Re: [Scid-users] Xfcc issues

2009-04-04 Thread Alexander Wagner
Chris Lott wrote: Hi! >>> Add Rybka and a playing interface of one's choice >> Ahm, just to ask, you did notice the other playing >> features of Scid like tactical game and serious game for >> games against engines as well as FICS client for internet >> OTB? > > I haven't! Then you should give

Re: [Scid-users] Xfcc issues

2009-04-04 Thread Christopher D. Walborn
On Apr 4, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Alexander Wagner wrote: Christopher D. Walborn wrote: Hi! For playing against the computer on the Mac, I use SCID, without a doubt. It does fine. My only problem is that with my engine (HIARCS 11MP) handicapped to it's lowest elo setting, it still wipes the board

Re: [Scid-users] Xfcc issues

2009-04-04 Thread Alexander Wagner
Christopher D. Walborn wrote: Hi! > For playing against the computer on the Mac, I use SCID, > without a doubt. It does fine. My only problem is that > with my engine (HIARCS 11MP) handicapped to it's lowest > elo setting, it still wipes the board with me. Anyone got > tips for further handicappi

Re: [Scid-users] Xfcc issues

2009-04-04 Thread Christopher D. Walborn
[Sorry for the resend, but I keep forgetting to do a reply-all and miss out sending to the user list.] On Apr 4, 2009, at 1:30 PM, Israel Chauca Fuentes wrote: Just a quick reply for this. To get Scid working with X11 you need a Tk 8.5 compiled against X11, not the one included with Mac OS

Re: [Scid-users] Xfcc issues

2009-04-04 Thread Israel Chauca Fuentes
Hi there, On Apr 4, 2009, at 2:44 AM, Christopher D. Walborn wrote: > > Other than the commenting problems I get on the mac no other problem > is > a show stopper and I know how to work around it now. I made an initial > attempt to build scid on osx against x11, but ran into some tk library > is

Re: [Scid-users] Xfcc issues

2009-04-04 Thread Chris Lott
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Alexander Wagner wrote: >> >> Add Rybka and a playing interface of one's choice > > Ahm, just to ask, you did notice the other playing features of Scid like > tactical game and serious game for games against engines as well as FICS > client for internet OTB? I have

Re: [Scid-users] Xfcc issues

2009-04-04 Thread Christopher D. Walborn
On Apr 4, 2009, at 12:38 PM, Alexander Wagner wrote: Chris Lott wrote: Hi! Add Rybka and a playing interface of one's choice Ahm, just to ask, you did notice the other playing features of Scid like tactical game and serious game for games against engines as well as FICS client for inte

Re: [Scid-users] Xfcc issues

2009-04-04 Thread Alexander Wagner
Chris Lott wrote: Hi! > Add Rybka and a playing interface of one's choice Ahm, just to ask, you did notice the other playing features of Scid like tactical game and serious game for games against engines as well as FICS client for internet OTB? Pascal added a lot here and I think he'll appreci

Re: [Scid-users] Xfcc issues

2009-04-04 Thread Chris Lott
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Christopher D. Walborn wrote: > Btw, searching against a SCID native db > version of Convekta's Huge Database w/ upwards of 4 million records is > bloody fast on a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Quad w/ 8GB ram on Vista 64. ;-) > (I work for an engineering firm that does a

Re: [Scid-users] Xfcc issues

2009-04-04 Thread Alexander Wagner
Hi! >> As I have not Windows or Mac but "only" Linux it is most >> likely that problems appear on non-Linux, most likely on >> Windows as OS-X should be "Unix enough"... > > Oddly enough OS X appears to be the ugly cousin, here. I'm > suspicious that it has to do with oddities with tkaqua, Ok,

Re: [Scid-users] Xfcc issues

2009-04-04 Thread F. Charly
It seems to be a nice database. Is it available somewhere? Charly On 4 avr. 09, at 10:44, Christopher D. Walborn wrote: > a SCID native db version of Convekta's Huge Database w/ upwards of 4 > million records --

Re: [Scid-users] Xfcc issues

2009-04-04 Thread Christopher D. Walborn
pgeorges wrote: > Alexander Wagner a écrit : >> At this point SCID is eating up all available cpu cycles. >>> Force quit. This is repeatable and the only solution for >>> me has been to restart SCID, disable window docking, quit >>> and restart in the classic multiple window mode. >>> >> Th

Re: [Scid-users] Re : Xfcc issues

2009-04-04 Thread Christopher D. Walborn
Alexander Wagner wrote: > More precisely on Ubuntu try: > > aptitude install libtk-img libtk-img-dev > > and all should be fine. That works -- thanks! -- Christopher D. Walborn - http://www.tuirgin.com jabber/google talk: tuir...@gmail.com -- yahoo: tuirgin GPG Fingerprint: A247 67A6 E2CC

Re: [Scid-users] Xfcc issues

2009-04-04 Thread Christopher D. Walborn
Alexander Wagner wrote: > Christopher D. Walborn wrote: > > Hi! > >> Paradox asked that I report on some buggy issues I've run into with >> SCID's Xfcc client. I apologize in advance for the length. > > I've no problem with a lengthy report. Those not given cause > me more headache ;) Underst

Re: [Scid-users] Xfcc issues

2009-04-04 Thread pgeorges
Alexander Wagner a écrit : > At this point SCID is eating up all available cpu cycles. >> Force quit. This is repeatable and the only solution for >> me has been to restart SCID, disable window docking, quit >> and restart in the classic multiple window mode. >> > > Then it seems to be a pr