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qGo 1.0.4

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Startup options:

qGo [options] [<file>]

-menu		skipped since qGo 0.1.4

-sgf		make new sgf file (or simple open a board to play)

-sgf19		same but don't ask and open 19x19 board

-debug		open debug window and show status messages

-desktop	use standard options from desktop

<file>		open file (type sgf, mgt or xml)

qGo is a Go board, SGF editor and client for IGS/NNGS or similar servers.

Go is an ancient boardgame, very common in Japan, China and Korea.

Open index.html for installation support.

support table:

windows:	Qt 3.2.1nc

Linux:		Qt 3.1 and above

Mac OsX:	Qt 3.1 and above

Version 0.1 should be stable including a lot of bugfixes concerning

the go server behavioural.

Version 0.0.14 has many bugfixes and new stones + board coded by

Marin Ferecatu. That's why I dropped the old stones. Further, fonts

and background colors are free selectable.

The autoplay feature can now use sgf time information, thus you can

replay a game in original speed.

Version 0.0.13 offers some teaching tools whereby the teacher starts

a teaching session and his client works as server for the invited

student. The student (if one) is able to play one or both colors, but,

the teacher can always play both colors. Hope this helps for online

teaching.

There's are a watch list and an exclude list too, whereby

entering/leaving of players can be watched as well as players can be

excluded from shouting. I removed the thousands of talk windows and

added a talk tab inside the client window.

The translations have been

enabled again in Version 0.0.13, but, since Peter and me speak only German

and Enlish, there are only these two translations fixed. Thanks to

Emmanuel Beranger for the French translation.

Look at changelog for more details to this version.

Since Version 0.0.12 qGo has it's own client.

qGo is no longer supported by Qt 2.3nc.

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Version 0.0.7 comes with support for translations. Currently there are

english, french and german versions available.

You can chose the language in the preferences dialog. If system default

is selected, the Unix system locale will be used (LANG environment variable).

Somehow I thought on Windows it would also chose the default language, but

this does not work. The locale on my german windows 2000 is "C" - anything

but the "de" or "de_DE" what Qt expects. Well, Windows.... I don't really

care. Set the language manually and you are fine.

You have to restart qGo to let the language change take effect.

Please contact me if you want to translate qGo to your language. I will put

more detailed informations on the qGo webpage at http://qgo.sourceforge.net

I added a patch from Bernd Schmidt fixing a really nasty SGF parser bug.

Thanks, Bernd!

Version 0.0.6 is mainly a maintaining release with bugfixes and minor

feature enhancements.

Translation files (requested by some users) are not yet in. I plan to

release a version for translations soon.

In version 0.0.5 a SDI interface for multiple boards in one running

process is implemented. It is not using threads, so if you load a

large file like Kogos, it will hang up the program while

loading. Maybe I add thread support, not sure yet. You can always

start several processes, that might be safer than threads.

Support for Kanji letters is implemented in 0.0.5. You can now load

and save games with a text encoding, set in the preferences dialog in

the third tab 'SGF Loading'. You have to select the encoding before

loading a file. You might need to try a bit which encoding fits your

language best. It was tested on japanese (windows and linux), chinese

(linux) and korean (windows) systems and worked.

0.0.4 comes with a basic implementation of XML support.

Currently only reading XML files is done, saving not yet.

Reading XML works with files saved from Jago, but not yet all XML

are loaded properly. Please consider this currently as a draft, XML

code is under development still.

qGo now supports old SGF and MGT files that can sometimes be found

on the web. If it's an old format, it's automatically noticed and qGo

converts the file upon loading into new SGF format.

I found some of those files at the download section of the german

go association.

Copyright

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Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Peter Strempel, Johannes Mesa

This software is published under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

See the file COPYING for more informations or visit http://www.fsf.org/.

The Windows version is linked against the Qt non-commercial edition

and also published under the GPL with the following exception applying

to the Windows version of qGo:

  As a special exception, the author gives permission to link this program

  with Qt non-commercial edition, and distribute the resulting executable,

  without including the source code for the Qt non-commercial edition in the

  source distribution.

Any feedback is welcome.

Emmanuel Beranger <e2(at!)beranger.com.fr>

Johannes Mesa <frosla(at!)gmx.at>

Peter Strempel <pstrempel(at!)t-online.de>