Re: [Scidvspc-users] Window Docking beta

[Dale H. <dal...@go...>]

Hi Steve,

I'm a recent convert to SCIDvsPC from mainline SCID... I've applied your
beta on my Win7 box and while it works fine from what I can see (I've only
had a little play with it), the time it takes to open has increased rather
dramatically.

Opening the app - without loading any database with it - takes over 2 and a
half minutes. Most of this time is spent displaying no information to the
UI, so I originally thought it was crashing silently.

Startup window text is provided below. As you can see it's loading player
photos and a large spelling file. I can try opening the app without these,
but it was loading quite quickly before applying the new .exe.

Let me know if you need more info, the docking seems to work great in all
other regards, possibly better than in SCID - as I said, I haven't had a
proper play with it.

Cheers
Dale

== Startup window output ==

 Scid vs. PC
Scid vs. PC 4.8 (Aug 12, 2012).
http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net

(C) 2008-2012 Steven Atkinson (ste...@ya...)
(C) 2006-2008 Pascal Georges
(C) 1999-2004 Shane Hudson

Using directory C:\Program Files (x86)\Scid vs PC-4.8\bin\config
Using directory C:\Program Files (x86)\Scid vs PC-4.8\bin\data
Using directory C:\Program Files (x86)\Scid vs PC-4.8\bin\log
Command line is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Scid vs PC-4.8\bin\scid.gui "
User directory is "C:/Program Files (x86)/Scid vs PC-4.8/bin"
TkImg found. Enabling png image support.
Loaded options from "C:\Program Files (x86)\Scid vs
PC-4.8\bin\config\options.dat".
Using Tcl/Tk version: 8.5.4
Windows NT operating system, version 6.1

scidShareDir is C:/Program Files (x86)/Scid vs PC-4.8/bin
scidBasesDir is C:\Program Files (x86)\Scid vs PC-4.8\bin\bases
scidBooksDir is C:\Program Files (x86)\Scid vs PC-4.8\bin\books
True type fonts (PGN figurines) disabled.
User Textures: no such directory C:\Program Files (x86)\Scid vs
PC-4.8\bin\textures
Initializing Sound...
   Snack sound package found: Move speech enabled.
   Found 0 of 30 sound files in
Docking mode enabled.
Found 10493 player photos in FIDE.spf
http package 2.5.5 found
tDOM package 0.8.3 found
Checking for endgame tablebase files.
    No tablebases were found.
ECO file "data\scid.eco"  loaded: 10359 positions.
Spellcheck file "data/spelling.ssp" loaded:
    153108 players, 11 events, 804 sites, 20 rounds.


On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Steve A <ste...@gm...> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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