Re: [gnugo-devel] gui interfaces for load, switch, etc.

[Arend Bayer]

On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Neal McBurnett wrote:

> The interaction between graphical clients and gnugo does
> seem to be a weak area, though.

I agree!

> The ascii interface provides very useful commands to load an exisiting
> game and play on, to switch colors, force moves, etc.
>
> I'd like to do those things via a graphical interface, both for
> ordinary use and to more easily work on gnugo.  I see some talk of gtp
> clients like gogui & GoThic, and also work on jugo, but not
> much in the way of documentation (yeah, I know, use the source....).
> I'm wondering if they can do these things, or if there is something
> else I'm missing.  E.g. can common GMP clients do any of these things?
> Are there versions of the GMP which allow them?

I am not aware of any GMP client that could do all this (I think jago can
do most things apart from loading a .sgf-game). I think GoGui can
do what you want, however this client is still work in progress as far
as I can tell. Or you could hope that these features could get
implemented in future versions of ggo...(a very nice client!) (With the
new GTP protocol replacing GMP, this should all be a little more
convenient for clients to implement).

Arend