Re: [Scid-users] Annotation - Spec discussion

2010-11-16 Thread Joost 't Hart
On 11/16/2010 12:35 AM, Joost 't Hart wrote: Consolidation. See below. One new question: How do we prefer to manually interfere with the machinery, should we need this. There are two machines that can/need to be stopped. The engine and the autoplay function. Actually, there is a third notion:

Re: [Scid-users] Stable and "Testing" Scid versions

2010-11-16 Thread Joost 't Hart
On 11/16/2010 10:52 PM, Gerardo Fernandez wrote: > Hi all, > > Seeing the changes that are being made to Scid these days, I was > wondering what people do: > > * download the latest version from the CVS repository and compile it > replacing the previous one > > or > > * keep the version provided by

[Scid-users] Stable and "Testing" Scid versions

2010-11-16 Thread Gerardo Fernandez
Hi all, Seeing the changes that are being made to Scid these days, I was wondering what people do: * download the latest version from the CVS repository and compile it replacing the previous one or * keep the version provided by your distribution (4.2.1 in Mint 9 for me) and a separate "testing

Re: [Scid-users] Games request

2010-11-16 Thread Joost 't Hart
On 11/16/2010 05:47 PM, J. Wesley Cleveland wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 4:05 AM, wrote: > > >> Assuming that "the engine" indeed behaves as the "command" below, this would >> not be too difficult to handle. I am happy that you do not propose to make >> the >> pipe between engine and scid a mu

Re: [Scid-users] Loosing comments unless stored

2010-11-16 Thread Fulvio
Alexander Wagner wrote: > Right there could be some destructive interaction. Still, you have to > do something outside the comment editor, I fancy, for Scid to change > the position, right? In that case the editor would loose the focus, > right? Yes. The problem was the editor window opened the

Re: [Scid-users] Repertoire building feature

2010-11-16 Thread Alexander Wagner
On 11/16/10 17:41, Ville Hakulinen wrote: Hi! > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 05:25:52PM +0100, Alexander Wagner wrote: >> Open your reference base as tree, you'll then notice that there is a >> menu option called "Mask". You may add moves to your mask, add >> commentary to the moves, NAG symbols, Mark

Re: [Scid-users] Loosing comments unless stored

2010-11-16 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Thanks! Some people I know don't like to CTRL anything. They will be happy. On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Alexander Wagner wrote: > On 11/16/10 16:57, Benoit St-Pierre wrote: > > Hi! > >> Speaking of the Comment Editor: >> >> I would like to be able to right-click into my PGN Window to add

Re: [Scid-users] Games request

2010-11-16 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 4:05 AM, wrote: > Assuming that "the engine" indeed behaves as the "command" below, this would > not be too difficult to handle. I am happy that you do not propose to make > the > pipe between engine and scid a multiplex of the engine's stdout and stderr. > This would be

Re: [Scid-users] Repertoire building feature

2010-11-16 Thread Ville Hakulinen
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 05:25:52PM +0100, Alexander Wagner wrote: > Open your reference base as tree, you'll then notice that there is a > menu option called "Mask". You may add moves to your mask, add > commentary to the moves, NAG symbols, Markers etc. Just ask if you can't > find your way.

Re: [Scid-users] Loosing comments unless stored

2010-11-16 Thread Alexander Wagner
On 11/16/10 16:57, Benoit St-Pierre wrote: Hi! > Speaking of the Comment Editor: > > I would like to be able to right-click into my PGN Window to add a comment. > I believe that means being able to open the Comment editor from the PGN > Window. > I hope this is easy to do. > Done in current cvs.

Re: [Scid-users] Repertoire building feature

2010-11-16 Thread Alexander Wagner
On 11/16/10 16:36, Ville Hakulinen wrote: Hi! > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 04:16:08PM +0100, Alexander Wagner wrote: >> Am I very mistaken if I imagine that this is sort of building up a Mask >> for the tree to map your own repertoire? For me it sounds like that. > > It might be just the tool I need

Re: [Scid-users] Repertoire building feature

2010-11-16 Thread Ville Hakulinen
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 04:16:08PM +0100, Alexander Wagner wrote: > Am I very mistaken if I imagine that this is sort of building up a Mask > for the tree to map your own repertoire? For me it sounds like that. It might be just the tool I need! I didn't know about such feature and can't find any

Re: [Scid-users] Loosing comments unless stored

2010-11-16 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Speaking of the Comment Editor: I would like to be able to right-click into my PGN Window to add a comment. I believe that means being able to open the Comment editor from the PGN Window. I hope this is easy to do. -- www.pfff.ca -

Re: [Scid-users] Repertoire building feature

2010-11-16 Thread Ville Hakulinen
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 04:16:08PM +0100, Alexander Wagner wrote: > Am I very mistaken if I imagine that this is sort of building up a Mask > for the tree to map your own repertoire? For me it sounds like that. It might be just the tool I need! I didn't know about such feature and can't find any

Re: [Scid-users] Repertoire building feature

2010-11-16 Thread Alexander Wagner
On 11/16/10 16:03, Ville Hakulinen wrote: Hi! >> Hm, I do not think so. What about al those black alternatives >> to 1... c5? These are included in the 46.7%, right? Or are all >> games in A that start 1.e4 already filtered to Sicilians only >> (obviously your choice of play with black)? > > I wa

Re: [Scid-users] Annotation - Spec discussion

2010-11-16 Thread joost.t.hart
From: Alexander Wagner [mailto:a.wag...@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de] Sent: Tue 16-11-2010 15:55 Hi, > On 11/16/10 12:40, joost.t.h...@planet.nl wrote: > > Hi! > >>> Also, in my opinion, "engine reports blunder" is too long and >>> inaccurate (can you call blunder a difference of +0.1 >>> in evalua

Re: [Scid-users] Loosing comments unless stored

2010-11-16 Thread Alexander Wagner
On 11/16/10 15:49, Fulvio wrote: Hi! >>> Here are the problems: >>> 1. Requirement to press 'Store' as mentioned above. It is so easy to >>> lose a long comment because you forgot to press the Store button. >>> 2. No 'Store and Close' shortcut to close comment editor and focus on >>> the game aga

Re: [Scid-users] Repertoire building feature

2010-11-16 Thread Ville Hakulinen
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 02:55:03PM +0100, joost.t.h...@planet.nl wrote: > From: Ville Hakulinen [mailto:ville.hakuli...@iki.fi] > Sent: Tue 16-11-2010 13:40 > > Hi, > > > Hi all, > > > > Currently I'm using Scid's training feature to collect lines > > to a repertoire database and this works fine

Re: [Scid-users] Repertoire building feature

2010-11-16 Thread joost.t.hart
From: Ville Hakulinen [mailto:ville.hakuli...@iki.fi] Sent: Tue 16-11-2010 13:40 Hi, > Hi all, > > Currently I'm using Scid's training feature to collect lines > to a repertoire database and this works fine, but it would > be nice to be able to easily get the most common line that's > not covere

[Scid-users] Repertoire building feature

2010-11-16 Thread Ville Hakulinen
Hi all, Currently I'm using Scid's training feature to collect lines to a repertoire database and this works fine, but it would be nice to be able to easily get the most common line that's not covered by the repertoire. So let's say I have two databases: A is built up from a game collection and B

Re: [Scid-users] Games request

2010-11-16 Thread joost.t.hart
Van: J. Wesley Cleveland [mailto:j.wesley.clevel...@gmail.com] Verzonden: di 16-11-2010 04:47 Hi, > From: Alexander Wagner >> >> On 11/15/10 00:11, Joost 't Hart wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> >> 3. Capture the output from stderr also. Stockfish writes to stderr on >> >> an error exit, but the message

Re: [Scid-users] Annotation - Spec discussion

2010-11-16 Thread joost.t.hart
Van: Fulvio [mailto:f...@libero.it] Verzonden: di 16-11-2010 09:26 Hi, > Joost 't Hart wrote: > >> If you do not enable short annotations, the engine will present >> variations with >> - it's name >> - a score tag (with UCI engines, I replaced the bogus 327.xy value with >> Mx (or M-x) as is d

Re: [Scid-users] Scid On The Go

2010-11-16 Thread Alexander Wagner
On 11/16/10 01:08, Israel Chauca F. wrote: Hi! > I just found this: > > http://code.google.com/p/scidonthego/ > > Claims to be a Scid database browser for Android. Interesting. Unfortunatly, I lack the Android to test it, but I asked a friend who owns one. Here is the short report: ---

Re: [Scid-users] Annotation - Spec discussion

2010-11-16 Thread Fulvio
Joost 't Hart wrote: > > If you do not enable short annotations, the engine will present > variations with > - it's name > - a score tag (with UCI engines, I replaced the bogus 327.xy value with > Mx (or M-x) as is done in the engine window. Good idea?) > - the known remark "engine reports blunde

Re: [Scid-users] Scid On The Go

2010-11-16 Thread Pascal Georges
2010/11/16 Israel Chauca F. : > I just found this: > > http://code.google.com/p/scidonthego/ > > Claims to be a Scid database browser for Android. Nice project, but it uses a lot of JNI (Scid backoffice remains in C++). I don't know if it is already usable. Pascal ---