Hi, [Linux/CVS/stockfish 1.6.2]
I am looking at an irritating problem in the annotation realm that I cannot resolve. It is tricky to reproduce and may point to some tcl threading and/or performance problem: 1) Put a position (with some moves to follow) on the board that allows the engine to spot a mate. 2) Start the engine. Stockfish produces a diarrhea of exactly 100 identical mating lines within, say, 20 seconds. Scid needs a lot of energy to consume this and transport the lines into the analysis window. After the 100 lines have come in, things return into idle state, as the engine stops his output. 3) Now do not wait for these 100 lines to complete. As soon as the first lines come in, open the annotation dialogue, enter your favourite annotation options and start the annotation. Try to complete all this before the diarrhea stops. 4) The dialogue closes, the engine is restarted and does his initial thinking. Now wait until autoplay produces the first main line move on the board. This time depends on the thinking time you set in the dialogue. A run-time error from tcl pops up, complaining that "grab $w" cannot succeed because "$w" does no longer exist (in analysis.tcl, line 858). Well, this is true, as it refers to the annotation dialogue window, which was closed some time ago. The grab command (what is it good for?) is at the end of the code actually creating the annotation dialogue that we used to configure and start annotation! Apparently scid was so busy grabbing engine lines, that it could not make it to this instruction before the dialogue was closed because of our "OK, start annotation" command? Is it the "update" command just before that is blocked because of the business elsewhere? What does this command do? If, in step 3 above, we DO wait until all lines have come in before hitting the OK button (the dialogue itself can be opened any time) the problem does not show. Any advice is appreciated. Can someone confirm that this problem does reproduce on 4.2.2 as well? I do not have that at hand. Cheers, Joost. PS: The error pop-up can safely be acknowledged. Annotation continues as expected. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today http://p.sf.net/sfu/msIE9-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
