Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:57:32 11/06/01
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On November 05, 2001 at 21:46:52, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: >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 > > > > That isn't the problem. The problem is _winboard's_ clock value. If you can't change it, winboard will continually give you time/otim messages after each move that change the clock back. If you try to ignore those, then you take the chance of breaking the chess server code which should use them. In short, it turns into a kludge one way or another. When I play in tournaments, I use "text mode" always. And have absolutely no problems of any kind doing so either...
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