I saw that in the early betas of Panther that you could have Chess play in a "floating board mode", i.e. with the chessboard floating on your desktop. Well in the final version of Panther, I can find no such option. But you can easily add it back with this simple hack.
Make a copy of Chess first, and then control-click on the copy and select Show Package Contents. Navigate to Contents -> Resources -> English.lproj in the new window, and open the MainMenu.nib file (you must have the Developer Tools installed).
Click on the "BoardWindow" icon in the MainMenu.nib file. Press command-1 and uncheck all checkbox options on that page. Press command-5 and change the window class to MBCFloatingBoardWindow (the first one in the list). Then save the nib file and run Chess.
The only real problem with this is that you cannot resize/minimize the window.
[robg adds: I tested this, and it worked ... but the other problem is that I couldn't find a way to move the chessboard window; it was stuck where it was the last time I played Chess. It does look sort of interesting, and you can still spin and twist the board in 3D.]
Make a copy of Chess first, and then control-click on the copy and select Show Package Contents. Navigate to Contents -> Resources -> English.lproj in the new window, and open the MainMenu.nib file (you must have the Developer Tools installed).
Click on the "BoardWindow" icon in the MainMenu.nib file. Press command-1 and uncheck all checkbox options on that page. Press command-5 and change the window class to MBCFloatingBoardWindow (the first one in the list). Then save the nib file and run Chess.
The only real problem with this is that you cannot resize/minimize the window.
[robg adds: I tested this, and it worked ... but the other problem is that I couldn't find a way to move the chessboard window; it was stuck where it was the last time I played Chess. It does look sort of interesting, and you can still spin and twist the board in 3D.]
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