[Bug-XBoard] [bug #27153] Pre-move does not work on xboard 4.4beta1

URL: Summary: Pre-move does not work on xboard 4.4beta1 Project: XBoard Submitted by: None Submitted on: Sat 01 Aug 2009 06:27:58 PM UTC Category: None Severity: 3 - N

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #27153] Pre-move does not work on xboard 4.4beta1

Update of bug #27153 (project xboard): Status:None => Need Info ___ Follow-up Comment #1: Hi, what operating system, etc are you using. I've been testing the new version also on FICS and

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #27153] Pre-move does not work on xboard 4.4beta1

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #27153 (project xboard): To answer the question, I am using Ubuntu Hardy (8.04). I tried both with the flag set or unset in the Option menu. It looked like a GUI problem because even the squares highlight that I usually see (when a pre-move has been entered but not yet

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #27153] Pre-move does not work on xboard 4.4beta1

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #27153 (project xboard): Recompiled today with the following GCC: $ gcc -v Using built-in specs. Target: i486-linux-gnu Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,treelang --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --libexec

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #27153] Pre-move does not work on xboard 4.4beta1

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #27153 (project xboard): I tried it yesterday and pre-move seemed to work fine for me, but I only tested it a few times, so I'll do some more testing in the next few days, since you mention that it stopped working for you. When it stops working for you what's the proble

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #27153] Pre-move does not work on xboard 4.4beta1

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #27153 (project xboard): When the problem occurs I cannot even select a pre-move, if I try to drag a piece it does not even get highlighted at all. And yes, I did all the steps from autogen to final binary. Actually I did upgrade my system to Jaunty (Ubuntu 9.04, gcc 4.

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #27153] Pre-move does not work on xboard 4.4beta1

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #27153 (project xboard): After seeing in Git that H.G. Muller made pre-move fixes for Winboard I downloaded and compiled the final 4.4.0 tonight, unfortunately problem remains for xboard. ___ Reply to this item at

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #27153] Pre-move does not work on xboard 4.4beta1

Follow-up Comment #7, bug #27153 (project xboard): still working on this one. Other people reported this too, but we (HGM and Arun) are not able to reproduce this, so it's hard to track down. ___ Reply to this item at:

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #27153] Pre-move does not work on xboard 4.4beta1

Follow-up Comment #8, bug #27153 (project xboard): Premoving does not work when you try to move a piece onto one of your own pieces (which you expect to be captured by your opponent). ___ Reply to this item at:

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #27153] Pre-move does not work on xboard 4.4beta1

Follow-up Comment #9, bug #27153 (project xboard): The following piece of code (in UserMoveTest() in backend.c) filters out perfectly good premoves - the ones that put a piece on a piece of the same color. Removing those lines gives premove handling like in xboard 4.2.7: /* note: this code

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #27153] Pre-move does not work on xboard 4.4beta1

Follow-up Comment #10, bug #27153 (project xboard): Also note, that these kind of premoves (to a piece of your own colour) can only be made by dragging the piece, not if you just click the from and to squares. This was the same in xboard 4.2.7. __

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #27153] Pre-move does not work on xboard 4.4beta1

Follow-up Comment #11, bug #27153 (project xboard): Indeed, we got it now. If someone had told me that the problem was that recptures could not be entereds premoves, I would have fixed it in a few minutes. It was just that no one mentioned that. In click-click mode premove recaptures are not poss

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #27153] Pre-move does not work on xboard 4.4beta1

Update of bug #27153 (project xboard): Status: Need Info => Ready For Test ___ Follow-up Comment #12: uploaded the changes from HGM. Please test. __

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #27153] Pre-move does not work on xboard 4.4beta1

Update of bug #27153 (project xboard): Status: Ready For Test => Fixed Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #13: seems to have fixe

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #27153] Pre-move does not work on xboard 4.4beta1

Follow-up Comment #14, bug #27153 (project xboard): Not sure if the fix of HGM is included in 4.4.1pre but FYI I compiled it today and pre-move still not working. ___ Reply to this item at: ___

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #27153] Pre-move does not work on xboard 4.4beta1

Follow-up Comment #15, bug #27153 (project xboard): you want to try the latest git version not the one that's one the ftp server. ___ Reply to this item at: __

[Bug-XBoard] [bug #27153] Pre-move does not work on xboard 4.4beta1

Follow-up Comment #16, bug #27153 (project xboard): OK, finally got some time to test, built xboard-4.4.1.20091019, and indeed it seems the issue is now fixed. As a side note, there seem to be some lingering debug messages in that version (backend.c at line 3429) as xboard outputs the following

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #27153] Pre-move does not work on xboard 4.4beta1

Can you provide us with an executable that has the premove problem? I identified some problems with premove in WinBoard (due to lack of refresh of the display the premove highlights were not always visible there), and fixed them. But XBoard did not have the same bug, and for me seems to work as it

Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #27153] Pre-move does not work on xboard 4.4beta1

indeed, we got it now. It was just tht no one told that the problem was entering recaptures as pre-moves. In click-click mode this is not possible, as clicking a new own piece selects it as new from square rtaher than to square. But I never realized that this ambiguity does not occur for drag-drop