Re: [pbmserv-dev] Plakoto: board size option?

[John Williams <williams@morinda.com>]

The SetOption and GetOption functions are used for preferences which will
affect all boards, past, present and future.

See the UnknownCommand function in draughts.cpp for and example of how to
use them.

~ John Williams


On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Douglas Zander wrote:

> Can someone help me here?  A player was complaining to me that the board
> of plakoto was two lines taller than the old board of backgammon and
> because of that it no longer fit completely on his screen.  Now I know 
> that that is a rather petty complaint, but the fact is, long ago I once
> made a similiar complaint and suggested to programmers to try the best
> they can to make the boards as small as possible.  Ok, so I know how to
> shrink the plakoto board by two lines and get it back to the original 
> size of a backgammon board.  I believe that there is a way to accept
> a command to show different board sizes but my question is; is there a
> way to store this preference for a particular player for a specific type
> of game?  I wish to do this so that the player will not have to send in 
> the boardsize command for each board he starts.  I want it done
> automatically for all games of plakoto he starts playing in.
> 
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>  Douglas Zander                |  
>  dzander@solaria.sol.net       | 
>  Shorewood, Wisconsin, USA     |  
> 
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