Twixt Commentator moving again.

I had been using the import function at Ignatius describes but as David J. states, it does not work well with a swap for the second move.

As luck would have it, most of my games involve a swap.

Anyone know of a free web host site that wold give Twixt Commentator a little more up time than Time Warner gives which is damn near zero these days?

Older versions of jtwixt could not import swap moves at all.  The current version imports them correctly (according to my own idiosyncratic understanding of "correct" in this context), except that the text listing of moves is flipped with respect to LG (i,e, flipping the grid labels has no effect on the text listing).  Fixing the latter problem is on my to-do list, though I don't expect to get to it soon.   Also on the to-do list is automatically flipping the board (and grid labels) when importing a swap move.  The situation with jhex and swap moves is similar, and I happily use jhex to analyze my hex games, including the ones with swap moves.

@David:  I can't bring myself to adopt the "1. b5 2. b5" approach, nor treat "swap" as a real move.  But it might not be too difficult, when importing a game that contains a swap move, to (1) automatically flip the board and coordinates, and (2) swap the colors of the players.  Is that worth doing from your point of view?  There would still be the problem that the text move listing in jtwixt would be out of sync with LG (I'd like to fix that but it would take more time than I have right now).

Apropos the italic issue: Above the "Reply to this topic" text area, there's an "I" button (2nd from upper left).  For some reason, clicking into the text area activates this italic "I" option.  To avoid italics, just click this box again to deactivate it.

When I click on the I button it still stays shaded.  Control I doesn't work either.  Control B and control U work.

@Ignatius: your proposed change for Jtwixt would certainly be an improvement IMO. LG swaps the first peg, but PBMserv and most F2F games swap sides, so the automatic flipping and color swapping should depend on the type of swap used. A user might like to determine from the game record whether or not the swap move was used. For example, with that information, one could attribute the correct player with the placement of the first peg. If you don't want to list it as a move, maybe you could add a header for each game file, which might also include player names, date, etc. And as long as we're talking about adapting Jtwixt for LG, you might consider implementing PP rules as an option. TVMIA!

Anyhow, for now, the download link provided by Yippy is just dandy with me, when it is working. That Ruby script I provided a link for near the top of this thread does not function for me on this redesigned LG.

Regarding italics, I have the same problem as mtbikesman. The I button will not deactivate. I use Firefox 29.0 under Linux Mint Debian.

It would appear that Yippy is now totally dead.  I have not seen any action from it all day long.

That was the longest outage yet. I keep thinking Time Warner must be getting its act together by now, and then things get worse. (Yippy, of course, has been fine the whole time, but increasingly cut off from the world).

Alan,

Remember how I said I had paid for my website four years in advance and could not use it for my grades.  Well I gave it over to my mountain  bike club and now they use it for posting rides.  Anyway, maybe it would be possible to set aside some space on the web site for Twixt Commentator.  Do you think that would be possible?  It would be free.

Has anyone had Yippy working at all for them lately?  I have all but given up on Yippy and now get by with JTwixt.  But I do prefer Yippy.

What the hell with this website, why it is working one day, not working another ... Actually I'm playing without any analyzer and I have to say it is quite horrible :P

I wanted to do the next championship, but I'm not sure it is a good idea in these conditions cause it will take too many time to play well :-(

Go to a game and print it out. Then go to commentator....it will not load. Then go to address bar and back space to .org then try again....it will not load. Then arrow back once at the top left and you should be into the commentator. Unfortunately the game will need to be re-populated to the current status...go get your printout.

Can Twixt Commentator be turned into an installed program like JTwixt?

I like your suggestion, mtbikesman.  I don't mind installing it on  my own computer if that would work.

Has anyone got Twixt Commentator to work at all in the past few days?  I try it now and then and never get anything.  It is now totally 100% dead?

Has it been pronounced positively dead?

it's working rather swift right now. I don't know what' it is that makes the commentator next to useless. It seems to me to have to do with host-name registration.

If you can overcome the issues  I think it would be great if your MBT server can host the Commentator.

Over to you, Alan.

Regards and thanks, Flemming

Commentator should be back now.

I apologize for the horrible week. I went on vacation, and there was nobody around to reboot things. Anyway, I just got off the phone with Time Warner (and boy is my ear tired), and I am cautiously optimistic that things are back to normal. What a horrible month for Yippy. First the DynDNS thing, and then this.

Here's a sign I found last week in downtown Jackson, Wyoming:

Enjoy!

Alan, I would love to know what you told Time Warner because Yippy has been performing well lately.

Hooray for Yippy, and maybe Alan a little bit too.