I'm not really working on xboard these days. I could take a stab at most of your questions, but it is better to ask [email protected], where the active developers hang out. I'm cc'ing this reply there so that they see it.
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 7:19 AM, S. A. Albert < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm a French professional C++/Qt developer and happy user of XBoard (under > Debian GNU/Linux running on a Macintosh G4 PPC32 Powerbook) for > correspondence > chess via ICCF or for training against the Stockfish engine (I like XBoard > because it is lightweight and succinct). > > I'd like to have a 'study game' mode into XBoard to manually (without any > chess engine) study my running correspondence chess games loaded as PGN > files. > > What is it: it is a kind of 'edit game' where all plies (moves) are stored > (accumulated) in a tree of plies and a cursor could be moved to some node > of > the tree to decide which position is displayed. The tree of plies is > displayed > in a specific X11 window (similar to the history of moves window) with the > cursor highlighted. The tree of plies could be saved apart from the > original > PGN game file. When a newer PGN file of the game is downloaded, the tree of > plies can be reloaded and edited again. > > I cloned the git repository to analyze the source-code in order to find > how I > could implement the 'study game' mode. > > (1) Is there some Doxygen make setting so I can browse the source-code > data-structures and functions ? > > I was wondering for which -- X11 and/or GTK -- front-end it's better to > implement the 'study game' mode depending on current status of GTK port and > future maintenance of the X11 front-end. > > (2) Which is the GTK port state ? > > (3) Will the X11 front-end be maintained when the GTK port is stable ? > > I might give a help for the GTK port, if needed. Please, let me know. > > (4) Which branch should I 'git checkout' into ('gtk' or 'gtk-xt') to build > the > current GKT port ? > > (5) What is the correct contributing process (for the 'study game' mode) ? > > Sincerly, > > Stéphane A. ALBERT > > _______________________________________________ > Message posté via/par Savannah > http://savannah.gnu.org/ > >
