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## Startup Options

Although there are many different ways to get a game started, you have three main categories of functionality to support: 1) selection of the game to play, 2) setting of variants, and 3) selection of players. For command-line-using programs, the file `cmdline.c` need only be linked in to provide all of this functionality. For graphical interfaces, you will need to design appropriate dialogs. This can be a lot of work, exacerbated by the fact that these dialogs will be the first things that new Xconq players see, and will therefore shape their opinions about the quality of the interface and of the game.

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Interface code should check all player specs, not proceed with initialization until these are all valid.

Both standard and nonstandard variants should vanish from or be grayed out in dialog boxes if irrelevant to a selected game.

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