Author: George Sobala
Date: 11:44:50 07/11/04
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On July 11, 2004 at 04:42:13, George Sobala wrote: >... to solve the problem that there is no automatic way at present on a Unix or >OSX system to analyse a game one is observing on the ICC. > >What I do manually at the moment is to run both xboard and scid at the same >time. I run an engine to analyse the current position under scid and when the >position changes I do either: > >[xboard] File->Copy Position ..... [scid] Edit->Paste Start Board > >or > >[xboard] File->Copy Game ... [scid] Tools->Import one PGN game->Import->Close > >Now is it a simple or possible programming task to write either an X11 utility >or an Applescript that > >(a) watches the xboard window for a change in position > >and then > >(b) executes one of the above clipboard transfers from xboard to scid >automagically? > >If you could write this then your name will be entered in the Unix/Chess Hall of >Fame forever!
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