Palview3 addition October 20, 2002
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3 new country flags requested by users have been added: NIR, SCO and WAL for Norther Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
The Palview3 program has been updated to recognise these country codes/flags.

Eric Bentzen

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Palview3 Readme: February 1, 2002
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   This ZIP file contains all the files you need to run the Palview3 program. What it does not contain is the Palview3 manual. The manual is a separate ZIP file that you can obtain at Eric Bentzen's site, www.enpassant.dk. You really should obtain a copy of the manual.
   The Palview3 ZIP file places all of its files into a folder called Palview3. You can unzip the contents of the ZIP file anywhere that you please, but you must avoid any SPACEs in the path. So this means that you cannot place the program in the 'Program Files' folder, since this contains a SPACE. I recommend that you either unzip the files to the C: drive itself, which will create a folder C:\palview3, or perhaps create a chess folder on the C: drive and then unzip the program there so that you get C:\chess\palview3.
   Once you have unzipped the program, you'll find that the palview3 folder contains the palview3.exe and p3eco.exe programs. You will also find a number of CSS files, a file called palview.ini, and another called p3eco.eco. In this main palview3 folder you'll find a number of other folders, each called: jpc, sym, flag, and p2sets.
   The jpc folder contains all the piece images for the Leipzig chess set, the complete set of board images that come with Palview3, the controlpanles, etc. In short, everything you need to get started right away to make your own Html files with Palview3.
   The sym folder contains all the highly compressed GIF images of the chess symbols.
   The flag folder contains all the country flags that come with Palview3. (To see them all, you can use the Html file in this folder called palflags.htm. There are over 160 flags.)
   The p3sets folder contains a number of ZIP files. Almost all of these are for the other chess set pieces. There is a separate ZIP file for each size of set as well, so there are four ZIP files for each set 'name'. These names are: Alpha, Kingdom, Leipzig, Linares, Merida, and Tilburg. (Note that there is not yet a Tilburg19 set!) The other ZIP files are:

p3boards.zip  -- a backup ZIP files that contains all the chess boards

p3conpans.zip -- a backup of the three controlpanels

p3eco.zip     -- a copy of the p3eco.txt file that was used to create
                 the p3eco.eco opening lookup table.

p3imgs.zip    -- a number of odds & ends images. The fenimg.GIF is used
                 for Captioned Diagrams (see manual) and should be 
                 placed in the same folder as the piece images. The
                 pgn.GIF image is used as part of the link to the PGN
                 file at the bottom of your Html page. (You can create
                 your image for this purpose, just name it pgn.GIF.)
                 The crossbkg.jpg image is used as a background for
                 the fancy crosstable CSS, p3xfancy.css. You will also
                 find two more images called linaresbp24thin.gif and
                 linareswp24thin.gif. If you prefer the look of these
                 thinner pawns for the Linares set, you can simply
                 rename them wp24.gif and bp24.gif and copy them to
                 your jpc folder assuming that you have selected the
                 linares set and have replaced the default leipzig set
                 already.

p3ovx.zip     -- a backup ZIP file that contains each of the special
                 board marker squares cirlcle, dot, and X, in each of
                 the sizes 19, 24, 29, and 35 pixels. (All of these
                 are already in your jpc folder.)

p3syms.zip    -- a backup ZIP file that contains all the chess symbol
                 GIF images that are found in the sym folder.


   I would strongly suggest that you now go and get yourself a copy of the palview3 manual from Eric Bentzen's site if you haven't already done so. You really do need to read it before you go any further. Once you have downloaded the manula ZIP, you should unzip it into the palview3 folder.

