1XScrabble - X version of the popular board game, for 1 to 4 players. 2********** 3 4Preparation: 5First edit the top of the 'build' script to adapt the installation 6directories according to your needs. 7 8 9To build: 10 ./build bin 11 12There are two directories of source code. The first to be built is part of 13Xc, the Control Panel Widget Set, v 1.3, copyright 1992 by Paul D. 14Johnston. The second is the main XScrabble code. This also contains the 15BarGraf widget from the Free Widget Foundation. 16 17If all goes well, you should have two executables, xscrab and xscrabble in 18the src/ directory. 19 20 21To install: 22 ./build install (installs binaries and main app-default file) 23 ./build lang XX (for any of the languages you'd like to have) 24Currently available packages (dictionaries, score and rules files) are 25English and French: 26 xscrabble_en.tgz 27 xscrabble_fr.tgz 28These packages must be downloaded from our ftp server 29 ftp://ftp.ac-grenoble.fr/ge/educational_games 30(along with the main package xscrabble-2.xx.tgz, which only contains 31the source for binary programs) 32 33The automatic installation only works if these packages are in the 34same subdirectory as the xscrabble-X.XX source directory from which 35you run the 'build' script. The language by default is the last 36language that has been installed (as usual, packages may actually be 37reinstalled several times without any trouble... reinstalling will 38just overwrite the previously installed files.) 39 40Please provide the current maintainer (J.-P.Demailly) with additional 41languages you would build. This only requires to translate the 42app-default file and provide a suitable dictionary (and optionally, a 43rules file). 44 45 46To clean everything: 47 ./build clean 48 49 50To run: 51 52Simply type xscrabble. This will bring up the setup box which will allow 53you to enter the language, names and displays and other info for the 54game to wish to play. Then click on the Start Game button, (or Load 55Previous if you're restarting a game). The main program, xscrab, will 56then be automatically called with the appropriate options. 57 58The game is saved after every turn (in "~/.xscrabble.save" of the 59person running it) and can be restarted by running xscrabble, entering 60exactly the same info, and hitting the Load Previous button. 61 62Have fun! 63 64 65Original author: 66Matt Chapman. 67E-mail: matt@belgarath.demon.co.uk (no longer csuoq@csv.warwick.ac.uk) 68Web page: http://www.belgarath.demon.co.uk/ 69Version 1.00: March 1997 (original version Nov 1994) 70 71(Added in the release notes of version 1.00: 72This was a student project, and there are not likely to be any future 73releases.) 74 75 76Current maintainer: 77Jean-Pierre Demailly 78E-mail: demailly@fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr 79Web page: http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~demailly/ 80Version 2.00: March 1998 (multilingual version) 81Version 2.10: July 2000 (bug fixes; improvements & automatic install) 82 83FTP site: 84ftp://ftp.ac-grenoble.fr/ge/educational_games 85 86