Return-Path: X-Original-To: savannah@tim-mann.org Delivered-To: savannah@tim-mann.org Received: from server2.gmbhosting.com (server2.gmbhosting.com [67.15.62.2]) by giga.mumblefrotz.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CF6123C6A for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:56:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from ascotti by server2.gmbhosting.com with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DBxMg-0001en-5u for savannah@tim-mann.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:56:50 -0500 From: "Alessandro Scotti" To: savannah@tim-mann.org Subject: Some development on Winboard X-Mailer: NeoMail 1.26 X-IPAddress: 127.0.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-Id: Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:56:50 -0500 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - server2.gmbhosting.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - tim-mann.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [32019 504] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - ascotti.org X-Source: /bin/bash X-Source-Args: sh -c /usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -oi -F '"Alessandro Scotti"' -f 'ascotti@ascotti.org' -t 1>&2 X-Source-Dir: :/base X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on giga.mumblefrotz.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=1.8 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.0 Hi Tim, in the last week I have worked a little on Winboard, starting from the public 4.2.7 sources. The reason is that Winboard does most of the things I need, but not all. Also, it's starting to look a bit outdated with respect to more recent GUIs. For now I have added the following features: - can convert engine scores from "absolute" to "relative"; - can save score and depth for each move in PGN games; - can hide the engine PV when playing against human, yet save it in the log file; - fixed (I hope) a thread initialization problem and some buffer overflows; - can paste from the clipboard with Ctrl-V either a FEN or a PGN; - can render board squares using textures; - can render chess pieces using fonts. There is a screenshot here: http://www.ascotti.org/programming/chess/zip/xboard4.jpg and all modified sources as well as a compiled version here: http://www.ascotti.org/programming/chess/zip/winboard_x.zip If you have time and interest, I could definitely use a code review. I tried to be cautious and to code "defensively", which means code could be slightly less clean at times but hopefully less bug prone, as after all I could only get a limited understanding of the program in so little time. I have still some items on my todo list, e.g. separate time controls for the two players, and I'll probably try to explore adding a "setoptions" command to the protocol, as that seem to be very useful for the non-technical user that has to configure an engine. I posted some reports on this development here: http://volker-pittlik.name/wbforum/viewtopic.php?t=1949 and so far haven't received bugs. It would be great to hear what you think and whether you consider it interesting to merge those changes in the "main" version. Thanks for a great program anyway! Best regards, Alessandro Scotti