How to output xboard analysis info ?

[Chan Rasjid]

Hello,

All engines I have could print updated analysis mode info to the output window for xboard linux. But my engine cannot display any analysis info. I have tried setvbuf(stdout, NULL, _IONBF, 0) and setbuf(stdout, NULL) but still nothing prints to the output window. But printing to the my polyglot log file is ok.

Does anyone know what is wrong.

Best Regards,
Rasjid

[Giorgio Medeot]

Hi,
have you tried to fflush()?

Also take a look at: http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/WinBo ... ntf.html#6

It is a little boring having to call fflush after every output, but I simply wrote my own function which prints whatever to stdout via the usual printf() stuff, and then call fflush() before returning.

HTH,

• Giorgio

[hgm]

It sounds like Polyglot does not recognize your output as something that should be relayed. Which usually means it s not really compliant with the UCI standard.

Are you sure you send all information that belongs to the PV in one info command?

It is a bit hard for people to guess what is wrong if you fail to post the logs...

[Chan Rasjid]

It sounds like Polyglot does not recognize your output as something that should be relayed. Which usually means it s not really compliant with the UCI standard.

Are you sure you send all information that belongs to the PV in one info command?

It is a bit hard for people to guess what is wrong if you fail to post the logs...

This is a difficult puzzle to solve!

Just solved it. Mine is a UCI engine that connects to xboard through polyglot. It did an unwanted favor for polyglot by converting the pv-line from algebraic to SANS notations; but UCI accepts only algebraic !

Thanks,
Chan Rasjid.

[hgm]

Indeed. If you would have posted the offending output, we could have told you that immediately. But it is difficult to _guess_ you would be using SAN...