Re: [Scidvspc-users] Todo list

[enrico t. <eto...@li...>]

On 05/08/2013 10:48, Steve A wrote:
> I've just compiled a quick todo of the major things that people may
> wish to look at.
>
> Most of these will probably never get done :), but here they are.
>
> I'll write them up properly on the webpage sometime soon. If anyone
> can think of things that've been mentioned in the past, but forgotten
> , pls let me know.
>
> Steve
>
> * Mainline SCID's new filter sort feature finally seems to be bug
> free, but i am unsure about it's merit. It is a little confusing
> having more than one notion of sort, and the changes are not trivial
> (and probably detract from stability). What do we do when copying
> temporarily sorted games to a new base ? All bases seem to be sorted
> the same way ?? If anyone feels strongly about this feature and is a
> good C++ coder, they are welcome to prepare a patch for testing.
>
> * Openseal is an open source version of FICS Timeseal. It needs some
> rewriting to work with Scid, though it is a small program.
>
> * FICS could be adapted to work with the ICC. The work involves
> analysing the differences in the strings used by the two programs.
> (for example, for FICS  we have this line to ackowledge successful log-in
>     if {[string match "*Starting FICS session*" $line]} {
> The two servers do have many similarities i think, and examining
> xboard's "backend.c" (or some other client) for "FICS" particularities
>
> * Russian translation is broken afaics, and has been removed for the time being.
>
> * The month i've updated the translations a little. (Thanks to Peter
> for totally overhauling the Dutch one). The checklangs.tcl script is
> in much better shape, but of course there are still lots of
> translation "todos"
>
> * The TCL sound package, Snack, needs a maintainer.
>
> * There was a lot of work done to implement Fischer Chess (Chess 960),
> but they never fixed all the bugs, and the web site
> http://www.wtfai.me.uk/scid960.html is now gone. The latest code is in
> ScidvsPC's source patches/chess960.patch
>
> * The Tree code works reasonably well, but i have never found the time
> to overhaul the Slow/Fast/Slow&Fast modes. These were (for a long
> time) negelected when Fulvio wrote the interuptible tree code. Scid
> now has the Modes removed, so doing this in ScidvsPC probably wouldnt
> be terribly hard to do.
>
> * There are two engine types - UCI and XBoard. Pascal's UCI code is in
> some ways inferior to Shane's Xboard code.
> Though this is mostly mitigated by the speed of modern processors,
> it'd be nice to make use of the UCI ponder feature in analysis mode
> (Comp mode already does so).
>
> * I've never had a chance to verify/update the Novag Citrine drivers
> and interface due to lack of hardware.
>
> * Our Windows port needs a little overhaul to properly use Users home
> directory to store all the various data.
> I will get around to doing it one day though.
>
> * A lot of people use chessbase books (.ctg). Scid can only read
> polyglot opening books, but inlining this projects
> work may not be too hard.  https://github.com/sshivaji/ctgexporter
>
> * A quality, free, community database - though i don't really want to
> go over what has been said before - so best
> to trawl the mailing list archives to catch up on this one.
>
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when im examining a game with scidvspc, if i try to save PGN file, i get 
a Fen position, it's possible to set PGN format with all moves?
Ciao & thanks you!

(exam works very good actually using arrows)