[XBoard-devel] bughouse extensions to xboard

[Arun Persaud]

Hi,

are there any bughouse extensions around for xboard? If not, I wouldn't 
mind working on some, not sure when the best time for adding more 
bughouse support would be though... especially since you are thinking of 
changing to gtk+, etc.

At the moment, for example, I have my xboard at home opening a second 
window whenever I get a bughouse partner (and closing it, when I end the 
partnership) and the second xboard is automatically following my 
partners games... It's just a small thing, but it makes starting a 
bughouse session already easier and needs only about 20 lines of code;)

other ideas would be: whenever you are playing bughouse/crazyhouse add a 
visible jail for the pieces to the board instead of displaying them in 
the title bar and use drag and drop from there to the board...also some 
extra buttons for ptell (tells to your partner) would be great... I'm 
not sure, but I guess, if xboard switches to gtk+ it should be fairly 
easy to turn those features on and off only when you are in 
bughouse-mode, so that normal games would still have the same interface 
and once you start playing bughouse your window expands a bit...

My only problem would be, that I only can test on linux and only have a 
FICS account, so I'm not familiar on which ICS commands to trigger for 
example...

I also wouldn't mind working on other small projects (in case someone 
needs help) or do beta-testing on linux/FICS...

Arun