Issue on displaying board on Ubuntu OS

[nikhiljangra264]

Description:
I have successfully run the chess-cli program on the terminal. The program provides options such as play vs human, play vs AI, and load. However, after selecting the play vs AI option and providing my name and other details, the program fails to display the board and doesn't accept any inputs. Similarly, the same issue persists when selecting play vs human. As a result, I had to forcefully close the program.

Details:
Operating System:
Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)
PRETTY_NAME: Ubuntu
VERSION_ID: 22.04
VERSION: 22.04.4 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)
VERSION_CODENAME: jammy
ID: ubuntu
ID_LIKE: debian

Terminal:
GNU bash, version 5.1.16(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright: © 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Issue Summary:
After selecting play vs AI or play vs human options in the chess-cli program, the board is not displayed.
The program fails to accept any inputs after selecting these options, leading to an unresponsive state.
This issue persists across both play vs AI and play vs human modes.

[rikkoder]

I just tested it on an ubuntu based system, I couldn't reproduce the issue.
Can you try deleting build files and recompiling by running make. Also can you tell me the ncurses libraries installed on your system. (apt list --installed *ncurses*)

[nikhiljangra264]

The issue still persist after rebuilding the program. Here is the output of apt list --installed *ncurses*

Listing... Done
libncurses-dev/jammy-updates,jammy-security,now 6.3-2ubuntu0.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libncurses5-dev/jammy-updates,jammy-security,now 6.3-2ubuntu0.1 amd64 [installed]
libncurses6/jammy-updates,jammy-security,now 6.3-2ubuntu0.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libncursesw5-dev/jammy-updates,jammy-security,now 6.3-2ubuntu0.1 amd64 [installed]
libncursesw6/jammy-updates,jammy-security,now 6.3-2ubuntu0.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
ncurses-base/jammy-updates,jammy-updates,jammy-security,jammy-security,now 6.3-2ubuntu0.1 all [installed]
ncurses-bin/jammy-updates,jammy-security,now 6.3-2ubuntu0.1 amd64 [installed]

[rikkoder]

can you share a picture of the board ? is the window completely blank or only pieces are missing ?
if only pieces are not showing you can try pressing 'a' which will change the pieces into ascii character (like 'N' for Knight)

[nikhiljangra264]

I think the main issue is when you are clearing the display after start button.
( can you please mention the specific code that does this )
This is screencast of the program
Screencast from 09-05-24 12:40:34 PM IST.webm

[rikkoder]

can you try the latest commit on your machine ?
if you want to debug yourself ig what u want to look at is main_menu.c file, game_settings_menu func call is where the options are set and init_game func call starts the game.
if still the prob exists can u tell me if u r able to open load menu ?

[nikhiljangra264]

it's working but only if the terminal size above a specific size
but resizing cause segmentation fault.