[gcompris-devel] Would like to extend the Chess MoveLearn sub-application for Sugar OLPC : how is architectured GCompris ?

[laurent bernabe]

Thanks

So I'll look at other activities sources.

Regards


2013/6/30 Bruno Coudoin <bruno.coudoin at gcompris.net>

> Le 30/06/2013 19:12, laurent bernabe a écrit :
> >> Concerning the chess code, we are driving gnuchess in the backend
> >> through a text based interface. This is not as reliable as an API and
> >> thus any changes in the output breaks GCompris. This is why I ended up
> >> including and distributing a version of gnuchess that we support.
> >>
> >> For having a version without a king, this is not possible to do this
> >> with gnuchess. For sure a chess engine without a king would not know
> >> what to do.
> >>
> > *) You're right : I did not thought about the fact that a chess engine in
> > most cases need both kings in order to compute things on a given
> position.
> >
> > A workaround can be trying to write my own very little chess engine
> (rather
> > in Python, and rather a chess move validator), therefore I should create
> a
> > new activity for a kind MoveQuizz, and not try extending Chess MoveLearn.
> >
> > Because Chess MoveLearn is based on GnuChess and that its board is
> written
> > in C language.
> Yes, the chess activity was written before we had the python plugin.
>
> >
> > *) I saw in the lightsoff activity, written in Python, that we can use
> the
> >
> > _________________________________________
> > gcompris.utils.load_svg(path) method
> > ____________________________________________
> >
> > and also the constructor
> >
> > __________________________________________
> >   goocanvas.Svg(...)
> > _____________________________________________
> >
> > but neither is documented in the GCompris Python api page nor the
> goocanvas
> > python api page.
> >
> > So where can I learn more ?
> >
> I am afraid you will have to read the code and look at other activities
> to see their use. I extended the goocanvas to include an svg item. This
> is why it is not documented in the official goocanvas documentation.
>
> Bruno.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows:
>
> Build for Windows Store.
>
> http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev
> _______________________________________________
> gcompris-devel mailing list
> gcompris-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gcompris-devel
>