> It's been a while since something's been posted on Scidb's e-mail list. > Everybody's so quiet. So I thought I'd ask you fellows some questions. > > Is the new Windows version closer to being released or is it still years > away?
I don't know. The precondition for the Windows version is an alpha version on Unix, and there are some mandatory tasks for an alpha version: - Stable database version (this means not changing anymore), probably with next release. - Tiled window layout, also a standard under Windows. There exists already a prototype as a basis for the implementation in Scidb. - Search functionality. Still in progress, searching will be based on CQL, but of course with user guidance, not (only) with scripts. The CQL search functionality is implemented about 70%, the user guidance is still open. Another problem is the appearance of unforeseen tasks. Two weeks ago I tried to load a game from a ChessBase Survey into the game editor. The editor needs more than a half hour in some cases, in other words, the text widget of the Tk library has severe performance problems. So I'm currently working on a revised text widget, this is unavoidable, no user will wait half an hour until a game is loaded. Such things are delaying the development. Soon I will give a link of the documents about this revised text widget. > Are beta-testers wanted or volunteer developers? Beta testers and developers are very welcome. One important task for testers is also proof-reading of the documents. Who likes to proof-read the help pages, and the documents on ccif.sourceforge.net? If you want to do this, please send a mail to this user list, which part(s)/ pages are you reading, in this way the work can be divided. Proof-reading also includes to overwork some parts if necessary, I'm not a native English speaker. > Are new, significant features planned for the Linux versions? Apart from the mentioned features, the following is in planning stage, or already implemented, but not yet released (still untested): - New player dictionary, with updates via Internet (implemented) - Support of more chess variants: King-of-the-Hill, Chessgi, Alice Chess, Congo Chess, Dobutsu, Mini Chess (party implemented) - Tip-of-the-Day dialog (implemented) - Enhanced engine support (implemented) - Support of opening books: .bin, .ctg, .apk (partly implemented) - More database maintenance functionality (implemented) - Comment editor supports hyperlinks (implemented) - Links inside games to other games in database (implemented) - Highlighting move transpositions in game editor (implemented) - New tab "Opening classification", knows about 4000 named openings and variations, and more than 80.000 lines (unnamed variations) (implemented, but the ECO file with the 80.000 lines is about 80%) - New fast search algorithm for opening tree, based on the opening classification (in large parts implemented) - Support of custom icon sets for database (implemented) - More useful functions in CQL (in large parts implemented) - Snapshot of game board (implemented) - New game list field "Move List", showing the first 40 moves of a game (implemented) - Game editor: fivefold repetition (new FIDE rule) integrated - New piece sets: Aquarium, Bookup, Chess7, ChessCube, Celtic, Fritz, Habsburg, Military, Old Style, Segoe, and Zurich (finished) - Drag & Drop in board setup dialog (implemented) - Support of the C/CIF format - see ccif.sourceforge.net - the C/CIF library is nearly finished, but not yet tested. - Reading/extracting database archives from ChessBase: .cbv and .cbz (implemented, with important support from Antoni Boucher) - Support of embedded documents in ChessBase databases (planning stage) - Adding documents (PDF, HTML) to games and databases (planning stage) Cheers, Gregor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Scidb-users mailing list Scidb-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scidb-users
