Re: [Scid-users] PGN Window

2008-09-04 Thread pascal . georges1
Selon Alexander Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Pascal Georges wrote: > > Hello! > > If I may ... ;) > > > Two observations form the PGN window: > > > > - Is it a bug or a feature that all commentary gets enclosed > > in {} if I check the "Strip out coloured square/arrow > > co

Re: [Scid-users] Tablebase question 6men on HDD

2008-09-04 Thread pascal . georges1
Selon Alexander Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > pgeorges wrote: > > Hi! > Is it very difficult to add this? Does it make sense? It is of course feasible, but as I am sure I will not be able any time soon to get a significant amount of 6 men TB, I have no plan to do it. But volunteers are welcome.

Re: [Scid-users] Scid Pocket

2008-01-14 Thread pascal . georges1
Selon Alexander Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Another option would be Hiarcs for Palm, but as a commercial > program it might be a target to interface to it's pgn > converter but OC would have the advantage of being OS. > > An outbound interface to sme external convertor is on my > personal wishl

Re: [Scid-users] Play on internet

2008-01-09 Thread pascal . georges1
Selon Alexander Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Even when scidpocket runs on Linux, I have to check on > > which OS I am in order to have all Tcl code work. > > Just for my understanding: you mean you run sicd on a pocket > PC (some ARM machine), but this ARM runs on Linux, not on > WinCE? Just

Re: [Scid-users] Input Engine

2007-12-10 Thread pascal . georges1
Selon Alexander Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 12:54:00PM +0100, pgeorges wrote: > > Hello! > > > > Now, the point is how do I see inside scid that the > > > engine made a move? Is there currently a way to see > > > this? > > > > > You have example code in sergame.tcl f

Re: [Scid-users] UCI Engine Config

2007-11-28 Thread pascal . georges1
Selon Alexander Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > Good Morning! > > >>From UCI protocol, one can read : > > == > [...] > > == > > This last sentence made m

Re: [Scid-users] UCI Engine Config

2007-11-27 Thread pascal . georges1
Selon Alexander Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi! > > Just as I wrote a script yestereve to simplify the setup of > PolyGlot. Engines like Fruit 2.3.1 (now again free but still > CS) or Shredder 11 have quite a bunch of settings... > > In scid the current Engine Setup Dialog for UCI drops _all_ >

Re: [Scid-users] Tree Cache Files

2007-11-23 Thread pascal . georges1
Selon Alexander Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > pgeorges schrieb: > > Hi! > > > I tried to extend the number of lines used to fill the tree cache (2000 > > lines from ECO classification). Then I ran it with a tree from a 3 M > > games base : the cache would need several weeks to be filled (!). >

Re: [Scid-users] Graphics

2007-11-08 Thread pascal . georges1
Selon Michal Rudolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > pgeorges, wtorek, 6 listopada 2007: > >Hi, > > > >For those willing to try it, I released a RC2 version with : > >- a new chess set : Fantasy, which is a really nice one (thanks to Uwe > >Klimmek) > Feel free to add some pieces from ChessX. They are now

Re: [Scid-users] Crafty and *.emd

2007-10-19 Thread pascal . georges1
Selon Ejner Borgbjerg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 10/18/07, pgeorges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Michal Rudolf a écrit : > > > Ejner Borgbjerg, czwartek, 18 pa¼dziernika 2007: > > > > > > Please check following position: > > > 3r4/2KP4/8/3R3p/6k1/8/8/8 b - - 2 66 > > > > > > Here Crafty works co

Re: [Scid-users] Scid and non-ascii world?

2007-10-02 Thread pascal . georges1
Selon Marcin Kasperski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > As far as I know Scid always uses UTF-8 encoding for PGN files. It > > is a bit broken on export, but that's probably Tcl fault, not > > Scid's. I am not sure Scid uses UTF-8 : if I enter white player as "ùà" for example, it will be exported in PG

Re: [Scid-users] Scid and non-ascii world?

2007-10-02 Thread pascal . georges1
Selon Marcin Kasperski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > PGN is "Portable Game Notation", a standard designed for the > > representation of chess game data using ASCII text files. > > Well, this is false for long, long years. Plenty of games annotated in > German, French, Russian, Polish, Hungarian,

Re: [Scid-users] On multiple trees

2007-09-13 Thread pascal . georges1
Selon Michal Rudolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> * It is easy to get wrong tree for current database if there > >>> is only one open > >I would also put a ??? NAG. > Ok, the problem is that default behavior has changed. Now you don't get a > tree > for current database when you switch databases. Ins

Re: [Scid-users] Funny things in the source distro

2007-08-23 Thread pascal . georges1
That's not that the source distribution would have been really smaller, but it would have been far cleaner (blush) ! Pascal Selon Marcin Kasperski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think that the *source* distribution would be noticeably > smaller, if it did not contain the following files (the list > be

Re: [Scid-users] [patch] Handling directory hierarchy better on Linux, without spoiling the current state on Windows

2007-08-23 Thread pascal . georges1
Thank you Marcin, it is integrated. But before I fully understood what you did, and after I patched the code with yours, I wrote the following fallback code : # detect the case where, under Linux, Scid is used without prior installation # the fallback directory is Scid's exec dir if {! [file isdir

Re: [Scid-users] Opening tree easier? Multiple tries at once? Disabling tree sync temporarily?

2007-08-20 Thread pascal . georges1
Selon Marcin Kasperski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well, a few separate suggestions regarding the tree window. > > (background) I am using scid to keep reference database(s) (split > by eco) and search for opening ideas You are not alone ! :-) > 1. Open the tree easier. > > Let's say you are view

Re: [Scid-users] No serious game

2007-06-22 Thread pascal . georges1
Hi, This is fixed in Scid 3.6.16. Pascal Selon Ralf Stephan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > what could be the reason that, as soon after a 'serious game' > against toga leaves the book, I get an error box saying > > can't read "analysis(waitForBestMove3)": no such element in array > can't read

Re: [Scid-users] Comment Limit on games?

2007-06-14 Thread pascal . georges1
Hi Cory, Do you use Scid or Pocket Scid ? For Scid, it works (I just checked with Scid 3.6.15). For Pocket Scid, it does not work due to its buffer/blocks limitations that are similar to Scid 3.6.1. Pascal Selon Cory Helfrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello Pascal, > > This error recurred today.

Re: [Scid-users] Strange Scid death

2007-04-26 Thread pascal . georges1
Selon Chris Lott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > OK-- I didn't know if there was something *I* could do from my end. I > have noticed the behavior in a few other circumstances, but it was > very rare and I attributed it to something I did... we'll see what > happens as time goes by... An attempt could be

[Scid-users] HTML export (finished ?)

2007-04-23 Thread pascal . georges1
Hi, You can see how the HTML export looks now at http://prolinux.free.fr/scid/games/Bxh7.html http://prolinux.free.fr/scid/games/gda.html I added : - coordinates; - board rotation; - moving back and forward with arrow keys (left and right arrows), which only works with Firefox; - new piece sets a

Re: [Scid-users] HTML export

2007-04-21 Thread pascal . georges1
Selon Michal Rudolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > A few suggestions: > * squares have wrong colors (e1 should be black) Ooops. > * keyboard use will be great (left/right/home/end) although I am not a > JavaScript expert and have no idea how to do it This should be feasible. > * better piece graphics

Re: [Scid-users] Two Qs: Annotating past end of game and training positions

2007-04-16 Thread pascal . georges1
Selon Chris Lott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Two Scid questions: > > 1) How can I add annotations past the last move of a game? For > instance, if the game ends on 12. Bxf7 and I want to add what might > have happened had the game continued with 12 ... Rxf7? Edit->Add variation (ctrl A) or use the rig

Re: [Scid-users] Keyboard input handling

2007-04-13 Thread pascal . georges1
Hi, Selon Joost 't Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am entering this text from a Gnome session: Fortunately Scid works fine, as > it used to, so the problem is apparently in the KDE distribution of Suse > 10.2. I am (slowly, since not a Gnome fan) getting the feeling the Suse team > did not do a gre

Re: [Scid-users] Compile SCID on AMD64 machine ...

2007-03-28 Thread pascal . georges1
Hi, The problem comes from Crafty compilation phase : it currently tries a "make linux" which targets an x86. Just change it to "make linux-amd64" and it should work in Makefile.conf : Replace crafty: cd engines/crafty-20.14/ && make linux && cd ../../ with crafty: cd engines/craf

Re: [Scid-users] Scid 3.6.9 released

2007-03-27 Thread pascal . georges1
Hi, I don't have any Mac myself, but did you try to rename Makefile.conf.darwin to Makefile.conf and run ./configure && make ? You may also skip Crafty compilation, get its binary directly from internet... Sorry if I can't help more. Pascal Selon Richard Vaughn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, Pasca

Re: [Scid-users] Feature request: adding variations

2007-03-12 Thread pascal . georges1
So I added this : entering a move with the right mouse button will automatically add a new variation if necessary. Left mouse button works as usual. I prefer this to the use of Shift + Mouse because when entering moves from a chess book, you always need your left hand to keep the book opened at the

Re: [Scid-users] Where to put analysis ?

2007-03-11 Thread pascal . georges1
Selon Richard Vaughn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Mar 11, 2007, at 5:28 AM, pgeorges wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Now Scid can annotate a whole database, (all moves for each game or > > only > > the opening phase). > > Nice. I assume we can filter the base and perform the annotations > just on the flit

[Scid-users] Clipboard base : let's be generous !

2007-03-09 Thread pascal . georges1
We all know RAM is cheap nowadays. I made some tries with Scid and here is the memory footprint I got : Scid empty : 26 MB + -> with a base of 1.5 M games loaded : 128 MB + -> with 1 M games in clipboard : 359 MB So I think the clipboard can handle 1 M games without problems. If an user get

Re: [Scid-users] New Scid version released

2007-02-14 Thread pascal . georges1
Well, it's the first time I here about it, but I have ideas (although I am really surprised because I did not call sc_epd in my changes : 'grep sc_epd tcl/tools/*' gives no result ... ) 1. Don't issue a make install, run scid from the compilation dir; 2. You have scid already installed, and there

Re: [Scid-users] Takeover denied -> Let us move forward

2007-02-14 Thread pascal . georges1
Selon "Dr. David Kirkby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In fact Pascal *does* use code I wrote - which I have no objection at > all too. > (The line below appears in the first ChessDB/tcl/end.tcl) > > "Shane is NOT reponsible for bugs in ChessDB\n\n" > "Shane is NOT reponsible for bugs in Scid\n\n" Yes,

Re: [Scid-users] Takeover denied -> Let us move forward

2007-02-14 Thread pascal . georges1
What D kirkby wrote at SF is worth reading :-) Strange he does not mention all of it here. Here is my answer : Hi, There are some lies in D Kirkby objections : - on Scid-users mailing lists some people said I was the better placed for a take over and a take over is better than letting the proje

Re: [Scid-users] Takeover denied -> Let us move forward

2007-02-13 Thread pascal . georges1
Selon "Dr. David Kirkby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > As you are aware Pascal submitted an application to gain control of Scid. Gain control would mean I wanted to "steal" (or something like that) Scid. That was far from being my intention. I wish someone else had done it. Kirkby can be glad, he nearly

Re: [Scid-users] [Chessdb-users] Scid on source forge

2007-02-13 Thread pascal . georges1
Selon Jean-Renaud Seret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Bonjour, > I recognize you developped interesting and powerful features inside the > so called Scid-pg. That you released patches, plugins or full releases > is not the point. You are working in a solo mode, and that is the wrong > way. That's what my

[Scid-users] How to continue Scid

2007-02-13 Thread pascal . georges1
Hi, Suppose someone continues Scid (a supposition, keep trolls at leash). Let's try to be objective, leave testosterone aside and be analytical : 1. Someone continues Scid : - 1.1 Shane never surfaces again -> Scid stays alive : WIN ! 1.2 Shane comes back 1.2.1 Sha

Re: [Scid-users] Saving games

2007-02-04 Thread pascal . georges1
An explanation maybe the use of recent file list : maybe you don't open the right base (it happened to me). You may have dir1/mydb dir2/mydb You just see "mydb" without paying attention to the directory, and open the wrong DB. Pascal Georges Selon Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi to a

Re: [Scid-users] Saving games

2007-02-04 Thread pascal . georges1
Hi, You do it right, I just checked and it works. What version of Scid do you use ? After saving your game do you see 1/1 in window title ? What do you see if you open the game list (windows -> game list menu) ? Pascal Georges Selon Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi to all, > I'm a new