Hello,
I have again some remarks - without source code. But for this I have an
excuse, because my notebook has been stolen and I will have a
development environment not before end of next month. But so I was
forced to use Scid for the tournament I played. But the first I promise
to implement as soon my environment is back.
If the e.g. user clicks on e4 in the initial position, there is only one
legal move matching this field e2-e4. So it would be nice, if Scid could
recognize this and perform this move. This allows entering games faster.
If a user opens a game window the natural next task is to replay the
game. So the game window should get the focus. Otherwise the user has to
click first on it before he can use the cursors.
If a treeview window is part of the startup configuration it should be
initially disabled. Otherwise it may build the statistic for the initial
position for a large database and so slow done the startup a couple of
seconds.
A bit more complicated is the following. If I have a treeview open for a
large database, Scid is blocked after each move until the statistics of
the new position is calculated. This is anoying if you want to put in
several moves. If the user starts to add a second move, the current
calculation of the statistics is obsolete and should stop. Basicely this
is what the engines do, because they run in a dedicated process and scid
can still handle user input on the board. Implemention depends on the
TCL environment (e.g. thread handling), so I do not know how it is possible.
When I load a game through the game list sometimes the list jumps back
to the first game. If I review a list of 100 games, load number 10 - it
jumps to 1 - go back to 10 to find game 15 interesting - the list again
jumps back... It seems to happen more often when scrolling is done
through the slider and less through the forward button.
The PGN handling is a bid strange. It is possible to open PGN databases
normaly, but it is not possible to create them or copy games to them.
But exactly this functionality is implemented and accessible through
extra menue items under export and import.
Regards, Gerd
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint
What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone?
Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first
_______________________________________________
Scid-users mailing list
Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
