Re: [XBoard-devel] Xboard 4.9 status?

[Joshua Pettus]

For clarification, when I said “command line” I was referring via the apple 
“open” command.  Sending arguments directly to the executable works fine, or 
the bash scripts wouldn’t work :)


> On Jan 31, 2016, at 12:39 AM, Joshua Pettus <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hey Harm,
> 
> At some point we talked about getting rid of the need for using the terminal 
> in ICS play now that we have the ICS/chatbox window.  For the mac release, I 
> would like to use simple .xop files (partially to demo their existence and 
> how to use them) instead of the complex bash scripts I’m using now to launch 
> xboard with an ICS.  The thing is, to trigger xboard on mac with an xop file, 
> or command line for that matter, doesn’t actually open xboard in the same 
> process as the terminal emulator. It opens a second one.  As such. if  we use 
> these methods to launch xboard in ics mode, we get the "End of file” error. 
> and xboard is unstable (clicking on the board while ingame tends to QTD).
> 
> Is this something simple we can fix now or should we wait for later?
> 
> Josh