[Scidvspc-users] Window Docking beta

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

Window Docking is working and in subversion.
Subversion check out is something like
svn co https://scidvspc.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/scidvspc scidvspc
Here is a windows binary/gui (which can be placed in "\bin" with the full
install of ScidvsPC-4.8.exe).
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/windows-beta/scidvspc_20130331.zip/download

The feature is enabled and configured by Options->Windows.
There are a few differencess with mainline Scid.
The main board context menu is different (you can hide
stuff via this menu) Like Scid, you can dock
FICS/pgn/gamelist/comment editor/engines/tree. And extra to
Scid you can dock the playerinfo , bestgame, book and
crosstable, but not the tacgame/seriousgame/ECO browser
You can use the options "-dock" and "-nodock" from the
command line, but using "-nodock" will reset the
default docking layout (as a measure of error recovery).

There seems few bugs on windows and less on Linux :). But my
non-genuine win7 still throws harmless errors when program closes,
and i'm curious if anyone with an genuine/update win7 or
win8 has the same problem.

Whats happening with the tree window and best games is a
little complicated. It works for me but if you have issues,
pls find out how to replicate them and let me know.

BTW, Scid-4.4 is out. It's not a bad interface, but the new
filter stuff/sort doesnt need much serious prodding before
it falls over.

I'm more aware of little bugs in our filter too, so i'll try
to fix them sometime before next release.

Steve