Re: [XBoard-devel] 4.9.0 what's new

[Joshua Pettus]

>> 
>> Also I still have to build xaw version with --without-gtk instead of 
>> --with-xaw
>> Wasn’t this suppose to be fixed?
> For me it works, but it could be that --with-Xaw requires a capital.

Ah that was it

>> 
>> That’s great!  Couple of things... Which one controls the ICS console 
>> window?  Also wouldn’t we want the Coordinates to be board scalable? I feel 
>> that may be one area where it would make sense (if it were to work that is). 
>>  Should that be a checkbox?  Also it doesn’t seem to save the new settings 
>> to the settings file, at least for me.
> I pushed a more-polished version now. (It was 2am last night before I had 
> anything working at all...) I replaced the coord-font control by an ICS-font 
> control. The ICS Console pane was a bit troublesome, because it already had 
> its own mechanism to control fonts (for the colorization), where all text 
> inserted to it received its own font instructions, which would overrule the 
> general font setting of the widget. I now added code to alter the font type 
> used in this insertion, which before was only set at startup. The effect is 
> that existing text will not change its font after using the Fonts dialog, but 
> any new text appearing there will use the new font setting.
> 
> The Cairo plotting currently calculates the font size directly from the 
> square size, and ignores the -coordFont argument. This might not be easy to 
> fix in an acceptable way. The point is that the fonts are organized per value 
> of the -boardSize argument, (and what you change with the Fonts dialog only 
> affects the current -boardSize). While the actual square size can be affected 
> by sizing the board window. And it would be very inconvenient when the 
> coordinate font would not adapt to the square size when you do that. Just as 
> it is inconvenient that the clocks and logos do not adapt to that. So perhaps 
> we should postpone this to when we have a more integrated approach to 
> resizing of the board window.
> 
> The font settings should be saved with the other settings. But perhaps 
> resizing will interfere with it after all. Saved fnont options will get a 
> prefix "sizeNN:" to their value. I am not sure what exactly determines the NN 
> at the time of saving. It could be the current squares size as affected by 
> sizing (or switching variant).
> 

Oh you poor man. I always think of that Al Pacino scene in Godfather Part III, 
“Just when I thought I was out …  they pull me back in!"

Well it all works fantastic now!  Great job!  I agree coordinates can wait.  
They already scale to board-size so there is no real urgency there.

Btw, everything that should be working with translations works now, great job!  
(minus the browse part but that hasn’t been translated yet)

Josh