Re: [Scidvspc-devel] Patch1: Eval bar for boards, inturn Enabled for Analysis Board

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

PS , I'm not keen on a vertical eval bar like most guis have.. It's just
too distracting.
So probably just give this a miss now that i have one in the statusbar.
cheers

On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 2:11 PM Steve A <ste...@gm...> wrote:

> Hmmm... Looks nice :) but it keeps disappearing on my macbook.
> It's normally not viewable ??
>
> But what you are doing is not too well designed.
> How are you going to connect the main board (or, say a fics observed
> board) to an engine.
> It looks like this only works with engine mini. boards.
> Moreover, it is *very* complicated to put in a generic board eval class.
> For example - say i have no engines running, but am observing 3 fics games
> as mini boards
> I need three extra engines running in quiet mode to show eval bars on the
> observed games. Kindof impossible.
> A generic board eval bar would be great for the game browser (for
> example), but just way too hard imho.
> Of course putting one on the engine mini board (like you have done -
> except it keeps disappearing on my mac!) may be a great idea.
>
> Have you noticed i've already coded an eval bar yesterday.
> I should probably make it work with *any* engine rather than the second
> engine only.
>
> I haven't given linear/log any thoughts. At the moment my bar is just +-5
> linear.
> What do other websites / guis use?
>
> Cheers
>
> On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 9:44 AM C Hanish Menon <han...@gm...>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This patch adds generic support for showing eval bar wrt any specified
>> board. Inturn the same is enabled for analysis boards and the main
>> pv's score is shown as the evalbar.
>>
>> Have implemented two different versions of eval bar, one is a simple
>> linear one and another is a combination of linear+logarithmic one.
>>
>> The simple linear version shows the eval bar linearly wrt -4 to 4 with
>> clipping of values beyond it
>>
>> The linear+log version shows a linear movement wrt -1 to 1 which maps
>> to being adjacent to the 4 and 5 rows, and a logarithmic movement for
>> beyond. The log values are mapped such that crossing 3 and 6 rows map
>> to be equivalent to gaining or losing a minor piece and 2 and 7 rows
>> map to gaining or losing 10 points, and remaining beyond.
>>
>> Currently I havent tried to enable this for MainBoard. As one may want
>> to add an option entry to menu or buttons bar or ...
>>
>> --
>> Keep ;-)
>> HanishKVC
>>
>