RE: error in program

Without an example we cannot take this seriously. Op ma., feb. 7, 2022 om 15:37, Jeremy De Armond schreef: https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=why+can%27t+king+take+queen&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#:~:text=About%20412%2C000%2C000%20results,check%3F%20%2D%20Chess%20Forums (https:/

RE: [bug #61729] generic no gnuchess on localhost error or arch family

I have no clue what you are reporting here. If gnuchess gives you troublee, you should report it to the gnuchess developers. Op za., dec. 25, 2021 om 23:56, Adi Prasetyo schreef: URL: Summary: generic no gnuchess on localhost error or arch family Project: XBoard Submitted by: enter_rebel Submitte

RE: Error Variant fischerandom not supported when loading Event tag containing pipe symbol

Oh, I see. It understands the 1960 in the event tag as Chess960... Sorry I was so slow. Op vr., dec. 17, 2021 om 02:44, Alan Bennet schreef: Hi, I ran across this in a PGN I created. The actual message was Error "Variant fischerandom not supported by Crafty-23.4". Since Fruit gives the same messa

RE: Error Variant fischerandom not supported when loading Event tag containing pipe symbol

Indeed itcomes from teh GUI. What exactly is it that you do not understand about this message? Op vr., dec. 17, 2021 om 02:44, Alan Bennet schreef: Hi, I ran across this in a PGN I created. The actual message was Error "Variant fischerandom not supported by Crafty-23.4". Since Fruit gives the sa

RE: Xboard bug

Well, white has no King there. That is illegal, right? Op di., dec. 14, 2021 om 08:59, Richard Trahan schreef: Consider this position (fen notation): rk6/p7/B1P5/1N6/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1 Edit Game mode says that any move by White is illegal. Using Xboard 4.9.1 on Ubuntu 20.04.

RE: XBoard 4.9.1a OSX intel

XBoard is 'internationalized', which means it should automatically adapt its language to the locale the host computer is set for. There are no different versions for the various languages, just a single version that adapts automatically. If your mac is not set for French, then there must be somet

RE[2]: no pxboard

pxboard is a shell script that, according to the comments in it, can be used to let XBoard display a game through a command cat GAMEFILE | pxboard I thought this was totally obsolete. For one, the smae can be achieved by simply typing the shorter xboard GAMEFILE But perhaps the intended use is wh

RE: no castle in Edit Game

Which method do you use to set up the position? If you drag a Rook to a new square, it will never have castling rights there. But if you left-click a Rook that is already selected, you toggle its castling rights. The new state of the rights is displayed in the message field above the board. Op w

RE: Machine never made eighth move

This indeed sounds like a GNU Chess problem. If you want to be sure, run XBoard with the command xboard -fcp gnuchess -debug XBoard will then make a log of all communication with the engine in the file xboard.debug . If the problem again occurs, you can mail us that fail, so we can see which prog

RE: please help me make timestamp work for xboard

Well, to make things clear: timestamp is not part of the XBoard project, but propriatry closed-source software developed by ICC. The idea behind it is that it encrypts the communication between client and server in a secret way that cannot be reproduced by a non-trusted party in order to tamper

RE: [bug #60112] alternate gameplay options

XBoard already supports chess variants with arbitrary piece moves. To make Pawns move backwards you just would have to specify their move with the aid of the -men option (e.g. xboard -men "P:vmWfcF"). Normally the engine for that variant would do this automatically, as soon as you select the var

RE[2]: 4.9.1 + gnuchess doesn't work

Modern engines are supposed to reply "feature done=1" to XBoard's "protover 2" command. XBoard allows 10 sec for that reply to come, to give the engine some time to initialize before replying, and only continues once it is convinced no reply is forthcoming. GNU Chess only complains that it is an

RE: 4.9.1 + gnuchess doesn't work

Well, if XBoard 4.9.1 does work with other engines, then this seems a GNU Chess problem, and you should ask the GNU Chess developers to fix it. I have no archlinx system, and even if I had, there would not be much chance that I could reproduce and investigate what you report if you don't specify

Re: Xboard does not display an error message

Strange. When I use XBoard 4.9.1 on Ubuntu 18.10, and start it with a non-existing engine, I get an Error popup: Failed to start first chess program *** on localhost: ***: No such file or directory

Re: Use Xboard linux with a chess DGT usb Board

I believe there exists a DGT board-driver program for Linux, which disguises as a chess engine. By running this 'engine' under XBoard as you would run any other engine, the moves that you would play on the board would be relayed to XBoard like that engine played them. So if you would want to use t

Re: How to suppress the window WinBoard Startup.

Op Di, 10 december, 2019 12:56 pm schreef zja...@interia.pl: > 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

Re: Issue: Registration of UCI engines to play variants

The engines you use are UCI, which means they can only run through a protocol adapter that translates UCI to XBoard's native pcommunication protocol (CECP). So things depend on which such adapter(s) you have installed on your machine, and whether XBoard is configured to use them. Now by default we

Re: polyglot package

Op Zo, 1 september, 2019 8:50 am schreef Wolfgang Gauf: > apt show xboard | grep Recommends lists: fairymax, alsa-utils, > xfonts-100dpi | xfonts-75dpi > > Listing polyglot and uci2wb there would be an improvement. Sure. 'Recommends' doesn't imply it would be automatically installed when you insta

Re: polyglot package

It appears debian is running Polyglot 2.0.4: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=polyglot They also run UCI2WB: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=uci2wb Op Za, 31 augustus, 2019 7:27 pm schreef Joshua Pettus: > I wonder what version of polyglot they distibute. There are al

Re: polyglot package

Op Za, 31 augustus, 2019 11:30 am schreef Wolfgang Gauf: > Hi guys! > > You should definitely inform the relevant distros to bundle polyglot with xboard. > Unfortunately they do not consider XBoard dependent on Polyglot, because XBoard can also be used just as an interface for playing on freeches

Re: bug

I guess the error message in XBoard's popup is a bit cryptic here because of a mismatch in locales. Apparently there is no Portugese translation of XBoard, but the 'not found' error message the system produces for the attempt to launch Fairy-Max is in Portugese: "209 Hi, I recently installed xboar

Re: [Bug-XBoard] Gpsshogi don't work

Op Wo, 17 juli, 2019 10:07 am schreef Sam Daille: > Hello. > > > I've almost forgotten to tell you I solved my problem this WE. > > > It was obvious, but I didn't see it it : when I changed the -uxiAdapter > line in the .xboardrc, I forgot to put the final } on a second line. A yes, that is fatal:

Re: [Bug-XBoard] Gpsshogi don't work

I made some progress myself: I installed the 'gpsshogi' package on my Ubuntu 18.10, and indeed it is as I now suspected: it is 'gpsusi' that is the USI engine. The 'gpsshogi' is the xShogi-compatible version. I managed to run it (after installing UCI2WB and setting -uxiAdapter {uci2wb -%variant "%

Re: [Bug-XBoard] Gpsshogi don't work

Op Vr, 12 juli, 2019 12:38 pm schreef Sam Daille: > I had the 4.8.0-2 version of Xboard, and I must have installed it with a > sudo apt-get install command. OK, thanks. This indeed did not have that preconfiguration yet. In fact I see now that although I added it 2.5 years ago, we haven't done any

Re: [Bug-XBoard] Gpsshogi don't work

I still have one question: which version of XBoard are you using (in Help -> About)? I have been looking at the installation script of UCI2WB, because it puzzled me that your setting for -uxiAdapter originally was an empty string, even though you had installed UCI2WB. (So that hand-editing of .xboa

Re: [Bug-XBoard] Gpsshogi don't work

Op Do, 11 juli, 2019 2:25 pm schreef Sam Daille: > I'll try all this, but I wonder if I had the same problem with another > interface like tagua ? If you cannot run the engines from the command line, as seems to be the case with most engines you tried, no interface in the world can help you. > >

Re: [Bug-XBoard] Gpsshogi don't work

Oh, I was a bit wrong in my previous message. It appears I actually did compile Bonanza on Ubuntu 10.04. And the required command is make gcc not just "make". And you should make sure you take the latest snapshot of the 'test' branch of the repository, not the 'main' branch, which is initially di

Re: [Bug-XBoard] Gpsshogi don't work

Op Do, 11 juli, 2019 11:34 am schreef Sam Daille: > I have forgotten one thing : if you can explain me how to compil Bonanza > using the files on your website, it will be nice of you. At first sight, > it seems complicated to me... It should just be a matter of typing "make", after you downloaded

Re: [Bug-XBoard] Gpsshogi don't work

Op Do, 11 juli, 2019 11:45 am schreef Sam Daille: > I took the version of shokidoki on your website, the x64 one (as I'm on > amd64). OK, I tried that version now on Ubuntu 18.10 (which I had installed on another VM). I could run it there through the following sequence of commands: wget http://ho

Re: [Bug-XBoard] Gpsshogi don't work

Op Do, 11 juli, 2019 11:06 am schreef Sam Daille: > I made few trials and I discovered : > > > * that shokidoki certainly had a compilation problem : when I entered it > in the prompt command, it's unknown, unlike gpshsogi (my ubuntu is xenial, > 16, which is far from 10) ; Which version of Shoki

Re: [Bug-XBoard] Gpsshogi don't work

Op Wo, 10 juli, 2019 8:27 am schreef Sam Daille: > Thanks, I misunderstood the UCI/USI problem, now it's clearer. > > > I installed uci2wb (and sjaakii and shokidoki), but the problem remains : > when I changed the lines -adapterCommand -uxiAdapter on my .xboardrc (by > the prompt command or in h

Re: [Bug-XBoard] Gpsshogi don't work

Neither Stockfish nor GPS Shogi support XBoard protocol; they can only be used on XBoard with the aid of an adapter. Stockfish communicates in UCI, and GPS Shogi in USI. The UCI2WB adapter can handle both these protocols. So to use these engines you have to 1) install uci2wb on your computer, 2) m

Re: [Bug-XBoard] Can't choose sound directory from interface with xboard-4.9.1 on FreeBSD

XBoard just pops up the standard file-browse dialog of the GTK widget set, so this is not really an XBoard issue, but a GTK issue. My experience with GTK is not so large that have ever seen this. I expect that it would grey out directories for which you have no r or x permission, because the OS wo

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #56024] StockFish engine, doesn't seems to work (crashes).

Well, Stockfish is a UCI engine, so you cannot expect it to work without the -fUCI option. (I.e., from command line launch XBoard as "xboard -fcp stockfish -fUCI". And be sure Polyglot is installed.) Why this would lead to Stockfish exiting, (which is what the "broken pipe" suggests), rather than j

Re: [Bug-XBoard] cheating computer?

Learn the rules of Chess. The FIDE website would be a good place to start... Op Za, 21 juli, 2018 8:22 pm schreef Barbara Brozowski: > Since when can a pawn move diagonally without taking another pawn in that > space, and instead take the pawn that was next to it? > > Please see the enclosed 2 sc

Re: [Bug-XBoard] Castling not allowed when line is blocked

Op Do, 11 mei, 2017 6:49 pm schreef G van Breemen: > All, > > > Please amend your rules as per example, castling is not allowed as line > is occupied by queen. Well, I don't know by which rules you are playing, but in XBoard, variant normal, we adhere to FIDE rules... H.G. > > Many thanks, > > >

Re: [Bug-XBoard] xboard 4.8.0 and 4.9.0 Error with ./configure and no makeinfo

I am confused. Normally, when ./configure finds errors, it would not produce a Makefile, so that you cannot run 'make' at all (i.e. it would immediately exit, complaining there is no Makefile). Can you mail the output ./configure prints? If it finds 'makeinfo' missing on your system, it should hav

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #48571] Error after selecting new engine.

Op Do, 21 juli, 2016 4:42 pm schreef Γιώργος Κωστόπουλος: > > If I can make a suggestion (although I normally have to open another > thread), I think it would be very helpful to have xboard displaying the > reason (eg. gnuchess crashed), before exiting. > The problem is that it c

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #48571] Error after selecting new engine.

Well, from the debug file it looks like GNU Chess is started, and responds to commands, and then suddenly crashes. It does send a non-compliant 'Timelimit[n]=300' quite often(probably in response to 'accepted XXX'), but this should not be harmful. This might be due to not using an option with the e

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #48571] Error after selecting new engine.

Well, when I start XBoard in German and load GNU Chess through the menu dialog it also works. Can you start XBoard as "xboard -debug" and load GNU Chess (presumably causing XBoard to exit), and then send us the created xboard.debug file? Perhaps that will shed some light on the matter. It is very

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #48571] Error after selecting new engine.

Op Wo, 20 juli, 2016 4:59 pm schreef Giorgos: > After going Engine -> Load new 1st engine -> (Load 1st engine window) -> > Selecting GNU Chess here (providing or not the Engine Directory) How did you select GNU Chess? Did you type "gnuchess" in the engine ccmmand field? Did you use the Browse but

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #48321] Strange 'adjudication: Checkmate but bare king'

If you don't show the position where this happened, there is no way telling what the problem was. Normally XBoard corrects all ins for a side with a bare King to a draw, and then appends this "but bare king" phrase to the result message. This is mainly meant for wins by forfeit (e.g. flagging), as

[Bug-XBoard] configure options

Perhaps Arun can find time to have a quick look at this; I am pretty sure it must be a very small thing. The problem with the current ./configure is that it doesnot properly respond to the option --with-Xaw: it still build the GTK version. It seems you have toe xplicitly add --without-GTK in addit

Re: [Bug-XBoard] Xboard-hgbranch-master: Texture on the fly loading bug

Op Do, 3 maart, 2016 3:01 am schreef Joshua Pettus: > > At least there is the html version of the menu or does that not work? > The current menu does not have separate items for old-style help and html help, but counts on starting of the old-style help to fail before it launches the html help. When

Re: [Bug-XBoard] Xboard-hgbranch-master: Texture on the fly loading bug

Op Ma, 29 februari, 2016 3:51 pm schreef Joshua Pettus: > Thanks! I’ll have to figure out the printf statements later tonight, > things got a little busy over on my end :) Don't bother, I found and fixed it. I had been trying to reproduce it only by changing textures. But it turned out that cha

[Bug-XBoard] texi-file sectioning

The texi file that acts as source for the man pages of XBoard is in some places organized in sections and subsections. The idea was that the main menus, such as 'Options', form a section, and that each item in that menu that opens a menu dialog a subsection (e.g. 'General Options'). So that the ind

Re: [Bug-XBoard] Xboard-hgbranch-master: Texture on the fly loading bug

Op Zo, 28 februari, 2016 3:31 pm schreef Joshua Pettus: > , xboard crashes out whenever I > change the board textures (or pieces) while xboard is already open. > Texture changes were done through the board menu. I could not reproduce this at all. It is in theory possible that we do cairo_surface_d

Re: [Bug-XBoard] Xboard-hgbranch-master: Texture on the fly loading bug

Op Zo, 28 februari, 2016 11:32 pm schreef Tim Mann: > I hope you kept it running long enough to copy the ssh keys off it too! > (Or > that you don't need them anymore for some reason.) :-) > YES! That was actually the first thing I did, packing the .ssh directory and e-mailing it to myself. I wa

Re: [Bug-XBoard] Xboard-hgbranch-master: Texture on the fly loading bug

Op Zo, 28 februari, 2016 3:31 pm schreef Joshua Pettus: > .., xboard crashes out whenever I > change the board textures (or pieces) while xboard is already open. I just changed something in that area, to fix bug #45775. This may be related to that fix. BTW, I managed to push my entire master bran

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #47271] 50 move rule

XBoard takes account of all that, and I have never seen it make an error. Most engine-engine games actually last more than 50 moves. Castling can be illegal because the King or Rook has moved (or was said in the loaded position to have moved). Note that 50-move draws and illegal moves can also be

Re: [Bug-XBoard] XBoard won't show absolute analysis scores

Op Zo, 21 februari, 2016 11:54 pm schreef Dániel Arató: > Wait, you're talking about the "Engine Output" window... So there is > no way to get absolute scores in the analysis bar in _the main window_? > I am afraid that this is the current situation, and it probably should count as a bug/oversig

Re: [Bug-XBoard] XBoard won't show absolute analysis scores

I don't understand how this can be. Most of what you describe should work (and is in fact equivalent), and when I try it, both with WinBoard 4.8.0 and with the current development version, it does. Perhaps there is some misunderstanding on what it is supposed to do. -absoluteAnalysisScores only af

Re: [Bug-XBoard] Some bugs while compiling on OS X 10.10.5

Op Vr, 11 december, 2015 3:07 pm schreef Joshua Pettus: > I just tested on the current OSX app. Turns out, it doesn’t highlight > with the red dot, and does not capture. I take it this is a bug? > No, that is correct. It is not allowed in Chu Shogi to capture a protected Lion with a Lion from a

Re: [Bug-XBoard] Some bugs while compiling on OS X 10.10.5

Op Do, 10 december, 2015 2:58 am schreef global667: > Hello, > > > I got many, many warnings, while building the sources under OS X 10.10.5 > with clang (see attachment), but it works. > > If I run ./xboard with GTK, I got an warning. > > > $ ./xboard > No default pieces installed! > Select your ow

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #43792] Highlight last move doesn't work when pre-moved

Indeed, this works as designed, and that this is on a pre-move is just co-incidental. It seems that the desired behavior is that after rejection of a pre-move (or any move) the original state of the highlights is restored, though. In principle that should be possible. I can imagine that this is mos

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #43112] XBoard*form.translations doesn't work anymore

Actually I might have spoken a bit hastily. The Xaw version still seems to use .Xresources for defining translations, just not other preferences. The mechanism has changed, however, as the functions that would perform the desired actions are no longer logged with the X-server. Only the generic func

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #43112] XBoard*form.translations doesn't work anymore

The accelerators for the various menu functions have all been changed to conform with WinBoard; the old default key bindings were unacceptable anyway, because they were mostly printible characters, which should be reserved for typing moves and ICS commands. The new accelerators therefore are all C

Re: [Bug-XBoard] xboard/parser.c:s/inline/& static/g

Op Ma, 14 juli, 2014 11:39 am schreef david a. delagarza: > First, where are the (dev) sources for hachu *officially* located? I > found a version here ... Yes, hgm.nubati.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi is where my primary source repositories are. > but I couldn't find a git > clone url so I had to cUR

Re: [Bug-XBoard] Make and documentation is wrong

>From what you write ("either of the makefiles") it seems that you are trying to build WinBoard, according to a README file with instructions for building XBoard. To build WinBoard with gcc under Cygwin you need the command (issued in the winboard folder) makefile -f makefile.gcc To build with M

Re: [Bug-XBoard] X option '-name' not recognized by version 4.7.2

This should be considered an error in the documentation. Since version 4.5 XBoard no longer processes its options via the X-server, but uses its own settings file. As a consequence, none of the Xt options can be used anymore, (other than through .xresources), while none of the other options can be

Re: [Bug-XBoard] Help Man does not work in Xboard GTK

Oops. I meant of course > void ManProc () { > // called from menu > system("xterm -e man xboard &"); } > } ___ Bug-XBoard mailing list Bug-XBoard@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-xboard

Re: [Bug-XBoard] Help Man does not work in Xboard GTK

Op Zo, 24 november, 2013 7:16 pm schreef h.g.mul...@hccnet.nl: > Well, the GTK version is not officially finished yet, and the TODO_GTK > was used as a kludge to mark all the code that still has to be converted > from Xaw to GTK. But there doesn't seem to be any reason for this > particular part no

Re: [Bug-XBoard] Help Man does not work in Xboard GTK

Well, the GTK version is not officially finished yet, and the TODO_GTK was used as a kludge to mark all the code that still has to be converted from Xaw to GTK. But there doesn't seem to be any reason for this particular part not being done yet. Except perhaps that I did not understand the original

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #40571] Graphics bug

> When running XBoard in a tiling window manager, e.g. i3, you also can > get windows that are larger than the board and show artefacts on the side. > Can we keep track, if the outside of the board has been drawn on > and add a redraw for that? That is nasty. Do we really want the user to be able

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #40571] Graphics bug

The thing that is most obviously wrong is that the window seems to be maximized, leaving space besides the Chess board to draw on. This is not supposed to happen. XBoard's main window should not have a maximize button in the system menu on its frame, and when dragging the window at its boundary for

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #40161] Does not store time settings in configuration file

> I always set time management to x seconds per move. > Then I click on save settings. > But after an xboard restart the settings are reset to the defaults. Indeed, -searchTime is described as a volatile option. So it is not stored in the settings file. Because engines do perform very inefficientl

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #39971] fix configure switches misbehaving

Op Di, 1 oktober, 2013 10:18 pm schreef Tim Mann: > Ah, those look nice, at least in that size. Well, the knights' eyes look > strange in XChu.png, but fine in Lion1.png. Or are the "knights" in XChu > actually fairy pieces that have different looking eyes on purpose? Indeed, these are the symbols

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #39971] fix configure switches misbehaving

Op Di, 1 oktober, 2013 9:49 pm schreef Tim Mann: > It would be cool to have the old familiar piece shapes as SVG. > Yes, we do have an SVG set, and I think Arun copied the pieces by hand from the original xpm pieces (and the extra ones I made for variants). So they look as similar as you coul

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #39971] fix configure switches misbehaving

> The doc files suggest that the ZIICS chess sets were in a > format unique to ZIICS, but that the ones called "Fritz" were converted > from Fritz -- whether with or without permission I don't know. Well, the situation with pieces for XBoard since the switch to Cairo is such that anything people m

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #39971] fix configure switches misbehaving

OOp Di, 1 oktober, 2013 7:42 am schreef Tim Mann: > The documentation for zic2xpm says that it converts ZIICS pieces to xpm > format. ZIICS is an old program from way back that few are likely to > remember anymore. If zic2xpm works on ChessBase pieces, that's news to me > -- where did you hear tha

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #39971] fix configure switches misbehaving

Op Zo, 29 september, 2013 8:12 pm schreef Arun Persaud: > > Tim: I also removed zic2xpm from git, which I guess is not that usefull > anymore anyway? > Hmm, I did not think of zic2xpm. As I understand it this can only be used by legal owners of a ChessBase GUI to convert their nice piece images fro

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #39970] fix gettext error during autoreconf

Op Wo, 18 september, 2013 6:18 am schreef Arun Persaud: > > not sure, if there is a good way of handling this... unfortunately I don't > have the time to look into it at the moment, but if someone knows how this > could be done, I'm all for it. > I thought someone had pointed out what the problem

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #39971] fix configure switches misbehaving

Op Wo, 18 september, 2013 6:04 am schreef Arun Persaud: > > What's the status on this one? do we still need xpm at all or should/can > we remove it? > Since the last patch I pushed XBoard is now completely XPM free: I replaced the 7 remaining XPM icons that were used in the engine window by the Xa

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #39971] fix configure switches misbehaving

OK, I will convert those too, then. If I manage to make the Engine Output window work with plain bitmaps, the xpm-switch patch would have to be altered to always select "no" (or can be left out altogether?). Applying any patches for the autoconf process will have to await Arun's return from holid

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #39971] fix configure switches misbehaving

Hmm, I guess this is something that crept in unintentially long ago. XBoard was always designed so that it also could use bitmap pieces if libXpm was not available. The pieces are now completely the responsibilty of Cairo, however. XBoard uses a few black-and-white pixmaps unconditionally for the

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #39970] fix gettext error during autoreconf

Well, my Ubuntu 10.04 still has gettext 0.17, and attemps to install Ubuntu 12.04 so far only resulted in crashing of VirtualBox. I am not to keen on upgrading anyway; I still regret the day I upgraded from 8.04 to 10.04 on my laptop, because half of it doesn't function anymore since I did (stutter

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #39970] fix gettext error during autoreconf

I don't think this patch would improve matters in general. It just means that people that have gettext 0.17 installed now would get that same error message. In particular, it would mean I can no longer build XBoard myself. I thought at some point we were notified that this had something to do wit

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #39760] Xboard crashes when I try to create variations (using annotate)

I also could not reproduce this. Note that the internal code for WhitePawn in XBoard is 0, so that a board with all white Pawns is what you get for an un-initialized board. So it seems that you found a combination of actions that would allow you to step beyond the end of a game. But we don't seem

Re: [Bug-XBoard] xboard: No value provided for argument -polyglotBook

Op Wo, 20 maart, 2013 4:08 pm schreef Miś Uszatek: > Good morning > > > When the match options, I select engines and accepts xboard show error > "xboard: No value provided for the argument-polyglotBook". > You can not play a tournament engine. Indeed. The polyglotBook is written into the tourney

Re: [Bug-XBoard] Disappearing pieces and figures.

Op Za, 9 maart, 2013 8:47 pm schreef Miś Uszatek: > >>> What version of XBoard are you using? If it is 4.7.0, was this the >>> Xaw or >>> the GTK build? >>> >>> >> >> Yes, it is version 4.7.0. He was "libxaw7-dev" and "libgtk2.0-dev". >> I used to build the package >> "http://ftp.de.debian.org/de

Re: [Bug-XBoard] Disappearing pieces and figures.

> In Annex I send the video to see when and how to drop a pawn or figure. > > > This error occurs when you are playing against the engine. > On FICS also this error occurs. > Checked only in the variants "normal" and "suicide". OK, I understand now. I thought you were talking about Crazyhouse drop

Re: [Bug-XBoard] Disappearing pieces and figures.

> When you drop a pawn or figure on the wrong area, they disappear. Drop when? In Crazyhouse? Playing on ICS? Playing against an engine? During analysis? ___ Bug-XBoard mailing list Bug-XBoard@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-xboard

[Bug-XBoard] Configure problem

Someone reported to me the error message during ./configure that I copied below. Is this his problem, or a fault of out configure script? His system was Debian 6.0.6 'Squeeze'. __ matthew@Thunderbird:~/xboard$ ./configure --with

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #38324] Window does not receive focus with ctwm

Op Wo, 13 februari, 2013 11:41 am schreef Dario Niedermann: > > While using the ctwm window manager (version 3.8a) on X.Org X Server > 1.12.3, > the XBoard window does not receive focus when the mouse pointer enters it. > > > xboard version master-20121211 > Was this the developer release of that

Re: [Bug-XBoard] xboard 4.6.2 + crafty with zippy code

Op Vr, 2 november, 2012 4:41 pm schreef John Summerfield: > and find myself talking first to crafty then to crafty and FICS both > concurrently. It is not sufficiently clear from your description what exactly the symptoms are. What do you mean by 'talking to Crafty'? Is it like both XBoard and Cr

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #36228] reserved identifier violation

Are these things even needed? They seem to guard against multiple inclusion of the same header into the same file. But I don't think we do that in the first place. Our .c files #include .h files, and the .h files don't #include anything. Things only get messy when you have .h files include other .h

Re: [Bug-XBoard] The clock stops if the board window is moved with stickyWindows on

> After playing at FICS for some time I got a segfault. This is the stack > backtrace made from the core file: > > #0 0x7f5b68139694 in XtRemoveTimeOut () from Hmm, this is going to be hard. One can argue that a segfault in this Xt routine must always be an X11 bug. I am pretty sure that when

Re: [Bug-XBoard] Problem with seek graph

Op Wo, 7 maart, 2012 11:07 pm schreef Byrial Jensen: > I had a problem with using the seek graph while playing on FICS. Hmm, so there seems to be a race condition somewhere. Perhaps we should still fix this before releasing 4.6.0. The seek graph is drawn on the prompt when there is a 'sought pendi

Re: [Bug-XBoard] Xboard-4.5.3a bug: windows sliding

I pushed a patch to the master branch of Savannah now that implements the -frameX and -frameY options, with defaults 2 and 22. Which is good for me, but the Mac could actually need 0 for -frameX, based on what you told. ___ Bug-XBoard mailing list Bug-

Re: [Bug-XBoard] Xboard-4.5.3a bug: windows sliding

Op Za, 25 februari, 2012 10:52 am schreef Byrial Jensen: > Hi, > > > When I start Xboard and quit again the coordinates in .xbaordrc have > changed for all windows, even if they were never opened. The window coordinates are all stored relative to the coordinates of the main window. (Except for the

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #35181] Shortened menunames in tinymode not translated

> Couldn't menubar be made such that the text box for each menu title have > a limited size, rather than shortening the titles themselves. > OK, I pushed a change that does this to hgm.nubati.net. It looks as reasonable as you could expect. In any case _much_ preferable over the menu bar stretching

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #35181] Shortened menunames in tinymode not translated

> Couldn't menubar be made such that the text box for each menu title have > a limited size, rather than shortening the titles themselves. Perhaps this is possible; the menu items seem to be normal push buttons, except that drawing their border is suppressed by setting the line width to 0. The onl

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #34202] xboard has a 20-second startup delay running with Ubuntu 11.04

The manual should be reasonably up to date. Za, 24 december, 2011 12:21 am schreef Richard Kircher: > Follow-up Comment #7, bug #34202 (project xboard): > > > The command line option "-useBoardTexture true" worked fine but I think I > created myself another related problem by copying the compile

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #34202] xboard has a 20-second startup delay running with Ubuntu 11.04

It should be a persistent option. So if you switch it on from the menu once, XBoard should start up with textures enabled forever after. If not, your install is broken. Op Vr, 23 december, 2011 7:32 pm schreef Richard Kircher: > Follow-up Comment #5, bug #34202 (project xboard): > > > Regarding bo

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #34991] Load engine doesn't work in localized xboard

Well, I know how to fix that, when I will be back home. Vr, 16 december, 2011 12:53 pm schreef Byrial Jensen: > Follow-up Comment #6, bug #34991 (project xboard): > > > Status of this bug: > > > It seems to be all fixed from a functional point of view: > 1) The browse buttons work for Load engine

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #34991] Load engine doesn't work in localized xboard

I prefer solution 2. Di, 13 december, 2011 2:20 pm schreef Byrial Jensen: > Follow-up Comment #5, bug #34991 (project xboard): > > > You cannot just remove gettext calls from the combo code. > > > They are also used for combo boxes where translation is needed (search > mode in Load options, the s

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #34991] Load engine doesn't work in localized xboard

Then you must have broken translation of the sound optiond dialog. Di, 13 december, 2011 3:50 am schreef Arun Persaud: > Follow-up Comment #4, bug #34991 (project xboard): > > > This should be fixed now. I removed the gettext calls from ComboSelect > and CreateComboPopup. > > > git commit: 89c6ae

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #35000] Temporary previous position ('.' key, former Ctrl) conflicts with start of Type a move

Perhaps drop this too? WB does not have this. Ctrl, shift, alt not acceptable. All others autorepeat? Zo, 11 december, 2011 1:15 am schreef Byrial Jensen: > Follow-up Comment #3, bug #35000 (project xboard): > > > I have tested the git code. I doesn't work too well. Ctrl + . does go to > the prev

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #34991] Load engine doesn't work in localized xboard

Also used in sounds dialog. Have only smartphone on me. CU Zo, 11 december, 2011 1:58 am schreef Arun Persaud: > Hi > > > On 12/10/2011 04:47 PM, Byrial Jensen wrote: > >> Follow-up Comment #3, bug #34991 (project xboard): >> >> >> I just tried to load an engine with the nickname "Edit". The nic

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [XBoard-devel] [bug #35000] Temporary previous position ('.' key, former Ctrl) conflicts with start of Type a move

can also change test *buf < 32 in xoptions.c MoveTypeInProc to only accept letter digit. Vr, 9 december, 2011 5:49 am schreef Arun Persaud: > Hi > > > On 12/06/2011 02:58 PM, Byrial Jensen wrote: > >> URL: >> >> [...] >> The Ctrl key was in earlier versions us

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