GoPanda client

[Pyoveli]

I tried to watch the first round during this sunday. When I try to open two game observation windows almost simultaneously, the GoPanda freezes.

[Podiceps]

I cannot save game files with GoPanda. When I press save it changes the file type to the full file name and nothing happens. F.ex. from .sgf to file.sgf

[ahamay]

Is the GoPanda client not on the http://www.pandanet.co.jp/English/ web page?
The English igs page seems slightly out of date.

Correct - the plan is to replace the English page completely by pandanet-igs.com (though there's not so much content yet)

what is the difference between GoPanda, gl-Go, and Panda Egg?

GoPanda is the cross-platform client currently in development - it's still quite unstable, but will be the recommended IGS client in the future.
glGo is another cross-plattform client which is not developed anymore - it's quite similar to GoPanda with a few advantages (nicer user interface at this point) and a few disadvantages (bug in room feature, not installable in new linux versions).
Panda Egg is a windows-only client developed in Japan - it's basically what the Japanese players use. The interface feels a bit strange, though - at least for me

[Podiceps]

hi,

Appart from the bugs I found in GoPanda would it be possible to make the area with player names, edit + observer bottons and move information resizeable when you resize the window. That would make it alot easier to follow more than one game at a time. Then the board would be larger without loosing chat and time information. Just a suggestion.

[Podiceps]

I found the answer to my file saving poblem. It was caused by question marks in the file name. If I manually removes them I can save the sgf-files.

[daal]

When I finish a game, the automatic opponent search starts.

I still don't get away and autoaway. Is that for people who are away from the computer, but would rather click this button than close the program?

[tapir]

When trying to automatch...

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/swing/GroupLayout$Group
at ggo.igs.Seek.<init>(Unknown Source)
at ggo.igs.Seek.getInstance(Unknown Source)
at ggo.igs.gui.IGSMainWindow$IGSActionListener.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:1882)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2202)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:420)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:258)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(BasicButtonListener.java:246)
at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mouseReleased(AWTEventMulticaster.java:231)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:5602)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3129)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:5367)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2010)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4068)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2068)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:3903)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4256)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:3936)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:3866)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2054)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:1801)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:3903)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:463)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:269)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:190)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:184)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:176)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:110)

[ahamay]

I found the answer to my file saving poblem. It was caused by question marks in the file name. If I manually removes them I can save the sgf-files.

Nice hint - so I'll just remove the ?'s from the filename. They arose from switching to the "new" rating system, I guess. We've been worried about file saving issues for a while now, so thank you

[daal]

The client disregards the max opponent strength difference. I set both stronger and weaker to "1" and a game opened with three handicap stones.

[ahamay]

When I finish a game, the automatic opponent search starts.

Should be fixed now.

I still don't get away and autoaway. Is that for people who are away from the computer, but would rather click this button than close the program?

Yes, maybe you want to stay online so that e.g. observed games are kept open and still autosaved after finished. With an away state people chatting or challenging you should get a message. Autoaway does it automatically after you didn't do anything for n minutes.

[ahamay]

When trying to automatch...
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/swing/GroupLayout$Group

I guess you use Java 5 or sth. like OpenJDK (check "java -version" from the command line). Please install Java 6 instead.

[ahamay]

The client disregards the max opponent strength difference. I set both stronger and weaker to "1" and a game opened with three handicap stones.

You mean with the "find opponent" feature? Interesting - never happened to me yet.

[daal]

The client disregards the max opponent strength difference. I set both stronger and weaker to "1" and a game opened with three handicap stones.

You mean with the "find opponent" feature? Interesting - never happened to me yet.

Yes, and it just happened to me again.

Edit: In fact, it seems to happen just about every time, whether max difference is set to 1 or 0. Please let us know when it is fixed!

[Mark356]

I downloaded this, and registered for an IGS account online, but I couldn't figure out how to log in.

[daal]

after starting the program, click Pandanet-IGS. Then under "Connection" choose "Configure." Then press "Add," and type in your user name and password.