pgeorges, środa, 14 lutego 2007: >Michal Rudolf a écrit : >> I looked an GUI for setting up UCI engine. While having internal UCI >> support is great, I think the GUI is a bit too much for most users. >> >> My suggestion: >> Put important functions (common for most UCI engines) in configuration >> window. I think: >> * Hash >> * OwnBook >> * MultiPV >> are most important. >> Ponder, SearchDepth and SearchTime are not important here (they have no >> sense for analysis mode). On the other hand, the greatest feature of UCI >> (MultiPV) is hidden under obscure name and probably not many people know >> what is there (it allows you to show analysis for N best moves). > >You are right, but I have excuses here : >- the most important value MultiPV is easily changed in the engine >window (and the name "Lines" is easily understood) The point is that common functions can be moved to general 'engine configuration' window. For example, that should make it easy to share opening book for all engines.
>- the engine "publishes" its parameters and I can't say all engines will >have for example the MultiPV option. So building dynamically a dialog >window when you are not sure what you will have to display until the >engine is run is not at all easy. My bet was that only advanced users >would change engine parameters (that's why I put "scary isn't it ?" in >the manual). >I'll try to look at that, but trust me, a dynamic window is not easy to >manage. That's why I suggested to avoid it, using a list instead. -- Michal Rudolf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
