SCID vs PC

Is there anyway you can change that behavior?  The pieces look awful like that.  Just add in an ability to read the pieces at the extra sizes so that they are crisp.

I have another quick question (I perused the help files and didn't find anything, which probably means that the answer is "no", but hey, worth a try)- is there anyway to move columns around in the Game List? I'm using this in Linux.

Also, can I remove certain columns from the Game List view? A number of them I'm not interested in, but are taking up too much room.

Scaling is not great, but imho the PNG images dont look too bad scaled. Do you have TkImg enabled (see help->startup window) ? The three GIF piece sets scale awfully of course.

Rescaling all chess pieces to the larger sizes would make the gui huge, and is a lot of work. Tk has fairly basic image support, but it slowly gets better.

@Cortman - the gamelist is pretty rigid, more or less due to techincal limitations of the tk::treeview. Mainline Scid shows columns can be moved, but it is very ugly. Probably one day i will add these features, but is not a priority.

Yes, of course I have TkImg enabled.  And, sorry, but no, the scaling is nowhere near acceptable.  The larger sizes are pretty useless without being able to use properly scaled pieces imo.

Hmm - You're a hard man.

I'll commit this change, which allows the larger custom pieces to be properly done if so wished.

+++ tcl/bitmaps.tcl     (working copy)
@@ -67442,7 +67442,7 @@
 proc setPieceData {font size} {
   image create photo e$size -height $size -width $size
   set x 0
-  if {$size <= 80} {
+  if {[info exists ::pieceImageData($font,$size)]} {

Yay! 

I have to agree.  I looked at all of the piece fonts at the larger board sizes and they were all noticeably "blurry" to me, around the edges.  They really did look bad on my system here. 

For me, however, the two larger board sizes are just a bit "too" large.  So it wouldn't have mattered for me... I don't see myself using those size.  But I recal reading posts from others that even the largest board size wasn't large enough for them (something I never fully understood).  So I can see how others will welcome the new board sizes, as long as the piece fonts look good.

I wondered about the name too, so thanks for that background.

How about the name "ScidBase", "ChessScid", or "ScidPlus", all more intuitive sounding.

Can anyone tell me how to show the co-ordinates on sides of board in SCID vs PC ??

I hadn't even noticed they were missing.

Options --> Game Information --> Toggle Coords

Being a noob, i was bound to notice that. 

Thank you, this will help a lot.

I installed ubuntu 13.04 on my system today.

Tried installing scid vs pc 4.11. I am new to ubuntu. Eventhough i followed installation advice given on scidvspc website, i couldnt understand it, and hence failed in installing the software. Please help..

Thanks

aadchesskid wrote:

I installed ubuntu 13.04 on my system today.

Tried installing scid vs pc 4.11. I am new to ubuntu. Eventhough i followed installation advice given on scidvspc website, i couldnt understand it, and hence failed in installing the software. Please help..

Thanks

We would be happy to help (I'm an Ubuntu member, in fact) but you must provide more information. What error messages did you get when trying to install, and at what phase of installation did it fail?

i could install scid vs pc 4.11 after some bit of effort. ( i am poor in technical things, got help online on few blogs).

however, after installing it, i found that :

1-- i can use only 3 types of pieces viz : alpha, adventurer and kingdom. dont have other pieces. I did download the additional pieces from scidvspc sourceforgenet, and did put them in my scidvspc folder, but i dont get them on...

2: sound doesnt play, despite me downloading snack package.

3 : how to make shortcut for scid, so that i dont have to go to terminal always to load the application

4 i ddint find bin file in linux version, which is there in windows.

please dont be much technical.. will b difficult for me to understand it..

thank u

still trying to get more pieces,

on startup of scid, its mentiones tklmg not found, hence number of pieces restricted. I went back to sourceforge. net and there it wsa mentioned that in order to get more pieces i need to download ttklmg. i did download it and tried to install it in usr/local/bin but i was denied to do so. how to solve this issue?

Use a package manager to install it, like synaptic.

Try installing tk-dev-

sudo apt-get install tk-dev

@ cortman : Thank you, i did install tk-dev-, but its still the same...

Is there a way to add coordinates to the board?