Author: Tim Mann
Date: 21:33:50 01/09/01
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>>> 2) Change the pieces fonts/ layouts (as in ChessPartner) >> >>xboard allows different piece sets, but I haven't gotten around to figuring out >>how to load .bmp files at runtime into a Windows program (perhaps an >>embarrassing admission). That's really just about all that's needed. > >What about just using truetype fonts for the board instead of bitmaps -- isn't >that what Fritz does? Loading .bmps at runtime would probably be a whole lot simpler than rewriting the board drawing and piece-dragging code to work with fonts instead. In a new program, I don't know which would be preferable. >Tell me I am wrong, but it seems that Mann's xboard implements its own widgets >from scratch -- why not utilize gnome or QT/KDE widgets? Would that make things >a lot easier? If not, why not? xboard uses Athena widgets, not its own widgets. Gnome or Qt widgets would be much nicer and easier to work with, but of course switching to them would need a rewrite. (They didn't exist when xboard was first written in 1991!) Ideally one would use a cross-platform toolkit like wxWindows so that the same program would compile for both X and Windows. >If not, why not? Also, gnome-chess looks pretty good -- why not >just bust out and get that proggie up to Xboard standards? Who do you expect to "just bust out" and do that tiny little task?
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