Re: [Scidvspc-users] Arrows and so on

[Steve A <ste...@gm...>]

> a feature I miss in ScidvsPC (and in plain Scid also) is the ability
> to draw arrows and paint squares on the main board. I was thinking on
> doing a series of instructional videos and that feature would be
> handy.

Yes, you're right. That feature has been reinstated in subversion.

To change it in 4.8, the relevant line can be uncommented in scid.gui,
somewhere around line 163471
    # ::board::bind .board $i <Control-ButtonPress-1> "drawArrow $i green"

I guess i should never have removed these. There was an rare bug with
mouse bindings
and the board, and i removed this feature to try and reduce the number
of bindings
on the board... But Tk is quite capable of handling them i think.

(Note - the draw arrow and paint square features have always been in
the comment editor.)

There's a couple of related changes too. In subversion, the main board
draw arrow
also doubles as 'premove' for FICS, and i have nixed the "always
green", and it is
now the last colour used/set in the comment editor.

Testing is good. There's a *lot* happening here, and  ScidvsPC's big
variation arrows also utilise this code.

S.