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Re: [Scidvspc-users] originating code base for the project?

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

On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 7:21 AM, Lionel <hay...@gm...> wrote:
>
>
> Hello Steve,
>
> I've been tracking your project for some time and have been porting
features from the scid project and adding some features of my own, and I'm
wondering if you have a record of the scid commit from which you forked the
scidvspc project.

ScidvsPC's base is SCID-3.6.26, and full changelog can be found in the
source code, README.txt, also here
https://sourceforge.net/p/scidvspc/code/HEAD/tree/README.txt.

The files page https://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/source/
has scid_vs_pc-3.6.26.1.tgz
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/source/scid_vs_pc-3.6.26.1.tgz/download>
dated at 4th/june/2009

>From the SCID doc/ChangeLog file (still in ScidvsPC source code), 3.6.26
appears to be dated October 2009, so it is possible i used a slightly
earlier CVS version, but i can't recall. Perhaps that date is wrong too.
SCID's CVS commits were not documented/labeled.
Checking the scid_vs_pc-3.6.26.1.tgz
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/source/scid_vs_pc-3.6.26.1.tgz/download>
tarball might clear it up, but i can't do that ATM.

The first SCID release with widespread ttk theme changes (which really
messed up the GUI imho) and made me fork was probably 3.6.27.
In any case, afterwards, i separately applied the Tree interrupt and si4
features, and definitely some other minor ones. I didn't use any VCS for a
long while, just using patches - which maybe i still have, but are no
longer on the files repo. CVS always struck me as very ordinary, but i
eventually found out about subversion.

> I ask because, as best as I can tell, you forked the project in 2010, and
yet I've come across code which was committed to the scid project as far
back as 2008 (and which is still in the latest revision of scid), but which
is nowhere to be found in your repository.  For example, some functions
which Pascal contributed in tcl/utils/validate.tcl which date back to 2008
and were never removed from the scid project but never existed in your
project.

Cheers, Steven

[Scidvspc-users] originating code base for the project?

[Lionel <hay...@gm...>]

Hello Steve,

I've been tracking your project for some time and have been porting 
features from the scid project and adding some features of my own, and 
I'm wondering if you have a record of the scid commit from which you 
forked the scidvspc project.

I ask because, as best as I can tell, you forked the project in 2010, 
and yet I've come across code which was committed to the scid project as 
far back as 2008 (and which is still in the latest revision of scid), 
but which is nowhere to be found in your repository.  For example, some 
functions which Pascal contributed in tcl/utils/validate.tcl which date 
back to 2008 and were never removed from the scid project but never 
existed in your project.

It would be very helpful if you have a record of the commit from which 
you forked the project, as I often have a need to do a merge off a three 
way diff between the two projects.

Thanks...

--  Lionel

[Scidvspc-users] Unicode filename issues

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

Hi,
I received an error message from Sourceforge user Panos where he describes
not being able to open or create files inside his home directory on his
MS-Windows system.

  https://sourceforge.net/p/scidvspc/discussion/959281/thread/aac9f1be/

I'm guessing the issue is related to having non-ascii unicode characters in
his user/home-directory name - which Scid has never been properly written
to handle, and indeed is done poorly by Tcl - but am not sure.

Does anyone have knowledge of this issue.

If unicode chars in the filename *is* the problem - we can add simple
checks in the GUI frontend to warn about such home directory names, but it
is not a good solution, and i can't really test/fix the issue myself.
Cheers, Steven

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Notation

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

Pgn window Menus ->Options->Chess Pieces
For some languages, you can also
Main Menus->Options->Moves->Translate Pieces
S.A

On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 10:14 PM, "Niedermayr, Arthur" <
a.n...@pr...> wrote:

> Hello everybody,
> I really like scid_vs_pc!
>
> I would like to ask you if there exists an option to change the standard
> notation (where I get a symbol for a knight, queen, king ...) with text
> notation (N,Q,K).
> Then Scid vs Pc would be perfect!
>
> Thank you very much!
> Best regards
> Arthur Niedermayr
> !
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[Scidvspc-users] Notation

[\Niedermayr, Arthur\ <a.n...@pr...>]

Hello everybody,
I really like scid_vs_pc!

I would like to ask you if there exists an option to change the standard notation (where I get a symbol for a knight, queen, king ...) with text notation (N,Q,K).
Then Scid vs Pc would be perfect!

Thank you very much!
Best regards
Arthur Niedermayr

!

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Possible memory leak problem ?

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

We had a nasty leak before, but it was fixed in scidvspc 4.17.

If you are already using this version, pease send me your options files so
I can test the same config/window layout.

Cheers, S.A

On Thursday, April 13, 2017, yoan liba <yo...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I don't find how to submit a bug so i post here.
>
> I have a problem to use scid vs Pc in fedora 25 (up to date).
>
> I use LxQT as a DE, so it's not a gnome 3 problem.
>
> The welcome popup indicate that scid vs Pc has found eveything he needs
> except endgame tablebase.
>
> Scid vs Pc use more and more memory until i don't have enough RAM to use
> my computer at all.
>
> I have try to see if it is a memory leak with valgrind but the result
> seems negative.
>
> I have no problem to compile scid vs Pc with a simple ./configure and a
> make
>
> I copy here the outputs of my terminal after two hours using scid when he
> analyse a game with stockfish or komodo.
>
> [yann@localhost scidvspc]$ valgrind ./scid
> ==1532== Memcheck, a memory error detector
> ==1532== Copyright (C) 2002-2015, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
> ==1532== Using Valgrind-3.12.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
> ==1532== Command: ./scid
> ==1532==
> [yann@localhost scidvspc]$
>
>
> [yann@localhost scidvspc]$ valgrind --tool=callgrind ./scid
> ==1872== Callgrind, a call-graph generating cache profiler
> ==1872== Copyright (C) 2002-2015, and GNU GPL'd, by Josef Weidendorfer et
> al.
> ==1872== Using Valgrind-3.12.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
> ==1872== Command: ./scid
> ==1872==
> ==1872== For interactive control, run 'callgrind_control -h'.
>
>
> The process who eat all my ram is called tkscid so it's not a chess engine.
>
> This behaviour happens if i compile directly scid vs Pc or if i use a rpm
> in the rpm sphere repository.
>
> Could you tell me what is the problem ?
>
> English is not my native language so don't hesitate to ask if you don't
> understand something  :)
>
> Thanks.
>

[Scidvspc-users] Possible memory leak problem ?

[yoan l. <yo...@gm...>]

<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"><div>
<div>Hi,</div>

<div>&nbsp;</div>

<div>I don&#39;t find how to submit a bug so i post here.</div>

<div>&nbsp;</div>

<div>I have a problem to use scid vs Pc in fedora 25 (up to date).</div>

<div><br/>
I use LxQT as a DE, so it&#39;s not a gnome 3 problem.</div>

<div>&nbsp;</div>

<div>The welcome popup indicate that scid vs Pc has found eveything he needs except endgame tablebase.</div>

<div>&nbsp;</div>

<div>Scid vs Pc use more and more memory until i don&#39;t have enough RAM to use my computer at all.</div>

<div>&nbsp;</div>

<div>I have try to see if it is a memory leak with valgrind but the result seems negative.</div>

<div>&nbsp;</div>

<div>I have no problem to compile scid vs Pc with a simple ./configure and a make</div>

<div>&nbsp;</div>

<div>I copy here the outputs of my terminal after two hours using scid when he analyse a game with stockfish or komodo.</div>

<div>&nbsp;</div>

<div>[yann@localhost scidvspc]&#36; valgrind ./scid<br/>
==1532== Memcheck, a memory error detector<br/>
==1532== Copyright (C) 2002-2015, and GNU GPL&#39;d, by Julian Seward et al.<br/>
==1532== Using Valgrind-3.12.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info<br/>
==1532== Command: ./scid<br/>
==1532==<br/>
[yann@localhost scidvspc]&#36;</div>

<div>&nbsp;</div>

<div>&nbsp;</div>

<div>
<div>[yann@localhost scidvspc]&#36; valgrind --tool=callgrind ./scid<br/>
==1872== Callgrind, a call-graph generating cache profiler<br/>
==1872== Copyright (C) 2002-2015, and GNU GPL&#39;d, by Josef Weidendorfer et al.<br/>
==1872== Using Valgrind-3.12.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info<br/>
==1872== Command: ./scid<br/>
==1872==<br/>
==1872== For interactive control, run &#39;callgrind_control -h&#39;.</div>

<div>&nbsp;</div>
</div>

<div>&nbsp;</div>

<div>The process who eat all my ram is called tkscid so it&#39;s not a chess engine.</div>

<div>&nbsp;</div>

<div>This behaviour happens if i compile directly scid vs Pc or if i use a rpm in the rpm sphere repository.</div>

<div>&nbsp;</div>

<div>Could you tell me what is the problem ?</div>

<div>&nbsp;</div>

<div>English is not my native language so don&#39;t hesitate to ask if you don&#39;t understand something&nbsp; :)</div>

<div>&nbsp;</div>

<div>Thanks.</div>
</div></div></body></html>

[Scidvspc-users] Getting player photos to work

[<li...@ma...>]

Hi Guys,

 

I'm trying to get the player photos to appear in games.

 

I have downloaded "FIDE.spf", which I believe is the required file, and
tried it in both in the "bin" folder and the subfolder of bin, "photos".

 

I have enabled "Show Photos" under Game Information.

 

But I'm not seeing any photos of well-known players in the PGNs.

 

What am I doing wrong?

 

Cheers! Ed

 

 

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Scid display options issues

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

> This is about Scid vs PC (v.4.17) issues on my Win 7 desktop – the below is working fine on my Win 10 laptop. I’ve tried reinstalling Scid but it makes no difference.

All i can suggest is to make sure it is not being installed in "program files".

> Is there any way to change the colour of the comments font, or does it have to be green?

Pgn_Window Menu->Colors->Comments

S.A.

[Scidvspc-users] Scid display options issues

[<li...@ma...>]

Hi,

 

This is about Scid vs PC (v.4.17) issues on my Win 7 desktop – the below is
working fine on my Win 10 laptop. I’ve tried reinstalling Scid but it makes
no difference.

 

*	Resizing the board fails
*	Any piece set except “Merida 1” looks fuzzy and jagged
*	Resizing the fonts (regular, menu, small, fixed) doesn’t work

 

Also:

 

*	Is there any way to change the colour of the comments font, or does
it have to be green?

 

Does anyone have any tips?

 

Thanks!

 

Best wishes, Ed

 

--

 

De nordiske sprog stod hele livet igennem hans hjerte nærmest, og ligesom
de, og særlig islandsk, stedse var det centrale i al hans forskning, således
er også hans største fortjenester knyttede til dem...Wikipedia, om Rasmus
Christian Rask

 

Re: [Scidvspc-users] New translations and other

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

Hopefully you can grab your file here

https://sourceforge.net/p/scidvspc/code/HEAD/tree/tcl/lang/

Cheers

On Monday, February 27, 2017, Valente <gu...@ya...> wrote:

> "they can grab their respective file from svn and update it"
>
> --> Ok, where is "svn"? What means "svn" in this phrase?
>
> Thank you.
>
> G. Silva
>
> (maintaining Portuguese translation)
>
> Às 03:47 de 26-02-2017, Steve A escreveu:
>
> Hi, No big news. Just a few things.
>
> Today I added a framework for a few glaring missing translations
> in the Main Board tab's right-click menu. These are options like Show
> "Menu Bar", "Button Bar". So if translators are bored, they can grab their
> respective file from svn and update it , looking for "TODO"'s. Are there
> any other glaringly missed translations without TODOs ?
>
> Also - Gregor has submitted his revised tk::text widget to Tcl-core !
> It's pretty exciting - despite his code now  being "owned", scrutinized
> and nit-picked over by the vaguely conservative but passionate TCL
> community.
> For those that don't know, Gregor's rewrite removes a major issue with
> long line processing (which slows down Scid's PGN window), and improves the
> text window (eg comment editor) undo/redo function too. It should be
> included in Tcl/Tk 8.7 (and I have also updated the inline patch for it in
> the "patches" directory.)
>
> Benoit wrote:
> > For those interested, the first release of the CGR database is available!
> > Details here:
> https://chessgamesrepository.wordpress.com/2017/02/20/cgr-20170219-full/
>
> I'm not sure big databases are really useful for me, or easy to make high
> quality.
> But good luck with it :) Lots to do. Your blog page is very slick.
>
> cheers, Steven
>
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Re: [Scidvspc-users] New translations and other

[Valente <gu...@ya...>]

"they can grab their respective file from svn and update it"

--> Ok, where is "svn"? What means "svn" in this phrase?

Thank you.

G. Silva

(maintaining Portuguese translation)

Às 03:47 de 26-02-2017, Steve A escreveu:
> Hi, No big news. Just a few things.
>
> Today I added a framework for a few glaring missing translations
> in the Main Board tab's right-click menu. These are options like Show 
> "Menu Bar", "Button Bar". So if translators are bored, they can grab 
> their respective file from svn and update it , looking for "TODO"'s. 
> Are there any other glaringly missed translations without TODOs ?
>
> Also - Gregor has submitted his revised tk::text widget to Tcl-core !
> It's pretty exciting - despite his code now  being "owned", 
> scrutinized and nit-picked over by the vaguely conservative but 
> passionate TCL community.
> For those that don't know, Gregor's rewrite removes a major issue with 
> long line processing (which slows down Scid's PGN window), and 
> improves the text window (eg comment editor) undo/redo function too. 
> It should be included in Tcl/Tk 8.7 (and I have also updated the 
> inline patch for it in the "patches" directory.)
>
> Benoit wrote:
> > For those interested, the first release of the CGR database is 
> available!
> > Details here:
> https://chessgamesrepository.wordpress.com/2017/02/20/cgr-20170219-full/ 
> <https://chessgamesrepository.wordpress.com/2017/02/20/cgr-20170219-full/>
>
> I'm not sure big databases are really useful for me, or easy to make 
> high quality.
> But good luck with it :) Lots to do. Your blog page is very slick.
>
> cheers, Steven
>
>
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[Scidvspc-users] New translations and other

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

Hi, No big news. Just a few things.

Today I added a framework for a few glaring missing translations
in the Main Board tab's right-click menu. These are options like Show "Menu
Bar", "Button Bar". So if translators are bored, they can grab their
respective file from svn and update it , looking for "TODO"'s. Are there
any other glaringly missed translations without TODOs ?

Also - Gregor has submitted his revised tk::text widget to Tcl-core !
It's pretty exciting - despite his code now  being "owned", scrutinized and
nit-picked over by the vaguely conservative but passionate TCL community.
For those that don't know, Gregor's rewrite removes a major issue with long
line processing (which slows down Scid's PGN window), and improves the text
window (eg comment editor) undo/redo function too. It should be included in
Tcl/Tk 8.7 (and I have also updated the inline patch for it in the
"patches" directory.)

Benoit wrote:
> For those interested, the first release of the CGR database is available!
> Details here:
https://chessgamesrepository.wordpress.com/2017/02/20/cgr-20170219-full/

I'm not sure big databases are really useful for me, or easy to make high
quality.
But good luck with it :) Lots to do. Your blog page is very slick.

cheers, Steven

[Scidvspc-users] The first release of CGR database is available!

[Benoit St-J. <bs...@ya...>]

For those interested, the first release of the CGR database is available!

Details here: 
https://chessgamesrepository.wordpress.com/2017/02/20/cgr-20170219-full/

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Deleting all filtered games from current database

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

In the maintenance window, select Delete-Filter-Games.
Compacting database will then irrevocably remove all deleted games.
S.A.

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 1:10 PM, Benoit St-Jean <bs...@ya...> wrote:

> I am a bit at loss as to how I can do a search with filters and delete all
> matching games from the current database.
>
> I noticed that doing CTRL-A (select ALL) from the Game List window only
> selects *visible* games 25 at a time.
>
> How can I delete ALL games matching my filter(s) from the current database?
>
> tia
>
>
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[Scidvspc-users] Deleting all filtered games from current database

[Benoit St-J. <bs...@ya...>]

I am a bit at loss as to how I can do a search with filters and delete all matching games from the current database.
I noticed that doing CTRL-A (select ALL) from the Game List window only selects *visible* games 25 at a time.
How can I delete ALL games matching my filter(s) from the current database?

tia 

Re: [Scidvspc-users] February Win32 beta

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

Sorry, this is the link.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/windows-beta/scidvspc-rev2668.exe/download


S.A.

On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Steve A <ste...@gm...> wrote:

> Cheers Mike... My delete finger got in the way of that one.
> I will reupload it, but just rename the file from zip to exe and it should
> go fine.
>
>

[Scidvspc-users] February Win32 beta

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

Here is a quick win32 beta of the current code.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/windows-beta/scidvspc-rev2668.zip/download

It is not like a normal beta, but is instead the full installer... mainly
posted for Finnish people, as we have a new translation from Mika Kaakinen.
4.18 is still hopefully years away :)

Below is a quick svn changelog. Major changes are just the translation,
configurable Score Graph colours, Score Graph shows current move, and the
"Show missed/shorter mates" feature in engine annotation.

Cheers, Steve

svn log (edited)
--------------------
Fix up wheelscrolling in text windows so it still scrolls when mouse is
over buttons/images/(windows?). From Gregor.


Tree: for mask moves not in tree, still highlight if nextmove. Also, make a
Cancel button for mask comment dialog window.


Fix up fics offers widget a little, re automatically accepting
offers/findOpponent.


Fics sought graph - delete the highlighted game name if removed from
seeks.


Spanish translations update (from Benigno
Hernández).



Improve ECO help
topic.



Score Graph now highlights the current move (-fill black).

Make the Score Graph colors configurable, and do some minor Graph-Menu
related cleanup.

Update crosstable if the base it is connected to is closed.

Keep comments when truncating game from start, and tweak Score Graph
updating.

Bind F11/Fullscreen to Fics (which doesnt get standard bindings).

New annotation feature: show all missed/shorter mates.

Running engine 1 in the statusbar (analysis(mini)) needs special handling
if using ::docking::USE_DOCKING. It cannot be withdrawn properly (if
docked) and was confusing before.

Add a gui option for missed mates. Fix destroying the engine while
annotation config widget is open. Fix up code indentation in
tcl/tools/analysis.tcl.

Promoting variations didn't handle precomments.

(New) Finnish translation, from Mika Kaakinen.

[Scidvspc-users] Annotation update

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

Hi,
Not too much happening since last release.

There's a couple of contributions in progress;
one doing a Finnish translation,
and another doing an ICC adaptation of the Fics widget!
Hopefully they work out ok :)

But just recently i coded a couple of new features (in subversion).
The score graph now highlights the current move,
and has configurable colours (Option->Colours->ScoreGraph).

And this weekend i added a new Annotation feature.
It now adds all shorter/missed checkmates as variations.
It's not quite trivial, and there's some info in the help topic.
Maybe it's bug-free now, but if you find some, please send me the game/s
and your configuration files.

cheers, S.

Re: [Scidvspc-users] SCID - alternative pieces and themes?

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

Thanks for this. Your Paul_C piece set is quite nice.
I have replaced the old pauls_pieces.tgz with your files/versions.

Cheers, Steven

> Some remarks:
>
> Windows' custom pieces folder: Scid vs PC/bin/pieces
> Ken's includes a high detail Alpha piece set.
> The script in Paul's to make your own piece set from svg using Inkscape,
is a perl-script. On Windows you can use Strawberry Perl.
> Too big custom textures are cropped. Too smalls textures are repeated.
90x90 textures works nice on my 1920x1080 monitor. When I use 86x86
gradient textures, they are repeated when the chessboard is big, giving a
kind of 3D effect (see screenshot).
>
> I have made some updates to Paul's:
>
> The script is now Windows friendlier.
> I have added a third piece set variant, Paul_C.
>
> Files:
>
> Screenshot, Paul_C
> All Paul in one
>
>
>
>
> On 10.11.2016 10.48, li...@ma... wrote:
>
> Hi SCID dev and users,
>
> First just want to say many thanks for SCID, it is really useful and has
just saved my backside, allowing me to make a 7.82 million game PGN
database and allowing me to generate, prune and delete duplicates in said
database in sci format. The whole process of merging, converting and
managing can be a bit involved, but it works.
>
> It’s not SCID’s fault that other, commercial chess software cannot handle
importing PGN databases of this size!
>
> I wanted to ask about alternative pieces and themes/colours. Is it
possible to get other piece sets (e.g. Alpha) for SCID or import your own?
And will we see more options for changing board colours in the future? It’s
important to have a look that you really like, as you spend so many hours
looking at it.
>
> Thanks, Ed
>
>
>
>
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Re: [Scidvspc-users] SCID - alternative pieces and themes?

[Sverdfisk <sve...@ha...>]

          Custom Textures

    Up to ten custom board textures can be loaded. These must be placed
    in the directory *Scid vs PC/bin/textures* (windows) or
    *$HOME/.scidvspc/textures*, and be of the form *wood_l.gif* /
    *wood_d.gif* or *steel_l.png* / *steel_d.png* , for example.


          Custom Pieces

    /The Merida1 pieces now have high-quality larger sizes./

    Place custom piece sets in the directory *$HOME/.scidvspc/pieces*,
    and they will be added to the Board Options window. These can be
    found at our pieces page
    <https://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/support%20files/chess%20pieces/>.


    Some of these include high detail pieces suitable for large
    displays. notably Ken's and Paul's, and the FritzSWS pieces at
    Gorgonian's Chess Site <http://gorgonian.weebly.com/scid-vs-pc.html>

    Paul's also include instructions for making high detail pieces from
    svg using Inkscape You can find the older instructions to make Scid
    pieces in scid_chess_pieces.tgz.

    /Examine /Startup Window/ for the status of loading user textures
    and pieces. /



Hopefully, this quote from Scid vs. PC's help pages answered most of 
your questions.

Some remarks:

  * Windows' custom pieces folder:*Scid vs PC/bin/pieces*
  * Ken's includes a high detail Alpha piece set.
  * The script in Paul's to make your own piece set from svg using
    Inkscape <https://inkscape.org/en/>, is a perl-script. On Windows
    you can use Strawberry Perl <http://strawberryperl.com/>.
  * Too big custom textures are cropped. Too smalls textures are
    repeated. 90x90 textures works nice on my 1920x1080 monitor. When I
    use 86x86 gradient textures, they are repeated when the chessboard
    is big, giving a kind of 3D effect (see screenshot).

I have made some updates to Paul's:

  * The script is now Windows friendlier.
  * I have added a third piece set variant, Paul_C.

Files:

  * Screenshot, Paul_C
    <http://bibelkanon.net/ymse/scidvspc/Paul_C.png>
  * All Paul in one <http://bibelkanon.net/ymse/scidvspc/piece_set.zip>




On 10.11.2016 10.48, li...@ma... wrote:
>
> Hi SCID dev and users,
>
> First just want to say many thanks for SCID, it is really useful and 
> has just saved my backside, allowing me to make a 7.82 million game 
> PGN database and allowing me to generate, prune and delete duplicates 
> in said database in sci format. The whole process of merging, 
> converting and managing can be a bit involved, but it works.
>
> It’s not SCID’s fault that other, commercial chess software cannot 
> handle importing PGN databases of this size!
>
> I wanted to ask about alternative pieces and themes/colours. Is it 
> possible to get other piece sets (e.g. Alpha) for SCID or import your 
> own? And will we see more options for changing board colours in the 
> future? It’s important to have a look that you really like, as you 
> spend so many hours looking at it.
>
> Thanks, Ed
>
>

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

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

It's been a while since the visual studio makefile was updated, so it'd be
nice to do so :)

Attached is a first go, but it'll probably need more fixes, as none of the
current devs use visual studio.

Things that have changed include:
* tkdnd and universalchardet directories/dependancies are new
* we now need to include the flag -std=c++0x (or -std=c++11, which is
preferable) compiling tkscid.cpp (and which may be the cause of your
reported error)

cheers, Steven

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> To: scidvspc-users <sci...@li...>
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>
> It's been a while since the visual studio makefile was updated, so it'd be
> nice to do so :)
>
> Attached is a first go, but it'll probably need more fixes, as none of the
> current devs use visual studio.
>
> Things that have changed include:
> * tkdnd and universalchardet directories/dependancies are new
> * we now need to include the flag -std=c++0x (or -std=c++11, which is
> preferable) compiling tkscid.cpp (and which may be the cause of your
> reported error)
>
> cheers, Steven
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 11:38 PM, Jessica Crouch <jrc...@gm...>
> wrote:
>
> > I downloaded the current code snapshot and am trying to build it on a
> > Windows 7 machine using Visual Studio 10.  I am getting the error shown
> > below.  Has anyone seen this before or have thoughts as to why this error
> > is occurring?
> >
> > Adding the \EHsc compile flag eliminates the warning message, but the
> > error remains.  I also downloaded scid_vs_pc-4.17.tgz and tried building
> > from that, but the same error occurred.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jessica
> >
> >
> > Z:\Chess\scidvspc-code-2638>nmake -f makefile.vc  release
> > TCL_DIR="Z:\Chess\Tcl"
> >
> > Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 10.00.40219.01
> > Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
> >
> > tkscid.cpp
> > c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\xlocale(323) :
> > warning C4530: C++ exception handler used, but unwind semantics are not
> > enabled. Specify /EHsc
> > src\tkscid.cpp(3361) : error C2660: 'std::_Hash<_Traits>::cbegin' :
> > function does not take 1 arguments
> >         with
> >         [
> >             _Traits=std::tr1::_Uset_traits<Tourney,std::_Hash_compare<
> > Tourney,st
> > d::hash<Tourney>,std::equal_to<Tourney>>,std::allocator<Tourney>,false>
> >         ]
> > src\tkscid.cpp(3361) : fatal error C1903: unable to recover from previous
> > error(s); stopping compilation
> > NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 10.0
> > \VC\BIN\cl.EXE"' : return code '0x2'
> > Stop.
> >
>
> ----- Message truncated -----
>
>

[Scidvspc-users] tkscid.cpp build error

[Jessica C. <jrc...@gm...>]

I downloaded the current code snapshot and am trying to build it on a
Windows 7 machine using Visual Studio 10.  I am getting the error shown
below.  Has anyone seen this before or have thoughts as to why this error
is occurring?

Adding the \EHsc compile flag eliminates the warning message, but the error
remains.  I also downloaded scid_vs_pc-4.17.tgz and tried building from
that, but the same error occurred.

Thanks,
Jessica


Z:\Chess\scidvspc-code-2638>nmake -f makefile.vc  release
TCL_DIR="Z:\Chess\Tcl"

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 10.00.40219.01
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

tkscid.cpp
c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\xlocale(323) :
warning C4530: C++ exception handler used, but unwind semantics are not
enabled. Specify /EHsc
src\tkscid.cpp(3361) : error C2660: 'std::_Hash<_Traits>::cbegin' :
function does not take 1 arguments
        with
        [

_Traits=std::tr1::_Uset_traits<Tourney,std::_Hash_compare<Tourney,st
d::hash<Tourney>,std::equal_to<Tourney>>,std::allocator<Tourney>,false>
        ]
src\tkscid.cpp(3361) : fatal error C1903: unable to recover from previous
error(s); stopping compilation
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0
\VC\BIN\cl.EXE"' : return code '0x2'
Stop.

[Scidvspc-users] SCID - alternative pieces and themes?

[<li...@ma...>]

Hi SCID dev and users,

 

First just want to say many thanks for SCID, it is really useful and has
just saved my backside, allowing me to make a 7.82 million game PGN database
and allowing me to generate, prune and delete duplicates in said database in
sci format. The whole process of merging, converting and managing can be a
bit involved, but it works.

 

It's not SCID's fault that other, commercial chess software cannot handle
importing PGN databases of this size!

 

I wanted to ask about alternative pieces and themes/colours. Is it possible
to get other piece sets (e.g. Alpha) for SCID or import your own? And will
we see more options for changing board colours in the future? It's important
to have a look that you really like, as you spend so many hours looking at
it.

 

Thanks, Ed

 

 

 

 

Re: [Scidvspc-users] 4.17 startup Error on Ubuntu 16.04 after make

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

This will not work. ScidvsPC must be installed to run.
If scid4.16 is in /usr/local (the default), just run
  "./configure BINDIR=/usr/bin/ SHAREDIR=/usr/share/scid/"
  make clean install
  /usr/bin/scid
to install in /usr.

Other unusual things like this should work too, but are less tested, and
your options may have to be reset or altered.
  ./configure BINDIR=/opt SHAREDIR=/opt/scidvspc

S.A.

On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 8:19 PM, Jerome Monscavoir <jmo...@gm...>
wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I get the 4.16 installed version on my system, i want to try the 4.17
> prior to set it completely, so i did a make (not make install) and if i try
> to start it from terminal, i get the spash screen and the this :
>
> Error in startup script: bad menu entry index "CorrespondenceChess"
>     while executing
> "$menu entryconfig $entry -label $menuLabel($lang,$tag)  -underline
> $menuUnder($lang,$tag)"
>     (procedure "configMenuText" line 4)
>     invoked from within
> "configMenuText .menu.play [tr $tag $oldLang] $tag $lang"
>     (procedure "setLanguageMenus" line 7)
>     invoked from within
> "setLanguageMenus $lang"
>     (procedure "setLanguage" line 47)
>     invoked from within
> "setLanguage E"
>     invoked from within
> "if {[catch {
>   setLanguage $language
> }]} {
>   setLanguage E
> }"
>     (file "./scid" line 150340)
>
>
>
> is this could be linked with the already presence of the 4.16 version in
> many install folder ?
>
>
> --
> Jerome Monscavoir
> jmo...@gm...
> +33607908957
>
>
>
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