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#259 Color Palette not showing up in the comment editor
In the attached screenshot, in my device, the color palette in comment editor window is not showing up, is it a bug or am I doing something wrong? (I am running scid on debian), if yes then how can I get the color palette so that I can draw arrows of different colors.
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This is not a bug. The colors in pgn-windows are only use in this window. The comment editor does not use this colors. The comment editor uses the text color of the theme.
Hello,
I don't think that's what aritra meant.
In the versions before 5.0 you could select the colour in the comment
window by clicking on it and then draw arrows in this colour.
See the following screenshot of version 4.8.0
I also miss this function in version 5.1.0!
In version 5.1.0 you can currently only draw green arrows and green
field markers and then have to change the colour manually in the comment
window.
Very inconvenient. Everything you used to be able to do with one or more
clicks now has to be typed and added manually.
Unfortunately, it is also not possible to automatically insert markings
on the board whose syntax is identical to ChessBase.
SCID displays the markings from ChessBase correctly and you can add
markings manually in the ChessBase syntax. It would be desirable to be
able to set or select this in a configuration file.
Kind regards Frank
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Am 08.05.25 um 17:11 schrieb Uwe:
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Oh sorry, i misunderstand this.
You can find the color palette in the menu of the main board (menu-button left under the main board). Click on "Select Marker". This opens a window with the color palette and markers. The advantage: you can make graphical comments without the comment editor.
Thank you for the Information!
Am 09.05.25 um 16:00 schrieb Uwe:
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It would be nice if you could choose between the two syntax variants in
SCID 5.1.0 or change the default syntax.
By default, Scid uses the following syntax:
[%draw full,c4,red] = field marking in red
[%draw arrow,d3,e4,green] = Preil in green
ChessBase uses the following syntax, which Scid can also process and
display:
[%csl Re5] = field marking in red
[%cal Gf3e5] = Arrow in green
It would be a great function for SCID to be able to choose between the
two syntax variants so that games that have been annotated and
color-coded in Scid can also be edited in ChessBase and Lichess, and the
markings made in Scid can also be seen in ChessBase and LIchess.
This would make Scid cross-platform and the first choice for editing
games and databases.
Greetings Frank
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Am 09.05.25 um 16:00 schrieb Uwe:
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Thanks to @b101216666 for showing the marker option, I have attached it as a screenshot. For now I gues we can drag the small window that spawns up (shown in the screenshot I attached), and put it near the comment editor/wherever you want it to be, overall, its good, but having it integrated into the comment editor was better I guess, but this works just fine!!
Also, thanks to @feschenauer for the engagement. Yes the colour coding from chessbase to SCID is still a problem for those who wants to migrate from Chessbase to SCID, especially when I have a pgn made by some other person in chessbase, the arrows are all blue, I think this could be sorted in some way.
By the way how do you all use scid? What ELO are you all here? and what are you guys working on?
Overall, TLDR is:
Hello Aritra,
Coloured markings set by Chessbase or in Chessbase in a pgn file have not been a problem at all in Scid. Since SCID version 5.1.0, released on 18.03.2025 at ‘https://dev.azure.com/beninifulvio/beninifulvio/_build/results?buildId=1123&view=results’, all 6 colours used in Chessbase are now also displayed correctly.
From ChessBase to Scid was never a problem because Scid can display all arrows.
Conversely, it was a problem, coloured markings set in SCID were entered in Scid's own code, which ChessBase could not read.
Uwe wrote a solution (adapted main.tcl) and sent the request to integrate both syntax variants into SCID to Fulvio.
When using the new main.tcl, which I will send you, the colour palette is reduced to the functions in ChessBase and the syntax of ChessBase is entered in the comment editor. See screenshot.
If you want to use all marking options of SCID, you have to use the old main.tcl again.
I use Scid under Linux but also ChessBase18 in a virtual machine.
I mainly use Scid to enter and annotate my games, to further refine my repertoire and to check new variations with the latest beta engine from Stockfish.
On the road and before tournaments I use the ChessBase mobile app via mobile phone or iPad to prepare (repertoire) and can now also see my markings (new main.tcl) set in Scid in the original colour.
You must unpack the attached main.tcl.zip and then replace the unpacked main.tcl with the existing one in the scid directory under the tcl directory.
Yours sincerely
Frank
The code for lichess markers are not merged to scid. https://github.com/benini/scid/pull/207
But a converter script is merged. So you can convert exported scid-markers in pgn-file to lichess-markers https://github.com/benini/scid/pull/209