[eboard-devel] Re: Piece selection

[Felipe B. <be...@se...>]

On Tue, 22 May 2001, Mike Hill wrote:

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Mike,

piece selection _is_ handled according to premove being activated or not.
You _are_ able of changing the selected piece. Say, if on the start
position you selected the king's pawn (with a simple click) and then
changed your mind, clicking on the queen's pawn will transfer the
selection to that pawn without moving.

You don't need to keep any old files, just make me understand what you
need. Has 0.1.10 in some way behaved oddly on you ? If yes, describe
exactly what happened.

> I really hate to do this, but I don't use premove and find quite often
> that I need to switch selected pieces. Could you tell me what library
> I should keep aside so I don't lose that ability?
>
> One solution would be to handle the selection semantics based on
> whether premove is checked. Some players feel very strongly about
> premove, especially lightning players, and the lost time with changing
> pieces would be detrimental.

One of the things I have in mind is have a scalable premove queue to
allowing queueing more than one move. May look odd, but... lightning is
meant to be fun, not to look like chess <g>

>
> Please note, this is of minor concern for me, and I'm sure there are
> more pressing development needs. I've been real happy with things
> since 0.1.6 and the piece selection was just icing. Simply knowing
> which part to keep aside will be fine.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>

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