Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 11:44:07 11/06/01
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On November 06, 2001 at 11:57:32, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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 Vincent thought it was a problem and it was and answer to him. the idea how to do it is http://www.icdchess.com/forums/1/message.shtml?195767 >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 I am afraid that I do not understand what you mean by chess server code. Is it related to the communication with ICC and the likes? It is not intended to be use in that environment. >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... Of course, the discussion is whether we can do this in WB or not. Regards, Miguel
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