Re: [XBoard-devel] Zippy Talk

[H.G. Muller]

Just to be clear: I had seen the message posted on WB forum about this, but I did not respond because I simply have no idea what it is about.
I hoped that someone who actually was knowledgeable on the subject would respond.
I never used "Zippy talk" myself, and have only a very vague notion of what it is supposed to do. I have never looked at the code for it,
and I am not really interested doing so: it does not seem a functionality that has anything to do with Chess per se.

H.G.

Op 12/31/2015 om 1:20 AM schreef Tim Mann:

It would be best to ask questions on one of the xboard mailing lists, because I don't really work on xboard anymore.

There should be a sample zippy.lines file included with xboard. I have attached a copy in case you don't have it. This is an old copy from the last time I pulled sources from the git server, but I doubt anyone changed the format, so it should still be correct.

Zippy has a 1-minute built in time delay after each shout before it will shout again. The delay is not configurable except by recompiling (unless someone has changed that recently).

On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 11:08 PM, Izabelle <address@hidden> wrote:

And one more thing, how do I make these announcements the engine makes
less frequent, to prevent abuse?

On 11/22/15, Izabelle <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks for replying. I really appreciate it.
> Can you write a few lines to show me how a sample zippy.lines file looks
> like?
>
> -Thanks
>
> On 11/21/15, Tim Mann <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Sorry, I can't guess what's wrong from your message.
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 12:52 AM, Izabelle <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Tim...
>>>
>>> I'm experiencing some problems with Zippytalk.
>>> I have been using zippy that comes with winboard 4.8 for quite some
>>> time now to use Sjeng on FICS. Everything is working well, but when I
>>> try to use the zippy talk feature, only the first 2-3 lines are taken
>>> from zippy.lines file and the remaining are just ignored. How should I
>>> fix this? I use ^ as the null character between two sayings. Could
>>> this be the reason.
>>> Hope you can help me..
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>
>