[gcompris-devel] Re: chess

[bruno]

Pascal, 

I just fixed the chess activity by adding a new dialog box in the
gcompris API :
/*
 * Display a dialog box and an OK button
 * When the box is closed, the given callback is called if any
 */
void gcompris_dialog(gchar *str, DialogBoxCallBack dbcb)

Now when entering chess is /usr/bin/gnuchessx is not there, a dialog box
appears and gives some explanation but you cannot play chess.

For gnuchess vs gnuchessx, I checked on my mandreke 9 and gnuchessx is
no more distributed in the 3 DL CDs.
gnuchess is a different executable than gnuchessx and cannot be used to
my knowledge as a replacement. I don't know what happened to gnuchessx
and what is its future.

For the ogg, I have not checked, perhaps it is a race condition that
makes it happen.  /dev/dsp can be open once only so if the ogg code were
not closing cleanly, it would work only once.

Bruno.


Le mer 09/10/2002 à 22:26, pgeorges a écrit :
> Chess boards rely on "gnuchessx", and if it does not exist, gcompris 
> exists. Maybe the board should be invalidated if gnuchess is not 
> present. More over, with gnuchess 5, I presume the relevant exec is 
> 'gnuchess'.
> 
> With current ogg play function, I have sometimes some "  /dev/dsp: 
> Device or resource busy ". Maybe there is a missing release of the 
> device after a sound play, or something like that ?
> 
> Pascal
>