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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Aug 4, 2020 10:10 PM EDT in reply to H. G. Muller from 01:43 AM:

Would it be possible to have the move-entry form appear with the move field already containing the text 'pass'?

I am working on buttons for entering pass and skip. This is similar in concept to the button that enters the resign command. There are still bugs to work out, and hopefully, I'll get them working tomorrow.

When I try to print something (for debugging purposes, using print or printr) in the Post-Game sections, it does not seem to show up anywhere. Unless I ask the browser for the page source. Then the output of the print statements appears in the header of the HTML page; FireFox furthermore complains about the and <BODY ...> tags (by displaying them in red), which it apparently does not expect in the place they are now.

The GAME Code program is run before the HEAD section is displayed. It fills some META fields with images of the board. This is mainly for SEO and might not be especially useful.

Text that is displayed by the GAME Code program is normally hidden if the program completes successfully. You can test code more immediately by entering it in the Pre-Game section or in the appropriate Post-Game section and clicking the Run button.

I am trying to implement promotion now, and I managed to get askpromote present a menu of possible piece choices.

I have not had time yet to look into this, because I'm still working on the pass/skip buttons.

Oh, and when a Pawn is in the askpromote menu, and I select it, nothing happens when I press 'Play'. (This could be because I am in an infinite loop.) I can imagine that it dislikes adding a no-op promotion move 'P-dest', but how else could it be indicated that I want to defer promotion?

I have not looked into this either, but I would advise you to closely examine the code for the Pawn subroutines in the fairychess include file.


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