[Scidvspc-users] Suggestions

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

A few months ago Ed made a little tribute page to the project.Thanks :)
http://www.edcollins.com/chess/scidvspc/what-is-scid-vs-pc.htm

In his bug and wishlist pages, Ed mentions a few bugs:

> When I have a game / position loaded on the screen from an active database,
> and then I paste in a new FEN position, the player information at the bottom
> of the screen does not change.  

Yes - this can cause problems, and i've made a commit to address this.
Paste FEN now saves the current game and creates a new one,
which is slightly different behaviour, but probably better.

> When I flip the screen and put Black at the bottom, (because I want to
> play the Black side) and then click PLAY - COMPUTER-UCI ENGINE,
> and attempt to play a game as Black, it's White's clock that ticks down

I had a go at fixing this too, and it seems better.

> When an engine is analyzing, I think displaying a STOP icon,
> to indicate how to STOP the engine, would be more ideal than the
> current icon.  Likewise, when an engine has been stopped, the icon
> would display a green GO icon

I'll probably keep the current pause/play buttons. They're not very distinct,
i agree, but they're tasteful, and avoid the anglo-centric "stop", "go".

> When I select an engine, the engine  starts analyzing automatically.  
> ...
> I think it might be best to have this window appear without the  engine starting up

Hmmm -  this will probably stay the way it is too. Quick access to analysis is best.

> SCID vs. PC should be more forgiving when it comes to invalid FENs.  For example, take the following FEN position:
> rnbq1b1r/p1pp1p1p/4k3/1p1NP1p1/2QP1p2/5N2/PP1B1KPP/n6R/ w
> (appears on http://membres.multimania.fr/albillo/ajedre2a.htm)

The problem with this webpage's FEN is that the first arg ends with a "/", which
is probably against the FEN standard. ... But it seems reasonable to remove a trailing "/"
from the first arg.

> Finally, a user should be able to paste in a FEN position, that contains "FEN:" as the first four characters

Yes, this seems reasonable too, and have made these changes.

Also note , I've  replaced a few of Scid vs. PC's more garish textures with 4 of his.

All these minor changes are in subversion.

cheers, Steve