SCID vs PC

sangahm wrote

> I'm not a graphics designer, but I did these quickly in PS as an example

Hmm - yeah. Tcl/tk might look 30 years old.. because it is.

But we still want a consistent look and feel.

I guess the question was if there was a straightforward way to update the toolbar and control resources.  If so, then I could dedicate more time to do an alternative theme that would spruce up those areas.

I have Scid vr PC it is very nice.

If you need chessbase format try Chessking (paid product) both good

Thanks again Steven. With the new added options i can now change ScidvsPC's look to my heart's content. I'm new to Tcl/Tk but after a bit of research i added another option:

option add *menu*foreground white

Ok... i'll make a commit to svn shortly, but some-things will be different.

I'll leave the more instrusive foreground colour changes in as comments only for people who really want to tweak. Look for "enableForeground"

Re our button bar, another issue we have to consider in the Engine (and other window) buttons, which have an identical look and feel... so they should all be changed at the same time. Not a small undertaking.

I think improving what we have is the way to go.

I have tweaked teh flip button 
Does anyone want to have a go at the hammer/trial icon ?

It's a 30x30 gif with transparent background.

Might make a new release one day before the end of summer.

Not many new features, but been over half a year:

New text foreground colour feature (text and listbox widgets), Show "Next Moves" in the gamelist and bestgames, automatically storing fics move-time (%emt) values, try to make an OSX version for Catalina, a basic EPD/FEN export feature, multiple engline log windows, (silly) windows-only 'Player Info' bugfix, and Player Report shows a board if non-standard start,

How do these look?  One is the hammer and the other is scales (for trial).

ScidvsPC 4.21 releases/candidates are up http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/#toc3

Hello, @stevenaaus. First, thank you for developing/maintaining the SCID program. I love using it!

Second, I have a SCIDvsMAC question for you, if you have time. After upgrading to Catalina and downloading the most up-to-date SCIDvsMAC dmg, the "sounds" are not working for me. When I click Options > Sounds, I see the message "SCID could not find the Snack audio package at startup. Sound is disabled." Do you know how I can fix this?

Try going to the menu: Options → Sounds, and direct it to the folder: Scid vs PC-4.20\bin\sounds

Thanks @JogoReal. Unfortunately changing the path/location of the Sounds folder doesn't resolve the issue. I still receive the message: "Scid could not find the Snack audio package at startup. Sound is disabled." 

For additional context, I'm using Scid vs. Mac version 4.21.

Using on Mojave and version4.21 I'm not having this issue.  So wondering if it's only Catalina related or how it was installed.  

Also when you go to Options>Sounds does it find the 31 files, or do you get that error immediately?

You may try to delete and reinstall.

Hmm - there's no 64 bit snack package. I cant find or compile one off-hand at the moment. Tcl sound is kindof broken anyway afaics but ill see if i can find a package,

Ok, cheers. That deprecated functions patch did the trick.

Suprisingly, it seems to work quite well for me on El Capitan - only drops the first sound on some occasions - which is better than i ever had it on linux.

EDIT hmm - no - it's kindof broken still. I wonder if it's some internal snack buffering issue. Sorry, but i'm never looking at fixing it.

There are short instructions in the tarball.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/support%20files/snack2.2.10.macos.x64.tgz/download

That did the trick! Thanks very much for your help, stevenaaus and pfren.

scidvspc-4.21 on debian (buster).

No longer able to right-click in the engine analysis window to wrap lines.  Works in version 4.20, but not the latest.  Anyone know how to wrap analysis lines in 4.21?

Lines are so extense... Too extense for the use we give to them. If you wrap them you will get fewer lines... Or, I am not understanding it correctly?

It is now middle button.

Right button interferes with text copy context menu on windows.