Re: [XBoard-devel] readline support/ICS input box

[h.g. muller]

> Do you happen to know what the build errors
> were? I had no issues
> building the version with ReadLine in OS X.

When building,people reported this lining error.

Undefined symbols:
"_rl_reset_line_state", referenced from:
_DoInputCallback in xboard.o
ld: symbol(s) not found
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [xboard] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

People using the debian binary package compiled by me sometimes
report:

xboard: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.5: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory

But I think this is simply because they failed to install a packge. Not
sure
if they would get an error on the rl_reset_line_state entry when they
would
have the missing library, though.


> Wow, that's really awesome! I didn't
> know about the feature but I will
> give it a try today.

In most places where windows are popped up, the code looks like
below.
If not everyone has the same preference here, would it be an idea 
to
introduce a (persistent) command-line option -topLevel, and replace
all the conditional code by an if(appData.topLevel) run-time 
choice?

#if TOPLEVEL
    shell =
      XtCreatePopupShell(name, topLevelShellWidgetClass,
                         shellWidget, args, j);
#else
    shell =
      XtCreatePopupShell(name, transientShellWidgetClass,
                         shellWidget, args, j);
#endif