Comments on: ChessByBlog 1.1.4 http://www.levork.org/2009/09/07/chessbyblog-1-1-4/ jfong's blog Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:43:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Aaron http://www.levork.org/2009/09/07/chessbyblog-1-1-4/comment-page-1/#comment-27735 Aaron Sun, 19 Sep 2010 14:56:04 +0000 http://www.levork.org/?p=507#comment-27735 Hi Levork, I am trying to put together a site to host chess articles and annotations (the website I'm working on is above) and I have contributor that wants to put in a position that stops after ten moves, then write paragraph notes, the put up another position starting on move 10 to the end of the game. Is there a way to do this? Also, did you ever buildin a way to switch to paragraph view? That would be really helpful. Thank you for any assistance you can render, I really appreciate it! Hi Levork,

I am trying to put together a site to host chess articles and annotations (the website I’m working on is above) and I have contributor that wants to put in a position that stops after ten moves, then write paragraph notes, the put up another position starting on move 10 to the end of the game.

Is there a way to do this?

Also, did you ever buildin a way to switch to paragraph view? That would be really helpful. Thank you for any assistance you can render, I really appreciate it!

]]> By: Joseph http://www.levork.org/2009/09/07/chessbyblog-1-1-4/comment-page-1/#comment-26166 Joseph Sat, 12 Jun 2010 02:18:46 +0000 http://www.levork.org/?p=507#comment-26166 Hi Julian, I've successfully put the plugin onto the Play Chess page of my website but I don't know how to configure so that other people can play against each other with that plugin. The PGN notation also doesn't work after playing a move or some moves. The browser that I'm using is Chrome 5.0.375.70. Joseph Hi Julian,

I’ve successfully put the plugin onto the Play Chess page of my website but I don’t know how to configure so that other people can play against each other with that plugin. The PGN notation also doesn’t work after playing a move or some moves. The browser that I’m using is Chrome 5.0.375.70.

Joseph

]]> By: levork http://www.levork.org/2009/09/07/chessbyblog-1-1-4/comment-page-1/#comment-22590 levork Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:14:26 +0000 http://www.levork.org/?p=507#comment-22590 Hi Doug - thanks for the bug report. This will be fixed for the next release, which I hope I will be able to put out within a week or so. Hi Doug – thanks for the bug report. This will be fixed for the next release, which I hope I will be able to put out within a week or so.

]]> By: Doug http://www.levork.org/2009/09/07/chessbyblog-1-1-4/comment-page-1/#comment-22456 Doug Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:15:29 +0000 http://www.levork.org/?p=507#comment-22456 Great Plugin... there seems to be a problem with posting FEN notation... Specifically when its blacks turn... This works [FEN "3Q1R2/5r1p/4N1pk/4pq2/8/7P/5PPK/8 w - - 0 1"] this throws an error [FEN "3Q1R2/5r1p/4N1pk/4pq2/8/7P/5PPK/8 b - - 0 1"] com.google.gwt.core.client.JavaScriptException: (TypeError): 'b' is null or not an object number: -2146823281 description: 'b' is null or not an object --Doug Great Plugin… there seems to be a problem with posting FEN notation… Specifically when its blacks turn…

This works
[FEN "3Q1R2/5r1p/4N1pk/4pq2/8/7P/5PPK/8 w - - 0 1"]

this throws an error
[FEN "3Q1R2/5r1p/4N1pk/4pq2/8/7P/5PPK/8 b - - 0 1"]

com.google.gwt.core.client.JavaScriptException: (TypeError): ‘b’ is null or not an object
number: -2146823281
description: ‘b’ is null or not an object

–Doug

]]> By: levork http://www.levork.org/2009/09/07/chessbyblog-1-1-4/comment-page-1/#comment-21937 levork Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:29:42 +0000 http://www.levork.org/?p=507#comment-21937 Ralf - good point. I'll probably add support for switching between a table and a paragraph in the next version. I'll be able to spare some time to work on it over the Christmas holidays. :) Ralf – good point. I’ll probably add support for switching between a table and a paragraph in the next version. I’ll be able to spare some time to work on it over the Christmas holidays. :)

]]> By: Ralf http://www.levork.org/2009/09/07/chessbyblog-1-1-4/comment-page-1/#comment-21936 Ralf Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:10:57 +0000 http://www.levork.org/?p=507#comment-21936 May I post an argument pro paragraph / against scoresheet kind of view? http://www.londonchessclassic.com/downloads/classic/round1/classicrd1.htm (4) McShane,Luke (2615) - Short,Nigel (2707) [C45] is a game about 163 moves. And it needs some scrolling to the side to see the last moves in the scoresheet. May I post an argument pro paragraph / against scoresheet kind of view?
http://www.londonchessclassic.com/downloads/classic/round1/classicrd1.htm
(4) McShane,Luke (2615) – Short,Nigel (2707) [C45]
is a game about 163 moves. And it needs some scrolling to the side to see the last moves in the scoresheet.

]]> By: Ralf http://www.levork.org/2009/09/07/chessbyblog-1-1-4/comment-page-1/#comment-21824 Ralf Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:34:55 +0000 http://www.levork.org/?p=507#comment-21824 @Jonathan O'Connor: I like the move buttons right where they are. Everything else I agree. Did you progress in your modifications? @levork: Thank you once more for your work. The Chess by blog plugin is still my first choice to show chess games on a wordpress installation. @Jonathan O’Connor: I like the move buttons right where they are. Everything else I agree. Did you progress in your modifications?

@levork: Thank you once more for your work. The Chess by blog plugin is still my first choice to show chess games on a wordpress installation.

]]> By: Mario Amodeo http://www.levork.org/2009/09/07/chessbyblog-1-1-4/comment-page-1/#comment-21812 Mario Amodeo Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:19:14 +0000 http://www.levork.org/?p=507#comment-21812 Removing all borders for my theme worked to fix the way the board is displayed, which is fine since I wasn't using borders for anything else anyway. Thanks for the tip, Levork! -Mario Removing all borders for my theme worked to fix the way the board is displayed, which is fine since I wasn’t using borders for anything else anyway. Thanks for the tip, Levork!

-Mario

]]> By: levork http://www.levork.org/2009/09/07/chessbyblog-1-1-4/comment-page-1/#comment-21711 levork Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:19:41 +0000 http://www.levork.org/?p=507#comment-21711 Jonathan - you should be able to accomplish all of these without having to touch PHP or the WordPress side of things. You will need the GWT. Once you've got GWT installed, copy the src directory of the plugin to the GWT install dir. Then run webAppCreator -ignore org.levork.gwt.client.ChessByBlog This creates the ant script; running 'ant build' compiles the project into Javascript files that sit in war/chessbyblog. You can copy these Javascript files over to a running WordPress install to test them. GWT is fairly fast moving target, and recently I've had a lot of trouble running with hosted mode (where it actually runs the Java directly, rather than going to Javascript). Your results may vary but if you get it to work, obviously that'll be a faster workflow. As to some suggestions, nearly all of what you want to accomplish is either in Board.java or GameLogTable.java. I apologise in advance for the string parsing routines in Board.java which are a mess; they were written targetting an early version of GWT which had some String issues which are probably resolved by now. Jonathan – you should be able to accomplish all of these without having to touch PHP or the WordPress side of things. You will need the GWT. Once you’ve got GWT installed, copy the src directory of the plugin to the GWT install dir. Then run

webAppCreator -ignore org.levork.gwt.client.ChessByBlog

This creates the ant script; running ‘ant build’ compiles the project into Javascript files that sit in war/chessbyblog. You can copy these Javascript files over to a running WordPress install to test them.

GWT is fairly fast moving target, and recently I’ve had a lot of trouble running with hosted mode (where it actually runs the Java directly, rather than going to Javascript). Your results may vary but if you get it to work, obviously that’ll be a faster workflow.

As to some suggestions, nearly all of what you want to accomplish is either in Board.java or GameLogTable.java. I apologise in advance for the string parsing routines in Board.java which are a mess; they were written targetting an early version of GWT which had some String issues which are probably resolved by now.

]]> By: Jonathan O'Connor http://www.levork.org/2009/09/07/chessbyblog-1-1-4/comment-page-1/#comment-21673 Jonathan O'Connor Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:46:16 +0000 http://www.levork.org/?p=507#comment-21673 Julian, I've just started using your plugin, and it's very nice. However, I'd like to make some changes. 1. I want to have the move buttons below the board. 2. I want the moves and annotations in an ordinary paragraph, rather than in scoresheet format. 3. I want the PGN special characters (e.g. $145, $23, etc...) converted into the correct glyphs, (+=, +/-, etc...) I don't think the user should have any chess font installed, so we may have to convert some of these to text, e.g. 4. I would also like to be able to use nested variations. Or at least to show these in the notes without any funny characters. I'm a Java developer, but I haven't written any GWT code. Also, I know very little about php or wordpress :-( But, if you give me a few pointers, I'll be happy to do at least some of these changes. Thanks, Jonathan O'Connor Julian,
I’ve just started using your plugin, and it’s very nice. However, I’d like to make some changes.
1. I want to have the move buttons below the board.
2. I want the moves and annotations in an ordinary paragraph, rather than in scoresheet format.
3. I want the PGN special characters (e.g. $145, $23, etc…) converted into the correct glyphs, (+=, +/-, etc…) I don’t think the user should have any chess font installed, so we may have to convert some of these to text, e.g.
4. I would also like to be able to use nested variations. Or at least to show these in the notes without any funny characters.

I’m a Java developer, but I haven’t written any GWT code. Also, I know very little about php or wordpress :-( But, if you give me a few pointers, I’ll be happy to do at least some of these changes.

Thanks,
Jonathan O’Connor

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