[Scidvspc-users] 4.8 release candidate

[Steven <ste...@ya...>]

If there's no major bugs with these, i'll release them on the weekend.

Steve

Source  http://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/source/scid_vs_pc-4.8.tgz/download

Windows http://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/windows/Scid%20vs%20PC-4.8.exe/download

OS X    http://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/mac/ScidvsMac-4.8.dmg/download

Changes: 4.8 (August 12, 2012)

 General  
    Drag and Drop file open(s) on Windows and Unix 
    Custom background images (jpegs, gifs and pngs) 
    Random sort pgn feature. 
    Crosstable now have +/-/= subtotals 
    (and Player Stats format changed from +/=/- to +/-/=). 
    General PGN search has ignore case option 
    Board Search gets it's combobox updated when DBs are opened and closed. 
    Save game before PGN Import 
    Save game: enable the use of 'prev game tags' for existing games. This allows easy addition of the same tags to consecutive existing games. 
    Remove the 'Scid: ' prefix from several window titles 
    Update some translations 
    Show Linux version/distro in the startup window. 
    Add a patch to make toolbar buttons raise only (instead of toggle open/shut) 
    Add a patch for Chess960 support (from Ben Hague). Unfinished 
 
 Analysis  
    UCI: properly handle UCI buttons. Previously they were invoked at every engine restart. 
    Right clicking 'Add Var' button adds Engine Score comment only. 
    Replace ponder on/off with hard/easy for xboard engines 
    Super quick engine infos can happen before Scid's PV is inited properly. So we have to default to PV = 1 
    Allow xboard engines to use lowercase 'b' for bishop promotion (eg a7b8b) 
    Don't send an erroneous 'isready' (with 'uci') to quiet analysis engines 
    Right clicking the widget allows to disable line wrapping 
    Don't add a line to analysis history if moves are null 
 
 Tree  
    Move ECO stats to the end of line. 
    Several Mask refinements - notably Searches are much more readable and previously clicking on searched lines didn't work 
    Fix up minor bugs about castling moves (OO, O-O, O-O-O) 
 
 Computer Tournament  
    Computer Tournament Book feature 
    Dont' kill tournament if engine crashes. 
    Only pack the first 10 engine combos (which allows for big tournaments) 
    Fix up Xboard time/move command order. Xboard engines should behave much better. 
    Various other tweaks 
 
 Gamelist  
    Show altered games in red. 
    Control-wheelmouse scrolls up/down one page. 
    Switcher now has text on two lines (if icons are shown). 
 
 FICS  
    Digital clocks now (optionally) on the main board 
    Better integration of FICS "examine" and "observe" features 
    FICS has it's own options menu 
    bind F9 to xtell instead of tell. 
    Change the move.wav sound from tick-tock to a short click. 
 
 OS X  
    Filter graph bugfix 
    Material Search properly shows the little buttons 
    Copy and Paste text from disabled OSX text widgets (engines, help, gameinfo) 
    Buttons 2 and 3 are swapped around 
 
 General Bugs  
    Work arounds for wish 8.5.12 and 8.5.8 issues 
    Analysis logs can badly break autoscroll, so use normal frames and scrollbars. 
    Handle PGN parsing of unspecified promotions (b8 becomes b8=Q , for eg).