Author: Steffen Jakob
Date: 05:21:00 03/10/05
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On March 10, 2005 at 06:58:26, Thomas Mayer wrote: >Anyway, WinBoard would need for sure some better specifications and some >additions... I hope for the future. Afaik Steffen Jakob has made once a >suggestion to make options changeable also in WinBoard. Yes. See the following entry in the Todo file from the xboard source: **260. General mechanism where engine can declare engine properties that the user can frob and xboard/winboard will put up a simple dialog to allow user to view and set them. See email message "special engine commands" from Steffen Jakob: From: "Steffen A. Jakob" <saj@xxx> To: mann@xxx Cc: chess-engines@xxx Subject: special engine commands Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 09:12:26 +0100 Hi Tim! Here comes a summary of our ICC chat (I cc this mail to the list... maybe other engine programmers can give some feedback if they find this feature useful): Please add a protocol command which enables the engine to tell xboard its special commands. Maybe a set of (label, command string) pairs would be useful. Then create a menu for these commands. It could look like this (that's what I would like to see for Hossa): engine->interface: ------------------ command "Reset the log file" "reset log" command "Save Diagram as PNG" "png dia.png" command "Disable Book" "book off" command "Show Evaluation details" "eval" command "Show Search statistics" "stat" etc. While typing this list I realized that an additional parameter like this would be needed/nice (of course you can think of many more improvements): command "Save Diagram as PNG" "png %s" 1 "1" tells xboard to ask for an additional parameter (here: filename) which will replace the "%s" in the command string.
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