Re: [Scid-users] Tutorial -- Getting Along with Scid

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

Benoit St-Pierre wrote:

Hi!

> I could add icons, if I have some garantee that they are
> stable.  I'll even create a folder for them.

Would you mind using filenames like in the tcl/tk-code? One
Could then imagine to extract the icons back from the
source. They're stored as base64-encoded gif, therefore it
should be "possible" to convert them back to gif. In case, I
could check into this issue.

> The "open folder" information would be enough if I had
> introduced the descriptions the part of the window at the
> bottom of the main window.  In fact, I did not introduce
> the Action Toolbar yet.  These are examples of problems I
> am encountering : tutorials suffer from conceptual
> bootstrapping problem, it seems.

Yes. They run into a bunch of hen-egg-problems...

> The actual problem I am facing is choosing between opening
> a game and looking at it, or creating first a Scid
> database and porting the PGN file to it.  I am thinking of
> the latter solution, as it seems more natural.  But I feel
> the reader might get impatient.  I could always refer to
> an eventual Scid fot the Impatient, but still.

I feel it important that the reader understands that he can
not really work _on_ the PGN. So I'd base the description on
how to get it into a database, and just add a sidenote "if
you only want to view."

> We could maintain Unix and Win versions of the
> screenshots, but I don't have access to a Unix platform
> yet. (I still can't install Scid on my Mac, btw.)

Sorry, I can't help you on OS X, but maybe Cory can give you
a hint?

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