224. Larry Parrish requests: In an automated multi-games match I would\r
like to load the n-th game from the file for the n-th game of the\r
match. [That is, when -mg and -lgf or -lpf are used together without\r
--lgi or -lpi.]\r
+-lgi or -lpi.] [4.3.15 provides auto-increment og game and pos index]\r
\r
225. From pulp: another bug (maybe with the Microsoft RichEdit\r
control) I've observed is when you flood the edit control it loses the\r
one do this in Windows?]\r
\r
227a. In engine-engine matches, an engine that crashes should lose and\r
-perhaps get restarted for the next game. [Added in 4.3]\r
+perhaps get restarted for the next game. [In 4.3 a crashing engine \r
+forfeits the game, but still terminates a match.]\r
\r
227b. Maybe when an engine playing in Zippy mode exhibits a bug, we\r
should do a little more too. Perhaps "say Sorry, the engine seems to\r
\r
"1" tells xboard to ask for an additional parameter (here: filename)\r
which will replace the "%s" in the command string.\r
+[XBoard 4.3.16 has an experimental implementation of this ide through\r
+the 'feature option="..."' command.]\r
\r
261. Check that "quit" is sent to engine properly if ICS connection\r
fails to open due to error from timestamp/timeseal. "wzrdking" had a\r
274. Command to go to move number N, with entry box for N.\r
\r
276. Make grid optional in winboard? Note that the highlight options\r
-don't work without it.\r
+don't work without it. [The Winboard_x -overrideLineGap option provides\r
+this.]\r
\r
276a. Make color of grid an option, instead of always black.\r
\r
by ICS. Not bughouse, though]\r
\r
326a. Menu to let you see and change the current variant type, not\r
-just a command-line argument as at present. [Added in 4.3 WinBoard]\r
+just a command-line argument as at present. [Added in 4.3]\r
\r
326b. crazyhouse: Keep track of holdings and display them, keep track\r
of what onboard pieces are promoted so they will revert if captured,\r
**332. Bug: Autoflag for local engine/engine or engine/human matches\r
does not recognize that having your flag fall when your opponent has\r
insufficient mating material is a draw. It counts the flag fall as a\r
-loss.\r
+loss. [Partly fixed in 4.3, which corrects any kind of losses against \r
+a bare King to draws.]\r
\r
336. Of course lots of people ask for a graphical seek window.\r
\r
366. Feature to let an engine observe an ICS game and run analysis\r
mode on the moves, perhaps whispering or channel-telling the results.\r
It's a little too easy to cheat with this feature or I might have\r
-added it long ago.\r
+added it long ago. [Added in 4.2.8 and 4.4]\r
\r
369. Optionally send a periodic keepalive command to ICS. Can be\r
used to defeat autologout, so should probably not be on by default.\r
**387. Have winboard draw opaque details on black pieces too.\r
Hmm, this should probably be optional, and the detail colors should\r
be selectable instead of hardwired to the opposite piece color.\r
+[The 4.3 -allWhite option goes in this direction. Details always\r
+in black, though.]\r
\r
**387a. Add "no piece border" option to WinBoard. See code from\r
Robert Jurjevic sent 4/9/2001.\r
console window, or something.\r
\r
402. Internationalization. It probably isn't practical to retrofit\r
-this into the current code base.\r
+this into the current code base. [4.2.8 and 4.4 have international-\r
+ization of xboard.]\r
\r
409. One user requested a way to put a time delay in the middle of\r
sending zippyGameEnd commands. This would (for example) let the\r
**415. It was suggested that a few common options that many chess\r
engines need be promoted to xboard/WinBoard options so that the user\r
can set them from the GUI in a uniform way. In particular: hash size,\r
-directory name for endgame tables.\r
+directory name for endgame tables. [4.3 has extended WB protocol\r
+with a memory, egtpath and cores command.]\r
\r
**416. Can we avoid dying when xboard is in 8-bit mode, pixmap pieces\r
are chosen (by default), and we can't get enough colors? Ugh.\r
engine matches this part of the spec, but then again, it's not clear\r
what we can do about it if the engine doesn't give that command, so\r
maybe there is no point. See discussion on chess-engines list.\r
-[WinBoard_x adds an argument to tell WInBoard an egine uses absolute\r
+[Winboard_x adds an argument to tell WinBoard an egine uses absolute\r
scores]\r
\r
458. Bug: xboard will try to use an engine to play normal chess even\r
476. For some reason (I guess some GUI supports them), most WinBoard\r
engines now have a graphical logo, 100x50 pixels in Windows .bmp\r
format. It's been requested that WinBoard have a place to show the\r
-logo.\r
+logo. [4.3.16 supports logos]\r
\r
477. Implement the "book engine" idea I proposed in the protover 3\r
discussions. Some folks have offered to write them (e.g., Bruce\r
-Morland).\r
+Morland). [4.3.15 supports a GUI book, which is another way to\r
+acheive the same, as the only thing that would distinguish book\r
+engines is their book, not what they do.]\r
\r
478. Recognize URLs in the WinBoard ics interaction window and make\r
them work as hyperlinks (firing up your browser).\r
examine mode while -zp is active, and the engine supports analyze,\r
then put it into analyze mode and let it work on the examined game. I\r
guess this could work for observed games too. Should it be optional\r
-or always done?\r
+or always done? [4.2.8 and 4.4 support analysis in zippy mode, but\r
+as yet only while observing games.]\r
\r
483. It would be nice if the KingShine 3D board could be integrated\r
as an alternative xboard GUI rendering.\r
\r
485. Add "reset" to protover 3. (Clear the hash tables and other such\r
info; used to put the engine into a known state before running a\r
-test/benchmark position.)\r
+test/benchmark position.) [the WB 'memory' command could be defined\r
+to have this side effect? Normally we would have to clear the hash\r
+table when changing its size.]\r
\r
486. Other protover 3 features listed in my 6/21/2001 message to\r
chess-engines list. Write a full protover 3 draft for comment.\r
+[Note that 4.3 already uses protocol extensions that differ from\r
+the v3 specs.]\r
\r
487. Adjudicate non-ICS games as a draw when there is insufficient\r
mating material on both sides, especially engine/engine games. Well,\r
moves or repeats after which draw is adjudicated]\r
\r
487c. Another request: allow the operator to adjudicate engine/engine games.\r
+[Winboard_x provided menu items for this.]\r
\r
488. Option to suppress tags popup on game load? This has been\r
requested a few times, and I received one partial implementation (not\r
better to make the GUI able to relay thinking output as kibitzing on\r
its own (and be able to turn this on/off dynamically), but Bruce\r
points out that what engine authors want to send as kibitzing output\r
-usually includes more than the PV thinking output.\r
+usually includes more than the PV thinking output. [Note that engines\r
+can put whatever info they want in the PV field of the thinking \r
+output].\r
\r
492. One user reports that GNU Chess 5 crashes if you start a game,\r
play far enough to get GNU Chess out of book, select Reset, and play\r
they were doing) partial conversions of WinBoard to German or Spanish\r
by manually translating the messages. I think it would be much better\r
(but a big job) to use GNU gettext. I haven't looked into the details\r
-of that at all.\r
+of that at all. [4.2.8 and 4.4 have gettext support.]\r
\r
495. JamesBaud points out that FEN is not sufficient to correctly\r
represent a crazyhouse position (or bughouse, for that matter),\r
the lead in proposing an extension to FEN and to style 12 with new\r
piece letters, I suppose. I don't really have time or motivation for\r
that. If you always use PGN, not FEN, to save Crazyhouse, that works\r
-around the problem. [4.3 uses bFENs which fix this]\r
+around the problem. [4.3 uses bFENs which fix this, but not in ICS\r
+mode]\r
\r
**496. DAV sent some code to save a screen shot in xboard. Look at\r
-merging this in.\r
+merging this in. [4.3 has an option to save the board display (but\r
+not the entire window) as bitmap.]\r
\r
**497. Igor Eged reports: I make a move on opponents time using\r
premove. Right in the time I am holding another piece in case of\r
is already stated in the spec. The "level" command should not affect\r
the search depth. As it happens, xboard/WinBoard currently always\r
sends sd (if needed) right after level, but that isn't part of the\r
-spec.\r
+spec. [Added to the specs that go with 4.4]\r
\r
518. Warn in doc that -initString is a dangerous feature. Also move\r
doc of dalogs for sending commands directly to the engine out of the\r
\r
525. Support a 64-bit node counter in analysis mode when compiled with\r
something that has 64-bit integer support. Both gcc and msvc++ have\r
-this, though under different names.\r
+this, though under different names. [Done in 4.2.8 and 4.4]\r
\r
526. "-initialMode analysis -lgf -" doesn't get the engine into\r
analysis mode properly. "-initialMode analyzeFile" is a workaround,\r
\r
529. Protover 3 needs a prefix character that says "this is debug\r
output" and prevents the GUI from parsing that line (say ";").\r
+[4.3 uses '#' for this purpose, when the engine sets feature debug=1]\r
\r
530. The undocumented (?) checking for rsh error messages tripped up\r
one engine author who had a "not found" in a message. Tighten this\r
538. Need a way for the user to adjust the clocks. This is important\r
for WCCC and other computer competitions, where xboard/winboard's\r
clock is not the master. I was going to do it in time for the July\r
-2002 WCCC. Oops.\r
+2002 WCCC. Oops. [4.3 allows adjusting the clocks by clicking them\r
+in 'edit game' mode, in steps of 1 minute]\r
\r
541. Related to #327, John Iverson says, "It would be nice to have the\r
coordinates shown outside of the board along the edges, rather than in\r
a pain to create new dialogs by editing the text file. The original\r
ones were all created using the graphical dialog editor in MSVC 5.\r
\r
+553. It would be nice for xboard's ICS Input box to have a history \r
+feature similar to WinBoard's ICS Interaction window. Actually it \r
+would be nice for xboard to have its own ICS Interaction window with \r
+all the bells and whistles that WinBoard's has instead of limping \r
+along using an xterm for interaction. \r
+\r
+**554. Port evaluation-graph window to XBoard.\r
+\r
+555. Split x/wengineoutput.c in a front-end and common backend file.\r
+\r
+556. Fix -stickyWindows option under XP and Vista, and port to XBoard.\r
+\r
+557. Port display of engine logos to XBoard.\r
+\r
+558. Device a smart way for -autoLogo to select logos in other modes\r
+than Two Machines.\r
+\r
+\r
+\r
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Before each release:\r
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