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Grand Apothecary Chess-Classic. Very large Board variant obtained trough tinkering with known games.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Aug 29, 2021 10:18 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from 08:48 PM:

Where can I find this include file?

It's in the includes directory. So, you just include it by name.

BTW, I did stumble on the method for defining a piece set through assigning to $pieces. Perhaps this is the best method to convert Interactive Diagrams to GAME code, as these Diagrams do specify the filenames of the piece images, the directory where these images are to be found, and the piece IDs (which can be used as labels). So it would just be a matter of dumping this internally held info in the form of a GAME-code associative array, in the code generated for the Pre-Game section.

Yes, that could work, though there is one caveat. When Game Courier is in Edit mode, it does not run any code unless someone clicks Run. This is a safety precaution to allow someone to edit buggy code that would otherwise disable the preset. Consequently, the board may not look right in Edit mode until someone clicks Run. If you use a set file in conjunction with the update-piece-set subroutine, though, it will avoid that problem. However, there could be a discrepancy between the labels used for the FEN code and the notation used in the preset.

To avoid that discrepancy, I was thinking of letting custom piece sets be stored as constants. However, constants are stored in logs, not in settings files. So, I'm not sure I have a good solution for this yet.