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This is something that maybe has already been brought to your attention (H.G Muller) but I do not recall reading anything on it.

Alessandro Scotti didn't get around to making the suppress PGN comment and tags menu selection items. Something maybe you could possibly add to your "to do" list, if it is possible to add the items?

As it is now, to suppress the PGN tags and comments these entries need to to be manually changed to false in the winboard.ini file.

/autoDisplayComment=true
/autoDisplayTags=true


The graphic below shows what I mean. The graphic is representative only as maybe this isn't the best place to put the suppress options. I was thinking maybe check marks for when either one of the selections is enabled.





Though I was able to figure out how to add the items to the menu, the menu items do not actually do anything. That knowledge I don't have.

This sounds pretty easy to do, as it only involves alteringthe setting of an existing option from the menu. My first thought would be that it would be better to put these items in the "Mode" menu, together with the "Show Engine Output", "Show Eval Graph" etc., as these are also options that control the opening and closing of auxiliary windows. (No idea why those are listed under "Mode", btw...)

Perhaps these two are subtly different: when you untick them, they should auomatically pop down the corresponding window, just as with, say, engine output. But if you tick it, it does not need to popup the window, as there might be nothing to show in it. Its hould just set the auto-popup option, so that next time you load a PGN or go to a commented move, it does popup the window.

And perhaps I should make it such that closing the corresponding windows by clicking the x in their upper-right corners does not automatically switch of the option to make them pop up automatically.