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Re: [Scidvspc-users] query on window colours.

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

It looks like your window manager is exporting it's colour scheme to other apps.
You'll have to disable this option somewhere in the window manager's settings.

Steven

[Scidvspc-users] query on window colours.

[Srinivas DJ <sri...@gm...>]

Hi,

Am new to scidvspc and first thing I notice after installation is the
colour difference to what I see in the screenshot at sourceforge compared
to my installation (attached screenshot). How do I make the dark colour
(#1b1d1e) to lighter/white everywhere? And also font colour of 'moves' in
pgn window to darker? Modifying colours in config/options.dat or enabling
and changing the options->background colour didn't help either.

Initial start log:

       Scid vs. PC
Scid vs. PC 4.13 (Oct 25, 2014).
http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net

(C) Steven Atkinson (ste...@ya...) 2008-2014
(C) Pascal Georges 2006-2008
(C) Shane Hudson 1999-2004
(C) Fulvio Benini, Gregor Cramer and others.
Licenced under the GNU General Public License.

Command line is "/usr/local/bin/scid tmp/endgame.pgn"
User directory is "/home/me/.scidvspc"
TkImg found. Enabling png image support.
Loaded options from "/home/me/.scidvspc/config/options.dat".
Using Tcl/Tk version: 8.5.14
Linux operating system, version 3.11-2-amd64
DISTRIB_ID=LinuxMint
DISTRIB_RELEASE=1
DISTRIB_CODENAME=debian
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="LMDE MATE Edition"
PRETTY_NAME="Linux Mint LMDE"
NAME="Linux Mint LMDE"
ID=linuxmint
ANSI_COLOR="1;31"
LANG environment var is en_US.UTF-8

scidShareDir is /usr/local/share/scid
scidBasesDir is /usr/local/share/scid/bases
scidBooksDir is /usr/local/share/scid/books
True type fonts (PGN figurines) enabled.
User Textures: no such directory /home/me/.scidvspc/textures
Initializing Sound...
   Snack sound package not found.
Docking mode enabled.
Searching for player photos.
Unable to load Correspondence options file correspondence.dat
http package 2.7.11 found
tDOM package not found, disabling internal Xfcc support
Checking for endgame tablebase files.
    No tablebases were found.
ECO file "/usr/local/share/scid/data/scid.eco"  loaded: 10360 positions.
Spellcheck file "/usr/local/share/scid/spelling.ssp" loaded:
    185479 players, 11 events, 804 sites, 20 rounds.
Opening database: /home/me/tmp/endgame.pgn ...
   Database "/home/me/tmp/endgame.pgn" opened: 1 games.


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Re: [Scidvspc-users] Request: don't close Compact database window

[Igor S. M. <jos...@gm...>]

Igor Sosa Mayor
<jos...@gm...> writes:

> Hi,
>
> often I compact a big database for deleting repeated names, games, and
> so on. There is a small issue which I find a little bit annoying.
[...]
> Could be this behaviour be changed in order to not have to open the
> compact window again?

I see the changes have been made in the dev version. Thanks a lot!


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[Scidvspc-users] Request: don't close Compact database window

[Igor S. M. <jos...@gm...>]

Hi,

often I compact a big database for deleting repeated names, games, and
so on. There is a small issue which I find a little bit annoying.

1. I open the mainteance window;
2. I click on "Compact"
3. the compact window appears
4. I click on compact names (or games)
5. and after finishing the "compact window" closes, even if I wnat to
   compact also the other aspect (names/games)...

Could be this behaviour be changed in order to not have to open the
compact window again?

Many thanks in advance.


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[Scidvspc-users] Scid vs. PC 4.13

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

I have updated the webpage and links for the OS X, Win64 and Linux (source code)
downloads should now be live.
Thanks Ozkan for the windows 64 bit build, and to Gregor for his
features and support.
Please report nasty bugs, but otherwise i'm looking forward to a break
for a while.

http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/index.html#toc3

Just a few notes.
Conrol-s now saves (replaces) a game. (Control-S for add game,
Control-r to reset the filter)
All my testing for depth based annotation has been pretty good :)
but i probably wont be fixing any bugs in it for a while.
The bulk Strip-Comments/Variation in the maintenance window
is a very handy thing, but use it carefully! It is a powerful
feature which can't be undone. Windows drag and drop file opens
should be working. Phalanx/Tacgame hasn't bee updated really.
Dusan has made some (probably) great changes to Phalanx's easy levels,
but i havent had the time to track down interface changes to make
it work with Scid. Test out the new Skak based Latex export
feature too... but please send bug reports / issues to Mark not me.

Steve.

Re: [Scidvspc-users] 4.13 windows 32 bit release candidate

[Igor S. M. <jos...@gm...>]

Steve A <ste...@gm...> writes:

> Ok... There's a lot to this software. Hopefully i havent forgotten too
> much. Please test it out.
>
>   http://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/windows/Scid%20vs%20PC-4.13.exe/download

thansk for you job!

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[Scidvspc-users] 4.13 windows 32 bit release candidate

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

Ok... There's a lot to this software. Hopefully i havent forgotten too
much. Please test it out.

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/windows/Scid%20vs%20PC-4.13.exe/download

I have gone back to wish-8.5 for this release (the previous beta was
with wish-8.6). It is better tested, and on windows the GUI is pretty
much the same anyway i think.

Windows drag and drop file open had a nasty bug which should be fixed.
Depth-based analysis is working much better now.

Here's the full changelog from 4.12

cheers.

   Analysis Engine: exclude move(s) feature. Mouse-hover shows
excluded moves (UCI only)
    Analysis Engine: button to pop-up unrevealed buttons, and redo a few icons
    Maintenance: Bulk strip Comments/Variations
    Depth-based Engine Annotation improvements
    Tweaked Key Bindings (including FilterReset Control-r and GameSave
Control-s)
    Improved Background Colour feature
    Add 'Find' entry boxes to more windows (including spelling
corrections).widget can now use regular expressions
    Splash widget console now has a simple command history (up-arrow)
    Better Repair Base feature (from Gregor)
    Include Gregors fast file opening with the windows 32-bit binary
    Bind Control-Wheel to alter fixed font size (in some windows)
    New Russian translation (from Sergey Nikolaevich Koyankin) and
updated German one (from surrim)
    Enforce all tags (eg Event names, etc) to be less than 256 chars
    Tweak Scid's installer is to properly allow custom SHAREDIR
    Better handle language translations/encoding
    Crosstable: bump max-player limit, tweak menus and bind
right-click to menu, fix occasional allignment bug, and dont'
automatically update (fixing busy cursor bug)
    Bump Opening Table limits, and minor bug-fixes
    New (Skak) Latex export-games feature (author Mark Dennehy)
    Update Xfcc to handle secure connections (thanks to Andrew Hunt)
    Fix minor memory leaks, and dont slow game file compaction (we now
reset filter)
    Bestgames has a game load menu instead of 3 buttons
    Refine docked window drag and drop
    Many minor OS X tweaks
    Trim whitespace from name fields in game save dialog
    Add whitespace corrections to spelling.ssp, and also tweak Event
spelling corrections
    Tooltips for the obscure buttons in main buttonbar
    Analysis add move as 'New Mainline' was broke
    Always get confirmation for sorting via gamelist
    Enforce illegalilty of saving Event Date without Game Date
    Make a few windows have small font buttons
    Shift+Wheel scrolls a few widgets horizontally
    Break up the long Book Tuning button menus
    Many minor bugfixes and further tree-only filter fixes

[Scidvspc-users] Another Xfcc issue

[Rich P. P. <whr...@gm...>]

I'm using the current svn (21 Oct 2014) version, complete with the new
https fix for Xfcc.  I'm having an issue using ICCF.  I'm not quite sure
what the issue is or where to go with it.

It appears to be contacting the server properly, but I get the following
error quoted below.  If I configure an SSL tunnel, and connect to
localhost using standard HTTP, it works just fine.  Here's the error
SCID is giving me:


> error "no element found" at line 1 character 0
> error "no element found" at line 1 character 0
>     while executing
> "dom parse $xml"
>     (procedure "::Xfcc::SOAPError" line 12)
>     invoked from within
> "::Xfcc::SOAPError $name $xml"
>     (procedure "::Xfcc::ProcessAll" line 25)
>     invoked from within
> "::Xfcc::ProcessAll $::CorrespondenceChess::Inbox"
>     (procedure "::CorrespondenceChess::FetchGames" line 12)
>     invoked from within
> "::CorrespondenceChess::FetchGames"
>     invoked from within
> ".ccWindow.top.retrieveCC invoke "
>     invoked from within
> ".ccWindow.top.retrieveCC instate !disabled { .ccWindow.top.retrieveCC
> invoke } "
>     invoked from within
> ".ccWindow.top.retrieveCC instate pressed { .ccWindow.top.retrieveCC
> state !pressed; .ccWindow.top.retrieveCC instate !disabled
> { .ccWindow.top.retriev..."
>     (command bound to event)


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Re: [Scidvspc-users] error opening name file / Scid vs. PC version 4.12

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

Hmmm - that seems a good solution. But is it quite ok ?
You can still succesfully save long names to the clipbase, then errors
occur trying to copy games to a database.

BTW, i get an error dialog in SCID using the Control-s binding.
Somehow, It wants to show the save dialog twice.

S.A.

window name "save" already exists in parent
window name "save" already exists in parent
    while executing
"toplevel $w"
    (procedure "gameSave" line 14)
    invoked from within
"gameSave [sc_game number] "
    (procedure "::gameReplace" line 1)
    invoked from within
"::gameReplace "

On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 6:19 AM, Ben St-Pierre <ben...@gm...> wrote:
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Re: [Scidvspc-users] error opening name file / Scid vs. PC version 4.12

[Ben St-P. <ben...@gm...>]

http://sourceforge.net/p/scid/code/ci/6c597b91eca5d5c537e417d25b8aae2de0632485/

Re: [Scidvspc-users] error opening name file / Scid vs. PC version 4.12

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

Thanks Jörn,

I think it is sufficient and best to just silently truncate all names
to 255 chars ??? (patch attached). But it is not ideal... the game
instance will be misrepresented until the game is reloaded, but db
integrity should be ok.

A simple alternative would to throw an error inside AddName, which
(after a quick test) results in the name being set to '?'

Without a heap of code (there are 36 calls to AddName), i'm not sure
we can handle any gui-generated error gracefully ? The error is
obviously not a common one.

Steven

--- src/namebase.cpp    (revision 2038)
+++ src/namebase.cpp    (working copy)
@@ -429,7 +429,14 @@
     }

     nameNodeT * node = NULL;
-    err = Tree[nt]->Insert (str, &node);
+    if (strlen(str) < 256) {
+       err = Tree[nt]->Insert (str, &node);
+    } else {
+       // Unlikely, but truncate Name if too big
+       char truncated[256];
+       strncpy (truncated, str, 255);
+       err = Tree[nt]->Insert (truncated, &node);
+    }
     if (err != ERROR_Exists) {
         // Set data for the new node:
         node->data.id = Header.numNames[nt];

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 1:12 AM, Jörn Behrensen
<j.b...@ag...> wrote:
> Dear Steven,
>
> I guess there is a small bug when you enter more than 256 characters
> into the "event"-field. After you try to save the database, the program
> shows a error-message.
>
> If you want to reopen this database, the program crashes. Trying to fix
> the database with "scidt -N databasename" shows that the database is
> corrupted.
>
> A short GOOGLE search shows a trick to recover the database, however the
> information in the name file is lost and maybe some hours of work.
>
> You can reproduce the error, if you fill the event-filed with 255
> characters, store it  and everything  is fine. Adding another char and
> try to store the game again, the program crashes.
>
> I hope this helps to improve your wonderfull program.
>
> Best regards
> Joern
>
>
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[Scidvspc-users] error opening name file / Scid vs. PC version 4.12

[Jörn B. <j.b...@ag...>]

Dear Steven,

I guess there is a small bug when you enter more than 256 characters 
into the "event"-field. After you try to save the database, the program 
shows a error-message.

If you want to reopen this database, the program crashes. Trying to fix 
the database with "scidt -N databasename" shows that the database is 
corrupted.

A short GOOGLE search shows a trick to recover the database, however the 
information in the name file is lost and maybe some hours of work.

You can reproduce the error, if you fill the event-filed with 255 
characters, store it  and everything  is fine. Adding another char and 
try to store the game again, the program crashes.

I hope this helps to improve your wonderfull program.

Best regards
Joern

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Prompt to save modified PGN file?

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

> What happens every now and then is that I download a PGN file from somewhere and start analysing before ....

Yeah, i often do this too.

The best solution is Control+c to copy the game to clipbase, then
select working base, and Control+v to paste from clipbase. Control+s
to save game.
These shortcuts are valid for the gamelist and main board.

.... I've often pondered about having a "scratch" game on disk, which
scidvspc saves as the last game editted, but i'm not quite sure how
best to do it.

S.

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Prompt to save modified PGN file?

[Ralph M. <ral...@ou...>]

That's cool. As  I said I use si4 almost exclusively anyway. What happens every now and then is that I download a PGN file from somewhere and start analysing before accidentally closing Scid vs. PC. It's just in these situations that it would be nice to have a prompt similar to the one you get when closing an si4 with unsaved changes - just as a safety check. It's frustrating to lose 30 mins worth of analysis. Also, if I've downloaded a PGN I don't always remember to convert it to si4...

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve A [mailto:ste...@gm...] 
Sent: 14 September 2014 11:43 PM
To: Ralph Möritz; scidvspc-users
Subject: Re: [Scidvspc-users] Prompt to save modified PGN file?

Yes - sorry Ralph, but i'd like to encourage people to use si4 as much as possible, as i think this is an important part of making best use of the software.

If we code saving to pgn archives (as i think Scidb has done), then do we allow drag and drop game copy to pgn archives in the switcher ???
We are only introducing bugs and complexity for no gain. si4 is faster, more compact and well tested, and exporting back to PGN is almost issue free.

cheers, S.

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Prompt to save modified PGN file?

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

Yes - sorry Ralph, but i'd like to encourage people to use si4 as much
as possible, as i think this is an important part of making best use
of the software.

If we code saving to pgn archives (as i think Scidb has done), then do
we allow drag and drop game copy to pgn archives in the switcher ???
We are only introducing bugs and complexity for no gain. si4 is
faster, more compact and well tested, and exporting back to PGN is
almost issue free.

cheers, S.

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Prompt to save modified PGN file?

[Alan C W. <acw...@vi...>]

Perhaps a good idea would be to import the pgn file and immediately save 
it to a database, such as "Misc" or "Temp".

On 09/13/2014 12:39 AM, Ralph Möritz wrote:
>
> Hi list,
>
> Usually I use the Scid database format to save games, etc. but on 
> occasion I do work with PGN files. What frustrates me is when I open 
> an existing PGN file, do some analysis and then close Scid vs. PC by 
> mistake without being prompted to save the modified PGN file. Is there 
> a setting somewhere that enables a save prompt? Something along the 
> lines of “Do you want to save changes to foobar.pgn?”
>
> Cheers,
> Ralph
>
>
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[Scidvspc-users] Latex

[Benigno H. <sn...@ya...>]

Hi
Export in latex handles character sets in English so we must add a line in tkscid.cpp:
old_language = 0
for the export of the chess game in latex.
Thanks

[Scidvspc-users] Prompt to save modified PGN file?

[Ralph M. <ral...@ou...>]

Hi list,

 

Usually I use the Scid database format to save games, etc. but on occasion I
do work with PGN files. What frustrates me is when I open an existing PGN
file, do some analysis and then close Scid vs. PC by mistake without being
prompted to save the modified PGN file. Is there a setting somewhere that
enables a save prompt? Something along the lines of “Do you want to save
changes to foobar.pgn?”

 

Cheers,
Ralph

 

[Scidvspc-users] Linux build changes

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

Just a quick note.. I've updated the build process to properly support
custom share directories (SHAREDIR in configure). Previously only /usr
and /usr/local work3d. It's been a long time coming, laugh.

So next time you checkout, please make sure to do a "./configure"
before make install. It'd be nice to have this debugged before the
proper release of 4.13.

Also - We have a russian translation :)

cheers, Steven

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Latex

[Mark D. <mar...@gm...>]

Hi Alan,
Yeah, I had a similar experience with chess12, I suspect that it was far
more prevalent amongst Latex209 users than Latex2e users. Thing about Latex
is though, it gets used by people who just want a working tool because
they're more interested in using it to make stuff than tweaking the tools;
so Latex tends to stick around for ages -- there may well be a bunch of 209
users still out there using it just because it hasn't broken yet even
though 2e took over from 209 twenty years ago. And stripping it out
completely is about ten minutes work (I actually did it before writing the
skak code just to keep it clean and then unstripped it) so leaving it in
costs us nothing at the moment.

With the skak package, miktex and texlive both include all the necessary
bits and pieces more or less by default (or will automatically download
them). It's not just skak; we're using KOMA-Script and pstricks as well.
I've tried to keep the number of packages in use down, but it's a balancing
act between the cool stuff you can do being useful enough to bring in more
users and the things you need to do to install that cool stuff being
painful enough to drive away more users.


On 23 August 2014 18:08, Alan Whiteman <a.c...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> Chess12 seems to be an outdated and unmaintained package. The font, and
> instructions to use this font, is difficult to find and even more
> difficult to install. One has to follow a complex array of arcane and
> convoluted instructions which requires manual installation of each font
> folder. I could never do it successfully.
>
> On my Linux Mint box, I had to install texlive and texlive-games in
> order to print my games with diagrams. I'm not sure what font package
> texlive-games includes.
>
> Skak may offer a better font and hopefully a better installation
> experience. Maybe.
>
> On 08/22/2014 07:53 AM, Mark Dennehy wrote:
> > Thanks for the kind words Dale. Though if the older format is in use,
> > dropping it for something new without even a crossover period might
> > not be the best idea.
> >
> > Steve, I don't mind taking a peek at the chess12 format as well, it
> > might well be the same problem we have with the skak format when the
> > spacing of the diagrams goes barmy.
> >
> >
> > On 22 August 2014 15:12, Dale Hards <dal...@go...
> > <mailto:dal...@go...>> wrote:
> >
> >     I don't have any suggestions as such but I'd love to see skak used
> >     as the default if the results are as good as the snippet. The
> >     analysis graph and the arrows on the board are particularly nice.
> >
> >     Regards
> >     Dale
> >
> >
> >     On 22 August 2014 14:57, Steve A <ste...@gm...
> >     <mailto:ste...@gm...>> wrote:
> >
> >         We have someone making an additional implementation of "Export
> >         Game(s)
> >         to LaTeX" using the Skak package instead of Chess12. It looks
> >         quite
> >         nice (snippet attached).
> >
> >         So i've been examining our current Latex game export using the
> >         Chess12
> >         fonts, and have found some bugs; mostly concerning fitting the
> >         game on
> >         the pages properly.
> >
> >         Does anyone have any hints/suggestions about using this feature ?
> >
> >         cheers, S.
> >
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Re: [Scidvspc-users] Latex

[Alan W. <a.c...@gm...>]

Hi Mark,

Chess12 seems to be an outdated and unmaintained package. The font, and 
instructions to use this font, is difficult to find and even more 
difficult to install. One has to follow a complex array of arcane and 
convoluted instructions which requires manual installation of each font 
folder. I could never do it successfully.

On my Linux Mint box, I had to install texlive and texlive-games in 
order to print my games with diagrams. I'm not sure what font package 
texlive-games includes.

Skak may offer a better font and hopefully a better installation 
experience. Maybe.

On 08/22/2014 07:53 AM, Mark Dennehy wrote:
> Thanks for the kind words Dale. Though if the older format is in use, 
> dropping it for something new without even a crossover period might 
> not be the best idea.
>
> Steve, I don't mind taking a peek at the chess12 format as well, it 
> might well be the same problem we have with the skak format when the 
> spacing of the diagrams goes barmy.
>
>
> On 22 August 2014 15:12, Dale Hards <dal...@go... 
> <mailto:dal...@go...>> wrote:
>
>     I don't have any suggestions as such but I'd love to see skak used
>     as the default if the results are as good as the snippet. The
>     analysis graph and the arrows on the board are particularly nice.
>
>     Regards
>     Dale
>
>
>     On 22 August 2014 14:57, Steve A <ste...@gm...
>     <mailto:ste...@gm...>> wrote:
>
>         We have someone making an additional implementation of "Export
>         Game(s)
>         to LaTeX" using the Skak package instead of Chess12. It looks
>         quite
>         nice (snippet attached).
>
>         So i've been examining our current Latex game export using the
>         Chess12
>         fonts, and have found some bugs; mostly concerning fitting the
>         game on
>         the pages properly.
>
>         Does anyone have any hints/suggestions about using this feature ?
>
>         cheers, S.
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Re: [Scidvspc-users] Latex

[Mark D. <mar...@gm...>]

Thanks for the kind words Dale. Though if the older format is in use,
dropping it for something new without even a crossover period might not be
the best idea.

Steve, I don't mind taking a peek at the chess12 format as well, it might
well be the same problem we have with the skak format when the spacing of
the diagrams goes barmy.


On 22 August 2014 15:12, Dale Hards <dal...@go...> wrote:

> I don't have any suggestions as such but I'd love to see skak used as the
> default if the results are as good as the snippet. The analysis graph and
> the arrows on the board are particularly nice.
>
> Regards
> Dale
>
>
> On 22 August 2014 14:57, Steve A <ste...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> We have someone making an additional implementation of "Export Game(s)
>> to LaTeX" using the Skak package instead of Chess12. It looks quite
>> nice (snippet attached).
>>
>> So i've been examining our current Latex game export using the Chess12
>> fonts, and have found some bugs; mostly concerning fitting the game on
>> the pages properly.
>>
>> Does anyone have any hints/suggestions about using this feature ?
>>
>> cheers, S.
>>
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Re: [Scidvspc-users] Latex

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

I don't have any suggestions as such but I'd love to see skak used as the
default if the results are as good as the snippet. The analysis graph and
the arrows on the board are particularly nice.

Regards
Dale


On 22 August 2014 14:57, Steve A <ste...@gm...> wrote:

> We have someone making an additional implementation of "Export Game(s)
> to LaTeX" using the Skak package instead of Chess12. It looks quite
> nice (snippet attached).
>
> So i've been examining our current Latex game export using the Chess12
> fonts, and have found some bugs; mostly concerning fitting the game on
> the pages properly.
>
> Does anyone have any hints/suggestions about using this feature ?
>
> cheers, S.
>
>
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[Scidvspc-users] Latex

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

We have someone making an additional implementation of "Export Game(s)
to LaTeX" using the Skak package instead of Chess12. It looks quite
nice (snippet attached).

So i've been examining our current Latex game export using the Chess12
fonts, and have found some bugs; mostly concerning fitting the game on
the pages properly.

Does anyone have any hints/suggestions about using this feature ?

cheers, S.

[Scidvspc-users] Windows installable beta

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

OK, i hacked together a 32 bit windows beta.
It will install as 4.13, but run as 4.12, and
There's no documentaion update at all.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/windows-beta/Scid%20vs%20PC_20140803.exe/download

It's the first time i've tried to package with wish 8.6.
It should look nicer, but there will definitely be bugs
though i quashed a few today.

cheers, Steven

Changes include
* Bestgames has a game context menu instead of 3 buttons.
* Engine Exclude Move(s) feature (New 'Minus' icon, only works when
engine active, and no xboard yet)
* ,  and add a button to popup unrevealed engine icons
* Rearrange crosstable menus a little, and bind crosstable right-click to menu
* Much improved back-ground colour option/feature (Options->Background)
... and i think i've fixed up the stray  vertical line in the gameinfo
(if photos are enabled)
* Make a few windows have small font buttons
* Shift+Wheel scrolls a few widgets horizontally
(Maybe horizontal midele-mouse actions also work ???)
* This might be the first time i've used Gregors fast file open in
windows 32 bit.
(Bases open much faster)
* Break up the long book tuning menubuttons (untested)
* Lots of little bug-fixes.