Hello again,
On 17.09.2014 00:09, H.G. Muller wrote: > Sorry for accidentally hitting send... > > Sebastian Pipping schreef op 9/16/2014 10:23 PM: >> I just tried using a 1800x2000 Xiangqi board image as a texture for a >> fullscreen window on a 1920x1080 display. The result looks anything but >> sane, so enlarging the board image does not seem to solve the rendering >> problem. Since you put so much of your energy into Xiangqi support with >> *Board, I'm rather surprised that playing Xiangqi in fullscreen with a >> Chinese board (like most people would) is not supported. > That is worrysome, as this is supposed to work with the current XBoard. > With your monitor resolution a full-screen board must surely be much > smaller than 1800x2000. > In what way doesn't it look sane? Can you show a screenshot? I just shared four links in my reply to Joshua's mail. >> Giving users new smart options (what you proposed) rather than an option >> to control directly, what they really want to change, is the wrong road >> if you ask me. With the amount of options in *Board as of today, I >> don't see how adding one more would make any real difference. > Any option that you have to frequently change is an annoyance. What you > propose is an option that you would have to change all the time when you > change between XQ and another variant, because only XQ is likely to use > a full-board texture bitmap. The default could be targetting a single-field, I would be happy with that. >> So to me all this sounds like (1) you'd be happy to support infinitely >> large boards made from enlarge-and-cut marble/wood single-field textures >> and (2) you consider Xiangqi and fullscreen display corner cases. >> While (1) is cool, status quo on Western chess doesn't to really /need/ >> patching now. I came here for (2), which does need patching. > It does certainly need patching if the larger bitmap does not help. But > you seem to get other results on this as Joshua. I will try it tomorrow > myself. Okay, cool. The board image I used (other_1800x2000.png) is linked in the reply to Joshua's mail, too. Best, Sebastian
