[Scid-users] The fate of scidt

Hi all, I was faced with an annoying problem, which uncovered another annoying problem, and wanted to share my angst. While maintaining my large database, my computer was shut off. After restarting, and re-launching scid, I found that the si3 file had become corrupted, and scid would not loa

Re: [Scid-users] FYI

Monte Carlo is a way to evaluate according to simulations. Simulating is a way to probe a problem space in a way that renders the task somehow more tractable, when the computational power allows it. With Scrabble and Backgammon, simulating provides players that have World Championship strenght in

Re: [Scid-users] updated screenshots

Thanks for the screenshots, I started to update Scid's site (work in progress). Pascal 2008/7/22 Marcel Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Alexander, > > Thanks for the help, the png files look better. > > http://nwvd.net/chess/screenshots.tar.bz2 > > I added screen shots for: > > - Tactical game startu

Re: [Scid-users] updated screenshots

Alexander, Thanks for the help, the png files look better. http://nwvd.net/chess/screenshots.tar.bz2 I added screen shots for: > - Tactical game startup window > - Serious game startup window > - UCI support / configure UCI engine > I think with some engine like Shredder or Glaurung that offers

Re: [Scid-users] updated screenshots

Marcel Dan wrote: Hi! > I made updated screenshots that can hopefully be used on > the sourceforge website. > > http://www.nwvd.net/chess/screenshots.tar.bz2 I think this is a very nice work you did. :) Just as a minor hint, I'd suggest to use png instead of jpg as it avoides artefacts in the

Re: [Scid-users] Slightly off topic: decreasing size of fonts in Gnome on Ubuntu 8.04 for SCID

http://nwvd.net/chess/scid_faq/#0002 you can install tcl/tk8.5 When you purge the old versions, verify if programs depend on tcl so you can reinstall them. Marcel On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Alexander Wagner < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roy Brunjes wrote: > > Hi! > > > I've tried messi

Re: [Scid-users] Slightly off topic: decreasing size of fonts in Gnome on Ubuntu 8.04 for SCID

Roy Brunjes wrote: Hi! > I've tried messign with DPI settings for all fonts on the > system but that has no effect on SCID's fonts for some > reason. How? I find similar behaviour "reversed". That is I set the DPI in xorg.conf but eg. Mozilla requires special care. Once I add the correct S

[Scid-users] updated screenshots

I made updated screenshots that can hopefully be used on the sourceforge website. http://www.nwvd.net/chess/screenshots.tar.bz2 Please let me what can be improved in order to display Scid's features. Marcel - This SF.Net ema

[Scid-users] Slightly off topic: decreasing size of fonts in Gnome on Ubuntu 8.04 for SCID

I have created a new virtual machine under VMware to run my Ubuntu system on (it co-exists with my Windoze OS on my company laptop). I took my homedir from my Ubuntu 7.10 virtual machine and tarred it up. I then created a new VM and loaded Ubuntu 8.04 onto it, then restored my homedir files onto

Re: [Scid-users] How to Delete a DB in Scid

Hi, I commited code in CVS that sets basic file operations from Finder (right mouse button) : copy, move, delete and backup a base. The latest simply copies DB files appending a timestamp to base's name. Pascal