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Subject: Re: Xboard screenshot

Author: Sven Reichard

Date: 08:06:23 12/01/03

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On December 01, 2003 at 10:42:48, Martin Andersen wrote:

>Hi!
>
>I have posted a new screenshot at my page: www.al-data.dk/chess.
>Please be patient if you enter the site because my home
>server is on a 128kb upload connection.
>
>I have criticised xboard in some of my previous posts, xboard is
>usable, although not very userfriendly. For example if you want to
>load a game you go into File -> Load Game option, and an input
>box pops up. You have to write the path to the file, there should be a way
>to search after it, as in other modern GUI's.
>The fonts in xboard are not nice, hopefully xboard will be ported to
>GTK2 or QT ?

QT sounds nice. I'll have a look at the source code tonight to see how difficult
it will be. I don't know much about Motif, but I hope to understand it.

BTW, xboard is freeware, right?

Sven.

>
>Those who like to analyse a position for a long time, have probably
>found the bug in SCID where the output stops at around 2.4 billion nodes.
>So for long analysis Xboard is probably the best option.
>
>Martin.



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