Re: [Scid-users] PalmOpenchess was: Menu strcuture

[Alexander W. <a.w...@ph...>]

Pascal Georges wrote:

Hi!

 > Pascal, maybe you could have a look at this? I believe it
 > comes from the dynamically generated parts of the File
 > menue, but as I said, I don't get what's going on there.
 >
 > ok, I will do it.

Thanks.

 > Could you give more details on Palm Openchess support ?

Well it currently exists in the Unix Way of Life. That is I
just call the converter tool which currently only exists as
a binary. However any other converter can be hooked in there
as well, so actually I love this coding of interfaces to
external tools as I could dock in whatever I like there.

Then the stuff is pretty simple: I just generate a suitable
named PGN file containing either the current game or the
current filter list. This file is stored where the PDB will
be created with the same name as the PDB. I call the
converter against ist and generate the PDB which then can be
transfered to the handheld by any means the user feels fit.

For import it works the same, just "the other way round",
that is I take the PDB, call the converter against it and
get a suitable PDB that is read into the database.

The main problem currently is the conversion to PDB. I
believe that, given I've enough time, I could do an open
source conversion tool in perl but I do not know of pisock
bindings in any other language. I must look into this. Olaf
unfortunatley told me that he is full of work at the moment
so he sees no possiblity to be of much help.

Hence, this is currently not really perfect but just works
on the basis of the external conversion tool, which is
"enough for me". My main intent to add some functions in
that direction is to hook it into the CC-module in the end.
But nothing is done in that direction yet. And I'm a bit in
doubt how much work I should invest there as the Palm market
is not what it used to be. In other words: I'd like to add
it as a call for an external conversion tool as one could
hook in whatever one likes then, but doing it all in native
tcl within scid probably involving recoding something like
pisock in tcl is probably not worth the efford.

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