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ChangeLog for XBoard/WinBoard
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(latest entries created by git log --no-merges --pretty="%ai %an <%ae>:%n%s%n%n%b" vlast.. )

2011-01-29 19:59:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Clean up fishy patch

None of the ShowMove() calls in Adjudicate() was working, because when
this code was taken out of HandleMachineMove() it was taken outside the
scope of the local fromX, fromY etc. there, so that it started using the
global variables from the mouse driver. As these usually contain -1,
this suppressed move animation and highlighting. All these calls have
now been removed, and ShowMove() is called after a positive return (from
HandleMachineMove(), so within the correct scope).
This improves the previous fix, which led to some flicker, because the
erroneous ShowMove() calls did draw the new board (instantly), wich in
the fishy patch was then immediately overwritten by the old position, to
start animation. This drawing of the old position is now no longer
needed either.

2011-01-29 13:36:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Update RTF file

The RTF file is adapted to the new menu organization.

2011-01-29 13:31:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Update texi file

The highlight-with-arrow and one-click-move menu items are described.
The highlightMoveWithArrow and variations option are described.
Load Next /Previous Position descriptions are moved to File menu.
The description for entering variations is updated (using Shift key).
The remark that editing holdings is impossible is removed.
Spartan Chess is added to the list of supported variants.

2011-01-28 18:35:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
Updated copyright notice to 2011


2011-01-24 15:01:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Greyout unavailable variants in New Variant dialog

The WB radio-button code is refactored to be driven from a list (which
must be kept in phase with the variant definitions in common.h!). It now
also checks if the first engine supports the variant, and greys out the
item if it isn't. XB now also makes this check. Slight re-ordering of
10x8 variants there, to have the more common on top.
If no radio button is selected, keep old variant even on OK.

2011-01-19 11:10:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Move clock-click code to back-end

Some duplicated (or should-be-duplicated) code for handling clicks on
the clocks from the XBoard and WinBoard front-ends was merged and
relocated to the back-end, so it can be shared. Noticeable was that
XBoard allowed turn change in ICS examine mode by clock clicking,
while WinBoard did not. WB, on the other hand, allowed clock adjustment.

2011-01-16 23:15:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix legality testing of drop moves

Drops of noexistent pieces (i.e. with a piece indicator letter that is
not corresponding to any defined piece) are now parsed as
ImpossibleMove, rather than IllegalMove, so they are also rejected with
legality testing off.

2011-01-17 00:28:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix WB Sound Options greyout and remove some grossness

The sound and ICS Options menu items in WB were accessed 'by position',
with fixed defined positions (always messing up any reorganization of
the menus when you forgot to redefine the position constants in
winboard.h). And not only that, but for completely mysterious reasons,
the greying of the sound item greyed out the game-list options (above
it) in stead when it was defined as 9, and the ICS options (below it)
when it was 10 !!!. Now they are addressed 'by command' (and the
position definitions are removed), which fixes things.

2011-01-25 21:35:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Re-instate load next/prev position menu items

As positions do not use something similar to the game list, these are
still useful. For some reason I could not get Alt+Shift+PgUp/Dn to work,
so I settled for Shift+PgUp/Dn.

2011-01-16 21:56:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Remove superfluous copying of machine move

There was explicit code in HandleMachineMove() and FinishMove() to put
the move in the moveList, while MakeMove() already does this later in a
more reliable way by calling CoordsToComputerAlgebraic(). This
superfluous code is removed now.

2011-01-16 21:44:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix spurious mate test in Edit Game mode

When entering a game, it was terminated by the mate test even when
legality checking was switched off (so that mates might not be reliably
recognized). The mate test is now made dependent on legality testing.

2011-01-16 21:37:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix type-in of drop moves

Drop moves entered through the move type-in already come in the (piece,
DROP_RANK, x, y) format, rather than having a holdings from square. This
caused UserMoveEvent to consider them illegal when testing if the
piecewas of the side to move, and when this was fixed, to recognize
Knight drops as coming from between board and holdings (and thus
illegal).

2011-01-16 21:31:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix move type-in truncating game

Starting a new variation by keeping Shift pressed did not work when
OK'ing the move type-in, because there was some code ther that truncated
the game. While this could be safely left to UserMoveEvent, which it
calls, as the situation is not different from entering moves through the
mouse.

2011-01-11 16:12:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix legality testing for promotions

Turns out WB has never tested for the legality of the chosen promotion
piece, and would allow promotion to King innorml chess even with
legality testing on (when entered through the keyboard)! Now strict
testing is done, outlawing Pawns and Kings (or Unicorns in
Knightmate). Only in suicide / giveaway Kings are stillallowed, and in
spartan a black King if you do not have two yet.(And promotion
toLnce,representing Hoplite Pawn,is forbidden there.)

2011-01-11 11:34:07 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Reset 50-move counter on all pawn-like Lance moves

Now the Lance represents a Pawn-like piece not only in variant fairy,
but anywhere outside Shogi / Superchess, its moves should also reset the
50-move counter in those cases. Especially important for Spartan Chess,
where the Lance actually participates.

2011-01-11 11:18:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix logo repainting

The logos were not repainted when the main window was moved out of the
display area, and then back into view. The reason for this is
unknown, as the PaintProc calls HDCDrawPosition, which was calling
DrawLogoOnDC. But the logos were not drawn, (or on an expose event
sometimes half drawn!) despite the fact that the rest of the board was.
The drawing of logos now has been decoupled from drawing the board,
and has been moved to a separate routine DisplayLogos() (in analogy to
DisplayBothClocks()). This is cleaner anyway, as the logos usually do
not change when the board does. So apart from in PaintProc, it has only
to be called when the mode changes (ModeHighlight()) or on swap clocks.
This seems to fix the problem.

2011-01-10 20:36:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix time in PGN info

Saving of the thinking time in the PGN was broken by the patch that
removed the race condition in the clock switching, because that moved
the incrementing of forwardMostMove to behind the code that used fmm to
index pvInfoList. As a result the time was stored in the slot for the
opponent's previous move. The value is corrected now.

2011-01-09 00:24:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fishy fix

The move that delivers checkmate in two-machines mode is not animated
when adjudication is on. There then also is no highlighting of this move
Redrawing the board and calling ShowMove fixes it. Which is rather
strange, because ShowMove was already called in Adjudicate (when it
adjudicates), before GameEnds. For reasons that are not understood this
call to ShowMove() (which calls AnimateMove()) is not effective.

2011-01-09 00:21:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Reset machine colors after match

The colors each engine playse are set to the originals after the last
match game, so that a new match or two-machines game will not have
swapped colors.

2011-01-09 00:15:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Reset win/loss counters before match

The win/loss counters were not reset, because the code counted on them
being initialized to zero. But with matches startable from the menu,
this is no longer true after the first match.

2011-01-09 00:08:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Show move that causes false illegal-move claim

Without claim testing XBoard takes back moves that an engine objects to.
But when the engine is forfeited for a false claim, the move should of
course stay. So the claim test is moved to before the take-back.

2011-01-09 00:05:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix Spartan promotion to King

Promotions toKing were refused when in check, because XBoard thought
they would not resolve the check. Now the promotion is actually
performed before doing the check test.

2011-01-05 17:31:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix WB font-based piece rendering on variant switch

The piece bitmaps were only created from the font characters when the
number of ranks or files changed, because it was done in
InitDrawingSizes(). This caused missing pieces when changing to a
variant on the same board that used other pieces. Now InitDrawingSizes()
is called for any variant switch.

2011-01-05 17:25:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix right-alignment pproblem in WB ICS window

Use of Ctrl-R to summon the context menu still trickled through to the
default text-edit window routine, and caused right-alignment. This was
because the text-edit reacts on keyDown rather than the character event.
KeyDown of R with Ctrl pressed is now also intercepted and ignored.

2011-01-03 13:04:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix chat window title

The title was using the engine name, rather than the ICS handle, which
did not work outside zippy mode. Now it only uses the engine name when
no ICS handle is known. The titleis now also subjected to translation.

2011-01-03 12:50:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix spurious reading of old game title by JAWS

Because focus was switched to the board window before loading the
selected game from the game list, the titlebar still contained the
name of the previously loaded game, which would spontaneously be read by
JAWS. Now the focus switch is done after loading the new game (which
updates the window title.)

2011-01-03 12:37:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Add variant Spartan Chess

In the WB menu it takes the place of the defunct Twilight Chess item.
The setup routine needed patching for setting up Lances in stead of
Pawns for black, the check test had to be adapted to handle duple check,
Alfil and Dragon moves were fine tuned in this variant to make the exact
moves, and the promotion popup was adapted to show King and interpret
Rook and Bishop as Dragon and Alfil for black. The Alfil now always
moves as Modern Elephant except in Shatranj and Courier.

2011-01-03 12:23:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix mate test

Due to a bug in logical operators drops were tried for mate evasions
even in non-drop games, which broke it in Superchess and Great Shatranj,
and wasted CPU time in other variants.

2011-01-05 17:19:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix promotion suffixon disambiguated piece moves

The promotion suffixon piecemoves that needed disambiguation was not
passedon to the back-end in most variants. Now it is passed on in any
variant.

2011-01-03 12:08:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix promotion of Pawn-like Lance

In variants where the Lance is used to represent an unorthodox Pawn, it
must promote when it reaches last rank. With legality testing on,
however, the promoChar was ignored in ApplyMove in this case. The
promotion suffix also was not appended in SAN moves.

2011-01-03 11:57:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix WB promotion popup

The promotion popup did not work properly in variants where black did
not use the pieces that white wanted to promote to. Now the character
for the selected piece is taken from the piece encodings of the side to
move. In addition, selection of undefined pieces is ignored.

2011-01-02 14:17:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix bug in parsing variations

The moves parsed from a variation were stored in the moveList without
appended linefeed. This caused errors if the variation extended to
beyond the end of the main line,into a hitherto unused part of the move
list, as the linefeed was then not there from the overwritten move. As a
result moves sent to the engine were concatenated, triggering
illegal-move messages and bringing the engine out of phase.

2011-01-02 14:11:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Define Ctrl-R as right-click in WB Comment dialog

To allow JAWS users to load a variation through the keyboard, Ctrl-R is
equated to a right click at the position of the caret or selection.

2011-01-02 14:10:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Allow starting a variation from keyboard entry in WB-JAWS

The status of the shift key is remembered when space is pressed to
select a board square.

2011-01-02 14:06:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Disable some accelerators in JAWS version

Single-key accelerators that could result in irreversible data loss are
undesirable, because the risk of accidentally pushing them is too large.
So the non-Alt duplicates of next/previous game/position are disabled,
as are Home and End for Revert and Truncate Game. JAWS users will have
to rely on the menus for those functions.

2011-01-02 13:59:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Group engine-output memos with engine names

The engine names are now defined just before the text edits, so that
JAWS 11 will read the engine name when the memo for the output of that
engine is selected. (JAWS 10 will still read the NPS, as it reads in
geometrical order.)

2011-01-02 13:55:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Put nr CPU earlier in tab cycle of WB Common Engine dialog

By defining the max CPU control after hash size, the tabbing steps
through the controls in geometrical (and logical) order, rather than
having the max CPU in between the book controls.

2010-12-29 23:47:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Update WB language template file


2010-12-29 23:41:27 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Subject JAWS menu and spoken strings to translation


2010-12-29 23:37:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Let JAWS SayString buffer full sentence

The meaning of the flag parameter of SayString was changed to indicate
buffering of flushing. On flushing a message of a single space is used
as a kludge to indicate interruptability. Calls to force flushing where
added everywhere.

2010-12-29 23:32:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Adapt JAWS menu to new menu organization

The menus did not correspondto the texts after translation of the main
menu bar.

2010-12-29 23:18:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Translate menus after creation of JAWS menu


2010-12-29 23:07:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix ICS context menu for JAWS

The Ctrl+R key did select text at the mouse pointer in stead of at the
curser, now that up and down-click were combined.

2010-12-29 23:04:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Reorganize order of WB New Variant dialog controls

The definitions are re-ordered so that at least JAWS 11 will speak the
board-size elements properly.

2010-12-29 22:57:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix order of elements in WB time-control dialog

Someleading texts were defined after the text edit they referred to,so
that JAWS 11 associated them to the wrong one. A tab stop was added to
the time-odds label, to make JAWS speak it.

2010-12-29 22:51:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Change tabbing order in WB sounds dialog

The 'Play' button now gets focus immediately after the controls for
selecting the sound, rather than at the end of the dialog (after OK).

2010-12-29 22:47:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Remove tab stops on first radio button of WB dialogs

The New Variant and Board dialogs had a tab stop on the first radio
button,so that tabbing toit would automatically select variant
normal or size tiny. Now it tabs straight to the current size, without
changing anything. (Important for JAWS users.)

2010-12-29 22:45:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Put OK/Cancel last in tab cycle of some WB dialogs


2010-12-29 22:29:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix duplicate menu character for Edit Comment

Edit Comment did have the same shortcut character as Copy Game. Changed
to m now.

2010-12-11 11:18:56 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
fixed automake process: xboard.conf couldn't be generated if $srcdir was not the current directory


2010-12-11 09:50:48 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
new developer release


2010-12-05 18:01:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Subject WB context menus to translation

The innerloopof the menu translation has been made into a separate
routine. This now uses GetMenuItemInfo() in stead of ModifyMenu() to
better preserve menu breaks. Menu #10 is used for context menus (from
the routine that pops them up), and for this number the orignal texts
are not saved in menuText. (This is not needed, because the menu is
created everytime anew from the resource data.)

2010-12-05 15:00:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Update translation template

Add the new menu items; add some notes.

2010-12-05 14:04:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Resize buttons in WB engine-settings dialog

The OK and cancel buttons were to narrow for most translations, and were
a non-standard order as well.

2010-12-05 13:56:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Add one-click move control to WB general-options dialog

This is a duplicate of the one in the ICS options dialog, but the latter
is inaccessible in non-ICS modes, and one-click move is now
alsoavailable in engine mode.

2010-12-05 13:51:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Create space in dialogs for translation

The translated texts often did not fit, because controls were defined
needlessly small (when there was empty space between them). In these
cases they have been enlarged to consume all available space. Some
dialogs are made wider.

2010-12-05 13:47:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Add handle for translator acknowledgement

An empty string is printed in the about box, which can be 'translated'
to a message acknowledging the translator.

2010-12-05 13:43:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Use default logo for user

When no logo with the name of the current user is found, use dummy.bmp.

2010-12-05 15:46:34 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
added rlwrap tip to FAQ


2010-12-03 23:24:06 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
replace hard coded paths with path from configure script

use $datadir and subdirectories to store some data files. Also make files in xboard.conf use correct path.

2010-12-03 23:02:09 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
fixed a typo in the configure script output


2010-12-03 21:46:00 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
added a desktop file

taken from the openSUSE project

2010-12-03 22:44:02 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix Edit Game/Position checkmarking in WinBoard

Because the entries in Edit and Mode menu were pure duplicats, the
entries in the wrong menu (Edit) were checkmarked while active. By
defining different IDs for those in the Edit menu, those in the Mode
menu are checkmarked again.

2010-12-03 10:07:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Add XBoard menu items for arrow highlight and one-click move

These items are put in the options menu; the 'Old Save Style' item is
removed.

2010-12-03 09:27:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Provide menus for editing WinBoard engine and server lists

The Edit Tags dialog in the WB front-end is adapted to act as a general
edit for string variables, by giving it an extra parameter to indicate
where to store the edited result. Menu items are added to invoke this
dialog for editing the /first, /secondChessProgramNames and /icsNames
options. This solves the problem that people would have to edit an ini
file that they can no longer locate (because the %APPDATA% folder has
different names and locations in the various Windows versions, and is
often a hidden folder on top of that).
There is a slight memory leak here, as the memory for the previous
value of the altered string option is not freed.

2010-12-02 16:18:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Configure arrow highlighting as default in XBoard

Set -highlightMoveWithArrow true in the xboard.conf file, and specify a
lineGap of 0 to make that efficient (and the wood theme even nicer).

2010-12-02 15:56:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Port highlighting with arrow to XBoard

Unfortuntely this duplicates a fair amount of code in the front end.
Removing the arrow is done by a total repaint if there is a non-zero
lineGap, because the clever algorithm for selective redrawing (based
on damage) that XBoard uses does not repair damage to the grid lines.
For lineGap=0, however, (for which the arrow is mainly intended) the
damage mechanism is used, and the damaged squares are determined by
tracing out the arrow in 64 steps, and marking all squares in the
neighborhood as damaged.

2010-12-02 15:55:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Strip CR from xboard.c


2010-12-02 14:21:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Let user decide if he wants highlights in blindfold mode

Remove the automaticsuppression ofhighlighting.

2010-12-02 00:24:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix fag-fell marker with logos on

The flag-fell marker "(!)" that is displayed in the clock in WinBoard in
two-machines mode was printed twice when the clock was split over two
lines (as with logos on).

2010-12-01 18:57:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Also exempt variant seirawan from eval-scale doubling

It is not really a drop game, so a scale from -7 to 7 in the eval graph
is good enough (like variants great and super).

2010-12-01 10:33:13 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Configure EGTB cache size in adapterCommand

The hash size, nr of CPUs and EGTB path are transferred through the WB
protocol interface commands memory, cores and egtpath. But there is no
WB command for detailing the EGTB cache size. So the value of the
command-line option -defaultCacheSizeEGTB has to be sent to Polyglot
through its startup command to make it known to UCI engines.

2010-11-30 22:46:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Move Hint and Book items to Engine menu in XBoard


2010-11-30 22:17:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Correct the key bindings fo view menu in texi file

The mentioned bindings for Game List and Eval Graph were wrong.

2010-11-30 21:25:07 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix sub-variation display with negative score

The test if the displayed score was the pvInfo score failed for negative
scores, because floats are truncated towards zero. So the previous fix
of spurious score/depth info was not working when the score was
negative.

2010-11-30 18:27:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Peel PV out of comment

Arena stores engine PVs not in variation format, but within both braces
and parentheses, before the score/depth info. This caused XBoard to
overlook the score/depth info, (frustrating, e.g., the eval graph),
while the PV would not be accessible for walking it as a variation.
The routine that extracts the score/depth from a comment now has
been made more clever, to recognize a leadin PV in the comment, and then
place it in front of the comment as variation (by moving the opening
brace to behind it). For some reason it does not work if the PV and
score/depth were separated by a newline, but this happens quite rarely.

2010-11-30 18:23:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Allow line-straddling result comments

Some GUIs (in particular Arena) do not have the decency to keep the
result comment on a single line. In this case the parser rules would not
recognize it, and treat it as a normal comment, plus an undetailed PGN
result. The rules are now fixed to allow linefeeds in the comment, and
between comment and PGN result. To correctly process the comment further
(e.g. in game-list lines) the linefeeds are replaced by spaces in the
back-end routines that do use the result comment.

2010-11-30 12:22:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Write key bindings in XBoard menus

Unfortunately tabs are not understood in menu texts, so fine-tuning
through spaces is necessary to get some sort of ragged alignment.

2010-11-29 18:01:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Configure XBoard to use wood board texture by default

The texture pixmaps are sought in /usr/share/games/xboard, with names
wood_l.pm and wood_d.xpm. I guess the " make install" should be adapted
to put them there. XBoard is resitent to non-existence of the files,
btw. It simply ignores the arguments in that case.

2010-11-29 17:48:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Configure -inc as volatile option in XBoard

XBoard users are not used to options being persistent, and thus have
many scripts assuming the timeIncrement is -1 when they don't specify it
on the command line, and want to specify -mps. But a persistent -inc of
0 fom a preious session would then force their -mps to zero, causing
big-time confusion.

2010-11-29 17:36:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Make WinBoard clocks translation-proof

With logos on, the splitting of the clock over two lines assumed the
lengths of the words "white" and "black" would always be 5. Used strlen.

2010-11-29 14:57:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Improve drawing of highlight arrow

A diagonal arrow sometimes had a notch in the shaft because of
independent rounding of the starting and ending point coordinates.
Furthermore the width of the shaft was unnecessary variable(as a
function of direction) because half the width was rounded and then used
twice. Now rounding of end-points is always done towards a fixed grid
of square centers, which keeps diagonals purely diagonal, and one side
of the shaft is drawn relative to the other side, after the
position of the latter has been rounded, so any rounding error affects
the shaft width only once.

2010-11-29 10:25:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Alter descriptionof Analyze File menu item

This menu item has been given a new function, so a new description was
needed.

2010-11-29 10:15:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Add description of Game List Options in texi file


2010-11-29 09:58:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Update texi file for new menu organization

The descriptions are shuffled around and organized into sections
corresponding to the new main menus. Where necessary the name of the
items was changed to their new names. The items removed from the File
menu (the next/previous/same stuff) are nowmoved to the section "other
shortcut keys", as the key bindings for some of them are still active.

2010-11-29 09:06:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Update info on key bindings in texi file

The texi file was still listing the old XBoard key bindings. Where
necessary this is now changed to the new (WinBoard) bindings, and all
the new bindings were added.

2010-11-29 09:04:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Add XBoard key bindings for Revert and Truncate

Use Home key as accelerator for Revert, End for Truncate, as in WinBoard.

2010-11-28 23:12:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Divorce the Edit and Show Tags/Comment menu items

In WinBoard the items in the Edit and View menu for Tags and Comment now
have different IDs, so they can be independently controlled. Only the
items in the View menu are check-marked. The items still do the same.

2010-11-28 23:08:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Alter WinBoard menu text

The texts are slightly adapted, mostly by choosing more convenient
tabbing characters for the new menu organization. The translation
template is updated accordingly.

2010-11-28 20:24:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Let move-history window scroll to bottom after adding move

By activating the scrollbar of the viewport through XtCallActionProc
the move-history window is scrolled to the bottom.

2010-11-27 14:38:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix Shogi promotion popup

The texts were adapted to shogi by printing new text items over the
Queen and Knight buttons, but these did not alwys cover it. Now the text
on the buttons is changed as it should be. Also the window title is
adapted.

2010-11-26 11:22:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Apply gettext macros to menu texts

Now texts and references are separated, the texts in the tables can be
decorated with the N_() macro, so that the _() macro no longer has to be
applied when they are used. (This makes the texts appear in the .po
files.)

2010-11-26 11:12:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Adapt some XBoard menu texts

The "Show" prefix is removed from the "View" menu items, as this seems
implied. An ellipsis is added to the Engine #N Settings items, which
could not be there before, because periods in a menu name would break
any reference to it. For some other names the ellipsis was deleted.
(These were not refered to, but who knows what we will do in the future.)

2010-11-26 11:03:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Separate menu text from menu name in XBoard

The text string in the menu-definition tables was used both for the menu
text, as well as for referencing the items from the code (for enabing or
checkmarking). Now these can be defined separately, so that altering the
menu texts is possible without breaing any references to the item.
(Moving them to another menu would still break XBoard, though!)
Currently the texts and names are still the same.

2010-11-26 10:48:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Bugfix XBoard menu translation

The gettext macro N_() was applied to the menu definition tables, but
this would break any translation, as these items are both used as menu
texts as well as reference for enabling and checkmarking. The routines
that create the menus already apply _() dynamically to these items when
they are used as menu texts.

2010-11-26 10:10:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Restrict drops in variant seirawan to back rank

Drops aren't really llowed at all in Seirawan Ches, but there exists an
engine that supports a variant where drops on the back-rank are allowed.

2010-11-25 19:44:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Let Analyze File annotate the loaded game

By not suppressing the auto-play loop in AnalyzeFle mode, we step
through the game while the engine is analyzing, and store the PV info
that the engine produces, as well as the full PV (as variation comment)
with each move.

2010-11-25 19:41:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Revive Analyze File menu item in WB

We will keep this menu after all, becase it can be given a new meaning.

2010-11-25 19:31:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix spurious scores in comments

The comment popup is also used to display engine PV info, but when the
contents of the window is written back when we select a variation,
it was treated as a real comment. This is fixed now by checing in
ReplaceComment() if the comment starts with the PV info, and if so,
ignore the latter. This solves the problem, but I guess the real bug is
that selecting a variation tries to write the comment even if it did not
change.

2010-11-25 19:26:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Display error for wrong use of Machine Match


2010-11-24 13:30:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Reorganize XBoard menus


2010-11-24 11:02:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Reorganize WinBoard menus

New main menus Edit, View and Engine are added; the step menu
disappears. The menu items are redistributed over the new menus.
Sometimes duplicates are created. No adaptation of short-cut characters
as made yet (as this affects translation).

2010-11-20 20:20:27 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
removed trailing whitespaces from NEWS


2010-11-20 20:19:30 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
merged readme_HGM.txt into the NEWS file

seems like a better place for the release notes, although those releases where not officially part of GNU, but the NEWS file already covers similar releases, so it might as well cover all of them.

2010-11-20 18:24:19 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
typo in date of developer release

but will leave the tagged version as it is, since it's still a unique version number

2010-11-20 18:11:01 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
new developer release


2010-11-20 18:12:41 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
added latest version of parser.c


2010-11-20 18:05:56 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
updated Changelog, etc for developer release


2010-11-20 16:22:00 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
Revert "adding gnu-readline support"

This reverts commit c95ef32a700132a134f335f857ca6f1b6f3c169f.

Conflicts:
        backend.c

better to use the (relatively) new ICS input box then add readline support.

2010-11-20 16:19:32 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
Revert "bugfix: fixed readline support with icslogon option"

This reverts commit b9cdd7422ad1037d7376bce4f8f2db2669396e83.

Conflicts:
        backend.c

better to use the (relatively) new ICS input box then add readline support.

2010-11-19 23:10:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Make Hoplite moves irreversible in Spartan Chess

Consider Lance moves in variant Fairy (where the Lance represents the
Spartan Hoplite Pawn) as Pawn moves, so they reset the 50-move counter.

2010-11-19 21:09:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Give Lance moves of Amazon in variant super

Now that Lance is no longer a wild-card piece the moves of Amazon must
be programmed explicitly, to keep the possibbilty to play Superchess
with legality testing on.

2010-11-19 18:32:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Change representation of Bede in variant fairy initial position

This used to be Lance, but the promoted Bishop (Dragon Horse)
is more applicable. Especially now that Lance is supposed to move like a
Berolina Pawn.

2010-11-19 18:28:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Make yyskipmoves also suppress examining of drop moves

Not sure if this does any good, but it seemed illogical that this would
happen in all other moves, but not drops.

2010-11-19 18:23:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Define moves for Dragon Horse outside Shogi

Let it move like Bishop + Wazir + Dababba.

2010-11-17 13:40:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix safety crash when appending comments

The length limit imposed on safeStrCpy was one too short when copying
an existing comment to the space allocated for the longer (concatenated)
one. It allowed no space for the terminating '\0'.

2010-11-17 13:38:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix safeStrCpy

The test for when to terminate a non-fiting string was one off, and the
debug message was written stdoutin stead of debugFP.

2010-11-16 12:40:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix default holdings size for variant seirawan

The holdings for 7 pieces werealways considered an overrule, so that the
variant name was prefixed with "8x8+7_".

2010-11-15 11:36:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix home-dir crash

When confronted with a path name starting with ~ and not containing a /
XBoard would segfault.

2010-11-14 21:45:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix one-click moving on up-click

(First) up-clicks were not always ignored: in Edit-Game mode with
one-click moving enabled this could lead to a capture being made on
the down-click, and the recapture on the correspoding up-click.
This has now been corrected, and only the down-click of a first click
can lead to selecting a piece or a one-click move.

2010-11-15 18:15:40 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
fixed buffer size for snprintf


2010-11-13 23:04:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Accept Seirawan-style gating suffixes

The parser rules were extended to accept / as an equivalent of = in
promotion-suffix notation (e.g. Nf3/H in stead of Nf3=H).

2010-11-13 22:55:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Use Falcon and Alfil as built-ins for Seirawan chess

Where available (size 49 and 72) we use Falcon for Archbishop and Alfil
for Chancelor, to better conform to the Seirawan names Hawk and Elephant.

2010-11-13 20:02:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Implement entering gating moves with mouse

A move with a back-rank piece that starts when a piece in the holdings
is selected will be interpreted as a gating move in variant seirawan.
The front-end uses a 'gatingPiece' selected this way todisplay it on the
from square during animate dragging.

2010-11-13 18:56:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Implement variant seirawan

Set upthe position, including Hawk and Elephant in holdings, in
InitPostion(). Suppress putting captured pieces in holding. Let
promoChar indicate gating in ApplyMove(). Remove gated pieces from
the holdings there. Let GenLegal() generate RxK-type castlings to act as
base for gating on Rook square. Gatings are tested for legality
based on the holdings content and whether they occur on the back
rank. Disambiguate() also tests this. Make sure the gated pieces are
printed as move suffixes in CoordsToAlgebraic().

2010-11-13 18:42:27 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Add -variant seirawan to menu


2010-11-13 22:52:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix acceptance of null-move with legality testing off

A second click on the same piece was interpreted as a to-square rather
than deselection of the piece.

2010-11-13 22:49:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix one-click bug

Disambiguate was imagining captures, so an only capture by double
clicking your own piece did not always work.

2010-11-13 20:08:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix mouse-driver buglet

The highlights were not cleared on moves that went vertically off board.

2010-11-12 17:17:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
List some undocumented commands as compliant

The engine->GUI commands setboard and setup are now always printed in
the debug file as well.

2010-11-12 17:05:22 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
List Hint with compliant commands

This command was omitted, so that in some -engineDebugOutput modes it
would not appear in the debug file.

2010-11-12 17:02:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Restrict use of escape expansion

Only expand escape sequences like \n and \t in telluser(error) comamnds
that ask for it by preficing the messages by double backslash. Otherwise
backward copatiblity is too severely broken for messages that display
DOS-style filenames.

2010-11-12 13:56:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Make safeStrCpy safe

SafeStrCpy was causing a lot of out-of-bound write accesses, as it was
always writing the character at the length limit of the destination.
Now no memory is accessed that is is not needed to hold the copy.

2010-11-07 21:37:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Allow clicked name internal to the icsMenu command string

A command in the /icsMenu that was specified to contain the selected
text or clicked word always appended this word at the end. Now the user
can also configure it to appear in the middle, by putting a %s in the
command string where he wants it to appear.

2010-11-07 21:33:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Let Engine #2 Settings start second engine

If the second engine is not yet running, it would be impossible to use
the settings dialog for it, as the features have not been received and
the dialog will be empty. So the user could not adjust the engine
parameters before starting a match. Using this menu now automatically
starts the engine, and delays the appearence of the popup untill the
features are received, using a similar mechanism as in
TwoMachinesEventIfReady().

2010-11-01 19:40:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Newly lexed parser.c


2010-11-06 19:55:31 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix bug in parsing illegal Pawn captures

When a pawn move of type exf5 was illegal, the parser made an attempt to
interpret it as e.p. capture of f5. This, however, messed up the move,
so that it was now permanently mistaken for e5xf6. Even in cases with
legality testing off, where you would want the original move to be
accepted despite the fact that it was illegal.

2010-11-06 19:49:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Keep last PV while clearing engine-output display

When ponder is on, the display is cleared immediately when the last line
of thinking output appears by the appearing ponder output. So you would
never get the chance to see it. This line is now re-written after
clearing, so it appears at the bottom of the output for the next search.

2010-11-06 19:45:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Give Lance moves of Berolina Pawn

In stead of using it as a wildcard piece, the Lance gets the moves of
the Berolina Pawn (straight capture, diagonal move). The initial double
osh can be a ump, though. (So it is really a Hoplite Pawn from Spartan
Chess.)

2010-11-06 19:42:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Use SAN even on illegal moves

If there is only one piece of type T, moves like Ta1 or Txa1 are never
ambiguous, so adding the from square is just cumbersome.

2010-11-06 19:34:53 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Use normal SAN for wildcard pieces

SAN often can also be used with pieces we don't know the moves of, e.g.
if there is only one of that type. We just always get rank or file
disambiguators if there are more (even when they might be unnecessary).

2010-11-06 14:52:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix some warnings

Unused variables were removed from parser.l

2010-11-06 14:43:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Allow arbitrary nesting of sub-variations in PGN input

The parsing of subvariations is moved out of the state-machine parsing,
to allow arbitrary nesting. In stead of the entire sub-variation being
parsed by lex as Comment, it now returns Open and Close for the
corresponding parentheses, which are then handled in a wrapper routine
for yylex(): Myylex(). Problem was that yy_text is supposed to return
the entire parsed text of the returned symbol, which thus has to be
collected. To make this possible, yylex has to return everything that it
parses, (even white space!), and a symbol "Nothing" was added to return
in parsing rules that before just ate away irrelevant text without
returning anything.

2010-11-06 21:48:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Implement setup (engine-GUI) command

This allows the frst engine (when legality testing is off) to overrule
the default opening position, in reply to the variant command. Syntax is
"setup (PIECE_TO_CHAR_TABLE) FEN_STRING"
where the FEN string is interpreted in the context of the given
pieceToCharTable (which is optional, and only delimeted by parethesis if
it is present).
Sendng the position to the second engine is delayed until the first
engine has responded to the ping after the new-game sequence, to make
sure it gets the chance to alter the position before it is sent to the
second engine. This feature is useful for playing variants that WinBoard
does not even know the opening positon for, and can be used even if they
are shuffle variants.

2010-11-06 14:19:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Restrict use of a2a3 kludge

The kudge to send "a2a3" in stead of "black" to get black to move is
fatally flawed in varants that have no Pawn on a2. So in that case we
revert to use of the deprecated "black" command.

2010-11-02 13:06:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Remember values set by -firstOptions, -secondOptions

When an engine announces its option features, and the option name
matches that of a setting given in -first/secondOptions, the engine is
sent hte specified value, but this value was not remembered as current
value (but the latter  was left at the engine-announced default),
leading to inconsistent behavior in the Engine #N Settings dialog.

2010-11-01 19:26:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Make test for valid promotion piece color-dependent

This is needed to make it work in variants where white and black have
different armies; quite likely white will promote to pieces that do not
exist in the black army, so we really have to make sure we test if the
white (upper-case) piece exists in this case.

2010-11-01 19:23:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Remove validity test on promochar from parser

The backend routines Disambiguate() and LegalityTest() will catch
invalid promotions, so no need to do it here.

2010-10-31 23:37:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Add the actual size-33 Shogi bitmaps

These were forgotten in the original commit that fixed the .rc file.

2010-10-31 13:20:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Delete some stale promotion code

The correction of the promotion piece to Ferz in Shatran-like variants
in ApplyMove() was no longer needed, as the new promotion code already
does this in the move parser.

2010-10-31 13:08:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Augment moves of some fairy pieces

To get better disambiguation in variants that have to be played with
legality testing off, the Elephant is given also one-step moves (making
it a so-called Modern Elephant) in -variant fairy and great. The Dragon
King (Crowned Rook), which had no moves defined for it outside Shogi at
all, has been given Rook moves plus an orthogonal 2-jump, so that it
can get SAN moves when used as Dababba or Short Rook. (Illegal moves
currently aways force long algebraic notation...)

2010-11-08 22:57:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Bugfix safeStrCpy patch, WinBoard

The use of sizeof on pointers was detected through the same method as
the previous patches, this time while compiling WinBoard. A typo in
jaws.c was fixed as well.

2010-11-08 23:03:13 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Bugfix for safeStrCpy patch for XBoard

By a trick (temporarily redefining safeStrCpy in common.h as
((char*) (a=1/(4-3rdArgument))) ) a compile-time warning (division by 0)
could be generated for every occurrence where the size argument was equal
to 4, i.e. where the 1st argument was likely a pointer rather than an
array. These cases are now fixed. The file xoptions.c, which is the
only ne that does not #include common.h had to be fixed by making
the #define in the file itself.

2010-10-31 13:16:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix spurious promotions with legality testing off

The recent promotion patch had broken playing without legality testing
completely: without legality testing one always gets the piece that was
asked for, but a NULLCHAR should not be taken as a request for a piece!
But it was, and this resulted in any moved piece turning into a white
Pawn! For true promotions the piece was always black, which was also not
very useful.

Also revert to the use of '+' as internal Shogi promoChar, because
pre-processing turns out not to be possible when reading a game file.
In stead parse any trailing '+' on moves as promoChar. Downside: '++'
can no longer be recognized as checkmate symbol.

2010-10-29 22:54:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Make deferral default in Shogi promotions

Because '+' is intercepted by the parser as check indicator, Shogi moves
are pre-processed to change a trailing '+' into an internally used
alternative '^'. The testing if a promotion character is OK is now done
in LegalityTest() and Disambiguate(), which return ImpossibleMove when
the character does not correspond to any piece, and IllegalMove when in
Shogi anything other than '^' or '=' is used. (Except for the ICS
notations.) On output, in CoordsToComputerAlgebraic() and
CoordsToAlgebraic(), the '^' is translated back to '+'.

2010-10-28 17:51:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Animate piece explosions in drag-drop moves and in XB

This required some code restructuring: the decision if an explosion is
needed is now taken in a new routine Explode() in the backend. This then
calls the front-end driver, and it returns the info if there was an
explosion or not, so the caller (AnimateMove() or the mouse driver) can
take action to repair the damage to the board caused by the blast wave.
A front-end driver for XBoard is provided as well, so that both
click-click (and replay, which is the same) and drag-drop atomic
captures are animated in XB as well as WB.
Explosions on rejected moves are suppressed.

2010-10-28 13:53:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Suppress promotion popup if piece will explode

In atomic, a Pawn capture to last rank is not really a promotion.
Fix choice to Queen.

2010-10-28 18:42:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Make Knight hop first straight, then diagonal

It used to be the other way around, which looked pretty illogical in
Xiangqi: to see Horses, which are blockable pieces there, move over an
occupied square.

2010-10-27 20:04:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Let -oneClickMove also work in EditGame mode

There is really no reason why people that lke one-clcik moves enough to
switch them on would not want to use them too when editing a game.
This solves a nast inconsistency, as before it used to work in -ncp mode
on the _first_ move, as the mode is then BeginningOfGame, and not yet
EditGame, and we do want it to work for BeginningOfGame, as this is
also the game mode when you start playing as white.

2010-10-27 19:40:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Make -flipBlack and -allWhite option volatile

As these options are very Shogi specific, and the variant is volatile,
it seems logical to make them also volatile. Not completely sure about
-allWhite, though. It cold be useful if you want, for example, to play
wth dark-brown pieces for black, as any color but black looks much
better with outline pieces than with solid pieces.

2010-10-27 19:33:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Provide some sample board-texture pixmaps

Wood and marble themes are provided as textures for light and dark
squares, plus two complete Xiangqi boards (wood and evenly colored).
These should probably not goint the distro tar ball.

2010-10-27 19:25:56 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
The -overrideLineGap option is made to work in XBoard

Although XBoard already allowed this in the -boardSize specification,
it is still seful to globally disable grid lines, e.g. for an
oriental Xiangqi board. And it converges XB and WB.

2010-10-27 19:18:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Implement board textures in XBoard

The -darkBackTextureFile and -liteBackTextureFile options now wrk in
XBoard too, for loading a pixmap that will be used to cut out the dark
and light square backgrounds. The cutting algorithm is such that the
pixmap image is completely restored if the size was that of the total
board (e.g. a drawing of a Xiangqi board).

2010-10-27 12:11:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Complete WB (western) bitmaps for Shogi at size 33

The Lance was not replacing Queen in some sizes where the bitmaps were
already available, and new bitmaps for the promotion Golds were added.

2010-10-22 20:30:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Make starting new variation dependent on shift key

The shift key is read during mouse events, and posted in a global
variable, which can then be used by the back-end. The decision to start
a new variation (pushing the game tail rather than clipping it off) when
entring a move in Edit Game or Analyze mode is made dependent on this.
The move-typein also records the shift-key state.

2010-10-22 20:25:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix merging bug

A %g format was used to print an int in sending the level command,
because decimal points were dropped when merging patches. Also an unused
variable was removed to suppress a warning.

2010-10-18 19:50:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Add set of shogi pixmaps for XBoard

The -size 64 pieces from gShogi (and originally XShogi) are made
suitable for loading by XBoard, through redefining the transparent
background color as either light or dark square color. These bitmaps are
not included in the XBoard build, and perhaps should not even be
included in the source distribution, but made available in a separate
distribution?

2010-10-18 19:46:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Implement -flipBlack in XBoard

When -flipBlack is true, the white and back piece pixmaps are swapped in
flipView. The idea is that the black pieces are upside-down versions of
the white (Shogi) pieces, so that swapping white and black in effect
turns all pieces upside down, which is what should happen in flipView.

2010-10-11 21:06:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Disable some very verbose debug printing

The internationalization seems debugged enough to do without them.

2010-10-11 20:52:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Add option -variations to control variation-tree walking

Just so that users can switch it off if the find it annoying.

2010-10-11 21:01:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Allow full promotion suffixes on SAN piece moves

This facilitates the parsing of (non-standard) Shogi moves in ICS
protocol. It can also be useful for Seirawan Chess, where a future
implementation of it can use promotion suffixes to indicate gating.

2010-10-11 14:07:02 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Allow lower-case piece indicator in drop-move notation

As it seems that XBoard also sends such moves in zippy play, it seems
more fair to recognize them from the engine as well.

2010-10-10 21:26:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix bug in ICS variant switch for Shogi

Because a test for 8x8 variants was done by <= VariantShogi,
rather than <, spurious move-list fetching occurred in Shogi.

2010-10-10 21:23:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix WinBoard Lance bug

The choice between Lance and Queen was made on appData.variant, in stead
of gameInfo.variant. Because of this it was not always up-to-date in ICS
games.

2010-10-10 21:15:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Adapt WinBoard to Shogi implementation on Variant ICS

The Variant ICS does not use the '+P' notation for promoted pieces,
neither in the board, nor in SAN, but simply indicates any Gold by 'G',
and uses 'H' and 'D' for +B  and +R. The Shogi promotion code in
LegalityTest() and Disambiguate(), which are used in move Parsing, are
adapted to handle this. Deferred promotions sent to the ICS now use an
== suffix.

2010-10-10 21:07:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Inherit promoted-info that ICS does not give from previous board

The ICS does not tell us in Crazyhouse (or Shogi) if a piece is
primordial or a promoted pawn (or a promoted other piece). We now derive
this info from the previous board. The option -disguisePromotedPieces
controls this feature.

2010-10-10 21:03:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Limit multi-session clock handling to non-ICS games

In ICS games a time forfeit crashed XBoard, apparently because the
fullTimeControl string is not properly set when we try to use it to see
if a sudden-death session is indeed the last session.

2010-10-08 11:47:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Change evalgraph scale in drop games

Score swings tend to be much larger in Crazyhouse and Shogi, so the
vertical rangee in those games is doubled to (-14, 14).

2010-10-13 23:05:05 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
bugfix: fixed readline support with icslogon option

The icslogon option sends the login and password, so we don't need to handle
special cases for the readline buffer.

2010-10-07 20:35:26 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
fixed some typos that were introduced during the sprintf->snprintf changes


2010-10-07 11:59:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix uninitialized variable in book code

The variable ' power' was used uninitialized in case -bookVariation was
set to 0, which can be an error even if it was only multiplied by zero.

2010-10-06 14:20:03 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix menu translation bug

The menuText array was declared too small, so that the last entry of the
File menu got out of bounds and was overwritten by the first of the Mode
menu.

2010-10-05 21:14:08 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Allow -timeIncrement to be a float

The increment can now be fractional seconds. The printing in
ParseTimeControl() and SendTimeControl() is done with %g format, so that
for integer increment there is backward compatibility with the old level
command.

2010-03-30 20:24:49 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
adding gnu-readline support

should make the user interface for xboard a bit nicer. In the end we want to have a separate input window, but this probably will have to wait until the GTK version.

2010-09-24 21:17:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
added warning if icsLogon file couldn't be opened


2010-09-24 21:10:28 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
security fix: replaced some strcat with strncat

there is still more to do

2010-09-19 20:55:01 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
add option for silent builds

this can be enabled for automake versions >1.11 by calling ./configure --enable-silent-rules.
It should still work for older automake versions too

2010-09-19 13:16:40 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
bugfix: missing array index


2010-09-19 12:19:44 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
added new case for (Chessmove) 0 in common.h

this cleans up a few more -Wall messages

2010-09-17 21:47:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
cleaned up -Wall warnings (apart from settings some parentheses)

removed unsused variables, etc mostly everything from -Wall -Wno-parenthesis

2010-09-17 20:36:54 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
sizedefaults has 9 members, the last line of the array (NULL) only set 7.


2010-09-12 20:04:03 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
security fix: replaced sprintf with snprintf

replaced most sprintf with snprintf. There are still some left where for example a pointer is used and is allocated in the line before, which should be fine... and some others.

2010-09-10 23:36:23 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
security fix: replaced strcpy with safeStrCpy from backend.c

see comment in backend.c on how to use safeStrCpy. This was already added by AS, but only used in 3 places.

2010-10-04 11:50:38 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Enhance multi-session TC clock handling

Some new TC types are introduced: Bronstein and free sessions. The
former is implemented by letting an exclamation point '!' in front of an
increment (in the -tc string) indicate that the increment is limited to
the time actually used on the previous move. The latter is an interval
of given duraton in which you can do any number of moves (even zero),
before the next session starts. This is needed for implementing Shogi
byoyomi-type TC, as a first session, followed by a session of fixed-time
per move. The latter can now be specified with the -tc argument as a
degenerate case of Bronstein, where the time on the clock is <= the
increment (so that it is never possible to think longer than the
increment). A TC of 5 min + 10 sec byoyomi can then be indicated as
300:10+!10.

The sessions are now separated by ':' in stead of '+', and all times in
the TC string are converted to seconds first (in ParseTimeControl), so
the fullTCstring can now be directly used in a PGN tag.

Note that this patch only addresses clock handling; the engine will not
be informed yet if the TC type or parameters change at the start of new
session!

2010-10-04 09:32:18 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Remove promotion-piece encoding from ChessMove type

The shizophrenic way to indcate promotion pieces in the XBoard code
(sometimes using a promoChar, at other times relying on moveType) was
cured by combining all promotion move types (such as WhitePromotionRook)
into a single one (WhitePromotion), and relying on promoChar to specify
the piece. This solves the problem of promoting to new piece types in
variants, which formerly also required addition of new move types.

In Shogi the '+' character is now consistently used to indicate
promotions (and recognized in ApplyMove), rather than 'q' or
PieeToChar(BlackQueen), as the latter did not work in minivariants where
the Queen (representng the Lance) did not partcipate.

2010-10-03 20:50:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Pass promoChar to SendMoveToICS

SendMoveToICS was the only place where the promotion piece was derived
from moveType, rather than an explicity passed promoChar.

2010-10-04 09:41:11 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Suppress spurious use of SAN castling in mini variants

King moves from a central file to the king-side-castled position (1
square away from the right corner) were intercepted and printed as O-O
in CoordsToAlgebraic. But on a 5x5 board (mini-Shogi!) this caught the
normal King move Kc1-d1 as well. The castling notation is now reserved
for King moves larger than one step.

2010-10-04 08:21:19 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Make Shogi promotion zone board-size dependent

In stead of using a fixed size of 3 ranks, we use BOARD_HEIGHT/3, which
would translate to 1 rank for mini-Shogi (5x5) and 2 ranks for Judgkin's
Shogi (6x6), which are indeed what these variants need.

2010-10-03 19:58:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Make board-size overrule options volatile

The options -boardWidth, -boardHeight and -holdingSize were legacies
from the day choosing a variant would not automatically set a board
size. As a result they are seldomly used anymore. The first real
application is mini-Shogi (on 5x5 board), and it turned out very
annoying if the 5x5 settings persisted to the next session, where you
almost certainly want to play another variant.

2010-10-04 09:16:47 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Strip DOS line endings from parser.l


2010-09-16 18:58:37 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Extend mate test to drop games

MateTest() in case of no legal moves now also looks if there are legal
drops that can resolve the check. This provides reliable mate testing in
Crazyhouse and Shogi, so these are now made subject to adjudications too.

2010-09-16 18:48:29 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Extend legality testing to drop moves

LegalityTest() can nowbe called with (internal-format) drop moves, and
delegates their testing to a new routine LegalDrop(). This routine
performs the 'no-pawn-on-back-rank' test that used to be in
UserMoveTest (which now calls LegalityTest also for drop moves).
The more complex Shogi case is also handled (except for Pawn mate
drops) in LegalDrop().

2010-09-16 18:25:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Revert splitting of UserMoveEvent

This splitting into UserMoveTest and FinishMove was no longer needed,
now that the new mouse driver no longer calls UserMoveTest to figure out
if a move is a promotion, and XBoard and WinBoard are unified in this
respect. It was counter-productive, because UserMoveTest was not able to
change the fromX, fromY (call-by-value) parameters for passing them to
FinishMove, so it had to defer the conversion of drop moves to internal
format to the latter, while it did not belong there. (Because
DropMenuEvent already delivers the moves in internal format.) This
whole kludgy construction was therefore abandoned, by going back
to the original 4.2.7 calling scheme, where UserMoveEvent completely
pre-processes the move, and when it is valid, calls FinishMove directly.

2010-09-16 18:02:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix silent bug in drop moves

In ApplyMove() the piece on the from square was accessed and used before
we tested for drop moves. As drop moves have off-board from-squares this
led to out-of-bound array access, which apparently was usually harmless.

2010-09-16 17:43:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Allow parsing of upper-case machine moves

Dubious patch, as it caters to non-compliancy. Some variant engines are
very non-compliant, though.

2010-09-16 17:38:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Prevent transmission of spurious promo char to other engine

The parser now strps off spurious promotion characters.
New move types "White/BlackNonPromotion" had to be introduced for this,
to indicate NormalMoves that could have been a promotion, to make sure
the '=' suffix of Shogi deferred promotions survives.

2010-09-16 20:44:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
fixed internationalization for winboard

in the original commit some files were forgotten. This should fix it.

2010-08-29 21:07:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix JAWS bug saying side to move in ICS play

This was done the wrong way around.

2010-08-27 14:08:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Make WB run-time language switch possible from menu

This is a rather involved patch that might not be worth it. It is
difficult, because translation of things that live forever is not easy
to invert (menus, the auxiliary windows). We hae to remember all
original, English texts there to be able to put them back,or
re-translate. Still does not fully work, although the menus and
temporary dialogs now are all OK.

2010-08-27 14:35:46 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Update WB translation template

The language.txt file now also contains all translatable strings from
the C source files, rather than jsut the resource.

2010-08-27 14:14:51 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Update docs

Add descriptions for machine-match menu support and enhanced book
control, nick-name options and language.

2010-08-27 13:59:09 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Add some forgotten translation hooks

The general-options, file-browse dialogs and the about box did not call
Translate() yet. Also translate contents of combo boxes. Some small bug
fixes.

2010-08-27 13:28:33 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Do not translate game-end messages in PGN

The messages themselves are not subjected to _(), but in stead their
displaying in DisplayMove is subjected to T_().

2010-08-23 13:23:22 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Internationalization for WinBoard

A function Translate() was added, which uses a list of item dialogs,
reads their value, and replaces it by a translation (if available). It
also reads the window title and sets a translation. Calls to this
routine are added in the initialization code of every dialog callback.
In addition all translatable strings in the WnBoard front end are marked
by the gettext macro _(). Because WB is not gettexted yet, a hard
re-definition of this macro is added in each file using it, to the
string-translation routine T_() supplied in winboard.c.
Code to read the translation file, and translate the menu texts is added
in winboard.c. In backend.c the meaning of the gettet macros is
redefined for the WIN32 case.

2010-08-23 13:07:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Make the ID of all WB dialog items unique

Mnany static dialog texts did share the ID -1 (IDC_STATIC). But to
replace tet at run-time for translation purposes, they need to be
addressed individually. So they were given new IDs, with symbols defined
for those.

2010-08-23 12:48:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Mark XBoard result messages for internationalization

The GNU gettext macro _() is used with the game-end messages. This might
be controversial, as they will appear in the PGN as well. But only as a
comment. We can always decide not to supply a translation.

2010-08-23 12:43:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Do not exit after match when match started from menu

The codelooks weird, but matchMode == 2 in this case. We then use
DisplayNote() to report the match result.

2010-08-23 12:39:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Trivial-draws recognition improved in Xiangqi

Now based on a routine "SufficientDefence". If both have it, it is draw.

2010-08-20 17:46:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Update .dev files

The relocation of parser.c and the addition of history.c was not yet
incorporated in the devcpp proect files.

2010-08-19 13:45:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix some MSVC compile errors

Some statements has moved up stream of declaratons, which is an error
that gcc is forgiving about, but where MSVC is strict.

2010-08-14 14:01:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Improved patch for expansion of WB settings-file name

The expansion of environment variables now allows multiple environment
variables in the path name. Tested on %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\winboard.ini
and %APPDATA%\winboard.ini.

2010-08-07 16:53:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Add -colorNickNames option

This option allows non-standard designation of side to move in FENs.
(Useful for Xiangqi, where white is indicated often as r(ed), and Shogi,
where white is s(ente) or b(lack), and black is g(ote) or w(hite).)
Can also be used for FENs in a local language. A match of theinput
character with the nick name translates it to the standard; this means
the standard will continue to be recognized, unless it was defined as a
nick name.

2010-08-07 16:39:16 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Tricked by the grossnes

Some WB menu items were referenced by a hard number. As items had been
added over the years, the wrong menu items were grayed. In particular
the Options -> Adjudication menu was grayed out, in -ncp mode, where
this was intended for the Sounds dialog. This accidentally proved
useful, until we started to apply adjudictions also to the Human moves.
Then it was suddenly undesirable, and a small mystery why it happened at
all, when I tried to change it. The numbers are now corrected to the new
locatons of the items in the menus.

2010-08-07 16:35:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Allow match to be started from WB menu

A menu item Machine Match was added in the Mode menu to switch to
matchMode. A persistent option /defaultMatchGames determines the number
of games. A control was added to the Options -> Common Engine dialog to
set this option.

2010-08-07 16:26:35 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Add some book-control options

Options /bookDepth and /bookVariation have been added to control the use
of the GUI book. In WinBoard the Optons -> Common Engine dialog now
contains fields to set them.

2010-08-07 00:15:57 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
new developer release


2010-08-06 11:18:34 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Repair exit-popup deadlock patch

Relocating the exit popup call had made it lose access to the message it
should print, because it was declared only in an inner code block, by
the same name: buf[]. Deleting the inner declaration fixes it.

2010-08-04 11:00:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix erors when compiling with --disable-zippy

The file args.h contained a codeblock in #ifdef ZIPPY, in stead of
fields.

2010-08-01 13:27:23 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix zippy handling of draw offers from ICS

The patch by DM to fix the problem introduced by the coloration of
zippy-matched commands (namely that the coloration code beat the zippy
draw recognition to it, and ate the draw offer away) was only targeting
ICC. The new fix should work on any ICS (by using the same pattern in
zippy as in the colorization code).

2010-08-01 13:15:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix regression in colorization of zippy-matched commands

The patch by Daniel Mehrman from 4.2.pre8 was not properly merged, so
that in XBoard no coloration would take place of ICS commands that were
matched by zippy. (It was using &i as input pointer, rather than &backup.
The XBoard-specific code now has been deleted completely, to remove a
seemingly needless dependence on _WIN32_ of the back-end. Both WB and XB
now use the XBoard method, to only match zippy commands when logged in.

2010-07-31 22:48:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Suggest default file name in browser dialog

The argument 'def' to FileNamePopUp() was not passed through to the new
file-browser routine, which got NULL in stead, and thus started with an
empty input field.

2010-07-30 23:28:57 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Define /firstUCI and /secondUCI as synonyms for /fUCI, /sUCI

Because the %s expansion of WB options in the /fcp and /scp lines only
works for options that contain 'first' or 'second', and /fUCI thus did
not work, PSWBTM had to rely on the cumbersome /firstIsUCI=true to
install UCI engines. (The latter option should be deprecated really;
the UCI-ness of the engines is a volatile option, so it makes no sense
to supply a way to set them both to false or true. One only needs to be
able to set it to the non-default state.)

2010-07-30 23:21:50 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Add string option /pieceNickNames

This (volatile) option allows definition of alternate letters for the
pieces, which will be recognized next to the standard symbols as given
in the /pieceToCharTable on input. (Output always uses the standard.)
This can be useful for reading PGN from another language, or
non-compliant FENs (e.g. using B and N for E and H in Xiangqi).
  The format of the argument is the same as for /pieceToCharTable.
Because the nickNames are consulted before the standard table, it is
possible to redefine a standard name as a nick for another piece.

2010-07-30 23:10:42 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix deadlock in match-result display

At the end of a match, GameEnds() was recursively calling itself,
through DisplayFatalError() and ExitEvent(), and the latter was then
delaying until the calling GameEnds() terminated. (Which it would of
course never do before ExitEvent returned; fortunately there was a tim
limit to this delay, but in XBoard it was 10 sec in stead of 10 msec.)
 Now the calling of DisplayFatalError() (to show the result popup) is
delayed until after GameEnds completes (and resets the anti-recursion
flag 'endingGame'), so that it is simply executed a second time, unaware
of the earlier call. But this second time it does not do anything,
because the gameMode ws set to EndOfGame the first time, and the writing
of the PGN is blocked by the checksum being still the same.

2010-07-12 11:10:17 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix WinBoard game-list title

Number of displayed games and WDL stats were always appended to the
existing title, leading to an ever-growing title in the game-list
window. Now the old actual title is ignored, and the starts is appended
to the original title "Game List". (In the future we could use the
filename here?)

In addition, the title was not updated when re-opening the game-list
window, while the stats could change if filtering was active when the
window was closed. (In that case the filter is cleared on re-opening, so
the number of displayed games changes.) Now a title-update (after
recalculating the stats) is done every time the game-list window is
opened.

2010-07-11 11:06:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Refactoring of material-draws adjudication code

Insufficient mating material is now determined per side individually, by
testing for MatingPotential of each side. If both lack mating potential
the game is adjudicated as draw (if the -materialDraws option is set).

This way MatingPotential() can later also be used to correct losses by
forfeit to draws (which currently is only done when the opponent has a
bare King).

The accuracy of this type of adjudication in Xiangqi has been highly
improved.

2010-07-11 10:54:59 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix bug in sending cores command to engine

The cores command was alwas sent to the engine(s) when the user changed
it through the menu, even when the engine had sent feature smp=0 (which
is default anyway). NewSettingEvent() was patched to send the new
setting conditionally, based on the engine properties as recorded in
ChessProgramStates first, second; In this particular case it now
consults cps->maxCores. (Note the code for testing the second engine
contains some dirty pointer arithmetic.)

2010-07-11 10:42:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix oneClickMove bug

When checking for unique captures, no attention was payed to the option
setting, so the capture was also made when the option was off.

2010-07-11 10:39:28 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Remove duplicate testing for cores feature

The testing for this BooleanFeature occurred twice.

2010-07-11 10:35:13 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Remove misspelled prototype

NewSettingEvent occurred, next to the correct one, in misspelled form.

2010-07-05 10:00:01 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix parsing of SAN shogi promotions

A missing promotion character defaults to promotion in the move type,
but the promotion character was not set when this happened in variant
shogi. And it is especially important there, as the promotion character
'+' will always be missing, as the parser will take it to be a 'check'
symbol, and strip it from the move.

2010-07-05 09:55:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix variant switch on PGN loading

When the PGN specified an essentially different variant, the
piece bitmaps were not properly adapted, because the switch was done by
calling InitPosition(), rather than Reset(). (The latter would destroy
the PGN tags info.) We now added an explicit call to ResetFrontEnd(),
(which is normally done from Reset()).

2010-07-05 09:51:53 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Adjudicate Xiangqi material draws with Advisor-less Cannons

Used the Queen counter for counting Cannons. Note that material draws
with stale Pawns (i.e. on the back rank) are not yet adjudicated.

2010-07-05 09:34:21 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Remove font settings from master settings file

xboard.conf should not contain general font settings (not specific to
one board size) with specified point size. In fact it should not even
specify sizable fonts, as the new system would make specification of a
general font overrule the size-specific settings in the .xboardrc file,
so the persistence of fonts would be completely broken.

2010-06-30 10:52:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Cut board squares out of texture bitmap more cleverly

When the bitmap is larger than the entire board, the squares are now cut
out of the center of the virtual squares from subdividing the bitmap, so
that they stay centered on the grid of a Xiangqi board bitmap. If the
board size exceeds that of the bitmap, the old algorithm is still used,
as the centering would make the edge squares exceed the bitmap, and
cause a black rim around the board.

2010-06-30 10:49:12 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Allow -flipBlack to work with font-based piece rendering

In addition the font-based pieces will also be flipped vertically in
flipView for variant shogi when -flipBlack is off.

2010-06-30 10:46:43 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Allow font-based piece rendering in board sizes below petite

At least for variants that use unorthodox pieces, so that switching back
to using bitmaps is not really an option anyway.

2010-06-30 10:41:25 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Ignore checks in 50-move count for Xiangqi

Both checks and evasions are discounted; this is only done after the
naive counting exceeds the maximum, so during most of the game it causes
no CPU load.

2010-06-05 14:38:47 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
removed some garbage from configure.ac that got added a while ago


2010-05-25 21:20:27 -0400 Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>:
Remove unnecessary double equals from configure.ac.


2010-05-28 11:07:06 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix e.p. bug in xiangqi with -serverMoves option

Sideway Pawn moves were written as e.p. captures in the file with moves,
which led to disappearence of pieces in the viewer.

2010-05-28 11:05:00 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Repair score printing with -serverMoves option

A previous patch had moved MakeMove to before the update of pvInfoList,
so that the score/depth info would not appear in the file with moves.

2010-05-28 11:02:54 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Repair animate dragging

The previous patch had left a stray semicolon in the mouse handler.

2010-05-10 10:32:19 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix game end during dragging

The stale-first-click fix interfered with proper handling of a piece
being dragged when a game suddenly ended (because of opponent resign,
or caling the flag), because up-clicks when the from-square was reset
were completely ignored. Now such an 'unmatched' upclick calls
DragPieceEnd() and redraws the board.

2010-05-10 10:09:36 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Pop down old tags on loadng new game in WinBoard

ResetFrontEnd(), called from Reset(), did not do this in WinBoard
(unlike XBoard), so that the tags from the previous game were left on
display when -autoDisplayTags was off.

2010-05-09 22:15:27 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Reverse mousewheel action

Apparently WinBoard was stepping in the opposite direction through the
game in reaction to the mousewheel as every other GUI in existence.

2010-05-09 22:07:30 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix bug in sending "usermove" when forcing book moves

The keyword "usermove" was copied to the buffer, but not sent before it
was overwritten by the actual book move.

2010-05-06 17:23:24 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix engine stall on perpetual-check evasion

The adjudication code had already put the engine in force mode after
postponing the actual adjudication to the next move. Now first determine
if we want to adjudicate now, and with which result, before stopping the
engine and ending the game.

2010-05-06 16:37:04 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Let move parser return ImpossibleMove for off-board moves

It used to return 0, which interfered with buiding a game list. This
broke reading of multi-game PGN files containing games in a variant with
a board size larger than that of the currenty active variant.

2010-04-06 15:05:10 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Alter XBoard key bindings to mimic WinBoard

A lot of new bindings were added, and four menuProcs had to be registered
to be able to add bindings to them. The use of the control key as
temporary take-back for the last move conflicted with the use of Ctrl
keystrokes, and this function was migrated to '.'. The iconify function
had no shortcut in WinBoard, but to get rid of letter bindings it was
migrated to '-'.

2010-04-05 20:45:45 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Update README file


2010-04-03 14:00:40 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix typos in html help file


2010-04-01 15:22:41 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix JAWS piece drop cursor, and streamline some sentences

The cursor square was reset to a1 after every use of the piece menu,
which was very inconvenient. Some of the spoken sentences have been
improved; the square is read before the piece now, when using the arrow
keys on the board.

2010-03-31 22:31:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Allow escape sequences in telluser(error) messages

The routine EscapeExpand was moved to backend.c, and applied to the
message received from the engine.

2010-03-31 21:29:39 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Allow lower-case promochar in moves of type h8=Q

Updated the parser rules. Other move formats already allowed this.

2010-03-31 21:36:14 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix Alt+M JAWS command in Two-Machines mode

The command refused to read the ast move because it contained thinking
output of the other engine. Let it pay attention to evenIfDuplicate.

2010-03-29 09:57:48 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix rep-draw recognition

The refactoring had broken the rep-draw recognition, by adding and extra
condition in a conditional with side effects. The testing of this extra
condition is now moved to after the side effect.

2010-03-28 12:32:07 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Allow any %ENVIRONMENTVAR% in WB settings file name rather than ~

Only a single variable at the beginning of the file name is recognized,
and the matching is not fool proof (it matches across backslashes).

2010-03-28 11:24:44 +0200 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix info lines being used as normal thinking output

The new standard of using thinking output with time = nodes = score = 0
as info messages for printing in the Engine-Output window was not
understood everywhere, and led to such info lines being used for
autoKibitzing and PGN annotation. The programStats are now only updated
from thinking output received from an engine when it is not an info line.

2010-03-27 11:54:41 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
new developer release


2010-03-26 21:16:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Suppress background observe for boards with own game number

This is really a work-around for an ICS bug. The Variant-ICS sent the
initial board of a game in a move list with relation = 0, which means
'observed'. So XBoard was thinking it was observing its own game, and
switched to dual board. It seems harmless to suppress such a switch for
all boards of your own game, however, which is now done.

2010-03-26 21:12:19 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix crash on switching to ICS xiangqi game

The oldBoard was a local variable, and only squares of the old board
were initialized. This led to a crash if the copied board was enlarged,
and then displayed. The variable is now declared static, so the
uninitialized squares contain harmless zeros.

2010-03-26 18:32:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Let Chat Boxes pop up above console, rather than on top of it

Use EnsureOnScreen() to have them overlap if there was no room.

2010-03-26 18:26:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix disabling of Chat Box navigation buttons

The buttons for non-open boxes were enabed, rather than disabled.

2010-03-26 18:17:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Prevent <Esc> closing chat box

Let it in stead switch focus back to the console window.

2010-03-26 15:28:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Let WinBoard recognize ~ in settings file name as HOMEPATH

Fetch the appropriate environment variable to build the mathname in
MySearchPath() whenever the file name starts with "~\".

2010-03-26 13:59:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Change name of Global Settings menu item to Common Engine Settings

The old name confused ICS users, as this is an engine-only dialog.

2010-03-26 13:58:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Update WinBoard RTF docs


2010-03-26 13:57:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Update WinBoard html help


2010-03-24 18:00:08 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Allow adjustment of clocks in any mode with shift+click

In practice changing to edit-game mode during a game was very
cumbersome. In WinBoard shift+click is now offered as an alternative.
Make sure a right-click in the clock area is not also counted for other
purposes.

2010-03-24 17:21:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Allow loading of PGN variations in XBoard

Right-clicking variation comments in the comment-window was implemented
through a translation. The right button is now bound to routines that
set both the end and start of the selection, as setting a new start does
not seem to work if the previous select-start was not completed by a
select-end or extend-end. Finally the main handler uses the selection
cursors to know what was clicked.

2010-03-24 17:16:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Update XBoard docs

Added a descripton of the new ICS options (seek graph, back-ground
observe) and menus (Upload) to the texi file. Also added a description
of the variation (Annotate menu item and PGN variation comments) and PV
walking (clicking engine-output). Describe the -shuffleOpenings option.

2010-03-24 13:30:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Paint highlights on dual board (WB)

The highlight info is hidden in the partner board to pass it to the
front-end.

2010-03-24 13:14:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix handling username change during game

The title bar and gameInfo (going into the PGN) were not adapted when
the username was changed through the menu, so that the change became
only effective on the next game. Requires SetGameInfo to be called from
the front-end, and thus a prototype for it in backend.c.

2010-03-24 11:04:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix window-position upset on failing engine start in WinBoard

The main window was only positoned according to the settings-file data
after the engine was started up from InitBackend2(), so that if the
latter gave a fatal error, and Save Settings on Exit was on, a wrong
position for the main window would be saved. The call to InitBackend2()
is now moved until after setting the main-window position.

2010-03-23 23:22:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Display PV from Engine-Output window (XBoard)

Translations are added to bind button 3 to the PV walk for the memo
widgets, and the corresponding handlers are ported from wengineoutput.c.

2010-03-10 18:54:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Set keyboard focus at startup to board window

This makes XBoard sensitive to the keybindings also when the cursor is
outside the board window. This focus seems to persist indefinitely: each
time the board window gets selected, the key bindings become activem
wherever the mouse pointer is. Downside: the mouse pointer is no longer
an arrow outside the board window, but becomes a text-insert tool there.

2010-02-27 20:49:21 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
added logo files for xboard

logos are installed in the hicolor theme [1] using $datadir as the basedir.
Added both png and svg logo.

[1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html

2010-02-27 17:36:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Remake programVersion string after receiving engine features

The engine could have sent a more accurate version of its own name
than the one derived from the exe filename in a myname feature, and we
better use that in the programVersion string, which will be sent as
interface name to the ICS.

2010-02-25 19:22:00 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
Revert "Repair settings-file name"

This reverts commit a02042ef83ce1f3632f0cf3e0a2a4ce9a3ac5d85.

2010-02-25 20:32:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Add -autokibitz checkbox to UCI-options menu dialog


2010-02-25 20:29:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Also capture (numeric) whispers of players for -autoKibitz


2010-02-25 20:25:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Add kibitzes and c-shouts Chat Box

A box dedicated to c-shouts will snatch any c-shout before it is
diverted to a normal shouts box. The kibitzes box can capture the
left-overs of -autoKibitz, if the latter is active.

2010-02-25 15:45:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Mark non-compliant lines of engine in debug file

The option -engineDebugOutput is extended to accept value 3 for printing
a cear indication of non-compliancy in the debug file.

2010-02-25 12:02:58 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Redraw second board on expose events

The -dualBoard option now does refresh the second board after another
window uncovers it. To acheive this, some data structures remembering
what is displayed had to be duplicated. (lastBoard and damage for XB,
lastReq, lastDrawn, lastReqValid and lastDrawnValid for WB.)
WinBoard now uses clipping also for second board. This required the
clips for the destination to be translated horizontally!

2010-02-25 15:13:00 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Print seconds with 2 digits in backgroundObserve status line


2010-02-24 17:01:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Do not recognize non-ICS variants from PGN event tag

These variants were introduced after supporting the variant tag, so if
the variant tag is missing, their recognition from the event tag will be
a false match. (Mainly to prevent events with 'super' in the name being
recognized as Superchess.)

2010-02-23 13:52:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix display of uninitialized boards in background observe

A variable partnerBoardValid is cleared on starting our own game, and
set when a board from the background game comes in during it. At the end
of our own game, a valid partner board now is put in the display.

2010-02-23 13:46:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Add option Display Logo in WB general-options menu

Changing the option requires InitDrawingSizes to be called for
re-formatting the board window. Switching it off requires clearing of
the cps->programLogo fields to take effect immediately. Switching it on
only takes effect the next session, as we will need some refactoring to
redo the figuring out what logos to display.

2010-02-22 12:02:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Group Chat Boxes with console in stead of board window

They now open and close with the console, which seems more natural, and
prevents the console from covering them.

2010-02-22 11:50:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Put new options in WB ICS-options dialog

The Seek-Graph, background-observe and Chat-Box options are added to the
ICS options dialog. They only control the appData settings, there are no
special actions yet on switching the settings.

2010-02-22 11:46:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Create space in WinBoard ICS-options dialog


2010-02-20 12:42:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Use side-by-side boards to display background game

A game observed in the background (i.e. if -backgroundObserve true) will
be displayed right of the normal board in the same window if the new
(persistent) Boolean option -dualBoard is also set.
Very flakey hack, especially in XBoard, where clocks and messsage
field all get the wrong width (and resist adjustment in the strangest
ways). The clocks of the partner game are not yet displayed, and
disaster happens when the background and foreground games do not have
the same board format.

2010-02-23 14:57:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Repair background-observe patch

Apparently a commit was lost that I collapsed with 3018a6 while the
latter was already pushed to savannah. Here I recreated this commit from
a diff between the respective commits in the savannah & nubati gits.

2010-01-31 11:07:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Repair settings-file name

The default name is put back to /etc/xboard/xboard.conf, so that XBoard
can again find its settings file. "make install" will still install it
in the wrong place.

2010-02-21 18:43:59 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
new developer release


2010-02-21 19:45:58 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
fixed compiler warning for file-browser code

missing "void"s in the function declaration and missing returns showed up when trying to build on the opensuse build server. fixed now.

2010-02-21 23:09:24 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Put newly opened Chat Box on top

Dialogs always pop up in front, so set the onTop variable that prevents
highighting the button to navigate to it from other Chat Boxes
to reflect that a newly opened Chat Box is in view.

2010-02-21 18:55:03 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix copying of kibitzed info in Engine-Output window

Make sure all lines end with "\r\n" to not lose line breaks on
copy-paste from the memo. (XBoard would strip those again.)

2010-02-21 18:25:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Allow walking a kibitzed PV

If no tabs are found in te 'thinking output' we assume it is a captured
kibitz message, and look for "PV=" to locate the start of a PV in it.
Also try to include any continuation lines below the selected line.

2010-02-21 17:45:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Insert autoKibitz continuation lines at end of line

In the engine-output window lines that start with the ICS continuation
sequence "\   " are inserted behind the line they belong to, in stead of
at the top. This required keeping thrack of the length of the currently
active line in OutputKibitz().

2010-02-20 15:39:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Don't disturb background observe when receiving new piece

When new holdings are sent when the background game is displayed, we now
ignore this, as presumably we are peeking at our partners game, and thus
should be well aware of what is captured there.

2010-02-19 21:52:06 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Newly lexed parser in XBoard directory


2010-02-19 11:18:21 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Let yy_text determine progress of PV parsing

The parsed unit yy_text was not available after ParseOneMove(), because
the buffer switch in yylexstr() apparently destroys it. To solve that,
yylexstr() now is equiped with an extra buffer argument, where it copies
yy_text before the switch, so the caller, ParsePV(), can see what was
parsed in yy_textstr. This is used to update the PV pointer, but also to
save any parsed comments (when ParsePV is used for parsing a PGN variation).

2010-02-18 17:42:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Support playing through PGN variation comments

Right-clicking a variation line in the comment dialog will shelve the
current variation, and parse the comment to replace it. This uses
ParsePV() in an alternative way, for which the latter had to be
enhanced: it was made resistent to move numbers and comments inside
the PV. It now has an argument to indicate if such comments should be
stored with the moves. The Comment Popup is closed on revert, to
make sure no comments to moves that are destroyed, containing
variations on a non-valid line, can keep hanging around.

2010-02-18 16:05:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Add Annotate item in Step menu

This does the same as Revert, except that it adds the destroyed
variation as comment to the original movem in PGN variation format.
RevertEvent now has an argument to indicate if it should add the
comment, or not. Comments in the abandoned variation are included in the
varriation command to the main line. (The exact layout of the variation
comment that results leaves still to be desired.)

2010-02-15 19:07:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Add option -shuffleOpenings

This volatile option is added just to make the existing variable
available from the command line, not only from the menus.

2010-02-19 11:48:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Let the sounds sound on receiving a message in a Chat Box

Use Colorize() to the applicable color to trigger the sound, and then
restore the original color as 'continuation', to do it silently.

2010-02-10 10:55:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Allow WB Chat Box to be dedicated to shouts and 'it'

By putting 'shouts' in the handle field, a chat window will capture all
shouts and c-shouts, and send messages typed into it as shouts.
The bracketing of the shouter name now indicates the type of shout.
The handle for WHISPER Chat Boxes has been changed to 'whispers', to
make it easier to pop them up by clicking the console.

2010-02-16 22:34:23 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Add -chatBoxes option to open Chat Boxes at startup

This string option contains a semicolon-separated list of handles for
which Chat Boxes should be opened at startup. The value saved in the ini
file is the value that was read, not the actual chat boxes that were
open at the time of saving.

2010-02-16 19:44:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Make Chat Windows pseudo-tabbed

By adding buttons in every Chat Box to navigate directly to every other
Chat Box, a stacked set of Chat Windows behaves like a single tabbed
window, but can still be unstacked. The buttons turn grey to warn that
new text appeared in hidden boxes (i.e. not the one last brought to top).

2010-02-19 21:46:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Allow arrow keys in WB Chat Box to access command history

The history is shared between al boxes and the ICS console.

2010-02-12 22:35:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Make WB Chat Boxes wrap and handle URLs

Cloned the code for the console text field to hande URL. (Initialization
to recogize the link, and notifiction to open it when clicked.)
Removed the ES_AUTOHSCROLL style from the RichEdit in the resource.

2010-02-10 10:58:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix copying of WB Chat Window contents

All line breks were lost on copy-pasting the contents of a chat window.
Adding CR to each outputted line in the front-end (wchat.c) solves this.
(Tell messages sent to a handle (which are not echoed by the ICS, and
thus have to copied to the chat box directly) also need CR!)

2010-02-19 22:34:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Add upload of game to ICS for examining

New item "Upload to Examin" in Action menu, calls UploadGameEvent().
Use SAN moves to upload game to ICS, rather than long algebraic
(The ICS did not understand long-algebraic promotion moves)
Use bsetup within examine to set position onFICS, and also variant.
Castling rights do not work yet for FRC. Totally different set of
commands are needed on FICS and ICC.
 FICS does not understand w23 or wild/23, but needs 'crazyhouse' in the
besetup command that specifies the variant. XBoard variant names are
used, except for fischerandom, which is 'fr'. Things like nocastle will
probably still not work.

2010-02-18 17:41:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Handle display of PV that starts with other move than played

Insert the retraction of the played move, without premove highlighting.

2010-02-16 19:36:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Bugfix smart capture

Disambiguate was changed to make sure that for ambiguous moves, a
capture would always prevail in the closure, rather than the last move
that happened to be generated. Before, double-clicking a piece would
sometimes plsy a non-capture.

2010-02-13 15:34:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix XB crash on giving keyboard focus to non-text widget

In the Engine-Settings dialog SetFocus() could be called for non-text
widgets, and this made XawTextSetInsertionPoint() croak. Setting the
insertion point to the end in SetFocus() was a bad ide anyway, as it
interfered with copying from the engine-output window, which would
uncontrollably scroll on getting focus. It is solved now by setting the
insertion point already on creation of the text widgets.

2010-02-19 22:32:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Seek-Graph bugfix: disappearing output in ICS console

Suppression of output to the cosole was handled fundamentally wrong: it
was not enough to set next_out to after the unit that should be
suppressed, as there can be a backlog in printing of previous units that
came in the same packet. So this has to be flushed first, or it will be
lost. -autoKibitz probably got away with that, because it comes in a
separate packet. But seek ads are often suffixed to other output, and
then that output disappeared! Now we flush everywhere before suppressing.
We now totally rely on the prompt to restart the printing, so that
acknowledgements following the echo of the sent message are also
suppressed. Also suppress LF before diverted chat messages.
  Also fixed is the 'mamer bug' in Chat Boxes, due to false parsing of
a "* (*): " pattern in tell messages, because of a missing continue.

2010-02-12 18:08:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Pop up ICS text menu with default item under mouse pointer

The menu popup is migrated to the down-click (was up-click), so the
up-click can select the item. Some trickery is needed to fool the menu
into thinking that the mouse moved, so that a moveless up-down click in
the ICS text field selects the default item (the upper-right one).
Also allow dummy item in ICS text menu: The command "none" in the ICS
text menu will now be treated as a grayed-out (disabled) entry, so it
can be defined in the position underthe mouse pointer to prevent the
up-click from doing anything, while keeping the menu open. Recommended
for use with an entry of spaces.

2010-02-10 14:42:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Allow ICS context menu to pop up a Chat Box on clicking handle

A command "chat" defined in the WinBoard icsMenu string will cause
ChatPopUp() to be called when it is clicked, with the clicked handle
(name) in the ChatPartner field, and focus on the input field.
ChatPopUp() had to get a parameter (the handle) to make this possible.
If that parameter is NULL (as when it is called from the Mode menu),
focus will still start on the (empty) ChatPartner field of the box.

2010-02-10 10:50:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix right-edge spillover of Seek-Graph dots in WinBoard

Rescale the X-axis to allow margin for dot size and color offset.

2010-01-30 11:05:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Interface XBoard to GhostView file-browser dialog

Note: The Ghostview dialog was using some deprecated variables for error
printing, and conditionally used getwd() on some systems that presumably
do not have getcwd(), but it did not assess the latter properly.

2010-02-09 14:38:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Allow recalling history in ICS input box with arrow keys

By adding translations for the Up and Down keys, and stealing some code
from winboard.c. Still needs some refactoring to move the duplicate code
to the back-end.

2010-02-09 14:34:33 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Start insertion point at end of text edits in XB dialogs

The function SetFocus now uses XawTextSetInsertionPoint to position the
end of the string it aready contains, rather than at the beginning.

2010-02-08 17:55:44 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Capture holdings of background observed game


2010-02-08 11:57:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Match handles with multiple titles for channel Chat Boxes

Only handles with at most one suffixed 'title', such as (U), (C), (IM)
or (TD), followed by the parenthesized channel number, were recognized,
so tells by people with more titles always went to the ICS console window.
Patterns are added to recognize handles with upto three such qualifiers.

2010-02-08 11:54:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Do not pop down Seek Graph on on-dot click

Leave the graph up, and let the incoming board of a started game cause
the pop-down. This in case the clicked ad is no longer vailable, or
manuay refused, and fails to start a game.

2010-02-07 21:26:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Observe a game in the background while playing

A new (persistent) option -backgroundObserve true|false is added. When
set, observed boards received while playing a game will not trigger a
game switch, but will be ignored except for storing in a dedicated board
buffer. Pressing the right mouse button will cause the board to be
displayed, until we release it. Time, strength and stm are always
displayed in the message window.

2010-02-07 16:43:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Remove race condition in clock switching

The move number is now incremented inside SwitchClock, when no timer
interrupt is scheduled, so the interrupt cannot occur at the wrong side
of the increment, and decrement the wrong clock.

2010-02-07 11:53:03 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Let second click on piece make only capture, with -oneClickMove

Normally this would clear the highlighting of that piece.
Required new field in DisambiguateClosure to count nr of captures.

2010-02-07 11:18:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Bugfix stale first-click

When the opponent resigned after the user had cicked a from-square,
clicking the from-square for the first move in the next game would
produce an "illegal move" message, because it was considered a to-click!
We now set fromX and fromY to invalid in GameEnds().
Should we also reset them on mode changes?

2010-02-07 11:08:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Add promotions and e.p. to oneClickMove

For e.p. the to-Square of the Pawn has to be clicked. Promotions are
always to Queen when you click the to-square, but use the promotion
pop-up when you click the from-square.

2010-02-07 10:38:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix error that compiler does not notice

Boolean GLT_GetFromList did not return a value. But no error on Ubuntu!

2010-02-06 18:55:38 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
new developer release


2010-02-06 18:30:42 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
updated year in copyright info


2010-02-05 22:27:51 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
One-click moves

Playing on ICS or against engine, clicking a square from or to which
only a single move can be made causes the move to be done, when the new
option -oneClickMove is set to true.

2010-02-04 16:09:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Use squares for computer seek ads

Shape indication passed in sign bit of color (char) variable.

2010-02-04 22:46:41 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Use right mouse button to view seek ads

Right down-click does the same as left down-click, right up-click
simulates a left up-click off board (so it misses all dots).

Use right-click miss to refresh Seek Graph

The 'moving' parameter had to be made into an int for this, to indicate
right clicks with code 2. Right press now already pushes the clicked ad
to the back, so that the up-click will display an underlying one.

Bugfix pushing back seek ads on right-click

On a right button press the previous in stead of currently hit ad was
receiving the penalty.

Indicate seek-ad multiplicity

If more than one seek ad is inside the capture range of the mouse
pointer, an exclamation point is printed before the seek-ad text.

Some fixes to make seek-ad suppression work in WinBoard

In WinBoard the z-depth was immediately erased by redrawing the graph;
the clearing of zlist had to be moved from PlotSeekAd() to AddAd()
(where it really belongs). Also aging of z-depth is now suppressed on
mere pointer motion.

2010-02-04 22:45:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Dynamic Seek Graph

The new option -autoRefresh sets FICS and ICC to report removal of seek
ads, and then removes those from the Seek Graph. New seek ads are added
to the graph, as soon as the ICS reports them.

2010-02-04 22:42:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Implement SeekGraph in XBoard

For now only controlled by left mouse clicks on board. New options
-seekGraph true|false and -sg to switch this feature on.

Facilitate selection of coinciding seek ads

Seek-ads that are viewed but not answered get a distance penalty on the
up-click that makes their selection more difficult next time, so that
the ad they covered gets a (better) change. The penalty ages away in the
course of 5 clicks.

Slightly offset Seek-Graph dots of different color

Dots of different color are now displaced horizontally be 3 pixels, to
prevent them from completely covering each other. (Required the axis
labels to be moved a little too, to not be covered by the 1-min ads.)

Auto-show seek-ad texts in WinBoard

Hovering the mouse above a Seek-Graph dot will make the text belonging
to it appear in the message field without the need to press a button.
Required SeekGraphClick() to be called from the WB mouse event handler,
with an extra argument 'moving' to make the distinction with a real
click.

Show seek-ad text on mouse hovering (XBoard)

The Eventproc is also set to trigger on PointerMotion, and this event
then calls SeekGraphClick with motion=true to handle it.

Put poetic name of wilds in seek-ad text

Use XBoard variant names, except for 'loadable' and 'fischerandom'
(becomes 'setup' and 'chess960'), but leave number (to distinguish wilds
that transate to same XBoard variant).

2010-02-05 20:36:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix highlighting bug in XBoard

The from-square was drawn before the to-square was erased, which led to
a missing highlight line if they shared an edge or corner.

2010-02-05 15:49:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Shorten autoKibitz confirmation on FICS

Strip off the "players)", but leave the separatng space.

2010-02-05 14:39:55 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Repair damage to -autoKibitz done by FICS atomic zippy claim

The sending of -autoKibitz info was also moved back in that patch, but
unfortunately to after clearing of the programStats info. Now the
clearing has been moved also, to remain after it.

2010-02-04 23:33:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Send continuation lines to chat box they belong to

The variable savingComment is used as a kludge to remember where the
comment should go (i.e. which chatbox, or elsewhere), so that when a
continuation line is matched, chatPartner (which was reset at EOL) can
be restored to its original value. Also put space after handle of talker
in channel Chat Windows

2010-02-02 19:08:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix u64 format for cygwin

With a -mno-cygwin compile %llu and %lld are definitely not understood
by scanf and printf, although they are by the compiler. In stead, %I64u
seems to work. Put it in under control of a switch USE_I64, which is
defined only in the gcc makefile when MINGW is used.

2010-02-02 19:02:28 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Remove stray dot from WinBoard makefiles

There was a period suffixed to config.h in the wgamelist.o dependency.

2010-02-01 14:50:01 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix bug in display of logos

The logo continued to be drawn after a boardSize change to a tinyLayout
size, although there was no space reserved for it. Fixed by explicitly
resetting logoHeight when no logo space is reserved in InitDrawingSizes().

2010-01-19 20:15:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Right-click refactoring: step III

Let WinBoard call RightClick in back-end, and delete the duplicate code
it had for this, after rescuing the front-end bits, and let the letter
act depending on the result returned by RightClick.

2010-01-19 19:07:15 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Right-click refactoring: step II

Migrate the Right-click routine to the back-end. Let it communicate back
square coordinates through pointer arguments, to accomodate their
different naming in XBoard and WinBoard. Template added in frontend.h.

2010-01-19 17:55:05 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Right-click refactoring, step I

Divorce front-end part from back-end part of PieceMenuPopup in XBoard
front-end, and forge the back-end part into a new routine RightClick.
The right up-click in XBoard, which called unLoadPV() directly, now
calls RightClick through PieceMenuPopUp().

2010-02-04 23:09:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Merge gamelistopt sources into gamelist source files

The files xgamelistopt.c and gamelistopt.c are merged with xgamelist.c
and gamelist.c, respectively. The WB front-end for the dialog already
resided in winboard.c, so there was little need to move it to wgameist.c
file. Makefiles adapted accordingly. Unsuitable key bindings were
removed. The low-level front-end prototypes are now defined in in
frontend.h.

2010-01-29 21:47:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Game-List options dialog for XBoard

A dialog similar to that of WinBoard was cloned from the game-list
window. The XBoard front-end is in a separate file xgamelistopt.c,
which in fact implements most of the low-level front-end as back-end.

2010-01-29 12:48:50 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Refactoring of game-list-options dialog

The back-end part is separated off, and moved to a file gamelistopt.c.
Front-end for now stays in winboard.c. No prototypes in frontend.h yet.

2010-01-26 19:28:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix of ancient WB bug: test integer option values for validity

Only a string of digits preceded by an optional sign is accepted now.
Before, any string was accepted, and leaving out a value could lead to
the next option being ignored (if it did not need a value) because it
was considered the value for the previous one!

2010-01-26 19:00:54 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix bug in edit-position of holdings

The holdings were effectivelly taken one too large, so that a promoted
shogi Pawn moved to, or created in the holdings was not demoted to Pawn,
but put in the dark (which you could see by the holding count if you did
it twice). The overflow tests in these two cases now have been corrected.

2010-01-25 13:54:40 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Save fonts in XBoard settings file per boardSize

Each -boardSize now can have its own font specified in the settings file
(and thus by a command-line option, although it would in general not be
very useful to specify a font for a size other than the selected). E.g.
a prefix "size33:" to the font name will apply it only to -size 33.
An unspecified-size font option (not normally in the settings file) will
always prevail over a font option specific for the current size.
A font of some size must have been used or specified in order to be
saved.

2010-01-25 08:56:35 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix width of filter field in XBoard GameList

An empirical dependence of the width of this text edit on the square
size now makes for an acceptable layout at any board size.

2010-01-24 19:09:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Use FICS atomic draw claim for sending move in zippy mode

For this the relaying of the move had to be moved until after the
adjudication, which again has to be done after MakeMove(), which is a
bit dubious, as MakeMove might take significant time when animating.

2010-01-24 18:51:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Send FICS atomic claim to ICS if move creates draw after offer

The FICS format "draw MOVE" is used to send the move to the ICS  when
the user enters a move that adjudicates as a claimable draw, and he
offered a draw before the move. For the benefit of ICS that do not
understand this format, the plain move is sent afterwards.

2010-01-24 18:16:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Also allow user to claim by offering draw before his move

Use the existing userOfferedDraw variable to test for such offers in
Adjudicate().

2010-01-24 17:29:42 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Also adjudicate after user move

Call Adjudicate() in FinishMove().

2010-01-24 15:56:56 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Refactoring of adjudication code

Put all the rule-based (as opposed to score-based) adjudications in a
separate routine, so they can also be called on user moves. This
requires sending the drawing move to the opponent engine to be made
conditional on existence of the latter. Execution of the code is no
longer dependent on the condition TwoMachinesPlay, but actual game
terminations are now all restricted by an alternative condition (no ICS
mode).

2010-01-24 11:46:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Use -keepAlive option to determine connection health

When there has been no ICS response since the previous 'ping', assume we
are disconnected and do a fatal-error exit. Also auto-start the ping
process in InitBackend3().

2010-01-23 23:00:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Use arrow keys in XBoard GameList for entry selection

Add translations for arrows and home/end, to call LoadSelectedProc with
argument to indicate the step, and let the latter perform the action.

2010-01-23 22:24:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Allow <Enter> to apply filter in XB GameList filter edit

Apply a translation to intercept the <Enter> key. Set focus back to the
list display afterwards.

2010-01-23 21:44:36 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Accept <Enter> for changing chat partner

A kludge stolen from Alessandro's GameList filter allowed to let the
typing of <Enter> while updating the chat-partner field of the WinBoard
chat windows to act as pressing the Change button. Gives focus to the
input field of the window afterwards.

2010-01-23 21:42:38 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Move duplicat gamelist code to backend

The filtering routines are moved from xgamelist.c and wgamelist.c to
gamelist.c, and a prototype for them is placed in backend.h.

2010-01-23 19:29:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Port game-list filtering to XBoard

Added a text edit and apply button to the XBoard game-list dialog, and
only have it print those lines that match the filter. Translate index in
list to index of game in file when a game is selected, and index in file
to index in list when a line is highlighted. Duplicates some code
between xgamelist.c and wgamelist.c, which should be moved to back-end.

2010-01-21 19:24:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Convert to DOS line endings

For easier understanding of upcoming diffs of winboard.c

2010-01-21 14:32:46 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Refactoring of move-history code

The WinBoard code in whistory.c was split in a front-end part (remaining
in whistory.c) and a back-end part (now in history.c in the xboard
directory). This to allow easy porting to other platforms.

2010-01-20 12:48:30 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Add fixed-time/move button in XBoard time-control dialog

Put the TC-type buttons in a radio-group, and highlight the selected mode.

2010-01-19 18:27:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix bug in XBoard PV display

The PV was unloaded on anything but a button release, in stead of the
other way around.

2010-01-23 11:04:11 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
fixed hardcoded location of config file for xboard

the location should now follow sysconfdir during the configuration process.
Also added some more output to the configure script.

2010-01-18 12:18:32 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
new developer release


2010-01-18 12:15:06 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
fixed Makefile.am to handle config file correctly


2010-01-15 21:55:29 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Change opening array -variant fairy

We now use the position of "Chess with Different Armies", FIDE army vs.
a fantasy army (inspired on the Color-bound Clobberers) as opening
position.

2010-01-13 19:08:45 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Add variant Makruk

Thai Chess, played by 2 million world-wide. Required pawn promotion to
happen in a zone, and the Alfil to move as Shogi Silver, a new opening
array, and unusual Pawn placement. Because of the latter, I consider it
a setup position, so a FEN will always be sent to the engine.

2010-01-17 14:17:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix parsing of O-O and O-O-O after FEN pasting in FRC

Because the initial rights were not set in the FEN reader, the
initial rights of the previous game remained in force, so that the
parser did not understand OO-castling (although it would allow KxR
castling).

2010-01-15 14:40:43 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix reading FEN castling rights for knightmate and twokings

Scanning the back-rank for a King did not work in these variants,
because either the Unicorn castles, or there might be two Kings.

2010-01-13 11:42:52 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix omission in castling refactoring for ICS received boards

A default of -1 was still used, in stead of NoRights, when no Rook was
found. In theory this could have had effect in a setup board 0 in FRC,
when there were no Rooks on the back rank.

2010-01-13 11:35:34 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix TwoKings ICS castling-rights bug

Scanning the rank (as is done because of FRC) assigned castling rights
to the rightmost King. Even scanning the opposite direction would not
work, as it is not always the eftmost King that can castle. So we now
explicitly test for a King on e1/e8 in TwoKings and assign it rights,
relying on the Rook rights received from the ICS to control castling.

2009-11-18 19:12:25 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fix double start of zippy engine after switch to gothic

In ICS mode we now switch to the proper variant as soon as we receive
the generic game-start message, to prevent a mismatch when the first
board is received (which would trigger fetching of a move list).

2010-01-11 16:44:40 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Extensive bugfix of -autoKibitz

Suppression of printing of diverted kibitz messages failed when they
extended over more than one read. This could even lead to such
messages being erroneously saved as comments, which then lead to
crashes. The suppression mechanism now waits for a prompt, in stead of
the end of buffer. This required the printing of any leftover in the
buffer to be deferred until the next read completes it.
The number of people kibitzed to is now printed.

2010-01-11 16:30:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix piece-to-char table -variant fairy

The letters for Lance and Snake where swapped.

2010-01-09 11:54:20 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Make WinBoard makefiles use parser.c in XBoard directory


2010-01-08 18:23:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Docs update for new features


2010-01-08 15:18:37 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix new args parsing of -lowTimeWarningColor

This did not occur in the XBoard color translation table yet.

2010-01-08 14:16:59 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Allow editing of holdings in EditPosition mode

Dragging pieces to and from the holdings now consistently keep track of
the home square of pieces and the piece counts, as does creation of
pieces in the holdings through the piece menu.

2010-01-08 13:59:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Indicate squares a lifted piece can legally move to

Under control of the new option -showTargetSquares when
-highlightDragging and -testLegality are on, the squares a piece can
move to are marked by fat dots in the highlightColor (non-captures) and
premoveHighlightColor (captures), as soon as you grab it for dragging.
In variants with mandatory capture, the capture target of other pieces
is marked with the highlightColor (as non-captures are then not allowed).

2010-01-08 12:35:10 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix bug for incommensurate time odds

After normalization (-timeOddsMode 1) the time odds factors can be
non-integer, and thus must be stored as float.

2010-01-08 11:41:26 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Display PV right-clicked from EngineOutput window

The clicked PV is selected and the memo gets focus, so that it is
highlighted. This selection is restored in the proper place after
insetrtion of a new line in the memo.

2010-01-08 10:19:32 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Display PV on right-clicking board


2010-01-08 09:21:04 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Bugfix legality null move in parsing with -testLegality off

The pointers were compared, in stead of the values.
Furthermore, instead of null moves, it rejected moves on the main diagonal when legality checking was off.

Also exclude moves with empty squares and enemy pieces.

2010-01-07 19:10:39 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Newly lexed winboard/parser.c


2010-01-07 19:05:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Harmonize declarations of XBoard and WinBoard

The engine-exit and settings patches make some stuff common to WinBoard
and XBoard, which needed to be harmonized, and is moved to frontend.h.

2010-01-07 13:07:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Allow Ctrl-C copying from EngineOutput window text to clipboard


2010-01-07 12:52:17 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Allow popup-less (fatal) exit of engine after tellusererror


2010-01-07 12:40:12 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Improve layout of Engine #N Settings dialog

An attempt is made to align the input fields of spins and text-edits

2010-01-07 00:31:11 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Let XBoard print version with argument --version or -v


2010-01-07 00:25:57 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix castling rule assignment in shuffle games

The conversion to in-board storage for rights copied directly to boards[0] in steadof
initialPosition, and was then overwritten when the latter was copied with uninitialized
rights to boards[0]. This affected FRC and CRC, where rights are non-standard.

2010-01-07 00:17:25 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Implement castling in -variant caparandom

CRC should be treated as FRC, but until now it never was. We now test for FRC_TYPE_CASTLING.

2010-01-07 00:09:18 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix default castling rights on reading incomplete FEN

This was overlooked in the conversion to the in-board storage of rights.

2010-01-07 00:03:09 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix NoncompliantFEN defaults.

This must be NULL to get compliant FENs, not "", which would suppress castling and e.p. fields.

2010-01-06 23:54:49 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Change format of -adapterCommand.

first or f at the start of an option name are now automatically changed into second or s,
rather than needing %% to be recognized. The values of -ec and -ed in the default
-adapterCommand are now quoted (now XBoard understands quoting in the engine command line).

2010-01-06 23:51:16 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Make WinBoard defaults for -fd and -sd equal to "." rather than empty strings.


2010-01-06 23:28:47 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Delete old indirection settings-file code


2010-01-06 21:45:14 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Correct XBoard default debug file name


2010-01-06 21:34:48 +0100 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Suppress saving font settings.

The fonts are size dependent, and might thus not be reusable in the next
session. For now we therefore suppress the saving of them in the
settings file, until we diversify the fonts per boardSize.

2009-12-12 23:38:20 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
added missing sounds files to be able to compile on windows


2009-12-09 17:29:37 -0700 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
Changes needed to compile master branch.


2009-12-06 12:11:46 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
implements the eval-graph window for XBoard


2009-12-06 11:58:34 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
improves the XBoard handling of the engine command line

it now understands limited forms of quoting, so engine binaries with spaces in their file name can be handled.

2009-12-06 11:56:40 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
A better and more flexible way of invoking Polyglot

rewrote uci.c. No more use of temporary files, all data passed through the engine command line. Adds a new command-line option -adapterCommand for this.

2009-12-06 11:34:50 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
remove trailing \r in xboard output

there is an annoying carriage return (displayed as ^M) at the end of the PV in the engine-output window, not
only with Fairy-Max, but also with UCI engine running under Polyglot. This patch replaces the trailing CR that Linux programs send after the PV line y a space.

2009-11-29 11:56:32 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
double buffer size to prevent overflow

This patch doubles the size of the ICS input buffer to 16KB, to prevent
the suspected overflow with -keepLineBreaksICS false when using
"inchannel 1" on FICS and over 500 people are tuned in.

2009-11-28 13:33:52 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fix problem with empty string in -firstNeedsNoncompliantFEN

This fixes a bug in the use of the -firstNeedsNoncompliantFEN option with
an empty string as argument. (Which led to truncation of the FEN.)

2009-11-28 13:32:12 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
updates makefiles to include dependency on config.h

adds the dependency of wbres.o on config.c introduced by having the VersionInfo in the resource

2009-11-28 13:28:00 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
correctly apply some check boxes from the option menu

Usng the check-boxes in the Option->Adjudications menu to indicate the
engine reports absolute scores is now copied directly to the ChessProgramState,
from where it is used, in stead of only to appData. This makes the change take
effect immediately, in stead of after restarting.

2009-11-28 13:27:43 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
score sign in analysis mode

this does not alter any of the current behavior with compliant engines,
but does extend the correction for non-compliant score reporting under
control of the -first(second)ScoreIsAbs option to cases where the engine
is analyzing or playing on an ICS.

2009-11-24 21:09:30 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
fix for bug #28077: xboard needs to link against x11

hopefully fixed automake to take care of this

2009-11-23 20:37:20 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Fix castling rights when copying FEN to clipboard (again)

missed a spot last time

2009-11-23 20:22:58 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
restoring windows (EngineOutput and MoveHistory) on startup

restoring the open / closed status of the
auxiliary windows (EngineOutput and MoveHistory) on startup
in XBoard like they do in WinBoard, which makes sense now that
we aso remember their coordinates between sessions.

2009-11-23 20:21:14 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fixed some outstanding pixmaps

fixed transparency issues

2009-11-23 20:17:25 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
use linux style options for config file and add a system config file for XBoard

This patch makes XBoard write the options to its conf file in
Linux style, "-option value" rather than Windows style "/option=value".

The WinBoard option parsing code has always understood both formats
(including any hybrids), but the format it preferred for writing might
look quite strange to Linux users. I also attached a file to be installed
as /etc/xboard/xboard.conf on "make install".

2009-11-23 19:58:55 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fix window positioning

This patch adds stuff in the header files that allow the various front-end files
to share information on which windows exist, are up, and how they are positioned.
The EngineOutput, MoveHistory and GameList windows now all remember their
position and size, even when they are closed when XBoard exits.

2009-11-23 19:51:19 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
same argDescriptor parsing for Xboard and Winbaord

This patch makes XBoard and WinBoard use the same argDescriptor
list of options, and (largely) use the same code for parsing and saving them.
This is acheived by moving this code to a new file args.h, and #including this
in both winboard.c and xboard.c (so that tiny differences, e.g. in default
values in the table, are decided by the context). XBoard has new menu items
"Save Settings Now" and "Save Settings on Exit" in the "Option" menu.
XBoard uses /etc/xboard/xboard.conf as default settings file.
A new option, -saveSettingsFile, can specify where settings should be saved,
without parsing the file. (So that it also works if the file does not yet exist.)

2009-11-22 13:00:31 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
new developer release

changed release name to <branch>-<date>

2009-11-22 12:34:13 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fix the irritating wandering off of the MoveHistory window in XBoard on opening/closing.


2009-11-22 12:29:47 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
use xtell for talking to handles, but tell for talking into a channel.

by changing the chatboxes to use xtell in stead of tell, we broke
the possibility to use the chat-box for chatting into a channel (which is
apparently not possible with xtell).

2009-11-22 12:15:15 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fix bug in bughouse drop menu

This patch fixes the bughouse drop menu, which was broken by the
new mouse driver, and could no longer drop white Pawns.

2009-11-18 19:29:57 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
2nd step for moving option parsing from winboard to the backend

This is the next step in option-setting refactoring: All options that are
defined in XBoard are now included in the WinBoard ArgDescriptor list.
The handling of sound option has been harmonized: the sound names
now all initially go to the appData array, (as in XB) in stead of directly to the
WB-specific variables, and LoadAllSounds now takes care of the copying.
A new routine ExportSounds copies them back before saving settings
(which, in XBoard, could be a no-op).

The definition of defaults for the XB-only options has been moved to common.h.

2009-11-18 19:24:35 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
1st step for moving option parsing from winboard to the backend

This is a preparatory step in moving option parsing of WinBoard to the back-end.
The table of command-line options now contains a fifth field, holding the compiled-in default.
This obviates most of the front-end routine InitAppData, which now is replaced by a table-driven
initialization routine SetDefaultsFromList(), which could be back-end.

2009-11-18 12:33:39 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
refactoring evalgraph code

This is the refactored EvalGraph code: the back-end part is separated off,
and put in a file evalgraph.c, which in the future can also be used with XBoard.
Only the WinBoard front-end code is left in the file wevalgraph.c. A new
header file defines the variables and routines they share.

2009-11-18 12:29:06 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
clean-up

some file permissions where set up wrong
(e.g. execute permissions for text files)

2009-11-18 11:34:22 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
refactoring of engineoutput

This refactoring patch separates the back-end part out of
xengineoutput.c, and puts it in a separate file engineoutput.c.
A new header engineoutput.h included by both defines the routines
for cross calling. Similarly wengineo.c will be stripped from its
back-end code, (and renamed to wengineoutput.c), so WinBoard and
XBoard now both use engineoutput.c rather than maintaining duplicate
code in their front-end part.

I also let the back-end now call EngineOutputUpdate directly, rather then
through a relay in the front-end, by renaming it to SetProgramStats
(the former name of the relay in winboard.c / xboard.c).

Moved some templates of functions in engineoutput.c from winboard.h
to frontend.h

2009-11-14 22:13:10 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
fixed build on openbsd

added missing header file

2009-11-14 22:06:58 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
improve thinking-output for mulit-variant

Improve multi-variant support by sorting the Thinking-Output lines of the most recent depth by score in the Engine-Output window.

2009-11-14 22:05:12 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fix castling rights when copying FEN to clipboard

This patch forces leaving of Edit-Position mode before copying a FEN to the clipboard, to make sure castling rights are faked in a consistent way. Before you could get FENs that had castling rights for non-existent Rooks.

2009-11-14 22:03:47 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
This patch gives a better handling of comments in PGN files, and adds the variation as comment to the main line on using Revert in local mode.


2009-11-06 18:53:19 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
fixed prototype for AppendComment


2009-11-06 09:06:44 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
cleaned up some debug messages and typos


2009-11-06 09:05:09 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
variation-support patch

It allows you to Revert to the main line (or previous variation) when
playing variations on an existing game in EditGame or Analyze mode.

2009-11-06 08:48:09 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fix for new way of saving castling and e.p. information

I forgot to make some conversions to the new-style encoding of castling there
(using the enum constant NoRights instead of -1 to indicate
the absence of rights, which was the price of storing the
rights in the board, which is an unsigned enum type.)

I also was a bit worried about portability, because I casted the enum type ChessSquare
to (int) before comparing it with (possibly negative) constants EP_NONE etc.
Now on my system enum types are (unsigned int), and this works, but I could
imagine there are systems where this would be an unsigned char. (Not sure
if there are rules for this). So to be safe I cast ChessSquare to (signed char),
which should always work to make small negative ints assigned to it read
back as themselves.

2009-11-06 08:44:59 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
removed files that should only be in the windboard directory


2009-11-05 19:32:35 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
add Winboard source files into tar-ball

forgot to add them when rewriting the Makefile.am

2009-11-05 19:23:44 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Integrate castling and e.p. rights into board array; bugfix for EditPosition

A large-scale operation that I have been postponing since the very first 4.4.0:
The castling and e.p. rights are now integrated into the board array, as
boards[moveNr][CASTLING][i] replacing castlingRights[moveNr][i] and
boards[moveNr][EP_STATUS] replacing epStatus[moveNr]
These quantities are now automatically copied with the position by CopyBoards
(allowing the removal of lots of dedicated copying code), and passed as
function arguments with the position (so that the moves.c functions like
TestLegality, MateTest, CoordsToAlgebraic, Disambiguate, GenLegal
no longer need explicit e.p. and castling parameters.

Also fixed a bug introduced by a recent previous fix: by adding fake castling
rights to a position set up through the EditPosition menu, I destroyed the
castling rights of a pasted FEN. Faking castling rights is now made conditional
in EditPositionDone(), depending on the caller. (I had not realized it was also
called after FEN pasting, to send the position to the engine.)

2009-11-05 19:03:17 -0800 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
added missing library for build on OS X

Xmu seems to be missing

2009-11-04 22:57:30 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Some code refactoring and cleanup; one small bug fix

Some code refactoring, mainly to bring definitions of routines and variables
shared between winboard.c and one of the auxiliary-windows files
whistory.c, wevalgraph.c, wgamelist.c, wengineo.c somewere in a header file
(winboard.h). Unfortunately this made winboard.h dependent on data types
defined in frontend.h, so that the #include order had to be changed in many
other .c files.

The operation revealed one potentially bad bug: engineOutputDialogUp was
written as int in engineo.c, but declared as char in winboard.c.

I also changed the storage mechanism of the the comment and tags window
positions to use WindowPlacement structs rather than simple variables,
so that in the future they can be docked, like the others.

I also removed some remnants of the Analysis window.

The wgamelist.h and wedittags.h header files contained only 3 lines, and
I absorbed them in winboard.h, rather than creating other such nearly empty
headers engineo.h, whistory.h and wevalgraph.h. This affects the make files.

2009-11-03 18:26:06 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
let the clocks run in -searchTime mode


2009-11-02 17:41:12 -0800 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
add fixed time per move to the WinBoard time-control menu dialog


2009-10-31 10:42:50 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
updated version number to unstable


2009-10-31 10:25:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
release of version 4.4.1


2009-10-30 19:59:23 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
cleaned up ChangeLog and NEWS

2009-10-30 20:02:40 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
use xtell instead of tell in wchat

2009-10-28 20:35:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
prevent buffer overflow

This is a buffer-size adjustments to prevent the JAWS version from
crashing when it has to read out loud very long comments.

2009-10-28 02:17:16 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
Further copy/paste fixes

We needed to implement the XA_TARGETS target in order for more
sophisticated apps to really believe we put anything on the clipboard
they can use.

2009-10-27 23:57:25 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
Make copy/paste position and game use clipboard, bug #27810

Copy actually sets both the clipboard and the selection for
convenience and compatibility with the old way of doing things.
Paste pastes from the clipboard by default, but the new -pasteSelection
option lets you get back the old behavior of pasting from the
selection.

2009-10-27 15:44:28 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
switch focus to the board after loading a game

2009-10-27 15:32:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fix for bug #27826: fixed autoDisplayComment

apparently the -autoDisplayComment option was not working,
not even in WinBoard. This patch should fix it,both for WB and XB.
(Unfortunately xboard.c and winboard.c were using a different name
for the same front-end variable I needed, so I had to change one of them.)

2009-10-27 12:24:56 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fix for bug #27826: ported two options to xboard

also updated the documentation

2009-10-27 12:22:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fixed jaws version

turns out the new mouse handler broke the JAWS patch, as I discarded
the function IsPromotion. I adapted it to call HasPromotionChoice instead.
Also fixed two arnings by removing a no-longer needed debug print.

2009-10-27 12:03:02 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
reformated html to be correctly validated

2009-10-27 10:33:42 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
quick fix for "White Mates" in parser.l

2009-10-27 10:32:24 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
fixed a regression

2009-10-26 20:45:15 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
changed stderr to debug output, since stderr is closed in winboard

2009-10-26 20:42:24 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
removing empty lines from ICS play

this patch causes removal of spurious prompts during ICS play
also if the prompt is preceeded by a number of empty lines
(as the board for the opponent move is on FICS).

2009-10-26 20:40:00 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
another bug in VariantSwitch: an unitialized board was printed.

Must have been there a long time, but this time it crashed WinBoard.

2009-10-26 20:38:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
more work on variant switch

the previous solution to the cosmetic problem of displaying a wrong shuffle
in an ICS game that was observed from the very start unfortunately turned
out to cause a real error in diplaying a stored game through the smoves
command, for variants not using the FIDE setup as standard.

This patch displays the position from before setting up the start position
of the new variant, but does setup boards[0] to the initial position of that
variant. (If this is a wrong shuffle, it is thus ot displayed, and a new board
will immediately be sent from the ICS to correct the shuffle.)

2009-10-26 20:34:04 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
force full redraw in winboard

Full redraw is now always forced when highlightMovesWithArrow is on,
rather than only when highlight info is available. (As in drop moves the
latter is invalid, but we must still erase the arrow from the previous move.)

2009-10-26 20:25:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fix for bug #27790 and #277772. Suppressing the display of a wrong shuffle
when observing shuffle games from the first move (#27790 bis),
and the sounding of the FICS bell on crazyhouse captures (#27772 bis).

2009-10-26 20:22:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fixed bug related to unsigned char in convert.c

I also fixed the unsigned-char bug in the convert.c for bitmaps that caused the
129x129 XBoard bitmaps to be defective, and a bug that required fixup with sed
afterwards (so I could use it to create a new m33s.bm)

2009-10-25 23:37:48 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
unguarded debug printf. added the appropiate if statement

2009-10-25 23:31:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fix for two compiler warnings

2009-10-25 23:29:43 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fix for bug #27799: fix for nested-nested-nested variations

2009-10-25 23:21:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
The book-probe code forgot to close the book file after opening it.

fixed by adding an fclose at two points.

2009-10-25 23:18:18 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
removed unused v54?.bm bitmaps from resource file

it seems the v54?.bmp bitmaps were actually included in the WinBoard build
(in the resource file), although they were never actually used. So I have
removed their inclusion in the resource file now.

2009-10-25 23:05:30 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
replaced defective bitmaps with copies from 4.2.7

2009-10-25 23:02:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
removed bitmaps files that are not needed any more

2009-10-25 22:58:34 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fixed some bitmaps

2009-10-24 09:41:39 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
Drop an obsolete script that was only used to update my personal web site

2009-10-24 01:23:29 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
Silence warnings when compiling 64-bit xboard

Some harmless warnings were caused by 64-bit mode having 32-bit
int but 64-bit long and pointer.  Add casts (etc.) to silence them.
This might require adding a definition of intptr_t (a signed int
type that is the same width as a pointer) on old systems that don't
have it.

2009-10-24 00:56:37 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
Fix up man page some more

Sigh, the project history was still partly in reverse chronological
order and partly in forward order.  Swapped the order of some
sentences to help straighten it out.  I don't really care about this,
so other project members should feel free to do what they like here,
but the messed-up order was bugging me.

2009-10-24 00:46:20 -0700 Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>:
Fix some issues in the XBoard man page

Correct places where the XBoard man page was calling XBoard
"WinBoard".  Change references to "WinBoard engines" and "WinBoard
protocol" to "XBoard/WinBoard ...".  Update bug reporting guidelines.
Reorganize project history to something more like chronological order
-- it had gotten pretty randomly ordered.

2009-10-22 21:45:32 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
new pre-release version; updated version numbers

2009-10-22 21:33:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
This patch adds <Enter> to the characters that cause an automatic
switch to the ICS console when typed to the board window.

2009-10-22 21:31:16 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fix to the minor graphics issue contained some typos,
as was remarked in the bugs reports

2009-10-22 21:30:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
improved mouse handler

The improved mouse handler still needed an extra call to DrawPosition to
work in XBoard.

2009-10-22 21:28:38 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
NPS plays and pondering

Clock updating did not work correctly in node-based time controls when the
engine was pondering. (It was not really meant for use with pondering. Oh well...)
This patch checks if the engine reporting the node count is indeed thinking
(as opposed to pondering).

2009-10-22 21:25:36 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
holdings update and regression fix

The holdings-update patch was not yet satisfactory, because FICS seems to send
holdings both before and after the board! And those received before did overwrite
the holdings received after the previous board. I know tried to fix that in a kludgey
way, by hiding a flag in the board that tells if the holdings have already been written
by the ICS or not, and ignore new holdings when they are. (Except in bughouse,
where holdings updates cannot be tied to a particular board and multiple updates
between boards are normal. (I hope?).)

I also undid a regression in my previous fix for the minor graphics problem,
and solved it in a slightly different way to prevent flicker.

2009-10-22 21:23:39 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
improved mouse handler

I improved the mouse handler in a way which will preclude disappearence of pieces
on off-board or ambiguous (in-between squares) drag & drop moves. (As was reported
in the "premove bug?" thread. Also the command-line premove problem reported there
is now fixed, by removing the prefixing.

2009-10-22 21:18:05 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fix for bug #8847: moving backward while examining on FICS not reported to engine

I moved Daniel's code that backs up the engine when a bord with a
lower number is received to a place where it is always done in zippy mode,
rather than only when the engine is analyzing.

Apart from taking back moves, there was also the case where the
user moves forward by more than one move (usually immediately to
end-of-game). In this case a new movelist is fetched from the ICS
to recover the moves that were skipped. But this assumes that the
engine is at the start of the game and feeds all these moves to the
engine. So the engine had to be reset in this case to stay in sync.

2009-10-22 21:16:56 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
better init for random number generator

2009-10-21 23:01:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fix for bug #27772: holdings not updated

holdings lines from the ICS nor update the holdings
of boards[forwardMostMove] in stead of boards[currentMove].

2009-10-21 21:32:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
allowe parsing / disambiguation of SAN moves like Xe4 in certain situations

This patch allows parsing / disambiguation of SAN moves like Xe4, if there
is only one wild-card piece X on the board. Moves with wild-card pieces
are now considered illegal if they leave the King in check by a piece of
known gait.

2009-10-20 19:09:46 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fixed bug when switching to variantsuper

2009-10-20 19:06:43 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fix for bug #27715: 2 (minor) graphic issues

I forced a total redraw when Reset is called from the ICS code in case a
new game is encountered, in the hope it will make the reported
(irreproducible) problem go away. As game switches are not frequent, I
guess there is hardly any downside to this.

2009-10-20 18:57:17 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fix for bug #27667: PV line missing in analysis window, part 3

"3. Wish for Engine state string (right to the icon):
Can you add the actual search depth in analyzing mode? A change like "

I also added the requested display of depth of the analysis move in the
EngineOutput window. I guess a similar change could be made to wengineo.c
(as this is in the code they share in common), but no one ever requested
that in the 5 years since Alessandro wrote it. So for now I leave it alone.

2009-10-20 18:52:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fix for bug #27760: debug printf in backend.c and additional check for variant

2009-10-19 23:17:46 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
fix for bug #10990: cmail does not seem to support .cmailgames or .cmailaliases

this is correct, deleted the text out of the documentation that claims we support it

2009-10-19 18:40:40 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
new alpha version; first one with new naming scheme

2009-10-19 18:07:21 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
smarter analysis of the boards that XBoard receives from an ICS

I added smarter analysis of the boards that XBoard receves from an ICS,
based on board size and piece types in the position, to recognize cases
where the board does not match the current variant, and switch to an
appropriate variant.

2009-10-19 18:04:08 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fix for bug #27667: window should be reference to toplevel

The remaining objections of #27667 should be fixed by bringing the
EngineOutput window under control of the TOPLEVEL compile-time switch.

2009-10-19 18:02:42 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
partly fix for bug #27715: scaling of menu bar

the menu bar to the left edge of the window.

2009-10-19 17:59:43 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fixed bug reported in WB forum: second game of a match would
not start when using the GUI book

2009-10-19 17:57:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fix for bug #27751: negative holding counts displayed

I put code in the back-end to prevent holdings counts from
becoming negative when a drop move is made from empty holdings.
(This can happen when re-loading ICS bughouse games,
as the smoves command fails to fill the holdings.)

2009-10-18 20:54:53 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
Updated compiling instructions.

2009-10-18 11:32:55 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
Changes to allow fonts with any charset (such as terminal)

Affects winboard only.

2009-10-16 23:02:41 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
Moved SIGWINCH signal so it can be used...

I goofed putting this in StartChildProcess() originally.

2009-10-16 22:54:12 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
Added internal wrapping ability.

New options:
  -wrapContinuationSequence "foo"  (default: "\\   "
  -useInternalWrap (Winboard default: false, XBoard default: true)

Note: -keepLineBreaksICS if set, prevents wrapping, usurping the
   useInternalWrap setting.  The idea is if you want to keep ICS line
   breaks, then you don't want internal wrapping.  Because of this,
   the new default for keepLineBreaksICS is now false for XBoard.

2009-10-16 19:14:34 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fixed segfaul in convert.c used to convert pixmaps

2009-10-15 19:46:07 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
new mousehandler to correct for premove and promotion popup

this is the new mouse handler for XBoard, which should fully implement
premove, including promotion popup, and yet suppress the promotion popup
on illegal moves that are not premoves. It is almost completely moved to
the back-end now, so that WinBoard will be able to use it as well. I just
must hook it up to winboard.c, in particular harmonize the call-backs of
the mouse driver into the front-end for grabbing and releasing pieces for
dragging, to make sure they have the same names and arguments.

2009-10-15 19:32:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
updated black fairy pieces

here is a set of black fairy pieces with opaque white details,
so they have the same style as the orthodox XBoard pieces.

2009-10-15 16:54:51 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
Adjustment to joining to work around server not always including space.

This patch implements commit 98aa02bda540f17f1f50be00e494efafe439b004
into the updated joining routine.  This issue seems not to be server
variance, but instead the server electing to omit the space between
words when it occurs at exactly your width setting (-1 actually).

This patch makes the joiner add back the space just like the referenced
commit.  Note: this is just a workaround to a server issue-- the joiner
actually joins correctly before this patch.

2009-10-15 07:18:42 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
Fixed joiner detection, allowing it to work with timeseal

When timeseal's buffer fills in the middle of the continuation
sequence, detection fails, and the lines aren't joined.

As a result of this fix, measures intended to bypass joining are
no longer needed, so I removed them.  These utilize server vars
when available to prevent splitting.

2009-10-14 14:42:37 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fixed engingeoutput routine

removed outdated code regarding analysis window

2009-10-14 14:39:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
moved bitmap to correct location

was misplaced in a previous commit

2009-10-14 14:26:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fixed wrong number of arguments for EngineOutputPopUp

2009-10-13 21:00:27 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
new bitmap converter (including fill option) and new pixmaps

2009-10-13 20:52:40 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
forgot to add these two lines to the last commit

2009-10-13 20:51:17 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
removed AnalysisPopUp. Use EngineOutputPopUp instead

this was already in Winboard, copied it to xboard and removed unused code.

2009-10-13 20:32:32 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Proper board and holdings size when switching to variants
gothic, capablanca, great and super within an ICS game.

2009-10-13 20:25:13 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
cleaned up an old #ifdef in zippy

2009-10-12 19:25:17 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
neglected this for the auto-width updating in xboard

2009-10-12 19:19:59 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
Added server width adjustment based on client width changes

2009-10-12 19:14:53 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
silence some compiler warnings

2009-10-11 18:39:24 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
Maintainence to support all compilers.

2009-10-11 17:07:27 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
Adjusted alternative joining method to obey keepLineBreaksICS

2009-10-11 14:48:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fix for bug #27668: e.p. field still not passed to engine

PositionToFEN now takes the e.p. rights from epStatus[moveNr],
rather than calculating it on the spot from moveList[moveNr-1]
(which failed on the first move).

2009-10-11 14:46:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fix for bug #27666: naming of variants

Variant names "misc/xxx" are recognized as "normal", rather than "xxx"
to not get confused by the board "misc shogi" run by FICS.

2009-10-11 10:14:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
changed enable menus

Put the "Open Chat Window", "Machine Both", and "Engine #N Settings" menu items
in the appropriate enable lists for graying them out wen not applicable.

2009-10-11 10:13:14 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Added a command-line option -keepLineBreaksICS true/false to control line joining.

2009-10-10 19:30:23 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
Added code to prevent unnecessary width updates.

2009-10-10 18:34:37 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
Turned off wrap when possible on ICS servers.

Turning off line wrap prevents splitting lines up using the
continuation sequence "\\   ".  This is desirable when using
timeseal because timeseal's buffer is sometimes too small,
causing it to break lines itself.  These lines can't be joined.

2009-10-10 16:30:56 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
vsnprintf() must be _vsnprintf() for MSVC

2009-10-10 16:16:45 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
added code to handle initial width update

2009-10-10 14:21:12 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
Added width updates to ICS client on font and window size changes

What still needs to be done is placing an update call after login
to initialize with the correct width.  I didn't see where to put
that.

2009-10-10 14:19:30 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
added ics_printf() and ics_update_width() and utility functions

2009-10-10 11:15:50 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
Cleaned up ConsoleWndProc  (not complete, see below)

Using static variables this way is not appropriate.  I only addressed
hInput and hText in this commit though.  But imagine the WndProc being
used by multiple windows instead of just one, and you can see why
using static variables in this way is wrong.

2009-10-10 11:12:10 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
Restructured URL code so it fits better with how winboard is set up.

2009-10-10 08:57:39 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
cleanup: removed "#if 1" statements

2009-10-10 08:55:21 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
cleanup: removed "#if 0" from source

a bit of cleanup of the source code

2009-10-10 08:34:10 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fix joining of lines split by ICS

This patch fixes the joining of lines that were split by an ICS, so that adding
a space at the break point is done only when there was not a space already.
(Some ICS leave a space at the end of the broken line, others do not.)
An extra space would interefere with board12 in Gothic Chess, which is so
long that the ICS breaks it, and the WB parser could not handle a double
space within the board.

2009-10-10 08:27:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fix for bug #27642: Clock jumps strangely in engine mode

This moves SwitchClocks() back to after incrementing forwardMostMove,
so that it knows again who has the move (which was broken by the "bare" patch),
and will take the appropriate tick length.

2009-10-10 08:26:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
removed test for premove

this was added while looking for the premove bug, but is not needed

2009-10-10 02:03:45 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
added URL detection and provided hotlinks in the ICS client

2009-10-10 02:00:52 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
reverted winboard.c beofre URL commit to correct whitespace conversion

2009-10-09 02:14:22 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
Added URL detection into the console text window for ICS.

2009-10-08 23:51:06 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
added some comments and formated code

2009-10-08 23:46:52 -0700 Chris Rorvick <>:
fix printing out help message (list of command line options) (tiny change)

The postfix increment always resulted in an attempt to print out an
option on the right side regardless of one actually existing. Use
prefix increment to prevent a crash when printing an odd number of
options.

2009-10-09 00:04:51 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
Updated navigation accelerators, fixing ICS problems.

Recent changes to the navigation accelerators were in the wrong
accelerator table.  Since the goal was to correct non-JAWS versions
back to 4.2.7 behavior, I updated it to how 4.2.7 did it, but still
retained the #ifdef JAWS conditional compilation.

On an ICS, the navigation keys took control away from the ics
client to navigate the game.  The update requires the ALT key to
be pressed, but it works identical to 4.2.7, not causing an
unexpected focus back to the board window when you're just editing
text.

2009-10-08 20:33:39 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fixed premove recapture problem;promotion popup appearing on
obviously illegal moves; promotions in Superchess and Great Shatranj

1) the premove recapture problem
2) the promotion popup appearing on obviously illegal moves (the 1. e2a8
problem)
3) promotions in Superchess and Great Shatranj, where the piece can now be
selected from the holdings

2009-10-08 20:28:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
added forceIllegalMove to xboard

2009-10-05 21:01:32 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
bugfix: segfault when invalid option argument was given (bug #27427)

when given a wrong argument to an option (e.g. -tc 0) xboard aborts
before setting up the window, but tried to write a message to the
messageWidget which doesn't exist at that point.

2009-10-05 20:05:00 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
small improvement for JAWS version

This is a patch to make JAWS read out any comments when /autoDiplaycomment=true.
As focus does not stay on the Comment window, the comment was not spoken otherwise.

2009-10-05 20:02:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
updated to winboard internationalization scripts

Also a slight improvement of the internationalization scripting,
to prevent it from crashing on messages containing a slash.

2009-10-05 20:01:53 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
new forceIllegalMoves option

The -forceIllegalMoves option uses setboard or edit to force a position
when an engine refuses the move leading to it by an "Illegal Move" message.
Especially for engines using the edit command this was a bit tricky,
because of the a2a3 kludge to avoid using the white and black commands.

2009-10-05 01:01:54 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
removed _winmajor if not defined so that VC 2008 can compile the project

The oldDialog variable should just be set to 0 in all cases now, and
as such, legacy code supporting the old dialog ought to be removed.
The test for _winmajor is against < 4, which is always false at present,
causing oldDialog to be 0 in every conceviable circumstance.

2009-10-04 09:58:29 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
getting ready for 4.4.1 release

2009-10-02 20:47:01 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
Simplified future version changes.

Added a numeric version to config.h that is now used in winboard.rc
instead of being hard-coded there.  Just be sure to preserve the
proper format (4 comma-separated 16 bit integers) or else it won't
compile.

2009-10-02 16:56:01 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
updated version number to 4.4.1.pre

should have done this straight after the last release, but forgot...

2009-10-02 16:48:03 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
worked on premove bug

I made an attempt to make premove unsensitive to a race condition,
just in case the premove problem was caused by that (which seems unlikely,
but in any case  I added some debug printout to test this).

2009-10-02 16:41:12 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fixed loading of saved games via command line

the variables forwardMostMove and backwardMostMove where set to zero
at the wrong place.

2009-10-02 16:39:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
small fixes for the JAWS version

* I moved saying 'check' by the JAWS version to where castling also benefits from it.
* I made sure the check symbols are also recognized on promotion moves
* In the non-JAWS version, define the plain arrows as shortcut keys for the button bar

2009-10-01 16:50:28 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
Fixed bug dereferencing garbage, causing crash.

Commit fa8be4a3fc5d81e9ec1f6c218fcf55c95d34fd10 included code to free the
resultDetails of the gameInfo structure.  That exact code exists a few lines
above where it was added.  None of these free() calls finish by setting the
member to NULL afterword, therefore repeated attempts to test/free() the
members result in an attempt to free() memory winboard no longer owns, and
an eventual crash.

link to problematic commit: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/xboard.git/commit/?id=fa8be4a3fc5d81e9ec1f6c218fcf55c95d34fd10

2009-10-01 16:49:57 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
Added wchat.c to the project files we maintain.

2009-10-01 15:52:50 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
Previous fix for VC++/strcasecmp() was wrong-- use StrCaseCmp().

2009-10-01 14:49:58 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
Add resource ID for new Mute menu item.

I know this was probably done by HG, and simply left out of
his commit.  Anyway, the project can be built now after this change.

2009-10-01 14:49:09 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
Use of strcasecmp() broke Visual C++.

2009-09-30 20:47:00 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
wrong default value for engineDebugOutput

the new default is now 1

2009-09-29 22:55:41 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
updated cmail.in to adapt the CVS->git change

don't reference $Revision:$ anymore.
Instead use reference xboard-version via autoconf.

2009-09-29 22:04:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
bugfix for protocol extensions: egtbpath -> egtpath

A new and very bad bug was discovered in the implementation of
the protocol extensions: XBoard sends a command "egtbpath" to the
engine in stead of "egtpath" from the protocol specs.
After discussion on WB forum it was decided that egtpath was better
than the egtbpath I originally had proposed, and I changed it accordingly,
but I had not realized that this string occurred TWICE in backend.c,
depending on if matched the -defaultPathEGTB of -egtFormats option.
I only changed the first occurence.

2009-09-27 12:27:44 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fix for edit-position "moves" being sent by XBoard to the engine

2009-09-27 12:25:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Engine did not start playing when out of GUI book on second move with white

2009-09-27 12:24:30 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Opening Engine #1 Settings crashed XBoard when there were no
text-edit options in the dialog (to which to set keyboard focus)


2009-09-27 12:18:35 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
added a "Mute All Sounds" item in the WinBoard Options menu, on Eric's request

2009-09-27 12:15:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Updated the RTF docs for the chat windows, engine-settings dialog,
/keepAlive option and new game-list tag

2009-09-27 12:14:25 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Made the beep sounds for JAWS board navigation configurable through
command-line options

2009-09-27 12:11:49 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
Prepared a system to internationalize the WinBoard menus

2009-09-27 12:10:38 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
added the result comment to the game-list tags when the game list is
exported to the clipboard

2009-09-27 12:05:32 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
rewrote wevalgraph for better frontend/backend separation

I have finished re-writing the eval-graph code to have some
front-end / backe-end separation, something I had already started on my
holiday in Norway (when I had no internet :-)  ).
The new code now appears to work exactly like the old code,
and I guess it could be ported to gtk comparatively easily.

2009-09-27 12:00:51 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fix for keepalive and chat window

I made a fix to the keepAlive option so it does not send the date command
to the ICS after every move. This required changing ScheduleDelayedEvent()
so that it does not execute the event if a new identical one gets scheduled.
I also added the option to XBoard. Affects xboard.c (DOS!) and winboard.c

(This also cures the regression of the winboard.c copyright patch)

I extended the chatbox patch to also listen to channel tells, and divert
them to a chatbox for that channel number. Affects
backend.c and wchat.c

That should make those patches fully operational. No docs for either of them
yet, though.

2009-09-27 10:36:23 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fixed parse bug for pgn files

fixed the existing bug that the time-control tag was displayed as "?"
in the game list; turns out it was never parsed on reading PGN files

2009-09-27 10:35:58 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
allow the result comment as a display item in the game list

2009-09-27 10:35:13 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fixed the HAVE_LIBXPM-dependent compile errors

2009-09-27 10:24:47 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
added a chat window to keep track of multiple conversations

The chat-window patch affects:
winboard.c, backend.c, winboard.rc, resource.h, backend.h, and adds
the file winboard/wchat.c, which also affects makefile.gcc and makefile.ms.

In addition I added a new option -keepAlive, which affects
common.h (in addition to winboard.c and backend.c).

As I had to modify backend.h, I also defined the -reset option type there,
which we are going to add later. This required some changes
to suppress warnings in wsettings.c.

2009-09-27 10:22:16 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
more files for git to ignore

most of these are generated by make distcheck

2009-09-08 09:33:53 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
another bug fix found by Stanislav Brabec

returned -1  in some case although the variable was a char...
changed to signed char

2009-09-20 23:13:13 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
Swapped 'tell' and 'message' parsing order for colorization.
Sometimes messages are relayed as tells and should be colorized as tells.

2009-09-08 09:10:34 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
added some more files to be distributed via make dist

as suggested by Stanislav Brabec

2009-09-08 09:01:07 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
fixed some implicit declarations reported by Stanislav Brabec

2009-09-07 22:04:39 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
fixed a few more small bugs reported by Stanislav Brabec

- A function uses a 'return;' statement, but has actually a value to
return, like an integer ('return 42;') or similar: xboard voidreturn
xengineoutput.c:766, 782

- Program returns random data in a function at xengineoutput.c:602

- With a new toolchain, AM_LDFLAGS cannot contain libraries. Linker
ignores them. Fix is attached.

- ToDo: Convenient name in most projects is TODO (autotools package it
automatically).

2009-09-06 19:11:22 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
reverted .texi file and fixed Makefile.am

the problem was actually not in the texi-file, but the Makefile.am.
Reverted changes in the .texi and fixed it (hopefully) correctly now.

2009-09-06 18:23:01 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
get "make distcheck" to work

needed to add all *.h files to Makefile.am and also the bitmaps that
are needed and some other files. Also had modified copyright.texi.

2009-09-05 09:54:37 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
changed to version 4.4.0

2009-09-05 09:44:21 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
updated AUTHORS, README and ChangeLog files for release

2009-09-05 08:52:09 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fixed some typos

2009-09-04 22:39:45 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
set castling rights after setting up a position

I was going through old WB forum posts, and I encountered a
bug report for a bug that I never fixed: The castling rights should
be properly set (actually: cleared) after setting up a position
in Edit Position mode (as opposed to pasting a FEN).

2009-09-03 23:11:18 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
removed install files from master

they now live in their own branch

2009-09-03 22:30:18 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
updated polyglot protocol

I added a new option type "-reset" to the protocol for the new option feature.
4.4.0 does not implement it yet, but Michel wants it for future Polyglots,
and I think it is best to update the protocol in one big swoop.
So I want to already include it in the specs now. (engine-intf.html)
I made xboard's response to an unknown option type compliant
with the new protocol specs.

2009-09-03 22:28:50 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fixed some typos

2009-09-03 20:47:13 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
Updated project files for DevCpp and Visual Studio to add wsettings.c

2009-09-03 20:46:33 -0600 Eric Mullins <emwine@earthlink.net>:
Added newline at end of file to silence warning.

2009-08-31 20:29:49 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
workaround for error message for missing pieces used in variants
and initstring bugfix: error messages showed for non-existing pieces
showed up for old user supplied pixmaps.
Loading a pixmap of the king for the missing pieces now.

Another bad bug surfaced: the -initString argument does not work in any
XBoard version! (Including 4.2.7b) The escape sequences for linefeed in
the string are not understood: -initString "new\nrandom\n" actually sends
the \ and n to the engine (which then does not recognize the line as a
valid command)!

So I also added a patch to expand escape sequences in the InitString and
ComputerString command-line options.

2009-08-31 20:27:24 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
updated installe script

I re-organized the doc files in the install, so they now all go in the
WinBoard\doc folder (and none in the root). I so included the COPYING
and COPYRIGHT files there. This required some updates of the links in
some html files, and of the menu link to README.html in the install script.
I also fixed an error with the current directory
in the menu short-cuts of some engines (which started in the fonts folder,
and could not find the opening book there...).

2009-08-31 20:25:17 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
updated documentation

2009-08-31 20:20:55 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
updated installer script

2009-08-31 19:51:48 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
new help files for windows

2009-08-25 20:41:29 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
updated installer

2009-08-25 20:36:53 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
undid some previous changes

some files got mixed up

2009-08-25 20:32:22 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fixed small bug in wsetting

2009-08-25 20:29:06 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
trigger a focus switch to ICS input field when typing

old behavior was that "." or "," triggered this,
now every printable character  except 1-9 will trigger the focus switch

2009-08-25 20:26:20 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
bug in backend.c when receiving lines from ICS

A space was appended to every character received from an ICS
in stead of just at line breaks.

2009-08-24 23:47:48 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
fixed warning messages from compiler

2009-08-23 14:24:38 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
fixed build on OS X

this seems to fix it. Bug reported by Louis Zulli who also did the testing.

2009-08-23 11:54:28 -0700 H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>:
OK, this is the beefed up version of the Polyglot info-string kludge,
for WB and XB.

2009-08-23 10:22:48 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>:
added missing X_LIBS references to Makefile.am

2009-08-22 23:33:44 -0700 Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.ne