Banksia GUI released

[phhnguyen]

After seeing all the dozens of requests and suggestions for the BanksiaGUI, I would simply like to say a big thank you to the author, phhnguyen!

After seeing all the dozens of requests and suggestions for the BanksiaGUI, I would simply like to say a big thank you to the author, phhnguyen!

Thanks all for the good words. They gave me a lot of energy

[phhnguyen]

This is a very nice gui, I especially like the multiple games that can be played at the same time.
I do have one suggestion. I find it difficult to discern which engine is playing with the white pieces and which one is playing black

If you look at the picture below, wouldn't it be better if the small boxes matched the color of the pieces? A blue box has no meaning.
I understand that the engine at the bottom is playing with the black pieces, but since the black pieces are playing from the top it's a little confusing at times.


I was thinking something like this which I copied from the LiChess website. It makes it clear who is playing white and who is playing black. Just my opinion though, great job with the GUI !

A color is an engine's color, setup by users in the Settings dialog. Thus you may change to any color you want. At the moment those colors are used to display the color of their thinking arrows and in their clock panel. They are not the color of side nor their pieces (users can select red for an engine and it can play for black side).

[phhnguyen]

Feature request:

I often use the network function of the Banksia GUI, I would like to know if it is possible to give users the option to set a default icon for their remote network engine. Just one default icon that would be used to represent any remote network engine.

Example:

Thanks a lot for the suggestion. I will implement it soon.

[mikebock]

A color is an engine's color, setup by users in the Settings dialog. Thus you may change to any color you want. At the moment those colors are used to display the color of their thinking arrows and in their clock panel. They are not the color of side nor their pieces (users can select red for an engine and it can play for black side).

That's kinda confusing. Would it be better to outline the engine color with a small white or black border to show which side they are playing?

[Alayan]

I'm using Linux, and I have a weird issue. After unpacking the zip, when I start the .sh script, I can see Banksia GUI consuming CPU resources in my task manager. Quite a lot of them actually, mostly filling a core. However, the GUI's window never start and so the program is unusable for me.

Encountered this issue with both 0.28 and 0.30.

[Nordlandia]

Many thanks for all the adjudication settings implemented as requested. As well as the ponder hit percentage

[phhnguyen]

A color is an engine's color, setup by users in the Settings dialog. Thus you may change to any color you want. At the moment those colors are used to display the color of their thinking arrows and in their clock panel. They are not the color of side nor their pieces (users can select red for an engine and it can play for black side).

That's kinda confusing. Would it be better to outline the engine color with a small white or black border to show which side they are playing?

You are right. Actually they are one of the designing dilemmas. The current design may confuse users. However, if we use white/black borders, the color boxes are quite small to see them (border colors) clearly. Because of contrast, the main colors of those boxes may make all look worse. There is almost no spare space to make those boxes be bigger. Also, there is no point to use only white/black boxes since that is mainly for decorating.

BTW, we are always open mind, listening to all suggestions, trying solutions. Hope we may find a better solution for this issue

[phhnguyen]

I'm using Linux, and I have a weird issue. After unpacking the zip, when I start the .sh script, I can see Banksia GUI consuming CPU resources in my task manager. Quite a lot of them actually, mostly filling a core. However, the GUI's window never start and so the program is unusable for me.

Encountered this issue with both 0.28 and 0.30.

Thanks for the report. Can you try one or both:
- Find and delete the configuration folder of BankisaGUI (usually, it is in ~/.config/BanksiaGUI)
- Run BanksiaGUI in recover mode with param -r (type ./BanksiaGui.sh -r ). It will ignore some JSON files and use default values instead

BTW, what Linux are you using?

[phhnguyen]

Many thanks for all the adjudication settings implemented as requested. As well as the ponder hit percentage

[Nordlandia]

May i kindly request armageddon mode to be up for consideration for to-do-list onwards. Considering that last Komodo support armageddon, implementing it may justify the work needed.