16837 3.2, patchlevel 1 -- Sat Dec 10 13:50:46 1994 Tim Mann
16839 * This patchlevel released for WinBoard only.
16841 * winboard.c: Fixed ConsoleInputThread(). Needed to change CRLF to LF,
16842 not to CR. This was stopping normal /ics mode from working. Thanks to
16843 Asher Kobin for the bug report.
16845 * winboard.c: Fixed Raw(), EchoOn(), EchoOff(). Now they take effect
16846 immediately, not on the next console read after the one in progress.
16848 * winboard.c: Attempted to make WinBoard work with gnuchessx running
16849 directly on Windows (not remotely via rsh). It now works on NT, but only
16850 if gnuchess is told not to think on its opponent's time ("easy\n" removed
16851 from initString). The problem seems to be that GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent
16852 is not doing anything. On Windows 95 beta 2, we get error messages on
16853 both reading and writing to gnuchessx; I didn't investigate why.
16855 3.2, patchlevel 0 -- Wed Dec 7 13:23:36 1994 Tim Mann
16857 * Thanks to all the beta testers who gave me feedback: Josef Nelissen,
16858 Steve Booth, Evan Welsh, Dima Dakhnovsky, Chris Petroff, Peter Jansen,
16859 Derek Terveer, Michel van der List, Richard Lloyd, Shelly Mistry, and Mike
16860 Lee. Sorry if I forgot anyone. Thanks to Virendra Kumar Mehta for
16861 information about DYNIX/ptx.
16863 * Don't exit on keyboard EOF unless we get two in a row.
16865 * WinBoard only: added -localLineEdit switch to allow turning off local
16866 line editing if you really want to. It is still a bad idea to let the
16867 echoing be done remotely, however; see below.
16869 * Fixed some configure problems on HP-UX. [Steve Booth]
16871 * Fixed (I hope) configure problem on SunOS 5.3/Solaris 2.3. [Josef Nelissen]
16873 * cmail bugfix from Evan Welsh (cmail 3.4).
16875 3.1, patchlevel 9 -- Fri Dec 2 23:54:56 1994 Tim Mann
16877 * Beta distribution only
16879 * Always do local echo/edit of user typing in ICS mode. Doing the echo
16880 downstream may seem nicer in some modes, and it can be hard to turn that
16881 echo off, but the echoed characters can be interleaved with ICS output
16882 and make it impossible to parse correctly. For xboard this involved only
16883 a change to recommendations in the man page, as Raw() isn't implemented.
16884 For WinBoard, removing Raw() made a real difference. Added code in
16885 WinBoard to change /r/n back into /r on keyboard input, as we get the
16886 former when Raw() is not called.
16888 * Do not issue ICS "refresh" command after we start to observe a game
16889 unless we get to the next prompt without seeing a board image. Newest
16890 version of ICS doesn't require this refresh, but old versions around still
16893 * cmail bugfix and small code cleanup in LoadGame, from Evan Welsh.
16895 * Added keyboard accelerators N/P for LoadNextGame/LoadPreviousGame. Evan
16898 * Using "-" on the command line as a filename for loading (saving) games
16899 or positions specifies the standard input (standard output). Alain Picard
16902 * On WinBoard only, a command line option without a leading '-' or '/' is
16903 now taken as the value of -lgf.
16905 * Changed to not use stdin, stdout, stderr as initializers in backend.c;
16906 needed for GNU libc compatibility. You also must build parser.c with flex
16907 (not lex) if you are using GNU libc, to avoid having the same problem
16910 * Changed WinBoard to avoid using "overlapped" input on the console. It
16911 now seems to fully work on Windows 95 beta 2.
16913 * Improved comment popups on WinBoard. Now newlines are handled properly,
16914 and the plain Comment popup window doesn't disappear and reappear when we
16915 step to a new move with a new comment.
16917 * Fixed bugs in detecting the absence of the time and otim commands.
16919 * Added built-in implementation of rcmd protocol to WinBoard. Windows NT
16920 does not implement passing signals through rsh, and Windows 95 does not
16923 * Added -remoteUser option.
16925 3.1, patchlevel 8 -- Mon Nov 28 15:26:07 1994 Tim Mann
16927 * Beta distribution only
16929 * Rearranged ChangeLog file into reverse chronological order to be closer
16932 * Integrated new cmail code from Evan Welsh (including cmail RCS rev 3.2).
16933 Includes a bug fix to TruncateGame.
16935 * Updated ICS address to be chess.lm.com.
16937 * Bug fixes to handling the aftermath of FatalError. Thanks to Chris
16938 Petroff for the bug report.
16940 * Test for remsh before rsh, other fixes for HP-UX. Thanks to Richard
16941 Lloyd. I wasn't able to do all the things he suggested, so there may
16942 still be some rough edges in building on HP-UX. See the FAQ file for hints.
16944 * Bug fix; added missing check for HAVE_SYS_SYSTEMINFO. Thanks to Josef
16945 Nelissen for testing on Solaris 2.x.
16947 * Updated WinBoard to match xboard. (WinBoard still has a few option
16948 dialogs that don't exist in xboard.)
16950 * Changed Hint output to a popup.
16952 * ShowThinking output and move output no longer overwrite each other.
16953 ShowThinking output won't appear if the displayed position is not current.
16954 ShowThinking output in TwoMachines mode made clearer and documented.
16956 * Implemented --enable-ptys and --disable-ptys arguments to configure.
16958 * Fixed Book and Hint code to work over a pty with echo enabled and tabs
16959 expanded to spaces. Thanks to Dima Dahknovsky for the bug report.
16961 * Moved Attention calls from all over xboard to one place, inside
16964 * Added bulletproofing to ShowThinkingEvent.
16966 * Added code to handle "refresh N" boards that come in from ICS properly,
16967 assuming ICS is changed to mark them with a new relation code (-3).
16969 3.1, patchlevel 7 -- Sun Nov 13 22:16:01 PST 1994 -- Tim Mann
16971 * Beta distribution only
16973 * Changed ShowThinking to just show the current best line in the
16974 DisplayMessage area, instead of dumping everything to stdout.
16976 * Installed new cmail (RCS rev 3.1) and cmail.man (RCS rev 1.10), and
16977 changes to cmail code in backend.c, from Evan Welsh.
16979 * Miscellaneous minor fixes.
16981 3.1, patchlevel 6 -- Fri Nov 4 12:53:53 PST 1994 -- Tim Mann
16983 * This patchlevel was not actually released to anyone.
16985 * Updated the pty code to be based on GNU Emacs 19.24, and moved it to a
16986 separate file. It was hard to split out just the pty configuration from
16987 all the stuff emacs does with its custom configure script and .h files,
16990 * Converted from imake to GNU autoconf. This was a serious upheaval.
16992 * Put in code to help trap "error gathering move list" problem reported by
16993 Michel van der List if it recurs. I couldn't reproduce it.
16995 3.1, patchlevel 5 -- Mon Oct 31 21:12:00 PST 1994 -- Tim Mann
16997 * Beta distribution only.
16999 * We now test for checkmate or stalemate in EditGame mode after every user
17000 move, and in LoadGame mode whenever we hit the end of a game without
17001 seeing a PGN end marker. cmail needs an update to deal with this
17002 correctly; Evan promises one.
17004 * Bugfixes in new move generator. Thanks to Mike Lee for reporting one of
17007 * Imakefile was omitted from patchlevel 4.
17009 3.1, patchlevel 4 -- Mon Sep 19 18:19:46 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
17011 * Beta distribution only.
17013 * The move generator includes a mate tester. Initially this is used only
17014 by cmail, and even that usage needs further work.
17016 * Wrote a true move generator and used it to replace all the move
17017 disambiguation and legality checking code in parser.l. The move generator
17018 is capable of dealing correctly with en passant and castling availability,
17019 but the rest of the program still does not keep track of this information.
17021 * Bug fix: xboard did not handle "foo has made you an examiner of game 23"
17022 message. Thus you could not use examine features until the next board
17023 came in, showing your new relation to the game. Thanks to POOKIEWOOKIE on ICS
17024 for the bug report.
17026 * Added AutoObserve feature. Thanks to Chris Petroff for the idea.
17028 * Added Book feature to use new gnuchess "bk" command. Mike McGann request.
17030 * Redid code to handle missing "time" command in gnuchess, because latest
17031 gnuchess no longer sends a response to this command.
17033 * Eliminated need for -DFLEX. Thanks to Michael Shields (Vladimir?) for
17036 * Added missing code to implement MoveNow in TwoMachines mode.
17038 * Added ShowThinking feature. Thanks to Richard Lloyd for the idea.
17040 * Applied patches from Evan Welsh; some fixes and improvements to the
17043 * Fixed bug in moving from EndOfGame mode to MachineWhite or MachineBlack,
17044 introduced in previous patchlevel. Also fixed related bug in ending a
17045 game in ICS mode; was entering EndOfGame mode instead of IcsIdle.
17047 * Added patch to implement internetChessServerLogonScript flag, from Kevin
17050 3.1, patchlevel 3 -- Wed Sep 7 13:22:07 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
17052 * Beta distribution only.
17054 * Merged in new cmail code from Evan Welsh. He added the ability to have
17055 more than one game per message, needed for official IECG matches. I added
17056 the ability to resign or offer/accept/decline a draw in a cmail game.
17058 * Bugfix: invalid -tc option caused segmentation fault; DisplayFatalError
17059 was called too early in initialization. Georges Honore reported this bug.
17061 * Decided to keep EndOfGame mode as an element of the user interface---it
17062 means that a gnuchess game or loaded game has ended, and the user must
17063 explicitly select EditGame to edit it, rather than just being able to
17064 enter more moves freely. But internally there is no longer an invariant
17065 tying this mode to whether the chess program is running.
17067 * Zippy bugfix: Was saving only the final position in the -sgf file when
17068 the game ended by something other than resignation or flag. Also fixed
17069 the longstanding bug that Zippy would think the final board of such a game
17070 was a new game and restart the chess program.
17072 * Now does a better job of faking castling availability in FEN. We still
17073 don't really keep track of it, but now at least we don't say that castling
17074 is still available when the king or rook is not on its home square.
17076 * Bugfix: Initial board of game history for wild games was going through
17077 too much processing, causing us to forget the game length, which is now
17078 needed by ParseGameHistory. This was causing problems with resuming
17079 adjourned wild games.
17081 * Updated ICS host to ics.onenet.net.
17083 * Zippy now accepts challenges where the opponent specified his color.
17085 * Added ZIPPYPASSWORD2 to let operator give commands directly to gnuchess.
17087 * Bitmap directory can include alternative icons now, too.
17089 * Handle "Game * (*) has no examiners" message from ICS.
17091 * Revamped window title and icon name selection.
17093 3.1, patchlevel 2 -- Sun Jun 12 17:16:28 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
17095 * "Beta" distribution for Zippy users only.
17097 * Bugfix: common.h was assuming that X11 type Boolean is char, which is
17098 not always true. This might have caused all sorts of obscure bugs!
17100 * Installed new bitmaps from Elmar Bartel as the default. Many thanks!
17101 The old bitmaps can be used by changing the "bitmaps" symbolic link before
17102 compiling xboard, or by using the -bitmapDirectory option at runtime.
17104 * Loading a game that ends with the PGN unfinished symbol ("*") now always
17105 leaves you in EditGame mode.
17107 * Added documentation of -icscomm to man page. Thanks to Maarten Remkes
17108 for the linux script.
17110 * ^C now kills gnuchess as well as xboard. Thanks to Dima Dakhnovsky for
17111 reminding me how to do this.
17113 * Bitmap icon color now indicates player to move. Stuart Cracraft
17116 * Changed piece bitmap flags to have just one flag, which points to a
17117 directory full of bitmaps, instead of a flag for each bitmap. Also
17118 changed bitmap naming convention.
17120 * "Connection closed by ICS" is no longer a FatalError popup. This was
17121 too annoying in the normal case where the user typed "quit".
17123 * Changed default font to 14 pixels instead of 10 points. This seems to
17124 make it close to the size I want it to be on more displays.
17126 * Major mode (GNU Chess, etc.) appears in title bar. Stuart Cracraft
17129 * Bug fix: EditGameEvent, MachineBlackEvent, MachineWhiteEvent, and
17130 TwoMachinesEvent were calling PauseEvent to get out of pause mode, which
17131 now has undesired side effects, such as advancing the display to the
17132 forwardMostMove. It works fine to just set pausing = FALSE instead.
17134 * IcsExamining mode now lets you access ICS edit position commands using
17135 the same popup menus as xboard's EditPosition mode. Thanks to DAV on ICS
17136 for inspiring the idea.
17138 * Corrected test for gcc on HP in Imakefile; thanks to Richard Lloyd.
17140 3.1, patchlevel 1 -- Wed Jun 1 16:25:11 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
17142 * Added parser.c.lex and parser.c.flex to the distribution.
17144 * Added HP gcc options to Imakefile, from Mats Nylen.
17146 * EndOfGame mode no longer highlights EditGame mode indicator, because the
17147 modes really do differ. I would like to get rid of EndOfGame mode in the
17148 future, at least as far as users can see.
17150 * Larger %a in parser.l, needed for RS/6000 users.
17152 * Minor improvements to Mail Move error messages.
17154 * When -debug flag is given to xboard, -v is passed to cmail.
17156 * Old Save Style uses "1. ..." instead of "1..." when black moves after a
17157 comment; more like xboard 3.0's actual style.
17159 * New version of cmail from Evan Welsh. Looks for UCB Mail in a more
17160 portable way and has some minor bug fixes.
17162 * Bug fix: Saving a FEN position while in EditPosition mode with black to
17163 play was showing white to play in the saved position.
17165 3.1, patchlevel 0 -- Fri May 20 16:36:15 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
17167 * This is the first general release since 3.0, patchlevel 9. Releases
17168 since then have been limited-distribution or beta releases.
17170 * Thanks to my version 3.1 beta testers: Dmitry Dakhnovsky, Ed Hanway,
17171 Richard Lloyd, Mike McGann, Shelly Mistry, Josef Nelissen, Chris Petroff,
17172 Jack Robertson, Michel van der List, Ky Macpherson, Derek Terveer, and
17173 Evan Welsh. Sorry if I've forgotten anyone who gave me feedback.
17175 * Updated man page.
17177 * Minor cleanup on menu sensitivity code.
17179 * Integrated another even better version of cmail from Evan Welsh,
17180 including some code he supplied in xboard itself.
17182 * A few more fixes to cmail support.
17184 * Automatically update clocks after an ICS "moretime" command.
17186 * Handle ICS automatic examine mode (set examine 1) after a game.
17188 3.0, patchlevel 14 -- Tue May 17 13:41:44 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
17190 * Beta test release only.
17192 * Don't suppress prompt on first board of game being examined; otherwise
17193 it looks like nothing happened at all (i.e., like you're lagged).
17195 * Added StopExamining and StopObserving (Chris Petroff suggestion).
17197 * Made Reset do a refresh on ICS. John Chanak's original ICS code for
17198 xboard tried to do this; I finally decided it was a good idea after all.
17200 * Fixed bugs in handling updates that come in while you are pausing in
17201 examine mode. This is pretty tricky to do right.
17203 * Made un-Pausing immediately pop you to the current position. This is
17204 always necessary in examine mode, since the game may have changed under
17205 you; your remembered moves might no longer be right. So I made it do the
17208 * Took Detach Examine mode back out...used Pause mode for this instead!
17210 * Put in a trap for the GNU Chess bug of printing an Illegal Move message
17211 when its own hint move is illegal.
17213 * Attempted to fix a Zippy bug; bogus "exited unexpectedly" messages after
17214 it checkmates its opponent. This involved adding an argument to GameEnds
17215 to say who says it ended (ICS, GNU, etc.) and taking different actions in
17216 different cases. Unfortunately, this just restored an older Zippy bug, where
17217 Zippy restarts gnuchess when it gets the board with the final position,
17218 because GameEnds still puts xboard in EndOfGame mode. Sigh.
17220 * We now capture elapsed time on last move when getting game history.
17221 (Josef Nelissen bug report)
17223 * Rewrote code to redisplay last file title so it really works.
17225 * Fixed bug in oldSaveStyle.
17227 * Larger %a and %o were needed for lex.
17229 3.0, patchlevel 13 -- Mon May 16 16:26:22 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
17231 * Beta test release only.
17233 * FatalError popups stay on the screen now. If the error is really fatal,
17234 all functions are disabled, and the program exits when you press OK.
17236 * Redisplay last file title when using Load (Next/Previous/Same) Game.
17238 * Zippy understands new match challenge message format on ICS.
17240 * Added Revert command.
17242 * When examining a game on ICS, < > buttons do ICS backward/forward
17243 commands, unless you set the Detach Examine option. Thanks to Dima
17244 Dakhnovsky for the idea.
17246 * Fixed various minor problems in cmail mode.
17248 * cmail generates the tags now. New version of cmail from Evan Welsh.
17250 * cmail mode won't let you do MailMove unless the currently displayed
17251 position is exactly one move past the end of the game you loaded.
17253 * Fixed building of man pages in Imakefile
17255 * Updates to INSTALL file
17257 3.0, patchlevel 12 -- Sat May 7 21:10:03 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
17259 * Beta test release only.
17261 * Brought man page up to date.
17263 * Added Shift+R to resign from keyboard.
17265 * Some items on Action menu available in GNU Chess mode now.
17267 * Revamped Action menu.
17269 * Reordered functions in backend.c as a small step toward reorganizing
17272 * Generate TimeControl PGN tag.
17274 * Get type of ICS game (e.g., rated blitz) and save in PGN tags.
17276 * Bug fix: Clocks were not redisplayed when entering EditGame mode.
17278 * Bug fix: Clocks were not being redisplayed after loading a game file
17279 with -td 0, so they could show the wrong color active.
17281 * Bug fix: Chess programs would be killed and match mode would exit
17282 prematurely when loading a PGN game fragment ending with "*".
17284 * ICS command "sposition" no longer confuses xboard.
17286 * Integrated new version of cmail (with support code in xboard) from Evan
17289 * Added TruncateGame, MoveNow, RetractMove, and QuietPlay.
17291 * Bug fix: switching between MachineWhite and MachineBlack was not calling
17292 Attention(). Reported by Dino Dini.
17294 * More improvements to INSTALL and Imakefile.
17296 * Pack moves into 79 character lines in PGN output. We don't generate
17297 check indications, and we always break the line before the result,
17298 so this is not quite PGN export format.
17300 * Use FEN tag in PGN.
17302 * Improved finding and counting of game starts in save files.
17304 * Negative position or game numbers in -lpi/-lgi mean to seek to that byte
17305 offset. Hook for possible future features, not in man page.
17307 * Detect and handle absence of either "time" or "otim" commands in
17310 * Don't use "promote" command to ICS anymore.
17312 * Handle switching sides and taking back moves on FICS.
17314 * Handle flip state flag in style 12 board.
17316 * Handle examine mode on ICS.
17318 * Improved error popups for various kinds of illegal moves.
17320 * Suppress unasked-for hints from gnuchess (which it generates in post
17323 * Load/save position functions use FEN. Old style also supported.
17325 * Added detailed error messages if loading a bitmap file fails.
17327 * Small board has 2-pixel lines between squares instead of 3-pixel.
17329 * Added OldSaveStyle and AboutGame.
17331 * Renamed ForceMoves to EditGame.
17333 3.0, patchlevel 11 -- Tue Sep 21 15:25:36 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
17335 * The following changes were present in xboard 3.0, patchlevel 11, but the
17336 first group did not make it into WinBoard 3.0 until later. xboard
17337 3.0.pl11 was a limited-distribution release only, mostly to Zippy users.
17339 * Man page minor fixes.
17341 * Added a missing file close.
17343 * Removed automatic error popdown on Reset, which was destroying some
17344 error messages before they could be read.
17346 * Fixed char vs. unsigned char warnings on bitmaps.
17348 * Use ICS board style 12. Some improvements to ICS parsing.
17350 * Comment window is now labelled with the move the comment is on, and
17351 comments don't pop down when you step to the next move.
17353 * Save files now in PGN format.
17355 * Support for loading PGN files. PGN tags pop up when a PGN game file
17358 * More info in INSTALL and Imakefile about building for Suns (and
17361 * WinBoard 3.0 patchlevel 11 split off from an early version of xboard
17362 3.0 patchlevel 11, so it does not have all the features of that
17363 patchlevel. The following changes made it into both xboard and
17366 * Made Comment dialog non-modal in WinBoard.
17368 * EndOfGame mode is now more transparent. It looks like ForceMoves
17369 mode except that there is no chess program running.
17371 * Small bug fixes in clock management. Most noticeably, pausing when
17372 it is gnuchess's move now works as documented (again).
17374 * Add minimal support for -icscomm option. Not documented yet because
17375 I haven't sorted out the issues with setting the tty modes on the comm
17376 port device, or with locking it properly. But it's usable by wizards.
17378 * Don't restart the chess program upon Backward event from EndOfGame mode.
17380 * Suppress extra prompt after ICS sends us a board.
17382 3.0, patchlevel 10 -- Sat Sep 11 18:44:03 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
17384 * Beta test release only.
17386 * Zippy now plays chess. zippy.c and zippy.h are still not included
17387 in the standard distribution, but are available on request.
17389 * Switched to using style 12 on ICS.
17391 * Updated man page, and documented use of XBoard*form.translations to
17392 add more shortcut keys.
17394 * Added shortcut keys "d" to claim/offer/accept a draw, and "t" to
17395 call flag. Suggested by venu on ICS.
17397 * More explicit instructions in INSTALL file.
17399 3.0, patchlevel 9 -- Tue Sep 7 14:02:00 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
17401 * General release, minor update to 3.0.pl8.
17403 * Loosened checking on whether it's okay to start a move, to satisfy
17404 ICS ultra-blitz players. Now we don't check whether it's your turn
17405 until you let go of the piece.
17407 * Parser now recognizes "+-+" as meaning the game ended in a draw.
17409 * Got rid of S_NONE symbol, which seems to conflict with some symbol
17412 * Tweaked the man page. Clarified that there is currently no way for
17413 two people running copies of xboard to play each other without going
17414 through the Internet Chess Server.
17416 * Fixed a bug in color name conversion. Asking for two different
17417 colors whose names were the same in the first four characters would
17418 get you two copies of the first one. Thanks to Volker Zink for the
17421 * Improved confusing Usage() message.
17423 * Added a bunch of Sun information to the Imakefile and INSTALL file.
17424 Thanks to Ed Hanway, Arik Klingensmith, and others who responded.
17426 * Test for defined(WIN32) instead of !defined(unix).
17428 * Avoid using (void *) type with non-ANSI C compilers. Thanks to
17429 James Altucher for the bug report.
17431 3.0, patchlevel 8 -- Thu Sep 2 12:23:01 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
17433 * Note: Patchlevel 8 was the first non-beta release of xboard 3.0
17435 * Added cmail to distribution. Contributed (and still maintained) by
17438 * Bug fix: -queen option wasn't initializing menu check. Reported by
17441 3.0, patchlevel 7 -- Thu Aug 26 13:23:24 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
17443 * Sent WinBoard 3.0.pl7 to Torre on ICS
17445 * Added parser.h to hold the interface to parser.l
17447 * Upgraded COPYING file and copyright notices to GNU GPL version 2.
17449 3.0, patchlevel 6 -- Tue Aug 24 15:16:13 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
17451 * We no longer display intermediate positions or intermediate comments
17452 while loading a game file with -timeDelay 0 or loading an opening to
17453 start up a -matchMode game.
17455 * Loading an empty game from an xboard save file now gives a status
17456 message "No moves in game" instead of an error popup saying "Game not
17459 * Added comment.awk to distribution.
17461 3.0, patchlevel 5 -- Tue Aug 17 16:45:54 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
17463 * Bug fix: xboard would crash if it couldn't get all its colors; now
17464 it switches to monoMode instead. Also, xboard was trying to convert
17465 color resources even when using a b/w display. Reported by Larry
17468 * Bug fix: Declared fields of TimeMark as signed so that we get signed
17469 instead of unsigned arithmetic. SubtractTimeMarks was breaking on
17470 Alpha AXP (which has 64-bit longs) with old declarations. Reported by
17471 Michel van der List.
17473 * Bug fixes: Keyboard accelerators now work after EditComment window is
17474 popped down. Iconize keyboard accelerator now works even if xboard
17475 was started with -iconic flag and later deiconized.
17477 * Bug fix: The routine that tests whether a move is illegal because it
17478 would leave you in check was not handling e.p. captures properly.
17479 Reported by Patrick Surry.
17481 * Bug (?) fix: Was adding time to clocks at time control even when
17482 loading a game file. Actually it's not entirely clear how time
17483 controls should be dealt with when some moves are loaded from a file
17484 or clicked in with ForceMoves. For now ForceMoves mode does add the
17485 time (because it can be used to change moves during a live game), but
17486 LoadGame mode does not.
17488 * Updated usage message.
17490 * Previous attempted fix to matchMode had broken TwoMachines mode and
17491 generally needed more work. Also simplified command line interface to
17494 3.0, patchlevel 4 -- Thu Aug 5 14:17:18 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
17496 * Thanks again to the beta testers listed for 3.0 patchlevel 3, and also
17497 Desnogues, Steve Cariglia, Niklas Engsner, Mark Silver, and Roger Rowe.
17499 * Reorganized man page, splitting OPTIONS into subsections.
17501 * matchMode was very broken; fixed.
17503 * Changed convention for turning off command line options from --opt
17504 to -xopt, to be less inconsistent with GNU standards. Also changed
17505 the long command line options to take True/False arguments like
17506 resources; seems to make more sense this way.
17508 * Added AlwaysQueen option -- suppresses promotion dialog and always
17509 promotes to a queen if you move a pawn to the last rank. Has no
17510 effect on gnuchess (or your ICS opponents!) -- they can still
17513 * Subtracted an extra fudge term when determining how wide message and
17514 title widgets should be. This fixes a problem some beta testers had.
17515 Wish I knew why it's needed.
17517 * Bugfix in parser; symptom was that you couldn't do LoadGame after
17518 observing a game on ICS.
17520 * Bugfix in Forward; didn't work after game ended while Pause was turned on.
17522 * Removed bogus execute bits on .h files.
17524 * Use REMOTE_SHELL and TELNET_PROGRAM definitions.
17526 * MachineWhite and MachineBlack now work from TwoMachines mode.
17528 * Popping down an error message with the [ok] button was not turning off
17529 the errorUp flag, so the next move would cause xboard to try to pop it
17530 down again, resulting in a wild memory reference and sometimes a crash.
17532 3.0, patchlevel 3 -- Tue Aug 3 17:40:27 1993 -- Tim Mann
17534 * Thanks to my beta testers: Patrick Surry, Takuya Kojima, Robert J. Luoma,
17535 Chris L. Petroff, Richard K. Lloyd, Michel van der List, Craig Metz,
17536 Antoon Frehe, Simon Clift, Shelly, Eric Peterson, Christopher Mitchell,
17537 Martin Koch, Ed Hanway, Steve Booth, Udo, Ken Hobday, and Joseph Duhamel.
17539 * Improved error messages for trying to move the wrong color pieces or
17540 to move when it's not your turn.
17542 * Special code for monoMode on 1-bit displays now understands displays
17543 where 1=white and 0=black.
17545 * Declare getenv() if <stdlib.h> not included; avoids a compiler warning.
17547 * Documented borderXoffset and borderYoffset.
17549 * Added -titleInWindow option for use with X window managers that
17550 don't let us set the title in the window banner.
17552 * Fixed error message printing in WinBoard; system error messages no
17553 longer appear as numeric codes.
17555 * The error message popup is now non-modal; you don't have to press the
17556 [ok] button before you can do something else. In addition, the popup is
17557 positioned so that it doesn't cover up the board (too much), and making a
17558 move or otherwise clicking on the board pops it down. (Not implemented in
17561 * You can now call your opponent's flag in ICS mode by clicking on his
17564 * Fixed minor bugs in -flipView option and documented exactly how xboard
17565 decides which way to flip the view.
17567 3.0, patchlevel 2 -- Fri Jul 30 22:20:23 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
17569 * Added Autosave to Options menu. Would be better to have Save
17570 Options dialog as in WinBoard, but this was quick to do and gives the
17571 most-needed functionality.
17573 * Changed "Reload Game" on menu to "Reload Same Game".
17575 3.0, patchlevel 1 -- Thu Jul 8 21:22:59 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
17577 * Sent a copy of patchlevel 1 to Patrick Surry to beta-test.
17579 * Added -cmail option that sets appData.cmailMode. Currently a no-op.
17580 In the future this may set special modes for use by the cmail script
17581 for playing chess by email.
17583 * Added LoadNextGame, LoadPreviousGame, and ReloadGame to File menu.
17584 ReloadGame suggested by Patrick Surry.
17586 * Added -flipView command-line option. Suggested by Patrick Surry.
17588 * Fixed bugs in parser.l: (1) Pattern for "# xboard game file ..."
17589 needed to match to end of line. (2) Start of a new file was not matching
17590 the ^ start-of-line character. The fix for this is a kludge.
17592 * Made game counting code in LoadGame more robust, and made LoadGame
17593 able to detect the end of a saved partial game (by noticing the start
17594 of the next game) in game files created by XBoard itself. We don't
17595 try to find the start of the next game that way in other kinds of game
17596 files, because the only way I can think of to do that is to look for
17597 another move #1, and that technique gets too many false hits.
17599 * Fixed recently introduced bug in LoadGame when game starts with a
17602 3.0, patchlevel 0 -- Fri Jun 25 14:17:17 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
17604 * Changes in this patchlevel were too numerous to list. Larger ones are
17607 * Added a popup dialog to enter and edit comments. Inspired by some
17608 code from Patrick Surry. Changed the normal read-only comment popup
17611 * Added ICS init script feature from Karl Schwamb.
17613 * Added some ESIX fixes and OMIT_SOCKETS ifdef option, from Kayvan Sylvan.
17615 * Revamped code to allow use of flex instead of lex on parser.l.
17616 Using flex requires adding -DFLEX to defines in Imakefile.
17618 * Source code is split into front end (xboard.c), which knows about X
17619 and Unix, and back end (backend.c), which knows about chess, gnuchess,
17620 and the ICS. There is also a front end for Windows NT.
17622 * Boolean command line options now use "-foo" to turn on and "--foo"
17623 to turn off instead of "-foo true" and "-foo false". [Later -xfoo;
17626 * Added menu commands to control autoflag, bell, and coords options.
17628 * User interface has a new look: (1) Menu bar instead of array of
17629 buttons. A few very commonly used features have small buttons in
17630 addition to being on the menus. (2) Large font for clock. (3) Pop-up
17631 dialogs for errors.
17633 2.1, patchlevel 11 -- Sat Jun 5 00:01:01 PDT 1993 -- mann@src.dec.com
17635 * Added code to deal with "wild" games on ICS. This includes allowing
17636 castling with the king on d1 or d8, which is allowed in wild(1) games
17637 if the king started there. Notation is o-o to castle "short"---to
17638 whichever side the king is closer to---and o-o-o to castle "long."
17639 Right now wild castling is always allowed by xboard; we rely on ICS or
17640 gnuchess to reject it when we aren't really in wild mode.
17642 * memcpy call had arguments in wrong order.
17644 * Removed April Fool code
17646 2.1, patchlevel 10 -- Mon Feb 15 10:19:31 PST 1993 -- mann@src.dec.com
17648 * Avoid trying to select on a pipe when using System V. Needed to
17649 copy some code from InitChessProgram() up into establish().
17651 * Bug fix in disambiguating pawn moves like "ed".
17653 * Fix to error handling in ReceiveFromProgram.
17655 * Bug fix: entering EditPosition mode with black to play highlighted
17656 White's clock instead of Black's.
17658 * Added telnetProgram resource in case "telnet" is not the name of the
17661 2.1, patchlevel 9 -- Fri Jan 22 19:08:27 PST 1993 -- mann@src.dec.com
17663 * Entering Force Moves mode clears "flag has fallen" messages from display.
17665 * ICS host name can now be in numeric format; for example 128.2.232.4.
17667 * Bug fix: LegalityTest was failing to test whether a pawn move was
17668 illegal because the move would discover a check.
17670 * Handle ICS message "mann asserts a win over manntest, who disconnected."
17672 * Bug fix: A recent change to PromotionCallBack had broken
17673 underpromotion to a knight.
17675 * Bug fix: In EditPosition mode, dragging a piece onto a square border
17676 would make it vanish. xboard wasn't distinguishing this case from
17677 dragging the piece off the board. Thanks to Matthew Kidd.
17679 * Removed "static" declaration from yywrap for compatibility with IRIX
17680 version of lex. Thanks to stiller@blaze.cs.jhu.edu.
17682 * Added substitutes for bzero, bcopy, and gethostname for Solaris
17683 SVR4. Thanks to Michael Grant.
17685 * Bug fixes to queen move disambiguation. Bugs showed up only when
17686 promotion resulted in more than one queen on the board.
17688 2.1, patchlevel 8 -- Fri Dec 11 17:54:18 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
17690 * parser bug fix: It now really works to leave off the piece a pawn is
17691 promoting to and let it default to queen.
17693 * When starting to observe or play an ICS game, don't draw board in
17694 initial position and then immediately redraw it in the current
17697 * Handle ICS messages when an "abuser" forfeits a game by
17698 disconnecting and when a game is aborted ("removed") by an
17701 * Bug fix: A user move when in LoadGame+Pause mode was resuming the
17702 game load instead of putting us in force mode.
17704 * It seems that crashes inside sscanf when xboard is compiled with gcc
17705 (as on IBM PS/2 AIX, mentioned below, and also on VAX Ultrix 3.1) are
17706 caused by an incompatibility between gcc and the sscanf implementation
17707 on these platforms. A workaround is to specify -fwritable-strings to
17708 gcc (see the gcc documentation). Added info on how to do this to the
17709 Imakefile. Thanks to Tom McConnell for this information.
17711 * Clocks are allowed to go negative. This is mostly for ICS
17712 compatibility, but it affects gnuchess mode too. Also, we give the
17713 time bonus when a player hits the time control boundary even if his
17714 flag is already down. This choice is a bit debatable, but it makes
17715 things look better when you are in TwoMachines mode and gnuchess's
17716 time management screws up causing it to exceed its time limit.
17718 * Implemented move legality checking code. Moves made with the mouse
17719 or parsed from a file are checked for legality before being made.
17720 This is mostly in preparation for future extensions, such as
17721 human-human play. For now it makes -noChessProgram mode more useful.
17723 * If the user takes back moves, we restore the clocks to the earlier
17726 * We now handle the output of the ICS oldmoves command, including
17727 parsing the game end condition.
17729 * Added autoCallFlag mode.
17731 * Fixed glitches in the medium size outline king and rook bitmaps, and
17732 touched up the medium size solid king and outline queen.
17734 * bug fix: DisplayMove would not display backwardMostMove - 1.
17736 * Added CallFlag button and removed AcceptMatch. CallFlag is more
17737 important with new ICS, and accepting the current match offer is easy
17738 with the new ICS command "accept" (can be abbreviated "ac").
17740 * LoadGame and LoadPosition display tail of file name (plus index
17741 number, if any) as title.
17743 * MachineWhite, MachineBlack, and TwoMachines now work properly from
17744 LoadGame and LoadGame+Pause mode.
17746 * Use o-o and o-o-o to castle on ICS, not 00 and 000.
17748 * Stripped out code for old ICS messages; new ICS is now installed.
17750 * Bug fix: don't offer autosave when paused during LoadGame.
17752 2.1, patchlevel 7 - Fri Dec 11 17:40:56 PST 1992 - mann@src.dec.com
17754 * Track change to "Illegal move" message in new ICS.
17756 2.1, patchlevel 6 -- Tue Dec 8 10:48:44 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
17758 * Kludged around bug in keeping comment popup where you put it by
17759 adding borderXoffset and borderYoffset resources that give the width
17760 of the borders added by the window manager. Yucch.
17762 * Changed searchDepth kludge back to using "help" instead of "bd"; the
17763 latter didn't work because the output contains a line starting with
17764 "White", so we think gnuchess is telling us that White won. Oops.
17766 * Removed some code that uses an X11R5 feature, XrmGetDatabase.
17767 Without this, the auto font sizing code is harder to make work, so to
17768 keep my sanity I had to change it to affect only the fonts that appear
17769 in the main window and the comment popup, not the other popups. Maybe
17770 this is better anyway.
17772 * AcceptMatch button now works after a counterchallenge, too.
17774 * Added code for more variants of messages about games being adjourned
17775 or aborted. These messages need to be unified in new version of ICS.
17777 * Added workaround for minor bug in ICS; game number on first board
17780 * Removed code to say "refresh n" instead of "refresh"; was broken and
17781 wasn't needed anyway.
17783 * Added missing casts for compilers that distinguish enums from ints
17784 and missing cast in connect call.
17786 * Added code to recognize "both sides are out of time" draw message
17787 proposed for next version of ICS.
17789 * Thanks to Danny Sleator and Joe Peterson for bug reports.
17791 2.1, patchlevel 5 -- Sun Dec 6 19:52:40 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
17793 * Removed gcc and CDEBUGFLAGS from Imakefile.
17795 * Corrected setting of mode to ForceMoves when game file ends or
17796 contains an AmbiguousMove or BadMove. Previous bug was harmless.
17798 * Added AcceptMatch button and mention of 50-move rule for Draw button
17801 2.1, patchlevel 4 -- Sun Dec 6 02:55:42 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
17803 * Now handles revised messages from new version of ICS. New ICS is
17804 not released yet, so this code might change further. Next patchlevel
17805 will remove support for old ICS; both are there now.
17807 * Initial processing for a new game being watched or played now
17808 happens when we see the first board image. Removes the need to parse
17809 some messages and unifies some code.
17811 2.1, patchlevel 3 -- Tue Dec 1 19:40:40 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
17813 * Handles ICS messages "Draw : neither player has mating
17814 material" and "Draw : White has no material, Black has no time."
17816 * Added AcceptMatch button for ICS mode.
17818 * Fixed bug in previous fix to yylexstr().
17820 * Fixed bugs in code for loading old position files that don't start
17821 with "#" and for handling case where user asked for nth position in
17822 file but there aren't that many.
17824 * Handles ICS message "* has restored your old game"
17826 * ResetProc always clears title line now.
17828 * Don't issue just "refresh" when watching a game; use game number.
17829 Upcoming new version of ICS may need this.
17831 * Added code to try to prevent user from watching and/or playing more
17832 than one game at a time. There is a race condition inherent here; if
17833 we get more than one board from the game before our command to stop
17834 watching it takes effect, we'll think the user started it again. Not
17835 clear how to fix this.
17837 * Redid ParseBoard8 to use sscanf. Code is a good deal cleaner now.
17838 Also, we now parse out the game number too, though we don't make much
17841 * (Tried to put in a feature that recognizes the current game in a
17842 game file must have ended when we see the start of a new one, but had
17843 to disable it because we have too many false hits with the current
17844 parser, especially in gnuchess listing files.)
17846 * Moves read from game files or received from ICS are now translated
17847 into canonical algebraic form just like all other moves. Minor nit:
17848 If you use Reset while playing or observing a game in ICS mode, the
17849 game history (including the current board position) is lost, so the
17850 next move of the current game can't be translated.
17852 * Default fonts now vary with board size, and are chosen by pixel size
17853 instead of point size (since piece bitmaps have a fixed pixel size).
17855 * Bug fix: An extra Forward was required to skip over time indications
17858 2.1 patchlevel 2 -- Fri Nov 27 23:30:00 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
17860 * If you move the comment popup, the next time it pops up it will come
17861 back where you put it.
17863 * Fixed yylexstr() so calls to it can be interspersed with calls to
17866 * Fixed bugs in Forward/Backward while in LoadGame mode.
17868 * Changed Save{Game,Position} functions to append instead of
17869 overwriting if file exists. Changed Load{Game,Position} functions to
17870 deal with multiple games/positions per file.
17872 * Changed load{Game,Position}File resources to trigger automatic load
17873 on program startup. Changed save{Game,Position}File resources to
17874 trigger automatic save after every completed game and on program exit.
17876 * Added autoSaveGames mode.
17878 * Fixed bug with PromoPiece in call to MakeAlg from MakeMove.
17880 * Many changes to get rid of picky compiler warnings and generally
17883 2.1 patchlevel 1 -- Fri Nov 27 02:45:00 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
17885 * A last minute change before patchlevel 0 went out broke
17886 ParseGameHistory(). Immediately fixed in patchlevel 1.
17888 Version 2.1, patchlevel 0 -- Fri Nov 27 02:00:00 PST 1992 -- mann@src.dec.com
17890 * Uses "time" command of gnuchess 4.0 and following to keep clocks in
17891 sync. Still works with older versions without this command; we test
17892 whether the command is present the first time each chess program is
17895 * File name dialog pops up under the mouse cursor, so that it's got the
17896 keyboard focus if the window manager is using pointer focus.
17898 * Attempts to move the wrong color piece or an empty square are filtered
17899 out in xboard instead of being passed on to GNU Chess or the ICS.
17901 * The reason a game ended is now remembered even if you move backward
17902 and forward after it ends. It is forgotten only if you make a move
17903 (which is as it should be---this is now a different game, which hasn't
17904 ended yet). The message saying why the game ended no longer wipes out
17907 * Pause, Backward, Forward, ForceMoves, and EditPosition now work from
17910 * Forward and Backward now change only the board display unless you
17911 are in ForceMoves mode. Pause mode keeps new moves that are received
17912 from being displayed on your screen until you unpause (or use
17915 * Added option to ring the bell after opponents' moves.
17917 * Saved games that start from other than the standard initial position
17918 now begin with a postion diagram as in saved position files. The
17919 loader is modified to understand such save files.
17921 * Improved error checking when trying to read from gnuchess.
17923 * Parser understands things that look like time indications, e.g., (0:12),
17924 instead of popping them up as comments.
17926 * Send "quit" to gnuchess before trying to kill it. I needed this
17927 locally because sending a SIGTERM to rsh was not killing the remote
17928 program on some internal field test systems we have.
17930 * Merged in code from John Chanak to make xboard a front end to the
17931 Internet Chess Server, and added several improvements of my own.
17932 (These include parsing end of game messages, loading the current state
17933 and previous history of a game that's joined in progress via "watch"
17934 or "load", automatic switch from board style 1 to 8 when needed,
17935 removing irrelevant buttons and adding some new ones, adding the
17936 useTelnet and gateway resources, and miscellaneous code cleanup, bug
17937 fixes, and documentation.) Many thanks to John for writing and
17938 contributing the initial version of this code.
17940 Fri Oct 30 20:16:40 PST 1992 (patchlevel 25) mann@src.dec.com
17942 * gnuchess now castles by sending us "o-o" or "o-o-o" (starting with a
17943 preliminary version of 4.0.pl60 that I have). Added code to handle
17944 this. The old format ("e1g1", etc.) still works too.
17946 * Added code to format moves in normal abbreviated algebraic notation
17947 (for example, e4, exd4, f8Q, Nf6, 0-0) instead of coordinate algebraic
17948 (for example, e2e4, e3d4, f7f8q, g1f6, e1g1). Moves entered with the
17949 mouse or received from gnuchess are translated into this canonical
17950 format for display on the message line or in saved game files. Moves
17951 read from game files are not translated, however; they are shown and
17952 saved just as they appear in the file.
17954 Mon Sep 14 13:19:01 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 24) mann@src.dec.com
17956 * It's not really correct to write an ep capture of a pawn on e5 as
17957 fxe5; this should be written as fxe6 because e6 is where the capturing
17958 pawn ends up. Nevertheless, the parser now interprets fxe5 as the ep
17959 capture f5xe6 unless there is a pawn on f4, in which case it
17960 interprets fxe5 as f4xe5. By design, the parser does not flag fxe5 as
17961 ambiguous if there are pawns on both f4 and f5; instead it prefers the
17962 more legitimate f4xe5 interpretation.
17964 * A move like fxe6 or fe6 is now interpreted as an e.p. capture of the
17965 pawn on e5 if there is one there and e6 is empty.
17967 * A move like fxe5 can no longer be interpreted as an e.p. capture if
17968 there isn't a pawn on e5 to be captured. Previously this could happen
17969 erroneously if there were pawns on both f4 and f5, and the f4 pawn was
17970 capturing a piece on e5.
17972 * The parser no longer munges the move it is parsing; in the past, for
17973 instance, it would remove the "x" from a move like dxc5 before echoing
17976 * The parser now detects when a move is ambiguous and returns an
17977 error, instead of arbitrarily choosing one possibility as it used to.
17979 Mon Aug 10 18:40:47 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 23) mann@src.dec.com
17981 * Added code so parser can handle fully qualified algebraic, e.g.,
17982 Ng1-f3, N/g1-f3, Ng1f3, or even Pe2-e4. The "P" and "/" work only for
17983 fully qualified moves, not generally.
17985 * Fixed parser bugs in handling moves with rank or file disambiguator,
17988 Mon Jul 6 17:55:32 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 22) mann@src.dec.com
17990 * AIXV3 patch from Tom McConnell; thanks!
17992 * After hitting the Backward button we see the last move made instead of
17993 the word "Pausing" displayed.
17995 * Fixed a couple of problems compiling on IRIX; thanks to Michel Arsenault
17996 and Alan Walsh for bug reports and help with fixes.
17998 * Added optional display of algebraic notation coordinates along left and
17999 bottom edges of board. This was inspired by some code from Jean-Christophe
18002 * Swapped EditPosition and Pause buttons to reduce danger of losing the
18003 game in progress by hitting EditPosition when you wanted Backward. Thanks
18004 to Ove Lundberg for complaining (though it bugged me too).
18006 * Despite one complaint, I kept the feature of changing both clocks when black
18007 makes time control, rather than changing each individually when the player
18008 involved makes it. This is to avoid having it look like White is way ahead on
18009 time while Black is thinking about the last move of the time control period
18010 (i.e., when White has made time control but Black hasn't yet).
18012 * Corrected clocks to work as in real tournaments. Time is *added* when you
18013 reach time control; previously the clocks were simply set to the length of the
18014 new time period. Also, when a player's flag falls, he still does not receive a
18015 new time allotment at the next time control, but his opponent does still
18016 receive more time if *his* flag has not fallen; previously, time controls were
18017 ignored for both players if either flag fell. I forget who reported this bug.
18019 * Added a small ESIX patch from Kayvan Sylvan.
18021 Mon Jun 22 13:24:38 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 21)
18023 * Added some SVR4 support code from Ronald Cole. It's Greek to me.
18025 * Note: Stephen Meatheringham reports a bug causing xboard to crash with an
18026 error from the X server when run on a Sun Sparcstation IPX with Solaris 1.0.1
18027 and OpenWindows 3.0. This bug has not been tracked down yet.
18029 * Fixed a problem with ATTENTION code. On some operating systems, you have to
18030 be even more cautious about when you send a SIGINT to gnuchess, because the
18031 signal handler gets deinstalled each time it is used, and gnuchess does not
18032 reinstall it immediately. In particular, if you send a SIGINT and make an
18033 illegal move or ask for a hint, gnuchess does not reinstall the handler until
18034 *after* you make your next move, so you had better not send a SIGINT before
18035 it. I put a workaround for this case into xboard; I hope there are no more.
18037 * The ATTENTION code is needed when compiling for the ESIX operating system,
18038 because ESIX has a bug in the FIONREAD ioctl, so the code in gnuchess that
18039 lets you interrupt its thinking on your time just by typing in your move does
18040 not work. Perhaps gnuchess will have a workaround for this eventually.
18042 * Fixed yet another bug in using XtGetValues; code to inhibit shell resizing
18043 was leaving a null pointer as the place to store the current sizes.
18045 * Man page fixes: corrected -sl to -sd, updated LIMITATIONS.
18047 * Added include of <sys/time.h> conditional on HAS_GETTIMEOFDAY. I hope this
18048 works for all systems; on mine, <time.h> and <sys/time.h> are the same file,
18049 but with an #ifndef that makes it harmless to include both.
18051 * Thanks for reports from Mike Pearlman, Stephen Meatheringham, Kayvan Sylvan,
18052 d87-mal@nada.kth.se, Urban Koistinen, and Ronald Cole.
18054 Mon Jun 8 11:39:18 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 20)
18056 * Documented default value of initString and explained what it means. This
18057 paragraph also serves to inform the user that xboard by default will tell
18058 gnuchess to think on his time, something one user apparently didn't understand.
18060 * Redid -searchDepth (formerly -searchLevel) and -searchTime code. They both
18061 work correctly with gnuchess 3.1 now. The -searchDepth option also works
18062 correctly with gnuchess 4.0. The -searchTime option does not work with
18063 gnuchess 4.0.pl50 or earlier because those gnuchess versions do not have a
18064 working searchTime feature. Instead of having xboard do a half-baked emulation
18065 of this feature by using a 1-move time control, I will be submitting a patch to
18066 the gnuchess folks to restore the feature as in 3.1.
18068 * Improved clock code. It now keeps accurate track of fractional seconds of
18069 clock running time, if your system has gettimeofday(); if not, it is generous
18070 about them---if a clock has been going for n.m seconds when it is stopped, only
18071 n seconds are charged. Previously, xboard would charge one second immediately
18072 when a clock was started, so if n.m had elapsed when it was stopped, n+1 would
18073 be charged. This should stop xboard from thinking gnuchess has let its flag
18074 fall on the last move of a time control, as it often did before. I also
18075 improved the comments and condensed the code a little. I hope there are no
18076 systems that have X11 and don't have gettimeofday(), but if there are, I'd like
18077 to know what to replace it with.
18079 * "Flag dropped" messages now show up on the top line, beside the clocks, so
18080 that they don't obscure more interesting messages on the second line.
18082 * Fixed confusion of NULL and '\000'.
18084 * Include time.h to get ctime() declaration.
18086 * Fix to "parser bug" messages in parser.l.
18088 * Changed code to work with old-fashioned tolower() macro that requires its
18089 argument to be an uppercase letter.
18091 * Minor fix to some usage error messages; was reversing program name and
18092 erroneous argument value.
18094 * Thanks to Mitch Wright, Ranier Orth, and Henrik Schmiediche for bug reports.
18096 Fri Jun 5 13:06:08 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 19)
18098 * Note: xboard does not seem to work when compiled with gcc 1.40 on a
18099 PS/2 running AIX. It crashes at the sscanf in line 768 of xboard.c.
18100 You can work around the problem by specifying the -timeControl option
18101 on the command line instead of defaulting it. This does not seem to
18102 be a bug in xboard itself; it runs okay on PS/2 AIX when compiled with
18103 MetaWare High C. [But see 2.1.pl8 above.]
18105 * Removed bogus files from distribution.
18107 * Changed variable name that conflicted with SVR4 ttyname function.
18109 * Thanks to Christoph Strozyk for another bug report, and to several
18110 of the folks mentioned under patchlevel 18 for testing it.
18112 Wed Jun 3 17:50:37 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 18) mann@src.dec.com
18114 * Added an include of sys/fcntl.h to pick up the definition of O_RDWR for
18117 * Fixed a bug in CatchPipeSignal; was testing the wrong variable to determine
18118 which chess program got the signal.
18120 * Removed the declaration of strrchr, which was causing problems for some
18121 people, and added an include of <string.h> or <strings.h> instead.
18123 * Fixed a bunch of type errors uncovered by compilers that check more carefully
18124 than the one I was using. I just patched many of them with casts---typically
18125 cases where a function didn't take the same number and type of arguments as the
18126 X header file prototype said it should---because I didn't see any other way to
18127 fix them. The versions of the X header files that I have don't actually have
18128 full prototypes for these function types; they declare only the return type and
18129 just give the argument types as comments.
18131 * InitChessProgram returns immediately if chess program died while we were
18132 waiting for it to say "Chess". I think this fixes a bug that could make xboard
18133 crash or go into an infinite loop printing "Warning: Select failed; error code
18134 9" if gnuchess crashed there.
18136 * Removed code that tries to put the file descriptor used to read messages from
18137 gnuchess into nonblocking mode. I don't see how this kludge could ever have
18138 fixed the problem it was intended to (see below), and it seemed to be causing
18139 a race condition when we were waiting for the initial message from gnuchess
18140 after it started up.
18142 * Thanks to Richard K. Lloyd, Konstantinos Konstantinides, Mark
18143 Seiden, Erik Schoenfelder, Andreas Stolcke, Rainer Orth, Henry Thomas,
18144 and Kris Van Hees for bug reports and help with fixes.
18146 Sun May 31 08:00:00 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 17) Bart Massey bart@cs.uoregon.edu
18148 * 'xboard' suffered from a couple of serious bugs. An initial
18149 size needed to be given to the message label to avoid a race
18150 condition (!) so I gave it some text (otherwise occasionally
18151 xboard would fail because the message widget was 0 width under
18152 MIT X11R4). The sizes needed to be Dimension, not int, because
18153 they were written in by Xt -- on my big-endian box Dimension
18154 is short, causing chaos. Also, I hacked a declaration in for
18155 strrchr() to shut the compiler up -- this is arguably a kludge,
18156 but I couldn't think of anything better; maybe you can.
18158 Fri May 22 13:40:50 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 16)
18160 * First real (non-beta) release of version 2.0.
18162 * Added GNU copyleft notices covering version 2.0 enhancements.
18164 Thu May 21 12:30:09 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 15)
18166 * Removed -g from Imakefile.
18168 * Added casts in parser.l to prevent warning messages from some C compilers.
18170 * Bugfix: code to exit if chess program couldn't be started had bug in error
18173 Tue May 19 11:58:06 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 14)
18175 * Fixes one small bug: If LoadGame does not find a game in the file, it resets
18176 xboard to BeginningOfGame mode (as if the Reset button was pressed), instead of
18177 leaving it in LoadGame mode.
18179 Mon Apr 13 18:32:27 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 13)
18181 * Improved error handling when gnuchessx crashes. Now displays a message and
18182 enters EndOfGame state without exiting. This should help with diagnosing
18183 gnuchessx problems, since the position and move history are not lost.
18185 * Debugged man page.
18187 Version 2.0 -- Thu Apr 2 16:04:54 PST 1992 (patchlevel 12)
18189 * Added small 40x40 pixel pieces; board size now specified as small, medium, or
18192 * Improved man page.
18194 * Saved position files now say "white to play" if it's white's move.
18196 * SavePosition while in EditPosition mode now gets side to play right.
18198 * Made "Pawn" the default on edit position menus.
18200 * Removed "To play" from edit position menus, since it's redundant. Left
18201 support code in so it can be restored if someone wants it.
18203 * Tightened parser's definition of a move number to help further with skipping
18204 over stuff before the first move.
18206 * Put back feature of skipping over stuff in game files before a start of game
18207 marker. This helps when loading electronic mail messages that have things
18208 like "00" in the header (looks like castling), or that talk about moves in
18209 running text before the actual game score. Tradeoff is that we can't load
18210 games that don't either have move numbers or say "gnuchess game" just before
18213 * Changed version number to 2.0 because others have used "1.3" for patched
18214 versions of 1.2. Display version number and patchlevel at startup.
18216 Thu Apr 2 15:30:22 PST 1992 (patchlevel 11)
18218 * Bugfix: Match started with TwoMachines button now handles the case where
18219 user loaded/edited a position *and* forced some moves.
18221 * added error message feedback to many cases where the user's button press is
18222 rejected because it isn't allowed in the current mode.
18224 * added -noChessProgram option to allow use as a passive chessboard without
18225 gnuchess, replacing old buggy scheme that tried to do this automatically when
18226 gnuchess was not found on the search path.
18228 * parser accepts "=" in front of promotion piece
18230 * parser accepts ":" notation for captures
18232 * Removed SwitchSides button to make room for EditPosition. Left code in
18233 place, ifdef'ed out.
18235 * Added EditPosition mode.
18237 * Reformatted xboard.c to eliminate long lines.
18239 * Promotion popup now appears near rank to which pawn is moving.
18241 * UI improvement: Button representing current program mode is kept highlighted.
18243 * Bug fix: Hint button is now disabled when machine is on move.
18245 Sat Mar 21 14:57:37 PST 1992 (patchlevel 10)
18247 * TwoMachines now works from MachineWhite or MachineBlack mode.
18249 * ForceMoves and Backward/Forward now work at the end of a game started by
18250 the TwoMachines button.
18252 * Sends o-o or o-o-o to gnuchess instead of O-O or O-O-O.
18254 * Bug fix: SwitchSides button is now disabled when machine is on move.
18256 * Added -searchLevel option and corrected handling of -searchTime to reflect
18257 the way gnuchess really handles command line options instead of what the
18258 documentation used to say. Allowed optional ":seconds" on times.
18260 Tue Mar 17 21:00:35 PST 1992 (patchlevel 9)
18262 * Removed non-working code that tried to recover when a remote chess program
18263 could not be started; now exits with a message instead.
18265 * Now waits for chess program to print its first message (normally "Chess")
18266 before sending it any commands.
18268 * Matches between two machines can now start from a black-to-play position or
18269 black-to-play opening.
18271 * Bug fix: The program would sometimes lose track of the board position after
18272 the end of the game, drawing a board full of white pawns next time it got an X
18273 redraw request. Now fixed.
18275 * Cleaned up handling of illegal moves in game files. Now we just stop reading
18276 and go into ForceMoves mode.
18278 * Saved games against gnuchess indicate who won (restored and debugged 1.2
18281 * Setting -searchTime turns off -clockMode.
18283 * My trick for setting up a black-to-play position broke in the transition from
18284 gnuchess 3.1+ to 4.0. Installed a different trick that works with both.
18286 * Bug fix: Was clobbering memory by mallocing one byte too few for the file
18287 name in SetupPositionFromFileProc. This usually resulted in a crash on the
18288 second attempt to load a position from a file.
18290 Mon Mar 16 16:49:00 PST 1992 (patchlevel 8)
18292 * Game and position files are saved in CHESSDIR as well as loaded from there.
18293 We actually chdir there, so gnuchess listing files also wind up there.
18295 * Underpromotion moves from gnuchess really work now.
18297 Sat Mar 14 14:55:24 PST 1992 (patchlevel 7)
18299 * Cleaned up lots of bugs and kruft in parser.l. It's a wonder the old version
18300 worked at all. Improved rejection of random text interspersed with the moves.
18302 * Relabeled buttons to reduce confusion (Play From File --> Load Game;
18303 Setup From File --> Load Position).
18305 * Bug fix: Doesn't exit at the end of a game that was started by pressing
18306 the Two Machines button.
18308 * Bug fix: Doesn't get confused if you hit Machine Black (White) while
18309 the machine is already playing black (white) and is on move.
18311 * Prints "White to play" or "Black to play" after loading a position file.
18313 * Bug fix: No longer hangs if no start-of-game is found in a game file.
18315 * More permissive about game file format. The first line is not assumed
18316 to be a header comment unless it starts with "#". We don't insist on
18317 seeing a "1." before the first move.
18319 * Added pop-up dialog to allow underpromotion. Moving a pawn to the last rank
18320 pops up a dialog to let you select what piece to promote to. Also added code
18321 to handle underpromotion moves from gnuchess or from a game file correctly.
18323 * Added code to send SIGINT to gnuchess before trying to move, if gnuchess
18324 might be busy thinking on our time. The code is ifdef'ed out because it's
18325 not necessary; only beta-test versions of gnuchess 4.0 at patchlevel 19 or
18328 Mon Feb 24 20:10:22 PST 1992
18330 * Merged fixes received from Stuart Cracraft and Mike McGann, to iconic mode
18331 and to ShutdownChessPrograms. (They both sent the same fixes.) I did not
18332 install the change that removed "easy" from the initialization string, so
18333 xboard will still try to run gnuchessx in "hard" mode (thinking on opponent's
18334 time) by sending this command.
18336 Version 1.3 -- Thu Dec 19 18:19:00 PST 1991 mann@src.dec.com (Tim Mann)
18338 * I've fixed a slew of bugs in this version of xboard:
18340 * You can now back up from the end of a game, even if gnuchess was playing
18341 against you. Since gnuchess exits upon mate or draw (when it's not in force
18342 mode), this feature works by starting up a new copy of gnuchess and feeding it
18343 the saved starting position and moves. Drawback: the new gnuchess starts with
18344 clocks at the beginning of a fresh time control.
18346 * Note: the "force" command to gnuchess is a toggle. I fixed a couple of
18347 places in xboard where "force" was being issued when gnuchess was already in
18348 force mode, which resulted in chaos. I don't know if they were in 1.2 or if I
18349 added them myself in the course of putting in new features.
18351 * ForceMoves button is now legal in PlayFromFile mode. It closes the game file
18352 and lets you force moves (or go Backward) from whatever position you've
18355 * The parser now recognizes "white resigns" and "black resigns" (in any
18356 combination of upper and lower case, with or without the closing "s"). These
18357 used to be misinterpreted as meaning "white wins" or "black wins" respectively!
18358 Added "1 - 0" and "0 - 1" as equivalents for "1-0" and "0-1".
18360 * I removed the parser feature of considering "!" as a comment delimiter.
18361 "!" is so common as an annotation in game scores that this feature seems like a
18364 * Added a wait() after each successful call to kill() to avoid leaving zombie
18367 * Removed the feature of putting an indication of how the game ended into the
18368 internal move list when playing from a file. The only benefit of this was that
18369 it would get written back out if you saved the game at that point. This
18370 feature doesn't seem too useful, since you are unlikely to save a game you've
18371 read in without making any changes, and it caused a lot of problems in the code
18372 and user interface. The end condition is still displayed as a message when
18373 it's first read in from the file. End conditions when playing against gnuchess
18374 are still saved, too.
18376 * programName is now the last file name component of argv[0], not all of it.
18378 * xboard.c got three compiler warnings due to arguments that didn't match the
18379 prototypes on X toolkit functions. I got rid of them by adding some casts, and
18380 adding extra unused arguments to the ReceiveFromProgram function.
18382 * As I received it, the distribution had an extra period glued on the front
18383 of every line that started with a period. This broke the manpage in an
18384 obvious way. It also broke parser.l in a nonobvious way that stopped
18385 PlayFromFile from working.
18387 * Fixed one or two bugs where the clock was started when it shouldn't have
18388 been. I think one example was if you tried an illegal move in ForceMoves mode.
18390 * Now starts the machine's clock if you hit MachineWhite when white is on move
18391 or MachineBlack when black is on move.
18393 * Now updates the to-move indicator (highlight on clock display) when you use
18394 Forward/Backward or ForceMoves.
18396 * gnuchess 3.1+ has a bug that makes it try to think on its opponent's time
18397 even when in force mode; this causes problems with xboard's SetupFromFile
18398 command because gnuchess's saved hint move is garbage after the new position is
18399 loaded, so gnuchess prints out an error message when it tries to think about
18400 what it would do if the user made this move. Here is a patch for gnuchess
18403 *** nondsp.c~ Mon Dec 2 12:37:18 1991
18404 *-- nondsp.c Thu Dec 19 15:36:06 1991
18407 ok = flag.quit = false;
18410 ! if (hint > 0 && !flag.easy && Book == NULL)
18413 time0 = time ((long *) 0);
18415 ok = flag.quit = false;
18418 ! if (hint > 0 && !flag.easy && Book == NULL && !flag.force)
18421 time0 = time ((long *) 0);
18423 * SavePosition/SetupFromFile now handle black-to-play positions. If it's
18424 black's move in a saved position, the line "black to play" is printed
18425 immediately after the board display. Upon loading a position, xboard
18426 looks for "black" at the beginning of this line to determine whether it's
18429 * SetupFromFile now leaves you (effectively) in ForceMoves mode. This
18430 eliminates some cases where the program would get into an inconsistent state,
18431 and hopefully is more intuitive for the user, too.
18433 * PlayFromFile now leaves xboard in ForceMoves mode after playing through all
18434 the moves in the file. You can use Backward/Forward, make moves, get gnuchess
18435 to join the game with MachineWhite or MachineBlack, etc. The game file can end
18436 with either white or black to play.
18438 * Backward/Forward now seem to work in all cases. Previously using these
18439 buttons during a game against the machine would get xboard out of sync with
18440 gnuchess's idea of what was going on, resulting in chaos. Now using these
18441 buttons puts xboard in ForceMoves mode; you can bring gnuchess back into the
18442 game using the MachineWhite or MachineBlack buttons.
18444 Thu Jun 27 15:06:25 PDT 1991
18446 * Remove comment popups during a reset.
18448 * Bug in my forward move fix. Didn't work for playgamefile mode.
18450 Thu Jun 20 15:04:06 PDT 1991
18452 * Can't do a backward move when it isn't your turn because gnuchess
18453 gets confused. Similar bug for forward move. Do a bunch of moves,
18454 back up move and go forward. These get filtered out now.
18456 * Put easy back into the initString. This DISABLES easy mode which by
18459 * New-line wasn't always being added to forward move strings sent to gnuchess.
18461 * Parsed comments as [ ..............text follows ] into d7d5
18463 * Long game file comments cause core dumps on HP systems.
18465 * Multiple uses of the get positition file button got confused
18466 on the second click.
18468 Minor fixes to the 1.2 release
18470 Version 1.2 -- Tue Jun 11 17:14:12 PDT 1991
18472 * For version 1.2, Jeff Kenton, Richard LLoyd, David Jensen, Martin D.,
18473 Bill Schmidt, Scott Hemphill, Paul Vaughan and Bill Shauck all found
18474 a lot of bugs that we put into xboard just to see if they were paying
18475 attention. They were.
18477 * Changed the protocol that xboard uses to work with the new version of
18480 * There was an off by one error with the clock resetting code. Also,
18481 the clock display highliting was wrong. Thanks to Bill Shauck for
18482 pointing these out.
18484 * enumerations are not really integers on some C compilers. I added casting.
18485 The new version of gnuchess expects the "go" command for two machine
18486 and machine plays white cases. The whiteString resource is for
18487 compatibility with previous gnuchess versions which get confused by go.
18488 Thanks to Martin D. for catching these.
18490 * Fixed a bug where the checkmate message wasn't being parsed and xboard
18491 kept playing. Also, the message was added to game file if saved.
18492 Thanks to Scott Hemhill for pointing this out.
18494 * Fixed a bug where saving a long game, resetting and saving a short game
18495 resulted in appending the end of the long game to the short one.
18496 If a game is just being played out and there is no reason for gnuchessr
18497 to be used, ignore pipe signals. This allows people to use xboard
18498 as a chess board without need for gnuchess. Also, trivially bad moves
18499 such as e2e2 are not passed on to gnuchessr but instead ignored out of
18500 hand. This allows people using xboard as a chessboard with gnuchessr
18501 to pick a piece up, think and put it back down without making a move.
18502 Thanks to Jeff Kenton for pointing these out.
18504 * Added the CHESSDIR environment variable. Game and position files are
18505 found in this directory. If this variable is not declared, then the
18506 current directory is used. File names starting with / are treated
18509 * The bitmap file names were changed so that none exceeded 14 characters.
18510 This is necessary for R5.
18512 fcntl(from_prog[0], F_SETFL, O_NDELAY);
18514 The xboard fix was to set non-blocking i/o on the read pipe for gnuchessr
18516 printz ("Illegal move (no matching move generated)");
18518 * fixed a problem with the new version of gnuchessr where xboard wasn't
18519 getting gnuchessr error messages for illegal moves. The problem seems
18520 to be fixed *without* any gnuchess changes but this is likely to be
18521 highly system dependant. There should be a new line on line 246 of nondsp.c
18523 * -iconic doesn't work at all now. The Iconify() does work. This was
18524 a tradeoff and it is really an Xt bug.
18526 * Fixed a compiler warning for gcc and an error for the IBM RT compilers.
18527 This is the VOID_PROC macro in xboard.h. Thanks to David Jensen for this.
18529 * If the DisplayWidth or DisplayHeight is less than 800, use small size mode.
18530 Also the size of the name widget was reduced from 500 pixels to 400 pixels
18531 because in small size mode there was a gap on the right.
18532 Changed the default font from fixed to helvetica_oblique14 to:
18533 **-helvetica-bold-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
18534 helvetica_oblique14 is a font alias not on all R4 systems.
18535 Curiously enough, the 17 point is not available on 75dpi systems
18536 and the 18 point font is not available on 100dpi systems.
18537 Thanks to Richard K. Lloyd for pointing these out.
18539 * Minor hacks to work with R5 alpha. Had to add an event handler to the
18540 boardWidget to get translations to work. This may go away with the real R5.
18541 Added <Message>WM_PROTOCOLS: QuitProc() for R5 ICCCM compatibility.
18543 * If the first character of the file is not `1' then the first line
18544 of a game or position file is displayed as the name in a label widget.
18546 * Added a PopUp dialog for getting file names.
18548 * Modified the code to use the R4 routines rather than R3 compatibility.
18550 * Changed the forwards/backwards/readgamefile code to allow a play to step
18551 back and forth in a game. If he steps all the way to the beginning
18552 he has to restart the game. If he gets into a mated position, same problem.
18554 * Moved the man page from xboard.1 to xboard.man. This makes imake man page
18555 installs work correctly. Thanks to Richard K. Lloyd for pointing this out.
18557 * Corrected the queening code. XBoard was sending the wrong syntax.
18558 It was sending for example h8(Q) when it should have been sending h8q.
18559 Thanks to Paul Vaughan and Mike McGann for pointing this out.
18561 * Added a lex parser for algebraic games. It should be easy to use the parser
18562 for other interfaces such as the Microsoft Windows version.
18563 It parses comments of the form [anything] and ! to the end of a line.
18565 Version 1.1 -- Mon Jan 7 14:46:03 PST 1991
18567 * Roger Dubar, Konstantinos Konstantinides, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht,
18568 Paul Scowen, Mvh Smidt and Kayvan Sylvan all helped immensely during
18571 * older non-ANSI versions of Sun compilers complain vociferously.
18573 * the remoteShell resource was added for HP-UX systems
18574 and other systems where the remoteShell isn't rsh.
18576 * -iconic doesn't work properly. If XBoard is opened iconic then
18577 iconifying it later with a keystroke doesn't work. I think
18580 * For systems with smaller screens, XBoard can use smaller pieces,
18581 and a smaller board. -bigSizeMode False uses a smaller set of pieces.
18582 These are scaled versions of the large pieces. They look ok but could
18585 * getlogin() does not work in all cases.
18586 It was replaced by getpwuid(getuid())->pw_name).
18588 * Warning messages get displayed in the message box.
18590 * Any button restarts a paused game.
18592 * Kayvan Sylvan contributed a patch for ESIX.
18593 It seems that select() on pipes is broken on his system. We declined
18594 to incorporate his patch though, because it was a work-around for
18595 something that was broken on one system, and selfishly, that system
18596 was not my own. Nevertheless, it is likely that other System V users
18597 on PC's may need to use this patch and it is is included as the file
18598 ESIX.patch. To use it, type
18600 patch xboard.c ESIX.patch
18602 * Fixed a bug where hint didn't work. The local version of gnuchessr
18603 had been hacked. The fix was to clone stderr and stdout for gnuchessr.
18605 * Fixed a bug where a player could play after a game had been finished.
18607 * The bitmaps have been pushed into the bitmaps directory.
18609 * Substantially rewrote and simplified the Two Machine code.
18611 * Added StrStr() because many systems don't have this ANSI function.
18613 * Added keyboard equivalents. Added an iconify keystroke, C or c.
18615 * Works with gcc now. gcc complained about casting float constants
18618 * Detect if the visual doesn't support color. If so, run in monoMode.
18619 An alternative would be to detect grayscale visual and use a collection
18620 of gray user interface colors.
18622 XBoard.clockMode: False
18624 * For people who don't like or use chess clocks a clockMode switch
18625 has been added. It is on by default. It can be turned off in the
18626 .Xdefaults file with
18628 * Added a declaration, xtVersion, which will quickly break on R3 Intrinsics.
18630 * Hal Peterson contributed a new Imakefile.
18632 * Rewrote DisplayClocks().
18634 * Rewrote TwoMachinesPlay mode.
18636 * Konstantinos Konstantinides added the -searchTime option.
18638 * Substantially rewrote and simplified the clock code. If a game was paused
18639 and then resumed, the clocks were out of sync.
18641 * Fixed a bug in HandleUserMove() where the user could make a move while the
18642 machine was thinking. The fix detects and ignores these moves. onMove
18643 was not being used and was removed.