[Bug-XBoard] [bug #27687] [FR] fallback to GNU Chess if Fairymax not found

[anonymous]

Follow-up Comment #8, bug #27687 (project xboard):

My long-term vision to solve this issue is to add a menu-dialog similar to
the WinBoard startup dialog to both the WinBoard and XBoard regular menus. So
that it is possible to use -ncp mode as default at startup, and select the
engine(s) or ICS later. There already is an item "ICS Clent" in the mode menu,
but it acts only as an indicator that you that you are in ICS mode, and is
grayed out when you are not. It could be made active in any mode, and when you
click it pop up a dialog to select an -icshost and -icshelper, and switch to
ICS mode.

The engine and ICS selection dialogs wuld present you with a choice that was
pre-programmed through the -chessPrograms option, similar to the
-firstChessPrograms and -secondChessPrograms options that currently exist in
WinBoard. (I see no reason for the choices offered for first and second engine
to be different, though.) The value of this string option would of course be
saved in an ini file.

It should also be possible to type your own engine command rather than just
click one of the pre-programmed choices (as is currently the case in the
WinBoard startup dialog), but in addition it should then be able to tick a
checkbox that would add the selected engine at the front of the -chessPrograms
string (and delete it in its original place if it already occurred, so that it
is easy to shuffle an existing list). And perhaps a button should be provided
to delete the currently selected engine from the list. Of course there should
be a browse button as well, so that people would not actually have to type the
name of the engine executable, but can navigate to it. Of course all that
functionality could be added to the WinBoard startup dialog while it is still
only a startup dialog as well, and perhaps this should be the firt step.

H.G. Muller

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