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29. juni 2025

Teddy is a visual interface to Popeye, Spinach, Natch, Euclide and Jacobi. It only requires you to specify the location of Popeye and Spinach + Natch + Euclide (if you plan to use them). All other parameters are set to usable values. They may be changed later.
Look at this page from time to time or if you have a problem. A newer version may have come out.

1.12.2b - 2025-06-29
Major changes

Full support for Spinach
Full support for FFEN
Kill all subprograms when a Spinach is killed
Kill all running Popeyes and Spinachs and their subprograms
when Teddy is closed

1.12.1 - 2025-06-08
Major changes

Full support for Popeye 4.91
Check if the Teddy-file is open in another Teddy
Demand ok/cancel before new/open/save/import/export
Automatic save of a problem when the copy-button or the +button is pressed
FFEN is generated if the problem has fairy pieces
Delete backup-files after Save
Delete temporary files when Teddy is closed
New option Show Piece Text
New attribute Problem number

Minor changes

>-< is no longer possible, use >>-<<
Standard pieces may now be used as fairy pieces (royal,...)
New help page for fairy pieces
New help page for non-English letters
Improved automatic shift between Solving mode and Diagram mode
Avoid rare exceptions if two Teddy try to delete same files
Recognise Fairy even if first introduced in twin
Allow calling Jacobi for all stipulations
Enable deleting in the recent list
Keep the current problem in focus after sort
Buttons for compressed solution only shown if solution in central area
Allow Ser-A->B and Pser-A->B
Facilitate playing through a PWC-solution (Alt+F11)

Changes in Teddy, version 12

Changes in Teddy, version 11

Changes in Teddy, version 10

Changes in Teddy, version 9

Changes in Teddy, version 8

Changes in Teddy, version 7

Changes in Teddy, version 6

See what Teddy can do

Changes in Teddy, version 5

Changes in Teddy, version 4

Changes in Teddy, version 3

Changes in Teddy, version 2

Changes in Teddy, version 1

It has a lot of features:

Interface in four languages: German, English, French and Danish
Popeye interface in German, English and French
Change language on the fly
Create a problem moving pieces into the board and create Popeye input at the same time
Create twins likewise
Call Popeye with a single click and see the result immediately when Popeye has solved
Make diagrams to clipboard
Establish a collection of problems in a file with the suffix .tdy
OK/drop before going on to the next problem in case of diagram changes
save to a .tdy file at any time or when closing Teddy
Teddy may be started by clicking on a .tdy-file

Also

see pieces in natural order
list fairy pieces in alphabetical order
list conditions in alphabetical order
Popeye pieces ordered by piece (KQRBSP), column (ab..) and row number
Popeye output may be condensed
Search for a text string in the .tdy file
Show a list of the problems
font for solutions may be changed
a fairy piece may be a stub with a short identification or a standard piece rotated 45, 90, .. degrees
import problem files from Fancy
specify set play and tries on a problem level
Make a summary (extract) to clipboard of the problems in the file
automatic backup at specified intervals
Tooltips for buttons

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