Fix variant switch on engine load

When an engine was installed with an engine-defined variant, selecting
that engine through the Load Engine dialog did not properly switch to
the intended variant. Now doing this at the start of a game forces an
extra New Game event. This event now also remembers the name of any
unknown variant, in the hope the engine will define it.

diff --git a/backend.c b/backend.c
index 734cf40..216afc8 100644 (file)
--- a/backend.c
+++ b/backend.c
@@ -996,6 +996,7 @@ Load (ChessProgramState *cps, int i)
        SwapEngines(i);
        ReplaceEngine(cps, i);
        FloatToFront(&appData.recentEngineList, engineLine);
+       if(gameMode == BeginningOfGame) Reset(TRUE, TRUE);
        return;
     }
     p = engineName;
@@ -10789,6 +10790,7 @@ InitChessProgram (ChessProgramState *cps, int setup)
 
       b = SupportedVariant(cps->variants, gameInfo.variant, gameInfo.boardWidth,
                            gameInfo.boardHeight, gameInfo.holdingsSize, cps->protocolVersion, cps->tidy);
+
       if (b == NULL) {
        VariantClass v;
        char c, *q = cps->variants, *p = strchr(q, ',');
@@ -11971,7 +11973,10 @@ Reset (int redraw, int init)
     lastHint[0] = NULLCHAR;
     ClearGameInfo(&gameInfo);
     gameInfo.variant = StringToVariant(appData.variant);
-    if(gameInfo.variant == VariantNormal && strcmp(appData.variant, "normal")) gameInfo.variant = VariantUnknown;
+    if(gameInfo.variant == VariantNormal && strcmp(appData.variant, "normal")) {
+       gameInfo.variant = VariantUnknown;
+       strncpy(engineVariant, appData.variant, MSG_SIZ);
+    }
     ics_user_moved = ics_clock_paused = FALSE;
     ics_getting_history = H_FALSE;
     ics_gamenum = -1;