Re: [XBoard-devel] XBoard 4.7.3: Full board textures + maximize window

[Sebastian Pipping]

Hello again,


On 17.09.2014 00:09, H.G. Muller wrote:
> Sorry for accidentally hitting send...
> 
> Sebastian Pipping schreef op 9/16/2014 10:23 PM:
>> I just tried using a 1800x2000 Xiangqi board image as a texture for a
>> fullscreen window on a 1920x1080 display.  The result looks anything but
>> sane, so enlarging the board image does not seem to solve the rendering
>> problem.  Since you put so much of your energy into Xiangqi support with
>> *Board, I'm rather surprised that playing Xiangqi in fullscreen with a
>> Chinese board (like most people would) is not supported.
> That is worrysome, as this is supposed to work with the current XBoard.
> With your monitor resolution a full-screen board must surely be much
> smaller than 1800x2000.
> In what way doesn't it look sane? Can you show a screenshot?

I just shared four links in my reply to Joshua's mail.


>> Giving users new smart options (what you proposed) rather than an option
>> to control directly, what they really want to change, is the wrong road
>> if you ask me.  With the amount of options in *Board as of today, I
>> don't see how adding one more would make any real difference.
> Any option that you have to frequently change is an annoyance. What you
> propose is an option that you would have to change all the time when you
> change between XQ and another variant, because only XQ is likely to use
> a full-board texture bitmap.

The default could be targetting a single-field, I would be happy with that.


>> So to me all this sounds like (1) you'd be happy to support infinitely
>> large boards made from enlarge-and-cut marble/wood single-field textures
>> and (2) you consider Xiangqi and fullscreen display corner cases.
>> While (1) is cool, status quo on Western chess doesn't to really /need/
>> patching now.  I came here for (2), which does need patching.
> It does certainly need patching if the larger bitmap does not help. But
> you seem to get other results on this as Joshua. I will try it tomorrow
> myself.

Okay, cool.

The board image I used (other_1800x2000.png) is linked in the reply to
Joshua's mail, too.

Best,



Sebastian