UCI Engine output

[Dave_N]

I am not actually using the windows api in this program - I have based the engine loading code on the "exec" sample from WxWidgets, however I am not sure how many UCI engines can actually run on the Mac or Linux.

[Michel]

Another example is the "pipex" code in the polyglot source (which is C, not C++). On Linux it uses "select" and on Windows threads.

[Dave_N]

Yeah I have Polyglot too, although I am trying to make an original code (my pgn parse is megalithic and mostly inline) I did experiment with reading the polyglot opening books =)

[ilari]

The code seems to suggest that the "isready" command is occasionally sent to "avoid signal spam" unless I am misinterpreting this:-

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// To avoid signal spam, send the 'readyRead' signal only
 120                 // if we have a whole line of new data
 121                 if &#40;m_lastNewLine <= int&#40;dwRead&#41;)
 122                         emit readyRead&#40;);

I guess I should have mentioned that Cute Chess uses the Qt framework which has some extensions to C++ such as signals and slots. The PipeReader object sends the readyRead() signal to the main thread only when a complete line (something with the \n escape sequence) has been read. That can reduce the frequency of the readyRead() signal and thus improve the efficiency of the code.

[Dave_N]

I have Qt installed however I am still getting to grips with the compiler