h.g. muller wrote:
First, let me repeat the sound problem I mentioned last time-- the
new way of turning off move sounds is inconvenient. Not turning them
off, but turning them back on. It was very easy in 4.2.7 to mute the
board.
That's something I do a lot too. I'm watching a GM game over on FICS
for example, and need to silence winboard temporarily, but don't want
to unobserve or quit.
So basically you want to see a "mute all sounds" check box added to
the options -> sounds... menu?
Maybe. Some additional input from others might be nice, though I'm
surprised nobody else mentioned this yet. Anyway, the move sound seems
to be the only one that needs muted. I'm not sure if muting the whole
program or muting only move sounds is better. I don't have sounds for
other things, so in effect, muting move sounds mutes everything in my setup.
Other input here would be helpful, probably. Occasionally, I want to
mute for other reasons. Like if I get a phone call while I'm involved
in a game. In that case, I generally want to silence everything
associated with the chess program. So I guess my choice would be an
option to mute all sounds.
Second, premove appears broken. Or maybe that's the wrong term, I'm
not sure. But if I anticipate my opponent's move and move while he's
thinking (planning on making that move regardless of what he does),
this no longer works to move instantly after he moves. Maybe I'm
missing an option or something, but this feature makes playing fast
games on a chess server impossible with the new version.
1) Are you talking about WinBoard or XBoard here?
2) When you say "it no longer works to move instantly", do you mean it
does move eventually?
Or just that it doesn't do anything at all?
Do you get the premove highlights when you selecta premove?
1: Both winboard and xboard.
2: If I make the move before the opponent, then after he moves, nothing
happens and I have to make it again. No, I don't get the premove
highlights.
In testing this to check on question 2, it appears to be working now
(with highlights). I didn't change anything that I know of. So forget
it for now and if I see it again, I'll bring it up again with more
information.
