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Subject: Re: xboard like Fritz

Author: Kunnar Klauks

Date: 07:17:32 12/04/03

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On December 04, 2003 at 09:46:44, Jonas Bylund 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.
>
>I think this looks great, could you compile it for windows too ? :)

I think winbaoard does not support such feature(using custom pieces). At least
in xboard ToDo file is:

69. xboard has some features not in WinBoard.  Among others:
[snip]
69d. Alternate bitmaps specified at runtime. (good to add, often requested)


>If not, could you send me the images you used for this layout?

xpm images are here http://www.hot.ee/kk001a/xb_likefritz.tar.gz

Kunnar



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