Hi,
We've made some release candidates for 4.19, so please test them.
http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/index.html#toc3
No really big new features. Stockfish 9 plays a lot nicer with ScidvsPC and
has been included, and have also included Paul's nicest piece-set too. Here
is the changelog,
cheers, Steven
4.19 (March 15, 2018)
New 'Default Databases' feature (Options->Save Bases as Default)
CQL 5.2 search feature (Search->CQL). Thanks Lionel and CQL authors
General search can now match any (non-hidden) pre-game or final move
Comment
Export Scid Flags feature
Big speed up for bulk Strip Comments/Variations feature. (Also make the
'Stop' button work)
Improvements to loading games at the correct position (resolve a
conflict between the tree window and search results), and small Tree
speed-up
Remove 'Magnetic' for Paul's chess pieces. New 'Ascii' chess pieces
(thanks HGM), and 'Green' colour scheme
New Turkish translation (thanks Ali Sen)
Right-clicking button bar changes, including right-click Window button
shows Splash window
Some tree tweaks and doco updates, and tree Fast+Slow mode now doesn't
break the win/lose graph
Tweak progress bar update frequencies (base export, game copy)
OS X has a faster build
New Windows build system from Oz
A new script, 'sc_filter_pgn', which filters multiple PGN files for
games matching a certain position
FICS - Offers Graph is disabled while playing a game. Change the censor
button a little, and control+censor censors person chatting to you
Escape key in main board cancels piece dragging/move
Input engine fixes (DGT board). Widget now resizes ok, and bitmaps
display properly on OS X. Thanks to Davy De Roeck for debugging it on OS X
Bug Fixes
Fixes regarding other language piece letters
Fix up showing the first gamelist/game in searches
Fix up the days of the months in the calender widget
Fix up window placement on multi display desktops
Best games 'Reset Column titles' was broke
sc_game startPos segfaults if !HasNonStandardStart
On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 10:46 AM, Steve A <stevena...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Oz, it looks great :)
> I'll let the users test out the 64 bit app when i announce it this evening.
> Stockfish 9 have finally fixed a few issues, and makes it much easier for
> me to package it with the app.
>
> Sorry for not looking at the warnings, but i'm too hopeless. Hopefully
> people will tell us if they find bugs.
> (I'm just wondering how that SDL2 bug survived for so long?) If i havent
> mentioned it already -
> I wasn't even sure i still had a windows OS till now. My main hard-disk no
> longer boots for some reason, and i'm having to boot grub off my second
> (ssd).. but my (illeg*l) win7 still chainloaded ok.
> When it fails, it's gonna be hard for me to reinstall windows.
>
> Steve
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 8:22 PM, Ozkan Sezer <seze...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 3/10/18, Steve A <stevena...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I think svn is ok to go Oz.
>> > There's been a few changes to the lang/ files recently, so copy
>> > czech.tcl deutsch.tcl finnish.tcl francais.tcl greek.tcl hungary.tcl
>> > italian.tcl nederlan.tcl norsk.tcl polish.tcl portbr.tcl port.tcl
>> > russian.tcl serbian.tcl spanish.tcl swedish.tcl turkish.tcl
>> > across to "lang"
>> >
>> > Just unix2dos the README.{html,txt}
>> > The scid.gui will be ~ 2M bigger because i recently included some fancy
>> new
>> > chess pieces.
>> > And the scid.exe will be bigger of course, what with the CQL stuff, and
>> i
>> > think you're linking in the dll dependancies. Is it a hassle to use -O3
>> ?
>> > Just one change to spelling.ssp it looks like.
>> >
>> > Oh yeah - stockfish 9 has some real improvements.
>> >
>> > wget https://stockfish.s3.amazonaws.com/stockfish-9-win.zip
>> > unzip stockfish-9-win.zip
>> > cp stockfish-9-win/Windows/stockfish_9_x32.exe
>> [32bit]/bin/stockfish.exe
>> > cp stockfish-9-win/Windows/stockfish_9_x64.exe
>> [64bit]/bin//stockfish.exe
>> >
>> > I can't think of anything else.
>> >
>> > Just upload them their final destination at SF, and i'll give them a
>> test.
>> > No hurry of course. I'm not sure if i'll get OS X done tomorrow.
>> > Thanks
>>
>> I did as you asked: Built with -O3, copied the new stockfish, updated
>> the langs and READMEs, etc, and uploaded to sf, both w32 and w64.
>> The warning log from the w64 build is attached in case you'll want to
>> do something about them.
>>
>> --
>> O.S.
>>
>
>
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