Pascal Georges wrote:
Hi!
> I can now load long games,
This is great news, IMHO.
> but one Alexander sent to me takes 10 seconds to load in
> PGN window (parsing, colorisation, etc).
Well it is a beast, isn't it ;) I do not wonder that this
thing takes a while to load. Would it ease up things to drop
colouring? One could then imagine some theshold. However, I
think using such a largely annotated game without any
formatting is difficult.
Still one main point IMHO is that Scid should never ever
crash silently.
> This game has a length of 77 kB, so I will set a hard
> limit at 128kB, any higher value is hardly usable.
Sounds good to me.
> Concerning the extra fields in a game, there are 2 kinds :
> - a field that belongs to the index (like a marker tag).
> Drawback : it is present for all games, even those that
> does not need it. Hence it has to be strictly limited and
> should only be used for short information with a wide
> usage (a "tactics" bit is ok here)
Right. In this area I suggested another bitfield only:
> information I think a set of "per base definable flags"
My idea was to have say 16 bits availble for each game to
add additional informations suitable for a given base. The
base as such could then hold just the "textual
representation" of what those bits mean. Say I could define
on a per base basis "flag 0 means No Engines" and whenever I
set Flag 0 Scid could show a "No Engines" note.
> - a free field (like a PGN header [WhiteCountry ...]) is
> far better for such data and can be searched through the
> already existing search features of Scid.
Sure.
The other ideas refered mainly to add some logic to access
another file of some sort of authority records and the
possiblity to link to such a thing. No need for an index
within the DB. It could also be done the other way round ie.
that the external part knows whihc game numbers to refer to.
As I said the list are just points where I'd love to have
some improvement due to the way I use Scid.
--
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