[Scid-users] Masks / Cache

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

Hi!

Moving my old stuff to the new structure, I created two
separate preliminary mask files, one for white and one for
black.

Now I found that it would come in handy, if Scid could load
the proper mask automatically. I can imagine something like
the rotation of the board. By defining player names,
whenever a game is loaded, one would like the main window
chessboard to be displayed from the perspective of that
player. But one would also probably like the mask file for
that perspective to be loaded. Alternatively two buttons
(default white/black mask) would help, I think. I've
correspondence play in mind where I work with my reference
dbs and so on on the games I actually play, and where I've a
bunch of games for either colour simultaneously.

Additionally, I found that it would be nice if the tree
window would also hook up with the geometry manager to
preserve it's size and position. Especially while working
with masks it needs to be quite wide. Mainly cause one can
miss a move commment as it is appended to the end without a
visual marker at the beginning of the line. (Probably one
could reuse tb_CC_message to indicate a comment on a line?
Its meant to be quite slim.) Of course I see the comment if
I hover with the mouse over the line, but a keyboard junkey
like me...

"Fill Cache with base" produces some kind of race as the
Fill Cache file dialogue pops to front all the time and the
filling of the cache also takes quite some time. I mentioned
this before, but working now a bit more with this stuff I
think this really needs a fix.

I also came to the conclusion that either I've to keep both
a mask and an opening base or there is some "fill cache with
mask" required. As still the printed literature uses lines
I'm not entirely sure if an interplay between a base and a
mask is not the best way from a practical point of view.

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