The second board, with clocks that count down, would be super for bughouse.
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 2:32 AM, h.g. muller <[email protected]> wrote: > At 14:41 10-4-2012 -0700, Arun Persaud wrote: >> >> didn't have time to test, but a second window with clocks and move >> highlight sounds better... does this automatically open if you play or >> observe a bughouse game or a simul-game on FICS? That would be great! > > > It behaves like the old dual-board option (except that it displays the > second > board in a separate window, rather than both in the same). That is, it > automatically > pops up the window when you receive a board from the ICS while you are > playing > a game, which is not from that game, when background-observe and dual-board > are both on. > > It should not be too difficult to have the active clock count down as well, > handling that from the timer callback that decrements your own clock. > (The clocks of the dual board does not require msec accuracy, so there > is little harm in decrementing them simultaneously. In ICS mode clocks > are only an indication anyway.) The point is that this would have to be done > from the back-end, so it would affect WinBoard, and I would have to provide > (dummy?) support in WB for the calls to update the second set of clocks > there. > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-XBoard mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-xboard _______________________________________________ Bug-XBoard mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-xboard
