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Subject: Re: xboard like Fritz

Author: Kunnar Klauks

Date: 02:53:07 12/04/03

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On December 04, 2003 at 05:30:08, Andreas Guettinger wrote:

>On December 04, 2003 at 03:18:32, Kunnar Klauks wrote:
>
>>Recently i got a little inpiration from this site
>>http://vico.kleinplanet.de/xboard.html, and i decided to try my own hand with
>>GIMP. I took from knights themepackage fritzlike pieces and squares, rescaled,
>>put 2 layers together and exported to xpm.
>>
>>Then i recompiled xboard 4.2.7 with Xaw3d support, modified my .Xresources a
>>little, and result is this:
>>
>>http://www.hot.ee/kk001a/xboard_like_fritz.png
>>
>>I like it :)) How you do comment this? Look also menubuttons and movelist close
>>button, these are 3D.
>>I have actually never used Fritz, but i suppose its like Fritz because of theme
>>name in knights themepackage.
>
>Can you make a themepackage for us? :-)

Here it is, enjoy :) http://www.hot.ee/kk001a/xb_likefritz.tar.gz

These are only for size 58 at the moment.

Note, these pieces are of course slower than xboard standard pieces. Startup
xboard takes in my 800Mhz with Nvidia Gforce 2 MX videocard 2-3 seconds. With
standard pieces xboard starts in my machine immediately. However, playing seems
fast enough, i played few lightning games in FICS without any problems.
This is first time ever i made something with layers in GIMP. Im not any
graphics expert. Each piece is 30-40 KB, maybe later i will find a way to reduce
size somehow.



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