New WinBoard gimmick

[hgm]

A new version has been pushed to http://hgm.nubati.net/WinBoard-4.5TM.exe . With a bit of luck this should be the definitive 4.6.0 version. But we have become a bit careful now, and want to expose it to some testing before officially releasing it. So this is the version of the 'developer release' that will take place at GNU later today. (That of yesterday had already turned up so many problems with XBoard, due to switching on the internationalization, that we decided to do a new one today!) The official 4.6.0 release should then follow in one or two weeks, and hopefully not comprise more than changing the version number.

So please test!

[hgm]

I had another idea (not yet implemented) that could get more mileage out of grouping engines. In the Tournament Options dialog, where it makes sense to select multiple engines, we could let the group expand in the combobox as:

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# GROUP NAME
o  Add All
engine1
engine2
...
engineN

Clicking an engine would add it to the tourney-participants list, clicking the group name would make you leave the group without adding a participant, but clicking "Add All" could add all engines in the group to the tourney participants! (As the participants list is a normal text edit, you then still have the possibility to delete the few that you did not want.)

This could be useful for people that often use a group of engines together. E.g. I could put the usual gauntlet opponents for my own engine in one group.

[Roger Brown]

SNIP

Another new feature is that the Engine menu now contains a list of recently used engines in previous sessions. This only keeps tracks of engines loaded through the Load Engine dialog, or the first engine at startup. So not for engines in tournaments. When you click on such an engine menu item it loads the engine as first engine, like you would have opened the Load Engine, dialog, selected it from the list, and pressed OK.

The new version is at http://hgm.nubati.net/WinBoard-4.5TM.exe .
Please tell me what you think about it.

Hello H.G.,

Thanks for this feature.

It works. I use Winboard for other things than engine-engine matches and this feature is extremely useful to me as I have my usual suspects all lined up and ready to go without having to scroll.

Later.