Re: [Scid-users] Minor bug fix for scid.

[Dr. D. K. <dav...@on...>]

Denis J Navas wrote:
> Man
> 
> Many, many thanks!  I was annoyed with this problem, because I am used to
> keyboard commands, and wasn't able to close this window.  
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Denis J Navas 


Actually, I was wrong to say it was as easy to fix under Windows as what 
it is on UNIX. On the UNIX systems, Tcl/Tk commands are run from an 
interpreter. Hence the scid file is just a text file, which starts like 
this:

#!/bin/sh

# Scid (Shane's Chess Information Database)
#
# Copyright (C) 1999-2004  Shane Hudson. All rights reserved.
#
# This is freely redistributable software; see the file named "COPYING"
# or "copying.txt" that came with this program.
#
# To contact the author, email Shane at: sg...@us...


I've just looked on a Windows system and see that scid.exe is an 
executable (binary) file. Hence I believe scid on windows will need to 
be recompiled. I don't have the development tools to do this.

Looking at the scid web site, it says:

------------------
Installation

Tcl/Tk For Windows users: the Windows download of Scid is an installer 
application; just run it to install Scid. If you want to compile Scid on 
Windows yourself, download the source package; it includes Makefiles for 
MinGW, Cygwin and VC++.
-----------------



Hence I think to cure this problem under windows, one would need to 
recompile Scid. I'm not in a position to do that. If anyone is able to 
recompile and produce a .exe, I'm happy to stick it on a web site so 
others can download it.

-- 
Dr. David Kirkby