Author: Guido Schimmels
Date: 07:52:47 12/18/98
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On December 18, 1998 at 06:59:57, Roberto Waldteufel wrote: >Can anybody recommend a web site where I might download bitmap images of chess >pieces (.BMP file extension) and/or chess related icons (.ICO file extension) >suitable for use under 32-bit Windows? Or better still, does anyone have any >such files that they would be prepared to send to me? I know that there are >several chess icons around, eg an empty chess board or a chess knight are quite >common. I even have programs that display these icons, but they do not come with >separate icon files. Also Manfred's excellent EDP2Diag utility has .GIF files >for all combinations of chess piece/squarecolour, but I do not know how to >display .GIF in Windows, so I have been unable to use these to create my own >user interface. I currently display the chessboard on a text console using ascii >(!!), although this is not nearly as bad as you might think - the trick is to >use a large console with more lines to improve the resolution. A proper >bitmap-based board would be much slicker though - can anyone help? > >Best wishes, >Roberto If you want a simple solution I would recommend using true type fonts. Simply download the font from http://www.hsv.tis.net/chess/graphics/font.htm place it into your font drawer and from now on displaying the chess board comes down to printing an ASCII-string. There are other advantages as well, like full scalability, perfect printer output, chess informant symbols as extra characters I hope this helps, Good luck ! - Guido - (x-mas holidays started today, yep !)
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