Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 12:42:47 12/10/00
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On December 09, 2000 at 22:26:30, Tim Mann wrote: >On December 08, 2000 at 05:26:44, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: > >>how about adding new features to support >> >>1. dynamic allocation of a hash table, >>and 2. tablebase configuration (path etc.) ? > >One or two other people have asked for those parameters too. I'd rather not >just add them as special cases; I'd prefer to have a more general method of >setting per-engine parameters in a nice way through the GUI. A few people have >sent me suggestions along those lines -- for instance, Steffen Jakob sent a >proposal over a year ago for some new engine commands that would let the engine >create a menu in the GUI Yes, that'd be great and much more interesting than my simple suggestion. I guess, it's also a certain challenge in implementing. >-- but I haven't pursued doing a complete design. A >full solution should be combined with a much easier way of installing a new >engine for use with the GUI. A lot of what's involved is really just GUI >design; probably very little needs to be added to the protocol. > >Anyway, I don't think I'm going to get anything like that into the next protocol >spec or xboard release -- I want to get what I've done so far out the door soon >-- but at least the revised protocol makes it much easier to add features >(though the feature command) without breaking existing engines that don't know >about them. Thx for the info, Tim. Regards, Uli
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