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TheOptionsMenu
By Maurice McCarthy
Many SCID options and preferences (such as the board size, colors, fonts, and default settings) are adjustable from [TheOptionsMenu]. All these (and more, such as the last directory you loaded a database from and the sizes of some windows) are saved to an options file when you select Save Options from the Options menu. The options file is loaded whenever you start SCID.
Where Are the Options Stored?
Under Windows 10, the directory "Program Files" is no longer writeable by the user. (Not since version 1709 released in October 2017.) For this reason default install is to the user's own directory. The options file is stored in
C:\Users\Your Name\Scid-4.7.0\bin\config\options.dat
(Or whatever is appropriate to your own installation.)
Under Unix systems (such as Solaris or Linux) the file in Scid-4.7 is ~/.scid4.7/config/options/options.dat.
Language
Submenu to select from the languages available in Scid.
Chessboard
Submenu to select the size, piece style and colors of the board.
Fonts
Submenu to select the size and style of the fonts displayed. Scid has four basic fonts it uses in most of its windows, and you can customize all of them. They are called large, regular, small and fixed. The fixed font should be a fixed-width (not proportional) font. It is used for the tree and crosstable windows.
Set menu colors...
Dialog to select the color of text and background in the menus.
Number Format
Submenu to select different conventions for decimal places and 3-digit separators.
Theme
Submenu with 4 default themes
Windows
Submenu to customize window behaviour, select start-up windows
Sounds
Dialog to customize where wav files are stored and whether they play on moves being made. (Requires the Snack audio package in Linux or BSD systems.)
Toolbar
Dialog to select which buttons appear in the Toolbar. Buttons select menu functions.
Recent files...
Dialog to select how many files appear under the File menu and its submenu ...
Configure Informant values...
Dialog to select how large the chess engine assessments must be for their analysis symbols to appear, e.g. by default "??" is a blunder which should lose the game.
Exporting...
Submenu to 3 customization dialogs for export to pgn, html or latex format files.
Moves...
Submenu with a large number of choices as to how moves are diplayed by Scid.
Load ECO file...
Dialog to select an ECO file to categorize the opening of games.
Load Spellcheck file...
Dialog to select the spelling correction file.
Tablebase directory...
Dialog to select one or more directories containing tablebase files.
Books directory...
Dialog to select the directory for books
Bases directory...
Dialog to select the default directory of game databases when Scid is opened.
Photos directory...
Dialog to select the directory of player photographs.
Save Options
Clicking on this saves all the options selected above.
Auto-Save Options on Exit
An on/off toggle indicated by a tick at the left hand side.
Many SCID options and preferences (such as the board size, colors, fonts, and default settings) are adjustable from [TheOptionsMenu]. All these (and more, such as the last directory you loaded a database from and the sizes of some windows) are saved to an options file when you select Save Options from the Options menu. The options file is loaded whenever you start SCID.
Where Are the Options Stored?
Under Win, the options file is scid.opt in /bin/config/options/options.dat.
Under Unix systems (such as Solaris or Linux) the file is ~/.scid/config/options/options.dat.
Setting your player names
DEPRECATED
There may be a player name (or several names) for whom, whenever a game is loaded, you would like the main window chessboard to be displayed from the perspective of that player. You can configure a list of such names using My Player Names... from the [Options/Chessboard] menu. In the dialog box that appears, enter one player name on each line. Wildcard characters ("?" for exactly one character and "*" for a sequence of zero or more characters) can be used.
Setting Fonts
Scid has three basic fonts it uses in most of its windows, and you can customize all of them. They are called regular, small and fixed.
The fixed font should be a fixed-width (not proportional) font. It is used for the tree and crosstable windows.
Related
Wiki: FileFormats
Wiki: Menus
Wiki: TheBookWindow
Wiki: TheGameMenu
Wiki: TheMainWindow
Wiki: TheOptionsMenu
I'll try that again.
Many SCID options and preferences (such as the board size, colors, fonts, and default settings) are adjustable from [TheOptionsMenu]. All these (and more, such as the last directory you loaded a database from and the sizes of some windows) are saved to an options file when you select Save Options from the Options menu. The options file is loaded whenever you start SCID.
Where Are the Options Stored?
Under Windows 10, the directory "Program Files" is no longer writeable by the user. (Not since version 1709 released in October 2017.) For this reason default install is to the user's own directory. The options file is stored in
C:\Users\Your Name\Scid-4.7.0\bin\config\options.dat
(Or whatever is appropriate to your own installation.)
Under Unix systems (such as Solaris or Linux) the file in Scid-4.7 is ~/.scid4.7/config/options/options.dat.
Language
Submenu to select from the languages available in Scid.
Chessboard
Submenu to select the size, piece style and colors of the board.
Fonts
Submenu to select the size and style of the fonts displayed. Scid has four basic fonts it uses in most of its windows, and you can customize all of them. They are called large, regular, small and fixed. The fixed font should be a fixed-width (not proportional) font. It is used for the tree and crosstable windows.
Set menu colors...
Dialog to select the color of text and background in the menus.
Number Format
Submenu to select different conventions for decimal places and 3-digit separators.
Theme
Submenu with 4 default themes
Windows
Submenu to customize window behaviour, select start-up windows
Sounds
Dialog to customize where wav files are stored and whether they play on moves being made. (Requires the Snack audio package in Linux or BSD systems.)
Toolbar
Dialog to select which buttons appear in the Toolbar. Buttons select menu functions.
Recent files...
Dialog to select how many files appear under the File menu and its submenu ...
Configure Informant values...
Dialog to select how large the chess engine assessments must be for their analysis symbols to appear, e.g. by default "??" is a blunder which should lose the game.
Exporting...
Submenu to 3 customization dialogs for export to pgn, html or latex format files.
Moves...
Submenu with a large number of choices as to how moves are diplayed by Scid.
Load ECO file...
Dialog to select an ECO file to categorize the opening of games.
Load Spellcheck file...
Dialog to select the spelling correction file.
Tablebase directory...
Dialog to select one or more directories containing tablebase files.
Books directory...
Dialog to select the directory for books
Bases directory...
Dialog to select the default directory of game databases when Scid is opened.
Photos directory...
Dialog to select the directory of player photographs.
Save Options
Clicking on this saves all the options selected above.
Auto-Save Options on Exit
An on/off toggle indicated by a tick at the left hand side.
Related
Wiki: TheOptionsMenu
Last edit: Maurice 2020-01-18
after multiple efforts I do hope that is more presentable.
Sorry for the delay. I will edit the text as soon as I can.
Thanks!
No problem!
bstp
Anything you want me to change or improve just pass it back. I'd be
happy to. Started working on a HowTo for importing.
Maurice,
I added your text as is. I'll see how it reads tomorrow.
You rock!
B
PS: Will probably delete this discussion next week or so.
Beginners luck! Lol !!!
The page is too tedious, I think. I'm posting the other captures I made at the time to see if you think they can or should be used.
Dunno how I managed to attach the import text too. That was weird. Deleted it now though.
Last edit: Maurice 2020-01-28
My SCID time is up this week. Bump the thread next week if I'm taking too much time.
Ok. Thanks
On Tue, 28 Jan 2020, 23:21 bstp, benoitstpierre@users.sourceforge.net
wrote: