Re: [XBoard-devel] Observing two games at once

[Michel Van den Bergh]

On 06/22/2011 08:01 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> Op Wo, 22 juni, 2011 4:04 pm schreef Michel Van den Bergh:
> > I am testing HGM's latest git version of xboard.
> Well, 'latest'  might be a relative notion, at the rate I am making
> commits. Which version exactly was this?
> > I am noticing that when observing two games at once on FICS, xboard
> > seems to go into a busy loop. Prior versions of xboard did not seem to have
> > problem with this.
> Did you have the (new) Move List window open? During the blitz tourney
> last Saturday I had a version that froze every time I started observing a
> game while the Move List was not empty. I debugged and fixed that during
> the tourney, though.
>
> This sounds a bit like it could be the same thing. I just tried to observe
> two games at FICS simultaneously with my latest version (from the aliennew
> branch, which I rebased on top of hgmaster). But I am pretty sure there is
> nothing extra in that branch that has anything to do with the MoveList
> window, so I guess hgmaster's commits of today should work as well.
Indeed with the latest git the problem seems to have disappeared.

Michel


> > I am observing similar behaviour when observing and examining a game,
> > and when observing and playing a game.