Eschecs, a simple GUI written in Pascal

[Roland Chastain]

Very nice, thanks.
Would it be possible to also support castling (say in orthodox mode) by moving the king to the target position? KxR is fine, sure, but...

Thank you. OK, I will see what I can do.

[Roland Chastain]

Would it be possible to also support castling (say in orthodox mode) by moving the king to the target position?

Done. I was afraid but in fact it was not so complicated.

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  if (FUserMove = 'e1g1') and FGame.IsLegal('e1h1') and FGame.IsCastling('e1h1') then FUserMove := 'e1h1';
  if (FUserMove = 'e1c1') and FGame.IsLegal('e1a1') and FGame.IsCastling('e1a1') then FUserMove := 'e1a1';
  if (FUserMove = 'e8g8') and FGame.IsLegal('e8h8') and FGame.IsCastling('e8h8') then FUserMove := 'e8h8';
  if (FUserMove = 'e8c8') and FGame.IsLegal('e8a8') and FGame.IsCastling('e8a8') then FUserMove := 'e8a8';

It will be possible to castle that way, even in FRC mode, but only with the traditional start position.

The modification will be available with the next binary release. Thank you for that good suggestion.

[mar]

Done. I was afraid but in fact it was not so complicated.

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  if (FUserMove = 'e1g1') and FGame.IsLegal('e1h1') and FGame.IsCastling('e1h1') then FUserMove := 'e1h1';
  if (FUserMove = 'e1c1') and FGame.IsLegal('e1a1') and FGame.IsCastling('e1a1') then FUserMove := 'e1a1';
  if (FUserMove = 'e8g8') and FGame.IsLegal('e8h8') and FGame.IsCastling('e8h8') then FUserMove := 'e8h8';
  if (FUserMove = 'e8c8') and FGame.IsLegal('e8a8') and FGame.IsCastling('e8a8') then FUserMove := 'e8a8';

It will be possible to castle that way, even in FRC mode, but only with the traditional start position.

The modification will be available with the next binary release. Thank you for that good suggestion.

awesome, thanks.

[Roland Chastain]

Hello!

There is another release candidate for Eschecs 5.0.0.

Testers are welcome.

Thank you.

Roland

[mar]

Very nice, the new castling mode feels more natural. May I have some more (small) feature requests?
1) allow piece sizes up to 100px?
2) would it be possible to move the options (except for language) from options.exe directly to the GUI so that no restart is required?

[mar]

Oh and a bug report: when I drag the piece outside the window and then drop it to board, the GUI crashes.
more info: pick a piece, drag it outside the app window and release the button. then move the mouse cursor back to the app and click

[Roland Chastain]

Very nice, the new castling mode feels more natural. May I have some more (small) feature requests?
1) allow piece sizes up to 100px?
2) would it be possible to move the options (except for language) from options.exe directly to the GUI so that no restart is required?

Thank you for your feedback and for your encouragements.

I uploaded 100 pixels pieces to the GitHub repository.

https://github.com/rchastain/eschecs

Please copy the images folder and paste it in Eschecs directory. It should work.

To move the options directly to the GUI is a good idea but not easy to do with the existing code. I promise to do it when I start a new version of the program.

Thank you for the bug report. As soon as I fix it I will release new binaries.

Regards.

Roland

[Roland Chastain]

@mar

If you have time (and desire), you could make a translation of the interface in your native language.

Please see language.pas.

[mar]

I've sent you a pull request

[Roland Chastain]

Thank you very much Martin!