Re: [Scid-users] Chess960 compatibility, fails on importing a game with castling

2016-01-13 Thread H.G. Muller
Op 1/13/2016 om 12:28 PM schreef Fulvio: > I'm not sure if theusers of this mailing list are particularly > interested in a technical analysis of the Scid format. > However, in short, a general description of the format: > https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Scid > > and the biggest limitatio

Re: [Scid-users] Arrow key navigation?

2015-06-08 Thread H.G. Muller
I think this is a general difference in the way the mouse/keyboard interface works in Linux and Windows. Window managers in Linux tend to give focus to the window that contains the mouse pointer (e.g. when you use the mouse wheel to scroll it). While in Windows transferring focus to another win

Re: [Scid-users] TimeSeal

2015-03-12 Thread H.G. Muller
Alexander Wagner schreef op 3/12/2015 om 7:06 PM: > Hi! > >> I don't think SCID's code comes with Timeseal. > Nope. And it would be problematic as timeseal to the best of my knowlege > is available as binaries only. They still believe in security by obscurity. > Not really. There exists and 'OpenSe

Re: [Scid-users] engine auto-install

2014-11-27 Thread H.G. Muller
Sorry, pressend 'send' by accident on the previous message. Fulvio schreef op 11/27/2014 4:24 PM: > typedef int engine_handle; > int SOMEPREFIX_getEngines(engine_handle*, int max_handles, time_t > after_timestamp); > > and use it like this: > engine_handle engines[100]; > int n_engines = SOMEPREF

Re: [Scid-users] engine auto-install

2014-11-27 Thread H.G. Muller
Fulvio schreef op 11/27/2014 12:44 PM: > H.G. Muller wrote: >> OK, clear. That sounds straightforward enough. For the returned >> lists, would you just >> want a string where all data fields are separated by newlines, or an >> arry of (char*) ? > Neither :) > T

Re: [Scid-users] engine auto-install

2014-11-27 Thread H.G. Muller
Fulvio schreef op 11/27/2014 10:43 AM: > Let's go back to the interface i suggested as an example. > You can rewrite your AutoInstall function like this: > > std::string AutoInstall (const std::string& lastTimeStamp) > { > //TimeStamp may be a string composed by > numberofengines_timeofthelaste

Re: [Scid-users] engine auto-install

2014-11-26 Thread H.G. Muller
Fulvio schreef op 11/26/2014 4:51 PM: > The list will be used by tcl code to install the engines and interact > with the user, but i do not want to write the tcl code to parse the .eng > files (because i know that there will be ten thousand changes like the > ones that you just proposed; and then

Re: [Scid-users] engine auto-install

2014-11-26 Thread H.G. Muller
Fulvio schreef op 11/26/2014 4:08 PM: > In your previous post you talked about apt-get, so i believed that we > were talking about distro packages. > For example when you install scid on a debian machine with: > sudo apt-get install scid > the package manager suggest that you should install also s

Re: [Scid-users] engine auto-install

2014-11-26 Thread H.G. Muller
me of the origin of this engine (this must not be the author), > e.g. "H.G. Muller", or "Stockfish team". > > There exists so much versions of one engine, and these additional entries > might help the GUI (or user of the GUI) to discard some engines, or to replace > an