On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Alexander Wagner <
a.wag...@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote:

> Pascal Georges wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> > Not easy to do. To display games you have first to load the base. And
> > with a PGN file you have import it. It is time consuming and I see no
> > easy way to "preview" a base content.
>
> I'm not sure about how CB actually does it but I noticed that they write
> a certain ini-file for each PGN they touch. I admit, that I do not
> really like all those files cluttering around.
>
> Probably this would be the only way to go: import it write some index
> file which is used for the preview. Similarly for the real databases.
> (Or is the header info stored there in some index table that could
> probably be accessed for the "preview"?)
>
> Equally helpful, but not at all easy to do would be a search across
> several DBs and collecting the results in one games list. This would
> IMHO require almost the same infrastructure.
>
>
> I know this is not the original suggestion, but for me personally, a
preview of the database was not the main idea. It's more the idea of having
an interface where you can see all your databases and open and close them
(kind of like the database switcher, but not showing only open databases).
If you have a lot of databases, the file browser is a pain.

Marius
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