[Scid-users] Question on maintenance dialog

2009-02-15 Thread Joost ´t Hart
Hi, [scid3.6.26 - WinXP] In the top of the maintenance dialog I see some characteristics of the current database: ... Year range: 1560-2009 (842) Rating rang: 1-2875 (78) ... What do the numbers between ()'s denote? Cheers, Joost. -

[Scid-users] Inefficient name spelling correction

2009-02-15 Thread Joost ´t Hart
Hi there! [scid3.6.26 - WinXP] After importing a huge number of games (about 3.7M) into a fresh database, I wanted to do the name corrections. 1) Is there any particular reason why scid corrects only 2000 names in a go? Might mean I have to run this dialog about 70 times (!) to correct the compl

Re: [Scid-users] The Clipboard

2009-02-15 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
I should read back what I write. Two more corrections : In the Board window, the active game gets copied to the Clipboard ; in the PGN window, the selection gets copied to the Clipbase. So I have to do CTRL-C (while left-clicking) to copy the text. --

Re: [Scid-users] The Clipboard

2009-02-15 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
To correct this sentence : > it seems that I can, when I > select the PGN representation of a game in the PGN window, the > left-click must be kept pressed for the text to be selected, . When I select the PGN representation of a game in the PGN window, I can copy it by usual means, but only when

Re: [Scid-users] The Clipboard

2009-02-15 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Indeed, under the 3.7 Win version, I could not copy paste as I used to. But your comment made me do some tests : it seems that I can, when I select the PGN representation of a game in the PGN window, the left-click must be kept pressed for the text to be selected, . That is, the selection does no

Re: [Scid-users] The Clipboard

2009-02-15 Thread Alexander Wagner
Benoit St-Pierre wrote: Hi! >> Things get a bit involved here. You have the usual systems >> Clipboard, you can copy a game's PGN from PGN via "File / >> Copy to Clipboard" or you can copy any text to this >> clipboard by the usual functions you have for clipboard >> handling. E.g. on Unix/X11 if