Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 18:46:52 11/05/01
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On November 05, 2001 at 21:35:12, Steffen Jakob wrote: >On November 05, 2001 at 20:23:21, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On November 05, 2001 at 18:35:25, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: >> >>You need to modify winboard source code for your plan Miguel. > >Why? Because there is no way to ask the question below with the xboard protocol? Yes there is a way. Taken from the protocol that comes with xboard and it is in Tim Mann's web page: ---------------------------------- askuser REPTAG MESSAGE Here REPTAG is a string containing no whitespace, and MESSAGE consists of any characters, including whitespace, to the end of the line. xboard pops up a question dialog that says MESSAGE and has a typein box. If the user types in "bar", xboard sends "REPTAG bar" to the engine. The user can cancel the dialog and send nothing. ----------------------------------- Winboard has everything to do this. Am I delussional? Regards, Miguel >I can think of many ways to do this without modifying xboard. > >Greetings, >Steffen. > >// ... > >>>You can ask "How much time have been wasted?" and the operator enter: 10 minutes >>>So, this variable is stored by the engine. When you see "time" coming from >>>winboard you know that this is the total time, but 10 minutes were wasted. >>>So you just make the substraction. In this way, I do not even need an internal >>>clock. >>> >>>Of course you can ask a friendlier question like "How much time is left?" >>>and the engine calculate the time wasted. >>>I think that if the engine ask every 10 moves or so there should be no problem. > >Greetings, >Steffen.
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