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Diagram Editor with scalable graphics. An easy-to-use tool for drawing boards and pieces of any size and color.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝H. G. Muller wrote on Sun, Jul 26, 2020 07:59 PM UTC:

The Play-Test Applet now uses the on-site 35x35 PNG set. It defines a diagram with pieces, but it has a script to modify the diagram definition based on what images are actually available: it removes those for which the mentioned image is not present, and adds those for which it does find an image that was not yet used. The original definitions only serve to supply a move with the piece, or a name that differs from the image name. (E.g. 'charging knight' instead of 'forwardknightbackwardsprince'.) For the pieces it adds by itself it cannot predefine a move.

So the Applet now offers all pieces we made, and if we add more PNG files, it will automatically also offer those. When people ask for the HTML it will use the 50x50 set in those. Originally the reasons for that were that this set was available on-site (albeit non-anti-aliased), and that 35x35 was sort of an emergency method to fit the board next to the table (which was important for easy designing) in the Applet, but is really a bit too small for Alfaerie. For playing against a preconfigured diagram it is sufficient to have the table under the diagram, so a larger board is no problem.

Note that the knightwazir and knightferz are now duplicated as wazirknight and ferzknight; the latter two can probably be deleted.