OOp Di, 1 oktober, 2013 7:42 am schreef Tim Mann:
The documentation for zic2xpm says that it converts ZIICS pieces to xpm
format. ZIICS is an old program from way back that few are likely to
remember anymore. If zic2xpm works on ChessBase pieces, that's news to me
-- where did you hear that?
I noticed I still have a copy of ziics on my computer -- I never throw
anything away. The doc files suggest that the ZIICS chess sets were in a
format unique to ZIICS, but that the ones called Fritz were converted
from Fritz -- whether with or without permission I don't know. Here are
some
The doc files suggest that the ZIICS chess sets were in a
format unique to ZIICS, but that the ones called Fritz were converted
from Fritz -- whether with or without permission I don't know.
Well, the situation with pieces for XBoard since the switch to Cairo is
such that anything people made
IMO, there's no hope of automatic PNG to (useful) SVG, seeing that that
would involve adding information that isn't in the PNG file -- i.e., the
converter would have to guess what lines and curves the bitmap is trying to
suggest to the human eye. Maybe a sophisticated machine vision algorithm
Op Di, 1 oktober, 2013 9:49 pm schreef Tim Mann:
It would be cool to have the old familiar piece shapes as SVG.
Yes, we do have an SVG set, and I think Arun copied the pieces by hand
from the original xpm pieces (and the extra ones I made for variants). So
they look as similar as you could
Ah, those look nice, at least in that size. Well, the knights' eyes look
strange in XChu.png, but fine in Lion1.png. Or are the knights in XChu
actually fairy pieces that have different looking eyes on purpose?
The challenge with the original pixmap pieces was to tweak the smaller
sizes to look
Op Di, 1 oktober, 2013 10:18 pm schreef Tim Mann:
Ah, those look nice, at least in that size. Well, the knights' eyes look
strange in XChu.png, but fine in Lion1.png. Or are the knights in XChu
actually fairy pieces that have different looking eyes on purpose?
Indeed, these are the symbols
Hi
looks like we could get rid of the zix2xpm program. Anyone had time to
look at the patch to remove xpm from git? Everyone OK with me committing
it to master?
Arun
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The documentation for zic2xpm says that it converts ZIICS pieces to xpm
format. ZIICS is an old program from way back that few are likely to
remember anymore. If zic2xpm works on ChessBase pieces, that's news to me
-- where did you hear that? I guess it's possible that ZIICS used ChessBase
pieces
Op Zo, 29 september, 2013 8:12 pm schreef Arun Persaud:
Tim: I also removed zic2xpm from git, which I guess is not that usefull
anymore anyway?
Hmm, I did not think of zic2xpm. As I understand it this can only be used
by legal owners of a ChessBase GUI to convert their nice piece images from
On 09/07/2013 05:12 AM, h.g.mul...@hccnet.nl wrote:
OK, I will convert those too, then.
If I manage to make the Engine Output window work with plain bitmaps, the
xpm-switch patch would have to be altered to always select no (or can be
left out altogether?).
Applying any patches for the
Op Wo, 18 september, 2013 6:04 am schreef Arun Persaud:
What's the status on this one? do we still need xpm at all or should/can
we remove it?
Since the last patch I pushed XBoard is now completely XPM free: I
replaced the 7 remaining XPM icons that were used in the engine window by
the Xaw
Hmm, I guess this is something that crept in unintentially long ago.
XBoard was always designed so that it also could use bitmap pieces if
libXpm was not available. The pieces are now completely the responsibilty
of Cairo, however.
XBoard uses a few black-and-white pixmaps unconditionally for the
OK, I will convert those too, then.
If I manage to make the Engine Output window work with plain bitmaps, the
xpm-switch patch would have to be altered to always select no (or can be
left out altogether?).
Applying any patches for the autoconf process will have to await Arun's
return from
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