On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 04:32:31PM +0100, Fulvio wrote: > 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 The documentation is outdated and sooner or later will be removed.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.
OK. > >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. I realised it was a menu, I just didn't know that's where autoplay was. The trouble was that I hadn't cleared the ~/.scid directory, so there were icons in a toolbar above the board. > The menu should automatically disappear when you click on "autoplay" for > example: if it does not, please tell me what distro you use. I can get it to disappear *if* I choose one of the options or click somewhere outside the program, or the menu bar. Not ideal. > >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. I don't mind editing config files, after all that is how most programs are configured on Linux which I use. > 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. Will scid continue to work on a PC/laptop in the future? I'd hate to see the PC version nerfed just so that it will run on a tablet. Perhaps if a tablet version is the ultimate aim, it could be coded as a separate version? > >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). OK, I did all that and replied to the post in this thread where you gave instructions on compiling it. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
