SCID vs PC

Haha - I hope not :)

That's cool. I'm sure he is happy to not be a computer programmer.

@stevenaaus- I'm trying to use Scid vs. PC on my retina Macbook Pro running Linux Mint. Buttons and fonts are incredibly tiny. Do you have any advice on how to fix that? Thanks!

The only half-solution for OS X i  know is to try this app

http://retinizer.mikelpr.com/

but i am told it is not too satisfactory

Anyway, I'll have to document this.

On linux Mint on a Retina... all i could try is adjusting the font size/style Options->Fonts (also, control+wheel mouse in some windows increases some font sizes)

Hey Steve,

   In the games list, when you right click on a game, there is the option to remove the game. The game is removed from the list, but when I reload the game list later, the game is still there.

   How can I save the game list so the removed game is removed from the file?

To get rid of a game out of a database, you have to mark it as deleted and then compress the database. Though, I've had problems with SCID vs PC actually removing games during that process (not sure if I've tried it on the most recent version).

I don't have it installed on the machine I'm on now but the Remove option only removes the game from the current filter. It doesn't touch the game in the database.

@stevenaaus- I changed those fonts and it worked great. I'm referring to the fonts on the labels and such. Here's a screenshot. Is it a tkinter issue? Could it be avoided if I compiled it differently?

Thanks!

Haha - tkinter !? I shouldnt laugh. Tcl/Tk is so d**m confusing. I don' even really now what tkinter is ottomh.

But thanks for the pic. I'll have to bind a font to the tab titles, but i'm not sure whether to use the menu or small font. I might go with Menu, though you have an unusual font for your menu.

You can mess around with this font by entering either of these lines in the splash window command line. I'll make a proper fix for this (in subversion) by tomorrow hopefully.

::ttk::style configure TNotebook.Tab -font font_Menu
::ttk::style configure TNotebook.Tab -font font_Small

You can also make the toolbar double size with this patch

Index: tcl/board.tcl
===================================================================
--- tcl/board.tcl       (revision 2066)
+++ tcl/board.tcl       (working copy)
@@ -1159,7 +1159,7 @@
 MRIkyiwsUKaIHk16ChQsaHsFAgA7}
 
 # Double size the toolbar buttons (disabled)
-if {0} {
+if {1} {
   image create photo tempimage
   foreach i {glist pgn comment maint eco tree book crosst tmt engine
     hsearch bsearch msearch rfilter newgame copy paste

Thanks Martin. Took me a few days to find the button.

Which, of course, is right there in plain site. 

*facepalm. Tkinter is the Python GUI library (it's built on top of tcl/tk). Most of my programming experience is with Python, so that's what I naturally thought of. Meant tk of course.

I would wholeheartedly second driving these font sizes with the "Menu" option. That would be great!

I'll try the toolbar patch as well. Once these two issues are resolved I would say the program is completely up to speed on high DPI machines.

I forgot to mention it and my screenshot doesn't show it, but the list of games is also in the same miniscule font. See below.

> I would wholeheartedly second driving these font sizes with the "Menu" option. That would be great!

Yeah - you're right. font_Menu it is then.

Re the small gamelist font - that is one nasty bug i cant easily fix :(

That one will proably have to wait till i get myself a retina macbok to play with, but it won't be in a hurry i think.

Pity about the game list font. At least some of the problems can be fixed.

Try a retina macbook pro and you may get one sooner than you think. ;) It's a nice piece of hardware.

Thanks again for the work you put into this program, Steve. I'll be sending another donation your way.

Does anyone know how to install additional piece sets in the linux scid-vs-PC 4.13 ? The discussion here seems to revolve around Windoze/Mac which seems to have no similarity to the Unix/Linux version. I'm trying to install a Fritz piece set. The Windows version seems to use a scid.gui file containing .txt fragments for all piece sets, but the linux version seems architected completely differently.

Figured it out. For anyone else confronted with this - the txt fragments are embedded in the bitmaps.tcl file.

The fritzsws piece set looks great at board sizes >80 ! No scaling seems to be taking place. Thank you DunnoitAll.

Now if only the regular Fritz pieces also had the large sizes like fritzsws.....

Hey Steven,

I just installed SvsP on a fresh Windows 7 install.

SvsP is not remembering databases I opened previously.

Any ideas on things I can check to make this work? It worked fine before I did a clean install. So I am guessing it is something that I can adjust W7 to allow for.

Yes, on windows the options/config files are not copied over. :(

You'll have to find them in your old installation (in bin/config/) and copy them over.

I formatted my drive and re-installed everything.

Hey Steve. It just occurred to me that I installed the software on WIndows 7 before, for the first time, and didn't have this problem. So I guess I'm not sure what you mean about the config files not copying over.

thanks.

I just mean, our windows' installer does not attempt to keep any of the users old settings. Sorry, but all three of Scid's main devs (~ Shane and Pascal) have been mainly Linux people.

Anyway - thanks Gorgonian and Ed for your online stuff. I finally got around to linking to your pages in the program and online doco.

http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/doc/Related.htm

http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/doc/Board.htm

BTW, i think the spelling and ratings resources are now unmaintained :(

https://sourceforge.net/projects/scid/files/Player%20Data/Latest%20data/

(it was previously here http://linweb.ris.at/~nagl/)

Perhaps someone could contact Franz, and/or take it over themselves ? 

Franz was last at: franz.nagl(.nospam) at ris.at