On 06/02/2010 11:48 PM, Israel Chauca F. wrote: > On Jun 2, 2010, at 11:41 AM, Alexander Wagner wrote: > >> Joost 't Hart wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> >>>> 1. Yesterday i downloaded Scid 4.2.2, and i also bought the >>>> "scidtactics.zip" package. >>>> 2. When i launch Scid, two windows open, one of them saying it cannot find >>>> the bases directory - see the attached .jpg. >>>> >>>> >>> This is normal behaviour. This "bases" directory is - sort of - the >>> standard path to all your databases. Once scid is running, you can set it >>> through one of the options. >>> Having said that: This is alert not exactly user friendly and personally I >>> do not use the standard path at all. Hence I feel there is no reason >>> whatsoever for this pop-up. >>> >> Should we move it to the inital startup of the tactics training? Ie if no >> path is set alert it there and move on to the proper dialogue? I could check >> how to do this. Opinions? >> > Sounds reasonable to me. > > >>>> 3. Though the smaller window has a button marked "Ok", nothing happens >>>> when i click on that button. >>>> 4. The only option is to force-quit the program. >>>> >>> At least, the smaller window dialogue should disappear. Does it? >>> This sort of confusion may be the result of some of our wiser friends to no >>> longer show scid's start-up banner by default. >>> Starting scid may actually take quite some time. Are you sure that you do >>> not kill the process while scid is still booting up (observe memory >>> consumption or something like that in a process monitor)? >>> >> Ok, you spelled out my concerns about disabling the start up dialogue. Can >> we get some opinion about this point? IMHO it is a very sensible thing. IMHO >> it is valuable especially as it displays the texts it does. But loud >> complaints about usability made me to hide it by default. >> >> BUT: it should only be hidden in the CVS version not to the last release. >> Therefore John should see it, not? >> > While I think that showing the splash window by default is useful, John is > talking about the bases not found dialog, not the splash window. I don't know > why, but once that dialog pops-up, it cannot be dismissed, clicking on the ok > button or typing Enter doesn't work (actually, seems like the button doesn't > receive the click or the keystroke) and you can't interact with any other > window on Scid, so it looks like it froze, but I think it didn't. >
Hm, I cannot confirm this on my Linux box. Pressing OK dismisses the "bases not found" dialog. Most of the time I do this rather quickly, that is, before the real scid windows pop up. I understand that John was not talking about the splash screen indeed. But this screen may produce some insight as to understand at what stage the scid app crashes - if it does do so. > >> >>>> 5. I have a 27" iMac intel duo, running OS X 10.6.3. >>>> 6. I have lots of experience maintaining my Macs, but nothing i've tried >>>> makes any difference. >>>> 7. What suggestions do you have? >>>> >>> Did you have an older version of scid on your system? If so, you may want >>> to try to set your existing ~/.scid folder aside. >>> >> I think John is using a Mac. What's the translation of ~/.scid on the Mac? >> > It's the same path. > > >>> Can you start scid from a command line, and check if some information is >>> dumped there? >>> >> I may add that the "command line" is AFAIK called "Terminal" on the Mac (and >> its starter is well hidden). Depending on the dmg setup it might not be too >> obvious how to start the app from there as far as my little experience with >> the Mac tells me. Israel, could you give a helping hand here? You're the >> expert. >> > Launching Scid from the terminal is not that intuitive, assuming the Scid.app > is in the Applications folder, the command to lunch scid would be: > > /Applications/Scid.app/Contents/MacOS/scid > > Israel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
