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On the board editor page, you used to only be able to add new pieces by dragging them onto the board. This always bugged me, and I imagine it must be horrible on tablets due to the large screen and large distance to drag. I also thought there was something wrong with the app when I tried to tap and it didn't work.
This adds a
pieceInHandtoChessground.state, which holds both the piece, and whether it should overwrite the piece under it when placed. Clicking a piece in the bottom panel populates this property. Clicking anywhere on the board will place the piece and clear thepieceInHandproperty.I'm unsure about the last part, it may be useful to not clear the
pieceInHand, so the user can place all the pieces of a given type and colour at once. But this would also require a button to clear the field, and potentially some UI work to communicate that there is a piece in hand.Lastly, my apologies if this is suboptimally implemented, I'm very new to the codebase and I've scarcely convinced it to build on my machine.