Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 09:34:47 01/07/04
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Hi Ed, On January 07, 2004 at 12:01:12, Ed Trice wrote: >Hi Tord, > > >> >>Of course I agree that it would be nice to see support for unusual >>pieces and board shapes in the popular GUIs, but I'm afraid it is >>too much to hope for. I'm writing my own xboard-compatible GUI >>with square and hexagonal boards for Gothmog, but unfortunately it >>will only run in Mac OS X. >> > > >I am a diehard Mac programmer, but I admit, all of the sweeping changes to OS X >have left me behind the times. I have somewhat mixed feelings concerning OS X myself. I found the look and feel of Mac OS 9 to be nicer in many ways, but on the other hand I am very happy to have the Unix command line and the X Window System. >If you are interesting in compiling an OS X version, I will work with >you on this. I already have some really cool graphics. An OS X version of your Gothic chess engine, you mean? It is not entirely impossible that I would be interested, but as I wrote in another thread the commercial and legal issues tend to scare me away a bit. At least I will consider it. I would appreciate if you could send me an e-mail with a more precise explanation of what you would like me to do. :-) >Let me know what IDE you are using if you are interested. I don't know yet. :-) I do most of my development in Macintosh Common Lisp, which is by far the most impressive development environment I have ever used on any platform (MCL is, in fact, the main reason I am a Mac user). But unfortunately I cannot afford to pay the costly redistribution license, and hence I am forced to use other tools for all software which is not for private use. When editing C code, I usually don't use an IDE. Emacs and the command line tools suit my needs better. Because this is the first time I am writing a non-private GUI application in Mac OS X, I haven't yet decided which tools do the job best. What I have done so far is to use Project Builder and Interface Builder to write a small Objective C Cocoa application which displays a hexagonal chess board in a window and allows the user to move the pieces around with the mouse (with legality checking). But it is possible that I will try to use OpenMCL (an open-source version of Macintosh Common Lisp, but unfortunately without the IDE and the GUI libraries of the commercial version) instead. Tord
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