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Announce: XBoard patches available

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From: Frank McIngvale
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 00:00
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I've made several patches to Xboard available via FTP.
Here are the features I've added:

* Flashing - Pieces flash briefly after landing on their
             destination square. Provides a nice visual cue, in
             my opinion.

* Click-Click - An alternative to the usual Click-Drag-Release. This
                mode lets you click once on the piece and once on the
                destination square. The squares are highlighted as
                you click them.

* XPM support - You can now use XPM (color pixmap) files for the
                pieces. The nicest use for this (so far)
                is that you can import pieces from the ZIICS (**)
                distribution (large variety of pieces).

                NOTE: A color display is required for XPM support.
                      On mono screens, you'll still get the "stock"
                      XBoard pieces.

All of these features can be turned on/off individually.

The patches and documentation are available from:

ftp://206.202.0.11/frankm

(or, ftp://gw2.maf.mobile.al.us/frankm, if you're into long names :)

See the README file for installation instructions.

I'd really appreciate folks testing these out and letting me
know how it goes (good or bad). I'd like to make this patch as stable
as possible so that it might be included in future XBoard releases.

Feedback to: frankm@hiwaay.net

Enjoy!

(**) ZIICS is a seperate Copyrighted work of Andy McFarland (Zek on ICC).
     The ``ZIICS pieces'' are Copyrighted works of their original
     creator(s).
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From: frankm@hiwaay.net (Frank McIngvale)
Subject: Announce: XBoard patches available
Date: 1996/04/02
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