Re: [XBoard-devel] readline support/ICS input box

[Adrian Petrescu]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 3:18 PM, h.g. muller <address@hidden> wrote:
> Apart from the OS X problems in building XBoard, in this version
> the ReadLine also seems active when you are not in ICS mode

Do you happen to know what the build errors were? I had no issues
building the version with ReadLine in OS X.

> The difficulty of keeping many windows in the foreground is a
> consequence of a compler switch TOPLEVEL, which IMO has
> the wrong default value. (But XBoard users requested it that way).
> With the switch off all the auxiliary windows (like the ICS Input Box)
> would be dialogs belonging to XBoard: they would not appear as
> icons on the task bar, and they would be raised to foreground
> all at the same time with the main window. ust as WinBoard
> does.

Wow, that's really awesome! I didn't know about the feature but I will
give it a try today.

Thanks!
-Adrian