Author: Peter McKenzie
Date: 11:21:16 12/04/99
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On December 04, 1999 at 02:20:44, Tim Mann wrote:
>** Announcing the release of XBoard and WinBoard, version 4.0.4 **
>
>A new release of both XBoard and WinBoard is now available. Version
>4.0.4 is an update that fixes several small bugs and adds a few minor
>features. It has not been extensively tested, so please report any
>apparent new bugs. Some known bugs and deficiencies in 4.0.3 have not
>been addressed. It is not necessary to report your favorite bug again
>if you have reported it before, unless the ChangeLog erroneously says
>it has been fixed. Most known bugs, deficiencies, and suggestions
>received are now listed in the ToDo file.
>
>You can get both programs from my Chess page on the World Wide Web.
>In addition, they should soon be available from GNU FTP sites and the
>Internet Chess Library FTP site.
>
>- http://www.research.compaq.com/SRC/personal/Tim_Mann/chess.html
>- ftp://ftp.freechess.org/pub/chess/X/xboard-4.0.4.tar.gz
>- ftp://ftp.freechess.org/pub/chess/Win3/winboard-4_0_4.exe
>- ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/
>- ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/winboard/
>
>XBoard is a graphical chessboard for the X Window System that can
>serve as a user interface for GNU Chess, Crafty, and other chess
>engines, for the Internet Chess Servers, and for electronic mail
>correspondence chess. XBoard can also be used by itself. It can read
>and write game files in PGN (portable game notation).
>
>WinBoard is a similar program for Microsoft Windows 95/98 and Windows
>NT. It includes all the major features of XBoard except email
>correspondence chess. Warning: WinBoard does not work on Windows 3.1
>or 3.11, not even with Win32s.
>
>Report bugs in XBoard and WinBoard to me.
>
> --Tim Mann <tim.mann@compaq.com>
>
>=== New ChangeLog entries in 4.0.4 ===
>
>* Bug fix: formerly if you invoked SaveGame from EditPosition mode
>with black to play, the position was not saved properly. As a quick
>fix, SaveGame now takes you out of EditPosition mode before saving.
>
>* Changed -matchGames to keep track of the score (won-lost-drawn) and
>display it in the banner. The final score is displayed in a modal
>popup before the program exits.
Cool! This will be VERY popular with testers and programmers.
>
>* Changed "Connection closed by ICS" to display in a model popup
>before the program exits.
>
>* Added -popupExitMessage option, default on. Setting this to false
>suppresses the modal popups that you sometimes get just before
>xboard/winboard exits -- both the two new ones listed above and the
>existing Fatal Error popup. This is useful when running Zippy
>unattended from a shell script (or .bat file) that loops and starts a
>new copy after a time delay when there is an error.
>
>* In xboard, added missing support for WM_DELETE_WINDOW to all
>windows. This makes xboard a better citizen, and is much needed with
>the newer X window managers that put an [X] button on every window and
>bind it to "kill application" if the applicationd does not support
>"delete window". We can't allow xboard to be thoughtlessly killed,
>since that leaves the chess engine running in the background.
>
>* We now avoid positioning tops of xboard dialog boxes offscreen.
>
>* zippy.lines can now use the caret ('^') character as an inter-saying
>separator. You no longer need to dig up a text editor that can put NUL
>('\000') characters in text files.
>
>* Bugfix: In traditional chess clock mode, White now gets time added
>to its clock as soon as it makes time control. Previously both White
>and Black got their time added only when Black made time control,
>which would cause some engines to make their 41st move as White too
>quickly, thinking they were low on time.
>
>* The zippyAcceptOnly feature no longer sends a decline command or
>a tell. Thus you can use it to put Zippy into a manual accept mode.
>
>* Bugfix: "tell 50 foo tells you: bar" no longer gets colored as a
>personal tell; similarly for "...whispers:" and "...kibitzes:".
>
>* WinBoard no longer blanks the message line when you start a new
>move, unless there was an error message there from the previous move.
>
>* WinBoard now never puts the white piece drop menu on the middle
>mouse button. Both colors are always on the right button. Windows
>users often don't think to look for a middle button menu, or don't
>really have a working middle button despite what Windows says.
>
>* Guest login handles on ICC are now parsed again; an ICC wording
>change had broken this feature.
>
>* Autodetect when the engine does not support the "draw" command and
>don't relay the command to it in that case. Needed because sending an
>unsupported command to GNU Chess makes it move immediately, so people
>could make Zippy move without thinking by continually offering a draw.
>Thanks to Frank Walker for the problem report.
>
>* Small changes based on code from Robert Jurjevic: The WinBoard
>analysis window can be minimized (though not to the taskbar). The
>WinBoard ICS Interaction window will autoscroll if you drag the mouse
>above or below the window while selecting, and password entry mode
>leaves the entry line as the background color instead of using 75%
>gray. Seeks are now colorized with a new color of their own.
>
>* Added -zippyMaxGames feature.
I assume this allows you to set a maximum consecutive number of games for an
opponent on the server. This will be very useful for us server junkies :-)
>
>* -zippyNoplayCrafty command line option was missing in xboard; fixed.
>Thanks to John Perry.
>
>* Fixed bug in detecting when Zippy loses his bughouse partner.
>Thanks to Ben Dean-Kawamura.
>
>* allobs fix in 4.0.3 didn't work; corrected it.
>
>* WinBoard will now update the board immediately if a move is made
>while the window is being moved or resized.
Thanks Tim!
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