gmane.comp.gnu.xboard.devel

Re: Winboard suggestion (no tags window)

2013-06-06T08:02:12

Run WinBoard once with 'Additional options' (in the Startup Dialog)
/autoDisplayTags=false . Simililarly you can use the option
/autoDisplayComment to control automatic popping up of the comments window
on moves with comments.

I guess we `really should have checkboxes for these options in the General
Options or Load Game Options dialog (like XBoard has).

Winboard suggestion (no tags window)

2013-06-05T22:51:28

Hi there,
Thanks a lot for Winboard 4.7.1.

I suggest to not have the Tags window appear everytime a game is loaded.

Thanks very much
Sean

released 4.7.1

Arun Persaud — 2013-05-05T16:42:30

Hello

just uploaded 4.7.1.

Arun

upcoming 4.7.1

Arun Persaud — 2013-05-02T15:35:33

Hello

we got a few bug reports from 4.7.0 but nothing new for the last weeks.
HGM fixed everything we heard about and the idea is to release the
current master as 4.7.1 (after merging it into the 4.7.x branch). It
would be great, if you could test the current git tree and see if it
builds OK on your system or if you find any other issues.

Thanks

Arun

Re: configure script dies on pkg-config,but exists in /usr/lib

Miś Uszatek — 2013-05-02T14:45:46

Hello.

You need to install "pkg-config".

What shows "ls /usr/bin/ |grep pkg-config".

configure script dies on pkg-config,but exists in /usr/lib

Scott Regener — 2013-04-11T21:07:59

Somewhat inexperienced user here.  Downloaded XCode 3.1.4 to my Powerbook G4 (PowerPC processor) running OS X 10.5.8, installed.  Downloaded xboard-4.7.0 sources and decompressed them.

However, when I run the Xboard ./configure script, it churns along happily for some time and then spits out an Error: Cannot find pkg-config! Please Install it!

Well, I know nothing about fixing this problem.  I go to /usr/lib and there's a directory called pkg-config.  I can find it.  Why can't configure?  Anyone have help for an admitted newbie?

Re: The chat box.

2013-03-22T20:51:28

Op Vr, 22 maart, 2013 5:16 pm schreef MiÅ Uszatek:

Due to an oversight the Chat Box was not paying attention to the -topLevel
option (which can be et from the General Options dialog through "Top-level
dialogs"). I pushed a fix to the hgm.nubati.net repository where it now
does.

I wonder if it should not always be a top-level window, even with
-topLevel false. Especially when it will evolve into the primary ICS
console. In WinBoard the ICS console is a top-level window, and the x-term
is one too. In WinBoard the chat boxes are dialog children of the ICS
console, not of the board window.

The ICS Input Box is also always a dialog now, so it cannot be hidden
behind the board. But that is probably just as well, as it is very small,
(so you can easily fit it somewhere), and you would lose it very easily
amongst other windows.

The chat box.

Miś Uszatek — 2013-03-22T16:16:25

Hello.

Please edit window option "chat box" to pass into the background when 
you click the main window of the program.

This video shows the window "chat box" does not go into the background.
http://ubuntuone.com/78nkD9r5hW0LmNAIptut0n

Re: ICS console

2013-03-21T23:30:10

Op Do, 21 maart, 2013 11:06 pm schreef Tim Mann:

In WinBoard I added chatboxes that have a separate window for each chat.
Normally they would stack in the same place with the same size, however.
(I.e. if you open several of them without ever moving a window.) They look
very much like the single Chat Box window I have in XBoard now (with a
Chat-partner text field, and a row of buttons for other chats). The
difference is that if you hit such a button, what it really does is bring
the window of that chat to the top, while in XBoard it replaces the
contents of the single window. In WinBoard you could unstack the chat
boxes if you wanted, to see them all at the same time.

The WinBoard chat boxes are implemented as dialogs of the ICS Interaction
window (so they minimize together with it). I am not very happy with the
way they currently position, which is in the upper left corner of the ICS
console. Of course they could be made to have their own persistent size
and position, remembered in the settings file. They

Re: ICS console

Tim Mann — 2013-03-21T22:06:01

I always wanted to replace the use of the terminal in xboard with an ICS
Interaction window like the one I had in WinBoard, but didn't get around to
trying to code it. (I probably would have gotten stuck on the colorization
issue if I had, though.)

Anyway: I realize you've gone beyond that now with a feature of separating
chats from different players. I don't know what you have in WinBoard now,
but generally, don't you want to make xboard and WinBoard the same in this
area (using whatever ideas are best from both)?

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:45 AM, <h.g.muller< at >hccnet.nl> wrote:

Re: ICS console

2013-03-18T17:45:26

Op Ma, 18 maart, 2013 6:30 pm schreef Arun Persaud:


Note that this is aimed at eventually (and possibly very soon) making the
terminal disappear. Perhaps first only in the GTK version. If you don't
want to be taken by surprise on this, it might be good to have a look at
the replacements...

Re: ICS console

Arun Persaud — 2013-03-18T17:30:50

Hi


sounds good to me, but then again I'm still using the terminal and
neither the chatbox or the ics input box. But reducing the number of
windows sounds like a good idea...

ARUN

ICS console

2013-03-18T15:23:29

I just got an idea:

It is a recurring irritation that the ICS console is a separate x-term
window, not controllable by XBoard. In the mean time I added a Chat-Box
window to XBoard 4.7.0, which can be switched between 5 different private
chats or channels, and has it own input field.

Now the idea that came up was if we shouldn't use that Chat Box also for
displaying all other ICS traffic, just like it was one of the chats. It
would be comparatively simple to treat the "Chat Partner" name 'ICS' as a
special case, where everything typed in the input field of the Chat Box
should not be prefixed by "xtell CHATPARTNER ". The names 'shouts',
'cshouts' and 'whispers' are already treated as such exceptions (leading
to other pre-fixing than tell/xtell). And everything what now goes to the
console could go to that 'ICS chat' (possibly as a duplicate).

The main obstacle to replacing the xterm by our own dialog window has
always been the fact that Xaw did not support per-line colorization, as is
used in the x-term. Bu

spam messages

John Cheetham — 2013-03-09T10:47:50

Hi,

Someone appears to be using my yahoo email address to send spam messages.
Apologies for the the previous message which wasn't sent by me.

I changed my password so I'm hoping that will fix it.

John

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John Cheetham — 2013-03-09T09:38:45

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2013-03-08T10:22:27

Op Wo, 27 februari, 2013 7:55 pm schreef Arun Persaud:

Well, I guess that the need for a 4.7.1 has increased a little, as someone
reported a bug in the Analyze Game function batch mode. It turns out this
mode in general does not save the games it annotates, which was the sole
reason for its existence. I missed that when testing, because the saving
is dependent on the presence of a 'result comment', and I had only been
analyzing games where the analyzing engine could see the game had finished
(mate or 3-fold rep), and would provide the applicable result comment. But
on human games, which in general end in resign or draw by agreement, it
never saved them.

In addition there were a few annoying incompatibilities between the WB
protocol extensions used in the Alien Edition, and standard WB protocol
used in 4.7.0, making it impossible to run engines designed for the Alien
Edition to fully work under regular WinBoard even in variants the latter
did support. Although not strictly a bug, it seemed better to fix tha

Re: Winboard

2013-03-06T07:50:59

Considering WinBoard 4.7.0 came out just 2 weeks ago, and that loading
engines in the way you describe has already been possible since WinBoard
4.6.0, which came out more than a year ago, these are kind of strange
questions...

Re: Winboard

Tim Mann — 2013-03-06T06:38:45

I'm not actively working on xboard or WinBoard anymore. I've copied this
reply to the mailing list for the xboard/WinBoard developers so they can
see your comments.

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