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[eboard-devel] eboard translators: development continues...

[Erkan Y. <er...@gm...>]

Hello,

I am sending this also here (0).


I wanted to tell you that we've started to develop eboard again (1).
We talked with Felipe + he said though he doesn't develop anymore he'll
host the version on his site :-)

Today there was the first contribution in regards to languages (2).
I am working currently also on adding some things to the "Getting started"
help file (3)

I am not sure who of you is still on board with eboard?
And if you've no time anymore, are you still using eboard?


Sincerely,
Erkan YILMAZ

(0) some emails from translators bounced back, but may also be interesting
for future translators, also this list has other threads with translation
topics
(1) https://gitorious.org/eboard/pages/Changes
(2)
https://gitorious.org/eboard/eboard/commit/756c1fdebc38f7f4ba2f9b3043e14b9d1ebf6d85

(3) https://gitorious.org/eboard/eboard/blobs/history/master/help.cc


P.S. I've your emails from the readme file, I'm only missing email of:   B.
Bialas

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[eboard-devel] eboard

[Stéphane L. <lab...@ya...>]

Hi all,

I'm an anthousiast end-user of eboard. It is one of the best freechess
interface !

I would like to know if some developper continue to maintain it.

Stephane

Re: [eboard-devel] {BUG eboard 1.1.1} eboard loses movestate on connection loss

[Luuk v. d. D. <luu...@gm...>]

Simon, thank you for the elaborate answer. I too found the infinite-loop
bug when leaving eboard, FICS disconnects and eboard eats all CPU.

I'll try the 'refresh' command.

   Luuk

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Valiquette <v....@ie...>
To: Luuk van der Duim <luu...@gm...>
Cc: ebo...@li...
Subject: Re: [eboard-devel] {BUG eboard 1.1.1} eboard loses movestate on
connection loss
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:19:26 -0400

Luuk van der Duim un jour écrivit:
> Hello,
> 
> When playing on FICS and when my wireless network connection fails and
> needs to be re-established, eboard gets confused and makes my clock run
> but I cannot move. Resulting in lost games and a frustrated user.
> 
> Any suggestions?

You can try the command « refresh »; it sometimes works and won't makes 
the situation worst.

For what it's worth, I believe it is related with a similar problem where 
there is confusion between FICS and eboard.

There seems to be a race condition, which should'nt surprise anyone that 
ever picked a look at the eboard networking code (I had to after it 
stopped working on PowerPC, and some of the hack seems to work only by 
sheer luck).

This race condition show up more often when there is lag, and give exactly 
the same symptoms you reported and usually the only solution is to 
disconnect and reconnect to FICS, and sometime only restarting eboard will 
do it.

Probably related to that bug, eboard will usually reach an infinite loop 
if you let it open until FICS disconnect it.


I think those 3 problems are all related, and the real solution would be 
to rewrite large parts of the networking code so as to have a clean, 
portable, much more stable (and maintainable) code.

I never bothered to try, partly because I've been told (maybe 2 years ago) 
that the author planned to eventualy rewrite eboard, but it seems it never 
happened, or if it did then it took a new name.


Sorry for giving you an explanation instead of a solution, but for now 
that is all I have to offer you unless someone have time to fix/rewrite 
the networking code.


Simon Valiquette

Re: [eboard-devel] {BUG eboard 1.1.1} eboard loses movestate on connection loss

[Simon V. <v....@ie...>]

Luuk van der Duim un jour écrivit:
> Hello,
> 
> When playing on FICS and when my wireless network connection fails and
> needs to be re-established, eboard gets confused and makes my clock run
> but I cannot move. Resulting in lost games and a frustrated user.
> 
> Any suggestions?

You can try the command « refresh »; it sometimes works and won't makes 
the situation worst.

For what it's worth, I believe it is related with a similar problem where 
there is confusion between FICS and eboard.

There seems to be a race condition, which should'nt surprise anyone that 
ever picked a look at the eboard networking code (I had to after it 
stopped working on PowerPC, and some of the hack seems to work only by 
sheer luck).

This race condition show up more often when there is lag, and give exactly 
the same symptoms you reported and usually the only solution is to 
disconnect and reconnect to FICS, and sometime only restarting eboard will 
do it.

Probably related to that bug, eboard will usually reach an infinite loop 
if you let it open until FICS disconnect it.


I think those 3 problems are all related, and the real solution would be 
to rewrite large parts of the networking code so as to have a clean, 
portable, much more stable (and maintainable) code.

I never bothered to try, partly because I've been told (maybe 2 years ago) 
that the author planned to eventualy rewrite eboard, but it seems it never 
happened, or if it did then it took a new name.


Sorry for giving you an explanation instead of a solution, but for now 
that is all I have to offer you unless someone have time to fix/rewrite 
the networking code.


Simon Valiquette

[eboard-devel] {BUG eboard 1.1.1} eboard loses movestate on connection loss

[Luuk v. d. D. <luu...@gm...>]

Hello,

When playing on FICS and when my wireless network connection fails and
needs to be re-established, eboard gets confused and makes my clock run
but I cannot move. Resulting in lost games and a frustrated user.

Any suggestions?

Greetings 
    Luuk van der Duim

Re: [eboard-devel] eBoard development still active?

[Rahul G. <han...@gm...>]

It is a question I've been thinking about too.

Rahul Ghose

Loic Duros wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to know if the development of the eboard is still active?
>
> Many thanks for your answer,
>
> Loic Duros
> loi...@gm...
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
> Eboard-devel mailing list
> Ebo...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/eboard-devel
>
>   

[eboard-devel] eBoard development still active?

[Loic D. <loi...@gm...>]

Hello,

I'd like to know if the development of the eboard is still active?

Many thanks for your answer,

Loic Duros
loi...@gm...

[eboard-devel] Bug on release eboard-1.1.1

[Anastasios Z. <zo...@cs...>]

Hi all,

I tried to compile the above relase on my machine, but I get the following
compilation error.


ntext.cc: In member function ‘void NText::append(const char*, int, int)’:
ntext.cc:247: error: invalid conversion from ‘const char*’ to ‘char*’


Changing the first argument of append  from const char* to char* solves this
problem, however I am not sure if it effects the rest of the code.


Compiler  :
gcc version 4.4.1 [gcc-4_4-branch revision 150839] (SUSE Linux)

Cheers,

-- 
Tasos

Re: [eboard-devel] eboard: new French translation

[Felipe B. <fb...@gm...>]

Hi,

I have received the files, but...

I'll probably release one last version of eboard around march 2009
(incorporating any translation updates I get by then, and a few
configuration improvements, plus proper behavior with ALSA / newer versions
of sox), and that'll be it. I'm not content with the current codebase and
I'll write a new interface from scratch (most likely not called eboard).

I will need translations for the new options that will be added, so I'll ask
for translations here on the list when the features needing translation are
done.

Please send me again all files you modified, but not as diffs, send the
entire files attached. I'll commit them to the CVS this week.

-- Felipe


2009/1/31 Simon Valiquette <v....@ie...>

>
>  For the last few days, I tried to join either Felipe Bergo or the last
> known French translator (Pierre Boulenguez).
>
>  Since I have been unsuccessful so far, I am posting my patches here
> directly.
>
>  Note that I also want to become the new official French translator, as
> implied by one of the 3 patches I included.
>
> Simon Valiquette
>
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: RIPEMD160
>
>
> Hello,
>
>  While tracking and fixing a bug for eboard with Patrik Fimml, I noticed
> that the French translation was incomplete and contained many mistakes.
>
>  So, instead of just complaining, I fixed, improved and completed the
> eboard French translation. So please merge the included diff with the
> new French translation (it is based on the 1.1.1 stable version, which
> is the one that will be shipped in Debian Lenny).
>
>  I also noticed that there was few minor problems with the Hungarian and
> Japanese translations files, so I also included a small patch about it.
>
>  Finally, since Pierre Boulenguez have not made any translation update for
> the past 2 years, I propose myself as the new translator (I also have
> included a patch to modify the related files, should you accept my offer).
>
>  Two days ago, I have sent an email to Pierre about it, and have not yet
> received any answer about it so I am communicating with you directly.
>
> Simon Valiquette
> http://gulus.Usherbrooke.ca
>

[eboard-devel] eboard: new French translation

[Simon V. <v....@ie...>]

  For the last few days, I tried to join either Felipe Bergo or the last 
known French translator (Pierre Boulenguez).

  Since I have been unsuccessful so far, I am posting my patches here 
directly.

  Note that I also want to become the new official French translator, as 
implied by one of the 3 patches I included.

Simon Valiquette

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: RIPEMD160


Hello,

  While tracking and fixing a bug for eboard with Patrik Fimml, I noticed
that the French translation was incomplete and contained many mistakes.

  So, instead of just complaining, I fixed, improved and completed the
eboard French translation. So please merge the included diff with the
new French translation (it is based on the 1.1.1 stable version, which
is the one that will be shipped in Debian Lenny).

  I also noticed that there was few minor problems with the Hungarian and
Japanese translations files, so I also included a small patch about it.

  Finally, since Pierre Boulenguez have not made any translation update for
the past 2 years, I propose myself as the new translator (I also have
included a patch to modify the related files, should you accept my offer).

  Two days ago, I have sent an email to Pierre about it, and have not yet
received any answer about it so I am communicating with you directly.

Simon Valiquette
http://gulus.Usherbrooke.ca

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Re: [eboard-devel] 3 decimals on clock - why?!

[Felipe B. <fb...@gm...>]

In lightning it is useful for many players.

In 1.1.2 the number of digits in the clock will be configurable in the
preferences. This is already in the CVS code, but there was a couple of bugs
I wanted to fix before 1.1.2, so it got a bit delayed.

-- Felipe

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Marko Filipovic <mar...@gm...
> wrote:

> Why is remaining time shown with 3 decimals (in last minute)? In my
> oppinion, that is unnecessary, annoying and distracting. How to remove
> these decimals? Version 1.1.1. Is it maybe my mistake?
>
> --
> Marko Filipovic, mar...@gm...
>
>

[eboard-devel] 3 decimals on clock - why?!

[Marko F. <mar...@gm...>]

Why is remaining time shown with 3 decimals (in last minute)? In my
oppinion, that is unnecessary, annoying and distracting. How to remove
these decimals? Version 1.1.1. Is it maybe my mistake?

-- 
Marko Filipovic, mar...@gm...

[eboard-devel] Debian patches to eboard

[Patrik F. <pa...@fi...>]

Hey,

as the Debian maintainer for eboard, I have done some modifications to
the source code that might benefit others as well. Seeing that a release
is coming up, I thought I'd send you my patches.

In detail:

* remove config.log in make distclean (should be self-explanatory)

* add .desktop file: I see that there is a desktop file in CVS, my patch
  also adds the respective commands to "make install". Ideally, the
  Name[de,fr,...]= and Description[...]= fields would be generated from
  the PO files...

* proper sound output: Current versions of sox's play command do not
  accept a -d argument any more [1]. Apart from that, sox's ossdsp
  encoder may or may not be available in a given installation
  (compile-time option). I think it makes sense to let play determine
  the output device automatically.

  Please CC sox-related replies to 487...@bu....

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487782

Apply what you like, ignore the rest. :-)

Keep up the good work,
Patrik

[eboard-devel] translation updates for 1.1.2

[Felipe B. <fb...@gm...>]

Hi, this is directed at the translators:

I've finished making some changes in the eboard code that require some minor
translation updates, especially regarding the Help->Keys dialog and a couple
of new options in the preferences dialog.

If you don't want to fetch the .po files from the CVS, I've grouped them in
this tgz:

http://www.liv.ic.unicamp.br/~bergo/eboardpo-20080708.tgz

Lost/deprecated translations are kept for reference only, you can remove
them from the po file if you want to. All translations needing updates are
marked as "untranslated". The pt_BR translation is already up-to-date.

If you want to check whether there is anything left to translate, just fetch
the code from the CVS and run "./harvest.pl" in the multilang directory, it
will show the counts of translated, untranslated and deprecated strings in
each .po file.

Once you are done, I only need the updated .po file, which you can attach in
a private email to me.

In the next few days I will work on a couple of bug reports that are
unlikely to require any new translations, and I hope to release 1.1.2 in the
weekend. So if you can email me the updated po files by saturday, that'll
do. I'll release 1.1.2 this weekend even if some translations are not
updated.

best regards,

-- Felipe

[eboard-devel] Eboard will skip pawn moves from PGN files marked with "?!"

[Patrik F. <pa...@fi...>]

Hi,

the latest eboard version, 1.1.1, as well as earlier ones, will silently
ignore pawn moves in PGN files that are suffixed with "?!". As this
seems to be valid SAN notation and eboard is doing just fine when any
other figure move is commented "?!", this is unexpected behaviour.

You can easily verify this with the attached minimal PGN file. The b5?!,
d4?!, etc. half-moves will simply not show up at all.

Another thing to note is that if any of these half-moves are annotated,
the annotation is still shown, although the move is not.

Please have a look into this issue. In replies, please always include a
copy to 299...@bu... (Cc) so the Debian BTS can
track progress.

Kind regards,
Patrik

Re: [eboard-devel] configure script for 1.1.1 is broken

[Felipe B. <fb...@gm...>]

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Paul B. Mahol <on...@gm...> wrote:
> On 6/2/08, Felipe Bergo <fb...@gm...> wrote:
>> On some BSDs some .h files are broken and produce errors if stdio.h /
>> stdlib.h / string.h / unistd.h aren't explicitly included before them.
>> BSDBUG merely tells the header check function to include these in
>> thetest program.
>>
>> Failing to find some non-required headers is not an error.
>
> Configure exits, without producing Makefile
>

please send the config.log file generated by this error, this is very
weird and unexpected.

the current configure script works fine on my freebsd boxes, and on
Mac OS X too.

> BTW: I am interested to do some translations: So do I need to create
> both *.po and *.dict ?
>

No, only .po. To start from scratch, copy multilang/eboard.hemp to
multilang/eboard.XX.po, translate.

To generate the .dict, ./pocomp.pl < po-file > dict-file (pocomp.pl is
in the multilang directory).

Once you are done, just attach the .po file in an email to me and I
edit the Makefile to ensure installation and packaging of the related
files.


> What about adding support for speech synthesizers like espeak and festival:
> something like adding custom command to run every time some action happen.
> (for example: e4 move will trigger command "<command> e4" - where <command>
> is something like "espeak -v it" )
> Some of important benefits is that such programs support many languages,
> and there is no need to have(create) bunch of wav (or similar) files.

I find it very annoying. If I had enough free time, I'd spent doing
other things to eboard (better/more configurable board,
context-sensitive text console, better chat handling...)

-- Felipe

Re: [eboard-devel] configure script for 1.1.1 is broken

[Paul B. M. <on...@gm...>]

On 6/2/08, Felipe Bergo <fb...@gm...> wrote:
> On some BSDs some .h files are broken and produce errors if stdio.h /
> stdlib.h / string.h / unistd.h aren't explicitly included before them.
> BSDBUG merely tells the header check function to include these in
> thetest program.
>
> Failing to find some non-required headers is not an error.

Configure exits, without producing Makefile

Output:

# ./configure
configuring eboard 1.1.1...
checking sanity of install... ok
testing C++ compiler...
  trying c++ ... it works
header verification:
  stdio.h             : no
  stdlib.h            : no
  string.h            : no
  unistd.h            : no
  time.h              : no
  stdarg.h            : no
  ctype.h             : no
  errno.h             : no
  fcntl.h             : no
  dirent.h            : no
  sys/stat.h          : no
  sys/types.h         : no
  sys/wait.h          : no
  signal.h            : no
  math.h              : no
  sys/time.h          : no
  sys/ioctl.h         : no
  sys/socket.h        : no
  netdb.h             : no
  netinet/in.h        : no
  arpa/inet.h         : no
  iostream            : no
  deque               : no
  list                : no
  vector              : no
  stack               : no
  string              : no
** at least one required header is missing.

> Of course I am unable to reproduce or verify this, since you failed to
> provide the OS version and the output of the "failure".

Hm, look in patches of eboard port (it is for old version but anyway ...)

> The current version compiles cleanly on all my FreeBSD 4.x, 5.x and
> 6.x test boxes.

I'm talking about configure script, compiling works without problems.
It is 8.0 CURRENT (but it is completly irrelevant for any >4.X FreeBSD)




BTW: I am interested to do some translations: So do I need to create
both *.po and *.dict ?

What about adding support for speech synthesizers like espeak and festival:
something like adding custom command to run every time some action happen.
(for example: e4 move will trigger command "<command> e4" - where <command>
is something like "espeak -v it" )
Some of important benefits is that such programs support many languages,
and there is no need to have(create) bunch of wav (or similar) files.

Re: [eboard-devel] configure script for 1.1.1 is broken

[Felipe B. <fb...@gm...>]

On some BSDs some .h files are broken and produce errors if stdio.h /
stdlib.h / string.h / unistd.h aren't explicitly included before them.
BSDBUG merely tells the header check function to include these in
thetest program.

Failing to find some non-required headers is not an error.

Of course I am unable to reproduce or verify this, since you failed to
provide the OS version and the output of the "failure".

The current version compiles cleanly on all my FreeBSD 4.x, 5.x and
6.x test boxes.

-- Felipe


On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Paul B. Mahol <on...@gm...> wrote:
> It fails to found various *.h files. I found also obscure BSDBUG -
> what is  meaning of this?
>
> Removing such if statements in script, ad after that, configuring and
> building produces fully working eboard.
>
> On recent FreeBSD, well it should not matter ... locations of header
> files are defined by POSIX.
>
> BTW. "Getting started" dialog looks ugly with dark gtk themes (black
> text on black background).
>

[eboard-devel] configure script for 1.1.1 is broken

[Paul B. M. <on...@gm...>]

It fails to found various *.h files. I found also obscure BSDBUG -
what is  meaning of this?

Removing such if statements in script, ad after that, configuring and
building produces fully working eboard.

On recent FreeBSD, well it should not matter ... locations of header
files are defined by POSIX.

BTW. "Getting started" dialog looks ugly with dark gtk themes (black
text on black background).

[eboard-devel] I'm take part in

[charlesw1234 <cha...@16...>]

hi~

I just commit a Chinese translation for eboard, and take part in the development mailling list now.

Thanks.

Charles  May 23, 2008.

Re: [eboard-devel] Crashes and slow moving

[Nico S. <nic...@sc...>]

Hello Oli,

oliver [Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 05:07:27PM +0100]:
> [...]
> I have a debian binary (and source) package ready at:
>=20
> http://oko00.hostsharing.net/debian/unofficial/

Very nice! I ran 1.0.4 from source for some hours and it does not seems
to crash, though is pretty slow again (so I really guess it maybe the
xserver / libraries that cause that problem).

I also tested the package you created, it works as well as the binary
built from source.

Now the only question remaning to me is why placing chessman takes such
a long time.

Sincerly

Nico

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Re: [eboard-devel] Crashes and slow moving

[oliver <ok...@xy...>]

Hi Nico, 

I have a debian binary (and source) package ready at:

http://oko00.hostsharing.net/debian/unofficial/

And I didn't have any problems. Also speed is quite well, at my machine. I use 
it in SID/Unstable.

I packaged it because the 1.0.3-1 version was regularily crashing at FICS. 

Oliver

[eboard-devel] Crashes and slow moving

[Nico S. <nic...@sc...>]

Hello!

When using board 1.0.3-1 in Debian Lenny or 1.0.4 from source the following=
 happens:

- Moving a chessman is _extremly_ slow: selecting a chessman requires
  up to 5 seconds, then moving it results in very hackish behaviour,
  like I cannot select the destination field very good

In 1.0.3-1 I also see many random crashes (I guess some invalid pointer
opertations), did not yet see it in 1.0.4, but I just used it for some
minutes.

Perhaps the reason for that is in some library or in the xserver, but
currently it's unplayable with eboard here.

Any ideas, how to debug that slowness?

Sincerly

Nico

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[eboard-devel] Wish

[Tony S. <tsh...@ya...>]

Before I start making "wishes" I'd like to first give you a BIG thank you for making the best chess gui I've used for Linux. Its clean, easy to look at, stable, and works extremely well. 

The only feature I wish it had is an engine VS engine feature so I could watch how engines play against each other in hopes of finding techniques to add to my own playing style. Other than that, I think eboard is near perfection.

Keep up the fantastic work!

Sincerely,
Tony

       
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Re: [eboard-devel] translatable game type names

[Felipe B. <fb...@gm...>]

Sorry for not replying earlier.

Technically this can be done. But most variants are like proper names, with
no reasonable translation to most languages. Are there hungarian names for
crazyhouse, bughouse, blitz/lightning/standard ?

Also, those names are provided by the server, so if eboard is used to
connect to a server in a different language (I remember using a French
server some years ago), the strings will be completely different.

I don't think it's worth, but I can make it if there is some language where
it is reasonable.

-- Felipe


On 5/24/07, Bajusz Tam=E1s <bt...@en...> wrote:
>
> In the (FICS) seek panel there is a game type column getting values from
> the
> seeks like standard/crazyhouse/blitz/...
> Am i correct that it can have only a fixed number of strings, so you can
> store them in a dictionary or something, and they can be translatable
> strings,
> helping non english users?
>
> Regards: Bajusz Tam=E1s
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>

-- Felipe