Re: [XBoard-devel] Xboard 4.9 status?

[H.G. Muller]

Well, I just released Fairy-Max 5.0. So I can concentrate on XBoard now.

In intensively using the latter during Fairy-Max development, I noticed 
a few glitches:
- Right-clicking in the engine-output window on a PV to walk it as a 
'variation board' is a bit sick for me. It is supposed to highlight the 
currently walked PV in yellow (GTK version). It actually does that, and 
removes the highlight when you terminate the PV walk by releasing the 
mouse button. BUT ONLY THE FIRST TIME! When I then right-click that same 
PV again, there is no highlight. When I click another one I did not 
click before, there again is.
- Sometimes when I am PV walking, the entire content of the pane is 
cleared when a new PV comes in. I could not find any systematics in 
that. I wonder if these two problems are simply bugs in my GTK library. 
Do people with more recent Linux versions than I have have any of these 
problems?
- In Edit Position mode, sometimes strange things happen: a piece that I 
move, suddenly re-appears at the square I took it from. I have not had 
time to figure out what causes this.
- When I start XBoard with a -loadPositionFile argument, it starts with 
a message 'White to play', which it doesn't display later, when I start 
another game. It also does not accept a sequence of moves pasted into it 
in that state, which it does on later games. So it is in some sort of 
incorrect state at this point. I want to fix that too.
- Tamerlane Chess has all Pawns promote differently, which basically 
makes them different piece types. There is no good support for that in 
XBoard yet, and Evert Glebbeek has written a Tamerlane Chess engine. I 
am thinking of adding support for this in the pieceToCharTable, where a 
piece that has a hyphen defined as ID for it will be considered a Pawn 
(i.e. no piece ID used for it in SAN), and would be indicated as the 
piece to which it promotes (according to the XBoard pairing rule for 
promoted and unpromoted types) prefixed with a - in FEN.
- I am unhappy that <Enter> does not act as accelerator for 'OK' in 
dialogs when you are typing in a (single-line) text-entry field in GTK. 
Perhaps the GenericPopup dialog constructor should add an event handler 
for this to all text entries.

Otherwise we seem to be OK.

Op 1/26/2016 om 8:25 PM schreef Joshua Pettus:
> Hey Everyone,
>
> I’m just wondering where we are at.  Now that we got those last bugs fixed, 
> where are we at with 4.9? Is there anything else we would want to include? Do 
> we have a target date in mind?  Should we put out a few beta builds?  I still 
> have a few mac related patches on Arun’s branch.  I could put them on Savannah 
> myself now if that’s ok with everyone?
>
> Best Regards,
> Josh Pettus