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Subject: Answer of: Question: Winboard: Hints and features that you're missing

Author: Daniel Mehrmannn

Date: 18:55:07 02/27/03


Hello all :-)

First thank you for the big response. It's seems like that i should do
a lot of things. I will look now what i can do for you.

As next i make some bugfixes and add some patch from other peoples.

But i want say something about UCI and Arena:

UCI:
At the moment the UCI is freeze state because i don't understand that protocol
at some parts right. I had a long talk with Dieter und now some things are clear
for me. The result was that i must drop 70% of my UCI code. UCI is much more
dynamicly as i know. I will restart with UCI in the next weeks.

Arena GUI:
WB is WB and Arena is Areana. What i mean is both projects goes different ways
and i don't want make WB as Arena. Arena is a nice Windows GUI with a lot of
colors ;-) I want a "working platform" with more support features.
Please don't understand me wrong but i don't need suchs GUI's as Arena.

At least the changes (but no public at the moment):

28.02.2003 winboard-4.2.6-dm-beta3.1 release (not public at moment)

* bugfix minorfixes		I do a lot of minorfixes in the GUI and clean
                                up the code a little bit.

* NEW AnalyzeOutPut		I add some nice features: Name of players,
                                time, nps... Looks nice :)

* NEW smartQueue		Control automatic the output to ICS if we
                                analysis some games and broadcast results
                                to a channel or person. It works with killPV
                                and set the value automatic (fail low/high).
                                This is much better as we post every new PV.
                                For example in the endgame its possible that
                                the engine post 10 plys at 5 seconds (crafty(C)
                                do that :((). This smart feature drop such
                                PV's. Enable/Disable GUI->Options->ICS
				(for more read ICS-Observing.txt)

* ICS-Mode follow a player	Follow never run correct. Only the first game
                                would be analysis. WB don't know this mode for
                                engines. Add a line.

* bugfix IcsAnalyze eng. talk	Some Engines whisper/kibitz to the game if we
                                are in ICS-Analyzemode.ICS-Analyze: We drop
                                now all whisper and kibitz messages from
                                engine. (example "Hello from....")

* bugfix IcsAn.OutPut(Tell): 	If we change somthing at analyze setting,
                                the "tell" option will even switch to default
                                value and overwrite possible user settings.
				Check state and set default if we found
                                nothing.

* bugfix IcsAn.OutPut(Book):	Not all engine use wb2 proto clear. If we
                                see a stat line before pv comes we are in a
                                running game. If no stat and pv comes directly
                                we are in bookmode. Not all engine do that.
                                So we look allso to the program.depth:
                                If 0 we are in book mode.


greetings Daniel



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