Only to point out (this must not influence our decision): both others chess gui I know (chessbase and arena) keep the history of best line when the single pv mode is used (arena also with multi pv). The engine should not be slower for these additional infos, because they are kept by the gui.
Anyway, in the next days I will take a look to the source code, and I could try to add a button to show/hide the history, resizing the analysis window as required. Of course, the information must still be present in the code, otherwise I can't do much. Bye. Giorgio. >----Messaggio originale---- >Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wuerzburg.de >Data: 25-giu-2008 12.40 >A: "Pascal Georges"<pascal. [EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: <[email protected]> >Ogg: Re: [Scid-users] Scid-users Digest, Vol 23, Issue 29 > >Hi! > >If I remember correctly we had this discussion already once the new engine dialog was introduced in cvs. If Roy did not use cvs (and I guess he did not) then indeed the behaviour changed in 3.6.24 for the first time. It just took a bit from 3.6.23 to 3.6.24. It was thought of as an improvement, therefore, Roy, this could happen on upgrading. ;) > >To the behaviour: my guess is that Roy has some usage for this history output, otherwise he'd not have the wish to get it back. Obviously, he even considers to exchange all the new features of 3.6.24 just to get it back and there was something done between .23 and .24... (Acutally, I'd also guess that there must be some usage for this output as otherwise no engine would waste the cpu-cycles to display it...) Its not to argue about whether this is good wish or not, its just a statement. Probably, Roy could give an example where he uses this output. Just for us to better understand. Personally, I think it could be valuable in case there are two lines that get pretty much the same evaluation, ie. the two or three best lines alternate depending on the search depth eg. but that's just a guess. > >A way to solve this problem IMHO could come with Giorgios enhancements to the analysis dialogue, and maybe there could be a way to show the evaluation history upon request. Acutally, there's plenty of space if only one line of analysis is displayed. one could imagine to show the mainline as it is done right now, add a free line (ie. some space) to visually separate it clearly and scroll the history below that. IMHO would give the advantages of both worlds. A click on the history could make it invisible like the current analysis is hidden by clicking within the window. > >Concerning whether there is another application that offers this feature, hm well, I see no reason to limit oneself to the abilities of other apps ;) > >Just some thoughts, though. > >----- original Nachricht -------- > >Betreff: Re: [Scid-users] Scid-users Digest, Vol 23, Issue 29 >Gesendet: Mi, 25. Jun 2008 >Von: Pascal Georges > >Sorry, I made a confusion between various versions of Scid, and I thought the engine output history was removed since a long time for UCI engine. And indeed it is, as I find this kind of output (history) is confusing and of little use (I am not aware of any chess app that displays full history). > >Pascal > >2008/6/25 Roy Brunjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >Pascal, > >I disagree that this is a mis- configuration. Showing multiple PVs is one thing, what I am asking for is entirely different. Please look closely at the example again and I think you should see what I am asking for is NOT just setting multiPV mode to 4 or something similar. MultiPV set to 4 slows down the search as well which a single PV analysis with history enabled (to show the results of each previous ply) does not. > >Also, how can it be a misconiguration if it worked differently in 3.6.23 and no changes were made to the configuration for 3.6.24? If there is no configuration change, the behavior of the software should be the same -- at least that is what most people expect with software upgrades in myexperience. > >Respectfully, > >Roy > > > >--- original Nachricht Ende ---- >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. >It's the best place to buy or sell services for >just about anything Open Source. >http: //sourceforge.net/services/buy/index. php_______________________________________________ >Scid-users mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge. net/lists/listinfo/scid-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
