Re: [Scid-users] Scid 3.6.19 released

2007-11-05 Thread Marcin Kasperski
> On windows, use Scid 3.6.19 without setup (just unzip anywhere). > On Linux, compile and run anywhere. But the scid configuration files > will be common between the 2 scids (not a big problem). Also worth noting, that bases are binary compatible, so you may open same scid base in new scid, modi

Re: [Scid-users] Some Ideas

2007-11-05 Thread Marcin Kasperski
> > Some stupid heuristics like extracting capital letters or > > taking first 2-3 letters could do. > > Dee, Tog ? ;) Shr, Tog. Prefix Deep may be always safely removed ;-) - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc

Re: [Scid-users] prefix, graphics

2007-11-05 Thread pgeorges
Marcin Kasperski a écrit : > Is it possible to test such images on local scid install before > sending them? I mean pointing (local) scid somehow to use such > image file > It is not possible without changing a little bit the code in bitmaps.tcl. Pascal

Re: [Scid-users] prefix, graphics

2007-11-05 Thread pgeorges
Alexander Wagner a écrit : > Marcin Kasperski schrieb: > > Hi! > > > Friendly google took me to: > > http://www.muonics.com/FreeStuff/TkPNG/ > > Maybe it would be possible to take a look at it? > > I admit to be a bit conservative. But doing a quick package > search on debian stable revealed: "n

Re: [Scid-users] prefix, graphics (was Re: RC3)

2007-11-05 Thread pgeorges
Alexander Wagner a écrit : > >> c) I *hate* the way picking piece set is currently implemented. > >>Options/Chessboard/PieceStyle/nameWhichNeedNotToTellMeAnything, > >>and if I dislike what I picked, again Options/Chessboard/ > [...] > > Yes, the way square images are selected needs som

Re: [Scid-users] prefix, graphics

2007-11-05 Thread Alexander Wagner
Marcin Kasperski schrieb: Hi! >> IMHO this is bad news as this would mean that nearly >> everybody would need to compile the package and that it >> seems not standard enough to be in a distribution yet. > > Well, reasonable attempt in such case is to bundle such a > tool with scid, just lik

Re: [Scid-users] Some Ideas

2007-11-05 Thread pgeorges
Alexander Wagner a écrit : > pgeorges schrieb: > > Hi! > > >>> if you want to avoid errors. > >> I see the problem. Probably if the score comment looks > >> something like this "Score: +1.35 (A) +1.27 (B)"? > >> > > Yes, that looks good. > > While you're at it (the above needs rewriting of engine >

Re: [Scid-users] prefix, graphics

2007-11-05 Thread Marcin Kasperski
> > Friendly google took me to: > > http://www.muonics.com/FreeStuff/TkPNG/ > > Maybe it would be possible to take a look at it? > > I admit to be a bit conservative. But doing a quick package > search on debian stable revealed: "nothing". (Same for > testing and even unstable.) Not particularl

Re: [Scid-users] prefix, graphics

2007-11-05 Thread Alexander Wagner
Marcin Kasperski schrieb: Hi! > Friendly google took me to: > http://www.muonics.com/FreeStuff/TkPNG/ > Maybe it would be possible to take a look at it? I admit to be a bit conservative. But doing a quick package search on debian stable revealed: "nothing". (Same for testing and even unstable

[Scid-users] This bad save game dialog....

2007-11-05 Thread Marcin Kasperski
Whenever I change some game and then try to leave it (say, press Ctrl-Down to go to the next one) I get dialog box: Scid: New Game This game has been altered. Do you really want to continue and discard the changes made to it? [Yes][No] I hate this dialog. First, i

Re: [Scid-users] prefix, graphics

2007-11-05 Thread Marcin Kasperski
>> a) Is it necessary to use .gif? .png has nice benefit of handling >>alpha-blending (= far better looking piece edges) >> > "image create photo" only supports GIF and PPM/PGM (yes, it still > exists). Friendly google took me to: http://www.muonics.com/FreeStuff/TkPNG/ Maybe it would

Re: [Scid-users] RC3

2007-11-05 Thread Alexander Wagner
Marcin Kasperski schrieb: Hi! >> You don't imagine the tricky stuff I had to do to make >> Scid analyse a whole game, recursively taking into >> account all variants and sub-variants ! I had to make >> some stacks to keep track of score changes, etc. So the >> idea is certainly good, but w

Re: [Scid-users] RC3

2007-11-05 Thread Marcin Kasperski
>> Exactly. While moving back, you have calculated and deepened >> lines which actually happened in the game. While moving forward, >> you have many lines which are no longer relevant. >> > You don't imagine the tricky stuff I had to do to make Scid analyse a > whole game, recursively taking into

Re: [Scid-users] Some Ideas

2007-11-05 Thread Alexander Wagner
pgeorges schrieb: Hi! >>> if you want to avoid errors. >> I see the problem. Probably if the score comment looks >> something like this "Score: +1.35 (A) +1.27 (B)"? >> > Yes, that looks good. While you're at it (the above needs rewriting of engine output, so I come to that): currently the

Re: [Scid-users] Some Ideas

2007-11-05 Thread Alexander Wagner
Marcin Kasperski schrieb: Hi! >>* Probably one could shorten the engines names in the >> comments? The legend coud be given in the Annotators >> field. Something like >> >> [Annotator "DeepShredder 11 (A), Toga II 1.3.1 (B)"] >> >> and then later on >> >> A:

Re: [Scid-users] prefix, graphics (was Re: RC3)

2007-11-05 Thread Alexander Wagner
pgeorges schrieb: Hi! >> b) Are there any details how to build graphics set for scid available? >>I happened to pack some sets for schemingmind and for my website, >>maybe I would try packing sth for scid too... >> > I need one image for each size 25 to 80 by step of 5 > pixels. Ea

Re: [Scid-users] RC3

2007-11-05 Thread pgeorges
Marcin Kasperski a écrit : >>> - Analysis: It would be worth considering to run the >>>analysis of a game from then end to the start. This allows >>>the engine to reuse internal hash tables. Stefan told me >>>that at least within Shredder this improves the analysis >>>quite a bit (.

Re: [Scid-users] prefix, graphics (was Re: RC3)

2007-11-05 Thread pgeorges
Marcin Kasperski a écrit : [] >> > use image files for white and black squares. See >> > wsquare.gif and bsquare.gif in bitmaps directory (Thanks >> > to Uwe Klimmek) >> > > - Merida piece sets reworked and added the possibility to > > Hmm, just as I noticed graphics-related subject...

Re: [Scid-users] Some Ideas

2007-11-05 Thread pgeorges
Alexander Wagner a écrit : > pgeorges schrieb: > > Hi! > > >> (One could even consider drawing more than one line if > >> analysis of several engines is available.) > >> > > Difficult to do as scores are not in a particular field, but comments > > are parsed to find things looking like +/

Re: [Scid-users] RC3

2007-11-05 Thread Alexander Wagner
Marcin Kasperski schrieb: Hi! >> If you have some nice piece sets, you can send them I will >> incorporate them in the file bitmaps.tcl (I prefer to embed data in >> tcl, and avoid the use of external files for resources used by >> Scid). > I'm recently fan of Fantasy set by Maurizio Monge

Re: [Scid-users] Some Ideas

2007-11-05 Thread Marcin Kasperski
>* Probably one could shorten the engines names in the > comments? The legend coud be given in the Annotators > field. Something like > > [Annotator "DeepShredder 11 (A), Toga II 1.3.1 (B)"] > > and then later on > > A: +0.35, B: +0.27 +1 ;-) But it would be even nice

Re: [Scid-users] RC3

2007-11-05 Thread Marcin Kasperski
>> - Analysis: It would be worth considering to run the >>analysis of a game from then end to the start. This allows >>the engine to reuse internal hash tables. Stefan told me >>that at least within Shredder this improves the analysis >>quite a bit (...) > > Currently engines don't

[Scid-users] prefix, graphics (was Re: RC3)

2007-11-05 Thread Marcin Kasperski
> - ./configure: it would be nice to implement --prefix ./configure BINDIR=/usr/local/bin SHAREDIR=/usr/local/share/scid let you configure the same. Of course one can set those two variables somehow when --prefix is given, but considering scid configure is written in TCL, I am not volunteering ;-

Re: [Scid-users] Some Ideas

2007-11-05 Thread Alexander Wagner
pgeorges schrieb: Hi! >> (One could even consider drawing more than one line if >> analysis of several engines is available.) >> > Difficult to do as scores are not in a particular field, but comments > are parsed to find things looking like +/-X.X Right. But you write them with t

Re: [Scid-users] Some Ideas

2007-11-05 Thread pgeorges
Alexander Wagner a écrit : > Hi! > > Just some suggestions I came accross while looking at the > recent releases. > > - Analysis >* I think it would be good to store the engines score also > in "short comments" format. I find the rating graph quite > helpfull. > I will add an optio

Re: [Scid-users] new feature request for scid for pocketPC

2007-11-05 Thread pgeorges
Jonathan Cremers a écrit : Hi, > > Hello, > > Thanks for your great peace of software. > And love too :-) > > I'm particularly interested in the Scid for pocket > > PC. > > It's already a great tool but I have some ideas for new features I > would like to be able to use. > > When I open the pgn li