Comments on: ChessByBlog 1.1.3 http://www.levork.org/2009/07/12/chessbyblog-113/ jfong's blog Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:43:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: levork http://www.levork.org/2009/07/12/chessbyblog-113/comment-page-1/#comment-20141 levork Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:59:27 +0000 http://www.levork.org/?p=500#comment-20141 Ralf, Robert: I've made a new release of the plugin built against Google Web Toolkit 1.7. The previous plugin used GWT 1.5, and this was known to have issues with IE 8. Ingmar: The new release moves the configuration page from Tools to Settings. To everyone: The new release is 1.1.4, so I'm going to close this post out for new comments. The release post for 1.1.4 is http://www.levork.org/2009/09/07/chessbyblog-1-1-4/ Ralf, Robert:

I’ve made a new release of the plugin built against Google Web Toolkit 1.7. The previous plugin used GWT 1.5, and this was known to have issues with IE 8.

Ingmar:

The new release moves the configuration page from Tools to Settings.

To everyone:

The new release is 1.1.4, so I’m going to close this post out for new comments. The release post for 1.1.4 is http://www.levork.org/2009/09/07/chessbyblog-1-1-4/

]]> By: Robert http://www.levork.org/2009/07/12/chessbyblog-113/comment-page-1/#comment-20089 Robert Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:59:03 +0000 http://www.levork.org/?p=500#comment-20089 Hi, Julian. Sorry to have vanished for a while -- crunch time, you know. The closed-board problem persists, just as Ralf described. Some of the users have solved it by switching to Firefox, but others say that's not an option for them. Thanks for looking into this. Hi, Julian. Sorry to have vanished for a while — crunch time, you know. The closed-board problem persists, just as Ralf described. Some of the users have solved it by switching to Firefox, but others say that’s not an option for them. Thanks for looking into this.

]]> By: levork http://www.levork.org/2009/07/12/chessbyblog-113/comment-page-1/#comment-20038 levork Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:19:42 +0000 http://www.levork.org/?p=500#comment-20038 Ralf: I've duplicated the problem with IE 8 and I should hopefully be able to get a fix for it by the weekend. Rather bizarrely, it doesn't happen with IE 7 which is just plain weird. Anyways, sorry for the trouble. Ralf: I’ve duplicated the problem with IE 8 and I should hopefully be able to get a fix for it by the weekend. Rather bizarrely, it doesn’t happen with IE 7 which is just plain weird. Anyways, sorry for the trouble.

]]> By: Ingmar http://www.levork.org/2009/07/12/chessbyblog-113/comment-page-1/#comment-19991 Ingmar Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:02:07 +0000 http://www.levork.org/?p=500#comment-19991 Hi, thanks for your reply. I actually just didn't think of checking the "tools"-menu for options. Hey, there they are! I changed the theme to alpha-hatch (whick looks quite perfect with my theme) and by way I found out that it is possible to close to game log by default. Very well. Keep on with this nice plugin! Hi,
thanks for your reply. I actually just didn’t think of checking the “tools”-menu for options. Hey, there they are! I changed the theme to alpha-hatch (whick looks quite perfect with my theme) and by way I found out that it is possible to close to game log by default. Very well.
Keep on with this nice plugin!

]]> By: levork http://www.levork.org/2009/07/12/chessbyblog-113/comment-page-1/#comment-19988 levork Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:33:40 +0000 http://www.levork.org/?p=500#comment-19988 Ingmar: the configuration panel for Chess By Blog is actually under "Tools", not "Settings". At least, in WordPress 2.8. I think more and more plugins have been using "Settings" lately so I should probably follow suit with that. Copying the buttons.png file should have worked - perhaps you needed to clear your browser's cache after you're done? If I recall correctly the CSS file just references the buttons.png file and alpha-hatch-48 and wikipedia-48 have the same button size, so they should be somewhat interchangeable. wikipedia-48 has some bevelling to the buttons that's actually done by the CSS style sheet so you don't like that you'll need to edit the ChessByBlog.css file in the respective directory. Ingmar: the configuration panel for Chess By Blog is actually under “Tools”, not “Settings”. At least, in WordPress 2.8. I think more and more plugins have been using “Settings” lately so I should probably follow suit with that.

Copying the buttons.png file should have worked – perhaps you needed to clear your browser’s cache after you’re done? If I recall correctly the CSS file just references the buttons.png file and alpha-hatch-48 and wikipedia-48 have the same button size, so they should be somewhat interchangeable. wikipedia-48 has some bevelling to the buttons that’s actually done by the CSS style sheet so you don’t like that you’ll need to edit the ChessByBlog.css file in the respective directory.

]]> By: Ingmar http://www.levork.org/2009/07/12/chessbyblog-113/comment-page-1/#comment-19947 Ingmar Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:59:49 +0000 http://www.levork.org/?p=500#comment-19947 Hi Julian, thank you for this wordpress-plugin! It really works great and it is fun to play chess with it online. There is still one thing I am wondering about: there are some themes in the plugin folder, but I can't yet figure out how to activate them. The form that opens after hitting the "chess by blog"-button in the editor wont' show me any options to select a theme and I can't find an entry concerning this plugin in the "options"-menu in the backend of wordpress. Do I overlook something or is there an other way to change themes? Actually I do like to change the (color of the) buttons on top of the board. It's a minor issue but I really would like to fit the buttons to the color-sheme of the theme I'm using. Specifically I like to use the "alpha-hatch-48/button.png". Even after I copied the buttons of my desire to all of the themes I still see All the best, Ingmar Hi Julian,

thank you for this wordpress-plugin! It really works great and it is fun to play chess with it online.
There is still one thing I am wondering about: there are some themes in the plugin folder, but I can’t yet figure out how to activate them. The form that opens after hitting the “chess by blog”-button in the editor wont’ show me any options to select a theme and I can’t find an entry concerning this plugin in the “options”-menu in the backend of wordpress. Do I overlook something or is there an other way to change themes?

Actually I do like to change the (color of the) buttons on top of the board. It’s a minor issue but I really would like to fit the buttons to the color-sheme of the theme I’m using. Specifically I like to use the “alpha-hatch-48/button.png”. Even after I copied the buttons of my desire to all of the themes I still see

All the best,
Ingmar

]]> By: Ralf http://www.levork.org/2009/07/12/chessbyblog-113/comment-page-1/#comment-19824 Ralf Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:14:57 +0000 http://www.levork.org/?p=500#comment-19824 If you think I can be of any further assistance, please send me a mail. Otherwise I am looking forward to your next release. If you think I can be of any further assistance, please send me a mail. Otherwise I am looking forward to your next release.

]]> By: levork http://www.levork.org/2009/07/12/chessbyblog-113/comment-page-1/#comment-19802 levork Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:57:03 +0000 http://www.levork.org/?p=500#comment-19802 I haven't heard back from Robert yet, so I haven't made any headway. But your data point that this is happening on IE 8 is very helpful. I will run some tests with that browser and see if I can duplicate any problems. I haven’t heard back from Robert yet, so I haven’t made any headway. But your data point that this is happening on IE 8 is very helpful. I will run some tests with that browser and see if I can duplicate any problems.

]]> By: Ralf http://www.levork.org/2009/07/12/chessbyblog-113/comment-page-1/#comment-19794 Ralf Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:49:59 +0000 http://www.levork.org/?p=500#comment-19794 First of all: Very nice work! When I heard of your Chess-by-blog-Plugin I switched my site from Drupal to Wordpress. To me it is one of the most complete solutions for playing chess on a homepage I have found so far. (Maybe you could add autoplay, animated moves and a 3-D-board? ;-) But then I experienced perhaps the same problem as Robert mentioned above. With Firefox everything works just as expected. But using IE (8) turns every open game (waiting for my move) into a closed board (black or white to move). It seems as I am not recognized as the correct user although logged in WP. Did you find a solution to Roberts problem? May this help in this case too? First of all: Very nice work! When I heard of your Chess-by-blog-Plugin I switched my site from Drupal to WordPress. To me it is one of the most complete solutions for playing chess on a homepage I have found so far. (Maybe you could add autoplay, animated moves and a 3-D-board? ;-)

But then I experienced perhaps the same problem as Robert mentioned above. With Firefox everything works just as expected. But using IE (8) turns every open game (waiting for my move) into a closed board (black or white to move). It seems as I am not recognized as the correct user although logged in WP.

Did you find a solution to Roberts problem? May this help in this case too?

]]> By: levork http://www.levork.org/2009/07/12/chessbyblog-113/comment-page-1/#comment-19483 levork Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:43:50 +0000 http://www.levork.org/?p=500#comment-19483 Hi Robert - Do you have some time over the weekend to maybe coordinate a test with me? It might help for me to have a user account on your blog and to inspect what's going on from the client side of things, if you're willing to setup an account and a board for me to look at. You can download the older version of the plugin from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/chess-by-blog/download/ although if it's not getting in your way I'd still like to see what's going on with the current version. Feel free to drop me a private e-mail if you're not comfortable publishing your blog address here. Hi Robert -

Do you have some time over the weekend to maybe coordinate a test with me? It might help for me to have a user account on your blog and to inspect what’s going on from the client side of things, if you’re willing to setup an account and a board for me to look at.

You can download the older version of the plugin from

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/chess-by-blog/download/

although if it’s not getting in your way I’d still like to see what’s going on with the current version. Feel free to drop me a private e-mail if you’re not comfortable publishing your blog address here.

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