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Re: [XBoard-devel] Xboard 4.9 status?
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Joshua Pettus |
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Re: [XBoard-devel] Xboard 4.9 status? |
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Wed, 27 Jan 2016 00:35:15 -0500 |
Congrats on Fairymax 5. I love the alliteration ;) !
All of that makes a lot of sense.
Another thing I’m starting to notice with your development version, the GUI
opening book function doesn’t seem to override the engine like I expect, and
appears rather broken. I tried various opening books and had the same result.
I go to common engine, check Use GUI Book, select a book, and uncheck Engine
1 and 2 have opening books. The engines then move as if there were no book.
4.8.0 this worked fine.
I know I mentioned this before, I still kinda like to see common engine moved
to the engine menu with first and second engine settings. To me, it seems less
confusing, at least from a practical standpoint. In my eyes its less of an
xboard settings menu and more directly effects how engines behave. Or maybe
move engine 1 and 2 settings menus to options as they are really options menus.
Either way, some consistency is needed, as those three menus go together.
What do you think?
Josh
> On Jan 26, 2016, at 4:58 PM, H.G. Muller <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Well, I just released Fairy-Max 5.0. So I can concentrate on XBoard now.
>
> In intensively using the latter during Fairy-Max development, I noticed a few
> glitches:
> - Right-clicking in the engine-output window on a PV to walk it as a
> 'variation board' is a bit sick for me. It is supposed to highlight the
> currently walked PV in yellow (GTK version). It actually does that, and
> removes the highlight when you terminate the PV walk by releasing the mouse
> button. BUT ONLY THE FIRST TIME! When I then right-click that same PV again,
> there is no highlight. When I click another one I did not click before, there
> again is.
> - Sometimes when I am PV walking, the entire content of the pane is cleared
> when a new PV comes in. I could not find any systematics in that. I wonder if
> these two problems are simply bugs in my GTK library. Do people with more
> recent Linux versions than I have have any of these problems?
> - In Edit Position mode, sometimes strange things happen: a piece that I
> move, suddenly re-appears at the square I took it from. I have not had time
> to figure out what causes this.
> - When I start XBoard with a -loadPositionFile argument, it starts with a
> message 'White to play', which it doesn't display later, when I start another
> game. It also does not accept a sequence of moves pasted into it in that
> state, which it does on later games. So it is in some sort of incorrect state
> at this point. I want to fix that too.
> - Tamerlane Chess has all Pawns promote differently, which basically makes
> them different piece types. There is no good support for that in XBoard yet,
> and Evert Glebbeek has written a Tamerlane Chess engine. I am thinking of
> adding support for this in the pieceToCharTable, where a piece that has a
> hyphen defined as ID for it will be considered a Pawn (i.e. no piece ID used
> for it in SAN), and would be indicated as the piece to which it promotes
> (according to the XBoard pairing rule for promoted and unpromoted types)
> prefixed with a - in FEN.
> - I am unhappy that <Enter> does not act as accelerator for 'OK' in dialogs
> when you are typing in a (single-line) text-entry field in GTK. Perhaps the
> GenericPopup dialog constructor should add an event handler for this to all
> text entries.
>
> Otherwise we seem to be OK.
>
> Op 1/26/2016 om 8:25 PM schreef Joshua Pettus:
>> Hey Everyone,
>>
>> I’m just wondering where we are at. Now that we got those last bugs fixed,
>> where are we at with 4.9? Is there anything else we would want to include?
>> Do we have a target date in mind? Should we put out a few beta builds? I
>> still have a few mac related patches on Arun’s branch. I could put them on
>> Savannah myself now if that’s ok with everyone?
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Josh Pettus
>>
>
>
- [XBoard-devel] Xboard 4.9 status?, Joshua Pettus, 2016/01/26
- Re: [XBoard-devel] Xboard 4.9 status?, H.G. Muller, 2016/01/26
- Re: [XBoard-devel] Xboard 4.9 status?,
Joshua Pettus <=
- Re: [XBoard-devel] Xboard 4.9 status?, H.G. Muller, 2016/01/27
- Re: [XBoard-devel] Xboard 4.9 status?, H.G. Muller, 2016/01/27
- Re: [XBoard-devel] Xboard 4.9 status?, H.G. Muller, 2016/01/28
- Re: [XBoard-devel] Xboard 4.9 status?, Arun Persaud, 2016/01/28
- Re: [XBoard-devel] Xboard 4.9 status?, Joshua Pettus, 2016/01/28
- Re: [XBoard-devel] Xboard 4.9 status?, Arun Persaud, 2016/01/28
- Re: [XBoard-devel] Xboard 4.9 status?, Joshua Pettus, 2016/01/28
- Re: [XBoard-devel] Xboard 4.9 status?, Joshua Pettus, 2016/01/31
- Re: [XBoard-devel] Xboard 4.9 status?, Joshua Pettus, 2016/01/31