Ophes Thud

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What is Ophes Thud?

This is my Thud-application. It's still being developed, and there are several things left before I would consider it complete. It works for me, that's about as much as I know about it right now. The executable works on windowsXP, but it also requires you to have a current JRE.It's a easy to use GUI (graphical output/input) that allows you to create an account, chat with friends and play thud. The chat is very basic. The app has a system for handling challanges, and allows you to play several games at once. It's very easy to switch between the games, and it should be quite easy to keep track of which game is which. At the moment it only uses normal Thud-rules, but the possibility to toggle Koom Valley rules might be added if the first version of this turns out well, and if anyone actually asks for it.
Only allowed moves are allowed, so you wont be able to make any faulty moves at all, furthermore, the app can show the possible moves for the piece you've selected (look at the preview pic) (can be toggled on/off).
It's quite easy to change the graphics and the sound effects. It's simply a couple of wav and jpg files that needs to be edited.

Development

Things I want to fix

Add automatic endgame when all pieces are taken.
Add score-listings
Fix the bug that makes the textcolors of the moves window appear in the wrong way
Allow "thudboard coordinates
Improve the info on "non accepted challanges"
Make pending challanges appear as pending
Tweak the chat
- Add timestamps to the chat
- List who's online on the click of a button
Labels for account and password
Hide the password once it's entered
Frawd isn't very clear
Fix the bug that lists the entire chat upon login
Focus on the input panel when chosing the chat tab

What I did in the last update

Add a limit to the size of chatmessages
Added a notification when opponent makes a move

What I did in previous updates

Added an endgame button and functionality
Performance-tweaks
Rewritten the rules (Ty to Ratdeath for this)
The game-list updates automatically when challenges are accepted
The challenge-list updates automatically when you are challenged
Added a notification when a player is challenged
Added skinsupport
Tweaked the chat
- Added colors to the chat
- Added a linebreak after clicking "list all"
- Removed the double-chat posting
- Added "List all" button to the chat
- Fixed the bug that prevented you from typing ' in the chat
- List who's online
- List when people log on/off
- Added soundeffects for the chat
- Enter now posts a message in the chat
- Chatpos.ini no longer needed
- Chat only displayes "new" messages
Tweaked the appearance of the skins (Thanks to RatDeath for this)
Minor appearance tweaks
Prevented the app from trying to connect to the DB before you try to log inen it's first needed
Fixed a bug that prevented the games-list from being updated
Enabled the use of ini-files for configuration
Made it possible to connect to remote databases
Added sound effects

Kudos to RatDeath for the work on the skins, and help with bugtesting

Contact

I can be contacted at:
opheophe@gmail.com