Re: [XBoard-devel] (no subject)

[h.g. muller]

At 12:35 28-8-2013 -0700, Tim Mann wrote:
> IIRC, it always did that. It predates the existence of auto flip view as 
> an option. It seems OK to me to change it.

OK, I looked somewhat deeper into it, and it seems that there are two 
variables controlling the view, flipView
(which represents the actual view, and is changed when you change the POV) 
and appData.flipView (which holds
the command-line option for this). New Game ('Reset') copies 
appData.flipView to flipView. So it is as if the
command-line option defines a default view to which you change every time 
you start a new game. (Even if
autoFlipView is off.)

This is a bit weird, but it still enables one to see the board from black 
POV always, by using -flip on the
command line. Downside is that there is no way to alter appData.flipView 
from the menus. Perhaps I should
also change appData.flipView whenever flipView changes by menu action (but 
not when the latter changes
by auto-flipping). Then an intentionally chosen view would be preserved 
even over a New Game.