Re: [Scid-users] Delete me from your Mailing-List please!

2011-01-02 Thread Adrian Petrescu
You can remove yourself using the form at the bottom of https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users Cheers, Adrian 2011/1/2 Rudolf Jacobs > > > > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Yours sincerely > > > > Rudolf Jacobs > > Dürerstraße 6 a > > 64291 Darmstadt-Arheilgen > > Germany > > > > T

[Scid-users] Delete me from your Mailing-List please!

2011-01-02 Thread Rudolf Jacobs
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Re: [Scid-users] Fwd: sorting tables

2011-01-02 Thread Esteban Cervetto
sorry boys, I dont understand the hint you are told me below. You are meant that I have to download scid 4.2.2 again and re-install it? Or is better stay in until the closing new version of SCID? Regards Esteban PD: I understand the limits of sorting a unindexed databaseup o 10^6, but is very n

[Scid-users] Filters

2011-01-02 Thread Gerardo Fernandez
Hi, all, applying a second filter to restrict a previous search doesn't seem to work for me in Linux with current CVS version. I refer to the 'Add (restrict filter)' option that appears in all the search dialogs and I have tested it with a Repertoire search after a rating>2400 search and the othe

Re: [Scid-users] [Bug?] Opening/closing html text

2011-01-02 Thread Joost 't Hart
On 01/02/2011 12:17 PM, Alexander Wagner wrote: > On 12/25/10 10:11, Joost 't Hart wrote: > > Hi! > >> Following Chris' request on the end-D, I played a bit with the html >> export and noticed that the opening/closing html text >> (Options/Exporting/HTML file text) is not applied when exporting to

Re: [Scid-users] ScidBase?

2011-01-02 Thread Joost 't Hart
On 01/02/2011 11:19 PM, Chris Lott wrote: Well, now I am wondering if it wouldn't be possible-- theory about UUIDs notwithstanding-- to come up with procedures for group contribution to ensure higher quality? So, instead of adding willy-nilly, try to prevent the "garbage in?" http://www.worldwi

Re: [Scid-users] ScidBase?

2011-01-02 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Chris, > Well, now I am wondering if it wouldn't be possible-- theory about > UUIDs notwithstanding-- to come up with procedures for group > contribution to ensure higher quality? So, instead of adding > willy-nilly, try to prevent the "garbage in?" I agree with you: we need to prevent garbage in

Re: [Scid-users] ScidBase?

2011-01-02 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello, You're right in saying that I am hinting at something like a combination of unique and natural keys. Never thought of that. I believe the smart duplicate detection problem is not solvable, at least not in a logical way. We need reality to tell us at what move Bardeleben exactly resigned

Re: [Scid-users] ScidBase?

2011-01-02 Thread Chris Lott
Well, now I am wondering if it wouldn't be possible-- theory about UUIDs notwithstanding-- to come up with procedures for group contribution to ensure higher quality? So, instead of adding willy-nilly, try to prevent the "garbage in?" c On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Gerd Lorscheid wrote: >    

Re: [Scid-users] ScidBase?

2011-01-02 Thread Gerd Lorscheid
Hi, you still have the problem, that two users on two systems enter the same game. Now these two games are duplicates viewed from their internal database ids, but not for me. Unique IDs in databases are mainly useful to allow quick referencing inside of the database. What we would need and

Re: [Scid-users] ScidBase?

2011-01-02 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> unique IDs to ensure a *high-quality* cannot be achieved. How should the ID > be calculated? The ID is simply given and maintained by the database facility. In relational database theory, I believe that to have unique IDs is axiomatic. I am not sure that it's possible to have relational datab

Re: [Scid-users] Generating player report delivers wrong data?

2011-01-02 Thread Joost 't Hart
Al worked fine until the updates that were committed on Dec 20th. That is: filter.cpp 1.4 filter.h 1.4 tkscid.cpp 1.61 tkscid.h 1.18 and probably some other updates (how the to find this out?) broke this part. Before those it was fine. Happy puzzling, Joost. On 01/02/2011 10:27 PM, Joost

Re: [Scid-users] Generating player report delivers wrong data?

2011-01-02 Thread Joost 't Hart
Hi Gerd, 1) Just load a game, click on the white player's name and ask for his report playing white. Today a the wrong report on all games in the base is generated after a long time, and the filter is not there... 2) Start setting the filter using header search for this player and open the

Re: [Scid-users] Printing Diagrams

2011-01-02 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> Do you mean the "Tools->Capture Current Board" feature ? It works fine for > me.. but requires the "TkImg" package for png support. Yes, I mean this feature. I do not think it comes with the compiled versions of Scid for Win and Mac. Someone who does not know about LaTeX should find it strang

Re: [Scid-users] Generating player report delivers wrong data?

2011-01-02 Thread Joost 't Hart
Let me say I really suspect a filter operation. 1) Couple of weeks back the player report worked flawlessly. Cannot make a firm statement as to the precise date, though. 2) When I first set a filter on "the white player" - so only his white games are in the game list, and then run the player re

Re: [Scid-users] Generating player report delivers wrong data?

2011-01-02 Thread Joost 't Hart
On 01/02/2011 09:26 PM, Axel Moser wrote: > Hi Joost, > > on my laptop it completed but took quite a while with the result being > the one shown in my last mail. Hm, I just killed the application after a few minutes; not as patient as you are :-) The result is bogus anyway... > I tried it with o

Re: [Scid-users] Generating player report delivers wrong data?

2011-01-02 Thread Gerd Lorscheid
Hello, I checked the following: Open a large database, select a game with a known player, click on tools->player information, click on player report and select the player. The program runs into trouble, because the heap is overwritten by somebody when the report is generated

Re: [Scid-users] Generating player report delivers wrong data?

2011-01-02 Thread Axel Moser
Hi Joost, on my laptop it completed but took quite a while with the result being the one shown in my last mail. I tried it with other players as well, same result. Annother thing i came across is: wenn I load a game in my huge db and wanna lets say filter all games of the white player, it doesn't

Re: [Scid-users] Generating player report delivers wrong data?

2011-01-02 Thread Joost 't Hart
Hi Axel, You having spotted this: The player report functionality seems entirely broken at my end (using a HUGE database). It does not complete at all :-( Gents, another side-effect of the recent filter-thingy? Cheers, Joost. On 01/02/2011 08:19 PM, Axel Moser wrote: Hi all, today I compi

Re: [Scid-users] ScidBase?

2011-01-02 Thread Chris Lott
Well, that aspect of things is beyond my ken... but I am interested in contributing to such a project seeing as how I am going to otherwise be left creating such a thing on my own anyway! c On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Benoit St-Pierre wrote: > This project dates to the days me and Alex were

Re: [Scid-users] ScidBase?

2011-01-02 Thread Gerd Lorscheid
Hello, unique IDs to ensure a *high-quality* cannot be achieved. How should the ID be calculated? Experience shows that any attributes of a game can be inconsistent: names, location, date, result and even moves. So the only solution is to have smart duplicate checking. Scid has one 60 time

Re: [Scid-users] Fwd: sorting tables

2011-01-02 Thread Steven
> Steve, does ScidvsPC sort all games in filter? Not sure what you mean, but i haven't added any extra sorting routines to the tree feature. In the gamelist, clicking on column title will sort database , but unfortunately also resets filter at the same time. This is why the "column numbers" chang

[Scid-users] Generating player report delivers wrong data?

2011-01-02 Thread Axel Moser
Hi all, today I compiled SCID from CVS to check the strg+c fix issued earlier - it works excellently, thx! Now that I migrated (finally) completely over to SCID, I wanted to check the player report feature. I choose LD Nisipeanu and wanted to create a report with him playing the white pieces. I g

Re: [Scid-users] Printing Diagrams

2011-01-02 Thread Steven
> > A friend of mine is using Scid to work on studies and > would like to be > > able to print chess diagrams from Scid. > > > > My own solution is to print the window from the OS, > but it does not > > work well for him. > > > > I presume that there are no facility currently for > this.  Am I cor

Re: [Scid-users] ScidBase?

2011-01-02 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
This project dates to the days me and Alex were arguing with Pascal for the need to add unique IDs to games. Pascal said that adding IDs to games would slow Scid too much. Without unique IDs, trying to have a *high-quality* database is way to error-prone to my own taste. If we can design some ob

Re: [Scid-users] Fwd: sorting tables

2011-01-02 Thread Alexander Wagner
On 12/30/10 02:44, Esteban Cervetto wrote: Hi! > Another feature related is if you can do the player list take in account > the filters applied If you compile yourself from CVS please check the code there. I think recent changes provided by Gerd allow what you're looking for. > I would like SC

Re: [Scid-users] PGN window unstable

2011-01-02 Thread Joost 't Hart
On 01/02/2011 01:07 PM, Gerd Lorscheid wrote: > Hello, > > I had a look into the history on sourceforge and did not find a related > change. So it must be an old problem. Computers are faster now and so the > search depth of this engine. This can be a reason for increased impact. Once > you h

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

2011-01-02 Thread Alexander Wagner
On 12/29/10 17:56, Mark Morss wrote: Hi! Sorry to come back to that only now. > 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). Right. The hig

Re: [Scid-users] PGN window unstable

2011-01-02 Thread Joost 't Hart
On 01/01/2011 10:58 PM, Gerd Lorscheid wrote: > Hello again, > > in engine.cpp there are the lines: > > scoreFlagT hashflag = ProbeHash (depth,&hashscore,&hashmove, > &isOnlyMove); > ProbeCounts[hashflag]++; > > ProbeCounts is an byte-array of four fields, but hashflag returns value

Re: [Scid-users] ScidBase?

2011-01-02 Thread Alexander Wagner
On 12/29/10 01:38, Chris Lott wrote: Hi! > Is the ScidBase project dead? I assume so, given the links, but maybe not? I fear I've not heard of it for quite a time. :( > If so, are there any other initiatives around to create a > *high-quality* (meaning no duplicates, all games verified, all > t

Re: [Scid-users] [Bug?] Opening/closing html text

2011-01-02 Thread Alexander Wagner
On 12/25/10 10:11, Joost 't Hart wrote: Hi! > Following Chris' request on the end-D, I played a bit with the html > export and noticed that the opening/closing html text > (Options/Exporting/HTML file text) is not applied when exporting to > HTML/Javascript. It is applied when exporting to plain

Re: [Scid-users] Printing Diagrams

2011-01-02 Thread Alexander Wagner
On 01/01/11 22:16, Benoit St-Pierre wrote: Hi! > A friend of mine is using Scid to work on studies and would like to be > able to print chess diagrams from Scid. > > My own solution is to print the window from the OS, but it does not > work well for him. > > I presume that there are no facility c

Re: [Scid-users] PGN window unstable

2011-01-02 Thread Alexander Wagner
On 01/01/11 22:58, Gerd Lorscheid wrote: Hi! > in engine.cpp there are the lines: > > scoreFlagT hashflag = ProbeHash (depth,&hashscore,&hashmove, > &isOnlyMove); > ProbeCounts[hashflag]++; > > ProbeCounts is an byte-array of four fields, but hashflag returns values> > 3. ProbeCounts se

Re: [Scid-users] copying games from scid - ctrl-c does not work as expected

2011-01-02 Thread Alexander Wagner
On 01/01/11 18:34, Benoit St-Pierre wrote: Hi! >> If the game list window is active, copying the active game. > > It copies the active game in the Clipboard. Perhaps this is what we > would like Scid to do in every context. You dropped here a bit too much for me to follow ;) > But it seems I c

Re: [Scid-users] copying games from scid - ctrl-c does not work as expected

2011-01-02 Thread Alexander Wagner
On 01/02/11 04:37, J. Wesley Cleveland wrote: Hi! > If the pgn window is docked, you can click on the notation tab and > choose file-copy game to clipboard. Sure, this works all the time if the PGN window is visible, regardless of docking mode or not. I think the main issue is however, that thi