Author: Wayde Beasley
Date: 07:33:46 01/22/01
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On January 22, 2001 at 09:56:31, Peter Fendrich wrote: >On January 22, 2001 at 02:11:55, Wayde Beasley wrote: > >>http://www.egroups.com/files/freeboard-dev/freeboard-screen-capture.JPG > >How is you project going? >I recall that you had some problem with the chessboard? >//Peter I switched boards away from a proprietary version that had a serious memory leak; but now FB uses a dumb board, which means Freeboard is no more than a dumb terminal to the stdout of a chess engine. But, that is not for long -- if my chessboard control guy does what he says he'll do, then by mid-february I should have a prototype of an intelligent chessboard control that uses TTF for the pieces and understands SAN, FEN, EPD, etc. Freeboard philosophy frowns on eye candy. With TTF, someone should be able to easily switch piece styles by adding another font, if that's their desire. In the meantime, I am working on reading/saving settings profiles and engine parameters. And setting up simple controls for the various engine settings, like the eval params, search extension params, hash size, etc. It's a delight to be able to play Crafty and switch a parameter on-the-fly with a click of the mouse and then save that group of settings for later recall. Also, drag and drop EPD files for analysis by crafty. And debugging engine communication. It's a dirty job, but somebody's gotta do it. Winsock network communication will be relatively easy to implement, I think. But, I won't start that until after I get the board and it does what it's spose to do.
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