[Scid-users] SCID on Windows

2011-11-11 Thread John
I have some problems with SCID on Windows. I have been using it for a while now, principally to observe games on FICS. There is a problem when kibitzing (or, probably, typing any commands). Every time I try to enter a period, the period enters okay, but the board flips. If I try to enter a move fo

[Scid-users] Building SCID on Windows

2011-11-11 Thread John
I have downloaded the source tarball of SCID 4.3.0 to my XP box, and used at in cygwin to unpack it. I have downloaded and installed Visual Studio Express 2010, the whole shebang. I had a very brief run with VC++ to create a new project from an existing source tree. Allegedly that work, but buil