[Scid-users] Chessbase/assistant comparison

2010-12-29 Thread Alex Wohl
I am a semi-pro (IM 2424) and have been using databases for a long time. I used mainly Chess Assistant for years and Chessbase occasionally until last year. I have now switched to Scid and am very happy. Both CA and CB crashed regularly and if you don't have your disk with you...if you do you

Re: [Scid-users] Scid should accept default choice of variation

2010-12-29 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
I do not understand why there is a need for a modal window. We already have the Game Information Area. And, if that's not enough, we have the PGN window. -- Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows c

[Scid-users] Fwd: sorting tables

2010-12-29 Thread Esteban Cervetto
Another feature related is if you can do the player list take in account the filters applied -- Forwarded message -- From: Esteban Cervetto Date: 2010/12/29 Subject: sorting tables To: Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net Hello: I would like SCID will have options of sorting table

[Scid-users] sorting tables

2010-12-29 Thread Esteban Cervetto
Hello: I would like SCID will have options of sorting tables (specially game list) taking in consideration the filters aplied. Regards Esteban -- Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers

Re: [Scid-users] Scid should accept default choice of variation

2010-12-29 Thread Nils R Grotnes
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 02:00, Steven wrote: > > > Have you tried in Options->Moves to uncheck "Show > > variations window" and > > enable "Show Arrows for Variations"? > > Don't you like it? > > The arrows need to be made slightly wider, and with > canvas bindings to enter into each variation.

Re: [Scid-users] Scid should accept default choice of variation

2010-12-29 Thread Steven
> Have you tried in Options->Moves to uncheck "Show > variations window" and > enable "Show Arrows for Variations"? > Don't you like it? The arrows need to be made slightly wider, and with canvas bindings to enter into each variation. Steve   I've noticed this myself, and wondered if

Re: [Scid-users] Scid should accept default choice of variation

2010-12-29 Thread Nils R Grotnes
Hi Mark. Long time. Hope you're fine. On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 23:01, Steven wrote: > Fulvio wrote: > > Mark Morss wrote: > > > When playing through a game with scid and the forward arrow takes you > to > > > more than one move, a "variations" popup box opens up with a list of > the > > > possib

Re: [Scid-users] ideas for improvement?

2010-12-29 Thread Chris Lott
I received a back-channel response that the comparison between Scid and Chessbase in the "review" I shared from another group was "unfair." I wanted to make something clear about my reasons for sharing, so I quote from my response: "...I don't think a comparison is necessarily unfair (although I d

Re: [Scid-users] Scid should accept default choice of variation

2010-12-29 Thread Steven
Fulvio wrote: > Mark Morss wrote: > > When playing through a game with scid and the forward > arrow takes you to > > more than one move, a "variations" popup box opens up > with a list of the > > possible variations (one of which is > highlighted).  Clicking in the > > popup box works fine, but the

Re: [Scid-users] scidb project?

2010-12-29 Thread Steven
> Is anyone here involved with this project? > > http://scidb.sourceforge.net/ I've communicated with Gregor, Scidb's author. It is a new project which will probably have an alpha release late next year afaics. > The post that mentioned it was doing so in the context of > scidb having > support

[Scid-users] scidb project?

2010-12-29 Thread Chris Lott
By happenstance I came across this Scid related project/fork whatever. Is anyone here involved with this project? http://scidb.sourceforge.net/ The post that mentioned it was doing so in the context of scidb having support to read .cbh files... c

Re: [Scid-users] Scid should accept default choice of variation

2010-12-29 Thread Mark Morss
Yes that is indeed very nice, and I'll probably disable the variations box and use the arrows, which are more conveninet. Still that doesn't answer my original concern, which is the behavior of scid when the variaitons window is open. Best, Mark Morss On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 18:04 +0100, Fulvio

Re: [Scid-users] ideas for improvement?

2010-12-29 Thread Gerd Lorscheid
Hello, just a few notes about Chessbase compared to Scid. Finding duplicate games in Chessbase takes 60 times more time than in Scid. During this time (6 hours) no access in Chessbase and no possibility to start another instance of it. Compacting the database the same. Basically every n

Re: [Scid-users] Scid should accept default choice of variation

2010-12-29 Thread Fulvio
Mark Morss wrote: > When playing through a game with scid and the forward arrow takes you to > more than one move, a "variations" popup box opens up with a list of the > possible variations (one of which is highlighted). Clicking in the > popup box works fine, but there appears to be no way instea

[Scid-users] Patch

2010-12-29 Thread Fulvio
This patch: 1) Correct the class StoredLine so it can be used as an object 2) Change ::board::colorSquare so that textures are hided and not destroyed. This allow proc leaveSquare to not call ::board::update, solving some subtle bugs when the cpu is 100% and the user move fast over the board 3)

[Scid-users] Scid should accept default choice of variation

2010-12-29 Thread Mark Morss
When playing through a game with scid and the forward arrow takes you to more than one move, a "variations" popup box opens up with a list of the possible variations (one of which is highlighted). Clicking in the popup box works fine, but there appears to be no way instead to just click on the for

Re: [Scid-users] ideas for improvement?

2010-12-29 Thread Michał Rudolf
Dnia 2010-12-28, wto o godzinie 16:17 -0900, Chris Lott pisze: > The single best feature I will admit is useful in searches, is CQL. > Scid does NOT have it , only Chess Assistant 10 and up has CQL.You > will have to google it and look at the article and link on chessok.com > or google chessok.com