Re: XBoard -- 'Study game' mode and GTK.

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
>
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