Javascript Backgammon Board
Inserts a simple and clear backgammon board using plain Javascript (no dependencies).
- Multiple boards per web page are possible.
- All types of decisions are supported:
- Checker move
- Roll or double
- Take or drop
- Match information can also be drawn (match length, match score, crawford game or not).
- Easy board scaling via a single
scaleparameter. - Position description is expected in the standard GNU Backgammon format (example: AMAAmLkFSEgBAA:UQmyAAAAAAAE).
Please note that bgboard does not support playing backgammon. Its purpose is simply to display
positions for discussion and demonstration. The position description
is expected in GNU Backgammon format.
Here is a minimal example:
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<link rel=stylesheet href=/css/bgboard.css>
<script src=/js/bgboard.js></script>
<meta charset=utf-8></meta>
</head>
<body>
Here is the board:
<div id=board1></div>
</body>
<script>
var bgBoard1 = new BgBoard({
/* Base URL of the bgboard installation. */
filesRoot : '/',
/* CSS selector for the containing div element. */
containerSelector : '#board1',
/* Scale the board size, for example 0.5 is half size. */
scale : 0.8,
/* Position to draw, format is p:m,
* where p is the GNU Backgammon Position ID
* and m is the GNU Backgammon Match ID.
*/
gnuid : 'AMAAmLkFSEgBAA:UQmyAAAAAAAE'
});
</script>
</html>Make the directories img, js and css accessible on your website. For example http://www.example.com/static/bgboard/img. That's it! Now you can use http://www.example.com/static/bgboard in the filesRoot option to the BgBoard constructor.
There are tests that cover over 90% of the bgboard code. To run them open the file /tests/test.html in the desired browser. You can also run run_server.sh which launches a simple single-threaded web server on http://localhost:8000.