Re: [Scid-users] Scid forks

2013-01-31 Thread steven a
> What's the point of this [screenshot] ? Nostalgia :) PS. I've changed my email address. Sorry for the hassle. -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Li

[Scid-users] Scid forks

2013-01-31 Thread Steven
Fulvio wrote > My fork?? > As far as i know, this is the current scid code: > http://scid.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=scid/scid;a=summary Mainline Scid nowadays is Pascal's fork. Lots of new features but a bit of a crazy interface. And nowadays it has such a mish-mash of contributions

[Scid-users] Spammed

2013-01-29 Thread Steven
Hmmm - previous emails are a spam/web browser vulnerability. Please don't click on link :( Please email me if you know the origin. Cheers. -- Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Wind

Re: [Scid-users] UCI analysis changes

2013-01-28 Thread Steven
  > I agree that using "startpos" is the correct way. > However it's also the most complicated and I would not be surprised if > it does cause unexpected bugs. Yes, i've found some issues today, but they seem resolved. Null move needs special case, and the "sc_game moves coord" should not retu

[Scid-users] UCI analysis changes

2013-01-27 Thread Steven
One thing Scid does slightly wrong is it's reliance on "position fen"     "position fen $analysis(fen$n)" to do UCI engine analysis. Pascal wrote all the UCI code, but cut a few corners. The obvious problem is, the engine has no way to know if it's next move will immediately lead to a draw when

Re: [Scid-users] Scid iOS Features?

2013-01-21 Thread Steven
iPads are amazing. But please respect Scid's license, and do not include any Scid code with an App distributed through Apple. The App Store EULA is incompatible with the GPL. Steve > > From: Tim Chan >To: Scid Users List >Sent: Monday, 21 January 2013 4:

Re: [Scid-users] Testing

2013-01-04 Thread Steven
Anyway, post here was to ask how the bugs in Scid are going to get fixed, when currently even simple contributed fixes are ignored. Laugh Scid and Scid vs PC will always remain separate software now. The size of the tcl code changes is kind-of huge. Steve --

Re: [Scid-users] Testing

2012-12-31 Thread Steven
even have git commit privilidges. >Not much bugs reported. >Steven crushes them as they come in. Scid vs. PC surely has very few bugs now as i'm still working on it every other day for the last few years. My early efforts were a bit raw, but latest release is very solid. Since 4.8,

Re: [Scid-users] Small error in ECO browser

2012-12-07 Thread Steven
Thanks. Committed this fix to Scid vs PC yesterday. I guess Scid doesn't have a maintainer anymore ? S. > > From: Okechukwu Iwu >To: scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net >Sent: Thursday, 6 December 2012 10:32 PM >Subject: [Scid-users] Small error in ECO browser

Re: [Scid-users] Annontation _before_ the 1st move of a variant

2012-11-07 Thread Steven
> Is it possible to insert an annotation *before* the first move in a variant? Just click on the first move in the variation, then use wheel mouse or left-arrow to back up one move. Now, enter comment in comment editor and press "Store" S.A. --

[Scid-users] Global matching with the name editor

2012-09-21 Thread Steven
In a recent olympiad db i downloaded, they'd used the site name to store some numeric data, and each site name was different. So what i wanted to do is replace all the sites with something like "Istanbul", (to allow the crosstable to work). Anyway , this patch allows one to use "*" in the name ed

Re: [Scid-users] Importing a PGN and then filtering criteria.

2012-08-26 Thread Steven
perhaps there's another/proper way of filtering games with (non-standard starts) and black/white to move ? Steven -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's secur

Re: [Scid-users] SCID or SCIDVS on Android

2012-08-20 Thread Steven
It's a shame there's no Android port of wish. (Here's a slightly dated link. https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/comp.lang.tcl/DEoFyGUWYmE[1-25] These devices have really come of age imho. But perhaps Scid is a little cumbersome for them even with an 11" screen S.A. ---

Re: [Scid-users] Scid 4.3 - Training Openings running on MacOS 10.7.4

2012-07-10 Thread Steven
>I've got some familiarity with Bookup/Chess Openings Wizard and I was >looking for an application I could run on the Mac that would be >helpful developing my opening repertoire.  I'd played around with Scid >ever now and then in past years and thought I'd look at it again.  The >feature I was mo

Re: [Scid-users] Searching in SCID, will this be fixed?!?

2012-06-23 Thread Steven
checking it out when i get the chance of a big download. Steven > > From: Philip C. Cavanagh >To: scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net >Sent: Saturday, 23 June 2012 1:19 AM >Subject: [Scid-users] Searching in SCID, will this be fixed?!? > >

Re: [Scid-users] Engine Annotation Score Format

2012-05-23 Thread Steven
In fact - SCID doesn't use this notation since 4.2 (?), and has a better way now - splitting the from/to scores nicely. Sorry about missing this. > And I suppose this depends on the analysis engine, whether its from > White's point of view? "i.e more negative is better for Black"? > > Or doe

Re: [Scid-users] Engine Annotation Score Format

2012-05-22 Thread Steven
der if theses score orders should be reversed ? Steven -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can re

Re: [Scid-users] files disappeared

2012-05-17 Thread Steven
> In a large database (about 8 games) I had deleted 300 > doublets. Then > I tried compacting the database. SCID crashed and the .sg- > and .si files > simply disappeared without a trace. What has happened? > > A re-build of the database from the sources will take only > few minutes, > tha

Re: [Scid-users] scid & scid vs pc

2012-04-07 Thread Steven
> The pieces look a bit fuzzy, and the black Knight on the left side isn't > even on the square. Is that because of FICS? The Fantasy pieces have a drop shadow. And piece movement is animated... the knight is moving. The slider scales the boards. This is a subersion snapshot. The only major dif

Re: [Scid-users] scid & scid vs pc

2012-04-05 Thread Steven
> I'd rather not start a war.  But if possible could anyone explain what > "scid vs pc" is.  And why one might prefer it or reject it in > comparison to scid. Really, i'm not sure why people still use mainline Scid except that it has much more links to the project page. Obviously, the devs al

[Scid-users] Critter EGTB bug (Problem in UCI options configuration?)

2012-03-06 Thread Steven
This is actually a small bug in Critter 1.4 with gaviota tablebases, which affects Scid. Richard Vida has told me it wil be fixed in the next version, but this line added to uci.tcl (or scid.gui) works around the issue. --- tcl/tools/uci.tcl   (revision 1024) +++ tcl/tools/uci.tcl   (working co

Re: [Scid-users] Problems building scid

2012-01-29 Thread Steven
/lib or /usr/local/lib, then you may have to just issue "sudo ldconfig" to let the linker/loader know about them. Not all operating systems do this at reboot. If this doesn't help, you can also try "man ld.so" and look for info about t

Re: [Scid-users] Problem using SCID

2011-12-01 Thread Steven
It's just the missing directory that's the problem i think. Make this directory somehow. Try "mkdirhier /Users/costantino/Desktop/SCID/MyGames" from the command line. Steven Atkinson From: Costantino DELIZIA Subject: Re: [Scid-users] Problem using SCID To: scid-users@l

Re: [Scid-users] bug: scid closes abruptly when setting up board

2011-11-21 Thread Steven
This is a bug with tcl/tk-8.5.10 S.A. --- On Mon, 21/11/11, rzan...@fastmail.fm wrote: > From: rzan...@fastmail.fm > Subject: [Scid-users] bug: scid closes abruptly when setting up board > To: "scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net" > Received: Monday, 21 November, 2011, 11:04 PM > Reproducible: T

Re: [Scid-users] Segfault closing and reopening tree window

2011-11-14 Thread Steven
> I checked with gdb, and it looks like you're right about it being a problem with 8.5.10. > Do you know if it's been fixed in 8.5.11? It seems fixed. I knew they had found the bug, and after a one second test just now with tk-8.5.11, it works ok. S. -

Re: [Scid-users] Chess960 patch

2011-11-14 Thread Steven
Yay... It seems good after a quick test. Are there any known bugs or issues. Steven --- On Mon, 14/11/11, Ben Hague wrote: From: Ben Hague Subject: [Scid-users] Chess960 patch To: "SCIDUsers" Received: Monday, 14 November, 2011, 2:47 PM Patch to scid in git for chess960 su

Re: [Scid-users] Segfault closing and reopening tree window

2011-11-14 Thread Steven
I just ran a quick test and can reproduce this on 8.5.10. You're probably using tcl/tk-8.5.10 , which has some nasty related bugs. To verify which version, have a look in Scid's about window. You'll probably want to install a different version of tcl and tk. S.A. --- On Mon, 14/11/11, Ben Hague

Re: [Scid-users] scid question

2011-11-09 Thread Steven
> I have been using Scid for one year or so and I think it is a good software. > However I couldn't find so much ".sci" files, really the only file that I > could find was in the mailing list. ".sci" is the database format for Scidb. Scid databases are ".si4" Popular free ".si4" databases incl

Re: [Scid-users] Scid Annotate to a Certain Depth

2011-10-28 Thread Steven
I really should give this a miss now Steve. I'm a little busy to try to make this feature right now. > On that subject, I > see both a CVS and a git repository for Scid.  Which > one should I pull from? Git > I broke my Scid while adding a depth widget to the > Annotation window and trying se

Re: [Scid-users] inverse time order in table base

2011-10-28 Thread Steven
Joost wrote: > Actually, I checked the current development version of Scid and > noticed that the database sorting stuff is entirely gone. To my > unpleasant surprise, I must admit. It was probably an oversight of commiter to use the same proc name for the new procedure. At the risk of stating th

Re: [Scid-users] Making Scid Annotate to a Certain Depth

2011-10-26 Thread Steven
I can't make Shredder Classic 4 crash. And your continue is in the wrong place - though i'm not sure it should make any diff. Using "after 1500 autoplay" means autoplay can get interupted altogether. It should be just "autoplay" I have: if { $t == "depth" } { incr i set uciInfo(depth$n)

[Scid-users] Buggy wish 8.5.10

2011-10-26 Thread Steven
I should mention that Wish-8.5.10 has some nasty ttk:: bugs that affect Scid in a couple of places, and this version should be avoided. For eg: Start Scid Press control-shift-s (setup board appears) Press escape (setup board dissappears) Press control-shift-s (Scid crashes) There probably othe

Re: [Scid-users] Making Scid Annotate to a Certain Depth

2011-10-26 Thread Steven
vestigate later. It's a good hack i think ;> I managed to accidentally remove the "continue" command which should still be there. So i can't really continue testing. My hack will probably have to deal with issues at near mate situations too. 11 or 12 is probably a good

Re: [Scid-users] Bugreport Board Search

2011-10-26 Thread Steven
I can reproduce this bug. Gerd did some heavy stuff with the filter, but i haven't tried to debug SCID's code, so i'm not sure of the cause. Perhaps it's something trivial. I think i even had a crash messing around with this, but can't easily reproduce. How i missed this feature in Scid vs. P

Re: [Scid-users] Making Scid Annotate to a Certain Depth

2011-10-26 Thread Steven
> > In normal operation the timer callback operation > (search for autoplay) makes the next move on the board and > restarts the timer. A kind of self propelling mechanism, > which stops at the end of the game. Actually, this "after $autoplayDelay autoplay" sucks badly, and makes the whole thing

Re: [Scid-users] Generating bookfile

2011-10-22 Thread Steven
I think you have to export the database to PGN, and then download the full polyglot  binary (or source) and use it to make a book from the command line using something like "polyglot make-book -pgn PGNFILE". Steven --- On Sat, 22/10/11, W. van den Akker wrote: From: W. van

Re: [Scid-users] Opening a second base by double clicking on it

2011-10-04 Thread Steven
I had a little look at this and made some changes to launch the correct version of scid. Hopefully they work. Steve --- scidvspc/scripts/sc_remote.tk (revision 834) +++ scidvspc/scripts/sc_remote.tk (working copy) @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ #!/bin/sh # Emacs please open me in -*-Tcl-*- mode

Re: [Scid-users] Scid theme is broken (or something)

2011-09-05 Thread Steven
; > scheme to Scid, and is controlled by "Apply colours to > non-KDE > > applications" (for example) somewhere in your window > manager's > > preferences. > > > > Steven > > > > Thanks for the advice but unfortunately I couldn't f

Re: [Scid-users] Scid theme is broken (or something)

2011-09-04 Thread Steven
on-KDE applications" (for example) somewhere in your window manager's preferences. Steven -- Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better

Re: [Scid-users] Scid theme is broken (or something)

2011-09-04 Thread Steven
on-KDE applications" (for example) somewhere in your window manager's preferences. Steven -- Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better

[Scid-users] Scid-vs-PC mailing list

2011-07-27 Thread Steven
I've started up the scid-vs-pc mailing list https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scidvspc-users Cheers -- Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask for help often. Plus

Re: [Scid-users] Freeze On startup, Configuration file will not die

2011-07-06 Thread Steven
Edit ~/.scid/config/options.dat and change "windowsDock" to 0. Hopefully it'll start up now S. > >From: "internetbox2...@gmx.com" >To: scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net >Sent: Wed, 6 July, 2011 12:08:47 PM >Subject: [Scid-users] Freeze On startup, Configuration file will not die > >Hi there,

Re: [Scid-users] New "Best tree games" window

2011-06-28 Thread Steven
Just a silly case scenario that causes the new code to crash. Open Icofy or junkbase [Junkbase has unmatched braces (amongst other bad stuff) in player names, but Icofy isnt too bad i think]. Open Gamelist -> Press Sort -> Don't add any criteria, and press Sort. Scid crashes. And Fulvio's switc

Re: [Scid-users] New "Best tree games" window

2011-06-18 Thread Steven
Haha ... after a brief look, code is pretty amazing. I think the switcher uses a distinct filter cache from the gamelist ? My system throws an error for this: - ttk::bindMouseWheel $w.glist "glist.ybar_ $w.glist" -> invalid command name "ttk::bindMouseWheel" Instead i use + bindMouseWheel $w.glis

Re: [Scid-users] Linux Flavor for Scid

2011-06-12 Thread Steven
I tried to install Ubuntu 11.04 yesterday, but my cheap magazine dvd was broken :< Anyway - see the comments here about Natty Narwhale. Not good. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ubuntu-11.04-natty-narwhal,2943-4.html --

Re: [Scid-users] Comparing databases

2011-06-09 Thread Steven
> Over the years I have build up quite a number of databases. Some of > them seem to have been created for the same purpose, and contain > similar, if not the same material. Is there a was to compare databases > without merging them. If you sort the databases, then do a "Save" from the game

Re: [Scid-users] Comments buggy!

2011-05-31 Thread Steven
nt editor binds comment stores to focus-out events. Steven - Original Message > From: Mike Morrison > To: Steven > Cc: Scid Users List > Sent: Wed, 25 May, 2011 4:06:16 AM > Subject: Re: [Scid-users] Comments buggy! > > Okay, I was able to reproduce the problem in

Re: [Scid-users] Linux Flavor for Scid

2011-05-29 Thread Steven
e and want an enterprise class product, have a look at Scientific Linux (based on Redhat Enterprise Linux). Steven -- vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security. With the market-leading solution for virtual ba

Re: [Scid-users] New features for game list window

2011-05-27 Thread Steven
in the bottom bar of the game list window to allow in >memory resorting of a database. How is your testing going Gerd ? Any known-bugs or updates to the sort cache feature ? IMHO this is very important code if it can be made bug-free. (Which , sadly, can be a tough ask given Scid

Re: [Scid-users] Comments buggy!

2011-05-23 Thread Steven
> Okay, now I'm noticing comments disappearing (wonder if it's an old bug, > since >it was mentioned previously on the list)... This is the situation in which >they >disappeared: > > Wrote a comment on a move, then used +V to add stockfish analysis variations >to the move, and also to

[Scid-users] Ratings graph

2011-05-01 Thread Steven
Just had to post this documentation typo from the "Graph window" help page. " in addition the readability degreases." Anyway there's a minor bug in calculating half moves for the Moves Filter Graph. Instead of for {set i $startMove} {$i <= $endMove} {set i [expr {$i + $FilterStepMoves}]

Re: [Scid-users] Advice for building lrghe game database

2011-04-27 Thread Steven
> From: Mark Morss > I rely on Opening Master, out of Bratislava. Their main data base > currently contains 6.1 million games. They claim no duplicates, and > duplicates are indeed difficult to discover. What seem to be duplicates > are often different match games played between the same

Re: [Scid-users] Help for testing

2011-04-24 Thread Steven
Fulvio wrote: >The attached (huge) patch is a diff of my local copy with current cvs. >I will appreciate any help for testing the code. >The main changes are: >- a new window when you click the "best games" button in the "tree window" >- moving in a game with keyboard arrows or mouse wheel is fast

[Scid-users] ECO browser, iPhone chessbase app

2011-04-22 Thread Steven
Chessbase have a nice product for iPhone/iPad. An on-line 4 million game DB for 4 euros. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7167 Anyone still working on an iPhone Scid app now ? --- The ECO browser seems to have initiation problems. It display empty results until i run the "Cla

Re: [Scid-users] Piece translation on OSX

2011-04-22 Thread Steven
> One more issue on OSX: piece translation does not work. It works fine > on Windows 7, but fails on OSX. How to reproduce ? Using German, it seems ok for me. S. -- Fulfilling the Lean Software Promise Lean software

Re: [Scid-users] Bases missing?

2011-04-18 Thread Steven
that's an annoying issue sometimes . The solution is to move the bases directory from where it normally is to somewhere more persistent like $HOME/puzzle_bases. Then in "options->bases_directory", select this new directory. Steven ---

Re: [Scid-users] OSX issues

2011-04-16 Thread Steven
> "Mac OS X 10.6 or later required !" "Abort trap (core dumped)" ... Could you please mail me your xcode project files ? Steven - Original Message > From: Israel Chauca F. > To: Steven > Cc: Scid Users List > Sent: Sat, 16 April, 2011 1:40:41 P

Re: [Scid-users] OSX issues

2011-04-15 Thread Steven
I think this patch fixes the Docked-Mode startup size being too small (when run for the first time). How to test : remove ~/.scid and start scid: the widget is too small. The problem's not confined to OSX either. Steven init_size_fix.patch Description: Binary

Re: [Scid-users] OSX issues

2011-04-14 Thread Steven
> From: Steven > I tried installing scid-4.3-macosx.zip on my G4, but the program quits soon > (1 > to 3 seconds) after startup is complete > with (Console message) "com.apple.launchd[69] > [0x0-0xd50d5].net.sourceforge.scid[3645] Exited with exit code 1&

[Scid-users] OSX issues

2011-04-12 Thread Steven
her app is installed to applications or not. My mac is not connected to the web. Testing when compiled from source: Steven wrote > Moreover, the gamelist widget is only 1 line high [in docked mode] Ooops. Not the "gamelist" widget, but the "gameinfo" widget - below the mai

Re: [Scid-users] Keyboard move entry

2011-04-11 Thread Steven
> >> So now, I can start in undocked mode. I can live with that for now. > > > > I understand that keyboard entry works there, right? > > Yep, in undocked mode, it works without any probs. Yes, docked mode in OSX needs work. Additionally, there is no way to access right-click menus with a sin

Re: [Scid-users] Keyboard move entry

2011-04-10 Thread Steven
I got myself a Mac this week. (1.33MHz G4/ati7550/756ram/OSX-10.5/wish-8.5.8 from source) Compiling from cvs source, SCID's docked mode keyboard move entry doesn't work for me either. I can't imagine why. Whatever i do it doesn't work. I quickly had a look at Gerd's recent move position rewri

Re: [Scid-users] [Help] Ubuntu 11.04 install scid

2011-04-09 Thread Steven
he plot, thinking about replacing X). S. >Thanks for the quick response! My system is AMD64 same! Added the line you >suggested, but did not work. > > > > > >>- Menssagem Original - >> >>De: Steven >> >>Para:"Welton Vaz de Souza&q

Re: [Scid-users] [Help] Ubuntu 11.04 install scid

2011-04-09 Thread Steven
If your system is 64 bit, try adding "/usr/lib64" to the file "configure", before running it again: set x11Path { /usr/lib +/usr/lib64 /usr/X11/lib Steven > >From: Welton Vaz de Souza >To: scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net >Sent:

Re: [Scid-users] Allowed path length

2011-02-28 Thread Steven
gt; > cu > Alexander I don't suppose this fixes the issue ? In tcl/file.tcl: proc openBase {name} { + + set name [encoding convertto utf-8 $name] + - Steven -- Free Software Download: Index, Search

[Scid-users] Best-games widget

2011-02-25 Thread Steven
Games widget seems to dock fine. I hacked up the attached patch (not well tested) to see how it went. Possibly the reason Pascal never docked it is because of the silly PGN pane (which i've removed) below the bestgame listbox. Steven dock_and_si

Re: [Scid-users] Allowed path length

2011-02-23 Thread Steven
Hmmm.. most apps use MAX_PATH or PATH_MAX, but Scid seems to use "512", so filename length is probably not the problem. src/common.h: -- // File-related Types typedef char fileNameT [512]; typedef uintfileLengthT; --

Re: [Scid-users] Allowed path length

2011-02-22 Thread Steven
> Can it be that there is a maximum allowed path length? > > When I try to open a file from > C:\Users\Rulla\Bernis Dateien\Schach\Eroeffnungen\A57-A59 Wolgagambit > > I get the error message "Error opening index file". > > When I open the same file from > C:\Users\Rulla\Desktop\Schach >

Re: [Scid-users] Support for Chess960 or Fischer Random

2011-02-22 Thread Steven
quot;ls scid960 && find scid960 -name CVS | xargs rm -r" (but use carefully!) to make the tarball smaller. Cheers. , Steven --- NOTE : First line from engine seen; sending it initial commands now. Scid : uci Engine: Toga II 1.3.1 UCI based on Fruit 2.1 b

Re: [Scid-users] Sorting by variations patch

2011-02-21 Thread Steven
und 20 MB memory for a >5.000.000 database. More filters !... [runs screaming from room]. >But I am not sure whether sorting is really necessary. I would use it only to >get commented and top-rated games to the top of the list, b

Re: [Scid-users] I hate to wait [PATCH]

2011-02-19 Thread Steven
Hmmm... my idea is interesting, but it needs some work. And sometimes engines throw up misconceived Mate lines too: 5R1k/8/7B/4p2p/pq6/4N3/6R1/6K1 b - - 5 56 1 [+5.21] 56. ... Kh7 (0.00) 2 [M2] 56. ... Kh7 57. Rg7+ Kxh6 58. Nf5# (0.01) 2 [+11.79] 56. ... Qxf8 57. Bxf8 h4 58. Kh2 h3 59. Kxh

Re: [Scid-users] I hate to wait [PATCH]

2011-02-19 Thread Steven
Perhaps this > set ::analysis(maxDepth$n) $mate should be > set ::analysis(maxDepth$n) $plies but it seems to run better as is. Steven sa_dont_process_extra_depths.patch Description: Binary data -- T

Re: [Scid-users] I hate to wait [PATCH]

2011-02-19 Thread Steven
Joost't wrote: > Yes, I posted about these stockfish anomalies before. > > And have some ideas in handling this; although I also hope that next sf > releases will somehow start to behave... Stockfish 191 was very bad. I just upgraded to 2.0.1 and it seems better behaved. The way it loads

Re: [Scid-users] I hate to wait [PATCH]

2011-02-19 Thread Steven
Hmmm. I'm not so sure about the analysis changes and near mate positions - the patch seems to perform worse than before. Try this position 2Q1qk1r/2p5/8/8/8/6P1/6K1/5R2 b - - 0 5 , bring up stockfish and press "add move" till the end. --

Re: [Scid-users] I hate to wait [PATCH]

2011-02-18 Thread Steven
No problems here :> One thing that still needs fixing is the engine sending multiple "mate in 3", "mate in 2"... lines for every depth. There's probably multiple ways to approach this, but which is best ?? S. -

Re: [Scid-users] Support for Chess960 or Fischer Random

2011-02-16 Thread Steven
> Hello, > 1) I create a new file and put games in. I close the file, repoen it > again, no problem. > 2) I move all three files to another folder. > 3) When I try to open the file again, I receive the error message "Error > opening index file". > 4) After closing the file, I move the three fi

Re: [Scid-users] updateBoard [Patch]

2011-02-13 Thread Steven
Nice one ;> - Original Message > From: "f...@libero.it" > To: Scid Users List > Sent: Sun, 13 February, 2011 8:23:19 PM > Subject: [Scid-users] updateBoard [Patch] > > Sometimes i move very fast in a game with the mouse wheel or keeping pressed > the left arrow on the keyboard. > Sci

[Scid-users] Header search anomoly

2011-02-12 Thread Steven
I've noticed an unusual search bug. On the attached DB, perform a header search for "Anand". Note that "Adorjan Andras" matches. Can everyone reproduce this ? Bad. test.tgz Description: application/compressed -

[Scid-users] CVS

2011-02-11 Thread Steven
Shame about CVS working again... It's really a pain in the bum. I don't suppose there's any chance of Scid going to subversion ? Steven --- On Tue, 1/2/11, Joost 't Hart wrote: From: Joost 't Hart Subject: Re: [Scid-users] Sourceforge down? To: scid-users@lists

[Scid-users] iconify feature bugfix

2011-02-07 Thread Steven
Hm try this one. S.A. fix_iconify2.patch Description: Binary data -- The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access resources and provide services. The best practices for maximizing a phy

[Scid-users] iconify feature bugfix

2011-02-07 Thread Steven
Hi Alex, I was looking at the auto-iconify feature today and I remember you talking about it more than once and thought to fix it. What's happening with docked windows is fairly complicated, so there could be issues, but this patch works for me on fedora 7 with KDE-3.5 and fvwm2. Steve

Re: [Scid-users] Where the games saved in clipboard go?

2011-02-05 Thread Steven
Joost wrote: > What Scid could do is produce a warning when you try to leave scid with games in the clip base (like it warns you when you leave scid with an unsaved game in a regular base). Personally I do not feel the need for such dialog, but I have only 1 opinion on this :-) Yeah.

Re: [Scid-users] how to configure font in PGN window?

2011-02-05 Thread Steven
> I can modify most fonts in SCID, except the one used in the PGN window.  Is this currently even possible?  A quick peak at the source shows it uses font_Bold, and "Bold" is not listed in the font options menu, so I'm guess that no, this is not configurable (at least not using main UI).  Any w

Re: [Scid-users] Fics won't connect on AMD64 Fedora 14

2011-01-30 Thread Steven
> > I get "can't get peername: socket is not connected". > > > >> fconfigure $sockChan > > > > returns > > > >> -blocking 1 -buffering full -buffersize 4096 > -encoding utf-8 > >> -eofchar {{} {}} -translation {auto crlf} > >> -sockname {***.**.65.4 > pa***-**-65-4.pa.nsw.optusnet.com.au 5471} > >

[Scid-users] Fics won't connect on AMD64 Fedora 14

2011-01-29 Thread Steven
Note, there's no entry for "-peername". It's obviously a networking issue, but i'm not much of a guru. Does anyone how the problem ? Steven -- Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger fo

Re: [Scid-users] Add Pieces Style

2011-01-24 Thread Steven
> How to? adding Pieces Style in SCID In the attachments are the encoding scripts, and a pieces template which should be resized to various sizes, and then encoded and put in tcl/bitmaps.tcl. Perhaps one day i'll write it up properly. Steve scid_pieces_stuff.tgz Description: GNU Zip compr

Re: [Scid-users] Potential data loss using trees

2011-01-24 Thread Steven
> > You have mixed up core changes like inlining > ReadTwoBytes > > with the bestgames feature change. These should be in > separate patches, not together. Large patches like this > should have documentation about wtf they do. Ditto the > Storedline changes. > > You've removed the button bar. Congr

[Scid-users] Fruit and Rybka

2011-01-24 Thread Steven
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Re: [Scid-users] Potential data loss using trees

2011-01-23 Thread Steven
I haven't had time to ~really~ look it over, but these are my initial observations. Obviously they don't mean too much anyway. > Yes, the code is primitive Of course there's no way Alex could accept this in any short period of time. Thanks for the patch. Your contributions are very good :> B

Re: [Scid-users] Add Pieces Style

2011-01-23 Thread Steven
You can only "set png_image_support 1" if you have TkImg installed. Without TkImg the pieces must be base64 encoded gifs. With TkImg, the pieces can also be base64 encode pngs, which allow for better image quality. Does this help ? Steven --- On Mon, 24/1/11, Francesco Bianco wr

Re: [Scid-users] Potential data loss using trees

2011-01-23 Thread Steven
Interesting! But so many bugs. 1. In undocked mode. Open database -> Click on tree toolbar icon ->Try to close tree windo (won't close) 2. Open database -> Click on tree toolbar icon twice -> Click on best games icon ->core dump. S. --

[Scid-users] Bugs

2011-01-21 Thread Steven
Alex wrote: > I currently experience > > invalid command name "" > invalid command name "" > > when calling either absolute or relative filter graph. I can't reproduce it. -- > >> Is it necessary to load the first filter game > > Isn't otherwise the tree be decoupled f

Re: [Scid-users] Potential data loss using trees

2011-01-20 Thread Steven
ot be generated accurately after this patch is added, if [sc_game altered] is true. Is it possible to just remove "sc_game load [sc_filter first]" Sorry if i'm a tree togolodyte. Steven -- Protec

Re: [Scid-users] Database Switcher in Gamelist window ?

2011-01-19 Thread Steven
ow.  This might not an important point > for you, as you do > not care about that window.  I would care about it. > > Would this idea work for you, Steven? Hmmm... your idea of having gamelist context menus to duplicate switcher functionality seems reasonable, but just makes me more

[Scid-users] Database Switcher in Gamelist window ?

2011-01-16 Thread Steven
;s better in the gamelist widget, as it makes database management very easy, but i'm not 100% convinced yet. The gamelist widget is normally fairly wide anyway, and this means the database switcher can be r

Re: [Scid-users] Bug: Scid crashes at startup with Dutch language

2011-01-15 Thread Steven
Joost wrote > I might (or might not) be looking for an > alternate strategy to produce an english-only executable. Doesn't this suffice ? ./configure LANGUAGES="" Or perhaps you mean something else. Steve

Re: [Scid-users] Bug: Keyboard move entry broken

2011-01-13 Thread Steven
Fulvio's solution fixes the initial bug for me Alex wrote: > Just an addendum: the issue is NOT only there in the > starting position, > but also in more advanced positions of a game. Can you give examples of how to reproduce ? Steve ---

Re: [Scid-users] PGN window unstable

2011-01-03 Thread Steven
Thanks everyone for ironing out these bugs. It's good to get alternative builds which show up these dormant bugs. S. -- Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate da

Re: [Scid-users] PGN window unstable

2011-01-03 Thread Steven
Gerd, Have the recent changes fixed the PGN instability issue ? Joost wrote: > Yet what surprised me is that flag values > 3 really > could be > meaningless. Note that they are not taken into account in > the switch > statement to follow. Hence I wonder what is going on in the > hash > machin

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

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