Chris Bannister wrote: > > OK, I bit the bullet and compiled the latest stable.
Thanks for trying the latest version and for your feedback. I'll try to respond to every point. > First thing I noticed was the autoplay feature was gone, documentation > under the help menu said ctrl-z started the autoplay, but it doesn't! The documentation is outdated and sooner or later will be removed. Ben is working on a new online documentation: http://sourceforge.net/p/scid/wiki/StartHere/ The documentation work takes much longer than one can imagine and every contribution is welcome. > > I eventually found it hidden in some icons(?) below the board, but when > I click one of the icons, I can't get rid of it! I have to go round > clicking on things till it disappears. :( The three lines icon that I used for the menu is the one used by chrome, firefox, many iOS programs, etc .. You're not the only one who has struggled to identify it as "menu": I'mopen to suggestions to make it more clear. The menu should automatically disappear when you click on "autoplay" for example: if it does not, please tell me what distro you use. > > Why was the old way of implementing autoplay changed? The ctrl-z shortcut was reassigned to "undo" (standard behavior in many other programs). There is also a new file "keyboard.tcl" that allows users to reassign the shortcuts according to individual preferences. It can be changed with a simple text editor; it is not the ultimate user-friendly feature, but it's better than beforewhen shortcuts were scattered among thousands of lines of code. "autoplay" has been moved from the main menu because I hope in the future we can have more than one board openedsimultaneously. The first step is to gather all the commands referring to a chessboard in a new dedicated menu (with two boards opened and "autoplay" choosen from the main menu there was no way to know which board to move). > > Also running the mouse pointer over an icon no longer displays it's > function - why was that handy feature removed? Older tooltips were not removed. The new icons do not have tooltips because they are also intended to be used with a touch interface (for example with a Surface Pro). I want the command name next to each icons to be self-explanatory: again every suggestion to make things clearer is welcome. > > Is anyone else finding trouble with the icons below the board in regards > to ignoring mouse clicks? > Tcl/tk 8.6 version is recommended, but one important thing is to not have both 8.5 and 8.6 installed. Please try to uninstall everything, including deleting the ~/.scid directory, and reinstall only tcl/tk 8.6 and Scid 4.6.2. Let me know if you still experience problems (i can try to reproduce a specific distro problem in a virtual machine). Bye, Fulvio ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
