My apologies if you already started that program! It's not fun to start writing a program and then several hours later realize all of your work was for nothing. I've done that many times.
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I started it, but only the very beginnings. I'm very rusty on programming. I'm quite happy for this workaround.
If you really want to get fancy, add this line to your scid.gui file instead of all of your new 18 or 19 source statements:
source piecefonts/favorite_fonts.txt
This way, you NEVER had to edit or touch the scid.gui file again! You can leave it alone completely. (And this might be desired, for some users. Less chance of editing something you shouldn't edit.)
With this method, now when you wish to add a new piece font or delete a current font, you simply edit your small, 18 line, favorite_fonts.txt file instead. Your favorite_fonts.txt looks like this, for example:
source piecefonts/habsburg_OS.txt
source piecefonts/adventurer.txt
source piecefonts/hastings.txt
source piecefonts/alpha.txt
### source piecefonts/spatial.txt
(etc., etc., for as many piece fonts as you have.)
Here in this small file is where you add a new line to add a new font, or comment out a line for a font you no longer wish to load.
I tried it and it's working great and I think it will be even easier. Now I don't even have to search the scid.gui file for the proper section to edit... I don't have to open up this file at all, for that matter.
You know, I have my priorities all mixed up.
If I spent as much time actually studying chess as I did playing around with fonts and textures and colors and stuff, I'd be WORLD CHAMPION by now. 
I just spent an hour and took out the color schemes and the ten default textures from my scid.gui file, and set them up in the own file, like I did with the piece fonts. (I'm pointing to these files files with the source command, mentioned above.)
(I envision launching Scid from a batch files in the near future. Each batch file will run a few commands before running Scid, and be able to load specific textures, fonts, etc.)
The Zurich piece set, which I see in lots of books (The Amateur's Mind is what I always think of, but I'm not positive that's the right one).
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xd676jcr6mrz1bj/Zurich.txt
Another nice job. Good work.
Oh my gosh, it is now so easy!! Just two steps!
(1) I saved your zurich.txt file as font_zurich.txt in my new piece_fonts folder. (That's my naming convention.)
(2) I then edited my favorite_fonts.txt file (also found in this folder) to include this font! (source piece_fonts/font_zurich.txt)
That's it! Load Scid and the font is there! No more editing the scid.gui file.
I am running scidvsmac on mac osx. I never could hear any sound! I am frustrated. I tried Snack Installation, tick-tock option, etc. Doesn't it work at all? I there any help for this problem?
By the way the same problem on windows.
Simple question: Did anyone hear something with ScidvsPC and how does it work?
Regards
I couldn't get the sound to work on the most recent version of ScidVsPC, but it was working fine with version 4.8, and earlier versions.
So as a quick fix, I simply copied the new version of the program, and the new scid.gui file, into my old 4.8 version folder, and I tried running it from there.
That quick solution ended up working fine for me and so I never bothered to go back and figure out WHY I didn't have sound when running the new version from the new, 4.9 folder.
Earlier in this thread, maybe a few pages, a user metioned having a problem with the sound, and he was also able to finally get it to work. If you step back a few pages, you should be able to find his comment.
Other than this, if you contact the author directly, he should be able to help, or at least suggest a few things you can try. And if you do figure it out, let us know what it was.
I am in Windows 7 now and I can't get sound neither with Scid vs. PC nor with Scid. Did try many versions and no sound at all. Even did try to install snack package and nothing. So, I moved away from Scid.
It looks like this is a real problem. No solution?!
No answer from the author.
An updated version, 4.10, is now available.
The sound works for me with this version, without any tweaking involved. (See my post above for what I had to do to get the sound working in version 4.9.)
Did install. Same trouble as usual:
"Initializing Sound...
Snack sound package not found."
With Version 4.10 sound is working! Superb! I am happy.
What sound do you use? Tick-Tock is only every twice move.
Now sound works here as well. After installing the 32bit version inside the x86 applications folder. Happy user here too.
doxob wrote:
With Version 4.10 sound is working! Superb! I am happy.
What sound do you use? Tick-Tock is only every twice move.
I use this wav file instead of the one that comes with the program.
But I hear it with every move made, not every other move.
New tip. If you find yourself loading Scid vs. PC and then immediately always opening the same database, you can automate the process and load this database automatically, upon startup.
It's easy. Just create a shortcut to the program and then edit the properties of this shortcut. Add the name and location of your database at the end of the target. (Right-click the shortcut and then choose Properties.)
For example, when I view the properties of my target, I see "C:\Program Files (x86)\Scid vs PC-4.10\bin\scid.exe"
If I edit that line and add e:\chess\pgn\collins.pgn to the end of it, when I click on the shortcut to load the program, it will now automatically load my collins.pgn file, which is a small database of all of my tournament games located on my E: drive.
Hello,
how do I exactly use this .wav file. If I only has this file in my directory I don't hear anything. Is there the option to connect .wav with the moves?
So far as I unterstand there is only the option to choose a directory.
Regards
doxob
Some of these fonts are great :)
I'll definitely have to address the issue and make extra fonts easier to use. Probably something along the lines of what Ed suggests.
One problem we have is - without PNG support (tkimg - which is hard to compile on linux) , we only have three fonts that work (delete lib/img_png1.4.1 and run program to see what i mean) - Alpha, Adventurer and Kingdom. So if someone makes some better GIF based fonts, it'd be good to include them instead, but of course gifs dont handle transparency as well as png, so it is hard to do.
>P.S.S. Finally, note that with 4.9, a few of the chess.com members,
myself included, couldn't get the sound to work. But it seems we're
all able to with 4.10.
Yes - i finally remembered to include snack with the windows and OSX packages. It's still a beast of a thing.
> What sound do you use? Tick-Tock is only every twice move.
This is a bug in snack i've seen quite often on Linux, but not before on other OSes. The Tcl Snack package desperately needs a maintainer.
Hooray! This actually saves me from writing a program in visual basic for people to use to install the sets they want. Thanks!