HTML Help

[mday]

Does anyone have HTML to build Checker Animations? I think h4ns.net/checkers had open source on his animations, but the website is down.

[EdTrice]

I have some somewhere, but you might want to find Martin Fierz first. I know he has a feature in Cake to turn a saved game into an animated html page.

Here is Martin's page.

http://www.fierz.ch/checkers.htm

When you talk about an "animation" do you mean like this, which shoud appear below looking like a movie (hit refresh on your browser to watch it again...)



...or like this:

http://www.gothicchess.com/javagames/db ... 4/game.htm

I've written software to do both (for Gothic Chess) and I am sure it is not too hard to do for checkers.

[mday]

The 2nd option, Ed! That is perfect, and exactly what I am looking for. I have a program called Camtasia that can record anything on the computer screen and make it a movie, like your first option.

[EdTrice]

The 2nd option, Ed! That is perfect, and exactly what I am looking for. I have a program called Camtasia that can record anything on the computer screen and make it a movie, like your first option.

Download Martin's "Cake" program from the link I posted above. Enter a game or load a .pdn file. From the file menu there is a "save" option that will allow you to spawn an html file to produce a javascript "replay" of a game. Opening that html file from any browser will let you step through a game, one move at a time.

[mday]

I tried putting the HTML on a website page and the graphics don't work properly. Is there something I should do to the HTML to fix that?

[mday]

ok, I got it to work.