Op Di, 10 december, 2019 12:56 pm schreef [email protected]: > Hey. > How to suppress the window "WinBoard Startup". > I want to start WinBoard with option: "just the viewer or edit game files" > -- > Jakub Zalewski >
You can make a Windows shortcut that uses the command winboard.exe -ncp (The 'ncp' is short for noChessProgram, i.e. game-viwer mode.) But if you want to use WinBoard for examining a game that you already have in a PGN file, it should be sufficient to double-click that file. The normal install of WinBoard 4.8 should have associated the .PGN extension to WinBoard, and automatically start WinBoard as game viewer with that file loaded when it gets double-clicked. An alternative that even works without this association would be to drag the PGN file on top of the winboard.exe icon. Instead of a Windows shortcut you could also put all command-line options that you need to run WinBoard in a certain mode (like -ncp) in a file with extension .ini or .xop, and drag that on top of the winboard.exe icon to start WinBoard with those options. If everything WinBoard needs to know is already specified that way (i.e. one of -ncp, -cp, -ics, and, when relevant specification of engines (-fcp and -scp) or ICS (-icshost)), there is no reason for WinBoard to put up the Stratup Dialog.
