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I have prepared a beta installer package for WinBoard 4.5, but I have a very weird problem: When I run some engines through the Windows Start menu, the logo of the human usere sometimes shows up as a highly magnified spin button (which is not use by WB anywhere, btw). I am starting to suspect this is a Windows bug. Could anyone test if this is peculiar to my system?

The bug manifests itself when I run, Start -> WinBoard-4.5.0 -> Xiangqi Engines -> HaQiKi D, and then play a move (so that it becomes human vs engine). The white logo should then become the one from logos\hgm.bmp (or, if no logo in the name of the user exist, logos\dummy.bmp), but in stead it becomes a giant button. Same for Xiangqi Engines -> MaxQi. But with Xiangqi Engines -> Elephant Eye (and any of the engines in the Chess Engines submenu, including MaxQi!) my logo shows up normally. Both Shogi Engines entries again produce the button.

The 4.5.0 beta installer can be downloaded from

http://hgm.nubati.net/WinBoard-4.5.0.exe

For this test it might be best to rename hgm.bmp to your own username.

The weird thing is that when I start the same engine through the startup dialog, using the same file with settings (e.g. @mini.ini for mini-Shogi) as the menu shortcut uses as "additional options", everything works normally.

Works fine on my computer (WinXP SP3), the logo being mathieu.bmp or dummy.bmp (because of a deleted user.bmp file).
From install, I only changed the folder to c:\Winboard (as I don't like long names, I removed the version number). Everything else is just the standard clic-clic-clic install.

The only bug I faced is in my own brain : I lost both games I played against HaQiKi D during the tests :P

OK, thanks. I guess this is some sort of bug then in my graphics library or video driver, and will not spend any more time on it.

Works almost perfectly in Wine as far as I can tell (I couldn't start Shokidoki: "sdk09s: file not found"). Looks
very nice too.

Having to quit WB to load a new engine remains a pity I think. Users do not understand why this is necessary.
This is certainly not necessary in Scid or Arena.