Re: [XBoard-devel] XBoard 4.7.3: Full board textures + maximize window

[Joshua Pettus]

Hi,

I fear you can’t extend the board size beyond the size of the original texture. 
 Or it starts to look distorted,  (it looks a little distorted when it’s 
smaller then that size as well, but usable)  You can try scaling the texture to 
the size your screen supports.  I wonder if we can use a SVG board instead?

Regards,
Josh

On Sep 15, 2014, at 6:18 PM, Sebastian Pipping <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> 
> On my journey trying to get a natural-looking Xiangqi mode running with
> XBoard (rather than WinBoard), I ran into problems with rendering.
> 
> My call to xboard was
> 
>  xboard \
>       -variant xiangqi \
>       \
>       -liteBackTextureFile ${D}/themes/textures/xqboard.png \
>       -darkBackTextureFile ${D}/themes/textures/xqboard.png \
>       -overrideLineGap 0 \
>       \
>       -pieceImageDirectory ${D}/themes/xiangqi \
>       -trueColors true
> 
> 
> Now when XBoard starts up this looks sane.
> 
> When I maximize the window to full screen, the boards starts to look
> very weird, see [1].
> 
> I started inspecting BlankSquare and CutOutSquare in draw.c.  In
> CutOutSquare there are guards
> 
>  if(textureW[kind] < W*squareSize)
> 
> and
> 
>  if(textureH[kind] < H*squareSize) .
> 
> Is my understanding correct that these are meant to detect if the
> provided texture files are expected to be (a) a single field or (b) a
> full board?  If so we might need a new config parameter to tell XBoard
> from the outside for once, instead.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Best,
> 
> 
> 
> Sebastian
> 
> 
> 
> [1] http://share.pho.to/7AF1Z/8g/original
>