[cairo] Linux Chess GUI

Stefan Salewski mail at ssalewski.de
Sun Feb 25 14:50:14 UTC 2018


On Sun, 2018-02-25 at 14:04 +0000, Sean Burberry wrote:
> Hi Cairo Developers,
> 
> If anyone is interested, I have created a new Linux Chess GUI using
> GTK+ and Cairo.
> 
> If you want to try it please have a look at my website. The program
> runs on Ubuntu 14.04 / 16.04 best but I also have installers for
> Fedora and Raspberry Pi versions.
> 
> www.StingRayChess.org
> 

Funny offer!

>15. Can I see the source code ?

>No, sorry...
>I am more than willing to share bits and bobs on 
>how things were implemented but am not able yet to share the code on
>a general basis.  
 
Well, I had some minimal interest, as I did a very plain GUI myself
once -- about 200 lines of code (less than 10 hours of work) with UTF8
chess font:

https://github.com/StefanSalewski/nim-chess4           

Well, a real GUI would be some work, maybe some hundreds hours.


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