Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 09:44:26 04/05/02
I will try to create a simple Windows GUI app that just allows a user to paste an EPD string and send it to Chest to be solved. If I can get it to work at all, then I can start to add features. Question 1: Is there a way to invoke Chest with the EPD string right on the command line? Question 2: If the answer to #1 is "no," is there a way for a program to send commands to Chest other than by writing them to a file and invoking Chest with that file as a parameter (i.e., is there a way to spoof a DOS app's stdin)? Question 3: What's the easiest way to ask Chest to report only a) how many mates there are in the # of moves specified, and b) what the first move(s) of the mate(s) is/are? Question 4: I'm prefectly happy to allow the user to look at the results in the Chest output window rather than having the program somehow grab stdout from Chest and copy it into a separate GUI window. Would one of these two approaches be a lot easier than the other? TIA, -Roy.
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