Author: Wayde Beasley
Date: 13:12:56 01/10/01
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On January 10, 2001 at 00:33:50, Tim Mann wrote: >>>> 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? Why can't there be some funding mechanism to support open source projects like Winboard? I imagine a non-profit organization that receives funds into a trust then distributes to programmers to work one aspect of Winboard in accordance with members collective wishes. Users submit wish lists --> then voting takes place --> then angels ascend to heaven . . .
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