[Bug-gnubg] Re: Importing "pdb" format

[Joseph Heled]

Gabi at HotPOP wrote:
> Hi Joseph,
>
> I'll be glad to contribute, but I will need your help.  Please let me know
> how to do it.
> I'm an experienced C and C++ programmer, but unfortunately, my experience is
> on command-line Unix, and I only have a Windows PC now.  Do you have any
> decent development environment?  (Editor with menu commands to compile and
> such, plus a decent debugger).

You have a head start then. Why not install Linux on your PC? If you 
insist using windows, which is IMO a dog to develop on, there is Emacs 
and GDB for windows. Just Goggle around.

> The task is divided into the following subtasks:
>
>
>
> 1) Change the menu to include just an "Import" command, instead of the
> current submenus.
Have a look at the existing code. You can create those things easily by 
Cut'N'Paste. Don't remove any existing commands, definitely not at the 
start. Why not add a submenus entry (say "Auto" or something). I favor 
keeping the exiting commands, because it gives more power to the user, 
and an option if the automatic detection misses.

-Joseph

> 2) Change the "import" procedure so that it automatically recognizes the
> format.
>
>
>
> Please tell me how to do (1) and I will do (2).
>
> After testing it, I will also need how to check-in the modified files.
>
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Gabi Shahar.
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joseph Heled" <address@hidden>
> To: "Gabi at HotPOP" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "GNU Backgammon Bugs" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Thursday, 3 July 2003 10:49
> Subject: Re: [Bug-gnubg] Importing "pdb" format
>
>
>
>
> Gabi at HotPOP wrote:
>
> > The following site has several interesting positions is a proprietary
>
> format:
>
> > http://www.bgblitz.com/download.html
> >
> >
> >
> > I would like to import these files into gnubg.
> >
> >
> >
> > 1) Can someone add this "pdb" format to the supported formats that can be
>
> imported?  I don't know yet how to do it myself :-(
>
> > 2) I tried to use existing formats to import these files, and found the
>
> following problems:
>
> > 2.1) When I specified "BKG Session", the import didn't succeed, but NO
>
> MESSAGE WAS SHOWN, as if it was fine.  This is a bug.
>
> > 2.2) Other formats failed as well (as expected), but each showed a
>
> different error message.  I would expect some consistency here…
>
> > 3) It would be nice if gnubg could automatically recognize the format of
>
> each imported file.  I imported files from several places and in several
> formats, and I don't always remember which file is in which format.  This
> automatic format recognition seems to me an easy task.
>
> >
>
> Good. So (3) can be your first task. That is what free software is all
> about.
>
> -Joseph
>
>
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Gabi Shahar.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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