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Article #5457Beta-test xboard 3.0?
From: Tim Mann
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1993 00:26
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1993 00:26
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If you would like to beta-test xboard 3.0, please send me mail. Please say what type of machine and what operating version you have. I don't believe there are many bugs to be found, but there may be new portability problems, so I'm interested in testing on a variety of different systems before release. Also send mail if you have Windows NT and would like to test WinBoard, which is a port of xboard to Windows NT. Before you ask, WinBoard does NOT run on Windows 3.1 at this time, only on NT. --Tim Here are highlights from the change log: - User interface has a new look: (1) Menu bar instead of array of buttons. A few very commonly used features have small buttons in addition to being on the menus. (2) Large font for clock. (3) Pop-up dialogs for errors. - Added a popup dialog to enter and edit comments. Inspired by some code from Patrick Surry. Changed the normal read-only comment popup to the same style. - Added menu commands to control autoflag, autosave, bell, and coords options. - Added Load Next Game, Load Previous Game, and Reload Same Game to File menu. Reload Same Game suggested by Patrick Surry. - Added ICS init script feature from Karl Schwamb. - Added -flipView command-line option. Suggested by Patrick Surry. - Boolean command line options now use "-foo" to turn on and "--foo" to turn off instead of "-foo true" and "-foo false". - Source code is split into front end (xboard.c), which knows about X and Unix, and back end (backend.c), which knows about chess, gnuchess, and the ICS. There is also a front end for Windows NT. - Revamped code to allow use of flex instead of lex on parser.l. Using flex requires adding -DFLEX to defines in Imakefile.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d71d,4d41ee1456f930b1,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10d71d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-08-01 18:23:13 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!xlink.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!news-feed-2.peachnet.edu!concert!decwrl!src.dec.com!mann From: mann@src.dec.com (Tim Mann) Newsgroups: gnu.chess Subject: Beta-test xboard 3.0? Followup-To: poster Date: 2 Aug 1993 00:26:17 GMT Organization: DEC Systems Research Center Lines: 43 Message-ID: <23hmv9$nnt@src-news.pa.dec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cypress.pa.dec.com