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H. G. Muller wrote on Sun, Oct 9, 2022 10:57 AM UTC in reply to Ben Reiniger from Mon Oct 3 01:00 PM:

I see two minor downsides to the interactive diagram as the main/first/only setup display: it takes a little longer to load, and after making use of the interactivity it is no longer a setup diagram (requires a refresh, or is there a button for reset now?).

I tried to better address these points now. The Diagram can be reset to its original position by right-clicking on an empty square in it. Right-clicking on a piece summons its move diagram. (The latter is a feature I always wanted to have, but it was spoiled by that pesky context menu that the browser would pop up on using the right mouse button. I finally figured out how to suppress that for right clicks on the board.)

I altered the initial message displayed above the board to announce this possibility to the unwary user. I hope this does not make the message too long for very small boards. Perhaps I should make the font side dependent on the board width.

I also shortened the timeout used for initializing the Diagram from 1 sec to 100msec. I hope this doesn't lead to problems.

symmetry=mirror graphicsDir=/graphics.dir/alfaeriePNG/ graphicsType=png squareSize=50 pawn::::a2-h2 knight:N:::b1,g1 bishop::::c1,f1 rook::::a1,h1 queen::::d1 king::::e1

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